1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:08,800 The scripture reading this morning is Matthew 9/18/26. 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:15,200 It's found on page 764 in the Bibles under your Seat. 3 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,440 If you don't have a Bible, we invite you to take that one as 4 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:23,960 our gift to you. Again, Matthew 9, verses 18 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,840 through 26. While he was saying these things 6 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:35,560 to them, behold, A ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, My 7 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,440 daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and 8 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,160 she will live. And Jesus rose and followed him 9 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,840 with his disciples. And behold, a woman who had 10 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,880 suffered from a discharge of blood for 12 years came up 11 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,080 behind him and touched the fringe of his garment. 12 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,720 For she said to herself, if I only touch his garment, I will 13 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,640 be made well. Jesus turned and seeing her, he 14 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,040 said, Take heart daughter, your faith has made you well. 15 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,400 And instantly the woman was made well. 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,960 And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute 17 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:18,000 players and the crowd making a commotion, he said, go away, for 18 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,800 the girl is not dead, but sleeping. 19 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:24,440 And they laughed at him. But when the crowd had been put 20 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,720 outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. 21 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:31,840 And the report of this went through all that district. 22 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:41,450 It's the word of the Lord. What's going on? 23 00:01:41,450 --> 00:01:43,250 Port City family and friends. How are we doing? 24 00:01:43,970 --> 00:01:45,610 Good. My name is Tanner. 25 00:01:46,210 --> 00:01:48,770 It is joy to be with you. I'm one of the pastors here and 26 00:01:48,770 --> 00:01:54,490 y'all, I'm a huge Sinner. I'm in a, I'm in a life stage of 27 00:01:54,490 --> 00:01:57,000 transition. And sometimes what transitions 28 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,760 do is they just pull out all of the comforts of the rhythms. 29 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,720 The coffee just ain't quite hitting as hard. 30 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,760 You don't get to the gym as often. 31 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,080 And just when all the rhythms go away and you just see who you 32 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,240 are without all the infrastructure of comfort 33 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,200 holding you up and you're like, Oh my goodness, you know, And 34 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,840 the good news is God still loves me like he's still. 35 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,840 And I, I don't know if you've heard the phrase God likes to 36 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,600 use a crooked stick to draw a straight line. 37 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,360 Anybody heard that? Praise God. 38 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,120 And that is always true. Even when your rhythms are there 39 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,280 or not there, you are a crooked stick. 40 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,800 But God is in the business of using crooked sticks to draw 41 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,880 straight lines. So the good news is, I don't 42 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,720 know if you're in that moment. Maybe this morning the coffee 43 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,400 ain't hitting that well and you're like, Holy Spirit, where 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,200 are you? Just know that God is always 45 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,840 using crooked sticks to draw straight lines and you're never 46 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,640 a straight stick even on your best day. 47 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:51,840 You need the grace of God. We just need grace. 48 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,480 This is a church. We, we, we just love mess, like 49 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,400 in a good way. Like we love that kids are in 50 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:58,920 here. We love that it's a little noisy 51 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:01,920 and papers are shuffling. We just love life as it really 52 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:03,120 is. We're not trying to like 53 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,000 sanitize our space and make it perfect and tidy. 54 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,480 We're trying to do it well, but we're trying to own like life is 55 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:11,720 a crooked stick with a straight line. 56 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,280 Does that make sense? So I just love gathering with 57 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:15,760 you. I love hearing your voices when 58 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,520 we sing. I love grace. 59 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,040 I just want you to know that God is the one who saves us, washes 60 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,000 us. You will never be enough in your 61 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,560 own strength and that's good news. 62 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,360 OK, So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pray that God would 63 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,880 bless just this regular thing we do week over week over week 64 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,680 where we hear his word and that God would use this time to grow 65 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,400 us into the crooked sticks he can use Amen somebody. 66 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,840 OK, so let's, let's pray our Father, some of us under the 67 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,720 sound of my voice are our feeling how crooked we are. 68 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,600 Some of us think we pretty straight, but God we know that 69 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,400 we need mercy, we need grace and God, we're so grateful this 70 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,720 morning that you give it so Lord, what we have not? 71 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,040 Would you give us what we know not, would you teach us and what 72 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,720 we are not? Would you make us let the words 73 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,800 of my mouth, the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your 74 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,080 sight? We pray in King Jesus name and 75 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,480 everybody who agree with this said Amen. 76 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,520 Yeah. When I say the word authority, 77 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,960 what comes to your mind? What positions come to your 78 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,840 mind? Do you think of a coach, a 79 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:19,320 parent, the president, police? I bet what you don't think of is 80 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,320 a three-year old in their room playing with their Barbies and 81 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,800 saying don't touch that. I left that there on purpose. 82 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,760 You know what that gets to the heart of that example. 83 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,280 Authority plays into what it means to be made in God's image. 84 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:37,480 You see God made you in his image to rule and reign with 85 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,560 him, to Co reign with him. Once you think about the root of 86 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,480 the word authority is the word author. 87 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,520 Somebody say author. So to have authority is to 88 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,400 author what you've been given. So to be human is to be author. 89 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,360 That little girl, that little boy is authoring their space and 90 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,280 you've not been authorized to co-author with them. 91 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,920 OK, I bring that up because the series we are in is called the 92 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,120 Authority of the King. What we are seeing week over 93 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,360 week in the Gospel of Matthew, chapters 8 and 9, is that Jesus 94 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,400 is the one with all authority, which means he is the author of 95 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,960 authors, OK? And we're watching him leverage 96 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,320 his authority to make things new, OK? 97 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,680 Everything he touches gets better. 98 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,480 Everyone he touches is made new. And they're not just a new 99 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,880 version of like, they're not the same thing they were, but 100 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:28,640 better. They're new, OK? 101 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,200 And so the other thing we're seeing week over week over week 102 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,680 is Jesus talking about faith. We're going to see that this 103 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,600 week. He's going to commend somebody 104 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,640 for their faith and it's what this points out to us is that 105 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,120 faith is the hinge point of if you're letting Jesus author you, 106 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,560 does that make sense? Faith is how you let him touch 107 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,480 you. It's how you let him heal you. 108 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,080 It's how you let him cleanse you. 109 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,960 You, you submit yourself to being authored and by being 110 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,600 authored by him, you become an author with him because God made 111 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,160 you to live with him, to Co reign with him as he originally 112 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:05,560 made Adam and Eve and we blew it. 113 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,960 So the great irony of sin is that you seize your authority 114 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,880 from God and in so doing you lose it. 115 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,800 See how that works? You take your agency and 116 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,960 authority and say I'm the capital, a author, and in so 117 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,120 doing you are the captain of your own misery. 