1 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,880 Good morning. You can find Matthew chapter 8 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:09,800 verses 18 through 22 in your book. 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:14,560 The Bible is underneath your chair on page 763. 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:20,760 The cost of following Jesus. Now when Jesus saw a crowd 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,720 around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side, and a 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,200 scribe came up and said to him, Teacher, I will follow you 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,560 wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, Foxes 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,640 have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,880 has nowhere to lay his head. Another of the disciples said to 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,240 him, Lord, let me go 1st and bury my father. 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,240 And Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:48,960 their dead. This is the word of the Lord. 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,840 What's going on? Port City family and friends, I 14 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,080 hope you were doing well. My name is Tanner and I am 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,880 pumped to be with you. Y'all. 16 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,280 I've been following Jesus about 15 years. 17 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,240 I've been married, 11 now. Praise the Lord. 18 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:06,040 Both those statements blow my mind. 19 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,200 There was a time where I wanted nothing to do with Jesus and I 20 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,440 wanted to do my own thing and, and I didn't want to be tied 21 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,600 down all that stuff. And I viewed everybody as a 22 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,480 burden to my greatness. OK. 23 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,120 But God and his great mercy saved me. 24 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,720 Now you save me for myself, for my sin. 25 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,680 And he used texts like today to blow my mind. 26 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,680 So I'm so excited for God to open our eyes to what he has for 27 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,440 us in, in, in this short little text. 28 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,520 So I'm going to say a short word of prayer and then we'll dive 29 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,880 in. OK, Our Father, what we know not 30 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,360 here today. Would you teach us what we have 31 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:41,680 not? Would you give us and what we 32 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,720 are not? Would you make us? 33 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,520 God, let the words in my mouth, the meditation of my heart, be 34 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,320 acceptable in your sight. We pray in Christ's name, Amen. 35 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,080 We all the fall is officially here. 36 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,240 Can I get an Amen? OK, so I don't know about you 37 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:01,000 all, but in our house it fills us with nostalgia for like saga 38 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,160 movies. OK? 39 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,000 Now used to be a hater on the saga stuff. 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,400 I couldn't get into it, but I have gotten more into it, OK? 41 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,680 Now when I say saga, I mean long journey movies, maybe multiple 42 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,600 parts, OK. And what they do to us 43 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,400 emotionally is some kind of way, you know, your life is like a 44 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,640 marathon. You know, your life is sort of 45 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:23,000 like that. It feels like it's going 46 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,800 somewhere. It feels like you could win or 47 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,400 lose. It feels like the stakes are 48 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,680 high. It feels like you're not going 49 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,440 to live forever. And all those things are true, 50 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,000 OK. Now, what secular culture would 51 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,920 tell you is the saga is whatever you make it, and the journey is 52 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:37,240 whatever you want it to be and where it goes after you get to 53 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,400 choose. The good news of the Bible is 54 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:42,280 that's not true, OK. The good news of the Bible, 55 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,360 there is genuinely a saga going on. 56 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,720 You are not the hero of this story. 57 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,120 Amen. OK, we have learned those who 58 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,760 are in Christ, that we are not the hero. 59 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,360 Christ is. OK, We get to play the side 60 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,960 character in a victory. He's already won and he's going 61 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,320 to finish off soon and all things will be made new. 62 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,600 Which brings me to my favorite saga is Lord of the Rings. 63 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:05,400 OK, now you might not be into that. 64 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,400 I'm explaining the whole movie to you in one sentence. 65 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:11,400 They take a ring and they drop it somewhere hours later and it 66 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,880 saves the world. OK now listen, in the first 67 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,760 movie there's this dope scene. OK? 68 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,360 You're not going to guess it's my favorite scene, but in the 69 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,080 first movie, the dude who is like the hero, his name is Frodo 70 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:31,240 and his main homie is Sam. OK, now they are leaving their 71 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,480 hometown called the Shire. They're leaving it. 72 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,960 And Sam pauses in this cornfield. 73 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,280 Some of y'all know the scene I'm talking about. 74 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,560 And he goes, if I take one more step, it'll be the furthest from 75 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,960 home I've ever been. Which again, weird way to say 76 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:49,240 it's first from home I've ever been. 77 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,600 But I like it, OK, I like it. It sticks with me. 78 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,320 And here, here's what Sam was doing. 79 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:00,080 He was counting the cost. Sam understood I've said I'm in 80 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,600 with Frodo and I am. He wasn't saying I'm out, but he 81 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,480 knows now the stakes are higher than I realized when I first 82 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,080 said yes. So y'all, I can't think of a 83 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,640 better illustration as we go into today's text because what's 84 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,560 happening is these two people serve for us that moment where 85 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,240 we pause. And if you're on the outside, 86 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,880 you are a Jesus fan but not yet a follower. 87 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,960 This gives you the opportunity to count the cost, make a break 88 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,200 with the world and get in line and let's go, OK. 89 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,720 And if you're in Christ, this is going to offer you one of those 90 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,640 moments where, what did you think this was? 91 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,480 Now let's keep moving. Are y'all with me? 92 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,000 We need those moments from our good God and King. 93 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,840 So my hope for us is we all walk out of here eager to walk in 94 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:45,120 this saga that is following King Jesus, who is our champion. 