1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,200 Today we're going to be back in James, we're going to be in, 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,000 we're going to be going through 22 to 25. 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,120 And I told I told Carl this morning. 4 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:14,120 So I keep coming up with cornier titles just because they're fun 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,280 to come up with. The goal is to have a corny 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,720 title and a good message, not a good message or not a good title 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,840 and a corny message that you know, I'm hoping the message is 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:28,920 better than the title, but but the power of a balloon right And 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,800 what is that? What am I even talking about? 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,600 We're actually and he doesn't have it, but God put this this 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,320 is we're in James, but I'm going to read in first Peter to start 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,000 with and it's chapter one, verse 3. 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,680 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 14 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,080 According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again 15 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,720 to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,040 from the dead to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled 17 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:02,760 and unfaded, fading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,840 power are being guarded through faith for salvation, ready to be 19 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,040 revealed in the last times. In this you rejoice through, 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,600 though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been 21 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:20,080 grieved with various trials, so that the tested genuineness of 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:25,120 your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though it is 23 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,920 tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and 24 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,280 honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,240 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. 26 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:40,160 Though you do not know, now see him, you believe in Him and 27 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:46,160 rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:51,520 glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of 29 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,640 your soul. So, Lord, I just lift up, lift 30 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:58,400 up the day I lift up this time that you'd be here, Lord, that 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,800 you would speak to us and that you would show us your word, 32 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,120 that you would guide and direct us, Lord, that you would fill us 33 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,000 with your spirit. And I pray all this in Jesus 34 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,320 name, Amen. And I just that passage in Peter 35 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,000 just shows us how much continuity is in the Bible when 36 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,120 you as well as we went through James. 37 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,560 I don't know if you read if you're listening to that passage 38 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,120 and Peter how much what he's saying. 39 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:29,840 James is saying of just seeing the author and finisher of our 40 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:34,760 faith and knowing that we can go through anything because we know 41 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,240 the author and he's telling the story. 42 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,800 But picking up in verse 22, chapter 1 of James, it says, But 43 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,200 be doers of the word, and not hearers only deceiving 44 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,640 yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the 45 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,800 word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his 46 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,720 natural face in the mirror, for he looks at himself and goes 47 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,960 away, and at once forgets what he was like. 48 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,840 But the one who looks into the perfect law and the law of 49 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,000 liberty and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer 50 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:16,280 who acts he will be blessed in his doing so that verse 22 but 51 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,240 the doer but be doers of the world word and not hearers only 52 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:25,200 deceiving yourselves. Now I want to this is going to 53 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,920 be I'm going to beat this verse up a while so don't be deceived 54 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:34,000 playing churches not being a doer of the word right being in 55 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,800 Christ meanings means his light is reflecting off of this to 56 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:44,520 always remember that when I gave my life to Jesus, I didn't add 57 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,120 to that light. I didn't I didn't bring light 58 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,880 into his Kingdom. I just reflect his light. 59 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:57,240 Matthew 721 through 23 or some guys that that we would look at 60 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,760 from the outside and go there. They they know the Lord they're 61 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,680 believers. Verse 21. 62 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,040 It says not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter the 63 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,720 Kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my father 64 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,000 who is in heaven and it's verse 22. 65 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,600 It says on that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we 66 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,240 not prophecy in your name, cast out demons in your name and do 67 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,000 mighty works in your name. And then I will declare to them, 68 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,640 I never knew you depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. 69 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,600 So how does that work? They were doing all these things 70 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,000 right? They they did so much in his 71 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,840 name and I like that if you go to Luke chapter 10, Jesus really 72 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,240 explains this in a, in a, in a way, because he's Jesus and he 73 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,120 does a really good job of explaining himself. 74 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,560 If you just read starting in verse one after this, the Lord 75 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,800 appointed 72 others and sent them on ahead of him two by two 76 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,880 in every town and place where he himself was about to go. 77 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,520 And he said to them, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers 78 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,320 are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the 79 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,960 Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest. 80 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,760 Go your way. Behold, I am sending you out as 81 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:21,560 lambs a month midst of wolves. So Jesus sent them out to go be 82 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,800 doers, right? He gave them direct instruction 83 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,320 in, in verses 14 or 4 through 16, which we're not going to go 84 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:31,200 through. You guys can read that for 85 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:37,760 yourself, but they come back in chapter or in verse 17 and verse 86 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:42,280 17, they're excited. The 72 returned with joy saying, 87 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:47,280 Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name and 88 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,320 they were excited about all the things they have done right, 89 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,440 which we would be excited if they've been if I've been 90 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,320 casting out demons and and doing all this stuff. 91 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,440 But verse 18 he responds to them, and he says to them, I saw 92 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,440 Satan fall like a light, like lightning from heaven. 93 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,840 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents 94 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:09,360 and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing 95 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,160 shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in 96 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:17,080 this that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that 97 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,120 your names are written in heaven. 98 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,560 So our job is to keep focus on him. 99 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:27,840 Is he going to do things? Absolutely. 100 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,640 But at no point the the guys in in verse 7 got the idea that 101 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,040 they were doing something and they weren't doing anything, but 102 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:43,680 Jesus was doing it right. Jesus gives them caution about 103 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,880 it and says don't get excited about the work. 104 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,680 Be excited about the master that's sending you to do it. 105 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,720 So that brings us to the title, the power of a balloon. 