1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,400 Do you feel the despite the work that you put in to follow Jesus? 2 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:15,100 That he's just offshore in a boat and avoiding being crushed? 3 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,500 As Carlos said, my name is Jay, that is not changed in the last 4 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:23,500 couple seconds. And if I have not met you, I 5 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:26,200 will take the L on that one, because I've been coming here 6 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,700 for quite a while, and I have the great Fortune to sometimes 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,500 be asked to preach. So, without further Ado, I'm 8 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:38,200 going to pray and we're just gonna get into it. 9 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:45,900 Oh Christ, at the altar of my life be magnified in me. 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,400 May I represent your words well and may we see that you are with 11 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,200 us in Jesus name. Amen. 12 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:00,700 If you have not met him yet, you will. 13 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:05,300 I'm speaking of course of my son Calvin. 14 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,300 Calvin has been described as a wild child. 15 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,800 A free spirit, a troublemaker. And believe me, he lives up to 16 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:23,000 the hype. but one of the coolest parts of being a parent is 17 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,400 getting to see how your children experience the world, how they 18 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:33,200 look at things, I'm stained by cynicism and doubt and just go 19 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,200 at it, from the most logical, sometimes the most illogical 20 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,300 way, but with no negative emotions, and we had an example 21 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:47,600 of that this lasts Easter So leading up to Easter, my wife 22 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,200 had set up the Jesus story book. Bible as something for us to 23 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,000 read to go through. And to prepare our hearts, 24 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,600 prepare our children for what was about to happen, what we're 25 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,000 about to discuss. And the cool thing about the 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,200 Jesus story book, Bible is from the Old Testament to the New 27 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,300 Testament stories with Jesus without Jesus every single 28 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:13,500 thing. Every single chapter, every 29 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:18,600 single part of it speaks to the speaks of Jesus, speaks of ways 30 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,100 doing and Calvin having read that got very excited and got 31 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:28,600 this idea in his mind that on Easter Sunday, he was going to 32 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,800 get to see Jesus at church and give him a hug. 33 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,600 And I'm going to tell you it was not a good parenting move, but 34 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,500 we did not kill that out of the gate. 35 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:41,900 No, no, no. That's brownie points. 36 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,200 Finger kid wants to hug Jesus. No, so we let that fly. 37 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:52,600 But Easter Sunday, came and there we were Calvin came into 38 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,300 church and he started running around looking for Jesus to give 39 00:02:56,300 --> 00:03:00,800 him a hug to see where he was and finally get to meet this man 40 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:05,800 that he'd been hearing so much about And the reality dawned 41 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,400 upon my wife and I, that we were going to have to talk to him. 42 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,800 So we did what every single clever parent with in Frontier, 43 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,000 should do when faced, with the situation like that. 44 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:23,500 We unloaded it to Casey canoe. Casey, if you have not met him 45 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:28,300 yet, you will. He's our resident Theologian. 46 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,200 He reads a lot of liturgy writes, most of it and he 47 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,200 probably hates the fact that I'm talking about him. 48 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,100 So I'm just gonna go to the point. 49 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:41,600 We told Calvin and again, this is not a parent unless and this 50 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,300 is just what actually happened. We told Calvin. 51 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:49,400 Go ask Casey, where Jesus is And he did that. 52 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,600 And Casey being Casey quoted chapter and verse and gave the 53 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,200 perfect theological answer, he said, Calvin well, according to 54 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,800 Hebrews 12, Jesus is seated at the right hand of God the father 55 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:06,400 and furthermore if you look at Colossians 3, he is holding all 56 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,900 of creation together. Calvin. 57 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:18,500 Did not like that answer. No, but look on Calvin's face 58 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:24,100 was something between confusion disillusionment and probably 59 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:29,400 diarrhea because he just ran away and Frontier. 60 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:33,300 I'm here to tell you that, I agree with everything the Casey 61 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:38,700 said, And I don't disagree with it, just agree with it. 62 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:42,900 I want you to know and I want you to show you that. 63 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:46,100 His answer is better than what Calvin's? 64 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:49,400 Hope was. Please rise for the reading of 65 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:57,900 God's word. Mark chapter 3, verses 7 through 66 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:01,700 12 Jesus has just left. The synagogue, other gospels 67 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:04,300 would point to the fact that he knew that the Pharisees were 68 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:07,700 trying to kill him. So he is orientation himself 69 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:10,600 away from the synagogue and back into the wilderness. 