1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,520 Thank you, Maggie. We're going to all give up our 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:09,800 seats in the auditorium like Jesus would do at Easter for the 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:11,120 people outside. No money. 4 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:12,040 Joking. We're not going to. 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:14,440 We're not going to do that. There are a whole lot of empty 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:15,600 seats there. It's great to see you. 7 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,320 Welcome. There's a man in his wife who 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,240 who had Sun City this morning and they booked out. 9 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:26,080 Time is 11. But they left. 10 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:29,400 At 5:00 to be at church and so a whole lot of you wherever you're 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,760 sitting out there, you would have made choices to be here 12 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:32,640 it's. Great to have you. 13 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:36,000 It's an amazing. Picture to see a young black 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,120 lady lead a church in Pretoria East. 15 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,440 On a day like. This this. 16 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,560 Is my 37th. Easter as a Christian. 17 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,200 And I don't know how many you've had. 18 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,120 Maybe this is your first or. Second or maybe? 19 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,680 This is your 50th but I realized this. 20 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:54,320 I've died slowly. And So what? 21 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,320 I thought I'd do is I would. Speed up your dying today I 22 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,280 would just. I just would start by just like 23 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,720 I thought, maybe just getting under your. 24 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,040 Skin a little bit, maybe insulting you a bit. 25 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:10,880 I thought I'd start with Afrikaners. 26 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,520 I thought that's the majority of you. 27 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,960 So I thought I'd just have a, we'd go back to the World War 28 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:17,960 and we'll talk a little bit about all sorts of things. 29 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:20,920 And then we're just, we'd really just get under your skin Worm 30 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:30,280 and Kenny and, and the, the people who really be offended 31 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,240 aren't there anywhere they instill by so, so they'll be 32 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,280 watching online. But I thought I'd get under the 33 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,080 Afrikaner skin. And then I thought I'd have a go 34 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,880 at the black eyes. I, I would just get there a 35 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,240 little bit to talk a bit about apartheid and then maybe your 36 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,320 Indian Oaks can come into it. I'll see your parents are gone. 37 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:46,480 So you've taken their chairs now. 38 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,560 I can't check. That's how your Indian oaks 39 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,160 work. OK, OK, now I can check that. 40 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,840 So, so I thought we would offend the Afrikaners. 41 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,720 Then we would have fed the black oaks and the Indian oaks, and 42 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:57,560 now you're all very uncomfortable. 43 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,240 We'll leave you Varta Cliff guys. 44 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,040 I know because I know you're very sensitive. 45 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,840 You know of these guys who will leave you alone. 46 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,080 And I promise you we won't talk about Boardwalk and all those 47 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,400 things and about Muy. Cliff and the horses. 48 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,080 And all those things, we'll leave those alone. 49 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,560 We're just going to get to the like the real insults, I 50 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:15,640 thought. I thought today I'd leave the 51 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:19,080 advocates alone. I feel like they've had a year 52 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,200 of hard times. But I'll go after the what we 53 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:27,000 call the medical specialist. They qualify for about 12 years 54 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:29,840 and then they make it up in the charging for the rest of their 55 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,560 lives. You know, they they're like 56 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,320 study really hard and then they and then they make it up very 57 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,600 quickly. And when you qualify as a 58 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,960 surgeon, you're called Mr. But in Pretoria, E, they call you 59 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,680 Sir. So, so I thought I'd just insult 60 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:43,280 everybody and then we'll read the Bible. 61 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,040 Is that is that cool? How you Afrikaans guys feeling 62 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,400 taste Fuliana taste? Yeah, Moy. 63 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,240 Welcome Betty Heiss and I see you have Mont Parker bring it 64 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,760 for the Ester Kier and to say bar you get to unscruckle about 65 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:58,280 it. It was. 66 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,920 The ain't like Engels first Tony Modasa. 67 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:03,200 Engelsa Oakley ain't like a Hui oaki marpa. 68 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,160 Muskin, Muskin, Muskin cut. It's for Kiat. 69 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,720 Khan Opera. Eddie Freydock. 70 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,120 Muskin Muskin handed for Khan Khan Khan for here. 71 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,320 OK, nice to see you. Let's This is the day of dying. 72 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,960 And. I trust, like you, my family 73 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,320 have been away this week, that you've searched the scriptures 74 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,560 and look deep into your hearts. And I want to speak about the 75 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,040 victory being in the V and I want to talk about absorbing. 76 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,640 Insult. And and how we. 77 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:33,960 Absorb insults. And I don't think we did really 78 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,760 well. And so I'm 37 years into my 79 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,840 Christian journey, and I realized there's still a lot of 80 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,320 Rory left. But a day like this, we have to 81 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,520 look at ourselves, and we have to follow our Savior. 