1 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,120 Happy Monday. Welcome back into the ERC 2 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,920 Leftovers Take 3. Take 3. 3 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,600 Here we go again. Took us a little time to get off 4 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:21,920 the ground this morning. That's fine. 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,480 We're here. Pastor Matt's here. 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,080 And I get to say my name for a weird time for the third time 7 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,000 and. Chris. 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:30,960 Thank you because I just, I won't give it up. 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,640 Even if we have to record this six times, I'm doing it every 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:36,560 time. Thank you. 11 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,320 You're welcome. Because clearly the people are 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:40,600 calling for it. Clearly. 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,840 I mean, I've seen signs in yards like Pastor Chris, keep saying 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,760 your name weird, like people. I don't know, it's a thing. 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,400 People are clearly calling for it. 16 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,040 Spurring you on. They want it. 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:52,880 I don't know why. Who are these people? 18 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,240 I can't name them. That's a confidentiality issue. 19 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,000 You know, pastors keep confidence, so I'm going to do 20 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,760 that. I'm not going to name them, OK. 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,800 Great, but you're just going to keep saying your name? 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:03,680 Weird. I guess so. 23 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,280 As long as you acknowledge that it's weird. 24 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,800 Yeah, that's the first step, but that's the first step. 25 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,160 Great. Oh my goodness. 26 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,600 OK, ERC leftovers. Yeah, what do we got? 27 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:22,040 So this morning we have, we're going to try a new segment now 28 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,800 we're going to try our own spin on Change My Mind. 29 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,440 I have a topic for us and we're willing to hear your topic 30 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,800 submissions as well. I have a deeply seated opinion 31 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,280 about something that is ultimately trivial. 32 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,520 But I again, we'll plant my flag in there and change my mind. 33 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:38,560 You don't have to change my mind. 34 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,800 Maybe you'll agree with me. We'll see. 35 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,360 But we could have a funny discussion about it. 36 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,760 And someday we'll get to some deeply seated things that you 37 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,480 hold as well. Not like fringe. 38 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,280 We won't go like that deep. The fringe goes too hard for me. 39 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,360 I can't. It's like PTSD at this point. 40 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,520 I can't do it. Yeah. 41 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,840 So we've got that on tap. We're going to work through my 42 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:03,440 sermon from yesterday, Romans 831 through 37, and just 43 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,320 feedback from you, some things that I had to leave out or 44 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,520 didn't touch on as much you brought up earlier. 45 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,960 This is weird. It's like, Oh my gosh, first 46 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,960 time in a long time that is just the two of us. 47 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,240 Well, yeah, so over the past what, like 3 weeks, we've had 48 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,600 multiple other guests on the show and that's been actually 49 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,920 that was really fun because we did like 50 episodes of just you 50 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:30,200 and I and. Finally brought Kristen in 51 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:31,840 Brought. Kristen in that was great, 52 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,360 brought Diamond that was great and now it's just. 53 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,560 Weird. Yeah, it feels a little lonely 54 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:37,400 in here. I know. 55 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,240 A little bit, I know. That's right. 56 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,760 We're going to we're going to make it through, but I'm going 57 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,840 to go. Extra hard. 58 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,480 Yes. So much, I mean, it's just all 59 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,200 the enthusiasm is going to hit today because we're just, we're 60 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,840 just going to go. I don't think they're ready for 61 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,200 that. I don't think they're ready for 62 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,400 that in their ear holes. So you've been warned, Pastor. 63 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,440 Chris. Going hard today, Speaking of 64 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,120 that and and Dom too. I don't know what it was, man. 65 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,120 And it's just the the vanity of our personhood, I guess. 66 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:15,960 Like I actually felt I felt more nervous, like more pressure for 67 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,160 this week then I had then I can remember feeling in like a long 68 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:25,720 time actually, maybe maybe since like I preached the first Sunday 69 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,360 after Brandon left. And like that was again, doesn't 70 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,160 have to be the biggest deal in the world, but it was also like, 71 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,840 OK, this is the start of this next thing this this next 72 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,000 season. So it was a little like, I don't 73 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,840 know, I don't know how this is going to go and I want to make 74 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,760 sure it's good because this is how it's going to going to be. 75 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:49,440 Dom just Dom preached so well, like it was, yeah, it was almost 76 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,480 like a self. And I say that in an air of 77 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,440 surprise. I'm not actually surprised that 78 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,680 that he preached really well. I'm glad he did. 79 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,560 I'm, I'm proud of him that he that he did. 80 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,600 But it was like, I haven't preached in five weeks and Chris 81 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,040 has preached twice. And this guy who's still a 82 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,200 student has preached twice. Well, where's Matt? 83 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,840 Like where does Matt fall in? You know what in the handling of 84 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,600 God's word. So like I was amped up going 85 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,160 hard. Like I was amped up for this 86 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,760 week. I was more, I feel like even 87 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,680 more focused than usual. Like this is not going to be 88 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,160 terrible because that's what that's what we go for. 89 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,080 We try to we aim for not terrible, not terrible is the 90 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:31,240 goal. So. 91 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,240 You know what? But you're right. 