1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,360 We're actually going to be 1214 and 15 as we go through. 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:12,600 We're going to go through just the last week Jesus was here 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,400 before, before the cross or before the tomb. 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:25,880 But we're going to start off in Psalm 22 and we're just going to 5 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,040 read a little bit of it starting in verse 6. 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,520 But I am warm and no man. A reproach of men and despised 7 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,280 by the people. All those who see me ridicule 8 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,560 me. Those who shoot out the lip, 9 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,320 they shake the head, shake the head, saying he trusted in the 10 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,520 Lord, let him rescue him, let him deliver him, since he 11 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,480 delights in him. But you are he who took me out 12 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:52,880 of the womb. You made me trust while on my 13 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,320 mother's breast. I was cast upon you from birth. 14 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,160 From my mother's womb you have been my God. 15 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,760 Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,440 help me. Many bowls have surrounded me. 17 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,720 Strong bowls of Bashan have encircled me. 18 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,720 They they gape at me with their mouths like raging and roaring 19 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,360 lions. I am poured out like water and 20 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:23,080 all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, It has 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,920 melted within me. My strength is dried up like a 22 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,280 pot. Sure, sure. 23 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,520 And my tongue clings to my jaws. You have brought me to the dust 24 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:35,640 of death. For dogs have surrounded me. 25 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,960 The congregation of the wicked hasn't closed me. 26 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:40,080 They pierced my hands and my feet. 27 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,840 I can count all my bones. They look and stare at me. 28 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,280 They divide my garments among them. 29 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,880 And for my clothes they cast lots. 30 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:55,320 And Lord, I just once again just come before you Lord, and just 31 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:00,240 be here tonight, be here with each and every one of us. 32 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,360 Lord, fill us with your spirit. Speak to us. 33 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,280 Lord, if I don't, if I don't have the words to explain, Lord, 34 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,480 you can explain. Lord, mold my words. 35 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,200 Teach me, Lord, speak to everybody here. 36 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,000 And I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. 37 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:25,760 So Psalm 22 was written between 10,000, so basically 10 thousand 38 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:31,120 1040 and 1000 BC. So during David's lifetime and 39 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,120 the Romans perfected the torture of crucifixion by the time Jesus 40 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,240 was around. But it it's something the 41 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,280 Persians had used back in 519 BC. 42 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:48,440 But that's still 500 years after Psalm 22 was written and the 43 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,800 point of me reading that to begin with was the shadow of the 44 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,960 cross has been from the beginning, right. 45 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:01,320 It's something it's not something that God that Adam and 46 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,280 Eve sinned and God went well. Now here's my fix. 47 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:08,360 He is this has been the plan from the beginning because he 48 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:14,200 knew that we were going to sin. Not he didn't plan for us to 49 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,320 sin, but he knew we were going to it. 50 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:25,160 The my simple illustration for that is that when I, when I was 51 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:31,560 43 years old, I crushed my right foot because I'm an idiot. 52 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,040 I tried to jump on a on a moving truck. 53 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,920 I slipped and got my foot under the tire and God had had us sell 54 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,240 our house to get ready to go to Uganda. 55 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,120 And I kind of argued with him while we were selling it because 56 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,640 I'm like, it was 2013. We weren't moving to Uganda 57 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:56,520 until 2018. And he really was pressure. 58 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,560 I mean, there was I had verses and and he wanted me to sell the 59 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,160 house. So we put it on the market and 60 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,040 we sold the house and then we got it all done, you know, ready 61 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,960 to sell. And then you don't want to sell 62 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,080 it because it's like really nice to live in because it's 63 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,080 finished. And I'm like, but we could just 64 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,080 stay here. It's OK and and fine. 65 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:19,160 And then, you know, but we were, we, we listened and sold the 66 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,560 house and it, it finalized in June. 67 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,160 And on July 5th, I crushed my foot. 68 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,400 So I always say God didn't tell me to sell the house because we 69 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,720 were in Uganda told me to sold the house because Nick's an 70 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,640 idiot. And he knew that I wasn't going 71 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,520 to be able to take care of the house or afford the house or do 72 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,080 any of that stuff because I was going to be laid up for the 73 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:46,360 better part of three months. And so God that that all to say 74 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,200 that the cross was from the beginning, but that's because he 75 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,400 knew we were going to sin, not because he planned for us to 76 00:04:52,400 --> 00:05:02,920 sin, if that makes sense. If you go to first Peter 119 77 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,880 Jesus shares a little bit or Peter shares a little bit about 78 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:16,120 this and it says but with the precious blood of Christ as of 79 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,640 the lamb without blemish and without spot. 80 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,480 He indeed was foreord named before the foundations of the 81 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:29,240 world, but manifested to these last times for you and and that 82 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,480 is from the foundations of the world from the moment God 83 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,520 created the beginning. He knew Jesus was going to the 84 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:43,360 cross. And so that that being said all 85 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,160 through the Old Testament, there are those places, right? 