1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,680 Go ahead and turn to John Chapter 13 we're. 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:04,640 Finally out of 12. Took us three weeks to get out 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:06,800 of that thing. Amen. 4 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:09,920 All right, we're locking in. You like that? 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:15,480 OK. What's that? 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,520 OK, yeah. To get what? 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:19,560 Benji, what are you going to say? 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:22,560 It's time to. What? 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,040 He wanted me to say it's time to. 10 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,320 Cook. What are we cooking? 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,800 See what happens. Whatever. 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:45,600 OK, all right, so here we go. The context is this guys, that 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,560 Jesus, if you remember in John chapter 12, the context is that 14 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,960 many did not receive him and so the first 12 chapters really. 15 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,920 We saw the glory of God. Show up as he's doing. 16 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:02,320 Miracles. He's doing signs and wonders 17 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,720 that point back to who he is as a person, right? 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,520 He's not here to give you a better life. 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:12,440 That's not Jesus's plan per SE. I mean, he does want to give you 20 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,320 a better life. He does offer life, but not in 21 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:19,040 that sense of like I can have. My American dream. 22 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,800 And then also add Jesus on. That's not what I mean. 23 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,080 Many people thought that that was what was going to happen. 24 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,600 They thought, man, I'm getting a free lunch today. 25 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,320 I'm getting, you know, grandma's getting healed. 26 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,640 You know, all these amazing things are happening. 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,760 And then they thought, man, what? 28 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,080 They'd be awesome if he could take out Rome. 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,720 Because our lives would be a lot easier that way. 30 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,960 That was not Jesus's plan. We'll see here in a moment that 31 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,040 there was another guy. That thought that that was 32 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,520 Jesus's plan and he had some opinions about that, but then so 33 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,760 they saw the glory of God and people did not receive him. 34 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,840 It says his own did not receive him. 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,040 And So what did he begin to do right? 36 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,440 Chapter 13, there's a major, major shift and we'll start 37 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:09,560 reading this in a second, but that shift is now let me ask you 38 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,520 a question this morning. Are you his own? 39 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:23,520 Are you his? If you were and you were to go 40 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,440 back 2000 years and you were there with Jesus the physical. 41 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:33,320 Incarnate God man that was on the planet walking, who created 42 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,600 you? Would he look at you and say you 43 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:58,240 are my? Direction he goes. 44 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,680 Back to his own. There's a few more than a 12 at 45 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,000 that point, but he he goes. Back to his own and he gives 46 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,960 them. Some of the last words, right, 47 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,440 which is go make disciples. We just talked about that a few 48 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,280 minutes ago. So chapter 13 to 17 he begins to 49 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:14,320 reveal. Really. 50 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:19,440 The glory of God in this private setting, it's almost like ADS, 51 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:20,680 right? We have the church and we have 52 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,400 ADS. We're like, this is, you know, 53 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,200 20 people in today's graduation, right? 54 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,560 Except for those who did not. Pass the test. 55 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,800 No, I'm just kidding. Does everybody graduate? 56 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,040 Where's, where's Edson in? Yeah, as everybody. 57 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,120 Everybody's graduating. Praise God. 58 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,320 That doesn't always happen, does it? 59 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,440 Every week, Every year. OK, Yeah, I know it happens 60 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:39,320 every year. No worries. 61 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,040 No worries. If you've not done ADS, please 62 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:42,880 sign up. It's awesome. 63 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,040 It's amazing. I told the students every year, 64 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,200 I mean, like, you know, we, we have about 20 every year. 65 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,320 We we kind of cap it at that and. 66 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,160 They're always like, what am I signing up for? 67 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,880 And I'm like, trust. Me graduation comes I know it's 68 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,920 it's August right now, but graduation comes in April and 69 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,440 there's going to be some tears in the room because you're sad 70 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,200 you don't want to leave this this class it's just so amazing 71 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:04,880 why? Because. 72 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,680 You go deeper, you're right. You go deeper in God. 73 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,760 You get a little bit more than Sunday service, right? 74 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,960 You get, you get more. You, you, you spend time 75 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,720 together with 20 people. You band together. 76 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,959 It's kind of like Jesus walking with his disciples for three 77 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:20,720 years, but you get it in eight months. 78 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,480 It's amazing. Please sign up. 79 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,680 If you've not done it, please sign up. 80 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,080 It's amazing. And, and Etzen gets just a 81 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,520 little, a little, a little portion of, of everyone. 82 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,440 No, I'm just kidding. He does, He doesn't. 83 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,200 He does nothing. No, I don't know. 84 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,120 OK, so let's start reading chapter 13 before I get in 85 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,720 trouble. OK, so now, now before the 86 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,520 feast. Of Passover, you guys know what 87 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,360 Passover is. Everybody know what that is. 88 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:52,280 OK, so back right back in the book of Exodus, second chapter, 89 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,160 second book of your Bible. There was a a celebration called 90 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,240 Passover and basically the Israelites were in slavery under 91 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,920 Pharaoh's reign and rule and reign under for 400 years or. 92 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,080 Something like that. It's crazy. 93 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,160 And so they were crying out to God for salvation. 94 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,920 They're crying out to God for God save us from this evil 95 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,440 tyrant, right? This this evil nation that does 96 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,880 not know God. And so God wanted to come in and 97 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:20,880 reveal. Himself. 98 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,480 He uses Moses. We'll talk about him when we 99 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,280 close. I have a few things to say 100 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,160 there. But what happened was they 101 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,240 needed a deliverer. And so he rose up Moses. 102 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,000 He was going to be the deliverer for for Israel. 103 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,960 They're going to cross the Red Sea because some of you guys 104 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,320 know that story. And so before they cross they 105 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,120 they celebrate the password. So these 10 plagues, the last 106 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,400 one, the last plague against Pharaoh and his his evil nation 107 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,080 was the kill the first born. And so in order for your first 108 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,440 born child not to be killed, and it's it's symbolic of all of our 109 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,040 lives, in order for you not to experience the wrath of God, 110 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,320 which we all deserve, they needed to kill a lamb, an 111 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,760 innocent lamb, right? And take the blood and wipe the 112 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,400 door frame of it. And so the Angel of Death, which 113 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,600 will all visit you one day. The Angel of death, Will Will 114 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,640 Will was literally passes over your house because he sees the 115 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,720 blood. Isn't that amazing? 116 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,840 So if you do not like you want to know if you're his own, you 117 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,720 need to be marked by the blood of Jesus. 118 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,200 If you are not marked by the blood of Jesus, you are going to 119 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,240 hell. It's very simple. 120 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,160 So it's something outside of you that saves you. 121 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:37,840 There's nothing inside of you that saves you. 122 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:48,480 It's all false religion. So good just to mark yourself 123 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,000 like I want the blood of Jesus all my life. 124 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,080 And then so when I die, he overlooks my sin and he says 125 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,560 welcome home. It's amazing. 126 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,680 So they're celebrating that, celebrating Passover, Jesus 127 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,200 knowing that his hour had come, that he would depart out of this 128 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,600 world to the Father, having loved his. 129 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,280 Own any time you see God loving you like you're these people. 130 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,200 Struggle with the love of God. We talked about that a few weeks 131 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,880 ago just. Underline that this is explicit. 132 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,800 You know, there's a lot of implicit passages in the Bible 133 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,840 that talk about the love of God, but this is explicit. 134 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:32,120 It says he loved his own. Right, He was going back. 135 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,400 He would depart out of this world, back to the Father. 