1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,040 All right, here we go. So this time I normally I just 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,800 read the passage. I'll just, I'll go just a few 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,680 lines at a time here. All right, so verse 18, it says, 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,760 I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. 5 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:20,600 But it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, that he who eats 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,600 my bread has lifted up his heel against me. 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,680 From now on, I'm telling you before it comes to pass, so that 8 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,360 when it does occur, you may believe that I am He. 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,440 Truly, Truly, I say to you, he who receives whoever, whomever I 10 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:41,560 send, receives me, and he who receives me receives him who 11 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,160 sent me. When Jesus had said this, he 12 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:47,000 became troubled in spirit and testified and said, truly, 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,240 truly, I say to you that one of you will betray me. 14 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,640 So we're looking at Judas's betrayal. 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,360 I love that Jesus. I love this line and it's often 16 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,000 missed, right? I, I want to tell you this 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,720 before so that when you finally do experience it, you know that 18 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,320 it's from me. That is so loving of our Lord 19 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,440 and Savior right to to tell us beforehand to to comfort his 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,160 disciples is the comfort of the Holy Spirit. 21 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,960 So when they saw coming, he said, Oh yes, the word of God is 22 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:17,160 true. How many you know that when you 23 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,680 read the Bible right and you're soaking up the scripture and 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,680 then all of a sudden you see it come true. 25 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,760 What what does that do it it strengthens your faith. 26 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,720 God's real he's here. He loves us. 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,840 He did say he he's going to come through and what he said he was 28 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,520 going to do what he promised. It's so good. 29 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,320 But here it says this that you know, throughout like the the 30 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:44,360 last few chapters in John, here, if you remember, it says over 31 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,320 and over again that Jesus willingly died for us. 32 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,800 Why is that important? Because no one took his life. 33 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,720 He wanted to die. And that reason why he died is 34 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,680 because so that he could save you, as we've been talking the 35 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,760 last couple weeks, not only save you, but walk with you, have an 36 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,600 intimate relationship with you so you could hear his voice. 37 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,600 So you can walk with him, obey him, experience his glory. 38 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,600 That's why. So it is important when you see 39 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,480 something like that in Scripture to underline and say, man, he 40 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,520 willingly. It was a willingness. 41 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,480 It wasn't somebody just trapped him, took his life and now some 42 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,760 good came out of it. It was a plan and it's a plan 43 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,840 that happened way back in Genesis 315. 44 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,640 So he willingly gave himself up for us. 45 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,640 It says here, you know, betrayal, there's no other way 46 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:35,080 to say it, right? It just stinks. 47 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,880 It's awful. It's it if you've ever been 48 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,520 betrayed, and I have many times, a couple of more serious ones. 49 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,720 They're never fun, but it's part of walking with Jesus. 50 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,680 It just comes, comes with the territory, right? 51 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,840 And Psalm 41, it says this, that he who eats my bread, we'll, 52 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,320 we'll see what what he means by this has lifted his heel against 53 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,440 me. It's in today's vernacular. 54 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,280 It, it just would mean he kicked me while I was down. 55 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,520 I'm already down. I'm already thinking about what 56 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,160 I have to do. It says in Luke that he 57 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,520 literally he sweat, he sweat blood. 58 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,520 Why? Because he knew what was going 59 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,800 to come. It wasn't just the beatings. 60 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,720 It didn't say that everyone who went through. 61 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,480 I don't, I don't think there's any other record of somebody 62 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,800 going through maybe the, the, you know, the the Roman 63 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,880 crucifixion, the process of that. 64 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:31,760 I don't know. There probably could be. 65 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,920 But the reason why it was even more intense for Jesus is 66 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,280 because he was going to take on the sin of the world. 67 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,560 If you could just think about all the sin that you've ever 68 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,800 committed since you were born and all the sin you will commit 69 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:51,160 and the sin that you're in even now, that's just one person, let 70 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,840 alone all these other people, right? 71 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:59,760 And that the entire world who Jesus died for, it was it was on 72 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,120 his body and he experienced that horrible separation. 73 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,760 Do you ever feel separated from God? 74 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:10,360 That feeling of like man, I I feel like God's not close that 75 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,040 feeling multiply that times a a billion, right. 76 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,279 I mean, just the amount of people in the sin that it caused 77 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,680 that anguish. And so it says that he was 78 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,560 troubled again, but why is he just why is he troubled even 79 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,080 more so even in this moment is because no one likes betrayal. 80 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,240 You have to remember Jesus is both God and man. 81 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,560 And so he felt everything. Remember we talked about a 82 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,320 couple weeks ago. He didn't he didn't numb out. 83 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,160 He actually felt it. He felt the betrayal wasn't just 84 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:39,680 words on a page. You actually felt that. 85 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,480 And this is what it says in Psalm 55. 86 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:44,360 This is why betrayal hurts even more. 87 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:52,040 Betrayal is hard because you share meals with them, you talk 88 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,880 with them, you have phone calls with them, you meet with them, 89 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,960 you think you're friends, you think they have your back until 90 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:04,000 they don't. And so Jesus got to experience 91 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,920 this and Psalm 55, verse 12 and 14, it says it is not an enemy 92 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:13,120 who approaches me, right. If it's an enemy, we're just 93 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,520 like, then I could bear it. He says the Psalmist like he, I 94 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,960 could bear that. I, I mean, they don't love God, 95 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,280 they hate God. They're, they're, they're 96 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:22,120 running rampant and sin. It's like they don't like me. 97 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,360 Oh, who cares? That's not what we're talking 98 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,760 about here. Nor is it the one who hates me 99 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,240 who has exalted himself against me. 100 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,760 Then I could hide myself from I could just say, Hey, forget this 101 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:38,320 guy, I'll move on. But it is you, a man of my 102 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:44,800 equal, my companion, my familiar friend who we had sweet 103 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,960 fellowship together, walked in the House of God in the crowds. 104 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:54,320 This is what David experienced in Absalom son who betrayed him 105 00:05:54,320 --> 00:06:00,520 at the gate and so many others. It's the his love for Judas. 106 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,880 He had a love like it says over and over and over again. 107 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,560 Jesus wasn't like, I hate that guy. 108 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:05,600 Doesn't matter. Who cares? 109 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,120 It's it's Jesus. It's not an enemy, it's a 110 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:09,960 friend. And they're close. 111 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,320 There's there's a closeness that's there. 112 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,560 And it says he was troubled because of an ingratitude, 113 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,080 because of the presence of evil since Satan entered him. 114 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,360 Do you know, do you ever just like, do you ever just feel the 115 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,720 presence of darkness? Do you ever just feel that like 116 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,520 that, that like it's almost the enemy's breathing on your neck 117 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,600 in a moment, right when you're tempted, you just feel the 118 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,440 presence of evil or you just you're, you're, you've been 119 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,240 betrayed or you've been hurt and you just, you just you're, 120 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:38,960 you're, you're beyond just troubled. 121 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,120 Your, your heart is aching. I've talked to a few of you guys 122 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,480 even earlier. It's like, man, my heart, it's 123 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,720 like so much, so many good things can happen in this last 124 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,640 calendar year, but yet I ache. I have an ache in my soul. 125 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:55,880 You know, that's what it means to follow Jesus. 126 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,760 It's cost, isn't it? And we get to see that he went 127 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:07,520 before us and just it was funny. Just the other day was one of my 128 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,280 kids is there he was washing the dishes like kind of, you know, 129 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,960 we kind of say like, Hey, make sure that you obey quickly, 130 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,920 cheerfully and completely that keyword cheerful, right? 131 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,560 It's just it's hard, isn't it? It's not like just doing is 132 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:26,400 like, like I'm like, what's what's bugging you, son? 133 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,360 You know, and he just belts out this cry. 134 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:37,280 He just cries like they don't appreciate me, like all this 135 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,680 kind of stuff. And I'm like there, there's no 136 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,640 thank you, not even 1, you know, just this whole thing. 137 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,080 And I'm like, let me tell you something. 