1 00:00:01,067 --> 00:00:02,669 Amen. Thank you John. 2 00:00:02,669 --> 00:00:04,471 Well welcome everyone. 3 00:00:04,471 --> 00:00:07,741 I'll add my good morning to those that hopefully you've already heard. 4 00:00:07,774 --> 00:00:12,612 I'll also add my Happy Father's Day to those fathers who are here today. 5 00:00:12,679 --> 00:00:15,682 Hey, if you're a dad here today, whether you're flying solo 6 00:00:15,682 --> 00:00:18,151 or you're here with your family, I just want to call attention to you 7 00:00:18,151 --> 00:00:21,855 and say, good on you for starting the week off, right. 8 00:00:22,555 --> 00:00:26,559 It cannot be overstated the importance of a dad 9 00:00:26,593 --> 00:00:29,662 being involved in a faith life, 10 00:00:31,097 --> 00:00:34,067 especially those times where you think nobody's watching. 11 00:00:34,067 --> 00:00:39,539 Those are times where possibly and usually there are the most people watching. 12 00:00:39,539 --> 00:00:42,642 So if you're a dad and you're here today, I just want to call attention 13 00:00:42,642 --> 00:00:46,479 to you and say thank you for for being that sort of man. 14 00:00:46,513 --> 00:00:47,747 That's a good, good thing. 15 00:00:47,747 --> 00:00:50,016 Yes. That's worth clapping for. 16 00:00:51,418 --> 00:00:51,751 Yeah. 17 00:00:51,751 --> 00:00:52,919 Hey, if we have not met. 18 00:00:52,919 --> 00:00:54,154 My name is Jeff. 19 00:00:54,154 --> 00:00:58,958 I'm here on staff at Flip side, and I get the privilege of sharing God's 20 00:00:58,958 --> 00:01:03,696 word of of walking through this series we've been in in the book of Matthew. 21 00:01:03,730 --> 00:01:05,432 Pastor Carl is away this weekend. 22 00:01:05,432 --> 00:01:07,267 He'll be back soon. 23 00:01:07,267 --> 00:01:10,570 But in the meantime, we get to share some time together today. 24 00:01:11,304 --> 00:01:11,905 You hear me 25 00:01:11,905 --> 00:01:16,342 say it every time we we spend time that I'm hoping you're going to be encouraged. 26 00:01:16,676 --> 00:01:18,078 And today is no different. 27 00:01:18,078 --> 00:01:19,879 But there's some specifics to that. 28 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:23,850 I'm hoping you're going to be encouraged through gaining some clarity. 29 00:01:24,651 --> 00:01:26,986 Gaining some honesty. 30 00:01:26,986 --> 00:01:30,256 Really, one of the things I love about Jesus is how honest he is. 31 00:01:30,256 --> 00:01:31,858 He doesn't sugarcoat it. 32 00:01:31,858 --> 00:01:37,063 He he just tells us and then he helps us through it, as difficult as that may be. 33 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:39,232 Quick show of hands. 34 00:01:39,232 --> 00:01:43,670 How many of you have ever signed up for something or agreed to 35 00:01:43,703 --> 00:01:48,675 something, said yes to something, and then at some point, as you're walking 36 00:01:48,675 --> 00:01:53,713 that yes out, you realize I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. 37 00:01:53,746 --> 00:01:54,948 How many of you have done that? 38 00:01:54,948 --> 00:01:57,117 Yeah, the majority of us. Right. 39 00:01:57,117 --> 00:02:00,320 Like, I didn't like the like the experience didn't match 40 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,754 the advertisement. 41 00:02:01,754 --> 00:02:04,757 I didn't really realize what I was getting signed up for 42 00:02:05,625 --> 00:02:07,594 a story about that. 43 00:02:07,594 --> 00:02:10,230 And I'm going to probably divide the room here. 44 00:02:10,230 --> 00:02:12,532 Probably half of you are going to hate me after this, 45 00:02:12,532 --> 00:02:14,868 and half of you are going to be like, yeah, I agree. 46 00:02:14,868 --> 00:02:18,505 So confession of mine, I do not like Disneyland. 47 00:02:18,538 --> 00:02:19,939 I cannot stand. 48 00:02:19,939 --> 00:02:23,076 I know gasps, gasps and fists in the air. 49 00:02:23,109 --> 00:02:27,247 Yes, I know I cannot stand Disneyland you guys. 50 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,782 I just I know some of you have fond childhood 51 00:02:29,782 --> 00:02:32,919 memories of Disneyland and you're like, oh, how could you? 52 00:02:33,586 --> 00:02:34,654 That is not me. 53 00:02:34,654 --> 00:02:36,055 I just don't like it. 54 00:02:36,055 --> 00:02:37,757 So and you're going to find out why. 55 00:02:39,692 --> 00:02:42,162 So the best Disneyland 56 00:02:42,162 --> 00:02:46,633 story I can think of this as an example of this is when I graduated from college. 57 00:02:46,633 --> 00:02:48,601 College was a grind for me. 58 00:02:48,601 --> 00:02:51,971 It was just by any means necessary get done, 59 00:02:51,971 --> 00:02:55,775 get graduated, knows of the grindstone right up to the very end. 60 00:02:55,775 --> 00:02:59,179 And so when I finally graduated, I was just it was like 61 00:02:59,212 --> 00:03:01,347 this giant weight lifted off of me when I was talking 62 00:03:01,347 --> 00:03:03,116 to a buddy of mine about it, and he said, you know what? 63 00:03:03,116 --> 00:03:04,584 We should celebrate. 64 00:03:04,584 --> 00:03:08,188 He said, the angels are playing the Red Sox in Anaheim this weekend. 65 00:03:08,188 --> 00:03:09,923 We should go. I'm like, fantastic. 66 00:03:09,923 --> 00:03:12,058 Not a big baseball fan, but that sounds good. 67 00:03:12,058 --> 00:03:12,959 Let's do that. 68 00:03:12,959 --> 00:03:17,297 And then he added something onto that that I thought he said, it's 69 00:03:17,330 --> 00:03:18,298 an afternoon game. 70 00:03:18,298 --> 00:03:21,634 So we'll stay the night in Anaheim and we'll go to Disneyland the next day. 71 00:03:21,868 --> 00:03:25,838 And I thought, maybe it's time to give Disneyland another try. 72 00:03:26,472 --> 00:03:29,542 And so we did that, you guys. It was awful. 73 00:03:29,542 --> 00:03:31,144 I had the worst time. 74 00:03:32,145 --> 00:03:33,780 The lines were long, 75 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:38,484 the food was expensive, overpriced food that really wasn't all that good. 76 00:03:38,518 --> 00:03:41,955 It was hot that day, brutally hot down in Anaheim that day. 77 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:45,391 And I remember thinking, this is why I hate Disneyland. 78 00:03:46,593 --> 00:03:48,561 And as we were leaving, of course, 79 00:03:48,561 --> 00:03:51,898 we're socked in the traditional traffic of Disneyland. 