1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,100 Let's pray. Father in Heaven, We come as 2 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:11,500 your people rejoicing. The Christ is the light of the 3 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:17,000 world rejoicing that Headlight by the work of your spirit. 4 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:21,100 Shine brightly into our dead and dark hearts. 5 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:25,400 And at some point for all who are in Christ, we said we 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,800 believed we received you, Lord, Jesus as our savior. 7 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:33,300 And even today, Lord, we trust that there will be those in our 8 00:00:33,308 --> 00:00:37,500 midst, or worshiping With Us online, who hear the good news 9 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:41,500 and come to saving faith. We Rejoice that those who are in 10 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,600 Christ will be encouraged by the means of Grace. 11 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,100 The table that we will soon Feast at the word of God read 12 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:54,000 and preached, the prayers that are being offered Lord. 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,700 We thank you for these means of Grace, we thank you for our 14 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:01,900 ministry partners that we get to see today in the fellowship, all 15 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:04,300 and understand more of what they're doing. 16 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:07,900 And more than that. We get to participate by praying 17 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:12,200 and supporting and giving of our gifts and our time, our 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,700 experiences to hold out. Jesus, To extend Christ For Your 19 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:20,200 Glory and the good of your people. 20 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:24,300 So Lord, we pray that you just continue to bless all the parts 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,800 of your church, this service. And little Lord is the open your 22 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:34,400 word that these familiar in clear teachings, the hard to 23 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,700 live would fill us with such hope and joy that we would leave 24 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:42,200 different today than when we came. 25 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,400 We pray this in Christ's holy name. 26 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:48,100 Mmmmm, amen. Will Carlton. 27 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:50,100 Come on over brother. This is Carlton, OB. 28 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:54,500 He serves as the president and CEO of Mercy Street. 29 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:58,000 Which is a Ministry that our church has been involved with 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,400 for a very long time, but there's a lot of new people at 31 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,300 our church. Maybe they haven't heard about 32 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:04,900 it and I didn't ask you to do this. 33 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,500 But would you give us just a quick glimpse of what Mercy 34 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:10,400 Street in the mission is all about? 35 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,200 And how we can pray for you all? Yes. 36 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:13,200 Thank you. So shirts. 37 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,800 Good morning church. Good morning, come on. 38 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:20,400 Good morning church. We got sometimes. 39 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,200 Warm ammo. A man means I agree. 40 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:24,800 That's right. And go to a Baptist Church. 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:25,800 That's right. I got it. 42 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,400 They said, good morning. I'm so excited to be with you 43 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,800 guys. My name is Carlton over. 44 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,000 Get the wonderful privilege to serve as the executive director 45 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:37,700 of Mercy, Street Ministries. We are christ-centered Youth 46 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:40,800 Development, organization, that serves in the west Dallas, in 47 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,900 South Dallas area, our hope is to raise up a new generation. 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,400 Of young people that will change their community Through 49 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,500 mentoring Sports leadership and we've been doing it for about 20 50 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:55,300 years this year, we'll celebrate 20 years of ministry, being 51 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,000 birthed out of this church. And so, we're really excited and 52 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 thankful for you guys and they'll support over the years. 53 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:10,800 So, yeah, you know, I remember January 6th, Friday was my first 54 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,100 day, 20 years ago, stepping into my Office, which is across the 55 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:18,200 street serving as the pastor of Youth and families and walking 56 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:22,200 around Mercy streets facility before Mercy, street onew with 57 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,400 Trey, he'll just praying over that. 58 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,900 And think 20 years later, the work continues. 59 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,600 The need certainly hasn't changed, is so great. 60 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:32,500 What are some ways we can be praying specifically Carlton for 61 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:34,800 you in the staff there? And the people you are 62 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,700 ministering to. Well, we're praying for the 63 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,600 spiritual transformation for every family in the Western 64 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,400 South Dallas area that the gospel will penetrate the hearts 65 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:46,300 of Man, every woman, every child in our communities. 66 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:48,600 That's first and foremost, their Eternal Destiny. 67 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,600 And then that they will live a life that honors him. 68 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,300 And I think those are the two strongest ways we could pray. 69 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,200 We obviously need people to come down and say to take their 70 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,500 Orthodoxy. Make the orthopraxy to say, 71 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:05,500 follow me, as I follow Christ, we need volunteers mentors. 72 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:09,900 Coaches people to speak to our young people and then people to 73 00:04:09,908 --> 00:04:12,400 provide the opportunity for others financially. 74 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,400 So yeah, those are ways in which which, you know, people can be 75 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,100 praying and getting involved in the work that we're doing part 76 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:20,899 of the ministry Expo. Today is to highlight 77 00:04:20,899 --> 00:04:23,300 Ministries, like, Mercy Street. And so, just take a few minutes 78 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:25,900 after the service, if you have time, it's going to be open in 79 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,600 the fellowship hall to 1:00 and you can meet those who lead 80 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,100 Ministries and serving Ministries, like, Mercy street 81 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,400 right there to find out how you can be involved. 