138 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,480 How do you think Jesus felt like I'm like getting right up in his 139 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:51,520 grill, right? Like right up. 140 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,480 Like how do you think Jesus felt in it? 141 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,520 He died for all these people and some people will go to the grave 142 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:11,400 without saying 1 thank you. Like you get a little taste of 143 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,760 what your Savior has experienced. 144 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:16,880 You at the sink, him at the cross. 145 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:26,080 Big difference. So why did Jesus, why did Jesus 146 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,320 follow or why did Judas follow Jesus? 147 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,480 What were the motivations? And I'll, I'll share with you a 148 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,720 few of them because it all tied together later. 149 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:38,600 But at the end he had hoped, right? 150 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,840 We say this often. He had hoped that Jesus would 151 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,200 overthrow Rome. That was his expectation. 152 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,560 Let me tell you it the the whole title of this message. 153 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,800 OK, I forgot to tell you that the title of this message is An 154 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,640 exposed heart must run to Jesus. The only thing an exposed heart 155 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,880 must do is run to Him. And that may not make much sense 156 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,920 to you right now, but it will in the end because when our hearts 157 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,720 are exposed and all Jesus is doing right now is He's exposing 158 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:17,160 a lot of hearts at the table. They're all around the table. 159 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,440 This is the upper rim and the upper room. 160 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,240 You're going to be like, wow, they're at the table for a long 161 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:22,720 time. There's a lot of chapters here, 162 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,760 really all the way through chapter 17. 163 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,160 And there's a lot of content. And we, we, we got to stop right 164 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,520 now at 13 because 14, when we come home, we'll start with 165 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,080 that. Still at the table three months 166 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,040 later, but they're at the table and they're they're disgusting. 167 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,320 A lot of things. And I would just say this that 168 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,520 there's a lot of hearts being exposed and and and as they're 169 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,440 as Jesus, we just saw in the last scene, he was washing the 170 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,920 feet of Judas, the one who would betray him. 171 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,200 And there's so much love. He loves us. 172 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,240 It says here he loves us to the end. 173 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:03,800 And it's not just his disciples, right that the 11, but also the 174 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,240 12th 1, the 12th man that betrays him. 175 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:08,520 We all know the end of the story. 176 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,440 Let's stick with the drama. What we know in the moment right 177 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,600 now, there's there's a man that all their hearts are being 178 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,480 exposed. Do you ever have you ever, have 179 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:20,560 you ever have your heart exposed? 180 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,760 You ever had that before? It's not fun, right? 181 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,640 I mean, just someone's sharing truth with you and you're like, 182 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,360 uh oh, I've been found out, you know, and I don't have to do 183 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,200 anything huge and serious, but just maybe even as your wife and 184 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,080 you and your wife are talking, going for a walk and you're 185 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,040 just, your heart's just being exposed. 186 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:40,680 You see the selfishness in your heart. 187 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,960 You see the pride in your heart. There's things that are 188 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,120 happening there. What do you do? 189 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,240 Well, there's 2 tracks here in this story, One that John takes 190 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,440 and one that Judas takes. There's only one thing you do, 191 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,440 only one thing that you must do when your heart is exposed. 192 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:05,360 You must run to him. In Judas, expectations were not 193 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,880 being met. Of course, you know what was the 194 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,760 last straw, right? What was the last straw for 195 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,280 Judas? Is he made-up his mind in the 196 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:13,680 moment? What was that? 197 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,200 It was when the alabaster jar was being broken over Jesus's 198 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,560 feet by Mary. He says enough is enough. 199 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:27,040 I could have used that money. That is all of our campaign 200 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:35,280 money for what to take over Rome and this guy's not doing that. 201 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:41,600 Did you ever have expectations for God that were on an unmet 202 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,360 like I thought God, I thought you were going to. 203 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,680 I thought I was going to be married by this age and I'm not 204 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,400 he's exposing something expectations. 205 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:53,960 I thought I would be making this much money. 206 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,320 I thought this would happen. I thought these I thought I 207 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,000 would be healthy. I thought it whatever it is, I 208 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,080 don't care what it is, but I thought I thought I thought I 209 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,000 thought I thought it's not God is exposing your heart and you 210 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,680 have a choice. Do you run to him or not? 211 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:12,680 And he's showing us and again, sorry for we're getting right 212 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:13,720 into it. I told you we're just getting 213 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,280 right in. There's no like fluffy intro, 214 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,400 but I want us to see that God is exposing our hearts all the 215 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,120 time. He doesn't have to just use this 216 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,760 path. He's exposing our hearts all the 217 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,640 time and he's drawing, wanting us to draw near. 218 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,600 That is what we talked about even last week, but it was 219 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,840 interesting here in this next verse 22, it says the disciples 220 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:39,920 began looking at one another and at a loss to which to know which 221 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,960 one was he was speaking about. They're like, who is it? 222 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,120 I mean like it's crazy. I mean Mark 1419 says surely not 223 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,800 I you know what's crazy is the disciples were suspicious of 224 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,560 themselves, more like before they even suspected Judas. 225 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:58,480 That's what the text is showing us. 226 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,520 They had no clue. They're like, it's not I is it? 227 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,480 I mean, because their hearts were being exposed, right? 228 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,000 Because they're all like, who's the greatest? 229 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,080 Who's the greatest, Who's the greatest? 230 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,160 And this king of the universe literally comes down and starts 231 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,120 to wash their feet and they're like, wait a second, there's 232 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,760 something more. He's going to get us. 233 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,600 He's going to ZAP us. He's going to blow us away to 234 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,880 blitterines, right? But he doesn't right? 235 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,200 He, he's lovingly serving us and that's exposing something, 236 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,440 right? It's the kindness of God that 237 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,040 leads us to repentance. Sometimes you can't even 238 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,800 sometimes you're like, I expect punishment to happen, but when 239 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,560 you see kindness come, you're more terrified. 240 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,400 He was like, this can't be this can't be this can't be how God 241 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,400 truly is. And so they're like, well, maybe 242 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,840 maybe it was me. Are you, are you the guy? 243 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,880 Are you the guy? And you know what's crazy is 244 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:49,720 listen, as you got to put the all the synoptic, you got to 245 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,480 bring John and the Synoptics together. 246 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:56,880 Matthew 2625 said this. Even Judas said, surely not I 247 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,760 Rabbi. Wow, are you awake this morning? 248 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:11,560 Did you see that sin is blinding? 249 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:23,520 Sin is blinding and that if you think that was bad, listen to 250 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,880 this. Luke 2223 says they discussed 251 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,320 amongst themselves who could do this thing. 252 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,720 Did you ever wonder what Judas might have been discussing? 253 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,960 Like, was he? Was he so audacious? 254 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,560 Was he so bold to say? Are you kidding me? 255 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:50,200 I could never do something like that just to cover himself. 256 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,520 Wow. Do you realize how much sin is 257 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,880 blinding? It's so hard sometimes when your 258 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,040 friends or your family or people, it's called blind spots, 259 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,680 right? Why people come up to you and 260 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,880 say, hey, I, I mean, man, there have been times when I've been 261 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,840 in meetings where it is so clear to me, another person send and 262 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,840 to watch the other person say you don't know, you have no idea 263 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,480 what you're talking about. And there's like two or three 264 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:24,080 witnesses and they're like, you're wrong. 265 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:32,000 OK, Sin is so blinding. It's so blinding. 266 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,360 But yet there's so much love in the room for these 12. 267 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,560 So Peter took initiative and he found he wanted to find out 268 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:41,960 being the guy, you know, he's always like, OK, who is it? 269 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,240 You know, like. And so he's like, all right, I'm 270 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,800 not going to ask Jesus, John, you ask Jesus because you're 271 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,680 always calling yourself the beloved, you know, so you ask 272 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,320 him. So he asked, who is it? 273 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,000 And I want to show you something about the seating arrangement. 