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Turn your Bible to Matthew 
chapter 26. 

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Give me 60 seconds, Matt, for my
for my recap. 

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And then they cut me off. 
We've been walking through 

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Matthew verse by verse. 
We've been seeing the whole life

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and ministry of Jesus day by day
by day. 

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And you know, we've covered a 
lot of ground. 

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You know, we had 2320 about 23 
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and now from chapter 24 to 
chapter 28 we slow down to about

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the period of about 7 days and 
things really slowed our crawl. 

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We're seeing all of the detail. 
Why? 

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Because all this detail is 
what's showing Jesus fulfilling 

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His mission. 
This is him fulfilling His 

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purpose to come. 
He came to seek and to save that

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which was lost. 
This is Jesus accomplishing his 

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mission. 
This is not Jesus being a 

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victim. 
It's not the evil Jews who did 

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it to him. 
It's not the evil Romans who did

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it to him. 
They have their part and they 

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have their responsibility, but 
Jesus chose this. 

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Jesus preordained that it would 
go down this way. 

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Why? 
So that I could be saved from my

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sin. 
So that you could be saved from 

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your sin. 
Jesus was not a hostage who got 

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himself in trouble with the 
Romans or got himself in trouble

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with the Jews. 
Jesus did exactly what he wanted

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and everyone else was the cog in
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Now we have come all the way to 
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the Last Supper, as it's often 
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I'm finished my interest, I'm 
good, I'm good. 

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You don't have to cut me off 
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So now we've come all the way 
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Things have been building up. 
Things have been preparing. 

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And this is this is the famous 
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This is the the painting that 
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It's not an actual painting. 
That painter was not there that 

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night for the disciples and 
Jesus at the table. 

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I thought you would laugh at 
that, but you didn't. 

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It's OK. 
But everybody's familiar with 

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the Last Supper. 
But now, of course, we're going 

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to look more closely from the 
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We're going to remember what 
what was the Last Supper that 

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they were taking part in? 
Why was it significant and what 

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does it mean for us? 
We're going to see the betrayal 

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of Judas here continue to unfold
and we're going to see the new 

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covenant being established by 
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So in 20, in chapter 26, verse 
17, we'll begin to read. 

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Now on the first day of 
Unleavened Bread, the disciples 

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came to Jesus saying, where will
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eat the Passover? 
He said, go into the city to a 

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certain man and say to him, the 
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hand. 
I will keep the Passover at your

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house with my disciples. 
And the disciples did as Jesus 

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had directed them and they 
prepared the Passover. 

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When it was evening, he reclined
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And as they were eating, he 
said, truly I say to you, one of

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you will betray me. 
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and began to say to him, One 
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He answered, He who has dipped 
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will betray me. 
The Son of Man goes as it is 

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written of him. 
But woe to that man by whom the 

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Son of Man is betrayed. 
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him if that man had not been 
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Judas, who would betray him, 
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He said to him, You have said 
so. 

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Now as they were eating, Jesus 
took bread and after blessing 

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it, broke it and gave it to the 
disciples and said, take, eat, 

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this is my body. 
And he took a cup. 

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And when he had given thanks, he
gave it to them, saying, drink 

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it all of you. 
For this is my blood of the new 

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covenant, which is poured out 
for many for the forgiveness of 

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sins. 
I tell you I will not drink 

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again of this fruit of the vine 
until the day when I drink it 

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new with you in my Father's 
Kingdom. 

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Holy Spirit, help us now to 
receive the depths of the Word, 

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the power of the Word, the 
freedom of the Word, the clarity

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of the Word, the encouragement, 
the correction, all that's 

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needed. 
You are the only one who is fit 

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to lead us and guide us into all
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So we welcome you now we ask for
your anointing that there would 

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be a power on the preaching of 
your word that it would serve 

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your people, that it would help 
the hungry that they would be 

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fed, that they would be blessed,
that they would be strengthened,

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that they would be grown, that 
they would be matured by it all 

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in Jesus name we thank you, 
Amen. 

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A lot, a lot is going on here. 
So we'll give some quick context

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just so you don't get distracted
if there if there's a couple of 

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things that you notice here 
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One of the technicalities I want
to to point out, so he says in 

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verse 17 on the first day of 
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So the Feast of Unleavened 
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wait a second. 
I thought this was Passover. 

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They're kind of the same thing 
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So the Feast of Unleavened Bread
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Passover. 
So that part's pretty simple. 

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And then another thing, if 
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Gospel recently, you might 
notice there's a timing, a 

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seeming contradiction. 
This is where the biblically 

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illiterate love to come to 
Christians ago. 

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I found a problem in your Bible.
Spoiler alert, no you didn't, 

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and all you do is make yourself 
just revealed your own 

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ignorance. 
But John seems to track the day 

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differently than Matthew does. 
John seems to put the meal at a 

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different time than John does. 
How could that happen? 

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What's the explanation? 
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Jews in the northern part of the
Kingdom and in the southern part

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of the Kingdom would keep time 
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Some measured from sunrise to 
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Did I say that right? 
So whatever and some measure the

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other whatever when I said they 
measure the opposite. 

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So John is recording with one 
method, Matthew records with 

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another method. 
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The Bible is still true. 
The Bible is still the anvil 

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that will wear out every hammer 
that ever tries to attack it. 

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So just a quick explanation 
there in case you notice it or 

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in case you thought about it. 
It's just a different time 

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keeping method. 
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the same time on that Thursday 
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So it was on the Thursday night 
of Passover when Jesus is 

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partaking in the Passover meal. 
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We go back to Egypt. 
Remember Moses, Remember he goes

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to Pharaoh. 
Let my let my people go. 

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And Pharaoh's like, no, I'm not.
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plague. 
He says, all right, you can let 

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them go. 
No, I changed my mind over and 

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over and over up until #10 and 
the Lord says Moses, I'm going 

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to bring the worst one now. 
I'm going to kill the first born

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son in every household. 
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slaughters a lamb and puts the 
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doorpost of their house, when 
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what he'll Passover that house. 
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and kill the first born son. 
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Passover for many, many, many, 
many, many many years at this 

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point. 
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celebrate with us when the Lord 
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So we celebrate with the 
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And the Lord commanded that the 
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continually over and over and 
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What the Jews in the earlier 
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that that Passover, what 
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foreshadowing. 
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is coming, not just an animal, 
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And when the Lamb of God comes, 
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the lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ,
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doorposts of their hearts, the 
death Angel now passes over us. 

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Jesus is always the fulfillment 
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prophecy. 
Again, This is why the Bible is 

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super dope because everything 
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it's cool, it's true, and it 
happened, but even better, it 

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has a perfect fulfillment 
somehow and the life and 

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ministry, the death, burial and 
resurrection of Jesus always. 

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So whatever you see here, you're
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that? 
And then you can study the New 

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Testament. 
You go, Oh my goodness, God, 

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you're so good in your wisdom, 
in your perfection, in your 

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power, in his fulfillment of his
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So this is what's happening 
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Jesus has had the Passover meal 
with the disciples for the past 

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three years at least, and 
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And when they had this meal 
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Passover meal. 
This is to symbolize what 

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happened with Moses and what 
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Israel. 
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take the cup, not Yep, Yep, done
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And he said, this is the new 
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What? 
No one's ever said that at the 

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Passover meal ever. 
We're used to the Last Supper 

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and we're stuck in the Last 
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But if we don't connect it and 
understand this was a big moment

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for the 12, Jesus says this is 
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This is the blood of the lamb, 
Jesus from the Passover meal 

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that happened a long time ago. 
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the Passover, and the final 
Passover lamb is about to be 

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slaughtered. 
He's going to be betrayed in a 

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few hours. 
He's going to be arrested in the

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middle of the night. 
He's going to be beaten 

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savagely. 
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up to die on a cross. 
I am the final Passover lamb. 

