1 00:00:01,201 --> 00:00:06,139 A man will welcome our first ever second service of three. 2 00:00:06,172 --> 00:00:08,508 Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. 3 00:00:08,508 --> 00:00:12,278 Hey, I was really interested to see how everybody is going to divide out. 4 00:00:12,278 --> 00:00:15,281 First service was absolutely packed. 5 00:00:15,782 --> 00:00:18,051 And so good job for coming this one. 6 00:00:18,051 --> 00:00:20,787 So we're, so we have some people. 7 00:00:20,787 --> 00:00:21,588 Good for you. 8 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:23,556 Good for you at, 9 00:00:23,556 --> 00:00:25,925 It's going to be a it's going to be a good day. 10 00:00:25,925 --> 00:00:26,960 It already has been. 11 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,396 I'm excited for what God's going to do. 12 00:00:29,396 --> 00:00:31,331 Through this, our time together. 13 00:00:31,331 --> 00:00:32,932 If you have a Bible and brought one with you, 14 00:00:32,932 --> 00:00:35,168 if you go to the book of Matthew. 15 00:00:35,168 --> 00:00:38,138 We're going section by section. 16 00:00:38,138 --> 00:00:41,141 Chapter by chapter, verse by verse through the book of Matthew. 17 00:00:41,574 --> 00:00:45,812 And my hope today is to get through chapter three and part of chapter four. 18 00:00:46,613 --> 00:00:49,049 But, we'll see how that goes. 19 00:00:49,049 --> 00:00:53,887 I haven't really planned we're going to do this section, on a Sunday morning. 20 00:00:53,887 --> 00:00:56,489 We'll get through what we get through and we'll just keep going through. 21 00:00:56,489 --> 00:00:57,891 It's going to be a long study, 22 00:00:57,891 --> 00:01:00,727 and so we're not going to rush it, but we're not going to cut stuff short. 23 00:01:01,694 --> 00:01:04,164 So, chapter three and chapter 24 00:01:04,164 --> 00:01:07,167 four, we're going to see heaven breaking through and hell breaking in. 25 00:01:08,034 --> 00:01:11,037 In these, in these two sections. 26 00:01:11,371 --> 00:01:13,306 In Matthew chapter three, 27 00:01:13,306 --> 00:01:16,376 we're introduced to a person named John. 28 00:01:16,776 --> 00:01:18,978 It's called John the Baptist. 29 00:01:18,978 --> 00:01:21,981 Because he baptizes people in the Jordan River. 30 00:01:21,981 --> 00:01:25,385 John and Jesus, not John the disciple. 31 00:01:25,385 --> 00:01:28,088 That's a different John. This is John the Baptist. 32 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:31,991 John the Baptizer, and Jesus, our second cousins. 33 00:01:33,359 --> 00:01:35,462 Jesus's mother, Mary, 34 00:01:35,462 --> 00:01:38,665 and John's mother, Elizabeth, are first cousins. 35 00:01:39,466 --> 00:01:46,272 John is about six months or so older than Jesus, and they're second cousins. 36 00:01:46,272 --> 00:01:51,811 And God has obviously called John to a very significant and significant ministry, 37 00:01:52,145 --> 00:01:56,516 which is to prepare people for Jesus's public ministry. 38 00:01:56,916 --> 00:01:59,919 And so we're introduced to John today. 39 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:03,056 And then we'll be introduced to, what is commonly 40 00:02:03,056 --> 00:02:07,794 referred to as the temptation of Jesus before he sets out on his public ministry. 41 00:02:09,496 --> 00:02:11,731 And so if you just follow along with me. 42 00:02:11,731 --> 00:02:15,935 Verses one and two of Matthew chapter three, in those days, 43 00:02:15,935 --> 00:02:20,173 John the Baptist, the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea. 44 00:02:20,507 --> 00:02:23,510 Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 45 00:02:26,613 --> 00:02:28,781 That word repentant or repent, 46 00:02:28,781 --> 00:02:33,119 the act of repentance is a key motif. 47 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,825 It's, it's a it's a key, topic for John 48 00:02:39,392 --> 00:02:42,395 and for Jesus and for the disciples 49 00:02:42,462 --> 00:02:45,331 and for the first church, 50 00:02:45,331 --> 00:02:46,699 to repent. 51 00:02:46,699 --> 00:02:51,271 That word repent is not necessarily a feelings word. 52 00:02:51,271 --> 00:02:53,640 It's an action word. 53 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,342 It may come with feelings of remorse 54 00:02:56,342 --> 00:02:59,312 and feelings of grief and feelings of guilt. 55 00:03:00,046 --> 00:03:03,383 But the word repent is an action word. 56 00:03:04,150 --> 00:03:07,053 It's been said that 57 00:03:07,053 --> 00:03:10,890 heaven's doors swing on the hinge of repentance. 58 00:03:11,824 --> 00:03:14,827 I titled this whole series Kingdom Now 59 00:03:15,028 --> 00:03:18,464 because in Matthew, Jesus will teach his disciples to pray. 60 00:03:18,464 --> 00:03:21,901 And during that prayer, part of his teaching on prayer 61 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:28,608 is this your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 62 00:03:29,242 --> 00:03:32,178 In order for God's will to be done and his kingdom 63 00:03:32,178 --> 00:03:35,281 to come necessitates repentance. 64 00:03:36,349 --> 00:03:39,352 Heaven's door swing on the hinge of it. 65 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:41,721 It in in Scripture, 66 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:46,192 when you look at this idea of repentance, this this call to repent. 67 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:49,829 It's the first words of every major 68 00:03:50,129 --> 00:03:52,865 New Testament message. 69 00:03:52,865 --> 00:03:55,902 The first words of John the Baptist are to repent. 70 00:03:57,270 --> 00:03:59,672 The first words of Jesus in this sermon in 71 00:03:59,672 --> 00:04:02,675 Matthew 417 is to repent. 72 00:04:03,276 --> 00:04:06,813 The first words that the disciples preach in Mark chapter 73 00:04:06,813 --> 00:04:09,816 six is to repent. 74 00:04:10,683 --> 00:04:14,487 Jesus's instructions to his disciples after the resurrection. 75 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,191 The first thing he tells him is preach repentance. 76 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:22,528 The first Christian message 77 00:04:22,528 --> 00:04:25,265 was about repentance in acts chapter two. 78 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:30,003 The apostle Paul, his message began and ended with repentance. 79 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:32,105 All through Scripture. 80 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:35,541 In the New Testament, the primary motif 81 00:04:35,908 --> 00:04:40,079 of preaching and teaching begins with repentance. 82 00:04:42,582 --> 00:04:43,616 Repentance. 83 00:04:43,616 --> 00:04:45,718 Well, I like to say it like this. 84 00:04:45,718 --> 00:04:48,921 Repentance is not backward looking guilt. 85 00:04:49,188 --> 00:04:52,191 It's forward facing surrender. 86 00:04:52,458 --> 00:04:56,095 It's not just that I feel bad over my past. 87 00:04:56,095 --> 00:04:57,597 That's backward looking guilt. 88 00:04:57,597 --> 00:05:00,566 And that may be a part of 89 00:05:00,566 --> 00:05:03,569 the feelings that prompt repentance. 90 00:05:04,003 --> 00:05:07,307 But repentance is really forward facing surrender. 91 00:05:07,974 --> 00:05:08,775 Repentance. 92 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:12,245 As I say this, the proof of repentance is a changed life. 93 00:05:13,746 --> 00:05:18,251 But you cannot repent without a change. 94 00:05:18,885 --> 00:05:21,888 So what the word means means a change of direction. 95 00:05:22,622 --> 00:05:23,956 We can feel bad about sin. 96 00:05:23,956 --> 00:05:25,391 We can be remorseful about sin, 97 00:05:25,391 --> 00:05:28,394 and we can be feel bad about the consequences of sin. 98 00:05:29,128 --> 00:05:32,799 But repentance isn't in place until a life is changed. 99 00:05:33,566 --> 00:05:36,569 There's a change of direction, a change of sides. 100 00:05:38,638 --> 00:05:39,238 Repentance 101 00:05:39,238 --> 00:05:42,542 is less about proximity and more about direction. 102 00:05:42,542 --> 00:05:43,009 And so 103 00:05:44,010 --> 00:05:44,711 for any of 104 00:05:44,711 --> 00:05:47,780 us to claim that we have repented of our sin, 105 00:05:48,614 --> 00:05:53,853 if that is in fact the case, it will be seen by a change of life. 106 00:05:53,853 --> 00:05:55,521 Does that make sense? 107 00:05:55,521 --> 00:05:58,291 You know you can't keep living the same life 108 00:05:58,291 --> 00:06:01,294 and claim to have repented. 109 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:04,297 That's inconsistent 110 00:06:04,297 --> 00:06:06,632 and it's disingenuous. 111 00:06:06,632 --> 00:06:09,635 And so John's first words here 112 00:06:09,836 --> 00:06:12,839 to the community at large is to repent. 113 00:06:15,308 --> 00:06:18,311 Change sides. 114 00:06:19,579 --> 00:06:21,080 So the first words of Jesus first rose, 115 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,549 the disciples first words of the first church. 116 00:06:23,549 --> 00:06:25,151 And he says, repent. Why? 117 00:06:25,151 --> 00:06:28,154 Because the kingdom of heaven is at hand 118 00:06:29,088 --> 00:06:33,359 when Jesus will teach his disciples to pray, your kingdom come. 119 00:06:33,393 --> 00:06:34,961 How does that happen? 