136 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,120 Right He left the glory of heaven to come to A to a dirty 137 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,080 sinful earth right to deal with sinful man, but he was 138 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,680 eventually going to go back to his Father into heaven, having 139 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,360 loved his own who were in the world. 140 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,640 He loved them. What is it say to the end? 141 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,200 He loves them to the end during supper, the devil having already 142 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,360 put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to 143 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,040 betray him. Jesus knowing it's kind of like 144 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,560 parentheses, right? You got the love of God and then 145 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,400 you got whoa, what's going on here with Jesus? 146 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,840 And then again the other side of the parentheses. 147 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,040 Jesus knowing that the Father had given him all things in his 148 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,960 hand and he had come forth from God and was going back to God, 149 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,880 he got up and he served his people right. 150 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,680 He served his own, got up from supper, laid aside his garments 151 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,400 and taking a towel, he girded himself. 152 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,040 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the 153 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,040 disciples feet and to wipe them with a towel with which he was 154 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,120 girded. See. 155 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,400 And then so he came to Simon Peter and he said to him, Lord, 156 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,200 do you wash my feet? Jesus answered him and said, 157 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,960 What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand 158 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,680 later on. Hereafter Peter said to him, 159 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:51,200 never. So you wash my feet. 160 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,760 Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part of 161 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,280 me. And it's Simon's like, Lord, 162 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,880 then wash not only my feet, but my whole body, right, my head, 163 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,920 everything, my head to toe, which is very impulsive, right. 164 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,200 I mean, is any any impulsive people like Peter in the room is 165 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,280 like one guy, right. And everybody's, you know, 166 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:11,520 pretty even keel. Yeah. 167 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:11,960 OK. Yeah. 168 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,400 Thank you. Like, I, I agree with your 169 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,760 hands, you know, agree, agree with those who raise your hand. 170 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,120 I'm like that. But OK, so. 171 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,560 He had bathe. OK, he who has bathe. 172 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,000 Needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean and you are 173 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,880 clean, but not all of you. For he knew the one who was 174 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,160 betraying him. For this reason he said not all 175 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,280 of you are clean. So when he had washed their feet 176 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,440 and taken his garments and reclined at the table again, he 177 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,880 said to them, do you know what I've what I have done to you? 178 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,400 You call me teacher and Lord, and you're right, for so I am. 179 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,520 If I then the Lord and the teacher washed your feet, you 180 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,960 also washed one another's feet. For I gave you an example that 181 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:02,360 you should do as I did to you. Truly, I say to you, truly, 182 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,960 truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor 183 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,360 is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. 184 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:10,920 If you know these things, you're blessed if you do them. 185 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,600 I do not speak to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen, 186 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,960 but it is the scripture might be fulfilled. 187 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,800 He who eats my bread and is lifted up his heel against me. 188 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:27,160 From now on, I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that 189 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,600 when it does occur, you may believe that I am. 190 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,760 He isn't that so loving of Jesus just to let them in on what's 191 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,800 going to happen so they're not so startled and run away or 192 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:38,880 doubt. Truly, truly. 193 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,240 I say to you, he who receives whoever I sent receives me, and 194 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,120 he who receives me receives him who sent me. 195 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,400 OK, so three simple points this morning. 196 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,160 The first one is this Jesus's words of love. 197 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,840 Jesus knew. The hour had come and He would 198 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,480 depart and go back to the Father. 199 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,680 But I love this. Now listen, listen very 200 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:01,600 carefully. It takes knowing who you are, 201 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,000 that's your identity, and knowing where you're going. 202 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,320 That's security and faith in order. 203 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:12,400 To love. Isn't that true if you're 204 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:16,520 insecure? And you don't know God, you 205 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,800 don't know His love, you don't know what he's done in your 206 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,560 life. It creates a sense of 207 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:24,520 insecurity, and you have no desire to serve people. 208 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,480 He's at the hour of his death. The hour has come. 209 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,520 The last thing anybody in this room would want to do is serve 210 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:33,880 somebody. How many know when? 211 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,400 You are going through a trial. The last thing you want to do is 212 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,800 serve somebody. You want somebody to serve you, 213 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,960 right? I mean, we know that and so. 214 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,440 When you're going through something, when this whole 215 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:47,920 message is about Jesus, I mean, I. 216 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,360 Hopefully every message is, but I just, I can't help but think 217 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,400 I'm like, I'm going to be very careful this morning not to lift 218 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:58,640 up anybody but him and. Because he is the hero. 219 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,440 I mean, nobody else is like him. Nobody else is like him. 220 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,280 I mean, he suffered. He was suffering immensely. 221 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,840 He knew exactly what was coming. He knew what the Romans had 222 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,760 power to do, and he's like, you know what I'm going to do? 223 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:11,840 I'm going to get down on my knees. 224 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:16,200 I'm going to gird myself like a slave and I'm going to wash 225 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,000 dirty. Feet. 226 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,920 That's amazing. Though Jesus desire to be back 227 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:24,760 in God's presence, I mean he couldn't wait. 228 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,480 I mean that's a good thing. And and that was great. 229 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,240 God wanted him back. You know, he wanted to be back 230 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,240 in, in heaven, of course, no pain, no suffering, none of 231 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,880 that. But what kept him there like 232 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,480 what kept him on earth? Paul said something very 233 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,880 interesting too as well. I desire to actually be with 234 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,000 Jesus, but for your sakes. I'll be here. 235 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:47,240 What does that mean? What does that mean to the 236 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,320 purpose and meaning of life? Does anybody know? 237 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,800 It's not you. It's not people like, it's not 238 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,640 you creating a, a, a world where people serve you. 239 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,960 Like that's not what life's about. 240 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,720 Literally. Like if you think about just 241 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,240 even what Paul said, the whole purpose of life is to either be 242 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,280 with Jesus or be on earth and serve. 243 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:17,520 People. But what does that take? 244 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,400 An incredible amount of what? Humility. 245 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,320 His love for us is unbelievable. It says this. 246 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,440 Not only has he loved his own, but he loved. 247 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,120 Them to the very end. What does that mean? 248 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,080 What does it mean to be to love? What does it mean that and this 249 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,440 is going to blow your minds And I, when I say blow your minds, 250 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,000 meaning that it's so amazing that you're not going to be able 251 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 to even comprehend it. You need the Spirit of God. 252 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,320 To do that. What does it mean that when 253 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,640 Jesus says he? Loves his his own to the end. 254 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,000 It means teleos just means. That's the word means to the 255 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,640 end. It means complete. 256 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,000 Fullness. It means it had no beginning and 257 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,920 no end. Whoa. 258 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:13,280 So you mean to tell me that God's love for you and me had no 259 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:18,800 beginning and no end? This life will have an end, but 260 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:23,040 His love will not? How in the world is that even 261 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,360 possible? You know why that's such good 262 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,280 news for those who are trying to catch up with what I'm saying? 263 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:35,320 Why is that such good news? Were you able to do anything 264 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,360 before you were born? Were you able to do anything 265 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:44,320 before you even conceived? You didn't have a brain, you 266 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,400 weren't even there. You were nothing, poof, nothing. 267 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,800 Like there's nothingness. You weren't even there, but you 268 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,760 were in God's mind and what we know from Scripture. 