86 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,760 Exodus 12/21. We talked about this a couple 87 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,960 weeks ago. Moses called for all the elders 88 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:57,680 of Israel and said to them, Pick out and take lambs for yourself 89 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,320 according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. 90 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,080 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in blood that is 91 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,000 in the basin, and strike the lentil and the two doorposts 92 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:13,040 with that in the basin, with the blood with with the blood that 93 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,360 is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of 94 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,960 the door of his house until morning. 95 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:25,120 So the key to the Passover lamb sacrifice was to apply the 96 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,560 blood. Choosing the lamb was important. 97 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,760 Sacrificing the lamb was important. 98 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,000 Collecting the blood was important. 99 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,520 Gathering the hyssop was important. 100 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:43,920 But none of it mattered until you applied it to the door and 101 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,520 submitted to the power of it to save you. 102 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,840 And, and like we talked about the last time we showed you is 103 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,440 and it says strike the doorpost, right? 104 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,720 So it's we, you can see different analogies and in there 105 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,720 and they're like painting, painting on the, they're 106 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,600 painting blood on the doorpost. That is what it says. 107 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,280 It's a strike, which means dip it in the blood and hit the 108 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:11,360 doorpost and hit the doorpost and hit the doorpost and what 109 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:16,480 what does that make? That's a cross back in forget 110 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,080 how many years before Christ. But because I don't have it in 111 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,880 my notes. I don't want to say and be 112 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:28,200 wrong, but but then but they actually had to apply that blood 113 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,320 right? And that's for us. 114 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,160 That is that submission to Jesus, right? 115 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,560 That isn't when I when I started going to church, that's Steve 116 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,440 was going through revelation and and I believed Jesus was a real 117 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,520 person that really lived. I believed Jesus died. 118 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,560 I even believed Jesus rose on the third day. 119 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,480 I just didn't believe he was my Lord, right? 120 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,720 I wouldn't have told you that when I started going to church. 121 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,840 I'm like, I can, I can believe all those things. 122 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,040 So I'm good. And then then I started going 123 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,520 and Steve's teaching and I'm like, well, I'm glad that's not 124 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,320 me, that's bad. And then I forget what he, what 125 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,440 he was teaching in, in revelation that I went, well, 126 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,200 that's bad, that's me, that's bad. 127 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,840 And and that's when it, when I stood up and gave my life to the 128 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,000 Lord, that's when I applied the blood to my life, right. 129 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:34,559 So that's what's important about about the cross, right? 130 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,240 We can read about it, we can know about it. 131 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,159 We can be all kinds of intellectual knowledge, but if 132 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:44,240 we haven't applied it to our lives, then it does no good, 133 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:50,560 right? We'll jump. 134 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:52,880 We're we're going to go through the that last week. 135 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:59,400 We're going to go pretty quick, but Mark 11 first verse 12, 136 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:04,840 starting verse 12. Now the next day when they had 137 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:10,720 come from Bethany, he was hungry and seeing from afar A fig tree 138 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,120 having leaves, he went to see it. 139 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,640 Perhaps he would find something on it, see if perhaps he would 140 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,840 find something on it. When he came to to it, he found 141 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,560 nothing but leaves for it was not the season for figs. 142 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:30,080 In response, Jesus said to it, Let no one eat fruit from you 143 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,280 ever again. And his disciples heard it. 144 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,280 So they came to Jerusalem. And then Jesus went into the 145 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,560 temple and began to drive out those who brought, bought and 146 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,760 sold in the temple, and overturned tables of the money 147 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,520 changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 148 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:51,040 And he would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. 149 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,040 Then he taught to to them, saying, Is it not written? 150 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,120 My house shall be called the House of prayer for all nations? 