95 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,440 Amen. OK, we're going to look at this 96 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,440 from three different angles. We're going to talk about the 97 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,800 overeager scribe, the underestimating disciple, and 98 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,240 the Son of Man. If you are ready, let me hear 99 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,560 you say I'm ready. I'm ready. 100 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,360 OK, let's talk about the overeager scribe. 101 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,360 OK? Verse 18 said this. 102 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,120 Now, when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go 103 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:12,320 over to the other side. What you need to know is that 104 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,640 since Matthew chapter 4, he's had a few followers with him. 105 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,000 OK, followers, disciples, learners, people saying I am 106 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,680 rocking with you to the end. OK, he's had a few of them right 107 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,120 around him, but he's also been teaching crowds. 108 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,040 He's been healing many people. We've zoomed in on a few 109 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,640 healings. And so the disciples were there 110 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,600 the whole time, all that was going on, which is an important 111 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:38,000 principle right off the bat. To be a disciple is always 112 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,560 keeping the crowd in mind. He calls the individual with the 113 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,040 crowd in the picture. Some of us think I get Jesus to 114 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,360 myself and that's all I want. That ain't how it works. 115 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,920 Jesus calls you with the crowd in mind. 116 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,200 There's a time and a place where he says let's go to the other 117 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,640 side and let's get some, let's get some alone time. 118 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,440 But y'all, if you want Jesus and no crowd, that ain't Jesus. 119 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,680 That just ain't how it works. He calls the individual with the 120 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,760 crowd in mind. So he dismisses the class if you 121 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,320 will. And like any class that gets 122 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,240 dismissed, the kids come up to the teacher and then we 123 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,000 breakdown with two interactions Jesus has with them. 124 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,160 Are y'all with me? OK, look at verse 19. 125 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,160 And a scribe came up to him and said to him, Teacher, I will 126 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,480 follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes 127 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,200 have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man 128 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,880 has nowhere to lay his head. Let's look at this through the 129 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,280 interaction and then the implications of the interaction. 130 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:35,400 Let's talk about the interaction. 131 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,920 This man is a scribe. Somebody say scribe, scribe. 132 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:44,240 A scribe was a highly educated, highly respected, think, PhD 133 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,560 person in this culture. OK. 134 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:49,080 So if you've been following with us in Matthew, this is kind of 135 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,040 the most elite person who's approached him. 136 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,200 Everybody else had no status. He has a lot of status, OK, and 137 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,640 he comes as an eager applicant, right? 138 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,120 Like I'll, I'll do whatever. And right away, if you've been 139 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,640 paying attention, you'll notice that even the term he uses to 140 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,600 address Jesus is different than the other terms that other 141 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,520 people have been using. They don't call him teacher. 142 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,960 They have referred to him as Lord. 143 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,240 They've been on the ground. They've been posturing 144 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,080 themselves in utter desperation. He comes up to him almost like 145 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,440 an equal saying, what's up teacher? 146 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,080 I'll follow you wherever and Jesus response about foxes and 147 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,560 all this stuff, y'all, this is a he's he's nudging him, as we'll 148 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,720 see to count the cost. And through his nudge to this 149 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,000 man, he's been inviting people all over the world for thousands 150 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,800 of years to do the same. So let's talk about the 151 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,520 implications of what Jesus says first. 152 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,760 Jesus didn't come for fans, y'all. 153 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,440 This man hits him with some flattery. 154 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,480 I follow you wherever teacher. He responds to that flattery 155 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:54,040 with clarity and he says this might not be what you think it 156 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,600 is. What Jesus basically says back 157 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,160 is will you follow me for better, for worse, for richer, 158 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,400 for poor, no matter what to the end of the to the end of the 159 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,280 end, even if it cost you everything. 160 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,680 So behind Jesus's words is not a harsh rejection like I'm done 161 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,840 with you. He's just kind of inviting him 162 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,600 with clarity. He's saying, OK, if I could 163 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,840 break his response all the way down to 2 words, Jesus basically 164 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,840 saying, you sure? That's really what he's asking? 165 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,680 So the first guy says I'll follow. 166 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,040 And Jesus says, you sure. And y'all this is not a text we 167 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,400 go to to get a theology of possessions. 168 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:29,920 OK? This is a text we go to for a 169 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,760 theology of allegiance. All right, this is about am I 170 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,919 your everything? OK, The man comes to him and 171 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:43,640 he's eager and Jesus responds, not questioning a skill that he 172 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,400 lacks, but he's, he's really begging the question about his 173 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,760 desire. He's not giving him something to 174 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,200 do right away. You might notice, which leads us 175 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:56,000 to the second implication. Jesus came to build followers. 176 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:58,440 You know, Jesus won't settle for fans. 177 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,200 He came to build followers. The question must be asked, why 178 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,560 does Jesus not just let this guy be his fan? 179 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,040 Why is flattery not enough? Why the big deal? 180 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,200 Why does he nudge him here? One of the verses I encourage 181 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,280 you to memorize is Matthew 4. Verse 17 says this. 182 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,480 I'm going to read it over you. It really gets to the heart of 183 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,080 why Jesus came. Jesus's first public words in 184 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,320 the book of Matthew are this. From that time Jesus began to 185 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,200 preach saying repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 186 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,200 Somebody say repent. As we try to tell you often that 187 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,480 word in our vernacular just means rethink. 