1 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,120 Let's just keep entertaining that presence as we continue. 2 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:18,440 He can interrupt whenever He, like you would please turn. 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:36,110 Matthew 2620. Appreciate your prayers, Mr. 4 00:00:36,110 --> 00:00:43,480 McGee stated. I've been sick and fever, but he 5 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:54,680 is able. I feel prescribed tonight, feel 6 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,920 like I had a natural prescription of energy that's 7 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,920 probably almost spent by now, and I feel like I have a 8 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:09,120 spiritual prescription of energy to use. 9 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,280 We're just going to see where this goes. 10 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:30,120 Matthew 2620 Familiar passage states Now when the even was 11 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:36,800 come, he sat down with the 12. And as they did eat, he said, 12 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,800 Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 13 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,400 And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and began every one 14 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,200 of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? 15 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:55,840 And he being Jesus answered and said, He that dippeth his hand 16 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,200 with me in the dish, and the same shall betray me. 17 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,640 The Son of Man goeth, as it is written of him, but woe unto 18 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:08,720 that man whom by by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 19 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,480 It had been good for that man if he had not been born. 20 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,240 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it 21 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,240 I? And he said unto him, Jesus 22 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,840 speaking, said, Thou has said, I'm going to take my title from 23 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:32,560 the ESV interpretation. I'll read it for you, it says 24 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,800 Judas, who would betray him, answered. 25 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,800 Is it I, Rabbi? He said to him, You have said 26 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,120 so, So I want to preach to you tonight. 27 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:49,400 Is it I, Rabbi? Is it I, Rabbi? 28 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,200 Wonder if we could entertain him one more time tonight? 29 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,360 Lord, I ask you just to move. Lord, anoint your servant. 30 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,680 Lord, your will would be done. Lord, this is not my word, this 31 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,080 is your word. Lord, I give myself unto you. 32 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,680 You touch your people. Lord, prepare hearts and minds 33 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,720 for a planting ground of your word. 34 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,160 Lord, they would fall upon fertile soil. 35 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:20,320 Minister in this place today. Have your way in this place. 36 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,560 Lord, in Jesus mighty name. Lord, we give you the glory, 37 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,840 honor and praise for it. Oh and everybody say in Jesus 38 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,680 name, hey man, you may be seated tonight. 39 00:03:38,010 --> 00:03:42,250 We have heard this passage of scripture multiple times. 40 00:03:43,010 --> 00:03:48,410 I'm sure you can remember it commonly on or around Easter 41 00:03:49,170 --> 00:03:54,290 because this is leading up to the arrest of Jesus this Last 42 00:03:54,730 --> 00:03:57,920 Supper. But the many times I have read 43 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,960 it and I've heard it, I feel like sometimes there are just 44 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,840 those passages you've heard so many different times. 45 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:10,080 And you go on and then until you go back to it, you forget a few 46 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,200 things about a passage of Scripture. 47 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,480 And then you come back to it and you're like, oh, I forgot that. 48 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,839 And I guess I just forgot something about it. 49 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,280 But what? But when Jesus is dropping this 50 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:28,600 bomb, the Last Supper, that that one of his own disciples, the 51 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,840 ones that he chose to follow him. 52 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,240 These young men had stopped work. 53 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,840 They had left all that they had to go and follow Jesus. 54 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:43,600 One of these faithful few that had the honor to Sup with him, 55 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,200 to listen to him, to watch his miracles, his signs, his wonders 56 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:54,040 would betray Jesus. And we all know who of course, 57 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,400 because we don't live inside the story. 58 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:01,240 But if you can imagine, if you will, this close knit group of 59 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,200 of young men that have been ministering and been a part of 60 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:11,520 the ministry of Jesus to hear one of you shall betray me. 61 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,760 You know, for me, especially if I was in that those shoes. 62 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:21,360 I am a very principal person and and buy buy the the book and and 63 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,920 I I stand up for truth. And so if I were to hear that 64 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,120 and that was that was my Lord. And he said that some I'd be 65 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,840 like, is it you? I'd be I'd be going around and 66 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:37,000 I'd start asking, I'd be interrogating, right. 