1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,080 In our I'm in a mentorship group on a Friday mornings with a 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,080 group of men and over the past couple of sessions we've been in 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,160 a book that has sparked some conversation. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,200 And we've been talking a lot about the type of conversations. 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,480 That that we have with our wives and and beginning. 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,720 To kind of think through how when we're not careful. 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:21,920 A. Huge percentage, maybe almost 8 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,440 all of the conversations that we're having with our wives are 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,960 logistical do. You know what I mean by that? 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,120 Like who's got the kids? What's for lunch? 11 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,160 What's the calendar? Look like, did we forget soccer? 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,720 Who? It's just, it's just, it's just 13 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,600 stuff that we got to do and more stuff and more stuff. 14 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,360 And the next thing you know? That that relationship has kind 15 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:42,360 of. Devolved. 16 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,080 And you're not having. Deep and meaningful. 17 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,000 Conversations with them Hardly at all. 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,680 Anymore and feel disconnected to someone that you're sitting 19 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,240 right next to. And so we've been asking that 20 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:53,480 question. How often? 21 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:55,640 Are your. Conversations deep and 22 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:57,480 meaningful. You know right now. 23 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,600 We. There's studies that say that we 24 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,920 as a culture are losing our ability to have. 25 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,040 Deep and meaningful conversations with one another. 26 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:11,040 Face to face, which is actually impacting our entire society's 27 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,000 ability to build. Deep, intimate human 28 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,680 relationships. We're actually losing one of the 29 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,920 most. Important parts of being a human 30 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,120 connecting at a deep level and this is. 31 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,880 Not the first time. That. 32 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:35,440 Something like this has happened if you turn to the the very 33 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,560 beginning of the Bible, the very first story, humanity, the first 34 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:40,920 humans, Adam and Eve, they got to. 35 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:45,800 Walk and talk with Jesus in the garden and have these. 36 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,600 Face to face. Conversations until they 37 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,440 rebelled and in disobeying God they. 38 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,200 Fractured that relationship. And it. 39 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,280 Created a rift, it created a barrier between a sinful, 40 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:05,000 rebellious people and a holy perfect God and all of the Old 41 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,920 Testament. There are 39 books in the Old 42 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,320 Testament and all of the Old Testament, you see, God has to 43 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,920 rebuild kind of a A. Formal legal framework. 44 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:19,160 As sort of an imperfect way to give a, a messy, sinful humanity 45 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,320 a partial access to God. And then so you hear about all 46 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,000 these kind of strange things. If you're new to the Bible, 47 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,720 they're very strange. You hear about a thing called a 48 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,440 temple, and you hear about this thing called sacrifices, and you 49 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,200 hear all Levitical priests. What are all these things? 50 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,480 They're. Mechanisms by which God was 51 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,440 having to restore relationship imperfectly, waiting for a 52 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,480 perfect restoration. So here's what we're going to 53 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,360 do. We're going to jump in our text 54 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,720 today and what Jesus is going to remind you in week 6 of this. 55 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,600 Jesus is sitting at a dinner table. 56 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:54,160 It's the Last Supper. He's sitting with his 12 closest 57 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,480 disciples, and he's preparing them for the fact that in just a 58 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,600 few hours, he's going to go to the. 59 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,160 Garden of Gethsemane. He's going to be arrested, he's 60 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,320 going to be tried, he's going to be beaten and then he's going to 61 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:04,960 be. Crucified. 62 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,200 He's. Leaving them and so he wants to 63 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,680 to finish preparing. Them for the. 64 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:14,960 Fact that he's going to be gone and what we're going to look at 65 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,720 today in this text I want you to see. 66 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:18,560 I want you to. I really want you to take away 67 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,000 this concept. That's this that's nested in 68 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,960 this this section of Scripture and it is this. 69 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:31,880 God is calling us to draw near and be known, to draw near and 70 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,280 be known. Let's start reading John chapter 71 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:35,560 16. We're going to. 72 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,880 Read verse 16. We're going to skip down to 73 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,640 22/23/24. Here we go. 74 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,440 This is Jesus speaking to his. Disciples at the Last Supper, a 75 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,480 little while. And you will see me no longer. 