269 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,040 Is, he says. He loved you before you were 270 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,680 even born, so why is that such good news? 271 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,360 Just as you never earned the love of God before you even 272 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:08,000 existed, you'll never earn the love of God here on earth, and 273 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,840 you will never, never earn the love of God. 274 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:16,720 In heaven and you need to hear that and and knowing that 275 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:25,460 changes our life. But I don't know about you, but 276 00:15:25,860 --> 00:15:30,600 I struggle with that. Like I get it as a dad, like I 277 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,440 knew, like I know more the love of God because when you you're 278 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,920 with your kids, right? I mean, and so you know, I mean 279 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,160 even even as a 14 year old, right? 280 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,240 I mean like I. Was 14 she's we're. 281 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,360 Flying to Denver and she's just, it was so. 282 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,720 Funny on the airplane, she's she's does this. 283 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,440 She's like, I normally like the aisle seat. 284 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,160 Just quick, easy, boom, you know, you need to go to the 285 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,680 bathroom. You're not like trying to 286 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,960 awkwardly get over to people. So I'm just like, I like the 287 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,960 aisle. You right no one likes the 288 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,600 middle seat and so we are going there we. 289 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,920 Are like I, I, I'm on the aisle, she's in the middle it's fine 290 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,840 and no one's next to us. She she gets the layout it's 291 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,720 great She's like, dude, I love traveling, you know, and, but 292 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,760 then then on the way back, you know, typical Orlando flights, 293 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,400 right booked full right going other places. 294 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,920 I don't know why it's not like that, but going home, going to 295 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,800 Orlando, it's like I don't think it's always booked full so. 296 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,760 And, and I was like, I have a feeling this plane is booked 297 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,440 full. Like, yeah, it, it probably is. 298 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,920 You know, this is our city. This is where we live. 299 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,360 It's. Always going to be that way. 300 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,120 Disney World, Everybody's in their Disney outfits, you know, 301 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,160 they're all going to Disney World and. 302 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,520 She's like, you're taking the middle seat. 303 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,520 I. Was like. 304 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,160 If my wife was there, she'd be like. 305 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,600 Don't let her do that. Don't let her do that. 306 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,920 I'm like, OK, so I take the middle seat. 307 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,640 She's having fun. She's like chilling, laying 308 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,440 back, feet hanging off, dangling. 309 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,760 And no joke, I'm like reading this book. 310 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,040 I'm getting all into it and I'm leaning so hard to the right. 311 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,359 This dude, no joke, he. Wakes her up. 312 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,680 He's like, hey, can I get a little bit more space? 313 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,920 And I'm looking I'm like. Oh gosh, I'm so sorry. 314 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,680 I'm like. No awareness, none at all. 315 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,280 I'm into my book, into my book. It's a good book. 316 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:38,760 And I'm just told no awareness. But you, you know, and then. 317 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,160 Allen just like, looks over and she's just like giggles. 318 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,600 She's like. You know, like she goes back to 319 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,040 sleep. But what? 320 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,640 OK, say all that. What you do for the people you 321 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,840 love is crazy, right? It's crazy. 322 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,760 It's always gets crazy. It is just like, you know, you 323 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,640 don't even think about it. I didn't even think about, like, 324 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:58,800 if I thought about long enough, I'd probably think, no, no, 325 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,480 dude, you're 14, man. Get over there and then get in 326 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,800 the middle, you know? But what you do like, I get it 327 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,760 as a dad, like you love your kids. 328 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,840 And it says something so interesting in Luke, right? 329 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,560 If your kid. Asks you for a loaf of bread? 330 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,600 Do you give them a rock? If you ask them for what? 331 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,000 An egg? Do you give them a scorpion? 332 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:27,640 You being evil. Right. 333 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,080 Do you love your kids? You love your kids? 334 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:37,480 How much more God, being perfect loves you and gives you the Holy 335 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,560 Spirit to those you ask. Why do you need the Holy Spirit? 336 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,720 Because it says in Romans 5, what what does it say? 337 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,560 You don't you can't experience the love of God without the 338 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,480 Spirit of God. So I was praying for somebody 339 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:53,880 over here going through a hard time, lost his dad right during 340 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,720 the month of May and he's like, every time I'm reminded of 341 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,320 finals week, I'm. Reminded of my dad's death when 342 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,680 I was younger, I said, look, I don't know how to help. 343 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:09,800 I, I don't. All I know is we have a lot of 344 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,680 great fathers in the room and they'll be there for you. 345 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,560 But what I do know is this is God the Father is going to 346 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,440 father you perfectly. And you're going to need the 347 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,080 Holy Spirit right now to experience that. 348 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,760 That's why the Psalm say right, taste. 349 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,080 And see, it's not just yeah, God loves you, but he loves you. 350 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,280 Like it's amazing. I mean, literally we have if you 351 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:35,880 just turn just. For a second, I just want you to 352 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,640 see it just in your own Bible, OK? 353 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,880 Psalm 136. I think you all know this one, 354 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,760 right? Psalm 136. 355 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,440 Sometimes when Ricky singing, he repeats himself over and over 356 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:45,800 again. Some of you guys are annoyed by 357 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:46,960 that. Some of you guys like that. 358 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,000 But I'm going to show you real quick. 359 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,240 What did I say? Psalm 130? 360 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,040 I said 136, right? I said 1/26, 1:36. 26 times. 361 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,440 It literally repeats itself. The love, The love of God lasts 362 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,680 forever, right? His loving kindness is 363 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:06,240 everlasting. 26 times. I wrote that at the top of my 364 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,840 Bible 26 times. I can't account it for myself 26 365 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,560 times. He says that and he goes through 366 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,800 and he's like give thanks to the Lord for he is good. 367 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,280 Give thanks to the Lord for give. 368 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:15,280 Thanks, give thanks, give thanks. 369 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,520 His loving kindness lasts forever and it's just going 370 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:18,760 through this and it says in verse 10. 371 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,200 To him who smote the Egyptians in their first born, there you 372 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,480 go again. There's the the Passover. 373 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,520 It's a reminder. What is that? 374 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,040 A reminder of? You were lost in your sin. 375 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,320 You had nothing to do with the love of God, but He found you 376 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,360 and He saved you, and He gave you a purpose. 377 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,920 And a family thank you for your love. 378 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,840 This is not. This is not a classroom. 379 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:46,800 This is not a classroom like. Hey, God loves you and you 380 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,520 didn't know that, like intellectually. 381 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,760 No, God loves you and you need to experience that because it 382 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,760 will transform your life. Remember, I said that's what 383 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,800 we're about around here, Transformation. 384 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,880 To him who divided the Red Sea, verse 13, his loving kind is a 385 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,200 reminder. And you guys can remind you, you 386 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,840 literally if you wanted to. And I'm not being heretical at 387 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,040 any at all. You can write your own song. 388 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,160 I mean, you can't put it in your Bible. 389 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,160 I mean, you can't put. It in your Bible. 390 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,520 But you know what? I mean, you can write your own 391 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,200 song and I, I would encourage you to do it because really, the 392 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,680 Red Sea means nothing to you. Red Sea gets farted. 393 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,320 Wow, it's amazing. I mean, it's good for those 394 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,440 guys. I mean, I'm so thankful for 395 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:28,800 Israel, but for you it might sound a little different. 396 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,920 I was in. Drugs, lost, broken in 397 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,080 depression. But someone shared the gospel 398 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,880 with me. His loving kindness endure us 399 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,240 forever. You can write that if you want 400 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,760 to. You can write that. 401 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,840 Not only just that one day when you're 18. 402 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,880 Whatever. For me, at least for the last 25 403 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:55,160 1/2 years, at least for me, for Dick, I don't know where Dick's 404 00:21:55,160 --> 00:22:00,720 at, but for the last 155 years, right? 405 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,600 Did I get that right? OK, that's right. 406 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,240 Just checking. OK, back to John 13. 