151 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,000 But you have made it a din of thieves, and the scribes and the 152 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,680 chiefs priests heard it and sought how they might destroy 153 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:09,320 him, for they feared him because all the people were astonished 154 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:14,040 by his teachings. When evening had come, he went 155 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:18,120 out of the city. So kind of funny story, right? 156 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,440 He, he condemns a a fig tree with leaves on it. 157 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:26,720 So Jesus, Jesus does contemn A contemn a tree that looks like 158 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,600 it should bear fruit. And then he goes to a temple, a 159 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:38,880 place people would assume was about God's work, and he and he 160 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:44,080 condemned the false appearance. So you know, God is supposed to 161 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,720 be or sorry, God's house is supposed to be a place of 162 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:52,280 prayer, a place of meeting with God, not a box to be checked and 163 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:57,160 look religious. Looking good and being bad is 164 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,400 worse than being bad or than looking bad and being bad. 165 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,440 I, I will, I will. I don't normally get political, 166 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,000 but I will do this just for I have this conversation with 167 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,680 friends. And the difference between a 168 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:20,000 Donald Trump or a Ronald Reagan and A and a Joe Biden or a, or a 169 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:26,080 Barack Obama is that and, and Trump says things that can drive 170 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:30,440 me nuts, right? He says he, he can say things 171 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:40,280 that are just obnoxious, but his policies are good, right? 172 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:45,400 He, he, he aligns with, with, with good values in his 173 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:51,560 policies. Now, Obama and Biden knew how to 174 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:58,280 say all the right things, but their policies drove me nuts. 175 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,320 If I'm going to get driven nuts by something, I would rather get 176 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:06,160 driven nuts by what's coming out of your mouth then then what is 177 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,360 actually affecting policy, right? 178 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,800 And that's really the point here Jesus is making is if you're 179 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,280 going to look good, then you had better be good. 180 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,640 If you're going to look like you have leaves on you, then you had 181 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,360 better have fruit. But if you're just looking good, 182 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,760 then then you're full of dead men's bones, right? 183 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,840 That's and at no point do we want to be. 184 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,600 I mean, I say it all the time, but we never want to be playing 185 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,520 church, right? It is the funniest thing in the 186 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,640 world that that it's something that exists. 187 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,520 It existed in Jesus's day. It exists to this day. 188 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:52,440 Now is that people play church now playing Muslim, OK, playing 189 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:59,360 Buddhist OK, playing Hindu OK playing Christian is stupid 190 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,600 because the only one you're trying to impress knows if 191 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:08,400 you're serious or not. Impressing me does not get you 192 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,640 into heaven, right? Impressing everybody in the room 193 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,920 does not get you into heaven. If I stand up here Sunday after 194 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,640 Sunday and I I have the best, I can speak the best and I can 195 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,560 teach the best and I don't. But if I did, but I don't have a 196 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:27,560 relationship with the Lord, that doesn't do me any good. 197 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:29,920 There's not, there is nothing there, right? 198 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,160 Having leaves and no fruit is the worst place you ever want to 199 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,160 be. You would rather be a Charlie 200 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:40,600 Brown Christmas tree with one piece of fruit on you then, then 201 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,320 a, then a, then a tree full of leaves with 0 fruit, right? 202 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:54,080 And, and Jesus here is for this, this week, right here guys, 203 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,440 Jesus comes in like a storm, right? 204 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:04,560 He he comes in to clear up any confusion and frustrate and and 205 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:12,720 really bring to conclusion that his time here and he he's going 206 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,240 to make it very clear of his position as the Son of God, 207 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:21,760 whether they like it or not, that that is who he says he is 208 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,480 and that is what he is and he's going to prove it to him over 209 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,240 and over again. The day before this this scene, 210 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,000 they were rebuked. They were telling him he needed 211 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,520 to rebuke the people because they were calling him God. 212 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:40,000 And he said and he answered them and said, if I tell you that if 213 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,760 these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out 214 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,200 right. This is they were calling him 215 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:52,440 Hosanna God Withers God. And whenever anybody says that 216 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,560 Jesus never called himself God, it's because they haven't ever 217 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:01,120 actually read the Bible right. And he is very blunt and very 218 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:09,880 direct throughout the process. Many the next day he comes back 219 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,080 to the temple and, and the they're, they're feisty. 