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Why don't you go ahead and turn 
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This is one of those passages, 
guys, I'll be honest, when I was

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studying, I felt like skipping 
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13. 
But the Lord would not allow me 

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to do that. 
And so I needed to study, be 

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faithful to it. 
And hopefully you guys will be 

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blessed this morning. 
But I I titled the message why 

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Jesus calls us to come and die. 
So it's not necessarily one of 

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those like feel good messages. 
I'll just say that on the front.

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And that's probably why I wanted
to skip it. 

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God would not allow me to do 
that because what I, I saw 

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something different in this 
passage that I, that I'd never 

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seen before. 
And I want to share with you 

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guys that as I was studying this
morning, that I think will be a 

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source of encouragement, even 
though we're talking about a 

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hard topic called come and die. 
So you ready? 

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It's kind of one of those strap 
on the seat belt kind of 

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messages and we're going to go 
for a while ride. 

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All right, so the first, the 
first part, we'll just read 

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this, I'll read the whole thing 
and then we'll go back and look 

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at it. 
So verse 12, this is all in the 

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same context to remember John, 
he what he's doing is he's he 

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spends about 70 ish percent of 
more than the other guys, more 

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than his friends, right? 
Matthew, Mark and Luke. 

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This what's called the synoptic 
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So he's spending more time on 
the last week of Jesus than than

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his friends. 
So John cares a lot about his 

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last, his last seven days of his
life before he dies and raises 

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from the dead. 
So all right, we'll start off 

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with verse 12. 
So he's headed towards Jerusalem

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like, like Tyler was saying, and
he is coming and he's willing to

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die in our place. 
So no one's forcing him. 

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No one took the life of Jesus. 
It's very important to know and 

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it's very important to 
understanding the love of God. 

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If you have a struggle in this 
morning, if you struggle, we're 

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like, man, I don't know if God 
really loves me. 

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He came to Jerusalem knowing he 
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Not for himself, for you. 
So sometimes it, you know, we 

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all struggle with the love of 
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All of us do, every single one 
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But it's silly at the same time 
because the Bible is so clear of

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his love for us that no one took
his life by surprise in in fact,

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many times there people were 
trying to take his life and he 

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it was elusive, right? 
He just kind of duck out of the 

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way or, you know, people are 
trying to throw rocks at him or 

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throw him off a Cliff or kill 
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And it wasn't his hour. 
And we're going to see that he 

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now begins to say, now is the 
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And so that time is to die, and 
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And so verse 12, it says this. 
On the next day, the large crowd

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who had come to the feast, and 
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Passover, they heard that Jesus 
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So they took branches of the 
palm trees and went out to meet 

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him and began to shout, Hosanna,
blessed is he who comes in the 

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name of the Lord, Even the king 
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Jesus, finding it a young 
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written, Fear not, daughter of 
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coming seated on a donkey's 
colt. 

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These things his disciples did 
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when Jesus was glorified, they 
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were written of Him and that 
they had done, He had done these

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things to him, that they had 
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So the people who were with him,
when you call Lazarus out of the

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tomb and raised from the dead, 
continue to testify about him. 

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For this reason also the people 
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because they had heard that he 
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So the Pharisees said to one 
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see that you are not doing any 
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Look, the whole world is going 
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That is good. 
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Now there were some Greeks among
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worship at the feast. 
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from Besadia and Galilee and 
began to ask him, saying serve, 

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we wish to see Jesus. 
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Andrew, Philip, Andrew and 
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Jesus answered them, saying this
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The hour has come for the Son of
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Truly, truly. 
I say to you, unless a grain of 

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wheat falls into the earth and 
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But if it dies, it bears much 
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And he who loves his life will 
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And he who hates his life in 
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eternal life. 
If anyone serves me, he must 

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follow me. 
And where I am, there my servant

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will be also, if anyone serves 
me, the Father will honour him 

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and we'll stop there. 
All right, so first I got a math

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equation that I got another 
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I just want to, you know, when 
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scriptures, there's something so
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You want to look for Jesus, you 
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God. 
That's what Moses asks. 

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He's like, I want to see God's 
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I want to see like I, I, I, I 
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him and his in his glory. 
I want to experience God. 

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I want to know him. 
That's what he was saying. 

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And so as you're reading the 
scriptures, don't just read a 

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check off a box in the morning. 
Don't just fly through the 

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scriptures and then forget, 
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It's so easy to forget. 
And James says that right? 

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You look in the mirror and then 
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Slow down. 
And when you slow down and you 

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see the scriptures and you ask 
God, God, reveal yourself to me.

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If you're new this morning and 
and you're like, man, I don't 

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really understand the scripture.
I, you know, there was a time in

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my life 25 1/2 years ago, I 
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And, but I, when I opened up the
Bible because God changed my 

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heart, I was beginning to change
my heart. 

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I began slowly and over time to 
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it's amazing. 
I mean, God's word is 

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incredible. 
And I want to show you this, 

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that when he came into 
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Nissan. 
We're not talking about 

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vehicles. 
OK, So that was, that was the, 

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the way the Jewish calendar was,
right? 

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So the 10th of Nissan, that was 
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And we know that Passover, 
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So this is Sunday. 
So if you're doing the math, OK,

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and this is not the math problem
yet, but if you're doing the 

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math that is, that is a 
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So as I was reading this, I 
realized, OK, wait, Thursday 

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don't make sense. 
But didn't Jesus die on a 

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Friday? 
But wait, he died on a Thursday,

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most likely. 
That doesn't change anybody's 

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theology, by the way. 
Everybody doesn't change your 

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salvation. 
You don't have to go through no,

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OK. 
But I'm just, I'm just for the 

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sheer fact of showing you that 
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The family would choose on the 
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So the family would come to 
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a lamb and then they would have 
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It's almost like your car, your 
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the, you know, you have to go 
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To make sure that it for the 
emissions test at least up north

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of you. 
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But so they would be they would 
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blemishes and it had to be the 
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in order for it to be killed for
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So think about Passover, right? 
All these millions of people are

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coming into town. 
You're hearing the bleeding of 

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sheep, right? 
It's noisy, it's smelly, it's 

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crazy, it's chaotic. 
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inspected closely from the 10th 
and the 14th and then on the 

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14th, it was crazy like on the 
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inspections would be happening, 
Jesus arrives as the Lamb of 

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God. 
I mean, I don't know about you 

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guys, but I just, I, I told you 
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we're not wowed anymore because 
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Like it's true, like you just 
know everything, right? 

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But if you slow down enough and 
just, you can have an encounter 

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with God every time you study 
the scripture, it's up to you if

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you want that. 
It's just amazing when you think

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about like, and here's what's 
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people, 99.9% of the people had 
no clue that the Lamb of God was

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coming in the the true 
unblemished lamb was coming into

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town and every, all the back, 
you know, like the whole like 

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just noise, noise, noise, noise,
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It's our world. 
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Like if you don't understand, 
it's like our world, it's crazy.

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But in the midst of like all the
chaos, Jesus is right there 

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saying I want to meet with you. 
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And it's crazy to think about 
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Like if we if we could just put 
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and just meet with God. 
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want to say this, you know, like
we have the, the fear of the 

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fear of missing out FOMO. 
Like who's got FOMO? 

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Like all the college students, 
y'all have FOMO, right? 

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It's like some guys over there 
and you're over here and like I 

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want to be over there, but yeah,
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Like I don't want, you don't 
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But what if FOMO, what if FOMO 
was literally like we have a, we

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have FOMO a missing out on 
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Like what if we actually live 
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Like, wow, like because you're 
so busy, because you're like 13 

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times in one hour, you touch 
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So what if you're like, you 
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you're bored, right? 
You're in line or you're on an 

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airplane or whatever. 
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whatever you check like you're 

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checking like again, you're like
kind of like anxious or whatever

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and you don't even know why 
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You don't even, but you're 
taking it out and you're like 

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you're flipping and you're doing
whatever, checking e-mail or 

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text, sending a text. 
Nothing wrong with those things.

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I'm not saying there's any 
inherently wrong, but we're 

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like, we're so upset, like 
missing out on a, some social 

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thing that what if, like what if
you just got FOMO and missing 

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out? 
And what, what is God saying in 

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the moment? 
Because God's wanting to speak 

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to you through his word in your 
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When's the last? 
I like the other day I was just,

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I was sitting there and, and I 
was, I was like, man, I feel 

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like I got to, I, I want to 
read, I want to read this book. 

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I want to get, you know, like 
just, I'm a type A person. 

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So I want to accomplish things. 
I want to check things off and 

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and and and I was just sitting 
there and and I'm I'm reading 

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this book about just like kind 
of this left brain, right brain 

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thing while I'll get to you in a
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If I forget it, please somebody 
remind me, Right, Brad, just 

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point to your head like this and
I'll remember. 

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OK, So I want to tell you guys 
something about that, that I 

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think it would be helpful. 
But I'm sitting there and the 

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the this guy like just cut down 
his tree and you have no idea 

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how noisy. 
You have no idea. 

