1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,600 Welcome To The River. City Church podcast and a 2 00:00:03,608 --> 00:00:07,700 message by our lead. Pastor Jason Powers our prayer 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:11,100 is that this message would Inspire and encourage you, build 4 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:16,200 your faith and point you to the life-changing love Jesus, may 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,400 you enjoy the goodness of God as You Follow Him Today. 6 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:22,900 We Begin every week with our, with our confession and our 7 00:00:22,908 --> 00:00:25,500 confession is a truth that we believe and we come back to it 8 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,100 over and over because life is hard and it's fast and it moves 9 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:32,800 quick and it gets you and places and we need to tether ourselves 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,500 to truth. And so this is our confession 11 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:37,800 and we do every week as we begin with just a moment of silence 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,100 based on this idea. And first John 1:9, Jesus is 13 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:44,800 best friend, John tells us if you confess your sins, he Jesus 14 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,800 he is faithful and he is just and he will forgive us our sins 15 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:51,300 and he will purify us from all unrighteousness. 16 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,800 Listen from start, to finish, beginning to end. 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,700 The thing that we talked about here is Jesus, this is not about 18 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:02,000 our This is not about our ability, this is not about. 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,400 If you work hard or doing another, whatever this is about, 20 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,300 Jesus is love for you and his desire to save you. 21 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:10,500 So we begin with that moment of quiet, just to meditate on that. 22 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:12,400 Remember, Jesus is with you and he's in the room. 23 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:18,700 Jesus, we thank you for your love. 24 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:20,900 Thank you for your grace. We thank you for your 25 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:23,600 forgiveness. And Lord, we acknowledge that 26 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,300 we're in process. So we need your grace every 27 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:30,400 moment, but we acknowledge that you have big desires and big 28 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:36,200 plans in a big love for us. So may we lean into that not 29 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:39,900 denying or justifying, or explaining away our Brokenness, 30 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,800 but simply bringing it to you in love. 31 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,200 As we open your word father, I play the pray that you would 32 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,100 change our hearts that we would live in light of the life that 33 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:52,200 you showed us. Oh Jesus, we bring you this and 34 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,900 we asked you and we thank you for all the good things that 35 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:57,300 you've done and are doing in our lives and in our presence, Lord, 36 00:01:57,300 --> 00:01:58,800 we thank you for each of these baptisms. 37 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,900 For each of these confessions, these are folks young and old 38 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:04,800 that have encountered you, and we thank you for that. 39 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:09,000 May that be our story today. Jesus, we ask in your name and 40 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,699 for your glory. Amen. 41 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,400 And now having received Grace are Fashion is that we're badly 42 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,700 broken. Yes, you are Grace and peace to 43 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:23,100 you. That confession, man. 44 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:25,500 Like the longer I go. The more I find it kind of 45 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:29,900 infiltrating my life, both parts of it daily. 46 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:32,400 It seems like I'm like oh that's broken this sure enough. 47 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,500 Yep, that's that's it. That's what it is, right? 48 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:37,000 And the words that we use are important, right? 49 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,100 It's important. I call it. 50 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:40,900 It's not so it's not just a mistake or a mishap. 51 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:44,300 It's like, no. It's like I wanted that and I 52 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:46,700 went after and got it and it was hurtful and it was good. 53 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:51,300 So we Let Brokenness but we also call it love and love means 54 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:54,500 something. Love is a word that that is deep 55 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:57,000 and it is Rich. And I think that it doesn't 56 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,100 always mean what maybe in our culture calls and I think we 57 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:03,300 have a soft idea of you of love, but Jesus kind of redeemed at 58 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:05,100 all. That to say that our words are 59 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,000 important. They're significant. 60 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,500 And there's two words in Scripture that really go 61 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:14,400 together, that, that maybe it's not intuitive. 62 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,700 We've been talking, we've been looking at Matthew 5, 6, and 7 63 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:19,400 for the Last a lot of weeks writing, we're talking about The 64 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,600 Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus begins this and Matthew chapter 65 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,700 4, verse 17. Jesus says, repent for the any 66 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:30,000 users of word Kingdom for the kingdom is at hand. 67 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,500 The kingdom is present and too many times are often times. 68 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:35,500 I think that idea Kingdom. It's like, it's like, a 69 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:38,100 fairytale word, right? And so, but Jesus talks about 70 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:40,300 this Kingdom and all the implications are important, 71 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:41,600 right? There is a sovereign. 72 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,100 There is a king, there is a ruler. 73 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:46,100 There is, there is an order. So, when Jesus talks about 74 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:50,000 Kingdom that it doesn't show up a bunch in the rest of the New 75 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,900 Testament and the rest of the New Testament, particularly in 76 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:56,900 the writings of Paul, the idea conveyed by Kingdom, the word 77 00:03:56,900 --> 00:04:03,600 that Paul uses is salvation, So, when we talk about, Paul's 78 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,000 teaching about salvation, right? Ephesians 2:8-9 for by grace, 79 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,300 are you saved, through faith? And this is faith in this, and 80 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:11,800 I'm yourself. It is. 81 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,700 Alright? So salvation, Paul's saying the 82 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:19,300 same kind of thing that Jesus is saying, salvation is Simply Life 83 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:23,000 lived under the direction, guidance of authority and 84 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Leadership of Jesus living in. God's kingdom is what salvation 85 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,800 is. But the question becomes, why 86 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,200 did Paul talked Salvation. What are we saved from? 87 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,300 That's a great question. I'm glad that you asked, right? 88 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:41,600 So before we kind of answer that I want to pause process that 89 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,000 what are we saved from? But I want to stop and ask real 90 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,800 quick. How are you doing? 91 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:55,200 How are you really? And I see college students, I'm 92 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,200 glad it's good to see you, some of you back for the first time 93 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:03,200 facing what? The last couple weeks and the 94 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,300 News have been difficult. How are you doing the last 95 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:10,200 couple years in the world are difficult? 96 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,400 How are you doing? What are you feeling about the 97 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,300 world? About your life? 98 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:19,400 About your place? Are you okay thinking about it? 99 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,300 If you're like me, it seems like this constant awareness and 100 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:29,300 battle against anxiety, fear worried. 