1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,400 This is City Post Church, we're about three things, build 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,000 equipped and send all under the lordship of Jesus Christ, a 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,300 small Church Plant in Fort Worth Texas, who decided to do things 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,000 a little differently. I would almost I had to Crystal, 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,000 I love City Post because of the people. 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,100 It's where I belong, we truly preach the word. 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:24,100 I love City Post because of the community. 8 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:25,800 We've been able to build to do ministry. 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,800 Like Jesus perlite to push back Darkness. 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:41,400 This is City, Post podcast. First John, chapter 2 first 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:46,500 John, chapter 2. So first of all good morning 12 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:49,400 everyone, how's everybody doing? Pretty good. 13 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:56,100 Pretty busy weekend, right? I know I had an eventful day 14 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:59,900 yesterday, but it was all good. So before I dive in, I got to 15 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:03,000 give a shout out to Elena and livie because they are in East 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,700 Texas right now. I love you guys. 17 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:08,500 I know they're watching. Do not fall asleep at pops 18 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:11,300 Church. Okay so make sure you guys play 19 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,200 I'm doing. Alright, so that's called being 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,600 spiritually Petty. All right. 21 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,700 So I drank way too much coffee this morning. 22 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:25,100 Alright, so we're going to be in first John chapter 2 first John 23 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:31,500 chapter 2 and I really believe that God has a word for us this 24 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:36,900 morning as I was going through this text, as I was just kind of 25 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,000 meditating on it and thinking about Lord like what do you try 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,100 to tell us here and God just kind of brought something to 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,100 Light that I'm going to do the best I can to explain it. 28 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:53,300 So let's go ahead and read. We're going to be starting in 29 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:56,800 verse 28 and we're going to look at verse 1. 30 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,200 So just three quick versus today and this is what the Lord says 31 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:06,900 it goes and now dear children continue in him so that when he 32 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:11,900 appears when sorry, when he appears we may be confident and 33 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:15,100 unashamed before him at his coming. 34 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:20,300 So if you know that he is righteous, you know that 35 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:23,000 everyone who does what is, right? 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,400 Has been born of him see? See that see what great love the 37 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,700 father has lavished on us. What? 38 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:34,900 We should. Sorry that we should be called 39 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:38,800 children of God, and that is what we are. 40 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:42,700 The reason that the world does not know us, is that it did not 41 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:46,200 know him. So, father, we pray that you 42 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:49,000 speak to us through your word, this morning. 43 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:54,400 Father, I pray for myself, Lord, that you helped me to focus and 44 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,300 remember everything that that was studied here. 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,300 And Lord, I pray that your word just penetrate our hearts and 46 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:03,300 our minds father. We thank you so much because 47 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:06,700 you're a good God and giving us just a beautiful day today and 48 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:08,000 then we pray these things. Amen. 49 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:12,000 All right, so we have to kind of break this down. 50 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,800 That's what we're only doing three verses today and guys like 51 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,000 Well Ricky says three verses I'm like just slow down you're going 52 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,800 to see why I should go through verse 3 in chapter 3. 53 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,400 But I really want a chance to just kind of walk through this. 54 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,200 But before I dive in so many of you guys know that I came to 55 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,900 Fort Worth Texas, going into my eighth grade year going into 56 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:39,100 pretty much high school. So we got here and I ended up 57 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,000 I'm going to Daggett, middle school. 58 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,500 So my parents are Rosemont. And there were like now what 59 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:46,900 they want to keep Ricky at Daggett, right? 60 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:50,100 They won't be see your sutras in which one like we do. 61 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:52,400 I kick her. Take your poison, right? 62 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,500 That's always joke around about that. 63 00:03:54,500 --> 00:04:00,300 But so something I learned when I move the text as was that the 64 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:03,600 music was a little bit different than in South Florida. 65 00:04:03,900 --> 00:04:07,100 So Daggett would have these after school dances in order to 66 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:10,700 raise money. And in Florida, you know, you're 67 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:13,200 used to a specific genre of music. 68 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,800 So it's either like side Summit and get it ever get done at the 69 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,300 time. Thank God, that didn't grow up 70 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:23,900 in that thing kind of came later, but it was either that or 71 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:26,100 like that, like Miami, like base. 72 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:30,400 Like the, you know what I mean? So, so that's kind of what I 73 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,000 grew up in, but then I come to Texas and it's a whole nother 74 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,500 world. So my friends are like, you got 75 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:39,600 to learn Cumbia. And I'm like, what's going on? 76 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,900 V.I.C this lady's name on everybody's car named Selena. 77 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,000 I was like, who's Selena and what happened to her? 78 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:49,600 Like, I do. So I that's that shows you how 79 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:53,500 removed I am from the culture. I mean, it was like moving to 80 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,100 another planet when I came to Fort Worth. 81 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,200 So we had a dance and they were teaching me and I'm like, I 82 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,600 could do cumbias. Not hard. 83 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,600 Like, anybody. With two left feet could do 84 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,200 cumbias. Like, you've got to really try 85 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,000 hard, not to be able to do this. Somebody's gonna Exposed over 86 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,700 there, right? Like they like, it's got to be 87 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:19,300 really difficult. So, so immediately, I knew and I 88 00:05:19,300 --> 00:05:21,700 remember all my friends are like, Ricky, you gotta know how 89 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:24,200 to dance Cumbia because of not, you're not gonna be able to 90 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,900 dance or any of the girls. And, of course, the adolescence 91 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:30,600 is kicking in. I'm like, yeah, I gotta learn 92 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,400 this stuff. And so I, so after a couple of 93 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,000 dances, I got it down, I'm like, this is not hard. 94 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,900 I mean like that, technically All this stuff comes out. 95 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,000 If you don't know, just jog, it looks the same, right? 