1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,800 Well, as Freya said, we are indeed in a new term. 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,160 Funny September is it? We almost like we have January 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,520 and September. These are kind of the the 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,920 restart reset, new beginnings, periods of time, isn't it? 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,400 And and. As I was seeking the Lord for 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,520 for this new term and asking Lord, what have you got to? 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,920 Bring the Lord this week. Gave me a picture. 8 00:00:26,620 --> 00:00:30,860 And it's a picture of the splash park at Saint Albans Verolanian 9 00:00:30,860 --> 00:00:32,659 Park. Many of you have seen that. 10 00:00:33,620 --> 00:00:36,420 I don't know how much usage you got during this socalled summer, 11 00:00:36,420 --> 00:00:39,820 but I remember when our three children were younger, they 12 00:00:39,820 --> 00:00:42,900 certainly enjoyed. Splashing around and you know, I 13 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:44,580 don't know how we managed it, but you would go there with a 14 00:00:44,580 --> 00:00:46,140 picnic and you could spend hours there. 15 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:47,460 I mean, they just absolutely loved it. 16 00:00:48,860 --> 00:00:52,260 And. The Lord gave me a picture of us 17 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:55,710 adults. In the in the splash park, 18 00:00:55,750 --> 00:01:00,110 enjoying the the, the splashing around and we were wondering 19 00:01:00,110 --> 00:01:03,510 when we would get the new splash park equipment. 20 00:01:03,710 --> 00:01:07,910 Some more sprinklers, some more. Water, guns, whatever it might 21 00:01:07,910 --> 00:01:09,750 be, we enjoyed being in that splash. 22 00:01:09,750 --> 00:01:17,550 Park, but I felt the Lord say to me that the time is now to move 23 00:01:17,550 --> 00:01:19,270 from the splash park into the deep. 24 00:01:22,690 --> 00:01:26,370 The Lord said to me, stop looking for the new sprinklers 25 00:01:28,570 --> 00:01:31,050 and cast your eyes out into the deep where I am. 26 00:01:32,370 --> 00:01:35,210 You see, it's not that the splash park is wrong. 27 00:01:35,810 --> 00:01:41,610 The splash park has been created for children and Paul said 28 00:01:41,610 --> 00:01:45,530 you've had the milk, but Are you ready for the meat? 29 00:01:47,530 --> 00:01:50,650 And the question I want to pose to you this morning. 30 00:01:51,070 --> 00:01:54,030 Whether you're in this room or watching online is Are you ready 31 00:01:54,030 --> 00:01:56,790 for the deep? Because that's where God's 32 00:01:56,790 --> 00:02:02,670 calling you. The challenge is stop splashing 33 00:02:02,670 --> 00:02:11,430 around in the sprinklers because now is the time to go into the 34 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:14,430 deep. And the Lord reminded me of a 35 00:02:14,430 --> 00:02:17,590 wonderful story in the scriptures. 36 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:24,280 Where Jesus calls his disciples. And over the next few weeks, we 37 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,760 are going to look at the call of God upon us. 38 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,800 And I'm going to base this on Luke 5 versus 1 to 11, which is 39 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,440 going to become. If you if you like our anchor 40 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,400 text for this series and so why don't we read that on it's going 41 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,800 to be on the screen if you're in the room and if you're you got 42 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,840 your device at home online it will be on your screen. 43 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,720 And let me read this. And then let's unpack this 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,520 together. On one occasion while the crowd 45 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,760 was pressing in on him, that's Jesus. 