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Welcome To The River. 
City Church podcast and a 

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message by our lead. 
Pastor Jason Powers our prayer 

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is that this message would 
Inspire and encourage you, build

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your faith. 
And point you to the 

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life-changing love of Jesus, may
you enjoy the goodness of God as

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you follow him today. 
Hi, everybody. 

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That was good. 
She trained you. 

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All right, she shamed y'all into
responding, that's good. 

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We're not above that. 
Hey listen, I'm glad you're here

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today. 
You get to sermons today. 

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One short. 
I'm not your like I know how 

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your sermons go. 
We'll be here forever, we're 

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going to talk when you start a 
new series called Great 

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Expectations, but before we do 
that, I want to talk about as 

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very what's going on at Asbury, 
College in Kentucky. 

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Some of you have heard of it, 
some of you haven't and I've 

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kind of address both. 
If you haven't heard as Berry 

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College in Kentucky is 
undergoing something of some 

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people, call it a Revival. 
So, on Wednesdays, they have 

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chaplain, it is a United 
Methodist College. 

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Which some of you in here? 
I've woo. 

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And some of you here like mmmm, 
right? 

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And whatever you do with that, 
you got to do with it, right? 

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And so what happened is, they 
have chapels on Wednesday and so

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last Wednesday, they had chapel 
and a guy got up and he started 

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talking about what he said was 
this is such a great message. 

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He says, listen if you want to 
be an expresser of God's love, 

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right? 
Like any of you want to just 

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love go out and love which is 
what you're supposed to do, 

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right? 
Like that's the thing they'll 

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know you are my disciples by 
love. 

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He says if you're going To do 
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You have to be filled up with 
love if you want to be able to 

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give love out. 
So he said my prayer for us, 

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he's talking to this college 
chapter, I said my prayer for us

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is that you would just sit in 
the love of God and that you 

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would just experienced God's 
love for yourself. 

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That was on Wednesday and right 
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they started worshipping as they
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haven't stopped. 
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And so the idea is what do we do
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What does Violence. 
I mean you call it Revival. 

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You can call it Awakening there 
have been periods throughout 

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time a couple things just that I
see on this. 

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I'm just going to touch on these
real quick and then we'll get to

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kind of message, right? 
Number one, cynicism is cheap 

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easy and contributes. 
Nothing to culture. 

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It's just simple. 
I just know. 

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Like, I I I I have it. 
Like, I battle with that myself,

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right? 
Skepticism may be okay. 

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If you step back and just go, 
hey, like, I want to look at and

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I just want to see. 
But cynicism says that, That 

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thing never does happen, and 
when it does, it's a joke. 

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Haha, is simple. 
Here's what I see, when I look 

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at the Awakening in, at Asbury. 
Number one, the leader seems to 

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be a first century Jewish 
Carpenter named Jesus because 

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there doesn't seem to be any 
leader, person, group student 

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standing up and leading. 
This this seems to be organic, 

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it seems to have just risen up. 
And to be continuing, they're 

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worshiping, they have new bands 
come in all of this. 

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So it doesn't seem to be about 
any one person hears, the most 

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striking thing for me, when I 
look at, when I look at the 

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videos and I see all of this is,
it seems to be just college kids

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worshiping which a couple 
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The first thing is that means 
that this expression, it least 

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is exceedingly biblical because 
what it looks like and this is 

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going to resonate for us where 
we have been studying for this, 

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are you You ready? 
Because what it looks like and 

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what 1st Corinthians, 14 talks 
about and worship is order. 

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We know about order women 
talking about order were lured. 

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You set us up for this right 
there standing there and they're

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worshiping and they're raising 
their hands and they're coming 

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in, they're going but it's not 
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It is ordered which reminds us 
very much of our God. 

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Now here's the other thing and I
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I believe there's this sense of 
sitting and being filled in love

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what I do. 
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believe that it's real. 
I believe that this is a unique 

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expression. 
I've got simply because it 

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doesn't happen all the time, 
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It doesn't have anywhere. 
Here's the deal. 

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The goal of Revival is not 
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something. 
The goal of Revival is to remind

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us and convince us and give us 
the basis of faith in God's love

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so that we can then go out and 
love the world. 

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My prayer is not that all of us 
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Kentucky so that we can see what
Revival looks like. 

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My prayer is that all of us 
would pray that what happens in 

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Kentucky will happen here? 
Because here's my take as a 

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pastor, I want every single 
thing that God has for us, even,

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if are you ready? 
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if I can't control it, even if 
it challenges and stretches my 

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Faith, whatever that looks like.
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biggest stretch of my faith is 
in this last thing, I'm going to

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say about this for right now. 
I'd love to talk to you 

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afterwards if you want, but I 
want to talk about this. 

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You know what? 
The greatest excitement and step

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of and challenged. 
My faith is, are you listening? 

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It's student-led. 
And here's what that means for 

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us. 
Cranky Gen-X Boomer. 

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All that I listen, I say this 
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they're not waiting and asking 
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the Lord. 
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the young people get off our 
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something, very special seems to
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My hope is that we old heads and
I include myself in this would 

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nuzzle up to a 20 year old, and 
listen to them, talk about God, 

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and find out, what's going on 
and listen to what they hunger 

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for and I throw stuff and listen
that we can tell. 

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Mike, we've got things to offer,
they need to grow and I'm not 

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just talking about that all day,
but And this is an opportunity. 

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It is in front of us at his 
front and center in our 

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Consciousness. 
I think that we have an 

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opportunity to go. 
Lord, can you do something here 

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that challenges us and stretches
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We pray with me for this Lord. 
I Thank you for what seems to 

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happen be happening in Kentucky.
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to believe that you can pour 
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And this place that your spirit 
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When we, it seems to look like 
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Father. 
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There are people from all over 
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And so Jesus, my prayer is that,
that would come here, that we 

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would sit in your love that we 
would understand your goodness 

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and your grace not just 
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experientially that we would 
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your love and then express it. 
I thank you, Father, we know 

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that your Sovereign and you're 
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And so we ask that you would do 
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heart, we asked Jesus with 
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name and for your glory. 
Amen, the last thing. 

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If you don't know about Asbury, 
if you're on social media and 

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you don't know about as Mary, 
you got to check your algorithm 

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bro because you need to mix some
Jesus in because it's 

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everywhere. 
So I'll just leave that for you 

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to do and some of you are like 
have to go now and So we last 

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the last several weeks, we 
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the blueprint, God's blueprint 
for creation and how God put 

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life in order and how he 
created, as a unique expression 

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of his love for mankind. 
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how mankind chose that they 
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created, they wanted to try it 
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And so we saw them walking out 
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week, abandoning their vocation 
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We spent a lot of Time, I talked
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unpacking and talking about this
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built for and it all comes back 
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We're told in the beginning, God
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word. 
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any of it was God, God always 
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your salvation, and your hope, 
and your Redemption, and your 

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restoration and all of that. 
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He always has the first word and
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then he created and he created a
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And he said he separated, he 
putting he says Let There Be 

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time and then let there be 
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ground and let all of the 
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Be filled and let the filled 
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And so he created creation and 
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told it he created Mankind and 
order is everything. 

