1 00:00:03,633 --> 00:00:06,866 James three is the passage that we're in. 2 00:00:08,166 --> 00:00:10,333 I don't know how much of it I'm going to get through. 3 00:00:10,333 --> 00:00:13,333 And so I'm going to trust that you're going to read it on your own. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,500 and ask the Holy Spirit 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,700 to give you wisdom about what you read. 6 00:00:21,533 --> 00:00:24,000 I want to talk about at least the first two verses 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 and then tell you something that just happened. 8 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:31,300 When we left off in James in chapter two. 9 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:34,333 James made it pretty clear 10 00:00:34,333 --> 00:00:37,333 that words alone don't account for much. 11 00:00:37,966 --> 00:00:40,966 Basically, he said, you can say whatever you want 12 00:00:41,966 --> 00:00:44,400 about faith and about following Jesus. 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,200 You can say whatever you want, 14 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,233 but at least what you unless what you say is backed up 15 00:00:49,233 --> 00:00:52,100 by what you do and proven by what you do, what you say doesn't matter. 16 00:00:53,366 --> 00:00:56,100 In essence, what he's saying is all your words of faith 17 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:00,300 are useless and dead unless it's 18 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:03,300 proven by what you do. 19 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,200 And then in James chapter three, 20 00:01:07,333 --> 00:01:10,333 he says, now let me flip the script a little bit. 21 00:01:10,433 --> 00:01:13,433 Your words are really, really important. 22 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,900 He just got done saying, it's not that big a deal. 23 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:17,933 What you say it matters what you do. 24 00:01:17,933 --> 00:01:20,466 And then all of a sudden in James three, 25 00:01:20,466 --> 00:01:23,466 he says, okay, but let me go back to the words part. 26 00:01:23,933 --> 00:01:25,866 It's really crucial 27 00:01:25,866 --> 00:01:28,633 about what you say and how you say it. 28 00:01:28,633 --> 00:01:30,966 So he he talks a lot about words. 29 00:01:30,966 --> 00:01:32,533 He focuses on words now. 30 00:01:32,533 --> 00:01:34,766 And our speech 31 00:01:34,766 --> 00:01:36,866 and what we have in James three 32 00:01:36,866 --> 00:01:40,433 one through 12 is some, some instruction that is 33 00:01:40,433 --> 00:01:44,533 is incredibly practical, incredibly practical. 34 00:01:45,433 --> 00:01:48,000 And so I just want to give you this charge on the front, 35 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,333 because I'm not sure how this one's going to go. 36 00:01:52,333 --> 00:01:53,400 So I just want to give you the charge 37 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,400 on the front end when you leave this place. 38 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,466 Spend this week reading James three verses one through 12. 39 00:02:01,433 --> 00:02:03,733 It'll be clear and practical enough for you. 40 00:02:03,733 --> 00:02:06,533 You can get something about it if you ask the Holy Spirit. 41 00:02:06,533 --> 00:02:08,900 Speak to me about this now and then read it. 42 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:10,766 You'll get something out of it. That'll be. 43 00:02:10,766 --> 00:02:12,000 That'll be good. 44 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:12,633 It'll be godly. 45 00:02:12,633 --> 00:02:15,433 It'll be biblical. 46 00:02:15,433 --> 00:02:17,400 But let me I do want to get through. 47 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,400 I think maybe the first two verses 48 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:24,000 and with a little bit of explanation, 49 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,966 and then tell you a little bit about what went down in the first service. 50 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,866 Here's what James three one says. 51 00:02:29,866 --> 00:02:32,633 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, 52 00:02:32,633 --> 00:02:34,233 because you know that you will. 53 00:02:34,233 --> 00:02:36,733 That that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 54 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,766 So he said, don't don't desire to be teachers. 55 00:02:40,766 --> 00:02:43,766 Now he's not talking about teaching in the public school system. 56 00:02:44,233 --> 00:02:47,233 although that may be a good warning for some, 57 00:02:49,733 --> 00:02:52,066 love our district, but, boy, that is a high calling. 58 00:02:52,066 --> 00:02:57,833 Man, that is, what he's really talking about is, 59 00:02:57,833 --> 00:03:00,866 is don't many people desire 60 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:04,300 to be preachers and teachers of the word? 61 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:07,666 Don't rush into it. 62 00:03:07,666 --> 00:03:09,300 Now, let me give some context before 63 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:12,300 I give you content, because it's important for you to know the context. 64 00:03:13,066 --> 00:03:16,066 At the time that James was writing this. 65 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,400 being a teacher of the word, 66 00:03:22,366 --> 00:03:23,733 a preacher of God 67 00:03:23,733 --> 00:03:27,333 and his kingdom was a very lofty profession. 68 00:03:27,333 --> 00:03:30,333 It was a very, very high calling. 69 00:03:31,033 --> 00:03:33,000 and many people wanted to be 70 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,133 in this position of leadership, in this position of authority, 71 00:03:37,266 --> 00:03:40,200 and they wanted to be respected as a teacher. 72 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,200 And so there was a lot of people clamoring 73 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,600 to sit on the stool on Sunday morning. 74 00:03:46,833 --> 00:03:49,833 But oh, how times have changed. 75 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:52,500 There are many people 76 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:55,500 anymore who want to sit in this place. 77 00:03:57,633 --> 00:04:00,400 Now, most of us want to be taught the Bible 78 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,133 and want to be a part, a part of a Bible study where someone is teaching us. 79 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,766 But few of us want to be that person, right? 80 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:10,766 Yeah, right. 81 00:04:10,766 --> 00:04:12,800 Right. Yeah. 82 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,333 If I'm telling the if I'm telling a lie, then y'all sign up to start teaching 83 00:04:16,333 --> 00:04:19,333 Bible study. 