1 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:05,300 Man, it is good to be with you. I'm so glad we get an 2 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:08,400 opportunity to hang out today. I want to welcome all of you 3 00:00:08,408 --> 00:00:09,900 guys. Joining those of you here at 4 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:14,400 48th Street, those of you in Macomb, Kirksville 929, Pike 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,500 County, Hannibal Lima, Mount Sterling Keokuk, mom, with 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:22,800 Jacksonville online inside. I am just so thankful to be a 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,600 part of this church with incredibly awesome people like 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,600 you watching the baptism video and just seeing all the 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,800 incredible work that's happened you just Can't help but be 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,800 grateful to God and be grateful to be a part of this church in 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,700 my alone in that. Okay. 12 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:37,000 You guys are awake. All right. 13 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,000 Hey listen. It's been a hot week, but it's 14 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,700 been raining today. So, you should feel a little bit 15 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,300 better about yourself if you're brand-new to the crossing. 16 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,600 I'm so glad that you're here. Make sure that. 17 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,500 Before you leave today, you spend some time. 18 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:49,500 Connecting with the campus, pastor, and one of our 19 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,200 incredible staff members difference makers at each of our 20 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,300 location. If you want, you can click on 21 00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:57,500 that QR code. That's in the seat in front of 22 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:58,900 you. It might be on one of the 23 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:01,600 screens. And you can click on that and 24 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,400 it'll give you an opportunity to connect with us. 25 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,800 So that way we can help graph g into the family. 26 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,200 You can realize what an incredible group of people you 27 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,900 get an opportunity to be surrounded by because they will 28 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:13,900 love you. Well, now before I get into the 29 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:16,400 message, I got to do a little bit of housekeeping with you. 30 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:21,400 In a couple of weeks, we're going to start a sermon series 31 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:28,100 on the weekend of Thursday, the 21st and Sunday July 24th. 32 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:29,900 We're going to start at 12 weeks. 33 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,000 I mean series called weeds in my garden a series on being honest, 34 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:39,200 about mental health and we are going to spend and I've said 35 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,600 this already that, I believe that these 12 weeks could be the 36 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,400 most important 12 weeks of the year for our church. 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,800 And during that sermon series, we are going to be talking 38 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:52,100 about. Well we're going to be talking 39 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:55,200 about suicide, we're going to be talking about self-harm, we're 40 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,300 gonna be talking about stress anxiety, burnout, low 41 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:01,000 self-esteem and depression. It is going to be a 42 00:02:01,008 --> 00:02:03,900 transformative 12 weeks in the life of our church. 43 00:02:03,900 --> 00:02:06,700 It's going to be transformative in your life and it can be 44 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:09,500 transformative in the life of the people that you love. 45 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:12,200 And I want to give you three things that I'm going to ask you 46 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,500 to do. Is we prepare for that sermon 47 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:16,200 series one. I want you guys to continue, I 48 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,300 brought this up a while back. Would you guys keep praying for 49 00:02:18,308 --> 00:02:19,900 Jerry? And I as we're preparing those 50 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:23,200 messages second thing would you pray for our staff as they're 51 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,700 going to be no doubt feeling lots of questions and 52 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:29,900 challenging conversations the third thing and I mean this this 53 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,400 is Is going to be an incredible sermon series for you to invite 54 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,500 your friends, your family members, your neighbors, and 55 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:40,900 your co-workers. Because every person, you know, 56 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,400 Is either dealing with one of those things or has somebody 57 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:50,400 that they love who is and this sermon series is designed to 58 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,900 give us some help to give us some hope and some put some 59 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:58,600 tools in our toolbox to help us navigate the days we have 60 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,100 between now and when we get to meet Jesus and it is going to 61 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:05,600 require our help to be able to do the most good all across this 62 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,800 region. I want to make a special 63 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,700 request. If you are watching this sermon 64 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:14,100 series from wherever, you're Joining from and you are a 65 00:03:14,100 --> 00:03:19,400 counselor or a mental health professional, would you click on 66 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,500 the QR code that's either on the chair in front of you or it's up 67 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:28,900 on the screen right here and if you would click on that and when 68 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:32,200 you do that, there is a it's going to pull up our link tree. 69 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:36,500 And one of those things in there is counselor info form. 70 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,700 I want you to click on that and I want you to fill out your 71 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:45,100 information and we Are going to send you an e-mail this week. 72 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:47,100 That's going to give you a little insight into where we're 73 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:50,400 going and actually give you the opportunity to help us as we 74 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,000 prepare for that series. I have a team of people that are 75 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,700 all mental health professionals that are going to help guide me 76 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:58,000 through this sermon series. But we want to give you guys an 77 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,100 opportunity to go on the journey with us because we would greatly 78 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:06,400 appreciate your help. That being said, I want to give 79 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,500 you a heads up. If you're a parent and you love 80 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:12,700 bringing your kid to church with you and you love bringing your 81 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:16,899 kid into the auditorium. Here's what I'm asking is in two 82 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:19,600 weeks when we start that sermon series, I'm going to encourage 83 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,700 you to not do that. I'm going to give you a couple 84 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:26,100 reasons why if you have, you know, kids that are in sixth 85 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:29,300 grade and down. We have incredible programming 86 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:30,500 at all of our different locations. 87 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:33,500 If you have a fuse that meets on Sunday morning, I want you to 88 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:36,300 take full advantage of that and I'm asking you to not bring your 89 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:40,500 kids for three reasons, one, I don't want to put ideas in your 90 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:44,500 kids as mind when you haven't been may be prepared to leap 91 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:48,300 through it, okay? So I'm just, I'm telling you up 92 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:52,300 front, I don't want to Tucked you in that. 93 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:58,100 Second thing is your kids will always learn way more in our 94 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:02,800 kids programming than they ever will hear learning from Jerry. 