1 00:00:02,535 --> 00:00:05,538 This series we've been on through the book of Matthew. 2 00:00:05,872 --> 00:00:08,875 We've this is week three on chapter 12, 3 00:00:09,275 --> 00:00:13,680 and we've talked about how chapter 12 is the hinge point of Jesus's ministry. 4 00:00:14,614 --> 00:00:17,851 It's the hinge point of all of history. 5 00:00:18,485 --> 00:00:22,555 Chapter 12 is crucial and vitally important. 6 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:26,493 Everything changed in chapter 12. 7 00:00:26,493 --> 00:00:28,361 We talked about a lot of it 8 00:00:28,361 --> 00:00:31,831 two weeks ago on Palm Sunday, the last week on Resurrection Sunday. 9 00:00:31,831 --> 00:00:34,801 We're going to wrap it up today with about 11 verses. 10 00:00:35,735 --> 00:00:37,337 And I just want to get right into it. 11 00:00:37,337 --> 00:00:39,072 So if you have your Bible, you brought it with you. 12 00:00:39,072 --> 00:00:41,508 I'm proud of you for bringing your Bibles with you. 13 00:00:41,508 --> 00:00:44,511 If you turn to Matthew chapter 12, 14 00:00:44,611 --> 00:00:48,715 here's the big idea for for this last section 15 00:00:49,149 --> 00:00:52,619 of the book of Matthew, without the spirit of God. 16 00:00:52,919 --> 00:00:54,521 A cleaned up life won't last. 17 00:00:56,456 --> 00:00:58,124 Without the Spirit of God 18 00:00:58,124 --> 00:01:01,127 in dwelling and filling a life, 19 00:01:01,861 --> 00:01:04,931 no matter how hard we work to clean it up ourselves, 20 00:01:04,931 --> 00:01:07,934 it will not last. 21 00:01:08,101 --> 00:01:10,103 And Jesus is going to teach us 22 00:01:10,103 --> 00:01:13,106 that and paint that in a profound picture. 23 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,510 But I want us to understand the priority and preeminence, 24 00:01:18,278 --> 00:01:22,115 not just in faith in Christ. 25 00:01:22,115 --> 00:01:25,118 His work on the cross is resurrection for salvation. 26 00:01:25,952 --> 00:01:28,088 But after that, 27 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:31,091 the indwelling of the Spirit of God in that life, 28 00:01:31,891 --> 00:01:34,894 in order for a victorious life, 29 00:01:35,695 --> 00:01:38,198 we just try to clean up our life ourselves. 30 00:01:38,198 --> 00:01:41,201 It it falls apart every time. 31 00:01:42,836 --> 00:01:44,404 And so I just want to get into this. 32 00:01:44,404 --> 00:01:48,575 Let me just read me read Matthew 12 verses 40 through 14, and we'll go through 33 00:01:48,808 --> 00:01:50,176 all the way through verse 50. 34 00:01:50,176 --> 00:01:53,947 But let me take these first three verses and I'm going to wrap up a little bit what 35 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:55,281 we introduced last week. 36 00:01:57,083 --> 00:01:58,718 With verse 40 37 00:01:58,718 --> 00:02:03,356 for just as Jonah, this is Jesus speaking for just as Jonah was three days 38 00:02:03,356 --> 00:02:05,425 and three nights in the belly of the great fish, 39 00:02:05,425 --> 00:02:08,728 so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 40 00:02:09,295 --> 00:02:10,430 The men of Nineveh 41 00:02:10,430 --> 00:02:14,134 will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it. 42 00:02:14,534 --> 00:02:16,936 For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. 43 00:02:16,936 --> 00:02:19,939 And behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 44 00:02:20,173 --> 00:02:22,542 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment 45 00:02:22,542 --> 00:02:24,177 with this generation and condemn it. 46 00:02:24,177 --> 00:02:27,413 For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. 47 00:02:27,747 --> 00:02:30,750 And behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 48 00:02:32,585 --> 00:02:33,887 This is the light. 49 00:02:33,887 --> 00:02:35,688 Jesus already said, I'm greater than his temple. 50 00:02:35,688 --> 00:02:38,591 I'm greater than your religious rules. You know I'm great. 51 00:02:38,591 --> 00:02:40,960 And he presses and presses and presses. 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,196 I'm greater than Jonah. I'm greater than Solomon. 53 00:02:43,196 --> 00:02:48,902 And what he's doing is he's slamming the door on the request for endless proof. 54 00:02:51,070 --> 00:02:54,207 He says, I'm going to give you no more proofs of who I am. 55 00:02:54,207 --> 00:02:56,943 I've already given you enough proof. 56 00:02:56,943 --> 00:02:58,077 The one. 57 00:02:58,077 --> 00:03:02,282 There's only one that remains the proof of my death and resurrection. 58 00:03:02,282 --> 00:03:04,384 That's what he's saying. 59 00:03:04,384 --> 00:03:06,920 He's already declared I'm greater than the temple. 60 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:08,788 I'm greater where you think God resides. 61 00:03:08,788 --> 00:03:11,791 He resides in me. 62 00:03:11,858 --> 00:03:13,293 I am the father one. 63 00:03:13,293 --> 00:03:15,228 He says I'm greater than the. 64 00:03:15,228 --> 00:03:17,130 I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. 65 00:03:17,130 --> 00:03:19,832 All these rules you make up to make you right with God. 66 00:03:19,832 --> 00:03:20,266 They don't. 67 00:03:20,266 --> 00:03:23,269 I am how you get right with God. 68 00:03:23,570 --> 00:03:24,604 I have a thing in. 69 00:03:24,604 --> 00:03:26,940 He showed them I have authority over everything in the physical world. 70 00:03:26,940 --> 00:03:29,576 I have authority over everything in the spiritual world. 71 00:03:29,576 --> 00:03:31,277 And now he says, I'm greater than Jonah. 72 00:03:31,277 --> 00:03:32,412 I'm greater than Solomon. 73 00:03:32,412 --> 00:03:35,515 The one thing about Jesus is he never lets off the gas. 74 00:03:36,749 --> 00:03:37,317 Do you understand? 75 00:03:37,317 --> 00:03:40,086 He just keeps pressing. 76 00:03:40,086 --> 00:03:43,122 And and what he's saying is this here's the point of what he's saying. 77 00:03:43,289 --> 00:03:45,825 Nothing greater is coming. 78 00:03:45,825 --> 00:03:48,828 Nothing greater is going to come. 79 00:03:49,429 --> 00:03:50,430 Don't keep asking me. 80 00:03:50,430 --> 00:03:52,432 Don't keep asking me to prove myself. 