1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,720 Good morning class man. It's going to be a good Sunday. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,920 I'll celebrate a few things. One, this season of church has 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:10,520 been so exciting just to see heaven get into people. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,920 And what I mean by that is that it's not only coming to Jesus, 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:19,000 but this fire that those who are in Jesus are living for heaven. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,960 And there's this passion around that that's being shared and 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,600 some humility and just some some grind and just getting with 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,080 Jesus. And I'll just share with you, if 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,320 people are heaven bound, I've noticed in the season, if they 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,640 get heaven into their bones, they actually help other people 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,800 get heaven found. They actually have a way of 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,720 saying you just need to have a drink of the water. 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,240 I've been drinking from that. You got to get in the presence 14 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,280 of Jesus. And so since the beginning of 15 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,200 the year, this is pretty cool. So we're at what, 3 months in? 16 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,560 We've had 27 people start a relationship with Jesus since 17 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,480 January 1st. That's pretty good. 18 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:51,880 Amen. That's pretty good. 19 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,840 I mean, this is just exciting. Like God continues to move. 20 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,720 This next week is Easter Sunday. And it's always amazing that we 21 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,560 get a chance to baptize and all of these people come to Christ 22 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,960 and people come to church. We have 10 people, 11 people. 23 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:09,440 I always look at Holly because she last I heard was 10. 24 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,560 But now it's 1113, right? Whatever. 25 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,400 Just I missed 12. Apparently we have 11 people 26 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,520 getting baptized next Sunday. And what's amazing is we, we 27 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,800 just baptized the very last week of last year. 28 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,720 So if you think about this number 11 people were 12 weeks 29 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:27,400 in the year. That's almost somebody every 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,480 single week that's deciding to get baptized through our church. 31 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,560 That's Amen, Amen. Give it up for Jesus for that. 32 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,560 That's just amazing. So over the course of the 33 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,920 series, this is the longest by far series I've ever preached. 34 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,040 I mean, after 12 weeks then, right? 35 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,880 I mean, I started this the beginning of the year. 36 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,520 It will end OK with eternity in heaven. 37 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,160 So you can be like, you're wrong or right. 38 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,280 We can talk later, you know what I'm saying, But I've been 39 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,360 passing out this book to probably a dozen times or so to 40 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,960 different people that are just, I don't know, maybe we'll say 41 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,440 they're staring down the barrel of heaven like they're, they're 42 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,560 in a spot where they're, they're maybe are going through a hard 43 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,880 season with health. Or there's a family that passed 44 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,160 away and they're they're doing their funeral or sibling or I 45 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,280 had a son that passed away gave to a father. 46 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,280 So many different scenarios. And all I tell people I get in 47 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,800 the book is can you just let me know what God's showing you? 48 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,080 Just give me some feedback. And so you know, we're not 49 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,080 hopefully do and almost everybody's gotten back to me 50 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,000 and it has given me feedback of God moving in their life. 51 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,440 I just want to share with somebody reached out. 52 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,880 This is randomly last week. It just wasn't like send me some 53 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,720 feedback. Still this person to read in the 54 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,120 book and this this is what they said. 55 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,880 It says take me a take me a little longer than usual to read 56 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,120 because I'm highlighting all the scripture passages, rereading 57 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,280 them, and writing notes about them in my new Heaven Journal 58 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,280 book. I don't know what the Heaven 59 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:49,760 Journal book is. Maybe it comes with it. 60 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,440 We'll have to find out. But she's writing a Heaven 61 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,560 Journal book, looking at the Scriptures and taking notes. 62 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,040 That's Amen, right? That's amazing, since one thing 63 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,200 I've noticed is that the book has made it a little easier to 64 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,120 understand more of what the Scripture says. 65 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,120 I think I was trying too hard to understand the message Jesus was 66 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,080 trying to convey. In fact, I've gone back to read 67 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,760 some parts of the Bible that I found confusing and hard to 68 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,960 understand just to discover several aha moments. 69 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,680 That's amazing. And you know, I also encourage 70 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,440 you as a pastor when when you read the Bible, it is makes 71 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,200 sense. Like don't try to seek any other 72 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,600 sense. Like it's written to everyday 73 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,080 people. You do not need a degree or be a 74 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,120 scholar or be educated. I mean, it is made for everyday 75 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:30,760 people. Amen. 76 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,200 And so you just get a little piece of like, oh, wow, this is 77 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,800 just, it's a lot simpler than I thought. 78 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,880 We don't need to overcomplicate the Scripture. 79 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:38,360 This is gold. That's what she said. 80 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,720 Reading the Bible now has stirred an excitement in myself 81 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,600 that have never really had before. 82 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,320 Not to say it wasn't excited. It's just that now it seems 83 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,000 easier. Look at this. 84 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,680 It's stirred an excitement in myself that I've never really 85 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,000 had before. That's a good day, is it? 86 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:54,920 Follow Jesus. Amen. 87 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,400 You're excited to walk with Jesus, She said. 88 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,120 Once I finished the Bible in its entirety, there's a goal. 89 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,200 Come on, somebody. This being the third or fourth 90 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,360 attempt. Now I'm going to read it again 91 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,640 because I believe I found it a bit easier next time to 92 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,840 understand, not to mention a whole lot more enlightening. 93 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,160 Amen. It's pretty cool. 94 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,840 So here's what I do. I want to pass out one of his 95 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,880 books today for somebody that's like, hey, you know what? 96 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,800 This series is blowing my mind. I've just been really 97 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,399 encouraged. I want to go deeper in heaven. 98 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,640 I want to just learn for myself, you know, you may not be a 99 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:25,920 reader and you're like, man, I'm going to try it. 100 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,520 You may be a prolific reader and like want it. 101 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,200 And so I'm going to do I'm going to who? 102 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:30,440 Who would like this book? I'll give you. 103 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,120 I'll give a copy out. Just put your hand up real high. 104 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:33,160 That's you. OK. 105 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,000 We'll go all, all in the back because that's what we're going 106 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,120 to do today. So Holly can help me out. 107 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,840 Well, you can tell us about when we get there. 108 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,440 She gone, right? Oh, man. 109 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,040 So you talk about getting heaven to people. 110 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,680 We have a great opportunity next Sunday to bring heaven to 111 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,240 people's lives. It is just absolutely amazing. 112 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,720 If you just invite somebody to share the gospel, just ask 113 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,240 somebody how how they will be open. 114 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,800 Hopefully. Like, I mean, last year we do 115 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,800 not like huge and like put a bunch of marketing on stuff. 116 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,560 We had just shy 600 people last year, which is insane, which is 117 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:09,640 insane. So I don't know what's going to 118 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:10,920 happen. I think the 10:00 is going to be 119 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,080 nuts. So just throwing out there. 