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Like the entire tree, like a big
oak tree, fully grown mature 

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grandpa oak tree, the thing it's
just, you can hear like it like 

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a big thought. 
I'm like, Oh my goodness. 

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Like the whole house literally 
shook. 

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I'm not no joke. 
And and so I, I'm as I'm seeing 

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that now, now he's got to like 
clean up the stump and stuff. 

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And, and so the whole week it's 
just been one big noise thing. 

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And I'm like, I don't want to be
like, you know, a grandpa 

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neighbor and be like, you know, 
And so stop. 

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And I just sat down. 
I'm like, wow, like it was 

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beautiful out. 
You could hear the wind. 

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When's the last time you heard 
the wind? 

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When's the last time you were so
bored that you enjoyed hearing 

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the wind? 
Dick, you like that, don't you? 

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Did you hear the wind this week?
Yes, like and as soon as I heard

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the wind saying, you know, and 
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like get I want to get my phone 
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check something. 
What am I going to check? 

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Just relax and look out the 
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I feel like I'm at a nursing 
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But just, you just feel like 
this, you feel wrong almost, you

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know, by looking out the window,
this guy like doing the little 

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stump thing, you know, But in 
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speak to you, you know what I'm 
saying? 

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What if like instead of having 
fear of missing out on like 

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what's going on on the phone, 
you fear a miss out, missing out

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on what's happening in heaven 
and what's happening in your 

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heart. 
Like God wants to speak. 

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Isn't that amazing? 
Yes, hello. 

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Does anybody have a want that? 
Because where we're about to go 

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is like man, we need to pay 
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to speak something new. 
Maybe not this morning right 

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now, but he wants to do that. 
He wants to do it in our lives. 

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And so anyways, that was like a 
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I have no idea where I'm at 
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OK, so Nissan cars. 
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OK. 
No. 

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So anyways, so, and then not 
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This is crazy. 
Now, this is where Pabon comes 

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in. 
OK, so he's a mathematician, 

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math major. 
What are you? 

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Stats. 
OK, so there's stats in the 

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Bible. 
I think you know this Jesus came

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in at the exact same time of 
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This is crazy. 
It's going to blow your mind. 

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OK, so March 14th, 445 BC you're
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So do you know when Daniel 9 you
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Daniel 924 to 26. 
It speaks of, see, it sounds a 

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little confusing, but hopefully 
this makes sense. 

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Seven weeks of seven weeks and 
62 weeks. 

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So you saw about 69 weeks. 
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you, but you take the 69 weeks 
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prophecy and you go from 445 BC,
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being rebuilt. 
And this is, this is the the 

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prophecy to the time of the 
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He predicts the Messiah's 
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14th, 445 BC. 
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you get to April 6th, AD 30. 
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Jerusalem. 
Four days later, he dies. 

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Hello. 
Like seriously. 

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Better than AI. 
Like way better. 

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Like than anything else you can 
find out. 

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This is good news. 
This is amazing. 

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This is incredible. 
This is incredible. 

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Because this matters. 
This matters more than anything 

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else. 
Why? 

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Because the Word of God is true.
You know, so many people 

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literally like trying to debunk 
the word of God. 

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You know why? 
The number one reason, number 

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one reason why they try to 
debunk the word of God so they 

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can live the selfish lives that 
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But when you know this word is 
true, you're like, the only 

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thing that's the only thing that
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get on your knees and be under 
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And not only get then not, not 
to stand up and then let the 

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word of God go below you, but to
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24 hours. 
It's so good. 

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And if you're not, you cannot 
hear you will, you will live for

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the glory of man versus the 
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And I'll show you why it is so 
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So he rides on a donkey. 
This is from Zechariah 99, which

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is so cool in itself. 
If you read through Matthew, all

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you do is see over and over and 
over again. 

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This happened because the 
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order for the scriptures to be 
fulfilled. 

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And then in big block letters, I
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know, is it on the screen big 
block letters? 

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Is that verse 15? 
Is that in big block letters 15?

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Nope. 
Nope. 

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I don't know where you're going.
OK, John, chapter 12, verse 15. 

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OK, there we go. 
Oh, yeah, they are. 

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OK, so the big block letters 
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Testament. 
And so you're you got to be 

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thinking to yourself. 
Hold on a minute. 

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If you're not daughter of Zion, 
behold, your king is coming 

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seated on a donkey's colt. 
What does that mean? 

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What why is that in big block 
letters? 

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You know, like, you know, when 
you text somebody something big 

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block letters, you really want 
them to understand what's going 

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on. 
Come home. 

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No, it's like, OK, so my wife 
does not do that to me. 

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No, she never, I don't think 
ever has given me block, big 

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block capital letters. 
Tyler writes in that like you 

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write in that all the time. 
That's just natural because 

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you're an engineer. 
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say, OK, what is happening in 
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What is happening in this 
passage? 

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Well, Jesus is fulfilling 
something that happened hundreds

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of years prior. 
He's here and nobody understands

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what's going on. 
They're like, wait, why is he 

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not on a War Horse? 
Why is Jesus not on a War Horse?

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Because he came as a lamb to be 
slaughtered. 

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They weren't interested in their
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They were interested in 
conquering Rome. 

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They were interested in the 
glory of man. 

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They're interested in what we're
interested in and being 

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successful. 
Our glory, right, everything 

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working out right, everything 
like like a utopia, perfect 

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perfection. 
We want to live in a in a 

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country that eat, drink and be 
merry all the time, never have 

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any problems. 
This is their mindset. 

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This is the crowd. 
This is the people. 

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This is a large crowd who had 
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They heard that Jesus was coming
and they came because primarily 

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remember, they came to see the 
miracle. 

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They, they were still latched 
onto this incredible miracle 

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that happened with Lazarus. 
And that's amazing. 

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I mean, if anybody like 
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which we don't want him to, but 
if he died and then all of a 

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sudden the next day, like he 
just somebody just prayed over 

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him and he rose from the dead, 
people would be like, this is 

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amazing. 
We're all going to Oviedo and 

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there would be like cars parked 
out here and it'd be amazing. 

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Like the seats would finally be 
full and it'd be incredible. 

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Like I think the, the buzz on 
the campus, we'd have to do like

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5 services and I'd be exhausted 
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and, and like, it would just be 
amazing. 

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And everyone like, and then when
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back to normal. 
We were like, we're not 

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interested in the glory of God, 
We're interested in the glory of

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man, right? 
So that's what's happening. 

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People are like, whoa, this is 
exciting. 

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I got to go, where are you 
going? 

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I mean, I'm going to Jerusalem 
for the Passover. 

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What's going on over there? 
Well, this is what we do every 

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year, But also there's something
really cool happening. 

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Lazarus just rose from the dead.
Never going to believe it. 

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And that's great. 
But so people left and then 

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there's another crowd here, 
right? 

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I love this. 
It says it says they, they were 

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with them because they performed
the sign in verse 19. 

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So the Pharisees said to one 
another, you see that you are 

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not doing any good. 
Like, look, the whole world is 

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going after him. 
Like these people we're you have

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the, you have the jealous people
and then you had the people or 

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they're just after a miracle. 
And then there's a few people 

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that actually understood what 
was going on. 

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And so they put palm branches on
the floor. 

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And I'm just trying to set up a 
picture that no one had a clue 

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what was going on. 
And like, they were just, 

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they're putting palm branches 
with just this symbolized 

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victory. 
It was just like this king is 

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coming. 
And it looked ridiculous because

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the palm branches were on the 
ground with their coats on the 

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ground. 
And they're just waving in this 

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king. 
And it's this confused picture 

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because the guy is on a donkey, 
not a War Horse. 

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And you're like, this is a 
little awkward. 

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But maybe they couldn't find any
horses. 

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I mean, maybe there was no 
horses, maybe they were gone and

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they, you know, they instead of 
riding a Lamborghini, you know, 

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like you needed a Lamborghini 
and then you got my O 5 Toyota 

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Corolla. 
That's all they could find. 

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They're like, you know what, 
that works. 

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There you go. 
I mean, this will do. 

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As long as you take out Rome, 
we're good. 

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Well, he did not do that, but 
one day he is going to do that. 

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I want you to turn with me real 
quick. 

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All right, we're going to do a 
lot of flipping here. 

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But Revelation, I think you know
where I'm going with this. 

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Revelation 19, verse 11, totally
different scene, radically 

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different. 
This says the coming of Christ. 

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And this crazy John, the same 
guy, he's at Patmos. 

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This guy, I don't know where he 
wrote this. 

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He probably wrote it Patmos too,
but he he writes this, but 

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reminiscing about what Jesus did
and he's like, man, now I get 

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it. 
You know, it says the disciples 

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did not get it. 
It says it right there in ink 

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black and white did not get what
was going on. 

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And John later is like now he's 
banished in the island of 

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Patmos, very beautiful island. 
By the way, don't feel very 

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sorry for John. 
But verse 11 says this. 

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And I saw heaven opened, and 
behold, a White Horse. 

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Not a donkey, a White Horse. 
Who sat on it is called faithful

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and true. 
He did it. 

