1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:09,960 So today my, my corny title QQ corny title is the get to and I 2 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:14,160 don't think we, I don't think we as Christians dwell enough on 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,120 the get to of Christianity, right? 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,880 So we're going to talk about prayer today. 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:25,280 And Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and any other any other 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,920 of the little gods out there, they require prayer, right? 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:33,520 They require sacrifice. They require Muslims pray five 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:38,320 times a day On each occasion, worshippers stand facing the 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,320 holy kebab and Mecca in Mecca and perform the steps of the 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,440 Salah as taught by the Prophet Muhammad. 11 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,960 Sounds like something you want to do, right? 12 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,120 Sounds like a sounds more like a have to than to get to. 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:56,320 So why, why is Christians do we get a really dwell on the fact 14 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,960 that we just get to pray and how is it and how, how important is 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,760 it to God that we just get to right? 16 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:10,080 So we'll, we'll be, we're going to be all over the word today. 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,480 Our anchor verse is going to be in Exodus 40 if you guys want to 18 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,080 turn there, but we'll start with some prayers. 19 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,520 So Lord, I just thank you for everybody here. 20 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,160 I thank you for this time. Lord, I thank you for all that 21 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,560 you've done for us. I thank you that you've given us 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:33,760 a road map and guidance and Lord that your word does just tell us 23 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,560 what to do. And Lord, that you would speak 24 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,600 to me and that you would speak through me. 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:43,960 Lord that you would be be here in our midst. 26 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,200 I'm speaking to hearts, Lord, guiding and directing. 27 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,600 I pray all this in Jesus name. So Jesus just on the Muslim side 28 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,520 of the thing and the and the repeating the same thing over 29 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,600 and over again. Matthew 67, Jesus says and when 30 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,600 you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, 31 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,440 for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 32 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:16,200 So we talked about this the end of last year, Genesis 3/8 33 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,440 through 10, it says, and they heard the sound of the Lord God 34 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,840 walking in the garden in the cool of the day. 35 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,760 And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of 36 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,320 the Lord among the trees of the garden. 37 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,240 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, where are you? 38 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:36,520 So he said, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid 39 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,600 because I was naked and I hid myself. 40 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:44,880 So the whole point of, of the word of God of the Bible from 41 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,000 from Genesis to Revelation is for God to get back to this 42 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,160 point with his with his children. 43 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,760 This this leads you to believe verse 8 God walking in the 44 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,400 garden in the cool of the day that this was something God did 45 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,400 with Adam on a regular basis, right? 46 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,240 We don't know how long, how long before how many days that he had 47 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,800 walked with Adam before they fell if it was years or days. 48 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:18,160 But this was something that that God did and it's something God 49 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:27,720 wants to do with us. And as as we talked about last 50 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,120 year is the differences between US and angels is angels were 51 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:38,160 created to serve God, period. We were created to love God. 52 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,320 And in order for us to love God, we have to have a choice to not 53 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:47,080 love God. And it is he isn't willing to 54 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,640 force us into that. And so since the fall, God knew 55 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,320 the only way to restore fellowship with man was through 56 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,720 death. And when God reintroduced 57 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:02,640 himself to Israel, he, and this is an Exodus. 58 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,360 If as we go, we'll, I guess I should explain that part of 59 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,400 where we, how we got here and why we're on a topical study 60 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,800 instead of in a book. So we're going to be going 61 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,279 through the book of Exodus. And I still have some more study 62 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:21,040 to do before I can, I got to get it all outlined and everything 63 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,960 before I can actually start off on the book. 64 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:30,520 So but Exodus is an amazing place that God begins and 65 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,880 everybody when you read the Bible, Genesis pretty much tells 66 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,000 you where it's at. Right in the beginning God 67 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,680 created. But Genesis isn't where the 68 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,920 Bible started. And that sounds funny. 69 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,200 It is. It is absolutely history and it 70 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,920 happened 1st and it truly happened. 