1 00:00:04,304 --> 00:00:05,438 If you'll permit me 2 00:00:05,438 --> 00:00:08,441 the opportunity to walk you through 3 00:00:09,275 --> 00:00:11,177 something that will be a benefit to you. 4 00:00:11,177 --> 00:00:15,548 These little devices are good for very little, 5 00:00:15,782 --> 00:00:18,785 but they are good for something. 6 00:00:19,452 --> 00:00:21,588 And one of the things that are good for 7 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:26,793 is our communication with you and your connection to the life 8 00:00:26,793 --> 00:00:30,930 and the activity of this church in a way that allows you 9 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:35,001 to stay involved, to stay connected, and to get involved and connected. 10 00:00:35,035 --> 00:00:38,905 And so I want to walk you through our app 11 00:00:39,072 --> 00:00:43,243 that you can access on your phone if you go to the App Store. 12 00:00:43,910 --> 00:00:46,780 That's our App Center app. 13 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:49,749 And you would find Flipside Christian Church. 14 00:00:49,749 --> 00:00:50,417 It's all there. 15 00:00:50,417 --> 00:00:51,918 You would join the app, 16 00:00:51,918 --> 00:00:55,422 then it's on your phone and that would walk you through the front page. 17 00:00:55,722 --> 00:00:57,223 The front page of our app 18 00:00:57,223 --> 00:01:01,361 always has the most current message that we just finished. 19 00:01:01,361 --> 00:01:05,098 So on the app right now is the message from last week. 20 00:01:05,098 --> 00:01:07,801 It's also down at the bottom. 21 00:01:07,801 --> 00:01:08,902 There's these little buttons. 22 00:01:08,902 --> 00:01:10,970 I highlighted them on this picture. 23 00:01:10,970 --> 00:01:14,641 The first the second button there on the left is the sermons button. 24 00:01:14,641 --> 00:01:17,610 If you click on the sermons button, it will take you to 25 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:22,582 where all of our messages are listed when we meet together on Sunday morning. 26 00:01:22,582 --> 00:01:26,152 If you go to that part of the app, there's a place where you can take notes, 27 00:01:26,152 --> 00:01:30,390 and all the scripture that I reference and use is actually listed on the app, 28 00:01:30,390 --> 00:01:31,858 as well as a way for you 29 00:01:31,858 --> 00:01:36,062 to take notes along with the message that always stays with you on that app. 30 00:01:36,062 --> 00:01:40,533 And you can find every other message that we've done on that sermons 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,403 tab on the app. You with me so far? 32 00:01:44,504 --> 00:01:45,105 The next 33 00:01:45,105 --> 00:01:48,108 button over is a groups A connect button. 34 00:01:48,141 --> 00:01:52,612 If you want to get connected with a small group or a ministry area. 35 00:01:52,679 --> 00:01:54,214 This is you go there. 36 00:01:54,214 --> 00:01:57,016 This is actually on my phone. 37 00:01:57,016 --> 00:02:01,588 That's those are the four groups that I'm most regularly connected to 38 00:02:01,621 --> 00:02:02,555 and a part of. 39 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:06,159 And so this is how we communicate with our people in our groups 40 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:10,396 to give notices and updates, instructions, invites, all of that. 41 00:02:10,396 --> 00:02:12,732 And so if you want to be a part of a small group 42 00:02:12,732 --> 00:02:15,235 or get involved in ministry, you go to that connect button 43 00:02:15,235 --> 00:02:17,537 and it'll walk you through the steps to do that. 44 00:02:17,537 --> 00:02:20,540 Then over one button is the give button. 45 00:02:20,907 --> 00:02:24,711 And this is for those who choose to give one time 46 00:02:24,711 --> 00:02:28,781 or recurring to the ministry and the life of this church. 47 00:02:28,815 --> 00:02:30,850 It's easiest done through the app. 48 00:02:30,850 --> 00:02:34,554 You can do it through the envelopes we have on the tables or the website, 49 00:02:34,554 --> 00:02:37,357 but it's easiest through the app and there's options there. 50 00:02:37,357 --> 00:02:41,394 You can choose the amount, of course, and the to recurring weekly, 51 00:02:41,394 --> 00:02:46,399 monthly or other, so it helps you keep track of your given. 52 00:02:46,399 --> 00:02:48,434 It helps you keep track of your finances. 53 00:02:48,434 --> 00:02:49,636 There's a thing called a budget, 54 00:02:49,636 --> 00:02:54,674 which is fantastic and helps us help you keep track of your giving. 55 00:02:54,674 --> 00:02:56,976 So we encourage you to use that as well. 56 00:02:56,976 --> 00:03:01,981 And then all the way over is this general tab with sign ups. 57 00:03:01,981 --> 00:03:02,916 If you signed up for something 58 00:03:02,916 --> 00:03:06,052 or want to sign up for something, a calendar, check in for different events 59 00:03:06,586 --> 00:03:09,989 or for activities, it's all there on the app. 60 00:03:10,456 --> 00:03:11,558 You got it. 61 00:03:11,558 --> 00:03:14,360 So if you haven't made use of that app, please do so. 62 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,397 It's a great way for you to stay connected and to be a part of the life 63 00:03:17,397 --> 00:03:20,867 of this church, and for us to stay connected with you. Now 64 00:03:22,068 --> 00:03:26,072 let's get into Matthew chapter 16. 65 00:03:26,472 --> 00:03:31,911 Matthew chapter 16 is a turning point in the book of Matthew. 66 00:03:31,911 --> 00:03:36,816 It's a turning point in Jesus's interaction with his disciples. 67 00:03:37,750 --> 00:03:41,554 There's three sections in Matthew chapter 16 68 00:03:42,121 --> 00:03:44,691 regarding what it is to be a true disciple. 69 00:03:44,691 --> 00:03:48,428 Jesus is going to lay out this is what discipleship means, 70 00:03:48,428 --> 00:03:50,196 just so we're all on the same page. 71 00:03:50,196 --> 00:03:52,999 Discipleship is someone who's committed to Christ 72 00:03:52,999 --> 00:03:56,603 and to his kingdom, rule and reign in the world. 73 00:03:56,803 --> 00:03:59,072 And Matthew 16 is the turning point. 74 00:03:59,072 --> 00:04:02,942 Jesus moves from miracle and crowds 75 00:04:03,109 --> 00:04:06,079 to confessions and the cross, 76 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:09,549 and his people who are with him aren't ready for this. 77 00:04:09,582 --> 00:04:12,252 It's going to it's going to be a shock to them. 78 00:04:12,252 --> 00:04:16,589 The question is no longer what can Jesus do? 79 00:04:16,623 --> 00:04:22,061 Now the question is going to be for them who is Jesus really? 80 00:04:22,061 --> 00:04:24,030 And what does it mean to follow him? 81 00:04:24,030 --> 00:04:26,099 And so Jesus is going to turn the corner 82 00:04:26,099 --> 00:04:28,434 and say, listen, I've showed you enough of my power. 83 00:04:28,434 --> 00:04:31,037 I've showed you enough of what I'm capable of. 84 00:04:31,037 --> 00:04:32,505 That's not the question anymore. 85 00:04:32,505 --> 00:04:33,539 You've seen enough. 86 00:04:33,539 --> 00:04:36,976 Now you need to understand who I really am. 87 00:04:37,543 --> 00:04:40,780 And based on who I am, what it means. 88 00:04:40,780 --> 00:04:43,716 If you're going to say you're a follower of me. 89 00:04:43,716 --> 00:04:48,554 And so I have a big idea for this chapter, here's the big idea. 90 00:04:49,222 --> 00:04:51,824 Jesus's church advances 91 00:04:51,824 --> 00:04:55,061 only through disciples who resist 92 00:04:55,094 --> 00:04:59,332 what corrupts faith, who know who he is, 93 00:04:59,532 --> 00:05:02,669 and who pay the high price of following him. 94 00:05:03,469 --> 00:05:07,774 Jesus is going to say in this chapter, I will build my church, 95 00:05:07,774 --> 00:05:10,943 and this is the first place in all of Scripture that that word 96 00:05:10,943 --> 00:05:15,281 church is used and Jesus claims authority over it. 97 00:05:15,515 --> 00:05:18,117 He says, I'm I'm the builder of the church. 