1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:06,640 In John Chapter 11 you're going to be looking for verse 17 in my 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:10,920 Bible is page 1543. If you have the exact same 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:16,920 Bible, lucky you John Chapter 11 verse 17. 4 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,680 Now when Jesus came, he found Lazarus had already been in the 5 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,440 tomb for days. Bethany was near Jerusalem. 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,480 Bethany's a place, not a person. Bethany was near Jerusalem, 7 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,560 about two miles off. And many of the Jews had come to 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,280 Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 9 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,000 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,520 him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 11 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,040 Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,560 would not have died. But even now I know that 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,400 whatever you ask from God, God will give you. 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,240 Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,200 Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:04,840 resurrection on the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the 17 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,120 resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,200 he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who believes in me 19 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,640 shall never die. Do you believe this? 20 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,360 She said to him, Yes Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,160 the Son of God who is coming into the world. 22 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:30,440 Lord, I pray that you would open our eyes to see everything we 23 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,280 need to see about Jesus, the full Jesus, the whole Jesus, the 24 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,480 true Jesus, the only Jesus, not a distortion, not a caricature, 25 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,080 not not a God made in our image, but the God who made us in his. 26 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:46,600 I pray that we would behold him with more clarity and more joy 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,400 that would lead us to a deeper worship, to a deeper gratitude, 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,000 to a deeper obedience all flowing from your power and your 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 accomplishment. In Jesus name we thank you, 30 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,320 Amen. What we see here is Martha and 31 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,920 Mary, their brothers died and of course Jesus shows up and 32 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:06,880 they're going. It's so sad. 33 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,560 He goes, he's going to he's going to live again. 34 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,199 She goes, I know someday I know we're all going to be 35 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:12,520 resurrected in the end ultimately and he's going. 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,320 That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying I am the resurrection 37 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,440 and Lazarus is about to be raised right here, right now. 38 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,840 We notice right away Jesus makes a bold and distinct claim about 39 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,000 himself. Now I'm going to turn to the 40 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,920 left in my Bible. I'm going to go to Matthew 41 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:41,810 Chapter 7. In Matthew Chapter 7, we're 42 00:02:41,810 --> 00:02:46,170 looking at verse 21. Jesus again talking. 43 00:02:46,490 --> 00:02:51,210 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the 44 00:02:51,210 --> 00:02:55,000 Kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my father 45 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,960 who is in heaven on that day, He's talking about the judgment 46 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:03,880 day, the the day when everyone is separated, the sheep from the 47 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:05,880 goats. All the clarity is made God's 48 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,400 people versus not God's people on that day. 49 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:16,000 Many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name 50 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,120 and cast out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your 51 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,880 name? And then I will declare to them, 52 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,120 I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of 53 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,560 lawlessness. Heavy words here from the real 54 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:33,680 Jesus, the only Jesus. Yeah. 55 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,640 If you ask 100 different people who Jesus was, you're probably 56 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:38,960 going to get a lot of different answers. 57 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,160 You might not get 100 different answers, but I guarantee you're 58 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,240 going to get like 70 different answers. 59 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,960 You're going to get a lot of different perspectives. 60 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,880 Well, to me Jesus is this, to me Jesus is that. 61 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,800 And when Jesus was walking on the earth, there were many 62 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,760 questions about who Jesus was. Well, some say he's this, and 63 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,560 some say he's the prophet Elijah, and some say he's John 64 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,280 the Baptist come back to life. But Jesus was bringing it back 65 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:05,720 to people. Who do you say that I am? 66 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,160 Do you believe that I say I am who I am? 67 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,920 And that's the question that has to be answered by everybody. 68 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,760 It is my privilege today to introduce to you the real Jesus. 69 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,160 I'm going to introduce to you the real Jesus of the 70 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,519 Scriptures. And while we talk about the real 71 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:25,000 Jesus from the scriptures, we're also going to simultaneously and 72 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,480 systematically tear down false idols in the in America, we 73 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,320 don't think we have any idols because I'm like, I'm not 74 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,840 worshipping some stone statue. We're like, we're not 75 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,640 worshipping images made of gold, right? 76 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,600 Like we're, we're above all of that stupidity. 77 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,840 And yet an idol was anything where we made a God in our 78 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:43,360 image. So any idea that we have about 79 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,880 Jesus, that's not actually Jesus, It is idolatry. 80 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,280 It is, Oh, I worship this Jesus. Hey, dear friend, that Jesus you 81 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:56,400 just described is not the Jesus. Therefore it's an idolatrous 82 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,040 false Jesus. You might, he might go by the, 83 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,760 the name Jesus, but it's not the same person. 84 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,680 You might say, man, I'm, I'm, I'm good friends with John 85 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,920 Michael. Tell me about John Michael. 86 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,840 Oh, well, you know, he's a really reserved guy and he never 87 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:13,120 shares his opinion about anything like you don't that's 88 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,640 not John Michael. You're describing a different 89 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,680 person. That's a different person 90 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,640 entirely. Well, I don't like the real John 91 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:20,560 Michael. That's fine. 92 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,080 You don't have to. But you have to deal with the 93 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:24,600 real John. I hate the real John Michael. 94 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,960 You're allowed to hate the real John Michael, but you need to 95 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,680 know who he is and who he isn't. You, you, you got to make a 96 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,360 decision with Jesus. But I want you to have the real 97 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,400 Jesus. And it's my belief that when you 98 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,120 see the real Jesus, you're going to fall down and worship to him 99 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,320 and you're going to go, wow, wow. 100 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,680 He's better than the idol that I built. 101 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,360 He's better than the caricature that I had in mind. 102 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,920 I thought I had it good. I thought I was selecting 103 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,400 portions of the real Jesus going, I like these. 104 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,400 Those I could do without. I have good news for you. 105 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,400 The thing that you've built in your mind or in your heart or in 106 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,360 your own life, it's worse than the real Jesus. 107 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,520 You will trade and upgrade to the real Jesus because he's 108 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,600 worthy, because he loves you, because he's perfect in every 109 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,200 way. The real Jesus is the only 110 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,360 Jesus. So as we consider these opening 111 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,880 passages this morning, we got to remember what Jesus says about 112 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,680 himself, not just what others have told us about him. 113 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,160 And we have to focus on the fact that Jesus really is the one 114 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,080 who's going to judge everybody at the end. 115 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,480 And it should bring an alert to all of your hearts that he says 116 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,880 many in the last day will say, Lord, Lord. 117 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,720 They won't just say Lord, Lord, they'll say we did stuff, we 118 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,120 prophesied in your name. There will be people at the end 119 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,920 of the end who said Jesus, we prophesied in your name. 120 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,760 There will be people at the end of the end who drove out demons 121 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:49,240 in Jesus name and he's going to say I didn't know you. 122 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,000 What on earth? I mean, I'm just a bit perplexed 123 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,200 by that, aren't you? All I can say is I guess the 124 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,720 mercy of God was still working through the powerful name of 125 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,680 Jesus, even though it wasn't the people of Jesus doing the work 126 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,160 of Jesus. Preacher, I'm a little bit 127 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,080 nervous right now. It's OK, We're going to meet the 128 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,800 real Jesus and we're going to come fully into his gospel and 129 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,200 we're going to reject all idolatry. 