1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:05,900 So good to see everyone today. So good to be here again and 2 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:08,000 it's wonderful to see some new faces. 3 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:12,700 So I hope as we spend the day together that I get a chance to 4 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:15,700 meet you, if I don't already know you and I hope I get a 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:19,300 chance to reconnect with you. If we already know each other, 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,000 the song service was excellent and preparing our minds for 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,400 where we're going to go this morning. 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,400 This morning, as you can see, on the screen, we're going to 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,200 discuss the topic. I would just simply call 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,100 Discerning the Lord's body. This comes from First 11 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:36,700 Corinthians 11. We're going to back up to verse 12 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:40,400 23, here in a few minutes we're going to meet around the Lord's 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,500 table and we have an obligation. When we do this to do a few 14 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:50,300 things, the church at Corinth had messed this up. 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,900 The church at Corinth had stopped doing what the Lord 16 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:58,200 instituted and as Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, he says 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,300 we need to fix this. Now, I'm putting it in Gregg 18 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:05,500 branches terms, but that's that's how I would, I interpret 19 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:09,200 what he said, he said, he talked about what they did wrong, we're 20 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,400 not going to go into that right now, but if you don't see the 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,200 screen, we're in First Corinthians 11. 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,700 Beginning in verse 23, for I received from the Lord that 23 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:20,400 which I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the same 24 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,800 night in which he I was betrayed took bread, and when he had 25 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,200 given thanks, he broke it and said, take eat. 26 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:30,100 This is my body which is broken for you. 27 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:33,900 Do this in remembrance of me in the same manner. 28 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:37,000 Also, he took the cup after supper saying, this cup is the 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 New Covenant in my blood. This do as often as you drink 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,600 it. In remembrance of me for as 31 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,600 often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the 32 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,600 Lord's death, till he comes. Now, if you remember what he's 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,500 talked about prior to this, they had Turned the communion, the 34 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:56,000 observance of the Lord's Supper into something. 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,200 We might call a. Bring your own lunch. 36 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,800 It wasn't really potluck. Like we're going to have this 37 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,500 afternoon where everybody just brings it puts it on a common 38 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:10,400 table, and we share it. But it seems as though the 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,500 families, the people began to meet in their little groups, 40 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,100 they had what they had. And someone that brought a lot 41 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:18,600 and had plenty, they were just full and had plenty. 42 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:22,600 And if there was somebody in the group that, Don't have much or 43 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,600 anything, they would sit over there and just have nothing. 44 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,400 And I hope that just screams inside of us. 45 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,200 That's just not, right? Why wouldn't you invite them 46 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,000 over to at least share with yours but that didn't happen in 47 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,700 this church. And so some had a lot in some 48 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:43,900 had none and they certainly were not growing together. 49 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:46,700 He said this is how the Lord instituted it. 50 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,800 There was a common bread that was shared there was a common 51 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,400 drink that was shared. Now look, if you don't know me 52 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:55,900 Glenn am I remember this about me? 53 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:59,600 I'm not a drink Sharer. When Rachel and I started 54 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,000 dating, I had this tendency, I love to stop, just have always 55 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,600 have a soda with me. If she wanted somebody like will 56 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,000 get you one. I could kiss her but I didn't 57 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,800 want to share a soda with her. Now, children that kind of 58 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,600 changed a lot in my life. So what we're going to do here 59 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,600 in a few minutes is not natural, it's not like mad. 60 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,000 I cannot wait to share this cup with you but I won't think about 61 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,900 that. And then there's something 62 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:30,300 bigger happening with all this and the church they're needed to 63 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:35,100 know that he went on to say, therefore, whoever eats this 64 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:38,600 bread or drinks this cup of the Lord, in an unworthy manner, 65 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,200 will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 66 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:44,700 There's a way we need to participate in this. 67 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:47,600 There's a manner that as we go about this, Us here in a few 68 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,000 minutes, we need to consider how we're doing it because it's 69 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 possible, if I don't do it in the right manner. 70 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:59,200 I would be guilty of this body and blood, but let a man examine 71 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,400 himself and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup 72 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,100 for. He Who drinks in an unworthy 73 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:06,700 manner, eats and drinks judgment to himself. 74 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:10,700 Not Discerning the Lord's body. Remember, that's the title of 75 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:13,000 our study today. Discerning the Lord's body. 76 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:16,399 He said what they're doing wrong. 77 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:19,600 If they're drinking and eating dram nation and himself as they 78 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,800 failed to discern the Lord's body for this reason because 79 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,100 people were not Discerning the Lord's body for this reason, 80 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:32,700 many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep. 81 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:36,500 I don't know this congregation so I can say this freely and I 82 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:38,500 don't have to worry. Maybe Frank would get up here 83 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:41,600 and he's like, I can't say that because they know, I know, and I 84 00:04:41,608 --> 00:04:45,600 don't know that, but here's what I'm kind of confident of in a 85 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,400 cup in an audience is sites. There's someone here today and 86 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,600 maybe more than one person that feels weak, but you came anyway. 87 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 You feel sick? Spiritually you came anyway. 