1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,240 Good morning, everyone. Oh, I'm recording John Michaels 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:11,160 listening right now. To me, it's always a privilege 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,520 and honor to speak at Salt Church. 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:15,920 You guys are one of my favorite people on planet Earth. 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,480 For those of you that do not know me, I am Pastor Daniel. 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,080 I've been a staff pastor at Lighthouse and Gloucester for 20 7 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:27,320 years or so. I'm the executive pastor and 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:35,360 man, I just love Jesus, all right, You know, I have, like 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:42,040 many of you, put all my chips on the table in front of our King 10 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:48,800 and said, hey, can you arrange my life to bring glory to your 11 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,320 name? And so Jesus stands above 12 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,120 everything in my life and will always. 13 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:02,720 And, and so I just try to live that way and I just love him so 14 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,720 much. So I try to love like Jesus. 15 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,520 I try to live like Jesus. I try to lead like Jesus. 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,920 I want everything to be about our King because he's done so 17 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,880 much for me. And so that's where I'm coming 18 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,440 from today. So yeah, I've accomplished 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,280 things in my life, but whatever. I think if you follow Jesus long 20 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,920 enough, you will see his glory be revealed in your life and 21 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,040 people will be affected in a positive way and, and praise God 22 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,800 for that. But I just want to speak from my 23 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,680 heart this morning. Thanks again, Natalie and John 24 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,720 Michael for inviting me here. I have a couple Sundays a year 25 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,480 that I can get away from Lighthouse and I choose Salt 26 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:51,600 Church every time. So and and so I just I feel like 27 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,840 I have a word now. I have shared this word a few 28 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,560 weeks ago. So. 29 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,080 If you heard it then and don't be disappointed because. 30 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,680 It is on disappointment if. You are disappointed. 31 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,199 That's my my. Teaching and if I could get 32 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:11,560 somebody to hand out some notes. I'm, I learned this from Pastor 33 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,320 Ken. We'll have some notes. 34 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,440 So if I get off track, there it is. 35 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,360 That's what I was supposed to say right there. 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,000 And if you want to join, turn to Luke chapter 15. 37 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,880 My family gives their love to you. 38 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:34,120 They are at home. Jennifer is steadily recovering 39 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:42,160 from from a stroke 8 months ago, so she's doing well. 40 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,640 And so the family's at home and that's where they are at. 41 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:56,080 All right, So turn with me to Luke Chapter 14. 42 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,960 Maybe it's just for me. Come on somebody, if you don't 43 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,280 go to church and feel the love of God, then come on, you got to 44 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:12,720 find it. Find another church. 45 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,080 But the spirit of of the Lord is in here today. 46 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:16,760 So. If you could, could just. 47 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,840 You, you don't have to stand up, just put your hands out like 48 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,520 this in the act of receiving from the Lord. 49 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,440 Oh Lord, we come to you today. I just thank you for your 50 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:38,760 unconditional love that cost you everything that you did for us, 51 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,560 what we could never do for ourselves. 52 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:47,520 You lived on this fallen world and did not sin, and then you 53 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,680 gave up willingly your life upon that cross so that we can have a 54 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,360 relationship with you. Father, you didn't Jesus, you 55 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,440 didn't state that God raised you from the dead. 56 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,400 And Lord, that love, I just pray for that sacrificial love to be 57 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,840 shed abroad supernaturally in every heart here today. 58 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,800 Lord, that our Sunday would be effective, that our Mondays and 59 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,640 Tuesday, may we have moments where we just take a deep breath 60 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,399 and realize that you have done for us what we can never do for 61 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:25,360 ourselves. Yes, we are called to work, but 62 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,440 we are called to work from faith, not for faith. 63 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,360 Your faith, your love is what compels us. 64 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,000 Father, I pray for that love to be shit abroad, not to others, 65 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,080 but. Individually, as you would. 66 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:46,840 Call each and every one of us by name and say you are my son, I 67 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:50,600 love you, you are my daughter, I love you. 68 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,160 I'm well pleased with you. I want to pray for that to 69 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,960 permeate every part of these next few minutes that we have 70 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,880 together. That your love would be shown, 71 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,840 that would be displayed, that would be received, that it would 72 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:10,360 be something that would shift our mindset, the atmosphere. 73 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,640 It would change everything. Your love changes everything. 74 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:23,080 God is love and your love never fails. 75 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,720 When we choose you, we receive love. 76 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:33,880 When we operate from that love, our actions will never fail. 77 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:41,600 And so Lord, I pray for that confidence, that boldness to 78 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,800 abide and live from that love. And I'll give you all the glory. 79 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,320 We give you all the glory in Jesus name, Amen. 80 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,280 Can you remember a time? Where you had like the best 81 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,840 birthday party ever. Think for a second. 82 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,320 You did you have one you had did you just recently have like the 83 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:01,880 best? Birthday. 84 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,520 Party ever. Not recently, but one of the 85 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,840 ones. OK, all right. 86 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,160 I remember. My best birthday party was. 1987 87 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,040 and that was a long time ago. And you can do the math. 88 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:21,640 But I don't do math anymore, so yeah, I'm past 40 and the. 89 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:27,040 Yeah, so that was a long time ago, but I was. 11 years old and 90 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:32,600 I didn't realize how awesome the birthday party was until I've 91 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,400 had a series of. Birthday parties that didn't go 92 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,040 according to plan? That makes sense. 93 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,760 I mean, sometimes things happen in your life and you're you look 94 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,520 back and you're like, I should have enjoyed. 95 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,280 That more Anybody there should have enjoyed that moment. 