130 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,320 We're going to reject every false Jesus, and I'm going to 131 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,920 list a few that I can think of. There's going to be plenty that 132 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,080 I leave out today, but you're going to continue to see the 133 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,520 real Jesus. The problem is that most people 134 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,320 don't know the whole Jesus, and therefore they don't know the 135 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,360 real Jesus. They think they know him, but 136 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,640 they may have an incomplete version of him at best or a 137 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,560 totally false version of him at worst. 138 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,760 Who? Who remembers if you were a kid 139 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,240 in church singing Father Abraham, right? 140 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,120 So that was like a kids church example I was talking about 141 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,120 earlier. It's called kids church. 142 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,480 But like we had no idea what we were talking about. 143 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:52,400 Father Abraham had many sons and many sons had Father Abraham and 144 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,440 I am one of them and so are you. So let's all praise the Lord 145 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,960 right arm Father Abraham. What is happening? 146 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,440 Is this theology? What are we doing left hand 147 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,000 Father Abram and the little girls are singing I'm a son of 148 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,720 Father Abram. Like they don't have a clue 149 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,040 what's happening. What is this? 150 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:13,640 Is there something to it? There is something to it. 151 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,520 There's a lot of good there. But like the song is lacking in 152 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,640 its theological depth. We'll put it that way. 153 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,080 And so again, that's why we want clarity for the little ones. 154 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,600 We want them to be able to answer who made you? 155 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,120 God did. Why did Jesus have to come? 156 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,800 Because we sinned. Why does it matter? 157 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:36,280 Because God loves us. Why doesn't God just say it's 158 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:41,240 OK, we'll forget about those problems because God is just, he 159 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,880 always does the right thing. We want clarity. 160 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,040 We need certainty. So just like little children, we 161 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,880 had no idea this whole father Abraham and we're, I mean, we 162 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,920 got to wiggle. But the church part I think 163 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,400 maybe was lacking a little bit. I think there's a nation full of 164 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,720 Americans who have their own version of Father Abraham as 165 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,280 adults because no one has given them the clarity of the real 166 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,440 Jesus. So they've got a piece here and 167 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,400 they got a piece there and they're crazy. 168 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:08,920 Aunt. She seems like she's a 169 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,200 Christian, and maybe she really is, but she says some weird 170 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,040 stuff. And they remember that pastor 171 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,560 who said that thing that time, and they and they read that book 172 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,840 that time, and they watched The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks and 173 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,680 they've seen and they've got this whole thing cut. 174 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:24,080 Like, I guess I have a picture of something with, with I guess 175 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:29,160 Jesus is in there somewhere. Yeah, this is Jesus. 176 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,880 And Jesus revealed himself to his disciples through the 177 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,360 Scriptures. The whole Bible is about Jesus, 178 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,200 even at the parts where it didn't say his name yet it was 179 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,600 still pointing to his redemptive plan. 180 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,880 So we don't want you to have this father Abraham kind of 181 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,840 understanding of Jesus. We want you to know the real 182 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,800 Jesus. We want you to have a real kind 183 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,600 of certainty and understanding. And we don't want to have a 184 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,320 build-a-bear Jesus. You know, build-a-bear is you go 185 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,240 in, you build your stuffed animal, you get to customize 186 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,320 everybody. I like this. 187 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:00,800 I don't like that. I like this. 188 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,160 I don't like that. Thomas Jefferson, he was a 189 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,840 genius and a Great American and he was also kind of an idiot. 190 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:11,840 He literally razor cut out of his Bible. 191 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,240 The things he didn't like. He made his own Bible. 192 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,280 Like people joke about that. Oh, you can't just cut the 193 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:19,680 things out of the Bible that you don't like. 194 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:21,760 Thomas Jefferson actually did that. 195 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,280 That was his thing and he was like, well, this is good, but 196 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,080 not that. Cut out the words of the altar 197 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,160 of life. The one who gave him breath and 198 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,320 fingers. Thomas Jefferson used those to 199 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,480 mock him and to say if I was God, I would have done it like 200 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,040 this. So we're not let we're not we're 201 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:39,920 not going to live with a build-a-bear faith that works 202 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,120 for a stuffed animal, but it does not work for the living 203 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,320 God. People throughout Scripture made 204 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,040 gods and worship them and that's called idolatry. 205 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,560 Like we said, that's a serious sin. 206 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:53,000 We're very guilty of it today. Not with golden cows, but with 207 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,120 the name of Jesus, but not the actual Jesus. 208 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,080 There's only one Jesus, and there's only one Jesus who can 209 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:06,580 save. So the first false Jesus we're 210 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:09,380 going to look at is the Jesus who was called a good moral 211 00:11:09,380 --> 00:11:11,780 teacher. He was a good teacher. 212 00:11:11,860 --> 00:11:14,420 He was a good moral teacher. You're going to find with all of 213 00:11:14,420 --> 00:11:16,300 these, there's a kernel of truth in it. 214 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:21,860 It's not all poison, right? But there's some poison in it. 215 00:11:21,860 --> 00:11:24,180 How much poison would you like in your glass of water, by the 216 00:11:24,180 --> 00:11:25,840 way? None. 217 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,000 OK, I'm the same way. Like even just one drop, Would 218 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,280 that be too much poison for you? I agree. 219 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:32,800 I feel the same way about my water. 220 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,240 You should feel the same way about Jesus. 221 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:40,160 Not my Jesus, not your Jesus, the Jesus, the real King, the 222 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,480 one who was forever with the Father, forever with the Holy 223 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,400 Spirit, before they created any creation, before they joined 224 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:48,880 their creation, before they determined to save their 225 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,120 creation. But some say Jesus was a good 226 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,720 moral teacher. 1 great man among many great men. 227 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,400 There's lots of been There's lots of teachers in the world. 228 00:11:57,680 --> 00:11:59,680 There's this guy who taught this, that seems like a good 229 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:00,920 thing. There's this guy who taught 230 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:02,200 this. That seems like a good thing. 231 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,440 And it's partially true that Jesus was a good moral teacher. 232 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,240 Jesus did teach perfect morality. 233 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,360 We should clarify that he did. Why? 234 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,960 Because Jesus is perfect morality. 235 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,200 Also, we should say all morality flows from God and anyone who 236 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,000 doesn't have God as the ultimate source of truth is their own 237 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,800 God. For anyone to say well this is 238 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,240 right and this is wrong, it always could. 239 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,800 You could always ask the question, by what standard? 240 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,320 Well, I just think it's wrong. By what standard is it wrong 241 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,400 though? Is it wrong to murder someone? 242 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,840 Oh, absolutely. Why? 243 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,720 I know why I didn't and I'm not making it up. 244 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,200 It didn't come from Joe Michael. I know why it's wrong to murder. 245 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:46,960 Why do you say it's wrong to murder? 246 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,480 Which is just wrong. It's called being a decent human 247 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,840 being. I'm waiting on a foundation. 248 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:54,720 You're standing out over the abyss. 