1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,680 Well, good morning, crossing Church. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:08,160 How are you today? Oh yeah, you're ready to go. 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,560 I'm glad to hear that. You know you at all of our 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,240 locations. Just take a moment and look at 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,800 the person next to you and just tell them, you know what, you 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,840 are beautiful on the inside 'cause you got the Holy Spirit. 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,640 Holy Spirit Makes You Beautiful on the inside. 8 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,080 I want to I want to welcome everyone that's joining us from 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,560 all various locations around this area. 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,360 If you're inside or online, we're especially thankful for 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,320 you. And man, I'm excited to be able 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:50,160 to share with you today. It's, it's been a great series, 13 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:51,960 hasn't it? When you get into the names of 14 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:57,560 God, you're just getting, it's like you're, you're cheating in 15 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:01,120 December and you found where mom and dad were hiding the presents 16 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,120 and, and you're, you're, you're seeing all these wonderful 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,160 things that that are coming your way or that are already there. 18 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,840 Maybe some of them are unwrapped and some of them are wrapped. 19 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,920 I mean, some of these you look at you think of the things that 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,960 God does for you and and maybe you've never really unwrapped 21 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:22,920 that in your own life. Maybe you've never let that a 22 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,360 bit become an experience in your own life. 23 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,400 But every time you unwrap one of these, man, it's incredible. 24 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:37,040 So we started out with Jehovah Rohi, the Lord, my shepherd. 25 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:44,680 He's my shepherd, Jehovah Nisi. The Lord is my banner. 26 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,880 Or you could say the Lord is my victory. 27 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,160 Jehovah Rapha, the Lord is my healer. 28 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,800 Last week I think it was Jehovah Shalom. 29 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:05,320 The Lord is my peace. Then we have Elroy, the God who 30 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:10,280 sees me, El Shaddai, the the God who nurtures me. 31 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,400 And if you spend some time like pushing down to those names of 32 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,600 God, what you're going to find out is that you have a role. 33 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,400 You have a role that you play in each one of these names. 34 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,360 So like, if the Lord is my shepherd, what does that make 35 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,200 you? A sheep, right? 36 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,440 Isn't that great that the Lord is my shepherd and and I'm not, 37 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,480 I'm considered the sheep. You know why? 38 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,880 Because that puts the bar really low. 39 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,760 Sheep aren't that intelligent, right? 40 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,360 And and they don't think about it. 41 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,200 So like God is God's giving us a whole lot of grace by saying 42 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,200 that and saying that the Lord is my shepherd. 43 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,440 I'm thankful for that. The Lord is my banner, my 44 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,520 victory. You know, that means that, yeah, 45 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,880 there are battles that we fight in this world, but he is my 46 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,000 victory. Like he's going to go out and 47 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,800 fight the battle. Wouldn't you rather have God 48 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,080 fight the battle for you than to have to fight the battle 49 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,000 yourself? The Lord is my healer, boy, I 50 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,520 can really use that. And it's not just from a 51 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,480 physical sense. I mean, it's an emotional thing. 52 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,280 It's a, it's a spiritual thing. It's a psychological thing 53 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,080 because in so many ways we are broken people. 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,720 And the Lord is my healer. You know, some people haven't 55 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,520 unwrapped that yet. They haven't figured out that 56 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,320 that's who he is and that's what he does. 57 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:41,280 The Lord is my peace, not in the absence of the storms of life or 58 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,480 the challenges or the crisis, but even in the middle of it. 59 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,880 The Lord is my peace. He's like Bass on freeze tag, 60 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,080 that one place where nobody gets to tag me. 61 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,280 Now I got he's, I'm with the Lord and I'm in the Lord. 62 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,920 He's my peace. That's a comfort, Elroy. 63 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,680 The God who sees me, that's one of them that's coming up. 64 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,040 You know, it's, it's not a good feeling to feel like you're 65 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,640 invisible, like nobody cares or nobody knows or that you're, 66 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,680 you're just, you know, you're just kind of out there, but 67 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,560 nobody has any investment in that. 68 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,120 And what God is saying is, no, you're not, you're not 69 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,280 invisible. I see you. 70 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,560 And then El Shaddai, the nurturing God. 71 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,960 That's going to be a fun sermon when that gets preached because 72 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,880 it's the only time at the name of God is in the female voice or 73 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:45,520 the female tense and and it it's the mothering aspect. 