106 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,080 So a hot air balloon flies because of the fire, right? 107 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,040 There's a, if you guys know how a hot air balloon works, There's 108 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,160 there, there are, I don't know if it's propane tanks or natural 109 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,480 gas tanks that and then there's a burner and it, it blows hot 110 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,600 air into the balloon. And the balloon because of the 111 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,200 hot air is lighter than the cold air. 112 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,800 It, it lifts. If the balloon was to say, 113 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:25,280 without me, the fire could not fly, that is, the balloon has 114 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:29,040 lost its purpose, right? Because its purpose is to be 115 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:30,720 filled with the heat of the fire. 116 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,440 The fire's purpose is to heat the flying. 117 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,520 It is not the fly, right? The fire's. 118 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,120 The fire's purpose is not flight. 119 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,560 Now the balloon's purpose is flight, and it needs the fire to 120 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:54,000 do it. God's purpose is to be the I am 121 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,920 that I am the All in all to be God. 122 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:03,840 My purpose is to be used by him. When I get to thinking that the 123 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,720 the doing that I'm doing is my purpose that I'm losing, I'm 124 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,120 losing focus on what's important. 125 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,920 If we when you move on, I like how the Bible is always, you can 126 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,960 always look at context, right? And as you're going through. 127 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:29,600 So when you get to Luke 10, verses 38 through 42, it's kind 128 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,919 of funny that after he went through that with the disciples, 129 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,440 now he's going to go to Mary and Martha and he's going to talk to 130 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,600 Martha, right? And, and Martha is an example of 131 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,159 our selfish nature on display because I think we can all be 132 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:46,640 this person without much effort at all. 133 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,640 And verse 38 it says Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered 134 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,040 a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her 135 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,240 house. And she had a sister called Mary 136 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,400 who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. 137 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,720 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she went up to 138 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,720 him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me 139 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,160 to serve alone? Tell her then to help me. 140 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,800 But the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious 141 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,920 and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. 142 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,200 Mary has chosen the good portion which will not be taken away 143 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,760 from her. And we because we're reading 144 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,000 this 2000 years later and we know the answer, right? 145 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,320 Well, Martha's just making a mistake and we need to be like 146 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,480 Mary now be honest with yourself. 147 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:42,320 Which one do you like right. We want, I mean, I understand 148 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,880 Martha, right? I mean this in this building it 149 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,040 take Matt was just talking about serving, right? 150 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,920 It takes bodies to serve it. You know, there, there is work 151 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,960 to be done, but why are you doing it? 152 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,080 You know, it's in. And that's really where Martha 153 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,160 ran into problem is why was she doing it? 154 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,760 I mean, Martha wouldn't do anything wrong, right? 155 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:10,280 This famous rabbi comes to her house and she needs to serve him 156 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,280 and his his apostles food. And there's there's there he 157 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,080 goes with the crowd everywhere. So there's, there's work to be 158 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:21,080 done, but where was her heart in doing it, right? 159 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,160 And this is where Martha's rebuke came from. 160 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,640 Martha was rebuked for serving with a grumbling heart, right? 161 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:33,680 It's if, if God asks you to serve, first of all, when I 162 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:37,040 stand up here and teach, the last thing I want to do is teach 163 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,920 what Nick has to say. My, my request to him is if you 164 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,920 got to throw, if you got to crumple up my study and throw it 165 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,600 away, Lord, do that. But make sure that I'm, I'm, I'm 166 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,240 telling them what you want them to hear. 167 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:54,920 And I want to be out of the way, but that, that goes for serving 168 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,880 coffee or greeting or shoveling snow, right? 169 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,560 Because all those things are going to happen and they don't 170 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:03,360 need to happen. But why are we doing them? 171 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:07,120 And I'll let you know if it's, if we're going to go, let's, 172 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:13,440 let's use the a firewood day. If, if you want, if there, 173 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,880 there's a day that we're going to go and see a bunch of guys 174 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,520 and we're going to stack firewood all day. 175 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,840 And you go because it's a requirement and you feel like 176 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,680 you have to go do it, but you're dreading it. 177 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,920 Don't bother. Because that isn't the heart 178 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:28,680 that Jesus is looking for, right? 179 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,440 And it's, it's really focused on him. 180 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:37,280 And that is our, it's about the reason for doing the work. 181 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:43,240 You know, the 72 that went out and came back excited, he 182 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,040 compared he, he threw a line in there about Satan. 183 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,400 And if, if you listen to that, it was that Satan got 184 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,360 distracted. If you, if you know the story of 185 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,320 Satan, he was Lucifer. He would been the, he would have 186 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,960 been the, the leader of the worship to the Lord. 187 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,280 And he got in his head that he was doing something that that he 188 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,040 was important in the room because when he looked at when 189 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,280 he looked at the Angel worship in the Lord, they were, they 190 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,760 were worshipping towards him. And, and Luke can probably vouch 191 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,960 for this. In the worship community, there 192 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,360 are guys that get that distracted, right, that they get 193 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,920 to thinking that that they're worshipping if they're not 194 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,440 worshipping them, but they're, they're important, right? 195 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,760 If you guys have ever been to a Shane and Shane concert, one of 196 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,600 the Shane and Shane is a duet of guys. 197 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:43,000 And they are, I don't know them personally, but they're the way 198 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,200 they do their concerts are very how you would, how you would 199 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:55,480 want to be seen doing that. So they are very unassuming as 200 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,160 far as they want you to worship the Lord, right? 201 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,800 They go through Psalms and do stuff, but at the end when it's 202 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,400 when everybody's clapping and stuff before they, I mean, like 203 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,720 they fade off the stage before they even start. 204 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,600 I mean, these guys don't want you excited because they showed 205 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:13,880 up. They want you excited because 206 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:19,360 Jesus is in the room, right? And that's, that is the desire 207 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,960 every day, right. Back to the balloon. 