1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:03,600 Welcome to the one Crossing podcast here. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,200 You can find past sermons along with other exclusive content. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,600 Our prayer is that God will move in your life. 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,300 Even when you are on the go we hope you enjoyed this message 5 00:00:16,700 --> 00:00:18,500 Crossing Nation. How are you doing today? 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:23,600 Are you doing all right man, in the middle of the pandemic. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,700 I said there's going to come a moment in time where I'm just 8 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:27,900 going to start giving out hugs. I just want you to know I 9 00:00:27,907 --> 00:00:29,800 started this weekend. I'm giving him out I'm not 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,700 Charging. I'm getting consent. 11 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:38,300 But if you're in the mood to hug a heavy person, I am your guy. 12 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,400 It is just so good to be out. In fact, I think we're going to 13 00:00:41,408 --> 00:00:43,600 be going out, our communities and offering up some free hugs. 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,500 It's just good to be able to be together and recognize that God 15 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:49,900 is doing something cool in our church, in our communities and 16 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:54,900 hopefully God will use what we do today to further move or move 17 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:57,000 forward in that initiative. I want to talk to you guys about 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,800 a couple things before we get going. 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,900 So, for all of you who are Join here. 48 suit are different 20 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:06,100 locations or watching online. We are two weeks away from 21 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,300 Easter and that's a big opportunity for us. 22 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:11,700 As we celebrate, what Jesus did on our behalf, and I want to 23 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:17,300 encourage you guys to do one of two of three of three things. 24 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:20,900 First thing is, we've added a bunch of different Services, 25 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:23,700 many of our locations, which means we're going to be having 26 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:27,600 auxiliary service times across many of our different spaces 27 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,400 Where We Gather, and we've posted Add those. 28 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:32,800 And if you're the kind of person who's on social media, would you 29 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,600 help us get the word out to our community? 30 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,000 So that way they know when we're going to be having services so 31 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,200 that they can plan with their family on how to attend because 32 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,300 we want to make sure we have space for everybody. 33 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,300 Second thing, I want to encourage you to do is I want 34 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:46,900 you to encourage to bring somebody. 35 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,800 We, those of us who have an intimate personal relationship 36 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,900 with Jesus Christ know how meaningful that is for us. 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,400 And we also know that the Gospel of Jesus wasn't supposed to just 38 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,500 come to us. They were supposed to go 39 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:01,700 through. And we want to use Easter as an 40 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:04,800 opportunity to bring some people that we care about, the don't 41 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,400 have a relationship with Jesus Christ. 42 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,800 Yet, Jerry's going to have an incredible Easter message, it 43 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,600 will be a great weekend for you to bring a friend. 44 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,600 So I want you to work hard on bringing somebody with you. 45 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,500 And then the third thing, I'm going to ask you guys do is, 46 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:19,600 would you just start praying over our Easter services that 47 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,900 they God, would use those to help as many people as possible. 48 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,400 Find an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ. 49 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,000 If that's a deal. Can I see you guys? 50 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,800 Say deal deal. Perfect. 51 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,000 You guys are great. So, three years ago, something 52 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,700 special happened in my house, my chair broke. 53 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,800 And when I say my chair, it's because I have a chair in the 54 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,100 house. How many viewed all of our 55 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,400 locations? You have your chair like 56 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,100 everybody? Yeah, everybody can sit wherever 57 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:47,200 they want but this is this is your chair. 58 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:49,600 Well, for the first eight years of Jennifer nice marriage. 59 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,800 We had gotten all of our furniture from either, the 60 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,900 thrift store, or we would be at someone's house and they would 61 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,400 be like, I think we're going to get rid of this and Jennifer and 62 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,800 I would be like, are you sure you don't. 63 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,100 Get because we'll take it right now. 64 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:04,100 We'll be right back. Let me go get a trailer. 65 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,100 And so all of our furniture had been you know two or three or 66 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:10,300 four hand-me-downs by the time it got to us and one day I'm 67 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:12,900 sitting in my chair and it broke. 68 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:16,300 And so for the first time I went to a furniture store. 69 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,500 Crazy, cool places. If you guys never been, you'll 70 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:22,000 love it there. And I went in and they had a 71 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,200 chair. That was a Clayton. 72 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,800 Hensel sighs chair. Now this is a big deal. 73 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,800 I'm six foot six and I bought a chair that when Nice it in at my 74 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,200 feet. Don't touch the ground. 