1 00:00:00,247 --> 00:00:01,087 Good morning. 2 00:00:02,587 --> 00:00:03,937 I have one question for you. 3 00:00:05,127 --> 00:00:08,807 Do you guys realize that you've been changed? 4 00:00:10,517 --> 00:00:10,967 Do you? 5 00:00:12,447 --> 00:00:13,737 Okay, that was the question. 6 00:00:14,737 --> 00:00:16,897 My name is Kenny Barber. 7 00:00:17,997 --> 00:00:20,197 I've been a part of this church. 8 00:00:20,227 --> 00:00:23,847 My journey started 29 years ago. 9 00:00:25,317 --> 00:00:27,907 I've been married 28 years. 10 00:00:28,577 --> 00:00:32,616 And I've been in California 27 years. 11 00:00:32,987 --> 00:00:34,817 So a lot's happened those three years. 12 00:00:35,407 --> 00:00:36,577 I have two daughters. 13 00:00:36,947 --> 00:00:39,187 Uh, one, my oldest daughter is Courtney. 14 00:00:39,187 --> 00:00:39,827 She's here. 15 00:00:40,347 --> 00:00:42,127 Um, A. 16 00:00:42,127 --> 00:00:42,407 K. 17 00:00:42,407 --> 00:00:42,417 A. 18 00:00:43,357 --> 00:00:45,237 Um, Gooders, is what we call her. 19 00:00:46,137 --> 00:00:50,097 And, um, Kelsey, my daughter Kelsey, Uh, she's in Baltimore, but actually 20 00:00:50,107 --> 00:00:51,587 she's listening online here. 21 00:00:51,877 --> 00:00:53,727 Um, and we call her Scooters. 22 00:00:53,967 --> 00:00:57,607 So, they don't like that name, but that's something I've had since 23 00:00:57,607 --> 00:00:58,667 they were like eight years old. 24 00:00:59,077 --> 00:01:02,267 Um, my wife and kids, Keena right now serving, serving the kids. 25 00:01:02,687 --> 00:01:04,766 Uh, so, um, that's our family. 26 00:01:05,307 --> 00:01:09,327 Um, we have someone living with us, Hannah, she's trying to adopt her, but she 27 00:01:09,327 --> 00:01:10,967 lives with us now, she's a campus student. 28 00:01:11,167 --> 00:01:15,067 You know, so she's kind of semi part of the, um, Barbara family as well. 29 00:01:15,897 --> 00:01:20,057 Uh, so we're talking about, we've been going through the upside down blessings. 30 00:01:20,557 --> 00:01:26,077 And, um, what's unique about these blessings is that they 31 00:01:26,127 --> 00:01:30,146 are, um, illogical, right? 32 00:01:30,646 --> 00:01:33,267 You know, we've talked about, actually I missed some of the services, I've 33 00:01:33,267 --> 00:01:38,987 been away, but we've talked about, um, you're blessed if you're born, you know, 34 00:01:38,987 --> 00:01:41,697 you're blessed, um, if you're poor. 35 00:01:42,426 --> 00:01:45,157 And so some of those, like, scriptures, when I read it, 36 00:01:45,577 --> 00:01:47,277 it just doesn't seem logical. 37 00:01:47,287 --> 00:01:48,047 Maybe it's just me. 38 00:01:48,057 --> 00:01:48,907 It doesn't seem logical. 39 00:01:49,517 --> 00:01:54,327 So, I immediately just make that best practice. 40 00:01:54,987 --> 00:01:56,077 You know what I mean by best practice? 41 00:01:56,077 --> 00:01:59,607 That's something good to do, but really, can I really, really be that? 42 00:02:00,027 --> 00:02:01,457 So, I, I categorize that. 43 00:02:01,797 --> 00:02:04,647 Some people categorize that as conviction. 44 00:02:05,267 --> 00:02:09,146 You know, I have conviction for this or that, but you never hear anybody say, 45 00:02:09,197 --> 00:02:11,527 I have conviction for the beatitudes. 46 00:02:11,987 --> 00:02:13,737 I got conviction for the mourning part. 47 00:02:14,737 --> 00:02:16,007 I'm conviction for the poor. 48 00:02:16,487 --> 00:02:17,847 You never hear nobody say conviction about that. 49 00:02:17,857 --> 00:02:18,337 It's something else. 50 00:02:18,337 --> 00:02:20,167 No one has convictions about that part. 51 00:02:20,841 --> 00:02:26,262 And so, you know, you look at that, uh, and it tells me that the 52 00:02:26,292 --> 00:02:32,122 Beatitudes are all about, it's not logical, it's all about spiritual. 53 00:02:33,132 --> 00:02:34,602 Spiritual is not logical. 54 00:02:35,352 --> 00:02:38,702 In the spiritual world, one plus one does not equal two. 55 00:02:39,802 --> 00:02:44,392 And so, God says, I frustrate the wise because that doesn't make sense. 56 00:02:44,872 --> 00:02:46,492 There's no way that this could happen. 57 00:02:47,341 --> 00:02:50,062 You know, in my family, you know, we had, uh, we was going 58 00:02:50,062 --> 00:02:51,332 through a lot of challenges. 59 00:02:51,762 --> 00:02:53,922 Um, something that happened, I told, I talked to my daughter, I 60 00:02:53,922 --> 00:02:55,232 said is it okay if I bring this up? 61 00:02:55,672 --> 00:02:56,472 She says yeah. 62 00:02:56,531 --> 00:03:01,652 Um, that um, you know, she, she has had surgery uh, at John Hopkins University 63 00:03:02,212 --> 00:03:07,552 and the most unique thing happened to her is that when I heard it, um, I was 64 00:03:07,552 --> 00:03:11,942 in the gym and I couldn't hear my wife and she says, hey, a tree fell on Kelsey. 65 00:03:12,692 --> 00:03:13,432 And I was like, what? 66 00:03:14,022 --> 00:03:15,572 I was like, maybe I'm not hearing you right. 67 00:03:15,672 --> 00:03:18,132 You know, so I, you know, got out of the gym and she says, yeah, 68 00:03:18,152 --> 00:03:19,712 a tree fell on your daughter. 69 00:03:20,341 --> 00:03:24,682 And I'm like, my first thought was, you're coming home right now, you're coming home. 70 00:03:25,091 --> 00:03:28,682 You know, but it's, and so this thing is just, something 71 00:03:28,682 --> 00:03:29,912 like this is just illogical. 72 00:03:30,862 --> 00:03:32,702 That does not happen to anyone. 73 00:03:33,222 --> 00:03:36,862 And so as going through these Beatitudes, I'm thinking, you know, 74 00:03:36,902 --> 00:03:42,002 that, um, Hmm, that's something that's unique, that's something illogical. 75 00:03:42,632 --> 00:03:46,472 You know, I think what, I think the spiritual aspect of that is that there's 76 00:03:46,472 --> 00:03:48,552 something unique about this tree and you. 77 00:03:48,652 --> 00:03:49,312 It was meant for you. 78 00:03:50,212 --> 00:03:52,972 And so, and that sounds, to hear it sounds weird, it's like, what? 79 00:03:53,462 --> 00:03:56,082 This tree, and I'm thinking, and I'm not, I'm going deep. 80 00:03:56,132 --> 00:04:00,232 Like, this tree, you are 20 years old, and so this tree was sitting 81 00:04:00,232 --> 00:04:04,882 there, and it was growing through the last, you know, 19 years, growing, 82 00:04:04,882 --> 00:04:07,092 growing, growing, this was your tree. 83 00:04:07,332 --> 00:04:10,562 It's growing, it's growing, that limb is getting loose, it's for you. 84 00:04:10,772 --> 00:04:12,912 You're going, you're living your life here, here, here, here, there, but, 85 00:04:13,222 --> 00:04:16,872 like, okay, here's your time, I'm walking with my, okay, it's ready, that 86 00:04:16,872 --> 00:04:19,712 is yours, boom, that was your tree. 87 00:04:20,062 --> 00:04:24,852 Didn't kill you, blessed, but is it going to make you stronger, 88 00:04:25,022 --> 00:04:26,192 or is it going to tear you apart? 89 00:04:26,892 --> 00:04:27,732 Blessing or curse? 90 00:04:28,422 --> 00:04:30,982 So I say, and so I'm like, that's what the gratitude is about! 91 00:04:31,012 --> 00:04:33,902 I talk to her, and so she's like, Dad, I want to go. 92 00:04:34,002 --> 00:04:34,802 I want to get off the phone. 93 00:04:34,942 --> 00:04:35,842 I don't want to talk to you anymore. 94 00:04:35,882 --> 00:04:36,522 I was like, what? 95 00:04:38,192 --> 00:04:38,752 This is good stuff. 96 00:04:38,752 --> 00:04:41,322 She's like, you are so inconsiderate. 97 00:04:43,582 --> 00:04:45,252 And I was like, okay. 98 00:04:45,252 --> 00:04:46,882 It took me like a day to process that. 99 00:04:46,882 --> 00:04:47,672 I was like, you know, I'm sorry. 100 00:04:47,672 --> 00:04:48,842 I think it was inconsiderate. 