74 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,080 It's that you know, the image of God isn't just a male image of 75 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,720 God in the sit in this sense. I mean male and female are 76 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,360 created in God's image. It says that in Genesis 1, and 77 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,680 this idea of nurturing and caring for, that's an attribute 78 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,280 of God, that that that instinctive motherly reality, 79 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,960 because so many times in our lives we need that. 80 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,480 We just need to be held. We just need to be encouraged. 81 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,360 We just need to feel the presence of the arms of God 82 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:24,360 around us, protecting us and being with us regardless of our 83 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,040 circumstance. We need that nurturing God. 84 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,600 But if you'll stop with me for a second, you'll see a common 85 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,040 thread. All of these attributes that God 86 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,360 is providing or being for me is Him doing the work. 87 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,040 It's Him doing all of that for me. 88 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,080 And those are incredible. I think those are incredible 89 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,960 blessings for sure. But the one that I'm preaching 90 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,720 today is different. The name of God that I'm going 91 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,920 to be talking about is Jehovah Mechadesh. 92 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,600 Jehovah Mechadesh. I have never preached on this 93 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,320 name of God in 4550, however long I've been doing this, I 94 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,640 have never preached on this name of God. 95 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,920 It only appears one time in the whole Bible, and it appears in 96 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:16,760 the one book of the Bible that we read the least, the book of 97 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,600 Leviticus. How many of you are like, you 98 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,320 know, I am in Leviticus and it is changing my life. 99 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,040 I am just it just, yeah, maybe not so much. 100 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:36,280 So is a very obscure name. And this is what this name 101 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:37,800 means. Jehovah Mechadesh. 102 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,880 I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 103 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,880 I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 104 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,680 Well, that sounds pretty great. Wow, that's great. 105 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,600 That's another thing that God is giving me at first glance 106 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,280 anyway. If I understand what the word 107 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:58,920 sanctifies means, you feel like you're getting a gift, but I 108 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,680 dare you to take a little bit of a closer look into this word. 109 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,600 And, and so we need to just do that. 110 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,400 Just drill down into what the word sanctifies means the best 111 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:16,320 definition of this, of this word is to be set apart for a holy 112 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,520 purpose. That's probably the most 113 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:24,680 complete definition of that word to be set apart for a holy 114 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,160 purpose. Now the set apart part of that 115 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,480 definition, we have another word for another Bible word for that 116 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:38,720 you're a lot more familiar with, and that word is holy. 117 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,720 Holy or holiness. Now it's a word. 118 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,080 That word holiness is a word that's used to describe God 119 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:56,280 specifically and how he is set apart for not everything else, 120 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:01,400 but from us, how he is set apart from us. 121 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:06,040 We like to think about God being close to us, but the word Holy, 122 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,440 See, I think holy is one of the most mystifying words in the 123 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:11,960 Bible. People don't understand what it 124 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,320 means. They think that holy means pure 125 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,760 or righteous. I mean, there's an aspect of it 126 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,280 to that, but but that's not really what it means. 127 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:27,080 It means to be separated. It means to be other than how He 128 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,480 is set apart, particularly from us. 129 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,200 Why? Because He is good by his 130 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,919 definition of good, which we don't even begin to understand, 131 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,919 He is so good and we realize, at least in a rudimentary way, that 132 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,960 we're not good. Not like God would define good. 133 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:52,200 All the other names of God I am 100% good about. 134 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,120 I'm I'm cool with them because they all point to God. 135 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,440 They, they all point to all the things he defines himself to be. 136 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:07,440 But this one is different. This one is set apart from the 137 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,480 others because it is the one who It's the name of God. 138 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,960 That isn't just defining God, it's defining me. 139 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:24,080 I am the God who sanctifies you. It's an action that God is doing 140 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:33,920 in my direction. That being said, I'm going to be 141 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,080 really transparent with you. This is the hardest name of God 142 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,640 in in my world in my life for me to believe in. 143 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,040 I don't want to believe in this. I don't want to believe in this 144 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,120 and I'll tell you why because I know me. 145 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:55,520 I'm an expert at me and you're an expert at you, right? 