81 00:03:52,432 --> 00:03:54,634 Don't keep doing it. God, if you just show me this. 82 00:03:54,634 --> 00:03:55,501 If you just show me that. 83 00:03:55,501 --> 00:03:56,736 If I just reveal the truth. 84 00:03:56,736 --> 00:03:59,739 I've shown you enough of what he says. 85 00:03:59,939 --> 00:04:02,942 There's nothing greater coming. 86 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:07,480 The fact is, and Jesus pushes it is that God 87 00:04:07,714 --> 00:04:10,717 doesn't owe anyone another sign. 88 00:04:12,685 --> 00:04:15,154 He doesn't. 89 00:04:15,154 --> 00:04:18,157 He's already given us the ultimate one 90 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:22,095 the death and the resurrection of Jesus. 91 00:04:23,529 --> 00:04:26,532 When it comes, when it comes, 92 00:04:30,169 --> 00:04:33,172 To Christ and submission to him. 93 00:04:34,641 --> 00:04:37,076 The issue is not lack of evidence. 94 00:04:37,076 --> 00:04:38,611 The issue is lack of surrender. 95 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:43,082 That's what Jesus is saying. 96 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:48,221 First Corinthians 15 three through eight. 97 00:04:48,221 --> 00:04:51,758 Romans one four all talk about the fact that the resurrection of Jesus 98 00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:54,961 is the proof of his divinity and who he is. 99 00:04:58,231 --> 00:05:00,767 And in Luke 1631, there's this, 100 00:05:00,767 --> 00:05:05,672 this great moment that Jesus is, is having with those who are yet unbelieving. 101 00:05:05,672 --> 00:05:09,042 And he says, listen, if they won't hear Moses 102 00:05:09,042 --> 00:05:12,945 and the prophets, in other words, like God's given us enough, 103 00:05:12,945 --> 00:05:16,783 if they're not going to listen to this, they won't listen. 104 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:17,784 They won't be convinced. 105 00:05:17,784 --> 00:05:19,319 Even with so much a rise from the dead. 106 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:22,322 Guess what Jesus did? 107 00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:25,458 He said, listen, you, you've got enough proof. 108 00:05:26,359 --> 00:05:28,728 And if you're going to choose to reject the proof 109 00:05:28,728 --> 00:05:30,496 that I've given, you won't even believe me. 110 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:31,864 If I come back from the dead. 111 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:36,336 And so the time for proof is over. 112 00:05:36,703 --> 00:05:39,706 I've given you enough. 113 00:05:41,574 --> 00:05:44,210 What he's pressing into us is this. 114 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:47,814 More proof doesn't fix a resistant heart. 115 00:05:51,150 --> 00:05:51,351 Then, 116 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:54,821 when it comes to to trust in Jesus as our Savior 117 00:05:54,821 --> 00:05:58,524 when it comes to giving our allegiance to Him and Him alone. 118 00:05:59,926 --> 00:06:02,995 Unbelief is not intellectual. 119 00:06:02,995 --> 00:06:05,998 Unbelief is volitional. 120 00:06:08,735 --> 00:06:12,004 Years ago, brilliant man named Lee Strobel. 121 00:06:12,572 --> 00:06:14,774 If you ever heard Lee Strobel, 122 00:06:14,774 --> 00:06:18,211 brilliant man, wrote a book called evidence that demands a verdict 123 00:06:18,811 --> 00:06:19,712 and Leaves troubles. 124 00:06:19,712 --> 00:06:22,682 Investigative reporter I think with the Chicago Times, 125 00:06:23,015 --> 00:06:26,018 and he set out to disprove it was an atheist, 126 00:06:26,018 --> 00:06:29,155 was to disprove Christianity and he just use the Bible. 127 00:06:29,155 --> 00:06:31,491 I'm going to just prove that this stuff was wrong 128 00:06:31,491 --> 00:06:33,993 and through that process, he became a Christ follower. 129 00:06:35,194 --> 00:06:37,797 And he said that like, this is the evidence is there. 130 00:06:37,797 --> 00:06:40,800 And so he wrote this book about that process called evidence 131 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:41,801 that demands a verdict. 132 00:06:41,801 --> 00:06:44,237 It's a brilliant it's a great work. 133 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:47,240 But here's the issue that I have with the idea. 134 00:06:47,507 --> 00:06:49,842 It's almost as if Lee says this. 135 00:06:49,842 --> 00:06:52,845 If you're smart enough, you'll accept Jesus. 136 00:06:53,846 --> 00:06:57,316 I mean, that's that's in essence, this is so clear evidence. 137 00:06:57,417 --> 00:06:59,952 All he had to do was understand it and to give her life to him. 138 00:06:59,952 --> 00:07:02,955 The problem with that is this 139 00:07:03,389 --> 00:07:06,025 more proof doesn't 140 00:07:06,025 --> 00:07:09,028 heal a resistant heart. 141 00:07:11,297 --> 00:07:12,064 Unbelief is 142 00:07:12,064 --> 00:07:15,067 not just an intellectual, intellectual thing. 143 00:07:15,134 --> 00:07:18,137 It's a volitional thing. 144 00:07:18,805 --> 00:07:20,773 And what Jesus is saying here 145 00:07:20,773 --> 00:07:24,377 is that there were there were these ungodly, 146 00:07:25,077 --> 00:07:28,080 horrible people 147 00:07:28,214 --> 00:07:31,451 that repented with less light than what you've received. 148 00:07:33,152 --> 00:07:35,054 And he says they will judge those 149 00:07:35,054 --> 00:07:38,191 who have received more light and yet are still unrepentant. 150 00:07:39,659 --> 00:07:42,662 And he uses Minivan Jonas as the reference point. 151 00:07:43,596 --> 00:07:46,532 Nineveh was an Assyrian city 152 00:07:46,532 --> 00:07:50,403 that was absolutely ungodly, vile, evil, 153 00:07:50,403 --> 00:07:53,372 demonic, horrible. 154 00:07:54,207 --> 00:07:55,708 And God says, I'm going to judge him. 155 00:07:55,708 --> 00:07:58,711 But Jonah, before I do, I want you to go preach to them 156 00:07:59,278 --> 00:08:00,313 so reluctantly. 157 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:02,949 You know the story, Jonah in the big fish, right? 158 00:08:02,949 --> 00:08:05,218 So Jonah finally gets there 159 00:08:05,218 --> 00:08:08,921 and Jonah says eight words. 160 00:08:09,722 --> 00:08:12,758 That's the whole message, eight words. 