67 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,280 But what were they doing? They were frantically, I'm sure 68 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,480 because they were living in it. They were frantically 1 by 1, 69 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,120 maybe even in a crescendo together. 70 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:55,680 They were with sorrow in their voice saying, Lord, is it I now 71 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,520 I know, I know you may be pretty. 72 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:59,880 You think I'm pretty dense for forgetting that. 73 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:05,560 That's not what I forgot, but but what I forgot was the 74 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:12,720 verbage used by 1. When Judas spoke to Jesus, he 75 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:17,760 did not say Lord, is it I? He said something that revealed 76 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,240 his heart. He said, Is it I, Rabbi? 77 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,320 You could interchange it with Master Teacher. 78 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,520 Whatever way. Either way, he called him Rabbi. 79 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,440 Please do not misunderstand. Rabbi was respectful. 80 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,960 There's nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong. 81 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,080 Easton's Bible dictionary defines Rabbi as my master, a 82 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,160 title of dignity. It's given by the Jews to their 83 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,160 doctors of the law and their distinguished teachers, and it 84 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:53,000 is sometimes applied to Christ. So Judas wasn't necessarily 85 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:00,120 being disrespectful by calling him rabbi, it held respect, but 86 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,640 when he was the only one that stated it, when everyone else 87 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,480 stated him as Lord, that starts to give an indication of Judas's 88 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,200 heart. I don't know if he said it in 89 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,280 the openness or if if there was a break in the in the talking or 90 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,760 a break and he's he's leaning over to Jesus and he says it. 91 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,560 But that should have been revealing. 92 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,200 You see this was not a one time thing that which we can glean 93 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,200 from Scripture. In fact, we what we have 94 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,320 recorded in Scripture, Jesus never called, Judas never called 95 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,120 Jesus Lord. From what we have in Scripture, 96 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,840 we can only see him saying something like Rabbi or master, 97 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:49,200 something similar. You see, to Judas, Jesus was 98 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,160 probably a really great teacher, but he was not his Lord. 99 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,400 Why? Because Judas probably had the 100 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,840 same mentality that many of the Jews of the time had, which was 101 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,160 the Messiah was supposed to come big and bad and strong, supposed 102 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:12,160 to be a king, and Messiah was supposed to overthrow Rome and 103 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,560 take charge. They couldn't imagine. 104 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,160 They could not imagine that the Old Testament prophets foretold 105 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,640 could have been for later down the road when there was 106 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,840 conquering, couldn't imagine that. 107 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:27,360 They couldn't imagine the holy Jesus that didn't come, that he 108 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,440 would be served, but that he would serve. 109 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,520 So Judas followed him, maybe in hopes that this Jesus was going 110 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,880 to be that big Messiah, but that was not the Messiah he 111 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:46,000 envisioned. He was a good teacher in Judas's 112 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,720 eyes, but he could not be the Messiah. 113 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:57,160 He could not be the Lord. You see, He came, he walked, he 114 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:01,040 ate, he dipped in the same bowl. He was in the presence of the 115 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:06,960 Messiah and still did not know him as Lord. 116 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:13,680 With Jesus just being a rabbi in his life and not Lord came 117 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,120 doubt. When we go to the account of 118 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,640 John 12, John 12. I'll start from verse one. 119 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,240 It says then six days before the Passover came to Bethany, there 120 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,400 where Lazarus which had been dead, whom he raised from the 121 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,000 dead. There they made him a supper, 122 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the 123 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:44,440 table with him, and then took Mary a pound of ointment of 124 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,680 spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and 125 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:53,360 wiped his feet with her hair in the house was filled with the 126 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:58,120 odor of the ointment. And then once saith one of his 127 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:05,160 disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which would, 128 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:12,040 should, and would betray him, why was not this ointment sold 129 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,080 for 300 pence and given to the poor? 130 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:22,440 This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was 131 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:27,760 a thief, and had the bag and bear what was put therein. 