1 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:15,080 Happy Monday. This is Pastor Matt. 2 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,640 Master Grass. Pastor Chris is here. 3 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:20,400 They you're still alive. I'm here. 4 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,880 We didn't even really, I guess Kristen said. 5 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:28,400 Reference to you, but I didn't do my usual homage to you. 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,560 Oh no, that is so unnecessary homage. 7 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,160 I'm just saying if if you weren't like present in the room 8 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:42,120 and looking for you Sunday morning, like I feel like we 9 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:43,080 could have missed you. Because. 10 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,880 We really drew like, no attention to you at all. 11 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,680 That's OK, I I don't. I certainly don't need it. 12 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,760 He was here, I promise. I think I probably, whether I 13 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,240 mean to or not, draw enough attention to myself I don't 14 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,000 need. Any no problem drawing. 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,280 Attention. No, I don't. 16 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,040 I don't need any help, and in fact, we might be better if we 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,080 don't. I'll just be a ninja in the 18 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:04,599 crowd. That's hilarious. 19 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,080 Yeah. So we are here, man. 20 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,000 Hot and ready ERC leftovers today. 21 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,400 Yeah, fresh out of the skillet. Really. 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,560 We usually record this. Full disclosure, peek behind the 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,040 curtain. Usually recorded on Monday and 24 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,720 it's Sunday afternoon right now. Here we go. 25 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,480 Hot off the presses from the sermon, coming right out of it. 26 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,840 Instant reaction. Have you even had time to 27 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,880 process a? Little bit it was a weird 28 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,600 message for me and I kind of shared this with you and I think 29 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,560 you understand the the preacher's tension. 30 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,720 Like it felt like, I know you could have taken this text 31 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,960 different way and like, 'cause most texts you can, you can, you 32 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,120 can end up at different conclusions. 33 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,000 But what was just speaking so clearly to me out of this was 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,960 that sort of sanctification tension. 35 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:58,000 And what we, what we think of and experience as a life of 36 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,960 sanctification versus what, Like, what actually does that? 37 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,800 If, if that makes sense. Like we, we, we look at our 38 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,360 sanctification as our like, successes and failures 39 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,040 throughout life becoming more holy, So wrestling with and 40 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:12,600 yadda, yadda. Yeah. 41 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,360 And like, yeah, that's part of it. 42 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:15,760 That's literally just living through it. 43 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,640 But what sanctifies us? Like it's the Holy Spirit. 44 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,520 It's it's the power of Jesus blood and the power that he's 45 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,360 coming back. Like that, that justification 46 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,800 first phase and glorification final phase. 47 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,840 Like those are the things that matter. 48 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,200 And we're just kind of along for the ride for the sanctification 49 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,280 part, like, and I don't want to that might offend some people 50 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,680 that were that we have like that we don't have like any decision 51 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,120 or or motivation or anything. But like, to some degree we are 52 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,040 a little bit in the Christian life, just kind of tossed among 53 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:51,200 the waves a little bit. Yeah, there's definitely some 54 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,480 element of that. I you know what, I appreciate 55 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,040 that. But actually let me draw a 56 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,960 backward a step because I'm sure we'll get into some more of that 57 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,600 stuff. But you said something just now. 58 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,920 That's what was really hitting you from the text. 59 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,440 I think it's so interesting and I always did, even before I was 60 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,760 in full time ministry. I think it's so interesting to 61 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,800 watch decisions happen when it comes to preaching and teaching 62 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,600 because you know, you could, you could have somebody. 63 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:22,720 And it's not that the total meaning is different, it's what 64 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,400 we're keying in on. So even in these few verses, 65 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,720 which is not a lot of verses 5 through 11, man, there's 66 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,160 probably, I mean, there's a plethora of ideas that you could 67 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,160 just, hey, here's this one thing. 68 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,720 Let me chase, let me chase it down to its logical conclusion. 69 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,280 And so I think it's super interesting when you hear 70 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,840 preachers make choices on like, OK, this is the idea that I'm 71 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,360 keying in on. And I just think from for my 72 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,560 money, as the saying goes, I think it is so good to hear a 73 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,760 lot of different people speak on those things because 74 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,880 everybody's, everybody's background information, what we 75 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,400 call their, their tacit, their tacit processing. 76 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,360 Maybe it's all going to grab something slightly different, 77 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,280 but I think it's really cool. And so I've really appreciated 78 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,440 the talk on primarily sanctification and, and what 79 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,320 that looks like and. And you're absolutely right 80 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,240 because this isn't like in and of itself a sanctification 81 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:28,080 passage necessarily. Like we get there eventually and 82 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,600 and a lot of the life in the spirit things is it's like 83 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,040 arguably, and I wrestled with a little bit if I was stealing any 84 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,880 of your Thunder for next week because like verse verse 13 is 85 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:43,800 like a sanctification verse. But what you're right as far as 86 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:49,600 the decisions fall, that verse 7 just kind of cut me for the mind 87 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,720 that is set on the flesh is hostile to God. 88 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,720 It does not submit to laws, God's law. 89 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,840 Indeed, it cannot like that that idea of chasing perfection of of 90 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,040 of avoiding sin and chasing the fruits of the spirit. 91 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,560 Like if that's it, if that's the end game, and I said it so many 92 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,560 times to don't the don'ts and do the do's, like that's a mindset 93 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,480 on the flesh that that is a performance like workspace 94 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,440 righteousness theology. And it's a mindset on the flesh 95 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,720 and its hostile guts. So like that was my decision 96 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,960 point of you know what? This isn't about us at all. 97 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,240 This isn't about anything that we could not do enough of or 98 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,840 could do enough of to to earn or avoid or whatever else. 99 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:34,480 And that landed me on sanctification. 100 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,120 Which no, I think, I think I think that's spot on. 101 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,480 That's a, that's a perfectly valid place to land. 102 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,680 And actually, so let me draw this out into a bigger thing, 103 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,840 which is to say this, you don't have to be a teacher, a Bible 104 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:51,720 teacher or a pastor to do this. Because what happens is God's 105 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,800 word is living and active, sharper than any 2 edged sword. 106 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,520 And so for example, if you read a text and then you come back a 107 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,520 year and read it again later, Oh my gosh, you know what's going 108 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,320 to happen that is probably going to poke you in a different way. 109 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,760 And he's like, hey, this is what you need from this right now. 110 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,200 And so, I mean, I actually think that this is kind of a universal 111 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,400 thing for people who study God's Word is that man, every once in 112 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,480 awhile the Holy Spirit's going to poke you with something that 113 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,960 even if you've read it before, it's going to be different. 114 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,280 And that doesn't mean that there's different truths to 115 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,840 God's Word, like you can interpret something incorrectly, 116 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,520 but it all, but it doesn't mean that you can't key in on 117 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,240 different concepts that are within the same text. 118 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,200 And so I think that happens to us as readers, That happens to 119 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,240 us as pastors and preachers. It should happen to all of us in 120 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,520 different ways as we as we kind of engage in God's Word. 121 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,320 Yeah, and possibly you're, you're absolutely right because 122 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,240 and I didn't like intentionally do this, but, and even looking 123 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,600 back from our sermon prep, which we did, we did this series, we 124 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,080 prepped this sermon like big ideas and scripture parallels 125 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,440 and and we did that all the way back in October. 126 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,480 And I didn't like just crumble it up and throw it away, but I 127 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,680 like does it like even the even the point, like I used about 128 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,760 half of them. Even even the points that we had 129 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,800 in like our outline. I I still upon my reading and 130 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,880 study of it this week. It was like it still just kind 131 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,480 of tugged me a little bit differently than where it's our 132 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,800 big idea was a mindset on the spirit brings life for today and 133 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,280 eternity. Like I, I think that probably 134 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,920 still came out today and like still rings true, but that 135 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,080 wasn't that wasn't my proclamatory thing. 