120 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,880 If you want to come a different time, that'd be helpful, right? 121 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,760 But just getting heaven to people. 122 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,240 And this last week it was exciting. 123 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,600 I met with a developer in our city and you know, I'm, I'm 124 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,480 pastor. We're in the middle of a, you 125 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,760 know, building initiative, right? 126 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:27,520 So we're like wheel and deal, right? 127 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,720 So I see something happening. It's like, hey, what's up? 128 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,480 Like, let's sit down. And, you know, we're talking 129 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,360 about vision and direction and what they're doing and, you 130 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:36,280 know, all these different things. 131 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,680 Learned a lot about this, the mindsets on some things. 132 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,880 And he asked the question, Hey, tell him about your church. 133 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,840 Well, let me tell you, yes, Sir, you asked a good question. 134 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,440 So I just start bragging about Jesus. 135 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,120 Amen. That's about lives being 136 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,800 changed. People come out, addictions, 137 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,000 people, the number of people baptized last year, people come 138 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,680 to Christ and we're set up and tearing down and for eight 139 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:58,800 years. And this guy's like, dude, you 140 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,480 guys are so committed. Like, I can't believe the love 141 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:03,840 you have for the city and having almost 300 people every Sunday 142 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,640 come out to your church. I mean, it was just an exciting 143 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,320 conversation. And he shares his story and just 144 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,200 that heavy side of religion, legalistic church you grew up in 145 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,280 really pushed a lot of rules and just walked away from the church 146 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:17,880 and found his own spiritual journey. 147 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,400 And so I got a chance to just share Jesus, encourage him in 148 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,720 faith and invite him out to you start real life church. 149 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,040 Amen. As soon as we do just see what 150 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,120 God's going to do. You just you plant some seeds 151 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,000 and I feel like there's something special as a just a 152 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,880 minister, not me, but all of us. When you see somebody in their 153 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,680 pain, like when you find the struggle, like when you find 154 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,280 that that drives them, when you when you find the part that 155 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:45,120 hurts, there's something special. 156 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,800 Not just you point them to Jesus, but actually when you 157 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,400 carry them to Jesus, when you're praying for them, when you just 158 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,640 don't give up on them. When you get your phone out in a 159 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,440 week and you're like, hey, man, just been thinking about you. 160 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,560 I'm praying for you. Let's grab another coffee. 161 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,880 Like when you minister for somebody and there's something 162 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,960 special as a body of Christ, we get really, really good at and 163 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,960 it's really shepherding people's pain. 164 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,520 We have to get really, really good at realizing that what 165 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,120 makes people tick where they're hurting and then putting the 166 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,360 right medicine of the gospel, the good news of Jesus, the 167 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,880 things of God on the spots and people's lives that are hurting. 168 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,000 Amen. That's what church is all about. 169 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,920 And so I just excited to to play part of that story. 170 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,440 And that's what Easter is. So when you're working with 171 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,960 somebody, don't make it complicated. 172 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,120 You know, you're, you're ministering somebody, just 173 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,760 invite them out, speak into the hurt, speak into their life and, 174 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,520 and Share your story and talk about how God made a difference 175 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,320 and then say, you know, maybe God can make a difference come 176 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:38,640 out to church. And most people give up on 177 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,040 church to be honestly, they've kind of given up on the idea of 178 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,800 let's get together because I'm done with people. 179 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:44,600 But I don't think God is done with the church yet. 180 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,520 Don't think he's done with church yet. 181 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,200 Maybe doing a lot differently nowadays, but I think in our 182 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,840 culture, people are very open if we will just ask and just be 183 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,280 humble about asking people. So today my prayer is that you'd 184 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,320 be so moved by heaven, you'll bring others or carry others to 185 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,080 Jesus. You actually see this in the 186 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,640 Bible. It's found in Mark chapter 2, 187 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:04,360 pretty amazing piece of scripture. 188 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,960 It says a few days later when Jesus again entered, compared 189 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,040 him, the people heard that he'd come home. 190 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,240 They'd gathered in such large numbers, there's no room left, 191 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:17,360 not even outside the door. And he preached the word to 192 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,920 them. You know, it's always a really 193 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,920 good idea when you get a crowd together to share the word of 194 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:24,560 God. Amen. 195 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,200 It made me feel like a little awkward if you're not a 196 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,800 preacher, but we all know enough Bible, right? 197 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,000 Just share Jesus, share the good news. 198 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,600 This what Jesus does. He got the crowd and he just 199 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,120 preached the word to them. Some of the men came bringing to 200 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,280 him a paralyzed man. Look at this carried by four of 201 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:42,840 them. And I'm just going to say is you 202 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,240 just pick the story up at the beginning here. 203 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,320 I love it when men lead the way. I love it and it's not an 204 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,240 indictment against the women. We have amazing women that lead 205 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,960 the way and cure the torch. Almost every person on our staff 206 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,640 team over the years has been a lady on our staff team. 207 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,960 A lot of churches that way. Women are make up 60% of the 208 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,160 tents of churches. And the reason I say that I love 209 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:10,040 what men lead the way is because most men don't just don't, 210 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,480 they're like almost like spiritually apathetic like this. 211 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,720 The, the wife, the girlfriend, the bringing them to church, 212 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:18,000 right? And it's just, it's just a 213 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,440 rarity to find a man that has his heart set on Jesus and chase 214 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,600 after Jesus. And I just started thinking 215 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,480 like, well, how did this story happen, right? 216 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,680 Like there's a paralyzed man that that gets to Jesus and it's 217 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:30,800 these men brought. So you got to think about this, 218 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,560 this hot guys operate, right? It was probably 1 dude that was 219 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,560 walking down the street and he saw that guy and he said, Hey, 220 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:39,800 guys, guys, hey, come on, Hey, everybody, come here, come here. 221 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:40,600 Dude. We got to get something. 222 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,840 We got to figure this out. Come on, let's go, let's go. 223 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,640 It was probably one person that had the idea, look, I got to get 224 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,600 this out of Jesus and then gathered a group of men to help 225 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,000 move that person to Jesus. Amen. 226 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:53,960 They're probably one of the committee formed. 227 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,800 We saw a problem, which is this person needs to be healed. 228 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,400 And some men got together and said, let's solve this problem. 229 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:02,160 That's a good day. Amen. 230 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,720 This is what men should be doing. 231 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,040 They should. I just never imagined our 232 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,360 church, like if every man just had the ability to see people's 233 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,600 hurt and then give them to Jesus. 