1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,680 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,160 Build, equipped and send all under the lordship of Jesus 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,320 Worth, TX who decided to do things a little differently. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,480 Adoramos Ayesu Cristo. I love City Post because of the 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,480 people. It's where I belong. 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,640 We truly preach the word. I love City Post because of the 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,680 community we've been able to build to do ministry like Jesus 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,640 for light to push back darkness. This is city post podcast. 10 00:00:37,980 --> 00:00:41,660 We're going to look at a text that I, I want to encourage us 11 00:00:41,660 --> 00:00:44,220 dads with like, I don't want you to feel like man, Ricky, like 12 00:00:44,220 --> 00:00:47,260 coming at me and I'm like, no, no, like this is going to be 13 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:51,660 encouraging to us as men, right? Because when we understand what 14 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:54,780 the gospel is, we understand the implications of the gospel and 15 00:00:54,780 --> 00:00:58,400 we understand how great it is, man, it should charge our hearts 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,000 and our lives to be like, man, I want to leave my family this way 17 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,000 because this is awesome. This is great stuff, right? 18 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,080 So my prayer for you today is that you leave here encouraged. 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,000 You leave here like hyped up, ready to go and ready to go and 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,520 pour into your family because this, this, this text is just 21 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,360 amazing. This text that Paul shows us. 22 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,480 So let me pray for us. And then we're going to dive 23 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,960 into Romans chapter 10. So Jesus, thank you for today. 24 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,280 Jesus, thank you because you're good to us. 25 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,800 Father, I pray that you speak to us through your word. 26 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,600 I pray, Lord, that we see Christ in this. 27 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:41,480 And Lord, I pray that our hearts are full of your spirit as we 28 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,720 walk out of here today. Lord, help us to be great dads. 29 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,040 Help us to be great men, Lord, and help us to lead our families 30 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,640 well. So Jesus, speak to us this 31 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,560 morning. And your name we pray, Amen. 32 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,800 So let's go Romans chapter 10. So the key verses that we're 33 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,920 going to look at is verse 9 and 10. 34 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,800 But like I said, we got we got to walk through it. 35 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,040 We got to get to that that place. 36 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,039 So we know that Paul is the one who wrote the book of Romans and 37 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:13,240 Paul is called to share the gospel with the Gentiles. 38 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,520 So who are the Gentiles? Everybody that's not a Jew. 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,320 So pretty much everybody else. So Paul is called to share the 40 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,840 gospel with the Gentiles, but there's still something in him 41 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,240 where he wants to make sure that he ministers to the Jewish 42 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,840 people as well or the Israelites. 43 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,240 And he starts in verse 1. He says, brothers and sisters, 44 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,880 my hearts desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that 45 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,360 they may be saved. Pretty simple. 46 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,760 Who is he talking to? His brothers and sisters who are 47 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,240 the brothers and sisters, those who believe in Christ. 48 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,600 So he's talking to the church, he's talking to the believers 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,480 and he's premising this because he's going to go in on some of 50 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,680 their practices. And, and Paul is like, listen, I 51 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,760 want you to understand something before I say all this. 52 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:12,560 My desire is that they be saved. My desire is not to win an 53 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,240 argument. My desire is not to prove them 54 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,560 wrong. My desire is not to belittle 55 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,080 people. My desire is for them to be 56 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,920 saved. And listen, church, our desire 57 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:28,200 as City Post Church is for Haltom City in Fort Worth and 58 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,120 Texas to be saved. That's our heartbeat. 59 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,400 That's why we do what we do. That's why we build equipped and 60 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,040 send. That's why we pray. 61 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,040 That's why we go on missions like this is our heartbeat. 62 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:45,200 This is why we do this. It is to know Christ and make 63 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,920 him known. Our desire, our heartbeat is so 64 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,920 that people get to know Jesus. Paul's calling as an apostle 65 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:57,080 disciple is to the Gentiles, but he continually pleads to God for 66 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:58,480 Israel. Why? 67 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,040 So that they could be saved. Now Paul's going to show us like 68 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,240 what he's seen. So look at verse 2. 69 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,040 Because I think some of us could relate to this. 70 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,360 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God. 71 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,800 And their zeal is not based on knowledge. 