1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,480 Turning your Bible to Matthew chapter 16, 2 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,760 Matthew 16. We're gonna get verses one 3 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,120 through 4:00 this morning. And the Pharisees and the 4 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:30,200 Sadducees came, and to test him, they asked him to show them a 5 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,960 sign from heaven. He answered them, When it's 6 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:38,080 evening, you say it will be fair weather, for the sky is red, and 7 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,320 in the morning it'll be stormy today, for the sky is red and 8 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,240 threatening. You know how to, you know how to 9 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,920 interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret 10 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,560 the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous 11 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:57,040 generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it 12 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:03,920 except the sign of Jonah. So he left them and departed God 13 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,560 like we already prayed. We have the expectation that you 14 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,520 will open up the eyes of our hearts, that we will grow in 15 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,240 wisdom and in revelation, knowledge. 16 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,440 Holy Spirit, we expect that you will remove sin and purity, 17 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,920 pride, whatever it is that you want to come in and minister to 18 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,200 us. And we know you're going to 19 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,280 impart things, we know you're going to impart a deeper love, a 20 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,960 deeper devotion, a more more reverence for you and more trust 21 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:31,920 in you. God, what a what a mighty thing 22 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,200 and a supernatural thing it has to be for a people to fear you 23 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,960 greatly and love you deeply and still eagerly run into your 24 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:40,560 presence with boldness and with joy. 25 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:42,920 Only you can accomplish all this work. 26 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,520 So we submit it to you and we thank you for it. 27 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:51,960 Now in Jesus name, Amen, the Pharisees and the Sadducees came 28 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,160 to test him. This might seem familiar and it 29 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,000 should remember in Matthew chapter 12 we had almost the 30 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,600 same thing happened except it was the the scribes and the 31 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,200 Pharisees. So for some for simplicity sake, 32 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,480 we can just kind of say that the guys on the same team came 33 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,920 before and said show us a sign from the heavens. 34 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,000 And Jesus said you're not going to get what you're looking for, 35 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,160 instead you're going to get something else. 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,040 And now we've got the Pharisees and the Sadducees have come 37 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,440 together to test him. So Pharisees and Sadducees, you 38 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,760 can think about them both as religious leaders, except that 39 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,560 the Sadducees are more liberal. The Pharisees are much more 40 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,600 conservative. So the liberals and the 41 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,560 conservatives have joined forces. 42 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,480 The liberals and the conservatives saw saw that they 43 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,600 had such a common enemy in Christ that they said, I will 44 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,440 team up with you to go after him. 45 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,440 So this is, you know, what Psalms tells us and all over 46 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,720 Scripture where the the nations rage. 47 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,120 Why do the nations rage? Why do the kings set themselves 48 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,720 up against the holy one of God? This is what's taking place. 49 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,680 We've got political leaders and the Sadducees. 50 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,840 We've got religious leaders and the Pharisees, and they're 51 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,080 going, we want to take him out. And of course, everything is 52 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,120 going to continue to swell up until that final week in 53 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,080 Jerusalem. And it's all going to make sense 54 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,600 to you probably more than ever before, why they crucified him. 55 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,040 And you're going to go, oh, like, man, I really understand 56 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,080 how much he was subverting, how much he was slamming, how much 57 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,360 he was condemning and how much his authority he was claiming is 58 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,680 superior to all of theirs. They continue to try and make 59 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,000 him appeal to them and he continually lived and functioned 60 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,040 and behaved in such a way as only God would. 61 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,520 Of course, that made them submissive or at a minimum and 62 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,400 made them subservient to Him, even though they wouldn't 63 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,920 acknowledge His greatness. So they come to test him. 64 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,560 The enemies have joined together to test the Lord. 65 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:51,760 Last week we looked at the the fact that we don't get to set 66 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,920 the terms for how God is going to do what he's going to do. 67 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,160 We talked about how we should expect the miraculous God will 68 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,640 do the miraculous. We should look back in Scripture 69 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,760 and see all the the, the miraculous and supernatural 70 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,360 things that God has done. Not as to say I can take that 71 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:10,120 exact situation for my exact situation because the how isn't 72 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,000 the most important thing to you and I when we have a need. 73 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,880 The the most important thing for you and I when we have a need is 74 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,959 that we have a great God. There's not an age of miracles. 75 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:19,680 We said there is a God of miracles. 76 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,680 So knowing that there's a God of miracles, we can trust and 77 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,600 expect that God will do whatever needs to be done, and that is 78 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,600 the promise. So we realize we don't get to 79 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,080 set the terms for how God will come through. 80 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,440 Our job is to believe His promises and stand on them in 81 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,320 spite of what our five senses tell us. 82 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,840 We saw that the how He moves is up to Him. 83 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,240 But the Pharisees and the Sadducees come to do what we 84 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,680 were commanded not to do to test God. 85 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,640 They want a sign from heaven. This actually means that they 86 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,560 were literally designed demanding a sign in the skies. 87 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,520 So they weren't just saying show us a heavenly sign that God is 88 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,960 with you and the earth. He's already been doing that. 89 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,720 Remember 10s of thousands of people were fed miraculously and 90 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,600 untold thousands of people have been healed. 91 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,520 The entire region. You know, somebody who's been 92 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,800 affected by the ministry of Jesus over two years. 93 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,920 And at this point, it's not 17 people following around, it's 94 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,840 thousands and thousands and thousands. 95 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,000 Where's that? Where's that beggar who was 96 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,480 there? He's gone. 97 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,880 He's working for so and so now what? 98 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,200 He went and saw the rabbi. Everybody knows somebody who 99 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,400 knows somebody. This is travelling around, which 100 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,840 is why the Pharisees and the Sadducees are travelling out to 101 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:34,080 Jesus to say, hey, we can't deny what's going on around here. 102 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,480 So we have a new hoop for you to jump through. 