188 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,280 What Jesus is saying is I came to the earth, I brought the 189 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,320 Kingdom and you need to rethink everything about everything. 190 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,960 If all you think Jesus came to do was get people out of hell, 191 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:52,080 you got a lot more to rethink. OK, what Jesus is saying, OK is 192 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,800 you need to rethink everything. The the I, I encourage you to 193 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,160 think about a compass. OK, somebody say compass. 194 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:03,880 What Jesus came to do OK, by his very appearing, by his showing 195 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,200 up and saying the Kingdom is here. 196 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,320 Rethink everything the claims he's making about humanity is 197 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,720 that we are a compass less people just wandering y'all to 198 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,280 be a Sinner. What the Bible teaches when we 199 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,200 fell into sin through Adam and Eve is to blow it, OK? 200 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,800 It's to make mistakes is to not do right. 201 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,720 It's to offend a holy God. It's to error. 202 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,320 But it's also to settle for less than what God wants for you. 203 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,960 And it's not just to error and it's not just to settle, it's to 204 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,120 wander. You have no idea what you're 205 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,400 doing. That's what that means. 206 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,480 He says the Kingdom is here. Rethink everything. 207 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:44,960 Translation. You have lived a compassless 208 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,400 life. Walking around the woods doesn't 209 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,560 mean does Sinner mean you're a bad person the way you've lived? 210 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:50,640 Yes. Does it mean you've blown it 211 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:51,760 against God and you're his enemy? 212 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,200 Yes. It also means you're just 213 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,280 wasting your life. You're wandering around the 214 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,840 woods and Jesus just lays a compass on the table and says 215 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:05,000 Norse that way. One 5th century theologian was 216 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,560 the first to say salvation is sort of like being handed a 217 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:10,600 compass and knowing what N is. For the first time he gets to 218 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,720 say what N is, which means we didn't know. 219 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:18,960 OK, so now you see when somebody approaches him in flattery but 220 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,280 thinks they know where north is, this ain't going to work because 221 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,360 what they want is some help as they go about that which they 222 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,400 already are convinced of, they know how to do, if that makes 223 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,000 sense. A fan approaches Jesus to get 224 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,960 where they want to go faster. They want enhancement, they want 225 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,200 help. That's what a fan wants. 226 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,320 They're not coming. They're saying, teacher, we're 227 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:44,920 equals. I need a little help. 228 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,720 You could coach me, help me, motivate me, inspire me. 229 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,280 Fans tend to be in. They even want to be told what 230 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:52,920 to do. Give me 3 things to do, I'll do 231 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:57,520 it. But a follower approaches Jesus 232 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:03,480 for total transformation. A follower comes to Jesus at the 233 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,320 end of the rope. And the ropes gone. 234 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,400 They don't need a little help. It's game over, y'all. 235 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,040 So we've really got to process what he's doing with this man 236 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:14,360 right now. OK, so here's the third 237 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,240 implication. Being a follower isn't about 238 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,520 trying harder. Listen to me. 239 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,640 I fear we hear this is about trying harder. 240 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,240 This man wasn't willing to try hard enough. 241 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:31,240 Listen yo, there is a sense that the believing life following 242 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,960 Christ is hard and you're going to have to learn to deny 243 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,160 yourself. There's no doubt that the self 244 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,920 must be denied, but before the self is denied, the Bible 245 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:41,960 teaches the self must be crucified. 246 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:47,160 The idea is, before you think about what you have to do, you 247 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:50,840 have to agree with Jesus about why you come to him in the 1st 248 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,800 place. And when you come to Jesus, it's 249 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,640 not about you. Fans actually come to Jesus to 250 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,760 be told what to do. They want activity. 251 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,640 Give me 3 steps to tackle anxiety. 252 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,560 Give me this, give me that, give me something I can use to 253 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:09,080 enhance my life. But what Jesus is looking for is 254 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,240 not to give you something to do first. 255 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,560 He's asking, do you agree with him about why you need him? 256 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,360 Y'all. And what the Bible says you need 257 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,640 from Jesus is total overhaul. You're dead in your sin, you're 258 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,800 wandering, you're wasting your life. 259 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,800 You're wrong about everything. That's what the Bible is calling 260 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,800 you to is to come to grips with looking the face of God and 261 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,280 saying God. I'm wrong about everything and 262 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:40,400 without Jesus I have no hope. What I need to be made well is 263 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,160 the God of the universe to step into my place and die on a piece 264 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,400 of wood from my sins. He lived perfectly. 265 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,560 I blew it. He's right about everything. 266 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:52,560 I'm wrong about everything. What Jesus is looking for is do 267 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:57,760 you agree with him about that? He is everything that you need, 268 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,120 but he's not just an enhancer. If you come to be enhanced you 269 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,760 will leave disappointed. So I think he's not saying 270 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,760 you're not worthy to follow me. He's just begging the question. 271 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,520 Why are you here my man? But we bout to go to the other 272 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,800 side. Let me know Jesus. 273 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,960 We'll talk about how smooth Jesus is in a little bit. 274 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:19,280 I love that song, I thank God. I don't know if you've heard it 275 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,800 but it goes wandering into the night, wanting a place to hide 276 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:31,200 this weary so this bag of bones. I tried with all my might but I 277 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:36,080 just can't win the fight. I'm slowly drifting a Vagabond 278 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:41,720 and just when I ran out of Rd. I met a man I didn't know. 279 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:46,320 I can't hit those notes and he told me that I was not alone. 