1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,960 Good morning church. My name is Daniel. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,800 I'm the lead pastor here at Res. I'm excited to be here and 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:08,520 preaching today. I'm excited. 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,720 If you're joining us for the first time or you're pretty new 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,520 here, haven't had a chance to connect, I'm excited you're 6 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:14,200 here. I'm going to. 7 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,560 We're going to have a chance to connect with you right after 8 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,240 service at this meet the team that we do over here with 9 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:20,760 brownies that you should come and have. 10 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,760 Otherwise I will eat far too many of them. 11 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,200 So come and save me from some brownies. 12 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,600 Listen, I have a question I want to start out with because we're 13 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,360 we're like week 5 into this series. 14 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:40,360 And if you knew that you were going to die on Friday, what 15 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,320 would you do with the time that you have left in those last 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,080 couple days? In fact, as you start to think 17 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,120 about all the ice cream you would eat, what particularly 18 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,040 would you do to prepare the people that are closest to you 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,320 for the fact that you're about to leave them? 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,840 What, what, who are the people and what would you, what would 21 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,360 you be doing? Like, what do you want to leave 22 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,000 them with as kind of the last things you need them to know or 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,320 you want to express to them before you leave this world? 24 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,000 And I'm asking you that because it's it's kind of what's 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:20,760 happening in our story today. Jesus is in the last few days 26 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:22,640 before he's going to go to the cross. 27 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,440 He's right before he's going to end up dying for our sins, 28 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,840 coming back to life and then and then ascending to the Father. 29 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:39,800 And so we're right at the end in in John chapter 12 or so, this 30 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,920 whole story of John begins to slow down. 31 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,640 And by John 13, and we're all the way into 16 today, that 32 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,200 entire segment of Scripture is 1 dinner. 33 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:55,120 That's a long dinner. And it's Jesus preparing his 34 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,880 disciples, the closest people to him for the fact that he's going 35 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,200 to leave them. And so the reason I think it's 36 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,680 just so particularly interesting is, man, if there was one point 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,039 you should really pay attention to, you'd think, well, well, as 38 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:12,960 Jesus is in this last moment with his disciples, I wonder 39 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,920 what's important to him. I wonder what he thinks that 40 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:20,520 these people need to hear. And that's been so we're in week 41 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,160 5 as we've begun to do this. And so if you go all the way 42 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,080 back to week 1 of this series in John, it starts with Jesus 43 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,200 telling his disciples, listen, you're going to need to lose 44 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:36,440 your expectations. And then John 13, what we 45 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,120 covered a couple weeks ago, you need to learn to lose your 46 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:45,520 status. And then the next week you we 47 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:51,880 really need to learn how to lose our desire for control and the 48 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,120 last week lose yourself reliance. 49 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,720 And so we're we're in this the whole series is called losing 50 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,640 this week, week 5 of this series, we're going to be at the 51 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:05,000 very end of John 15 and into John 16. 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,240 And I have titled this the very deep, very philosophical title 53 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:15,280 of Lose Your training wheels. Lose Your Training wheels. 54 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,600 Because Jesus is actually about to explain that, that the 55 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,800 Christian life for his disciples is going to go from very 56 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,640 simplistic to a little bit more complex. 57 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:23,000 He's going to turn on expert mode. 58 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,520 And, and the reason is Jesus is not going to be there to teach 59 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,280 them everything. It's going to look a little 60 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:33,600 different. About 6678 years ago, something 61 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,240 like that. A few years back my wife and I 62 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,920 had an opportunity to go on a cruise around the Mediterranean 63 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,240 and and stop in these ports along the way. 64 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,880 And then the cruise stopped. It finished in Venice, Italy and 65 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,480 apparently I visited Venice or we visited Venice at the perfect 66 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,520 time. It was raining and I didn't know 67 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,280 that was good, but apparently it's really smelly except when 68 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,680 it rains. So anyways, we had a great time. 69 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,120 Part of the reason that is now it's my favorite city that I've 70 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:05,760 ever visited was we accidentally stumbled upon a tour that was 71 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,240 lead. We got a tour guide assigned to 72 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,120 us who was a young lady, a very young lady, like in her young 73 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,760 early 20s, who was born and raised in the city, the city of 74 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,000 Venice. And she knew when I say she knew 75 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,600 Venice, like she really. So we're we're, you know, 76 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,399 following her around and she's just, she'll be walking and then 77 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:22,960 she just check her right turn down this little alley. 78 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,640 We're like, we're following her down. 79 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,520 And then she knows everybody by name. 80 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,640 She's like saying hi to the Baker and they're giving her 81 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:30,880 bread. And I was like, I thought that 82 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,560 was a Disney movie. She's like, hello, Philippe, you 83 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,560 know, hello, Giuseppe. And we're just like, what is 84 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,640 happening? And so she's just taking turns 85 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,640 greeting everyone. This is a big place. 86 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,800 And we're just getting this is this lady's. 87 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,680 And at one point she stops and there's a door. 88 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,120 There's a door about this big. I mean, it looks like I think 89 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:47,920 she's going to get out a mop or a broom. 90 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:50,280 And I'm like, this, this thing is about to get weird. 91 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,680 She opens it up and it's a secret passage. 92 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,720 And I was like, we are getting our money's worth. 