1 00:00:02,966 --> 00:00:03,133 Well. 2 00:00:03,133 --> 00:00:05,700 Good morning. Flip side. All right. 3 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:07,133 This is the this is the second group. 4 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,133 So I know you guys are ready for today, Yeah. 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,300 You guys got the extra sleep in? 6 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:13,766 Yeah. 7 00:00:13,766 --> 00:00:14,466 Some of you guys. 8 00:00:14,466 --> 00:00:16,900 No, no. Sean, you didn't get extra sleep? No. 9 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:19,033 All right, here we go, then. 10 00:00:19,033 --> 00:00:19,900 Real quick, man. 11 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:22,366 Just want to thank Pastor Carl. 12 00:00:22,366 --> 00:00:26,000 And you guys, for some of you guys, I have, like, a family update. 13 00:00:26,366 --> 00:00:29,566 And for some of you guys are going to be like, we ain't never heard of you. 14 00:00:29,566 --> 00:00:34,366 So, haven't been hearing about, about three years ago. 15 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,666 Pastor Carl let me go. 16 00:00:35,666 --> 00:00:40,100 And, I originally took over a, let you go as an FYI. 17 00:00:40,433 --> 00:00:41,800 No, no, no, he didn't let me go. 18 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,733 He he he he blessed me out. There you go. 19 00:00:44,733 --> 00:00:49,966 He blessed me out, and I went, and I took over a Korean Presbyterian church. 20 00:00:50,666 --> 00:00:53,700 And I know a lot of you guys are like, dude, that guy is not Presbyterian. 21 00:00:55,666 --> 00:00:58,666 Neither am I Korean either. So, 22 00:00:59,133 --> 00:01:01,766 the coolest thing is that I was actually the English 23 00:01:01,766 --> 00:01:04,766 speaking pastor of that church for two years. 24 00:01:04,766 --> 00:01:05,933 Got to leave them. 25 00:01:05,933 --> 00:01:10,166 And now we have planted a church, called Remedy Chapel. 26 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,333 And we are in Fresno. 27 00:01:13,333 --> 00:01:16,233 Right across the street from Fresno City College. 28 00:01:16,233 --> 00:01:18,233 So I got some updates for you guys. 29 00:01:18,233 --> 00:01:20,400 My wife couldn't be here today. 30 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,233 Because, you know, obviously we got another church that we have to do. 31 00:01:23,233 --> 00:01:26,500 So, I brought my my my my team with you here. 32 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:30,400 I got, my niece Olivia, who's, home from Cal Baptist 33 00:01:30,733 --> 00:01:33,800 for about another month, and, and, my good man right here. 34 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:34,533 John, Nathaniel. 35 00:01:34,533 --> 00:01:37,533 And we just wanted to come here to. 36 00:01:40,133 --> 00:01:42,433 That's why the first time they ever got clapped for y'all. 37 00:01:42,433 --> 00:01:42,766 Yeah. 38 00:01:44,066 --> 00:01:46,533 Don't get used to it, but, 39 00:01:46,533 --> 00:01:49,533 just wanted to come here today just to thank you guys. 40 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:54,633 The the way that you guys give and support excel in the man, 41 00:01:55,066 --> 00:01:58,400 and the the way that Pastor Carl leaves this church, 42 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 it does more than you can ever imagine or think. 43 00:02:03,133 --> 00:02:06,133 Not just locally, but you even saw the pictures of, 44 00:02:06,566 --> 00:02:09,300 you know, over in different countries. 45 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:10,733 It's just an amazing job. 46 00:02:10,733 --> 00:02:14,233 I, I'm, I'm grateful for the way that you guys support and give, 47 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:20,266 because we are a church that is reaping the benefits of, not just your giving, 48 00:02:20,266 --> 00:02:26,100 but in allowing Pastor Carl to disciple me continuously as a pastor. 49 00:02:26,133 --> 00:02:29,533 You know, I learn from him that most senior pastors, 50 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:33,033 tend to like, stop at that stage where nobody else. 51 00:02:33,033 --> 00:02:34,733 They don't they don't they, like, stopped giving, 52 00:02:34,733 --> 00:02:36,300 discipled or stopped getting mentored. 53 00:02:37,266 --> 00:02:38,400 But I'm grateful that 54 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,400 I have this man to do that for me. 55 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,900 So thank you guys so much for allowing, his time 56 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:49,566 and his efforts the way that you guys serve and give and love on this community. 57 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:51,833 So I'm really appreciative to this. 58 00:02:51,833 --> 00:02:54,366 This is home for me. 59 00:02:54,366 --> 00:02:56,800 Again, for some of you guys are like, you know, who are you? 60 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,800 And if for some of you guys, you guys kind of remember me, you know? 61 00:03:00,566 --> 00:03:03,733 You know, I'm only 350 pounds of Mountain Dew that used to be here. So, 62 00:03:05,766 --> 00:03:06,433 And now I'm back. 63 00:03:06,433 --> 00:03:09,066 So I thank you guys again for allowing me to be here. 64 00:03:09,066 --> 00:03:10,366 I do have some updates. 65 00:03:10,366 --> 00:03:12,833 Miranda and my wife are doing these pictures, so I don't know. 66 00:03:12,833 --> 00:03:13,500 There we go. 67 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:15,066 I remember first service now. Okay. 68 00:03:15,066 --> 00:03:18,100 That is me and my wife, my daughter Sharon, 69 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:21,900 who's now five months, and my son Mateo, who is three years. 70 00:03:21,933 --> 00:03:23,633 Some of the guys that we're working with, children's. 71 00:03:23,633 --> 00:03:25,300 Remember him? Yeah. 72 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:27,633 He he's only gotten worse. You know, 73 00:03:28,733 --> 00:03:29,266 you know, 74 00:03:29,266 --> 00:03:33,000 whenever we get updates from the kids ministry, every kid at. 75 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,133 Oh, they're doing so great. 76 00:03:34,133 --> 00:03:37,833 But, you know, there's just that one kid, and it happens to be Mateo. 77 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,400 So please pray for my son. 78 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:42,733 This is our after. 79 00:03:42,733 --> 00:03:45,733 This is the picture after our first baptism. 80 00:03:46,066 --> 00:03:49,066 So this is the kind of crew, 81 00:03:49,733 --> 00:03:50,733 yeah. 82 00:03:50,733 --> 00:03:52,633 Solid people. 83 00:03:52,633 --> 00:03:56,133 This is, kind of the demographic of what our church kind of looks like 84 00:03:56,433 --> 00:04:00,666 because there, we have a lot of Fresno City College, athletes. 85 00:04:01,533 --> 00:04:03,366 Because so we're right across the street. 86 00:04:03,366 --> 00:04:06,366 So we get the football players, the ball players, and it's fun. 87 00:04:06,366 --> 00:04:08,633 It's cool like that. 88 00:04:08,633 --> 00:04:11,133 You can go to the next slide. 