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We're going to continue, like
we said, this series that

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we've,  titled The Real Jesus.

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We're in search of the Real Jesus.

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Because if we know the real Jesus,
then we can actually be able to

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follow the real Jesus and be able
to show our world the real Jesus.

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Cuz there's a lot of, uh, false images
and portrayals and, and really incorrect

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or misunderstandings about who Jesus is
because of what, , has been portrayed or

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what has been lived out or spoken of on
social media about those who follow Jesus.

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And so we are studying Jesus
out through the letter written

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by Luke, who was a doctor.

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And it's really a biography about
Jesus' life and his ministry.

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And so if you have the app or, , you're
just joining us online for the first

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time, we have a OC Church of Christ app.

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We also have a little handout on there
that you can get a little background

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about the information when it comes
to the, what we call the Book of Luke.

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And so we're making observations of
what it means to follow this real Jesus.

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And so, so far we've
learned a number of things.

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We've learned today that Jesus will
wrestle you, he'll put you in a headlock.

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All right.

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But we've also learned that
the real Jesus is powerful.

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That he's not religious but righteous,
that he's a world changer who has

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welcomed and welcomed interruptions.

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The real Jesus challenges our worldviews.

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The real Jesus shows us how to
love God and love our neighbor.

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And we saw last week the
real Jesus gives us a voice.

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And so today we're going to see
how the real Jesus is full of grace

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and truth, full of grace and truth.

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Pray with me, father in heaven.

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It has been encouraging from the singing
songs to hearing wan share, uh, the

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insight and perspective to hearing Donna
share how you have been, uh, working

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in her life to hear, uh, recently here
Savannah, and how you, uh, in introduced

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yourself and now is transformed and,
and continues to transform her life.

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And God, we're amazed at Jesus.

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As we sing songs, as we think about the
profound mystery of Jesus and who he

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is and all that he does in our lives,
God, we are humbled and we are grateful.

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And Father, I pray that today as we see
Jesus's truth, we see Jesus's grace,

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grace, we, we are in awe of you, God,
that we are inspired by you, that we

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will make decisions whether to be small
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order to align ourself with your will.

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We pray in the name of Jesus.

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Amen.

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Turn over in your Bibles to Luke
chapter 12, Luke chapter 12.

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But before we actually go to Luke
chapter 12, uh, we're going to step

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out of Luke for just a quick second and
look at this verse in John chapter one.

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And this is a verse here in which
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Jesus, and it says, the word became
flesh and made his dwelling among us.

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We have seen this glory, the glory
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the Father full of grace and truth.

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This scripture has been so profound to
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Jesus was full of grace and full of truth.

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He wasn't 50% grace and 50% truth.

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He wasn't balancing grace and
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He was a hundred percent truth
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And that's incredible to think about.

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You know, it means that Jesus has
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has as much conviction as possible.

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And we are on a zoom call and Rusty
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us Jesus is the lamb and the lion.

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He is the lion of Judah, as it's
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also the Lamb of God, meaning that he
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humility as he's the sacrifice for it.

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So we see his grace,
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We see him being king as he's also in
this metaphor, the lion of God as well.

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And so again, Jesus, unlike you and I, is
full of grace and full of truth as well.

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And so he has such great pity upon
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saved, but he is also going to
speak some truth to us as well.

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And so let's go on over
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Let's look first at a little
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This just stood out to me the
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to talk about his return.

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You know, Jesus came and he came to
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And he says in this para
boy, he says, be dressed.

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Verse 35, ready for service.

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And keep your lamps burning like
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to return from a wedding banquet so
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can immediately open a door for him.

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It will be good for those servants whose
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Check this out.

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Truly, I tell you, he will
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We'll have them recline at the table
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Did you catch that right there?

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Jesus, right there is saying,
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back and here's what it's like.

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Here's what's gonna happen when I come
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and I'm gonna actually take on the
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I'm going to serve and wait on you.

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How incredible is that the master
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You've never seen that before, have you?

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. I mean, that's incredible to think, wow.

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What grace did you deserve for
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somehow serve you in his coming?

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No, this is what we call
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But let's continue.

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We're gonna jump all the way
from chapters 12 to 14 here.

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We're gonna jump over to chapter 13.

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Brothers and sisters, are
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Now we're gonna get to some truth here.

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And so as you look at Jesus, no matter
where you are at, no matter what

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gospel you read, no matter where you're
gonna see a lot of grace and you're

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gonna see a whole lot of truth, and
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They're actually coinciding
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You say, well, how can that be?

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Let's read Luke chapter 13, verse one.

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He says, now, there were some present
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the guidelines whose blood pilot
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Jesus answered.

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Do you think that these guidelines
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guidelines because they suffered this way?

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I tell you no, but unless you
repented, you too will all perish.

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Or those 18 who died when the Tower
of Salom, uh, fell on them, do you

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think they were more guilty than
all the others living in Jerusalem?

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I tell you no, but unless you
repent, you too will all perish.

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Sounds really gracious, doesn't it?

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That's some hardcore truth
right there, isn't it?

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That's some hardcore truth that's not,
uh, what's he trying to say with this?

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Here's a clear call for repentance.

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He says, you either repent or you perish.

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Repent means to make a decision to
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make a decision to change for God,
but in per the Greek word, and same

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what it means in English means to
be destroyed or no longer exists.

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So we can either repent, change
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destroyed and no longer exists.

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Welcome to Sunday service.

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So Jesus here has a
clear call to repentance.

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And repentance is a hard but needed truth.

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It's a very difficult but absolutely
necessary truth, you know?

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And if he doesn't speak this, then
people will think then, and you and

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I will think now that it's okay,
and therefore we won't repent.

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And therefore, what will
happen, we'll perish.

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Would you want that to be the case?

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Hey, I didn't know.

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Why didn't you tell me?

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Because it was gonna be too hard to
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your feathers a little bit because
I'm just so full of grace that I

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don't wanna give you the real truth.

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Would that have been the Lord
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loved, respected, and wanted to?

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You see, but Jesus has grace and
he has truth, and even in this

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warning, there's grace presence.

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Think about that for a second.

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I love you so much that I'm gonna
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won't suffer the consequences.

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Sounds like grace doesn't.

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It sounds like, Hey, I'm giving you
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and kindness of God, even though
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But I wanna give it to you because I want
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and I want things to go well with you.

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So even in his hard truth, there's
still this amazing grace right with it.

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And that's the motivation
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I remember one time I was, uh, uh, early
on in our marriage, uh, I was talking

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with my friend and one of my best friends,
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John Markowski, and I don't remember all
the specifics of what we were talking

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about in our, about, I was sharing about
our marriage and, and, and with him.

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And, and he started giving me some advice.

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And it was something along the lines
of, I, I wasn't either valuing cor,

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I wasn't showing, my appreciation
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So something along those lines where
I, I, I, I wasn't doing something

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that I needed to do as a husband.

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And he said something along the lines of,
Hey, Marcel, if you don't do this, if you

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don't grow in this, this will lead your
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and it sunk in, you know, there's a
whole lot of truth in that statement.

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I was like, yeah, she's a great Christian
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my husband to love her and lead her.

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Then I'm going to lead her to
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You guys get what I'm saying?

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And so that was a hard truth,
but why did he do this?

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He said it because he didn't
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And so I can get mad and
offend, man, I'm done with you.

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You are no longer my friend.

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I can say thank you in prayer flees.