95 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,200 And I, if you think that they learn more in here than just 96 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,300 pull them out of grade school and just send them straight to 97 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:12,300 John Wood or Western Illinois or Truman State, but you and I both 98 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:14,800 know that this is not the best environment for them to learn. 99 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:18,800 And if you want your kids to learn about Jesus, you want to 100 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,400 put them in the very best possible place. 101 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:23,500 Place for them to learn about Jesus. 102 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:27,500 And we spend a ton of money in our church employing, a bunch of 103 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:31,100 awesome people and buying a bunch of great tools to make 104 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:34,300 sure that your kids experience is the very best. 105 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,600 It can be for them to learn about Jesus and for them to be 106 00:05:37,608 --> 00:05:40,400 able to have friends that can help them grow with. 107 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:44,000 Jesus, third reason, I said there was three and I'm a man of 108 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,100 my word. Third reason is I want you to be 109 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:51,100 a good neighbor. And when your kid is jacking 110 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:54,100 around in the service, I need you to hear me, there's people 111 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:56,500 around you that are going to be hanging on for dear life during 112 00:05:56,500 --> 00:06:00,000 that sermon series and they are going to be doing everything 113 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,600 they can to learn, as much as they can. 114 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,400 So they can go home and make a difference in their loved ones 115 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,200 lives, and your kid could be a distraction from that moment. 116 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:09,800 So, I want you to be a good neighbor. 117 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,600 Now, I'm not saying that today, you know, I love having my kids 118 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,900 come to church, they love coming and Listen to Jerry, just like 119 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:20,000 my wife got no home team, and I When my kids want it, it's 120 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,700 great. I let them do that after. 121 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:23,700 They've already been to church because I want them to learn in 122 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:26,300 an age appropriate environment. We all good, nobody hates me yet 123 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:29,700 because today we're talking about hell and I wanted to have 124 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:34,100 everybody on my team. When I did I'm being serious, 125 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:36,200 okay. We're in a sermon series called 126 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,400 the other side and we're going to be talking about what happens 127 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,600 after you die last week because I love Jerry. 128 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,800 I let him talk about heaven. This week is hell. 129 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:50,200 And next week, we're going to talk about the two judgments 130 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,500 that every single one of us is going to face. 131 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,600 Whoo, it's been hot this week. Let's just keep it going. 132 00:06:57,100 --> 00:06:59,700 Now, some of you might be wondering why are we talking 133 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:03,500 about hell this week of all the weeks this is the week. 134 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:06,000 I was finally able to bring a friend to church. 135 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:09,700 I get it you might be going some of you just wandered off the 136 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:11,700 street. You lost a bet at work and here 137 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:14,300 you are you're just looking for some AC cuz your air 138 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:17,000 conditioners out and you Load up here. 139 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,300 Listen, I want you to hear me say this. 140 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:23,600 This is an incredible weekend for you to be in our church. 141 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,900 This is going to be a great message for absolutely every 142 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:32,700 single one of you to hear. And if you can put up with the 143 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:35,300 first 20 minutes of this message, and we're already eight 144 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:37,600 minutes and you only got 12 minutes left of the tough stuff. 145 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:43,000 The last 10 minutes are going to be life-giving, they're going to 146 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,400 be powerful, they're going to be life-altering. 147 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:49,400 I is the reason I'm talking about hell is because the Bible 148 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:54,100 talks about it, And if we are going to be Jesus people, if 149 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:56,700 we're going to be church people, if we're going to be people who 150 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:00,800 believe in the word of God, then we have to believe that when the 151 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,800 Bible says that, everything in scripture is useful that us 152 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,700 looking at hell, and expand seeing, what the scripture says 153 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:11,400 about it is going to be useful to our lives, that we need to 154 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,500 submit Our Lives to God's will God's purposes and God's word. 155 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:18,000 And if I'm going to be a good pastor, I've got to make sure 156 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,500 that we spend some time talking about all the things. 157 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,500 Things that God talks about and some of you you may be grew up 158 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:25,500 in a church that talked about hell. 159 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:29,500 A little too much like it was, you know, he'll all the time and 160 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:30,700 it was really got around to Heaven. 161 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:33,799 It was all law and no Grace. You may have had to go to an 162 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:35,400 old-school. Revival, raise your hand. 163 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,400 If you went to a Revival, my parents took me didn't work but 164 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:39,400 I went. Yeah. 165 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:43,500 And you heard that he'll was hot and Eternity was long and you're 166 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:45,100 like no we got to get out of here. 167 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:50,400 Okay, however it may be it has been overdone but My worry is 168 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,100 that We probably don't talk about it enough and I just 169 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,100 wanted to at least level the playing field and have an honest 170 00:08:57,100 --> 00:09:01,000 dialogue about it, because there is a lot of confusion not just 171 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,200 in the world but in Christian circles about hell, I'll hear 172 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,100 good, well-meaning Christians say things like well you know 173 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:11,500 more of a new testament, Christian person, a more of a 174 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:15,200 love and grace guy and I you know hell and all that wrath. 175 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,400 That's Old Testament. That's cute. 176 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,100 It look good on a bumper sticker. 177 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:20,500 Might make for a good Christian, Jesus. 