98 00:05:18,117 --> 00:05:19,218 First words ever use. 99 00:05:19,218 --> 00:05:24,824 It's a Greek word called ecclesia ekklesia out of called ones. 100 00:05:25,625 --> 00:05:28,294 And he says, I'm going to do something unique here. 101 00:05:28,294 --> 00:05:31,864 I'm going to create this thing that the world has seen yet, and I'm 102 00:05:31,864 --> 00:05:35,101 going to be in charge of building it, and I'm going to advance it 103 00:05:35,101 --> 00:05:40,306 through my disciples who resist what's going to corrupt their faith, 104 00:05:41,641 --> 00:05:44,477 who understand who I am 105 00:05:44,477 --> 00:05:47,613 and who pay the high price to follow me. 106 00:05:49,549 --> 00:05:53,619 And so let me let me just read verses five through 12. 107 00:05:53,653 --> 00:05:57,390 This is the first section where Jesus unpacks 108 00:05:57,690 --> 00:06:00,626 this big idea 109 00:06:00,626 --> 00:06:02,261 in verse five. 110 00:06:02,261 --> 00:06:06,299 When the disciples reach the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. 111 00:06:06,299 --> 00:06:08,735 Let me just pause right there. 112 00:06:08,735 --> 00:06:11,304 So is there something traveling with Jesus 113 00:06:11,304 --> 00:06:14,774 for a while and two chapters earlier? 114 00:06:14,874 --> 00:06:17,677 They're in this in kind of springtime. 115 00:06:17,677 --> 00:06:18,745 It's beautiful outside. 116 00:06:18,745 --> 00:06:23,182 All these people come to listen to Jesus, and they're with the travel a long way to 117 00:06:23,216 --> 00:06:24,317 to listen to them teach. 118 00:06:24,317 --> 00:06:27,220 And they find themselves in a position where nobody has any food. 119 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:29,055 And it's getting late in the day and they're hungry. 120 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:31,357 Jesus says, feed themselves like we don't have any food. 121 00:06:31,357 --> 00:06:32,792 There's 5000 men. 122 00:06:32,792 --> 00:06:35,762 There's probably 20,000 total. Where are we going to get all this food? 123 00:06:35,762 --> 00:06:37,196 Jesus says, what have you got? 124 00:06:37,196 --> 00:06:38,798 They stole some little kids lunch. 125 00:06:38,798 --> 00:06:40,299 They had five loaves and two fish 126 00:06:40,299 --> 00:06:42,935 and he multiplied it so there were 12 baskets left over. 127 00:06:42,935 --> 00:06:44,704 That just happened. 128 00:06:44,704 --> 00:06:48,775 And then in the last chapter, they're in the same general, 129 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:52,211 different time of year, kind of the hot summer. 130 00:06:52,311 --> 00:06:54,013 The grasses died. 131 00:06:54,013 --> 00:06:57,950 There's now 4000 people that have followed, plus 132 00:06:57,950 --> 00:07:01,721 women and children, and they're in the exact same position, he says. 133 00:07:01,754 --> 00:07:04,056 Take care of them the like. 134 00:07:04,056 --> 00:07:05,258 We don't have anything. 135 00:07:06,292 --> 00:07:09,095 And they said, don't worry about it. 136 00:07:09,095 --> 00:07:11,597 He multiplies a little bit that somebody had 137 00:07:11,597 --> 00:07:14,600 and they got seven baskets left over a food. So. 138 00:07:14,667 --> 00:07:17,203 So they've seen Jesus power, okay. 139 00:07:17,203 --> 00:07:19,138 They've seen what he can do. 140 00:07:19,138 --> 00:07:22,141 And now they cross back over the lake 141 00:07:22,141 --> 00:07:25,144 and they forgot to bring bread. 142 00:07:25,378 --> 00:07:27,413 I'm going to come back to that in a minute. 143 00:07:27,413 --> 00:07:29,949 Jesus said to them, watch him. 144 00:07:29,949 --> 00:07:32,919 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 145 00:07:32,919 --> 00:07:36,722 And they began discussing it amongst themselves, saying, 146 00:07:36,989 --> 00:07:39,292 we forgot to bring bread. 147 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:42,829 But Jesus, aware of this, said, oh, you have little faith. 148 00:07:43,296 --> 00:07:47,500 Why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you don't have any bread? 149 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,469 Do you not perceive? 150 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:52,738 Do you not remember the five loaves for the 5000? 151 00:07:52,772 --> 00:07:56,476 And how many baskets you gathered, or the seven loaves for the 4000? 152 00:07:56,509 --> 00:07:57,944 How many baskets you gathered? 153 00:07:57,944 --> 00:08:03,382 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? 154 00:08:03,983 --> 00:08:07,019 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 155 00:08:07,053 --> 00:08:08,955 Then they understood 156 00:08:08,955 --> 00:08:12,391 that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, 157 00:08:12,391 --> 00:08:14,961 but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 158 00:08:14,961 --> 00:08:21,000 So they're in this scenario again, where they're where they were there without. 159 00:08:24,637 --> 00:08:26,839 Why, why did they 160 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:30,543 just come from this time with seven baskets left over? 161 00:08:30,576 --> 00:08:32,812 Why are they in now, this position? Where? 162 00:08:32,812 --> 00:08:35,715 Where did that go? 163 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:38,718 Where did they lose it along the way? 164 00:08:39,619 --> 00:08:41,621 They obviously didn't bring the seven baskets with them. 165 00:08:41,621 --> 00:08:44,624 What happened? 166 00:08:45,892 --> 00:08:47,593 I want to suggest to you this. 167 00:08:47,593 --> 00:08:51,397 Jesus is going to get very pointed by the end of this chapter. 168 00:08:51,430 --> 00:08:55,067 He's going to start softer, and he's going to get progressively 169 00:08:56,435 --> 00:08:59,438 deeper and more demanding. 170 00:09:00,139 --> 00:09:02,542 And he starts with this idea that, 171 00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:06,479 listen, I'm going to build my church, but it's going to happen through disciples 172 00:09:06,479 --> 00:09:10,316 who protect themselves from what could corrupt their faith. 173 00:09:10,316 --> 00:09:11,784 And and so he's going to deal 174 00:09:11,784 --> 00:09:16,322 with the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees in the context of bread. 175 00:09:16,355 --> 00:09:19,258 Now the disciples think he's worried about food. 176 00:09:19,258 --> 00:09:21,027 Jesus didn't worry about food. 177 00:09:21,027 --> 00:09:24,297 The disciples think he's worried about resources. 178 00:09:24,297 --> 00:09:26,232 Jesus isn't worried about resources, 179 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:29,402 I think, and I can't prove this in the Bible. 180 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:31,504 It's just my holy imagination. 181 00:09:31,504 --> 00:09:34,373 I think they didn't bring any food with them. Why? 182 00:09:34,373 --> 00:09:39,378 Because they just saw Jesus multiply food over and over again. 183 00:09:39,378 --> 00:09:43,716 And so I honestly think they're like, why we carry these baskets around? 184 00:09:44,317 --> 00:09:46,352 Let's give them to everybody else. 185 00:09:46,352 --> 00:09:49,822 Because if we get hungry, just going to make more, you understand? 186 00:09:49,855 --> 00:09:51,290 So that's why I didn't have any. 187 00:09:51,290 --> 00:09:53,759 I think they gave it all away 188 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:56,629 because at this point they're not worried about their resources. Why? 189 00:09:56,629 --> 00:09:59,632 Because they're with Jesus. 190 00:10:00,199 --> 00:10:02,134 Here's what I know. 191 00:10:02,134 --> 00:10:05,137 It's easy to give other people stuff away. 192 00:10:06,706 --> 00:10:08,474 Right? 193 00:10:08,474 --> 00:10:11,077 It's harder to give your own stuff away. 194 00:10:11,077 --> 00:10:14,947 But they understood that what they had wasn't theirs. 195 00:10:15,281 --> 00:10:16,949 It came from the gracious hand of God. 196 00:10:16,949 --> 00:10:18,851 And it's easy to give away. 197 00:10:25,491 --> 00:10:28,494 What Jesus is going to press into this whole idea 198 00:10:28,594 --> 00:10:31,597 that the cross is costly, 199 00:10:32,198 --> 00:10:35,201 but missing discipleship is costlier. 200 00:10:37,837 --> 00:10:39,438 If discipleship. 201 00:10:39,438 --> 00:10:40,439 Please understand this. 202 00:10:40,439 --> 00:10:43,442 If discipleship is not tangible, it's only theory. 203 00:10:46,212 --> 00:10:47,913 To be a disciple means God. 204 00:10:47,913 --> 00:10:49,315 I understand that everything you've given 205 00:10:49,315 --> 00:10:53,052 me comes from your hand graciously, and so I hold it very loosely. 