82 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,600 Certainly in prayer, but also specific ways. 83 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,400 And I told the congregation in the last hour whenever someone 84 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,000 shares what the needs are? We have the privilege of praying 85 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 and all of us can pray. Secondly, Should always be in 86 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,300 the posture of Lord. Is this something that you're 87 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:50,300 calling me to engage in and you may be involved in so many other 88 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:53,100 things that the answer is no, but you might not be involved in 89 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:55,200 something or maybe you want to change what you're involved in. 90 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,500 So we should always have the posture of hands open. 91 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:01,100 Like where does this something you might want us or me 92 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:04,300 individually to participate in. So I'm very grateful for you, we 93 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:06,700 will continue to pray for your ministry and partner with you 94 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:09,100 all but that great work. It's really the same work as the 95 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:11,000 church. We want people to know Christ 96 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,700 and live as becomes the followers of Christ. 97 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:16,800 To that end, we've been studying The Sermon on the Mount. 98 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,800 We took a break during Advent and did the oh, Auntie fonts, we 99 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,900 finished the sermon on the mountain just before that with 100 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:24,500 the Lord's Prayer. Remember all that. 101 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:27,200 Yeah, okay, good. And then Robbie preached on 102 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,000 fasting for the Lord's Prayer. Just before Thanksgiving, that 103 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,400 was great. Now we're moving back into the 104 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,900 Sermon on the Mount. And we're going to spend three 105 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:40,200 weeks where we are right now in this section of scripture in 106 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,900 Matthew 6. So I'm going to ask you to stand 107 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:44,600 Carlton's going to read this. Text for us. 108 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,300 So please stand, we're going to hear from Matthew 6:19-20. 109 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:54,700 One, thank you, sir. Do not lay up for yourselves, 110 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:59,400 Treasures on Earth, where moth and rust destroy and where 111 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,900 thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourselves, 112 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:06,600 Treasures, in Heaven. Where neither moth nor rust 113 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,800 destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 114 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:14,400 For where your treasure is there. 115 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,200 Your heart will be. Also, this is the word of the 116 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,200 Lord. Thanks be to God, you may be 117 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,900 seated. Father, I do lift up Mercy 118 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:31,200 Street and Carlton, the staff. The many volunteers and ask that 119 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,900 you would continue to supply the workers, those who will live for 120 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:41,100 you in west, Dallas in South, Dallas for the sake of young 121 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:43,900 women. Women and men seeing Christ and 122 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:47,500 knowing how to follow you Jesus. We pray that that work would 123 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:50,000 bring you glory for all the ministry partners that we 124 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,700 support. We pray this in Jesus name. 125 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,400 Amen. All right as we move into The 126 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,200 Sermon on the Mount back into it. 127 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:01,700 Let's remember that. It's the sermon Jesus preached 128 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:04,300 and the beginning of Matthew 5 it says he went up on a 129 00:07:04,308 --> 00:07:07,100 Mountainside set down his disciples came to him and he 130 00:07:07,108 --> 00:07:10,800 began to teach them. Now we spent a lot of time on 131 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:11,900 the Lord's. Prayer. 132 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,800 Coming out of the Lord's Prayer. Jesus is now teaching about the 133 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,200 specific things in life. That could create anxiety. 134 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:26,700 The various needs that we have in the Temptation for how we 135 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:29,700 might seek to meet those needs. We're going to spend a few weeks 136 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:32,900 here because it's so important. One thing I really want you to 137 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:37,200 understand and it's easy to miss is that the context of this 138 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,700 section, which is going to run from Matthew 6:19 through the 139 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:46,900 end of Matthew, Six verse 34, the central context is how we 140 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:50,600 view ourselves in our relationship to the father. 141 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:54,600 So in Matthew 6 started, Jesus starting using the name father 142 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,100 over and over again. Just take your pencil or pen in 143 00:07:58,100 --> 00:07:59,500 the Bible. You brought, are you doing the 144 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:03,000 Pew Bible if you want and just highlight the word, father, 145 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,500 Jesus is making a strong strong point that as the followers of 146 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:11,400 Christ his disciples, we have the heavenly father who is 147 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,900 giving us everything Thing we need, who knows everything? 148 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:19,200 We need the second part of the context, and I don't want you to 149 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,900 miss this has centered on anxiety. 