146 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:02,800 So when the Bible says I am the Lord who sanctifies you, and I'm 147 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,080 hearing that personally, hey, Jerry, I am the Lord who 148 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,920 sanctifies you. And I'm like, yeah, right. 149 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:14,160 I know me. And I got a problem with that 150 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:19,200 because if that is actually the truth, it's certainly hard to 151 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,400 see. And you could describe me or I 152 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,560 could describe myself in a lot of ways. 153 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:30,000 But if you know my past and my present and the probability of 154 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,520 my future, it would lead you to a lot of places, but it would 155 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,200 not lead you anywhere near this word. 156 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:44,000 Oh, that Jerry, he's sanctified. And I don't think it would lead 157 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,400 you there either. I have a hard time believing 158 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:53,000 this word because I have a hard time believing that I am 159 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,560 sanctified or could ever be sanctified. 160 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,720 Now I'm going to ask a transparency question. 161 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:01,760 How many of you are in the same boat that I'm in? 162 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,160 How many people am I preaching to today? 163 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:11,440 I mean, don't you have a hard time believing that I started 164 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,360 dating Allison when she was 15 1/2 and I was 18. 165 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,120 Yep. Cradle robber right here. 166 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:24,720 And hey, OK, not even going there. 167 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,600 We dated. We were, we dated for, I don't 168 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:36,640 know, a year, year and a half. And Allison's parents did not 169 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,560 like me. They did not like me at all. 170 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,280 And I can't understand that. I'm a lot. 171 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,880 I'm a likable guy. They didn't like me and they 172 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,040 decided that we were going to have to break up. 173 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:59,880 So we did because that's what her parents said we had to do. 174 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,920 So I'm trying to fill this void in my life because I really had 175 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,680 deep feelings up for Allison. And, and so I started, I started 176 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,960 the whole girlfriend shopping thing. 177 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:21,280 And, and I actually, I actually had a list and, and, and whoever 178 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,320 I dated had to have had to meet all the criteria this list. 179 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,720 And I mean, it was a it was, I mean, I think that got so dumb. 180 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:33,920 But, you know, she had to be a certain height because of 181 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:40,480 dancing, hair color, eye color, just general looks. 182 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,080 Intelligence, National Honor Society. 183 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:53,840 Yeah, and had to be that deep, deep faith. 184 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,000 A lot of a lot of different things. 185 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,400 OK, I found that girl. I found her name was Rachel. 186 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:08,360 And and I remember when I took her out the first time and she 187 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,080 invited me into her house, I'm like, dude, I'm out of my 188 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:12,680 league. I really thought, oh, wow. 189 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:15,080 You know, she's Allison knows I'm telling the story. 190 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:22,960 By the way, she was up on stage a little earlier and I remember 191 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,200 going to church with her. Now we had a we had a deal. 192 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,000 She was a Nazarene. How many of you know Nazarenes? 193 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,280 Yeah, she was a Nazarene. She was the head of her youth 194 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,280 group, all that stuff. And she was a liberal Nazarene. 195 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,160 So what is a liberal Nazarene? Well, conservative Nazarenes, 196 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:44,880 the girls, women don't cut their head. 197 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,040 They they don't cut their hair. They put them up, they don't 198 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:54,720 wear any makeup, they don't wear jewelry. 199 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,440 Well, she's a liberal Nazarene because she cut her hair and she 200 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,040 wore makeup and she wore jewelry and all that stuff, you know. 201 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:09,360 And so we go to the church. And so our, our habit was we 202 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,600 would go to her church on Sunday morning. 203 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,240 We go to my church on Sunday evening. 204 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,240 So we would go twice on Sunday and I was there and I'm 205 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:21,520 listening to the sermon and I'm listening to the preacher and 206 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,280 the and the sermon was on sanctification. 207 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,360 Now, in the Nazarene church, they define set sanctification 208 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,680 as a second act of grace. So like the first first act of 209 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,720 grace is salvation. The second act of grace is 210 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,560 sanctification in the Nazarene church. 