80 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:56,035 And just as soon as the traffic starts to loosen up, the car in front of us 81 00:03:56,035 --> 00:03:59,105 for no apparent reason just stopped right in the middle of the road, 82 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:02,976 and my buddy leans out the window, full torso out the window, 83 00:04:02,976 --> 00:04:06,279 fists in the air, and he shouts, get out of the way, jackass! 84 00:04:06,779 --> 00:04:10,283 And just as he said that, I looked up and there was the sign. 85 00:04:10,316 --> 00:04:12,585 Disneyland. The happiest place on Earth. 86 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:15,655 I know 87 00:04:15,655 --> 00:04:18,658 the experience does not match the advertisement. 88 00:04:18,658 --> 00:04:21,661 That's why I don't like Disneyland. 89 00:04:22,428 --> 00:04:25,331 I was telling my wife that story, and she was telling me her story 90 00:04:25,331 --> 00:04:29,302 of when we first moved out to the ranchos, and she said yes to being the 91 00:04:29,335 --> 00:04:32,171 cookie chair. Does anybody know what the cookie chair is? 92 00:04:32,171 --> 00:04:33,640 If you have Girl Scouts or Boy Scout? 93 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,508 Well, Girl Scouts, really? 94 00:04:35,508 --> 00:04:37,277 You're in charge of the Girl Scout cookies. 95 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:40,213 The cookie. What a great title. 96 00:04:40,213 --> 00:04:43,016 I want to sit and I'm going to I'm going to eat cookies. 97 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:44,717 No, that is not it. 98 00:04:44,717 --> 00:04:46,152 You're in charge of all the girls. 99 00:04:46,152 --> 00:04:50,957 The sale and distribution of all the Girl Scout cookies, any discrepancies, 100 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:52,992 any conflicts that come up. 101 00:04:52,992 --> 00:04:55,795 You're in charge of that with regard to Girl Scout cookies. 102 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:58,698 And we all know how we feel about Girl Scout cookies. 103 00:04:58,698 --> 00:05:02,835 And I remember her saying, I had no idea what I was getting myself into 104 00:05:02,869 --> 00:05:07,507 when I said yes to being the cookie chair, I had no idea what that meant. 105 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:09,876 So I'm 106 00:05:09,876 --> 00:05:12,912 sure you guys have hundreds of stories that are kind of like that, right? 107 00:05:12,945 --> 00:05:15,348 I said, yes, we talk about it here all the time. 108 00:05:15,348 --> 00:05:18,985 So yes, on the front end and see what God was having you say yes to. 109 00:05:19,018 --> 00:05:21,521 A lot of times these stories fall out of of that. 110 00:05:21,521 --> 00:05:24,223 Yes. On the front end. 111 00:05:24,223 --> 00:05:25,992 It's interesting, as trivial 112 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:30,630 and as fun as it is to talk about Disneyland and Girl Scout cookies 113 00:05:31,264 --> 00:05:35,268 when those types of things happen as we walk out 114 00:05:35,268 --> 00:05:40,173 this idea of faith, it can lead to a real crisis of faith. 115 00:05:40,239 --> 00:05:43,743 When you get to a point where you say, you know what? 116 00:05:44,143 --> 00:05:48,181 I really didn't know what I was saying yes to when I when I signed up 117 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:49,549 to be a follower of Jesus. 118 00:05:49,549 --> 00:05:52,719 When I said yes to Jesus, I'm really getting this feeling 119 00:05:52,719 --> 00:05:55,855 that I was kind of duped. Like I got fooled. 120 00:05:55,922 --> 00:05:59,625 Like I didn't really read the fine print, or maybe I should have read the 121 00:05:59,625 --> 00:06:00,360 fine print. 122 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:05,698 And now I'm at this point now where I'm kind of having a real crisis of faith. 123 00:06:05,998 --> 00:06:10,536 And so I'm hoping today what we talk about today is going to help us with that. 124 00:06:10,536 --> 00:06:13,239 The wonderful thing about God is he doesn't leave us to 125 00:06:13,239 --> 00:06:15,041 just figure that out on our own. 126 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:18,511 He comes alongside us and he says, let me help you work through that. 127 00:06:18,511 --> 00:06:20,346 Let me help you work that out. 128 00:06:21,414 --> 00:06:23,116 In order to do that, I'm 129 00:06:23,116 --> 00:06:27,153 going to have to back up a little bit and talk a little bit about the end. 130 00:06:27,153 --> 00:06:28,821 We're going to be in Matthew chapter 17. 131 00:06:28,821 --> 00:06:30,256 So if you brought your Bibles, that's where 132 00:06:30,256 --> 00:06:34,394 we're going to really revolve our time around together today. 133 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:38,131 But in order to really set the stage for that, in order for us 134 00:06:38,131 --> 00:06:41,801 to get some perspective on where we're going to be in Matthew chapter 17, 135 00:06:41,834 --> 00:06:44,937 I need to back up a little bit to where we were last week. 136 00:06:44,937 --> 00:06:48,274 If you were here last week, you know, it was a marathon. 137 00:06:48,307 --> 00:06:51,377 We we had a long 6.5 minute 138 00:06:51,377 --> 00:06:54,947 pop up Sunday video, like John just talked about. 139 00:06:54,947 --> 00:06:58,851 We got the news about our friend Sean Berry spending his first Sunday in glory 140 00:06:58,851 --> 00:07:01,587 with Jesus. And Pastor Carl gave a great message. 141 00:07:01,587 --> 00:07:04,590 But all that together made for a really long Sunday. 142 00:07:04,991 --> 00:07:10,263 And if you weren't here or didn't catch it online, it's worth especially going back 143 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:15,868 and revisiting something that was said at the end of Matthew. 144 00:07:15,902 --> 00:07:20,740 Well, towards the end of Matthew chapter 16, we're going to be in verse 21. 145 00:07:22,742 --> 00:07:25,745 And it says this. 146 00:07:25,778 --> 00:07:30,216 From that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples. 147 00:07:30,216 --> 00:07:35,054 So from that time on, those first four words imply we've turned a corner here 148 00:07:35,221 --> 00:07:38,224 where things are a little different or a lot different. 149 00:07:38,257 --> 00:07:41,260 Now we've turned a corner. 150 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:42,662 Major turning point. 