220 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,400 They're feeling like they got something to say to him. 221 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,520 You know, the night, the day before, they were taught they 222 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,000 were trying to figure out how to destroy him. 223 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,360 So they confront him when he gets there, starting in verse 27 224 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,560 of Chapter 11. Then they came again to 225 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,680 Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the 226 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,840 temple, the chief priest describes the and the elders 227 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,000 came to him and they said to him, by what authority are you 228 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,040 doing these things? And who gave you the authority 229 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,840 to do these things? But Jesus answered and said to 230 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,560 them, I also will ask you one question, then answer me and I 231 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,520 will tell you by what authority I do these things. 232 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,800 The baptism of John was it from heaven or from man? 233 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,960 Answer me. And they responded or they 234 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,720 reasoned among themselves saying, if we say from heaven, 235 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,200 he will say, why then did you not believe? 236 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,360 Now can you picture this real quick? 237 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,560 It's, it's these guys all confront him and then he asked 238 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,720 him a question. And now the, the gaggle, it's 239 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,640 what I call a bunch of guys all stand around the gaggle all kind 240 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,520 of walked over here to talk to themselves, right? 241 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,200 There's we got to go, we got to go figure out our, our way of 242 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:27,640 doing this. And they, they go on and say, 243 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,760 but if we say it's from men, they fear the people for all 244 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,680 count John to have been a prophet indeed. 245 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,360 So they answered and said to Jesus, we do not know. 246 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,040 And Jesus answered and said to them, neither will I tell you by 247 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:41,640 what authority I do these things. 248 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,200 And I'm sure that I've used this illustration before. 249 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:51,720 It is truly one of my favorite interactions with religious 250 00:16:51,720 --> 00:17:00,320 people and how Jesus did not come against them, right? 251 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:05,839 What he did was ask them a question that their mob rule was 252 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:13,280 not going to defend. And what I mean by that is Jesus 253 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:19,680 showed them their hearts. Each one of them that night or 254 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,440 the next week or after the crucifixion or years later at 255 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:29,720 some point was going to come to this question and go, why could 256 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:35,320 we not answer that question not as a group, but as an 257 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,320 individual. Why could I not if if he if 258 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,720 Jesus, if Jesus is false, then John was false. 259 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,600 And I should be able to just say that we're going to we're going 260 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,720 to stand against Jesus. I should be able to just say 261 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,120 John is false. It wasn't from God. 262 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,560 But if John was from God, then Jesus was from God. 263 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,680 And this is that point of Jesus is not looking to and this is 264 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:08,920 guys, I want you to hear this because Facebook or the 265 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,200 megaphone of Satan, is that what it was Telegraph, Satan's 266 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,560 Telegraph. There we go another Marcism. 267 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:21,480 It's a good one. But the thing in the thing on 268 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,520 Facebook, guys, is we like zingers. 269 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,400 We like we like I got I got AI can I can beat that act? 270 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,400 I can beat that argument. I need to say this, you know, I 271 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:34,920 call it, I call it popping off, right? 272 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,200 I can, I can respond to that. I can get I can win that because 273 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,120 that doesn't that doesn't do good that that is, that is not 274 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:50,160 Jesus doing that right. Jesus's plan always is to seek 275 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,240 their heart. Now that doesn't mean that at 276 00:18:53,240 --> 00:19:00,000 any point he he folded on what was true, but his goal was their 277 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,120 salvation, right. So that brings us to a little 278 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:09,200 story tucked in the most important week of all history. 279 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,200 And and really this is this is where we're going to camp. 280 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:19,520 And it's one of those that you look at a lot went on in in that 281 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,920 last week. Jesus talked about the most 282 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,560 important commandments. He talked about who we're 283 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,360 supposed to pay taxes to. He he talked about resurrection, 284 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:36,560 all kinds of really big issues and then kind of random off to 285 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,960 the side, but right within that week. 286 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,200 And you'll always find that Jesus reason for when and where 287 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,520 he shares truth is, is usually on purpose. 288 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,520 Mark 1241 Now Jesus said opposite the treasury, and saw 289 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,920 how many people put money into the treasury, and many who were 290 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,320 rich put in much. Then one poor widow came and 291 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,320 threw into mites, which make a which make a quadrant. 