89 00:04:11,133 --> 00:04:14,033 And this is, this is kind of how we look. 90 00:04:14,033 --> 00:04:16,366 This is, Yeah, 91 00:04:17,366 --> 00:04:18,966 this is what Sunday's look like. 92 00:04:18,966 --> 00:04:19,533 We are not. 93 00:04:19,533 --> 00:04:23,300 We are running out of a building called Every Neighborhood Partnership. 94 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,000 It's a local nonprofit organization in Fresno. 95 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 That partner churches with, local elementaries. 96 00:04:29,333 --> 00:04:32,333 So we're using their facility right now. 97 00:04:33,066 --> 00:04:34,466 And. Yeah. 98 00:04:34,466 --> 00:04:34,800 Yeah. 99 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,833 So that's, I think that's it. Right? Cool. 100 00:04:37,833 --> 00:04:39,933 Let's give that up after that. Yeah. Let's go to church. 101 00:04:39,933 --> 00:04:42,833 Let's do some some scripture reading now. 102 00:04:42,833 --> 00:04:44,233 That's cool. Just real quick. 103 00:04:44,233 --> 00:04:47,433 Pastor Carl asked me if I wanted to use his tool, 104 00:04:48,333 --> 00:04:51,333 and I said, I don't think you want me to break your stool. 105 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,400 Now, the funniest thing is that the store that was in that picture, 106 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,200 I actually broke that stool 107 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:58,966 right there. 108 00:04:58,966 --> 00:05:02,700 So, Yeah, I won't do any sitting any time soon. 109 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,266 Got to make sure one is, 110 00:05:05,266 --> 00:05:08,266 you know, big man certified. So, 111 00:05:08,966 --> 00:05:12,033 we we we, so I'll be standing here today. 112 00:05:12,033 --> 00:05:13,266 Is that good? 113 00:05:13,266 --> 00:05:14,300 Amen. Amen. 114 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:17,133 Let's dive into the scriptures. As Pastor Carl said. 115 00:05:17,133 --> 00:05:20,400 We will be, in the Psalm of 107. 116 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:23,533 And we will go through. 117 00:05:23,533 --> 00:05:26,900 Again, just the, the what it means or what it is showing. 118 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,500 This is a a psalm of salvation, of thanksgiving. 119 00:05:30,666 --> 00:05:34,933 And this shows, again, God's unfailing love for his people. 120 00:05:35,233 --> 00:05:39,666 It brings the healing part to a lot of the the groups of people that are in here. 121 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:42,766 Now. There's four different groups that we will see in this Psalm. 122 00:05:43,433 --> 00:05:47,733 And it is, one of the groups is those that have wandered or are those 123 00:05:47,733 --> 00:05:49,966 that have been lost. Have you guys ever been there before, 124 00:05:51,233 --> 00:05:53,700 especially before you knew Christ, right. 125 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:55,433 But you were wandering in. You were lost. 126 00:05:55,433 --> 00:05:58,800 And then there's the the Solomon that will write about another group 127 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,766 that those that were that sat or sit in their darkness. 128 00:06:02,766 --> 00:06:05,366 You guys ever been there before now? 129 00:06:05,366 --> 00:06:07,433 Okay, man, I forget, you know, we're in the Ranchos. 130 00:06:07,433 --> 00:06:09,300 You guys are good. Yes. 131 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:10,000 Here. 132 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,566 Nothing goes wrong out here. 133 00:06:11,566 --> 00:06:13,433 You guys are good. 134 00:06:13,433 --> 00:06:15,500 But he talks about the those that have 135 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:18,500 sat in darkness or sit in darkness. 136 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,700 The next group he identifies is the group that was full of their own foolishness. 137 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:27,366 Now, I think we all can attest to that. 138 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,133 Amen. Amen. 139 00:06:29,133 --> 00:06:32,333 Those that are, just because of their own doing 140 00:06:32,533 --> 00:06:35,533 was just stuck in their foolish ways. 141 00:06:35,966 --> 00:06:38,266 And then he attacks the next group. 142 00:06:38,266 --> 00:06:42,100 Well, he identifies the next group as those that are in the storm. 143 00:06:43,233 --> 00:06:43,633 I don't know 144 00:06:43,633 --> 00:06:47,433 about you, but I have in my life from time 145 00:06:47,433 --> 00:06:51,700 or to especially before I knew Christ dealt with all four. 146 00:06:52,033 --> 00:06:55,000 And now even being a Christ, Christ follower, 147 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I still have gone through the motions of all four. 148 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:01,966 Sometimes, sometimes, even if you examine yourself enough, 149 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,700 even into the depth of probably all four together. 150 00:07:07,133 --> 00:07:09,500 And again, this is not me. 151 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:10,500 This is just you. 152 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:13,500 An examination of your life to the scriptures 153 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,800 and our our base foundation will be verse 20. 154 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,100 So 107, verse 20. I'll read it real quick. 155 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:24,066 He sent his word and it healed them and delivered them from their destruction. 156 00:07:24,233 --> 00:07:27,866 Now that is a a common theme that you're going to see throughout this 157 00:07:27,866 --> 00:07:29,100 psalm as we walk through. 158 00:07:30,433 --> 00:07:31,666 They were in the troubles. 159 00:07:31,666 --> 00:07:37,666 God sent his word, or or God saved them from their distress, and he healed them. 160 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:38,966 God saved them. 161 00:07:38,966 --> 00:07:41,666 He delivered them, and he healed them. God saved them. 162 00:07:41,666 --> 00:07:44,066 He delivered them, and he healed them. 163 00:07:44,066 --> 00:07:47,066 It's a common theme that you will see in the Psalm 107. 164 00:07:48,433 --> 00:07:51,433 I think the next slide is, 165 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:54,500 Jehovah Rapha is 166 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,800 broken down to the God who heals. 167 00:07:59,033 --> 00:08:00,566 And some of you guys might, just 168 00:08:00,566 --> 00:08:03,566 might just need to feel some healing here today. 169 00:08:03,666 --> 00:08:06,666 Might you just walk in some healing here today? 170 00:08:08,133 --> 00:08:11,133 The cure the to make whole again. 171 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:15,733 And for those that don't believe, you may have to at least consider 172 00:08:15,733 --> 00:08:18,000 walking through these scriptures with us here today. 