1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,480 Good morning, guys. You give up this fantastic 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:09,920 worship team in Bay, Chile in here yet? 3 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,520 Well, if you come this up, it was like 73 with heat on. 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:17,400 It was like, let's turn it down a little bit. 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,240 They turned down a little bit. So we're going to turn up a 6 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:22,840 little bit. So anyway, yeah, if I'm cold, I 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,880 know you're cold. So anyway, man, we're going to 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,240 talk about heaven for all eternity. 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,880 Amen. This is the 11th week in our 10 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,640 series of heaven. And I'll be honest with you, 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,160 I've never preached an 11 week series before. 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,120 I'm loving it. So if you're not loving it, I'm 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:41,560 sorry. We're going to keep preaching 14 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:42,520 it. So it's going to happen, all 15 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,560 right, But I want to celebrate a few things for a jump in one. 16 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,240 Last week was our Life group Community week and we had over 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,960 50 first time guests come to our community week. 18 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,320 Is that awesome? It's awesome and they're in 19 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,440 different groups, had different number of tents and everything, 20 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,840 but it was just cool to see people that don't even normally 21 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,200 come to our church. Just friends, family, 22 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,520 grandparents, kids show up to groups and really get connected. 23 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,520 There was really no agenda just to hang out and just just to 24 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,440 feel the Spirit of God and get connected to God's people. 25 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,400 I just know overtime usually works like this. 26 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,120 Give it two months, six months, a year or whatever and they'll 27 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,800 say, man, I, they'll visit, they'll visit again. 28 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,320 They'll say, man, I came one time. 29 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:22,080 It's just like life group thing. I was like community week. 30 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,600 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was at that thing. 31 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:25,920 It's just how God works this through relationships. 32 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,200 So thank you guys for inviting out. 33 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,400 Can you give it up for those who came out to this that aren't 34 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,680 normally going to life groups? I want to say a huge thank you 35 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,400 guys are inviting. I know you might have invited. 36 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,560 And you're like, man, they didn't show up. 37 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,760 Hey, it happened to me too. Amen But you, you know, we're 38 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,600 not charging people coming in charge of just planting seed. 39 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,520 Amen. So some plants, some water and 40 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,480 God brings increase. It's just not about them getting 41 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,000 to a thing, but just let you know, like that God is still 42 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,040 moving. I mean, one week, all these 43 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,200 different guests, I keep thinking like, what would happen 44 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:56,440 if we got behind Easter just a little bit? 45 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,720 It'd be crazy, right? I mean, last year we had just 46 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:01,920 shy of 600. We, we didn't that's, that's 47 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,440 insane. By the way, OK, we, we sent no 48 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,280 Mailer. There's just an ad on, you know, 49 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,560 just like a video online, right? Like we're, we're, it's just you 50 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:09,720 guys bringing people. Amen. 51 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,480 Like some guys spend lots and lots of money on Facebook. 52 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,120 We do not. And it's you guys, right? 53 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,800 And so I will say thank you guys to our inviting and you know, 54 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,720 it'll pay off. And so just keep inviting and 55 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,960 just ultimately that they find Jesus, right? 56 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,800 I mean, be praying for them. It's really not about coming 57 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,080 here, but then getting to Christ. 58 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,760 But also say thank you to our life group team and our life 59 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,040 group of leaders. There's a lot of work that 60 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:32,800 behind the scenes for this. It's our first time ever. 61 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,040 So give it up for them as well. Lot of effort. 62 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,400 My house was was something different. 63 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,960 I usually run, I don't know, we had like 14 or 12 or something 64 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:47,080 and there was 44 people that showed up and it was 31° high 65 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,800 weather a last Monday. You guys remember that? 66 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,320 It was great. And I was like, no, Nope, 67 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:52,920 deflatables aren't going to come. 68 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:54,720 No, we're not going to do a backyard BBQ. 69 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,880 We're out in the like we're going to cram my house. 70 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,800 And I felt so bad. I don't know who it was, but 71 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,520 there was a it was a grandma there and she's at the kitchen 72 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,440 table and there's just you couldn't get through anywhere, 73 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,160 you know, and she was at the table and she was like this. 74 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,040 I was like, this is a bad representation of church in 75 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,640 Jesus, but we'll do better. Lord give us better weather. 76 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,480 Amen. It was crazy. 77 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,120 So anyway, today is just going to be a good day. 78 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,320 I've been inviting people to Easter. 79 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,920 There's a lady that I'm working on we've mentioned before we 80 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:25,080 keep praying for her names Heather and just come through 81 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,640 huge burn church experience and I'm just praying she comes out 82 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:29,280 just put another bug in here last week. 83 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,840 And then there's some guys in my neighborhood, some some families 84 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,720 that used to come that haven't come a while. 85 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,040 And I'm also working on a barbecue joint in more so 86 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,600 getting them out as well. So anyway, just be inviting and 87 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:41,640 see what God can do. Amen. 88 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,240 Just don't know how like one relationship can change 89 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,120 somebody's life. And it's just a simple, simple 90 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,720 invite. I want to give a huge shout out 91 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,200 real quick before we jump in. There's a family of church. 92 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,280 I don't know if you familiar with the term like a shut in 93 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,080 family, like there's health concerns. 94 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,200 They really can't get out. They can't come here on Sundays, 95 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,000 can't go to life groups. They have a lot of like they're 96 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,160 small things, but big to them. And so a couple of our guys this 97 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,960 week and, and if you ask them, they, they would tell you 98 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,720 straight up, they did not do a whole lot, which they didn't. 99 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,720 There was like 10 or 15 minutes, but they made time and showed up 100 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,360 and they're committed to go there every single month. 101 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,440 And they show up this lady's house and this is what she said. 102 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,920 She said what a godsend. She was so excited and she 103 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:17,279 really said this and I couldn't believe it. 104 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,519 I'm blessed beyond my wildest dreams. 105 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,720 You guys make dreams come true last week, wildest dreams are 106 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,600 like this. They showed up for for 10 or 15 107 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,200 minutes and hung out and then make commitment. 108 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,240 I'm going to be here. Whatever it is, right, Moving 109 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,760 things, picking up things. They're they're just not in that 110 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:33,000 stage of life. They can do certain things. 111 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,800 And so I want you to give a big shout out big real life. 112 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,120 Thank you to Bruce Cornell and to Mike Baker. 113 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:40,720 I know where he's at, but I see Bruce back here. 114 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,440 So thank you guys for doing that. 115 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,680 Feel like why you clapping man? I was there 10 minutes. 116 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,920 But for Jesus, Amen. And it makes a big difference. 117 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,080 She felt so the word is covered, right? 118 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,600 You ever felt uncovered like nobody, nobody sees me, nobody 119 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,320 knows I'm there, Nobody's praying for me. 120 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,840 And what you get to do is show up and just cover people with 121 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:02,160 your love and and your grace and your servanthood. 122 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,640 And we got to get really good at that. 123 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,560 Amen. There's a church that just gets 124 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,240 involved in people's lives. So thank you guys for that. 125 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:08,480 It really means me a lot. Means a lot. 126 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:10,720 Well, today we're jumping in. We're going to talk about 127 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,320 heaven, but we're going to take a different spin on it. 128 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,600 I've been praying all week. We're going to tive into this 129 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,480 idea of baptism. And I'm praying that your 130 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,480 baptism, you're so moved by what it truly means, will actually 131 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,800 change how you live on earth, your baptism. 