234 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,160 I mean, unstoppable force of nature, the church, it's just 235 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,280 every man's like man, that's not an eruption. 236 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,600 I noticed that person's hurting like it's I'll take some time, 237 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,160 I'll get on the phone, I'll meet up, I'll invite you in my life. 238 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:26,920 I'll set your story if need be right. 239 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:28,960 We can't just come to Jesus conversations. 240 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,960 I just think even if half the men in my church, we just say, 241 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:34,000 you know, I see some people's pain. 242 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,960 I I recognize what God is doing. There's a lot of wisdom in that 243 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,560 and I'm not and dying, you guys, but I'm Sean, I'm your friend. 244 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,560 Come on, somebody, right. But I think as guys, our culture 245 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:49,720 has kind of set us up. We stay really busy and focused 246 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,200 and carry a lot of weight. And oftentimes we miss the very 247 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,920 thing that God wants us to do. Just people around us enlisting 248 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,760 others to heal other people's lives. 249 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,360 This is simplicity is that you see whatever else saw and to do 250 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,800 what no one else was doing. It's just with compassion. 251 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,320 And they picked up this guy's mat. 252 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,080 They did for this paralyzed man what he could never do for 253 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,960 himself. He he never could get himself to 254 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,440 Jesus. It was going to be impossible 255 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,920 for him, his own strength and ability to actually get to the 256 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,480 presence of God. Here's the point. 257 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,720 Real love carries what most others critique. 258 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:26,560 Real love carries what most other people critique. 259 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,000 You think about this, Everybody knows the solution. 260 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,120 Everybody's like, man, I hope somebody picks them up or like, 261 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,320 I'll tell you what, man, that that guy's problem is this. 262 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,520 I kind of noticed that and everybody's got an opinion and 263 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,840 everybody's got everybody knows what to do. 264 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,600 And the Bible says that him who knows good and does it not to 265 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:48,760 him is is sin to whoever is the world's good and is compassion 266 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,680 to shut up and he doesn't give it to somebody else is in sin. 267 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:54,680 The love of God cannot be in him. 268 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,560 And so your life will be moved by moments of compassion. 269 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:00,600 It's how Jesus will move your life. 270 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,760 Your call will always be shaped by the level of your compassion. 271 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:07,840 The more compassionate, the greater the call. 272 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,960 More compassionate, the bigger the impact because you start to 273 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:12,880 see with the very eyes that Jesus sees. 274 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,920 So real life truly carries what other people just critique. 275 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,120 They love them where they're at, they're served without 276 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,800 conditions, and they step into the very mess that most people 277 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,800 want to avoid every single day. That was verse 3. 278 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,200 We'll go to verse 4 now. Since they could not get him to 279 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,640 Jesus because of the crowd, that is where most people probably 280 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,840 stop. They couldn't get into Jesus. 281 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,040 We did our best. We'll pack it up. 282 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,560 It's just too difficult. It says they made a what an 283 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:46,560 opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and they 284 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:49,160 lowered the mat the man was laying on. 285 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,040 I, I love the passion of these men because this took a little 286 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,000 bit of like thought they, I don't know how they, you know, 287 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,600 like there's more than four of these guys, by the way, because 288 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,000 it says the guy, the man and four of them carried the mat. 289 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,040 So there's a group of guys that said, I don't want to do. 290 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,480 And everybody grabbed a corner and they started going and 291 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,440 there's always a giant crowd. They're kind of pushing through 292 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,760 and it's like, damn, forget this. 293 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,800 What else can we do? And those houses are built on 294 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,080 the edge of, of hills. So they're like, well, let's 295 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,200 just go around the back and we'll, we'll go up the hill and 296 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,240 we'll just get out on the roof. So lay them down here. 297 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,960 Somebody find some ropes. Maybe they tore their tunics, 298 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,000 maybe some naked dudes on the roof. 299 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:21,960 I don't know what's happening here. 300 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,960 And they tied off. I don't know how they figured 301 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:25,880 out how to get rope. And somebody's in the roof. 302 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,600 Like he's right here. I think he's here. 303 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,760 He's right in this spot and right above Jesus this side. 304 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,240 No, there's some carpenters in the house. 305 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,600 Amen. They tore off the roof and Jesus 306 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,200 is right below him and then they decided we'll just lower them 307 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,240 down. So there's got to be these 4 308 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,840 ropes or how they roped them up and they lowered them to Jesus. 309 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,280 Imagine if these guys weren't very good and it just drops in 310 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,080 front of Jesus, right Doom. Then it'd be that two miracles. 311 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,280 You know what I'm saying? It's just difficult stop right? 312 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:54,000 But it's just amazing like all the little facets you don't 313 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,880 really see in the story until you really have to think about 314 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,920 what would that will intake, what it look like in these 315 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,080 thatched ribs right? You heard the saying like it 316 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,320 raining cats and dogs. You guys heard that before this 317 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,240 because these houses are on the side of, of pitches and the 318 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:05,920 animals get on top. When it rains, it gets real 319 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,320 heavy and the animals fall through the ceiling into the 320 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,240 floor. And so these, these men knew 321 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,400 like we can go through the ceiling if need be, like it's 322 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,080 not going to stop us. So there's a bunch of people in 323 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,280 the way like we're, we're, we're going to make room. 324 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,160 We're going to go a different direction. 325 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,080 And here's the point. Even though they could not, they 326 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,640 made an opening. And then when you're, when 327 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,160 you're like thinking about winning a soul or like sharing 328 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,600 Jesus, like we don't stop when you've hit the first obstacle, 329 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,280 like you don't stop because it's difficult. 330 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,400 You don't stop because of the door shut. 331 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,320 You find another way to get them in the presence of Jesus. 332 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,360 You know, sometimes the first step, and I will gladly say the 333 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,920 first step is not invite them to church because you are the 334 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,280 church. You invite them to yourself and 335 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:49,680 you say, why don't you come over and hang out? 336 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:51,400 Why don't you have a block party? 337 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,800 I was so bummed during the, the, the, the community week at life 338 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:59,080 groups that it was 31° high on my day to do my community night 339 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:01,160 because I'm like, I'm putting inflatables out. 340 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:02,760 I want the whole neighborhood to show up. 341 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,960 Amen. And they, they, they get around 342 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,280 the people, which is the church and then they're open to go. 343 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,480 Man, wow, I, I, I really appreciate what you said or that 344 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,280 was a light. I never seen it that way before. 345 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,200 Thanks for loving me. You treat me better than my 346 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,160 family does like, and then all of a sudden like I'll be and 347 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,960 they start coming together and realizing there's so much power 348 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,720 and being the body of Christ. That makes sense. 