173 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,966 But for the believer, this may just be something 174 00:08:19,966 --> 00:08:23,133 that encourages you, or this may be something that reminds you 175 00:08:23,133 --> 00:08:27,000 of God's faithfulness and his unfailing love upon your life. 176 00:08:28,233 --> 00:08:29,866 Sound good? 177 00:08:29,866 --> 00:08:31,466 Yeah. 178 00:08:31,466 --> 00:08:34,233 Let's pick up in verse one. 179 00:08:34,233 --> 00:08:37,233 I'll give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, 180 00:08:38,300 --> 00:08:41,300 for his mercy endures forever. 181 00:08:41,300 --> 00:08:42,966 Amen. 182 00:08:42,966 --> 00:08:45,966 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so 183 00:08:46,166 --> 00:08:50,066 whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy. 184 00:08:50,433 --> 00:08:53,233 Now before you and I came to Christ, 185 00:08:53,233 --> 00:08:56,800 for those that are believers in here before you and I came to Christ. 186 00:08:57,366 --> 00:09:01,000 We were in the hands and we were in the grasp of the enemy. 187 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:06,900 We didn't know who Christ was. 188 00:09:07,266 --> 00:09:09,200 For we live this life 189 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,133 in the way that culture in the world has taught us 190 00:09:12,133 --> 00:09:15,133 to live this life. 191 00:09:16,566 --> 00:09:19,533 And we were enemies of God 192 00:09:19,533 --> 00:09:22,166 and the only thing that we deserved before coming to Christ, 193 00:09:22,166 --> 00:09:25,233 the only thing that we deserve was the wrath of God. 194 00:09:26,666 --> 00:09:28,300 Yeah. 195 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:30,933 Can you make that distinction? 196 00:09:30,933 --> 00:09:33,500 See, to see the truth in that. 197 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:37,266 And knowing that before Christ, all I deserved in 198 00:09:37,266 --> 00:09:40,266 my humanity was his wrath. 199 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 But there was no good separated from Christ. 200 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:49,266 It was good. 201 00:09:49,266 --> 00:09:52,100 Understand it? Good. Yeah. 202 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:53,533 I know y'all heard that many times. 203 00:09:53,533 --> 00:09:56,533 I'm not the first one to tell you guys that. 204 00:09:57,300 --> 00:09:59,700 Pick up in verse four. 205 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:00,100 Now we. 206 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:03,100 Now we, identify the first group. 207 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,700 They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way. 208 00:10:06,733 --> 00:10:09,366 They found no city to dwell in. 209 00:10:09,366 --> 00:10:11,766 Hungry and thirsty. 210 00:10:11,766 --> 00:10:14,733 Their soul fainted in them. 211 00:10:14,733 --> 00:10:16,433 And they cried out to the Lord in the trouble. 212 00:10:16,433 --> 00:10:19,300 And he delivered them from their distress. 213 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:22,033 They wandered in the wilderness. 214 00:10:22,033 --> 00:10:25,000 Many will say that Solomon is referring to the Israelites 215 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,166 physically of how they wandered. 216 00:10:27,166 --> 00:10:28,700 And they they they went out. 217 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:30,866 They tried to do their own thing because they were so rebellious. 218 00:10:30,866 --> 00:10:33,433 They didn't want to do what, you know, they didn't want to be led. 219 00:10:33,433 --> 00:10:35,066 And the manna wasn't good enough. 220 00:10:35,066 --> 00:10:37,533 Like they wanted to find more. They wanted to go look for more and. 221 00:10:40,466 --> 00:10:41,200 But you look at 222 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,200 yourself in this in a spiritual way 223 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,933 of this understanding of life. 224 00:10:46,933 --> 00:10:49,466 And some of you guys are probably still in a place where you are 225 00:10:49,466 --> 00:10:52,466 wandering physically and spiritually. 226 00:10:52,533 --> 00:10:54,966 Some of you guys are probably just, you know, I, I go to church 227 00:10:54,966 --> 00:10:57,966 because I know I'm supposed to be at church. 228 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,933 It's Sunday. 229 00:10:59,933 --> 00:11:02,866 You know, football's not here. 230 00:11:02,866 --> 00:11:04,333 There's nothing else to do. 231 00:11:04,333 --> 00:11:07,200 So I might as well go to church. 232 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,966 Some of you guys, or even those that have come to know 233 00:11:09,966 --> 00:11:13,966 who Christ is and have come to the faith, still, at times 234 00:11:13,966 --> 00:11:17,000 find yourself lost within this whole idea 235 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 of Christianity. 236 00:11:21,233 --> 00:11:24,300 And rather, it's your soul that wanders your mind that wanders your. 237 00:11:24,466 --> 00:11:27,300 Your physical ness. Wanders. 238 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:30,000 Have you ever been in a place like that before? 239 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:30,300 Yeah. 240 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:34,500 Where you just wandered. 241 00:11:35,033 --> 00:11:37,933 Where you went to try to find something to fill it. 242 00:11:37,933 --> 00:11:39,566 And there was nothing. 243 00:11:39,566 --> 00:11:42,233 And then maybe just for that, for that time period. 244 00:11:42,233 --> 00:11:45,233 It felt good. It looked good. It was good. 245 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:48,900 But yeah, it it was left you so empty 246 00:11:49,066 --> 00:11:51,633 and it led you back to square one. 247 00:11:51,633 --> 00:11:51,800 What? 248 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,800 You're lost and you're wandering again. 249 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:56,800 It's kind of the cycle of life. 250 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,600 And a nonbeliever 251 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,266 where they are always come 252 00:12:01,266 --> 00:12:04,800 looking for something, and then they find something that they think fulfills them. 253 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,666 And then they, they, they, they plant their feeling that in them. Bam! 254 00:12:08,666 --> 00:12:10,300 Something happens that takes them out. 255 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:13,266 So then they're lost in their wandering again. 256 00:12:13,266 --> 00:12:16,866 It's the cycle of the nonbeliever, because there's no foundation in their life. 257 00:12:18,866 --> 00:12:19,066 There's 258 00:12:19,066 --> 00:12:22,066 nothing that will continue to complete that void 259 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:25,300 because they are looking for something 260 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:28,700 apart from Christ. 