101 00:04:49,312 --> 00:04:51,132 You know, so I was like, there's some consideration as 102 00:04:51,132 --> 00:04:52,672 we listen to the gratitude. 103 00:04:52,987 --> 00:04:57,747 It's just, it's practical, but it's just, I had to learn that consideration as well. 104 00:04:58,427 --> 00:05:03,697 So today we're talking about, um, excuse this, right, is Matthew 5, 6. 105 00:05:03,797 --> 00:05:06,797 Blessed are those who hunger, oh, right here, and thirst for 106 00:05:06,797 --> 00:05:09,757 righteousness, for they will be filled. 107 00:05:10,707 --> 00:05:17,587 And hunger and thirst, for us, it's about, filling is meeting needs, right? 108 00:05:17,877 --> 00:05:20,257 We have needs, and we have wants. 109 00:05:20,942 --> 00:05:25,272 Now, as we get older and mature, we gotta figure out what's more important. 110 00:05:25,572 --> 00:05:26,942 Now, in general, what's more important? 111 00:05:26,942 --> 00:05:29,602 Needs or wants, in general? 112 00:05:30,342 --> 00:05:31,232 Not a trick question, huh? 113 00:05:32,342 --> 00:05:35,842 Yeah, sometimes we realize the needs are a little more important than the wants. 114 00:05:36,232 --> 00:05:38,562 And so we have all these, these needs. 115 00:05:38,572 --> 00:05:40,902 Some of the needs are physical, right? 116 00:05:40,982 --> 00:05:43,732 Water, food, we keep our bellies fed. 117 00:05:44,152 --> 00:05:48,292 Um, some of it's, some of it's, uh, emotional needs, right? 118 00:05:48,452 --> 00:05:51,862 Okay, what age you are, you start to realize, I got some emotional needs. 119 00:05:52,267 --> 00:05:53,377 That I have to deal with. 120 00:05:53,727 --> 00:05:55,727 So, that's the part of being filled. 121 00:05:55,807 --> 00:05:58,607 And we all try to fill that in some way we have to. 122 00:05:59,207 --> 00:06:02,487 And sometimes it's temporary, sometimes it's not, you know, sometimes we've got to 123 00:06:02,487 --> 00:06:04,597 be figuring out how to meet these needs. 124 00:06:04,667 --> 00:06:06,637 And we can meet them, and it's temporary sometimes. 125 00:06:06,637 --> 00:06:07,707 But we've got to meet it again. 126 00:06:07,707 --> 00:06:08,277 It's like thirst. 127 00:06:08,277 --> 00:06:09,637 I drink, okay, I get thirsty again. 128 00:06:09,647 --> 00:06:11,887 If I don't keep drinking, hunger as well. 129 00:06:11,887 --> 00:06:12,547 Amen? 130 00:06:13,277 --> 00:06:16,357 So, and so somebody's got to figure out what the needs and the wants. 131 00:06:16,537 --> 00:06:19,377 And so, my wife is really good at that with me. 132 00:06:19,697 --> 00:06:22,707 She always says, okay, I want to, I want to do something. 133 00:06:22,827 --> 00:06:24,217 She says, Kenny, alright. 134 00:06:24,567 --> 00:06:26,707 Oh, she says honey sometimes, depends on what she relates to me. 135 00:06:27,327 --> 00:06:30,317 She says, do you really want to do this? 136 00:06:31,117 --> 00:06:34,817 Think about it, do you really, really want to do this? 137 00:06:34,817 --> 00:06:35,967 I go, man, do I want this? 138 00:06:35,967 --> 00:06:37,077 Maybe, I don't know. 139 00:06:37,327 --> 00:06:40,117 Did you consider all the other options, your opportunity cost? 140 00:06:40,802 --> 00:06:42,892 Ah, I thought about it too much, maybe I don't, you know. 141 00:06:43,282 --> 00:06:47,712 And so, we went on this trip with, um, with Corey to see his family. 142 00:06:47,952 --> 00:06:50,692 Uh, road trip, great trip, more about that later. 143 00:06:50,982 --> 00:06:54,942 We go down the road, and then we see this, we're on the 99, 144 00:06:54,942 --> 00:06:56,232 I believe, and we see this... 145 00:06:56,402 --> 00:06:58,632 It's this bright, shiny object. 146 00:06:58,952 --> 00:07:02,442 It says Ghirardelli chocolate and ice cream. 147 00:07:02,492 --> 00:07:06,272 Out of nowhere, we're in the middle of farmland and we see this store. 148 00:07:06,282 --> 00:07:07,862 It's like bright and shiny. 149 00:07:08,492 --> 00:07:11,262 I was like, guys, we got to do this. 150 00:07:12,122 --> 00:07:13,892 It's vacation, right? 151 00:07:14,262 --> 00:07:18,172 So we roll up in there and we got this like 50 foot um, RV. 152 00:07:18,182 --> 00:07:19,182 It sounded like 50, but it's huge. 153 00:07:19,202 --> 00:07:20,522 You know, try to get in there. 154 00:07:20,522 --> 00:07:21,582 You know, Ghirardelli's ice cream. 155 00:07:22,002 --> 00:07:24,472 And we get in there and I was like, okay, you know, it was great. 156 00:07:24,932 --> 00:07:28,982 And, um, and I see this, um, what do they have? 157 00:07:28,992 --> 00:07:29,842 A banana split. 158 00:07:30,032 --> 00:07:32,142 I haven't had those since I was like 20, right? 159 00:07:32,572 --> 00:07:36,232 And so, I see the banana split and I was like, I gotta have it. 160 00:07:36,242 --> 00:07:38,562 And I was telling, and it was like, I gotta have this banana split. 161 00:07:38,562 --> 00:07:39,652 I haven't had it, it's vacation. 162 00:07:39,902 --> 00:07:43,732 But I hear this voice in my head, Kenny, do you really want this? 163 00:07:43,732 --> 00:07:47,602 And I was telling the guys too, I was like, I can hear my wife saying, 164 00:07:47,812 --> 00:07:51,142 oh yeah, do you, do you really feel like you have to have this right now? 165 00:07:51,672 --> 00:07:54,232 And so I was trying to fizzle out and I was thinking, yes! 166 00:07:54,612 --> 00:07:55,382 I do. 167 00:07:56,122 --> 00:07:58,672 I'm going to have this ice, but I regret it after I had it. 168 00:07:59,022 --> 00:08:02,472 So sometimes we have those conversations about needs and wants. 169 00:08:02,642 --> 00:08:03,482 So that's what it's all about. 170 00:08:03,482 --> 00:08:07,342 It's about being filled, but with the righteousness I was 171 00:08:07,342 --> 00:08:09,992 talking about here, it's like, sometimes we have to make choices. 172 00:08:10,002 --> 00:08:13,592 We have needs and wants, and they've got to prioritize it through life. 173 00:08:13,612 --> 00:08:15,432 This is a more important need and how to meet this. 174 00:08:15,842 --> 00:08:20,872 But this is a common thread that goes underneath all of that, 175 00:08:21,052 --> 00:08:22,102 is what we're talking about. 176 00:08:22,422 --> 00:08:23,922 It's a depth. 177 00:08:24,652 --> 00:08:28,632 of righteousness that it's saying to always pursue. 178 00:08:29,492 --> 00:08:33,011 And so, I want to talk about, we're talking about hunger and thirst, 179 00:08:33,022 --> 00:08:36,072 but from a spiritual perspective. 180 00:08:36,501 --> 00:08:37,052 Okay? 181 00:08:37,342 --> 00:08:40,952 Now, hunger versus thirst. 182 00:08:42,392 --> 00:08:44,072 You have to go, here's the challenge. 183 00:08:44,232 --> 00:08:45,202 Three weeks. 184 00:08:45,942 --> 00:08:46,532 Without. 185 00:08:47,102 --> 00:08:50,752 Would you rather go through this without water, or three weeks without food, 186 00:08:50,792 --> 00:08:51,982 or would you like to shoot me down? 187 00:08:52,142 --> 00:08:52,902 You know, take me out. 188 00:08:53,172 --> 00:08:54,742 So, out of those two, raise your hand. 189 00:08:54,742 --> 00:08:56,742 Would you rather go without water for three weeks? 190 00:08:57,152 --> 00:08:57,862 Raise your hand. 191 00:09:00,532 --> 00:09:01,932 Okay, without food for three weeks? 192 00:09:01,932 --> 00:09:02,532 Raise your hand. 193 00:09:02,882 --> 00:09:04,782 You gotta choose one, Jacob. 194 00:09:05,652 --> 00:09:06,382 Gotta choose one. 195 00:09:06,402 --> 00:09:06,842 Okay. 196 00:09:07,312 --> 00:09:07,712 Right! 197 00:09:07,842 --> 00:09:10,972 So, out of the, out of those two, he's like, I think thirst is a 198 00:09:10,972 --> 00:09:12,632 little more intense than hunger. 199 00:09:13,132 --> 00:09:17,882 But this says, this says those who thirst, who thirst, it doesn't say or hunger. 