76 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,720 And again a little while and you. 77 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,320 Will see me so he's he's going to go to the cross and then he's 78 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,320 going to come back. And they kind of argue we don't 79 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,320 know what this means, you know, and you get down to 22 after 80 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,280 they argue about it for. A little while and he says 81 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,600 you're going to be sad, and then he says so. 82 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,640 You also will have sorrow now. But I will see you again. 83 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,520 That's verse 22 and your. Hearts will rejoice and no one 84 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,440 will take your joy from you, because in that day he's talking 85 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,880 about, once he resurrects, in that day, you will ask. 86 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,800 Nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, 87 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:25,520 whatever you ask of the Father. In my name he will give to you 88 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:27,480 until. Now you have asked. 89 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,040 Nothing in my name. Ask and you will. 90 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,880 Receive that your joy. May be full. 91 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,960 Now I want to submit to you that what just what he just said in 92 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,560 verses 23 and 24 is actually one of the most. 93 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,120 Profound moments in. All of the Bible because what 94 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,920 Jesus has actually just said to them. 95 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,520 Which I think they missed at them at that time. 96 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,640 What he actually just told them is that all of the ways that God 97 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,080 has. Interacted with humanity for. 98 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,040 Thousands of years up until that point. 99 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,960 Is about to completely change. Like everything about how they. 100 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 They interacted is about to change and. 101 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,640 And and I think. It would have been easy for them 102 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,280 to miss in this moment, at this dinner. 103 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:09,880 He's saying lots. Of profound things and they 104 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,600 don't really understand. Him and I think they missed it 105 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,880 in this moment. But but, but, he says whatever 106 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,400 you ask. In my father's name. 107 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,160 He will give you now. Now why would that change 108 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,440 everything? Well, I think what what you and 109 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,400 I maybe would struggle to understand is that the way that 110 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,480 they interacted with God was very different than how we 111 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,560 interact with God. And we don't live in that. 112 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,560 And so I wanted to, I want to kind of walk through that a 113 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,280 little bit, see if you were living in that moment. 114 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,840 They had been born into this idea that God was far away 115 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,320 because God was holy and perfect and people are mired. 116 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,360 In sin and a. Holy God can't be around a 117 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,240 sinful people if sinful people want to live, and So what God 118 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,800 had. Done and established. 119 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,640 That they were born. Into in that time. 120 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,720 Was he had established A dwelling place where he would be 121 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,680 and it was called. The temple. 122 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,160 And his presence stayed. In this thing called the ark of 123 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:06,760 the. Covenant. 124 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,640 It was in the middle. Of the Temple in a place called 125 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,600 the Holy of Holies. And that. 126 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,040 Place was separated from everything else with a four inch 127 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:16,680 thick. Curtain from the. 128 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:23,320 Ceiling to the floor, separate, and one day per year one man, 129 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,920 the high priest, if he did everything right, was allowed to 130 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,000 go in past that. Curtain and be in the presence. 131 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,360 Of God on behalf. Of the. 132 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,920 People now if you're listening to this and maybe you're. 133 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,000 Maybe you're new to Christianity. 134 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,240 Maybe you came today and you would. 135 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:40,840 Actually, not even label yourself a Christian. 136 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:42,480 You you would say. I'm a skeptic. 137 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,000 Or I maybe I'm. Spiritual, but I'm not. 138 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,600 Christian and you're listening. To some of this, first of all, 139 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:48,280 I'm. Glad you're here today. 140 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,320 Welcome. But secondly. 141 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,360 Give me a few minutes to explain. 142 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,160 What what they had to go through. 143 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:56,960 And then you'll understand. Why it was so? 144 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,080 Revolutionary what? Jesus was about to. 145 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:04,400 Do and say OK because to be. Even in the presence of God or 146 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,120 near the presence of God, you would have had to travel. 