88 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,500 It's not like covid. It's not like the flu. 89 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,000 It's like it's a spiritual sickness and you know what I'm 90 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,300 talking about. But you don't know why, you 91 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:07,600 don't know why you're growing week. 92 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,200 You don't know why you're sick. You don't know why you're 93 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:15,000 spiritually asleep. You're sleepwalking as it were 94 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,200 I'm going to submit to you today. 95 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,800 Suggest you today there's a good chance. 96 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,700 It's failure to discern the Lord's body. 97 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:27,000 It's somewhere in the midst of this. 98 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,500 In all we do and the obligation we feel and you're committed 99 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:32,400 even already to one cup and one loaf. 100 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:38,600 Perhaps, But you're still you don't know what's wrong, I 101 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,400 suggest. When it's happened to me, I've 102 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,100 filled the Discerning the Lord's body. 103 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:48,500 What does it mean to discern? The Lord's body literally comes 104 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:50,700 from a Greek word. That means to separate 105 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:54,000 thoroughly, I don't know about you, but I don't do a lot for 106 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,700 me. You break it out. 107 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:00,900 Vine says to distinguish your separate out. 108 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:04,900 So as to investigate so we're separating it out thoroughly 109 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:07,800 because we're trying to figure it out, we're investigating 110 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,100 something. What are we doing? 111 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:12,900 We're determining the Excellence or defects of a person or thing. 112 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:19,100 If you were to fight, you know, how they Define Greek words is 113 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:21,900 they go to other elements of literature from this same time, 114 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:24,100 period and figure out how they used it there. 115 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:27,400 And this would have been used in legal books. 116 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,400 It's like figure out the Excellence, or defects. 117 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,000 What's going on? Get to know this. 118 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:35,900 So I would like this morning for the next few minutes to 119 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,500 investigate. And I'm going to tell you, it's 120 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:41,500 the Excellence of Jesus, you're not going to find defect. 121 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,800 So cats out of the bag. But here's what I know, we need 122 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,700 to get to know him sometimes. This is somewhat of a memorial 123 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:56,800 service, right? The memorial of Jesus Christ, I 124 00:06:56,808 --> 00:07:01,400 do a lot of funerals and what I have found that is most 125 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,400 effective for me and the family is, you tell me about this 126 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,900 person. I want to get to get with him. 127 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,600 I want to hear the stories and a lot of times it's things I 128 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,000 already knew before, but I have forgotten or maybe I thought I 129 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,500 knew. But there were details that I 130 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:19,100 just did. I never heard before? 131 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,200 Sometimes it's just reboot it's just opening back up these 132 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,600 things. We know about Jesus. 133 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:28,600 And one of the things about a memorial service that I like the 134 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,700 best is to try to pick up as young as anybody can remember 135 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:35,600 them. And take it through their life. 136 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,600 And for a few minutes, I want us to do that. 137 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:43,100 I want to consider first of all, Jesus, as a boy, Yes, he was a 138 00:07:43,108 --> 00:07:46,100 kid. Is there any of you here today 139 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:48,900 that are about 12 years old, close to 12? 140 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,400 This is early on so maybe you can stick with me for a minute. 141 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,000 His parents. Jesus parents went to Jerusalem 142 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,600 every year at the Feast of the Passover and when he was twelve 143 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,500 years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the 144 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:04,700 custom of the feast 12 year olds. 145 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:07,100 That was the time that they finally got to go with Mom and 146 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:08,500 Dad. You're like man I've had to go 147 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:11,100 to church my whole life. This was different. 148 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,800 This was the Passover this was a big deal. 149 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,200 It only happened one time a year and they never got to go until 150 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:23,200 they were 12 perhaps but By 12, it was time that they went and 151 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,300 Jesus was going when they had finished the days as they 152 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:28,900 returned. The boy, Jesus lingered, behind 153 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:32,900 in Jerusalem and Joseph. And his mother did not know it, 154 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:35,000 but supposing him to have been in the company. 155 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,200 They went a Day's Journey and sought him among their relatives 156 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:43,600 and acquaintances. Now, you made call timeout on 157 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,400 this and say, how do people? They just think, just taking 158 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,600 themselves from a little town that they lived in. 159 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,800 They've gone to the big city Jerusalem. 160 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:54,600 All these people from all over, have Soldier into this time of 161 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,200 year. It would have been massively 162 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,200 crowded. How do you leave your kid behind 163 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,800 in Jerusalem? Mike Glenn is here today. 164 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:07,200 She has 14, other brothers and sisters. 165 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,800 So as I was growing up, not only were there, the 15 kids between 166 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,400 go to Grandma and Grandpa walls in the summer at time of harvest 167 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,500 or in the winter for the holidays. 168 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:23,200 If we went to town for something, it took carloads of 169 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,800 people. It was a lot. 170 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,100 I don't know. 30, some cousins at the time, I don't know. 171 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:31,900 Now, there's like 60 and all these families and I remember 172 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:35,900 one time that we got all back to the farm, got time for dinner 173 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,400 and started counting heads. And my cousin Robbie was 174 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,000 missing. And to remember that she's 175 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,200 laughing now, then Thomas was just a little hole-in-the-wall 176 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:48,700 town. I guess it had to stop sign, I'm 177 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:50,300 not sure. But there was some kind of a 178 00:09:50,308 --> 00:09:53,400 little place near in town. They called down there and said, 179 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,400 is there a kid in the park? Arc and Robbie was still playing 180 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,200 all by himself. You see? 181 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,800 They thought he was with somebody else, that's how it 182 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,800 was. Now maybe you grew up in a 183 00:10:05,808 --> 00:10:08,700 family like that. Maybe you've had situations like 184 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:10,900 that. That's what I picture Here with 185 00:10:10,900 --> 00:10:12,900 Jesus. They just thought he was with 186 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:17,100 some of the other Kinfolk. They've got a full day's journey 187 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,700 and now they can't find him Panic sticks in 12 years old 188 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:23,900 back in Jerusalem so when they did not find him, they returned 189 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:28,700 to Jerusalem seeking him and now so it was after three days. 190 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,800 They found him in the temple is three days in the accident. 