1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,120 Have you thought of what it means to be through at all? 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:05,600 Because there's probably some of you guys that are in the middle 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,360 of it all right in this very moment. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,200 You've walked through these doors and you didn't know where 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:15,360 else to be. I've heard some really some some 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,120 really cool stories about horror stories this week. 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:23,880 It's getting a little emotional because I think of where I think 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,400 of where people are and even the midst of that. 9 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,320 I love that phrase that we've just worshipped in it as well. 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:37,280 If you are a child of God and can say it as well, man, what a 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,080 blessing. What an awesome opportunity to 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,720 worship. If you're not here today and you 13 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,160 can't say that, my prayer is at the end of the day that you can 14 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:48,320 say it as well. So today, instead of a shout or 15 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,120 a praise, and can we just say a big Amen to it as well? 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,280 Amen, man. It is so awesome, man. 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,720 I love worship with you guys. Just to come in, in this moment 18 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,560 of community, just as a family, just to just to give some praise 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,640 back to God and be able to sell it as well. 20 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,760 Man, what a great thing. So I want to recognize some new 21 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,440 people today, man, we have a lot of new people in person or 22 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,240 online. Can we show those guys some love 23 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:15,640 real life? Give them a round of applause, 24 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,080 man. I'm so thankful you guys are 25 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,120 here washing it with this at this gathering at Kentucky Trail 26 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,160 of real life. Hey, take this opportunity. 27 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,400 Take 30 seconds and greet somebody around you, would you? 28 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,960 All right, you guys can go ahead and be seated, man. 29 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,960 Hey, as you're sitting down, you guys are getting ready to sit 30 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,880 down on something awesome called a connection card, man. 31 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:16,480 This is for everybody in the house today. 32 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,080 If you're if you call real life home, we love it when you fill 33 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:20,760 us out, man. Let us know what's going on in 34 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,800 your life. We love having conversations 35 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,560 with you guys. And one of the best ways that we 36 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,800 get to know what's happening is if you've got this connection 37 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,280 card, maybe it's a praise, maybe something you've been praying 38 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:30,680 for for a long time. God answered. 39 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,720 Maybe it's a prayer request. Maybe you're going through 40 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,720 something in the middle of it. You're through go trying to go 41 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,840 through it all right now and we would love to have it. 42 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,080 Our leaders get this in and they pray over these cars. 43 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,400 They reach out to you guys. So if you call real life home, 44 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,960 please fill this out. If you guys are new, I'm going 45 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,520 to make a promise. We're not going to ask anything 46 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,520 else from you today except for one simple thing. 47 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,280 We would love for you to give us an introduction and that 48 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,600 introduction is just a way for us to reach out to you. 49 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,440 You can fill out the top of the car to the level you're 50 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,080 comfortable with. We're not going to beat your 51 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,000 house or anything weird, but we want to know about who we are, 52 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,760 real life, what we're doing. And then we more importantly 53 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,040 want you to know that God loves you and we love you. 54 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,640 And everything that we do kind of filters out of this mission 55 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:09,040 statement that we have. And that mission is this is to 56 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,800 see people far from God discover their real life and their 57 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,720 purpose in Jesus. And when you're going through it 58 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,000 all, people get wrecked, the world throws them away. 59 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,280 And maybe you've been there where you, you, your friend 60 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,040 group has disappeared because of whatever reason. 61 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,200 Maybe you're sick or you're not as funny as you used to be or 62 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,000 whatever. And in the moment of our 63 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,800 loneliness and our, our, our, our isolation, you still have a 64 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,880 creator that's looking for you. So when we come in here, we get 65 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:39,040 to introduce people to Jesus and we gather not out of some other 66 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,080 common interest or just something belief other than 67 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:43,840 Jesus. And when we get to introduce 68 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,200 people to Jesus, we fulfill that mission. 69 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,320 We feel that Commission. So man, we are excited that 70 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,360 you're here with us today and we would invite you to be on that 71 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,040 mission with us. We're in the middle of an 72 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,240 awesome message series. For for. 73 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,840 For a lot of us, we look at our life and we look in the past. 74 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,560 We think, man, everything that is good and great has already 75 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,040 happened. Our best days are behind us. 76 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,720 And that's not true, absolutely not true. 77 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,960 And there's good things about having plans and goals and 78 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,040 aspirations, but what if our aspiration, really, if our goal 79 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,200 is to have clarity about what God has for us in our future, 80 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,640 for our eternity, what heaven looks like. 81 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:20,480 And there's very few times that you ever hear a sermon about 82 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,120 heaven other than in passing. And so it's been really an 83 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,040 awesome pleasure to hear, you know, Pastor Sean opened God's 84 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,080 word and just share with us a vision of what God has for us. 85 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,840 It brings clarity to our life and bring expectation, brings 86 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,680 anticipation to know what what God has for us. 87 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,760 We've talked about what heaven looks like, what we're going to 88 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,040 be doing there. And so today we're going to 89 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,640 continue in that message series. So real life, would you guys put 90 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,920 your hands together, bring up Pastor Sean as we continue. 91 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:49,000 Heaven. Good morning, guys. 92 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,520 Man, I'm glad to be back among the living. 93 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,840 Amen. I was sick a little bit last 94 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:58,240 week, just a little bit. We won't go in the details, but 95 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,560 first of all, it is well, Amen. I can just hear you guys 96 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,760 singing, which is amazing. This message today is going to 97 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,400 lean right into that. Before jump in, I'll say thank 98 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,040 you guys. They're a new or new to real 99 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,040 life. Can you guys give it up for 100 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,640 everybody's newer newer Come on, we just love you guys being 101 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,480 here. Last week we had our welcome 102 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,520 party and we had 19 like newer people to our to our church and 103 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,160 dine had been out of town for like a month. 104 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,600 So I introduced her and I was like, hey, just so you know, I 105 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,400 do have a wife. This is Diane. 106 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,800 So you haven't been better yet. But man, those guys just 107 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:31,600 blessing to share a vision a harder church. 108 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,640 A lot of them have jumped on our serve team today. 109 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,480 So see people serving their their new but give it to those 110 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:37,720 guys went to the welcome party. Amen. 111 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,240 Let them know you love them. There's one more group of people 112 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,600 I want to thank that are just making a tremendous difference 113 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,960 in this season. And it's those that are open up 114 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:48,640 their house, they open up the word of God. 115 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,840 They're open really their soul and their heart to you guys. 116 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:54,480 It's our life group leaders. And so give it up for our life 117 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:55,280 group leaders. Amen. 118 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,200 It's been fun. It's been 2 weeks in and to hear 119 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,560 the stories of all the people that have been going to groups, 120 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,120 I like to ask people, hey, how's it going and just people getting 121 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,560 back in the word of God spouses, there's a lot of ladies that are 122 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,880 kind of dragging their spouse along, which is kind of fun to 123 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,400 watch and people are open the Bibles and the way groups, 124 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,480 people memorizing the scripture. How many guys memorize your 125 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,080 first scripture this year that you may not memorize in years 126 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,840 and years near a show of hands. Some of you guys memorize some 127 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:21,640 scripture that's pretty good. Amen. 128 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,960 Come on, somebody. And it's amazing. 