75 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,200 Like I look like a normal person in it. 76 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:35,700 It's that huge. I was going to. 77 00:03:35,708 --> 00:03:37,200 This is not that chair. Okay. 78 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:41,100 I don't think I can get my chair out of my house. 79 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:44,700 I think it stays with like, when I sell it bike, and it has this 80 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,300 chair because it's now a part of the house, it's just that big, 81 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,400 so I couldn't bring it. So your, this chair will have to 82 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,700 do and the deal is, is I like sitting in my chair. 83 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,700 There's a couple that come to our church and above his bed. 84 00:03:56,700 --> 00:03:59,300 He has like a his initial with like a crown hanging off the 85 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:01,500 side of it. And I want that because I want 86 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:03,200 to feel like I'm the king of my castle. 87 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:07,300 Jennifer has given me a hard, no on all of that happening. 88 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,400 But that's that's what happens. What? 89 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:16,600 I when I sit in my chair, I mean this is like my throne and oh 90 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,800 yeah, I mean you guys get against it all through church, 91 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:22,400 we should start changing this. I should get to sit during 92 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,600 church to. This is the chair that this is 93 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,000 the chair where my boys. Well, they watch movies with me. 94 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:36,500 There's been over, 400 pounds of Hensel, flesh in my chair, as we 95 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:40,300 have moved through the Marvel movies, they just sit there and 96 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:45,100 it's just she's so hot. But we just watch, this is the 97 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:49,700 chair where Zane almost every night reads for 15 or 20 minutes 98 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:52,000 as we go through the books, he supposed to read for school. 99 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,100 It's where my niece Kinley, she comes up to me and she goes, I 100 00:04:56,108 --> 00:04:56,700 go. What do you want? 101 00:04:56,700 --> 00:05:00,100 Ken Lane she goes. I need a cuddle Clayton, so she 102 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:02,100 hops up here and sits right here. 103 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,000 Jennifer mood, rearranges the furniture from time to time. 104 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:08,100 But there's only two places that my chair goes in all the 105 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:10,000 rearranging. You can put it there or there 106 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,500 and then the TV has to be tilted to whichever direction, just how 107 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:14,700 it is. Now. 108 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:18,000 Kay, she loves me. This is in the chair where I eat 109 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,300 my well-deserved ice cream. After the kids. 110 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:23,500 Go to bed like tonight about 9:00 I'll be going through Dairy 111 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,300 Queen I'm going to get you know, a cookie jar blizzard. 112 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:27,600 No fudge the other day. I was sore. 113 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,000 It and I started my order and the lady. 114 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,300 Finished it on the other side of the thing and like bless you, my 115 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:34,500 child come to Crossing for Easter. 116 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:39,700 You know, I'm going to tonight, I'm going to be eating ice cream 117 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:41,900 in my chair. It's where I want to my 118 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:44,600 basketball games. It's where I speak. 119 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,100 Encouraging words over my kids. It's where I issue out, 120 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:56,400 judgments bark out, orders solve disputes, I mean, it's where I 121 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,200 Reign from the king of my castle. 122 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:05,700 This is my throne And from time to time, I'll come into my house 123 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,500 and somebody will be sitting in my chair. 124 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,900 I mean that's a more. You guys are already like preach 125 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:16,600 clean. You've been there? 126 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,900 The smart kids get up and they just disappear there. 127 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:22,500 Like they know what they've done is wrong. 128 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,300 Then sometimes the kids will pretend like they're asleep. 129 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:30,900 Now that's a baller move because parents sometimes we don't want 130 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:33,800 to risk waking them up. If they are sleep, just like 131 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,500 just let them stay there, put a blanket on him. 132 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,200 Leave, you know, you just backing out of the room. 133 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,500 But sometimes there's an argument Why do you always get 134 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:49,400 to sit in this chair dad? Son. 135 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:53,100 I'll tell you, why will you guys know the answer? 136 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:56,800 Because I bought it. That's that's why I get to sit 137 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,700 in that chair. I get up early, stay up late, I 138 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:02,500 work hard. I bought that chair and son. 139 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:08,600 When you get a job and you want to live in your own house and 140 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,300 you got money, you can buy any chair you want and you can sit 141 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:16,300 in it. The other issue is I don't fit 142 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:20,400 anywhere else. You just need to know that, like 143 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:23,800 there's no other piece of furniture other than me sleeping 144 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,100 in my bed that's comfortable in the house. 