84 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:20,900 Yeah. 85 00:04:20,900 --> 00:04:22,200 And so we all want it. 86 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,200 We just don't want to have to be the one to give it. 87 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:30,366 At one point in our nation's history, in the early days, 88 00:04:32,066 --> 00:04:34,800 preachers were some of the most educated 89 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,233 and most well-respected people of the community. 90 00:04:39,366 --> 00:04:42,266 They're held in very high esteem, 91 00:04:42,266 --> 00:04:44,733 very well respected, 92 00:04:44,733 --> 00:04:47,666 and people were attracted to the idea of perhaps, 93 00:04:47,666 --> 00:04:50,666 maybe one day attaining that measure 94 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,400 of being a preacher. 95 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:59,033 and then, generations go by in the 60s, hit 96 00:05:00,733 --> 00:05:03,733 and the 60s were a time where, 97 00:05:05,433 --> 00:05:08,933 culture learned and began 98 00:05:08,933 --> 00:05:12,566 to perfect the ability to question 99 00:05:12,566 --> 00:05:15,566 and deny authority. 100 00:05:16,033 --> 00:05:18,966 And it has been a downhill slide 101 00:05:18,966 --> 00:05:21,600 of the respect of authority 102 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,833 for the last 60 plus years. 103 00:05:23,833 --> 00:05:26,266 So much so 104 00:05:26,266 --> 00:05:28,866 that it's now become 105 00:05:28,866 --> 00:05:31,100 the prevailing, 106 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:34,500 way of living is to deny every authority 107 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,500 except the authority that's in here for me. 108 00:05:37,733 --> 00:05:40,733 I am my own authority. 109 00:05:41,566 --> 00:05:45,666 I will deny every and resist every other authority 110 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,900 except for what I think is right. 111 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:53,633 And whatever I say is right for me is right because I am my own authority. 112 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,900 That's how far we slid. 113 00:05:56,900 --> 00:05:59,900 It's a dangerous place to be. 114 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,400 There's been such a slide 115 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,600 that even even preachers and teachers 116 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,433 desire to be preachers and teachers 117 00:06:09,433 --> 00:06:12,900 so they can build their own brand and have their own 118 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:15,900 following. 119 00:06:16,166 --> 00:06:17,900 So true. 120 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:23,300 And and there there are many people who sit in a position of authority 121 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:28,866 in teaching who have very sad and misplaced priorities. 122 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,200 And so James says, be very careful. 123 00:06:34,933 --> 00:06:36,400 I want to go through verses one and two, 124 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,400 and I'm going to give you the I'm going to read one again and give you verse two. 125 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,533 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, 126 00:06:42,533 --> 00:06:45,233 because you know that what you teach will be judged more strictly. 127 00:06:45,233 --> 00:06:46,666 I'm going to come back to that. 128 00:06:46,666 --> 00:06:48,966 We all stumble in many ways. 129 00:06:48,966 --> 00:06:52,133 Anyone who's never at fault and what they say is perfect, 130 00:06:52,266 --> 00:06:53,866 able to keep their whole body in check. 131 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:57,800 The King James 132 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,700 Version phrases this really well that we missed 133 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:05,500 in all the other versions, and it says we all stumble. 134 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:06,100 In many ways. 135 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:08,700 The King James Version says it like this. 136 00:07:08,700 --> 00:07:11,900 In many things we offend everybody. 137 00:07:14,066 --> 00:07:14,500 That's what. 138 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:16,333 That's what James is saying. 139 00:07:16,333 --> 00:07:19,333 In many things we offend all, 140 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:23,300 especially teachers. 141 00:07:23,633 --> 00:07:27,333 Those who desire to to have authority and to teach. 142 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,433 James says we'll offend everybody at some point. 143 00:07:33,166 --> 00:07:37,366 And any of you in any position of authority and leadership 144 00:07:37,366 --> 00:07:41,100 and teaching or coaching, I guarantee you you have offended 145 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,100 somebody right? 146 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:47,900 And so let's take this out of the world just teaching and preaching 147 00:07:47,933 --> 00:07:50,933 and put it in the world of fatherhood. 148 00:07:52,333 --> 00:07:55,333 Us dads. 149 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,533 You know that there have been those moments in those times. 150 00:08:00,866 --> 00:08:03,566 When you have 151 00:08:03,566 --> 00:08:06,566 offended those you love the most, 152 00:08:06,666 --> 00:08:09,666 right? 153 00:08:11,433 --> 00:08:13,700 And James says, it's just what that's what we're going to do. 154 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,500 And here's why. Here's why. 155 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,000 And especially for teachers and preachers. 156 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,366 One one reason we offend people is because 157 00:08:23,033 --> 00:08:26,033 if we're teaching truth, guess what truth does 158 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,566 offends people. 159 00:08:28,566 --> 00:08:30,433 I said last week, look, I don't want to offend you, 160 00:08:30,433 --> 00:08:33,433 but if you're fit, if this is your fault, not mine. 161 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:36,633 Now, it's 162 00:08:36,633 --> 00:08:40,500 truth is not to be spoken or taught with a club. 163 00:08:41,533 --> 00:08:44,533 Paul will say the Ephesians, speak the truth in love. 164 00:08:44,966 --> 00:08:49,433 So it doesn't mean be abusive with it, but it does mean speak it. 165 00:08:49,633 --> 00:08:53,066 And when you speak the truth, it's going to be a thing. 166 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,200 Especially in this culture in which we live, 167 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,200 in this culture that says, I am my own authority. 168 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,533 If you teach what is truth, i.e. 169 00:09:02,566 --> 00:09:06,433 afford true authority from the one who is the authority, it's 170 00:09:06,433 --> 00:09:07,466 going to be offensive. 171 00:09:07,466 --> 00:09:09,866 For those who think their truth is their truth. 172 00:09:11,533 --> 00:09:13,800 And so it's going to be offensive. 173 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,333 One of the best things a coach can do 174 00:09:16,333 --> 00:09:19,700 is to be truthful with their players and tell them the truth. 