206 00:10:53,052 --> 00:10:56,055 I can give my baskets away. 207 00:10:56,789 --> 00:10:59,792 Do you follow so far? 208 00:11:03,796 --> 00:11:05,264 And Jesus says, I want you to be careful. 209 00:11:05,264 --> 00:11:06,399 The level of the Pharisees. 210 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:08,501 I'm not worried about bread. 211 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:11,237 I want you to be careful of their teaching. 212 00:11:11,237 --> 00:11:17,309 And when he says the 11th, their teaching, the literal word is is their doctrine. 213 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:20,413 And he says, here's what's going to happen. 214 00:11:20,413 --> 00:11:23,416 Their doctrine is going to seep in. 215 00:11:23,683 --> 00:11:28,254 And if you're not careful, you're going to let bad doctrines seep into your faith, 216 00:11:28,254 --> 00:11:32,892 and it's going to make you get Jesus off center of your life. 217 00:11:33,592 --> 00:11:36,095 The doctrine of the Pharisees. 218 00:11:36,095 --> 00:11:40,533 The doctrine of the Pharisees was the Pharisees believed the scriptures. 219 00:11:41,133 --> 00:11:44,837 They just added a lot to how to obey the scriptures. 220 00:11:44,837 --> 00:11:50,176 And so they ended up elevating their teaching more than Scripture. 221 00:11:50,176 --> 00:11:55,114 So you had to do everything their way and prove your righteousness 222 00:11:55,214 --> 00:11:58,184 and earn a right standing with God. 223 00:12:01,220 --> 00:12:04,757 The. For the Pharisees, it was about looking righteous 224 00:12:05,091 --> 00:12:09,228 and measuring their spirituality by their externality. 225 00:12:11,297 --> 00:12:13,232 The Sadducees 226 00:12:13,232 --> 00:12:17,103 had their own separate doctrine or leaven or teaching. 227 00:12:17,136 --> 00:12:22,074 They were religious people who subtracted from Scripture. 228 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:25,745 They read the Bible, they read Scripture, they just subtracted from it. 229 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:29,882 So the Pharisees added to it, the Sadducees subtracted from it. 230 00:12:29,882 --> 00:12:32,418 And the sad to see subtracted from Scripture 231 00:12:32,418 --> 00:12:36,856 everything that was supernatural, everything that was spiritual about God. 232 00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:40,392 It was just a simple, moralistic 233 00:12:40,392 --> 00:12:43,395 political system for them. 234 00:12:44,196 --> 00:12:47,733 And so what you had is, is, is you had one 235 00:12:47,733 --> 00:12:52,271 who added to the Word of God because for them it was just too simple. 236 00:12:52,638 --> 00:12:53,572 Mercy and grace. 237 00:12:53,572 --> 00:12:56,108 That's too simple. 238 00:12:56,108 --> 00:12:58,811 Yes, God loves you, but you got to add, you got to be right. 239 00:12:58,811 --> 00:13:00,279 You got to do some stuff. 240 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:04,917 The Sadducees, 241 00:13:04,917 --> 00:13:08,020 they subtracted from God's Word because his word was just too much. 242 00:13:09,321 --> 00:13:12,291 And if we're not careful, we're going to take 243 00:13:12,391 --> 00:13:15,394 the simplicity of the gospel. 244 00:13:17,196 --> 00:13:19,231 Right with the father through the son, 245 00:13:19,231 --> 00:13:22,835 because of his mercy and grace, not because of what we do. 246 00:13:23,602 --> 00:13:28,774 Then being indwelt with the Holy Spirit in power and in strength to obey, 247 00:13:28,841 --> 00:13:32,211 we're going to take the simplicity of it, and we're going to get pushed off center. 248 00:13:32,211 --> 00:13:33,712 We're going to add stuff to it. 249 00:13:33,712 --> 00:13:36,715 Well, it is bleak, but you better do stuff right now, 250 00:13:37,583 --> 00:13:40,753 or we're going to take stuff away from it and say, well, honestly, it's, 251 00:13:40,786 --> 00:13:41,120 you know, 252 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,323 if you just look like a good moral person, like, don't worry about the whole Spirit 253 00:13:44,356 --> 00:13:45,357 of God stuff. 254 00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:50,429 And Jesus is saying it. 255 00:13:50,429 --> 00:13:54,233 When you get off center of Scripture, the little that creeps in 256 00:13:54,266 --> 00:13:57,770 is going to spread like leaven or yeast. 257 00:13:57,770 --> 00:13:59,171 That's what leaven is in dough. 258 00:13:59,171 --> 00:14:02,875 You put a little bit of yeast in and it just spreads this. 259 00:14:03,008 --> 00:14:06,378 You got to be very careful because it's the little stuff spreads quickly 260 00:14:06,378 --> 00:14:09,381 and it spreads pervasively. 261 00:14:09,381 --> 00:14:11,417 A little bit of legalism 262 00:14:11,417 --> 00:14:14,119 spreads a little bit of skepticism, 263 00:14:14,119 --> 00:14:16,622 spreads a little bit of doubt, 264 00:14:16,622 --> 00:14:20,025 a little bit of worldliness spreads a little bit of materialism 265 00:14:20,226 --> 00:14:23,896 spreads a little bit of greed, a little bit of unbelief. 266 00:14:24,496 --> 00:14:27,466 It all spreads. 267 00:14:27,466 --> 00:14:30,269 And Jesus is going to get to this place of saying, look, 268 00:14:30,269 --> 00:14:33,839 I'm going to build my church, but if you're going to be my disciple, 269 00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:37,676 there's some demands I want to make of you, and it's going to be costly. 270 00:14:38,978 --> 00:14:39,578 And he's going to 271 00:14:39,578 --> 00:14:45,017 press into this entire idea of his provision in our lives. 272 00:14:45,050 --> 00:14:48,153 He says, you're going to be tempted to think that what you have, 273 00:14:48,187 --> 00:14:50,756 you've provided for yourself and your for going to forget 274 00:14:50,756 --> 00:14:53,292 that I'm at the center of it and I provided it for you. 275 00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:58,597 And because of that, you're this, this leaven of the culture is going to seep in. 276 00:14:59,999 --> 00:15:03,002 And that leaven. 277 00:15:04,103 --> 00:15:07,106 Is fear based scarcity, 278 00:15:08,173 --> 00:15:10,175 that we're going to get so fearful 279 00:15:10,175 --> 00:15:13,178 of losing what we've gained. 280 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,850 It's going to choke out 281 00:15:17,950 --> 00:15:20,386 the realization that God is our provider, 282 00:15:20,386 --> 00:15:23,389 that everything that we have comes from his hands. 283 00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:28,961 See, the disciples 284 00:15:29,194 --> 00:15:31,697 had to be very careful 285 00:15:31,697 --> 00:15:35,668 of the leaven of belief that their security is 286 00:15:36,335 --> 00:15:39,972 came in what they kept rather than who they followed. 287 00:15:40,973 --> 00:15:41,573 And we got to 288 00:15:41,573 --> 00:15:44,576 be very careful at the same thing. 289 00:15:44,576 --> 00:15:47,379 This 11 of the culture will seep into us and believe 290 00:15:47,379 --> 00:15:51,951 that our security resides in what we keep rather than who we follow. 291 00:15:52,985 --> 00:15:56,455 And I think this is one of the areas where disciples started to get stuff right. 292 00:15:56,522 --> 00:15:57,890 They just gave everything away 293 00:15:57,890 --> 00:16:00,893 that they'd gotten from Jesus because they were with Jesus. 294 00:16:02,227 --> 00:16:04,897 Listen, 295 00:16:04,897 --> 00:16:06,465 when you're walking with Jesus, 296 00:16:06,465 --> 00:16:09,468 you don't have to hoard. 297 00:16:11,737 --> 00:16:14,273 Does that make sense? Why? 298 00:16:14,273 --> 00:16:17,376 Because everything I have comes from his gracious hand anyway. 299 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:21,013 And when I'm walking with him, I don't have to hoard it. 300 00:16:21,013 --> 00:16:25,517 You know, for me, there's an incredible theological statement 301 00:16:25,517 --> 00:16:28,821 that as I as I remember, every time I drive down Avenue 12, 302 00:16:29,321 --> 00:16:32,391 when I drive by the new Daryl's mini storage, 303 00:16:34,226 --> 00:16:35,494 for me, 304 00:16:35,494 --> 00:16:39,832 it's a theological and doctrinal statement that a little bit 305 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:44,436 11 of materialism and greed 306 00:16:44,470 --> 00:16:47,473 has seeped into people's lives. 