145 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:31,200 So I'm either going to lay in bed or sit in this chair, that's 146 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,200 it. And so when someone's in my 147 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:39,000 seat, messes, everything up. I entitled this message, the 148 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,100 problem with Kings. I mean, Kings need a throne to 149 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:45,700 rule from. They need a place to sit. 150 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,800 And the people of Israel, they had left Egypt, and they'd 151 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,400 entered into the promised land and they became jealous of other 152 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,500 nations. And they came to the conclusion 153 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,600 that we need a king and that's the problem with Kings. 154 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:07,400 We need them, we need Kings since the very beginning of 155 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,400 God's interaction with people. I mean it begins with Adam and 156 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,900 then it passes to Noah then Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob then 157 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:16,800 you find yourself dealing with Moses and Joshua and Then you 158 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,700 find yourself in the judges and the Israelites there in the 159 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:23,300 promised land and from time to time God raises up judges in 160 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:26,200 times of need to deliver the people from their enemies. 161 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,900 But at the end of the Book of Judges, there's this interesting 162 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:35,400 phrase Judges chapter 21 in those days. 163 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:39,299 Israel had no everybody at all of our locations. 164 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:42,900 Help me out king and everyone did as they saw fit. 165 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:47,000 The irony of that statement, is that up until this moment in 166 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,600 time, Israel had, well technically never had a king. 167 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:55,400 So when it says, in those days, they had no king. 168 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:59,800 Those days have been all days. They've never had a king. 169 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,600 And the irony of that statement is that it's just as true today. 170 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:11,000 When you and I, we don't surrender Our Lives to something 171 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,300 greater than ourselves, something Beyond ourselves. 172 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:19,900 When collectively we, as people don't, choose to serve something 173 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:24,800 other than us, everyone ends up doing what they want. 174 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,500 You know, this to be true parents. 175 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:33,500 Why do you get babysitters? Because when you're gone you 176 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:37,400 want to make sure that the kids don't get to do whatever they 177 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,800 want. So as you leave your Castle, you 178 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,600 install a temporary King to keep the kids in check and then there 179 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,000 comes that ignorant phase in parenting where you go. 180 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:56,100 Our kids are old enough to watch themselves because parents like 181 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:58,400 our kids are great kids they're awesome. 182 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,800 They can watch themselves or just going to be gone. 183 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:06,900 For one night, the amount of high school parties that have 184 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:10,800 been that have been taking care of under the realm of watch 185 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,300 themselves. You soon as you leave the house, 186 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:16,300 kids are like Mom. Dad will be praying for you. 187 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:19,300 Come home quickly, they're gone. Let's get this party. 188 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:24,100 Started is exactly what happens. We know this some we need 189 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:30,000 someone to rule and eventually Everyone realizes that they need 190 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,500 someone to rule over them and so the people came to the prophet 191 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:39,000 Samuel and this is what they said you are all dead and your 192 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,800 son's do not follow your ways. Now appoint a king to lead us 193 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:47,600 such as all the other nations have. 194 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,700 But when they said give us a king to lead us this displeased 195 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,600 Samuel Since the beginning of human history, I know I said the 196 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,900 people of had no king, but at the same time, they've always 197 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,400 had a king. From the beginning of time, 198 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:14,500 their King has always been God. He's LED them, he's protected 199 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:17,000 them. He's delivered them, he's cared 200 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,700 for them. It wasn't Moses. 201 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:21,600 That parted the Red Sea. That was God. 202 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,600 It wasn't Moses who created the pillar of Fire by day and the 203 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,300 pillar are the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of Fire by 204 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:33,400 night that was God to. It wasn't Joshua who cried out 205 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,400 in the walls of Jericho came falling down. 206 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,200 It was god who caused the walls to fall down. 207 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:41,900 It wasn't the judges who were delivering the people of Israel 208 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:45,400 from their enemies. It was God, who was doing that, 209 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:48,900 God was their King. They just didn't want to 210 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:52,700 recognize him as king. And that's one of the problems 211 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:56,600 with Kings is sometimes. We don't want to recognize the 212 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:03,000 one we have. So Samuel, he's displeased and 213 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,900 he goes to the Lord. And this is what he says in 214 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:07,700 verse 8. So he prayed to the Lord and the 215 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:10,700 Lord told him listen to all that, the people are saying to 216 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:12,100 you. It is not you. 217 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:15,500 They have rejected, but they have rejected me as their King 218 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,100 as they have done from the day. I brought them up out of Egypt 219 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:22,100 and till this day forsaking me and serving other gods. 220 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:27,200 So they are doing to you now, listen to them, but warn them 221 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,600 solemnly and let them know that the king who will reign over. 222 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:34,000 Over them will claim or what? What the king, who will reign 223 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,700 over them, will claim as his rights. 