70 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,300 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea and a great 71 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:21,500 crowd followed From Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and it Amia 72 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:26,000 and from Beyond the Jordan and from around Tyree and Sedona, 73 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:30,900 when the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to 74 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:34,800 him and he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him 75 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:38,400 because of the crowd, lest they crush him. 76 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:44,600 For he had healed many so that all who had diseases pressed 77 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,500 around him to touch him and whenever the unclean Spirit saw 78 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:51,600 him, they fell down before him and cried out. 79 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:56,800 You are the Son of God and he strictly ordered them not to 80 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,100 make him known. This is God's word. 81 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:05,500 It is good in his true. Please be seated. so, the 82 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:10,400 Pharisees They ran out of carrots, they've ran out of 83 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,700 sticks. And it was just at this point 84 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:17,400 that they have decided that the only logical thing to do with 85 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:23,300 this man was to kill him. That's what happens when the 86 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:27,300 seat of power is threatened. And In This Moment, the seat of 87 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:31,100 power was threatened. Jesus had become the center of 88 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:35,000 gravity of the ancient world, and he shows the center of 89 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,900 gravity by having a great crowd follow. 90 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,600 If you think about this, like this is something that kind of 91 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:49,000 makes sense today that people could hear about this about a 92 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,300 big event there. Be Community organizers, would 93 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:55,200 be trending topics on Twitter, there'd be Discord, servers text 94 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,500 messages, but no, from from North, from the east, from the 95 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:02,900 south, all these people heard from the ground up that there 96 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:08,300 was a man doing amazing things that people needed to see. 97 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,700 And Journeys. Like, this are hard for families 98 00:07:12,700 --> 00:07:16,200 today, even I don't know this by experience. 99 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,200 I know this because every time we take a journey today, my wife 100 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,200 tells me that Journeys like this are very hard, you have to get 101 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,400 food, you have to get water, you have to make sure that their 102 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,500 snacks, you have to deal with your kids talking for, as long 103 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:36,100 as that car ride is going to be. And the people this great crowd 104 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:39,100 had even greater reality is associated with this. 105 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:42,600 They would have to feed animals, they would have to have water 106 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,900 for days, not just for hours. They would have to have food for 107 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:47,500 days. They would have to have tents, 108 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:54,400 they would have to walk and bear the burdens of physical toil on 109 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,600 them. Instead of just having just 110 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,900 having a car with air conditioning that would keep you 111 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:05,400 safe from any store more firm, anything and the crowd assembled 112 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:11,800 At the Sea of Galilee to see Jesus and what is a rare Hebrew 113 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,300 word? That only the most tatted up and 114 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:19,800 punk, rock Israelites would have known, which was a bar Mosh Pit. 115 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:24,000 Okay, I'm sorry. I've been under cold for too 116 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,900 long and I feel like a successful sermon needs to have 117 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:31,200 at least one made up word and I had a feeling that bar moshpit 118 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,500 would would fall flat and I was right and I should have trusted 119 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:43,000 my gut on that but Thank you. So why did these people make the 120 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,100 sacrifice? Why did they make the journey to 121 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:49,100 surround this man to surround Jesus? 122 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:52,400 Well, the text gives us some Clues. 123 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:59,200 From Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem in India. 124 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,000 Mia. And for beyond the Jordan and 125 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,300 around tirean, stone. So the cool thing about these 126 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:11,300 states is that each of them were established long, long before 127 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:17,000 Jesus is time, but the irony is that, while they bear the same 128 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:22,200 names that Israel given them they were under Roman control. 129 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,900 So as has, the great crowd was making their Journey, they would 130 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:32,300 have had to be reminded with each passing step with each 131 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:34,500 portion of the journey that they were not. 132 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:39,500 As God's chosen people, in control the, the road would have 133 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,500 had tax collectors scattered along. 134 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:47,700 It, people ripping off their own Community to enrich themselves 135 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:51,400 and enriched from there, would be Roman soldiers, reminding 136 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,800 them their place who they actually were in this world. 137 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,600 And as for shaving, they probably saw a few Roman crosses 138 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:04,200 to really communicate, who had the seat of power at that time. 139 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:11,000 but, You think that the religious leaders would be on 140 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,500 their side, right? They would be speaking truth to 141 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:16,800 power and emboldening the Israelites. 142 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:24,500 No absolutely not the Pharisees last week's Tech said went out 143 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,300 and immediately held counsel with the herodians against 144 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:33,300 Jesus, I'm how to destroy him. Whoa. 145 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,800 The Pharisees are so corrupt that they see a man doing 146 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Miracles by definition. You can not do a miracle by 147 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,000 human power. There's no Photoshop. 