407 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,440 Before I get in more trouble had no beginning or end. 408 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,040 OK so the second thing against go. 409 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:25,320 It goes literally from the brightness of Jesus's love to 410 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,040 the darkness of Judas's heart. You know what's so crazy about 411 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,440 this? The devil put it inside his 412 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,400 heart. The devil ever put something 413 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:39,360 inside your heart Anybody. Anybody want to be honest. 414 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,280 I would imagine everybody, why do you think people do stupid 415 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,920 stuff there Isn't there just a shooting just happened. 416 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,720 I feel like these things happened all the time. 417 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:49,800 Now. It's pretty normal in the United 418 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,160 States of America. It's pretty sad. 419 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,560 But I read about that and it said that the guy who did that, 420 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:02,480 the guy who shot up all those kids, it said that he wrote, 421 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,960 wrote something and said the devil came in my heart. 422 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:08,600 It said he, he said he, he felt darkness. 423 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,600 He extends such darkness. The devil does. 424 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,320 Work with already something that's in your heart and it's 425 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,560 called sin. You can't ultimately blame the 426 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:20,880 devil. The devil made me do it. 427 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,240 That doesn't work. Yes, the devil had influence and 428 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,920 what what the problem with Judas was is he never dealt with the 429 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,720 sin in his heart. You know what that sin was? 430 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,720 Pride, greed and selfishness and never got dealt with. 431 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:42,320 So he killed God. Didn't work. 432 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,240 If you never deal with the sin in your heart, it will only grow 433 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,800 and get more ugly and more disastrous. 434 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:58,960 And it will that will end up hurting people, which it says. 435 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,080 But what's so crazy about this whole thing? 436 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,920 It's not even that. What's so crazy is that Jesus 437 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:11,840 washed his feet. If you were to think about this, 438 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,760 if you were to think if like the person in front of you that 439 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,480 you're about to serve the devil told him to do something, the 440 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,480 last thing you want to do is serve that guy. 441 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,600 But Jesus did so. If you think you have so much 442 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,400 evil in your heart that you don't think God can do anything 443 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,960 with that, you're crazy, because God can. 444 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,720 You could be a Judas and he's still serving you. 445 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,840 You and I want to know even more crazier than that. 446 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,880 Here's the warning. Not only that, Jesus wash this 447 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,800 man's feet. Who the devil tempted to do 448 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:49,680 something? Really. 449 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:55,040 Bad to the person who's washing the feet, by the way, but that 450 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,320 love never actually did anything to his heart. 451 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,240 So I say. This morning I could tell you 452 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,400 until I'm blue in the face, God loves you, God loves you, God 453 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,200 loves you, God loves you. But if you never receive it, you 454 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,560 will be a Judas. Because the devil's tempting us 455 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,760 all the time. And the only way to actually say 456 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,520 no to him and yes to God is to know that he loves you. 457 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,400 God loves you, and he is drawing you in and he's going to do 458 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,840 whatever it takes to come after you. 459 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,680 Like we just said that. Sing that song. 460 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:31,480 His love is coming after us because it is #3 you're probably 461 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,480 like #3 what's number one and two? 462 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,600 OK, I understand I'm bad at this. 463 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,800 OK, I'll just tell you Jesus number one is Jesus's words of 464 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:42,400 love. OK? 465 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:47,360 Number 2 is verse 2. Jesus is hard, hard heart #3 466 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,200 Jesus's demonstration of his love for us. 467 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,920 And I think that's what's so important is that he does not, 468 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,160 Jesus does not remain in the realm of words. 469 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,240 He's not just about, you know, why people leave the church is 470 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,680 because they hear a lot about God loves you, God loves you, 471 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,440 but they never see a demonstration of that, not 472 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,320 around here. We're going to be not only a 473 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,480 loving church and talk about the love of God, but we're also 474 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,000 going to demonstrate that to each other. 475 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:25,240 And this is from verse 3 to 11. It takes a lot of humility to do 476 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,760 what Jesus did, and I love this. The way it starts is Jesus 477 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,600 knowing that he has his hour had come and that he would depart 478 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,520 from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in 479 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,240 the world. He loved them to the end. 480 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,800 Skip Judas for a second. Jesus knowing that the Father 481 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,880 had given him all things into his hands. 482 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,920 He had such security and knowing that God loves him so much and 483 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:55,120 he couldn't wait to see God's face and that he had come forth 484 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,920 from God. He knew where he was coming from 485 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:01,640 and he knew he was going back to it says in verse four. 486 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:06,400 He got up, he took action, he got up and he started serving. 487 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:15,160 That is the only way to sustain the purposes of God for you many 488 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,360 people, it says in Ecclesiastes. Many people have a great start, 489 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:22,600 but they do not have a good end. So you can have you could be a 490 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,280 big dreamer. We're going to do all these 491 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,800 amazing things. It's going to be amazing. 492 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,080 Oh my goodness, I like you got to know who cares if you don't 493 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,760 finish it? The reality is like it doesn't 494 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,960 matter. Like I, I, I almost like we have 495 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,840 so much idealism in our country, the whole United States of 496 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,320 America, when I see the flag of America is idealism, but we need 497 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,360 a dose of realism. We need to be known, not. 498 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:53,280 Just for what we start, but how we end that is this church. 499 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:59,000 That's who we want to be. Jesus finished well. 500 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,240 He came and said, behold, right? He'd even say it. 501 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,040 John. John the Baptist said behold the 502 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,280 Lamb of God. Chapter 1, John right. 503 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:14,920 Chapter 13, still doing it. Obviously, chapter 18 and 19, he 504 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,720 dies, resurrects, he's still. He's in the game, he finishes 505 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,280 right for the Hebrews 12. It's the whole thing right? 506 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,080 Hebrews 12 for the joy separate form he endured the cross. 507 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,880 We've got to be a people to not only have a good start, but a an 508 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,320 incredible finish. And sometimes, I mean, I mean, 509 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,880 and I'm not talking about like Jesus did not have a finish. 510 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,000 We're like, woo, this is awesome. 511 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,160 He came in that way in a sense, not in boasting way or anything. 512 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,880 He came in healthy. As far as we know, his bones 513 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,840 were intact. I mean, there was, he wasn't 514 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,640 like beaten up, but at the end of his life he was beaten up. 515 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,480 And some of us that's, I mean, we're, if you're living out the 516 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,840 things of God, like if you're in the Kingdom, you're giving your 517 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,680 life, that's what you're going to look like all scarred up 518 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,480 bullet wounds, like, you know, maybe no nose, ear missing or 519 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,920 something or whatever it is, it doesn't matter. 520 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,760 You're going to get a brand new body when you go to heaven. 521 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:14,960 And that's what God's called us to. 522 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,480 He's called us to finish well and it's not going to look. 523 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,320 Pretty sometimes when we finish, but it's going to be good. 524 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,440 Amen. That's our life. 525 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,320 That's what we leave. Much of today's love is 526 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,200 narcissistic. Any narcissist in the room? 527 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,320 No. One wants to admit that that's 528 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:30,080 weird. It's awkward. 529 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,600 Right self focused, right self focused, self gratifying, right? 