175 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,800 You're not good. 176 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Or you're good, but you're not great. 177 00:09:26,966 --> 00:09:28,766 I want to help you take the next step. 178 00:09:28,766 --> 00:09:32,133 And to do that, you gotta get better at X, Y, and Z. 179 00:09:32,866 --> 00:09:35,566 You're not coachable and coachable. 180 00:09:35,566 --> 00:09:37,600 Kid becomes an unemployable adult. 181 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,000 Let me help you understand this. 182 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,466 At every at every every scope. 183 00:09:44,466 --> 00:09:46,900 This applies here. 184 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:49,933 Now we know how not do the fifth like brutally. 185 00:09:49,933 --> 00:09:52,533 But but truth is gotta be spoken. 186 00:09:52,533 --> 00:09:55,800 But another reason why why we offend people 187 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,700 is because sometimes we just say the wrong thing and misspeak. 188 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:02,333 Sometimes we get it wrong, 189 00:10:02,333 --> 00:10:03,833 and sometimes we say things that 190 00:10:04,866 --> 00:10:08,066 we say the wrong way with the wrong intent, the wrong priority. 191 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,200 And it just hurts. And we offend people. 192 00:10:11,233 --> 00:10:12,300 And when those things happen, 193 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:15,300 we need to be able to say, look, I'm sorry I was wrong. 194 00:10:15,766 --> 00:10:18,066 I'm sorry that what I said was so offensive. 195 00:10:18,066 --> 00:10:21,066 I just I didn't do it well, 196 00:10:21,133 --> 00:10:22,566 I'm going to happen that way. 197 00:10:22,566 --> 00:10:25,466 But another reason, especially in the context of preaching and teaching, 198 00:10:25,466 --> 00:10:30,500 why James says we offend everybody is is this because as a teacher, 199 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:34,933 as a preacher, my theology and understanding of God in the kingdom grows. 200 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,466 I can look back a decade ago 201 00:10:38,466 --> 00:10:41,466 and think, what was I thinking? 202 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:44,800 I can look back two decades ago 203 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,200 and think, well, I've 204 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,933 some of the stuff and I'm old enough. 205 00:10:49,933 --> 00:10:53,733 I can go back three decades when I was first 206 00:10:53,733 --> 00:10:57,333 learned to preach and teach and think, oh Lord, thank you for your mercy. 207 00:10:59,366 --> 00:11:01,266 Thank you that some people are still walking with you 208 00:11:01,266 --> 00:11:04,266 in spite of my preaching and teaching. 209 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,966 The fact is, we have a lot of. 210 00:11:06,966 --> 00:11:09,000 If you if you're someone 211 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 who speaks, you have a lot of opportunity to offend people. 212 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,833 And if you're someone who speaks a lot, you have a lot more opportunity 213 00:11:15,833 --> 00:11:17,500 to offend people. 214 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:19,633 And this is what the Bible says. 215 00:11:19,633 --> 00:11:22,633 Sin is not ended by multiplying words, 216 00:11:22,966 --> 00:11:23,366 numbers. 217 00:11:23,366 --> 00:11:26,366 What it's saying is where there's a lot of words, there's a lot of sin. 218 00:11:28,933 --> 00:11:31,933 But the prudent hold their tongues. 219 00:11:33,433 --> 00:11:35,933 The tongue of the righteous is choice, silver. 220 00:11:35,933 --> 00:11:39,133 But the heart of the wicked is of little value. 221 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:43,133 The lips of the righteous nourished many. 222 00:11:43,133 --> 00:11:46,133 But fools die for lack of sense. 223 00:11:46,666 --> 00:11:49,000 And so he says, look, just be careful with your words, 224 00:11:50,333 --> 00:11:51,933 because the more you speak, the more often 225 00:11:51,933 --> 00:11:54,933 you're going to have to offend people. 226 00:11:56,300 --> 00:12:00,000 Now, in the world of fathers, 227 00:12:00,766 --> 00:12:03,366 this is especially true. 228 00:12:03,366 --> 00:12:06,300 have any of you dads 229 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:08,466 just been at that place in your 230 00:12:08,466 --> 00:12:11,466 in your life, your world, your situation 231 00:12:12,033 --> 00:12:15,300 where the kids, the wife that someone 232 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:19,333 has just as pushed so much, where you just start, 233 00:12:20,033 --> 00:12:22,733 start the word vomit 234 00:12:22,733 --> 00:12:24,933 and you're in the midst of the stream 235 00:12:24,933 --> 00:12:27,933 and you're thinking, I shouldn't be saying what I'm saying, 236 00:12:28,133 --> 00:12:31,800 and I shouldn't be saying it the way I'm saying it, but I can't help it right now. 237 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,333 And I got a lot more words, and I'm going to spew out right now. 238 00:12:35,433 --> 00:12:36,966 And have you ever been there? 239 00:12:36,966 --> 00:12:39,966 Yeah, yeah. 240 00:12:41,033 --> 00:12:42,500 So, if if 241 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:46,700 you kids and wives have 242 00:12:46,733 --> 00:12:50,466 your dad and husband ever been anywhere on Tell the Truth, you will ask those who. 243 00:12:51,766 --> 00:12:54,433 Now, I don't I don't know the reality of this. 244 00:12:54,433 --> 00:12:56,433 I know my experience of it. 245 00:12:56,433 --> 00:13:02,233 I cannot I cannot think of one hurtful thing 246 00:13:02,233 --> 00:13:05,233 that my father ever said to me. 247 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,800 I'm sure he did. 248 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:12,633 But I've been thinking. 249 00:13:12,633 --> 00:13:14,866 I've been trying to remember some time 250 00:13:14,866 --> 00:13:18,066 when my dad just lost it on me. 251 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:23,500 And I'm so fortunate 252 00:13:23,633 --> 00:13:26,633 to not be able to think of a time, 253 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,100 and I thank God for that. 254 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:31,100 I think that I thank God for you. 255 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:36,700 And I hope my sons have very bad memories. 256 00:13:37,233 --> 00:13:37,566 All right. 257 00:13:37,566 --> 00:13:40,333 Not all my bad, because now I said that was wrong. 258 00:13:40,333 --> 00:13:42,666 Very poor. 259 00:13:42,666 --> 00:13:44,066 I hope they can't remember very much. 260 00:13:44,066 --> 00:13:44,900 That's what I'm trying to say. 261 00:13:46,533 --> 00:13:48,700 I'm giving them a bad memories to help me forget it. 262 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:51,700 That's what I'm saying. 