151 00:07:42,662 --> 00:07:45,598 And Jesus says this 152 00:07:45,598 --> 00:07:50,436 he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, 153 00:07:50,436 --> 00:07:54,307 chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed 154 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:57,310 on the third day and be raised to life. 155 00:07:57,376 --> 00:08:02,548 So now Jesus is speaking plainly about suffering, 156 00:08:02,682 --> 00:08:05,651 about rejection, about death. 157 00:08:06,118 --> 00:08:08,521 And yes, he does talk about resurrection. 158 00:08:08,521 --> 00:08:11,157 But the disciples are so caught up on the first three, 159 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:12,992 they really don't hear a lot about that. 160 00:08:12,992 --> 00:08:14,193 They really don't hear that. 161 00:08:14,193 --> 00:08:17,897 If you've ever gotten news like that, you kind of just want to go, hold on. 162 00:08:17,897 --> 00:08:21,200 I'm still processing the thing you did, the first thing you just said, 163 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,836 and you went on and said, 3 or 4 more other things. 164 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:25,671 Just wait a second. 165 00:08:25,671 --> 00:08:28,708 I'm not sure what to do with what you just said. 166 00:08:28,708 --> 00:08:31,010 So much so Peter says, 167 00:08:32,311 --> 00:08:33,546 Peter, it's verse 22. 168 00:08:33,546 --> 00:08:36,749 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 169 00:08:36,949 --> 00:08:41,454 Never, Lord, he said, this shall never happen to you. 170 00:08:49,495 --> 00:08:52,231 This is a real turning point because the disciples really 171 00:08:52,231 --> 00:08:57,870 didn't have a framework for the suffering and death part of following Jesus. 172 00:08:57,970 --> 00:09:01,374 In their minds, the Messiah would come and conquer. 173 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:03,776 The Messiah would come and be victorious. 174 00:09:03,776 --> 00:09:07,947 The Messiah would come and liberate, the Messiah would come and rain. 175 00:09:08,314 --> 00:09:13,786 And now Jesus is talking about some specifics suffering and death. 176 00:09:13,819 --> 00:09:14,854 Here's the thing. 177 00:09:14,854 --> 00:09:17,823 Earlier in the book of Matthew and the other gospels, Jesus 178 00:09:17,823 --> 00:09:21,294 just kind of alludes to this whole thing. He. 179 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,631 If you Bible scholars know Jesus talked about the bridegroom being taken away. 180 00:09:25,631 --> 00:09:28,467 So Jesus is just kind of giving breadcrumbs, dropping hints. 181 00:09:28,467 --> 00:09:33,239 But now he's speaking in clear, plain terms 182 00:09:34,373 --> 00:09:35,942 and they don't know what to do with it. 183 00:09:35,942 --> 00:09:40,580 And so Peter brings him aside and kind of rebukes him. 184 00:09:40,746 --> 00:09:44,650 And then Jesus turned to Peter and said, get behind me, Satan. 185 00:09:44,717 --> 00:09:47,153 You are a stumbling block to me. 186 00:09:47,153 --> 00:09:51,223 You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men. 187 00:09:53,859 --> 00:09:57,830 Then Jesus said to all these disciples, then he's kind of on a roll here. 188 00:09:57,830 --> 00:10:02,735 He turns to all of them and he says, hey, you guys, if anyone would come after me, 189 00:10:02,735 --> 00:10:06,739 he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 190 00:10:06,772 --> 00:10:11,677 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses 191 00:10:11,677 --> 00:10:14,680 his life for me will find it. 192 00:10:16,716 --> 00:10:20,152 Whoever would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his. 193 00:10:20,152 --> 00:10:22,755 What cross 194 00:10:24,023 --> 00:10:24,857 did I? 195 00:10:24,857 --> 00:10:26,158 The disciples are thinking. 196 00:10:26,158 --> 00:10:28,427 Hold on a second. You. 197 00:10:28,427 --> 00:10:30,296 Surely you didn't say cross. 198 00:10:30,296 --> 00:10:31,497 And Jesus is like. 199 00:10:31,497 --> 00:10:34,233 That's exactly what I said. 200 00:10:34,233 --> 00:10:37,236 Because we all know what cross means. 201 00:10:37,336 --> 00:10:40,172 We see these Roman executions and you're. 202 00:10:40,172 --> 00:10:43,175 Are you talking about that cross? 203 00:10:43,509 --> 00:10:46,512 And Jesus says, that's how I'm going to suffer. 204 00:10:46,512 --> 00:10:48,080 That's how I'm going to die. 205 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,618 And the disciples just are just kind of going, what did we sign up for? 206 00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:56,989 Not this, I know what I didn't sign up for. 207 00:10:57,023 --> 00:11:01,227 All the things he's talking about clearly and plainly now are things 208 00:11:01,227 --> 00:11:04,997 that weren't on the list that I had in mind. 209 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:10,503 Basically, Peter's reply is 210 00:11:10,636 --> 00:11:15,107 Jesus, this is not what I signed up for when I signed up for you. 211 00:11:15,107 --> 00:11:16,676 That's not part of it. 212 00:11:16,676 --> 00:11:20,279 You know how hard this is to tell people who are back in the career 213 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:24,316 that I left, that that's what I signed up for, that this is what's going on. 214 00:11:24,617 --> 00:11:26,752 You want me to recruit for this movement? 215 00:11:26,752 --> 00:11:28,754 You have come follow Jesus. 216 00:11:28,754 --> 00:11:32,591 Oh, and by the way, he's going to suffer and he's going to die a really, 217 00:11:32,591 --> 00:11:34,093 really bad death. 218 00:11:34,093 --> 00:11:36,062 Shame on a cross. 219 00:11:36,062 --> 00:11:38,397 How do I recruit for that? Jesus, 220 00:11:39,331 --> 00:11:41,500 this is not what I signed up for. 221 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:45,071 The the the experience has just taken a turn 222 00:11:45,071 --> 00:11:48,074 and it's not matching the advertisement. 223 00:11:54,113 --> 00:11:58,384 The disciples are confused, they're disappointed, they're struggling. 224 00:11:58,384 --> 00:12:00,786 And then 225 00:12:00,786 --> 00:12:04,490 if you were here last week, you know, Matthew, chapter 616 226 00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:07,159 just kind of ends there. 227 00:12:07,159 --> 00:12:09,028 There are passages in Scripture like this. 228 00:12:09,028 --> 00:12:10,596 It just kind of falls off a cliff. 229 00:12:10,596 --> 00:12:13,599 It just hangs on a dissonant note. 230 00:12:16,836 --> 00:12:18,938 And so that's where we are 231 00:12:18,938 --> 00:12:23,242 as we take a running start into chapter 17. 