208 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,920 And like I said in the balloon thing that I'm, I'll give you 209 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:33,720 the whole picture of so hot air balloon blies because of the 210 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,720 fire. And if the like I said, if the 211 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,000 hot air balloon got the idea that it was doing something 212 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 because it was carrying the fire, it would be losing its 213 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,640 purpose. And a hot air balloon, like we 214 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,480 saw in the pictures, can sit on the ground and I can get a fan 215 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,160 and I can get a generator and I can I can blow up the balloon. 216 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:56,800 But will it ever take flight? Does it look like it will take 217 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:57,960 flight? Absolutely. 218 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,960 Does it look like all the other balloons while they're sitting 219 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:01,480 on the ground? Absolutely. 220 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:09,320 If I am, if I'm 2000 feet in the air and I throw the fire out and 221 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:14,960 I fire up my fan, I'm no longer flying, I'm just falling, right? 222 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:21,600 So it's important for us to recognize when it says be doers 223 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:27,040 of the word, what are you doing? And what you're doing is what he 224 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,240 says to do. And that I mean, I was, I was 225 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,840 talking to some of the other day and they've got a choice to make 226 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:35,640 in in their life. They're they're at a crossroads. 227 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:47,810 Sorry, that thing isn't loud. They've got a choice to make and 228 00:14:47,890 --> 00:14:50,090 I can share with them. And and they have they have the 229 00:14:50,090 --> 00:14:56,090 right to make either choice. Like biblically they are, 230 00:14:56,090 --> 00:14:58,330 they're good if they go left, they're good if they go right. 231 00:14:59,290 --> 00:15:01,090 And I said and, and there are going to be people out there 232 00:15:01,090 --> 00:15:04,520 that give you advice for the left or the right. 233 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,160 What I'm telling you is you need to get along with the Lord and 234 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:13,440 you need to ask him to speak. And The thing is, guys, we serve 235 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:19,800 a living God, a living God who loves you and isn't hiding from 236 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,080 you, right? He wants to speak to you, He 237 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,480 wants to talk to you, but he isn't willing to yell at us, 238 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,400 right. He that still small voice, which 239 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,600 which takes us getting quiet, getting alone and and being 240 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:44,500 serious about the questions. So in verse 7 or sorry, chap 241 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:48,860 back in back in Chapter 7 of Matthew, when we were talking 242 00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:52,180 about the guys that he didn't know, they were focused on the 243 00:15:52,180 --> 00:15:56,620 work. They were focused on the on the 244 00:15:56,620 --> 00:15:57,940 heat. They were focused on the 245 00:15:57,940 --> 00:16:04,440 appearance of the balloon blown up, not the fire, right? 246 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,120 And what we need to be focused on, and I'm going to now I'm 247 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,680 going to start doing this back and forth to try and keep it 248 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,240 square, is the capital D doer, right? 249 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,400 There is a, there's a capital D doer. 250 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,040 And then we're the lowercase doings, right? 251 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,960 That we, we go do what he says to do, right? 252 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,880 And he's, he's the big one. And if we're following him and 253 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,600 we understand that what I do doesn't matter, right? 254 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,960 Anybody could stand up here on a Sunday morning if God's telling 255 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,600 me to do it, right? Luke and Jessica, anybody can 256 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,560 worship up there. Because the idea is that you 257 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,040 guys are worshiping the Lord, right? 258 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,800 It's, it's not, we are not special people. 259 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,880 We're just obedient. And being obedient doers of the 260 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:55,680 Word requires a couple things. First and foremost, you need to 261 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,360 be in Christ. Second, you need to read the 262 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,040 Word right. You can't you can't do what the 263 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,880 word says. If you were here on Sunday and 264 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,280 then you close your Bible and you're not reading it Monday 265 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,000 through Friday, Monday through Saturday, right? 266 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:13,560 So there are some requirements, but not those requirements do 267 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,720 not get you saved. Those requirements help you 268 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:20,079 grow, right? They help you fly with the 269 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:22,440 power, right? The power, like I said, it's a 270 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,839 corny, corny title, but it it's just the picture God gave me is 271 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:32,360 is he is that he is that heat that he's that heat and we can 272 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:34,720 get warm, we can reflect his light. 273 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,200 We can do, but I can't be the fire. 274 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:51,800 So Paul talks about this to the Corinthians. 275 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,360 He rebukes them actually, because they get in their heads 276 00:17:56,360 --> 00:18:00,680 that he was somebody special or Apollos was somebody special. 277 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:06,040 And what he reminds them is that dead people, he doesn't say it 278 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,400 like this, but dead people don't, don't brag about their 279 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,600 burial clothes. They don't they don't talk about 280 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,760 how good the coffin looked coming up to the stage, right? 281 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,600 Because Paul talks about the old self dies and the new self lives 282 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,400 in Christ. And, and that's that old self is 283 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,160 remembering always that I got nothing. 284 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,040 And I know I'm going to, I'm going to beat that up. 285 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:38,400 But guys, we are not we, we live in a self help world that if I 286 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,760 just say the right thing, if I just do the right thing, there's 287 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,160 there's a method, there's a brain hack, there's, there's a, 288 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,440 a body hack, there's some way to, to fix the system. 289 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,680 And I'm telling you that there is only one way to be in Christ. 290 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:57,400 There's only one way to be a doer, and that's for him to do 291 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,120 the work in you and him doing the work in you. 292 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,440 Is is work like walking up like a sheep walks uphill following a 293 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,560 shepherd, right? Is there work there, but the 294 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,240 sheep is just following the shepherd? 295 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,880 First Corinthians 3-4 and eight. This is Paul really rebuking the 296 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:22,640 Corinthians about about trying to be really denominational is 297 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,360 kind of the the they're just picking and choosing what they 298 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:29,960 want to hear and they say and he says for when one says I follow 299 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,040 Paul and another says I follow Apollos. 300 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,280 Are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos and what is 301 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,960 Paul servants through whom you believed as the Lord assigned to 302 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,160 each. I planted Apollo's water, but 303 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,000 God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he 304 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,560 who waters is anything but only God who gives the growth. 305 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,240 He who plants and he who waters are one. 306 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,240 Each will receive his wages according to his labor. 307 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:07,560 So win or lose, we praise Jesus. If we are successful in this 308 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,400 life that Christ is giving us. Christ is to blame. 309 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:18,160 And the the success in a life with Christ is the peace that 310 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:22,000 comes with it, not the winning. I always say Pi, always. 311 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,960 That was my. My learning lesson, you guys 312 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,280 have already heard the story, but my learning lesson was 313 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,200 having a job that I was doing everything as unto the Lord and 314 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:38,200 not to men and I did that for most of my well, it's one of my 315 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,280 first verses that God gave me and and that's how I worked and 316 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,160 I always came out smelling like a rose. 317 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,480 I just went up and up in my company and I, I'm doing great. 