71 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:53,280 But Moses wrote Genesis down in Exodus and there was a 400 year 72 00:04:53,280 --> 00:05:01,880 gap for the Israelites that the Israelites were a family that 73 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,800 moved to Egypt and then they were isolated. 74 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:10,040 And 400 years later the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob showed 75 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,520 up and explained to them all. And that's what's fun about the 76 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,520 book Exodus is, is God just tells them, this is how to 77 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,880 worship me. This is who I am, right? 78 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,520 I mean, he goes all the way through it like you are they 79 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,080 they are confused. I mean, and and they rightfully 80 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,960 were confused because they were in a country full of other gods. 81 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:36,240 And so all of that is just kind of a introduction, But you got 82 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,320 to ask yourself, what does this have to do with prayer? 83 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:50,600 Exodus 43 starting in verse 3, it says he took Moses, he took 84 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,640 the testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles 85 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,360 through the rings of the ark and put the mercy seat on the top of 86 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,360 the ark. And he brought the ark into the 87 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,480 Tabernacle, hung up the veil of covering and partitioned off the 88 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,320 ark of testimony as the Lord had commanded Moses. 89 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,040 So that's that's whenever you hear about the Holy of Holies, 90 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,560 that's it. There's the Ark of the Covenants 91 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,880 inside with the testimonies in it, which is the 10 92 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:22,000 commandments, and then there is a veil. 93 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,040 There's a mercy seat on the Ark, and then there's a veil that 94 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,200 separates that from the next place, which is the Tabernacle 95 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,440 of Meeting. And the Tabernacle of meeting 96 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,800 looks like this. On verse 22, he put the table in 97 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,480 the Tabernacle of meeting on the north side of the Tabernacle 98 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,880 outside the veil, and he set the bread in order upon it before 99 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,320 the Lord. As the Lord had commanded Moses. 100 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,880 He put the lampstand in the Tabernacle of meeting across 101 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,480 from the table on the South side of the Tabernacle. 102 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:55,640 He lit the lamps before the Lord. 103 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:00,080 As the Lord commanded Moses. He put the gold altar in the 104 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,760 Tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil, and he burned sweet 105 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,400 incense on it. As the Lord had commanded. 106 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:12,320 He hung the screen on the door of the Tabernacle, and he put 107 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,120 the altar of burnt offerings before the door of the 108 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,920 Tabernacle, and the tent of meeting and offering upon the 109 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,320 burnt offerings, and the grain so offered upon it, the burnt 110 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,000 offerings and the grain offerings. 111 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,520 As the Lord had commanded Moses. He set the labor between the 112 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:34,880 Tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water there for 113 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,960 washing, and Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and 114 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,320 feet with water from it. So what I, I'm going to keep 115 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,560 asking and see if you guys see before we get to it, what does 116 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,960 this have to do with prayer? And God had a plan from the very 117 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,800 beginning to get to this relationship that he wanted in 118 00:07:53,800 --> 00:08:00,280 the garden. And in order to overcome the sin 119 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:06,160 or the the fall of man, he, he knew there had to be death. 120 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:16,600 There had to be a covering and the whole point of the 121 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,400 Tabernacle is and, and I will go specifically through it in a few 122 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:26,720 minutes, but this is a picture of Christ and what He does for 123 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:33,400 us in Revelation 13, seven and eight. 124 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,159 It goes through and talks about who the enemy can and can't 125 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:41,200 touch. And it was granted to him to 126 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,679 make war with the Saints and to overcome them. 127 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,960 And the authority was given to him over every tribe, every 128 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,560 tongue, and every nation. And all who dwell on the earth 129 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:55,320 will worship him whose name have been written in the book of 130 00:08:55,320 --> 00:09:01,960 life. Sorry, I missed somewhere, I 131 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:06,680 lost a word whose name have been have not been written. 132 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:09,600 There it is, whose name have not been written in the book of 133 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,320 life, of the Lamb slain from the foundations of the earth. 