1 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,300 My name is Kyle served as lead Pastor here, I want to welcome 2 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:11,500 you to New Life Community Church this morning, glad that you've 3 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:14,800 chosen to be here today. If you remember it's good to see 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,300 you again for visiting with us. Welcome, we're glad that you're 5 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,600 here. If you have your Bible, which I 6 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:24,800 hope you do. We'll be in. 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,600 Jeremiah the book of Jeremiah chapter 1 oz where will be 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,800 started. Today, I'll quote from some 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,400 different Passages at times as we go through this, but this 10 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,100 will be our jumping-off Point. Anyway, Jeremiah chapter one, 11 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:42,500 we'll look at verses four through eight and a moment. 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 We are in the middle of a series called what happens when we 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,600 worship and we're looking at what takes place when we show up 14 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,300 on Sunday mornings, what's the significance of this? 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,200 What's happening? When we come together for a 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,900 worship service? So not just the singing, right? 17 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:05,200 It's everything that falls into the category of the time. 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,600 We from the time, we start through the time we finish. 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,200 And some of the things we've looked at or just really 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,600 foundational truths about what's taking place when we worship 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,400 what happens in Christian worship each week. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,300 For example, we've talked about how we meet with God, you know, 23 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:28,000 when we come together, we are meeting with God, when we come 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,900 together to meet with God and we behold God, we are being 25 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:35,600 conformed to the image of his son, which is what we're told in 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,400 Corinthians. Not only are we meeting with God 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,200 being conformed. We are experiencing really 28 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:45,300 Covenant. Renewal. 29 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:49,300 God is rehearsing his Covenant with us as we come together. 30 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:51,000 We're going to talk some more about that today. 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 But what we find is that God is always faithful to his Covenant 32 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,600 even though we are not and then we rehearse the gospel in that, 33 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,500 you can't rehearse the Covenant without rehearsing the gospel. 34 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:06,600 We have to see that we are inadequate that we are 35 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:11,300 deficient, but East is all sufficient as our savior and so 36 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:14,400 we see Christ. And then last week, we talked 37 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,600 about how we commune together. This is nothing less. 38 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,200 It's a lot more than, but it's nothing less than the communion 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,200 of saints. It's the coming together of 40 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:28,700 God's people to worship God and so beginning today and over the 41 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:30,900 next few weeks, we're going to examine. 42 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:35,000 We're going to examine the conversation that's taking place 43 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 on a Sunday morning between God and his people. 44 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,900 What What pieces are there in this conversation? 45 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:46,100 And why do they matter this caught this conversation with in 46 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:49,400 Christian worship is what gives us the gospel shape to each 47 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,900 service. It's why we do what we do and we 48 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:54,700 try to do it in the order that we do it in. 49 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 And so the conversation that takes place between Christians 50 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,400 and God on a Sunday morning. Some of those pieces are this, 51 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,700 there's a call to worship. There's a confession of sin 52 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:12,600 during the service. There's preaching there's 53 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,400 fellowship with God. When we hear about our new 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,500 identity, we receive a new identity from Christ. 55 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:22,000 Then they're singing, We Sing new songs, right? 56 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,200 There's a new song in our heart and we sing those things and so 57 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,600 we'll see how those things collectively and individually 58 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,200 form us as Christians. They are telling the story of 59 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,400 the Gospel over and over again. And today, we're going to 60 00:03:37,408 --> 00:03:41,700 examine the call to worship. Why do we do a call to worship? 61 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,800 What's the purpose of a call to worship? 62 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:47,300 Just as our covenant relationship with God, begins 63 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:50,300 with him calling us unto himself. 64 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:53,500 So to it is fitting for our worship, on a Sunday morning, to 65 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:57,900 begin with God, calling us unto himself and worship. 66 00:03:58,300 --> 00:04:01,800 And so, if you're taking notes and kids, you can write this 67 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,700 down as well and your worship God. 68 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,200 The main thought today that I will share with you this in the 69 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:14,400 call to worship. God calls us to join his work. 70 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:22,100 Here's our cries for help and Promises to be with us. 71 00:04:22,100 --> 00:04:25,900 Despite our deficiencies. I'll repeat that in the call to 72 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,000 worship. God calls us to join his work. 73 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:33,400 Here's our cries for help and Promises to be with us. 74 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:39,500 Despite our deficiencies. Now we're going to read Jeremiah 75 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:42,100 chapter 1 verses 4 through 8. If you would, would you please 76 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:48,500 stand for that? When I'm finished reading, I'll 77 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:51,100 say this is the word of the Lord, I ask that you respond. 78 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:57,000 Thanks be to God. Jeremiah 1 verses 4 through 8, 79 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,300 not of the word of the Lord came to me saying before I formed you 80 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:05,800 in the womb, I knew you and before you were born I 81 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,100 consecrated you. I appointed you a prophet to the 82 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:15,300 nation's then I said Lord God behold, I do not know how to 83 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:18,800 speak for. I am only a youth but the Lord 84 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:25,100 said to me, do not say I am only a youth for to All To whom Send 85 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:31,000 you, you shall go and whatever. I command you, you shall speak. 86 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:33,400 You're not be afraid of them for. 87 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,800 I am with you to deliver you declares the Lord. 88 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,300 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 89 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,900 We pray for us in the you be seated. 90 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:50,100 Heavenly Father. We know our deficiencies well 91 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,500 and so we thank you Lord that you have called us into a 92 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:58,300 relationship with you. Oh, Lord. 93 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:02,000 That in sending your son and hearing the gospel proclaimed. 94 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,200 You have drawn Us by your spirit unto yourself and so Lord. 95 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,900 We are here today is as men and women and boys and girls whose 96 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:16,000 hearts are growing more in love with you. 97 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:20,800 And the Lord, as we hear your word preached today, would you 98 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,300 help us to adore? You could you help us to have a 99 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:28,400 stronger faith in? You would you deepen our 100 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,900 understanding of who you are, Lord, that we might be more 101 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:37,200 fully committed to you that we might become mature men and 102 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:42,400 women in the Lord. Father, we understand again, as 103 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,300 I mentioned, our deficiency and coming to your word that without 104 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:50,400 your spirit, Lord, we are unfit unable to understand it. 105 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,100 And so we asked for the help of your spirit today, Lord, would 106 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:57,400 you make our hearts like good soil today? 107 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:02,100 Help our hearts be receptive to the seed. 108 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,400 That is your word to the watering, which is your word 109 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,700 that it might grow and bear much fruit in our lives. 110 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,500 Lord, we declare our allegiance to you. 111 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:16,200 We love you. We love your word. 112 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,200 We are grateful to be here, and now, it's in the Name of Christ. 