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He. 
Did it. 

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He came as a. 
Lamb, He did not come for the 

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crown, but for the cross. 
There is no crown without the 

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cross. 
You have to understand that that

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is the life that we are all 
called to live. 

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And in righteousness He judges 
and wages war. 

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His eyes are a flame of fire. 
And on his head are many. 

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Deodiums. 
It just means crowns, many 

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crowns. 
And he has a name written on him

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which no one knows except 
himself. 

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He is clothed with a robe dipped
in blood, and his name is called

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the word of God. 
And the armies which are in 

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heaven, clothed in fine linen, 
white, white and clean, and were

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following him and white horses. 
This is the accompany of the 

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believers. 
The people have gone before. 

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From his mouth comes a sharp 
swords, the word of God, so that

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with it he may strike down the 
nation's and he will rule them 

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with a rod of iron. 
This is what they're all looking

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for. 
They're all looking for this. 

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They're like what? 
Come on, let's take out robe. 

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Let's do this. 
Let's get the sword come out of 

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your mouth. 
This is amazing and he treads on

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the winepress of fierce wrath of
God the Almighty, and on his 

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robe and on the high on his 
thigh. 

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Jesus had tattoos. 
And he has a name written, King 

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of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 
Isn't that amazing? 

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That's the scene they were all 
looking for, but that comes 

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later. 
We are looking for that day. 

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One day when He's going to come 
in glory, the glory of God will 

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come. 
But you know what it you think, 

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OK, then that is the glory of 
God. 

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That is what we want. 
Amen. 

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You know what this, what you see
here, right? 

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Him riding on a donkey is the 
glory of God entering Jerusalem.

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That is the glory of God. 
And I will show you what the 

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glory of God ultimately does in 
our lives when we can see, when 

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we can actually see, when the 
veil's taken off and we can see.

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He instead he. 
Came and conquered his enemies. 

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Through what? 
How did he conquer his enemies? 

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What does Hebrews 214 say? 
What are you all scared of? 

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Death. 
He came to conquer. 

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That not through a sword and not
in a Lamborghini. 

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He came to conquer that. 
By dying. 

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So that you would not. 
Fear death. 

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By him rising from the. 
Grave. 

445
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,360
He defeated his. 
Enemies by dying and by Isaiah 

446
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:56,920
53 by being a despised broken. 
Who cares about his? 

447
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,560
Appearance. 
King. 

448
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,800
He is the king he is. 
He is the king of the Jews. 

449
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:06,040
He is the king of our lives. 
He came, but he came differently

450
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,720
and he's going to come back 
differently. 

451
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,920
He came as a lamb, He comes back
as a lion. 

452
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,680
Ready to judge? 
And so in. 

453
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:18,080
Verse 20 we move on, says this 
now there were some Greeks, 

454
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:19,880
some. 
Greeks among. 

455
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,880
Those who are going up to 
worship at the feast and these 

456
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,880
then they they came to Philip. 
And why did they come to Philip?

457
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:27,960
Probably because he was from the
Decapolis. 

458
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,200
He spoke Greek that he was easy,
you know, to talk to you. 

459
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,960
Probably Peter, James and John 
and Andrew, they were, you know,

460
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,360
with Jesus doing something cool.
But. 

461
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,680
They came up to Philip, which. 
Is one of the 12. 

462
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,080
It was from Visedia. 
Galilee spoke Greek and began to

463
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,760
say, Sir, we wish to see Jesus. 
So the Greeks wanted to see 

464
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:47,680
Jesus. 
So they asked Philip. 

465
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,080
They're like man, we want to see
the glory of God. 

466
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,440
We want to see like wow, like we
want to see like the the raising

467
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,440
of the dead. 
Like can somebody die and raise 

468
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,200
him from the dead? 
This would be amazing. 

469
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,560
This is what Jesus tells him. 
He gives them this answer. 

470
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,920
Which is crazy. 
When you think about it, we 

471
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,560
don't know Jesus as much as we 
think we do. 

472
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,480
Because as I'm reading this. 
I'm like this is not how I would

473
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:19,080
probably answer that but OK. 
Sir, we wish to see. 

474
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,640
Jesus and Phillip came and told 
Andrew. 

475
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:23,680
And Andrew. 
And Phillip? 

476
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,880
Came and told Jesus. 
So you probably want to say 

477
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,760
Andrew, because Andrew had an 
inside information. 

478
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,560
So he's like, hey, look, let's 
go find out what's going on here

479
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,600
because he's a little confused 
because he understands that 

480
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,960
Jesus had told him for so many 
months leading up to this point,

481
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,520
go to the Jews first, go to the 
Jews first, go to the Jews 

482
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,360
first. 
So maybe he's like, I don't 

483
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,480
really had fear, man. 
Maybe he's like, I don't want to

484
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,160
tell the guy, hey, Greeks aren't
included. 

485
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,360
And Jesus says. 
This. 

486
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,800
The hour has now. 
Come for the Son of Man to be 

487
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,400
glorified. 
Wow, what does that mean? 

488
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,120
He's saying, look, I want to 
answer your question and how I'm

489
00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:07,560
going to answer your question 
for the Greeks to see the glory 

490
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,240
of God. 
My hour has come. 

491
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,040
This is the first time we see 
now. 

492
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,120
My hour has come. 
What is the hour? 

493
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:20,360
The hour of his death, what 
Jesus is about to do and him 

494
00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:27,720
dying is going to go so far 
beyond the border of Israel that

495
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,360
the glory of God is going to go 
so far beyond the borders of 

496
00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:33,480
Israel, right? 
You're going to be my witnesses 

497
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,400
to where? 
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and 

498
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,880
the ends of the earth. 
You're sitting here right now 

499
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,880
because of what Jesus just said 
and did. 

500
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,640
Isn't that amazing? 
You're literally, I hope right 

501
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,240
now the Holy Spirit by his mercy
is opening up your eyes to this 

502
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,600
beautiful scripture. 
Because when you're, when you 

503
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,480
get to see this, you're like, 
wow, I'm included in like I, I 

504
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,920
am the Greeks asking Philip, 
Hey, are we like, can we see the

505
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,400
glory of God? 
Oh, you will. 

506
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,400
It's just that the way you 
think, I'm not just going to do 

507
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,240
whatever you want. 
I'm not just going to give you a

508
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,840
boatload of cash and show you my
miracles and show you my power. 

509
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,280
I'm going to show you my glory, 
and that's through my death. 

510
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,960
So that you Greeks. 
Might live. 

511
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,440
I'm bringing both. 
Parties together in my death. 

512
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,000
I'm breaking the barrier wall 
finally. 

513
00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:29,440
It was always my plan to save 
the whole world, but it's 

514
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,880
through death to do that and I 
love this. 

515
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,880
They still didn't really 
understand what's going on. 

516
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,920
Luke 2425 to 27 says this. 
I'm going to kind of paraphrase,

517
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,560
shorten it a little bit here, 
but oh, foolish men, slow of 

518
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,000
heart to believe all that the 
prophet spoke. 

519
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,200
Was it not necessary for Christ 
to suffer these things? 

520
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,920
This is after he rose from the 
dead and he's walking on the 

521
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,400
Emmaus road, right with some of 
his disciples, some of his 

522
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,160
followers. 
Isn't it right for the Christ to

523
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,480
suffer these things that enter 
in glory? 

524
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,440
You know what he did? 
He used the Scripture starting 

525
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,360
with Moses, the prophets. 
He used the Scriptures to show 

526
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,160
them that all along. 
If you would have just, if you 

527
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,800
could just humble yourself and 
not care about your glory and 

528
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,680
your comfort and your life, you 
will see my glory. 

529
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,680
It is always been. 
Prophesied that I'm coming to 

530
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,280
die, but yet how did 90 some 
percent of the audience and 

531
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,240
crowd there think he was coming 
to take down Rome? 

532
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,440
You know, for the longest time. 
I'm thinking, oh, maybe that's 

533
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,280
in the scripture somehow 
because, you know, how did 90 

534
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,720
some percent believe that he was
going to take out Rome? 

535
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,600
I mean, how did they get that? 
Guys our. 

536
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,600
Church can become like that 
pretty quickly if we get off the

537
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,440
rail of His Word. 
If we get off. 

538
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,720
Track and all of a sudden we 
just start doing our thing. 

539
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,680
We will become like the 90 some 
percent that had no clue what 

540
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,520
Jesus was doing. 
We will. 

541
00:28:01,570 --> 00:28:05,450
So what did he say then? 
He says this truly, truly, I 

542
00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:06,890
say. 
And anytime you see truly, 

543
00:28:06,890 --> 00:28:09,010
truly, you want to pay attention
to whatever is coming after 

544
00:28:09,010 --> 00:28:10,560
that. 
That's basically what that 

545
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:11,520
means. 
That's the caps. 

546
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,400
Truly, truly, I say to. 
You, unless a grain of wheat, 

547
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,880
he's talking about himself, 
falls into the earth and dies. 

548
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:25,360
It remains alone, but if it 
dies, it bears fruit. 