249 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,040 By the way. You're correct in your 250 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,160 conclusion, but do you know why? I know why. 251 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,680 It's because you were made in the image of God, and His law is 252 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:04,440 written on your heart. And you know the law of God, 253 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,120 even if you deny his existence. You know the law of God. 254 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:12,200 Jesus is morality. Anyone who does anything moral 255 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,160 is doing something to some degree in alignment with the 256 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,840 Kingdom of God, whether or not they even acknowledge Him. 257 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,240 So that that's the person who would say that they don't 258 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,880 believe that there's a God. That would be the person who 259 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,480 says that they hate God. Anyone who does anything good 260 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,760 and right, anyone who has any wholesome morality in their 261 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,200 life, of course they're going to be blessed by that. 262 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,160 They're being obedient to the word of God, even though that 263 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,080 might not be their motive. When you do things God's way, 264 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:37,840 advantages and blessings come from it. 265 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:39,920 That's a blessing. Thank you, Lord, for setting up 266 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,440 your universe that way. He made sowing and reaping. 267 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,640 So we know that everything good and true and beautiful in the 268 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,360 Western world was built on the foundation of Jesus's teaching. 269 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:55,000 But the massive problem with a Jesus who was only a good moral 270 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,080 teacher is, again, he did not leave room for anyone to reduce 271 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,600 him to that category. That's the problem. 272 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,320 Other teachers, other religious leaders didn't claim to be the 273 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,480 resurrection and the life. They just said hey, I got some 274 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,000 stuff to teach and some of the stuff they said was good and 275 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 true. Why? 276 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,280 Because it was in alignment with the living God. 277 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:19,560 Whether they did it on purpose or on accident, Anything that 278 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,320 they got right, I can say 2 thumbs way up and then I can 279 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,240 dismiss all the other nonsense. I can keep the baby and I can 280 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,760 throw out all the bathwater because all truth is God's 281 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,040 truth. But Jesus said I am the way I 282 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,840 am, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father 283 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,720 except through me. So he didn't come claiming to 284 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,040 teach about life. He came claiming to be the life 285 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,560 and the author of life. So that's why we have to 286 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,760 reconcile like nobody's allowed to say Jesus was a good teacher. 287 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,560 He didn't leave that to you. Like we've said before, if I 288 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,360 told you I'm a scrambled egg, you have some choices to make. 289 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,920 Joe Michael's an idiot. He's crazy, bless his heart. 290 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,800 He thinks he's a scrambled egg, but he's not. 291 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,160 Joe Michael's a liar. He knows he's not a scrambled 292 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,080 egg, but he's telling us that he is. 293 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,840 Or wow, Joe Michael truly is a scrambled egg. 294 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,040 It's a it's a reality. In the same way, if somebody 295 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,280 says I'm the Son of God, I am the resurrection and the life, 296 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:18,920 no one can come to the Father but through me. 297 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:20,480 You don't get to them. Walk away and go. 298 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,920 I think he's a nice guy. I think he's a good moral 299 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,840 teacher. It makes no sense. 300 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:26,440 And you haven't handled the facts. 301 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,400 You have not dealt with the real Jesus. 302 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,840 So we want to deal with the real Jesus. 303 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,920 Come to him face to face. Be in awe of him. 304 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,800 The honest person has to make a decision with this moral 305 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,360 teacher, Jesus. If they continue to categorize 306 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,280 him that way, they're calling him a liar. 307 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,360 Or they're calling him a crazy person, in which case, 308 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,440 interestingly enough, also means he's not a good mortal teacher. 309 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,280 Is he? There's another popular false 310 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,600 God who is given the name Jesus, but is not the real Jesus. 311 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,920 We'll call this one Prosperity Jesus. 312 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,720 This version of Jesus exists solely to bless you, to provide 313 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,600 for you, and to make your life easier. 314 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,560 That is what he exists for. That's his purpose. 315 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,280 Is there a kernel of truth in here? 316 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,880 Of course there is the kernel of truth. 317 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,240 Is there a resemblance to the real Jesus? 318 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,000 Yes. The truth is that God does 319 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,520 provide. The truth is that Scripture 320 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,760 teaches God meets our needs, and He even gives us the ability to 321 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,880 produce wealth. The real Jesus commanded us not 322 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,560 to worry because our Father loves us and we'll provide 323 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,400 everything we need. God is a provider. 324 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,400 God will meet the needs of His people. 325 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,720 God is a healer. All those things are true, but 326 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,120 He does not exist to be our spiritual Santa Claus or our 327 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,080 spiritual vending machine where we put in the right behaviors 328 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,960 and then He owes us anything. Everything He gives us is 329 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,960 generous, and there are many promises for His generosity. 330 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:53,680 But there's an important shift there. 331 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,640 One says, I am so thankful you are so good. 332 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,240 And the other says, yeah, I kind of deserve it. 333 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,720 And like, you know, God's got me, God's with me, God's for me. 334 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,839 Hang on a second, Are you for God? 335 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,599 Because if you're for him and you're living in his house, then 336 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:12,480 yeah, of course. You said you should expect all 337 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,240 the blessings that a son and a father's house should expect to 338 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,319 receive because of what Jesus has accomplished. 339 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,800 But if you have some American Western entitlement that just 340 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,800 says I'm just so good and like I'm just worth it and I deserve 341 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,800 it and I'm worthy, slow down with all that. 342 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,120 Come back to honoring the one who is worthy, the one who 343 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,360 deserves it. Make sure the glory is pointed 344 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:39,040 in the right direction. And then of course, can you be a 345 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,720 beneficiary. He loves you and He loves to 346 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,800 provide generously. There's never been a better 347 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,040 father than than God. There's never been a better 348 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,280 ruler than Jesus. He loves to give generously. 349 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,240 He wants his people to thrive with abundance, but he does not 350 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,920 exist to serve in our whim and our demands. 351 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,640 Jesus instead says in Luke 923 if anyone would come after him, 352 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,440 he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow him. 353 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,600 Well, I still think Jesus wants me super super rich. 354 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,960 Well, Jesus once told a super, super rich guy one time, hey, go 355 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,200 sell everything you have and give all, give all the money to 356 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,040 the poor and come and follow me. He was trying to make that young 357 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,080 man even richer. But the young man went away sad. 358 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,520 Why? Because he had much wealth. 359 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,600 I have so much money, but I'm not willing to give it up to 360 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,240 follow Jesus. So the difference is, will Jesus 361 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:38,560 provide? Yes, he will. 362 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,800 But prosperity Jesus, that's all he's focused on. 363 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,680 And the real Jesus plainly and clearly told people to do things 364 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,600 that not everybody would be willing to do, and that 365 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,800 unfortunately, that young man was not willing to do either. 366 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,880 The real Jesus is not a spiritual vending machine who 367 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,120 serves your desires. The real Jesus is the King who 368 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:04,200 calls you to serve his desires. It's another false Jesus that 369 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,680 we've heard of, a partial Jesus. This one is not appealing to 370 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,800 anyone in any way. By the way, this false Jesus is 371 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,880 the one we'll call wimpy Jesus. This lying picture of Jesus 372 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:16,840 shows him as weak, passive and soft. 373 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,000 He's just holding like a barnyard animal and petting it. 374 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 And he just poses like in wispy feminine postures for for 375 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,080 paintings. That was how he spent all of his 376 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,080 time. Many are rightfully disgusted by 377 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,320 this false Christ. He's a masculine, He's 378 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,880 emasculated. He's not strong. 