96 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,700 So so I got it. So I'm like, I'm confident now. 97 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:51,000 I'm like, okay, like we could do this and then the Valentine's 98 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,100 Day, dance was coming in February. 99 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:56,400 And my friends hype me up and they're like, Ricky, you should 100 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,200 ask Rayna to go with you. Now, think about this is an 101 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,300 eighth-grade dance is not that serious, but in my mind, I'm 102 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:05,500 like, I'm going to do it because she's cute. 103 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:08,800 My friends are like, hyping me up and I Know how to dance 104 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,300 Cumbia now. So like I my confidence is 105 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:14,300 through the roof. I'm like, I got this open out, 106 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:15,600 like we're going to go ask Rayna. 107 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,800 So I remember after class I go and I talk to Rayna and I was 108 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,600 like, hey, Trey and I, she's like what's up fool? 109 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,600 And then it was like hey would you like to go to the dance with 110 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,700 me? And she looks at me she giggles 111 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:30,100 she's like I said I'm not going to be here. 112 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:32,600 I'm not gonna go and I was like oh that's rough. 113 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,500 Okay. Fast-forward. 114 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:36,600 Two weeks later, the dance is going on. 115 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,200 Me and my friends show up and guess who Who is at the middle 116 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,100 of the dance, we're having the time of her life Reina, right? 117 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,200 So I walk in and I'm just like, let's take the knife out of my 118 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,900 chest, like my spirit is crushed, you know? 119 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:53,100 I was like, oh, but I had all like I learned Cumbia just for 120 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:57,500 you so we could dance together and then, you know, she'd even 121 00:06:57,500 --> 00:06:59,400 acknowledge it. I was like, what's up recently? 122 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,500 I had a drink and she just kept going in the circle and I was 123 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:06,300 like, oh this is brutal. Now I know some of us are 124 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:10,300 thinking like Well Ricky that's silly, you know, like that's a 125 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:12,300 silly story, you're an eighth grade, who cares? 126 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,500 But I started thinking how many of us put our hope in stuff that 127 00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:21,300 is silly. Like a lot of us. 128 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,200 We, we look at like materialistic things. 129 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,500 We look at things of this world that we tie Our Hope to and our 130 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:30,800 confidence. And like, man, if I were just to 131 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,400 learn this, if I were just to attain this, if I were just at 132 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:38,200 Make my life. A part of this then I will be 133 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,600 able to fill in the blank. The problem is when you put your 134 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,800 hope and things that are not of God, they will fail you. 135 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:50,200 Because there's no other absolutes, accept the word of 136 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,500 God. And what Christ tells us, that's 137 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:58,500 why John tells you abide in him, abide in Christ, abide in 138 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:00,800 Christ. And what we're going to look at 139 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,500 today is that he's going to point out something he's going 140 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:09,000 to say, listen you need to put your hope in Christ and he's 141 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,700 going to come back one day. and for any believer, anybody who 142 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:18,800 claims to be a follower of Jesus The return of Jesus should 143 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,700 excite you. Not terrify you, you should be 144 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:24,600 like yes, like my God is coming back. 145 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:29,400 I'm ready to go but those who are not found in Christ, this is 146 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,299 an extremely terrifying fact. Because I truly believe that 147 00:08:33,299 --> 00:08:36,500 when that day comes, there's going to be two groups, there's 148 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:39,000 going to be one who runs toward him and say Yes. 149 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,000 King Jesus is here and they're going to be those who run for 150 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 the hills and we see that in scripture as well. 151 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,800 John is extremely clear. So this whole idea, the promise 152 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,200 that we should have our hope in in Christ, coming back kind of 153 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,700 serves as dislike purifying. Hope not just as for the 154 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,900 Believer. But also the way that we view 155 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:07,200 morality the way that we view Our Lives, the way that we live 156 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,800 our lives. It's extremely important. 157 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:15,200 And this truth, this the hope that we should like put all of 158 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,500 our chips. In all of our marbles in is this 159 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:22,400 right here and it's Christ. So this should impact everything 160 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,800 about us knowing that he's going to come back one day. 161 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,300 There's a passage Hebrews chapter 6, verses, 19 and 20 162 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:34,800 I'll go and put it on. The board here on the projector 163 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,800 here. It says this is we have this 164 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:45,100 hope as an anchor for the soul firm and secure it enters. 165 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:49,600 The inner Sanctuary behind the curtain where our 4Runner Jesus 166 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,800 has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest 167 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:59,700 forever in order in the order of Melchizedek and I wish I had 168 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:02,400 more time to dissect. This passage this passage is 169 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:06,700 incredible but our hope is anchored in Christ. 170 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:11,400 That's what we cling to and for non-believers. 