120 00:06:34,961 --> 00:06:36,996 But first, by repentance, 121 00:06:36,996 --> 00:06:40,666 the kingdom of God cannot come upon a life in life through a life 122 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:45,037 to any lives without first repentance happen in your will be done. 123 00:06:45,037 --> 00:06:46,272 What's that mean? It means repent. 124 00:06:48,408 --> 00:06:51,411 When I go my way, that's called sin. 125 00:06:52,311 --> 00:06:54,881 When I go God's way, that's called repentance. 126 00:06:54,881 --> 00:06:55,948 Your kingdom come. 127 00:06:55,948 --> 00:06:58,951 It requires repentance. 128 00:07:01,554 --> 00:07:03,356 Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 129 00:07:03,356 --> 00:07:03,723 Verse three. 130 00:07:03,723 --> 00:07:06,759 For this is he who is spoken of by the prophet 131 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:09,762 Isaiah when he said, and this is quoting 132 00:07:10,062 --> 00:07:12,532 Isaiah, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 133 00:07:12,532 --> 00:07:15,034 prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his past. 134 00:07:15,034 --> 00:07:18,471 John the Baptizer is the one who is making the way 135 00:07:18,471 --> 00:07:22,241 ready for Jesus, the Messiah and his public ministry. 136 00:07:22,475 --> 00:07:25,411 And the way of Jesus is prepared 137 00:07:25,411 --> 00:07:28,381 by repentance. 138 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:32,452 Repentance prepares the way for Christ. 139 00:07:34,153 --> 00:07:37,557 Repentance means Kingdom come and kingdom 140 00:07:37,557 --> 00:07:40,560 come means repentance. 141 00:07:44,497 --> 00:07:47,400 And requires repentance. 142 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,903 And the first thing that we need to acknowledge right now, 143 00:07:51,904 --> 00:07:54,106 every one of us, 144 00:07:54,106 --> 00:07:57,109 is the need to repent. 145 00:07:57,210 --> 00:08:00,213 Not just to repent for salvation, 146 00:08:00,847 --> 00:08:04,083 but to live a lifestyle of repentance. 147 00:08:05,718 --> 00:08:08,054 The church has gone astray and and 148 00:08:08,054 --> 00:08:11,257 and lived in great misunderstanding. 149 00:08:12,258 --> 00:08:15,828 When we think that repentance is Jesus, I'm sorry for my sin. 150 00:08:15,828 --> 00:08:18,264 Come into my life and make me a Christian and I'm done. 151 00:08:18,264 --> 00:08:21,267 I have repented. 152 00:08:21,601 --> 00:08:24,570 Repentance is one of those things. 153 00:08:25,605 --> 00:08:28,007 That on a regular basis, 154 00:08:28,007 --> 00:08:31,177 we must live in the lifestyle of repentance. 155 00:08:31,177 --> 00:08:35,114 Father, I realize that my tendency is to walk away. 156 00:08:36,048 --> 00:08:39,852 I realize my habit is to go my own way, 157 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,123 and I repent. 158 00:08:44,490 --> 00:08:47,493 I choose to go a different way. 159 00:08:48,594 --> 00:08:50,463 It's pervasive. 160 00:08:50,463 --> 00:08:52,031 It's profound. 161 00:08:52,031 --> 00:08:53,599 It's grand. 162 00:08:53,599 --> 00:08:55,735 It's expansive. 163 00:08:55,735 --> 00:08:58,738 And in every way of my life, father, I repent. 164 00:08:59,906 --> 00:09:01,541 Do you understand? 165 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:04,544 This is the only way that the kingdom comes. 166 00:09:04,544 --> 00:09:07,547 It's the way through which the kingdom comes. 167 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:10,550 It's the hinges that the doors of heaven swing on. 168 00:09:10,616 --> 00:09:13,352 It's required of every person 169 00:09:13,352 --> 00:09:16,322 to live a lifestyle of repentance. 170 00:09:16,455 --> 00:09:17,657 I don't have to know. 171 00:09:17,657 --> 00:09:20,660 I ought not know. It's not my job to know 172 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,529 your need for repentance. 173 00:09:23,529 --> 00:09:26,065 You need to know. 174 00:09:26,065 --> 00:09:29,936 I know for my life when God has called me to repentance, 175 00:09:29,936 --> 00:09:32,939 just not to salvation, but to godliness and holiness. 176 00:09:33,272 --> 00:09:37,410 I know when he's called me to repent, and I know there have been those times 177 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:39,378 when I've heard that word and I've been obedient 178 00:09:39,378 --> 00:09:40,580 and I've repented. 179 00:09:40,580 --> 00:09:44,450 And I know those times when I've heard that word it to repent and I've ignored him. 180 00:09:46,552 --> 00:09:47,386 Only to my 181 00:09:47,386 --> 00:09:50,389 shame and disgrace and destruction. 182 00:09:51,657 --> 00:09:54,493 So repentance was very necessary 183 00:09:54,493 --> 00:09:57,496 in light of my sin 184 00:09:58,931 --> 00:10:01,233 and in repentance. 185 00:10:01,233 --> 00:10:03,469 Heaven comes. 186 00:10:03,469 --> 00:10:04,804 I don't know what it is for you. 187 00:10:04,804 --> 00:10:05,471 I don't need to know. 188 00:10:05,471 --> 00:10:08,474 You need to know. 189 00:10:09,008 --> 00:10:12,011 God is saying right now, repent. 190 00:10:13,779 --> 00:10:16,616 Not just look back in guilt, but look forward and surrender. 191 00:10:16,616 --> 00:10:21,454 Father, I repent, I go a different way and I surrender my future to your way. 192 00:10:21,454 --> 00:10:22,955 Your will, your kingdom. 193 00:10:22,955 --> 00:10:24,790 Do you understand this? 194 00:10:24,790 --> 00:10:26,626 This is vital and crucial. 195 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:29,629 You cannot follow Jesus without repentance. 196 00:10:32,198 --> 00:10:34,000 We can claim to be Christian all we want. 197 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,635 We can try to be a good person all we want. 198 00:10:35,635 --> 00:10:37,536 It doesn't matter. 199 00:10:37,536 --> 00:10:40,539 You cannot follow Christ without repentance. 200 00:10:40,673 --> 00:10:43,442 That's why it was the first message of John the Baptist of Jesus, 201 00:10:43,442 --> 00:10:46,445 or the disciples of the First Church of the Apostle Paul himself. 202 00:10:46,946 --> 00:10:47,546 Repent. 203 00:10:50,016 --> 00:10:50,549 Verse four. 204 00:10:50,549 --> 00:10:52,685 Now John were a garment of camel's hair 205 00:10:52,685 --> 00:10:55,888 and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 206 00:10:55,888 --> 00:10:58,724 My gracious 207 00:10:58,724 --> 00:11:01,293 God, I get a picture of this guy. 208 00:11:01,293 --> 00:11:04,096 He's living out in the wilderness. 209 00:11:04,096 --> 00:11:06,532 He wears a height of camel that can't. 210 00:11:06,532 --> 00:11:09,535 If any of you ever ridden a camel. 211 00:11:09,769 --> 00:11:11,971 So he just one year and rode a camel. 212 00:11:11,971 --> 00:11:14,340 They're not nice creatures. 213 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:15,841 They're not comfortable. 214 00:11:15,841 --> 00:11:18,210 They're nasty, dirty, stinky. 215 00:11:18,210 --> 00:11:21,180 And this guy is covered in camel hair 216 00:11:21,781 --> 00:11:23,549 with a leather belt eating 217 00:11:23,549 --> 00:11:26,552 grasshoppers and honey, 218 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:29,155 I there's a lot of different ways 219 00:11:29,155 --> 00:11:32,158 they made grasshoppers and locusts back in the day. 220 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:34,827 I can't imagine any of them being any good. 221 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:37,730 Unless maybe you put them on a Traeger. Because Traeger makes everything all right. 222 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:40,933 But I was 223 00:11:40,933 --> 00:11:44,070 talking to someone last week about John the Baptist, and they said, why did he. 224 00:11:44,070 --> 00:11:45,304 Why was he so eccentric? 225 00:11:45,304 --> 00:11:50,643 Why did he wear camel hair and leather belt and live out in the in a wilderness 226 00:11:51,310 --> 00:11:54,046 and here's here's why. 227 00:11:54,046 --> 00:11:59,285 If you were to read Second Kings one, you'll read about the great prophet 228 00:11:59,285 --> 00:12:01,020 Elijah, 229 00:12:01,020 --> 00:12:04,023 and he is of that model. 230 00:12:04,890 --> 00:12:06,258 Just like Elijah. 231 00:12:06,258 --> 00:12:09,962 Elijah wore hairy camel hair and a leather belt that this whole idea. 232 00:12:10,429 --> 00:12:13,632 And it's not that John the Baptist is trying to emulate Elijah. 233 00:12:14,066 --> 00:12:18,204 It was just that type of austere life that the father called him to live. 234 00:12:19,438 --> 00:12:21,807 And so he looks very much like an Old Testament. 235 00:12:21,807 --> 00:12:25,144 Matter of fact, the Bible says John the Baptist, though he's a contemporary of 236 00:12:25,144 --> 00:12:28,347 Jesus, is the last and greatest Old Testament prophet 237 00:12:28,848 --> 00:12:31,984 because it prophesied about the coming of the Messiah before the resurrection. 238 00:12:32,151 --> 00:12:35,855 Jesus will say of this man that there is no greater man born of woman 239 00:12:35,855 --> 00:12:36,756 than John the Baptist. 240 00:12:38,224 --> 00:12:41,761 And so here's this man, camel hair, leather 241 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:45,030 bill eating locust, and then he living out in the wilderness somewhere. 242 00:12:45,131 --> 00:12:47,466 He's not seeking a follower. He doesn't have a hashtag. 243 00:12:47,466 --> 00:12:49,301 He doesn't have a website, doesn't have Instagram. 244 00:12:49,301 --> 00:12:50,236 He doesn't have any of that. 245 00:12:50,236 --> 00:12:53,239 So there's no mailing campaign, there's no followers. 