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Speaker: I noticed this week, um,
in fact the last couple weeks that

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we basically live in the future.

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I don't know how many of you're old
enough to remember the Dick Tracy watches.

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Those are the coolest things I
could think of when I was a kid.

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I thought, how awesome would it be to
talk on my wrist and have someone on

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the other side hear it and respond.

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I just thought that was
the coolest idea ever.

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So I got a walkie talkie
and I taped it to my wrist.

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Did not work the same, but
it had the same idea today.

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Now we have not only what Dick Tracy had,
but even better, you can send all sorts

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of fun stuff through just your wrist
and through your communication efforts.

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Not only that, uh, last week Pastor Mark

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car drove us to Dallas.

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And it did so without any issue.

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There were several people in the car.

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It was myself, it was Pastor pj, pastor
Mark of course, and Ali Trinidad.

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We were driving to Dallas for this
conference and the car navigated

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us through all sorts of obstacles.

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It did a fantastic job too.

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I was really impressed.

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Pastor Mark was just sitting
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car did like 99% of the work.

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Really impressive.

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I also remember that last week.

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I had an AI agent, a computer, do
several administrative tasks for me.

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I didn't touch, I instructed it.

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I gave in instructions, but then
I said, okay, now go do the thing.

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And it did all the things and
it did a really great job.

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I was really impressed at the fact that
my computer can now work for me and allow

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me to do the things that I wanted do.

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So while it was doing my administrative
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It was amazing.

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Uh, I also remember,

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I also remember that last
week, twice, maybe three times.

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My groceries delivered to my doorstep.

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I was there.

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I was just, I, I opened the door
and there was my groceries, my milk,

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my eggs, my water bottles, all the
things that we get a normal basis.

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Were sitting there just
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recognized I live in the future.

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Everything that I dreamed about as
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look like minus the flying cars.

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They lied about that.

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Everything else though, is pretty
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our futuristic society is that so much.

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Of the friction in our life
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A lot of the things that were
inconvenient before are now made

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accessible and easy and, and con and
convenient, as convenient can be.

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Now, those three words actually
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encounter on a day to day basis.

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Easy, accessible and convenient.

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Easy accessible convenience to get into
a car and have it drive you somewhere.

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That's easy, very accessible.

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In fact, I saw in terms of accessibility.

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I saw that there was this, uh, 90 some
odd year old lady who bought a Tesla for

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the express purpose of having that Tesla
drive her around town in a safe way.

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And so a, a once previously immobile lady
is now being able to mobilely get around

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because she has accessible technology.

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Easy, accessible convenience.

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I can't think of anything
more convenient than having my

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groceries delivered to my door.

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That's it.

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That's as convenient.

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As convenient, can be easy,
accessible, and convenient.

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Would describe a lot of
the way that we live today.

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Uh, not everything surely, but a lot of
that, and that's precisely the danger for

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all of us because when that becomes the
normal operation of your life, it subtly

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becomes a normal expectation of your life.

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And now you begin to assume that
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easy, accessible, and convenience.

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And it's not very far.

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Hop skipping a jump to get from
that idea to your walk with God.

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It doesn't take a lot for you to
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God has been conditioned by your
normal everyday experience to be

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easy, accessible, and convenience.

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And yet what we're gonna find out
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expectation about our walk with Him.

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It is anything but easy,
accessible, or convenience.

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In fact, often when we think about
Jesus, we do think about him as our

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savior, our high priest, and those
are totally right, but we often

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forget that Jesus is also Lord.

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He is not just the, the savior and
high priest, uh, he is our Lord.

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He is not only our example, he's more
than our example, but he is our example.

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And what I want us to see this morning as
we prepare to open our Bibles to Hebrews

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chapter five, is that Jesus sets for us
an example that is dictated by his life.

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Jesus says, the perfect man shows us what
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perfected, A man who's growing in grace.

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He's gonna show us that it's not easy,
accessible, or convenient, but rather.

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And he shows us the hard path.

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But it's a good one.

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The path that makes us most alive.

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The path that makes us
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The path that shows us, thank you.

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The path that shows us what it means
to be a disciple maturing in Christ.

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So we're gonna follow his model.

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Now, remember, Jesus is
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He's more than him.

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Lots of people will say Jesus is a great
moral figure that you should follow.

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We say that too.

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As Christians, we would say amen to them.

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But we don't stop at that.

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We don't say that.

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He's only our moral example.

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We say he's much more,
he is our high priest.

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He is our savior.

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He is our Lord, but he
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One of the reasons why this is important
for you and I, as I said before, we, we

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are in a world where everything is easy,
accessible, and convenient, but there's

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certain temptations that you and I, I
think I can identify most of us in this

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room where you and I will battle two.

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Two results of that conditioning.

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Your mental conditioning
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And here's what I'm gonna say, uh, no
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find the, the mental conditioning
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entitlement and deserving here.

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Here's what I mean by that.

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If you're younger, you
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I am entitled to enjoy my teenage years.

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I'm entitled to enjoy my, my, my
youthfulness, uh, all work in no play

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makes Jack a doll, boy, as they say.

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So I'm entitled to live a little
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And so when I become older, when I,
when I get older and maybe I start

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seriously dating, then I'll think about
getting serious with God and getting

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serious about owning my faith and not
just letting it be my parents' faith.

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Now I'll get serious about
growing up in my maturity.

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Uh, once I have my own apartment, once I
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I want to care or care for just my room.

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I'll, I'll grow up when I,
when I grow up, I'll get older.

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When I'm older, as the thinking might go.

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In their case, discipleship is
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doing whatever they want to do.

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That's easy to see in a young mindset.

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What about for those of us who are,
let's say, seasoned, seasoned mindset?

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And that's most of you in this
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that heading, seasoned mindset
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earned the right to take it easy.

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I deserve to kick my feet up.

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Um, my gray hair shows that I've lived
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differently than everybody else.

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Uh, what's true about us, and God
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often willing to pay the price.

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Early in life, we've learned, at
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put the front work in, a lot of the
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You know, you save for so many
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retirement fund is now, uh,
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And, you know, you worked for so
many years and now you've, uh,

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obtained a certain level of notoriety
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Uh, maybe you're sought after for your
expertise in this thing and that thing.

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And so you, you can easily and adopt a
mindset of saying, I, I paid the price.

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It's now my turn to reap.

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Uh, I've already paid enough.

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But again, this isn't the
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He tells us the opposite.

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He says, we gotta be
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How often?

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Jesus says, take up your
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Daily.

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Temptation for us isn't laziness, man.

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It really is.

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Something along the
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You've heard of this term?

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Quiet, quitting a quiet retirement.

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Uh, a sense of I've done enough.

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Let the young guys do the
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Uh, I I deserve to be
pampered a little bit.

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Um, and then there's, there's nothing
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is something wrong with saying, I'm
gonna turn in my retirement check early

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and check out from what the church
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But Christ's asking, lemme
just give you a couple examples

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of what this might look like.

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One area is maybe the delegating of
spiritual leadership to your bride got

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incredibly godly woman in your life.

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God has gifted you with a
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And maybe you're tempted to let her carry
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So instead of taking the initiative
to pray with your family, to lead

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your kids in prayer and discipleship,
you say, well, she's really good

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at it and she also knows the Bible
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take the lead in this another area.

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You might seize this, you know, and
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Perhaps you might even say to yourself,
well, man, I, I put in a lot of work.

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I've worked 10 hours today and I
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You know, I, I'd like her to do that.

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I, I, I deserve a break.

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I deserve some time for myself
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Maybe, uh, another area is showing up
to church and saying, no, I, I was part

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of all these, I was part of a church
plan before, and so I know what it is to

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submit a lot of time and energy to it,
and I've earned some time to sit back

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and let, let other people do the job.

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Um, dangerous thinking, isn't it?

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Uh, this kind of mindset can
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When, when, uh, for any sinner really,
but especially when we're, we're

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given the world where everything is
easy, accessible, and convenience.

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Again, Jesus calls us to
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That's anything but those things.

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And in so many areas of our life, we
might be tempted no to no longer pay the

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price to check out early to quit before
God has told you it's time to quit.

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So what I want you to see here is how
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in the life of Jesus earthly ministry.

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Hebrews chapter five is
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Verses seven through nine.

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Can you just turn that one?

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It's time.

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Just this back and forth.

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That's all.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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You're good?

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You're good for now.

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Hebrews chapter five, uh, as you,
as I prepare to get in there.

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All right.

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We're gonna see, um.

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How Jesus pays the price in three areas.

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You're gonna see him pay the price
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and his submitting, his praying,
his suffering, and his submitting.

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We're gonna see those three
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And from those three things, I'm gonna
show you what I hope to be, something

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helpful, to encourage you to keep paying
the price today, to see Jesus as more

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than an example, yes, but not less than
to encourage and edify your faith and

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to encourage you to not stop taking
up the cross, to follow after Christ.