113 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,700 I pray. Amen. 114 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:22,600 Amen. You may be seated. 115 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:31,000 So we may ask the question. Why is it that every time you 116 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 step foot in here on a Sunday morning? 117 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,300 If you're on time, right? That you hear a call to worship. 118 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,500 Why does it worship service begin with a call to worship? 119 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,300 It has everything to do with the power of God's word. 120 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:51,700 Is everything to do with the power of God's word. 121 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:57,800 Our God is a god of words. He is a God who speaks. 122 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,000 He has not only given us his word but he's given us the 123 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,900 ability as we just prayed for to hear and to respond to his word 124 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:11,600 as well. When God speaks great things 125 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:16,000 happen, when he primarily uses his spoken word to accomplish 126 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,800 his purposes in the world and in the lives of his people. 127 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:27,400 When God speaks things come to life, things grow Throw things 128 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,300 take place, and this is, what is happening in, Jeremiah 1 as God 129 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,700 calls the prophet to do his work, I'm just going to kind of 130 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:37,299 repeat it here, so we're seeing it in this light. 131 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:41,200 Now, the word of the Lord came to me saying now, the word of 132 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,700 the Lord came to me, the prophet writes saying, before I formed 133 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:48,600 you in the womb, I knew you and before you were born, I 134 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,500 consecrated you. I pointed you a prophet to the 135 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,900 nation's. I mean, oh, what a prophet does. 136 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:01,000 He takes the word of God, to the nation's, right? 137 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,000 This is what a prophet in the Old Testament was meant for, 138 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,500 he's taking the word of God, to the nation's, he's bearing on 139 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:09,900 himself, the word of God, given to him by the spirit of God, and 140 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:13,500 he speaking it for the nation's to here. 141 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,800 And so the word of the Lord comes to him and calls him, but 142 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,400 then the word of the Lord is going to be on him as he's being 143 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,000 sent so that he might prophesy to the nation's. 144 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:26,800 Jeremiah says, this is too much for me. 145 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:32,400 Says Ah, Lord God behold, I do not know how to speak for, I'm 146 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,300 only a youth. Jeremiah Was Young and the idea 147 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:40,300 of going to rulers going to Nations, going to the places 148 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:43,500 that God might call him to stand up for God, to speak the word of 149 00:09:43,508 --> 00:09:47,300 God to these people was a bit, too much was overwhelming for 150 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:50,700 him. But the Lord said to me, again, 151 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:54,000 we see the word of God. Do not say, I'm only a youth. 152 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,100 For to All To whom. I send you, you shall go and 153 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:01,000 whatever. I command you, you shall speak. 154 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:03,000 You're not be afraid of them for. 155 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,400 I am with you to deliver you declares the Lord. 156 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,500 Incredible. So we see, we see things like he 157 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:12,600 said to me the word of the Lord came to me. 158 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,900 He's sending me to the nation's as a prophet which means I'm 159 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:19,300 carrying the word of the Lord. And then he he understands that 160 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:22,500 Jeremiah thinks he's deficient and he assures him in his 161 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:24,800 deficiencies that know. I'm going to be with you and 162 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,100 whatever. I command you, you shall speak. 163 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:31,100 Don't be afraid of them. For, I will deliver you declares 164 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:33,500 the Lord so it ends with Jeremiah starts with. 165 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:36,600 The Lord said unto me and it ends here with he declares. 166 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:39,700 The Lord. So God is speaking on the front 167 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:41,000 end. Speaking on the back end, he 168 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,400 speaking throughout the word of the Lord is, what's prominent In 169 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,900 this passage? It's incredible. 170 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:50,000 That a young Jeremiah would be cinched. 171 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,600 Sure. But the incredible thing that's 172 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:57,200 really taken place here is that God is speaking to his man and 173 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,700 he's equipping him for the work that he's called him to do. 174 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,600 This passage really shows us five really going to go through 175 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,400 these fairly quickly. But five incredible things about 176 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:12,700 the all powerful word of God. The first is this God's word has 177 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:16,800 Authority? God's word has Authority. 178 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,500 The word of the Lord came to me saying before I formed you in 179 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:24,700 the womb. I knew you, this is an 180 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:27,800 authoritative message. First, it's the word of the 181 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:33,000 Lord, that comes right, but then it's before I formed you, I knew 182 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,000 you, it's authoritative God's word carries authoritative 183 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,600 power. We must yield to God's word, not 184 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,800 his word yield to us. One of the great problems with 185 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:48,600 Bible misinterpretation today is that we come To the word of God 186 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,300 with our presuppositions are preconceived notions. 187 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:55,900 Our preconceived beliefs about things and we try to insert 188 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:59,500 them, mash them into the word of God and we get uncomfortable 189 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:03,100 with God's word when it says things that we don't believe. 190 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:08,000 Or when it says things that we don't like, when it uses a word 191 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,500 that we think. Oh, that's a tough word. 192 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:14,300 That's when we get uncomfortable with the word of God, but we 193 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,700 must be a people who yield to the word of God. 194 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:20,500 Not force God's word to yield to our word. 195 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:22,800 Amen. We are not authoritative. 196 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:29,900 We are not all powerful. Creation does not tell the 197 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:34,300 Creator, how he should run things, we yield to him, we 198 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:38,300 worship Him. And when he speaks creation must 199 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:43,500 listen, in fact, during those seven days of creation, even 200 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,800 this is incredible, even nothingness, obeyed, God's word, 201 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:53,500 like he speaks into the void. We read in Genesis 1 verse 2 202 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:56,200 that the Earth was formless and void. 203 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,000 That there was a Darkness there that there was nothing. 204 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:08,000 And God speaks into the formless void, world and nothingness, 205 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,600 obeys, his commands. Meaning he brings out of 206 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,100 nothing. Everything he creates all things 207 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:20,200 out of no things, right? And is called a, Jeremiah God, 208 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,900 reminds the prophet who formed him in the womb. 209 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:28,500 He's saying before I formed you, I knew you. there's nothing that 210 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:33,300 will make a man feel small than to talk to someone who is able 211 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:36,600 to say to him listen before you were even formed in your 212 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:43,700 mother's womb I knew you Right? I mean, whatever deficiencies. 213 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:47,200 You think you have before that? God, he's saying, no, listen, I 214 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,100 know you better than, you know yourself. 215 00:13:50,100 --> 00:13:53,000 I know what I've placed in you. I have consecrated you. 216 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,400 I have set you aside, right? That's what we see next. 217 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,900 God's word and parts blessing in life. 218 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,500 First, God's word has Authority, second God's word and parts 219 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:06,600 blessing in life before you were born, I consecrated you, I 220 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,600 appointed you a prophet to the nation's, so it's by God's word 221 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,900 that He blesses the prophet, he gives him a new life, I 222 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,300 consecrated you, I appointed you. 223 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:19,900 What's God saying? God, saying literally to him, I 224 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:23,000 have set you aside. I have named you a prophet to 225 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 the nation's. And what does this mean for 226 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,700 Jeremiah? It means that God has called 227 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:33,800 Jeremiah to carry God's all-powerful word to the 228 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:39,000 nation's to do the work of God. This is God's blessing. 