191 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:37,600 Pretty cool things happen. Over three days within the 192 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,200 scriptures, three days, they find him in the temple sitting 193 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,900 in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and 194 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:46,700 asking them questions question, where have they been looking the 195 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:51,100 other two days? Why did they go to the temple? 196 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:54,400 The third day? Scriptures. 197 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,100 Don't tell us but the parent in me says, they went to retrace 198 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:02,500 their steps because he wasn't in all the places they thought and 199 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:06,500 expected to find him. The other option is maybe if we 200 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:09,500 pray there and get a priest to pray with this, we can get some 201 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:15,600 guidance. What they found was a 202 00:11:15,608 --> 00:11:18,000 twelve-year-old, Jesus sitting in the midst of them. 203 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,700 These leaders describes these Pharisees. 204 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,200 He's not only listening but he's asking them questions. 205 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,600 And they're asking him some questions and they're astounded 206 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:36,100 at his understanding and his answers to their questions, they 207 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,900 have a prodigy. Now, I realize the book of 208 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:43,300 Isaiah says that the Messiah will be quick to get the synth, 209 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,200 he would be of quick understanding Hebrew. 210 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,700 Phrase actually means. Understand means quick to get 211 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:50,400 the sin. If you're a dog guy, you got a 212 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:56,600 coon dogs, cold nose. This still tells us something 213 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,600 about Jesus, if you're here today, you're 12 years old. 214 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,200 Are you interested in what the Bible says about Jesus as a 12 215 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,800 year old? Are you interested in 216 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,400 understanding so that you can have a conversation with the 217 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,600 people of when they're talking Bible, ask them questions and 218 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,700 maybe be able to answer a couple of others. 219 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,100 That was the boy Jesus. He was an Iva. 220 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,300 So when they saw him, the parrots they were amazed. 221 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:28,600 And his mother said to him son. Why have you done this to us? 222 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:33,500 You look your father and I have sought you anxiously What were 223 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:35,200 you thinking? Do you know how we've been 224 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,300 worried about? Nothing parrot Clicks in. 225 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:41,000 We understand this three days and he's just acting like, 226 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,600 there's nothing wrong. What is Jesus say? 227 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,400 He said it then why did you seek me? 228 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:49,400 Did you not know that I must be about my father's business? 229 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,700 He gets it. Somebody says, I don't know if a 230 00:12:55,708 --> 00:12:58,800 12 year old can get it, I know some twelve-year-olds, I know 231 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,600 some five-year-olds. That's like what? 232 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,400 How did you ask that question, right? 233 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,500 Twelve-year-old can get it. Don't give you don't give your 234 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:09,900 kids a pass because there are only 12 and if you're a 235 00:13:09,908 --> 00:13:13,600 twelve-year-old, don't, you know, you know, stuff, don't 236 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,100 hide behind your age, he says, you know, I need to be about my 237 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:19,700 father's business. They did not understand the 238 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:23,500 statement, which he spoke to them, fascinates me, something 239 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:27,300 about human nature. ER look Mary and Joseph had 240 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:30,200 Angels speak to them. They've had divine intervention. 241 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,400 She surely hasn't forgotten that this isn't Joseph, son. 242 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:44,500 But our minds will do that. If we don't watch it, won't they 243 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:48,600 we can know something's right? We can know exactly what it is. 244 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,200 But the further we get away from reminding us of the truth of 245 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,500 God's word, we began to create our own world view and we get 246 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:57,600 away from God's designed worldview. 247 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,800 The 12 year old had to remind mom and dad. 248 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:07,300 Where this all came from. Then he went down to them now. 249 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:09,400 12 year olds. He didn't say, like, do I need 250 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,000 to take over now. Mom and Dad clearly, you don't 251 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,100 get what's going on. Know this 12 year old. 252 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:16,100 He went down with them and came to Nazareth. 253 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:20,300 He went home and was subject to them, but his mother kept all 254 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:24,300 these things in her heart and Jesus increased in wisdom and 255 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:26,700 stature and in favor with God and man. 256 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,100 He didn't say clearly, I know more than you do. 257 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:33,900 It's time for me to kind of run this house after all, you know, 258 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:37,200 I'm the king. He went and he was subject to 259 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,100 them. He minded them, he honored them, 260 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,600 he would increased in wisdom and stature not only with his 261 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,800 parents, but he did. So with God, and with mankind, 262 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:50,200 Jesus was a wonderful example of faithful Youth. 263 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,900 And today, if you're young here, if you're trying to decide what 264 00:14:52,900 --> 00:14:56,900 expectation, you can sit for your youth, Jesus has provided 265 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:59,800 the path what a wonderful example. 266 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,200 Jesus baptism. You know, one thing I love to 267 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,200 know when I'm doing a memorial service for somebody. 268 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,800 That's been a Christian is, when were they baptized? 