1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:15,740 Oh my goodness, turn your Bibles to Matthew 2 00:00:16,780 --> 00:00:24,940 chapter 21. It's about to go down. 3 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:29,940 We are coming. We are at the very, very, very 4 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:32,479 end of Jesus ministry. Of course we're going to spend 5 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,520 the whole rest of Matthew here at the end of Jesus's earthly 6 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:41,120 ministry. I told you, you're going to 7 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,480 understand why they want to crucify him and you're going to 8 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:47,080 see even more of that this morning. 9 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,480 It's not like Jesus has been pulling punches for the past few 10 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:52,280 years. If you'll remember, actually 11 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,240 early in his ministry, he cleansed the temple once. 12 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,520 So Jesus cleanses the temple twice in his ministry. 13 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,840 He the first time John tells us early in his ministry, the Bible 14 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,720 says he fashioned a whip. So he took the time to go make a 15 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,640 whip. So this was premeditated in the 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,000 book of John. Jesus doesn't lack self-control. 17 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,840 Jesus did what he was doing on purpose because he wanted to do 18 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,920 it, because he was defending his father's house and the people 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:19,880 who are being exploited in his father's house. 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,240 So he fashioned a whip and he's cracking that. 21 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,600 Is he landing? Is he landing it on people? 22 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,600 Or is he just popping the thing in the air for dramatic effect? 23 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,240 Either way, I like it a lot. I'm a big fan. 24 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,880 So then we come now to the end of his earthly ministry. 25 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,720 Jesus comes into Jerusalem. The place is packed. 26 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:39,560 It's Passover. Remember, we've had the 27 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,080 triumphal entry. He's been moving towards the 28 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,120 cross like a man on a mission. He knows what's coming on 29 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,200 Thursday night. He knows what's coming to him 30 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,240 Friday morning. He knows what's coming to him 31 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,800 Friday in the early afternoon and and he still marches forward 32 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,080 to fulfill his mission perfectly and completely because he loves 33 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,120 you and because he loves me, and because he's coming to save the 34 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,920 world from sin, because he's coming to deliver us from evil, 35 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,400 because he's coming to actually crush the serpent's head. 36 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,560 He will have his heel bruised, so to speak, through the 37 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,440 crucifixion, but he will crush the serpent's head through his 38 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,280 resurrection and then through his multiplication throughout 39 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,400 the earth. So he's had the triumphal entry, 40 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,640 and now we pick up of chapter 21 and verse 12. 41 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:26,600 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and 42 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,480 bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of 43 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,200 the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 44 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,000 He said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a House 45 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,760 of prayer. But you make it to a den of 46 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,680 robbers, and the blind and the lame that came to him in the 47 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,320 temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and 48 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,240 the scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the 49 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,440 children crying out in the temple, hosanna to the son of 50 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,440 David, they were indignant. And they said to him, Do you 51 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,080 hear what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes, 52 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,080 have you never read out of the mouth of infants and nursing 53 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,320 babies? You have prepared praise. 54 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,640 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged 55 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,640 there. Heavenly Father, bring us light 56 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:15,560 and revelation. I pray that you would give your 57 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,240 church Holy Spirit LED imagination that we really could 58 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,800 picture, understand, and fully receive the weight of what 59 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,520 happened that day. So that we can just love and 60 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,920 respect and honor and worship Jesus to a greater depth because 61 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:32,040 we know Him more, not just knowing about him, but really 62 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,800 knowing him. And I also pray God, that you 63 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,360 would help us to make the right application to our own hearts, 64 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,400 to our own church, and to our own lives. 65 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,560 That we would more deeply surrender the temple that is 66 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,320 Saul Church, that we would more deeply surrender the temple that 67 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,120 is our own personal heart. That you would come in and have 68 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,160 your way. They would look exactly how you 69 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,480 want it to look. That it would be purified and 70 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,000 then empowered in Jesus name, Amen. 71 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,200 That is the prayer that I've been praying church. 72 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,000 That is the expectation that I've had that we as a church 73 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,440 would be surrendered and that we as individuals would be fully 74 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,160 surrendered so that we could fully qualify to receive the 75 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,520 power that he has that he intends for us. 76 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,600 So we have multiple accounts of what happened here on this day. 77 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,200 Mark tells us that after the triumphal entry, it says that 78 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,640 Jesus went into the temple, but it was already late. 79 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,480 He looked around at everything and then retired to Bethany for 80 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,440 the night. So actually, Sunday, triumphal 81 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:34,080 entry, bump, a bump. Jerusalem is absolutely packed. 82 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,920 People are everywhere. Millions of people have swarmed 83 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,840 on Jerusalem. There's people camping outside 84 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:42,560 the city. Bethany's packed. 85 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,320 I mean, it's a time, a beautiful festival. 86 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,840 It's family reunion, people everywhere. 87 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,480 And everybody knows who Jesus is and what Jesus is about because 88 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,040 he's been doing this for three years. 89 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,720 You know, somebody who's been healed by Jesus at this point, 90 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,560 you know, somebody who's heard Jesus preach. 91 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,840 He doesn't just have the 12 and people like, I wonder what 92 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:01,360 that's about. Thousands, many, many thousands 93 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,400 of people are all about him, all around him. 94 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,800 They come and they go as they live their lives. 95 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,400 But everybody knows about Jesus. He hasn't been quiet. 96 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,880 He hasn't been mysterious. He has been bold. 97 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,000 He's been plain. Remember, he started his 98 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,920 ministry cleansing the temple. He finishes his ministry 99 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,200 cleansing the temple. That's what he wants. 100 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,000 He wants everything fully surrendered to him. 101 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,080 But he comes back now Monday. He comes back Monday, not on 102 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,400 Sunday. He comes on Monday. 103 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,000 And he looks into the temple as he premeditated, as he planned, 104 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,360 and he cleanses the place. He has caused a scene. 105 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,120 I mean, imagine a man doing these things. 106 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,920 Actually, imagine it. He turned over the tables. 107 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,080 How do you think he did it? What do you think it looked 108 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,440 like? Do you think he gently shoved 109 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,680 them? Just went from one to the next, 110 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:50,880 Right? That's the guy who washed his 111 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,120 feet, right? Because that's all he ever did, 112 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,320 right? That's what we're told. 113 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,640 Jesus washes feet. Come Thursday night. 114 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,520 It means something. It's important. 115 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,760 I'm going to emphasize it and I'm going to pound the pulpit 116 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,840 when I get to it. But he cleansed the temple 117 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,280 twice. He formed a whip and cracked it 118 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:09,720 over people. He's throwing out money 119 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,400 changers. He stops everything. 120 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,360 He takes total control. Can you imagine if everybody had 121 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,200 their cell phones out filming it? 122 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,040 Look at this angry preacher, hashtag angry preacher. 123 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,640 I just don't think it's appropriate for a man of the 124 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,040 Lord. Myself personally, I just think 125 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,720 it's I just, I just don't see where there could ever, ever be 126 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,680 that the appropriate response there. 127 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,000 Well, you should read your Bible and you should read all of 128 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,320 Jesus, not one verse of Jesus. Don't build your old doctrine of 129 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,440 Jesus off one verse. Well, doesn't it mean something? 130 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,120 Of course it does. It means something in in 131 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,880 conjunction with the whole of Scripture and all of who Christ 132 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,880 reveals he is, what is Jesus? Jesus is the right thing at the 133 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:49,600 right time. Amen. 134 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,480 Jesus is the wisdom of God. Jesus is always appropriate and 135 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,480 right. So if you're about to get stoned 136 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,000 to death because you were just called in adultery and you're 137 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,080 terrified and repentant and humble, Jesus is going to be 138 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,440 very gentle with you. A bruise read He will not break. 