280 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:54,240 He picked me up, turn me around, place my feet on solid ground. 281 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,920 I think the math Y'all think about the song. 282 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,160 Listen to me y'all. That is not the experience a fan 283 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,040 thinks that they need from Christ. 284 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,640 Y'all. The point of the song, the point 285 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,000 of the prodigal son story, the point of following Jesus is 286 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 you're done, you're lost, it's game over. 287 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,840 I know nothing. And just when I ran out of Rd. 288 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,400 the idea is he picks me up 180. You need total overhaul. 289 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,160 Do you agree with God about that? 290 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,480 For some of you who've been walking that line for a long 291 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,120 time, because fans tend to think they're getting the best of both 292 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:32,680 worlds. That's kind of why you, you, 293 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,600 you, you, you straddle the line. You think I got a good life? 294 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,520 Let's add Jesus to it. I need my life enhanced. 295 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,080 And he pushes back on you and says you need your life 296 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,680 transformed. So the question we're going to 297 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,040 pose to you by the end of this service is just will you make 298 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,680 the a clean break? Will you trust Christ and agree 299 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:52,920 with him about what you need from him and why he was 300 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:57,120 crucified for you? OK, now let's talk about the 301 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:02,240 underestimating disciple verses 21 and 22. 302 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,000 Another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and 303 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,880 bury my father. And Jesus said to him, follow me 304 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,520 and leave the dead to bury their own dead. 305 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,760 OK, just so you know, there's kind of a like long standing 306 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,200 theological debate of was this man a genuine Christ follower? 307 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,360 The second man, everyone agrees the scribe is at a moment of 308 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,040 application. He's eager to apply the second 309 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:29,800 person. One of two things is going on. 310 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,120 Either he also had too low of a cost and it's just another you 311 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,120 miscalculated the cost was higher. 312 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,360 He wasn't a real follower. OK, so in John 6 it says that 313 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,040 some disciples walk away from Jesus. 314 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,800 So even the use of the word disciple doesn't necessitate 315 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,200 that he was like a saved Christ following disciple the way we 316 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,480 think about it. But y'all, I stand with the 317 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,120 tradition who says that he is a genuine disciple. 318 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:58,080 OK, look at verse 23 with me. So where we'll go next week is 319 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,200 immediately after this, after these two approach. 320 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,080 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. 321 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,119 OK, so we're going to do the the famous storm passage next week. 322 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,200 So y'all, this is kind of the the the first ever. 323 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:10,640 Don't miss the boat. If you ever heard that 324 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,319 expression, I think it came from right here. 325 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,240 OK, I think I think it came from this disciple. 326 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:16,880 He's saying get on the boat, my guy. 327 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,800 And I view him as a genuine follower who needs to be nudged 328 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,160 to get on the boat. Are y'all with me? 329 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,000 OK, so let's talk about their interaction and then the 330 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,720 implications. Their interaction. 331 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,320 This dude's a follower who needs a nudge. 332 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,280 He needs help, or he would not get on that boat. 333 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,880 OK, now this phrase. Follow me and leave the dead to 334 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,120 bury their own dead. You're like, what does that 335 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,440 mean? OK, from what we know of the 336 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,840 cultural context, the man's dad was not dead at the moment. 337 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,920 He was right in front of Jesus. OK, I'm a shock you and say even 338 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,160 if he was, I think Jesus could have said what he said. 339 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,120 But what is happening there is he's appealing to the Jewish 340 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,720 custom of the time where honoring your father and mother 341 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,360 was such a high thing that they'd kind of taken it to an 342 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:05,480 idolatrous level. Look how much I can honor. 343 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,000 But there's a lot of self honor wrapped up in honoring them. 344 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:12,440 So he could be asking to go back home for a period of time to 345 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,440 watch his dad die, handle all of the burial stuff, all of the 346 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,760 stuff, and get his inheritance for a period of up to one year. 347 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,400 He's basically saying I'm a bounce, I'll go do my thing and 348 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,480 then I'll be back. And Jesus says, let the dead 349 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,960 bury their own dead. Let those who are spiritually 350 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,440 dead not following me, not understanding the moment of 351 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,760 history they're in, who don't know me, handle that. 352 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,360 You need to follow me. OK, so let's talk about the 353 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:42,720 implications of that first. Jesus is the great reorienter of 354 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,600 everything. Everything gets reoriented 355 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,960 around who he is. This is not a one time statement 356 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,640 on funerals, OK. This is a statement about his 357 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,960 value and about how that moment in history, everything needed to 358 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,080 be rethought in light of the fact that he'd come. 359 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,960 If to the first guy he was saying, Are you sure to this guy 360 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,280 he's saying, what did you think this was? 361 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,640 Who did you think I was? Like do you not understand what 362 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,400 you're a part of right now? Y'all? 363 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,320 To follow Jesus is to continually reinterpret 364 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,840 everything you think is normal based off the fact of who Jesus 365 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,840 is. So y'all check this out. 366 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,440 Just think about this logic for a second. 