150 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,300 Now, this is important. We live in a culture that is 151 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:30,900 exceedingly, anxious, and there's reasons why it's a dark 152 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:36,799 dying culture, but this is where the church, because of who the 153 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:42,400 father Son, and the Holy Spirit who they are, we should not. 154 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:47,400 Not resemble, the same response to anxiety as the world does, 155 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,700 but we do. So, often the way in which we 156 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:53,800 look at the circumstances of Life, the different things that 157 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,000 are happening, as a result of a fallen world, doesn't look much 158 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,800 different than the world and if it doesn't look any different, 159 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,600 why would anybody ever ask us about the hope we have? 160 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,800 In other words, if we truly have hope in Christ, that should be a 161 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,400 fragrance that people can smell it. 162 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:17,100 It'd be a light that people can see and when they see it if they 163 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:21,200 are part of God's children, part of his people, they will want to 164 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,700 know about it and they'll ask me give you an example early, 165 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,800 December, my wife and I took the hatton's Pete and Kristen had in 166 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,900 our new pastor to families to dinner just to get to know them 167 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:34,500 a little bit. We went to a very new 168 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:36,600 restaurant. It's a Wonderful restaurant and 169 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,400 we sat down to enjoy a great meal together. 170 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:44,000 I have a heart for waiters and waitresses I always have but I 171 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,000 don't always go in with great fervency of prayer for something 172 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,400 to happen in the conversation with the waiter or waitress from 173 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,200 here. I tend to go to restaurants that 174 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,600 are right around the church frequently just to get to know 175 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,700 the people that work there. And by the way, I don't want 176 00:09:57,700 --> 00:10:00,000 them to know what I do. I don't want him to know. 177 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,900 I'm a pastor of this church for days or weeks because that can 178 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:06,400 create a pretty, pretty big wall, right? 179 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:08,700 So I just get to know them. Well, there wasn't time for 180 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:10,900 this, the Night that we're having dinner. 181 00:10:10,900 --> 00:10:14,400 It was a Friday night. The waiter didn't see, its prey 182 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,100 for the meal because the bill hadn't come. 183 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,200 As far as I know, we weren't really talking a lot about the 184 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,300 church or the Lord. We're just enjoying 185 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:24,300 conversation, but he was listening and we really didn't 186 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:26,400 know. He was listening until finally. 187 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,600 He said something to me, he said, what are you all saying 188 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,600 about Deliverance? That's a pretty interesting 189 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:35,800 statement for a waiter to make. What are you saying about 190 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,000 deliverance? And I looked at him, I said, 191 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,800 what do you want to know? He goes, I need delivered. 192 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:44,700 This is our waiter. Who's working in a restaurant, 193 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:47,400 that's only about a month old. This is a Friday night. 194 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,600 It's busy, he's they're working, but he's concerned about 195 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,100 something in his life and he wants to know about Deliverance. 196 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,700 So I just listen to the spirit and ask God to give me wisdom 197 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:03,400 for what to say before long. He tells us what is needed is 198 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,500 he's a recovering meth addict because of his addiction. 199 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:11,700 He lost visiting privileges. Villages with his son, who at 200 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:14,300 that time was about 10 months old, he hadn't seen him in 201 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:16,400 months. He was going to see a judge on 202 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,100 Tuesday, who would judge whether or not, he will build a see, his 203 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:22,000 child. So, as he told me that story, he 204 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,700 wanted to know what hope we had. He smelled it, he saw it, that's 205 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:30,400 what happens. And so, he knelt down next our 206 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,100 table. It's a Friday night. 207 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,300 It's a hot new restaurant. It's busy. 208 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:38,000 And I said, keep your eyes open. I don't want you to lose your 209 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,900 job. But I'm going to pray for you. 210 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:43,700 I'm going to pray for you, just like you and I are talking about 211 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,300 the menu and my wife, and Pete and Kristen, they're going to 212 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:48,600 keep their eyes open to for a few minutes. 213 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:54,800 We prayed over this man, then we exchanged cell phones, I emailed 214 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,200 him, text him, I'm sorry. And said what did the judge 215 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,000 decide a few days later? I get a picture of him with his 216 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,700 son, powerful powerful. We, I wish we could tell you 217 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,100 spent time praying that this would happen at the me. 218 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:16,200 We didn't, but it did. We who are in Christ. 219 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,500 Have the Living God in the fragrance of the Living God 220 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:24,200 inside us. Yet we live in a world that is 221 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,600 very broken. That is full of darkness and 222 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,600 full of Decay. One of the ways in which the 223 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,400 fragrance of Christ will come from us as we stand for truth in 224 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:38,400 love and show the hope that we have for the one who is 225 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,900 Sovereign for the one who's going to return. 226 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:45,000 Now, the reason I mentioned that is Because I think the church 227 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:52,400 desperately needs to ask the Holy Spirit to show us where in 228 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,300 our life. Where are we? 229 00:12:55,300 --> 00:13:00,100 And our walk with Christ, where something is pressing down the 230 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:03,000 fragrance of Christ were something is dimming the light 231 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,800 of who he is. And the reason I started today 232 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,100 is because it has something to do with this teaching of Jesus 233 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:14,400 on treasures and then has something to do with Anxieties. 234 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,700 And I want to show you how this morning. 235 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:20,500 Imagine you're sitting and you're listening to Jesus. 236 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,100 He then moves out from the teaching on fasting and he says, 237 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:27,000 I'm going to read these verses again, verse 19. 