1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,040 Good morning. Good morning, Resurrection. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:05,480 Wow. OK. 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:11,000 Well, I'm so glad so many of you went to the evangelism workshop. 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:17,120 So I want to catch everybody that wasn't there up Kern 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:18,560 County. Saved my life. 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:25,840 I came here to Kern County to make money because I made $3.00 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,640 an hour on a farm in Arizona and somebody said come over here, 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,320 you drive tractors and stuff. They got a place called the oil 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,640 field, they'll pay you more. So I came, I saw and was 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:42,480 conquered by the oil field. And some of you know exactly 11 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:48,120 what I'm talking about. But I also thought, gosh, I was 12 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:52,360 watching your high school minister's sermon last week, and 13 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:58,000 he said something, no offense. He said something like a 14 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,680 dirtbag. I'm a dirtbag, right? 15 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:07,760 OK, well, I'm dirtbag #2 OK, just so we're on the same page 16 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,760 about what's happening right here. 17 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,720 Gosh. And I so enjoy serving the 18 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,880 churches. It's kind of off the hook 19 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,800 sometimes. I don't know how I feel about 20 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:25,640 it, you know, And it is amazing. In our churches, there is so 21 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,040 much fruit. People coming to faith, people 22 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,840 giving their lives back to their faith. 23 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,640 Almost every church I go to, the churches are already coming to 24 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,040 the altar, doing things that they need to do. 25 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,440 And it's just I, I, I, I don't feel like I'm doing much. 26 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,480 We have a bunch of new young pastors that have come into the 27 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,200 churches. They're phenomenally interesting 28 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,200 guys. I like these young guys. 29 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,560 I don't know what it is. I really like pastors. 30 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,400 They, I just, I 'cause I guess I know him. 31 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,920 I was there and, and we, I was a church planner. 32 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,240 I was a new starter. I mean, I understand what that 33 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:12,760 is, to start from scratch. And anyway, so I'm really just 34 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,200 glad to be here. But the main thing is what Vance 35 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,520 just said. I'm a pastor. 36 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,760 This is just what I'm doing right now. 37 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,800 And I was given the task of talking about losing your 38 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,560 status. Are you guys ready to lose your 39 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,000 status? Yeah. 40 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,320 Take it away from me, will you? OK, that's the Well, that's 41 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,360 Jesus's job. But I'm going to try and let him 42 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,480 do that this morning. But we're going to be in John 43 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,440 13. And so I would like to to read 44 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,920 that John 13 verses 3 through 10. 45 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,040 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his 46 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,040 hands and that he had come from God. 47 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,400 It was going back to God, rose from supper. 48 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,800 He laid aside his outer garments and taking a towel, tied it 49 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,760 around his waist. Then he poured water into a 50 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,720 basin and began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them 51 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,040 with the towel that was wrapped around him. 52 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,880 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, Lord, do you wash my 53 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,640 feet? Jesus answered, What I am doing 54 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:36,960 you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand. 55 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,000 Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet. 56 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,760 Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no share with 57 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,400 me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, 58 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,920 not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. 59 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:01,400 Jesus said to him, The one who has bathed does not need to wash 60 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,240 except his feet, but is completely clean, and you are 61 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,320 clean, but not everyone of you. May the Lord add a blessing to 62 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,080 the reading of His Word. I'd like to pray. 63 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:18,360 Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for how you speak to 64 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:24,400 us in your church and how your words come out of so many people 65 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:29,320 and we ask today that your words are found in this somewhere in 66 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,280 this sermon for those that are here this morning, you know, you 67 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:36,080 knew who was going to be here. You know what they need. 68 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,920 And so Lord Jesus, just do your work this morning. 