349 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,240 But we we give up to like, well, I invite them out. 350 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:27,360 It's like, what do you invite them into? 351 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,080 Are you inviting them into your life? 352 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,200 Or you say we'll come down to a service. 353 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:32,640 You notice the very beginning, the message. 354 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,040 I said I was really excited to have this getting the people. 355 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,480 I didn't say I was really excited that people were coming 356 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,960 to church. There's a big difference. 357 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,680 Like we can have a crowd of people to come here and go great 358 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,920 job preaching and they do the same thing. 359 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,760 It's like heaven has to get into us. 360 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,720 Like the the power of God and the president of the Holy Spirit 361 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,560 of God to, to be changed by, by the word of God, to just be a, a 362 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,880 vessel like empty, like I'm the clay and you're the Potter. 363 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,200 Just mold me and shape me Jesus. Like that's what we're talking 364 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:05,600 about. Verse 5 when they saw when Jesus 365 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,480 saw their faith, somebody say their faith. 366 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:08,880 Yeah. What? 367 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,240 It wasn't to paralyze man's faith. 368 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,320 I mean, I, I'd love to know if that guy actually wanted to get 369 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,240 healed. Right, I mean, he's like, don't 370 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:17,880 take me. No, he's just like the grumpy 371 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,800 grandpa and you're like, no, you're going to you need 372 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,040 healing, brother. Who knows, maybe he got yelled 373 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,960 at by the grumpy paralyzed guy. He's like, you know, I'm just 374 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,480 going to get you to Jesus. Like who knows exactly right. 375 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,880 But Jesus saw their faith. This is all the friends that 376 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,080 were carrying him and stood around him and he said to the 377 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,720 paralyzed man's son, your sins are forgiven. 378 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,720 Is there any greater gift you could ever get at all of 379 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,400 eternity than your sins being forgiven? 380 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,200 I mean, what a gift of Jesus. That man received heaven that 381 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,880 day. There's a part of him that was 382 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,880 resurrected from the dead that day. 383 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,800 There's there's a part of him that's ever changed and eternity 384 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,760 was given to him. So Jesus recognized that these 385 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,840 bold faith and their love for this person that's compassion 386 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,480 was worthy just to say I am going to heal you from your 387 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,200 sins. And what you get real is about 388 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,760 Jesus where Jesus is heaven is that they're, they're 389 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,720 synonymous. Like he's the he is the one that 390 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,839 can only give you heaven. He is heaven, He is perfect, He 391 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:11,480 is righteous. And so you see this in the Bible 392 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,480 in John 638 So sure, I have come down from some of Jesus himself, 393 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,760 for I've come down from where you have come down from heaven. 394 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,040 He was already in heaven and he gave up all the riches, all the 395 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,680 glory, all the power, and he humbled himself and clothed 396 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,000 himself into humanity, wrapped himself in the flesh. 397 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:33,440 He says not to do my will, but to the will of him who what the 398 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,400 will of him has sent me. That is the that is the perfect 399 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:37,520 picture of what looks like to heaven. 400 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,720 Get in your life, by the way. Well, it's no longer my will, 401 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:42,680 but it's the will of God in my life. 402 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,120 There's this deep desire and longing to please the Father and 403 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,040 do his work and do his ways because you've been radically 404 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,200 changed and he is the son has given you life you don't 405 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,800 deserve. And you humbly say Lord, 406 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,640 whatever you want me to do, yes and Amen. 407 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,560 That blank contract, right? You sign the bottom and you put 408 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,080 it out in front of God and say whatever, you're right, I'm 409 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,880 going to go do that is what it looks like for heaven to be 410 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,280 inside of you. And this is what Jesus, he came 411 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,560 to our world to bring heaven to us. 412 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,800 And this is the mindset these friends have. 413 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,880 And there's maybe a lot of reasons for it. 414 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,280 It's all speculation, right? Like why had this mindset? 415 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,600 Because everybody else just pressed in, but they decided to 416 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,960 stop and bring this person to Jesus. 417 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,320 Their mindset was this, if I can just get the paralyzed man into 418 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:30,880 the presence of Jesus, because I know that Jesus can actually 419 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:35,640 heal this man, I, I know Jesus can change his life. 420 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,520 I, I, I know they don't need more religion. 421 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,760 Amen. I know in our world, we, we 422 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,640 don't need to give more people a list of rules and what not to 423 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,800 do. We don't need to say, well, 424 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,800 here's how you measure up, keep up your good deeds, pray, chant, 425 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,040 meditate, show up, read the Bible, pray. 426 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,320 Like, yes, some of those are good things, but that's not the 427 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,680 point. The point is to to be with 428 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,280 Jesus, that he will be our God and we will be with him. 429 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,360 That's the greatest promise of heaven, Amen, is that we're in 430 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:05,240 the presence of God and these men just recognize they knew 431 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:07,240 where Jesus was. There's the peace of heaven, 432 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,560 there's the healing of heaven, there's the forgiveness and 433 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,320 there's freedom of heaven. What the world does not need for 434 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:19,520 us to do is to give more like good advice or, or pep talks or 435 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:24,000 that boys, what it really needs is the mercy and grace and 436 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,800 freedom delivered through Jesus and the Gospel. 437 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,960 That's what the world's dying for, literally dying for. 438 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,800 There's so much depression, there's so much pain that 439 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,800 they're, they're lost. There's no footing. 440 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,240 There's, there's no, there's no rock to stand on and they're 441 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,680 wandering and you get to show them Jesus. 442 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,840 So we need to get people in the presence of Jesus, like to get a 443 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,160 word from the word like this man, he got a word from Jesus. 444 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,360 Son, your sins are forgiven. That's a good word, Amen. 445 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:51,880 How many guys had that word before that? 446 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,320 That's just like ever changing all eternity. 447 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,400 The word you hear from Jesus and and you just need something from 448 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,080 Jesus and he always knows what to say. 449 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,680 I mean, he's a healer, sick, the living hope, the freedom from 450 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,560 sin. And here's the thing, you got to 451 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,720 get people in the presence of Jesus, even if you have to do 452 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,560 extreme things to get people to Jesus. 453 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,000 Some of us have to. I mean, he makes it. 454 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,880 What's crazy. I could never be a missionary. 455 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,560 I can never, I could never, I could never. 456 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,440 It's like, what do you mean you could never? 457 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,400 Like if God asks you to do something extreme, are you not 458 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,840 so willing to do it? Is did did Satan call us to do 459 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,240 that? Right? 460 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,560 Like you could never do this or I could never leave life group. 461 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,000 I could never preach the gospel. I can never share. 462 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,800 I can never pray in public. I hear all these things all the 463 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,280 time. I'm like, why not? 464 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,320 If God is willing, we should be too. 465 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,640 Amen. To tear the roof off to remove 466 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,440 obstacles, you know, I love the front door is blocked and they 467 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:43,800 go around, they tear a hole in the ceiling. 