549
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,240
He says he who loves his life, 
he's talking to the Greeks, he's

550
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,520
talking to us, but he's saying, 
look, if you want to see my 

551
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,040
glory, this is how you find my 
glory. 

552
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,920
You die if you love your. 
Life, of course, it's talking 

553
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,520
about the world. 
If you love your life, you love 

554
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,000
all the life, all that life has.
You know, first, John, you know,

555
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,840
215 to 17, you can read that on 
your own, right? 

556
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,000
The pride of life, the lust of 
the eyes, the pride of I mean 

557
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,520
just like the world and all in 
office, you know every day of 

558
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,960
your life. 
Every day I'm not. 

559
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,880
Kidding. 
Every day of your life you are 

560
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,000
told to love the world 
somewhere. 

561
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,520
Do you know which advertisement 
you get in one day? 

562
00:29:08,850 --> 00:29:13,330
Even Sarah's kids are getting 
advertisement every day because 

563
00:29:13,330 --> 00:29:14,930
they sent me this ridiculous 
picture. 

564
00:29:15,250 --> 00:29:18,650
You know, the Todd Minor, you 
know, like the what is the 

565
00:29:18,650 --> 00:29:20,090
attorneys? 
The attorneys are like, you 

566
00:29:20,090 --> 00:29:22,850
know, Orlando's full of them. 
They're all like competing with 

567
00:29:22,850 --> 00:29:24,090
Morgan and Morgan, you know what
I mean? 

568
00:29:24,690 --> 00:29:28,010
So Todd Minor is this bald 
headed guy and the kids are like

569
00:29:28,210 --> 00:29:29,730
Papa John. 
It's Papa John. 

570
00:29:31,250 --> 00:29:36,360
See, they're even getting 
advertised for any in case mom 

571
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,520
and dad get an accident or 
whatever. 

572
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:46,120
Hey, call that guy. 
No, every day you are, you're 

573
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:51,080
being told by the enemy you're a
heart, the flesh, the devil, 

574
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,080
whatever, love the world. 
And he's saying if you do that, 

575
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,440
you will lose your life. 
But he who hates his life and. 

576
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:00,680
I'll get to that in a second. 
What he means. 

577
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,440
He who hates his life in this 
world will keep it to eternal 

578
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,960
life. 
And if anyone serves me must 

579
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,800
follow me and where I am my 
there, my servant will be also 

580
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,760
and anyone serves me, the father
will honor him. 

581
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,680
So what does he mean by hating? 
Hating means this. 

582
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,360
It's it's, it's a Jewish 
understanding of giving 

583
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,720
preference for something over 
something else. 

584
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,360
So it, it so there's let me let 
me rattle these off here because

585
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,960
if you're new and you're like, 
this is crazy. 

586
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,200
I I, I, I just want to say come 
and see, come and see, come and 

587
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,760
see. 
Just keep asking questions. 

588
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,760
Come and see, come and see. 
But if you've been walking with 

589
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,720
Jesus for a while, you 
understand to come and see. 

590
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,960
And Jesus has a challenge for 
all of us in the room. 

591
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,880
If we want to grow and see more 
of the glory of God, we must 

592
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,520
come and die. 
There's no fruitfulness. 

593
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,120
It's almost like the it's like 
we hit this wall in our 

594
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,960
Christian walk and it's like, 
why am I miserable? 

595
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,600
I have everything I'm. 
Going to bust this wall. 

596
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:04,080
And I will find happiness, no? 
You can't go around it. 

597
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,120
It's too tall. 
You can't go over it. 

598
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,360
You must die. 
You must go into the ground. 

599
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,040
You must die. 
To what? 

600
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,040
What is he saying? 
He must. 

601
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,920
You must prefer Christ over 
everything. 

602
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,320
That's not an easy message. 
To digest. 

603
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,240
I understand that, but what is 
he saying? 

604
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,360
Choosing Jesus over what family 
if. 

605
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,360
You don't believe me, I'll read 
a passage. 

606
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,520
And you'll understand pretty 
quickly what he means. 

607
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,760
Family desires, your desires, 
your plans, possessions. 

608
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,240
Matthew 10393739 says this. 
He who loves his father or more 

609
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,240
mother more than me is not 
worthy of me. 

610
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,520
Are you supposed to call up? 
Like look at so Mother's Day 

611
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,760
happens, Mother's Day comes and 
you know, your wife's like, hey,

612
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,040
you should probably text your 
mom me and say happy Mother's 

613
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,440
Day. 
I'm not because Jesus said hate 

614
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:03,160
my mother. 
No, do not take that. 

615
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,760
That's not good. 
Mother's Day is coming up. 

616
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,160
Do not do that. 
You say when it it. 

617
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:14,400
Because your love is so intense 
for God, your life is literally 

618
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:19,240
locked in for God that it almost
looks like everything else is 

619
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,600
almost looks like hatred, do you
not? 

620
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,840
Do you hate your? 
Mother and father, I cannot 

621
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,960
believe you know and some. 
Of you guys have gotten that. 

622
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,680
Right. 
I mean, like, whether it seems 

623
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,760
like sometimes going on mission 
or maybe your loyalty to God and

624
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,760
his mission, his church. 
I mean, some of you guys have 

625
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,440
such a contrast. 
You left as a senior in high 

626
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,360
school, now as a freshman in 
college. 

627
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:39,920
Your life's gotten rocked by 
Jesus. 

628
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,080
I've seen it over and over 
again. 

629
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,960
You know, parents are like, 
what? 

630
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,200
What's going on here looks like?
Do you hate your parents? 

631
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,640
Do you not love your parents? 
Yeah, Yes, I do. 

632
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,280
And maybe you need to show more 
of that love and that more of 

633
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,320
that kindness and all those 
things. 

634
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,400
But when you are locked in with 
God, it looks like everything 

635
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,680
else is secondary. 
It looks like hatred. 

636
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,480
It looks like that. 
And he's saying this. 

637
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,280
He's like he who loves his 
father or his mother more than 

638
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,120
me is not worthy of me. 
If you have. 

639
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,480
Any other love? 
Including family. 

640
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:12,880
You're not worthy. 
Of following Jesus. 

641
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,960
He who loves son or daughter. 
Now parents Can you imagine? 

642
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,920
Like This is why like some 
parents have made their kids 

643
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,520
into idols. 
You've idolized your kids. 

644
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,920
And God's saying no, no, no, no,
your allegiance. 

645
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:30,960
Your allegiance, which we should
play that. 

646
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:37,080
Song by the way, at the end, 
allegiance is to Jesus alone. 

647
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:47,080
Otherwise you're not worthy. 
He who does not take up his 

648
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,320
cross and follow me is not 
worthy of me. 

649
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:50,880
He who has found his life will 
lose it. 

650
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,720
He who has lost his life for my 
sake will find it very similar. 

651
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:55,720
Do you know I'm doing this on 
purpose? 

652
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,520
And I want you to see this all 
over. 

653
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,440
Not in the same order. 
Literally. 

654
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,920
I've had to cut a lot on the 
chopping block before writing 

655
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:07,200
the sermon. 
He says this over and over and 

656
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,159
over and over again. 
And all of us reading the 

657
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:14,239
scriptures and wanting to know 
God, this matters to him, this. 

658
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,040
Is the call to. 
Follow Him. 

659
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,400
This is what it means to 
radically follow Jesus, and it's

660
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,520
for every follower, not just 
some. 

661
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,920
Matthew 1624 to 26. 
If anyone wishes to come after 

662
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,760
me, he must deny himself, take 
up His cross and follow me. 

663
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,120
For whoever wishes to save his 
life, Self preservation, that's 

664
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,560
what that means. 
If you are living your life for 

665
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,719
yourself and you're trying to 
preserve yourself and your 

666
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,960
health, to somehow live long or 
whatever, to be in control of 

667
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,159
your life, that's what he's 
saying. 

668
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,600
You'll lose it. 
It's elusive. 

669
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,880
No one could add to their life 
one day from subtract from their

670
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,199
life one day. 
God is. 

671
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:55,600
Completely sovereign over. 
Your life. 

672
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,400
But whoever loses his life for 
my sake will find it. 

673
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,160
For what is the profit? 
A man to gain the entire world 

674
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,520
and lose his soul. 
Luke 1426 to 33. 

675
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,080
I won't read the whole thing, 
but if anyone comes after me 

676
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,560
does not hate his own father and
mother, wife, children, brother,

677
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:10,680
sister. 
So he had some more family 

678
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,560
members there. 
Yes, even his own life. 

679
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,360
His own life. 
That means there are times. 

680
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,640
Where you know, yes, your health
might, might, might get the best

681
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,120
of you, but you got to keep 
going. 

682
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,200
You have to keep going because 
what matters, right? 

683
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,520
It's, it's, it's not the, the, 
the goal of this life. 

684
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,280
If you look at the ads that like
watch, watch the Masters, watch 

685
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,600
the, watch football, the 
Masters, golf, whatever you want

686
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,280
to watch, just watch, watch the 
commercials. 