238 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,500 Look with me in your bulletin, do not lay up for yourselves, 239 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:34,000 Treasures on Earth, where moth and rust, destroy and where 240 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,000 thieves break in and steal. It's not hard to understand. 241 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:43,000 This is the negative command. Do not stockpile treasure. 242 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:47,500 Others on Earth. They will not last. 243 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:52,200 They don't have eternal value. One day, they will all be gone. 244 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:54,400 This is not hard to understand, is it? 245 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,700 It's not, it's the negative command. 246 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,000 Don't store up for your thing yourself. 247 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,200 Things that are going to rot things that are going to waste 248 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,300 away verse 20, the positive command, but lay up for 249 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:09,700 yourselves. Treasures in Heaven, where 250 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,000 neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do. 251 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,900 Not break in and steal. So it's easy to see. 252 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:19,900 Christ is not teaching something complicated. 253 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:25,800 Don't spend your life on Earth. Storing up, stockpiling Earthly 254 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,200 Treasures, it's not going to matter eternally. 255 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:35,200 Instead store up for yourself, things that have eternal lasting 256 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,500 value. Where nothing can destroy them. 257 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:40,700 I think it's pretty simple. I'm not going to stop preaching 258 00:14:40,700 --> 00:14:44,500 though. Because the next part reveals to 259 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:49,600 it's white so hard. He says they ever yourself 260 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,800 Treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy 261 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,300 and where thieves do not break in and steal, for where verse 262 00:14:56,300 --> 00:15:03,000 21, for where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. 263 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:08,200 I'm going to tell three stories today. 264 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:14,000 The first is of a man. And all three of these people 265 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,400 met Jesus. The first is of a man who when 266 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,300 he heard that Jesus was coming, Cried out. 267 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Have mercy on me. Have mercy on me. 268 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,000 He was told to be silent. He shouted louder when Jesus 269 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,100 came into his presence, he asked the blind, man. 270 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,600 What do you want me to do for you? 271 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:47,300 Now, I want to start there. If God were to ask you right 272 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:50,800 now, what do you want me to do for you? 273 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:54,100 What would you say? What? 274 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:56,200 Just immediately. It's at the front of your mind. 275 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,100 Now don't lie about it. The Holy Spirit knows what it 276 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:00,600 is. Don't try to be spiritual if 277 00:16:00,608 --> 00:16:06,100 it's not spiritual. This man said I want you to 278 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:15,000 restore my sight. Whatever your answer is likely 279 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,200 that's a place in your life where there is Temptation to 280 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,700 meet that. Need our make that thing happen 281 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:28,000 in a way that centered on making it an Earthly treasure as 282 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,800 opposed to Heavenly. This is important. 283 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,900 Every one of us here, these verses and understand it. 284 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,600 Of course, Earthly Treasures are going to go away. 285 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,400 They won't last for eternity, Heavenly Treasures. 286 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,400 They will last for eternity, we get it. 287 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:50,200 But every one of us, this side of Heaven struggles deeply to 288 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,000 make Christ Our Supreme treasure. 289 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:58,500 We struggled deeply to make Jesus our safest Refuge. 290 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:02,600 We struggled deeply to To surrender to his sovereignty. 291 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:07,500 We struggle to make him our most trusted counselor. 292 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:12,000 Now, I want to be very, very clear as we move the next few 293 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,800 weeks through this, you need to understand that this is not just 294 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:22,800 about money, clearly Treasures are part of it, Financial 295 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,000 Treasures can give the appearance of great security. 296 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:31,400 This is not just about money, for we can find our Earthly 297 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,200 Treasures, in so many things. For example, the praise of, man, 298 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,000 The Applause of others, people say, you're a great mother, 299 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,800 you're a great father, it could be a title. 300 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,300 It could be wealth for sure, and all that wealth can bring, but 301 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:54,400 it's more than that. Anything that we would pursue is 302 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:59,300 a treasure that's Earthly that would take the place of Christ 303 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:00,500 enough. Heavenly Treasures. 304 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:04,900 That's what Jesus is after. So, as we move through this, 305 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:09,200 we're going to see that when we don't trust Christ alone. 306 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,300 When we practice a theology that says, Jesus plus this title, 307 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:19,900 Jesus, plus this Storehouse Jesus plus the praise of, man, 308 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:22,700 we're going to see that. That's where the anxiety Creeps 309 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:27,800 in, because it will not satisfy everything. 310 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:32,300 Other than Christ is ultimately in secure in. 311 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:37,900 Christ is saying It's me, make me your treasure. 312 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:42,400 So how do we do that? We need to understand something 313 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,200 of the heart look with me in verse 21 for where your 314 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:47,800 treasure. Is there. 315 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,400 Your heart will also be so this morning if you're trying to 316 00:18:51,408 --> 00:18:54,100 discern. Where is my heart? 