118 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,920 But when you receive the touch of Christ, the healing, saving, 119 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,960 cleansing, atoning death of Christ in your place, touched by 120 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,240 faith, the author of life is making you new. 121 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,960 And now you get to be an author with him once again. 122 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,120 And it all hinges on faith. So what we're going to see in 123 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,800 today's text is this hinge point of faith in the touch of Christ 124 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,640 making things new. And it's so beautiful. 125 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,720 And what I hope you walk out of here with is knowing that God 126 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,160 wants to live life in Co reign with you, author with you. 127 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,280 He doesn't just touch you so that you're a better version of 128 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:58,920 what you used to be. He touches you so that you can 129 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,160 live with him. Amen. 130 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,760 So to do that, we're going to take our story from three 131 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,880 angles. We're going to just zoom out and 132 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,680 look at like what all is happening here. 133 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,840 Then we're going to zoom in on the the faith of the two people 134 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,120 involved. And then we're going to talk 135 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,760 about what Jesus did for for each of them. 136 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,080 If you are ready, let me hear you say I'm ready. 137 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,160 OK, point #1 mute flutes and disciples notes. 138 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,360 OK, that's a fancy way of saying we got to zoom out. 139 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,760 OK, have y'all ever like, so much happens in a day and then 140 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:30,600 you'll be talking to a friend or your spouse or something be 141 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,320 like, yeah. And you remember so and so got 142 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:34,680 in a car accident. They did what? 143 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,960 And like, like, so much is happening that you forget that 144 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,600 it happened, that you didn't actually tell them. 145 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,880 Have you ever experienced that? You're like, I thought I told 146 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,440 you my bad. And it's like earth shaking news 147 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,080 that you just glossed over. Like, why do you never tell me 148 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,800 anything? It's like I just life is lifing 149 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,240 so much that I forgot I didn't tell you that. 150 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,760 Are y'all with me? When you're walking with Jesus, 151 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,400 it's kind of like that for the disciples. 152 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,560 In one day, they're going to see like 50 things. 153 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,520 He's going to do a little teaching here and there in 154 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:02,480 between. And you're going to be like, 155 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,040 remember Jesus said that the other day, Like, Oh yeah, he did 156 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,320 say that. So that's kind of like what 157 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,840 happens week over week is like we take for granted that these 158 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,160 things aren't just happening in a vacuum. 159 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,840 When we get to go back and they didn't have a sermon after this 160 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:16,680 happened, it just kept happening. 161 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,680 Are you with me? So look with me at verse 18. 162 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,040 I want us to I just want us to feel the weight of the 163 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,400 compounding picture of Jesus that is being layered on top of 164 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,240 layer on top of layer. So I'm going to fire hydrant you 165 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,360 for a couple minutes and then we'll zoom in on faith. 166 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:40,880 Does that make sense? OK, Look at verse 18 while he 167 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:45,520 was saying these things to them. So, so everything we're reading 168 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,960 today is a double miracle is immediately after what Pastor 169 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,880 John preached on two weeks ago. I'm going to give you the Cliff 170 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,360 Notes version, which is basically Jesus having a 171 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:59,920 conversation with really good religious people, fasters. 172 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:02,080 They're reading their word. They know everything. 173 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,000 OK. That conversation is interrupted 174 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,880 at its climax. And then today's story happens 175 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,280 and at the climax, Jesus says something. 176 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,680 He says I am the bridegroom. It doesn't say that if you look 177 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:16,120 up, but that's what he's saying indirectly. 178 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,480 Somebody say bridegroom. So I'm going to hit you with 179 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,080 some quick theology of what this means. 180 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,080 OK? The biblical picture of what God 181 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,680 wants to do is he wants to have a people who belong to him the 182 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:31,000 way a couple of spouses belong to one another. 183 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,120 It's like they're betrothed to one another is what Pastor John 184 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,760 walked us through. OK, now Jesus is the God man. 185 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:45,440 OK, somebody say God man. So as God to us to to to us, 186 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,760 he's him to him. He's us. 187 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,440 That's what it means down he's God up he's man. 188 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:54,960 Like he's both. OK. 189 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,680 So what that means is the bridegroom is he is both wedding 190 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:02,800 himself to his people and in him making the people being wedded 191 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:04,560 to God. Do you understand that? 192 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,880 Like that's a trippy concept, but what God is doing is he is 193 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,080 making the betrothed through the son of God. 194 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,120 So it's all who are united to God become the ones that God is 195 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:15,880 betrothed to. OK. 196 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:16,840 You're like, why does that matter? 197 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:18,760 You're about to find out. Just stay with the whole story. 198 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,720 The idea is that Jesus is saying, I came to make a people 199 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:27,320 in myself that God is married to, OK. 200 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,560 And he's the God, man as God, He's marrying those people as 201 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,240 man. He's making the people that God 202 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,800 could be married to. That's the idea. 203 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,440 OK. That conversation with religious 204 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:42,040 elites, John's disciples, is interrupted by the people today. 205 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:48,160 OK, So stay with me verse 24 OK, at the end of today's story 206 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,360 right So the dad comes, he kneels, my daughter's dead, 207 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,120 please come, Jesus is walking. Woman comes grabs the back of 208 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,520 his his cloak. She gets healed. 209 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,920 He turns and looks at her says something shows up to the house 210 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,160 with the dead daughter and there's a bunch of flute 211 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,840 players. Do you see that in verse 24? 212 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,600 It says verse 23 shows up, saw the flute players in the crowd 213 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,400 making commotion and then he says go away. 214 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:10,880 The girl's not dead but sleeping. 215 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:12,720 They laugh at him. Y'all caught that right? 216 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,280 Y'all in this time period when somebody died, people would 217 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,480 literally pay for people to come and mourn. 218 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,520 Like basically like imagine like a, a musician group, like come 219 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,600 like just start weeping and like play this instrument like create 220 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,360 this environment of mourning and weeping. 221 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,400 OK, so Jesus shows up on that scene and he says y'all are 222 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,680 tripping. Think about it. 223 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,680 Bridegroom era. This is not the era for weeping. 224 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,400 That's basically what Pastor John just walked us through two 225 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,920 weeks ago is everything is changed in light of my coming. 226 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,080 He puts the crowd away. So the the flutes have gone 227 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:47,880 mute, if you will. Jesus is in the business of 228 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,480 putting people out of a job. Have you all noticed that back 229 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:52,240 in chapter 8? He put a priest out of a job 230 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,760 right now he's putting the mourners out of a job, right? 