367 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:22,080 He's literally saying Jesus, I'm going to leave and then come 368 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,840 back. I'm going to leave Jesus and 369 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,120 then come back, y'all. For those of us who are in 370 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,560 Christ here today, our experience of following Christ 371 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,520 is a little different. We're not physically following 372 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,800 him on a boat to the other side. But if you are in Christ, the 373 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,080 Spirit has sealed you. And let me tell you something 374 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,440 called the doctrine of union with Christ. 375 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,480 It quite literally means that you are united to the Father 376 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,800 through the Son by the Spirit. There is no you apart from him. 377 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:54,120 Let me explain something to you. You can't leave Jesus. 378 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:59,200 Let me say that again. There is no you believer apart 379 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,440 from Jesus. This man said, let me leave and 380 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,080 I'll be right back. And I think many times we 381 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,640 function the same way. We think we're with the Lord at 382 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,760 8:00 AM reading our book. But on that Zoom meeting with 383 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,200 that boss, he has all the power. It's not practical to follow the 384 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,440 Lord here or on my singleness dating app or on my volleyball 385 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,120 team or whatever it is when I'm operating with that neighbor 386 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:25,000 that that's just, we need to be realist here and life don't work 387 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 that way. So I'll get back to you, Jesus. 388 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,880 Jesus, you don't got my boss, OK? 389 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,280 You ain't handling my situation. Jesus, I'll be back, OK? 390 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,200 And I just want to reintroduce to us that there is no us apart 391 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,320 from him. Praise God, which means that 392 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,880 this big Christianese word, discipleship, Discipleship is 393 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,880 just internalizing the truth of that doctrine. 394 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,440 It's growing in your realization of the reality that Jesus is 395 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,280 always the reorienter of whatever moment you're in, which 396 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,960 means you're not just being discipled when you're reading 397 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,880 the book. You're being discipled when you 398 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,720 live with God in the midst of anything and the spiritual 399 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,880 formation, habits and practices and all the things we do off the 400 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:13,240 clock. I love that expression. 401 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,760 You know, you do things off the clock, meaning when the game is 402 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,800 not on, it's the extra reps you get when the The thing is not 403 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,240 going on. Remember last year, couple years 404 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,960 ago in the NBA playoffs, this one player claimed he was 405 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,760 shooting an extra thousand shots a day and live on air and that 406 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,200 he's saying like during the playoffs and all of the 407 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,640 commentators like he's lying like 'cause his shooting 408 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,760 percentage was dropping like every game. 409 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:39,400 They're like, you're not shooting 1000 shots a day or you 410 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,840 wouldn't be shooting 25% in the game. 411 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,240 Are you with me? And so the point is, what you do 412 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,280 off the clock shapes who you are in the moment. 413 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,880 Are you with me? So spiritual habits and rhythms 414 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,000 aren't things that are the end. They are the means to live with 415 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,120 Christ in the moment. So if you've begun to believe my 416 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:01,400 boss is the most powerful person in the world, you need habits 417 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,440 and practices to actually believe. 418 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,160 No, he's not. So yes, you memorize verses, you 419 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:07,600 tell friends. You ask for accountability. 420 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,480 Maybe you do a meditative practice before you go into that 421 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,160 meeting. All of that is for the purpose 422 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,720 of in that moment. You're not saying I'll be right 423 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,520 back. Jesus are y'all with me. 424 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:23,080 The goal is of your life, if you are in Christ, is to live with 425 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:28,800 God every second and to actually believe he's with you, He's in 426 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,760 you, He abides in you and you and him. 427 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,640 Which leads us to the next implication. 428 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:38,600 Jesus is the great empowerer. Y'all catch this? 429 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,560 This is my favorite. Just the just just so dope. 430 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,840 Check this out. The first scribe comes to Jesus 431 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,880 and says I'll follow and Jesus responds with you. 432 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:52,440 Sure the second guy says I'm bouncing and he says follow, 433 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,040 check. This first guy says I'll follow 434 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,120 in my strength. You sure the second guy who is 435 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:01,440 following? I'm out. 436 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,160 Follow. Y'all listen to me. 437 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,440 If you are in Christ, that is about the most encouraging thing 438 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,200 I could ever tell you. Y'all listen to me? 439 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,720 Jesus is telling him to follow. Gets him on the boat. 440 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,760 Are you with me? What we need is a King who 441 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,880 empowers us even when you don't Orient things right. 442 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,240 He didn't view the situation right. 443 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,760 He didn't view his union with Christ correctly. 444 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,160 And we do that all the time. So here's the good news of the 445 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,440 gospel. God doesn't look at you and say 446 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,680 you bum. He tells you get on the boat and 447 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,000 you figure it out later. Does that make sense? 448 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,880 We survey God, The gospel is not if you do it right, you get to 449 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,720 follow. It's his call that makes you the 450 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,040 follower. The first person says I'll 451 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,960 follow and it's just a fan and in their own strength and Jesus 452 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,040 just says, you sure? The second person who is 453 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,680 following in the strength Christ provides gets on the boat, not 454 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,160 because he's a good follower, but because Christ told him to 455 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,680 get on it. I don't know if you all know 456 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,880 this, but good coaches, good parents, they know when to tell 457 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,400 you to get on the boat, right? I remember my senior year 458 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,840 football 2A days early in the season, coach is just like 459 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,120 appealing to you, giving you vision, showing you videos every 460 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:18,280 day, just motivating you like crazy. 