317 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:55,800 What is most important to me right now? 318 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,200 What might I ask for? You need to know that it's 319 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,500 wherever your heart is. Charles Spurgeon says it this 320 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:09,800 way, the heart must and will go in the direction of that, which 321 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,300 we count precious. Listen to this. 322 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:16,600 The heart must and will go in the direction of that, which we 323 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,800 count precious. The whole man will be 324 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:24,400 transformed into the likeness of that for which he lives. 325 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,800 And we talked about, extending the transforming presence of the 326 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,300 kingdom of our Lord. Jesus Christ. 327 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:30,900 That's his kingdom presence in our lives. 328 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,200 Lives. That's the fragrance. 329 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,200 I'm talking about, that's the Light of Christ in us. 330 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,300 So, listen to that last line. The whole man will be 331 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:45,500 transformed into the likeness of that for which he lives So he 332 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:48,800 has to question. Where is your treasure? 333 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:56,500 And what do you treasure? Most This week was a very hard 334 00:19:56,500 --> 00:20:04,400 week for me spiritually, not because of some dark hidden 335 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:12,300 secret. but, because Of the temptation to make something 336 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:19,300 other than Jesus Supreme. Because of trusting something 337 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:27,500 more than Christ because of the appeal, of the praise of, man. 338 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:31,700 It was a hard week and I said, I guess I shouldn't be surprised 339 00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:33,900 because of where the Lord was leading me to preach. 340 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:38,500 But when I say that I'm not trying to be cute, I'm not 341 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:42,700 trying to be clever, what I'm trying to tell you, is walking 342 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:47,700 faithfully, and Christ is heart. And the reason it's hard is 343 00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:51,000 because this side of Heaven, the World, the Flesh, and the devil 344 00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:53,300 are coming at us with everything. 345 00:20:54,400 --> 00:21:00,500 He has and wouldn't he love for you to cure a message other than 346 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:03,100 the truth of what Jesus is? Clearly teaching, of course he 347 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:05,700 would. So I felt that came out me very, 348 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:09,800 very hard. The reason is a heart, let's 349 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,600 listen to what scripture says about the heart Jeremiah 17:9 350 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,500 and 10. The heart is deceitful. 351 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:20,500 So let me just because I'm not sure you're listening, this is 352 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:22,700 not about other people. That's one of the great 353 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:24,100 mistakes. We make is Christian's. 354 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,600 This is really good for them to hear. 355 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,800 This is about you, and it's about me. 356 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:39,700 My heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick, who 357 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:45,600 can understand it? Your heart is deceitful Above 358 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:50,300 All Things. And desperately sick, who can 359 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:55,000 understand it? I the Lord search the heart and 360 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,200 test the mind to give every man, according to his ways according 361 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,900 to the fruit of his deeds. The heart is deceitful above all 362 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:05,100 things and desperately sick, who can understand it. 363 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:09,300 We can't. We can understand things about 364 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:13,400 it, but we need someone to follow our heart. 365 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,100 Someone to trace all the different ways, the World, the 366 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:19,400 Flesh. And the devil want to be Supreme 367 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,400 to be our Supreme treasure, to be our safest Refuge to be our 368 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,800 most trusted counselor. We can't discern it. 369 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,600 David knew that someone 39 David prays to the Lord. 370 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,200 He says search me o God and know my heart. 371 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:42,300 Try me and know my thoughts. The ESV doesn't put the word 372 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,200 anxious there and I think that's a mistake most other 373 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:52,800 translations do. It says search me know my heart. 374 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:58,500 Try me and know my anxious thoughts and see if there be any 375 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:02,300 grevious way in me and Lead Me in the way Everlasting. 376 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:10,000 So all of us have a heart. We've been given a heart and if 377 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,700 you are in Christ, Jesus, you need to hear this. 378 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:18,600 You have a new heart. Paul said, therefore if anyone 379 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,100 is in Christ, he is a new creation. 380 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:22,900 The old has gone. The new has come. 381 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:26,300 Now here's what that means and why it's such good news when G, 382 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:30,800 when Jesus said, Do not store up for yourself. 383 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,500 Treasures on heaven and have it. I'm sorry. 384 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,300 Do not screw up your Treasures in Earth. 385 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:41,100 But strop yourself. Treasures in Heaven. if you were 386 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:46,500 not given a new heart, you could never store up for yourself. 387 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:50,000 Treasures in Heaven. Because you've been given a new 388 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,600 heart friend in Jesus, you can think right? 389 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:59,700 Feel right seek, right. You actually can say by the work 390 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:03,100 of God's grace in your life. I'm not going to store up any 391 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:06,700 longer these Treasures on Earth. I'm going to store up these 392 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:11,500 Treasures in Heaven and you can mean it and believe it and do it 393 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:17,000 by his grace and for his glory. If you don't have Christ, you 394 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:23,300 can't give one cent towards Heavenly treasure, not one 395 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:26,700 nothing, so that's God's, great news. 396 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:30,600 But the problem is the same one who said, therefore if anyone is 397 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,500 in Christ he is a new creation. The old has gone. 398 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:37,200 The new has come. Paul also said of himself about 399 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,600 his own heart, what I do. I don't want to do what I do 400 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,600 want to do, I don't do. This Side of Heaven, we're going 401 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:51,400 to struggle. To have a heart that is fully 402 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:56,400 surrendered to the Lord and God knows it because God knows it, 403 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,300 he's given us everything that we need to be the people. 