224 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:42,000 Here's the problem. With Kings were bad at picking 225 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,700 them. You and I are bad at picking 226 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:51,800 Kings and if you go all the way back in human history everybody 227 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:57,200 else is bad at picking Kings 2. Samuel went out to pick a king 228 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,000 and look how he describes the king. 229 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,900 He finds in first Samuel chapter 9, there was a benjamite, a man 230 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:09,600 of standing whose name was Kish. Kish had a son named Saul as 231 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,100 handsome, a young man as could be found. 232 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:17,700 Anywhere and Israel and he was a head taller than anyone else. 233 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:22,100 They go out looking for a king to rule over them and Samuel 234 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:25,800 just can't get over. How Good. 235 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,300 This guy looks. You think that this would be a 236 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,300 one-off? But that's not it at all. 237 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:37,100 Eventually. God rejects Saul as king and so 238 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:40,900 he tells Samuel to go out and anoint another king, he sends 239 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:44,700 them to the house of Jesse who has a whole bunch of sons. 240 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:49,400 He's bring seven sons out to Samuel and the first time single 241 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:54,000 sees Jesse's oldest son. Look what he says in verse 16. 242 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,300 When are in chapter 16 verse 6, when they arrived, Samuel saw 243 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:01,000 Eli of this is Jesse's oldest son and thought. 244 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:06,000 Surely the Lord's anointed stands here before the Lord, but 245 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,500 look what the Lord says, but the Lord said to Samuel, do not 246 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:15,900 consider his appearance or his height for, I have rejected him, 247 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:19,600 the Lord does not look at the things that people look at 248 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,500 people. Look at the outward appearance, 249 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:24,900 but the Lord looks at the everybody. 250 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:30,300 Help me out hard. Seven sons passed in front of 251 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:34,000 Samuel, the eventual son, that was chosen to be the next king 252 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,700 wasn't even picked. You think you have family 253 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:40,700 problems? Jesse has the the priest over 254 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:43,300 and he's they're ready to anoint, a king. 255 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,700 They don't even invite David to the party. 256 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:49,500 David's out, tending, the Sheep, they get through all seven kids, 257 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:52,700 and Samuel looks at Justin goes, is this all of your sons? 258 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:57,900 And he's like, well, I've got David so they sent for David out 259 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:01,800 in the fields and he comes in and Samuel can't help himself. 260 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:06,300 He acknowledges what David looks like. 261 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:13,900 We're so bad at picking Kings because we look at all the wrong 262 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:19,600 things. We put all kinds of people on 263 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,300 the throne of Our Lives. You've done it. 264 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,100 I've done it. For some of you, you put the 265 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:32,000 approval of a bad dad in The Throne of your heart. 266 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:36,800 I mean, you know, when the lottery came, you got skipped 267 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,200 and you got a bad one and you're still trying to win his approval 268 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,700 and he has taken so much from you because you keep him here in 269 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:48,500 this seat. Some of you, it's the approval 270 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:52,200 of somebody, you desperately, want their approval and so you 271 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,800 have bent your life. So that way it looks more like 272 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,000 their life. And you've traded your god-given 273 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,300 individuality for a bad copy of what God created in somebody. 274 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,700 A else and in doing so you've lost who you are. 275 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,600 Some of us, we've put our emotions on, the throne of our 276 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:18,600 lives, were driven by our anger, our greed, or lust we buy and 277 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,300 spend and live for pleasure all because of the carnal nature. 