232 00:12:24,243 --> 00:12:27,480 So I'm going to read the beginning of chapter 17. 233 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,917 I'm going to go probably down to around verse 7 or 8, and then we'll come back 234 00:12:31,917 --> 00:12:34,186 and we'll, we'll kind of try to make some sense of this, 235 00:12:34,186 --> 00:12:35,755 because there's just a lot of 236 00:12:35,755 --> 00:12:39,058 this is one of those passages in Scripture where there's just some gold here. 237 00:12:39,058 --> 00:12:43,829 So it says in verse one, chapter 17, after six days, 238 00:12:45,498 --> 00:12:46,432 Jesus took with 239 00:12:46,432 --> 00:12:49,435 him Peter, James, and John, the brother of James, 240 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:52,438 and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 241 00:12:53,272 --> 00:12:55,674 There he was transfigured before them. 242 00:12:55,674 --> 00:13:00,146 His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light. 243 00:13:00,579 --> 00:13:05,317 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. 244 00:13:05,584 --> 00:13:06,418 Peter. 245 00:13:06,418 --> 00:13:09,321 Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. 246 00:13:09,321 --> 00:13:09,955 If you wish, 247 00:13:09,955 --> 00:13:14,960 I will put up three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. 248 00:13:15,094 --> 00:13:17,997 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them in. 249 00:13:17,997 --> 00:13:22,001 A voice from the cloud said, this is my son, whom I love. 250 00:13:22,001 --> 00:13:24,003 With him I am well pleased. 251 00:13:24,003 --> 00:13:26,639 Listen to him. 252 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:30,509 When the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground, terrified. 253 00:13:30,509 --> 00:13:32,778 But Jesus came and touched them. 254 00:13:32,778 --> 00:13:34,780 Get up, he said. Don't be afraid. 255 00:13:34,780 --> 00:13:38,951 When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. 256 00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:40,519 So we'll stop right there. 257 00:13:42,421 --> 00:13:44,056 So back up to verse one. 258 00:13:44,056 --> 00:13:46,592 Let's try to make some sense of this. What does it say? 259 00:13:46,592 --> 00:13:49,495 What are the first first couple of words 260 00:13:49,495 --> 00:13:52,498 after six days? 261 00:13:54,099 --> 00:13:55,935 You guys have all been in situations 262 00:13:55,935 --> 00:13:59,905 like this before stuff went down, words got said. 263 00:13:59,939 --> 00:14:05,611 There was a heated dare I say argument and then things just end. 264 00:14:06,011 --> 00:14:07,279 I always call these. 265 00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:08,614 I love it when the Bible does this, 266 00:14:08,614 --> 00:14:11,417 because it always gives me a chance to think what happened. 267 00:14:11,417 --> 00:14:12,718 These were people. 268 00:14:12,718 --> 00:14:16,822 I mean, a lot of times we read the Bible like, oh, they don't 269 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:18,691 they don't think like they don't have the experiences. 270 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:20,192 Like we six days. 271 00:14:20,192 --> 00:14:23,195 What was life like around the camp? 272 00:14:23,395 --> 00:14:25,631 Silent treatment tents. 273 00:14:25,631 --> 00:14:27,499 Yeah. You guys have all experienced this. 274 00:14:27,499 --> 00:14:30,502 I really don't even want to be in the same room with them right now. 275 00:14:31,136 --> 00:14:34,640 I don't even know the words that I would say right now. 276 00:14:34,673 --> 00:14:36,375 Peter got told 277 00:14:37,509 --> 00:14:40,512 he got he got a tongue lashing. 278 00:14:40,613 --> 00:14:42,915 So much so Peter was like, can you just stop? 279 00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:43,949 Why are you talking to them now? 280 00:14:43,949 --> 00:14:46,118 I was kind of taking the heat and Jesus like, no, 281 00:14:46,118 --> 00:14:48,254 because they're all thinking what you're thinking. 282 00:14:48,254 --> 00:14:49,989 And then six days go by. 283 00:14:49,989 --> 00:14:52,791 What was like were people walking around, 284 00:14:52,791 --> 00:14:55,094 you know, moping around, moping around the camp, 285 00:14:55,094 --> 00:14:58,497 moping around the house, trying to figure out how to process it? 286 00:14:58,530 --> 00:15:01,133 Confusion, 287 00:15:01,133 --> 00:15:04,003 questions, doubts, wrestling 288 00:15:04,003 --> 00:15:06,972 as best they can with things. 289 00:15:10,075 --> 00:15:13,545 I love the fact that God says, enough of this. 290 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:18,851 I love the fact that God says, all right, guys, here's what we're going to do. 291 00:15:18,984 --> 00:15:21,654 You've spent six days trying to figure this out on your own. 292 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:24,657 Here's my answer. 293 00:15:25,457 --> 00:15:26,859 It says Jesus took with him 294 00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:28,894 Peter, James, and John, the brother of James, 295 00:15:28,894 --> 00:15:30,996 and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 296 00:15:30,996 --> 00:15:33,465 There he was transfigured before them. 297 00:15:33,465 --> 00:15:38,671 His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light. 298 00:15:39,471 --> 00:15:43,142 This was no ordinary experience orchestrated by God. 299 00:15:43,142 --> 00:15:44,877 This was meant to grab attention 300 00:15:44,877 --> 00:15:47,579 and create an event that they would not forget. 301 00:15:47,579 --> 00:15:49,014 This needed to hit. 302 00:15:51,350 --> 00:15:54,219 God was doing something that the disciples it was. 303 00:15:54,219 --> 00:15:57,957 He was doing something that the disciples needed to see and that they needed 304 00:15:57,957 --> 00:16:00,960 to experience. 305 00:16:02,695 --> 00:16:05,130 Before they could understand his suffering. 306 00:16:05,130 --> 00:16:09,601 They must see his glory in order to process and to really comprehend 307 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:12,905 this whole suffering and death thing, they needed to see 308 00:16:13,038 --> 00:16:16,875 the glory of Jesus, who Jesus really was. 309 00:16:16,909 --> 00:16:19,912 And that was what God was doing here. 310 00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:21,880 Verse three. 