1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:18,340 Matthew Chapter 11 when verse 25 at that time Jesus declared, I 2 00:00:18,340 --> 00:00:21,620 thank you Father, Lord of heaven and earth that you have. 3 00:00:21,620 --> 00:00:25,420 Hidden these things from the. Wise and understanding and. 4 00:00:25,420 --> 00:00:26,940 Revealed them to little children. 5 00:00:27,180 --> 00:00:30,060 Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 6 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:34,920 All things have been handed over to me by my father, and no one 7 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,800 knows the son except the father, and no one knows the. 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,040 Father except the Son. And anyone to whom the son. 9 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,160 Chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all who labor and 10 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:46,760 are heavy laden, and I will give. 11 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,400 You rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,720 from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart. 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,280 And you will find rest for your souls. 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,120 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,400 Jesus, thank you so much for your word. 16 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,840 Here, Heavenly Father, we pray that you would bring revelation 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,880 on the. Words of Jesus this morning on 18 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,680 your word that you sent, that your church would be equipped, 19 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,080 that we would have. Revelation and understanding and 20 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,040 that we would have the. Very thing that Jesus calls us 21 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:18,400 to hear. That we would be like. 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,240 Children who come to our father that we wouldn't be. 23 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,160 Wise in our own eyes that we wouldn't be understanding in our 24 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,400 own eyes. But then we would truly have 25 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,640 love for. You honor for you. 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,880 Humility before you so that we could experience. 27 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,600 The freedom that comes with it, rolling off our burdens onto the 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,200 one who carries. All burdens of the whole world, 29 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,040 Jesus, be glorified. Through the preaching of your. 30 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,800 Word, Holy Spirit, I. Pray for your help as as you 31 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,040 minister. To your people. 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,360 I pray God that. The word would be clear. 33 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,560 I pray that it would accomplish as you said it. 34 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,960 Would everything you intended. For it to do in Jesus name we 35 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,320 thank you Amen. One of the things that's 36 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,800 interesting, you know, whenever we quote that promise as we. 37 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,760 Should that the word of God? Will not return void, but it 38 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,880 will go out and accomplish what the Lord intended for to to 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,040 accomplish. Sometimes that can be taken to 40 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,880 be only A1 sided thing, but the other point to understand there 41 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,000 is that another thing the word of God is going to accomplish 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,680 is. For the hard heart it. 43 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,000 Is going to continually. Build up judgement against that 44 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,720 person, the Word of God. When it comes to a person. 45 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,400 When their heart is already. Hardened, they can continue to 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,160 harden their heart, even. More, that also is the Lord's 47 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,720 will. Being fulfilled against the 48 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,480 prideful well, pastor, I thought the. 49 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,560 Lord wants to save that person. He does. 50 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,400 And yet God deliberately opposes the proud. 51 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,440 So this is the danger. Of pride. 52 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,200 And this is this. Is why. 53 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,200 Whenever you sense any any. Pride in your life. 54 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,480 It it should be. Something that that goes above 55 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:51,040 and beyond to. Grab your attention to go. 56 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,120 This doesn't lead anywhere good. And this seed needs to be. 57 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,960 Ripped out that tiny weed when it comes up in the flower bed. 58 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,680 Now is the time to pull it. Not later today when the weather 59 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,560 is cooled off. Not tomorrow. 60 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,320 Now is the time. To rip that thing out. 61 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,600 And you go, man, it's so deep. It's going to rip up the whole 62 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,920 flower bed. Then by all means, now is the 63 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:12,640 time to. Rip it all out and destroy the 64 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:15,560 whole flower bed so that something could still be saved. 65 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,440 So that the flower bed could still possibly be saved because 66 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,920 God's word. Is going to do what? 67 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:23,640 He sent it to do just like it did with Pharaoh. 68 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,920 Pharaoh hardened his heart. God sends the word of God to 69 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,200 Pharaoh and. And Pharaoh hardened his heart, 70 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,520 and Pharaoh hardened his heart, and Pharaoh hardened his heart, 71 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,000 and then. The scripture tells us. 72 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:34,760 And God. Hardened Pharaoh's heart. 73 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,080 You go hang on. That's not. 74 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,280 Fair God opposes the proud. And there there came a time of 75 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,120 mercy, there came a time of grace. 76 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,280 I mean, how many plagues? Do you have to get? 77 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,840 That's called grace. People see the plagues only as 78 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,160 wrath, and yet they're also a grace and a mercy and God's 79 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,160 patience saying. It's building, it's building, 80 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,800 it's building, it's building. And now the full. 81 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,520 Judgement comes against Pharaoh as his son is killed and all the 82 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,760 sons of Egypt so. We want to approach. 83 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,280 The Word of God with humility. Now in this verse we just 84 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,920 finished Jesus bringing what what are called the the woes, 85 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,960 WOE. Where he is proclaiming 86 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,880 judgement on these Jewish. Towns and he's saying woe to 87 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,000 you, woe to you. Your condemnation is great. 88 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,760 It's horrible. And then he says. 89 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,160 It'll be worse for you than it is for these gentile cities. 90 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,520 And the Jewish? Heroes would have been. 91 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,880 Scandalized and offended and shocked. 92 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,400 And then he. Double S down with Capernaum. 93 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,040 The city he lives in because they had him. 94 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,480 Living and walking among them. And he says Capernaum, for you 95 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,720 punishment will be. Worse than it was for Sodom. 