136 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,320 So don't get mad at me for that. I did not. 137 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,640 I did not just like besmirch the sermon prep doc, but besmirch 138 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,440 it. That was just so. 139 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,720 Even four months ago when we, when we studied this passage, 140 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,800 like it just there's a little different light shed on what 141 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,320 we're what we're taking out of this so. 142 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:55,800 I think that's neat. Actually, one of the things that 143 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,880 you brought up this week, and I wrote it in my notes because I 144 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,040 was taking notes like a good student in the first service, 145 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,160 you had this phrase that you used and we can get into it 146 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,880 more, but you said famous failures and I did. 147 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,840 I couldn't help it. As I was sitting amongst our 148 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,440 audience, I was like thinking, and again, this tells you where 149 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,800 my brain goes. I instantly started thinking of 150 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,720 like famous failures that I actually was mildly entertained 151 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,440 by. Seriously, that's where I went. 152 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,600 So I missed like. Things that just went terribly. 153 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:28,880 Wrong. I probably missed like a minute 154 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,080 and a half to two minutes of the sermon because I was just like, 155 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:37,000 I've got some famous failures, me personally, and just things 156 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,200 that I've been thinking of in the world. 157 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,880 So let me give you one that you're probably slightly too 158 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,320 young to, you're too young to remember. 159 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,800 But those who are my age and probably a little bit older and 160 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,480 maybe slightly younger, you will remember. 161 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:57,560 You should remember the debacle that was Crystal Pepsi. 162 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,240 This happened in 1992. And I'll never forget going to 163 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,360 the gas station in Wheatland, IA, rolled up to the pop, you 164 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,280 know, the the cooler, which was something that we did normally, 165 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,840 if we had a dollar, we're going to go grab a soda or whatever. 166 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,120 And when you could still do that, by the way, 1992, come on. 167 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,280 So anyway, we rolled up to the Pop and it's like, why is the 168 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,680 Pepsi clear? Why is it clear? 169 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:27,040 And so just out of sheer curiosity, we all bought a 170 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,520 Crystal Pepsi and it was absolutely disgusting. 171 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:32,960 I don't know how it. Tasted different it. 172 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,560 Oh yes I'm sorry I was 2. I wasn't drinking Pepsi at the 173 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,960 time. So your parents, they failed 174 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:40,160 you? No, I'm kidding. 175 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,600 That was a good move on their part not to give you pop at two 176 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:44,440 years. Old, yeah. 177 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,960 No, but this stuff was disgusting. 178 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,960 It was so bad that they pulled it from the shelves awfully 179 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:53,760 quickly. I don't think it lasted very 180 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,360 long. So how does that even maybe it's 181 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,240 a different market than it was back then, but I feel like 182 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,360 Mountain Dew is making like whatever flavour that they want 183 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,920 and it's just, it's just fine. How does something like that 184 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,400 make it past like test panels and whatever else it did? 185 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,120 So it didn't. It was Crystal Pepsi, but it 186 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,600 didn't taste like Pepsi. No, I. 187 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,600 What did it taste like? I do not recall what the taste 188 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:17,600 was. I'm so sorry. 189 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,240 I'm doing a bad job of explaining that. 190 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:23,640 But I just know that I think it was myself and my brother. 191 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:26,680 And I can't remember if Derrick, Derrick Hendrickson was with us 192 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:28,280 because we always hung out all the time. 193 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,800 But all of us, just like we dumped it like because we did 194 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,640 not finish it. OK, because it'd be one thing if 195 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:36,640 they were just like Crystal Pepsi. 196 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:41,720 Oops, It's it's Sprite. Like, like, oops, I'm just like, 197 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,520 like the, the camp Crunch, oops, all berries. 198 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,920 Like it was, well, it just came out all berries. 199 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,560 Or, or if they were trying to like just make it have the Pepsi 200 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:55,040 taste, but just be clear for whatever reason, 'cause that's 201 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,320 more, is it more appealing to drink a cleared soda? 202 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,760 I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. 203 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,440 I just I don't understand the marketing scheme, but apparently 204 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:03,560 didn't work out one way or the other. 205 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:07,160 Neither look nor taste nor. No, it did not it. 206 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:11,240 Did not Crystal Pepsi. Crystal Pepsi, you know, were 207 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,360 there a bottle somehow still sealed out there somewhere just 208 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,080 for the laughs? I would probably drink it, but 209 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:20,800 it probably still wouldn't be good. 210 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,120 I'm sure age. Recollective pitch. 211 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,560 Now that's Yikes. Yeah. 212 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,200 Got any ones that you remember you thought of? 213 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,280 The fantastic famous failures. Famous failures, man. 214 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,880 I can only think of. I can only think of people. 215 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,360 That's. So that's a really good example 216 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,240 of was it? Was that the one that they were 217 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,040 trying to fix something that wasn't broken? 218 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:45,600 Is that what happened or Or was that? 219 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,320 One Coke. Coke did something similarly 220 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,240 dumb with New Coke. New Coke, New Coke and then 221 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:53,400 people. They changed the formula. 222 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,640 They were basically rioting in the streets. 223 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,640 Give me my classic Coca-Cola. That's So that's what, yeah, 224 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:03,880 things like things like that are innovation isn't always better. 225 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,120 Like change, which is really hard for me. 226 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,640 I always feel like change is almost always better. 227 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:13,000 But it's not in the in the case of that new Coke, they were 228 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,040 trying to fix something that wasn't broken, right. 229 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,880 That was the that was the headline and the critique of 230 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,080 that. I just some some interesting 231 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:24,920 maybe just like misses. I don't know if these fit your 232 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,440 fit your failure failures necessarily just some guys. 233 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,920 Of course Thomas Edison what tried like 1000 times before he 234 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,400 got the like he he worked through all those failures 235 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,440 before making making the light bulb. 236 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:44,240 Elvis Presley was fired from the Grand Ole Opry and and told to 237 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,080 return to driving trucks Before he like before he like. 238 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,520 You know, I could totally see Elvis as a truck driver. 239 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,520 I. Could see that and then so that 240 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,880 that one and Steven Spielberg, famous movie producer was also 241 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:03,240 he was denied from film school like 3 different times until he 242 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:10,240 was just doing his own thing and Harry Potter that series was. 243 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,600 Like the book series? The book series was rejected by 244 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,680 12 different publishers. No, yeah, I didn't know that. 245 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,560 Yeah, no way. Yes, which seems insane, but. 246 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,160 All 12 publishers are just Oh my gosh, you missed like the 247 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,480 lottery ticket of the century. Yeah, so those were just maybe 248 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,200 not fixing something that wasn't broken, but those were just man, 249 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,120 drop the ball. I can't believe I wow, I can't 250 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,040 believe you would. And I don't know what, you know, 251 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,160 those original writings were like, I'm sure by the time they 252 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,480 were published, maybe they were cleaned up or whatever, but like 253 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,320 you can't read. I'm I'm kind of stuck on this 254 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,200 one for a second. I'm sorry you didn't read her 255 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,440 content and go, man, you know what? 256 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,440 Kids are going to love this. You couldn't have seen that. 257 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,880 I mean, yeah, hindsight seems perfect, but maybe in the room. 258 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,480 Oh my gosh, I don't know. I have a few book series like 259 00:13:58,480 --> 00:13:59,880 that that I'm surprised that weren't. 260 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,520 I read the 7th Tower series growing up, which was fiction 261 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:08,000 writer Garth. Nick's never he never. 262 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,320 I don't think anything profound ever really came from him. 263 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,920 I think this six book series should have been like an epic 3 264 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:16,840 movie series, to be honest with you. 265 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,640 I've never met anyone else who has ever read them. 266 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,760 Yeah. But my brother and I loved them. 267 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,320 And so I'm just saying like in that, in that similar way 268 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,760 there's, I don't know, somehow that made it through and it 269 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,240 didn't catch on. So you suppose there's some 270 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,560 level? Not that I believe in what I'm 271 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,400 about to say, not really. Do you suppose there's some 272 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,200 level of luck involved? Oh, absolutely. 