134 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,480 So in Revelation, what it's saying is, is that Satan and his 135 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,960 minions have control and power to manipulate and run ragged 136 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,600 everybody except those whose names have been written in the 137 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,640 book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundations 138 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,880 of the world. So in the Tabernacle, lambs were 139 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,480 brought to the altar and the only way, the only way that your 140 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:46,800 sin was covered is by that altar and, and the death that happened 141 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:51,240 on it. And, and what it's saying is, is 142 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,200 that Jesus has been that since the foundations of the earth, 143 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,320 right? So it's as we talked about 144 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:00,960 before, is that this is not something God went well, now 145 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,880 they sin. Now I got to come up with a way 146 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,880 for them to have relationship with me. 147 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,240 He had this plan from the beginning because he knew we 148 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:15,160 would fail. And and the question is, do we 149 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,360 believe that to the level that that it takes And what it takes 150 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:25,000 is just Lord, I can't and you have to that's that's repenting 151 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:31,440 and believing in him. Romans 10/9 verses 10, 10/9 152 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,480 through 13 it says that if you confess with your mouth the Lord 153 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,840 Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the 154 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,680 dead, you will be saved. But with the heart one believes 155 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:44,760 unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto 156 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,640 salvation. For the scriptures say, whoever 157 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,520 believe on him, believes on him will not be put to shame. 158 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,840 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. 159 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:00,520 For the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon him. 160 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,960 For whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 161 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,200 And it it is really truly that easy. 162 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,720 Do you trust in who he says He is? 163 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:20,120 It's in all through, all through Exodus and, and Numbers and 164 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,000 Leviticus and Deuteronomy is really shown over and over again 165 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,960 how big, how mighty and how holy the God of Abraham, Isaac and 166 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:35,840 Jacob is the I am. And he just continually shows 167 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:40,160 them how big a God they serve, how big a God they serve. 168 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:47,000 And, and in that, that holiness that they need to sacrifice in 169 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,480 order for their sins to be covered, right? 170 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:55,920 I mean, when Jesus came and walked with Israel and shared 171 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,360 their need to repent, and then they didn't turn when they 172 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,960 didn't turn. And in Matthew 23 through 37, he 173 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:09,600 said old Jews, oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the 174 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,640 prophets and stones, those who are sent to her. 175 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,640 How often I wanted to gather your your children together as a 176 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,640 hen gathers her chicks under her wing, that you were not willing. 177 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,400 God has been after his children from the very beginning and he 178 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,000 mourns for them and he mourns for all of them. 179 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:36,560 Guys, it's I mean, he mourns for all the lost and dying of this 180 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:41,400 world at the, at the level that he was willing to die for him, 181 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,840 right. And we've, we've talked about 182 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,040 that. We've talked about John 1930. 183 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,920 It says so when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said 184 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,880 it is finished and bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. 185 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,600 And this is where this is hopefully I get this all tied 186 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:01,240 together and you can see how much the Tabernacle matters 187 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,720 because what was finished on the cross, there was a curtain. 188 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,480 There was a curtain in that. We talked about the veil in the 189 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:14,680 temple at that point and it was ripped in half when he said 190 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:19,040 that, right? His mercy seat was inside. 191 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:23,080 We, we saw that. So now, so now, so in Jerusalem, 192 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,160 there's a there's a veil that's been torn in half. 193 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:31,120 And why does that matter to me today? 194 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:37,000 You know that that 2000 years ago in a city I've never been 195 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,640 in, a curtain was tore from top to bottom. 196 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:47,160 It's separated that separated the holy from the holy of holies 197 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,760 from the Tabernacle of meeting. How, why does that matter to me 198 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:55,680 today? Hebrews 85 says, and this is 199 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:59,800 talking about Moses who served the copy and shadow of heavenly 200 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:04,360 things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to 201 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,920 make the Tabernacle. For he said, see that you make 202 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,560 all things according to the patterns shown you on the 203 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:18,560 mountain. So the Tabernacle is made on 204 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:22,960 earth, but it is a picture of something that is in heaven. 205 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,760 It is a picture of God's throne room. 206 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:37,200 Hebrews 924 through 28 talks about Christ here, and it says, 207 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,040 for Christ has not entered the holy place made with hands which 208 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,480 are copies of the of the true, but into heaven itself. 209 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:51,000 Now to appear in the presence of God for us, not that He should 210 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,680 often should offer often, as the High Priest enters the Most Holy 211 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:00,760 Place every year with the blood of another, He then would have 212 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:05,040 to had to suffer often since the foundations of the world. 