1 00:00:03,603 --> 00:00:04,270 Good morning, good morning. 2 00:00:04,270 --> 00:00:05,972 Morning, church. How are we doing? 3 00:00:05,972 --> 00:00:07,207 I'm on now. 4 00:00:07,207 --> 00:00:08,441 Happy. Tired. Sunday. 5 00:00:08,441 --> 00:00:11,611 Thankful you are with us if we have not met. 6 00:00:11,611 --> 00:00:13,113 My name is Michael. 7 00:00:13,113 --> 00:00:14,581 I'm not usually up here, Pastor Carlos. 8 00:00:14,581 --> 00:00:16,649 So please come back next week and hear from the man, 9 00:00:16,649 --> 00:00:19,586 the bus guy, the guy who knows scripture better than anyone I know. 10 00:00:19,586 --> 00:00:22,322 So come on back next week. 11 00:00:22,322 --> 00:00:24,057 No. Super grateful you're here. 12 00:00:24,057 --> 00:00:25,225 I know it is a tired Sunday. 13 00:00:25,225 --> 00:00:28,228 We lose that hour of sleep and it messes up the kids. 14 00:00:28,862 --> 00:00:31,431 But it's fun to be together. 15 00:00:31,431 --> 00:00:32,499 It's good to be together. 16 00:00:32,499 --> 00:00:35,135 It's it's it's right to be together. 17 00:00:35,135 --> 00:00:38,338 And so this morning, we're going to be back in the gospel of Matthew. 18 00:00:38,371 --> 00:00:40,540 So if you have your Bibles, turn to Matthew ten, 19 00:00:42,042 --> 00:00:45,045 Matthew ten, Matthew ten. 20 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:48,848 Pastor Carl last week covered the first half of the chapter. 21 00:00:48,848 --> 00:00:49,282 This morning. 22 00:00:49,282 --> 00:00:50,283 We're going to cover the latter half. 23 00:00:50,283 --> 00:00:53,319 We're going to cover the second half of the chapter about 20 verses or so. 24 00:00:53,319 --> 00:00:56,322 We're going to pick up in verse 26. 25 00:00:56,523 --> 00:00:59,092 But I want to, while you turn there, 26 00:00:59,092 --> 00:01:01,928 remind you what we talked about last week, what Pascal talked about last week, 27 00:01:01,928 --> 00:01:03,963 or if you weren't here, you'll catch you up a little bit. 28 00:01:03,963 --> 00:01:07,734 So last week, Pastor Carl, he challenge us with this word, 29 00:01:08,068 --> 00:01:11,604 this idea that we are sent out, that you and I are on a mission, 30 00:01:12,138 --> 00:01:16,543 that you are called to go and do and be what this world needs 31 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:19,846 in the name of Jesus, who are his hands and his feet where were sent out. 32 00:01:19,846 --> 00:01:21,748 And so I wanted to put that back in your head. In your heart. 33 00:01:21,748 --> 00:01:25,485 What does it mean for you personally, or you and your spouse or your family to 34 00:01:25,485 --> 00:01:26,219 be sent out? 35 00:01:27,954 --> 00:01:28,822 What does that mean for you? 36 00:01:28,822 --> 00:01:30,890 Uniquely? 37 00:01:30,890 --> 00:01:32,992 And then I just want to give you a quick snippet. 38 00:01:32,992 --> 00:01:34,561 Some things that stood out to me from last week. 39 00:01:34,561 --> 00:01:35,895 Hopefully some of the things stood out to you. 40 00:01:35,895 --> 00:01:39,532 Not an exhaustive list, but but rather just a list of of things. 41 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,603 Pascale told us that chapters 1 to 9 our Jesus doing 42 00:01:43,603 --> 00:01:46,606 ministry, modeling ministry, showing his disciples 43 00:01:46,773 --> 00:01:50,443 what this world needs, guiding and teaching and encouraging and helping. 44 00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:52,612 And then we flip to chapter ten. 45 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:54,681 Now Jesus says, now you go and do ministry. 46 00:01:54,681 --> 00:01:55,815 It's your turn to step up. 47 00:01:55,815 --> 00:01:58,651 You are sent. 48 00:01:58,651 --> 00:02:01,521 Pascal also shared that that is challenging. 49 00:02:01,521 --> 00:02:04,524 He said joining Jesus will be costly. 50 00:02:05,024 --> 00:02:08,027 Joining Jesus will be costly. 51 00:02:08,461 --> 00:02:10,897 He shared that a saved life is a life. 52 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:14,801 He said that you and I, as 53 00:02:14,801 --> 00:02:18,271 believers, we have to accept responsibility of the cross. 54 00:02:18,805 --> 00:02:21,808 That made us a new creation and now we're supposed to live accordingly. 55 00:02:22,242 --> 00:02:25,845 Just accept the reality that that we're called to go and do 56 00:02:25,845 --> 00:02:30,083 and live and model what John just said, right? 57 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:34,220 Invite people into the kingdom, whether it's overseas in Mexico, 58 00:02:34,487 --> 00:02:37,290 whether it's here in the ranchos or wherever you live. 59 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:38,758 We have to accept responsibility. 60 00:02:38,758 --> 00:02:41,961 He said last week that the call precedes the gift. 61 00:02:41,961 --> 00:02:45,698 So accept the call, step up to the plate, go and do. 62 00:02:47,534 --> 00:02:48,301 And then I love, he said. 63 00:02:48,301 --> 00:02:50,403 We're supposed to live with a sense of urgency, 64 00:02:50,403 --> 00:02:54,340 a sense of purpose, a sense of pride, a sense of empowerment. 65 00:02:54,974 --> 00:02:58,378 But sometimes we get comfortable, right as Americans are. 66 00:02:58,378 --> 00:03:00,513 So we're supposed to live with a sense of urgency 67 00:03:01,681 --> 00:03:04,751 that our God is long suffering and he wants none to perish, 68 00:03:04,751 --> 00:03:08,254 but all to come to repentance, and he wants to use us all. 69 00:03:08,454 --> 00:03:10,190 What an amazing reality that God wants to use us 70 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:13,860 even when our brokenness, even our selfishness, even in our sin, 71 00:03:14,494 --> 00:03:16,863 he still wants to use you to reach those 72 00:03:16,863 --> 00:03:19,866 who were lost and don't know the saving hope of the cross. 73 00:03:19,999 --> 00:03:23,069 And so that's the challenge, is that we we don't live in 74 00:03:23,069 --> 00:03:26,072 such a way where it's self-centered. 75 00:03:26,072 --> 00:03:28,641 We live in such a way where others centered, 76 00:03:28,641 --> 00:03:32,245 and we value an invitation from God to be sent and to go and do, 77 00:03:33,313 --> 00:03:34,814 even though it can be challenging. 78 00:03:34,814 --> 00:03:35,715 And so this morning, 79 00:03:35,715 --> 00:03:38,851 there are some big themes that Jesus brings up here in the text, 80 00:03:38,851 --> 00:03:40,620 and I want to put them on the screen for you. Just a 81 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:42,088 process. 82 00:03:42,088 --> 00:03:45,091 Sorry, this clicker has been jump on me this morning. 83 00:03:45,158 --> 00:03:47,760 These are these are the six themes we're going to cover each of them. 84 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:49,762 It's almost this overview. 85 00:03:49,762 --> 00:03:51,097 We're going to spend a little more time in fear 86 00:03:51,097 --> 00:03:54,100 because I think fear is so controlling at times. 87 00:03:54,667 --> 00:03:56,869 But Jesus brings up fear. 88 00:03:56,869 --> 00:04:00,139 He brings up Werth, he brings up public allegiance. 89 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,875 He brings up division in this text. 90 00:04:02,875 --> 00:04:05,878 He brings up discipleship, and he brings up faithfulness. 91 00:04:05,979 --> 00:04:06,980 We could take. 92 00:04:06,980 --> 00:04:09,482 And do you know, we talk about one of these a week, really. 93 00:04:09,482 --> 00:04:12,452 And so I hope this morning 94 00:04:12,752 --> 00:04:15,722 is an invitation from God to say, all right, where do you need to lean in? 95 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:17,490 Which of these six or maybe a couple of them 96 00:04:17,490 --> 00:04:20,126 or maybe all, you know, but where do you need to lean in? 97 00:04:20,126 --> 00:04:21,761 Is fear kind of have that grip on you, 98 00:04:22,795 --> 00:04:25,798 or do you find your worth outside of Christ? 99 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:28,368 Does your face been private for too long? 100 00:04:28,368 --> 00:04:31,537 Is it public allegiance like I'm a declare this, this is this is real to me. 101 00:04:31,771 --> 00:04:33,106 I'm all in. 102 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:36,109 What is division exist in your life and you would like to change that 103 00:04:37,543 --> 00:04:38,278 discipleship. 104 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:41,281 This idea that you and I are not our own anymore. 105 00:04:41,914 --> 00:04:44,183 If we are a disciple of Jesus, if he is Lord and Savior, 106 00:04:44,183 --> 00:04:45,451 he was supposed to live in such a way. 107 00:04:45,451 --> 00:04:47,253 We're not in control. 108 00:04:47,253 --> 00:04:49,722 We let him be in control. 109 00:04:49,722 --> 00:04:52,925 And then faithfulness is this idea that you and I are called to 110 00:04:53,693 --> 00:04:57,230 serve this world well, even though it doesn't deserve it at times 111 00:04:57,230 --> 00:05:00,566 it is nasty and difficult to navigate, and it's uncomfortable and scary. 112 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:02,635 We're still called to be faithful to God 113 00:05:02,635 --> 00:05:05,638 and where he's called us and placed us and asks us to go. 114 00:05:06,205 --> 00:05:08,941 And so it's it's this all in mentality. 115 00:05:08,941 --> 00:05:11,311 And so this week, I've been thinking about this word. 116 00:05:11,311 --> 00:05:12,545 I've called it the L-word. 117 00:05:12,545 --> 00:05:13,513 And I think when we think of Jesus, 118 00:05:13,513 --> 00:05:16,115 we think of the L-word as love, which of course it is that word. 119 00:05:16,115 --> 00:05:18,351 But this morning I have a different word for you. 120 00:05:18,351 --> 00:05:21,587 And I think what we're going to see over and over is that Jesus saying, 121 00:05:22,622 --> 00:05:24,090 everything comes down to this one word. 122 00:05:24,090 --> 00:05:25,692 It's loyalty. 123 00:05:25,692 --> 00:05:29,128 Everything about the text this morning, about this Christian walk, 124 00:05:29,629 --> 00:05:32,465 about our faith, why we do what we do or don't do. 125 00:05:32,465 --> 00:05:36,969 We like all the things that we decide to come down to that word loyalty. 126 00:05:36,969 --> 00:05:39,972 Are we loyal to Jesus above all else? 127 00:05:40,206 --> 00:05:41,307 Is he number one? 128 00:05:41,307 --> 00:05:43,109 Is he truly King? 129 00:05:43,109 --> 00:05:45,311 Is he truly Lord? 130 00:05:45,311 --> 00:05:45,945 Right. 131 00:05:45,945 --> 00:05:48,481 The saving act the cross was a one time event. 