96 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,560 And that would have just. Blown people's minds wide. 97 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:47,800 Open. Because it doesn't get any 98 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,240 worse. Than Sodom and Gomorrah in 99 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,400 everyone's mind like this. Is the pinnacle we still. 100 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,120 Reference Sodom and Gomorrah we still reference. 101 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,760 Them as wickedness, and yet. Jesus recognizes Capernaum. 102 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,520 Is going to receive more. Judgement and more punishment We 103 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,080 understand that there are degrees of punishment and 104 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,080 suffering in hell. How does it work? 105 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,680 Not our jurisdiction, but the point is the scripture makes it. 106 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,440 Clear in multiple places that there are degrees of punishment. 107 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,280 How is it judged? 'Cause hell sounds like hell. 108 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:15,720 Separation from God is separation. 109 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,760 From God and. Still, there will be degrees. 110 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,600 Of punishment based on what? Based upon the light. 111 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,280 That you have received. And that should scare every. 112 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:26,720 One of us in this room, because we've got a lot of light, that 113 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,520 should scare. Americans in general who have. 114 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,440 Preachers on television. And preachers on the radio. 115 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,840 And preachers in the pulpit. And I don't like this. 116 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:35,480 Church, so I think. I'll go up the road to that 117 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,520 church and I don't know about that one, so I'll go up to this 118 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,880 one. That's a lot of light available. 119 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,920 Light everywhere you turn, there's. 120 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,800 Light. Now we're grieved by the 121 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:44,800 darkness. That we see in our. 122 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,120 Nation as we should be, because we want more light. 123 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,640 More light? How much is enough? 124 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,040 All of it. Jesus should own everything 125 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,640 let's take over the world with the love of God and and the 126 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,840 Kingdom and the. Fruit of the Spirit, so there's 127 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:57,800 a lot of light. There, but with. 128 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,040 That comes a lot of responsibility we have. 129 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,840 Bibles. How many Bibles are in your 130 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:04,440 home? How many are in my home? 131 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,640 We can have His Word in our heart. 132 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,120 So that's a lot of. Light and he's saying, 133 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,080 Capernaum, you've had a lot of light, you've had a lot of. 134 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,840 Opportunity, and because of it. Your lack of obedience to the 135 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:18,080 light that you've been given. Will be. 136 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,320 Your judgement in the same. Way there are rewards. 137 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:21,920 In heaven and in the eternal Kingdom. 138 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,480 I thought heaven is heaven. I just want to get in. 139 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,280 Well, your reward won't be great. 140 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:29,920 There are degrees of reward. How's all that work? 141 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,400 Don't know, not really my. Jurisdiction, but. 142 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,160 There are rewards and. Degrees of. 143 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,920 Reward in heaven there are. Rewards and degrees of 144 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,200 punishment. In Hell. 145 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,720 So God is just in all that he. Does It's not just heaven or 146 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,280 hell, there's also. Degrees there. 147 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,680 So Jesus has been judging these places. 148 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,000 He says it'll be more tolerable on the day of judgment. 149 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:55,320 For Sodom than it will be for. Capernaum at that time, Jesus. 150 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,440 Declared. Now Jesus begins to pray openly 151 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,040 and publicly. So he's. 152 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,400 Rebuked the Pharisees for praying openly and publicly. 153 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,520 But is he really rebuking open public prayer? 154 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,880 No, He's rebuking hypocrisy. They were praying because. 155 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,720 They wanted to. Look like somebody special. 156 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,240 The motive of their heart is what he was condemning and 157 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,360 correcting. Well, how do you know? 158 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,920 Well, you know, and the Lord. Knows. 159 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,040 I might be. Able to deceive you. 160 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,600 I might be able to preach and. Pray publicly and you go. 161 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,920 Man, man, he's such a godly man. Well, Joe Michael knows. 162 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,240 The Lord knows and the. Scary thing is of what if John 163 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,320 Michael doesn't know? What if he goes so far as even 164 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,280 to deceive? Himself. 165 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,600 And that's the scary place that you don't want to get to. 166 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,280 That's why we always want to pull those weeds. 167 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,360 As soon as we see him, that's. Why we always want to be humble 168 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,960 and. Receptive when others come to. 169 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,080 Us with concern and correction. But. 170 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,080 Jesus begins to pray publicly. I thank you, Father, Lord of 171 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,240 heaven and earth, so he's praying and everyone can hear 172 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:50,920 this. Prayer. 173 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,440 That you have hidden. These things, What things? 174 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:54,800 The things he was just talking about. 175 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,840 The woes, the judgments. That he's put on these villages. 176 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,400 And on these cities. And on the truth. 177 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Behind it, he's saying, Father, I thank you that you have that 178 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,960 you've done it the way that. You've done it so that those who 179 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,320 think that there's something will be nothing and that those 180 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,840 who are actually humble and don't think that there anything 181 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:13,000 will be lifted. Up Jesus. 182 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,280 Saying, Father, I thank you for doing it that way. 183 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,560 I love the way you've done it. Father, because it's perfect. 184 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,160 And because it's right, you have hidden these things from the 185 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,960 wise and understanding and revealed. 186 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,800 Them to little children Yes, Father, for such was your 187 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,559 gracious will. So when Jesus is talking about 188 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,240 the. Wise and understanding he's 189 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:38,159 being. Sarcastic. 