231 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,680 So keep that compounding picture of, OK, now flute players go 232 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:00,960 away, the mourners go away, The priest has gone away. 233 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,440 OK, then verse 19, the one other note just just embedded in this 234 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,720 story that Matthew is really trying to help us see. 235 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,480 Look at 19. So when the dad comes and begs, 236 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,160 it says and Jesus rose and followed him with his disciples, 237 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,800 somebody say with his disciples. So the disciples are just all 238 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,160 along, they're paying attention. They were there with the 239 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,880 religious convo and the bridegroom. 240 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,760 Now they get interrupted. They don't get to go off in some 241 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,240 coffee shop and just talk to Jesus. 242 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,960 They're on the go following the Jesus who's following the dad 243 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,720 back to the place getting interrupted. 244 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,880 They're watching all of this in the verse 26 and the report of 245 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:37,600 this went through all that district. 246 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:39,920 So here's the question I want to beg. 247 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,120 What is spreading? What are people saying? 248 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:43,960 Obviously they're saying people are getting healed. 249 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,040 They're saying the basic stuff, but what picture is being 250 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:48,880 painted? OK, here's the picture. 251 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,320 I would say that is being pieced together that the disciples are 252 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,840 catching, that we don't catch as much because we're not as Jewish 253 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,760 and understanding of the Old Testament story. 254 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:58,480 But this is what Matthew is screaming. 255 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:02,320 You ready? Jesus is the prophet, priest and 256 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,080 king we've been waiting for. He's the prophet, He's the 257 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,200 priest, He's the king. OK, you say, where's that coming 258 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:09,800 from? Well, in the Old Testament, 259 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,480 little kids being resurrected by a prophet happened. 260 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,040 It happened in Elijah and Elijah so that Matthew is screaming, 261 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,080 this is the truer and greater Elijah, Elijah. 262 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,280 And he doesn't lay his body on top of people and have to ask 263 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,000 God to do it through them. It's just he touches a girl and 264 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,160 they race. Jesus isn't a conduit of God's 265 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:30,400 power. He is God's power. 266 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,360 Are you with me? What Jesus says happen happens. 267 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,800 What he does happens. OK, he is the truer and greater 268 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,040 priest. OK, we're going to we talked 269 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,360 about this with the the leper back at chapter 8. 270 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:42,400 You can go listen to that sermon. 271 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,360 But in a similar way the the woman to today's story, her main 272 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,720 issue is she's unclean. She has a physical problem, but 273 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,600 in a bigger way, she has a spiritual problem. 274 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,840 Well, she does. He doesn't give her a cleansing 275 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,480 process and go talk to a priest. He just, he doesn't just declare 276 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,240 her clean, he makes her clean. He's the truer and greater 277 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,560 priest and y'all, he's also the truer and greater king who 278 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,440 doesn't only reign over his people. 279 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,040 Remember, he's the bridegroom. He is making the people that 280 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,680 he's king over. And listen, y'all remember 281 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,200 conversation was interrupted with religious elites. 282 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,240 And who interrupted the conversation? 283 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,000 A dad with the dead girl and a woman who is unclean. 284 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,760 So the idea is that the truer and greater king isn't 285 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,720 recruiting those who want to talk theology in a backroom with 286 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,200 him. He is making them in his blood 287 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,520 for people like these people interrupting him. 288 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,880 Do y'all see that picture? Do you see how that's coming 289 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,920 together? We have the truer and greater 290 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,720 prophet, priest, and king, and people are rushing to him 291 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,000 because the access you get to him isn't through what you know 292 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,600 is through how desperate you are. 293 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,240 Does that make sense? Come and see a king who can 294 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,000 change your life. But if you come, you better come 295 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,960 desperate. Does that make sense? 296 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,040 This isn't a king who has accessed through impressing him. 297 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,800 It's not a king whose accessed through your knowledge. 298 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,720 He's accessed through your heart and through desperation. 299 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,840 So go back and study all that. Prophet, priest, king is dope. 300 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,000 But we're going to zoom in on faith now. 301 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,920 Are you all ready? Point #2 the dads kneel and the 302 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,360 woman's touch. The dads kneel and the woman's 303 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,160 touch. Let's read verses 18 through 22. 304 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,880 While he was saying these things to them, behold, A ruler came in 305 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:26,240 and knelt before him, saying, My daughter has just died, but come 306 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,440 and lay your hand on her, and she will live. 307 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,040 And Jesus rose and followed him with his disciples. 308 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,320 And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of 309 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,400 blood for 12 years came up behind him and touched the 310 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,320 fringe of his garment. For she said to herself, if I 311 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,200 only touch his garment, I will be made well. 312 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,280 Jesus turned and seeing her, he said, take heart daughter, your 313 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,400 faith has made you well. And instantly the woman was made 314 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,480 well. OK, let's zoom in on the dad and 315 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:01,680 the woman. OK. 316 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,280 It says that the ruler came and knelt before him in verse 18. 317 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,040 Some of y'all know your Bibles. You know that this man is 318 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,160 Jairus. Like in in Mark and Luke's 319 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,960 account, there's a lot more details. 320 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,680 OK, we've talked about this throughout the series, but each 321 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,200 gospel writer has their own agenda right? 322 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,240 Like Matthew's account of this double story is 8 verses and 323 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,760 Luke is like 23 and Mark is like 15. 324 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,960 When that happens, don't pick your favorite version. 325 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,480 I like the Mark one more. Can we just can you go preach 326 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,080 the Mark one? I liked it when they said his 327 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:32,880 name. I liked when it said she spent 328 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:34,840 everything she ever had. I like those things, too. 329 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,560 What we've got to ask is why is Matthew choosing to trim those 330 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,120 details? It's not that he didn't know 331 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,360 them. The picture he's trying to show 332 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,320 us of the truer prophet, priest and king is his full agenda. 333 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,600 Are you with me? So Matthew is trimming some 334 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,400 details. We know who this man is. 335 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,800 He comes before him and he comes and says please. 336 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,600 He kneels down, right? I don't know. 337 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,600 The last time you kneeled, somebody say kneel. 338 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,000 Like if somebody just comes up at you and said kneel before me, 339 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:10,839 you'd be like, no, kneeling is just so, like it's just so. 340 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:15,079 I mean, it's humiliating, right? Send me all older siblings in 341 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:16,400 the room. It probably made your little 342 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,000 sibling beg for something before kneeling. 