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I was always the Passover lamb. 
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save anybody. 
And I'm establishing a new 

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covenant in my blood, and it 
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This is powerful. 
This is crazy. 

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This is shocking to them because
remember, they still kept hoping

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that Jesus was going to 
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Jesus is here. 
I know he's the Messiah, which 

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means he's going to establish a 
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dominate the Romans because 
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for a long time. 
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finally here and we're going to 
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And Jesus was always trying to 
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don't misunderstand. 
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over politically, but we will 
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We're going to do the thing that
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He said I'm going to change the 
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flow into everything else. 
Political leaders have to start 

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with the edge of the sword, and 
they have to continue to rule 

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with the edge of the sword 
because that's all they have. 

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They cannot change the inside of
us, right? 

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Somebody points a gun at you and
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stuff, couldn't they? 
But can they change our hearts? 

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No. 
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They can force compliance, which
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government as established by 
God, thankfully. 

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But Jesus is saying I'm not 
forcing compliance. 

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I'm actually going to change. 
I'm going to do the miraculous. 

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I'm going to change a heart that
doesn't even have the right want

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to. 
I'm going to change a filthy, 

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sinful heart and I'm going to 
remove it and replace it, and 

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I'm going to save the entire 
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What about politics? 
Oh, absolutely, that's going to 

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affect politics. 
Absolutely we want his Kingdom 

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to come in, His will to be done 
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Absolutely we want righteous 
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Absolutely we want things that 
please the Lord and glorify Him.

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Absolutely we want eradication 
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through the church, through the 
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Absolutely we want all that. 
But Jesus saying, I'm 

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establishing a new covenant. 
Back to verse 17. 

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We see the disciples here in 
their humility before their 

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master. 
They say, where will you have us

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prepare for you to eat the 
Passover? 

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What we see here is a blessing 
of the disciples. 

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Often times we see the 
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The disciples were young men. 
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This is not widely known, but 
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because it was very common for 
rabbis to find young men, 

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trained young men, very well 
educated young men, and say, I 

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select you and like, yes, I got 
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I select you. 
Oh my goodness, I got picked by 

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the rabbi. 
I've been studying so hard, 

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which is also why it's so wild 
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He goes, you fisherman don't 
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And it was like, what? 
That guy hasn't studied like 

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these other young men have. 
And she's like, OK, OK, I'm OK 

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with that. 
So all the other rabbis looked 

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down on Jesus because his ragtag
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Remember, the tax collector is 
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other Jewish people because he's
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He's lining his pockets while 
he's extorting all of us. 

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And Jesus says, you tax 
collector, you fisherman. 

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And Jesus doesn't call the same 
kind of young men that everybody

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else calls these other rabbis. 
They're like, these young men 

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are going to reflect me, so I 
better make sure I pick the best

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of the best so I look even 
better. 

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And Jesus, like I can work with 
anybody because I can change 

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anybody and I can grow anybody. 
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they'll follow me. 
If they'll follow me, I can work

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with them if they'll be humble. 
I don't need the best and the 

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brightest. 
I need those who will follow. 

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And here we see the disciples 
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the Master. 
It's been pointed out by many 

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who have preached and taught 
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We see meekness from the 
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We see humility from the 
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God commanded that the Passover 
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precise way, and it took 
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that they needed to care for. 
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the Lord. 
Jesus said verse 18, go into a 

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city, go into the city talking 
about Jerusalem to a certain 

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man. 
So he said, go to this 

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particular man and say to him, 
the teacher says my time is at 

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hand. 
I will keep the Passover at your

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house with my disciples. 
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had directed them and they 
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It's interesting because the 
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information. 
It seems like Jesus has this 

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mysterious thing already pre set
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He's like just go in. 
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the triumphal entry, he said go 
in and there's a guy with a 

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couple animals, tell him the 
master has need of them. 

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They're like, and we're just 
supposed to say that and he's 

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just supposed to let us have 
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He's like just do it. 
That's the life of a disciple. 

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Just do what I said. 
The life of a, of a reluctant 

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person instead of a disciple is 
well, just give me more 

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clarification. 
I just need more explanation. 

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I just need more detail. 
I just need more understand. 

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No, no, no, no, no, I'm totally 
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Just here's what I require of 
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Lord says that's not how 
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I'm given the instruction, I'm 
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want obedience. 
I just want you to walk it out. 

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The power will show up later. 
This is what it means to walk 

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by, by faith, not by. 
And that's what we're called to 

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do, to walk by faith and not by 
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My flesh, I want understanding, 
I want clarity, I want detail, I

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want explanation. 
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your jurisdiction. 
He says this is another test of 

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faith. 
We all have this intellectual 

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inside of us. 
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doesn't want us to be 
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intellectual has to know its 
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It has a time and a place where 
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it has a time and a place where 
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And there are many times where 
that intellectual will argue 

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against us walking by faith and 
say no, no, no, this is 

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illogical. 
Which is a lie, because the most

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logical and wise thing any 
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obedience to the Lord quickly. 
So the disciples are not 

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demanding more clarity. 
Wait, whose house? 

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How's this going to work? 
Does this guy know? 

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Have they made Passover 
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There's a lot to do today. 
They don't demand more clarity 

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or more certainty or more 
explanation. 

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They just move. 
Make sure that you're not one 

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who hesitates, who stalls and 
then calls it reasonable. 

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I've often been tempted to do 
that, to disobey the Lord and 

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call it wisdom. 
Well, I got to walk in wisdom 

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here as well. 
Well, the wisest thing in the 

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world I could do would be to 
obey the Lord quickly. 

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The Lord has already proven 
himself faithful to you. 

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The Lord has proven Himself 
faithful to all people in all 

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places, at all times. 
The Lord is not the one who 

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needs to be tested. 
I'm the one who's being tested. 

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You're the one who's being 
tested. 

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You're being given a command. 
Go do this thing. 

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I've done that sometimes even 
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especially when they were 
smaller and even had rewards in 

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certain places prepared for 
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Hey, go do this thing. 
And I know they haven't done it 

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because they haven't come across
the reward yet. 

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And they're they're wanting the 
reward first. 

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It's one of our values, a Clark 
family value. 

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We embrace discipline to then 
enjoy freedom. 

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I'm often tempted to mix that 
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I just want the freedoms 1st 
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Lord is leading me into that. 
This is an issue of trust. 

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Actually trusting and believing 
that the Lord is good. 

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The real question is not whether
or not the Lord will keep His 

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word. 
The question is whether or not I

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will keep mine. 
I said I'll follow him. 

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I said I'll be a disciple. 
But moment by moment I have 

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opportunities to show that I in 
either direction. 

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This shows up for us in everyday
living. 

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God commands us to do all kinds 
of things. 

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God commands us to be a 
forgiving people, right? 

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Forgiveness is automatic in the 
Kingdom of Heaven. 

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Automatic. 
We don't have the right to 

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withhold it. 
God commands it explicitly, but 

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we delay it. 
We add rules to it. 

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We say we can't forgive until we
fully heal. 

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We say we can't forgive until 
they fully, properly apologize. 

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We say we can't forgive until 
they prove their repentance. 

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But that's not what the Lord 
commanded. 

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The Lord's command is simple. 
Forgive as you have been 

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forgiven and we've already been 
forgiven greatly. 