261 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:30,533 Amen. 262 00:12:30,533 --> 00:12:32,833 Amen. 263 00:12:32,833 --> 00:12:34,700 Thank you. Sean. 264 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:37,700 Verse seven, he led them in the right way 265 00:12:38,233 --> 00:12:41,233 that they might find a city to dwell in. 266 00:12:42,466 --> 00:12:42,933 Oh, man. 267 00:12:42,933 --> 00:12:46,800 To give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful 268 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,800 works for the children of men. 269 00:12:50,266 --> 00:12:50,866 Verse nine. 270 00:12:50,866 --> 00:12:54,900 For he satisfy satisfies the longing soul, 271 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,800 and he fills the hungry soul 272 00:12:59,033 --> 00:13:02,033 with his goodness. 273 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 He fills the hungry soul with goodness. 274 00:13:06,766 --> 00:13:09,900 So many guys don't know how that feels, because you have never 275 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:12,900 felt God's goodness in your life. 276 00:13:13,666 --> 00:13:15,200 Some of you guys have never experienced 277 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,200 that because you have yet to say yes to who Christ is. 278 00:13:20,166 --> 00:13:23,000 And though culturally and worldly, 279 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,966 you may seem as a good person, 280 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,033 but for the believer we 281 00:13:28,033 --> 00:13:31,033 know that there is nothing good apart from Christ. 282 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,800 So I can't be filled with goodness because my life. 283 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Is an attached 284 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,533 and isn't tethered to the gospel of Jesus. 285 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:48,300 So for the nonbeliever, this life of my soul longing 286 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:51,300 will continue to be the case 287 00:13:51,433 --> 00:13:54,433 until you attach your life 288 00:13:54,766 --> 00:13:57,766 to the one that gives life. 289 00:13:59,633 --> 00:14:00,600 Amen. 290 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,966 Amen. Open up to the. 291 00:14:02,966 --> 00:14:06,233 Now we go into verse ten, where now we open it 292 00:14:06,233 --> 00:14:09,500 up to another group that he's identifying here in the Solomon's. 293 00:14:10,066 --> 00:14:14,066 The Solomon identifies verse ten, those who sat in darkness 294 00:14:14,533 --> 00:14:17,533 and in the shadow of the death, 295 00:14:17,866 --> 00:14:20,866 bound in affliction and irons, 296 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:25,066 because they rebelled against God's word of their belt, 297 00:14:25,066 --> 00:14:30,733 against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High, 298 00:14:31,966 --> 00:14:34,966 those that sat in darkness. 299 00:14:35,033 --> 00:14:37,100 You examine your life enough, as Paul 300 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:40,100 would say, when you look at your life 301 00:14:40,433 --> 00:14:43,800 and the years that you have spent sitting in darkness, 302 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 the years that you probably have set 303 00:14:48,366 --> 00:14:51,133 wallowing in the depth 304 00:14:51,133 --> 00:14:54,133 of difficulty and hardships in your life. 305 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:59,833 I was, 306 00:14:59,833 --> 00:15:02,833 I was gone this past, the past weekend. 307 00:15:02,833 --> 00:15:05,133 I work for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. 308 00:15:05,133 --> 00:15:07,266 So we got to take, 309 00:15:07,266 --> 00:15:10,266 74 couples to Monterey. 310 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:12,933 Announcing that 311 00:15:12,933 --> 00:15:15,933 I wish I was there again right now, 312 00:15:15,933 --> 00:15:17,066 being by the beach. 313 00:15:17,066 --> 00:15:20,966 We were at, Carmel, and we spent about four days. 314 00:15:20,966 --> 00:15:23,233 We had a chaplain for the, 315 00:15:23,233 --> 00:15:26,233 I don't know why I keep mentioning LA Chargers. 316 00:15:26,433 --> 00:15:29,433 Come and speak to the coaches and their spouses. 317 00:15:30,466 --> 00:15:31,633 We even had a guy that came in. 318 00:15:31,633 --> 00:15:33,266 The financial thing is just what we do. 319 00:15:33,266 --> 00:15:36,333 We provide these services to love on these coaches. 320 00:15:36,333 --> 00:15:37,533 Because here's the thing. 321 00:15:37,533 --> 00:15:40,100 And Pascale knows because he's a coach, 322 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:43,100 if you can change a coach, you can change a program. 323 00:15:43,166 --> 00:15:47,533 And yeah, if a coach can be transformed by the gospel of Jesus, 324 00:15:48,266 --> 00:15:50,600 watch that program be transformed. 325 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,533 Now, that doesn't always necessarily mean wins. 326 00:15:55,366 --> 00:15:56,133 I'm focus on 327 00:15:56,133 --> 00:15:59,133 that because that probably won't come. 328 00:15:59,966 --> 00:16:00,433 Focus 329 00:16:00,433 --> 00:16:04,133 on the goodness of God working through you and your players. 330 00:16:04,133 --> 00:16:05,933 Right. So that's what we do. 331 00:16:05,933 --> 00:16:07,066 And it was a great time. 332 00:16:07,066 --> 00:16:12,766 Even one of the, couples got baptized in Carmel by the, you know, Carmel Beach. 333 00:16:13,166 --> 00:16:15,433 You know, who wouldn't want to be baptized in Carmel? 334 00:16:15,433 --> 00:16:17,833 You know, sand is so why it's beautiful. 335 00:16:17,833 --> 00:16:20,200 Okay. 336 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:21,133 And then it's time 337 00:16:21,133 --> 00:16:24,366 we came back home and I was excited about Monday. 338 00:16:24,366 --> 00:16:26,100 I was like, oh, man, 339 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:29,633 you know, we're going to get after it, you know, got some rest in. 340 00:16:29,633 --> 00:16:31,666 It was good weekend. 341 00:16:31,666 --> 00:16:32,200 Wake up. 342 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,733 My garage breaks. 343 00:16:34,733 --> 00:16:35,566 Right. 344 00:16:35,566 --> 00:16:40,633 It's just totally it's it's hanging on by a thread on my. 345 00:16:40,966 --> 00:16:43,166 And at my house now, 346 00:16:43,166 --> 00:16:46,033 you know, if I have a couple people come see it, you know, 347 00:16:46,033 --> 00:16:49,866 and they told me the price, I said, yeah, you can probably go home now. Hey. 348 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:54,300 Me and my knees get ready. 349 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:55,400 We're about to go to the gym 350 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,400 because you guys, I mean, you guys all see I need the gym 351 00:16:59,633 --> 00:17:03,866 and my car takes a dump on a drive, like, 352 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:07,433 halfway around the block, and the engine just shut off. 353 00:17:09,533 --> 00:17:12,200 I was like, oh, no. 354 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,000 Get back to the house. 355 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,000 And this is before 9 a.m.. 356 00:17:20,633 --> 00:17:22,166 I don't know about you, but I don't know. 357 00:17:22,166 --> 00:17:25,633 I was just in that place of just like, just darkness. 