190 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,799 This is sanctified sarcasm. I'd like to think I specialize 191 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,200 in that. I hope it's a sanctified sarcasm 192 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,680 and not just a fleshly sarcasm. But when he says. 193 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:53,040 The wise and understanding. He's being sarcastic, he's 194 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:54,000 saying. That the father is. 195 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,240 Hidden these things from people who think that they're wise. 196 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,160 And think that. They have great understanding. 197 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,760 But when people are actually. Wise. 198 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,200 When they actually have understanding. 199 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,680 They have a fear of God. And that's what was missing. 200 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:07,960 Here, that's what's missing to the people that Jesus condemns 201 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,600 and he rebukes and he rejects. There's No Fear of God in their 202 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,040 eyes, and that's why the judgment. 203 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,520 Is going to be so great for. For those in the United. 204 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,280 States for those who sit in church pews or. 205 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,720 Plastic chairs every single Sunday whenever there's not 206 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,000 actual fruit. Of. 207 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,680 Repentance when there's not actual humility, when there's 208 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:28,280 not an actual fear of the Lord, is there fear of the Lord? 209 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,080 In your eyes, because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of 210 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:36,440 wisdom, if I really want wisdom. Proverbs 910 tells me the. 211 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,440 Fear of the. Lord is the beginning of wisdom 212 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,320 and the knowledge of the. Holy One is understanding. 213 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,160 I've got wisdom. I've got understanding. 214 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,400 Is there a fear of the? Lord, in your eyes. 215 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,120 Because that'll affect everything that'll. 216 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:52,640 Change everything about your life. 217 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,120 Wisdom and knowledge revolve around God. 218 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,360 So imagine, just like our solar system, everything's. 219 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:05,720 Revolving around the sun if if, if God is the sun, these planets 220 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,400 and these moons and all these things that. 221 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,160 Revolve around the sun. These are wisdom and knowledge. 222 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:12,520 And his goodness and his. Truth. 223 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,320 And if you don't fear God, then you're not in that orbit and you 224 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,800 don't have knowledge of Him, and you don't have knowledge of His. 225 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,760 Holiness is what proverbs. Says knowledge of the Holy One. 226 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,760 Not just knowledge of God's existence, but knowledge of the 227 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,000 holiness. Of God, and that's why you act 228 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,440 the way you do. Fear of God will cause. 229 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,360 You to act differently knowledge. 230 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,640 Of the holiness of God. Will impact your decision 231 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,840 making. Your social media will look. 232 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,640 Different. Your family culture will look 233 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,400 different. Your language will sound 234 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,240 different. You'll train your children 235 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:45,920 differently. You'll love your wife with 236 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,720 gentleness and kindness. You'll respect your husband with 237 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,160 honor and submission. And you'll hear this preaching. 238 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,560 And be convicted. Instead of hoping that someone 239 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:55,960 else is convicted as I went through that list. 240 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,440 That's what wisdom and understanding actually look 241 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,120 like. I'm not going. 242 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:01,720 Mm. Hmm. 243 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,680 Hope you heard that, Natalie. I'm going. 244 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,280 Oh Lord. Lord, is it me and Lord's going, 245 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:16,320 Yeah, it's. For you, it's for you now. 246 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,360 Love for neighbor? Will create a motivation for 247 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:19,920 them to hear. And respond. 248 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,720 But love for God and fear of God will always make sure that I 249 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,720 look to me first, that I take the log. 250 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,040 Out of my own eye and then I can help my brother. 251 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,040 With the speck in his instead of oh. 252 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,200 Let me, let me help you with that. 253 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,680 There's a plank sticking out of your face, Joe Michael. 254 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:36,880 That was the language. Jesus used, That's comical, 255 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,120 that's funny. The audience probably would have 256 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,240 laughed. He'd be like, you got a log in 257 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,640 your eye, like that's a funny visual. 258 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,040 Oh, but let me get the splinter out of yours. 259 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,600 But God has hidden his. Truth from the proud. 260 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,160 And he has. Revealed it to the humble God 261 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,440 shines his light. For you. 262 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,760 But if you won't, humble. Yourself and receive it. 263 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,320 Then his light just becomes more evidence. 264 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:56,880 Of your guilt on the. Judgment Day. 265 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,160 And he goes, Look at all the light. 266 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:00,360 Look at all the light you go. Oh. 267 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,560 Look at all the opportunity. Look at all the scripture. 268 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,760 Look at all the revelation. Look at all the. 269 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,720 Things that you knew. Look at all the things you could 270 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,320 have gotten right on a. Paper test, but life is. 271 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,760 Not a paper test. We won't stand in front of the 272 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,640 Lord on judgment day and take a paper test. 273 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,920 I can get all these theological answers correct. 274 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,840 Let me in or give me a great reward. 275 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:24,800 That's not how. He'll judge. 276 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,160 He'll judge based upon the light. 277 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,000 That you have so the man who's never heard the. 278 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,520 Gospel who still lives? In the the Bush of the Amazon. 279 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,960 And he'll die in that darkness. Does he go to? 280 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,080 Hell outside of Christ. It's a simple answer. 281 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,360 The answer is yes. Everyone goes to hell outside 282 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:41,000 of. Christ. 