92 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,720 Like you can't have a rookie come in and just like mop the 93 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,800 floor with you. Like this would not stand 94 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,880 anywhere. And Dom, Dom did do a very good 95 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,640 job. And it's like, I can't have this 96 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,600 rookie showing me up. You can't do it. 97 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,280 It felt like that a little bit and it was just a weird, it was 98 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:53,280 a weird feeling in my prep because I don't usually, I don't 99 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:56,440 usually consider that and. I well, no, no, I mean, it's not 100 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,160 a competition. But then again, when Dom came 101 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,800 in, it was like, dude, all right, here we go. 102 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,080 Yeah, so he did really, which is also actually really fun to have 103 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,000 one kind of more one more arrow in the quiver, as it were, of 104 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,560 just like keeping each of us sharp in that to like, OK, no, 105 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,240 but he's he's not dropping the ball either. 106 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,120 I I need to make sure that we're staying vigilant and rightly 107 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,480 handling the word of truth and all those all those things. 108 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,000 Even more so because he also did it really well. 109 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,880 So anyway, that was just. That's preacher talk. 110 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,480 It's preacher talk behind behind the curtain of how that came 111 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,160 out. So yeah, for right now before we 112 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:43,160 dive into the passage where in Romans 831 through 37 this week, 113 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,680 change my mind. An air fryer is just a miniature 114 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,200 oven. Change my mind. 115 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,320 It's magic how dumb it is. It is a magical gift from God 116 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:03,640 that turns fries crispy and tasty and fish instead of lame 117 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,200 and soggy. It's crispy like you put it in a 118 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,120 fryer. It's a beautiful invention. 119 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,720 Don't you dare, Matt Schweitzer. But it does the same things that 120 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,640 an oven does. Not as well. 121 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,520 It's. Just in a smaller, more 122 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,360 concentrated space. But the concentration is the key 123 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,240 to the awesomeness. Right, but it's still just a 124 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,600 miniature oven. Well, but it's, but it's great. 125 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,160 I I mean, OK, and here's the thing. 126 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,880 I I've actually gotten used to like the noise of an air fryer 127 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,160 and like the beeps. Well, and I think like the, it's 128 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,800 like the Pavlov's thing. Yeah. 129 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,840 So I think like what has happened is I hear the air fryer 130 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:46,680 now and like I start salivating like it's it's become a thing 131 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,040 for dog. Yes, well, yes, OK, there we 132 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,520 are. So therefore, even if nothing 133 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,440 else, your your oven is pretty much silent, but the air fryer 134 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,520 just gives us whoosh of awesomeness is coming your way. 135 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,240 And so therefore. Fuels your anticipation. 136 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,080 Yes, I am hungry just thinking about it. 137 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,520 And now I'm going to go home and I'm going to air fry something. 138 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:08,880 I don't know what that's going to be. 139 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,120 I'm going to air fry something and it will be glorious and 140 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,880 crispy and tasty. And so yeah, here we go with 141 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,440 that. Dude, come on. 142 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,840 How are you going to deny that the countertop mini oven AKA the 143 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,720 air fryer is not just the best invention and like. 144 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,000 OK. And sorry, I'm I maybe said this 145 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,200 the wrong way. I like, I like the air fryer 146 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,480 like I would prefer to use the air fryer, but it's not this 147 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,360 like revolutionary technology. We just miniaturized the oven, 148 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:46,560 it's all it is and put it on the countertop I love. 149 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,720 I use my air fryer everyday multiple times a day. 150 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,280 Try not to use my oven, I really do. 151 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,800 Sorry if that came out. I'm not hating on the air fryer, 152 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,400 I'm just saying it's a miniature oven. 153 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,400 Yeah, but the whooshy sound in the the movement of. 154 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:04,200 Air if you, So we have a convection oven, which I guess 155 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,800 it's more accurately it's a miniature convection oven is 156 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,920 what the air fryer is because if you turn the convection on and 157 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,520 that's the the whooshy, it's called a fan makes that whooshy 158 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:19,360 sound that circulates the air in your oven, essentially creating 159 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,840 the the air fry effect. OK. 160 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,520 Again, not a scientist, but. Let's let's hear something from 161 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,760 Britannica. Oh, great. 162 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,720 A very great source. Convection is a process of heat 163 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,080 transfer by the movement of fluids, liquids or gases. 164 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,720 It occurs when a heated fluid expands, becomes less dense and 165 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,159 rises while cooler fluids descend, creating a circulation 166 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:44,159 pattern. Oh. 167 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:45,720 That's what happens in a convection. 168 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,840 Island there is a fan. That circulates the gas being 169 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:56,160 air. But yeah, so anyway, yeah, I 170 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,480 don't know why I have that. We, I've had discussions with 171 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,360 people that just, they think they have air fryer for things 172 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,400 and oven for things and I just, I think you can do it all in 173 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,240 the, in the air fryer. And it sounds like could we then 174 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,840 make a really large air fryer? It's an oven, that's what I'm 175 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,840 saying. That's it already exists. 176 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,400 The giant air fryer is the oven that's in your kitchen. 177 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,320 OK, so then I'm now going to start calling the oven the 178 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,720 giant. The giant air fryer. 179 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,840 Liz, we're not using the air fryer. 180 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,520 We're going to use the giant air fryer tonight because I'm doing 181 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,960 like 30 nugs and I want them all hot at the same time. 182 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:33,880 Air fryer man. Do they make? 183 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,560 Well, they do make. Bigger fries their ovens. 184 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,280 Do they make their ovens? Yeah. 185 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,640 Oh, I just, I meant a bigger actual air like we have. 186 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,680 What are you rocking right now for the air fryer? 