132 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,040 So it's going to be a little different. 133 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,240 You can be like, where are we going with this? 134 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:26,880 And you're going to see it's going to be awesome. 135 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,120 So this is dedicated to those you guys may be wondering about 136 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,160 baptism. You may grew up in church and 137 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,200 your whole life and going, I'm not sure what this really is. 138 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,160 There's so many variations of it out there. 139 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,000 Maybe didn't grow up in church, Like that's just weird. 140 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,160 And be like that little weird. That was me growing up. 141 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:40,920 I didn't grow up in church. I was like, why would people do 142 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,920 this weird thing, right? You may think it's just a 143 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,600 symbol, the past. You may not know what to think 144 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:45,680 of it. So we're going to dive into 145 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,320 that. Maybe you're here today and you 146 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:48,720 know what it is, but you're on the fence. 147 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,920 Like, should I do this or shouldn't do this? 148 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,240 Like, you know, is it gonna line out for some of you guys? 149 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,400 You've been baptized and you're wondering like why you're still 150 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,360 struggling. Like you're obedient to God. 151 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,560 You're, you're faithfully fallen God. 152 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,640 You're in the Bible. You do all the right things on 153 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,720 the outside, but you just, there's just trials, right? 154 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,720 There's things happening and you're wondering you might feel 155 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,920 overwhelmed, you may feel like you're not enough. 156 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,520 And these, these are all natural things. 157 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,440 But I just want to give you today, like why it's happening. 158 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,560 I'll give you a illustration of being overwhelmed, the tidbit of 159 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,360 my life. We're a little behind anybody 160 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:18,720 behind it. May got Christmas stuff up 161 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,440 still. We're getting ready for next 162 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:22,920 year. Amen. 163 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,440 Yeah, we're early. We're not late. 164 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,400 Come on, somebody, you know, now the tree is down one of the 165 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,120 trees. But I'll give you the why This 166 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,120 is why this is. But if you go to my house, 167 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,920 there's still a tree on the outside by my door. 168 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,960 Anybody seen the tree by my door a little bit? 169 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:40,880 OK, you know what I'm talking about. 170 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,720 You're like, why is the Christmas thing still outside? 171 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,480 Well, here's what happened. OK, we wait a little too long 172 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,280 and it's a little birdies made a little nest in there and it was 173 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:52,440 like eggs in the tree. I'm like, are you serious? 174 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,680 Like Jesus put this bird to lay eggs in this tree. 175 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:57,920 So I can't take this tree down, right? 176 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,800 So it's just like committed to this tree. 177 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,840 And yesterday there was bird poop all over my driveway and I 178 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:05,880 was like, they have hatched. It is time. 179 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,000 It is time, right? The Lion King moment, right? 180 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:10,920 There's just like, it was just so ironic. 181 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,480 Like let's go take it down. It's like, oh, look, great, 182 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,320 thank you. The Robin laid eggs and the 183 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,400 Christmas decorations. That's a problem. 184 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,040 Anybody like that little overwhelmed, little behind like 185 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,240 that. Welcome to life. 186 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,200 Amen. So we're talking about baptism. 187 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,320 So how many guys have been baptized? 188 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,000 Show hands real high show hands. How many baptized? 189 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,600 Wow, dude, dude, nice dude. Give it up for a basement 190 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:29,600 baptized. That's amazing. 191 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,240 That's really good that wow, that's actually kind of 192 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,200 impressive, right. And I got baptized. 193 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,240 I was, I think I was 16 or 17 because I came to Christ at 15. 194 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,520 It was not too long after, but I, I went to those churches. 195 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,360 The, the pastor wore the black robe. 196 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,720 You know what I'm talking about. And I must have like weight on 197 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:47,800 the bottom because the thing would sink. 198 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,320 It wouldn't like float around like some weird thing. 199 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,720 And he put waders on before he put the robe on. 200 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,400 OK. And so he had like just hunter 201 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,320 waders that went real high. It was really fun. 202 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,840 If somebody was got him off kilter was leave it that way. 203 00:07:58,080 --> 00:07:59,920 And it'd fill up the water into the waders. 204 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,520 You know what I'm talking about. So you'd be like, I was like, 205 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,880 yeah, defeated, right. And he'd raise his hand. 206 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,960 All right. And he'd say, because your faith 207 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,920 and trust in the Lord, I'm not doing right, right. 208 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,160 I baptize you, my brother. Come on, somebody. 209 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,640 And then my father, son, the Holy Spirit buried lack of his 210 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,960 death, right, just gets all into it, right. 211 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,000 It's like because you're faith and trust, it's all this, raise 212 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 your hand. And it's all very regiment. 213 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,160 Anybody like that. It's just me, right, It's just 214 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:28,480 me, it's just me. It's cool, right? 215 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,840 So so I was on staff. I got hired back on staff. 216 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:32,679 I came to Christ, came back to the church, got hired staff. 217 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,320 And of course, like first time baptizing, I get a youth pastor 218 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,799 like, hey, baptized these youth kids, like, you know, whatever. 219 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:44,000 And so I go up there and like by the power vested in me, by the 220 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,240 way, that's how you finished the wedding, right? 221 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,800 So I was like, we're doing a wedding right now, you know, And 222 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,080 I was like, what? I was no recovery. 223 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,920 I was like, Bruce getting baptized three times. 224 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,080 You sent it, right? Oh, man, I'll hold down longer 225 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,040 if I need to. Amen. 226 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,440 You just tell me you going to baptize your family? 227 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:00,720 Do lectures a couple seconds under? 228 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,240 There it is. But anyway, so I know your 229 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,080 experiences with baptism, but that was my experience. 230 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,680 The black robe, right, Thank God. 231 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:10,680 I mean, maybe you like that kind of thing, but thank God we're 232 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:13,160 not into that. OK, Like we're we've retired the 233 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,720 black robe, you know, I mean, now we have swim trunks. 234 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,240 It's great. But anyway, we used to say this 235 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,120 all time baptism. We trampled that word. 236 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,360 Baptism is an outward expression of an inward transformation. 237 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,480 Have you heard that before? Most of us, I mean, some of 238 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,480 y'all like that's the first time we heard that right. 239 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,000 But we, we talk about this symbol like if something 240 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,200 happened in your past, you can do it because Jesus got baptized 241 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:37,480 because you followed his commands. 242 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:38,920 And there's always reasons to get baptized. 243 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,560 And I started thinking about this last week. 244 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:44,480 I was like, man, this is a partial gospel. 245 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,680 Remember last week we talked about a partial gospel. 246 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:47,760 It's not the fullest of the gospel. 247 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,040 That statement is only partially true. 248 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,360 It is 100% true, but it actually leaves out the very best part of 249 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,760 baptism. Like we don't get baptized just 250 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,680 because, well, you came to Christ. 251 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,520 It's a symbol of you coming to Christ. 252 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,320 It's just an outward symbol of an inward change. 