132 00:05:48,481 --> 00:05:52,151 It's not continuously happening, but lordship is continual. 133 00:05:52,952 --> 00:05:54,687 Lordship is ongoing. 134 00:05:54,687 --> 00:05:57,690 You have to daily say yes to Jesus and no to self. 135 00:05:57,690 --> 00:05:59,592 Right? 136 00:05:59,592 --> 00:06:02,295 And so as we navigate this list, 137 00:06:02,295 --> 00:06:06,165 fear, worth, public allegiance, division, discipleship and faithfulness. 138 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:08,801 Keep in mind loyalty, right? 139 00:06:08,801 --> 00:06:10,903 Because we can not live these things out, 140 00:06:10,903 --> 00:06:14,474 we cannot grow in these areas unless loyalty is our posture. 141 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,943 We just can't. Loyalty has to be number one. 142 00:06:17,910 --> 00:06:20,546 And so I do have to apologize. 143 00:06:20,546 --> 00:06:21,848 I made a mistake with Miranda. 144 00:06:21,848 --> 00:06:24,984 I thought I had the slot this the slides for the text this morning. 145 00:06:24,984 --> 00:06:26,419 I do not, but I'm going to read it aloud to you. 146 00:06:26,419 --> 00:06:29,389 So if you have a Bible, you're ahead. If you don't, I apologize. 147 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:32,191 I don't have this slide behind me, but I'm going to read the text to you out loud. 148 00:06:32,191 --> 00:06:35,194 We're going to read all, all the verses this morning and then we'll unpack it. 149 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:37,230 I'm gonna start in verse 26. 150 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:40,233 It says, so do not be afraid of them, 151 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:43,703 for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed 152 00:06:44,570 --> 00:06:47,573 or hidden, that will not be made known. 153 00:06:47,940 --> 00:06:50,943 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight. 154 00:06:51,177 --> 00:06:53,112 What is whispered in the in your ear. 155 00:06:53,112 --> 00:06:55,481 Proclaim from the roofs, 156 00:06:56,616 --> 00:06:57,483 do not be afraid. 157 00:06:57,483 --> 00:06:58,518 There's that word again. Fear. 158 00:06:58,518 --> 00:07:03,456 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. 159 00:07:03,723 --> 00:07:06,759 Rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy 160 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:09,762 both soul and body in hell. 161 00:07:09,962 --> 00:07:13,366 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny yet? 162 00:07:13,366 --> 00:07:16,202 Not one of them will fall to the ground outside of your father's care. 163 00:07:16,202 --> 00:07:19,172 Or some translations, say, outside of your father's will, 164 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:23,476 and even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 165 00:07:24,310 --> 00:07:27,313 So don't be afraid. 166 00:07:27,447 --> 00:07:30,216 You are worth more than many sparrows. 167 00:07:30,216 --> 00:07:32,518 Verse 32 whoever acknowledges me before 168 00:07:32,518 --> 00:07:35,521 others, I will also acknowledge you for my father in heaven. 169 00:07:35,688 --> 00:07:38,157 But whoever disowns me before others, 170 00:07:38,157 --> 00:07:41,160 I will disown before my father in heaven. 171 00:07:41,561 --> 00:07:43,763 Do you not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth? 172 00:07:43,763 --> 00:07:45,631 I did not come to bring peace, but a sword, 173 00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:47,166 for I have come 174 00:07:47,166 --> 00:07:50,169 to turn a man against his father, 175 00:07:50,203 --> 00:07:52,972 a daughter against her mother, 176 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:55,975 a daughter in law against her mother in law. 177 00:07:56,309 --> 00:07:59,312 I think we could acknowledge that one already exists. 178 00:07:59,345 --> 00:08:02,348 A man's enemies will be the members of his own household. 179 00:08:03,649 --> 00:08:04,917 Verse 37. 180 00:08:04,917 --> 00:08:08,721 Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. 181 00:08:08,721 --> 00:08:10,723 What a challenging text. 182 00:08:10,723 --> 00:08:13,426 Anyone who love their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 183 00:08:13,426 --> 00:08:16,996 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not 184 00:08:16,996 --> 00:08:19,999 worthy of me. 185 00:08:19,999 --> 00:08:22,335 Whoever finds their life will lose it, 186 00:08:22,335 --> 00:08:25,338 and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. 187 00:08:26,372 --> 00:08:27,039 Verse 40. 188 00:08:27,039 --> 00:08:28,708 Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me. 189 00:08:28,708 --> 00:08:30,877 And anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 190 00:08:32,278 --> 00:08:32,645 Whoever 191 00:08:32,645 --> 00:08:35,781 welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. 192 00:08:35,781 --> 00:08:36,916 And whoever welcomes 193 00:08:36,916 --> 00:08:40,520 a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. 194 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:41,420 Verse 42. 195 00:08:41,420 --> 00:08:45,224 Our last scripture this morning, and if anyone gives even a cup of cold 196 00:08:45,224 --> 00:08:48,528 water to one of these little ones, who is my disciple? 197 00:08:49,228 --> 00:08:54,133 Truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward. 198 00:08:54,834 --> 00:08:57,803 This is a challenging 20 verses. 199 00:08:57,803 --> 00:08:58,471 It's a lot. 200 00:08:58,471 --> 00:09:01,007 And so we're going to start with fear. 201 00:09:01,007 --> 00:09:03,042 That's where we see it. Don't be afraid. 202 00:09:03,042 --> 00:09:03,809 Don't be afraid. 203 00:09:03,809 --> 00:09:06,712 Don't be afraid. He says it over and over and over. 204 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:09,081 And I was processing this week. 205 00:09:09,081 --> 00:09:11,617 I thought of this fork in the road right. 206 00:09:11,617 --> 00:09:14,120 Or we can go left and fear can take us left. 207 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,488 And it's all about me. 208 00:09:15,488 --> 00:09:17,023 I can justify why I'm not going to do something. 209 00:09:17,023 --> 00:09:18,324 I can justify why I'm not going to be sent. 210 00:09:18,324 --> 00:09:20,760 I can justify what I'm going to say. No. And I can. 211 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,630 I think I can justify in a pretty good way I'm going to let fear control me 212 00:09:25,164 --> 00:09:29,168 or fear can take me down the right path, right down that road. 213 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:30,369 And it can lead me towards God, 214 00:09:30,369 --> 00:09:33,372 where I have this fear of God and not fear of others. 215 00:09:33,406 --> 00:09:35,975 Where fear of God is not to tremble, but to respect 216 00:09:35,975 --> 00:09:39,645 and Revere and be in awe and wonder and let him motivate us, 217 00:09:39,645 --> 00:09:42,782 his character, his goodness, his faithfulness, who he is. 218 00:09:43,449 --> 00:09:47,153 And so we have this opportunity always, I think, at all times. 219 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,322 Or what is fear going to do? 220 00:09:49,322 --> 00:09:52,391 How is it going to motivate us and Jesus laying that out here? 221 00:09:53,926 --> 00:09:55,861 And I think 222 00:09:55,861 --> 00:09:58,064 it's proper to start here, 223 00:09:58,064 --> 00:10:01,067 although it's challenging, it's this idea that a true disciple 224 00:10:02,101 --> 00:10:05,071 values Jesus above comfort, 225 00:10:05,471 --> 00:10:07,440 above reputation, 226 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,443 above safety, and above approval, 227 00:10:11,177 --> 00:10:12,878 because at the root cause of those things, think about, 228 00:10:12,878 --> 00:10:14,547 I mean, we love our comfort, right? 229 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:15,881 But it's fear driven. 230 00:10:15,881 --> 00:10:18,250 I don't want to lose my comfort reputation, want to lose my reputation. 231 00:10:18,250 --> 00:10:20,686 There's a fear that's driven our safety. 232 00:10:20,686 --> 00:10:23,155 It's a huge thing for parents in the room 233 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:24,624 because we think about the Mexico trip, right? 234 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:27,627 It's like, oh man, can I know, should I? 235 00:10:28,761 --> 00:10:30,262 But safety, we don't want to lose our state. 236 00:10:30,262 --> 00:10:33,132 There's a there's underlining fear almost to it. 237 00:10:33,132 --> 00:10:34,934 Same with the approval. Approval. 238 00:10:34,934 --> 00:10:37,069 I was reading a study our junior high and our high school students 239 00:10:37,069 --> 00:10:40,072 that says they need approval like they need air to breathe. 240 00:10:40,072 --> 00:10:42,408 That's how much it motivates their decisions. 241 00:10:42,408 --> 00:10:44,143 I mean, think about that just for a second. 242 00:10:44,143 --> 00:10:45,411 And it still exists for us. 243 00:10:45,411 --> 00:10:48,748 I think just on a lesser level, because we've navigated those years and 244 00:10:49,215 --> 00:10:51,550 hormones are different and we're just as sure of who 245 00:10:51,550 --> 00:10:53,386 we are a little more than junior high and high school students are. 246 00:10:53,386 --> 00:10:57,123 But approval still impacts us, and wanting approval 247 00:10:57,790 --> 00:11:00,159 and the fear of missing that approval or not getting it 248 00:11:01,827 --> 00:11:05,131 can can cause us to just focus on that fear element. 249 00:11:05,131 --> 00:11:08,100 It's that half glass empty approach to life, not half glass full. 250 00:11:08,134 --> 00:11:10,536 But fear is just so prevalent. 251 00:11:10,536 --> 00:11:13,105 It's such a big factor in this, even this Christian walk. 252 00:11:13,105 --> 00:11:14,807 But Jesus is saying the believer 253 00:11:14,807 --> 00:11:17,810 and the nonbeliever should factor in or should should process fear differently. 254 00:11:17,910 --> 00:11:18,544 They shouldn't fact 255 00:11:18,544 --> 00:11:22,048 they shouldn't process fear the same way because we do have true hope. 256 00:11:22,581 --> 00:11:25,051 We do have true, 257 00:11:25,051 --> 00:11:25,584 forgiveness. 258 00:11:25,584 --> 00:11:28,154 We do have this true relationship with a God who knows us. 259 00:11:28,154 --> 00:11:29,221 Again, he said he knows. 260 00:11:29,221 --> 00:11:32,191 He knows the hairs on your head that's all intimate. 