1 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:02,780 Speaker: Alright, so our last session is gonna be, we're 2 00:00:02,780 --> 00:00:04,399 gonna solve the problem of evil. 3 00:00:04,460 --> 00:00:04,880 Okay? 4 00:00:05,089 --> 00:00:06,140 That's what we're gonna talk about. 5 00:00:06,140 --> 00:00:12,619 Um, essentially, um, we talked about, okay, so evil is under God's control. 6 00:00:12,649 --> 00:00:15,109 Evil is part of God's good plan. 7 00:00:15,109 --> 00:00:19,369 He uses evil for good, and now we're gonna see that God provides 8 00:00:19,369 --> 00:00:21,949 the solution for evil, okay? 9 00:00:22,309 --> 00:00:24,079 God provides the solution for evil. 10 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:24,859 That's our sermon in. 11 00:00:25,204 --> 00:00:29,525 In one sentence, God provides the solution for evil. 12 00:00:29,794 --> 00:00:31,714 Um, and we kind of talked about this yesterday, right? 13 00:00:31,714 --> 00:00:34,564 But eventually there's gonna be no more evil. 14 00:00:34,594 --> 00:00:37,204 Remember we talked about lines and line segments and rays, right? 15 00:00:37,204 --> 00:00:38,734 Your favorite subject of geometry. 16 00:00:39,214 --> 00:00:41,855 Um, we talked about how evil is a line segment, right? 17 00:00:41,855 --> 00:00:42,964 There's a starting point. 18 00:00:42,964 --> 00:00:43,624 There's an ending point. 19 00:00:43,654 --> 00:00:48,034 There's gonna be a, a moment where evil stops there. 20 00:00:48,034 --> 00:00:49,144 Will it stop existing? 21 00:00:49,204 --> 00:00:50,525 It'll be totally gone. 22 00:00:51,154 --> 00:00:51,574 Um. 23 00:00:53,225 --> 00:00:59,824 That gives us really a hope that no other religion really has, that we have a God 24 00:00:59,824 --> 00:01:03,635 who's not just using evil for good, but one day is gonna get rid of all of it. 25 00:01:03,785 --> 00:01:04,055 Alright? 26 00:01:04,055 --> 00:01:08,854 And that's our first point is look forward to God's victory over evil. 27 00:01:09,514 --> 00:01:11,074 Look forward to God's victory over evil. 28 00:01:11,104 --> 00:01:12,995 One day, evil's gonna be gone. 29 00:01:13,655 --> 00:01:16,535 All the bad things that we've been, you know, talking about, okay, 30 00:01:16,535 --> 00:01:17,824 how is God using this for good? 31 00:01:17,824 --> 00:01:19,384 How is this gonna work out? 32 00:01:19,414 --> 00:01:20,674 How is this gonna be? 33 00:01:20,674 --> 00:01:21,065 Okay? 34 00:01:21,575 --> 00:01:24,185 Um, God is gonna put an end to all of it 35 00:01:27,425 --> 00:01:30,455 when we think about evil, right? 36 00:01:30,455 --> 00:01:33,425 There's two main categories, if you will, right? 37 00:01:33,425 --> 00:01:39,455 There's, um, there's the effects of sin and there's sin itself. 38 00:01:39,604 --> 00:01:40,835 So sin, right? 39 00:01:40,865 --> 00:01:41,164 Uh. 40 00:01:41,929 --> 00:01:42,589 Happens, right? 41 00:01:42,589 --> 00:01:44,539 People sin against each other, right? 42 00:01:44,658 --> 00:01:48,049 People gossip, people lie, people hurt each other, right? 43 00:01:48,049 --> 00:01:52,309 That sin, there's, there's the sinful actions, but also when sin entered 44 00:01:52,309 --> 00:01:56,119 the world, when evil first entered the world, the world got messed up too. 45 00:01:56,839 --> 00:01:59,209 The whole world, there were these problems, right? 46 00:01:59,209 --> 00:02:01,159 If you think back to Genesis three, right? 47 00:02:01,219 --> 00:02:05,329 When, when God, um, came to Adam and even said, Hey, where are you, Adam? 48 00:02:06,155 --> 00:02:08,255 They're trying to, you know, say, oh, well, you know, we 49 00:02:08,255 --> 00:02:09,935 were, we were afraid, whatever. 50 00:02:09,935 --> 00:02:10,413 Right? 51 00:02:10,475 --> 00:02:11,345 They're making excuses. 52 00:02:11,375 --> 00:02:16,745 And God curses not just the serpent, he curses the ground. 53 00:02:17,015 --> 00:02:17,315 Right? 54 00:02:17,315 --> 00:02:20,135 He curses the ground and he says, it's gonna be really hard for you to work. 55 00:02:20,165 --> 00:02:24,515 There's gonna be, um, there's, you're gonna, he says, um. 56 00:02:25,204 --> 00:02:28,174 The, the ground is gonna be, it's not gonna be easy for you to, to, 57 00:02:28,475 --> 00:02:30,695 um, do all your far more stuff, Adam. 58 00:02:30,695 --> 00:02:32,285 It's gonna be hard for you to do it right? 59 00:02:32,435 --> 00:02:33,845 And we see that in our lives. 60 00:02:33,845 --> 00:02:35,135 The world is messed up. 61 00:02:35,135 --> 00:02:38,255 That's why things like natural disasters happen, right? 62 00:02:38,255 --> 00:02:41,795 That's why people get sick, right? 63 00:02:41,795 --> 00:02:44,315 It's not because necessarily that they sinned, right? 64 00:02:44,315 --> 00:02:48,845 Whenever you get sick, it's not because you know you had a bad week with God. 65 00:02:48,845 --> 00:02:51,545 It's partly, it's because we live in a world that's messed up. 66 00:02:52,190 --> 00:02:55,490 When you sin, uh, or when, when bad things happen to you, sometimes 67 00:02:55,490 --> 00:02:56,840 they're natural bad things. 68 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:04,040 The world is naturally messed up and one day God is going to get rid of it. 69 00:03:05,060 --> 00:03:07,610 But before that, I want you to think about when you, right now, right? 70 00:03:07,610 --> 00:03:10,850 We're operating in this, in this broken world. 71 00:03:11,330 --> 00:03:15,440 So we have this, this messed up world that we're living in, right? 72 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:16,220 It doesn't work the way we should. 73 00:03:16,220 --> 00:03:18,950 I, I grew up playing on, um. 74 00:03:19,579 --> 00:03:22,640 The way my family did video games, we bought these consoles 75 00:03:22,820 --> 00:03:24,079 and we never upgraded 'em. 76 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,510 So I played on a PlayStation two for like 15 years. 77 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:35,000 Um, I had like Madden oh nine FIFA 2008. 78 00:03:35,660 --> 00:03:37,700 I had the original Lego Star Wars. 79 00:03:38,269 --> 00:03:40,700 I had the 2004 Star Wars Battlefront. 80 00:03:41,149 --> 00:03:42,230 Um, those were the games. 81 00:03:42,230 --> 00:03:44,180 I, and I played those for 15 years. 82 00:03:44,540 --> 00:03:48,079 And sometimes if I go back to visit my family, my dad and I will still, 83 00:03:48,110 --> 00:03:51,140 we'll still fire up Star Wars Battlefront, that's 21 years old. 84 00:03:51,470 --> 00:03:53,060 And we'll play it and it works. 85 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,220 But sometimes what happens is it'll freeze. 86 00:03:55,579 --> 00:03:56,870 So we, we had to stop playing. 87 00:03:56,870 --> 00:03:58,430 We tried to play Lego Star Wars just for fun. 88 00:03:58,790 --> 00:04:03,079 And, um, we can't play Lego Stars anymore because whenever you transition between 89 00:04:03,079 --> 00:04:05,060 scenes and the level, it just freezes. 90 00:04:05,930 --> 00:04:07,220 So the video game is messed up. 91 00:04:07,340 --> 00:04:09,320 So we can't play like the console's old. 92 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,170 It's broken, it's messed up Sometimes, um, when we're playing. 93 00:04:12,815 --> 00:04:14,614 When we were playing fifa, it would just freeze. 94 00:04:14,674 --> 00:04:17,974 If you did too many like moves in a row, game would just freeze. 95 00:04:18,005 --> 00:04:21,214 And then you'd have to like tap the side of the, the PlayStation and then 96 00:04:21,214 --> 00:04:22,744 the disc would start spinning again. 97 00:04:22,744 --> 00:04:24,544 You guys are like, boy, video games come on, discs. 98 00:04:24,544 --> 00:04:24,935 What is this? 99 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:28,174 Um, and then it would start working again, right? 100 00:04:28,265 --> 00:04:34,414 Um, me playing on my old PlayStation two, right playing FIFA 2008. 101 00:04:34,895 --> 00:04:36,185 I expect it to freeze. 102 00:04:36,244 --> 00:04:37,744 I'm not expecting it to work perfectly. 103 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,990 But if I'm at a friend's house and they've got, you know, their PlayStation 104 00:04:41,990 --> 00:04:47,540 five or whatever, and they're playing FIFA 2026, if it freezes, I'm gonna, 105 00:04:48,110 --> 00:04:51,020 I, that's, that's unexpected, right? 106 00:04:51,980 --> 00:04:55,190 So part of this is when we're looking to God's looking forward to God's 107 00:04:55,190 --> 00:04:59,060 victory over evil, we want to adjust our current expectations of the world 108 00:05:00,230 --> 00:05:03,920 because part of looking forward to God's victory over evil means recognizing 109 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,600 that, hey, right now the world's broken. 