WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.260 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.880 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:30.420 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:31.260 the latest message. 00:00:31.700 --> 00:00:32.440 Thanks for listening. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:46.400 Amen. 00:00:46.580 --> 00:00:47.160 Well, good morning. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:49.360 God that you guys are here. 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:56.160 If you've got your Bibles, open them up to Psalm 51 and John chapter 15. 00:00:58.140 --> 00:01:02.480 As you turn there, a couple of announcements that I want to remind you of. 00:01:02.580 --> 00:01:11.400 First is tomorrow starts VBS for us as a church, and that's a big week for us as Willow Ridge 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:11.660 Church. 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:16.840 As we come together, focusing on our kids and on the families and celebrating who Jesus 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.260 is, and just the opportunity for us to do this together. 00:01:20.940 --> 00:01:26.440 Hopefully, you're just not realizing for the first time some different decorations that 00:01:26.440 --> 00:01:27.800 we have up around the building, right? 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:33.060 And so there's been a lot of hard work, a lot of time, a lot of energy that have poured into 00:01:33.060 --> 00:01:33.400 this. 00:01:33.860 --> 00:01:39.720 Lisa Van Ham has stepped up to be our VBS director this year, and Lisa's done a wonderful job in 00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:41.420 leading out in that capacity. 00:01:41.420 --> 00:01:46.900 And it feels like every time that we come up here to the church office, there's some 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:49.760 consistent people working, there's different people working. 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:54.340 And so instead of trying to list all the people who have volunteered in order to make this happen, 00:01:54.520 --> 00:01:55.620 I just want to say thank you. 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:01.440 If you've given a moment, a day, a week, a month, a season to help do this, we just want 00:02:01.440 --> 00:02:03.220 to say thank you for all that you've done. 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:07.640 Now, if you're sitting here and you're thinking, well, we're not registered for VBS, well, there's 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:08.900 still time, all right? 00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:12.460 We're Willow Ridge Church, we knew that you were going to wait to the last minute, because 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:13.800 that's how we roll, all right? 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:17.520 So you can still register today in both buildings. 00:02:17.820 --> 00:02:22.180 There are places to register, and I believe you can go on our website as well and then do 00:02:22.180 --> 00:02:22.400 that. 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.780 Now, after the service is over with, if you're a parent and your kids are going with me 00:02:27.780 --> 00:02:32.080 to Somersault, yep, you heard that, that's right, I'm coming out of Youth Pastor Retirement 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:33.440 and I'm going to youth camp. 00:02:33.660 --> 00:02:35.300 So pray for me, all right? 00:02:35.780 --> 00:02:36.440 Pray for me. 00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:40.480 It's going to be a long, hot, wonderfully tired week, but pray for me. 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:44.700 In a couple weeks, we'll take off and go to Somersault, but after the service today, we 00:02:44.700 --> 00:02:49.240 will have a meeting with the parents where we got some important forms for you guys to 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:50.580 fill out and give you some information. 00:02:50.860 --> 00:02:53.260 I promise we won't go too long with that. 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.740 And then, definitely last and definitely not least, the most wonderful surprise that I 00:02:58.740 --> 00:02:59.760 got as I was walking down. 00:02:59.980 --> 00:03:02.760 I looked over and Rick and Tina and Nolan are sitting right here on the front row. 00:03:02.880 --> 00:03:05.720 And so if you don't know Rick and Tina and Nolan, they're a part of Willow Ridge Church 00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:10.520 and they've been on the mission field in Greece for two years now, serving and working with 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:11.700 Afghan refugees. 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:17.040 And so they are here with us now and they're going to be worshiping with us some of the 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:19.800 courses they transition into their next season of ministry. 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:23.840 And so what we're going to do, so I know a lot of you have kept up with them. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:27.180 A lot of you have, we shared, know what they've been doing and what God's been doing in 00:03:27.180 --> 00:03:27.620 their life. 00:03:27.820 --> 00:03:31.480 And so on July the 10th, I believe, I don't have my notes because we got that right. 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:32.640 Is that right or am I wrong? 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:36.260 Sometime in July, right? 00:03:36.420 --> 00:03:36.700 Yes. 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:38.300 That is a true statement. 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:38.580 All right. 00:03:38.880 --> 00:03:42.160 Sometime in July, we're going to have a Sunday night where we're going to gather together as 00:03:42.160 --> 00:03:45.380 a church family and just a wonderful time of refreshments and fellowship. 00:03:45.880 --> 00:03:49.940 And Rick and Tina are going to be able to share the story of all that God did and how God 00:03:49.940 --> 00:03:52.600 used them in Athens, Greece. 00:03:52.820 --> 00:03:56.920 And then they're going to also be able to share with us what God is going to be doing 00:03:56.920 --> 00:04:00.440 in their lives in this next phase or this next stage of ministry. 00:04:00.660 --> 00:04:02.520 And so we look forward to that time together. 00:04:02.660 --> 00:04:05.800 But we know a lot of you, you want to spend some time, you want to take him out to dinner, 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:07.840 you want to talk to him here on Sunday mornings. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.560 And that is absolutely wonderful. 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:14.300 And what we want to do, though, as a congregation is support that and protect that, okay? 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:19.420 And so definitely talk to him, definitely love him, definitely do all of those things. 00:04:19.420 --> 00:04:22.740 But we also want to recognize that when we come here, we come here to worship, all right? 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.880 And so if you've got the great questions and you want to hear what's happened in the last 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:29.980 two years, maybe that's not a Sunday morning conversation, all right? 00:04:30.060 --> 00:04:32.820 Maybe we can wait until July and we can do that together. 00:04:32.980 --> 00:04:38.260 And so, but it is wonderful to see your faces and can't wait to hear all that God is doing. 00:04:38.620 --> 00:04:43.480 Well, we are going to continue on in our summer series as we look at the fruit of the Spirit. 00:04:43.780 --> 00:04:47.880 And so if you're wondering why you're in Psalm 51 and John 15, we're going to get there. 00:04:47.880 --> 00:04:50.060 We're going to get there at the end of the message, though. 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:53.760 So just kind of hang tight, maybe take a piece of paper, tear it off, put it there. 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.320 For both of those, we will get to those. 00:04:56.620 --> 00:04:59.960 But as we get going, let's read Galatians 5, 22 through 23. 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:01.420 Paul writes and says, 00:05:01.580 --> 00:05:14.440 And so we've been working through this. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:16.840 This is our third week of looking at the fruit of the Spirit. 00:05:17.320 --> 00:05:22.280 And week number one was an important week for us because we didn't just jump in and look at love. 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:25.740 Instead, we took the introduction to this whole passage and the context. 00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:30.580 And what we found out was so vitally important if we're going to understand the fruit of the Spirit. 