278 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:24,900 We have we have a we're trying to Quench and never-ending 279 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:27,000 thirst. We're trying to satisfy and 280 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,800 unrelenting hunger. There are some of us who are in 281 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,400 desperate need for a relationship or The happy in our 282 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,100 singleness. And so we go I've just got to go 283 00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:40,000 out and find somebody. And we have all these lists and 284 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,400 attributes of the man or the woman that you want to be in 285 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,300 relationship with and then over time you compromise on all the 286 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,600 things you're looking for and you're just kind of like Do you 287 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,800 have a job? Are you breathing you like to 288 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:59,200 sit here? Because you can Some of you 289 00:16:59,208 --> 00:17:01,100 married people, let me know. I'm not going to let you off the 290 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,000 hook. Some of you married people, 291 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,300 guys. Some of you, you've put your 292 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:11,599 wife here. And she's like, yeah, holla, no, 293 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,900 that's a bad spot. And some of you ladies, you've 294 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:19,000 put your husband here. That's not good. 295 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,400 A parents. You've put your kids here. 296 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:28,600 They rule you. You've seen your kids get 297 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,700 dressed, right? You've seen them come down the 298 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:37,300 stairs, ready to go places and you want those people to sit 299 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,600 here in your life? Not a chance. 300 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:45,000 Not me. I mean you can be crazy. 301 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,100 No. We do that though. 302 00:17:49,108 --> 00:17:53,800 Don't we we put all kinds of people and things on the throne 303 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:59,300 of your heart. We're bad at picking Kings. and 304 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:02,200 just so you know, all the people that you invite to sit here 305 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:07,700 They're happy to do so. They love to sit down for a 306 00:18:07,708 --> 00:18:10,600 little bit. But I need you to remember. 307 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:11,800 They can never give you. What? 308 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,500 Only God can give you and eventually you end up getting 309 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:18,400 mad at them disappointed in them. 310 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:23,500 Because they couldn't give you what you desperately needed and 311 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:27,000 then you push them away. Because you think that they 312 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:35,000 failed you It's not fair. You failed them because you put 313 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,200 them in a seat. They were never supposed to sit 314 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,700 in in the first place. You asked them to be God without 315 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:48,500 beam God. We're just not good at picking 316 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:50,700 Kings. And so then you know what? 317 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:54,500 We do all you've been there after we've put a couple people 318 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:56,200 on the throne. We're like, boy. 319 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,300 Nobody else is really good. At being King. 320 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 You know what? I'm gonna deal. 321 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:06,900 You know what I mean? I need to just take over. 322 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,500 I'm going to be in charge of my life for a little bit at first. 323 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:19,100 It feels pretty good. There's an excitement, there's 324 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:22,900 Freedom, it's high time. We put ourselves in charge. 325 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:25,800 And it seems like a pretty good idea. 326 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:33,000 But Proverbs 14:12 it says there's a way that appears to be 327 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,500 right? But in the end it leads to help 328 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:39,900 me out. Well it sounds like a pretty 329 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:43,700 good idea for you to be in charge of your life but that 330 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:46,800 pretty good idea. It leads somewhere. 331 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:53,400 That leads to death. I'll be honest though, sometimes 332 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,100 when we try to sit in a seat that Belongs to God it's kind of 333 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:00,600 cute. Like when my kids are sitting in 334 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,000 my chair underneath, my blanket watching TV. 335 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,000 It's kind of cute when they come outside wearing one of my hats. 336 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,200 It doesn't fit any kind of hangs off the side. 337 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:12,100 It's kind of cute. What I'm working outside and 338 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:14,500 they put on my Muck Boots and they're walking around in them 339 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,400 and they're just dragging them everywhere because they can't 340 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,500 get their feet off the ground. It's cute. 341 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,200 It's cute that they want to be like me. 342 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:28,600 The problem is is when they want to be me. 343 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:34,000 When the oldest son starts trying to discipline the other 344 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,200 younger kids in the house. Like whoa, whoa, whoa, boy, just 345 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,000 because you sit in my chair just because you wear my hat, just 346 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,600 because you can put your leg in my in my shoes. 347 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:52,500 Doesn't mean you're me. So you and I we we sit in the 348 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:57,200 god seat. And that's when things really 349 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,200 start to fall apart for us, because, what we don't realize 350 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,300 is that when we sit in this seat in our lives, we become 351 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,000 ultimately responsible for how our life turns out. 352 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:17,200 You take your life into your own hands which means you're 353 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,900 responsible for all of it. We want to rule. 354 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:29,800 But deep down inside we don't want the responsibility. we were 355 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,800 driving somewhere and I had the kids in the car and Jennifer and 356 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,900 one of my nieces and I hinted that I was going to take the 357 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:43,600 kids to Dairy, Queen, possibly And we were driving in my kids 358 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,300 were just acting out of pocket. You've been there, maybe. 