246 00:12:53,539 --> 00:12:55,474 And look at what God's doing. 247 00:12:55,474 --> 00:12:58,244 Verse five in Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan 248 00:12:58,244 --> 00:13:01,781 were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan. 249 00:13:01,781 --> 00:13:03,916 Confessing their sin like God is just. 250 00:13:03,916 --> 00:13:07,720 He's setting the stage through people repenting 251 00:13:08,154 --> 00:13:11,490 for Jesus, his ministry, to take root. 252 00:13:11,490 --> 00:13:12,858 And all these people from the surrounding 253 00:13:12,858 --> 00:13:14,727 hills are coming out to John in the wilderness. 254 00:13:14,727 --> 00:13:17,897 They're seeking him out, wanting to be baptized. 255 00:13:18,430 --> 00:13:22,168 Now, I want to I want you to understand the difference between the baptism of John 256 00:13:22,168 --> 00:13:26,272 the Baptist that we read about here and the baptism that we practice there. 257 00:13:26,272 --> 00:13:27,540 Different. 258 00:13:27,540 --> 00:13:32,778 John was baptizing for the confession of sin, as people would confess their sin 259 00:13:32,778 --> 00:13:37,116 and realizing they were out of line with God in repentance, 260 00:13:37,783 --> 00:13:40,920 changing their life, being baptized in acknowledgment of that, 261 00:13:43,622 --> 00:13:45,090 what we practice, if you 262 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:49,228 read, Romans six, especially of verse three, 263 00:13:49,662 --> 00:13:52,398 we're baptized into union 264 00:13:52,398 --> 00:13:55,401 with Christ, into his death, in his resurrection. 265 00:13:55,434 --> 00:13:59,205 And so John was baptizing for the acknowledgment of sin, 266 00:13:59,205 --> 00:14:01,774 just that people would acknowledge their sin. 267 00:14:01,774 --> 00:14:03,442 We're baptized. 268 00:14:03,442 --> 00:14:08,013 So according to the New Testament, into the death and the resurrection of Jesus, 269 00:14:08,581 --> 00:14:12,818 as this statement, I have joined my life to the death of Christ, 270 00:14:13,152 --> 00:14:17,389 died to my sin and joy in my life, to the resurrection of Christ eternally. 271 00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:19,892 It's different than what John was practicing. 272 00:14:19,892 --> 00:14:21,994 John's just saying that listen, acknowledge 273 00:14:21,994 --> 00:14:23,796 you're a sinner separated from God. 274 00:14:23,796 --> 00:14:25,764 That's what his baptism was. 275 00:14:25,764 --> 00:14:28,033 And all these people are coming out to be baptized. 276 00:14:28,033 --> 00:14:29,335 Now watch this. 277 00:14:29,335 --> 00:14:30,970 But when he saw many of the Pharisees 278 00:14:30,970 --> 00:14:34,740 and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, listen to these words. 279 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,743 This this boy is is a rough dude, man. 280 00:14:37,743 --> 00:14:39,879 You snakes, 281 00:14:41,046 --> 00:14:43,048 you brood of vipers! 282 00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:45,084 Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 283 00:14:45,084 --> 00:14:47,219 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 284 00:14:47,219 --> 00:14:49,788 Don't just talk about it. 285 00:14:49,788 --> 00:14:52,791 Make sure it shows up in your life. 286 00:14:54,159 --> 00:14:57,296 And do you do not presume to say to yourselves, we have Abraham 287 00:14:57,296 --> 00:15:00,933 as our father, for I tell you, God is able to raise these stones up for children, 288 00:15:01,934 --> 00:15:03,802 children for Abraham. 289 00:15:03,802 --> 00:15:05,871 Even now, the access later the root of the trees. 290 00:15:05,871 --> 00:15:07,206 Every tree, therefore, that does not bear 291 00:15:07,206 --> 00:15:08,974 good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire. 292 00:15:08,974 --> 00:15:11,977 I mean, he just throwing the helm like. 293 00:15:13,145 --> 00:15:14,213 He just knocking them out. 294 00:15:14,213 --> 00:15:17,216 He said, well, who do you think you are. 295 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:18,784 Don't just talk about this 296 00:15:18,784 --> 00:15:21,787 lip service of being religious. 297 00:15:22,721 --> 00:15:25,624 Prove it by your life because your life doesn't look like it. 298 00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:30,162 Bear fruit in keeping with what repentance. 299 00:15:31,163 --> 00:15:32,298 You gotta change who you are. 300 00:15:32,298 --> 00:15:35,301 You just talk about it. 301 00:15:35,567 --> 00:15:38,437 Who warned you to flee from the wrath that's coming? 302 00:15:38,437 --> 00:15:41,640 Did you realize something that when when someone accepts 303 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,610 Jesus as their Savior, you know what they're saved from? 304 00:15:47,846 --> 00:15:48,614 Let me tell you. 305 00:15:48,614 --> 00:15:50,482 Let me tell you what you're saved from. 306 00:15:50,482 --> 00:15:52,284 You're not saved from sin. 307 00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:54,753 You're saved from the wrath of God. 308 00:15:54,753 --> 00:15:57,756 That's what we're saved from because of sin. 309 00:15:58,223 --> 00:16:01,894 So in essence, when I accept Jesus as a Savior, what I'm saved from is 310 00:16:01,894 --> 00:16:04,897 God Himself. 311 00:16:05,164 --> 00:16:06,699 I'm saved from God 312 00:16:06,699 --> 00:16:09,702 and His wrath because of my sin. 313 00:16:10,536 --> 00:16:13,238 And what John is saying here is, who warned you to flee 314 00:16:13,238 --> 00:16:16,241 from that wrath? 315 00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:18,510 You talk a good game. 316 00:16:18,510 --> 00:16:21,013 You talk like you're a religious person. It means nothing 317 00:16:22,681 --> 00:16:24,817 to these Pharisees and Sadducees. 318 00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:28,187 These are the two primary religious and political groups for the Jews, 319 00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:30,856 two very different groups. 320 00:16:30,856 --> 00:16:32,992 The Pharisees. 321 00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:36,662 They were the larger group and they were the conservative group. 322 00:16:37,329 --> 00:16:40,332 They believe the Old Testament, they believe the scriptures. 323 00:16:40,699 --> 00:16:42,668 They were really, really moral. 324 00:16:42,668 --> 00:16:45,037 They were conservative, 325 00:16:45,037 --> 00:16:47,940 and they were part of the Conservative Party, the Sadducees, 326 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:52,511 a much smaller group, very vocal, very liberal. 327 00:16:53,412 --> 00:16:55,681 And they had all the money. 328 00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:58,684 Hmhmm. 329 00:16:59,685 --> 00:17:02,588 The more things change, the more they say the same. 330 00:17:02,588 --> 00:17:05,591 And neither of them were good. 331 00:17:06,658 --> 00:17:08,794 The Sadducees being liberal, 332 00:17:08,794 --> 00:17:11,897 they didn't believe in the eternal things of God. 333 00:17:11,897 --> 00:17:13,799 They didn't believe in the miracles of the Old Testament. 334 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:15,934 They didn't believe in eternity. They didn't believe in heaven. 335 00:17:15,934 --> 00:17:17,603 They didn't believe in hell. They didn't believe in angels. 336 00:17:17,603 --> 00:17:19,505 They didn't believe in demons. 337 00:17:19,505 --> 00:17:20,973 They were sad. You see. 338 00:17:25,711 --> 00:17:26,145 Have you ever 339 00:17:26,145 --> 00:17:29,148 heard that dumb pastor joke before? 340 00:17:29,281 --> 00:17:30,315 It's so old. 341 00:17:30,315 --> 00:17:32,484 It's horrible. 342 00:17:32,484 --> 00:17:35,320 They're just miserable people. 343 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,624 And so you got these conservatives on one side, these liberals on those side 344 00:17:38,957 --> 00:17:41,927 who are both giving lip service to religion. 345 00:17:41,927 --> 00:17:44,930 And John says, you're both headed for destruction 346 00:17:45,664 --> 00:17:48,667 because you don't live in a lifestyle of repentance. 347 00:17:49,501 --> 00:17:52,071 Who warns you to flee? 348 00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:54,573 Every tree that therefore doesn't bear good fruit is cut down 349 00:17:54,573 --> 00:17:55,974 and thrown in the fire. 350 00:17:55,974 --> 00:17:58,911 Verse 11 I baptize you with water for repentance. 351 00:17:58,911 --> 00:18:00,813 But he was coming after me is mightier than I, 352 00:18:00,813 --> 00:18:02,714 whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry. 353 00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:05,417 And he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 354 00:18:05,417 --> 00:18:08,587 His winnowing fork is already in his hand, and he will clear threshing floor 355 00:18:08,654 --> 00:18:10,456 and gather his wheat into the barn. 356 00:18:10,456 --> 00:18:13,258 But the chaff he'll burn with unquenchable fire. 357 00:18:14,393 --> 00:18:17,396 That's a brutal message, man. 358 00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:19,231 Says no more. 359 00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:22,000 Are you religious people? No more lip service. 360 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,802 Repent. 