96 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:50,920 Well, it was 1987 and my team the. 97 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,520 Redskins Any Redskins fans in? Here, All right. 98 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,680 I still call them the Redskins. You can cancel me, but you got 99 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:57,960 to forgive me. Either way. 100 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,360 The blood of Jesus forgives me. There's still the Redskins to 101 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,320 me. The Redskins went to the Super 102 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:12,120 Bowl, and back then the Super Bowl had a chance to fall on my 103 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:18,560 birthday, January 31st, 19. You can put January 31st on your 104 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:19,800 phone if you want to get me something. 105 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:27,960 January 31st, 1987, the Redskins go to the Super Bowl on my 106 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,040 birthday. Praise the Lord, I wasn't even 107 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,640 serving him back then, but he was like, I got you. 108 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,960 You're coming to me so excited. They're playing the Denver 109 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,960 Broncos. All right. 110 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,240 Now, the Denver Broncos happen to be my wife's favorite 111 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,320 football team, and I didn't know her back then, but I remind her 112 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,960 of 1987 all the time. And like you remember that time. 113 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,040 All right. So they threw me a big birthday 114 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,840 party, had the cake and everything, and you know what? 115 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:04,400 It didn't disappoint because when the game was played. 42 to 116 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,320 10. Come on, the Redskins whooped 117 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,360 them. Doug Williams. 118 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,520 Come on, Art Monk. I mean, you had some great 119 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,960 football players, but I. Was like the best come on, 120 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,560 somebody the hogs don't, don't, don't let, don't take me down 121 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,400 that rabbit hole. That's the story that's not 122 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,240 there. But that was the best birthday 123 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:29,720 party I ever had. Have you ever had a party that 124 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,159 you planned that didn't go according to plan? 125 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,600 Like that one was kind of like, I wish I was in 1987. 126 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:43,640 I've been like, this is awesome. Whoa, alright, now I'm playing 127 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,800 things in my life and I'll tell you what, most of the time what 128 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:54,560 I expect to happen does not happen. 129 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:02,680 Sometimes I am disappointed with the results of said party. 130 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,320 Now let's take that just a little bit further. 131 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:11,240 Maybe you have experienced things in your life where you 132 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,560 thought it was going to go 1. Way. 133 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,320 And it went the total opposite way. 134 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,240 Yeah, yeah. I'll share. 135 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,160 I'm sharing stuff that is. Back so I don't have a 136 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:24,440 counseling. Session with you. 137 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:27,960 I'll leave that up to the Holy Spirit. 138 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,680 He's my counselor and so he'll work things out to me. 139 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:33,640 I don't have a counseling session here on Salt Church, but 140 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:38,000 here's here's one that I was super disappointed with in 2020. 141 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,920 I was. Graduating with with a from. 142 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,680 Region in a particular degree and I had vision. 143 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,600 I had, I had, I had visualized. Anybody practice visualization? 144 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,680 I do it all the time. Good stuff, good stuff. 145 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,280 I had been in the studies. How many go to have gone to 146 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:56,560 college? Going to college? 147 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,040 How many are out of? College. 148 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,160 Thank you Jesus, thank you. How many are in college saying 149 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:03,560 help me? OK. 150 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:05,280 All right. Well, I spent a whole lot of 151 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:09,800 time in college and I would use visualization to be like my 152 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,520 preferred future was coming. One of those things was I'm 153 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:18,280 going to walk across the stage, so rewind when I'm writing a 154 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,200 paper and I would like you, you've experienced this. 155 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:27,360 I used up all my brain cells and this thing is due and I don't 156 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,440 have anything. And then I would say, OK, just 157 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:30,960 pause. Jesus help me. 158 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:32,200 There will be a. Time. 159 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:34,560 Oh, that's right. Where? 160 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:39,600 All my family were gathered to celebrate me accomplishing this 161 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,400 great task. And I'll be walking. 162 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,680 On that stage and reaching university and I'm. 163 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,720 Going to be in my whole new thing and I'm going to. 164 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,360 Stand like a man and I'm going to grandma. 165 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,280 The degree across that. Stage and I was like yeah, thank 166 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,120 you Jesus and then we're going to party. 167 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:03,240 It's going to be great. What a day and this particular 168 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,160 degree I was getting on the other side of it. 169 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:06,800 I was getting a raise on top of that. 170 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,400 Come on somebody. So every time I got discouraged, 171 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,080 I would think about that, Oh, I have a couple more Dimes in the 172 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:20,280 bank account and I'm going to go in then in 20. 20 This thing 173 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,320 happened. They cancelled every graduation 174 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,760 and. It was called COVID. 175 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:31,800 So I'm sitting over there thinking, I had all this stuff 176 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,480 and it starts in March and then my graduation is May. 177 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,280 And I don't know, but if you fell in that trap where you were 178 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:43,640 like, this is just going to be a week, this would be just a week, 179 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,840 OK, this is just a month. I'd be like. 180 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,640 But I remember feeling disappointed now. 181 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,520 Good. Thing is, I have a. 182 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:58,760 Sweet daughter named Joy. And joy, man. 183 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,880 She is such a blessing to our family. 184 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,440 She's. Probably 14 at the time. 185 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,600 She goes outside. We live on a. 186 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,400 Second story. Flat and she goes into the yard 187 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,240 and she puts out a couple chairs. 188 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,880 And she? Puts out a little podium like. 189 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,440 This and she makes a. Little. 190 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,760 A little. Degree and she rolls it up and 191 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,680 puts a little twine on it and she says dad, what I want you to 192 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:27,160 do is I want you to I want you to put on your cap and gown 193 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:29,320 because. The family's going to have a 194 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:35,080 celebration for you today. And so I sat in my yard, and I 195 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,240 was the valid. Victorian. 