46 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,800 To hear the word of God, He was standing by the lake of 47 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,520 Gennesarat, which is also the Sea of Galilee, and he saw two 48 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,760 boats by the lake. But the fishermen had gone out 49 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,920 of them and were washing their Nets, getting into one of the 50 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:13,680 boats, which was Simon's? He asked. 51 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,320 Him to put out a little from the land. 52 00:03:18,850 --> 00:03:21,610 And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 53 00:03:23,530 --> 00:03:27,610 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, Put 54 00:03:27,610 --> 00:03:32,890 out into the deep, let's all say that. 55 00:03:33,090 --> 00:03:40,930 Put out into the and let down your Nets for a catch and Simon 56 00:03:40,930 --> 00:03:41,810 answered. Pasta. 57 00:03:42,530 --> 00:03:44,810 You know, we we. Toiled all night and look took 58 00:03:44,810 --> 00:03:48,440 nothing but. That's your word. 59 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:56,360 I will let down the Nets when they had done this thing, closed 60 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,120 a large number. Of fish and then Nets were 61 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,360 breaking. They signaled to their partners 62 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,760 in the other boat to come and help them and they. 63 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,280 Came and filled both the boats so that they. 64 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,800 Began to sink. When Simon Peter saw this, he 65 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:18,490 fell down at Jesus's knees. Heart for me I am a sinful man, 66 00:04:18,490 --> 00:04:24,410 O Lord, the he and all who are with him were astonished at the 67 00:04:24,410 --> 00:04:28,570 catch of fish that they had taken, and so also. 68 00:04:28,570 --> 00:04:31,810 With James and Johns sons of. Zebedee, who are partners with 69 00:04:31,810 --> 00:04:43,490 Simon and Jesus, said to Simon, do not be afraid now on you will 70 00:04:43,490 --> 00:04:47,820 be catching men and when? They had brought their boats to 71 00:04:47,820 --> 00:04:52,260 land. They left everything and 72 00:04:52,260 --> 00:04:56,180 followed him. Wow, what a story. 73 00:04:57,220 --> 00:04:59,740 I'm sure we've heard that story many times. 74 00:05:00,780 --> 00:05:06,460 It is just such a it's just jam packed, jam packed with truth. 75 00:05:06,460 --> 00:05:10,340 And what we're going to look at is that there are actually three 76 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:14,900 calls in this. Story There are three calls. 77 00:05:15,290 --> 00:05:18,770 Because I don't know about you, but I suspect that when you hear 78 00:05:19,130 --> 00:05:21,690 that the past is going to be talking about. 79 00:05:21,770 --> 00:05:27,490 The call you say to yourself, right, what am I going to do? 80 00:05:29,690 --> 00:05:32,650 And that's a fair point. You know, we are called to do 81 00:05:32,650 --> 00:05:36,170 the works of Christ, are we not? But in this story, what we can 82 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:41,530 actually see is that there are three calls and that in some 83 00:05:41,530 --> 00:05:45,170 respects, and. I can't say this is a gospel 84 00:05:45,170 --> 00:05:50,490 truth, but I suspect that the sequence by which we see these 85 00:05:50,490 --> 00:05:55,330 calls are the sequence by which God normally works in us and 86 00:05:55,330 --> 00:05:58,490 through us. And what are these three calls? 87 00:05:58,490 --> 00:05:59,970 Let me just lay them out for you. 88 00:06:00,130 --> 00:06:05,090 The first one is this. There is the call to be with 89 00:06:05,210 --> 00:06:09,500 Jesus. That is the primary foundation 90 00:06:09,660 --> 00:06:16,060 number one call for us, which is the call to be with Jesus. 91 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:22,780 The second call we're going to look at is the call to walk in 92 00:06:22,780 --> 00:06:30,580 holiness, which it means to be set apart, and then the third 93 00:06:30,580 --> 00:06:36,610 call that we're going to look. At is the call to fulfill his 94 00:06:36,610 --> 00:06:38,450 mission and purpose the Great Commission. 