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This shows up in our generosity.
God calls us to be a generous 

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and a giving people. 
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Him, but we hesitate until every
financial safety net is in 

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place. 
Let me get all this covered and 

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out of that overflow. 
Then, Lord, I'll go into 

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generosity. 
That person will never become 

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generous. 
The person who says when I have 

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enough, I will start generosity.
I'm so thankful I have this 

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privilege. 
I had this advantage of a mom 

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and dad who taught me to tithe 
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So I got that lifelong habit. 
So I realized everybody doesn't 

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have that lifelong habit. 
But for me, it was just always 

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automatic. 
None of this money was ever my 

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money, ever. 
So money that comes now as my, 

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as the numbers grow, oh, you got
to tithe on $1,000,000, That's 

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$100,000. 
It's just 10%. 

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It's always been 10 percent, 10%
always just just has traveled 

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with me. 
I'm not tithing on 1,000,000 yet

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and look forward to that day, 
but but 10% just keep travelling

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with you. 
The Lord's tax code is not 

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complicated like our governments
is. 

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It's not a scam, that's right. 
It's it's just an obedient LED 

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blessing that honors the Lord. 
But obedience comes first, trust

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comes first. 
We're meant to live and act like

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a people who actually have a 
shepherd because we're walking 

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by faith and not by sight. 
This shows up for us in disciple

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making, in preaching the gospel.
Or you could use the word 

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evangelizing. 
Jesus commands us to go and make

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disciples, but we keep waiting. 
Waiting to feel bold, waiting to

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feel called, waiting to feel 
confident. 

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But that's not how obedience 
works. 

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You don't wait to feel anything.
The church is not meant to be 

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reactive or defensive. 
The church is meant to be on 

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offense. 
That is what Salt Church was 

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planted to accomplish. 
That was the purpose. 

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That was the primary thing as I 
sat in the living room talking 

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to my wife for a decade or 
longer. 

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I think it was 11 years from 
when I knew the Lord had called 

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me to plant a church to when I 
felt like he said go and 

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actually plant the church. 
Now, all the things that were 

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always stirring up of me is we 
are going to be a church that 

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makes disciples. 
And I don't mean I'm going to be

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a preacher who makes disciples. 
I mean, the Saints will actually

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do the work of the ministry 
instead of you got to hear 

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Pastor John Michael, you just 
got to hear Pastor Michael. 

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Well, I'm glad that you love 
hearing Pastor Michael, but most

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folks don't care. 
Most folks who are not following

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Jesus don't care about your 
preacher. 

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Like, yeah, but he preaches so 
good. 

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They don't care. 
You know what they do care 

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about, though? 
They care about you, and they 

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care about the fruit that they 
can see in your life. 

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And they'd be wide open to you 
inviting them over to open the 

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Scriptures together. 
They'd be open to that. 

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Hey, you ought to come over and 
start looking at the Bible with 

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me. 
The Bible's awesome. 

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You ought to check it out with 
me. 

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OK, I can do that. 
And now the rest is history. 

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Sure, eventually maybe they'll 
end up in Salt Church. 

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They'll end up in some church, 
whether it's this one or Pastor 

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Michael or Pastor whoever. 
But they're going to end up in 

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the body of Christ, being cared 
for, being loved well, but not 

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because your preacher did the 
heavy lifting for you. 

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You are a Christian who is 
called by God to make disciples,

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and that is the starting point 
of Christianity. 

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That's not efficient. 
That's not a finish line. 

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That's not Navy SEAL level. 
That's kindergarten. 

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That's entry level. 
You're well able if you're in 

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Christ, to tell somebody about 
what Jesus has done for you, to 

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tell somebody about the goodness
of God. 

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Well, I just think here comes 
the excuse. 

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Here comes the delayed 
obedience, which is also called 

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disobedience. 
We want to be disciples, quick 

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to obey, humble, and we want to 
be an aggressive church. 

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Not just salt church, but the 
body of Christ. 

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For those of you who are still 
looking too much at the news 

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cycle, there's only one answer 
for this world. 

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It is that people would be 
transformed in their inner man. 

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Our logic has not been 
sufficient. 

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We have airtight logic, we have 
scientific evidence, but people 

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still will argue with you red in
the face and physically attack 

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you when you teach them about 
male and female and the 

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difference in God's design. 
Logic isn't working, is it? 

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And we are very logical and we 
can be. 

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It doesn't make any sense. 
Yes it does. 

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It is spiritual. 
That is the answer. 

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It is demonic. 
People are under oppression, 

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people are under possession at 
times, and people are 

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experiencing a weight of 
darkness. 

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Argumentation and more debates 
on stage and more one liners on 

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social media are not curing 
anything. 

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They're actually just making 
things even worse. 

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People are digging in their 
heels even deeper. 

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What people need to see is 
light. 

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What people need is the word of 
God because the gospel is the 

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power of God unto salvation for 
those who will believe. 

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So the gospel, as foolish as it 
seems, it's the foolishness of 

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the cross that can actually save
somebody's soul when they 

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actually hear the gospel 
preached. 

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Instead of trying to take them 
to task on all of their foolish 

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ideology and flagrantly wrong 
beliefs just to bring them to, 

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hey, let me tell you about Jesus
and the cross. 

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I don't want to hear all that 
because these Christians and 

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those Christians, hey, there's a
lot to be said about a lot of 

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people, but let me bring you 
back to Jesus and the cross. 

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You got to hear this. 
You got to look at this with me 

454
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,680
like it will, it will throw us 
out everything either of us have

455
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,200
ever experienced. 
So let's keep coming back right 

456
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,440
here. 
And so this person I have in 

457
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,160
mind, Pastor Jim Michael, they 
won't do that with me, all 

458
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,640
right? 
But there's somebody who will 

459
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,760
there. 
There is a person of peace in 

460
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,960
your life who would be open to 
something. 

461
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,240
That's the one that you're 
responsible for. 

462
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,720
You don't answer for all the 
hard hearted people who you 

463
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,160
can't do anything with, but you 
do answer. 

464
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,680
For the tender hearted people 
who you've done nothing with, 

465
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,200
you will answer. 
For the tender hearted people in

466
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,720
your life who you have done 
nothing with, you will answer. 

467
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,120
For the tender hearted people in
your life who you have done 

468
00:22:57,120 --> 00:22:59,960
nothing with, you've not done 
anything to move the needle 

469
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,120
forward. 
You've not done anything to 

470
00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,600
broach that conversation. 
They seem to be a person of 

471
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,840
peace in your life. 
They seem to be a person of 

472
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,920
peace. 
You're responsible to move 

473
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,040
forward with them. 
We're responsible to attempt to 

474
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,600
with everyone. 
Once someone reveals themselves 

475
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,920
to just destroy the pearls that 
we offer, we don't have to 

476
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,280
continue to offer them. 
But there are many people that 

477
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:25,560
were responsible for the point 
here we're making was disciples 

478
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,440
are quick to obey. 
And we were given some examples 

479
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,160
there. 
Let's keep going in verse 20. 

480
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,520
And when it was evening, he 
reclined at table with the 12. 

481
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,120
And as they were eating, he 
said, truly, I say to you, one 

482
00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:40,640
of you will betray me. 
And they were very sorrowful. 

483
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,040
And they began to say, 1 after 
another, Is it I, Lord? 

484
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,600
He answered, he who has dipped 
his hand in the dish with me 

485
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,480
will betray me. 
The Son of Man goes as it is 

486
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,960
written of him, but woe to that 
man by whom the Son of Man is 

487
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,680
betrayed. 
It would have been better for 

488
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,280
that man if he had not been 
born. 