358 00:17:25,633 --> 00:17:27,533 There's just like this hardship going on. 359 00:17:27,533 --> 00:17:29,266 So I just 360 00:17:29,266 --> 00:17:30,800 I saw Pascal earlier today. 361 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,633 I was like, you know, I, I don't know if you've ever been there, 362 00:17:32,633 --> 00:17:35,633 but I was just in a place, you know what God just added on 363 00:17:35,866 --> 00:17:37,500 like it's I'm already there. 364 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:39,566 It's 9 a.m.. 365 00:17:39,566 --> 00:17:40,033 And again, these 366 00:17:40,033 --> 00:17:43,033 are materialistic things, but, you know, there are things that I need 367 00:17:43,233 --> 00:17:43,933 to live, right? 368 00:17:43,933 --> 00:17:46,933 So I'm just like just just just just add it on. God. 369 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,400 I wake up the next morning with a sprained ankle. 370 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,633 Now you guys can example. 371 00:17:53,633 --> 00:17:55,433 Now you can examine me. 372 00:17:55,433 --> 00:17:59,766 Imagine the 350 pound dude relying on one leg 373 00:18:00,366 --> 00:18:02,866 to operate life. 374 00:18:02,866 --> 00:18:03,833 It wasn't good. 375 00:18:03,833 --> 00:18:05,433 I barely got better on Friday. 376 00:18:05,433 --> 00:18:07,266 Thank the Lord. 377 00:18:07,266 --> 00:18:08,033 Right. 378 00:18:08,033 --> 00:18:09,166 But it was just one of those things 379 00:18:09,166 --> 00:18:12,166 where I was just sitting there and just wallowing in my pain 380 00:18:12,233 --> 00:18:14,766 and the hardship that came. 381 00:18:14,766 --> 00:18:17,700 I was just like, man, God, just pour it on, man man as well. 382 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:18,433 Yeah. 383 00:18:18,433 --> 00:18:22,000 If it's if it's if it's going to happen and let it happen today, this Monday, this 384 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:23,800 this Monday shot. Anyways. 385 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,900 Just, just just bring it on. 386 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:29,100 Yes. Ever been in that place before? 387 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:29,766 Oh yeah. 388 00:18:29,766 --> 00:18:30,300 Well we were. 389 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:34,600 Darkness is just like you're so comfortable with sitting in it 390 00:18:36,366 --> 00:18:38,166 because the difficulty of life, 391 00:18:38,166 --> 00:18:41,166 because of the heaviness of life. 392 00:18:42,133 --> 00:18:45,133 So because those things are so real and they are. 393 00:18:45,633 --> 00:18:49,066 And while they get into the emotions and the feelings around you and it 394 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,133 it causes this burden 395 00:18:52,133 --> 00:18:55,133 and it causes people to just sit in their darkness. 396 00:18:56,466 --> 00:18:58,500 And this is what the psalmist is trying to identify. 397 00:18:58,500 --> 00:18:59,966 This group. 398 00:18:59,966 --> 00:19:02,966 I don't know if you again, I don't know if you guys have ever been there, 399 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:06,300 but I know that for me, that was a hardship. 400 00:19:07,333 --> 00:19:10,333 It was such a hard, hard Monday for. 401 00:19:12,066 --> 00:19:13,900 But here's the understanding of this. 402 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:16,633 Jesus says in the Gospel of John, verse 403 00:19:16,633 --> 00:19:19,633 eight through 12 or chapter in verse 12, 404 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,100 he says, Then Jesus spoke again, saying that I am the light of the world. 405 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:28,866 He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. 406 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:30,933 Amen. Amen. Amen. 407 00:19:30,933 --> 00:19:33,500 So the believer, this is the believer can. 408 00:19:35,866 --> 00:19:36,300 Although 409 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:40,033 emotions and feelings may feel the heaviness of the darkness of this life. 410 00:19:41,166 --> 00:19:45,100 You and I as a believer, the carriers of the light of Christ 411 00:19:45,566 --> 00:19:48,566 cannot walk in darkness. 412 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,800 Turn back to Psalm 107, 413 00:19:54,333 --> 00:19:54,866 verse 12. 414 00:19:54,866 --> 00:19:57,300 He said, therefore he brought down their heart. 415 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:00,333 They fell down, and there was none to help. 416 00:20:01,266 --> 00:20:03,000 Here he goes again. Verse 13. 417 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,633 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. 418 00:20:05,633 --> 00:20:08,166 He saved them out of their distress. 419 00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:10,533 He brought them out of the darkness. 420 00:20:10,533 --> 00:20:12,200 And the shadow of death. 421 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,566 He broke the chains into pieces. 422 00:20:14,566 --> 00:20:18,166 Oh, that man would give thanks to the Lord 423 00:20:18,166 --> 00:20:22,066 for his goodness and for his wonderful works. 424 00:20:22,633 --> 00:20:24,800 To the children of men. 425 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:30,133 For he broke the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron into two. 426 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:30,600 Amen. 427 00:20:31,866 --> 00:20:33,000 He saved them. 428 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,966 This is a common theme that you will see throughout one Psalm 107. 429 00:20:38,366 --> 00:20:40,666 People are in distress. 430 00:20:40,666 --> 00:20:43,666 God heals and he saves and he delivers. 431 00:20:43,666 --> 00:20:45,600 Doesn't leave them there. 432 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,933 He delivers them from it. 433 00:20:47,933 --> 00:20:49,666 People are in their foolishness. People are. 434 00:20:49,666 --> 00:20:52,666 And people are in their wandering, in their lostness. 435 00:20:52,933 --> 00:20:55,933 God saves them, heals them, delivers them. 436 00:20:56,233 --> 00:20:57,300 People under darkness. 437 00:20:57,300 --> 00:21:00,300 God saves them, heals them, delivers them. 438 00:21:01,333 --> 00:21:03,900 Now we're going to talk about those that are foolish. 439 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:06,300 Anybody in here right? 440 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:06,633 Yeah. 441 00:21:06,633 --> 00:21:07,400 Look at all the wives. 442 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,200 Look at their husbands. 443 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,200 Just caught up in some foolishness. 444 00:21:17,633 --> 00:21:20,766 Now he identifies the group of fools 445 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:25,700 that are just stuck in their own ways 446 00:21:26,466 --> 00:21:29,466 and just don't see no reason to be transformed by the gospel. 447 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,800 I just don't see no reason of why 448 00:21:33,133 --> 00:21:36,133 they don't recognize that they need saving from their self. 449 00:21:36,533 --> 00:21:39,533 You know, their own destruction. 