461 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,600 Dudes are dropping like flies. They don't want to come in for 462 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,600 2A days. He's just giving you the vision, 463 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,160 right? Then later in the season, and 464 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,920 he's so kind early in the season. 465 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,640 I mean it's hard, the practice is hard, but later in the season 466 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,240 when it's November and it's cold and you about to get hit and it 467 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,240 hurts your bones and I'm in a practice on a Tuesday night and 468 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,320 I'm a coroner and I got burnt by a freshman 3 plays in a row, 469 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,360 three. I was embarrassed, I was in my 470 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:49,520 feelings, I'm throwing my helmet, I'm pouting and I wanted 471 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,560 to quit the team after that whole. 472 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,520 How dumb does that sound y'all? And you know what coach knew to 473 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:57,920 do in that moment? You know what I don't need 474 00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,360 Tanner. Tell me about it buddy. 475 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,320 Was it hard to get burnt by the freshman 3 times? 476 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,280 You know what he said? He said get on the bus, pick up 477 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,560 your helmet and get on the bus. You ain't quitting. 478 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,040 Stop. Hopefully you have that friend 479 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,960 in your life that knows when to say just stop. 480 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,840 Just get on the bus, get on the boat and Jesus knows when we 481 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,240 need that. Are y'all with me? 482 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,640 Even when we blow it, Him telling us to follow is what 483 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,880 keeps us following. Believer, you need that. 484 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,920 You need to remember that even when you think you can leave and 485 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,000 come back, He's going to look at you and say, get on the boat and 486 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,720 praise God that we don't serve a God who says you blew it. 487 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,920 Next man up, Amen. Let's talk about the Son of Man. 488 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,640 Matthew 820 said this. And Jesus said to him, foxes 489 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,560 have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man 490 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,480 has nowhere to lay his head. OK, two comments about Jesus, 2 491 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,400 challenges, and we're done. First thing about Jesus. 492 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,080 He is the secure king. You crave somebody say secure, 493 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,720 secure. Can we talk about how Jesus 494 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,840 doesn't look at this eager applicant and just like tell him 495 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:15,000 what he wants to hear? Yo, we are insecure so it shocks 496 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,800 us when we see somebody. So OK, Jesus is OK with this man 497 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,560 being a fan and walking away. Isn't that amazing? 498 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,320 He's so smooth, so relaxed. He doesn't panic. 499 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,280 Can I tell you something? There is nothing more unsettling 500 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,960 than following something or somebody who's insecure. 501 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,000 I don't understand the stock market for the life of me, but I 502 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,760 know it's insecure. I just look at the I just look 503 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,840 at this. That to me represents if you 504 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,440 don't know what you're doing, don't put no money in that 505 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,080 because you're going to lose it. Like, I don't get how we're on 506 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,960 the verge of recession and it's we're the richest nation ever 507 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,200 every day. You know what I mean? 508 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,040 Like that to me screams this is insecure, OK? 509 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:00,040 Things like people liking you is not secure because one day 510 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,240 they'll hail you, the next day they'll nail you, OK. 511 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,120 I don't know even your skill set. 512 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:09,040 You can reach the highest level of your craft in the world and 513 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,960 the pros will tell you one day they got it and the next day, 514 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,920 man, I just something ain't right. 515 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,760 They're off. It's not secure. 516 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,560 Dopamine comes, dopamine goes, y'all Jesus is secure. 517 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:24,840 Let me tell you why that's good news. 518 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:30,280 Your soul craves to be secured by that which actually is 519 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,600 secure. Listen to me. 520 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,520 A lot of times the focus is on whether people are secure or 521 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,800 insecure, y'all. The point is, is what are you 522 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,240 attached to and is it secure? You can be securely attached to 523 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,440 something that is not secure, right? 524 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,240 I don't care how secure you are. If your security's in money, 525 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,120 you're insecure. And on the flip side, you were 526 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:56,720 created to be secured by somebody who is secure, y'all? 527 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:02,360 God is secure. He gave us free will and a lot 528 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,120 of times that conversation focuses on our part of that and 529 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:06,720 how we have free will, which is true. 530 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,480 But the other reason God doesn't make us robots who have to 531 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,440 choose Him is because He's secure. 532 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,360 He's overflowing. He wants you to choose Him. 533 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:21,560 He loves you, but He is not needy of you and that is good 534 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,840 news. You do not want an insecure God. 535 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,400 Some of you have an insecure God and that's why your life looks 536 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,640 the way it looks. That's what hit me when I was 18 537 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,680 years old is I was insecure because nothing I trusted in was 538 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,360 secure. You are designed to be secured 539 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:42,480 by that which is itself secure. Second thing, Jesus is the 540 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,120 authoritative king. You create, you crave. 541 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,880 I'm struggling with words. God bless you. 542 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,920 He's the authoritative king you crave. 543 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,880 Y'all son of man, somebody say son of man y'all. 544 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,320 This is a a title of Jesus, one of his favorites to describe 545 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,440 himself as it comes from the book of Daniel. 546 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,480 It's basically him saying I am the God man. 547 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,040 I am the one who will judge all. All people will be judged by 548 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,280 this king. I'm the one who made all things. 549 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,320 I am the one who is the beginning of the end, the alpha, 550 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,600 the Omega. He is saying I'm the guy. 551 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,360 I'm the new Adam. Y'all, there's this since in 552 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,480 which we need somebody who ends the conversations. 