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Your manhood is always
gonna be challenged.

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We're always gonna be tempted to
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back and be passive, but Jesus
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Let's take a look at that.

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Now we're gonna read it
together, Matthew, excuse me.

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Hebrews chapter five,
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It says this, in the days of his flesh,
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supplications with loud cries and tears to
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Although he was a son, he
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suffered and being made perfect.

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He became the source of eternal
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Let's just finish the
sentence here in verse 10.

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Being designated by God, a high
priest after the odor of milk Zeek.

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Several things I need you to
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Number one, chapter five of Hebrews
is about Jesus high priesthood.

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You saw it there in verse 10.

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Jesus is a high priest after the
order of melek, which just means that

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he's part of a different priesthood
that Israel previously did not know.

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His priesthoods supersedes
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Uh, Hebrews chapter five is a way to
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the perfect, well suited high priest.

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He is qualified to serve in this
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Preacher in Hebrews is trying to
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He's a qualified high priest,
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he functions as a high priest.

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Now, let's just quickly remind ourselves,
in case you're a little less familiar, the

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high priesthood of Israel was meant to be
someone who mediates between God and man.

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The high priest was to go in the
high, uh, the Holy of Holies once

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a year to offer a sacrifice and to
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The book of Hebrews is trying
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superior and better high priest.

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Uh, more than that.

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He's also the, he's also our
savior, but he's high priest.

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He's qualified to be our go-between, to
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And so here, then we zoom in on a
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through nine, is a reference to
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You might remember that in the garden,
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weeping tears, and his, he's sweating
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Like great drops of blood.

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And so here we have a, a, a time
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Jesus to mediate between us and God.

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Uh, this little section also shows
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In fact, the beginning of verse
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You'll notice there's a time
marker there that you can't miss.

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Well, you should've missed, at least
Verse seven says, in the days of his

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flesh, which tells us this is a particular
moment in Jesus ministry life, this

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isn't about his exalted status right now.

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This isn't about his consummated
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over the millennial kingdom.

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This is about a particular moment
in human history when Jesus was.

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Uh, this time marker emphasizes
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that's gonna play a big role.

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For Jesus to be our high priest,
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So in his humanity as a full
man, he accomplishes, uh, he

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accomplishes our salvation.

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Keep that peace in mind.

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He does this in full dependence upon the
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I should say that.

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But let me just point out to you one
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Notice what Jesus is doing in the
days of his flesh before being

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exalted, before being, uh, lifted
high by the Father, Jesus offered

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up prayers and supplications.

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This is exactly what you should
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This is his job.

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He prays for you.

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He intercedes for you.

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This is what Jesus does, and he does
it supremely if we're gonna pay the

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press like Jesus, remember, he's.

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Not, uh, he is our example, but
he is, he is, he is our example,

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but he's not less than that.

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Um, so we do acknowledge he is our
high priest, but if we're gonna

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take cues from Jesus about what
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gonna, number one, pray like Jesus.

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Let's just pray like Jesus.

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If we're going to recognize that
Jesus is more than our example,

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but not less, we need to say,
okay, we need to pray like Jesus.

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And, and, and it's important for you to
see first of all, that Jesus does pray.

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The son of God and son of man prayed.

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He took time out of his schedule
ministering to people and

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teaching the masses to pray.

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And I'm gonna argue here that
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He, he resolves to pray and he resolves
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not easy, accessible, or convenience.

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Jesus was sought after people were
running to meet him at his destination

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where when he was out at sea, they
went to the port that he was gonna

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come into and they waited for him.

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Talk about having no time to breathe.

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They were so bent on getting Jesus'
attention that even as Jesus is

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mourning the loss of his cousin,
John the Baptist, they come and

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find him in the wilderness and they
have needs that are ready to be met.

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And Jesus doesn't look at them and say,
guys, I just need a break to grieve.

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Please let me just have a few hours alone.

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And instead, no, he ministers to them.

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Because his ministry life was so
impacted, he would take time alone in

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the morning to just spend time with God.

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He'd wake up really early
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Mark chapter one says, and he
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So Jesus prays.

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You see that part of what Jesus is showing
us here again, uh, he, he's more than

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our model of prayer because he's our
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He also models for us what it looks
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Well, I want you to notice
the way that he prays though.

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Take a look here in verse seven, he
prays how with loud cries and tears.

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Jesus is not a dispassionate high priest.

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He's not interceding with indifference.

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Here, I I want you to think about this.

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How would, how would the author of Hebrews
know this if this is as I suspect Jesus

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in the Garden the night before, he was
about to be betrayed and given into the

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hands of the Romans to be crucified.

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How do they know that?

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He prayed with loud cries and tears.

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I'm gonna make two guesses
that I, I, I think are textual.

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You can follow, follow along with
me if, if you think this is fitting.

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Number one.

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I think because the disciples
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had access to his prayer life.

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You might remember in Luke chapter 11,
they said, Jesus teaches us how to pray.

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They found something so
remarkable about his preaching.

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Uh, so remarkable about his praying,
rather, that they asked him,

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please show us how you do this.

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So they had access to his prayer
life, and I would wager they

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knew that Jesus was a man who.

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Prayed with loud cries and tears.

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I think this is a regular feature,
or at least it hints at that.

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Secondly, if this is a Garden
of Gethsemane, he did call

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three to come along with him.

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Remember those guys, Peter, James, and
John, are invited to be part of his inner

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circle, so as he's praying, preparing to
die, he says, come along with me guys.

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Watch and pray with me.

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The text says they fell asleep.

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You know the story, but I don't know
that they were sleeping the whole time

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because it wouldn't take a lot to say.

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I hear loud cries and tears.

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Maybe Jesus, on the night that he was
about to be betrayed was piercing the

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night sky with his cries and he was
not concealing them, crying quietly,

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as we might do if we're trying to be
subtle and not let people know that

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we're, you know, shedding tears.

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Jesus is crying with loud cries and tears.

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This is full on crying.

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I think his disciples might
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He prayed with passion.

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A couple points about that.

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Then if we're gonna pray like Jesus,
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able to pray honestly with vulnerability
and honesty and vulnerability is

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not part of our manhood culture.

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At least not today.

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I, I was watching, uh, little
House in the Prairie with my kids.

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I've been watching it for a long time now.

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It's my first time making it through.

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I mean, please don't judge me for that.

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I know it's not the Manly a show to watch.

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I picked it up 'cause it was clean go.

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You can understand that, right?

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You can sympathize.

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I picked it up 'cause it was clean
and I could enjoy it with my family.

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Great storytelling by the way.

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But here's what's
consistent about this show.

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It constantly pulls on
the, on the harsh dreams.

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It's a dad who loves his family, who
wants to protect his wife and lead his

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girls and, and do right in the society.

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And constantly, I'm challenged because
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And I probably do what you do.

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I hold it in.

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Don't, this is, this is just a TV show.

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I don't need them to see
me crying for these things.

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I get a little embarrassed when
I get emotional at a TV show.

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I don't know about you,
but look at Jesus here.

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I don't think Jesus is embarrassed about
the full expression of his emotions here.

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I don't think Jesus is embarrassed
about being honest with

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what's happening in his heart.

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I think real manhood, as Jesus depicts
it, is emotionally available, and that's

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just indicated by the way that he prays.

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He's honest with the father.

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He's not pretending to
be something he's not.

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He's laying it out as it is, and I wonder
if anyone's given you the permission

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to be that way with your father.

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If you're praying like Jesus, here's what
I can tell you about your prayer life.

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You're not pulling punches.

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That doesn't mean you're
being disrespectful.

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Doesn't mean that you're telling God
what to do, but it is saying, I want

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to take the time to be real with you.

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God, and being real with a father
is as hard as it is to be real

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with your bride or with your kids.

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It takes time, it takes
energy, it takes slowness.

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It takes you being willing to
say, I'm not gonna rush this.

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I need to, I need to
give you what you're due.

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If you go on a date with your
wife, you're not starting.

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Your clock is okay.

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One hour go.

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What's going on in your life?

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Okay, we gotta get home now.

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We gotta go.

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You're not gonna rush you.

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These things take time, and sometimes we
rush God because we've got things to do.

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We don't get the time that it needs,
and, and that's why in part, we're

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not emotionally available to the Lord.

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And when that happens, again,
you're conditioning yourself

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to act in certain ways.

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You're developing certain patterns of
expression that's going to bleed onto your

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wife, kids, your friends, your neighbors.

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Jesus is emotionally
connected to the Father.

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Obviously, if this is the night
he's going to be betrayed, he's,

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it's gonna be intense about it.

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He cries, he wails.

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He makes it evident, I'm telling you,
is you have to cry about everything.