311 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:23,682 This is really interesting. Verse three. 312 00:16:23,682 --> 00:16:26,752 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah 313 00:16:26,785 --> 00:16:29,788 talking with Jesus. 314 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:32,491 At this point, I could imagine these were all Jewish 315 00:16:32,491 --> 00:16:35,494 guys who knew their scripture. 316 00:16:35,828 --> 00:16:39,598 This was they knew the rituals, they knew the traditions. 317 00:16:39,598 --> 00:16:44,403 And now here is Moses, the Old Testament representation of the law. 318 00:16:44,436 --> 00:16:45,571 Remember when Moses went up 319 00:16:45,571 --> 00:16:49,775 the hill, met with God, got the tablets, got the Ten Commandments, came down 320 00:16:51,276 --> 00:16:52,745 the represent the Old Testament 321 00:16:52,745 --> 00:16:55,914 representation of the law, and then Elijah, the Old Testament 322 00:16:55,948 --> 00:17:00,719 representation of the prophets, Elijah being probably the most prominent Old 323 00:17:00,753 --> 00:17:03,555 Testament prophets. And they were recognized by these guys. 324 00:17:03,555 --> 00:17:06,558 And these guys are pointing straight to Jesus. 325 00:17:06,625 --> 00:17:09,895 Their face wasn't shining like the sun Jesus was. 326 00:17:09,895 --> 00:17:11,497 And they were talking with Jesus. 327 00:17:11,497 --> 00:17:16,301 And the book of Luke, I think it is in his gospel, actually gives us a 328 00:17:16,535 --> 00:17:18,470 actually peels back the curtain a little more 329 00:17:18,470 --> 00:17:20,906 and gives us a glimpse into what they were talking about. 330 00:17:20,906 --> 00:17:24,576 They were actually talking about Jesus's coming departure, 331 00:17:24,643 --> 00:17:27,613 this thing that Jesus was trying to tell them about. 332 00:17:29,081 --> 00:17:31,784 So now they're standing there talking with Jesus, 333 00:17:31,784 --> 00:17:34,787 giving credibility to Jesus. 334 00:17:35,988 --> 00:17:40,659 And then in verse four, as he is so prone to do, 335 00:17:40,692 --> 00:17:45,130 our friend Peter opens his big mouth and he says something crazy. 336 00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:48,801 Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. 337 00:17:48,801 --> 00:17:49,735 If you wish, 338 00:17:49,735 --> 00:17:55,140 I will put up three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Ilija. 339 00:17:58,577 --> 00:18:01,380 You know, if things wouldn't have been so tense around the camp, 340 00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:04,483 this probably would have been a great time for Jesus to mess with Peter. 341 00:18:05,017 --> 00:18:06,251 Yeah. Do that. 342 00:18:06,251 --> 00:18:07,319 And then he starts doing it. 343 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:09,354 And Jesus, like, what are you doing? 344 00:18:09,354 --> 00:18:12,558 Peter's like, I, you know, if you know anything about Peter, 345 00:18:12,558 --> 00:18:14,693 you know, he's the guy who cannot keep silent. 346 00:18:14,693 --> 00:18:16,228 He's got to say something. 347 00:18:16,228 --> 00:18:19,498 That awkward silence will maybe last for five seconds around Peter, 348 00:18:19,498 --> 00:18:20,833 and then he's saying something. 349 00:18:20,833 --> 00:18:23,902 And the something he happened to say is, hey, 350 00:18:24,403 --> 00:18:28,507 I'm not sure what to say, but somebody's got to say something tense. 351 00:18:28,507 --> 00:18:29,641 Temporary shelters. 352 00:18:29,641 --> 00:18:32,111 I'll build three of them. 353 00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:35,214 I would imagine people are like, what did you just say? 354 00:18:36,715 --> 00:18:39,351 Peter is grasping here. 355 00:18:39,351 --> 00:18:41,153 He's trying to manage the situation. 356 00:18:41,153 --> 00:18:44,656 He's just trying to make sense of it all, and this is what comes out of his mouth. 357 00:18:44,656 --> 00:18:45,958 And then thank God. 358 00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:48,894 Verse five comes while he was still speaking. 359 00:18:48,894 --> 00:18:52,030 He ever had anybody do you a favor by interrupting you? 360 00:18:52,731 --> 00:18:55,601 It's like, oh, thank God, I don't know what was coming out of my mouth. 361 00:18:55,601 --> 00:18:58,337 Thank God they said something because I just needed to shut up. 362 00:18:58,337 --> 00:19:02,374 While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them 363 00:19:02,374 --> 00:19:07,746 and a voice from the clouds said, this is my son, whom I love with him. 364 00:19:07,746 --> 00:19:10,916 With him I am well pleased. Listen to him. 365 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:13,919 This voice from heaven 366 00:19:13,919 --> 00:19:18,624 speaks and says the same something very familiar. 367 00:19:18,624 --> 00:19:24,096 If you were with us when we started this series back in Matthew chapter three. 368 00:19:24,163 --> 00:19:27,432 So if you have your Bibles, keep your keep a finger. 369 00:19:27,432 --> 00:19:30,502 In Matthew chapter 17, go back 370 00:19:30,502 --> 00:19:34,339 to Matthew chapter three down to verse. 371 00:19:34,373 --> 00:19:36,241 Let's start in. Yeah, I think I have it up there. 372 00:19:36,241 --> 00:19:39,211 Let's start in verse 13. 373 00:19:40,479 --> 00:19:42,915 So this is the baptism of Jesus. 374 00:19:42,915 --> 00:19:46,218 Then Jesus came to Galilee, to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 375 00:19:46,218 --> 00:19:50,189 But John tried to deter him, saying, I need to be baptized by you, 376 00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:51,657 and do you come to me? 377 00:19:51,657 --> 00:19:53,759 Jesus replied, let it be so. 378 00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:56,895 Now it is proper for us to do to 379 00:19:56,962 --> 00:20:00,599 to this, to fulfill this all, with all this righteousness. 380 00:20:00,632 --> 00:20:02,301 Then John consented. 381 00:20:02,301 --> 00:20:05,370 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he came up out of the water. 382 00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:09,341 At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending 383 00:20:09,341 --> 00:20:11,043 like a dove and lighting on him. 384 00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:15,981 And a voice from heaven said, this is my son, whom I love. 385 00:20:15,981 --> 00:20:18,450 With him I am well pleased. 