110 00:05:06,590 --> 00:05:08,600 The world's gonna freeze, if you will. 111 00:05:08,660 --> 00:05:09,050 Right. 112 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,920 If, if you try to get all your happiness from the world, it's going 113 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,540 to, it's broken, it's messed up. 114 00:05:14,540 --> 00:05:16,850 It's not gonna work exactly the way it should. 115 00:05:17,090 --> 00:05:17,270 Right. 116 00:05:17,270 --> 00:05:20,900 Just like my PlayStation two, it doesn't work exactly the way it did back in 2004. 117 00:05:21,110 --> 00:05:21,440 Right. 118 00:05:22,010 --> 00:05:25,460 Um, the world doesn't work exactly the way it's supposed to work. 119 00:05:25,910 --> 00:05:27,110 People get sick, right. 120 00:05:27,110 --> 00:05:27,710 People die. 121 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,390 Um, things don't work out the way exactly. 122 00:05:32,390 --> 00:05:33,050 They, they should have. 123 00:05:33,050 --> 00:05:33,170 Right. 124 00:05:33,710 --> 00:05:36,950 It rains when you wanted to do something fun outside, right? 125 00:05:37,219 --> 00:05:40,430 Um, it there's an ice storm when you were supposed to go to winter camp and 126 00:05:40,430 --> 00:05:41,750 you have to move winter camp, right? 127 00:05:41,750 --> 00:05:42,710 Stuff like that happens. 128 00:05:42,890 --> 00:05:46,790 The world doesn't work the way it's supposed to work, and I want you to 129 00:05:46,790 --> 00:05:53,810 expect that, expect the world to, to not always end up going very well for you. 130 00:05:53,990 --> 00:05:54,170 Right? 131 00:05:54,170 --> 00:05:56,719 Expect your life to encounter a lot of problems. 132 00:05:58,010 --> 00:06:00,650 Sometimes I think we expect too much of the world, right? 133 00:06:00,650 --> 00:06:02,210 We expect the world to run perfectly. 134 00:06:03,034 --> 00:06:03,455 No. 135 00:06:03,485 --> 00:06:04,115 No freezes. 136 00:06:04,115 --> 00:06:06,034 No skips, no, no issues. 137 00:06:07,325 --> 00:06:09,065 And then we're let down when it happens. 138 00:06:09,995 --> 00:06:12,155 I mean, part of it is you adjust your expectations. 139 00:06:12,155 --> 00:06:15,185 You say, this world is broken, this world is messed up, right? 140 00:06:15,245 --> 00:06:16,385 People are sinful. 141 00:06:16,625 --> 00:06:19,055 My friends are gonna let me down, right? 142 00:06:19,085 --> 00:06:21,844 My people I care about are accidentally gonna offend me or 143 00:06:21,844 --> 00:06:23,165 sometimes even purposely offend me. 144 00:06:24,335 --> 00:06:28,745 Expect the world and the people in the world who are part of the problem of evil. 145 00:06:28,775 --> 00:06:29,105 Right? 146 00:06:29,435 --> 00:06:29,855 To. 147 00:06:30,590 --> 00:06:37,429 Sin and to let you down, and that helps you in the meantime to look forward 148 00:06:37,429 --> 00:06:39,229 to when it's not gonna be like that. 149 00:06:40,039 --> 00:06:40,219 Right? 150 00:06:40,219 --> 00:06:44,479 I want you to imagine that you were playing on my old PlayStation two, and 151 00:06:44,479 --> 00:06:47,239 you're, you're stuck there with, with the game that freezes all the time. 152 00:06:47,239 --> 00:06:49,130 It doesn't work, but you're like, oh, but I know for 153 00:06:49,130 --> 00:06:50,570 Christmas I'm getting a new one. 154 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:53,000 I'm getting a PlayStation five, right? 155 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,619 I'm getting the newest model, right? 156 00:06:54,619 --> 00:06:57,200 Let, let's say the PlayStation six was coming out or whatever, and you were 157 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,299 like, oh, I'm gonna get the newest model. 158 00:06:59,810 --> 00:07:03,200 So every time the game freezes, or every time you can't play the game you 159 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:04,550 wanted to play, 'cause it doesn't work. 160 00:07:05,270 --> 00:07:10,039 You can think, well, okay, in 10 months I'm gonna be able to do 161 00:07:10,039 --> 00:07:11,180 this and it's gonna be awesome. 162 00:07:11,810 --> 00:07:11,990 Right? 163 00:07:11,990 --> 00:07:15,169 And you get more and more excited about it every time you look at the current 164 00:07:15,169 --> 00:07:18,425 state of how messed up your, your video game is, how old it is, right? 165 00:07:18,425 --> 00:07:21,955 I want you to think that with the world, I want you to, to look at the world and, 166 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,020 and when the world lets you down, right? 167 00:07:24,020 --> 00:07:28,280 When you're, you're, the thing you are really excited about isn't as 168 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:29,240 good as you thought it would be. 169 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,159 Or when someone sins against you and it doesn't, um, it doesn't feel good. 170 00:07:34,159 --> 00:07:34,310 Right. 171 00:07:34,310 --> 00:07:35,150 And you have to reconcile. 172 00:07:35,150 --> 00:07:35,960 You have to forgive them. 173 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:37,640 You have to, you know what we were talking about on Sunday? 174 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,229 Like, you have to overlook an offense. 175 00:07:40,159 --> 00:07:43,010 Once you think about, man, there's gonna be one day when I'm not gonna sit against 176 00:07:43,010 --> 00:07:44,510 anyone and no one's gonna sit against me. 177 00:07:45,409 --> 00:07:50,750 There's gonna be one day when I, I'm never gonna stub my toe anymore, right? 178 00:07:50,990 --> 00:07:53,840 There's gonna be a day when I'm never going. 179 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:59,210 To, to have to deal with all, all of these bug bites and right. 180 00:08:00,260 --> 00:08:04,280 There's gonna be a day when the world is not going to to be broken anymore. 181 00:08:04,310 --> 00:08:05,330 It's gonna be fixed, be perfect. 182 00:08:05,450 --> 00:08:09,710 And so use those opportunities to look forward to what's coming. 183 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,910 Use the the letdowns of the world to say, Hey, one day God is gonna fix 184 00:08:13,910 --> 00:08:15,470 this and it's gonna be so much better. 185 00:08:16,715 --> 00:08:19,805 That's what we see in at the very end of the Bible, right? 186 00:08:19,805 --> 00:08:20,854 Revelation chapter 21. 187 00:08:21,065 --> 00:08:21,905 It's talking about God. 188 00:08:21,935 --> 00:08:23,405 He is talking about this event. 189 00:08:23,405 --> 00:08:27,905 When God finally gets rid of all the, the messed up stuff in the world, it says God 190 00:08:28,055 --> 00:08:29,825 will wipe away every tear from their eyes. 191 00:08:29,825 --> 00:08:32,794 Think about all the things that have made you cry, right? 192 00:08:32,794 --> 00:08:34,355 There's small things that have made you cry. 193 00:08:34,655 --> 00:08:36,575 There's big things that have made you cry really hard. 194 00:08:36,575 --> 00:08:37,505 Things that have made you cry. 195 00:08:38,284 --> 00:08:42,020 God is saying that one day he is going to bring you comfort. 196 00:08:43,054 --> 00:08:47,285 You won't have to carry the weight of that pain anymore, like that loved one that 197 00:08:47,285 --> 00:08:50,375 she lost or that disappointment you had. 198 00:08:51,305 --> 00:08:51,455 Right? 199 00:08:51,455 --> 00:08:53,105 God is going to bring you comfort. 200 00:08:53,105 --> 00:08:58,265 One day he's gonna resolve all of the issues, and death will be no more. 201 00:08:58,265 --> 00:08:58,505 Right? 202 00:08:58,655 --> 00:08:59,855 We even, you even feel that right? 203 00:08:59,855 --> 00:09:02,585 You, when someone close to you die, you feel it is not supposed to happen. 204 00:09:03,215 --> 00:09:04,535 They're not supposed to be gone anymore. 205 00:09:05,555 --> 00:09:07,295 We're not supposed to have that empty chair at Christmas. 206 00:09:08,585 --> 00:09:09,665 You feel that, right? 207 00:09:09,665 --> 00:09:11,435 Even as young as you are, you feel that. 208 00:09:11,435 --> 00:09:15,064 And as you get older and more people die, that you know, you'll feel it even more. 209 00:09:16,205 --> 00:09:18,095 But one day it's gonna be, it is not gonna be like that. 210 00:09:19,475 --> 00:09:20,435 And there won't be mourning, right? 211 00:09:20,435 --> 00:09:21,365 People won't be sad. 212 00:09:21,575 --> 00:09:23,495 That's, you know, not mourning like sunrise, right? 