200 00:09:18,222 --> 00:09:18,852 It says what? 201 00:09:20,212 --> 00:09:20,732 Both. 202 00:09:21,812 --> 00:09:23,272 Combine those two together. 203 00:09:24,042 --> 00:09:25,242 That's what it's talking about. 204 00:09:26,842 --> 00:09:27,852 That's intense. 205 00:09:29,002 --> 00:09:35,392 And so, now we move to the next slide. 206 00:09:38,452 --> 00:09:40,352 Alright, spiritual hunger. 207 00:09:41,392 --> 00:09:43,272 That girl's towing down right now, right there. 208 00:09:43,482 --> 00:09:45,372 Now, we've seen that before in ourselves and someone else. 209 00:09:45,812 --> 00:09:48,322 Spiritual thirst is like, I can't wait for the cup. 210 00:09:49,042 --> 00:09:49,862 Give it to me. 211 00:09:50,482 --> 00:09:50,822 Right? 212 00:09:51,082 --> 00:09:56,022 And so, but first of all, before we decide what this is about, the scripture. 213 00:09:56,537 --> 00:09:57,247 What is thirst? 214 00:09:58,167 --> 00:10:01,207 We all have an idea of that through our normal day to day life. 215 00:10:01,587 --> 00:10:03,037 What is it? 216 00:10:04,817 --> 00:10:05,987 Jesus gives a great example. 217 00:10:06,997 --> 00:10:12,127 Matthew 4, verse 1 5 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the 218 00:10:12,127 --> 00:10:14,587 wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 219 00:10:15,867 --> 00:10:19,587 After fasting 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. 220 00:10:20,437 --> 00:10:23,317 The tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, tell 221 00:10:23,347 --> 00:10:24,727 these stones to become bread. 222 00:10:25,047 --> 00:10:29,017 Jesus answered, It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, 223 00:10:29,057 --> 00:10:31,017 but on every word that comes. 224 00:10:31,507 --> 00:10:32,457 From the mouth of God. 225 00:10:33,447 --> 00:10:38,097 And so, Jesus, he's fasting, he's obviously hungry, and thirsty. 226 00:10:38,487 --> 00:10:39,857 That's our immediate need, right? 227 00:10:39,907 --> 00:10:41,137 I've gotta feel that. 228 00:10:41,537 --> 00:10:42,637 But he says, no. 229 00:10:44,017 --> 00:10:47,547 I don't want to indulge that, because there's something deeper that I need. 230 00:10:47,807 --> 00:10:49,307 It's righteousness. 231 00:10:49,367 --> 00:10:51,597 It's, um, God's word. 232 00:10:51,847 --> 00:10:57,257 It's what I really, really want to pursue right now. 233 00:10:57,637 --> 00:11:01,447 That's gonna help my physical, that's gonna help my physical needs. 234 00:11:01,942 --> 00:11:05,642 Um, that is what I'm going to pursue. 235 00:11:06,652 --> 00:11:08,102 That's the example he has for us. 236 00:11:08,142 --> 00:11:10,992 We have these things, these needs, you know, my, you know, 237 00:11:10,992 --> 00:11:12,612 I have a, I have a house that... 238 00:11:13,022 --> 00:11:16,562 You know, my plumbing broke down, and so there's water coming through the ceiling. 239 00:11:16,562 --> 00:11:18,162 I have my daughter who's having surgery. 240 00:11:18,382 --> 00:11:22,122 We have so many needs, we say there's an underlying thing that 241 00:11:22,132 --> 00:11:27,812 I want you to continue to pursue that will help to fill everything. 242 00:11:28,052 --> 00:11:28,392 Amen? 243 00:11:30,542 --> 00:11:34,722 So moving to spiritual thirst, we've got to understand what does that 244 00:11:34,722 --> 00:11:36,312 mean from a spiritual perspective. 245 00:11:36,692 --> 00:11:37,067 Psalms 42. 246 00:11:37,067 --> 00:11:37,072 1. 247 00:11:37,072 --> 00:11:37,772 2. 248 00:11:37,772 --> 00:11:40,472 It says, As a deer pants for streams of water. 249 00:11:40,847 --> 00:11:44,367 So my soul pants for you, my God. 250 00:11:45,007 --> 00:11:48,167 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. 251 00:11:48,497 --> 00:11:50,857 Where can I go meet with God? 252 00:11:53,267 --> 00:11:55,457 Soul panting. 253 00:11:56,177 --> 00:11:57,967 Soul is the deepest part of you. 254 00:11:58,887 --> 00:12:01,297 Soul is a part of your, your, your mind. 255 00:12:01,437 --> 00:12:02,567 It's a part of your heart. 256 00:12:02,767 --> 00:12:04,277 It's the core of who you are. 257 00:12:04,367 --> 00:12:05,447 It's hard to bear your soul. 258 00:12:06,397 --> 00:12:10,307 Some of you guys want to keep it, keep it close, but he says 259 00:12:10,377 --> 00:12:14,212 that part of me Thirst for you. 260 00:12:15,872 --> 00:12:19,182 It thirsts so bad, I can't see you, I can't touch you, 261 00:12:19,482 --> 00:12:22,192 but I want to meet with you. 262 00:12:22,192 --> 00:12:22,932 That's illogical. 263 00:12:23,272 --> 00:12:24,752 How are you going to meet with someone you can't see? 264 00:12:25,902 --> 00:12:26,942 Doesn't make sense. 265 00:12:27,972 --> 00:12:29,312 A spiritual thirst. 266 00:12:29,452 --> 00:12:32,912 Psalm 63 says, You are my God, are my God. 267 00:12:33,072 --> 00:12:34,682 Conceptually, I know that. 268 00:12:36,342 --> 00:12:37,452 Earnestly, I seek you. 269 00:12:37,732 --> 00:12:38,432 There it is again. 270 00:12:38,882 --> 00:12:40,232 I'm trying to find you. 271 00:12:40,352 --> 00:12:42,132 I can't see you, I can't touch you. 272 00:12:42,597 --> 00:12:44,697 But I am going to try to find you. 273 00:12:45,617 --> 00:12:46,707 I thirst for you. 274 00:12:46,897 --> 00:12:47,857 Here's that thirst again. 275 00:12:49,317 --> 00:12:50,187 I thirst. 276 00:12:50,927 --> 00:12:56,507 My whole being, that's my whole soul, longs for this connection. 277 00:12:58,937 --> 00:12:59,517 Thirst. 278 00:13:00,277 --> 00:13:00,847 Hunger. 279 00:13:03,307 --> 00:13:05,217 Isaiah 69, 26, 29. 280 00:13:05,317 --> 00:13:07,867 My soul, here we go again, my deepest part, yearns. 281 00:13:09,167 --> 00:13:11,137 In the night, when I should be sleeping. 282 00:13:11,707 --> 00:13:13,897 In the morning, longs for you. 283 00:13:13,907 --> 00:13:17,627 My spirit, my core, wants you. 284 00:13:19,317 --> 00:13:21,257 Psalm 119 says, Consumed. 285 00:13:22,657 --> 00:13:24,267 How many of you guys have ever been consumed by something? 286 00:13:25,327 --> 00:13:26,247 What does consumed mean? 287 00:13:26,317 --> 00:13:28,717 It means I can't get my, my mind off of you. 288 00:13:29,557 --> 00:13:34,887 Maybe a love interest, maybe a TikTok videos or something. 289 00:13:34,887 --> 00:13:36,807 It's like, I just can't get my mind. 290 00:13:36,807 --> 00:13:38,057 I am so consumed. 291 00:13:38,367 --> 00:13:39,377 Somebody help me. 292 00:13:39,487 --> 00:13:40,097 That's what it is. 293 00:13:40,157 --> 00:13:46,267 You know, so yearning eight four, yearning to the point where I'm crying out my 294 00:13:46,267 --> 00:13:48,847 flesh, I'm crying out for the connection. 295 00:13:49,507 --> 00:13:55,367 That's the definition of, that's what we're talking about. 296 00:13:55,367 --> 00:13:58,087 It's a deep part of it, of ourselves. 297 00:14:01,487 --> 00:14:08,687 Spiritual thirst defines your walk with God. 298 00:14:10,177 --> 00:14:11,197 Simple as that. 299 00:14:11,857 --> 00:14:14,167 If someone says, Hey, how's your walk with God? 300 00:14:14,227 --> 00:14:15,247 Oh, it's great. 301 00:14:15,847 --> 00:14:17,857 Is it defined around thirst really? 302 00:14:18,142 --> 00:14:20,772 I mean, not, not belittling it, but I'm saying you really got to question 303 00:14:20,772 --> 00:14:24,182 yourself, it's like, spiritual, that's my walk with God, my spiritual thirst. 304 00:14:24,272 --> 00:14:27,272 What keeps me coming back, what keeps me coming there, what drives me. 305 00:14:28,002 --> 00:14:29,752 It's not conceptual. 306 00:14:30,772 --> 00:14:34,352 Meaning that, you know, we all walk with God, we all, you know, it's not, it's 307 00:14:34,352 --> 00:14:36,702 not conceptual, it's a personal thing. 308 00:14:38,272 --> 00:14:44,242 That defines your walk with God, is the thirst that you maintain. 