530 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,560 I mean, this is a fickle, fickle love. 531 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,000 I mean, I kind of love Jesus when he's feeding me, but I'm 532 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,360 not really loving Jesus when he's asking me to deny myself 533 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,600 and pick up the cross and follow Him. 534 00:29:50,570 --> 00:29:53,050 I'm tempted to read in First Corinthians 13, but I'm only on 535 00:29:53,050 --> 00:29:58,080 .3 and I just, I mean, I just. Can you read? 536 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,760 Can you read First Corinthians 13 like on your own at some 537 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,240 point? Yeah, all promise you're shaking 538 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,000 your head. I'm going to keep you 539 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,200 accountable to that at some point, but so good. 540 00:30:14,310 --> 00:30:19,350 This is love is patient, right? Do you see incredible patience 541 00:30:19,350 --> 00:30:22,950 here? Do you know that just moments 542 00:30:22,950 --> 00:30:24,350 before. Let me just give you a few 543 00:30:24,350 --> 00:30:32,040 quotes from his group of people that he calls his disciples, OK? 544 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,880 A few, a few. Moments, scenes before, 545 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,680 disciples were saying, Hey, let's call down fire from 546 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,120 heaven, kill everybody that does not respond to you rightly, 547 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,160 Nathaniel said. Can anything good come out of 548 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,880 Nazareth? I don't know. 549 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:57,360 We have no record of. Nathaniel apologizing to Jesus 550 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,480 at some point. Maybe at that point when? 551 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,960 He's washing his feet is like, hey, so that thing about 552 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:07,800 Nazareth, I guess a good thing did come out of Nazareth, you 553 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:13,280 know, like, what did he say? Like it's awkward, you know, And 554 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:21,280 then Jesus shows Jesus shares something he says to Peter, 555 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:26,840 Satan desires to sift you like wheat because Peter, you're 556 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:32,800 going to deny me a few times. He's washing these people's 557 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,840 feet. He knows their past failures, 558 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,160 their pet present failures. And look, we just showed here 559 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,360 because after the feet washing, Jesus tells that to Peter, he 560 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,000 knows his their future failures. You know what's different about 561 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,400 Jesus, different about him and us? 562 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:59,120 As we look at people, Jesus looks at their eventual 563 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,720 victories. That's how he sees people. 564 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:08,360 He sees people and what they can become as God gets a hold of 565 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,320 their life, as they humble themselves and submit to His 566 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,000 leadership. If you think. 567 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:19,360 All that was interesting during that scene, literally right up 568 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,560 that John does not show that John's trying to make a 569 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,280 different argument. But we have to go back to the 570 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,400 synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, and we look back and 571 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,680 at the very table that they're having the Passover meal. 572 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,080 What are they doing? What are these jokers doing? 573 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,880 They're arguing about who's the greatest. 574 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,320 Can you imagine that? What's going through the 575 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,800 Savior's mind about what he's about to do? 576 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,760 He's about to go to a cross, but before he gets to the cross, 577 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,880 he's going to get beaten up like no one's ever gotten beaten up 578 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,120 before, right? Beer being plucked out, nail 579 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:01,640 like thorns going through his his head, blood coming down 39 580 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,880 lashes with glass, pieces of glass and rock to just shred his 581 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,000 body apart. And these? 582 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,040 Dudes are all talking about who's the greatest. 583 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,440 And at that moment when everybody is talking about who's 584 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,520 the greatest, you have to remember something there. 585 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,880 There was no slave in that room at the time because it's just 586 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,560 his own. So that says we know nobody else 587 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,760 is in the room. Mary wasn't there, Lazarus 588 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,840 wasn't there. Nobody else but his own, no 589 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,040 slave. And Jesus probably was going 590 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,920 through his mind. He's probably thinking, at what 591 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,400 point are one of these guys going to do the hard work of 592 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,400 washing the feet before we have a meal? 593 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:49,680 When no one took action, he took action and the amount of love 594 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,400 that you see here, he takes right? 595 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,560 Instead of serving, they argued who is the greatest? 596 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,360 So Jesus took action. He literally wore what he was 597 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,440 doing is He took off his garment and he wrapped around his waist. 598 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,320 He was wearing what slaves would wear. 599 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,440 And that's what made Peter. Do you ever have just a loss of 600 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,600 words or just it just feels so uncomfortable, so awkward? 601 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,880 That's what he's doing. This is nervous talk. 602 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:22,000 He's like, I, I mean, you're not going to wash my feet, you know, 603 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,840 like, just don't, don't do that. And then he's like, wash my 604 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:24,560 whole body. I don't. 605 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,600 I don't. He's, he's, he's frantic, he's 606 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,920 right, he's neurotic. He's, he's freaking out because 607 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,440 he's like, you're the king. Kings do not do this and Jesus 608 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,239 had to remind him and the reason why. 609 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:38,360 What do you have to remind him of? 610 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,719 He's like, I'm coming as a lamb, Peter, I'm coming to. 611 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,400 Serve you and die for you. I'm not coming as a king. 612 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,000 That's for later, and I love this about if you think this 613 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,320 morning you're like, man, I don't know. 614 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,800 I just. I'm so sick of of me. 615 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,360 Could you know, committing the same sin over and over and over 616 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,960 again. I'm, I'm weak, I'm weak, I'm 617 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,400 weak. If you're just like man, there's 618 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,160 no hope. There is hope for you this 619 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,720 morning because God can't actually change your life. 620 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,600 And I want you to just look for a second here and, and Peter 621 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,520 look at just a few verses. First of all, he writes this. 622 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,880 Remember who did Mark get help from writing his gospel? 623 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,360 Basically, scholars say Peter was behind Mark writing the 624 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,440 Gospel. For whatever reason, Jesus, you 625 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,760 know, the Holy Spirit, didn't want Peter to write a gospel. 626 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,840 He wrote some letters and a few letters, and I'll show you that 627 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:33,360 here in a second. But Mark 10:45, what do you 628 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,520 think was going through Peter's mind years later after the 629 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,480 resurrection? Jesus came not to be served, but 630 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,400 to serve others and give his life as a ransom. 631 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,960 That is our job, right? That's what we do. 632 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,880 But listen to these first. Peter, 118 to 19. 633 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,000 You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or 634 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,880 gold from your futile way of life inherited from your 635 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,760 forefathers, but with the precious blood of the Lamb, 636 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,680 unblemished and spotless blood of Christ. 637 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,560 Remember, when do you remember when Jesus said this? 638 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,800 He's like, you're not going to understand this now, but you're 639 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,240 going to stand it later. There's just certain things that 640 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,840 in the moment right now where you're sitting, you're like, I 641 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,520 don't understand what God's doing in my life. 642 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,400 I don't like it. I'm going through something, but 643 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:19,680 you're going to understand it later. 644 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,040 He's going to reveal why He's taking you through this. 645 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,440 It's not now, but if you stick with it long enough and you 646 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,240 persevere, He will show you, and I love this about Peter. 647 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:32,160 He's transformed. First Peter 224, Jesus bore our 648 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,680 sins and his body on the cross so that we might die to sin and 649 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,600 live to righteousness. It's a different man. 650 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,880 First Peter 318 for Christ died for all sins, once or for all, 651 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,880 just the just, for the unjust, so that he might bring us to 652 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,440 God. And then first Peter 5, I love 653 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:49,920 this. This is one of my favorites. 654 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:56,360 I want you to just picture with me Peter saying all those silly 655 00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:01,600 things as Jesus is washing his feet and then I want you to see 656 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,720 the life transform. He's looking back like we all 657 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:07,280 will one day look back at the trials and stuff we've gone 658 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,480 through and say that's embarrassing that the things 659 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,400 that I said and did, but look at his grace in my life. 660 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:20,360 Therefore I exhort the elders. He's rocketed now, right? 661 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,480 He's pouring into other leaders. They're planting churches, says. 662 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,360 Therefore, I exhort the elders among you as your fellow fellow 663 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,320 elder, not above you, but I'm with you. 664 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,400 Is that just? It's reeking of humility and the 665 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,800 witness of the sufferings of Christ and the partaker also of 666 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,320 the glory that is to be revealed. 667 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,680 Shepherd, the flock of God among you, exercising oversight, not 668 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,520 under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the 669 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,000 will of God, and not for shorted gain, but with eagerness, nor 670 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,080 yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but 671 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,080 proving to be examples to the flock. 