00:05:30.820 --> 00:05:32.160 Because Paul gives these phrases. 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:37.900 He says, walk by the Spirit, live, or be led by the Spirit, and live by the Spirit. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:44.580 And we gave this imagery of it's the difference between running in a NASCAR event behind the pace car, right, 00:05:44.660 --> 00:05:48.620 where you're cutting your tires and you're going your own way and you're trying to figure out how to get around 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:52.680 and you're bobbing and weaving and doing all those things until the pace car gets off the track. 00:05:52.900 --> 00:05:54.060 And then, boom, you can go. 00:05:54.340 --> 00:05:55.100 That's not it. 00:05:56.340 --> 00:05:58.020 But it's more like a train track. 00:05:58.620 --> 00:05:59.880 We got those as we walk in. 00:06:00.820 --> 00:06:04.220 And it's the locomotive that's doing the work, that's pulling. 00:06:05.220 --> 00:06:08.140 And that's the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.460 That we're not determining our track. 00:06:10.780 --> 00:06:12.380 We're not determining our speed. 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.260 We're not determining where we're going. 00:06:14.260 --> 00:06:19.840 But instead, in the dependency of the leading of the Lord, we are walking by. 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.400 We are living by. 00:06:21.540 --> 00:06:24.360 We are being led by the Spirit. 00:06:25.380 --> 00:06:26.900 So wherever He leads is where I go. 00:06:27.880 --> 00:06:29.320 Whatever He says is what I do. 00:06:30.260 --> 00:06:36.440 And that we also understand, and it's so important, Paul doesn't say, but the fruits of the Spirit. 00:06:36.980 --> 00:06:38.220 He says, no, it's singular. 00:06:38.380 --> 00:06:40.180 It's the fruit of the Spirit. 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:44.520 That it's this entity of one within the body of a believer. 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:49.900 Now, as you read through there, are there ones that you identify with that more so than others? 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:50.560 Absolutely. 00:06:51.300 --> 00:06:56.740 Are there those that you're like, yeah, I think I've matured a little bit more in this character, in this aspect? 00:06:57.220 --> 00:06:57.700 Absolutely. 00:06:58.500 --> 00:07:03.360 But in this, in the full description of the follower of Christ, that this is what it is. 00:07:03.380 --> 00:07:04.140 And it's the singular. 00:07:04.380 --> 00:07:05.740 It's the fruit of the Spirit. 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:09.480 And then last week, we looked at love. 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:12.140 And we looked at God's love. 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.080 That God's love is our standard for love. 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.480 And that God's love is different than the love of this world. 00:07:17.740 --> 00:07:19.520 It's different than the love that we think of. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.040 It's different than the love that's portrayed. 00:07:21.400 --> 00:07:27.100 And so what we do is we don't take our definition of love and then put that onto people. 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:31.160 Instead, we embody how God has loved us. 00:07:31.300 --> 00:07:37.300 And then we are called to love others in that manner so that God is seen and that God is glorified. 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:42.660 So that we don't love each other in our ability, but we love one another in God's ability. 00:07:42.840 --> 00:07:46.260 And we love one another and we love others in the same way. 00:07:46.580 --> 00:07:49.840 And so this week, what we're going to look at is we're plugging along through. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.720 Had somebody tell me this morning, let me guess, joy. 00:07:52.060 --> 00:07:53.660 Yep, that's where we're at today, right? 00:07:53.820 --> 00:07:55.660 So we're going to look at joy this morning. 00:07:55.660 --> 00:08:02.100 Now, oftentimes, and I noticed this as I was studying this week, that when we think of joy 00:08:02.100 --> 00:08:10.280 and we talk about biblical joy in the context of Scripture, there can be, and I think, an incorrect bent 00:08:10.280 --> 00:08:17.300 to discuss joy, but discuss it in the opposition of happiness. 00:08:18.260 --> 00:08:21.320 Like they're competing against one another. 00:08:22.140 --> 00:08:25.680 I'm watching right now, I'm big, I love the NBA. 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:28.140 I know a lot of people don't like the NBA, right? 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:30.840 I love the NBA and I love the Boston Celtics. 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.540 And the Boston Celtics are in the NBA finals right now, and they're playing the Golden State Warriors, okay? 00:08:35.740 --> 00:08:42.480 And so when I watch the game, it's Boston versus Golden State, all right? 00:08:42.660 --> 00:08:44.700 They're opposing one another. 00:08:44.900 --> 00:08:46.600 They want to defeat one another. 00:08:46.780 --> 00:08:51.400 And sometimes we can look at joy and happiness and apply that same standard, 00:08:51.400 --> 00:08:56.160 meaning they can't coexist or they shouldn't coexist. 00:08:57.540 --> 00:09:00.620 So I want to kind of talk about the differences a little bit. 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:07.200 Number one, when we think of joy and happiness, let's do understand, and this is what we're going to pull from, 00:09:07.460 --> 00:09:09.360 joy and happiness are different. 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:10.780 They're different. 00:09:11.420 --> 00:09:18.480 And you're largely going to see this as we talk about the depth of joy of what God has for us and what God desires from us. 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:21.700 That joy and happiness are different. 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:31.780 But the feeling of happiness is given to us by God and is used by God in our lives. 00:09:32.560 --> 00:09:45.220 Happiness is a feeling, though, that is bound to a set of time and can leave as quickly as it came and it can return as quickly as it left. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:52.640 Let me walk you through the worst morning I've had in a long, long time. 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:59.740 We in the Bradbury house love coffee, right? 00:09:59.880 --> 00:10:03.700 If you know us, you know that we love coffee. 00:10:04.340 --> 00:10:08.840 And we used to, from time to time, run out of coffee. 00:10:09.180 --> 00:10:18.300 And then I found on Amazon, subscribe and save, that I can have, delivered to my door, for cheaper than I can buy it from the store, 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:24.420 six bags of Starbucks coffee delivered to my house every month. 00:10:24.620 --> 00:10:27.300 And you may say, well, that sounds like a lot of coffee to go through in six months. 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:28.560 Don't judge me, all right? 00:10:28.800 --> 00:10:31.260 Like, that's not what we're here for. 00:10:32.180 --> 00:10:37.800 So I know that I've always got coffee because I'll be honest with you, we go through about five bags in a month. 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:41.260 So there's one that carries over just in case stuff gets crazy, all right? 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:42.640 That's what we have it for. 00:10:43.540 --> 00:10:47.480 And so I come downstairs that morning and I'm not a morning person. 00:10:48.380 --> 00:10:49.700 I don't like to talk in the morning. 00:10:49.860 --> 00:10:52.000 I grunt, I shuffle, right? 00:10:52.180 --> 00:10:55.200 But I know what I have to do every morning. 00:10:55.900 --> 00:11:00.100 And the only part that excites me about waking up in the morning is coffee. 00:11:01.700 --> 00:11:05.440 And so I come down the stairs and we got a little coffee. 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:06.940 We're those people. 00:11:07.100 --> 00:11:08.880 We have the coffee area of our house, right? 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:09.920 Just coffee is there. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:15.640 It's all the mugs and everything that we need and multiple coffee machines and the box of filters. 00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:27.360 And I go and I grab that box and I pull it out and I reach down in and nothing, nothing is in there. 00:11:28.180 --> 00:11:31.040 And I literally about have a meltdown. 00:11:31.820 --> 00:11:42.260 How in the world am I going to function over the course of the next several hours as I've got to get Erin and everything for her and the kids and everything for them and get them to school. 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.260 And then I get happy. 00:11:46.140 --> 00:11:54.140 Because I remember right after I dropped the kids off from school, right down the road, there's a Starbucks, right? 