309 00:14:46,682 --> 00:14:47,602 Righteousness. 310 00:14:47,642 --> 00:14:49,172 What are we thirsting for? 311 00:14:50,402 --> 00:14:52,332 Is it me, my ice cream? 312 00:14:52,842 --> 00:14:53,982 I mean, it's real thirst. 313 00:14:54,012 --> 00:14:54,462 Ice cream? 314 00:14:54,672 --> 00:14:57,382 When I have this ice cream, I don't know if you guys tried it, it's Haagen Dazs. 315 00:14:57,772 --> 00:15:02,712 Um, it's, um, it's white chocolate raspberry Haagen Dazs. 316 00:15:02,712 --> 00:15:03,542 Have you guys ever had that? 317 00:15:04,582 --> 00:15:07,942 I'm serious, man, when I have that, it's just like, I'm like, 318 00:15:07,942 --> 00:15:09,677 Julie, that, um, I feel like. 319 00:15:10,037 --> 00:15:12,207 That just, it just makes me happy. 320 00:15:13,437 --> 00:15:14,397 I am, I'm serious. 321 00:15:14,457 --> 00:15:15,827 I am, it makes me happy. 322 00:15:15,827 --> 00:15:16,247 I can do that. 323 00:15:16,257 --> 00:15:17,417 I watch a nice TV show. 324 00:15:17,447 --> 00:15:17,987 I have it. 325 00:15:18,647 --> 00:15:19,517 It's magic. 326 00:15:19,517 --> 00:15:20,727 It just makes me happy. 327 00:15:20,757 --> 00:15:21,877 Happy thinking about it. 328 00:15:21,887 --> 00:15:23,317 Happy me eating it. 329 00:15:23,617 --> 00:15:24,607 It's just, that's something for me. 330 00:15:24,617 --> 00:15:26,217 You guys may have something like that for you. 331 00:15:26,277 --> 00:15:29,247 I'm sure it's something that just, it just makes me happy. 332 00:15:29,957 --> 00:15:31,917 But righteousness is like, what is right? 333 00:15:32,497 --> 00:15:33,047 Justice. 334 00:15:33,582 --> 00:15:36,412 The act of doing what is in agreement with God's standard, the state of 335 00:15:36,432 --> 00:15:38,592 being in proper relationship with God. 336 00:15:38,892 --> 00:15:40,752 So we gotta understand, what is it that we're pursuing? 337 00:15:41,882 --> 00:15:42,592 The thirst is. 338 00:15:42,862 --> 00:15:43,792 Really understand that. 339 00:15:45,332 --> 00:15:48,392 This is my perspective of it. 340 00:15:48,812 --> 00:15:55,932 And as we grow in our Christianity, in our spirituality, it's all about perspectives. 341 00:15:55,932 --> 00:15:58,462 There is no, I'm learning there is no right or wrong. 342 00:15:59,002 --> 00:16:00,752 You should do it this way, you should do it that way. 343 00:16:00,922 --> 00:16:01,802 You know, it's about. 344 00:16:02,437 --> 00:16:06,017 God shapes perspectives throughout your life. 345 00:16:06,397 --> 00:16:07,507 This is my perspective. 346 00:16:07,837 --> 00:16:09,797 It may change in another six months, I don't know. 347 00:16:10,637 --> 00:16:15,027 But, thirst and hunger, there's a level of righteousness, right? 348 00:16:15,427 --> 00:16:16,357 It's split into three. 349 00:16:16,827 --> 00:16:19,337 There's a part of it, it's about God. 350 00:16:19,527 --> 00:16:21,397 It's God's righteousness. 351 00:16:22,487 --> 00:16:26,337 Then there's a part, okay, something that permeates from that, is 352 00:16:26,407 --> 00:16:28,187 about personal righteousness. 353 00:16:29,832 --> 00:16:31,942 And then our part of that is like, the personal righteousness, 354 00:16:32,182 --> 00:16:36,462 it extends outwardly now to the church, to the people around me. 355 00:16:37,442 --> 00:16:39,452 I think that's how God set it up. 356 00:16:44,792 --> 00:16:48,752 Part of the God's righteousness, there's a term, justification. 357 00:16:50,222 --> 00:16:54,682 Justification means that something is given to you. 358 00:16:55,522 --> 00:16:56,712 We have to work for it. 359 00:16:57,042 --> 00:17:01,292 It's like, by default, it's yours. 360 00:17:01,472 --> 00:17:02,012 That's awesome. 361 00:17:02,032 --> 00:17:04,281 I love, I love the giving stuff. 362 00:17:05,012 --> 00:17:09,392 I appreciate even, um, Karina just, um, this announcement about me coming 363 00:17:09,392 --> 00:17:11,541 up, and I was really encouraged to hear that, what she said. 364 00:17:11,902 --> 00:17:14,132 I think you got two out of three right, but, you know, it was like, it was cool 365 00:17:14,162 --> 00:17:15,862 just hearing that, you know, as well, but. 366 00:17:17,021 --> 00:17:18,742 So Matthew 6. 367 00:17:18,742 --> 00:17:22,281 33, this is scriptures that kind of shapes it to what righteousness really is. 368 00:17:22,281 --> 00:17:24,622 We got, we have to understand it before we can even apply it, right? 369 00:17:25,382 --> 00:17:26,942 It can't be conceptual. 370 00:17:27,281 --> 00:17:28,102 Matthew 6. 371 00:17:28,102 --> 00:17:31,562 33 says, but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. 372 00:17:32,032 --> 00:17:33,072 All these things will be given to you. 373 00:17:33,552 --> 00:17:37,102 It's all about His, not mine. 374 00:17:37,342 --> 00:17:38,542 What does He say about it? 375 00:17:39,822 --> 00:17:40,172 Romans 3. 376 00:17:40,172 --> 00:17:41,362 22 says it's right. 377 00:17:41,412 --> 00:17:44,452 It's given through faith in Jesus Christ. 378 00:17:44,832 --> 00:17:48,612 So, there's a point you have right, this, this, this, um, 379 00:17:48,732 --> 00:17:50,732 justification, righteousness. 380 00:17:50,802 --> 00:17:56,272 I see it as, um, 1 Corinthians says, God made Him who had no sin 381 00:17:56,272 --> 00:18:01,572 to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness. 382 00:18:02,652 --> 00:18:05,972 At least I say righteousness is what I have become. 383 00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:08,312 It's who I am. 384 00:18:08,712 --> 00:18:09,792 It's not what I do. 385 00:18:10,712 --> 00:18:15,242 It's who I am, it's given to me, and it's His. 386 00:18:15,252 --> 00:18:19,012 Something He gave to me through Christ. 387 00:18:19,882 --> 00:18:25,342 So the question is, do you want to embrace it? 388 00:18:26,762 --> 00:18:28,552 Or do you leave it as a concept? 389 00:18:28,722 --> 00:18:31,382 Oh yeah, Jesus died for all of everybody, all sins. 390 00:18:31,682 --> 00:18:33,602 So, yeah, or do you embrace it? 391 00:18:39,322 --> 00:18:40,292 It's something that's given. 392 00:18:40,292 --> 00:18:44,922 I see it as, um, you look at, the way I view it is, Matthew 7, 14, I'm 393 00:18:44,922 --> 00:18:50,472 gonna turn there, but it says, um, the road to destruction is broad, right? 394 00:18:50,802 --> 00:18:53,682 It says the road to life is narrow. 395 00:18:54,462 --> 00:18:59,642 The way I see it with the justification is like, is saying, okay, justification 396 00:18:59,642 --> 00:19:01,872 means God says you come, you're saved. 397 00:19:02,102 --> 00:19:04,082 Some of it's like, how justification is. 398 00:19:04,577 --> 00:19:07,107 The thirst is, I want to be saved. 399 00:19:07,417 --> 00:19:09,717 So, there's one side of that. 400 00:19:09,747 --> 00:19:16,137 And so I will thirst to be saved, to, um, um, to seek God with all 401 00:19:16,137 --> 00:19:18,757 my heart, to be saved, that faith. 402 00:19:19,487 --> 00:19:24,407 And then, once you are saved, it's like now I am put on 403 00:19:24,417 --> 00:19:27,417 that narrow road by default. 404 00:19:27,917 --> 00:19:31,747 I want to be on that narrow road, is what you say, what we say. 405 00:19:32,097 --> 00:19:34,257 Because the narrow road leads to where? 406 00:19:35,637 --> 00:19:35,967 Where? 407 00:19:37,197 --> 00:19:37,707 You guys know. 408 00:19:38,037 --> 00:19:38,507 Heaven! 409 00:19:39,407 --> 00:19:41,207 Everybody wants to be there, mostly, right? 410 00:19:42,307 --> 00:19:44,627 So, I want to be on that road. 411 00:19:44,877 --> 00:19:47,837 So by default, that justification, you're on the road. 412 00:19:49,647 --> 00:19:51,287 That feels good to be on that road, doesn't it? 413 00:19:52,202 --> 00:19:53,392 So, that's what it's all about. 