269 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,800 When were they born again? We know the day of their birth 270 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,600 and we know the day of their death that's like printed on 271 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,400 everything but the day they're born again is never printed on 272 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,400 stuff ardley. It's recorded that Jesus was 273 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,200 baptized. We're going to read in Matthew 274 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,400 chapter 3, verses 13 through 17. Jesus Came From Galilee to John 275 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,200 to the Jordan, to be baptized by him and John tried to prevent 276 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,600 him saying, I need to be baptized by you and you're 277 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:39,800 coming to me. I cannot imagine a little bit of 278 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,900 like to be John, the Baptist, John the baptizer. 279 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:52,700 It's hard enough. for me to feel like, who am? 280 00:15:52,700 --> 00:15:55,100 I is kind of what goes through my mind. 281 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:58,600 I can relate totally the statement. 282 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,700 Jesus, I need, I need what you have to offer. 283 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:05,600 You can't ask me to do this for the son of God. 284 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,000 Jesus answered and said to him, permit it to be. 285 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:16,000 So now for thus, it is fitting to fulfill all righteousness if 286 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,400 for no other reason in the Bible, the other plethora of 287 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:26,100 examples of baptism, we only had this record This would be enough 288 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:28,100 for me to convince you and myself. 289 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:33,100 We need to be baptized and yet the predominant majority of 290 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:35,700 people that claim to follow Christ today and have 291 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:37,800 assemblies. Just like this one this morning 292 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:41,100 in Bakersfield and in Oakdale and throughout this world will 293 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,800 tell you, baptism is not necessary to fulfill all 294 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:48,700 righteousness to be saved. Jesus had a different opinion 295 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:51,300 about it even for himself. Did Jesus have any sin that 296 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:55,500 needed to be washed away? No, in fact scripture says he 297 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:58,700 didn't even have guile in his body, what's guile? 298 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,300 Geils that deceptive part that you don't want to outright lie 299 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,500 but you certainly don't want them to know the truth. 300 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:07,599 So you're going to try to structure your story or your 301 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,400 explanation. So they think something is one 302 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,700 way, when really it was another Jesus didn't even do that. 303 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:20,200 And he says, I have to be back at you. 304 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,700 Need to the King James says, suffer it to be. 305 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:28,000 So now, For thus, it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. 306 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,400 Then he allowed him. And when he had been baptized, 307 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,100 Jesus came up immediately from the water behold. 308 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:36,100 The heavens were opened to him. He saw the spirit of God 309 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:37,900 descending, like a dove and alighting. 310 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:40,900 Come on lighting upon him. And suddenly a voice Came From 311 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:43,300 Heaven saying, this is my beloved Son. 312 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,700 In whom I am well pleased, whatever you believe about the 313 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:50,100 godhead, you have to have a belief that's consistent with 314 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:53,200 this passage that God is in heaven speaking. 315 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:57,100 Thus, his spirit is Descending like a dove and could light up 316 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:00,400 on Jesus, but was not Jesus. And Jesus was the one that was 317 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,000 baptized and has just come up out of the water. 318 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,800 Three different presentations personalities. 319 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:17,000 Not the exact same being unified and purpose and in spirit, No 320 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,400 Doubt. But three different entities, 321 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,700 whatever, I believe Jesus, baptized all this happens. 322 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:27,800 Today, don't tell me, I don't need to be baptized, you know, I 323 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,600 know the church does that, but I just I like this church. 324 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,200 I'm going to start coming here because I just like everybody a 325 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,000 lot, but I don't need that baptism. 326 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:40,200 Then you're saying you don't need what even Jesus was willing 327 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,600 to show as an example of fulfilling righteousness. 328 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,500 Today, may we never have managed that I want you to know. 329 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:50,400 Another thing about Jesus is he loved children. 330 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,100 Absolutely, he did. In fact, the context I want to 331 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:59,600 share with you today is Jesus is just corrected. 332 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:07,300 The Pharisees unscriptural view of divorce and remarriage Now in 333 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:10,200 the generation I grew up in in Oklahoma. 334 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,000 This was the this was the debate topic. 335 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,300 Yeah. The Holy Spirit was kind of in 336 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:19,100 my teenage years and early 20s but from the time, I remember 337 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:22,700 sitting in the den and listening to my parents discuss things 338 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:25,900 with family members, or friends or other congregations, we'd 339 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:28,800 travel somewhere, and there it was, it was always after dinner 340 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,800 conversation and it wasn't always Pleasant. 341 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,700 Because people and some of you know this time period this is 342 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:40,400 what's just happened. And so as I think about the 343 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,800 passage we're about to read I think about that. 344 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,200 They're coming off the heels of this so much so and they're so 345 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,200 discouraged by what Jesus has taught them and that it's 346 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,500 changing their whole view of things, the cream of the crop, 347 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,000 his disciples when they got alone. 348 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,400 You remember what they said to him? 349 00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:58,600 Jesus. If this is how it is with 350 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,000 divorce and remarriage, it's better off, not even to get 351 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,000 married. Now, this has been a hard thing 352 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,900 for them to take and they're thinking forget marriage 353 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:13,500 altogether. Put this context, any you name 354 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:16,500 the subject of you, whatever group, you've been discussing, 355 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,500 and everybody's worked up and heated. 356 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,900 Then little children were brought to him. 357 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:24,700 That he might put his hands on them and pray but the disciples 358 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:27,200 rebuked them. Have you been in one of those 359 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,600 the men have all been arguing about this debating, whatever 360 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,600 you want to call it and the kids run up. 361 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:38,100 Daddy, daddy, hold me. Let me get these kids out of 362 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:40,500 here. We don't everybody's they're 363 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:43,500 edgy. That's what happens with these 364 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:45,500 kids in the disciples rebuked them. 365 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,800 I don't know if the rebuking the kids or their mamas or the other 366 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,700 family that let them run into this little organization. 