69 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,760 We pray in your grace in Christ's name, losing your 70 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,400 status. OK Amen. 71 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,480 So three points this morning is I just going to talk. 72 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,720 Keep it really simple. Is the person of Jesus, the 73 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,720 person of Jesus, the washing of feet and the double cure. 74 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,160 Double cure. So this is a interesting I, I 75 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,400 love this series. It's interesting because it's 76 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,040 the longest teachings section in the New Testament of Jesus. 77 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,600 It's the longest time he talked. That's really interesting. 78 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,800 Of all the Gospels that that one is loaded with, that 13 through 79 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:21,640 17 is actually what it is. And what's even more interesting 80 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,160 is how long it took. This is not a week. 81 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:33,440 This is not multiple days. This teaching section is ours 82 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,400 only. And it's so interesting that his 83 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,120 disciples and those that were around him remembered it. 84 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,000 There's a little show right now. It's called The Pit. 85 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,720 It's in one of your streaming and the show has several 86 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:58,560 episodes but it just describes one shift at an emergency room 87 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,280 hospital. I feel like this is Jesus in the 88 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:06,320 pit with these guys and he's going to do some things that'll 89 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,240 help them. It's his final training. 90 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:10,240 They've watched him for three years. 91 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,880 They've seen him stop, you know, stop storms, feed thousands, 92 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,320 heal all kinds of people, do all kinds of stuff that they had no 93 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,440 understanding of what it was, and now he's going to do this 94 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,600 with them. Very interesting. 95 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,240 He just wants to have a meal with them, just wants to talk, 96 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,640 just wants to say a few important things, do a few 97 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:40,000 important things, talk to his father and then do the thing. 98 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,560 Do the thing. The Easter thing. 99 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,840 Yeah. So it starts off, it's very 100 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:49,960 interesting. It starts off in the very first 101 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,200 sentence of this section where it says that, you know, Jesus, 102 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,360 knowing that the Father had given all things in his hands 103 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,120 and he had come from God, who I think we just sang that shout to 104 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,800 Lord, He come from God to us and he was going to go back to God, 105 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,000 right? That's what the Bible says, and 106 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,480 that's what happened. And so it's kind of all this 107 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:16,360 high talk. It's all this theology about 108 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,840 Jesus. I want to tell you right now in 109 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,440 Orange County, California, I was a minister down there for a 110 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,960 while, worked at church in Garden Grove and some other 111 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,200 place, Riverside. There's some billboards right 112 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:27,440 now down there. Did you know that? 113 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,440 You know what the billboards say Jesus is not God. 114 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,600 They do. You said big, big black ones 115 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,440 down there in different locations. 116 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,200 And you know what? They are exactly wrong. 117 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:44,880 Why do you suppose they did that? 118 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:49,160 Well, they're poking us. They're poking the Christians, 119 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,760 they're poking Jesus. There are different groups that 120 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,600 might do it for different reasons, but in this we have the 121 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,160 all this high talk in that one sentence and verse 3, it says 122 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,400 that he rose it It's interesting because it says that he rose up 123 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,680 and took his clothes off. So he's just got his, you know, 124 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:15,200 his, just his bottom area covered, you know, and he and, 125 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:21,480 and he got up and, and he, he went to do this washing kind of 126 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,520 like his, his birth, you know, his death, his resurrection. 127 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,120 Jesus is an incredible meme all the time. 128 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,880 He's always doing stuff that represent other things to us. 129 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,799 So we kind of go, gosh, he didn't like that because, you 130 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,000 know, nobody understands what he's doing here. 131 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,640 Man. I didn't understand anything 132 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,120 when I got to church, for goodness sake, I had a Deacon 133 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,400 Get Me Out in the parking lot at the church and, and I was just 134 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:46,640 new there. I've been about a year. 135 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,000 I did not, I could not understand anything. 136 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:52,520 You guys were so weird to me. It was the strangest thing, 137 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,480 singing all this stuff. And then that guy talked to me 138 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:59,200 about tithing and I said, oh, my gosh. 139 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,280 And it was kind of serious because he pulled me aside. 140 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,440 You know, when an older guy pulls a young guy aside and 141 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,160 said, son, you know, and he told me that. 142 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,240 And I said, gosh, I got to start wearing ties to church. 