229 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,300 This is life for Jeremiah. This is good for him. 230 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,700 The third thing we see is that God's word brings a curse to the 231 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:51,900 rebellious God's word, brings a curse to the rebellious. 232 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:56,500 We must recognize, there's a warning here in this passage to 233 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:58,900 those who are rebellious. He says I appointed you a 234 00:14:58,908 --> 00:15:01,500 prophet to the nation's for to All To whom. 235 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:05,400 I send you, you shall go and whatever I command you, you 236 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,700 shall speak. And then, what does he say? 237 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:11,900 Do not be afraid of them. For. 238 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:14,800 I am with you to deliver you declares the Lord. 239 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:22,800 Well, if God's word was merely just rainbows and unicorns for 240 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,300 everyone, then why would Jeremiah need to be afraid at 241 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:28,800 all? Right? 242 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:31,300 We recognize is that when the word of the Lord comes to a 243 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:35,600 people that comes with warnings and admonitions as well, it 244 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,800 comes with blessing. Yes, but the blessing comes when 245 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,500 you obey God, there is cursing as well. 246 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:45,000 For those who disobey God. Here's some things about 247 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,300 Jeremiah's life. After several years of preaching 248 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:53,600 Jeremiah's family turned against him, I plotted to kill him. 249 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,200 Over the years, he was whipped and put in the stocks, he was 250 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,100 attacked by a mob. He was threatened by the king. 251 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:05,000 He was ridiculed some of zedekiah's princes had Jeremiah 252 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,400 arrested beaten accused of treason and thrown in jail. 253 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:13,800 If that wasn't enough, he was thrown into an empty, well, as 254 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,700 well. He lived through The Siege of 255 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:21,100 Jerusalem, along with the rest. And was there as the people were 256 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:25,200 taken away as captives. Perhaps worst of all though, 257 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,700 Jeremiah Was Alone. He was not allowed to marry his 258 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:33,000 family, abandoned him, the people turned against him and 259 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,200 didn't believe him. He was alone with the knowledge 260 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,600 of the whores coming for Judah. He knew these things that the 261 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,700 Lord was going to do and yet no one would listen. 262 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:46,200 The prophet endured so much hardship, because of God's word, 263 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,700 right? He's carrying God's word. 264 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:52,300 He's not making things up. He's not going to pick fights. 265 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:55,500 He's just saying what the Lord has told him to say. 266 00:16:56,900 --> 00:16:59,800 And he knew so much hardship, because of the word of God. 267 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:01,900 Why was this? Why was their hardship? 268 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:04,900 Then from the word of God, if it wasn't a curse to the 269 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:08,800 rebellious, Right. It was a curse and so, they 270 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,800 attacked the Prophet. The Prophet was beaten, the 271 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,500 prophet was thrown in jail. The prophet was a cursed by the 272 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:21,099 people, though, blessed by God, Jeremiah witnessed both in 273 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:25,099 foresight and real-time the destruction of his people upon 274 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:27,200 judah's captivity. He pinned the book of 275 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,200 Lamentations, which is a highly poetic devis, and his 276 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,200 devastatingly beautiful series of immense about the fall of 277 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,900 God's people. Jeremiah spent 40 years telling 278 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:45,900 the people what would happen, 40 years, Prophesying in the name 279 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:48,400 of the Lord. What was the come warning? 280 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,300 The people and they did not listen. 281 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:56,800 And yet Jeremiah's Prophecy from God, reminds his people, there 282 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,800 will come a time of repentance and restoration mixed in. 283 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,800 All of those warnings is a promise from God that he is 284 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,600 going to be faithful to his Covenant. 285 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,400 Even though the people have been unfaithful, God's word, brings 286 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,300 pain and turmoil and most importantly, it pronounces the 287 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:17,100 definitive end to the work of Satan. 288 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,000 For thing, we see about God's word from this passage is that 289 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,100 it communicates with his peace that God communicates with his 290 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:28,400 people by his word. Now the word of the Lord came to 291 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:35,000 me saying I appointed you a prophet to the nation's It is by 292 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,700 the word of God. That he enters into relationship 293 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:44,200 with his people. It is by his word through His 294 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,800 prophets that he communicates with his people, as well. 295 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,600 All throughout the Bible, we see that God is communicating with 296 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,600 his people, by his word, he instructs. 297 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,700 Noah, he calls Abraham, he commission's Moses, he covenants 298 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:04,100 with David all by his word, he calls his profits by his word in 299 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:07,800 the New Testament. He is doing the The very same 300 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,400 things, the word becomes flesh, Jesus Christ, dwells among the 301 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,700 people, the preaches, the gospel proclaims. 302 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:18,700 The kingdom of God is at hand dies for it. 303 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,400 Is resurrected empowers, his Heap is people by what the 304 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,400 spirit of God to do, what to proclaim the word of God. 305 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:32,200 This new gospel message that Christ has died to save sinners. 306 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:38,300 So it's by his word, always has been that God is in relationship 307 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:41,800 with his people that God is bringing Covenant Fellowship to 308 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,700 us in the scriptures, we see that God speaks first. 309 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:49,800 Always his creation often responds with their inability. 310 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,100 You know? Isaiah says, woe is me. 311 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,200 Jeremiah says, I'm too young. Moses says, I don't speak. 312 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:01,200 Well, right, everybody had an issue, but when the Lord says 313 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:03,900 this is what's going to happen. And when the Lord Says, I'm 314 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:06,300 calling you to do this, guess what? 315 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:11,000 It's exactly what took place because the Lord's word is 316 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:17,400 all-powerful Jeremiah responds with his inability. 317 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:20,200 I'm too young. I don't know how to speak. 318 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,800 Well, And so, God speaks again. And this time he reassures 319 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:28,100 Jeremiah that I will be with you. 320 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:32,700 You have nothing to fear, we see the same thing in the Great 321 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:36,200 Commission of Christ. He speaking to his disciples in 322 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,600 Matthew 28:18 through 20, which is meant for us as well. 323 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,400 It says, in Jesus came and said to them, right? 324 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,900 So God again, initiates God, the son is initiating, this Covenant 325 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:52,300 relationship and he says all authority in heaven and on Earth 326 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:55,800 has been given to me go, therefore, and make disciples 327 00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:58,700 Peoples of all Nations, baptizing them in the name of 328 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:02,900 the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them 329 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:06,700 to observe all that. I have commanded you and behold 330 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,300 was Christ. Say I am with you always to the 331 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:12,600 end of the age, was that mean for us? 332 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,700 Not one of us can come to the Great Commission and say the 333 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:22,200 Lord, you're saying this but you don't know my deficiencies. 