196 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,120 I gave a speech and. Everything you know, I'm like. 197 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,240 Yes, Sir. We're all gathered here today to 198 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,000 hear from me. Top of the class. 199 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,800 Nobody knew I was lying. It was cool. 200 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,440 It was great. His blood covers whatever. 201 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,120 That was a joke. I didn't really do it, but. 202 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:02,440 No, I wasn't valid before. Won all the awards, but the Lord 203 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:07,520 kind of redeemed it. And I remember talking to one of 204 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,120 my good friends, Doctor Lynn Westman, and she's a counselor. 205 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,120 Do you anybody in counseling? Like is that your field in here? 206 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,120 I love counselors. I love. 207 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,440 Counselors. Well, Doctor Lynn Westman, she's 208 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,000 one of my heroes and she counsels me and I don't even 209 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,280 know what's happening. Like she's got that anointed. 210 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,440 You have those friends. Like some of the friends don't 211 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:27,920 have the degree. She has a degree. 212 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,320 Someone has those friends where they just grab stuff out of you 213 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,480 and then they the Lord uses that gift to just fix you. 214 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,520 I don't know how he does that. I'm like a man. 215 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,280 I'm. Just I'm fixed and like, how did 216 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,320 I get here? Well, I would talk to Doctor 217 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,440 Lynn and I said, she said, how are you doing? 218 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,800 And I said I'm disappointed. She's like, why? 219 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,680 And I and you know what, I had stuffed that disappointment. 220 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:56,280 You know why? Because there are people going 221 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:01,880 through worse things at that particular time than me not 222 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,360 getting my degree and walking across the. 223 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,120 Stage. I mean, people were losing 224 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,280 their. Lives and what I did was I was 225 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:14,120 like, in light of what everybody else is going through, I'm not 226 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:20,760 going to deal with that emotion, not how it goes when you're 227 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,680 having those emotions. We want to stuff them, but the 228 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,520 Lord wants to. Heal. 229 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,240 Them and so I was trying to be like, well, Doctor Lynn, all 230 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,560 this stuff happened she. Says whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a 231 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:35,720 second. Spend some time and let's 232 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,960 process that for a second. With the Lord about. 233 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:45,240 Being disappointed and so there are three ways. 234 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:46,800 Let me talk to your. Soul, just for a second, and 235 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,080 then we'll get to where? There are three ways things hit 236 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,520 us in life. It's external, internal and 237 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:02,600 theologically external. Internal theologically let's the 238 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:08,600 instance of me not walking that day, external wasn't it came at 239 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:13,880 me, did not expect it. Internally, I experienced the 240 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:19,320 the onslaught of what was coming at me and it produced something 241 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,040 in my soul. Does that make sense? 242 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,040 Am I tracking with you? It produces something. 243 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,280 Now, what most people don't factor in is how important 244 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:36,960 theologically fancy word for how you view God, how that 245 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,600 determines and effects those other two. 246 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,440 This is why it's really important that you read your 247 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,400 word. This is why it's really 248 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,520 important that you study the word, because how do you view 249 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,600 God? How do you view Jesus? 250 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,680 Now let me just give some of you just the hey, hey, this is the 251 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,560 way out. Jesus is perfect theology. 252 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,640 Amen. All right. 253 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,200 And you can think about that for a whole long time. 254 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:09,880 Jesus is perfect theology. OK, so if I go to Jesus, learn 255 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,600 from him because you're not following me, you're not 256 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,320 following John Michael, you're not. 257 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,520 You're following Jesus. Now all the other individuals 258 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,960 follow Jesus and then we do this thing together. 259 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,640 But you are called to follow Jesus. 260 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,760 And if he is perfect theology, then he is going to help you 261 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,000 navigate through life situations. 262 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,440 All right, so listen here. Here's the deal. 263 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:40,840 When things hit us externally, if internally something's not 264 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:46,640 right, it will cause this, this, this spinning out in your life, 265 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,840 so to speak, because you're not viewing things correctly. 266 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,680 All right? So if you censor yourself, OK, 267 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,400 well, here's Jesus. Here's one theological thought 268 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,760 that I'll just send you home with. 269 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,800 It's crazy some of the things so simple, but you could spend a 270 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,760 whole lifetime thinking through this. 271 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:11,839 Jesus was fully God and fully man Amen. 272 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:17,880 What the world? What does that mean? 273 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,400 He was fully God. So in the Book of Revelation, 274 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,520 Jesus is the king of kings coming down in the with the 275 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,720 White Horse. He destroys everything and he 276 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,360 doesn't even need any help. He got people behind him. 277 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,200 He he he wraps this thing up all by himself. 278 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:45,080 Jesus is fully God who but he is fully made when he was on earth, 279 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:51,200 and that means he experienced a whole lot of what we experience 280 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:55,720 as fallen human beings. Now Jesus did it all without 281 00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:01,600 sinning, did it all without misstep, but he experienced what 282 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,200 we're he experienced on earth. Are you with him? 283 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:11,440 OK, now I have used that understanding theologically to 284 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,120 get me through a whole lot of stuff because there are times 285 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,880 where I'm like, Jesus is coming and he's going to destroy all my 286 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:23,480 enemies. That's not where I'm at today. 287 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,520 There are also times in my life when I'm struggling with. 288 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,800 Stuff that is just real and I need the king to. 289 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,720 Sit by me and help. Me out in my mouth. 