82 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,800 Into. Down into the depths of what he 83 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,520 did so that we can somehow tap into resurrection. 84 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,520 Life. And so I'm not really here to. 85 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:53,360 Offend you? I'm here. 86 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,920 To take you on the journey of Christ and to. 87 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,480 See if we can. Find some victory in the steps 88 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,000 of Jesus. So welcome. 89 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,360 If you're from out of town, it's great to have you. 90 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,920 If you're visiting your children, it's magnificent to 91 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:06,280 have you. If you're online, if you're 92 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,240 outside, we are live streaming. We're people watching all over 93 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,080 the world. It's great to have you. 94 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,080 So we're going to look to Matthew 27, which Maggie would 95 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,800 not have known I was preparing. On and. 96 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,240 We're going to look at verse 32. As they were going out, they met 97 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,320 a man from Cyrene named Simon and they forced him to carry 98 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:26,000 the. Cross. 99 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,680 They came to a place called Golgotha, which means the place 100 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,880 of the skull. There they offered Jesus wine to 101 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,120 drink mixed with gall, but after. 102 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,840 Tasting it, he. Refused to drink it. 103 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,320 When they crucified him, they divided up his clothes. 104 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,480 By casting lots. And sitting down, they kept 105 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,080 watch over Him. There above his head, they 106 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,880 placed the written charge against them. 107 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:54,400 This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. 2 robbers were crucified 108 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,640 with him, one on his right and one on his left. 109 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:02,040 And those who passed by hurled insults. 110 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,480 At him. Say that hurled insults. 111 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,200 What I've done now is just make a few jokes about different. 112 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,840 Cultures and different races. Just made a few jokes, but they 113 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:16,040 hurled. Insults. 114 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,680 Have you ever seen a guy hurling who's had too much? 115 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,440 To drink like. Projectile vomit I grew. 116 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,960 Up in the Rugby World. And so I've seen lots of 117 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,560 projectile vomiting. When I look at this word, I 118 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,880 think of this. Stuff that comes hurling out of 119 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:31,960 their mouths, just hurling out of their mouths. 120 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,440 Just this vomit. That comes hurling towards. 121 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:39,680 Christ, if you watch the riots that happened a couple of years 122 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,600 ago, you. Saw people hurling stuff. 123 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,520 Rocks and fire bombs, you just saw them hurling. 124 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,200 And you see Jesus on the cross and people just hurling stuff at 125 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,920 him. And yet, the moment. 126 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,760 That we get offended, we respond. 127 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,800 He could not everything inside of him because of the human 128 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,240 nature every time that we get attacked. 129 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,280 The first thing we'll do? Is try and defend, that's what. 130 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,920 Happens in our lives. The first time, if you get 131 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,480 caught naked, you'll try and cover. 132 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,360 Your nakedness. If you get caught on your guard. 133 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,240 You will lift up your fists. Whatever. 134 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,560 Whenever we get attacked, we go straight. 135 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,280 Into defense mode and Jesus couldn't because he was pinned. 136 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,080 And that's the message of Good Friday, is that he took. 137 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,840 That full? Brunt, so that you and I can 138 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:32,640 actually learn how to handle insult so that resurrection life 139 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,360 will start to kick into our bodies. 140 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:42,440 Amen. Those who passed by, those who 141 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,800 passed by. They weren't even. 142 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,440 Part of the they just passed by. It's like when you're doing your 143 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,000 thing and somebody just passes by in the traffic. 144 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,160 They're just passing by. I think I've never met you in 145 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:53,600 your life. You don't know who I am. 146 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,560 You don't know I've been married for 32 years. 147 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,480 You don't know the way I've brought up my children. 148 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,080 You don't know how I've loved Jesus. 149 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:00,880 And you cut me off and you zapped. 150 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,480 Me and you're just passing by, but you just think you've got 151 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:09,360 the right to just freak me out and you've got the. 152 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,800 Right on Good Friday to absorb it. 153 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,960 And saying they hold the insults. 154 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,720 Shaking their heads. Horrible. 