00:11:54.700 --> 00:11:56.660 So I was happy because I'm going to get coffee. 00:11:56.820 --> 00:11:58.600 Then I'm sad because there's no coffee filter. 00:11:58.800 --> 00:12:01.340 Then I'm happy because there's coffee in my near future. 00:12:02.380 --> 00:12:03.060 So I get the kids. 00:12:03.160 --> 00:12:04.320 I'm persevering, right? 00:12:04.400 --> 00:12:05.860 I know what perseverance means now. 00:12:06.100 --> 00:12:08.640 I persevered for that hour and a half. 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:17.120 And I got the kids loaded up and we took off and I dropped them off at school and it was y'all have a wonderful day and I head to Starbucks. 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:20.020 Now, I'm on a time restraint because I got a meeting to get to. 00:12:21.280 --> 00:12:24.380 And I get to the Starbucks out by Lexington High School. 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.660 And I immediately think, there must have been a wreck. 00:12:29.300 --> 00:12:30.480 There wasn't a wreck. 00:12:31.520 --> 00:12:36.800 It was the line to get coffee from Starbucks, all right? 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.500 Now, if I'm getting coffee from Starbucks, I like two things in my coffee. 00:12:41.940 --> 00:12:43.380 Coffee, bean, water. 00:12:43.660 --> 00:12:44.380 That's it. 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:47.680 Anything else other than that is called a milkshake, all right? 00:12:47.880 --> 00:12:48.900 So that's what I get. 00:12:49.520 --> 00:12:51.520 Water, coffee, bean, that's it. 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:54.380 But what takes long are people who order milkshakes. 00:12:54.380 --> 00:12:58.980 So now, there's the determination, what do I do? 00:12:59.120 --> 00:12:59.920 And I'm sad. 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:02.880 I can't make the meeting. 00:13:04.280 --> 00:13:05.220 And so I get in line. 00:13:06.340 --> 00:13:12.280 And as God parted the Red Sea, that line started going. 00:13:13.160 --> 00:13:21.200 And I got up there and said, I would like a Venti Pikes Place, please. 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.600 And he said, I'm sorry, sir. 00:13:26.560 --> 00:13:27.760 But we're out. 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:31.820 And there was a pause. 00:13:34.100 --> 00:13:38.140 And then he said, but I can make some more. 00:13:39.260 --> 00:13:42.500 I'm like, yes, yes, that's what we do. 00:13:43.020 --> 00:13:44.500 And so I'm happy again. 00:13:44.660 --> 00:13:45.860 And then I got my coffee. 00:13:46.660 --> 00:13:48.000 And then I'm happy, right? 00:13:48.400 --> 00:13:54.260 But when we look at that, that's how happiness can be in our life. 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.620 Moment to moment, event to event. 00:13:59.420 --> 00:14:02.140 And I'll be honest, my story is silly. 00:14:03.100 --> 00:14:08.460 But when you look at the course of your day, you can have so many different things, so many 00:14:08.460 --> 00:14:13.780 different circumstances, so many different conversations, so many events that can happen in your life 00:14:13.780 --> 00:14:19.300 where you're walking in and everything's going good and your happiness is there and you're ready to tackle the day. 00:14:19.540 --> 00:14:21.780 And then you sit down and have a difficult meeting and you're here. 00:14:22.640 --> 00:14:23.740 And then you're up here. 00:14:24.500 --> 00:14:25.580 And then you're up here. 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:26.500 Right? 00:14:26.580 --> 00:14:27.080 You've been there. 00:14:27.160 --> 00:14:27.940 You've done that. 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:29.660 You've walked through that. 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.760 But God gives us these feelings. 00:14:34.980 --> 00:14:36.060 God gives us happiness. 00:14:36.280 --> 00:14:37.820 And he gives us where we can have. 00:14:37.820 --> 00:14:42.380 Last night I watched my daughter dance at her spring performance. 00:14:43.780 --> 00:14:49.700 And I'm just sitting there watching the beauty of my little girl and the dancing that she's doing. 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:51.680 And there is the happiness that's there. 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.300 And I can't wait for her Christmas performance. 00:14:56.300 --> 00:14:59.300 Because I'll sit there and I'll watch it and I'll experience it again. 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:05.380 And then I'll wait for her next spring performance and I'll sit there and I'll watch it and I'll experience it again. 00:15:05.380 --> 00:15:06.300 But you know what? 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.180 That feeling doesn't stay with me from now until then. 00:15:09.680 --> 00:15:09.760 Right? 00:15:10.640 --> 00:15:14.280 And so happiness does have its moments where it goes. 00:15:15.280 --> 00:15:18.940 Another thing I want you to understand about happiness is this. 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.220 Don't feel less spiritual because you're happy. 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:27.500 And don't feel less spiritual when you get sad. 00:15:28.640 --> 00:15:34.400 I think sometimes there can be this spiritual arrogance. 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:35.320 Right? 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:42.080 That when someone's happy, people are like, well, they're not aware enough of the sin of the hurting of the world. 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:44.260 I don't think that's true. 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:49.540 I think maybe they're just having a moment where they're at their daughter's ballet performance and they're happy. 00:15:50.680 --> 00:15:55.220 They're at the moment where they've had a wonderful conversation with their spouse and they're happy. 00:15:56.220 --> 00:16:01.040 At the same time, there's not a, you shouldn't think of yourself as less spiritual when you experience moments of sadness. 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:01.980 Right? 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:03.360 We experience that. 00:16:04.040 --> 00:16:06.800 Hopefully it's not over petty things like coffee lines. 00:16:08.400 --> 00:16:09.020 Like me. 00:16:09.820 --> 00:16:10.480 But we do. 00:16:10.580 --> 00:16:12.200 We experience the sadness of life. 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:18.520 It's a part of the reality of experiencing loss and journeying through the difficulty of the day. 00:16:19.520 --> 00:16:21.500 But happiness and joy are different. 00:16:22.580 --> 00:16:35.240 And this morning, what I want us to look at is that when we look at biblical joy, what I believe in my study this week is we will find overwhelming evidence that connects joy to spiritual matters and matters of the faith. 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:45.740 That when we talk about joy, there's a connectivity to our spiritual life with the Lord, our connection to our faith, our connection to salvation. 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:53.200 And so I want us to look at those and we're going to look at some different passages and then we're going to jump in and we're going to tie it all together with Psalm 51 and John 15. 00:16:53.320 --> 00:17:00.980 So number one is this, that joy is experienced, what we see in scripture, when the lost is found. 00:17:01.660 --> 00:17:02.800 When the lost is found. 00:17:03.060 --> 00:17:04.260 Now, raise your hand. 00:17:04.360 --> 00:17:04.940 Join me together. 00:17:05.020 --> 00:17:06.180 A little interaction this morning. 00:17:06.540 --> 00:17:08.520 Raise your hand if you've ever lost something. 00:17:08.620 --> 00:17:09.080 Raise your hand. 00:17:10.560 --> 00:17:10.960 Fantastic. 00:17:11.040 --> 00:17:12.840 We've all have lost something at some point in time. 00:17:13.120 --> 00:17:15.680 Now, raise your hand and I'm going to leave mine up because this is me. 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:16.100 All right. 00:17:16.300 --> 00:17:19.580 Raise your hand if you are known for losing your keys. 00:17:20.120 --> 00:17:20.660 Raise your hand. 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:21.800 Fantastic. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:22.280 Fantastic. 00:17:22.280 --> 00:17:23.500 You are my people. 00:17:23.620 --> 00:17:24.120 I get you. 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:24.900 I understand you. 00:17:25.180 --> 00:17:31.680 Nothing creates more panic in my life than realizing that I've lost my keys. 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:39.680 So what I did a couple years ago, my wife who does not lose keys, I gave her one set of keys and I said, keep these from me. 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:40.420 All right. 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:46.160 Don't let me know where they are because there's going to come a point in time where I'm going to need them. 