273 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,360 Like just the right person has to read it, and then they're 274 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,160 going to go tell everybody and it's going to catch fire. 275 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,360 Yes, for it to have success, but in what you're saying like 276 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,520 anyone Harry Potter probably would have been Harry Potter 277 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,000 regardless of the opportunity, right, Like some someone. 278 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,440 I think you're right in the sense that like that was just 279 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,680 good and anyone could have had success with that. 280 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,560 There was very little luck involved in on the other side 281 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,880 where it like didn't have success, yeah, and maybe needed 282 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,640 whatever better marketers or the different publishing path. 283 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,880 And yeah, so anyway, I got us away from famous failures. 284 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,000 I feel like you had a couple. More No, there was a couple more 285 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,640 that I that I looked up that I thought were kind of cool. 286 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,520 Well, I didn't bring this one up. 287 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,640 The DeLorean, the car, you know, from Back to the future. 288 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:31,200 That's so sad that thing it says 0 sales in 1981. 289 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,600 OK, so they put out they, they roll out this car, nobody wants 290 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,720 it. It looks super cheesy and 291 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:43,600 futuristic, nobody likes it. And then it only becomes famous 292 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,200 after it had already failed. And so they'd already stopped 293 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,960 making it by the time Back to the Future rolls out, right? 294 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,720 And then everybody wants 1 after that movie comes out. 295 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:54,640 But they don't have them. Anymore, But they said it was 296 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,480 clunky and it drove terribly, and it was. 297 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,840 It was kind of like driving like a tank. 298 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,400 It was awful to drive, they said, and so nobody wanted one 299 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,640 until after the movie came out. So that car just completely 300 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,000 failed. One other one that I liked a lot 301 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:18,760 and I couldn't believe this. 1996 the Taco Liberty Bell. 302 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,160 What? This is a good one. 303 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:24,160 Taco Bell announced it had purchased the Liberty Bell and 304 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,480 renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell. 305 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,880 What? And because we're just at the 306 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,600 advent of the Internet at this point, everybody believed. 307 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,640 It. Everybody believed it. 308 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,640 It was, it was meant to be like an April Fool's Day joke from 309 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,200 Taco Bell to the country, just, you know, whatever. 310 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,680 But everybody believed it. No Internet to like debunk it 311 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,320 out of the gate. And so like, so it says that the 312 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,120 National Park Service had to issue an official statement that 313 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:58,440 they did not allow Taco Bell to actually buy the Liberty Bell. 314 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,160 And if they did, why did they keep Liberty Bell in there? 315 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:03,920 I feel like they if they were going to own it. 316 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,760 Nope. This is the Taco Bell now. 317 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:09,960 Just just erase that part of American history. 318 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,319 It's fine for marketing purposes, of course. 319 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,240 Of course. So another just, you know, what 320 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,000 a terrible failure on a prank that got people really angry. 321 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,560 Like people were apparently like boycotting Taco Bell and how 322 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,079 dare you and all this kind of stuff. 323 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:28,600 And it's like, dude, it was just a joke. 324 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,080 Oops, bad joke that. Would have been like the most 325 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,320 annoying college football bowl game ever the the Taco Liberty 326 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,840 Bell Fiesta bowl. Yeah, it's a big. 327 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,800 By the Taco Liberty Bell. By the Taco Liberty Bell. 328 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,920 Oh my, yeah, I don't like it. There's some good famous 329 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,360 failures if you have any more love to hear about them. 330 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,240 Things that went terribly wrong or things that people tried to 331 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:58,200 fix that weren't broken, didn't didn't need to be changed or 332 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,000 fixed. Yeah, because that's more or 333 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,000 less where we wound up with this message in Romans 8. 334 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000 We're in verses 5 through 11 this week. 335 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:16,080 And yeah, what was really convicting on my heart and of 336 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:22,160 course I'm I'm influenced in taking in different different 337 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,040 messages and different study. We were at refuel conference 338 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,800 last week with the worship team in Mishawaka IN it was a worship 339 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,680 conference. One of the speakers there, Kim 340 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,560 Walker Smith, we sing a few of her songs from time to time. 341 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,840 And you're, you're probably familiar with her work with 342 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,640 Jesus culture and, and Bethel music and her own independent 343 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,640 stuff too. But she was one of the speakers 344 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:47,040 and she was speaking on and against burnout in ministry and 345 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,240 how to and how to prevent it. And like all these other 346 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:55,000 strategies, when in her experience, we just lost sight 347 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,520 of Jesus, like in our, in our burnout. 348 00:18:58,280 --> 00:18:59,880 That's really what causes burnout. 349 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,320 We, we've lost sight of the thing. 350 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,360 And that's what I was trying to draw out in the message this 351 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:10,800 week of yes, there's in in Galatians 5, Paul draws out this 352 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,080 tension of the of the war between the flesh and the 353 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,000 spirit. Galatians 5. 354 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,600 He kind of like lists all of the things, all the, the, the sexual 355 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,800 immorality and the debauchery and, and all, all those things. 356 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,560 And then he counteracts that with, but this is, these are the 357 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,000 fruits of the spirit. This is, this is how we see this 358 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,680 played out. So what is your mind set on? 359 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,320 But that's still not the point. So like so like that was that 360 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,320 was ringing out from this message 2 weeks ago from from 361 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,400 Kim Walker Smith of like avoiding the wrongs and doing 362 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,520 the rights. Did I say Jesus in that? 363 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,360 Like I I Jesus wasn't anywhere in that sentence. 364 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,800 Jesus is the point. Jesus is the thing. 365 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,400 So where we ended with the song, the blood and even just 366 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:01,960 hopefully what was a somewhat cohesive and articulate message 367 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:07,040 together for like the focus on. What matters in, in, in Christ, 368 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,440 those those anchor points that we have of his death and 369 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,040 resurrection of his coming again, not to say that our life 370 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,080 in the middle is meaningless. I'm not going like all 371 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:19,400 Ecclesiastes here on here, but but, but we can't let the the 372 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,400 highs of, of our journey of sanctification replace what 373 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,680 Jesus did. And we also can't let the lows 374 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,080 of, of our failures and even in the process of sanctification, 375 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,800 like we can't let that take away what Jesus did either. 376 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,000 That's that's not it. Well, and it's interesting, I'm, 377 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,400 I'm glad you brought up the, the, the fruit of the spirit in 378 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,200 this sermon, because I think it, I think it's spot on. 379 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,320 It's a, it's a great place to import that. 380 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:53,000 Now, what's funny is gosh, we, we look at a list of those 381 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,120 really good attributes, right? And we say, you know what I'm 382 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:58,640 going to do? I'm going to work at this, I'm 383 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,240 going to work at being more patient. 384 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,160 I'm going to work it, you know, being good and faithful and 385 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,040 stuff. And Oh my gosh, the second we 386 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,240 say that we have already failed because the whole point is it's 387 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,640 not about us working towards it. It's about if I have a heart 388 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,320 changed by the gospel, these things will naturally flow out 389 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,240 of my life. So it's not so much, OK, I'm 390 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,040 going to, I'm going to steal myself here and, and I'm going 391 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,400 to work into being a more patient person. 392 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,800 No, you're not. You're going to fail miserably 393 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,440 and it's going to be ugly and you're going to wonder what the 394 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,800 heck happened. Well, geez, guys, it's, it's one 395 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,280 of those things like stop working. 396 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,760 What God wants to just stop working for what God just wants 397 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:48,520 to give you, right. We, we don't have to strive for 398 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:53,080 those things. It is more so as I just implant 399 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,400 myself into God's Word and I am saturated by it. 400 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:02,200 Those things will more and more naturally occur. 401 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,280 The I think the illustration, the illustration I gave to my 402 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,760 confirmation students when we were talking about 403 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,160 sanctification was the clay pot on the wheel well. 404 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,720 It certainly doesn't start as a pot. 405 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,920 It starts as a lump of clay in a circle ish shape depending on 406 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,760 how good you are at that part of the process. 