318 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,960 And then I had a job that was kind of set up to fail and I 319 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,840 wasn't worried. I'd been on job set up to fail 320 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,200 before and I did everything under the Lord and came out 321 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,560 smelling like a rose. Well, this job I lost and I lost 322 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,320 bad. It was there was we, we can't, 323 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,960 we came in $100,000 in the hole and when we were done with the 324 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,600 job, I was probably $75,000 in the hole. 325 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,640 So I gained $25,000. But we were still, it was a lost 326 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,160 job. And if it could go wrong, it 327 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,680 went wrong. And my pastor at the time, 328 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,320 Pastor Mitch in the tri-cities, I, I shared the whole that I got 329 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,880 three days off because I had been my Superintendent and got 330 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,040 in a screaming match. And if you are going to get in a 331 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,440 screaming match with your boss, odds are good you're probably 332 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:38,600 going to spend some time at home. 333 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:46,720 And I was, I was like righteous indignation. 334 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,320 I did not. I was, I was doing my best and 335 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,680 and my and Mitch looks at me and goes, see, you don't like to 336 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:58,320 lose and I don't anybody here like to lose. 337 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:05,280 But what our job is is to do everything as unto the Lord. 338 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:12,640 Our job is not to win, right? It's it's it's God might ask me 339 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:17,080 to do something that I'm going to fail miserably at. 340 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,240 And the reason he asked me to do it and knowing that I was going 341 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:25,440 to fail is because he needed somebody to see that he might 342 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,920 even have needed me to learn from that, which I would tell 343 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:33,040 you, that's probably why I've had that is to learn how to 344 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,160 fail. But to learn how to fail still 345 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,200 standing in Christ, right, because that was the whole 346 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,400 conversation me and the Lord had on that whole thing was when it 347 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,200 came down to it, he said, Nick, did you lie? 348 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,560 Did you cheat? Did you steal? 349 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,400 Were you being manipulative? And I'd say no, no, no, because 350 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:52,440 what's your problem? Because I wasn't, I wasn't 351 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,160 guilty of, of doing it wrong. I was just losing. 352 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,640 And if you're, if you're where God wants you to be, doing what 353 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,120 God wants you to do, losing's an option. 354 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,680 You, you can go through the whole list of apostles and see 355 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,280 where they ended up right? In the world, in the world's 356 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,360 view, they were losing. Jesus asked if this cup could be 357 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,720 removed from him and in the world views he went and lost, 358 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,720 right? But he didn't lose and the 359 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:30,320 fossils didn't lose. It's do you trust the God that 360 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:36,040 we serve when he says go and do, do you have to do you do you do 361 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,680 it out of selfish reasons? Right. 362 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:44,200 It's it's that the the kids that say I'm sitting down, I'm 363 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,760 sitting down on the outside, but in my heart I'm standing up. 364 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,280 I'm I'm serving others, but I'm grumpy with all of them. 365 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,960 That isn't the heart you ever want to have, right? 366 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,680 You want to serve just like that. 367 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,760 We were come up a couple times being a cheerful giver or a 368 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,680 hilarious giver. Well, you want to be a hilarious 369 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,840 server, right? There is a joy in serving others 370 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,880 and and if you don't have that, ask the Lord to give it to you 371 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,120 and that that's serving others at work, that's serving others 372 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,600 here, that's serving others in the community, that's taking 373 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,880 care of the guy in front of you in the traffic jam or in the 374 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,840 grocery store line. There is a joy of taking care of 375 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:27,720 others and ask the Lord to give you that right. 376 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:34,920 That's part of being a doer is being a doer of his will in your 377 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,480 life, but keeping your eyes focused on him. 378 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,440 Think about the guy in the basket of the balloon. 379 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:46,560 If he was working to fly, does does he do any work to fly a 380 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:47,920 balloon? Now everybody, he had their 381 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,640 skill like flying an airplane, their skill and there's that 382 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,400 stuff. But if his skill is not what got 383 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,680 him off the ground, the fire did right? 384 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,760 So you can be a pastor, a teacher can be very skillful and 385 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,200 understand the Bible backwards and forwards, but if he's not 386 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:11,640 doing it in in Christ, he is, he is not where God wants him to be 387 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,000 doing what God wants him to do back-to-back to the guys. 388 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,080 You know, we cast out many demons in your name. 389 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,480 We we did all these things and I didn't know you. 390 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:30,680 It's leaning into his plan for your life is the doing. 391 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:38,360 And if you get back to the, the sheep, sheep trust their 392 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:42,560 shepherd, right? They, they follow their shepherd 393 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,880 up hills, down, down into valleys. 394 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,960 They do water crossings. They even, they even weather 395 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,360 wolf attacks with their shepherd because they trust their 396 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:57,840 shepherd. And that's that listening to the 397 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,200 Lord and all that you do is because guys, I don't know if 398 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,720 you know this, but they're, they're struggles in your life 399 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,840 that come up that the world. I mean, losing a job, having, 400 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,400 having any catastrophe going on your life, you have a living God 401 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,080 living inside you. If you're a believer that gives 402 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:23,080 you a piece that the world doesn't have and and can't 403 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,880 understand. They can, they can watch and go. 404 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,160 Why aren't you freaking out? And that's something we need to 405 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,680 remember as we look at world events, whatever they are, 406 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,440 whether whether there's the guy we like or the guy we don't like 407 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:39,600 in office or there is, there are there is turmoil around the 408 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,600 world, the World War Three's comet, whatever. 409 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:47,080 The thing is, guys, remember there is a capital D doer in 410 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:47,920 charge. All of it. 411 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,520 It's his story. We're in it, but it's not my 412 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,600 story. It's his story. 413 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,600 And when I understand that, then I can now they're still, there 414 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,680 are still things to do, right? We're supposed to vote. 415 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,160 We, we can be active in all the things, but we don't have to get 416 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,160 stressed out about it. We can rest in the fact that he 417 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,760 has a plan. And one of my favorites that I 418 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,360 just to throw out my political side that I like to poke at my, 419 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,080 my friends about, said, does everybody believe that Joe Biden 420 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,200 was the president that God wanted in office? 