103 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:42,440 Show us something in the skies. They've come to test God. 104 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,480 They want a sign from heaven. Move the stars, move the planets 105 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,400 around. Something that they would claim 106 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,400 they would consider. That would be a true wonder. 107 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,880 Then we could justify the following that you've got, that 108 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,160 you've gained upon gathered around yourself. 109 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,280 They come arrogantly saying, we know all the other things you've 110 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:03,200 done, but now we have a new standard for you to meet. 111 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,800 This won't make a difference for them though. 112 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,120 I've told you this many times before in your own lives, when 113 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,760 you're ministering to others and people seem to place a demand 114 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,200 upon you, or they seem to place a demand upon God, and then you 115 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,040 feel the weight and you feel the necessity to prove that to them 116 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:21,520 the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. 117 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,240 For those who believe, it is enough. 118 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,640 The foolishness of the cross is enough. 119 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,480 It is by that means which pleases the Lord to bring others 120 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,760 to Christ. I love apologetics. 121 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,680 I think you should study apologetics, have at it and 122 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,960 feast. And yet also know that an 123 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:44,400 apologetic argument the the logical clarity that some claim 124 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,440 they need will not create the miracle of the new birth in a 125 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,280 person's heart. Many of us rejoice to see the 126 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,840 that there are many Christian influencers who are gaining 127 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,960 positions of prominence. The largest podcast in the 128 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,440 world, Joe Rogan just had a a Christian apologist on It's all 129 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,720 good things and I'm thankful to see it all. 130 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 And yet even though this man can show well, this document is 131 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,040 sound and this document is sound and this document is sound. 132 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,360 Did you come to Christ? Did you come to Christ because 133 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,520 you were convinced of the soundness of historical 134 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,720 documentation? Or did you come to Christ 135 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,000 because you knew that God was forgiving you of your sins and 136 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,080 making you a new creation? Are you saying we can't have the 137 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,880 other? No, I already said we can, but 138 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,720 I'm just telling you what creates the new birth. 139 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,040 So Joe Rogan would not be. Joe Rogan would not fall to his 140 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,760 knees apart from the power of the gospel penetrating his 141 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,640 heart. So we should pray for that for 142 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,560 him. And also, can we bring other 143 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,920 information and documentation? Sure, sure, but don't ever 144 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:48,120 forget the Pharisees stood face to face with the word of God and 145 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,680 they did not know the word of God. 146 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,640 Don't ever forget all the people who stood face to face with 147 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,920 Jesus and said, I just need a sign from God. 148 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,200 You're staring at the sign from God. 149 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,760 It's him. Jesus is the sign. 150 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,880 So minister to people, but always remember the gospel is 151 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,760 the power and the issue is not that they need you to explain it 152 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,280 in a better way. The issue is a hard heart. 153 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,400 This was the issue with the Pharisees and This is why Jesus 154 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,360 doesn't play their game. He does not enter their 155 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,560 framework. He does not adapt to their 156 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,880 perspective. They will have to continually 157 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,120 come to His. Hard hearts are the issue. 158 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,280 Abraham believed God before he ever saw a miracle, but these 159 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,400 people have seen many miracles and they still won't believe 160 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:34,880 God. Instead, they're attempting to 161 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,760 trap him and somehow expose Him. The only problem, of course, for 162 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,280 them is that He's already healed many thousands and fed many 163 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,440 thousands. He's done many miracles. 164 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,680 Also, notice the difference between the work of Jesus and 165 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:49,760 what these manipulators are asking for. 166 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,440 The work of Jesus has always been done. 167 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,960 Look at all of his works and all of His ministry and all of His 168 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,280 supernatural power. It was always in the service to 169 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,880 a person's need. And the Pharisees and the 170 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:07,040 Sadducees go do a trick to what end? 171 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,240 To what purpose? Because we want one. 172 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,000 This is the prideful heart that you'll still see in the world 173 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,440 today. If God would just, oh, go on, 174 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,960 tell me what he should do for you other than all the other 175 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,560 things that he's done. I know you think that's your 176 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:24,000 breath that you're breathing now. 177 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,960 I know you think that's not gift and that's no, no, that's, 178 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,320 that's, that's not the miracle that's going to do it for me. 179 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:35,280 If God would just give me go on and say it a sign like sending 180 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,240 his son, right? So the tender heart is open to 181 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,080 these things. The hard heart says it's not 182 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:42,600 enough. The hard heart says that's 183 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,480 common. The hard heart says that's 184 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,360 trivial. The hard heart says been there, 185 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,400 seen it, got the T-shirt. I'm over it. 186 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,680 But the work of Jesus is always in service to the needs of the 187 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:56,240 people that he loves. These guys are thinking about 188 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,240 how they would react with that kind of power. 189 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,400 They would be showy with it, and they assume that Jesus is like 190 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,160 them. Prideful people are like that. 191 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,920 Most people, when they're steeped in their sin, are that 192 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,280 way. The thief, he thinks that 193 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,840 everybody steals. That's how he thinks, how he 194 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,760 that's how he sees the the world around them. 195 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,880 The pervert thinks that everybody's lusting. 196 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,440 The prideful person thinks everything's an ego contest. 197 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,840 These Pharisees and Sadducees think Jesus will be willing to 198 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,920 prove himself to them. But God isn't insecure and he 199 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,400 doesn't ask how high when the arrogant men tell him to jump. 200 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,800 Satan tried this in the wilderness with Jesus, but Jesus 201 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,000 schooled him too. You shall not put the Lord your 202 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,920 God to the test. Satan quoted scripture. 