468 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,240 And here's the point. Compassion doesn't wait for it 469 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,240 to be easy. Compassion always makes a way. 470 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,120 Compassion always makes a way. You realize about life is if you 471 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:58,400 give up on people, you give up on the on the belief in the hope 472 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,360 and being part of the story that may change their life. 473 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,600 If you write somebody out of of your life, which is so sad to 474 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,240 see all the time, I'm never going to talk to them again. 475 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,720 It's so dramatic, by the way, like so selfish and we cut 476 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,320 people out instead of crossing lines to bring them in. 477 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,240 It's about compassion. Amen. 478 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,320 Compassion does what's not easy. I had this shirt in that when I 479 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:26,880 was half the man I used to be. It was a medium. 480 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,480 You don't want to wear it. I'll, I can if you want to look 481 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,920 like Tommy Boy. Chris Farley coming up here. 482 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,680 I had this shirt and it said awkward is awesome. 483 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,880 Awkward is awesome. It was about sharing the gospel 484 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,760 because oh, we don't share it. We don't bring it up. 485 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,920 It just makes it weird. Well, thank you, Jesus that 486 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,200 somebody got a little weird for me. 487 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,360 Thank you, Jesus that he got a little weird for us. 488 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,320 Like it. It's just awesome to to change 489 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,360 the culture and it takes like one person to change the 490 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:02,040 culture. It really does. 491 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,320 Like, I know it's like all these people never listen to us that 492 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,520 have you tried? Have you tried? 493 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,080 I mean, it's just like, have we made like fictitious persecution 494 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,160 to stop us from being the man and woman God's call us to be? 495 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,040 Like, why are we so timid to not just be a little more awkward? 496 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,200 The world is looking pretty awkward to me, by the way. 497 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,280 You got people dressing like whatever and things like this. 498 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:21,480 And like, they're, they're willing. 499 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,080 They're willing. And I, I, I think as Christians, 500 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,760 like maybe we just stand up a little bit. 501 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,160 Amen, just go little awkward the gospel, just bring it up and 502 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,440 maybe you barf it up and it's weird and you tried and you're 503 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,480 like, hey, man, sorry, that was the most terrible presentation 504 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,000 of the gospel ever, but man, God would probably use it. 505 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,520 God has I I don't know how many people have led to Christ. 506 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,120 It's got to be in the hundreds. If not, that means a lot. 507 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,040 And I've had some terrible presentations of the gospel and 508 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,520 thank God it's not me that saves people. 509 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,560 Amen. You're like, well, I can never 510 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,600 do what you do. Oh, you could you're seeing my 511 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,800 thousandth attempt, right? Like you're, you're seeing, 512 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,960 you're seeing experience. But here's here's what 513 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,120 compassion does. The hope of heaven pushes you 514 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:04,840 past fear. It pushes you past rejection. 515 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,480 It pushes you back past making people happy. 516 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,280 It pushes you past being too busy. 517 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,160 It pushes you past self centeredness. 518 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,560 It just pushes pushes you back from following your dreams and 519 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,200 not God because you see people exactly where they're at. 520 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,080 Compassion finds a way to get other people in the presence of 521 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,760 Jesus. Go to verse 6 is going to kind 522 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,640 of do the antithesis of these these friends. 523 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,320 So there's now some teachers of the law. 524 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,320 These are the educated religious kind of teacher pastor like 525 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,560 people in that generation. They were sitting there. 526 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,480 So these people were in the room. 527 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,120 These people took up space to criticize what other people 528 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:40,480 should mean. They're getting healed and 529 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,200 they're thinking to themselves, why does this fellow talk like 530 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,120 that? He's blaspheming. 531 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,360 Who can forgive sins but God alone? 532 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:52,320 And they're mad because, like, this guy's claiming to be God, 533 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,920 so he's a blasphemer because he's saying he is God. 534 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,960 And immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this is what 535 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,520 they were thinking in their hearts. 536 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,400 It should be humbling, scary and exciting all at the same time 537 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,760 that Jesus knows your thoughts and I'm the ones in your mind, 538 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,960 the ones in your heart like the deeper things. 539 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,360 And Jesus responds to those idle words in their hearts and he 540 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:21,040 says this out loud. And he said to them to their 541 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,800 absolute shock, why are you thinking these things? 542 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,000 Can you imagine Jesus say that to you? 543 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:35,040 What things Jesus, he says, which is easier to say this 544 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:39,160 paralyzed man, your sins are forgiven or to say get up, take 545 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:46,600 your mat and walk. But I want you to know, look at 546 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,160 this is the point. He's going to use this as a 547 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,240 lesson. He's going to teach them 548 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,760 something. He wants them to know that the 549 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:57,920 Son of man has what authority on earth to forgive sins. 550 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,680 Everything he does from here on out is to remind them and to 551 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:08,040 show them that he's the boss, that he has all authority to do 552 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,360 whatever he wants to do, including forgiving sins. 553 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,520 How do you guys know just that one word of Jesus can change 554 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:14,520 everything? How do you guys know that? 555 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,880 I mean, you look at all of the gospels, right? 556 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:18,640 And, and you sleep on that awesome pillow. 557 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,320 I got to find out what that pillow's like in heaven. 558 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,120 Like I want that pillow and the bomb of that boat and the storms 559 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,360 raging. The disciples are rowing. 560 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:26,000 Nothing happened. He just goes up there and 561 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,400 they're all freaking out about faith and he says peace be still 562 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,880 over nature and just OK boys, hope you learned something and 563 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,880 goes back to sleep. He says Lazarus come forth and 564 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,280 Lazarus comes out. He says that the lady caught in 565 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,880 adultery as everyone to stone her there draws a line to sand 566 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,720 and he he probably wrote the name of all their, you know, 567 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,040 mistresses and other sins in the past and they walk away and 568 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,760 Jesus says neither do I condemn you. 569 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:54,840 That's hard to compassionate. Amen. 570 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,440 Like you, you sinned against the holy God. 571 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,600 You've lived a life of cold bakery. 572 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,480 You look nothing like God. But the God, the universe has 573 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,000 enough grace to get down the sand and tell you, I love you. 574 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,200 I don't condemn you go and sin no more. 575 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,960 So she's not trying not to sin because she's trying to God's 576 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,800 approval. She's trying to not sin because 577 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,880 she knows how much God loves her. 578 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,800 That's the grace of God. And by that word, she has 579 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,120 changed. I'm on the cross. 