178 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,900 And shirt for you to wear to your new Christian band that you 179 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:25,500 like to go to. But hear me guess who talked 180 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:27,200 about hell more than anybody else. 181 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Jesus whoa. Yeah, check this one out. 182 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Guess who talked about it more than everybody else combined? 183 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,500 Yeah, that new testament. Guy were a big fan of Jesus. 184 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:46,400 If it was important to Jesus, the probably ought to be 185 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,700 important to us. Now there's a lot of ideas 186 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:53,700 floating around from atheists and religious people about what 187 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:55,000 happens after we die. So, we're going to spend a 188 00:09:55,008 --> 00:09:57,300 couple minutes, just going through all of them, The 189 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,000 Atheist, they believe they're Bound by Evolution and so they 190 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,900 believe that when we die, that's it game over. 191 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:06,900 There's nothing after it, they have to become a naturalist, 192 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:09,300 there's no way away from it for them. 193 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:15,700 However, An atheist believes that there is ultimately no 194 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:17,900 right? And ultimately no wrong. 195 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,800 There is no higher power and there is no higher purpose. 196 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,800 If a person is an atheist, their moral High Ground is either 197 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:31,500 grounded in the worship of self. Whatever is good for them or 198 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:35,000 popular opinion, whichever group is in power. 199 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:39,700 The problem with the atheistic worldview is that it reinforces 200 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:45,400 a philosophical A belief in survival of the fittest. 201 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:49,100 That means that at some point in time, in order for you to 202 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:53,500 advance in order for you to win, in order for you to get head 203 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,300 eventually You will have to be the fit one. 204 00:10:58,300 --> 00:10:59,900 Which means that you will have to step. 205 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:06,900 An advance on the weak and the marginalized, the oppressed. 206 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:11,400 And it flies in the face of what Jesus says in Mark chapter 10, 207 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,300 if you're a Jesus person, this is where we draw our inspiration 208 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:16,900 from Jesus called them together. And said, you know, that those 209 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:20,100 who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles, Lord it over them 210 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:23,800 and their High officials exercise authority over them. 211 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,200 Not so with you. Jesus people instead, whoever 212 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:34,200 wants to become great. Among you must be your servant 213 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:39,700 and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all and you're 214 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:41,800 going well that would be really hard for me Jesus because I'm a 215 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,600 pretty big deal. We'll check out what he says. 216 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:49,500 Let's keep going for even. Oh Even Jesus, the son of man 217 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:54,100 did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a 218 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:58,200 ransom for many Christian. He flies in the face of survival 219 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,700 of the fittest. It's the fittest loving the 220 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:04,000 least. Now some of you might be going. 221 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Okay, that's cool but I'm not an atheist fine. 222 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:08,200 You heard some people? Talk are you've heard maybe 223 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,700 heard some people talk about reincarnation that after you die 224 00:12:11,700 --> 00:12:15,900 you come back as something else. And if you are really bad, you 225 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:20,600 know, you come back as a as a, you know, a fat white guy who 226 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,000 doesn't have a lot of money and if you were really, really bad. 227 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,800 You come back as lettuce, which is why, you know, I don't eat 228 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:30,400 salad. And if you were pretty decent, 229 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,100 if you did a pretty good job, you come back as an attractive 230 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:36,100 wealthy person. If you were fantastic, you come 231 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:39,100 back as somebody who's, you know, famous and popular and 232 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:40,600 Steve Job. That's what happens. 233 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:47,000 The problem is the Bible flies in the face of that because you 234 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,600 don't just keep dying over and over again and coming back to 235 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,300 life and never realizing it, which is the general thrust of 236 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,600 reincarnations because Look, what Jesus says, remember, Jesus 237 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,600 Matthew chapter 25, then they will go away to Eternal 238 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:05,100 punishment but the righteous to eternal life when it's over. 239 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:09,200 There's no do-overs. Your destination is cemented, 240 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,200 eternally. You don't get a second chance. 241 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:15,100 Since you don't get a do-over you don't get to try it out all 242 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:17,900 over again. When you die, you're done. 243 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,100 That's what Jesus says. There's some who believe in 244 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:25,200 universalism and man all roads lead to Heaven. 245 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,300 Come on, bro. They usually have like a hemp 246 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,500 sticker somewhere on their car. I get it. 247 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,100 Peace man, everybody I get it man. 248 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:37,200 It sounds fun, fantastic everybody. 249 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,900 There's no right? There's no wrong man. 250 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,000 I get it. I'm not even being mean they 251 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 seem like super cool. People wouldn't let him watch my 252 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,200 kids but they sound like they'd be a lot of fun. 253 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,500 And they just think that everybody eventually ends up in 254 00:13:49,508 --> 00:13:54,100 the same place, the problem with that, this pesky guy named, 255 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:57,600 Jesus, look what he says for God. 256 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,600 So loved the world that he gave his one and only son that 257 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:09,100 whoever believes in him, it's not whoever believes I believe 258 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:11,500 in a heaven, I believe in a better place. 259 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:15,000 That's not what gets you there? Whoever believes in him, him, 260 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:21,200 being Jesus, shall not perish. But have eternal life. 261 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:25,100 Look what it says in Matthew chapter 7, enter through the 262 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:30,200 narrow gate for wide is the gate and Broad is the road that leads 263 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,100 to destruction and many enter through. 264 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:36,200 It universalism really wide Road. 265 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,200 Everybody gets their really wide gate. 266 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,300 Everything there's room for everybody here no matter where 267 00:14:41,300 --> 00:14:42,900 you're at no matter what you think. 