386 00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:23,522 The exact same things that the voice from heaven 387 00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:27,426 just said about Jesus here in chapter 17. 388 00:20:27,426 --> 00:20:30,229 But there's three words added. Did anybody catch it? 389 00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:31,797 What was it? 390 00:20:31,797 --> 00:20:33,899 Listen to him. 391 00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:36,101 The exact same thing. 392 00:20:36,101 --> 00:20:39,638 But God says, I'm going to add something to that. 393 00:20:39,671 --> 00:20:41,707 Listen to him. 394 00:20:41,707 --> 00:20:43,675 The things that he's talking about. 395 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:46,612 Listen to him. 396 00:20:46,612 --> 00:20:48,080 This is not trivial. 397 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,314 This is not unimportant. 398 00:20:49,314 --> 00:20:52,317 This is not by accident. 399 00:20:52,751 --> 00:20:56,188 This is a point where the disciples were having a very difficult time 400 00:20:56,188 --> 00:21:00,192 reconciling their ideas and notions of what the Messiah should be. 401 00:21:00,192 --> 00:21:01,260 So weird. 402 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:04,630 The Old Testament does talk about the Messiah suffering and dying, 403 00:21:04,630 --> 00:21:07,132 but for some reason the disciples were like, 404 00:21:07,132 --> 00:21:11,270 there's the conquering champion part that lane. 405 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:12,070 And then there's 406 00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:15,374 the suffering and death lane, and that's all going to work itself out. 407 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:16,341 We're focused on this. 408 00:21:16,341 --> 00:21:19,978 And Jesus is like, no, those are all one single lane. 409 00:21:19,978 --> 00:21:20,946 That is me. 410 00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:23,148 And they're struggling with that right now. 411 00:21:23,148 --> 00:21:26,652 And so God says, I'm going to say the same thing I said back in chapter 412 00:21:26,652 --> 00:21:31,556 three, but I'm going to drive the point, the importance of these three words. 413 00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:32,824 Listen to him. 414 00:21:33,892 --> 00:21:35,093 Right when the disciples 415 00:21:35,093 --> 00:21:38,096 were struggling most with it. 416 00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:41,066 The disciples are like, yeah, 417 00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:44,069 but he's going to suffer. 418 00:21:44,736 --> 00:21:47,739 Listen to him. 419 00:21:47,739 --> 00:21:50,742 Yeah, but he's talking about dying. 420 00:21:51,076 --> 00:21:54,079 Listen to him. 421 00:21:54,413 --> 00:21:57,816 Yeah, but this wasn't what I signed up for. 422 00:21:58,750 --> 00:22:01,753 Listen to him. 423 00:22:03,588 --> 00:22:06,558 The main point of our time here today, everybody. 424 00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:10,829 If we take nothing away other than this, we're still doing okay. 425 00:22:11,229 --> 00:22:13,498 Jesus is the glorious Son of God. 426 00:22:13,498 --> 00:22:16,535 And his disciples must listen to him 427 00:22:16,702 --> 00:22:19,705 above every other voice. 428 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:26,411 That is the whole point of this story called the Transfiguration. 429 00:22:26,478 --> 00:22:29,314 This is meant to grab the disciples attention. 430 00:22:29,314 --> 00:22:32,317 This is meant to drive home and give credibility 431 00:22:32,317 --> 00:22:34,786 from these Old Testament guys like Moses and Elijah. 432 00:22:34,786 --> 00:22:36,188 And where is it all going? 433 00:22:36,188 --> 00:22:37,622 It's going to this. 434 00:22:37,622 --> 00:22:39,825 Listen to what he's saying. 435 00:22:43,628 --> 00:22:44,663 So of course, the 436 00:22:44,663 --> 00:22:48,066 challenge for us is, all right, how do we do this? 437 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:49,835 Just question the disciples. 438 00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:53,338 We're asking to how do I how do I do this whole listening thing? 439 00:22:55,574 --> 00:22:59,344 There's three things I want to talk about that will get us to this point. 440 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:02,581 The first thing we have to see his glory. 441 00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:04,082 Well, what does that mean? 442 00:23:04,082 --> 00:23:08,320 Well, for the disciples, it was meant they went up a mountain. 443 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,189 They got away. They were by themselves. They were with Jesus. 444 00:23:11,189 --> 00:23:15,160 He he became transfigured, his face shown like the sun is big. 445 00:23:15,227 --> 00:23:17,396 His clothes became white. 446 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,898 But we must see his glory. 447 00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:25,237 I think God wants us to see a transfigure Jesus, however that looks in our lives. 448 00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:29,274 God wants to take us to a place where we do this, 449 00:23:29,307 --> 00:23:32,310 where we see the glory of Jesus. 450 00:23:32,310 --> 00:23:35,313 God wants to answer our confusion. 451 00:23:35,380 --> 00:23:40,051 He doesn't just want us to sit in it for six days or six hours or six weeks. 452 00:23:41,853 --> 00:23:42,587 God wants to 453 00:23:42,587 --> 00:23:46,391 answer our confusion before they can understand his suffering. 454 00:23:46,391 --> 00:23:49,394 They must see his glory. 455 00:23:49,494 --> 00:23:52,497 So the application point for us today is we. 456 00:23:53,331 --> 00:23:58,203 We must see Jesus for who he really is, not merely who we want him to be. 457 00:23:58,270 --> 00:24:02,441 It's a very difficult line to cross, to see Jesus and to accept 458 00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:05,577 Jesus for who he truly is, and not merely who 459 00:24:05,577 --> 00:24:08,580 we want him to be. 460 00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:11,716 Second thing 461 00:24:11,716 --> 00:24:14,719 oh my gosh, this is really 462 00:24:15,153 --> 00:24:17,322 resist our desire to control. 