143 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:17,920 That's what I thought he meant. So Philippians 2 says Jesus 144 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:23,080 rose, it's Philippius 2 is the great theological big talk 145 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,040 section. He says he rose, he emptied 146 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:32,880 himself of his privileges, of his status, of his everything 147 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,840 and took the form of a sermon. So he washed their feet. 148 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,440 He rose, took, you know, you have a meal with a guy and now 149 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,280 he's getting up to wash your feet. 150 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,920 Man, that is so strange. So that's where you start. 151 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,640 This is the beginning of their training. 152 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,680 We all know, you know that they that they wash their feet for 153 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:05,280 good reason. Their feet were dirty. 154 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,480 There's lots of stuff on them and usually the lowest person, 155 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,920 the the lowest slave and you know, they had a maybe a several 156 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,040 people that were considered slaves, which were usually 157 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,480 conquered countries that they brought them in no matter who 158 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,440 they were and they made them, they're slaves. 159 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:26,200 And so the lowest on the totem pill got to do the feet job, you 160 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,040 know, come on in Bobby, wash this guy's feet. 161 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:36,600 It was certainly the person who washed the feet was certainly 162 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:44,200 not the host, certainly not the guest rabbi, not those guys. 163 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,040 It was the lowest of the low, the person of Jesus. 164 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:54,240 He refused his status and he had lowly behavior. 165 00:10:56,560 --> 00:11:03,440 What we have to understand and what you have to grapple with is 166 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:11,480 Jesus incredibly high status and his incredibly low behavior. 167 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,000 Have you do you guys watch chosen any chosen people in this 168 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,640 room? OK, they get sometimes they do 169 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,240 it and and it makes your heart wince. 170 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,920 Do you know that feeling? You go, oh, shoot, how did he do 171 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:28,520 that? Why did he do that? 172 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,800 That bothered me. Those things. 173 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:43,560 That's the wince. So he claims so much and he 174 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:46,600 behaves so low. Claim to be God. 175 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:56,200 I have some Muslim friends and Muhammad didn't claim to be God. 176 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,920 I know some Buddhists and Buddha didn't claim to be God. 177 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:05,560 I have some people that believe in Confucianism and he didn't 178 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:08,160 say he was God. Nobody said that. 179 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:17,760 But Jesus did over and over actually, and he didn't even 180 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,440 brag about it. It just was what it was. 181 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:30,280 In John 8 he said the divine name Moses the I am I am the I 182 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,880 am the I am Jesus took that title. 183 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:41,440 He said before Abraham was and they took stones to to stone him 184 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,400 right there in John 5. They knew what he was saying 185 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,920 equal with God. John two he forgive sin. 186 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,360 I will judge this world. No one can come to God except 187 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,720 through me. If you've seen me, you've seen 188 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:04,480 God. Sometimes people got down to 189 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,720 worship angels. And what did angels do? 190 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,680 Oh, I know they said don't do that. 191 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:18,400 Stand up wrong, wrong. There is right information about 192 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:23,320 God and Thomas thereafter the resurrection, He says, look, my 193 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,280 Lord, my God bowed. Jesus didn't refuse that 194 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,800 worship. He took it. 195 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:37,840 But strange behavior, high claims, wrong behavior, humble, 196 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,680 odd. Who did he hang out with? 197 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,840 He hung out with the raw in society. 198 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:44,960 He hung out with the social rejects. 199 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,920 Tax collectors was one of them. And of course the people that 200 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,600 were more this way of things thought you can't do that. 201 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,320 And then he was over here with the prostitutes and the people 202 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,080 that way said, oh, you can't do that. 203 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:04,360 He always screws you up. If he isn't screwing you up, 204 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:15,560 you're not following him. I'm just telling you, he touched 205 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:18,000 lepers. Love them. 206 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,000 He pushed to the edges all the time. 207 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,240 Edge over here, over here, over here. 208 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,360 Nobody beneath him, but above everyone. 209 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:32,960 Which is it? It's the same. 210 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,040 It's a conundrum. It's what do you want to call 211 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,000 it? A contradiction? 212 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,760 The woman at the well, he was so patient with her. 213 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:46,400 He just brought her along. And what about Martha and Mary? 214 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,920 The Martha and Mary seen. I love it. 215 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:50,880 To this day. They're having a meal, you know, 216 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,520 and Mary's sitting at his feet and Martha's in there banging 217 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,160 pots and pans and stuff. Or whatever, not pots and pans, 218 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,520 ceramic, I don't know. She's in the kitchen and and 219 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,600 Jesus kind of is blunt. With Martha, he's blunt. 