129 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:26,600 We go most of our life we don't read the Bible. 130 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,000 We're not in the Bible. And I'll encourage you guys to 131 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,440 jump into a group. We're not a group yet. 132 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,280 And not all the groups are are geared towards just going to the 133 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:35,720 Bible. But if you need to be cared for, 134 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,960 you need to jump in a group. And so I encourage you, if 135 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,000 you're not in the group, you come on Sunday, you sit, you go, 136 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,120 you're probably not going to receive the care you really need 137 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:45,880 unless you get into a group. Amen. 138 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,080 We have people that love you, they care for you, they'll pray 139 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:50,560 for you. That knows go on your life and 140 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,040 really show you things of God and that's how you grow. 141 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,040 You take leaps around people. So I encourage you guys, this is 142 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,120 the beginning of the third week got amazing groups and they're 143 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,680 they're full. There's a lot of people going to 144 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,040 groups. And so I encourage you guys to 145 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,520 jump in even even stay not behind the ball. 146 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:04,960 Amen. A few weeks in. 147 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,560 So I want to share something that's really cool and just 148 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,000 celebrate this a few weeks ago. We do not get to this very 149 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,720 often, so it's kind of like once in blue moon kind of thing, but 150 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,520 we got to donate a car that somebody done to us a few weeks 151 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,760 ago to somebody in need and it was really cool. 152 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,640 There's a young man that's been going to our church and it's one 153 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,080 of those stories it's hard for me to relate to because this 154 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,040 person started out in kind of the gang life and just has seen 155 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,040 a lot of loss, a lot of pain, a lot of things and has been 156 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,200 struggling. But it's like struggling 157 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,120 forward. And this person is like 158 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,560 motivated and striving and walking to work and, you know, 159 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,200 rain, sleet, snow, whatever, and just trying to make things work, 160 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:44,920 reading books, all sorts of stuff. 161 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,400 And so I talked to young man, I said, hey, look, I got this car, 162 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,360 but if you get a license, I'd get this car to you because he's 163 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,160 been between a license and he's been working on his license. 164 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,160 A few weeks ago, he showed up and had some paperwork. 165 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,120 He was super stoked. He said, dude, I'm right there. 166 00:07:58,280 --> 00:07:59,840 That's OK, let's meet up this week. 167 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,720 I've been holding this car for a while and, and hold it for him. 168 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,240 He knew that. And so let's meet up. 169 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,400 And I made him up at his job and he had told me he's like, man, I 170 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,680 called my mom before you got here and it was just so excited 171 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,320 because that's what you do when you're excited, you call your 172 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:12,720 mom. Amen. 173 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,280 You know what I mean? And like mom, I got a car, you 174 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,280 know, and this person's really never received something to 175 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,400 really that level or anything really like that. 176 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,600 And it's my life. He was so thankful and we drove 177 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,360 around to drop the car and this kind of stuff. 178 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,120 And he just kept saying, I don't know how to thank you. 179 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,160 I don't know how to thank you. And I said, you don't have to 180 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,440 thank me, man. Like you just thank God, Amen. 181 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,760 Like this is a gift that somebody passed to us. 182 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,240 We're just passing on to you. And I told him, I said, the only 183 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,200 thing I'm going to ask you to do is that one day when you have 184 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,560 the opportunity and you will, and you have the means when God 185 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:48,120 puts in your heart to give something away that's irrational 186 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,800 to somebody else in need. And maybe it's a car and maybe 187 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,800 it's a home. Maybe it's some somebody moving 188 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,000 in. Whatever it is, I ask you to do 189 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 it because it's way more fun. I was actually in the back seat 190 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,400 at this point because somebody else is chauffeuring us around, 191 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,720 which is pretty cool. I'm in the back seat and I'm 192 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,880 like, hey look is so much more fun and so much more full of joy 193 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,200 to give than receive. And it's way more fun to send 194 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,200 the back seat this car and watch you be excited because I've been 195 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,720 in the front seat before. Amen. 196 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,480 I've had people give things to me I'd never ask for. 197 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,560 I'm not the kind of guy that's going to do that, but I've had 198 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:21,240 people bless my life. And I'm just telling you it is 199 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:22,920 way more fun to give than receive. 200 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,880 Amen. So this man was completely 201 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,000 humbled, you can tell. And I'm excited for him. 202 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,400 He can level up, get a different job because he's been walking 203 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,160 everywhere and there's excise what God's going to do and just 204 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,960 we get the opportunity to do that to people. 205 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,320 Amen. It's irrational generosity. 206 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,680 Like we we could have sold the car like we're we're saving 207 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:41,320 money for a building, right? But you see him, you're like, 208 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:42,480 man, I'm going to get behind that. 209 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:43,760 I'm going to plant some seeds in that. 210 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,280 I'm going to encourage that. Real interesting kind of side 211 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,440 note. Now I'm just going to say this 212 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,440 because I can, I'm the pastor, so we'll do that. 213 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,280 But last time I gave a car away, I got some Flack from people, 214 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,480 man, there was a few people like I didn't get a car. 215 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:00,760 Kind of heard that through the wind of the church and I was 216 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,480 like, so somebody's upset they didn't get a car. 217 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,920 That's interesting. So I'm just going to let you 218 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:10,840 know that somebody getting blessed doesn't take away from 219 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,920 your blessing. Amen. 220 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,880 God is not short on cars. Just so you know, he was Oprah 221 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,240 apparently too. The guy's not short on cars, but 222 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,600 he is short on people that he can trust with the car. 223 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,800 Like it's like the parable the, the 10 lepers or really a store 224 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,200 of 10 lepers and he heals all these lepers, only one comes 225 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,880 back. And I'm looking for people and 226 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,600 we're looking for people that have the heart towards God and 227 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,520 it it make it easy to get blessed, Amen. 228 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,400 But I will say this, and I've yet to see this, and this is a 229 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,600 rule of science, free maturity is instead of complaining about 230 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,920 not getting a car, you should be complaining about not be able to 231 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,240 give a car away. That's the level you need to get 232 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:52,880 to. It's like, man, I wish I could 233 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,680 be in the spot where I had the means and opportunity and I 234 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:58,600 could do that. And one day you will because 235 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,600 we're made to be conduits of God's blessing. 236 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,800 Amen. So this is kind of proof for 237 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,640 thought I'll put out there. So if I still get some Flack, 238 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:05,680 then you'll hear from me next time. 239 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:08,920 But just want to put out there. I'm, I'm excited to preach 240 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,600 today. We're we're back in the series 241 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,000 on heaven. We, we kind of had a little 242 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,520 thing last week, but I just want to encourage you guys, man, I'm 243 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,760 excited to preach. It's been a few weeks. 244 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,200 Are you guys trying to receive something today? 245 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,320 Sad to hear from, from God's word. 246 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,240 As always, I'm thinking about heaven. 247 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,360 I want the the things you see in the scripture to move you and 248 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,120 change the way you Live Today. And today's going with those 249 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,960 like deeper level kind of conversations. 