367 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:55,800 But what is Jesus say he says, let the little children come to 368 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,900 me and do not forbid them for of such is the kingdom of heaven. 369 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,900 And he laid his hands on them and departed from there. 370 00:21:08,300 --> 00:21:10,700 I picture him just sitting down and seeing breathing in here. 371 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,400 This is what it's about and I gotta remember this as we think 372 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,500 about Doctrine and his weed earnestly contend for the faith 373 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:24,200 and we have to if we ever forget these little kids need attention 374 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:29,400 and love and hugs to even. Bye, dad and the preacher. 375 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:33,200 If we ever forget that, we're going to lose them. 376 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:39,100 Mama's having important part, and they just have a natural 377 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,300 affection and ability to see things. 378 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:45,300 That not enough of us guys. Do Jesus did. 379 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:49,500 And I want you to notice what he did after he laid his hands on 380 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:51,900 them after he gave them that loving attention. 381 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:56,700 He didn't say, okay, now, any more questions, Scripture says 382 00:21:56,700 --> 00:22:00,700 any left. He left on a good note, he left 383 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:05,100 on a high note, he had already taught them truth and we can sit 384 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:08,200 there and we can keep rehashing the same arguments over and over 385 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,400 until we just can't stand one another or we can get our 386 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,500 attention back on the Kingdom of Heaven growing together and love 387 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:19,600 showing affection everywhere. It needs to be shown and move on 388 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,100 and keep moving. Does that to say he turned his 389 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:23,800 back on what he had just talked to him. 390 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,600 Absolutely not. In fact, I believe when Paul 391 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,200 writes to the church at Corinth he Says, Jesus already taught 392 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:31,000 this. I believe it. 393 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,300 It's still in force. Jesus. 394 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:38,400 Love children. Even in the midst of doctrinal, 395 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,900 arguments amongst the Brethren. You know, I want you to know. 396 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:44,100 Also thing about Carrick, Jesus characters. 397 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:47,200 He would like you even if other people didn't. 398 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,400 You didn't have to fit his mold. You didn't have to fit a social 399 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,400 Norm or expectation. In Luke chapter 19, it says 400 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,400 Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 401 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,000 Now. Behold, there was a man named 402 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,800 Zacchaeus who was chief tax collector and he was rich and he 403 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,100 sought to see who Jesus was but could not because of the crowd 404 00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:10,900 for he was of short stature. I remember this song is a little 405 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:13,300 kid. Zacchaeus Was a wee little man. 406 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:14,600 A wee little man. We'll see. 407 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:22,600 Grown man, rich man in town. He wants to see Jesus but it's 408 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,900 almost like a parade as Jesus comes through and they won't let 409 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:27,700 him up. They didn't like him for one. 410 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:31,000 Why would they like him? He was a tax collector. 411 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:33,500 We're going to find out a little bit more. 412 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:36,500 Reason of what they thought about him as we go, but he 413 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:37,900 couldn't. So what did he do? 414 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,300 Did he call and say, hey I you know who I am. 415 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:44,500 I'm rich pay people to move? No, he ran ahead of the crowd. 416 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,500 See this little guy, just grown man running up ahead of people. 417 00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:52,400 He climbs into a sycamore tree to see him for, he was going to 418 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,400 pass that way. He could tell the direction that 419 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,100 this whole crowd was going, and he sees a sycamore tree down 420 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:00,900 there, he's like, I'll see him grown man runs down there climbs 421 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,700 up in the tree and when Jesus came to the place he looked up 422 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,200 and saw him and said to him, Zacchaeus make haste and come 423 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,000 down for today, I must stay at your house Now, look, he just 424 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,600 wanted to put eyes on this Jesus. 425 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,000 Can you imagine the thrill of his heart? 426 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,100 Nobody here likes me. I just wanted to see this guy 427 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,400 and now he wants to come to my house. 428 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,400 So he made his haste and came down and received him. 429 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,000 Joyfully he was thrilled, he was excited, but when they all saw 430 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,500 it, the people that were with him. 431 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,600 They all complain saying he's gone to be a guest with the man 432 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,800 who's a sinner like I thought he was a tax collector. 433 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:45,700 See, the people looked at tax collectors in that day as 434 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:49,500 thieves now in our society. If you tell somebody, I work for 435 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:52,100 the IRS, it automatically makes me go home. 436 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,800 What are you do? Right, audit, do you check in my 437 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,500 taxes? You, you make in my life hard. 438 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,300 But now, this was a whole nother level to them. 439 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,800 In fact, it was commonly reported that many of these Tax 440 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:10,200 Collectors would take a little more than they should have so 441 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,900 that they could pad their own pockets. 442 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,200 These people looked at Zacchaeus as the Common Center may be a 443 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,700 worse sinner than others, Zacchaeus stood and said to the 444 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:24,500 Lord. Look look, Lord, I give half my 445 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:27,900 goods to the poor. Stop time out real quick. 446 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:35,100 Do you think he's saying look from now on just to make this 447 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:37,900 all even I will take, well, I'll give half of my goods to the 448 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:42,200 poor or do you think he's saying look, Lord, I'm not who they 449 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,000 say, I am half of what I have my goods. 450 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,600 I give to the poor. Has he been doing it already? 