421 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,400 Now I can, I can, I could probably start an eruption in 422 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,240 here, but the bottom line is absolutely, because God's in 423 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,960 charge. And if you didn't want him 424 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,440 there, he wouldn't have been there, right? 425 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,800 That does. I would say he was the president 426 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,360 what he deserved. But that's that's my country in 427 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:42,840 a in a nutshell. But that is don't ever think 428 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:49,080 that the big conspiracy or the big thing has outdone the Lord 429 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:51,720 and suddenly he doesn't know what's coming next. 430 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:57,760 You know when you when you hit a wall, it's I will comes seems to 431 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,080 come up all the time, but that's when I was going through my 432 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:05,640 divorce and I sat down with my ex now and I said 21 years ago 433 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,600 when we got married, neither one of us knew we were going to be 434 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,760 sitting at this table having this conversation. 435 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,040 God did he isn't he isn't up in heaven at any point in your life 436 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:21,280 or my life and going well, now what am I going to do like that 437 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:27,080 that's we don't have that Jesus wasn't a response to Adam and 438 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,520 Eve. Do you guys get that? 439 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:35,800 When God made heaven and earth, Jesus was already part of the 440 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,560 plan. He knew Adam and Eve was going 441 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,840 to fall. He didn't make them fall, but he 442 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,960 knew they were going to fall and he had a plan to redeem them. 443 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,960 They didn't fall. And he goes, oh, now I'm going 444 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,040 to come up with a plan. What am I going to do? 445 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,680 Do you trust the doer that much that when he says do, do you 446 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,200 question it or do you just go do it? 447 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,600 Right. And and, and in America, we are, 448 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,880 I always say we're the yeah. But community because we're 449 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,440 really smart and we always have reasons we don't have to go. 450 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,040 Yeah, but Lord, you know, it's different now. 451 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,200 Yeah, but Lord, no, he just said go, right. 452 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,600 It says do we trust him to do what shepherds do? 453 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,720 John 1421, which is another one of my life versus he who has my 454 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,080 commandments and keeps them. It is he who loves me and he who 455 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,320 loves me will be loved by my father and I will love him and 456 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,880 manifest myself to him. When you follow the doer, when 457 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,000 you are when you do what the doer wants you to do, do you 458 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,880 know what happens? He gives you more to do. 459 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,320 He reveals more in your life. He he becomes bigger and 460 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,560 brighter, right? He in the, in the balloon 461 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:56,200 analogy, he takes you higher and what we need to do is just trust 462 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,200 him and obey and he will do the work. 463 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,480 Then we're going to get into some of the guys that I, I love 464 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,680 the picture they, they show of this and it's Joshua. 465 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,800 If you look at Joshua with the Jordan, when Joshua and the 466 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,000 Levites cross the Jordan, did they do anything to part the 467 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,600 Jordan? They just walked into it. 468 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,800 That didn't part the Jordan. God did that. 469 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,800 But they had to have the, they had to have the obedience and 470 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,400 the faith to walk into a river that was at flood stage carrying 471 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:37,720 a three to £500 box. You guys imagine there's some 472 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,440 rivers around here that get the blood stage. 473 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,240 You want to wander in there with a 3 to 500 LB box. 474 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,160 There's some faith that's required with that, but that's 475 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,080 knowing the knowing Joshua knew. And we're going to get into why 476 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:54,320 Joshua knows things because Joshua's story is truly 477 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,040 inspiring as far as a man after God's own heart that David's 478 00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,920 called to be. Joshua wanted to be that. 479 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,120 And but there's that scene, there's Joshua and the walls 480 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:10,080 falling down to Jericho. There is, if you know the story, 481 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,000 Caleb was 80 years old and he was the other spy that went 482 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:20,880 into, went into Canaan and God had promised him the Hebron, 483 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,520 which was the, the mountain that had giants on it. 484 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,920 And at 80 years old, Caleb said, I want that mountain and charged 485 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,000 up the mountain in front of them and took off the giants, right? 486 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,240 Because he, he had faith that didn't matter that they were 487 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,200 giants. God said, I get that and I want 488 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:42,200 it. And but at no point did did 489 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,360 Caleb think that he had the power to do it. 490 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,480 He 100% said, if God is with us, who can be against us? 491 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:53,600 If I'm doing what he said to do for him, I trust him to win. 492 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,400 I don't trust me to win. I trust him to win. 493 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,720 And then you have David, David and his mighty men and they do 494 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:07,560 some pretty amazing things. But Can you imagine any of them 495 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,760 finishing a battle where, you know, you got, you've got some 496 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:18,920 of David's mighty men took on 800 men and won when they got 497 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,240 done? Do you think that guy's like, 498 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,480 did you see me out there? I was swinging that sword and I 499 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,000 was just, I was amazing. You know, mostly I'd like 500 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,280 everybody to have me. No, because you know for a fact 501 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:36,560 that that that guy knows that he could not have beat 800 men. 502 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,080 You know, the, you have the Eleazar, which I've talked 503 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,480 about. You know, they, they beat an 504 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,680 entire host and his hand clung to the sword because it was 505 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,360 weary and the Lord brought a great victory. 506 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,200 Then you, you go on and there's another guy who who stood 507 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,200 against another, another horde and the Lord worked a great 508 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:01,720 victory, right? So these guys did because that 509 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,360 the Lord told them to go and do. But at no point did they come 510 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,360 back and say, we did all this stuff for you, Lord, look at 511 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,560 look at us. Look what I've done They they 512 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,600 truly stayed in him, but we're going to go to Joshua and last 513 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,320 week I read this and then never got this is how far this is 514 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,800 where we were supposed to get to last week. 515 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,240 So it's good I stopped or we'd have been here for hours. 516 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,200 Exodus 17, nine through 14 says so. 517 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,880 Moses said to Joshua, Choose for US men, and go out and fight 518 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,400 with the amount with the Amalekite. 519 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,880 Amalek, sorry, tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill 520 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,760 with the staff of God in my hand. 521 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,280 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while 522 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,200 Moses and Aaron and her went up on the top of the hill. 523 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,400 Whenever Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed, and 524 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,520 whenever he lowered his hands, Amalek prevailed. 