161 00:08:13,559 --> 00:08:16,929 And I know some of you are thinking, pastor, why don't you use that model? 162 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:20,500 It's like eight words. 163 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:22,835 And he gave him 40 days and that was it. 164 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:26,372 And the entire city of Nineveh repented 165 00:08:27,673 --> 00:08:30,209 in sackcloth and ashes and great remorse. 166 00:08:31,244 --> 00:08:33,312 Jesus, 167 00:08:33,312 --> 00:08:35,715 three years, 168 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:38,651 multiple messages 169 00:08:38,651 --> 00:08:41,821 and he says they repented at Jonah. 170 00:08:42,121 --> 00:08:45,091 You still reject me? 171 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:50,096 Jonah did no miracles whatsoever. 172 00:08:50,096 --> 00:08:53,099 Jesus and miracle after miracle after miracle of many kinds. 173 00:08:53,866 --> 00:08:57,036 And he said they had less light and they repented. 174 00:08:57,136 --> 00:09:00,273 You have more light, me and you still remain a repented. 175 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:03,376 You get no more proof. 176 00:09:03,543 --> 00:09:05,778 And those who have received less light and ever been 177 00:09:05,778 --> 00:09:09,649 who will judge you, who have more light and are unrepentant? 178 00:09:10,249 --> 00:09:13,252 He's. 179 00:09:14,487 --> 00:09:15,655 And he says this. 180 00:09:15,655 --> 00:09:18,157 Queen of the South, the Queen of Sheba. 181 00:09:18,157 --> 00:09:20,793 He says she traveled miles to listen to the wisdom 182 00:09:20,793 --> 00:09:24,330 of Solomon, who is referring to is this Queen of Sheba. 183 00:09:24,330 --> 00:09:26,599 And she literature from somewhere 184 00:09:26,599 --> 00:09:30,469 around Ethiopia down to Jerusalem, 1200 to 1500 miles. 185 00:09:30,469 --> 00:09:31,137 She traveled 186 00:09:32,371 --> 00:09:35,041 walking on camels, 187 00:09:35,041 --> 00:09:38,010 took her months to get there. 188 00:09:38,444 --> 00:09:40,413 She she she traveled. 189 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:43,382 She wore for a man she desired so much. 190 00:09:43,516 --> 00:09:46,285 And if you were talking to our generation, he would see. 191 00:09:46,285 --> 00:09:51,057 And people in your generation can't even drive to church or pick up a Bible. 192 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:53,359 I mean, not you. 193 00:09:53,359 --> 00:09:55,828 Obviously, we're here so, you know, we're good for us. 194 00:09:55,828 --> 00:09:58,631 But but like, he puts it like 195 00:09:58,631 --> 00:10:01,867 that, what he's saying is this hunger matters. 196 00:10:03,302 --> 00:10:06,038 Hunger matters. 197 00:10:06,038 --> 00:10:09,041 The Queen of Sheba, she traveled all those miles 198 00:10:09,141 --> 00:10:12,678 to incredible difficulty to go listen to the wisdom of Solomon, 199 00:10:12,678 --> 00:10:15,481 or Solomon was wise and the wisest man that ever lived. 200 00:10:15,481 --> 00:10:19,318 But he had wisdom about life and Jesus says, I am wisdom. 201 00:10:19,318 --> 00:10:21,988 I don't just have wisdom, I am wisdom. 202 00:10:21,988 --> 00:10:24,757 He'll tell you about life. I am the life. 203 00:10:24,757 --> 00:10:28,427 She traveled thousands over a thousand miles to to listen to him. 204 00:10:28,561 --> 00:10:30,529 You won't even come to me. 205 00:10:37,937 --> 00:10:38,371 And he says 206 00:10:38,371 --> 00:10:41,374 something greater than Solomon's here. 207 00:10:42,241 --> 00:10:44,243 That's a profound statement, 208 00:10:44,243 --> 00:10:47,680 because you, Bible students, who was the first king of Israel? 209 00:10:49,048 --> 00:10:50,483 Saul. 210 00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:53,953 David knows who was the second king of Israel. 211 00:10:55,221 --> 00:10:56,956 David, 212 00:10:56,956 --> 00:10:58,891 who was the third king of Israel? 213 00:10:58,891 --> 00:10:59,625 Solomon. 214 00:10:59,625 --> 00:11:03,863 So listen, Solomon was the son of David. 215 00:11:04,997 --> 00:11:08,434 Jesus says, something greater than Solomon's here. 216 00:11:08,868 --> 00:11:10,269 What's he saying? 217 00:11:10,269 --> 00:11:13,639 I am the Son of David, which was a messianic title. 218 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:18,277 He said, I'm not just greater than the kid who was David's son. 219 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:21,514 I am the son of David. 220 00:11:23,482 --> 00:11:26,485 Do you understand? 221 00:11:26,819 --> 00:11:29,822 And yet you still reject me. 222 00:11:31,323 --> 00:11:33,793 So, yeah, the Queen of Sheba, 223 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:36,228 who hungered more 224 00:11:36,228 --> 00:11:39,265 will rise up in judgment against those of you with great light 225 00:11:39,265 --> 00:11:42,268 who still live in rejection of me. 226 00:11:43,102 --> 00:11:43,969 It's profound. 227 00:11:49,842 --> 00:11:52,845 Exposure without surrender, 228 00:11:53,012 --> 00:11:56,015 Jesus says, increase his judgment. 229 00:11:59,652 --> 00:12:03,556 See, what condemns me is not what I don't know. 230 00:12:03,589 --> 00:12:06,592 What condemns me is what I refuse. 231 00:12:08,661 --> 00:12:11,664 To understand. 232 00:12:15,601 --> 00:12:18,571 Oh, my prayer. 233 00:12:19,238 --> 00:12:20,706 On my knees is God 234 00:12:20,706 --> 00:12:23,709 that you would open blind eyes. 235 00:12:25,311 --> 00:12:28,314 And enlightened your minds. 236 00:12:29,682 --> 00:12:32,685 And soften hard hearts. 237 00:12:36,422 --> 00:12:39,425 You know enough. 238 00:12:44,430 --> 00:12:44,930 Jesus! 239 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:47,266 I'm greater than the temple. I'm up. 240 00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:48,868 I'm the Lord over the Sabbath. 241 00:12:48,868 --> 00:12:50,102 I'm greater than Jonah. 242 00:12:50,102 --> 00:12:51,003 Greater than Solomon. 243 00:12:51,003 --> 00:12:53,839 What he's saying is this. 244 00:12:53,839 --> 00:12:56,041 If you miss me, 245 00:12:56,041 --> 00:12:58,444 you've missed the greatest thing that's ever been. 246 00:12:58,444 --> 00:13:01,447 Or the greatest thing that is to come. 247 00:13:03,048 --> 00:13:06,051 And I'm not going to give you any more signs. 