268 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,600 Come on in Jesus is saying no because that road leads to 269 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:54,500 destruction but small is the gate and narrow is the road that 270 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:57,700 leads to life. Only a few find it. 271 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:05,400 The narrow road is only as wide as Jesus Christ, unless you go 272 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,100 through him, you're not getting in. 273 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:09,900 Now, there's some people out there, who believe in 274 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:12,400 Annihilation ilysm. You might be going Clayton, we 275 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,700 don't believe any of these things, but you'd be surprised 276 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:17,100 to show up. This is a belief that 277 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:21,500 unbelievers will not experience eternity in Hell suffering, but 278 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:25,800 they will just be extinguished. Like remember when you got 279 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,800 grounded your parents like you're getting grounded for a 280 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,000 week and if you're a really bad, you're grounded for two weeks. 281 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:33,900 The functionally when you die God, just grounds you. 282 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:37,400 And he just burns you inhale for a little bit until you've burned 283 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,800 up enough and then he extinguishes you and you 284 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,500 disappear. And after a long period of 285 00:15:42,508 --> 00:15:45,900 Torment there just no more. And they argue that the word 286 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:50,400 Eternal in scripture should be translated a Jory on. 287 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,500 That mean you're just gonna you're just gonna be in hell for 288 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:58,100 a little bit and then it'll be over the huge problem with that 289 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:01,900 is the Bible. The reason why there's a huge 290 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:05,200 problem is because when the Bible talks about hell, it talks 291 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,500 about day and night forever and ever already showed you this 292 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:12,500 verse, but let's look at it again, Matthew chapter 25, then 293 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:15,700 they will go away to Eternal punishment. 294 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,300 But the righteous to eternal life, the word that they want to 295 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:23,000 translate a jury on, which is a perfect fought, which is a fine 296 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 interpretation, you can't go. It's just a short period of time 297 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,300 for Eternal punishment but it's forever and ever for those. 298 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:35,100 We're going to eternal life. If this is temporary, then this 299 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:39,100 is temporary. Doesn't make sense, no matter 300 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:43,500 how you measure it. Heaven would only end up being 301 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:48,200 for a short period of time. Some of you may have grown up in 302 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,100 a church where you heard about purgatory. 303 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,500 Those who believe in purgatory, believe that you it's a place 304 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:58,000 where you go to pay for your sins before you go to heaven. 305 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:02,500 Aside from the fact that nowhere is, this is Purgatory, mentioned 306 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:06,300 in scripture nor is anything remotely close to it. 307 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:10,200 Alluded to in scripture the main text that they use is First 308 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,900 Corinthians. Chapter 3 verses starting with 309 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:14,200 verse 12. This is, this is the Purgatory 310 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,800 verse in the Bible. If anyone Builds on this 311 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,000 Foundation using gold silver, costly Stones, wood, hay or 312 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,400 straw. Their work will be shown for 313 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,800 what it is because the day will bring it to light, it will be 314 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:34,000 Old with fire and the fire will test the quality of each 315 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 person's work. If what has been built survives, 316 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,700 the Builder will receive a reward. 317 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:43,300 If it is burned up, this is the Purgatory. 318 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:48,600 Verse verse 15, the Builder will suffer loss, but yet will be 319 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,500 saved, even though only as one escaping through the flames. 320 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,300 This is the Purgatory verse in the Bible that you be saved, but 321 00:17:57,300 --> 00:17:59,800 only is one escaping through the Flames. 322 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,700 However, the context of this verse is about how we build our 323 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:08,800 faith and the quality of the work of our faith. 324 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:12,900 In other words, what is built on the solid foundation of Jesus 325 00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:17,100 Christ, the solid rock of him. That quality material, it will 326 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:20,400 last, but that which is of poor quality and poor material will 327 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,000 be burned up. You're going Clayton, you have 328 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,500 not made sense yet. Keep going. 329 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:28,400 Here's what he's saying. Our faith will be intact, but 330 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,700 the flaws in our theology, the shortcomings of our belief 331 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:36,300 system. The errors in our walk will be 332 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:39,600 consumed by the fire. It is not the believer that 333 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,200 passes through the fire but our works. 334 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:48,800 Furthermore to believe in purgatory is a wretched assault 335 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,900 on the work of Jesus Christ in the very same book that I just 336 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:55,300 read from. Paul is writing. 337 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:59,700 Look what he says in chapter 15 for what I received. 338 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:05,000 I passed on to you as of first importance that Christ died for 339 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,800 our sins, according to the scriptures that he was buried 340 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,400 and that he was raised on the third day, according to the 341 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:17,500 scriptures. That Christ died for our sins. 342 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:22,300 If Christ died for our sins. Then what are you paying for in 343 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:26,400 purgatory? What's your functionally saying 344 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,800 is that Jesus could afford the bill but he couldn't afford the 345 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,400 tip. That somehow he needs you at the 346 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,200 end of your life to make up the difference. 347 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,100 That's wrong. We sing about the death of 348 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:52,900 Jesus, on the cross. We sing songs, like Jesus, Paid 349 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:57,600 It All. Furthermore, we have these words 350 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,200 of Paul in Colossians, same author, but now he has 351 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,900 reconciled You by Christ's physical body through death to 352 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:10,800 present you, holy in God's sight without blemish and free from 353 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:15,500 accusation, if you continue in, your faith, established and firm 354 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,900 and do not move from The Hope held out in the gospel. 355 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 This is the gospel that you heard and that has been 356 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,900 proclaimed to every creature under heaven. 