414 00:19:53,552 --> 00:19:55,472 But, do you recognize you're on the road? 415 00:19:56,862 --> 00:20:00,132 Do you wake up tomorrow and say, You know what, I am on that road. 416 00:20:00,452 --> 00:20:02,152 Paul refers to it as a race. 417 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:04,602 Do you realize you're in the race? 418 00:20:04,602 --> 00:20:09,002 I went, I went, I went I was in a marathon a long time ago. 419 00:20:09,342 --> 00:20:10,752 Right, trained, trained a lot. 420 00:20:11,192 --> 00:20:14,792 And, I got this called the San Diego San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. 421 00:20:15,582 --> 00:20:16,762 And, this was a fabulous event. 422 00:20:16,822 --> 00:20:20,532 Every mile was music. 423 00:20:21,607 --> 00:20:22,897 So, give me something to look forward to. 424 00:20:23,017 --> 00:20:25,647 A different music, different, you know, so, really cool. 425 00:20:26,517 --> 00:20:30,317 It was about, I signed up late, and so it, it's probably about, I remember 426 00:20:30,317 --> 00:20:33,837 like 20, 000 people signed up for this event, so I was like number 18, 427 00:20:33,837 --> 00:20:37,067 000, something like that, and so I had to wait my turn to even get started. 428 00:20:37,587 --> 00:20:40,997 Alright, so, I remember, I trained really well, but I remember like a mile, like 429 00:20:41,217 --> 00:20:48,147 8 or 9, it was, Crazy because everybody was walking and so I had to get around 430 00:20:48,147 --> 00:20:51,297 excuse me excuse me because like that's just crazy It's like so many people 431 00:20:51,297 --> 00:20:56,217 are just walking on this road didn't respect it the marathon is like I just 432 00:20:56,217 --> 00:20:57,807 want to be here because It's fabulous. 433 00:20:57,837 --> 00:20:58,527 It's an event. 434 00:20:58,617 --> 00:20:59,537 It's like see I did it. 435 00:20:59,687 --> 00:21:02,217 It's spectacular people were wearing like crazy outfits and stuff, too 436 00:21:02,277 --> 00:21:06,037 They're running gear like, you know Costumes and all that, but they 437 00:21:06,037 --> 00:21:07,357 were the ones walking on mile five. 438 00:21:07,527 --> 00:21:09,007 I was like, are you taking this seriously? 439 00:21:10,617 --> 00:21:15,917 The road to heaven, that narrow, you're on the road. 440 00:21:16,567 --> 00:21:18,427 Do you embrace it or not? 441 00:21:21,647 --> 00:21:23,947 Justification is, it's placed outside of you. 442 00:21:25,137 --> 00:21:28,027 Puts us there and it feels good, right? 443 00:21:28,677 --> 00:21:33,477 But first of all, we got to realize God has given, placed it there. 444 00:21:33,857 --> 00:21:39,337 So God sees me in a certain way that maybe I don't see myself. 445 00:21:40,862 --> 00:21:43,712 You know, sometimes it's easy to go, like, I'm just the worst sinner. 446 00:21:43,972 --> 00:21:45,192 It's easy to say because Paul said that. 447 00:21:45,192 --> 00:21:46,372 I can say that to you, I'm the worst sinner. 448 00:21:46,692 --> 00:21:49,252 So, I'm always going to fail, I'm always going to struggle. 449 00:21:49,282 --> 00:21:49,912 Accept that. 450 00:21:50,052 --> 00:21:50,912 I ain't Jesus. 451 00:21:51,012 --> 00:21:51,752 I've heard that before. 452 00:21:51,892 --> 00:21:52,572 I ain't Jesus. 453 00:21:52,572 --> 00:21:53,052 That's Jesus. 454 00:21:53,102 --> 00:21:53,972 I ain't Jesus. 455 00:21:54,392 --> 00:21:56,022 So you can't expect all that from me. 456 00:21:56,752 --> 00:21:58,822 But God's view is so important. 457 00:21:59,892 --> 00:22:00,672 It's God's view. 458 00:22:02,692 --> 00:22:05,852 It's like to sit on that and to be on that road for God's 459 00:22:05,852 --> 00:22:08,382 justification is to understand. 460 00:22:08,782 --> 00:22:10,582 God sees me as righteous. 461 00:22:11,762 --> 00:22:12,492 I'm, I'm running. 462 00:22:12,532 --> 00:22:13,862 I got a, I got a shirt. 463 00:22:14,152 --> 00:22:16,612 I got a shirt that says rice on the back on this road. 464 00:22:17,272 --> 00:22:19,242 I'm just righteous because I'm on the road. 465 00:22:20,132 --> 00:22:21,082 I am salt. 466 00:22:21,272 --> 00:22:22,412 Who likes salt in their food? 467 00:22:24,972 --> 00:22:26,282 Food without salt is what? 468 00:22:26,572 --> 00:22:28,562 It's just like, man, yeah. 469 00:22:30,262 --> 00:22:30,942 Healthy, yeah. 470 00:22:31,842 --> 00:22:36,547 But God said, he sees You and I, we are the salt. 471 00:22:37,587 --> 00:22:39,247 Do you see yourself through God's perspective? 472 00:22:39,557 --> 00:22:40,447 Light of the world. 473 00:22:40,707 --> 00:22:43,357 It's dark out here, but when I come around, that light's shining. 474 00:22:45,187 --> 00:22:46,807 When I'm around, the light shines. 475 00:22:46,807 --> 00:22:49,047 When you're around, the light shines. 476 00:22:49,587 --> 00:22:50,447 I'm different. 477 00:22:52,067 --> 00:22:52,697 I'm set apart. 478 00:22:52,727 --> 00:22:53,287 I'm different. 479 00:22:54,077 --> 00:22:54,857 In a good way. 480 00:22:56,297 --> 00:22:56,917 Precious. 481 00:22:58,057 --> 00:23:00,787 That's probably hard to touch, but precious. 482 00:23:02,267 --> 00:23:03,127 Can you sit on that? 483 00:23:04,417 --> 00:23:07,607 Can you sit on God delighting? 484 00:23:07,837 --> 00:23:09,777 That his eyes are on you? 485 00:23:10,262 --> 00:23:11,632 All the time. 486 00:23:12,432 --> 00:23:14,792 It's easy to say, oh man, he's disappointed in me because I'm 487 00:23:14,792 --> 00:23:15,322 doing, messing up, messing up. 488 00:23:15,952 --> 00:23:16,552 How could he? 489 00:23:16,692 --> 00:23:17,482 I did this last night. 490 00:23:18,392 --> 00:23:22,772 Or could you reflect that he's smiling at me. 491 00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:24,212 He's delighting. 492 00:23:24,932 --> 00:23:26,292 Even when I mess up, he's delighting. 493 00:23:27,442 --> 00:23:28,572 That's the God we serve. 494 00:23:28,812 --> 00:23:31,422 In order to stay here, there's justification. 495 00:23:31,432 --> 00:23:33,012 You gotta look at God's perspective. 496 00:23:33,392 --> 00:23:34,722 What God's given to me. 497 00:23:35,062 --> 00:23:36,242 Do I embrace it? 498 00:23:36,272 --> 00:23:37,492 Sometimes you gotta go back. 499 00:23:37,552 --> 00:23:41,902 You gotta go back and remember it and remember it and then move out. 500 00:23:42,837 --> 00:23:46,007 On that, if you start forgetting it, go back, touch it, touch it, 501 00:23:46,037 --> 00:23:48,597 touch it, and then move out again. 502 00:23:50,537 --> 00:23:51,217 Does that make sense? 503 00:23:52,357 --> 00:23:52,887 Can I go on? 504 00:23:53,587 --> 00:23:54,057 You guys good? 505 00:23:56,467 --> 00:24:01,657 Now, it's, God's righteousness is the thirst to, first of all, if you're 506 00:24:01,667 --> 00:24:03,387 not saved, the thirst to be saved. 507 00:24:04,057 --> 00:24:06,277 Or, it's to experience Christ. 508 00:24:06,747 --> 00:24:08,477 Um, to embrace God as he sees you. 509 00:24:09,617 --> 00:24:13,357 And so, you gotta, it's to examine your desires. 510 00:24:13,437 --> 00:24:16,397 It's like, to be honest, I don't have this thirst. 511 00:24:16,397 --> 00:24:17,007 I don't. 512 00:24:18,487 --> 00:24:19,137 Be honest with yourself. 513 00:24:19,177 --> 00:24:21,337 I don't have this thirst for that. 514 00:24:22,157 --> 00:24:22,747 Other things. 515 00:24:23,097 --> 00:24:26,467 And to, and so now you gotta ask yourself, why don't I? 516 00:24:28,157 --> 00:24:32,797 I'm, I'm, in my, um, my profession, I'm in IT, and we're always 517 00:24:32,797 --> 00:24:34,287 trying to make processes better. 