203 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,680 It says in God's word, throw yourself down from there and he 204 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:45,840 won't let anything happen to you. 205 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:47,840 He'll guard you with his angels, and you won't dash your foot 206 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,480 against the stone. It doesn't say throw yourself 207 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,240 down from a high place. It doesn't say jump off a 208 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,800 building. And this was the temptation, the 209 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,200 manipulation of Satan. He's going out. 210 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,680 Put some truth in here. Well, that is true, by the way. 211 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,320 There's standards and qualifications for that promise, 212 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,280 as are all the promises of God that you won't even stub your 213 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,720 toe. Is that a promise of God? 214 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,360 Yes, it is. And yet Satan's manipulating, 215 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,840 saying he, what is he doing? Testing Jesus? 216 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,000 That's testing the Lord your God. 217 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,560 There's only one example in Scripture that I know of where 218 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:23,160 the Lord says you can test me, and that was whenever he's 219 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,240 telling us to tithe, He says I want you to tithe and he says 220 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,000 test me in this, but we're not testing his nature and 221 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,760 character. His point was he was saying, see 222 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,200 to it that I will be proven faithful as you walk out your 223 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,600 obedience, but you shall not put the Lord your God to the test. 224 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,480 Let's also compare the way the Pharisees and the Sadducees make 225 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,560 a demand of Jesus compared to the way somebody humble, 226 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,360 somebody submissive comes to Jesus, the way Mary comes to 227 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,400 Jesus when the wedding runs out of wine. 228 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,080 So Mary is a guest at this wedding with Jesus. 229 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,840 Remember Jesus's first miracle coming back to the Pharisees and 230 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:01,560 the Sadducees. Now they're giving him a 231 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:05,880 specific instruction, foolishly giving the test to the teacher. 232 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,400 How's that different from Mary? Mary comes to him very 233 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,080 submissively. Remember what she says to him at 234 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:13,840 the wedding. She doesn't come and tell Jesus 235 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,480 what to do. She doesn't say you need to do 236 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,560 something about this. Right now there's a big problem. 237 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,240 Mary comes to Jesus and she says they have no wine. 238 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:29,720 That was it. I defer this up to you, Lord. 239 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,400 They have no wine. This is her son. 240 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,200 But she knows who he is, right? Mary was there from the 241 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,360 beginning. If you're a virgin and you have 242 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,400 a baby, it's probably pretty easy for you to believe. 243 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,960 Now, we also know that, you know, we saw earlier in Matthew 244 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,400 where Mary has some struggles, right? 245 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,480 Of course, we know later she's restored. 246 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,680 But she doubted. She was intimidated by the 247 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:54,040 Pharisees and by the scribes. So when Jesus is putting them on 248 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,840 blast, remember Mary and her and her children come, they go. 249 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,440 Hey, Jesus, come on outside, talk to us. 250 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,360 Hey, guys, he's lost his mind. We're really sorry about that. 251 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,560 And Jesus says, my mother and my father and my brothers and my 252 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:08,600 sisters are the ones who obey the will of God. 253 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,360 But here at that wedding, Mary says they have no wine. 254 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,320 And Jesus said, woman, what does this have to do with me? 255 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,760 My hour has not yet come. And Mary's looking at him. 256 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,160 She looks to the servants, and she says, do whatever he tells 257 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,600 you to do. And she leaves. 258 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,560 That's it. She never gave him an 259 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:30,680 instruction. She never placed a demand upon 260 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:32,280 him. But what does Mary know? 261 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,040 Nature. No, Mary knows the nature and 262 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,360 the character of Jesus. She knows who he is. 263 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,320 She knows what he's capable of. We have no reason to believe 264 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,800 that he's ever performed any other miracle. 265 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,040 But she says do whatever he tells you to. 266 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,280 This is how you should come to the Lord with expectation, 267 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,200 knowing his goodness, knowing his nature, knowing his 268 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,240 character. And you should be ready to obey 269 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,840 any instruction that comes next. Would Jesus have made wine for 270 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,280 the wedding if Mary hadn't asked? 271 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,600 I don't think so. So I think clearly asking has 272 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,440 its place, but it's nothing like the hard hearted demand made by 273 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,520 his enemies here. Those are two extreme examples, 274 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,400 one of absolute humility. Lord, here's the need and I 275 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,320 trust you. What's this got to do with me? 276 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:24,640 She didn't even answer him. She's goes, I know you, you, you 277 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:30,200 do whatever he tells you to do. And she's as irresistible for 278 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:31,840 him. It was sweet. 279 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,760 He sees the need. She's counting on his nature and 280 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,280 his character and his goodness, and he goes, I can't resist. 281 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,600 All for a celebration, all for a wedding that ran out of wine. 282 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,200 You need to know that you can and you should approach the 283 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,680 throne of grace with confidence so that you will receive mercy 284 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,640 and that you will find grace to help you in the time of need. 285 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,040 That's what the ministry of our great high priest is about, Not 286 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,800 doing tricks so that someone will believe in him because they 287 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:08,000 won't believe in him anyway, But sympathizing with us in our 288 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,760 weakness. Whether it's the very human 289 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,760 embarrassment of not being prepared for the wedding event 290 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,320 that we were hosting, or the very human experience of being 291 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,440 hungry and not close to our next meal like the people who had 292 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,120 followed him for three days, or the very human tragedy of 293 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,320 injury, illness, and death. That's when the Lord's ministry 294 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,320 comes through. So don't confuse and say, well, 295 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,280 can we make demands of the Lord? We come to the Lord with full 296 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,800 expectation on his nature and character. 297 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,680 This is very different from what the scribes and the Pharisees 298 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,560 and the Sadducees did. Hey, we're making a demand. 299 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,120 It's not to serve people. It's not to glorify the name of 300 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:42,760 God. It's for us. 301 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,760 It's for us to trap and to test you. 302 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,560 And the Lord says, Nah, I don't think I will play along. 