253 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,200 That's all we talk about, right? That's just the, I mean, it's 254 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,720 just the Baptist world, right? But here's the reality of your 255 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,640 baptism. It's actually actually a 256 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,920 declaration that the resurrection life of Jesus lives 257 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,560 in you. It's a declaration, so it's not 258 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:18,680 looking back as like this happened then. 259 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,200 It's a declaration now and where I'm going, that's what it says. 260 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,720 You're buried likes of his death and you're raised to what newest 261 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,360 life, right? It's you're going to live 262 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,200 differently now. So I want to talk about what it 263 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,120 is that heaven lived inside of you. 264 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,640 Not this just this symbol, but a new identity in Christ that the 265 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,360 resurrection isn't something that happened way back there or 266 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,760 way out in the future actually happened in your life right here 267 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,560 and right now. So if you got your Bible being 268 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:45,680 in Colossians chapter 1 and we're going to start with Jesus, 269 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,400 this what a great idea, Amen. We talk about Jesus at church. 270 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,920 And so Colossians chapter one, verse 15, it says this, the sun 271 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,600 is the image of the what invisible God. 272 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,560 You know, people kind of wonder what does God look like? 273 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:01,280 What was what's his character? Who is he? 274 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,200 And just look at Jesus, Amen. So I encourage you guys read the 275 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,360 gospels, get in the book of John. 276 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,080 If you wonder who God is, just look directly at Jesus. 277 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,720 It says this. He is the first born of all 278 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,520 creation. Now look at all these in hymns. 279 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:18,320 For in Him all things were what things in heaven and on earth, 280 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,360 visible and invisible, with their Thrones or powers or 281 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,840 rulers or authority, all things have been created through Jesus. 282 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,560 And for Jesus verse 17, He is before all things, there is 283 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:34,240 again, and in Him all things hold together. 284 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,800 You guys heard of Laminin? It's a great message by Luke. 285 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,040 You lamb and lacrosse holds everything together in your 286 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:39,800 body. Look it up. 287 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,080 It's Google it. OK, I'm not Louis. 288 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,080 I'm not going to preach the message. 289 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,680 OK, he's fantastic. But verse 18 and he is the head 290 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:50,760 of the body, the church, and he's the beginning and the what 291 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:55,720 says again, he's the first born from among the what among the 292 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,600 dead. All right, just put that in your 293 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:58,440 mind. We'll come back to it. 294 00:11:58,440 --> 00:11:59,560 This is an interesting statement. 295 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,160 Here's the purpose. So that in everything he might 296 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,080 have the supremacy, the supremacy of Christ. 297 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:10,640 Brett sent me a video yesterday he saw on Facebook and it was a 298 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:13,920 it was about Judas like betraying Jesus. 299 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,400 And it says Satan ere and him at the, at the Lord's supper. 300 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,800 And then Jesus says to Judas, he says, whatever you do, do it 301 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,000 quickly. But they made the point that he 302 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,200 wasn't actually talking to Judas. 303 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,040 He was actually talking to Satan inside of Judas that Satan 304 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:32,560 himself had to get permission from Jesus to, to to betray him 305 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:35,320 and put him on the cross. That's pretty good, isn't it? 306 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,320 And I text Brett back. I said, Amen. 307 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:44,120 This is the supremacy of Christ. He has all authority. 308 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,720 Jesus is not even crucified without Jesus himself giving 309 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,680 authority and permission to save himself to even do it. 310 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:51,360 Amen. That's God. 311 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,080 So it says this verse 19 for God was pleased to have been all his 312 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,280 to have all his fullness dwell in him and through him to 313 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,080 reconcile himself all things were things on earth or things 314 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,120 in heaven by making peace through his blood shed on the 315 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:08,560 cross. Can I get an Amen. 316 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,040 That's good. That's good news for all of us 317 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,200 and that Jesus in charge of everything the creation. 318 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,800 So verse 18 he's the beginning and the first born among the 319 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,680 dead. Now this is this is really 320 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:21,800 interesting thought. What does it mean? 321 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,440 There's a first born among the dead? 322 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,320 Because the natural answer is like, well, he rose again, but 323 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,320 but he was not the first person to raise from the dead. 324 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,040 Chronologically. There's other people. 325 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,760 So you got to go all the way back to Old Testament, go first 326 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,040 King 17, you got to go to Elijah, and Elijah raises the 327 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,640 widow's son from the dead. Then you got to go as protege, 328 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,840 you got to go Elijah, and he raises the woman's son, and then 329 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,800 Elijah dies. And we sang this song, guys, no 330 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,520 rattle. And you throw the dead man's 331 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,040 body on the bones of Elijah, and he came back to life. 332 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,040 So there's three right there in the Old Testament. 333 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,160 Then you have Jarius's daughter, that Jesus rose. 334 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,120 OK. And then you have another woman, 335 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,560 son, Those rose in Luke 7. And then you got to abort 336 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:04,960 Lazarus. Come on, somebody. 337 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,080 So. So now you've got six people 338 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,840 that are raised from the dead. So it's not chronological. 339 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,000 That's how we say it all. What? 340 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,200 What it really is. Well, first of all, those other 341 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,560 people, there's six people. They're actually raised to the 342 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:19,360 same life. To the same life, they're in the 343 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,560 same sin, the same brokenness, the same sin nature grave still 344 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,480 has or death has a sting, grave has a claim. 345 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,360 They're just raised back and go back. 346 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,800 But Jesus is is something different. 347 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,720 He's a prototype of heaven. He's the first person to 348 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,360 actually be raised in the resurrection power. 349 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,840 And for him himself, the resurrection power of Jesus, 350 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:42,640 Amen. He did something special on the 351 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,120 cross. You know, we talked about Silent 352 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:45,680 Saturday. We're going to get into this in 353 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,880 a couple weeks, right? But Silent Saturday wasn't 354 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,320 silent for Jesus. He he would, he was finding 355 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,640 death, hell in the grave for us. And the Bible says in 356 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,400 Revelation, he goes down to hell and he actually steals the keys 357 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,440 of our salvation. So Jesus was busy, Amen. 358 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,000 And so he roast the dead. He was the first type of a new 359 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,160 family. He's a new origin, a new way of 360 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,360 living. He's a leader of a resurrected 361 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,040 humanity. And so it's a whole new kind of 362 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,960 life where sin has no power, Amen, where death has no claim 363 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:18,200 and grave has no future. He's the first crack of heaven 364 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,080 into humanity. And so when Jesus rose from the 365 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,120 dead, he's the first born from the dead. 366 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,200 And what's amazing about Jesus being the first born, wouldn't 367 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,160 you think that there'd be a second born? 368 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,240 Come on, somebody that Jesus started something. 369 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,360 He was the very beginning of a resurrected life. 370 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,480 Then there's a part of you that looks just like heaven. 371 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,240 There's a part of you that is perfectly holy through Jesus. 372 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,200 There's a part of you that was resurrected to life through 373 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,240 Christ, Amen. So what this means is it means 374 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,600 you're not who your mom and dad or your old friend, your ex says 375 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,800 you were, Amen, That there's no nobody has power over you. 376 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:03,200 Even sin doesn't have power over you, Amen. 377 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,840 Now, I talked to a lot of Christians and it's like who can 378 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,720 have the worst possible story by, you know, it's like you talk 379 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,800 to him. It's like how you doing and 380 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,760 you're like ready, like man, I love you brother, I'm praying 381 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,280 for you, but I cannot sit here any longer than hear the saddest 382 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,280 story in history, right, because you don't really want to step 383 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:22,920 out and change. Just like moping. 