407 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,040 And then it is the Potter who shapes and reshapes and 408 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,960 sometimes it gets shaped incorrectly and so he smashes it 409 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,720 all down and he starts over again. 410 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:36,360 Well, in this illustration we are the clay and God is the one 411 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:39,880 who's reshaping. We're not reshaping ourselves by 412 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,360 our own will. And that's where these two, my 413 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:47,080 texts last week and your text connect beautifully is it's not 414 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,200 us doing the work of reshaping. It's God doing the work of 415 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,040 reshaping through the Holy Spirit. 416 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,320 Therefore, maybe, I mean, maybe we just don't have to like focus 417 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,800 on our efforts so much. Yeah. 418 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,720 And that's that's where I ended up because even in that what 419 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,200 like what you just said about, OK, I'm going to, I'm going to 420 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:14,480 set my mind on being patient. Well, that next instance that 421 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,080 you're not, maybe you are, maybe you're doing great, maybe 422 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,960 patient, patient, patient. But then you have one 423 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,800 interaction where you lose your temper or you lose your cool or, 424 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:26,600 or whatever it is, you're not patient in that moment. 425 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,480 You're you're not being perfectly patient. 426 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,040 And I didn't, I didn't share this on Sunday, but there's like 427 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:38,000 social psychology statistics of 95% of the people that we 428 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,880 interact with, we will only interact with once. 429 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,080 No. Really 90 Well, I mean, and I 430 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,920 guess it depends on how you but like interact being like a 431 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,840 passing conversation or or like whatever transactional cashier 432 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,320 sort of or like think of waiter, waiter at a table or whatever 433 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,280 else. 95% of all the people you meet in life you only have that 434 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,000 one interaction with. I am kind of blown away by that 435 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:05,280 so. But I'm interested. 436 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,960 But I'm just saying, if so, if that holds, and I guess I was 437 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,480 more willing to believe that, then maybe you are. 438 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,520 So maybe I'm gullible. But no, that that seemed 439 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,240 reasonable to me that most of the people I ever meet, I will 440 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:24,360 only meet that once. But if that one interaction is a 441 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:28,760 moment of weakness or a moment of impatience, that person's 442 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,400 impression of you is what? Not that you're a patient 443 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,280 person. Not at all. 444 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,600 Even if that was the one time in your life that you've ever been 445 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,480 impatient. Sure that's that's their 446 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:39,880 impression. So that's just kind of what 447 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,160 birthed in my mind of like what's the hardest we could 448 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,000 again, not saying we shouldn't strive for those fruits of the 449 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,080 spirit things. It's it's not meaningless. 450 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:55,640 It's a it's a life reshaped in response for what you've done. 451 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,280 The other thing you brought up from from confirmation was the 452 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,600 analogy of the butterfly. Like genetically it's the same 453 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,520 being as the Caterpillar, right, But like comes out if, if a 454 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:12,080 butterfly were were to crawl on a branch or the ground like 455 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:17,320 Caterpillar instead of flying around, you're not like you're 456 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,440 you're besmirching. I'm gonna use that word again. 457 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,160 That's the word of the day. You're besmirching the the gift 458 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,240 right of of that transformation of that new life. 459 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,400 Same thing with Christian. Like you are made new, if you're 460 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,400 not living different, what are you doing with that, with that 461 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,800 gift, with that change, You're not honoring it. 462 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:39,040 So we should be striving for trying for the things of the 463 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,320 Spirit, right? But I just don't want us to hold 464 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,720 our feet to the fire so hard of when those moments of failure, 465 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,000 yes, still grieved by our sin, still saddened by our sin, but 466 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:55,120 again, not to the point where it has disqualified us from the 467 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:58,240 covering blood of Jesus. I think that happens so often 468 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,600 though, and here's why. Here's why I'm an expert in this 469 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,680 and I am truly APHD expert in this topic. 470 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,720 And it's because I am not so unique and it has happened to me 471 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,560 thousands and thousands of times over the years of you know, I 472 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,960 feel like I feel like, man, I am doing so well. 473 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,000 I'm reading my Bible, I'm praying and I'm doing all this 474 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,920 stuff and man, I bet God is so proud of me. 475 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,160 I bet he's like up there Gold Star Chris, you're you're 476 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,520 killing it. And then I do something stupid 477 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,120 and I instantly think, Oh no, and I go to the other extreme. 478 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,720 I think, Oh no, he must be so angry. 479 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,680 He must just be so disappointed and he must be looking at the 480 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,360 angels going. I knew it couldn't count on that 481 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,920 guy. There he is again, just messing 482 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,840 up. And it's like that's that is 483 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,280 Satan playing a trick. That is him just messing with 484 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,480 you trying to make you feel disqualified when the most 485 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,280 hilarious mistake that you made was not even that. 486 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,200 It was thinking that you were doing the work to be God happy 487 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,120 with you. That was the first and most 488 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:10,480 fatal mistake is that somehow, and I'm again, I'm an expert PhD 489 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,600 because I've done it so many times that like, I think somehow 490 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,040 it's me working so hard to make God so proud, like a little kid 491 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,000 bringing home the, the paper from school. 492 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,840 And it's like, look what I did. No, look what God is doing and 493 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,800 through this broken vessel all the time. 494 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,160 Exactly. Yep. 495 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,320 And that's and that's where I ended on the that's where verse 496 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,360 seven hit me. If we're if we're doing it for 497 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,840 Hey Gold Star, look what I did. God, look at me. 498 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,560 What it what I no, it's still missing the point of the, of how 499 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:47,480 the Spirit has worked in and transformed your body of death 500 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,600 into life. Right. 501 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:55,520 Like so, yeah, I don't know, maybe it's it's funny to be this 502 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,040 close to the sermon and just kind of be all up in my head 503 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,320 about how people might have taken some different things. 504 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,280 So, I mean, I don't know, maybe this wasn't profound for some of 505 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,720 you and that's fine. Let's if you have internalized a 506 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,720 lot of this and I didn't strike any new frontiers in thought for 507 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,760 you this week, that's fine and great and and I'm glad. 508 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:16,000 But it was what was on the forefront of my mind and 509 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,040 conviction this week of man, Are we are we focused on the right 510 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,200 thing, even the inner workings of of sanctification of our sin? 511 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:29,440 Like no, not grieved by the sin, impressed by what Jesus has done 512 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,920 to to address that. Well, I'll tell you what, man, 513 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:39,960 and I would say, you know, we ought not to apologize too 514 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,320 quickly for the words that God puts in our heads and our 515 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,880 hearts. You know, especially here's the 516 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,160 thing, played basketball a lot, coached basketball, all that 517 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,080 stuff for a number of years. It was kind of a defining part 518 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,080 of my life. Oh, here's what I know about 519 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,400 coaching young players is that young players always want to do 520 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,880 the coolest thing that they've seen on TV or whatever. 521 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,480 And it's like, hey, guys, you know what we really need to do. 522 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,120 And even if you were great, you know, what you would need to go 523 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,920 back to all the time is the basics. 524 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,840 Not that we don't grow in faith in theology and understanding. 525 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,640 I'm a huge proponent for all those things. 526 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,800 However, this, this topic of sanctification, how God is 527 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:32,360 reshaping us day in and day out and making sure it's clear that 528 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:37,200 we don't think it's our hard work that's sanctifying us, that 529 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,360 it's really the continuous work of the Holy Spirit and God doing 530 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,480 that and his word through the sacraments. 531 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,080 That's how God sanctifying us. But in some ways, I think if 532 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,720 you're studying theology, you're like, well, this is the basics. 533 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,400 This is almost day one and stuff. 534 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,360 Yeah, but like, if we don't get this part right, nothing else 535 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,320 will be right either. We will. 536 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,960 We will make mistakes all over the place, and all those 537 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,400 mistakes will lead us back to pointing at us as if we were the 538 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,760 ones doing it in the first place. 