359 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:51,200 And I just was like, I don't want to spend money on getting 360 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,900 these boys ice cream. And so I turned to their mom 361 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:57,400 because she would know what I was going to do. 362 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,900 And I said, I'll just be honest with you. 363 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:02,100 This is kind of where I'm at. She goes, I completely agree 364 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:04,600 which was like a huge first for us that we agreed on a parenting 365 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,600 move. And so she articulated the news 366 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,300 to my boys that they would not. Not be getting ice cream because 367 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:16,700 of how they were behaving. Now, I have one of my niece's in 368 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:18,000 the car and she's been fantastic. 369 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,400 So she deserves ice cream. So I'm still going to get her 370 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,400 ice cream and I've been really well behaved. 371 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:30,600 So, so I'm eating ice cream. But my two boys aren't getting 372 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,600 any. My oldest son, full-blown 373 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,500 repentance that. I'm so sorry. 374 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:39,200 I want to be a better son. I didn't know I'm so I 375 00:22:39,208 --> 00:22:41,300 appreciate. I appreciate you telling me that 376 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:43,000 but you're not getting any ice cream. 377 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:48,500 Youngest son does not take the news. 378 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:55,300 Well, by the time, we finally get home, he doesn't want to be 379 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:59,800 a part of our house anymore. So I sit down in my chair. 380 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:06,000 I don't want to be here anymore. Well now I'm in the parenting 381 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,100 move. Like what do you do? 382 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,500 You've been there. So I first of all I go it's 383 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:14,300 really sad Mannix that you love ice cream more than your mom. 384 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:20,000 Right now, I do. I get it man. 385 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,800 Dairy Queen's. Got some good stuff going on. 386 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:31,600 I'm not gonna so then he's like, I'm leaving He gets to the door. 387 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,700 Opens it like where you going? I said I'm leaving. 388 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:41,900 With those clothes. What? 389 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,500 With those clothes. What do you mean Dad? 390 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,600 Why bought those clothes? Those are mine. 391 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:55,300 So, you can go just now with those clothes. 392 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,100 So my son shuts, the slams, the door and goes back upstairs. 393 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:04,400 I'm like, yeah, I'm a smart guy. Next thing I know about 2 394 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,500 minutes later. My son comes down the stairs 395 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:07,600 wearing. Nothing but a towel. 396 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:11,100 Opens the front door of the house. 397 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,500 Throws the towel back, inside shuts. 398 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:24,000 The door. Yeah, I give out classes charge 399 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:29,800 and my wife is now fully attuned to what my parenting processes. 400 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:34,700 And my son, it's 8:30 at night. My kids naked on the front 401 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:41,700 porch. I'm still eating. 402 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:47,000 This is like just so, you know, this was like two weeks ago. 403 00:24:47,100 --> 00:24:50,500 Okay, this is not like when he was little notes like two weeks 404 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:54,000 ago, Next thing I know the door opens. 405 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,100 I'm staying one more night and then I'm leaving. 406 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,200 He wanted to be in charge but he didn't want the responsibility 407 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:09,000 of being in charge. And you and I we like to sit in 408 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,200 the seat but over time we realize that this is not the 409 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,100 seat we were ever supposed to sit in. 410 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:21,700 The other problem with Kings is that, there's an illusion that 411 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:25,200 if we could get the right King life wouldn't be so tough. 412 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:29,800 But the truth is all kings are tough. 413 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,300 That if we could get the right King, maybe we wouldn't have so 414 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,000 much hardship. So much adversity, so much 415 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,200 difficulty. It's just not the case. 416 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:46,600 All kings are tough. I mean, Jesus says love your 417 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,900 enemies, be honest with yourself. 418 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:53,100 Is that tough? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 419 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:56,700 So is letting hate take over your life. 420 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:02,400 All kings are tough. Jesus says to bless those who 421 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,900 persecute you. I think we can all agree. 422 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:10,300 That's tough. Yeah, but so is letting anger 423 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:16,100 control your life. All kings are tough King. 424 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:22,000 Jesus says, we're supposed to forgive that's tough, but so is 425 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,300 closing yourself off from everybody else. 426 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:28,800 So you never get hurt again. That's tough too. 427 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:35,300 Jesus says that we're supposed to live a life of service and 428 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:40,000 that's tough. But so, is the loneliness that 429 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:46,400 sets in from living a life that only benefits you all kings are 430 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,800 tough. You just have to choose which 431 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,900 tough King. Do you want to have? 432 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,600 The promise of when you pick Jesus as your king is that he 433 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,900 actually provide you with the strength and the power to live 434 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:06,100 out that life. He gives it to you because you 435 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:08,900 can't do it on your own, no matter what choice you make. 436 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:13,700 It's going to be tough but one tough comes with Godly strength 437 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:15,700 and power. Look what it says in 2nd 438 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:22,400 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 3 but the Lord or the king is 439 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,700 faithful. That means you can trust him 440 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,900 whatever. He says he will do, you can 441 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:31,800 trust him and he will strengthen you and protect you from the 442 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,000 evil one. What is he promising? 