263 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:57,000 But when James says, be careful because you'll be judged more strictly. 264 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,666 What's you talk about being judged more strictly. 265 00:13:58,666 --> 00:14:01,666 Are we going to be judged more strictly by God? 266 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:04,966 Maybe. 267 00:14:04,966 --> 00:14:07,833 But. But here's why that's not scary. 268 00:14:07,833 --> 00:14:10,133 Because though we may be judged more strictly by God, 269 00:14:10,133 --> 00:14:13,133 it doesn't mean that we be condemned more fully. 270 00:14:15,033 --> 00:14:15,900 Because. 271 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:18,500 Because I am in Christ, therefore there is no condemnation, 272 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:21,500 even under strict judgment. 273 00:14:22,066 --> 00:14:23,266 He may just be more strictly, 274 00:14:23,266 --> 00:14:26,266 but he's not going to condemn me more greatly, 275 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,600 because under the blood of Christ and Him on the cross, 276 00:14:29,733 --> 00:14:32,733 that's even that sin is forgiven. 277 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:37,833 And the sin of misspeaking sitting on this stool is not greater than your sin, 278 00:14:39,266 --> 00:14:40,900 and it's covered by the blood of Jesus. 279 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:43,666 So there's no fear, 280 00:14:43,666 --> 00:14:46,666 there's responsibility, 281 00:14:46,866 --> 00:14:48,766 but there's no fear. 282 00:14:48,766 --> 00:14:51,566 He just says, just make sure you're called 283 00:14:51,566 --> 00:14:54,566 because you'll be judged more strictly, more strictly to what? 284 00:14:56,833 --> 00:14:58,500 I don't believe that what James is saying 285 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:00,700 that will be more strictly to get it all right, 286 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:05,100 because God is so profound and so big and so deep and such an incredible mystery 287 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,666 that how can any preacher teacher get everything right about who God is? 288 00:15:11,366 --> 00:15:14,366 So I don't think he's saying, make sure that you get everything right. 289 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,266 I think one of the things he's saying is we will be judged 290 00:15:17,266 --> 00:15:20,266 more strictly. 291 00:15:20,433 --> 00:15:23,433 Because we have to teach the whole thing. 292 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:26,100 We gotta we gotta teach 293 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:28,500 from the table of contents, through the maps. 294 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,700 And there's some stuff in here 295 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:34,700 that that as a teacher, you used to want to deal with. 296 00:15:35,466 --> 00:15:38,100 Because how it's going to come across to this culture 297 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:40,366 and there's a tendency to back off a little bit. 298 00:15:40,366 --> 00:15:41,433 Let me tell you this. 299 00:15:41,433 --> 00:15:47,633 I owe you and I owe God my father, who's called me the respect 300 00:15:47,633 --> 00:15:50,633 to teach the whole thing. 301 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,600 And if I back off out of fear of you, if I back off 302 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,933 because you might cancel me, that's what will be judged. 303 00:15:59,666 --> 00:16:01,100 And so I approach this 304 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:04,100 with authority and great humility. 305 00:16:04,933 --> 00:16:07,433 But I'm not backing off. 306 00:16:07,433 --> 00:16:10,000 Do you understand that? Yes. 307 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,333 And I don't want to offend you, but if you're offended by 308 00:16:12,333 --> 00:16:15,333 God's truth, that's your fault, not mine. 309 00:16:15,566 --> 00:16:20,533 And I'll teach it as gently as I can with as much mercy and grace as I've received. 310 00:16:21,966 --> 00:16:24,966 But it's going to be the whole of Scripture. 311 00:16:25,233 --> 00:16:28,233 We'll be judged more fully. 312 00:16:28,333 --> 00:16:29,733 I think that what that also means is 313 00:16:29,733 --> 00:16:32,733 we can't be lazy about it. 314 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,600 Dealing with the Word of God requires such dedication 315 00:16:36,900 --> 00:16:40,800 and devotion and struggle and turmoil and work. 316 00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:43,233 It is exhausting, 317 00:16:43,233 --> 00:16:46,800 but it must not be approached with a lazy attitude 318 00:16:47,833 --> 00:16:49,500 that will just show up and see what God does. 319 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:52,500 That's so wrong. 320 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:54,700 And so it's got to be handled 321 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:57,700 with great care and God will judge me. 322 00:16:58,466 --> 00:17:01,666 Not that I get it all right, because I am unable to get it all right, 323 00:17:01,766 --> 00:17:07,166 but with the diligence and dedication and devotion that I give to the study 324 00:17:07,166 --> 00:17:10,200 and the preparation so that I can do it well, does that make sense? 325 00:17:12,166 --> 00:17:14,833 Same thing goes for you. 326 00:17:14,833 --> 00:17:16,800 Every one of you in this place is a teacher. 327 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,033 At some level. 328 00:17:19,033 --> 00:17:22,900 And when the Kingdom of God seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, 329 00:17:23,333 --> 00:17:26,333 when that is paramount in your life, 330 00:17:26,766 --> 00:17:29,133 you better approach this and putting it here 331 00:17:29,133 --> 00:17:34,000 with great dedication and wisdom and diligence. 332 00:17:35,066 --> 00:17:36,633 Amen. 333 00:17:36,633 --> 00:17:37,566 Amen. 334 00:17:37,566 --> 00:17:40,566 Understand? 335 00:17:40,966 --> 00:17:41,933 But let me tell you this. 336 00:17:41,933 --> 00:17:44,933 This is another way we'll be judged. 337 00:17:45,766 --> 00:17:48,766 That what I proclaim. 338 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,200 I've got a practice. 339 00:17:53,233 --> 00:17:53,566 Dummy. 340 00:17:53,566 --> 00:17:55,633 And have to be perfect. 341 00:17:55,633 --> 00:17:56,233 And that's why I. 342 00:17:56,233 --> 00:17:59,700 One of the things I will proclaim is repentance and mercy 343 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:02,700 and grace. 344 00:18:02,733 --> 00:18:05,733 Because as I fail, I will repent before my God, 345 00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:09,700 and I will always proclaim his mercy and his grace. 346 00:18:11,733 --> 00:18:13,433 So that I have the authority 347 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,333 to preach truth and to call you to repentance. 348 00:18:18,333 --> 00:18:21,333 Because of God's mercy and grace. 349 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,400 Now, part of what that means. 