250 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,160 Today's really dedicated those of you that are struggling in 251 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,400 your faith. And it could look a lot of ways. 252 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,160 It could be bad news at home with your kids or something 253 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:40,800 happened to family. It could be relationship that 254 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,560 blew up and you and you're wondering like, man, where's God 255 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:46,440 on this? Like is God still good? 256 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,400 Like you see pain and suffering and I'll give you some things 257 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,960 I've seen even this week. I I've heard about a lady that 258 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:57,560 went through a situation in childhood trauma that just, it 259 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:00,040 really ticks me off, you know, and you see that kind of stuff 260 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,800 and then you wonder like, OK, God, what are you doing? 261 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,760 And where are you at? Like, are you good? 262 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,640 Are you powerful? What's going on, right? 263 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,480 And you see these losses, maybe like natural disasters where you 264 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,560 see Camp Majestic, right? And you see these young girls 265 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:18,080 that are swept away to flood. And you're wondering like, OK, 266 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,160 God, like, I just don't understand. 267 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,560 Like, what are you doing? Like you see his things, like 268 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,640 there was a Marine that fell off the USS Iwo Jima just this last 269 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,760 couple days and they searched for him for an hour or a day and 270 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,960 they couldn't find him, right? They're like, Lord, man, this 271 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,280 guy's protecting our country and he's lost at sea. 272 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,680 And you see these things like wondering like, God, are you 273 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:36,880 real? Are you good? 274 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,360 And it today's just dedicate those that are struggling with 275 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,080 pain and loss and suffering. That's all of us. 276 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:44,760 And that's what was really encouraging to hear this song. 277 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:46,480 You're saying it is well. And like, Lord, help us to 278 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,080 really meet it because that song was actually written by a man 279 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,400 who journeyed over the sea and his wife and his kids were 280 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:57,000 killed as a boat sank. And so he didn't know about for 281 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,960 months. And he traveled over sea to go 282 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,840 to the funeral for his family. And he wrote those words over 283 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:04,240 the very spot where their ship sank. 284 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,720 And you say, I do a Lord of the winds and the waves. 285 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,240 And you'd as well with my soul. Like, that song is written 286 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,760 complete, utter brokenness. Amen. 287 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,000 Now as you want to see today, like how good God is and to 288 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,960 leave with those kind of words. And so we're going to jump into 289 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:20,360 our Bibles. We're going to be in Romans 290 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,400 chapter 8. I want you to give you a big 291 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,720 view of the resurrection power of Jesus and our vision of 292 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,360 heaven. What is that? 293 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:30,160 I'm hearing something. Maybe it's just me. 294 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:31,920 I thought Siri was talking to me. 295 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,560 Romans 8, verse 18. This is Paul talking and it's 296 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:38,320 going to seem a little try at the beginning, but we're going 297 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:38,840 to get there. He said. 298 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,480 I consider that our present suffering that are earthly 299 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,240 suffering, that all the pain we walk through, he says, are not 300 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:52,880 worth what comparing with the glory that were revealed in US. 301 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:57,080 And Paul, if we taught us before, he'd actually been to 302 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,480 heaven, as he was with Jesus, Jesus brought him to heaven. 303 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,320 And so Paul knew like what we're going through now is like a 304 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,200 light affliction and it's a burden. 305 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,960 And he's like, this isn't worth comparing. 306 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,360 If you spent one minute in heaven or one second in heaven, 307 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,320 if you knew what that was really like and the glory that's been 308 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,160 revealed in us, we wouldn't be so worried about the pain and 309 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,840 suffering here on earth. And this is where Paul comes 310 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,640 from. And my encouragement for you is 311 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,960 to, to get this vision of heaven and what could be like. 312 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:24,920 And so I've been reading this book. 313 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,400 There's a buddy of mine, he he he mentioned it by John Burke, 314 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,120 imagine heaven. And he talks about near, near 315 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,120 death experiences and people have spent time who have passed 316 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,640 away and come back and they're, they're like, they're asking 317 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:38,920 from their body. They don't really know they're 318 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,160 dead. They see their body like whoa. 319 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,720 And they feel this overwhelming presence of God. 320 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,920 They see this light. And for those who come back, 321 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:48,760 there's a voice that tells them it's not your time. 322 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,600 And they go back in their body. Is that crazy? 323 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,880 Am I crazy? I'm just telling you like this, 324 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,080 this is y'all look at me like, dude, what's going on? 325 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:58,720 Dude, read the book. Amen. 326 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,560 He's got all these stories of Christians that have like lost 327 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,280 their life and give them back to them. 328 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:05,920 And there's this presence of God. 329 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,600 And and what you see is the overwhelming presence and joy of 330 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,240 heaven that awaits us. And we look at our temporary 331 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,680 life and we think this is it. And So what Paul is saying of 332 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,160 all the courage that he can muster, and I remember he's 8 333 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:19,800 chapters in. OK, so we're just picking this 334 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,960 out. But since I consider our present 335 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,240 suffering are not worth comparing with the glory that 336 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,440 revealed in us that what's happening right now is so minute 337 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,240 compared to the glory you can experience in heaven. 338 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,480 Verse 19 says for the creation. And he's going to make an 339 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:41,120 argument here, OK, He says, for the creation waits in what eager 340 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,040 expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 341 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,320 So he's not talking about us. He's talking about the creation 342 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:55,840 itself, the stars, the nebula, chromosomes, like every piece of 343 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:01,960 the universe is waiting with expectation for the resurrection 344 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,600 power of Jesus, for the children of God to be revealed. 345 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,160 And what he's talking about is us and our resurrection. 346 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,160 So mountains and atoms and trees and animals are waiting for 347 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,360 this. Verse 20 says for the creation 348 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,600 was what subjected to frustration. 349 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,920 Man, that sounds like a good definition of life, right? 350 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,880 Subjected to frustration. You think about when when Adam 351 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,600 fell, it's it's as Adam went, creation went. 352 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:36,200 And when humanity fell, God cursed the ground that Adam came 353 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,160 from. Adam was made from dust, and so 354 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,680 God cursed the dust and he cursed the creation itself. 355 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,040 And it wasn't its choice, right? Like creation itself didn't sin, 356 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,440 It was the creation of the creation that sinned. 357 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,040 It was us. And so it's not but its own 358 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,280 choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, that the 359 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,680 earth or the creation itself was cursed by God. 360 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,200 But listen in hope. There's a reason that the 361 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:07,359 creation itself will be what liberated from its bondage to 362 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,720 decay. Like the creation knows that it 363 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,119 is a slave and it's in bondage, it's under curse and it's dying 364 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,119 and it wants to be resurrected and made whole. 365 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,400 And the creation knows this is true. 366 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,680 Creation is groaning and is expecting the resurrection power 367 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:32,800 to fix what is broken. It says and brought into listen, 368 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,960 this is pretty amazing, the freedom and the glory of the 369 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,680 children of God. How many of you guys knew that 370 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,760 the creation itself is actually looking forward to the 371 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,280 resurrection power of Jesus. It is looking forward to being 372 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:51,040 brought back to whole to to be perfected where there's no dying 373 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:55,000 and decay and it's looking to not just its own future. 