101 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,700 And I'm shared like, my, my past my history of experience with 102 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:36,200 with anxiety and with depression with all that and it's kind of a 103 00:05:36,208 --> 00:05:40,500 balance kind of struggle, but Times Like These are difficult 104 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,200 and my senses as I read this week. 105 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,600 The second, you know, Matthew chapter 6 and kind of the back 106 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,700 half of chapter 6, I realize I can't came to realize that that 107 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:55,900 is the invitation that Jesus worse to is especially real and 108 00:05:55,900 --> 00:06:01,100 relevant for this time right now because the kingdom and 109 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:03,600 salvation, both all the things we've talked about the kingdom 110 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,700 up to this point we can say about salvation, right? 111 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,500 The kingdom, we song Jesus. It's about here and it's about 112 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:10,000 now, and that's important for salvation. 113 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:13,000 Salvation isn't for some day later out there, right? 114 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,900 It's not like, oh well, we trust Jesus now and someday. 115 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:17,800 We'll die, and then we'll be saved. 116 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,900 Jesus. Throughout the Kingdom at hand. 117 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:23,100 So what that means for us is that salvation is at hand, it is 118 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:27,300 for here, and it is now both the kingdom and salvation, the 119 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:29,800 kingdom of Jesus. We saw Jesus talked about the 120 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,900 kingdom is this inside out, right? 121 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:35,800 He said, it's not enough to just not kill people in the Kingdom, 122 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,600 we don't accept contempt contempt for another person as a 123 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,200 thing that has to be dealt with, it has to be worked out. 124 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,200 We're afraid of sickness or afraid of death, or afraid of 125 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:54,400 loss or afraid of losing see, the root of our fear. 126 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:57,400 Ultimately, if you trace it back and followed back somewhere is 127 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,000 the fear of running out, the fear that there won't be enough. 128 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:04,800 Our financial fear is that there's too much month at the 129 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,800 end of the money. Our health, fear our that 130 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,300 someday. This body is going to quit 131 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:11,700 working. It's going to, it's going to 132 00:07:11,708 --> 00:07:14,700 time out and we're going to expire and it's all going to be 133 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:17,100 done. Worried if we see the law like 134 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:18,900 as it's an entrance exam, we're worried that. 135 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:22,000 When it's all said and done, I'm going to stand there and I'm not 136 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,600 going to have done enough. And so, what is fear and 137 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:26,800 anxiety? Look like, what looks like 138 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,000 anxiety, but it can look like greed. 139 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,500 Did you know? Greed is fear. 140 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,300 I don't have enough. So I have to hold on to 141 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:37,700 everything. Stinginess is assigning, an 142 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:42,800 indication of fear. And so, when Jesus came and 143 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,600 said, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and when Paul Talked 144 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,100 about salvation and talked about seven us from this, the culture 145 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:55,300 of the Kingdom, then saves us from fear and death. 146 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:01,300 So now as we think about, what are you worried about 147 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,800 abandonment, you worried about betrayal. 148 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:08,300 Are you worried about scarcity? I think scarcity is a big one, 149 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:10,900 especially as the economy goes on the toilet right? 150 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,500 We worried that there's just there's we were driving by car 151 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:16,300 lots yesterday so my son turns 16 and we were driving by car. 152 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:18,400 Lots just right by and we noticed for the first time it 153 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,400 was shocking car lots are like empty. 154 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:25,700 There's not enough and so we bought my son a cheap car that 155 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:28,200 would have been cheaper. About five years ago and wasn't 156 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,600 so cheap right now and so you begin to be afraid. 157 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,100 Well is that going to happen to Spaghetti? 158 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,299 Am I not gonna be able to avoid spaghetti and food and collagen 159 00:08:35,299 --> 00:08:39,400 on that we get cynical right? Cynicism says oh yeah well enjoy 160 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,600 it now because it's not going to be here forever. 161 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,400 We get angry that this is the condition that someday it's 162 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,300 coming and I'm not going to have enough and we're waiting for the 163 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,700 inevitable inevitable and life teaches us this. 164 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,000 Because as you're growing, you have maybe some beloved 165 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,300 grandparent and what happens to the grandparent. 166 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:01,700 They expire they go away and now we're lost and now we're left 167 00:09:01,700 --> 00:09:03,800 and we realize everything runs out. 168 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,700 And So eventually at some point you begin to look at your 169 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:07,900 something to do. Well, am I going to run out to 170 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:11,100 is this all for me? And so we begin to worry. 171 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:12,700 Well, what about, what will happen to my spouse? 172 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:14,900 What will happen to my kids, what will happen to what, what 173 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:17,200 will happen? And the kingdom of the culture 174 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:25,400 of the kingdom is this, there is no, Fear in love. 175 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:32,900 And listen, this isn't some like hey why are you so terrible that 176 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:34,100 you're afraid. Don't Be Afraid. 177 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:36,300 Like this is listen, the next part is so important because 178 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:42,100 perfect love drives out fear. So with this is talking about 179 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:45,900 this is like like, you know, you've got a full box and you 180 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:48,600 try to, like, push more stuff in it in order to push stuff and 181 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,000 you got to get rid of the old stuff. 182 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,300 So you've got fear in order to get fear out, you have to push 183 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:55,700 love and perfect, love drives out fear. 184 00:09:56,500 --> 00:10:01,300 Because fear has to do with punishment. 185 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:04,000 This is where this argument gets theological will talk about in 186 00:10:04,008 --> 00:10:06,200 just a second. The one who fears is not made 187 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,900 perfect in love. So we talked about punishment, 188 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:11,000 here's what happens. The idea is because I did 189 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,400 something wrong. God, is going to take something 190 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,900 away from me. Oh, well, I didn't behave and 191 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:23,000 that's why I get sick. That's why I don't have enough 192 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,800 money. That's why bad things are 193 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,400 happening. Because God, Is mad at me and if 194 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,600 you've been around the church, long enough you've probably 195 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,400 learned how to spiritualize this and go. 196 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,500 Ho. Well, I deserve it and there's 197 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:35,700 Grace and at least some day when I die, right? 198 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:38,300 And what John is saying here in his, he's pointing to Jesus 199 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:42,600 saying that's not the economy. That's not how it works. 200 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,500 He said punishment isn't part of the plan. 201 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,600 And unless and until we know that and I don't mean 202 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,000 intellectually. Don't see, I think that's the 203 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,600 problem. Kind of in our culture is we 204 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,800 have all of the information and all of humanity at our 205 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,800 fingertips, right. So we can go and read a lot of 206 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,500 stuff and know, I know the atomic weight of barium, who 207 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:09,600 cares? As we know God in our hearts, as 208 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,200 we know God and our behaviors in our relationships and that love 209 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,500 begins to creep in it changes. Everything. 