132 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,600 Then Jesus said, Let her alone against the day of my burying 133 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:38,960 hath she kept this for the poor. Always ye have with you, but me 134 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:46,320 ye not all have not always. Here Mary is breaking her oil 135 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,920 and she is anointing the feet of Jesus. 136 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,200 And I'm sure, I'm sure they all were pretty confused. 137 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,560 But Judas is the one that decided to put words to his 138 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:01,360 confusion. He was very uncomfortable with 139 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,520 worship that cost something. Mary breaks her oil and he 140 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,880 decides to critique it. What it looked like was logic to 141 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,120 Judas, what it looked like. But what it really was was 142 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,000 doubt. Doubt that Jesus was worth it. 143 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,000 Doubt that this kind of extravagant worship was 144 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,880 necessary. That cost way too much. 145 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,680 Hold your horses. We could have sold this. 146 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,760 That is too much of A cost. That's a waste. 147 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,680 But you will question what you have not surrendered to. 148 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,000 The Bible exposes his real heart and even calls him a thief. 149 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,000 Judas had doubt wrapped up in logic. 150 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,000 Doubt doesn't always look like walking away. 151 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,640 Sometimes it looks like staying close but then questioning every 152 00:11:54,640 --> 00:12:02,080 little thing you see. Worship is wasted to someone who 153 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:07,520 only sees Jesus as rabbi. When Jesus is just a good 154 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,440 teacher to you, then you'll manage your relationship with 155 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,560 him on your schedule when it's convenient to you, instead of 156 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:20,120 surrendering everything to Him, giving him lordship in your 157 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,240 life. That costs too much. 158 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,520 That's not on my schedule. No, you don't understand. 159 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,440 That's that's too much of my time. 160 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:34,720 That's not on my schedule. Worship costs too much when he's 161 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,600 just a good teacher. But oh, when, when he is Lord, 162 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,000 he deserves it all. Every oz I can give, he is 163 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,160 worthy. I can't even give him all that 164 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:49,920 he deserves, but I'll do my very, very best Judah. 165 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:54,040 Judas sold Jesus, but Mary anointed Jesus. 166 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:59,640 Judas valued Jesus at 30 pieces of silver, which roughly would 167 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:05,040 have been about 120 days wages during that time, whereas Mary 168 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,280 valued him at about a year's wages in perfume. 169 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:12,080 And I'm certain that's not the cap of which she wanted to do, 170 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,880 but it's all probably that she had to give. 171 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,360 Your worship will reveal how much He is worth to you. 172 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,880 Please don't be confused. I'm not talking about worship 173 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,640 that we just do in song. I'm talking about your worship 174 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,280 of your life. How does your life worship your 175 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,520 Lord? With your time, with your plans, 176 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,280 your possessions, your dreams, your words, your bodies, your 177 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:47,400 finances? How your life worships will 178 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:54,400 reveal His cost to you. It's not if you love him. 179 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,880 Judas loved him. How much is he worth? 180 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,400 Though? You'll always undervalue that 181 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:14,840 again what you haven't fully surrendered to Matthew 27 And 182 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:20,440 one says when morning was come, and all the chief priests and 183 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,960 elders, the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to 184 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,760 death, when they had bound him and they had led him away and 185 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,200 delivered him upon his pilot, The governor. 186 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,400 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was 187 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,520 condemned, repented himself and brought again the 30 pieces of 188 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,440 silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in 189 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,800 that, I have betrayed the innocent blood. 190 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,680 And they said, what is that to us? 191 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,400 Sieve out to that and he cast down the pieces of silver in the 192 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:05,120 temple, departed, went and hanged himself the next morning. 