290 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,120 I need Jesus, the one that. Talked to his disciples. 291 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,080 And said I no. Longer call you servants, I call 292 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:45,720 you friend. I need the king, that is. 293 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,680 Suffering. I need the king to help me. 294 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,000 And here's one of the things and that that's helped me in my 295 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,560 life. I hope it, I hope that helped. 296 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,720 Think through it because sometimes we're like waiting for 297 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,080 the conquering king when he's saying, I just want to sit with 298 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,400 you, dear, and tell you how much I love you. 299 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,720 I, I just want to encourage you, dude. 300 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,240 You are doing a great job leading your family. 301 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,080 Come, come to the King, Sit down with him, sit with him. 302 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,120 Well, there is one thing that happened to me and I was, I was 303 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:19,640 reading the scriptures and I had never come to Jesus with my 304 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:24,720 disappointment. It's so strange to me that I had 305 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:27,080 never come to Him with this disappointment. 306 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,920 So there was something that I struggle with that I would try 307 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,720 to own. Is there manly men in here? 308 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,600 I like, I know it's John Michaels church, you got manly 309 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,360 men in here and there's nothing wrong with that. 310 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:44,040 I think we should be men. We should be men in lead, right? 311 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:51,000 But there is things that we go through emotionally that we have 312 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:58,120 to say, how do I, how do I work this thing out with Jesus? 313 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:01,320 How do I sit with him and be like, how do I net? 314 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,880 Well, one of the things that I had never done is I had 315 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,440 experienced disappointment because we all do. 316 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,520 That's number one. Disappointment is common to us 317 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,560 all. I had experienced disappointment 318 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:19,320 and I had tried. To get on the other side of it 319 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,800 in my own strength with not it, without inviting the Lord with 320 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,400 me, does it? Am I here? 321 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:29,520 He and I was reading the passages and I came across Luke 322 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,960 chapter 14. Now in Luke chapter 14, we have 323 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,560 this situation that plays out. You can follow along. 324 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,840 I'm going to paraphrase it until we get to our verses in verse 15 325 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,400 through 24. It's the great banquet is the 326 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,760 parable Jesus shares in Luke chapter 14. 327 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,600 Find Jesus. He's impassioned. 328 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:54,680 We all right His like he is. People are coming after Jesus. 329 00:20:56,120 --> 00:21:00,400 He's about to die for the sins of humanity. 330 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,800 They're about to hang them on a cross. 331 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,680 It is Passion Week and people are coming at them and the 332 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,160 Pharisees want to take him out. Like this is no joke. 333 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,640 Jesus is, they're after him. He gets invited to come to a 334 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:23,800 Pharisee's house and he attends. Jesus didn't run away from 335 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,960 conflict. He ran into it and then went 336 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:32,000 through it. He sits in this Pharisee's house 337 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,720 and it's a setup. It's like Jesus come to dinner 338 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,760 with us. We're setting you up. 339 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,520 All eyes are on Jesus. Matter of fact, they bring in 340 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:47,680 somebody that is sick just to see if Jesus will heal him on 341 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,840 the Sabbath. Now, Can you imagine if you read 342 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,440 this passage, Can you imagine being that sick guy? 343 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,120 Come on, Why don't you come with me to this house? 344 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:58,960 It's like, why are you inviting me here? 345 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,320 There in this, in this particular issue, the guy is 346 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,520 dealing with swelling of the body, like he's his liver is 347 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,200 messed up or something. His body's not acting right. 348 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,680 They pick somebody that's sick, they're like, come to this 349 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:16,520 thing. All right, Jesus is there, All 350 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,680 eyes are on him. Jesus says, hey, do you think 351 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:25,960 it's lawful to sin and to heal on the sound crickets. 352 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,560 Oh, they knew what they wanted to say to Jesus, but those 353 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,280 Pharisees, they didn't have the courage to say anything to the 354 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,760 King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 355 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:44,080 He says, hey, silence. He turns. 356 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,080 And he heals the van. It was so cool. 357 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,800 I don't know what verse it. Is four or five. 358 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,160 He heals him and sends him on his way. 359 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,280 They invite this man in here as a set up to see if Jesus would 360 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,440 heal him on the Sabbath, but they're all ticked off. 361 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,680 Trying to kill him over Jesus is like, hey, if your kid fell in a 362 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,840 ditch, if your oxen fell in a ditch, when you pick him up and 363 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,600 he heals this man and sends him on his way, he's like, look, 364 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,400 this party's not for you my friend, go ahead and leave. 365 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,520 Sends him on my management being that sick guy. 366 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,600 Come on, that's the best party he ever went to. 367 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,960 And then he begins to talk to them. 368 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:29,840 So then he says, I think it's he notices how the guests pick the 369 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,160 best seats. You know what, I think in 370 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,760 America, if we would just do this one, we would go a whole 371 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,560 whole far away. Teach your kids this. 372 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:44,600 Don't take the best seat when you come in a room. 373 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,000 That's a McKee rule. Here's another McKee rule. 374 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,320 Liters eat last. Don't come into the room and 375 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,760 take the best seat. So Jesus is at this Pharisees 376 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:01,560 party and he sees people jockeying for position and he 377 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,360 says, look, this is not how this thing is supposed to work. 378 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,240 If you come in and you see the best seat and you sit in it, 379 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,600 then you're liable to have the, the, the person that's running 380 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,360 the show come in and say, hey, look, that was reserved for John 381 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:17,560 Michael. You're sitting in John Michael's 382 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,400 seat. No, he says, the best thing you 383 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,080 can do is find the the seat that is farthest away so that when 384 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,200 the host comes in, they'll say, hey, why don't you come move up 385 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,880 in here, right? And he's teaching them how the 386 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,200 Kingdom works. He's in on in real time. 387 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,480 That's how Jesus is talking in real time. 388 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,200 He's saying this is what's happening. 