361 00:18:23,802 --> 00:18:25,437 Bear fruit of repentance. 362 00:18:25,437 --> 00:18:29,208 Show it in your life because otherwise it doesn't matter and it's of no effect. 363 00:18:31,210 --> 00:18:34,980 It says, I'm baptizing you with repentance right now, so you acknowledge your sin. 364 00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:37,850 But there's coming one after me who will baptize you with fire. 365 00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:39,118 And the Holy Spirit. 366 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:43,288 And he says these words, whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry in this, in this, 367 00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:46,492 this bondservant or slave culture, 368 00:18:47,092 --> 00:18:49,895 the lowest of the slave in the home. 369 00:18:49,895 --> 00:18:54,266 The lowest slave was the one when the when the owners or the masters 370 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:58,170 would walk in the house, would unbend to untie their sandals and carry their shoes. 371 00:18:58,170 --> 00:19:00,772 For him that was the lowest of the lowest slave. 372 00:19:00,772 --> 00:19:03,609 That was their job. Do you hear what John saying? 373 00:19:03,609 --> 00:19:09,148 I'm not even worthy to be the lowest of the lowest slave of Christ. 374 00:19:11,283 --> 00:19:13,719 I love his humility. 375 00:19:13,719 --> 00:19:15,954 He's not seeking a following. 376 00:19:15,954 --> 00:19:19,191 He doesn't have some social media army behind him. 377 00:19:19,591 --> 00:19:21,660 He's not asking for followers. 378 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:23,495 There's no hashtag Instagram. 379 00:19:23,495 --> 00:19:25,998 None of that. 380 00:19:25,998 --> 00:19:28,400 He's the greatest of those born among women. 381 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:33,071 And yet, he says, I'm not even worthy to be the lowest of the slaves 382 00:19:33,071 --> 00:19:36,074 for Christ. 383 00:19:36,241 --> 00:19:39,244 That's a humble life of repentance. 384 00:19:39,311 --> 00:19:42,281 Do you understand? 385 00:19:44,716 --> 00:19:47,586 That. 386 00:19:47,586 --> 00:19:48,987 Then verse 13, Jesus came 387 00:19:48,987 --> 00:19:51,990 from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him. 388 00:19:52,758 --> 00:19:55,761 John would have prevented him saying, I don't. 389 00:19:56,328 --> 00:19:57,496 I need to be baptized by you. 390 00:19:57,496 --> 00:19:59,364 You even come to me. 391 00:19:59,364 --> 00:20:01,466 Can you imagine? 392 00:20:01,466 --> 00:20:04,636 Like like you're sitting in the backyard by your pool of sun. 393 00:20:04,636 --> 00:20:07,272 Jesus walks through the gate. Hey, we got water. 394 00:20:07,272 --> 00:20:08,707 How about you baptize me? I mean, I want to 395 00:20:09,908 --> 00:20:12,311 know. 396 00:20:12,311 --> 00:20:14,613 I mean, the only time you could feel right telling Jesus. No. 397 00:20:14,613 --> 00:20:16,048 Like I'm going to baptism. 398 00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:17,683 It makes no sense. 399 00:20:17,683 --> 00:20:20,619 And I'm sure John's like, here's my. 400 00:20:20,619 --> 00:20:21,653 You get this. 401 00:20:21,653 --> 00:20:24,656 You need to baptize me. 402 00:20:26,658 --> 00:20:28,794 And Jesus answered him, let it be so. 403 00:20:28,794 --> 00:20:29,895 Now for us. 404 00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:32,898 It is fitting for us to fulfill our righteousness. 405 00:20:33,098 --> 00:20:34,132 Then he continued, you can sin. 406 00:20:34,132 --> 00:20:36,301 And so here's what's happening. 407 00:20:36,301 --> 00:20:38,537 Jesus wants to be baptized by John. 408 00:20:38,537 --> 00:20:40,472 Here's why. 409 00:20:40,472 --> 00:20:44,843 In baptism, Jesus is identifying with sinners 410 00:20:44,843 --> 00:20:47,846 so he could later justify sinners. 411 00:20:48,113 --> 00:20:51,116 Jesus is not being baptized for confession. 412 00:20:51,550 --> 00:20:54,553 Jesus is being baptized for identification 413 00:20:54,886 --> 00:20:57,422 so he can identify with sinful humanity. 414 00:20:57,422 --> 00:21:02,160 Not that he's sinful, but as an identification with sinful humanity. 415 00:21:02,694 --> 00:21:06,131 It's a baptism for Jesus of identification, not a confession. Why? 416 00:21:06,331 --> 00:21:09,201 Because Isaiah 5312 417 00:21:09,201 --> 00:21:11,970 says that he was numbered with the transgressors, 418 00:21:13,572 --> 00:21:16,074 though never transgressed. 419 00:21:16,074 --> 00:21:20,078 So for Jesus to identify with fallen, sinful humanity, 420 00:21:21,146 --> 00:21:24,516 he has to identify with fallen sinful humanity. 421 00:21:24,783 --> 00:21:28,720 And to do that, he does that in baptism so that he can justify fallen, 422 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,123 sinful humanity. You understand? 423 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:33,959 The Bible says in Hebrews chapter four that Jesus 424 00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:36,962 as our high priest, the model of the Jewish High priest, 425 00:21:37,262 --> 00:21:40,699 was tempted in every way that we are, yet without sin. 426 00:21:41,099 --> 00:21:43,302 Jesus had to be tempted in every way. 427 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:47,072 He had to identify with with us in every way so that he could 428 00:21:47,072 --> 00:21:50,108 rightfully hold us accountable for our sin 429 00:21:50,108 --> 00:21:54,279 and rightfully provide the provision for the forgiveness of sin. 430 00:21:54,746 --> 00:21:58,984 So he's baptized in identification with sinful humanity, 431 00:21:59,084 --> 00:22:02,387 so he can later justify sinful humanity to follow. 432 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:04,423 That's why he's baptized. 433 00:22:05,891 --> 00:22:07,559 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately 434 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:11,396 he went up out of the water and behold, the heavens were open to him. 435 00:22:11,396 --> 00:22:15,801 And he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him. 436 00:22:15,967 --> 00:22:19,037 And behold, a voice from heaven said, this is my beloved son, 437 00:22:19,037 --> 00:22:22,040 with whom I am well pleased. 438 00:22:22,708 --> 00:22:24,943 So at his baptism, 439 00:22:24,943 --> 00:22:29,414 which, by the way, the Greek word for for baptized is baptism, 440 00:22:29,881 --> 00:22:32,751 and it means literally to immerse or dunk underwater. 441 00:22:32,751 --> 00:22:37,089 That's why we baptized by immersion, because the word means to immerse under 442 00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:37,956 water. 443 00:22:37,956 --> 00:22:41,693 That's why we don't sprinkle, because the word baptize means to immerse. 444 00:22:41,693 --> 00:22:44,396 And so when it says Jesus came up out of the water, 445 00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:47,232 it means by necessity he was totally immersed in the water. 446 00:22:47,232 --> 00:22:51,303 Do you follow so he comes up out of the water after being totally immersed. 447 00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:55,107 And the Bible says, The Spirit of God descends 448 00:22:55,107 --> 00:22:59,010 as like a dove, and a voice from heaven is heard. 449 00:22:59,010 --> 00:23:02,114 This is my son, in whom I am well pleased, 450 00:23:03,248 --> 00:23:05,350 that what we see here 451 00:23:05,350 --> 00:23:08,353 is a manifestation of what's called the Trinity. 452 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,056 Have you heard about what the Trinity is? 453 00:23:11,056 --> 00:23:13,658 You heard that word Trinity. 454 00:23:13,658 --> 00:23:17,262 The Trinity is a Christian doctrine that there's one God 455 00:23:17,629 --> 00:23:22,000 manifest in three persons God the father, God the son, God 456 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,571 the Spirit, equal in nature, all being God. 457 00:23:27,139 --> 00:23:30,108 Different manifestations. 458 00:23:30,108 --> 00:23:32,978 The Father is God, but the father is not the son. 459 00:23:32,978 --> 00:23:35,480 The Son is God, but son is not the spirit. 460 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,316 The spirit is God, but the spirit isn't the father. 461 00:23:38,316 --> 00:23:39,684 They're all God. 462 00:23:39,684 --> 00:23:42,687 Different manifestations now, 463 00:23:42,954 --> 00:23:45,924 you may know or have been told 464 00:23:45,924 --> 00:23:50,061 by people who don't understand and by some cults, 465 00:23:51,096 --> 00:23:54,132 that the Trinity, the Trinity is not in the Bible, 466 00:23:54,866 --> 00:23:59,171 and that therefore God is not equal 467 00:23:59,171 --> 00:24:03,542 in three persons, but distinct in different natures. 468 00:24:03,542 --> 00:24:06,611 For instance, that the son was created by the father. 469 00:24:06,711 --> 00:24:07,479 That's false. 470 00:24:08,847 --> 00:24:09,347 The Bible's 471 00:24:09,347 --> 00:24:12,350 very clear about the doctrine of the Trinity. 472 00:24:12,484 --> 00:24:15,754 It is true that the word Trinity is nowhere in Scripture. 473 00:24:15,754 --> 00:24:18,990 You can look all through every page and word of the Bible, 474 00:24:18,990 --> 00:24:21,993 and you will not find the word Trinity. 475 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:25,063 It doesn't mean the Trinity isn't there. 