155 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:28,480 Thing, huh? Did a teacher shake your head at 156 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:42,560 you? Horrible thing to have somebody 157 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,000 shake their head at you. I don't think to have a parent 158 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,280 shake their head at you. Somebody in authority shake 159 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:49,840 their head at. You. 160 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:55,800 I remember a girl who sinned. And I old say as young. 161 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,040 Girl 14 year old girl walked into my office. 162 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,920 She was absolutely petrified because she thought I was going 163 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:10,630 to shake my head at her. And saying you are going to 164 00:08:10,630 --> 00:08:12,990 destroy this temple and build it in these three days. 165 00:08:12,990 --> 00:08:16,360 Save yourself, come down from the cross if you are the Son of 166 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,280 God. In the same way, say, in the 167 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,320 same way, insulting and shaking their heads. 168 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,000 In the same way. In exactly the same way, 169 00:08:35,190 --> 00:08:37,309 the chief priests. Now these are not. 170 00:08:37,309 --> 00:08:39,390 Passersby. These are guys inside the church 171 00:08:40,230 --> 00:08:43,070 in the same way, the chief priests, the teachers of the law 172 00:08:43,350 --> 00:08:46,550 and the elders. Stephen and Rory and Clint. 173 00:08:47,470 --> 00:08:49,790 The guys who are meant to be leading us in the ways of God in 174 00:08:49,790 --> 00:09:00,460 the same way when we. Send in the. 175 00:09:00,460 --> 00:09:05,140 Same way they mocked. Him insiders. 176 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:09,260 You were here last week, 2 1/2 thousand people. 177 00:09:09,260 --> 00:09:10,820 We stopped the service for one girl called. 178 00:09:10,820 --> 00:09:13,540 Amanda, she said. On the stage and you said what 179 00:09:13,540 --> 00:09:18,780 is that all? About whenever we do anything 180 00:09:18,780 --> 00:09:19,900 for God, we. Will be mocked. 181 00:09:20,740 --> 00:09:23,780 We will be insulted, people will not understand. 182 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,240 And many of you grew up in churches with stained glass 183 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,560 windows. And now you come and say, oh. 184 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:32,800 Why did you paint it black? Why have you got? 185 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,600 Screens now we like, we like. TV Why have? 186 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,120 You got screens. You know what? 187 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,280 My heart does for. 37 years I've responded and as I look at 188 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,200 things, just absorb it. It's going to keep coming. 189 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,560 From passers by. It's going to keep coming from 190 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:46,720 insiders. It's going to come. 191 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,840 From outsiders. It's going to come from thieves, 192 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,600 it's going to come from religious people. 193 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,040 It's going to come. Friends this day. 194 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,440 We learn how to die. We learn how to stay pinned to 195 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,800 the cross instead of reacting out of our flesh, because if it 196 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,840 happened to Christ, it's going to happen to us. 197 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:11,280 How are we doing? He saved others, I said, but he 198 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,720 can't save himself. He's the king of Israel. 199 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,600 Let him come down now from the cross and we'll believe in him. 200 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,680 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he 201 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:22,200 wants. For he said, I am the Son of God 202 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,440 in the same way. In the same way what? 203 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:32,160 Ah, you Afrikaans in the same way, in the same way, insulting 204 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:37,040 and shaking their heads in the same way, the robbers who were 205 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,240 crucified with them also heaped, say heaped. 206 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,760 So you've got hurled insults and now you've got. 207 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,480 Heaped insults and. Some of you want to leave us. 208 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,920 I'm not ever going to go back to that English guys church. 209 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:54,680 Suck it up. Absorb the insult. 210 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,440 Absorb the insult. So I want to. 211 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,000 Tell you something, Englishman. OK, you can. 212 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:08,440 And then I must absorb that too. Because for a young black girl 213 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:20,640 and a big white. Guy to lead church together. 214 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,320 There's had to be some absorption that's taken place. 215 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:28,760 I'm tall. She's not so tall. 216 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,240 I'm male, she's female. She's educated with the Bcom 217 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,400 master's degree. I'm not educated. 218 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,120 She's a mother. I'm a father. 219 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,640 But we. Stand here somehow having. 220 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,480 Absorbed the insult of our community so we can serve. 221 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,400 God together. And if we're going to build 222 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,160 something that lasts in this. Nation if we're. 223 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,240 Going to build something that is going to change our country, 224 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,120 then you've got to absorb the thing that is different to you. 225 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,920 You've got to absorb it and not respond to it. 226 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,280 And God is busy with you. He has. 227 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,560 Been for a long time, you and your four daughters. 228 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,880 This beautiful man, God is busy with you, but he's called you to 229 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,440 preach, giving you a tongue to speak the life of God to people 230 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,560 you have been absorbing for a long time. 231 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,160 Keep absorbing. Don't respond, don't react, 232 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,880 don't make a first. God's working. 