307 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:52,778 And people live with this, this, this doctrine, this fear of scarcity. 308 00:16:52,778 --> 00:16:55,080 So I have to keep it all. I have to keep so much. 309 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,050 So I gotta go pay money to store it all. 310 00:17:05,090 --> 00:17:08,093 See, the fact is, 311 00:17:08,460 --> 00:17:11,463 when you have Jesus, you don't need to hoard. 312 00:17:15,734 --> 00:17:16,935 That false 313 00:17:16,935 --> 00:17:20,706 doctrine C in order for this to kind of false, this false 314 00:17:20,939 --> 00:17:25,711 to creep in you, we don't have to deny God completely. 315 00:17:25,711 --> 00:17:28,781 We just got to move Jesus off of center a little bit. 316 00:17:32,017 --> 00:17:33,018 Like, 317 00:17:33,018 --> 00:17:36,422 we don't have to say for bad doctrine to seep through my life. 318 00:17:36,422 --> 00:17:38,590 I don't have to say I reject God. 319 00:17:38,590 --> 00:17:41,093 I just got to take Jesus and move him off the side 320 00:17:41,093 --> 00:17:42,795 and put something else in the center. 321 00:17:45,497 --> 00:17:49,668 And it happens so easily and so quickly, 322 00:17:50,469 --> 00:17:53,472 and it gets so pervasive 323 00:17:54,339 --> 00:17:54,973 pretty soon. 324 00:17:54,973 --> 00:17:56,642 My life, my schedule, my money, my 325 00:17:56,642 --> 00:17:58,143 everything is all about all this other stuff. 326 00:17:58,143 --> 00:18:02,214 And Jesus is over here and he gets some, no doubt. 327 00:18:03,282 --> 00:18:05,851 But he's not center anymore. 328 00:18:05,851 --> 00:18:08,854 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees 329 00:18:09,054 --> 00:18:12,057 of the culture. 330 00:18:12,458 --> 00:18:15,227 And so Jesus is going to deal with this whole idea of generosity. 331 00:18:15,227 --> 00:18:18,797 And we have to understand that generosity begins when fear loses its grip 332 00:18:18,797 --> 00:18:21,800 because faith remembers the faithfulness of God. 333 00:18:22,901 --> 00:18:24,470 That's where generosity begins. 334 00:18:24,470 --> 00:18:28,307 I can begin to understand the joy of generosity 335 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:32,744 when my fear of scarcity loses its grip on my life, because my faith 336 00:18:32,744 --> 00:18:37,349 remembers the faithfulness of God, the one who makes baskets out of 337 00:18:38,650 --> 00:18:41,653 a few fish and loaves. 338 00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:46,492 So Jesus says, look, I'm gonna build my church. 339 00:18:46,492 --> 00:18:49,995 And and it's going to be built by disciples who understand 340 00:18:50,696 --> 00:18:54,700 who the necessity to push back against all the stuff 341 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:57,703 that's going to corrupt your faith. 342 00:18:57,836 --> 00:19:01,940 And I'm going to build my church on disciples who know who I am. 343 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:04,943 Watch this verse 13. 344 00:19:06,178 --> 00:19:07,946 Now when Jesus came into the district 345 00:19:07,946 --> 00:19:11,083 of Caesarea Philippi, everybody say, Caesarea Philippi. 346 00:19:12,017 --> 00:19:15,020 I'm gonna tell you that about that place in just a minute. 347 00:19:15,053 --> 00:19:18,891 He asked his disciples, who do people say that the Son of Man is? 348 00:19:18,957 --> 00:19:23,162 And they said, some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others 349 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:26,231 Jeremiah, and one of the or one of the prophets. 350 00:19:26,231 --> 00:19:30,002 He said that question that Jesus asked that question doesn't matter. 351 00:19:31,036 --> 00:19:32,104 That question. 352 00:19:32,104 --> 00:19:33,772 Who do people say that doesn't matter? 353 00:19:33,772 --> 00:19:35,140 That wasn't even the question. 354 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:38,143 That was the question to get to the question. 355 00:19:38,277 --> 00:19:41,280 And so Jesus asked, 356 00:19:41,346 --> 00:19:43,215 he said to them, but who do you say I'm? 357 00:19:43,215 --> 00:19:44,583 That's the question. 358 00:19:44,583 --> 00:19:46,351 Doesn't matter what everybody else says, doesn't matter 359 00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:49,354 what coach is a doesn't matter what says doesn't matter. 360 00:19:49,721 --> 00:19:52,424 What are you. Who do you say that I am? 361 00:19:52,424 --> 00:19:55,360 Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. 362 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,431 And Jesus answered him, blessed are you, Simon bar Jonah. 363 00:20:00,098 --> 00:20:01,266 That means son of Jonah. 364 00:20:01,266 --> 00:20:04,469 That was his daddy's name for flesh and blood, if not revealed that to you, 365 00:20:04,469 --> 00:20:07,940 but my father who is in heaven, and I tell you, you are Peter. 366 00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:09,508 And on this rock I will 367 00:20:09,508 --> 00:20:13,312 build my church in the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 368 00:20:13,312 --> 00:20:15,214 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, 369 00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:17,382 and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, 370 00:20:17,382 --> 00:20:19,985 or whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 371 00:20:19,985 --> 00:20:25,023 Then he strictly charged his disciples to tell no one that he was a Christ. 372 00:20:25,057 --> 00:20:26,258 He pulled him aside. 373 00:20:26,258 --> 00:20:28,760 Philippi shall, and I have been there. 374 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:29,595 When we went to Israel. 375 00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:33,799 Sassari of Philippi was a pagan, 376 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:37,536 super like gentile area. 377 00:20:37,736 --> 00:20:41,173 There were 14 temples in Cicero of Philippi. 378 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:46,912 To all these gods Bale worship Zeus, worship Pan, the Greek god, 379 00:20:46,945 --> 00:20:48,413 worship all the. 380 00:20:48,413 --> 00:20:52,651 And so it was a hotbed for all these beliefs and religious systems. 381 00:20:52,651 --> 00:20:55,854 Everybody had their idea of what their God was like. 382 00:20:55,854 --> 00:20:57,389 And Jesus takes the disciples 383 00:20:57,389 --> 00:21:00,392 in the middle of all this stuff says, listen, who does everybody say I'm 384 00:21:00,392 --> 00:21:03,462 because they've got all these thoughts about who God is. 385 00:21:03,495 --> 00:21:07,065 And despite some say, John the Baptist, 386 00:21:08,734 --> 00:21:11,536 who else is Elijah? 387 00:21:11,536 --> 00:21:13,639 Jeremiah? 388 00:21:13,639 --> 00:21:16,642 Those were admirable responses. 389 00:21:18,176 --> 00:21:21,146 They're just insufficient. 390 00:21:21,146 --> 00:21:24,149 They're admirable, but insufficient. 391 00:21:26,652 --> 00:21:27,619 Jesus says, who? 392 00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:30,622 Who do you say I am? 393 00:21:42,434 --> 00:21:44,136 You know why they responded with these ideas? 394 00:21:44,136 --> 00:21:47,139 Like like John the Baptist. 395 00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:49,141 Elijah. Jeremiah. 396 00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:52,177 Because Jesus, like all those people, 397 00:21:52,944 --> 00:21:57,282 embodied part of who Jesus was in his in his ministry. 398 00:21:57,316 --> 00:22:01,720 John the Baptist was super hardcore and demanding. 399 00:22:01,953 --> 00:22:06,291 And he was he was like, he didn't pull punches. 400 00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:08,994 Guess what? Neither did Jesus. 401 00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:12,798 You get down to who Jesus was in this theology 402 00:22:12,798 --> 00:22:15,801 and what he demanded of his disciples in very demanding. 403 00:22:18,236 --> 00:22:19,071 Elijah was. 404 00:22:19,071 --> 00:22:23,308 He was called the the man of God, of the prophets and the called down. 405 00:22:23,642 --> 00:22:26,478 And Jesus was the man of power. 406 00:22:26,478 --> 00:22:28,580 Jeremiah was the weeping prophet. 