539 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:15,400 You have to get this right. So in that way, again, cheers, 540 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,360 well done. Because like this stuff matters. 541 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,000 Theology matters as it works, theology matters. 542 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,320 And if you can't get this part right, everything else is going 543 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,400 to fall apart anyway. So by the way, I just I I have 544 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,880 notes because. I was taking notes. 545 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,440 I was a good student, I was taking notes and not to move us 546 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,040 to the end too fast. That's fine, we haven't done any 547 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,840 scriptures. Or we can start whatever. 548 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,640 We haven't read any of the passage we were in Romans 5 or 549 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,040 Romans 8. Five through 11 this week also 550 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,320 strongly referenced all of Galatians 5 pretty much. 551 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,560 But so we can jump in wherever we're we're breaking the mold. 552 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,320 This week, look at look at no, but I just it's something you 553 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,720 said that is that was built on what we read in the text. 554 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:07,160 And you said no hope in our best, No Fear in our worst. 555 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,240 And I wrote that down word for word. 556 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,880 No hope in our best, No Fear in our worst. 557 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,640 Can you just tell me how you got there? 558 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,000 Because I think that's a profound and important and true 559 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,400 statement. I love that. 560 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,280 Like when you said that, I was like, that's the stuff, man. 561 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,120 Tell me how you got there. Well, I started and I started 562 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,280 the sermon with asking for asking for the best thing that 563 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,120 you've ever done. And I wonder because I didn't I 564 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,400 didn't arrive on on it at the end. 565 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,600 I wonder how many initial answers were putting my faith in 566 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,440 Jesus like I, I and I and I tried to frame the question in a 567 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,960 way that was more works acts based. 568 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,240 Like I hope people were thinking about whatever kindness things 569 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:56,120 that they did, but in asking about the best thing you've ever 570 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:02,640 done and the worst thing you've ever done as as much as our best 571 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,920 thing is filthy rags to God, right? 572 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:11,240 Like we read that in scripture. Our worst thing is not so 573 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,080 terrible that God has turned us away. 574 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,880 So we we that's that's where I arrived on. 575 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,960 We we shouldn't be hoping in our best because it is. 576 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,960 It is filthy rags to get. So like we can't anchor hope in 577 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,760 that. But we also shouldn't beat 578 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,720 ourselves up to the point where we we fear the worst thing. 579 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:40,320 And we're really good at that. We're really good at thinking no 580 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,560 one's as bad as me. No one's, no one's, no one. 581 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,520 But yeah, people have problems, but no one's done this. 582 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:53,280 No, I I promise you they have as, as one of those people. 583 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,240 And I know that sounds weird. Like hearing your pastor say 584 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,600 that. I'm not even talking about like, 585 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,320 yeah, plenty of people come to us as patchers and plenty of 586 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,280 people have problems. Like, I'm not even saying that 587 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,160 in a judging way. I'm saying it from a personal 588 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:12,400 standpoint as one of those people who also feels like I 589 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,040 have done worse things than anyone else could imagine. 590 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:22,360 Like, yeah, that we we can't. But we can't let that fear 591 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:28,280 outweigh, outweigh the love, the blood of Jesus. 592 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,880 What is it? What is accomplished in that for 593 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,280 us? So we can't. 594 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,040 We can't hope on our best and we can't fear our worst, because 595 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,880 neither one of those things get us salvation. 596 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:48,080 It's funny, we I think maybe I've only ever said this once as 597 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,680 somebody was kind of bringing something to me that they were 598 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,760 going through and stuff. And but I could probably say it 599 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,200 far more often. But here's here's what it was 600 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,320 that I've definitely said at least once to somebody. 601 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,400 I just went you too, huh? Because it's true. 602 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,720 The thing that they were talking about. 603 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,560 I was like, Yep, cool. We're in the same boat. 604 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,320 Same here. Yeah, you too. 605 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,679 And I, and I think that's a powerful thing that we need to 606 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:17,480 remember is that Satan would love to like pull us and make us 607 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:22,080 feel so lonely in our sin, so unique in our sin. 608 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,159 And it's just not true. It's absolutely not true. 609 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,840 And so I think there is something, you know, we end up 610 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,719 creating friendships that way. I was talking to somebody about 611 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,520 that recently. You want to know how you make 612 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,480 friends? You get talking with somebody 613 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,320 new and they they say something like an experience or an 614 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,679 interest that they have and you go, Oh, you too, huh? 615 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,520 And then all of a sudden, like we have something to talk about. 616 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,120 We have, we have something in common. 617 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:53,159 Well, the same thing can be true for, you know, us as sinners, 618 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,200 you know, just seeking out not to be lonely, not to be ashamed, 619 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,720 not to be hiding in the dark because of our sin and guilt and 620 00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,040 stuff like that. But to just look at somebody and 621 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,360 say, Oh, you too, huh? And I think that's, that's an 622 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,800 important thing that we need to remember is that we are not 623 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:15,360 alone in, in our failures. And, and most importantly, God 624 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,960 is right there with us. And he's saying, yeah, but I got 625 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,640 that. I, I sent my son for that. 626 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,640 So we're, we're going to be OK. And I'm, and I am sanctifying 627 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,200 you daily through the spirit. And the fact that you're even 628 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:31,240 feeling the weight of this sin is just an is just a testament 629 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,760 to the fact that my spirit is living and dwelling in you. 630 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:38,720 And there's some level of conviction that's OK, because I 631 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,040 just need you to come back to the cross and and reset your 632 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,960 heart right there. Yeah, and that's oh man, we feel 633 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:54,400 so vulnerable in that position. And, and again, I, I, I remember 634 00:35:54,400 --> 00:36:00,800 and reflect on that at times of, of just feeling so unworthy of 635 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:06,960 what, how, how can, how can it be that even, even this would be 636 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,360 forgivable, even even these things, I would, I would still 637 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,480 be loved by God. So like, I, I get how people get 638 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,360 to that point, but at the same time, at this point in my life 639 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,480 as a Christian, I also don't at the same time, I get, get how 640 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:28,880 people get because it's so good. It's, it's so strong and true. 641 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,840 Just did the persistence that God has for us, for his 642 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,040 creation. It's crazy. 643 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:43,000 We'd be crazy to say that our sin is so great that he couldn't 644 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,680 save us. That's blasphemy, Sir. 645 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,040 Right. So yeah, anyway, I hope that 646 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,680 was, I hope that was impactful for others as it was for you not 647 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,440 to not to be putting. Oh man, you have to read it back 648 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,120 to me. Not to. 649 00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:03,600 Not to hope, not to hope in our best, and not to fear our worst. 650 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,960 Yeah. And I again, I just that 651 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,560 statement, I hope, yeah, I hope that resonated with a lot of 652 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,480 people because it it resonated with me. 653 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,800 And I just thought that was incredibly powerful. 654 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,640 And things that are powerful are powerful because they're true, 655 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:21,760 because they're that's that that statement reflects the gospel, 656 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:27,320 right? I am so bad that somebody had to 657 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,440 die for me. I'm so loved that somebody chose 658 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,000 to die for me. It is both. 659 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,360 And. And I think that statement sums 660 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,240 that up so nicely. So, yeah. 661 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,880 Well done. So I'm going to roll through. 662 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,920 I'm going to read our scripture and passage for this, if you 663 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,240 haven't read it already listening to us Babel or or from 664 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:48,320 the sermon yesterday. But there's a lot of circular 665 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,600 language here from Paul. But I'm going to read the six or 666 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,120 so verse 7 verses that it is Romans 8, five through 11. 