451 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,300 Or is he saying? You'll do it from this day in 452 00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:54,400 this day forward. Interesting question. 453 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,100 Look Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor. 454 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:00,100 I'm Not Who these people think I am. 455 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,500 I'm not a sinner. I don't steal from them. 456 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,500 I give to them half of what I have. 457 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:10,900 And if I have now he's talking in the past tense, if I have 458 00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:14,800 taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore it 459 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,300 for fold. You know, a four-fold is 4 times 460 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,900 if I took an extra thousand dollars from your taxes. 461 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:26,000 He says I want to give you 4,000 if I took an extra 500 from you, 462 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,600 I'm going to give you 2000. Now, here's my opinion of this 463 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,700 because the scriptures don't tell us anybody coming to 464 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:38,000 collect or making an accusation against him. 465 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:40,700 I think Zacchaeus new, I don't know, buddy. 466 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:42,700 You're going to stand up and have an accusation. 467 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:47,300 I haven't done that. You know, it happens sometimes 468 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:50,700 that people are falsely accused people gossip just because they 469 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:52,700 think whatever they think and they really don't know. 470 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:56,100 Somebody ever having buddy, say stuff about, you know, I kind of 471 00:26:56,108 --> 00:27:01,300 the even say that I don't know which it is, but here's what I 472 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:05,300 know is a Kia said, look that's not me. 473 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000 That's not who I want to be. And here's what I'm willing to 474 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,100 say. Would you, would you give half 475 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:14,000 of what you have? The people who are poor. 476 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:18,400 Like whoa, Greg. I'm not rich. 477 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,300 If you were Rich, would you give half of what you had two people 478 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:26,100 who are poor? you might say if I was rich, I 479 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:31,500 would I'll only believe that if you're doing what you can with 480 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:34,300 what limited resources, you have now, some of them most giving 481 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:37,100 people I have ever met or some of the poorest people, I have 482 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:44,300 known. There's a rich man saying what 483 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:46,000 he have and put it in our day and term. 484 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000 He had a million. Would you take 500,000? 485 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,500 So I'm going to distribute that to the poor. 486 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:55,100 This guy's character is something and yet the everybody 487 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:56,900 in town thought, horrible things about him. 488 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,900 Jesus said to him today, salvation has come to this house 489 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,900 because he also is a son of Abraham for the son of man has 490 00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:09,700 come to seek and save that, which was lost, Jesus loved him, 491 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,500 even when nobody else cared about it, Okay, you might feel 492 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:16,100 like you're just the one that nobody really cares about. 493 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:20,500 Jesus would love to you. That Jesus does love you. 494 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,300 I want you to know this thing about Jesus sometime in all 495 00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:26,400 these good characteristics. Jesus gets painted like a milk 496 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,500 toast master. But he had he take a stand when 497 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:34,900 he needed to. Don't doubt it for just a second 498 00:28:35,300 --> 00:28:36,800 fact, John Chapter 2, it says the. 499 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,700 Now, the Passover of the Jews was at hand. 500 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:40,600 This is older, he's not 12 anymore. 501 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:46,200 He's grown up. 18 plus years later. 502 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:51,000 Pastor of the Gees Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to 503 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,600 Jerusalem and he found in the temple. 504 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,200 Those who sold oxen and sheep and doves and the money 505 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,400 changers, doing business. And when he had made a whip of 506 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,700 cords, he drove them all out of the temple with the sheep and 507 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:07,500 The Oxen, and poured out the Changers of money and overturned 508 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:11,200 the tables. You see what he just said. 509 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:18,300 He made a whip of cords. And drove them all out of the 510 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:22,100 Temple. Oh, and the sheep and the oxen. 511 00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:28,700 Now, I'm not suggesting he hit any of those men with that whip 512 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:34,300 but I am suggesting it was used to drive those people and the 513 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:40,100 livestock out of the Temple. And he said to those who sold 514 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:46,400 doves, take these things away. Do not make my father's house, a 515 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:51,200 house of merchandise, Then his disciples remembered that, it 516 00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:55,700 was written Zeal for your house. Has eaten me up, that's found in 517 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:59,400 Psalm 69 and nine. You know what that word. 518 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,000 Zeal comes in the Greek. It literally means Heat. 519 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,000 The fire for your house. The heat, the passion for the 520 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,200 house of God. He says, he could not take it. 521 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,100 It ain't never have some. Eat you up inside, what is 522 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:16,300 commonly reported as he's Changers of money? 523 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:19,200 Would sell people would come from a long way to Jerusalem for 524 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,900 the Passover and they could bring money, but you couldn't 525 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:24,400 bring the livestock you needed for the sacrifices. 526 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:29,400 And so people would be there to sell it, but maybe the currency 527 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,800 from where you came from, would not buy you anything in 528 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,400 Jerusalem, so they had money. Changers there too. 529 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,300 And they were commonly known to not give a good exchange rate. 530 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:42,600 You see it wasn't that they were trying to assist people with the 531 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,100 sacrifices. They were making this a profit 532 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:48,700 Center. And Jesus says, get him out 533 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:52,200 everybody out and he drove them out of the Temple. 534 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,900 Jesus did not have patience for Hypocrites. 535 00:30:57,700 --> 00:30:59,600 That's what these people represented. 536 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,900 What is a hypocrite? Anybody that demands that we 537 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:06,300 follow what the Bible says? No, that's not a hypocrite. 