283 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,040 Why? Because nature itself will lead 284 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,440 people to Lord the creation. Itself is designed by God. 285 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,560 To lead people to their creator and yet nature. 286 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:53,280 Itself is not the greatest. Light possible Is there the 287 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,840 greatest light possible is? The clarification of the gospel 288 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,160 into the hearts of mankind. But nature is not nothing. 289 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,920 It's not no light, but it's not the brighter. 290 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,400 Light so there's an appropriate judgement. 291 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,160 There's an appropriate punishment to accommodate that 292 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:12,800 versus the person who's heard the gospel and heard the gospel 293 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:17,120 and heard the gospel and heard the gospel. 11 missionary once 294 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,360 said no person. Deserves to hear the gospel 295 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,480 twice until. Everyone has heard it once, and 296 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,920 how many times have you and I heard the truths of God and the 297 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,920 revelation of God? And we just love to marinate. 298 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:28,920 On those things. And there's nothing wrong with 299 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,760 loving God's truths. And yet, sometimes this can 300 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,880 just. Become endless navel gazing 301 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,800 really, and just fill it. Waterlogging. 302 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,200 Ourselves with things that. We're not bearing fruit in you 303 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,320 learn something new, you get new. 304 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,840 Revelation Are you just excited to teach that? 305 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,200 Revelation to somebody else. Or has that? 306 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,120 Revelation brought fruit in your life because I know preachers, I 307 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,880 know people, and I've been in that. 308 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,280 Same rut before where? I'm my my time with the Lord is 309 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,280 like, oh, I can't wait to. Tell that to somebody. 310 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,560 Man. As a preacher, as a. 311 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:02,200 Teacher that's that might be an A temptation I have even more 312 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,120 so. Than some of you where? 313 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,320 Am I? Oh, I got to share that. 314 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,040 Oh, I got to share that. It's, it's fire. 315 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,840 Shut up in my bones. Is that what it is? 316 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,360 Is it really the Lord? Doing that Or is it just you not 317 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,520 being humble enough to look at? Yourself and say Lord. 318 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,640 Apply it to me, Lord, apply it to me. 319 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,000 Make it real for me so. It's not just knowledge. 320 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,400 But it's actually connected to him. 321 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:25,360 The fear of the Lord and His Holiness. 322 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:33,240 God's system is perfect, Romans. 8 and 29 and. 30 Spell this out 323 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,880 for us. We know that God foreknew who 324 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,480 would be humble, so he predestined to save who would be 325 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,440 humble. Then he called the humble, and 326 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,520 then he justifies the humble, and then he glorifies the humble 327 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,440 to God predestined people. Of course he did. 328 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,400 Absolutely he did. The scripture says that he did. 329 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,040 What does that mean exactly? Well, he foreknew. 330 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,440 Who would respond? He foreknew, so those are the 331 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,160 ones that he then saves and those are the ones that he then. 332 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,440 Calls and that he justifies, and that he glorifies. 333 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,360 He also knew who wouldn't. Receive, so he lets. 334 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,560 Them have what they want. Which is more of themselves? 335 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,200 And their own wisdom, and their own understanding. 336 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:17,440 And Jesus is thankful for this. He's thankful, Father, I thank. 337 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,440 You that you did it this way and if Jesus is. 338 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,560 Thankful you and I should be. Thankful too. 339 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,440 Not begrudging these points, not going Why did God? 340 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,720 Set it up this way. I wish he had done it 341 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,600 differently. Jesus is thankful. 342 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:33,920 And we should be too. He calls it. 343 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,560 He says, Father, this was your gracious will. 344 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,600 How is this gracious? How is this gracious to people? 345 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,960 It's gracious because everything is grace. 346 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,720 You might be tempted to read this and think it's unfair to 347 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,000 the proud, but that would miss the greater point, and that the 348 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,200 greater point is the fact that anyone is even allowed to. 349 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:52,720 Breathe. In sin. 350 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,480 That's grace and mercy. The fact that anybody exists. 351 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,800 At all is already a grace and a mercy, so the fact that the 352 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,080 Father would. Reveal anything to anyone is 353 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,640 incredible, like we were saying. Earlier gratitude. 354 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,240 Gratitude. Instead of my eyes on all the 355 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:09,480 prayers that haven't been answered. 356 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,200 And don't forget what the Lord has done for you. 357 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,720 Don't get your eyes. Off of who he is and how. 358 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,640 Much he's given to you. Jesus is thankful that the 359 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,160 Father has done it this way. So the response is the the 360 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,760 response of the humble is not ha ha. 361 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,160 I've received and you haven't received. 362 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,320 The response of the humble is always thank you so much God, 363 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,360 thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord. 364 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,280 I didn't deserve it, but you provided it. 365 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,520 The prideful don't care. They don't. 366 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,440 Care they disregard, they go. Oh, another option. 367 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,840 Oh, another possibility. But. 368 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,840 Jesus makes clear there's not multiple options. 369 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,240 There's not multiple possibilities. 370 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,800 He says no one knows the father except the Son. 371 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,600 And no one knows the son except the father, and he says I have 372 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,920 to reveal. The father to you again another 373 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,280 clarification. There is no. 374 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,000 Other world. Religion who worships the same 375 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,319 God as Christians we worship. Different gods. 376 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,640 The Gods of. Israel and the Old Testament. 