476 00:24:25,597 --> 00:24:28,433 The doctrine of the Trinity for the Christian Church 477 00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:32,204 was clearly defined, in at the Council 478 00:24:32,204 --> 00:24:35,207 of Nicaea in 325 A.D. 479 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,043 and they said, this is what the Scripture says 480 00:24:38,043 --> 00:24:41,379 about the nature of God, God the Father, God the Son, God the spirit. 481 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,249 That's put the verbiage around it so everybody knows. 482 00:24:44,249 --> 00:24:48,753 It was a response to, heresy called Arianism, 483 00:24:50,222 --> 00:24:54,526 that rejected the idea that Jesus was eternal with the father. 484 00:24:54,993 --> 00:24:57,963 And so they said, let's set it straight for all Christians. 485 00:24:58,396 --> 00:25:01,600 The doctrine of the Trinity that God is one God. 486 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:06,404 God is Father, God the spirit, God the Son, co-equal but different persons. 487 00:25:06,404 --> 00:25:10,909 And so the doctrine of the Trinity was really fleshed out in 325 BCE. 488 00:25:10,909 --> 00:25:14,646 But the Trinity is all through Scripture, Old Testament and New Testament here 489 00:25:14,646 --> 00:25:17,816 and then the least you have the Spirit of God 490 00:25:18,984 --> 00:25:21,987 and the father saying, this is my son, 491 00:25:22,721 --> 00:25:23,622 father, son, spirit. 492 00:25:23,622 --> 00:25:26,892 You see that all at the same place at the same time. 493 00:25:28,059 --> 00:25:31,062 Okay, so don't doubt the doctrine of the Trinity. 494 00:25:31,596 --> 00:25:34,199 Don't be fooled by people's arguments about it. 495 00:25:34,199 --> 00:25:37,202 But I want you to, I want to I want to point something else out about this to. 496 00:25:37,936 --> 00:25:40,272 And this is just super practical, okay? 497 00:25:40,272 --> 00:25:43,141 Especially for parents. 498 00:25:43,141 --> 00:25:44,876 What does God the Father 499 00:25:44,876 --> 00:25:48,146 say of God the Son in verse 17? 500 00:25:48,513 --> 00:25:50,882 This is what 501 00:25:50,882 --> 00:25:53,852 my beloved son finish it, 502 00:25:54,452 --> 00:25:56,121 with whom I am well pleased. 503 00:25:56,121 --> 00:25:59,124 This is the father saying over his son, 504 00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:02,961 this is my beloved. 505 00:26:02,961 --> 00:26:04,829 I'm so proud of him. 506 00:26:04,829 --> 00:26:07,999 I'm so pleased with him up to this point for what we know. 507 00:26:07,999 --> 00:26:08,466 Scripture. 508 00:26:08,466 --> 00:26:12,404 What had Jesus done to make the father say, I'm so proud of you. 509 00:26:18,310 --> 00:26:19,744 From from what we know, Scripture 510 00:26:19,744 --> 00:26:22,747 and anything he showed up 511 00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:26,585 and anything. 512 00:26:26,651 --> 00:26:28,820 From what we know in Scripture, he hasn't done anything. 513 00:26:28,820 --> 00:26:31,823 And what does the father say? 514 00:26:32,090 --> 00:26:35,093 Man, I love you and I'm so proud of you 515 00:26:36,394 --> 00:26:39,397 parents, please understand this. 516 00:26:40,365 --> 00:26:43,268 The love of the father, 517 00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:46,271 the pride he has in his son 518 00:26:46,738 --> 00:26:49,741 has nothing to do with performance. 519 00:26:50,041 --> 00:26:53,044 Simply his person. 520 00:26:53,878 --> 00:26:56,881 Parents get this. 521 00:26:57,215 --> 00:27:00,218 Make sure that your children know. 522 00:27:01,353 --> 00:27:03,888 That you love and your love for them. 523 00:27:03,888 --> 00:27:08,293 And your pride in them has nothing to do with their performance, 524 00:27:10,028 --> 00:27:13,031 just simply for who they are. 525 00:27:13,832 --> 00:27:15,600 When you get upset 526 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,870 at their lack of opportunity or performance, what's that? 527 00:27:18,870 --> 00:27:21,740 Tell them. 528 00:27:21,740 --> 00:27:24,743 That you're pleased when they get it. 529 00:27:26,444 --> 00:27:26,878 Parents, 530 00:27:26,878 --> 00:27:30,482 please hear me on this, especially if you got little. 531 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:32,250 I don't care if they're little or old. Doesn't matter. 532 00:27:32,250 --> 00:27:36,488 I, I just had my my middle son compete 533 00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:40,759 in a jujitsu, competition this last Saturday. 534 00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:43,228 He took jiu jitsu for three months. He got third place. 535 00:27:43,228 --> 00:27:44,362 It's like it 536 00:27:45,864 --> 00:27:48,299 and but but here's my point. 537 00:27:48,299 --> 00:27:50,669 We're talking to him. 538 00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:54,939 Had nothing to do with how he performed it. 539 00:27:54,939 --> 00:27:55,140 Just. 540 00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:56,341 Man, I'm so thankful 541 00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:59,511 that you still have this desire to do stuff and you're able to. 542 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:02,147 And how fun that must have been. 543 00:28:02,147 --> 00:28:05,150 I'm just proud of you for yourself out there getting after it 544 00:28:05,383 --> 00:28:07,552 had nothing to do with what he did. 545 00:28:07,552 --> 00:28:10,488 So parents, please, please do this man. 546 00:28:10,488 --> 00:28:14,059 You get a little girl, a little boy, oh, boy, all that matters. 547 00:28:14,392 --> 00:28:18,163 Listen, I just love getting to watch you do your thing. 548 00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:21,232 That's it. 549 00:28:21,232 --> 00:28:23,835 I'm just proud of you. 550 00:28:23,835 --> 00:28:26,838 Nothing to do with your performance, 551 00:28:27,038 --> 00:28:27,272 parent. 552 00:28:27,272 --> 00:28:29,641 You understand that? 553 00:28:29,641 --> 00:28:32,644 Take if you from God the Father. 554 00:28:39,517 --> 00:28:40,318 And so verse four 555 00:28:40,318 --> 00:28:43,321 or chapter four, chapter three. 556 00:28:43,321 --> 00:28:47,926 Heaven breaks through the Spirit of God upon the Son of God. 557 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,196 For the father. 558 00:28:51,196 --> 00:28:52,363 Chapter four. 559 00:28:52,363 --> 00:28:55,366 Hell breaks in the moment this happens. 560 00:28:56,167 --> 00:28:58,670 Great moment. 561 00:28:58,670 --> 00:29:01,740 Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the waters to be tempted by the devil. 562 00:29:03,041 --> 00:29:05,443 He had to be tempted. 563 00:29:05,443 --> 00:29:08,947 Jesus could not escape this life without temptation in every way we are. Why? 564 00:29:09,114 --> 00:29:12,117 Because he has to identify with every temptation we face. 565 00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:16,588 If Jesus was tiptoed in every way, at the core of every way we are, 566 00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:18,089 we can make a charge against him. 567 00:29:18,089 --> 00:29:20,158 You cannot condemn me because of my sin, 568 00:29:20,158 --> 00:29:22,827 because you don't know what it's like to be me. 569 00:29:22,827 --> 00:29:26,131 You understand that we would have a charge against God. 570 00:29:27,031 --> 00:29:31,336 So in order to take every charge away from like we can't charge God with anything, 571 00:29:31,503 --> 00:29:32,837 Jesus had to be tempted 572 00:29:32,837 --> 00:29:36,441 in every way that we are and had to face it without sinning. 573 00:29:37,142 --> 00:29:38,042 And so he's led 574 00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:41,880 is this great moment with the father, and he's led in the desert to be tempted. 575 00:29:44,582 --> 00:29:47,585 And after fasting 40 days and 40 nights, 576 00:29:48,953 --> 00:29:50,388 I love how 577 00:29:50,388 --> 00:29:53,391 simplistic the Bible puts this next statement. 578 00:29:54,259 --> 00:29:57,262 He's fasting 40 days and nights 579 00:29:57,896 --> 00:29:59,764 and it says he was hungry. 580 00:29:59,764 --> 00:30:02,767 You think? 581 00:30:03,301 --> 00:30:06,271 I mean, I didn't get breakfast this morning 582 00:30:06,271 --> 00:30:08,673 and I would say I'm hungry. 583 00:30:08,673 --> 00:30:10,475 40 have any of you fasted before? 584 00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:13,478 Like like a biblical fasting on a medical fast, but a difficult fast. 585 00:30:14,312 --> 00:30:14,712 Yeah. 586 00:30:14,712 --> 00:30:17,715 For like you missed a meal and because you're busy 587 00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:22,053 a day, two days, three days a week, 40 days, anybody? 588 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:24,956 40 days and nights. 589 00:30:24,956 --> 00:30:27,692 Have a church planner friend in Ohio? 590 00:30:27,692 --> 00:30:31,196 He played right tackle for University of Georgia back in the day. 591 00:30:31,496 --> 00:30:33,031 He's a big, big man. 592 00:30:33,031 --> 00:30:34,666 He's done 240 day fast. 593 00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:36,100 He now he a lot of weight to lose. 594 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:37,769 No big deal. But I'm 595 00:30:38,703 --> 00:30:39,237 but but 596 00:30:39,237 --> 00:30:42,440 for 40 day fat that's that's that's brutal. 