72 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,560 Since they did not, they did not know the righteousness of God 73 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,640 and sought to establish their own. 74 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,280 They did not submit to God's righteousness, for Christ is the 75 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:31,360 culmination of the law. So that way everyone has an 76 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,120 opportunity to attain the righteousness given by God. 77 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,040 So what Paul is noticing, he's like man, like I see they're 78 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,440 super zealous for God. They're all about that life. 79 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,320 They're all about his law and they're all about the 80 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,600 traditions. Like they're they're not quiet 81 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,560 about it. They're zealous about it, but 82 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,600 their zeal is not based out of knowledge, man. 83 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,720 So growing up in college, I had this roommate, me and Ernie had 84 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,800 this roommate and, and we were hanging out and, and he's a big 85 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:06,120 like soccer fan balloon Pierre football, right? 86 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,680 Like he, he loves soccer. But the problem is I like we 87 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,720 watch American football and I remember it was Monday Night 88 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,080 Football. We all get home from work, we're 89 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,680 all eating and it was the Patriots versus the Cowboys on 90 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,080 Monday night. And we're watching it and we 91 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,160 look at our roommate and he is yelling at the TV. 92 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,600 I was like, I've never seen you watch a, I've never seen you 93 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,560 cheer for any football team before. 94 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,760 And he's like, whoa, he is going at it. 95 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,400 But I started noticing I was like, bro, you're yelling at the 96 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,440 wrong time. So every time Dallas had the 97 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:43,240 ball, he was like, yeah, wow. And I was like, it was, it was 98 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,160 third and 13. And they ran and got 2 yards. 99 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,880 Why are we cheering? That's a terrible play call. 100 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,520 And then he's like yelling and then and then also like I see 101 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:55,240 like broken plays and and like bad defense and he's like go 102 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,600 Dallas and I'm like, they're they're suck right now. 103 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,200 You see, like he what he was excited about was that at work, 104 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,800 some of his coworkers are football fans and and now like 105 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,520 he gets to talk and enjoy those things with them. 106 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,440 You see, like his zeal for the game was for the team, but he 107 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:16,800 didn't have knowledge of the game. 108 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,680 He's just yelling for no reason. And what Paul is trying to tell 109 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,320 us is that the Israelites are zealous for God, but it's coming 110 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,200 out of traditionalism. It's coming out of, hey, I'm 111 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,120 born into this, so I'm going to do it anyway. 112 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,080 But you have no knowledge of what you're doing. 113 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,320 You're just going with it. I've seen this 100 times. 114 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,200 Like, what are you shouting for? Because everybody else is doing 115 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,360 it. And Paul is like man, they're 116 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,400 passionate man. They're, they have a lot of 117 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,360 zeal, but their zeal is not based out of the knowledge of 118 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,800 Christ in his word. Their zeal is based out of their 119 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,360 own righteousness. And that's what we see in verse 120 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,960 3. The problem is they didn't, they 121 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:02,920 don't know what they're doing. They have no idea. 122 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,360 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought 123 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,680 to establish their own, they did not submit to God's 124 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,240 righteousness. So what they're doing is that 125 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,200 they're taking the law and they're building themselves out 126 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,800 of that law and they're ignorant to the knowledge of what the 127 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,760 word of God says. So they're following the law, 128 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,040 but they don't understand that the law is to point them to the 129 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,880 Messiah. It's not I do, I do, I do so God 130 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,760 will love me. No, it's like, that's not what 131 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,040 the law is. The law is like, listen, you 132 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,800 can't do, you can't do, you can't do. 133 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,440 That's why God loves you. I'm going to send Jesus. 134 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,720 So they're they're out of it. And listen, we deal with this 135 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,240 too. And what I've realized is that 136 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,680 when you have zeal without knowledge, you get ignorance. 137 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,880 When you're excited about something but you don't have the 138 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,200 knowledge of it, you become ignorant. 139 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,840 Like you're just doing it just because. 140 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,040 And for many of us, we do things out of ignorance because you 141 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,680 have no idea why everybody else is doing it, but you're 142 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,720 passionate about it. It's like we see a lot of 143 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,800 arguments. Some people think the louder I 144 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,080 am, I guess I'm going to win. No, because what's coming out of 145 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,200 your mouth is nonsense. But then when you have ignorance 146 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:27,120 with zeal, you get conformity. So whenever you're ignorant 147 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,400 about some and then you're also super excited, you end up 148 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:35,120 conforming to the thing that is driving you because you don't 149 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,400 have the knowledge for it. And what that was happening with 150 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,120 the Israelites is that they had the law of God and they were 151 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,600 trying to follow it. And they, they, they were adding 152 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,960 their own little like the Pharisees and the Sadducees and 153 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,800 the religious leaders were adding their own little two or 154 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:55,360 three PowerPoints to God's law. And they ended up conforming to 155 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,600 not just the culture, but also to the law. 156 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,800 So it became a self based righteousness. 