407 00:22:28,580 --> 00:22:32,150 He wore emotions on his sleeve and he wept over the people. 408 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:34,219 This incredible emotive emotion. 409 00:22:34,219 --> 00:22:35,821 And that was Jesus as well. 410 00:22:37,522 --> 00:22:40,392 So they all had great ideas and they admired him. 411 00:22:40,392 --> 00:22:44,496 That was just completely insufficient of who Jesus was. 412 00:22:44,796 --> 00:22:49,134 And out of Peter's mouth he blurts out, you are the Christ, 413 00:22:49,134 --> 00:22:50,535 the son of the living God. 414 00:22:50,535 --> 00:22:54,439 That was a declarative statement that Jesus was 415 00:22:54,439 --> 00:22:58,276 God in the flesh, the Messiah that they had been waiting for. 416 00:22:58,310 --> 00:23:00,278 It was a profound statement. 417 00:23:00,278 --> 00:23:04,383 Nobody had ever made that statement about this man before. 418 00:23:04,416 --> 00:23:09,054 This was the declarative statement and Jesus is responses. 419 00:23:09,054 --> 00:23:11,390 Blessed are you, 420 00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:14,860 for flesh and blood didn't reveal it to you, the Spirit of God. 421 00:23:15,026 --> 00:23:17,095 Peter was speaking by the Spirit of God. 422 00:23:17,095 --> 00:23:20,432 He wasn't even aware of it, like the Spirit of God 423 00:23:20,432 --> 00:23:23,802 just came upon him and he blurted this out and he was right. 424 00:23:23,802 --> 00:23:27,372 He is the Christ, the son of the living God. 425 00:23:27,372 --> 00:23:32,744 And Jesus said, I will build my church on disciples who know who I am. 426 00:23:36,882 --> 00:23:39,851 Who is Jesus to you? 427 00:23:40,719 --> 00:23:41,386 Those. 428 00:23:41,386 --> 00:23:47,159 If you know who Jesus is according to Scripture, you are the one that Jesus 429 00:23:47,159 --> 00:23:51,563 will use to build his church and he's going to do it. 430 00:23:52,063 --> 00:23:57,302 He has been, and he still is through people who know who he is, because those 431 00:23:57,302 --> 00:24:01,706 who know who he is will not allow him to get pushed off of center 432 00:24:02,674 --> 00:24:06,144 and will pay the high cost of following him 433 00:24:06,144 --> 00:24:09,548 because he's worthy of it and will count it 434 00:24:09,548 --> 00:24:12,551 a joy to do so. 435 00:24:14,586 --> 00:24:16,321 And Jesus says this thing. 436 00:24:16,321 --> 00:24:20,692 He says, you are now Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. 437 00:24:20,692 --> 00:24:23,195 I want you to stand what he's saying. 438 00:24:23,195 --> 00:24:25,230 His name was Simon bar. Jonah. 439 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:26,398 Simon, son of Jonah. 440 00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:28,834 Jesus, you are now called Peter. 441 00:24:28,834 --> 00:24:33,271 That word Peter is Petrus, which means little pebble, 442 00:24:34,372 --> 00:24:36,842 part of a bigger rock. 443 00:24:36,842 --> 00:24:39,611 This is on this rock. 444 00:24:39,611 --> 00:24:40,712 I will build my church. 445 00:24:40,712 --> 00:24:45,750 That's Petra, a huge jutting rock cliff. 446 00:24:46,918 --> 00:24:50,522 And he's saying, Peter, great confession didn't come from you. 447 00:24:50,555 --> 00:24:52,624 Don't get cocky. 448 00:24:52,624 --> 00:24:55,060 You're a chip off the old block. 449 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:56,795 You're a pebble. 450 00:24:56,795 --> 00:25:00,298 And on this confession, it wasn't on Peter. 451 00:25:00,298 --> 00:25:03,301 I'll build my church. It was this Petra. 452 00:25:03,535 --> 00:25:08,039 The confession that Christ is the son of the living God. 453 00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:11,510 That's what the church is built on, is not built on a man. 454 00:25:12,010 --> 00:25:14,212 And I have a lot of Catholic friends. 455 00:25:14,212 --> 00:25:17,616 Let me say this as gently as I can, and maybe not so gently. 456 00:25:18,350 --> 00:25:21,319 Peter was not the first pope. 457 00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:23,388 Peter wasn't a pope at all. 458 00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:25,056 Peter couldn't lead anything. 459 00:25:25,056 --> 00:25:26,591 Peter didn't even leave the lead. 460 00:25:26,591 --> 00:25:29,594 The first church, James led the first church. 461 00:25:29,861 --> 00:25:33,064 And then Peter was corrected by Paul. 462 00:25:33,732 --> 00:25:37,335 And so there's no such thing in the biblical record 463 00:25:37,335 --> 00:25:42,274 or standard or church record or standard biblically, where Peter 464 00:25:42,274 --> 00:25:45,377 was the Pope and passed down to another pope during the Pope John the Pope. 465 00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:46,711 That is hogwash. 466 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:51,816 The church was built on Peter's, built on the confession of Peter. 467 00:25:51,850 --> 00:25:53,952 That didn't come from Peter, came from the Holy Spirit. 468 00:25:53,952 --> 00:25:56,955 Do you understand that? 469 00:25:59,224 --> 00:26:00,392 And he will build. 470 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:02,894 His church grew. People understand that confession of who he is. 471 00:26:02,894 --> 00:26:05,530 He is the Christ, the Son of living God. 472 00:26:05,530 --> 00:26:08,333 And I will not allow him to get pushed off sinner in my life. 473 00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:11,336 That's what he's saying. 474 00:26:20,412 --> 00:26:22,347 If Jesus is the Christ, 475 00:26:22,347 --> 00:26:25,350 his mission outranks my comfort. 476 00:26:25,984 --> 00:26:28,987 That's what he's saying about being a disciple. 477 00:26:30,989 --> 00:26:33,491 The church is not built on vague admiration to Jesus. 478 00:26:33,491 --> 00:26:34,859 It's built on the true confession 479 00:26:34,859 --> 00:26:38,163 that he is the Christ, the Son of living God, and deserves 480 00:26:38,196 --> 00:26:41,199 preeminence and priority and center in my world. 481 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:45,303 A foggy Christian creates a failed church, 482 00:26:47,038 --> 00:26:48,873 and this has got to be our confession. 483 00:26:48,873 --> 00:26:51,076 He deserves it all. 484 00:26:51,076 --> 00:26:53,378 See, the scope of the details of my life 485 00:26:53,378 --> 00:26:56,381 must agree with my confession of who Jesus is, 486 00:26:57,582 --> 00:27:00,585 the scope and the details of my life, 487 00:27:00,585 --> 00:27:05,056 of my schedule, of my agenda, of my goals, of my priorities, of my time, 488 00:27:05,056 --> 00:27:08,860 of my, of my trust, of how I handle worry, what I do with my finances. 489 00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:13,098 It all must align with what I confess about Christ. 490 00:27:13,098 --> 00:27:16,067 That he is the Christ, the son of the living God. 491 00:27:16,067 --> 00:27:18,203 He is center and will not be moved off. 492 00:27:18,203 --> 00:27:21,172 Sinner. 493 00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:29,547 Let me read verse 21 through 23. 494 00:27:29,547 --> 00:27:32,784 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples 495 00:27:32,784 --> 00:27:36,955 that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and the chief 496 00:27:36,955 --> 00:27:40,291 priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 497 00:27:40,291 --> 00:27:42,861 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, 498 00:27:42,861 --> 00:27:45,930 far be it from you, Lord, this shall never happen to you. 499 00:27:45,930 --> 00:27:49,801 But he turned and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan, 500 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:52,971 you're a hindrance to me, for you are not setting your mind 501 00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:55,140 on the things of God, but on things of man. 502 00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:56,841 What a change. 503 00:27:57,976 --> 00:27:59,144 I want you to know something. 504 00:27:59,144 --> 00:28:01,946 Jesus starts talking to them. And what does he tell him? 505 00:28:01,946 --> 00:28:03,114 He said, this is my future. 