274 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Sometimes you just have to pause, look at this, Don't just 275 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,560 go over the scripture so fast. Check off the box in your quiet 276 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,880 time, but just wait a second and ask questions and say, wait a 277 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,800 second, what's the scene arrangement? 278 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:16,560 So right, what do you have here? There they were reclining. 279 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,000 You guys know how they ate, right? 280 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:23,280 So Jesus is probably on his left arm right leaning because they 281 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:24,920 didn't have chairs. No one's sitting by the way. 282 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,080 You know, all those pictures that I just went to a wedding 283 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,800 the other day and they showed the upper room picture and 284 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,320 everybody's sitting at a nice chair. 285 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,960 The chair is so elaborate. I'm like, no, they're all on the 286 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,480 floor. OK, So he's sitting like this 287 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,960 with his arm on the floor and he's they're eating with their 288 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,360 right hand. And so there's a spread of food. 289 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,880 And so he takes the bread, he dips it in the olive oil and 290 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,960 it's like a bunch of spices and everything in there, piece of 291 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,120 bread, unleavened bread. And he takes that. 292 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,720 And what does he do with it? So he's on, he's sitting like 293 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,760 that. John is on his right hand side, 294 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,960 right? And Peter's right next to him. 295 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:03,760 Peter's saying, hey, John, who is it? 296 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:10,520 And Jesus says it's the one where I dip the bread in to the 297 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:16,800 spices and I give it to the person on my left. 298 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,160 Where's Judas? Right next to Jesus. 299 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,440 Do you know you could be so close to Jesus and not know him? 300 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,320 You could come to church every week and not know him. 301 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,160 And do you know what Jesus does? Do you know why that is so 302 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,360 important for him to do that? He's showing whenever a host, 303 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,160 which Jesus is the host for this party. 304 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:49,320 Whenever a host dips the first bread and gives it, he gives it 305 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:55,240 to the guest of honor. That is crazy. 306 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,120 If you guys, I don't know what sin you're in this morning. 307 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,360 I have no idea what sin you're in, but he loves you. 308 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:08,000 You think you might be so far from God, right? 309 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:11,960 But he like the person that is going to betray him and turn him 310 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:18,280 over to Rome for 30 pieces of silver is right next to him and 311 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,280 he says you're my guest of honor. 312 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,680 Do you know how many times what he's showing? 313 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,000 He's showing him over and over and over. 314 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,000 He's like, wake up, Judas. Before it's too late, wake up. 315 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,720 I'm right here. I'm giving you everything. 316 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,120 Everything. I'm not even paying attention to 317 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,800 the rest of these jokers. I'm giving everything to you in 318 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,040 your last moment. It's amazing. 319 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:47,200 Incredible. The lessons here, guys, that you 320 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,360 need to learn. OK, here's a few lessons on 321 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:51,200 this. It's just so important. 322 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:57,800 Judith was a teenager. We know this because the 323 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,240 scriptures, if you, if you look at it, Exodus says the, the, the 324 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:05,000 men who are 20 and over have to give the temple tax. 325 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,480 Now we know either he was in his early 20s because I know that 326 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,440 they spend 3 1/2 years together. So we don't know. 327 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:15,040 We'd have to do some math here, but he's either between 19/18/19 328 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:18,840 or 20 or 21 at the most. He's a young kid. 329 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:28,560 He's a kid, he's a college student, and most scholars and 330 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:33,120 everybody would say this is an example of a lost opportunity 331 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:38,760 and a wasted privilege to be next to the Son of God, to be 332 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:43,280 given a purpose and a family, and it's wasted. 333 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,400 Here's why. Here's a couple of reasons why I 334 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,200 want you to write these down. This man heard Jesus everyday 335 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,440 teach everyday. He heard him teach wonderful 336 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,000 truths personally interacted with him. 337 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,520 In fact, there were so many people that wanted Jesus's 338 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,040 attention, right? If you go through the synoptic 339 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,400 Gospels especially, there's just like they wanted his attention, 340 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,680 wanted his attention, wanted his attention. 341 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,600 Do you know who got more attention than any of those 342 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,560 people? Him on the left. 343 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,720 He got so much attention. In fact, he got the most 344 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,480 attention even at that table by getting the gut being the guest 345 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,480 of honor. And here's one I would say for. 346 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:28,600 Most of our young adults in the room, this is what took him out. 347 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:34,200 Not only did he hear the teachings of Jesus, not only did 348 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,040 he get to interact with him and watch the insurance and outs of 349 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,240 Jesus heart to see the purity of his heart, but he loved money 350 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,000 and that took him out. He loved money. 351 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,560 Do you know people that have a lot of money doesn't mean they 352 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,640 love money. You know of people that have no 353 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:59,520 money could love money. So it has nothing to do with how 354 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:00,640 much you have in your banking account. 355 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:07,520 It's what you put your trust in and this man lived for himself 356 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,880 even in the midst of going to church. 357 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,600 It meant more to him than Jesus salvation because he never, you 358 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:22,880 know, it says in in 2nd Corinthians 13, five, it says 359 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,800 examine yourself to see if you're in the faith. 360 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,760 Judas never examined himself until it's too late. 361 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:35,600 He never examined himself. And not only that, but here's a 362 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:41,080 few others. No one in that room could tell 363 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,160 that Judas was backsliding. No one could. 364 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,880 The dude was like starting to fall apart, but no one knew it. 365 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,600 No one knew it. Everyone even at that time, like 366 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,760 surely not no one knew it. They're not all like I know who 367 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,400 it is. No, they were all like, who is 368 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,560 it? Because he he had a show for a 369 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,680 long time. And guys, you can fake it. 370 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,400 You could put on your mask every single week and no one would 371 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,440 ever know. But eventually it will. 372 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,240 I just read in numbers the other day, right numbers. 373 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,760 Was it 22? Your sins will surely find you 374 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,760 out. It doesn't have to. 375 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,200 You can bring them to Jesus, you can bring them to him. 376 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,560 Everything will be all right. Just bring it to Him. 377 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:29,040 But he chose not to, and then his seared conscience. 378 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,960 Do you ever sear a piece of meat or tuna? 379 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:34,920 Right. I eat tuna. 380 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,040 You just sear it. It's just a little bit cooked on 381 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:44,400 the surface now. It's not as meat's not as 382 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,680 pliable anymore, is it? Once it's seared and once your 383 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,960 heart is seared, it's just calloused. 384 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,400 It's maybe some of you guys have been calluses, whatever, but 385 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,960 it's calloused, It's numb. You've grown numb. 386 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,720 You, you bypass all the warnings, all the warnings. 387 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:02,760 There's so many warnings. I mean, he's like bypassing all 388 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,800 the warnings. He's just simply didn't care. 389 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,080 Guys, I think the most scariest thing is what we read. 390 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,200 And let me just look at this for a second Turn there with me. 391 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:19,280 Hebrews. It says this in Hebrews 6, verse 392 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,880 four and six. For in the case of those who 393 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,080 have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift 394 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,880 and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted, 395 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,720 these are words of experience. These aren't just intellectual, 396 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,640 you know, you always say, well, I just, you know, intellectually 397 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,280 go through the motions. No, no, no, these people 398 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:42,440 actually tasted something of God, partakers, partakers of the 399 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,240 Holy Spirit. They tasted the good word of God 400 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,680 and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away. 401 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,320 For it is now impossible to renew them again to repentance, 402 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,960 since they again crucified to themselves the Son of God, and 403 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:00,160 put him to open shame. And then turn over to Hebrews 404 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:03,920 12. It says this in verse 14. 405 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:09,560 Pursue peace with all men at the sanctification, without which no 406 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,680 one will see the Lord without holiness. 