672 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,280 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the 673 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,320 unfading crown of glory. You younger men, likewise be 674 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,200 subject to your elders, and all of you clothe yourselves with 675 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,360 humility towards one another. For God is opposed to the proud, 676 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,680 but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves 677 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,360 under the mighty hand of God, that He might exalt you at the 678 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,200 proper time, casting all your anxiety on to Him, because He 679 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,600 cares for you. This is a man who experienced 680 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,920 all this. He says be. 681 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,120 Sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, 682 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,120 prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking to devour someone. 683 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,760 Right Be, he says, but resist him. 684 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,400 She had to do at one point, right? 685 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,160 Firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of 686 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,720 suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are around 687 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,600 the world. Right after you have suffered 688 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,120 for a little while, the God of all grace. 689 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,240 I love this. After you suffered a little 690 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:52,280 while, the God of all grace, who calls you to His eternal glory 691 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,600 in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and 692 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,920 establish you to Him be the dominion, and forever and ever. 693 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:07,480 Amen. That good he experienced that he 694 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,400 was impulsive. So what's going on here? 695 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,920 Just real briefly, right? What does he mean? 696 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,720 What is Jesus saying to you and me? 697 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,120 What is he saying is a wave application right now? 698 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,800 What is he? Saying about OK, once you've 699 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,200 been washed, what is he talking about? 700 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,920 He's saying that once you've taken a shower right in the 701 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,360 morning, when you get up in the morning, you take a shower or 702 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,600 some of you guys take the night before, whatever, but you take a 703 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,760 shower in the morning and then you go and get dirty all day, 704 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,200 right? In a in a way like. 705 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,200 At least first century of talking, right. 706 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,240 So these people, they took a shower in the morning, they 707 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:43,520 bathed and then they the part that got the most dirty 708 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,840 throughout the day and it's just symbolic. 709 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,760 It's just a way of an example their feet. 710 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,440 And so when they walked into people's homes to have dinner, 711 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,840 someone would be there to wash their feet. 712 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,000 So what Jesus is saying is all of you are washed. 713 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,080 If you come to Christ, you are washed. 714 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,440 Like one of my favorite passages is First Corinthians 6. 715 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,920 He's listing all these crazy sins which you find yourself in, 716 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,640 right? And he's saying once were you, 717 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,920 but now you're washed. You're washed. 718 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,680 So it's not about losing what it's not about. 719 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,240 He's like, you're not a part of me. 720 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:23,120 If I can't wash your feet, then you have no part of me. 721 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,360 What is he saying? Guys? 722 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,000 This is so important. It is not just saying some. 723 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:34,880 Prayer when you were little. It's not even about losing your 724 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,480 salvation, but it's about losing intimacy with Jesus. 725 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:44,600 What he's saying is what I want, which is really the whole point 726 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,080 of this message, I think what Jesus trying to communicate to 727 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,960 us. Just look, you come to me, I'll 728 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,720 wash you, come clean completely. You'll never, ever have to worry 729 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,680 about past, present, and future sin. 730 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,720 It is 100% forgiven. But what I want, and a lot of 731 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,160 churches misses, miss this, a lot of believers miss this. 732 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:08,000 But what he wants more than anything else is fellowship with 733 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,320 you. So good, isn't it? 734 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,000 I mean, this is what he wants. This is what God of the universe 735 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,520 wants with you. He wants fellowship with you. 736 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,360 He literally wants to know you like a friend. 737 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,880 When's the last time you thought about that and just went outside 738 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,880 your front door and just went for a walk with God? 739 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,840 Just walk with him, telling him how you feel, listening to his 740 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,440 voice. Being able to walk in 741 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,360 fellowship. He's saying, look, if you want 742 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:45,240 to actually live this life, you're going to have to come to 743 00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:49,680 me daily to confess your sins, to agree that yes, you're yes, 744 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,840 I've washed all of your sin away. 745 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:53,880 But in order for us to fellowship. 746 00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:58,680 I want you to be holy. I want you to clean the dirt off 747 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,320 from this world. You just thought about that. 748 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,040 You just had a thought. Was evil wrong? 749 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,960 Let me cleanse you and wash your feet, not save you again and 750 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,480 again and again. But walk with you, Amen. 751 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,040 That's what he's asking you to do. 752 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:19,120 He's asking you to come to him daily, not to be fully clean. 753 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,920 From all your. Past sins, but daily it's a 754 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:29,160 daily walk with him. It's a daily walk with him and 755 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,960 confessing all confession means guys, is this is just to agree 756 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,120 you're you're basically coming to God that first John 19 right, 757 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,120 you're coming to him confessing your sins to him. 758 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,040 He's talking to believers by the way, right in first John, he's 759 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,680 talking to unbelievers in John his gospel. 760 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,320 He's talking to believers in his letter and he's saying, look, I 761 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,560 want you just to come to Jesus and just confess your sins to 762 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,520 him and he is faithful, faithful to cleanse you of all and 763 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:01,200 righteousness. Just come to him and confession. 764 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,240 All confession is, is just to agree. 765 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:06,400 Jesus. I agree that what I just did was 766 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,720 wrong. I said what I said was wrong, 767 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,400 what I, what I thought was wrong, what I did was wrong. 768 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,000 I agree with you. Not only do I agree that that 769 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,360 was sinful, but I agree that you were able to forgive me from all 770 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,960 of that. And now I get to enter this 771 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,840 amazing, beautiful fellowship with you. 772 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,760 As we close, I just, I want to just share a few more things 773 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,480 here because I think God is inviting. 774 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,360 I believe he's inviting all of us to come to him this morning. 775 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,480 And James 48 says this, draw near to Goddess and he will draw 776 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,360 near to God and he will draw nearer to you. 777 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:53,040 When we take a step, when we choose to take a step forward in 778 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,880 him drawing near, he will draw near to us. 779 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,000 Isn't that interesting that it says this at 1st And I'll I'll 780 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,040 I'll get to why that is and I'll make sense of that hopefully in 781 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:04,600 the end. But it almost. 782 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,480 Looks like man, is that up to us? 783 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:14,040 Is it up to us? Like man, we have to draw near. 784 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:15,040 What if I don't want to draw near? 785 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,000 Like I, I, I don't have any strength to draw near. 786 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,720 But he says if you just take one little step, a mustard seat of 787 00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:24,200 faith, just take one small step towards him, he will draw near 788 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,160 to us. I want you to turn really quick 789 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:35,560 to Exodus chapter 3. Exodus chapter 3. 790 00:44:43,930 --> 00:44:46,650 Now Moses was pastoring the flock of Jethro, his 791 00:44:46,650 --> 00:44:49,570 father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to 792 00:44:49,570 --> 00:44:52,530 the West side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain 793 00:44:52,530 --> 00:44:54,970 of God. The Angel of the Lord appeared 794 00:44:54,970 --> 00:44:58,320 to him in a blazing fire from the midst of the Bush, and he 795 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,400 looked and behold, the Bush was burning with fire, yet the Bush 796 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,560 was not consumed. This dude who is out there, if 797 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,360 you have to remember right, he grew up in Egypt. 798 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,280 He killed a guy. He had a runaway right because 799 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,560 he was trying to save God's people with his own strength. 800 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,160 That didn't work. So God has sent him to the 801 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,400 desert for 40 years. It's a long time. 802 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,680 She got used to tumbling weeds, you know what I mean? 803 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,920 It's just tumbling. And they would blow up, right? 