667 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,600 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the 668 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,280 things of the flesh. But those who live according to 669 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,640 the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 670 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,160 For to set the mind of the flesh is death, but to set the mind on 671 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,640 the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the 672 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,400 flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law. 673 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,120 Indeed it cannot. Those who are in the flesh 674 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,400 cannot please God. I'm going to I'm going to pause 675 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,520 right there because I think that was also a decision point for 676 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,840 me. Like if we, if we again, similar 677 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,160 thought being if we have our mind so set on avoiding sin and 678 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,880 our mind so set on doing the good things, that's that's a 679 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,640 mind on the flesh. And those acts in and of 680 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,120 themselves separate from Jesus cannot please God. 681 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,440 Like even if so, that was another decision point for me. 682 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,880 Verse 8. Let me pause for a second, if 683 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,920 you don't mind. I I didn't think about it during 684 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,040 the sermon, but I did think about it just as you were 685 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,720 talking about it right now. Who worked? 686 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:53,160 Is there any group that worked harder at pleasing God in the 687 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,920 flesh, in the law than the Pharisees and man who was Jesus 688 00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,920 hardest on? Yeah. 689 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,680 So, I mean, again, it's not that there's a it's not that there's 690 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,480 no effort to please God and to live a holy life. 691 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,880 Of course there is. But that level of striving that 692 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,840 they're taking, they're so man, they just put boulders on their 693 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,400 own shoulders and on other people's shoulders and they make 694 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,080 it so difficult when it's really not that complicated. 695 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,960 It is faith in Christ. It is striving towards God's 696 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,160 heart. Not necessarily the constant 697 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,480 daily, moment by moment striving to be accepted by God because 698 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,720 I'm doing such a good job. Like that's baloney. 699 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:37,000 It's not going to work out that way. 700 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,880 Right. So then, so then seeing shifts 701 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,840 going into verse 9. You, however, are not in the 702 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,400 flesh, but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in 703 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:48,720 you. Anyone who does not have the 704 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:50,280 Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 705 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,520 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead 706 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,880 because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 707 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,720 If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in 708 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:00,920 you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give 709 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,400 life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in 710 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,360 you. So just there's, there's two 711 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,960 contrasting things. He continues the, the war that 712 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,960 you brought up last week that that is this war that Paul's 713 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,520 going through and kind of walking us through between the 714 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,680 flesh and the spirit. We don't, we don't want the 715 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,520 flesh. We want to pursue a mind that is 716 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,680 set on the spirit and and what's the difference? 717 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,320 The Spirit in US, right? That that's how our mind is set 718 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:38,200 on Christ when Christ is in you. You know, Romans 8:10 and 11:00, 719 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:41,560 you could probably hang out here for a really long time. 720 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,040 Oh, sure, if the Spirit is in you. 721 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,920 Although the body is dead because of sin. 722 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:50,720 OK, so although the body is dead because of sin, what an 723 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,600 interesting thing to say. So let me just take this way too 724 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,000 literally for a second. Let me just do that. 725 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:04,240 So if I am a Christian then and I am looking at this and I'm 726 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:08,360 like, ha, the body is dead because of sin. 727 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:11,520 Now what am I man? What can I take from that? 728 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,680 How how might I understand some of this stuff that's happening? 729 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,240 Well, gosh, there is. Let me quickly move forward to 730 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:24,360 the end game of this. My body in its state right now 731 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:30,120 will at some point be dead. I have 100% death. 732 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,640 Besides, Jesus has 100% win rate. 733 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,840 I mean, I mean like look at the look at the statistics, right? 734 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,840 So I have to accept on some level that man, this body that 735 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,200 I'm currently inhabiting with the Spirit that God has given me 736 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,320 with my very soul, OK, I'm going to, I'm going to have to say 737 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:53,400 goodbye to that. But but the Spirit is life 738 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,760 because of righteousness. So man, this thing that is day 739 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:04,280 by day slowly decaying my body, there is life inside of it in a 740 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,600 life that cannot be put out, a fire that cannot be put out. 741 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,480 And I think that's so interesting to think about. 742 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:12,360 Only by the Spirit because I think I think you're right to 743 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:17,080 take it somewhat literally because it also so stick with 744 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,280 me. Jesus is the bread of life right 745 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,440 and the living water. He who raised Christ from the 746 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,320 dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit 747 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:33,320 who dwells in you like that is a future reality of glorification 748 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,120 right where where like our bodies are fully redeemed new 749 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:45,000 creation, but is is it Could there also be some like real 750 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:50,600 here and now element life to our mortal bodies as as they are 751 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:56,560 right now right like this. This is our living life that the 752 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,000 spirit in them present day as well and that's the only thing 753 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:05,080 that really can give give life and purpose and meaning to our 754 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,760 mortal bodies. Like I think I think that's in 755 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:12,400 there too. So if if that's if that's the 756 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,640 spirit of Christ, yeah body is dead because of sin, which also 757 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,680 like puts our again puts our works in the waste bin. 758 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,760 It just the the works of the flesh aren't going to do it. 759 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,240 They're dead and gone and filthy rags and and all the things 760 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:30,120 right. But in pursuing the things of 761 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:34,640 the the the fruit of the spirit are things of life that right 762 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,000 the spirit has brought life to our mortal bodies. 763 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,320 These things Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, like it's 764 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,320 more, it's more than that. They just feel good, right or or 765 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:49,000 or happy, like they are the essence of life through us by 766 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,200 the Holy Spirit. I think when we is that crazy, 767 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,800 yeah, no, I think that's that's great. 768 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,240 And actually when we when we OK, Galatians 5, let's get back into 769 00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:59,200 that again because that's great connection. 770 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,600 When we, when we read that list the fruit of the spirits, you 771 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:07,080 know what you could do? You could say, man, am I 772 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,880 checking the box and all these things, but you'd be better off 773 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,560 to say, wow, how does the Holy Spirit, how does Jesus Christ, 774 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,800 how does God the Father, how do they encompass all of these 775 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,120 things? Because if you read your Bible, 776 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,640 you will see that these are nothing more and nothing less 777 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,080 than character traits of God himself. 778 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,760 And as the Spirit works in us, as the gospel hits our hearts in 779 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,560 a new way, and sometimes it's going to be new 1000 times 780 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:40,640 because we fall, we fail, and we renew that relationship with God 781 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,720 and say, Lord, I'm so sorry. I'm back at the foot of the 782 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:48,000 cross as I am seemingly everyday renewing me a new spirit. 783 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,280 Give me, give me your spirit that I might live the way that 784 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,720 you live, you know, and so again, not my personal effort, 785 00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:59,000 but God's Spirit working through me and all of those are his 786 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,000 characteristics. Just think about the life of 787 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,160 Jesus. Think about when he was kind. 788 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,440 Think about when he was patient, when he was gentle and, and, and 789 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,440 all the things of that list. And you're just like, gosh, I, I 790 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,280 would love to be like that. Well, it's not going to happen 791 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,320 by your willpower, as we've talked about, but it is going to 792 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,680 happen by God's Spirit dwelling in you because you've accepted 793 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,960 Christ as your Savior. That's so good. 794 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,600 It's all right there. It's all right there. 795 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,160 Yeah. So that's where, well, we like 796 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:37,160 we covered the first and last part of this five through 11 in 797 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:43,920 in Romans 8. I'm just struck again by the 798 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,600 simplicity. And that's, I'm not sure if I 799 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,760 talked earlier on this pod, I said it to some people after 800 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,080 church, but this week's sermon felt a little more teachy than 801 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,280 preachy because it's like, yeah, there was life and death and 802 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,120 resurrection and hope and Jesus and stuff, but it felt a little 803 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,880 more matter of factual too. Like, I wasn't, there wasn't any 804 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,120 big experiential revelation or anything. 