334 00:21:22,900 --> 00:21:25,900 You don't know mine and abilities in this, you don't 335 00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:28,000 know how messed up. I am. 336 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,600 Why, why can't we do that? Because the Lord himself is 337 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:35,200 says, behold. As if he's anticipating our 338 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,600 rebuttal, I Am With You Always even to the end of the age. 339 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:45,100 And just as Paul says, if Christ is for us who can be against us. 340 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,800 All right, have all power in Christ. 341 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,000 Jesus comes to them, Jesus speaks to them, Jesus instructs 342 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,100 them, Jesus anticipates their expressions of inadequacies and 343 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:01,700 so he reassures them that he will be with them, always to the 344 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:05,900 end of the age. Fifth thing we see here about 345 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:09,500 God's word, is that God's word is the content of his 346 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:13,700 relationship with his people. It's the content by which the 347 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:17,300 relationship functions. It's the content by which the 348 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:21,600 relationship works, but the Lord said to me, Jeremiah said 349 00:22:21,608 --> 00:22:26,600 rights, do not say, I am only a youth for to All To whom I 350 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,000 command you. You shall speak, then the Lord 351 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,900 put out his hand and touched my mouth. 352 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:34,000 This is in verse 9. And the Lord said to me behold, 353 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,900 I have put My words in your mouth, amen. 354 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:45,300 And God's word. We have all his promises and 355 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:50,000 God's word. We have all his degrees and 356 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,800 God's word. We have all his commands. 357 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,200 We have all his Comforts. We have everything that we need 358 00:22:56,300 --> 00:23:00,800 for life and godliness. Second Timothy 3 tells us in 359 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:06,900 God's word, we like nothing of that, which we need to live for 360 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:10,600 the Lord. It can be found in God's word. 361 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,300 His word is the foundation for our Christian Life. 362 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,500 It's the way it's been for Millennia. 363 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,600 It's always been the word of God coming. 364 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:23,400 To the people that relationship begins with God. 365 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,500 And so it's by his spoken word which is eventually been 366 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:30,000 thankfully, we have it all written down here. 367 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:35,300 So that it may be passed on. That's always been the 368 00:23:35,308 --> 00:23:38,100 foundation for his Covenant relationship with his people and 369 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:41,100 Deuteronomy chapter 6. As the people are preparing to 370 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:44,000 take the land to go into the land of which there are Idol 371 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,700 worshipers, and murderers, and idolaters, and adulterers and 372 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:55,700 all sorts of evil people. Moses says to the people from 373 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,200 God. Let these things. 374 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,500 My commands the commands of God be on your lips. 375 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:10,300 Be written on your hearts, teach them to your children as you go 376 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:13,300 along the way as you rise in the morning, as you go to bed at 377 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:16,700 night, as you sit around the table to eat, teach these things 378 00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:19,100 to your children. Why? 379 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:24,000 Because that has always been the way that Covenant relationship 380 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,600 with God. Has been founded, its by the 381 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,900 word of God. And it's in the word of God that 382 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:32,900 we come to know. God, it's in the passing on the 383 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,900 things of God to the Next Generation that the next 384 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:38,600 Generations, have a chance at knowing who God is. 385 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:42,500 We've been looking at this in Sunday school, right? 386 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:45,100 The last couple of weeks and judges. 387 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,200 The indictment in Judges chapter 2 is that the previous 388 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,600 generations forgot God. And so now the current 389 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,300 generation knows nothing of him. I work passing it down. 390 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:02,200 They didn't obey Deuteronomy 6 and then write it on their 391 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,600 hearts. They didn't have the word of the 392 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,600 Lord on their lips, when they would rise in the mornings. 393 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,400 When they go to bed at night, when they would eat around the 394 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,800 table, when they would go along the way, they weren't teaching 395 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,300 the things of God to their children. 396 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:15,500 And so, enjoy and Judges chapter 2, the people have forgotten 397 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:19,200 God, all together and it says that they sought to do 398 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,300 everything that their heart desired. that's a really bad 399 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:30,200 thing because in Jeremiah and the Book of Jeremiah on down in 400 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,100 the history of Israel, he's coming to the people and he's 401 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,100 saying do not listen to your heart. 402 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,400 Because your heart is deceitful and desperately, wicked Above 403 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:50,500 All Things, who can know it. It's Jeremiah 17 verse 9 So this 404 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:53,400 is why God instructs us to write his word on our hearts. 405 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:57,400 That's why instructs us to meditate on his word day and 406 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,400 night. It's why he instructs us to make 407 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:05,800 his word our way of life. As we see, in proverbs 4, So I 408 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,500 think we've reached somewhat of a point of clarity that without 409 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:10,700 the word of God. There is no relationship with 410 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:16,000 God, right? This is the there's two 411 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Revelations that God has given us, okay, there's one that's 412 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,700 called natural Revelation so I can look at the rain and I can 413 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:26,900 say you know things need rain to grow. 414 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:31,700 God has brought rain. The rain is causing things to 415 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:32,600 grow. Won't be long. 416 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,700 Now will be mowing again, right? Won't be long now. 417 00:26:36,700 --> 00:26:41,000 Your spring crops will be in fruition hopefully, right? 418 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,100 Why? Well, because God has designed 419 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:49,200 the world to work a certain way, that's natural revelation. 420 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,300 We look into all of these things you look at you the way you are 421 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:56,800 hard-wired the way you're created and you can say that 422 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:03,200 takes an Incredible God to create to make things work. 423 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,600 The way they work in our world. All right, but natural level 424 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,500 natural. Revelation is not enough to save 425 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:12,400 you. Nor is it enough to bring you 426 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,000 into fellowship with God? You cannot be saved by natural 427 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,700 Revelation. You cannot look at the sun and 428 00:27:17,708 --> 00:27:21,900 the moon, and the stars and say Christ died to save sinners. 429 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,200 Right? You can look at the sun, the 430 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,700 moon and stars and say, Well, there must be a God, but this is 431 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:28,900 why so many religions worship the Sun, the moon, and the 432 00:27:28,908 --> 00:27:32,000 stars. Because there. 433 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:36,900 They're unable to arrive at God, on their own. 434 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,200 What do we need? We need the word of God. 435 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,300 This is special Revelation, natural, Revelation works with 436 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:47,800 special Revelation to reveal, God to us. 437 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,200 Amen. And so, on the word of God, we 438 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,200 have God revealing himself to us in Christ. 439 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,100 The word of God becoming flesh, we have nothing less than God 440 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:02,600 himself coming to us. He might be numbered among men 441 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:06,900 and he might give up the glories of Heaven for a season to be 442 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:12,400 numbered among Men to die, our our death, for our sins, to be 443 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,300 raised to life. That we might walk in fellowship 444 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,400 with God. Again, if we believe that Christ 445 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,100 did exactly what he did, you can be saved. 446 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,600 But God must reveal himself. And the way he reveals himself 447 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:31,200 as primarily through his word, Through his word. 448 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:38,400 And so, in the call to worship on a Sunday morning, God is 449 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,200 calling us to join us work. He's hearing our cries for help 450 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,700 and he's promising to be with us despite our deficiencies. 