233 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,040 You know, friends, one of the great reasons why we absorb it 234 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,680 is because just a little bit later, it says the same thing in 235 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,280 Matthew. It says the same thing in, in 236 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,840 Mark. In, in, in Mark, but in Luke. 237 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,120 Oh, sorry, in Luke. No, in Luke, in Luke 27, don't 238 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,760 put it up. But in Luke, somewhere along the 239 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,960 line, these two robbers, I mean, Can you imagine 2 robbers don't 240 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:50,680 know what they've stolen? Maybe from Prasa, maybe from 241 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,440 SAA, and some of you have lost your job sitting here in this 242 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,520 auditorium today. You lost your jobs at SAA 243 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,520 because of what went on at SA. There's pilots sitting here, 244 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,640 qualified pilots that have lost their job. 245 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,000 You say, Rory, you don't understand. 246 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,080 Now I fully understand. They're robbers on either side 247 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,640 of us and they're both insulting Christ. 248 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,080 And then one of them has a change of heart, and he looks. 249 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,160 At Jesus. And he says, Jesus, Jesus, 250 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,520 please. Today, when you get to. 251 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,520 Heaven, will you Remember Me if. Jesus had been insulted. 252 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,320 He would have closed the door to salvation if Jesus had been 253 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,120 insulted, said no, you. Insulted me 20. 254 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,600 Minutes ago you insulted. Me. 255 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,960 But Jesus said, I tell you today you'll be with me in paradise. 256 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,360 One of the greatest. Reasons why absorbed insult 257 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,800 friends is because insult absorbed leads. 258 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:44,040 To salvation and sometimes it's 20 minutes and sometimes it's. 259 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,560 20 years. As the insiders and the 260 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:50,240 outsiders and the robbers insult you, there are people sitting 261 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,280 here today. One of them I met in the door. 262 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,160 His name is George, one of my dear friends. 263 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,160 George. And this is what they said to me 264 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,520 about George. You, George Shadow, will never. 265 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,640 Ever see the inside? Of your church. 266 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,440 And he had a lot to say about this church, and he had a lot to 267 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,440 say about the leaders. But one day, the shadow of 268 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,120 George fell across the entrance of this church. 269 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,160 Now, George. Doesn't miss a Sunday and. 270 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:17,400 Maybe your name is? George. 271 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,680 I want to tell you friends, the moment we start absorbing 272 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,520 insult, we will start attracting. 273 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,680 George and his mates to church, are you with me? 274 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,240 Let's keep. Reading and then we. 275 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:34,280 Reading in the scripture and I know it's quite deep, but this 276 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:35,920 is not. The celebration day. 277 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,360 This is. The day that we die, this is 278 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,880 the. Day you go home and say sorry, 279 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,920 this is a day you go home. And the thing that. 280 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,000 You've been holding. On to dearly you let it go 281 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:51,440 today. From the 6th hour until the 9th 282 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,320 hour, darkness came over all the land. 283 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,800 About the 9th hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice. 284 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:03,080 Eloy, Eloy la maisa bakhtani, which means my God, my God, why 285 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,240 have you? Forsaken me. 286 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,320 I got a letter this week from a little girl. 10 years old. 287 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:17,440 Just say, dear pastor, why does? God not answer my prayers, love. 288 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:39,950 Let's go to Psalm 22. Thousands of years before. 289 00:15:41,230 --> 00:15:50,350 Thousands of years before. Read the first line 123 written 290 00:15:50,350 --> 00:15:57,800 2000 years before 2000 years before my God, say my God, my 291 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:05,400 God, my God, God, you're my God, I'm Rory, I'm the son God you're 292 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,320 my God. Why have you forsaken me? 293 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:16,400 So Jesus prayed because on this day in Pretoria East in three CI 294 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,280 is a 10 year old girl, says pastor. 295 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,920 Why doesn't God answer? My praise? 296 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,120 Said. You're going to have to follow 297 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,800 Jesus, young girl. You're going to have to follow 298 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,040 Jesus and realize that. Jesus had to take. 299 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,560 Abandonment from the Father so that you never feel abandoned in 300 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,880 your life. And some of you are sitting here 301 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:37,880 thinking, why doesn't God answer my prayers? 302 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:48,000 Jesus knows what you feel like. My God, give me a minute. 303 00:16:54,200 --> 00:17:00,800 My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? 304 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,079 There will be many people sitting in your auditorium, 305 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:10,680 Rory. You feel forsaken. 306 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:17,040 And on this day, I'll show them that this forsakenness takes us 307 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,400 to death, and this death results in resurrection life. 308 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,599 He's not abandoned you, he's just taking you on a journey. 309 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:27,280 My. God, my God, why? 310 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:32,000 Have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving 311 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,600 me, so far from the words of my groaning? 312 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,840 Oh God, I'm crying out to you. Why God? 313 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,840 Why God are you so far from my groaning? 314 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,760 Friends, you know that I live with a brain tumor. 315 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:49,200 I had a brain operation that sent that took me to Christ. 