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So many years later, Creon
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You know what I'm saying?

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Or at least he repents every six months.

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But we see even here, Jesus
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Don't say in church.

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In fact, let's continue church.

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Are you still with me here?

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Then Jesus went through the towns.

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We jumped down in villages teaching.

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As he made his way to Jerusalem,
someone asked him, Lord, are only

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a few people going to be saved?

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What an interesting question that is.

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He said to them, no,
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Why would you even ask
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Don't you know I'm a God of love?

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Oh, that's not the verse that's on there.

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He said to them, make every effort, huh?

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To enter through the narrow door
because many I tell you, will try

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to answer and will not be able to.

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Once the owner of the house
gets up and closes the door, you

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will stand outside knocking and
plea, sir, open the door for us.

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But he will answer, I don't
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Then you will say, we ate and drink
with you and you taught in our streets.

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But he will reply, I don't know you
or where you come from, away from me.

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All you evil doers there will be
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when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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These are the forefathers in the faith and
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But you yourselves thrown out.

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People will come from east and
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they will take their places at
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Indeed, there are those who are last, who
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That's some difficult truth
right there, isn't it?

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Is everybody gonna go to heaven?

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Jesus?

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No.

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Many are going to try, but
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Jesus right Here He is not keeping it.

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He's keeping it.

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Jesus is speaking some truth.

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That's so bold and so
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Jesus ruffled some feathers.

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Jesus said things that
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But yet he was full of grace
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Here's the incredible thing here,
is that the real Jesus, guess what?

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He actually offended people.

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I know.

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That's crazy to think about.

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Not the Jesus that I know who
has a picture of him in lambs.

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Jesus actually offended people.

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Now, he didn't go around and say,
Hey, you a bunch of jerks and idiots.

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You know what I'm saying?

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That's not what I'm talking about.

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But his truth offended people.

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There's a difference.

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Someone like, yes, see,
Jesus offended people.

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I can't wait to offend
that brother right now.

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Woo.

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That's not what he did.

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His truth offended people.

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You know Jesus.

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I believe if Jesus, the real Jesus
was in our American society today,

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there would be many, many people
who would try to cancel Jesus.

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No, not the Jesus that no, yes, he
would get canceled, or at least there

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would be attempts to cancel Jesus
and he would be canceled by both the

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liberal and the conservative camps.

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No, he wouldn't.

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Yes, he would.

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He offended.

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He was canceled in his time.

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He offended people so much that
guess what they got ticked off.

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They became opponents.

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Wait, Jesus had enemies.

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Yes.

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Jesus.

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The real Jesus had enemies.

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Wait, the real Jesus actually got
killed for what he was saying.

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That's some serious
cancellation, isn't it, sir?

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You see the real Jesus, what I
believe would be canceled in our

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conservative and liberal camp today.

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You know why?

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Because every idea and every
lifestyle isn't okay with God.

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Ooh.

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Not all are gonna go to heaven.

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Whoa.

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That's not what Jesus would say.

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That's what Jesus did say.

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But then he would also call out
the religious people for their

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arrogance to hypocrisy their
lack of grace and lack of love.

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Cnn, msnbc, and Fox
News would all be upset.

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He'd be on the low ticket banner, get rid
of Jesus no matter what side of the camp

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you may tend to lean toward, guess what?

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He would offend you.

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He would offend me, not because he was
being me, but because of his truth.

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So now the question is, how am
I gonna respond to this truth?

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Let's continue.

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Church, are you still with me?

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You might get mad.

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You wanna cancel me now?

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That's okay.

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Luke chapter 14, verse one.

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One Sabbath.

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When Jesus went to eat in the
house of a prominent Pharisees,

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he was being carefully watched.

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Let's stop right there.

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The Pharisees, at this point
in time, in Jesus' ministry,

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they're pretty much at odds.

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The Pharisees are the
religious leaders of the time.

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They're your, your ministers, your
deacons, your, your, your scholars,

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and, and so here they are pretty much
opposing Jesus, not all of them for what

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we understand in the scriptures, but it
sounds like the majority of the Pharisees.

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And here Jesus goes to a prominent
Pharisees, so it's probably likely

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that he's an opponent of Jesus.

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But even if he wasn't after this
conversation, he probably became one.

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But he is around at least a group of
Pharisees who are opponents because why?

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They're carefully watching
him not to study, like mm-hmm.

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How does he do this?

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Yeah, I just wanna follow.

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No, because they're trying to critique
him and somehow be able to discredit him.

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And he is over at his house.

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Did you catch that

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he's at his house having dinner?

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No.

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It could be possible that Jesus went
there cuz he just wanted a free meal.

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He like, man, all right,
y'all go to your house.

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Do you know what I'm saying?

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Let's go ahead, but think about this.

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Do you really want to eat with
people that you know don't like you?

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You have to be the really,
the best meal ever, right?

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To go to that, that that house party.

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Because even then you're like, man,
that steak really wasn't worth it.

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Cuz I couldn't stand
being around that person.

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And then they just annoyed me.

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Then we got into this argument,
you're like, man, I ain't, I

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ain't trying those noodles again.

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You, you know what I'm saying?

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And so it, the likelihood that
he's just doing this to get a free

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meal, we can probably scratch that.

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Right?

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But we see in grace in this, I'm
still trying to help you phar.

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I'm going to be in your home.

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We're going to engage.

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I'm going to relate.

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I'm going to converse with you, and
I'm going to share some truth with

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the hopes that you'll enter grace.

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So even in this interaction, even
in this decision, we see the grace

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of God in an extraordinary way.

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Church.

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Are you with me?

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They're in front of him.

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A man was suffering from
abnormal swelling of his body.

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Jesus asked the Pharisees and
experts in the law, is it lawful

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to heal on the Sabbath or not?

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But they remain silent.

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So taking hold of the man, he
healed him and sent him on his way.

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Then he asked him, if one of you has a
child or an ox that falls into a wellness

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sabba day, well, you would not immediately
pull it out and they had nothing to say.

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We'll stop right there.

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We see grace for this suffering, man.

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But we see truth for everyone involved.

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He goes, and he is like, he, he heals
this man and, and he asks this question

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like, okay, if any one of you, I believe,
he's like, come on guys, let's be honest.

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Like, like, like, are we
really, we're really, you guys

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are really upset about this.

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If you had your, on your animal, if you
had your, your, your child, if they felt,

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would you not help them on the Sabbath?

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Like, let's be real fellas.

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To me that's the context and,
and the attitude that Jesus had.

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Like, come on guys.

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And so again, he's showing them,
he's trying to help them see the

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truth of who God is and the grace
that God wants to extend to all.

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And then he goes and he tells
us parable, this is so funny.

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I mean, again, he's in this
house and he goes, we won't

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have time to, to read it all.

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But he goes, and then he tells
write a, a parable, right?

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About how, Hey, you
guys need to be humble.

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He sees everybody and they're like trying
to find out where's the seat of honor?

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And he's like, oh, okay.

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You know what?

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I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm just
gonna tell this parable and show

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him, Hey, you need to be humble.

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in the man's house.

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If you come to my house, you start telling
parables to me, trying to convict me.

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Guess what I'm gonna do, man?

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You get about my house.

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Disrespect me in front of baby girl,
baby dog, baby boy, you out your mind.

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Karina, don't ever invite them over.

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. Lock the door.

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You know what I'm saying?

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And let's move cuz they might
try to shoot me afterwards.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Sorry.