450 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:43,566 Just caught up in their ways for so foolish. 451 00:21:45,333 --> 00:21:49,466 In verse 17 he says, fools, because of their transgressions 452 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,800 and because of their iniquities, were afflicted. 453 00:21:53,166 --> 00:21:55,366 Their soul abhorred 454 00:21:55,366 --> 00:21:57,766 all manner of food, 455 00:21:57,766 --> 00:22:01,233 and they drew near to the gates of death. 456 00:22:03,133 --> 00:22:06,133 The destruction of yourself. 457 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,133 The foolishness of yourself. 458 00:22:09,133 --> 00:22:12,933 It reminds me in the letter of, John in first John or second John. 459 00:22:12,933 --> 00:22:15,933 I think it is where he talks about 460 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,033 these things of the world. 461 00:22:18,033 --> 00:22:18,300 Right. 462 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:21,333 Don't fall in don't don't love the world, for the world is not of God. 463 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,300 For those that love the world are not of Christ. 464 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:28,633 Then he talks about the the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, 465 00:22:29,766 --> 00:22:32,433 and the what. 466 00:22:32,433 --> 00:22:35,433 And the boastful pride of life. 467 00:22:37,166 --> 00:22:39,366 And when I'm reading these scriptures, that's exactly what. 468 00:22:39,366 --> 00:22:42,766 When I read Psalm 107, when I get the verse 17, I'm thinking 469 00:22:42,766 --> 00:22:46,766 automatically those that live within the pride of their own life, 470 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:50,900 that think that they don't need no saving from themselves. 471 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,600 I think they all have like we all have it together. 472 00:22:56,066 --> 00:22:58,066 And you look at it and you examine yourself enough. 473 00:22:58,066 --> 00:23:01,433 Most of us, before we came to Christ, really believe that we had it 474 00:23:01,433 --> 00:23:03,100 all together. 475 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:06,100 There was no missing piece. 476 00:23:07,366 --> 00:23:09,033 There's no 477 00:23:09,033 --> 00:23:12,033 there's no void. 478 00:23:12,533 --> 00:23:15,533 Half everything we want live in America. 479 00:23:20,133 --> 00:23:21,900 I think I heard Pastor Crawl say, what is it? 480 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:25,633 The life, liberty and the purchase of happiness. 481 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:28,733 It's what we live in. 482 00:23:30,233 --> 00:23:32,433 So most people will never see themselves as foolish. 483 00:23:32,433 --> 00:23:34,200 Because. Especially nonbelievers. 484 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,900 Because what am I foolish of? 485 00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:38,900 I can provide and I can go and I can make things I can, 486 00:23:39,266 --> 00:23:42,933 I can do things on my own, I can. 487 00:23:42,933 --> 00:23:44,900 I don't need saving from myself. 488 00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:47,900 I'm a good person. 489 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,400 What a foolish people we are. 490 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:57,500 And because of our transgressions and iniquities. 491 00:23:59,266 --> 00:24:01,800 They were afflicted. 492 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,733 Then he cries out again in verse 19. 493 00:24:04,733 --> 00:24:07,733 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. Him! 494 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,800 He saved them out of their distress. 495 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:12,866 Verse 20. 496 00:24:12,866 --> 00:24:18,033 He sent his word, and he killed them and delivered them from their destruction. 497 00:24:18,066 --> 00:24:21,300 Now you and I both know as Bible scholars that we are. 498 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:26,866 When you hear that God sent His word and he killed them, automatically pops up. 499 00:24:26,866 --> 00:24:28,100 The gospel account of John. 500 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:32,000 One verse one. 501 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,266 Right from the gates in the beginning was the word. 502 00:24:35,766 --> 00:24:37,033 The word was with God. 503 00:24:37,033 --> 00:24:38,400 The word was God. 504 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,100 In the beginning was the word. 505 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:43,700 Then you trickled down to verse 14. 506 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:46,300 The word became flesh. 507 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:48,466 And who was that? 508 00:24:48,466 --> 00:24:51,466 Jesus. 509 00:24:51,833 --> 00:24:52,666 Because our 510 00:24:52,666 --> 00:24:55,666 because of our sinful, fallible nature. 511 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,366 God sent his word. 512 00:24:58,366 --> 00:25:01,300 God sent his word 513 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:04,300 to heal his people. 514 00:25:05,866 --> 00:25:08,566 And we know that to be through His Son 515 00:25:08,566 --> 00:25:11,566 Jesus. 516 00:25:13,633 --> 00:25:16,266 Jesus saves. 517 00:25:16,266 --> 00:25:18,100 Jesus heals. 518 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:19,733 And God sent it out. 519 00:25:19,733 --> 00:25:24,133 Other translations say that he saved them from the depth of death. 520 00:25:26,766 --> 00:25:29,633 And most people will never recognize 521 00:25:29,633 --> 00:25:33,400 the depth of death that they were in before they come to know Christ. 522 00:25:34,666 --> 00:25:37,666 For you, as I said, for someone that doesn't believe in Christ, 523 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:39,600 you will never know the depth of depth 524 00:25:41,033 --> 00:25:44,033 until you hear about this man named Jesus. 525 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,700 God's word was sent through his Son Jesus, 526 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:52,733 and if he killed them and he delivered them from themselves. 527 00:25:56,633 --> 00:25:57,900 And he delivered them 528 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:00,900 from the penalty of sin and 529 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,133 the penalty that you and I 530 00:26:04,133 --> 00:26:07,133 could not pay for. 531 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:14,366 This whole psalm shows God's unfailing love. 532 00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:17,833 Shows the the reason 533 00:26:17,833 --> 00:26:22,033 why us, as those that have come to the faith, shows why we have to live 534 00:26:22,033 --> 00:26:25,700 this life from gratefulness and be thankful. 535 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:30,333 And it shows that every time we are in distress, 536 00:26:30,333 --> 00:26:34,666 every time we're in our own screw up, every time we're in our own foolishness. 