538 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:10,300 A hypocrite, is somebody that demands that you follow what the 539 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:12,500 Bible says, but they themselves won't do it. 540 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,200 They're just, they're acting that it's just, they're playing 541 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,500 the part but that's not really them. 542 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:22,300 That's a hypocrite. Do not let people make you think 543 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:25,600 that looking at the Bible and having faith in reading it and 544 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,000 seeing what it says in doing, it makes you a Pharisee. 545 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:35,000 No, a Pharisee was someone that knew what the law says, but they 546 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,200 were always trying to find loopholes trying to bind heavy 547 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,700 burdens on other people that they themselves wouldn't carry. 548 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,100 Jesus said about those people who says, do what they say, but 549 00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:49,100 don't do what they do, they're saying the right thing but they 550 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:54,100 themselves are not that Jesus had no no patience with people 551 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,800 who pretended to be a Christian, who pretend in this case we want 552 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,400 Christianity, it would have been Judaism who pretended to follow 553 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,400 God, but in reality they were just there for the money. 554 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,800 We had a business opportunity and weren't about to miss the 555 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,500 convention, Jesus had no patience for that. 556 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:15,500 We have to know this about our loving savior, the one who likes 557 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,500 people, nobody else likes who has time for children, who will 558 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:22,800 stand for truth and Doctrine. if we think we're going to skirt 559 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,600 through this life and pretend like, we're all this here at the 560 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,700 church and Bakersfield, or anywhere else, and then in our 561 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:33,500 real heart, and our other life, Play the part of the sin. 562 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,200 Jesus sees right through that he won't have anymore patience with 563 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,300 us than he did with them. May we turn our hearts. 564 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,000 Again, the last thing I'd like to remind you this morning 565 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,600 happened at the very end of Jesus life. 566 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,800 I don't know if he was a mama's boy as much as he just took care 567 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,600 of everybody but there was something that took place in the 568 00:32:53,608 --> 00:32:56,000 Book of John beginning. Verse 25, it says now there 569 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,300 stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother. 570 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,000 Jesus has now been gone through this mock trial. 571 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,200 He's been tortured, he's been nailed to the cross. 572 00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:12,900 All these things, taking place, thinking about a dying thief, on 573 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:20,400 a cross cooked next to him. and by his cross is his mother's 574 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,000 Sister Mary, his mother, his mother's Sister Mary, the wife 575 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,500 of clopas and Mary Magdalene when Jesus, therefore, saw his 576 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:33,300 mother and the disciple, whom he loved standing by, he said, to 577 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:36,700 his mother, Woman, behold your son. 578 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:41,300 Said to his disciple, behold your mother. 579 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:47,200 And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home and you 580 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,700 can go to the end of Book of John and you'll find out that 581 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:52,500 John reveals. He's the one that he's been 582 00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:54,300 referring to as the other disciple. 583 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:01,400 And so I'm going to put this in my words he looks and says You 584 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,000 look at this word woman and sometimes in our culture, you 585 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,600 say, hey woman, that's not really a good thing. 586 00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:10,600 This was not like that. That's not the way this. 587 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:15,000 This is, this is literally he's talking to his mother. 588 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,100 He says, I want you to go with John and John. 589 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,100 I want you to take care of my mom. 590 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:29,600 This is a fascinating thought for me, because we know that his 591 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:34,000 brother James was still around would be eventually. 592 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:40,400 Jesus had a special relationship and he appears to have a special 593 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:46,400 confidence in John. And he needed his mom to get 594 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,800 that kind of confidence as you read the Gospel of John compared 595 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,600 to Matthew, Mark and Luke. There's just a different tenor 596 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,800 to it. There's a there's a love that 597 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,600 comes out in it. That compassion was that what 598 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:06,900 Jesus want, me wanted his make sure his mom had what we know 599 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:09,300 when, if you can picture anything as you close your eyes 600 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:14,700 and think about as you suffering dreadfully, And seeing your mom. 601 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,300 If they can, somebody please get her out of here. 602 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:27,300 Somebody needs to care, my mom. That's the passion Jesus had for 603 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:30,900 his mom. It was just a callous 604 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:32,500 cold-hearted. Hey, I came here to a job. 605 00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:37,500 I got to get home. Like a Palace of Gold in heaven. 606 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:41,900 No. He gave John a responsibility. 607 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:46,300 He gave made sure his mom was protected and after this, Jesus 608 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:49,300 knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture 609 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:54,300 might be fulfilled. Said, I thirst. 610 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:02,700 They were been thirsty. I remember times just hoping 611 00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:06,400 they would get some, can we just stop and get some water? 612 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,900 It was work or whether it was to a days or whether it was just a 613 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:12,400 day. That's so hot. 614 00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:20,200 Jesus thirsty. Today you get to determine the 615 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,400 Excellence or defects of a person or thing. 616 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,000 According to Vines today, we could do this over and over. 617 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,200 We could just keep going through stories about Jesus, but it's 618 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,000 time for you to decide what you're going to do with Jesus. 619 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:37,300 And as Christians, we need to make sure we discern the body of 620 00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:40,000 Christ, as we come around this table to meet him. 621 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,200 According to Romans 10:17, faith comes by hearing and hearing 622 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,300 comes from the word of God. We tried to share the word of 623 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:49,100 God about Jesus today. If you have faith in this you've 624 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:51,600 heard it. And you believe Hebrews 11 and 6 625 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,600 says that we must believe that he is and we need to believe 626 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,100 these, the rewarder of those who diligently seek him today. 