220 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,120 He was blunt with his own mother right at the wine making rides a 221 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,520 little blunt woman called her woman. 222 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,400 And then with Mary, he's real tender. 223 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:21,040 Why the difference? What about the woman? 224 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,000 Here's another. What about the woman that's gets 225 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,160 healed from the the continuous blood flow she has? 226 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:29,440 Do you know what he did with her? 227 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,760 He made her acknowledge the healing publicly. 228 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:39,400 Why? What about the guy who's deaf 229 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,880 and he's he, he needs another healing and the deaf mute and 230 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,480 and Jesus takes him into a private place and does it. 231 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,000 Why? Why? 232 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:56,200 Because Jesus is not driven by ideology, Temperament, 233 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,400 temperament, personality, styles, nothing. 234 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:06,800 He is guided by the heart of God for people and the crazy things 235 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,240 he says. We can have that too. 236 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:18,000 So strange, so humbling. And Jesus, what you know about 237 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,840 all the things he did in the gospel is Jesus knew exactly the 238 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,240 point and the thing that the person needed done. 239 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,120 And he knows that about all of us all the time. 240 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:36,880 We don't always get it, frankly, we don't want it, but Jesus knew 241 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,200 exactly. It's almost like they he listens 242 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,560 to our hearts because the heart is the wellspring of life. 243 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,160 He's always going after hearts because, you know, your mind's 244 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,720 just your heart's lawyer. That's all it does. 245 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,360 I want that. Well, you should get that. 246 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:01,560 You know, you can just talk yourself into any dumb thing. 247 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:11,760 And so he knows what's wrong with people's personality. 248 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,359 He knows where our idols are. He knows what how we're trying 249 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,800 to protect ourself or save ourself, make ourself look good 250 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:26,720 to others. The isn't it funny the crippled 251 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,280 guy where the guys brought the their friend in and they 252 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,440 couldn't get in to see Jesus. So they cut a hole in the roof 253 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,840 of the people's how how crude. And then they lowered the dude 254 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,960 down and they're like, man, we're getting Jesus going to 255 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:47,400 make him walk and he didn't. He said your sins are forgiven. 256 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,280 So his friends didn't know what his real need was. 257 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,600 They thought his need was just to walk and Jesus didn't do it. 258 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,280 Sometimes He doesn't do stuff we want, and that is exactly His 259 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:06,160 behavior is radically different than his claims his entire life. 260 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,240 Let me just read you a list. Tenderness without weakness. 261 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:14,960 Holiness without harshness. Humility without any 262 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,000 uncertainty. Towering confidence. 263 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,080 Unbending convictions with complete approachability. 264 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,440 Insistence on truth, always bathed in love. 265 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:32,000 Power without insensitivity, Integrity without rigidity. 266 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,600 Passion without prejudice, No prejudice. 267 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,520 Highest of claim, lowliest of behavior, strong. 268 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,400 And you know what? That is actually the thing, The 269 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,000 contradictions, the highest of claims. 270 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,280 And then the lowliness of behavior is actually proof of 271 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:56,640 God Himself, because no human had ever done that, right? 272 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:03,720 He's the new way to be human. One song says that's that's a 273 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,520 wonderful thing. I didn't know that. 274 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,560 And I understand you guys are sent to tell people that they 275 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,800 don't have to be the kind of human they are right now. 276 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,640 I didn't know that when I went to that little Spanish church 277 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,560 over at 1010 High Street. I didn't know that. 278 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:25,120 I didn't know anything but what a beautiful life. 279 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,280 Even people that don't like church, if they see much of 280 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:34,200 Jesus, but the longer and the further apart, you know that 281 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,040 they they get weird ideas and you get to present Jesus to 282 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,720 people. That is he is the good news, 283 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,720 right? He, he is in his body and he is 284 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,480 in his action and he is in his words. 285 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:53,120 He is. His claims are high. 286 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:55,600 His beauty. You know, anybody makes wild 287 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,240 claim, we say they're a quack, right? 