350 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,466 Is that when I talk about 351 00:18:31,466 --> 00:18:34,466 God being the God 352 00:18:34,633 --> 00:18:37,633 who steps in and intervenes, 353 00:18:38,133 --> 00:18:40,500 who is the God of mercy, who is a God of grace, 354 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:43,500 who was a God of life? 355 00:18:43,866 --> 00:18:47,133 Who is a God who is present with us? 356 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,200 Who is the God that we can approach his throne of grace 357 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,733 with confidence, because we know that before the throne of grace 358 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:59,533 we receive mercy and grace to help us in our time of need. 359 00:19:01,133 --> 00:19:05,333 That because I believe and I preach that for God's people, 360 00:19:05,333 --> 00:19:08,333 he will discharge his ministering angels 361 00:19:09,533 --> 00:19:12,533 to both protect them from the evil one 362 00:19:12,533 --> 00:19:15,533 and to serve and help us in our times of need. 363 00:19:15,533 --> 00:19:18,266 Because I preach that I must practice that 364 00:19:20,133 --> 00:19:23,033 in the first service, 365 00:19:23,033 --> 00:19:26,033 I was halfway through my message 366 00:19:26,133 --> 00:19:30,800 and there was a man sitting right back there who turned to his side 367 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,800 and kind of knelt down, and I thought he was just having a moment with Jesus. 368 00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:38,733 And I kept preaching, 369 00:19:38,733 --> 00:19:41,800 and he stood up and kind of stumbled to the back. 370 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,200 A couple people saw was gone and got up and followed him, 371 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,400 and he fell down. 372 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:52,566 I had no idea what was going on. 373 00:19:52,566 --> 00:19:54,566 Most of us didn't. 374 00:19:54,566 --> 00:19:57,566 Couple people in the back did. 375 00:19:58,066 --> 00:20:01,066 What was happening was having a heart attack 376 00:20:01,733 --> 00:20:04,133 and he collapsed. 377 00:20:04,133 --> 00:20:06,800 And there were some people 378 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,866 in our church, medical professionals, 379 00:20:11,033 --> 00:20:14,033 who recognized what was going on and jumped up 380 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,900 and ran back 381 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:20,500 and started doing what they knew to do to try to save his life. 382 00:20:21,666 --> 00:20:23,900 His heart stopped. 383 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:26,833 He stopped breathing. 384 00:20:26,833 --> 00:20:28,466 All this was going on back there. 385 00:20:28,466 --> 00:20:31,466 I have no idea what's happening. 386 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,500 and so I directed the 387 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:39,100 chaos and just said, there are some medical professionals here. 388 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,266 Let them do their work. 389 00:20:41,266 --> 00:20:42,400 And they shouted back. 390 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,000 They're doing it! 391 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,666 I couldn't tell what was going on, but all of a sudden 392 00:20:46,666 --> 00:20:49,666 I see the compressions start, 393 00:20:49,766 --> 00:20:51,400 and they're doing compressions on a man. 394 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,400 And right laying on the ground, right back there. 395 00:20:56,366 --> 00:20:58,500 His heart had stopped. 396 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:01,200 His breathing had stopped, 397 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,200 and he was dead. 398 00:21:05,466 --> 00:21:07,700 And one of the ladies back there 399 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:10,700 just yelled, pray, pray. 400 00:21:12,033 --> 00:21:15,033 And so we, of course, stopped everything. 401 00:21:16,133 --> 00:21:18,600 And I sat here 402 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,600 and I said, church, start praying. 403 00:21:23,133 --> 00:21:26,133 And I prayed. 404 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,033 Because what I have been preaching 405 00:21:30,033 --> 00:21:31,400 is that we can approach the 406 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,400 throne of grace with confidence, 407 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:38,433 knowing that there we will receive 408 00:21:38,433 --> 00:21:41,433 mercy and grace to help us in our time of need. 409 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,900 And that God dispatches 410 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:48,900 his angels as ministering spirits 411 00:21:49,633 --> 00:21:52,466 to protect from the evil one, 412 00:21:52,466 --> 00:21:55,800 and to intervene in our needs and help us, 413 00:21:57,366 --> 00:22:00,500 and that God is the God of life 414 00:22:01,266 --> 00:22:04,266 and peace and not chaos, 415 00:22:04,833 --> 00:22:08,766 and that God is the God who steps in, 416 00:22:10,766 --> 00:22:13,766 and that God is the God who makes up 417 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:15,133 in strength. 418 00:22:15,133 --> 00:22:17,700 When we're weak and fail. 419 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,100 That God is the God who gives discernment 420 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:23,100 and wisdom to know what to do in the midst. 421 00:22:23,266 --> 00:22:25,500 When we don't. 422 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:30,400 That God is the God who is present in this place, that God is the God 423 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:36,266 who orchestrates and intervenes to bring people to the exact scenario. 424 00:22:36,266 --> 00:22:40,700 He needs his people to live and move and, and, and act in that 425 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:46,166 he is the God that orchestrated this man to have a heart attack in this place. 426 00:22:46,166 --> 00:22:47,400 On Sunday morning. 427 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:51,333 That God is the God that orchestrated a paramedic 428 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,933 who is never off on Sunday to just by chance, have this Sunday off 429 00:22:56,166 --> 00:22:59,966 and jump in and be the first to give compression who God is. 430 00:22:59,966 --> 00:23:04,266 The God is who orchestrates a retired spinal surgeon from Kaiser 431 00:23:04,333 --> 00:23:07,933 to be sitting right next to the man when he collapsed to take care of him. 432 00:23:08,366 --> 00:23:12,266 That God is the God who sees us in our need and says, 433 00:23:12,266 --> 00:23:16,733 I will step in and intervene if you just simply come to my throne 434 00:23:16,833 --> 00:23:19,833 believing that I will, that God is the God 435 00:23:19,833 --> 00:23:22,800 that can not only stop hearts but can start them. 436 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,533 That God is the God that can bring life to where there is death, that 437 00:23:26,533 --> 00:23:28,266 God is the God. Yeah. 438 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,066 And if I didn't pray that with my words, 439 00:23:32,066 --> 00:23:35,066 it wouldn't matter if I believed it in my head. 440 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,866 And so I sat here knowing, just having preached this, 441 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,566 that God will judge me more strictly, that if I believe you in my mind, 442 00:23:45,566 --> 00:23:50,100 in my heart, and then profess it before the church, it's dead faith. 