93 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,720 And so we all, we all walk through this thing you can 94 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,440 barely fit through. And it comes out and there's a, 95 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,760 there's a restaurant like hidden between these two buildings and 96 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 they've already laid out a table for us and they know her by name 97 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,640 and they're pouring wine and they're putting cheese and all 98 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:12,960 this stuff. And we're like, what is 99 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,720 happening? I was like, this is like Belle 100 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,280 from Beauty and the Beast, you know, now I was waiting for 101 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:19,720 music to just start up and she was going to dance or something. 102 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,360 We had a phenomenal time, but but we experienced more in like 103 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,720 a two or three hour tour that we we would have ever experienced 104 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,680 spending weeks in Venice not knowing what we were doing. 105 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,480 Because it is a very confusing place. 106 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,760 And my point is simply that the difference between having a 107 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,920 guide who knows what they're doing and where they're going is 108 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,520 very different than stumbling around life. 109 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:46,760 Amen. And so if you leave today. 110 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,800 And. Only remember one thing. 111 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:59,160 I want you to remember this. The Christian life is about 112 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:05,240 trusting the guide and that's what Jesus is about to explain 113 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,240 to His disciples before He goes to the cross. 114 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,800 Join me in the reading of God, God's Word in John 15 verse 26. 115 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,480 I'm going to read from the ESV. Here's what it says. 116 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,040 This is Jesus at the at the dinner table. 117 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,040 But when the helper comes, helper is probably capitalized 118 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,000 in your Bible because it's a name. 119 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,600 It's a proper noun for the Holy Spirit. 120 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:38,760 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the 121 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,880 Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he 122 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,440 will bear witness about me. So here's Jesus at the dinner 123 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,360 table teaching these final lessons, saying they haven't 124 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,520 heard about this yet. Hey, the Holy Spirit is going to 125 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,280 come and he's going to play a very specific role in your life. 126 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:58,800 And I'm going to explain what it looks like, verse 27. 127 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,080 And you will also bear witness because you have been with me 128 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:08,840 from the beginning. I am missing a page. 129 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:15,760 All right, that's fine. And I have said these things. 130 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,560 This is chapter 16. I've said these things to keep 131 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:23,160 you from falling away. They will put you out of the 132 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:28,760 synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when 133 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,400 whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 134 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,400 And they will do these things because they have not known the 135 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,960 Father nor me. But I have said these things to 136 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,080 you, that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told 137 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,040 them to you. Now He's going to explain in 138 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,400 this next section exactly what the Holy Spirit's going to do. 139 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,080 I did not say these things to you from the beginning because I 140 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,000 was with you. But now I'm going to him who 141 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,040 sent me. And none of you asks, where are 142 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,040 you going? But because I have said these 143 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,880 things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 144 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,960 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage 145 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,040 that I go away. For if I do not go away, the 146 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,800 Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to 147 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,840 you. So Jesus is saying, listen, 148 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,800 follow, following. Jesus, being a Christian so far 149 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,600 has been on easy mode for the disciples. 150 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,480 Here's why. They didn't have to make any 151 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,400 decisions. They just followed Jesus. 152 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,160 What am I supposed to do today? I'm just going to follow this 153 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:27,560 guy. What's he doing? 154 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,000 He's making, he's going to feed 5000 people. 155 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,680 All right, because that's what we're doing. 156 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,600 If they don't understand something, do they figure it 157 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,240 out? No, they go, hey, Jesus. 158 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,480 Well, what did that parable mean? 159 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,120 If they're confused, he rebukes them. 160 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:43,559 If they do something wrong, he tells like so. 161 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,280 So life so far has actually been not that difficult to figure 162 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,000 out. You have Jesus standing next to 163 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,080 you. That's either really helpful or 164 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:53,520 really terrifying when you think about it. 165 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,520 But but he's going to leave and he's saying, no, it's going to 166 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,560 work different now. And I'm going to send you a 167 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:04,320 guide. And here's what the guide's 168 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,400 going to do. Pick this up in chapter 16, 169 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:07,840 verse 8. Here's what the guide's going to 170 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:08,800 do. Here's what the Holy Spirit's 171 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,680 going to do when he comes. He will convict the world 172 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,520 concerning 3 things, sin and righteousness and judgement. 173 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,720 OK, so if you're reading your physical Bible, I want you to 174 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,560 just underline the word convict and then underline those 3 175 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,920 words, sin, righteousness, judgement. 176 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,720 And Jesus explains concerning sin because they do not believe 177 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,880 in me, concerning righteousness because I go to the Father and 178 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,320 you will no see me no longer concerning judgement because the 179 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,520 rule ruler of this world is judge. 180 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,120 We'll explain that in a minute. I still have many things to say 181 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,160 to you, but you cannot bear them now. 182 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,960 When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the 183 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:53,520 truth. That is another underlying 184 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:58,080 worthy statement right there, for he will not speak on his own 185 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,880 authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will 186 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,400 declare to you the things that are to come. 187 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,440 I'm going to stop right there. May God bless the reading of his 188 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,560 word. When when as Jesus is explaining 189 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:14,800 what it's going to look like for the Holy Spirit to come and be 190 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,840 the guide in their life. I was thinking about when I 191 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,960 taught my has anyone here ever taught their kid how to ride a 192 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,600 bike? Couple. 