288 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,560 They're a nut. That's a guy's a nut. 289 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:05,920 And the history is full of nuts, but not this guy, not this one. 290 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,160 There's only one conclusion. He is exactly who he said he 291 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,760 was. He is the person. 292 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:17,960 So now the washing of feet. So. 293 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,160 And, and, and Jesus says to Peter, you don't want me to wash 294 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,880 your feet, then you don't get nothing of me. 295 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,640 You don't get what I want to give you. 296 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:34,320 It's a, you know, it's kind of a this contradiction that Jesus 297 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:38,560 continues to act out. Let me just we're going back to 298 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,640 the washing of feet. It's customary to wash guests 299 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,080 feet. It's interesting. 300 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,720 Sometimes people that invited Jesus into their house didn't 301 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,600 show him hospitality. It was strange. 302 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:55,400 They did it for the rabbis, but they were really there to size 303 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,600 him up. You ever find yourself doing 304 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,640 that, sizing people? Man, that is such a relief when 305 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:06,120 you can let go of all that. God rescues us from ourselves so 306 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:08,280 often. But people that set at tables 307 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,240 and they kind of set sideways with a bunch of pills at a low 308 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,560 table. And So what was right next to 309 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:19,760 you at the table? Somebody else's feet and what 310 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:28,120 was on their feet stuff. And it wasn't just dirt, you 311 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:33,320 know, no sewer systems, lots of donkeys on the road. 312 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,400 I grew up around farms. We're always avoiding cow pies, 313 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,000 you know, try not to step in them. 314 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,520 But they they had really. What was that show? 315 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,120 Dirtiest job? Yeah. 316 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:49,480 So that was the dirtiest job in 1st century. 317 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:55,360 Dirtiest job, lowest job. And so you had to have your feet 318 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,080 wash. It was a normal thing. 319 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,840 It was normal behavior. And also sometimes they rub your 320 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,640 head with oil because your head kind of itches from all the, you 321 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,480 know, they just did stuff to make you comfortable. 322 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:14,080 Comfort, creature comfort. And so and so what's really 323 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,560 funny, I, I really feel like this thing is like a small group 324 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,080 thing. You ever been in a small group 325 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:20,960 and. And, and there there's a 326 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,760 question being asked and the first dude or gal has to answer 327 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,280 it and then it's moving around and it's almost to you and 328 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:32,120 you're going what did I say? I'll probably say something 329 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:33,600 wrong. Yeah, you'll probably look dumb. 330 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,400 You know, you're, you're just kind of working. 331 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,960 You're revving yourself up to stupidity, you know, like I do. 332 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:45,040 And and so here comes Peter, and he can't stand on his Jesus. 333 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,280 Get down by his feet. And Peter goes, what are you 334 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,760 doing, Jesus? Why would you do this? 335 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:56,640 No, no, because you know what it is? 336 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:02,320 Those of you who are longer in the faith, it's easier to serve 337 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,520 people than it is to let them serve you. 338 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,800 I'll never forget I was at Cal Baptist University and I was 339 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,600 played a little sports, played on the soccer team. 340 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,000 And I had a hernia, a bad one. And so I, I, I had to have a 341 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,520 surgery. Ouch. 342 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:25,120 And so I was walking around campus, it's like, you know, 343 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,080 really, really slow. You try not to sneeze or laugh 344 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,640 because those little muscles in there, man, they scream at you. 345 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,600 So you just kind of walk and, and people were walking And I 346 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,600 before that I, I thought, man, I am kind of a little bit of man 347 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,280 on campus here. And then I was like cripple man 348 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,840 on campus or, you know, just, and people wanting to do stuff 349 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,600 for me. And it was just like a six 350 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,800 months of humility exercises. It's easier to serve than let 351 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,080 somebody serve you. But at in the church we learned 352 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,240 to all serve each other, don't we? 353 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,960 Beautiful, beautiful thing. But Peter had pride and Peter 354 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:05,640 was a sufficient guy. He had a vision of himself as 355 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:11,400 Mr. Faithful, Mr. Stand up, Mr. can do guy. 356 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:19,640 I mean, he had this picture of himself, but Jesus said you're 357 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:24,160 dirty. What is dirt? 358 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,520 Dirt. He is it really about our feet? 359 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,160 No, it's about what dirt represent. 