506 00:28:03,114 --> 00:28:06,117 What's he tell him? 507 00:28:06,785 --> 00:28:07,652 I just read it for you. 508 00:28:07,652 --> 00:28:08,753 You got it in your Bibles. What's. 509 00:28:08,753 --> 00:28:11,756 What's he tell him. 510 00:28:14,059 --> 00:28:17,028 Listen, most of us are like Peter. 511 00:28:17,028 --> 00:28:17,896 What did you say? 512 00:28:17,896 --> 00:28:20,899 So it's going to suffer and be killed. 513 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,536 What else did he say? 514 00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:27,172 I'm going to be raised. 515 00:28:27,172 --> 00:28:28,239 And this is what we do. 516 00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:29,908 We're just like Peter. 517 00:28:29,908 --> 00:28:31,309 All we hear is the bad. 518 00:28:31,309 --> 00:28:32,377 All we hear is the negative. 519 00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:33,712 All we hear is the tough. 520 00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:36,715 All we hear is what it costs. 521 00:28:37,182 --> 00:28:39,317 What Peter should have said is no big deal. 522 00:28:39,317 --> 00:28:40,018 You're going to raise. 523 00:28:40,018 --> 00:28:43,021 What are we worried about? 524 00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:44,756 Why did I get so? 525 00:28:44,756 --> 00:28:46,157 Have you ever had someone, like, 526 00:28:46,157 --> 00:28:47,826 do a little speech or whatever, and they get this 527 00:28:47,826 --> 00:28:50,895 big blank piece of paper, they draw one black dot in the middle and 528 00:28:50,895 --> 00:28:51,996 say, what do you see? 529 00:28:54,032 --> 00:28:55,800 And what's your response? 530 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,836 The black dot 531 00:28:57,836 --> 00:28:58,636 is what Peter did. 532 00:28:58,636 --> 00:29:01,239 He saw the black dot. 533 00:29:01,239 --> 00:29:04,242 Just like I got all this resurrection that's waiting. 534 00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:08,580 All that is going to cost is worth it. 535 00:29:08,713 --> 00:29:13,218 Peter, why do you get so stuck on the cost 536 00:29:13,218 --> 00:29:16,354 and miss the joy of the result? 537 00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:24,429 C Peter wants 538 00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:27,432 Jesus's kingdom without Jesus's suffering. 539 00:29:31,136 --> 00:29:33,338 And we're the same. 540 00:29:33,338 --> 00:29:37,075 We want Jesus's mission, but without personal cost. 541 00:29:41,913 --> 00:29:44,916 And if we're going to be disciples, 542 00:29:45,016 --> 00:29:48,019 Jesus is going to say this. 543 00:29:52,023 --> 00:29:55,026 It's going to touch our comfort. 544 00:29:56,828 --> 00:29:58,029 And if following 545 00:29:58,029 --> 00:30:01,199 Jesus never touches my comfort 546 00:30:01,199 --> 00:30:05,436 and my schedule and my wallet, it hasn't 547 00:30:05,470 --> 00:30:08,473 touched my life. 548 00:30:10,942 --> 00:30:11,543 Listen, 549 00:30:11,543 --> 00:30:16,347 the devil doesn't mind confessing Christ as long as he can 550 00:30:16,347 --> 00:30:19,350 keep us from confessing the cross. 551 00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:25,790 Because discipleship involves the cross. 552 00:30:28,259 --> 00:30:29,160 Let me say this. 553 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,130 I'm going to say it bluntly. 554 00:30:34,232 --> 00:30:35,400 Across list. 555 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,703 Christianity is not a safe version of Christianity. 556 00:30:38,770 --> 00:30:43,541 It's a satanic distortion of Christianity. 557 00:30:47,946 --> 00:30:49,414 Across list. 558 00:30:49,414 --> 00:30:52,817 Christianity is not a safe version of Christianity. 559 00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:56,721 It's a satanic distortion of Christianity. 560 00:30:57,922 --> 00:31:02,260 This is the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness by Satan himself. 561 00:31:02,460 --> 00:31:05,396 You can have the worship 562 00:31:05,396 --> 00:31:08,399 as long as you don't go to the cross. 563 00:31:10,635 --> 00:31:14,906 A discipleship that is not cost cross costly 564 00:31:16,107 --> 00:31:17,876 is no version of Christianity all. 565 00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:20,879 It's a satanic distortion of it. 566 00:31:21,613 --> 00:31:24,782 Jesus will say, you want to follow me? 567 00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:28,152 Take up your cross 568 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:32,223 to follow Jesus without the cross. 569 00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:34,759 Is this a distortion of what 570 00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:37,762 it means to be a disciple? 571 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:42,533 Following 572 00:31:42,533 --> 00:31:46,471 Jesus in principle, but not in practice isn't discipleship it's branding. 573 00:31:56,948 --> 00:31:59,117 24 through 28 574 00:31:59,117 --> 00:32:01,586 Then Jesus told his disciples, if anybody would come after me, 575 00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:05,523 let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me forever, would save 576 00:32:05,523 --> 00:32:08,559 his life, will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 577 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:12,997 For what will a profit a man to gain the whole world and and forfeit his soul? 578 00:32:13,064 --> 00:32:16,868 Or what will a man give in return for his soul? 579 00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:21,472 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his father, 580 00:32:21,639 --> 00:32:25,777 and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. 581 00:32:25,810 --> 00:32:28,179 Truly I say to you, there are some standing here 582 00:32:28,179 --> 00:32:32,083 who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. 583 00:32:32,083 --> 00:32:34,385 That phrase right there is going to be fleshed out 584 00:32:34,385 --> 00:32:36,254 a little bit in this next chapter of chapter 17. 585 00:32:36,254 --> 00:32:38,623 You'll see it next week, so I'm not going to deal with that. 586 00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:39,691 We'll do it that next week. 587 00:32:39,691 --> 00:32:42,694 I want to go back up to verse 24. 588 00:32:42,694 --> 00:32:45,163 You want to come after me, you want to be my disciple. 589 00:32:45,163 --> 00:32:46,397 Take up your cross. 590 00:32:51,202 --> 00:32:54,172 I'm going to give you two tough truths. 591 00:32:54,339 --> 00:32:57,342 You ready? 592 00:32:59,143 --> 00:33:00,111 Across list. 593 00:33:00,111 --> 00:33:03,114 Christianity always protects self first. 594 00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:08,353 It always protects my safety, 595 00:33:08,353 --> 00:33:11,556 my comfort, my future, my resources first because it's cross 596 00:33:11,556 --> 00:33:14,559 less. 597 00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:20,932 And money is one of the clearest places 598 00:33:20,932 --> 00:33:23,935 where discipleship gets tested. 599 00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:33,945 Jesus is going to press into this 600 00:33:33,945 --> 00:33:36,948 and said, listen, the reason why this is so difficult, 601 00:33:38,383 --> 00:33:41,386 why denial of self is so difficult, 602 00:33:42,186 --> 00:33:45,189 and please understand. 603 00:33:47,158 --> 00:33:51,829 That Jesus isn't calling us to less life. 604 00:33:52,497 --> 00:33:55,500 He's calling us out of a lesser life. 605 00:33:58,503 --> 00:33:59,771 He says, I want you to deny yourself. 606 00:33:59,771 --> 00:34:02,774 I'm not calling you to less life. 607 00:34:03,241 --> 00:34:05,076 If you don't deny yourself, you're going to live 608 00:34:05,076 --> 00:34:08,079 in a lesser life. 609 00:34:09,347 --> 00:34:10,515 You're going to forfeit that 610 00:34:10,515 --> 00:34:13,518 which is most important. 611 00:34:13,851 --> 00:34:17,355 And Jesus knows that the reason why this is so difficult for us 612 00:34:17,388 --> 00:34:21,025 is because our resources and our money represent things 613 00:34:21,025 --> 00:34:25,897 that we are very important to us our safety, our comfort, our success, 614 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:29,200 our control, our self-preservation. 