187 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:47,960 Just like this single, I don't know, it's I I can probably put 188 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:52,760 like like 10 nugs in it. What? 189 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,880 Yeah, it's, it's not super big. OK. 190 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,560 As because we're, I mean, five kids and everything, but I think 191 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:02,800 we have, we have a dual 10 cord basket air fryer. 192 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,960 This thing is a monster. Like each, each basket is 10. 193 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,880 I could probably put 30 nugs in each basket that I have. 194 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,760 Dude, yeah. I have a new goal. 195 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,200 Oh no. To make 60 nugs at once air. 196 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,960 Fryer basket of nugs all by yourself. 197 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,920 Yeah, I mean this. This feels like the way to go. 198 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,400 It feels like the next great purpose of my life. 199 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,920 You just got to find a. You haven't found a big enough 200 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,800 air fryer basket to challenge you, is what you're saying? 201 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,200 I think so, yeah. OK, Well, I need to go shopping. 202 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,320 Lissa put it on the list. We got to go shopping. 203 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,360 I need something where I can eat 30 to 60 nugs at a time. 204 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,720 Just got a new that that could be the podcast for next week. 205 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,400 It could be or the segment. It could be Life goals with 206 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,520 Pastor Chris. Absolutely, and we just named a 207 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,640 really important one today. Now I did once have a life goal 208 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,120 of eating 10,000 calories in one day. 209 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:00,440 That happened and I felt gross and I didn't even finish till 210 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,080 like 1157 that night. And I was like spreading peanut 211 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,360 butter on an apple pie like a Hostess apple pie just to get 212 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,880 the final callos to hit the 10K goal. 213 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,160 And then I gained like 5 lbs that day and I was like dude 214 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:20,280 this that was a lot. So, you know, maybe the 16 nugs 215 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:25,520 is a bad idea. Yes, I mean I think each nugget 216 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,720 at least the Nuggets that each nugget I get is 50 calories. 217 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,520 So you're that's 3001 sitting. But I like sauces too, so, And I 218 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,240 go hard on the sauce. Oh my goodness. 219 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:37,880 Just like I'm going hard on this podcast. 220 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,160 So therefore I would probably use it like an entire bottle of 221 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:45,480 like the Chick-fil-A sauce. Oh my God, an entire bottle. 222 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,240 Oh yeah dude, every nugget has to be like coated. 223 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,760 That's probably like another 2000 calories just in sauce. 224 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,960 Oh my goodness, I'll make a fundraiser out of it. 225 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,760 This is why, friends, I am going to meet Jesus before Matt does. 226 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,440 Oh my. God, This is why? 227 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,480 Because I am irresponsible. Lord help me. 228 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,920 Your picture of heaven is just a giant air fryer chicken Nuggets 229 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:12,800 in the lake next to a lake of Chick-fil-A sauce. 230 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,840 I'm definitely going to that beach with a shirt on though, 231 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,840 because by the time I'm done with those Nuggets, I'm like, oh 232 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,800 dude, I I can't take my shirt off now. 233 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,720 It's too much. It's too much and rocking the 234 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,240 dead bod too hard. Oh my goodness. 235 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,360 See how we've fallen off so well? 236 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,160 Already no one is listening anymore. 237 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,280 We gave it up, but we understand. 238 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,640 I understand if you're not listening anymore, it's fine. 239 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,160 It's fair. There's better things for you to 240 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,680 listen to in your life. What are we doing? 241 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:47,720 Should we? Should we talk about the Bible? 242 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,440 Only God's Word can save us from this. 243 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,480 Yes, there's. That's it. 244 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,120 There's no way. You see, but that's the thing 245 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,560 when I, when I said I was going to go hard today because it's 246 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:59,600 just you and me, I, I decided like, I committed, OK. 247 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,280 And when I commit like it's going to happen. 248 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:02,480 All in. So. 249 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,440 But we do need the Lord's Word to save us now. 250 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,280 So appreciate it. All right, we're going to read 251 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:16,800 through Romans 8, 31 through 37, and then we'll dive into some 252 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,400 some leftovers. What then shall we say in 253 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,840 response to these things? If God is for us, who can be 254 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,080 against us? He who did not spare his own 255 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,440 Son, but gave him up for us all, Will He not also, along with 256 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,160 him, graciously give us all things? 257 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,600 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has 258 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,720 chosen? It is God who justifies. 259 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:35,680 Who then is the one who condemns? 260 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:38,040 No one. Jesus Christ who died, who more 261 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,240 than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God and is 262 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,360 also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the 263 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,080 love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship, or 264 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,240 persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword, 265 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,320 as it is written for your sake? We face death all day long. 266 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,360 We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. 267 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,360 Knowing all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him 268 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,080 who loved us. Amen. 269 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:08,560 Wow, by the way, that that text, I feel like I could and I, I 270 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:12,200 could just read that every day as like this, like, OK, I need 271 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,840 to be reminded. And I actually, I, I, so those 272 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,640 of you who don't know because you weren't probably standing 273 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,000 right there, I came up to Matt at the first service and I was 274 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,720 like, that was just like a 25 minute gospel bomb. 275 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,320 Like that was just fantastic to be reminded of all those things. 