687
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,480
Everything is meant to preserve 
your life. 

688
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,120
I mean, outside the McDonald's 
commercials and everything else,

689
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,600
you know, but the, you know what
I mean? 

690
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,960
Besides those, right? 
And the cat commercials, my 

691
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,080
goodness, you know, But the they
eat better than we do. 

692
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,080
It looks like sometimes I'm like
yeah, but. 

693
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,320
It's all to preserve. 
Your life, I mean, did. 

694
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,040
You ever see the like the? 
What are those things called? 

695
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,720
Like the pharmaceutical 
commercials? 

696
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,200
My goodness, man. 
And then the guy, you know, it's

697
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,000
nice. 
It's always nice and slow. 

698
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,040
It's like, you know, couple 
walking, you know, happy. 

699
00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:20,000
I'm like, what do they have? 
What problem did they have? 

700
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Did they not have now, you know,
you know, just wondering. 

701
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,360
And I never know the drug names 
because I'm not into that world 

702
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,080
and I have no idea. 
And the dogs like all happy and 

703
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,960
everybody's happy, happy, happy.
And then at the very end, they 

704
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,160
somehow, I don't know why they 
do this, but they somehow speed 

705
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,160
up the guy's voice at the very 
end. 

706
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:38,480
Why? 
Why do they speed up the guy's 

707
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,520
voice? 
And I want you to know that 

708
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,040
part. 
What is it? 

709
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,360
What's the guy? 
What did you say? 

710
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,520
It's like the. 
You might have sudden. 

711
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,560
Bloating. 
You might. 

712
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,120
You might, you might have like, 
he's like. 

713
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,440
You're my sudden death. 
Wait. 

714
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,400
Hold on a second. 
And then the commercial's done 

715
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,320
and it's on to the next thing. 
I'm like, wait, hold on, slow 

716
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,760
down. 
Why I I want to know what and I 

717
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,040
want to I want to compare. 
Do I want to take the drug or do

718
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,760
I want to deal with these 
horrible side effects that might

719
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:19,960
cause death, death or death? 
And then everybody chooses the 

720
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,680
numb. 
Out pattern. 

721
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:21,880
You know, that's why we all numb
out, right? 

722
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,520
OK, OK. 
So Matthew 2312 it. 

723
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,640
Says whoever exalts himself will
be humbled, and whoever humbles 

724
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,360
himself will be exalted. 
Key phrase, huge. 

725
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,200
We're going to come back to that
in a second. 

726
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:36,960
Jesus. 
OK, so. 

727
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,120
Kind of to understand this a 
little. 

728
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,800
Bit you can't see this in the 
English, but in the Greek life 

729
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,480
the love your life. 
OK, so if you look right here, 

730
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,680
it says in verse 25 he who loves
his life. 

731
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,640
Loses it, and he who keeps. 
Hates his life. 

732
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,400
Life and life, two different 
terms. 

733
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,960
The first life, the one you're 
supposed to not love. 

734
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,200
Is from the word. 
Psyche, which is means soul if 

735
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:11,160
this all what this means is your
aspirations, your plans, your 

736
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,480
ambitions. 
Jesus is saying die to this. 

737
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,800
If it is anybody in the room 
that has to understand this, 

738
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,560
it's probably the 18 to 25 
range. 

739
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,720
You have to understand your. 
When you OK I the last time I 

740
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:29,480
checked I could be wrong but on 
a UUCF application it does not 

741
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,880
say surrender this to God. 
And if you have any issues, 

742
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,320
please go. 
Talk to a pastor. 

743
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,280
Is that on the application? 
I don't know. 

744
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,160
I could be, I could be wrong. 
It's probably not on the 

745
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,840
application. 
So here's the deal. 

746
00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:46,360
What you need to do is go to God
right now and just say God, my 

747
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,440
life is not my own you. 
Are the king of the universe. 

748
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,400
You created this life and you're
coming back in Revelation 19. 

749
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,800
It's something totally different
than what you wrote into 

750
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,000
Jerusalem. 
I want to deal with the lamb, 

751
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,600
not the lion. 
And what? 

752
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,000
He's saying is if you. 
Take your life and be like, you 

753
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,480
know what, I'm going to go to 
church. 

754
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,000
But ultimately I am the 
controller of my own destiny. 

755
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,400
You're a fool because you will 
lose your life. 

756
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,480
The life he's saying that you 
get to keep is Zoe. 

757
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,840
It just means eternal life. 
Do you understand this 

758
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,480
incredible exchange? 
Who in their right mind would 

759
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,400
not want to do this? 
He's saying, look, if you just 

760
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,520
surrender your life, the life 
that you did not create, the 

761
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,400
life that you did not save, if 
you surrender your life 

762
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,080
completely, surrendering it 
fully to me, I will give you the

763
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,680
life you never dreamed of. 
Which is way better than what 

764
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:46,240
you dreamed. 
Of. 

765
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,000
He wants to give you life. 
That is. 

766
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,640
The that is like the. 
Come and die is is not fun. 

767
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,640
But ultimately we get to see the
glory of God. 

768
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,640
And none of those people in 
Jerusalem saw that in that 

769
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,760
moment. 
Even the disciples, they had to 

770
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,720
wait until afterwards. 
They're like, oh, now I think I 

771
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:08,600
get it. 
This is our life. 

772
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:14,440
This is our message now. 
First, John 26 says this. 

773
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,680
The the one who says he abides 
in him ought to walk in his 

774
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,960
ways. 
He's not looking for perfection.

775
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,400
Guys, but what he's looking for 
is direction and affection. 

776
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,480
That's what Jesus is looking for
affection and direction. 

777
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,320
What do you what do you think is
I want to I I'm not perfect. 

778
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,360
I want to start. 
I want to make a conscious 

779
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,360
effort. 
I want to move in his direction.

780
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,080
I want to say God, Jesus, you 
are the Lord of my life. 

781
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,640
You're not just savior of my 
life. 

782
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,760
You're the Lord of my life and I
will follow you wherever you go.

783
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,640
Do you understand that is the 
only way that you will be 

784
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,840
honored. 
That is the only way that you'll

785
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,480
actually receive life, the real 
life. 

786
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,680
That's why we're all that's why 
most of the world is so 

787
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,360
miserable. 
And I'm talking about not just 

788
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,440
I'm not talking about the 
unbelievers, unbelievers 

789
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,120
obviously they're on miserable. 
I'm talking about believers. 

790
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:09,480
The people that profess Jesus in
the church are still empty. 

791
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:12,760
Because they're not fully. 
Surrendered. 

792
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,640
They've and because. 
They're not fully surrendered. 

793
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,440
There's a way in this way in 
which this works. 

794
00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:23,240
If you're not fully surrendered,
you will not see the glory of 

795
00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:24,840
God. 
And if you do not see the glory 

796
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,200
of God, he will not reveal 
himself to you in his plans and 

797
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,160
what he has for you and his. 
And not only his plans and his 

798
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,120
direction, but also his 
empowerment. 

799
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,040
He gives you power, the 
Christian life. 

800
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,760
Yes, it's to come and see, yes, 
it's to find rest. 

801
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:40,480
You're like, well, wait a 
second. 

802
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,400
Didn't he say like, come to me 
all who are weary and I'll give 

803
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,760
you rest? 
Yes, but it's also to come and 

804
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:52,680
die. 
It's to pick up the cross and 

805
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,480
not build your own Kingdom, but 
His Kingdom. 

806
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,160
It's not for you to live. 
Your life, it's always funny, 

807
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,360
like I'm always asking people 
this, I'm always challenging 

808
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,840
college students like, hey, what
is God calling you to do? 

809
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,240
And it's like they have this 
whole plan written out and then 

810
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:09,520
they're like, I hope God blesses
that plan. 

811
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,360
That's not how it works. 
How it works is you. 

812
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,400
Fully surrender and you bless 
God's plan. 

813
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,840
George Mueller said this. 
They asked why are you so 

814
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:27,760
successful? 
George Mueller had an incredible

815
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:33,320
orphanage where he just fed 
thousands upon thousands of kids

816
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,080
over the years and he had no 
money. 

817
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,720
I mean he just get knocks on the
door. 

818
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,040
Who's that food just. 
Arrived and they were just 

819
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,160
praying for that with nothing at
the table. 

820
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,400
I mean, he, God, God showed up 
in that man's life. 

821
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:51,840
Like never a time before. 
Why? 

822
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:52,920
And they're like, why is this 
why? 

823
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,960
Why does he do? 
Why? 

824
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,000
Why does George Mueller get that
kind of life? 

825
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:58,560
And I don't this is what he 
said. 

826
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:04,640
There was a day when I died, 
died to George Mueller, his 

827
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,600
opinions, his preferences, his 
taste, his will. 

828
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,640
I died to the world. 
It's approval or censure. 

829
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:17,920
I died to the approval or blame 
of my friends and I now I only 

830
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,120
desire to show myself approved 
to God. 

831
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,640
That is a life fully surrendered
and I would say that is not a 

832
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,240
life lacking any joy. 
You have to. 