213 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,160 But now once at the end of the age, He has appeared to put away 214 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:16,720 sin by sacrifice of Himself, as it is appointed for men to die 215 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,960 once. But after this the judgement, so 216 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:24,760 Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many to those who 217 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,960 eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a second time apart from 218 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:34,600 sin for salvation. So there is that is a mouthful, 219 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,600 and there is a month worth of study in that, in that set of 220 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,960 verses. But the point of those verses 221 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:46,160 are what what Jesus did on the cross and when he said it is 222 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:50,680 finished. And in Matthew 27 it says, then 223 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,960 behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to 224 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,360 bottom and the earthquake and the rocks split. 225 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:04,160 This was this was a heavenly event, not just an isolated 226 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:10,640 Jerusalem event. There was now a the ability for 227 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:16,640 man in Christ to go into the throne room and talk to God. 228 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:23,800 So when I say we get to talk to God, we get to pray, I don't, I 229 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,840 don't guess on whether or not the Lord hears me. 230 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,800 Doesn't matter if it feels like my prayers are bouncing off the 231 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:37,040 ceiling, I get to pray. I he, he cared about my prayers 232 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,040 enough. He cared about, he cared about 233 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:45,360 our relationship with him enough to send his son to die and to 234 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,800 rise again on the third day to prove that he was who he said he 235 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,000 was. But the Tabernacle, the ark, the 236 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,840 veil, all of it is a picture of what actually truly happened in 237 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:05,680 the heavenly places. So Moses didn't know this, 238 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,839 right? Moses did what God told him to 239 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:14,000 do. God had rules and it required 240 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,960 death to pay for sin and blood to wash us clean. 241 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,400 So if we look at the Tabernacle and all of the little intricate 242 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,000 pieces and I'm, I, I love the Tabernacle and we're going to 243 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,680 spend when we get there, we're going to spend a bunch of the 244 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,720 time looking at these and enjoying them. 245 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:36,800 But when we break it down, Jesus on the cross answers the altar, 246 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:38,160 right? When you get to that, when you 247 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,440 get to the tent, when you get to the the outside of the tent and 248 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,600 you open the doors, there is an altar between you and going 249 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,000 forward. And he is that altar, right? 250 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,600 And and he satisfies what is required on the cross. 251 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,000 And then his blood is in the basin that washes us clean. 252 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,360 And then when you get into the the tent of meeting, you have 253 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:07,280 the lamp stand that it was a room that was layered in gold. 254 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:12,440 And so a menorah lampstand would have just made it bright in 255 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,000 there. And so the lampstand is a 256 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,360 picture of the Holy Spirit. And then the table of showbread 257 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:24,960 is bread is the word of God. And the altar of instance is our 258 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:30,680 worship. And and then we get to go in to 259 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,600 the holy of holies because the veil is no longer there and we 260 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:40,800 get to talk to God. So when I say that that we pray 261 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,800 and it's a get to, it's not a have to guys. 262 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,960 Buddhists have to do what they do. 263 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:53,240 Hindus have to do what they do. Christians don't have to do 264 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:58,880 anything we get to. And I say that I was thinking 265 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,080 about my usually when I'm thinking about things like this, 266 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,640 I think about my wife because she's awesome. 267 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:10,800 You guys met her. So I get to wake up every day. 268 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,000 I get to wake up every day next to Faye Birdie Adams. 269 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:21,160 And she's awesome, right? And I get to talk to her about 270 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,400 whatever I want to talk to her about. 271 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,840 And she has to listen to VUI. There was a whole thing where 272 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:31,040 she agreed to. And I get to spend time with 273 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,480 her. I get to take her in public. 274 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,440 I get to tell other people about her. 275 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,880 That's the God we serve, right? We serve a God that has that 276 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,920 desire for a relationship with you. 277 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:52,120 And so when we talk about work, like, hey, I have to do this or 278 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:55,600 I have to do that, guys, I can guarantee you God is not sitting 279 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,080 up in heaven going well, man, I wish they'd work harder. 