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:49.820 And if I entrust myself with them, I will lose them too. 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:50.720 All right. 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:52.200 This happened yesterday. 00:17:52.280 --> 00:17:52.960 All right. 00:17:53.940 --> 00:18:04.100 And so now I know when I get home, I've got to entrust her with those and I've got to search around the house and I've got to look for the key to my truck. 00:18:04.340 --> 00:18:07.840 And when I find it, it's going to bring me happiness. 00:18:09.120 --> 00:18:18.020 But what we see here in scripture is Jesus tells a parable about something greater than finding a lost key. 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:22.820 In Luke 15, Jesus is teaching through some parables and he tells the parable of the lost coin. 00:18:24.040 --> 00:18:32.540 He says, or what woman having 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it. 00:18:32.580 --> 00:18:34.740 So each silver coin was worth about $300. 00:18:34.740 --> 00:18:43.660 And when she found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, rejoice with me for I have found the coin that I have lost. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:52.780 Verse 10, just so I tell you, just so I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. 00:18:54.580 --> 00:18:56.600 Joy is experienced when the lost is found. 00:18:57.740 --> 00:19:01.280 Jesus has seen a lot of sinners repent. 00:19:02.300 --> 00:19:03.840 We've got a room filled with them. 00:19:05.120 --> 00:19:09.920 A lot of messed up, broken, jacked up sinners who have repented. 00:19:10.120 --> 00:19:11.880 She didn't lose all of her coins. 00:19:13.620 --> 00:19:20.520 But when the one is found, when the one, like maybe there's one, two, three, four, some in here. 00:19:21.700 --> 00:19:32.920 When they're found, joy, joy in heaven and perfection is expressed. 00:19:34.140 --> 00:19:35.940 I think we miss that sometimes. 00:19:37.060 --> 00:19:38.540 We miss that sometimes. 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:43.020 Jesus doesn't get lost by the number of the masses. 00:19:45.080 --> 00:19:50.180 Jesus doesn't miss in the moment over the one who's there. 00:19:50.180 --> 00:19:52.620 And so joy is experienced. 00:19:53.320 --> 00:19:56.360 Joy is expressed when the lost is found. 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:03.280 But secondly, what we see about joy from Scripture is that God is the source of joy. 00:20:04.220 --> 00:20:05.660 We look for joy in a lot of places. 00:20:05.800 --> 00:20:08.540 We're going to talk about that in some depth in just a minute. 00:20:08.620 --> 00:20:11.740 But that's what we find ourselves doing sinfully a lot of times in our life. 00:20:12.020 --> 00:20:14.060 But here's what Paul writes in Romans 15, 13. 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:25.020 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. 00:20:25.260 --> 00:20:27.400 And so God fills us. 00:20:28.140 --> 00:20:31.340 God fills us with joy from our faith. 00:20:32.340 --> 00:20:42.820 So as we walk through, as we see this, when we find what we're looking for and what we're searching for, for joy, we have to understand that God is the source of joy. 00:20:42.820 --> 00:20:47.960 And he doesn't give out joy in small sampling sizes. 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:54.200 God hits us with joy as he backs up the Brinks truck of it into our life. 00:20:55.620 --> 00:20:59.440 And that he is our source of joy. 00:21:00.700 --> 00:21:12.460 Jesus says in John 16, 24, until now you have asked nothing in my name, ask and you will receive that your joy, that your joy may be full. 00:21:13.520 --> 00:21:13.680 Right? 00:21:13.900 --> 00:21:21.000 And in this passage, Jesus is talking about taking your sorrow and turning it into joy. 00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:30.340 And he gives an illustration that some of us can identify more with than others, but all of us have an understanding. 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.020 He gives the picture of a woman giving birth. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:44.420 And in the moment of her giving birth, what we see, what she experiences is pain, suffering, and torment in a difficult battle. 00:21:44.560 --> 00:21:47.560 But what comes from that is life. 00:21:48.360 --> 00:21:52.140 And so Jesus says that in our life, here's what we're going to go through. 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:53.400 We're going to go through pain. 00:21:53.600 --> 00:21:54.980 We're going to go through suffering. 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.580 We're going to go through torment. 00:21:56.860 --> 00:21:59.000 We're going to go through the difficulty of the battle. 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:01.640 We're going to go through all of these moments. 00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:06.320 And we're going to feel like joy has been removed. 00:22:07.120 --> 00:22:08.580 But it's building. 00:22:09.280 --> 00:22:10.120 Full joy. 00:22:10.800 --> 00:22:11.620 Overflowing joy. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:14.660 And that it's not that it's not there. 00:22:15.820 --> 00:22:16.920 Jesus says, ask. 00:22:18.360 --> 00:22:19.000 Ask. 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:25.240 I want to come, like Joe and Dave, thank you for that moment of teaching in that song. 00:22:25.340 --> 00:22:27.860 And Leslie and leading in that song. 00:22:27.980 --> 00:22:30.040 And Dave walking us through that. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:33.180 Of just coming before the Lord in the name of Jesus. 00:22:33.600 --> 00:22:34.160 Asking. 00:22:35.520 --> 00:22:36.980 I don't feel joy. 00:22:38.420 --> 00:22:39.320 Have you asked? 00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:41.460 Have we asked? 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:43.800 Number three. 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.360 Joy is beyond the resources of this world. 00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:52.300 I'm going to read Romans 14. 00:22:52.460 --> 00:22:56.340 But in this section, Paul is discussing not being a stumbling block for others. 00:22:56.740 --> 00:22:59.800 And we've looked at this at different points in time a lot recently. 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:06.480 And what we walk away from is, if there's something that's causing another brother to stumble, then what do we do? 00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:07.980 We do it more. 00:23:08.220 --> 00:23:09.560 No, that's not what we do, right? 00:23:10.540 --> 00:23:11.380 We give it up. 00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:13.040 We give it up. 00:23:13.080 --> 00:23:14.400 We don't say, well, it's my right. 00:23:14.460 --> 00:23:15.460 It's my freedom. 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:20.860 We say, no, if it causes a brother to stumble, then it's just not worth it. 00:23:21.560 --> 00:23:22.520 And I give it up. 00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:25.440 So Paul writes this in Romans 14, 17. 00:23:25.760 --> 00:23:34.480 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 00:23:35.620 --> 00:23:36.740 This is what we see. 00:23:37.940 --> 00:23:38.680 This is what we see. 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.980 God's saying, like, this is what this life is about. 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:44.960 It's not about the things of this world. 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.260 It's not about the things that we can do. 00:23:47.420 --> 00:23:48.580 It's not about the eating. 00:23:48.580 --> 00:23:49.920 It's not about the drinking. 00:23:50.220 --> 00:23:51.760 It's not about any of those things. 00:23:52.060 --> 00:23:56.920 But instead, God says that it's the joy that comes from God. 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:04.400 The kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:17.200 So are we having the attitude and the positioning and the approach of life that may cause sacrifice, but what it brings for is joy? 00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:24.620 I read this this week, and I thought it was something that was worth throwing up on the screen and letting you guys see. 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:31.880 And it's talking about our search for joy, our desire for joy, and our longing for joy. 00:24:32.420 --> 00:24:41.240 And it says this, when we search for joy in anything or anyone other than God, we do not find our joy, but we may find our idol. 00:24:43.020 --> 00:24:44.020 I love that. 00:24:46.260 --> 00:25:00.980 When we search for joy in anything or anyone other than God, we do not find our idol. 00:25:00.980 --> 00:25:21.600 When we look for joy in anything other than God, we will never find joy, but we will find our idol. 00:25:21.600 --> 00:25:26.540 My wife brings me happiness. 00:25:27.300 --> 00:25:29.480 She was never intended to bring me joy. 