374 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:57,080 It knows a timeline is set with us. 375 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,040 The creation and the animals and the trees and the wind and the 376 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,440 universe and the stars and the Galaxy are looking to us for 377 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,800 their freedom. You're looking for us in our 378 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,040 redemption to the glory of the children of God. 379 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,760 And so when you think about the gospel and you read the Bible, 380 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,800 the gospel is not just good news for us, it's good news for all 381 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,560 creation. It's not just freedom for us. 382 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,080 It's freedom for all creation. That's the same resurrection 383 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,440 power that saves us is the same resurrection power that's going 384 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,080 to resurrect our bodies is the same resurrection power that's 385 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,120 going to resurrect the earth in creation. 386 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:33,120 Amen. This is like a whole nother 387 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:34,040 level. How many guys are right now 388 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,960 going, OK, where's this guy doing? 389 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,480 Because we don't think about this very often. 390 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,400 We don't understand like how deep the gospel really goes. 391 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,680 Verse 22 says this. We know this is Paul talking 392 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 that the whole creation, we talk about every atom, every 393 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,440 particle, every star, all the black matter. 394 00:18:54,040 --> 00:19:00,240 It has been groaning, as in the pains of childbirth right up to 395 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,680 the present time. To think about creation actually 396 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,240 in pain. To think about hurricanes and 397 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,120 tornadoes and floods and the brokenness end up creationist 398 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,720 crying out in pain as of childbirth. 399 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,000 Now you think about childbirth pain, right? 400 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,080 Like I can't speak on a whole lot. 401 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,320 I'm totally under qualified. Amen. 402 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,120 But I've never yet met a mom that said it wasn't worth it. 403 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,840 Like my kid was born but the pain was too great. 404 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,880 I wish I'd never had kids. And I'm not trying to minimize 405 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,440 the pain, Amen. I'm just trying to maximize the 406 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,360 prize. Like there's something being 407 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:44,240 born out of life. Like life is birthing life. 408 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,960 And there's an expectation that there's something greater to 409 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,040 come. And so these pains are not 410 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,200 without hope. Amen. 411 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,720 And so you see like the hardship that happens to you and the it's 412 00:19:55,720 --> 00:20:01,560 just the stories are so crazy. Like as a pastor, like I hear 413 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,640 like. Things you should never know, in 414 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,360 the brokenness you should never see. 415 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,760 And I've got to give a hope and an answer to reason. 416 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,600 And all I can tell you is there's a curse on the earth 417 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,560 that has broken everything and it's so deep and it's so 418 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,640 entrenched, but we're longing with great expectation for a 419 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,800 hope of the resurrection power, Christ, Amen. 420 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,640 But if your hope is here and now, you're going to be 421 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,600 miserable. Some of y'all posts like that, 422 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:34,200 Amen. Some of y'all like have posted 423 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,800 as if heaven is even real. Like we're, we're hope is like, 424 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,040 well, the dream must happen now, brother, you're under the curse. 425 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:45,160 The dream happens later, Amen. And so we look around at our 426 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,400 family and the situations we want to fix it. 427 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:52,440 But here's the thing, if God is so patient to let all this junk, 428 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,040 and you can feel a lot of words in there happen right now, how 429 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,800 much must you truly love us to be patiently enduring? 430 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,520 Because He knows one day there's a resurrection power coming and 431 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,960 everything's going to be fixed. Amen. 432 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:11,080 That there's a plan behind the pain and we miss it so often. 433 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,760 And so when even the creation groans, it doesn't groan in 434 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:21,080 dreadful pain like in this bitter jaded pain. 435 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,280 It groans with expectation of hope. 436 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:31,040 Even creation knows that, and you think about us as humans who 437 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,680 should know scripture, who were created in the image of God. 438 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:39,840 When we grown, do we groan with expectation or do grown as 439 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,480 bitter as hell? Because a lot of us just grown 440 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,520 and we look out and we're so jaded and so bitter. 441 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,400 We stopped talking to people. We stopped going to church 442 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,480 because we've been hurt by somebody, which I'm not 443 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,240 minimizing because some people have been hurt so bad. 444 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,800 So I don't blame you, but we should never blame God. 445 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,400 And we have a really good night giving up on people because 446 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,000 that's what Satan wants us to do. 447 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,920 And we play right in the cards because our hope is found here 448 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,480 and now and not there and then. And we got to set our 449 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,160 expectation and our hope in heaven with great expectation, 450 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,640 with liberation and freedom, that there's a far better world 451 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,480 being born and it's coming through us. 452 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:24,360 Even creation, though, is not defeated. 453 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,400 Creation knows that the best days are ahead of it. 454 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,360 We can't forget that either, Amen. 455 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,280 Creation knows this is not as good as it gets. 456 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,920 Creation knows this isn't fair or fun. 457 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,920 Amen. That there's real pain and real 458 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,880 hurt, but it's like a childbirth. 459 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,480 Leave verse 23 so not only mentions creation, Paul's 460 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,640 saying, hey, if this light affliction or this momentary 461 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:56,080 pain is not to be compared with the glory to come in heaven, he 462 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,160 says, look, even creation understands this. 463 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,680 He makes a huge argument and he turns the corner and he's going 464 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,320 to talk about us In verse 23. He says not only so, not just 465 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,960 creation, but we ourselves, we should know this. 466 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:14,600 We have the first fruits of the spirit, and what Paul's talking 467 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,480 about is in that generation, this is all first generation 468 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,040 Christians. They're the first ones born by 469 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,200 the resurrection power of God. And the way you know that is 470 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,040 because the Spirit of God has come into us and has made us 471 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,960 alive to God. Our spirit is resurrected. 472 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,080 There's a party that's already made complete. 473 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,160 Amen. That's the soul. 474 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,320 That's your spirit. When you called on Jesus, that 475 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,200 party was made right with God. But there's this body. 476 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,920 Come on, somebody that's broken and decay is still under the 477 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,840 curse. And so he says we're the first 478 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,320 of the Spirit and says the spirit groans inwardly as we 479 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,360 wait. How eagerly, man, are you guys 480 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,840 excited for heaven? You're excited for the 481 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,840 resurrection power Christ? Are you excited for the day when 482 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,040 there's no sin, there's no pain, there's no evil? 483 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,360 We don't have to lock a door, look over your shoulder. 484 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,560 You don't have to vote for somebody because we have a king 485 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,520 already. You excited for that day? 486 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,600 Would all make sense. Like we don't have to suffer and 487 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,880 have anxiety and worry about medication. 488 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,440 We don't have to go to the doctor. 489 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,040 Hallelujah. Praise God. 490 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:19,920 No vascular surgeons. Amen. 491 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,240 He's over there. He's like, what am I going to do 492 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,480 in heaven? Oh, man, I'm waiting to see what 493 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:35,040 God puts you. Yeah, he's going to pour gold. 494 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,840 That's pretty good. But we wait eagerly for our 495 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,800 adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 496 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,080 We are sons of God now. But think about this and and, 497 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,160 and there's, there's two parts that we waiting for the adoption 498 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,360 of sonship. What he's saying is it's not 499 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:57,560 complete yet. OK, so like in the Roman 500 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,280 culture, you, you are legally adopted because of paperwork. 