193 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:12,280 This is the next morning after Jesus had been praying in the 194 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,960 garden. Judas came with the soldiers, 195 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,320 pointed Jesus out to them after there was a secret meeting after 196 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,720 the after the secret meeting of the priest against him to decide 197 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:28,800 to put him to death. Jesus Judas was sorry and he 198 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:34,280 attempts to return the money, but he said I've betrayed 199 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,680 innocent blood. He didn't say I betrayed the 200 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:44,320 Lord. He was repentant because it was 201 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,360 his rabbi. He was repentant because and I 202 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,360 love him. He's just such a good teacher. 203 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,360 He started second guessing, but he never second guessed that. 204 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,120 We see. It doesn't seem like he second 205 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,480 guessed the fact that he was Lord. 206 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:08,560 I believe this is just my opinion that Judas doubted 207 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,520 Jesus's mercy because we have nothing. 208 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,160 And Pastor could correct me if I'm wrong. 209 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,760 We have nothing in scripture that states that he was destined 210 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,480 for hell. Nothing it said that he it was 211 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,640 better that he wouldn't have been born because of the choices 212 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:32,680 that he was making. But could it be that if he was 213 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:38,080 repentant in the sense of this is this is the Lord, Could it 214 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:44,160 be, ladies and gentlemen, if he recognized that he could have 215 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:49,160 challenged, if you will, the mercy of Jesus to the extent of 216 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,080 after death, burial and resurrection that Judas could 217 00:16:53,080 --> 00:17:00,920 have been saved. Could it be that Judas doubted 218 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:06,200 the mercy of God so much be and he felt like he had done this 219 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,839 wrong, but it was to a man, he wasn't repentant in the fact 220 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:12,079 that he was Lord. He was repentant in the fact 221 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:14,800 that he's a good man. Yeah, come on. 222 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,079 That's good. But he doubted the mercy of 223 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:23,400 Jesus to the extent that if he hadn't have killed himself, 224 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,599 could it be it? Would it have been difficult to 225 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,560 go to the disciples? It almost would have been. 226 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,800 It almost would have been like Paul going to the disciples 227 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,800 after persecuting and now he's preaching. 228 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,880 It would have been difficult, sure, but he could have been 229 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:44,120 saved. His guilt drove him to despair, 230 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:49,560 but not to deliverance. He had regrets, and he never 231 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:55,160 reached for redemption. There is no mercy without 232 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,720 lordship. Because you see, when he was 233 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,800 sorry that he did it, Jesus was just that good guy, you know? 234 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,320 But it wasn't the revelation that Jesus was Lord, that he was 235 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,120 the Messiah. Judas didn't live long enough to 236 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,680 see that because Jesus had no lordship in his mind. 237 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,360 But Judas is in a special category of Sinner. 238 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:27,000 We look at him and we think, how could you? 239 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,440 And I know you're thinking that That's not me. 240 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,200 But this isn't just Judas A Judas problem. 241 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:40,280 It's a human problem. Having a rabbi mentality, if you 242 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:44,400 will, in your life instead of him being Lord in your life is a 243 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:51,040 surrender and trust problem. We look at surrender and trust 244 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,200 in the Bible. Just a couple examples. 245 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:59,720 I think of the first family, Genesis 4:00 and 9:00. 246 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,160 We're talking about Cain and Abel here and the Lord said in 247 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,320 the Cain, where is Abel thy brother? 248 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,920 And he said, I know not am I my brother's keeper, sarcastic jerk 249 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,800 with this first family we have Cain and Abel and God is asking 250 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,440 Cain where Abel is and and and Cain responds with that sarcasm 251 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,480 and evasion. Just pure deflection. 252 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,960 Isn't that like humanity though, is it's not it's not the 253 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,200 response of someone who sees God as Lord over their life. 254 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,040 It's that's someone who sees him as an option. 