213 00:09:23,495 --> 00:09:27,425 Mourning, like sad mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore for the 214 00:09:27,425 --> 00:09:28,535 former things have passed away. 215 00:09:28,535 --> 00:09:29,105 They're gonna be gone. 216 00:09:30,635 --> 00:09:32,615 There's nothing that you're gonna be sad about anymore. 217 00:09:32,765 --> 00:09:36,005 There's nothing that you're gonna feel hurt about anymore. 218 00:09:37,425 --> 00:09:38,555 That's the future, right? 219 00:09:38,675 --> 00:09:40,025 But right now, it's not like that. 220 00:09:40,025 --> 00:09:41,345 There are things that cause you pain. 221 00:09:41,345 --> 00:09:42,365 There's things that make you cry. 222 00:09:42,365 --> 00:09:43,505 There's there's death. 223 00:09:44,765 --> 00:09:47,435 And use those moments to look forward to. 224 00:09:47,435 --> 00:09:48,815 One day God's gonna fix it. 225 00:09:49,985 --> 00:09:51,065 God's gonna win, right? 226 00:09:51,065 --> 00:09:54,695 This isn't how it's supposed to be, and it's not gonna stay this way forever. 227 00:09:59,225 --> 00:10:02,165 But part of it too is God's gonna fix you. 228 00:10:03,155 --> 00:10:04,595 He's not just gonna fix the world. 229 00:10:04,775 --> 00:10:05,735 He's gonna fix you. 230 00:10:07,445 --> 00:10:12,305 Because we said earlier, right, that we're part of the problem of evil too, right? 231 00:10:12,335 --> 00:10:17,525 Remember we said this yesterday, that you and I are contributing to all the stuff 232 00:10:17,525 --> 00:10:19,025 that's messed up in the world, right? 233 00:10:19,025 --> 00:10:21,245 We hurt people, we sin against people. 234 00:10:21,425 --> 00:10:22,745 We're selfish, right? 235 00:10:22,895 --> 00:10:27,485 You and I contribute to what's wrong with the world, and one day God 236 00:10:27,485 --> 00:10:33,305 is going to fix you and me one day you're not going to sin anymore if. 237 00:10:33,830 --> 00:10:35,180 You're in Christ, right? 238 00:10:37,010 --> 00:10:42,860 And so if you, if you are, um, truly following Jesus, you feel this. 239 00:10:43,405 --> 00:10:48,410 If, if, if it doesn't bother you that you sin, uh, that might be a sign that 240 00:10:48,410 --> 00:10:49,820 you're not really following Jesus. 241 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:56,180 If, if your sin doesn't, doesn't create some tension or some disap and 242 00:10:56,180 --> 00:11:00,350 sadness in you, that might be a sign that you're not really following Jesus. 243 00:11:02,345 --> 00:11:05,555 But if you, if you do feel that disappointment, not, you're 244 00:11:05,555 --> 00:11:07,865 not disappointed about your sin because you got caught, right? 245 00:11:07,985 --> 00:11:12,245 You're not sad about your sin because you had some consequences, but you're 246 00:11:12,245 --> 00:11:15,875 sad about it 'cause you're like, man, I keep offending God and I love God 247 00:11:15,875 --> 00:11:16,865 and I don't wanna do that anymore. 248 00:11:16,895 --> 00:11:18,665 I don't wanna do these things that Jesus died for. 249 00:11:18,665 --> 00:11:20,015 I don't wanna do these things that God hates. 250 00:11:20,015 --> 00:11:20,855 'cause I love God. 251 00:11:24,335 --> 00:11:26,915 You can take comfort if you're a Christian, and the fact that one 252 00:11:26,915 --> 00:11:29,225 day you won't do that anymore and that should make you so happy. 253 00:11:29,225 --> 00:11:30,185 I know that makes me so happy. 254 00:11:30,185 --> 00:11:34,085 If one day I won't have to ask God for forgiveness anymore, I 255 00:11:34,085 --> 00:11:37,805 won't have to confess my sin and say, God, I have, I have hurt you. 256 00:11:37,865 --> 00:11:39,425 I have sinned against you. 257 00:11:39,425 --> 00:11:40,355 I've rejected you. 258 00:11:40,355 --> 00:11:41,555 I've distrusted you. 259 00:11:41,945 --> 00:11:43,690 You won't have to do that anymore if you're a c. 260 00:11:45,335 --> 00:11:48,545 And if hopefully that, that brings you comfort. 261 00:11:48,545 --> 00:11:51,065 If it, if that is like, whatever, I don't really care about that. 262 00:11:51,125 --> 00:11:53,585 My sin doesn't bother me, that should be a warning sign for you. 263 00:11:53,735 --> 00:11:54,065 Right? 264 00:11:54,245 --> 00:11:58,115 That should be like, um, you know, like a check engine light for you of, Hey, 265 00:11:58,175 --> 00:12:00,935 oh, something's wrong, something's up. 266 00:12:01,505 --> 00:12:02,615 My sin doesn't bother me. 267 00:12:03,095 --> 00:12:05,855 Maybe it's because you actually enjoy it, right? 268 00:12:06,095 --> 00:12:08,525 But if it, your sin does bother you, you can take comfort in the fact that 269 00:12:08,525 --> 00:12:12,035 one day I won't be doing this anymore. 270 00:12:13,475 --> 00:12:14,165 It'll be gone. 271 00:12:14,225 --> 00:12:14,375 Right? 272 00:12:14,375 --> 00:12:17,555 I won't have that temptation to, to look at that anymore. 273 00:12:17,585 --> 00:12:20,255 I won't have that temptation to feel that anymore or want that. 274 00:12:22,835 --> 00:12:24,575 Are we sing that song sometimes at church, right? 275 00:12:24,575 --> 00:12:29,105 Do you feel the world is broken and then everyone goes like We do, right? 276 00:12:29,345 --> 00:12:31,235 Uh, and you don't know which part you're supposed to sing. 277 00:12:31,265 --> 00:12:32,465 Like, are you supposed to sing the questions? 278 00:12:32,465 --> 00:12:33,425 Are you supposed to sing the response? 279 00:12:33,425 --> 00:12:36,575 Like, what about, you know, I always ask Pastor Rod, he just says, sing everything. 280 00:12:36,665 --> 00:12:38,255 And I'm like, that feels weird though, right? 281 00:12:38,555 --> 00:12:38,855 Anyway. 282 00:12:39,215 --> 00:12:40,805 Um, but. 283 00:12:41,870 --> 00:12:42,650 That's the point, right? 284 00:12:42,650 --> 00:12:43,730 Do you feel this? 285 00:12:43,730 --> 00:12:45,710 Do you feel, man, the world lets me down? 286 00:12:47,030 --> 00:12:48,350 Or are you living for the world? 287 00:12:48,830 --> 00:12:51,380 Are you saying that, oh, the world is is what I want. 288 00:12:51,530 --> 00:12:53,510 I want everything the world has to offer. 289 00:12:54,650 --> 00:12:57,770 And if you're not following Jesus, that's all you get. 290 00:12:59,540 --> 00:13:02,690 The best you get is the broken PS two that freezes all the time. 291 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:05,090 That's the world, right? 292 00:13:05,090 --> 00:13:08,780 You get some fun things, but ultimately they don't last very 293 00:13:08,780 --> 00:13:10,220 long, and you always want more. 294 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,170 It's not gonna get you very far. 295 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:13,160 That's all you get. 296 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,770 If, if all you want is the world, that's all you'll get. 297 00:13:17,090 --> 00:13:20,660 But if you trust Jesus and you say, this world is too small for me. 298 00:13:21,290 --> 00:13:22,430 This world isn't good enough. 299 00:13:22,430 --> 00:13:27,410 I, I need something better, something better, some one better to truly 300 00:13:27,410 --> 00:13:29,420 satisfy me, you get Jesus right. 301 00:13:29,420 --> 00:13:32,150 That's why he says you can gain the world and lose your soul. 302 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:38,180 So use the brokenness of the world to look forward to God. 303 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:39,560 Going to fix everything. 304 00:13:40,385 --> 00:13:46,415 And most, uh, most importantly, right, you get to be with him, right? 305 00:13:46,415 --> 00:13:49,445 If, if you put your hope in the world, you will get let down, 306 00:13:49,805 --> 00:13:50,945 and that's all you're gonna get. 307 00:13:51,635 --> 00:13:57,815 Um, use your, use your disappointments to look forward to heaven. 308 00:13:58,445 --> 00:14:04,715 All right, so part of this too though, right, is that we don't just say, well, 309 00:14:04,715 --> 00:14:06,815 God's gonna get rid of evil, right? 310 00:14:07,010 --> 00:14:10,100 If God's not just gonna get rid of evil, you ever wonder, oh, 311 00:14:10,190 --> 00:14:12,020 what's God gonna do about it? 312 00:14:12,020 --> 00:14:12,380 Right? 313 00:14:12,410 --> 00:14:17,630 When someone sins against you, um, do you feel like, okay, well great, 314 00:14:17,630 --> 00:14:21,350 God's gonna like make sure they don't sin against me again, but what about 315 00:14:21,350 --> 00:14:23,780 the sins that already happened, right? 316 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:25,940 Because if you say, great, okay, someone sin against me. 317 00:14:25,940 --> 00:14:28,160 Let's say you, you, you're applying the first point. 