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Anyhow.

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I know.

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See how my mind goes.

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All right, here we go.

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Luke, chapter four, verse 12.

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So right after this, he says, then
Jesus said to us, so when you give a

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luncheon or dinner, do not invite your
friends, your brothers, or your sisters,

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your relatives, your rich neighbors.

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If you do, they may invite you
back and so you'll be repaid.

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Make sense?

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But when you give a banquet, invite the
poor, the cripple, the lame, the blind.

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And you'll be blessed.

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Although they cannot repay
you, you'll be repaid at the

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resurrection of the righteous.

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Wow.

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You see Jesus's great grace and
compassion and love on the outcast.

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Of society, the poor, the
crippled, the lame, and the blind.

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And he goes on and he talks about,
somebody asks a question like, Hey,

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what's it gonna be like in the, at
the feast of the Kingdom of God?

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And then Jesus starts to tell this
parable and he says this some something

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interesting in verse 21, cuz he uses
some of the same uh, uh, uh, ideas.

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He says, go out quickly into
the streets and alleys of the

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town and bring in the poor, the
crippled, the blind, and the lame.

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You see, this was really,
truly incredibly radical for

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those in first century Judaism.

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His call to invite to dinner, the poor,
the crippled, the lame, and blonde,

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and then also call those sane to be
in the kingdom of God was radical.

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It's a radical call today.

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We wouldn't naturally think those would
be the ones who would enter the kingdom of

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God, but especially back then because he.

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These were the ones who were seen
to not have God's favor, the poor.

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They weren't blessed by God.

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How do you know?

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Because they're poor.

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It's the rich who have God's favor.

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That's how they viewed it.

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The crippled, the lame in the blind.

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Well, guess what?

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They were considered to be cursed by God.

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See, they are in this condition
because either they sin or

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maybe they're parents sin.

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Somebody sin along the way and they're,
therefore God has cursed and that's

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why they're in his predicaments.

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And what does Jesus do?

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He lifts these people up.

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This is who you should be valuing.

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This is who you should reach out
to, and these are the types who will

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actually enter the kingdom of heaven.

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That's incredible.

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This is radical, but that's
radical What grace of God.

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In intertwined in, in between with this
hardcore truth, but yet we see this great

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call and the need and the understanding
of the grace of a loving God.

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And then we continue in verse 25.

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Brother and sisters, are
you still with me here?

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Yes, sir.

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Again, as we can see throughout all
scriptures, throughout all of Jesus

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life, you see grace and you see
truth, and they're not competing.

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We see this in Luke 1425.

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We see some really, uh, most of us
are very familiar in our, in our

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fellowship of churches with this passage
here, let's read it, large crowds are

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traveling with Jesus and turn into them.

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He said, if anyone comes to me and does
not hate father and mother, wife and

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children, brothers and sisters, yes.

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Even their old life, such a
person cannot be my disciple.

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Okay?

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That was me learning from last week.

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Bilingual service.

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That was Spanish.

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Okay?

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Means what did you cash that.

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There you go.

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I'm just saying, man, you just
grow so much in the kingdom of God.

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You know what I'm saying?

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I'm speaking languages.

447
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This is Acts chapter two.

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Here.

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Come on.

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Here we go.

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Wait a second.

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I gotta hate my mama, my
daddy, everybody, myself.

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If I don't, I can't be your disciple.

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Yep.

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And many people try to minimize this.

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Well, the word means love less The
word doesn't mean the Greek word hate.

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Doesn't mean love less, it means hate.

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But the context helps us to see
that this is uh, uh, uh, uh,

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um, uh, uh, what do you call it?

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Not uh, we call it exaggeration.

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Um, um, hyperbole to emphasize the points.

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You saying guys, in comparison, if you
were to compare your love for me and

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your love for everything else, it's
gotta look like you hate everything else.

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He says, if that's not
the case, guess what?

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You can't be a Christian.

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What I thought I had to do was
believe that was a song we heard.

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Yes, that's part of it, but true belief
is this type of relationship with Jesus.

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He goes on and says, and whoever
does not carry their cross and

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follow me, cannot be my disciple.

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00:24:42,375 --> 00:24:44,985
Suppose one of you wants to build
a tower once you first sit down and

471
00:24:44,985 --> 00:24:48,285
estimate the cost to see if you have
enough money to complete it for.

472
00:24:48,285 --> 00:24:51,405
If you laid a foundation and are not
able to finish it, everyone who sees it

473
00:24:51,405 --> 00:24:54,825
will ridicule saying This person began
to build and wasn't able to finish.

474
00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:58,184
Or supposed the king is about to go to
war against another king when he first

475
00:24:58,184 --> 00:25:02,384
sit down and and consider whether he's
able with 10,000 men to oppose the

476
00:25:02,384 --> 00:25:04,125
one coming against him with 20,000.

477
00:25:04,545 --> 00:25:07,245
If he is not able, he will send a
delegation while the other is still

478
00:25:07,245 --> 00:25:12,854
a long way off and will ask for terms
of peace In the same way, those of

479
00:25:12,854 --> 00:25:17,295
you who do not give up everything
you have, cannot be my disciples.

480
00:25:17,655 --> 00:25:22,125
Salt is good, but if it loses it's
saltiness, how can it be made salty again?

481
00:25:22,769 --> 00:25:25,590
It is fitting neither for the
soil nor for the manure pile.

482
00:25:25,710 --> 00:25:26,850
It is thrown out.

483
00:25:26,939 --> 00:25:30,780
Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.

484
00:25:33,269 --> 00:25:37,110
He has strong convictions about
what it means to be a Christian.

485
00:25:39,030 --> 00:25:41,790
He says, here is the standard,
here is the cost, here is the

486
00:25:41,790 --> 00:25:43,860
call, here is the sacrifice.

487
00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:46,530
And wouldn't have enough
time to break it down.

488
00:25:46,530 --> 00:25:50,189
But overall, the way I'd like to see
this is that G is saying he's either

489
00:25:50,189 --> 00:25:53,160
gotta be Lord of all or not at all.

490
00:25:55,019 --> 00:25:56,910
He can't be Lord of most.

491
00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:01,290
It's like being mostly pregnant.

492
00:26:02,820 --> 00:26:04,439
You either pregnant or
you're not pregnant.

493
00:26:04,890 --> 00:26:06,810
There's no, I'm kind of
mostly pregnant this week.

494
00:26:06,814 --> 00:26:07,500
You know what I'm saying?

495
00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:08,519
That's not the case.

496
00:26:09,990 --> 00:26:14,729
And so either Lord of all, meaning
master, ruler, supreme authority, or

497
00:26:14,729 --> 00:26:20,760
he's not at all, and Jesus has to be
number one even over yourself and family.

498
00:26:21,180 --> 00:26:23,399
And we follow him on his terms.

499
00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:27,809
And if not, he says, it's not
like you won't be my disciple.

500
00:26:27,809 --> 00:26:30,189
It is that you cannot be my disciple.

501
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,860
Because when it comes down to something
being tough, instead of you following me

502
00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:38,880
with your cross, you're gonna put your
cross down and go the other direction.

503
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:49,950
And so this is a truth that is
very challenging, but it's a truth

504
00:26:51,210 --> 00:26:53,399
that's rooted in grace and love.

505
00:26:54,570 --> 00:26:56,790
I want you to make it to the end.

506
00:26:57,149 --> 00:27:02,010
So I'm not gonna sugarcoat things so that
you'll be deceived and then quit later on.