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What he told mankind was, you 
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So, the order of creation is 
important, you have God, and you

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have Mankind and you have 
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And the order was God, Gives his
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mankind images. 
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world. 
How does he do that by planting 

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by expanding by multiplying God,
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and he planted mankind there. 
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it, that's how we image, God 
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We multiply what he started 
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Then in its orderly State as it 
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Earth reflects worship back to 
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Do you see the order God? 
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mankind. 
God and it's this never-ending 

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Loop always with God at first. 
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happens when Eve and Adam say, I
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the god part, which is what we 
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But I wonder if I skip, if I 
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what if I Take God out of the 
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What if I Take God out of the 
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What if I take Thank God out of 
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Then what's left? 
And that's the question for the 

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fall because we saw last week we
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mankind, but explain to them. 
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God at the helm where you would 
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What is good where you would 
defy decide for yourself, what's

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good and evil? 
He said, so let me just tell you

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what. 
That looks like. 

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It looks like your work will be 
fruitless. 

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You'll try before you adjust 
like Turn the soil and stuff 

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with pop-up, right plants and 
trees and all that. 

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But now he says thorns and 
thistles Eve, we saw how Eve was

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created uniquely Eve was created
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And what God Said is Eve without
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The relational part of you. 
It doesn't work. 

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It doesn't, it doesn't? 
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So the question for us as Adam 
and Eve walked out of the garden

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last week as where does that 
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Does the curse get the last 
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And we feel like it does 
sometimes because if you ever 

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felt like your job is fruitless,
like you go and you're like is 

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all thorns and thistles today, 
boy. 

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Like I just go and I punched a 
clock and I'll come home and 

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I'll sleep and it'll be fine. 
But then tomorrow I get to stand

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up and do it all over again. 
And you have you ever wondered? 

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Is that what my life is now? 
That's a reflection of the Fall.

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That's how it was. 
How about your relationships? 

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You ever? 
Just feel like you're never 

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going to be truly known. 
You're never going to truly love

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the way that it's supposed to 
be. 

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Do all of your Relationships 
feel like hard work. 

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Like striving like 
misunderstanding like 

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miscommunication. 
Do you find yourself on a 

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constant circle of blaming in 
hiding and dodging and blaming? 

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This is all pictures of the fall
and so last week we left with 

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bad news but I want to tell you 
there's really good news on the 

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horizon. 
It's coming in several weeks, 

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it's going to be on April 9th, 
we're going to get there. 

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But before that, I just want to 
give you a precursor right? 

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Like because what happened last 
week, With a fall was our 

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relationship. 
God was broken, right? 

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And so here's the good news. 
Are you ready? 

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Because if you walked out last 
week and you're just kind of 

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crazy, here's the good news, 
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week was we are badly broken. 
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That's the rest of the story. 
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story, whether you tell the 
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thing. 
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confession, several people last 
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because I wanted us to feel it 
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to get away from the broken. 
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that we eat apples instead of 
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today that the story that we can
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My Hope Is that you'll see some 
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because we have spent for the 
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Genesis. 
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to two passages one in the Book 
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Matthew. 
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hope that you do, you can turn 
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to You chapter 16. 
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many thousands of years from 
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show up, we are in first century
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kind of Syria. 
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today and there's a Jewish 
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father was called Joseph. 
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showing up on the scene and he's
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about the kingdom. 
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of God. 
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something that we kind of talked
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and he gave them power and 
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cure disease. 
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all of creation. 
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them their Authority back here. 
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them verse 2 and he sent them 
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God and to heal, and he said to 
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journey. 
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You know what he's doing? 
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multiply Fly. 
Have you heard that before we're

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he planted them. 
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multiply expand the garden, take
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He says and The Obedience will 
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They were naked. 
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they were unashamed. 
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Because they trusted God, 
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be good. 
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that they had to worry about was
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The god planted before them. 
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Says, don't take anything. 
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bread or money and don't have 
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their provision. 
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Jesus doesn't just, and just 
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You don't say, hey, the kingdom 
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What he said is, if you're going
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he's talking to here, if you're 
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can't just think about the 
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You have to live in the Kingdom.
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understanding, it's not just 
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practical reality. 
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house you enter stay there and 
from there depart and wherever 

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they do not receive you. 
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off the dust from your feet as a
testimony against them, and they

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departed and went through the 
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and healing everywhere. 
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followers, a definition of a 
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right? 
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because his disciples they left,
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came back in there like Jesus 
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happened and she's like, oh, 
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And they said demons, fled from 
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that you said would happen 
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gonna happen, and he just 
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Listen, and verse 10 on the 
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all that they had done and he 
took them in withdrew apart to a

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town called bethsaida. 
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there because I often in my 
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awesome, you need help. 
Help learning how to build a 

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church because every time good 
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You leave town. 
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You're always like, hey, hey, we
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We did all the stuff. 
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somewhere else. 
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you were trying to build a 
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here. 
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see, Jesus says, it's not just 
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It's not just about building a 
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Not just about having everybody 
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It's not just about everybody. 
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message and saying, I heard 
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That's not what it's about, 
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and he welcomed them and spoke 
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So, this is important, right? 
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disciples, what Jesus and his 
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Mark, Luke and John is living 
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called them all of the things, 
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Jesus gets in a boat. 
Tell them to put their Their 

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That's the kingdom. 
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mother-in-law and her fever 
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That's the kingdom when he heals
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the kingdom and he points to it.
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verse 12. 
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Wait, no and the twelve came and
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and go into the surrounding 
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lodging and get Provisions for. 
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Listen, what is desolate place? 
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Genesis 2 when God was talking 
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Before he placed them in? 
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wilderness. 
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before God created the garden, 
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where he hadn't yet done it, it 
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and it, right? 
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good creation, verse 13. 
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them something to eat. 
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than Five Loaves and two fish, 
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food for all of these people. 
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realities in a world ordered 
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Listen, everywhere you go, every
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encounter is formed and shaped 
by the Fall, by those principles

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that were outlined in Genesis 
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Work is fruitless your 
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and difficult and hard and not 
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what they were supposed to be. 
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intimate, right? 
And we fight for power and we 

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fight for control. 
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ourselves and right into the 
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Jesus comes not just Talking 
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demonstrating a kingdom. 
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So he gives us. 
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there's thoroughly thoroughly 
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The fall looks like limitations,
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so what does Jesus do? 
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them. 
There's not enough food. 

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Jesus, Five Loaves to fish. 
That's all Jesus is. 

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Like, tell everyone to sit down.
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So he prays and Jesus prays. 
This ridiculous prayer. 

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Thank you for your abundance, 
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It'd be like if I was here and 
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I'm going to share it with all 
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Lord, thank you for this thy 
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Doesn't make any sense and then 
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I wonder what it looked like, 
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They all ate and we're 
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And what was left over was 
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broken peep of pieces. 
So, what we find is even in a 

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world ordered around the fall 
when Jesus shows up and starts 

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announcing the kingdom and 
starts talking about the kingdom

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and starts getting involved. 
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Everything begins to look 
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Just like when he got started, 
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So if this Kingdom, right? 
Jesus came to enact a kingdom. 