193 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:22,600 Oh, yeah. OK, good. 194 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,160 OK, so when I taught every kid that I've taught, we taught the 195 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,360 same way. You put them on the little bike 196 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,560 with the training wheels. You guys, we've all done this, 197 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:31,720 right? And here's what happens is 198 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,000 they're like riding around and when they lean too far, he goes 199 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:35,440 Dick and he just hits the training wheel. 200 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,200 And they and actually when they're really bad, they just 201 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,320 bounce training wheel, the training wheel the whole way 202 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,960 down the road. It looks terrible, but you know, 203 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,800 they're figuring out how to balance. 204 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,240 But there's a point where they begin to mature and physically 205 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,840 develop. And you're like, I think they're 206 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,400 ready. And you take the training wheels 207 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,120 off and then you get them on there and you strap their 208 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,120 little, little Princess helmet. I had a lot of girls Princess 209 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,600 helmet on. And you get them on the little 210 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,400 bike and you and, and you hold the back of the seat. 211 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,240 You guys know what I'm talking about, right? 212 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,400 Some people are looking at me funny, like, you're going to get 213 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,120 there, OK. And you go, you go riding around 214 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,880 the neighborhood. And then what do you do? 215 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,160 At some point, you let go, but you don't tell them. 216 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:22,720 And you just keep running next to them. 217 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,000 And then at some point, every one of my kids does this. 218 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,920 They GoDaddy. I think I'm ready to go on my 219 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,520 own. And I'm like, you have been for 220 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,400 10 minutes. I'm just here for the jog. 221 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,560 What, what are we doing in that moment? 222 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:47,560 We're training them how to be sensitive to, to stay on the 223 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:52,960 course and not need the bumper rails in the same fashion, 224 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,640 right? So keep that in mind because 225 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,920 we're going to look at what it looks like for the Holy Spirit 226 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:01,000 to guide us. And you're going to see a lot of 227 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,360 similarities here. Verse 8. 228 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:08,640 And when he, the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world 229 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,040 concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. 230 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,400 Now, if you've been around church at all before, heck if 231 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,280 maybe if you just heard about church, then when I say the word 232 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,440 convict, you have like a, a pretty negative connotation, 233 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,320 right? Convict is like, you know, you 234 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,040 do something wrong and you you feel horrible about it. 235 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,680 You know what I'm like, like when my wife goes, Daniel, did 236 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:35,920 you eat the last cookie that I was saving for myself? 237 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:44,800 I hope you feel convicted. And I say I don't feel 238 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,520 conviction. I'm paying for all those 239 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,800 cookies. Not that kind of conviction. 240 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,040 OK. The actual word that's being 241 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:53,920 used here is a different kind of convict. 242 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,760 In fact, this, this Greek word in, in Konya Greek is, is 243 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,040 elancho. And so this, this word means a 244 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,920 little something different. It doesn't have as negative of a 245 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,960 connotation. It's still a very strong word. 246 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,400 But what it means is to to take this evidence, think of a 247 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,040 courtroom, almost take some evidence or some truth and to 248 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:18,200 clarify it like so well that you that no one can mistake it. 249 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,680 No one could, could, could miss it to place the truth so clearly 250 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,320 before something that it must be seen and acknowledged. 251 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,240 Now that evidence could be good or bad or what have you. 252 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,400 So it's not always negative, but it means that it's like 253 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:37,680 undebatable, like it's just man, it's very clear. 254 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:40,200 It's unavoidable. It's impossible to miss. 255 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,520 Now I was thinking about that, like, what does that look like? 256 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,520 And, and I know some of you guys are visual learners. 257 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,040 And so I was thinking through like, what does it look like to 258 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,080 to have a truth placed before you like so well that you can't 259 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,600 avoid it. And I remember the video I saw. 260 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:56,480 I want to show it to you did. You did you eat my? 261 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,320 Burger. I just don't understand. 262 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,000 This is crazy to me. Did you eat? 263 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,520 Did you enjoy it? You just ate an entire chicken 264 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:16,000 barn and bought chicken. Do you have any idea what you've 265 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,640 done? It was $20. 266 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:26,160 Who did this mess? Cody? 267 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:32,960 Did you make this mess? Elancho? 268 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:34,680 There you go. OK. 269 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,840 Now, why would humanity in this in this text? 270 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,160 Why would humanity need spiritual truths to be presented 271 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:45,680 in such an obvious fashion like this? 272 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,520 Because hopefully what they're presented to you is not that 273 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,320 you've been in the trash eating, eating the food. 274 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,720 Like what? What is it that that the Holy 275 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,480 Spirit is going to bring to light and put in front of us 276 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:59,160 that we cannot avoid? Well, he told sin, righteousness 277 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,120 and judgement. Those are these, these next 3 278 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,720 verses concerning sin, concerning righteousness, 279 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,520 concerning judgement. I don't want to break each of 280 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,680 those down in this sequence because they're actually in a 281 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,760 sequential order for a reason, because it's the problem, the 282 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,840 solution, and the consequence. The problem, the solution, the 283 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,520 consequence. So Jesus explains that the 284 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,520 presence of the Holy Spirit is going to be all that we actually 285 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,080 need to live this Christian life, to spread the gospel of 286 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,720 Christ and to live confidently until the end. 287 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:39,440 So let's start with the first one, The, the, the, the, the 288 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,280 word here that is used for sin. And in your Bible at different 289 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,640 times, different words are used that we then translate into 290 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,200 English as sin. And so sometimes they're 291 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,840 actually different words. This is a Greek word, hamartia. 