507
00:27:02,820 --> 00:27:06,420
I'm gonna give you the fine print and
I'm gonna enlarge it and I'm gonna put it

508
00:27:06,420 --> 00:27:08,970
out in the front, as opposed at the end.

509
00:27:10,139 --> 00:27:13,740
I want you to experience this grace,
but there's a spiritual battle

510
00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:15,570
and you're gonna have tough times.

511
00:27:16,785 --> 00:27:19,304
But here's what it's
gonna take to overcome.

512
00:27:19,545 --> 00:27:25,365
If you abide in me, you see,
Jesus is full of grace and truth,

513
00:27:25,455 --> 00:27:27,465
compassion, and conviction.

514
00:27:27,495 --> 00:27:34,155
He's the lion and the lamb, and
it's not either or, but and in both.

515
00:27:35,715 --> 00:27:37,755
I remember Dave asked you, sir
then, and I was like, wow, I wish

516
00:27:37,755 --> 00:27:39,045
I woulda heard that my whole life.

517
00:27:40,184 --> 00:27:43,365
It was just, it was a different context,
but I was like, that is so true.

518
00:27:43,365 --> 00:27:44,835
It's not either or.

519
00:27:44,865 --> 00:27:48,915
He's either the lion or he is the lamb, or
he is compassionate, or he is con convict.

520
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:49,604
He has conviction.

521
00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:52,215
No, it's ands in both.

522
00:27:53,144 --> 00:27:57,885
There's grace, there's truth, there's
compassion, there's conviction,

523
00:27:58,064 --> 00:28:00,255
there's the lion, there's the lamb.

524
00:28:00,795 --> 00:28:04,365
But our western society sees Christianity
as one or the other, doesn't it?

525
00:28:05,085 --> 00:28:07,735
Whether in our religious circles
or our non-religious circle.

526
00:28:08,550 --> 00:28:12,360
Christianity's all about some right or
wrong rules and and dos and don'ts, or

527
00:28:12,450 --> 00:28:14,340
it's all about this kind of shallow love.

528
00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:15,720
Just accept everything.

529
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:23,160
BC Jesus gives encouragement,
inspiration, he gives hope in his

530
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:31,080
message, and also truth of what it means
to follow him in the ramifications.

531
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:38,160
If we don't, you see the real Jesus
and real Christianity have conviction

532
00:28:38,790 --> 00:28:42,630
and love and pity at the same time.

533
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,439
I don't choose it this time
and then I have to choose

534
00:28:46,439 --> 00:28:47,519
something else the next time.

535
00:28:47,910 --> 00:28:50,790
I have 'em both at the same time.

536
00:28:51,809 --> 00:28:56,070
There's grace and there's truth,
and so what does that mean for

537
00:28:56,070 --> 00:28:57,479
you and me, brothers and sisters?

538
00:28:57,660 --> 00:28:59,370
Well, we gotta follow Jesus example.

539
00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:03,780
We gotta be gracious and
truthful, gracious to people

540
00:29:03,780 --> 00:29:05,370
who don't know the real Jesus.

541
00:29:05,954 --> 00:29:09,434
Why would be critical and, and, and,
and, and say demeaning things to people

542
00:29:09,434 --> 00:29:11,204
who never signed up to follow Jesus.

543
00:29:11,294 --> 00:29:12,704
That doesn't make any sense.

544
00:29:14,954 --> 00:29:18,254
We need to be gracious to those
who have not decided yet to

545
00:29:18,254 --> 00:29:23,024
follow Jesus, and we need to seek
to love people like Jesus does.

546
00:29:23,024 --> 00:29:26,954
Again, he was in the home of
the Pharisee extending grace,

547
00:29:27,735 --> 00:29:30,824
but yet he shared some truth.

548
00:29:31,754 --> 00:29:35,804
We need to be truthful, to share the good
news with people who don't know Jesus.

549
00:29:36,374 --> 00:29:41,114
Speaking truth to those in the church
with reminders of how much Jesus loves and

550
00:29:41,114 --> 00:29:44,264
also the proper response to Jesus' love.

551
00:29:45,644 --> 00:29:48,896
But I don't know about you, but this
can be hard cause the tendency is to

552
00:29:48,901 --> 00:29:50,864
be either or or try to balance the two.

553
00:29:52,214 --> 00:29:53,114
That's my tendency.

554
00:29:53,114 --> 00:29:53,804
Is that yours?

555
00:29:54,794 --> 00:29:58,634
Or we can tend to just go with the
side maybe we're naturally prone to, or

556
00:29:58,634 --> 00:30:00,735
the the side that excites us the most.

557
00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:04,485
Hey, I love that, that grease
part, the grace part about Jesus.

558
00:30:04,485 --> 00:30:07,575
So I'm just gonna roll with
that, but then never speak truth.

559
00:30:08,505 --> 00:30:09,644
Well, I love that truth part.

560
00:30:10,245 --> 00:30:11,535
So I'm gonna follow that.

561
00:30:11,625 --> 00:30:13,365
But yet never extend grace.

562
00:30:15,135 --> 00:30:17,655
You know, I know for me, uh, when
I, when I became familiar with the

563
00:30:17,655 --> 00:30:20,655
real Jesus, I was like, man, I never
thought about this lion part of Jesus.

564
00:30:20,655 --> 00:30:23,385
I love that Jesus, let's go.

565
00:30:23,865 --> 00:30:26,774
And then I saw, and people would
share it, like, Marcel, yeah, we

566
00:30:26,774 --> 00:30:30,854
appreciate your conviction, but we
don't feel so much love at times.

567
00:30:32,715 --> 00:30:34,695
And I feel like a couple years
ago, I swung the pendulum.

568
00:30:34,695 --> 00:30:37,245
I'm like, man, I don't feel like I
share anything that's truthful anymore.

569
00:30:39,225 --> 00:30:41,035
And so there's this constant battle.

570
00:30:41,415 --> 00:30:45,045
But again, Jesus was full
of truth and full of grace.

571
00:30:45,104 --> 00:30:50,115
So if we follow, well, first of all,
if we know this, then we have a better

572
00:30:50,115 --> 00:30:56,115
chance at what following this, living it
out and showing the real Jesus to others.

573
00:30:56,804 --> 00:30:59,894
We'll have more victories and
we'll imitate him and become

574
00:30:59,894 --> 00:31:01,724
more like him in our character.

575
00:31:01,874 --> 00:31:05,445
And that's the beauty of the scriptures
and the beauty of the church is we help

576
00:31:05,445 --> 00:31:09,044
each other to be able to attain to this.

577
00:31:09,049 --> 00:31:11,144
Let's get real practically
here as we close out.

578
00:31:11,294 --> 00:31:13,844
So here's our action step
in prayer for the week.

579
00:31:13,844 --> 00:31:15,945
So here's what we're asking
just for this week here, if you

580
00:31:15,945 --> 00:31:17,774
wanna continue past hallelujah.

581
00:31:17,774 --> 00:31:20,684
But here's the action step and
the prayer for this week here.

582
00:31:20,684 --> 00:31:23,864
It's a communal prayer and
a communal action step here.

583
00:31:23,864 --> 00:31:25,364
Number one, here's what I ask you to do.

584
00:31:25,454 --> 00:31:27,644
Memorize that verse John one 14.

585
00:31:28,784 --> 00:31:29,684
Say, well, why memorize that?