210 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,700 It changes, how we see everything. 211 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,000 And so, here's the good news. Are you ready the seed of a 212 00:11:24,008 --> 00:11:27,700 worry-free life begins at Salvation? 213 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:31,000 It's planted at Salvation. And so, this is why, when we 214 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,200 talk about salvation, we talked about the kingdom. 215 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,900 When I talk about following Jesus, this is part of the 216 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:38,100 reason this is part of what it's about. 217 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:42,200 It's the ability to not have to be afraid of the world that 218 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,800 we're living, even really bad things even really big things, 219 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,900 even things that in our world, tell me, You should be afraid of 220 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:51,300 me, right? The other guy, the bad guy, 221 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:54,000 doesn't you be afraid of me? And what this tells us is in the 222 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Kingdom, you don't have to. I don't have to be afraid that 223 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,100 it's been. And listen, here's how Paul 224 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:00,200 describes it. Ready. 225 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,800 Philippians chapter 2 starting verse 12. 226 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,000 Therefore my dear friends as you have always obeyed. 227 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,300 Now not only in my presence but now much more in my presence 228 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:11,800 continuing so talking about time but notice how he phrases it 229 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,700 continued, obedience continue to work out your salvation. 230 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:19,900 With fear and trembling, he doesn't say work for your 231 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:21,900 salvation, that would be. That would be heresy. 232 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:23,400 That would be something that we don't do. 233 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:27,100 But work out the ideas, there's a seed planted in your heart and 234 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:32,100 the way that we work that out is by obedience, this is why Jesus 235 00:12:32,100 --> 00:12:34,800 begins by talking about the law and the Pharisees and saying, 236 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,400 you can't work for your salvation because if I read 237 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,700 Philippians 2 and it says work for your salvation like, well, 238 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:42,500 now I've got to be better than everybody. 239 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,400 I've got to say less cuss words or whatever the mat whatever the 240 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,100 thing is, right. But what Paul, says is work it 241 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:56,200 out, and here's why for it is God who works in you to, will 242 00:12:56,300 --> 00:13:00,500 you ever felt like you're like I don't want to do the right 243 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:02,800 thing, right? Like that that's the deal. 244 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,400 I just I don't want to do starting with that 245 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,700 acknowledgement and that confession is a big deal, right? 246 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:12,600 So here's the question, can you say I want to want that. 247 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:17,700 Maybe that's all you can muster right now so you can go to God 248 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:20,600 and go. I don't I don't want to be like 249 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,700 that, but I want to want that. I want Lord, I want you whatever 250 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:27,200 that looks like and it's okay to say right now. 251 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:30,700 I can't see how that. Behavior is connected to your 252 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:32,400 favor, in your goodness and your life. 253 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:35,800 I can't see how that lifestyle is connected to your goodness, 254 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:40,300 but I want to I want to be radically obedient to you even 255 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:42,800 when I don't understand. Even when it makes sense even 256 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,400 when something fundamental my life, help me out here because 257 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,800 what it says is it's God that plants that will in us. 258 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:52,200 And so you can say, I don't want to but Lord I want to want. 259 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,600 Will you put that in me? Will you put a desire in me that 260 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,600 wants to honor and please you and listen it? 261 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:02,000 If that's the only thing you can pray today, start there. 262 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,800 And you know what the Lord is going to do, he's going to go. 263 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,100 That's awesome. That's what I'm talking about. 264 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,900 If that's all you got that's all you got start there, right? 265 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,700 It's God who works in us to Will and then to act, he places the 266 00:14:15,708 --> 00:14:18,600 desire and as he leads us to himself and then he allows us 267 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,800 and calls us work out. Listen, the kingdom of God, the 268 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,200 Kingdom of Heaven is planted inside of you. 269 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:28,400 It's not out there for you to go like to the Christian bookstore 270 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,300 and buy the thing or the certain, like translation about 271 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:32,600 the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. 272 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,000 It is the love and the grace, and the Redemption, and the 273 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,600 restoration of God. And it was planning. 274 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,800 So working out now and he says, working out your salvation, that 275 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:47,100 is what we call discipleship. And discipleship is following 276 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:50,000 Jesus. It's being a disciple of his, 277 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,200 right? And what we've just seen is 278 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:58,800 discipleship leads to Worry free, but it starts in an 279 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,300 unusual place. Okay, so here's what I hear. 280 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,300 This is important because I'm about to read. 281 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:05,100 You might just go. You just stuck that in there. 282 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,600 I didn't. I'm reading the very next verse. 283 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:10,300 And so here's my, here's my thing. 284 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,000 We have to ask, does Jesus know what he's talking about? 285 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:15,900 Do we believe that Jesus knows what he's talking about, okay, 286 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:19,500 my promise to you is, by the time we're done, by the time, we 287 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:22,500 get to the end of this, passage the end of it's going to be, 288 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,000 don't worry about anything, okay? 289 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,100 But in order to get their, jesus takes on a journey. 290 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:32,500 Are you ready? Let's see how Jesus talks to us. 291 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:36,500 About not living in fear. He begins in Matthew chapter 6, 292 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:38,200 starting in verse 19. Are you ready? 293 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:45,100 Do not store up for yourself? Treasures on Earth, where moth 294 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:49,000 and Vermin, destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 295 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,400 Jesus begins a talk about worry by talking about treasure. 296 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:54,200 Now, what is treasure mean? Does it mean money? 297 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:56,800 Sure. Doesn't mean other things. 298 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,500 Sure, the idea when you think, when you read this idea from 299 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:05,600 Treasure of Jesus, what I want you to think is priority, okay? 300 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,800 What is the thing that you put first? 