518 00:24:34,827 --> 00:24:37,947 And we have this process, it's called, um, the five whys. 519 00:24:37,987 --> 00:24:39,337 Anybody know what the five whys is? 520 00:24:40,407 --> 00:24:40,877 Okay, cool. 521 00:24:40,887 --> 00:24:41,517 Yeah, yeah. 522 00:24:41,527 --> 00:24:42,137 It's five whys. 523 00:24:42,657 --> 00:24:45,097 And so it's, it's, it's concept of root cause analysis. 524 00:24:45,842 --> 00:24:47,692 And so, to get to the root cause. 525 00:24:48,392 --> 00:24:49,852 And I love it because it's so spiritual. 526 00:24:49,852 --> 00:24:51,672 It's like getting, that gets to the heart. 527 00:24:52,242 --> 00:24:56,272 So ask yourself, why don't I want to stay on this road? 528 00:24:56,322 --> 00:24:58,002 Why don't I want to come to church? 529 00:24:58,212 --> 00:24:59,182 Why don't I want to pray? 530 00:24:59,362 --> 00:25:01,352 Why don't I, I don't have my quiet time? 531 00:25:01,352 --> 00:25:02,472 Why don't I want to have quiet time? 532 00:25:03,072 --> 00:25:05,782 And so it's like, ask yourself that five times. 533 00:25:06,832 --> 00:25:07,812 Why don't I have quiet times? 534 00:25:07,842 --> 00:25:08,952 Because I don't have time. 535 00:25:09,122 --> 00:25:10,042 Why don't you have time? 536 00:25:10,202 --> 00:25:11,902 Because, you know, I get up too late. 537 00:25:11,942 --> 00:25:12,812 Why do you get up so late? 538 00:25:12,932 --> 00:25:13,262 You know? 539 00:25:13,262 --> 00:25:14,452 So you keep asking until you get to the root cause. 540 00:25:15,312 --> 00:25:16,192 That's how you get to the heart. 541 00:25:16,322 --> 00:25:19,592 You realize, okay, that's the reason why I don't have quiet times, to be honest. 542 00:25:20,002 --> 00:25:23,382 I don't want to, because something in the past affected me or whatever. 543 00:25:23,382 --> 00:25:27,492 So it's like, examine it to get back on the road. 544 00:25:30,732 --> 00:25:35,472 The second part is personal righteousness, and that's sanctification, right? 545 00:25:35,732 --> 00:25:38,892 He says in Titus 2, where it gets to the last part, it says, it teaches, it 546 00:25:38,892 --> 00:25:42,512 teaches us to say no to ungodliness, to worldly passion, to live self controlled. 547 00:25:42,807 --> 00:25:44,547 and upright and godly lives. 548 00:25:45,367 --> 00:25:49,367 So, 1 Peter says, pretty much, be holy because I'm holy. 549 00:25:50,217 --> 00:25:54,687 So, the way I see this is that God's righteousness puts you 550 00:25:54,687 --> 00:25:59,767 on the road, and then personal righteousness is like, now walk. 551 00:26:02,637 --> 00:26:06,227 Or, you get in a race, Paul says, now run! 552 00:26:06,832 --> 00:26:08,502 Or you're playing basketball, you're on the bench. 553 00:26:09,212 --> 00:26:12,122 You know, it's like, I want you to want, put me in the game, coach. 554 00:26:12,622 --> 00:26:13,712 Get in the game, play. 555 00:26:14,982 --> 00:26:16,332 That's personal righteousness. 556 00:26:17,112 --> 00:26:18,702 Uh, very, it's very clear. 557 00:26:19,832 --> 00:26:22,202 And it's something that happens inside of us. 558 00:26:22,822 --> 00:26:25,202 It's something I have to do personally. 559 00:26:26,692 --> 00:26:28,962 Paul talks about it, you know, it's like working out your 560 00:26:28,962 --> 00:26:31,792 salvation with fear and trembling. 561 00:26:32,152 --> 00:26:33,212 It's the working out. 562 00:26:33,552 --> 00:26:35,872 Spending the rest of your life working out. 563 00:26:37,422 --> 00:26:41,012 It's easy to say, you know what, today I ain't going to run. 564 00:26:43,052 --> 00:26:45,472 You know what, I don't even want to be in a race this month. 565 00:26:46,532 --> 00:26:47,442 I don't got time for no race. 566 00:26:48,842 --> 00:26:53,262 To be honest with ourselves, I don't want this spiritual perspective. 567 00:26:53,912 --> 00:26:54,762 I don't have time for that. 568 00:26:57,082 --> 00:26:58,652 Obedience is a part of this. 569 00:26:59,552 --> 00:27:04,342 It's like, do I have a thirst to obey, or am I thirsty to just do it on my own way? 570 00:27:05,502 --> 00:27:13,092 But directly, the scripture says, if you love me, you will do what? 571 00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:14,952 Obey me. 572 00:27:15,622 --> 00:27:16,452 Point blank. 573 00:27:18,812 --> 00:27:19,682 We can say, you know what? 574 00:27:19,802 --> 00:27:20,702 I love God. 575 00:27:20,702 --> 00:27:22,172 Oh, I love God. 576 00:27:23,462 --> 00:27:23,852 I feel it. 577 00:27:24,102 --> 00:27:24,442 I feel it. 578 00:27:24,442 --> 00:27:24,702 I feel it. 579 00:27:24,742 --> 00:27:25,612 I sing. 580 00:27:26,237 --> 00:27:29,707 The guy's like, do you obey what I say? 581 00:27:30,247 --> 00:27:31,037 Do you do it? 582 00:27:32,347 --> 00:27:32,867 I don't, what? 583 00:27:32,947 --> 00:27:34,947 It's like, that's it, black and white. 584 00:27:36,547 --> 00:27:38,847 Sink the fake Christian righteousness is a statement of love. 585 00:27:40,437 --> 00:27:42,017 It could be all about faith, and no, you're not supposed to do 586 00:27:42,017 --> 00:27:42,947 anything when you're a Christian. 587 00:27:43,047 --> 00:27:45,077 You know, it's, it's all about, not about works. 588 00:27:45,287 --> 00:27:46,467 He's like, surely you love me. 589 00:27:47,397 --> 00:27:50,237 I love it when Paul, when, when, when, um, when he questioned 590 00:27:50,437 --> 00:27:52,277 Peter after Peter denied himself. 591 00:27:53,077 --> 00:27:54,477 Says three times. 592 00:27:54,487 --> 00:27:55,417 Do you love me? 593 00:27:55,917 --> 00:27:58,297 You know, of course, I love you. 594 00:27:58,707 --> 00:28:00,047 I've been around you feelings. 595 00:28:00,147 --> 00:28:00,697 Feed my sheep. 596 00:28:03,627 --> 00:28:05,157 You know, I said three times. 597 00:28:05,157 --> 00:28:06,777 Can you obey me? 598 00:28:07,147 --> 00:28:08,187 Show me. 599 00:28:08,787 --> 00:28:10,957 You guys aren't showing me. 600 00:28:11,417 --> 00:28:12,847 I don't got to show you guys. 601 00:28:13,557 --> 00:28:14,457 He's like, you show me. 602 00:28:15,417 --> 00:28:16,387 Why don't you want to obey me? 603 00:28:17,867 --> 00:28:18,557 So ask this question. 604 00:28:18,677 --> 00:28:19,307 Why? 605 00:28:19,597 --> 00:28:22,857 Sanctification is like, you obey me, things happen automatically. 606 00:28:23,492 --> 00:28:24,462 You start changing. 607 00:28:24,742 --> 00:28:25,972 You start to look like me. 608 00:28:27,252 --> 00:28:28,552 You don't gotta decide that. 609 00:28:28,732 --> 00:28:30,882 You obey me, all of a sudden, things happen. 610 00:28:30,882 --> 00:28:33,402 You light your salt, these things just start boom, boom, boom. 611 00:28:34,442 --> 00:28:35,382 That's how God works. 612 00:28:35,422 --> 00:28:36,472 Cause you're my child. 613 00:28:37,122 --> 00:28:38,532 You can put a stop to it all. 614 00:28:38,592 --> 00:28:39,662 I ain't gonna change. 615 00:28:40,242 --> 00:28:41,422 I don't got time for this. 616 00:28:42,182 --> 00:28:43,942 There's fruit because of that. 617 00:28:46,772 --> 00:28:47,702 It's surrendering. 618 00:28:53,532 --> 00:28:56,992 So it's like longing to, um, first of all, like the longing for personal 619 00:28:56,992 --> 00:29:01,262 righteousness is Sometimes it's really, we look into my Bible family 620 00:29:01,262 --> 00:29:02,602 group, we're learning this together. 621 00:29:02,762 --> 00:29:04,562 It's like putting it into the first person. 622 00:29:05,162 --> 00:29:08,032 When you read the Bible, have God speak to you directly. 623 00:29:08,732 --> 00:29:10,862 So when you read, it's like, okay, God wants all of us. 624 00:29:11,222 --> 00:29:12,712 God wants me to do what? 625 00:29:12,792 --> 00:29:13,262 Do what? 626 00:29:13,272 --> 00:29:14,972 See what he wants you to do from the Word of God. 627 00:29:16,382 --> 00:29:18,322 It's repentance and victories. 