147 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,840 To Jerusalem. Physically to the temple and I 148 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,160 don't know if you know this or not, but they did not have Uber. 149 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:17,800 It was a long. Trip for many people. 150 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,280 See if you needed something from God, if you had a major. 151 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:22,960 Anyone ever had a major request of God? 152 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,120 I'm tired. Like you had a, you had a. 153 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:31,360 You had a sick child, someone on their. 154 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,720 Deathbed, you're a. Farmer and your your. 155 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:36,920 Crops weren't even. Producing you were. 156 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,080 Going to start, you had a, you had a major request. 157 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,720 You would have to take your petition physically to God. 158 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,160 So you would have to go on what was called a pilgrimage to 159 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,880 Jerusalem. And most of that was by foot in 160 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:55,240 sandals, unless you were wealthy enough to have a donkey. 161 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,760 And then when you would get to the temple, what you need to 162 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,400 know about the temple is it wasn't equal access. 163 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:02,480 You couldn't just walk in and talk to. 164 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,960 God. It was completely divided. 165 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,640 There were these spaces in the temple. 166 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,800 These kind of concentric. Circles called courts. 167 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,200 And they were. All divided. 168 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,280 There were barriers there, and they were divided by. 169 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,920 Gender and ethnicity and purity status and and each of these 170 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:18,880 sections. Was more restrictive than the 171 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,280 last. Let me show you a picture of the 172 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,800 temple. If you were, If you were a. 173 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,920 Gentile meaning a non. Jewish person, You couldn't even 174 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,559 go past those walls. It was called the Court of 175 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,200 Gentiles. You were on the very outside, 176 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,120 and it was as close as you could get to the presence of God, and 177 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,919 you had to stand on the. Outside, and that was. 178 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:46,880 As far as you could go and if you were lucky enough to be born 179 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,880 as a Jewish. Woman you could go into. 180 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,440 That very next court, it's called the Court of Women's, 181 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,800 where? The Treasury was, but that was. 182 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,600 As far as you were allowed to go and listen you on the walls, how 183 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:02,120 restrictive it was on the walls in three different languages. 184 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,240 It said enter on penalty of death. 185 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,400 Serious. It's like my wife's closet. 186 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,600 This. Is going to get me for that 187 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,000 later. And if you, if you were a Jewish 188 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,880 man, you could go one step further. 189 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,520 It was called the court of Israel. 190 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,360 But even here you couldn't go to the presence of the fact. 191 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:26,360 You couldn't even go to the altar. 192 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,600 Only Levitical priests who had been born into a certain tribe 193 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,760 and set apart since birth could go to the altar, and they 194 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,040 couldn't go to the Holy of Holies into the presence of God 195 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,280 except for one. Of them once a year. 196 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:49,520 Barriers, limitations, and and even even the even the. 197 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,040 Even the high priest, once per year, would have to go through 198 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,800 all this ritual ceremony to purify himself. 199 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,320 And if he did anything wrong, went. 200 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,880 In with the wrong. Heart did the wrong things and 201 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,160 went into the. Presence of God. 202 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:11,670 He would die. Why all this separation? 203 00:10:15,270 --> 00:10:17,910 To communicate. To all of the people. 204 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:24,480 That God is holy and we are not, and there is a gap between US 205 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:26,360 and. God and it required. 206 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,200 Special mediation so. If you had a request of God and 207 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,520 you want to be close to the presence of God, you had to 208 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:34,960 travel all the way to the temple. 209 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,000 And not just travel to the temple, you had to bring him a 210 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,800 gift. It's called a free will 211 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,480 offering. You couldn't simply go to the 212 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,480 temple and the priest empty handed. 213 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,800 With your request. You had to bring an offering 214 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:48,320 for. Significant. 215 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,480 Petitions A free will offering called. 216 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,800 Anetiva was brought voluntarily to demonstrate sincerity, 217 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,000 gratitude, reverence, and so you. 218 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,200 Need to bring an animal without defect or blemish. 