95 00:06:39,330 --> 00:06:43,650 Within this story we see these three calls, the call to be with 96 00:06:43,770 --> 00:06:49,290 Jesus, the call to walk in holiness, and the call to 97 00:06:49,290 --> 00:06:54,210 fulfill the Great Commission. So why don't we start kick 98 00:06:54,210 --> 00:06:56,570 things off as they say with the first call? 99 00:06:56,810 --> 00:07:00,890 To be with Jesus, Jesus came to Simon Peter, did he not? 100 00:07:03,130 --> 00:07:05,850 And he says this getting into the boat. 101 00:07:06,410 --> 00:07:10,130 Which was Simon's. You see, the boats here 102 00:07:10,130 --> 00:07:13,850 represents our hearts and our lives. 103 00:07:13,970 --> 00:07:18,130 Indeed, the heart is the rudder of our lives, is it not? 104 00:07:18,210 --> 00:07:21,970 Our affections, how we how we feel about things, how we think 105 00:07:21,970 --> 00:07:25,850 about things. Our hearts is is the thing that 106 00:07:26,010 --> 00:07:30,690 moves us and inclines us towards what we therefore do. 107 00:07:33,090 --> 00:07:39,330 And you see the boats here? Pryor were empty of Jesus. 108 00:07:39,330 --> 00:07:44,170 There was no Jesus in the boat. And there was a difference, was 109 00:07:44,170 --> 00:07:50,050 there not, between the multitude who had gathered and Simon 110 00:07:50,050 --> 00:07:54,610 Peter, who was in the boat with Jesus. 111 00:08:01,230 --> 00:08:04,750 Maybe you're here this morning. Maybe you're watching me online. 112 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:10,660 And for so long you have been part of the multitude that. 113 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:15,300 Comes along to listen. But after the word of God is 114 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:19,740 given, you leave and you find that Jesus isn't in your boat. 115 00:08:21,060 --> 00:08:26,700 Is that you this morning? Are you part of the multitude? 116 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:31,260 But you've yet to say yes. To Jesus being in your boat. 117 00:08:33,780 --> 00:08:37,700 Maybe you feel the invitation of Jesus this morning and I want to 118 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:39,900 give you an opportunity later to respond to that. 119 00:08:41,260 --> 00:08:48,020 But why is the call to be with Jesus foundational? 120 00:08:50,060 --> 00:08:52,980 Why is it our primary calling of God on? 121 00:08:53,860 --> 00:08:55,940 Because here's the thing we need to understand. 122 00:08:56,500 --> 00:09:01,260 The call to do comes after the call to be. 123 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,240 Should I say that again? The. 124 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:14,160 Call to do comes after the call to be. 125 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:19,400 Or put it another way, before we are called to something, we are 126 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:25,240 called to someone. You can say Amen if you wish. 127 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,720 You can be Pentecostal if you like. 128 00:09:28,950 --> 00:09:31,230 You can give you thank you, sis. You can give the preachers and 129 00:09:31,230 --> 00:09:44,590 encouragement if you feel led. Before we are called to 130 00:09:44,590 --> 00:09:48,390 something, we are called to someone. 131 00:09:49,550 --> 00:09:53,070 We're so focused on doing. I mean, it's in our in our 132 00:09:53,070 --> 00:09:55,910 conversation when we meet people, what do you? 133 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:00,480 I'd like someone to say who, who's, or yours. 134 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:02,920 I'm Jesus can. You imagine the kind of 135 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:11,020 conversation you have, but the enemy wants to get you doing 136 00:10:11,020 --> 00:10:21,760 before you ever been you. See we do out of and because of 137 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,400 our position as sons and daughters. 138 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:34,380 We don't do to gain or earn. Our position as sons and 139 00:10:34,380 --> 00:10:36,660 daughters, You see the difference, I tell. 140 00:10:36,780 --> 00:10:41,380 There is many a person that goes to church that is doing to earn. 141 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:43,540 The right to be a son and daughter. 