628 00:29:18,882 --> 00:29:20,622 I want to change, I want to see the victories. 629 00:29:20,662 --> 00:29:21,582 Change and victories. 630 00:29:21,892 --> 00:29:22,832 That's how change happens. 631 00:29:23,102 --> 00:29:24,002 Both sides. 632 00:29:24,332 --> 00:29:29,842 It's, perspective is like, I gotta see God, he's good in everything. 633 00:29:30,082 --> 00:29:32,552 So when I read his word, there's goodness there. 634 00:29:33,672 --> 00:29:35,122 It's not doom and destruction. 635 00:29:35,822 --> 00:29:38,972 Every scripture, there's some good that's being produced. 636 00:29:39,372 --> 00:29:40,322 It's all good. 637 00:29:41,082 --> 00:29:42,302 Um, watch, pray, and fight. 638 00:29:42,832 --> 00:29:46,032 Some of it's like, do the things you did at first. 639 00:29:46,362 --> 00:29:48,952 What did I do at first when I was on the road, fired up? 640 00:29:49,472 --> 00:29:50,312 Do what you did at first. 641 00:29:50,952 --> 00:29:53,192 Carrying the cross, uh, moving on. 642 00:29:53,992 --> 00:30:00,002 The other part is about, for the personal righteousness, um, you're 643 00:30:00,002 --> 00:30:05,412 walking the road, you're, um, you're on a race, then you look 644 00:30:05,412 --> 00:30:07,832 around, there's people around you. 645 00:30:08,142 --> 00:30:11,852 I remember I was running a marathon, had a lot of, um, physical issues along the 646 00:30:11,862 --> 00:30:16,262 way, but, you know, finally got along, you know, once I got rid of my, my cramps 647 00:30:16,262 --> 00:30:17,492 and stuff, I had some major cramps. 648 00:30:17,997 --> 00:30:18,967 Um, that's another story. 649 00:30:19,707 --> 00:30:20,587 It's got to go ahead by now. 650 00:30:21,137 --> 00:30:21,567 I'll tell you later. 651 00:30:21,817 --> 00:30:24,597 And so I had some cramps, and then um, and I had some people, and I 652 00:30:24,627 --> 00:30:27,787 finally, when I got, you know, kind of a good rhythm, I saw people around me. 653 00:30:28,517 --> 00:30:32,447 And so, and I can start to encourage them, encourage me, and so, it's about that. 654 00:30:32,527 --> 00:30:37,007 It's like, you look around, you got people all around you on this road. 655 00:30:37,607 --> 00:30:43,747 And so, I don't necessarily, my personal righteousness is important, but now, I 656 00:30:43,747 --> 00:30:46,787 care about the community righteousness. 657 00:30:47,882 --> 00:30:50,712 I care about my brothers and sisters righteousness now. 658 00:30:52,202 --> 00:30:52,732 It works that way. 659 00:30:53,622 --> 00:30:54,722 It can't do the other way around. 660 00:30:54,722 --> 00:30:57,022 It's hard to say, I care about the community, but my social 661 00:30:57,022 --> 00:30:58,362 righteousness is like, crazy. 662 00:30:59,272 --> 00:31:00,412 But I can help. 663 00:31:00,472 --> 00:31:01,722 It's like, it doesn't work that way. 664 00:31:01,932 --> 00:31:05,242 It's confusing, it's like, it's like, it can't. 665 00:31:05,442 --> 00:31:12,102 It's, um, and so, it's like, Mark 3 5 16, Let's shine, the 666 00:31:12,102 --> 00:31:13,282 light shine before others. 667 00:31:13,422 --> 00:31:16,892 I have the light, and now I'm going to include other people. 668 00:31:17,972 --> 00:31:21,132 Along, help them along the road, because this road is just not easy. 669 00:31:21,617 --> 00:31:23,467 This sanctification is easy, right? 670 00:31:25,127 --> 00:31:26,017 So you guys still with me? 671 00:31:26,907 --> 00:31:27,247 Okay. 672 00:31:28,057 --> 00:31:28,757 Uh, St. 673 00:31:28,757 --> 00:31:29,057 Corinthians 5. 674 00:31:29,057 --> 00:31:33,897 20 it says, um, God Christ's ambassador because God was 675 00:31:33,897 --> 00:31:35,267 making His appeal through us. 676 00:31:35,967 --> 00:31:40,097 Ezra on the road, God is making His appeal through us. 677 00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:42,527 Because the righteousness is in us. 678 00:31:42,777 --> 00:31:47,577 And so, um, you know collectively, in the, um, in the community, in 679 00:31:47,647 --> 00:31:50,067 the church, that's our perspective. 680 00:31:53,727 --> 00:31:55,727 So it's righteous, this is the righteousness in others. 681 00:31:55,837 --> 00:31:58,177 So the first one is righteousness in God, the second one is 682 00:31:58,177 --> 00:32:00,977 righteousness in ourselves, this is righteousness in other people. 683 00:32:02,017 --> 00:32:07,217 Learn, uh, the longing to help others in the church grow, too. 684 00:32:08,517 --> 00:32:09,747 Longing for the community. 685 00:32:09,807 --> 00:32:12,967 Now we went out, um, in the community before, before, um, we, we met 686 00:32:12,967 --> 00:32:17,037 here, and that's something I had to really pray for as well is that not 687 00:32:17,057 --> 00:32:20,947 so much, you know, going door to door could be a little weird, right? 688 00:32:21,327 --> 00:32:22,247 And so I got to fight. 689 00:32:23,872 --> 00:32:27,062 Not Jehovah Witness is a bad term, but you know, I just, the feeling of 690 00:32:27,072 --> 00:32:30,072 being like a Jehovah Witness and um, you know, people like don't want to 691 00:32:30,072 --> 00:32:31,252 open their doors and all that stuff. 692 00:32:31,252 --> 00:32:33,282 And so I'll put on a suit on purpose. 693 00:32:33,652 --> 00:32:34,202 I'm kidding. 694 00:32:36,002 --> 00:32:36,312 Yeah. 695 00:32:36,722 --> 00:32:39,882 And so, but the feeling, but I had to realize that helped me to long to 696 00:32:39,882 --> 00:32:42,932 just want the community field, right? 697 00:32:43,182 --> 00:32:45,622 That's what drives me, relationships and all that. 698 00:32:45,622 --> 00:32:48,702 So, um, and so this demonstrates our love for other people. 699 00:32:49,657 --> 00:32:50,597 through our righteousness. 700 00:32:52,657 --> 00:32:56,637 And moving on to, um, and that's, it's a picture here. 701 00:32:56,697 --> 00:32:58,157 This is Cory and his family. 702 00:32:58,227 --> 00:33:01,167 And why I brought this up is, you know, we went on this road trip 703 00:33:01,547 --> 00:33:06,697 and, um, the road trip was to, um, where did we go, Cory, again? 704 00:33:07,037 --> 00:33:14,707 Um, yeah, um, so we went to Berry Creek area, um, and Oroville, which I 705 00:33:14,707 --> 00:33:16,477 had no idea where that was on the map. 706 00:33:16,767 --> 00:33:18,407 Um, actually I didn't. 707 00:33:18,842 --> 00:33:23,842 And so, what, what amazes me is that, uh, Cory brought it up months ago, that 708 00:33:23,852 --> 00:33:25,552 he, he hadn't seen his family in a while. 709 00:33:25,722 --> 00:33:29,212 And so, Tuan says, Hey, where would you want to go on vacation? 710 00:33:29,212 --> 00:33:31,882 He says, Uh, if I was the one who would have said Hawaii, 711 00:33:31,882 --> 00:33:32,892 somebody would have said Orville. 712 00:33:33,082 --> 00:33:34,772 Then Tuan says, Okay, we'll go there. 713 00:33:35,482 --> 00:33:36,532 And, and he's like, Okay. 714 00:33:36,532 --> 00:33:37,382 And then he said, Want to come, Kenny? 715 00:33:37,382 --> 00:33:38,072 I was like, Sure. 716 00:33:38,322 --> 00:33:41,072 So this trip was about to encourage Cory to connect with his family, who 717 00:33:41,072 --> 00:33:42,712 hasn't seen him in, I think, 19 years. 718 00:33:43,302 --> 00:33:47,102 And so, what I brought this up is that this was such an 719 00:33:47,102 --> 00:33:50,282 incredible trip to see his family. 720 00:33:50,667 --> 00:33:55,407 Reconnect with him and the fears that I had going up I had expressed with his 721 00:33:55,407 --> 00:34:02,357 family is that okay Three of us are going, you know, I am a tall black man Twan is 722 00:34:02,357 --> 00:34:11,607 a medium sized for Asian Asian And then, and then Tuan, I mean, and then um, Corey. 