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If this Kingdom enacted by 
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If it reflects the Garden of 
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And Jesus came and said, hey 
repent because the kingdom 

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Kingdoms here, if it looks like 
that, the question is, why is it

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so hard? 
Your felt like that. 

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It's just really hard to follow 
Jesus. 

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I think it's really hard to do 
all the things I have. 

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I'll never forget when I was a 
youth. 

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Pastor. 
I had a young man, his name was 

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Steven, and his trusted trouble,
man. 

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It came from a difficult, 
family, and a difficult stuff. 

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Whatever, he came to me at this 
Youth Event, one time and he has

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man, this Jesus thing is just 
too hard and he had sadness. 

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I think kind of, saw his face 
on, try to talking about go, no 

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matter. 
Man, you kind of never I never 

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saw him again. 
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That's my question. 
Like we tried this thing and we 

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go and it's difficult and it's 
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But why is it hard? 
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Book of Matthew. 
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chapter 16, but I just while 
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want to stop and I want him real
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Just ask this question. 
What if the answer that 

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question, right? 
Like, why is it so hard if Jesus

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came to an active Kingdom? 
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What if the answer to that 
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simple. 
I mean, staggering I'm going to 

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tell you what it is and you're 
going to go there must be more 

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to it. 
In fact, most of us probably me 

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include we're going to walk out 
and try a whole bunch of other 

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different things and and kind of
end up fruitless and 

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frustrating. 
So the question is, what if the 

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solution was just so easy that 
literally any person could do it

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and most people don't The 
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you be and the end of today, 
where will you be right? 

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So we're now in Matthew chapter 
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everything that we just read in.
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Matthew. 
The Book of Matthew Mark, Luke 

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and John, it's basically the 
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It's the story of Jesus is life,
told from a different 

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perspective. 
So they've got lots of overlap 

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on the stories, they tell. 
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Jesus, feeding the 5,000 to 
decide Apples and they get away.

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Now, we're in verse 16 and we go
to verse 13. 

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Now, in Jesus came to the 
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this was unusual, they walked 
around. 

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00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,100
He was an itinerant preacher. 
So they feed the 5,000, they 

451
00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:29,000
have their thing, and he gets 
up, and he walks around, and 

452
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,700
they go to this place called 
caesarea Philippi says area. 

453
00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:36,000
After Caesar Philip I was 
herod's nephew. 

454
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,800
He was absolutely sucking up to 
to the Caesar. 

455
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,200
So he named a town after Caesar 
and himself but it's a 

456
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,100
thoroughly Gentile city, right? 
Lots going on in. 

457
00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:48,200
Verse 13. 
Jesus comes to the district of 

458
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,400
caesarea Philippi. 
And he asks his disciples, who 

459
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,100
do people say that? 
The son of man is son of, man, 

460
00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:58,000
he's talking about himself. 
It is a reference to the Book of

461
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,400
Daniel, where it talks about the
Messiah, T of the Messiah, one 

462
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,600
would come like a son of man, 
right? 

463
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,800
So he's basically saying hey who
do people think that I am and 

464
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,600
they his disciples said some say
that you're John the Baptist and

465
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,600
others say that you're Elijah 
and others say Jeremiah or one 

466
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,200
of the prophets. 
Now what's interesting about 

467
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,600
that is all of those were 
Prophets different prophets, 

468
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,100
Jeremiah was called the weeping 
prophet Jeremiah prophesied. 

469
00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:25,800
That Jerusalem would fall that 
it would be raised and leveled 

470
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,200
and down. 
And so, if you read the book of 

471
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,000
Lamentations lamentation was the
book written by Jeremiah the 

472
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,500
prophet about the destruction of
Jerusalem, lots of Tears, lots 

473
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:38,200
of Sorrow, loss of sadness, the 
Prophet Elijah, you read about 

474
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,300
in The Book of 1st Kings known 
for miracles. 

475
00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:44,100
He called fire from heaven. 
That's pretty awesome, right? 

476
00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:47,300
Like, if people are saying 
you're like Elijah, That's you 

477
00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:49,100
should be stoked about that, 
right? 

478
00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:52,200
John, the Baptist was the most 
recent prophet in Israel's 

479
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,500
history and the thing about 
John, the Baptist, John the 

480
00:24:54,508 --> 00:24:56,400
Baptist spoke truth to power, 
right? 

481
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,300
John, the Baptist was like, fake
news, that's not. 

482
00:24:58,300 --> 00:24:59,500
It tried Pharisees, you're 
wrong. 

483
00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,400
It's that easy tour stuff up, 
right? 

484
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,400
And so everybody's got an 
opinion about Jesus, Jesus, 

485
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,900
like, hey, who did I say? 
I'm well, they all think you're 

486
00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:08,100
a profit, no matter how good a 
profit. 

487
00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:10,600
They think you are. 
The thing about being a prophet 

488
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,800
is a prophet is not God, which 
means I can sit there and go 

489
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,100
tell me what you think profit. 
And that's very interesting, but

490
00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:22,900
I reject what you saying? 
When Jesus asked the question, 

491
00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:24,300
who do people say that I am the 
answer? 

492
00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:25,600
Come back. 
Oh, they all say that your 

493
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,800
profited doesn't mean that Jesus
isn't important. 

494
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,100
It doesn't mean that Jesus isn't
respected because he absolutely 

495
00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:34,200
is important. 
He absolutely is respected 

496
00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,300
anybody. 
Who thinks Jesus is our Prophet,

497
00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:38,900
they probably really think he's 
a neat guy. 

498
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,700
They just don't think they have 
to obey him. 

499
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,700
I feel like many of us feel the 
same way about Jesus today. 

500
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,300
He's a neat guy. 
He's a good profit, probably a 

501
00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:53,400
moral teacher had a lot of Good 
stuff to say, but he doesn't 

502
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:59,200
give us commands for our life. 
So he asks who do people say 

503
00:25:59,200 --> 00:25:59,900
that him? 
And he goes on. 

504
00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:03,100
And this is a great question. 
Verse 15, he said to them to his

505
00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:07,000
disciples but who do you say 
that I am? 

506
00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:09,800
And this question is wrapped up,
this goes back to our question 

507
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,400
last week. 
Do you remember the question 

508
00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:13,700
about Adam and Eve, right? 
It says, you'll be able to be 

509
00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:15,700
like God. 
And what we saw that gets 

510
00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:21,100
wrapped up in that is who gets 
to Define what good is. 

511
00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:24,900
See, the definition of what is 
good. 

512
00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:29,900
All it's an authority question 
and always ultimately lands in 

513
00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:34,900
God's lap fully and finally God 
as the creator of all things is 

514
00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:37,800
the one who gets to say and 
decide what good is. 

515
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,800
So this is what Jesus is asking.
He's asking us to his disciples,

516
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:42,900
who do you say that? 
I am, right? 

517
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:45,300
And so, they go on and Peter has
a moment, right? 