219 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:04,920 The best of the best, in fact, the cost was. 220 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,120 Part of it. It needed to be worth something, 221 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:10,160 and so so. If you're on your pilgrimage, 222 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,360 you've carted that all the way in this multi day trip, all the 223 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:14,880 way to Jerusalem carrying this this. 224 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,480 Perfect animal and then you're standing in. 225 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:22,320 Line waiting with your. Sacrifice and your petition and 226 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:23,400 the. Priests are doing all. 227 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,680 Kinds of offerings all day long. Offerings of worship. 228 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,280 Daily burnt offerings and then. Even if you could get all the 229 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,720 way here with your with your perfect gift and your long trip, 230 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,600 you you actually couldn't take. It to God. 231 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,160 You had to hand it off to a priest. 232 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:47,360 And stand on the outside and watch someone that was set apart 233 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,840 from birth had to go and take that offering to God for you. 234 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,720 Now imagine that you have this this multi day journey just. 235 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,920 To talk to God. And you had to bring a gift. 236 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:01,720 And then even when you. Get there. 237 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:03,800 You have to. Hand your prayer request off to 238 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,440 a stranger. You don't get to ask. 239 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,920 God, someone else has to do it. That's the system the disciples 240 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,480 were living under at this moment when they're sitting around the 241 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,800 dinner table and Jesus says this, this is what they've been 242 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,360 born into and all they've ever known. 243 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,240 And so Jesus says. Everything is about to change 244 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:28,080 whatever you ask the. Father in my name my Father will 245 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:32,280 give you. And they didn't understand what 246 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:36,400 was about to happen because of what? 247 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,760 Jesus. Was about to do the presence of 248 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,800 God was no. Longer going to be in a temple. 249 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,520 Jesus had already been foreshadowing. 250 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,640 That this was coming in. John chapter 4 he. 251 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,640 Meets a Samaritan woman at the well. 252 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,200 And he? Tells her that they're kind of 253 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,120 arguing and and and and and, he says. 254 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,360 Listen, the hour's coming when you're not going to go to 255 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,440 Jerusalem to worship. The Father is looking for 256 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,840 worshippers who will. Worship in spirit and in truth, 257 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,560 because the very Holy Spirit will live inside of us. 258 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,480 Later, in a book called First Corinthians, a different 259 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,600 disciple of Jesus, the Apostle Paul, will explain it this way 260 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,000 in verse. 19 of. Chapter 6 he says or do you not 261 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:28,400 know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, 262 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:34,000 whom you have from God you? Are not your own for you were 263 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,240 bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. 264 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,440 You don't go to the temple. You are the temple and you don't 265 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,200 bring a sacrifice anymore, a free will offering. 266 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,000 Jesus says whatever you ask. In my name. 267 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,720 In my name. Now listen, this has been 268 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,040 misinterpreted. At times people think like if I 269 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,200 just say Jesus name, it's like a magic formula. 270 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,200 It's like magic words. It's like a Harry Potter spell 271 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:05,720 or Hogwarts, right? Wingardium Leviosa, There's 272 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,960 nothing. Magical about it. 273 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,720 There's something covenantal about it. 274 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,600 When Jesus says in my name, he's saying you are referring to the 275 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,360 covenant, the promise that I am fulfilling with my. 276 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,960 Very life and death. So when we pray in Jesus. 277 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:27,880 Name. We're referencing his work and 278 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:29,400 and and. Not only is it. 279 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:31,680 Was it hard for them to understand in that moment? 280 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:33,560 They would continue to struggle with it. 281 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,240 The book of Hebrews is written. To a group of. 282 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,640 Jewish Christians that are. Struggling understanding that 283 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,600 the old system of. Priesthood had. 284 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,040 Changed. Listen to Hebrews chapter 10 as 285 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,920 the author. Tries to explain to these people 286 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,760 how everything has changed. About the system he says this. 287 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,200 And by that will we have been sanctified. 288 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,320 Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. 289 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:03,120 Once for all, and then he refers to the old system. 290 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,560 And every priest stands daily at his service. 