384 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,240 And I'm like, man, as Christians, we should have the 385 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,400 greatest story ever. The power of Jesus lives in US. 386 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,240 Amen. And we're not defeated. 387 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,040 So you know, you may take a a six month window of anybody's 388 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,160 life when they're adult. And sadly, you can put it in any 389 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,760 six months, the most of their life, and it looks very similar 390 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,880 because they're not living under the power of Jesus or even 391 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,320 through the power of Jesus. And so those old habits, even 392 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,840 though they're dead to those habits, they're still living in 393 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,600 the wrong way. So I'm about you, I'm excited. 394 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,320 I'm maybe the like the, I don't know, make a number out five 395 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,080 billionth person that you know what I mean? 396 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,640 Like Jesus, the first born, I'm like the five billionth born. 397 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,400 I have no idea, Amen. But I'm just glad I'm born. 398 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,680 Amen. I mean, the Holy Spirit has 399 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,680 changed my life. I'm resurrected to life just 400 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,160 like Jesus. So what happened to us? 401 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,280 Let's dive through it. Romans chapter 6, this is 402 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,280 probably the most prolific passage on baptism in the Bible. 403 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,760 It says this as Paul speaking. He says, or do you not know that 404 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,119 all of us, let me say all that's you and me, you know Jesus, OK, 405 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:25,560 We're baptized into who? Christ Jesus. 406 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,800 And we're baptized into his man. That sounds sexy, doesn't it? 407 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Baptized into his death. Like what? 408 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,480 What does this even mean? And you know, it says then say 409 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,440 you're baptized around Jesus or close to Jesus. 410 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,640 We're actually baptized into Jesus. 411 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,960 And it's so significant that we're united with Christ like 412 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,840 this. The moment we called on Jesus as 413 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,320 our Lord and Savior that we are actually baptized with Jesus. 414 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,040 That means that we are sharing in his life. 415 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,040 We also share into his death and the the death the part of us 416 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,680 that died with Jesus, we're crucified with Christ is no 417 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,880 longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in US. 418 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,560 We're joined in, we're connected to him. 419 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,120 We're placed inside his life. We're also placed inside of his 420 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:09,480 death. What's really cool is that his 421 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,240 story is actually become our story. 422 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,800 Now, if you, if you ever studied this, if you get a chance, you 423 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,880 should and you can do it like real easily. 424 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,960 You got Google chat, CPT all the different AIS, but you guys just 425 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,240 go in and say, what are all the things that happened at the 426 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,040 moment that I start a relationship with Jesus when I 427 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,400 called Jesus when I got saved. What are all the things that 428 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,160 changed? You guys would take a guess how 429 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,160 many things changed the moment you called on Jesus. 430 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:36,400 There's, there's at least 25 major, major, major things that 431 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,480 change. I mean, you're adopted as a son, 432 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,200 you're forgiven, you're given a new identity. 433 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,280 Your name is written in the Lamb's book of life. 434 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,200 You're, you're made an heir to the throne. 435 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:47,880 The Holy Spirit lives in you. The power of the Holy Spirit is 436 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,720 on you. You're gifted in the church. 437 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,320 You become part of the body of Christ. 438 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,840 You're in the family believers. You're, you're a son or daughter 439 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,960 of the king. I mean, just go on, on. 440 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,080 Amen. And then thank you Jesus. 441 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,440 And one of the things that happens is they're baptized into 442 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,160 Jesus. We're united with Jesus fully. 443 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,120 You know, some people think, well, Jesus is on the throne 444 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:09,000 since the right hand, the Father, He's omnipresent, Amen. 445 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,480 He's ever at all times, and he's in US. 446 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,240 You know, we think the Holy Spirit's not as well. 447 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,200 Jesus is also in US. We're joined with him. 448 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,120 So verse 4 says this. We therefore buried with him 449 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:25,720 through the baptism into what? Into death in order that just as 450 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,800 Jesus raised the dead through the glory of the Father, we too 451 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,240 may live a new life. That's when we get baptized. 452 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,240 You said bury his death and resurrect your life, but that 453 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,800 buried his death. Think about this. 454 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,440 There's actually a part of you that died with Jesus. 455 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,800 When you accepted Jesus, you got united with Christ and there's a 456 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,880 sin nature. There's a authority over sin. 457 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,480 There's a your spirit of God was buried by Jesus to death and was 458 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,200 crucified and put to death. There's a part of you that no 459 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,000 longer exists there. There's an old version of you 460 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,440 that you no longer have. Amen. 461 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,160 You have a new identity. And this is so soul shaping 462 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:09,240 because so many times I've been there that we live defeated or 463 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,440 under a power that is no longer in charge of us. 464 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,040 And I've seen so many conversations and and when 465 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,680 people are full of anxiety and fear, we all have these these 466 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,640 moments, but you have to look into it. 467 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,960 And if something is making you fearful or have anxiety or 468 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,520 you're worried or you're stressed, it has power over you. 469 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,920 Amen. And I see so many grown men, 470 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,000 they're still talking about something that happened 30-40 471 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,280 years ago and things they wish they were, and they're upset 472 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:37,960 about all these things. I'm not saying it's right or 473 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,120 like should happen that way, But the gospel truth is that your 474 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:45,040 baptism and the resurrection power of God is far greater than 475 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,080 anything else in your life. That that, that's the endless 476 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,360 wall of God's grace. Amen. 477 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,200 And I think as a church, as men, as women of God, if we could 478 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,960 just dive into the resurrected part of our life and the power 479 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,880 of God through us, we can say, you know what, it wasn't right, 480 00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,720 it wasn't fair. But thank you, Jesus, that 481 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,720 heaven lives in me. God, I'm living for the power of 482 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,240 God that's through me. And that's a war we're going to 483 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,600 talk about in a little bit. But just know positionally, 484 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,360 you're forever changed. Your old identity is gone. 485 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,600 You're no longer a slave to sin. There's a version of you that no 486 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,960 longer exists. Verse 5 says this. 487 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,800 For if we have been united with him and death like this, will we 488 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,840 certainly be also united with him and the resurrection like 489 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,200 his? For we know that our old self 490 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,520 was crucified with him. Somebody say old self, dude, I'm 491 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,200 so glad the old self is gone. Amen. 492 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,560 This old self that's buried, it's crucified, it's dead has no 493 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,800 power over me. It's a memory of the past. 494 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,080 And yes, we like to think it may still be there. 495 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,320 And that old man that we have to say Jesus lives in your heart. 496 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,880 But but grandpa lives in your bones, right? 497 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,320 And we, we like to go back to the old man, but the old man is 498 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,880 dead, Amen. He's gone. 499 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,200 We, we sing so many great songs about this, by the way. 500 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,160 But if we were to know that the old self was crucified with 501 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:04,200 Jesus so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, 502 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,680 anybody excited by ruled by sin is done away with. 503 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,120 That mean you're absent from sin but has no power over you. 504 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,480 It says that we should no longer be slaves of sin because anyone 505 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,080 has died, has been set free from sin. 506 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,400 Can I get Amen. What it's saying is you're no 507 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,320 longer a slave to sin. You're actually check this out. 508 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,960 You're actually a slave to righteousness. 