451 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,400 That's precisely what we're rehearsing. 452 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,000 Every time we recite our weekly call to worship, so let me just 453 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,400 walk you through it quickly. When you walk into this room and 454 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,800 you stand there and the first notes of the music start and 455 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,000 Alan or someone else begins to speak. 456 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,800 And they welcome you into the service and they start saying to 457 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:13,300 all who are weary and need rest. This isn't a message. 458 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,200 From the heart of Alan to you. This isn't something that the 459 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,700 elders have pinned sinking. Hey, this is a really great 460 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,600 thing to say. This will be the thing that kind 461 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,800 of, you know, nudges them emotionally, to help them 462 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,900 respond, and singing. When we say to all who are weary 463 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:37,000 and need rest, we have nothing less than Matthew 11:28 through 464 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,200 30 and our mind come to me Christ says all who labor and 465 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,500 are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you 466 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:49,100 and learn from me for. I am gentle and lowly in heart 467 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:51,300 and you will find rest for your souls. 468 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:55,800 For my yoke is easy Christ. Says, and my burden is light. 469 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:59,600 To all who are weary and need rest as a call from Christ to 470 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,300 come to him. Amen. 471 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:05,600 To all who mourn and long for comfort. 472 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:12,300 You guessed it scripture again. Jesus, in Matthew 5:4 says, 473 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:14,500 blessed. Are those who mourn for they 474 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:18,000 shall be comforted? Blessed are those who mourn? 475 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,900 It's a call from Christ to come to Christ in your morning and to 476 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:27,000 receive his Blessing of comfort. To all who feel worthless and 477 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:33,300 wonder if God cares again. This isn't, you know, I grew up 478 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:39,800 in The days I guess, it's still kind of cool but I grew up in 479 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,300 the days where it was cool to to have a lot of problems. 480 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,900 You know, to hate your dad or your mom or kind of wear that on 481 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:48,600 your sleeves, we called it being emo. 482 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,200 I don't know if that's still the term, but all of our music 483 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,700 reflected it, you know, that sing songs about how life is a 484 00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:59,500 nightmare. And, you know, now, I love you. 485 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:00,700 They have that song in your head. 486 00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:08,100 Anyway, But it was yeah, it was like a badge of honor to feel 487 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,000 worthless. It's like if you could feel more 488 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,400 worthless than your friends. Then you were you had a really 489 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,400 going on, it's really strange. It's backwards, honestly. 490 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:26,200 But the truth is, is we all do feel worthless at times, right? 491 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:29,900 And the truth is you recognize that you're a sinner to 492 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:31,800 recognize. You have broken relationships, 493 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,900 you recognize that you've caused problems, that you've messed up. 494 00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,600 If you're being honest with yourself, And in that you start 495 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,500 to feel worthless and if you're feeling worthless as you coming 496 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:45,700 to church, you may Wonder does God care. 497 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:52,800 Does he care? Matthew 10 Jesus says, Are not 498 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,100 Two Sparrows, sold for a penny and not one of them will fall to 499 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:00,600 the ground. Apart from your father, Two 500 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,700 Sparrows sold for a penny for one penny. 501 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,100 You can have Two Sparrows. That's a good deal. 502 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,900 But the penny riders that thing that you'll just leave in the 503 00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:14,400 parking lot. When it falls out of your 504 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,200 pocket, you're happy to offer the penny to the cashier at the 505 00:32:18,208 --> 00:32:20,900 gas station for that little cup that sits there, you'll leave 506 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:23,500 your opinion there. You're not leaving the 20 in 507 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:25,700 there, right? You know I'm going to leave the 508 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:27,900 quarter in there like that's for the pennies. 509 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:30,600 That's where the pennies go. You might leave a nickel to pin, 510 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,400 you know, if you're feeling good that day, Two Sparrows, one 511 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,000 penny. And what does Christ say, not 512 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,000 one of them falls to the ground, not one of them dies apart from 513 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:50,400 your heavenly father. Was it means he's in control of 514 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,000 the sparrows. It's in control and sparrows and 515 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,700 he controls the sparrows. He must control all things. 516 00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:03,200 He controls the sparrows and he controls the last breath that my 517 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,800 daughter took. If he controls the last breath 518 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,200 that my daughter took that he controls the breath that I take 519 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,400 now. And he controls the call that 520 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,800 he's got on my life now, and they'll call that he's got on 521 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,500 your life. Now, he controls every moment of 522 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:21,100 every day, every millisecond Belongs to the Lord. 523 00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:23,300 Why, or how do we know this? Because he controls the 524 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:24,900 sparrows. That's exactly what Jesus is 525 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,600 saying. And he goes on to say since, but 526 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,600 even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 527 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,200 Now, I some of you might really be into yourself, right? 528 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,200 You think you you came to church today and you thought I look 529 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,500 good today, but I guarantee you, you didn't sit in the mirror and 530 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:48,500 number your hair's today. Not, I mean, you know, some of 531 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:51,300 you is getting easier than others, right? 532 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,000 But you're not number in your hairs. 533 00:33:57,300 --> 00:33:59,100 Now, think about the days where you had a lot of hair, you 534 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:00,600 weren't sitting in number, in your heirs. 535 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:05,700 Well, what does it say? God knows you. 536 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:10,500 So intimately that he knows the number of the hairs on your 537 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:13,800 head. So not only of The Sparrows 538 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,600 important to God. But the number of hairs on your 539 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,000 head are important to God. You are important to God. 540 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,600 And this is what Jesus says, this is the conclusion, he draws 541 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:29,400 from those two examples he says fear not therefore you are of 542 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,600 more value than many sparrows. Amen. 543 00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:39,600 So to all who feel worthless and wonder if God cares he does he 544 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,199 cares to all who fell and desire strength? 545 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:49,000 Isaiah 41:10 God. Speaking here through the 546 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,500 prophet fear, not for I am with you be. 547 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:55,900 Not dismayed for I am. Your God. 548 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,000 I will strengthen you. I will help you. 549 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:02,400 I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 550 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,900 Amen. To all who fell and desire. 551 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:10,100 Strength, where do you go? You go to God. 552 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:16,000 God is inviting you to worship today, to help you understand 553 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000 the strengths of the almighty at work in your life. 554 00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:25,900 He says, come to all who sin and need a savior I said every one 555 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,100 of us, there's not one of us who walk in him, you might walk in 556 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:32,900 here, feeling strong one day, you might walk in here feeling 557 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:36,200 comforted one day. You might walk in here not 558 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,200 feeling weak one day, right? But to all who sent a need a 559 00:35:41,207 --> 00:35:46,000 savior, that's every one of us. Every one of you needs Christ. 