211 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,680 OK, I don't know what that means. 212 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:43,760 Right. And then this guy's preaching, 213 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,720 and I'm listening to him preaching, and this is what he's 214 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,240 saying. He's saying something about 215 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,560 being sanctified means you don't sin anymore. 216 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,360 At least that's what I heard. Now I'm an 8 on the Enneagram 217 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,120 scale, which means I'm a challenger. 218 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,000 And so I listened to things critically like that. 219 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,400 So sermons over, I'm kind of scratching my head. 220 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:14,680 I'm walking with Rachel to the car, and I go, so this was a 221 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,640 sermon on sanctification. She goes, yeah. 222 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,160 And I said, and he says sanctification is the second act 223 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:22,320 of grace. And she said, yeah. 224 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:27,280 And I said, and I thought, I really thought I heard him say 225 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,320 that when you're sanctified, you don't sin anymore. 226 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:36,440 And I'm looking at it. And she goes, yeah. 227 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:47,000 So this is my 8 coming out. Ready. 228 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,720 So I go. Rachel, are you sanctified? 229 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:58,440 And she went, Yeah. And I went. 230 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,080 You liar. You're a total liar. 231 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:04,640 You are not. I'll tell you. 232 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,280 Do you remember it's Sunday? On Friday, we, we just, we were 233 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:09,840 going to go out. You knew where we were going. 234 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,040 I knew where we were going. And we told your mom and dad you 235 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,320 were going somewhere else because they wouldn't have been 236 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,320 OK with where you were going. Do you remember that? 237 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,280 That was Friday. You lied to your parents. 238 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,000 You aren't sanctified. She starts crying. 239 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:30,360 If I would have been a preacher at the time, I would have had an 240 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,760 invitation song and she would have to come forward. 241 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,320 That relationship didn't last much longer. 242 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:46,320 I'm just telling you. And by the way, I am so glad. 243 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:54,120 I am so glad because God, he loves his dumb children and and 244 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:59,800 I, I got to I, I, I got the the very best when I got Allison. 245 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,920 Oh, my gosh, yeah. Praise God for her. 246 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:10,000 Yeah. So I think that this is a 247 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,079 misunderstood word because sanctification and holiness 248 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,240 escapes us. So what I'd like for us to do is 249 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,079 go to the Bible to get a better understanding of what this 250 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:21,359 actually means. OK. 251 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,040 And I think an incredible scripture for this is in the Old 252 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,520 Testament. It's in the book of Isaiah, 253 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,240 chapter 6. And we're going to start with 254 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,960 verses one through 4. Now I'm going to read this for 255 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:35,960 you, and then we'll take it apart. 256 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,240 Ready. In the year that king Uzziah 257 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:47,120 died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne, and 258 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:49,960 the train of his robe filled the temple. 259 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:55,360 Above him there were seraphim. It's a type of Angel, OK, 260 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,640 Seraphim. Each with six wings. 261 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,640 With two wings they covered their faces, with two they 262 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,880 covered their feet. And with two they were flying 263 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,840 and they were calling to one another. 264 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,560 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. 265 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,440 The whole earth is full of his glory. 266 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,760 And at the sound of their voices, the doorposts and 267 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:25,040 threshold shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 268 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,160 Now think about what I just read to you. 269 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:37,520 God is so holy that he created a specific type of Angel called 270 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:43,080 the Seraphim that has three pairs of wings and it only takes 271 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,800 one pair to fly. The other two pair of wings are 272 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,680 for what 1 is for covering their faces. 273 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,560 Do you know why they cover their face? 274 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:01,720 Because God is so holy they cannot look at Him. 275 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,200 They cover their feet. Do you know why? 276 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:13,840 Because God is so holy they can't stand in His presence. 277 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:23,520 And these are angels that have never fallen because of sin, and 278 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:28,440 God has created him this way so that even in this state of what 279 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,560 I would understand is perfection, he is still holy to 280 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,360 them. So holy in fact, that they never 281 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:39,960 stop saying holy. Holy, which is like separate, 282 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,680 separate, separate is the Lord Almighty. 