463 00:24:17,322 --> 00:24:19,157 Can I get an amen on that? 464 00:24:19,157 --> 00:24:21,860 Oh my goodness, if we could get this down. 465 00:24:21,860 --> 00:24:22,627 Holy crime. 466 00:24:22,627 --> 00:24:26,798 And he Peter wanted to manage the moment, spiritually speaking. 467 00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:32,938 When we are listening to him, we are surrendering to practical 468 00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:33,872 obedience. 469 00:24:33,872 --> 00:24:36,975 It's so interesting to see how Peter was looking for something to do. 470 00:24:37,042 --> 00:24:40,312 Peter was doing what every one of us in this room will try to do. 471 00:24:40,345 --> 00:24:42,681 I want to control. 472 00:24:42,681 --> 00:24:46,818 I have a desire to control the situation Peter had to. 473 00:24:46,852 --> 00:24:49,054 He was trying to figure out or get to a point where 474 00:24:49,054 --> 00:24:52,290 there was some sort of effort he could put forth 475 00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:57,095 to make sure he knew he had done something, and the command 476 00:24:57,162 --> 00:25:01,132 was simply listen to him not fully understand. 477 00:25:01,199 --> 00:25:02,334 We'll never get to a point 478 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:06,271 where we not this side of heaven anyway, where we fully understand, 479 00:25:07,572 --> 00:25:09,474 not make perfect sense, 480 00:25:09,474 --> 00:25:12,477 but just listen to him. 481 00:25:14,012 --> 00:25:16,214 We have to abandon our preconceived 482 00:25:16,214 --> 00:25:20,252 notions of how Jesus should move and work in our lives, 483 00:25:20,252 --> 00:25:23,955 because every one of us has an idea of how we like things to go. 484 00:25:27,025 --> 00:25:27,792 It's so interesting 485 00:25:27,792 --> 00:25:31,897 to see when the cloud lifts, it's only Jesus. 486 00:25:32,030 --> 00:25:38,670 The voice says, listen to him, not Elijah, not Moses, not what you had in mind. 487 00:25:38,703 --> 00:25:41,072 Listen to him. 488 00:25:41,072 --> 00:25:44,075 Despite all our yabba it's. 489 00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:47,279 So. See his glory. 490 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:50,181 Resist our desire to control. And then the third thing. 491 00:25:50,181 --> 00:25:52,250 Follow him down the mountain. 492 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:53,852 Follow him down the mountain. 493 00:25:53,852 --> 00:25:58,423 The challenge now is to live out the listening part by being obedient. 494 00:25:58,456 --> 00:26:02,060 That has that word has such negative connotations in our society. 495 00:26:03,495 --> 00:26:04,362 Be obedient. 496 00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:06,331 No no no no. 497 00:26:06,331 --> 00:26:10,101 That just means I'm under somebody's thumb and I'm getting controlled and 498 00:26:10,101 --> 00:26:11,469 I'm getting managed. 499 00:26:12,871 --> 00:26:13,638 Not so 500 00:26:13,638 --> 00:26:17,442 with Jesus, but it gets very hard for every one of us 501 00:26:17,442 --> 00:26:21,947 when it comes to living out this listening part by being obedient. 502 00:26:22,914 --> 00:26:26,318 This is the challenge for kids that go to winter camp who are literally up 503 00:26:26,318 --> 00:26:29,321 the mountain, who literally have a mountaintop experience. 504 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:33,158 I cannot tell you how many times I've talked to junior high 505 00:26:33,158 --> 00:26:35,560 and high school students that have been to winter camp. 506 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,863 Winter camp 2020 was fantastic. 507 00:26:38,897 --> 00:26:42,033 The band was awesome, the speaker was awesome. 508 00:26:42,033 --> 00:26:43,602 It snowed. 509 00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:45,203 I remember that winter camp. 510 00:26:45,203 --> 00:26:46,538 It was great. 511 00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:49,541 The kids had a fantastic time. 512 00:26:49,641 --> 00:26:51,710 And then we came down the mountain 513 00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:55,180 and I remember talking to a few of them, especially the high school students, 514 00:26:56,181 --> 00:26:59,451 because shut down for Covid shortly after that trip. 515 00:26:59,584 --> 00:27:02,754 And I remember talking to the high school students saying, this is hard. 516 00:27:02,787 --> 00:27:05,590 I want to go back up the mountain where the band was good 517 00:27:05,590 --> 00:27:09,260 and the speaker was good, and it snowed and I got to wear my Christmas boots. 518 00:27:09,361 --> 00:27:10,795 Look so cute. And I 519 00:27:12,397 --> 00:27:13,798 know now 520 00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:18,436 you got to go through the obedience of living it out, listening to what 521 00:27:18,436 --> 00:27:23,241 he said, listening to what you heard and live it out and it gets tough. 522 00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:26,678 But this is how the church's mission advances. 523 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:31,950 Through ordinary disciples 524 00:27:31,950 --> 00:27:35,120 who come down the mountain ready to obey. 525 00:27:35,987 --> 00:27:39,858 Glory seen must be obedience lived out. 526 00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:45,196 So wrapping up, coming back to our main point, 527 00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:49,000 Jesus is the Son of God, and his disciples must listen to him 528 00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:52,137 above every other voice. 529 00:27:53,138 --> 00:27:56,775 You know the struggle with the every other voices, is it? 530 00:27:56,775 --> 00:27:59,978 They're loud, they're demanding. 531 00:28:00,311 --> 00:28:01,713 They're convincing. 532 00:28:01,713 --> 00:28:03,748 The every other voices are convincing. 533 00:28:03,748 --> 00:28:06,751 They make a really good argument. 534 00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:10,622 So many voices compete for our listening. 535 00:28:10,822 --> 00:28:14,592 And when they compete for our listening, they're competing for our obedience. 536 00:28:18,797 --> 00:28:19,497 So interesting. 537 00:28:19,497 --> 00:28:19,998 In order to 538 00:28:19,998 --> 00:28:20,632 listen, sure, 539 00:28:20,632 --> 00:28:23,902 you need to have a certain amount of understanding the Bible talks about, 540 00:28:23,935 --> 00:28:26,037 especially when it comes to following Jesus. 