303 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:54,600 Jesus ministers according to faith that emerges from a need. 304 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,800 Jesus ministers according to faith that emerges from a need. 305 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,760 So whether you need forgiveness or anything else, faith in Him 306 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,240 and faith in His word is the first step. 307 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,040 And then He does all the rest. Keep going. 308 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,680 Verse two, He answered them, so they've come to test. 309 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,800 Show us a sign from heaven. Verse two He answered them when 310 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,440 it's evening, you say it will be fair weather for the sky is red 311 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,480 and in the morning it'll be stormy today for the skies red 312 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,320 and threatening. You know how to interpret the 313 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,040 appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of 314 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,800 the times you've heard that phrase before all of us living 315 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,040 on the water for sure. Red sky at night sailors delight 316 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,520 red sky and morning sailors take warning. 317 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,440 So this is something that people recognize throughout history and 318 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,000 go, hey, red sky at night indicates probably going to be 319 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,120 favorable weather. Red sky in the morning, probably 320 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,320 going to be stormy weather. And there's reasons for that. 321 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,320 And by the way, in case you're wondering, it's not just a wives 322 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,320 tale, it's it's pretty fairly accurate. 323 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,840 And there's, there's reasons there's dust and particles in 324 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,400 the atmosphere. It has to do with the where the 325 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,840 sun is. So the sun, the direction of 326 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,920 weather traveling, sun rising in the morning, red in that 327 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,119 direction, sunrise. Google it people. 328 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:14,599 You can figure out this is not a science lesson, but Jesus is 329 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,560 calling them out because they're saying we want to see something 330 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,119 in the sky. And he says, yeah, you, you're 331 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,720 interested in the sky and you're actually, you can actually 332 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,560 interpret the weather patterns, which is pretty impressive, 333 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:27,760 right? You know, we look back in 334 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,760 ancient peoples, it's kind of tempting sometimes think they're 335 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:30,680 dumb. They were not. 336 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,960 They most certainly were not. But he says you can read the 337 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,400 weather, you can understand that, but you can't read the 338 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,960 Kingdom. That's the problem I want, we 339 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,120 want a sign in the sky. And he goes, you've got signs in 340 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,280 the skies, you've got signs all over the place, but you still 341 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,040 can't read it. You still don't know the Kingdom 342 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,360 when it's staring you in the face. 343 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,160 Some people can read the stock market, but they can't read the 344 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,320 Kingdom. Some people can read the 345 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,560 headlines, but they can't read the Kingdom. 346 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:58,960 You can read the surface, but you can't read what's happening 347 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,840 underneath. These guys knew the scriptures, 348 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:05,440 but they did not know the ultimate sign of God that was 349 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,600 standing right in front of them. And He literally did give them 350 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,760 the thing they're asking for about 30 years earlier. 351 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:14,160 He gave them a sign in the heavens. 352 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,560 He moved stars around for them and they even then missed it. 353 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,080 If you would just give us all their words are going to be used 354 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,640 to condemn them on the day of judgement. 355 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,000 All those words are going to be brought right before them and 356 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,080 they will be terrified of everything they spoke. 357 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,160 And the Lord said, you actually were given that and you missed 358 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,320 it, and you were given this and you missed it. 359 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,640 You had everything and you missed it. 360 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,520 You had God himself and you missed Him. 361 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,320 They didn't see then and they don't see him now. 362 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,000 What does it matter if you can be prepared for the weather, for 363 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,600 the day, but you don't know how God is leading you today? 364 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,160 What does it matter if you can prepare well for retirement, but 365 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:56,800 you haven't prepared well for eternity? 366 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,320 These guys interpret all kinds of other things, but not what 367 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,240 God is doing through His Son Jesus. 368 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,000 So again, easy for me and you to be like, man, dudes are awful. 369 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,160 But this is the thing. We have to guard against the 370 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,160 fair, the little Pharisee in me, the little Sadducee in me, the 371 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:18,600 flesh in me, the pride in me, the blindness in me, the 372 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,760 foolishness in me. I love the Lord. 373 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,880 You love the Lord. And yet we can still be pretty 374 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,920 stupid. We can still be pretty foolish. 375 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:28,720 We can still miss the forest for the trees. 376 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,400 We can still look at the weather for the day and know that we're 377 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,520 going to take our umbrella on our raincoat, but we can still 378 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,520 miss out on what the Lord is doing in His Kingdom for the 379 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,560 day. So where are you? 380 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,120 St. As a believer, you want to keep 381 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:44,440 growing in faithfulness. I don't. 382 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,360 It's not satisfying for you. It shouldn't be satisfying for 383 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:50,520 you to compare yourself to the Pharisees and the Sadducees and 384 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,600 go, I'm doing great. Like that's not the bar that you 385 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,080 and I want to meet. The bar is the Lord's standard 386 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,040 of righteousness and holiness. So there are examples to be 387 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,440 learned here, but we don't just sit back and condemn them and 388 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,120 drive home and go. Thank God that I'm not like 389 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,000 those men, because in doing that we become those men. 390 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,600 Humility is what is what we're after as we pursue the Lord. 391 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,120 You should go after the Lord. You should go after the Lord 392 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:18,680 with boldness. You should go after the Lord 393 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,040 with joy. You should go after the Lord 394 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,640 with zeal. You should go after the Lord 395 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,920 with great expectation. But that will keep you humble 396 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,320 and it will keep you focused on things heavenly. 397 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,240 You will set your mind on things above. 398 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,920 You will set your heart on things above. 399 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,800 Not on things that are lowly, things that are earthly. 400 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:39,960 The Pharisees and the Sadducees, they thought they were setting 401 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,480 their minds on things above. Thinking about the sky Jesus 402 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,840 standing there with Him in the dirt is the greatest thing they 403 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,480 could have put their hearts, attention and focus on. 404 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,800 These guys interpret other things, but not what God is 405 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,000 doing through His Son Jesus. Keep going. 