292 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:10,240 So he called the disciples and to himself, and said, assuredly, 293 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,520 I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more. 294 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:18,080 Than all those who have given to the treasury for they all put in 295 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,720 out of their abundance. But she out of her poverty put 296 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:31,320 in all that she had for her whole livelihood and sacrifice 297 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:38,400 by definition cost us something right It it's something about 298 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,240 the Christian life and I guess I'm just getting this way 299 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,600 tonight. But if you go back to COVID, you 300 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:51,200 will find churches that that shut down some of them never 301 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,720 reopened people that had to go to different churches, people 302 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,040 that never walked back into a church again because suddenly 303 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,800 being a Christian cost them something. 304 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,320 And in America and I and this is a western world thing. 305 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,840 It's it's just the way that that the enemy works. 306 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,280 He's about overcorrecting on one side or the other. 307 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:19,280 But America it is for decades it has been a blessing to your 308 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,200 financial health to be a Christian. 309 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,880 It's a good place to network. It's, you know, you can do all 310 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,920 kinds of stuff in the church, whether or not the church is 311 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:32,560 doing the church just covered in leaves, no fruit, but but full 312 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,120 of a full of a whole lot of leaves. 313 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:38,160 And, and you watched COVID clean that out, right? 314 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:47,720 And not it was a, it was a time that you just got to watch 315 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:53,320 people decide whether it was a social club or it's where they 316 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,640 got the words of life, right. And that's that's something that 317 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,600 as you look it at the the widow, but then you get into in in 318 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:06,600 first Chronicles 21, verse 23, and this is David. 319 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:13,440 So King David called for a census, which was a sin, right? 320 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,000 He was, he wanted to know, he wanted to know how powerful he 321 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,640 was, how, how powerful Judah was or Israel was. 322 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:27,160 And so he called for a count of all the people, which Joab, who 323 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,800 was definitely nobody I would look up to, even tried to talk 324 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,840 him out of and say don't do this, Please don't do this. 325 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,960 Well, he did it and God prophet came and said, you know, you're 326 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,560 in trouble. Went through the whole thing and 327 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,800 P and basically in the end, you know, people were dying of a 328 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,400 plague. And David said, Lord, please 329 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,480 don't let don't don't count this against them. 330 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,080 Counted against me. I did this. 331 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,240 They didn't do this, you know, and he threw himself at the 332 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,080 mercy of the Lord and the Lord said, if you go and sacrifice, 333 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,480 do you know, go buy this red, go, go to this threshing floor. 334 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,960 Go sacrifice there. I will I'll relay it. 335 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,280 So verse 23 but Oren said to David, and this is David up 336 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,880 going to get the threshing floor. 337 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,840 He said, said to David, take it to yourself and let my Lord the 338 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,280 king do what is good in his eyes. 339 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,680 Look, I also give you the oxen and the burn off for the burnt 340 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:30,280 offering and the threshing floor implement for wood and the wheat 341 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,280 for grain offerings. I give it all. 342 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,400 Well, that sounds like a deal, right? 343 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,280 So now David's going to go up and do all this sacrifice and 344 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,520 ain't going to cost him anything. 345 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:45,720 Verse 24 The king, then King David said to Oran, no, but I 346 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,160 will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what 347 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:54,120 is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings with that which 348 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:59,440 cost me nothing. So as believers, our 349 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:06,680 relationship with the Lord at minimum, at minimum should cost 350 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,800 me all that I am. And I say that all the time, but 351 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,120 that's really what it costs. It's a free gift. 352 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,200 It just cost me everything that I think I get out of the deal 353 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:22,280 that my eyes need to be on on Jesus and his plan for my 354 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,720 future, whatever that is, right that that that old my, my line. 355 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:31,440 Embrace the suck, right guys? Serving Jesus doesn't suck at 356 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,000 any point at any level. It is it is the most joy, the 357 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,080 most fun that I have ever had doing anything. 358 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,400 My flesh can get a little whiny about it there. 359 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,080 There are moments that it wants to do what it wants to do. 360 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:52,720 And my job is to tell my flesh that it isn't in charge anymore. 361 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:55,880 And it isn't that I suddenly became in charge. 