615 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:30,601 We think that all comes from our hand. 616 00:34:30,601 --> 00:34:36,874 And so we want to hoard it all. See, 617 00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:40,812 and this is this is so touchy because it hits every one of us. 618 00:34:40,812 --> 00:34:45,516 We can say finances is a place where we can say, Lord with our lips, 619 00:34:45,516 --> 00:34:48,519 but claim mine with my wallet. 620 00:34:55,660 --> 00:34:58,830 See discipleship that never rearranges our schedule, 621 00:34:59,030 --> 00:35:02,266 our agendas, our resources. 622 00:35:02,867 --> 00:35:06,304 It is a discipleship that hasn't reached our heart yet. 623 00:35:08,106 --> 00:35:11,109 So Matthew 16. 624 00:35:11,976 --> 00:35:15,379 Is about what surrendered discipleship looks like. 625 00:35:15,379 --> 00:35:16,981 I'm going to protect myself 626 00:35:16,981 --> 00:35:20,051 from everything that's going to crowd in just to move Jesus off. 627 00:35:20,051 --> 00:35:22,120 Sinner. 628 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,123 I'm going to protect myself 629 00:35:25,156 --> 00:35:27,792 and make sure that I understand who he is the Christ, 630 00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:30,795 the son of the living God. 631 00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:32,797 And because of who he is, he demands 632 00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:36,501 first place in everything, sacrificially. 633 00:35:36,534 --> 00:35:41,305 And generosity is one of the most evident places that surrender. 634 00:35:41,305 --> 00:35:44,075 Discipleship actually is visible. 635 00:35:48,179 --> 00:35:48,546 Said. 636 00:35:48,546 --> 00:35:53,951 What's it going to do for you to gain and fund all your hobbies 637 00:35:54,185 --> 00:35:57,188 and not my kingdom? 638 00:35:59,557 --> 00:36:00,992 What value is it 639 00:36:00,992 --> 00:36:06,230 in you to rearrange your schedules around your children's whatever, 640 00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:09,800 and not rearrange your children's schedules around my church? 641 00:36:14,505 --> 00:36:17,508 I want to invite you into this opportunity, 642 00:36:18,543 --> 00:36:21,512 and I want to start that invitation with this. 643 00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:25,316 Thank you for your incredible generosity. 644 00:36:26,317 --> 00:36:29,320 I did a lot of research this week 645 00:36:29,453 --> 00:36:33,658 nationally and worldwide, and I want you to understand, 646 00:36:34,659 --> 00:36:37,061 as far as missions and church planting 647 00:36:37,061 --> 00:36:40,064 giving is concerned nationally, 648 00:36:40,798 --> 00:36:43,801 your church flip side is in the top 1 649 00:36:43,801 --> 00:36:49,640 to 2% of every church in the nation, in the percentage 650 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,477 we give of all of our income that goes to church planning emissions. 651 00:36:54,912 --> 00:36:56,080 Yeah, you can clap for that. 652 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,115 That's all right. That's about you. 653 00:36:59,383 --> 00:37:01,619 We've not diverged from that. 654 00:37:01,619 --> 00:37:04,655 We've never robbed from that to pay other stuff. 655 00:37:04,655 --> 00:37:07,658 We won't do that. 656 00:37:08,025 --> 00:37:10,695 There's a lot of churches that claim to give a lot. 657 00:37:10,695 --> 00:37:14,065 They might in their minds do that. 658 00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:16,634 We actually do. 659 00:37:16,634 --> 00:37:19,637 I'm not even talking about benevolent stuff and community outreach stuff 660 00:37:19,637 --> 00:37:20,071 and others. 661 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:23,908 I'm talking just missions and church planning, the top 1 to 2%. 662 00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:27,578 And then there's when I say there's no other church who gives like we do, 663 00:37:27,612 --> 00:37:29,947 to missions and church planning, I mean it. 664 00:37:29,947 --> 00:37:32,950 We sell the time you don't give to us, you give through us. 665 00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:34,986 That's not changing. 666 00:37:34,986 --> 00:37:37,255 So thank you. 667 00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:40,024 A lot of you have been very, very, very generous for a long time. 668 00:37:40,024 --> 00:37:41,859 Some of you are just beginning to be generous. 669 00:37:41,859 --> 00:37:43,894 Thank you. It's going to other people. 670 00:37:43,894 --> 00:37:45,196 Jesus. I'm gonna build my church. 671 00:37:45,196 --> 00:37:46,430 I'm gonna do it through these disciples. 672 00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:49,200 You're part of the disciples that are doing it. 673 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,268 It's incredible. 674 00:37:51,469 --> 00:37:52,436 And I've asked Tom. 675 00:37:52,436 --> 00:37:55,373 He takes care of our financial record keeping, 676 00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:57,742 and I've asked him to send out the end of this month. 677 00:37:57,742 --> 00:37:59,543 Your six month statement. 678 00:37:59,543 --> 00:38:05,116 Just let you know where you are in your generosity of funding this church 679 00:38:05,182 --> 00:38:08,552 that Jesus is building around the world. 680 00:38:08,753 --> 00:38:11,155 I want you to see and I want you to be thankful. 681 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:12,823 Thank you, Lord, for the opportunity 682 00:38:12,823 --> 00:38:16,661 to be gracious and generous, to not live with the fear of scarcity, 683 00:38:16,761 --> 00:38:18,896 to understand that all you've given me comes from your hand. 684 00:38:18,896 --> 00:38:21,332 I can give it all away because you're going to replace it anyway. 685 00:38:21,332 --> 00:38:25,202 I want you to see that and take joy in what you've been able to do. 686 00:38:26,537 --> 00:38:29,240 And I want you to see where does that compare to where you were last year? 687 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:30,574 The year before, year before. 688 00:38:32,610 --> 00:38:34,345 But I want to invite you into this. 689 00:38:34,345 --> 00:38:37,181 Jesus is built in his church as he said he would. 690 00:38:37,181 --> 00:38:40,117 And this is part of the church that he's building right here, 691 00:38:40,117 --> 00:38:41,118 right in the Maywood Center. 692 00:38:41,118 --> 00:38:43,454 We got a great opportunity. 693 00:38:43,454 --> 00:38:47,825 I talked to you a few weeks ago about the new entryway we want to do there. 694 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:48,859 That's still on the table. 695 00:38:48,859 --> 00:38:51,028 We want to get that done. 696 00:38:51,028 --> 00:38:54,031 But there's other stuff that we need to do as well. 697 00:38:54,265 --> 00:38:54,799 We've had. 698 00:38:54,799 --> 00:38:58,602 These are the second group of chairs that we've bought in 20 years. 699 00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:05,343 You don't look too closely at them. 700 00:39:07,011 --> 00:39:08,979 One I want and I want to get 701 00:39:08,979 --> 00:39:12,316 I want to couple inches narrower too, because 702 00:39:13,951 --> 00:39:16,220 we need to fit a little bit more people in here. 703 00:39:17,922 --> 00:39:21,359 It'll be a good reminder for us maybe. 704 00:39:26,330 --> 00:39:27,865 There's all kinds of stuff we got to do. 705 00:39:27,865 --> 00:39:30,134 We just we got the new office over there for our staff. 706 00:39:30,134 --> 00:39:31,068 It's fantastic. 707 00:39:31,068 --> 00:39:31,936 The guys are doing great. 708 00:39:31,936 --> 00:39:34,338 We're finding a lot of issues once we open up walls. 709 00:39:34,338 --> 00:39:37,041 The air conditioner unit up there just died. 710 00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:39,276 We're ready to move in this week. It just died. 711 00:39:39,276 --> 00:39:41,946 But that unit was manufactured in 1990. 712 00:39:41,946 --> 00:39:43,280 We got 36 years out of it. 713 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,882 That ain't bad, 714 00:39:44,882 --> 00:39:48,185 but there's a lot of those in this building, in this whole property. 