261 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:35,327 This God is at how knowledgeable this God is. 262 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:39,298 And so we see here in ten, Jesus has his 12. 263 00:11:39,298 --> 00:11:41,467 He picks them and then he sends them out. 264 00:11:41,467 --> 00:11:44,937 But he he also speaks into the he say, here's what you're going to experience. 265 00:11:44,937 --> 00:11:46,105 He just takes the sting out of it. 266 00:11:46,105 --> 00:11:48,908 He says, you're going to be brought before counsel. 267 00:11:48,908 --> 00:11:50,376 You're going to be beaten. 268 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:53,379 You're going to be betrayed sometimes by family, 269 00:11:53,846 --> 00:11:56,849 and you're going to be hated at times by all. 270 00:11:56,882 --> 00:12:00,052 Like he lays it out and we talk about it's costly to follow Jesus. 271 00:12:00,252 --> 00:12:02,521 There's just a different standard that we live by. 272 00:12:02,521 --> 00:12:04,056 There's different motivation we have. 273 00:12:04,056 --> 00:12:06,826 There's a different perspective that we keep. 274 00:12:06,826 --> 00:12:08,494 It's eternal. 275 00:12:08,494 --> 00:12:09,562 We don't fear them. 276 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:12,832 We fear God, and we let him motivate us and him 277 00:12:12,832 --> 00:12:16,202 guide us and him encourage us as much as we can. 278 00:12:17,603 --> 00:12:18,037 Right. 279 00:12:18,037 --> 00:12:19,105 And here's what I think why 280 00:12:19,105 --> 00:12:20,639 Jesus is telling them what you're going to experience 281 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:23,075 and telling you and me what we're going to experience. 282 00:12:23,075 --> 00:12:26,078 This is why Jesus is preparing them for pressure. 283 00:12:26,345 --> 00:12:28,547 Jesus appearing them for rejection. 284 00:12:28,547 --> 00:12:31,183 This is preparing them for misunderstanding, for family tension, 285 00:12:31,183 --> 00:12:32,885 and for fear. 286 00:12:32,885 --> 00:12:35,888 Jesus is preparing them, but also preparing us. 287 00:12:36,055 --> 00:12:37,022 We are his disciples. 288 00:12:37,022 --> 00:12:40,893 So when we see this red letter text, he is speaking directly to us as well. 289 00:12:41,393 --> 00:12:44,163 Then maybe the context is different, of course, 290 00:12:44,163 --> 00:12:45,531 but just preparing them for pressure, 291 00:12:45,531 --> 00:12:48,534 rejection, misunderstanding, family tension and fear. 292 00:12:48,634 --> 00:12:51,003 I mean, look at that list. 293 00:12:51,003 --> 00:12:54,006 What do you struggle with or what's kind of a part of your life right now? 294 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,843 I mean, I think that the fear just creeps in 295 00:12:57,843 --> 00:12:59,645 and we don't we don't want to live with this 296 00:12:59,645 --> 00:13:01,747 pressure filled life or we don't want to be rejected. 297 00:13:02,882 --> 00:13:04,083 We don't want experience misunderstandings. 298 00:13:04,083 --> 00:13:08,654 And Jesus saying these things will happen, like start to process this. 299 00:13:08,654 --> 00:13:09,789 It will happen. 300 00:13:09,789 --> 00:13:12,925 How you navigate it, how you view this world, how you view 301 00:13:12,925 --> 00:13:16,162 me, how you lean on me, how you depend on me. 302 00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:19,198 That's what's going to help you get through this list 303 00:13:19,265 --> 00:13:21,467 and navigate this part of life. 304 00:13:21,467 --> 00:13:23,903 But he said, this will happen. 305 00:13:23,903 --> 00:13:27,273 I years ago I had a motorcycle and my father in law. 306 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:31,443 He said, it's not if you go down, but it's when you go down. 307 00:13:31,443 --> 00:13:34,446 And so it's having this very defensive driver kind of mindset. 308 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,916 And I think that that's here. It's not if it's going to happen, it's 309 00:13:36,916 --> 00:13:39,385 when it's going to happen, this will happen. 310 00:13:39,385 --> 00:13:41,253 But we can take heart because Jesus has overcome the world 311 00:13:41,253 --> 00:13:44,957 and we don't have to live in the fear because Jesus has already gone through it. 312 00:13:45,357 --> 00:13:46,759 He's already he's already preceded us. 313 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:48,961 He's already gone before us in this area. 314 00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:51,330 He's experience all the things will experience. 315 00:13:51,330 --> 00:13:52,464 He's been rejected. 316 00:13:52,464 --> 00:13:54,633 He's been spit on. He's been beaten. 317 00:13:54,633 --> 00:13:56,035 He's a misunderstood. 318 00:13:56,035 --> 00:13:58,103 He's already experience all these things. 319 00:13:58,103 --> 00:13:59,371 And so we can take heart in that. 320 00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:02,942 Say, okay, my God knows this road. 321 00:14:02,942 --> 00:14:05,211 He's traveled this road already. 322 00:14:05,211 --> 00:14:07,847 I don't have to let fear control me. 323 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:08,981 Yeah, yeah, sometimes it still does. 324 00:14:08,981 --> 00:14:12,117 And so we have to really be intentional with fear and navigate it. 325 00:14:12,751 --> 00:14:16,789 This text, this passage is one of this is what it cost to follow Jesus. 326 00:14:16,789 --> 00:14:19,825 But it's still worth it and it costs a lot. 327 00:14:20,492 --> 00:14:23,596 And so we have to just have this self-assessment, this vulnerable question 328 00:14:23,596 --> 00:14:27,333 of what am I willing to endure? 329 00:14:28,133 --> 00:14:29,101 This thing jumps. 330 00:14:29,101 --> 00:14:32,104 What am I willing to endure in the name of Jesus? 331 00:14:32,571 --> 00:14:35,641 What am I willing to go through and encounter? 332 00:14:38,010 --> 00:14:40,846 I mean, how serious are we about our faith? 333 00:14:40,846 --> 00:14:43,849 Go back to the outward right loyalty. 334 00:14:44,350 --> 00:14:48,420 What does it look like to value this faith above everything else? 335 00:14:50,522 --> 00:14:51,357 Are you all in? 336 00:14:51,357 --> 00:14:53,525 I think it but Jesus asking Michael, are you all in? 337 00:14:53,525 --> 00:14:56,262 Do you fully trust me? Do you fully depend on me? 338 00:14:56,262 --> 00:14:57,296 Do you fully know me? 339 00:14:57,296 --> 00:15:00,466 Even I do we know this text enough. Are we? 340 00:15:00,866 --> 00:15:03,869 Well, I have this assurance of who Jesus is, 341 00:15:03,869 --> 00:15:05,271 what he's done, what he's gone through, 342 00:15:05,271 --> 00:15:08,207 and how he's going to help me get through it. 343 00:15:08,207 --> 00:15:10,409 A lot of this, this, 344 00:15:10,409 --> 00:15:13,112 this Christian faith is its work on our part. 345 00:15:13,112 --> 00:15:14,546 Jesus did the work. 346 00:15:14,546 --> 00:15:16,282 He saved this world. 347 00:15:16,282 --> 00:15:19,285 He's redeemed his creation when we put our faith in him. 348 00:15:19,718 --> 00:15:21,220 But then it's our job to be sanctified. 349 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:23,188 It's our job to continuously grow in our faith 350 00:15:23,188 --> 00:15:27,092 and to be challenged and to say yes, that's the challenge in this 351 00:15:28,193 --> 00:15:29,428 is this world is distracting. 352 00:15:29,428 --> 00:15:29,895 It's loud. 353 00:15:29,895 --> 00:15:30,729 There's a lot going on. 354 00:15:30,729 --> 00:15:33,632 And we can again justify why I'm not being sanctified 355 00:15:33,632 --> 00:15:36,635 or why I'm not going in my faith, or why I'm not doing this or doing that. 356 00:15:36,635 --> 00:15:40,506 And Jesus saying, remain loyal to me, that's this fulfilled life. 357 00:15:41,206 --> 00:15:44,143 And so what are you willing to endure in the name of Jesus? 358 00:15:44,143 --> 00:15:47,413 It's not if it's when persecution or things will happen. 359 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,317 I want to go back to that fork in the road because Paul, he shares this. 360 00:15:51,317 --> 00:15:53,352 He says, why do I do what I don't want to do 361 00:15:53,352 --> 00:15:54,954 when I don't do what I want to do? 362 00:15:54,954 --> 00:15:56,822 Why am I motivated by my flesh? 363 00:15:56,822 --> 00:16:00,859 My spirit's been redeemed, my soul's been redeemed, but my flesh is not like it's. 364 00:16:00,993 --> 00:16:02,261 It's just this tension of. 365 00:16:04,263 --> 00:16:06,432 I'm a new creation, but I still have sin. 366 00:16:06,432 --> 00:16:09,435 And there's this battle, there's this warring going on in us. 367 00:16:09,802 --> 00:16:11,337 And so that fork is there. 368 00:16:11,337 --> 00:16:13,105 Sin still swells up. 369 00:16:13,105 --> 00:16:14,640 It still is a part of us. 370 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,776 And so when we have that fork moment and we can go left, 371 00:16:19,144 --> 00:16:21,947 remind yourself it's unbroken, scared, 372 00:16:21,947 --> 00:16:24,950 lost, selfish, left with fear. 373 00:16:26,085 --> 00:16:28,153 Go right where it's all about God. 374 00:16:28,153 --> 00:16:29,488 It's saying, I'm going to depend on you. 375 00:16:29,488 --> 00:16:31,957 I'm going to seek you, and I'm gonna ultimately trust you. 376 00:16:31,957 --> 00:16:34,960 I'm going to fear you because you are in control. 377 00:16:35,728 --> 00:16:39,631 It says, fear him who can kill body and soul, not just fear them. 378 00:16:39,631 --> 00:16:42,634 Who can kill body. 379 00:16:42,768 --> 00:16:43,602 But is challenging. 380 00:16:43,602 --> 00:16:46,305 So I just put a few things together. 381 00:16:46,305 --> 00:16:48,407 Things I typically fear. Awkwardness. 382 00:16:48,407 --> 00:16:49,641 I don't love. Awkwardness. 383 00:16:51,443 --> 00:16:52,478 Loss of reputation. 384 00:16:52,478 --> 00:16:55,748 I want a good reputation, I do, I want a good standing with everyone 385 00:16:56,482 --> 00:16:57,182 and being labeled. 386 00:16:57,182 --> 00:17:00,019 I think that that motivates us in a negative way. Being labeled. 387 00:17:00,019 --> 00:17:01,387 I want to be labeled. I don't want to be seen. 388 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:03,489 I don't want to be viewed as weird. 389 00:17:03,489 --> 00:17:03,722 Right? 390 00:17:03,722 --> 00:17:06,692 Going back to approval, approval, approval. 391 00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:08,627 Pascale, show this with me. 392 00:17:08,627 --> 00:17:09,495 He said, don't give me credit, 393 00:17:09,495 --> 00:17:12,498 and I have to give him credit because he's a theologian. 