292 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,920 Hamartia. It's in your handout, I think, 293 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,360 and it's in classic Greek. This, the actual definition and 294 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,000 the use of this word was about missing the mark. 295 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,200 And so if you want to think back to when they would have used 296 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,520 this word before they were talking about sin, it would have 297 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,760 been an archery. So if an Archer lines up to to 298 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,400 hit a bull's eye and they let that arrow go and it misses the 299 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,200 bull's eye, we would have used this term hamartia. 300 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:23,440 You missed the mark. Now here's the thing. 301 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,280 Imagine though that there's no target or that you can't see the 302 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,840 target. That has not been made clear. 303 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,320 If there's no target, then you know, I can take my bow and my 304 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,720 arrow and I could just be like, lodge that bad boy in the 305 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,800 ceiling and be like, looks like a bull's eye to me. 306 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,400 And, and, and, and we chuckle. But do we not live in a culture 307 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,680 that defines right and wrong that way? 308 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,440 Have you not heard someone tell you, whether it's in person or 309 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,920 on social media, like, well, that's just your truth. 310 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:03,840 It's not my truth. That's just your bullseye. 311 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:13,839 It's not my bullseye. What humanity, this this fallen 312 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:22,119 world has been trying to define right and wrong on their own 313 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:29,680 since the fall of creation. They're the very first humans 314 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:37,920 wanted to be gods so that they could justify their rebellion 315 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,320 and their failure, and they could call a bad thing good. 316 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,400 And we do too. I had AI had a a really 317 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,720 beautiful and impactful conversation with a young lady 318 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,720 about two or three months ago and she'd been raised Christian. 319 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,920 Walked away from the faith, ended up moving in with five 320 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,760 atheists as the only person with a Christian background. 321 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,360 And so somewhere along the way, as she's living with these 322 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:08,760 people, four of the roommates turned against her. 323 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,880 And they started to create a lot of a lot of turmoil, a lot of 324 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:15,240 drama in the apartment. They belittled her, started to 325 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,000 gossip about her and slander her. 326 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,480 They made-up lies about her. And she gets to the point where 327 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,120 she doesn't want to go home like she doesn't want to. 328 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:25,840 It's unbearable. And she's telling me all about 329 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,120 this, right? And it's, it's bad. 330 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,600 She's very emotional. She's telling me about this. 331 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,960 And I listen, I get we get to the end and I go, who says 332 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:38,600 that's wrong? And she she's like, well, no, 333 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,600 no, they did all these things. I go, yeah, yeah, yeah. 334 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,520 But who says that's wrong? What if I asked them and they 335 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,400 don't think it's wrong? Who says it's wrong? 336 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:53,380 And she's like, what do you mean? 337 00:18:53,420 --> 00:18:54,700 What? Of course that's wrong. 338 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:58,720 So listen, if there's no objective morality, if there's 339 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:02,720 no objective right and wrong, who's to say that all that lying 340 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,520 and that horrible behavior is actually even horrible? 341 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,760 If you get to invent your own right and wrong, if you can't 342 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,680 even look at something that's obviously wrong and call wrong, 343 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,320 listen, if you don't believe in God and you make up your own 344 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,760 truth, you treat someone terrible and be like, yeah, 345 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,200 well, that's my own personal truth. 346 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:26,080 That's how I feel. Maybe you're here today and you 347 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,480 don't believe in God. You're like, I don't, I don't 348 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:29,440 think any. I don't think it's wrong. 349 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,080 I think it's a God. It's just us trying to figure it 350 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,200 out, right? Just checking it out. 351 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,520 Maybe one of your friends drug you here. 352 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:38,760 Thank you, friend. Do you realize that you you 353 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,280 can't even call anything right or wrong unless there's someone 354 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,200 greater than us, unless there's some power that has more 355 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,360 authority than we do that that has established A cosmic right 356 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:51,960 and wrong, a universal right and wrong. 357 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:58,480 Because without that, morality is just whatever flavor of 358 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:05,840 behavior that I can justify today to, to believe in a real 359 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:11,760 right and wrong is already to begin to believe in a God of the 360 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:15,880 universe because someone had to establish that. 361 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,320 And so verse 11 is he's saying, listen, the Holy Spirit's going 362 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,600 to come and he's going to convict, make clear. 363 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,080 This standard, these truths that everyone has to see. 364 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,280 And so, so the the first part of that is, is that the Holy Spirit 365 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,920 is going to help us understand that there is an objective right 366 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,040 and wrong. God does have a will. 367 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,920 He does have a character. He does have express purpose. 368 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,840 The second thing that the Holy Spirit does when he convicts us 369 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,880 of this sin is that he removes our blinders so that we can see 370 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,760 it. He removes our spiritual 371 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,040 blindness so that we can actually tell that we're falling 372 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,600 short. In fact, later after the story, 373 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,480 there's another disciple that will come along. 374 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:06,320 His name is Paul, and he will write almost this same thing to 375 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,600 a church, and he will say it this way. 376 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,160 In one of those famous passages in the Bible, in Romans 323, 377 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:17,560 Paul will say, for all have sinned and fall short. 