518
00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,800
Like, hey, truly, this has got 
to be one of Peter like early 

519
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,200
Peter gets it, Simon Peter 
replied. 

520
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,300
You are the Christ. 
The son of the Living, God, that

521
00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:59,900
word Christ Christos in Greek, 
is the Hebrew word Messiah, and 

522
00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:02,500
it means anointed. 
It means king it means chosen. 

523
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,500
It means set apart. 
And so Peter says, Jesus, you're

524
00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:07,600
no, you're no profit. 
I mean, you are a prophet. 

525
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,600
But more than that, your God, we
see you, Jesus, we've known that

526
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,700
your God. 
And so think of all that gets 

527
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,800
wrapped up in that we know who 
God is, and notice what Jesus 

528
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000
says, Verse 17 and Jesus 
answered and blessed. 

529
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000
Are you Simon son of John for 
flesh? 

530
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,600
And blood has not revealed this 
to you, but my father who is in 

531
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,100
heaven? 
Do you remember in John chapter 

532
00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:31,800
3 when Jesus was talking to 
Nicodemus? 

533
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,600
And he said, you can't even see 
the kingdom, unless you're born 

534
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,000
again. 
This wasn't something that John 

535
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,600
that, that Peter just deduced. 
What we're told is that God 

536
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,200
showed Peter God brought this 
God made this clear to Peter who

537
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,500
he was. 
He opened his eyes to see in 

538
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,100
verse 19. 
And I tell you that you are 

539
00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:52,500
Peter and on this rock, I will 
build my church. 

540
00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,500
There's some wordplay going on 
there and I want to talk about 

541
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,900
too much, but the Greek word for
peter is Petrus, right? 

542
00:27:57,900 --> 00:28:01,900
And the greed were Greek word 
for rock is Petra, right? 

543
00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:04,400
And so that right, the good, we 
got it right there like that. 

544
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,000
So they go there. 
So what happened is right? 

545
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,600
He's given Simon and nickname. 
He's like, hey, you're not Simon

546
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,000
anymore. 
Your your Rocky when call you 

547
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,200
Rocky because you're tough, 
because you get it because 

548
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,400
you're good, you got this, 
right? 

549
00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:18,900
And then he looks at him and 
goes and Peter and on this rock 

550
00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:21,900
Peter, I'm going to build my 
church and had all these kind of

551
00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:23,900
meetings, right? 
Peter would go on to be a leader

552
00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:25,500
in the end, kind of in the first
church. 

553
00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:27,300
But really the idea is that 
confession. 

554
00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:31,300
Listen, the Church of Jesus is 
going to be built on the 

555
00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:33,900
confession. 
That Jesus isn't just a prophet.

556
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,700
Jesus isn't a guy who had good 
stuff to say, Jesus is the son 

557
00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:39,900
of God. 
He is the Eternal creator of all

558
00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:41,200
things. 
He is the one to whom. 

559
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,700
And for whom, and through whom 
all things were created. 

560
00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:45,700
He is the one that ultimately in
eternity. 

561
00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:49,200
All things will be restored to 
in return to, he is the one And 

562
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,300
the question for you and for me 
today, is who do you say he is? 

563
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,800
Because the world is full of 
people, looking for a profit, 

564
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,100
someone's a someone, they can 
get some good information and 

565
00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:01,400
some good idea. 
But what we don't have is 

566
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,500
someone who has the privilege 
and the right to tell us what we

567
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:08,100
are and who we are. 
And that is the only place. 

568
00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:10,400
Now, let me just real quick. 
How do you answer that? 

569
00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:11,900
Who do you say that? 
He is. 

570
00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:15,500
Now, please don't say words 
because it's not just words, 

571
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:17,800
it's just like this this thing 
going on in Asbury. 

572
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,000
Like right now, I wanted to go 
worship get full. 

573
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,100
But you know what? 
I want to see in Kentucky. 

574
00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:24,900
You know what? 
I want to see when Bible comes 

575
00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:28,100
here, I want to see no more 
foster kids because the church 

576
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:29,700
stands up and goes will take 
them all. 

577
00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:32,300
I want to see the church stand 
up and go there won't be any 

578
00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:33,700
hungry. 
People as much as it depends on 

579
00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:36,100
us because we'll feed them all. 
Oh, it's costly. 

580
00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:38,700
Oh, you, you need me to give you
need me to give money to fairly.

581
00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:39,600
Sure. 
I'll do it. 

582
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,100
Will do. 
What is what does it take? 

583
00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:41,700
What is it? 
One? 

584
00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:45,000
See when God is God, when he is 
the king, and when we pray, like

585
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,300
he praised Your Kingdom. 
Come On Earth as it is in 

586
00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:50,400
heaven. 
Now, we start to go to like book

587
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,500
of Acts, right? 
Where we see there were no needy

588
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:54,600
people among them. 
Well, how do you I think that 

589
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,800
happened because the church 
stood up and so don't answer 

590
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,500
that but considerate and 
contemplate it and think about 

591
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:07,800
it because the only place that 
the kingdom can start in, you is

592
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,200
with a confession like that. 
You are the Christ, the son of 

593
00:30:10,208 --> 00:30:13,400
the Living God but confession 
isn't enough. 

594
00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,700
Peter proves that are you ready?
What did he just tell? 

595
00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:20,500
Jesus, answer back. 
What did he just tell? 

596
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,300
You're the Christ. 
You're the, you're the king, 

597
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:24,800
you're the boss. 
Okay. 

598
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,100
Verse 24, then Jesus told the 
disciples. 

599
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:30,100
No, that's not it. 
Verse 21. 

600
00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:31,500
Okay. 
So, Peter just made the 

601
00:30:31,508 --> 00:30:33,200
confession for 21 from that time
on. 

602
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,400
Jesus began to show his 
disciples that he must go to 

603
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,500
Jerusalem and suffer, many 
things from the elders and the 

604
00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:41,600
chief priests and scribes and be
killed and on the third day, be 

605
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,600
raised. 
So you see Jesus setting them up

606
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:44,900
a little bit. 
Hey, who do you think? 

607
00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:47,600
I You're the king. 
That's right on the king. 

608
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,400
And guess what? 
All these losers. 

609
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,900
They're going to kill me. 
Well, geez, that's a terrible 

610
00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:56,900
Kingdom. 
What kind of kingdom is it? 

611
00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:59,600
Where you can just kill the king
whenever you want? 

612
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,400
And now, Peters just had his 
moment, right? 

613
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,700
Peter just saw it. 
He was just celebrate, right? 

614
00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:07,000
He just ignores God Jesus. 
You are the king, right? 

615
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,500
And verse 22. 
And Peter took Jesus aside and 

616
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:14,300
began to rebuke him saying, far 
be it from you, Lord, this shall

617
00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:17,400
never happen to you real quick. 
Who do you think Peter thought 

618
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,000
was God? 
You're the King Jesus but I'm 

619
00:31:22,008 --> 00:31:25,900
going to tell you what to do. 
See, Peter had good information,

620
00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:28,800
he had good theology, had good 
information but it hadn't gone 

621
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:35,000
down into his heart yet, right? 
See, we have the same problem, 

622
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,500
often we have this intellectual 
incompatibility with Jesus, with

623
00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:43,200
King, with authority, with Rule 
and with suffering. 