343 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,880 I love how he just came and just threw himself down before he 344 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:28,640 said anything. And then he says the words come, 345 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,320 my daughter is dead. I imagine when he knelt down, 346 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,200 probably just a huge hush went over the crowd because if 347 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,640 somebody kneels before everybody, you're like, it's not 348 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,360 a light moment, right? The, the, the kneel is a 349 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,560 vocalization of desperation before you even have to say it. 350 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,880 Desperate people kneel. This dad is desperate. 351 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,320 And the crowd hushes. And then he says the desperate 352 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,360 situation was that his daughter has just died. 353 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:54,480 Come and lay your hand on her and she will live. 354 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,280 And we learned the situation is not desperate is dead, she's 355 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:03,480 dead. But the faith he has is he says, 356 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,080 but come and lay your hand on her and she will live. 357 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,960 He didn't say if you come, he said come. 358 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,080 Y'all see that? I don't see no if in mind, but 359 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,520 if you come right, he just says come, lay your hand on her and 360 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,400 she will live. There's a boldness a a shameless 361 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,000 asking. He had heard something about 362 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,440 Jesus that led him to say come. He didn't come and kneel and 363 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,480 he's not performing to get Jesus to do something. 364 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,680 He's actually kneeling in alignment with. 365 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,840 He knows Jesus will do. Are you tracking with me? 366 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,480 He's not like, maybe if I do this right, he'll come. 367 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,160 He's operating a certain way because he knows he'll come. 368 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,760 He's confident he'll come. That's what faith does. 369 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:47,560 Faith is not a performance. Faith is alignment with reality. 370 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,360 You're not performing. We're going to be talking about 371 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:52,200 that a little bit. So he throws himself on the 372 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:57,720 ground and kneels and goes all in verse 19 says, and Jesus rose 373 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,560 and followed him. So he will verbally affirm the 374 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,840 woman here in a moment. But this is an affirmation of 375 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,720 this man's faith by walking after him, right? 376 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,000 Like he tells her. He turns to her and says, 377 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,080 daughter, your faith has made you. 378 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,680 Well, he didn't tell the dad that, but he followed him after 379 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,000 this demonstration of faith, which is an equal affirmation, 380 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,520 if you will. And during that time, the woman, 381 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,880 verse 20, who had suffered from a discharge of blood for 12 382 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,440 years, I might say 12 years. We talked about this back in 383 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:33,160 Chapter 8, but somebody with a, a blood discharge issue, it's 384 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,640 hard for us to understand the Jewish conception of this. 385 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,760 Their main issue is they're unclean, OK? 386 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,240 So it's really twofold issue. It's a real practical health 387 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,960 side and then it's like a spiritual side, OK, so on the 388 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,200 health side, she has anemia. I don't know if you notice your 389 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,160 body is not built to just bleed all the time, OK? 390 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,840 It's not in fact, like if you, if you have a situation where 391 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,720 you got to be on blood thinners or something, they're like don't 392 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,560 do nothing, stoop and get cut and just be bleeding all the 393 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,000 time. You know, like that's a big 394 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,840 concern because your body was not meant to discharge blood 395 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,880 perpetually. So she's probably dizzy, light 396 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,080 headed. I'm going to be honest with you. 397 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,640 If you bleed that often, you stink. 398 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:14,400 Blood does not smell good, right? 399 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,400 You're clothes, you gave up on getting new clothes a long time 400 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,240 ago. What's the point? 401 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,800 So there's just an utter practical anemic. 402 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,120 Misery, a smell, the clothes, all of it. 403 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,480 And that has nothing to do with the unclean status she was under 404 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:36,080 as a spiritual outcast, which means for 12 years she has not 405 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,920 worshipped in the temple. So she is both functionally and 406 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,480 practically like the girl in this story is dead. 407 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,680 But in a lot of ways, this woman is just a dead woman walking. 408 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,920 That's really what she is. She is an outcast. 409 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,280 She's on her own and verse 21 makes a lot of sense, doesn't 410 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,640 it? If you if you have that 411 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,000 background and that mindset, you're unclean. 412 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:03,120 It says she came up behind him and touched the fringe of his 413 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,600 garment. For she said to herself, if I 414 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,400 only touch his garment, I'll be made well in her mind, she wants 415 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,640 a private healing. She doesn't want to shame the 416 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,160 teacher. She doesn't want to draw 417 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,320 attention to herself. She comes behind him. 418 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,560 She she might even think maybe I'll make him unclean if I touch 419 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:20,600 him. So let me just touch his 420 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,120 garment. She's filled with this thinking 421 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:25,680 of of what has been going through her mind for 12 years. 422 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,720 So she's in some kind of way scholars debate. 423 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,560 Is this tons of faith and she's honoring Jesus or is it sort of 424 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,640 like a magical thinking like all I have to do, he's so powerful 425 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,000 just touch his cloak like sort of like a a magic process. 426 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,720 She thinks she can get his healing without his volition. 427 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,400 You know what I mean? Like he's not going to choose to 428 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,640 give it to me. But if I just touch his garment 429 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,160 because he wouldn't choose to give it to me. 430 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,040 Are y'all tracking? See how that works? 431 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,880 She wants this in private. And then verse 22 just turns 432 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,920 this whole story on his head, doesn't it? 433 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,880 Look at what Jesus says. Jesus turned and seeing her, He 434 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,640 said take heart daughter, your faith has made you well and 435 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,440 instantly the woman was made well. 436 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,240 Matthew's version here makes it clear it wasn't her touch that 437 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,080 healed him, healed her. Are you with me? 438 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,120 It goes out of its way to make it clear that he turned, saw, 439 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,000 said, and instantly she was made. 440 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,200 Well, he's trying to point out that Jesus volitionally gave her 441 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,560 what she saw. She didn't get it because she 442 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,640 touched it in private. She's getting it because he sees 443 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:30,520 her. Are you with me? 444 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,320 He says your faith has made you well. 445 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,040 So I'm going to talk about faith a little bit. 446 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:37,880 We got to talk about faith. I think. 447 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,880 We think we get it, and then you start to think you get it and 448 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,200 you don't get it. Like, what is faith? 449 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,480 All right, I got 2 notes on faith I want to give you. 450 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:50,360 OK, here's #1 faith is instrumental, Jesus is 451 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:53,000 effectual. Those are big words. 452 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,400 You can handle it. You're smart people. 453 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,160 OK, Faith is instrumental. Somebody say instrumental. 454 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,120 Jesus is effectual. Somebody say Jesus is effectual. 