283 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,720 The whole earth is full of his glory and it uses the Lord 284 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,600 Almighty, which means the Lord of hosts or the Lord of the 285 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:56,240 armies of heaven. OK, where do I fit into this 286 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,360 picture? Well, that's the point. 287 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,960 I don't, you don't. Who does? 288 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:08,480 Now Isaiah is a prophet. But he's also a human being, 289 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:12,040 just like you and me, and he finds himself in this scene in 290 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,000 Isaiah 6. And what is his response to it 291 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,360 when he sees this awesome thing, verses 5 to 8? 292 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:25,680 Woe to me, I cried. I am ruined, for I am a man of 293 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:30,080 unclean lips, and I live among the people of unclean lips. 294 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,480 And my eyes have seen the king, the Lord Almighty. 295 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,040 And one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, 296 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:40,520 which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 297 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,720 And with it he touched my mouth and said, See, this has touched 298 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,600 your lips, your guilt is taken away, your sin is atoned for. 299 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,920 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, 300 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:58,080 and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I, send me. 301 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:05,280 He recognizes it immediately. A prophet is defined by what he 302 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:09,160 says. He delivers the message of God 303 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,280 to the people. That's what a prophet does, 304 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,920 right? And so immediately he goes to 305 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,080 this definition of himself. He said, as I define myself in 306 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,160 the presence of Almighty God and His Holiness, I am a man of 307 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,920 unclean lips. I mean, that's the essence of 308 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,880 his identity as a prophet. Whatever comes out of his mouth, 309 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,920 whatever proceeds forth from his lips, the prophecies of God, I'm 310 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,040 unclean. I have no right to speak. 311 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:41,240 It's it's game over. He stumbled into the wrong place 312 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,840 and now there's going to be hell to pay except for what God does. 313 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,560 You see what God does. He initiates the symbolic 314 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,920 gesture to help Isaiah understand that he could do what 315 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,920 Isaiah could never do on his own, to set Isaiah apart for a 316 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,280 holy purpose. That lone passage in Leviticus 317 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:08,040 chapter 21, verse eight, I am the Lord who sanctifies you, is 318 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,720 doing the same thing. It's defining the priesthood as 319 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,680 part of God's divine plan. The the the priesthood of the 320 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,360 Levites and Aaron. The same thing he does with each 321 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,520 one of us. What the same thing he does with 322 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,320 each one of us. Because the Bible says that he 323 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,240 has through Christ, He has made us to be a Kingdom of priests. 324 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,000 Just like the priests of the Old Testament set apart for a holy 325 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,720 purpose. So you are set apart from a for 326 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,880 a holy purpose. And how how is that done? 327 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,160 Well, priests had the ceremonially washed. 328 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,920 This is all that in the Leviticus 21. 329 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:50,880 They had to wear special attire. They had to be sprinkled with 330 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,800 blood to serve in the Tabernacle. 331 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,840 Isaiah had to have a hot coal touches lips by a seraphim. 332 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:07,880 But what about us? Well lips, have we confessed 333 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:13,520 Christ with our mouth? I believe that Jesus is the 334 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:20,760 Christ and the Son of the living God, and I want him as my Lord 335 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:27,240 and my Savior. Have I been ceremonially washed? 336 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:36,720 Yes, I have. Do you remember when the apostle 337 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:41,920 Paul was talking about, when he was having a conversation with 338 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:49,840 Ananias about the idea of faith in God, and he said, now arise. 339 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,840 This is what Ananias said to Saul, who became Paul. 340 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,120 Now arise and be baptized, washing away your sins, calling 341 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:04,280 on the name of the Lord. Yeah, that means ceremonial 342 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,000 wash. And I have to be sprinkled with, 343 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:09,680 but there has to be blood applied. 344 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:14,040 Where's that happened? Well, where did Jesus die? 345 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,240 He died on a cross on Calvary, right? 346 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,120 2000 years ago in Jerusalem, right outside the city walls, 347 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,840 right? That's where he shed his blood. 348 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,640 His blood was shed in his death, right? 349 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:35,000 And in Romans 6 it says that we have been united with him in the 350 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,840 likeness of his death through baptism. 