624
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,000
And the question is, couldn't 
Jesus. 

625
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,700
Just stop the suffering? 
Couldn't he just make it stop? 

626
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:50,700
Yeah, he could have but he 
didn't. 

627
00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:52,600
Why good. 
I'm going to show you how y'all 

628
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,100
ask great questions. 
I'm so proud of you are 

629
00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:56,700
wonderful. 
I want to read Hebrews chapter 

630
00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:58,600
5, verse 7 and the days of his 
flesh. 

631
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,700
Jesus offered up prayers and 
supplications with loud cries 

632
00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:05,800
and tears to his He was able to 
save him from death and he was 

633
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,800
heard because of his reverence, 
right? 

634
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,900
And he was just talking about 
the Garden of Gethsemane. 

635
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:12,000
You've heard about this, right? 
Jesus goes, and he lays down. 

636
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,500
And what does he pray? 
He says, if it's possible let 

637
00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,500
this cup pass from me. 
Jesus was like hey let's do a 

638
00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,800
different way. 
Hey I don't I don't want to I 

639
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:27,200
don't want to do the cross. 
Jesus Christ himself prayed and 

640
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,900
asked that God would deliver him
from suffering. 

641
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,400
So let me ask is that okay? 
Okay, for you to pray to be 

642
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,000
delivered from suffering. 
You're like, tell me the answer,

643
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:41,800
anybody want to bet you bet your
boots? 

644
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,700
You bet your boots, you pray for
it Lord, if it's possible, let 

645
00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:48,700
this cup pass from me. 
But you remember what father 

646
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:53,400
said to Jesus? 
I can't, I can't do. 

647
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:54,900
You know why? 
Because here's the deal. 

648
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,500
Some of you are facing suffering
right now, some of you are 

649
00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:02,100
facing the unknown. 
Some of you are facing pain and 

650
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:07,500
fear, and grief, and sorrow, and
emptiness and loss, and you're 

651
00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:09,600
crying out. 
Oh God my God. 

652
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,700
Why have you forsaken me? 
Where are you? 

653
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:15,600
And I want you to know, in that 
moment you are exactly where 

654
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:21,900
Jesus was If we never pray that 
prayer, if we never get honest 

655
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:24,200
about that feeling we can never 
have a sense. 

656
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,500
Right? 
Because what's this, all about? 

657
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,700
It goes on, although he was a 
son, he learned obedience 

658
00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,400
through what he suffered see, 
suffering has an important part,

659
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,300
right? 
Because here's the part. 

660
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,600
What happens when most of us 
suffer, we turn around and go 

661
00:33:38,608 --> 00:33:42,800
the other way, don't we we quit 
as soon as Adam and Eve figured 

662
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,100
out that there might be 
something that they didn't know 

663
00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:46,800
that they didn't have absolutely
everything. 

664
00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:48,600
What do they do? 
Did they quit the game? 

665
00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:51,500
They backed out of the Covenant,
did their own thing figured out 

666
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:55,300
they were going to do but we're 
find is Jesus not only enters 

667
00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:58,200
into some, he asks to be 
delivered from suffering but 

668
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,400
when God says no he just keeps 
going and being made perfect. 

669
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,300
He became the source of Eternal 
salvation to all who will obey 

670
00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:07,700
him being designated by God. 
A high priest. 

671
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:11,600
After the order of Melchizedek, 
oh my gosh, Jesus moves toward 

672
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,000
suffering. 
And let me tell you what 

673
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,100
happens. 
Are you listening? 

674
00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:20,000
Good. 
It's better. 

675
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,600
We hide from suffering because 
we just, oh my gosh. 

676
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:25,699
I can't that will possibly do 
it. 

677
00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:27,699
But here's what Jesus did. 
Jesus said, okay? 

678
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,500
And he went through it and was 
it hard? 

679
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:34,500
It was death literal, physical 
death murder, they whip him with

680
00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:37,900
a whip until the flesh came off 
of his back, then they nailed 

681
00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:40,300
him to would and they held him 
up. 

682
00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:43,699
So he died by asphyxiation with 
his guts all over it. 

683
00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:47,000
Where it was the worst thing, 
the Romans could possibly 

684
00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,300
conceive of and he suffered and 
he went through it. 

685
00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:54,199
But guess what? 
But he's not suffering anymore, 

686
00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:58,100
you know who often does suffer 
us. 

687
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:01,000
Do you know why? 
Because we escaped at the first 

688
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:06,600
chance we get, And we just keep 
running back into it and we just

689
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,400
keep. 
And, but, what we're told, is 

690
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:12,200
that Jesus submitted to 
suffering, he learned obedience 

691
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,500
from what he was suffering and 
so resurrected he came back, 

692
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:18,000
right? 
So we find back to Matthew 

693
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,400
chapter 16 verse 22. 
I already read all of that. 

694
00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:27,000
I get behind me saying that, 
right? 

695
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,100
He said that verse 16 23 he 
turned Jesus turned to Peter and

696
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:31,700
said, get behind me. 
You're a hindrance. 

697
00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:34,100
You're not setting your mind on 
things of God, but on the things

698
00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:35,900
of man, right? 
And so Peters all about 

699
00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:38,900
self-preservation, which is what
we often are two, right where we

700
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:40,600
just go. 
Will God wouldn't call me to 

701
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,800
that God wouldn't want me to 
have pain? 

702
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:46,000
God wouldn't want me to suffer? 
God wouldn't want me to have 

703
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,200
anything like that. 
And what we have is Jesus Christ

704
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,400
as the answer to that, if God 
would not spare his son from 

705
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,000
that, why would he spare us? 
Us from that and you sit there 

706
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,000
and use. 
Go will God. 

707
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:05,100
So mean he's not He asks you to 
give up something limited and 

708
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:08,400
finite for something Eternal and
never-ending. 

709
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,100
Here's what I'm saying, I'm 
going to kind of give away the 

710
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:12,900
whole message and then we're 
going to unpack it whatever you 

711
00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:18,000
give up for Jesus up to, and 
including your very life, is 

712
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,300
nothing compared to what he 
gives you. 

713
00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:26,900
What Jesus has for you is better
and you go. 

714
00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:27,900
Oh man. 
But I'm sick. 

715
00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:30,000
And I'm kind of like it's better
the faith. 

716
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,500
If and listen, I don't promise 
that. 

717
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,000
Jesus heals, anybody? 
Jesus gets to decide because I'm

718
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,300
not God, but I know I have known
people who have found father in 

719
00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:41,900
pain and suffering and sickness 
and loneliness and fear and 

720
00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:45,200
their testimony, every time was 
it was worth it. 

721
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,100
There is a lady who is near and 
dear to my heart and she told me

722
00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:51,700
this is a quote. 
She said quote, I thought I knew

723
00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:55,200
how much Jesus loved me until I 
got cancer. 