586
00:31:29,894 --> 00:31:33,464
Because then it'll be on your heart and
your mind to be full of grace and truth.

587
00:31:34,214 --> 00:31:37,304
You'll remember Jesus has grace
and truth that says you're is.

588
00:31:37,304 --> 00:31:39,284
You're in that situation with so and so.

589
00:31:39,284 --> 00:31:42,224
This week you'll have that
grace and truth in mind.

590
00:31:42,735 --> 00:31:43,454
And you know what?

591
00:31:43,485 --> 00:31:46,394
Maybe even for fun, whoever
can recite it come on stage.

592
00:31:46,454 --> 00:31:48,104
We'll go ahead and have
a little prize next week.

593
00:31:48,104 --> 00:31:48,704
So there you go.

594
00:31:48,709 --> 00:31:49,274
All right.

595
00:31:49,304 --> 00:31:50,294
Come on, Chad Hoffman.

596
00:31:50,294 --> 00:31:51,195
All right, let's see it there.

597
00:31:51,195 --> 00:31:51,554
All right.

598
00:31:52,230 --> 00:31:53,850
And number two here, prayer this week.

599
00:31:53,850 --> 00:31:54,600
Pray daily.

600
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,290
Just every day this week, next seven
days, that each member of our church can

601
00:31:58,290 --> 00:32:01,080
reflect Jesus's grace and truth this week.

602
00:32:02,250 --> 00:32:05,400
That it won't just be you,
but it'll be all of us.

603
00:32:06,690 --> 00:32:09,120
The real Jesus is the lamb and the lion.

604
00:32:09,510 --> 00:32:12,390
He's full of grace and full of truth.

605
00:32:12,810 --> 00:32:15,120
He's full of compassion and conviction.

606
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:19,650
He's the complete human being
and the followers of Jesus.

607
00:32:19,650 --> 00:32:26,610
We must heed his truth, follow his truth,
and share his truth while extending grace.

608
00:32:27,030 --> 00:32:28,890
We close out in John one 14.

609
00:32:29,190 --> 00:32:31,530
The word became flesh and
made his joying among us.

610
00:32:31,830 --> 00:32:35,700
We have seen His glory, the glory of
the one and only son who came from

611
00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:39,750
the Father full of grace and truth.

612
00:32:40,020 --> 00:32:40,530
Amen.

613
00:32:49,995 --> 00:32:50,409
Wasn't worth it.

614
00:32:50,415 --> 00:32:52,210
Cuz I couldn't stand
being around that person.

615
00:32:52,719 --> 00:32:53,799
And then they just annoyed me.

616
00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:55,569
Then we got into this argument,
you're like, man, I ain't, I

617
00:32:55,569 --> 00:32:56,679
ain't trying those noodles again.

618
00:32:56,679 --> 00:32:57,670
You, you know what I'm saying?

619
00:32:59,049 --> 00:33:01,569
And so it, the likelihood that
he's just doing this to get a free

620
00:33:01,569 --> 00:33:02,889
meal, we can probably scratch that.

621
00:33:02,889 --> 00:33:03,250
Right?

622
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:10,059
But we see in grace in this, I'm
still trying to help you phar.

623
00:33:11,484 --> 00:33:13,314
I'm going to be in your home.

624
00:33:13,375 --> 00:33:15,054
We're going to engage.

625
00:33:15,144 --> 00:33:16,464
I'm going to relate.

626
00:33:16,524 --> 00:33:20,814
I'm going to converse with you, and
I'm going to share some truth with

627
00:33:20,814 --> 00:33:22,854
the hopes that you'll enter grace.

628
00:33:24,594 --> 00:33:29,304
So even in this interaction, even
in this decision, we see the grace

629
00:33:29,544 --> 00:33:31,434
of God in an extraordinary way.

630
00:33:31,434 --> 00:33:31,764
Church.

631
00:33:31,764 --> 00:33:32,455
Are you with me?

632
00:33:34,375 --> 00:33:35,214
They're in front of him.

633
00:33:35,214 --> 00:33:38,064
A man was suffering from
abnormal swelling of his body.

634
00:33:38,064 --> 00:33:41,574
Jesus asked the Pharisees and
experts in the law, is it lawful

635
00:33:41,580 --> 00:33:43,375
to heal on the Sabbath or not?

636
00:33:43,524 --> 00:33:44,694
But they remain silent.

637
00:33:45,144 --> 00:33:48,864
So taking hold of the man, he
healed him and sent him on his way.

638
00:33:49,254 --> 00:33:52,924
Then he asked him, if one of you has a
child or an ox that falls into a wellness

639
00:33:53,125 --> 00:33:57,474
sabba day, well, you would not immediately
pull it out and they had nothing to say.

640
00:33:57,474 --> 00:33:59,274
We'll stop right there.

641
00:33:59,665 --> 00:34:01,734
We see grace for this suffering, man.

642
00:34:02,455 --> 00:34:05,604
But we see truth for everyone involved.

643
00:34:07,314 --> 00:34:11,304
He goes, and he is like, he, he heals
this man and, and he asks this question

644
00:34:11,309 --> 00:34:15,385
like, okay, if any one of you, I believe,
he's like, come on guys, let's be honest.

645
00:34:16,005 --> 00:34:18,264
Like, like, like, are we
really, we're really, you guys

646
00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:19,885
are really upset about this.

647
00:34:20,574 --> 00:34:24,955
If you had your, on your animal, if you
had your, your, your child, if they felt,

648
00:34:25,014 --> 00:34:26,875
would you not help them on the Sabbath?

649
00:34:26,995 --> 00:34:28,824
Like, let's be real fellas.

650
00:34:29,545 --> 00:34:32,393
To me that's the context and,
and the attitude that Jesus had.

651
00:34:32,455 --> 00:34:33,955
Like, come on guys.

652
00:34:35,215 --> 00:34:39,175
And so again, he's showing them,
he's trying to help them see the

653
00:34:39,179 --> 00:34:44,245
truth of who God is and the grace
that God wants to extend to all.

654
00:34:44,904 --> 00:34:47,304
And then he goes and he tells
us parable, this is so funny.

655
00:34:47,304 --> 00:34:49,824
I mean, again, he's in this
house and he goes, we won't

656
00:34:49,824 --> 00:34:50,965
have time to, to read it all.

657
00:34:51,143 --> 00:34:53,875
But he goes, and then he tells
write a, a parable, right?

658
00:34:53,875 --> 00:34:55,885
About how, Hey, you
guys need to be humble.

659
00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:58,825
He sees everybody and they're like trying
to find out where's the seat of honor?

660
00:34:58,854 --> 00:34:59,965
And he's like, oh, okay.

661
00:35:00,115 --> 00:35:00,415
You know what?

662
00:35:00,415 --> 00:35:03,024
I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm just
gonna tell this parable and show

663
00:35:03,024 --> 00:35:04,104
him, Hey, you need to be humble.

664
00:35:04,959 --> 00:35:06,639
in the man's house.

665
00:35:07,479 --> 00:35:11,859
If you come to my house, you start telling
parables to me, trying to convict me.

666
00:35:11,859 --> 00:35:13,209
Guess what I'm gonna do, man?

667
00:35:13,209 --> 00:35:14,289
You get about my house.

668
00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:18,309
Disrespect me in front of baby girl,
baby dog, baby boy, you out your mind.

669
00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:20,619
Karina, don't ever invite them over.