377 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,880 They were following the the true trinitarian God, but a modern 378 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:13,640 day. Jew. 379 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:19,440 Is not worshipping the same God? They are not well, we we kind of 380 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,119 worship the same God like they. Just worship the Father, but we 381 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:22,839 worship. The Son. 382 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,880 You can't worship one person in the Trinity unless you want to 383 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,120 be a cult member. So we're not worshiping the same 384 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:33,440 God because the God is Father's son and spirit. 385 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,960 Muslims. Well, they just call God Allah, 386 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,800 but it's the same God. No it's not. 387 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,080 These are. Idols. 388 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,720 This is what idolatry is. You make God in your image. 389 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,200 Well, to me God is this. To me, God is that Like who are 390 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:48,680 you or your God? Apparently because. 391 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,120 You can make stuff up now you can just create things. 392 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,880 That's idolatry. Everything outside of 393 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,920 Christianity is idolatry. Spoken like a Christian. 394 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,760 Yes, I'll own it. I'll take it. 395 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,280 Spoken like somebody who points all glory to Jesus and says 396 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,360 that. Jesus is King, so this is 397 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:10,200 gracious the way the Father. Has done this because. 398 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,200 It works. It works perfectly. 399 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,840 The prideful get what they want, which was themselves, and they 400 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,440 reject him. And then on judgement day they 401 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:19,600 don't say. They don't even. 402 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,400 Get to say no fair he goes gave you everything you wanted oh you 403 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,640 ever wanted was you and. They go, you got me there, like. 404 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,000 If the case is going to be airtight, there won't be some 405 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,720 defense that goes actually, Lord, hang on a second. 406 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:34,800 There, there won't be some way out. 407 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,640 The Lord is more fair. Than you and I. 408 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,880 He is more just than any judge. He's perfect. 409 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,800 In all of his ways and all of his judgements. 410 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,960 So This is why. Jesus can condemn these cities, 411 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,600 and it's right. And it's just because they had. 412 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,920 So much light. But their pride was so. 413 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:52,680 Great that they wouldn't receive. 414 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,160 They were wise in their own eyes. 415 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,160 And they were busy. They had to continue doing their 416 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:05,080 own thing. He says you revealed it to 417 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,920 children. You revealed these truths to 418 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:08,760 little. Children. 419 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,400 Little children, what do they like? 420 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,320 They're unassuming. They know that they don't run 421 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,520 the show. Or own the room they're. 422 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,440 Humble and they are hungry for knowledge. 423 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:18,840 They accept the. Truth as they are. 424 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,600 Told We tell little children anything, they'll believe us. 425 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,480 They'll just believe us, right? There's all kinds of things. 426 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,800 Adults tell little. Children, they just believe 427 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,440 them. And keep it going for years. 428 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,480 They'll just keep believing it. They're humble. 429 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,120 They're. Unassuming, but that's not the. 430 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:36,920 Case entire and Sidon and then. Also even in Capernaum. 431 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,720 That's not the case with many people. 432 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,520 Many people, they might be around the Kingdom all the time, 433 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,840 but they aren't really in the. Kingdom and this is the danger 434 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,160 this. Is why preaching to people who 435 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,680 are around the Kingdom all the time I think is much more. 436 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,440 Difficult than people who are totally out of it. 437 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,680 I think the lines are much more. Clear. 438 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,160 I talked to you about this at Easter. 439 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,560 I think you're the hardest people in the world. 440 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,600 To preach to, I think, ministry in the Bible. 441 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,480 Belt is more difficult than anywhere else. 442 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,600 Oh. That's hard ground. 443 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:07,120 Yeah, I know. But. 444 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:09,960 At least everybody knows. Everybody's clear. 445 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,320 No, I'm a Muslim. Get out of. 446 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,720 Here with that Christianity, OK, at least we're clear on what's 447 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,240 going on. You know, you go to more liberal 448 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:19,480 areas. In the United States. 449 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,920 You go, are you a Christian? They'll plainly and and easily 450 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,080 say, no, I'm not, I'm not. And you go, oh, OK, but anywhere 451 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,120 in the American South, you're a Christian. 452 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:32,920 Oh, yeah. Like, tell me more about that. 453 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,480 That's awesome. Well, you know, aren't we all 454 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,000 OK? No, we're not actually. 455 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:40,960 Well, I am. My grandma bought the. 456 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,040 Pew at the church and yeah, we go, we go to. 457 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,040 That's always funny to me. We go to such and such. 458 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,640 Oh, OK. Like, well, tell me about that. 459 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,600 And I'm just like. Genuinely being inquisitive and 460 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,040 friendly with somebody. They're like, well, I haven't 461 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,200 been in a while. I'm like, oh, OK. 462 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,520 Turns out like Christmas and Easter like but we go there but 463 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,520 people. Believe that, like people think 464 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,280 that they're a part of local congregations and they'll say 465 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,160 that and they don't. They're not. 466 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,320 They don't even think they're being dishonest, like to them 467 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,080 they're not lying. Like no, no. 468 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,400 We go to such and such. Oh, that's awesome, man. 469 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,440 So you know, Bob y'all, y'all spend a lot of time. 470 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:13,720 We haven't been there in a while. 