142 00:10:45,980 --> 00:10:47,580 Spoiler alert, you can't do anything. 143 00:10:48,740 --> 00:10:50,420 Jesus did it all for you on the cross. 144 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:54,060 You want a religion of works? Go pick something else. 145 00:10:55,220 --> 00:10:58,980 You want a religion of grace? You're in the right place. 146 00:11:04,250 --> 00:11:06,930 Oh, you're waking up Good. Lovely to be lovely to see you 147 00:11:06,930 --> 00:11:08,490 all on this new term. Amen. 148 00:11:08,570 --> 00:11:12,810 Preach it, right? Listen, my my son and my 149 00:11:12,810 --> 00:11:19,130 daughters do things with me because I am their father. 150 00:11:20,170 --> 00:11:24,490 They don't do things with me so that I become their father. 151 00:11:25,410 --> 00:11:30,900 Thank you, Sis. Let's look at the scriptures. 152 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:33,700 What happened with Jesus? You're going to love this. 153 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:39,340 When did Jesus do? After he was baptized And God 154 00:11:39,340 --> 00:11:42,780 said that is my with whom I am well pleased. 155 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:54,350 We're called to someone before, We're called to something now. 156 00:11:54,390 --> 00:11:56,510 Why is that important? Let me give you some reason. 157 00:12:00,870 --> 00:12:05,120 You see, doing to God is supposed. 158 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:13,240 To be a fruit, not a manufactured work and. 159 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:19,560 Fruit grows from the relationship of the root. 160 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,320 You hearing me? Who's who's thinking about Biden 161 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,080 the vine right now? John 15. 162 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,950 You know it well. We are to abide in the vine in 163 00:12:31,950 --> 00:12:34,470 order that we bear fruit. That's the doing. 164 00:12:36,390 --> 00:12:40,230 You see. Our doing for him comes out of 165 00:12:40,230 --> 00:12:46,750 relationship with Him. Our doing for him is fruit that 166 00:12:46,750 --> 00:12:52,350 we bear because we are in Him. You know Jesus when he left his 167 00:12:52,350 --> 00:12:53,270 disciples. Can you imagine? 168 00:12:53,270 --> 00:12:54,310 He's like, I'm about to leave you. 169 00:12:54,590 --> 00:12:59,270 And they're like, say what? That's not in the Bible. 170 00:12:59,270 --> 00:13:02,430 I put that in myself just to clarify. 171 00:13:03,070 --> 00:13:06,590 You can't leave us, Jesus. And then Jesus says something 172 00:13:06,590 --> 00:13:08,030 great. You want me to go? 173 00:13:09,350 --> 00:13:11,270 Oh, yeah. You really want me to go? 174 00:13:11,990 --> 00:13:14,790 Why? Because when I go, the Father's 175 00:13:14,790 --> 00:13:20,270 going to send the Holy Spirit. Why is that? 176 00:13:20,270 --> 00:13:25,550 Good, because I've been with you, Jesus Emmanuel, but God is 177 00:13:25,550 --> 00:13:28,110 now going to be in you, the Holy Spirit. 178 00:13:37,010 --> 00:13:41,890 That is, the promise for all those who say yes to Jesus and 179 00:13:41,890 --> 00:13:45,370 say, come into my boat, is that by the power of the Holy Spirit, 180 00:13:45,610 --> 00:13:50,330 God is in us, and we work from that position, therefore as sons 181 00:13:50,330 --> 00:13:52,530 of daughters, because. And we looked at this during the 182 00:13:52,530 --> 00:13:53,650 gospel series, didn't we? What? 183 00:13:53,650 --> 00:13:55,970 Happens when you become a Christian. 184 00:13:56,170 --> 00:14:02,660 You are adopted into the family. You become a child of God, 185 00:14:02,980 --> 00:14:07,540 that's what happens and as a child you are a Co heir with 186 00:14:07,540 --> 00:14:10,980 Christ. Everything God has is yours. 187 00:14:13,140 --> 00:14:15,220 We are to rule and reign with Christ. 