291 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,120 He's talking about the old temple where they had all the 292 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,640 sacrifices, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can 293 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:11,880 never. Take away sins. 294 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:18,120 But when Christ had offered for. All time a single sacrifice for 295 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:22,400 sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that 296 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,200 time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 297 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:28,480 For by a single. Offering. 298 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:33,440 He has perfected for all time. Those who are being sanctified. 299 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,440 So why would you bring a bull or a goat or a? 300 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:46,040 Lamb, when the perfect Son of God has paid it all so you don't 301 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,560 have to physically go anywhere and you don't have to. 302 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:53,400 Bring anything with. You and then lastly you don't 303 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,320 need a. Priest, you are a. 304 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,840 Priest. That's what the Bible. 305 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,080 Says when Christ saves you and he. 306 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,760 Puts his holy. Spirit inside of you. 307 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,960 You. Are now chosen and set apart. 308 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,200 The apostle Peter will tell the church this later in first Peter 309 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,440 two. He says it this way. 310 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:19,720 But you say me are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy 311 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,120 nation, a people for his own possession, that you may 312 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,720 proclaim the excellencies of him who? 313 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,840 Called you out of. Darkness and into his marvelous 314 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,000 light. You don't need a tribe of 315 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,800 priests. You are a priest. 316 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,360 You don't need to be born into a specific ethnicity. 317 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:37,760 You. Are a holy nation. 318 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,760 You have greater access to God. Right now than any high. 319 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:46,880 Priest in history ever had You don't have to wait once a year 320 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,520 to go be in the presence of God. You can go whenever you want. 321 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,440 And the priest, he had the tiptoe in, He had to do all the 322 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,240 stuff and all the purification rights and hope he got it all 323 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,600 right and go in like, man, I hope I don't die. 324 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,000 You don't have. To do that now, the Bible says 325 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,359 you're a son. And daughter of the King. 326 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,079 You get to go into the throne room like it's Dad. 327 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,119 That's what Hebrews 416 says. Let us then, with confidence, 328 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,839 draw near. To the throne of. 329 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,079 Grace that. We may receive mercy. 330 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,040 And find grace to help in time of need. 331 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,240 That word? Confidence. 332 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,160 That's the word. Parisia and Parisia. 333 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,040 Literally. Means the way a. 334 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,640 Son or a daughter would go to their dad. 335 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,040 You all ever met Dave Camelli son Kevin? 336 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:41,120 Confidence, that's how we're. Supposed to go to God. 337 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,920 Boldness. Because he loves us in my early 338 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,880 Christian life, I think. For most of it. 339 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:54,120 I lived like God was far off, like I'll go see him on Sunday. 340 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:58,280 He must live at the church. I'll go see him. 341 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:06,640 He must live with the pastor. How silly of me, just just 342 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:11,160 missing, missing it, missing all that Jesus had done so. 343 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:19,560 That I had access. To God in just a few hours from 344 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:26,560 this dinner, as Jesus is telling the disciples this as he's 345 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,960 foreshadowing what's about to come, he's going to make that 346 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:34,240 sacrifice. In Matthew 27, as Jesus is on 347 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,320 the cross, it says this. Now from the 6th hour there was 348 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,120 darkness all over the land until the 9th hour, and about the 9th 349 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:42,840 hour Jesus cried. Out with a loud. 350 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,800 Voice saying Eli, Eli Lemma Subhakhtani, that is my God, my 351 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:54,760 God, why have you forsaken me? And Jesus cried out again with a 352 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,160 loud voice, and yielded up his Spirit, and behold. 353 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,400 Here it is, the curtain. Of the temple, 4 inches thick, 354 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,680 torn in. Two from top to. 355 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:08,640 Bottom The separation between US and God and the Earth. 356 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,280 Shook. And the rocks were split, and 357 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:16,320 the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the Saints who had 358 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,680 fallen asleep were raised and coming. 359 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:19,800 Out of the tombs after his resurrection, they went into the 360 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,680 Holy city and appeared to many. And when the centurion? 361 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,080 And those. Who are with him, keeping watch 362 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,000 over Jesus? Saw the earthquake. 363 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,960 And what took place, they were filled with awe and said truly, 364 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:39,960 this is the Son of God. Jesus is not far off anymore. 365 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:47,000 He is near, and Jesus is not asking you to bring things. 