171 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:17,700 Their anchor is not kind of like arrancar arrancar does not shift 172 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:22,700 but for non-believers their anchor is on Sand, it's going to 173 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:26,600 shift it's going to feel so there's a lot of superficial 174 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,700 sources that people put their security in in there hoping like 175 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:32,900 it. And you know you guys know it's 176 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:36,500 like narcotics and alcohol and sex and entertainment and 177 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:38,800 materialistic. Realism and all this is like 178 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:45,900 extremely surface level stuff. This is all man-made stuff and a 179 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:49,300 lot of people, they put all of their hope in the center of this 180 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:54,900 desire for a better future. But in all reality, the only 181 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:59,700 thing that's guaranteed in life is this biblical hope that we 182 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:03,900 put all of our selves into because we abide in him and his 183 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:08,600 name is Jesus. The future reality is guaranteed 184 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:12,400 in the Lord. Anything outside of that is not 185 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,000 anything. Absolute, it will fail you. 186 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,800 So look what verse 28 says, Verse 28, there's a lot in verse 187 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,400 28 says, and now dear children continue in him so that when he 188 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:31,500 appears, we may be confident and unashamed before him at his 189 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,100 coming. So, let's kind of look at this. 190 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:39,900 The way that John writes it. He begins to the verse and now 191 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:44,600 and now this is different. He throws these two words in 192 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,000 here. Now, a lot of us will read then 193 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,400 they're like Well Ricky. That means like he's kind of 194 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,200 pointing You right now. No that's actually in scripture. 195 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,100 That's called an emphatic particle. 196 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:57,700 Yeah, particle. Which means that it's 197 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:00,700 introducing a new section of the text. 198 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,500 So really chapter 3 should start here. 199 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,600 But what John is doing is that he's introducing now a new 200 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,600 subject that he's attaching to everything that he's been 201 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,200 teaching. So if you guys remember, last 202 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,100 week, we talked about what it looks like to abide in Christ 203 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:22,000 especially in our culture, we talked about how obedience is 204 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,200 more important than our options because, you know, we We put a 205 00:12:25,208 --> 00:12:28,400 lot of ourselves in our options thinking that that's going to 206 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,800 give us success which is false. Then also, we talked about Jomo 207 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:37,900 versus fomo, how a lot of us have this fear of missing out at 208 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,700 the expense of our obedience. But really, when you abide in 209 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:45,700 Christ there's a joy in missing out because you get to be 210 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:48,600 attached to him. So it's like, yes, I don't get 211 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,000 to do this because I know it's going to honor the Lord and then 212 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,800 presents over productivity. There's nothing more. 213 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:57,200 More important than the presence of God, in our lives. 214 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,800 In a lot of times, we get so busy and trying to be productive 215 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,700 that we miss his presence, and we sacrifice for his presence 216 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:09,400 because we think productivity brings value, and that's not the 217 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,500 case. And now he's cutting it. 218 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:19,000 Boom, and you knew you knew subject coming in and now dear 219 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,800 children. We know that's how John talks 220 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,200 because he's about 90 years old when he wrote this. 221 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:31,300 So it's a term of endearment he says and now continue in him AKA 222 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:35,100 abide in him. That word continue means 223 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:38,000 endurance. He's like not just abide in 224 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,600 Christ but if you abide in Christ there's an Endurance to 225 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,900 your faith. Your faith is going to last and 226 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:48,400 that's what John is pointing at. You don't come to Jesus and then 227 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,400 like a year later you walk away from the faith because something 228 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,400 bad happened to you. That's not abiding in Christ. 229 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,300 That is not continuing him, that's not enduring in Christ. 230 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:07,200 So he's saying abide in Christ continue in Christ endure in 231 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,700 Christ. So that way you persevere in the 232 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:12,200 faith because that shows salvation. 233 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,900 Why do we do this? So that when he appears. 234 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:20,200 So that way in, Jesus comes back as he said, he would, he said, 235 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,600 I'm going to come back the same way that I ascended. 236 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:27,900 He goes, you may be what confident, and what unashamed 237 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:33,200 confident unashamed before him at his coming. 238 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,400 So, John is throwing this out there. 239 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,900 He's like listen, Our Hope for our faith is rooted. 240 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:44,900 In the fact that Jesus is going to come back one day. 241 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:48,700 And you're either going to be ashamed. 242 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,900 And you're going to go run for the hills or you're going to be 243 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:55,700 unashamed, and you're going to be confident, see that word, 244 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:59,800 confident, and the text means like a freedom of speech, like 245 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,000 you can say whatever you want without getting in trouble, 246 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,300 which that doesn't happen in our culture, nowadays, but you could 247 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:09,600 do that. So confident is like, my Jesus 248 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,800 is here. I'm confident that he's going to 249 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,400 receive me. I'm confident that he's going to 250 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,500 look at me and see the righteousness of God and not the 251 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:19,400 sinful man. I'm confident. 252 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:22,000 Isn't that he's going to recognize me by my name? 253 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:24,300 I'm confident that I belong to the father. 254 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,000 That's what confidence we're talking about here. 255 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:32,300 But a lot of people are going to see The Return of Christ, and 256 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:35,500 they're going to shrink. Why? 257 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,400 Because this time when Jesus comes, it's not as the suffering 258 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:42,400 servant. And it's not going to be as the 259 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,800 humble King. He's coming in glory, he's 260 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,800 coming with armies. He's coming to re-establish his 261 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,000 kingdom, he's gonna burn everything down. 262 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:54,000 So if you're found in Christ, you get to be on his team. 263 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:57,300 You're not going to be against him, you're going to be with 264 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:59,800 them. So there's going to be two 265 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,300 groups of one of the groups are going to be excited and we're 266 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:06,800 going to be in awe of King Jesus showing up in the clouds. 