723 00:34:11,637 --> 00:34:14,246 So we're all coming up, and I'm like, what are they going to see, first of all? 724 00:34:15,067 --> 00:34:18,737 And then we're in the backwoods of, I don't know where, Northern California, so. 725 00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:22,996 And then, yeah, so that was like, I'll have some, I was kind of 726 00:34:22,996 --> 00:34:25,367 anxious about that, so that's going to be weird, you know, too. 727 00:34:25,657 --> 00:34:27,487 And they had the same views of us as well, so. 728 00:34:28,042 --> 00:34:31,681 So, we got there, they pulled us in, we met so many of his aunts and uncles 729 00:34:31,681 --> 00:34:37,362 and cousins, and it was amazing, this connection, it was amazing 730 00:34:37,371 --> 00:34:41,232 to see the love of their family. 731 00:34:41,351 --> 00:34:43,262 And they pulled us in as family immediately. 732 00:34:43,702 --> 00:34:46,601 And we were leaving, we dropped Cory off, and then Tom was like, you know 733 00:34:46,601 --> 00:34:51,532 what, I so needed this, to see this love, you know, from this community. 734 00:34:51,532 --> 00:34:52,402 I was like, you know what, me too. 735 00:34:52,402 --> 00:34:55,002 I didn't know, I need that, but I need to see that, I need to feel that. 736 00:34:55,417 --> 00:34:56,327 That genuine love. 737 00:34:56,516 --> 00:34:58,977 So it's about the community, uh, is so important. 738 00:34:59,217 --> 00:35:00,627 So this is my own thoughts here. 739 00:35:00,867 --> 00:35:04,677 So, you know, um, I work with a lot of presentations, so sorry if it's 740 00:35:04,677 --> 00:35:07,617 a little complex, but we have this, so it's a hunger and thirst for 741 00:35:07,617 --> 00:35:14,017 righteousness, but then see how this plays into his greatest command. 742 00:35:14,417 --> 00:35:14,737 Right? 743 00:35:14,907 --> 00:35:17,067 He says, this is the greatest command. 744 00:35:17,617 --> 00:35:20,497 Love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. 745 00:35:20,737 --> 00:35:22,897 This is the first and greatest commandment, and the second is like it. 746 00:35:22,957 --> 00:35:24,397 Love your neighbor as yourself. 747 00:35:26,067 --> 00:35:30,917 And you can see that loving yourself is a part of the equation, too. 748 00:35:31,887 --> 00:35:32,907 I gotta love me. 749 00:35:33,447 --> 00:35:34,717 I can't do this without loving me. 750 00:35:35,167 --> 00:35:35,527 Right? 751 00:35:35,937 --> 00:35:38,437 But I can love me through Christ. 752 00:35:39,047 --> 00:35:41,857 How he sees me helps me to love me. 753 00:35:43,187 --> 00:35:45,367 So, that's the God's part. 754 00:35:45,397 --> 00:35:47,017 I gotta see how God sees me first. 755 00:35:47,287 --> 00:35:48,807 And it says, love the Lord with all your heart. 756 00:35:49,347 --> 00:35:52,227 Personal sanctification is like, you obey me, you love me. 757 00:35:52,767 --> 00:35:53,597 That's the love part. 758 00:35:54,097 --> 00:35:55,537 Then it goes to the community part. 759 00:35:55,537 --> 00:35:58,287 It's like, and then you love your neighbor. 760 00:35:58,707 --> 00:35:59,467 As yourself. 761 00:35:59,677 --> 00:36:02,187 It all, Christ just fits into his commandments. 762 00:36:02,637 --> 00:36:04,127 Says how important. 763 00:36:05,047 --> 00:36:10,727 And critical, righteousness is, but there's a thirst behind it. 764 00:36:11,857 --> 00:36:16,667 Develop it, why it's not there, cultivate it, um, as well. 765 00:36:16,667 --> 00:36:18,227 So the promise is like field. 766 00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:22,857 Um, the last scripture, Ephesians 3, 17, it says, I pray that out of his glory 767 00:36:22,857 --> 00:36:25,867 and riches, that he may strengthen you with his power through the spirit in 768 00:36:25,867 --> 00:36:28,917 your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. 769 00:36:29,177 --> 00:36:31,787 And I pray that you being rooted and established in love. 770 00:36:32,112 --> 00:36:35,382 May have power together with all God's Holy Spirit people to 771 00:36:35,382 --> 00:36:40,032 grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. 772 00:36:40,352 --> 00:36:43,872 And you know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to 773 00:36:43,872 --> 00:36:45,942 the measure of all the fullness of God. 774 00:36:46,972 --> 00:36:48,942 Being filled means strengthened. 775 00:36:50,182 --> 00:36:52,252 Being filled means power. 776 00:36:53,972 --> 00:36:57,122 Being filled means purpose and root. 777 00:36:58,132 --> 00:37:02,502 Being filled means I understand and I can touch this love of Christ. 778 00:37:02,862 --> 00:37:05,702 Being filled means I can be full. 779 00:37:09,172 --> 00:37:13,762 Uh, as I mentioned here, security, uh, wisdom comes from this as well. 780 00:37:14,192 --> 00:37:16,932 Um, uh, and it's fulfilling his greatest commandment. 781 00:37:17,452 --> 00:37:22,692 So some action steps is just to write down some things, uh, some areas in 782 00:37:22,692 --> 00:37:24,282 your life that God has changed you. 783 00:37:25,272 --> 00:37:27,182 How has God sanctified me? 784 00:37:27,632 --> 00:37:29,112 We all are evidence of that. 785 00:37:30,322 --> 00:37:31,632 Think about that and write it down. 786 00:37:31,632 --> 00:37:34,072 How has God changed me? 787 00:37:34,922 --> 00:37:40,962 And so those areas, how, how did I show my thirst for those areas? 788 00:37:42,437 --> 00:37:44,537 Maybe I, you know, I had some McQuin talk Quiet times, hasn't 789 00:37:44,627 --> 00:37:45,647 McQuin talks about people. 790 00:37:45,647 --> 00:37:46,697 I had to wrestle here. 791 00:37:46,877 --> 00:37:47,807 And that changed. 792 00:37:48,407 --> 00:37:51,617 How did you've, you've demonstrated that, if not now, in parts of your 793 00:37:51,617 --> 00:37:56,867 life, looking at that and touching it, and I wanna recreate that. 794 00:37:57,767 --> 00:38:01,127 And so as this time, we're gonna take communion and I really wanna focus on 795 00:38:01,127 --> 00:38:02,597 the first aspect of the righteousness. 796 00:38:02,597 --> 00:38:04,817 God's righteousness, what's been given to us. 797 00:38:05,207 --> 00:38:07,067 And we can look at the cross. 798 00:38:07,562 --> 00:38:12,672 And as we close our eyes and reflect on Christ, just think about, um, and, 799 00:38:12,672 --> 00:38:16,422 and so I know a lot of times we, we focus on where I went wrong and, you 800 00:38:16,422 --> 00:38:19,592 know, where, you know, how I want to change, but we can really look 801 00:38:19,592 --> 00:38:22,232 at the fact of like how good He is. 802 00:38:23,112 --> 00:38:27,242 Uh, what is the, um, how does He see me? 803 00:38:27,762 --> 00:38:31,682 You know, what's the opportunities I'll have once I open up my eyes 804 00:38:31,682 --> 00:38:33,522 again after I see the cross? 805 00:38:34,622 --> 00:38:35,952 What opportunities do I have? 806 00:38:36,782 --> 00:38:37,822 What good can I produce? 807 00:38:37,902 --> 00:38:38,212 Amen? 808 00:38:38,282 --> 00:38:38,622 Let's pray. 809 00:38:41,212 --> 00:38:45,222 Heavenly Father, God, thank you for just allowing us to come together, 810 00:38:46,132 --> 00:38:47,832 to be here, to worship you. 811 00:38:47,832 --> 00:38:49,212 Father, you are our focus. 812 00:38:49,782 --> 00:38:51,422 Father, you are our desire. 813 00:38:52,102 --> 00:38:54,382 Father, we're open to learn from you, to be taught from you. 814 00:38:54,842 --> 00:38:58,132 Father, thank you for the cross, thank you for Jesus, thank you for the sacrifice. 815 00:38:58,842 --> 00:39:01,872 Thank you for just putting us on the road to heaven. 816 00:39:02,617 --> 00:39:06,227 Uh, father, we thank you for the way that you, you call us higher, 817 00:39:06,427 --> 00:39:08,027 uh, to thank you for family. 818 00:39:08,407 --> 00:39:08,797 Uh, God.