139 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,200 A smoldering Wick, He will not extinguish. 140 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,400 But if you're prideful and you think that you're in charge of 141 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,120 things and you think you're in charge of the faith, that is 142 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,240 actually being a blockade to people really coming to him, 143 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,520 he's going to be very, very, very severe. 144 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,880 God opposes the proud. God gives grace to the humble. 145 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,600 So we're looking at the extremes here when we see Jesus with the 146 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,320 Pharisees. But the caution I give to you is 147 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,520 to not just look to the Pharisees and go those guys, 148 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,000 because that's my temptation. So look at the Pharisees. 149 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,120 Ago, I would have never. Well, maybe so, maybe not. 150 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,560 We'll never know because you weren't there. 151 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,480 But the temptation is to say they're the worst. 152 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,040 Instead of recognizing, has He asked for more surrender from 153 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,280 you? Has he asked for more surrender 154 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:55,760 from me? I need to look at the Bible. 155 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,840 And if the Bible isn't constantly pointing you back 156 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,240 inside your own heart, then you're looking at the Bible 157 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,200 wrong. You're reading the Bible wrong. 158 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,040 You're reading it like a history lesson exclusively and thinking 159 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,720 that happened, OK, instead of the Holy Spirit applying things 160 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,400 to you and going, hey, yeah, that happened with them. 161 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,800 But what's going on with you? The Bible is living and active. 162 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 The Word of God is powerful and it is sharp, and it will divide 163 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,280 between your soul and your spirit to lay you open and go. 164 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,920 I didn't even know I could be divided that way. 165 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,040 And the Lord can say I can perform surgery, I can take out 166 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,240 infection, and I can put in a heart of flesh instead of a 167 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,320 heart of stone. So Jesus is the right thing at 168 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,120 the right time. Jesus has range, as you would 169 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:41,720 say. He has multiple gears. 170 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,320 He's not just stuck in first gear. 171 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:44,880 This is all he knows. This is all he does. 172 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,280 Culturally, we're told that Jesus has one gear. 173 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,720 Jesus picks up barnyard animals and he pets them and he washes 174 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,760 people's feet. That's the only gear Jesus has. 175 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,240 So we're told Jesus has multiple gears. 176 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,600 Jesus is the right thing at the right time. 177 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,640 Well, I don't like that Jesus. Well, there's only one Jesus. 178 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,200 There's not your Jesus or Jim Michaels Jesus. 179 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,080 There's just Jesus. And he's the Jesus of Matthew, 180 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,840 Mark, Luke, and John. He's the Jesus of Genesis. 181 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,360 He's the Jesus of Revelation. He's the Jesus of the book. 182 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,120 That's the only Jesus that there is. 183 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,320 There is no other. So what do we know about what's 184 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,960 going on here? We know that the Pharisees have 185 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,880 been the gatekeepers. We know the Pharisees are 186 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,440 jealous of him. Why? 187 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,480 Well, because he's obviously all powerful. 188 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,160 He can do anything he wants to. He's healing people non-stop. 189 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,800 So what do they, what do they now get him? 190 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,680 On they go. Actually, you shouldn't be 191 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,640 healing on the Sabbath. So they're trying to show that 192 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,440 they are more spiritual and more holy than them when they do so, 193 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,840 of course, he just blows them up over and over and over. 194 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,400 He humiliates them. He's been doing so for years. 195 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,000 He knows that He's laying down his life this week. 196 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,600 He's not coming to be the victim to anybody. 197 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,360 He's coming to give generously. Nobody takes Jesus's life from 198 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,440 Jesus. Jesus gives his life. 199 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,120 That's his strength, that's his power, that's his choice. 200 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,120 So the Pharisees, the religious rulers, they have been 201 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,080 exploiting people for many, many years in the temple. 202 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,480 So what's going on now is the week of Passover, your family 203 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:14,600 would buy a lamb to sacrifice to keep in accordance with what had 204 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,680 been happening all the way since Moses. 205 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,960 Remember the Passover, they were in Egypt and the Lord said, I've 206 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,360 brought the 9 plagues and now the 10th plague is I'm going to 207 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:27,000 kill the first born son. This is the judgment and the 208 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,760 wrath of God being poured out, He said. 209 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:35,560 But if you apply the blood of the lamb to your doorpost, the 210 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:39,200 death Angel will pass over your house. 211 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,240 He won't come into your house and kill your son. 212 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,640 He will Passover. And that death will not visit 213 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,320 your household. So they've been celebrating the 214 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,720 Passover, the wrath of God passing over them. 215 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,120 But still somebody had to pay all those lambs for hundreds of 216 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,160 years. All these lambs have been slain. 217 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,320 All these lambs get killed, all these animals. 218 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,520 Blood has to be shed. There can be no forgiveness of 219 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,400 sins without the shedding of blood. 220 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,720 But a lamb's a little bit more expensive. 221 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,880 What if you're really poor and you don't have any money? 222 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,120 Will the Lord made an opportunity for you? 223 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,560 You could buy the Scripture says here, pigeons or or doves, and 224 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:17,880 they were much, much less expensive. 225 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,440 But also if you were bringing Roman money in when you're 226 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,640 coming to purchase these things. So maybe you're outside of town 227 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:25,720 and you're buying your lamb, or maybe you don't have any money. 228 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,800 You're very poor and you come into the temple. 229 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:29,840 Well, the Pharisees have good news for you. 230 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,000 They have a vending machine set up for you so that you can get 231 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,560 exactly what you need. The problem is it's like the 232 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,320 airport. You know how it is at the 233 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,520 airport. You come in with your water and 234 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:45,120 you get up to TSA and somehow, you know, 20 ounces of water is 235 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:46,920 a real threat to national security. 236 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,520 So you have to pour it out. I eat a little bit bitter when 237 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,520 I, when I fly. If you couldn't tell the Lord's 238 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,840 dealing with me on that. I always make a big show of it 239 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,360 when I pour my water out. I say I feel safer already. 240 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:58,840 And then I just kind of move on from there. 241 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,280 So you have to pour out your water. 242 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,000 And then, of course, as soon as you get through TSA, you can now 243 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:09,720 purchase a bottle of water, lucky you, for $9 or whatever 244 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,880 it's going to be. You know, I got to not go like 245 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,520 I'm trying to preach the right sermon here. 246 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,120 I'm just not. I'm getting in my flesh just 247 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,040 thinking about it. So this is what's going on here. 248 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,040 Oh, do you need some doves? Do you need this? 249 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,880 Do you need that? Well, we're going to take care 250 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:27,400 of that for you. But also, you brought Roman coin 251 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,960 in and the temple doesn't accept Roman coin. 252 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,880 So we have money changers who will change your money. 253 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,360 So everybody's being exploited and they're being stolen from. 254 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,160 The rates are not good. It's not gracious. 255 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,600 So Jesus sees the poor being exploited. 256 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,280 He sees the money making scheme, like they're not just doing it 257 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,640 as a convenience. Hey, this is the best way to do 258 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:48,920 it. We want to help people worship 259 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,040 the Lord, but people are profiting and people are 260 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,560 exploiting their neighbors. So none of this is wholesome. 261 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,440 None of this is good, but it's been done this way all the time. 262 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,200 It's just the way it is. Get over it, man. 263 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,760 It's just the way it is. We've been doing this for a long 264 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,680 time. Jesus is not going to get over 265 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:07,360 it. He's not OK with it. 266 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,040 So he comes in and he causes a scene. 267 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,360 He's loud, he is violent, and he causes a mess. 268 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,960 He turns over the table of the money changers. 269 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,480 Guess what was on the table of the money changers? 270 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,920 Money. Money was all over the place. 271 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,240 So coin goes flying everywhere. He's causing a scene. 272 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,080 He's making a mess. Who is he? 273 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:29,440 Well, he's one who has authority. 274 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:31,600 He's the one in charge of the temple. 