255 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,920 Kane saw. Kane saw him as an option. 256 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,640 You know, am I my brother's keeper? 257 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,240 Who cares? Who am I To answer to you? 258 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,840 We jump forward to King Saul. We have a popular section of 259 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,920 Scripture that happens right after this is right around the 260 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,880 time he's sparing A gag. He's keeping the best of the 261 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,960 Amalekites in the flock and everything like that. 262 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,320 And and and we're right after that and first Samuel 1513, it 263 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,640 says, and Samuel came to Saul and Saul said unto him, blessed 264 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,920 be thou of the Lord. I have performed the commandment 265 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,320 of the Lord. He said, yes, I've done it. 266 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,000 Look at me. Look at what I've done. 267 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:33,520 And Samuel said, What meaneth in this bleeding of the sheep in my 268 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,800 ears, and the lowing of the oxen, which I hear? 269 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,600 And Saul said, they have brought them from the Amalekites. 270 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,080 For the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to 271 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,160 sacrifice unto the Lord thy God, and the rest we have utterly 272 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:53,480 destroyed. He's so proud of himself, he 273 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,920 tries to spin it. He thinks he's helping God out a 274 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,200 little bit. He said, God, you didn't think 275 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,000 of this. But don't worry, I got it 276 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,000 covered. Samuel's like, what's that noise 277 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 I hear? Come on, there wasn't supposed 278 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,560 to be any noise. Utterly destroyed. 279 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:17,760 I should be here in silence. That's what it's like when 280 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:23,880 someone keeps just enough religion to look good, but 281 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,720 doesn't surrender enough to obey. 282 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:28,160 Yeah. Yeah. 283 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,960 Judas was one of the 12. He knew. 284 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,560 He knew everything to do. He was a part. 285 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,000 And the the disciples didn't know till the betrayal that it 286 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,480 was him. Why? 287 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,640 Because he was living off of religion, if you will. 288 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:45,720 He did everything he did could do to be a part. 289 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,320 He did his job in the church. Some of us do the same thing. 290 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,160 We do it all as partial obedience because we aren't 291 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,800 surrendering our life under this lordship. 292 00:21:55,960 --> 00:22:04,360 We look good enough, just enough to to to to not obey holy just 293 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:08,960 so we don't have to obey. The difference between him being 294 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,560 a rabbi in your life to him being Lord in your life comes 295 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:17,880 down to sacrifice. Take the rich young ruler in 296 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,120 Matthew 19. I know I'm hitting some popular 297 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:23,440 ones tonight. I'm sorry. 298 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,440 I'll I'll take a page out of pastor's book sometime and do do 299 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:33,200 some minor profits or something. Matthew 1920 and the young man 300 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,800 saithing to him. All these things have I kept 301 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,600 from my youth up What lack I yet he's he's he. 302 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,560 This is right after he's stating, you know, what shall I 303 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,200 do to enter the Kingdom of heaven and he and have you kept 304 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,600 the commandments? Of course, I've done great with 305 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,240 that. I'm amazing. 306 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,440 Then Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and 307 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:58,080 sell that thou hassen give to the poor, and thou shalt have 308 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,400 treasure in heaven, and come and follow me. 309 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,840 But when the young men man heard that saying, he went away 310 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,560 sorrowful, for he had a great possession. 311 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,960 The sacrifice was too great to Him. 312 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,920 If the sacrifice that God is calling you to in your life is 313 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,400 too great for you, then He is not Lord of your life. 314 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,040 You can keep commandments and still not give Him control. 315 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,560 You can still speak in tongues and walk away not surrendered 316 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:46,040 unto His Lordship. The question isn't do you know 317 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,680 the rules? The question is, who runs your 318 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:56,840 life? Have we gotten to a point now 319 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,880 where we go through the motions as as the church and we make it 320 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,320 look like we have it all in line, but really our heart is 321 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:11,000 saying, Rabbi, really we have we broken our walk with God down to 322 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,320 having good church every once in a while and we can look, we can 323 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,760 look at each other and say, man, that was good church. 