267 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,100 The other groups going to be terrified and ashamed because 268 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:12,600 we're going to recognize who just showed up. 269 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:15,500 One group going to lift their hands and Glory. 270 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:17,600 The other groups going to lift their hands and fear like, oh 271 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:24,000 no, but based out of Philippians, Both groups are 272 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,800 going to Bow their knee, and both groups are going to 273 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,100 proclaim the name of Jesus, whether you like it or not. 274 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:32,900 And a lot of people like will recount Matey's. 275 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:35,500 I don't believe in that stuff. You're going to Bow your knee 276 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,100 and you're going to proclaim the name of Jesus. 277 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:39,900 That's what the word of God says. 278 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:42,800 So you can either do it willingly or you could do it 279 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,300 forcefully. It's going to happen. 280 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,700 So that's where our confidence comes from. 281 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:51,400 So our confident us not being a shame comes from knowing that 282 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,800 he's coming back now. If we put our hope, knowing that 283 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,200 Jesus will return, that's going to change the way that we view 284 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,200 life. Because if this is true, then 285 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,000 I'm going to, I'm going to develop a hunger for 286 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,599 righteousness in my life, so if I abide in Christ. 287 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,000 So remember, let's see if you walk backwards, John is saying. 288 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,700 Okay, you're a follower of Christ. 289 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:19,800 That means that you abide in him, that means that there's 290 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,900 confession. That means that you hate sin 291 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,599 that. So, all these things and he's 292 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:26,000 not saying you're gonna be perfect, none of us. 293 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,600 Here are perfect. We're all sinful in our nature. 294 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:32,700 Jesus is the only one that's perfect, but there's going to be 295 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:36,800 an anointing in you. The holy spirit, that when there 296 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,800 is sin in the picture, it's going to convict us. 297 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:42,600 There's going to be something about us in our lives were like, 298 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,900 man, I sinned against God, I need forgiveness. 299 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:48,600 There's got to be something in your life but you're like, I 300 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:52,900 like sin bothers me. and if you become numb to sin or 301 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:56,700 comfortable with sin, or you don't care, then we've really 302 00:17:56,700 --> 00:18:00,600 got to kind of re-evaluate what your decision for Christ, look 303 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:05,400 like because then I have to ask where you repentant or you were 304 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:09,500 you remorseful, If you did not get caught, would you still be 305 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:12,900 doing it? You see, that's the difference. 306 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:16,500 So if we're repentant that means that we have a repentant heart 307 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:18,900 of repentance spirit. And that's something that only 308 00:18:18,900 --> 00:18:23,500 the Holy Spirit could give you and you opens the eyes to the 309 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:29,000 gospel in your life. So you know, I love what Paul 310 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:34,400 says, in second, Timothy chapter 4 verse 8, he calls like the 311 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:39,000 Christ coming back like loving his presence or loving his 312 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,300 appearing. Like there's something in us 313 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:45,400 that loves the fact that Jesus is coming back now, he's going 314 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,300 to give like an inverse 29. He's about to show like a cause 315 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:50,100 and effect. So how's this work? 316 00:18:50,100 --> 00:18:54,300 So we put all of our hope in the return of Jesus because we abide 317 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:56,300 in him. So we understand how How all 318 00:18:56,300 --> 00:19:00,300 this is going to go down? Then verse 29. 319 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:03,700 Pretty much says it. Here is his, if you know that he 320 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:07,300 is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is, 321 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:09,000 right? Has been born of him. 322 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,000 So there's a cause here. So, if you've been born again, 323 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,700 because he uses the word born, and this is the same, this word 324 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:21,700 is translated for born. This is the same word that is 325 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:25,200 used in John chapter 3 with Jesus talks to Nicodemus. 326 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,400 So it means like you're from a specific thing or Pacific person 327 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,600 or place. You are born again. 328 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,300 That means that we are born again of the spirit in Christ. 329 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,800 First Peter, 1 chapter chapter, 1, verse 3, new Birth into the 330 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,600 Living Hope of the Resurrection. So when you are believer in 331 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,200 Christ, you receive a new birth into what the Living Hope, which 332 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,900 is where in the resurrection, you see Saul, this is coming 333 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:57,700 together now. So Jesus is return. 334 00:19:57,700 --> 00:20:02,200 Doesn't just a stain, our faith, but it also builds this habit of 335 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,500 righteousness inside of us. Where we want to pursue the 336 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:09,700 things of God. Why does it build a habit of 337 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:16,100 righteousness inside of us? I just think about it. 338 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,600 Because what I want you to know is like this text is not, he 339 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,100 says for he is righteous. Not for he stops doing good 340 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:27,200 things or bad things. He's not talking about like a 341 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,500 behavior here. He's talking about when you are 342 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:35,500 born again, of the spirit, you are putting on the character of 343 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:40,500 God, you have these traits from the anointed one, which is the 344 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:44,500 holy spirit inside of you love joy, peace, patience. 345 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:48,000 Kindness goodness. Faithfulness gentleness and 346 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,800 self-control like the song. Yeah. 347 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:56,200 So because you are born of the spirit. 