366 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,480 He gives to us. And Jesus is not blocked by 367 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,440 intermediaries. He's face to face. 368 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,840 You don't need a temple because you are the temple. 369 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,320 You don't need an offering because Jesus was the ultimate 370 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,080 offering. And you don't need a priest 371 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,160 because you are the royal priesthood, a son or daughter of 372 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,680 the King. All of the limits are gone. 373 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:20,360 He is calling you to draw near and be known, and he finishes 374 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,960 with even more good news that they don't understand. 375 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,000 He says ask and you will receive that. 376 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,960 Why would you do this that? Your joy may be full. 377 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,640 I'm going to remove all of the obstacles and all the 378 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,800 limitations that separated us from God. 379 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,160 That's Jesus. Blood shed on the cross does 380 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,160 this. So that we can have genuine 381 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,440 intimacy with God, we can experience joy. 382 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,680 To. Know and be known. 383 00:20:51,880 --> 00:21:00,880 Sin broke this in the garden. Jesus restores this the moment 384 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,160 sin entered. The first action. 385 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,400 From face to face with Jesus to. Hiding so that. 386 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,920 He can't see me. It is both. 387 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:23,760 I believe the greatest, deepest. Human desire and our greatest 388 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:30,840 fear. To be fully known and loved is 389 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,360 our greatest need, or to be fully known and rejected is our 390 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:40,840 greatest fear. When I was, I think I was. 16 391 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,880 I'm getting old so now I can't remember the exact time but. 392 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:44,880 When I was 16, I went on my first kind. 393 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,200 Of formal date A. Girl at work asked me out. 394 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,000 And I was going to go. Pick her up and take her to the. 395 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,040 Movies and so I. I put on my nicest clothes, 396 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,560 which we were very poor so they were not actually very nice, but 397 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,040 I was trying. And. 398 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,840 I was. As a kid, I was. 399 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,960 By 16 I was very self-conscious of being poor. 400 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,960 I was at the age. Where you know that it's 401 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:12,000 different and. We had one family car. 402 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:12,400 Anyone. Ever. 403 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:13,680 Grew up in a family that only had one car. 404 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,080 OK, we. Have one family car and. 405 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,680 I don't want to. Brag, but it. 406 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:28,440 Was a 1989 Toyota minivan. I know. 407 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,480 You're getting a little jealous. Calm down ladies. 408 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,560 And we bought it used. And then we had driven cross 409 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,480 country to Georgia. It was the commuter, all the all 410 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,160 the soccer and football and sports and maybe we had to run. 411 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,080 This thing in the ground, this is the. 412 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,280 One car we had, so you know, I did my best to, to, to clean it 413 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,400 and, and stuff and I, I drove to her house and I parked at the 414 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,720 curb and I went to her door. And I met her. 415 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,280 Dad and we walked across the yard and I unlocked the door. 416 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,720 Yes, we had a key. That's before the anyways, and I 417 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,360 opened the door and as. She stepped to get. 418 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:12,600 In she. Looked at at legitimately a a a 419 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,600 cloth. Seat that was threadbare and I. 420 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,080 Mean. Probably had pizza stains and 421 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,200 and no matter how much she cleaned it was was was going to 422 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:32,800 it was showing its age and she paused and her face changed and 423 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,080 she looked at me and went is it clean? 424 00:23:50,360 --> 00:24:03,360 I was so embarrassed. The date did not go well and we 425 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:07,440 didn't never talk again. It was. 426 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,560 About a year later, might have been a little less and. 427 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,960 I had a crush. On the. 428 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,400 Hottest girl in school. A lot of us did and. 429 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:18,760 I had. I was. 430 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,120 Lucky enough that she was in my math class. 431 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,200 And so I finagled my way. Into a math. 432 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,400 Study session for the math final at a friend's house. 433 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,560 That she was. Going to be at men take note 434 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:38,040 you're just getting where you fit in OK and she needed a ride 435 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,000 home and so I. Offered her a ride home. 436 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,880 And she said. Yes, and I was ecstatic until I 437 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,640 was halfway across the yard. Walking toward the same bin and 438 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:50,880 I realized I've. I've seen this movie before and 439 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,240 I was like, Oh no, and it's too late. 440 00:24:53,240 --> 00:25:00,000 She's right behind me. And I opened the door, and I and 441 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,280 I. I was already. 