318 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:28,700 You're thinking about it. 319 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:29,150 You're like, okay. 320 00:14:29,510 --> 00:14:32,810 Um, so this person at school, they said something, they gossiped about 321 00:14:32,810 --> 00:14:35,415 me and they, they made me look bad in front of all these people. 322 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:42,710 And then you say, okay, well, you know, one day I'm gonna live with God forever 323 00:14:42,950 --> 00:14:45,020 and no one's ever gonna do that again. 324 00:14:45,260 --> 00:14:46,370 And you say, that's awesome. 325 00:14:46,370 --> 00:14:47,300 I'm so excited for that. 326 00:14:47,810 --> 00:14:49,310 But what about that sin that just happened? 327 00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:51,890 What, what's God gonna do about that? 328 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,260 Does he just say, well, don't worry, it won't happen again. 329 00:14:54,410 --> 00:14:54,590 Right. 330 00:14:54,590 --> 00:14:56,420 You ever, do you ever do this, like with your siblings? 331 00:14:56,810 --> 00:15:02,900 Um, they do something bad to you and then they, um, you, you tell like. 332 00:15:03,815 --> 00:15:05,495 I feel this as a leader sometimes, right? 333 00:15:05,615 --> 00:15:07,415 Sometimes like, okay, how about this? 334 00:15:07,415 --> 00:15:08,645 When we were playing yoga ball soccer, right? 335 00:15:08,645 --> 00:15:12,965 Caleb kept using his hands, um, and you guys were like, Caleb's using 336 00:15:12,965 --> 00:15:16,085 his hands like, oh, stop, make Caleb stop using his hands, right? 337 00:15:17,375 --> 00:15:19,445 So Caleb kept using his hands during soccer and I said, okay, 338 00:15:19,445 --> 00:15:23,885 if he does it again, I'll throw him outta the game, right? 339 00:15:24,545 --> 00:15:26,975 But that didn't change the fact that I didn't do anything about the 340 00:15:26,975 --> 00:15:28,305 fact that he'd already use his hand. 341 00:15:28,805 --> 00:15:29,315 Right. 342 00:15:29,465 --> 00:15:32,615 Like imagine if Caleb had like blocked the goal with his hands and I said, well, if 343 00:15:32,615 --> 00:15:34,595 he does it again, I'll get him in trouble. 344 00:15:35,375 --> 00:15:35,735 Right. 345 00:15:36,695 --> 00:15:38,945 That I still didn't give you your goal back. 346 00:15:39,395 --> 00:15:39,875 Right. 347 00:15:40,565 --> 00:15:43,025 I didn't credit you with the goal, so, so what about that? 348 00:15:43,055 --> 00:15:43,565 Well, great. 349 00:15:43,565 --> 00:15:44,855 You're gonna take care of it in the future. 350 00:15:44,855 --> 00:15:45,605 What about now? 351 00:15:46,265 --> 00:15:49,265 Well, we can also trust God to do something about the sins 352 00:15:49,265 --> 00:15:50,525 that have already happened. 353 00:15:51,380 --> 00:15:54,950 You don't just have to trust God with the sins that are against you and 354 00:15:54,950 --> 00:15:58,100 say, well, okay, eventually there's not gonna be any more of them. 355 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,210 You can trust God with the sins that have already happened that he can't do 356 00:16:02,210 --> 00:16:06,199 anything about, and that's 'cause one day God is going to judge every single sin. 357 00:16:07,070 --> 00:16:08,570 God is gonna judge every single sin. 358 00:16:08,570 --> 00:16:11,900 So our second point count on God to judge evil. 359 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:19,939 God's not just gonna get rid of evil, he's going to right every wrong. 360 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:24,800 He's a good judge, right? 361 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,120 He's perfectly just 362 00:16:30,260 --> 00:16:34,189 so every single sin that's ever been committed, God's 363 00:16:34,189 --> 00:16:35,120 gonna do something about it. 364 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,760 He's not just gonna get rid of the future sins. 365 00:16:37,970 --> 00:16:40,910 He's gonna do something about all of the past sins. 366 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,960 Now, there's two ways God does this. 367 00:16:49,340 --> 00:16:52,910 Uh, I think we know one way that probably comes to mind first, right? 368 00:16:53,150 --> 00:17:01,190 Is God punishes every single sin for the people who don't trust Jesus, right? 369 00:17:01,190 --> 00:17:07,339 He punishes their sin in hell forever, right in hell is eternal conscious. 370 00:17:07,345 --> 00:17:08,045 You're aware of it. 371 00:17:08,795 --> 00:17:09,285 Torment. 372 00:17:09,315 --> 00:17:13,055 It's really bad every if, if you're not. 373 00:17:14,390 --> 00:17:14,569 Right. 374 00:17:14,569 --> 00:17:17,810 If you, if you don't trust Jesus to pay for your sin, you are going 375 00:17:17,810 --> 00:17:22,069 to be held responsible for every single sin you've ever committed. 376 00:17:23,420 --> 00:17:30,890 Every single one, every selfish thought, every lie, every gossiping, 377 00:17:30,890 --> 00:17:35,270 comment, every time you've love something more than God, everything 378 00:17:35,270 --> 00:17:38,600 you've looked at, everything you've thought, everything you've said, God 379 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,050 is gonna hold you responsible for that. 380 00:17:41,870 --> 00:17:45,889 You are gonna stand before God and give an answer for every single sin, 381 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:49,010 all the things you've felt, all the things you thought, all the things 382 00:17:49,010 --> 00:17:50,180 you've said, all the things you've done. 383 00:17:51,950 --> 00:17:55,910 And you can, unfortunately, for you count on God to do that, right? 384 00:17:55,910 --> 00:17:57,649 God's not gonna miss some of your sins. 385 00:17:58,580 --> 00:18:00,680 Or you might think you can get away with your sins. 386 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,410 You might think, well, my parents don't know about it, or 387 00:18:03,410 --> 00:18:04,550 My leaders don't know about it. 388 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,760 God will God. 389 00:18:08,269 --> 00:18:10,519 We'll find out about everything He actually already knows about 390 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:11,570 every single one of your sins, 391 00:18:13,969 --> 00:18:18,529 and so one day he will expose your sin and judge you for it. 392 00:18:19,789 --> 00:18:22,969 God is perfectly just, he's not gonna miss any of it. 393 00:18:23,809 --> 00:18:25,219 He's not gonna minimize some of it. 394 00:18:25,219 --> 00:18:28,639 He's not gonna give you 50% off on your punishment. 395 00:18:30,590 --> 00:18:32,120 That's one way God deals with sin. 396 00:18:32,779 --> 00:18:33,739 But what about a Christian? 397 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:36,320 What about a Christian sin? 398 00:18:36,379 --> 00:18:37,190 What does God do with that? 399 00:18:37,190 --> 00:18:38,899 He forgives it, but does he just say whatever? 400 00:18:39,740 --> 00:18:40,399 No big deal. 401 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,430 We talked about this, right in Romans chapter three. 402 00:18:43,430 --> 00:18:45,230 What does God do with a Christian sin? 403 00:18:46,190 --> 00:18:53,480 He punishes Jesus for it, so God still judges my sin, right? 404 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,909 All the times I've sinned against people, right? 405 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,110 Millions of times. 406 00:18:58,220 --> 00:18:59,720 God still did something about it. 407 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,190 He punished Jesus for it. 408 00:19:02,344 --> 00:19:03,935 God did something about every single sin, 409 00:19:06,634 --> 00:19:15,215 and so you can count on God to judge your sin, whether it's in hell or on the cross. 410 00:19:15,395 --> 00:19:20,405 God will do something about all of your sin, and the best part is if 411 00:19:20,405 --> 00:19:26,374 you're connected to Jesus, if you trust Jesus, you, you get all of your sin 412 00:19:26,374 --> 00:19:27,530 paid for by Jesus, not just some of it. 413 00:19:28,355 --> 00:19:29,615 You don't have to make up for some of it. 414 00:19:29,615 --> 00:19:33,095 You don't have to to try really hard and do better, and then God will do it. 415 00:19:33,485 --> 00:19:34,475 He takes all of it away. 416 00:19:34,505 --> 00:19:37,655 He judges all of it on Jesus. 417 00:19:37,655 --> 00:19:40,745 He puts all of it on him, and that's amazing. 418 00:19:41,015 --> 00:19:41,435 Right? 419 00:19:43,505 --> 00:19:49,385 So what I wanna ask you to ask yourself is, what will God do about my sin? 420 00:19:50,885 --> 00:19:52,145 What will God do about my sin? 421 00:19:53,675 --> 00:19:56,315 Is he gonna put it on me, or is he gonna put it on Jesus? 