670
00:35:21,879 --> 00:35:22,539
. Lock the door.

671
00:35:23,139 --> 00:35:24,069
You know what I'm saying?

672
00:35:24,609 --> 00:35:26,619
And let's move cuz they might
try to shoot me afterwards.

673
00:35:26,619 --> 00:35:27,189
You know what I'm saying?

674
00:35:27,519 --> 00:35:27,879
Sorry.

675
00:35:27,879 --> 00:35:28,209
Anyhow.

676
00:35:28,209 --> 00:35:28,479
I know.

677
00:35:28,689 --> 00:35:29,649
See how my mind goes.

678
00:35:29,649 --> 00:35:30,309
All right, here we go.

679
00:35:31,539 --> 00:35:32,799
Luke, chapter four, verse 12.

680
00:35:32,799 --> 00:35:35,529
So right after this, he says, then
Jesus said to us, so when you give a

681
00:35:35,534 --> 00:35:38,649
luncheon or dinner, do not invite your
friends, your brothers, or your sisters,

682
00:35:38,654 --> 00:35:39,999
your relatives, your rich neighbors.

683
00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:43,259
If you do, they may invite you
back and so you'll be repaid.

684
00:35:44,049 --> 00:35:44,589
Make sense?

685
00:35:44,769 --> 00:35:48,490
But when you give a banquet, invite the
poor, the cripple, the lame, the blind.

686
00:35:48,849 --> 00:35:49,749
And you'll be blessed.

687
00:35:50,589 --> 00:35:52,869
Although they cannot repay
you, you'll be repaid at the

688
00:35:52,869 --> 00:35:55,599
resurrection of the righteous.

689
00:35:56,479 --> 00:35:56,899
Wow.

690
00:35:58,450 --> 00:36:03,909
You see Jesus's great grace and
compassion and love on the outcast.

691
00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:09,639
Of society, the poor, the
crippled, the lame, and the blind.

692
00:36:10,089 --> 00:36:13,240
And he goes on and he talks about,
somebody asks a question like, Hey,

693
00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:16,839
what's it gonna be like in the, at
the feast of the Kingdom of God?

694
00:36:17,499 --> 00:36:20,439
And then Jesus starts to tell this
parable and he says this some something

695
00:36:20,439 --> 00:36:24,609
interesting in verse 21, cuz he uses
some of the same uh, uh, uh, ideas.

696
00:36:24,609 --> 00:36:27,759
He says, go out quickly into
the streets and alleys of the

697
00:36:27,759 --> 00:36:32,529
town and bring in the poor, the
crippled, the blind, and the lame.

698
00:36:36,490 --> 00:36:41,349
You see, this was really,
truly incredibly radical for

699
00:36:41,349 --> 00:36:42,909
those in first century Judaism.

700
00:36:44,019 --> 00:36:47,919
His call to invite to dinner, the poor,
the crippled, the lame, and blonde,

701
00:36:48,069 --> 00:36:53,109
and then also call those sane to be
in the kingdom of God was radical.

702
00:36:54,459 --> 00:36:55,689
It's a radical call today.

703
00:36:55,694 --> 00:36:59,019
We wouldn't naturally think those would
be the ones who would enter the kingdom of

704
00:36:59,019 --> 00:37:03,219
God, but especially back then because he.

705
00:37:05,335 --> 00:37:12,085
These were the ones who were seen
to not have God's favor, the poor.

706
00:37:12,354 --> 00:37:13,644
They weren't blessed by God.

707
00:37:13,675 --> 00:37:14,154
How do you know?

708
00:37:14,154 --> 00:37:15,175
Because they're poor.

709
00:37:15,984 --> 00:37:18,024
It's the rich who have God's favor.

710
00:37:18,745 --> 00:37:19,764
That's how they viewed it.

711
00:37:20,604 --> 00:37:22,854
The crippled, the lame in the blind.

712
00:37:23,035 --> 00:37:23,755
Well, guess what?

713
00:37:23,785 --> 00:37:26,455
They were considered to be cursed by God.

714
00:37:27,325 --> 00:37:30,505
See, they are in this condition
because either they sin or

715
00:37:30,505 --> 00:37:31,495
maybe they're parents sin.

716
00:37:32,035 --> 00:37:34,915
Somebody sin along the way and they're,
therefore God has cursed and that's

717
00:37:34,915 --> 00:37:36,295
why they're in his predicaments.

718
00:37:37,194 --> 00:37:38,425
And what does Jesus do?

719
00:37:39,085 --> 00:37:40,166
He lifts these people up.

720
00:37:41,314 --> 00:37:44,125
This is who you should be valuing.

721
00:37:45,085 --> 00:37:49,825
This is who you should reach out
to, and these are the types who will

722
00:37:50,335 --> 00:37:52,585
actually enter the kingdom of heaven.

723
00:37:54,804 --> 00:37:55,644
That's incredible.

724
00:37:57,085 --> 00:38:00,115
This is radical, but that's
radical What grace of God.

725
00:38:01,374 --> 00:38:06,444
In intertwined in, in between with this
hardcore truth, but yet we see this great

726
00:38:06,449 --> 00:38:11,934
call and the need and the understanding
of the grace of a loving God.

727
00:38:14,784 --> 00:38:17,304
And then we continue in verse 25.

728
00:38:17,304 --> 00:38:19,104
Brother and sisters, are
you still with me here?

729
00:38:19,164 --> 00:38:19,344
Yes, sir.

730
00:38:20,004 --> 00:38:22,824
Again, as we can see throughout all
scriptures, throughout all of Jesus

731
00:38:22,824 --> 00:38:26,364
life, you see grace and you see
truth, and they're not competing.

732
00:38:28,104 --> 00:38:30,264
We see this in Luke 1425.

733
00:38:30,264 --> 00:38:33,144
We see some really, uh, most of us
are very familiar in our, in our

734
00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:36,684
fellowship of churches with this passage
here, let's read it, large crowds are

735
00:38:36,684 --> 00:38:39,054
traveling with Jesus and turn into them.

736
00:38:39,054 --> 00:38:43,104
He said, if anyone comes to me and does
not hate father and mother, wife and

737
00:38:43,104 --> 00:38:44,724
children, brothers and sisters, yes.

738
00:38:44,874 --> 00:38:49,134
Even their old life, such a
person cannot be my disciple.

739
00:38:49,164 --> 00:38:49,374
Okay?

740
00:38:53,304 --> 00:38:54,504
That was me learning from last week.

741
00:38:54,504 --> 00:38:55,554
Bilingual service.

742
00:38:55,884 --> 00:38:56,964
That was Spanish.

743
00:38:57,264 --> 00:38:57,504
Okay?

744
00:38:57,504 --> 00:38:59,184
Means what did you cash that.

745
00:39:00,010 --> 00:39:00,940
There you go.

746
00:39:01,180 --> 00:39:04,240
I'm just saying, man, you just
grow so much in the kingdom of God.

747
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:05,020
You know what I'm saying?

748
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:07,110
I'm speaking languages.

749
00:39:07,110 --> 00:39:07,990
This is Acts chapter two.

750
00:39:07,990 --> 00:39:08,260
Here.

751
00:39:08,260 --> 00:39:08,650
Come on.

752
00:39:08,650 --> 00:39:09,010
Here we go.

753
00:39:09,970 --> 00:39:11,230
Wait a second.

754
00:39:11,410 --> 00:39:14,680
I gotta hate my mama, my
daddy, everybody, myself.