455 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,480 OK, what's that mean? Tam, let me break it down for 456 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:06,920 you. OK? 457 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:14,240 You know what this means is that her faith is not the agency of 458 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:20,560 actually getting healed. Jesus heals her, but her faith 459 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,200 is instrumental to Jesus healing her. 460 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,360 OK, I was talking about this with Isaac this week and he gave 461 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,720 me a dope illustration which I will now give to you. 462 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:33,360 OK, if you want to go to Tokyo, you got to get on a plane. 463 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:38,440 So you get on the plane and the plane takes you to Tokyo. 464 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,720 OK. You getting on the plane is 465 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,960 instrumental. The plane is effectual. 466 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,240 Are you with me? How'd you get to Tokyo? 467 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:49,160 The plane. How did the plane get you to 468 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,800 Tokyo? You got on it. 469 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,360 OK. Who deserves the praise for you 470 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,440 getting to Tokyo? The plane. 471 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,240 Did You're getting on the plane have a role in you getting to 472 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,880 Tokyo? Yes. 473 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,960 Would you ever praise yourself for getting on it? 474 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:09,720 No, fool, you would not, OK? You would not do that. 475 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,720 Here's a question though. Why is this the way that God has 476 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,040 set it up? Why? 477 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,840 Why does faith matter if the plane gets us there? 478 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:26,440 So does everybody get to Tokyo? No, only the people who get on 479 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,440 the plane. Y'all with me? 480 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,480 You got to get on the plane. Plane. 481 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,520 Don't take everybody. It takes the people on the 482 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,560 plane, but the plane could take anybody. 483 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,400 Are you with me? It's available to all effectual 484 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,120 for some. The idea is that faith is the 485 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,480 God appointed means where you grab everything He wants to give 486 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,440 you. He wants to take you to Tokyo. 487 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:51,640 You just got to get on the plane. 488 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,400 Are you with me? So God has created an 489 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,760 instrumental but not effectual means so that no human being can 490 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:03,640 boast that they got to Tokyo. God gets all the praise that we 491 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,160 go to Tokyo. God gets all the praise for 492 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,400 everything that comes to you. Y'all? 493 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,120 They would not have come to Jesus if they had not heard 494 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:12,640 about Jesus. Why did they come? 495 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,160 They came because they heard. They heard a word about the 496 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,840 Jesus bird and they came to get a piece of the pie in on the 497 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,960 action. They heard enough, they knew 498 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,920 something. So even what they knew they were 499 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,400 not effectual in getting. They had to their ears 500 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,120 instrumentally allowed them to hear it. 501 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,840 But we're always receiving what God initiates. 502 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,960 You are not the initiating cause of why you're in the seat you're 503 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,480 in. Which means no human being 504 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,280 should boast. Let the one who boasts boast in 505 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,720 the Lord. OK, faith is a gift. 506 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,840 OK, it's by grace through faith in Christ, but is necessary. 507 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,360 Get on the plane. Are you with me? 508 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,200 Like you got to get on the plane? 509 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,720 And here's the thing. Jesus will commend you for the 510 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,840 faith you wouldn't have if He didn't give it to you. 511 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,640 Isn't that crazy? He commends her for her 512 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,120 instrumentality. Though she didn't heal herself, 513 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:07,840 He did. Isn't that crazy? 514 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:10,400 So you don't have to commend yourself for your faith. 515 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,000 God will commend you. Isn't that amazing? 516 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,800 Many of us live to be commended by anybody but the Lord. 517 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,680 He wants to commend you for what He did for you. 518 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:24,200 That crazy, one of my favorite stories is when he says Peter, 519 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,680 who do you say that I am? He's like you're the Messiah. 520 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,960 He's like you're the man and you didn't get that God gave you 521 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,880 that. It's like, so am I the man or is 522 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,680 God good? It's like focus on God being 523 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,040 good. Let me tell you, you're the man. 524 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,000 Does that make sense? But we live to be told I'm the 525 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,960 man and then we ignore how good God is. 526 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,840 Faith is instrumental, Jesus is effectual. 527 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,480 Jesus is the healer, Jesus is the cleanser, Jesus is 528 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,880 everything. And if you are in the position 529 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,680 to get on the plane, please in the name of the Lord, do it. 530 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,240 OK #2 Faith involves self talk about Jesus. 531 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,240 Faith involves self talk about Jesus. 532 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,880 One of the coolest phrases in the text is in verse 21. 533 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:12,120 For she said to herself, If I only touch his garment, I'll be 534 00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:16,320 made. Well y'all listen, faith is 535 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,720 talking to God about you, but it's also talking to you about 536 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,560 God. You talk to you about God, you 537 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,400 talk to God about you, but you talk to you about God. 538 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,840 What are you telling yourself God is like? 539 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,320 Let me tell you a verse that changed my life right now. 540 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:39,720 Hebrews 11/6. Faith must believe that God is 541 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,960 and that he rewards those who seek him. 542 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:48,320 OK, Faith must believe that God exists and that he rewards those 543 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:49,960 who seek him. Yeah. 544 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,240 One thing I'm realizing is that faith is a word that has been, 545 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,120 it can be used in a lot of contexts, but it it's been 546 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,480 hijacked from what biblical faith is. 547 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,000 Like I saw, I was telling one of my guys in here the other day, I 548 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,680 saw this shirt at the gym the other day. 549 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,680 Not a lie. This is the shirt. 550 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:11,160 Faith on the front, on the back for all individuals that hustle. 551 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:17,840 I'm like, I'm like, I just, I was like, Lord, I want to tear 552 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,000 my shirt, I want to scream, I want to ask him a question, but 553 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,600 I also like I get it. OK, here's the basic idea that 554 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:24,840 faith has been hijacked. OK? 555 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,360 I want to achieve X thing in my life. 556 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,760 I have faith that it will happen that way. 557 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,240 So I live that way. It will come about if I believe 558 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,200 enough that it will happen, right? 559 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,640 So your faith is in yourself and the process and the outcome. 560 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,040 You want all the things, OK for all individuals that hustle. 561 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,480 And at some level he's right. I'm just like, can we use a 562 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,560 different word? Can we just like, can we, can we 563 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,240 just do you get how that's so infuriating because it's 564 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:55,440 hijacked a word that is a a faith in Christ word and we've 565 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,200 hijacked it for you achieving your life's goals and dreams. 566 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,240 And then it gets confusing because you could throw a Bible 567 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,000 verse on it because Hebrews 11 what does does say faith is the 568 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,240 evidence of things not seen. It's convictions of things not 569 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,680 seen right. But in Hebrews 11 he's making an 570 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,120 argument that goes the whole chapter and you need verse 6 in 571 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,000 it. Help me somebody. 572 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:15,280 So here's what I'm trying to say. 573 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,040 Faith involves self talk about Jesus. 574 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,680 What are you telling yourself about Jesus? 