157 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,960 And then of course you know they because they conformed to it, 158 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,360 it's like they became gatekeepers to it. 159 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,680 You weren't born an Israelite, so God's people are only the 160 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:18,600 Jewish people. You are not following God's law, 161 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,280 so you can't have a relationship with God. 162 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,800 And they became like these gatekeepers where they were 163 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:26,640 trying to push everybody else out. 164 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,400 And what Paul's argument is, is that because righteousness is 165 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,400 through faith in him, it's for everybody, not just y'all. 166 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,800 So we know that the gospel is for every single person. 167 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,240 So it has to be this belief. Now what? 168 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,400 What is Christ? In verse 4 it says Christ is the 169 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,680 culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for 170 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:57,360 everyone who believes that word. Culmination in the Greek 171 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,520 translates. A better translation is 172 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,240 fulfillment or end it. Also, we also see that same word 173 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,800 for termination. So Christ is the fulfillment of 174 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,920 the law. What's the fulfillment of the 175 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,800 law mean? What does that mean when when he 176 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,360 talks about that? Well, Paul means that the belief 177 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,400 in Christ as Lord and Savior ends the sinner's futile quest 178 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:25,400 for a righteousness through his imperfect attempts to save 179 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,720 himself. So when Christ becomes the 180 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:35,000 fulfillment of the law, that stops this whole self 181 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,800 righteousness. There is this whole thing of 182 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,000 like, I got to figure out a way to become right with God. 183 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:48,480 So man, that's a great thing because in order for us to 184 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,440 fulfill the law, we got to do it perfectly. 185 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,440 So yeah, you could be like, well, Rick, I'd do ABC, but 186 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,480 yeah, but you didn't do DAFGHIJKLMLOP. 187 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,320 Like you didn't do any of all that other stuff. 188 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,680 So if you're going to fulfill the law, you better do the whole 189 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,920 thing. And it's not easy. 190 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:10,840 It's actually impossible. And that's why Jesus came to be 191 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,600 the fulfillment of the law. So we see that in verse 5 S. 192 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,840 Go to verse 5. So my paper got all wet. 193 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,160 It's all smudged. All right. 194 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,760 So Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the 195 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,480 law. A person who does these things 196 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:32,400 will live by them. What is So what Paul is doing is 197 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,400 Paul is about to start throwing the law at the Israelites to 198 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,720 help them understand. Listen, you guys study the books 199 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,320 of the law, the Torah, which is Genesis through Deuteronomy, the 200 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,800 first five books written by Moses. 201 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,640 So Paul is going to use God's word to prove God's word. 202 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,480 And what he does, he's telling them he's like, listen, Moses 203 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,560 wrote about this. The person who does these things 204 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:59,640 will live by them. So if you're going to follow the 205 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,600 law, great, but you better do it perfectly. 206 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,120 You can't be missing. You can't be picking and 207 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,800 choosing, which is really difficult. 208 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:17,320 And then look at verse 6. So verse six and seven, Paul is 209 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,000 using what we call personification. 210 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,520 So he's treating righteousness as though it was a person. 211 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,400 And then he quotes Deuteronomy chapter 30 here. 212 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:30,240 Man, you guys should read Deuteronomy 30. 213 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,160 Man, that, that's a, it's an incredible chapter. 214 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,200 It's awesome. He's quoting Deuteronomy 30 215 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,800 here. And pretty much the point he's 216 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,280 getting to is that righteousness is by faith and it does not 217 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:47,440 require some impossible odyssey or some crazy journey for you to 218 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,400 find it. You don't have to go with Aaron 219 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,520 Rodgers and do ayahuasca for days in order for you to find 220 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,440 truth. He's right. 221 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,800 It's right here. It's in the word He's saying. 222 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,800 It's, it's right in front of us. God has given it to us. 223 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,480 He's like man, like righteousness by faith. 