422 00:19:58,324 --> 00:20:00,934 Am I gonna be held responsible for every single one of my 423 00:20:00,934 --> 00:20:04,445 sins because God will do it? 424 00:20:06,934 --> 00:20:10,985 Or am I gonna trust Jesus and say, Jesus, I need you to pay for my sin. 425 00:20:13,414 --> 00:20:14,854 Your way is better than my way. 426 00:20:14,854 --> 00:20:15,664 I wanna follow you. 427 00:20:15,664 --> 00:20:16,445 I wanna live for you. 428 00:20:16,594 --> 00:20:21,184 You're better than the world, and so I need you to take away my sin. 429 00:20:21,184 --> 00:20:21,844 I can't do it. 430 00:20:21,844 --> 00:20:22,745 I can't avoid it. 431 00:20:22,955 --> 00:20:24,904 I can't distract myself from it anymore. 432 00:20:25,774 --> 00:20:25,919 I can't. 433 00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:29,270 Just be a good church kid and, and make up for it. 434 00:20:30,020 --> 00:20:33,200 I need you, Jesus, to take away my sin. 435 00:20:34,310 --> 00:20:37,250 So what is God going to do about your evil? 436 00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:41,600 Is he gonna put it on you or is he gonna put it on Jesus? 437 00:20:43,970 --> 00:20:50,120 But this also helps because you can trust God to punish the sins 438 00:20:50,149 --> 00:20:51,350 of people who sin against you. 439 00:20:52,565 --> 00:20:54,409 You, you don't have to say, well, God, where are you? 440 00:20:54,409 --> 00:20:54,865 Whatcha are you gonna do about it? 441 00:20:55,775 --> 00:20:56,105 Right. 442 00:20:56,465 --> 00:21:00,695 Um, two Corinthians five 10 says, we must all appear before the judgment 443 00:21:00,695 --> 00:21:04,085 seed of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has 444 00:21:04,085 --> 00:21:05,615 done in the body, whether good or evil. 445 00:21:05,615 --> 00:21:09,605 For some of you, this verse is really scary and it's for some of you, 446 00:21:11,045 --> 00:21:16,025 this verse makes you say, I am so grateful that Jesus pays for my sin. 447 00:21:16,055 --> 00:21:16,325 Right? 448 00:21:17,285 --> 00:21:19,115 We all appear before the judgment seed of Christ. 449 00:21:20,135 --> 00:21:23,225 So this is true about you, but it's also true about other people, right? 450 00:21:23,225 --> 00:21:23,945 You can say, well, okay. 451 00:21:24,650 --> 00:21:25,850 That person sinned against me. 452 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,030 I'm gonna trust that God is gonna do something about their sin, 453 00:21:29,540 --> 00:21:33,140 and what that does is it frees you up right to forgive them. 454 00:21:33,230 --> 00:21:35,240 You don't have to worry about getting back at them for their sin. 455 00:21:36,410 --> 00:21:38,570 That's what God, uh, that's what God says in Romans 12. 456 00:21:38,870 --> 00:21:42,290 Paul says, beloved, never avenge selves, right? 457 00:21:42,290 --> 00:21:43,490 Don't get revenge for yourself. 458 00:21:43,490 --> 00:21:44,300 Someone sins against you. 459 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,290 Don't get revenge for yourself, but leave it to the wrath of God for it is written. 460 00:21:48,470 --> 00:21:49,730 Vengeance is mine. 461 00:21:49,730 --> 00:21:51,290 I will repay, says the Lord. 462 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,820 So you can say, I don't have to get back at that person for 463 00:21:55,820 --> 00:21:58,520 sitting against me because I know God's gonna do something about it. 464 00:21:59,030 --> 00:22:01,669 And that frees you up to forgive people, right? 465 00:22:01,669 --> 00:22:03,500 Someone hurts you, someone hurts someone you care about. 466 00:22:05,210 --> 00:22:06,230 You don't have to get back at them. 467 00:22:06,230 --> 00:22:08,840 You don't have to retaliate with your words or with your actions. 468 00:22:09,004 --> 00:22:12,200 You don't have to retaliate with your thoughts, right? 469 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,810 Sometimes we say, well, I'm not gonna get back at them, but I'm just really 470 00:22:14,810 --> 00:22:16,159 gonna be bitter about it the whole time. 471 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:17,690 Right. 472 00:22:17,690 --> 00:22:18,710 That's still getting back at them. 473 00:22:18,710 --> 00:22:20,270 You're just not actively doing it. 474 00:22:20,270 --> 00:22:21,770 You're doing it inside, not outside. 475 00:22:22,850 --> 00:22:27,020 You can trust that God's gonna do something about it and hopefully that 476 00:22:27,020 --> 00:22:28,640 makes it easier for you to forgive them. 477 00:22:28,790 --> 00:22:31,160 You can say, you know what, God, you're gonna deal with it. 478 00:22:31,250 --> 00:22:32,900 I don't have to do it right. 479 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:33,950 You're God, I'm not. 480 00:22:34,010 --> 00:22:35,060 I'll let you be the judge. 481 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:40,640 When I played soccer, um, which hopefully you saw that I was at 482 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,620 least a little bit athletic, um. 483 00:22:43,879 --> 00:22:47,840 Uh, besides all my marching band stories, um, when I played soccer, 484 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:53,719 it was always better when I knew the ref was gonna call fouls, right? 485 00:22:53,989 --> 00:22:56,780 I think we've, we've all played some kind of sport or done some kind of game where 486 00:22:56,780 --> 00:22:59,780 you're like, oh, I don't trust this ref to actually make good calls, or I don't 487 00:22:59,780 --> 00:23:03,229 trust this umpire to, to call the strike zone the way it's supposed to be, right? 488 00:23:03,889 --> 00:23:09,649 Um, when I knew the ref was gonna call fouls, that freed me up right? 489 00:23:09,649 --> 00:23:10,519 To, to just play. 490 00:23:11,105 --> 00:23:14,045 I can play and I know if I get tripped, he's gonna call it. 491 00:23:14,645 --> 00:23:18,635 I don't have to worry about, well, they'll kick me and I have to figure out how 492 00:23:18,635 --> 00:23:23,255 to deal with it because I, I gotta stay up because the ref's not gonna call it. 493 00:23:24,005 --> 00:23:24,275 Right. 494 00:23:24,275 --> 00:23:27,185 When, when you're worried about, okay, well I gotta, you know, I have 495 00:23:27,185 --> 00:23:30,995 to dribble even further around this guy because if he trips me, the ref's 496 00:23:30,995 --> 00:23:32,735 not gonna call it, and what do I do? 497 00:23:32,765 --> 00:23:33,155 Right? 498 00:23:35,675 --> 00:23:37,925 You have a referee who's gonna call every foul. 499 00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:41,900 You have an umpire who's gonna call every strike the way it's supposed to be called. 500 00:23:42,830 --> 00:23:43,490 That was for you guys. 501 00:23:43,970 --> 00:23:49,070 Um, you, you have a referee who's gonna call the game fairly. 502 00:23:50,060 --> 00:23:51,620 And so, you know, you know what? 503 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:57,500 I can let him be the ref and I can just focus on my play, right? 504 00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:58,400 I can just focus on me. 505 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,270 I don't have to worry about anything else. 506 00:23:59,420 --> 00:24:03,620 I can just focus on loving people and forgiving people, and on following Jesus. 507 00:24:04,489 --> 00:24:05,810 Because it's okay, right? 508 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,219 'cause sometimes this happens too, right? 509 00:24:07,219 --> 00:24:10,909 You say, I'm being so faithful and they're not. 510 00:24:10,909 --> 00:24:12,379 But their life is so much better. 511 00:24:12,739 --> 00:24:16,820 You ever feel that, man, I'm a Christian and I'm trying to follow God. 512 00:24:16,820 --> 00:24:17,779 I'm trying to be pure. 513 00:24:17,779 --> 00:24:20,419 I'm trying to, um, obey what he says. 514 00:24:20,419 --> 00:24:22,219 I'm trying to live his way and trust him. 515 00:24:22,489 --> 00:24:28,070 And you're a classmate who is a total hypocrite and parties and does all 516 00:24:28,070 --> 00:24:30,949 these bad things and plays all these bad games, and watches all these bad videos. 517 00:24:31,070 --> 00:24:32,269 Their life seems way better. 518 00:24:32,269 --> 00:24:33,409 They seem way happier. 519 00:24:35,075 --> 00:24:35,555 Well, guess what? 520 00:24:35,555 --> 00:24:36,455 You can trust God. 521 00:24:36,455 --> 00:24:36,784 You know what? 522 00:24:36,784 --> 00:24:38,225 God's gonna punish him for all of his sin. 523 00:24:38,284 --> 00:24:38,975 You know what he's doing? 524 00:24:39,125 --> 00:24:40,835 He is digging his own grave. 