301 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:16,700 What is the thing that you will say no to everything else for so 302 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:21,400 that you can say yes to that. Jesus says don't store your 303 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,200 Treasures. Don't put your priorities here 304 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:25,700 on Earth, like is he? The deal. 305 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,700 If your priority is your house, if that's most important to you 306 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:34,000 as your house, one of two things is going to happen, you're going 307 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,800 to die and will it to somebody else or you're going to sell it 308 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,600 and go live somewhere else. Either way it doesn't go to 309 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,500 Eternity and you know what? You're going to do the whole 310 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:50,100 time, you own a house investing in it, pouring money into doing 311 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:52,400 it right. Don't store up your Treasures 312 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,500 here, where things they break down. 313 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:56,700 They were Out there go away. How about your job? 314 00:16:56,700 --> 00:16:59,300 How important is your job? Your job, maybe your identity. 315 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:01,500 Like this is a thing for me like I have to wrestle with this. 316 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:03,200 I have to deal with this a lot, right? 317 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:09,599 If my job is my identity that who I am stops, when I retire. 318 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,300 There's only two ways out of a job, retirement and death. 319 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:14,900 I mean, you can get fired. You can get along the way. 320 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:16,700 I hope we're not there, but one way or another. 321 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:24,500 I'm not doing this for eternity. So, if this is my thing someday, 322 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:25,900 it's going to go. And so, do you know what 323 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:27,200 happens? And you know what anxiety is, 324 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,000 anxiety, is worried about the future. 325 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,500 So what anxiety is when I just go, what am I going to do when I 326 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:34,500 don't do this anymore? What am I going to do? 327 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:35,900 If the church doesn't come through. 328 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,300 What am I going to do? If they don't like me. 329 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:40,600 What if I say something that people don't like and everybody 330 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:41,900 leaves? And then the tides go away. 331 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:43,600 And then, I'm just gonna be scooping ice cream, it's going 332 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,000 to be bad. And what a my kids going to do, 333 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,900 right? And so you begin going down this 334 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:50,400 road and this Trail and what Jesus says, That's not your 335 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,100 don't make that your priority do the things that you can do, but 336 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:54,400 don't make your pressure and then it gives us the 337 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,400 Alternatives, but store up for yourselves. 338 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,400 Treasures in Heaven, set your priority in heaven, where moth 339 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,200 and Vermin. Do not destroy and where thieves 340 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,600 do not break in and steal, but where your treasure is there, 341 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,900 your heart will be. Also, listen, that last phrase 342 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:13,900 is a gold mine. Because what Jesus is saying is 343 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,300 because the problem is, you just go. 344 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,800 Yeah, but my heart, isn't that? My heart does care about houses 345 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,200 and jobs and Money and reputation and stuff like that. 346 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:22,800 And what Jesus is saying is great. 347 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,300 You can direct your heart where to go, put your treasure there, 348 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:29,300 send your treasure. Do you want to get rich? 349 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:35,600 You want to listen do you want to have a wonderful college team 350 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,500 that you cheer for and Route? You know, you need to do, send 351 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:42,200 your kid there because you start paying tuition to that place. 352 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,400 You're a fan. You want their football team to 353 00:18:45,408 --> 00:18:46,700 be good. Imagine This. 354 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:49,600 It's summertime in your thinking about a vacation man. 355 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,000 I want to go on a vacation you just go but man I don't have the 356 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,100 cash on hand. So what we'll do is we'll just 357 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:57,000 take a couple hundred, take $100 at every paycheck and we'll set 358 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,900 it aside and we'll do that for as long as we can. 359 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,300 And then when we get enough, we'll have it. 360 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:03,500 Well, every time every time that paycheck comes and you take $100 361 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:05,800 and you put it in that savings account, you know what you do? 362 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,700 You start talking about that vacation? 363 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,400 And you start going ski and we're going to go skiing, it's 364 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,200 in it and every time and now all of a sudden your family starts 365 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,800 get excited about that vacation and so then it's two weeks 366 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,600 before they Asian and your worthless at work, man. 367 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,500 And you can't do anything because you're thinking about 368 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,000 it, right? Do you know what, listen, 369 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,100 Colorado's always been there, there's always been skiing. 370 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,100 You have always been thinking about it, that's always where 371 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:29,900 you want to go. But something happens, when you 372 00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:33,200 begin to invest in that and your heart starts to go there. 373 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:38,100 What if we start investing like that in the Kingdom? 374 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:43,300 What if out of every one of our paychecks every one of our days 375 00:19:43,300 --> 00:19:46,000 we just started investing so that when we start getting 376 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,900 closer to death, right? On our age gets up there and we 377 00:19:48,908 --> 00:19:51,800 start breaking down on my back starts hurting and we just start 378 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,400 going. I've been infested so much and 379 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,100 what's to come. I can't wait to get there. 380 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,800 The problem is we go man. I spend my whole life building 381 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,800 my house, and my kids, and my spouse and my job, and mine are 382 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,900 hood of my lawn on, finally, got all the dandelions out of my 383 00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:10,400 lawn. And now I'm about to go to the 384 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,200 problem is we've invested our life here so we don't want to 385 00:20:13,208 --> 00:20:16,900 go. But what if this is like the ice 386 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:20,200 cream shop, I love to go to the ice cream shop. 387 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Like a little, peanut butter ice cream and a little bit of 388 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,700 cheesecake ice cream, and I put them together and it's 389 00:20:25,700 --> 00:20:28,400 delicious. I don't want to live at the ice 390 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,700 cream shop. I want to go home to my bed, 391 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,400 right? This world is like that, man. 392 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,400 Listen, enjoy this world, enjoy the things, enjoy your house, 393 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,200 and joy, your neighbors, and the company, and all of that. 394 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,600 But if we're going to live a worry-free existence, we have to 395 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:47,700 check our priorities. Because if my priority is stuff, 396 00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:51,600 that's ultimately going to go away, then I'm going to live in 397 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,300 anxiety because I'm always going to be looking at that. 398 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:57,400 But if I just go this, listen, we've just recently moved into a 399 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,300 house and I love it. I it is, he's glorious. 400 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:04,300 But you know what? I've lived in houses before and 401 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:06,500 I moved them and I left them and you know what? 402 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,100 Some point my roof is going to leak and I'm going to have to 403 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:11,800 fix it and then I'm going to hate that. 404 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:12,900 Then I'm going to hate my house, right? 