442 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,440 I was already ashamed and ready. I'm trying to come up with I've 443 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:10,360 I've got to have some excuse and I turned to say something and 444 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,400 she walked right by me and she jumped in the. 445 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,720 Car. And she smiled. 446 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:26,650 At me and she said this is so cool, she had grown up poor too 447 00:25:30,010 --> 00:25:31,290 and when I closed. The door. 448 00:25:31,890 --> 00:25:35,970 I said to myself I'm going to marry this girl. 449 00:25:37,370 --> 00:25:50,160 I'm 17 and an idiot, OK? But Friday we celebrated our 450 00:25:50,160 --> 00:26:03,260 22nd anniversary. You see, our greatest need in 451 00:26:03,260 --> 00:26:07,900 this world is for someone to look at us deeply. 452 00:26:10,180 --> 00:26:11,900 To see all the things we wish we were. 453 00:26:13,460 --> 00:26:18,900 To see all the things we want to be, but also to see all of the 454 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:24,880 ugly things, all of the hidden things, all of the threadbare 455 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:31,800 pizza stain things of our soul. And when they see it, to turn to 456 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:37,800 us and smile and say, that's so cool, I love you anyway. 457 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:47,080 To be known and loved. This is the greatest human need. 458 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,840 God has always known everything about you. 459 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:01,120 But when Jesus removed the barriers so that we can draw 460 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:06,360 near to God face to face, we can see. 461 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,840 We can know that He sees everything and loves us anyway. 462 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,680 And that's what it means to have a joy that can be full. 463 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,400 That's what it means to be known and loved by the Father. 464 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,840 So don't waste it. Don't waste this. 465 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,680 Don't live like the barriers still exist. 466 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,880 That means that I I take my anxiety and I don't hide it as 467 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,720 if God doesn't. Know about it I. 468 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,560 Go to God and I give. It to him, and I say in. 469 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,160 Jesus. Name I need help with this. 470 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,840 I, I take my pride that that kills my relationships and I 471 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,800 don't pretend I don't have it. I I I go to God in desperation 472 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,480 and I say in. Jesus name I need. 473 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,520 Victory over this. It means I. 474 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,280 Could take my hopelessness in those dark nights when it feels 475 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,440 like life is so overwhelming and hopeless. 476 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,680 That the, that the, the the. Waves are coming over the boat. 477 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:23,320 And I can look at him in the face and in Jesus name I can ask 478 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:29,680 him to do the things I can't do. That's joy. 479 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:36,160 And because of Jesus, we can do this without the. 480 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:41,240 Need to travel to a temple or a church or or give God some gift? 481 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,760 You don't need a priest or a preacher. 482 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,400 Monday morning when you get up. He's. 483 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,200 Just as close as he was today in the. 484 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,280 Middle of the night when you wake up with. 485 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,000 Terror, he is waiting for you to draw near. 486 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,040 Hopefully you have a handout. Take your hand. 487 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,000 Out, out. There's a little section in the 488 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,120 back. Just take it out. 489 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,320 This is class participation time. 490 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,520 Come on. And I want you to write down. 491 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,000 It's for you. It's not for anybody else. 492 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,360 I just want you to write down those constant struggles. 493 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,760 Jesus actually already knows what they are, by the way. 494 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:28,240 He's waiting for you to bring them to him. 495 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,800 Stop waiting for a new church service or or some prayer night 496 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,720 or some religious. Moment in Jesus name. 497 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,920 Walk straight into the throne room of the Father. 498 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:46,920 With boldness and give them to him and make it a daily habit. 499 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,440 If practically you're going, I don't know. 500 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,480 What that looks like. Let me give. 501 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,360 You an example not even from from. 502 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,120 From anything religious. Let me give you an example of 503 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,880 phone calls that I've had multiple of these, but here's 1. 504 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:03,520 Specifically, a couple years ago I had AI. 505 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,600 Owned a business and I called a. A guy who's a. 506 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,080 Vendor of ours, his name was Nabi. 507 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,080 And I called Nabi actually, because I needed a favor and I'm 508 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,880 talking to him and he's talking to me really quietly on the 509 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,040 phone. And I'm finally, I was like, 510 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,240 dude, why are you whispering weird? 511 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,880 And he's like, oh, I'm in the hospital waiting room. 512 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,480 My wife just got. Wheeled in for surgery. 513 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,720 I was like, what? I was like, dude. 514 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,400 Let's pray. Let's pray for her. 515 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,600 He wasn't a believer, but he's like, oh. 516 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,800 OK, see Don't ask. Permission. 