248 00:13:07,186 --> 00:13:10,256 And then Jesus says these words in verses 249 00:13:10,256 --> 00:13:13,592 43 through 45, and it just seems out of left field. 250 00:13:14,827 --> 00:13:17,096 And you read this and you go, what's he talking about? 251 00:13:18,030 --> 00:13:19,965 Look at what he says. 252 00:13:19,965 --> 00:13:23,102 When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person 253 00:13:23,102 --> 00:13:26,739 that passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none, 254 00:13:27,373 --> 00:13:30,843 then it says, I'll return to my house from which I came, 255 00:13:31,076 --> 00:13:34,613 and when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 256 00:13:35,548 --> 00:13:39,318 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself. 257 00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:40,953 And they enter and dwell there. 258 00:13:40,953 --> 00:13:44,290 And the last state of that person is worse than the first. 259 00:13:44,757 --> 00:13:47,760 So also it will be with this evil generation. 260 00:13:47,860 --> 00:13:50,863 What? 261 00:13:51,564 --> 00:13:53,065 They're like when you read, you go, you. 262 00:13:53,065 --> 00:13:56,969 How did we how do we get from Jonah to Solomon to demons? 263 00:13:57,870 --> 00:13:59,972 Like, what is he talking about? 264 00:13:59,972 --> 00:14:01,507 Right. 265 00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:04,410 Let me just let me let me let's walk through this. 266 00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:11,550 Jesus has described a house, 267 00:14:12,618 --> 00:14:16,322 and that that that I want at one time was dirty and in shambles. 268 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:19,225 That has been swept and cleaned. 269 00:14:19,225 --> 00:14:21,293 But it's empty. 270 00:14:21,293 --> 00:14:24,730 And this demon who was there, who has left. 271 00:14:24,730 --> 00:14:28,400 And then the house got all cleaned and then he comes back and it's like, hey, 272 00:14:28,934 --> 00:14:29,702 it looks nice. 273 00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:33,305 Now let me go get seven buddies and let's all move in. 274 00:14:34,173 --> 00:14:37,176 And then that house is just ruined. 275 00:14:38,611 --> 00:14:42,147 This is not Jesus is not teaching on demon possession. 276 00:14:42,381 --> 00:14:43,883 Though there's much truth here. 277 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:46,385 Please understand that. 278 00:14:46,385 --> 00:14:49,388 But Jesus has just got done talking about. 279 00:14:52,458 --> 00:14:54,860 He he's just said, listen, 280 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:57,863 I don't miss me. 281 00:14:59,331 --> 00:15:01,367 You cannot 282 00:15:01,367 --> 00:15:05,070 clean up your life of your own power. 283 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:08,040 Apart from my indwelling you. 284 00:15:09,174 --> 00:15:12,778 And if you try, don't miss me. 285 00:15:13,445 --> 00:15:15,147 I'm greater than the temple. 286 00:15:15,147 --> 00:15:17,349 I'm the Lord over all your religious laws. 287 00:15:17,349 --> 00:15:18,450 I'm greater than Jonah. 288 00:15:18,450 --> 00:15:21,420 I'm greater than. So, don't miss me. 289 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:25,925 If you try to do this apart from me, you'll be worse off than when you started. 290 00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:26,792 That's what he's saying. 291 00:15:30,896 --> 00:15:31,163 It's a 292 00:15:31,163 --> 00:15:35,167 very serious thing to try to clean up your life 293 00:15:35,167 --> 00:15:38,470 without the indwelling of Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 294 00:15:39,738 --> 00:15:42,741 It's very serious. 295 00:15:43,342 --> 00:15:44,343 Here's what I'm saying. 296 00:15:44,343 --> 00:15:47,313 Moral reform without spiritual transformation 297 00:15:47,379 --> 00:15:50,382 is a setup for collapse. 298 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:55,621 Please get this. 299 00:15:57,089 --> 00:16:01,460 The devil is not opposed to a clean moral life. 300 00:16:01,827 --> 00:16:05,364 If that clean moral life is not inhabited by Christ 301 00:16:05,364 --> 00:16:08,367 and the Holy Spirit. 302 00:16:10,002 --> 00:16:13,906 And most people think all I got to do is I got to just I got to just be better. 303 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:16,208 I got to quit sinning. 304 00:16:16,208 --> 00:16:19,211 Listen. 305 00:16:20,479 --> 00:16:21,947 Cleansing is not the end goal. 306 00:16:21,947 --> 00:16:24,750 Feeling is. 307 00:16:24,750 --> 00:16:28,320 And most religious people think it's about cleansing. 308 00:16:28,754 --> 00:16:30,389 I have to stop sinning. 309 00:16:30,389 --> 00:16:34,827 You can't stop sinning without the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. 310 00:16:35,461 --> 00:16:36,228 You can't. 311 00:16:38,430 --> 00:16:41,400 I can't. 312 00:16:49,108 --> 00:16:51,643 Ephesians 518 313 00:16:51,643 --> 00:16:54,646 don't get drunk with wine is debauchery, but be what 314 00:16:55,381 --> 00:16:58,350 filled with the spirit. 315 00:17:00,886 --> 00:17:01,453 I say to you, 316 00:17:01,453 --> 00:17:04,523 walk by the spirit, and you won't gratify the desires of the flesh. 317 00:17:04,656 --> 00:17:05,791 Here's our problem. 318 00:17:05,791 --> 00:17:08,761 We skip the first part and try to do the second part. 319 00:17:10,229 --> 00:17:12,164 I don't want to gratify all my evildoers. 320 00:17:12,164 --> 00:17:13,699 I got some bad desires. 321 00:17:13,699 --> 00:17:16,135 I got to get better. 322 00:17:16,135 --> 00:17:19,138 Help me get better. 323 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:21,073 And what Scripture tells us. 324 00:17:21,073 --> 00:17:23,642 No, no, no, you don't get better. 325 00:17:23,642 --> 00:17:24,443 You walk. 326 00:17:24,443 --> 00:17:27,446 Being empowered by the Holy Spirit 327 00:17:27,446 --> 00:17:30,449 that enables you to understand. 