443 00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:37,700 Thing to do for you to strengthen you and to protect 444 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:42,700 you. All kings are tough but not all 445 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:46,500 kings are good. Most of us know this in our 446 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:49,700 hearts and our minds and many of us, we know this from experience 447 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:53,500 that not all kings are good. I mean, all Kings Rule, and 448 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:56,600 govern and direct. But all the other kings out 449 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,100 there. They take from you, they take 450 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:02,600 your identity, your happiness, your possessions, your freedom. 451 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:05,400 Just so, you know, Jesus Takes Two. 452 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:10,000 But what he takes is, he takes your sins away. 453 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,200 All kings are tough, but not all kings are good. 454 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:18,700 I mean, Kings Rule and all other kings. 455 00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:22,700 They, they will temporarily. They move on they extract as 456 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:26,600 much value as they possibly can from you, and then they leave. 457 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,200 But Jesus is rain, isn't temporary. 458 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,900 It's forever. There's no end to his rule, all 459 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:37,400 Kings serve other kings, they serve themselves. 460 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:41,000 It's about their welfare, their expansion, their Dominion. 461 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,700 But Jesus, Is a different kind of King. 462 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:52,500 He's the kind of King that came to, you know, serve who you and 463 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:57,200 give his life as a ransom for many all Kings protect, they 464 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,500 protect the reputation. They protect their standing but 465 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:04,700 Jesus instead of protecting himself, laid himself down and 466 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:11,300 in doing so protects you and me from the sting of death, all 467 00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:18,100 kings are tough. But not all kings are good. and 468 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:20,200 so some of us we get to the point where we're going, you 469 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:25,500 know what, we should let Jesus sit on a throne but the problem 470 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:34,500 with true Kings Is true Kings. Don't sit on small Thrones. 471 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,500 And that's what a lot of us have tried to do, isn't it? 472 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,200 Instead of giving Jesus, this part of our life, we'll make 473 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,500 something for him. Something we're more comfortable 474 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:49,000 with and go Jesus. You can sit here. 475 00:29:54,300 --> 00:30:02,300 True Kings. They're not supposed to sit on 476 00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:06,400 small Thrones. I mean, tell me if this is you, 477 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,000 you said Jesus, you can sit on the throne of my Sunday. just 478 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,800 not my Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 479 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:22,600 Saturday, Jesus, you can sit on the throne of my prayer life. 480 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,300 Just not the Throne of my real life. 481 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:30,500 Now Jesus, you can sit on the throne of my problems, you just 482 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:34,000 can't sit on the throne of my successes Jesus. 483 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,200 You can sit on the throne and getting me a job but you can't 484 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,100 sit on the throne of my finances. 485 00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:43,600 Jesus, you can't sit on the throne who I marry. 486 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,000 But you're getting, I'm going to ask you to sit on the throne to 487 00:30:47,008 --> 00:30:49,100 try to put my marriage back together, that I shouldn't have 488 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:54,900 gotten in the first place. Jesus, you can sit on the throne 489 00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:58,400 of my sickness. But you can't sit on the throne 490 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,400 of my health. It's my life and I want to do 491 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:11,000 whatever I want with it. Just so, you know, we weren't 492 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:16,000 the first people to do this, to trying to get Jesus, to sit on a 493 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,200 throne. He was never designed to sit on 494 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,300 when Jesus came here to Earth. That's what the Israelites kept 495 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:24,700 trying to do. They kept trying to get Jesus to 496 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:31,000 become their Earthly King, If only he would step into his 497 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,700 rightful place, be king of the Jews, overthrow the Roman 498 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:37,400 government sit on an Earthly throne. 