406 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,840 Verse 4. An evil and adulterous 407 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,600 generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it 408 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,080 except the sign of Jonah. So he left them and departed. 409 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,560 We don't know how Jesus delivered these lines. 410 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,040 We don't know what the crowd was like in this moment. 411 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,080 We don't know if he addressed them with their with their red 412 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,360 sky analogy. And then if he goes and looks to 413 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:21,480 everybody and goes and points at them. 414 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,000 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. 415 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,400 We don't know for sure, but either way, this is a massive 416 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,880 body slam. Again, he just keeps doing it. 417 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,320 He calls them evil and adulterous. 418 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,320 Nobody talks about these guys this way ever. 419 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,920 And they would certainly never say it to their faces. 420 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:50,760 Evil and adulterous? Do you know who you're talking 421 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,480 to? Remember the Pharisees? 422 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,840 They come into town, the whole village. 423 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,360 Oh, my goodness, Rabbi, so and so is here. 424 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,720 And Jesus gone. OK, He's not impressed. 425 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,640 He's not impressed with anybody. And of course he is exposing 426 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,840 them continually. Evil and adulterous generation, 427 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,920 Strong language. Come on, Jesus, don't you think 428 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,000 you'd get a little farther if you use some sugar instead of 429 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,840 all that salt? You ever heard that before? 430 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,960 I sure have. Come on, won't, won't sugar make 431 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,160 the medicine go down a little bit better? 432 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,400 When people are hard hearted Saints, this is the most loving 433 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,120 thing that you can do. Nothing else can penetrate. 434 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,280 Nothing else has penetrated. Strong sickness requires strong 435 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,240 medicine. This is the mercy and grace of 436 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,640 God to them. I just think if he had what? 437 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,280 What? Bent over backwards to please 438 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,320 them. The people who knew that he was 439 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,640 resurrected from the dead because the Roman guard came and 440 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:53,440 told them. Those people who said tell 441 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,040 everybody that his disciples stole his body. 442 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,720 Hey, time out, guys. Shouldn't we actually 443 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,680 acknowledge that the Messiah was just raised from the dead? 444 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,880 No, no, we're going to double, triple and quadruple down. 445 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,600 Why? Because it's not about what we 446 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,040 see and what we've heard. It's about what we will and will 447 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,960 not believe. We've got to believe that for 448 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,200 ourselves. Believe that the heart is the 449 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,880 thing that guards everything else. 450 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,400 The terrible infection needs strong medicine. 451 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,720 Come on, Jesus, this is the kind of thing that will turn these 452 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,760 guys away. These guys are already turned 453 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,280 away. This is their only hope. 454 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:32,040 Evil and adulterous. Those are strong and specific. 455 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,520 Evil. You know what that means? 456 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,560 Wicked and opposed to God and his goodness. 457 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,160 That's what he's calling them. The religious leaders are being 458 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,480 called that by Jesus in front of the crowds. 459 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,280 Adulterous. Abandoning the good and lusting 460 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,040 for the bad. What causes Jesus to use such 461 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,720 strong rebuke? Unbelief. 462 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,960 Same things that always move Jesus. 463 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,320 Faith makes him say wow. You have great faith. 464 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,680 And unbelief makes him say wow. Where's your faith? 465 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,480 Over and over and over in the Gospels. 466 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,400 Over and over and over. You have little faith. 467 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,400 You have little faith. I'll let Jesus down. 468 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,600 Yeah. Yeah. 469 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,480 Because unbelief is a big deal to God. 470 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,720 It's the root sin for all of my sin. 471 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,920 It's the root sin for all of your sin. 472 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,640 It was the root sin for Eve. It was the root sin for Adam I'm 473 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,120 missing. There's something I don't 474 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:26,000 believe about God. There's something I don't 475 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,040 believe about His goodness. There's something I don't 476 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,840 believe about His grace. There's something I don't 477 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,640 believe about His sustaining power in my life. 478 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,920 There's something I don't believe about His provision. 479 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,920 Why do I steal? Because I don't believe that 480 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,200 God's actually going to provide for me. 481 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,240 So I had to go and make something happen on my own. 482 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,880 Every sin in its root as we were to trace it down and go and why 483 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,560 did you do that? And what why did you do that and 484 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,200 why did you do that? You're going to come to a 485 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,960 theological reason and it's always going to be you didn't 486 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,280 believe God, you didn't trust the Lord. 487 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,600 It shows up, there's a it spirals out, the web gets 488 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,120 bigger, but it all comes back to you didn't believe God, which is 489 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,880 why the Lord was so pleased with Abraham. 490 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:08,040 Abraham believed God, Abraham, out of your worship in the moon, 491 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:14,360 worship in the sky. And God says Abram, pack up and 492 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:15,800 move and go to a place that I'll show you. 493 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,680 Where is that Lord? I haven't told you yet. 494 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,000 OK, I'll do it. I'll do what the Lord said. 495 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,440 I'll believe the Lord, and I'm going to multiply you, Abram. 496 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,480 I'm going to make you the father of many nations. 497 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,800 Your name is now Abraham. I don't have any kids yet, but 498 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,800 you want me to go around introducing myself as the father 499 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,960 of many nations? Yes, because I'm the guy who 500 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,760 speaks things that are not as though they were. 501 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,640 Can you believe me, Abraham? I believe you. 502 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,320 God. I haven't seen it, but I believe 503 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,160 you. Will you sacrifice your son for 504 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,560 me, Abraham? How can all my descendants come 505 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,400 from Isaac if Isaac's dead? Well, I reason that the Lord can 506 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,480 raise Isaac up if I kill him. I believe God. 507 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,280 The Lord is so pleased by faith. Why? 508 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,520 Because God is so faithful that He equates you doubting him to 509 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,960 adultery. Unbelief is the root sin, and it 510 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,360 is deep unfaithfulness to the faithful husband. 