804 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,200 I mean, just this desert, these things would blow up all the 805 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:26,960 time. They'd be. 806 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,480 Consumed to be. Just ashes. 807 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,240 Well, he's like this one caught his eye. 808 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,880 It's like this thing's not turning to ash. 809 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:41,920 It's still burning. That's weird, Moses said. 810 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:46,200 I must turn aside now and see this marvelous light and why the 811 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,800 Bush is not burned up. I want to ask the question when 812 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,320 God is trying to get our attention this morning and even 813 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,760 in your life right now, He wants to fellowship with you. 814 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,400 He'll use whatever means possible, but it's up to you to 815 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,760 turn aside. Says here, right? 816 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:09,240 I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight and why the 817 00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:12,800 Bush is not burned up. And when the Lord saw. 818 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:19,120 That he turned aside to look. God called to him from the midst 819 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:23,320 of the Bush and said, Moses, Moses. 820 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,520 And he said, here I am. Of course. 821 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,320 Then he's like standing on holy ground. 822 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,200 Remove your sandals and God begins to reveal himself to 823 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,080 Moses. But he needed to turn aside. 824 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,440 He needs to pay attention. To the presence of God, He 825 00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,360 needed to pay attention. To God's voice. 826 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,880 You think maybe that was the only time in Scripture? 827 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,480 Well, no, there's more before we get there. 828 00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:01,360 It's very interesting, Moses. Then had in a sense full 829 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,760 control, right he he got the people he. 830 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,040 You know, through the plagues and then the Passover, the whole 831 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,600 thing, right? And they're going through the 832 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,480 desert and it's interesting. I always thought it was 833 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,560 interesting. Why didn't God just like if they 834 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:17,880 needed to get away from those evil people, why did God not 835 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,920 just take him through a shortcut? 836 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,200 Why did he have to go? It didn't say. 837 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,240 You're a Bible scholar in the room. 838 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,640 Test me on this, he didn't say. Let my people go so that we 839 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:35,160 might worship Him in the land. I promise. 840 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,360 But I might worship him in the desert. 841 00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:43,120 Why? Because if you if those. 842 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,320 People in Israel were anything like us. 843 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:51,080 If we get everything we want, we begin worshipping the things of 844 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:55,280 God, not God himself. So. 845 00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,040 God in his mercy. If you're going through a trial 846 00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:02,240 this morning, God in his mercy is taking you through the desert 847 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,560 a little longer way than the shortcut to get there. 848 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:14,080 So that you might meet with him. So that we don't worship the 849 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,680 promises of God, but the promisor. 850 00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:19,760 Do you understand what life's all about? 851 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,320 If you came this morning, I'm not sure what you think church 852 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,720 is all about. But it's not. 853 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:27,080 About a lesson. I'm not giving a Lesson plan 854 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,720 today. Sometimes I don't even know 855 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:31,760 what's going to come out of my mouth at the times. 856 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:39,000 But what God is wanting to set up in your life is an. 857 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,680 Encounter with him and it's not just once a month or once a 858 00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:47,680 year, but every day and he's looking for a people that will 859 00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,400 turn aside. You. 860 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,200 Fast forward a little bit, you enter into the story of. 861 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,960 Samuel, Samuel's sleeping and he just, he's like, you don't get a 862 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,080 knock, but he's like Samuel Samuel. 863 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,040 He's like, what's going on? What's happening? 864 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:05,760 Is it a dream? I don't know. 865 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,120 And he's like, no, it's a voice. She goes to Eli. 866 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,640 You calling me? Eli's like go to bed. 867 00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,560 You know. And so he goes to bed. 868 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,720 Samuel, Samuel. He gets up again. 869 00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:25,000 He's like, what's going on? God could have done it another. 870 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,280 Way God doesn't, you know, if he really wants. 871 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,400 Our attention, he can get it right. 872 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,960 He can do a lot of stuff. What is he doing? 873 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:38,560 What's he doing? He's drawing him near. 874 00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,680 He's wanting him to respond. Not to Eli, not to man. 875 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:50,000 But to God he Fast forward. Jesus says hey. 876 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,840 Disciples, take the boat, go to the other side, I'll meet you 877 00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,280 there. So Jesus goes to spend time with 878 00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:01,120 God, and he decides. To walk on water. 879 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,880 It's pretty cool. It's cool to decide that, like 880 00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:05,560 today, I'm going to walk on water. 881 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:07,920 She's walking on water. It's amazing. 882 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,720 He's walking on water. What does he do? 883 00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:17,120 Says he intends to pass them by. Wait a second. 884 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,080 Intends to pass them by like you. 885 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:20,800 Only that's not right. Like, why would you? 886 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,720 He intends to pass them by. Why? 887 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,200 Because God is not here to force you to Himself. 888 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,720 He wants to be wanted. Do you understand that when you 889 00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:36,160 draw near to God, he's drawing near to you. 890 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,600 The God of the universe that made you wants to be wanted. 891 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:43,000 You're like, what in the world? What kind of universe am I in? 892 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:47,680 You know, he's he's tending to walk by and they're freaking 893 00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,400 out. We're going to die. 894 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,160 You know, just seeing that like, he's like fools, you know, like, 895 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,720 I mean literally like they're like, where am I and what 896 00:50:57,720 --> 00:50:59,160 happens? Please help us. 897 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:05,080 Does he keep walking? Does Jesus keep walking when you 898 00:51:05,240 --> 00:51:07,120 ask for help? Does he keep walking? 899 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:12,480 He intended to pass by, but when he heard their cry. 900 00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,720 He went into the boat. If you're going through 901 00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:19,200 something this morning, I want you to understand something very 902 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,560 clearly. When he calls your name. 903 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,680 There are times when we need to respond when you're but other 904 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:31,080 times you are in a dark scene and you do not know which way is 905 00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:36,080 up when you cry out to God, he is not he does not keep walking. 906 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,440 He wants to be wanted and there are just two people, right? 907 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,960 And there's two kinds of people when he's washing the feet in 908 00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,360 the room right? And John 13, he's kneeling down 909 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,080 like with a towel with a basin and he's kneeling down to these 910 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,560 jokers that were literally all like saying, oh, hey, who's the 911 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,160 greatest? Are you going to be in the right 912 00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:58,120 hand? Are you going to be in the right 913 00:51:58,120 --> 00:51:59,880 hand? What did my mom say this and 914 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:03,880 that and the other. And Jesus is like, he's just 915 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:04,720 doing it. He's not. 916 00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:06,600 I don't know if he's a smirk on his face or smile. 917 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,280 I don't know what, but you know, he's just going for it. 918 00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,760 He's serving them. And he's saying, look, I want 919 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:16,360 you to do the same thing. I don't want you look, you all 920 00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,040 know, like washing people's feet. 921 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,440 That's not like I don't know if you maybe I mean we've done that 922 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,520 before is not do as I did as it's. 923 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,560 A very important Greek work, right as I did not the same 924 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,640 thing, not do the same thing that I did, but do as I did. 925 00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:32,000 What is he talking about? It's. 926 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,480 Humble love, it's serving, but I hesitate. 927 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,160 I was like, man, I was going to just do all this like this. 928 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:43,840 A sermon on like humble serving. You know, I'm like, I don't 929 00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:45,560 know. I just feel like we all would 930 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,800 get up out of the chair and be like, OK, we got to do this. 931 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,160 That's not the point of this message. 932 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,400 The point of this message is Jesus gets down on his knees and 933 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,760 a few scenes later he's going to die in a cross for these very 934 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,200 guys who are just talking about who's the greatest. 935 00:53:07,130 --> 00:53:08,930 He wants to serve you this morning. 