499 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:42,000 Then everything would be okay. They wanted to make Jesus a 500 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,100 political King, they wanted him to be in charge of their 501 00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:52,300 government. and Jesus, well, He wanted to be the king of their 502 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:57,100 heart. Your heart is a bigger Throne 503 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:05,900 than the Oval Office. Jesus came for you to sit here. 504 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,800 That's where he wants to rain. So, let me ask you a question, 505 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:17,200 who's King in your life? I know, you know, the right what 506 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,900 the answer should be. I know, you know what? 507 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:25,200 The answer could be? I'm asking what is the answer 508 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,700 right now? Who's King in your life? 509 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,200 Maybe there's somebody sitting in a chair that you need to 510 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,700 boot. Maybe the person you need to 511 00:32:34,708 --> 00:32:38,600 boot, is you maybe if you're looking, you're seeing that 512 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,100 Jesus is sitting here and you need to get rid of that chair 513 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:47,200 all together, and invite Jesus to sit here, Every single week 514 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,600 we show you, baptism videos of people getting baptized before 515 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,500 the they get baptized we ask them if they're ready to take 516 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:58,900 Jesus Christ as their lord and savior savior because he's 517 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:00,400 saving them. We realize that we've got 518 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,500 ourselves in a situation that we can never fix ourselves and that 519 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,900 we need to be rescued from it. There's no way we could fix it 520 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:13,200 ourselves but we also say we're making him our Lord, another 521 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:24,100 word for Lord is King. Isn't the reason Jesus is having 522 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:28,100 to save us. Is because we've been our own 523 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:31,600 King and we got ourselves into the mess. 524 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:37,800 He's not just saving you, he is replacing himself as the ruler 525 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:44,400 in your life, and some of us need to get off of his throne. 526 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,100 He bought it, he paid the price for it. 527 00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:54,000 Just so, you know, you can bow to him now or you can bow to him 528 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,700 later. Either way, it'll happen. 529 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,400 Philippians chapter 2 says this therefore God exalted him to the 530 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,700 highest place and gave him. The name. 531 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:03,800 That is above every name that at the name of Us every knee should 532 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,700 bow in heaven and on Earth and under the Earth. 533 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,000 And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the 534 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,300 glory of God, the Father, you can bow now or you'll be forced 535 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:17,199 to buy later. There will come a time when 536 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:23,100 Jesus will come back to rain. But to those of us who've 537 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:27,000 already made him Lord and savior of Our Lives to those of us who 538 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000 are already in an intimate personal relationship with Jesus 539 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,600 Christ, that will be a wonderful day. but to those of us who have 540 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:40,000 it, It won't. Second thing I need you to 541 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,800 really contemplate here. Is everybody else looks at the 542 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,699 outward appearance? But God is looking at your 543 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:51,600 heart. When Jesus showed up here on 544 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,600 Earth, he would interact with these religious leaders. 545 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,900 And he would use this phrase called whitewashed tombs. 546 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,200 They looked so pretty on the outside, but they were full of 547 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,600 dead things. There's a tendency for those of 548 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,700 us who've been in relationship with Jesus for a while to say 549 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:11,400 the right things and to do the right things, but our heart 550 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,700 could still be far from Jesus. We could be a whitewashed tomb. 551 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,800 Everybody around of us is amazed at how spiritual we are, how 552 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,700 committed we are, how serious? We take our faith and yet, God, 553 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:28,300 looks at our heart. What that means is you can fool 554 00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:31,200 your boyfriend, you can fool your girlfriend, you can fool 555 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,400 your mom and dad, you can fool the people you Come to church 556 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,200 with the people. You sit with but you can't fool 557 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:43,900 him. so, just be real with Him and acknowledge. 558 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,800 Who's sitting on the throne. We called this sermon series 559 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,400 360, Jesus. He's, yes. 560 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,000 Jesus came to serve, and Jesus came to save and Jesus came to 561 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,800 love, but if you don't recognize that, Jesus also came to rule 562 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:06,500 over you, you don't have a full picture, a full 360-degree 563 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:10,000 understanding of Jesus. He came to rule and he came to 564 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:17,700 rule in your heart. Second thing is, if they're, if 565 00:36:17,707 --> 00:36:20,100 you're looking at your life and you're giving this over to 566 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:23,600 Jesus, and this over to Jesus and this over to Jesus, but 567 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,300 there's other areas of your life that you haven't turned over to 568 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:33,000 him yet. Jesus wants 360-degree access to 569 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,900 you. My question is, will you let him 570 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:38,900 have it? We're moving to a time of 571 00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:44,400 decision. Thank you for joining us. 572 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,400 A special thank you to those of you that choose to give to this 573 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,200 ministry it's because of your generosity that this ministry is 574 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,700 possible. 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