405 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:14,400 I'm gonna want to start moving right now. 406 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,200 Is why it's important that we acknowledge and recognize that, 407 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,500 this isn't it. And so discipleship, truly, and 408 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:24,500 I don't mean having data set about God. 409 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,500 I don't mean believing in God. I mean following him, I mean, A 410 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,100 discipleship path were tracking discipleship. 411 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:32,800 Begins with priority realignment. 412 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:35,300 It begins by saying, listen, I don't have to hate that. 413 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:37,300 Listen, I love my work. I love that, we live, where we 414 00:21:37,308 --> 00:21:38,500 live. I love the friends and the 415 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:41,000 people that in my life, but I acknowledge and recognize that 416 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,400 it's not forever. So I'm free to enjoy it without 417 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:48,000 Not worrying about the day where it goes away without worrying 418 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,300 and fearing about loss. And so the question is right, if 419 00:21:52,308 --> 00:21:55,900 we got to check our priorities, the question for us that I have 420 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:56,800 two answers. I look around. 421 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,700 Well, here's a way. Ask your kids. 422 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:04,500 Kids based on how we spend our time and how we spend our money, 423 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:09,300 Junior, what do you think is most important to Mommy and 424 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:12,200 Daddy? Find out what they say. 425 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,400 They'll tell you the truth then you may have to ground them but 426 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,000 that's okay. Maybe before you ask your kids, 427 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,100 ask yourself, if you were to look at your checkbook and your 428 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:28,200 calendar, what do those two tools indicate? 429 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:34,600 Are your priorities and listen, I'm not telling you this so that 430 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,200 you'll live a poverty. Existence, I'm telling you this 431 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,100 so that you live a worry-free existence. 432 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,100 I'm not saying that you can't have any stuff. 433 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:50,200 I'm saying that if stuff has you your It was going to be limited 434 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,200 and nervous and Afraid and lonely. 435 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,400 So we can check our priorities because the idea is the Kingdom 436 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,300 lives in our heart, right? The kingdom begins inside, and 437 00:22:59,308 --> 00:23:02,200 it begins to work itself out. So when we take our treasure and 438 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,500 listen, we treasure, we immediately think of money, 439 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:07,000 right? And let's, I'm not going to let 440 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,200 you off the hook that's for you and God to decide, right? 441 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,000 You decide. If money is your thing, you know 442 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,400 what it is? For me, it's energy because I'm 443 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,000 an introvert, right? And I'm not relationally. 444 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,400 Super, you're like, yeah, energy seems like a problem. 445 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:24,000 For you, right? I feel like because what I do 446 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,600 after this is nap hard, like Sunday afternoon is a good nap, 447 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,400 right? And so, I'm constantly worried, 448 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,000 if there are too many things, if too many people need me, I'm 449 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,500 gonna run out. I'm going to be exhausted and 450 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,000 wiped out, and I'm going to die and be cranking all that stuff, 451 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,100 right? So faith for me, put my treasure 452 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:43,800 in my heart is, is just go. If somebody needs to be 453 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,900 encouraged, that's my job. That's what not job. 454 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:47,900 Like, that's what I get paid for it. 455 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:50,700 That's my kingdom Mission. So, as much as I can, I don't 456 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:52,000 like talking. Going on the phone. 457 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,900 But if somebody calls me with a need my gift, my tied, the way 458 00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:59,900 that I discipline myself is to just go, I'm going to take that 459 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:02,200 phone call and I'm going to be fully present and available 460 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:03,600 because that's what's in my heart. 461 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:08,900 And I want to invest in that in the person, in the thing, in 462 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:13,700 whatever it is, that reminds me, this doesn't live forever, my 463 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:18,800 heart that heart, it does live forever, put your stuff there. 464 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:21,900 And what happens is the more that we do that The more it 465 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:25,800 begins to change, actually, how we see the world. 466 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,400 Listen verse 22. The eye is the lamp of the body 467 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,100 in order to understand. Okay? 468 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:35,300 So that's a lamp back there. Does the is the lamp of the 469 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:38,500 creator of light? No, it's the light bulb is the 470 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:40,500 creator of light electricity into the light bulb, right? 471 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,100 What the lamp does is direct and focus in channel the light, 472 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:46,600 right? Your eye is the lamp of the 473 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,100 body. And so Jesus, your eye doesn't 474 00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:50,000 create light. That would be like, right? 475 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,400 Like a robot. That's not that the eye is the 476 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:57,500 lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy because 477 00:24:57,500 --> 00:24:59,600 there's good of your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be 478 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,000 full of light, but if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body 479 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,500 will be full of Darkness. If the, if then the light, which 480 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:10,200 is in you, is Darkness. How great is that Darkness? 481 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,000 So here's the idea, your eyes are the lamp of the body. 482 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:15,600 Whatever light is in your heart is going to come out, it's going 483 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,800 to affect the way that you see. So now let's do a little bible 484 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,900 study to. Okay, so in my thing right here, 485 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:21,500 first of all, I'm reading right here. 486 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,400 All of these letters are red which means that Jesus said 487 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,400 them, Now, when Jesus said these words, he said them in Greek, 488 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,600 right? And so now, you have translation 489 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:31,900 issues like how do you translate. 490 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,700 So, I go here and it says, if your eyes are unhealthy, and 491 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:37,400 there's that word unhealthy because I'm like, is that, like, 492 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:40,400 macular degeneration, like what do you mean if they're 493 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,000 unhealthy? Well, right next to that word, 494 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,700 unhealthy is a letter D. That's a footnote. 495 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:45,800 So I just go. Okay, where is it? 496 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,700 Oh right over here on this side right, bottom D so I look at 497 00:25:48,708 --> 00:25:49,600 that. Look at the letter D. 498 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,300 It's and verse 23 which is great. 499 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:55,600 Here's what the footnote says, the Greek for unhealthy. 500 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,100 Here implies. Are you ready? 501 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,200 Stinginess? Okay, so let's go back up, verse 502 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,800 where it says, see, right. If your eyes are healthy, that's 503 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,800 a letter seas are going to see the Greek for healthy here. 504 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:16,700 Implies generous The eye is the lamp of the body. 505 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,300 If your eyes are generous, your whole body will be full of 506 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:24,400 light. But if your eyes are stingy, 507 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:26,700 your whole body will be full of Darkness. 508 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,200 Then the light that is within, you is Darkness. 509 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,000 If the light that is within you, is Darkness. 