188 00:14:15,620 --> 00:14:18,980 That is the promise of salvation, one of the promises 189 00:14:19,020 --> 00:14:23,900 of salvation. And you see, our identity is so 190 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:28,180 important because our identity tells us who we belong to and 191 00:14:28,180 --> 00:14:32,390 that we are wanted. When we recognize that we are 192 00:14:32,390 --> 00:14:39,070 his, it meets the need that we have, that we are known and that 193 00:14:39,070 --> 00:14:46,230 we are want. Every human being has a need to 194 00:14:46,230 --> 00:14:52,230 be known and to be want because we have been created for 195 00:14:52,230 --> 00:14:54,070 relationship and fellowship with God. 196 00:14:54,870 --> 00:14:59,220 And when that break happens? We seek that elsewhere. 197 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:04,380 And you see if you go about doing before you are being with 198 00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:08,780 him and understand your identity in him and walk in that you're 199 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:13,220 doing is skewered because you are seeking to belong somewhere. 200 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:22,300 Listen, your discernment can become cut across and weak when 201 00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:24,780 your identity is not rooted in Christ. 202 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,400 Because what you are seeking is to belong somewhere. 203 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:34,520 And so you do things out of I want to be accepted, I want them 204 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:38,240 to like me. I want to feel like I belong. 205 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:43,760 I don't have to do a poll for you to tell me your own stories 206 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,320 to know that you've been there before. 207 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,760 Possible. That your decisions about what 208 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:53,520 you do has come out of that place of need to be known and to 209 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,500 belong. Do I get a witness in the room? 210 00:16:01,060 --> 00:16:04,780 So don't talk to me about doing unless you're talking to me 211 00:16:04,780 --> 00:16:09,860 about being, because if your identity is not rooted in 212 00:16:09,860 --> 00:16:12,460 Christ, you're doing is going to be skewered. 213 00:16:13,940 --> 00:16:15,260 You get this. It's important. 214 00:16:15,940 --> 00:16:19,460 Why else is it important? Because our identity tells us 215 00:16:20,620 --> 00:16:35,250 what our purpose is. If you don't be with Jesus and 216 00:16:35,530 --> 00:16:41,370 know that he is God as it says in the sun, then that. 217 00:16:41,370 --> 00:16:44,810 Whisper of you can be like. God becomes louder and louder. 218 00:16:47,690 --> 00:16:52,610 Same old lie spun in different ways you can be like. 219 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:57,290 You can know what's right and wrong in order that you can 220 00:16:57,290 --> 00:17:03,670 decide what you do. And so, if we're not rooted in 221 00:17:03,670 --> 00:17:08,829 being with him, the motivations of our hearts are inclined to 222 00:17:08,829 --> 00:17:14,030 do, to work out purposes that meet our needs, not his calling 223 00:17:17,390 --> 00:17:21,270 man. Out of the mouth of babes comes 224 00:17:21,270 --> 00:17:30,180 true. Your purpose in life, I I hope I 225 00:17:30,180 --> 00:17:35,220 don't break your bubble here, is not to to comfort yourself and 226 00:17:35,220 --> 00:17:38,100 build yourself up. Sorry if that's broken. 227 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:40,220 A few bubbles, That's the wrong mix. 228 00:17:40,540 --> 00:17:42,740 Burst a few bubbles. Broken. 229 00:17:42,740 --> 00:17:47,500 Something else mate, you know? Your role in life is not to 230 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:52,700 satisfy all of your desires. Your role in life is to receive 231 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:54,940 the desires from Him into your heart. 