394 00:17:12,598 --> 00:17:17,102 He said, silence is usually not a knowledge problem, it's a fear problem. 395 00:17:17,436 --> 00:17:20,873 So I have been there where you're like, I don't know enough to do that. 396 00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:22,307 I can't, I don't know enough to participate. 397 00:17:22,307 --> 00:17:25,944 I don't know enough to go on that trip or to hang out or to join that ministry, 398 00:17:26,645 --> 00:17:27,813 he said. It's not a knowledge problem. 399 00:17:27,813 --> 00:17:29,048 It's a fear problem. 400 00:17:29,048 --> 00:17:31,784 It's fear of just stepping into something that's new, 401 00:17:32,751 --> 00:17:33,385 he shared. 402 00:17:33,385 --> 00:17:36,388 We don't stay quiet because we lack answers. 403 00:17:36,722 --> 00:17:39,358 We stay quiet because we fear reactions. 404 00:17:39,358 --> 00:17:41,293 I think these are powerful ideas. 405 00:17:41,293 --> 00:17:44,029 We don't stay quiet because we lack answers. 406 00:17:44,029 --> 00:17:45,864 We stay quiet because we fear reactions. 407 00:17:45,864 --> 00:17:48,867 And still there's still this underlying theme of fear. 408 00:17:49,401 --> 00:17:51,103 And so maybe a few this morning. Right? 409 00:17:51,103 --> 00:17:53,972 This first theme of fear is something you need to confront. 410 00:17:53,972 --> 00:17:57,876 You need to lean in a little bit, and you need to trust God with God. 411 00:17:57,876 --> 00:17:59,545 Help me work through this. 412 00:17:59,545 --> 00:18:02,548 Fear has had too much of a control and a grip on my life. 413 00:18:03,048 --> 00:18:06,051 I don't want that to be the reality anymore. 414 00:18:06,585 --> 00:18:09,121 Our second theme this morning 415 00:18:09,121 --> 00:18:10,722 is worth. 416 00:18:10,722 --> 00:18:11,223 It's worth. 417 00:18:11,223 --> 00:18:12,991 And we go, let's go back to verse 29. 418 00:18:14,026 --> 00:18:14,560 It says, are 419 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,596 not two sparrows sold for a penny yet? 420 00:18:17,596 --> 00:18:20,365 Not one of them will fall to the ground outside of your father's care 421 00:18:20,365 --> 00:18:24,236 or your father's will, and even the very hairs of your head 422 00:18:24,236 --> 00:18:27,239 are all numbered, so don't be afraid. 423 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,343 You are worth more than many sparrows. 424 00:18:31,844 --> 00:18:34,580 Sparrows were the cheapest in the temple market. 425 00:18:34,580 --> 00:18:37,749 That you could buy two sparrows for pennies was cheap. 426 00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:42,354 And yet Scripture just told us that God's will happens for the sparrows. 427 00:18:42,387 --> 00:18:44,823 God is mindful of the sparrows. 428 00:18:44,823 --> 00:18:46,792 God is aware of what's happening with the sparrows. 429 00:18:46,792 --> 00:18:49,795 Nothing happens outside of God's will for them either. 430 00:18:50,262 --> 00:18:53,265 Cheapest in the temple market. 431 00:18:54,233 --> 00:18:57,236 So right. 432 00:18:58,237 --> 00:18:59,972 I've got to thinking this week 433 00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:02,941 how much more? 434 00:19:02,941 --> 00:19:04,710 Does God govern us? 435 00:19:04,710 --> 00:19:06,478 How much more does God provide for us? 436 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:08,013 How much does God protect us? 437 00:19:08,013 --> 00:19:09,681 We are his image bearer. 438 00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:12,251 The sparrows weren't created in God's image. 439 00:19:12,251 --> 00:19:13,485 You and I were. 440 00:19:13,485 --> 00:19:16,155 And so if God is so intentional and so mindful, 441 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,158 he he governs the life of the sparrow. 442 00:19:20,025 --> 00:19:22,561 How much more does he govern ours? 443 00:19:22,561 --> 00:19:26,165 And so we need to find our worth and that reality that God knows you 444 00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:27,266 so much better than yourself. 445 00:19:27,266 --> 00:19:30,402 He knows the number of hairs on your head, a number a we 446 00:19:30,569 --> 00:19:33,572 we don't. 447 00:19:34,006 --> 00:19:34,239 And so 448 00:19:34,239 --> 00:19:37,242 I think that this conversation of worth 449 00:19:37,309 --> 00:19:40,512 it comes down to where do I place my worth? 450 00:19:40,712 --> 00:19:42,314 Is it in my performance? 451 00:19:42,314 --> 00:19:44,750 Is it in my marriage? Is it in my achievement? 452 00:19:44,750 --> 00:19:45,817 Is it in my career? 453 00:19:45,817 --> 00:19:48,520 Is it in my kids? 454 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,223 Is it in my house and the stuff I'm accumulated? 455 00:19:51,223 --> 00:19:52,157 Where does your worth? 456 00:19:52,157 --> 00:19:54,560 Where do you draw your value from? 457 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,063 And Jesus saying no, put your worth in me. 458 00:19:58,530 --> 00:20:00,465 Put your hope in me, your faith in me. 459 00:20:00,465 --> 00:20:03,602 Let me dictate how you view self. 460 00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:06,805 Don't look for it externally because it's always this mark 461 00:20:06,805 --> 00:20:09,808 we can never reach because we're comparing constantly to someone else. 462 00:20:10,442 --> 00:20:12,377 There's always someone bigger, faster, stronger, right? 463 00:20:12,377 --> 00:20:14,680 Makes more money, more successful. 464 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,616 And so with this lie that we can attain it somewhere else. 465 00:20:17,616 --> 00:20:20,552 And then Jesus fear creeps in too. He says. 466 00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:23,055 He says that Jesus connects fear and worth. 467 00:20:23,055 --> 00:20:25,224 In verse 31 he says, so don't be afraid. 468 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:26,925 You were worth more than many sparrows. 469 00:20:26,925 --> 00:20:28,160 Again, he's just saying, Michael. 470 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,362 Also, if you're not mindful of fear and you, our intention was fear. 471 00:20:30,362 --> 00:20:31,830 You don't work through fear. 472 00:20:31,830 --> 00:20:34,733 It's also going to dictate how you view yourself, 473 00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:37,736 your own self-worth. 474 00:20:38,437 --> 00:20:40,706 I think fear to 475 00:20:40,706 --> 00:20:41,940 our rather worth. 476 00:20:41,940 --> 00:20:44,243 If we can get it right and we can put our hope in Jesus 477 00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:48,580 and we can find our identity in him, there's such a freedom there, right? 478 00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:51,750 There's such a weight that we get to release where I'm not 479 00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:54,753 constantly trying to prove myself to everyone around me. 480 00:20:54,753 --> 00:20:57,589 I'm not constantly trying to run around and say, look at me, look at me, 481 00:20:57,589 --> 00:20:57,990 look at me. 482 00:20:57,990 --> 00:21:00,659 How cool and how not when how awesome is am I? 483 00:21:00,659 --> 00:21:02,427 We don't need that validation. 484 00:21:02,427 --> 00:21:04,296 It's still good to hear. Don't get me wrong. 485 00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:06,431 You know, someone says, hey, I've see you. 486 00:21:06,431 --> 00:21:07,833 I know you're working harder. 487 00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:08,533 You're doing great work. 488 00:21:08,533 --> 00:21:11,637 Like we want to hear those things, but not in a way 489 00:21:11,637 --> 00:21:14,640 where if we don't hear them, we're in the dumpster, right? 490 00:21:15,073 --> 00:21:17,309 Well, our worth is dependent on it. 491 00:21:17,309 --> 00:21:18,944 And so we really have to challenge ourselves 492 00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:22,447 to not let fear creep into self-worth and how we view ourselves. 493 00:21:22,748 --> 00:21:25,250 God says, I govern the sparrows. How much more on my governance you? 494 00:21:25,250 --> 00:21:27,686 How much more my caring for you, how much more my providing for you. 495 00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:30,255 Until it's 496 00:21:30,255 --> 00:21:33,258 really sitting in that reality and trusting that reality, 497 00:21:34,226 --> 00:21:38,163 the freedom that lives there, when I can be obedient to God and believe 498 00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:42,801 what he believes about me, that I am loved and I am sought and I am redeemed. 499 00:21:43,902 --> 00:21:47,105 I am not saying, well, I had a bad week and so there's my worth. 500 00:21:47,105 --> 00:21:49,641 Or I had a bad quarter, so there's my worth or I had a bad year. 501 00:21:49,641 --> 00:21:51,076 So there's my worth. 502 00:21:51,076 --> 00:21:53,245 Those are just bummer moments. 503 00:21:53,245 --> 00:21:55,681 But it's not going to send you in a tailspin 504 00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:58,350 because your worth is not found there. 505 00:21:58,350 --> 00:22:01,153 And so maybe for you this morning, it's processing just worth. 506 00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:02,954 Where do you place your worth? 507 00:22:02,954 --> 00:22:06,358 What do you depend on for for for how you feel about yourself? 508 00:22:06,892 --> 00:22:07,893 And I think it's easy 509 00:22:07,893 --> 00:22:10,095 for those who are married to those who have kids to put it in them, 510 00:22:10,095 --> 00:22:13,865 our spouse and our kids, or those who just love to work and go and do. 511 00:22:14,032 --> 00:22:17,502 It's easy to put it there and Jesus is saying it will fail you. 512 00:22:17,703 --> 00:22:20,205 It will fail you. So we're called to be obedient 513 00:22:21,373 --> 00:22:21,840 to Jesus 514 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,843 in believing His Word and what he says about us. 515 00:22:25,610 --> 00:22:28,613 So process this morning, where do you put your worth? 516 00:22:28,847 --> 00:22:31,850 Where do you place or where do you pull your value from? 517 00:22:32,784 --> 00:22:34,886 Our third theme 518 00:22:34,886 --> 00:22:37,255 this morning is public allegiance. 519 00:22:37,255 --> 00:22:41,093 Verse 32, it says, whoever acknowledges me before others, 520 00:22:42,060 --> 00:22:44,696 I will also acknowledge before my father in heaven. 