489
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,680
Judas, who would betray him, 
answered. 

490
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,040
Is it I, Rabbi? 
Of course he knows that it is. 

491
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,840
He's already gone and made the 
plans. 

492
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,720
He's already been paid the 30 
pieces of silver. 

493
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,360
Is it I, Rabbi? 
He said to him, You have said 

494
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,920
so. 
So Jesus announces here that 

495
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,400
somebody is going to betray him.
The room fills with grief 

496
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,760
because they know everything he 
says happens. 

497
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,120
They're slow to believe on some 
stuff. 

498
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,600
They're slow to believe still on
the cross. 

499
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,920
I still don't think they fully 
realize what's about to happen 

500
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,600
over the next 12 hours. 
I still don't think they get it.

501
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,800
I think as it starts to unfold, 
they're like what he's told them

502
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,560
at least four times. 
I'm going to be crucified and 

503
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,720
I'm going to be raised from the 
dead. 

504
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,720
He's told them this. 
They've heard him say it. 

505
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,120
And they're like, what? 
No, Peter's like no Lord, never.

506
00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:48,360
He said, get behind me, Satan. 
You're not thinking about the 

507
00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,600
things of God. 
You're thinking about the things

508
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,720
of man and he was right, Lord, 
no, we're going to lead a 

509
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,800
political rally and it's going 
to be like unlike anything the 

510
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,720
world's ever seen and we're 
going to take over and Jesus 

511
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,640
said we are going to take over 
the world. 

512
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,800
You're right. 
And we're going to do it my way 

513
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,280
and I'm going to send power from
heaven and you will be my 

514
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,840
witnesses in Jerusalem. 
And then it's going to expand 

515
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,240
throughout the entire world. 
But they're grieved right now. 

516
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,040
Surely not I Lord, let's look at
the eleven who say it in a 

517
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,240
humble way. 
This is self introspection. 

518
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,080
This is a cautious port. 
Am I OK? 

519
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:27,600
Am I with you, Am I safe? 
This is loving concern and 

520
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,680
humility. 
This is self examination. 

521
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,200
This is not self-defense. 
They're not being defensive. 

522
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:39,120
This is a terrifying warning 
because we see here with Judas 

523
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:43,840
that close proximity to Jesus, 
literally physically close 

524
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,360
proximity to Jesus, did not 
guarantee salvation. 

525
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:51,080
Walked with him for three years.
He saw Jesus Christ raise people

526
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,040
from the dead. 
He saw Jesus Christ control 

527
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,760
nature. 
He saw all of this. 

528
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,680
But Judas was so locked in to 
the possibility of an earthly 

529
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,880
Kingdom. 
And Judas is going, I'm the 

530
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,280
treasurer. 
So when Jesus is ruling the 

531
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,240
world as the Messiah was 
prophesied to do, we're going to

532
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:10,760
be in positions of power with 
him. 

533
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,360
Which is true, just not the way 
the disciples thought. 

534
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,280
Hey, when you come into your 
Kingdom, make sure that my sons 

535
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,760
get to sit with you on either 
side. 

536
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,480
They still didn't understand 
what they were asking. 

537
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,960
There are 12 apostles of the 
Lamb who are appointed in heaven

538
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,960
because they replaced Judas 
later in the book of Acts. 

539
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,800
There are 12 apostles of the 
Lamb who have prominent 

540
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,880
positions in the eternal 
Kingdom, But it's not the way 

541
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,960
that they thought. 
But Judas, whenever it's all 

542
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,600
coming together here, I think in
this last week, I think Judas's 

543
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,400
disappointment is fully and 
finally realized. 

544
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,480
I think Judas is still like, 
yeah, yeah, we're doing it. 

545
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,360
We're doing this thing. 
It's going to happen. 

546
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,240
And then Mary pours out the 
ointment, $80,000, maybe a 

547
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,960
year's worth of wages, pours it 
out on Jesus's head and feet. 

548
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,480
And Judas is like, we could have
sold this and given the money to

549
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,360
the poor. 
Of course he's a thief. 

550
00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,520
He wanted to steal from the 
ministry that he was responsible

551
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,000
for. 
But he, I think he fully 

552
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,560
realized then Jesus is really 
like literally about to die. 

553
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,760
I think if anyone got it, I 
think Judas might have gotten 

554
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,080
it, realized he's not going to. 
Every moment when he gathered 

555
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,760
the crowd, every moment when 
Jesus had the momentum, as they 

556
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,760
would teach a modern political 
leader, every when you get the 

557
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,280
momentum, that's when you 
strike. 

558
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,520
We got the momentum. 
Now's the moment to advance. 

559
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,080
And every time they would have 
incredible momentum, they would 

560
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:32,840
say Jesus is now the moment. 
And he'd just go walk with me. 

561
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,280
Jesus. 
Look at the the whole world's 

562
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,720
here, like now's the moment. 
And he's like, we'll see. 

563
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,080
We'll see if they're really 
followers. 

564
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,560
Just keep walking with me. 
And then he would try and avoid 

565
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,200
the crowd. 
He would go away to pray. 

566
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,480
The disciple was like man Jesus.
He needs like he needs to read a

567
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,040
leadership book. 
He needs to like understand how 

568
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,640
to like capture this momentum. 
Like we need to be on social 

569
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,600
media. 
We need to be doing podcasts. 

570
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,280
He needs to be going on news 
organization. 

571
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,080
Like this is how we build this 
thing. 

572
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,400
And he's like, I am building it.
I'm building it through the men 

573
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:07,440
I'm looking at right now. 
If you'll follow, they followed,

574
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,040
11 of them followed, but Judas 
didn't. 

575
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,400
He witnessed, he heard, he saw, 
and he still lost his soul. 

576
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,880
Paul later says, in your Bible, 
examine yourselves to see 

577
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,560
whether you are in the faith. 
And this is exactly what we see 

578
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,440
the 11 doing here. 
This passage, this passage is 

579
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,440
meant to slow us down, sober us 
up, and then force us to take 

580
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,040
our souls seriously. 
You have nothing better to do 

581
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,240
than care for your soul. 
You got nothing better to do, 

582
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,560
nothing more important than your
soul. 

583
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,960
If you lose it, you're not 
getting it back. 

584
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,800
There's no ending to to a 
separation from God. 

585
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,760
There's no ending to hell. 
People who died and went to hell

586
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,360
2000 years ago have been there 
for 2000 years. 

587
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,840
They'll be there this afternoon 
as we have lunch. 

588
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,160
They'll be there tomorrow. 
They'll be there during the 

589
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,560
Super Bowl. 
And there is no hope, and there 

590
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,920
will never be an end to their 
suffering. 

591
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,720
But God, who is rich in mercy, 
made a way that all people could

592
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,520
be saved from their sins. 
I deserve that hell. 

593
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:17,080
You deserve that hell. 
Caring for your soul is the most

594
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,680
important thing you could do. 
David prayed in the Psalms. 

595
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,920
Search me, O God, and know my 
heart. 

596
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,280
That's the opposite of a hard 
heart. 

597
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,600
Search me, O God, reveal to me. 
I don't know of anything, but 

598
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,960
instead of just ignorantly going
along like I don't know of 

599
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,200
anything, so I guess I'm good, 
he goes, God, I'm ignorant. 

600
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,440
I don't know of anything in 
there. 

601
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,600
Would you please search me and 
bring anything up? 

602
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,480
That's the prayer of an actual 
disciple. 