560 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:52,900 And for that, again, the word of God speaks Jesus, talking to 561 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:56,000 Nicodemus, who was a follower of the law, who was doing 562 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,900 everything that he could do on his own to have his own 563 00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:03,000 salvation. To make his way to heaven. 564 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,300 Through his own good works. Jesus says to him, you must be 565 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:10,600 born again. And Nicodemus, like how do I do 566 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,300 that? You must have the spirit of God, 567 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:18,300 give you New Life. How does that happen? 568 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,700 Jenna Jesus says in John 3:16 for God. 569 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,700 So loved the world that he gave his only son That whoever 570 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:30,700 believes in him, should not perish, but have eternal life. 571 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:37,800 You believe in Christ. You have eternal life And then 572 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,600 our call to worship transitions into some new statements. 573 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,100 It says, to all of those people. This church opens wide her doors 574 00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:50,600 with a welcome. From who? 575 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:56,900 Jesus Christ. Again, if it's okay for us to 576 00:36:56,900 --> 00:37:00,200 have greeters out here, who are welcome you into the welcoming, 577 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:01,600 you into the building as you come in. 578 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,100 It's okay for Jasper to get up here and say we want to welcome 579 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:07,300 our guest today. It's okay for me to get up here 580 00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:10,400 and say the same thing like it's okay for us to be welcoming and 581 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,900 warm with one another because why we have been welcomed by 582 00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:18,300 Christ himself. And the hospitality of Christ to 583 00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:23,700 welcome us unto himself in spite of who we are is worthy of us 584 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:26,700 welcoming one another into the into the house of God. 585 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:30,900 But when we call, when we do a call to worship. 586 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:37,900 I cannot call you to worship. I cannot tell you how you need 587 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:41,400 to worship me right. Why? 588 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,100 Because I'm a creature and creatures. 589 00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:45,300 Don't get worship. The Creator gets worse. 590 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,300 And so when we stand we say this church opens wide her doors with 591 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:54,400 a welcome from Jesus Christ because if he's welcoming us 592 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:59,000 it's truly a warm welcome. It's a good thing to be welcomed 593 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,900 by the son of God. Romans 15 verse 7. 594 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:07,300 Therefore welcome one. Another as Christ has welcomed 595 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:12,300 you for the glory of God. We don't we don't welcome you 596 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:14,500 into here for our own Glory. We're not welcoming you here. 597 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:17,700 So we can tabulate some numbers at the end of the year and say 598 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:20,000 hey this is how many people we've had, show up, how many 599 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,200 people we have in a home groups? How many people got saved? 600 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,100 And baptized, we're not doing any of that. 601 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:30,100 What we're saying is we welcome you, as Christ has welcomed us 602 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:35,300 and we do that for his glory, the Renown of his name. 603 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:41,600 Not our own amen. Who is Christ? 604 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,400 And that's where our call to worship continues. 605 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:50,500 He is the Ally of his enemies. Romans 5 verse 10 says, for if 606 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:54,500 while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death 607 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:57,900 of his son much more. Now that we are reconciled, 608 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:03,800 shall we be saved by his life? Is the Ally was enemies. 609 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:11,300 Again. There are people who are setting 610 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:16,700 themselves against God, daily weekly rebelling against him. 611 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:20,000 God is not there, Ally in that moment. 612 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,100 That's where the word of warning and the words of admonition come 613 00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:27,100 in. But if a sinner will heed the 614 00:39:27,107 --> 00:39:32,200 words of warning, if a sinner will hear, what Christ says from 615 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,400 his word and turn from his sins and turn to Christ will. 616 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,700 Guess what? Christ has just become the Ally 617 00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:40,000 of his enemies? Amen. 618 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,900 And then it finishes with and I just couldn't find it. 619 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,500 Set of verses more perfect for these last things in Romans 8, 620 00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:55,800 but it finishes are called worship fitnesses. 621 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,700 With the crisis of the defender of the guilty. 622 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,700 He's the justifier of the inexcusable, he's the friend of 623 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:05,800 sinners. And this is what we say 624 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,500 enrollment or what Paul says in Romans 8:31. 625 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:11,700 This is why we say those things on Sunday morning, we're 626 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:13,600 reminding one another of these truths. 627 00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:18,400 What then shall we say to these things all rights if God is for 628 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,000 us? Who can be against us? 629 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,100 He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. 630 00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:30,800 How will he not also with him? Graciously, give us all things. 631 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,600 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect. 632 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:39,000 It is God who justifies who is to condemn Christ? 633 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,100 Jesus is the one who died. More than that, who was raised. 634 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:47,900 Who is at the right hand of God. Who indeed is interceding for 635 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:53,100 us. All continues, but you can see 636 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,900 the hints of him, being the defender of the guilty, the 637 00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:59,300 justifier of the inexcusable, the Friend of Sinners already, 638 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:00,500 right? But Paul doesn't stop there. 639 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:04,000 He says, who shall separate us from the love of Christ, shall 640 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,900 tribulation, or distress or persecution or famine or 641 00:41:07,900 --> 00:41:12,500 nakedness or danger or sword as it is written for your sake. 642 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:16,000 We were being killed all the day long, we are regarded as sheep 643 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000 to be slaughtered. No, in all these things, we are 644 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,700 more than conquerors through him who loved us. 645 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000 And then he just continues with a just keeps it on air for. 646 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,900 I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers 647 00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:38,100 nor things present, nor things to come nor powers nor height 648 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:41,700 nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to 649 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:44,000 separate us from the love of Christ. 650 00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:47,300 Art. Sorry from the love of God in 651 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:49,000 Christ Jesus. Our lord. 652 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:57,100 And once we've done that, we just say welcome, why? 653 00:41:57,500 --> 00:42:01,700 Because now you've been welcomed by God Now you've been reminded 654 00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:04,900 of the truths of God. Now, when you sing praises to 655 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:07,700 the Lord, when you sing unto God, When you pray together, 656 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:10,200 when you hear the word preached, you're doing it as those who 657 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:15,300 have been called in to worship by God himself and unless he 658 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:18,400 initiates our worship, there's no worship at all. 659 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,700 Unless he starts the worship, there's no worship at all. 660 00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:25,700 Once we are called by God's word into worship, then we are 661 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:28,400 welcome to come. We are helped by his spirit and 662 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,400 coming, because we'll see our deficiencies right through all, 663 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,800 who are weary and need rest to all who mourn and long for 664 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,700 Comfort. We see our deficiencies and yet 665 00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:41,500 his Spirit helps us. And we are equipped as we go 666 00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:44,400 from this place on Sunday mornings for the work that God 667 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,800 has for us. But we're also equipped in that 668 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,300 moment for the work that we do right here together. 669 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,600 Gather in the call to worship, God calls us to join his work. 670 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,900 He hears our cries for help and he promises to be with us 671 00:42:56,900 --> 00:43:01,500 despite our deficiencies. Let me talk to you a little bit 672 00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:04,700 more about how God initiates, and we respond. 