351 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,560 And even just as Jesus was raised to the glory of the 352 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,360 Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. 353 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:49,320 So a person who gets baptized in water is dying with Christ. 354 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,360 They're being buried with Christ and raised to walk in newness of 355 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,040 life, and they're coming in contact in a spiritual sense 356 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,000 with the very place that Jesus shed His blood, coming in 357 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,040 contact with the blood of Christ in that moment, not being 358 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,920 sprinkled with it, being immersed with it. 359 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,200 Isaiah chapter 118, same prophet, the 1st chapter of his 360 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,040 book. He says this in verse 118. 361 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,960 Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord. 362 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,640 Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as 363 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,160 snow. Though they are red as Crimson, 364 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,880 they shall be like wool. The Hebrew writer in Chapter 9, 365 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,680 verse 22 says this. In fact, the law requires that 366 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,440 nearly everything be cleansed with blood. 367 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,480 Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. 368 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,760 Revelation Chapter 7, verse 14 John, the writer of Revelation 369 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,800 says, and he said, these are they who have come out of great 370 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,240 tribulation. They have washed their robes and 371 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,320 made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 372 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:02,040 This is my sanctification. Jesus is my sanctification. 373 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:06,280 More specifically, the blood of Jesus is my sanctification. 374 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,040 I don't accept it. Listen to me. 375 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:12,040 I don't accept it because I see evidence of it in my life or in 376 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,880 the lives of others. I accept it because He says it. 377 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,120 And because He says it, that makes it true. 378 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,440 Yeah, I may not want to believe it. 379 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,000 You may not want to believe it. It doesn't matter what you 380 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,280 believe. What matters here is that he 381 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,800 says it's enough that he says it, that makes it true. 382 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,560 These other names of God are giving you the blessing of 383 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,560 telling you what God does for you. 384 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,680 But this one is telling you what God does to you. 385 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,480 He always initiates. I only respond. 386 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,680 You see, God doesn't just see me as I am. 387 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,160 He sees me with all of my possibilities becoming my 388 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,760 realities. The scripture says that He sees 389 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,400 us as presently seated with Him in the heavenly realms. 390 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,240 How can that be? Because He's greater than time. 391 00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:17,040 He can see us this way. And what we have to do is trust 392 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,720 in that reality. Now, there's a deeper 393 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,080 understanding I want you to get, and this will be a little bit 394 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,440 hurtful to hear. You see, when I hear all these 395 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,040 names of God, I want to receive from God. 396 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,240 I want to receive all these blessings from God while staying 397 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:42,680 the same. I want all this, but I still 398 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:50,000 want to be who I am and I want to do what I do, and I don't 399 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,080 really want anybody to change me. 400 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,520 I would just love to have all of these things added to me. 401 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,560 But Jehovah Mekhadesh is going to change me. 402 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,680 He's going to make me different. In Jeremiah chapter 18 verses 2 403 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:15,360 to 6, that great prophet said this go down to the Potter's 404 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,280 house and there I will give you my message. 405 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,680 So I, Jeremiah, went down to the Potter's house and I saw him 406 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,600 working at the wheel, but the pot he was shaping from the clay 407 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,760 was marred in his hands. So the Potter formed it into 408 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:35,600 another pot, shaping it as bad as seemed best to him. 409 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,920 Then the word of the Lord came to me and he said, Can I not do 410 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,200 with you, Israel, as this Potter does, declares the Lord like 411 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:49,280 clay in the hand of the Potter. So are you in my hand, Israel? 412 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,040 Now I need to be done with this sermon, but I'm just not. 413 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,520 I'm not done yet. You see, there's a word that 414 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,360 appears before each of these descriptive words. 415 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,240 Regardless of you saying Shalom or you're you're saying peace or 416 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,040 you're saying banner or victory or whatever, there's a word that 417 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,200 appears before it. And the word that appears before 418 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:21,400 it is Jehovah, right? Bible scholars call that word 419 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,040 the Tetragrammaton. It's called the Tetragrammaton 420 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,360 because it comes from 4 Hebrew letters. 