316 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,920 That's what got me to Christ. And while I was preaching the 317 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,760 gospel, it grew back in my head. I lived with headaches most of 318 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,680 my life. And for years. 319 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,960 I like God. Why cannot you hear my crying? 320 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,160 I'm groaning to you. My head is sore. 321 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:04,440 I'm trying to serve. You. 322 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,680 I need to kill you, Rory. I need you to die. 323 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:11,280 I need you. To go. 324 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,240 Down to the bottom. Because the Church like the 325 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,000 world. Says that the pinnacle is at the 326 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,320 top and I want to teach you that the pinnacle is at the bottom. 327 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,720 And when you get to the bottom you will realize how I want to 328 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,240 build the church. Not with fancy past the titles 329 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,840 and flying over all the world and becoming celebrities. 330 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,640 God is not looking for celebrities, He's looking for 331 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,040 people at the bottom. I don't believe God caused my 332 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,760 brain to you. But I know this. 333 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,240 He's used it to start to kill me. 334 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,760 I'm still alive. I'm still too much of me, but 335 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,040 sometimes I feel. God is so. 336 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,640 Far away from me when I'm trying my. 337 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,120 Best to get close. To me feels so far, but it's the 338 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:59,680 journey of Easter Friday, it's the journey of the cross, it's 339 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,680 the journey of absorption. This is my cry to you, 3 CI. 340 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:09,600 Die well, die well on this day. Cry if you need to, cry if you 341 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:15,240 need to. Yet you're enthroned as the Holy 342 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,960 One, you're the praise of Israel, and your Father's put 343 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,080 their trust. They cried to you and were saved 344 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,360 and you were trusted. You're not disappointed, but I'm 345 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:27,560 a worm and not a man scorned by men and despised by the people. 346 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,200 All who? See me, mock me. 347 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,200 They hurl. Their insults shaking their 348 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,200 head. Hill heap shake, Hill heap 349 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:44,840 shake, Hill heap shake. And he absorbed it. 350 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,480 For time's sake, let's go to verse 12. 351 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,960 Many bulls surround me. Strong Bulls. 352 00:19:55,960 --> 00:20:01,240 Of Bashan encircle me roaring. Lions tearing their prey. 353 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:02,960 Open their mouths. Wide. 354 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,200 Against me. I'm poured out like water and 355 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,920 all my bones are out of. Joint my heart has. 356 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,360 Turned to wax, it is melted. Away within me my. 357 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:13,640 Strength is dried up like a potsherd. 358 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,120 And my tongue. Sticks to the roof of my mouth. 359 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,960 You lay me in the dust of death. Dogs have surrounded me. 360 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:21,800 A band of evil. Men has. 361 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,240 Encircled me they have. Pierced my hands and my feet. 362 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,600 Verse 20. Deliver my life. 363 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,360 From the sword my. Precious. 364 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,920 Life from the power of the dogs. Rescue me from the mouths of the 365 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,080 lion. Save me from the. 366 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,000 Horns of the wild oxen. Can you put that picture please? 367 00:20:47,510 --> 00:20:50,230 If you saw any one of those walking towards you, what would 368 00:20:50,230 --> 00:20:52,950 you do? What would you do? 369 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,680 I'm not sure if you had we in your pants first, then run or 370 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,280 run and we in your pants, but what would you do? 371 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:07,840 Look. Look at them. 372 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,960 Look at them. Jesus. 373 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,040 Saying. Actually, you know what? 374 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,000 This is like. This is like. 375 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:20,160 Bulls surrounding me. This is like being pierced with 376 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,000 the horns of a bull in the very deepest plates of my heart. 377 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,160 I don't I, I, I think I'm quite secure. 378 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,440 But we stopped a meeting of two. And a half thousand people 379 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,320 because I feel God wants to speak to a girl. 380 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,200 Called Amanda and somebody comes and says what was all that? 381 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,600 About that is like. A horn going straight. 382 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,200 Through my heart. I'm a sensitive guy. 383 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,360 But in the past I would have. Tried to defend myself but on 384 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:52,880 this Easter front I'm saying Lord please help me to absorb 385 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,480 this. May I absorb the horn? 386 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,760 So I must learn the lesson of Good Friday. 387 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:04,560 All these marks on my hands are from a dog that bit me. 388 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,080 And you know, I don't like dogs. But I do. 389 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,040 Like the Psalms and I don't. Know how God's worked it out, 390 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,880 but every. One of my neighbors got one of 391 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,320 those. Dogs, and I've spoken about 392 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,280 those dogs and some of my neighbors are here. 393 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,120 I'm going to report you today. And I'm not. 394 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:29,200 You can ask my wife. We've got a neighbor's dog that 395 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,560 barks every night at 12:00. I'm an insomniac. 