603
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,440
That's the prayer of an actual 
humble person. 

604
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:48,960
That's the prayer of actual 
surrender. 

605
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,680
Lord, is there anything you 
want? 

606
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,080
Because maybe it's not even sin 
like we talked about before. 

607
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,120
Maybe the Lord said, hey, I told
you, I mean, it could be 

608
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,360
anything, any example. 
I'm not the Holy Spirit leading 

609
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,760
you here. 
I'm just saying I've heard all 

610
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,280
kinds of stories of Christians 
that the Lord told them to do 

611
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,480
something. 
But I've told you before, if you

612
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,880
have not obeyed the last 
obedience that you know the Lord

613
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,840
gave to you, don't wait for new 
commands, new instructions, new 

614
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,880
directions and new blessings. 
Some people are stuck a decade 

615
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,280
ago and the Lord and I've heard 
stories like that Christian men 

616
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,720
who are like the Lord told me to
give this watch away to this guy

617
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,120
and I didn't do it. 
I was like, I like this watch 

618
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,520
and I just kind of dismissed it 
and time and time and time and 

619
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,920
time goes on. 
Lord said you never gave so and 

620
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,920
so that watch, Oh Lord, you 
know, I just it's a little 

621
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,480
thing. 
It's just such a small thing. 

622
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,920
I'm still worshipping God. 
I'm still reading my Bible. 

623
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,400
I'm still praying, I'm still 
loving my wife. 

624
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,000
I'm still discipling my children
and the Lord's going. 

625
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,400
What about that watch I asked 
you to give away years ago that 

626
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,400
you never did, though. 
Remember that? 

627
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,040
I wonder why you just don't 
trust me. 

628
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,920
I just wish you would trust me 
and just do what I say. 

629
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,240
Oh, Lord, I'm looking. 
I'm going to read the Word. 

630
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,040
I'm going to memorize more 
verses this week. 

631
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,000
I'm serving in the church. 
I just remember that watch. 

632
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,520
I don't know why you won't give 
that to me. 

633
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,240
I don't know why you're holding 
on to that. 

634
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,600
That's not even a sin. 
A watch isn't a sin. 

635
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:09,480
The Lord wants you to have a 
well. 

636
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,560
You're allowed to keep time. 
There's not a crime. 

637
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,120
There's no verse in the Bible 
against it. 

638
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,520
And yet the Lord wants disciples
who are actually putty in his 

639
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,400
hands, who are actually clay and
the Potter's wheel where he can 

640
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,720
say, hey, we turn off TV. 
We just put away, put away TV 

641
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,120
for a season until I tell you 
otherwise. 

642
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,800
It's not standing to watch TV. 
Not necessarily. 

643
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,680
But I asked you for it. 
And from this point forward, it 

644
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,240
actually will be a sin because 
I've asked for it. 

645
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,160
Now for you personally. 
We're not to put our convictions

646
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,760
in our personal personal 
commands from the Lord unto 

647
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,320
everyone else that becomes 
Pharisee ISM. 

648
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,960
That's whenever I say the Lord 
told me I need to do this and 

649
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,360
therefore you all need to do 
this. 

650
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,360
Now I might say this is a 
blessing. 

651
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,280
I might say the Lord told me to 
do this and hey everybody, it's 

652
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,960
been a huge blessing and I super
encourage you to do it because 

653
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,960
it's been all a great wisdom 
that's blessed my life. 

654
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,280
Search me, O God, and know my 
heart. 

655
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,320
That's the opposite of a heart 
heart God often rebuked in the 

656
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,440
Old Testament. 
He rebuked Israel, He called him

657
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,400
stiff necked, stiff necked 
people. 

658
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,480
A stiff necked animal won't be 
LED. 

659
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:24,480
You're trying to pull the horse 
this way, bucking against it. 

660
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,160
You stiff necked people, you 
adulterous generation. 

661
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,200
That's what he called him, and 
he's got David, the man after 

662
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,800
God's own heart. 
Search my heart, God, if there 

663
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,160
is anything unclean in me. 
But a stiff necked people is 

664
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,560
unwilling to be LED fighting at 
the bit and resisting his rule. 

665
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,520
Judas stands in contrast to the 
humble David. 

666
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,320
There's no repentance, there's 
no self examination, only 

667
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,000
disappointed. 
He's disappointed with Jesus. 

668
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,240
Jesus really let Judas down. 
Judas had high hopes. 

669
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,200
Many people have tried and 
tested Jesus in the same way 

670
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,400
that Judas did. 
They wanted a God who they could

671
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,080
make into their image. 
And whenever Jesus would not 

672
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,440
comply to Judas's vision for 
God, Judas said well then I'm 

673
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,240
done with you. 
Always revealing that Judas was 

674
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,280
his own God. 
That's what that reveals about 

675
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,440
every person. 
Whenever I want God to be like 

676
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,080
this, I want God to be like 
that, or my Jesus with this, or 

677
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,720
my Jesus with that. 
Slow down with all that talk. 

678
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,440
There is the Jesus. 
He's the only Jesus. 

679
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,160
He's the Jesus of the Bible, and
he is. 

680
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,600
He is who he is and he is the 
King. 

681
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,920
And he's not changing for 
anybody. 

682
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,640
He didn't get elected into that 
office and he's not getting 

683
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,960
voted out. 
There's nobody storming his 

684
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,920
castle. 
Nothing happens to him. 

685
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,240
He wins, he rules, he reigns 
forever. 

686
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,800
He laid down his life. 
No one took it from him. 

687
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,280
But Judas wasn't satisfied, so 
he turned on Jesus. 

688
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,280
People do this when they don't 
submit to Christ and instead 

689
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,800
they evaluate him. 
They think Jesus is on trial. 

690
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,200
Yes, me, the intellect, the 
intellectual, I'll make, I'll 

691
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,280
make my determination as I study
this Christ better. 

692
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,600
Study quick. 
He's not that complicated, He's 

693
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,920
glorious and there are many 
facets to who he is, but it's a 

694
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,159
pretty simple story. 
It's the story and you have an 

695
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,679
advantage because it's literally
written on your heart already. 

696
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:26,040
He is your master, He is the 
author of life and he gave life 

697
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,760
to you. 
But Jesus doesn't serve other 

698
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,679
people's agendas. 
People walk away and claim they 

699
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,280
tried God. 
That is not devotion, that is 

700
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,440
literally self worship. 
I tried him and it didn't work 

701
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,120
out the way I wanted so I left 
him. 

702
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,920
So you're worshiping yourself. 
It's not an insult, it's a 

703
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,880
clarification. 
It is just an explicit clarity 

704
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,239
for you to know. 
Hey, just so you know, you're 

705
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,520
worshiping you, which is normal.
Tons of people do it. 

706
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,280
I'm just saying be honest about 
it. 

707
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,360
You're worshiping you. 
You're the God that you're 

708
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,640
worshiping. 
Your life isn't on an altar that

709
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,440
you would defer to, that you 
would surrender to. 

710
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,320
Another point I want to make in 
this passage is that Jesus is 

711
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:12,120
affirming 2 truths at once. 
As he talks about Judas in verse

712
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,280
24, he says the Son of Man. 
That's himself. 

713
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,840
Jesus calls himself the Son of 
Man. 

714
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,160
That's a messianic prophecy. 
Again from the Old Testament, 

715
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,520
it's Daniel prophesying the 
Messiah. 

716
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,800
It says Son of Man. 
That literally means like 

717
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840
Almighty. 
So it's ironic because it sounds

718
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,200
like he's saying he's just a son
of another person and it's 

719
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,800
actually the opposite of what 
he's saying there. 