575 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,200 I think myself included, the average person is a lot more 576 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,280 Pagan in our thinking than we realize. 577 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,040 Let me tell you what, for all individuals that hustle means 578 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,760 that's really Pagan. Really what it is y'all is it's 579 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,280 a random set of thinking that if I rub the bottle the right way, 580 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,520 the genie will do it. It's this way it's a system of 581 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:42,480 thinking that you are the means you doing things right gets God 582 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,120 to do right by you. That's really and God could be 583 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,240 anything by the way, OK, just turn on any TV show right now 584 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,680 and you going like people going to say, I mean, you just hear 585 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,520 people's like belief about God come out. 586 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,080 They're like, I'm the word manifest, the word karma, the 587 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,080 word God is going to do this, my God with this and it's gods of 588 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,760 our own making. But if we do our system of our 589 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,880 own making right, my God will do right by my own thinking. 590 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,160 We're creating a world unto ourselves. 591 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,760 That's how pagans think. There's millions of gods. 592 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:11,360 Who are you to tell me who the real God is? 593 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,840 I have my own I have my own system. 594 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,560 My own religion is really what it becomes. 595 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,760 And as long as I'm faithful within my own set of practices, 596 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,440 it will all work out well. Does that make sense? 597 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,280 It's just it's vibe based, energy based lightning in a 598 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,320 bottle. If you do it right and get the 599 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,080 practices right, it'll all go well. 600 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:33,920 And y'all I just want you to hear this. 601 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:39,920 Faith is relational trust in the real God. 602 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:45,640 Biblical faith is relational. It's not random based on your 603 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,920 performance. It's trust in who God is God. 604 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,480 He's a person, not an energy. He's not a vibe. 605 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:00,680 He's a real person, OK, He, he is Father, He is Son, He is Holy 606 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,280 Spirit. He's eternally been Father, Son 607 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,280 and Holy Spirit. He sent the Son, The Father sent 608 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,600 the Son to die in your place and be resurrected, and sent the 609 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,640 Spirit to convict us of sin so we could be in actual 610 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,840 relationship with Him. And it has nothing to do with 611 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,040 how well your life goes thereafter. 612 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,960 He died to live with you. So faith is relational trust. 613 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:31,120 It's not belief in myself as follower of some arbitrary thing 614 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,880 of my own making whereby karma will work out for me. 615 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,040 But that is in the bloodstream of the American DNA right now. 616 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,360 It's like faithfulness unto something of randomness, and as 617 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,960 long as you're faithful to it, it will go well by you. 618 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,800 But you get to define the terms. You know, that's paganism at its 619 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,120 core. And in that way of thinking, 620 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,680 you're fine with being more spiritual. 621 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,640 You'll do more practices, you'll start fasting, you'll do all 622 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,160 kinds of stuff, which is what Pastor John was trying to 623 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,000 highlight for us last week. Our, our culture will get more 624 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:58,920 spiritual. It's going to happen. 625 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,400 But it's Pagan. It's just absolute random 626 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,240 lightning in a bottle, whatever I say it is. 627 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:09,920 Does that make sense? Jesus is a real person and when 628 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,200 we demonstrate faith, that doesn't mean we get to dictate 629 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,760 who He is for us. Not all of our dead relatives 630 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,880 will raise right now just because we tell Him to do 631 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,120 something. We all the full experience of 632 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,640 what He wants to give us. Some will come now. 633 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,520 The full expression of new life is coming in Christ one day. 634 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,800 Ah, but here and now. He wants to take you by the 635 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,640 hand, save you, walk with you in life, and one day all things 636 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,000 will be as they really should be. 637 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,840 Amen. So faith is grabbing God, who is 638 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,480 a real person. It's not grabbing an energy. 639 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:50,800 OK #3 let's talk about Jesus touch and Jesus look and we'll 640 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:55,600 be done. Verse 22 Jesus turned and seeing 641 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,920 her he said take heart daughter, your faith has made you well. 642 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,720 And instantly the woman was made well. 643 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,040 And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute 644 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,480 players in the crowd making a commotion, he said go away for 645 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,560 the girl is not dead but sleeping. 646 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,360 And they laughed at him. But when the crowd had been put 647 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,320 outside, he went in and took her by the hand and the girl arose. 648 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,600 Y'all just want to finish looking at these two pictures 649 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,280 which are just amazing. We got the touch, we got the 650 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,040 look, we got the touch, we got the look. 651 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,360 Let's start with the touch. I know it's last in the text, 652 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,760 but I want to finish on the look. 653 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,520 So the touch is when he went in and took the girl by the hand 654 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,520 and she arose. Scholars debate exactly what 655 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,960 Jesus meant when he said she's not dead but sleeping. 656 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,040 But what he doesn't mean is that she's not dead. 657 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,920 I know that sounds silly. What she doesn't mean is like 658 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,440 she had a pulse. OK? 659 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,320 You know, some people are like, that must mean she was in a coma 660 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:44,080 or something. They didn't know. 661 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,080 And they take all these angles. It was a play on words a little 662 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,240 bit. But these people are laughing 663 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,840 because she's dead. Does that make sense? 664 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,360 Like they can they can they they she was dead all right now 665 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,600 exactly what she meant. Maybe he's alluding to like the 666 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,360 final resurrect. You know, there's all kinds of 667 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,000 layers to what he could mean, but it's just a Jesus ISM for 668 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,160 I'm Jesus, I'm the bridegroom. Like just watch this y'all be 669 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,160 y'all are tripping. Get away. 670 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,560 So he touches her. Y'all. 671 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,639 Do you remember what the father asked him to do though? 672 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,800 Come in, lay your hand. Look back at verse 18. 673 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,040 Come in, lay your hand on her and she will live. 674 00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:20,520 I love that He didn't layer his hand on her. 675 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,920 He took her by the hand y'all. That's such an image for me. 676 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,920 He didn't lay his hand on her, He took her by the hand in my 677 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,800 mind. The image that came to my mind 678 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,199 is like, I think the Father just wanted his daughter, the way he 679 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,159 thought of her back. What she got was a resurrection 680 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:36,679 with Jesus. Y'all listen to me. 681 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,920 You don't just need a resurrection, you need 682 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,040 resurrection with Christ y'all. You don't just need to be saved 683 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,400 from your sins, you need to be saved to Christ like we we think 684 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,400 of new life is like a better plus 10 version of what I think 685 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,000 you need resurrection with Christ. 