443 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,600 And I would stand before God one day. 444 00:23:54,733 --> 00:24:00,100 Oh, yeah, here's what I'm saying. 445 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:04,766 If any of us claim that faith and that God, 446 00:24:06,033 --> 00:24:11,066 that prayer and that confidence has got to come through in our words, 447 00:24:11,333 --> 00:24:15,300 not a timid God is not a timid, oh Lord, we don't know. 448 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,833 Not a timid God, I'm sure, but God. 449 00:24:17,833 --> 00:24:25,000 not commanding his hand at all, 450 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,800 but just requesting 451 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,633 the blessing of being in his presence. 452 00:24:31,633 --> 00:24:34,233 And we pray for a peace that passes understanding. 453 00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:39,266 And a submissiveness to his sovereignty 454 00:24:40,433 --> 00:24:42,800 and a realization 455 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,833 that for those in this place who didn't know Jesus would realize that 456 00:24:47,833 --> 00:24:51,500 one day they will stand before him in those who in that time will be. 457 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,400 And there's no time to delay. 458 00:24:58,733 --> 00:25:01,233 I was told just after that service 459 00:25:01,233 --> 00:25:05,466 that someone who was, who was who was been exposed to our church time 460 00:25:05,466 --> 00:25:09,533 and time again decided because of that, that it's time for her to get baptized. 461 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:12,500 Yeah. 462 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,166 Talk to the paramedics outside. 463 00:25:15,166 --> 00:25:18,166 And they said, we love your church. 464 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 We all have the opportunity. 465 00:25:24,966 --> 00:25:27,966 To not just believe, but to speak what we believe. 466 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:30,900 Not that speaking make it makes it happen, 467 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,900 but speaking changes the heart 468 00:25:34,233 --> 00:25:37,233 and you. 469 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,766 And so in that moment, I had to speak 470 00:25:41,733 --> 00:25:44,733 as a teacher and a preacher. 471 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,600 Words of authority 472 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,900 that were from God's Word. 473 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:51,000 They were my words. 474 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 They were just God's words. 475 00:25:54,566 --> 00:25:57,033 And there were people all over the church with their hands 476 00:25:57,033 --> 00:26:00,566 raised and praying themselves like reaching out in their spirit. 477 00:26:00,566 --> 00:26:03,566 God moved God saying, don't let this man die. 478 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,300 Not on Sunday in our church. 479 00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:09,266 The Lord, that church is out there. 480 00:26:09,266 --> 00:26:09,600 He could die. 481 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,600 And but not this one. 482 00:26:13,033 --> 00:26:15,300 In fact, 483 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:18,300 and there was just this overwhelming sense that no, 484 00:26:19,366 --> 00:26:22,366 not today. 485 00:26:22,633 --> 00:26:24,700 So they started the compressions, 486 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,466 went through two rounds of people, 487 00:26:27,466 --> 00:26:29,500 and there was some wailing and some crying, 488 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,500 certainly some pleading with God. 489 00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:36,133 He had no heartbeat and no breath and no pulse. 490 00:26:38,066 --> 00:26:41,866 And so we started praying, God, today you are the God of life. 491 00:26:41,866 --> 00:26:42,966 You're the God of healing. 492 00:26:42,966 --> 00:26:45,333 And we speak that and pronounce that with the authority. 493 00:26:45,333 --> 00:26:46,800 The name of Jesus over him right now. 494 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,800 And almost immediately start praying that 495 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,400 he woke up. 496 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:56,833 And he shut up. 497 00:26:56,833 --> 00:26:58,333 Your. 498 00:26:58,333 --> 00:27:00,066 And he said, I'm okay. 499 00:27:00,066 --> 00:27:03,066 I think it was just indigestion. 500 00:27:06,966 --> 00:27:08,933 Oh, yeah. 501 00:27:08,933 --> 00:27:10,700 Listen. 502 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:11,700 He died. 503 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:14,333 Yeah. 504 00:27:14,333 --> 00:27:15,933 God is so good. 505 00:27:15,933 --> 00:27:19,100 So that he brought people who knew what they were doing. 506 00:27:21,266 --> 00:27:22,166 And he's so good 507 00:27:22,166 --> 00:27:25,166 to work beyond their ability 508 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:28,500 to create life in a dead man. 509 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,633 So yeah. 510 00:27:29,633 --> 00:27:30,100 You can play. 511 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:33,100 You better clap for that. 512 00:27:36,366 --> 00:27:39,833 So much life that as I'm talking to him 513 00:27:39,833 --> 00:27:43,500 in the ambulance I said I will see you next week. 514 00:27:44,366 --> 00:27:47,366 He said no, I'm going back packing. 515 00:27:51,866 --> 00:27:54,100 And I thank God 516 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,100 that God orchestrated his life 517 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:59,100 and the lives of the medical professionals in this place. 518 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:01,500 For him to be here and have his heart attack today. 519 00:28:07,733 --> 00:28:09,233 God is a good God. 520 00:28:09,233 --> 00:28:12,566 Oh, God, now he's good 521 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:16,100 regardless of that result. 522 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:20,100 You understand that? 523 00:28:22,633 --> 00:28:25,633 He's good regardless of that result. 524 00:28:27,933 --> 00:28:28,933 It was just a lot of fun 525 00:28:28,933 --> 00:28:31,933 to get to see that result. 526 00:28:33,633 --> 00:28:36,333 It's the first time 527 00:28:36,333 --> 00:28:40,700 in my 30 plus years of ministry that someone has died. 528 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,700 While I was preaching. 