511 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,040 When we don't rely on him, when we don't seek others, when we 512 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,120 seek others to fill us up instead of him, when we seek 513 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:26,640 others to provide for us, when we seek other things to lead us, 514 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,840 when we seek other things to protect us, the loving husband 515 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,280 says we have a problem. This is adultery. 516 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,320 I won't share you and I want to provide and protect and lead you 517 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:43,360 completely and exclusively. And now he tells them what sign 518 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:45,840 will you get? They made their demand and he 519 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,640 tells them again what he's told them earlier. 520 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,400 The sign of Jonah is the only sign you're going to get. 521 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:56,080 So this is a very wise and interesting thing here that he's 522 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,000 doing. And we see Paul do the same 523 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,480 thing as well with Paul's on trial. 524 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,920 It's in Acts, it tells us that there are Pharisees and there 525 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,000 are Sadducees together and they've come against Paul 526 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,440 because again, God, everybody will unite. 527 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,760 The liberals, the conservatives all come together against Christ 528 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,320 and against his servants. And Paul recognized that there 529 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,840 was Pharisees and Sadducees there. 530 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,960 So right away he said, brothers, before I make my defense, I 531 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,960 would like to just say I'm a Pharisee and I believe in the 532 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,160 resurrection. So immediately the the 533 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:26,800 Sadducees, they don't believe in the supernatural. 534 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,320 They don't believe in the resurrection of the dead. 535 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,680 And immediately they turned on one another, which is perfect. 536 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:37,240 And Paul's like, because they turn on one another and say, 537 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,920 well, you're stupid. So he was much more a Pharisee, 538 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,280 of course, than Sadducees. If he had to pick, and you would 539 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,400 never want to pick either. But if you had to pick, you'd be 540 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,160 a Pharisee. You and I would want to be 541 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,760 Pharisees, which we don't want to at all. 542 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,120 But the Sadducees were even worse in that, you know, they 543 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,840 denied the supernatural. So Jesus is referencing the sign 544 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,440 of Jonah, the son of Jonah. It's a reference to 545 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,280 resurrection. So some people actually believe 546 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,680 that Jonah died. Others say he didn't die. 547 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,400 I tend to think he didn't die inside the fish and that, you 548 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,240 know, he actually repented. But there there are some who 549 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,800 would argue that, you know, Jonah died and then he had 550 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,320 resurrection. No matter what, Jonah really 551 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,640 happened. And Jonah is obviously a type of 552 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,560 Christ. The whole Bible is about Jesus. 553 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,640 Jonah is as well. It really happened. 554 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,840 It happened for that reason, for that moment, for that point. 555 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,200 And also it points to Christ and Jesus is saying that's the sign 556 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,040 that you're going to get. So maybe even for producing some 557 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,960 division here between the Pharisees and the Sadducees to 558 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,840 say you'll get the sign of the prophet Jonah. 559 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,640 They're going. And he had already said before, 560 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,960 he said, I'm going to go down 3 days and three nights, and in 561 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,880 the same way that Jonah did, and we'll come back. 562 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,880 So now the set, the Sadducees and the Pharisees, maybe they 563 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,600 turn on one another, maybe they didn't. 564 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,760 But Jesus's point is that of course he is the greater Jonah. 565 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,120 Jonah was reluctant to accomplish his mission. 566 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,360 He had to be forced into it. Jesus was eager. 567 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,120 Jonah hoped for the destruction of his enemies. 568 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,680 Jesus prays for the salvation of his enemies. 569 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,040 Jonah had a hard heart and Jesus had a soft one. 570 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,720 Jesus goes fully and completely in Jesus steps into the belly of 571 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,960 the whale. Jonah had to be dragged kicking 572 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,960 and screaming to fulfill the will of God. 573 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,880 Hard heartedness is the issue for religious leaders who have 574 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,200 come to Jesus. And a hard heart should scare 575 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,560 you and I more than anything else. 576 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,920 Give me a person with no wisdom. Give me a person with no 577 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,960 discipline. Give me a person with no 578 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:40,160 knowledge but a tender heart. They're going to be OK, but the 579 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,520 person with wisdom and discipline and knowledge and 580 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:50,000 capability, so far so good. But a hard heart, God have 581 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000 mercy. And that is their only hope 582 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,480 would be the mercy of God. Are you against these other 583 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,200 things? No, I'm pursuing wisdom and 584 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,480 self-discipline and knowledge and capability. 585 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,080 I want all that. But the temptation with those is 586 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,560 dangerous because the temptation is pride in my capability. 587 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,360 Well, I really don't need a walk by faith because I kind of know 588 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,800 how to solve this. Actually, when I was younger and 589 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,240 weaker, I actually needed God. But in a sense, I've outgrown 590 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,760 him. If you really think about it. 591 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,840 God have mercy if you're tender towards the Lord, He will get 592 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,680 you everywhere you need to go. He will guide you better than 593 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,200 red sky signs. His signs, His leadings, His 594 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,480 promptings are always sure. They are always true, but it 595 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,080 will require that you seek Him. So they came and they sought him 596 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,120 out, but they came to seek him out, to test him for those, for 597 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,920 their own foolishness, for their own pride. 598 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,040 They were in opposition to Him. I know you're not in opposition 599 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,880 to the Lord, Saints. I know you would not 600 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,800 deliberately set yourself up in opposition to Him. 601 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,920 So that's why we're not going to use a low bar. 602 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,520 We'll raise the bar and say, where are we now? 603 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,480 What would our next step of faithfulness look like? 604 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,200 Are you seeking God? Are you looking for your next 605 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,480 direction from Him right now in life, in this moment? 606 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,520 That's the bar for the spiritual believer, for the mature 607 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,480 believer, for the spirit filled believer. 