597 00:30:43,074 --> 00:30:46,077 And at some point your body starts eating itself. 598 00:30:46,911 --> 00:30:49,547 And so yeah he's found and for days he was hungry no doubt. 599 00:30:49,547 --> 00:30:51,583 And the temperature came to him and said, 600 00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:54,219 we're going to see the three temptations to Jesus in those same two ways. 601 00:30:54,219 --> 00:30:54,819 We're tempted. 602 00:30:54,819 --> 00:30:57,822 The devil isn't creative, but he's consistent. 603 00:30:58,456 --> 00:30:59,057 The devil cannot. 604 00:30:59,057 --> 00:31:02,560 I said, if you are the Son of God, give man these stones, become loaves of bread. 605 00:31:03,661 --> 00:31:04,696 Couple things going on here. 606 00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:06,331 One thing I want you to stand. 607 00:31:06,331 --> 00:31:09,300 Regardless of the temptation. 608 00:31:11,636 --> 00:31:13,771 There's a way out. 609 00:31:13,771 --> 00:31:16,741 None of us has to give in to temptation. 610 00:31:17,709 --> 00:31:19,110 When I was, When I was a little boy. 611 00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:20,678 I've told this story a few different times. 612 00:31:20,678 --> 00:31:23,681 My mom and dad really want us to memorize the Bible, 613 00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:26,851 and they knew that the way to my heart was through a Baby Ruth candy bar. 614 00:31:28,353 --> 00:31:28,820 And so 615 00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:31,823 my mom put a Baby Ruth candy bar on top of the frigerator 616 00:31:31,956 --> 00:31:34,959 not one of the cheap little ones, like the big full thing. 617 00:31:35,627 --> 00:31:38,796 And she wrote this verse for first Corinthians 1013 618 00:31:38,796 --> 00:31:41,833 on a, on a index card and put on a mag on the refrigerator. 619 00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:44,836 She said, when you memorize that verse, you're gonna have a candy bar. 620 00:31:44,836 --> 00:31:46,604 And it was first Corinthians 1013. 621 00:31:46,604 --> 00:31:50,208 There is no temptation which come upon you, which is common to everybody. 622 00:31:51,376 --> 00:31:53,678 And God is faithful and just and won't allow you to be tempted 623 00:31:53,678 --> 00:31:55,780 beyond what you can handle and will with the temptation. 624 00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:58,783 Make a way out so you can handle it. 625 00:31:59,117 --> 00:32:02,520 And so what that told me is that whatever temptation 626 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,391 I face is common to everybody else, I'm not special and neither are you. 627 00:32:07,225 --> 00:32:11,796 Your temptations are exactly what everybody else faces, nothing new. 628 00:32:11,796 --> 00:32:14,666 So don't think that devils singling you out special. 629 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:16,668 You're going to 630 00:32:16,668 --> 00:32:20,171 be tempted in the way everybody is tempted, and God is faithful 631 00:32:20,171 --> 00:32:23,408 and just, and he won't allow that temptation to be too much for you. 632 00:32:24,409 --> 00:32:26,210 And even beyond that, he'll give you a way out 633 00:32:26,210 --> 00:32:27,946 that you can handle it so you don't have to sin. 634 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:30,248 That's what I learned growing up, 635 00:32:30,248 --> 00:32:32,784 Carl. You're not special 636 00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:36,020 to every temptation everybody else faces your dad. 637 00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:36,955 Face it, your brother face it. 638 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:37,689 Your uncle's face it. 639 00:32:37,689 --> 00:32:40,058 Your friends faces. Same. 640 00:32:40,058 --> 00:32:41,492 And you can handle it. 641 00:32:41,492 --> 00:32:43,861 And you'll even have a way out. 642 00:32:43,861 --> 00:32:46,230 And what that told me is 643 00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:48,866 I need to look for the way out. 644 00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:51,302 And what that told me is, 645 00:32:51,302 --> 00:32:53,972 sometimes I don't want to way out. 646 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:56,975 Sometimes I want to sin. 647 00:32:57,508 --> 00:33:00,511 So God is faithful and just to provide a way out. 648 00:33:00,578 --> 00:33:03,214 He's also faithful and just to hold me accountable for my sin, 649 00:33:04,882 --> 00:33:06,718 because sometimes I choose it. 650 00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:10,221 And he's also faithful and just to provide, to provide 651 00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:14,492 the payment for my sin through Jesus. 652 00:33:16,361 --> 00:33:19,364 And so these temptations. 653 00:33:20,431 --> 00:33:22,133 The devil starts with with Jesus. 654 00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:24,535 If you are the Son of God, he's saying a couple of things. 655 00:33:24,535 --> 00:33:26,204 He's raising a question. 656 00:33:26,204 --> 00:33:29,207 He said, do you think you got a relationship with with God? 657 00:33:32,243 --> 00:33:34,412 He's your father. 658 00:33:34,412 --> 00:33:37,415 If he's your father, why would he treat you like this? 659 00:33:37,749 --> 00:33:40,385 You think this relationship you have with him is 660 00:33:40,385 --> 00:33:43,388 is is solid and good? 661 00:33:43,554 --> 00:33:44,889 If so, why? 662 00:33:44,889 --> 00:33:45,623 Why is he? 663 00:33:45,623 --> 00:33:48,393 Why is he doing to you what he's doing? 664 00:33:48,393 --> 00:33:51,362 He's also raising is raising this this point. 665 00:33:51,496 --> 00:33:54,032 If you are the Son of God, why don't you prove it? 666 00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,099 Why don't you prove it? 667 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:56,901 Do you see how the 668 00:33:56,901 --> 00:33:59,904 devil just starts raising questions in our minds about the father? 669 00:34:00,838 --> 00:34:03,107 And this is the first temptation command. 670 00:34:03,107 --> 00:34:04,876 These stones become bread loaves of bread. 671 00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:06,511 Why does he start with that temptation? 672 00:34:06,511 --> 00:34:09,514 Because. Why? Because he's hungry. 673 00:34:10,014 --> 00:34:13,017 It's the temptation of his greatest felt need. 674 00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,819 And what the devil is saying? 675 00:34:14,819 --> 00:34:18,656 The temptation, number one, is you cannot trust the provision of God. 676 00:34:20,558 --> 00:34:21,059 That's the. 677 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:24,062 That's the first temptation. 678 00:34:24,796 --> 00:34:25,897 You can't trust 679 00:34:25,897 --> 00:34:28,900 God to take care of you because obviously he hasn't. 680 00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:33,237 If you have this great relationship with God, 681 00:34:34,172 --> 00:34:36,107 why would he let you be 682 00:34:36,107 --> 00:34:39,110 in such need right now? 683 00:34:39,210 --> 00:34:41,379 Why would you trust him to provide for you? 684 00:34:41,379 --> 00:34:44,382 Because obviously, look back, he hasn't. 685 00:34:46,451 --> 00:34:49,454 Do you understand this temptation? 686 00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:54,258 If this relationship is so good between you and the father, 687 00:34:55,526 --> 00:34:57,261 why would he let you go hungry? 688 00:34:57,261 --> 00:35:00,264 Why would he let you be in so much need? 689 00:35:00,698 --> 00:35:03,701 It makes no sense. 690 00:35:03,801 --> 00:35:06,804 Take matters into your own hands. 691 00:35:07,138 --> 00:35:09,440 Do this yourself. 692 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,443 Anybody? 693 00:35:14,879 --> 00:35:17,882 You can't trust God to take care of you 694 00:35:18,816 --> 00:35:21,819 because he's left you without. 695 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,723 What kind of loving God is that? 696 00:35:28,092 --> 00:35:31,095 That's a temptation. 697 00:35:31,863 --> 00:35:34,866 It's the same temptation of Eve in the garden. 698 00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:37,668 When the devil came to even said, why would you trust God 699 00:35:37,668 --> 00:35:38,402 to provide for you? 700 00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:41,372 Look what he's kept from you. 701 00:35:42,373 --> 00:35:43,574 It's the same thing with Adam. 702 00:35:43,574 --> 00:35:46,577 Or with, with Abraham and Sarah. 703 00:35:46,611 --> 00:35:47,178 What? 704 00:35:47,178 --> 00:35:49,080 God said he's going to give you a son. 705 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,083 How many years has it been? 706 00:35:52,383 --> 00:35:54,719 You can't trust him to provide. 707 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,722 He hasn't done it yet. 708 00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:00,124 Let's solve this ourselves. 709 00:36:06,697 --> 00:36:09,367 But he answered, it is written, man shall not live 710 00:36:09,367 --> 00:36:12,470 by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 711 00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:14,172 I love the how Jesus responds. 