324 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,520 And then we go home and we do whatever we want and we'll come 325 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:28,360 back Sunday, maybe Wednesday and if we need a pick up, but Sunday 326 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:31,200 morning for sure. And we will repent for all the 327 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,640 vomit. We went back to like a dog 328 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:40,560 during the week. You don't want to know why you 329 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,320 keep suffering with that same thing over and over and over and 330 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,520 over again. It's because he's not Lord. 331 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:54,760 He's not Lord at home. He's just rabbi to us. 332 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,640 It's just good teaching. It's just a good feeling that 333 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,640 we'll have when we get back in the four walls of the church. 334 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,280 You want to know why you fight those demons? 335 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,320 It is because he is rabbi at home. 336 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,640 He is rabbi outside the four walls of this church. 337 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,920 We have to wake up and realize that he needs to be Lord over 338 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,800 all. Lord over your family, your 339 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:27,400 home, your job, your finances, your thoughts, your television, 340 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,480 your phone. Everything has to be under 341 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:40,230 subjection to His lordship. Parents will have a rabbi 342 00:25:40,230 --> 00:25:43,630 mentality towards God in their home and then wonder why their 343 00:25:43,630 --> 00:25:49,480 kids don't follow God. I don't know why little Johnny 344 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,800 was watching inappropriate stuff on his phone. 345 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,160 Well, is he Lord a rabbi in your house? 346 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,680 Does little Johnny know that he's Lord of this house? 347 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,840 Does that phone know that he is Lord of this house? 348 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,120 I know that may sound weird, ladies and gentlemen, I know 349 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,440 that. But I what I'm trying to tell 350 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,880 you is that did, did, did you make sure to batten down the 351 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,800 hatches on this thing, learn everything you could about this 352 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:21,160 thing, pray over this thing, set boundaries with your kid on this 353 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,000 thing and declare his lordship over it? 354 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,200 Or did you throw caution to the wind, buy the thing, toss it to 355 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,360 the kid and say, here you go. No, he's just rabbi. 356 00:26:38,970 --> 00:26:41,890 Maybe you're here tonight and you think I, I have messed up. 357 00:26:41,930 --> 00:26:46,250 Maybe, maybe you feel like Judas and you're repentant, but I'm 358 00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:52,130 telling you, you have to be repentant to declare him a Lord. 359 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,880 I've messed up. I've I've betrayed him. 360 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,880 I've denied him with my life and my choices. 361 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,560 If that's you, then you need to look at Peter instead. 362 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:08,720 Peter denied Jesus three times. He cursed, he ran, he wept 363 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,480 bitterly. But the difference was this G 364 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:18,080 Peter still knew Jesus was Lord even in failure and in fear. 365 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,240 He didn't get right in the moment. 366 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,280 He didn't get it right in the moment, but he came back. 367 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,680 Judas betrayed and ran from mercy, but Peter denied and ran 368 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:36,200 to mercy. Judas called him rabbi and he 369 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:41,320 died in regret, but Peter called him Lord and he preached 370 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,000 Pentecost. You can still be used even if 371 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:50,240 you've been living a rabbi life. We just have to change our 372 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,760 mentality because we've been failing to surrender up to this 373 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,720 point. But that doesn't mean that it 374 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,800 has to be final. It doesn't mean that he only has 375 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,680 to be rabbi to you. You can choose for him to have 376 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:16,220 lordship over your life. Music can come. 377 00:28:16,220 --> 00:28:22,520 If we could stand tonight, I'm asking you church, what title do 378 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:29,560 you give him in your life? Does your heart declare him as 379 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,400 Lord or does it settle for rabbi? 380 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:38,400 Does he do you just settle for good Church? 381 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:43,680 Do you just settle for maybe having a shout down every once 382 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:48,640 in a while? Do you just settle to, to, to do 383 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,680 the, the the usual and, and make it look all good? 384 00:28:54,840 --> 00:29:01,600 See, we, Lord, help me see, we have, I've been, I've been 385 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,280 talking with my wife and I, I talked with other people. 