275 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,840 He owns the temple. He owns the breath in your 276 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,560 lungs. He owns the ground that you're 277 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:37,400 standing on. It all belongs to him. 278 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,880 Jerusalem is his city. The whole world is his nation. 279 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,880 Everything belongs to Jesus. So he comes and he acts like he 280 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:45,440 has authority. That's why nobody stops him. 281 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:50,040 And they're like, hey, knock it off, calm down. 282 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,440 And everybody trusts him. All the people love him. 283 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,320 It's only the Pharisees and religious leaders who hate him. 284 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,960 The people go, he's awesome. Oh, he's stirring things up. 285 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,000 We thought he was going to like, go after the Romans. 286 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,200 He's kind of like going after the Jewish leaders. 287 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,480 But whatever, I'll stick with him. 288 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:04,920 I'll stick with him. I'll stick with him till Friday 289 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,960 morning anyway, when it's time to crucify him. 290 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,920 I'm surprised he's going after the Pharisees because those guys 291 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,040 are so spiritual. These guys are so holy because 292 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:14,800 one time those guys did a good thing. 293 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,520 Did you know that some people can do a good thing and still be 294 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,480 awful? That's crazy, isn't it? 295 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,360 I don't want you to be naive. I don't want you to be ignorant. 296 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,280 Now, I really like that pastor. I really like that preacher. 297 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,320 I really like John Michael. Well, you can like who you like, 298 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,800 but fruit always talks to us over time. 299 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,800 Fruit continually reveals something about somebody's life 300 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,000 over time or the absence thereof. 301 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:44,400 So Jesus, obviously it says in multiple of the passages and in 302 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,520 Matthew and Mark and in Luke, they all talk about and they 303 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,720 wanted to kill him. Like that was their plan. 304 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,480 They're like, how are we going to kill this guy? 305 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,280 He just disrupted everything this week. 306 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,600 He humiliated us. He's humiliating us in front of 307 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,000 everybody. Everybody in the temple heard 308 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,200 it. That's going to spread. 309 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,600 Jesus went in there. It was crazy. 310 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,960 He was doing this, He was doing that, He was yelling, he was 311 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:10,360 super angry. He was very mad because his 312 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,240 temple was supposed to be a place of prayer and they turned 313 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,400 it into a den of thieves. He was stopping everybody. 314 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,440 No, you're not going to carry that through here anymore. 315 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,560 This is going to be, there's a, there's a way to act with 316 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,360 reverence. There's a certain way to behave. 317 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,800 There's a time and a place for things. 318 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,000 And the temple is a time and a place for certain things to take 319 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,160 place. Jesus said, we're going to, 320 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,040 we're going to change this. We're going to shift this. 321 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,320 So they hate him for it. They're angry with him and he 322 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,160 humiliates them and then of course, he corrects them again. 323 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,280 As he's being worshipped, the children are rejoicing, shouting 324 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,320 in the temple Hosanna to the Son of David. 325 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:46,920 The prophecies are being fulfilled. 326 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,720 The Son of David has come to rule over his people and the 327 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,320 children recognize it. The child like the humble, 328 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,800 recognize what's going on and the Pharisees, the prideful, 329 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,600 hated. So that's the big historical 330 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,560 narrative. That's the the swell of what's 331 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,920 going on as we lead into the rest of Holy Week. 332 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,480 But what does this mean for you and I? 333 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,520 Jesus did not just cleanse the temple back then. 334 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:15,360 He still cleanses His house today in two ways. 335 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,880 He cleanses the church and He cleanses the individual. 336 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,120 Both of those are His temple. Both of those are referred to in 337 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,240 the New Testament as His temple. You are the temple of the Holy 338 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,520 Spirit, you yourself, and also the body of Christ is the temple 339 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,560 of Jesus in His control, under His jurisdiction. 340 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,640 It's no longer a building. His temple is no longer what 341 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,080 stands in Jerusalem or anything else that they would attempt to 342 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,120 rebuild at some point. That will not be His temple. 343 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,760 You are his temple. You will stay his temple. 344 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,800 So what would Jesus cleanse out of his church today? 345 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:57,960 What do you think If the Lord Jesus were to look at the 346 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,280 American church at large? We'll start there and then we'll 347 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,800 start to zoom in. I think He would want to cleanse 348 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,599 out the Polish. I think he would want to cleanse 349 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:07,839 pride. I think he would want to cleanse 350 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,319 cowardice. I think he would want to cleanse 351 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,480 consumerism. And it's all a vicious cycle 352 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,520 because the people who go to church in the West, they what 353 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,359 you got for us, preacher? What's this church have for my 354 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,680 family? It's not a terrible question as 355 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,000 long as you don't mean it in the way that you probably mean it. 356 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:30,760 The church should have the word of God. 357 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:31,920 It should have the presence of the Lord. 358 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:33,800 It should have a New Testament family. 359 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:35,920 Or we're saying we're going to love and follow Jesus. 360 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:38,800 If you're looking for a lot more than that at Salt, we don't have 361 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,280 much to offer you. We got some exercise bikes in 362 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:42,800 the back. We got some rubber bands. 363 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,920 Like you haven't walked into the greatest cathedral ever built. 364 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,600 I like beautiful buildings, and I want us to build a beautiful 365 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,320 building one day. I'm not sorry for that. 366 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:52,840 And yet what do we have to offer you? 367 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,600 Sincerity. That's what I can speak for me. 368 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,000 I have sincerity to offer. I have a pursuit of the Lord to 369 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,960 offer the genuine and sincere. I have a humble fear of God, and 370 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:08,920 I have a devotion to the word of God. 371 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,280 So if you're in for that, you're in the right place. 372 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,120 If you're looking for a lot more than that, like I don't know 373 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,440 that I've got that to offer you. But as a pastor, it's easy for 374 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,680 pastors to feel the temptation and what came first, the chicken 375 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,720 or the egg, I don't know. It doesn't matter at this point 376 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,200 because either person's repentance can cure it. 377 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,000 So the pastor who wants to please the people versus the 378 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,920 people who want to be pleased and that vicious cycle that 379 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,400 spirals down and all the while the Lord's presence is being 380 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,560 driven out of it. It's a people centered church 381 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,040 instead of a Jesus centered church. 382 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,680 I think Jesus would come to cleanse all those kinds of 383 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,320 things. I think those are some of the 384 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,320 tables he would overturn. Let's not just talk about the 385 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,160 them out there. What table would he sling 386 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:50,520 inside? Assault church? 387 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,400 I believe it's something connected to hiding. 388 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,480 I believe it's connected to guarding. 389 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,800 I believe it's connected to isolating instead of surrender. 390 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,520 I said that because of what the Lord's been revealing to me. 391 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,160 I'm a pastor who pays attention. I'm a Good Shepherd who's 392 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,560 watching over his walk. Sometimes you probably think I'm 393 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,040 naive to things I'm not. I just don't always put my 394 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:13,880 finger on everything because I know there's a better Holy 395 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,600 Spirit than me and I trust Him more than me and I trust that as 396 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,040 I pray for you, He can do a lot more work than I can do. 397 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,400 And I'm and I'm also making sure that I'm not being a coward. 398 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,920 I need to speak to so and so. Are they going to receive it? 399 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:29,000 That's not really my jurisdiction is whether or not 400 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,200 they're going to receive it. Lord, help me walk in wisdom, 401 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:32,960 not in fear. These are all things I'm 402 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,640 processing as your pastor. These are all things I'm trying 403 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,600 to put together and go, Lord, where? 404 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,160 Where's my flesh getting in the way? 405 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,120 What do you really want? What would obedience look like 406 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:44,840 for me? Is that boldness led by 407 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,080 conviction from the Holy Spirit, or is that my flesh being sick 408 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,520 and tired of a problem? You see how you've been there. 