378 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,160 There's that, Miss the mark, fall short of the glory of God. 379 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,040 And the crazy thing here is, in the Greek where it says all, it 380 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:29,240 actually means all. Say me. 381 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:37,960 Yep, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 382 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:42,800 And so it's actually the very first steps toward a 383 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,880 relationship with God. The God who loves us is 384 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,520 realizing the desperate state we are in without him. 385 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,280 And so when I was when I was in college, the first time I really 386 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:57,640 begin to see this, I began to realize I was I did nothing. 387 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,040 I ever I was always falling short. 388 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,720 I was always making a mess of my own life. 389 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:08,040 And I began to realize. I need something more than what 390 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:14,520 I can provide. In fact, it wasn't just when I 391 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,120 was in college. I see that now every single day 392 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:20,520 I wake up. And I realized, man. 393 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:30,280 I need God, oh, I need him. So it's more than just seeing 394 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,280 it, because then there's another thing in this text. 395 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:34,920 It's righteousness. So, so we see it. 396 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,840 There's a sin, I'm falling short of the glory of God. 397 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,120 I'm falling short, I'm missing the mark. 398 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:41,800 And then righteousness. Righteousness is this next step. 399 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,040 So, so once people like you and I begin to see we're convicted 400 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,960 of this sin, we're going to see that we're missing the mark. 401 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,560 We need a solution so. Not enough to know you. 402 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,320 Have a problem? That's a wonderful first step. 403 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,600 Because listen if. You left me only with the 404 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,600 knowledge that I was falling short and no solution. 405 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,320 That's not very encouraging. Hey, you're hopeless. 406 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,240 That's depressing. I'm going to need more than 407 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,560 that. I need help. 408 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,000 So I've realized I'm not righteous. 409 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,760 That's the falling short part. And Jesus says there is hope. 410 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,800 Even though Jesus is going to go to the Father. 411 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:26,320 When we place our faith in what Jesus is about to go do in this 412 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,280 story, when he goes to the cross, he dies for our sins. 413 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,400 He rises again. We will be granted the very 414 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,880 righteousness of Christ, the sinless Son of God. 415 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,080 Righteousness is more than good character or good behavior. 416 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,800 In this sense, the way it's being used, you kind of go back 417 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,640 to that courtroom. It is the legal status of being 418 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,280 called right, being declared right in God's eyes. 419 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,280 There, that's that. Is very good news for a couple 420 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:58,880 reasons. The 1st is it means that when 421 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,880 God looks at me because I've given my life to Christ, he 422 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,360 doesn't see me anymore. He's all my mistakes and all of 423 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,520 my failures and the ones that I have made, the ones that I am 424 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:07,760 making and the ones that I'm going to make. 425 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,240 He sees. Christ's righteousness instead 426 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,200 of mine. Lack of righteousness. 427 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,920 That's good news. Listen to the. 428 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,040 Same Apostle Paul in that same section of verses Romans 323. 429 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,360 If we expand it and read the whole section from 22 to 24, it 430 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:26,680 says it this way and you'll hear it. 431 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,320 This is the second part, The righteousness of God through 432 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,720 faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe, for there is no 433 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,440 distinction, for all that's you and me have sinned and fall 434 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,200 short of the glory of God, missed the mark and are 435 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,800 justified by His grace as a gift through the redemption that is 436 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:53,320 in Christ Jesus. That's good news because see, if 437 00:24:53,320 --> 00:25:00,680 Jesus just got me off the hook, cleaned me up and then kicked me 438 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:08,000 out the door and said go and sin no more, I'm pretty sure I'd 439 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:15,280 make it about 32 1/2 minutes. Before I was back in the. 440 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,160 Mire in the mud again and I only say 32 1/2 minutes if no one 441 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,800 talked to me for about 31 minutes. 442 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,600 That wouldn't be very. Good news. 443 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,160 See I need a. Power that would actually change 444 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,560 the way I live. A power that would change the 445 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,920 things I wanted. I need something that's ongoing 446 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,240 and active and alive in my everyday life so the Holy Spirit 447 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,440 comes up, convicts me of sin, then doesn't just leave me 448 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,200 there. He shows me righteous. 449 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,560 Living. And he compels me to grow into 450 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,560 those things. And the Holy Spirit does that 451 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,920 through Scripture. That's why the Bible is alive 452 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,640 and active and pierces. Not because the words are magic. 453 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,040 Because the Holy Spirit takes God's word and does God's work. 454 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,840 We don't read. The Bible to get smarter, we 455 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,680 read it to expose ourselves to the Holy Spirit, can come in and 456 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,680 go. Got some work to do. 457 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,560 The Holy Spirit works through. Christian community. 458 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,440 It's why we're talking about small groups like every week 459 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,080 someone's up here. Through worship through. 460 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,240 Our prayer life, that's Holy Spirit work to change the very 461 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,840 desires of our heart. But. 462 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,200 You got to trust the guide. I was listening to a. 463 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,320 Debate between like two or three people I was watching online and 464 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:44,480 they're, they're going back and forth. 465 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,040 It was about like men and women and stuff. 466 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,720 And, and one of the guys had like all these scientific 467 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,240 studies. It's actually fascinating. 468 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,160 And he begins to explain that that that we have enough 469 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:56,040 surveys, enough studies at this point to biologically prove that 470 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,400 in general, men are wired to care more about things and women 471 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,400 are wired to care more about people. 