360 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,600 Dirt is a metaphor for spiritual, relational 361 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:47,320 uncleanliness, spiritual hygiene and and the scriptures are full 362 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,800 of it. When, when David said with 363 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:59,680 Bathsheba, he said, Lord, wash me clean in, in, in acts, when 364 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,880 there's a giant conversion story of all these people said, be 365 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:08,240 baptized, be washed clean clean of your sin. 366 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,040 It's the metaphor. It's the barrier between US and 367 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,840 God. It's relationally pugnant, 368 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,680 pugnant stinky. My wife and I are at Subway in 369 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,920 New York and there was some strange folk. 370 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,840 We were riding around New York for a while and there was some 371 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,080 guys that they could just come through the other car into your 372 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:34,440 car and they could be clear at the other end of the car and the 373 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:42,120 stench was incredible. We don't like that generally 374 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:50,000 most folk, and I mean alcohol, urine, just stuff feces, you 375 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:55,560 know, it's just, and so it's a barrier between people, right? 376 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,840 And it's also a debt. So let me give you an example. 377 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,280 So say somebody that you kind of kind of know, but not that much. 378 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:11,120 They jump you and beat you up and take your money, which 379 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,240 doesn't sound normal. I understand that, but they do 380 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,440 that anyway. And then you're sent to the 381 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,480 hospital. You're you're beat up so bad, 382 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,440 they send you to the hospital and you're laying in bed and 383 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:26,000 guess who comes and visits you? The guy who jumped you, beat you 384 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,960 up, took your credit cards, ran them up. 385 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,480 You owe 10 grand on Citi card now and whatever else. 386 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,080 And he's he wants to be your friends now. 387 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,840 Well, tell me what you're doing. Do you say OK? 388 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:47,360 Do you, Why don't you just say, OK, because there's a barrier? 389 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:52,560 What's the barrier? You've sinned against me, you've 390 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:58,040 sinned against me. And Jesus was trying to say, 391 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,760 Peter, you need something more drastic than you know. 392 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:10,920 So trust me, there's a lot of Peters out there that don't, you 393 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:18,680 know, they trust in themselves and they say, I don't, I'm not 394 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,800 doing anything wrong. We have a whole culture of that. 395 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,400 There's a big debate about what a good person is. 396 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,800 Well, if you do this, you're not a good, you're over here, you're 397 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,000 not good because you do this, you do whatever. 398 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,840 But it is true for humans and for everybody that walks in this 399 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,280 doors that we all have guilt from the stuff that we've done 400 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,960 and that this is a moral universe. 401 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,720 It's not just gravity at work. It is God's presence that is at 402 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,040 work in this world. And people in this culture want 403 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,240 to say, don't make me feel guilty. 404 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,200 Don't say I'm a bad person because I'm doing such and son. 405 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,480 And and just like in the book of judge, every man did what was 406 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,600 right in his own eyes. Our culture is full of that 407 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,560 bubbles up every week. It's online, it's in everywhere 408 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,480 you go in schools. There is this worldview that 409 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,280 says, Nah, there's nothing to worry about. 410 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,040 You just do what you want to do. You just be who you want to be. 411 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:25,520 It doesn't matter. A lie from the pit, a lie, you 412 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,720 know, I say, you're good. My grandparents felt guilty 413 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,880 about this sort of stuff. But modern people, we know 414 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,680 better. We have YouTube and videos. 415 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,200 And but if you look on YouTube and videos, you find these 416 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,720 things about shame and guilt and everybody's trying to figure out 417 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,560 how to get rid of it. You know, you feel guilty about 418 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,840 stuff. I feel ashamed about who I am 419 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,360 and what I've done. And, and, and, and so it's this, 420 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,600 you know, how do you get rid of that? 421 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,520 You, you say, I feel I still remember. 422 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,320 I still remember in Texas at a church that where I worked and 423 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,720 there was this little girl and she had this of brother and he 424 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,480 was cross eyed James and he was up. 425 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,360 He was a rough kid. Sometimes we had to pick him up. 426 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,240 You guys don't do that over here at register. 427 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,400 We had to pick him up and carry him out of the church because he 428 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,840 could disturb the whole church. Anyway, his sister somehow heard 429 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,320 the gospel one Sunday and her name was Sarah. 