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.820 My kids bring me happiness. 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:35.720 They were never intended to bring me joy. 00:25:36.540 --> 00:25:38.400 You bring me happiness. 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:40.760 You were never intended to bring me joy. 00:25:41.140 --> 00:25:43.920 God is the source of joy. 00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:47.300 And he uses people. 00:25:48.020 --> 00:25:49.840 He uses situations. 00:25:50.360 --> 00:25:52.020 He uses moments. 00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:56.420 But they in and of themselves are not the source of joy. 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:57.240 He is. 00:25:58.320 --> 00:25:58.920 He is. 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:05.940 And lastly, in this section, joy is not found in circumstances. 00:26:07.840 --> 00:26:10.500 Joy is not found in the source of circumstances. 00:26:11.300 --> 00:26:14.000 In the book of Acts, at the very beginning, especially the church is booming. 00:26:14.120 --> 00:26:14.940 People are getting saved. 00:26:15.020 --> 00:26:15.640 The church is growing. 00:26:16.860 --> 00:26:26.920 And there's a story that unfolds in Acts chapter 5 where the apostles have been out and declaring the name of Jesus, 00:26:27.600 --> 00:26:28.920 and people are getting saved. 00:26:29.940 --> 00:26:34.580 And the high priests, the religious leaders, they hear of this, and they have the apostles arrested. 00:26:35.700 --> 00:26:41.220 But the angel of the Lord comes into the prison cell that night and sets them free with clear instructions. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.620 Hey, go back and continue to preach. 00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:45.380 Continue to teach in the name of Jesus. 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:49.940 So what you're doing to get thrown in here, go and do that some more. 00:26:50.780 --> 00:26:54.540 And when the religious leaders had found out that they had gotten out of prison, 00:26:54.540 --> 00:26:58.240 they sent for them, and they questioned them. 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:03.540 If you got out, why did you start to do what we told you not to do? 00:27:04.180 --> 00:27:08.680 And Peter answers them, and he says this, and this is kind of in my paraphrase. 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.200 Peter says, because we listen to God, not to you. 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:18.520 And he says, in fact, the Messiah you've been waiting for, you murdered. 00:27:18.520 --> 00:27:23.340 His name's Jesus, and God resurrected him from the dead. 00:27:25.340 --> 00:27:32.140 And so for political reasons, the religious leaders just decided, let's just beat them. 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.660 Let's beat them. 00:27:35.620 --> 00:27:37.080 And then they'll listen. 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:39.340 And then they won't do this anymore. 00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:42.620 In Acts chapter 5, verse 41, it says, 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:50.920 Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. 00:27:52.220 --> 00:27:52.360 Right? 00:27:54.120 --> 00:27:56.340 Let's understand some proper theology here. 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.700 They weren't rejoicing because of the pain they experienced. 00:28:02.120 --> 00:28:05.020 They weren't saying, man, I wish you'd hit me a little bit harder right here. 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:06.620 That this part isn't bruised. 00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:09.660 That wasn't it at all. 00:28:11.020 --> 00:28:14.320 They're rejoicing because of Jesus. 00:28:15.360 --> 00:28:17.660 Because of the dishonor of the name. 00:28:18.040 --> 00:28:19.660 Because of the faithfulness that had happened. 00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:27.320 And so if the circumstances we find in our life that we are facing are taking away our joy, 00:28:27.320 --> 00:28:31.880 then understand we've been looking for joy in all the wrong places. 00:28:35.180 --> 00:28:39.060 Let's talk practically. 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:44.320 459 a gallon doesn't make me happy, right? 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:47.940 But it doesn't rob my joy. 00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:53.500 Because if it did, then money would be my source of joy, and then money would be my idol. 00:28:55.620 --> 00:29:00.340 A bad report from the doctor doesn't make me happy. 00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:03.380 But it doesn't rob my joy. 00:29:04.800 --> 00:29:10.580 Because if it did, then my health would be my source of joy, and would then therefore be my idol. 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:17.760 Losing a loved one doesn't make me happy. 00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:26.060 It causes me to experience sadness, and to mourn, and to grieve. 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:29.160 But it doesn't rob my joy. 00:29:30.840 --> 00:29:36.740 Because if it did, then my loved one would be my source of joy, and my idol. 00:29:38.260 --> 00:29:42.240 I apologize, this verse isn't on the screen, but I wanted to include it this morning. 00:29:42.380 --> 00:29:43.340 It's James 1, 2. 00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:50.640 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:52.920 Count it all joy. 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:54.040 Count it all joy. 00:29:56.040 --> 00:29:56.760 All joy. 00:29:57.980 --> 00:29:59.080 Every part of it. 00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:04.500 The tears, and the sadness, and the grieving, and the mourning. 00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.040 The celebrating, the happiness. 00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:11.560 Count it all joy. 00:30:12.360 --> 00:30:12.900 All joy. 00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:16.400 Every single part of it. 00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:21.980 So, I want to ask this question this morning, and this is what we're going to look at as we wrap up. 00:30:22.020 --> 00:30:25.600 Two pretty long pieces of scripture, but we're going to draw a couple quick things out of them. 00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:28.660 What hinders you from living in joy? 00:30:30.340 --> 00:30:39.300 If you're a believer and a follower of Jesus Christ, you've been saved, adopted in the family of God, but you're struggling right now with joy. 00:30:39.540 --> 00:30:42.040 Now, not happiness, because we know that comes and goes. 00:30:43.020 --> 00:30:45.380 But you're struggling with joy. 00:30:45.580 --> 00:30:46.420 The question is, why? 00:30:47.800 --> 00:30:52.520 It's a question that I've had to walk through a lot with myself this week. 00:30:53.280 --> 00:30:58.460 It's a question that I've had to examine within my own life and my own faith through looking at scripture. 00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:07.560 And ask, what hinders me and what hinders you from living in joy continuously? 00:31:08.260 --> 00:31:14.080 So that we can be like the apostles who were beaten because they were obedient to the Lord. 00:31:14.220 --> 00:31:16.720 And they rejoice because they've been counted worthy. 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:22.400 That we can be like Paul who was beaten and put into the bottom of a prison cell. 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.520 And instead of, oh, poor, pitiful me, sing psalms and hymns and rejoice because of who Christ is. 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:35.220 But I don't see that in my life. 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.120 So what causes that in your and my life? 00:31:41.340 --> 00:31:42.320 It's sin. 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:44.340 It's your sin. 00:31:44.460 --> 00:31:45.900 It's my sin. 00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:52.920 What hinders us from living and experiencing in the joy that God has for us is sin. 00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:56.360 In Psalm 51, so turn there. 00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:57.140 We're going to look at that first. 00:31:59.180 --> 00:32:06.320 David writes this after a pretty monumental moment in his life. 00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:11.580 He's already previously assaulted Bathsheba. 00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:15.800 He's found out that she was pregnant. 00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:19.260 He's had her husband killed. 00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:22.200 And then Nathan, 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.520 Prophet Nathan calls him out. 00:32:27.520 --> 00:32:29.380 Let's watch David's response. 00:32:29.380 --> 00:32:31.760 Verse 1. 