472 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,240 And he's walking through all these. 473 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,120 Studies. Yeah, a lot of evidence and I 474 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:08,360 and I, here's what I remember thinking. 475 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:09,360 You probably. That's fascinating. 476 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:12,600 I thought that's fascinating. That's why I'm not gentle. 477 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,320 That's why. People think that sometimes I'm 478 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,640 a jerk. It's because I'm a man and. 479 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,200 The Holy. Spirit I'm talking about 480 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,040 immediately. The Holy Spirit's like Jesus was 481 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:34,480 a man. He didn't seem to to. 482 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,520 Struggle with any of that. Maybe it's not. 483 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,640 That you're a man? Maybe it's that you are a 484 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:47,280 sinful, selfish, insecure little creature who just happens to be 485 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,640 a man. Well, there's that. 486 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:58,680 Thanks helper. The Holy Spirit. 487 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,240 Lets us see clearly, even when we don't have Jesus in the 488 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,760 friend group, even though Jesus was going to going to leave and 489 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,800 not be walking with the disciples, He's going to leave 490 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,880 and he's telling the disciples, got you fam, I got something for 491 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,400 you. The Holy Spirit's going to come 492 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:21,880 24/7. Access never takes naps, sin, 493 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,280 righteousness and then third judgment, judgment and the 494 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,080 judgement part is kind of interesting because Jesus 495 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,520 explanation for judgement when he explains it in verse 11, he 496 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,480 says concerning judgement because the ruler of this world 497 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,400 is judged. That's kind of interesting. 498 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,080 The ruler of this world, He's referring to Satan. 499 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,560 Is judged. Now the the word, the Greek word 500 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,480 here for judgement is krysis. KRISIS is where we have 501 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,160 developed our word crisis. So what's the crisis here? 502 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:55,800 We'll see. The crisis is there's a problem, 503 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,440 sin. There's a solution in the life, 504 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,400 death, burial and resurrection of Christ to grant us 505 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,600 righteousness. But not everyone will. 506 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,200 Partake. Not everyone will believe. 507 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,920 Not everyone will surrender. So, so Jesus said during. 508 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,000 His ministry, he casts out demons and he's he's binding, 509 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,880 he's in spiritual warfare. And then when he ultimately goes 510 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,840 to the cross and defeats Death, he binds up Satan and he puts 511 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,720 him in a corner for the final judgement. 512 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,920 Because the devil. At that point has no claim over 513 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,960 Jesus, who's now conquered death being blameless. 514 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,080 And what what the point that? Jesus is trying to make here, 515 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,520 even though it seems a little obscure. 516 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,760 He, Satan, has been vanquished and put in the corner. 517 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,200 To what Jesus is about to do. And, and, and, and, and he's 518 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,640 referring to it. And here's what he's saying. 519 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,040 Listen, if, and I just want you to think about this, if someone 520 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:08,520 as powerful as Satan stands no chance against the inevitable 521 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,600 judgement of a holy God, how much more would you or I stand a 522 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,120 chance? If we waste our lives living 523 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:22,720 like Satan, you've got to live like Satan, choosing our own 524 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,080 goals. Defiant in the. 525 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,360 Face of the Creator who desires to save us. 526 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,680 Every moment my. Sinful flesh rises up in me and 527 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,240 tells me that I should be in charge, that I'm owed something, 528 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,120 that that I should make my own decisions, that I should please 529 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,240 myself. You know, life's not fair. 530 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,640 I think God owes me something. In every one of those moments, I 531 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,280 am living like Satan. I'm modeling behavior after 532 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,680 Satan. That's exactly what he did after 533 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,480 a fallen Angel that God flicked out of heaven. 534 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,800 If you are a Christian. If you've met Christ, if you've, 535 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,040 if you've, if the Holy Spirit has allowed you to see your own 536 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:09,840 sin, Elanto, if you've grieved the mess that you made of your 537 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,480 life and rejoiced in your own salvation and, and, and the 538 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,480 righteousness of Christ, if you, if that's the case for you, then 539 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,000 the coming judgement that's being referred to here, that is 540 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,520 good news to our ears. That's not negative. 541 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:25,880 Why? We're covered. 542 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,800 Here's what that means. That means that every wrong that 543 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,720 you're going to face in the rest of your life, every insult, 544 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,880 every grievance, every trial, every evil, will one day be put 545 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:44,320 right. You and I, if you put your faith 546 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,160 in Christ, get to live in the supreme confidence that nothing 547 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,760 that happens in this world will escape the attention of the 548 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,240 judge. You don't have to have. 549 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,080 Justice here, because justice is coming. 550 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,320 And that's either good news or bad. 551 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:05,920 News depending on who you follow, that should encourage 552 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,880 you in the toughest moments of your life. 553 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,680 And as a Christian, there are going to be some tough moments. 554 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,160 People are going to betray you. You're going to work hard and 555 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,120 feel forgotten. You're going to sacrifice and 556 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:15,360 feel like you're taking advantage of. 557 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,440 And that is OK because the judge sees all and knows all. 558 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,400 But that same judgement, it's coming for all of us. 559 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,600 When you walk in that courtroom, you're either covered with the 560 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,760 righteousness of Christ or you're answering for your own 561 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:45,370 sin. So if if. 562 00:32:45,610 --> 00:32:49,690 Satan himself had no defense before a holy God. 563 00:32:50,050 --> 00:32:51,330 You and I certainly don't either. 564 00:32:55,250 --> 00:32:57,770 Sin. Righteousness and judgment. 565 00:32:57,770 --> 00:33:02,160 Now we, we try to always leave you with application points, 566 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,040 things that you can use on Monday. 