348 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,600 Again, that means that you take on your father's 349 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,600 characteristics. He puts the spiritual DNA inside 350 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,300 of you. God is a holy and righteous God. 351 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,800 And if there's nothing in your life that cares for 352 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,600 righteousness, then we have got to re-evaluate what you think 353 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:19,500 being saved actually means. There should be something in you 354 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:24,500 that pursues righteousness. John looks at this as a cause 355 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,400 and effect. The cause is being truly Born 356 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,100 Again. Therefore, the effect is you 357 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:34,500 take on righteousness. Is that simple? 358 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:40,500 In the way that people know that you are a follower of Christ is 359 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:45,100 by the way that you live, your life is not just talking about 360 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:46,700 it, but it's also being about it. 361 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,100 There's got to be something in you that shows that you are a 362 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:55,000 follower of Christ and that you carry the anointing in you. 363 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,700 And we see that in James chapter 2 verse 20, where he talks about 364 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:01,800 how faith without Deeds. Is your faith is dead, if 365 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,400 there's no Deeds to it. He just had an emotional 366 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,600 experience. So there's a cause and effect 367 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,700 here. We know that he is righteous, 368 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:14,700 you know that everyone who does what is, right? 369 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:17,500 Has been born of him because he's righteous. 370 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,100 So you take on the character of God, so our hope doesn't just 371 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:24,600 come in to return of Christ because we're abiding in him. 372 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,500 So we don't get excited about that. 373 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:28,300 We do. It doesn't just help us with 374 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:30,900 endurance of our faith, but it also helps us pursue 375 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:33,300 righteousness. And then, he's going to wrap it 376 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:38,200 up here in verse 1. To see what great love. 377 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,600 The father has lavished on us that we should be called 378 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:47,300 children of God, man. Oh and that we are in and that 379 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:51,500 is what exactly what we are. I love what John does here. 380 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:56,000 You know, a lot of commentary say that this is like an 381 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,500 outburst of wonder. So as John is telling us this, 382 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:04,900 because remember, he's writing this to the gnostics, you know, 383 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:08,800 the way that they view morality is a lot different. they have 384 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:14,200 this dualism in life that we've all we've been talking about But 385 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,300 John looks at this Eagles. You know what all of this is 386 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:22,800 initiated by God's love for you? It's all initiated by his love 387 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,300 for us. And that he gets the glory. 388 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,900 So in verse 1, he's like men see what great love. 389 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:33,400 The father has lavished on us. I love he used the word 390 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,200 lavished. So that way we could be called 391 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,100 children of God. Listen, the gospel. 392 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:45,400 You should always be in awe of the Gospel in your life. 393 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,100 I always, we like you can't shut up about it. 394 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:55,000 I always think back of my life before Christ, transformed me 395 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,400 the way he called me into doing what I do now like I was like, 396 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,000 man, dude, I was such an idiot like I was do like the I was 397 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,600 living in sin. And because of his lavish love 398 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,300 for us, he still said Rick Kester want to use. 399 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:14,400 You makes no sense like, I'm not even like call like I'm not even 400 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,800 qualified to do this and he still says, I love you enough 401 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,200 that. I still want to use you. 402 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,500 On top of that, I want to adopt you. 403 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:24,900 That means that you're going to be part of my family. 404 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:28,700 That's the principle of adoption that we talked about. 405 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:33,200 And John isn't complete all of this. 406 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:36,100 How do we know he's in complete? Our look at the exclamation 407 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:38,700 points that he's. It's like he's, he's like 408 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,600 yelling at everyone here like see what great love. 409 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,000 The father has lavished on us that we should be called the 410 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,400 children of God. And that is what we are like, 411 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,800 like, it's like a disbelief, like, man. 412 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,600 This is awesome. This is incredible, that he 413 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,500 calls us his child. Even though we were once enemies 414 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:03,100 of God, he still saved us. And that's exactly what we are. 415 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,900 And because you and I, if your follower of Christ because we 416 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:11,900 are children of God, the world has no idea who we are. 417 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,900 The world is not rock with us. It doesn't Vibe with us. 418 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:17,500 I don't know how else to explain it. 419 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:19,900 It's like we're just too different. 420 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:22,800 The reason the world does not know us is because it does not 421 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,400 know him. So people are going to ask you 422 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,600 questions about your Sunday, they're going to ask you 423 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,300 questions and people who do not believe in Christ, we're going 424 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:37,700 to look like fools to them. They're going to see it as 425 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:40,600 foolishness. It doesn't make sense. 426 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:43,300 Why die to yourself? Why not? 427 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:47,000 Just do what you want because they don't have the hope that we 428 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,500 have. You see like this this 429 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:54,100 lifestyle, like our heavenly father and savior. 430 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:57,700 This this nature that we this this righteous nature that we 431 00:25:57,700 --> 00:26:02,000 carry inside of us is totally opposite to the world. 432 00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:07,600 The world does, it has nothing to do with what God has called 433 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,600 us to. That's why in Scripture, it 434 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,200 always looks at Believers and Christians and the word in 435 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,000 scripture, they always call us Pilgrim sojourners and 436 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,700 strangers. That's why he says that the 437 00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:25,200 world is not our home. Like, we belong to heaven, like 438 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:30,000 our places in heaven. So, as we're in this world, as 439 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,700 Believers, the world's, like Build That Wall, right? 