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I don't think Jesus cried about
everything, but I can tell you.

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I can guarantee there are things
in your life that you probably

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should shed some tears about.

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Should not could, but you should.

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There have been a handful of times
in my life when I've been so moved

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with love or concern for someone that
the tears have been pulled out and I

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wonder if the same can be true for you.

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Have you shed tears over your children's
salvation or your grandchildren?

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Have you prayed for your wife with
the kind of intensity that says, Lord

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I, I need her to grow in these areas.

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I care about her, her holiness.

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I care about her looking like you.

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I care about my love for her.

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Lord, forgive me.

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Have you ever been so grieved
by your sin that you're willing

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to cry tears over those things?

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Have you ever loved the savior so
much that you communicate that love

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with tears of joy, tears of gratitude?

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Again, you don't have
to do this every day.

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I'm not saying that I'm,
I'm putting a burden on you.

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You should cry more often, gentlemen.

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I'm just saying.

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Jesus communicates to the Father with
a real authenticity and intensity,

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and that was a part of his life.

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I suspect we gonna pray like Jesus.

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That means we're gonna have to be willing
to spend time with him, to give him the

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honor and the deference that he deserves.

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Well, notice who Jesus prays to here.

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Let's make a quick comment about this.

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Jesus prays.

463
00:21:28,335 --> 00:21:29,265
To the father.

464
00:21:29,325 --> 00:21:33,555
That's who's being referred to, to him,
who was able to save him from death.

465
00:21:35,265 --> 00:21:41,775
Just real quick, every prayer that is
recorded of Jesus is directed to the

466
00:21:41,775 --> 00:21:45,435
Father, not the Spirit, spirit son of you.

467
00:21:46,485 --> 00:21:51,525
Every prayer in the Bible that Jesus
is recorded as saying is to the Father,

468
00:21:52,305 --> 00:21:53,865
I think that's instructive for us.

469
00:21:54,045 --> 00:21:57,255
Your, your prayers ought to be
directed to the Father by and large.

470
00:21:57,975 --> 00:21:59,955
Um, and in fact, the way that I've
thought about this and I think is

471
00:21:59,955 --> 00:22:05,775
helpful, it's to the father, through
the son, by the spirit to the Father,

472
00:22:05,775 --> 00:22:06,645
through the son, by the spirit.

473
00:22:07,095 --> 00:22:09,465
Our prayers are like Jesus meant
to be directed to the Father.

474
00:22:09,465 --> 00:22:11,715
In fact, when he tells us
to pray, what does he say?

475
00:22:11,925 --> 00:22:17,055
He says, when you pray, say
you fill it in our Father.

476
00:22:17,055 --> 00:22:17,475
That's right.

477
00:22:18,450 --> 00:22:21,210
Notice he doesn't tell you to
say Our spirit in heaven doesn't

478
00:22:21,210 --> 00:22:22,170
tell you to ask the spirit.

479
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,610
There's nothing wrong with
praying to the spirit.

480
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,970
Spirit can't get due, but the
spirit's job is to point you

481
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,380
to the father through the son.

482
00:22:28,950 --> 00:22:31,620
So Jesus prays that the Father,
that's a good practice for us as well.

483
00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:33,420
Did the father save him from death?

484
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,340
Uh, he was able to save him.

485
00:22:35,460 --> 00:22:36,390
Did he do that?

486
00:22:37,110 --> 00:22:37,890
Well, yes and no.

487
00:22:37,890 --> 00:22:38,280
Right?

488
00:22:38,340 --> 00:22:39,090
Yes and no.

489
00:22:39,660 --> 00:22:39,960
No.

490
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,020
The father did not deliver him from
death, at least that death immediately.

491
00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:46,230
But yes, he did deliver him from death
and that he a rose him from the death.

492
00:22:46,890 --> 00:22:50,970
And so what we see here again is that
Jesus is praying and he effectively prays.

493
00:22:51,330 --> 00:22:58,470
Jesus did get a yes, but it was a yes,
but yes, but Son, yes, I will deliver

494
00:22:58,470 --> 00:23:01,680
you from death, but you're still
gonna go through the doorway of death.

495
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,380
Why don't you sit for a second
and think about how that might

496
00:23:04,380 --> 00:23:07,320
influence the way that you pray and
what you expect God to answer you.

497
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,490
You might pray for the job and
God might say yes, but, or you

498
00:23:11,490 --> 00:23:13,170
might pray for a different house.

499
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:13,980
Housing arrangement.

500
00:23:14,010 --> 00:23:15,240
Yes, son, but.

501
00:23:15,750 --> 00:23:16,650
That's what God says to him.

502
00:23:16,950 --> 00:23:18,390
This is the son of God.

503
00:23:20,730 --> 00:23:21,600
Here's a, here's a fun one.

504
00:23:21,660 --> 00:23:22,740
Look at the last part of verse seven.

505
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,710
Why did the father answer Jesus prayers?

506
00:23:25,890 --> 00:23:28,140
There's a lot of answers you could
give to that theologically, and

507
00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:29,940
if you're theologically minded,
this is gonna be fun for you.

508
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,400
If you're not, you can tune
out for like three minutes.

509
00:23:33,150 --> 00:23:36,325
But if you aren't theologically
minded, notice here, why did

510
00:23:36,330 --> 00:23:37,530
the father answer Jesus first?

511
00:23:37,530 --> 00:23:40,170
Because of his reverence?

512
00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:41,400
Fascinating.

513
00:23:42,135 --> 00:23:42,915
Biblically speaking.

514
00:23:42,915 --> 00:23:46,575
This is fascinating because he could
have said anything else that you

515
00:23:46,575 --> 00:23:48,765
would expect, oh, he's the son of God.

516
00:23:48,825 --> 00:23:49,965
He's gonna get God's ear.

517
00:23:50,205 --> 00:23:51,615
He's perfect in righteousness.

518
00:23:51,675 --> 00:23:52,935
He's gonna get God's ear.

519
00:23:53,205 --> 00:23:56,145
He obeyed the Father to the very
end, or as the Old Testament says

520
00:23:56,145 --> 00:24:00,015
about some of the kings, he, he
obeyed the Lord with his whole heart.

521
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,010
You would expect to see those
things, but yet what you see

522
00:24:02,010 --> 00:24:03,855
here is because of his reverence.

523
00:24:04,125 --> 00:24:07,785
It's not about Jesus' uniqueness as a
Son of God and great high priest, none of

524
00:24:07,785 --> 00:24:09,765
that is cited as the reason God heard him.

525
00:24:09,765 --> 00:24:10,785
This is reverence.

526
00:24:11,610 --> 00:24:13,830
I think that's so instructive for us.

527
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,760
I mean, remember, Jesus is more
than our example, but he's not less,

528
00:24:17,790 --> 00:24:19,590
his reverence ought to inform ours.

529
00:24:19,590 --> 00:24:22,890
When we go to him and we go to the
Father in prayer, what this reverence

530
00:24:22,890 --> 00:24:26,640
refers to is that Jesus didn't make
demands for escape or deliverance.

531
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,740
Remember he, he finished the prayer
with not as I will, but as you do.

532
00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:37,920
And because of that, he received and
accepted the father's painful will.

533
00:24:38,430 --> 00:24:39,930
He revered God enough.

534
00:24:39,930 --> 00:24:42,930
He loved God enough to say,
I, I want what you want.

535
00:24:43,410 --> 00:24:45,960
Even if that means I have to walk
through the doorway of death.

536
00:24:47,610 --> 00:24:52,290
Several things then from this, this
brief verse, praying like Jesus

537
00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:54,210
means trusting the answer God gives.

538
00:24:54,540 --> 00:24:55,560
Let me just encourage
you to think about that.

539
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,140
Praying like Jesus means
trusting the answer God gives.

540
00:24:58,590 --> 00:25:01,620
Being heard by God does not mean
the request is always granted.

541
00:25:02,340 --> 00:25:04,020
That should be evident for
those of us who have walked into

542
00:25:04,020 --> 00:25:04,950
the faith for a long season.

543
00:25:05,535 --> 00:25:08,295
Trusting God means trusting the
answer he gives and that the

544
00:25:08,295 --> 00:25:09,945
answer isn't always gonna be a yes.

545
00:25:10,095 --> 00:25:12,675
Jesus prayed that the cup would
pass from him, but it didn't.

546
00:25:13,365 --> 00:25:20,595
It didn't because praying like Jesus
also means pursuing God, not the gift.

547
00:25:21,225 --> 00:25:23,505
Praying like Jesus first means
trusting the answer God gives.

548
00:25:23,535 --> 00:25:27,285
Praying like Jesus also means
pursuing God in your prayer life.

549
00:25:27,615 --> 00:25:30,975
Prayer is our way of aligning ourselves
with God's will rather than telling

550
00:25:30,975 --> 00:25:32,535
him how we want him to align with ours.