833
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:33,240
Understand that is the joy. 
Set before Jesus that he endured

834
00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,760
the cross. 
It is always joy. 

835
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,480
It is never to die so that 
you're miserable. 

836
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,840
No die so that you have joy. 
Do you understand, like Jesus is

837
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,560
offering the fullness of life. 
I was going to tire this message

838
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,920
something totally different the 
the the life you always wanted 

839
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,880
or you know that what why 
surrender matters? 

840
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,920
You know, I, I mean, there's so 
many different ways to title the

841
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:57,040
deal, but ultimately the come 
and die is a great message, is 

842
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,320
the message of joy and 
fruitfulness, you know? 

843
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:01,520
When Nicole and I were first 
came. 

844
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,200
To the church, we realized early
enough, we said, look, if we 

845
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:06,840
don't die, there will be no 
life. 

846
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,120
Death in US life. 
In you. 

847
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,240
One of the things that brings 
us. 

848
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:20,240
Great joy is when we get to see 
this playground, you know, like 

849
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:22,560
there's high walls, you know, 
theological high walls and 

850
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,280
there's protection over the 
church. 

851
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,840
We just came into the season 
saying May God and this season 

852
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,760
of growth protect us from the 
enemy schemes. 

853
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,560
And that's why we went through 
that whole series on spiritual 

854
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,040
warfare. 
And it's awesome to see all this

855
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:41,360
fruit, the fruitfulness of a 
life, right lives laid down now 

856
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:47,240
for the glory of God. 
So how can we follow him? 

857
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:49,600
There's a few. 
Practicals, self denial. 

858
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:51,960
Just surrender. 
Your time your. 

859
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,040
Hobbies, whatever it is, just 
surrender. 

860
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:59,840
Just fully surrender. 
Self denial is Galatians 220 

861
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,480
says it like this, that it's not
I who lived anymore, but he who 

862
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:06,600
lives in it through me. 
Secondly, it's selfishly 

863
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,800
sacrifice. 
Selflessly, not selflessly, 

864
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,680
selflessly sacrifice and serve. 
And what I mean is it just 

865
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,400
practically find ways to to 
serve the least of these. 

866
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:19,880
I think you. 
Guys are great at that. 

867
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,080
But just continue to do that in 
the people. 

868
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,800
I just love what, you know, just
all week people are serving one 

869
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:26,560
another. 
It's incredible. 

870
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,640
But just continue to do that. 
I love what? 

871
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,200
Spurgeon says this a. 
Proud man has a desire to preach

872
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,600
a new doctrine, to set up a new 
church, to be an original 

873
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,280
thinker, to judge, to consider, 
and to do anything but obey the 

874
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:44,800
Lord simply. 
And then just set yourself. 

875
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:50,480
Apart actually desire to become 
more like him like holiness and 

876
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,360
then he promises this. 
What does he promise he has two 

877
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,760
different promises and this is 
incredible and it just comes 

878
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,520
from verse 36 right. 
If anyone serves and follow me, 

879
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:03,240
do you understand that this is 
the life you die to yourself so 

880
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:04,920
that you might serve who? 
The king. 

881
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,040
The true king who's coming in, 
riding on a donkey and then 

882
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:08,920
eventually coming on a White 
Horse, a War Horse. 

883
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:17,640
But can you see this, this one 
now, who came riding on a 

884
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:18,920
donkey? 
Humble. 

885
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,160
Almost despising. 
Like what is wrong with this 

886
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,880
man, you know? 
Like he could had the power. 

887
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,800
We could have done this. 
Like, you know, Judas is like we

888
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,000
could have done this. 
Come on. 

889
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,760
Like we could have taken this 
evil. 

890
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,880
We could have taken Putin out. 
Let's go, you know. 

891
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,200
What I mean it's like. 
That we could take him out and 

892
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,040
the world would have peace it. 
Comes on a stupid. 

893
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:47,000
Donkey. 
This same Jesus comes. 

894
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,720
Back on a War Horse. 
But the same Jesus will reward 

895
00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:55,440
you and honor you for the 
sacrifices you make in following

896
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,480
Him. 
But that doesn't humble you. 

897
00:46:58,480 --> 00:46:58,960
I'm sorry. 
I. 

898
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:06,780
Don't even know what will. 
As we close, I want to. 

899
00:47:06,780 --> 00:47:11,700
Just share a few thoughts. 
I I want to just say this, that 

900
00:47:12,060 --> 00:47:17,660
I think as a church that in the 
midst of success. 

901
00:47:19,220 --> 00:47:21,740
We could lose. 
Mystery. 

902
00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:26,320
We could lose. 
The mysterious we could lose 

903
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,320
hearing him, that quiet place 
that only happens through 

904
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,280
suffering, that only happens 
through when things aren't going

905
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,640
well. 
And I want to just share with 

906
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,680
you guys one last story here, if
you want turn with me to Isaiah 

907
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,520
before we close. 
Turn with me to Isaiah 6. 

908
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,560
Very familiar passage. 
I won't go through the whole 

909
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:50,600
thing here, but Isaiah 6. 
It says this that. 

910
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,920
In the year of King Uzziah's 
death, I saw the Lord sitting on

911
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,320
the throne, lofty and exalted, 
with a train of his Rd. filling 

912
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,240
the temple. 
Seraphim stood above him, each 

913
00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:04,080
having 6 wings. 
With two he covered his face, 

914
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,040
with two he covered his feet, 
and with two he flew, and one 

915
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,720
called out another and said, 
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of 

916
00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:13,920
hosts. 
The whole earth is full of His 

917
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,560
glory. 
And the foundations of the. 

918
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:22,080
Thresholds trembled at his voice
of him who called out while the 

919
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,360
temple was filling with smoke. 
And then I said, woe is me, for 

920
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,560
I am ruined. 
I am ruined because I'm a man of

921
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,440
unclean lips, and I live among 
the people of unclean lips. 

922
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,080
For my eyes have seen the King, 
the Lord of hosts. 

923
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,880
This is the same king that rode 
on a donkey into Jerusalem to 

924
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:45,320
die, the one who's coming back. 
Then one of the seraphim flew 

925
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,920
with me, and with a burning coal
in his hand, which he had taken 

926
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,400
from the altar with tongs, And 
he touched my mouth with it, and

927
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,520
said, Behold, this is it says, 
Touched your lips, and your 

928
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,200
iniquity is taken away, and your
sin is forgiven. 

929
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,960
And then I heard a voice of the 
Lord saying, Whom shall I send, 

930
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,440
and whom will go for us? 
And then I said, Here I am, send

931
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,440
me. 
And he said, Now go to the 

932
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,960
people. 
Keep on listening, but do not 

933
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:13,320
perceive. 
Keep on looking, but do not 

934
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:14,840
understand. 
Render the hearts of the people 

935
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:16,480
insensitive. 
Their ears are dull, their eyes 

936
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,080
are dim, otherwise they might 
see with their eyes, hear with 

937
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,080
their ears, understand with 
their hearts, and return and be 

938
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:26,080
healed. 
So what's going on here? 

939
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,480
I don't think. 
I've ever saw this in the 

940
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,520
passage before, but it says this
in the verse one it says it says

941
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,160
this that in the year. 
King. 

942
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,960
Uzziah's death. 
I saw the Lord sitting on the 

943
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,800
throne and I thought to myself, 
well, why is that so important 

944
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,400
that Uzziah dies before Isaiah 
gets to see the glory of God? 

945
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:56,880
You know what I Uzziah? 
Stands for stands for the pride 

946
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:01,600
of man. 
See in Chronicles chapter 26. 

947
00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:06,680
It shows a man who's 16 years 
old 16 becomes king. 

948
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,920
Does everything right. 
Humbles himself. 

949
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:15,120
Exalted. 
Until one day he. 

950
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:21,560
Decides I'm good. 
I got this self-sufficiency, 

951
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,520
selfishness, pride, He goes into
the. 

952
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,440
Temple which he. 
Had no business doing, no king 

953
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,080
to do this. 
There's too much blood on his 

954
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:31,880
hands. 
God never meant it for the kings

955
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,160
to go and burn incense. 
He decides I'm going to go do 

956
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:35,920
that. 
We got to get the show on the 

957
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,240
road. 
Hey, we're successful. 

958
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,000
Got to get moving. 
Get the next thing going. 

959
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,520
Come on, we're successful. 
We're Antioch, Orlando. 

960
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:54,800
We got this. 
He says this, he sends people to

961
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,520
him, right? 
He God, with his mercy and his 

962
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:03,160
love, he sends people to Uzziah.
Valiant man, actually it says he

963
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,960
goes to me. 
He says Uzziah had no business 

964
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,960
doing that, giving him a chance 
to repent, giving him a chance 

965
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,840
to hear and see the glory of 
God. 

966
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,080
Doesn't take it. 
I. 

967
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,080
Got this. 
I got this. 

968
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,000
I don't need. 
Hey, I've had. 

969
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,440
My I've had my. 
Seasons. 