357 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:31,000 And of which I Paul have become a servant nowhere in that burst 358 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,400 does. It talk about you? 359 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:37,600 Making you, holy in God's sight. The thrust of the Gospel message 360 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,400 is that Jesus made us right with God? 361 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:43,800 It is not of our own. It's something that he did on 362 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,800 our behalf. Okay. 363 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,200 So what's hell? You have four more minutes? 364 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,900 Hang on and we get to the good stuff. 365 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,800 So what is hell? Hell is described all throughout 366 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,400 scripture. As a place of eternal torment, 367 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,100 unquenchable fire. It's a place where the worm does 368 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:02,900 not die, where people gnashed their teeth in anguish and 369 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:07,000 regret. It is a place where people go 370 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,600 and they do not return, even to warn loved ones. 371 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:16,700 It is a place of outer Darkness. One of the descriptions that 372 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:19,900 Jesus uses is that of gehenna, we're going to be going to 373 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:23,000 Israel late next year. And if you go, you'll get to be 374 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:25,900 you'll get to see it. It was This place on the 375 00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:29,200 outskirts of the city of Jerusalem that had previously 376 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,600 been used for child sacrifice and it was deemed as an 377 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,700 uninhabitable place and so, because of the Steep edges on 378 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:39,000 the walls of Jerusalem, it became the trash dump. 379 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,400 And people would go to the edge of the city walls and they would 380 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,200 dump their trash over the top and it would fall down and they 381 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,400 take dead bodies and it would fall down. 382 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,500 And then they would keep the fires burning to keep the smell 383 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:53,300 down and to keep the bacteria and the disease from spreading 384 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:57,500 and all day long. Smoke rose out of gehenna. 385 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,900 And when Jesus got talking about hell, he says that's what it's 386 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:07,800 like. It's a place where God is absent 387 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:14,100 and all things God are absent. I know, I know it's fun. 388 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:17,600 Sometimes we're talking about oh yeah, you know, I'm going to 389 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,500 hell and I'm just going to keep on partying when I get there. 390 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:22,900 I'm just going to keep on Dancing. 391 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,000 Keep on having sex keep on partying. 392 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,300 When I'm in hell, hear me sex? And music are both gifts from 393 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:33,000 God. They won't be there. 394 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:37,700 I know it's catchy to, like, when someone dies at their 395 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,500 funeral to play, you know, if you get to heaven, give Heaven a 396 00:22:40,508 --> 00:22:44,600 little hell? No, no. 397 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,200 The one thing you won't find in heaven. 398 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,000 There's a little bit of hell. I want to be very clear. 399 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,800 So what will happen? Some of you might be wondering, 400 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,400 will who goes to hell? You've obviously said it's a 401 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,200 place. We don't want to go. 402 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,300 So who goes there? Well John 14:6 tells us who goes 403 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:06,100 there. Jesus answered. 404 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:08,400 I am the way and the truth and the life. 405 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,800 No one comes to the father, except through me. 406 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,300 There's only one of two places for you to go. 407 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:19,000 You can either go to be with the Father, which is what heaven is, 408 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:23,700 or you can choose to not go to the father and the absence of 409 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:25,000 the father, we've already established. 410 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,100 This is hell. And the only way to get to the 411 00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:33,700 father is through the son, Jesus Christ, and there might be some 412 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:36,400 of you going. Well I don't know about that 413 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,700 hear me. Unless Jesus is the source, the 414 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:44,700 foundation, the power of your faith and of your salvation, if 415 00:23:44,708 --> 00:23:52,100 you are not going to heaven, That means woke. 416 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:54,200 Leftist ideology, won't get you there. 417 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,300 It means, conservative nationalism won't get you to 418 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:00,700 heaven. You won't get in for being a 419 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:02,100 republican. You won't get in for being a 420 00:24:02,108 --> 00:24:03,700 Democrat. It means that if you're an 421 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:08,400 atheist, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Mormon, your life is 422 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,600 in peril. There's some of you who are 423 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,600 going. Whoa, I thought I like this 424 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,800 place. Hear me. 425 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,200 You might be on Clayton. We, we really do. 426 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,700 We like this church, but that does not seem fair. 427 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,000 I couldn't agree with you more. It's not fair. 428 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,500 It's not fair at all. However, I want to say a couple 429 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:33,900 things to you regarding the fairness of God, one, we live in 430 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:38,000 a world that has been so covered in the grace of God, that we can 431 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,200 forget his Justice. We live in a world that has been 432 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,700 so infused with his Mercy that we can lose sight of his 433 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:49,000 holiness. So for those of you who be gone, 434 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,200 this does not sound fair. This does not sound like a god 435 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,600 that I can get behind. Let me, let me speak to that. 436 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,100 First thing I would say to you is that it's not about fair and 437 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:00,200 then he's not being closed-minded and he's not being 438 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,100 exclusionary. When we say that Jesus is the 439 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:07,300 only way to the father. What we're actually saying is 440 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:16,800 Jesus is the only one who He's the only one who he's, the only 441 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,000 one who left heaven and came to Earth. 442 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,500 He's the only one who lived a perfect life. 443 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:24,700 He's the only one who paid the ultimate price on the cross. 444 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:28,300 He's the only one who perfectly demonstrated the love of God. 445 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,000 He's the only one who destroyed the works of the Devil. 446 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,700 He's the only one who healed this with his wounds. 447 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:37,800 He's the only one who had the iniquity of us all placed on his 448 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,400 shoulders. He's the only one who saves 449 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,700 because he's the only one who could he's the only Who did he's 450 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:46,900 the only one who died in my place. 