517 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,720 Just pray for people. And I was like. 518 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:37,800 Hey, wait, let me just pray for you. 519 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,080 And he's like. Oh yeah, and I. 520 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,280 Let me just tell you I I said something like this and I only 521 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:44,720 know this. Because he told me later, I said 522 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,400 something like this. I'd forgotten. 523 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:51,480 Said something like this, Father we lift all. 524 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:57,080 Of this before you we ask that you guide the surgeon's hands, 525 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,840 We ask that you give them wisdom and clarity, We ask that your. 526 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:06,280 Spirit fills the room. We ask that you heal in ways 527 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,400 that are so supernatural that no one even understands them. 528 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,640 We ask that you. Heal her completely and I ask 529 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,440 you, give Nabi peace as he waits in this room for his wife. 530 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:24,080 And we ask you to do all of these things because you love us 531 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:31,960 and you told us to come ask in Jesus name, Amen. 30 seconds. 532 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,080 You know I did that like. This is like four or five years 533 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,920 ago. Nabi still calls me and talks to 534 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:51,000 me about that prayer. Take it to God, draw near and be 535 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,720 known. You know what's funny is I was 536 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,720 thinking back. Because I don't exactly. 537 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,480 Remember the date? I'm like, I don't even remember. 538 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,440 Like if I was a pastor. At the moment that. 539 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:06,520 I prayed that prayer. But I was a royal priest, and 540 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:16,360 you are too. He's waiting for you to draw 541 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:22,520 near and be known if you're here today. 542 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:27,480 Or or you're. Watching online and you've never 543 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:33,400 given your life to Jesus. You can draw near today, right 544 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,960 now. Jesus came for you. 545 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,680 He died for you, and he rose again so that you could be known 546 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,600 by the Father, and I want to give you that chance right now. 547 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,360 We all please bow your heads to. Close your eyes as we finish 548 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,240 this service. If you don't know. 549 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,520 Jesus as your Lord. If you've never given your life. 550 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,920 To Him I beg you to come to the Father and taste and see that He 551 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,200 is good. So I'm going to lead you in a 552 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,680 prayer of surrender and if you're. 553 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,640 Ready to follow Christ as King I. 554 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,040 Simply want you to repeat this after me quietly. 555 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:25,560 Jesus, I know I am lost and I can't save myself. 556 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:36,480 I want you to save me. I want to be known, so I 557 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,920 surrender everything to you. Be my Lord. 558 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:51,000 Please Jesus, if you prayed to surrender your life to Jesus for 559 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,200 the first time right now, would you be brave and raise your hand 560 00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:00,200 for me to see? Thank you. 561 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:06,320 Put your hands down in Jesus name, Amen. 562 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:14,560 Real quickly as we close. Jesus loves you way more than 563 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:19,480 you can imagine. And if you just gave your life 564 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,520 to Christ. Welcome to the family. 565 00:34:28,870 --> 00:34:30,790 Just a moment. We're going to stand and when we 566 00:34:30,790 --> 00:34:33,590 do there are tables in the back that say I raised my hand above 567 00:34:33,590 --> 00:34:35,440 them. If you have made a commitment to 568 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,080 follow Christ now or or recently and you haven't told anyone 569 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,280 about it yet, we want you to just. 570 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,840 Go back there, tell someone about it. 571 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,239 We have a gift for you. We want to celebrate with you. 572 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:44,920 We want to talk about what it looks like. 573 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,040 To follow. Christ, we stand. 574 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,600 We're going to do something different today. 575 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,400 Normally we close with a song and our prayer team comes up 576 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:53,840 here, but I. Want to do something? 577 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,080 Just a little different. Here's what I want you to do 578 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,400 today. Want to put this into practice 579 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,040 so as Katie. Sings a song. 580 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,080 I want you to turn to someone next to you, and I want you to 581 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,440 ask them for one thing you can pray about and. 582 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,520 Right here while she. Sings, I want you to pray for 583 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,880 them now. Introverts be brave. 584 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:22,680 You may not know the person next to you, but as a royal priest 585 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,400 you have access to God, and I want you to use it right now. 586 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,840 She's going to sing. You're going to turn and you're 587 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,520 going to pray. We'll love you, Church. 588 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,000 You move as the Lord leads you.