525 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,960 But Moses, Moses's hands grew weary, so they took a stone and 526 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,400 put it under him, and he sat on it. 527 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,360 Well, Aaron and her held his hands up, hands one-on-one side 528 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,199 and the other on another side. So his hands were steady until 529 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,280 the going down. And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek 530 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,120 and his people with the sword. So picture Joshua in the battle 531 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,840 and he's winning, and then he's losing, and then he's winning, 532 00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:30,080 and then he's losing. Now, Joshua's in the battle and 533 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,280 Joshua at that point, Scott, I mean, he's, he's thinking, he's 534 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,600 doing this right there. They're two equally matched 535 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,560 forces and they're going at it and there's winning and losing 536 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,960 and it's going back and forth because I doubt he had time to 537 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,320 look up on the hill and see what Moses was doing. 538 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,280 He was kind of busy. So then the Lord says in verse 539 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,400 14, then the Lord said to Moses, write this is a memorial in a 540 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,719 book and recite it in the ears of Joshua. 541 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,440 So make sure Joshua knows what was going on. 542 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,720 Make sure Joshua knows why the battle was going the way it was 543 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:15,040 going. And this would change Joshua's 544 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,760 perspective for the rest of his days. 545 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,800 And you can watch that. Read the book of Joshua and you 546 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,200 will watch Joshua. He gets he, he goes through 547 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,760 every one of his battles, right? He, he crosses the Jordan 548 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,880 trusting the Lord, but he, he took over for Moses, you know, 549 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:39,400 and, and the Lord says be strong and courageous, but Joshua knew 550 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,200 that strength and that courage was going to come from the Lord, 551 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:49,040 not because Joshua was going to figure it out when he hit you. 552 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:53,600 At no point when he crossed the Jordan did he think he was doing 553 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,280 anything. He was just listening to the 554 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,280 Lord. The walls fell down at Jericho 555 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:06,320 and Joshua, because he is a, he is a man like us, had a moment 556 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:13,040 where he got excited and thought he was doing something and he 557 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,560 sent because, and he had all the Israelites. 558 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,040 And we don't need a big group to go over to AI because look what 559 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,360 we just did at Jericho. It's a small amount and they 560 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:27,920 went to they went to AI and got stomped and men died because 561 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:32,960 Joshua lost focus. And and if you, if you read 562 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,040 that, it's it's one of those one of those moments where you get 563 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,160 to watch the Lord rebuke and how he has rebuked me over the years 564 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,520 is because Josh was like, you just brought us out here to kill 565 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,480 us. And if we're just good now we're 566 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,600 going to get wiped out and the Lord goes get up. 567 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,720 That's your you're there's sin in your camp. 568 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,640 You don't, don't don't blame me for this loss. 569 00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:58,680 You were doing it in your own strength. 570 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,800 You were doing it your own way. And you didn't, you didn't come 571 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,640 to me. You didn't ask me. 572 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,440 You just decided you knew best. So you went and did it. 573 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:13,760 And there was sin in the camp. It wasn't Joshua's sin, but 574 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:18,440 there was a guy that had stolen from the Lord and they had to 575 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,960 work that out after Joshua wins at AI. 576 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,960 So they worked that out. They they got the sin out of the 577 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,960 camp after Joshua wins at AI. Do you know what he does next? 578 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,800 I'm glad we don't live in this time because what he does next 579 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,040 is he, he does a bunch of sacrifices and reads the book of 580 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,240 the law, all of it. Which means, which means we're 581 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:46,200 reading at minimum, you know, at minimum three books. 582 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,720 You know, we're reading all the Genesis, Leviticus, numbers. 583 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:51,200 You guys want to do that like in one sitting. 584 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:59,040 But that was Joshua going. Let's remember at all times why 585 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,320 we win battles. We don't win battles because 586 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,680 we're the big and mighty powerful men of God. 587 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:11,640 We win battles because of God and what he does in our life, 588 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:17,880 and that's being doers, right? Being doers is going OK Lord, 589 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,160 you have work for me to do and I want to do it, but I want to do 590 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,120 it with the right heart and I want to do what you want me to 591 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:31,920 do, which is that conversation you have to have with him be in 592 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:38,400 his word listening to him and then at the end of Joshua's 593 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:43,160 life. He will he will tell you exactly 594 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:50,040 this chapter 24 verses 14 and 15 says now therefore, and I Joshua 595 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:56,000 knew the Israelites and don't knock the Israelites as a 596 00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,480 straight all they are pictures of every single one of us and 597 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,600 exactly how our hearts can quickly turn to all the other 598 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,760 stuff right. I when I first got saved, I was 599 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,880 going to a Bible study. Probably I'd probably been saved 600 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,960 two years going to a Bible study and we were going through judges 601 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,360 and I can remember, man, the Israelites are just not very 602 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,360 smart. They keep doing the same thing. 603 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:24,480 And and my one of my buddies looks at me, he been a believer 604 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,720 for substantially longer, looks at me and goes, yeah, he reminds 605 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:31,040 you anybody. Oh yeah, I guess that's right. 606 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:38,160 And but this is Joshua talking to them towards the end of his 607 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,920 life. Now therefore fear the Lord and 608 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,720 serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. 609 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,400 Put away the gods that your father served beyond the river 610 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,680 and in Egypt and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes 611 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,640 to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether 612 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,040 the gods your father served in the region beyond the river or 613 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,680 the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. 614 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,080 But As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord. 615 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:09,120 And that's, that's it, guys. That's how to be a doer for the 616 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,480 Lord. That's how to be a doer. 617 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,920 And not just to hear like, Lord, what do you want me to do? 618 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,320 I mean this. This this adventure that we're 619 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:25,560 on this adventure that we're on coming to Sandpoint and being 620 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:31,080 pastor and pastor's wife. And as I'm yeah, I started in 621 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:36,280 2010, so 15 years I've been going to be a missionary in 622 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,240 Uganda. I, you guys want to talk about 623 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,440 the divorce later? We can because I'm bringing it 624 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,840 up. So there might be questions, but 625 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,560 I was a supported missionary, went through a divorce and never 626 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,760 and paused, stepped down from things and and backed away from 627 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,600 everything for a year because I wasn't wasn't capable. 