537 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:37,700 God saves, heals, delivers. 538 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:42,500 And for most of you guys, that's why you come to church. 539 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:44,400 That's why you're part of this. 540 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,066 Because you have stepped into the surance of knowing 541 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:49,100 that God healed 542 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:52,100 you and he saved you from destruction, 543 00:26:52,933 --> 00:26:54,433 and he didn't leave you there, but yet 544 00:26:54,433 --> 00:26:57,433 he delivered you from it 545 00:26:57,833 --> 00:26:59,666 through the penalty that was paid on the cross 546 00:26:59,666 --> 00:27:02,666 through His Son Jesus. 547 00:27:08,933 --> 00:27:09,400 For some of you 548 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,400 guys, church, this was just a great reminder, 549 00:27:12,433 --> 00:27:14,833 great encouragement. 550 00:27:14,833 --> 00:27:17,833 But for those that have yet to come to the faith, 551 00:27:18,033 --> 00:27:21,033 this was an insight of what the cross 552 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,800 and what the life of Christ really means. 553 00:27:26,033 --> 00:27:29,033 Or at least you would have to consider 554 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,400 what we shared here today. 555 00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:35,700 Because here's the knowing that I know. 556 00:27:36,233 --> 00:27:39,233 That in my times of being lost and wanders, 557 00:27:39,533 --> 00:27:42,533 I tried to find it in many things, 558 00:27:43,266 --> 00:27:45,100 especially as a young man. 559 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:47,966 I grew up in church, but I knew how to play church. 560 00:27:47,966 --> 00:27:49,133 Yeah, I ever been there before. 561 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:52,600 Kids. 562 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,800 We knew how to play church. 563 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,800 Don't think that you're the one that invented this, 564 00:27:58,333 --> 00:27:59,333 right? 565 00:27:59,333 --> 00:28:02,200 You go to church on a Sunday with your parents. 566 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,233 You know, you look jolly just so that you can go out there throughout the week. 567 00:28:07,033 --> 00:28:08,333 All right? 568 00:28:08,333 --> 00:28:12,700 My my mom, my my my my mom used to make me go to prayer 569 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:15,700 meeting with her Saturday mornings at 530. 570 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,200 Yeah. 571 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:18,700 You know why? 572 00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:21,433 Because my brother was in prison, 573 00:28:21,433 --> 00:28:24,433 so I, I didn't even, but it wasn't for me to pray for myself. 574 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:26,900 Those for me to pray for him. 575 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:30,600 And I'm just like, man, it's his fault, you know, just being so selfish. 576 00:28:30,833 --> 00:28:33,400 This is why. Why I got to pray for him. 577 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,066 But I knew that that's what I had to do 578 00:28:36,066 --> 00:28:38,700 in order to get away with other things. 579 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:40,100 Yeah, yeah, I know what I'm talking about, y'all. 580 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:42,133 Some of y'all know how to play church really well. 581 00:28:43,166 --> 00:28:46,166 Really well. 582 00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:47,000 And I knew that 583 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 in my lostness and in my wandering, 584 00:28:50,433 --> 00:28:51,966 I was it was only leading 585 00:28:51,966 --> 00:28:54,966 to the destruction of my life. 586 00:28:56,066 --> 00:28:59,033 And then you think about the hardships in your life. 587 00:28:59,033 --> 00:29:02,033 I knew that the times that I went through things, 588 00:29:02,033 --> 00:29:05,033 where I sat in the darkness and I allowed the darkness, 589 00:29:05,333 --> 00:29:08,333 there would be times where I would dwell in my darkness. 590 00:29:10,766 --> 00:29:12,800 There would be times where I allow the heaviness 591 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,066 and the burden of this life to just sit with me 592 00:29:17,966 --> 00:29:21,000 and just complain and just be angry 593 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:25,100 and just be mad at everybody. 594 00:29:26,233 --> 00:29:27,633 And I would convince myself 595 00:29:27,633 --> 00:29:30,633 that I have the right to be upset at everybody, 596 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:34,500 that I have the right to be mad at God 597 00:29:35,266 --> 00:29:37,666 because of the darkness that I was wallowing. 598 00:29:41,466 --> 00:29:43,166 And there was a time again, 599 00:29:43,166 --> 00:29:47,233 before I knew who Christ was, were pride of life became everything about me 600 00:29:48,566 --> 00:29:51,266 was. I'm actually 601 00:29:51,266 --> 00:29:52,733 most athletes, especially y'all. 602 00:29:52,733 --> 00:29:53,300 They're in here. 603 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:56,300 You're the only thing important is yourself. 604 00:29:57,700 --> 00:29:59,000 Most people will talk about team. 605 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,033 This team that man. 606 00:30:00,033 --> 00:30:03,033 They only really mean them. 607 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:05,033 No. Okay, that probably was just me. 608 00:30:05,033 --> 00:30:06,133 And I was really? 609 00:30:06,133 --> 00:30:09,133 Must have been a real conceited person. 610 00:30:09,633 --> 00:30:11,466 But as an athlete, it taught me this. 611 00:30:11,466 --> 00:30:15,133 The athlete culture is very much pushing the pride of life. 612 00:30:17,033 --> 00:30:20,033 And that was my struggle for the longest, 613 00:30:20,566 --> 00:30:23,566 for the longest time, even in coming to know who Christ was, 614 00:30:24,766 --> 00:30:27,766 I still thought I was that important. 615 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:29,833 Even to the point 616 00:30:29,833 --> 00:30:32,833 where I used to be like God. 617 00:30:33,233 --> 00:30:35,333 You gotta thank me for what I'm doing for your kingdom. 618 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:38,800 I know most people 619 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,800 won't admit that, but I'm not too scared to admit that. 620 00:30:42,566 --> 00:30:43,300 Because I'll tell you what. 621 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:45,900 This man took me under his wing 622 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:48,900 and he discipled me in a way. 623 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,766 That has brought me to the denial of self 624 00:30:53,766 --> 00:30:56,266 and to the ending of myself, 625 00:30:56,266 --> 00:30:59,200 so that Christ can live. 626 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:00,066 Amen. 627 00:31:00,066 --> 00:31:04,000 And most of you guys, most people here, most people in general, 628 00:31:04,766 --> 00:31:07,800 will struggle with the identity of who they are 629 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,833 because they find it in the place of wandering. 