720
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,600
He's saying the Son of Man is 
the glorious eternal one, the 

721
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,640
Son of man, me Jesus goes at his
as it is written of him. 

722
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,080
He's like, I'm going to be 
betrayed. 

723
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,800
It has to happen because it said
it was told it was going to 

724
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,320
happen, but woe to that man by 
whom the Son of man is betrayed.

725
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,200
So this can bring some confusion
folks, because sometimes people 

726
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,840
can misunderstand God's 
foreknowledge with God's fore 

727
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:56,000
design. 
So it God always knew that Judas

728
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,440
would betray Jesus and because 
God knew that he told his 

729
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,080
prophets of old that that would 
happen. 

730
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,920
That's how they were able to 
prophecy it. 

731
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,120
It's not that Judas is in some 
prophecy trap that he can't 

732
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,360
escape from and the Lord's like 
you must betray Jesus. 

733
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,480
It's that the Lord looks ahead 
because the Lord sees in every 

734
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,320
direction all, everything that's
coming and he says Judas is 

735
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,680
going to betray Jesus. 
Hey, my prophet prophecy that 

736
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,120
this is going to happen. 
So Jesus saying, we know what's 

737
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,320
going to happen, but I want you 
Saints to understand Judas is 

738
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,480
not trapped. 
It's like, oh, poor Judas, the 

739
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,960
Lord made him do that. 
No, the Lord knew he would do 

740
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,880
that and that's all that's 
happening here. 

741
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,680
So the Son of Man goes exactly 
as it is written of him and woe 

742
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,400
to the man who betrays him. 
What does this mean? 

743
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,960
It means yes, God is sovereign 
and man is responsible. 

744
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,120
Both are true and neither 
cancels the other. 

745
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,520
God is sovereign over all and 
man is responsible for his own 

746
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,520
actions. 
Both are true. 

747
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,080
I feel like there's maybe some 
some mystery there Pastor, I 

748
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,000
agree, but I still say both are 
true. 

749
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,080
How do you say that? 
Well, because we got the whole 

750
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,320
Bible that reveals both in 
action all the time. 

751
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,880
God is sovereign and God holds 
man responsible for his actions 

752
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,040
all the time. 
As is appropriate. 

753
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:17,760
Verse 26 Now as they were 
eating, Jesus took bread and 

754
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,360
after blessing it broke it and 
gave it to his disciples and 

755
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,720
said, take, eat. 
They're going, Yep, Yep, we've 

756
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:26,800
done this before. 
And he says this is my body. 

757
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,320
What? 
Then he took a cup and when he 

758
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,000
had given thanks and gave it to 
them, saying, drink it all of 

759
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,560
you. 
Yep, we've done this before. 

760
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,480
This is my blood of the covenant
which is poured out for many for

761
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,840
the forgiveness of sins. 
I tell you I will not drink 

762
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,320
again of this fruit of the vine 
until that day when I drink it 

763
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,640
new with you in my Father's 
Kingdom. 

764
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,680
This is the moment everything's 
been pointing for towards the 

765
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,440
true Passover. 
Lamb has arrived. 

766
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,000
The bread of heaven has come 
down. 

767
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,480
Jesus had already said I'm the 
bread of life, the living bread 

768
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,720
that came down from heaven. 
Unless you eat the flesh of the 

769
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,600
Son of man and drink His blood, 
you have no life in you. 

770
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,000
He had said that maybe months, 
maybe years earlier in his 

771
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,040
ministry. 
That was a shocking statement. 

772
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,880
It was hyperbole, like when he 
said you got to cut off your 

773
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,800
hand, He didn't literally mean 
it. 

774
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,200
When he said you got to drink my
flesh, drink my blood, and eat 

775
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,080
my flesh. 
He didn't literally mean his 

776
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,800
physical body, but he certainly 
meant symbolically, and he 

777
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,880
certainly meant that he was the 
Lamb of God, but the disciples 

778
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,240
didn't know what it meant. 
Remember when he first said 

779
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:34,040
that? 
Hey, when when Jesus had a crowd

780
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,960
gather around, remember what 
Jesus always does when the crowd

781
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,000
gathers? 
Far from trying to capitalize on

782
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,440
the moment, he would sift the 
crowd every time the crowd comes

783
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,120
and Jesus goes. 
Let's test it. 

784
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,240
Hey, everybody. 
Yes, Master. 

785
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,720
Yes. 
Who healed us? 

786
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,440
Who fed us? 
Who did all these things? 

787
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,720
You have to eat my flesh and 
drink my blood. 

788
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,720
The disciples, like, don't say 
that. 

789
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,000
That's weird. 
And everybody leaves and he 

790
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,200
goes. 
That's what I thought. 

791
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,640
They don't actually love me. 
They just love the gifts that I 

792
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,920
give. 
They don't actually want me. 

793
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:14,000
They wanted a meal and they 
wanted healing, he says. 

794
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,720
But I'm testing and I'm sifting 
for true disciples. 

795
00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:20,960
I'm sifting and I'm testing for 
true followers who actually love

796
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,960
me. 
The most important command to 

797
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,760
love the Lord your God with all 
your heart and soul and mind and

798
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,200
strength. 
That's what he's testing for. 

799
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,120
So it was once a shocking thing 
that the disciples heard. 

800
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,200
They didn't understand. 
Everybody else leaves. 

801
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,080
And he turns to the 12. 
That day whenever he had said 

802
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,840
it, he said you guys leaving 
too. 

803
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,760
And Peter says you have the 
words of life. 

804
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,040
Where else would we go? 
It seems to me that Peter's like

805
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,960
I still have no idea what you're
talking about and I'm not going 

806
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,520
anywhere. 
That's a disciple that was a 

807
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,080
faithful man all the way to his 
death. 

808
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,120
They went to crucify Peter and 
he's years later and whenever 

809
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,720
they went to crucify Peter, he 
pleaded with them and said I'm 

810
00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:07,040
not worthy to be crucified the 
way the Lord Jesus was 

811
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,640
crucified. 
Please crucify me upside down. 

812
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,720
And they obliged. 
And that's how Peter died. 

813
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,840
So I guess if you could somehow 
make crucifixion worse, only 

814
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,920
being upside down during your 
crucifixion might somehow make 

815
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,600
it even more brutal. 
But that was a disciple who 

816
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,320
really loved Jesus, a 
knucklehead who made many 

817
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,280
mistakes. 
Praise God, we're all in good 

818
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:33,360
company if we will be humble and
continue to follow. 

819
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,760
This is covenant language now 
that Jesus is using. 

820
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,680
This is my blood of the covenant
poured out for many for their 

821
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,680
forgiveness of sins. 
I want you to know forgiveness 

822
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:51,400
is not vague, it is not 
romantic, it is specific and it 

823
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,080
has your salvation has an exact 
cost. 

824
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,760
It's not based upon the feelings
of the Lord. 

825
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,280
I feel forgiving today. 
No, there's literally a 

826
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,160
mechanism for your salvation. 
There's a way that you can be 

827
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,600
saved in other religions. 
There is not a logical 

828
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,680
mechanism. 
There is muddiness. 

829
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,320
There is vagueness. 
How are you saved in this 

830
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:12,920
religion? 
What? 

831
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,600
You have to do all the things. 
Well, I didn't do it all 

832
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:16,680
perfectly. 
Is it enough? 

833
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,400
Yeah, we think so. 
The God that we made-up is 

834
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,080
pretty merciful. 
So you're probably going to be 

835
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,800
fine as long as you wanted to do
the right thing. 