501 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,080 So the paperwork's gone through the the judge has taken the 502 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,080 gavel and said you're adopted as Christians, we, we have what we 503 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,520 call justification. It's just as if you'd ever 504 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,720 sinned. It's a judicial term. 505 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,000 And when Christ died for you and you believed in Jesus, he took 506 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,400 all those righteous and gave it to you and took all of your 507 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,840 wrongs and took it on himself. And he went to electric chair 508 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,240 for you and he paid your penalty, he paid your hell, he 509 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,520 sets you free. And because of that, they've, 510 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,120 you're declared righteous, Amen. So you're adopted into the 511 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,880 family of God, but you are not complete yet. 512 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,640 You're not brought home, Amen. There's a part of you when 513 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,160 you're baptized, and it's not because you're baptized, but 514 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,480 it's a picture when you're baptized. 515 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,080 Maybe you're resurrected and newness of life out of the 516 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,360 water. You don't, you know that That's 517 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,440 your soul and your spirit. It's a picture what God did in 518 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,400 your soul and spirit. That part is made right with 519 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,320 God, Amen. But this body, as sexy as it 520 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,640 looks, come on somebody, right? It's still under the curse. 521 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,560 It's a dust that came from a dust that shall return, that 522 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,920 there's still evil and brokenness that's in this body. 523 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,160 They say that Jesus lives in your heart, but grandpa lives in 524 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,640 your bones, Amen. I mean, it is true. 525 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,400 Like you just go back to like your sin nature and you wonder 526 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,880 like, why am I keep messing up? Why am I not good enough? 527 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,680 Why did this happen? Why is evil things? 528 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,400 Because we're under the curse, Amen. 529 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,360 And we're longing for the spirit inside is longing for and 530 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:32,520 creation for us to be fully adopted into the sonship under 531 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,120 God. And it look and it happens when 532 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,880 the redemption of our bodies happens. 533 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,800 So one day your soul is already made whole, right when you came 534 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,200 to Christ. But one day your body is getting 535 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,480 made whole tooth of the resurrection power of Christ and 536 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,800 they're going to come together. And that moment, that's when the 537 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,800 perfection happens. Amen. 538 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,680 So we eagerly wait for that moment because we're halfway 539 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,280 there. It's feel like I'm singing a 540 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,640 song, right? But we get so jaded and we get 541 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,480 so burned out. We look around and our hope is 542 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,440 here and now. Like what's wrong with these 543 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,640 people? What's wrong with that church? 544 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,640 What's wrong with the world? What's wrong with politics? 545 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,520 All this ice, all this Epstein dude, I'm so tired of all you 546 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,160 guys losing your mind, Amen. Like, where is your mind at? 547 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,320 Like, have you read the book? Like heaven is our mind, Amen. 548 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,560 That's the mindset. So we've got to change our 549 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,920 vocabulary. We've got to change what we're 550 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,840 thinking about. Like my dream to be fully 551 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,040 adopted in Christ. Here's the amazing thing about 552 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,760 it, The very fact that you're upset and you feel like there's 553 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,320 injustice because there real isn't. 554 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,520 There's real injustice and there's real pain and there's 555 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,480 real hurt. The fact that you've grown 556 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,800 inside of you for a better life and a better world is actually 557 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:48,040 proof that you know Jesus, Amen? Like you should not be happy 558 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,960 when you turn on the news. I don't care what channel you 559 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,480 listen to, Amen. There's like good parts and bad 560 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,360 parts. Like you like the Soup Bowl 561 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,280 halftime show, You like Charlie Kirk's halftime show. 562 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:01,640 They're both got some good things. 563 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,600 They both got some suck things. Amen. 564 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,280 Like, my hope is in the world. Like, I can look at and go, that 565 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,960 part's probably from God, but that's crazy. 566 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,120 That's cool. That's whatever. 567 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,280 But why am I getting bent out of shape? 568 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,440 Like I didn't put my stake down on the Capitol Hill? 569 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,440 Like, I'm not like, oh, make it work for me. 570 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,760 Do I? Do I trust the government to 571 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,960 save my soul? Are you kidding me? 572 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,240 Like do I trust any other person to save my soul? 573 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,600 Is my hope in like my close friends or my buddies or my 574 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,240 workplace or my bank account? The hope is in Jesus. 575 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,760 Amen. It's on Calvary's Hill so you 576 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,160 can't get you lose sigh of that and you lose your witness 577 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,360 because who wants to listen to somebody that has no hope be a 578 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,520 burned out, bitter Christian like me? 579 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,480 Come on, man, like we were salt and light, which means we're 580 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,560 taking heaven and we're preserving on earth. 581 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,960 We're saying there's something better like man, pray for this. 582 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,640 Some of y'all so burned out about ice you're posting all 583 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,440 this stuff. It's like brother, like we we 584 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,240 have you got one vote. Whether you use it this way or 585 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,320 that way, you got one vote. What are we going to do about 586 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,160 it? We pray, Amen. 587 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,960 We trust like our hope is not in anything in the in in the world. 588 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,200 We're round it's in Jesus and if we lose sight of that and if if 589 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,640 we do lose sight of that we're miserable and people know it. 590 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,480 You don't have to even say anything. 591 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:38,400 We just know verse 24 it says for in this hope next very nice 592 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,600 word in this hope. What's what's this hope the hope 593 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,320 and the resurrection power of Christ, the adoption of sons 594 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:50,360 that the our bodily resurrection for in this hope we what we're 595 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,600 saved. It's it's not in US hope we are 596 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,600 saved like you don't have to hope one day it's going to work 597 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,640 out like we were saved already when you called on Jesus, you 598 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,840 already put your faith and trust and the hope and the 599 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,640 resurrection power of Jesus Amen. 600 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,640 It was already a done deal signed, sealed and delivered the 601 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,160 finished work of Jesus on the cross. 602 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,200 You put your hope on that he resurrected your spirit and your 603 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,280 soul and now we're just eagerly waiting. 604 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,600 Lord, I know you're not done yet. 605 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,960 So all these problems that happen, it's like, Lord, I know 606 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,720 you're patiently waiting. I'm learning patience as I'm 607 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,160 waiting. I'm just trusting you because 608 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,880 this is so Jack crazy. Like I don't even know where I'm 609 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,400 at right now. But Lord, I'm just trusting you. 610 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,360 Amen. We eagerly await because we are 611 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,960 saved, it says. But hope that is seen is no hope 612 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,880 at all. I mean, if it's already done, 613 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,800 you don't need hope. You don't need hope it works out 614 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,960 if the check cleared we what who hopes or what they've already 615 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,240 have and so our hope is in the resurrection of power of Jesus 616 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,480 and it's 100% guaranteed future result as if it's already 617 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,880 arrived because that's the power of Christ. 618 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,840 It's already done. It tells us how to hope verse 25 619 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,600 but if we hope for what we do not yet have this resurrection 620 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:13,120 of our body, we wait for it. How what was that patiently? 621 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,000 How many of us have lost our patience? 622 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,120 Amen. Like we might know the most 623 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,160 impatient generations that ever walked the face of the earth and 624 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,800 we have this patience that we're waiting for God's plan to 625 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,520 unfold. And I see this so often as a 626 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,560 pastor. We're like, Hey, I'll just 627 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,240 buddy, but he won't go to church because he got hurt a long time 628 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,440 ago. And I'm like, well, how, how bad 629 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,400 what happened it it just OK, Like I've seen 10,000 times 630 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,360 harder, right? Like it's, it's real easy for us 631 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,000 to give up on people relationships. 