580 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:19,320 We'll sure we'll talk about this next week. 581 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:23,760 It is finished that sin is finished, that the debt's been 582 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:28,000 paid, that every wrong is nailed to the cross and Jesus has paid 583 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,400 the wrath for our sin and is con conquered our sin and is done. 584 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,840 What about this today you lose me on paradise. 585 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,880 In paradise, potentially the first person that goes to heaven 586 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,960 with Jesus, Jesus dies and he's like, yeah, you're a little bit 587 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,640 behind me. You got here. 588 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,800 And the only way that that man got into heaven because the 589 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,840 thing about the first person to go into paradise with Jesus, 590 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,600 he's a man that looks nothing like God, the least likely 591 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,880 person, the the biggest Sinner, the person that was being 592 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:04,280 crucified because he's a thief, a robber, just the most like 593 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,360 ridiculous person in the society. 594 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,160 And Jesus says to debuting in paradise because he has faith. 595 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,000 And the only way you got in is because Jesus said he could come 596 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,760 in. Amen, his authority to let 597 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,720 people in to heaven. And so that's the point. 598 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,880 All these are authority. No one else has the authority 599 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,880 but Jesus. And so he says, son, your sins 600 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,920 are forgiven. Only one person can do that. 601 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,960 And I know we there's a lot of like methods like I'm a good 602 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,800 person or I try and I measure up and there's this other thing. 603 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,920 There's no other God and there's no other way to heaven but 604 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,600 Jesus. It's just is what it is. 605 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,040 He's the only one that has the authority to declare your sins 606 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,640 done halfway through 10 verse 10. 607 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,760 So he said to the man, so he's already kind of chewing on these 608 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,080 religious leaders. So he turns around with 609 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,040 authority. He says to the man, the 610 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,280 paralyzed guy, he said, tell you get up, take your mat and go 611 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,760 home. And he reiterates it. 612 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:04,640 He got up, he took his mat, He walked out in full view of them 613 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,520 all. And the reason he's riding this 614 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,280 over and over again is because they want to make it very clear 615 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,280 that you know that Jesus has the authority not only to forgive 616 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,160 sins, but also to heal people. This amaze everyone that and 617 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,000 they praise God saying we have never seen anything like this. 618 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,040 That's how you know, it's a good day at church, Amen. 619 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,120 Long as it's not like snakes come out of stage, right? 620 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,520 We've never seen anything like this. 621 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,360 But you've never seen the power of God, man. 622 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:33,920 I've never seen Tim like that before. 623 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,080 Like let's because Tim is different, Amen. 624 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,600 There's a Holy Spirit living in Tim. 625 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,040 There's a difference in his life. 626 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,840 It is amazing that when you think about the miracle, the 627 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,960 miracle didn't just happen for the purpose of the paralyzed 628 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,160 man, but the miracle actually happened for the crowd. 629 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,320 Like the purpose was that they know that Jesus has authority. 630 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,080 And so he said, I'm going to heal this paralyzed man. 631 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,400 And so he gets up and walks. He rolls up his bed and walks 632 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,480 out the crowd. Nobody can mistake the fact that 633 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,520 Jesus in his word and his voice had authority over human nature 634 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,520 and flesh in the Spirit of God. It's pretty amazing if you think 635 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,640 about for the respect of the friends that sometimes when you 636 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,160 carry others that that not only they receive a miracle, but 637 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,960 other people see a miracle. You know, when you have enough 638 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,920 compassion to walk long enough with somebody in the season and 639 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,480 it to be the person that that God let you kind of cross the 640 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,360 like a major milestone with them, their life begins to 641 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,280 change. Like you see somebody that once 642 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,520 was an alcoholic and you keep praying and you keep having 643 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,480 compassion. You don't like just cast about 644 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,200 your life and you serve people, even though it's hard and they 645 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,840 walk on you and it doesn't work and it's they have less 646 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,440 maturity. I get it, you know, and you care 647 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,920 for them, but then you see Jesus change your life out of a moment 648 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,840 of just your humility and just grinding it out, which is behind 649 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,720 the scenes. Nobody recognizes it's not very 650 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,680 sexy. That's ministry, Amen. 651 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,800 And you do that and then all of a sudden you see that their life 652 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,520 changes. All of a sudden, every person 653 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,280 that meets that person from now on, they are declaring a miracle 654 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,400 of God. Man, I used to be. 655 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,160 Aren't you the alcoholic guy? Aren't you that guy that lived 656 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,440 like that? Aren't you that person that 657 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,840 you're so bitter? Aren't you the person that hated 658 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,360 all that? Aren't you that abuser? 659 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,000 Aren't you that real mean person? 660 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,160 Yeah, but Jesus changed my life. And every person from here on 661 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,280 forth, they're declaring the miracle to the crowd in their 662 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,480 life. That that's what you get to play 663 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,600 a part of. And when you if you give up 664 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,480 because it's too hard, you're giving up on the miracle, not 665 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,960 for them, but for others because their testimonies also shapes 666 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,440 the next person. There's a very amazing verse in 667 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,080 the Bible. And I could probably preach this 668 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,440 verse like for the next year, but it's Proverbs 11/30. 669 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,400 It says this is I'll do KJ to be on this one. 670 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,160 But he that wins the souls is wise. 671 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,040 The question I'll pose to you and you can answer this probably 672 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:52,360 a billion ways, but what is the wisdom required to win a soul? 673 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,880 What's the wisdom? Because here's the thing, you 674 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,440 can go to church and know everything you want to know 675 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,880 about God. I got a lot of friends that, 676 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,360 that know a lot of things about the Bible, but they don't have 677 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,920 any wisdom. They, they, they know scripture 678 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,360 just like the Pharisees or maybe like even Satan himself, but 679 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,440 they don't have any ability to help anybody else see Jesus 680 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,720 there. There's, there's wisdom to it's 681 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,480 just not head knowledge. It's just like, well, I know the 682 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,960 Romans road or I know the part of the Gospel. 683 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,040 OK, But the wisdom, what's the actual wisdom? 684 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,920 I'll just give you some thoughts just right out of this, this 685 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,880 story we saw. Here's some wisdom #1 the first 686 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,520 thing about wisdom is to see the miracle before it happens. 687 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,600 That's wisdom. It's the wisdom to look at 688 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,000 somebody's life and to see the potential. 689 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,320 It's the wisdom to recognize that they're not just an 690 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,600 alcoholic, they're a son or daughter. 691 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,320 They're king. They're, they're not too far 692 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,520 gone for God's grace. That's the wisdom. 693 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,440 The wisdom to see the version of them that God so desperately 694 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,800 wants to have in their life. That's what that's what the 695 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,440 prodigal father is doing, by the way. 696 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,760 He's at the he's looking at the window waiting for the sons and 697 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,560 daughters to come home and he runs to them because you 698 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,520 recognize that there's parts of people that are worth redeeming. 