521 00:22:44,696 --> 00:22:49,201 But whoever disowns me before others, I will also disown 522 00:22:49,868 --> 00:22:52,204 before my father in heaven. 523 00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:53,205 I read the NIV. 524 00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:55,741 I want to read you one more translation in the new King James. 525 00:22:55,741 --> 00:22:58,143 I think it it's it's helpful. 526 00:22:58,143 --> 00:23:02,881 It says again, verse 32, therefore whoever confesses me before men, 527 00:23:03,982 --> 00:23:06,985 I will confess before my father in heaven 528 00:23:07,352 --> 00:23:08,854 that word confess. 529 00:23:08,854 --> 00:23:10,422 I think that's a deeper meaning there. 530 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:14,192 There's a deeper weight to the word confess and means to testify. 531 00:23:14,693 --> 00:23:16,628 I'm confessing. I'm testifying. 532 00:23:16,628 --> 00:23:18,296 I'm taking this public stand. 533 00:23:19,297 --> 00:23:20,499 I identify with 534 00:23:20,499 --> 00:23:23,502 Jesus, and I'm unapologetic about it. 535 00:23:23,568 --> 00:23:26,571 You and I are called to confess Christ as Lord. 536 00:23:28,173 --> 00:23:29,474 Christianity was never meant 537 00:23:29,474 --> 00:23:32,477 to be a silent faith, a silent religion. 538 00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,747 I are one pastor. Say, 539 00:23:35,747 --> 00:23:37,849 because we know our our faith leads to true 540 00:23:37,849 --> 00:23:41,019 hope and true peace and true grace and true forgiveness. 541 00:23:41,019 --> 00:23:41,486 Right? 542 00:23:41,486 --> 00:23:43,422 We extend those to each other, but nothing. 543 00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:44,923 Let God extend to us. 544 00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:47,692 So how much do you have to hate someone to not share 545 00:23:47,692 --> 00:23:50,695 that same grace with them, that same truth with them? 546 00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:55,534 To to go silently and not share this life saving reality? 547 00:23:55,534 --> 00:23:58,537 In truth, how much you have to dislike them 548 00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:01,339 to not share that with them. 549 00:24:01,339 --> 00:24:03,542 And so I ask you, 550 00:24:03,542 --> 00:24:06,011 do your neighbors know you're a believer? 551 00:24:06,011 --> 00:24:08,580 Do your coworkers know you're a believer? 552 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:12,184 Do your family members, extended family, dear friends, know you're a believer? 553 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:13,919 This should be something I. 554 00:24:13,919 --> 00:24:16,321 I was thinking to myself, how would my sons describe me 555 00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:18,557 and say, oh, he like, you know, 556 00:24:18,557 --> 00:24:21,760 worked at a church and liked soccer and all the things, right? 557 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,963 But what they say, he knows Jesus well, they say he follows Jesus. 558 00:24:25,330 --> 00:24:28,333 I would hope so. Right? 559 00:24:28,567 --> 00:24:29,868 Do I confess it? 560 00:24:29,868 --> 00:24:31,603 Do I testify to that enough? 561 00:24:31,603 --> 00:24:35,040 Or my boys know that at my core, that is the number one thing. 562 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:39,878 And this is the challenging part of this text, right? 563 00:24:39,911 --> 00:24:42,481 Where we want to confess 564 00:24:42,481 --> 00:24:45,484 often Jesus is Lord. 565 00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:47,486 We don't want anyone to go through. 566 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,488 And and I don't know, you're a Christian. 567 00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:51,890 I know you're a believer because then we're not doing our job. 568 00:24:51,890 --> 00:24:54,593 We're not confessing. We're not have we don't have this public faith. 569 00:24:54,593 --> 00:24:57,062 But then it goes back to, I think that fear of like 570 00:24:57,062 --> 00:24:57,796 I might make 571 00:24:57,796 --> 00:24:58,497 when I be labeled 572 00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:00,232 and people are going to think less of me and they're 573 00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:03,835 not going to like me or whatever, but we're not called to be silent. 574 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:06,538 How can we say Corinthians says we're a new creation in Christ. 575 00:25:06,538 --> 00:25:07,672 The old is gone, the new is here. 576 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:10,275 How can we be a new creation and be silent? 577 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:12,611 How can we have the Holy Spirit and be silent? 578 00:25:12,611 --> 00:25:15,747 How can we experience the love of God and be silent? 579 00:25:16,181 --> 00:25:20,018 That's the challenge of this text is it does require action on our part. 580 00:25:20,151 --> 00:25:22,754 We have to step out. We have to lean in. 581 00:25:22,754 --> 00:25:25,924 We have to trust God and be uncomfortable at times. 582 00:25:25,924 --> 00:25:27,125 It's okay to be uncomfortable. 583 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,662 We cannot continue to live for self. 584 00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:32,464 I think that what ultimately is for me, the moment 585 00:25:32,464 --> 00:25:35,467 I'm silent and I'm just living for me, I'm being selfish. 586 00:25:36,601 --> 00:25:37,502 It's it's great. 587 00:25:37,502 --> 00:25:39,371 Romans ten nine. 588 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:41,406 This shows that you declare with your mouth 589 00:25:41,406 --> 00:25:44,543 Jesus, Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised from the dead. 590 00:25:44,576 --> 00:25:46,177 You will be saved. 591 00:25:46,177 --> 00:25:50,115 It starts with if you declare, we're called to declare. 592 00:25:50,115 --> 00:25:51,249 We're called to confess. 593 00:25:51,249 --> 00:25:53,985 We're called to testify. 594 00:25:53,985 --> 00:25:55,153 Don't be silent. 595 00:25:55,153 --> 00:25:57,122 Be obedient. 596 00:25:57,122 --> 00:26:00,892 If you're the one who can kill body and soul again, not trembling, a respect, 597 00:26:00,892 --> 00:26:03,895 a reverence, an are for God and who he is. 598 00:26:05,096 --> 00:26:08,333 I mean, I think I mean, just imagine this scenario, right? 599 00:26:08,366 --> 00:26:10,335 We're standing before God. 600 00:26:10,335 --> 00:26:13,305 I got I wanted to say it, but I wanted to fit in God. 601 00:26:13,305 --> 00:26:14,105 I wanted to share, 602 00:26:15,206 --> 00:26:16,141 but it was uncomfortable. 603 00:26:16,141 --> 00:26:17,943 God, I wanted to, 604 00:26:17,943 --> 00:26:20,946 but I feared their reaction is like, what 605 00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,182 he says, don't fear them. 606 00:26:24,182 --> 00:26:26,451 I've covered you. I've got you. I've experienced it. 607 00:26:26,451 --> 00:26:27,752 I'm going to help you through it. 608 00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:29,087 Yeah, it might be a little awkward, a little bit weird. 609 00:26:29,087 --> 00:26:31,856 You may not have the perfect answer, but grace abounds. 610 00:26:31,856 --> 00:26:33,992 Let me help. Let me work. Let me navigate through it. 611 00:26:33,992 --> 00:26:36,027 You been silent. I can't work through that. 612 00:26:36,027 --> 00:26:39,397 You being and fumbling and trying and going and picking yourself up. 613 00:26:39,397 --> 00:26:41,266 I can work through that. 614 00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:44,636 We're called to trust God and to fumble through things at times. 615 00:26:45,870 --> 00:26:47,872 We don't have all the answers. 616 00:26:47,872 --> 00:26:50,175 I think that's what kept me from the stage for a long time, is it was selfish 617 00:26:50,175 --> 00:26:51,910 and it was like, I don't have all the answers and I'm not, 618 00:26:52,944 --> 00:26:54,245 I'm not, I'm not that guy. 619 00:26:54,245 --> 00:26:55,647 Like, I just got to get to a point. 620 00:26:55,647 --> 00:26:57,482 I was like, all right, God, let's just do it and you'll cover 621 00:26:57,482 --> 00:26:59,384 and you'll grace and you'll speak and you'll go and I'll prep. 622 00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:01,653 And we just pray that you cover it all. 623 00:27:01,653 --> 00:27:05,991 And you speak so often we just we we second guess ourselves 624 00:27:05,991 --> 00:27:08,994 and just credit ourselves and say no to God. 625 00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:09,527 He just. 626 00:27:09,527 --> 00:27:13,965 Saint Michael, be obedient, be obedient, fumble through it, get through it. 627 00:27:14,165 --> 00:27:17,168 Remember, I've experienced everything you're going to experience. 628 00:27:17,168 --> 00:27:18,837 It's not going to catch me off guard. 629 00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,538 I have the number of hairs on your head numbered. 630 00:27:20,538 --> 00:27:21,973 I know your future. I know your days. 631 00:27:21,973 --> 00:27:24,643 I know all the things I know. You're going to fumble. 632 00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:25,977 I'm gonna be right there. 633 00:27:25,977 --> 00:27:28,647 So this challenge of trusting God, 634 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:31,950 genuinely trusting him when it comes to this public allegiance. 635 00:27:34,352 --> 00:27:35,887 When you stand before God, we don't want to be like, 636 00:27:35,887 --> 00:27:38,123 I thought about a guy, but I didn't want to. 637 00:27:38,123 --> 00:27:39,357 I was afraid. 638 00:27:39,357 --> 00:27:42,360 So maybe for you it's it's asking this question. 639 00:27:42,394 --> 00:27:44,796 It's a question we say often. 640 00:27:44,796 --> 00:27:47,799 What is your next best step as a believer 641 00:27:48,266 --> 00:27:50,268 if you're in this room when you've accepted Jesus, you never been baptized. 642 00:27:50,268 --> 00:27:52,270 Be baptized, share a testimony. 643 00:27:52,270 --> 00:27:55,273 Declare God is King and Lord publicly 644 00:27:56,074 --> 00:27:58,877 take that step, glorify him, give you what you've been there 645 00:27:58,877 --> 00:28:01,713 and you've done that, and you've shared and you've celebrated. 