224 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,960 This is what it is. You don't have to go look 225 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,520 throughout the universe and try to make sense of it all. 226 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:16,280 He's telling us where it is. So he uses Deuteronomy 3012 to 227 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:20,000 point it out and then verse 8. But what does it say? 228 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,400 The word is near you. It is in your mouth and in your 229 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,080 heart. That is the message concerning 230 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,480 faith that we proclaim because it has to be by faith. 231 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,360 Then I was like, man, why does Paul use Deuteronomy 30? 232 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,200 This is so interesting. So I'm going to go ahead and 233 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,760 read it if you if you guys want to look it up or put it in your 234 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,880 scroll through it. Deuteronomy chapter 30. 235 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:48,600 I'm going to start on verse 8 and this is what it says. 236 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:54,000 Deuteronomy 30 verse 8 If you obey the Lord your God and keep 237 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,880 his commands and decrees that are written in the book of the 238 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:02,200 law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with 239 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,040 all your with all your soul. Verse 11 Now what I'm commanding 240 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,600 you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 241 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:16,760 It is up in heaven, so that you have to ask who will ascend into 242 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,960 heaven to get it or proclaim it to us so we may obey it. 243 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:27,120 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask who will 244 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,560 cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may 245 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,240 obey it. No, the word is near you, it is 246 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,240 in your mouth and it is in your heart, so that way you may obey 247 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,400 it. Man this passage is crazy. 248 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,880 A lot of like Word of Faith churches use this because we say 249 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,680 a lot of these words like man, God is for us and he's going to 250 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,640 prosper us. And you're the head and not the 251 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,360 tail. And and you you quote all these 252 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,120 promises, but there's a clause and the promises and it's a 253 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,280 found in verse 10. All of that stuff is real. 254 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,840 Only a verse 10 is activated. What does verse 10 say if you 255 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,760 obey? If you obey the Lord your God 256 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,840 and keep his commandments and decrees that are written in the 257 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,040 book of the law, and you turn to the Lord your God with all your 258 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:23,800 heart and with all your soul. Why is this such a big message 259 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:29,080 and why is faith so important? Because if I truly believe this, 260 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,680 so if God is going to is for me and God's going to prosper in my 261 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,120 hand and God's going to take good care of me, but I am not in 262 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,400 His law and I'm not in his decrees, but yet he still 263 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,160 blesses me. Does that make him a liar? 264 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:49,000 Or what if I follow his laws and I follow his decrees, but God's 265 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,360 will for my life looks way different than what I what I'm 266 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,080 thinking about. And like the way that I want to 267 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,600 prosper is not the way that God has prosperity in my life. 268 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:03,160 Does that make God a liar? You see, guys, there's a lot of 269 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,480 back and forth here. And what we see here is like, 270 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,040 man, if you obey the Lord, if you put your faith in him, 271 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,240 pretty much what they're saying, He's going to take care of you. 272 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,080 And listen, the greatest prosperity has nothing to do 273 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,000 with materialistic things. The greatest prosperity is that 274 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 He forgives us of our sins. He gives you a new heart. 275 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,720 He takes your heart of stone and gives your heart of flesh. 276 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,640 And as you walk in Christ, he directs your steps and he takes 277 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,720 care of you and he puts you in where you need to be. 278 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:44,880 And listen, God is a God who provides, and God is with us if 279 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,320 you obey. Now, what's difficult about why 280 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,320 is faith so important? And This is why Christ came, 281 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,520 because without Jesus, then you're going to have to do 282 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,640 everything the law says in order to please a holy and righteous 283 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:01,440 God. And that's impossible. 284 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,319 And that's exactly what was happening with the Israelites. 285 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,079 But with Jesus, when we put our faith in him, we're covered by 286 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:12,480 his grace and we're justified. We're covered by his mercy. 287 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,359 So even when we fail and even when we mess things up and even 288 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,720 when we sin, we're covered by his grace and mercy if we ask 289 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,119 for forgiveness. And when we ask for forgiveness, 290 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:30,320 he restores us and he continues to walk with us. 291 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,520 So when we sin, God's like, I'm out. 292 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:38,920 No, not with Jesus. When we sin, God says, I forgive 293 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,200 you, and I'm going to keep walking with you, and I'm going 294 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,080 to keep prospering your hand, and I'm going to keep going 295 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,080 forward with you. And that's the promise that we 296 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,080 see in Deuteronomy chapter 30. So now it gets to the crazy 297 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,040 part. So this is what Paul saying in 298 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,280 verse 8. But what does it say? 299 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,080 So Paul breaks this thing down. What does this say? 300 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,960 He says that the word is near you. 301 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,520 It is in your mouth and in your heart. 