389 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,720 This is what should happen. Then he says, OK, well, here's 390 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,840 the deals. What's happening is that you 391 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,680 guys are just inviting all your friends to come to your parties. 392 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,320 The best party you could have is if you went to the to to invited 393 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,160 people that really couldn't afford to come. 394 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,280 The cripple, the lame, invite them to the party. 395 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,960 That's how a party's supposed to go. 396 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,000 Then let me see if I caught it all. 397 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,880 I think I did good. You can read it later if and 398 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,320 text John Michael if I missed it. 399 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,680 So then in verse 15, let's pick up in verse 15. 400 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:17,720 Are you still with me this morning? 401 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,800 OK, verse 15 when one of those at the table with him heard 402 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,920 this, he said to Jesus, blessed is the one who will eat at the 403 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:33,920 feast in the Kingdom of God. Pharisee ask this to Jesus. 404 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,000 Jesus is prime. Teach them something. 405 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:43,440 This Pharisee says hey, it's good to know and we're all going 406 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,680 to be eaten up in that. Kingdom of Heaven. 407 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:51,720 And what Jesus is trying to teach them is that the Kingdom 408 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,720 is not only the Kingdom to come, it's the Kingdom now. 409 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,600 And you can take that home with you like you can have the 410 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,520 Kingdom now. Today. 411 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,120 The Kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy 412 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:10,080 Spirit. The Kingdom is at hand. 413 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,560 And Jesus is trying to tell the Pharisee guys, you have been 414 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,120 waiting for something that is here right in front of you. 415 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,800 It's me. And then he tells this parable. 416 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,160 Now parables are awesome. How many like parables? 417 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:24,560 You should read all the parables. 418 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,360 I think there's 37 parables that Jesus writes. 419 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,440 They are really, really good stuff. 420 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,360 So here's the parable. And then let's let's tag it into 421 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:37,680 disappointment because one of the things I just didn't, didn't 422 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,120 click with me was that Jesus has been disappointed. 423 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:49,080 And maybe that's just for me right there, but the fact that 424 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:55,760 Jesus was disappointed gave. Me, the strength to walk. 425 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,320 Through disappointment and when I. 426 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:03,120 Read this parable I saw. Keys to overcoming the villain 427 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,160 of disappointment to being on the. 428 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,440 Other side of of. Disappointment and it starts 429 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,800 with this first one, Jesus replied. 430 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,720 A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many 431 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,480 guests. At the time of the banquet, He 432 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:21,760 sent his servants to tell those who had been invited come, for 433 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:28,880 everything is now ready. Jesus prepares this banquet and 434 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:34,440 he's saying everything's been ready, everything is ready, and 435 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,520 he's invited people to come. You know who he's talking to? 436 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:46,080 He's talking to the Pharisees. He's saying you have already 437 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,800 been invited. The table has already been set. 438 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:58,440 Come then in verse 18 it says, but they but they all alike 439 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,640 began to make excuses. The first said I have bought a 440 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,280 field and I must go and. See it? 441 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,920 Now let me just pause. Who buys a field and then goes 442 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,280 and sees it? Right. 443 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,800 That's a lame excuse, 19 another said. 444 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,480 I have just bought 5 yokin of oxen and I'm on my way to try 445 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,520 them out. Please excuse me who works at 446 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,680 that time of. Day third excuse, which I think 447 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,080 is the best. Excuse. 448 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,960 There's still another said. I just got married so I can't 449 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,840 come. John Michael would not like 450 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:45,440 that. Well, what wife would not want 451 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,600 to get all. Dressed up and go to a banquet 452 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,480 that's already. Been prepared. 453 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:56,240 So what Jesus is saying to these Pharisees is that you have made 454 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,000 excuses. Now listen, I'm not going to 455 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,040 harp these excuses because you're here. 456 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,800 Today on a Sunday. Morning and you've. 457 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,200 Decided not to. Use any of those excuses. 458 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,560 But we have used all those excuses, right? 459 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:14,280 So let that sit for a second as you encourage others to come to 460 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:15,920 the. Local House of God. 461 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,840 As you you know, it is so easy in our world to make up a lame 462 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,320 excuse to not coming. I think Jesus would be more 463 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,160 pleased that we were just honest. 464 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,720 Yes. Right, so he. 465 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,280 Sends out this this request and here's the deal. 466 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:42,040 Like in ancient, in this time in Jewish time they would go door 467 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,480 to door and invite you to banquets. 468 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,920 So that means. Like they would, they would say, 469 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,640 OK. Are the clerks coming? 470 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,080 Yeah, we're coming. I'll put you down. 471 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,520 Are you guys coming? Yeah, I'll put you down. 472 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,160 I got you. I see you, darling. 473 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,800 Your family coming. I got you. 474 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,040 I got you. I got you. 475 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,800 And they would get a rough estimate. 476 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,160 And whoever is playing the church picnics. 477 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:09,120 You live this a rough estimate on how many people are going to 478 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,440 come. Then they would send out the 479 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,880 official invite. So then the official invite 480 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,840 would send up in your inbox and you'd be like, OK, then you make 481 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,160 the excuse right. So Jesus is talking to these. 