673 00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:08,500 It's important to understand that God initiates. 674 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,800 That's what we're saying. That's what we've said from 675 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,200 Jeremiah to what we've looked at with what I mentioned earlier 676 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,800 about just Moses and Noah and David and Abraham and Paul and 677 00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:23,700 you know all the likes. In your own life, God initiates 678 00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:26,000 and you respond. It's not the other way around 679 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:31,800 but because of our tendency to self-centeredness Because of our 680 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,500 tendency to be selfish self involved. 681 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:39,700 People it's tempting to view God as the one who responds and 682 00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:43,000 submits to us, rather than ourselves as the ones who 683 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,000 respond and submit to God. It's tempting to think that we 684 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,900 are in the driver's seat. Jonathan Cruz in his book. 685 00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:51,900 He says this. He says it's God's word not 686 00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:54,000 man's. That has the power to constitute 687 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,500 a relationship of God. What are we saying? 688 00:43:56,500 --> 00:44:01,200 He must call us if we are to come and worship him. 689 00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:04,900 Is it old confession of faith says? 690 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:08,300 It says though, rational creatures are responsible to 691 00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:12,100 obey God as their creator, the distance between God and these 692 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:16,000 creatures is so great that they could never have attained the 693 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,700 reward of life. Except by God's voluntary 694 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:25,100 condescension, he has been pleased to express this through 695 00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:28,600 a covenant framework. Again we wouldn't be able to 696 00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:31,200 come to the Lord if Christ had not first come. 697 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,400 John says this. Well in his epistle he says we 698 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,800 love because what Christ? First loved us. 699 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,200 We're responding to the love that we've received were 700 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,600 responding to the relationship that has been begun with us. 701 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,300 God is always the initiator of Covenant relationship with him. 702 00:44:49,900 --> 00:44:55,000 After all, it must be this way because he is too great for us 703 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,600 to ascend to you. And I cannot Ascend to the 704 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,200 heights of God in any way, shape, or form, no matter how 705 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:03,600 Godly, you think you've lived this week? 706 00:45:05,300 --> 00:45:10,100 None of us have given to God in a way that he he should repay 707 00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:12,800 us. He doesn't owe us anything, 708 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:15,100 right. He is. 709 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:19,200 God and we are not. And so he is too great for us to 710 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,700 ascend to therefore he must condescend to us. 711 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,700 If we were going to have a covenant relationship with him, 712 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:27,900 another way to think of it as this. 713 00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:32,800 God is the only one powerful enough to bring something out of 714 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,100 nothing. As I mentioned earlier in 715 00:45:34,100 --> 00:45:36,000 creation, this is exactly what he does. 716 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,100 He created all things out of know things, it is simply by his 717 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:43,400 own powerful word that he creates all things. 718 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,800 Again, Jonathan Cruz was helpful in helping me. 719 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:53,200 Understand that it's not just Covenant relationship that he 720 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,000 initiates but it's in Redemption and in worship as well. 721 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,800 Let me read this to you think of creation. 722 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,500 When we were absolutely nothing God by the power of His word 723 00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:09,000 called us into existence Genesis 1:26. 724 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:14,300 Let us make man in our image. We didn't call ourselves into 725 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:15,900 existence. God damn it. 726 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,400 And just as he brought us out of the Dark Void of Genesis 12, 727 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,200 that formless void area, he brings us out of the Dark Void 728 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,700 of sin. In Redemption, John 5, Jesus 729 00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:30,600 says most assuredly, I say to you the hour is coming and now 730 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:34,000 is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and 731 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,900 those who hear will live. Jesus goes on, in John chapter 732 00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:44,300 10, verse 32 him the doorkeeper opens in the sheep hear his 733 00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:49,100 voice and he calls his own Sheep by name and he leads them out. 734 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:54,900 John 15:16, Jesus is saying you did not choose me, but I chose 735 00:46:54,900 --> 00:46:58,300 you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and 736 00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:01,000 that your fruit should remain that, whatever you ask, the 737 00:47:01,008 --> 00:47:05,700 father in my name, he may give you and these text, we see that 738 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:12,000 God is always the initiator. And his new testament letter to 739 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,600 the Church of galatia, the Apostle Paul makes the same 740 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,100 point, the Galatians are guilty of turning to false gospels, 741 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:23,000 turning to new ideas turning to Works based salvation or at 742 00:47:23,008 --> 00:47:25,300 least Works based sanctification, and that's what 743 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:28,000 he gets onto them for. But now, that you have come to 744 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,200 know God or rather to be known by God. 745 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,300 How can you turn back again to the weak and worthless? 746 00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:38,400 Elementary principles of the world whose slaves you want to 747 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,000 be once more. He's saying you've been set free 748 00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:43,100 from the principles of the world. 749 00:47:43,100 --> 00:47:47,000 You've been set free from those things and now you're willingly 750 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:51,000 wanting to walk back into that you'll be slaves again. 751 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,200 Paul's making it clear who starts and sustains, the 752 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,900 Covenant relationship that Believers enjoy. 753 00:47:57,900 --> 00:48:01,900 Why would we turn our back on that second Corinthians 4:6 754 00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:04,200 Paul? Says, again making the same 755 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,900 point, but possibly more. Clearly this time for God who 756 00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:10,800 said, let light shine out of darkness and now, he's tying it 757 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:15,000 to the creative power of God. He says, for God, who said let 758 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,600 light shine out of Darkness has Shone in our hearts, to give the 759 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,300 light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face. 760 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,500 Face of Jesus Christ, what's he saying? 761 00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:27,300 It's a new creation work that happens in you. 762 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:33,000 It is God who speaks and makes your heart of the gives your 763 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,600 heart, the ability to see the light of the knowledge of the 764 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,600 glory of God. In the face of Jesus Christ, he 765 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:44,900 initiates and we respond. It is God alone who calls us in 766 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:48,500 creation and Redemption. So why would our worship 767 00:48:48,500 --> 00:48:50,000 Services? Be any different. 768 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,400 God, not only does the work in making us worshipers in 769 00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,700 Redemption. He does the work in our worship 770 00:48:56,700 --> 00:49:00,000 as well again. I want to read a cruise quote 771 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,800 here. He says God calls us to the 772 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,200 greatest work. His redeemed people could ever 773 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,200 take up in the created World worship. 774 00:49:09,100 --> 00:49:11,600 It's the greatest work we could ever take up in the whole world 775 00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:15,900 that we be worshipers of God. The word Church in the Greek is 776 00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:19,700 ekklesia, which means called out ones and are very name. 777 00:49:19,700 --> 00:49:23,200 We recognize that we are those whose entire identity. 778 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,800 Hangs on the fact that we are in a relationship with God and 779 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:31,700 which he is calling us Reckless Iya called out ones. 780 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:39,000 You've been called out by God. But from what, and where does 781 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,600 God call us? Cruz continues. 782 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,000 For the last six days, you have been flooded with the 783 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,400 Temptations and sinfulness of this worthless world. 