509 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,640 Your dispensation has changed. That's how you know you know 510 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,720 Jesus because when you sin, you actually feel conviction. 511 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,160 It doesn't mean that you're not going to sin, but there's a 512 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,880 conviction from God and it's not the conviction of you should do 513 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,720 better and earn me. It is the conviction of son, I 514 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,240 love you. Step into my grace, Amen. 515 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,360 Step into the the the life I have for you. 516 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,040 Quit choosing a path that's breaking you and breaking 517 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,000 relationship. Step into the grace of God. 518 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,600 I'll never leave you or forsake you. 519 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,080 I've chosen you. You're my son or daughter and 520 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,320 live in my power and strength. I have a far better life for you 521 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,360 than you're putting out. Amen. 522 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,960 But so awful. We got our head down and Jesus 523 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,080 said, no, I've already set you free. 524 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,640 That's your baptism is a picture, It's a declaration. 525 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,040 You're going to live from that cause. 526 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,440 Verse 8 says this. Now if we've died with Christ, 527 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,720 we believe that we'll also live with him. 528 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,320 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he 529 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,680 cannot die again. Death no longer has mastery over 530 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,120 him. The death he died, he died to 531 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:26,880 sin once and for all, but the life he lives, he lives to who 532 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,280 Jesus is living to God. He died for our sin and he's 533 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,640 choosing to live for God. Verse 11 in the same way, count 534 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,320 yourselves what? Dead to sin, but alive to God in 535 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,040 Christ Jesus. Amen. 536 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,520 You didn't become a bad person becoming good, you're a dead 537 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,840 person becoming alive. Don't forget it. 538 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,760 Don't forget it because when you're, when you look in the 539 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,640 mirror and you're like, oh, I'm too worried, I've got too much 540 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,600 going on. I'm too afraid, like I'm not 541 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,040 enough. And all these things we tell 542 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,480 ourselves, all these inadequacies and all the shame. 543 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,960 Hey, you got to look in the mirror and say, look, I'm dead 544 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,160 to the old man and I'm living for Christ, not my power. 545 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,720 Look, what was this say at the end of the verse? 546 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:11,960 It says you're alive to God in Christ Jesus. 547 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,880 It's Christ in you. Amen. 548 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,240 Like I know we like to read self help books, you know, we've all 549 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,480 done it. We read the books and like I'm 550 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,960 going to become a better version of myself. 551 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,640 Jesus made you a better version of yourself. 552 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,600 Amen. It's not that you have to be 553 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,040 somebody different. You have to learn to walk in the 554 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,520 ways of Jesus. You have to walk in the Spirit's 555 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,160 power. You have to walk differently 556 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,120 through Christ, knowing that sin's not your master, that 557 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:40,120 you're dead, but the party is resurrected just like Christ. 558 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,320 So you might ask the question like, why do we still battle, 559 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,160 right? Anybody in the battle right now? 560 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,160 Show of hands. Just one person. 561 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,160 Just it. This should be called Victory 562 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:51,880 Church. Amen. 563 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,360 Victory Church. You show up on Easter side. 564 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:56,520 We preach victory. Not nobody has battles in this 565 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,160 church. We have won them all, baby. 566 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,080 Thank you for your honesty, John. 567 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,880 The rest of you need to pray. I probably just put you to 568 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,400 sleep, But it's all right. We'll blame you guys. 569 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,640 I'm just kidding. Oh, man. 570 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,040 So why do we still battle, right? 571 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,760 We're all in a battle. We all have trials. 572 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,840 I mean, it just you don't take very long to talk about somebody 573 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,440 to see that, right? And may feel like you keep 574 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,400 losing or you feel adequate, you even desire to do the right 575 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,760 thing and then you mess up like you want to do it and then it 576 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,000 doesn't work. And you might have been saved, 577 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,800 baptized, gone to church, read the Bible in the disciple making 578 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,360 groups. You might be on staff. 579 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:31,200 You might all the things right. And then you're like, man, I 580 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,000 just don't look like Jesus. Still, there's a pardon me and 581 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,600 there's rule is just so heavy and you feel a little defeated. 582 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,520 And so there's a verse you might know it, but Matthew 2641. 583 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,800 It says this the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 584 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,680 Man, I love that. You know, when you get a little 585 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,560 more jacked up and you can't do something right and you're like, 586 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,280 man, the spirit's willing, but the flesh is weak. 587 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:52,720 Like I just can't do what I used to do, right? 588 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,160 But the reality, what's talking about is there's desire inside 589 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,080 your soul, your spirit, it's resurrected, it's pure, it's 590 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,720 holy. Think about this, for the Holy 591 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,680 Spirit to live in you, you actually have to part of you 592 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,440 that actually has to be perfectly holy. 593 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,280 Think about it. The Holy Spirit cannot take up 594 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,800 residence in something that's not set apart to him fully. 595 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,520 And so the God of the universe, when he resurrected, when Jesus 596 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,440 resurrected, he gave us a part of ourselves so the Holy Spirit 597 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,120 can enter into the first time. That's what makes you different 598 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,200 than all the rest of the Old Testament, all these rest of the 599 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,840 people who raised from the dead, their body was raised, but Jesus 600 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,000 raised our soul to life and the Holy Spirit now lives in it. 601 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,960 And that spirit is willing. It's calling us, it knows, but 602 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,880 he's saying Sean don't, right? And he's speaking to us and he's 603 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,760 drinking us. But the flesh is weak. 604 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,760 And So what you have is a war, right? 605 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,280 You, you, you, you got the, the Spirit of God and the flesh of 606 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,920 man and they're warring to each other. 607 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,200 And you might like wonder like man, why am I, why am I still 608 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,960 struggling? It's because you're in a battle, 609 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,320 Amen. You're in a real battle, like 610 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,080 legit part of you is the Holy Spirit and looks perfect like 611 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,880 Jesus. It will not be changed when you 612 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,480 go to heaven because it's already been resurrected. 613 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,760 Amen. What does heaven look like, 614 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,520 right? Resurrected soul, resurrected 615 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,080 body with a resurrected Jesus, with a resurrected earth. 616 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,440 That's heaven, Amen. And there's a part of you that 617 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,200 already looks just like heaven. Hallelujah. 618 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,560 Praise God like we're partly there and that part of us we 619 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,200 have to let shine through the rest of us. 620 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,880 The Spirit's resurrected, but the flesh is still being 621 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,880 renewed. So you got the old man versus 622 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,960 new man, right? But the good news is this, the 623 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,040 resurrection power lives in you. So chapter 8, Romans 8, verse 624 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,680 11, it says the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is 625 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:45,800 where living in you. There you go, there you go. 626 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,040 It says He's living just in your pastor. 627 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,000 The Holy Spirit is living just in the past. 628 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,560 So many people put pastors on this pedestal, like, like 629 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,440 they're the only Holy Spirit in the room, Amen. 630 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,320 Like you're just like, oh, the pastor's professional pastor. 