632 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,960 We we had our life group launched like the the party we 633 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,920 did. And to be honest, as a pastor, I 634 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,240 was like, man, I don't think I'm really like feeling it with 635 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,040 their group. Like I kind of felt like, well, 636 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,640 I kind of gave up on people a while back, you know, just like 637 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,560 sense of like, I don't know about relationships. 638 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,480 I've been down the road before because you know, you're going 639 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,120 to get hurt. Amen. 640 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,680 How many y'all been hurt before, right? 641 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,680 I don't want any up again. I've been hurt in the past, blah 642 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,960 blah. It's like welcome to fall on 643 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,080 earth, Amen. Like it's going to take some 644 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:23,840 maturity in your part to, to, to to, to put up with sin to to to 645 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,280 like love covers a multitude of sin. 646 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,320 Like to choose not to be given even and to forgive and some 647 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,240 stuff like really small. We like to make it really big. 648 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,440 It's like these Christians weren't perfect. 649 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:40,920 I'm like, who told you we were? We're just forgiven, Amen. 650 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,800 We're not better than anybody. We're just forgiven by Christ. 651 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,240 But I see this all the time. We're not we're not patient with 652 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,200 people because we've given up. So we're not going to join a 653 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,080 group. I'm not going to get involved. 654 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,040 I got involved in lap church. So I'm not going to do that. 655 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,520 You know, like can't forgive people. 656 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,680 I mean, politics, patience and politics. 657 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,880 Come on, somebody, right. I'm going to give you a big like 658 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,040 level how this works. If you don't see me posting 659 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,960 about it, then you probably shouldn't post about it. 660 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,640 Because if I'm in a spot as a pastor where I'm going to hook 661 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,680 my wagon to a political party or person or a thing or a policy, 662 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,600 then I'm selling the gospel short. 663 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,760 And so if you're out there and it's like, hey, I can't help 664 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,880 myself, we'll start helping yourself because there are 665 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:32,240 people who need Jesus more than be Republican or Democrat, Amen. 666 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,520 And so I hooked my wagon to Jesus. 667 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,800 Now there are people on both sides of the line that go to our 668 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,600 church and both people are going to heaven. 669 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:44,360 Shock face, shocked, all shocked, right? 670 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,440 And we don't have to agree. Like we don't have to agree on 671 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,560 all those other issues. Now there's parts of things that 672 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,320 we can be very passionate about. There's parts of things seen in 673 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,160 Scripture. But I'm not going to go online 674 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,800 and spout my mind off and say agree with me about politics. 675 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,360 We're not even agreeing about heaven. 676 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,000 Like, let's agree about what really matters. 677 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,720 That's my call, that's my action. 678 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,280 So here's the thing, don't rob yourself by placing your hope on 679 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,199 fall on earth. Don't rob your joy by putting 680 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,239 your roots down and acting like this is your home. 681 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,880 Don't put your roots down and say, well, it's got to be a 682 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,080 certain way. It's got to work out. 683 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,159 Like I got to have my family this way, this way, this way. 684 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,560 It just may not work out the way you want it to because we're 685 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,639 still broken. We're still under a curse. 686 00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,600 There's endurance, there's brokenness, there's pain. 687 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,880 You get you love and sometimes you you don't get love back. 688 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,960 It just happens. Here's the reality. 689 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,400 If your view of heaven is smaller than your present 690 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,600 suffering on earth, Satan will deconstruct your faith and he'll 691 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,639 put you in his toolbox and then make the most jaded individual 692 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,280 in history. We have to get a way bigger view 693 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,600 of heaven. Amen. 694 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,520 Because of our hope is here and now, we missed the thing 695 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:58,000 completely. I think we need to change some 696 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,080 of our vocabulary. Like, we need to have some 697 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,760 redemptive vocabulary. Like, we say it this way. 698 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,000 Words make worlds. OK. 699 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,720 So when you say like, oh, there's a natural disaster. 700 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,080 I nodded to it earlier. But the reality is it's really 701 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,960 not a natural disaster. It's an unnatural disaster. 702 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:17,800 It was actually never made to be that way. 703 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,480 Amen. There's a time and place before 704 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,280 there was tornadoes and there's brokenness and tsunamis that 705 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,280 wipes out hundreds of thousands of people. 706 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,560 There's times and places before rivers flooded. 707 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,640 There was even no rain where these kids weren't swept away 708 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,440 and can't majestic. There were times where the world 709 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,400 was perfect. Amen. 710 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,800 So when you start saying, well, it's a natural, it just 711 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,760 happened. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 712 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,520 It's not like God is not there. Don't you remember? 713 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,560 God cursed the earth. We got to go back to that, Amen. 714 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,360 Or we say this a lot. I heard this this morning even. 715 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,280 It's so great and we say it all the time. 716 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,720 You say, how you doing, man? Living the dream, living the 717 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:56,800 dream. And what's the next line? 718 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:01,400 I don't know who's it is somebody's dream, not my dream. 719 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,320 Who has said that? Somehow your e-mail, your e-mail 720 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:11,480 line was Sean Petrie Ltd Live in the dream, right? 721 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,560 Like we legit, it's just who we are. 722 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,800 And it's kind of interesting because it's almost like you 723 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,520 kind of expected this was the dream. 724 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,560 And so it's kind of a bitter statement like, well, live in 725 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,400 the dream. You know how it is getting 726 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,360 rolled over, getting kicked in the teeth. 727 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,000 Go and bury right the teeth, you know, and it's like, did you 728 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,160 expect anything different? So, so I would encourage you 729 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,240 instead of saying living the dream as if the dream should 730 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:36,600 happen now. That's the expectation that's 731 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,440 going to, that's not the right expectation. 732 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,800 It should be dreaming of heaven, dreaming of heaven. 733 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,120 What are you going through? I'm dreaming of heaven. 734 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:46,800 Because what that's saying is, hey, it's still real rough right 735 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,560 now. Still kind of tough right now. 736 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,920 But guess what? My hope's not in that. 737 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:51,720 My hope's in something else. Amen. 738 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,840 And so my dream isn't in this moment, in this affliction, in 739 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,080 this temporary world, my dream is actually somewhere else. 740 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,800 My heart is even here. My heart is already there. 741 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,400 Amen. Words make worlds, words make 742 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:06,720 worlds. And so when you have the 743 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:08,000 opportunity to say, hey, what's going on? 744 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,560 How you doing today? Dreaming to heaven? 745 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,760 What does that mean? It means like right now it's 746 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,280 kind of kind of a suck ball deal. 747 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,000 I found out some really crazy stuff, my family. 748 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,240 But guess what? My hopes in heaven. 749 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,760 Oh wow, that's crazy. What's that all about? 750 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,000 You just change the world, Amen. Just by changing the words, this 751 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,200 is how amazing it is. This is how far the gospel 752 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,160 stretches. You see this this hope of the 753 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,240 resurrection power even in John 316. 754 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:35,120 How many guys have John 316 memorized by the way, show hands 755 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,200 all right about to blow your minds. 756 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,680 You all know these I memorized this long time ago, right? 