482 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,360 So the so here here. So everybody deals with 483 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,680 disappointment and how to overcome this disappointment is 484 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:37,800 I need? I need one of those sheets. 485 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,800 I had it written somewhere. Resolve, Disappointment leads to 486 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,800 adaptability. It leads you to adapt. 487 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,600 Now listen in this in this particular parable, Luke chapter 488 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,640 1421. Let's get there real quick. 489 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,360 So they make the excuses. The servants came back and 490 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,160 reported this to the master. Then the owner of the house 491 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,840 became angry and ordered servants go out quickly into the 492 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,280 streets and alleys, out into the towns and bring in the poor, the 493 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,400 crippled, the blind and the lame. 494 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,120 In order to resolve disappointment, you need to 495 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,640 adapt to your present situation. Does that make sense? 496 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,920 There's there's this in this parable. 497 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,920 He was quick to adapt. He's like, OK, I invited all my 498 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,400 friends and all my friends didn't come because they had 499 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,000 lane excuses. Well, he didn't stay into in the 500 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,240 disappointment. He adapted it and said, OK, 501 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,360 well, now here's what we do. We go out and we invite the 502 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,760 cripple, the lane. We bring them in. 503 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,520 One of the ways to resolve disappointment is to see what 504 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,160 the opportunity is. That is presented itself. 505 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,800 In my situation, when I was talking about graduating, my 506 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,600 daughter Joy adapted, didn't she? 507 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,400 She saw the disappointment from Dad and she made a quick 508 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,400 decision to say, we're going to redeem this. 509 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,280 The longer you stay in something, the more it seeds in 510 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,200 you. And I'm not saying you can't 511 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,080 work through your emotions now. And everybody is wired a little 512 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,520 bit differently. So sometimes we like to think 513 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,200 our way out. Sometimes some people feel their 514 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,360 way out. I get you. 515 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,480 I'm not here to try to figure out who you are and how you're 516 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,200 wired. That's insanity. 517 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,840 I'm saying once you identify the disappointment is familiar to us 518 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:33,920 all, Look for the opportunities. How can we shift this? 519 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,840 How do we resolve this? How do we adapt? 520 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,040 All right, now listen the the next one and I got some points 521 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,520 there for you in verse 22 and 23, resolve disappointment leads 522 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,120 to perseverance. Verse 22 and 23, Sir, the 523 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,720 servant said, once your order has be done, been done, but 524 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,600 there's still room, then the master told his servants, go out 525 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:02,160 to the roads in the country lanes and compel them to come so 526 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,600 that my house will be full. And everybody said, Amen. 527 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,880 There is always room in God's house for more people. 528 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,680 All right, resolve, disappointment leads to 529 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,360 perseverance. Now let me just push a little 530 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:23,520 bit here. OK, in all love. 531 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,480 Let me get back into my love. Sometimes I'll get to the 532 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:33,720 exhorting. Thing it's. 533 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:39,600 Time to build some perseverance. In your. 534 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:49,680 Life and the way that God does that one way is because we live 535 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:56,040 in a fallen world and we have to adapt and we have to persevere 536 00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:01,880 through some stuff like if we could just be like, OK, magic 537 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,480 genie Jesus. Last time I checked in the IMS 538 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:10,360 Iams of Jesus, the seven Iams, there wasn't the magic genie 539 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:15,360 Jesus. I am discipleship. 540 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,280 Following Jesus is a process. We go through stuff. 541 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:25,159 I'm here to tell you that on the other side of that resolved 542 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,280 disappointment is a bigger, better promise on the other 543 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,800 side. And there needs to be in the 544 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:39,480 body of Christ, there needs to be this call to surrendering to 545 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,840 Him and persevering through stuff. 546 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,040 Because on the other side of your disappointment is 547 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,360 opportunity. On the other side of 548 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,880 disappointment is, is something that Jesus has in store for you 549 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,159 Now, Did He 'cause it? I don't know. 550 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,160 Some stuff comes externally, some comes internally, some 551 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,960 comes because we're just hanging around people that are in fallen 552 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,000 world. Sometimes we take on more stuff 553 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,560 than we can. Sometimes we have an expectation 554 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,960 of what we think God is doing, but he's going to do something 555 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,200 different. Sometimes we have this, this, 556 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,640 this, this, this, and this. Can I tell you a lot of things 557 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,160 that I wanted to do in my life or had planned to do in my life 558 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:24,200 have come out totally different. I mean, just been different and 559 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:29,000 it's not been bad. But if I had a stayed in the 560 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,120 season of disappointment, like if you're still in 561 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:39,560 disappointment in this year, next year and next year, come 562 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,280 on, come on somebody. It's time to say, you know what, 563 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,240 they disappointed me. Call it what it is. 564 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:49,280 A spade is a spade, but the blood covers it. 565 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:55,720 And I'm moving on because we can't stay in disappointment in 566 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,840 this in this regard, because there are people that are going 567 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:03,160 to hell all around us and we need to get over ourselves. 568 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,680 OK, That's as hard as I could go in the loving. 569 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,560 Are you receiving it? Like so there's something in 570 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,880 your life today. I'm telling you, Jesus sent me 571 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,320 to you today. There's something in your life 572 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,240 that you got to say. I'm going to set that free and 573 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:22,280 move on. Yes, I was disappointed, but now 574 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,480 I'm resolving my disappointment because just like Jesus was 575 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,920 disappointed in the Pharisees that they were going to kill 576 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,160 him. They literally killed him. 577 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:40,600 Jesus came to save the Jews and the very people he came back to 578 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,360 nailed him on a cross and insulted him. 579 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:51,120 And we're so thankful that he died and he came back for them. 580 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,320 You talk about disappointed, Jesus was disappointed. 