407 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,120 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that 408 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:19,800 no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it 409 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,000 many have defiled. And there will be no immoral or 410 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,000 godless person like Esau who sold his own birthright for a 411 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,520 single meal, for, you know, that even afterwards, when he desired 412 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:35,080 to inherit the blessing he was rejected for, he found no place 413 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,520 for repentance, though he sought it with tears. 414 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:43,400 That's what's happening here. He's getting to the point where 415 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:50,200 he's hardening his heart so much so that he doesn't even know he 416 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,000 felt so much remorse. What did he say? 417 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,400 It says as soon as Judas left, he went. 418 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,280 And he, he, you know, he, he went to the priest. 419 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,240 He realized, oh, shoot, what did I just do? 420 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,400 So he's going back, right? He's going back to the priest. 421 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,080 He's like, hey, I don't want anything to do with this. 422 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,400 He gives back. He's like, take it, take it 423 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,520 back, take my coins back. I don't want anything to do with 424 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,000 this. I realized, oh, shoot, what did 425 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,400 I just do? And they threw it back at him 426 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,800 and said get out of here. And what did he do? 427 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,400 Judas never saw the light of day. 428 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,360 He left in the night and what do you do? 429 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:32,160 He went and killed himself. He ran away from Jesus when his 430 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,200 heart was exposed. And listen what it says with JC 431 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,080 Rowlett says this. The extent to which we may 432 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,200 harden ourselves by resisting light and knowledge is one of 433 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,400 the most fearful facts and our sinful nature. 434 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:48,000 Listen to what he says. We may go past feeling like 435 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,240 those whose limbs are degraded before they die. 436 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:57,120 We may lose entirely all sense of fear or shame or remorse, and 437 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:00,000 have a heart as hard as a millstone, blind to every 438 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 warning and deaf to every appeal. 439 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,400 The strongest Christian is the one who feels his weakness, 440 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,320 weakness most, and cries most frequently. 441 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:15,760 Hold me up and then I'll be safe, guys. 442 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:26,480 That feeling of you're not doing OK right now is a gift that 443 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,320 Judas did not feel until his dying day. 444 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,480 The rest of them did. They were all like, Oh no, is it 445 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,000 me? Is it me? 446 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:35,920 Is it me? I'm not sure. 447 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,800 I don't know, just walking in that sense. 448 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,280 They had a lot of pride, but they had enough sense of maybe 449 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,520 this could be me. And you know, at the end here, 450 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,320 Jesus addressed him as friend. You know, we will get there a 451 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,880 little later. But he goes up, right? 452 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,400 And he kisses, it's like the last part of I don't think 453 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:57,360 there's any other chosens, right? 454 00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,120 They could kind of ended with the kiss, right? 455 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,600 I don't know if you watched that part, but it was like there's 456 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,920 the kiss, right? Judas kisses Jesus and he says 457 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:10,640 friend, even up to that point, he says, friend, do you know 458 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,400 what? You know what's crazy is listen, 459 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:17,440 he's like man, as we read on, he says when I dipped the morsel he 460 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,640 took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon. 461 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,200 He gave it to his left. And he says after the morsel, 462 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,680 Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, 463 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:30,440 what you do, do quickly. That was the last thing that 464 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,120 Jesus said finally until you said, friend, at the very end 465 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:37,120 before he kissed him. You would think in that moment, 466 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,480 whatever you do, do quickly. You would think in that moment 467 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,520 he'd be like, OK, the game's over. 468 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,920 I am so sorry. I am not going to do that. 469 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,400 Guys. Are you listening to Holy Spirit 470 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,520 in temptation? Are you listening to the Spirit 471 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,520 of God saying, no, no, no, no, don't go there, Don't go there, 472 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,080 don't go there, Don't do that. Don't say that. 473 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,800 Pausing, saying, you know, sometimes we hear the warnings 474 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,080 of God. They're so like, oh, I don't 475 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,760 know, they're the kindness of God. 476 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,800 His voice is kind. Whatever you do, do quickly. 477 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,640 You've seen he's basically trying to get his attention 478 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:25,720 multiple times and then it says now no one now, no one of those 479 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,640 reclining at the table knew for what purpose he had said this to 480 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,200 them. Again, they're clueless. 481 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,920 For some, we're supposing because Judas had the Money Box 482 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,760 that Jesus was saying to him, buy things we need for the 483 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,520 feast. It's just funny how we all have 484 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,640 a different interpretation of what Jesus says, right? 485 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,160 Or else that he should give something to the poor. 486 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,720 So they still thought he was kind and generous, but he's full 487 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,440 of greed. So after receiving the morsel, 488 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,640 he went out immediately and it was night. 489 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,400 And I love you know, John, he, he focuses in on these words and 490 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,920 uses them. He doesn't just waste words. 491 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,360 He talks about the night is darkness. 492 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,840 This man was in darkness. And not only did he leave in 493 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:07,080 darkness, but he's still today in hell, in darkness 2000 years 494 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,480 later, because he chose to run away from Jesus when his heart 495 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,160 was exposed. Now verse 31 says there is now 496 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,440 repentance just means, hey, I'm wrong. 497 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,800 I need your grace. Lord, I want to turn to you. 498 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,600 It's not just do you know that you know you can. 499 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,840 You can think you're repenting, but you're not. 500 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,600 But all it is is just remorse, God, like worldly sorrow. 501 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,280 Just to feel bad or to feel like uncomfortable about sin doesn't 502 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,960 mean you're repenting. Repentance means I'm wrong. 503 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:40,320 Lord, please change my heart. Bring me back to you best 504 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,560 repentance. It's turning away from sin. 505 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,560 It's it's godly sorrow. Second Corinthians 7. 506 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,200 You can read that later verse 31. 507 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,160 Therefore, when he had gone out, now he's just with the 11 and 508 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,280 listen to what he says. The affection, the love that is 509 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,640 being poured out to his own says now the son of man glory be 510 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,600 glorified. Now is the Son of man glorified 511 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,160 and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God 512 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,720 will also glorify him in himself and we'll glorify him 513 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:11,800 immediately. It's a lot of glory. 514 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,560 What does he even mean? I was just talking about kids 515 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,960 the other day. I was like, what is the glory of 516 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,640 God? And I was like, yeah, I don't 517 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,080 like, it's when we magnify him or we put put focus. 518 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,760 I was like, you know what? Listen, the glory of God is 519 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,920 simple. It's the nature of God. 520 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,880 When you see God show up in justice and power and holiness 521 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,160 and faithfulness and wisdom and love, that's his glory. 522 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,240 Did you ever experience that? His glory has got to be tasted, 523 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,080 felt, experienced. It's it's his, it's his nature. 524 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,960 When God comes through like he miraculously answers your prayer 525 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,000 and you're like, no way. I just heard a few people just 526 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,600 talk about just generosity. Some you don't have the whole 527 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,520 idea of like, you know, if God, if God shovels money towards 528 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,320 you, right? You shovel it back, but he 529 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,640 shovels it back even more because his shovel is bigger, 530 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:00,360 right? That's later. 531 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,920 No, but I love that that you can't out give God. 532 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,800 But just even this week, just seeing the glory of God, right? 533 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,760 And when people just generously give, they there's a couple 534 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,880 people that like gave $50, they got back 425. 535 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,760 Another person gave 50. They got back 1000. 536 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,880 Another person gave 3000, got back 3000. 537 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,640 It's amazing. You can't out give God. 538 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,520 I've just watched it over and over and over again. 539 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,560 That's the glory of God, seeing his generosity when we don't 540 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,480 deserve it, seeing his promises come through. 541 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,600 Now he's the, it all culminates. I mean, you could see the power 542 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,760 of creation. I mean, as you read through the, 543 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,360 the, the, the scriptures, you see the power of God, of him 544 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,400 rescuing the Israelites from Egypt, all that's the glory of 545 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,760 God. But where we see the glory of 546 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,640 God the most. And this is the one that warms 547 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,200 our hearts and changes our hearts. 