276 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,200 And so I, I love this text. Yeah. 277 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:36,520 It's, it's very rich. There's a lot of a lot of ways 278 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,560 to go and it's all but it's also connected to all the things, 279 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,960 which is why I felt like I needed to go back in the 280 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,280 service. I went back and read the 281 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:48,360 preceding 3 verses and I even I try not to take too much of the 282 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,640 punch line from what you have next week. 283 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:56,400 But like I, I dipped our toes into the conquerors more than 284 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,960 conquerors language. I try not to leave with like 285 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,840 that is the, that is the thing. We'll lean on that heavily for 286 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,520 Easter next week. But I, I was really just 287 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:13,360 captured with this courtroom visual and I brought it up at 288 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,720 our Bible study on Thursday too. And obviously I, I talked about 289 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,280 my cousin Vinny, but we, I, I had just never thought about it 290 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:25,640 that way before that we often picture God as the judge, but 291 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:30,680 even in a courtroom, like, even if you're innocent, you're not 292 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,080 like buddy buddy with that judge after the trial. 293 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,480 You're not best friends. Like you're not you're not part 294 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,080 of his family. And that's where the God is the 295 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:39,520 judge. God is the judge. 296 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,040 But like put him in a courtroom setting. 297 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,000 That's where that kind of breaks down. 298 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:50,960 It's he's for you as the judge. You are going out for wings with 299 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,280 the judge afterward, like after the trial is over and he did 300 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,800 have his son come and take your place on the accusers stand like 301 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,800 in that thing. And you wanted that because now 302 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,440 you're adopted into his family. Like that's, I don't know. 303 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,920 I had never really thought about it like in our human courtroom 304 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,920 terms. So I was, I was a little 305 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,920 captured by that idea. I do think that my cousin Vinny, 306 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,760 I started out kind of beating us up over our sin. 307 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:24,120 But I do in our categorization of, of sin and the legal system 308 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,640 and of it, like obviously everything is we have different 309 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,000 punishments for different levels of sin. 310 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:33,040 We, we do put different ranges and severities on different sins 311 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,760 because that's what makes sense for our penal system. 312 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,360 But by the Bible, by the word like that shoplifting is the 313 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,840 same as the killing in by sin, the wages of all sin. 314 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,480 There's not, it's not a flow chart because it's not up in 315 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,560 heaven with like it's just sin. It's just sin and it results and 316 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:56,560 it results in death. But I think we have that 317 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,560 attitude a little bit of, oh, it's just, it's just shoplifting 318 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,760 a can of tuna. I can handle that sin. 319 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,119 I, I, I know it's wrong. It's not going to corrupt me. 320 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,520 It's not, it's not going to sink its teeth into my life. 321 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:10,839 It's not going to mess me up that bad. 322 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:12,720 I can handle it. It's not murder. 323 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:17,319 So like, I can, I can handle it. And then we find out that the 324 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:20,319 penalty is the penalty is death for all the things. 325 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:23,160 And it's like, oh, no, I, I can't, I can't actually wait a 326 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:24,760 minute. I don't want to be on the hook 327 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,599 for this. Well, in the another deeper 328 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,240 layer to all of this that Jesus gets to in the sermon on the 329 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:35,480 Mount is the fact that even our thought life makes us guilty. 330 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,520 You know, So even if you never say a word, you know, you never 331 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,360 whistle the cat call thing that you know, whatever. 332 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,800 Gosh, if you look at a woman with lust, you've already 333 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,560 committed adultery with her in your heart. 334 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:53,480 And so I mean, like that's that is taking the law to such an 335 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:58,240 extent that the Jewish people of his time did not fully 336 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,360 appreciate before he said those things. 337 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,560 It's like, well, as long as I'm doing all the things right on 338 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,240 the outside, I guess my thought life is my own and that's 339 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,760 private. And so, but Jesus exposes the 340 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:13,320 thought life even to say man. So that's why we talk about 341 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,200 thoughts, words, actions, you know, those things. 342 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,840 It's kind of the trifecta of like, how then might we be 343 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,720 judged? Well, it comes all the way down 344 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,680 to the position of our hearts and our thoughts. 345 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:27,760 And God knows it all. And so I mean, like, that's I, I 346 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,360 was, I was, you know, that's just good law, gospel preaching, 347 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:35,360 to be honest, you know, to bring us forward and say, Hey, here's 348 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:38,920 where we are, but here's what Jesus has done for us. 349 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,160 And and this is how we know it. I just thought that was just 350 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,720 good log gospel preaching. So that that was great. 351 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,880 Cool. I'm glad, glad that came across. 352 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,680 Anything else that kind of struck you or your questions or 353 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:52,800 you wanted to like double check me on? 354 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,640 No, like I said, it was like a 25 minute gospel bomb. 355 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,520 So it was great, especially going into Easter next week and 356 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,480 stuff. And The thing is like you look 357 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,080 at like 832 he who did not, not my computer. 358 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:07,520 To spare his own son. Yeah, I'm sorry. 359 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,360 Spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. 360 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,880 OK, that statement alone. Do you need much more than that 361 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:20,760 to to recognize like how God has loved us at an infinite cost to 362 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:26,480 himself and then how will he not also with him graciously give us 363 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,200 all things? And so I mean that that whole 364 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:34,280 that whole verse. I mean that in itself is enough 365 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,200 to to draw us into a relationship with God and say 366 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,400 wow I can't believe this is how he treats me. 367 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,880 After my thoughts, words, deeds. I can't believe this is how I'm 368 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,400 treated. Yeah, or even that sometimes we 369 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,080 doubt. I think, I think part of it is 370 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:57,520 doubting the depth of, of the of the covering of his grace. 