686 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,320 You need him to take you by the hand. 687 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,920 You don't just need to be raised you need to be raised with 688 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:03,920 Christ. Y'all the gospel is that Jesus 689 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,280 Christ. I love how in the text did you 690 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,480 notice Matthew could have used a lot of words here. 691 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,120 Y'all look at it with me. Let's find it. 692 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:16,800 Verse 19 come my daughter is dead and Jesus rose and followed 693 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,120 her. I love that I love it says that 694 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:23,600 she he rose and then in verse 25 he went and took her by the hand 695 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,280 and the girl arose. He could have said and the girl 696 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,880 was made alive. The girl there was lots of 697 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,240 language, but y'all the the idea of the biblical gospel is that 698 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:36,600 Christ dies for you and then he was risen so you could be risen 699 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,880 like the idea is this is a foreshadowing this girl would 700 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,720 die again, right? He let he took her by the hand. 701 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:44,840 She she might die of old age, something like that. 702 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:48,960 But the the imagery here points to one day where Jesus would 703 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,960 rise a a resurrection where he will never die again. 704 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,360 Jesus rose a resurrection that isn't AI get 50 more years. 705 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,200 You know Jesus rose and will never die again. 706 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,680 He has defeated sin, Satan, and death forever. 707 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,040 And when he takes us by the hand, when you allow by faith, 708 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,000 when you grab him, when you get on the plane, you get 709 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,360 resurrected with him, It's as if the Son of God died in your 710 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,960 place. It's as if you died 2000 years 711 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,760 ago. That's literally what the 712 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,120 biblical idea of salvation is, is that his death counts for 713 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,640 yours effectually and his resurrection counts for yours. 714 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,600 It's as if He died your death and gave you his life. 715 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,160 That is the picture that this ultimately points to. 716 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,200 And some of y'all need to experience that. 717 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,040 You need to experience. You think you're getting around 718 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,280 the Bible and you think we're saying let the Lord lay his hand 719 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,640 on you. What we're saying is let him 720 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,040 take you by the hand. You need resurrection so that 721 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,160 you can live with Jesus. The goal isn't just you're a bad 722 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,720 person. You need your sins washed away. 723 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,600 You were made to live with Christ for his authorship to 724 00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,960 come over you and you to live life with Him. 725 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,720 And that's what God wants for you. 726 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:04,680 That's what we want for you. You have to admit that he's 727 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,800 right, that you're dead. Before you can receive 728 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,520 resurrection, by definition, you have to be dead. 729 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,720 You know that, right? To get resurrected, you have to 730 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:16,280 be dead 1st. And some of us just haven't 731 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,160 acknowledged that we're dead in our sin and we need 732 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,920 resurrection. You still think Jesus is here to 733 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,360 help you, that you're sick and you need a dose of some 734 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,320 medicine? You know, the biblical picture 735 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,480 is that we were the girl. We are dead in our sin and we 736 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,400 need resurrection. That's what we need. 737 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,480 Not just a little help, not just a little coaching. 738 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,240 Now let's talk about the look. Let's talk about the look. 739 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,760 The woman comes up behind him and touches the fringe of his 740 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,800 garment because she's so filled with shame. 741 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,080 And he turns and looks at her and says, take heart daughter, 742 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,040 your faith has made you. Well, somebody say shame. 743 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,360 Y'all shame. Because a lot of times when we 744 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,200 talk about the gospel, we just talk about guilt. 745 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,080 Guilt is the idea of you've done something wrong and blood 746 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,240 atoning payment has to be made. And that is true. 747 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,400 Shame is the idea that even when your guilt is absolved, you 748 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,560 don't just think you have a problem, Guilt, you think you 749 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,400 are a problem. Shame is that my existence is 750 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,880 not worth something that makes sense. 751 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,160 That's what she's oozing from this story. 752 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,560 She's oozing. I don't just have a problem. 753 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,280 I am a problem. I don't want to inconvenience 754 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,840 this teacher, this healer. I will come up behind him and 755 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,960 get it and I'll go on my way. Shame is thick in this story. 756 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,160 I don't. I love how Jesus turns to her 757 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,960 and says daughter and looks right at her. 758 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,600 Just looks at her, looks through her, looks in her. 759 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,800 This is Jean Valjean and Les Mis. 760 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,040 Somebody getting called brother by the priest. 761 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,760 One of my favorite singers is like, oh, you're just melted by 762 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,280 it. Called me brother. 763 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,240 But seriously, nobody talks to this woman. 764 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:52,960 No one looks here. You know, one of the evidences 765 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,840 that shame is at work in your life is when you can't make eye 766 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,640 contact with people. Shame. 767 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,200 People struggle to be looked at. There's nothing more shaming to 768 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,600 a shame person than to look at them. 769 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,440 They can't look at themselves. That's the idea. 770 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,360 You can't look at me. I can't even look at me. 771 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,160 Don't look at me. That might even be something you 772 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,960 say. Sometimes it's a very normal 773 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,320 experience. You feel unworthy to be looked 774 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,600 at. I've heard intimacy defined it 775 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:21,040 as defined as into me, you see. So some of us struggle with 776 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,200 intimacy with people, friendships, all kinds of 777 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,760 relationships because we don't want to be seen into. 778 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,560 So we're really good at casual party conversations, but we 779 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,640 struggle with real life substance because we're at war 780 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,360 with ourselves. We hate ourselves many times. 781 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,320 And what can happen even in a church setting where you hear 782 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,800 God loves you every week, you think that means he was willing 783 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,480 to die for you and absolve your guilt, but he don't like you. 784 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,560 He can't take your shame. You can take your guilt, but not 785 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,160 your shame, but y'all the gospel is that in Christ your guilt is 786 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,360 taken and your shame is absorbed in the touch of Christ. 787 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:03,760 Y'all he looks at you in you uncomfortably squirmy for all 788 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,560 y'all that say thanks instead of thank you much love instead of I 789 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:12,240 love you for all of us who just all the squirm and all the 790 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:15,880 levels he just this is this is what God came to do is look in 791 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,560 US. And at some level y'all being 792 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,440 squirmy about being looked at makes sense because when we look 793 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,840 in, what do we see? We see a lot of stuff that ain't 794 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,400 great. We think we have a clip of all 795 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,120 the things we blew. I should have said that there 796 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,880 and I didn't. I said that to my mom and I 797 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,280 shouldn't. I had an opportunity there and I 798 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,160 blew it. We just look and we see failure. 799 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,280 We see mess ups, we see things that we just don't like. 800 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:45,280 So we've quit on ourselves. We're at war with ourselves, so 801 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:47,480 let me just touch the fringe of his garment. 