548 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,680 It's the love of God and Jesus is pouring out. 549 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:52,720 He's about to get there in a second. 550 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,920 He says little children. It's the only time he actually 551 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,200 addresses. You know who else says little 552 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,200 children often? The one who writes this book and 553 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,640 his letter, his personal letter to the churches. 554 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,920 He says little children, little children, I am with you. 555 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,800 I love that underline that little children, I'm with you. 556 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,760 Like he's talking to us. Why do you know he's talking to 557 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,400 us? Because Judas is gone now. 558 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,320 There's no other unbeliever in the room. 559 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,120 It's just the church. It's just his people. 560 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,560 And he's saying, little children, I love you, I'm with 561 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,840 you. A little while longer you will 562 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:31,360 seek me. And as I said to the Jews, and I 563 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,040 also say now to you, where I'm going, you cannot come. 564 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,440 And of course, that's a scary thought. 565 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,320 What do you mean? What's going on here? 566 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,280 A new commandment I give you that you love one another even 567 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,000 as I loved you, that you also love one another. 568 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,520 By this all men will know that you are my disciples. 569 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,520 If you have love for one another, this is it. 570 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,520 This is the premier quality. If you have this, you have 571 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,720 everything and I love it. It's just like, what is the new? 572 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,320 By the way, have you already noticed that? 573 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,800 What's new? What's new it's it's like all of 574 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,720 a sudden now like Jesus is saying love each other. 575 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,120 This is the first time. No look at the Old Testament as 576 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,280 you read all throughout the Old Testament talks about loving 577 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:12,600 your neighbor, loving each other. 578 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,680 But what is he saying here? What is he adding to? 579 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,920 What is he saying? He's like, look what I just 580 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,680 demonstrated you within the last few minutes. 581 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,920 This is how I want you to love with humble, sacrificial, dying 582 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,640 love. That is the new commandment. 583 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,280 I'm I'm, I'm adding to it something that's already true, 584 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,720 right? I'm basically saying, look, I 585 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,720 want you to love the same way that I love you as I wash your 586 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:43,320 feet, as you are full of pride. I'm going to sacrifice for you 587 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,000 and I'm going to go all the way to the death. 588 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,480 It's it's dying. It's dying love. 589 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,560 I, I told the the couple last yesterday when I was doing the 590 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,760 wedding. I was like, Sean, most likely 591 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,360 you're not going to die for Amanda. 592 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,160 Most likely. I mean, you might, I don't know. 593 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,120 I mean, be kind of crazy if that actually happened. 594 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,200 But if most likely that's not going to happen. 595 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,920 But in the meantime, while you're waiting for this heroic 596 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,199 opportunity to die for your wife like it's some movie, just do 597 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:16,920 the dishes, you know, do something that serves your wife 598 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:22,480 really well. But it's when you, I love the 599 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,880 the line that we always share, you know, at the weddings when 600 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,360 you feel like it and when you don't. 601 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,480 Where we got that from, I think was from our pastors when they 602 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,440 married us. I don't know, 22 1/2 years ago, 603 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,360 22 years ago, yeah, almost 22 years ago. 604 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:43,920 I was like, man, I like that line. 605 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,440 That's not in the traditional vows. 606 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,199 We they kind of added that and we took that and ran with it 607 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,960 many years later. But it's when husbands, do you 608 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,600 always feel like loving your wife, Dick, do you always feel 609 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:04,560 like loving your wife? I know I was waiting for the 610 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,840 Thunderbolt, like the lightning bolt to kind of I was like, is 611 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,000 that thing coming down or what? I mean, just got good shield 612 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,240 here. You know, it's like, wow, better 613 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:23,520 be careful when you go outside. But no, we, if we always had to 614 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,880 wait till we feel like loving our neighbor, it would never 615 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,720 come, right? We'd never do it. 616 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,720 It's not about you what you feel. 617 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,640 And that's what Jesus is saying here. 618 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,040 It's not about what you feel. It's actually just remember that 619 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,560 in the most simplest way, right? Maybe it is just the dishes, 620 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,160 whatever it is and you look, we're just being really 621 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,360 practical here for a second. It's just if someone asks you to 622 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,000 do something, you're like, I don't know, I see it all the 623 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:54,280 time in our household, right? Our little the kids are like I'm 624 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,840 like start now. This is what Jesus said. 625 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,400 I have a new commandment, you know about loving people, but I 626 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,960 want to add something to this that's very difficult and you 627 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,520 cannot do this on your own. I'm going to ask you to love 628 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,400 when you don't feel like it. I'm going to ask you to 629 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,600 sacrifice and to lay your life down for one another to the 630 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,400 least of these to people. You don't feel like it if all 631 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,280 you do is love the people that you feel like loving. 632 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,600 You know what Jesus says about that? 633 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,440 Unbelievers and pagans do that, so good job. 634 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,920 That's not that hard, but it's much harder when everyone's 635 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,440 trying to claim to be the greatest. 636 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,160 And I'm troubled. My heart aches. 637 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:43,400 No pastor in the room and I get down on my knees and I watch 638 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,040 every one of your feet, including the one that betrays 639 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,160 me. That's love. 640 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,840 That's what I want you to do. So the next time you think about 641 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,640 whether you're a loving person or not, put yourself up against 642 00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:02,600 that standard, and then you'll see if you love first. 643 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:03,960 John 316. We know this. 644 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,440 John's saying this in his letter. 645 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,880 He laid down his life for us, so we ought to do the same. 646 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,320 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church 647 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,960 and gave himself up for it. You know two ways that you can 648 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:18,040 easily just practice love, Ask for forgiveness and forgive. 649 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,320 Just ask for it. You know, that might be the 650 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,200 hardest thing to do is just go up to something and say, hey, I 651 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,720 just want to say, will you forgive me for, for what I just 652 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:29,920 did? That's love. 653 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,680 And then the most loving thing to do is to return and say, you 654 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:34,720 know what? I do forgive you. 655 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,680 And I hold nothing against you. You know, I've watched over the 656 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,480 last, I don't know, 25 years of walking with Jesus, but 657 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,640 specifically the last 14 here at this church. 658 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,680 I just want to say something very clear. 659 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:53,000 You cannot say you love God and not love the church if you don't 660 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,760 love God's not in you because God is love. 661 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,480 The amount of times that I've heard someone say before they're 662 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,480 about to literally destroy this church. 663 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,120 I'm not kidding when I say this. The amount of times that someone 664 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,440 looked me straight in the eye and said, I just want to say I 665 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,520 love this church and then what comes proceeds out of their 666 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,040 mouth. It is such vehement hatred in 667 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,720 vitro. I am shocked. 668 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:32,080 I literally look at them like you're Satan because they are. 669 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:38,480 You cannot say out of one side of your mouth you love God and 670 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,960 the other side hate the church. Can't do it. 671 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,400 It won't fly here. You won't. 672 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,160 Just not going to happen. We went through a lot over the 673 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,400 last year of being attacked and we know who loves God and who 674 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,800 doesn't. It's very clear if you destroy 675 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,800 this church with your mouth, you hate God and you hate people. 676 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,120 It's as simple as that. And I think we've grown as a 677 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,520 church. I'm just talking to you like a 678 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,880 dad. We've grown as a church. 679 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,840 I've watched our church literally mature over this last 680 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,480 year and I'm proud of you. We've done a great job. 681 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,720 I mean, we've been, I mean, I'd probably take the most, most of 682 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:27,160 the hits on that one, but but we've, we have grown so much 683 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,720 over this last year, numerically, maturity wise, 684 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,040 growth, It's been incredible to watch. 