362 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,560 It is reminding my flesh that Jesus sits on that throne now. 363 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,440 I don't and I and I do what he says, and that's what it costs 364 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:12,880 me. So if, if sacrifice cost me 365 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,440 nothing, it's pointless, right? The the whole idea of the 366 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:24,240 sacrificial system was that it had to be something of real 367 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:31,000 value to the giver it. It couldn't be something I was 368 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,080 throwing away. Anybody been to a donation yard 369 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,920 sale? Anybody had a donation yard 370 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,800 sale? I have hauled more junk to my 371 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,400 house because somebody was donating stuff for a yard sale 372 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,000 and I used to say I could just take it straight to the dump. 373 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:57,360 It would be quicker. But, and, and you can ask Faye 374 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:01,840 that I, I don't like yard sales. Like I don't like going to a 375 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,920 yard sale. I having yard sales gives me 376 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,400 hives. Like I don't like to do yard 377 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,440 sales for that reason. Because when I when, when, when 378 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,280 I'm selling something at a yard sale, look, I guarantee you if 379 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,680 you touch it, you can go home with it because it is garbage to 380 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,680 me, right? The reason that I am getting rid 381 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,040 of it is because I don't want it anymore. 382 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,720 And if you take it, then I don't have to haul it to the dump. 383 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,760 So there's no reason you don't leave with it, you know, and 384 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:35,360 that isn't the sacrifice Jesus is looking for, you know, he 385 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:39,960 isn't looking for my, he isn't looking for my extra, He's 386 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:46,680 looking for my awe. And So what does that have to do 387 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:52,960 with with why did Jesus share about the widow in that moment? 388 00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:04,520 What is it about that? So remember that Jesus was 389 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:12,240 headed to the cross and we get to see in the garden of this 390 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:14,600 Gethsemane, which we were talking about earlier. 391 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:23,000 We get to see and remember Jesus is a man 100% man, 100% God. 392 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,880 And we will all understand that completely right after we get 393 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,840 there. But Jesus didn't come down with 394 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:38,000 a stacked deck and say, I mean, my exam a good, good example 395 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,920 that Jesus didn't pop out of Mary speaking right? 396 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:47,400 He had to learn how to speak. He had to learn how to walk, He 397 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,960 had to learn how to be a Carpenter. 398 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:54,520 Well, when he got to the cross, when he gets to this point and 399 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:59,920 he knows what's coming, God is outside of time. 400 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:08,920 Jesus at this moment is not and and he was going to get to 401 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:16,160 really suffer and he will really lay his life down as a 402 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:22,120 sacrifice. And Jesus unlike I think we can 403 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:30,800 understand, He understood what it was going to cost for Mark 404 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,440 1432. Then they came to the place 405 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,080 which was named Yosemite and he said to his disciples, sit here 406 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:42,000 a while, sit here while I pray. And he took Peter, James, and 407 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,560 John with him, and he began to be troubled and deeply 408 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,200 distressed. Then he said to them, My soul is 409 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,680 exceedingly sorrowful even to death, Stay here and watch. 410 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,240 And he went a little further and fell on the ground and prayed 411 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,560 that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 412 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,360 And he said, ABBA, father, all things are possible for you. 413 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,240 Take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, 414 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,640 but what you will. So this is Jesus from the 415 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:19,680 foundations of the earth. This moment was coming and at 416 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:24,120 this moment His desire was to not do it. 417 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:32,880 Now His stronger was desire was to submit and to and to be 418 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,440 willing to be that sacrifice. So you guys got to remember that 419 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:46,760 Jesus was around 33 years old at this point, but he had been here 420 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:53,440 since before the foundations of the earth and him and the Father 421 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,640 had been together. Now I don't want to get weird. 422 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,560 The Trinity is never separated, they are always together. 423 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:06,000 But Jesus understood there was going to become a moment that he 424 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,920 was going to experience something that no other being 425 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:16,520 had ever experienced. All the sin of all time of the 426 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:24,280 whole world all at once. And we, I know the guilt of my 427 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:32,960 sin, but all the sin, that's that's all the sin, guys, that's 428 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,520 the grossest stuff you can come up with to the, the 429 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,080 concentration camps, all the sin. 430 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,960 And I would love to say that we've gotten more bloody than 431 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,080 they were back in the in these days. 432 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:56,160 But all the sin and he understood what what that was 433 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:02,840 going to take. And Jesus was going to feel the 434 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,840 forsakenness because of dirt sin. 435 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:19,520 And Even so, if you look at the widow and David, this cost him 436 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,360 something. If you look at the principle of 437 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,840 that, that this cost Jesus, this isn't if, if it didn't cost 438 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,520 Jesus, then it was just a game, right? 439 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,520 It's just, it's just moving pieces on a board and it, and it 440 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,960 doesn't really matter. And God's just just making 441 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,200 things up. But this really mattered and 442 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:48,400 this really hurt. And, and The thing is, is after 443 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,320 Jesus is at Gethsemane and he's, he's now getting crucified, he's 444 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,880 on the cross and he's still knowing that's coming. 