724
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,700
That's a challenged, my faith 
challenges me, but that woman 

725
00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:05,300
knows the kingdom that know, 
that woman knows what it is to 

726
00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:07,600
meet Jesus in the midst of 
suffering. 

727
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,400
So, the Jesus of the truth about
Jesus hadn't made it to Peter's 

728
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,600
heart yet. 
So he stayed Fallen happens to 

729
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,600
us too and that brings us to now
something very special happens 

730
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,900
on Wednesday, to let me know 
what happens on Wednesday, Ash 

731
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:26,200
Wednesday, Ash, Wednesday is a 
Catholic thing. 

732
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,900
I'm not Catholic. 
Like, I don't do that the ashes 

733
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:31,000
on my head, right? 
But what I do want to do for the

734
00:37:31,008 --> 00:37:33,600
next several weeks leading up to
Easter is we're going to walk 

735
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:34,800
through this Lent. 
I meant to bring a book. 

736
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,500
I read a book. 
Several years ago to devotional 

737
00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:39,000
book, it's called lint for non 
lint. 

738
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
People not lent like your 
pocket, right? 

739
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Not lint, like what comes out of
your dryer? 

740
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,800
Lint, Ellie in t, right? 
It's a season of kind of 

741
00:37:45,808 --> 00:37:48,100
spiritual the if you want to get
the book again. 

742
00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:51,200
Lent for non lint people by a 
guy called John Swanson. 

743
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,000
It's pretty good. 
We're going to be in this season

744
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,100
up until Easter but here's the 
idea that I want to present You,

745
00:37:57,100 --> 00:38:00,400
right? 
It's this Lent confronts us with

746
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,300
death. 
To prepare us for Resurrection. 

747
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,600
See, we're in Easter season now,
and we love to talk about 

748
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,100
Easter. 
It's a big party, right? 

749
00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:14,400
We celebrate its streamers and 
eggs and bunnies and all of the 

750
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,600
good things, right? 
Right. 

751
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,700
But it's not active others, it's
about Jesus and it's about the 

752
00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:19,200
resurrection and it's about all 
of that. 

753
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,200
But here's the thing as much as 
we love the good news of Easter,

754
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,200
we don't get the good news, we 
don't understand the good news 

755
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,600
until we can understand. 
The bad news and this season of 

756
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,500
Lent is a season that a lot of 
American churches mrs. 

757
00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:35,700
Missed because we don't like to 
talk about suffering about pain.

758
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,400
And so what we're going to see 
is over the next several weeks, 

759
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:42,200
how those experiences the unique
expressions and manifestations 

760
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,600
of those experiences cause us 
and allow us to experience Jesus

761
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,200
more. 
And I believe that this is going

762
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,800
to be good news because as much 
as we run from it and as much as

763
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,800
we hide from it as well as much 
as we don't like to deal with 

764
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,800
it. 
There's very Jesus said blessed.

765
00:38:56,900 --> 00:39:00,200
Those who mourn because they 
will be, comforted those who 

766
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,800
endure suffering, find God in a 
unique way. 

767
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,100
If they will enter in, do you 
want to know how to do that? 

768
00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:09,100
Well, again, this is where we 
get to the easy part. 

769
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:13,400
It's so simple, not easy. 
Simple, you ready? 

770
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,000
If God is God, and he is, if he 
is God, then obedience to him 

771
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,700
will make resume click, make 
room for New Life, okay, so how 

772
00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:25,700
do we make room for a moment to 
read Matthew chapter? 

773
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:29,100
16 starting In verse 24, Jesus 
told his disciples and that 

774
00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:31,200
counts for us to who are 
followers of him. 

775
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,900
If anyone would come after me 
let him deny himself and take up

776
00:39:34,908 --> 00:39:38,100
his cross and follow me. 
And just real quick to jump 

777
00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:41,400
ahead to the end of the story. 
Easter is ultimately about the 

778
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:46,400
man who was God taking up his 
cross and following the father. 

779
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,800
So if we are going to be 
Disciples of that, man, we also 

780
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:54,300
must do these things and I want 
to just say real quick Jesus 

781
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:59,400
makes this a condition if 
Anyone, you know, some of the 

782
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,100
criticism in the critiques 
against what's going on at 

783
00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:07,300
Asbury are doctrinal, right? 
Like they say things like they 

784
00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:10,500
discredit that it's a move of 
God, which whatever, whatever. 

785
00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:12,800
But they do it for doctrinal 
reasons, right? 

786
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,600
Oh, well the methodists, let 
women preach. 

787
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,700
So, God couldn't do that. 
And what I just say is be real 

788
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:23,300
careful Acts chapter 5 white 
well in the Old Testament. 

789
00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:27,300
There's a story about King David
and he went out and he came back

790
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:29,000
and He danced, he was 
worshipping. 

791
00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:31,500
And he was like, crazy 
out-of-control, woo, dancing and

792
00:40:31,508 --> 00:40:33,900
partying and one of his wives 
was like, yeah, you look like a 

793
00:40:33,908 --> 00:40:36,400
fool out there. 
They'll real distinguish all my 

794
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,900
how the king distinguished 
himself today and you know what,

795
00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:43,200
King David said to her for 
shaming his worship, he said 

796
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:47,100
your womb will be closed and it 
was I'm not praying any of that 

797
00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:50,100
for you but the idea the point 
is just be careful when you 

798
00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:54,300
judge other people's worship, 
right? 

799
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:55,400
I forgot where I was going with 
that. 

800
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,200
The idea is Right. 
Deny yourself, take up your 

801
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,400
cross and follow me to the first
thing you have to do is deny 

802
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,300
yourself. 
One of the primary things most 

803
00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,200
people think of when they think 
of Lent as they think of 

804
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,000
fasting, right? 
Like during this time between 

805
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,300
now and Easter people will Fast,
they'll give up food, they will 

806
00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:13,500
they will give up meat they will
give up some people give up 

807
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,000
alcohol, they'll give up 
something. 

808
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:20,100
The idea behind fasting is 
saying no to your appetites so 

809
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:23,100
that you could say, yes to God, 
right? 

810
00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:26,700
And you do it. 
Not because you want to or not, 

811
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:28,500
what not? 
Because, Cuz you have to but 

812
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:32,600
because you choose to you say 
no, even when you want to say 

813
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,800
yes, the most common expression 
of fasting often in biblical 

814
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:40,500
times was food, so people would 
give up food for a day. 

815
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,500
Now, does that mean that we you 
start in the morning? 

816
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,900
O Lord, I am fasting today, 
therefore, please don't let me 

817
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:48,900
get hungry. 
Nope, that's not how it works. 

818
00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:50,500
In fact, it's quite the 
opposite. 

819
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,500
I am an intermittent fasting 
guy. 

820
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,400
I don't, I don't eat breakfast. 
But on days, when I fast about 

821
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,300
8:00 in the morning, My body 
begins to remind me, that I'm 

822
00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:03,600
minutes away from Death, right? 
It's starvation, is at the door,

823
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:04,900
right? 
But guess what? 

824
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,600
I've never died from fasting 
yet. 

825
00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:12,800
And in fact, the voices in my 
head are the point. 