581 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,080 So it's time. It's time. 582 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,440 It's like, OK, today, let's just break free of that mess. 583 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,200 I don't know what it is in your life. 584 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,960 Maybe you planned something that didn't work out. 585 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,440 Maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's something internal. 586 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,400 External things just didn't go the way they were supposed to 587 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,840 go. It's time to say, OK, OK, In 588 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:21,480 order to have a fresh start, in order to see the new thing that 589 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:26,120 you have in store for me, I got to let go of this 590 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,720 disappointment. And I know in order to let go of 591 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:35,920 this disappointment, I need to let you perfect in me something 592 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,840 that is of you. On the other side of 593 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,240 disappointment is strength, my friends. 594 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,520 I mean, what is in you will come out of you. 595 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,600 Can I tell you that out of the abundance of the heart, the 596 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,480 mouth speaks when things are calm, You need to be putting 597 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:58,920 some good stuff in you. Because when the storm comes and 598 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,760 the trouble comes, what is in you is going to come out of you. 599 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:08,040 And if you will learn how to mitigate, manage walkthrough 600 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:14,360 disappointment now, when things maybe aren't so, so hard pressed 601 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,920 on you, when you get into the situation, you will do things 602 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:23,920 without thinking about them. All right, enough so he says. 603 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:30,040 So my house will be full. Resolvement, resolve, 604 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,040 disappointment fortifies your faith. 605 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,840 It fortifies your faith. Now listen in this particular 606 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,800 parable, and I hope you caught it. 607 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,440 And Jesus shares parables so that we keep you so we can get a 608 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,560 truth to it. There's always room for people. 609 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,640 In God's house. And this and I and I love Salt 610 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,680 Church because there's room for people to come here. 611 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:05,360 Don't get to the place where you have not made space for somebody 612 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:13,120 that doesn't know what you know about Jesus not being able to. 613 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:20,520 Sit there because churches. Are known for being the screen. 614 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:26,160 Door to what Jesus is. Doing in somebody's life and we 615 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,520 can get on these other side of these seasons. 616 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,360 And be like, look, my life looks a whole. 617 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,720 Lot more in order than it did back. 618 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:37,800 Then. But it wasn't me that put it in 619 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:43,040 order, It was him. It was His word becoming flesh 620 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,200 in my life. And if I get. 621 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:52,560 Prideful, like the Pharisees, I will say my life is in order 622 00:39:52,560 --> 00:40:01,080 because I And then when there's somebody in utter chaos, life 623 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,760 falling. Apart that could do your three 624 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,040 things that you haven't swore for their life and it would 625 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:12,360 magically get better. Struggling over there, but we're 626 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,240 way over here and we're saying they don't have a. 627 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,480 Seat at my. Banquet. 628 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,280 Don't be that church. Don't be that individual. 629 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,800 Jesus says, go out and get those yes, that are hurting and 630 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,640 bringing in. What is Jesus saying in that 631 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,520 parable? He's living this out. 632 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,040 He's saying, Pharisees, if you followed me around, I'm the one 633 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,200 that's healing that that man that you brought in here that 634 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,560 was sick. Matter of fact, I've come here 635 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,880 and I've poured out my life for the least of these. 636 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,880 Amen. He's saying I'm already there. 637 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:54,120 He's telling the Pharisees that's me, that's what I've 638 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,600 done. If I was going to throw a 639 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,600 banquet. And then he says this. 640 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:05,200 He says go out and compel them. That word compel, That's an 641 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,600 interesting word. You should look it up because it 642 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:19,440 literally means to compel, to state strongly to convince 643 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:24,080 matter of fact, there in, in church history, there have been 644 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:29,000 churches that have taken that word, compel to the extreme and 645 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,200 they have caused a whole host of harm. 646 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,600 You know what they did? They looked it up and it was 647 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,920 compelled. And so they define compel 648 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,560 screaming and yelling and compelling from the rooftops, in 649 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,760 the sideways and byways, in the bushes and hedges. 650 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:56,400 Who, who hides behind the hedge? But look that, he said, go to 651 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,360 the hedges. I, I, I, I'll think about that. 652 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,640 Where are the people that are hiding? 653 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:05,680 Behind the hedge when do? You get to the place where 654 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:10,320 you're thinking strategically about how do we get people that 655 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:16,080 don't even think about? Church to come here to come to 656 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,560 him. You know what's interesting 657 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,800 about this parable? Let's not come here. 658 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:28,960 It's goad there. And a lot of times what we do in 659 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,280 our church, the only thing is bad it's we've created a 660 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,880 banquet. Come everybody and Jesus is 661 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:46,560 saying go yes and compel. He's saying go out there and 662 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:51,160 then Brendan here, he well, that's inconvenient. 663 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:56,880 Jesus. Well, yeah, but there's room in 664 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,800 my house. There's. 665 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,520 Room in my house. This is why, personally 666 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,680 speaking, I love. The church. 667 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,320 And I don't just love lighthouse in salt. 668 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:19,680 I love the church. Because every local expression 669 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,160 of the church is an. Opportunity to reach people that 670 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,800 no one else is reaching. I love the church. 671 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,280 The Church is the answer in our world. 