757 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,200 For God so loved the the world that he gave his only son that 758 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,240 whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting 759 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:49,720 life. For he not send his son into the 760 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:55,360 world to condemn the but to save the through him. 761 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,640 Right, 16 and 17 right? We memorize this. 762 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,200 I was like, oh, cool. So when you read this, the word 763 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,400 world is really cool. It actually is the word cosmos. 764 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,200 So it it means like all creation, but in the sense that 765 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,960 John's using it, we know it means the habits of the earth 766 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,680 that are humans. We know that when he says gods 767 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,160 of the world, he say he loves all humans in the world. 768 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,040 First, John 22, he's not just our perpetuation only like wrath 769 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,880 bearing sacrifice, but he actually paid the wrath not just 770 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,400 for us, but also the whole world. 771 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,800 Like we we know he's talking about paying the sacrifice, but 772 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,840 we've always put that in the box of humanity alone. 773 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,560 But what John is doing, he's actually nodding, tipping his 774 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:41,120 hat to all creation. He didn't just die for humans. 775 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,680 He died for every atom and every chromosome and every particle 776 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,200 and every nebula and every black hole. 777 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,160 Everything in creation, heaven and earth, he's going to redeem. 778 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,040 Amen. Have your mind went like this? 779 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,920 We all do the verse, but we never thought about to that 780 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,880 level. And John is nodding his hat to 781 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,680 this. Glory and redemption extends to 782 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,600 cultures and nations and arts and the good works that we make 783 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,280 with our hands that we actually get to take to heaven, which 784 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,440 we'll talk about next week, which is really, really cool. 785 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,160 Well, in with this, and this is pretty mind blowing. 786 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,280 Did you know that Adam and Eve don't actually have proper names 787 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,600 until after the fall? Think about this. 788 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,000 This is crazy. So Adam, his name before the 789 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,440 fall, it means humanity or mankind. 790 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,960 Like you're just human. That's what you are. 791 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,920 You're the creation. You're you're, you're mankind. 792 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,160 And then the fall happens and and Eve is beguiled by Satan and 793 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,680 and says, Hey, Adam, here's the fruit. 794 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,760 And then he eats it, right? And then sin happens. 795 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:45,880 I'll just read through the curse. 796 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,160 I don't want you to give. I'll show you some stuff here. 797 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:55,720 But Adam's name actually means ground or dirt or dust. 798 00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:59,760 His his name Adam is actually short for Adam I, which means 799 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,200 ground dirt. Isn't that crazy to think about? 800 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:04,080 Like God already knew that mankind was already just going 801 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,520 to come. It came from dirt and it's 802 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,840 cursed back to dirt. That's Adam's name. 803 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,600 But think about this. Here is the curse. 804 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,680 This is what happens after ate the fruit of the tree. 805 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,400 Verse 14, Genesis 314. So Lord said to the serpent, 806 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,960 this is Satan himself, right? Because you have done this 807 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,800 cursed. Are you above all livestock and 808 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,680 all wild animals. If you'll crawl on your belly, 809 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,000 you eat dust all day of your life. 810 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,680 We have no idea what what this creature looked like, but now 811 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:29,680 he's going to crawl on his belly. 812 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,760 Verse 15, This is the first mention of hope. 813 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:42,120 And I will put enmity or strife between you and The Who, The 814 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,840 woman, she didn't have a name yet, just woman. 815 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,960 OK, so I'll put enemy between you and the woman, in between 816 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,520 your offspring and hers, her children. 817 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,920 And he being the offspring of the woman, will what? 818 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,280 Crush your head. At some point there's going to 819 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,520 be some offspring of this woman who's going to, he's looking at 820 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,960 the serpent at this point and he's going to crush your head, 821 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,040 Amen. He's going to break you and kill 822 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,920 you. It will strike and you will 823 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,520 strike his heel. This is the first mention of 824 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,000 hope. The Bible or scholars called us 825 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,640 the proto being first evangel, which means gospel. 826 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,640 This is the first gospel, Amen. And I'm thankful that Jesus, 827 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:25,240 when he is cursing humanity, when God cursed humanity, that 828 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:30,200 he gives us hope right here. He's making a way. 829 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,240 And we know because we have the whole Bible, right, that this is 830 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,080 actually talking about Jesus, that Eve is going to have 831 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,920 offspring. And you're going to Fast forward 832 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,320 16 generations to Moses and 16 or Abraham, 16 to Moses and 16 833 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,320 to David and 16 to Jesus. And you're going to end up with 834 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,240 Jesus who's going to die on the cross for our sins. 835 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,400 That's the one that crushes the head of Satan. 836 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,960 Verse 16 to the woman. This is God. 837 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,840 He says I will make your pains in childbearing very severe. 838 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,760 Boo. I wonder what was like before 839 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,320 this interesting conversation with painful labor. 840 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,200 You'll give birth to children. You'll desire will be for your 841 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,800 husband and he will rule over you. 842 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,000 Interesting desire. Before that was probably only 843 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,360 for God, but now it's for your husband. 844 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,960 Verse 17 to Adam, he said because you listen to your wife, 845 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,040 not the wife's fault and ate fruit from the tree. 846 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,080 Look at this about which I commanded you, who commanded 847 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:36,120 Adam, God commanded Adam, you must not eat from it. 848 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,800 He quotes it. You must not eat from this. 849 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,920 So here's the deal. The woman never received a 850 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,320 command directly from God not to eat the fruit. 851 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,800 The woman not knew not to eat the fruit because Adam told her 852 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,120 not to, because God spoke to Adam and Adam spoke to her. 853 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,320 So she was beguiled. But Adam, no, no, no Adam. 854 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,000 Adam willfully disobeyed and that's why the curse comes 855 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,440 through him of sin moved down from the man for all generations 856 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,400 because he knew he saw the face of God, listened to the words of 857 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,760 God and did complete obstacle what God asked him to do. 858 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,160 That's accountability guys. This responsibility is a man. 859 00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:18,920 So he, he commanded them you must not eat from it because, 860 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,400 yeah, it says curse is the ground. 861 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,720 Here it is. Here's creation because of you. 862 00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:27,760 And at that moment all of creation fell through. 863 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,360 Painful toil. You'll eat the food from it all 864 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,560 days of your life, right? How many y'all have to sweat 865 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,040 every day, right? Painful toil. 866 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:38,840 You'll produce thorns and thistles for you. 867 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,600 You'll eat from the plants of the field by the sweat of your 868 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,320 brow. You'll eat your food until you 869 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:50,400 return to the ground since from it you were taken for dust you 870 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:57,680 are and dust you'll return. Adam understood that he was 871 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,040 named after dust. Now this is really cool. 872 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:07,280 Very next verse, the first thing that humane does, the very first 873 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,560 thing after you're cursed by God from breaking relationship with 874 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,320 him and following this in the very first thing after hearing 875 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,560 this mention of the gospel and this hope that's going to come 876 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:26,240 in the future, what happens? Adam named his wife Eve because 877 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:28,440 she would become the mother of all the living. 878 00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:30,960 Isn't that a weird time to name somebody? 