631 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,560 You have enough of God to look just like God. 632 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,840 Amen. You. 633 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,280 I get to encourage you. I get to shepherd you. 634 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,680 I get to teach you. But ultimately you have the 635 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,000 greatest teacher and shepherd and leader who lives in you, the 636 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,880 Holy Spirit of God, Amen. They say the Holy Spirit lives 637 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,400 in a church building or the Holy Spirit just lives in the Bible. 638 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:20,560 Does it? Does it say that? 639 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,480 I mean, we, we, we, but think about how we live though, right? 640 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,760 Like we were like, OK, bitch, I just know enough of the Bible, 641 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,120 which I'm all for knowing the Bible. 642 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:30,200 You know me, right? Like I'm all for memorizing 643 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,680 Scripture and hold close to your heart and open every day. 644 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,240 But you know what? The power of God and the Holy 645 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,440 Spirit doesn't live in the Bible. 646 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,400 It lives in listen to you, listen to you, you, you have you 647 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,160 have enough in you to wake up in the morning and say, God's put 648 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,680 me here on purpose. I'm going to walk so fire my 649 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,400 step like I'm going to radically change because Jesus radically 650 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,560 changed my life. Like I'm not going to put myself 651 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,600 under my past. You know, sometimes you think, 652 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,720 oh, the Holy Spirit's reserved for those people who are really 653 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,320 smart and have degrees in the Bible. 654 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,040 They just so they're so spiritual, these people. 655 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,000 I'm going to tell you something. Just because you go to college 656 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,840 doesn't make you more spiritual. Amen. 657 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,880 Sometimes you get Dumber. Any parents out there sent their 658 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,160 kids to college? Let's get nice. 659 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,320 We've been to college and it's like the experience. 660 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,800 You're like, oh, cool. You know, I used to walk with 661 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,800 Jesus, but now it is do my thing, right? 662 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,000 You might think, well, the Holy Spirit reserved just for mature 663 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,360 Christians. The Holy Spirit just lives fully 664 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,520 mature Christians. That is not true, Amen. 665 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,960 Sometimes you show up the church like, Oh, these people, man, I'm 666 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,280 I'm behind the a ball spiritually. 667 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,240 I remember walking into to college and I met all sorts of 668 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,600 guys. They're pastors, kids and 669 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,720 they're fifth generation church planters, and I'm just do that a 670 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,280 Raytown come on, somebody right. And I felt like I was behind the 671 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,080 a ball spiritually for so long in my life because these guys 672 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,680 had habits and they walk with God. 673 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,120 You can tell like they had God's presence and I was like, man, 674 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,480 I'm just just got to do more together. 675 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,920 I try things. I'm just not good enough. 676 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,840 I can't get there. And I realized where time is 677 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,800 like man, you are enough, Amen. Like I don't need to be them. 678 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,960 I need to be what God's asking me to be like. 679 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,680 I don't answer to nobody. I answer. 680 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,240 I answer to Jesus himself, not to any man. 681 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,640 Like I'm not looking for validation or approval. 682 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,560 I'm not looking for your likes or your opinions. 683 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,800 You will give them or not. Doesn't mean I care, right? 684 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,800 I love you. But there's a voice I was 685 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,160 listening to is the name of Jesus. 686 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,800 Amen. And when you when you're 687 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,920 baptized, you're making the decision that you're going to 688 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,280 live and declare, I'm living every day by the power of God 689 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,040 through me, I am crucified. I'm living a new life. 690 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,360 It's not just a symbol like, oh, it's just a symbol. 691 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,320 What happened? No, no, it's a life I now live 692 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,840 for Jesus. And that is very powerful. 693 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,400 It's like it will. It just changes your whole 694 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,280 dynamic, you know, think about my children and, and the future 695 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,400 they have. And I'm just thank Jesus that 696 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,200 there's parts of me look much more like Jesus than it did in 697 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,960 the past. Amen. 698 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,720 Because I look at my kids and they're just spitting image of 699 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,520 me, good, bad and ugly. Amen. 700 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,920 And, and, and I just get to like be more humble and say, no, Lord 701 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,680 just changed my life and I get to see it in my kids. 702 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,240 Now. I, I can't look back and say, 703 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,440 well, you know, my dad didn't do this and this didn't work out 704 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,960 and oh man, and duh, duh, duh. And the church I used to be at 705 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:11,000 and all So what, like the power of God lives in me. 706 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,920 So I get to act like that, Amen. I, I, I get to say no to my 707 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,240 flesh. I, I can't make excuses for bad 708 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,440 behavior. Amen. 709 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,480 Because the Holy Spirit, the Bible calls it when you sin and 710 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,040 you're a Christian, you grieve the Holy Spirit of promise 711 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,920 because the Holy Spirit wants a better life for you, not because 712 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,680 he's trying to conform you, which a lot of churches somehow 713 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,640 think that's their job. But he, he wants you, yeah, 714 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,240 transform you. He want, he wants to shape you 715 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,680 into the image of his son. So God gets glory. 716 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:47,720 The best way to worship God, it's spelled OBEY is to obey. 717 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,160 The best way to worship God is to humble yourself and say yes 718 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,640 and Amen. And we, we don't know why we, we 719 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,080 go through this stuff, right? Like y'all walking through some 720 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,160 hard stuff, just John, but I know y'all working through hard 721 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,320 stuff, right? Y'all walking through hard stuff 722 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,280 and you're wondering like why to walk through all this stuff 723 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,040 because God's trying to teach you like the if the power is in 724 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,920 you, then the question is, are you walking to God's power? 725 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,320 Are are you choosing to say yes to the Spirit of God? 726 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,200 Do you know what that even looks like? 727 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,400 It's not like we're always trying to look for answers. 728 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,520 Oh, it's out there and I'll become like this and I'll learn 729 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:21,600 this skill and I'll do this thing. 730 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,320 It's like what you need to do is look to God to humble yourself 731 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,880 and say God used my life. I'm listening to your voice and 732 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,360 we the way God shapes you. We're not going to like it, but 733 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,760 you learn to like it is through trials. 734 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,600 Somebody say trials. We don't like trials, but God 735 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,360 gives us trials on purpose. And this is what you see. 736 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,280 Like how does God teach us to walk in his power? 737 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,920 And you know, you thought I was going to say go to church more. 738 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,000 You thought I was going to say go to go to life group, right? 739 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,760 You thought I was going to say memorize some scripture. 740 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,960 No, God knows exactly where to put the pressure. 741 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,240 Amen. He he knows what makes you tick. 742 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,280 And he knows how to squeeze. He knows how to pull. 743 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,880 I call it the rub and hug, Right? 744 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,840 He knows when to push on you. And he knows when to get 745 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,520 something out of you. He knows and encourage you. 746 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,160 She's laughing. Some people. 747 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:15,960 Yeah. Somebody's. 748 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:16,880 I don't know what they're over there. 749 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,120 We're praying for you. I know. 750 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,080 I saw Urania. I was like, must be guilty. 751 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,080 But James 1-2 says this. Consider it pure. 752 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,880 What joy? Consider it pure joy, my 753 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:35,120 brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds. 754 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,280 That's interesting. I mean, how many of us really 755 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,720 enjoy trials? That's assigned maturity, 756 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,000 though, isn't it? Because when you walk through 757 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,960 something hard, it's not, oh man, God's chastising me. 758 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,680 Or the stuff in the past, like if I was just better at this and 759 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,400 this and this. And I can't believe we're here. 760 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,200 And it's those people out there and we'd like to talk about 761 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,960 everything else. We've been trying to solve the 762 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,960 trial. Do you solve trials? 