302 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,240 That is the message concerning the faith that we proclaim. 303 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,120 Now He's going to tell us, what is that message of faith that we 304 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:15,000 proclaim? Verse 9, if you confess with 305 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,640 your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God 306 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,640 raised him from the dead, you will be saved because that's the 307 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,000 message. That's what we contain. 308 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,080 Then verse 10, for it is with your heart that you believe and 309 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,800 are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your 310 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,360 faith and are saved. So what does verse 9 even mean? 311 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:42,640 Let's walk this thing down. If you confess with your mouth. 312 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,040 This is a verse that's really important for us to understand 313 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,120 because the gospel requires a few things. 314 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,240 You got to confess and you got to believe. 315 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,320 Confession is not a simple acknowledgement that you know 316 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,600 Jesus or you know God or that Jesus is the Lord of the 317 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,120 universe. Guess what? 318 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,040 Based off of James 219. The demons know this. 319 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:09,080 Even the devil claims that Jesus is the Lord of the universe and 320 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:13,680 they submit to him. So pure acknowledgement doesn't 321 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,720 really do anything and Paul is not throwing that in there. 322 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,920 Like confession means something so much more deeper. 323 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,480 It's a deeper conviction without reservation. 324 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,640 The phrase includes 3 things, so I'll put them on the screen. 325 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:34,080 Whenever you say I confess that Jesus is Lord, what you're 326 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,960 claiming are these three things. Number one, you're claiming that 327 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,240 you are repentant of your sin. So if I say Jesus is Lord of my 328 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,560 life, what you're truly saying is that I'm repentant of my sin, 329 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:51,640 I'm trusting in Jesus for salvation, and I am submitting 330 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:56,120 to him as Lord. It's not a near acknowledgement, 331 00:19:56,120 --> 00:20:00,600 like, yeah, I believe in Jesus. No, it's something deeper than 332 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,840 that. And we see this too, like Paul 333 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,200 is using the word confession for a reason. 334 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,440 Listen, the Greek word for confession actually means to be 335 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,880 in agreement with someone. So what you're Paul is saying is 336 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,640 that when I confess that Jesus is Lord, I am an I'm in 337 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,840 agreement with someone, and that someone is God the Father. 338 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,240 And that means that I'm agreeing with what God the Father is 339 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,440 saying about his Son, and then he, what he's saying about the 340 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,880 Messiah. So the Father's declaration that 341 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,920 Jesus is the savior of the world, if I say I'm confessing 342 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,360 that Jesus, Lord, I am in agreeance with the Father, what 343 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:43,240 he says about the Son, everything. 344 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,520 How do we know what the Father says about the Son? 345 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:50,720 We have his word. So if I confess Jesus, that 346 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,880 means that I'm agreeing with every single thing that God's 347 00:20:53,880 --> 00:21:00,920 Word says about Jesus. You cannot confess Jesus and 348 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,840 have discrepancies about his Word. 349 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,400 That's not how that flows, right? 350 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,080 So you have to believe that there's another. 351 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,120 Go ahead and put the second definition. 352 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:16,120 So when we talk about confess what we what what it means when 353 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:20,280 I say I confess that Jesus Lord, I am recognizing that Jesus is 354 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,480 God, that he is the Messiah, and that his work on the cross is 355 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:33,000 the only way salvation is made. So whenever Paul says confess 356 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:38,560 with your mouth, you have to proclaim it and remember he says 357 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,360 confess that with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. 358 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,920 Remember the Greek word curious what you're saying is not Jesus 359 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,920 is Lord, it's Jesus is my Lord. Jesus is is Yahweh my Adonai, 360 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,960 right? Like so you're claiming that he 361 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,000 belongs to you. It's almost like you're saying 362 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,320 like Jesus is the king, Jesus is the emperor. 363 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,200 He takes the supreme place in my life. 364 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,640 That's what you're saying whenever you say I confess that 365 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,360 Jesus is Lord. What does that look like, Rick? 366 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,840 How do I know? I'm just not like just giving, 367 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:21,040 like I'm just talking. There's evidence of someone who 368 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,640 confesses that Jesus is Lord. Jesus is real clear. 