567 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,280 When we, when we, when we go through the text, we want you to 568 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,600 be able to wake up on Monday and use something that's in here. 569 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,240 And you know, what are you supposed to do with this? 570 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,080 What do you, Christian, what do you, what do you do with sin, 571 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,320 righteousness and judgement when you wake up on Monday? 572 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,680 I want you to think about this. You don't have to. 573 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,040 Manufacture encouragement from any source. 574 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,920 Because God has. Indwelt you with His spirit to 575 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,560 encourage you in all of these different ways. 576 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,040 When you get up. On on Monday and and you open up 577 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,040 your Bible. This is the this is the primary 578 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,160 way that God speaks to us. God will speak to you through a 579 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,840 lot of different ways. This is the primary ways through 580 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,840 His word. His word is. 581 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,680 Active and alive because the Holy Spirit is taking it and He 582 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,360 is getting into your heart and He is doing work, and what 583 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,600 you've got to do is give Him the time to do it. 584 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,200 And here's the question. I want you to ask yourself and 585 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,520 I, and I think I put it in your, in your handout because I want 586 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,960 you to think about this. If you're a Christian, I want 587 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,159 you to think about this. As believers, one of the 588 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,040 questions that we're going to someday answer is not how many 589 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,360 times did you hear the gospel? It's not how many times did you 590 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,000 read your Bible? It's not how many times did you 591 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,560 go to church? It's going to be this. 592 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,199 How did we respond to the convicting work of the Spirit in 593 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:27,520 our lives? Every day the Spirit is trying 594 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,360 to do work. How are you responding to that 595 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,840 work? Because if. 596 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,719 If you will. If you will. 597 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,880 Obey the Holy Spirit. When He convicts you, you will 598 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,080 change. Through, through. 599 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:44,679 Through. Through. 600 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,480 Scripture through accountability and Christian community through 601 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,000 worship, through prayer. Like if you, if you'll be 602 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,719 sensitive and as the Holy Spirit convicts makes it clear, if 603 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,520 you'll be active in obedience and your heart will change, your 604 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,800 life will change that. And that's going to look 605 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,200 different at different times. It might look like accepting 606 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,400 encouragement that he brings you. 607 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,160 So, so maybe you have a daily Bible reading plan. 608 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,840 I, I, I highly recommend being on a plan of some sort. 609 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,440 It doesn't even usually matter what it is that you're opening 610 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,560 the the Bible and before you open the Bible, you go, God, 611 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:15,640 will you speak to me through this? 612 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,560 And then you, you begin to read the text. 613 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,920 If you don't have a Bible reading plan, let me help Take 614 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,440 out your phone. Download the most downloaded app 615 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,160 in the history of apps, the Bible. 616 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,080 Go to. Plans. 617 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:36,640 Pick one, do it. And as you read, stuff's going 618 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,040 to stand out. I don't know how to explain it 619 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,600 other than stuff's going to like, they're going to be these 620 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,200 little letters, they're going to pop up and they hit you in the 621 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:43,640 head. You can be like, was that always 622 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,480 there? And when that happens? 623 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:48,840 Don't just move on. Stop. 624 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,480 Why does that stand out? Write it down. 625 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,280 Highlight it, underline it. Tell somebody about it, and then 626 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,200 as God begins to make clear why it's standing out, you go and 627 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,680 respond to it. It might mean listening. 628 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,360 There are times right now in my life, probably in the last year 629 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,320 or so, where like all day long, God will just put a person's 630 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,800 name in my head. And so I try to stop unless I'm 631 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,560 driving and. Then it's 10 and. 2 And I pray 632 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,000 with my eyes open. I stop and I just start praying 633 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,400 for them and I don't know why I'm just trying to be sensitive 634 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,720 to the Holy Spirit. And so sometimes it's 567 times 635 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:25,720 a day, someone's name will pop my head and I start praying for 636 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:27,000 them. Sometimes I text them, Hey, I'm 637 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,720 praying for you. I don't know why, but I and then 638 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:31,920 they'll call back or they'll send me a thing like, oh, I was 639 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,080 going through this thing. I'm so glad. 640 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,480 And I'm like, I don't know any of this. 641 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,680 I'm just trying to be sensitive or I'll call them like I don't 642 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,520 know why I need to call you, but I just feel like I need to call 643 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,120 you. I'm trying to be sensitive to 644 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,560 the work of the Holy Spirit. And listen, you can do the same 645 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:49,560 things too. If you'll respond. 646 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,280 If you'll trust the guide, it might be work to the beautiful 647 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,160 community of this church. Like you. 648 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,360 Underestimate what a healthy Christian community will do in 649 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,560 your life. I'll just tell you right now. 650 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,840 In November. I was sitting with my wife and 651 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,360 she looked at me and she gave me one of those looks. 652 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,360 OK men don't say this out loud. You. 653 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:11,560 Ever get one of those looks where you know? 654 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,840 You're in trouble. OK, Yeah. 655 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,760 I was like, Oh no, take the trash out. 656 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,360 It's like what? She's like, when are you going 657 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,040 to take a break? What are you talking about? 658 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,000 Take a break. It's like you've been going hard 659 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,880 for way too long. When are you going to take a 660 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,600 break? It's like, let me tell you what 661 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:35,040 my spirit said. Break woman I don't need. 662 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,680 To break, I was built for this. And she's like, uh huh, when are 663 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:39,800 you? Going to take a break. 