646 00:28:01,713 --> 00:28:04,315 Join a team. 647 00:28:04,315 --> 00:28:06,918 I selfishly think this and, you know, I hope with next 648 00:28:06,918 --> 00:28:10,221 gen and kids and youth, every person in this room should serve in good ministry. 649 00:28:10,288 --> 00:28:11,589 They're the next generation. 650 00:28:11,589 --> 00:28:12,991 We should all be pointing to them. 651 00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:14,659 We should all value what they're doing. 652 00:28:14,659 --> 00:28:16,695 They're going to take the faith person weekend because they're going to be here. 653 00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:17,796 When we're not here. 654 00:28:17,796 --> 00:28:19,864 They we should value once a month. 655 00:28:19,864 --> 00:28:21,266 I'm in that room because I'm going to pour into you. 656 00:28:21,266 --> 00:28:23,468 I'm going to start this foundation with you. I'm going to share the gospel. 657 00:28:23,468 --> 00:28:26,071 I'm going to love you. Well, have you one of us? We should. 658 00:28:28,573 --> 00:28:29,741 Maybe it's something about giving. 659 00:28:29,741 --> 00:28:32,444 Maybe it's again letting people in your life know you're a believer. 660 00:28:32,444 --> 00:28:35,680 Whatever that next best step is, process that for yourself. 661 00:28:36,681 --> 00:28:40,185 What does it look like for you to have this public stance that Jesus is Lord? 662 00:28:40,685 --> 00:28:43,688 Declare it, confess it, own it. 663 00:28:43,955 --> 00:28:46,958 It's okay to be awkward and uncomfortable. 664 00:28:47,592 --> 00:28:50,762 Our fourth theme this morning is the vision. 665 00:28:50,762 --> 00:28:51,963 This one's a tough one. 666 00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:55,600 I mean, they're all great, but just the way this is spelled out, 667 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,603 it says in verse 34, 668 00:28:58,670 --> 00:29:00,705 do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. 669 00:29:00,705 --> 00:29:03,374 I did not come to bring peace, but a sword, 670 00:29:03,374 --> 00:29:05,944 for I have come to turn a man against his father, 671 00:29:05,944 --> 00:29:08,947 a daughter against her mother, a daughter in law against her mother in law. 672 00:29:09,380 --> 00:29:13,118 A man's enemies will be members of his own household. 673 00:29:13,118 --> 00:29:14,786 That's challenging. 674 00:29:14,786 --> 00:29:16,588 Jesus says, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 675 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:17,355 But we know 676 00:29:18,356 --> 00:29:19,891 he wasn't part of a militia. 677 00:29:19,891 --> 00:29:21,993 He was wasn't violent at all, actually. 678 00:29:21,993 --> 00:29:23,828 And so I think this goes back to our O word, Jesus 679 00:29:23,828 --> 00:29:25,830 saying here, Michael, are you loyal to me? 680 00:29:25,830 --> 00:29:27,599 Above everything else? 681 00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:29,601 Let's go back to that, because here's where we are. 682 00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:33,571 The gospel should should produce this repentant heart in us. 683 00:29:33,571 --> 00:29:35,106 Where I know God's character, I know my character, 684 00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:37,909 I know God's goodness, and I know my lack of goodness. 685 00:29:37,909 --> 00:29:39,677 We should create this repentant heart when God. 686 00:29:39,677 --> 00:29:41,746 I'm sorry. I'm not getting there. 687 00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:43,214 I'm sorry. I'm struggling. 688 00:29:43,214 --> 00:29:45,784 I'm sorry I'm caught in this. Like, forgive me. Forgive me. 689 00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:48,787 There's this recognition in dependance on God. 690 00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:52,257 And why division will naturally exist is because we should live 691 00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:55,293 by a standard that is different than the rest of the world. 692 00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:57,896 The way we think about money and time 693 00:29:57,896 --> 00:30:01,065 and parenting and how we spouse, how we 694 00:30:01,099 --> 00:30:04,335 how we view things, it should be different than the rest of the world. 695 00:30:04,335 --> 00:30:07,806 We should look different and that can at times create 696 00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:12,410 some frustration, some animosity, some some some sideways eyes. 697 00:30:12,410 --> 00:30:14,312 Like it's just like you're just looking sideways. 698 00:30:14,312 --> 00:30:17,115 You're like, it actually creates some tension with the world. 699 00:30:17,115 --> 00:30:17,982 Why are they different? 700 00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:20,451 What is it going on over there? And it's going to create that. 701 00:30:20,451 --> 00:30:22,754 And it may create, even if in our families it says, 702 00:30:24,556 --> 00:30:25,790 but I didn't like that. 703 00:30:25,790 --> 00:30:27,091 And so I was thinking this week, how can that 704 00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:30,228 not be the reality for everyone in this room, for all your families? 705 00:30:31,596 --> 00:30:34,599 And here's what I here's what I settled on starting your home. 706 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,502 Your first ministry is in your home. 707 00:30:37,502 --> 00:30:40,071 You better be talking about fear with your kids. 708 00:30:40,071 --> 00:30:42,640 You better be talking about your worth with your kids. 709 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,943 You better be talking about public allegiance to Jesus with your kids. 710 00:30:44,943 --> 00:30:46,711 You better be in Scripture, with your kids, in prayer, 711 00:30:46,711 --> 00:30:49,981 with your kids, and pray with them over them for them, behind them. 712 00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:54,285 Salvation with your boys, with your girls, with your spouse. 713 00:30:54,285 --> 00:30:56,521 That's your number one priority in life. 714 00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:59,490 Have you start in your home at least that division won't be 715 00:30:59,958 --> 00:31:02,961 a man against his father or a daughter against her mother. 716 00:31:03,261 --> 00:31:04,229 Start in your home. 717 00:31:04,229 --> 00:31:06,698 We cannot control everything. 718 00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:08,166 And I was talking with him after first service. 719 00:31:09,367 --> 00:31:10,134 Just because we have the 720 00:31:10,134 --> 00:31:13,137 right motivation also doesn't mean it's going to work out. 721 00:31:13,271 --> 00:31:15,206 We can't guarantee anything, right? 722 00:31:15,206 --> 00:31:17,275 We pray it though. We want our kids with us for eternity. 723 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:17,775 Want them to know 724 00:31:17,775 --> 00:31:21,112 Jesus and the Redeemer that he is and the giver of life that he is. 725 00:31:21,112 --> 00:31:22,547 We want that. 726 00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:23,715 And so there's the challenge. 727 00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:25,817 We have to be obedient, bless you. 728 00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:29,187 We have to be obedient outside of the circle, outside of the outcome. 729 00:31:29,187 --> 00:31:30,355 Right? 730 00:31:30,355 --> 00:31:32,190 We have to be obedient to God. 731 00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:33,558 I don't want this division in my home. 732 00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:34,859 So I'm going to do everything I can. 733 00:31:34,859 --> 00:31:36,928 I'm going to walk this walk. I'm going to make my faith a priority 734 00:31:36,928 --> 00:31:37,996 because you're going to see me in Scripture. 735 00:31:37,996 --> 00:31:40,064 They're going to see me in prayer. They're going to see me in submission. 736 00:31:40,064 --> 00:31:42,467 They're going to see me in silence. You're going to see me looking weird 737 00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:43,868 to the 738 00:31:43,868 --> 00:31:46,871 world, because this is how important it is to me. 739 00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:47,805 Because I am loyal. 740 00:31:47,805 --> 00:31:50,808 I want to be loyal to Jesus. 741 00:31:51,242 --> 00:31:52,277 So start in your home. 742 00:31:52,277 --> 00:31:53,778 Don't miss that opportunity. 743 00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:56,147 The kids grow up quick, right? 744 00:31:56,147 --> 00:31:58,383 They're not babies anymore. Like five because they're going to school already. 745 00:31:58,383 --> 00:32:01,653 So don't miss this window of time that you have. 746 00:32:01,786 --> 00:32:04,355 And if you have missed that window, jump on it today. 747 00:32:04,355 --> 00:32:05,790 Who cares, right? 748 00:32:05,790 --> 00:32:08,126 Again, God helps us fumble through life. 749 00:32:08,126 --> 00:32:11,129 He can cover it. Address fear in your home. 750 00:32:11,195 --> 00:32:13,164 We don't fear them. We fear God. 751 00:32:13,164 --> 00:32:14,232 Address birth in your home. 752 00:32:14,232 --> 00:32:15,967 Our word comes from our relationship with God, 753 00:32:15,967 --> 00:32:18,703 not from who you are and what you can do and what you can't do. 754 00:32:18,703 --> 00:32:22,140 Address allegiance in your home so that division does not exist. 755 00:32:23,107 --> 00:32:24,943 Can't control everything, but 756 00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:28,112 we can at least have a stab at like, I don't want that division. 757 00:32:28,413 --> 00:32:30,748 I don't like that division. 758 00:32:30,748 --> 00:32:35,486 So process that, pray about that, show your kids what faith is like. 759 00:32:35,486 --> 00:32:38,489 And then when you get out of the house, walk it out. 760 00:32:38,723 --> 00:32:41,960 Still have that public declaration that Jesus is Lord. 761 00:32:42,427 --> 00:32:46,331 Confess it, testify to it, serve in a ministry, be a part of a huddle. 762 00:32:46,331 --> 00:32:47,899 Say yes to things. Say no to things. 763 00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:49,467 Have good boundaries. 764 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:51,102 You have to walk it out. 765 00:32:51,102 --> 00:32:53,438 Pastor always said that's what's not taught. It's what's caught. 766 00:32:53,438 --> 00:32:55,006 They're going to see what you do, 767 00:32:55,006 --> 00:32:58,009 what how you live your life, because it's going to ultimately show what you value. 