328 00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:35,187 There is no way that any person can live a righteous life and a holy life 329 00:17:35,187 --> 00:17:38,424 and obedient life, apart from the power of the Holy Spirit 330 00:17:38,424 --> 00:17:41,427 within them. 331 00:17:46,632 --> 00:17:48,200 Because of the resurrection, 332 00:17:49,435 --> 00:17:53,539 the Holy Spirit comes in us for salvation. 333 00:17:53,539 --> 00:17:55,074 So the Holy Spirit's work, 334 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:58,277 it's the Holy Spirit that does what the Bible calls regenerates us. 335 00:18:00,145 --> 00:18:01,513 And because of the resurrection, 336 00:18:01,513 --> 00:18:04,516 we have the opportunity to be in 337 00:18:04,583 --> 00:18:07,586 to have the Holy Spirit regenerate us. 338 00:18:08,220 --> 00:18:10,355 Ephesians one 339 00:18:10,355 --> 00:18:15,160 In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel 340 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,330 of your salvation, and believed in him, okay, that's my faith. 341 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:21,967 You were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 342 00:18:21,967 --> 00:18:26,872 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it 343 00:18:26,972 --> 00:18:27,906 to the praise of his glory. 344 00:18:27,906 --> 00:18:28,507 What he's saying is, 345 00:18:28,507 --> 00:18:32,911 when we accept the the truth of Jesus, his life is death is resurrection. 346 00:18:32,911 --> 00:18:36,014 By faith we're sealed with the Holy Spirit. 347 00:18:36,014 --> 00:18:37,015 The Holy Spirit comes in us. 348 00:18:38,550 --> 00:18:40,219 That's because of the resurrection. 349 00:18:40,219 --> 00:18:43,222 It all starts there. 350 00:18:43,422 --> 00:18:46,592 But the resurrection needs what the Bible calls Pentecost. 351 00:18:46,592 --> 00:18:48,327 Everybody say Pentecost. 352 00:18:48,327 --> 00:18:49,461 Don't get weird about it. 353 00:18:49,461 --> 00:18:52,564 Let me just tell you what that is Pentecost. 354 00:18:52,564 --> 00:18:55,567 When the Holy Spirit comes upon the person 355 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:59,705 for victorious, powerful, living those saved. 356 00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:02,808 Now I'm able to live victoriously. 357 00:19:03,609 --> 00:19:05,544 Acts one eight. 358 00:19:05,544 --> 00:19:08,580 You will receive what power 359 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:12,451 when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you'll be my. 360 00:19:12,451 --> 00:19:15,721 What witnesses Jerusalem, Judaism disappear, and the ends of the earth. 361 00:19:16,588 --> 00:19:19,525 So they already believed by faith none of those direction, 362 00:19:19,525 --> 00:19:22,528 but they hadn't yet had the Holy Spirit come upon them 363 00:19:23,428 --> 00:19:26,798 for obedient, holy, righteous living, and bold witness. 364 00:19:26,798 --> 00:19:28,233 Do you understand? 365 00:19:28,233 --> 00:19:31,236 You understand? 366 00:19:32,504 --> 00:19:36,175 Luke 24 But I'm sending the promise to my father. 367 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,911 That's the Holy Spirit upon you. 368 00:19:38,911 --> 00:19:42,581 Just stay where you are till you're clothed with power from on high. 369 00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:44,183 That's the point. 370 00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:46,985 Not just cleansing, but in dwelling 371 00:19:46,985 --> 00:19:50,622 to be clothed in the power of the Holy Spirit. 372 00:19:50,989 --> 00:19:53,859 Apart from that, we cannot ever 373 00:19:55,060 --> 00:19:58,063 live a righteous, obedient, holy life 374 00:19:58,230 --> 00:19:59,331 again. 375 00:19:59,331 --> 00:20:02,201 And with Jesus saying, don't try to do all. 376 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:05,204 Don't try to clean up your house and leave it empty. 377 00:20:05,737 --> 00:20:08,740 It's going to be worse off than ever before. 378 00:20:08,941 --> 00:20:11,910 The disciples perfect example. 379 00:20:12,377 --> 00:20:15,080 If you ever look at the scripture some time, look at who they were 380 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,049 before the resurrection. 381 00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:19,017 Cowards. Ignorant. 382 00:20:19,017 --> 00:20:20,552 They just didn't get it. 383 00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:21,787 And then there was a resurrection. 384 00:20:21,787 --> 00:20:23,789 And guess what happened? 385 00:20:23,789 --> 00:20:24,923 Cowards and ignorant. 386 00:20:24,923 --> 00:20:27,926 Still, they were. 387 00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:31,063 And then 50 days later, the Holy Spirit comes upon them 388 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:33,632 and they didn't take any of the Bible classes. 389 00:20:33,632 --> 00:20:37,069 They didn't have any discipleship, they didn't get older and wiser. 390 00:20:37,135 --> 00:20:40,305 But because the Holy Spirit came upon them, now they understood Scripture. 391 00:20:40,405 --> 00:20:43,475 Now they're taking on the Roman government, the religious authorities, 392 00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:45,777 and now they, the world can't contain them. 393 00:20:47,713 --> 00:20:50,115 Though they were cleansed, 394 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:52,184 they weren't indwelt 395 00:20:52,184 --> 00:20:55,187 to understand. Yes. 396 00:20:59,091 --> 00:21:02,628 I've been struggling for this last over a week. 397 00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:03,362 Just praying. 398 00:21:03,362 --> 00:21:06,331 Lord, should I? 399 00:21:07,032 --> 00:21:10,002 And I've decided that if you want to totally up to you. 400 00:21:10,002 --> 00:21:11,370 I'm not going to ask. Childcare. 401 00:21:11,370 --> 00:21:13,605 You got to work after you've got kids, you got to work up your own child care. 402 00:21:13,605 --> 00:21:15,540 You're big people. You can figure that out. 403 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:17,376 We're not doing like a worship thing. 404 00:21:17,376 --> 00:21:18,610 There's no food. 405 00:21:18,610 --> 00:21:22,614 We're just I just want I want to walk you through Scripture 406 00:21:23,282 --> 00:21:26,285 tonight at 6:00. 