371 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,480 And I, I didn't use this, I didn't use this analogy, but I 372 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:05,960 came across it in my in my study this week of it's like, it's 373 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,240 like the neighbor who just. You borrowed, you borrowed their 374 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,680 car yesterday and then today you need to go over there to borrow 375 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,600 like a shovel. And you and you send your kid 376 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,320 over there to ask to ask him for a shovel. 377 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,240 And he's like, well, is he really going to give us the 378 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:21,920 shovel? And it's like, yeah, he, he gave 379 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,720 us his car yesterday. Like a shovel is way less than a 380 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,200 car. Of course he's going to give us 381 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,200 the shovel. So like that's the son's 382 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,000 already, he's already given you the greatest thing that he 383 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,040 absolutely can. All of this other stuff is way 384 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,360 less significant, way less impactful than the death that he 385 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:42,400 died, than the than the price that he paid, than the 386 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,120 resurrection that was of course you can handle it. 387 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:49,640 Of course, of course you will not also graciously freely give 388 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,080 us all things. So that's just that's kind of 389 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,760 another fighting the unbelief sort of thing. 390 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:59,400 Like, yeah, he's already gone to the reaches that he could. 391 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:03,400 It's we, we shouldn't doubt in his lack of sufficiency. 392 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,080 Well, I there was once a Tim Keller once said, do you ever 393 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,640 doubt your doubts? Do you do that? 394 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,120 Because when when I start doubting the grace of God 395 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:16,800 because I feel isolated and I feel like man, nobody else would 396 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,320 have failed God this badly and all these kind of things. 397 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,000 It's time for us to start doubting our doubts. 398 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,480 And that's, that's a powerful option for us that I don't think 399 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,680 we exercise nearly enough is when Satan gets his, his little 400 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,640 paws on us and he starts trying to infiltrate and like, Are you 401 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:35,440 sure? Are you sure? 402 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,720 But what about, but what about and he reminds you of all of 403 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,280 your sin because he's both first, he's the tempter and then 404 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,840 second, he's the accuser. He plays both sides of the 405 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,320 field. And and so when he's on that 406 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,640 other side of the field, we need to start doubting our doubts. 407 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,240 And that's a powerful tool that we need to activate often. 408 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,320 And and so even in all of those things, Paul goes through this 409 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,440 list of that shall tribulation or distress or persecution or 410 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,920 famine or nakedness or peril or sword, shall any of those things 411 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,600 separate us from the love of Christ? 412 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,080 It's an exhaustive list. It's all the things and even 413 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:16,880 even sword at the end implying implying death, implying 414 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,720 execution, implying not just not just like war and conflict, but 415 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,600 facing certain death. What shall separate us from from 416 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,520 the love of Christ? Paul hadn't yet personally 417 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,480 experienced that, but at this point he's he's probably 418 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,640 planning on that being the way that his life ends. 419 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,040 As terrible as that sounds like he he's expecting to meet the 420 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,920 ultimate severity of of persecution of that. 421 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,920 And he still is unflinching in in the face of all these things. 422 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:51,440 He certainly has endured specific things on the rest of 423 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,200 this list as well. And he's almost writing it as an 424 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,960 an encouragement of as as I have. 425 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,880 So you too can can endure these things. 426 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,640 We are more than conquerors amidst all of this. 427 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,520 Yep. And one of the things that you 428 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,920 can look at this list in Romans 835, you can look at the list so 429 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,320 that you've got tribulation. So you've got the normal 430 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,880 troubles of life. OK, you have distress. 431 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,360 So we're talking about anxiety and we're talking about fear and 432 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,440 we're talking about our own doubts and all those things. 433 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,680 We have persecution. So now we're talking about 434 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,160 outside forces that might try and harm us because of our 435 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,200 faith. Now you're talking about famine. 436 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,560 So now we're talking about the physical nature of suffering 437 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,040 nakedness. So now we're talking about where 438 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:37,320 the resources coming from and then, you know, dangerous sword 439 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,600 that we're talking about violence. 440 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:43,640 So I mean, he is covering every potential area of life that 441 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:48,840 could be harmed by either man or by a broken world or by Satan 442 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,760 himself. He's covering them all. 443 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,360 And none of them hold water, not compared to the grace of God. 444 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,880 None of them can do it. None of them can stop God from 445 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,800 His mission, which again in past tense, He is already finished. 446 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:09,080 Yeah, Amen. Yeah, where I didn't go this 447 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,320 week. I I think we had talked about a 448 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:19,120 parallel text and illustration being the prodigal son with with 449 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:24,680 some of these verses and in in the way that God is for us who 450 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,480 can stand against us there. There's plenty in the parable of 451 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:32,760 the prodigal son, the the father being God and the source of all 452 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,760 things, the father being the one even when I mean the the son who 453 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,840 asked the father for his inheritance is basically saying 454 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,080 you're dead to me. I I want I want all the things 455 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,240 that I would get after you die. I want them now. 456 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:53,360 And so he's he's ignoring the plenty, the blessing of his life 457 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,560 now already deciding I don't I don't need your way. 458 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:58,480 I'm going to go out in the world. 