451 00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:51,000 He's the only one who was buried and three days later rose from 452 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,700 the dead. He's the only one who ascended 453 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:57,900 to the father full of grace and mercy, when we say that Jesus is 454 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:02,200 the only way to the father. It's because Jesus is the only 455 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,000 one who saves. That's it. 456 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:07,100 We're not saying that he's hateful. 457 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:08,800 We're not saying that he's exclusionary. 458 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,800 He's saying I'm the Lifeboat and there's not another one. 459 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,800 I'm the only boat in these Waters, reaching out his hand 460 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,400 asking. People do you want to be saved? 461 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:23,800 It's not exclusionary. I'm just the only one here. 462 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,000 Second thing. We don't want Fair. 463 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,100 Right? If you believe In fairness, 464 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:36,200 you're a bad parent. Do you know this in your heart 465 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,900 when your kids come to you? That's not fair. 466 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,300 Do you go? You're brilliant. 467 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Oh, I know you've got some catchy parenting tip. 468 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,200 Well, life's not fair. Sometimes kid question. 469 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:55,900 If things aren't fair in your house, raise your hand. 470 00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:00,700 Yeah, that's what I thought. Life's not fair. 471 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,100 Because we only want fair when we stand to benefit. 472 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,600 We don't want fair when we stand to lose. 473 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,600 We want fair when it's in our favor. 474 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:15,900 But we don't want fair. When it's time to pick up the 475 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:22,400 tab. Husbands. 476 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,800 When your father-in-law when you were dating, the, his daughter 477 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,200 took you out for a meal and he offered to buy. 478 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,200 Did you go? That's not fair. 479 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:33,800 You're broke. But said Thank God. 480 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:39,400 That's what you did when, when your kids come up to you and go. 481 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:41,600 That's not fair. It's only when you're talking 482 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,100 about who gets to watch what on the TV and who gets to play for 483 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:48,400 how long on the gaming console. But when the bill show up at the 484 00:27:48,408 --> 00:27:50,900 house, no one's going, hey, that's not fair. 485 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:52,800 I didn't get to pay for the car this month. 486 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,100 No. Did that right there? 487 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:58,500 That's your kids aren't showing up dead, Mom. 488 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,100 It's not fair that you guys work so hard to pay for this house. 489 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,000 We want to get jobs to never heard it. 490 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,800 Not once in my entire life, have they gone to the store and said, 491 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,400 oh my goodness. These groceries are getting 492 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,700 expensive. Can we help out? 493 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:20,500 Right. Imagine going home and send, you 494 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:22,900 know what kids it's been pretty unfair around here. 495 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,600 Your mom's been doing a Lion's Share of the laundry and I've 496 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,700 been doing a Lion's Share of the yard working. 497 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:30,200 We've been doing it for his by. We can count your entire 498 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,400 stinking life. So we're going to take the next 499 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,300 12 years of your life, and we're going to kick back. 500 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:42,400 Christians. We don't want fair when it comes 501 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,400 to the goodness of God. Because there's only one thing 502 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:51,700 you and I deserve in a fair world and it's hell. 503 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,300 When we look at God's saving work, the question that doesn't 504 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:00,000 come to our mind. Is not. 505 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000 How does anybody end up in? Hell, what blows our mind is 506 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,000 that anybody shows up in heaven, How could, how could you? 507 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:16,500 And I have ever get there. Because every single one of us, 508 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:19,500 myself included, we deserve hell. 509 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,300 And we know this internally because when I sin, I sin 510 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:28,000 against an eternally, perfect God. 511 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,700 And so, do you and Justice is always determined by the offense 512 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:36,600 of the person. Let me explain if I come to your 513 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,200 neighborhood tonight and I kill all the Flies. 514 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,200 You know. You guys are going to do put 515 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,900 palm branches in ago. This guy rocks. 516 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:43,900 If I kill all the mosquitoes. Pete is not going to be walking 517 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:45,900 down your neighborhood going. This guy's got to be stopped. 518 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:49,100 He's a monster. He kills animals, right? 519 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:51,500 There's a difference between me killing all the Flies and 520 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,100 mosquitoes and me killing all the neighborhood, dogs. 521 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,000 That'll raise some Flags, right? There's a difference between 522 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,800 speeding on the highway and speeding in a school zone. 523 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,300 because there's a difference between an offense against 524 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:11,700 18-wheelers and small children at play, there's a difference 525 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,500 between killing the neighborhood cat, and taking the life of a 526 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:21,200 human being and our justice system is built on who the 527 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,100 offense is against So what do you think? 528 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:30,000 You and I should get when our sin is an offense against a holy 529 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,900 and an eternal God. What would seem fit? 530 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,600 Eternal. Punishment. 531 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,000 It's when we understand the reality of God's holiness and 532 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,500 Perfection and the sinfulness of Our Lives that we are left to 533 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:55,800 ponder this question. How does God allow anybody into 534 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,200 heaven? And I'm going to tell you. 535 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,500 Second Corinthians, five verse 21. 536 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:10,400 This is how he does. It, God made him Jesus who had 537 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:19,200 no sin to be sin for me. And you so that in Jesus, we 538 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,700 might become the righteousness of God. 539 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:26,200 How do I get into heaven? How do you get into heaven? 540 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:32,900 He took all of your sin, all of your iniquity and he laid it on 541 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:36,800 Jesus. And in that moment, Jesus became 542 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:41,700 my sin and I became his righteousness. 