407 00:21:26,852 --> 00:21:28,820 And I want to give you a picture from the Bible, 408 00:21:28,820 --> 00:21:32,958 who these disciples were before the resurrection and who they were after. 409 00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:36,395 The resurrection, and that the thing that made a difference 410 00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:39,665 in the world and our lives is what happened after Pentecost. 411 00:21:41,433 --> 00:21:44,069 Here's the point of this 412 00:21:44,069 --> 00:21:47,072 if you have accepted Christ as your Savior 413 00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:50,976 and he has cleaned your life and transformed you, 414 00:21:51,576 --> 00:21:55,380 but you've not yet taken Jesus at His word 415 00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:58,350 and said, father, will you give me the 416 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,253 the power of clothe me 417 00:22:01,253 --> 00:22:04,256 in the power of your spirit? 418 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:07,392 Those saved? 419 00:22:07,526 --> 00:22:09,995 Oftentimes still defeated? 420 00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:12,998 Do you understand? 421 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:17,569 You need I need the continual 422 00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:21,673 indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God 423 00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:25,677 to live a victorious life. 424 00:22:27,179 --> 00:22:29,648 If the Spirit of God doesn't move in 425 00:22:29,648 --> 00:22:32,651 and come upon, something worse will. 426 00:22:33,885 --> 00:22:36,521 And this is what he listen. 427 00:22:36,521 --> 00:22:38,557 This is why people try to quit bad 428 00:22:38,557 --> 00:22:41,560 habits and relapse worse. 429 00:22:42,561 --> 00:22:45,564 Anybody? 430 00:22:47,899 --> 00:22:49,167 You say you might be saved. 431 00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:51,269 Absolutely going to happen when you die. 432 00:22:51,269 --> 00:22:54,206 That 100% 433 00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:57,209 but defeated. 434 00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:01,847 This is why 435 00:23:01,847 --> 00:23:05,183 when you clean up your life, you crash harder afterwards. 436 00:23:08,854 --> 00:23:10,155 This is why people try 437 00:23:10,155 --> 00:23:13,158 religion and never change. 438 00:23:14,593 --> 00:23:17,596 So why some of you walked away? 439 00:23:18,096 --> 00:23:20,198 I've tried that. 440 00:23:20,198 --> 00:23:21,533 Yeah. 441 00:23:21,533 --> 00:23:22,501 Cleaned it up on your own. 442 00:23:22,501 --> 00:23:25,504 How'd that work? 443 00:23:29,307 --> 00:23:31,209 Without the power of the Spirit of God 444 00:23:31,209 --> 00:23:33,712 indwelling us, we will never be victorious. 445 00:23:33,712 --> 00:23:35,914 Saved, 446 00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:38,683 but defeated. 447 00:23:38,683 --> 00:23:39,351 Listen. This. 448 00:23:39,351 --> 00:23:40,585 How practical this is. 449 00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:40,786 This. 450 00:23:40,786 --> 00:23:43,789 This isn't like spiritual, spooky. 451 00:23:44,356 --> 00:23:46,558 Like I'm not doing the whole charismatic thing. 452 00:23:46,558 --> 00:23:48,894 I'm not doing the ghost and all that. 453 00:23:48,894 --> 00:23:50,829 It's not that. 454 00:23:50,829 --> 00:23:52,264 Let me tell you how practical this is. 455 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,499 Some of you are saved. 456 00:23:54,499 --> 00:23:57,502 Some of you are married to someone who is saved, 457 00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:01,473 and you're fighting for your marriage, and there's dying 458 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:04,943 because you're trying to keep it in your own power 459 00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:07,946 and you've not yet said, father, give me the power 460 00:24:07,946 --> 00:24:11,416 of the Holy Spirit to love my wife like you love the church. 461 00:24:12,517 --> 00:24:12,951 Give me the 462 00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:15,954 power in the dwelling of the Holy Spirit 463 00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:20,625 to be able to in to to live with love and joy and peace 464 00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:23,562 and patience and kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. 465 00:24:23,562 --> 00:24:26,565 I need your strength to do that, because I can't do that on my own. 466 00:24:26,565 --> 00:24:29,568 And I'm losing my family, and I'm losing my marriage and 467 00:24:30,836 --> 00:24:31,937 you try to be good. 468 00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:35,440 You try to serve a church, you try to be obedient and everything's 469 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,443 falling apart. Why? 470 00:24:38,610 --> 00:24:39,678 Because you clean the house. 471 00:24:39,678 --> 00:24:42,414 I'm trying to keep it clean on your own. 472 00:24:42,414 --> 00:24:44,716 And you need the Holy Spirit to dwell, 473 00:24:44,716 --> 00:24:47,719 to clothe you in the power of the spirit that enable you to live. 474 00:24:48,186 --> 00:24:50,822 Do you understand? 475 00:24:50,822 --> 00:24:52,691 In every area of our lives? 476 00:24:52,691 --> 00:24:54,125 Is it a spooky thing? 477 00:24:59,130 --> 00:25:00,999 This is a victory thing. 478 00:25:00,999 --> 00:25:03,969 Some of you want know exactly I'm talking about because you have walk 479 00:25:03,969 --> 00:25:06,972 through hell 480 00:25:07,205 --> 00:25:11,042 and you've walked through hell holding the Savior's hand, and he's walked 481 00:25:11,042 --> 00:25:14,813 with you right in front of you, and you've never backed off, 482 00:25:15,647 --> 00:25:19,885 and you've never denied him, and you stayed faithful 483 00:25:19,885 --> 00:25:23,889 and you stayed loving when it has been hard as hell to do. 484 00:25:25,457 --> 00:25:27,158 And the only way you've been able to do that, 485 00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:30,095 because you have the Holy Spirit living within. 