685 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:39,880 Let's not ruin that. Let's define love the way Jesus 686 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,280 does. You know, those people you talk 687 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:46,160 to at the workplace, They're like me and Jesus, We're like 688 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,320 tight. We're good. 689 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,000 We we're, you know, oh, so do you go to a church somewhere? 690 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,280 No, I'm not really into that. You don't love God. 691 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,760 You literally don't love God because he says if you love me, 692 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,680 you'll do what I tell you to do. And that is? 693 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,960 To love humbly and sacrificially. 694 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,560 It's my definition. I give you this new commandment 695 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,240 that is to lay down your life for the sheep. 696 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,880 You know what it ultimately what he's saying. 697 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,800 If you love God, you will serve the church until your dying day. 698 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,800 It's not about like I'm going to church and I'm loving God and 699 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,920 I'm loving people like in this generality. 700 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,880 No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not getting letting you guys get 701 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,280 away with that. This is what he says. 702 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:36,560 He says it this way, this way, and he has there's no other way. 703 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,960 If you love God and say you love God, you will serve this church 704 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,640 until your dying day. And that is a humble sacrificial 705 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,400 love. Even at the at the point where 706 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,000 maybe you have a bitterness or offense with certain people, you 707 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,920 will work that out before you die. 708 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,360 You work that out before you actually go to bed tonight 709 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,640 because it cannot come out of two sides of your mouth. 710 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,200 I know that's hard. I know I'm, I'm, you're probably 711 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,160 thankful that I don't have to preach for another three months, 712 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:07,480 but just, I'm just saying, OK, you're like, OK, thank you. 713 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,280 We're going to the Psalms summer in the Psalms. 714 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:15,640 Yes, OK, but I just, I love, I love this. 715 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:22,960 I, I, Jesus is enduring love in the face of our weakness and 716 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,960 sin. So if you're feeling like beat 717 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,600 up, you're feeling like, oh, I can't do this right, Go to God 718 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,160 and say I can't love like he loves. 719 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,000 I can't love that way. Lord, help me, help me. 720 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,280 He's going to give you power. If you have a desire and your 721 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,080 heart is exposed right now, run to Jesus, run to him. 722 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,520 Romans 83839. Nothing, not even them fleeing 723 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:48,320 Jesus for a moment would separate them from his love. 724 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,600 It's secure, it's covenant. Oh, he's in it for the long haul 725 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,600 and he's, he's the bigger one in our in the relationship. 726 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:03,280 Amen. I love this Peter's like he's 727 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,600 just Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? 728 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,440 Little like he's just he's like he is never mind the new 729 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,320 commandment love all this stuff right. 730 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,880 He's just like, hold on a second. 731 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,200 I I lost you. I'd like you can't come with 732 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,400 with me. Where are you going? 733 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:20,720 You know, like he just never mind. 734 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,040 I love the guy, like Jesus rocks this man's world and he's a 735 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:25,520 different man in the book of Acts. 736 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,800 But he just where are you going? And Jesus says you cannot follow 737 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,800 me, but later, but later you'll follow me. 738 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,920 OK? Peter says, Tim, Lord, why can't 739 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,160 I not follow you right now? Like I want to follow you now? 740 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,960 Like who are the stubborn people in the room, right? 741 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,000 I'll be like type a stubborn. I will lay down my life for you. 742 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,440 You know, it's so ironic, isn't it? 743 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,160 It's like, actually it's the opposite. 744 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:53,760 I'm going to lay my life down for you. 745 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:59,800 You will you lay your lay down your life for me. 746 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,560 Jesus says truly, truly, I say to you, and that's again, truly, 747 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:04,480 truly. Every time you see that it's 748 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,120 like this, it's coming down. Some truth's going to happen 749 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,280 here. Listen, listen, because they 750 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,800 don't have like they didn't, they didn't do italics. 751 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,200 They don't have, they don't have that in the in the, in the 752 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,920 grammar. And so they have to repeat. 753 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,760 And that's why you see holy, holy, holy, right, Because 754 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,720 there's, there was no like exclamation point in that sense. 755 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,800 So he says, truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster, you will not 756 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:33,320 crow until you deny me 3 times Judas betrays me, you deny me, 757 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,480 but I will restore you. You're going to heaven Peter, 758 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,800 and you will be where I am forever. 759 00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,360 Stick with it, keep coming to me, keep coming to me, keep 760 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,600 coming to me, keep asking for help, keep humbling yourself. 761 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,200 That's what he's saying over and over and over again. 762 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,160 Do you know that how much ignorance is in our heart? 763 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,040 Do you know how much ignorance is in your heart? 764 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,360 It was pretty ignorant for Peter to say that. 765 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,920 And I'll tell you right now, all of us have ignorance in our 766 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,560 hearts. It's the fact. 767 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:03,680 It's OK. Let him expose it. 768 00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:04,880 Let him say, like, you know what? 769 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,600 You're not that great. You know, you're not that 770 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,920 wonderful. Oh, you want to be so famous, 771 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,160 You know, like I'm not saying Jesus probably doesn't do that. 772 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:16,360 That's me. OK, That's my impression. 773 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,560 But Jesus, like I'm not doing that. 774 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:25,400 Like, but he exposes all the pride and ambition in our heart, 775 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:28,400 so much selfish ambition in our hearts. 776 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,760 He's like, oh, I just want to make a lot of money. 777 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,880 Why? Because I'll give so much of it 778 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:34,880 away. He's like, no, you won't. 779 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,560 I just want to be famous for you, Lord, and I'll tell 780 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,520 everyone about Jesus. No, you won't. 781 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,480 If I just get married, I will be the happiest person and I will 782 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,560 live for you, for your glory. No, you won't. 783 00:44:57,220 --> 00:45:01,180 If you need something else to start living, your Christian 784 00:45:01,180 --> 00:45:10,900 walk now ain't going to happen. It's now today, it's today. 785 00:45:12,220 --> 00:45:15,700 You can glorify God today. You can give today. 786 00:45:17,420 --> 00:45:20,380 You can do great things today if you just give your life to Him. 787 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:25,520 Give your life to Him fully without any hindrance. 788 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,680 Go. I love this. 789 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,480 The love of God breaks the chains guys. 790 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:35,680 This is what we've been meditating on. 791 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,760 This is what's been so glorious the last four or five weeks. 792 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,080 I love this. I love it, I love it. 793 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,440 I want to stay here. I literally do. 794 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,200 I'm not kidding. I'm like, can we just do another 795 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:43,120 week? Can we do another week? 796 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,800 I just, I, I, you know, by the Providence of God, he knows, 797 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,000 right? We're just going to have to 798 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,200 break. But I love this. 799 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,160 I can't wait to sit on my desk and study. 800 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,600 John 14. It's been so rich, so good. 801 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,640 I'm telling you guys, the love of God breaks chains. 802 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,680 If we could just meditate on this, if you could just stay 803 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,680 here a little while longer. This is so rich, so good. 804 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:08,880 Listen to what? Karl Bart. 805 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,080 You don't know who Karl Bart is. Some of you guys do. 806 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,280 Some of you like who? Who does know? 807 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:13,800 Like some of you theologians, you know? 808 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,040 Yeah. Like a Hunter Calvary. 809 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,320 Yeah. Karl Bart, man. 810 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:17,600 I'm going to rap about him next week. 811 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,880 It's awesome. That's right. 812 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,080 Come on. Like, bring it in a song. 813 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,800 I dare you. OK, So this dude's, like, dry 814 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,520 theologian. OK, Dry theologian. 815 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,600 Super smart. Like, way smarter than anybody 816 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:31,960 in this room. OK, maybe. 817 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:36,360 I don't know. As he got older, his faith got 818 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,880 way simpler and deeper. And towards the end of his life, 819 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,440 he was asked to state the most profound truth he knew. 820 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,280 Just think about this. Old man theologian. 821 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,280 Smart dude. Wrote a lot of books. 822 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,600 Lot of books I had to read some of it in seminary. 823 00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:55,440 I was like, Oh my gosh. But after all that he says this, 824 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,680 Jesus loves me for this. I know for the Bible tells me 825 00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:09,090 so. Any simple people in the room, 826 00:47:10,970 --> 00:47:14,170 you know, the more you know about God, the simpler you got 827 00:47:14,170 --> 00:47:17,970 to be, the more childlike, more childlike. 