445 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:00,840 Jesus says in, in Luke 2334, Father, forgive them for they do 446 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,040 not know what they're doing as they divided his garments and 447 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,040 cast law. And if you remember, I read 448 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,520 about, I read about them doing that back in Psalm 22. 449 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,800 He understood what they could not. 450 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:22,760 He was about to win what what they were all meaning for evil. 451 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:28,200 What the enemy was meaning for evil will cause the biggest 452 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:34,840 victory for grace, but it will cost more than any can pay. 453 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,960 Only Jesus has the ability to to sacrifice what was necessary. 454 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,880 Guys I just praying today and and talking to this really hurt 455 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,920 guys. This wasn't, this wasn't I got 456 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,520 back youth group time. We have one of the guys who goes 457 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,720 So what? God died for three days, but 458 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,320 he's God, so who cares? I mean, and that, I mean, he 459 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,000 said it a little more reverently than that, but if that's all it 460 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,000 was, a God outside of time skips 3 days, who cares? 461 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,520 A day is like 1000 years, 1000 years like a day, who cares. 462 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:23,960 That's why it is so important that Jesus is 100% man because 463 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,080 he took it like we would take it, but he took all of it. 464 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,560 And God did not shield his Son from the penalty of sin because 465 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,600 if he had, he would not be considered just. 466 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:47,680 And God is just. And Jesus agreed to the Father's 467 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,920 plan, or they agreed together, but at the end of the day, he 468 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:57,440 agreed because of the reward. And the reward was you and I. 469 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,120 So the sacrifice was worth it because of what he was going to 470 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,920 get. And what he was going to get was 471 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,760 each and every one of us, right, John? 472 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,639 And that's the John 316 For God so loved the world that he gave 473 00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:14,560 his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should 474 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,480 not perish, but have everlasting life. 475 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,000 The world, whoever believes in him, right? 476 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,840 That's who Jesus gets. And Isaiah 53 he shall see the 477 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:31,120 labor of his soul and be satisfied by his knowledge. 478 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:35,400 My righteous servant shall justify many, for He shall bear 479 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,320 their iniquities. And this is if you guys haven't 480 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:43,880 ever read Isaiah 53. It's another one of those that 481 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:50,239 just proof of who Jesus was that was foretold 700 years before 482 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:59,600 Jesus. Jesus completes his task and I 483 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,480 was just actually talking to somebody today about this. 484 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:08,960 So when I first got saved, something that that I used to 485 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:15,400 that they probably still say it. Dying for Jesus would be easy. 486 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,400 It's living for him that's hard, right? 487 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:21,320 It's dying for him is an instant. 488 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,760 It's a moment, right? You know, gunman comes in, you 489 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,040 dive in front of the bullet. You know, somebody want that. 490 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,480 Those are moments living for him. 491 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:37,040 So this him on the cross is him living for us. 492 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:43,920 This is this is that moment that he paid for all the garbage that 493 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,040 I've all the garbage that I've ever done, all the garbage I'm 494 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,360 doing and all the garbage I will ever do, he paid for in that 495 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:58,840 instant. And it says in, in Mark 15. 496 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,160 Now when the 6th hour had come, there was darkness over the 497 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:08,120 whole land until the 9th hour. And at the 9th hour, Jesus cried 498 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,800 out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli Lama Savathnia, which 499 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,120 translated My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 500 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,360 And that is the first lines of Psalm 22. 501 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:25,120 And the the thing about that is all the Israelites, all those 502 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,280 rulers and elders and all those people that would be standing 503 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:35,080 around would know what that meant because they, they 504 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:39,040 memorized Scripture and catalogued their Scriptures by 505 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,600 the first line of the verse or of the passage. 506 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:49,440 So we started off with Psalm 22 and them casting lots and 507 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:55,640 piercing, piercing him. And now we're here and the 508 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,800 Israelites get to hear this and then they get to look at what 509 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:03,480 look at the look at the scene in front of them and see prophecy 510 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:11,040 and see what's happening. And then in John 19, it says 511 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,720 after this Jesus, knowing all things were accomplished, that 512 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:18,600 Scripture might be fulfilled, saying, I thirst. 513 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,160 And now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there, and they 514 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,320 filled the sponge with sour wine, put it on a hyssop and put 515 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,480 it to his mouth. So when Jesus had received the 516 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,320 sour wine, he said, it is finished. 