148 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,700 There's no deep fakes. There's no way to fake. 149 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,900 What Jesus was doing it. Had to come from God. 150 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,000 And when the Pharisees saw this, they still said, we need to kill 151 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,300 this man. In John chapter 3, Nicodemus, 152 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:02,300 even tells Jesus to his face, we know that you are from God, 153 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,500 because no man can do what? Are doing and the Pharisees, the 154 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:09,200 religious leaders, the ones who are supposed to be shepherding, 155 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,500 the people of Israel. They say, let's kill this man. 156 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,700 We can't deal with this, it's like restarting computer. 157 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:19,800 Let's just get the next one from God because we don't like this 158 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:26,100 current one. But also they couldn't just not 159 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:30,800 trust the government officials that the religious leaders, they 160 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,500 were plagued by sickness. It says for he had healed many 161 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:37,300 so all that had diseases pressed around him. 162 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:39,600 There is every indication this text that. 163 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,900 The main reason that people want to go and see Jesus is not 164 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:47,100 because they think he's the coming Messiah but because they 165 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:51,500 know that they can be healed in his presence by simply touching 166 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:56,100 Him and think about that, there's no hospitals. 167 00:11:56,300 --> 00:11:59,000 There's no modern medicine. These people. 168 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,100 If you lose a hand, you lose your livelihood. 169 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:04,800 If you become a leopard, you are an outcast. 170 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,000 You have to go to new communities, you have to find 171 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:12,000 ways to feed yourself. That would include begging or 172 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,400 being a burden on your family. And not only this. 173 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:21,500 But the unclean spirits whenever they saw him, they fell down 174 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:25,900 before him. Do you means are not new and 175 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:28,000 Mark and when they're going to be mentioned again. 176 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,100 So I want to speak to the the personal side of that. 177 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:38,800 Man is made in the image of God. Every man is and Israel, in this 178 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,800 moment is is God's chosen people. 179 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:48,500 So when a demon possesses an animates, a human body that is 180 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:50,900 enough front to the kingdom of God. 181 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:56,000 That is an affront to God's image and man and the demons are 182 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,000 running amuck throughout the nation of Israel. 183 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,500 So that people are not able to exercise them or cast them out. 184 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,000 People are not able to control their children, the the fathers 185 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 of their family. There's places where children 186 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,300 would be casting themselves into Fires. 187 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:15,300 Because that's what the demon had told them to do. 188 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,400 There are places where men are chained up like animals because 189 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,500 they just didn't know what to do with them and this is what the 190 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:29,900 great crowd had among them. They had demons possessing them, 191 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,200 they had sicknesses plaguing each and every day they had the 192 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,000 religious leaders going against them and roam. 193 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,800 This overshadowing of them, not having the glory not having what 194 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,400 was promised to David, a throne that would go on forever and 195 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:53,900 ever and I'm sure at that moment as this Barn moshpit got 196 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:59,000 together, there was Hopelessness there was sadness and there was 197 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,500 just a spark of this man named Jesus Christ. 198 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:08,300 I was before him and how does Jesus respond as the crowd 199 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:12,900 presses around him. He tells his disciples to have a 200 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:16,800 boat ready. Whoa. 201 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,500 A cause Jesus. Nothing to heal these people. 202 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:26,100 It costs, Jesus. Nothing to cast out the demons 203 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:30,700 from these people. And he had to have a boat ready 204 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:36,300 to be offshore. Frontier. 205 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:41,900 Do you feel this? Do you feel the despite the work 206 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:47,300 that you put in to follow Jesus? That he's just offshore? 207 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:51,500 In a boat and avoiding being crushed. 208 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:57,900 Does it feel like Jesus is in the boat today? 209 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:05,300 when your child isn't developing, the way that that 210 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:10,000 would be normal that you want them to is Jesus just often 211 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:18,900 about When every moment of your day has an overcast of anxiety, 212 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:25,100 of depression of physical pain is Jesus, just, you know, 213 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:30,500 avoiding being crushed. when you attend a funeral that should 214 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:38,800 have been decades from now, It's Jesus just often about when the 215 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,300 doctor says, oh it was a miscarriage, but don't worry. 216 00:15:41,300 --> 00:15:45,200 This happens all the time and it would you can get back and it's 217 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,400 Jesus in the boat. When the world around you feels 218 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:53,400 like it's descending into war and political spiral is Jesus in 219 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,400 the boat when you are a three-year-old and all you want 220 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:01,300 is a hug from this man that you've heard so much about. 221 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:06,900 Is Jesus and about. Frontier. 222 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:10,500 I want to give you freedom to ask that question. 223 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:14,000 But I'm not here to leave you with questions. 