459 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,440 I'm going to find my way. I'm going to I'm going to do 460 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,200 that. And even as he endures all of 461 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,800 this list because he other than sword again, that son endured 462 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,480 pretty much all of the things he didn't find fulfillment and he 463 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:17,880 he was drawn back to the father right at at at some point it 464 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:22,960 clicked. Maybe not No, I mean, I've 465 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,480 sinned against heaven and against you like he did. 466 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:30,160 He did have repentance moments of I can't handle this. 467 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,600 I I I I screwed up and now I'm feel again because of 468 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,440 consequence. He was he was feeling the weight 469 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,280 of his consequence. I'm not what whatever that was, 470 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,440 it drove it drove him from his sin. 471 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:46,440 But then the father if they if they were in a community where 472 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,200 where it wasn't just like there would have there would have been 473 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,640 other elders. There would have been other 474 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:54,840 statesman that would have would have condemned the son returning 475 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,640 to their to their community. And that's why the father, which 476 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,000 it was also a very undignified thing. 477 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,040 He ran out of of their compound of their community to meet the 478 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,160 son. That wasn't just joy, that was 479 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,960 also like active protection. That that that would he he ran 480 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,400 out to him, covered him in his quite literally his coat. 481 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,560 Oh, and not and again, not just to clothe him, but but as a sign 482 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:27,520 of he is covered by me, the I I am for him. 483 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,440 I am on his this one. He hasn't wronged any of the 484 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,680 rest of you. He's wronged me right like and 485 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,120 and so it's the father as the as the advocate there for the 486 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:42,720 younger son, close him with his with his coat, gives him gives 487 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,680 him his ring, gives him his sandals all all of and throws A 488 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,600 feast rejoices for the one that has come back. 489 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:57,840 If that father in in that parable isn't isn't condemning 490 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,080 the son, it's it's the same as this passage. 491 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:06,040 Who now can condemn, right? Well, and you look at that's by 492 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,840 the way you do you explain that beautifully and wonderful. 493 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:16,200 But even Jesus pulls this into a very real life moment and it's 494 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,000 the only gospel that's recorded in. 495 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,240 But when Jesus saves the woman caught in adultery, who? 496 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,760 Now you know all the people go away and stuff because Jesus 497 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,160 really handles them. Who? 498 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,560 Who now who you who have sinned, cast you who have never sinned, 499 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,440 and cast the first stone, and they all scattered. 500 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,440 And he says. Yep, yeah, Who's there? 501 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,640 Who is left to condemn you? There's no one and he and he 502 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,680 says he looks at her knowing what it's going to cost him to 503 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,560 say this, but then neither do I. He doesn't condemn her either, 504 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:50,680 even though by the standard of the law of that moment, she and 505 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,920 her lover should have been killed, both of them. 506 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:57,760 And Jesus knew when he said neither do I condemn you. 507 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,000 He knew what that was going to cost him to say it and he said 508 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,320 it anyway. Those are big and heavy words. 509 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,280 And so we need to remember that in sometimes isolation, you 510 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,360 talked about that and I thought excellent, we become isolated 511 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,640 and we become shameful and we become all these things in our 512 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,400 sin and we want to hide. We need to hear Jesus's words to 513 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,800 that woman and the Father's words to the prodigal son and 514 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,560 Paul's words right here. You are not condemned. 515 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,080 You are a beloved child of God. And I've paid for all of it. 516 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,400 Yeah. And I think this, this prodigal 517 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,400 son story does really parallel and line up really well. 518 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,760 But I was already, I was already on that 2530 minute mark and it 519 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,080 would have been another 10 at least for me to go into one 520 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,880 more, yeah, one more illustration. 521 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,680 But a further way that I also think it really lines up is, is 522 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,080 with the older son, with with the other son. 523 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,720 And I in the way that I had kind of said, Jesus isn't just 524 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,680 punching your ticket to heaven. I like I, I like that a lot. 525 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,760 By the way, I caught that. That was really good. 526 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:06,400 That's that's how the older son was living his life in response 527 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,680 to the the father, like I've done everything you've ever said 528 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:13,720 ever. The father tells him everything 529 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,640 I have is yours. And from the father's 530 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,440 perspective, he's like you're, you're doing it. 531 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,160 You're doing all the things you're living in the way I would 532 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,560 have you go. You have all my blessing. 533 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,200 My, my abundance of of perfection and glory is yours. 534 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,960 But that son is living in a way where he's it, it's just a rite 535 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,720 of pass. It's it's just a punch in the 536 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:42,440 ticket to heaven. He missed Jesus like he also in 537 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,680 that moment, his father is dead to him, right? 538 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,240 He just wants the things he just want. 539 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,240 He just wants the paradise. He wants the heaven without the 540 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,360 Jesus, right? He's missed the point. 541 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,440 He's just going about it in a way that the rest of society 542 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:59,280 looks at and goes, oh, good job. I mean, you know, society looks 543 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,760 at the little brother and says, what a scoundrel. 544 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,600 And they look at the big. Brother, you didn't do that. 545 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,440 Good job. You didn't act like that. 546 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,240 Like that rapscallion? You know, he was a really good 547 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,320 person, all these kinds of things. 