664 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,280 It's like, oh, it's not going to work. 665 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,520 And people on staff go, hey, when are you going to take a 666 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,480 break? I was like, Oh no, what's that 667 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:50,040 word again? And. 668 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,480 Here's the thing, I. Here I didn't feel like taking a 669 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,280 break, but I took a break. Why would you surround yourself 670 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,040 with wise counsel and ignore the wise counsel? 671 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,000 So people were like, why'd you take? 672 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:05,560 A break? You're tired. 673 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,880 I was like, no, I took a break because people around me said I 674 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,600 should take a break. Listen to me. 675 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,320 There are people around you that have been saying some stuff and 676 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:19,280 you have been making excuses. And I know because. 677 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:24,080 I am really good at it. So here's what I want you to do. 678 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,600 On your on your handout, you got a little little section that's 679 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,880 open. That's for your input right now. 680 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,680 I want you to write down one thing. 681 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,200 It is the first thing that pops into your mind that God has been 682 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,600 pressing in on in your life. Write it down. 683 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,520 I don't know what it is, but you do. 684 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,440 It's in fact, I would bet that this is not the first time that 685 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,720 you're thinking about it. I bet he's been talking to you 686 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:49,560 about it for a little while and you've been fighting it. 687 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,560 Write it down. People have been telling you, or 688 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,760 you've been seeing it in Scripture or you've been hearing 689 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,680 in your prayer life. You know, you just been fighting 690 00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:58,840 it. Put it on paper. 691 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,400 Tell somebody about it. Respond to the work of the Holy 692 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,080 Spirit. Trust the guide. 693 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:10,680 Trust the guide. Guys, some of you have studied 694 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,760 the Bible for decades. And you can't walk. 695 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,480 In the spirit because you've become callous to conviction. 696 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,080 You've gotten so good. At disregarding the work of the 697 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,040 Spirit. And here's what I want to tell 698 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:22,880 you. I don't, I don't want you to 699 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,760 feel ashamed about that. What I want you to know is a 700 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:31,160 little bit of FOMO. You are missing out the the 701 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,960 Christian life is actually full of joy. 702 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,120 And that happens when you follow the Spirit, not when you make 703 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:41,400 your own decisions. Jesus is inviting. 704 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,280 You to follow the Holy Spirit in this life and it is so much more 705 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,840 satisfying than the way you would choose. 706 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,440 Now there there's another side to judgement. 707 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,560 There's a flip side to this coin because anyone on trial for this 708 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,800 judgement who's not covered by the righteousness of Christ has 709 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,800 to answer for their their own sin. 710 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,320 And the only acceptable answer is that Jesus paid for me. 711 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,960 So there. May be some of you here today 712 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,240 that are visiting. There may be some of you that 713 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:09,760 are watching online who have never surrendered your life to 714 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,680 Christ. The Bible says you must. 715 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,560 Believe in your heart and declare with your mouth. 716 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,640 That Jesus was. Raised from the dead, that he's 717 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:18,800 your Lord and your king. Let me. 718 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:21,840 Tell. You something I believe with my 719 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:26,920 whole heart, my whole life. Everyone in this world will one 720 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,240 day bend the knee to Jesus, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. 721 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:32,920 Everyone, everyone. And the only question will be 722 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,320 how happy are you when you do it? 723 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,800 Either you're going to be. Overjoyed because the king is 724 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,720 back to make all things right, or you're going to be mortified 725 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,280 because he has come to punish the guilty. 726 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,560 And I have stuck my. Nose up and shaken my fisted 727 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:54,160 God, and He was loving and merciful enough to outlast my 728 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,520 rebellion with His unending grace. 729 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,280 And if you will let. Him, He will save you too. 730 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,320 Will you all bow your heads? For just a moment as we close. 731 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,320 If you do not. Know Jesus as your Lord. 732 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,560 If you've never given your life to Him, I beg you come to the 733 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,960 Father and taste and see that He is good. 734 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,360 I'm going to lead you in a. Prayer of surrender and if you 735 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,280 are ready to follow Christ as King. 736 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,360 If the Holy Spirit has. Shown you your sin. 737 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,200 I simply want you to repeat this after me. 738 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:47,240 Jesus, I know I'm a Sinner. And I can't save. 739 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:56,120 Myself, I want you to save me. I surrender everything to you. 740 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,520 Be my Lord. Please, Jesus. 741 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,600 If you prayed to. Surrender your life to Christ 742 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:08,880 for the very first time right now. 743 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,640 Would you be brave and raise your hand for me to see? 744 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,440 Thank you, thank you. Put your hands down. 745 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,280 Amen in Jesus name, Amen. Real quick right here. 746 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,160 If you just gave your. Life to Christ, welcome to the 747 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:42,090 family. We want to help you walk as you 748 00:42:42,090 --> 00:42:46,090 follow Christ in this decision. And so will you stand. 749 00:42:46,090 --> 00:42:47,330 We're going to sing a song to close. 750 00:42:47,570 --> 00:42:50,210 There are tables in the back. They say I raised my hand as we 751 00:42:50,210 --> 00:42:52,450 sing. If you made a decision to follow 752 00:42:52,450 --> 00:42:53,930 Christ, we want you to go back there. 753 00:42:54,050 --> 00:42:56,490 If you made it recently and you just haven't told anybody, go 754 00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:58,610 back there and tell them we have a gift for you. 755 00:42:58,610 --> 00:43:00,050 We want to talk about what it looks like. 756 00:43:00,050 --> 00:43:04,000 We want to celebrate with you. Our prayer team is going to 757 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,760 come. Up right now we're going to sing 758 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,320 a final song. We're going to pray with you. 759 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,200 Anyone that any of you need prayer for any reason. 760 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,040 We we actually love to pray with you. 761 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,120 We're going to be up here doing that. 762 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,120 You guys move as the Lord leads you. 763 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:17,120 We love you.