440 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:35,200 Like they're like, like, cut them off, don't let them in, 441 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,300 but, where to place that where we don't belong, Because we 442 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:43,500 belong to God's kingdom. We are his children. 443 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:50,400 We belong in his presence. So, the Lord Jesus was unearthly 444 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,400 in his in origin. So, are those that are born 445 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,600 again, you know, when Jesus came down, he, you know, he even said 446 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,500 he's, like, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. 447 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,200 He's not from this world. He's not from this Kingdom. 448 00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:07,100 And listen, when you become a follower of Christ, neither are 449 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:11,100 you because we belong with him in heaven. 450 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,800 So, there's going to be a little bit of a difference here. 451 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,700 So I want us to look at what John is saying, because this is 452 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:28,000 so Crystal Clear, John is saying that because we abide in him, I 453 00:27:28,008 --> 00:27:30,100 remember got a tie, every we got to, we got to tie it all 454 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:32,300 together. We abide in him. 455 00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:36,800 We have his anointing, so we're able to manage our sins were no 456 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,200 longer a slave to our sin, but, you know, we're able to say, no, 457 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:46,000 it doesn't control us anymore. We abide in Christ and because 458 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:49,300 We abide in Christ, go back one, go back, one. 459 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:53,500 And because we abide in Christ, we're able to say. 460 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:55,400 So don't go to the quote yet. Just go back one. 461 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,500 So, because we abide in Christ, we are able to say that we do 462 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:04,000 not belong here. That we know the Kingdom of 463 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Heaven, We Know That we don't belong in that Jesus belongs to 464 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,600 us. And that's what our hope is in. 465 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:21,400 Now in verse 28, he talks about that as we continue in him. 466 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:26,500 When he appears we're going to be confident and we're going to 467 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:29,400 be unashamed. We're going to be confident and 468 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:34,100 we're going to be unashamed and what I want us to look at real 469 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:37,300 quickly. Here is that whole term 470 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,600 confidence. This is something that I felt 471 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,500 like the Holy Spirit was like kind of working in me. 472 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,000 If the scripture says that because I abide in Christ 473 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,400 because I know there's coming back that that's where I find my 474 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:56,100 confidence in. Then we have to ask ourselves, 475 00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:59,600 where is Our Hope, and our confidence coming from? 476 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,200 Because of this text is true. That means I abide in Christ, so 477 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,600 that means that my hope and my confidence comes from him. 478 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,200 But it doesn't always feel that way, does it? 479 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:21,000 so I was, I was thinking about this and there's a quote that I 480 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:27,300 read there's a quote that I read from Psychology today because 481 00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:31,200 the truth is that when we talk about confidence and that when 482 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,700 we talk about hope, A lot of us view. 483 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:40,000 Those two words, And we look at it in through this perspective 484 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,000 and the lens of the world. But it does not truly 485 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,300 necessarily mean that it works. Through the lens of God. 486 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:52,500 Because if we were to look at the world's definition of 487 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:56,600 confidence, which is this right here and I was reading, I was 488 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,800 looking it up, like this is from Psychology today. 489 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,000 Confidence is a belief in oneself, the conviction. 490 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,900 That one has the ability to meet life's challenges and to succeed 491 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,100 and the willingness to act accordingly, being confident 492 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:18,200 requires a realistic sense of one's capabilities and feeling 493 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,000 secure in that. Knowledge. 494 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,400 Now, you're like Well. Ricky, why are you? 495 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:28,500 Why are you saying this? If you and I as Believers in 496 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:30,700 Christ, if we are to Route go back one. 497 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:34,000 If we are to route, I'm going to introduce you, I promise. 498 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,900 Okay, if we are to Route our confidence in what the world 499 00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:43,500 tells us that our confidence is, then that means that we are to 500 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:48,600 look internally in ourselves. The problem with that statement 501 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:54,300 is that ourselves are broken. You can't root your confidence 502 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:57,800 in something that is broken because what's going to come out 503 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,100 of that? Is not going to work. 504 00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:04,100 What happens when God calls you to something. 505 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,600 How many times does God call you when you're qualified? 506 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:12,500 That's not what I read in the Bible. 507 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,300 But the truth is God never calls the qualified, he qualifies the 508 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:20,100 call. Like if you look at Moses, hey, 509 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:23,200 go free my people. I can't talk in public. 510 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,100 I'm gonna do it anyway. All right, take Aaron with you 511 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,600 just go right? No ago, build an ark. 512 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,800 What's rain? Nobody's ever seen rain before. 513 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,900 We just learned like Gideon Gideon. 514 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,100 I want you to like, take on this Army. 515 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,500 Like we are the weakest tribe of Manasseh. 516 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,800 How's this going to work? You know, even if we look at 517 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,100 Jesus, talking to his disciples, he I want you guys to follow me. 518 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:57,200 You're in change the world. I'm just a Fisher, man. 519 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:00,000 Well, it's cool. You're going to like be a fisher 520 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,600 of men now. Just come follow me. 521 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,800 You see, so it's like if none of those guys had the confidence to 522 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,700 do what God has called them to do impossible. 