369 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:31,640 And 1st John two and six, that if you claim to walk with me, 370 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,880 then you must obey my commands. You do what I say easy. 371 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:41,440 You know, one of my, a lot of people know this. 372 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,640 I love live music. I love going to shows, I love 373 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,320 going to concerts. And a few months ago, or 374 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,960 actually it was probably like a year or two ago, I have a bucket 375 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,320 list of people I want to see, like a bands I wanted to see. 376 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,360 So I was checking off the bucket list. 377 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,400 Things are going great. And then I discovered that Pearl 378 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:04,000 Jam was coming to Dickey's Arena and I'm like, bro, I'm a little 379 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,480 bit older. I have a little bit better job. 380 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,200 I think I could afford these tickets like, and if not, Oh 381 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,160 well, the kids are going to have to go without juice for a month, 382 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,080 whatever, right? I was like, I want to go see 383 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,640 Pearl Jam. So I threw my name in the 384 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,280 lottery. And here's the thing, Pearl Jam, 385 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,840 when they come, every show gets sold out within minutes. 386 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,960 So you got to throw your name in this lottery to get those 387 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,160 tickets. If not, you're going to have to 388 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,720 buy the pre sale, which they're marked up like four or five 389 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,120 times. So I threw it in, they're doing 390 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:33,400 2 shows, one on Wednesday, one on Friday. 391 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,720 And I threw my name and I got tickets. 392 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,840 I was like, yo, this is this is crazy, this is awesome. 393 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,600 And then I was like, who am I going to take? 394 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,680 Like man, I need somebody that's going to appreciate this. 395 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,520 So Rach, you can't come right? So I was like, I was like Rach 396 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,360 don't care nothing about Pearl Jam bro. 397 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,360 And she told me too. So I was like, I need to so man, 398 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,240 I took John. So, you know, because we like 399 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,360 live music and man like so we went and it was fantastic. 400 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,360 Now here's the thing, what makes a venue sold out? 401 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,680 You see, Dickey's Arena holds 18,000 seats. 402 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,720 That show held 18,000 seats. That means that 18,000 tickets 403 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,840 had to be sold in order for Dickey's Arena to become sold 404 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,800 out. Now, if 17,999 seats were sold, 405 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,120 it would not be sold out because there's still one seat up for 406 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:29,320 grabs. If anything more than 18,000 407 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,760 seats are sold, then the Fire Marshall could come in and shut 408 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,280 the thing down. You see, in order for you to be 409 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,440 sold out, every single seat must be sold in your heart. 410 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,840 So whenever I say Jesus is the Lord of my life, He is the 411 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,800 supreme Emperor. He is the King of my life. 412 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,320 That means that Jesus has all 18,000 seats sold in my heart. 413 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:58,200 There's not one seat that's available to Him because if one 414 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,400 seats available, that means that I'm saving it for somebody else 415 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,080 or something else. You've got to be fully in, fully 416 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,840 committed, fully sold out to Christ. 417 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,920 And when you are fully committed and fully sold out to Christ, 418 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,800 then you could say Jesus is the Lord of my life. 419 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,640 He has every aspect of my life and He has every seat in my 420 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,480 heart taken. And my question to you is like, 421 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,600 do you have seats that are not taken in your heart? 422 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,080 What are you holding on to that you have not surrendered to 423 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,680 Christ yet in order for you to be completely sold out to him? 424 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,240 And for some of us, it's our future. 425 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,760 Some of us, it's relationships, man, we could go down the line. 426 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,640 We're all different. But my prayers today that if you 427 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,640 confess, Jesus is the Messiah, Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord of 428 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:54,320 all, that means that every single seat of my heart is taken 429 00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:01,520 by him and he has to have it. So that's what confession makes. 430 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,120 But then there's also another component. 431 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,120 You also got to believe. You also got to believe. 432 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,720 You know, there's a saying that says, man, the distance between 433 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,400 heaven and earth is 18 inches between your mind and your 434 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,800 heart. So yeah, I could confess 435 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,320 something, but if I don't believe it, and what the Bible 436 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:25,440 says, and we'll do this point #1 is that in order for you to have 437 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:30,400 salvation, in order for you to have righteousness, you have to 438 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,280 believe and you have to confess. They go together. 