551
00:25:33,570 --> 00:25:36,150
And that means us being willing to say,
look, I understand that, Lord, you're

552
00:25:36,150 --> 00:25:39,210
gonna do what you're gonna do, but I'm
gonna ask you please do these things.

553
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:46,860
Prayer is primarily relational
and not transactional difference.

554
00:25:47,370 --> 00:25:51,480
Transactional is, I drive through the
window, I get my order, I pick it up, I

555
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,400
drive out the car, the, the drive through.

556
00:25:54,060 --> 00:25:55,920
Relational is, sweetheart.

557
00:25:55,980 --> 00:25:58,800
Well, let's go to dinner and
spend it a couple hours together.

558
00:25:58,860 --> 00:26:01,440
Or I'm gonna take my dad out for
dinner and we're gonna just hang

559
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,730
out and enjoy each other's company.

560
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:04,980
One's relational.

561
00:26:05,010 --> 00:26:05,970
One is transactional.

562
00:26:06,270 --> 00:26:07,410
Prayer is not drive through.

563
00:26:07,860 --> 00:26:10,290
Prayer is, let's sit down and
let's, let's talk a while.

564
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,350
Thirdly, prayer is like prayer.

565
00:26:13,410 --> 00:26:15,000
Praying like Jesus means
trusting the answer.

566
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,420
God gives praying like Jesus means
pursuing God, not gifts, and finally

567
00:26:18,420 --> 00:26:21,690
praying like Jesus means seeing
prayer as a combination of two things.

568
00:26:22,875 --> 00:26:23,745
Earn petition.

569
00:26:24,795 --> 00:26:27,285
Absolute deference.

570
00:26:27,705 --> 00:26:28,635
Earn petition.

571
00:26:28,785 --> 00:26:30,015
Absolute deference.

572
00:26:30,495 --> 00:26:34,935
I'm giving my true heart here, but
whatever you say, God, I trust you.

573
00:26:35,805 --> 00:26:39,105
If you want me to stay in this
dead end job, 'cause you've closed

574
00:26:39,105 --> 00:26:40,545
all my doors, you've hedged me in.

575
00:26:41,235 --> 00:26:41,655
I trust.

576
00:26:43,125 --> 00:26:45,915
If you want me to stay in this
relationship, which has been so

577
00:26:45,915 --> 00:26:47,535
taxing for me, I don't get it.

578
00:26:47,535 --> 00:26:48,705
Why they won't change.

579
00:26:48,855 --> 00:26:49,575
I've tried.

580
00:26:49,575 --> 00:26:50,115
I've done everything.

581
00:26:50,115 --> 00:26:50,685
I've been praying.

582
00:26:50,685 --> 00:26:53,985
Lord, if you want me to stay
in this relationship, so be it.

583
00:26:57,555 --> 00:26:59,415
Okay, so much more here.

584
00:27:00,585 --> 00:27:04,004
Verse seven sets us up to see that Jesus
intercedes for us as our high priest.

585
00:27:04,215 --> 00:27:07,665
He does it with loud cries and tears to
him who is able to save him from death,

586
00:27:07,665 --> 00:27:09,014
and he was heard because of his reverence.

587
00:27:09,885 --> 00:27:11,505
But I want you to see
something stunningly.

588
00:27:11,505 --> 00:27:15,015
Jesus never appeals to his
unique privilege and status

589
00:27:15,015 --> 00:27:16,605
as son or high priest.

590
00:27:16,725 --> 00:27:18,105
He appeals to the father's will.

591
00:27:18,105 --> 00:27:18,885
Look at verse eight.

592
00:27:19,005 --> 00:27:25,995
Although he was a son, he learned
obedience through what he suffered.

593
00:27:27,705 --> 00:27:31,005
Jesus is more than our
example, but he's not less.

594
00:27:31,335 --> 00:27:32,805
Jesus suffered first.

595
00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:34,785
Number two, we need to suffer with Jesus.

596
00:27:35,775 --> 00:27:36,465
Suffer with Jesus.

597
00:27:38,670 --> 00:27:41,190
Although he was a son,
that's a critical line there.

598
00:27:41,190 --> 00:27:45,210
Although he was a son, it's a
concession that reveals Jesus

599
00:27:45,210 --> 00:27:46,920
experience during his earthly ministry.

600
00:27:47,190 --> 00:27:49,860
Uh, even though he was the son of
God, it did not exempt him from

601
00:27:49,860 --> 00:27:51,900
the experience of genuine humanity.

602
00:27:53,220 --> 00:27:58,020
Uh, one of the things that I love
doing, um, is when I'm watching

603
00:27:58,020 --> 00:28:00,720
something by myself, I will
always hit the skip intro button.

604
00:28:01,350 --> 00:28:02,910
Never, I never wanna see the credits.

605
00:28:02,910 --> 00:28:03,510
I don't care.

606
00:28:03,570 --> 00:28:05,775
Skip intro goes right
to the, the good stuff.

607
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,210
But when I'm with my kids, I
feel I have an obligation to

608
00:28:09,210 --> 00:28:10,680
make them watch the intro.

609
00:28:11,310 --> 00:28:13,740
Like we're gonna see, we've,
we've watched the intro to

610
00:28:13,740 --> 00:28:15,330
Little House hundreds of times.

611
00:28:19,740 --> 00:28:23,460
It's part of our, it's part of our
tradition now, and they're still an,

612
00:28:23,460 --> 00:28:25,320
I can skip intro, but I never do.

613
00:28:25,380 --> 00:28:26,760
I say, you need to hear this.

614
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:27,930
I grew up with this.

615
00:28:27,930 --> 00:28:29,100
You need to experience what this is like.

616
00:28:30,150 --> 00:28:31,890
You need to experience
what I've experienced.

617
00:28:31,890 --> 00:28:35,190
It's good for you to feel the, the
pain of going through the intro.

618
00:28:35,550 --> 00:28:39,750
Watching the commercials, but
interestingly, there's not a skip

619
00:28:39,750 --> 00:28:40,860
intro button for the Christian life.

620
00:28:40,860 --> 00:28:42,720
There is no fast forward to maturity.

621
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,680
There is no, I can skip the beginning
of this and get right to the good stuff.

622
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:51,150
No, everything is about progressive
growth and even Jesus himself was not

623
00:28:51,150 --> 00:28:53,550
exempted from this, although he was a son.

624
00:28:53,550 --> 00:28:56,670
Verse eight says, although it's offering
a concession, even though this is the

625
00:28:56,670 --> 00:29:00,600
case, he never used the the card and
said, ah, look, I'm gonna skip this

626
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,790
level and I'm gonna go right to the.

627
00:29:03,255 --> 00:29:04,065
The championship.

628
00:29:04,065 --> 00:29:05,175
I'm gonna go right to the cross.

629
00:29:05,325 --> 00:29:09,315
It could have been that you realize
he could have been born in the manger

630
00:29:09,315 --> 00:29:13,605
in Bethlehem and then the next week
had been sacrificed, didn't happen.

631
00:29:14,325 --> 00:29:17,145
And yet, when you look at the sacrificial
system in the Old Testament, you'll notice

632
00:29:17,145 --> 00:29:21,135
that often it is a young unblemished lamb.

633
00:29:21,465 --> 00:29:24,075
And Jesus was young, relatively
speaking, 33 years old is not a

634
00:29:24,075 --> 00:29:26,415
long time, but he wasn't a year old.

635
00:29:26,715 --> 00:29:27,525
He wasn't a week old.

636
00:29:27,525 --> 00:29:29,115
He was 33 about.

637
00:29:30,045 --> 00:29:31,095
Why live that whole time?

638
00:29:31,095 --> 00:29:33,555
Well, because he was doing
what God had called him to do.

639
00:29:33,645 --> 00:29:36,615
He was progressively growing in
his understanding, progressively

640
00:29:36,615 --> 00:29:39,855
going, growing in his, his
godliness and his humanity.

641
00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:44,265
He didn't hit, he didn't use a
skip intro button, did not appeal

642
00:29:44,265 --> 00:29:45,705
to divine or relational privilege.

643
00:29:46,065 --> 00:29:46,875
Paid the price.

644
00:29:48,045 --> 00:29:50,895
Sometimes age status can tempt us
to think that we have paid or dues.

645
00:29:50,895 --> 00:29:51,735
We've talked about this already.

646
00:29:51,735 --> 00:29:54,375
Now, I wanna just camp on this really
quickly because it makes sense.

647
00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:54,435
Um.

648
00:29:56,145 --> 00:29:59,325
When God calls us to follow him, he,
he doesn't say, when you graduate

649
00:29:59,325 --> 00:30:02,505
to this stage of maturity, then
you're exempted from all the basics.