517 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,160 And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. 518 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,760 And this was, this was not a show, right? 519 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:51,200 I this was eternally costly. When we see Jesus on the other 520 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,000 side of the tomb, He still has scars. 521 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,240 Put your Thomas, put your fingers in the holes, put your 522 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:11,030 hand in my side. I mean, this is not like Jesus 523 00:38:11,030 --> 00:38:13,230 is still on the cross or still paying. 524 00:38:14,310 --> 00:38:18,510 He paid it all past, present and future at that moment, and it 525 00:38:18,510 --> 00:38:23,080 was finished. And Mark, Mark 1538 says, then 526 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,240 the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 527 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:33,040 So in the centurion who stood opposite him saw that he cried 528 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,320 out like this and breathed his last. 529 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,840 He said truly, this man was the Son of God. 530 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:44,040 And that was that was the world looking on in astonishment 531 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,560 right. And the the fun in this moment 532 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,960 guys is it is finished at that moment the payment had been 533 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,600 made. The proof of payment will show 534 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:05,720 up in a couple of days. Like the story of the paralyzed 535 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:07,720 man. The work was done because Jesus 536 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:13,880 said then it was proven. And if you look at that's Mark 537 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:18,240 23 or 523, and this is when Jesus says your sins are 538 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,160 forgiven. And everybody starts, well, you 539 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,320 can't say his sins are forgiven. And he's and Jesus comes back 540 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,040 and says, which is easier to say your sins are forgiven you or to 541 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,600 say rise up and walk. But that you may know that the 542 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,640 Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins. 543 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,360 He said to the man who was paralyzed, I say to you, arise, 544 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,560 take up your bed and go to your house. 545 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,840 And immediately he arose up before them. 546 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:49,760 And that is when Jesus said it is finished, it was finished, it 547 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,760 was done. You can count on it. 548 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:59,720 And the question is, what are we going to do with it, right? 549 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:04,440 Are we going to be, are we going to be leafy trees or are we 550 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:05,560 going to be fruit bearing, right? 551 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,120 Are we going to apply Jesus to our lives? 552 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,000 Are we going to say Jesus, I can't and you have to. 553 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:18,200 And that's. That is that understanding that 554 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,680 Jesus paid the price for all of it, right? 555 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,920 For my sin, for your sin for the guy that's making me mad sin for 556 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:36,070 my enemy, sin for my all of it. What it cost him? 557 00:40:36,270 --> 00:40:41,230 You were worth it. Do we believe he is worth 558 00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:46,150 sacrificing all of us for fellowship with him? 559 00:40:47,110 --> 00:40:52,120 And that that really what it always comes down to is do we 560 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,120 trust him? Do we trust that when I say, 561 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:59,480 when I, when I say I don't matter that he that he's going 562 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,080 to come along and take care of me? 563 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,600 Or do I have to defend myself? Do I have to take care of 564 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:09,240 myself? And this the, the verse that I 565 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:12,560 use all the time and you guys hear it over and over and over 566 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:17,040 again is Galatians 220 is I've been crucified with Christ. 567 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,720 It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. 568 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:23,680 And this life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in 569 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,880 the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. 570 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:31,160 This life that I now live in the flesh. 571 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,200 I live by faith in the Son of God because of what he did. 572 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,200 He already paid for it all guys, I got, I got nothing but gravy 573 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:44,120 this side of heaven and I get more gravy on that side because 574 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,400 it's his problem, all of it. You know it. 575 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:58,160 It's this is not how how do you how do you just exchange this 576 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:08,960 world for his plan, believe that he is able to do what he says 577 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:14,680 and then watch him do it? And does that mean that your 578 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,880 life is sunshine and rainbows? I would tell you the apostles 579 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:22,920 would probably tell you no. But is he worth it? 580 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:25,720 And is his plan better than mine? 581 00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:31,120 Absolutely. So I encourage you that we have 582 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:37,320 the cross up here tonight and I and on Sunday. 583 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:48,440 He's awesome and he proves it. Not just don't just say it, he 584 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,280 proves it. So Lord, I just lift up this 585 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,800 time and I lift up everybody here, everybody at home. 586 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,440 And Lord, that you would just come in and take over. 587 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:06,360 Lord that we would just lean in and rely on you, Lord, and that 588 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:11,000 you would do amazing things through through our submitted 589 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,480 lives to your plan. And I pray all this in Jesus 590 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:15,360 name, Amen.