280 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:06,800 It's just not his nature. You don't have any. 281 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:13,000 Any skill, any, any material, you don't, you don't have 282 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,120 anything that God didn't give you, right. 283 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:20,640 So when we agree to, to spend time with him, when we agree to 284 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,600 give it back to him, all of that stuff is just recognizing that 285 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,200 it's his to begin with. So there's never a works 286 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,240 mentality. I heard a pastor and he was, he 287 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,960 was, it was actually a good illustration. 288 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,400 So I stole it. So he's got a brand new truck 289 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,560 and said, so there's this guy sitting down in the front row. 290 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,240 He goes, so if I gave this guy my truck, I'm not going to give 291 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,880 you my truck. But if I gave this guy my truck 292 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,160 to use and he's going to use it for a few weeks and he's using 293 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:53,680 my truck and in my brand new truck and and then in a in a 294 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,560 week and 1/2 he comes over, he says, Hey, Pastor Jovi, I got 295 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,000 something for you. And and he hands me the keys to 296 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,160 my truck. I'm like, what are you doing? 297 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,280 It's my truck, but you're giving me my that that's not giving me 298 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:05,920 anything. That's how God thinks about 299 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,760 giving. Just so you guys know, right, 300 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:11,640 It's it's not it's God's already given it all to us. 301 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,240 It's his to use as we need it. Yes, he needs it used. 302 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,160 That is his relationship with us, right? 303 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,160 What he wants, he want your stuff. 304 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,000 He doesn't want he doesn't want your your obedience. 305 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,520 You know, I mean, all of that is byproducts to he wants you. 306 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,840 He wants he wants you to understand that Carl, that 307 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,400 picture of the Jesus and the guy sitting at the benches. 308 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,400 He wants you to understand that he just wants to talk with you. 309 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,880 He wants to sit with you and, and it was worth his son on a 310 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,200 cross to do it, right. I mean, it wasn't like it cost 311 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,320 him nothing for that conversation. 312 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:00,920 And so then for us to think that it's something I have to do is 313 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,720 heartbreaking to him. No, Do you understand what I did 314 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,040 for that? And so then, then I'm going to 315 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,920 get into with this. Now we know why we get to pray. 316 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,280 Now I'm going to give you some nuts and bolts, bolts. 317 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:20,240 If your prayer life is feeling less than but I don't want you 318 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,280 guys to take this and go so now that now I got work to do 319 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,400 because it doesn't work. But in Nehemiah, Nehemiah goes 320 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,720 through a process of just spending time with the Lord and 321 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,800 this is Nehemiah one verse 4. So it was when I heard these 322 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,200 words that I sat down and wept and mourned for many days. 323 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,200 I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven. 324 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,720 So get quiet and get along, right? 325 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:56,360 The Lord of all the things he is, he will not yell over the 326 00:22:56,360 --> 00:23:01,400 noise, right? I, I am, I am as guilty as 327 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,480 anybody. So it's why you probably get to 328 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:09,640 hear about social media or just phones in general. 329 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,400 They are, they're, they're no different than money, right? 330 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,640 Their love of money is root of all evil. 331 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,640 Well, the love of phones, the love of technology will suck you 332 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,440 in. And it it's it's just you're 333 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,800 instead of being quiet and alone, you have, you have a 334 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,800 background of noise in the background of your phone. 335 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:38,280 Charlie Kirk shared a or somebody shared a video of 336 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,880 Charlie Kirk. I guess I'll say that. 337 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,800 And he was talking about why it's important to have your 338 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,640 Bible and not not use your phone. 339 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:52,600 And I've never actually mean he's better at saying things is 340 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,200 probably why. But I've never actually been 341 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,280 able to put my finger on why, you know, because your phone is 342 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,920 way easier, right? I mean, I can whip my phone out 343 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,160 and I can get to a verse. I'm, I'm quite quick at it, 344 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,640 right? I, I know my way around my Bible 345 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,840 app really well. The difference is when I have my 346 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,720 Bible, when I have my Bible, my Bible has a weight to it. 347 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:19,400 And the only thing, but shockingly, the only thing I do 348 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,640 in my Bible is, is read it and take notes, right? 349 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,920 This is what I'm doing when I'm in my Bible. 350 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,880 Anybody, the only thing you do is on your phone is read your 351 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,760 Bible, right, The weight of your phone. 