224 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,900 What I'm here to do is to tell you what the Bible says, about 225 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:23,300 Jesus being in the boat. It's not the Jesus was afraid to 226 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:28,700 be crushed in that moment. It's that it wasn't the crowds 227 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:33,900 place to crush him that responsibility belong to God. 228 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:38,700 The Father I'm going to read from Isaiah chapter 53, 10 229 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:42,000 through 12, and we're going to get through this, but the Lord 230 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,000 desired to crush him, him being Jesus causing him. 231 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:51,900 Jesus grief, if he would render himself as a guilt offering, he 232 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:55,500 will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and the 233 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:58,700 good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand. 234 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:03,000 God needed to crush. Jesus, the crowd did not have 235 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,099 that, right? As a result of the Anguish of 236 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:10,800 Jesus Soul, he will see it and be satisfied by his knowledge. 237 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:15,099 The righteous one. My servant will justify the many 238 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,300 for. He will bear their wrongdoings, 239 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:20,500 he will take their sins onto him. 240 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:24,800 Therefore, I will allot him a portion with the great and he 241 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,300 will divide the plunder with the strong because he poured out his 242 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:34,100 life unto death and was counted with wrongdoers yet, he himself 243 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:37,000 bore the sin of many. Me and interceded for the 244 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,400 wrongdoers, what does this mean? I'm so glad we saying how great 245 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:47,200 thou art and when I think that God his son, not sparing, sent 246 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:52,100 him to die. I scarce can take it in because 247 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:55,400 God the Father crushed Jesus on the cross. 248 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:58,000 Jesus. No longer needs to reside in the 249 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,200 boat because God the Father crushed Jesus on the cross. 250 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:05,600 Jesus is now at the right hand of God, interceding for you, You 251 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,500 giving you access to the father. What does that mean in this 252 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:12,900 life? You are the body of Christ. 253 00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:18,100 If you are in Christ, that means that when Casey told Calvin that 254 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:20,300 Christ is currently interceding for you. 255 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:23,000 At the right hand of the throne I should have said, well we are 256 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,700 the church. We are the body of Christ. 257 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:28,500 Give Calvin a hug right now because hands, arms and chest 258 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:30,500 are part of the body. And that's all that's needed for 259 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:33,800 a hug. What that means is that child of 260 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,200 God, when you die, you will see Christ face-to-face. 261 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,500 There will be no boat there. There will just It'd be him 262 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,800 saying to you. Well done, good and faithful 263 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,500 servant and child of God, there is one last hope and I'm going 264 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:54,200 to end on this one that as I start with this this idea of 265 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,100 Jesus departing, I want to leave you with the idea of him 266 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:03,100 returning from Revelation 21 verses 1 through 7. 267 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:07,900 Then I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven. 268 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:11,700 And the first Earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 269 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Isn't that funny? The sea was no more. 270 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,700 Like I don't think that's referring to Jesus getting in 271 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:21,800 the boat but it's really dang, convenient for me. 272 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:27,700 And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem coming down out of 273 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:32,500 Heaven, from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband 274 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,000 and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold The 275 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:42,600 Dwelling Place of God is with, man He will dwell with them and 276 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,600 they will be his people and God himself will be with them as 277 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,100 their God. There's no more boat, there's no 278 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:54,200 more distance, no price will be face-to-face with you, and those 279 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,800 end days. He will wipe away every tear 280 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,900 from their eyes and Death Shall be no more neither shall there. 281 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:05,800 Be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore for the former things 282 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:12,500 have passed away Frontier. If you haven't met him yet, you 283 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:16,000 will. And I pray that you meet him as 284 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,700 friend in that moment and not as enemy. 285 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:23,200 Because he who is Seated on the throne said, behold. 286 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,600 I'm making all things new also. He said, write this down for 287 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,800 these words are trustworthy and true. 288 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:32,800 And he said to me, it is finished. 289 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,600 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning, and the end to 290 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,500 the Thirsty, I will give from the spring of Water of Life 291 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:43,800 without payment, the one who conquers will have his Heritage 292 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:49,000 and I will be his God and he will be my son, child of God, 293 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,700 the one who was crushed for your iniquities has to, Declared that 294 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:59,900 his dwelling place is with you. God. 295 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:08,100 I'm so excited to one day. See Calvin hugging you and Lord. 296 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:14,500 I pray that each person in this church will get to hug you 297 00:21:14,500 --> 00:20:59,900 someday also Jesus name amen. God. 298 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:08,100 I'm so excited to one day. See Calvin hugging you and Lord. 299 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:14,500 I pray that each person in this church will get to hug you 300 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:18,300 someday also Jesus name amen.