529 00:28:46,166 --> 00:28:49,166 And it's my first time in 30 plus years of ministry 530 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,600 that God's brought him back to life. 531 00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:57,566 And what I told the church in the first service, 532 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:01,100 after a moment like that, 533 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:03,733 we got 1 or 2 options. 534 00:29:03,733 --> 00:29:05,766 You either have a baptism or take an offering. 535 00:29:05,766 --> 00:29:07,500 I don't know what. I don't know what else to do. 536 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:10,500 I don't know what else to do. 537 00:29:13,166 --> 00:29:14,100 But I want you to know this. 538 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:14,500 Friends. 539 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:19,100 And if you claim Jesus. 540 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:22,833 You need to not just claim him. 541 00:29:22,833 --> 00:29:25,833 You need to live like you do. 542 00:29:26,866 --> 00:29:28,566 And you need to not just live like you do. 543 00:29:28,566 --> 00:29:31,566 You need to proclaim like you do. 544 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,166 Because God will judge every one of his kids who claim something 545 00:29:36,166 --> 00:29:39,166 but doesn't act like it and doesn't talk like it. 546 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,233 You understand? 547 00:29:43,233 --> 00:29:46,233 Now we leave the results up to him, 548 00:29:47,633 --> 00:29:50,633 and in grief and celebration, 549 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,900 we honor him for who he is. 550 00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:56,033 Is that clear? 551 00:29:56,033 --> 00:29:58,200 And that's what it means to be 552 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,200 mentored by Jesus 553 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,666 and discipled by him. 554 00:30:02,666 --> 00:30:05,300 That honors the father 555 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:07,300 in every miracle, and in the garden 556 00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:10,300 and the cross. 557 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:13,500 And Christmas. 558 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:19,266 The first service was this also, if you don't yet know this, God, 559 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,100 and if you have not trusted him with your life. 560 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,866 I don't know what it is you're waiting for. 561 00:30:33,133 --> 00:30:33,900 It's appointed 562 00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:36,900 once for man to die and then be judged. 563 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,000 What the Bible says. 564 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,200 Every one of us will go through that moment. 565 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:46,766 And if we live our lives 566 00:30:46,766 --> 00:30:49,800 in rejection of Jesus, when that moment comes, 567 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,600 we will be rejected before the father, 568 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 not out of anger, 569 00:30:58,566 --> 00:31:01,566 but he'll honor our choices on earth. 570 00:31:04,533 --> 00:31:07,533 Every one of us will go through that moment. 571 00:31:09,233 --> 00:31:10,166 And I implore you, 572 00:31:10,166 --> 00:31:13,166 in the name of Jesus, with great mercy and grace, 573 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:15,433 get yourself right with God 574 00:31:15,433 --> 00:31:18,433 through faith in Jesus right now, 575 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,800 right now. 576 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:27,166 God is a good God. 577 00:31:27,166 --> 00:31:29,933 He's a good father. 578 00:31:29,933 --> 00:31:32,933 And I thank the Lord 579 00:31:32,966 --> 00:31:35,333 for his salvation 580 00:31:35,333 --> 00:31:37,200 and for the saving of that life. 581 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,566 Today you, you. It's a good Sunday. 582 00:31:41,866 --> 00:31:44,733 It's a good Sunday. 583 00:31:44,733 --> 00:31:47,400 And that's the God you get to carry around with you. 584 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,266 It's been said that Christianity is the only religion in the world 585 00:31:52,733 --> 00:31:55,733 where the man's God comes and lives in him. 586 00:31:58,566 --> 00:32:00,700 This is it. 587 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:03,700 There's no other religion in the world 588 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,200 where the God comes and lives inside. 589 00:32:08,433 --> 00:32:11,133 Is it? 590 00:32:11,133 --> 00:32:11,866 And it matters. 591 00:32:11,866 --> 00:32:14,866 And you need him. You understand? 592 00:32:15,433 --> 00:32:16,266 And you pray with me, father. 593 00:32:16,266 --> 00:32:18,533 Thank you 594 00:32:18,533 --> 00:32:21,133 God. I give you praise 595 00:32:21,133 --> 00:32:23,133 for the saving of that life today. 596 00:32:23,133 --> 00:32:26,133 Yeah, you left to ourselves. 597 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:30,300 He's dead and he stays dead. 598 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,500 I thank you for those people 599 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:36,166 for whom you've given skill to, and knowledge and understanding 600 00:32:36,166 --> 00:32:40,400 a call of their on their lives to do what they did. 601 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,400 I thank you that you orchestrated them to be here today, 602 00:32:43,833 --> 00:32:45,833 when so many of them weren't even planning on it. 603 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:50,100 You just changed plans 604 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,100 so you could have your people here. 605 00:32:53,766 --> 00:32:55,100 And I thank you that 606 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:58,833 that that his heart attack happened here at that moment and 607 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,733 and not tomorrow and not next week when he's up in the woods. 608 00:33:04,366 --> 00:33:05,500 Yeah. 609 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:08,500 It just so good. 610 00:33:08,566 --> 00:33:10,800 And I thank you for the faith and the confidence 611 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,800 and the assurance of this church that while that's going on, 612 00:33:15,066 --> 00:33:17,533 prayed with the thought that approached your throne of grace, 613 00:33:17,533 --> 00:33:20,633 knowing that will receive mercy and grace to help us in our time of need. 614 00:33:20,766 --> 00:33:23,766 You're so good, so 615 00:33:23,766 --> 00:33:26,466 I thank you that this church has a story 616 00:33:26,466 --> 00:33:29,466 of resurrection to tell. 617 00:33:30,933 --> 00:33:33,066 You're so good 618 00:33:33,066 --> 00:33:36,066 and you're a good father. You. 619 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:38,633 God, I pray that 620 00:33:38,633 --> 00:33:42,033 that what you allowed us to experience this year would not be wasted on us. 621 00:33:44,966 --> 00:33:46,100 Let us not treat this 622 00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:49,100 with contempt or normalcy at all. 623 00:33:50,233 --> 00:33:53,233 So? So move your hand. 624 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,233 I pray you call us into relation in the following of you 625 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,333 the God who would live in us. 626 00:34:00,333 --> 00:34:03,333 My goodness. 