755
00:39:14,740 --> 00:39:16,630
If I don't, I can't be your disciple.

756
00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:17,170
Yep.

757
00:39:18,490 --> 00:39:19,900
And many people try to minimize this.

758
00:39:20,020 --> 00:39:23,710
Well, the word means love less The
word doesn't mean the Greek word hate.

759
00:39:23,710 --> 00:39:27,220
Doesn't mean love less, it means hate.

760
00:39:27,850 --> 00:39:32,779
But the context helps us to see
that this is uh, uh, uh, uh,

761
00:39:32,785 --> 00:39:34,029
um, uh, uh, what do you call it?

762
00:39:34,029 --> 00:39:35,410
Not uh, we call it exaggeration.

763
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,740
Um, um, hyperbole to emphasize the points.

764
00:39:40,180 --> 00:39:45,069
You saying guys, in comparison, if you
were to compare your love for me and

765
00:39:45,069 --> 00:39:49,510
your love for everything else, it's
gotta look like you hate everything else.

766
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,140
He says, if that's not
the case, guess what?

767
00:39:53,145 --> 00:39:54,220
You can't be a Christian.

768
00:39:55,090 --> 00:39:57,580
What I thought I had to do was
believe that was a song we heard.

769
00:39:59,425 --> 00:40:04,135
Yes, that's part of it, but true belief
is this type of relationship with Jesus.

770
00:40:05,814 --> 00:40:09,205
He goes on and says, and whoever
does not carry their cross and

771
00:40:09,205 --> 00:40:12,175
follow me, cannot be my disciple.

772
00:40:12,835 --> 00:40:15,444
Suppose one of you wants to build
a tower once you first sit down and

773
00:40:15,444 --> 00:40:18,745
estimate the cost to see if you have
enough money to complete it for.

774
00:40:18,745 --> 00:40:21,865
If you laid a foundation and are not
able to finish it, everyone who sees it

775
00:40:21,865 --> 00:40:25,285
will ridicule saying This person began
to build and wasn't able to finish.

776
00:40:25,495 --> 00:40:28,644
Or supposed the king is about to go to
war against another king when he first

777
00:40:28,644 --> 00:40:32,844
sit down and and consider whether he's
able with 10,000 men to oppose the

778
00:40:32,844 --> 00:40:34,585
one coming against him with 20,000.

779
00:40:35,005 --> 00:40:37,705
If he is not able, he will send a
delegation while the other is still

780
00:40:37,705 --> 00:40:43,314
a long way off and will ask for terms
of peace In the same way, those of

781
00:40:43,314 --> 00:40:47,755
you who do not give up everything
you have, cannot be my disciples.

782
00:40:48,115 --> 00:40:52,585
Salt is good, but if it loses it's
saltiness, how can it be made salty again?

783
00:40:53,229 --> 00:40:56,050
It is fitting neither for the
soil nor for the manure pile.

784
00:40:56,170 --> 00:40:57,310
It is thrown out.

785
00:40:57,399 --> 00:41:01,240
Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.

786
00:41:03,729 --> 00:41:07,569
He has strong convictions about
what it means to be a Christian.

787
00:41:09,490 --> 00:41:12,250
He says, here is the standard,
here is the cost, here is the

788
00:41:12,250 --> 00:41:14,319
call, here is the sacrifice.

789
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,990
And wouldn't have enough
time to break it down.

790
00:41:16,990 --> 00:41:20,649
But overall, the way I'd like to see
this is that G is saying he's either

791
00:41:20,649 --> 00:41:23,620
gotta be Lord of all or not at all.

792
00:41:25,479 --> 00:41:27,370
He can't be Lord of most.

793
00:41:29,350 --> 00:41:31,750
It's like being mostly pregnant.

794
00:41:33,279 --> 00:41:34,899
You either pregnant or
you're not pregnant.

795
00:41:35,350 --> 00:41:37,270
There's no, I'm kind of
mostly pregnant this week.

796
00:41:37,274 --> 00:41:37,960
You know what I'm saying?

797
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:38,979
That's not the case.

798
00:41:40,450 --> 00:41:45,189
And so either Lord of all, meaning
master, ruler, supreme authority, or

799
00:41:45,189 --> 00:41:51,220
he's not at all, and Jesus has to be
number one even over yourself and family.

800
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,859
And we follow him on his terms.

801
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,269
And if not, he says, it's not
like you won't be my disciple.

802
00:41:58,269 --> 00:42:00,649
It is that you cannot be my disciple.

803
00:42:01,540 --> 00:42:05,319
Because when it comes down to something
being tough, instead of you following me

804
00:42:05,319 --> 00:42:09,340
with your cross, you're gonna put your
cross down and go the other direction.

805
00:42:13,180 --> 00:42:20,410
And so this is a truth that is
very challenging, but it's a truth

806
00:42:21,670 --> 00:42:23,859
that's rooted in grace and love.

807
00:42:25,029 --> 00:42:27,250
I want you to make it to the end.

808
00:42:27,609 --> 00:42:32,470
So I'm not gonna sugarcoat things so that
you'll be deceived and then quit later on.

809
00:42:33,279 --> 00:42:36,880
I'm gonna give you the fine print and
I'm gonna enlarge it and I'm gonna put it

810
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,430
out in the front, as opposed at the end.

811
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:44,200
I want you to experience this grace,
but there's a spiritual battle

812
00:42:44,319 --> 00:42:46,029
and you're gonna have tough times.

813
00:42:47,245 --> 00:42:49,764
But here's what it's
gonna take to overcome.

814
00:42:50,005 --> 00:42:55,825
If you abide in me, you see,
Jesus is full of grace and truth,

815
00:42:55,915 --> 00:42:57,925
compassion, and conviction.

816
00:42:57,955 --> 00:43:04,615
He's the lion and the lamb, and
it's not either or, but and in both.

817
00:43:06,175 --> 00:43:08,215
I remember Dave asked you, sir
then, and I was like, wow, I wish

818
00:43:08,215 --> 00:43:09,505
I woulda heard that my whole life.

819
00:43:10,644 --> 00:43:13,825
It was just, it was a different context,
but I was like, that is so true.

820
00:43:13,825 --> 00:43:15,295
It's not either or.

821
00:43:15,325 --> 00:43:19,375
He's either the lion or he is the lamb, or
he is compassionate, or he is con convict.

822
00:43:19,380 --> 00:43:20,064
He has conviction.

823
00:43:20,215 --> 00:43:22,675
No, it's ands in both.

824
00:43:23,604 --> 00:43:28,345
There's grace, there's truth, there's
compassion, there's conviction,

825
00:43:28,524 --> 00:43:30,715
there's the lion, there's the lamb.

826
00:43:31,255 --> 00:43:34,825
But our western society sees Christianity
as one or the other, doesn't it?

827
00:43:35,545 --> 00:43:38,194
Whether in our religious circles
or our non-religious circle.

828
00:43:39,010 --> 00:43:42,819
Christianity's all about some right or
wrong rules and and dos and don'ts, or

829
00:43:42,910 --> 00:43:44,800
it's all about this kind of shallow love.

830
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,180
Just accept everything.

831
00:43:48,740 --> 00:43:53,620
BC Jesus gives encouragement,
inspiration, he gives hope in his

832
00:43:53,620 --> 00:44:01,540
message, and also truth of what it means
to follow him in the ramifications.