510 00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:39,300 How great is that Darkness? Listen, if we look at the world 511 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:44,400 and see, scarcity, That's a problem with heart and you go, 512 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,700 it's not a problem with the heart. 513 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:49,200 It's a mat. It's a finite think things run 514 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,600 out, here's a story. Okay, when I was a start as a 515 00:26:51,608 --> 00:26:54,300 youth, pastor one of the very first things I did is youth 516 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:58,300 pastor was take the use. We had a group of 60, 80 kids on 517 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,500 a mission trip and we went downtown San Antonio to a place 518 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:05,100 called church under the bridge every Friday night at church 519 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:09,000 under the bridge about 150. People would show up to have 520 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,100 dinner, right? And so this church under the 521 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:14,900 bridge, Churches all over town and says, hey will you cook food 522 00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:18,200 for about 150 people and bring it and feed the people to be 523 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,600 great for the kids. So I'm just like perfect. 524 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:22,100 So what do you do for a mission trip, right? 525 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:24,500 When you going to feed a bunch of people, spaghetti the weight, 526 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,500 right? I got spaghetti noodles serving 527 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:30,300 size 10 so I made 15 I think was 160, people made it? 528 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,600 Spaghetti salad corn for 160 people. 529 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,100 I was so proud of myself and one of the students mother her name 530 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,500 was glennis Bryce. I'll never forget this because 531 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:41,100 of this story. So glennis comes and she's going 532 00:27:41,100 --> 00:27:42,400 to go. And so we We set up and we're 533 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,400 church under the bridge. It's early December. 534 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,100 Glynnis, can you handle just scooped in and making sure 535 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:49,500 everything runs. I'm gonna go talk to people. 536 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:53,500 So Glynis like yes, Glynis is a great woman of Faith as we walk 537 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:55,400 up the pastor of this church under the bridge comes goes, 538 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,300 Jason was like, yes, he says it's a cold night. 539 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:04,200 There's about 250 people here. I was like, well tell 90 of them 540 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,900 that they're going to be hungry afterwards to because I cooked 541 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:09,500 for 160 people. As I'm saying this, I look over 542 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:10,700 and glennis and Glenn says got this. 543 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:15,400 Big can of spaghetti. And she's like shoveling it and 544 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,900 I'm like, glynnis, she's like, he isn't this wonderful? 545 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:23,200 We're going to feed so many people and like, no, we're not 546 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:24,000 like that. Right? 547 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:26,000 And so, she's going. So I'm walking around and I'm 548 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,500 freaking out. I'm fretting. 549 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:29,800 And the kids like, oh, we're feeding people, helping them 550 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,000 like, yeah, you're about to see a catastrophe right of this. 551 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,400 And so, as I'm walking around, and I'm, I'm worrying, right? 552 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,700 Because I'm the boss and that's what I have to do. 553 00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:39,200 It only makes sense to worry, right? 554 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,900 I look over. And Glynis is going like this. 555 00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:45,900 Oh my gosh. Isn't that amazing? 556 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,800 The last person in line gets the last scoop of spaghetti, how do 557 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,200 you feed 250 people with spaghetti for 160? 558 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,700 I don't know. It's never happened again. 559 00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:04,400 I've never seen it there before, but I know that glennis was 560 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:12,800 generous and I know 250 people 850 people's worth of food And 561 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,900 they all were happy and they were all satisfied at. 562 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:19,800 Listen, there's a lot about that story that you like, bro, I 563 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,200 don't know. I get it. 564 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,500 I understand. I understand I'm telling you, I 565 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:30,700 saw it and the idea is the first thing that we see God doing in 566 00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:35,900 scripture is creating our God is able to make more. 567 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:40,500 And so what he says in the kingdom is if you're clinging to 568 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:44,000 stuff so you don't run out. Then you'll be able to have 569 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,800 whatever it is that you keep. But if you say, my stuff is a 570 00:29:47,808 --> 00:29:49,600 resource, my stuff. Yeah. 571 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,900 Your money. But your time, and your energy, 572 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:56,600 and your training, and your degrees, and your health. 573 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,500 And all of the things that you have, if those are the deals, 574 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,300 then you'll never run out. You become a distributor, a 575 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:06,500 kingdom distributor of Grace, and hope, and peace, and love. 576 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:08,900 And so, if we're going to do that, if we're going to embrace 577 00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:10,600 that, right? And what happens is when I 578 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,500 realized, I can give everybody as much. 579 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,100 I can't. Cuz you know what would happen 580 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,600 if we have only fed 150 people, that's still pretty cool in it, 581 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,900 it's good to have 150 people eat. 582 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:23,000 Like, if nothing else, we showed up and fed people but what 583 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,700 happened was we saw what God can do when God gets involved. 584 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:31,000 And the problem is I don't put myself in those situations often 585 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,800 enough to many times I just go well there's not enough. 586 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,400 And the Lord's, like, all right, maybe there's not. 587 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:41,300 So in order for us to be WorryFree, we have to check our 588 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:44,800 perspective, do you believe that God is capable of doing? 589 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:47,700 And listen, I'm not saying that you go home and go great, honey. 590 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:50,500 We can buy that new house with the extended floor plan, right? 591 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:54,200 Here's, here's the question, it's like in Bruce Almighty 592 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,600 right? With the prayers, if God 593 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,500 answered every single one of the prayers that you have prayed in 594 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:03,900 the last week, are you listening if God had answered every single 595 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:07,400 one of your There's would anybody outside of you and your 596 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,800 immediate family be impacted? I don't answer that question for 597 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,000 you. But I know and I believe that 598 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,400 God has me here for something beyond that. 599 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,600 The questions. Do you see? 600 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,600 Do I see? Do we see people people as an 601 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:30,500 imposition or as an opportunity because Jesus went and saw and 602 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:35,600 loved and hugged everybody. Jesus invited whosoever will may 603 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,200 come and he loved them and he loved them. 604 00:31:37,208 --> 00:31:40,400 So we checked our perspective and what happens is when you're 605 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,200 generous you begin to see God's provision. 606 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,800 And what happens is the Time it's easier. 607 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:48,200 And the next one after that, it's easier. 