543 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:47,700 When God set out to solve the problem of hell, he did it 544 00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,800 through the work of Jesus. Think of all the sins that you 545 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,100 could ever. Think of that you've committed, 546 00:31:54,900 --> 00:32:00,100 they were laid on Jesus. Jesus became an adulterer, a 547 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:05,800 cheater, a liar, a coveter, a Steeler, a murderer, a molester, 548 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,100 a pedophile. He became all of those things. 549 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:14,200 So you and I could be the righteousness of Jesus, we 550 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:19,100 became the 33 year old man who lived a perfect and sinless. 551 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:23,300 Life, we became his righteousness and he became our 552 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:27,500 guilt. He became our shame, he took up 553 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:32,400 our penalty, we get the mercy of Jesus and he gets our mess. 554 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:37,300 We get the good works of Jesus and he gets our sins, we get the 555 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:41,400 perfect life of Jesus and Jesus gets pierced, we get the 556 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,600 righteousness and he gets the unrighteousness. 557 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,400 Don't ever doubt the love of God, because look what it says 558 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,900 in 2nd Peter. The Lord is not slow, in keeping 559 00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:54,300 his promise as some understand slowness. 560 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:59,400 Instead, he is patient with you not wanting anyone to perish, 561 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:02,600 but everyone to come to repentance. 562 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,600 That's the desire of Jesus. That's the desire of God that 563 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,200 you and I would come into fellowship with him. 564 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,500 We're hell no longer becomes an issue because you are in right 565 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:16,600 standing because of Jesus. So what should you and I do? 566 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,500 Well, the Bible's really clear when you come to the knowledge 567 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:21,500 of what Jesus Christ did for you on the cross, you're supposed to 568 00:33:21,508 --> 00:33:24,800 do three things. You're supposed to believe that 569 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,300 what Jesus said, and what Jesus did he did and he is second 570 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:33,100 thing you repent. You recognize, hey, I got to 571 00:33:33,108 --> 00:33:35,900 stop living for me. I got to start living for him. 572 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,300 I'm done being in charge. You're in charge and then you 573 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,000 get Baptized, you make him your lord and savior. 574 00:33:42,100 --> 00:33:45,300 Lord means you live for him. Now, you're no longer in charge 575 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:46,900 and some of you you might be going. 576 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:50,100 But Clayton, when it comes to get baptized, what do you mean 577 00:33:50,108 --> 00:33:52,300 by that? I mean that you symbolize what 578 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:56,000 Jesus Christ did on the cross, you are buried in your sins and 579 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,800 you are raised to New Life in him and you might be going. 580 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,600 But Clayton, I was baptized as a baby. 581 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,800 That's great, but that's nowhere in scripture. 582 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:05,700 You might be going every time. Baptisms talked about in 583 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:07,600 scripture. It's your decision. 584 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,600 You don't get saved because your parents wanted you to be a 585 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,300 believer. That was a wet baby dedication. 586 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:18,600 That's what it was. Listen if baptism against 587 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,699 somebody's will worked. What should we do today? 588 00:34:21,699 --> 00:34:23,900 We should get a bunch of people drop drunk, take him out to the 589 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:26,500 Mississippi, dip them and bring them back up and go see you in 590 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,600 heaven, man. Like what happened? 591 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,199 I well, you just got dumped. You got baptized right, okay? 592 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:35,199 That clip is going to live in the wrong ways and I apologize 593 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,600 for that. Okay, they look at me like I 594 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,900 knew that church was jacked up. Listen. 595 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:44,300 Listen, if you can't take a person against their will and 596 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,500 baptize them in that count, how can you take a baby and do the 597 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,400 same? Now, listen, there's nothing 598 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,199 wrong with. That means your parents loved. 599 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:53,699 You means that they wanted you to grow up in church, and means 600 00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:55,800 that they wanted you to grow up and make a decision to follow 601 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,800 Jesus Christ, on your own accord. 602 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,000 And what better way to fulfill that prayer then for you to do 603 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000 it yourself and some of you might be going to Clayton, I've 604 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,300 been following Jesus and coming to this church, for a really 605 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:09,300 long time. And if I get baptized, people 606 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:11,100 are gonna be like what's wrong with that person that they took. 607 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:14,100 So long, listen, this church will never get frustrated at 608 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:18,200 people being obedient never will cheer just as loud. 609 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,400 You might be going to clean. Its give me a little awkward 610 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,300 because I mean I've been a small group leader, I've served at 611 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:24,200 this church. Listen, this church will never 612 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,500 get frustrated at people being obedient, because guess what? 613 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,100 I'm going to learn some about Jesus next week where I screwed 614 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:31,600 up. And I bet you want me to be a 615 00:35:31,607 --> 00:35:33,000 person who goes, I got to fix it. 616 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:34,600 That's what happens. Is. 617 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,600 We continue to follow? Jesus. 618 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:39,600 Hear me. Those of you who are already 619 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,100 have a faith, I want you to pay attention to me. 620 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:46,300 Me, this is why we give, this is why we serve, this is why we 621 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:49,700 lead life groups. And D groups is because we see 622 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:52,400 our lives, and our hardships, and our struggles and our 623 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,900 opportunities. As ways. 624 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:57,900 To point people to the goodness of God, and point them to the 625 00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:02,000 realities of heaven and turn them away from the possibility 626 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:04,900 of Hell Christians. What would happen if you saw 627 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:08,700 your life in between these two Cosmic realities Heaven and 628 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:11,100 Hell, could you deal with people being harmed? 629 00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:15,000 Do you if you knew that the way you operated might show them a 630 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,300 little Jesus and it might lure them into his ways. 631 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:22,100 What if you were to change the way you posted because you 632 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,200 wanted to make sure you always had an opportunity to point 633 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,000 people to Jesus and said of turn them away and if you turn them 634 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,100 away, there's going to be less people to show them the ways of 635 00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:34,300 Jesus. What if we saw our hardships and 636 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:38,200 our struggles as opportunities, to reflect the goodness of God, 637 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,100 and how we endured that hardship as an opportunity. 