627 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:04,966 Friends, I want to invite you 628 00:34:04,966 --> 00:34:07,966 if you have never accepted Jesus as your Savior yet. 629 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,133 Boy, this is your day. 630 00:34:13,133 --> 00:34:15,266 Would you just simply by faith said, God, 631 00:34:15,266 --> 00:34:18,266 I accept your son into my life. 632 00:34:18,533 --> 00:34:19,766 Jesus, come into my life. 633 00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:22,300 Forgive me of my sin. 634 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:24,500 I want you living in me. 635 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:26,400 You are real. 636 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,333 There's no denying it. 637 00:34:29,333 --> 00:34:31,000 You resurrect dead things, dead 638 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 people resurrect me, make me new. 639 00:34:34,133 --> 00:34:37,133 I accept you as a leader in my life. 640 00:34:38,700 --> 00:34:39,600 Would you take that step? 641 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,500 If you never done that? Would you take that step right now? 642 00:34:43,333 --> 00:34:45,366 And if you've taken that step, would you. 643 00:34:45,366 --> 00:34:48,000 Would you just say, God, 644 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,500 I want to live and I want to speak like I really do 645 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:53,500 believe this. 646 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:55,900 Like you're alive. 647 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:56,800 Your word is alive. 648 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,966 It's active and sharper than any two edged sword. 649 00:34:58,966 --> 00:35:01,966 It it works. 650 00:35:03,466 --> 00:35:06,433 Would you give me the confidence in authority to act like it doesn't? 651 00:35:06,433 --> 00:35:09,400 To speak like it does? 652 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,433 Would you resurrect dead things in me? 653 00:35:11,433 --> 00:35:14,433 Would you resurrect dead people around me? 654 00:35:15,266 --> 00:35:18,266 Would you give me the boldness of the courage 655 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:21,900 to move in the authority of of your word, 656 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,100 submitting to your sovereignty, whatever that means? 657 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,800 Father, I thank you. 658 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,466 We can't say enough what a good father you are. 659 00:35:34,466 --> 00:35:35,966 You you. 660 00:35:35,966 --> 00:35:39,100 I thank you for the experience of that in a very real way. 661 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:39,566 Today. 662 00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:44,100 May you be forever praised. 663 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,400 Pray we never get tired of telling your story. 664 00:35:47,666 --> 00:35:50,066 Never. 665 00:35:50,066 --> 00:35:52,466 God, we love you. 666 00:35:52,466 --> 00:35:54,833 I thank you for the outcome of first service, 667 00:35:54,833 --> 00:35:57,833 that it ended like it did. 668 00:35:58,366 --> 00:36:01,366 What a good God you are is 669 00:36:02,266 --> 00:36:03,100 pray all these things. 670 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:05,933 Jesus in your matchless, mighty name. 671 00:36:05,933 --> 00:36:07,866 Amen. 672 00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:10,766 Listen. 673 00:36:10,766 --> 00:36:12,666 Celebrate who God is 674 00:36:12,666 --> 00:36:15,600 and the fullness of his sovereignty, 675 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,600 the pain of it and the glory of it. 676 00:36:20,133 --> 00:36:22,733 The loss and the gain. 677 00:36:22,733 --> 00:36:25,733 He's sovereign and he's good. 678 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:27,500 We gotta understand that. 679 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:30,400 We gotta know that. 680 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,800 Sometimes we go through this valley of the shadow of death. 681 00:36:34,366 --> 00:36:35,133 Yeah. 682 00:36:35,133 --> 00:36:38,133 Sometimes we go through the crucifixion. 683 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,200 Sometimes we go to the grave. 684 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,200 And other times we get to see in living color 685 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:48,600 his hand of miracle, his hand of power, his hand of resurrection, his hand of. 686 00:36:50,666 --> 00:36:53,666 Of might. 687 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,700 We praise him all the same. 688 00:36:56,733 --> 00:36:59,733 Listen, if you've not been baptized 689 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,200 by immersion. 690 00:37:03,266 --> 00:37:04,933 And you know Jesus as your Savior, 691 00:37:04,933 --> 00:37:07,933 next week is your week. 692 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,533 And I implore you 693 00:37:09,533 --> 00:37:12,533 in that same name of Jesus to be obedient 694 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,433 and to follow Jesus example of baptism by immersion. 695 00:37:18,866 --> 00:37:21,200 And if that's you, I want you to let us know. 696 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,966 Stop at the start here, Booth. 697 00:37:22,966 --> 00:37:24,466 Fill out one of the cards. 698 00:37:24,466 --> 00:37:26,633 Let us know online. 699 00:37:26,633 --> 00:37:29,533 Jeff, me, David. 700 00:37:29,533 --> 00:37:33,366 Okay, Kaylee, someone needs to have a conversation with you this week, 701 00:37:34,033 --> 00:37:37,200 but just a conversation to make sure we're good. 702 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:40,600 And then let 703 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,600 let us celebrate your baptism next week. 704 00:37:45,266 --> 00:37:48,266 It's your next right spiritual step. 705 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:51,266 Listen, we're going to sing one more song. 706 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:53,333 And for the rest of the day, I want you to carry with you 707 00:37:54,366 --> 00:37:55,133 the knowledge 708 00:37:55,133 --> 00:37:58,133 and the assurance of this incredible God 709 00:37:58,166 --> 00:38:00,833 that we serve and who loves us. 710 00:38:00,833 --> 00:38:02,333 All. Right, let's sing.