439 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,360 You could confess something and not believe it. 440 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,760 Listen, I've apologized for stuff. 441 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,440 I don't even know why I apologize for. 442 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,480 I confessed. I'm sorry. 443 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,160 But deep down inside, I'm like, I have no idea for what. 444 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:50,920 Who cares? It's keeping the peace. 445 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,960 It doesn't matter. But you see with Christ, it's 446 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,680 like I'm confessing to him. And I know deep down inside I 447 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,640 believe in faith that he truly is God. 448 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,240 And Paul is saying you need both of them because in verse 10, it 449 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,760 is with your heart that you believe and are justified. 450 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,440 And it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and you 451 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,360 are saved. So Paul lays out the gospel 452 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,480 nicely. And you know what's so 453 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:24,160 scandalous about this? How easy it is. 454 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,960 So on one side you have the Israelites and the Jews. 455 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,080 They're like, you got to do all these things and you make sure 456 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,080 you follow my that's going to drive you crazy. 457 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,440 How do I get right with God? Believe and confess? 458 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,240 And I believe that some of the Israelites had an issue with 459 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,800 that. That's that's way too easy. 460 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,760 Like if I believe and I and I put my faith in him, he's going 461 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,160 to forgive me and I'm able to be right with God and some of the 462 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,800 religious leaders like out of your mind and everybody gets to 463 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,480 do that. And Paul's like, yes, everybody, 464 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,800 because look what it says in verse 11 as scriptures say, 465 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:03,760 anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame because 466 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,240 there's no difference between Jew and Gentile. 467 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,600 The same Lord is the Lord of all, and richly blesses all who 468 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,760 call on him, for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord 469 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:21,360 will be saved. I love that guys. 470 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:27,520 The gospel is for all people. Galatians 328 There is neither, 471 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,800 nor Jew, nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor their male 472 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:38,080 or female and female. You are all one in Christ. 473 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,320 Paul even quotes Joel 232 which talks about how the salvation is 474 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,520 available for all people, all races and all nations. 475 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,000 Guys, everyone is able to come to Christ. 476 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,840 That's why City Post, we invite everybody. 477 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,280 Come as you are man, who who cares what you look like? 478 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,480 Because we want you to know Christ. 479 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,800 This ain't going to change. We want you to know him, man. 480 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,040 We want you to understand that he loves you. 481 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,040 And then we end with this. Paul's like, man, everyone is 482 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,280 made available. It's not about following the 483 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,160 law. It's not about all that stuff. 484 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,120 Listen, we do love the law of God, but we follow the law of 485 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,600 God because we have been redeemed, not because we want 486 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,600 redemption, because we love his law. 487 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,560 And the Israelites were like, Nah, they're adding stuff to it. 488 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,800 Can you imagine if we did that at this church and say, man, 489 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,120 only people come in this church can't have tattoos. 490 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,720 It was like 5 people left, right? 491 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,440 But listen, that don't matter. That's who you are, man. 492 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,480 Come on in. And then look at last last 493 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:56,120 couple verses when we done. How then can they call on the 494 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,360 1:00 they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the 495 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,760 one whom they've not heard? And how can they hear without 496 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,960 someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless 497 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,480 they are sent as it is written? How beautiful are the feet of 498 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,160 those who bring the good news? Which leads me to my Third 499 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,440 Point. Listen, the good news. 500 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,920 The Gospel is to be proclaimed. It's to be spoken, it's to be 501 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,680 said. The Gospel has to be talked. 502 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,040 I know a lot of people like to quote Francis of Assisi and say 503 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,840 share the Gospel. And if you need to use words, 504 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,920 the people that quote that don't use words. 505 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,680 But what we see in Scripture is that the good news has to be 506 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,280 proclaimed. Now, some of y'all like, well, 507 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,040 Ricky, I'm not a preacher. The word preaching in the Greek 508 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,680 actually just means a proclamation. 509 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,240 That just means that you need to say it out loud. 510 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:52,760 So you're right, you're not a preacher. 