638 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,200 T to point people to Jesus, what we should be the kind of people 639 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,300 that Overlook offenses in order to make inroads to point people. 640 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:50,800 To Jesus. Christian should be so full of 641 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,400 grace. So full of Mercy, because we 642 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,700 have a deep longing desire to turn people away from hell and 643 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:02,100 point them to Jesus, who's the only one who can save and I hope 644 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:03,600 you will join me in that mission. 645 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,900 We're moving to a time of decision. 646 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,200 I went long. Okay, I shave 25 minutes, out of 647 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,200 my sermon and I'm still long, so pay attention. 648 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,100 We're going quick. I want you to just say the word 649 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:19,300 win, say it a little bit louder. Okay? 650 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:21,500 If you were to come to me with marriage counseling, and you'd 651 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:24,100 like a, we've been getting in a fight, but he said he was sorry, 652 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,900 I would say. When did he say he was sorry. 653 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:31,600 Why? After he got caught, if you were 654 00:37:31,607 --> 00:37:33,900 to come to me and you were to be hanging out with me and you were 655 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:36,100 to say, you know, we've been having problems with our kids 656 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:39,700 and we had a fight and a big deal and but he said he was 657 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:43,800 sorry and I would say will win. Well after I went to him and I 658 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,700 said I was sorry. That's when my kids said that 659 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:48,600 they were sorry. Timing matters. 660 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:52,000 Give me the word one more time. So when did God move on your 661 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,800 behalf? We live in a world where it's 662 00:37:54,808 --> 00:37:58,700 always after. I'll be good to my wife, after 663 00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:02,300 she's good to me. I'll be work hard for my boss 664 00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:03,600 after. He pays me. 665 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,900 What I'm worth. We live in an after culture, but 666 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:09,100 when did Jesus move on your behalf? 667 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:11,300 When did he do it? That would be interesting. 668 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,200 Where does this scripture talk about? 669 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,700 When God moved on my behalf, you better believe. 670 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:18,300 It does top 5. Favorite verses of the Bible. 671 00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:20,900 Get the tattoo on your neck, for all I care. 672 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,900 Romans 5:8 while. That's when he moved. 673 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:37,800 Not after. While Romans 5:8 while we were 674 00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:42,900 still Sinners. When did he move? 675 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:48,400 He moved while. You keep thinking, gotta love me 676 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:54,000 after I get baptized you keep thinking, God will love me after 677 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,500 I get my life, right? You think God will love you 678 00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:01,200 after you come to church enough times, you think God will love 679 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,100 her after. You serve enough after you sing 680 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:07,700 enough songs after you give enough money but the Bible is 681 00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:20,400 clear while we were still Sinners. when you were cheating 682 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:27,900 on your wife, God demonstrates, his love for us in this while. 683 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,200 When you're beating somebody. Stealing from somebody robbing 684 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,600 somebody bullying. Somebody posted on somebody 685 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:46,500 while we were still sinners. That's when he moved. 686 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:52,500 He moved in your behalf. Wow, you were doing an assault 687 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:57,200 against his character. he moved while you were sinning against 688 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:03,900 him, while you were racking up a bill not after He saw you and 689 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:07,500 you were worth it. God was at his best when you 690 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:11,400 were at your worst. When did he move? 691 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:17,500 He moved Wild. And if you're here today, and 692 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:24,600 you're watching online, And you've never started an intimate 693 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,000 personal relationship with Jesus Christ. 694 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:34,300 Don't put it off. It's just a few moments. 695 00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:36,400 Everybody's going to stand around you for watching online. 696 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,300 There's maybe some that's going to pop up in the chat. 697 00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:40,600 There's any people over here that would love an opportunity 698 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,900 to talk with you about starting an intimate personal 699 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:45,900 relationship with Jesus Christ. There's some of you, you've 700 00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:48,400 never been baptized, there's some of you that may have been 701 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,000 sprinkled, but never have been immersed, as the Bible teaches. 702 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:54,900 Listen, we want to celebrate with, you will stay until we're 703 00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:56,900 done. If you're going, you know what 704 00:40:56,900 --> 00:41:00,000 he's talking about me. It's not Clayton talking to you. 705 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:03,100 That is the spirit of God, drawing his children back home. 706 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,700 and our church will celebrate that Now, you're already here 707 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:13,600 and you're a Jesus follower. I want us to live our lives in 708 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,800 light of these two realities. There is a very real hell and 709 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,300 there is a very real heaven and how we live our lives changes. 710 00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:24,500 The population of both at the beginning of the year, when I 711 00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:27,400 cast a vision for this church, I said I want us to make this 712 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,000 region the hardest place on planet Earth to get to Hell 713 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,600 from. And the way we give and serve 714 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:38,600 and love and lead and handle offense and hard shift will show 715 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,400 people the love and the power of Jesus Christ. 716 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,900 And maybe some of us need to spend just a little bit of time 717 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:45,800 on our knees going. God, I have not been a 718 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,400 reflection of you to a watching world and I need some help and 719 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,300 let's just be a church that's real about that stuff. 720 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,400 Okay, stand up and we pray for you. 721 00:41:54,400 --> 00:42:00,000 God, we need you right now in every heart and every life and 722 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,600 ever seen one of our locations, while campus pastors Elena in 723 00:42:02,607 --> 00:42:06,000 the plane got I'm asking that you would move in this church. 724 00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:11,400 Solidify in us a desire to live in light of your truth. 725 00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:13,100 Your And I pray, amen.