608 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,900 Also the first time you cheat, it's hard. 609 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:54,500 The second time, it's easier. The third time. 610 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,000 It's easier at Tenth time. You barely even notice it down. 611 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 The road, five years later. You stand up and you go. 612 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,700 How did I get here? One choice one time. 613 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,900 So what if we do the hard thing of investing in Kingdom of 614 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:12,600 investing in people of checking our perspective, that's what 615 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:18,100 Discipleship is, it's deliberately behaving as if our 616 00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:22,500 stuff is it Kingdom resource and Jesus ends with this. 617 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:24,900 It's kind of an analogy, right? No one can serve two masters. 618 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,600 Either you will hate the one and love the other or he will be 619 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,700 devoted to the one and despise the other. 620 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:33,300 You cannot serve both God and money. 621 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:37,600 And so Jesus as he's about to jump into this long, beautiful 622 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,400 meditation, on worry, listen ascends with you can't serve God 623 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,000 and money. And you might say, I don't know 624 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,800 about The question. Like here's an idea if you're in 625 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,900 here and you're and you're married just real quick, not 626 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:49,700 right now because it'll be a bloodbath but when you get home 627 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:52,300 just go ahead and say try this out and say Lord it says you 628 00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:54,400 know honey it says you can't serve both God and money. 629 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,700 It says that the heart can't be divided you really can only 630 00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:59,800 worship one thing and so just ask your spouse if they're okay, 631 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,400 sharing you with another person of the same sex. 632 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,500 Probably not, right? Because we know your heart is 633 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:13,600 attached to one and if you're attached to another, you're not 634 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,400 attached to me. And if you're attached to me, 635 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,200 you're not attached to another. And so the invitation is to 636 00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:24,000 check your passion. What do you care about? 637 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,700 What are you most worried about eternal things? 638 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,300 Or temporal things, it's summer, you're like yeah, I know. 639 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:35,900 Listen, here's the thing. I don't invite you to an 640 00:33:35,908 --> 00:33:38,600 experiment now because it's summer is a time we need to 641 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,200 rest, right? We need to get refilled and we 642 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,000 need to get recharged, right? My contention is. 643 00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:48,300 You will be more rested if you practically put Jesus first. 644 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,500 And so here's my, here's my challenge for you. 30 minutes 645 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,800 every day and church every week. If you go out of town on a 646 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,700 vacation, you don't have to go to church. 647 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:00,200 Well, Go to church here if you want. 648 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,200 Right? But what I'm saying, here, 649 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,600 because here's the deal, you just go home and we want to go 650 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:03,500 to Lake. We want to go to the river. 651 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:05,400 We want to go to green, we want to go to do all those things. 652 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,400 Those things will still be there. 653 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:12,100 If you say, I'm going to go to church one hour eight o'clock 654 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,699 service, lots of seats will go to the eight o'clock service 655 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:16,699 will go do that and then we're going to go. 656 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:22,300 My contention is your life will be more operational at the end 657 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:24,100 of this summer because you will have put. 658 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:27,300 First things first, you will have put your treasure. 659 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,300 We're in Eternal things and your heart will follow and then you 660 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:33,000 will have this new miraculous covered. 661 00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:36,000 And here's I'm telling you wear whatever you want. 662 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,199 Come in your swimsuit. If you Going to tank top on 663 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:40,400 Sunday morning. Do you know what I'm going to 664 00:34:40,408 --> 00:34:43,699 say, nice, tank top. That's probably it because I'm 665 00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:45,100 not that creative. I don't know anything else to 666 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:48,600 say, right? I don't care wear whatever you 667 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,500 want, leave from here, to going biggest, but try it and just 668 00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:55,300 see, say, if I give my best to the Lord, what happens because 669 00:34:55,300 --> 00:35:00,100 my guess is, you will be more rested, more reflective, more 670 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:04,400 aware of the big things going on around you because you have put 671 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,100 first things first, so check your passions. 672 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:12,600 Jesus teaching is basically that if you treasure the kingdom, you 673 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,600 won't fear the world and that's important if we believe that the 674 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,800 kingdom is fine or if that this world is final and ultimate and 675 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,400 we will be afraid of everybody running around telling us that 676 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,500 things are bad, but if we begin to believe it, there is a Jesus, 677 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:29,300 whose kingdom has come. And it's here and it is present 678 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,100 for us. We don't have to be afraid. 679 00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:32,400 Because what are they going to do to me? 680 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:35,000 Oh, the economy is terrible. Yeah, we're going to have to 681 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,600 tighten up, and we're going to have to cut back. 682 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,000 But you know what? All that stuff that we cut back 683 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,500 on, doesn't matter that much. Anyway, because I have my family 684 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:46,500 and I have friends, and I had Jesus, and I have the Kingdom of 685 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:47,900 Heaven. I have every opportunity to do 686 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:52,500 every good thing. So how do we build a worry-free 687 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:53,500 life? Okay, I'm going to read a 688 00:35:53,508 --> 00:35:55,300 passage. I want you if you can, if you're 689 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:57,300 up for it, I want you to memorize this passage. 690 00:35:57,300 --> 00:35:59,800 Okay. Philippians chapter 4, verse 6. 691 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:04,600 And 7 says this do not Anxious about anything. 692 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,700 Now, here's a good meditation for you. 693 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:14,600 What does anything cover? Everything. 694 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:20,500 Don't worry about anything but in every situation. 695 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:24,800 So now again another meditation what situations are excluded 696 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:30,900 from every situation, none? Do not be anxious about 697 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:34,000 anything. But in every situation by 698 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,900 prayer, and petition with Thanksgiving, present, your 699 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:40,700 requests to God and the peace of God, which transcends all 700 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:44,000 understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ 701 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,400 Jesus. The command of Jesus through 702 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,800 love is to not be afraid and there's no guilt. 703 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,300 And there is no shame with this. If you are here today and you 704 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:56,200 are locked up in fear and anxiety. 705 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,100 I want you to go. I don't want you to feel guilt 706 00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:00,600 or shame or condemnation. I want you to feel free, and I 707 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,000 want you to know that just indicates I hate that there's a 708 00:37:03,008 --> 00:37:05,600 perspective problem you believe that all of these things down 709 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,100 here are final and ultimate and that they're going to kill you 710 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,000 forever and the truth is that's not case. 711 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,700 Now listen, does that mean that you don't get sad? 712 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:15,100 No it doesn't mean that doesn't mean that we don't greed no we 713 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,500 grieve sincerely and honestly and authentically the 714 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:21,500 differences. We don't grieve as those who 715 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:26,500 don't have hope We grieve the loss of our loved ones and we 716 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:30,400 hope to be restored to them again because we believe in 717 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:31,900 eternity. So how do we do that? 718 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:34,200 The first thing you have to do is you have to confront your 719 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,800 fearful thoughts. Jesus God our father, he 720 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,800 listening God, our Father is omniscient. 