430 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,880 I still remember little brunette girl mom was on the 3rd or 4th 431 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,520 boyfriend and we should just pick him up for church. 432 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,000 My wife and I, that's all we did, take him to church. 433 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,880 And you know, she said when she went forward, she said we're 434 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,640 sitting somewhere back there and she just said I, I got to, I got 435 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,080 to go forward. I feel dirty. 436 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,640 I thought, wow, how did a 10 year old know that? 437 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,200 How did she get that? You know, how did she get that? 438 00:29:47,160 --> 00:30:00,120 And so guilt and shame and so. In spite of maybe not believing 439 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,400 in some kind of moral law, I don't believe in hell or 440 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,120 judgment or any kind of that stuff. 441 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:11,600 We all, we all know that we're responsible to somebody and, and 442 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,200 it will come out and we will spend a lot of time trying to 443 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,160 make ourselves OK. It's really nice when you get 444 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,320 off that treadmill, when you finally say, God, I can't do it. 445 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,800 That's the first step in all the recovery programs, right? 446 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:30,520 My life has become unmanageable. It's a wreck, and I can't do it. 447 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,680 Please, God fix me. So what's a cure? 448 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,000 There it is. Peter. 449 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,920 He's just now Peter the disciple. 450 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,360 He's this wonderful, balanced kind of guy, isn't he? 451 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:52,760 No, he says he is pop off Peter. He pops off about all kinds of 452 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,240 stuff. He's he's a little bit snarky, 453 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,800 cheeky, whatever you want to call it, smart aleck. 454 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:05,400 And he's he's got enough nerve to tell Jesus not to do 455 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,160 something, you know, I mean, he's just got a lot of nerve and 456 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,400 he wants a whole bath. And I, I, I looked at that 457 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,520 again, that passage and I, and I think I could kind of see, I 458 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,440 could kind of see Jesus down here and, and he's looking up at 459 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,320 Peter and Peter's doing his complaint, you know, and Jesus 460 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,000 is down here getting ready to do his feet. 461 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,640 And he finally just looks at, at Peter right there and he says, 462 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,200 Pete, just the feet, just the feet. 463 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:42,720 That's all you need washed. So, but he said, interesting, He 464 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:48,600 said you, you, you get a bath once, you get a bath once, but 465 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,320 you need your feet washed regularly. 466 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,160 So it's the twofold offer. You need your feet washed and 467 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:03,240 you need a bath once for salvation. 468 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,000 God wakes your life up, God saves you. 469 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,080 He does it all and it changes you. 470 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:19,200 That's the bath. That's the bath. 471 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,280 In Titus 35, we see the washing of regeneration. 472 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,400 God regenerates us. When I was sitting in that 473 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,120 little Spanish church over on Hyde St. and I heard stuff. 474 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:38,040 I didn't know why, but I, I knew something was talking to me. 475 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,880 Couldn't explain a thing, very confused. 476 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,720 But I would go to my room on the way out on the West side of 477 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,320 Bakersfield off of Wilson, sit in this room that I was paying 478 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,960 for with this other guy who was selling dope. 479 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,320 And I was just there trying to, you know, work in the oil field 480 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,040 and stay out of trouble. And, and I would sit in my room 481 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,120 and I say, God save me, God save me, you know, and I would try to 482 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,160 read and the Bible made no sense. 483 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,200 Did work? Anybody else do that? 484 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,480 When you become a Christian, you're pardoned. 485 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,680 How many times do you get pardoned if you're stuck in the 486 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,680 state pen? One time. 487 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,640 But then you got to live out the pardon. 488 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,960 You're forgiven. That is salvation. 489 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,880 It doesn't mean though, you don't get yourself dirty again, 490 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,880 right? Are you hearing me, Christians? 491 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,640 There's the bath and then there's the foot washing. 492 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,760 And so becoming a Christian. So in a sense, and, and let me 493 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:59,480 just say this to you this morning, if God saved you, he 494 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,520 loves you as much that day he saved you. 495 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:08,080 And he can never love you any anymore or any less than that. 496 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:14,280 Always, it's always the same. It's always the same love that 497 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,480 God has for you. And what's the foot washing 498 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,280 first? John 19. 499 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,960 If we are faithful to confess our sins, he's faithful to 500 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,199 forgive us and we can walk again in the light. 