525 00:24:42,544 --> 00:24:47,345 And I, I don't have to worry about, well, I, I have to figure out how to 526 00:24:47,345 --> 00:24:51,095 make myself happy and, and compete with this, with this other person, right? 527 00:24:51,095 --> 00:24:51,754 You can say, you know what? 528 00:24:51,754 --> 00:24:52,534 I trust God. 529 00:24:52,715 --> 00:24:53,825 God's gonna deal with him. 530 00:24:54,245 --> 00:24:57,004 I can trust and follow Jesus and obey him. 531 00:24:57,215 --> 00:24:57,395 Right? 532 00:24:57,395 --> 00:24:58,175 It frees you up. 533 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,180 So when you see wrong in the world, right? 534 00:25:05,180 --> 00:25:07,730 What since, oh, that person's getting away with that sin, I can't believe 535 00:25:07,730 --> 00:25:11,600 that no one knows that they're just doing all that bad stuff, or I can't 536 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,240 believe that they sin against me and, and nothing happened, right? 537 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,590 Or maybe it's, oh, I can't believe that no one notices all of the 538 00:25:18,590 --> 00:25:19,430 good things that I'm doing. 539 00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:22,730 I'm trusting Jesus and my parents don't see it, and my leader doesn't 540 00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:26,090 see it, and I'm serving God and nothing good is happening from it. 541 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:34,100 God is just right both to punish sin and also to reward righteousness, right? 542 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,460 We saw that each one will receive what is due for what he has done 543 00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:39,139 in the body, whether good or evil. 544 00:25:40,610 --> 00:25:46,159 So all the good things that you do as a Christian, God will reward you for those. 545 00:25:47,810 --> 00:25:50,629 So if no one ever sees it, no one ever sees you being patient with 546 00:25:50,629 --> 00:25:51,860 your sibling and forgiving them. 547 00:25:52,129 --> 00:25:54,590 No one ever sees you praying for your parents. 548 00:25:54,769 --> 00:25:57,229 No one ever sees you share the gospel with your classmate. 549 00:25:57,529 --> 00:25:58,699 You can trust, you know what? 550 00:25:59,540 --> 00:26:01,729 God sees it and he will reward me. 551 00:26:02,629 --> 00:26:06,679 And what he's gonna give you is way better than what anyone else could give you. 552 00:26:08,090 --> 00:26:13,009 So I want you to go to God with your desire for justice, right? 553 00:26:13,009 --> 00:26:15,259 When you see something wrong in the world. 554 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,899 Your job is to say, God, I want you to do something about this, and I trust 555 00:26:20,899 --> 00:26:23,840 that you're going to, that's your job. 556 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,970 Your job is not necessarily to go fix it. 557 00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:30,980 Your job is not necessarily to, to get upset about it and, and 558 00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:32,450 say, oh, how is this happening? 559 00:26:32,450 --> 00:26:35,210 And get all worked up and, and harbor resentment, right? 560 00:26:35,210 --> 00:26:36,230 That's not what you're supposed to do. 561 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,090 You're just say, God, you're gonna fix it. 562 00:26:38,090 --> 00:26:39,649 I can count on you to judge evil. 563 00:26:40,490 --> 00:26:42,409 It's gonna happen one day. 564 00:26:44,014 --> 00:26:46,264 God's gonna do it the exact way he wants to. 565 00:26:46,475 --> 00:26:50,044 You know when when you die and go to Heaven or hell, right? 566 00:26:50,435 --> 00:26:52,925 You're not gonna be like, oh man, you know what? 567 00:26:52,925 --> 00:26:54,034 God should have done something differently. 568 00:26:54,905 --> 00:26:56,945 You're never gonna think that you're gonna be like, oh, that was a bad call. 569 00:26:57,034 --> 00:26:57,455 Bad call. 570 00:26:57,455 --> 00:26:58,594 Ref shouldn't have done that. 571 00:26:58,715 --> 00:26:59,794 You're never gonna say that about God. 572 00:27:01,054 --> 00:27:02,375 We're gonna say, that was perfect. 573 00:27:02,524 --> 00:27:03,635 That was a perfect decision. 574 00:27:05,074 --> 00:27:06,665 That's exactly what you should have done. 575 00:27:06,665 --> 00:27:08,389 Isn't, that's such a good thing. 576 00:27:09,665 --> 00:27:11,915 So when you see problems, right? 577 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:15,364 When you see injustice or unfairness or something wrong with the world, right? 578 00:27:15,364 --> 00:27:17,945 You can say, God, you're gonna fix it. 579 00:27:17,975 --> 00:27:18,965 You're gonna do something about it. 580 00:27:19,415 --> 00:27:20,824 You're not just gonna stop it. 581 00:27:21,334 --> 00:27:23,584 You're going to judge it. 582 00:27:24,425 --> 00:27:28,655 You're going to give people what they deserve, or maybe he'll give you what 583 00:27:28,655 --> 00:27:32,824 you don't deserve because you trust Jesus and he gives you grace, right? 584 00:27:33,274 --> 00:27:34,655 What we don't deserve. 585 00:27:37,570 --> 00:27:38,659 And that helps, right? 586 00:27:38,659 --> 00:27:42,469 That helps us see, okay, um, maybe there's bad things that happen, 587 00:27:42,469 --> 00:27:43,789 but we know God's in control of it. 588 00:27:43,789 --> 00:27:47,330 We know God uses it for good, and we know that God's gonna do something 589 00:27:47,330 --> 00:27:50,570 about it, and that helps us deal with the problem of evil, right? 590 00:27:50,570 --> 00:27:52,399 If God is good, why do all these bad things happen? 591 00:27:53,645 --> 00:27:55,955 But it doesn't always work like that on paper. 592 00:27:56,075 --> 00:27:56,465 Right on. 593 00:27:56,885 --> 00:27:57,155 Sorry. 594 00:27:57,155 --> 00:27:58,235 It does, that's how it is on paper. 595 00:27:58,235 --> 00:27:59,375 It doesn't always work like that in real life. 596 00:27:59,375 --> 00:27:59,525 Right. 597 00:27:59,525 --> 00:28:00,395 You have this great plan. 598 00:28:00,425 --> 00:28:00,665 Okay. 599 00:28:00,875 --> 00:28:03,905 Well, I, I can trust that that God's gonna work it for good. 600 00:28:04,025 --> 00:28:07,685 And I know that he, he's everything's in control and I know he's gonna 601 00:28:07,685 --> 00:28:10,115 do something about it and you know, all these things, right? 602 00:28:10,415 --> 00:28:12,605 But how do you take it from, oh, I know these things. 603 00:28:12,605 --> 00:28:16,295 I learned them at retreat to, well, actually now I'm trusting Jesus. 604 00:28:16,295 --> 00:28:18,245 I feel peace about this. 605 00:28:18,575 --> 00:28:21,335 I'm not bitter, I'm not resentful, I'm not. 606 00:28:21,754 --> 00:28:23,585 Doubting God's goodness anymore. 607 00:28:23,705 --> 00:28:24,635 How do you do that? 608 00:28:26,105 --> 00:28:27,485 Well, you do that with God. 609 00:28:28,475 --> 00:28:30,215 You don't do that apart from God, right? 610 00:28:30,215 --> 00:28:32,945 You don't work through all of your stuff on your own and then say, all 611 00:28:32,945 --> 00:28:34,625 right, God, now I figured it out. 612 00:28:35,105 --> 00:28:35,645 Here I am. 613 00:28:36,815 --> 00:28:39,545 What you do is you say, God, I need your help, right? 614 00:28:39,545 --> 00:28:40,445 I want to trust you. 615 00:28:40,445 --> 00:28:41,885 I wanna trust that you're working all things for good. 616 00:28:42,065 --> 00:28:46,655 I wanna trust that, that you're gonna do something about this bad situation 617 00:28:46,655 --> 00:28:48,090 that's going on that no one knows about. 618 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,439 You go to him and you say, God, please do something. 619 00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:52,999 Please help me trust you. 620 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:59,090 And so our third point is, go to God with your confusion and concerns. 621 00:29:00,830 --> 00:29:03,800 Go to God with your confusion and your, when something happens, you're 622 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:04,999 like, how could God let this happen? 623 00:29:06,979 --> 00:29:09,139 Your first thing to do should be talk to God about it. 624 00:29:10,340 --> 00:29:14,264 Say, God, I really don't know how this works, but I want to trust you. 625 00:29:15,785 --> 00:29:18,185 When something's really bothering you, man, that person keeps getting 626 00:29:18,185 --> 00:29:19,895 away with it and no one's noticing. 627 00:29:22,145 --> 00:29:24,695 You go to God, you say, God, you're a good judge. 628 00:29:24,875 --> 00:29:25,895 You see this. 629 00:29:26,135 --> 00:29:27,335 Please do something. 