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:35.280 Have mercy on me, God. 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.760 Oh, God, according to your steadfast love. 00:32:39.820 --> 00:32:41.600 According to your abundant mercy, 00:32:42.040 --> 00:32:43.680 blot out my transgressions. 00:32:44.460 --> 00:32:46.820 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity 00:32:46.820 --> 00:32:48.700 and cleanse me from my sin. 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.760 For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.240 Against you and you alone have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight 00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:00.540 so that you may be justified in your words 00:33:00.540 --> 00:33:02.460 and blameless in your judgment. 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:03.560 So let's begin with this. 00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:06.300 David knows the depth of his current sinfulness. 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:13.580 David doesn't blame a culture of entitlement around him. 00:33:15.100 --> 00:33:19.480 David doesn't blame if there were others who would step in and prevented him. 00:33:20.620 --> 00:33:24.380 David doesn't say, well, where was this person and this person and this person? 00:33:25.260 --> 00:33:28.660 David doesn't say, well, you made me a man and made me this way. 00:33:30.300 --> 00:33:34.320 David steps in, my sin, my transgression. 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:38.220 He understands the depth of his sinfulness 00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:43.060 and ultimately, in spite of all that has been affected and offended by his sin, 00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:45.740 who does he say his sin is against? 00:33:46.280 --> 00:33:46.960 The Lord. 00:33:48.260 --> 00:33:49.320 Let's keep reading verse 5. 00:33:50.620 --> 00:33:53.260 David says, behold, I was brought forth in iniquity 00:33:53.260 --> 00:33:55.780 and in sin my mother conceived me. 00:33:56.560 --> 00:33:59.220 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being 00:33:59.220 --> 00:34:02.300 and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 00:34:02.700 --> 00:34:06.780 David knows what helplessness God saved him from. 00:34:08.680 --> 00:34:11.560 David knows he didn't earn God's love, 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:14.260 earn his way to salvation, figure it all out. 00:34:14.260 --> 00:34:17.860 He knows the helplessness that God saved him from 00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:20.760 and what God desires from him. 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:22.700 He continues on. 00:34:24.700 --> 00:34:26.820 Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. 00:34:27.700 --> 00:34:29.980 Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. 00:34:30.580 --> 00:34:32.600 Let me hear joy and gladness. 00:34:32.680 --> 00:34:35.120 Let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 00:34:35.520 --> 00:34:38.400 Hide your face from my sins and blot out my iniquities. 00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:41.260 Create in me a clean heart, O God, 00:34:41.380 --> 00:34:43.880 and renew a right spirit within me. 00:34:44.220 --> 00:34:46.080 Cast me not away from your presence 00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:48.540 and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:49.300 Verse 12. 00:34:49.640 --> 00:34:54.140 Restore to me the joy of your salvation 00:34:54.140 --> 00:34:57.000 and uphold me with a willing spirit. 00:34:57.460 --> 00:34:59.880 Then I will teach transgressors your ways 00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:01.640 and sinners will return to you. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:05.080 Deliver me from blood guiltlessness, O God, 00:35:05.140 --> 00:35:07.420 O God of my salvation and my tongue 00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:09.480 will sing aloud of your righteousness. 00:35:09.900 --> 00:35:11.800 O Lord, open my lips and my mouth 00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:12.920 will declare your praise. 00:35:13.240 --> 00:35:15.240 For you will not delight in sacrifice 00:35:15.240 --> 00:35:16.240 or I will give it. 00:35:16.500 --> 00:35:18.380 You will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 00:35:18.520 --> 00:35:21.360 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, 00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:23.240 a broken and contrite heart. 00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:25.160 O God, you will not despise. 00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:27.640 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure. 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:29.600 Build up the walls of Jerusalem. 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:32.100 Then you will delight in right sacrifices 00:35:32.100 --> 00:35:34.680 and burnt offerings, the whole burnt offerings, 00:35:34.820 --> 00:35:37.840 and bulls will be offered on your altar. 00:35:38.080 --> 00:35:40.840 There's so many things that David packs 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:41.980 into these verses. 00:35:43.700 --> 00:35:45.580 But in the context of what I want us 00:35:45.580 --> 00:35:46.460 to look at this morning 00:35:46.460 --> 00:35:49.240 is we understand that our sin 00:35:49.240 --> 00:35:51.280 is the joy robber in our life. 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.680 And so how can that joy be restored? 00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:57.520 And David gives us a glimpse into it. 00:35:58.500 --> 00:36:00.860 We begin by seeing repentance. 00:36:01.980 --> 00:36:02.500 Repentance. 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:05.360 What's repentance? 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:07.760 What is biblical repentance? 00:36:07.900 --> 00:36:08.680 What does that look like? 00:36:08.720 --> 00:36:09.280 What does that mean? 00:36:09.520 --> 00:36:11.280 Does that mean just like creating a list 00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:12.420 of things that we've done 00:36:12.420 --> 00:36:13.680 that we're gonna do again 00:36:13.680 --> 00:36:15.260 and saying, hey God, my bad? 00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:17.220 Is that it? 00:36:18.200 --> 00:36:18.620 No. 00:36:19.700 --> 00:36:20.000 No. 00:36:20.160 --> 00:36:21.660 That's not what we see in David. 00:36:22.700 --> 00:36:25.020 What do we see from Scripture in repentance? 00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:26.900 Number one, it's recognizing 00:36:26.900 --> 00:36:28.100 and grieving our sin. 00:36:29.380 --> 00:36:30.280 Like, we don't realize 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:31.560 how offensive we are. 00:36:32.540 --> 00:36:33.240 We don't realize 00:36:33.240 --> 00:36:35.260 how offensive our sin is. 00:36:37.100 --> 00:36:37.940 David does. 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:40.320 And it's the words that we see. 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:44.120 Repentance is asking God 00:36:44.120 --> 00:36:45.500 and God alone 00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:46.720 to forgive 00:36:46.720 --> 00:36:48.620 and to restore 00:36:48.620 --> 00:36:51.660 the process that God did 00:36:51.660 --> 00:36:53.220 that we cannot do in ourselves 00:36:53.220 --> 00:36:54.260 and that we need Him 00:36:54.260 --> 00:36:55.100 to do again 00:36:55.100 --> 00:36:56.540 graciously for us. 00:36:56.900 --> 00:36:57.640 And then also, 00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:58.660 it's choosing differently. 00:36:59.740 --> 00:37:01.540 It's choosing differently 00:37:01.540 --> 00:37:04.060 of what we were 00:37:04.060 --> 00:37:05.440 is no longer who we are. 00:37:05.700 --> 00:37:06.480 And my choice 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:07.960 as I move forward 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:08.500 are the choose 00:37:08.500 --> 00:37:09.420 the things of God. 00:37:10.580 --> 00:37:12.100 Which comes into the second one. 00:37:12.600 --> 00:37:14.160 Not only do we seek repentance, 00:37:14.500 --> 00:37:15.820 but we seek obedience 00:37:15.820 --> 00:37:17.500 from brokenness. 00:37:18.820 --> 00:37:20.200 The depth of obedience 00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:21.260 is not found 00:37:21.260 --> 00:37:22.760 out of a religious obligation, 00:37:23.180 --> 00:37:24.320 but from the perspective 00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.300 of brokenness. 00:37:27.740 --> 00:37:28.420 Dave says, 00:37:28.600 --> 00:37:29.520 for you will not delight 00:37:29.520 --> 00:37:30.400 in sacrifice 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.120 or if I would give it. 00:37:33.380 --> 00:37:35.160 The sacrifices of God 00:37:35.160 --> 00:37:36.840 are a broken spirit, 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:39.220 a broken and contrite heart. 