970
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:24,840
I've had my sufferings, I've had
my. 

971
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,760
This is time for success. 
Do you understand? 

972
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,680
I'm the king. 
I can do what I want. 

973
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,520
Boom. 
Leprosy and all over his body 

974
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:44,680
and he dies. 
Prideful people always want to 

975
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,200
blame. 
Their problems on somebody else 

976
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:54,560
always think everything's OK all
it has to do right all I mean 

977
00:51:54,600 --> 00:52:00,880
all you have to do is recognize 
the time when somebody comes up 

978
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,840
to you during a successful time 
or thing during things when 

979
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,720
things are going well to say 
hey, have you ever thought of. 

980
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,480
Doing this or have you? 
Ever. 

981
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,080
Noticed that you do this. 
And maybe whatever it is, 

982
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,680
whatever people are confronting 
you on whatever it might be, 

983
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:25,760
you're like, wait, how dare you 
successful. 

984
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,000
Dang good. 
I've. 

985
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,880
Realized we have so. 
Much I've I've so much success 

986
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,280
there's I'm good. 
No need to be corrected. 

987
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,800
You know what Pride, ultimately.
Blinds us from. 

988
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:47,360
Seeing Jesus afresh. 
Again. 

989
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:51,440
You know what? 
It's interesting. 

990
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:57,760
Doctrinal pride happened two 
years ago, and so we are growing

991
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,040
in knowledge, growing in 
knowledge, growing in the things

992
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:02,160
of God. 
It was great. 

993
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,480
It was in a sense it was good, 
but then it turned rotten, 

994
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,840
right? 
Because it became about what we 

995
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,920
know rather than experiencing 
the living God and obeying him. 

996
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,040
So God had to take us to 
himself. 

997
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,560
But it's when seasons like this,
when things are going really 

998
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,040
well and things are moving into 
place and it seems like wow, 

999
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,720
things are happening. 
Things are couldn't be better, 

1000
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:28,120
couldn't be better. 
It's when we can't. 

1001
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:32,680
Hear God and the little things 
throw the net on the other side 

1002
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,640
of the boat. 
No, thank you. 

1003
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:55,760
People don't fall, guys. 
In dry and difficult times, but 

1004
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,720
in prosperity, do not forget 
this. 

1005
00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:07,360
It is easy to lose sight what 
God wants you to do next when 

1006
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:12,600
everything is going well. 
What Isaiah saw and. 

1007
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:17,600
What Mary saw were the only two 
that people that I see in John 

1008
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:23,600
12 and in this passage when 
Uzziah dies, when pride dies, 

1009
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,280
when there's a life laid down 
like Mary. 

1010
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,560
And just throughout the all the 
scenes, it's almost like you 

1011
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,680
could see all the scenes in a 
movie, right where all like the 

1012
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,040
disciples are like Whoo high 5. 
We're going to change the world,

1013
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,000
be awesome. 
And then Mary's like, you know, 

1014
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:40,640
the fools are all over there, 
you know? 

1015
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,240
Yeah. 
And I'm like, there's only one 

1016
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:48,400
person that has a clue of what's
happening on that road where 

1017
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,080
Jesus is on his donkey riding on
palm branches. 

1018
00:54:52,240 --> 00:54:55,040
And she's like, yes, he is 
victorious. 

1019
00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:57,320
They're going to be offended in 
about two seconds. 

1020
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,640
But I'm not because I understand
why, because I'm at his feet. 

1021
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:06,000
We need more discerners. 
We need more Marys in this life.

1022
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:08,640
We need more people that are 
not. 

1023
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,200
Interested in just success and 
building their own Kingdom. 

1024
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,760
We need people that are like I 
just want to see his Kingdom 

1025
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,640
build. 
I just. 

1026
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,880
Want to see what he. 
Does in my life. 

1027
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,560
I want to see what he does in 
other people's life. 

1028
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,880
And Mary is so beautiful. 
I'm just going back to the last 

1029
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,640
chapter, right? 
Because she's the only one. 

1030
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:31,760
Guys, this scene is so loud. 
It is so loud and there's only 

1031
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:36,080
one who gets it. 
Do you want to be that in a? 

1032
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:40,560
Loud world, do you want to be 
the one who's like, I think I 

1033
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,720
understand what this is all 
about. 

1034
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:48,480
Uzziah is God to die so I can 
see the glory of God and what 

1035
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,000
the next steps are and when he 
finally understood. 

1036
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,160
Who God was. 
Do you understand who God is? 

1037
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,600
The holiness of God means the 
otherness. 

1038
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,800
The other than this, the the 
wholesomeness, the wholeness. 

1039
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:06,360
There's only one who's whole. 
There's only one who is whole. 

1040
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,280
Do you understand that? 
There's. 

1041
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,360
No one in this room. 
Who's successful? 

1042
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,000
But God? 
If there's anybody who gets 

1043
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,960
saved, it's because of Him. 
If there's only one, if there's 

1044
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,720
only, if there's people in this 
room who've gotten freed from 

1045
00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:22,480
sin, do you understand? 
It's Him. 

1046
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,720
Any success that comes? 
From this house is because of 

1047
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:32,040
God, not because of us. 
And Isaiah had to encounter this

1048
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,080
God in order to move into his 
calling. 

1049
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,760
Do you know that? 
There's a few times in the Bible

1050
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,440
that. 
A woe is. 

1051
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:49,240
Given to. 
Woes are given to who? 

1052
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:57,560
Evil, wicked people like if you 
study woe, go study woe, go 

1053
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,960
study woe because woe is the 
Pharisees. 

1054
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,040
Woe. 
Who are your whitewashed tombs? 

1055
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,520
You're full of dead man's bones.
You're full of religion. 

1056
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,880
Woe. 
Do you know who else pronounced 

1057
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:11,520
woe over himself because he saw 
the living God? 

1058
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,400
Isaiah. 
He said, I am done. 

1059
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:20,280
I'm done. 
I'm you can say you can say it 

1060
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:21,600
another way. 
I am screwed. 

1061
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:27,320
I'm done for it. 
Have you ever met with God? 

1062
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:37,360
In such a way where you're like,
I am done, O foolish man that I 

1063
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:41,040
am, who can deliver me from this
body of death. 

1064
00:57:54,620 --> 00:57:58,020
There's only one place. 
All of us belong and that is 

1065
00:57:58,020 --> 00:58:02,960
under our Neath and what we need
is an an encounter with God to 

1066
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,520
slow us down and say where are 
we going? 

1067
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,440
Where are we going? 
What are we doing? 

1068
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:19,480
What is happening right now? 
We won't even get close to send 

1069
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,080
me. 
We're so quick to there's God 

1070
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:25,240
send me. 
We don't like the middle. 

1071
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,040
The middle is when we're. 
Disintegrated on the floor, 

1072
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,440
literally it says, it says woe 
is mean. 

1073
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:36,840
That means to be disintegrated, 
that means to literally like if 

1074
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:41,320
you have a piece of glass on a 
beautiful piece of glass, like 

1075
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:46,840
an an ornate piece of a base 
boss, whatever you know on the 

1076
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:51,080
top and that thing falls to the 
ground and shatters. 

1077
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,760
That is what it means to come in
the presence of God. 

1078
00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:00,400
You do not come in hole, you do 
not leave hole after you've met 

1079
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,360
with God. 
You leave disintegrated, right, 

1080
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,840
or at least until he fixes you 
and then it's amazing. 

1081
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,240
Then the Seraphim came right and
he just as when he thought like 

1082
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:14,640
I am done, I'm done, I'm done. 
He's like, I just go like I want

1083
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,840
to crawl under this stupid thing
because I don't even want to see

1084
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:18,040
God. 
I I'm done. 

1085
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,640
He revealed who I really am 
compared to him, who I. 

1086
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,720
Really am compared. 
To him, it's crazy. 

1087
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:28,200
I just want. 
To crawl under something. 

1088
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,960
I I mean don't say one more 
word, God is. 

1089
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:36,320
That what your quiet time looks 
like. 

1090
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:42,640
Or you're so quick to be like 
and in that moment where you 

1091
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,560
felt like woe is me. 
No one pronounces that over. 

1092
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,960
Not one disciple pronounced that
over himself. 

1093
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,000
And they met with the living 
God. 

1094
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,520
For 3 1/2 years and he literally
on the floor the seraphim comes 

1095
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:59,600
and says look you know I know 
you have a you, you have a mouth

1096
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:05,600
on you but I will cleanse him 
and he cleanses him and he. 

1097
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:09,200
Finally conceived. 
The glory of God, The glory of 

1098
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:14,440
God is death to self. 
So. 

1099
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,960
That he might live. 
Through you in a powerful way 

1100
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:19,920
that everyone in this room 
knows. 

1101
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:25,920
Oh, that's God. 
I think we've lost the mystery, 

1102
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:28,960
the problem with left brain and 
right. 

1103
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,480
Brain deal is, the left brain 
is. 