630 00:29:27,725 --> 00:29:31,115 And I trust that you will, that you do it with God. 631 00:29:32,225 --> 00:29:34,175 God's not scared of your questions. 632 00:29:35,165 --> 00:29:37,355 God's not like, oh shoot, someone's gonna ask me a question 633 00:29:37,355 --> 00:29:38,435 and I'm gonna be stumped. 634 00:29:39,755 --> 00:29:39,965 Right. 635 00:29:39,965 --> 00:29:42,455 He's not like, oh man, they're gonna pray about something. 636 00:29:42,455 --> 00:29:44,705 And I'm like, Ooh, I don't know if I could do that. 637 00:29:44,705 --> 00:29:45,095 Right? 638 00:29:45,605 --> 00:29:49,325 God's not scared of your questions. 639 00:29:52,205 --> 00:29:59,975 Part of it too, right, is God endures evil, actually more than you and I did. 640 00:30:02,135 --> 00:30:05,255 God went through injustice. 641 00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:06,245 God went through. 642 00:30:06,739 --> 00:30:07,729 People sitting against him. 643 00:30:07,790 --> 00:30:11,179 God went through unfairness and people getting treated better or 644 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,469 worse than they should have been. 645 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,610 He lived a human life, right? 646 00:30:16,610 --> 00:30:20,840 Jesus, the book of Hebrews says, um, talks about him being our high priest. 647 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,729 That means he's like our representative, right? 648 00:30:22,729 --> 00:30:26,090 You think about what we read in our, our daily bow reading, the past few 649 00:30:26,090 --> 00:30:29,945 months of the high priest is the guy who goes into the tabernacle, right? 650 00:30:29,949 --> 00:30:30,949 He stands before God. 651 00:30:30,949 --> 00:30:32,479 He represents the people before God. 652 00:30:33,919 --> 00:30:35,330 He says, our high priest, he's not. 653 00:30:35,749 --> 00:30:38,629 We don't have one who can't sympathize with our weakness. 654 00:30:38,629 --> 00:30:39,080 Sympathize. 655 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:39,679 That means, right. 656 00:30:39,860 --> 00:30:41,479 He can't say, oh man, I feel that too. 657 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:42,860 Right. 658 00:30:42,860 --> 00:30:47,179 We, that's one of the reasons that we love that you guys get to talk to your 659 00:30:47,179 --> 00:30:51,439 leaders about stuff is because they can say, yeah, I've been there too. 660 00:30:51,649 --> 00:30:54,889 That's why we had give you multiple leaders too, because chances are at least 661 00:30:54,889 --> 00:30:56,870 one of them can say, I, I have felt that. 662 00:30:56,870 --> 00:30:57,530 I've been there. 663 00:30:57,530 --> 00:30:58,100 I've done that. 664 00:30:58,129 --> 00:30:58,429 Right. 665 00:30:59,749 --> 00:31:02,120 Jesus can sympathize with. 666 00:31:02,435 --> 00:31:03,305 Your weaknesses, right? 667 00:31:03,305 --> 00:31:05,135 With, oh, I, I'm tired. 668 00:31:05,135 --> 00:31:06,305 I don't feel like reading my Bible. 669 00:31:06,335 --> 00:31:08,645 Jesus was tired and didn't wanna obey God too. 670 00:31:09,455 --> 00:31:11,465 Or you're like, oh, it's hard for me to focus during prayer. 671 00:31:11,675 --> 00:31:13,175 Jesus had to focus during prayer. 672 00:31:13,175 --> 00:31:15,125 He, he was tired, sleepy, distracted. 673 00:31:15,125 --> 00:31:18,784 He had to, he had to lock in right and focus with, with the weaknesses. 674 00:31:18,784 --> 00:31:24,425 Jesus was hungry and had to serve people so he can sympathize with our weaknesses. 675 00:31:24,815 --> 00:31:25,295 Um. 676 00:31:25,969 --> 00:31:27,020 In every respect, right? 677 00:31:27,020 --> 00:31:29,959 Jesus has been tempted as we are, Jesus faced all the same 678 00:31:29,959 --> 00:31:31,070 temptations that you and I do. 679 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,879 Temptations to lust, temptations, to disobey his parents temptations 680 00:31:34,879 --> 00:31:39,229 to be bitter or resentful or, or temptations to be anxious. 681 00:31:39,379 --> 00:31:41,120 Jesus faced all of those temptations. 682 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,090 You're not, when you're praying to God, you're not talking to someone 683 00:31:44,090 --> 00:31:50,120 who has no idea what it's like to be tempted, to be scared or be 684 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,639 tempted to be angry or prideful. 685 00:31:53,870 --> 00:31:54,919 You're talking to someone. 686 00:31:55,340 --> 00:32:00,260 Who faced all those same temptations and succeeded right yet without sin. 687 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,240 And verse 16, that should give you confidence to draw near to God, 688 00:32:05,420 --> 00:32:08,030 to bring your weakness, right? 689 00:32:08,030 --> 00:32:14,270 Bring your, your asking for help to God that you may receive mercy and 690 00:32:14,270 --> 00:32:18,710 find grace to help in time of me right. 691 00:32:18,710 --> 00:32:20,870 God is ready and willing to help. 692 00:32:22,205 --> 00:32:24,935 He wants you to come to him with your questions, your concerns, 693 00:32:25,595 --> 00:32:27,965 and and what's on your mind. 694 00:32:27,965 --> 00:32:28,355 Right? 695 00:32:29,435 --> 00:32:32,165 Part of prayer isn't just asking, God, please give me this. 696 00:32:32,195 --> 00:32:36,035 Like, you're not just taking your shopping list to the prayer store and saying, all 697 00:32:36,035 --> 00:32:37,775 right, God, here's what I need today. 698 00:32:38,675 --> 00:32:40,895 Part of it is you process your emotions with God. 699 00:32:41,855 --> 00:32:46,535 It's why Psalms is such a big book, 'cause it gives you so many different templates 700 00:32:46,535 --> 00:32:49,504 for how to process your emotions with God. 701 00:32:51,110 --> 00:32:56,780 But what's so cool about this, right, is that Jesus knows what it's like 702 00:32:56,780 --> 00:33:01,190 to live in a world that's messed up and you can talk to him about it. 703 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,550 Jesus knows what it's like to have siblings who sin against him. 704 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,760 Jesus knows what it's like to have imperfect parents. 705 00:33:08,659 --> 00:33:13,340 Jesus knows what it's like to have friends let him down, right? 706 00:33:13,340 --> 00:33:16,249 He had a friend who said, I love money more than I love you. 707 00:33:19,250 --> 00:33:21,110 Jesus knows what all this is like. 708 00:33:21,110 --> 00:33:24,170 He had a friend who say, I don't even know that guy, and bailed on him. 709 00:33:25,430 --> 00:33:28,970 Jesus knows what it's like to have to forgive a friend who really offended him. 710 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,620 Jesus knows all of these things and you can talk to him about it. 711 00:33:34,250 --> 00:33:35,990 And also, Jesus endured evil, right? 712 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,000 Jesus endured more evil than you and I ever will. 713 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:42,470 The greatest evil in the history of the world was directed at Jesus. 714 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,880 So he knows what it's like to live in a messed up world, and you can 715 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,080 talk to him about it, like God wants your questions and your doubts. 716 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,780 There's a really cool book in the Bible. 717 00:33:53,780 --> 00:33:57,740 It's the book of Habakkuk and it's a short book, minor prophet. 718 00:33:58,190 --> 00:34:01,790 Um, one day maybe he'll make it to the major prophet league, 719 00:34:02,420 --> 00:34:07,340 but um, right now he's in the miners top prospect, as they say. 720 00:34:08,090 --> 00:34:11,239 Um, yeah, you're welcome. 721 00:34:11,690 --> 00:34:12,139 Um. 722 00:34:13,445 --> 00:34:16,955 Anyway, that was for like five people just to see if you're awake. 723 00:34:17,315 --> 00:34:21,905 Um, but there's this cool book called Habakkuk, and what's happening in the 724 00:34:21,905 --> 00:34:28,505 look of Habakkuk is there's this army from Babylon that's invading Israel. 725 00:34:29,225 --> 00:34:33,034 And God is like, yep, I'm gonna send these Babylonians to invade Israel. 726 00:34:33,514 --> 00:34:35,735 And the Babylonians are like the worst people out there. 727 00:34:36,245 --> 00:34:36,605 They're like. 728 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:38,570 Evil people. 729 00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:40,429 They're, they don't even worship God. 730 00:34:40,429 --> 00:34:41,570 They don't care about God. 731 00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:44,060 They, they do horrible things to the people. 