802 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,880 But y'all, there's something about the gospel where we have 803 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,520 to let Jesus look at us. We have to. 804 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,320 It's hard, it's squirmy, But to my fellow caged animals, the 805 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,680 littlest things could just make you feel backed in a corner so 806 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,480 quick. Y'all, what's going to change 807 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:03,920 your life is letting Jesus look at you. 808 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,520 It's going to On the cross, Jesus is looking at you. 809 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,200 He is absorbing your guilt. He is touching you. 810 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,240 He's cleansing you. Doesn't mean you're your He's 811 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:16,880 not looking at you because you are the stuff. 812 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:21,240 He's looking at you because he sees you and is making you the 813 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:22,080 stuff. Does that make sense? 814 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,680 I love Psalm 25. It says this. 815 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,640 Remember not my sins, O Lord, but Remember Me. 816 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,400 It's this idea, this biblical idea that there is a you that is 817 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:37,000 not attached to your sin. He can remove it and see you as 818 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,640 far as the east is from the West, so far as you remove your 819 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,080 sin from you. Some of us only relate to God as 820 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,320 taking away our sin. We don't even know how to relate 821 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:49,480 to Him once it's gone, you know, and just being the beloved, 822 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,880 being adored, being received. But that's the gospel. 823 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,200 So here's the last thing I want to say, and I'm done. 824 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:59,000 Come to Jesus just as you are, with faith that He will give you 825 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,920 new life. Come to Him just as you are 826 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,400 right here, right now. This is what changed my life 15 827 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,600 years ago. Every second of every day you 828 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:12,680 are looking to be looked at. You live to be looked at. 829 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,040 What if we try to impress people because we want to be looked at? 830 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,560 What if we give lives to put a ball in a basket because we want 831 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,720 to be looked at? What if we want to impress a 832 00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:27,400 boss so bad? What if we are avoiding our 833 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,240 family because I need the applause of other people? 834 00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:34,000 What if much of the shame in our life, much of the things that 835 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,040 plague us, is actually we're looking for the look that only 836 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,120 Christ can give? Here's the idea, y'all. 837 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,000 This is not just Bible talk. This is what you live for. 838 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,200 You live to be looked at. You long to be looked at. 839 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,040 You long for somebody to see you for who you really are and not 840 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,720 run. And there's only one who can 841 00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:57,280 make you clean. We can resurrect you. 842 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,520 I love how in this picture we get a woman cleansed and a girl 843 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,600 resurrected. I don't know which one you think 844 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:03,440 you need. You need both. 845 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,000 The idea is His cleansing is resurrecting. 846 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,680 In his resurrection He cleanses you and taking your guilt, He 847 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,440 takes your shame. So y'all unbelievers, I need you 848 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:13,880 to hear you are looking right now. 849 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:18,080 You are. And the biblical idea is you're 850 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,880 looking won't stop until you look to the one who's already 851 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:25,760 looking at you. OK, the looking won't stop until 852 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,920 you find the one who's looking for you, and that is Jesus 853 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,600 Christ. He's looking for you. 854 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:32,880 You're not going to find it in that boy, that girl, that title, 855 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,560 that award, that raise, that thing. 856 00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,440 The next phase, it comes in Christ. 857 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,240 Our souls are restless until they find the rest in you. 858 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:42,680 I would say the path of your life. 859 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:48,360 I can put it like this. Look, be looked at and then 860 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:52,200 look. OK, you looked and your sin 861 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,280 didn't find. You were looked at by Christ. 862 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,600 You got found and now look at Him. 863 00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:57,680 Y'all. Here's the idea. 864 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,480 He looks at you first so you'll look at him. 865 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,120 He looks at you when you wouldn't look at him so that now 866 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,080 that he looked at you, you'll look at him. 867 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,160 Y'all with me? She wouldn't look at him. 868 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,520 She came up behind him. He turned and looked at her. 869 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:14,520 Now she lives looking at him. Who looked at her. 870 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,720 You were looking. You didn't find it. 871 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:18,280 You got looked at. So start looking. 872 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,200 I'm serious. You'll think I'm playing. 873 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,240 You are looking now. You got looked at. 874 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:26,720 So look. And your life will change if you 875 00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:29,320 change your look. But your look won't change till 876 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,840 you get looked at. Does that make sense? 877 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,760 Yeah, I appreciate that. All right, I'll say this and I'm 878 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,080 done. We look. 879 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:39,760 It's what we do. I look. 880 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,760 You look too. We live to look. 881 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,160 That's a fact. We look. 882 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,400 We look, hoping to be looked at back. 883 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,440 Then comes Jesus, not living to be looked at. 884 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:58,200 You see that He lives to look. What's the deal with that? 885 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,480 He's the God man, content in His Father's look. 886 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,240 He came to give looks and he looks through the book. 887 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,880 So today, look for the Son of God until you see his look. 888 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,440 He's looking for you and looking at you, waiting for you to look 889 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,160 back at him too. His look is strongest at the 890 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,280 cross for where for our sake he died. 891 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,360 He look. His look takes our guilt and 892 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,360 shame. They're in the grave where He 893 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,760 lied. Now welcome to the new life of 894 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,720 the look. We look now as those who have 895 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:35,880 been looked at. We can look at our friends, not 896 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,800 needing them to look back. So go look as the Son of God 897 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,160 keeps looking at you, as we give away looks for free. 898 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,760 Let's look what He can do. Let's pray our Father, we love 899 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,480 you. I pray that that makes sense 900 00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:54,520 what I just said. But Father, we praise you that 901 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,560 you came to look into us and see us, cleanse us, make us whole, 902 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,360 resurrect us. God, we need your resurrecting 903 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,560 look that absorbs our shame and our guilt on the cross. 904 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,080 God, I pray that somebody in this room will be looked at for 905 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,880 the first time and just break today and walk with you. 906 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,480 Would you take them by the hand to walk out of here with them? 907 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,120 And God, I pray for the believers in this room. 908 00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,840 Help them to know that the ongoing life of the beloved is 909 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,040 just to be looked at. And then as we go to our friends 910 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,600 God, would we look at them? Would we speak words over them? 911 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,960 Would we encourage them? And when people look back at us 912 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,280 and say, why are you looking at me, we could say it's because 913 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,440 I've been looked at by Christ. So God, may we be a church that 914 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,400 doesn't need blessing from others, but can give it away for 915 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,320 free. And would people get saved by 916 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,040 you, Almighty God who makes us clean, we love you. 917 00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:39,440 We pray this in Christ's name, Amen.