628 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:02,400 And but I still, I still love those people. 629 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,520 I still took care of those people as best I could from a 630 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,720 distance and didn't, didn't shift. 631 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:13,040 So when Ben called and asked if I wanted to do this, I mean, I 632 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,840 told him I don't really have time to pray about it at the 633 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,320 moment that I can't, I don't have time to give you. 634 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,960 This is what I'm supposed to do or what I'm not supposed to do. 635 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:26,520 But I would expect the answer is no, because that was, I mean, 636 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,880 I'm, I'm the burden on my heart is Uganda and and Africa. 637 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:41,880 And so the the doer and me was like, so unless the Lord was to 638 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:47,360 say the answer is probably no. But then I spent time with the 639 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,440 Lord and we talked about it and we went through it and the 640 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:53,240 answer was yes. But there's a lot to that. 641 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:57,040 I mean, I know you guys and and not complaining at all. 642 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,720 It's an adventure and a lot of fun in a lot of ways, right? 643 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:11,640 But you know, I am, I am more than willing to do what he says 644 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,000 to do. But if I was, but if I was 645 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:19,320 coming here with any heart other than whatever you want, Lord, 646 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,360 then the enemy would would twist that. 647 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,760 And just, I mean, if I had, well, I guess we can go do that. 648 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:32,880 If I had that kind of heart, it would be awful, right? 649 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:38,400 I, I am in it. I am in the joy of my life being 650 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:45,280 in the will of God, not the joy of my life doing it the way I 651 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,760 want to do it, right? I mean, my plan was to spend 6 652 00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,280 months in Uganda a year and do nuclear outage. 653 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:58,280 That sounds like fun, right? And that was my plan. 654 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:02,960 That was that we've been aimed that way and and all of my plan 655 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,520 was lining up. And then God said, well, 656 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:10,160 actually, that's not the plan. You'll find that happens a lot 657 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,920 in your life with the doer. He may have a different plan, 658 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:19,240 but our job isn't to do my plan. My job is to do what he says. 659 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:25,040 That's it. And I get this finally into 660 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,080 verse 23 for if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a 661 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:33,720 doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror and 662 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:38,640 and going away, not paying attention to it is what it goes 663 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,640 on in verse 24. But it and as a guy, I can 664 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,360 completely understand girls may not be able to understand this, 665 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,640 but I can completely understand how I can look in a mirror and 666 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:54,400 see what needs to be done and not fix it, not care to fix it. 667 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,680 Just walk away, right? My hair sticking up back when I 668 00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,200 had long hair, my hair sticking up and just I don't care. 669 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,200 You know, now girls may have a a less of a time understanding how 670 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,320 you can look in a mirror and not fix what you see. 671 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,600 Like guys. Guys are just I, I me in favor 672 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,480 talk. We're just lazy for the most 673 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,920 part. Like do I have to you know, and 674 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,760 say anybody with anybody with young boys know knows the 675 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,400 wrestling match of even getting them to take a bath, right, or a 676 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,560 shower. It's it's do I have to do that? 677 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,640 Men, the only reason we take baths in showers is because we 678 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,840 found out it was culturally important, right? 679 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,280 And girls don't talk to us if we don't take baths. 680 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:44,360 It's the thing off topic. God, sorry, God's word. 681 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,080 So. So the mirror that he's talking 682 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,040 about here is God's word and it can and does shine light into 683 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,480 our lives. It shows us broken 684 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,760 relationships, pride, hidden or secret sin, hateful thoughts. 685 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,440 The question is, do we stick our hands over our ears and ignore 686 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,120 him, which is like walking away from the mirror, not fixing it 687 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,040 or like first one and that that'd be like 1st 2024 And it 688 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,640 says he observes himself and goes away and immediately 689 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,840 forgets what kind of man he was. So, so when you're in church on 690 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,280 Sunday, you convicted by something when you're reading 691 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,240 your Bible on Monday and Tuesday, is there are there are 692 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:26,760 there words jumping off the page and saying the Lord Lord says 693 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,920 you need to fix this. Are you listening? 694 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:34,840 Are you ignoring him? That's our job is to bend to 695 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:40,080 that God speaks to us to show us the do's he wants done. 696 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:43,960 Some of those do's are 100% personal. 697 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,400 They're in your heart. They're the one in my life that 698 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:52,400 always pops out as a as a do. That was 100% for me to be ready 699 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:57,360 to do ministry was quitting chewing and doesn't make chewing 700 00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,800 a sin to the world. It makes chewing a sin because 701 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:04,360 he told me to stop and when I when I wouldn't stop. 702 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:09,560 Guess what we talked about every time I sat down and then I tried 703 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,920 to ignore him completely and went to a youth thing put my 704 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,520 account. I would never convey this is 705 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,560 when you know you're in trouble. I was not, I was not convicted. 706 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,640 And I kept saying it wasn't the Lord telling me to do it. 707 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,000 And then I went to go to a youth event to help out with the youth 708 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,120 and I took my can of shoe out of my back pocket and put it in my 709 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:33,520 truck so that high schoolers didn't see it, which was 710 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,880 conviction because I knew better. 711 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,640 And I went into the high school. I hadn't quit. 712 00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,320 I went to the high school event and I, I didn't actually catch 713 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:48,760 on fire, but I felt like I did. I mean, I was, I had to get out 714 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:50,720 of that. I mean, we're worshipping. 715 00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:53,800 I'm in the back. I'm worshipping and I'm going to 716 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,600 hang out with the youth. And I mean, like I said, I 717 00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,800 didn't burst into flames, but I felt like I could have and I 718 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,160 knew at that point that I had to do something right. 719 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,640 You don't want to get you don't want to get to that level of 720 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,840 ignoring the Lord, right? He he is going to speak to you 721 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:17,560 and when he speaks to you, have you pre decided that you're 722 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,840 going to say yes? Are you his slave? 723 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:25,080 Because a slave does not. At no, no point is a slave hear 724 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,880 their master and then contemplate whether they will 725 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,080 obey. That isn't that isn't what a 726 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:36,200 slave does a slave a bond a bond slave in the Old Testament is 727 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:40,400 somebody that voluntarily gave themselves to their master, 728 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:44,560 which means or a or a knight to a king, right? 