699 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,320 Amen. That's that's wisdom. 700 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,600 It's wisdom to look at maybe your prodigal daughter or son or 701 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,560 a family member. And it takes wisdom not to live 702 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,520 in judgement or to cast stones or to be like, well, I'm not 703 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,640 going to invite them anymore. It takes wisdom to serve and 704 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,520 love people. Amen. 705 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,240 And this is where it kind of gets wrong. 706 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,400 But those people, they saw the potential in the paralyzed man. 707 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,840 They knew that if I could give him to Jesus, that that boy is 708 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,720 probably going to walk again. That's, that's wisdom. 709 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,800 And here's the thing, The only people who are not surprised 710 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,720 that the miracle happened in that man's life were the people 711 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,240 that carried him to Jesus. They were not surprised. 712 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,360 Everybody else is like, oh, this is so amazing. 713 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,720 And the guys on the roof are like, yeah, we told you, boom, 714 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,480 high 5 chest pump, right? They knew, they knew. 715 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,640 And if you're a minister, right, like you have the heart of 716 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,520 heaven and like the things of God, you know, like you've seen 717 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,880 the glory of God and you just want to get somebody to Jesus. 718 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,960 Second part of wisdom is to thank God for people who carried 719 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,720 you. Like none of us are self-made. 720 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,520 Somebody prayed us to heaven. Somebody invited us to heaven. 721 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,480 Thank you, Tim, for pointing to the man that prayed you to 722 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,360 heaven. Exactly right. 723 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,560 You know, for all eternity you'll be like thank you, Dan 724 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,400 for not giving up on me. There's so many times as they 725 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,640 could have done that and you know that. 726 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,480 But the grace of God, Amen, that somebody prayed for you. 727 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,240 Somebody invited you. Somebody, somebody, somebody 728 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,480 made a room for you. They didn't say come to church. 729 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,680 I saved you a seat. They said come to my family. 730 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,360 I'm not going to give up on you. Be a part of my life. 731 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,760 I care about you like come to my table. 732 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,720 I I had a man in my life. He said, Sean, I will never let 733 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,560 you fail. Wow. 734 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,320 When I was a teenager, he was like a dad to me. 735 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,920 Like no matter what happens, as far as you run, no matter what 736 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,600 happens, I'll always love you because he had been down the 737 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,720 road. He he knew how how how terrible 738 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,640 his life was a far from God. He just knew that Gracie got so 739 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,840 good. He still tells me, Sean, if you 740 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,320 make the wrong decision, there's a couple options. 741 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,840 But if you make the wrong decision, guess what, I'll still 742 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,240 love you. That's a good man of God. 743 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,159 Amen. It's just like we have to thank 744 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:11,880 God for people that carried us. So here's my challenge for you. 745 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:12,960 We're getting the Easter week right? 746 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,000 And what greater thing could you do is to get out your phone and 747 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,080 just text or call that person in your life if they're still here 748 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,120 and say thank you so much for investing in me because it 749 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,880 wasn't for you. I was not where I am today. 750 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,440 That's a great phone call, by the way. 751 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,480 Thank you, Jesus. If you just text him, say hey, 752 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,440 you might even remember he's been so long, right? 753 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,120 Or thank you Dad for put putting all the time is then go in vain. 754 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,880 Or maybe they're not here anymore and you can call up 755 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,920 their son or daughter or family member and say, can I just tell 756 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,679 you a little bit about your old man because your dad was a hero 757 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:51,960 to me and just just honor and brag on heaven. 758 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:54,520 And maybe there's nobody you connected to and just go tell 759 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,080 somebody else. And let me remind you, this guy 760 00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,320 named bitch like I I had nothing in my life, but I had this guy 761 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,720 that loved me for no reason at all. 762 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,920 I had, I mean, there's no reason to invest in shopping tree, but 763 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,440 he loved me and he cared for me and he opened his house to me 764 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,480 and he did all these amazing things. 765 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,680 He's still one of the greatest friends of my life. 766 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,040 He's never given up on me and all those stupid things I've 767 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,360 done in my life. He still loves me. 768 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,720 Amen. The grace of God. 769 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,080 So they have the wisdom. Know that you weren't yourself 770 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,120 made. Who brought you there? 771 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,240 Listen, sometimes God moves in someone else's life because you 772 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,600 refuse to give up on them. You refuse to quit. 773 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,560 You know, it may be years. I mean, there's a lot of moms 774 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,800 and grandmas and, and grandparents have prayed for 775 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,960 families for years for faith to take effect. 776 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,680 So The thing is, the miracle wasn't just in the man's life. 777 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,160 The miracle was in their faith. I don't know how it works in 778 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,560 God's sovereignty and plan. I don't know. 779 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,960 I don't, I don't even care. But their faith played a part of 780 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,480 the story. Amen. 781 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,440 I would like to think that if you're a man or woman of God, 782 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,040 that God does more around you just because you were there, 783 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,120 because the environment and culture and the humility and the 784 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,920 holiness and the honor you bring to God in your faith, that just 785 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,800 God just allows the Holy Spirit to move through to other 786 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,960 people's lives and touches people. 787 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:09,760 I'd like to think that God does that. 788 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,040 He does it right here in the Scripture. 789 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,000 The last part of wisdom, and like I said there, there is 100 790 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,400 more or if not millions more wisdom. 791 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,080 If you don't need the miracle, make room for someone else who 792 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,040 does. That room was full of Pharisees. 793 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,400 There was somebody who need to get healed and they couldn't get 794 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,800 to Jesus. And I was thinking about this 795 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,440 story. How many people would have been 796 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,320 healed if Jesus would have been more accessible because it 797 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,280 wasn't full of people take up dead weight critics instead of 798 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,040 worshipping Jesus. What kind of revival could have 799 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,920 started in that house if it wasn't full of critics? 800 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,120 It was actually full of faithful believers and then saw a 801 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,320 paralyzed man. They said, hey guys, part the 802 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,560 way somebody needs to get to Jesus. 803 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,720 So there's something about those friends that we have to start 804 00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:57,840 understanding. Those friends had one of three 805 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,400 options. One, they already were healed by 806 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,720 Jesus themselves because heal people heal people. 807 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,200 They just do. So if Jesus has touched you, you 808 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,880 cannot help but to stop and help someone else get to Jesus 809 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,400 because you already been touched by him. 2 They're either really, 810 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,720 really wise like Simeon or Anne or the OR the OR the the wise 811 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:22,320 men. They just knew Scripture enough 812 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,600 to know that's the Messiah and I don't even need to be touched 813 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,520 from the Messiah because I know what he can do already. 