471 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,360 And then the truth comes out like. 472 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,320 Christmas and Easter preachers, we have a word for that. 473 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,480 They're called creasters. It's like. 474 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,240 The The creasters are coming. Christmas and Easter like. 475 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,720 Are you, are you mocking them? Maybe a little bit. 476 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,280 Yeah. It's sanctified sarcasm. 477 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,000 It's funny. It's not funny. 478 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,760 And it is what it is. And you love them like I'm here 479 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,720 for you, I care for you. And also I can call. 480 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:42,360 A spade a spade, but it's dangerous to be. 481 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,040 Around these things all the time to have. 482 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,920 All this light. And then to squander it to not 483 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,200 do. Anything with it like Capernaum 484 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:49,760 did? Oh. 485 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,360 Capernaum. I can't believe it, man. 486 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:53,200 If I had been there, what would I have done? 487 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,520 Well. You have the Lord of glory 488 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,960 living in you, so you say, So what? 489 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,320 Are you doing with them? What does that look like? 490 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,120 Knowledge of the Bible is not the same thing as knowledge. 491 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:07,000 Of the Holy One. Knowing about God isn't the same 492 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,680 thing as knowing God. One will make you proud, the 493 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,160 other will make you humble. I've got knowledge. 494 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:13,960 I've got knowledge. Knowledge will puff you up. 495 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,520 I'm puffed up, man. I know so much stuff. 496 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,920 That's an advantage that I have. I don't know a lot of stuff. 497 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:26,200 So I got that. Working in my favor one makes 498 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,800 you proud. Knowledge can just make. 499 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,880 You proud, but knowledge of the Holy One will make you humble 500 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,520 and then? We'll just hit this part quickly 501 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,680 where Jesus is saying. Just want to point out. 502 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,520 Jesus calls the Father. He says he's the Lord. 503 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,760 Of heaven and earth that means. That the Father sees all, the 504 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,800 Father knows all, every heart, every motive. 505 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,960 Every thought, every holy and every unholy desire. 506 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:53,760 And now Jesus says in verse 27, All things have been handed over 507 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,840 to me by my Father. So. 508 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:58,640 Everything. All authority in heaven. 509 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,480 And Earth, he says later. In Matthew 28, we'll finally get 510 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,120 there one day, he says He's been given to me. 511 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,360 Why the? Father loves Jesus, He is deeply 512 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:12,560 pleased with Jesus, and because of that he gives Jesus the name 513 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,640 that is above. Every name and he gives. 514 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,640 Jesus, the nations as his inheritance. 515 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,600 That's what we read in Psalm 2 earlier. 516 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,160 He says, I'll give you the nations as your inheritance. 517 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,800 They'll be yours. And for those who are humble. 518 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,200 They'll be. Protected, they'll come into him 519 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,840 as their shelter and then for. Those who aren't, they'll get. 520 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,360 The rod of iron. And the scripture says he will 521 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:34,720 break them to pieces. Humility. 522 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,920 And pride? No one knows. 523 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,240 The Father, except the Son. And no one knows. 524 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,960 No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the. 525 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,600 Father except the son, and he says. 526 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,080 Into anyone to. Whom the son chooses to reveal 527 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:53,400 him? That's verse 27 as. 528 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,560 Well, all. Things have been handed over to 529 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,640 me by my father and no one knows the father. 530 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,720 No one knows the Son except for the Father. 531 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,560 And no one knows the Father except for the Son. 532 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,960 And to anyone and anyone to whom the son. 533 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,240 Chooses to reveal him that. Was the point I was making 534 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,960 earlier, religions that don't have Jesus, people who don't 535 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:16,120 love Jesus, people don't pray in Jesus name, then they don't have 536 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,560 the Father. I think they've got the Father, 537 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:18,960 they just don't know the Son. That's not how that. 538 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,000 Works, Jesus says if you. Don't have me. 539 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:24,440 You don't have my father. He says And you can't know the 540 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,880 Father except that I choose to reveal the Father to you if 541 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,360 Jesus doesn't choose to reveal the Father to you. 542 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,240 You can't know the father. This is basic reading 543 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,800 comprehension. We're not shoehorning that in 544 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:36,080 there. That's. 545 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,160 Just what he said. Real plain stuff. 546 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,520 And then that raises this question though. 547 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,400 OK, so who does? Jesus reveal the Father to. 548 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,680 Who does Jesus reveal the Father to? 549 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,440 Well, that's easy. We've already answered that to 550 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,200 children. To the humble, to the. 551 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,600 Hungry what? He told. 552 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,320 Us in Matthew chapter 5. To the poor in spirit. 553 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,920 So who does he choose? What does he just randomly 554 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,040 picking here? How's he? 555 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,080 Doing this thing. Is he just rolling the dice? 556 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,360 No. Jesus chooses to reveal the 557 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:08,160 Father. To all who are humble. 558 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,200 Man, how does this work? Is it the chicken or the egg? 559 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,680 Is it the cart? Is it the horse? 560 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,520 God predestined those he foreknew. 561 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,720 He foreknew. Who was going to be humble? 562 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,360 Who was going to be receptive? Who was going to be prideful? 563 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,400 So then he predestined that he would save them. 564 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,840 J Michael Whatever. Are we Calvinists? 565 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,560 Are we? Armenian We're Christians and we 566 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,000 understand and recognize that there is mystery in the 567 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,200 Scripture and there are things. Out of our jurisdiction. 