768 00:32:59,077 --> 00:33:00,311 And that's a challenging thing. 769 00:33:00,311 --> 00:33:01,112 The kids are the youngest. 770 00:33:01,112 --> 00:33:02,880 We're like, I feel like we're the most inadequate because like, 771 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,117 we're just new parents and that's when we have to have our stuff together. 772 00:33:07,919 --> 00:33:10,221 And I think that starts with this rooted, grounded, 773 00:33:10,221 --> 00:33:13,224 genuine, honest relationship with Jesus. 774 00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:18,162 And so are you loyal to Jesus above all else. 775 00:33:18,162 --> 00:33:20,565 We see this in John 15. 776 00:33:20,565 --> 00:33:22,734 It says, if the world hates you, 777 00:33:22,734 --> 00:33:25,737 keep in mind that it hated me first. 778 00:33:26,070 --> 00:33:29,574 If you belong to the world, it would love you as its own as it is. 779 00:33:29,574 --> 00:33:33,478 You do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. 780 00:33:33,478 --> 00:33:35,313 That's why the world hates you. 781 00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:38,282 And so again, it's not if, it's when. 782 00:33:40,451 --> 00:33:42,453 So process for yourself. 783 00:33:42,453 --> 00:33:44,789 What does it look like 784 00:33:44,789 --> 00:33:47,625 for you to say, okay, this division exists, I'm going to help 785 00:33:47,625 --> 00:33:50,695 correct it or this division, I don't want it to exist now. 786 00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:52,730 I'm going to live in such a way where that's not going to be 787 00:33:52,730 --> 00:33:54,632 a reality in this home. 788 00:33:54,632 --> 00:33:55,933 This home will be set apart, 789 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:58,469 right? 790 00:33:58,469 --> 00:34:01,472 And that leads to our fifth theme of, 791 00:34:01,472 --> 00:34:04,375 oh, I see discipleship. 792 00:34:04,375 --> 00:34:06,544 Discipleship. Verses 30 and 39. 793 00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:08,212 Share this. 794 00:34:08,212 --> 00:34:12,183 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow 795 00:34:12,183 --> 00:34:16,120 me is not worthy of me, and whoever finds their life will lose it, 796 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:20,058 and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. 797 00:34:22,894 --> 00:34:25,463 Before persecution ever kills you physically 798 00:34:25,463 --> 00:34:28,466 and we focus on that, the physical you and I have to surrender. 799 00:34:28,466 --> 00:34:30,401 We have to kill our pride. 800 00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:33,271 Discipleship is an all in mentality that Jesus is Lord 801 00:34:33,271 --> 00:34:34,872 and I'm not in control anymore. 802 00:34:34,872 --> 00:34:38,743 It's living in such a way where he calls and we go. 803 00:34:39,177 --> 00:34:41,746 He open the door and we investigate. 804 00:34:41,746 --> 00:34:43,648 He prompts something. He invites you to something. 805 00:34:43,648 --> 00:34:44,615 He brings something up. 806 00:34:44,615 --> 00:34:48,619 He nudges you in one direction and we listen genuinely listen. 807 00:34:48,619 --> 00:34:49,854 We sit in the uncomfortableness 808 00:34:49,854 --> 00:34:53,591 of the tension of change or or whatever that might be for you. 809 00:34:54,826 --> 00:34:56,461 We have to surrender and kill 810 00:34:56,461 --> 00:34:59,730 our pride that we want to be in control, and we want to control the narrative. We. 811 00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:00,765 It's me, me, me. 812 00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:04,535 And I'm going to want to have the steel fist that are grip so tight. 813 00:35:05,870 --> 00:35:08,873 I think it's difficult to walk out when you're married and you have kids. 814 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,443 Life is out of your control to begin with. 815 00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:17,682 But Jesus, he says, here, take up your cross daily. 816 00:35:17,682 --> 00:35:19,517 Have this all in mentality. 817 00:35:19,517 --> 00:35:22,520 Surrender to me. 818 00:35:22,587 --> 00:35:24,889 Remember, he says, you're purchased. 819 00:35:24,889 --> 00:35:26,424 You were bought. 820 00:35:26,424 --> 00:35:28,893 Your life is not your own anymore. 821 00:35:28,893 --> 00:35:29,660 There's no take you back. 822 00:35:29,660 --> 00:35:32,663 Cease. 823 00:35:32,930 --> 00:35:33,865 We are not our own. 824 00:35:33,865 --> 00:35:36,434 If you are in Christ Jesus. 825 00:35:36,434 --> 00:35:40,638 And so it feels kind of elementary, but I think it's true. 826 00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:42,773 We can't follow Jesus and stay in charge. 827 00:35:42,773 --> 00:35:44,108 We just can't. 828 00:35:44,108 --> 00:35:46,110 We can't. And so it got me thinking, though, 829 00:35:47,245 --> 00:35:50,214 taking an inventory, who is pointing to you spiritually? 830 00:35:50,214 --> 00:35:51,315 Who are you accountable to? 831 00:35:51,315 --> 00:35:53,751 Who's accountable to you? Like like what does that look like for you? 832 00:35:53,751 --> 00:35:56,787 Do you have healthy rhythms in place so that this is a reality 833 00:35:57,021 --> 00:35:59,824 where people can say, hey, Michael, I've seen this and you're I hear this, 834 00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:00,825 what's going on? 835 00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:03,895 And you can do the same for other people because we'll drift. 836 00:36:04,395 --> 00:36:05,463 We'll drift. It talks about Hebrews. 837 00:36:05,463 --> 00:36:06,998 Don't drift right. 838 00:36:06,998 --> 00:36:09,767 Keep Jesus as that, that centerpiece, that focal point of we. 839 00:36:09,767 --> 00:36:11,502 Because when we drift, we drift. 840 00:36:11,502 --> 00:36:12,904 We don't. It's just not like this. 841 00:36:12,904 --> 00:36:15,239 It's it's a big drift. 842 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,942 And so we need the only people in accountability. 843 00:36:17,942 --> 00:36:19,877 I think we need spiritual disciplines. 844 00:36:19,877 --> 00:36:22,580 Are you in Scripture? Are you in prayer? 845 00:36:22,580 --> 00:36:24,015 Are you in community? 846 00:36:24,015 --> 00:36:25,883 Do you value those things? 847 00:36:25,883 --> 00:36:27,151 Are you loyal to them? 848 00:36:28,152 --> 00:36:31,155 Then also, something I've been trying to do this year is be silent. 849 00:36:31,355 --> 00:36:32,790 I just put a ten minute timer on. 850 00:36:32,790 --> 00:36:34,125 Can I be silent for ten minutes? 851 00:36:34,125 --> 00:36:37,828 And it is challenging because inevitably one of my kids will come in 852 00:36:37,828 --> 00:36:40,831 or my phone will ding and I'll be like, what is that? 853 00:36:41,766 --> 00:36:43,701 But I think what it's done for me, 854 00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:46,637 even in the moments where I get distracted, is it brings to mind 855 00:36:46,637 --> 00:36:49,173 what I'm like most focused on and what I'm most thinking about. 856 00:36:49,173 --> 00:36:50,074 And it can correct me. 857 00:36:50,074 --> 00:36:53,744 I'm like, why is that what I think about when I'm silent in this posture of 858 00:36:53,911 --> 00:36:56,914 Holy Spirit, I'm silent, speak and expect him to speak. 859 00:36:57,148 --> 00:36:59,517 And then these things pop up like, why is that popping up? 860 00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:00,651 Why am I thinking about that? 861 00:37:00,651 --> 00:37:03,521 Why is that coming to my for the forefront of my mind, 862 00:37:03,521 --> 00:37:04,055 and as well as being 863 00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:07,058 intentional, is taking captive all of our thoughts, like all of them. 864 00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:08,693 Why is that a thought I have right now 865 00:37:09,660 --> 00:37:11,762 and process in it, out 866 00:37:11,762 --> 00:37:13,831 we see this in Galatians two. 867 00:37:13,831 --> 00:37:17,435 It says, I've been crucified Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 868 00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:18,502 The life I live now. 869 00:37:18,502 --> 00:37:21,272 I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself. 870 00:37:21,272 --> 00:37:22,640 I no longer live. 871 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:23,874 We need accountability. 872 00:37:23,874 --> 00:37:26,177 We need people. We need disciplines. 873 00:37:26,177 --> 00:37:28,145 We need community. We need it. 874 00:37:28,145 --> 00:37:31,015 If we're going to walk this phase out because it is the this world 875 00:37:31,015 --> 00:37:34,051 is distracting and it's challenging and it is overwhelming. 876 00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:37,421 It's consuming. 877 00:37:37,922 --> 00:37:38,923 I think this statement is 878 00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:41,926 true as we process, is that salvation is free, 879 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:45,263 but following Jesus cost you everything 880 00:37:46,130 --> 00:37:50,167 the rhythms, your daily schedule, your check ins with God, 881 00:37:50,334 --> 00:37:52,970 how you how you view your spouse and how you view your kids 882 00:37:52,970 --> 00:37:55,373 and how you parent and how you again go through the list. 883 00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:58,676 But it cost us everything and it should. 884 00:37:59,110 --> 00:37:59,944 And that's good. 885 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:03,180 There's a freedom when we can give up control 886 00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:06,350 and not feel like I have to have all the answers, and I have to have it 887 00:38:06,350 --> 00:38:09,553 all together, and I have to have all the next steps in life. 888 00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:13,858 I can just genuinely trust God with it and say, all right, God, I'm good. 889 00:38:14,725 --> 00:38:17,361 You lead a new God and you direct and I'll stop 890 00:38:17,361 --> 00:38:20,364 and pause and reflect and ponder and think and pray. 891 00:38:20,731 --> 00:38:22,066 But you lead. 892 00:38:22,066 --> 00:38:22,833 There's a freedom there. 893 00:38:22,833 --> 00:38:25,803 Sometimes we think like that will be overwhelming, not having control. 894 00:38:25,803 --> 00:38:26,871 I think it's the opposite. 