712 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:16,073 He just gives one Bible. 713 00:36:16,073 --> 00:36:17,909 I'm not going to talk to you about it. I'm not gonna argue with about it. 714 00:36:17,909 --> 00:36:19,243 I'm not going to try to read anything. 715 00:36:19,243 --> 00:36:21,112 Here's what the Bible says. 716 00:36:21,112 --> 00:36:23,481 Here's what the Bible says. 717 00:36:23,481 --> 00:36:26,117 There's no discussion. 718 00:36:26,117 --> 00:36:28,085 Then the devil took him to the holy city and sat him 719 00:36:28,085 --> 00:36:29,420 on the pinnacle of the temple and set him. 720 00:36:29,420 --> 00:36:31,422 If you are there, it is again, right? 721 00:36:31,422 --> 00:36:34,058 If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 722 00:36:34,058 --> 00:36:36,661 he will command his angels concerning you, and on their hands 723 00:36:36,661 --> 00:36:39,564 they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. 724 00:36:40,531 --> 00:36:41,666 The devil says, fine, Jesus. 725 00:36:41,666 --> 00:36:43,601 You want to quote Bible up the Bible? 726 00:36:43,601 --> 00:36:44,502 Do you know the Bible? 727 00:36:44,502 --> 00:36:47,505 Or you know the devil probably knows the Bible better than me, and you. 728 00:36:51,576 --> 00:36:52,877 And so he takes so much to the pinnacle 729 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:56,214 the temple, the top of the temple, the pinnacle, all the way down 730 00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:59,383 to the bottom of the Kidron Valley that it overlooks was 450ft. 731 00:37:00,251 --> 00:37:02,253 And so the devil's like look, 450ft. 732 00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:04,655 Go throw yourself down, the Bible says, or you won't quote the Bible. 733 00:37:04,655 --> 00:37:05,223 I'll quote the Bible. 734 00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:07,325 The Bible says, so come out and see angels. 735 00:37:07,325 --> 00:37:10,328 Concerning is quoting Psalm 91 736 00:37:11,028 --> 00:37:12,496 and he he's saying, here's the deal. 737 00:37:12,496 --> 00:37:15,466 You based on the track record Jesus, you can't trust 738 00:37:15,466 --> 00:37:18,469 God's provision, nor can you really trust his protection. 739 00:37:22,473 --> 00:37:25,076 That's the second temptation 740 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:28,079 he hasn't provided for you, and he will not protect you. 741 00:37:31,282 --> 00:37:33,150 Like I said, the devil isn't created a bit. 742 00:37:33,150 --> 00:37:36,153 He's consistent. 743 00:37:36,854 --> 00:37:38,589 And Jesus said to him, again it is written, 744 00:37:38,589 --> 00:37:40,958 you shall not put the Lord your God to the test. 745 00:37:40,958 --> 00:37:43,494 No discussion, just the Bible. 746 00:37:43,494 --> 00:37:44,428 Friends take. 747 00:37:44,428 --> 00:37:47,431 Let's take our cue from from Jesus. 748 00:37:48,299 --> 00:37:51,535 Our response to every question, our response to every temptation, 749 00:37:51,535 --> 00:37:53,537 our response to every whatever has got to be. 750 00:37:53,537 --> 00:37:55,473 The Bible says 751 00:37:55,473 --> 00:37:57,642 what the Bible says. 752 00:37:57,642 --> 00:37:59,877 The Bible says 753 00:37:59,877 --> 00:38:01,679 when we got to know the Bible, but to our response 754 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:03,914 as we go, the Bible says, but here's the thing. 755 00:38:03,914 --> 00:38:07,118 The moment you or I respond in this culture today, 756 00:38:07,385 --> 00:38:10,855 the moment we respond with the Bible says we're going to be labeled 757 00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:17,261 ignorant and bigoted and whatever other title you want to put on people. 758 00:38:19,830 --> 00:38:21,832 Because it flies in the face 759 00:38:21,832 --> 00:38:25,903 of culture to say the Bible says, let's so all it's so archaic. 760 00:38:25,903 --> 00:38:28,906 Well, the Bible says. 761 00:38:29,073 --> 00:38:32,076 And we've got to be willing to bear that, 762 00:38:32,209 --> 00:38:34,945 to bear that badge. 763 00:38:34,945 --> 00:38:35,880 I'm a man of the Bible. 764 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,014 I'm a woman of the Bible. 765 00:38:37,014 --> 00:38:37,648 We're a family. 766 00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:40,651 The Bible in the Bible says that's just that's just how it is. 767 00:38:41,285 --> 00:38:42,820 You can label me however you want. 768 00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:44,221 You can call me whatever you want. 769 00:38:44,221 --> 00:38:45,990 That's fine. 770 00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:48,993 But the Bible says. 771 00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:52,830 In this culture, there was so much confusion 772 00:38:52,830 --> 00:38:55,833 and so much verbiage about all kinds of. 773 00:38:57,968 --> 00:39:01,272 Identities and genders and relationships. 774 00:39:01,272 --> 00:39:04,275 And the Bible says. 775 00:39:06,310 --> 00:39:09,413 Roles and the Bible says. 776 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,788 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain 777 00:39:17,788 --> 00:39:19,557 and showed him all the kingdom of the world and their glory. 778 00:39:19,557 --> 00:39:22,593 And he said, all these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me. 779 00:39:23,761 --> 00:39:24,862 What right does the devil 780 00:39:24,862 --> 00:39:27,865 have to give kingdoms to God? 781 00:39:29,133 --> 00:39:31,335 Well, in Luke four six 782 00:39:31,335 --> 00:39:34,338 we learned that for a time being, 783 00:39:34,772 --> 00:39:37,742 he's the ruler of this dark world. 784 00:39:38,008 --> 00:39:42,346 See? And in the garden at the sin of Eve 785 00:39:42,346 --> 00:39:45,783 and Adam, the devil was given the title deed of the earth. 786 00:39:46,550 --> 00:39:48,519 He owns it. 787 00:39:48,519 --> 00:39:52,323 The good news is we read the last book of the Bible, revelation chapter five, 788 00:39:52,323 --> 00:39:55,326 and we see the lamb who was slain, who gets the title deed back. 789 00:39:57,194 --> 00:39:59,930 But in the meantime, 790 00:39:59,930 --> 00:40:03,601 over this dark world, the devil still yields power. 791 00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:07,805 And the devil tells Jesus, look, if the point of this whole thing, 792 00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:09,573 let's just get pragmatic. 793 00:40:09,573 --> 00:40:11,308 Now, if the point of this whole thing 794 00:40:11,308 --> 00:40:15,413 is that the world worship you, let's just circumvent the cross. 795 00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:17,715 Why go through that? 796 00:40:19,550 --> 00:40:21,852 Just bow down. 797 00:40:21,852 --> 00:40:23,888 All the kingdoms are mine to give you. 798 00:40:23,888 --> 00:40:25,990 I'll give them all to you. They'll worship you. 799 00:40:25,990 --> 00:40:28,993 Which is the goal anyway, right? 800 00:40:31,629 --> 00:40:31,896 Because 801 00:40:31,896 --> 00:40:35,032 after all, Jesus, you can't really trust the promises of God. 802 00:40:35,032 --> 00:40:37,635 That's the third temptation. 803 00:40:37,635 --> 00:40:40,204 You can't really trust his promises. 804 00:40:40,204 --> 00:40:42,406 You can't really trust his word. 805 00:40:42,406 --> 00:40:45,743 And so let's get let's get to where we want to get, 806 00:40:45,743 --> 00:40:48,746 but let's do it a different way. 807 00:40:50,648 --> 00:40:51,916 For me, 808 00:40:51,916 --> 00:40:54,385 this would probably be the greatest temptation. 809 00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:55,686 I mean, other than the bread one, 810 00:40:55,686 --> 00:40:58,456 because when I'm hungry, that would be fantastic. But. 811 00:40:58,456 --> 00:41:01,459 But I'm so pragmatic. 812 00:41:01,759 --> 00:41:03,227 Let's understand what the goal is. 813 00:41:03,227 --> 00:41:05,162 Let's get there by any way possible. 814 00:41:05,162 --> 00:41:08,132 And if we can do it easy, let's do it easy. 815 00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:09,834 And that's what he's telling Jesus. 816 00:41:10,835 --> 00:41:12,470 Well, we'll get to the worship 817 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:15,473 if you part, but let's do it without the suffering part. 818 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:18,609 Let's do it off the cross. 819 00:41:18,609 --> 00:41:21,612 You can't really trust the promise of God. 820 00:41:24,415 --> 00:41:26,350 He has his promise of, 821 00:41:26,350 --> 00:41:29,453 of of a resurrection, his promise of redemption through your blood. 822 00:41:29,453 --> 00:41:30,621 You can't really trust that. 823 00:41:30,621 --> 00:41:33,624 Let's get it a different way. 824 00:41:38,262 --> 00:41:41,265 And then Jesus said in verse ten. 825 00:41:41,765 --> 00:41:43,634 Shut up. 826 00:41:43,634 --> 00:41:46,403 You, you. 827 00:41:46,403 --> 00:41:47,805 He's done. 828 00:41:47,805 --> 00:41:50,341 Be gone, Satan. 829 00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:53,010 And he doesn't say, be gone, because I believe he does 830 00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:56,714 say be gone because I trust he doesn't to be gone because I anything 831 00:41:57,281 --> 00:42:00,284 he says be gone because it is written, 832 00:42:00,384 --> 00:42:01,118 you shall worship 833 00:42:01,118 --> 00:42:04,722 the Lord your God and serve him, and only him only shall you serve. 