511 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,440 And thank God that we don't have a bunch of preachers, but we do 512 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,200 have a lot of people who are able to talk. 513 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,880 So wherever you go, whether it's work, school, family, whatever 514 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,880 it is, you need to proclaim the good news of the gospel, which 515 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:13,120 is confess and believe, not do and try. 516 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,120 It's confess and believe you're able to proclaim it. 517 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:24,120 And this leads to my last point. So go to #4 for me. 518 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,640 So if the gospel is to be proclaimed, then that means that 519 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,840 we are to move forward. We're to move forward. 520 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,400 Why does Paul end it with how beautiful are the feet of those 521 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,080 who bring the good news? So we see this in verse 15. 522 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,600 Paul uses feet as a descriptor to constantly move forward. 523 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,240 That's why he's using it. Every father got a pair of 524 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,040 socks. This was not something that was 525 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,840 done by accident. It was not a stylistic thing, 526 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,240 but it was there's, there's a purpose for socks. 527 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,680 So I started doing a little bit of research and I was like, 528 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,760 what's up with socks? We actually could trace socks 529 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:20,080 back to the prehistoric age, 5000 BC Cavemen would wrap their 530 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,680 feet in something so that way they would fight frostbite and 531 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:29,440 other diseases. 300 to 500 AD the Egyptians actually perfected 532 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,680 socks. They actually called them feet 533 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,680 bags. True story. 534 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,400 The Romans would take leather wraps and they would wrap their 535 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,120 feet in order for them to be able to fight better and to 536 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,760 eliminate cuts and bruises and disease. 537 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,640 Then I started thinking like, man, this Ephesians 615. 538 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:58,440 Paul uses the imagery of a soldier sandals to represent the 539 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,800 readiness given by the gospel of peace. 540 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,400 Guys, the reason why we focus on our feet is not to be passive. 541 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,640 The reason we focus on our feet is to move forward. 542 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,120 Dads, listen to me. The most dangerous thing you 543 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:19,160 could do is become a passive individual and you get home and 544 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,560 you shut down. Your role as a father is not 545 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,560 just to provide for your family. Your role as a father is also to 546 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,280 pass to your family and protect your family and be a priest in 547 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:36,520 the home for your family. Socks, cover your feet. 548 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,560 It's a covering. Listen, your feet, the feet. 549 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,960 The reason why your feet are beautiful is because you're 550 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,920 taking the good news and they're covered by the Holy Spirit to 551 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:56,520 move forward in my prayer for you today, dads, is that you 552 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:03,160 take this message of believe and confess to your home first to 553 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,480 your family. You raise your kids in His word. 554 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,639 You're not a tyrant about it, but you lead by example. 555 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:16,159 Kids, you love them. You teach them the gospel. 556 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:18,840 When you're exhausted and you're dog tired and you don't want to 557 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,080 do anything, you ask the Holy Spirit for some help and you 558 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,960 play on the floor with your kids. 559 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,400 We got to be. Present we got. 560 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,920 To stop being passive and we got to stop giving our kids devices 561 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,480 so that way they leave you alone. 562 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,719 And I just felt this in my. Spirit, like the Holy Spirit, 563 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,480 has been convicting me, like me and my family. 564 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,920 So use the covering that. God has given you with the Holy 565 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,320 Spirit and push the gospel forward because blessed are 566 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,840 those. Blessed is defeat for those who 567 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,239 proclaim the good news of the gospel. 568 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,840 Confess with your mouth, believe in your heart. 569 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:02,800 You will be saved. And we're going to go to. 570 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,320 Misrom. There's a team of six of us, and 571 00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:08,800 what we're going to do is as the band plays the final worship 572 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,800 song, I'm going to ask the church to get a little bit 573 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,120 involved and we're going to stand and worship together. 574 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,640 But I want to ask you as a church, as the song is playing, 575 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,840 to come and pray over our participants. 576 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,320 What we see in the scripture is the laying of hands whenever 577 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,680 people are sent out. And as City Post Church, we're 578 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,720 not just traveling to Mizzaram. All six of us. 579 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,920 We're taking all of y'all with us, like all of you guys are 580 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,120 coming with us. And what we want to do is we 581 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,840 just want. To pray over everybody as we go 582 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,120 to Miseron, so don't be shy and if you don't want to come and 583 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,360 pray for somebody, you can pray for us at your seat, but it's 584 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:50,440 going to be a rich time.