523 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,400 You know, I was even looking at my life when I knew that I had 524 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,800 to get continuing education, I had to go to Seminary, I'm 525 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,400 sending these classes. And I have all these guys 526 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,400 talking about like this all this crazy stuff and they get to me 527 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,300 like will Rica. Are you are minions or more 528 00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:29,400 Calvinism? Like see, I don't care. 529 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,300 How about that. Actually let's let's let's get 530 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:34,900 more important question. Like what are you doing to 531 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:37,500 disciple that your church who are you disciple? 532 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,200 Linghu you serving all you don't get paid I'm sorry I forgot 533 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,700 right? I mean there's so many things 534 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:46,400 that we could go back and forth on but if you allow your worldly 535 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,500 confidence to impact you, it's not going to work when God calls 536 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:54,300 you to do some big stuff because I like to say you know maybe God 537 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:58,200 does not operate on confidence. I like to call it God fidence. 538 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,900 You see God fit ins is when you tie it all together, right? 539 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:10,600 So confident says, like, okay, I must look inside of myself, like 540 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,800 I got to see the realistic of my, the realism of my 541 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,000 capabilities and and I got to make sure I feel secure in the 542 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000 knowledge that I have in order to do what God has called me to 543 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,000 do. Guess what? 544 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:24,600 You're never going to move forward. 545 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,500 If that's you. Impossible because God does not 546 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:32,000 call you to do the possible. You will never rely on him. 547 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,600 If that was the case, he calls you to do the impossible, he 548 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,900 wants you to rely on him. So when you start thinking okay 549 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:47,000 I'm abiding in Christ, I have the anointing I'm in God's word. 550 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,300 I know what it says and God is going to call me to do something 551 00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:56,400 that I don't have confidence in. So instead of relying on my car, 552 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,400 Confidence, I'm going to rely on my God. 553 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,400 Fidence. What my God fit in says, is what 554 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,800 I read in the scripture that he's not going to leave me that. 555 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,700 He's going to stay true to his promises. 556 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,500 So if I work hard and I put my mind to it, like God is like 557 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:13,400 I've called you to this. So you're going to move forward 558 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,400 with it. You see my God fittings has to 559 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,400 take over, and I love this because it's like, okay, well 560 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,699 then we know what confidence is. Well, what is confidence rooted 561 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:25,699 in? I'm glad you asked. 562 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,199 Confidence is rooted in our perception of ourselves, 563 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:34,500 regardless of any tangible external reality. 564 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,900 So now you can go ahead and put that slide on because that's 565 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:38,199 what I just read right there. There you go. 566 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,600 Boom, right so so has the, you got this. 567 00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:43,100 You got this, dude. All right, you go. 568 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:46,699 Confidence is rooted in our perception of ourselves. 569 00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:51,600 Regardless of any tangible, external reality, you see, it's 570 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:57,300 rooted in what our perception of who ourselves Why is that? 571 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:01,700 Such an issue? because many of us, many of us 572 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:08,500 in this life grew up with a poor Foundation, For perception. 573 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,600 A lot of us did not have Mom and Dad who blew wind in our sails 574 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:17,400 and supported you and disciplined. 575 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,800 You and said, man, go at it. A lot of us had parents, who are 576 00:35:21,808 --> 00:35:25,100 passive, aggressive could care less, what you did in life. 577 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:27,900 Or you know they might give you a hug. 578 00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:30,400 If you jump through the hoop it may have been like 579 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,800 performance-based. A lot of us might have had like 580 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,200 a mom who just all they did was nurture you but you don't have a 581 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:42,400 dad who deals with you so you just grow up like oh Huggy and 582 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,500 nurtured. So you think that's how life is 583 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:48,900 On the flip side, you grow up with a dad who is constantly 584 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:51,200 just beating you down. We don't have anybody to like, 585 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:57,300 like helped you realize like why You see, for many of us, we come 586 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:02,200 from a Brokenness already, so the foundation of our 587 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,700 confidence, it's already cracked and shattered. 588 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,400 Even if you had a perfect mom and dad, they're still going to 589 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,400 fail. Because God the father is the 590 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:21,900 only one who's perfect. So our perception of confidence, 591 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:26,200 it's already shattered and what the world is saying is that it 592 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,100 is rooted in the perception of yourself, but you here's the 593 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:33,500 problem. When I look at myself, I see 594 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:35,500 everything that is wrong with me. 595 00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:39,600 I can't read. Well, I'm not the smartest cat 596 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,800 in the room. I'm insecure about all these 597 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,300 things. I'm insecure about my looks. 598 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:47,100 I'm I'm all that stuff like man. And you know what? 599 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:48,700 I could blame everything on Rayna. 600 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:54,500 She said she wasn't going to come and she's having a great 601 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:55,800 time. She lied to me. 602 00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:59,600 But look at me now. Like there's like you have all 603 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,700 these things like. So what we do is because our 604 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:06,300 confidence is shattered in our foundation, we need some kind of 605 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:07,400 explanation. Nation. 606 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,100 So what do we do? We need something to blame, we 607 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,800 blame our past. It's mom's fault is dad's fault. 