895 00:38:26,871 --> 00:38:28,239 Giving God control is 896 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,275 is the ultimate form of trust and freedom, and it just brings you joy. 897 00:38:31,275 --> 00:38:34,278 It brings you a sense of I'm good, 898 00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:36,213 but it takes time. 899 00:38:36,213 --> 00:38:40,217 Of course, I definitely am not good at this all the time, but 900 00:38:40,217 --> 00:38:43,454 God still calls us to be mindful of this, that following him cost us everything. 901 00:38:44,455 --> 00:38:45,122 I think that leads to 902 00:38:45,122 --> 00:38:48,092 our last one this morning, our last theme, and it's faithfulness. 903 00:38:48,893 --> 00:38:52,296 Verses 4041 to 42 say this anyone who welcomes you welcomes me. 904 00:38:52,630 --> 00:38:55,066 And when who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 905 00:38:55,066 --> 00:38:58,069 Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prosperous people profits, reward, 906 00:38:58,202 --> 00:39:00,204 and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person 907 00:39:00,204 --> 00:39:01,872 will receive a righteous person's reward. 908 00:39:01,872 --> 00:39:04,642 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water 909 00:39:04,642 --> 00:39:07,111 to one of these little ones, who is my disciple? 910 00:39:07,111 --> 00:39:10,114 Truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward. 911 00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:15,586 Here's what I think Jesus is saying 912 00:39:15,586 --> 00:39:18,589 small acts of obedience reveal who you belong to. 913 00:39:19,590 --> 00:39:22,193 Small acts of obedience reveal who you belong to. 914 00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:24,228 Some, as we think we have to have this grand gesture 915 00:39:24,228 --> 00:39:25,696 and we can do these big things of this world. 916 00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:30,167 And it's like, no, just a life lived of little acts of saying, Jesus. 917 00:39:30,167 --> 00:39:32,103 Yes. It just every single time. 918 00:39:32,103 --> 00:39:34,372 Yes, yes, over and over the in of our life. 919 00:39:34,372 --> 00:39:37,508 It's a huge impact in this world. 920 00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:40,544 It says a cup of cold water and saying you'll change everyone's life 921 00:39:41,612 --> 00:39:43,147 so that a cup of cold water. 922 00:39:43,147 --> 00:39:44,281 Can we extend that? 923 00:39:44,281 --> 00:39:46,751 Can we say, God, I'm going to I'm going to be obedient. 924 00:39:46,751 --> 00:39:47,318 I'm going to serve. 925 00:39:47,318 --> 00:39:51,489 I'm going to I'm going to say yes, because it's going to show who I belong to. 926 00:39:52,823 --> 00:39:55,826 And that way we are faithful and we trust him. 927 00:39:56,727 --> 00:39:57,194 We see us in. 928 00:39:57,194 --> 00:40:00,197 Hebrews six says, God is not unjust. 929 00:40:00,264 --> 00:40:04,101 He will not forget your work and the love that you've shown him. 930 00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:07,371 He will not forget your work 931 00:40:07,371 --> 00:40:09,874 and the love that you've shown him. 932 00:40:09,874 --> 00:40:12,109 And so I have been processing this this week. 933 00:40:12,109 --> 00:40:13,444 Jesus, can I live in this way? 934 00:40:13,444 --> 00:40:16,447 Genuinely not just say it where I'm going 935 00:40:16,447 --> 00:40:20,251 to place my entire life in your hands, where I am fully in. 936 00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:22,353 I'm fully invested. I'm. 937 00:40:22,353 --> 00:40:26,023 I'm all the way and it's it's I'm going to win or I'm going bust. 938 00:40:26,223 --> 00:40:27,758 You know, all the chips in the middle of the table. 939 00:40:28,993 --> 00:40:29,760 Because here's how 940 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,763 how Jesus is move this morning right through our text, 941 00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:35,366 he says, you're going to be pressured. 942 00:40:35,366 --> 00:40:38,369 He said, you must publicly stand testify. 943 00:40:39,637 --> 00:40:41,739 He says it will cost relationships all that. 944 00:40:41,739 --> 00:40:43,107 We pray. It's not with our children. 945 00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:46,110 And it'll cost relationships. 946 00:40:46,377 --> 00:40:49,246 It will cost your life direction at times. 947 00:40:49,246 --> 00:40:52,082 God, I thought I was going this way and then. 948 00:40:52,082 --> 00:40:54,285 But now I'm going. Going this way. 949 00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:55,686 But here's the reality. 950 00:40:55,686 --> 00:40:59,190 Nothing you lose is greater than what you gain. 951 00:41:00,324 --> 00:41:03,794 True freedom, true dependance, true worth. 952 00:41:05,729 --> 00:41:06,831 The weight of sin. 953 00:41:06,831 --> 00:41:08,165 Actually been forgiven. 954 00:41:08,165 --> 00:41:10,501 Not just forgiven, but a race from God's memory. 955 00:41:10,501 --> 00:41:13,471 Like it's that doesn't even exist. 956 00:41:13,804 --> 00:41:15,739 Nothing you lose in life 957 00:41:15,739 --> 00:41:19,210 by submitting to God, following your pride, letting him lead. 958 00:41:20,211 --> 00:41:22,313 Nothing you lose is greater than what you gain. 959 00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:23,881 We come out on top every time. 960 00:41:25,683 --> 00:41:26,684 And here's the final thought. 961 00:41:26,684 --> 00:41:27,751 Then we're going to sing one more song. 962 00:41:27,751 --> 00:41:30,621 We're going to we're going to press out. 963 00:41:30,621 --> 00:41:33,591 But this. 964 00:41:33,591 --> 00:41:34,558 Jesus is worth 965 00:41:34,558 --> 00:41:37,995 public, costly, undivided allegiance. 966 00:41:37,995 --> 00:41:38,963 He's worth it. 967 00:41:38,963 --> 00:41:41,765 Even when fear is saying, Michael, no, 968 00:41:41,765 --> 00:41:44,768 even when feel fear is pressuring you to stay silent, 969 00:41:45,569 --> 00:41:48,639 the fear is pressuring you, and it might be justified and it might feel right. 970 00:41:48,639 --> 00:41:50,341 And you're like, I don't want to do this. I don't want to fumble. 971 00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:51,876 I don't want to. 972 00:41:51,876 --> 00:41:55,012 Jesus is worth public costly. 973 00:41:55,045 --> 00:41:58,048 I mean, that's the big one, such as public, but it's costly. 974 00:41:58,148 --> 00:42:00,918 We have to know that going in he's worth public, 975 00:42:00,918 --> 00:42:03,921 costly, undivided allegiance 976 00:42:04,121 --> 00:42:07,591 because we always come out on top because our God is good 977 00:42:08,425 --> 00:42:11,395 and he is faithful and he is just. 978 00:42:11,395 --> 00:42:15,065 And so process this week sit in in Matthew ten. 979 00:42:15,366 --> 00:42:18,002 All right Pascale, we'll get back this next week will be in 11. 980 00:42:19,036 --> 00:42:22,273 But process fear and how you navigate 981 00:42:22,273 --> 00:42:26,143 fear a process worth and where you find your process public allegiance. 982 00:42:26,143 --> 00:42:28,679 Are you do you have a public faith or not 983 00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:30,281 a process division. 984 00:42:30,281 --> 00:42:31,782 Does that exist and can you correct it? 985 00:42:31,782 --> 00:42:33,551 Can you stop it? 986 00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:36,554 Can you not allow it to start to begin with? 987 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:38,589 And then discipleship and faithfulness. 988 00:42:38,589 --> 00:42:40,157 What does it mean to trust God, 989 00:42:40,157 --> 00:42:43,494 depend on God, seek God and say, okay, God, I'm all in. 990 00:42:44,161 --> 00:42:45,496 I'm going to give a cup of cold water. 991 00:42:45,496 --> 00:42:47,865 I'm going to show who I belong to. 992 00:42:47,865 --> 00:42:50,868 It's a challenging tax, but I think it's a helpful text. 993 00:42:51,135 --> 00:42:54,204 It's it's God saying, this is what it means to follow me. 994 00:42:54,204 --> 00:42:57,207 Michael, there's no secrets here. 995 00:42:57,374 --> 00:42:59,777 Well, he's he's saying, let me let me let me help you through this life. 996 00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:02,613 So process this week, let me pray. 997 00:43:02,613 --> 00:43:04,815 I'm going to sing one more song this morning. 998 00:43:04,815 --> 00:43:07,351 Father. You're good. 999 00:43:07,351 --> 00:43:08,619 Lord, we thank you for this morning. 1000 00:43:08,619 --> 00:43:11,622 We thank you for a challenging text in Matthew ten. 1001 00:43:12,356 --> 00:43:15,359 God, we are grateful that you have done the work, 1002 00:43:15,926 --> 00:43:18,028 that you've conquered death, 1003 00:43:18,028 --> 00:43:20,664 you've defeated the grave. 1004 00:43:20,664 --> 00:43:25,436 Lord, we are grateful that you called us, though to still have a part in this, 1005 00:43:25,436 --> 00:43:28,439 to still have ownership of our faith, to still seek 1006 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,875 a lifestyle 1007 00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:33,477 where we are sanctifying ourself. 1008 00:43:33,477 --> 00:43:36,847 We are processing what it means to give everything over to you. 1009 00:43:38,482 --> 00:43:41,185 Lord, we pray that you would continue to work on our hearts 1010 00:43:41,185 --> 00:43:44,188 and show us the areas in which we are falling short. 1011 00:43:44,688 --> 00:43:48,425 Please help us God to lean into fear so it doesn't control us. 1012 00:43:50,094 --> 00:43:50,527 Help us to 1013 00:43:50,527 --> 00:43:53,530 process word so that we find it in the right place. 1014 00:43:54,298 --> 00:43:57,301 Help us to have a public faith where we confess you 1015 00:43:58,268 --> 00:44:00,838 unapologetically. 1016 00:44:00,838 --> 00:44:04,108 Help us, Lord, to live in a way where if division exists, it's because of you, 1017 00:44:04,108 --> 00:44:05,275 not because of us. 1018 00:44:05,275 --> 00:44:08,278 Because we live according to how you call us to live. 1019 00:44:08,612 --> 00:44:11,215 And we're all in for our kids. 1020 00:44:11,215 --> 00:44:13,317 And help us, Lord, to continue 1021 00:44:13,317 --> 00:44:16,320 to process discipleship and faithfulness to you. 1022 00:44:16,553 --> 00:44:19,556 We are grateful, God, for this community, for your Word. 1023 00:44:19,690 --> 00:44:22,593 We pray that you would continue to work on our hearts. 1024 00:44:22,593 --> 00:44:24,728 Jesus, we thank you. We praise on them. 1025 00:44:24,728 --> 00:44:25,129 Amen.