379 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,160 He's a victim who got beat up by some Jews and by some Romans 380 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,600 because, you know, he was so busy telling people to be nice 381 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,440 and to get along with each other and he was kind of a punk. 382 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,920 And they just got the best of him. 383 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,080 And we feel sad for him and we're happy for him that he got 384 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,720 raised from the dead. Like, good for him. 385 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,280 I'm sorry. I'm I'm glad that he really was 386 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,080 the Son of God, but it's not the real Jesus. 387 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,560 That's all a lie. Jesus was never weak. 388 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,360 Jesus never allowed anyone to manipulate him. 389 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,000 Jesus never allowed anybody to play him. 390 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,800 He was never passive. He was never soft. 391 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,840 He's very, very gentle. He's very gentle with the broken 392 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,920 hearted. He's very gentle with the humble 393 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,560 when they're crushed by their sin. 394 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,040 He's very compassionate to those who are overwhelmed by life's 395 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:23,440 tragedies and life's hardships. But that is not the whole story. 396 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,800 He's also furious about self-righteous hypocrisy. 397 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:32,040 The same real Jesus flipped over tables in the money changers, in 398 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,200 the Money Changers temple. He infuriated everybody enough 399 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,800 that they wanted to kill him. If Jesus just went around 400 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,480 telling everybody to please get along, do you think they would 401 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:45,200 have had reason to murder him? Go around with the message, hey 402 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,120 everybody, get along. If Jesus just had the Coexist 403 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:52,400 bumper sticker as his, as his ministry mantra, do you think 404 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:53,600 they would have wanted to kill him? 405 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:57,000 Coexist. That's not what he was saying. 406 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,240 That's not the message of Jesus. The message of Jesus was come 407 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,880 and die, eat my flesh and drink my blood. 408 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,880 There's no other way to the Father except through me. 409 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,760 Repent and believe the gospel. That was the message of Jesus. 410 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,600 And he had power, He had authority, He had strength. 411 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:17,960 So that made the other men jealous of him. 412 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,680 And then again, he didn't walk into their trap. 413 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,240 This was his preparation. This was His plan all along, 414 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,200 that He would save us, that He would rescue us. 415 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,880 This is the Jesus who cracks a whip to intimidate spiritual 416 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,040 wolves. Literally. 417 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,920 He fashioned a whip and then cracked it to intimidate and 418 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,000 frighten people. The real Jesus was not a victim. 419 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,280 He was the ultimate man on a mission who came to save the 420 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,000 whole world. Nobody took his life from Him. 421 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,920 He made that clear. He laid down His life to save 422 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,960 you. Nails did not keep Jesus on a 423 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,680 cross. Physically did they hold his 424 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,800 body up there? Yes physically they did. 425 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,800 The point I'm making is he could have removed himself. 426 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,440 He made that clear in the garden. 427 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,360 Peter cut off the the high priest ear when they came to 428 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:07,920 arrest him. Jesus said Peter put your sword 429 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,160 away. Lord we got to stop this. 430 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,240 I could stop anything I wanted to. 431 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,680 I could call down legions of angels right now and nuke this 432 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,240 mountain. Put your sword away. 433 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,360 OK boy, y'all are allowed to come arrest me now, and I know 434 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,840 you're supposed to. That was how it went there that 435 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,960 night in the garden. Nobody manipulated Jesus, nobody 436 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,800 controlled Jesus. Jesus submitted himself fully to 437 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,960 his Father's will. So no matter what you've been 438 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,240 told by wimpy people, wimpy Jesus is not a real Jesus. 439 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,400 There's a strong Jesus, there's a compassionate Jesus, there's a 440 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,680 loving Jesus. And he is gentle with the 441 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,200 humble. But if you're not humble, he 442 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,560 will not see a gentle Jesus. Here's another version of Jesus. 443 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:59,280 We'll call this therapy Jesus. He only exists to comfort and to 444 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,240 affirm. That's all he's here to do. 445 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,200 He's here to tell you everything you really want to hear. 446 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,720 Is there a kernel of truth in this? 447 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,640 Of course there is. We'll get to that in a moment. 448 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,400 But therapy Jesus says, I see you, I feel you, you are enough. 449 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,160 And he never calls you to change and he never holds you 450 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,280 accountable. That's therapy, Jesus, You're 451 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,480 OK. You're OK. 452 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,320 It's your childhood. It was your parents. 453 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,320 It's your trauma. Pastor, careful. 454 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,080 Those are real things. Those are real things. 455 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,520 But the real Jesus heals those things and leads you through 456 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,480 those things. So does he see your problem? 457 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,040 Does he see your difficulty? Yes, he does. 458 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,480 Is he compassionate? Yes, he is. 459 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,520 But does he just go, Yep. It's all them, It's always them, 460 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,840 It's only them. It's never you. 461 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,560 That's the false Jesus. That's an idolatrous Jesus. 462 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,200 That's a lying Jesus who cannot save. 463 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,360 It's a lying Jesus who will not. He won't give you a new life. 464 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,800 He just gives you a pity party. It's the best pity party 465 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,080 anyone's ever had. There's streamers, there's 466 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,960 balloons, and it's all for you and it just keeps you there 467 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,680 forever. That's demonic. 468 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,400 That's not Jesus. That's devastating to your soul. 469 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,080 You don't need to stay in the hole that the enemy wanted to 470 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,120 put you in. Jesus came to pull you out of 471 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,960 the pit. He came to to crown you. 472 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,400 He came to put a new robe on you, put new sandals on your 473 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,840 feet. He came to restore your life and 474 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,600 bring resurrection to A to a destroyed life. 475 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,320 Oh, there's so much death and corruption and brokenness in my 476 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,480 life. You don't know my past. 477 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,600 You don't know the real Jesus. He really loves you and he 478 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,560 really brings resurrection to busted up lives for some of you. 479 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,800 You're like, I don't, I don't have an image of a Jesus who 480 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,680 just passed me on the back all the time and tells me I'm the 481 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,440 greatest. I have an image of a Jesus who 482 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,720 crushes me and overwhelms me and tells me I'm never enough good 483 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,920 news and bad news. Bad news first. 484 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,560 You're not enough good news. Jesus will be enough for you. 485 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,640 That's the point. It's a substitution. 486 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,080 He's the winner, He's the hero. He gets the glory. 487 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,760 It's why he's different from every other moral teacher who 488 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,800 taught, who taught us. You must do these things to 489 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,440 inherit eternal life or to achieve Nirvana or to insert 490 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,000 demonic teaching here. Instead Jesus said I achieved 491 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,600 it, you can receive it, come and follow me. 492 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,040 But he Jesus doesn't tell you someone else is the problem. 493 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,520 The real Jesus doesn't but therapy Jesus with therapy Jesus 494 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:29,440 your sin is never named. The past wrongs done to you with 495 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:34,400 therapy Jesus always excuse and explain your present actions. 496 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,440 You don't need to forgive anyone, you don't need to love, 497 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,720 you don't need to grow. Therapy Jesus says you're good 498 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,920 just like you are. That's not a Jesus who saves 499 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,240 you, That's a Jesus who keeps you on a path to hell. 500 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,440 Is there a resemblance to the real Jesus? 