721 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,200 Do you know what omniscient means? 722 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,400 Omniscient means that God knows everything. 723 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,400 You know why that's important because God will never whisper 724 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:49,900 in your ear. Are you listening? 725 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,800 What if, what if everything goes wrong? 726 00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:58,100 What if they get mad at you? What if you don't have enough, 727 00:37:58,100 --> 00:37:59,800 that's what anxiety sounds like, right. 728 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,900 What if what, if, what if Jesus never has to ask? 729 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:03,700 What if he's certainly not asking you? 730 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:07,100 What if do you think? Gonna be okay. 731 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:08,800 Yes, Jesus. It's gonna be fine. 732 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,500 Take a Xanax, right? Nope. 733 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,900 Not in this world, right? Not in any world. 734 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,200 Confront your feel for thoughts when that thought goes in. 735 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,500 What if yeah? What if God isn't on the throne 736 00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:21,700 of God isn't on the throne? That I've got a lot to fear 737 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:23,800 worry about. No, he's still there. 738 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,600 Shut up. What if you confront your 739 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,700 doubts, the way you confront your faith? 740 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,400 What if you believe your faith? The way that you believe your 741 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,600 doubts, confront your fearful thoughts and go, God is in 742 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,600 control and that's the solution, s, develop your private world. 743 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:41,400 You got to spend time with Jesus, you got to know him, you 744 00:38:41,408 --> 00:38:44,100 got to listen to him, you got to be in the word change. 745 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,000 Your listening habits, listen to Christian music. 746 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,300 Listen, I don't like it. I don't think it's good that I 747 00:38:48,308 --> 00:38:54,600 need it. I'd love to tell you otherwise 748 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,800 listen sometimes I have to do things I don't want to do that 749 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,000 are good for me broccoli and contemporary Christian music. 750 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,100 They both serve a role. They both it's worth it right? 751 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:09,200 Develop your private world. You need to have a place. 752 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,500 Is it getting away from me a little bit? 753 00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:13,400 Right? You need to have a place in your 754 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,000 heart where only Jesus lived so he can whisper to you. 755 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,100 It's gonna be okay. I haven't abandoned you. 756 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,900 I have Betrayed you, I'm not letting you go and third use 757 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:27,100 your stuff as a tool. I mean, give, I mean, give 758 00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:29,400 radically and this is our example. 759 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,500 The Lord Jesus on the night. He was betrayed, he took bread. 760 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,900 And when he had given thanks, he broke it. 761 00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:41,800 And he said, this is my body, which is for you. 762 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,300 See, we give because Jesus gave first. 763 00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:50,900 We were separate and broken and hurting and lost and Jesus came 764 00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:54,700 and said, you can have mine. And you know what he said, 765 00:39:54,700 --> 00:40:01,100 afterwards, he said do this in remembrance of me, we Can give 766 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:04,900 because our God is generous to his very life. 767 00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:06,600 So Jesus, we thank you for this bread. 768 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,300 We thank you for your body, which is for us. 769 00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:13,100 This is the kingdom. This is the kingdom. 770 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:18,400 You were broken for me. And Jesus, the only reason I'm 771 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,400 not broken for you is because I'm afraid. 772 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,600 I'm afraid that I'm going to love the wrong person. 773 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,600 The wrong way. I'm afraid that I'm going to run 774 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:26,300 out. I'm going to fray. 775 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:27,400 The people are going to laugh at me. 776 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,400 They're going to not like me and Jesus. 777 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,500 When I look at your example in the scripture, I see all of that 778 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,900 happened to you. And you continued anyway. 779 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,200 So, we take this bread and we remember you as take the bread. 780 00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:46,600 And the same way after supper, he took the cup and he said this 781 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,300 cup is the New Covenant in my blood do this as often as you 782 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:52,800 drink it. In remembrance of Me, Jesus, we 783 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:57,200 remember this cup, this Covenant, this agreement, this 784 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:01,100 bond that you made with us the old Covenant, was God in a 785 00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:05,000 sanctuary in a place and the people had to come to him, and 786 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,600 they had to do the work and they had to sacrifice and do the 787 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,300 offering they had to get blood on their hands. 788 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:12,800 And Jesus says, in the New Covenant, God comes to us. 789 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,100 And he does all the work to invite us into his kingdom. 790 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:22,400 So Jesus may this cup be a reminder of your unbelievable. 791 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,000 Love for us. We take this cup in remembrance 792 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:27,800 of you. It's take the cup. 793 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:33,000 Paul said for, as often as you eat this bread and drink this 794 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000 cup you proclaim, the Lord's death until he comes. 795 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,900 Jesus you died, so that we wouldn't have to we're gonna die 796 00:41:41,900 --> 00:41:44,300 physically the mortality rate continues to hover it around a 797 00:41:44,308 --> 00:41:48,100 hundred percent for each of us Lord, but I believe that as soon 798 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,700 as our eyes closed and this physical Earthly one, as soon as 799 00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:54,800 that happens like a blink, we open our eyes and we are in the 800 00:41:54,800 --> 00:42:01,400 presence of you. And there we will have our hope 801 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,100 delivered. We will see the abundance that 802 00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:07,800 you talked about. We will see you as you are. 803 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,800 We will worship you. As you are. 804 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,900 We will have the purpose, you created us for so Jesus, let us 805 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:20,700 live that now. And may we father, live free of 806 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:25,900 fear and worry, we love you. Jesus, we thank you, we worship 807 00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:27,200 you. And we ask all of these things 808 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,000 in your name, and for your glory. 809 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:32,100 Amen. Thank you for joining us today. 810 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:35,300 River City Church is all about experiencing and expressing 811 00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:37,100 God's love in our lives and community. 812 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:40,700 And we hope that you've been able to experience that today as 813 00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:41,600 grateful. 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Don't forget to subscribe, and 825 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,800 don't forget to share this with your friends. 826 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,100 Thanks so much for listening, may the Lord bless. 827 00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:19,500 And keep you in all Grace and peace.