00:37:39.740 --> 00:37:40.220 Oh God, 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:42.720 you will not despise. 00:37:44.200 --> 00:37:45.140 It's not obedience 00:37:45.140 --> 00:37:46.160 because I have to. 00:37:46.640 --> 00:37:47.240 It's obedience 00:37:47.240 --> 00:37:48.160 because I get to. 00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:49.080 It's obedience 00:37:49.080 --> 00:37:50.320 that flows from grace. 00:37:50.580 --> 00:37:51.040 It's obedience 00:37:51.040 --> 00:37:52.240 that understands forgiveness. 00:37:52.620 --> 00:37:53.080 It's obedience 00:37:53.080 --> 00:37:54.300 that understands our sin. 00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:56.100 In the last, 00:37:56.160 --> 00:37:57.240 and we'll conclude with this, 00:37:57.780 --> 00:38:00.160 we jump to the New Testament. 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:01.840 Look at John 15. 00:38:03.700 --> 00:38:05.620 Very popular passage of Scripture. 00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:06.240 John 15, 00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:07.120 starting in verse 4. 00:38:08.120 --> 00:38:08.660 Jesus says, 00:38:08.780 --> 00:38:09.400 abide in me 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:10.200 and I in you. 00:38:11.740 --> 00:38:12.520 As the branch 00:38:12.520 --> 00:38:13.440 cannot bear fruit 00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:14.140 by itself 00:38:14.140 --> 00:38:15.100 unless it abides 00:38:15.100 --> 00:38:15.740 in the vine, 00:38:16.460 --> 00:38:17.480 neither can you 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:18.640 unless you abide in me. 00:38:19.820 --> 00:38:20.640 I am the vine, 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:21.540 you are the branches. 00:38:22.520 --> 00:38:23.800 Whoever abides in me 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:24.660 and I am him, 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:25.120 he is, 00:38:25.680 --> 00:38:25.860 he, 00:38:26.100 --> 00:38:26.620 it is 00:38:26.620 --> 00:38:27.980 that bears much fruit 00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:28.920 for apart from me 00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:29.940 you can do nothing. 00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:31.700 If anyone does not 00:38:31.700 --> 00:38:32.400 abide in me 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:33.320 he is thrown away 00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:34.040 like a branch 00:38:34.040 --> 00:38:34.540 and withers 00:38:34.540 --> 00:38:35.100 and the branches 00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:35.680 are gathered 00:38:35.680 --> 00:38:37.020 and thrown into the fire 00:38:37.020 --> 00:38:37.520 and burned. 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:39.580 If you abide in me 00:38:39.580 --> 00:38:40.920 and my words abide in you 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:42.160 ask whatever you wish 00:38:42.160 --> 00:38:43.140 and it will be done for you. 00:38:43.900 --> 00:38:44.740 By this my Father 00:38:44.740 --> 00:38:45.520 is glorified 00:38:45.520 --> 00:38:46.780 that you bear much fruit 00:38:46.780 --> 00:38:48.140 and so prove to be my disciples. 00:38:49.180 --> 00:38:50.540 As the Father has loved me 00:38:50.540 --> 00:38:51.520 so I have loved you 00:38:51.520 --> 00:38:52.680 abide in my love. 00:38:53.620 --> 00:38:54.940 If you keep my commandments 00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:57.100 you will abide in my love 00:38:57.100 --> 00:38:58.500 just as I have kept 00:38:58.500 --> 00:38:59.540 my Father's commandments 00:38:59.540 --> 00:39:00.700 and abide in his love. 00:39:01.900 --> 00:39:02.860 In verse 11 00:39:02.860 --> 00:39:04.320 these things 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:05.360 I have spoken to you 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.140 that my joy 00:39:07.140 --> 00:39:08.820 may be in you 00:39:08.820 --> 00:39:10.760 and that your joy 00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:11.880 may be full. 00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:14.060 Last thing we can do 00:39:14.060 --> 00:39:14.820 and we probably 00:39:14.820 --> 00:39:15.320 don't have to throw it 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:15.780 on the screen 00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:16.740 you can look at that verse 00:39:16.740 --> 00:39:17.360 that passage 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:17.960 and see it 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:18.860 is what? 00:39:19.220 --> 00:39:20.160 Abide in Christ. 00:39:21.060 --> 00:39:22.280 We got to abide in Christ. 00:39:23.380 --> 00:39:24.260 Thought about that 00:39:24.260 --> 00:39:25.080 this week. 00:39:27.180 --> 00:39:28.080 We talk about 00:39:28.080 --> 00:39:28.840 what our relationship 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:29.380 with Christ 00:39:29.380 --> 00:39:29.960 looks like. 00:39:30.040 --> 00:39:30.540 You and I 00:39:30.540 --> 00:39:31.200 and I know 00:39:31.200 --> 00:39:32.060 I say this 00:39:32.060 --> 00:39:32.800 all the time 00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:33.520 and God has checked 00:39:33.520 --> 00:39:34.220 my heart on it 00:39:34.220 --> 00:39:35.380 let me explain myself 00:39:35.380 --> 00:39:36.460 for just a moment 00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:37.800 and I say 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:38.600 well man it's good 00:39:38.600 --> 00:39:40.720 I have my time 00:39:40.720 --> 00:39:41.680 with Jesus 00:39:41.680 --> 00:39:42.860 every day. 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:44.940 Now let me 00:39:44.940 --> 00:39:45.680 pause 00:39:45.680 --> 00:39:46.700 for just a second. 00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:48.160 I'm not saying 00:39:48.160 --> 00:39:48.700 waking up 00:39:48.700 --> 00:39:49.600 and having a quiet time 00:39:49.600 --> 00:39:50.080 having a time 00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:50.420 with Jesus 00:39:50.420 --> 00:39:50.980 is a bad thing 00:39:50.980 --> 00:39:51.600 it's a wonderful thing 00:39:51.600 --> 00:39:52.200 it's a great thing 00:39:52.200 --> 00:39:52.860 I have it 00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:53.660 you need to have it. 00:39:54.540 --> 00:39:55.080 I'm not saying 00:39:55.080 --> 00:39:55.880 that spending time 00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:56.360 in prayer 00:39:56.360 --> 00:39:56.960 with Jesus 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:57.860 designating 00:39:57.860 --> 00:39:58.160 and setting 00:39:58.160 --> 00:39:59.140 across time 00:39:59.140 --> 00:39:59.580 to commit 00:39:59.580 --> 00:40:00.100 to do that 00:40:00.100 --> 00:40:00.760 is a bad thing 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:01.660 that we embrace 00:40:01.660 --> 00:40:02.320 that as a church 00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:03.840 and did the 24 hours 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:04.520 where we're praying 00:40:04.520 --> 00:40:05.700 through for I think 00:40:05.700 --> 00:40:06.420 five weeks 00:40:06.420 --> 00:40:07.660 that we did that 00:40:07.660 --> 00:40:08.560 together as a church 00:40:08.560 --> 00:40:09.420 it's not a bad thing 00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:10.160 it's a wonderful thing 00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:11.080 it's a great thing 00:40:11.080 --> 00:40:11.740 you need to do it 00:40:11.740 --> 00:40:13.800 but if all we have 00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:14.540 with Jesus 00:40:14.540 --> 00:40:15.980 is some time 00:40:15.980 --> 00:40:17.100 that we've set apart 00:40:17.100 --> 00:40:17.960 during our course 00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:18.560 of our day 00:40:18.560 --> 00:40:19.420 then Jesus 00:40:19.420 --> 00:40:20.560 becomes a box 00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:21.200 to be checked 00:40:21.200 --> 00:40:22.000 and obligation 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:22.860 to be fulfilled. 