409 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,600 If you've ever LED people and if you've ever attempted it, 410 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,920 whether it's as a parent or as a boss or anything else, you're 411 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,280 always trying to like, if you're humble before the Lord, you're 412 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,040 like, the issue is clearly the issue. 413 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,320 That's not up for. That's not up for question. 414 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,200 The question is, how should I approach it, Lord? 415 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,320 And that's where we need the wisdom of God. 416 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,200 That's why I pray. Jesus make me like you. 417 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,040 He's the right thing at the right time. 418 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,120 He's got multiple gears to hit and he has range. 419 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,960 And that's what your Michael has to grow in wisdom range, being 420 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:25,400 the right thing at the right time. 421 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:29,640 But I know that for us, these things are connected to hiding, 422 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,680 guarding, isolating instead of surrender. 423 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,400 Because specifically also the Lord revealed that last week, 424 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,200 just saying that surrender, that's what we need. 425 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,160 That's where we're at. We need deeper surrender. 426 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:45,880 We need a deeper yielding, a deeper obedience. 427 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:48,120 I said there's some of you that the Lord has asked you for 428 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:49,600 things for weeks. There's a thing. 429 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:50,680 And he said, hey, can I have that? 430 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:55,280 And you're like the Lord. The Lord couldn't be asking me 431 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,560 for that. For some of you, he's been 432 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,320 asking for things for months. For some of you, it's been 433 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,520 years. And I've experienced this in my 434 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,320 own life as well, where the Lord's saying, hey, can I have 435 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:02,920 that? Can I have that? 436 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:07,040 Can I have that? I surrender all this over here 437 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,160 and I surrender all that over there and he's going, what about 438 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,640 this thing? I go, I surrender this over 439 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,040 here. Lord, look at all that I've 440 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,800 surrendered. He's going, how about this? 441 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,760 I go, Lord, look around like, oh, it's all yours, Jesus, I'm 442 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,360 just going to interrupt you. We worship so I don't have to 443 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,600 listen to you. Just be just be glorified by my 444 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,760 praise and also give me that breakthrough that I've been 445 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,920 standing on and praying for. And Lord, can I have that? 446 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,840 I'm like, oh Lord, I just love you. 447 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,040 Hallelujah, prayer time done. See you later, God, He's gone. 448 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,440 He's patient. He's so kind. 449 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,920 It's ridiculous how patient he is and how kind he is. 450 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,320 It's the goodness of God that has led me to repentance many 451 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,920 times. I know it has for you as well, 452 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,600 but that's what I see in salt. That's what I know what's going 453 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,400 on in salt. There's a deeper surrender that 454 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,600 needs to happen. There needs to be less hiding. 455 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:01,240 There needs to be no hiding. There's needs to be no guarding. 456 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,880 There needs to be no isolating. There needs to be no lying. 457 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,600 There needs to be truly living in the light as he is in the 458 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,280 light. That's what he's called us to. 459 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,720 But when something is common, when something's prevalent, like 460 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,840 it was in the temple there or like it is in, in, in the 461 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,120 Western church, this is the way we act on. 462 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,080 This is the way we do church folks. 463 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,360 We've been doing church for decades this way. 464 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,800 You put on a Sunday, smile, you know, and that's it. 465 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,160 Like you try and engage with a sermon, you try and engage 466 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,280 during service, but as soon as service is over, you're not like 467 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,560 talking to people about what the Lord was just ministering to you 468 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,080 about. You know, you're talking about 469 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,520 the weak and you're talking about work. 470 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,000 And you know, we're going to keep it shallow and I'm not 471 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,600 going to truly be known or be seen. 472 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,320 Even though that's common, it doesn't make it acceptable to 473 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,000 God. And they thought that because it 474 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,040 was just the way it was, like, why didn't the people create an 475 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,320 uprising? Why didn't the people rise up 476 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,760 against the Jewish leaders and go, this is wicked, this is 477 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,960 evil, this is wrong. You're extorting people, you 478 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,800 know, like who's going to be the prophet who does it in the 479 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,200 airport? I always think maybe I can be 480 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,600 the one who can get our water through the gate like that. 481 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,960 We just need somebody to rise up with conviction. 482 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,640 But like, why do we Alaska that like you just go along together. 483 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,800 The power, the powers, they're just keeping us in place instead 484 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,640 of saying how can I make a difference? 485 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,120 How can I walk in a Holy Spirit boldness. 486 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,920 Well, first of all, in my own temple. 487 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,360 That's how that's where in my own life. 488 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,880 What can I do with me? Lord, I'm going to change the 489 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:33,720 world. Oh buddy, you can. 490 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,080 First of all, I don't mean to. I'm I'm not a cynic. 491 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,560 You can change the world. Just know you will have to 492 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,600 entirely be changed as a person. I want to change the world. 493 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,920 You can. You can, no problem. 494 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,320 Young men, young women, you want to change the world, You can. 495 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,040 Just know that it's going like your life will be 1 of constant 496 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,240 upheaval in the spirit and that's a good thing. 497 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,520 The Lord will say I want more from you. 498 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,560 I want more from you because you've got to be if you want new 499 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,880 anointing, if you want new blessing, you got to be a new 500 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,800 wineskin and that cost something and that feels like something. 501 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,320 So people mistake something that's common. 502 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,560 They think it makes it acceptable to God. 503 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,920 They think it could even be blessed by God. 504 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:24,000 The money changers and those selling birds and those, you 505 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,640 know, moving merchandise and selling merchandise. 506 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,600 I don't know what they had. I don't know if they had like I 507 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,200 went to the temple T-shirts or what they had going on, but they 508 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,480 had something there that is very displeasing to the Lord. 509 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,800 And everybody just thought was normal and it was doing, it was 510 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,200 happening under the authority of the priests, but God still hated 511 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,960 what they were doing. That's scary. 512 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,680 So like you, you for so long, you just thought, I thought this 513 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,480 thing was normal. I thought this thing was OK. 514 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,880 I thought this thing was good. I thought this thing was fine. 515 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,040 We're talking about sin and we're talking about things that 516 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,600 aren't sin just because the Lord, we're talking about sin 517 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,480 and we're talking about Isaac, and the Lord just says, can I 518 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,760 have it sin? He, he, he condemns and says it 519 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,440 has to be removed entirely. Isaac, he just says, can I have 520 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:09,760 him? This could be things in the 521 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,640 church that everyone encourages everyone else in, but God could 522 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,120 still hate it. There could be things in your 523 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:17,920 own heart that others would say, that's fine, don't worry about 524 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,200 that, But you know, God's been asking you for it. 525 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,760 But what evidence would there be in the church if Jesus had truly 526 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,720 cleansed it? What evidence would there be in 527 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,840 your life if it was fully surrendered to Jesus instead of 528 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,040 partly surrendered to Jesus? There would be his presence. 