805 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,360 Like it was just this is what it says and this is how this works. 806 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:17,320 So yay. Yeah, that. 807 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,440 Was the most enthusiastic. Yay that I've ever heard. 808 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,360 It was the first or second service. 809 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,480 I think after one of the songs there was a kid in the front 810 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,840 that yay, that was that was. Great it was. 811 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:32,800 Great. It was so those, those sermons 812 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,640 always feel a little weird for me too because like it's just 813 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,120 you, you put it out there and they're like, OK, but do you, do 814 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:40,240 you get it? Do you understand? 815 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:43,160 Because like, there's not really any, there's no points of 816 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:47,760 contention like this is just, this is how this works and and 817 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,720 this is how it's laid out in Scripture, so. 818 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:54,640 It wasn't so much like like again. 819 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,880 OK, so I've told other people this and I don't, I don't hide 820 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,720 it. Often times when I read a text, 821 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:04,960 you look at it and you say, all right, if I am an attorney, if 822 00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,200 I'm whatever, I'm making an argument and I'm going to argue 823 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,600 you into the ground. And so there isn't. 824 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,280 There's not an argument. There's not an. 825 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,240 Argument to make so much, unless you kind of superimpose that 826 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,640 from something, but no need to do that. 827 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,080 So yeah, it's not arguing a case. 828 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,840 You know which. I felt like there was very 829 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,160 little to prove this week. I guess it, I guess like we 830 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,160 usually have like a thesis statement and A and a problem, 831 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,040 right. This week it was just, I don't 832 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,640 know, here's how this works. Yeah. 833 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,280 So anyway, that's where we are. That's great. 834 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,800 Do you have other notes? I have one thing on my mind and 835 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,600 it was a little bit of a slip up at the second service and I'm 836 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,560 not sure if anyone caught it, but I do. 837 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,720 I do know, I only said it at the second service. 838 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:56,040 OK, no, I was, I was actually just so I was looking at my 839 00:47:56,040 --> 00:48:00,320 notes. You you said this and I think it 840 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,320 was really good. Don't let the failure define who 841 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,760 God sees you as. Again, that's another just great 842 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:13,520 like heart statement of just I, I can't, I can't allow Satan to 843 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:18,520 get so deep into my head that I forget what God says about me. 844 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,800 Because really in some ways what we're getting to here as well is 845 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,760 an identity. You know, we didn't, you didn't 846 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,880 name that as like a topic, but what in a lot of ways you're 847 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,920 getting that is you're talking about what's my identity, what's 848 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,920 my purpose, what's my meaning? And man, I think that statement, 849 00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,160 don't let the failure define who God sees you as. 850 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:44,440 It's it's, it's reminding us our identity is not found in what we 851 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,880 do, how we perform, but more so, this is who God says I am. 852 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,600 Because that happens instantaneously, right? 853 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,720 I know, I know. I broke sanctification into 854 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,240 phases and that was I thought that was more helpful, but maybe 855 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,400 it was less help because really the first phase of justification 856 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,000 like that's, that's, that's the advent of sanctification is 857 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,560 justification, which is the moment that the moment of 858 00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,920 conversion essentially that that the believer professes faith in 859 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,680 Jesus. Like bam, when that happens, 860 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,480 yes, it sets you, the clock starts ticking on this 861 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,240 sanctification journey of the Christian life. 862 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,200 But like when that happens, your identity changes instantly, 863 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,760 right? Like as far as who God sees you 864 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:29,280 as, right, you're in that moment, you are covered by the 865 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,200 blood of Jesus in his righteousness. 866 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:36,400 It's not a OK, I decided this and I got to pay my dues for the 867 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,640 next year and then I'm a member of the club. 868 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,520 Like it doesn't, it doesn't work like you don't have to like 869 00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:48,320 prove that you belong for XYZ amount of time, right? 870 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,160 Your your identity then that's a good word to you changes 871 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,400 instantly. As far as who God sees you as. 872 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:58,040 Yes, pre justification, but before that, yeah, you are 873 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,120 defined by your failures actually, because you haven't 874 00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,240 come to Jesus and God still sees you as a as a broken, rebellious 875 00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:08,080 Sinner. But the instant that you that 876 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,440 you do that moment of justification, your identity is 877 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,280 is changed and you are in that instant. 878 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,920 And I do have I still have notes leftover from kind of this 879 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,320 process of sanctification. If you need any of those, but 880 00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:22,120 they're available at the connection center. 881 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,480 In that moment, you are sanctified in Christ. 882 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:31,320 You, you are simultaneously St. and Sinner, right, Because we 883 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:32,720 still have the we still have the pesky flesh. 884 00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:34,960 I I pointed, I pointed that out in the service that we still 885 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,160 have, we're we're still burdened by the flesh, even though we 886 00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,400 have the not yet hope of of Jesus's perfection. 887 00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,280 But you are sanctified. And so in that moment you are 888 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,880 sanctified. It is an ongoing process of 889 00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:52,680 yeah, I, I kind of Pooh poohed it in in the sermon of everyday 890 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,000 a little more like Jesus, But I mean, that's the goal. 891 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,760 I'm not, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. 892 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,040 Great. Yes, we should. 893 00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,720 Just when we don't, don't let that be failure, that that 894 00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:06,160 defines you because you are already, you're already 895 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,200 sanctified. You're already you have that new 896 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,080 identity in Christ. Yeah, justification is an 897 00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,840 instantaneous thing, I think. As will glorification. 898 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:16,200 Yeah. Oh, absolutely. 899 00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,240 Yeah. I think what is it? 900 00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:20,960 The the second after you die is the name of the book. 901 00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,520 Yeah. And so I mean like the second 902 00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,600 after you die as a believer, glorification, like 903 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,200 instantaneous, right. And so. 904 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,600 But yeah, I love that when we talk about it with students, I 905 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:37,280 use like a light switch. The light is on or off. 906 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,680 Like there's not an in the screen, It's on or off. 907 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,440 We're not talking about a dimmer switch here. 908 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,560 We're talking about it's on or it's off. 909 00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:48,720 This is what justification is. And so therefore, in my 910 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:52,160 justification, I know that God is going to be doing the hard 911 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,320 work. And it's him doing the hard work 912 00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:58,400 because, man, I am IA mess. It's going to be God doing the 913 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:02,480 hard work of reshaping me and molding me and moving me into 914 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,520 that thing. And yeah, I'm going to take some 915 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,160 lumps on the way. But the one thing that God would 916 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:11,400 not want me to do is to become so downcast in my soul. 917 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:12,800 You've talked about that recently. 918 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,040 To stay in shame, to stay in guilt. 919 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:21,080 No, like then the enemy wins because I have not clearly held 920 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,960 on to the promise that He gave me, which is Jesus Christ has 921 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,080 come and paid for all of my sins. 922 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,040 And so, man, let me hold on to that promise even in my failure. 923 00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,880 Yeah, I think that's really important at the end of Psalm 51 924 00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,280 that we opened up with Dave, David's prayer of repentance 925 00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,000 restored to me the joy of my salvation. 926 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,520 I think that is real. And I think really the only kind 927 00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,440 of Gray area that's left the the main Gray area in this passage 928 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:54,040 is how do I know that the spirit dwells in me? 929 00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,840 Like I'm like, I think because within our failures, I think, I 930 00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,920 think that's what's really happens. 931 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:06,280 Am I actually saved? Should I do I feel this way? 932 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,320 Can I feel this way? Should I feel this way if I have 933 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:13,800 the Spirit of God inside me? I think it just spirals us down 934 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:18,360 this, this path of lies that that the evil one that that 935 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,040 Satan tries to concoct for us. And that's what I tried to draw 936 00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:26,760 out a little bit of no, if you've come to, if you've come 937 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:31,080 to repentance again, that that moment of conversion, if, if 938 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:36,760 you've come in repentance to God, to Jesus professed belief 939 00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:42,440 and faith in him and that moment of baptism like those those two 940 00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,280 things, you're, you're sealed with the Holy Spirit. 