232 00:17:55,590 --> 00:17:58,390 When he says he gives you the desires of your heart, if you 233 00:17:58,390 --> 00:18:02,510 don't root it in your identity as a son of him or a daughter of 234 00:18:02,510 --> 00:18:05,030 him, then you will read this like this. 235 00:18:05,390 --> 00:18:09,750 Hey, good news people. Whatever desire I have, he's 236 00:18:09,750 --> 00:18:15,390 going to give it to me. I find that some movement helps 237 00:18:15,470 --> 00:18:19,830 making the point. If you're rooted in Christ, the 238 00:18:19,830 --> 00:18:24,070 way you read it is this he's going to give me. 239 00:18:25,260 --> 00:18:28,620 The desires into my. Heart that align with him. 240 00:18:31,060 --> 00:18:34,980 But don't talk to me about doing unless you've talked to me about 241 00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:39,700 being. Why else is being so important? 242 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:46,700 Because, you see, our identity makes us long the home. 243 00:18:48,180 --> 00:18:55,850 Our identity gives us an eternal perspective through this short 244 00:18:56,450 --> 00:19:03,370 and brief so join in the world. We are strangers here. 245 00:19:05,490 --> 00:19:11,730 We are just passing through. We are not of this world. 246 00:19:12,570 --> 00:19:17,690 This is and I says in the Bible. That the enemy is of the is the 247 00:19:17,690 --> 00:19:21,690 spirit of the air. This is his domain now. 248 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,600 As we walk as ambassadors of Christ, we extend His Kingdom 249 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,120 here. That's part of our rule. 250 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,880 But this earth, as it currently is, is not our home. 251 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,600 What do I mean by that? The, the, the successes of this 252 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,840 world that. People strive for should not be 253 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:44,520 the successes that we seek. The goals of this world that so 254 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,840 many seek are not the goals that we should. 255 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:51,400 Hold the objectives that the world has. 256 00:19:52,190 --> 00:19:57,670 And not our objectives, because we are ambassadors in a foreign 257 00:19:57,670 --> 00:20:01,230 land. We have other successes and. 258 00:20:01,230 --> 00:20:02,950 That's doing what God's called us to do. 259 00:20:03,150 --> 00:20:06,350 We have other goals and that's to glorify him. 260 00:20:06,470 --> 00:20:10,390 We have other objectives and that's to worship him in spirit 261 00:20:10,390 --> 00:20:16,150 and in truth. You see, our identity tells us, 262 00:20:16,310 --> 00:20:20,110 and we feel it, that we belong to him and where he is. 263 00:20:20,110 --> 00:20:26,130 That's where we want to be. We who's Listen, don't put your 264 00:20:26,130 --> 00:20:28,970 hands up. Who senses inside that there is 265 00:20:28,970 --> 00:20:34,690 more? That this world, it's just not 266 00:20:34,690 --> 00:20:41,930 satisfying me. Just tastes a bit funny. 267 00:20:42,730 --> 00:20:48,050 And you do that the more you go in the boat with Jesus, the more 268 00:20:48,050 --> 00:20:53,050 you go. That's a good thing. 269 00:20:53,970 --> 00:20:57,410 It's the spirit in you reminding you that you are not of this 270 00:20:57,410 --> 00:20:59,610 world. Listen, CS Lewis put it this 271 00:20:59,610 --> 00:21:01,730 way. If we find ourselves with a 272 00:21:01,730 --> 00:21:05,130 desire. That nothing in this world can 273 00:21:05,130 --> 00:21:10,330 satisfy. The most probable explanation is 274 00:21:10,330 --> 00:21:12,370 that we were made for another world. 275 00:21:16,650 --> 00:21:21,830 Kind of makes sense, right? Now what are the benefits when 276 00:21:21,830 --> 00:21:24,510 we realize this is not our other, this is not our home, 277 00:21:24,510 --> 00:21:26,030 that we are going to be with him. 278 00:21:26,430 --> 00:21:29,190 Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you for where I am. 279 00:21:29,190 --> 00:21:32,350 There you will be also for in my father's house or many rooms 280 00:21:32,350 --> 00:21:34,710 that I go to prepare a place. Come on, bring it on. 281 00:21:34,710 --> 00:21:39,270 Maranatha. Listen, James says we're here 282 00:21:39,270 --> 00:21:41,270 for about a moment. But if you think this is all it 283 00:21:41,270 --> 00:21:44,310 is, your purposes in life are going to be about all this 284 00:21:44,310 --> 00:21:49,610 place, Not that place, new term, you start. 