501 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,680 Yes, it's true. The real Jesus sympathizes with 502 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,600 us in our weaknesses, Hebrews 415 and 16 says. 503 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,760 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with 504 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,280 our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted 505 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:13,160 as we are, yet without sin. Let us then, with confidence 506 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,080 draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy 507 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,000 and find grace to help in a time of need. 508 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,400 You'll see those commercials that came out. 509 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,480 They say he gets us. Did you see them? 510 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,960 I looked at their website. I was like, where's the gospel? 511 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,840 Come on, tell the truth. Tell the truth. 512 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,280 Give me the real Jesus. It was just therapy, Jesus. 513 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,960 It was social justice, Jesus, but it but Joe Michael didn't 514 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,600 that yes, of course there's a kernel of truth. 515 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,880 There's still water in the glass with the poison. 516 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,040 But how much poison do you want in your water? 517 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:54,680 Right, Because a glass of water with poison in it still kills 518 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,840 you. So Jesus, he gets us. 519 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,320 He does get us. He does. 520 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,520 I agree and let's continue to the whole truth about the real 521 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,040 Jesus. He does get us. 522 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,480 He was tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. 523 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,720 The Bible keeps making a big deal of this thing called sin. 524 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,600 It's a really big deal to God. Therapy. 525 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,800 Jesus never says anything about that S word. 526 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,040 That S word is a four letter word in the therapy world. 527 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,320 There's no such thing as sin. It's just my trauma in my 528 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,200 baggage, in my background, and the things done to me and all 529 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,240 you other people who are mean to me and hurt my feelings. 530 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,600 But the real Jesus, does he get us. 531 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,960 He does get us and He empowers us, but to what end? 532 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,800 To obey him. The real Jesus is the friend who 533 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,600 sits closer than a brother. And the full truth is that he 534 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,920 also, because he is a friend, he calls you to repent, to turn 535 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,440 from sin, and to follow him. He comforts you, He heals you, 536 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,280 and he also commands you. He's like the total package. 537 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,360 The real Jesus is the whole thing, the whole truth, and 538 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:05,880 nothing but the truth. Which leads us to an X Jesus. 539 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,880 We're talking about the Jesus who commands the next Jesus is 540 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,840 rule book Jesus, the law giving Jesus. 541 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,040 This is the Jesus who requires your religious performance to 542 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,120 save. You better be in church on 543 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:20,920 Easter. Good thing you all checked that 544 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,440 box this morning. Better be in church on 545 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,600 Christmas. You better tip your hat to the 546 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,680 man upstairs. You better do just, you know, 547 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,200 general nice Christian, God loving kind of stuff. 548 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,320 But more than that, this is where you have to actually earn 549 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,280 your standing with God by what you do. 550 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,320 This one's interesting because a lot of the other false Jesuses, 551 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,160 they're all lacking one massive thing. 552 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,840 They all have this one big thing in common, all the false 553 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,480 Jesuses, they all lack authority. 554 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,640 A lot of false Jesuses, not all of them, this one doesn't, but a 555 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,880 lot of false Jesuses, they're like, oh, they focus on this. 556 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,440 They focus on this. They focus they're 557 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,560 interestingly, they're all missing one thing, his authority 558 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,920 over you. He's a friend and a counselor. 559 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:09,480 Well, he is and well, he's a this he is and but they leave 560 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,880 out the and he doesn't have actual authority. 561 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,160 I have a problem with authority. You're really not going to like 562 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,600 the real Jesus, but I would encourage you open your heart to 563 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:25,560 Him because He does love you. He does love you, He does hate 564 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,280 wickedness, and He does still love you. 565 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,320 That's why He suffered for you. Rule book Jesus, though he 566 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,680 crushes you, He overwhelms you with what He requires you to 567 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,040 accomplish. Followers of rule book Jesus 568 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,320 have confidence in their own actions. 569 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,520 They have confidence in their church attendance. 570 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:46,960 They have confidence in their prayers. 571 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,320 They have confidence in their giving. 572 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,920 They have confidence in their belief. 573 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,600 They have confidence in their works. 574 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,200 If you were to ask them, hey, how do you know you're going to 575 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,320 heaven when you die? They can start rambling off the 576 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,280 list of accomplishments of the things that they do. 577 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,040 There's one answer to how you know you're going to heaven. 578 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,240 How do you how sure are you you're saved on a scale of 1 to 579 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,080 10? Friends, everybody, your answer. 580 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,760 I want you to be able to say 10 today. 581 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,120 I'm certain it's a 10. How are you certain it's a 10? 582 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,640 Because Jesus died for my sins and I have fully trusted in Him 583 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,240 and submitted to the lordship of Him. 584 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,000 I'm his disciple now. Don't you still have sin in your 585 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,200 life? I do sin. 586 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,520 I hate when I sin because it's against my nature and my Master. 587 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,240 So I repent of my sins and I seek to still follow Him because 588 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,080 He saved me and He made me new. Well, don't you have to do a 589 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,920 bunch of stuff? I want to do a bunch of stuff. 590 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,840 And yes, there are many commands in my Bible that I attempt to 591 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,720 obey and much Jesus requires of me. 592 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,400 But Jesus saved me. Jesus earned it. 593 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,520 Jesus paid it. I can't earn it. 594 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,920 I can't deserve it. Nobody's going to get to heaven 595 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,120 and be able to say I belong here. 596 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,200 I did it, I did it. Everybody's just going to get 597 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,920 there and go. Jesus did it. 598 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,200 He really actually did it. Is it true? 599 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,560 Is there some kernel of truth here? 600 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,240 It's true that Jesus gives many commands, and obedience to him 601 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,120 does matter. But there's a fuller truth about 602 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,480 the real Jesus. Ephesians 2 tells us what it is. 603 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,760 He says, And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which 604 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,400 he once walked, following the course of this world, following 605 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:24,680 the Prince in the power of the air. 606 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,200 You know, the Bible really hurts my feelings sometimes. 607 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,840 The Bible says I used to follow Satan. 608 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,000 The Bible says you follow Satan outside of Christ, and before 609 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,960 Christ you followed Satan. That's who the Prince and the 610 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,240 power of the air is. I'm not some Satan follower, 611 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,520 except that the Bible says that I was. 612 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,840 So I'm going to humble myself and agree with him. 613 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,480 You were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you once 614 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,000 walked. He's talking to already 615 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,040 Christians now, following the course of this world, following 616 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,720 the Prince and power of the air, the spirit that is now at work 617 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,640 in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in 618 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,640 the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the 619 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,800 flesh and the mind. We were by nature children of 620 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:10,160 wrath, like the rest of mankind. God has wrath for us absolutely. 