404 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:04,000 He's called us to be this week is hard as it was. 405 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,600 I knew what I had to do. I had to Avail myself of the 406 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,700 means of Grace, just like I do every day. 407 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,600 I had to pray. I had to wait. 408 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,800 I had to listen, I had to think I had to confess. 409 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:16,300 I had to repent all the same stuff. 410 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:20,800 Nothing different. It's always going to be God's 411 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,800 word and his spirit that brings the change and it came and it 412 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:31,000 came by the Lord taking me back from this very passage to a very 413 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,600 familiar. Psalm what I want you to do is 414 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,900 turn to Psalm 16. I'm not going to read all of 415 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:41,100 Psalm 16. But I'm going to ask you to do 416 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:45,800 me a favor today before the sun sets. 417 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:52,700 I want you to read Psalm 16 and as you do, I want you to ask the 418 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:59,600 Holy Spirit to reveal to you. Is there anything besides 419 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,400 Christ? That is my safest Refuge, is 420 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:09,500 there anything besides Jesus? That is my Supreme treasure. 421 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,700 Have I really surrendered to his sovereignty? 422 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:18,100 Is there anyone or anything in my life? 423 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:21,400 That is a more trusted counselor than Christ. 424 00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:26,700 And here's why I preached this Psalm a few years ago. 425 00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:32,000 The proposition that I used in that sermon, was from John 426 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,500 Piper. I'd never heard a better one 427 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:38,900 about this Psalm and this is what John Piper wrote. 428 00:26:39,900 --> 00:26:46,800 God will lead you through life and through death into 429 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:55,100 Everlasting Joy, which it here. This God will lead you In life 430 00:26:55,100 --> 00:27:00,100 through life and through death into Everlasting happiness. 431 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:09,000 If he is your safest Refuge, if he is your Supreme treasure, if 432 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,500 he is your Sovereign, Lord. And if he is your most trusted 433 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,600 counselor. This week when I talk about the 434 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:22,900 struggle, it was because I was seeking something and not 435 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:26,500 trusting in Christ alone as my refuge. 436 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,800 Another treasure had gotten in the way and it wasn't something 437 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,800 thats dark or immoral. But it was taking Supreme place 438 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,700 over the one and only one who is supreme. 439 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:42,000 I wasn't resting in his sovereignty. 440 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:47,600 I wanted to be done now and in my time, And because of that, I 441 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:55,300 was really anxious. In my anxiety was sin, not every 442 00:27:55,300 --> 00:28:01,300 anxiety is don't misunderstand. But my anxiety was because he 443 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:05,600 wasn't Supreme. He wasn't my safest Refuge. 444 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:11,300 He wasn't my most trusted counsel but then he was he was 445 00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:14,300 because I continue to Avail myself of his means and he took 446 00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:16,100 me to this passage. And when he took me to this 447 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:21,000 passage I heard David say look with me at 16 1, preserve Me, O 448 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,700 God for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord. 449 00:28:25,708 --> 00:28:28,800 You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you. 450 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,700 Do you believe that if you don't believe that, then you have 451 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:37,300 Something or someone who is a greater Refuge to you? 452 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:42,900 David then writes the Sorrows of those who run after another, God 453 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:46,200 shall multiply their drink, offerings of blood. 454 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,400 I will pour not pour out or take their names on my lips. 455 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,500 David is so wise when we have something or someone as our 456 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,400 safest Refuge, something or someone as our Supreme treasure 457 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:03,500 something, or someone is our most trusted counsel, our 458 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:08,200 sorrows will increase and those sorrows will increase and the 459 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,000 form of anxiety. Eddie, this is where Christians 460 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:15,700 by God's grace and for his glory should be different. 461 00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:21,000 It's where the power of that one. 462 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,900 Who is supreme the power of that one? 463 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:28,500 Who is safest, the power of that one, whose counsel is perfect 464 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:33,900 means everything to us and when it does, when he does, there is 465 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:41,500 a fragrance, there is a light. Friend, take psalm 16 today. 466 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,600 Go before the Lord and ask him. Search me. 467 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,600 Is there any part of my life where you're not? 468 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,700 The safest Refuge, is there any part of my life? 469 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:57,900 We're not? My Supreme treasure, is there 470 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:00,300 any part of my life where I'm not surrendering to your 471 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:03,100 sovereignty? Is there any part of my life? 472 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,100 Where I'm trusting, someone more than you. 473 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:13,300 This Side of Heaven, is you ask the Holy Spirit to do that? 474 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,500 You're going to see two things you're going to see, read the 475 00:30:16,508 --> 00:30:19,300 reality of God's work in your new heart. 