828 00:47:19,370 --> 00:47:23,210 You can't enter the Kingdom of God without being like a what 829 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:30,440 child, you know the synoptics emphasize Jesus's mission. 830 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,240 Do you know this? Does this sound familiar? 831 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:37,640 Can we called on fire? That was the beginning, right? 832 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,680 It was all mission, mission, mission, mission with these 833 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,200 deeds, synoptics. Nothing wrong with Matthew, 834 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,880 Mark, Luke. In fact, we might go through 835 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,240 Luke at some point because I want to get into Luke at some 836 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:48,840 point. Maybe then in the coming years, 837 00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:51,000 but if you look at them, they're great. 838 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,560 It's all mission. It's mission, mission, mission. 839 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:57,120 You in fact never see says I love you. 840 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,720 It doesn't speak a whole lot about the love of God. 841 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:03,600 A lot of mission sending the 72 out, sending the 12. 842 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,400 I mean mission, mission, mission, mission. 843 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,000 But I love what Jerome said in 347 to 419. 844 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:15,040 He wrote about this. He's writing as a as a church 845 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,080 historian, right? He's writing about the the 846 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,720 Apostle John in life group. So they had life group back 847 00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:24,520 then. We still do that today, about 848 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,160 2000 years later. He's saying this during 849 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:31,440 individual gatherings. The Apostle John usually said 850 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,800 nothing but this little children love one another. 851 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:41,440 He's like 100 years old, you know, he's like old, you know, 852 00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:45,440 he's just go to life group. He's like Dick in about 220 853 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:49,680 years, you know, he's just like little children of one another. 854 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,360 Look, and it's crazy. Even they were annoyed, right? 855 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,880 The disciples and the brothers in attendance often annoyed 856 00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,320 because they always heard these same words. 857 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,120 Finally they said, teacher, why do you always say the same 858 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,680 thing? This is how he replied. 859 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,280 Because it is our Lord's commandment. 860 00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,400 And if this alone is kept, it is sufficient. 861 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,400 You know, what is the difference between him and everybody else 862 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:26,320 is he believed it. He believed it kind of what 863 00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,400 makes me out to cry almost like he just he actually believed it. 864 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,200 He called himself, Do you remember when we first started 865 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:35,680 this? I don't know how many years ago 866 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,440 it was. Why don't we start John a number 867 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:44,600 of years ago, but he calls himself the disciple to whom 868 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,600 Jesus loved no one else did that. 869 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,120 Why? Because he believed it. 870 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,280 Do you know what would happen as the church if we actually 871 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:58,800 believe the love of God for us and we believe all it really 872 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,320 matters is that we love others with the sacrificial love and we 873 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,560 go to life group and we're just like little children. 874 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,360 Let's just love. Let's love God. 875 00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,440 Let's love each other sacrificially telling you the 876 00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:18,560 simpler we are and more profound, powerful and God's 877 00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:23,280 going to use us around the world has already been doing as you 878 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:28,520 close here, I just want to share a few more things here, kind of 879 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:33,520 going to the Old Testament. Adam was, if you can believe 880 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:38,720 this, Adam was 687 years old when Enoch was 65. 881 00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:40,240 Can you imagine living in a world like that? 882 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:47,040 You're like, wow, you are old, like, but you're 65, you know, 883 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,760 he's like retirement age. That dude's like, like, you 884 00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,280 know, I don't know what the percentage is, but long, long 885 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:56,720 past the retirement age. Yeah. 886 00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:04,520 So anyways, he 687 years old when Enoch was 65, Enoch walked 887 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:08,600 with God for 300 years. It says 300 years. 888 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,600 And this pleased God and he died at 365. 889 00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:19,120 It says this please God. Hebrews 11 verse five. 890 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,440 I would just a short word as we close here because as we wrap up 891 00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,440 the spring semester, start the summer semester, this whole idea 892 00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,360 of we must draw near to God. He will draw near to us. 893 00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:38,600 Noah walk with God. It's Genesis 69 Abraham walk 894 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,680 with God, Genesis 17 one Exodus 19, every book of the Bible, you 895 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,120 could just trace this and I'm doing that right now as we 896 00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:46,920 speak. I'm just trying slowly, slowly, 897 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,160 slowly, just tracing the love of God in every page of the Bible. 898 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:57,880 And as I'm looking at Exodus 19 four, it says you have seen what 899 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,240 I did to the Egyptians. You've seen what I've didn't 900 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:04,640 done to your sin, buried it. It's no longer. 901 00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,720 I remember how I bore you on eagle's wings and listen how I 902 00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:13,040 brought you to myself. I want you to get something 903 00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,000 before when we go on mission. When we go on mission, there's 904 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,680 the eighth location. Of course it's Orlando. 905 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,040 Never forget that. Jeremiah 1713. 906 00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,040 I want you to remember this when we go for the next three months. 907 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,240 I spoke to you rising up early and speaking, but you did not 908 00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:29,480 hear. I called you, but you did not 909 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,480 answer. God is constantly knocking at 910 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:36,280 our door to dine with us. Psalm 13917 and 18. 911 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:37,680 How precious are your thoughts about me? 912 00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,800 They're innumerable. Who could count them? 913 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,600 And they outnumber the sand guys. 914 00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,840 What is your value to God? What? 915 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,680 What is your value? Every one of us has a value 916 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,400 assigned to us. And God saying you are worth 917 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,400 your soul is worth everything. Do you know why? 918 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,320 That's what it says that what is a profit? 919 00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,680 A man to gain the whole world. But lose your soul. 920 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,800 That is most precious. You want to gain the whole world 921 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:06,960 and then lose what is most precious to you and to most 922 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:08,920 precious to God. Don't be deceived. 923 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,840 Don't be blinded. What will a man give in exchange 924 00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:17,040 for a soul? That's why Jesus died for you, 925 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,600 because he knew your soul is worth everything. 926 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:25,800 But I'm going to show you something here as we close and 927 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:35,160 Mark, Mark 5 says this. I don't know if you guys ever 928 00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,640 saw this. We taught on this not that long 929 00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,240 ago, went through the Gospel of Mark. 930 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:51,640 It was a Jesus is going near the disciples. 931 00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:52,760 He's in the bottom of the boat, right? 932 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:57,040 He he goes, he says, OK, after he gives us great teaching on 933 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,600 the parable of the seed, mustard seed, etcetera. 934 00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:01,920 He's leaving. He says one day when evening 935 00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,760 came, he said to them, go over to the other side of the lakes, 936 00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,440 pretty Big Lake. And leaving the crowd. 937 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:12,320 He took him along with them in a boat just as he was and other 938 00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:15,320 boats were with him. And there are rows of fierce and 939 00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:19,920 Gale of wind, crazy storm. They're all freaking out. 940 00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:23,480 They're like, teacher, please wake up like we're going to die. 941 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,720 He says, hush, be still to the wind. 942 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,400 He says, why are you afraid if you have no faith? 943 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,160 And then he's tired. He's journeying. 944 00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:41,440 Mark just captures the the strenuous calendar schedule for 945 00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:42,960 Jesus and it's like it never ends. 946 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,160 And he gets over to the other side. 947 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,040 It says here and he meets this demoniac. 948 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:51,960 He meets this guy who's got dozens and dozens, hundreds of 949 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:57,800 demons inside of him. He's screaming amongst the 950 00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:02,520 tombs, gashing himself with stones, it says. 951 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,640 And then he just says, come out of this man, you unclean spirit. 952 00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:13,480 He says, what is your name? He gives the name, sends the 953 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,920 demons into the herd of swine. And then it says, I love this 954 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,560 verse 15. It says he was clothed and in 955 00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:25,800 his right mind, not loving. I mean, this guy, I don't know 956 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,040 about you, but I don't know, maybe one of you guys overseas 957 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:30,920 this year will encounter A demoniac. 958 00:55:31,240 --> 00:55:35,680 I guarantee you 10 out of 10 of you would run away instead of 959 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,360 doing this. And you think that was just 960 00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,760 enough right there. Just putting it in context. 961 00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:45,440 You'll see here in a second. And he says, hey, I want you to 962 00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,280 be my missionary. I want you to stay home here. 963 00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,720 I want you to be in this tent city called the Decapolis. 