621 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,640 Oh wait, there's good news. But God being rich in mercy, 622 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,640 because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we 623 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,440 were dead in our trespasses, he made us alive together with 624 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,960 Christ. By grace you have been saved and 625 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,960 raised up with Him. And He and He raised us up with 626 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,200 Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ 627 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,840 Jesus. Why did He do that? 628 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,240 So that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable 629 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,360 riches of His grace and His kindness toward us in Christ 630 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,560 Jesus. For by grace you have been saved 631 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,520 through faith. This is not your own doing. 632 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,920 It is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one 633 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,640 may boast. For we are his workmanship, 634 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,000 created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared 635 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,800 beforehand, that we should walk in them. 636 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,520 Are we supposed to do good stuff? 637 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,480 Yeah, but we can't unless Christ actually makes us new. 638 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,680 So Christ makes us new and then we say, well, I have new desires 639 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,840 now. It's almost like I'm a new 640 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,680 creation. It's almost like I've been born 641 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,200 again. The first time I was born out of 642 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,840 my mother, but the second time I was born out of the Spirit of 643 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,280 God. So the first time I was born 644 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,080 from sinful flesh because all, all humans are sinful after our 645 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,280 fall from Adam. And the second time I'm 646 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,560 conceived by the Holy Spirit in a sense, and I have this new 647 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,760 birth. Jesus has taken the wrath that I 648 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:52,000 deserved and now I get the righteousness that he achieved. 649 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,080 What a wild and amazing substitution In that we see all 650 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,800 the perfection of God. We see that God is just. 651 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,840 He doesn't just say it's OK, I'll overlook it because if any 652 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,520 judge in any courtroom just said it's OK, I'll overlook it. 653 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:14,239 Would that judge be just say no, no, that judge would be wicked. 654 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:18,840 So God would be wicked if he just said we won't say nothing 655 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,080 about that. That's a wicked God. 656 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,600 It's not just so we can't have an unjust God, but we're doomed 657 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,000 because now he has to punish our wickedness. 658 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:35,239 But God who is rich in mercy, he sent his only Son to save us, to 659 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:40,880 rescue us. The real Jesus is not rule book 660 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,440 Jesus who crushes you with what you must accomplish. 661 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,800 The real Jesus teaches that your obedience is not the cause of 662 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,920 your salvation. His obedience is the cause of 663 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,360 your salvation and your obedience is the result of your 664 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,520 salvation. That was another Jesus that you 665 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,200 may be familiar with. This false Jesus, I call him 666 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,160 country music Jesus. I like country music, by the 667 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,080 way. I don't like country music 668 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,160 Jesus. He's a false God. 669 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,200 They can take a good song that I'm enjoying and then they put 670 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,680 country music Jesus in and I'm disgusted by it. 671 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,280 Country music Jesus is when it it's it's very clever for 672 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,760 songwriting. I will acknowledge that. 673 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,480 You acknowledge like the moonshine on Saturday night, you 674 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,360 know, like we're living in sin and debauchery. 675 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,560 And then but you know, church on Sunday morning, you know, on the 676 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,760 back row going, you know, and put a put, you know, make sure 677 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:40,760 you put a $5 in the plate. Wow, Wow, Randy, you have, you 678 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,600 have atoned for all of your sins because you tipped your hat to 679 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,760 the man upstairs. You know, I mean, there, there's 680 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,600 so many songs there. There's a song a couple years, 681 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,960 years back that came a a girl was singing and she says driving 682 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,240 down the road or something on the highway. 683 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:57,000 She's like, yeah, I guess that's my church. 684 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,920 Stupid, just stupid. It's just bad theology and it's 685 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,240 not the real Jesus. Well, to me, yeah, yeah, yeah. 686 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:06,280 But we're but we're, but we're we're tearing down idols. 687 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:09,520 That's what we do. When you love the pure and the 688 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,720 real thing, you tear down the false, which is what God told 689 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:14,880 people, his Israelites to do. He said when you go into the 690 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,600 promised land, there are wicked and demonic people. 691 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,720 They do everything that I hate and I every single thing you 692 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,240 find, every shrine, every temple, every altar, I want you 693 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:31,160 to burn it all, all of it. Don't keep the gold. 694 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,560 Burn it and destroy it all. Turn it all to rubble because 695 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,120 it's filthy and I hate it. So if it seems as though I am 696 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,880 jealous for the glory of Jesus, I'm not sorry. 697 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,000 I am jealous for the glory of Jesus because I want you to know 698 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,720 the real Jesus because I know him. 699 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,440 And if you know the real Jesus, you'll love the real Jesus and 700 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,520 you will be disgusted by any other thing. 701 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,600 You're like, yeah, get that, Get that filter. 702 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,760 You take a sip of that water and you spit it out as fast as you 703 00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,240 can. That's poison. 704 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,840 That's poison. And that will kill me. 705 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,320 I don't want any poison in my water. 0 drops of poison please. 706 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:09,080 Full glass of Jesus, please. Nothing else. 707 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,200 No additives, no American gospel, no any other variation. 708 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,520 Anything in front of the gospel other than just the gospel is 709 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,000 some variation that I don't want. 710 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:23,880 And it won't save you. It's not my Jesus, it's the 711 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,080 Jesus of the Bible. I just want you to face the real 712 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,480 1. That way you're happy someday to 713 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,160 face the real 1 and not afraid to face the real 1. 714 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,600 Country music. Jesus is there when life gets 715 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,880 hard. You're on the back porch with a 716 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:38,880 beer. Things go wrong. 717 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,360 You got to throw up. A quick prayer to the man 718 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,840 upstairs. He's sentimental, he's 719 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,920 emotional, and he is very convenient. 720 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,400 He just requires that you again, do right. 721 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:50,840 Tip your hat to the man upstairs. 722 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,120 You know, like me and the Lord have an understanding. 723 00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:58,560 Really, where is that? What covenant do you have with 724 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,560 Him? Because this is what His Word 725 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,160 says. And I know what Jesus requires. 726 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,400 I know Jesus calls us to carry our cross. 727 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,480 Is there a partial truth here? Of course there is. 728 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,280 The partial truth is Jesus really is near and a quick shot 729 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,440 up prayer and a moment of overwhelm and desperation is one 730 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:23,640 that the Lord will hear an answer. 731 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,720 But His kindness and grace in that moment to comfort is not 732 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,120 his full throated approval of your whole life and an 733 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,920 encouragement to continue on a path that doesn't walk with him. 734 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,720 That's what Randy, our country music, Jesus love and body 735 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,280 doesn't understand. He takes the kindness of God as 736 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,280 an encouragement to continue to ignore God instead of an 737 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,280 invitation to say I love you, actually follow me and walk with 738 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,760 me. Don't just turn on K love 739 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,240 whenever you really need a spiritual boost. 740 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:09,120 Jesus is compassionate. He does meet normal, real rural 741 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,640 people. He called rural people. 742 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:16,040 Jesus loves country boys. Jesus loves country girls. 743 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,520 He called them to be his followers. 744 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,280 There was a whole joke about Nazareth. 745 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,640 We know this culturally. There's a whole joke. 746 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,920 It was out in the sticks. Galileans were like the Guinea 747 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,600 Bubba's and that's where Jesus was from. 748 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,960 And they would often say, can anything good come from 749 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,520 Nazareth? It was a famous phrase. 