834 00:42:05,623 --> 00:42:07,291 I love the fact man that Jesus. 835 00:42:07,291 --> 00:42:09,827 He doesn't boil it down to what he thinks or what he believes in. Nothing. 836 00:42:09,827 --> 00:42:11,595 He boils it down. This is what the Bible says. 837 00:42:12,696 --> 00:42:15,666 This is what the Bible says. 838 00:42:15,666 --> 00:42:17,001 And I'm going to build my life, 839 00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:20,004 and I'm going to build my response on what the Bible says. 840 00:42:20,771 --> 00:42:22,373 Basically, what Jesus saying is 841 00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:25,376 my job is to honor my father. 842 00:42:25,709 --> 00:42:28,445 That's my job. 843 00:42:28,445 --> 00:42:31,115 And however he wants me to do that, I'm going do that. 844 00:42:31,115 --> 00:42:34,418 I will believe his provision because the Bible says I will believe 845 00:42:34,752 --> 00:42:37,054 his protection, because the Bible says I will believe his promise. 846 00:42:37,054 --> 00:42:39,123 Because the Bible says 847 00:42:39,123 --> 00:42:42,092 my job is just to honor him. 848 00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:44,662 Verse 11 then the devil left him, and behold, 849 00:42:44,662 --> 00:42:47,665 angels came and were ministering to him. 850 00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:54,004 Jesus met every temptation with Scripture, 851 00:42:54,672 --> 00:42:56,106 every temptation with Scripture. 852 00:42:56,106 --> 00:42:58,576 That's our key. 853 00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:01,579 The Bible says. 854 00:43:02,146 --> 00:43:03,747 And and I want you 855 00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:06,784 to understand this, that heaven always means obedience with strength. 856 00:43:08,419 --> 00:43:09,086 Heaven always 857 00:43:09,086 --> 00:43:12,089 meets your obedience with strength. 858 00:43:12,222 --> 00:43:14,391 Just be obedient, repent. 859 00:43:14,391 --> 00:43:17,294 He'll meet you with strength. 860 00:43:17,294 --> 00:43:20,297 And angels came and ministered to him. 861 00:43:20,331 --> 00:43:23,334 I want to close with this verse to wrap this whole thing up. 862 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,669 James four seven 863 00:43:25,669 --> 00:43:28,238 submit yourselves therefore to God. 864 00:43:28,238 --> 00:43:31,241 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 865 00:43:32,343 --> 00:43:35,045 This whole thing starts with submitting ourselves to God. 866 00:43:35,045 --> 00:43:37,781 It's repentance. 867 00:43:37,781 --> 00:43:40,784 Father, I submit my will to yours. 868 00:43:40,884 --> 00:43:43,621 I submit my agenda to yours. 869 00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:46,590 I submit my future to your design. 870 00:43:47,524 --> 00:43:49,593 I humbly submit myself to you. 871 00:43:49,593 --> 00:43:50,694 You are king. 872 00:43:50,694 --> 00:43:51,562 I'm your slave. 873 00:43:51,562 --> 00:43:54,732 Do with me as you will submit yourself to God. 874 00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:57,768 Then resist the devil. 875 00:43:57,768 --> 00:43:59,870 There's a lot of us who have tried to resist the devil 876 00:43:59,870 --> 00:44:01,972 and be good people, and change our lives in ourselves. 877 00:44:01,972 --> 00:44:03,474 It doesn't work. 878 00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:05,809 Behavior modification doesn't work. 879 00:44:05,809 --> 00:44:07,645 There has to be a submission to God first. 880 00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:09,380 It has to be a repentance first. 881 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:11,582 And when we submit ourselves and repent, 882 00:44:12,916 --> 00:44:14,852 then we're able to resist the devil. 883 00:44:14,852 --> 00:44:19,957 And the moment the devil sees submission to God in repentance and resistance, 884 00:44:20,290 --> 00:44:23,027 he runs away. 885 00:44:23,027 --> 00:44:25,295 Do you understand that? 886 00:44:25,295 --> 00:44:28,298 But it starts with our repentance. 887 00:44:29,967 --> 00:44:31,769 And so, according to what John 888 00:44:31,769 --> 00:44:34,805 the Baptizer said, according to what Jesus preached, according to the disciples, 889 00:44:34,805 --> 00:44:37,808 according to the first church, according to Paul, repent, 890 00:44:39,176 --> 00:44:42,179 for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 891 00:44:43,447 --> 00:44:46,450 I want you to pray with me. 892 00:44:48,352 --> 00:44:49,286 Father, I thank you 893 00:44:49,286 --> 00:44:52,289 that you've not left us her own devices, as you not left us to, 894 00:44:53,857 --> 00:44:54,625 to this world. 895 00:44:54,625 --> 00:44:57,628 According to our effort. 896 00:44:57,828 --> 00:44:59,463 I thank you that you've given us your word, 897 00:44:59,463 --> 00:45:02,433 that you've given us your son, that you've given us your spirit. 898 00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:07,604 And I pray that in these moments that you would call us to repentance. 899 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:10,541 Not just our 900 00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:13,544 remorse over our past, but in 901 00:45:14,311 --> 00:45:17,281 submission of our future. 902 00:45:18,315 --> 00:45:19,983 Friends, I want to invite you in this moment. 903 00:45:19,983 --> 00:45:21,552 Like I said, I don't need to know. 904 00:45:21,552 --> 00:45:23,721 It's not for me to know 905 00:45:23,721 --> 00:45:24,988 your need of repentance. 906 00:45:24,988 --> 00:45:27,191 You need to know it 907 00:45:27,191 --> 00:45:30,194 and the need to repent. 908 00:45:30,928 --> 00:45:31,562 The moment 909 00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:34,531 you live in repentance and submission, 910 00:45:34,698 --> 00:45:37,501 which is obedience, 911 00:45:37,501 --> 00:45:40,471 heaven meets you with strength. 912 00:45:40,938 --> 00:45:43,307 And so I invite you in this moment, just simply between 913 00:45:43,307 --> 00:45:46,310 you and the father to say, God, I repent, 914 00:45:47,077 --> 00:45:48,912 I repent. 915 00:45:48,912 --> 00:45:51,915 I agree with you about this part of my life. 916 00:45:54,151 --> 00:45:56,920 I've lived in rejection 917 00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,956 of your design. 918 00:45:58,956 --> 00:46:01,625 I acknowledge that, 919 00:46:01,625 --> 00:46:03,393 and I come before you today in repentance 920 00:46:03,393 --> 00:46:06,396 and submission. 921 00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:09,900 Not because of who I am, but because of what you've done. 922 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:12,402 Jesus, I pray you, make me a new person. I want to go a different way 923 00:46:14,171 --> 00:46:15,305 and I give you my life. 924 00:46:15,305 --> 00:46:16,273 I give you my future. 925 00:46:16,273 --> 00:46:18,642 I give you my direction. 926 00:46:18,642 --> 00:46:19,943 May walk in newness of life. 927 00:46:19,943 --> 00:46:22,946 Now God. 928 00:46:24,982 --> 00:46:26,283 And then in this moment, 929 00:46:26,283 --> 00:46:29,286 would you then also commit. 930 00:46:29,286 --> 00:46:31,121 Father I, 931 00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:34,124 when I choose to resist the devil, 932 00:46:34,391 --> 00:46:35,793 the attitude he creates in 933 00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:38,762 me, the grudges he continues in me, 934 00:46:38,796 --> 00:46:42,299 the habits he propels in me, I submit to you, 935 00:46:42,499 --> 00:46:45,502 I resist him, make him run away. 936 00:46:46,503 --> 00:46:48,906 He has no authority in my life anymore 937 00:46:48,906 --> 00:46:51,542 because I'm submitted to you. 938 00:46:51,542 --> 00:46:53,243 Jesus, I love you. 939 00:46:53,243 --> 00:46:54,211 Thank you for this opportunity. 940 00:46:54,211 --> 00:46:57,181 Thank you for this church thing, for these people. 941 00:46:57,314 --> 00:47:00,317 May your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 942 00:47:00,951 --> 00:47:03,720 In your name I pray, Amen. 943 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:04,988 Friends, I love you. 944 00:47:04,988 --> 00:47:06,490 I'm proud of you. 945 00:47:06,490 --> 00:47:07,324 Good job. 946 00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:09,827 For the first second service of the three. 947 00:47:12,963 --> 00:47:13,730 I want you this 948 00:47:13,730 --> 00:47:16,800 week to read chapter four and get into chapter five. 949 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,203 Chapter five starts the greatest 950 00:47:19,203 --> 00:47:22,339 message ever preached called the sermon on the Mount, chapter five, six and seven. 951 00:47:22,339 --> 00:47:24,541 There's a lot there, so read those two. Chapter four. 952 00:47:24,541 --> 00:47:26,810 In chapter five. Let's get into that next week. 953 00:47:26,810 --> 00:47:27,978 Invite your friends with you. 954 00:47:27,978 --> 00:47:30,981 Invite your huddle to come to church with you, 955 00:47:31,315 --> 00:47:33,984 and live a lifestyle of repentance. 956 00:47:33,984 --> 00:47:36,653 Heaven will meet you with strength 957 00:47:36,653 --> 00:47:37,554 I love you. Let's sing.