568 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:35,960 And it's intended. To be that way. 569 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,960 And I and I, I don't come to the conclusions that some come to in 570 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,160 either of those camps. If you say I don't. 571 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,600 Know what I don't know? What Calvinists or Armenian 572 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:44,680 means? Don't worry about it. 573 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,080 Google it if you. Feel like it, but don't hurt 574 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,760 yourself in the process. But the point is. 575 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,800 Well, are we predestined? Are we not predestined? 576 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,520 And, well, the. The scriptures are the 577 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,360 scriptures. They're good. 578 00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,760 And faithful and true. And at the same time, there's 579 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,240 mystery involved in. These things. 580 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,560 But the point is, we can choose to be humble. 581 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,120 And when you choose. Humility, then. 582 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,600 Jesus chooses to reveal the Father to you. 583 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,160 Who does? The son choose to reveal to 584 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,480 children, to humble, to hungry. To the poor in spirit, to those 585 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:22,800 who actually. Know that they need him. 586 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,800 Those, he foreknew, would receive the truth. 587 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,880 And then we come to verse 28. Come to me. 588 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,680 All who labor. And are heavy laden and I will 589 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:34,480 give you. Rest. 590 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,320 So he's given all these warnings. 591 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,080 He's just threatened these cities and really condemned 592 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,400 these cities. And told them what will happen 593 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:46,600 on judgment day for them and then he explains that the. 594 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,560 Father, he says. Father, I thank you the way 595 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,200 you've done this, that you have made it so that. 596 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,680 Capernaum will be judged harshly. 597 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,920 But that those who are. Humble and hungry out in the 598 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,560 world, the Gentiles. The pagans, the filthy godless 599 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,280 that the Jews hate that when they repent. 600 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,160 When they're humble, that you're going to save them. 601 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,080 I thank you, Father, that. You've done it this way. 602 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,240 Why? Because Jesus hates the people. 603 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,320 Capernaum No. Because Jesus hates pride. 604 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,200 Because Jesus is the. Epitome of humility, God. 605 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,480 Himself wraps up in flesh. Joins us in the dirt. 606 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,680 Lets us spit in his face. Lets us Pierce his hands and his 607 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,240 feet. And mock him, punch him, rip out 608 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,360 his beard and crucify him. When you're that God with that 609 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,680 humility, you don't have much. Tolerance for pride. 610 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,800 You hate it and you go. You got no ground to stand on. 611 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,760 So he says, Father, I thank you that you've done it this way. 612 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:44,840 And now the listeners. Who are? 613 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,120 Afraid like this thing is building this massive. 614 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:52,800 Wave of the of the clarity. And the, and the holiness of God 615 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,400 has been building the wrath of God and all and the humble, but 616 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,320 there's humble listeners in this audience too. 617 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,560 There's humble disciples who are like, master, what's the way out 618 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,000 for me? And now he turns here at the 619 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,520 last moment. Come to me. 620 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,680 Oh, you who Labor. And are heavy laden and I'll 621 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,920 give you rest. What's the answer come to? 622 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,280 Jesus is the answer. Come to me, come to me. 623 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,480 Don't just learn about me, but come to me. 624 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:24,840 You who labor and are heavy laden. 625 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,400 And I will give you. Rest the words labor heavy laden 626 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,560 this. This audience would have 627 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,000 understood this. They would have pictured the 628 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,520 animals that they work with. They would have seen themselves. 629 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,360 And the and the hard labor that they have. 630 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,440 During the day, the physical labor. 631 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,920 They didn't have computer. Jobs, they got stuff that. 632 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,360 They're they're earning everything by their sweat, he 633 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,200 says. Come to me. 634 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,000 I'll give you rest take. My yoke upon. 635 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,880 You and learn from me. For I am gentle and lowly in 636 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,720 heart, and you will find. Rest for your souls. 637 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,960 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 638 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,600 Jesus is gentle and Jesus. Is lowly in heart, man Lord. 639 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,200 Could you say that about me? Gentle and lowly in heart. 640 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,720 I'm going to be strong in heart. I'm going to be high in heart. 641 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,640 I'm going to be full of heart. Jesus says, hey, I'm gentle, I'm 642 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,360 lowly in heart. He's just so quick to take the 643 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,160 low spot. Which is why the father. 644 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,840 Is so eager to promote him and say all. 645 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,440 Authority in heaven and earth. And he says whoever doesn't. 646 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,840 Do right by my son will not do right by me. 647 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,960 I love my son. He just takes the lowest place. 648 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,600 He's eventually going to bow. Before the Father in the garden 649 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,440 and. Say, Father, not my will. 650 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,400 But yours be done. Not my will I'll take. 651 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,640 I'll keep. Taking the low spot at the 652 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,880 table. And the father says I'm. 653 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,600 Going to give you the nations as your inheritance because. 654 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,440 Because you didn't assume anything. 655 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,640 I give you everything. Come to me, all you. 656 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,000 Who are who? Labor. 657 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,800 And are heavy laden. How are you laboring? 