396 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,480 When I wake up, I don't go back to sleep. 397 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,680 But I can tell you this, I've said to the Lord over this last 398 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,480 18 months of my life, Lord, let me hear the barking of the dogs 399 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,120 and let me absorb it. Let me absorb it somehow. 400 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,120 So please, you'd release a resurrection life inside of me. 401 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:55,200 I can bear the sound of the dogs because of Psalm 22. 402 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,480 Can you bear the roaring lion? Can you bear the Raging Bull? 403 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,480 I will. Show you a picture of one of our 404 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,360 staff members that got one bite from a dog. 405 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,040 Let's keep it up. Louis, can you come here, 406 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:37,800 please? There's a beautiful man, there's 407 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:43,880 one of my friends, this man and the guy called Andrew with the 408 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,000 team of the guys, they look after this property, make it 409 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,960 look so beautiful. Doesn't get much recognition in 410 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,360 the church. There's a lot of background 411 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,880 work. But in December you're sitting 412 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:58,080 next to one of his friends dogs. That's one bite, just one bite. 413 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,200 There's one bite. We nearly lost it. 414 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,240 One bite. There's another man here, a 415 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,240 friend of mine. I met him on the beach down in 416 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,960 the tell. We got became friendly on the 417 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,680 beach and next minute he arrived in church. 418 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,840 I said what you doing here? He said I thought you were quite 419 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:20,080 interesting on the beach. He also got one bite of a dog in 420 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,200 his face, got pock marks in his head. 421 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,000 That happened in December. This happened in January, 422 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,120 December as well. One bite of a dog. 423 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,000 Now, what do you want to do when that happens to you, friend? 424 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:36,640 What do you want to do when the dogs surround you and the lions 425 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,120 surround you and the bulls surround you and they're 426 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:42,800 absolutely ripping you apart? This is what I say to you. 427 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:48,720 Absorb it. Absorb it like Jesus did on the 428 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:55,840 cross and God will heal and God will redeem and God will make 429 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:01,240 right and God will justify and God will give you a future and I 430 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,360 hope he will protect you in Jesus name. 431 00:25:12,970 --> 00:25:14,970 It's sent to. Philippians chapter 2, please. 432 00:25:16,330 --> 00:25:21,970 Thanks bud for those. Who are sitting? 433 00:25:21,970 --> 00:25:23,930 Outside, it's great to have you. Thanks for coming. 434 00:25:24,770 --> 00:25:31,250 As it came from Sun City, the victory is in the V. 435 00:25:32,450 --> 00:25:36,280 We're looking at Philippians. Chapter 2 and verse 5 it says 436 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,560 your attitude should be the same. 437 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,960 As that of Christ Jesus say the same, not similar. 438 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,640 Say the same. Your attitude. 439 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,800 Should be the same as that of. Christ Jesus. 440 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,680 Who being in very. Nature God did not. 441 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,400 Consider equality with God. Something to be grasped. 442 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,120 Friends, I know I've done this before, but for those who are 443 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:57,560 visiting, take your hands like this and. 444 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,440 Close it like that. And take the hand that has been 445 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,000 locked and try and open it. Can't open it? 446 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,280 Force it open. It's absolutely impossible. 447 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,680 Change your hands around and see if you can open it. 448 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,720 And it's physically impossible. And what the Bible says, your 449 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,160 attitude should be the same as that of Christ, who being in 450 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,880 very nature God, who being in very nature Afrikaans, who being 451 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,840 in very nature women who being in very nature black who being 452 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,080 in very nature black. When you're under pressure, 453 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:36,680 don't close your. Hands. 454 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,800 That's not what. Jesus did keep him open. 455 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,600 Don't grasp it, don't grasp your male hood, don't grasp your 456 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,280 African at him, don't grasp your English thing, don't grasp your 457 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,480 leadership position already because your very nature, my 458 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,240 nature, I'm an 8 type personality, I'm extroverted, 459 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,720 I'm strong, my very nature has to grab it and God says you want 460 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,720 to save these people properly. And have to keep your hands 461 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,560 open. Your attitude must be the same. 462 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,720 That's hard. That's hard. 463 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,680 And people call you all sorts. Of things. 464 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,520 And sometimes we've got to go against, not, not. 465 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,600 Living unnatural life, we start to live supernatural. 466 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:23,800 Sabadori, you don't. Understand. 467 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,080 That's how. We do it no friends with. 468 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,560 We don't do it like that anymore. 469 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:27,840 Our. Attitude is the same. 470 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,040 As Jesus, we don't act in our nature. 