421 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:34,440 YHWHA lot of times you've heard the name of God as Yahweh. 422 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,760 YHWH. Ancient Hebrews, when they were 423 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:45,960 copying the Bible, would only use a special pen, a special 424 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,440 stylist, just to you, just to put that name in your Bible. 425 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:57,040 A lot of times the name of the Lord is capital L little Ord. 426 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,000 But every time the Tetragrammaton appears, YHWH, 427 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,680 it's all four capital letters. You know why? 428 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,040 Because it's the name that God gave himself. 429 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,480 Moses, 80 years old, standing in the presence of God barefoot, 430 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,480 and God was speaking to him out of a burning Bush and Moses 431 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:29,560 asked him his name and he said Yahweh, I am that I am. 432 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,320 I am the self existent one. I exist alone. 433 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,880 This is what that means in the Bible. 434 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,160 It's always used with those four capital letters and it's 435 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:47,040 translated this way. I am the Lord who is your 436 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,600 shepherd. I am the Lord who is your peace. 437 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,840 I am the Lord who is your banner. 438 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,520 Or in today's topic, I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 439 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:04,880 I want to drill down on that. I I am the Lord. 440 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:10,440 This is the self identified God. This is Creator, Sustainer, 441 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,200 Adam's breath, Enoch's transporter, the world's judge 442 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,680 in the flood, his bow in the sky after the rain, the power in 443 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:24,440 Moses staff, the accuracy of David Stone, the power that 444 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,200 overshadowed Mary, the man who walked among us, who taught us, 445 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,640 who fed us, who loved us, who was beaten for us, who died for 446 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,680 us, who rose again for us and is coming back for us. 447 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,680 I am the Lord. I am the Lord. 448 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,000 This is the God of the ages right now, present tense, who 449 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,040 always was, is, and always will be, who is before all things and 450 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,720 above all things, and the Ancient of Days and the 451 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,640 Everlasting Father. I am the Lord. 452 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,960 This is the only God. Not the Sumerian gods or the 453 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,920 Egyptian gods or the Greek gods or the Roman gods or Allah or 454 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,800 Buddha or Confucius or any other idol that you might want to bow 455 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,320 down to today, including yourself. 456 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,080 He is the God. I am the Lord and He is. 457 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:20,120 I am the Lord. This is his station, the self 458 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,400 existent, 1 sovereign, all powerful, all knowing, ever 459 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,320 present, infinite absolute ruler. 460 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,680 Why can you be sanctified? Because he says so. 461 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,360 Because the fact that He says it makes it true. 462 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,680 Listen to me. There is a difference when you 463 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,440 say his name and when he says his name. 464 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:56,400 There is a difference between when you say his name and when 465 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:01,920 he says his name and when he says I am the Lord who 466 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,080 sanctifies you. It's true. 467 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,040 We're moving to a time of decision. 468 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,680 You know, there's a lot of things that God says about us 469 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:29,120 and as we grow in our relationship to him, we he 470 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:34,280 reveals more and more to us. I don't know that that really 471 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,560 makes us better Christians because I think the best 472 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,840 Christians are the most ignorant ones in some ways. 473 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,360 Because he said, you know, you have to become like a little 474 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,080 child to inherit the Kingdom of God. 475 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,000 And that's why I have a problem with this name. 476 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,600 I have a problem with this name because, you know, I'm kind of 477 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,120 critically analyzing my own life and I'm and I'm putting it next 478 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,440 to what God says I am. And I'm, I'm really overthinking 479 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,000 it. What if I were a child? 480 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,400 I would just go, oh, yeah, OK. Just you did that. 481 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:13,840 OK, Just believe him, right? Very quickly last, maybe it was 482 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,360 a couple weeks ago, I don't know, but John was telling the 483 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,679 story, John Mitchell was telling the story about his son getting 484 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:26,120 in trouble and he was home and he got, John got a phone call, 485 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:31,280 your son's in trouble. And and then he went, went home 486 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,520 to do what he does as a father, what we all do as parents. 