627 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,100 Are you ready to come into your life that you believe in this 628 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:04,700 Jesus? And You're going to seek Him 629 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:07,300 diligently. That's the kind of faith. 630 00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:09,700 We talked about and acts 17 and 30. 631 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,700 The disciple says that there was a time God winked at ignorance 632 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:20,800 but now commands all men everywhere to repent. 633 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,100 What does repentance mean? Repentance. 634 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:24,800 Means Greg, you can't just do life. 635 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,700 Like you think you need to do life, Frank can just figure out 636 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:32,000 his own path, but we have to surrender, our self will to 637 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000 God's will. Whatever this book, says, 638 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,200 whatever we read in the Bible, that's what that's repentance 639 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,800 and all men everywhere. That includes you and me. 640 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,700 That's repentance in, Romans, 10, and 10, we understand that 641 00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:46,200 our faith comes that with the heart man. 642 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,600 Believes unto righteousness with our mouth. 643 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,600 Confession is made unto salvation. 644 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000 The Ethiopian nobleman in Acts 8 said, I believe Jesus Christ is 645 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,500 the son of God. What do you believe today? 646 00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:01,600 We know that when Jesus was talking to his disciples who do 647 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,500 people say I am and they said, well some say you're this profit 648 00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,300 or that and says, who do you say I am. 649 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,300 Was Peter that spoke upright and he says, Thou Art the Christ, 650 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,200 the son of the Living. God, And what did Jesus say? 651 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:18,600 That's a good one. Anybody else got another No. 652 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,600 Jesus said bless you Peter for Flesh and Blood did not reveal 653 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,100 that until you receive that from the father. 654 00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:29,300 There is no greater confession, you can make today than Jesus 655 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:30,700 Christ. Is the Son of God. 656 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:34,900 One that was blessed by Jesus one that I believe you feel 657 00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:39,000 being noblemen made. But that is the essence today of 658 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000 a confession that we need to make regarding our Christ and we 659 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,500 need to be baptized Galatians 3:27. 660 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:47,900 So it has many of you has been baptized into Christ, have put 661 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:52,000 on Christ Can you imagine going through life without Christ? 662 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,900 Paul told the church in galatia. Time out real quick. 663 00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:00,000 You know people will say, well, why are is all the baptisms? 664 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,600 Mostly in the book of Acts then you hardly read about it in the 665 00:39:02,607 --> 00:39:07,200 rest of the gospels? Think about it, the book of 666 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,700 Acts, what was it? It was the Acts of the Apostles. 667 00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:13,100 It was what the apostles did is they went from place to place 668 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:15,500 spreading the gospel and they were baptizing people because 669 00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:18,900 they were converting people. What was the letter of wrote to 670 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:22,300 the Romans about Corinthians Galatians, it was two 671 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:25,200 congregations that now existed from people who've been 672 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,300 converted. And you don't go telling people 673 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:29,800 that are part of a congregation. Oh, be baptized, you don't keep 674 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,800 saying the same message. That's what it's not full of 675 00:39:33,900 --> 00:39:37,000 telling them, but what you will find like in Galatians is 676 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,000 reminders. That when you were baptized, 677 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,000 that's how you put on Christ. And you read that in the book of 678 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,500 Ephesians, he reminds him. There was one baptism. 679 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,900 So the gospels letters, written to churches are not void of 680 00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:53,600 baptism, but that's not their purpose. 681 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,000 It's to write to people who had been baptized about how to Now 682 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,200 function, as a church, it's a beautiful picture. 683 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,500 When you think, like, don't let people sell the only place 684 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,300 you'll find book is baptism hardly in the book of Acts will 685 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,600 say, well, of course, that's where people are converted 686 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,100 today. We talked about Jesus. 687 00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:14,200 There's absolutely no reason. If you've never been Today for 688 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,400 the remission of your sins as Jesus described it in Matt. 689 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,300 In the end of The Book of Matthew, in the name of the 690 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:22,300 father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 691 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,700 Then we'd love to assist you in that if you're like hey Greg I 692 00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:28,200 mean you seem like a nice guy. I hear your Wade's dad. 693 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,500 That's great but I've really been studying with Frank or 694 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,600 Terrier. One of the other guys I was 695 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,100 hoping they'd baptized me and I'm going to tell you I am 696 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,200 thrilled. That's perfect. 697 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,100 That's the best way it could be. I just want to encourage you to 698 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:45,700 take that step if you're a Christian today and as you 699 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:47,900 prepare to meet around the Lord's table and you want the 700 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:51,400 manner that you do this Memorial to be right, you saying what I 701 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,400 got some things I need to fix. You don't have to be baptized 702 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:55,600 again. That's been done. 703 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,900 If you've already done it, you need to pray to God. 704 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,500 First John 189 that he'll forgive you and first John Waite 705 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:05,800 and 9 it says he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse 706 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,400 us of all unrighteousness as a child of God, you can pray To 707 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,600 God and he will forgive you. But as a child of God, sometimes 708 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,400 we want the prayers of others. And according to James 5:16 if 709 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,400 we confess our faults, one to another and pray one for 710 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,300 another, that the effective fervent prayer of a righteous 711 00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:25,600 man availeth much. So today is you prepare to meet 712 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,800 around the Lord's table, if you desire, the prayers of the 713 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,200 church and we want to pray with you and for you, if you're here 714 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,600 and you feel compelled to respond to the gospel, 715 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,500 invitation, won't, you do that? 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