650
00:30:02,685 --> 00:30:04,245
You don't have to do the things
that you used to do anymore.

651
00:30:04,245 --> 00:30:07,395
In fact, Christianity is, is is
often a, a long maturing in the

652
00:30:07,395 --> 00:30:09,015
same direction with the basics.

653
00:30:09,075 --> 00:30:11,325
Praying, reading your bible,
going to church, learning from

654
00:30:11,325 --> 00:30:12,285
the sermons, all those things.

655
00:30:12,735 --> 00:30:15,465
Now, age and status do not change things.

656
00:30:15,795 --> 00:30:17,925
You might be the president,
CEO of a company.

657
00:30:18,135 --> 00:30:21,615
You might be the highest ranking employee
in your, in your division, but that

658
00:30:21,615 --> 00:30:22,905
doesn't change your status with the Lord.

659
00:30:23,295 --> 00:30:25,485
He doesn't see that and say,
I'm so impressed by you.

660
00:30:25,485 --> 00:30:27,795
You can do things differently now
because you have your own parking

661
00:30:27,795 --> 00:30:29,175
spot in the company parking lot.

662
00:30:29,805 --> 00:30:30,885
We're all his children.

663
00:30:30,945 --> 00:30:33,465
We all sit in many respects
as on level footing.

664
00:30:33,465 --> 00:30:35,445
And God calls us to
approach him in that way.

665
00:30:36,405 --> 00:30:37,785
How does this work in practice?

666
00:30:37,790 --> 00:30:41,535
I, I, I once told God,
don't tell God what, what.

667
00:30:41,535 --> 00:30:42,285
But here's what I told him.

668
00:30:42,855 --> 00:30:46,455
I told him I would never be part of
another church plant because I don't

669
00:30:46,455 --> 00:30:47,565
like setting up and tearing down.

670
00:30:51,990 --> 00:30:54,900
Clearly I didn't think that
one through 'cause he said, ha.

671
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,010
And I'm part of another church plan
and I'm sitting up and tearing down

672
00:30:59,490 --> 00:31:00,780
probably for the rest of my life.

673
00:31:04,860 --> 00:31:06,930
One of the things that's been
really sweet though in this is

674
00:31:06,930 --> 00:31:08,055
that I, I've got to see saints.

675
00:31:09,389 --> 00:31:13,889
Godly older men step up in an area where
I would say if I'm, if I'm that age,

676
00:31:13,889 --> 00:31:17,580
I might exempt myself and say, well,
you know, my back guys and my eyesight

677
00:31:17,580 --> 00:31:20,070
isn't what it used to be, and these
muscles aren't what they used to be.

678
00:31:20,310 --> 00:31:24,870
Uh, but yet I've seen older men
take the brunt of that work.

679
00:31:25,350 --> 00:31:27,330
Um, even if I never miss, I
could just point out too, well,

680
00:31:27,330 --> 00:31:29,010
at least one of that's here.

681
00:31:29,070 --> 00:31:29,850
I don't think the other one is here.

682
00:31:30,090 --> 00:31:30,810
Greg Shaver.

683
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,770
Um, I don't, maybe he would
be objected to my calling him

684
00:31:34,770 --> 00:31:36,570
old, but Greg Shaver does that.

685
00:31:37,425 --> 00:31:38,445
He's an, he's an older gentleman.

686
00:31:38,475 --> 00:31:42,105
He's pushing carts and lifting chairs
and trying to pick up the stage pieces.

687
00:31:42,105 --> 00:31:43,125
And we say, Greg, don't do that.

688
00:31:43,125 --> 00:31:44,295
You're gonna hurt yourself.

689
00:31:44,775 --> 00:31:45,705
Still does it.

690
00:31:46,305 --> 00:31:47,895
Pete Burner, he does the same thing.

691
00:31:47,895 --> 00:31:49,455
Pete Burner cleans the bathrooms.

692
00:31:49,514 --> 00:31:52,425
I dunno if you know that when you
go to the, the, the, the cafeteria

693
00:31:52,425 --> 00:31:55,605
in the morning, if the bathroom
smells so fresh and so clean, clean,

694
00:31:55,725 --> 00:31:58,754
it's because Pete Burner cleaned
it 99 times out of a hundred,

695
00:32:01,035 --> 00:32:04,305
there are other older saints who
refuse to stop paying the price.

696
00:32:04,950 --> 00:32:07,710
And they say, I don't care how old
I am, I'm doing it because that's

697
00:32:07,710 --> 00:32:08,580
what God has called me to do.

698
00:32:08,580 --> 00:32:11,250
And if, if the church needs that I'm
gonna serve, I'm gonna jump into that.

699
00:32:11,250 --> 00:32:12,090
I'm not old enough.

700
00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:13,980
I'm not too advanced,
I'm too mature from that.

701
00:32:13,980 --> 00:32:15,510
I'm not gonna embrace privilege.

702
00:32:15,930 --> 00:32:18,540
I'm gonna take my position as servant.

703
00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:20,010
Who's that sound like?

704
00:32:20,490 --> 00:32:22,920
Uh, it sounds to me a lot like
Jesus, who remember Jesus.

705
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,720
Luke chapter 22, he says this, who
is the greater one who reclines

706
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,370
at table or one who serves?

707
00:32:30,315 --> 00:32:31,635
It is not the one who recline.

708
00:32:31,905 --> 00:32:34,485
Oh, rather, is it not the
one who reclines that table?

709
00:32:35,295 --> 00:32:38,325
But I am among you as the one who serves.

710
00:32:38,325 --> 00:32:43,395
Luke 2227, Jesus says, I
am the greatest among you.

711
00:32:43,395 --> 00:32:44,835
And yet, how do I prove my greatness?

712
00:32:44,835 --> 00:32:47,325
How do I prove my prestige
and my status, my privilege?

713
00:32:48,315 --> 00:32:52,125
I use my power, my prestige, my
status, my privilege to serve you.

714
00:32:53,145 --> 00:32:54,285
This is the way of Jesus.

715
00:32:54,435 --> 00:32:57,015
You suffer with Jesus by
rejecting privileged position.

716
00:32:57,795 --> 00:32:59,535
You serve with Jesus,
you suffer with Jesus.

717
00:32:59,535 --> 00:33:03,225
Rather by saying, I don't care how
old I am or what I perceive to be

718
00:33:03,225 --> 00:33:06,855
my, my accolades, my entitlements,
I will serve regardless.

719
00:33:07,575 --> 00:33:10,245
I gotta ask you, man, are you willing
to pay the price of discipleship to

720
00:33:10,245 --> 00:33:11,745
Jesus to suffer with him in this way?

721
00:33:12,195 --> 00:33:13,395
This is incredibly humbling.

722
00:33:13,395 --> 00:33:18,045
No one wants to do this, and yet we
will never outgrow the humble service

723
00:33:18,045 --> 00:33:20,715
Jesus models for us and calls us to.

724
00:33:21,795 --> 00:33:25,514
If you ever do outgrow humble service,
willingness to take the grunt work.

725
00:33:26,355 --> 00:33:27,795
You might have outgrown Jesus.

726
00:33:28,365 --> 00:33:28,575
Whew.

727
00:33:28,815 --> 00:33:29,625
Scary place to be.

728
00:33:32,895 --> 00:33:36,435
Lemme just encourage you take, take
the lowly job, do the grunt work.

729
00:33:36,975 --> 00:33:40,335
Do it in league with Jesus knowing that
it draws his pleasure, whether that's

730
00:33:40,335 --> 00:33:43,695
at home, doing the dishes, putting
the kids' shoes away, whether it's at

731
00:33:43,695 --> 00:33:48,435
church stack in a chair, whether it's
at your office, the trash is full.

732
00:33:48,435 --> 00:33:49,155
You see it's full.

733
00:33:49,155 --> 00:33:50,205
It's not my job to take it out.

734
00:33:50,205 --> 00:33:51,165
I'll just let someone else do that.

735
00:33:51,255 --> 00:33:52,005
I'm gonna pass right on.

736
00:33:52,005 --> 00:33:52,425
Bye.

737
00:33:53,504 --> 00:33:54,284
I see it.

738
00:33:54,344 --> 00:33:55,455
I identify the problem.

739
00:33:55,455 --> 00:33:56,355
I'll resolve the problem.

740
00:33:56,594 --> 00:34:00,734
I'm gonna serve, you know that
napkin container's empty at home.

741
00:34:00,824 --> 00:34:01,784
My wife will get it.

742
00:34:01,875 --> 00:34:02,534
No, I'll do it.

743
00:34:02,594 --> 00:34:03,225
I'll take care of it.

744
00:34:03,225 --> 00:34:04,214
I'll, I'll fill the napkin container.

745
00:34:04,694 --> 00:34:07,094
I'm one among you as one who serves.