487 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,560 And what he said in that was he, you know, my son knew he was, he 488 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,840 was upstairs. He knew he's in trouble and I 489 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:50,400 stopped right there and I thought about that phrase and 490 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,679 you know what a kid does being in trouble means you got caught 491 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:59,080 and and your parent is going to get you right. 492 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,600 Was that true? Not at all. 493 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:11,800 The trouble was come when he being in trouble meant that he 494 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,520 had done something he shouldn't have done or, you know, or you 495 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:19,800 could be failing to do something you should have done and that he 496 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,160 had created the context of that trouble in his life. 497 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,200 He, it was there. What was his father doing? 498 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:33,160 His father was coming home, not to punish him, but to help him 499 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:39,560 through the trouble. When we get in trouble, that's 500 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,080 us. Isn't it interesting how we 501 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,520 always want to take the authority and put the weight of 502 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,960 it on the authority? Like, Oh yeah, I'm in trouble 503 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,400 because Dad's coming home or, or spiritually I'm in trouble 504 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,120 because I did something God didn't want me to do, so God's 505 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,400 going to get me because I'm in trouble, right? 506 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:02,840 When what is the truth? The truth is God's the only one 507 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,440 who gets you through the trouble. 508 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,160 He sees the trouble. He knows that he didn't 'cause 509 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,080 it. He's not responsible for it. 510 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:17,720 You did that right? But you know what God's going to 511 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:20,200 do. He's going to get you through it 512 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,880 because He loves you. And sometimes getting through 513 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,800 trouble is hard, but that's how you get through it. 514 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,960 Not God's trouble, our trouble. So listen to me. 515 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,400 I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 516 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:46,760 Some of you have never accepted Jesus Christ as the Lord and 517 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:55,400 Savior of your life. And God sent him to shed his 518 00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:00,720 blood, to sanctify you, to rise from the dead, to sanctify you. 519 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:08,200 And until you accept that, you're going to be outside of 520 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,080 what God wants you to be, not just for now, but for all 521 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,560 eternity. And there's going to be somebody 522 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,720 standing right over there by that baptistry that would love 523 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:20,040 nothing more than to walk you through what it means to come 524 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,680 into relationship with Jesus Christ. 525 00:37:27,310 --> 00:37:31,590 Many of you have made a decision for Christ, and these steps are 526 00:37:31,590 --> 00:37:33,550 going to be open for you to come up. 527 00:37:34,390 --> 00:37:36,630 And do you know what I want you to be thinking about? 528 00:37:37,590 --> 00:37:41,880 If in fact it's true, and it is that you, if you have Jesus 529 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,040 Christ in your heart and the Holy Spirit dwells within you, 530 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:52,000 you have been sanctified by Him. And the reason it's hard to 531 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:59,520 believe it is because of the stuff that's in our lives maybe. 532 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,200 And just because you're a believer doesn't mean you're not 533 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,960 still dealing with things. Maybe you come up here and you 534 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,520 get down on your knees before your heavenly Father and you 535 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:18,200 said and you say to him, help me to remember that because of what 536 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:27,080 Jesus did, it was enough. It was enough. 537 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,680 Friend of mine wrote lyrics a long time ago. 538 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:36,640 Lord, I see so much in me that I just can't get right, things 539 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,640 that steal my sleep and keep me awake at night. 540 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,600 In your word I read about a peace I wish I felt. 541 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,600 But how can you forgive me when I can't forgive myself? 542 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:58,000 And the Lord answering answers him, saying it was enough, the 543 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,760 blood that I shed, it was enough that I rose from the dead, it 544 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,640 was enough. Nothing more you could do. 545 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,360 It was enough that I died for you. 546 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,280 Maybe today is a day for you to remember that before your 547 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,760 father, Would you stand with me? Let's pray together in Jesus 548 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:15,920 name. Heavenly Father, would you 549 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,120 please take this moment, this sacred moment, and help us, 550 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,840 Father, to realize that we can have confidence before you. 551 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,040 Even though you're such a holy God, you still see us as your 552 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,600 children. And you say in your word that we 553 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,360 can have confidence to approach your throne where the Seraphim 554 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,800 have to hide their faces and feet. 555 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,440 We can have confidence to approach your throne because of 556 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,840 Jesus. Help us to do that now. 557 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,120 I pray in Jesus name, Amen.