529 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:35,800 There would be His power. There would be the fruits of the 530 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,400 Spirit. There would be breakthrough in 531 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,360 prayer. There would be an increase in 532 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:40,880 love. You know, one thing that's kind 533 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:46,080 of spooky is I've seen the gifts of the Spirit and operation and 534 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:50,320 ministries where there were not the fruits of the Spirit, and 535 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,520 there are famous ministries where the gifts of the Spirit 536 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,960 are legitimately in operation. Why would the Lord do that? 537 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,680 Because the Lord loves His people and because the Lord is 538 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,080 always going to honor His Word. So that's why. 539 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,000 That's why. How did the Lord move so 540 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,600 powerfully through that guy, through the decades of the 541 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,560 scandal that was going in, that nobody knew about it? 542 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,600 Because God loves His people, and it wasn't about that guy. 543 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,960 The Lord is blessing His people with the gift that He put in 544 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,200 him. Well, I can't believe you would 545 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,880 do that. Well, when you're God, you can 546 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,000 do it however you want to, but until then, the Lord is going to 547 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,520 bless His people. But the fruits of the Spirit are 548 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,600 a different story altogether. Like I said, the fruits of the 549 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,520 Spirit, you can fake those temporarily, but those can never 550 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,840 be faked long term. Somebody knows who you really 551 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,280 are. If you're close to anybody, if 552 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,040 you're married, somebody knows who you really are. 553 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,880 Somebody knows what you're really like. 554 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,400 Pastor, you saying I'm supposed to just share everything all the 555 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,720 time? No, let me make that quick 556 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,680 disclaimer. I'm not saying tell everybody 557 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,760 everything all the time. That's not the point of this. 558 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,480 But the point is somebody ought to know something real. 559 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:53,840 Somebody ought to know something really real. 560 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,680 Somebody who is actually going to cost your ego for them to 561 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,520 know it. Not just, hey, you know what? 562 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,400 Let me tell the person who did it cost you anything? 563 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,200 Did it feel like you were cutting off your hand? 564 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,840 Then it probably wasn't a big enough step to actually bring 565 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,120 the freedom that you say you want. 566 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,360 If it didn't feel like a death, then there's probably not coming 567 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:13,640 a resurrection. That's the principle of 568 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,080 Christianity that you can remember. 569 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,240 If it doesn't feel like you're dying, don't expect to be raised 570 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,160 from the dead because that's the qualification for resurrection. 571 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,200 Everybody wants to be resurrected, but nobody wants to 572 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,120 die. I need a resurrection in this 573 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:30,040 area of my life. Well, then it fully kill it. 574 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,320 You haven't driven A stake through the heart. 575 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:32,640 You got the thing on life support. 576 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,120 Well, I'm just waiting on the Lord to resurrect it. 577 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,800 It's not dead yet. Kill it and then see what the 578 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,680 Lord might do. What if he doesn't resurrect it? 579 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,240 Aha. We've arrived at the root of the 580 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,160 issue. Like holding on to the thing. 581 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,640 This is, this is my, this is, this is precious to me. 582 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,680 I know. And the Lord wants to be more 583 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,440 precious and he has more to give because the Lord has growth for 584 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,760 you. Step 1, surrender at step one. 585 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,280 Step 2, breakthrough. Hallelujah, it's happening. 586 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,560 Step three, growth and multiplication. 587 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,640 Now we actually have something worth exporting from our lives. 588 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,480 Now we actually have something worth exporting from our church. 589 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,000 Now we got something actually worth giving. 590 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,000 We're not just in survival mode anymore, we're actually growing. 591 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,720 God has growth for you. That's the point of all this. 592 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,240 To be grafted into the tree was good, but now He wants you to 593 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,200 bear fruit. Remember learning about 594 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,960 grafting? You can wound a tree, and then 595 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:33,000 you can wound a branch and you can bring it into the tree and 596 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,080 they can join together. Fascinating. 597 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,480 To me, that's just crazy. It seems like magic, but it's 598 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,840 real. And then the the life of this 599 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,200 tree, the SAP, the blood of the tree will flow into this branch, 600 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,920 and then this branch can bear fruit. 601 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,960 Too many Christians are satisfied that they've just been 602 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,680 grafted in and they don't want to bear any fruit. 603 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,400 I'm connected to the tree now, and now life flows into you. 604 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,760 Life flows in they that leads to something We talked about the 605 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,560 difference between I just don't want to go to hell. 606 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,080 Well, who does? I just want to go to heaven. 607 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,800 Yeah, me too. And the Lord says, and there is 608 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,600 a continual growth of sanctification that leads to 609 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:17,360 multiplication. He wants your desires to mature. 610 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,240 The Christian life should look like one of I want new things. 611 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,440 I'm praying new prayers. If I'm praying the same prayers 612 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,360 that I've always prayed, then I'm not maturing. 613 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,280 He wants your perspective to mature. 614 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,360 He wants your battles to change. As you grow in Christ, your 615 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,920 fight should change. Your battles should change. 616 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:41,120 I used to fight this, and now I fight this, and now I fight 617 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,400 this, and I'm growing and I'm fighting for others. 618 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,480 The younger I am in Christ, the more immature I am in Christ. 619 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,640 I'm staring at myself. See me? 620 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,400 Go on. I'm doing a stare at myself. 621 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,440 Don't, Don't receive any condemnation. 622 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,960 If you're in Christ, there's no condemnation for you, but you 623 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,760 should have a clear identification. 624 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,240 You should know who you are and where you are. 625 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,880 I know who I am in Christ. I'm talking about your degree of 626 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,080 maturity. You need to know where you are 627 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:13,000 in Christ, in your maturity, and if you're looking at yourself 628 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,800 and thinking about yourself, most of the time that is still 629 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,920 very much the place of a child or a young adult in the faith. 630 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,400 Think about the household and a family. 631 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,400 The 2 year old thinks about nobody but the two year old. 632 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,480 That's all the 2 year old cares about. 633 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,040 And then you come older. The 10 year old helps with the 2 634 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:37,600 year old and the 18 year old is bringing in income and helping 635 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,520 the household and the adult is thinking about everybody else 636 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,280 and everything else and providing and caring for others. 637 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,200 Identify yourself. I'm not putting you where you 638 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,600 are. Figure it out. 639 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,640 Where are you? Where is your priority? 640 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,920 What's your focus? I think I'm here. 641 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,520 There's no condemnation for that. 642 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:56,600 Well, I've been here way too long. 643 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,200 OK, so that calls for repentance. 644 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:02,080 Still no condemnation, but that calls for repentance. 645 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,240 And I go, God help me to grow. God help me to grow. 646 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,920 Spoiler alert, He's going to lead you into surrender next. 647 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,440 That's what's going to come next. 648 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:12,600 That's what it looks like at any level. 649 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,040 Surrender, surrender, surrender. Don't fake it. 650 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Don't skip a stage. You can't. 651 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,120 Oh, I'm going to. I'm going to focus on others now 652 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,840 to prove my maturity. That's pride. 653 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,400 You are where you are. I don't condemn you. 654 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,200 The Lord doesn't condemn you. But you should understand where 655 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,000 you are. But if you've been fighting the 656 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,560 same battle with your flesh that you've been fighting forever, 657 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,160 there's a good chance that you need to surrender in a way that 658 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,360 you have not yet surrendered. You have not taken the measure 659 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,120 that would guarantee your victory because you don't 660 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,520 actually want freedom as bad as you would say that you do, 661 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,200 Pastor obvious. That's not that's not edgy, 662 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,680 that's basic truth. If you have not yet taken the 663 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,200 measure that would guarantee your victory, it's probably 664 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,840 because you actually don't want victory as much as you want the 665 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,680 thing. I'm trying to use basic logic 666 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,000 there, not like a not something that we could argue over. 667 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,400 How does Jesus handle this situation? 668 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,040 Does Jesus pull the money changers aside privately? 669 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,760 Because that's what everybody would have said as they were 670 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,680 filming it. Look OK. 671 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,560 And then and then they do the the reaction video. 672 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,480 So they go side by side. Here's my problem with the with 673 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,960 the rabbi who who overturned the temple the other day. 674 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,560 If you got a problem and I can see his point. 675 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,720 OK, I can see his point. Things have gotten out of hand 676 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,200 in the temple. OK, so I can see his point. 677 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,680 They're acting like they admit to truce and appeasement and now 678 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,640 comes their stupidity talking to this 2000 year old Tik Toker 679 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,240 here. And then they come back with, 680 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,640 but he should have handled it differently. 