941 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,920 And again, I try not to paint baptism. 942 00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,880 This is where I'm going to go and have my misstep in the in 943 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:58,080 the second service a little bit. But baptism, yes, capable to 944 00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,560 save, but also not essential for salvation. 945 00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:05,880 And that might seem really weird, but that's what the Bible 946 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,880 says about it, that baptism now saves you in, in Peter's 947 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,840 writings. But also, we have very clear 948 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,320 examples of thief on the cross, Zacchaeus. 949 00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:20,840 Maybe he was later baptized, but like Jesus, Jesus tells about 950 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,640 his conversion and how and how he's redeemed and he goes off 951 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:25,920 and we never hear about Zacchaeus again. 952 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,040 Like maybe he was baptized at some point, but there's no 953 00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,800 biblical account of him being baptized and he was presumably 954 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,520 saved. Thief on the cross, Obviously 955 00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,760 there wasn't time for it. So like we have illustrations 956 00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:40,680 and examples of people who were redeemed and righteous but not 957 00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,600 baptized. And that's where I kind of got 958 00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,920 into the outward expression of baptism necessary good. 959 00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,440 Yes, Jesus got baptized. There's an outpouring of the 960 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,040 Holy Spirit for him for for life and and ministry. 961 00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,360 And it's by the same power of the Holy Spirit that he did 962 00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,160 those miracles that like we would have as well. 963 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:01,680 Second service. I said, if Jesus did it, you 964 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,000 should probably do it. And I used that as an example 965 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000 for baptism. And then I tagged on one little 966 00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,520 1 little extra line of, but maybe not the cross thing. 967 00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:15,480 And in the I heard that and in in the moment, I thought it was 968 00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:19,400 funny and made and made sense that like just not following the 969 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,280 actual literal example of like, don't go hang yourself on the 970 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,600 cross was what I was literally saying in the mind. 971 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,040 And then like later on, I was like, well, but how do we follow 972 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:30,600 Jesus? Well, you take up your cross 973 00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:34,760 daily and follow me. So like I just I wanted to, I 974 00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:36,800 don't know, admonishment or redaction. 975 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,440 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what that's called. 976 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,800 I just wanted to clarify what I was I was saying don't literally 977 00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,440 go hang yourself on a cross right now. 978 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:50,040 But in in the that and and whatever that, if that's where 979 00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,000 this life of sanctification takes you for the sake of the 980 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,280 gospel and not living unashamed, like, yeah, OK, I'm just saying 981 00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,720 like in the same way that, hey, you could be baptized tomorrow, 982 00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:01,040 Don't go jump on a cross tomorrow. 983 00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:02,520 That's just because Jesus did it. 984 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,040 It was like, yeah, it made sense in my mind in the moment. 985 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:06,560 And then I really wish that I just hadn't said. 986 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,960 Anything Well, but you know what, you know what, though, The 987 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:14,120 thing is like sometimes, and and I'll be I'll be serious about 988 00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:18,640 this, but you know, sometimes we do want to do what Jesus does 989 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,640 right. But you know what's never going 990 00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,280 to work? What's never going to be the 991 00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:29,000 same? We cannot in ourselves atone for 992 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:33,160 our sins the way that our sins were atoned for in his flesh. 993 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,240 Because that's what we talked about last week. 994 00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:37,760 So you brought it up. We were, we were chatting a 995 00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,680 little bit ago. Martin Luther used to, like, 996 00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,120 whip himself. Yes, that poor man. 997 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:46,280 Lived in this tension so much he thought he had to like, beat his 998 00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:50,920 foot, beat the sinful flesh literate to destroy it, to 999 00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:53,200 destroy a life focused on the flesh. 1000 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:58,320 Yeah, but man, that is not God's goal for us, is for us to 1001 00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:03,720 literally beat our bodies down to nothing as a form of 1002 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:07,280 repentance. Like, Oh my gosh, that if that's 1003 00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,360 the case, what did Jesus die for then? 1004 00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,120 Come on, Like let's let's just think logically here. 1005 00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,680 It's kind of in and through that that he came to this realization 1006 00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,160 that I like. This is the only, this is the 1007 00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,440 only way, OK, I'm stuck with this flesh and it's going to 1008 00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:26,280 continue pursuing these things that I don't want to pursue. 1009 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:30,480 So it has to be something that's beyond that I can't that I can't 1010 00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:31,920 measure. It has to be by the Holy Spirit. 1011 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:33,120 It has to be by grace through faith. 1012 00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:34,920 And that's kind of how he arrived. 1013 00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,240 Take it from. Much of Lutheran doctrine. 1014 00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,760 Take it from monk version of Martin Luther that beating 1015 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,800 yourself literally will not take away or atone for sin and it 1016 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:47,440 won't even make you feel any better. 1017 00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,480 No, but let me let me go back to one other thing. 1018 00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,320 How can we know that we have the Spirit? 1019 00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,800 How can we know? Let's let the let's let the 1020 00:57:55,800 --> 00:58:01,960 Bible answer that go to John first, John 42 where it says by 1021 00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,920 this, you know, the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses 1022 00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,680 that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 1023 00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:14,680 So as that is my personal conviction that I fully believe 1024 00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:19,600 and I am fully trusting in Jesus Christ resurrected Son of God, 1025 00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:25,120 come for me, wretched Sinner than I am man, I can only make 1026 00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,120 that confession. I can't make that confession. 1027 00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:32,520 Rather I should say the Holy Spirit in me can make that 1028 00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,280 confession. And what does what makes me 1029 00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,000 think what does Jesus say to Peter when Peter calls mine? 1030 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,640 He's like, you're the son of God, you're the Messiah, blah, 1031 00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:41,840 blah. He's like, oh, you didn't figure 1032 00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,840 that out on your own. Peter, his cue and his wise as 1033 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,120 you think you are. Guess what? 1034 00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,840 That wasn't you, bud. The Holy Spirit did. 1035 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:51,720 That for you? So, Yep. 1036 00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:56,400 So as we confess Christ, even in our failure, if we are still 1037 00:58:56,400 --> 00:59:00,000 confessing Christ as Lord and Savior, Son of God, Messiah, 1038 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:02,720 guess what? Spirit's still there. 1039 00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,720 Because you can't do that on your own. 1040 00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:08,000 Yeah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah. You can't do it. 1041 00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,880 And that's really, that's really the point of. 1042 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:16,080 Of what? Yeah, what Sunday was you can't, 1043 00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:19,000 we can't do it on our own for all of our longings and 1044 00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,840 yearnings. That's that's still a mindset on 1045 00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:24,200 the foot. It still comes back to Jesus. 1046 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,000 We just need, we just need more Jesus. 1047 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:34,160 And I am going to try as best I can to, to model a life more so 1048 00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:38,280 that's just so wholly focused on and rooted in and hopeful in 1049 00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:43,120 what he's done each and every day, all the more, more of him, 1050 00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,000 less of me. Like it's, it's, it's in there. 1051 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,480 It's all in there. I just, I don't know, I had a 1052 00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,920 lightning bolt moment this week, too, of just not trying to prop 1053 00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:55,920 up my own hopes and not trying to be so low in my own failures. 1054 00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,560 It's only by the blood. That's what I've got. 1055 01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,080 Yeah, I like it. Amen. 1056 01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,080 I like. It we're going to wrap there. 1057 01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,040 Thanks for tuning in leftovers, fam. 1058 01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:09,880 We're going to get some T-shirts made-up. 1059 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,000 I was I was wearing the the logo shirt this week. 1060 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:17,000 So we'll have some ERC leftovers shirts available at the at the 1061 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,440 merch racks at church. So you can be on the lookout for 1062 01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:22,880 those if you want to wrap the pod share with someone. 1063 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,560 Thanks for all of you who are weekly listeners. 1064 01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,120 There's there's upwards of 50 of you, which is still just pretty 1065 01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,400 amazing to me as far as like in person versus those who come 1066 01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,200 back for more. So good to see that this is 1067 01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,160 still helpful and enjoyable for a lot of you. 1068 01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:40,560 We still enjoy doing it and yeah, so happy to have you as 1069 01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:44,640 part of our church community for His glory and our good. 1070 01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:45,920 Have a blessed week.