750 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,360 Jesus loves country, folks. It's true. 751 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,160 Jesus also loves city folks, if you can believe it. 752 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:46,800 It's true. Just a joke, just a little 753 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,320 preacher joke. Not joking that he doesn't love 754 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,600 city. He does love city folks. 755 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,760 Jesus loves everybody. He's compassionate. 756 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,640 He meets people in their lowest moments. 757 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,320 The Lord is near to the broken hearted and He saves the crushed 758 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,800 in spirit. But the whole truth is, he 759 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,920 doesn't just show up only to comfort you. 760 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,680 He comes to lead you. He calls you to repent, to 761 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,240 follow Him. He never intended to just be a 762 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,720 sentimental icon hanging from your mirror in your car. 763 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,680 A superstitious lucky rabbit's foot that happens to be in the 764 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,680 shape of a crucifix. He calls you to surrender your 765 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,640 life to him. He said in Luke 923. 766 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,320 If any would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his 767 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,760 cross and follow me. He's not just there when you 768 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,160 need him. He is Lord all the time. 769 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,600 Another common version that we hear about a false Jesus similar 770 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,480 to country music Jesus. I call this one national mascot 771 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,960 Jesus. He's the Jesus of we are a 772 00:40:54,960 --> 00:41:01,040 Christian nation. This is the Jesus that people 773 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,880 attach to their tribe, to their politics, and they attach him. 774 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,520 They bolt him on to the side of the thing that they love and 775 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,520 that they already believe in. He becomes a great accessory, 776 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,280 and he becomes a convenient and useful resource for the agenda. 777 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,680 They put him on the team, they wear him like a logo, and they 778 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,880 assume that he is with them. What's the partial truth? 779 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,160 Well, the partial truth is that Jesus really is king over 780 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,360 America. He has authority over all of it, 781 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,880 and it's right to publicly identify with him and not be 782 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,160 ashamed of his name. But the whole truth is that 783 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:38,400 Jesus does not belong to any nation. 784 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:44,520 Every nation belongs to Jesus. He's not an appendage that comes 785 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,240 on to the side. He is the head, He is the 786 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:50,440 authority over all nations. Well, this is a Christian 787 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,800 nation, as it should be. And by the way, quick history 788 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,480 lesson, yes, our nation was founded and built upon the 789 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,280 teachings of Scripture. That's why it's been so good. 790 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,760 That's why it's been the most blessed nation in the history of 791 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,880 the world. Because even though guys who 792 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,400 didn't love and follow King Jesus like Thomas Jefferson, 793 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,280 they still said, yeah, give me most of that Bible, please. 794 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,480 And because of that and many others were God fearing men. 795 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:19,160 Your colonies were divided by their religious worship, by the 796 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,240 way. So everything was so focused on 797 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:25,960 God and His will in his way that we ended up having the greatest 798 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,200 nation in the history of the world. 799 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:29,520 Has it been declining? It has. 800 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:31,840 And the more people get away from obedience to the 801 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,120 Scriptures, the more things do decline. 802 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,840 So in that sense, are we a Christian nation? 803 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,280 Sure. I can go along with that as long 804 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,400 as we fully clarify every nation belongs to Jesus. 805 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,440 There's not one spot in all creation, not anything that 806 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,440 Artemis is looking at on the moon or anywhere else that Jesus 807 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,560 does not point to and say that's mine. 808 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,240 He said all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to 809 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:06,040 me. Jesus is not on your side or on 810 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,800 my side. We are called to submit to his. 811 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,400 What's Jesus's side? That's the side I'm on. 812 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:17,360 So I don't say God's on my side. I'm like, I better be on his. 813 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,880 That's my perspective. God's with me. 814 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,840 Well, he is, and there's promises that say that. 815 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,720 And yet the implication is because I'm his, because I'm 816 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:27,600 his. So my sons could confidently say 817 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,480 my father is for me. My father's with me. 818 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,920 Well, yeah, as long as they're not robbing a bank. 819 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,880 And so, yeah, when they're within my will, absolutely, they 820 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,840 get my full strength, provision, leadership, all of it. 821 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:40,920 My wife can count on all of that. 822 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,800 But like, there would be limits to this. 823 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:53,040 All authority in heaven and earth has been given to him, and 824 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,680 we're closing now. The point is, the real Jesus 825 00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:03,280 commands are full allegiance. The issue that we're seeing is 826 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:07,840 that many people are willing to accept parts of Jesus. 827 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,880 They like certain aspects of him, but they reject others. 828 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,880 If you've created a Jesus in your own image, then you don't 829 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,240 have the real Jesus. And the real Jesus is better 830 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:23,400 than you think. He's better than anything you 831 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:24,680 would create. He's better than your 832 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:31,040 imagination and any, any, any ill will that you might have 833 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,360 towards him is some misunderstanding. 834 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,200 Any negative emotion you have towards the Lord Jesus Christ. 835 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:41,680 I assure you with comfort. Now that you have some 836 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,960 misunderstanding, that's good news. 837 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,760 Well, I'm upset about and I'm mad at God, for I assure you I 838 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,600 might not have all the answers to the details of that 839 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,080 situation. But the thing I'm sure of is if 840 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:58,240 if you don't look to God and see Him as loving and good and kind 841 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:02,920 to you and faithful and wonderful and worthy of your 842 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,560 obedience and love, there's just some misunderstanding even 843 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:10,760 still, because He is that good. You were built and designed to 844 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,320 love Him, to worship Him and to care about Him. 845 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,360 You said you don't want any poison in your glass of water. 846 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,680 Because a partial truth is still dangerous. 847 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,880 A distorted version of Jesus cannot save you. 848 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,880 A half truth Jesus is still a false Jesus. 849 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,080 Many will stand before him on that day. 850 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:37,120 Lord, Lord, did we not? Did we not do enough? 851 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,240 Did we not do the right things? They're going to point to their 852 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:42,440 church attendance, their morality, their efforts. 853 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,680 But the issue is not what they did. 854 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,080 The issue is whether or not they knew him. 855 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,400 Our response to the Lord is not, Lord, look what I can do. 856 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,600 Look what I've done. Our response needs to be Lord. 857 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,400 Lord, I've looked at what you've done. 858 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,240 Salvation is not built upon your performance. 859 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,280 It's built upon his good news. He nailed it. 860 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:09,440 He did it perfectly. That was the whole issue. 861 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,400 God had to punish sin, but God loved humanity. 862 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,360 So he said, I will make a temporary solution here. 863 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:23,400 I will let you kill animals in a in a very systematic and in a 864 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:28,200 structured way that satisfies my justice temporarily. 865 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,800 You can kill bulls and you can kill goats and you can kill 866 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:36,200 lambs and all these sacrifices for thousands of years, So much 867 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,240 bloodshed, so many animals, but it wasn't enough. 868 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,680 Why? Well, humans send. 869 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,280 So how can killing a sheep get humanity out of the mess that 870 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:50,800 humanity has made? It's temporary and it's not 871 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,000 fully satisfactory to the Lord's justice. 