476 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:20,900 That these are the things that you want. 477 00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:23,400 You wouldn't even want them. If he wouldn't work to, you're 478 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,900 going to see that the sight of Heaven. 479 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:30,000 It's going to continue to be a battle until you die or Christ 480 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,400 returns, just because it continues to be a mad about oil. 481 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:42,200 Doesn't mean we stop fighting We fight in the power of the one 482 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,300 who is our safest Refuge, our Supreme treasure. 483 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,500 Our most trusted counselor, before we come to the table, I 484 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:53,500 want to end with the two other stories and just listen to these 485 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:56,500 for a minute. For most of you, it's going to 486 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,400 ring familiarity but just listen. 487 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:05,900 The blind man that Jesus spoke with. 488 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,100 Heard Jesus. Say what do you want me to do 489 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:14,500 for you? Lord, let me recover my sight 490 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,800 and Jesus said recover your sight, your faith has made you. 491 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,500 Well This story is sandwiched between two. 492 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:29,000 Other people who also wanted to seek Jesus. 493 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,700 Their eyes were open. They could see the first one 494 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:38,500 moves towards Jesus, and he plans to speak to him. 495 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,800 I don't think the second one had any intention of speaking to the 496 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,700 Lord. The first one is the Rich Young 497 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:47,600 Ruler. He moves towards the Lord and he 498 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,000 says this in, Luke 18, 18 and a ruler asked Jesus. 499 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,100 Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life. 500 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,300 What that tells us is that there was something in his life that 501 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:00,200 all of his wealth hadn't satisfied. 502 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,000 There was something bugging him in his life that was taking him 503 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,400 to a place that shows us. It doesn't matter how much we've 504 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,700 stored up. It, ultimately, won't matter in 505 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,600 the end, it will not satisfy. So he goes to the good teacher 506 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,700 and he says, good teacher. Jesus responds by saying, why do 507 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,700 you call me good? No one is good. 508 00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:23,600 Except God Alone. The man then moves forward to 509 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,200 show Jesus, how good he is. I've kept all those commands, 510 00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:30,200 everyone. You've listed, I've kept Jesus, 511 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,400 who knows all things knows about every man. 512 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,200 What's in a man says, you still lack one thing? 513 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,800 Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you 514 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,800 will have treasure in heaven, and come follow me. 515 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,400 He told him how. He told him don't stir up any 516 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,600 longer these Treasures on Earth, make me your treasure in order 517 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,700 to do that. You need to sell all that you'll 518 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:01,300 never make me your treasure. If you don't. 519 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:02,900 By the way, that's not the command he's given you. 520 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:07,800 And I That's not an expectation to all people to sell 521 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,800 everything, but it was to him and what happened his heart was 522 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,300 revealed. And his heart was exceedingly, 523 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:18,600 sad. Would you be sad? 524 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,700 That begins to show you how the spirit illuminates, what might 525 00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:24,900 be more Supreme in your life than Christ. 526 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:30,200 He was sad. The other man was also rich. 527 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,500 He was a man that never expected to talk to Jesus. 528 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:37,300 I don't believe, but he wanted to see the one people were 529 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:41,000 talking about. What's his name, Zacchaeus? 530 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:45,100 Just after the healing of the blind, man, the blind man. 531 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:46,400 The healing comes after the Rich. 532 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,100 Young Ruler. Luke tells us the story of 533 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:53,000 Zacchaeus, Zacchaeus, the wee little man in order to see 534 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,100 Jesus. He had to climb up in a tree. 535 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,800 Tim Keller, says sometimes we got to climb above the crowd to 536 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,300 see the real Jesus. That's true, not just of 537 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,700 non-believers, it's true of Believers as well. 538 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,900 The reason is because Jerry Bridges would say in his great 539 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:13,199 book disciplines of Grace, We're tempted towards cruise control 540 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,100 Christianity. And if everybody else sees this 541 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:20,500 as okay, that will be okay to friends, that's not what it 542 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:23,100 means to be a follower of Christ, just because others are 543 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:25,000 struggling in the same way you are, doesn't mean it's okay to 544 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,699 continue in that struggle with no fight. 545 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,199 That's important. It's so important. 546 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:36,400 This is the keas climbs up above the crowd, to see Jesus into his 547 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,400 great shock, Jesus, turns and comes towards him, it's a great 548 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,000 picture of the Gospel where the Lord pursues us, Jesus didn't 549 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,100 begins to speak to him. First for Zacchaeus ran, on 550 00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:52,400 ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Jesus for 551 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,600 he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came by the 552 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,600 place, he looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus Zacchaeus, hurry 553 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,200 and come down for, I must stay at your house today. 554 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,800 So he hurried off and came down and he received him joyfully 555 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:16,300 Joyfully, joyfully the Rich Young Ruler exceedingly sad. 556 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,200 And unless something changes eternally. 