1104
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:36,440
All about facts. 
It's all about knowledge and 

1105
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:39,120
every time you look at your 
phone, you're engaging in the 

1106
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,720
left brain part of your brain. 
Right left brain, left brain, 

1107
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:46,040
left brain, left brain, left 
brain, distraction, distraction,

1108
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:47,560
distraction. 
Facts, facts. 

1109
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:49,960
Loud. 
Loud, but as. 

1110
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,840
Soon as we just. 
Pause and say, God, I want the 

1111
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,880
mystery back. 
I want to engage in my right, 

1112
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,840
the right side of my brain, 
which, by the way, everybody has

1113
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:00,760
a left and right brain. 
Unless you're not. 

1114
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,000
You're probably not living if 
you don't. 

1115
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,600
She has nothing to. 
Do with your right brain. 

1116
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,760
I'm left brain, everybody. 
Has a right. 

1117
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:13,800
Brain that you need to engage 
with God with so you can 

1118
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,160
actually have an encounter with 
him again. 

1119
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:19,880
And meet with him in. 
The mystery. 

1120
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,040
There's a mystery. 
The mystery is this, that when 

1121
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:27,440
you close. 
Your eyes even right now. 

1122
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:33,640
You can meet with them, Laura. 
I don't know how you're going to

1123
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:35,040
do it. 
But I just know that. 

1124
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:40,760
That when you're in the room, 
something. 

1125
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:46,120
Changes and you are here. 
There's people in this room that

1126
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:50,920
just just need a touch from you 
or I just pray, Father, right 

1127
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:57,520
now you would touch them, but 
would you reveal your holiness? 

1128
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:06,800
You're holy, holy, holy Lord. 
I pray, Lord, that whatever it 

1129
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:10,520
is, whatever distractions there 
are, whatever those things are, 

1130
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,120
Lord, would you, would you put 
them to rest so that we could 

1131
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:17,240
see, We could see what Isaiah 
saw, the glimpse of your glory, 

1132
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:19,880
so we could. 
See what the people? 

1133
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:23,560
In the crowds in Jerusalem did 
not see the glory of God coming 

1134
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:25,560
in. 
It is for this hour that I will 

1135
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:29,160
reveal my glory, and that glory 
is to come on a donkey that 

1136
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:34,880
headed towards death and he. 
Said Lord that. 

1137
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,200
You would never experience life 
without death. 

1138
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:41,960
Isaiah got to experience. 
Life. 

1139
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:47,280
Because he died. 
Woe is me, a man of unclean 

1140
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:55,060
lips. 
But we ask you right now to 

1141
01:02:55,340 --> 01:03:01,180
reveal yourself. 
We want eyes to see. 

1142
01:03:01,180 --> 01:03:05,580
We want to be like Mary. 
We're just in the chaos of life,

1143
01:03:06,420 --> 01:03:12,300
finds a space to meet with you. 
Isaiah, through the chaos of 

1144
01:03:12,300 --> 01:03:14,900
Israel, finds a space to meet 
with you. 

1145
01:03:15,620 --> 01:03:20,460
Jeremiah, who says if I if I 
don't speak, the fire will will 

1146
01:03:20,460 --> 01:03:27,240
burn in my bones, found a space 
to meet with you, the disciples 

1147
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:33,960
eventually because they they 
were with you meeting. 

1148
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,480
With you got to literally. 
It says in Acts 17, turn the 

1149
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,880
world upside down. 
So Lord, we just ask you right 

1150
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,520
now, God, that we would meet 
with you, that we would be 

1151
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,880
seers, we would see the glory of
God. 

1152
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:45,880
We would see we would be a 
remnant. 

1153
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,440
As it says in Isaiah. 
There were so many who rejected.

1154
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:50,800
They were, their eyes were dull,
their ears were dull. 

1155
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:52,800
They, they couldn't hear. 
They, they, they could hear, but

1156
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:54,160
not hear. 
They could see but not see. 

1157
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,880
Lord, let us that not be us. 
I pray for a remnant in Oviedo. 

1158
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,320
I pray for a remnant in the US 
right now. 

1159
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,840
I just pray for a remnant right 
now all across this land, people

1160
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:05,960
and services. 
Lord, I pray just for, for those

1161
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,320
you just pick and choose, right?
Even I pray for the whole room. 

1162
01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:10,960
It'd be awesome. 
But we always know there's a 

1163
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:12,520
remnant. 
We always know there's a it's 

1164
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:14,240
always a few. 
It's always a few who get it. 

1165
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:16,800
It's always the Marys. 
It's always the few. 

1166
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,640
And I pray, Lord, right now, I 
pray that that would be me. 

1167
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:23,400
It would be us that. 
We would have. 

1168
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:28,640
This incredible insight into 
what you're doing because we're 

1169
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,200
with you. 
And when times get harder down 

1170
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:35,400
the road, we're like, we know 
what's going to come, that Jesus

1171
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,320
is going to come back on a White
Horse, a War Horse. 

1172
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:40,640
And he's coming back with a 
sword in his mouth and the eyes 

1173
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:42,920
blazing like fire. 
He's coming back. 

1174
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,040
He's coming back for us and we 
can see it clearly in the midst 

1175
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:49,600
of so much noise, so much 
knowledge and. 

1176
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:53,800
That we can retain that mystery.
In this church that people are 

1177
01:04:53,800 --> 01:05:12,720
like but God, but God but God. 
You want to see his glory? 

1178
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,680
Look at the nails in his hands, 
Church. 

1179
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:21,280
There's no victory without 
death, no crown without the 

1180
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,960
cross. 
His glory is His death, and 

1181
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:31,440
that's ultimately will be our 
glory of the death of our self. 

1182
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:40,320
For greater things, so he might 
live. 

1183
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,000
We're just going to continue to 
encounter. 

1184
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,920
God, but we're going to 
encounter him through communion 

1185
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:54,720
and just want to say if you have
truly chosen to not only just 

1186
01:05:54,880 --> 01:06:01,680
give your life to Jesus, but to 
surrender him yourself to him 

1187
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:07,720
both as what these guys did not 
understand and what we 

1188
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:11,440
understand hopefully is that 
Jesus didn't come to conquer 

1189
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:14,080
politically. 
He came to conquer your sin, 

1190
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:16,800
you. 
Need forgiveness more? 

1191
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:20,400
Than anything else the greatest 
need for everyone in this place 

1192
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:23,000
is forgiveness. 
That's what we need. 

1193
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:27,520
And that's the glory that came 
into Jerusalem that's the glory 

1194
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:30,760
that's in this room right now. 
The glory is that we need 

1195
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,640
forgiveness, and that's. 
What communion is all? 

1196
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,240
About you're taking the bread, 
He broke the bread, which he's 

1197
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:40,280
about to do in about a week. 
He broke it and he said. 

1198
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:43,240
This is my body. 
Which has been given to you. 

1199
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,480
And then he took the cup 
symbolizing his blood. 

1200
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:52,440
Blood would shed and literally 
that blood would wash our sins 

1201
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:56,080
away. 
And by taking this we remember 

1202
01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:00,240
what he did for us 2000 years 
ago and in this passage what he 

1203
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:04,400
was about to do in a week. 
The glory of God and. 

1204
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,480
As we take the Communion. 
Just have the side aisles come 

1205
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:10,520
down, take the communion that 
you could dip the bread in the 

1206
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,440
wine and then go or the juice 
and then go back through the 

1207
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,400
middle. 
But don't take it quickly right 

1208
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,280
away. 
Just take a moment and do 

1209
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:25,120
business with God as it showed 
in Isaiah 6, and allow God to 

1210
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:30,240
really show himself to you to 
have that woe is me 

1211
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:35,320
disintegrated moment and let him
touch your lips, forgive you of 

1212
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:40,520
your sin, wash you clean, and 
then send you out these doors 

1213
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,120
like he did with Isaiah to do 
the work that God's called you 

1214
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:44,760
to. 
That's what he wants to do with 

1215
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:46,920
everybody. 
Again, I believe that this 

1216
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:48,080
morning. 
Amen. 

1217
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:54,760
Let's die so that you might 
live. 

1218
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,440
Through us. 
So, Father, thank you for what 

1219
01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:59,960
you've done this morning, Your 
word. 

1220
01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:02,600
And Lord, we just ask you right 
now that God, that you would 

1221
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:08,040
move in power. 
We're revealing your humility to

1222
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:11,960
all of us, what you did for us, 
none of us deserve forgiveness. 

1223
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,720
None of us deserve your 
kindness, Your grace. 

1224
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:18,160
We know that when we finally do 
encounter your grace and your 

1225
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,319
forgiveness, but we're ready to 
hear you. 

1226
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,920
We're ready to hear when pride 
dies. 

1227
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:25,359
We're ready to hear. 
We're ready to hear whatever you

1228
01:08:25,359 --> 01:08:28,640
have to say for us next as 
individuals. 

1229
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:32,560
Corporate lazy church. 
So that you might live. 

1230
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,880
In and through us, that we might
die to our plans, our ambitions,

1231
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,160
our selfishness, our self 
preservation, that you might 

1232
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:43,000
live in and through us. 
In Jesus name, Amen.