608 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,600 Am I seeking the Lord for what's best and what's next? 609 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,320 Right now with where I am, I'm not looking around and going 610 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,320 well. I'm not where they are and I'm 611 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,600 not where they are. Well, pray for them and pray for 612 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:30,080 them, but don't compare to them. Compare to your best 613 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,480 faithfulness on your best day, and more importantly, compared 614 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,680 to the standard of His Word and His expectation. 615 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,040 You're not His enemy and you're certainly not going to make 616 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,120 disrespectful demands of your Lord, but are you even asking 617 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,520 Him for anything anymore? I'm not worried that you're 618 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:50,520 going to go to the Lord and raise your fist at Him, but are 619 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,080 you even seeking Him for anything? 620 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:57,200 Has your love grown cold? Has your Walt grown boring to 621 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,240 you? Has your testimony gone quiet? 622 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,840 Are you regularly going to the throne of grace? 623 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:11,560 What happens whenever the Pharisees and the Sadducees come 624 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:17,320 with their pride at the end of the passage in verse 4 says so 625 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,480 He left them and departed. They didn't get anything. 626 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,800 They got humiliated. They got outdone once again. 627 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,240 But this is what the Lord does with unbelief and hard 628 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,960 heartedness. He just leaves. 629 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,160 That's the terror. That's the horrifying thing. 630 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,400 And I'm thinking like, where's the smiting? 631 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,040 Where's the Thunder? Where's the lightning? 632 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,800 Where's the judgement? That is the judgement. 633 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,120 That is the judgement. His absence, the removal of his 634 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,920 spirit, the removal of his presence. 635 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,880 How could it get any worse than that fire from heaven? 636 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,200 OK, that's spectacular. But there's nothing worse than 637 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:01,640 the presence of the Lord leaving. 638 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,680 There's nothing worse than the anointing of the Lord pulling 639 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,360 away the Holy Spirit being grieved and saying you almost 640 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,680 wish you're like, no, no, correct me, fix me, help me, 641 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,560 rebuke me. That's love, that's grace. 642 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,080 But as we saw before we looked at the impardonable sin, though, 643 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,440 there even comes a place where times where people harden their, 644 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,760 their hearts so much and so much and so much and so much that the 645 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,600 judgment fully comes and the Lord says, I'm leaving you to 646 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:36,480 what you've chosen so they can never repent again. 647 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:37,880 Why? Well, because the grace won't 648 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,360 come again for them too, because you can't repent apart from the 649 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,960 grace of God. Anyway, remember, I can't just 650 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,720 go today. I choose. 651 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,360 It's always the grace of God that moves first in you and I, 652 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,640 and we respond to it. The Word of God cuts us to the 653 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,080 heart. And then I respond. 654 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,400 I either harden my heart and I gnash my teeth against his 655 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,200 servants, or I say, what must I do to be saved? 656 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,760 But God's grace keeps coming. Sometimes it comes with firm 657 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,280 rebuke. Sometimes it comes with gentle 658 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,920 whisper. But that's what grace looks 659 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,120 like. But when he departs, when he 660 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,880 leaves, this is a terrifying thing for them. 661 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,080 I thought he goes to find the lost sheep though, Pastor. 662 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,040 He does. But remember, the lost sheep 663 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,600 wants to be found. The lost sheep is just stupid. 664 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,520 The lost sheep is thankful when the shepherd shows up. 665 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,719 That's entirely different from the goat. 666 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,920 Who doesn't love him, who doesn't obey him, who doesn't 667 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,199 trust him, Who doesn't like him? The lost sheep is tender. 668 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,080 The wandering goat is hard. And here's. 669 00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:42,000 And that's what we see here. We see the goats that Jesus 670 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,639 talks about. He's going to separate the sheep 671 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,719 from the goats. And this is again, why you're 672 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,239 going to understand why do these people want to murder him? 673 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,719 Well, you're going to continue to have more clarity and see how 674 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,760 he's talking about them and how he categorizes them over and 675 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:03,060 over and over. That's our focus. 676 00:35:03,740 --> 00:35:05,380 Keep going into the presence of the Lord. 677 00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:07,940 Go in with boldness. Go in with joy. 678 00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:10,340 Go on with expectation. Go in like Mary. 679 00:35:10,980 --> 00:35:13,880 I know Him. I know Him, and of course you 680 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,720 have His promises. You have the fullness of His 681 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:18,240 word. Keep going, keep asking, keep, 682 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,440 keep seeking, keep knocking. He said the door will be open. 683 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,320 We're not. I'm not worried about you 684 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,120 wrestling with the Lord like Jacob did. 685 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,440 I won't let you go till you bless me. 686 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,640 He didn't have the Lord in a headlock and demanding that the 687 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,640 Lord would do something that the Lord didn't want to do. 688 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,040 He loved him and he was pursuing him as a friend. 689 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,720 This is the way we pursue the Lord, not with demands, not with 690 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:47,320 pride, not with arrogance. And we'll close with this 691 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,760 wherever you are, if you sense the Lord's presence has been 692 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,040 grieved, If you sense that. I don't, I just don't sense the 693 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,720 closeness of the Lord like I used to. 694 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:01,800 I don't feel His presence like I used to. 695 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,920 I know what I would do. I know what you should do. 696 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,080 You should cry out for help. You should run to the throne of 697 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,680 grace to receive mercy and help in your timely need. 698 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,400 It's simple and it's humble. If you want something elaborate, 699 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,120 I don't have it for you. If you want a five step plan, 700 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,640 there isn't 1. Repentance is messy. 701 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,960 Repentance is real. Repentance is not a formula, 702 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,120 it's just pursuit. Lord help me, Lord help me. 703 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,840 Could I withstand the preaching of Jesus? 704 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,880 Could I withstand his challenge? Could I withstand his rebuke? 705 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,360 Would I be drawn in or would I be repelled? 706 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,600 Do I love him for who he is? What is the expectation you can 707 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,920 have as you think about coming to the Lord for more closeness, 708 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,080 for more fellowship? Look at the people of Nineveh. 709 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,880 Look at what Jonah accomplished with the worst sermon ever 710 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,920 preached. 