386 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:14,320 I, I don't claim for it to be discernment pastor. 387 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,160 I don't claim for it to be discernment per SE, but I, I sit 388 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,400 and I observe sometimes when we go places. 389 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,480 I observe most of the time. But when we go places and you 390 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,520 know, camps, conferences, everything like that. 391 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:37,960 And I, I, I'm ailed in my body when, when I sit and I look at, 392 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:43,440 at a generation that is many of them, not all of them. 393 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,680 This is not a this is not a blanket statement. 394 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,480 Many of them have a look at me shout spirit. 395 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,800 That is not just just the kids. That's just I, I deal with the 396 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:08,320 kids a lot. That's not that's not lordship, 397 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,880 that's not sincerity. I'm all for a shout now. 398 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,640 I told, I told the students a couple weeks ago, I was talking 399 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:24,280 and the when, whenever that happens, I'm just thinking, what 400 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,400 are we missing? What are, what are what move of 401 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,080 God are we missing because we're too focused on. 402 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,760 Let's shout. Let's, let's, let's, let's have 403 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,680 the story of saying that we were in the sanctuary for however 404 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:44,680 many hours. Lord, there's no authority in 405 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,400 that. There's no, there's no saving in 406 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,280 that. When those people go home, 407 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,360 they're going to go back to the same demons that they've been 408 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,880 fighting. They'll say, oh, camp was 409 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,720 amazing. It was life changing, but the 410 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:07,760 the life didn't change because we were too focused on doing it. 411 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:19,640 Lordship is about sincerity. Authenticity is something that 412 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,320 is greatly lacking. I feel like it's a right now, I 413 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,520 feel like it's a, a hamster. I feel like we're a hamster. 414 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,800 And authenticity is in one of those bottles and it is on its 415 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,440 last leg of drip. And with the reason it is, is 416 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,440 because we haven't gone back to Lordship. 417 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:44,720 We've been lacking lordship in life for so long because we've 418 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:50,080 gotten by on a good time. We've gotten by on being able to 419 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,760 make it Sunday to Sunday. I would say Wednesday, but 420 00:31:53,760 --> 00:32:01,200 sometimes that's difficult. You don't have authority in your 421 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,480 household when he's just rabbi. You won't give victory over that 422 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,800 sin that's ailing you if he's just rabbi. 423 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,400 These altars are open tonight. I pray that you've heard my 424 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,840 heart and intention. We need to reclaim His Lordship 425 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,280 in our life. We need to reclaim Him. 426 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,960 The difference between a heart that says Rabbi and a heart that 427 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:31,040 says Master and Lord is sacrifice. 428 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,480 Rabbi can give you revelation, sure, but only Lord is going to 429 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,600 give you the resurrection. Only if He is Lord over your 430 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,320 everything is there going to be a true relationship. 431 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:49,120 There Relationship is what we direly need and we are desperate 432 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,800 for in this generation that we do not have as much as we 433 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,600 should. Giving of ourselves, giving of 434 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,720 ourselves unto his Lordship. Everything that we have, our 435 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,280 thoughts are the things that we do, the things that we talk 436 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,440 about, the people that we are around. 437 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,680 That is what is most important. Giving unto his Lordship, having 438 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,840 him have a say and everything that we do, everything that 439 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,000 we're a part of, giving him Lordship is one of the most 440 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,040 important decisions we need to make in these last days so that 441 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,040 we do not look and we say, God, we have done everything in your 442 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,960 name. We have done all these things in 443 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,360 your name. And he says, I depart from me. 444 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,040 I never knew you. That is the difference between 445 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,880 lordship. We need to be able to say, is it 446 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,160 I, Lord not? Is it I, Rabbi? 447 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,240 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.