486 00:25:30,095 --> 00:25:31,830 He's indwelt you. 487 00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:34,799 And you look at death and you say, death, though I hate you, 488 00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:37,802 I cannot wait. 489 00:25:37,936 --> 00:25:40,305 It is good 490 00:25:40,305 --> 00:25:43,308 you understand? 491 00:25:48,647 --> 00:25:50,949 Here's what I know. 492 00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:52,617 A swept life without a surrenders 493 00:25:52,617 --> 00:25:55,620 life becomes a ravaged life. 494 00:25:56,688 --> 00:25:58,023 Friends, I want our lives to be 495 00:25:58,023 --> 00:26:01,560 swept by faith in what Jesus has done on the cross. 496 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,363 But I do not want your life to be a ravaged life any more. 497 00:26:07,265 --> 00:26:10,268 Nor your children's lives. 498 00:26:11,836 --> 00:26:14,039 So if you want to come tonight, we'll walk through this together. 499 00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:16,942 You'll have the opportunity to learn how to honor God. 500 00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:19,678 I just need to write. Matter of fact, someone just asked me to just. 501 00:26:19,678 --> 00:26:20,879 This is how it will. Or some other. 502 00:26:20,879 --> 00:26:22,614 Someone just said, hey, pastor, you talk to you. 503 00:26:22,614 --> 00:26:25,951 And immediately God gave me the power of your spirit to know how to respond. 504 00:26:28,219 --> 00:26:31,222 And all of a sudden it shows up like a. 505 00:26:33,892 --> 00:26:36,561 Let me wrap this up 506 00:26:36,561 --> 00:26:38,163 verses four through 650. 507 00:26:38,163 --> 00:26:41,132 This might offend some of you, but you're going to be okay. 508 00:26:41,933 --> 00:26:43,335 While he was still speaking to the people, 509 00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:46,471 behold, his mother and his brother stood outside asking to speak to him, 510 00:26:47,138 --> 00:26:50,342 but he replied to the man who told him, who's my mother? 511 00:26:50,342 --> 00:26:51,242 And who are my brothers? 512 00:26:51,242 --> 00:26:54,179 Can you imagine just Mary? 513 00:26:54,179 --> 00:26:56,414 It's like, cause my mom who my brothers. 514 00:26:57,916 --> 00:26:58,850 And stretching out his hand 515 00:26:58,850 --> 00:27:02,354 towards the disciples, he said, here are, here are my mother and my brothers. 516 00:27:02,354 --> 00:27:03,021 For whoever does 517 00:27:03,021 --> 00:27:06,358 the will of my father in heaven is my brother and sister, and mother. 518 00:27:07,525 --> 00:27:10,061 His family is like knocking on the door. 519 00:27:10,061 --> 00:27:11,463 They probably want to tell you, say, Jesus, 520 00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:14,432 would you just calm it down a little bit? 521 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:17,469 Like you're you're pressing too hard. 522 00:27:18,203 --> 00:27:20,538 They're they're probably trying to talk him. 523 00:27:20,538 --> 00:27:24,342 Just calm it down like you're not making a whole bunch of friends. 524 00:27:24,342 --> 00:27:27,345 This is too hard for people to hear. 525 00:27:28,413 --> 00:27:29,748 Just let me just say this. 526 00:27:29,748 --> 00:27:32,751 Too many churches have listened to them, 527 00:27:33,084 --> 00:27:35,453 and I've toned it down. 528 00:27:35,453 --> 00:27:37,822 And. And so right here, 529 00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:40,825 Jesus redefined who's part of the family. 530 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:43,228 He redefined to the family of God is. 531 00:27:44,362 --> 00:27:46,598 And I want you to make note of this, 532 00:27:46,598 --> 00:27:50,702 if for any of of of of my Catholic friends, 533 00:27:51,970 --> 00:27:54,606 some of you were in this church, like, this is tough for you, but 534 00:27:54,606 --> 00:27:55,807 I want you to understand something. 535 00:27:55,807 --> 00:27:58,176 What Jesus is saying 536 00:27:58,176 --> 00:28:01,446 that Mary has no special privileges with Jesus. 537 00:28:03,114 --> 00:28:06,117 She gets no special favor from him. 538 00:28:07,819 --> 00:28:08,953 And the fact that 539 00:28:08,953 --> 00:28:11,890 the Scripture says here, his brothers, 540 00:28:11,890 --> 00:28:14,893 this absolutely contradicts 541 00:28:15,393 --> 00:28:18,263 the Roman Catholic doctrine 542 00:28:18,263 --> 00:28:21,266 of the perpetual virginity of Mary 543 00:28:21,633 --> 00:28:24,569 after Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph had normal 544 00:28:24,569 --> 00:28:27,872 marital relations, and he has these half brothers. 545 00:28:33,411 --> 00:28:36,414 It is so powerful and 546 00:28:37,482 --> 00:28:40,485 and Jesus says 547 00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:43,722 that the least of you who obey me 548 00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:47,392 is as dear to me as my own mother. 549 00:28:49,194 --> 00:28:52,197 It's amazing to me. 550 00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:55,633 And in Luke 11 551 00:28:55,633 --> 00:28:59,137 he says the same thing as he said these things. 552 00:28:59,137 --> 00:29:02,640 A woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, him, blessed 553 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,977 is the womb that bore you in the breast at which you nurse. 554 00:29:05,977 --> 00:29:08,213 And he replied, blessed rather, 555 00:29:09,180 --> 00:29:11,816 are those who hear the Word of God 556 00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:14,819 and keep it. Wow! 557 00:29:18,256 --> 00:29:20,191 If God intended us to venerate 558 00:29:20,191 --> 00:29:23,194 Mary, Jesus would have done it right there. 559 00:29:25,630 --> 00:29:28,633 So blessed, rather are the least of you 560 00:29:30,235 --> 00:29:33,238 who obey me. 561 00:29:34,506 --> 00:29:36,741 Jesus does not elevate Mary. 562 00:29:36,741 --> 00:29:39,744 Jesus elevates obedience. 