553 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,440 You know what I mean? Like anytime there's a debate, 554 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,000 you just need somebody to say this is what we're doing. 555 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,840 Like these are all you. There's something about life 556 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,880 that needs clarity and needs authority, and Jesus is that 557 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,680 clarity. Jesus is the authority. 558 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,360 Things take their place when he takes his place. 559 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,400 When he walks in the room, he's the one who gets to say who's a 560 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,760 fan or a follower. He sees us, he knows us, he's 561 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,120 the one who gets to judge, he's the one who is the head honcho. 562 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,520 Confusion is over when he speaks up. 563 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,520 Arguments are done when he talks. 564 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,480 Priorities are set when he takes his place. 565 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,720 Y'all, some of our lives are in shambles because the Son of Man 566 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,160 is not at the center of your life and there is no process 567 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,920 that makes it secure as long as you ask him to be on the outside 568 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,720 orbiting you. It just don't work like that. 569 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,120 Two things I want to challenge us with and I'm done. 570 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,160 If you are not a follower of Jesus, count the cost and make a 571 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,760 clean break with the world. It's time to once and for all 572 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,960 some of y'all. It's time once and for all to 573 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,880 make the break and say I'm in trust Christ, agree with him, 574 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,560 follow Him y'all. Is the cost of following Jesus 575 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,160 high? Yes it is. 576 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,960 Is the cost of not following Him higher? 577 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,760 Yes it is y'all. Ask any Christ follower in here. 578 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:43,640 What's more chaotic? What's more costly, trusting in 579 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,600 Christ or continuing to trust yourself? 580 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,040 Y'all, if you can do life, this ain't the place for you. 581 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,240 I'm just going to go ahead and tell you that Jesus ain't your 582 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,680 king. If you can handle life without 583 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,160 him, sorry, You can learn a couple things. 584 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,560 You can learn that life's just better when you give money away. 585 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:58,680 That's a fact. Anxiety. 586 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,720 We can give you some just facts about how life works, but if you 587 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,640 can handle life on your own and you want an enhancer, he is 588 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,640 going to disappoint you big time. 589 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:13,120 That's just big facts. But y'all, you are a follower. 590 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,600 I think another way to reverse engineer this whole process is 591 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,920 what are you currently looking to as a follower? 592 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,040 Not a fan. The reality is probably if you 593 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,640 pull all the layers back as I did at 18 years old, at the 594 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,360 center of my life, what I put all my trust in was me. 595 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,840 And I just got to a point where I was like, I'm done doing that. 596 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,480 Have you come to the end of yourself? 597 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,320 Do you thirst for a drink from the well, Jesus is calling 598 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,280 y'all? There is this sense in which you 599 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,760 got to get to the point. You're like, I'm done, I'm done. 600 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,360 And if you are there, if you've come there, if he's brought you 601 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,640 there. Because a lot of times what the 602 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,440 counting the cost language can do, because that's a phrase 603 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,520 that's come from this text. And a lot of times what we do is 604 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,080 we think about the cost. It's going to cost you to follow 605 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,680 him. There's a couple other costs I 606 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,880 want you to count, OK? One of them again, is how much 607 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,360 it's costing you not to follow him. 608 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,240 How is your relationship life going when you keep doing it 609 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,160 your way? How is how is doing life your 610 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,320 way going for you? Keep counting that cost. 611 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,440 Mine was too expensive to stay with. 612 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,000 Trusting Christ was a lot better than continuing to trust me. 613 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,040 OK. The other cost you got to count 614 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,240 is the cost of His great love for you. 615 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,920 Nothing else treats you the way the King offers to treat you. 616 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,000 He died in your place. Stock market ain't doing that 617 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,480 for me. I ain't putting my trust in 618 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,520 money no more. My teammates ain't doing that 619 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,840 for me. Christ is the one who went the 620 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,720 distance so that you could be in all the way in everything you 621 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,040 crave He wants to give you for free. 622 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,920 So counting the cross requires you Look at you, it's true, but 623 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,440 you also got to look at the cross. 624 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,760 You do OK, look to the cross and count the cost. 625 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,920 It's time to break it off to some of y'all. 626 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,960 In the name of Jesus, I want to say please don't miss the boat. 627 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,240 Don't miss it. And what's different for us that 628 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,320 I think a little bit is an advantage for the scribes. 629 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,360 So I'm just going to be honest with you is because your life 630 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,280 circumstances aren't changing. Like I can count that cost next 631 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:14,760 week. I can count it when I'm in 632 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,680 college. I can count it when I got a kid. 633 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,880 I can count it when I'm just just just just just just just 634 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,920 just keep in mind that that whole time you are saying I 635 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,640 trust me more than him. That is what you are saying, and 636 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,880 again, that's a mindset that is I get the best of both worlds 637 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,680 while I count the cost. And the answer is no, you are 638 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,240 bankrupt and you just don't know it yet. 639 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,520 OK, so I just want to invite you into the inner psychology I had 640 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,880 15 years ago and it's still true and many people have gotten 641 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,160 saved through. Just count that cost. 642 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:48,560 OK, Second group of people, my followers of Jesus, y'all, this 643 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,280 is the journey. You were made for this y'all, 644 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,320 you were made for this. You were made to get on the 645 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,800 boat. You were made to reorient. 