746
00:34:08,549 --> 00:34:11,489
Suffering with Jesus means rejecting
privilege, but it also means valuing

747
00:34:11,489 --> 00:34:12,960
the redemptive purposes of suffering.

748
00:34:13,170 --> 00:34:16,170
Notice that Jesus learned
obedience through what he suffered.

749
00:34:16,170 --> 00:34:19,440
Verse eight, he learned obedience
through what He suffered.

750
00:34:19,529 --> 00:34:21,569
Again, another place where your
theology's gonna be challenged

751
00:34:21,569 --> 00:34:23,100
because isn't Jesus already perfect?

752
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,449
Wasn't he born perfect?

753
00:34:24,449 --> 00:34:25,560
Wasn't he born righteous?

754
00:34:25,739 --> 00:34:28,560
And yet here it says he learned obedience.

755
00:34:28,589 --> 00:34:32,489
There was something he did not know
that he had to learn through experience.

756
00:34:33,135 --> 00:34:35,505
And here we find out that Jesus does grow.

757
00:34:35,685 --> 00:34:37,455
Uh, jot down Luke five rather.

758
00:34:37,455 --> 00:34:38,565
Luke 2 52.

759
00:34:39,225 --> 00:34:41,925
Jesus grows in obedience.

760
00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:46,034
He increases in knowledge and in wisdom,
he increases in the favor of God.

761
00:34:46,034 --> 00:34:48,705
There is something very
real about Jesus' humanity.

762
00:34:48,764 --> 00:34:50,385
That's where we say he was truly human.

763
00:34:50,505 --> 00:34:55,425
He did truly have to grow and learn
as a human, which means when he

764
00:34:55,695 --> 00:34:57,165
learns obedience through suffering.

765
00:34:57,165 --> 00:35:00,285
This is not just the Bible saying
it was kind of like that he did.

766
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,380
He learned.

767
00:35:01,770 --> 00:35:03,900
He learned even more
through his suffering.

768
00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:05,490
What it was like to be
obedient to the father.

769
00:35:06,750 --> 00:35:08,069
Favorite status, didn't exempt him.

770
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,020
Being divine.

771
00:35:10,049 --> 00:35:13,080
Literally divine did not
exempt Jesus from suffering.

772
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,440
But there's redemptive
purposes behind the suffering.

773
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,259
In fact, being Godly
increases your suffering.

774
00:35:19,890 --> 00:35:22,080
That's a slightly different
direction, but lemme just say it.

775
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,115
Being godly increases your
suffering, not lessens it.

776
00:35:25,185 --> 00:35:25,575
With that.

777
00:35:25,575 --> 00:35:28,905
Then if we see Jesus suffering,
favorite status does not exempt you

778
00:35:28,905 --> 00:35:31,635
from it, but it does guarantee that
your suffering is never for nothing.

779
00:35:31,905 --> 00:35:32,685
It's always redemptive.

780
00:35:32,715 --> 00:35:34,695
There's always a purpose, and
I can't even promise you that.

781
00:35:34,695 --> 00:35:35,925
You'll always know what that purpose is

782
00:35:39,045 --> 00:35:39,585
when you're suffering.

783
00:35:39,585 --> 00:35:41,925
Then here's your, here's your posture.

784
00:35:41,955 --> 00:35:44,955
Like Jesus, extract all
the good you can from it.

785
00:35:44,955 --> 00:35:46,575
Instead of simply asking, God, why?

786
00:35:46,575 --> 00:35:46,935
Why?

787
00:35:46,935 --> 00:35:47,895
Why is this happening to me?

788
00:35:48,045 --> 00:35:49,725
Why did you allow me to go through this?

789
00:35:49,815 --> 00:35:51,915
Why are you letting this
person do this to me?

790
00:35:52,155 --> 00:35:54,165
Ask him, what are you teaching me, Lord?

791
00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:56,310
How can I love you?

792
00:35:56,430 --> 00:35:57,750
Even in the midst of this?

793
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,110
How can I be faithful to you even as you
allow me to go through this affliction

794
00:36:01,620 --> 00:36:03,480
less why and more what and how?

795
00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:08,010
And right now I'd love for you to just
ask yourself what you're most often

796
00:36:08,010 --> 00:36:09,390
tempted to complain and grumble about.

797
00:36:10,950 --> 00:36:11,430
Think about it.

798
00:36:11,430 --> 00:36:14,610
What are you most often tempted
to grumble and complain about?

799
00:36:16,050 --> 00:36:17,940
These are the areas where it
doesn't take much to jostle

800
00:36:17,940 --> 00:36:19,830
you and get a snarky reaction.

801
00:36:22,905 --> 00:36:28,605
Maybe for some of you, when you drive
it is your least gly time of the day.

802
00:36:29,595 --> 00:36:32,415
People are cutting you off and they're
tailgating you, not tailgating.

803
00:36:32,415 --> 00:36:32,775
That's different.

804
00:36:33,435 --> 00:36:34,485
They're tailgating while you're driving.

805
00:36:34,485 --> 00:36:35,115
That's a problem too.

806
00:36:35,415 --> 00:36:36,405
But they're tailing you.

807
00:36:37,020 --> 00:36:40,530
And maybe people are driving recklessly
and you just, your blood boils and you

808
00:36:40,530 --> 00:36:43,830
just start calling down curses on them,
if not verbally, at least internally.

809
00:36:44,220 --> 00:36:47,640
Uh, maybe it's when you get home and
you're finding the house in a mess

810
00:36:47,730 --> 00:36:50,220
and you're thinking, why is this
not the way it's supposed to be?

811
00:36:50,220 --> 00:36:51,510
Who, who's on, who's on first?

812
00:36:51,510 --> 00:36:53,040
Why is there no one
who's doing the job here?

813
00:36:53,310 --> 00:36:55,950
Maybe at the office you sit next to
some knuckleheads and they're always

814
00:36:55,950 --> 00:36:59,430
saying things that are offensive
to you, and you just, where are you

815
00:36:59,430 --> 00:37:00,645
most tempted to complain and grumble?

816
00:37:02,025 --> 00:37:05,835
Ask God to help you learn
obedience through that suffering.

817
00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:06,885
That's what happened to Jesus.

818
00:37:07,575 --> 00:37:11,715
Lord, help me learn obedience through the
suffering, relatively model by comparison.

819
00:37:14,745 --> 00:37:15,165
Okay,

820
00:37:17,475 --> 00:37:17,955
verse nine.

821
00:37:19,515 --> 00:37:19,935
Verse nine.

822
00:37:20,415 --> 00:37:24,015
Being made perfect and being made perfect.

823
00:37:24,765 --> 00:37:27,645
He became the source of eternal
salvation to all who obey him.

824
00:37:29,070 --> 00:37:30,960
In what sense was Jesus made?

825
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:31,440
Perfect.

826
00:37:32,130 --> 00:37:36,360
Again, this is highlighting the
humanity of Jesus as our high priest.

827
00:37:36,630 --> 00:37:40,440
Being made perfect here in this
context means that he fulfilled, he

828
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,110
qualified to be our perfect high priest.

829
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:49,320
He had to go through the gateway of
suffering to qualify as our high priest.

830
00:37:49,410 --> 00:37:51,720
The whole book of Hebrews helps
make this case better than

831
00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:52,575
I will in the short moment.

832
00:37:53,355 --> 00:37:57,165
But this means at least this
Jesus, although never a sinner,

833
00:37:57,225 --> 00:38:02,385
and though always eternally holy,
had to live out perfect obedience.

834
00:38:02,385 --> 00:38:07,275
For the 33 years, God gave him under
genuine human temptation and suffering

835
00:38:08,025 --> 00:38:10,065
to qualify as our high priest and savior.

836
00:38:10,335 --> 00:38:16,995
He had to, his perfection as divine
in his divinity was not sufficient

837
00:38:18,015 --> 00:38:19,635
in affecting our salvation.

838
00:38:19,635 --> 00:38:21,825
God made him live 33 years.

839
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,990
To qualify to be our high priest.

840
00:38:24,990 --> 00:38:27,839
And again, that doesn't talk about,
we're not saying he was a sinner and

841
00:38:27,839 --> 00:38:29,160
he learned and he became more holy.

842
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,049
We're not saying that he
was always eternally holy.

843
00:38:31,145 --> 00:38:34,290
What we're talking about
is the human experience.

844
00:38:34,470 --> 00:38:40,950
He had to go through human experience
to fulfill all righteousness as he

845
00:38:40,950 --> 00:38:42,420
puts it in Matthew chapter three.

846
00:38:43,049 --> 00:38:44,400
Remember, Jesus gets baptized.

847
00:38:45,045 --> 00:38:48,405
He's baptized by John and, and John
says, Lord, you should baptize me.