826
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,400
Because on days when I'm fasting
the voices in my head telling me

827
00:42:16,408 --> 00:42:19,400
that I need to eat a sandwich, 
right? 

828
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,200
Listen to your desires. 
Jason, listen to your appetites,

829
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,300
they're there for you, they're 
good for you, right? 

830
00:42:25,300 --> 00:42:28,400
But here's the deal. 
Sometimes the Voices in my head 

831
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,900
say, wouldn't you like to 
fantasize about that? 

832
00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:39,800
Wouldn't it be great if she was?
You see if I'm not in the habit 

833
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,900
of telling my desires, no, then 
I'm not ready. 

834
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:48,800
When the really big things come 
up fasting is hard. 

835
00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:52,800
It really is hard, it pays 
dividends. 

836
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,100
Now I'm not your doctor if 
you're diabetic and you can't, 

837
00:42:56,100 --> 00:42:58,800
please do not kill yourself for 
fasting. 

838
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,500
Find some those, if you want to 
say, I'm gonna give up Facebook,

839
00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:03,700
or I'm going to forgive, give 
up, whatever, that's great. 

840
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,700
Something costly and don't quit.
So here's what. 

841
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,400
I said we're doing our prayer 
thing Thursday, this Wednesday. 

842
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,500
I'm going too fast on Wednesday.
I'm not gonna eat. 

843
00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:14,700
I'm gonna eat dinner on Thursday
night and then I'm not going to 

844
00:43:14,700 --> 00:43:17,500
eat anything on Wednesday. 
Also, I'm going too fast on 

845
00:43:17,500 --> 00:43:19,900
Thursday, I'll say this you're 
like oh my gosh, two days. 

846
00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:21,800
You must be really spiritual. 
No, I'm not. 

847
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:25,200
I'm really terrible and I really
like food and it's going to be 

848
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,900
really hard. 
That second day is going to be 

849
00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:29,300
difficult. 
My goal though is where I say 

850
00:43:29,300 --> 00:43:35,100
Lord I would rather be hungry 
with you than fat and happy 

851
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,300
without it. 
And it's easy to say that. 

852
00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:42,400
But when I say no to Big Mac, 
when I say no to pizza or steak 

853
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,500
or whatever it means something, 
it means something to me. 

854
00:43:45,500 --> 00:43:47,200
And then I get to the end and I 
go oh you know what? 

855
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,500
I really can just trust God with
my life and it'll be okay, 

856
00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:51,800
right? 
Deny yourself. 

857
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,900
Second. 
Take up your cross. 

858
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,600
Jesus, did not say that you had 
to enjoy your cross. 

859
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,300
He said, take it up anyway, so 
we have to think about, right? 

860
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:02,400
This is a metaphor. 
What is Jesus cross? 

861
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,600
What did the cross signify to 
Jesus? 

862
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:12,000
Death, that's where he died. 
I don't know what your cross is,

863
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:13,900
but there is something in this 
world. 

864
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,100
A discipline. 
A habit of practice that will 

865
00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:20,300
slowly. 
But surely put to death, all of 

866
00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:24,600
those things in you that keep 
you from experiencing the good 

867
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,300
life that God has it may be 
forgiveness. 

868
00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:30,100
Forgiveness is a discipline 
fasting is an important part of 

869
00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:31,800
it where you learn. 
I don't tell myself. 

870
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,500
No, that's the thing that I've 
realized I've never said no to 

871
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:37,100
myself and my entire life and 
Body Bears. 

872
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:38,900
The scars of that it would have 
been better. 

873
00:44:38,900 --> 00:44:41,700
If at 15, I had just learned 
that I could say no to myself 

874
00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:44,000
that I could not do that but I 
take up my cross. 

875
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,300
And what that means is I'm not 
surprised when I have suffering 

876
00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:50,700
in this world what it means is I
look at suffering differently. 

877
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,700
Do you know why I pick up my 
cross? 

878
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,300
Because I know as sure as I can 
be, this thing's gonna kill me 

879
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,500
and as soon as it kills me, then
I'm going to have Resurrection, 

880
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:04,500
you know, what happens for 
Resurrection, I live forever. 

881
00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:07,900
So what taking up our cross me? 
This doesn't mean that we enjoy 

882
00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:10,500
the cross, it means we believe 
there's something on the other 

883
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:13,300
side of it that is so much 
better than this pain. 

884
00:45:13,300 --> 00:45:17,500
And this fear, and this hurt and
this worry and then we follow 

885
00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:22,600
him, we really embrace our 
vocation of trusting him. 

886
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:29,900
I forgot mine. 
When Jesus said, follow me, he 

887
00:45:29,900 --> 00:45:34,300
went to the cross. 
And we celebrate communion as a 

888
00:45:34,308 --> 00:45:36,300
reminder of that, you should 
have received communion on your 

889
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:39,000
way in and he didn't, they'll 
have some folks will have some 

890
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,400
elements. 
But Paul tells us that the Lord 

891
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,800
Jesus on the night. 
He was betrayed, he took bread. 

892
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,200
And when he had given thanks, he
broke it. 

893
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,500
And he said, this is my body 
which is for you. 

894
00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:55,900
Do this in remembrance of Me, 
Jesus said, when you face the 

895
00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:59,400
world and they're threatening to
break your body to break, you 

896
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down to steal from you to take 
from you, he says everything 

897
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,100
that you want, everything is 
going to want to Bow up and 

898
00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:08,400
stand up and fight back. 
And Jesus said remember that's 

899
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:13,200
not what I did. 
He said, do the same in 

900
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:17,300
remembrance of me when you give 
your life to be broken by 

901
00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:21,200
somebody, who would crush you 
and you demonstrate the kingdom,

902
00:46:21,300 --> 00:46:24,500
you're not winning in this world
but the kingdom what Jesus said 

903
00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:28,400
is, there is power and there is 
Effectiveness and this Kingdom. 

904
00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:33,700
Listen, our job is not to be the
last man or woman standing our 

905
00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:37,500
job before Jesus is to be the 
first one kneeling. 

906
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:42,400
This shows us our Pure broken 
for us. 

907
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,900
Jesus before we can take your 
love out into the world, it has 

908
00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:51,700
to saturate us. 
So you gave us this discipline 

909
00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:58,700
of in taking So Jesus has we 
take this bread, your life, your

910
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:01,600
body, I pray that you would 
remind us that we do not do this

911
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:09,300
alone, we do this with you for 
others to reflect the order of a

912
00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:12,800
good world and a good life into 
your creation. 

913
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:18,200
So Jesus, I pray that this bread
would bear fruit in my life. 

914
00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:24,400
Let's take the bread together 
and the same way after supper, 

915
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,300
he took the cup and he Said this
cup is the New Covenant in my 

916
00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:33,100
blood do this, as often as you 
drink it in remembrance of me. 

917
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,400
See the cup represents the blood
and the blood represents the 

918
00:47:37,408 --> 00:47:41,100
life, and here's where we get 
the starkest demonstration of 

919
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:43,400
his love. 
When we were in our sin. 