836
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,360
Our God says none of you want to
do the right thing. 

837
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,240
Everyone's done the wrong thing.
I have to do all the work. 

838
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,600
I have to save you. 
I have to make you new, but 

839
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,560
there is a logical and plain 
explicit mechanism for your 

840
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,920
salvation. 
God said I will punish the 

841
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,280
innocent so that all the guilty 
can go free and they will trade.

842
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:47,440
I will put the righteousness of 
Christ and the guilt of the 

843
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,280
wicked will be swallowed up and 
they will be made holy. 

844
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,800
That's it. 
It's all what Jesus 

845
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,240
accomplished. 
It's not. 

846
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:59,320
And if you do this, believe in 
Jesus, and then do these things,

847
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,480
you will be saved. 
No, you'll believe in Jesus and 

848
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,720
then you will do things because 
you were already saved, because 

849
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:06,360
he actually made you a new 
creation. 

850
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,040
And if you don't want to do new 
things after you're saved, well,

851
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,120
you're not saved. 
Because if if you were, you 

852
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,120
would have wanted to do new 
things because it's impossible 

853
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,320
for the Spirit of the living God
to make someone a new creation. 

854
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,320
And then to be like, cool, I 
have no desires that are any 

855
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,200
different. 
Did you say I'll never sin 

856
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,080
again, Pastor? 
I didn't say that because you'll

857
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,320
still sin because you still have
flesh and you still have the 

858
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,720
temptation to put on the old man
as the scripture tells us, 

859
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,200
instead of putting off the old 
man. 

860
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,000
The difference is when I put on 
the old man now it don't feel 

861
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,280
right. 
It feels like the old man. 

862
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,320
The Lord says, is that how 
you're supposed to think? 

863
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,440
And I go, no, it's not who I am.
The Lord says wow, is that 

864
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,440
what's coming out of the Saints 
mouths? 

865
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,880
And I go, forgive me Lord, and 
whatever, whatever actions, 

866
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,160
whatever it may be, whatever 
sins I commit by my passivity 

867
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,480
and, and inaction or sins I 
commit by action, that I take 

868
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,360
the Holy Spirit's now in me. 
And if he's in you, then he's 

869
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,360
going, hey, that's not who you 
are anymore. 

870
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,200
And that is how we grow in our 
sanctification. 

871
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,560
But there is a mechanism for 
your salvation. 

872
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,960
It is perfectly logical and 
legally established in heaven 

873
00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:21,520
that God Forgives sinners when 
they put their faith in the 

874
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,760
blood of Jesus. 
It is the new covenant and he 

875
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:30,120
takes away our sins. 
Notice that everyone at the 

876
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:35,440
table drinks, including Judas. 
It's interesting Jesus doesn't 

877
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,040
chase him away, which this leads
to all kinds of theological 

878
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,480
debates throughout the body of 
Christ and saying how should we 

879
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,080
handle communion? 
Should we let it be open to 

880
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,520
everyone or should there be more
oversight to limit those who can

881
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,080
approach the table and those who
can't approach the table. 

882
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,960
And I can see godly and biblical
arguments from both 

883
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,440
perspectives. 
But on this day, Judas is 

884
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,440
allowed to drink. 
Jesus doesn't stop him. 

885
00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:05,520
Jesus let's Judas drink. 
Mercy is extended to Judas until

886
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,560
the very end, but Judas drinks 
without repentance. 

887
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:12,800
And John tells us specifically 
that as soon as Judas took the 

888
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:18,080
bread, Satan entered him. 
So that's the fearful 

889
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,040
condemnation that we're 
terrified of. 

890
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,480
That's why when we take 
communion, Communion, I give you

891
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,320
the warning, do not take the 
body and the blood of the Lord 

892
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,480
Jesus Christ in an unworthy 
manner. 

893
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,720
It's not snack time. 
It's not vain repetition. 

894
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,040
So This is why Scripture warns 
us to not take communion 

895
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,280
lightly. 
Paul says that some when they 

896
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,240
take communion, they eat and 
drink judgement unto themselves.

897
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,240
So the table, as it's called, is
not a casual tradition. 

898
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:51,240
It is a holy law in the church. 
And This is why loving pastors 

899
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,520
have sometimes withheld the 
table from people as an act of 

900
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,960
mercy, as an act of kindness. 
And some would say, well, I 

901
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,320
disagree with that perspective. 
OK, we'll disagree with you all 

902
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,000
you want. 
But loving and godly pastors 

903
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,640
have at times withheld the table
from people to protect them and 

904
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,480
to call them to repentance. 
It's a form of church discipline

905
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,400
that some denominations still 
use to this day when somebody is

906
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,840
in unrepentant sin. 
And we've gone to Brother Frank 

907
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,280
and we're like, Brother Frank, 
man, I love you. 

908
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,440
I want to see you restore it. 
And I'm confronting you on this 

909
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,120
thing plainly. 
Frank's like, oh, it's not my 

910
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,280
fault, it's not my problem, or 
you don't understand or blah, 

911
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,680
blah, all these explanations or 
justifications. 

912
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,440
Brother Frank, I'm praying for 
you, man. 

913
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,680
I hope you reconsider. 
I'm going to talk with you again

914
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,720
in a couple of days. 
And we pursue Frank again. 

915
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:35,080
We're doing all the right 
things. 

916
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,080
There have been pastors who say,
Frank, you're not to partake of 

917
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,160
the table this Sunday. 
You're not to partake of the 

918
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,160
Lord's table because you're an 
unrepentant sin. 

919
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,280
I do not want you eating and 
drinking condemnation unto 

920
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,040
yourself. 
I want to see you walk in 

921
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,200
repentance and I don't want to 
see you condemn or judge 

922
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,840
yourselves. 
Judge yourself. 

923
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,680
Paul said This is why many have 
fallen asleep in death, because 

924
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,280
they were taking the body and 
the blood of the Lord Jesus 

925
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,240
lightly. 
So we call people to repentance 

926
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,200
and that is an act of mercy 
aimed at loving and saving a 

927
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,800
soul, not condemning it. 
Well, maybe that feels 

928
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,280
embarrassing. 
OK, I would rather you feel 

929
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,880
embarrassed than you be lost. 
The motive is not embarrassment,

930
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,440
but the motive is to call you to
repentance, that you would feel 

931
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,560
the separation. 
You want people to be separated?

932
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,280
No, the point is that they 
already are, but they don't 

933
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,680
believe it and you're helping 
them to realize, hey, which is 

934
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,080
why church, the scriptures also 
give us clarity around those who

935
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,600
are called in sin and 
unrepentant. 

936
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,160
The church is to not even eat 
with those individuals. 

937
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,000
So the church would bring to the
the leadership would bring to 

938
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,080
the church, Hey, we love Frank 
and we're praying for Frank. 

939
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,400
But I as your pastor, and I am, 
I'm charging you do not give 

940
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,240
Frank a false sense of comfort. 
So you can you can love him 

941
00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:51,200
well, but that should not 
include a meal. 

942
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,720
That should not include a 
cheeseburger at the galley this 

943
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:57,280
week, because we don't want to 
confuse Frank and bring a false 

944
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,960
comfort into his life and think 
you're good, all is fine, all is

945
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,640
well. 
Why? 

946
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,280
To shame him, to call him to 
repentance. 

947
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,560
We do this. 
We do this slowly. 

948
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,360
We do this with much weight and 
with fear and trembling for our 

949
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,080
own souls as well. 
We're closing and then we're 

950
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,480
going to sing together one song 
before we go. 