763 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,720 What was the point of the trial? The point of the trial. 764 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,800 Look what it says. Count all joy. 765 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,840 Because you know that the testing of your faith produces 766 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,520 what? Perseverance. 767 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,480 This is the last word I'd used on the American church. 768 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:20,199 Perseverance. I don't know, man. 769 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,600 I see a lot of people come and go in church. 770 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,400 I see a lot of people come for a season, then it gets hard and 771 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:32,080 somebody says something. Wow, Welcome the people, man. 772 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,080 I love it. People expect everybody else to 773 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,480 be more mature than them, and we judge others. 774 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,280 As my wife came to this conclusion, she figured this 775 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,480 out. We judge others by their actions 776 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,560 and we judge ourself by our intentions. 777 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,760 True. And we use like, it's like 778 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,800 saying we use any excuse just to get you away from the things of 779 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,000 God. And we get these trials and it's 780 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,520 like, oh man, perseverance doesn't exist. 781 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:56,960 What's perseverance? It's endurance. 782 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,160 It's stamina. How many books in the New 783 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,880 Testament are written with a theme? 784 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,760 Stand firm, pull in the armor of God, don't move. 785 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,640 I mean, most every single book Paul writes and Peter writes is 786 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,440 all about standing firm in your faith. 787 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,960 How do you stand firm? You go through hard stuff. 788 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:16,120 So he says let hard stuff, let perseverance finish its work so 789 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:20,280 that you may be what? Mature and complete and lacking, 790 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:26,280 not lacking anything. So, so trials are opportunities 791 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,720 for the resurrection power of Jesus to shine through your life 792 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,760 past your flesh. Just opportunities. 793 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,800 It's an opportunity. So, so, so when your family 794 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,200 dynamic is crazy and you get really hard news or finances are 795 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,400 all messed up or relationships not where it should be, or 796 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,120 somebody says something about you, they'll never happen, 797 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:51,600 right? Or you're betrayed or there's 798 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,840 people who are walking beside you that now are against you and 799 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,600 never looked, then looked away. You go, God, what are you doing? 800 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,160 And what you need to do is say thank you, Jesus, that you've 801 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:04,040 given me another trial because there's a part of me that you're 802 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,080 trying to kill. Still. 803 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,440 There's a part of me that doesn't look like you. 804 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,600 And what an opportunity to be shaped. 805 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,880 I came to the point in my Christian life, I was sharing 806 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,080 this with a young man this week that began to thank God for my 807 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,280 Saul's. Guess who your Saul was the 808 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,840 first king of Israel, because everybody's got a king. 809 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,520 We need a king too, right? They put him in charge and they 810 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,960 got real prideful and real arrogant. 811 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,680 And then he, he, he was going to all this witchcraft and 812 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,760 crystals, all the things, right? These mediums, instead of going 813 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,520 to the, the, the God of the universe who established him, 814 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,680 he's trying everything else and God just strips him of his power 815 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,360 and he gives it to a little boy named David. 816 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,720 He was leftover. His dad didn't even care. 817 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:46,720 I was telling the young man he, there's seven brothers. 818 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,480 He, he wasn't even in the room when Samuel showed up. 819 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,320 Who can I anoint? Oh, here's my sons. 820 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,360 Oh, yeah, I guess there's a 7th one. 821 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,200 Get him out there from the sheep. 822 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,560 Bring him in. That's just my leftover son. 823 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,120 He really, he won't mount to anything. 824 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,480 And the guy anoints him. And for 14 years he runs from 825 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,520 Saul. Saul tried to kill him. 826 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,640 And the opportunity that we talked about, but to, to, to 827 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,600 kill him in a cave. Saul's relieving himself. 828 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,560 Not going to go into details. And he cuts part of his cloak 829 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,120 and he comes out after he goes out and he says he could have 830 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,840 killed you today, but I only killed God's man, his anointed. 831 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,440 And so here's a piece of your cloak back. 832 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,080 And all the men that followed Saul are like stand up guy, man, 833 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,440 integrity, God's guy's back. And they walked off. 834 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,320 And then David becomes the next king through trial. 835 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,280 And so if you walk through a hard season, I was to encourage 836 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,240 you, God has put your Saul there on purpose. 837 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,120 Saul's not your problem. Saul reveals the problem. 838 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,800 It's like an orange. We talk about a lot, right? 839 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,160 If you take an orange, you squeeze it, what do you get? 840 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,200 Who said apple juice? I'm scared, right? 841 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,480 You get orange juice, right? And when trials come, they 842 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,760 squeeze you. It does it look more like Jesus 843 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,960 or does it look more like you? Because the pressure is not the 844 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,320 problem, Amen. You can't, you can't change the 845 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,840 circumstances, nor you're called to. 846 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,120 Jesus can if you want to remove all your circumstances, He can 847 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,440 remove all your circumstances. He could change them. 848 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,680 But you know, what wouldn't happen is we wouldn't develop. 849 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,480 Amen. How many of us go to church and, 850 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,280 and, and read books or do stuff and we're not living in the Holy 851 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,680 Spirit's power? How many of us just show up and 852 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,880 go through the motions, right? And Jesus like, well, I'm going 853 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,200 to make it a little harder on you and make it a little more 854 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,360 difficult on you. Like, you know, I think great 855 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,280 Christians all walk with a limp. I don't know any Christian that 856 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,440 goes well. My life was easy and turned out 857 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,800 great. And I'm here because I'm such a 858 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,240 great person. I'm obedient to God. 859 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,200 I haven't found one yet. That's not me. 860 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,160 Sorry. Right, all of us have to walk 861 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,440 through the limp because Jesus is always trying to get our 862 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,680 attention. And it goes back to our baptism. 863 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,640 Think about our baptism. Your, your, your union with 864 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,520 Christ. You're 9 with Christ and his 865 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,560 death, and you're raised to new life. 866 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,720 This is really cool. This means that there's more 867 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,200 Jesus in you than you think. Amen. 868 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,120 There's more Jesus in you than you think. 869 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,360 And if you wouldn't just give up on what God is doing, if you 870 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,200 just stand a little perseverance and a little more stamina and 871 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,960 you just go, you know what? I'm going to outlast this trial. 872 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,160 Jesus. Jesus is changing me. 873 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,440 Like I'm learning a lot of patience. 874 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:13,400 Amen. Same here. 875 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,480 I'll learn a lot of patience and a lot of hard things. 876 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,080 But here's what's cool about your baptism. 877 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,000 It's not a symbol. It's not just a tradition. 878 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,240 There's all partial things, right? 879 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,520 It's not even a good person getting better. 880 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,760 It's not just because Christians get baptized. 881 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,040 We don't get baptized because everybody gets baptized. 882 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,920 You saw everybody get don't get baptized because the rest of the 883 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,120 people raise their hand. Amen. 884 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,800 Get baptized because you're declaring that the victories are 885 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,280 one in your life and you're going to choose as best you can 886 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,520 with all of your being, you're going to live from victory in 887 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,160 God. That's what your baptism is. 888 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,240 So when you get up there, it's like, well, I'm just doing this 889 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:48,560 because, you know, everybody wants it. 890 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,600 No, no, you're doing it because a part of you died and you were 891 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,640 celebrating a funeral of your old man, Amen. 892 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,560 How many knew your bachelors was a funeral? 