715 00:39:48,819 --> 00:39:49,720 So a lot of parking lots. 716 00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:52,690 Don't forget, there's a lot of stuff that we have to do 717 00:39:53,090 --> 00:39:54,392 and he's going to keep building. 718 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:57,395 There's a lot of people coming to our church. 719 00:39:57,495 --> 00:40:00,264 There's a lot of people, I love you, 720 00:40:00,264 --> 00:40:04,034 I love your invitations, but it's going to require more. 721 00:40:04,268 --> 00:40:07,638 And so here's, here's here's our opportunity. 722 00:40:08,038 --> 00:40:12,376 Here's what it looks like 150,000 more dollars of what we have 723 00:40:12,443 --> 00:40:17,481 normally been been giving, and 50,000 more dollars as a church. 724 00:40:17,548 --> 00:40:19,717 That's pretty easy. 725 00:40:19,717 --> 00:40:22,420 Might sound easy on the front end, but let me tell you how easy that is. 726 00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:25,523 It's already been front loaded with $28,000. 727 00:40:26,991 --> 00:40:28,025 And so what? 728 00:40:28,025 --> 00:40:32,396 That means a couple different options is this if you're a giving you 729 00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:35,933 in this church 1200 more dollars, 730 00:40:37,735 --> 00:40:40,738 that's what it means over and above your regular ties and offerings. 731 00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:44,341 If we just start with there's more than 100 giving us. 732 00:40:44,341 --> 00:40:45,443 But if we start with 100, 733 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:48,813 giving units 1200 more dollars over the course of whatever, 734 00:40:49,947 --> 00:40:51,582 we're there. 735 00:40:51,582 --> 00:40:54,585 Now, some of you let me just tell you, some of you, 736 00:40:54,819 --> 00:40:57,822 you could you could take care of that right now. 737 00:40:58,189 --> 00:41:01,292 Matter of fact, you could take care of that about five times over right now. 738 00:41:01,492 --> 00:41:03,060 Some of you can. 739 00:41:03,060 --> 00:41:05,229 And if that's that's great. 740 00:41:05,229 --> 00:41:08,232 Others of you are like 1200 741 00:41:08,666 --> 00:41:10,701 like maybe over a year I could spend. 742 00:41:10,701 --> 00:41:12,036 Fantastic. Here's the thing. 743 00:41:12,036 --> 00:41:16,440 I would rather us give recurring a little bit 744 00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:19,610 than one time a whole bunch, because we're not doing a funding campaign. 745 00:41:19,610 --> 00:41:20,678 We're building disciples. 746 00:41:20,678 --> 00:41:25,616 And discipleship is about regular, recurring discipleship. 747 00:41:25,683 --> 00:41:27,117 Does that make sense? 748 00:41:27,117 --> 00:41:29,320 Some of you are thinking, 1200 bucks, that's no problem. 749 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,421 Others you're thinking 200 bucks. 750 00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:31,989 You're out of your mind. 751 00:41:31,989 --> 00:41:34,225 You're out of your mind. 752 00:41:34,225 --> 00:41:36,694 I get it. I'm not asking that of everybody. 753 00:41:36,694 --> 00:41:39,063 I'm asking it for those who are willing to. 754 00:41:39,063 --> 00:41:42,066 But if you can't buy your chair, 755 00:41:43,133 --> 00:41:44,301 it's a $60 chair. 756 00:41:44,301 --> 00:41:45,636 That's how much this is going to cost. 757 00:41:45,636 --> 00:41:47,571 $60 a chair. 758 00:41:47,571 --> 00:41:50,574 Set aside a little bit every month just by your chair, 759 00:41:51,242 --> 00:41:52,776 and they commit to buy someone else. 760 00:41:52,776 --> 00:41:55,312 This year you got a high school. Do you know how to a high school kid? 761 00:41:55,312 --> 00:41:56,347 Make them go. 762 00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:59,750 Most of them longs to buy their chair to be really good for them. 763 00:41:59,817 --> 00:42:02,786 Invest in the kingdom a little bit. 764 00:42:02,786 --> 00:42:03,420 Do you follow? 765 00:42:03,420 --> 00:42:06,423 You understand what I'm. 766 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:12,363 I've been struggling. 767 00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:15,366 We're going to move forward as if this is a done deal, 768 00:42:15,866 --> 00:42:18,869 because I believe it is. 769 00:42:19,637 --> 00:42:20,504 Because God's 770 00:42:20,504 --> 00:42:24,141 name is still, still Jehovah Jireh, our provider. 771 00:42:24,141 --> 00:42:26,710 He hasn't changed his name yet. 772 00:42:26,710 --> 00:42:28,712 He's not going to 773 00:42:28,712 --> 00:42:31,916 because I trust who he is and I trust who his disciples are. 774 00:42:34,118 --> 00:42:36,787 Men and women, young and old, 775 00:42:36,787 --> 00:42:40,691 who understand I'm not going to let Jesus get pushed off center in my world, 776 00:42:40,758 --> 00:42:44,261 and I'm going to protect myself from everything that's creeping in on it. 777 00:42:44,662 --> 00:42:47,665 And I am going to be one of the ones 778 00:42:47,932 --> 00:42:50,935 who denies myself 779 00:42:51,902 --> 00:42:53,671 because I believe God's going to continue 780 00:42:53,671 --> 00:42:56,674 building his church through this church, 781 00:42:56,774 --> 00:42:59,777 and the sacrifice is worth it. 782 00:42:59,910 --> 00:43:02,913 And I'll do it with joy. 783 00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:07,117 Jobe disciples. 784 00:43:07,117 --> 00:43:10,120 You ready? 785 00:43:13,757 --> 00:43:16,760 So, disciples, 786 00:43:17,294 --> 00:43:19,530 you ready? 787 00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:20,998 Take up your cross. 788 00:43:20,998 --> 00:43:22,466 Deny yourself. 789 00:43:22,466 --> 00:43:24,668 Let's follow him. 790 00:43:24,668 --> 00:43:25,736 Father. Thank you. 791 00:43:25,736 --> 00:43:28,539 You are a good God. 792 00:43:28,539 --> 00:43:31,308 Thank you that you love us. 793 00:43:31,308 --> 00:43:34,878 There's nothing that we could do to make you love us less. 794 00:43:34,878 --> 00:43:37,815 There's nothing we can do to make you love us more. 795 00:43:37,815 --> 00:43:41,518 Think that you've called us into a lofty calling, 796 00:43:42,386 --> 00:43:44,555 a great calling. 797 00:43:44,555 --> 00:43:45,556 Thank you that you. 798 00:43:45,556 --> 00:43:47,658 You guide. You provide. 799 00:43:47,658 --> 00:43:50,661 Thank you for the disciples in this church 800 00:43:50,661 --> 00:43:54,398 that are not going to allow you to get pushed off center of their life, 801 00:43:54,898 --> 00:43:56,467 that are going to protect themselves 802 00:43:56,467 --> 00:43:59,470 from all those things that are going to creep in on it, 803 00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:05,576 and that are going to choose to deny themselves, to take up their cross 804 00:44:05,576 --> 00:44:08,579 in costly ways and follow you with 805 00:44:08,579 --> 00:44:11,582 wholehearted, unashamed obedience. 806 00:44:12,216 --> 00:44:14,184 God do that in us. 807 00:44:14,184 --> 00:44:18,756 It's our privilege and our honor to be about your world, work 808 00:44:18,756 --> 00:44:20,758 in this community and around the world. 809 00:44:20,758 --> 00:44:22,493 What an honor. 810 00:44:22,493 --> 00:44:25,062 Jesus, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. 811 00:44:25,062 --> 00:44:26,230 You deserve it all. 812 00:44:26,230 --> 00:44:28,999 In your name I pray. Amen. 813 00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:34,571 Listen, I would love to blame me going over on a six minute video. 814 00:44:35,572 --> 00:44:37,641 That's part of it. 815 00:44:37,641 --> 00:44:40,377 The other part of it is there's just a lot for us to talk through. 816 00:44:40,377 --> 00:44:42,513 Thank you. You did well. 817 00:44:42,513 --> 00:44:46,517 I asked Jeff to wrap up the service in a certain way during this week 818 00:44:46,550 --> 00:44:49,553 that has gone out the window because of the time. 819 00:44:49,953 --> 00:44:51,455 And so we're going to do a little bit. 820 00:44:51,455 --> 00:44:53,590 You guys are going to wrap it up. However you're going to wrap it up. 821 00:44:53,590 --> 00:44:54,625 Thank you. 822 00:44:54,625 --> 00:44:57,428 Im glad you're guitars work in and 823 00:44:57,428 --> 00:45:01,398 I want you to stand up Jeff Alley Band, take it away.