285 00:21:50,170 --> 00:21:53,170 You're enjoying this. Are you want to stay in the 286 00:21:53,170 --> 00:21:54,610 sprinklers or you want to go in the deep? 287 00:21:55,730 --> 00:22:00,370 This is this is meat. But there is fruit from that 288 00:22:00,370 --> 00:22:02,730 meat, There is freedom from that meat. 289 00:22:05,810 --> 00:22:08,530 Now Jesus says do not store up for yourself. 290 00:22:08,690 --> 00:22:12,890 Treasures on. But store up yourselves 291 00:22:12,890 --> 00:22:20,120 treasures in what that says is number one he knows. 292 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,200 Our frailties, humans that we desire to store up treasures 293 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,800 here and #2, he tells. That we can store up treasures 294 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:32,040 in heaven. Now let's just take this from a 295 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,600 philosophical perspective. If. 296 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:40,760 I am here for a moment and I'm in eternity for eternity. 297 00:22:43,550 --> 00:22:45,350 Where would I like to store up treasures? 298 00:22:47,150 --> 00:22:49,710 Is that correct? Imagine, right, you're at 299 00:22:49,710 --> 00:22:53,390 university or college or somewhere, and you have. 300 00:22:53,390 --> 00:22:56,310 You, you get a phone call out the blue from from a very, very 301 00:22:56,310 --> 00:22:58,190 rich uncle you never knew you had. 302 00:23:01,150 --> 00:23:05,950 And Amen, brother. Like, I'm open for that. 303 00:23:05,950 --> 00:23:08,510 Lord, that's great. I'll be by my phone this 304 00:23:08,510 --> 00:23:14,290 afternoon and the uncle says, Hey Mark, hello. 305 00:23:14,850 --> 00:23:21,930 This is your Uncle Bobby. Listen if you. 306 00:23:21,930 --> 00:23:24,330 Put your head down these next three years and. 307 00:23:24,330 --> 00:23:26,850 You know what? You just focus on on the. 308 00:23:26,850 --> 00:23:30,250 Course you focus on the objectives. 309 00:23:30,250 --> 00:23:35,970 You you focus on all those things when you graduate. 310 00:23:35,970 --> 00:23:42,540 I will give you £50 billion. Now what are you going to do? 311 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:45,260 You're. Going to get your head down for 312 00:23:45,260 --> 00:23:46,220 the next three years, aren't you? 313 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:48,460 Doesn't matter if you're even eating pot noodle. 314 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:54,380 You're like, it's all worth it. This is nothing I want to focus 315 00:23:54,380 --> 00:23:57,380 on, on on winning the race. I'm getting the prize. 316 00:23:57,380 --> 00:24:00,900 I want to set my face on what's ahead because this isn't really. 317 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,980 I mean, this is important. Hey, have you ever figured that 318 00:24:04,980 --> 00:24:10,100 that might be what life is like? That we are in the proverbial 3 319 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:15,270 years. And you see Jesus when you read 320 00:24:15,270 --> 00:24:18,870 the scriptures, the reason he uses words like you have an 321 00:24:18,870 --> 00:24:22,070 inheritance coming to you, You are Co air with Christ. 322 00:24:22,150 --> 00:24:24,270 You're going to rule a reign with Christ, you're going to 323 00:24:24,270 --> 00:24:29,190 have treasures, is because Jesus is trying to remind us that this 324 00:24:29,190 --> 00:24:32,710 is not our home. This is akin to going through 325 00:24:32,710 --> 00:24:35,350 the birthing canal. I mean, you tell the little 326 00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:38,070 fetus, hey, there's something bigger outside than this? 327 00:24:38,070 --> 00:24:42,090 No, I don't think so. This is very warm and very cozy 328 00:24:42,090 --> 00:24:44,770 and there cannot be anything other than this room. 329 00:24:47,090 --> 00:24:50,690 You know, CS Lewis says. This is bitter mere shadow of 330 00:24:50,690 --> 00:24:56,530 what is to come. And so when we get the fact that 331 00:24:56,530 --> 00:25:00,690 we are not meant for here, I E that we have our home with him, 332 00:25:01,770 --> 00:25:06,210 we are then willing to make sacrifices, bring him glory that 333 00:25:06,210 --> 00:25:09,150 we wouldn't do otherwise. If you are living for this 334 00:25:09,150 --> 00:25:11,070 world, you're going to make decisions around this world. 