557 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:26,800 Sad Zacchaeus he sees Jesus. Here's Jesus cause name, here's 558 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,200 Jesus. Say come down down, he came. 559 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:31,200 Then what happens is interesting. 560 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:36,300 Jesus gives him no command about any of his Earthly. 561 00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:41,400 Treasures, not one command. And Zacchaeus response. 562 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,700 Behold Lord, the half of my goods. 563 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:54,100 I give to the poor and if I have defrauded anyone of anything and 564 00:35:54,100 --> 00:36:01,300 he had every day, if I have de frauded, anyone of anything, I 565 00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:06,600 will restore it for fold. And Jesus said to him today, 566 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,100 salvation has come into the house this house, since he also 567 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:16,400 is a son of Abraham for the son of man came to seek and to save 568 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:22,900 the lost, that's such good news. For those who have been sought, 569 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:27,800 and those who have been saved, we've been given a new heart, a 570 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,100 sign of that new heart, understanding the depth of the 571 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:37,600 Gospel is that we take it everywhere, he enables us to go. 572 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,400 We want our waiter or waitress, to hear about Jesus. 573 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,200 We want the children that are part of Mercy Street and West 574 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,500 Dallas in South. Does to hear about Jesus. 575 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:51,200 We want the Prisoners, the inmates that Paul Miller spoke 576 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,900 about at 9:30 to hear the good news of Christ along with our 577 00:36:54,900 --> 00:37:01,200 neighbors and our family members because we get the depth of his 578 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,000 love. And our need. 579 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:10,500 He would save one whose Heart Like Mine is so fickle, but it's 580 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:14,000 a new heart. One other verse I want to show 581 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:20,800 you before we come to the table. When the Rich Young Ruler went 582 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:29,400 away exceedingly, sad. Jesus seeing this said, how 583 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,400 difficult it is, for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom 584 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,500 of God for, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a 585 00:37:37,508 --> 00:37:40,400 needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. 586 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,200 And those who heard it said this. 587 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:48,300 And I want you to hear this. Then who can be saved? 588 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,300 Jesus responds. What is impossible with man? 589 00:37:56,300 --> 00:38:05,200 Is possible with God. Zacchaeus Was saved. 590 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,700 He climbed up above the crowd to see the real Jesus, some of you 591 00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:15,000 need to do that. It wouldn't be many many days 592 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,800 before he would, probably not see. 593 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,700 But here that the Jesus, that called him by name and told him 594 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:26,500 to come down would now be the one up in a tree. 595 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:38,100 Hunger by nails. so, that all Who would trust in him? 596 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:47,800 Could live forever. because they saw, That they had a sick heart. 597 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,900 A heart that needed. Not just a refuge the safest 598 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:57,900 stretchy Refuge not just a treasure. 599 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:04,500 This supreme Eternal treasure. Not just a counselor, but the 600 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:07,300 omniscient all-knowing. All-wise God. 601 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,700 Who reveals himself to us. And when he does and we receive 602 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:18,800 him, we've been given a new heart and that new heart as a 603 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:25,200 witness to that work once. To bring glory to God. 604 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,900 Because you've been given a new heart. 605 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:35,200 For all who are in Christ. You can bring God glory in ways 606 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,100 beyond what you can even imagine right now. 607 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,700 By abiding in him, listening to him, asking him to show you any 608 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:46,100 part of your life, that doesn't connect, and trusting him. 609 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,100 Some of you have never received Jesus as your savior. 610 00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:55,000 But God has you here, perhaps today to hear the message. 611 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:59,600 And if you desire him as you haven't before, simply pray, 612 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:05,600 This prayer Jesus, I'm a sinner. Forgive me of my sins. 613 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,500 Save me from my sins. Be my Lord. 614 00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:14,200 The table that we're about to come to is for all who have made 615 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,300 that profession, it's not a presbyterian table, it's not a 616 00:40:18,308 --> 00:40:22,200 table for perfect people, but it is a table for people with new 617 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,800 hearts hearts that have been saved by the Lord. 618 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:30,000 And if you've not received Jesus alone for salvation, we would 619 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,500 urge you not to come forward and partake of the elements. 620 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,800 But instead, think about all you've heard less, you would eat 621 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,700 and drink judgment on yourself. For those who are in Christ, 622 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:43,000 this meal is a meal of Celebration. 623 00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:48,800 It is a meal that the father has given us as you come think about 624 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,100 what the father is done and your life. 625 00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:56,700 To save you and rejoice. Father, as we come to the table, 626 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,600 I'm grateful for the work that you've done Even in our midst 627 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,500 today. And I pray the Lord that if 628 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:07,000 there any right now who know they need you that you would 629 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,700 hear their prayer, call them your own, give them yourself, 630 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:16,400 save them. What for those who are in Christ 631 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,000 but maybe just feeling a bit disconnected. 632 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,300 Drifting. Lord use this time to draw us 633 00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:25,200 back. Give us the sweet Fellowship. 634 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,500 That is ours in Christ. We pray in Jesus name amen.