548 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,760 And it's unfortunate, but God has blessed us with Jesus's 549 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,440 telling of that story because we need to hear those things all 550 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,440 the time because we, we tend not to stay very well in the middle. 551 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,440 The pendulum swings too far one way or the other. 552 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,160 So you said it today, it was really good yesterday. 553 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,000 You know, should we, should we send more so that the grace pile 554 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,360 can get bigger? By no means it's great, it's 555 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,360 great moment in Romans 8, but I mean like I just I look at all 556 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,040 that and and we tend to swing too far the other like. 557 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,080 So think about it. If you're if you're struggling 558 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:53,000 with like a diet, well, gosh, I already blew my day, so I might 559 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,880 as well eat whatever I want. So I go away to the prodigal sun 560 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:02,600 side or no, I've maintained this diet to perfection and so 561 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,120 therefore I am owed this body weight or this image or 562 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,400 whatever. And it's like you've gone too 563 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,120 far both ways, and that's not grace. 564 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,120 Neither side is Grace. No. 565 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,840 And I closed a little bit with because I think a lot of this, a 566 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,960 lot of this fear, even all these things that that Paul lists off. 567 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:32,480 They aren't actually the thing they're they're a symptom or or 568 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,480 maybe they cause unbelief is is really what it is. 569 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,680 They're the the tribulation, the distress. 570 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,200 Even the death isn't the problem. 571 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,680 It shouldn't be a like to live is Christ to die is gay. 572 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:50,200 Death isn't a bad thing in in that line of thinking, right. 573 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:57,040 Like as as crazy as that sounds, it's it's, it's the unbelief 574 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,360 when those things, those burdens, those adversities, 575 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,320 those same problem when they become the thing, when they 576 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:11,120 replace the creator as what defines our hope as what 577 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,520 crumbles our faith, then it's really the the sin of unbelief. 578 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,960 We unfix our eyes on Jesus, right? 579 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:23,320 And that's the the passage of the father with the the demon 580 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,960 possessed son in, in Mark 9. I do believe help my unbelief. 581 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:34,040 Just I feel like that's almost the daily tension that we live 582 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,800 in. I, I do, I believe all these 583 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,000 things. I need to be reminded every 584 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,560 waking moment of how, because you can you remember? 585 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:52,200 I can remember very specific moments, just completely, 586 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,560 utterly all out, all right. Can it like it? 587 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,080 It's the spiritual high feeling, kind of like the camp high or or 588 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:07,360 or whatever of like, there is absolutely nothing else, 589 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,680 nowhere. I'd rather be like so connected 590 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,560 to Jesus in this moment, right? We don't always feel like that 591 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,280 though, right? Like we don't just have the 592 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,960 constant Jesus IV drip going if you're. 593 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,600 A pastor? Aren't you supposed to feel that 594 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,960 way all the time? Sounds weird saying that even 595 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,600 even even as a pastor, but so that's, yeah, that's where I 596 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,960 ended on the battle, the battle of unbelief this this week 597 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:37,360 because yeah, I've had, I don't know, a lot of the times I think 598 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,840 we're preaching to ourselves too. 599 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,120 And, and, and my, yeah, my weakest moments, I feel like are 600 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,520 the times that I, that I doubt that I, that I fight against 601 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,360 unbelief and and discouragement. So anyway, that's, I hope it 602 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,720 landed with a lot of you. Well, I didn't intend to beat up 603 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,280 the sin. I just, I do, I, I mean, I still 604 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,360 feel absolutely fine that I do think we think we hate the 605 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,720 consequences a lot more than we hate the actual sin. 606 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,719 There weren't consequences. We'd probably be just fine 607 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,679 sinning. I suspect so. 608 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,120 Two things really quick you as you were talking, it's 609 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,239 interesting to remember that it is not the quality or the size 610 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,960 of our faith that saves us, it's the object of our faith that 611 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,480 saves us. So that's an important concept 612 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,679 for all of us to remember when we feel like our faith is 613 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:32,679 smaller, our doubts are big, OK? Well, is that what your hopes 614 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:34,280 in? Though right is my hope in my 615 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,719 own faith, it ought not to be because it is going to fail 616 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,239 miserably over and over again. So it's not about the faith, 617 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,480 it's about the object of faith. Very, very important concept. 618 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:46,719 Oh my gosh, now I just what you were just saying. 619 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,560 I'm sorry, I totally lost the second thing I. 620 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:56,199 Was Oh no, the the the father unbelief doubting no, it's. 621 00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:58,600 Gone. Poof, it's gone. 622 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:00,560 You know what though? It's fine. 623 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,680 It's fine. It's fine. 624 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,840 It'll come back at a weird time. So, yeah, hopefully receive that 625 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,720 message in in love and grace too. 626 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:13,400 I yeah, I've meant every word. I barely have regrets in a 627 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,040 message that I give. I don't, I don't know that 628 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,120 sounds, that sounds weird to say. 629 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,640 But like, yeah, I guess there's some sometimes some things that 630 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,080 you maybe think landed hard with the law that you maybe want to 631 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:31,880 walk back a little bit. But no, I felt a great deal of 632 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,880 conviction this morning in, in what we need to hear and what 633 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,080 we're called to. And we're going to, yeah, we're 634 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,640 going to continue to be a people of purpose. 