814 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:28,680 So I'm going to take this band with me. 815 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,920 Could have been that. It could have been that they 816 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,680 already heard the stories. There's other people that 817 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,920 already been touched by Jesus. They've been coming down the 818 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,480 roads for weeks and months or days and they heard about this 819 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,680 Jesus guy and how much he did and what he did for this person. 820 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,480 And they just thought to themselves, well, if he could do 821 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,800 it for them, he could do it for me and sure, he could do it for 822 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,760 him. So let's just grab him. 823 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:47,640 There's only three options. Amen. 824 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,400 It wasn't like some experiment like, well, let's go out of our 825 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,760 way and see if this works. Nobody is that determined unless 826 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,840 they know full of faith. Is there faith that healed them? 827 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,680 It's just thing about making room for people, right? 828 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:04,440 Like making room for the grace of God and the forgiveness of 829 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,400 God and the compassion of God and the love of God. 830 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,560 I'll tell you what it looks like. 831 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,640 How many guys went to the Rolls Parade 2015 November. 832 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,760 You guys remember that? Let me go down the Rolls Parade. 833 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,520 All right. Hope you had a better experience 834 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,040 than I did. I end up we we've been up with 835 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:25,680 Josh and Carrie Cubbly, Chuck and Jill. 836 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,800 We end up on Pershing and Maine, which is right in the corner of 837 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,120 the Union Station. It's in we're like between the 838 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,600 Marriott and the Union Station and we're in this like cyclone 839 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,680 of death. You want to call it? 840 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,320 OK. And and we're like in this, I 841 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,160 don't know, we're up by the gate, but they just get pushed 842 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,320 with the crowd. And there's this Hispanic gang 843 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,120 and they jumped and crushed the police car completely down to 844 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,720 nothing. Just the whole thing crushed 845 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,320 some dude had like a heart attack and Diamond trying to get 846 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,800 him to some medics. And it was like crazy. 847 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,880 And we were like in the crowd like, yeah, I've been 30 years, 848 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,680 right? And this picture is what we saw. 849 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,680 This is it. We saw confetti, some smoke, 850 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,240 some buildings. And we're there for like 8 hours 851 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:12,120 and there was like 15 porta potties for 2 million people. 852 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,040 You know what I mean? The lines forever long it it it 853 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,040 one time I actually saw a baseball healing balloon float 854 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,240 by, you know, the size of a car just like float above the heads. 855 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,480 And that's what we saw. You know, the reason that this 856 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,280 is all we saw, look at the picture is because everybody 857 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,480 else picked up the most important person in their life 858 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,160 and pulling their shoulders. That's what you do. 859 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,800 Like we'd have a view because they said, son, I'm not going to 860 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,160 be able to see it, but I want you to see the miracle team of 861 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,800 2015. I want you to a glimpse of the 862 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,840 team that made it with like through all the crazy endings. 863 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,400 And it should have been that way. 864 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,280 It was like angels in the outfield kind of thing, right? 865 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,640 And they mail away and everybody's so excited. 866 00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,560 They put their kids up on their shoulders so you can see a 867 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:00,840 glimpse. We didn't see. 868 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,800 It didn't matter. We saw. 869 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,120 The kids saw. Amen. 870 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:04,960 There's just something is a church. 871 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,200 If you get just low and you're like, now I'm going to put some 872 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,640 of my shoulders so they can see Jesus and be a slave to Jesus is 873 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,640 what James calls himself so other people can see the glory 874 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,440 of God. So it looks like our church to 875 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,160 be part of heaven being us. Amen. 876 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,200 So we talked about Easter Sunday. 877 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:26,200 I'm like, don't be surprised if you carry somebody on your 878 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,320 shoulders next Sunday. They come here that two things 879 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,080 will happen. One, that they'll see a miracle 880 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,960 because God is going to move. And two, that they very well and 881 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,840 be the miracle themselves. That's good, man. 882 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,640 You can play part of that story. We all can, Amen. 883 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,480 Just bring somebody to see the power of God on display. 884 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,320 It's Easter, baby, He's risen. What greater news could we ever 885 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,080 share? And for somebody in that room, 886 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,080 the many people are going to hear, son or daughter, your sins 887 00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,240 are forgiven. So Father, come before you. 888 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:04,000 We thank you so much, God, that heaven is in US and that we have 889 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,120 the ability just to simply play a part of the story. 890 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,880 God give us the wisdom of winning souls as Jesus follows 891 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,320 the house. Today I pray for great wisdom 892 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,480 with great patience, with great love and compassion that our 893 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,640 church would go out and be the hands of feet in Jesus, in the 894 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,480 highways and hedges, in the hard places, in the difficult places, 895 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,680 in the places that most people won't want to go. 896 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,680 The gospel will take effect and miracles will happen because our 897 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:35,200 church wants to serve with compassion those that need to 898 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,000 get to Jesus and help our church to tear the roof off our city 899 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,080 for you. I pray for one group, people in 900 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,080 the house, and that's those of you that say, you know what, I 901 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:49,040 need the miracle of God today. There's probably somebody in 902 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,120 this house that showed up and you've yet to be saved by Jesus. 903 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,440 You've yet to hear the word son or daughter. 904 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,080 Your sins have been forgiven and today the Bible says the day of 905 00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,440 salvation. If you need new life in Jesus 906 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,040 that day, the Bible says he will save you for your sin. 907 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,160 He will cast your sins before the east in the West. 908 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:07,440 He will make you new and change an inside out because he's full 909 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,600 of love and compassion. Even at your worst, God is 910 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,840 always as best. And so today if you need Jesus 911 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,480 not be looking around like it weird to call you out, but you 912 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,160 need Jesus. We just raise your hand high in 913 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:18,160 this place. I need a relationship with 914 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,840 Christ today. I'm not going to walk out of 915 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,320 here without Jesus. I need heaven and Jesus and they 916 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,480 come together as a package. How many guys does I need Jesus 917 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,480 today across this space? If that's you, I'm not going to 918 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,960 call and make it weird. Let's leave through a prayer. 919 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,960 The prayer does not save you but your heart towards him to say, 920 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,600 Father God, thank you so much for Jesus. 921 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,280 Thank you so much for loving me that you send your Son with 922 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,560 authority to cast out my sin and to love me deeply. 923 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,920 God thank you for those that carried me to you today. 924 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:51,640 God I give you my life, I surrender to you. 925 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,880 I will live for your glory and Share your story. 926 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,120 I praise in Jesus name and the church said Amen. 927 00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,200 Give it up to Jesus. Amen.