541 00:28:26,037 --> 00:28:27,872 Weigh the cost before you go to war. 542 00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:29,941 Before you build the tower, weigh the cost. 543 00:28:29,941 --> 00:28:32,744 You know, don't be naive. Don't be delusional. 544 00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:36,081 But knowing that we're never fully going to understand. 545 00:28:38,516 --> 00:28:39,517 In order to listen, 546 00:28:39,517 --> 00:28:42,520 we have to get to a point where we're being obedient. 547 00:28:43,054 --> 00:28:45,457 Listening is not merely understanding. 548 00:28:45,457 --> 00:28:48,393 So the question for us today, where is Jesus 549 00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:51,362 asking you to trust him right now? 550 00:28:51,362 --> 00:28:54,332 Is it in a relationship? 551 00:28:54,432 --> 00:28:55,467 Maybe you're moping around. 552 00:28:55,467 --> 00:28:58,470 The camp right now just happens to be your house. 553 00:28:58,636 --> 00:29:01,506 Is it is he asking you to trust him in a relationship? 554 00:29:01,506 --> 00:29:04,509 Is he asking you to trust him in forgiveness? 555 00:29:04,876 --> 00:29:06,911 Is he asking you to trust him in service? 556 00:29:06,911 --> 00:29:09,547 Do you need to get involved in serving here at the church? 557 00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:13,551 Is it generosity? 558 00:29:13,551 --> 00:29:14,953 Is the obedience flushing? 559 00:29:14,953 --> 00:29:17,722 It's it's it's way out in your life through generosity. 560 00:29:17,722 --> 00:29:20,592 For some of us, this is our application of obedience. 561 00:29:20,592 --> 00:29:24,195 Because last week we talked about a wonderful opportunity 562 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:29,400 that we're going through right here, right now at flipside with a giving campaign. 563 00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:32,504 Pastor Carl talked about raising $150,000. 564 00:29:32,504 --> 00:29:35,507 And the good news is, has already been front loaded with a lot of thousands 565 00:29:35,507 --> 00:29:38,510 of dollars for renovations and improvements 566 00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:41,513 all, all around the campus. 567 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,682 He even proposed a very practical amount 568 00:29:44,682 --> 00:29:48,019 of $1,200 per giving unit, gets the gets the whole job done. 569 00:29:48,052 --> 00:29:51,022 Or if you're a high school student, by your chair, 60 bucks. 570 00:29:51,022 --> 00:29:55,360 This is such a practical way of living out 571 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,830 the obedience of listening to Jesus. 572 00:29:59,097 --> 00:30:02,100 The question is not what do I want to do? 573 00:30:04,235 --> 00:30:05,570 The question 574 00:30:05,570 --> 00:30:08,873 is, what is Jesus asking me to do? 575 00:30:11,042 --> 00:30:15,680 Sometimes Jesus leads us to places we didn't expect in our marriage, 576 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,750 in our parenting, in our health, 577 00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:21,820 in our career, in our finances. 578 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:26,224 Sometimes we find ourselves saying, this is not what I signed up for. 579 00:30:26,224 --> 00:30:26,558 Jesus. 580 00:30:26,558 --> 00:30:30,695 When I signed up to follow you, I did not have this in mind. 581 00:30:32,063 --> 00:30:34,065 This did not come up on the radar. 582 00:30:34,065 --> 00:30:38,603 But the question remains from God will I listen? 583 00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:44,075 Will I listen knowing that listening is more than understanding? 584 00:30:44,142 --> 00:30:47,145 It's obedience and it's trust. 585 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:51,149 Listening is following Jesus when the experience 586 00:30:51,149 --> 00:30:54,152 does not meet the advertisement. 587 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,958 When we're disillusioned, the way the disciples were at the end of chapter 588 00:30:59,958 --> 00:31:06,831 16. So in conclusion, the disciples wanted a messiah without suffering. 589 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:10,635 That would have been nice. 590 00:31:10,635 --> 00:31:12,237 Sure. 591 00:31:12,237 --> 00:31:16,507 And it was so interesting that God's answer was not an explanation. 592 00:31:16,541 --> 00:31:20,778 God didn't say, okay, I get just sit down and let me explain this all to you. 593 00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:23,181 God's answer was not an explanation. 594 00:31:23,181 --> 00:31:25,917 God's answer was a simple command. 595 00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:28,219 And that command is listen to him. 596 00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:29,320 What is he saying to you? 597 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,858 Listen to him in the same command remains for us today. 598 00:31:33,958 --> 00:31:35,693 Amen. 599 00:31:35,693 --> 00:31:36,361 Let's pray. 600 00:31:36,361 --> 00:31:38,496 God, thank you so much for today. 601 00:31:38,496 --> 00:31:40,531 Thank you for the opportunity that you've given 602 00:31:40,531 --> 00:31:43,868 all of us to just come together and start the week off 603 00:31:44,335 --> 00:31:48,439 this Father's Day by giving this first amount of time back to you. 604 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,576 I pray that as we go about doing the things 605 00:31:51,576 --> 00:31:54,579 you've called us to do in the places you've called us to do it, 606 00:31:54,579 --> 00:31:58,816 you will help us to get past those periods of disillusionment 607 00:31:59,217 --> 00:32:04,555 where we realize that maybe things aren't shaping up the way we had in mind. 608 00:32:04,956 --> 00:32:09,294 Help us to remember that that does not mean you're not still at work. 609 00:32:11,429 --> 00:32:12,897 Give us clarity. 610 00:32:12,897 --> 00:32:15,800 We appreciate your honesty. 611 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,136 We ask that you continue to do that, 612 00:32:18,136 --> 00:32:22,740 and we will see your glory and live in your obedience. 613 00:32:23,241 --> 00:32:25,777 Jesus, we thank you for all this and it's in your name we pray. 614 00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:26,511 Amen.