658 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,680 And you're heavy laden. With sin. 659 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,800 With the pride of life. With the lust of the eyes, with 660 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,880 the lust of the flesh, I'll give you rest. 661 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,760 Jesus gives deep rest, rest. From the exhausting sin of pride 662 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,680 rest from the demanding sin that masters every single person who. 663 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,240 Hasn't surrendered to Jesus. Why? 664 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,840 Because. Sin is harsh, sin is. 665 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,200 Hard. Sin is heavy. 666 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,920 Jesus knows that, and he still invites us in all of. 667 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,120 Our hard heartedness take. My yoke upon me and learn from 668 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,840 me. Jesus has a yoke. 669 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,800 There is one. But then he goes on to say, but 670 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,880 it's easy, it fits perfectly and he says, and guess who's going 671 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:37,720 to do all? The pulling. 672 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,960 We yoke up to Jesus, and then Jesus pulls us forward if. 673 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,560 You're connected to him. He's good and you get his 674 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,600 strength. Jesus is humble and he will 675 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:53,000 teach you to be like him. He knows the Father and if you 676 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,680 will be like a child then Jesus will reveal the Father to you 677 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:03,200 and you will have rest where for your soul a body at rest can 678 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,280 certainly be refreshing. And we'll get a nap this 679 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,840 afternoon. That will be refreshing, but a 680 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,320 soul at. Rest is another thing entirely. 681 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,800 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 682 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,240 That's a soul at rest that's speaking there. 683 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,200 The Lord is my shepherd. What a relief. 684 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,320 What a relief. And because. 685 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,000 Of that I'll have no needs. He makes me. 686 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,400 Oh, he's he's pretty bossy. Huh. 687 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,040 What's he make me do? He makes me lie down in green 688 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,880 pastures. Oh, he leads me. 689 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,560 Where does he? Lead me besides still waters. 690 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,880 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of 691 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,000 righteousness. Why? 692 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,640 For his name's sake. For me, because I'm the 693 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,000 greatest. Well, he does love you, but he 694 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,080 does it for. His name's sake, and even though 695 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,600 I walk. Through the valley of the shadow 696 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,680 of death, I'll fear no evil for you. 697 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,720 Are with me your rod. Your staff, they comfort me. 698 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,120 What else does he do? The soul at rest knows. 699 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,800 You prepare a table before me in the presence. 700 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,040 Of my enemies you anoint my head with oil my cup. 701 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:21,080 Overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall 702 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,720 follow me all the. Days of my life, and I shall 703 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,080 dwell in the House of. The Lord forever, that's the 704 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,720 soul at rest. So I. 705 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:28,800 Don't feel like a? Soul at rest? 706 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,680 Well then, all the more. Reason to go to Jesus. 707 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,440 Come to me, come to me, come to me. 708 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,600 What's the promise Psalm? 23 is the promise. 709 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,480 That's the shepherd. That's what it looks like. 710 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,720 That's what it feels like. It looks like something. 711 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,880 It feels like something. And if you don't recognize that? 712 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,320 If you haven't. Walked in that if you. 713 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,040 Haven't tasted. That if you haven't seen that, 714 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,560 then you haven't tasted and seen and walked with Jesus yet you 715 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,760 thought you did. You were deceived. 716 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,920 You were confused. No condemnation for any of that. 717 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,640 This is a good news moment. The good news moment is come to 718 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,360 me, but coming. To Jesus looks like something. 719 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,320 It looks like an obedience. It looks like a humility. 720 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,720 He leads. And that implies that you 721 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,960 follow. He leads me over there. 722 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,320 Does it say he grabs me and drags me kicking and screaming? 723 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,800 Reject your own wisdom, reject your own understanding and enjoy 724 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:32,680 freedom from shame, freedom from fear of man, freedom from the. 725 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,560 Slavery of self. My yoke is easy. 726 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,200 My burden is light. Have you taken Jesus's yoke? 727 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,040 Upon you, really. Have you carried his burden? 728 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,400 Really. Are you yoked to Jesus? 729 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,160 Right. Now Chris and Kayla. 730 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,760 Are going to serve us the communion elements this morning. 731 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,960 And we're going to take this moment. 732 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,040 To to pray we're. Going to take these. 733 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:57,800 Next few moments to prepare our hearts. 734 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,320 That we wouldn't. Take the body and the blood of 735 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:01,920 Christ. In an unworthy. 736 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,640 Way like we said last. Week that we wouldn't trample 737 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,639 upon Christ. He's the only thing standing 738 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:12,320 between US and the Cliff. The car that's driving, he steps 739 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,920 out in the way and says, hey, go ahead and stop, go ahead and put 740 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,080 it in. Put it in park. 741 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:17,800 I'm going to help you turn this thing around and go. 742 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,560 The other direction if we were to trample. 743 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,120 Christ, there's nothing else. There's nothing else. 744 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,800 There's no one else. There's not a guardrail, there's 745 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,159 not a speed bump. It's only Christ. 746 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,440 So let's come to a full. Stop. 747 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,080 Let's honor him. Honor him in your heart. 748 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,480 Figure it out for yourself. I'm not going to lead you in a. 749 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,280 Step by step, word by word, prayer, take your humility to 750 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,280 the Lord. And if you have pride, take your 751 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,760 pride to the Lord. Adam, can you bring up the 752 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,080 background music for us? We're. 753 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,840 Just going to have. A a moment. 754 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,880 Or two of silence. Or I'm gonna shut up. 755 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:56,000 I mean as you pray.