646 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,920 You were made to reinterpret everything in light of who he 647 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,240 is. So the first thing I want to 648 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,560 tell you is get on the boat, OK? Some of y'all just get on the 649 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,320 boat. There's something in your life 650 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,719 right now that just it's disorienting you. 651 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,400 Maybe it's emotional pain, maybe it's a suffering, maybe it's 652 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,800 just life's just not going the way you thought it would And you 653 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,280 start to just you, you just pause and I just want to just 654 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,280 keep moving. It will make sense as you move. 655 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,880 What we tend to do is we stop and we say prove it to me and 656 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,080 I'll take the next step. Don't do that. 657 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:28,080 Don't get in that headspace where you need God to do that. 658 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,080 That's not how you got in this game with Jesus. 659 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,520 So don't, don't go there. Now Paul says in Second Timothy 660 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,600 47. I have fought the fight, I have 661 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,719 finished the race, I have kept the faith. 662 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,719 Y'all, it's a fight. It is, it is a fight, it is a 663 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,159 race, it's a marathon. It ain't how you start, it's how 664 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,520 you finish. Victor, don't go to the one win 665 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,520 in 7th inning. You got to get to the 9th. 666 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,080 We got to make it. We got to keep holding on to 667 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,520 faith. Reorienting is costly, but it's 668 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,360 worth it. What happens when you need to 669 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,920 reorient is it's just the old lie, a new way. 670 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,720 This would be better if you were at the center and just Jesus 671 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:03,840 helped you. You're just making this harder 672 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,640 than it needs to be. So just come on back to you are 673 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,200 in charge and just follow his advice. 674 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:12,800 But he's not savior, Lord King crucified shot Calla. 675 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,560 You could get your own boat and go near him. 676 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,680 You know, like we just we rationalize in our head. 677 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,360 But I'm still near him. I'm not I don't hate him. 678 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,960 Y'all the the the self wants to make you think that you can 679 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,280 finagle it anyway as long as you still call the shots. 680 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,760 OK? And Jesus is saying just trust 681 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,200 me. So y'all reorient everything in 682 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,840 light of who Jesus is. Keep your feet moving. 683 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,560 Want to know how you keep your feet moving? 684 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,680 What does that mean? Look to the crowd #2 don't 685 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,720 forget about the crowd, y'all? Don't forget about the crowd. 686 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:50,360 This, this, this text is also in the book of Luke. 687 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:55,480 And in that context, the phrase that Jesus adds, he says to his 688 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,920 disciple, he says leave the dead to bury their own dead. 689 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,400 You go and preach the Kingdom of God, y'all. 690 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,960 The idea is I've got something for you to do that if self goes 691 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,440 at the center won't be done. Y'all listen to me. 692 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,720 The great equalizer believer follower of Jesus is if you just 693 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,480 keep trusting him and do the next thing to give your life 694 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,600 away in the power of the Spirit. Not self righteously, but if you 695 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,160 just do the next thing he has in front of you, you will reorient 696 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,000 in time. That's called waiting on God. 697 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,760 The way you wait isn't by sitting around demanding with an 698 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,360 attitude that he proves something to you. 699 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,400 It's you. Keep obeying and trusting and 700 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,280 submitting and asking for clarity. 701 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,040 But your feet don't stop moving while your heart is waiting. 702 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,400 Does that make sense? Keep the feet moving, keep 703 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,040 preaching Christ, keep living Christ, keep giving the money 704 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,680 away, keep doing the stuff, keep resting, keep trusting, keep 705 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:49,280 Sabbath thing. You've got work to do and it is 706 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,880 that that in time makes sense of that moment, but it rarely works 707 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,560 to stop and demand the clarity while your feet are stopped. 708 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,680 It's not coming. Does that make sense? 709 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:05,520 And y'all, what an honor it is that God himself wants you to 710 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:11,040 follow him. God who made all things, put you 711 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,240 in that job. God who made all things, put you 712 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:16,520 on that street. God who made all things, wants 713 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,640 to live with you and parent those kids. 714 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,000 Amen. Somebody God who made all 715 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,160 things, sees you and wants to live with you and is inviting 716 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,000 you through the painful process of remembering. 717 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,960 He's central, not you. That it is worth it. 718 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:39,440 It will all make sense in time. I have decided to follow Jesus. 719 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,080 No turning back, no turning back. 720 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,600 The cross before me, the world behind me. 721 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,160 No turning back, no turning back. 722 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:51,840 If you follow Jesus, get on the boat. 723 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,440 If you don't, please count the cost. 724 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:55,800 And I pray you get on the boat with us. 725 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,000 Amen. Let's pray. 726 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,720 Our Father, we love you. Thank you that you sent your Son 727 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,840 to pay the cost to die in our place, that we might have life 728 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,120 with you. God, what a joy. 729 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,320 Just the liberation from self, the liberation from being our 730 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,920 own king or queen and just God, you take your rightful place. 731 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,000 I pray that would just be a breath of fresh air. 732 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,800 I pray by the power of the Holy Spirit, somebody's chains will 733 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,320 break today, that you would save them from their sins, from 734 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,080 themselves. God, have mercy in this room. 735 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,400 And for the followers of Jesus, help us to see the crowd. 736 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,760 Help us to look up. Help us to remember that you're 737 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,520 good and that you will show us in time. 738 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,440 We love you. We pray in Christ's name, Amen.