729 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,680 We a soldier in an army, right? When it's time to go, you go. 730 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,280 You don't decide on that. You don't weigh the pros and 731 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,560 cons. Have we bent the knee and said, 732 00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:04,520 Lord, I will do as you direct. He is our Lord, the doer of all 733 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:08,440 things, or do we think that? Tell me what? 734 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:12,200 Tell me what you want me to do and I will decide if I'm going 735 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:18,200 to listen. That is that is not. 736 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:23,760 That's our job as believers is to submit to his leadership. 737 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,560 And when we do that, that's Hudson Taylor called it an 738 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,880 exchange life. And when you do that, the piece 739 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:35,400 you get is because you have, you have submitted to the author, 740 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:41,520 you have submitted to the knowledge that hot air makes a 741 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:46,000 balloon go up. Because when you look at a 742 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,680 balloon, why is it flying? I don't know the physics, but 743 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,760 hot air makes it go up right in Christ. 744 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,320 Listening to Him, I get peace and joy. 745 00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:03,640 I don't have to understand why. I have to understand that my job 746 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,200 is to listen to what He's telling me. 747 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,640 Hudson Taylor says it much better than I do, but I am no 748 00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,040 longer anxious about anything as I realize that He is able to 749 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,320 carry out His will for me. It does not matter where where 750 00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:21,080 He places me or how. That is for him to consider, not 751 00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,720 me. For in the easiest position he 752 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:28,280 will give me grace, and in the most difficult one, His grace is 753 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:36,520 sufficient. He has the power to do whatever 754 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:42,240 he's asking you to do. It It the the Copenhagen. 755 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:50,720 That was an example in my life of him having the power to do 756 00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:54,600 something that I knew I didn't have the power to do because as 757 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,720 a non believer and I had probably tried to quit half a 758 00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:05,160 dozen a dozen times and could not like absolutely 100% could 759 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:10,560 not. And so when he asked me to do 760 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:14,240 it, I was I knew that I couldn't do it. 761 00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:20,920 And so when he when when I actually quit, I 100% knew that 762 00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,800 he did it. That makes sense is I came to 763 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,400 the end of myself. And in everything we do, do we 764 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,520 come to the end of ourselves and say, Lord, you need to, you need 765 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,120 to serve the coffee today. But it's something that simple. 766 00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,600 You need to greet the people today, right? 767 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,040 You need all the service that we talked about. 768 00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,960 Lord, I want to do what you want me to do, but Lord, you need to 769 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,720 do it. And it's, it's no different than 770 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,600 the guy in the basket, right? The fire needs to do it. 771 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,480 The guy is never going to get the basket off the ground 772 00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,840 without the fire. Verse 2025 says. 773 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,360 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and 774 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:07,400 continues in it and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of 775 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:13,240 the work, this one will be blessed in what he does If we 776 00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:17,800 take Jesus at his word and and back in James, it said, let it 777 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,320 be implanted in US, right? Let his word be implanted in US 778 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:26,400 and just follow his path and his direction on a daily basis. 779 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:28,680 And once again, how do you do that? 780 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,560 You're you're hanging out with the Lord, right? 781 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,000 You're you're with him and say it isn't a it isn't a play 782 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,080 church on Sunday thing. It's a it's a life, right? 783 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:41,880 You, you stepped into Christ the day you gave your life to him. 784 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,360 And it isn't, it isn't something you added to your life. 785 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:52,880 He becomes your life that day. When we do that, we will 786 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,920 recognize the lost and dying. We won't dispute with them over 787 00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,680 their blindness to their sin, but share with, share with them 788 00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:04,640 the heat that has been given to us, right? 789 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:09,000 You know, when I'm, when, when you're flying in the air, you 790 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:13,320 don't yell at the guy on the ground to get the flying right? 791 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,600 And it's, it's the, there's, there's so many different 792 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,120 analogies out there. When you're in the boat, when 793 00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,040 you're in the rescue boat, you don't yell at the guy that's 794 00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,000 drowning that he's wet and drowning. 795 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,920 Quit, quit being wet and quit drowning. 796 00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:32,320 You, you save that guy, right? But you do that because of where 797 00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,520 you're at. And that that in Christ you have 798 00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,320 a joy and a peace and a victory in your life. 799 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,160 When you have that exchange that Hudson Taylor talks about that 800 00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,720 you understand that in the good days and the bad days, His grace 801 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,360 is what gives me the good and sees me through the bad. 802 00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:56,040 Are we ready to serve the author and master the finisher, the 803 00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,120 doer. He is ready and willing to lead 804 00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,720 us if you will follow. He's already done that done the 805 00:53:02,720 --> 00:53:05,200 work. You guys get that, that that all 806 00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:13,360 of this is done and we just need to submit climb in the basket 807 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:19,720 back to my corny stuff, climb in the basket and let his heat fly 808 00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:23,000 us through this. So I am way over and we're doing 809 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,480 communion. I lost track of time, so we're 810 00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,240 going to do communion. If you guys want to come up and 811 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:34,320 you guys will pass it out, why don't we're going to do it like 812 00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,720 this. The guys are going to pass it 813 00:53:35,720 --> 00:53:37,200 out and then we're going to take it. 814 00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:43,800 You guys, just as you feel LED, take the take the body and the 815 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,600 take the bread in the cup. But I'll read, I'll read First 816 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:49,040 Corinthians. This is why we do it. 817 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:53,080 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, 818 00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,200 that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread. 819 00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,440 And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, this is my 820 00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,880 body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. 821 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,560 In the same way also he took the cup after supper, saying, this 822 00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,800 is the cup in the new covenant, in my blood. 823 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,800 Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. 824 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,840 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you 825 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,080 proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 826 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:31,600 So, Lord, just be with us today and this Time, Lord, just as as 827 00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,960 we as we ponder and and remember what you've done in our lives, 828 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:39,880 Lord, if there's anything in our lives that needs to be given to 829 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:44,440 you that you would take this time with us, Lord, each and 830 00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:51,240 every one of us individually and show us the things that we need 831 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:56,080 to give to you, Lord, the things you want us to do, but only in 832 00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,840 you, Lord, guide and direct us. Speak to us. 833 00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:01,160 She this name. Amen.