872 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,240 His wrath is not fully satisfied, he says, but it'll be 873 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:59,800 enough for now, He says. But I'm going to send a lamb to 874 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:04,960 end all lambs. If only one innocent human could 875 00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,080 suffer, and if they would volunteer themselves, the Lord 876 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,720 could say this act of love and sacrifice. 877 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,520 I can let all the guilty go free now, because justice can be 878 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,920 satisfied, but there is no innocent human. 879 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:22,920 Which brings us to the need of the virgin birth, because sin 880 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,840 travels through the Father. So now we have borne A sinless, 881 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,560 spotless human being who now goes and lives a perfect, 882 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,000 sinless life. He's tempted, He's tested, He's 883 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,760 tried in every way, just like you and I. 884 00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,880 He's a man on a mission. He's the eternal God. 885 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,680 He's the author of life. He's the resurrection and he 886 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,120 says Father, I will suffer. But he goes into the garden that 887 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,840 night overwhelmed by grief, crushed by sadness, crushed by 888 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,880 the weight of what he is about to experience, the separation of 889 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,960 his Father's presence, which has never happened in eternity of 890 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,280 eternities. The full wrath of the Father 891 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,360 coming down on an innocent one, and the torment of the Roman 892 00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:08,000 nails. Do you mind grabbing your wrist 893 00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:13,160 finding between those two bones? It's just your thumb and your 894 00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,400 finger. It's not a spike driving you to 895 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:25,360 a wooden beam. I was watching a crucifixion 896 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,440 expert talk about it the other day. 897 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,800 He was saying, he said he's I try not to offend people and 898 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,080 bother people too much with this, he said. 899 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,560 But they actually straddled the cross with their feet, and they 900 00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,080 drove a spike through each ankle, not through the top of 901 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,520 the feet as is often shown. And media and things. 902 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,320 I didn't know that he said, yeah, we can see. 903 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:44,840 We studied ankle bones and we've seen it all. 904 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,720 And we put it together so impaled from each ankle from 905 00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:54,520 each side, and a crown of thorns mashed onto his skull and onto 906 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,840 his head. And the beating that he suffered 907 00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,600 under the Romans. We didn't have no idea how many 908 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,040 stripes it was because they could have. 909 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,640 They could have continued with all kinds of savagery. 910 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:11,600 But it's an innocent man. And here's the part that false 911 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:17,360 Jesuses wouldn't have told us. You deserved all of that. 912 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,240 This is the good news of the Gospel. 913 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,240 A lot of people have heard God loves you and he has a wonderful 914 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:27,280 plan for your life, but they haven't heard, Hey, my friend, 915 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,240 that matters. First of all, because you 916 00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:32,240 actually deserved what Jesus got. 917 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,040 That's the whole point. Here's us and here's Jesus. 918 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,600 We should have been crushed and destroyed and annihilated and 919 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,960 God should have just said forget them never mind. 920 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,360 And Jesus should have been glorified in worship. 921 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,440 But instead the Father crushed his Son so that we could be 922 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:56,240 glorified and elevated. The scripture says he became 923 00:49:56,240 --> 00:49:59,240 sin, not he committed sin. He became sin. 924 00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:02,560 Who knew no sin that we could become the righteousness of God 925 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:07,800 in Christ. Preacher, I just wanted a happy 926 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,040 Easter sermon and I wanted to get to Mama's lunch by, you 927 00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,600 know, 10:45. I don't know if you'll make it 928 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:18,600 by 10:45, but you'll get there. But we wanted to get past this 929 00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,960 whole misunderstanding of yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm super happy for 930 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,840 that Jesus guy. I'm glad he was raised from the 931 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,520 dead. But many don't know why it 932 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,840 matters. Why does it matter that Jesus 933 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,280 was raised from the dead? Why couldn't he just die? 934 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:31,800 Why did he have to be raised from the dead? 935 00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:35,200 The reason we celebrate the resurrection is because Jesus is 936 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,160 resurrection from the dead. First of all, if you love him, 937 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,360 you don't want your king dead. Those who don't care about him, 938 00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:41,840 and they're just like he died for my sins. 939 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,960 Cool, cool. I'm good, I'll go to heaven, 940 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,440 right? But if you would be happy in a 941 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,240 heaven without Jesus, then I assure you, you're not on your 942 00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:54,080 way to heaven. If you'd be happy, I just want 943 00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:55,720 to get to heaven. I don't need it to be a Jesus. 944 00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:57,320 I don't care if it's budo, I don't care if it's all. 945 00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,080 I don't care who's there as long as I get to heaven. 946 00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,880 My dear friend, I assure you, you're not on your way to heaven 947 00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:07,480 because only loving the Lord Jesus Christ and receiving his 948 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:12,400 sacrifice and believing in His gospel will get you into heaven. 949 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,160 But I want you to have clarity. I don't want you to be like a 950 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,160 child singing Father Abraham. I want you to understand Jesus 951 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,600 had to be raised because Jesus is reigning now and he's going 952 00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,320 to reign forever. And Jesus's resurrection also 953 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,440 proves that the Father receives his sacrifice. 954 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,880 I could say I was going to die for your sins right now and walk 955 00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,280 out into traffic. How will you know if I did it? 956 00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,560 It was the resurrection that proved Jesus really is Lord and 957 00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,400 King and he is everyone. He is everything he said he is. 958 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,960 He's the real Jesus. He's the full package. 959 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,400 He's not a piece of it. And he's so much better. 960 00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:51,280 He's the diamond that you turned. 961 00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:52,920 Yes, there's another facet. There's another way. 962 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,520 The light hits and you go, wow, I see Jesus that way, but it's 963 00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,280 still the real Jesus. And there's the whole diamond 964 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:02,000 that we honor, that we glorify in. 965 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:07,000 Christ Jesus paid it all. We sing that song. 966 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,320 Why? Because you owed it all. 967 00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:14,560 The resurrection matters because it proves his payment was 968 00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:16,360 accepted. He did not stay in the grave. 969 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,680 He rose. He walked among his disciples. 970 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:20,880 He ascended into heaven. They saw him. 971 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,360 They watched him go up into heaven after 40 days of hanging 972 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,040 out together, and he reigns today. 973 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:31,920 The real Jesus, not a version that we create, is the Jesus 974 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,760 that can save you. I'm going to close with John 975 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,640 chapter 3 if you want to go there with me. 976 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,920 And then we're going to close with one more song together, 977 00:52:56,430 --> 00:53:01,310 John 316 through 21. For God so loved the world that 978 00:53:01,310 --> 00:53:04,910 he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should 979 00:53:04,910 --> 00:53:06,670 not perish but have eternal life. 980 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,800 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the 981 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,520 world, but in order that the world might be saved through 982 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,200 him. Whoever believes in him is not 983 00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:19,040 condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already 984 00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:22,520 because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 985 00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,680 This is the judgment. The light has come into the 986 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,440 world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light 987 00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:33,320 because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked 988 00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,800 things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his 989 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,360 works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true 990 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,840 comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that his 991 00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,760 works have been carried out in God. 992 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:47,680 Would you stand to your feet?