964 00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:51,760 I want you to be a witness to me. 965 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:54,640 I just love this story. Why? 966 00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:58,440 Because after such an exhausting day of ministry, it's such an 967 00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,960 exhausting season. As he gets his ministry off the 968 00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:07,240 ground, he decides purposely to go across the sea to meet this 969 00:56:07,240 --> 00:56:09,040 man. And that's what does it say 970 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:14,560 Verse 21, he heals this man. He says when Jesus had crossed 971 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,880 over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd 972 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:24,960 gathered. He did all of that to get to 1 973 00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:29,200 guy because he loves him to one guy. 974 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,720 He crossed the sea in a storm, got there, healed the guy, 975 00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,840 crossed back, offer one guy. Is that not amazing? 976 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,000 And what he's asking all of us in this room and even this 977 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,720 summer and the end of the spring, he's saying, look, draw 978 00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:46,400 near. Draw near to him. 979 00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:49,600 Just one step. If you got any strength right, 980 00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,960 and it comes from the Holy Spirit anyways, just draw near. 981 00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,400 You know, as I gave a word to the college students this 982 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,680 summer, I said, look, you know, you're either going to be a lean 983 00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,560 inner or a lean outer. And if you're a lean inner, just 984 00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,560 a slight, just slightly, just slightly leaning in, you'll be 985 00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,600 with us. You'll be here. 986 00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,480 God's got this. But I'll tell you what, if 987 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,880 you're already kind of going, I don't know, man. 988 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,640 I don't know where you'll be, but it's you. 989 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:20,800 It's the promise of God is if you draw near, he will draw near 990 00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:24,120 to you. And we cannot do this in our own 991 00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,680 strength. We know that we can't do it in 992 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:32,480 our own strength. As I let as I, I just want to 993 00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,800 share one more story because this caught my, my attention 994 00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,520 this week. And I'm like, man, this touch my 995 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:39,960 heart if he touches yours. But there's a Christian man 996 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:45,280 named Ben Sassy. He's AUS senator, former US 997 00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,280 senator and U.S. President. 998 00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:51,800 He's years ago. He's 5054 years old, but he's 999 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,360 saying to this 60 minutes, he's, he's sharing his story, saying, 1000 00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,320 Hey, I'm, I'm on borrowed time now. 1001 00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,840 Like I, they've extended my life just a just a wee bit. 1002 00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:05,720 But he, he said it just gave him a touch of grace to reflect like 1003 00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:09,960 God's exposing my heart and he's showing me these things as 1004 00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,920 before I die. He was diagnosed with cancer, 1005 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,640 stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That's usually a death sentence 1006 00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:17,720 here. I had months to live. 1007 00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,440 He's reflecting on his disease, and he learned that his cancer 1008 00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:24,160 metastasized to five cancers in his body. 1009 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,880 And he's saying this, he's like, you know, I'm married 31 years 1010 00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,160 to my wife. We'll just be apart for a little 1011 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,960 bit, and then we'll see each other. 1012 00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:37,440 It's like the thing that really bums me. 1013 00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:38,880 She's, he's like, it's not my wife. 1014 00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:40,560 My wife. My wife's going to be fine, she 1015 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,520 said. She said she's tough, gritty and 1016 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,680 theologically sound and rooted. Not worried about her. 1017 00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,920 It's my kids. My daughters are in their 20s. 1018 00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,040 I won't get to see them married. And my son, I'd love to see him 1019 00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,200 turn into an adult. And you're a young man. 1020 00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,600 He's 14. That part's hard. 1021 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,280 He's saying the lie is this. The lie is I want to tell myself 1022 00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,840 is that I'm in the center of everything and I'm going to be 1023 00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:12,280 around forever. And the lie is also this, that 1024 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:17,400 if I can work harder and store up enough, then maybe I can 1025 00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:23,200 atone for my own brokenness. But I realize I can't, and 1026 00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:29,480 neither can. We must go to the cross, each 1027 00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:32,200 one of us, as our hearts are exposed. 1028 00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:38,400 You got to run to Jesus. Just keep running to Him. 1029 00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,920 He'll restore your soul. He'll save you. 1030 00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,840 He'll give you a life you'll still live with an ache in your 1031 00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:46,280 heart at times. That's the Christian life. 1032 00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,280 We go through seasons, Seasons come and go. 1033 00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,600 But let's run to him when he's exposing right now, guys, as I 1034 00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,720 see around the room, I'm like, no, I know he's exposing hearts 1035 00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:56,360 this morning. Maybe it's thin. 1036 00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,040 Maybe it's things you have to reconcile with somebody else. 1037 00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,560 Things are happening right now. Like man, don't run. 1038 01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,680 Don't run like Judas did, but run to him. 1039 01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,360 He's faithful. As you draw near to him, he'll 1040 01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,160 draw near to you. He's faithful. 1041 01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,280 Father, we thank you for what you're doing in this church. 1042 01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,160 We thank you, we celebrate. We celebrate so much. 1043 01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,800 But God, there's so much work still to be done. 1044 01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,840 We don't want to be like Peter. We don't want to be like, oh, we 1045 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,280 got this, we got this. Where are you going? 1046 01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:27,160 Hey, I'm with you, I'm with you. And yet he falls because of 1047 01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,560 presumption. He falls because he thinks he's 1048 01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:31,800 OK. He's not Judas. 1049 01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:33,960 His ears were plugged the entire time. 1050 01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:35,520 Lord, I pray that you unplug our ears. 1051 01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:39,440 You open our blind eyes. Oh God, I pray for those if 1052 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:43,160 there's needing salvation this morning at the sound of my 1053 01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:49,320 voice, if you hear God this morning, do not turn away from 1054 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:52,240 him. He's, he's knocking. 1055 01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,200 He's knocking at the door of your heart right now. 1056 01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,360 He's saying, I want to come in and dine with you. 1057 01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,920 I want to fellowship with you. Give your life to me. 1058 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,760 Trust me. Acknowledge your sin. 1059 01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:05,720 Acknowledge your heart heartedness. 1060 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:08,080 Acknowledge that yes, at times you're like Peter and at times 1061 01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:11,280 you're like Judas, but now your heart's exposed. 1062 01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,960 Run to Jesus, run to him, and he'll save you. 1063 01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,400 He'll save you from all of your sin, your past sin, your future 1064 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,920 sin, your present sin. Even now, He's faithful to the 1065 01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:22,440 end. So he is. 1066 01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,960 And he gives you warning after warning after warning. 1067 01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:31,760 But maybe at one point those warnings won't be there anymore. 1068 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,720 You'll enter the next phase of calloused hearts, hard hearts. 1069 01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:41,640 You won't even see it anymore. He'll say things like whatever 1070 01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:45,080 you do, do quickly and that doesn't wake you up from your 1071 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,120 slumber. And we're just asking God right 1072 01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,200 now, would you wake people up or across the room? 1073 01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,720 Would this be a new day where they walk not in darkness, but 1074 01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:54,800 in the light? And for the rest of us, if we 1075 01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,720 just need to get right with you, just even in that first John 19, 1076 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,600 if if you confess your sins, he's talking to little children. 1077 01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:05,360 If you confess your sins to him, He is faithful to cleanse you 1078 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,240 from all unrighteousness. We could just breathe, Breathe 1079 01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:11,200 in his grace this morning. Breathe in his grace. 1080 01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,640 He's faithful. He's faithful. 1081 01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:15,480 When our hearts are exposed, we run. 1082 01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:19,600 We run, we run, we run to him. We run to the throne room of 1083 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:23,840 grace, knowing that there is grace available for everything 1084 01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,640 that we need. We thank you, Jesus, we thank 1085 01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:28,720 you, we give you our lives fully to you. 1086 01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,800 Let's just stand to our feet. Let's worship God, let's worship 1087 01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,400 the Lord. If you need prayer this morning, 1088 01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,320 there's prayer available. We'd love to pray for you. 1089 01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,640 We just thank you God for all that you've done. 1090 01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,320 We thank you, we give you praise, we thank you Lord. 1091 01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,800 Just praise God, just praise him for his grace. 1092 01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,280 There's grace after grace. We started in John one. 1093 01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,720 It says grace after grace after grace. 1094 01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:50,320 There's grace flowing towards you. 1095 01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,240 We thank you Lord, we thank you for your grace and your mercy. 1096 01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:57,040 We worship you all the days of our life no matter what comes 1097 01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,040 our way. In Jesus name, Amen.