848
00:38:48,525 --> 00:38:50,025
He says, no, John, think about this.

849
00:38:50,235 --> 00:38:53,115
I need to do this to
fulfill all righteousness.

850
00:38:53,115 --> 00:38:56,835
This was necessary to
affect your salvation.

851
00:38:57,660 --> 00:38:58,530
That's what Jesus is doing.

852
00:38:58,530 --> 00:38:59,250
In fact, think of it like this.

853
00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:01,650
You ever go to a waterpark and
there's water being poured in those

854
00:39:01,650 --> 00:39:04,440
big buckets at the top, and it's
like a hundred gallons of water.

855
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:05,400
There's water being poured in.

856
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,750
Eventually when it reaches the very,
uh, top, most of its of its filled

857
00:39:09,750 --> 00:39:12,450
capacity, it will tip over and then
pour out those a hundred gallons and

858
00:39:12,450 --> 00:39:13,770
it begin the process all over again.

859
00:39:14,220 --> 00:39:15,480
You think about Jesus like a bucket.

860
00:39:15,690 --> 00:39:20,100
He is for his whole 33 years being
poured into, he's accumulating

861
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:21,510
perfect righteousness for us.

862
00:39:21,715 --> 00:39:22,525
He never lacked it.

863
00:39:22,555 --> 00:39:26,005
He always had the righteousness, but
he's accumulating the experience of that

864
00:39:26,005 --> 00:39:28,075
righteousness for his whole 33 years.

865
00:39:28,525 --> 00:39:30,445
And at the cross, it was
poured out for you and for me.

866
00:39:31,105 --> 00:39:32,695
Jesus was never emptied of righteousness.

867
00:39:32,695 --> 00:39:33,595
He always possessed it.

868
00:39:33,895 --> 00:39:38,665
The experiential nature of his learning
and growing and becoming righteous

869
00:39:38,665 --> 00:39:39,925
is what's being referred to here.

870
00:39:41,785 --> 00:39:44,905
But you'll notice the very end of
verse nine, being made perfect.

871
00:39:45,115 --> 00:39:47,005
He became the source of eternal salvation.

872
00:39:47,565 --> 00:39:49,755
To all who, what was that word saying?

873
00:39:50,010 --> 00:39:50,380
Obey him.

874
00:39:50,445 --> 00:39:51,195
Obey him.

875
00:39:51,435 --> 00:39:52,215
Point number three.

876
00:39:52,455 --> 00:39:53,505
Submit to Jesus.

877
00:39:53,955 --> 00:39:54,675
Submit to Jesus.

878
00:39:54,705 --> 00:39:55,005
Simple.

879
00:39:56,355 --> 00:39:57,135
Pray like him.

880
00:39:57,165 --> 00:39:59,415
Suffer with him, submit to him.

881
00:40:02,985 --> 00:40:04,995
Two kinds of submission you
will always render to Jesus.

882
00:40:04,995 --> 00:40:07,100
Number one, the submission
of repentant faith.

883
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,560
The Gospel, first and
foremost is a command.

884
00:40:10,590 --> 00:40:11,670
It's not, it's not an invitation.

885
00:40:11,670 --> 00:40:14,520
We talk about it that way in its
sense, invitation, invitational.

886
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,060
But Mark one 15, when Jesus is
preaching about his his kingdom,

887
00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:19,980
he says, the time is fulfilled.

888
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:24,750
The kingdom of God is at hand,
repents and believe in the gospel.

889
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:26,160
Those are two imperatives.

890
00:40:26,820 --> 00:40:31,860
The first obedience that anybody renders
to Christ is repentant trust in Christ.

891
00:40:32,685 --> 00:40:34,185
That's the, that's the
gospel in a nutshell.

892
00:40:34,185 --> 00:40:35,535
We repent and believe in him.

893
00:40:35,685 --> 00:40:37,935
We need to learn to repent and believe.

894
00:40:37,935 --> 00:40:38,955
Someone needs to show us the way.

895
00:40:38,955 --> 00:40:40,605
That's why we, we need a preacher.

896
00:40:40,665 --> 00:40:41,685
They need to tell us how to do this.

897
00:40:41,685 --> 00:40:42,045
So we do.

898
00:40:42,045 --> 00:40:42,285
That

899
00:40:44,745 --> 00:40:48,615
thing is, and some Christians
mistake this, you will never

900
00:40:48,705 --> 00:40:50,565
outgrow repentance and faith.

901
00:40:51,195 --> 00:40:54,825
For the rest of your Christian life, you
will always be repenting and trusting.

902
00:40:55,215 --> 00:40:59,085
It gets stronger and it gets better and
it gets deeper, but it never goes away.

903
00:40:59,085 --> 00:41:00,945
These are the basics of Christian belief.

904
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:02,985
You will always be repenting and trusting.

905
00:41:03,705 --> 00:41:06,105
Kind of like when you learn to
play basketball, when you learn

906
00:41:06,105 --> 00:41:09,105
to dribble, you learn to dribble,
and that's the foundation that

907
00:41:09,195 --> 00:41:10,125
applies to all the other things.

908
00:41:10,125 --> 00:41:13,125
You're not gonna do a layup and forget
how to dribble unless you're LeBron

909
00:41:13,125 --> 00:41:16,995
James, but you're gonna typically
dribble and do a layup at the same time.

910
00:41:17,415 --> 00:41:20,415
Those skills build on one another,
and you're not gonna grow out of that.

911
00:41:20,415 --> 00:41:24,105
Your basic skills, if I can call 'em
that, repentance and faith will always

912
00:41:24,105 --> 00:41:25,395
be there in your Christian life.

913
00:41:25,695 --> 00:41:27,615
So submitting to Jesus means,
first of all, in repentant faith.

914
00:41:27,615 --> 00:41:33,195
Secondly, in faithful obedience, because
Jesus is more than our example and not

915
00:41:33,195 --> 00:41:39,195
less His obedience that He He does for
us doesn't just make ours possible.

916
00:41:39,195 --> 00:41:40,965
It makes ours necessary.

917
00:41:41,505 --> 00:41:46,660
Jesus obedience makes it both
possible and necessary for us to obey.

918
00:41:48,165 --> 00:41:51,615
Submission to Jesus Lordship
is the necessary fruit and

919
00:41:51,615 --> 00:41:52,815
evidence of our salvation.

920
00:41:55,395 --> 00:41:59,174
We can say so much more about this, but
let me just say this as to my young man.

921
00:41:59,174 --> 00:42:03,734
Again, uh, I would love for you young
man to submit your ambition to the Lord.

922
00:42:04,575 --> 00:42:07,995
Whatever it is that you see for your
life, submitting it to Jesus means I'm

923
00:42:07,995 --> 00:42:13,335
gonna let him be the God of my life
in every aspect who I get married to.

924
00:42:14,745 --> 00:42:19,005
When I get married, what kind of job
I have, what kind of, uh, degree I get

925
00:42:19,005 --> 00:42:21,615
and obtain what kind of jobs I pursue.

926
00:42:21,615 --> 00:42:25,095
I everything I want Jesus to be
the Lord of your life, which means

927
00:42:25,095 --> 00:42:26,265
you need to submit your ambition.

928
00:42:26,295 --> 00:42:31,214
Good thing, good thing to be ambitious,
bad thing to do it and say, the Lord can

929
00:42:31,214 --> 00:42:32,714
afford to wait for me until I'm ready.

930
00:42:33,315 --> 00:42:35,895
No, keep the Lord at the
center submitting to him.

931
00:42:37,154 --> 00:42:38,055
He's more than our example.

932
00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:39,075
He's not less.

933
00:42:39,435 --> 00:42:40,485
We submit like Jesus did.

934
00:42:42,945 --> 00:42:46,155
Brothers, husbands,
fathers, submit your home.

935
00:42:46,845 --> 00:42:47,835
Submit your home to the Lord.

936
00:42:48,585 --> 00:42:50,745
Lead your family even when you're tired.

937
00:42:51,645 --> 00:42:53,835
Initiate conversations
with your teenagers.

938
00:42:54,105 --> 00:42:58,575
When you're tired, lead them in
the worship and praise of God.

939
00:42:59,355 --> 00:43:00,465
Submit them to Jesus.

940
00:43:00,525 --> 00:43:01,575
Submit Jesus to that.

941
00:43:01,635 --> 00:43:04,245
Help them encounter Jesus
by your life and leadership.

942
00:43:07,095 --> 00:43:09,345
Your wife should not be carrying the
spiritual weight of your household.

943
00:43:11,265 --> 00:43:12,615
And that's a temptation for all of us.

944
00:43:12,645 --> 00:43:13,425
Don't let it happen.

945
00:43:13,965 --> 00:43:15,195
God has called you to lead.

946
00:43:15,375 --> 00:43:19,755
He wants you to do that, even though
it will be hard, you will have to grow.