681 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,520 That's always what people say when you correct something that 682 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:52,920 they didn't want corrected at all. 683 00:32:53,960 --> 00:33:00,200 I deal with that all the time. Joe Michael, look, I'm OK with 684 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,240 what you said, but I don't like the way that you said it. 685 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,880 And I say, dear brother in Christ, please tell me how you 686 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,840 say it. And then they go and I go, so 687 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,960 your opinion means nothing to me and I will lose 0 minutes of 688 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,960 sleep tonight over it because you don't actually care about 689 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,520 the issue. You're not addressing it. 690 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,360 You're not speaking to it. I was ready to humble myself and 691 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,000 learn from you when you were going to go to Michael. 692 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,520 I think you do that wrong. Here's how I've always done it. 693 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,440 I've seen to be very fruitful and Joe Michael can go, wow, 694 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,400 faithful brother who's not a coward and afraid to fight and 695 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,240 also has a wise application. I can learn and grow from that. 696 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,320 But critics will only just go, you're doing it wrong. 697 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,920 And I go, how do you do it? And they go, it's not about me, 698 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,720 It's about you doing it wrong. It's hard to pay attention to 699 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,160 that. It's hard to receive from that. 700 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,240 Does Jesus pull the money changers aside like others would 701 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,800 have told him to and speak to them privately? 702 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,680 Hey, guys. Hey, hey, hey. 703 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,080 Can I get all the money changers? 704 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:00,600 Yeah. All you. 705 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,960 Just three minutes. It's really been on my heart 706 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,520 lately and I've really been praying about it a whole lot for 707 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,159 a long time. What's your point, Pastor? 708 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:16,760 My point is that if if the private dealing with your sin 709 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,360 hasn't dealt with your sin, if the private surrender hasn't 710 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,239 yielded to breakthrough in fruit, you're probably playing 711 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:24,679 it too safe and you need to stop. 712 00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,120 There's something that you need to open up. 713 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,440 There's something that needs to be exposed that feels like 714 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:31,719 death. Good. 715 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,960 Now we know we're getting close. Now we know we're actually going 716 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,280 to drive some nails into something. 717 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,760 The ego, the ego is going to have to get on the cross once 718 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,360 again, man, it's so easy to preach and it's so easy to Amen. 719 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,560 Whenever I'm like, you got to pick up your cross and follow 720 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,800 him, Amen. Until we make it look like 721 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,239 something, right? You got to love your wife until 722 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,440 we get real, Amen. I love my wife. 723 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:59,160 And then we get real specific and go, that's a high bar. 724 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,040 You got to submit to your husband. 725 00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:03,680 Actually, you don't get many amens on that one, ironically. 726 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,840 And then especially when you start to spell it out, then it's 727 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,600 like, how dare you read the Bible out loud to me? 728 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,840 And then also don't you dare me. I agree. 729 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,600 I just don't agree with your application. 730 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,280 It's easy to keep it vague though. 731 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,240 You got to take up your cross and follow Jesus. 732 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,400 Amen, Pastor. He, my pastor preaches that word 733 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,520 and here is what it will look like. 734 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,760 Specifically, I disagree with his application there. 735 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,480 How convenient. How convenient for you and how 736 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,760 unfortunate for you you still think somebody's taking 737 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,680 something good from you instead of the Lord blessing you with 738 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,880 something better. He doesn't take the money 739 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,000 changers aside privately. Guys guys, just something for 740 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,080 you to think about. Would y'all please pray about 741 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,920 this and consider it? He doesn't discreetly ask to 742 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,800 speak with those selling pigeons. 743 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,760 He doesn't approach the priests to share his concerns. 744 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,680 He throws tables, he flips chairs, he cracks a whip in the 745 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,520 beginning of the ministry, in front of the biggest crowd 746 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,960 possible. If you're trying to manage your 747 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,440 sins in private, it's not going to kill your sins. 748 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,600 Then if it is, congratulations, that's fine. 749 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,200 But if it's not, then take them public. 750 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,520 Take them to someone that it would hurt to tell so that your 751 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,040 ego can be fully killed and crushed so that you can be 752 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,000 accountable. Why isn't there any power in the 753 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,960 church? Because people are concealing 754 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,680 their sin, duh. Because people aren't hungry. 755 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,760 People conceal their sin, pastor. 756 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:45,640 Obvious kind of stuff. But here's the good news. 757 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,560 Jesus doesn't flip tables to just make a mess. 758 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,600 He clears space for the Kingdom to come. 759 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:59,160 Keep looking, it gets better. Verse 13, he said to them, it is 760 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,200 written, my house shall be called a House of prayer. 761 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,320 God make us a House of prayer. Make me a House of prayer, but 762 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:11,520 you make it a den of robbers. So he's cleansed, He's created 763 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:12,760 this scene. I don't know how long we're 764 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,040 talking, 5 minutes of upheaval, shouting, preaching, yelling, 765 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,480 and everybody's going. He's talking to them that way. 766 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,240 I thought those were supposed to be our heroes. 767 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,080 Verse 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, 768 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:35,440 and he healed them again. I'm not sick of seeing Jesus 769 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,600 healing people. He's done it over and over and 770 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,120 over. Jesus heals people. 771 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,440 What happens when things get cleansed right away? 772 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,840 Power comes in. The humble get helped. 773 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,800 The blind and the lame come in. Jesus, will you help us? 774 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,680 Exactly. Now the humble can be served. 775 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,600 What do you do with the prideful rebuke and humiliation? 776 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,400 That's what they got. He waited long enough for them, 777 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,480 but then the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he 778 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,880 healed them. Look what God can do with a 779 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,280 clean house. Imagine God can. 780 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,200 Imagine what God can do with a clean church. 781 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,840 Imagine what God can do with you and me. 782 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,080 When we're cleaned out and we go, I surrender it. 783 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,040 Seriously. And really? 784 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,440 And I'm telling my brother about it, and I'm telling my sister 785 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,720 about it. I'm telling my spouse about it. 786 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,120 The giant thing that's been there for the past four decades, 787 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,800 the giant thing that's been there for the past two years, 788 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,000 the small thing that's always just kind of been just just 789 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,800 always there, just kind of like, just just this little annoying 790 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,720 hangnail in your life. And the Lord was always going, 791 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,480 you could be free of that. You could be free, like, yeah, 792 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,200 but I like this part. And then finally, just go, you 793 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,920 know what? I'm confessing it so that I can 794 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,720 be free. This is what the Lord is doing. 795 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,200 This is what the Lord wants to do for us in this season to 796 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,360 bring real freedom with a clean house. 797 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,080 He brings healing. When there's a clean house, 798 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,800 there's power and there's grace and there's breakthrough and 799 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,880 there's blessing and there's glory. 800 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,560 Look at Jesus with the lowly and the poor in spirit. 801 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:08,920 He will not press you down farther when you have made 802 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,160 yourself low. There will not be humiliation 803 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,560 for you, your brother, your sister, she will not humiliate 804 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,160 you. When they when you confess, they 805 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,080 won't say, how could you? They'll say, Oh my goodness, 806 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,280 let's take it to the Lord. They'll weep with those who 807 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,000 weep. They'll mourn with those who 808 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,760 mourn. They're not going to put your 809 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,800 business out to the world. And if they do, you're not going 810 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,480 to care because you've actually come to that place of humility 811 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,720 where you go, people think I'm bad, I'm worse than they'll ever 812 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:42,920 know. And Jesus is actually the hero, 813 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,240 not me. What a freedom do not have to 814 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,480 keep up a facade. What a relief for people to go. 815 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:51,400 You're this, you go. Yeah. 816 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:59,560 And actually even more like our boys were little. 