951
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,520
Jesus then says he will not 
drink again until he drinks new 

952
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:24,920
with them and his Father's 
Kingdom. 

953
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:30,080
For the disciples, this cup is 
sweet, the sweet wine that they 

954
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,960
were drinking. 
For Jesus, the cup ahead is 

955
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,840
bitter beyond description. 
That very night he's going to 

956
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,440
enter the garden and he's going 
to begin drinking the cup of the

957
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:44,560
Lord's wrath, and he won't 
finish until he gets every last 

958
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:49,200
drop on Friday at about 3:00 
when he yells out it is 

959
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,360
finished. 
The whole cup was bitter. 

960
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,280
The whole cup was poison, and 
the whole cup cost him his life.

961
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,920
He did it because he is the 
manliest man to ever live. 

962
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,280
He did it because he is the 
greatest man to ever live. 

963
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,360
He did it because he is the 
greatest man to ever live. 

964
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,520
He did it because he is God, 
suffering for His people and 

965
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,880
being the substitute, the 
righteous, the innocent Passover

966
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,400
lamb being killed and 
slaughtered on the Passover so 

967
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,240
that the death Angel would 
Passover everyone else. 

968
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:20,440
Somehow the author of life gives
up his life to die, and yet he 

969
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,880
gives hope to the disciples. 
I won't drink this cup again 

970
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,400
until there's another day 
coming. 

971
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,640
There's an eternal life coming. 
There will be another cup. 

972
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,960
There will be a marriage supper 
of the Lamb where Jesus gets all

973
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,000
the glory. 
We will eat and drink with Him 

974
00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:39,640
and worship Him and enjoy Him 
literally, actually. 

975
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:42,200
This isn't just a figurative 
idea of eternal life. 

976
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,040
We are going to be people with 
bodies with God forever. 

977
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,280
We will eat, we will drink, we 
will rule, we will reign. 

978
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,000
There will be civilization, 
there will be society. 

979
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,080
What's it going to look like? 
There's a lot of questions 

980
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,560
there, but we know those things 
are true. 

981
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:08,200
Verse 30 when they sung A hymn, 
they went out into the Mount of 

982
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,560
Olives. 
Like I said earlier, this is 

983
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:17,120
likely a Psalm somewhere between
1:13 and 1:18 as was tradition. 

984
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,840
Those are largely psalms of 
praise. 

985
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,760
Psalms of praise and worship. 
Jesus is not just completely 

986
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,400
self focused. 
There's times where we go to the

987
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:28,600
Lord with our grief. 
We see David do that regularly, 

988
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,480
and Psalm 116, out of the batch 
of those, probably does it the 

989
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,760
most, the one we read for our 
magnification. 

990
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,040
But Jesus was still directing 
praise and worship vertically in

991
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:44,000
this moment. 
He was not primarily centered on

992
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,440
his own emotions or processing 
his own pain. 

993
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,560
He was just bringing pure 
vertical praise. 

994
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,920
Worship is so important because 
God is worthy. 

995
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,520
And now also, this is the 
selfish portion of it. 

996
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,440
It's always a blessing to you 
whenever you get your vision off

997
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,280
of yourself and you bring your 
vision to the Lord and you 

998
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,040
actually have vertical praise. 
That's not based upon here is 

999
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,440
what I need from you, Lord, but 
it's based upon here is who you 

1000
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,080
are, so I worship you. 
Everything shifts. 

1001
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,920
Any of us who have ever done 
that can testify to it. 

1002
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,160
And you're like, Yep, that's the
key. 

1003
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,360
That's the thing that gets me 
out of my flesh. 

1004
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,000
That's the thing that gets me 
out of my funk. 

1005
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,760
Your pastor did this yesterday. 
Had a rough week. 

1006
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,800
Anybody ever had a rough week? 
Happened to me, had a rough 

1007
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:31,960
week. 
It's having a rough day, caught 

1008
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,440
up in my emotions, caught up in 
my mind and I hadn't done what I

1009
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,920
do a lot of mornings. 
Most mornings I worship loud. 

1010
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,080
My family will tell you it's 
loud. 

1011
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,000
My neighbors might tell you it's
loud, but I'll worship loud and 

1012
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,880
I'll crank it, I'll blast it and
I will bless the Lord. 

1013
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,360
I'll praise the Lord. 
It's not a woe is Joe Michael 

1014
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,200
session. 
It's a God is great session. 

1015
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:54,480
But I hadn't done that 
yesterday. 

1016
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,480
And as I was feeling everything 
heavy, finally in the afternoon,

1017
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,160
I got around to doing that. 
Surprise, surprise, as I focused

1018
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,920
on God instead of on myself and 
on all my neuroticism and all my

1019
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,760
what about and what if and how 
come and why not and how will 

1020
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,680
eyes and all of a sudden I'm 
going. 

1021
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,200
There is a God and I am not him 
and he is worthy. 

1022
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,080
Lord, I love you. 
And all of a sudden my soul was 

1023
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:21,560
recalibrated again. 
I'm going and now I can face are

1024
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,880
your all your problems gone? 
All my problems weren't gone. 

1025
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,520
Some of them were. 
Some of them literally were were

1026
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,760
gone because a lot of my 
problems were just here. 

1027
00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:33,480
But that shifted things for me. 
Jesus goes into the garden. 

1028
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,040
How does He go into the garden? 
The last thing He does before he

1029
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,320
gets to the garden. 
He worships and praises before 

1030
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,240
He goes into that garden. 
And still he starts sweating 

1031
00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:45,680
those great drops of blood and 
he starts heaving himself into 

1032
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:50,600
deep prayer as he starts to 
experience the heaviness of sin 

1033
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,600
being brought upon him. 
So you can bring your sorrow to 

1034
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,040
the Lord. 
You can bring your grief to the 

1035
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,280
Lord. 
But we also praise Him just 

1036
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,040
because He is worthy. 
So that's what we're going to do

1037
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:02,440
now. 
We're going to close service 

1038
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,880
with praise. 
The joy of the Lord is your 

1039
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,880
strength. 
This is a heavy passage with 

1040
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,480
much warning in it. 
Repentance, betrayal, 

1041
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,400
faithfulness. 
Will I remain faithful? 

1042
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,640
The Lord knows. 
The Lord knows where every one 

1043
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:16,960
of us is going to be for all 
eternity. 

1044
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,560
Oh no, what is that Good news? 
You get to wake up and choose 

1045
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,280
what you're doing every single 
day. 

1046
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:26,360
Good news, like nothing's 
outside of your jurisdiction as 

1047
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:27,960
far as the rest of your life 
goes. 

1048
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,200
There's much we don't know about
our future. 

1049
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,600
But there's one thing that you 
can also know about your future.

1050
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,240
You can know that you know that 
you know where you're going to 

1051
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:38,080
spend your eternity. 
Well, how can I know? 

1052
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,800
Because you can trust in the 
Lord Jesus Christ for the 

1053
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,280
forgiveness of sins. 
He will receive you. 

1054
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,680
He will make you a new creation.
And then guess what? 

1055
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,560
You get to keep making them 
choices all the time. 

1056
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,400
Judas got to keep making 
choices. 

1057
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:52,760
You and I get to keep making 
choices. 

1058
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,640
I'm going to choose to follow 
Jesus. 

1059
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:59,360
I love him, I want Him, I want 
to be with Him, I want to enjoy 

1060
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,400
Him, I want to know Him, I want 
to look more like Him. 

1061
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:07,680
So now let's worship Him 
together. 

1062
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:08,920
Stand to your feet.