608 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,600 I didn't grow up. Nobody ever hugged me. 609 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:20,200 You know, I remember like at our old church and I won't say his 610 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,400 name because he might be watching, but there was a guy 611 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,400 that we were talking. He looks at me like, you know, 612 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,500 Ricky like my dad never told me. He was proud of me. 613 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:31,700 And I was like, oh that's probably why, you know, things 614 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:34,300 are going pretty rough, right? He's like yeah man. 615 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:36,300 I just want to hear like my dad's proud of me. 616 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:39,100 So I look at them like I'm proud of you Mijo. 617 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,800 Did that help? I got to do better now. 618 00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:51,000 Are you good? No. you see the thing is, We 619 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,900 could blame our past all we want. 620 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,500 And that's not going to fix anything. 621 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:01,000 But what Jesus does is Jesus comes. 622 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,800 And he's like, listen, if you just abide in me abide in me, I 623 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,800 will forgive you. I will restore you regardless of 624 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,800 your past. So your past will not have any 625 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:18,500 implications of the future that God has for you, except that 626 00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:22,900 he's going to use your past to bring glory to his name in your 627 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:26,300 future. And we say like man your your 628 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:30,200 biggest misery is going to be your greatest Ministry because 629 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:35,200 God uses these things. So I'll finish with this. 630 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,300 We got to learn how to lead on our God for dense because if 631 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,200 not, you're never going to move forward into things that God has 632 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,900 called you to do. You have to learn how to apply 633 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:47,800 in him. Now, if some of us are 634 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,200 struggling with this, if we're tug like if we're like, Ricky, 635 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,400 like I get what you're saying, but you're not in my shoes right 636 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,600 now. Let me encourage you this way, 637 00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:04,500 maybe, if you're starting to lean to one side, We have to 638 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:07,300 look at. How are you abiding in Christ? 639 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:12,400 Remember, last week that's the imperative that he gave us abide 640 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,500 in him. So if I'm struggling with my God 641 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:20,500 fidence, then I might need to take a step back and look around 642 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,500 and be like a my abiding in Christ that I did. 643 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:26,100 I pitch my tent here. Am I here? 644 00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:33,100 You know what's interesting is how and I saw this on to man I'm 645 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:35,600 going to I'm going to tell you, our Bible study on Tuesday was 646 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,800 so good. Like man I went home like just 647 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,200 dry like that was good today man. 648 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,500 Like we share like we share some great stuff like man, it was 649 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:47,400 awesome. Even like in the morning like, 650 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,000 like student text me like man, I woke up feeling so good this 651 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,500 morning. I was like, I know me too 652 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:58,800 rolling. why though, because That Brotherhood. 653 00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:03,300 That's how you abide in Christ. You would be around people like 654 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,600 that. And I think sometimes I have to 655 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,500 think, like, man if I'm struggling my comment, maybe I 656 00:40:07,508 --> 00:40:10,100 need to take a step back and spend two hours just abiding in 657 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:13,300 Christ, ah, but I'm so busy Rick. 658 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:17,000 You do understand, I'm like, listen to hours of your whole 659 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,300 entire week. Give him two hours, and watch 660 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:25,500 God, redeem your time back abide in Christ abide in Christ abide 661 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:32,200 in Christ. then the last thing I'll say with this, Why is my 662 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,500 God fit in stronger than my confidence? 663 00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:40,000 Because it is rooted in absolute truth. 664 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:45,500 He sees because it's rooted in absolute truth and that means I 665 00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:49,600 don't have to internalize what I look at from myself. 666 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:55,000 I look at what God sees me as and because I look at what God 667 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,600 sees me as the word of God says, I'm a Child of God, I'm no 668 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:03,100 longer a slave to my sin. I've been redeemed restored, I'm 669 00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:05,800 an heir to the throne like all these things. 670 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,800 Like we got to look at God's word and we won't know God's 671 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,300 word unless you abide in him. And then we have to look at the 672 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:16,500 truth of the Gospel. and we're able to see the truth of the 673 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:18,900 gospel because we carry the anointing, if you're a follower 674 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:22,100 of Christ, which he has put in me. 675 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,000 So what's the truth of the gospel and will end with this? 676 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:35,700 he sees me as his son, He sees me as his son, and I always say 677 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:38,400 this, like saying always calls you by your sin but God calls 678 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,800 you by your name. He sees me as his son. 679 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,000 So that's the truth of the gospel. 680 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,900 I've been redeemed restored, I belong to Christ now. 681 00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:48,800 Talk about truth. What's truth routed through the 682 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,600 really didn't like the resurrection. 683 00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:54,200 So, while everybody else is saying like men look at 684 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,800 yourself, look at other things. Listen, everything else that I'm 685 00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,600 looking at is dead. Jesus is Alive, the power of the 686 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,300 Resurrection. I'm rooted in that too. 687 00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:06,700 And then, lastly, the anointing in your life. 688 00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:09,300 The Holy Spirit. We have the Holy Spirit. 689 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:12,300 That means that we are Guided by the holy spirit. 690 00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:15,500 So the Lord is guiding my steps. He's helping me. 691 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,100 He's comforting me. He's helping to make those 692 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:21,700 decisions in life, but listen, you got to do some of that work. 693 00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:27,500 You have to put in some of that work, you have to know him, you 694 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:30,600 have to want to be with him. You you've got to do that. 695 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:36,500 We learned about that last week. So, before we worship our 696 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,100 father, I pray asking you to be a part of everything that we're 697 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:42,400 doing. And Jesus, we love you and we 698 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,200 pray all these things in your holy and righteous name. 699 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:44,600 Amen.