947
00:43:20,505 --> 00:43:25,725
God will use that to my seasoned
brothers and the the room.

948
00:43:26,595 --> 00:43:30,555
Submit your resume, your prior service,
your prior achievements, your prior

949
00:43:30,555 --> 00:43:34,215
accolades, your prior sacrifices,
maybe even your retirement account.

950
00:43:35,085 --> 00:43:35,925
Submit that to the Lord.

951
00:43:35,925 --> 00:43:37,185
Say, Lord, everything I am.

952
00:43:37,605 --> 00:43:41,715
All that I've done my, my career, my
life history, my, my family, it's yours.

953
00:43:41,895 --> 00:43:43,575
Do with it as you Please.

954
00:43:45,255 --> 00:43:45,795
Can I encourage you?

955
00:43:45,795 --> 00:43:49,725
Older men in the room who have gray hair,
there are men around you who need fathers.

956
00:43:50,985 --> 00:43:53,475
Not all of us grew up with a
dad in the house who, who did

957
00:43:53,475 --> 00:43:54,495
what I'm even calling you to do.

958
00:43:55,545 --> 00:43:56,595
We just don't know what that's like.

959
00:43:58,035 --> 00:44:01,365
A lot of us had fathers who
were present, but very absent.

960
00:44:02,235 --> 00:44:05,085
And maybe God is growing you to
an age and stage where you can do

961
00:44:05,085 --> 00:44:06,105
something for one of those men.

962
00:44:07,485 --> 00:44:08,895
Thirties, forties, it doesn't matter.

963
00:44:09,045 --> 00:44:10,875
We always want that fatherly approval.

964
00:44:10,875 --> 00:44:12,765
We always yearn for that
fatherly connection.

965
00:44:12,765 --> 00:44:15,405
And if we don't have that with an
earthly father, maybe you can be that

966
00:44:15,405 --> 00:44:16,935
spiritual father to one of these guys.

967
00:44:17,595 --> 00:44:17,985
They need you.

968
00:44:17,985 --> 00:44:22,605
And so many times we have our, our
older saints, they, they go to Florida

969
00:44:22,605 --> 00:44:25,395
or Arizona and they just, I'm gonna,
I, I need to go where it's warmer

970
00:44:25,395 --> 00:44:26,325
and it's easier for us to live.

971
00:44:26,325 --> 00:44:27,555
And I understand some of those decisions.

972
00:44:27,585 --> 00:44:28,485
I'm not trying to call you out on that.

973
00:44:28,485 --> 00:44:32,175
I'm just saying maybe consider
how you might serve the men in

974
00:44:32,175 --> 00:44:34,275
the room and be a father to them.

975
00:44:35,220 --> 00:44:38,250
Submit your resume, submit
your retirement, submit

976
00:44:38,250 --> 00:44:38,970
these things to the Lord.

977
00:44:41,010 --> 00:44:42,960
Question for all of us then is
not, have I obeyed the Lord?

978
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:44,010
Trust that you're here.

979
00:44:44,010 --> 00:44:44,580
You have obeyed.

980
00:44:44,910 --> 00:44:46,350
But am I continuing to obey?

981
00:44:46,380 --> 00:44:50,220
Am I continuing to pay the price or
have I let, have, have I let the culture

982
00:44:50,490 --> 00:44:55,740
infect me with only a, a spirituality
that is easy, accessible, and convenient.

983
00:44:56,460 --> 00:44:57,480
Christianity will never be that.

984
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,530
Jesus doesn't set the model for us.

985
00:44:58,530 --> 00:45:01,710
He shows us what it looks like to
follow and obey, even to the point

986
00:45:01,710 --> 00:45:03,450
of death, even death on a cross.

987
00:45:05,430 --> 00:45:08,250
You see, being a Christian is not like
driving a Tesla with full self-driving.

988
00:45:09,660 --> 00:45:10,170
It's not gonna wait.

989
00:45:10,170 --> 00:45:11,520
It's not the way your
Christian's gonna work.

990
00:45:11,970 --> 00:45:13,440
It's an amazing tool, I'll take it.

991
00:45:13,890 --> 00:45:17,730
Um, but you should always contrary
to the song, keep your hands on the

992
00:45:17,730 --> 00:45:19,140
wheel and not let Jesus take the wheel.

993
00:45:19,740 --> 00:45:24,480
He's not going to, he
offers unilateral salvation.

994
00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:27,870
But sanctification, our growth
in Christ is together with him.

995
00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:28,980
We keep our hands on the wheel.

996
00:45:28,980 --> 00:45:30,810
We drive with Jesus.

997
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:31,560
He commands us.

998
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:32,160
We follow.

999
00:45:32,370 --> 00:45:33,600
We never take our hands off the wheel.

1000
00:45:33,630 --> 00:45:35,820
Your life will never be
a Tesla FSD situation.

1001
00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:38,220
Lemme just encourage you.

1002
00:45:38,220 --> 00:45:39,600
One thing here, guys, I, I give you a lot.

1003
00:45:39,630 --> 00:45:41,670
Lemme just give you one thing that
I want you to do from this sermon.

1004
00:45:42,660 --> 00:45:45,600
I want you to plead with God to give
you a heart that is willing to pay

1005
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,880
the price, not to check out early.

1006
00:45:48,450 --> 00:45:52,830
Not to coast, not to become passive or
submissive to your wife's leadership.

1007
00:45:52,830 --> 00:45:55,620
I just want you to plead with God, please
don't let me quit before it's my time.

1008
00:45:56,310 --> 00:45:57,930
Please don't let me throw in the towel.

1009
00:45:57,930 --> 00:45:58,980
Please don't let me coast.

1010
00:45:58,980 --> 00:46:01,320
Don't let me, uh, embrace
a mentality of privilege.

1011
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:05,100
I just want you to pray that God
would help you with this, and

1012
00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:08,160
then let God lead you for the
next thing I'm asking you to pray.

1013
00:46:09,030 --> 00:46:09,810
You let God lead you.

1014
00:46:09,810 --> 00:46:10,020
Four.

1015
00:46:10,050 --> 00:46:10,920
Okay, what does that mean for me?

1016
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,500
Then practically, where do I
need to put my hand in the plow?

1017
00:46:13,530 --> 00:46:15,300
Maybe I've stepped back from
the plow and it's time to get

1018
00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:16,470
back into it and push again.

1019
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,640
You let the Lord lead.

1020
00:46:18,090 --> 00:46:18,480
Just pray.

1021
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,200
Ask God help you to have a heart that's
willing to pay the price along with Jesus.

1022
00:46:22,770 --> 00:46:23,040
Okay?

1023
00:46:23,550 --> 00:46:25,320
Let us not grow where we're
doing good for in due season.

1024
00:46:25,590 --> 00:46:27,030
We will reap if we don't give up.

1025
00:46:27,390 --> 00:46:27,720
Let's pray.

1026
00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:29,970
God, thank you for the, the morning
opportunity to open your word.

1027
00:46:30,210 --> 00:46:32,490
Help us now to put this word
into practice with the men that

1028
00:46:32,490 --> 00:46:33,480
we're about to spend time with.

1029
00:46:34,050 --> 00:46:37,230
Give us the ability to have
conversations that are real and, and

1030
00:46:37,230 --> 00:46:40,110
fruitful and honest, and even to some
degree, Lord, emotionally available.

1031
00:46:40,710 --> 00:46:40,890
Um.

1032
00:46:41,835 --> 00:46:42,555
Not that, that's everything.

1033
00:46:42,855 --> 00:46:45,105
We're not trying to become
emotionally manipulative.

1034
00:46:45,105 --> 00:46:47,415
It's not our goal, Lord, we
wanna look like Christ, though.

1035
00:46:47,715 --> 00:46:49,725
We want Christ's
character to reflect ours.

1036
00:46:50,295 --> 00:46:53,505
So help us Lord, to be conformed to
his image as we go to our small groups.

1037
00:46:53,505 --> 00:46:56,055
Give us great conversations,
fruitful dialogue.

1038
00:46:56,205 --> 00:46:57,795
Let there be great give and take.

1039
00:46:58,065 --> 00:47:02,175
Let there be just a, a really helpful
conversation that pulls more from the

1040
00:47:02,175 --> 00:47:04,905
sermon and, and discards the rest.

1041
00:47:04,905 --> 00:47:05,445
That's not helpful.

1042
00:47:06,045 --> 00:47:08,355
When we submit this time to you now,
Lord, please give us the grace for this.

1043
00:47:08,355 --> 00:47:09,915
In Jesus name, amen.

1044
00:47:09,915 --> 00:47:10,095
Amen.

1045
00:47:11,205 --> 00:47:13,125
Alright, brothers, well thank you
again for being, here's what you're.