471 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,600 We start acting supernaturally. Then God starts taking a short 472 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,040 black lady with a Bcom master's degree and a tall, white, loud 473 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,840 guy who doesn't have a degree, and he starts to build the 474 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:46,440 church together. And then he takes an Indian man 475 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,120 called Dennis and Annie, and he says you must just sit behind 476 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:52,480 the pastor every Sunday. Dennis came to me when I came to 477 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,200 Pretoria. He said, Rory, I'll sit behind 478 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,840 you and I look after you, Dennis and Annie. 479 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,240 I know Dennis is in Durban. I know what Dennis would have 480 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,480 done. He would have phoned his son and 481 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,400 said, hey boy, you better get to church early and sit behind Rory 482 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,960 just so that he feels OK and God gave him this beautiful lady to 483 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,240 Lisa got married on this property. 484 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,960 Did your dad phone you? He didn't. 485 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,120 You you phoned him? AC close. 486 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,000 And all of a. Sudden they they. 487 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,120 Instead of gripping positions, we start to open our hand. 488 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:39,840 Where's my Bible? But he made himself. 489 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,360 Nothing taking the very nature of a servant. 490 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,600 And be made in human. Likeness say the nature of a 491 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,880 servant. Friends, you've heard me say 492 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:49,560 that you. Can go to a. 493 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,680 Restaurant you can see a lady in a in in a waitress outfit. 494 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,240 All she wants is a tip, and you can see a lady that serves you. 495 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,600 When you come here, you should be come here to be served. 496 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,920 We should serve you, the elders should serve you. 497 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,600 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and 498 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,360 became obedient to death, even death on a cross. 499 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,040 Therefore say therefore, whenever you see the word, 500 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,720 therefore something has gone before. 501 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,640 Therefore God exalted him and gave him the name. 502 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:30,400 Please put that little diagram up. the V, The right hand side 503 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,120 is how the whole of Pretoria works. 504 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,760 It's a whole of the world works. It's how the whole of society 505 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,800 works. You're going to spend the rest 506 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,880 of your life climbing to get to the top, and when you get to the 507 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,680 top, everybody's going to worship you. 508 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,400 It happens in business and it happens in the church. 509 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,040 But the reason that Good Friday exists and the reason that 510 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,520 people held their insults at us, outsiders, insiders, close 511 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,600 people, family members, is to help us get down to the bottom. 512 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:10,760 And when we get down to the bottom and we become obedient to 513 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:15,800 death. Therefore, God exalted him and 514 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,880 gave him the name that is above every other name. 515 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,560 The resurrection life of God starts to kick into us. 516 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,760 And I want to tell you here, friends, there's lots of flesh 517 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,400 that needs to die on Easter Friday. 518 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,160 There's lots of tension, there's lots of arguments, there's lots 519 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,160 of personality. There's lots of English them, 520 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,560 there's lots of black them, there's lots of Afrikaner them 521 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:46,440 that has to die today so that you can tap into resurrection 522 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,760 life. Amen. 523 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:57,440 Three things we've finished. Matthew Chapter 5 let. 524 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,000 Me. Read them quickly from here. 525 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,360 I'll just read them Matthew 5. Blessed are you when people 526 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,120 insult you. I really love it. 527 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,600 I absolutely love it. It's. 528 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,760 Awesome. When I bust my guts and stand on 529 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000 the stage with a girl called Amanda and stop the whole 530 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,400 service and the first person goes because I don't understand 531 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,480 you, it's really, really exciting. 532 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,960 But the Bible? Said you're blessed. 533 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,720 You're blessed. So don't respond, don't react, 534 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:35,400 don't form a fist. This muscle to close is a 535 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,560 natural muscle, like a crocodile and like a hyena. 536 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,920 It's a natural muscle, it closes. 537 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,640 The muscle to keep this open is unnatural or supernatural, and 538 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,240 Jesus knew that if the cross was going to happen on Good Friday, 539 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,320 He had to keep his hands open so that the nails could go in his 540 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,040 hands. I want to say to you, Sir, 541 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,040 whether you're a medical specialist or an advocate or a 542 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,440 father or a friend or a brother or a cousin who an aunt and you 543 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,160 have got unfinished relationships, open your hand 544 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,960 and let the King of Kings strike a nail through. 545 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:12,420 Them and you will understand that you're blessed. 