352 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,240 So it's, it's kind of having, it's like when you go to pray 353 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,960 and having a place that you pray. 354 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,840 Well, when you're reading the word of God, having a place that 355 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,200 you do that and that is in your, your Bible, right. 356 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,640 When you're, when you're on your phone, there are even if there 357 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,840 are not distractions like you've, well, I put it on 358 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:55,120 airplane mode, but just having it in your hand, your, your mind 359 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:59,960 knows all the other things you do on your phone, right? 360 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:04,680 And so it's God is not willing to yell over the noise. 361 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,760 He, he wants. I mean, and if you think about 362 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,720 it, you're not willing to yell over the noise, right? 363 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,520 If if somebody is talking to you or you are talking to somebody 364 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,840 and they get their phone like you're in the middle of a 365 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,040 conversation and they go, uh huh, uh huh. 366 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:25,880 Are they? Do you feel like you're being 367 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,920 listened to? OK, so the Holy Spirit isn't 368 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,200 playing that game right. He just isn't. 369 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,080 And and this isn't a this is not a condemnation on any of our any 370 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,600 of us, probably more on myself. It is something that that I 371 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,240 like. I have to put my phone off in 372 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,040 another place, right so that I'm not messing with it because it's 373 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:57,600 they play games on it and I waste time and so be in your 374 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,320 word, but get by and along with the Lord, open your Bible and 375 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,680 say, Lord, what do you have to say to me today? 376 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,160 You know, you get that. I mean, he wants to talk to us. 377 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,680 I mean to the point, like I said to everything it cost him. 378 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,360 He wants you to have that. He wants that relationship. 379 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,160 Verse 5 and Nehemiah says they said, I pray, Lord God of 380 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:29,080 heaven, oh great and awesome God, you who keep your covenant 381 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,800 and mercy with those who love you and observe your 382 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,040 commandments. So it never hurts to remember 383 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,760 who you're talking to. I mean, God already knows who he 384 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,360 is, right? So you're not telling him 385 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:43,920 anything when you're praying like that. 386 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,080 Nehemiah wasn't telling him anything. 387 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,160 It was just remembering who you're talking to that you truly 388 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,000 do get to talk to the Lord of the Universe. 389 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:59,000 I was talking to Mark after his message last week and talking 390 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,440 about the fact that I'd already had this plan and he's really 391 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:07,640 lined up with it. But if, if I told you guys that 392 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,800 I just got a phone call from the president and he would like me 393 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,720 to give him a call every morning and he was going to give me a 394 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,440 download of what was going on in the world and things that I 395 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,240 could help with and that kind of stuff, do you think I'd make 396 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,960 that phone call in the morning, right? 397 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,760 I mean, would you guys encourage me to make that phone call in 398 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,080 the morning? So we the, the president of the 399 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,000 United States is a big deal on earth. 400 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:45,680 God is a big deal everywhere, right? 401 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:51,560 And we, we have a God that wants to talk to us and remembering 402 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:56,040 who he is and how much power he has and what he can do when 403 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,680 we're praying is an awesome place to get to. 404 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:03,520 Verse 6, it says, please let your ear be attentive and your 405 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,080 eyes open that you may hear the prayers of your servant, which I 406 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:12,880 pray before you now day and night for your children of 407 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,720 Israel, your servants, and confess the sins of the children 408 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,760 of Israel, Israel, which we have sinned against you both my 409 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,040 father's house and I have sinned. 410 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:31,240 So remember that yes, Jesus died for my sin and he, he, he did it 411 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:36,800 once forever on the altar. But when I come to the Lord, I 412 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,040 need to, I need to be clean, right? 413 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,240 I need to say, Lord, what is there between me and you? 414 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,480 And I'll guarantee if there's anything between me and the 415 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:51,480 Lord, it's my, my issue, right? It's I've, I've said no 416 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,960 somewhere in my heart, Lord, I don't want to talk about that. 417 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,920 I don't, I don't, you know, I Peter, Peter on the roof when he 418 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:04,200 said not so Lord, you know, and if you, if you dissect that 419 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,240 sentence, it makes no sense. You know, Lord means I'm going 420 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,720 to do anything you tell me to do. 421 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,160 And then you're going to start off with no Lord. 422 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:23,760 So but when we're praying to to have that open heart, Lord is 423 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,080 there because, because guys, we are sinners. 