784 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:54,400 But on Sunday, God calls us out of that worthlessness and into 785 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:59,600 his worthy presence. Psalm 84 10 the psalmist writes 786 00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,600 there for a day in your courts is better than a thousand 787 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,100 elsewhere. He goes on to say, I would 788 00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:07,800 rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in 789 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:12,700 the tents of wickedness. Cruz continues this one day in 790 00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:16,200 seven will reorient us. It reshapes us. 791 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,200 It puts the imprint of the gospel story on our hearts and 792 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,500 erases all the false Impressions that the world has left on us 793 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,100 about what the good life really is. 794 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:28,300 Right. When you feel the pull, you feel 795 00:50:28,300 --> 00:50:30,900 the Temptation during the week. That the good life is really 796 00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:33,800 this that it's I give in to what my heart desires. 797 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,100 The good life is that I should have no restrictions on my life 798 00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:40,600 at all. In the God, who is trying to 799 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,100 restrict me must not be any kind God at all. 800 00:50:44,100 --> 00:50:46,500 He must not be a good God at all. 801 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,600 Because he's keeping me from expressing the truest version of 802 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,900 myself, which is the most important thing wrong. 803 00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,300 A true expression of a sinful nature is nothing more than 804 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:06,500 depravity, which will earn condemnation in hell, right? 805 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:12,900 What a true expression of a life Redeemed by the god, that 806 00:51:12,900 --> 00:51:15,800 created it. Now, we're getting somewhere. 807 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,300 Now, we're talking about life, and this is why Christ says he's 808 00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:22,400 just very, you know, you had to read between the lines with 809 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,300 Jesus, he's not speaking and gray matter here. 810 00:51:26,300 --> 00:51:29,500 He's telling you in black and white red, depending on which 811 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:32,700 Bible, you have, right? In John 10:10. 812 00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:35,800 He says, the thief comes to steal and kill and to destroy, 813 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,100 but I have come that they may have life and life to the Fuller 814 00:51:39,100 --> 00:51:40,400 life. Abundantly. 815 00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:44,200 So the world promises life but it's really the thief disguising 816 00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:49,700 theft. And murder and destruction. 817 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,400 But Christ promises life. And where are you going to find 818 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,800 life? Right here. 819 00:52:00,100 --> 00:52:03,500 The words of God. The word of God. 820 00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:10,100 This is it. This is the god, breathed. 821 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:17,700 Spirit given. Word of God. 822 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,700 Not to us. It's black and white and you can 823 00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:25,900 buy a pretty Bible to make it feel more important. 824 00:52:27,100 --> 00:52:30,400 You can read it on your phone and it will feel like something 825 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:31,900 you could just kind of throw away. 826 00:52:33,300 --> 00:52:36,300 But I'm telling you the words in here are life. 827 00:52:37,500 --> 00:52:39,300 The words in here. Give life. 828 00:52:41,100 --> 00:52:44,500 And if you're not in submission to the word of God and you don't 829 00:52:44,500 --> 00:52:49,800 know life in God. You've been fooled, you've been 830 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:54,900 duped by the world, you've bought a lie, the accuser of all 831 00:52:54,900 --> 00:53:04,000 accusers. is accusing, you The liar of all liars has deceived 832 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:11,200 you. Crew says truly just as in 833 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:13,900 creation and Redemption, we could say that in worship, we 834 00:53:13,900 --> 00:53:17,000 are called out of nothing and into something. 835 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,500 And worship weekly worship were called out of nothing. 836 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,200 And into something. Life itself. 837 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,200 In the call to worship, God calls us to join his work. 838 00:53:32,700 --> 00:53:36,300 He hears our cries for help. He promises to be with us 839 00:53:36,300 --> 00:53:40,900 despite our deficiencies. Therefore, the call to worship 840 00:53:40,900 --> 00:53:43,200 isn't just a way to begin the service. 841 00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:48,100 And we may not keep the same call forever, right? 842 00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:53,300 What we will always do is begin the service with the word from 843 00:53:53,300 --> 00:53:57,100 the Lord to his people. Something that reminds us of his 844 00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:01,500 character, his attributes of how good he has been to us of how 845 00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:04,800 trustworthy he is, how faithful he is. 846 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,200 Because if we can't worship on that, Foundation or worship, who 847 00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:15,200 knows where it goes from there? Then the call we are recalling, 848 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,900 the very word of God, which is what I've sought to try to show 849 00:54:17,900 --> 00:54:20,900 you today. And then recalling the word of 850 00:54:20,900 --> 00:54:23,100 God, we're saying it is God who calls us. 851 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,200 It is God who condescends to us, because we are deficient on our 852 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,600 own. And it is him who reassures Us 853 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,200 by his promises that he is with us despite those deficiencies. 854 00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:39,100 We come each week to give God. The honor that is due His holy 855 00:54:39,100 --> 00:54:41,500 name. And that is why we have a call 856 00:54:41,500 --> 00:54:45,100 to worship that reminds us of our overwhelming deficiencies. 857 00:54:45,100 --> 00:54:48,800 And more importantly, it reminds us of God's overwhelming 858 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,500 sufficiency He is all sufficient. 859 00:54:55,300 --> 00:54:58,900 If it were not for God's initiating call to worship just 860 00:54:58,900 --> 00:55:01,900 as he does in creation just as he does in Redemption. 861 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,300 Then we wouldn't come to worship at all. 862 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,700 But praise God, that he calls us to join us work. 863 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:13,200 Here's our cries for help for help in our inabilities and he 864 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:17,000 promises to be with us just as he has done for his people 865 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:22,500 across space and time. He alone is worthy of our 866 00:55:22,500 --> 00:55:23,800 worship. Amen. 867 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:29,200 And invite the worship team up. I will pray for you as they 868 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,500 come. We're about to sing a song 869 00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:32,500 called. Yes, I will. 870 00:55:35,300 --> 00:55:38,400 And it begins by saying this. I just want to recite it to you 871 00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:45,000 and then I'll pray. It says I count on one thing. 872 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:52,100 The same God that never fails will not fail me now. 873 00:55:53,100 --> 00:55:56,300 Amen. I meant me, pray for you. 874 00:55:57,100 --> 00:56:00,900 Heavenly Father. What a joy, it is to be with 875 00:56:00,900 --> 00:56:06,100 your people to join with them as my brothers and sisters in the 876 00:56:06,100 --> 00:56:10,300 Lord. And to worship you today, God, 877 00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:12,700 we thank you. That we are able to worship you 878 00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:16,600 today because you have called us to be your people. 879 00:56:19,100 --> 00:56:24,500 As first Peter to reminds us that we are a holy nation, a 880 00:56:24,500 --> 00:56:30,000 royal priesthood. We've been called out of 881 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,600 Darkness, into Marvelous Light. We are the called out ones. 882 00:56:35,900 --> 00:56:42,600 We are the church. And so we pray she we thank you 883 00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:48,200 Lord that you have been always good that you have been always 884 00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:53,300 faithful. And so, as we prepare to sing, 885 00:56:53,300 --> 00:56:57,600 now it's with that, in mind. Yes, we will worship you. 886 00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,700 Because you are the only constant in our lives. 887 00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:05,400 You were the only true source of good and our lives. 888 00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,500 You are the only one that's faithful in our lives. 889 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:14,000 And it's our hearts desire to glorify your name to magnify you 890 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:19,300 in all the Earth to make you, Lord of every moment. 891 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,400 Of our day to make you Lord of every slice of Our Lives. 892 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,300 Lord help us. Not to hide a thing from you As 893 00:57:30,300 --> 00:57:37,100 if we could. Lord help us help us in our 894 00:57:37,100 --> 00:57:40,600 deficiencies, in our inadequacies to make you Lord of 895 00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:44,900 every area of our life. To come into submission under 896 00:57:44,900 --> 00:57:48,900 your word. And every way that we and every 897 00:57:48,900 --> 00:57:56,200 way that we're able, Form us formless father into the image 898 00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:00,100 of your own son. That would be like him. 899 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,900 Laura, thank you for the grace and the mercy that comes to us 900 00:58:04,900 --> 00:58:11,100 in Christ I think you Lord. Or anyone in here today, who's? 901 00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:20,700 An unrepentant Center. Is unsaved not trusting Christ. 902 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:26,500 Lord, the same mercy and Grace that has saved the rest of us is 903 00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:29,400 available to them as well. I pray. 904 00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,800 Lord that you would soften their heart. 905 00:58:33,300 --> 00:58:35,300 If you would draw them to yourself, that they would 906 00:58:35,300 --> 00:58:40,300 receive salvation today. We love you, Lord. 907 00:58:40,300 --> 00:58:42,800 We praise you for the honor. We have to worship you. 908 00:58:43,300 --> 00:58:45,000 Thank you for calling us here today. 909 00:58:45,700 --> 00:58:47,000 In the Name of Christ. I pray. 910 00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:47,600 Amen.