732 00:34:44,060 --> 00:34:48,110 They invade, they enslave them, and they send them all over the place and 733 00:34:48,409 --> 00:34:50,420 kind of destroy their, their culture. 734 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,650 Um, and Habakkuk is like, God, how can you let this happen? 735 00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:56,090 Right? 736 00:34:56,090 --> 00:34:57,680 You think about all the bad things that happen in your life. 737 00:34:58,730 --> 00:34:59,180 There's. 738 00:35:00,350 --> 00:35:01,220 Probably right? 739 00:35:01,220 --> 00:35:05,930 Not an invading army coming in to destroy you and your family, Makki. 740 00:35:05,930 --> 00:35:07,610 He's saying, God, how can you let this happen? 741 00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:08,360 Why? 742 00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:10,460 How can you who are a he? 743 00:35:10,610 --> 00:35:12,740 He says, God, I know you're a good God. 744 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:13,460 I know you. 745 00:35:13,460 --> 00:35:14,420 You hate sin. 746 00:35:14,420 --> 00:35:17,210 How can you let these sinful, awful people do all this? 747 00:35:18,230 --> 00:35:22,760 And he talks to God about it, and then God responds to him, which is 748 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,020 kind of crazy when you think about it. 749 00:35:24,050 --> 00:35:25,370 God doesn't have to respond to you. 750 00:35:25,670 --> 00:35:27,050 God doesn't have to answer your questions. 751 00:35:27,665 --> 00:35:28,655 He's God, right? 752 00:35:28,655 --> 00:35:29,435 You're just you. 753 00:35:30,125 --> 00:35:30,785 I'm just me. 754 00:35:30,785 --> 00:35:33,995 God doesn't have to say, oh yeah, I'm gonna answer Lewis 'cause who am I? 755 00:35:34,205 --> 00:35:34,415 Right? 756 00:35:34,415 --> 00:35:36,605 I'm just a random person that God made outta dirt. 757 00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:42,245 So God answers Habakkuk, and then Habakkuk is still kind of confused, so he talks to 758 00:35:42,245 --> 00:35:47,405 God more and he, he brings him some more questions and then God answers again. 759 00:35:47,615 --> 00:35:49,565 And then at the end, Habakkuk says, you know what? 760 00:35:49,595 --> 00:35:54,015 Even if all of these bad things happen, I can still trust God. 761 00:35:55,340 --> 00:35:58,610 I can still trust that what you're doing is good, right? 762 00:35:58,610 --> 00:36:06,260 What you're doing is, is from a, your heart of love and of goodness, and you're 763 00:36:06,260 --> 00:36:09,140 still a good judge and you still hate sin, and I can believe all these things. 764 00:36:09,140 --> 00:36:15,410 You're gonna use it for good, but the point, right, isn't just the 765 00:36:15,410 --> 00:36:18,470 conclusion, okay, I trust God. 766 00:36:19,190 --> 00:36:19,400 Right? 767 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,120 I don't want you to just put my, I trust God bandaid over it, right? 768 00:36:23,915 --> 00:36:24,785 Because sometimes that's what we do. 769 00:36:24,785 --> 00:36:27,065 We say all these bad happen, but oh, God's working everything for good. 770 00:36:28,475 --> 00:36:30,755 It's like, okay, well what, where's the process there? 771 00:36:31,925 --> 00:36:33,634 Do you go to God with your doubts? 772 00:36:33,634 --> 00:36:36,845 Do you go to God with your confusion and your, your questions? 773 00:36:36,845 --> 00:36:40,685 You spend time in prayer talking to him and working it out? 774 00:36:42,485 --> 00:36:44,615 Or do you just say, oh yeah, trust God, it'll be better. 775 00:36:45,575 --> 00:36:45,725 Right. 776 00:36:45,725 --> 00:36:48,365 Don't, don't put your trust God bandaid over it, right. 777 00:36:48,515 --> 00:36:50,375 Talk to God about it and work through it with him. 778 00:36:52,985 --> 00:36:53,165 Right. 779 00:36:53,165 --> 00:36:58,265 You're not going to give God a question that he's gonna be like, oh, 780 00:37:00,905 --> 00:37:02,165 I never thought of that. 781 00:37:02,165 --> 00:37:02,705 Sorry, dude. 782 00:37:02,705 --> 00:37:03,695 You're on your own for that one. 783 00:37:05,135 --> 00:37:05,315 Right? 784 00:37:05,315 --> 00:37:11,170 When God, um, when God gives us his word, he gives examples of what it's like. 785 00:37:12,170 --> 00:37:16,640 To talk to people or to talk to him and process that. 786 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,260 And also, God gives you other people, right? 787 00:37:18,410 --> 00:37:20,660 God gives you your parents, your leaders, right? 788 00:37:20,660 --> 00:37:21,290 That's why we're here. 789 00:37:21,290 --> 00:37:23,510 We care about you and we wanna help you, right? 790 00:37:23,510 --> 00:37:25,430 This isn't just like a, oh, you gotta have everything together, 791 00:37:25,430 --> 00:37:26,420 otherwise you're a bad Christian. 792 00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:29,630 It's like, no, the, the point is the process, the process 793 00:37:29,630 --> 00:37:31,190 of I want to go to God. 794 00:37:31,190 --> 00:37:33,830 So when you have doubts about God's goodness, right? 795 00:37:33,830 --> 00:37:36,950 When you wrestle with some, some really bad things that happen in your 796 00:37:36,950 --> 00:37:37,980 life, when the world lets you down. 797 00:37:39,605 --> 00:37:42,035 We talked about this yesterday, but don't turn away from God. 798 00:37:42,065 --> 00:37:43,295 Don't isolate yourself. 799 00:37:43,805 --> 00:37:52,025 Turn towards God and bring it to him and trust that he is good and he has 800 00:37:52,175 --> 00:37:53,105 all the things we talked about, right? 801 00:37:53,105 --> 00:37:55,654 I'm giving you bullets for your gun, right? 802 00:37:55,685 --> 00:37:56,765 We talked about this in Roman six. 803 00:37:56,765 --> 00:37:59,345 I'm giving you bullets for your gun and you believe them. 804 00:38:00,095 --> 00:38:02,915 You, you load 'em and you shoot them, and you, you right. 805 00:38:02,915 --> 00:38:03,875 Keep firing. 806 00:38:05,375 --> 00:38:06,665 Keep going to God, right? 807 00:38:06,665 --> 00:38:08,285 Don't just say, well, I tried to pray once it didn't work. 808 00:38:08,315 --> 00:38:09,065 Well, keep going. 809 00:38:09,095 --> 00:38:13,205 Maybe God wants you to, to learn what it's like to be a persistent prayer, right? 810 00:38:14,615 --> 00:38:15,785 So you'll talk about that more in small groups. 811 00:38:15,785 --> 00:38:19,715 So let's pray, um, and we'll go do that. 812 00:38:19,715 --> 00:38:20,015 All right? 813 00:38:20,525 --> 00:38:28,415 Make sure that you have your, um, clean up responsibilities ready, um, and then pack 814 00:38:28,415 --> 00:38:29,765 up your rooms and we'll be good to go. 815 00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:30,035 All right. 816 00:38:30,035 --> 00:38:30,365 Let's pray. 817 00:38:32,315 --> 00:38:33,095 God, we. 818 00:38:33,830 --> 00:38:34,640 Love you. 819 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:38,750 And we're grateful that you are bigger than our doubts. 820 00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:40,190 You're bigger than our confusion. 821 00:38:40,190 --> 00:38:42,110 You're bigger than all the problems in the world, and that you're 822 00:38:42,110 --> 00:38:42,980 gonna do something about it. 823 00:38:42,980 --> 00:38:47,510 So I pray, um, that you would help us to look forward to what you're gonna do. 824 00:38:47,540 --> 00:38:50,630 Help us to be confident that you're gonna get rid of sin, that you're going 825 00:38:50,630 --> 00:38:53,060 to, um, even get rid of the sin in us. 826 00:38:53,810 --> 00:39:00,620 And I pray, God, I I, I desperately ask you that every single person in this room. 827 00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:04,655 Would be together with you in heaven. 828 00:39:05,855 --> 00:39:12,245 I, I pray that not a single person here would, would turn away from you 829 00:39:12,695 --> 00:39:16,265 and live for themselves and fall for the lie that the world is all there is 830 00:39:16,265 --> 00:39:17,795 and it's the best thing they can have. 831 00:39:17,795 --> 00:39:22,235 I pray that the brokenness of the world would give us a greater desire 832 00:39:22,235 --> 00:39:23,795 to be with you and to know you. 833 00:39:24,455 --> 00:39:24,845 Um. 834 00:39:25,535 --> 00:39:30,875 In the meantime, God help us to process our doubts and our confusion 835 00:39:31,025 --> 00:39:32,915 with you and not apart from you. 836 00:39:33,095 --> 00:39:34,295 We pray this in Jesus name. 837 00:39:34,805 --> 00:39:35,285 Amen.