424 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,480 We are sinners to our core. Our hearts are dreadfully 425 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,400 wicked. And so if you're meeting with 426 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,640 the Lord on a regular basis and you and he isn't pointing out 427 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,840 sin, you're not praying hard enough because there's something 428 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,920 that you got something going on, right? 429 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,680 It might be selfishness, might be pride, It could be all kinds 430 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,600 of different little things, but you got something right. 431 00:29:53,960 --> 00:30:02,320 And then verse 7, we have attacked, we have acted very 432 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,320 corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments and 433 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,400 statutes nor ordinances which you commanded your servants. 434 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,040 Moses. Just always remember that our 435 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,640 dirt isn't hidden right? I, I, I say that that's 436 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,920 Colossians 323 do everything as unto the Lord and not to men. 437 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,160 And I can stand in this room and I can tell you, you know, I live 438 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,640 that verse. You know, who knows whether I'm 439 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,880 living that verse? God, because it doesn't matter 440 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,160 if you guys think that I'm, I'm holy and above reproach. 441 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,720 God knows where my heart's at. He knows if I'm falling short, 442 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:46,920 if I'm ignoring him, right? And so having that open heart 443 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:52,880 with him, that's like, Lord, change me from the inside out, 444 00:30:53,040 --> 00:31:00,200 cleanse me of my iniquity. And then verse 8 says, remember, 445 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,040 I pray the word that you commanded your servant Moses 446 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,360 saying if you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the 447 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,120 nations. But if you return to me and keep 448 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:14,680 my commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out 449 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,400 to the farthest parts of heaven, yet I will gather them from 450 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,080 there and bring them into a place which I have chosen as a 451 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,880 dwelling for my name. So it's important for us to be 452 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,840 in His word because there are promises in there. 453 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,360 There are promises in there that you can, you can pray out loud. 454 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,080 That doesn't mean God doesn't already know the promise, right? 455 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,680 You're not holding his feet to the fire suddenly and saying, 456 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,120 Lord, you said you have to do it. 457 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,640 He knows what he promises, but it's good for you to know. 458 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,760 You know, it is, it is a, it is a solid place for us to stand 459 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:03,640 proclaiming his truth and praying through the word, right? 460 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,640 I, I do this, I do this quite a bit when I don't have when, when 461 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,440 my prayers feel like they're bouncing off the ceilings, 462 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,760 ceiling. And then I just get along with 463 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:19,280 him and, and go through the word and, and just reword it and, and 464 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,360 pray through it and say, Lord, I'm not hearing you. 465 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,720 And it's because somewhere in here, there's a disconnect and 466 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,280 it's in me because that's the thing guys, is that he's in this 467 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,840 room right now. If you gave your life to Jesus, 468 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,560 he's in you right now. And if there's a disconnect and 469 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,760 you're not hearing him, it's it's about you getting quiet and 470 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,080 alone. It's not him. 471 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,480 He's with you. He's there. 472 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,440 He wants to talk to you, but he's a still small voice. 473 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,000 Like last week with with Mark's study and Daniel. 474 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,560 I always say that, that that set of study or that section of 475 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,760 Scripture, if you guys didn't hear, he's going through Daniel 476 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,840 when Daniel started to pray and 21 days later Gabriel got to him 477 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:09,280 and said, so I started coming when you started praying and it 478 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,560 took him 21 days because he was opposed. 479 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:17,440 And guys, your prayers matter not because God couldn't just 480 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,440 snap his fingers and Gabriel's with Daniel. 481 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,040 God can do it however he wants to, right? 482 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,840 But somehow, some way, for some reason, he decided the way to do 483 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,280 it, the way to do this spiritual warfare, the the battle that we 484 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:39,320 can't see is through our prayers and angels obedience, right? 485 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:45,640 And Daniel's prayers matter. I mean, for whatever reason, 486 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,360 however that works, but that means your prayers matter like 487 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,480 that, right? Is, is that there is that battle 488 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,880 going on and we get to be involved. 489 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,800 We get to have those conversations and they matter. 