817 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,280 It was Elijah Fain. He was a little guy. 818 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,440 I was. I got up one Saturday morning 819 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,480 and I go, look, you know, I pop in his room and he's not in his 820 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,240 bed. He's not in his room. 821 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:15,080 And I go look around our house, which didn't take very long. 822 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,600 And I'm like, where's Bubba? And. 823 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,480 I go back in his room and I like walk in. 824 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,160 I'm like, I peek under his bed and he's right there laying 825 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,360 under his bed with a little pack of nerds. 826 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:35,680 And as soon as I see him, he goes, I'm eating these like just 827 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,080 full of shame, full of kind of he's like eating his little 828 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,560 purple nerds under his bed and he he's his daddy walking around 829 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,080 his house looking for him. As soon as I find him, I'm 830 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:47,160 eating these like freedom. Oh, I'm ashamed and I'm 831 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,640 delivered and I'm like, and of course, you know, as a dad, you 832 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,840 got like, you know, this is like a hilarious parent story and you 833 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:59,400 have to act like, son, are you supposed to be, you know, no, 834 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,040 Sir. All right, you know, I was 835 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,480 gracious, you know, he confessed and and we move forward. 836 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,280 But I could relate. I felt compassion for him 837 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,720 because I could relate. I didn't feel, you know, you're 838 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,920 not supposed to have Canada. I didn't feel that. 839 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,640 I felt like, buddy, I know that feeling. 840 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,720 I know that one, the shame, the condemnation, the way, the way, 841 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:28,720 the way, the way, the way, the way, the way the secret. 842 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:36,960 And then finally, so I mean these Lord goes give me those 843 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,000 throwing those in the trash. Let me make you a meal. 844 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,680 Let me make you breakfast. Let me make you bacon and eggs 845 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,760 and orange juice and hash Browns and it'll be hot and good and 846 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,880 no, it won't be grape flavored nerds, but it'll be good for 847 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,840 you. It'll be good for your soul. 848 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,080 It'll bless you. That's what the Lord does with 849 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,280 cleansing. That's what the Lord does with 850 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,480 restoration. He goes if you'll humble 851 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,360 yourself and if you'll confess and it, by the way, it's always 852 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,480 best to confess before the exposure happens. 853 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,040 Or if you saw on social media this week, the CEO and his 854 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:22,240 mistress is this is, you know, the, if you're not familiar, 855 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:24,800 there's at concerts, they're going around, they're showing 856 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,120 loving couples. Oh, look at this cute couple. 857 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,080 Look at this cute couple. And they put them up on the big 858 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,840 screen. They go to a couple, a man's 859 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,320 holding a woman. She covers her face, turns 860 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,440 around and he drops to the floor to avoid the camera. 861 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,480 And everybody goes, that was awkward. 862 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,960 And the guy hosting the concert says they're either having an 863 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,000 affair or they're just very, very, very shy. 864 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,640 Turns out it was the obvious scenario. 865 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,400 What a devastation. What a humiliation for both of 866 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,680 them, for their spouses, for their children. 867 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,600 I mean, like, that's kind of the extreme example, right? 868 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:06,620 To be exposed in that way. But God opposes the proud. 869 00:43:06,980 --> 00:43:10,340 He'll give grace to the humble. And if you'll humble yourself, 870 00:43:11,540 --> 00:43:13,700 the Lord doesn't want to expose you on a Jumbotron. 871 00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:16,260 The Lord doesn't want you turned into a meme on the Internet. 872 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,200 The Lord doesn't want you mocked. 873 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,720 He doesn't want you shamed. He wants you restored. 874 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,600 Don't get found out. Just give it up. 875 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:28,000 Give it up to the Lord. Give it up and trust in His 876 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,520 grace. Well, I'm afraid that people, 877 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,360 you know, people aren't going to get everything right. 878 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,960 I'll make you that promise too. But also, the Lord is keeping 879 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,520 the books and the Lord wants to bless. 880 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:42,640 The Lord wants to bring refreshment when he has a clean 881 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,680 dwelling place. He is unhindered by anything. 882 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,280 The rebuke in the discipline of Jesus is not rejection. 883 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,760 It's invitation for healing and it's invitation for fellowship. 884 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,800 There is a place, there is a time for upheaval, and it comes 885 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,880 to the hungry person's life. So if you're praying for power 886 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,120 and if you're praying for breakthrough, it must come to a 887 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,400 qualified vessel. If you want fresh wine, you'll 888 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,120 have to be a fresh wineskin. But that process will hurt. 889 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,160 In the in the book series The Lion, the Witch and the 890 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,200 Wardrobe, there's a character, he steals some gold. 891 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,560 It's a fictional children's story. 892 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,280 It's allegorical about Christ and the church and the world and 893 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,840 the war that we're in. He's the character's name is 894 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,800 Eustace. He steals some gold and it has a 895 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,840 curse on it and it turns him into a dragon. 896 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,400 So he becomes sad. He's got this bracelet on. 897 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,760 It's creating excruciating pain because he's too big for the 898 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,000 bracelet now. And he's he's this hideous 899 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,720 dragon and he knows he's not like his friends anymore. 900 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,520 He's different, He's separated from fellowship with them. 901 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,640 So he will claw at the scales and he'll RIP some of the scales 902 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,960 off, but there's just so much more under there. 903 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,880 And he'll claw at the scales and RIP some scales off, but there's 904 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,960 just so much more under there. Aslan is the lion, he represents 905 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,440 Jesus. And Aslan says it can come off, 906 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,240 but I'm going to have to take it off of you. 907 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,640 And it was scared to have Aslan take it off of him because the 908 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:09,600 measure that Eustace kept using was just enough, but he didn't. 909 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,400 He wouldn't make it hurt. Eustace would never do it to the 910 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,640 point where it would hurt. He would go, I can't go any 911 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:23,280 farther, I can't go any deeper. And as Lance said, I can, I can 912 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,880 heal you. And Eustace goes OK. 913 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,520 And he surrendered. And he said as he sank his claws 914 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,760 into me, it felt like they went all the way down to my heart. 915 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,440 And he said the pain was unlike anything I'd ever felt in my 916 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,760 entire life, and the only way I could bear it was the sheer 917 00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,880 pleasure of having the stuff peel off. 918 00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:48,320 I don't want that kind of pain. But that's where that kind of 919 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:54,720 freedom is. That's that's how we get a new 920 00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:58,240 wineskin. And now, now the breakthrough, 921 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:02,320 the blessing and the growth. I tried doing it. 922 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,200 Yeah, but you didn't cut your hand off because you weren't 923 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,680 willing to go that far. I tried. 924 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:08,280 I tried. I tried. 925 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,120 I tried what a Yoda say. There is no try. 926 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,200 There is only do. And many of us are. 927 00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:15,960 I'm trying. I'm trying. 928 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,280 Well, good news is, you don't have to try anymore. 929 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:23,360 If you'll surrender to the king, he'll do all the work because 930 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,600 he's the only one who can. Anyway, surrender is the only 931 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,480 thing he asks of you. Hebrews 12. 932 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:39,880 I'm going to read to you from verse 7. 933 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,120 It is for discipline that you have to endure. 934 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,440 I'm sorry, I'm reading to you from verse 5. 935 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,000 Have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you 936 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,840 as sons? My son, do not regard lightly 937 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,760 the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when you are reproved 938 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,160 by him. For the Lord disciplines the one 939 00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,200 He loves, and he chastises every son whom he receives. 940 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,200 It is for discipline that you have to endure. 941 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:08,960 God is treating you as sons, for what son is there whom His 942 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,400 Father does not discipline? If you're left without 943 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,160 discipline, and which all have participated, then you are 944 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,120 illegitimate children and you're not sons. 945 00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,480 Besides this, we have earthly fathers who disciplined us, and 946 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,800 we respected them for it. Shall we not much more be a sub? 947 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,680 Be subject to the Father of spirits, and we live. 948 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,240 For they disciplined us for a short time, as it seemed best to 949 00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:33,320 them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share in 950 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,840 His Holiness. For the moment all discipline 951 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:41,080 seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields 952 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,600 the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have 953 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,880 been trained by it. Therefore lift your drooping 954 00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,280 hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths 955 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,200 for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of 956 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,480 joint, but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone 957 00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,760 and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 958 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:05,560 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no 959 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,880 root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and by it 960 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,760 many be defiled, that no one is sexually immoral or unholy, like 961 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,000 Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. 