563 00:29:41,913 --> 00:29:43,448 The spiritual family of God 564 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:46,451 is marked by submission to God, 565 00:29:46,651 --> 00:29:49,654 not by inherited proximity. 566 00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:51,523 I grew up in church. We always have. 567 00:29:51,523 --> 00:29:54,526 I've always thought of. 568 00:29:57,829 --> 00:29:59,964 The family of God are not those who admire 569 00:29:59,964 --> 00:30:03,601 Jesus, the family of God, or of God, or those who obey him. 570 00:30:07,772 --> 00:30:08,039 Listen, 571 00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:11,042 I wish I had more time to go through all of this. 572 00:30:12,410 --> 00:30:15,413 But let me just say this. 573 00:30:15,780 --> 00:30:18,783 Today's the day. 574 00:30:21,019 --> 00:30:21,853 You got 19 575 00:30:21,853 --> 00:30:24,856 people signed up for baptism on the 26th. 576 00:30:25,390 --> 00:30:27,992 Maybe you need to as well, because you've given your life 577 00:30:27,992 --> 00:30:30,328 to Christ and pledge or allegiance to him and Him alone. 578 00:30:32,864 --> 00:30:35,200 Today's the day 579 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,202 you don't need more proof. 580 00:30:37,202 --> 00:30:39,571 You don't need more discussion 581 00:30:39,571 --> 00:30:40,271 at this point. 582 00:30:40,271 --> 00:30:43,675 It's an issue of your own volition and your surrender. 583 00:30:46,444 --> 00:30:49,447 It's the key to your victorious life in Christ. 584 00:30:49,747 --> 00:30:52,750 To put yourself in a position to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 585 00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:58,690 I want you to pray with me. 586 00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:02,794 For some of you, 587 00:31:02,794 --> 00:31:05,797 you've never given your allegiance to Christ 588 00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:09,300 on invite you in this moment to do that right now. 589 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,302 Simple, simple prayer. 590 00:31:11,302 --> 00:31:12,704 But listen, it's not a magic prayer. 591 00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:15,707 This prayer doesn't save anybody. 592 00:31:16,374 --> 00:31:17,942 It's only a relationship with Jesus. 593 00:31:17,942 --> 00:31:20,912 It does that by faith. 594 00:31:21,746 --> 00:31:24,749 But to help understand that, I would invite you in. 595 00:31:25,083 --> 00:31:27,685 I admit I'm a sinner 596 00:31:27,685 --> 00:31:30,688 and live life on my own terms. 597 00:31:32,090 --> 00:31:33,358 I believe, Jesus, 598 00:31:33,358 --> 00:31:37,428 that you died for my sin and that you were raised to life. 599 00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:42,033 Give me that life and save me now 600 00:31:43,301 --> 00:31:44,502 I commit. Here it is. 601 00:31:44,502 --> 00:31:47,505 I commit to turn from my sin. 602 00:31:48,606 --> 00:31:51,743 And I dedicate my life and my allegiance to you 603 00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:54,746 and you alone. 604 00:31:55,647 --> 00:31:56,748 Pray the prayer. 605 00:31:56,748 --> 00:32:01,119 Empower me to love you with my whole heart and soul 606 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:05,089 and mind and strength, without delay, without hesitation. 607 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,629 And then here it is. 608 00:32:11,629 --> 00:32:14,632 Even if you've prayed that prayer many times before, here it is. 609 00:32:15,333 --> 00:32:18,736 And now, father, fill me with your spirit 610 00:32:20,071 --> 00:32:23,074 and clothe me in the power of your spirit. 611 00:32:26,678 --> 00:32:30,114 For my obedience, for my holiness. 612 00:32:30,982 --> 00:32:33,985 Father, bold witness. 613 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,188 All that I will be clothed 614 00:32:37,188 --> 00:32:40,191 in the power of your spirit. 615 00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:44,495 Father, thank you 616 00:32:44,495 --> 00:32:47,498 that you've loved us with an everlasting love. 617 00:32:47,865 --> 00:32:49,834 Thank you that you've promised us your spirit, 618 00:32:50,902 --> 00:32:53,171 that you've guaranteed us salvation through your son. 619 00:32:53,171 --> 00:32:56,174 You've promised us powerful, victorious, living through your spirit. 620 00:32:57,408 --> 00:33:00,411 Oh, God, I pray that in us and in this church 621 00:33:00,511 --> 00:33:03,214 that you would alive in our hearts, 622 00:33:03,214 --> 00:33:06,217 that you would alive in our minds 623 00:33:06,751 --> 00:33:09,754 to your Holy Spirit. 624 00:33:10,088 --> 00:33:10,855 In your name I pray. 625 00:33:10,855 --> 00:33:12,957 Amen. 626 00:33:12,957 --> 00:33:15,259 It's in church, I love you, I'm proud of you. 627 00:33:15,259 --> 00:33:18,262 Matthew 12 is a tough one, 628 00:33:18,896 --> 00:33:22,233 But like we've learned from Jesus, he doesn't let off the throttle, man. 629 00:33:22,233 --> 00:33:23,334 He's going to keep pressing through. 630 00:33:23,334 --> 00:33:25,303 Chapter 13. 631 00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:28,339 So go this week and reread chapter 12 in its entirety, 632 00:33:28,773 --> 00:33:31,876 and read chapter 13 and get ready for these next couple weeks to understand 633 00:33:32,910 --> 00:33:36,547 you want to come back and learn this biblically about what happened 634 00:33:37,081 --> 00:33:40,151 before the Holy Spirit and after with people who believed in Christ. 635 00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:43,021 I invite you at 6:00. 636 00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:45,323 If you made some decision, please let us know. 637 00:33:45,323 --> 00:33:49,494 And if our prayer people approach them, just confirm it with them. 638 00:33:49,994 --> 00:33:51,229 Let us know on that card. 639 00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:53,498 Follow the QR code. 640 00:33:53,498 --> 00:33:54,365 Take it there. Welcome sir. 641 00:33:54,365 --> 00:33:57,368 We want to connect with you and want you to connect with us and with God. 642 00:33:58,569 --> 00:34:01,072 You understand I love you. 643 00:34:01,072 --> 00:34:03,007 I'm proud of you. Let's see.