893 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,720 That's pretty cool. You can use you just look at 894 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:02,520 that moment and be like, that's when I died. 895 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,320 I didn't live in it yet fully, but that's when I died. 896 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,200 That's good news, Amen. Because you are you are 897 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,640 accountable to God. You there's there's no limits to 898 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,800 what the Holy Spirit can do. And you look at it like why? 899 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,880 I can't really change my family. Yes, you can. 900 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,120 God can change your family through you. 901 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,520 Amen. I've I've reread the I've 902 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,800 rewritten the legacy through Jesus in my family, all to God's 903 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:28,440 glory. Amen. 904 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,840 It's not me, it's Christ in me. You think why? 905 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,000 I can't really do a lot of stuff. 906 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,680 You could do everything through Christ. 907 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,520 If God's calling you to do it, he'll supply the way to do it. 908 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,040 And if we just get our eyes off ourselves for a little bit, like 909 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,240 off of our own dreams and own legacy and our own past and the 910 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:47,200 sins around us and the sins in US. 911 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,560 And since we've done it was look at the resurrection and power of 912 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,280 Jesus. There is no limits to what God 913 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,400 can do through your life. Have you heard that before? 914 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:57,440 And you get to tell that to your kids. 915 00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,800 Amen. You get to share that with every 916 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,440 person you meet this week. How many people need to hear 917 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:03,280 that this week in your life? You may. 918 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,280 Yeah. Somebody needs to hear that this 919 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,200 week. The Holy Spirit's power in you 920 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,480 is greater than anything else in your life. 921 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,600 If you just want to step into that man like I don't. 922 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,400 I'm not perfect, but I can show you like he's done this in my 923 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,280 life. He could do it for you. 924 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,120 That's the greatest thing you could ever share. 925 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,120 I once was a man living for myself and then God killed me. 926 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,520 I live for him. What a great story, Amen? 927 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,400 And we get to celebrate that on Easter. 928 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,240 And I'm going to tell you what heaven is going to make it 929 00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:29,520 through Easter. I know that much, Amen. 930 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,280 We're going to make it 13 weeks. We'll see what we're going to 931 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,360 do. I want to encourage you guys. 932 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,520 We're going to just pray your prayers, surrender, and that's 933 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,160 about you guys. Put your hands out and to God. 934 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,400 God will come before you got to pray your prayers. 935 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,520 Surrender got our life not built on our old man God. 936 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,640 He is dead, He is gone, He is finished as far as the east is 937 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,120 from the West. God, you removed the power of 938 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,120 sin for my life and you've wiped out every sin that I do and I 939 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,040 have done, God, and help me, Lord, to step into your fullness 940 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,680 and to your grace. Not because I'm earning this, 941 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,600 Lord, not because I deserve this, because you love me. 942 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,440 Help me step in and know what it's like to be loved deeply, 943 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,360 God. Help me to live from your power, 944 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,800 God. Help me to remove anxiety and 945 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,920 fear and worry. Take those things from me, God. 946 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,520 Remind me, God, of your Holy Spirit's power. 947 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,600 God, I declare today I want to live by your grace, got to live 948 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,520 with your power, the Holy Spirit. 949 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,400 God, thank you as a part of me that looks just like Jesus, the 950 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,200 part that looks just like heaven, God, help me to tap into 951 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:25,760 that. Help me to walk wisely, God, 952 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,760 teach me, God, through trial, say thank you for my soul. 953 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,760 So God, I surrender my will, God, because I know my will is 954 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,240 not your will. And so I trust you. 955 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,400 I trust you. In this hard season, I trust 956 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:40,160 you. It's difficult. 957 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,760 I trust him, overwhelmed Lord, because now your good, You know 958 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,200 your goodness to shine through me. 959 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,520 And God, you want to use me for your glory so it could help me 960 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,000 be a person that's marked by you, by your power and your 961 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,680 strength. And when people look at my life, 962 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,480 at the end of the day they'll know that only Jesus could have 963 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,640 done what happened in his life because I was baptized into 964 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,840 Christ. So thank you Jesus. 965 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,080 I want to pray for one more group of people in the house. 966 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,160 That's those of you. Let's say you know what, I need 967 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,480 to be baptized into Christ today. 968 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,200 Like maybe you seem like I get baptized with water, sign the 969 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,280 card. But some of you are like, man, I 970 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,240 get baptized with Christ today. I've never been united with 971 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,360 Christ. I don't have the Holy Spirit 972 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:19,800 power in me. There's not a part that looks 973 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,520 like heaven. I've just been playing church. 974 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,640 I maybe just showed up. I don't really know what this is 975 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,360 all about, but you recognize that Jesus died for you and that 976 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,840 you're united as death and you can have new life in Christ 977 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,000 today and the power of God live in you today. 978 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,920 What greater promise is there that Jesus came and died for us 979 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,480 and gave us the Father gave us one only son who should 980 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,000 believeth him shall not perish, but everlasting life. 981 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,400 And that's not a promise for tomorrow. 982 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,440 That's a promise for right now. You can walk out of here with 983 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,120 everlasting life through Jesus in literally in Christ forgiven. 984 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,640 And so Dave, you need Jesus, you need forgiven. 985 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,040 You need new life. The mouth says it's open to 986 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,160 anyone who calls the name of the Lord and today is the day that 987 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,800 believe Jesus. The Holy Spirit's calling you to 988 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,320 cry out and humble yourself and obey God and say yes to Jesus. 989 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,280 If that's you, you need to call on Jesus, then I'd be looking 990 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:07,920 around. Just raise your hand high and 991 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,280 says to me, I need Jesus today. Not going to make it weird to 992 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:11,480 call you out. I need Jesus. 993 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,440 Come on, see your hands up all across the room. 994 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,440 I need Christ today. The Spirit of God speaking to 995 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,840 you, just humble yourself. Say Lord, I need you. 996 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,400 This prayer does not save you, but your heart towards him. 997 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,000 Say I believe in you. Jesus, I believe this book is 998 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,360 true. These words are true. 999 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,960 I feel you, Holy Spirit, calling me to yourself today. 1000 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,960 God, thank you that you sent Jesus to dine across my sins. 1001 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,480 God, I ask for new life. God, I am now baptized. 1002 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,640 In this moment I feel the weight of my sin being lifted. 1003 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,680 God, I'm a new creation, creation. 1004 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,920 God, I can feel the oldest gone. God, I'm being crucified with 1005 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,280 you right now. Lord, I have a new identity in 1006 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:46,440 you. God shaped me. 1007 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,360 God call me into your path and your way. 1008 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,760 God enter into me. God thank you Holy Spirit for 1009 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,000 living in me. I'm a new creation. 1010 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,680 The old is gone. God thank you for new life in 1011 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,120 Jesus. God help me to walk in your 1012 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,520 power and I praise in Jesus name The church said Amen. 1013 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,120 Come on, give some glory to Jesus today. 1014 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:07,760 Amen. And what a reminder, this is the 1015 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,040 end of this podcast. 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