490 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,600 And then verse 10 Now these are your servants and your people 491 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,880 whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong 492 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,320 hand. Oh Lord, I pray, please let your 493 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,239 ear be attentive to the prayers of your servants and the prayers 494 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,480 of your servants who desire to fear your name, and let your 495 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:22,120 servants prosper this day. I pray and grant him mercy in 496 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,000 the sight of this man, for I was the King's cupbearer. 497 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:37,800 So a couple things about prayer that to the Jesus's era. 498 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:43,120 So the 1st century Rome, if you gave your life to the Lord and 499 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:52,880 you are a slave to Jesus in Rome in the 1st century, it was it 500 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:58,200 was required by law for a slave owner to feed his slaves. 501 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,440 You ever you ever ask him for things and and wonder whether 502 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,360 he's going to give them to you. It was required by law to house 503 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:14,440 or to shelter his their slaves. And by law it was it was that 504 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,760 they were ordered by law to direct or give the slaves of 505 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,080 purpose. So my question with that is, if 506 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:28,040 a slave owner of the Roman Empire was required by law to do 507 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,000 those three things, don't you think just by default God is 508 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,880 going to do those three things, right? 509 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,600 He's going to, he's going to take care of your how you eat. 510 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,240 He's going to take care of how you stay warm and he's going to 511 00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:44,640 give you a purpose. Now, what are we 9 times out of 512 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,480 10 when we're praying, what are we praying about those things, 513 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,720 right? And that doesn't mean that he 514 00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:54,160 doesn't want to hear from us and that he doesn't enjoy any of 515 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,960 those conversations. But if every time I talk to to 516 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,360 Faye or every time Faye talked to me, all she did was ask how 517 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,920 are we going to eat tonight? How are we going to eat tonight? 518 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,080 How are we going to eat tonight when there's food in the fridge 519 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,560 and there's money in the bank account or where are we going to 520 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:12,640 sleep tonight? Where are we going to sleep 521 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:13,560 tonight? Where are we going to sleep 522 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,960 tonight when there's a nice warm trailer and, and a made bed, 523 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,160 right? What are we going to do today? 524 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,160 What are we going to do today when we have lots to do? 525 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:28,120 Trust me. My point there is, is that 526 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,600 that's we, we get hung up on those three things and God has 527 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,480 so much more for us. He has so much relationship that 528 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,760 he wants to have with us that he wants to talk to you about your, 529 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,880 your hopes and your dreams. He wants to have that that 530 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:49,800 relationship that is, is a caring father, a caring friend. 531 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,440 And it's it's something we get to do. 532 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,920 We don't have to go to work to do it. 533 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,280 As a Christian, we did not get saved into rules. 534 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:06,160 And so many religions out there are and all other religions are 535 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,200 rule based. You have to do this, you have to 536 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:16,200 do this, you have to do this and and Jesus says, no, you have to 537 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:23,800 love me and we were saved. We were literally saved into 538 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,280 time with our Lord. That's what we were saved into 539 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,320 is, is to be able to spend time with him. 540 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:37,160 Galatians 518 through 23 says, but if you sorry it isn't, it's 541 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,040 18 and 22, I'm sorry. But if you are led by the 542 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,680 Spirit, you are not under the law in verse 22, but the fruit 543 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:50,360 of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, 544 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,280 goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 545 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,080 Against such there is no law. When you gave your life to the 546 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:04,000 Lord, that's what He gave you. He gave you love, He gave you 547 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,960 joy, He gave you peace and on and on. 548 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,800 And it's a get to you get to have joy, you get to have peace, 549 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:20,480 you get to have love. So as we, as we close today, 550 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,800 dwell on that, spend some time knowing how awesome our God is 551 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,960 that he really is truly that big and he really, truly does love 552 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,400 you that much that all he wants to do is spend time with you. 553 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,760 He doesn't want you following a bunch of rules to spend time 554 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,880 with him. He just wants to spend time with 555 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,040 you. So Lord, I just thank you for 556 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,320 everybody here. I thank you for this time. 557 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,000 I thank you that you're here with us now. 558 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,000 And Lord, that you just want to hear from us whether you would 559 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,440 guide and direct us through our week that you would put 560 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,560 appointments in front of us, Lord, that we would have 561 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,920 opportunities to share you with other people. 562 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,000 I pray this all in Jesus name, Amen.