501 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,560 If there's anything I've learned from being a minister is we need 502 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,960 a lot of foot washing. We need salvation. 503 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,600 But you got to have your feet washed. 504 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,560 And I tell you what happens. You know, if you don't do that, 505 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:44,000 you end up in weird places. And so you end up, you know, 506 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,920 some people are more religious. They're kind of like Martin 507 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,159 Luther, who used to go to confession all the time till the 508 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,760 priest started complaining to him, him, he's in a monastery. 509 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,920 And they said, this guy's always coming like five times a day 510 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,080 talking about his sins and said, man, Martin. 511 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,840 But Martin finally understood what it was to be saved. 512 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,200 If you just understand foot washing, there's a chance you'll 513 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,480 become a legalist. And those are painful 514 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,920 Christians. If you just understand the bath 515 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:23,240 and you don't understand the foot washing, there is a chance 516 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,400 that you'll be a libertine. You think you can do whatever 517 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,000 you want, but in fact you're being sinful above the law, I 518 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:38,000 think. And so Jesus did this and he was 519 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,120 really, when he did this, he said you will not understand 520 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,800 this, but later you will. And so his he was headed to the 521 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,920 cross. It was just hours before his 522 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,400 arrest, just hours, and they did not know what he was doing. 523 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:04,640 And so today, just like a famous Baptist preacher once preached 524 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,680 Charles Haddon Spurgeon when he got saved, he was a teenager. 525 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,200 He went to a little tiny church and there was some substitute 526 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,640 preacher there. And there was a dozen people in 527 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,000 that building. And this guy preached about look 528 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,920 to me, the Lord says, and I will save you. 529 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:29,200 Look to me. Look to me, I can wash away your 530 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,680 sin. Nothing but the blood of Jesus 531 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,600 can make us white as snow, can make us whole. 532 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,720 Nothing but the blood. And so I don't know what God's 533 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,720 saying to you because it's his choice. 534 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,000 It's your heart. But I want to have a prayer with 535 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,960 you right now. And this is about receiving the 536 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,000 bath. Have you received the bath? 537 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,760 Have you received the gift of God? 538 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,880 He does it. You don't. 539 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:12,080 You just say, OK, God, have your way. 540 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,760 That's all you do. So right now, I want you to bow 541 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,040 your head and close your eyes with me. 542 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,120 And I want to say a prayer with you. 543 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,880 Father, thank you for this moment. 544 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:34,280 This moment when there would be someone who would say, I'm not 545 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:39,080 sure I'm yours. Lord Jesus, can you, will you 546 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:44,920 please save me? I'm tired of trying to look 547 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,760 good. I'm trying tired of judging 548 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,400 others. I'm tired of being religious. 549 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,320 I'm tired of being sinful. I'm just tired. 550 00:37:54,320 --> 00:38:01,360 God, please save my soul, save my life, save my everything. 551 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:07,240 Ioffer myself up to you because you died on the cross for me, 552 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,720 for me. So I receive you in this moment 553 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:20,600 at Resurrection Church, February 8th, 2026. 554 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,800 I receive you and your salvation. 555 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:29,080 Now keep your heads and eyes closed and anybody that prayed 556 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:33,040 with me, please look up here if you will just look up at me. 557 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:39,400 No one's looking. Thank you, thank you. 558 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:47,440 And if you prayed that if you're ready for the bath, the 559 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,080 salvation, then we have some tables in the back and I want 560 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,760 you to get up and go there right now. 561 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,080 So just just get up, don't be embarrassed, just get up and go 562 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:06,250 right back there. And now I'm going to have the 563 00:39:07,450 --> 00:39:12,530 our prayer partners, our ushers, our deacons come forward and 564 00:39:12,530 --> 00:39:16,010 we're going to sing and we're going to invite you forward for 565 00:39:16,010 --> 00:39:22,890 prayer. What's driving you nuts? 566 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,560 This is God said my house shall be a House of prayer. 567 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,120 Don't ever be afraid to come forward and pray. 568 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,040 I was in a church last week. I went forward and prayed and 569 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,200 prayed for them. Please come. 570 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:39,560 So let's stand and you come. You need to pray and if you need 571 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,480 to go back those tables, you do that. 572 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:43,240 God's peace.