920
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,200
Jesus didn't yell at us or 
boycott us or stand far away 

921
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,000
from us. 
And cuss at us. 

922
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,700
What Jesus did is he showed us 
the kingdom, he pointed us to 

923
00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:57,700
the kingdom. 
He He told us when we missed it 

924
00:47:57,700 --> 00:48:02,900
and he gave his life, so that we
could have it and he said, do 

925
00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:05,500
this in remembrance of me. 
So, we take this cup and 

926
00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:07,900
remembrance of the love that he 
has given us. 

927
00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:16,100
Its take the cup. 
This communion is a reminder of 

928
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:19,800
our own path because Jesus said,
do this in remembrance of me. 

929
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,000
And let me just acknowledge if 
you will, that doesn't sound 

930
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,800
like good. 
I want Plan B, right? 

931
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,000
Jesus, can I have plain be 
without the cross, right? 

932
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:31,300
Listen, how Jesus finished. 
Whoever would save his life will

933
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:33,100
lose it. 
Let me just say this is past or 

934
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:36,500
this is full disclosure here. 
You are more than welcome to 

935
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:39,300
walk out of this room and 
disregard every single thing 

936
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:41,000
that I've I've said here's the 
thing. 

937
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,000
Whoever if you want to keep this
life that you have your welcome 

938
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,500
to, you can go back and you can 
keep working for it. 

939
00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:48,700
And you can hope that your 
relationships are good and you 

940
00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:51,400
can have all the money and the 
sex and the drugs and the rock 

941
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,400
and roll that you want on your 
terms. 

942
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,600
You can do all of that and then 
some day you're going to die and

943
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,500
you're going to be left with 
what you're holding there. 

944
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:02,500
Except you can't even keep that.
So the question is not, will you

945
00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:05,800
die because the mortality rate 
for the human race to continue 

946
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,200
continues to hover around 100%. 
The question isn't Not what's 

947
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:11,900
going to happen? 
The question isn't, are you 

948
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:15,100
going to die the questions going
to happen is going to be then? 

949
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:20,400
What? 
70 years, 80 years then what 

950
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:22,900
Jesus said. 
If you keep your life, you'll 

951
00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:27,400
lose it. 
But whoever will lose his life 

952
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,400
for my sake, will find it for 
what does it profit? 

953
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:31,900
A man? 
If he gains the whole world and 

954
00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:35,200
forfeits his soul or what shall 
a man give in return for his 

955
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,100
soul? 
For the son of man is going to 

956
00:49:37,100 --> 00:49:39,100
come with his angels in the 
glory of his father. 

957
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:43,300
Listen, Jesus is coming back, he
will come back with his kingdom 

958
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,100
and he will instituted. 
And there will be a day where 

959
00:49:47,100 --> 00:49:51,000
every knee will bow, and every 
tongue will confess, that Jesus 

960
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,900
Christ is Lord to the glory of 
the father for now and Eternity.

961
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,900
You You can choose to do it now 
and you will be right in place 

962
00:49:56,900 --> 00:50:01,500
on that day or you can insist on
knowing for yourself. 

963
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,800
He will repay each person. 
According to what he has done. 

964
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,600
Truly, I say to you, there are 
some standing here who will not 

965
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,800
taste death until they see the 
son of man coming in his 

966
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,100
kingdom. 
You know what the son of man 

967
00:50:13,100 --> 00:50:14,800
coming in. 
His kingdom looked like, it 

968
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,700
looked like Sunday and looked 
like Resurrection, it looked 

969
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,000
like that's the life that he has
for you. 

970
00:50:20,008 --> 00:50:24,200
My hope for you is that you 
won't cling to the death that 

971
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,500
holds like a stench to your 
clothes, but that you will turn 

972
00:50:27,500 --> 00:50:30,500
your eyes to the father, to the 
goodness, to the life, and that 

973
00:50:30,500 --> 00:50:34,000
you will embrace the suffering. 
That Forms, you and formulates 

974
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,600
you not like some sadist who 
just loves to get his teeth 

975
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,400
kicked in. 
But as one who believes that 

976
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:46,700
every ounce of pain and 
suffering in this life, will be 

977
00:50:46,900 --> 00:50:50,100
redeemed. 
You were created for eternity 

978
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:53,700
friend. 
Not for 15 or 20 minutes of joy 

979
00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:57,700
and good luck here but for an 
eternity and the presence of the

980
00:50:57,700 --> 00:51:00,000
one who created you. 
So Jesus, I pray that you would 

981
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,000
return and restore our hearts to
you. 

982
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,900
I pray for those maybe who 
haven't followed you here today.

983
00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:08,600
Maybe they thought you just 
wanted them to be good or to 

984
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,100
stop doing something and what we
find today is that you want to 

985
00:51:12,108 --> 00:51:17,200
give them eternity life, love. 
So I pray that today, they would

986
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,700
simply do that. 
And if that's you and this room 

987
00:51:18,700 --> 00:51:21,500
and you've never done that. 
Pray this with me, and pray it 

988
00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:22,600
out loud. 
You can pray quietly. 

989
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,400
If you want Jesus, I confess 
that you are God, and I am not 

990
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:31,100
and I have gone my own way, and 
I need forgiveness. 

991
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:39,000
So I ask that you would forgive 
me, I accept your body broken 

992
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,100
for me, I accept your 
forgiveness, bought at the cost 

993
00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:46,500
of your blood help me everyday 
to deny myself to take up my 

994
00:51:46,500 --> 00:51:50,000
cross and follow you. 
And Jesus for the rest of us who

995
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,600
have been following, you may we 
do the same, we're not exempt 

996
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,000
from that. 
I pray that you would send 

997
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,300
Revival here. 
And to the degree that what's 

998
00:52:00,300 --> 00:52:02,200
happening in Kentucky isn't from
you. 

999
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:03,500
I pray that it would be 
different here. 

1000
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:06,400
But to the degree that it is, I 
pray that it would Lord, we want

1001
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,800
everything that you have, and 
nothing that you don't, and we 

1002
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:14,400
don't cling to our comfort, we 
cling to you, and we want you. 

1003
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:17,400
So, we ask Jesus, all these 
things in your name, and for 

1004
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,200
your glory. 
Amen. 

1005
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,800
Thank you for joining us today. 
River City Church is all about 

1006
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,600
experiencing and expressing 
God's love in our lives and 

1007
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,400
community. 
And we hope that you've been 

1008
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,600
able to experience that today. 
Day as grateful as I am. 

1009
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,200
That you've spent this time 
listening in this morning, this 

1010
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,900
podcast is no substitute for 
full participation in a local 

1011
00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:39,100
church. 
I love it when River City people

1012
00:52:39,100 --> 00:52:42,200
listen to other pastors, but it 
is those who show up week after 

1013
00:52:42,208 --> 00:52:44,900
week Faithfully, giving their 
support and time and resources, 

1014
00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:48,600
that make all of this possible. 
If we can help you get connected

1015
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,900
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1016
00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:55,000
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1017
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,100
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1018
00:52:57,100 --> 00:52:58,900
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Click the give link on our Our 

1019
00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:01,800
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1020
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1021
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