879 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,000 You just got chewed out, You just got cursed and he's like, 880 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,640 OK, what? What's going on? 881 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,320 And it may be the very first thing he says because it says he 882 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,800 named his wife. It's a narrative backwards, 883 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,760 right? Like we don't know what he did. 884 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,760 He he may have looked right at his wife because she'd have a 885 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,680 name yet interesting time to name somebody because you 886 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,600 understand, there's no identity before the fall. 887 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,120 There was no me, my selfishness. There's no inward desire for 888 00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,840 self. So they don't really even need 889 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,920 names. And so he looks at his wife. 890 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:08,400 He says Eve, which may be the very first word spoken after the 891 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,120 fall from humanity, and her word means her name. 892 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:17,200 Eve means life giver, not that she's going to give birth to all 893 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:21,560 these children, but with the expectation that one of these 894 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,800 children that they're going to give birth to is going to 895 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,880 reverse the curse. And so the very first word 896 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,880 spoken after the fall. And Adam understood this was 897 00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,280 pregnant with hope. Amen. 898 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,480 But the very first name given was, guess what? 899 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,160 There's a day coming where it's going to reverse all that we 900 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,000 just broke. It's a nod to the future. 901 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:48,000 It's a nod to the gospel. It's saying this isn't my hope 902 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,720 isn't found here now. It's found the promise to come 903 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:54,440 that you just gave to her and that I'm going to live in the 904 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,280 very name Eve. My Eve is solidified the fact 905 00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:00,640 that Adam was actually saved because he's pointing to Jesus. 906 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,800 Amen. It's incredible. 907 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,600 And so you think about this and the most broke, broken moment of 908 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:13,000 mutiny and despair. There was eager expectation with 909 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,640 a pregnant moment of hope. And he utters out Eve. 910 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:21,640 You think about our lives. I told you earlier, words make 911 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,200 worlds. Words make worlds. 912 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,040 And when you get a chance to speak, is it pregnant with hope? 913 00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,520 Because what Paul was saying, creation itself that has the 914 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,920 pains of childbirth with eager expectation for the day of his 915 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,280 redemption. And not only that, but that 916 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,400 Spirit of God, the first for the spirit who lives in US, is 917 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,320 groaning for our resurrected body, for our redemption. 918 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,440 And we should have eager hope on our lips. 919 00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,160 You think your family may be different if your life was a 920 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,520 little full of hope, If the world could see some real hope. 921 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:56,960 Hey, guess what? Yeah, the world's going crazy. 922 00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:02,080 But guess what, Eve? I believe there's a day coming 923 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,720 where all that just happened, all it is messed up, is going to 924 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,960 be fixed. Amen. 925 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,280 How may y'all do that today? New, isn't it? 926 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:20,040 It's new, but it's not new. Humanity is built with the 927 00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,520 relationship with God. And I'll look at this world as 928 00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,440 if it's our hope. We look to God for our hope, 929 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,120 Amen? And so that's what Adam has 930 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,800 done, and that's what we do. It's not a coincidence that the 931 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,560 first two chapters of the Bible are the creation of God and 932 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,360 perfection and God's promise to us so strong. 933 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,040 It's not a coincidence that the last two Bibles are the 934 00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,920 recreation of the brokenness with the resurrection power of 935 00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,200 Jesus. Our hope is sure, Amen. 936 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,880 When you put our lips, we need to share it. 937 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,920 We need to be bold. If we don't have our hearts 938 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,080 around heaven, brother, get your heart around heaven, Amen. 939 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,120 Because we're so passionate about things that come that this 940 00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,560 world cannot distract us and pull us down and get us defeated 941 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,840 and deflated and burned out. And we quit on people and we 942 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,160 quit on our country. We quit on our friends, and we 943 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,120 quit on groups. And it'll cause the whole no, 944 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,840 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, with eager expectation, 945 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,520 Amen. With Hope even named his wife 946 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,800 Hope, right? It's amazing. 947 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,920 Like one day Hope is coming and Hope it come and it's coming 948 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:22,960 again. And so, Father, we come before 949 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,920 you, God, help us to be a church full of hope. 950 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,280 We see Romans 8 and we might be distracted, God by things this 951 00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,000 world. Our heart may be tossed to and 952 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,160 fro because it's not built on Jesus. 953 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,600 And our hope isn't sure because we haven't locked in to the 954 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:44,160 gospel and its power. And so help us God, we beg you 955 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,120 God, to give us this kind of boldness and hope that our world 956 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,000 is desperate for. They are dying for people are 957 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,680 trying to find out who they are. They're changing identity and 958 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,040 sexuality and and gender and all this stuff because they don't 959 00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:02,040 know the hope. So God make us people got full 960 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:07,360 of hope more than even the creation got the we be eagerly 961 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,360 waiting. How many today would say God is 962 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,360 just give me a passion today like I need to grow in my hope, 963 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,200 like my words are creating worlds that don't look like 964 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:16,840 Jesus. I need to have more hope in my 965 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,400 life and my words and to point people to Jesus. 966 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,520 If that's you and the spirit just moving you, we just raise 967 00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,920 your hand eyes, that's me like I'm going to be full of hope 968 00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,280 today. Thank you Jesus for moving. 969 00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,200 Thank you, Spirit of God for showing us, God that we need to 970 00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,480 be full of you, not full of ourselves in this world needs to 971 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:35,920 come to you. God, We're desperately for you. 972 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:40,000 We're waiting patiently for you. Lord, I want to pray for one 973 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,960 more group of people and that's those of you that need the hope 974 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,560 of Jesus today. Like we've talked a lot about 975 00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,560 heaven, a lot about hope and maybe you're that person that's 976 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,920 walked in. You built your life on sand, you 977 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,240 built it on everything else around you and you've been 978 00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:54,640 trying to find the answer. And today you realize it's 979 00:49:54,760 --> 00:50:00,360 Jesus. That Jesus is hope that he came 980 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,440 and died on a cross for you and exchanged all your rights for 981 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:04,640 all your wrongs. And you've been made right 982 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,360 today, declared righteous because you believe in the power 983 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,200 of Jesus. The resurrection power of Jesus 984 00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:16,120 still effects our lives today. The Bible says if you call on 985 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,920 Jesus, he will raise you out of your sin. 986 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,040 He will make you whole. He will forgive you and set you 987 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,920 free. He'll liberate you from the 988 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,760 curse and your soul and give you the power of the Spirit of God 989 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,760 in your life. And today if you need a humble 990 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,920 yourself, I'm calling Jesus. I'm not going to make it weirder 991 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:32,560 anybody call you out or anything. 992 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,560 But if you need Jesus, we just raise your hand in hindsight. 993 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,440 I need Christ today and the resurrection power of Jesus 994 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,560 today. Want to be honest, I see some 995 00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,160 hands across the room just need Jesus. 996 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:43,800 If that's you, I'm gonna lead through a prayer. 997 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,040 The prayer does not save you, but it's just your heart towards 998 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:48,000 him. Just say, Father God, thanks so 999 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,280 much for sending Jesus. But this story is not made-up. 1000 00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,280 Lord, I see it, I sense it, I see the hope. 1001 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:57,000 I hear the message of the gospel today. 1002 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,680 And so God, I call on you. God is the only one that can 1003 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:05,120 save me from this curse that set me free to liberate me from my 1004 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,560 sin. God, I trust you down the cross, 1005 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:08,720 and you rose again the third day. 1006 00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:11,120 And I trust that you'll do the same for me and my soul. 1007 00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:12,600 And one day you'll do that for my body. 1008 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,440 And so God give me your hope. Today I prayed since Jesus name 1009 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,960 the church said hey man come on give up. 1010 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,480 So give it up for Jesus. Come on, it is well, Amen.