936 00:53:08,930 --> 00:53:11,330 Do you? Understand that and that doesn't 937 00:53:11,330 --> 00:53:15,080 make sense to anybody. You'd much rather me say get up 938 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,200 by your seat, Sir. You know, like, let's go. 939 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,800 No, no, no, no, no. He wants to serve you this 940 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:21,560 morning. I don't. 941 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:26,640 Know what you're going through, but he desires to come alongside 942 00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:30,200 you and hear your cry. But he wants to be wanted. 943 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,600 That's the nature of God. He wants to be wanted. 944 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,000 He wants to. He wants you to draw near to 945 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,880 this one. Who is going to? 946 00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,640 Serve you and meet all of your needs. 947 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,080 Amen. That's who he is. 948 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:54,080 He wakes you. Up in the morning. 949 00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:59,680 If he does 3:00 in the morning some sometimes right with all 950 00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:05,920 the worries of the world, he's not wanting you to just go to 951 00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,880 sleep and but maybe he wants to meet with you and calm your 952 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:15,000 fears as you draw near to him. You just take one step. 953 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,480 Don't even have to be. Some of your just laying there. 954 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:17,800 I don't even know if I can take this step. 955 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,320 I can't take this step but. You take this step in your mind, 956 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:22,680 you take this step in your heart. 957 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:26,400 You say, God, I'm drawing, choosing to draw near to you, 958 00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,200 and I know that you promised to draw near. 959 00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,760 To me in this moment. And you meet with him. 960 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,200 Amen. Lastly. 961 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:42,280 I think it's a word for our church. 962 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:47,560 I, I had this, this word that I, you know, Psalm, like Exodus 33 963 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,360 when they're going through the desert and they're getting to 964 00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,320 know God. This is after the manna, after 965 00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,000 the quail, after all the stuff, the water bursting from the 966 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,480 rock. He get they all. 967 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,080 I mean, they get to meet. God guys, I mean like if anybody 968 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,320 like I was like man, that would be so cool to watch God move and 969 00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,760 it show his love in a way, right? 970 00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,920 But God gets to this point where he says, Hey, I'm actually not 971 00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,520 going with you to the promised land. 972 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:18,600 What did Moses say? God if, I mean essentially he 973 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:23,280 says, God, if, if, if you, if you're not going to this land 974 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:27,840 that you've called us to, it's not a promised land, it's hell. 975 00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,800 I, I, I don't, I don't want to go without you. 976 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,320 And I think when I think about our church, like, OK, we've man, 977 00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,480 God's doing so many amazing things in our church. 978 00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:41,200 It's incredible. I love what God's doing in our 979 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,040 church. He's saving people. 980 00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:44,640 People are getting baptized and people are coming. 981 00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:45,800 It's awesome. It's amazing. 982 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,040 But God is just so, you know, like as we enter into a new 983 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,280 season, the summer season, we come back to the fall. 984 00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:53,920 It is no promised land without God. 985 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:59,320 We want him. I, I just we, we, we cannot go 986 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,440 without like, do you understand? Like like this whole when you 987 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,200 read the scriptures and I just oh, it's like like just want to. 988 00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,080 Everybody to know this, you know. 989 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:12,120 When you what gives me great. Joy is to sit in my office a few 990 00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,400 times a week and just to sit with God and to study his word. 991 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:16,840 And I get to. See. 992 00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,240 First hand before I get to deliver it and it's so 993 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,120 incredible those moments of I remember MacArthur saying like, 994 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,920 oh, it's just sanctify. It's like sanctifying you and I 995 00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,080 believe that. And as I'm I'm reading the 996 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,440 scripture, I'm like, he really does love us. 997 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:36,560 Like he really does set up all everything, everything in our 998 00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,640 life, every trial in your life, he is this. 999 00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:42,440 Divine setup and a test to test us. 1000 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:47,120 Do we want him or not in the successes? 1001 00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:50,760 Would we go to the promised Land and would we? 1002 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,640 Go to the next level of success without him. 1003 00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:57,160 That's a test what we're all going to go through very soon. 1004 00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:04,240 Or when we're going through a trial, are we, are we wanting to 1005 00:57:04,240 --> 00:57:06,720 just abandoned ship and leave God? 1006 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:12,000 No, God sets all that up so that we might know him in the 1007 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,600 successes. We might follow Him and say, 1008 00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:18,080 God, I am not going to whatever next level that is without you 1009 00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,000 because you are everything to me. 1010 00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,800 And on the other side, God, I don't really know how I'm going 1011 00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,560 to make it through this, but I'm going to take one step towards 1012 00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,680 you in faith and I'm going to meet you there because you set 1013 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:35,560 this up in my life, this painful circumstance in my life to meet 1014 00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,200 with you because that's what this whole thing is about, this 1015 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:39,600 meeting with God. Amen. 1016 00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,600 We just pray for everyone. It's just, why don't we just 1017 00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:48,040 quickly stand to our feet and just maybe even open up our arms 1018 00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,000 and our hands or open them this way. 1019 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,840 Just receive the love of God this morning. 1020 00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,320 Lord, we know that we are desperate. 1021 00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,760 We we can't. Actually like a mantra like just 1022 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:01,440 say God loves me, God loves me, God loves me. 1023 00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,520 That doesn't. Work what works is what you said 1024 00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:09,160 in scripture, that you would reveal yourself to your people. 1025 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,960 You love us and you want to meet with us, but it is the power of 1026 00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:17,560 the Spirit that allows us to experience the love of God when 1027 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,280 we're in a. Trial and we're crying out like 1028 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,040 the disciples on that dark scene in the boat. 1029 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,600 So you'd come in and rescue them. 1030 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,800 We're like Samuel just minding his own business or like Moses 1031 00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,760 just doing the normal work. He was just working. 1032 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,680 He was a farmer. He's he's a shepherd. 1033 00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:35,800 I mean, he's a. He's just working like many of 1034 00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:42,240 you work throughout the week. And are you hearing, MM, are you 1035 00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,360 hearing Nathan? Nathan, are you hearing? 1036 00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:51,360 Are you turning aside from your work in the moment to hear God 1037 00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,160 and to hear His love, to hear Him reveal Himself to you? 1038 00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:59,600 And Lord, I pray that we would pause and we would see that you 1039 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,440 are here. You're coming to serve, You came 1040 00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,600 to serve us, You came to die for us. 1041 00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,880 Lord, we thank you for your love and I just ask you for every 1042 00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:11,280 person in this room and they would experience your deep love. 1043 00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,880 This morning that would transform their lives that they 1044 00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,520 would not be the same. Like Moses was not the same, 1045 00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,000 Samuel is not the same, the disciples were not the same. 1046 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:21,920 Why? Because when they heard you 1047 00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:25,400 coming, when they saw you coming, they turned aside. 1048 00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:30,240 Because you want to be wanted. But all along the crazy thing 1049 00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:35,560 is, is even though we you said draw near to me and I'll draw 1050 00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:41,480 near to you ultimately in throughout the scripture, you. 1051 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,520 Were ultimately the first one to draw near to us. 1052 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,080 We thank you that you initiated all of this. 1053 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:52,040 So for feeling weak, we're like, I have no energy to actually 1054 00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:53,280 take a step. Forward. 1055 00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,800 God's going to give you that strength because He is the 1056 00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,720 initiator. All along, His love has been 1057 01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:04,120 coming after us. His love comes after us over and 1058 01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:07,280 over and over again because. We are too weak. 1059 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:13,880 He is strong and Lord, I pray for every person to receive your 1060 01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,200 love this morning. Especially for those who are 1061 01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,120 really hurting and have a lot going on. 1062 01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,840 I just pray that they would be encouraged even by that dark 1063 01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,480 scene. Is Jesus intended to walk by 1064 01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:29,480 just to test them, to see where are they going to find strength 1065 01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:30,920 today? They're going to find in the 1066 01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:32,240 world. They're going to find in 1067 01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:35,640 themselves, or they going to cry out to God to receive everything 1068 01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,760 that they need and to find hope again and again and again 1069 01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:40,800 through Jesus. Amen.