672 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,200 Amen, but there. Needs to be this participation 673 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,000 from the followers of Jesus. That say, you know what? 674 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,640 I'm going to do things. No one else is doing to reach 675 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,280 people that no one else is reaching. 676 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,120 And you're only going to do that on the other. 677 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,640 Side of discouragement. You're only going to do that on 678 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,560 the other side where you're like, OK, I've learned how to 679 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,680 manage my. House I've learned how to. 680 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,480 Manage my relationship with Jesus and I don't I don't get it 681 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,560 all right and thank the Lord because that makes that that 682 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,160 brings me right to his feet every single time. 683 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,680 But I am healthy enough to look out for the interests. 684 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,560 Of others. And. 685 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,800 Bring them into a relationship. With Jesus. 686 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,440 So can you stand with me this morning? 687 00:44:28,830 --> 00:44:30,910 Again, let's finish the way we started. 688 00:44:30,910 --> 00:44:34,910 Just put your hands out in the act of receiving from the Lord. 689 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,120 Jesus, we just love you, just love on the King, we love you. 690 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:52,760 Jesus, we love you so much. You are so good to us. 691 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,880 You are so good to us. You are so good to us. 692 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,600 Thank you. I'm going to ask this question 693 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,560 because I don't know everyone in this room. 694 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,880 Jesus did for you what no one else could do. 695 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,040 He lived a sinless life. He. 696 00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:16,520 Gave his life up for you so that you could have relationship with 697 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,280 Him. Says in the scriptures that 698 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,360 whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 699 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,200 Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and the reason why. 700 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,360 Jesus is the. Only way while one of the 701 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,160 reasons is because he didn't want to complicate things here 702 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,240 on earth, some people are like, hey, there's so many ways to. 703 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:38,520 God no, there's one way. And his name is Jesus, and so 704 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,080 there's no debate. About it you. 705 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:45,960 Can only come to God and the Father through Jesus, and He has 706 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,560 paved the way for you to do that. 707 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,280 And it's called the good. News. 708 00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:50,840 It's not bad news. It is. 709 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,880 Great news and the great. News is that you have. 710 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,480 Sinned and fallen, that's a bad news. 711 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,720 Sin and fallen short of the glory of God. 712 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,560 But Jesus did for you, which you could never do for yourself. 713 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:06,120 He has washed. Away he has taken every sin of 714 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:11,160 humanity upon himself, and he willingly gave his life, and the 715 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,080 Lord raised him up so that we. Could have a relationship. 716 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,200 With him and. All you have to do. 717 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:20,080 It is so simple, is call on. The name of the Lord. 718 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:25,160 You just say Jesus, I need you, Jesus, I need you. 719 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:28,120 And if there's anyone in here today, I'm going to count the 720 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,080 three, but there's nothing. Special about the number. 721 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,600 Three, I'm just. Letting the Holy Spirit draw you 722 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:38,880 to Him and today's your day. Today is the day of salvation. 723 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:46,200 Today is the day where your life is brand new in Him and the 724 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:51,320 weight of sin, the burden of sin will just float off of your life 725 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:56,480 and you will be His forever. If that's you today, all across 726 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:57,840 this room, just lift your hand up. 727 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:03,000 Anybody, anyone. How many this morning? 728 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:12,960 How many this morning? All right, my second call. 729 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,840 Is that I? Know during this message that 730 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:26,400 there is something, some kind of disappointment that has been 731 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,520 tripping you up and Jesus just sent me with a message to Saul 732 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:34,680 Church to let's not get tripped up about what God has already 733 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,800 settled. It's time to move on. 734 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,200 It's time to take the step. Today is the day that you 735 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,000 resolve that disappointment. Amen. 736 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,160 So if that's you today, just lift your hand. 737 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:50,920 I'm not calling anybody up. I just want to. 738 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,280 See a hand? If the Holy Spirit is there you 739 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:54,440 go. I see those hands. 740 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,240 How many more? How many more disappointment is 741 00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:59,560 coming to us all? How many more? 742 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:02,600 All right, say this with me, Lord Jesus. 743 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:09,720 Lord Jesus, I give you this disappointment and Lord, I pray 744 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:14,760 and Lord, I pray for your grace and your love to overwhelm me, 745 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:20,480 to overwhelm me in Jesus name, Jesus name and just let that go. 746 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:24,800 Hallelujah. And here's my counsel to you as 747 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:30,000 to you need to manage that decision that you've made today. 748 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,960 Sometimes I put stakes in the ground. 749 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,440 My family puts stakes in the ground and the reason why is 750 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,800 we're saying we're no longer going there anymore. 751 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,960 This is a new season. Today is a new day. 752 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:46,080 And so you. Just put a stake. 753 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:47,280 Sometimes you need to put a stake. 754 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,280 In it and then move. From it. 755 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,000 So Laura, thank you for lifting burdens today in Jesus name. 756 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,920 We trust you in Jesus name. And here's the last call to the 757 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,640 church. It's a call to all of us. 758 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:06,160 It's a call to all of us. Pray this prayer with me, Lord, 759 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:13,360 Lord, give us, give us your urgency, your urgency for those 760 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,720 people, for those people that we are to reach, that we are to 761 00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:20,440 reach in Jesus name, in Jesus name. 762 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:26,000 When I pray for supernatural urgency, urgency that had 763 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:32,000 intention, urgency that was strategic urgency to reach those 764 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,560 people that don't know you and what I pray for that seed to be 765 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:42,800 distributed in Jesus name, in Jesus mighty name, in Jesus name 766 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,800 and all God's people said Amen. God bless you guys. 767 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,120 We love you. I love you. 768 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:50,760 Thank you. Peace be upon you. 769 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:51,240 Thank you so much.