00:40:25.460 --> 00:40:26.220 Jesus doesn't say 00:40:26.220 --> 00:40:26.860 in those who spend 00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:27.600 a little bit of time 00:40:27.600 --> 00:40:28.120 with me 00:40:28.120 --> 00:40:29.200 each morning 00:40:29.200 --> 00:40:30.860 no no no no 00:40:30.860 --> 00:40:31.700 Jesus says 00:40:31.700 --> 00:40:32.560 those who 00:40:32.560 --> 00:40:33.980 abide with me 00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:36.420 in 1 John 00:40:36.420 --> 00:40:37.380 John talks about 00:40:37.380 --> 00:40:37.920 abiding 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:39.540 and he defines it 00:40:39.540 --> 00:40:40.800 as knowing 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:42.840 Jesus 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.260 not knowing about 00:40:45.260 --> 00:40:46.980 but a depth 00:40:46.980 --> 00:40:47.820 of intimacy 00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:49.120 of knowing 00:40:49.120 --> 00:40:50.700 carrying with it 00:40:50.700 --> 00:40:51.960 a word to live 00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:52.800 to continue 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.380 and to remain 00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:55.940 and so I want 00:40:55.940 --> 00:40:56.380 to close 00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:57.320 and just ask you 00:40:57.320 --> 00:40:57.880 these handful 00:40:57.880 --> 00:40:58.300 of questions 00:40:58.300 --> 00:40:58.920 number one 00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:01.520 do you live 00:41:01.520 --> 00:41:02.300 with Christ 00:41:02.300 --> 00:41:04.360 or are you 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:04.940 just visiting 00:41:04.940 --> 00:41:06.000 when you need 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:06.580 to from time 00:41:06.580 --> 00:41:06.980 to time 00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:10.180 number two 00:41:10.180 --> 00:41:11.740 is your 00:41:11.740 --> 00:41:12.320 relationship 00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:13.260 with Christ 00:41:13.260 --> 00:41:14.820 a continuous 00:41:14.820 --> 00:41:16.080 relationship 00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:18.760 or is it 00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:19.460 momentary 00:41:19.460 --> 00:41:21.200 moment 00:41:21.200 --> 00:41:22.160 by moment 00:41:22.160 --> 00:41:23.040 when needed 00:41:23.040 --> 00:41:25.680 and lastly 00:41:25.680 --> 00:41:27.580 when it comes 00:41:27.580 --> 00:41:27.840 to your 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:28.340 relationship 00:41:28.340 --> 00:41:29.040 with Christ 00:41:29.040 --> 00:41:30.460 do you 00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:30.960 remain 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:32.280 in him 00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:33.880 or 00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:35.360 do we just 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:35.780 reach out 00:41:35.780 --> 00:41:36.120 for him 00:41:36.120 --> 00:41:36.560 when we need 00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:36.920 him in that 00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:37.220 moment 00:41:37.220 --> 00:41:39.600 Jesus 00:41:39.600 --> 00:41:40.120 says 00:41:40.120 --> 00:41:41.480 abide 00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:42.160 with me 00:41:42.160 --> 00:41:43.460 live 00:41:43.460 --> 00:41:44.100 with me 00:41:44.100 --> 00:41:45.240 continue 00:41:45.240 --> 00:41:46.700 in me 00:41:46.700 --> 00:41:47.040 remain 00:41:47.040 --> 00:41:48.180 remain 00:41:48.180 --> 00:41:49.040 in me 00:41:49.040 --> 00:41:50.620 and to 00:41:50.620 --> 00:41:51.260 live 00:41:51.260 --> 00:41:52.960 in the joy 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:54.340 in the fullness 00:41:54.340 --> 00:41:56.500 of what God 00:41:56.500 --> 00:41:56.860 has given 00:41:56.860 --> 00:41:58.160 let's pray 00:41:58.160 --> 00:42:06.940 God we thank you 00:42:06.940 --> 00:42:07.700 for the joy 00:42:07.700 --> 00:42:09.300 that you've 00:42:09.300 --> 00:42:09.540 given 00:42:09.540 --> 00:42:11.440 we thank you 00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:12.440 for the joy 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:12.840 of our 00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:13.400 salvation 00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:16.560 or a joy 00:42:16.560 --> 00:42:16.980 that's not 00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:17.680 defined 00:42:17.680 --> 00:42:18.480 by the 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:18.940 difficult 00:42:18.940 --> 00:42:19.660 hard 00:42:19.660 --> 00:42:20.620 painful 00:42:20.620 --> 00:42:21.420 circumstances 00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:22.420 of this 00:42:22.420 --> 00:42:22.720 world 00:42:22.720 --> 00:42:25.480 or the joy 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:26.320 that is not 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:27.800 based in 00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:28.920 the resources 00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:29.860 and the means 00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:30.280 of this 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:30.600 world 00:42:30.600 --> 00:42:32.780 but Lord 00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:34.060 joy that 00:42:34.060 --> 00:42:34.580 comes from 00:42:34.580 --> 00:42:34.880 you 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:36.280 that you're 00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:36.820 the source 00:42:36.820 --> 00:42:37.160 of 00:42:37.160 --> 00:42:38.960 joy that's 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:39.560 found and 00:42:39.560 --> 00:42:40.300 rooted in 00:42:40.300 --> 00:42:41.060 our salvation 00:42:41.060 --> 00:42:41.420 Lord 00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:42.200 of who we 00:42:42.200 --> 00:42:42.760 are in 00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:43.160 Christ 00:42:43.160 --> 00:42:45.200 and so 00:42:45.200 --> 00:42:45.640 Lord we 00:42:45.640 --> 00:42:46.000 come to 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:46.440 you this 00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:46.820 morning 00:42:46.820 --> 00:42:48.400 may we 00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:48.880 come to 00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:49.240 you as 00:42:49.240 --> 00:42:49.860 David 00:42:49.860 --> 00:42:51.380 came to 00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:52.020 you 00:42:52.020 --> 00:42:53.400 broken 00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:54.240 for our 00:42:54.240 --> 00:42:54.860 sin 00:42:54.860 --> 00:42:56.920 understanding 00:42:56.920 --> 00:42:58.080 the depth 00:42:58.080 --> 00:42:59.760 of our 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:00.520 situation 00:43:00.520 --> 00:43:02.900 in repentance 00:43:02.900 --> 00:43:05.520 in brokenness 00:43:05.520 --> 00:43:07.540 in obedience 00:43:07.540 --> 00:43:10.020 and Lord 00:43:10.020 --> 00:43:10.720 abiding 00:43:10.720 --> 00:43:12.420 in you 00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:14.100 and in you 00:43:14.100 --> 00:43:14.380 fully 00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:17.480 Jesus I pray 00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:18.180 that as we 00:43:18.180 --> 00:43:20.560 those of 00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:20.820 us who 00:43:20.820 --> 00:43:20.960 are 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:21.540 believers 00:43:21.540 --> 00:43:26.160 this could 00:43:26.160 --> 00:43:26.440 be the 00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:26.740 daily 00:43:26.740 --> 00:43:27.260 reminder 00:43:27.260 --> 00:43:27.580 of our 00:43:27.580 --> 00:43:27.960 lives 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:31.140 and Lord 00:43:31.140 --> 00:43:31.360 if there's 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:32.080 anyone here 00:43:32.080 --> 00:43:32.580 who's not 00:43:32.580 --> 00:43:33.060 a believer 00:43:33.060 --> 00:43:36.240 and let's 00:43:36.240 --> 00:43:36.600 be honest 00:43:36.600 --> 00:43:36.820 this 00:43:36.820 --> 00:43:37.720 conversation 00:43:37.720 --> 00:43:38.560 didn't 00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:39.060 overly 00:43:39.060 --> 00:43:39.620 make sense 00:43:39.620 --> 00:43:40.120 to them 00:43:40.120 --> 00:43:43.280 they've 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:43.760 been searching 00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:44.480 for something 00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.020 they haven't 00:43:47.020 --> 00:43:47.540 found 00:43:47.540 --> 00:43:49.860 they've 00:43:49.860 --> 00:43:50.220 looked for 00:43:50.220 --> 00:43:50.760 joy 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:52.540 all over 00:43:52.540 --> 00:43:54.860 and what 00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:55.660 they find 00:43:55.660 --> 00:43:57.120 is lacking 00:43:57.120 --> 00:44:00.660 where they 00:44:00.660 --> 00:44:00.940 could be 00:44:00.940 --> 00:44:01.580 found this 00:44:01.580 --> 00:44:02.020 morning 00:44:02.020 --> 00:44:03.980 in Christ 00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:05.660 in Christ 00:44:05.660 --> 00:44:06.020 alone 00:44:06.020 --> 00:44:08.840 so Lord 00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:09.340 I pray 00:44:09.340 --> 00:44:09.620 in the 00:44:09.620 --> 00:44:10.020 working of 00:44:10.020 --> 00:44:10.760 your spirit 00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:11.140 that you 00:44:11.140 --> 00:44:11.980 will draw 00:44:11.980 --> 00:44:12.720 their hearts 00:44:12.720 --> 00:44:13.320 to you 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:14.760 Lord 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