962 00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:19,040 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the 963 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:23,520 blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, 964 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:29,520 though he sought it with tears. Humble, humbling words, warning 965 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,920 words, faithful words. God is giving us good news, not 966 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:35,800 bad news. Church, how is it good news? 967 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,960 Because you can be lukewarm, you can be self deceived, you can be 968 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,920 stiff necked and still deeply loved by Jesus. 969 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,920 Just like we looked last week, the church in Laodicea and we're 970 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:49,080 closing. We're going to sing a song as we 971 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:55,640 do. Still loved. 972 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,400 You're still loved. You're still loved. 973 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,840 Cleansing of Jesus is not rejection, it is reunion. 974 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:07,600 But not everyone is going to celebrate a cleanse, worship 975 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,360 filled life. Some are going to criticize it 976 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,360 like the Pharisees did. The prideful think that the 977 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:13,960 humble aren't worshipping correctly. 978 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,080 I've told you this many times before, never listen to a 979 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,640 backslider. They're the worst. 980 00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,720 They're the worst. Listen to the godless, Listen to 981 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,040 the faithless, but the backslider is turned from the 982 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,080 Lord and now wants to pull you away. 983 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,600 They're the worst. The worst I've ever seen are the 984 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,320 former pastors. Absolute wolves. 985 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:36,840 They think they've been there and got the T-shirt. 986 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,880 They think they know something. Snakes. 987 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,720 The Pharisees are those kinds of snakes. 988 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,480 But the humble, childlike Christians will always praise 989 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,880 God like the children did in the temple, because it has been 990 00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,040 divinely prepared that they should do so. 991 00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,280 Childlike Christians will always have opponents. 992 00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,160 A prideful look at childlike faith, not with wonder and 993 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,800 humility, but they look at it with criticism and accusations. 994 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,680 They tell you things like faith's not that simple. 995 00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:07,240 I'm telling you it is that simple. 996 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:12,200 It is as simple as surrender. It is as simple as death and as 997 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:17,360 life. The pure and simple worship from 998 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,560 the humble is a confrontation to the enemies of God, and it's a 999 00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,640 confrontation to the prideful in the church. 1000 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,600 And that's why we even build theologies and we build systems 1001 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:30,400 and ideas and ways of teaching to keep people from being more 1002 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:31,360 humble. Why? 1003 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,840 Because I'm not that humble. So when I see humility in you, 1004 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,840 it exposes me. And I go, oh, brother, brother, 1005 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:36,640 brother, you're good. You're good. 1006 00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,200 No, no, no, no. And I want to provide a false 1007 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,720 comfort for you. God help me if I ever do that to 1008 00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:44,560 you. God help you if you ever do that 1009 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,960 to somebody else. And He will if we repent. 1010 00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,840 If you sense the Lord wants to flip your tables, it's not 1011 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,680 because He's rejecting you. It's what. 1012 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:54,680 It's because He wants to fill you with more of himself. 1013 00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,920 He wants to throw things out so he can heal the blind, so he can 1014 00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:03,960 heal the lame, so he can deliver and so he can bless. 1015 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,480 So here's the question. What would Jesus change if He 1016 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,480 had full access to your heart and your life? 1017 00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,080 What has He been asking to take out of your temple? 1018 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,160 Don't plan your defense anymore. Don't bolt your tables to the 1019 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:19,680 floor so that he can't turn them over. 1020 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,800 Don't get better at hiding. We're going to sing a song and 1021 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,360 then I'm going to dismiss you. This is called re surrender, and 1022 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:35,250 that's our prayer. Would you stand and you can 1023 00:51:35,250 --> 00:51:37,170 pray? You can go to the altar, you can 1024 00:51:37,170 --> 00:51:38,370 kneel, you can go wherever you want. 1025 00:51:39,290 --> 00:51:49,720 Just pray. Before we turn to our lives upon 1026 00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:57,160 the old, the things we did at first, You're cleaning out the 1027 00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,960 temple. You're cleaning out the dirt. 1028 00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:11,360 We are your territory, Lord. We are your church. 1029 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:18,680 We are your people, you are God. We are. 1030 00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:23,400 The temple makes us holy like you are. 1031 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:40,740 And you see a holy nation, the flock 1032 00:52:40,740 --> 00:52:46,260 to come to crave the chosen generation. 1033 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:53,160 People go to pray. So I will strive to please you. 1034 00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:58,280 We're only here to get seen for everyone. 1035 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:06,280 We buy the ship. It's early. 1036 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:13,160 We are the people in the Bible. We. 1037 00:53:47,240 --> 00:53:55,480 Your people, with your presence, make us a place where you 1038 00:53:55,720 --> 00:54:03,160 delight to the world. May we Lord has correction. 1039 00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:07,920 Oh Lord, I shepherd, if you are seems well, your love has worn 1040 00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:20,360 as please stay new. Your life is perfect and your 1041 00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:35,680 job is true. As we run to you will restore 1042 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:43,800 what we run into you. You are restoring as we. 1043 00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:02,160 We are your temple. Make us home like you are. 1044 00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:07,000 We are your children. Set us a heart. 1045 00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:46,480 The. We're coming and when I'm 1046 00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:52,720 walking we're running. God, we need resurrender. 1047 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:57,480 So we resurrender. You're calling. 1048 00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:02,240 We're coming. And I walking, We're running 1049 00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:09,080 God, we need resurrender, so we resurrender. 1050 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,360 You're calling by coming. I'm walking. 1051 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:22,520 I'm running like we need. We surrender, so we resurrender. 1052 00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:27,520 We are hauling. We're coming. 1053 00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:32,160 We're not walking. We're running like we need. 1054 00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:36,080 We surrender. So we resurrender. 1055 00:56:39,240 --> 00:56:43,360 I'm calling, not walking, we're running. 1056 00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:49,760 God, we need, we surrender, so we resurrender. 1057 00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,640 You're calling. We're coming. 1058 00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,000 We're not walking, We're running. 1059 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:03,480 God we need. We surrender, so we resurrender. 1060 00:57:33,580 --> 00:57:37,380 To begin with your God, we are your people. 1061 00:57:37,460 --> 00:57:41,660 You are a God. We are your temple. 1062 00:57:42,980 --> 00:57:48,940 Leave us all be like you are. We are your children. 1063 00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,720 We set our hearts and we're glory. 1064 00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:04,400 Make us holy light here and we're coming. 1065 00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:05,720 We're not walking, we're running. 1066 00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:13,000 God we need re surrender. So we resurrendered. 1067 00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:19,320 You're coming. I come in and I walk and I run 1068 00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:23,280 in. God we resurrendered. 1069 00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:26,600 We resurrendered. We love you. 1070 00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:37,120 God, we love you. God we trust you. 1071 00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:50,720 God, we need you. Lord, we know Your Word is 1072 00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,000 accomplished what you sent it to, and we know it's going to 1073 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,080 continue to work in US. God, I prayed you would protect 1074 00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,960 the seeds of the Word and that the enemy wouldn't steal them 1075 00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:02,080 away. I pray that they wouldn't be 1076 00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:08,600 choked out by thorns. I pray that our soil wouldn't be 1077 00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:10,720 Stony. I pray you would make us good 1078 00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:14,480 soil now, that we would bear fruit and that we will multiply 1079 00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:18,840 that. I pray that the promise of 1080 00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:23,840 freedom and pleasures forevermore would so far 1081 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:28,880 outweigh the fear of pain. I pray that our hunger and our 1082 00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:33,640 our eagerness for breakthrough and deliverance would be bigger 1083 00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:39,640 than our egos. Jesus, we thank you for your 1084 00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,560 perfect example of. Humility and for your love. 1085 00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,040 Heal the blind. Heal the. 1086 00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:50,960 Lame and strengthen us for your work. 1087 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,440 Send us out with a real testimony, with something fresh. 1088 00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:04,360 Where you get all the glory. In Jesus name, Jesus name now 1089 01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:08,520 the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face Shinedown 1090 01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:13,080 upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance 1091 01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:17,920 upon you and give you great peace in Jesus name. 1092 01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,600 Amen. Amen.