630 00:31:10,833 --> 00:31:12,366 They find it in a place of darkness. 631 00:31:12,366 --> 00:31:14,366 They'll find it in a place of their foolishness, 632 00:31:14,366 --> 00:31:17,233 and they'll find it in the midst of the storm, and never 633 00:31:17,233 --> 00:31:20,300 understanding the whole being of who Christ is, 634 00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:23,766 and never coming to this understanding that he has 635 00:31:23,766 --> 00:31:26,800 healed, saved, and delivered through His Son. 636 00:31:27,166 --> 00:31:27,600 Amen. 637 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:32,600 Church. 638 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,666 Again, some of you guys, it's just a good encouragement. 639 00:31:34,666 --> 00:31:36,900 It's just a reminder 640 00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:39,733 for for some of you guys this will allow you 641 00:31:39,733 --> 00:31:42,733 to come to the ending of yourself 642 00:31:43,833 --> 00:31:47,666 that the scripture shared here today will bring you to this understanding, 643 00:31:47,666 --> 00:31:50,666 the need for Christ in your life 644 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,333 as God draws his people in, His Son keeps them. 645 00:31:54,333 --> 00:31:55,933 Amen. 646 00:31:55,933 --> 00:31:58,933 May you all bow your heads. 647 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:03,433 Before I go into a prayer, 648 00:32:03,433 --> 00:32:06,433 I just want to give the opportunity 649 00:32:07,766 --> 00:32:10,766 to celebrate new life in Christ. 650 00:32:12,866 --> 00:32:14,866 Again, for some of you guys, it's just a great reminder. 651 00:32:14,866 --> 00:32:16,500 It's a great encouragement. 652 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:20,166 But for some of you guys, you guys have never accepted Christ as Lord and Savior. 653 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,333 You have never said yes to the knowing 654 00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:27,433 of the ending of yourself and coming to the faith. 655 00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:31,466 And you have wandered 656 00:32:31,466 --> 00:32:34,133 and you have sat in darkness, 657 00:32:34,133 --> 00:32:36,133 and you have chosen your foolish ways 658 00:32:36,133 --> 00:32:39,133 countless times. 659 00:32:39,766 --> 00:32:42,766 But the blood of Christ. 660 00:32:43,633 --> 00:32:46,633 That brings the forgiveness of sin. 661 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,100 Is always available to you. 662 00:32:54,133 --> 00:32:57,133 For what Jesus did on the cross. 663 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,900 Paid for your life 664 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:04,900 in full. 665 00:33:05,866 --> 00:33:06,733 Because of the penalty 666 00:33:06,733 --> 00:33:10,666 of sin, there's nothing that you can bring to the table 667 00:33:10,666 --> 00:33:13,666 that adds to the salvation that is offered. 668 00:33:17,133 --> 00:33:20,066 For those paid in its wholeness 669 00:33:20,066 --> 00:33:23,066 to the death and the resurrection of Jesus. 670 00:33:25,666 --> 00:33:27,033 I just want to give you the opportunity 671 00:33:27,033 --> 00:33:30,033 for those that have. 672 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:33,733 A feel the conviction or the prompting on their heart as the spirit moves. 673 00:33:34,266 --> 00:33:37,266 But if you want to give your life to Christ for the first time, 674 00:33:38,333 --> 00:33:41,166 if you've never done it before and today you want to declare that. 675 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:43,533 I ask 676 00:33:43,533 --> 00:33:46,533 that you just lift your head and look at me. 677 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:52,500 I'm now. 678 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,800 I'm now. 679 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,300 I'm understand 680 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,300 that you have made the greatest decision in your life. 681 00:34:04,633 --> 00:34:07,466 And there are people here that want to celebrate with you. 682 00:34:07,466 --> 00:34:09,366 Yeah, 683 00:34:09,366 --> 00:34:12,733 I ask that after this service that you share that with. 684 00:34:13,733 --> 00:34:15,933 What? The leaders here over this church. 685 00:34:15,933 --> 00:34:18,933 I know the Allisons are up here. 686 00:34:19,066 --> 00:34:21,133 I'm a pastor. Crawls available. 687 00:34:21,133 --> 00:34:24,133 I'm available. 688 00:34:25,833 --> 00:34:27,300 Praise God for new life. 689 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,300 Amen. Amen. 690 00:34:30,666 --> 00:34:32,966 Church. Stand to your feet. 691 00:34:32,966 --> 00:34:33,666 Let me pray this out. 692 00:34:33,666 --> 00:34:36,666 Father God, I just thank you again. 693 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:39,500 We thank you that your word 694 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:40,266 is your word. 695 00:34:40,266 --> 00:34:42,300 Father. 696 00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:45,000 And there's nothing we can take out of it or add to it, 697 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,000 Father God, for it speaks for itself. 698 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:51,900 Well, we thank you that you have delivered us from our lostness. 699 00:34:52,533 --> 00:34:55,500 We thank you that you have delivered us from the darkness. 700 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:55,933 We thank you 701 00:34:55,933 --> 00:34:59,066 that you have delivered us from the storm, even if we're currently in it. 702 00:34:59,366 --> 00:35:03,233 Father God, we know that the insurance of knowing that you would deliver us from 703 00:35:04,466 --> 00:35:05,300 and Lord, we thank you that 704 00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:08,300 you have sent Your Word through your Son Jesus. 705 00:35:10,266 --> 00:35:12,266 To heal us 706 00:35:12,266 --> 00:35:13,533 and to close the gap. 707 00:35:13,533 --> 00:35:16,533 Father God, between God and man. 708 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,066 Lord, we thank you that the remedy 709 00:35:20,066 --> 00:35:22,800 that you have given us, the cure 710 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,800 that you have given us to make us whole. 711 00:35:27,066 --> 00:35:30,066 Is found in your Son Jesus. 712 00:35:31,066 --> 00:35:34,066 So, Lord, we love you and we praise you 713 00:35:34,266 --> 00:35:37,266 in your precious and in your holy 714 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:40,633 and in the matchless name of Jesus. 715 00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:45,966 And all the saints say, now. 716 00:35:49,166 --> 00:35:49,400 Let's.