335 00:25:11,710 --> 00:25:14,190 But if you're living for him, you'll make difference. 336 00:25:15,110 --> 00:25:19,110 But don't talk to me about doing before you talk to me about 337 00:25:19,110 --> 00:25:30,140 being next week. 338 00:25:30,140 --> 00:25:31,900 We're going to. Look at the call to walking 339 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:36,820 Holiness now. The call to holiness is about 340 00:25:36,820 --> 00:25:37,900 being. Set apart. 341 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:40,100 I find it very interesting in this story. 342 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:46,250 That Jesus gets in the boat with Simon Peter and they leave the 343 00:25:46,250 --> 00:25:49,090 shore. There is a separation that 344 00:25:49,090 --> 00:25:53,130 happens between the multitude and Simon Peter with G. 345 00:25:55,090 --> 00:25:57,210 And we're going to unpack that more next week. 346 00:25:58,850 --> 00:26:01,570 And then the following week will depend on how next week goes. 347 00:26:01,570 --> 00:26:04,770 We're going to look at 10 Kingdom principles, which we're 348 00:26:04,770 --> 00:26:08,730 going to do over a few weeks, the call of God on our lives 349 00:26:08,930 --> 00:26:11,890 that we get from this story. There's 10 Kingdom principles. 350 00:26:12,330 --> 00:26:16,190 And we're going to overlay that the stories from the Bible. 351 00:26:16,510 --> 00:26:19,550 Of a great heroes of faith that have responded to the call of 352 00:26:19,550 --> 00:26:21,710 God on their lives. But I'd. 353 00:26:21,710 --> 00:26:24,670 Like to invite the band up as I attempt to bring this plane into 354 00:26:24,670 --> 00:26:26,990 land. You could please put your fast 355 00:26:26,990 --> 00:26:28,590 and seat belt and put your seat trays up. 356 00:26:30,590 --> 00:26:34,470 No reclining at this point. Please put your seats up. 357 00:26:34,470 --> 00:26:35,030 Thank you. Sharon. 358 00:26:37,590 --> 00:26:39,870 I want to simply ask you this question and and while I say 359 00:26:39,870 --> 00:26:42,110 simply ask you this question, it's not a simple question. 360 00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:58,450 Is Jesus in your boat? Well, do you have a situation 361 00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:00,690 where you invite Jesus into your boat when things are good? 362 00:27:00,690 --> 00:27:02,730 And then? And then and then sometimes you 363 00:27:02,730 --> 00:27:03,770 like Jesus. I got it from here. 364 00:27:03,770 --> 00:27:06,290 If you could just at the next dock, just pop out. 365 00:27:07,930 --> 00:27:10,330 I've got some mates over there and I need to go and visit them. 366 00:27:12,490 --> 00:27:13,730 Jesus is. OK, sure. 367 00:27:16,090 --> 00:27:18,570 Is Jesus in your boat as you start this next term? 368 00:27:19,610 --> 00:27:21,570 Are you thinking about what's coming up? 369 00:27:23,210 --> 00:27:29,020 With a new captain in your boat. Or are you still the captain? 370 00:27:29,060 --> 00:27:35,340 Call him the shots. Was Jesus Call him the shots. 371 00:27:35,380 --> 00:27:39,860 What about this story he was directing where that Pope went 372 00:27:39,940 --> 00:27:40,820 to? Right. 373 00:27:42,260 --> 00:27:47,340 Is Jesus directing your life? Have you relinquished control? 374 00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:52,180 You know Timothy Keller was since passed. 375 00:27:52,980 --> 00:27:54,580 Great theologian and pastor says this. 376 00:27:55,150 --> 00:28:00,270 The heart of the call of God, listen to this is the surrender 377 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:03,750 of the will. The heart. 378 00:28:04,270 --> 00:28:09,470 Heart of the call of God upon us is the surrender of our will. 379 00:28:09,790 --> 00:28:15,590 Totally, totally. When Jesus says die to yourself, 380 00:28:16,190 --> 00:28:17,750 he wasn't using colorful language. 381 00:28:17,790 --> 00:28:22,390 He was saying, die to your will, die to those desires that are 382 00:28:22,390 --> 00:28:26,550 separate from me, dire to. Guide to the inclinations of the 383 00:28:26,630 --> 00:28:29,070 earth that pull you. Listen, we fight against the 384 00:28:29,070 --> 00:28:33,110 trifecta of the world, the enemy, and the flesh. 385 00:28:37,190 --> 00:28:38,270 Let us stand as I pray.