635 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:44,200 Easter this week. Ask for, ask for help in your 636 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,160 unbelief, too. Don't, don't let your friends, 637 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:53,600 family, neighbors, like don't say no for them, however awkward 638 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,880 that might feel to have a conversation about coming to 639 00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,120 church. Are you going to church on 640 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,360 Sunday? Would you like to come to church 641 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,120 with me on Sunday for Easter? All those things like don't, 642 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:09,040 don't decide for them. I would put it out there, have 643 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,320 have the spirit help you in your unbelief that the people in your 644 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,080 life would be open to, to coming and hearing this message. 645 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,640 If we really believe it that this is the most powerful, life 646 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,480 changing thing that we will ever encounter, we should. 647 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:22,520 We should want everyone to know that. 648 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:23,840 We should want everyone to experience it. 649 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,280 And the other thing that I was reminded of recently, despite 650 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,960 all of our flaws, the same Holy Spirit that moved through, you 651 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:36,320 know, about a dozen men when they replaced Judas, a dozen men 652 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,200 to change the world, many and women actually, because there 653 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,880 was a decent following for Jesus. 654 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,120 But that same spirit that dwelled in them, that that moved 655 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,120 the world that made Jesus the most. 656 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,080 Even from a secular perspective, you have to argue that Jesus is 657 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,120 the most influential figure that has ever existed. 658 00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:02,880 And so that spirit that moved in them to create that fervor to 659 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,040 create a love of God through Jesus Christ, that same spirit 660 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,440 dwells in all of us. And he hasn't shrank back and he 661 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,560 hasn't made himself small in any way. 662 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,880 We still have that same spirit. We still have that same power 663 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:21,200 and ability to go and be disciples and into to make the 664 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,040 ask. And thank you for saying that, 665 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,600 by the way, because I, I think I've, I've done that too many 666 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,040 times with people. I say no for them before I've 667 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,720 ever even asked them. You know, I play these weird 668 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:33,080 scenarios in my head and Nope, they're going to say no. 669 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,480 So I'm not going to try baloney. Baloney. 670 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,960 You know when when God wants to move, let him do it and you will 671 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,720 be shocked and amazed. And you don't have to be pushy 672 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:48,240 or obnoxious about it, but like put in the light of eternity if 673 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:53,200 if you want to risk maybe not seeing them in your life again 674 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,720 on this life because you asked them a weird question about 675 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:59,360 going to church or knowing that you're not going to see them in 676 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,880 eternity because they don't know Jesus. 677 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,680 Like we, we probably just need to step up and be bold and and 678 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,400 act courageous. And you know what the great 679 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,720 thing is ERC, and, and This is why I don't have a problem 680 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:16,320 asking people is because when I walk into this building like, 681 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,840 you know, even when I was just a well, not just even when I was a 682 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,560 parishioner, sorry, but even when I was a parishioner. 683 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:24,880 Yeah. No, no. 684 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:31,960 Clip it. It's just my brain waves. 685 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,920 Making mistakes so good. Thanks for that though. 686 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,480 It's just funner because I'm the producer so I I get to clip it. 687 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:44,480 Or not. And add another round to the 688 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,840 chamber. What were you saying? 689 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,200 I don't even know. No, no, I do. 690 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:51,840 OK. OK. 691 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,040 I got this. I got this, Matt. 692 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:55,720 I got this. Sure you do. 693 00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:58,160 It's going to work out. I don't got this. 694 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,600 No, it's gone now. You're talking about, yeah, 695 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,480 telling people about Jesus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 696 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:11,960 So anyway, my apologies. Even as a parishioner, yeah, I, 697 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,720 I always like, I always felt OK. I always felt comfortable 698 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:20,400 inviting people into this space at ERC because I had all these 699 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,320 doubts and wonders and these judgments about people judging 700 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,880 me if I walked into a church in my 20s. 701 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,520 And, you know, I don't, I don't belong here and all this kind of 702 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:30,040 stuff. And. 703 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,320 And I just found the complete opposite was true. 704 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,480 People were just honestly kind to me and my family and that 705 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,960 hasn't changed in the 20 years since I came to faith. 706 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,080 If the same thing is still true today about your church, that 707 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,520 man, it is welcoming and is inviting. 708 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,840 We are not creating cliques and dress the right way and say the 709 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,320 right words and do these things in order to be accepted. 710 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:58,040 No, that's not true at all. As as we have said 100 times, a 711 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,000 house for the broken, home for the healed right. 712 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,440 This is how we live this thing out in our space that God has 713 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,160 given us. So be bold because you're 714 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,200 inviting them to be in a community or or even experience 715 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,480 a community that is genuinely caring and loving and has your 716 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,720 back. And so I feel that week in and 717 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:18,640 week out and I did even as a parishioner. 718 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,680 And so cool place to invite your friends. 719 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,200 Yep. And yeah, the church is the 720 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,360 church is the people, not the building. 721 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,360 And we're trying our darndest to to encourage you and living this 722 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,240 out. Thanks for hanging with us and 723 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:35,360 taking in a little more of the conversation from Romans 8 this 724 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,040 week. Come back here. 725 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:41,640 The end of the chapter on Easter, Rejoice, celebrate with 726 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,280 us. We love each church. 727 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,440 It's a privilege to do what we do. 728 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,920 God and Christ, have a blessed week.