833
00:44:02,260 --> 00:44:08,620
If we don't, you see the real Jesus
and real Christianity have conviction

834
00:44:09,250 --> 00:44:13,090
and love and pity at the same time.

835
00:44:14,380 --> 00:44:16,899
I don't choose it this time
and then I have to choose

836
00:44:16,899 --> 00:44:17,979
something else the next time.

837
00:44:18,370 --> 00:44:21,250
I have 'em both at the same time.

838
00:44:22,269 --> 00:44:26,529
There's grace and there's truth,
and so what does that mean for

839
00:44:26,529 --> 00:44:27,939
you and me, brothers and sisters?

840
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:29,830
Well, we gotta follow Jesus example.

841
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,240
We gotta be gracious and
truthful, gracious to people

842
00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:35,830
who don't know the real Jesus.

843
00:44:36,414 --> 00:44:39,894
Why would be critical and, and, and,
and, and say demeaning things to people

844
00:44:39,894 --> 00:44:41,664
who never signed up to follow Jesus.

845
00:44:41,754 --> 00:44:43,164
That doesn't make any sense.

846
00:44:45,414 --> 00:44:48,714
We need to be gracious to those
who have not decided yet to

847
00:44:48,714 --> 00:44:53,484
follow Jesus, and we need to seek
to love people like Jesus does.

848
00:44:53,484 --> 00:44:57,414
Again, he was in the home of
the Pharisee extending grace,

849
00:44:58,194 --> 00:45:01,284
but yet he shared some truth.

850
00:45:02,214 --> 00:45:06,264
We need to be truthful, to share the good
news with people who don't know Jesus.

851
00:45:06,834 --> 00:45:11,574
Speaking truth to those in the church
with reminders of how much Jesus loves and

852
00:45:11,574 --> 00:45:14,724
also the proper response to Jesus' love.

853
00:45:16,104 --> 00:45:19,356
But I don't know about you, but this
can be hard cause the tendency is to

854
00:45:19,361 --> 00:45:21,324
be either or or try to balance the two.

855
00:45:22,674 --> 00:45:23,574
That's my tendency.

856
00:45:23,574 --> 00:45:24,264
Is that yours?

857
00:45:25,254 --> 00:45:29,094
Or we can tend to just go with the
side maybe we're naturally prone to, or

858
00:45:29,094 --> 00:45:31,194
the the side that excites us the most.

859
00:45:32,635 --> 00:45:34,944
Hey, I love that, that grease
part, the grace part about Jesus.

860
00:45:34,944 --> 00:45:38,035
So I'm just gonna roll with
that, but then never speak truth.

861
00:45:38,965 --> 00:45:40,104
Well, I love that truth part.

862
00:45:40,705 --> 00:45:41,995
So I'm gonna follow that.

863
00:45:42,085 --> 00:45:43,825
But yet never extend grace.

864
00:45:45,595 --> 00:45:48,115
You know, I know for me, uh, when
I, when I became familiar with the

865
00:45:48,115 --> 00:45:51,115
real Jesus, I was like, man, I never
thought about this lion part of Jesus.

866
00:45:51,115 --> 00:45:53,845
I love that Jesus, let's go.

867
00:45:54,325 --> 00:45:57,234
And then I saw, and people would
share it, like, Marcel, yeah, we

868
00:45:57,234 --> 00:46:01,314
appreciate your conviction, but we
don't feel so much love at times.

869
00:46:03,175 --> 00:46:05,154
And I feel like a couple years
ago, I swung the pendulum.

870
00:46:05,154 --> 00:46:07,705
I'm like, man, I don't feel like I
share anything that's truthful anymore.

871
00:46:09,685 --> 00:46:11,495
And so there's this constant battle.

872
00:46:11,875 --> 00:46:15,505
But again, Jesus was full
of truth and full of grace.

873
00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:20,575
So if we follow, well, first of all,
if we know this, then we have a better

874
00:46:20,575 --> 00:46:26,575
chance at what following this, living it
out and showing the real Jesus to others.

875
00:46:27,264 --> 00:46:30,354
We'll have more victories and
we'll imitate him and become

876
00:46:30,354 --> 00:46:32,184
more like him in our character.

877
00:46:32,334 --> 00:46:35,904
And that's the beauty of the scriptures
and the beauty of the church is we help

878
00:46:35,904 --> 00:46:39,504
each other to be able to attain to this.

879
00:46:39,509 --> 00:46:41,604
Let's get real practically
here as we close out.

880
00:46:41,754 --> 00:46:44,304
So here's our action step
in prayer for the week.

881
00:46:44,304 --> 00:46:46,404
So here's what we're asking
just for this week here, if you

882
00:46:46,404 --> 00:46:48,234
wanna continue past hallelujah.

883
00:46:48,234 --> 00:46:51,144
But here's the action step and
the prayer for this week here.

884
00:46:51,144 --> 00:46:54,324
It's a communal prayer and
a communal action step here.

885
00:46:54,324 --> 00:46:55,824
Number one, here's what I ask you to do.

886
00:46:55,914 --> 00:46:58,104
Memorize that verse John one 14.

887
00:46:59,244 --> 00:47:00,144
Say, well, why memorize that?

888
00:47:00,354 --> 00:47:03,924
Because then it'll be on your heart and
your mind to be full of grace and truth.

889
00:47:04,674 --> 00:47:07,764
You'll remember Jesus has grace
and truth that says you're is.

890
00:47:07,764 --> 00:47:09,744
You're in that situation with so and so.

891
00:47:09,744 --> 00:47:12,684
This week you'll have that
grace and truth in mind.

892
00:47:13,194 --> 00:47:13,914
And you know what?

893
00:47:13,944 --> 00:47:16,854
Maybe even for fun, whoever
can recite it come on stage.

894
00:47:16,914 --> 00:47:18,564
We'll go ahead and have
a little prize next week.

895
00:47:18,564 --> 00:47:19,164
So there you go.

896
00:47:19,169 --> 00:47:19,734
All right.

897
00:47:19,764 --> 00:47:20,754
Come on, Chad Hoffman.

898
00:47:20,754 --> 00:47:21,654
All right, let's see it there.

899
00:47:21,654 --> 00:47:22,014
All right.

900
00:47:22,690 --> 00:47:24,310
And number two here, prayer this week.

901
00:47:24,310 --> 00:47:25,060
Pray daily.

902
00:47:25,060 --> 00:47:28,750
Just every day this week, next seven
days, that each member of our church can

903
00:47:28,750 --> 00:47:31,540
reflect Jesus's grace and truth this week.

904
00:47:32,710 --> 00:47:35,860
That it won't just be you,
but it'll be all of us.

905
00:47:37,150 --> 00:47:39,580
The real Jesus is the lamb and the lion.

906
00:47:39,970 --> 00:47:42,850
He's full of grace and full of truth.

907
00:47:43,270 --> 00:47:45,580
He's full of compassion and conviction.

908
00:47:45,580 --> 00:47:50,110
He's the complete human being
and the followers of Jesus.

909
00:47:50,110 --> 00:47:57,069
We must heed his truth, follow his truth,
and share his truth while extending grace.

910
00:47:57,490 --> 00:47:59,350
We close out in John one 14.

911
00:47:59,650 --> 00:48:01,990
The word became flesh and
made his joying among us.

912
00:48:02,290 --> 00:48:06,160
We have seen His glory, the glory of
the one and only son who came from

913
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:10,210
the Father full of grace and truth.

914
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:10,990
Amen.