40 days and Nineveh will be destroyed. 711 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,360 That's about all he did walking through the city, and he hoped 712 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,480 that they wouldn't repent. But even him. 713 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,280 Why did Jonah not want to go to Nineveh? 714 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,600 Because he knew what was going to happen. 715 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,280 His whole, his whole argument against the Lord was, I know 716 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,840 what you're going to do. They're going to repent and 717 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,720 you're going to be merciful and you're going to save them. 718 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,080 That's what the prophet of God knew was going to happen to the 719 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,680 filthy Gentiles. That's us, by the way. 720 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,880 That's what he knew was going to happen to this wicked city. 721 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,360 I know if I preach, you're going to save them. 722 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,080 And then I'm going to be mad because I hate them. 723 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,000 And God goes, are you right to be angry? 724 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,800 Yeah. I'm bad enough to die. 725 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,600 That's what Jonah said. Just foolish all up in the 726 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,120 flesh. But what did God do for Nineveh? 727 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,520 He saved them. Why? 728 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,240 They repented in sackcloth and ashes. 729 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,080 They put on their itchiest, most miserable clothing to humble and 730 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,560 humiliate themselves. And they cover themselves. 731 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,400 Not in their makeup, not in their earrings, not in their 732 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,280 Sunday best. But they said I'm a nobody and 733 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,960 you're a nobody. And we're all a bunch of 734 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,040 nobodies. Let's humble ourselves. 735 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:10,000 No one will eat or drink, no animal or woman or boy or girl 736 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,080 or man. We will humble ourselves before 737 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,360 God and maybe he will be merciful on us. 738 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:18,480 And I said they're humble, they're repentant. 739 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,760 I can work with that. He said he was going to destroy 740 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,160 him in 40 days. He already said he was going to 741 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,000 destroy him in 40 days. God is merciful. 742 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,760 Nineveh passed the test and the men of Nineveh will rise up in 743 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,920 the judgment and condemn Pharisees and Sadducees. 744 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,200 Jesus said. Even Jesus, the judge who will 745 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,120 judge the living and the dead, will say for this trial he'll 746 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,920 raise up the men of Nineveh and put them and they will condemn. 747 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,240 Why? Because they repented when they 748 00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:51,480 had the worst sermon ever, when a guy who smelled like a fish 749 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,440 compared to the Pharisees and the Sadducees who have the 750 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,120 living God in front of them. Saints believe God, believe that 751 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,200 he loves you, and believe that when you come into his presence 752 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,120 that he wants to forgive you and that he wants to be gracious. 753 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,800 Jamaica, I've repented so many times. 754 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,560 Welcome to Christianity, welcome to humility, welcome to walking 755 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,960 with your God with a tender heart and a tender conscience. 756 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:19,520 Our life is not marked by perfection, but it is marked by 757 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,120 repentance, and it is marked by faithfulness. 758 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,200 It is marked by us being willing to be made low, being made low 759 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,280 before our God, which also means being made low before one 760 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,800 another, which is why we would confess our sins to one another 761 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:34,960 as opposed to hiding them and protecting them. 762 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,560 Because why would I do that? Why would I hide all my sins? 763 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,440 Because what you'll think about me. 764 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:49,120 So God, I pray for your people, those who feel far off, those 765 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,640 who feel distant, those who haven't been pursuing you. 766 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,520 I I really don't have the concern. 767 00:39:55,520 --> 00:40:00,120 Lord, as we look at our passage in your word today, I don't see 768 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,320 that kind of hard heartedness in your people. 769 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:08,120 I don't see that kind of foolishness and and fist raising 770 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:13,960 anger and demands. God, my concern is that our love 771 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,280 could grow cold. My concern is that my love would 772 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:21,400 grow cold, that we would have a familiarity that would say, 773 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,160 yeah, it's Jesus. Yeah, yeah, it's Jesus. 774 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,800 As though you're common, as though you're small. 775 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,480 I pray that you would expand faith where it needs to be 776 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,280 expanded. For so many of us, we just need 777 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,520 to stand up with boldness for your promises. 778 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,080 Again, we need our faith revived. 779 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:46,080 We need to believe, to see your goodness and your power at work, 780 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,360 not to demand upon you, but demand upon ourselves. 781 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:54,280 Believe God, O soul. Believe God, O Spirit, believe 782 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,200 God and live. Believe God and rejoice. 783 00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:02,120 Believe God and see His works of power and others, just to begin 784 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:09,440 to pursue Him with sincerity. The repentance there is one of 785 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,960 neglect 1. Of forgetfulness 1 of 786 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,880 distraction. The Lord find us humble right 787 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,120 now. We repent and we turn from our 788 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,320 sin. We want to walk in close 789 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,840 fellowship with you. We want to be humble like Mary. 790 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,680 We want to be humble like the disciples. 791 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,200 You have the words of life. Where else would we go? 792 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,400 Who else will we listen to? We're with you, Jesus. 793 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,120 You don't have to prove anything to us. 794 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,440 You've already done it through the miracle, the new birth, 795 00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:46,320 through the presence of the Holy Spirit. 796 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,400 That was all the proof that we needed. 797 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,000 All the other things, of course it makes sense, of course the 798 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,200 documentation is solid. Of course the Bible is the anvil 799 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,360 that will wear out every hammer that comes against it. 800 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,040 Of course there's a all the logical and other reasons as 801 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,840 well. But there's nothing more logical 802 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,840 than loving the God who forgave us of our sins, delivered us 803 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:13,240 from evil, and helped us to love him and to follow him. 804 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,120 Lord, help us to not just read the signs of of the day, of the 805 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,400 weather, of of the financial season, of the political season. 806 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,600 Make us a people who have heavenly minds and heart, heart 807 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:34,960 filled and heavenly hearts. I plead the blood of Jesus over 808 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:41,200 your people, God in Jesus name. And now the Lord bless you and 809 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,920 keep you. The Lord make his face Shinedown 810 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,000 upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance 811 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,360 upon you and give you great peace in Jesus name, Amen.