546 00:32:13,740 --> 00:32:16,660 Blessed are you. When people insult you, 547 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,120 persecute. You and falsely say. 548 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,560 All kinds of evil against you because of me. 549 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,520 Rejoice and be glad. Wow, God, I just want to. 550 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:31,120 Block some people. That's the swear word. 551 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,680 I'm sorry. Rejoice. 552 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,160 And be glad, because great is your reward. 553 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,000 In heaven for in the. Same way they've persecuted the 554 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,640 prophets who were before you. You're the salt of the earth. 555 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,400 Etcetera, etcetera. Great is your reward. 556 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,080 In heaven, say that, and what insult does? 557 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,280 It brings us to a very finite point in which we have to spend 558 00:32:55,280 --> 00:33:01,240 years defending our position instead of letting it go and 559 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,480 trusting God for the future. Amen. 560 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:11,400 The second one. One Peter, Chapter 2. 561 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:17,240 Please. To this you were called say 562 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,920 that. Auditorium outside in the foyer 563 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,200 outside quickly. People watching online to. 564 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,000 This you were called to. This said to. 565 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,440 This you were called. Come to Jesus, everything's 566 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:34,280 going to be. All right. 567 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,960 Come to Jesus 10 year old. Girl, and you're going to write 568 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:37,840 little. Letters and say. 569 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,400 Pastor, Dear Pastor Rory. Why does? 570 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,920 God not answer my prayers, To this you were called, young 571 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,320 lady, to this you were called because Christ suffered for you, 572 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,480 leaving you an example that you should follow. 573 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:58,880 In his steps, He committed. No sin and no deceit was found 574 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,760 in his mouth when they hurled. Their insults at him. 575 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:09,199 He did not retaliate when he suffered, he made no threats. 576 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:18,199 Instead, he entrusted himself to him, who judges justly to this. 577 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,639 I wish I'd done a better job of insulting some of you this 578 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:24,199 morning. To this. 579 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,840 You were called. To. 580 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:32,679 This you were called stop defending start absorbing and 581 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,440 you will see the resurrected life of Christ breaking. 582 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,400 I close with the scripture. Thank you for being here and 583 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,600 we're going to. Try and work this all out. 584 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,560 When we leave the parking lot just now. 585 00:34:51,510 --> 00:35:01,920 Philippians 3, please say this. I want to know Christ. 586 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,000 I've been serving God since I was 20 years old. 57 this year. 587 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,880 The greatest desire in my heart. So I want. 588 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:17,280 To know Christ, I want to know Christ I've never. 589 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,000 Asked God for a big church. I've never asked God for 590 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,400 profile. The prayer that I pray. 591 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,240 I want to know you Jesus. I want to know Christ. 592 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,120 I want to know the forgiveness of Christ. 593 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,720 I want to know the cleanest of Christ. 594 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:32,480 I want to know the generosity of Christ. 595 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:38,760 I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and 596 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,880 the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in 597 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,080 His death. My headache comes and my 598 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,240 headache goes and it weeks and months. 599 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:50,960 I have no headaches and the days that I have. 600 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,880 Terrible. Headaches and I think Jesus, you 601 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,720 had bulls all. Around you, you had. 602 00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:59,640 Lions all around you. You had dogs barking 603 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,160 continuously. At you. 604 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,800 You were stabbed in your side. You were beaten in your. 605 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,360 Back your head was smashed and that nobody. 606 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,600 Could recognize you've got Please will you take these 607 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:15,120 sufferings and just teach me about yourself becoming like him 608 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:19,400 in his death and so somehow to attain to the resurrection from 609 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,080 the dead. Not that I've already obtained 610 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,880 all this or have already been made perfect, but I press on to 611 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,680 take hold of that for it's Jesus Christ took hold of me. 612 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:39,120 You will never, ever, ever participate in the resurrection. 613 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,840 Power of Christ. Unless you share in the 614 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,960 sufferings of Christ on the cross. 615 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:52,440 Good Friday, my dear friends, is to kill you. 616 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,600 Is to die to. The flesh. 617 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,640 And to die to your personality, that is getting in the way of 618 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,560 humility and the fixing of relationships. 619 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,840 And husbands and wives. Husbands, please don't call your 620 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,320 wife the female version of bull, but call her bull. 621 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,000 I stop this bull. I stop this roaring and stop 622 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:23,040 this barking. Close your hands like this, lift 623 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:33,780 your fists, open your hands. Say to this I was called. 624 00:37:36,340 --> 00:37:40,340 This will bless me. If I keep my hands open, 625 00:37:41,940 --> 00:37:47,380 salvation will come. Let me suffer, Lord, so that I 626 00:37:47,380 --> 00:37:50,420 understand resurrection life.