1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,870 Are you ready? 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:05,070 Simon says, stand up 3 00:00:07,170 --> 00:00:07,590 Alright. 4 00:00:07,619 --> 00:00:08,100 Alright. 5 00:00:08,220 --> 00:00:09,869 Simon says, quiet down. 6 00:00:10,050 --> 00:00:12,569 Simon says, actually, pastor Ross says, quiet down. 7 00:00:13,710 --> 00:00:14,939 I have more authority than Simon. 8 00:00:15,809 --> 00:00:19,439 Tonight we're gonna talk about says who, just like the game of Simon 9 00:00:19,439 --> 00:00:25,110 says, what you do, how you respond to a command depends on who the 10 00:00:25,110 --> 00:00:27,150 authority is that issues the command. 11 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,420 If the authority says, do this, then you should do that. 12 00:00:30,420 --> 00:00:30,600 Right? 13 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,689 Simon says, do this and you did it because of who Simon is. 14 00:00:33,870 --> 00:00:34,770 Who the heck is Simon? 15 00:00:34,770 --> 00:00:35,430 No one even knows. 16 00:00:36,344 --> 00:00:40,574 But what matters more is who says to do the things that the Bible tells us to do. 17 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:44,624 And tonight we're gonna see that what's behind the commands of scripture are 18 00:00:44,624 --> 00:00:49,424 not just some random dude who lived 2000 years ago or talking about Jesus, 19 00:00:49,424 --> 00:00:51,284 who is the son of God and son of man. 20 00:00:51,764 --> 00:00:55,664 So when we talk about the question of says who we're gonna say, Jesus is 21 00:00:55,664 --> 00:00:58,664 the one who tells us what to do in the Bible and why should we should respond. 22 00:00:59,294 --> 00:01:02,504 Furthermore, think about this in the world today, you have a lot of voices that are 23 00:01:02,504 --> 00:01:04,214 competing for you to do what they say. 24 00:01:04,230 --> 00:01:04,290 It. 25 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:06,749 People want you to wear their clothes. 26 00:01:06,749 --> 00:01:08,249 They want you to wear their cologne. 27 00:01:08,249 --> 00:01:09,929 They want you to go to their school. 28 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,420 They want you to dress like them, get their same haircut. 29 00:01:12,539 --> 00:01:13,950 People want you to think like them. 30 00:01:13,950 --> 00:01:15,240 They want you to vote like them. 31 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,240 People want to control you in a lot of different ways, and you 32 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,340 have a lot of different options, a lot of different choices, and you 33 00:01:20,340 --> 00:01:22,170 have to decide who do I listen to? 34 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,260 Who do I decide to listen to with the decisions that 35 00:01:25,260 --> 00:01:26,189 I have to make with my life? 36 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,080 You're gonna have friends that have opinions about the 37 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,129 person that you should date. 38 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,510 Oh, did you know this girl likes you? 39 00:01:30,510 --> 00:01:31,350 She thinks you're cute. 40 00:01:31,619 --> 00:01:32,640 You should ask her out. 41 00:01:33,509 --> 00:01:35,878 You should slide into her DMS and see what she says. 42 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:38,610 No. 43 00:01:38,639 --> 00:01:39,059 Okay. 44 00:01:39,929 --> 00:01:42,479 People are gonna have opinions about your parents. 45 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,100 Your parents won't let you do what? 46 00:01:44,339 --> 00:01:45,269 Oh, that's weird. 47 00:01:45,269 --> 00:01:47,729 My parents, let me do this, this, this, and this and this. 48 00:01:47,878 --> 00:01:48,839 Your parents are lame. 49 00:01:49,649 --> 00:01:50,670 You let them influence you. 50 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:52,949 Why do people have things that they want to tell you? 51 00:01:53,490 --> 00:01:53,819 They want to. 52 00:01:53,878 --> 00:01:55,259 They want you to live in certain ways. 53 00:01:55,499 --> 00:01:58,110 They want you to do certain things, and the question that you 54 00:01:58,110 --> 00:01:59,610 have to ask is, well says Who? 55 00:01:59,970 --> 00:02:00,360 Says who? 56 00:02:01,980 --> 00:02:03,270 Who says that my parents are this way? 57 00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:03,749 Who says that? 58 00:02:03,749 --> 00:02:04,350 That girl likes me? 59 00:02:04,350 --> 00:02:05,369 Who says that this or them? 60 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,770 And those are good questions, but the most important questions 61 00:02:07,770 --> 00:02:09,360 about your life are says who? 62 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,830 When it comes to how should I live? 63 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:12,750 What should I do with my life? 64 00:02:13,830 --> 00:02:14,700 Well, it depends. 65 00:02:15,180 --> 00:02:16,470 Depends on who's telling you what to do with. 66 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:21,930 It says, who wouldn't it be so great if God just opened up the clouds and said 67 00:02:21,930 --> 00:02:23,220 to you, put, you put your name in here. 68 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:25,560 And he says, here's what I want you to do, Lewis. 69 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,720 I want you to marry Shea. 70 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,460 Wouldn't that be awesome if God did that? 71 00:02:30,810 --> 00:02:31,860 Did God do that, Lewis? 72 00:02:32,130 --> 00:02:34,140 Yeah, he did do that for Lewis. 73 00:02:34,168 --> 00:02:37,079 Maybe you ought to pray that God treats you like he treat Lewis. 74 00:02:37,409 --> 00:02:41,279 Wouldn't it be great for God to say, Matt, Daniel, I want you to go 75 00:02:41,279 --> 00:02:43,620 to SMU for your college of choice. 76 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:44,579 Wouldn't that be great? 77 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,539 Wouldn't it be great when you have the desire and the ability to get married? 78 00:02:48,539 --> 00:02:49,200 God says, 79 00:02:51,930 --> 00:02:55,289 Maggie, I want you to marry. 80 00:02:59,353 --> 00:02:59,565 Okay. 81 00:03:00,584 --> 00:03:03,404 I want you to marry a guy that's not here in the room. 82 00:03:06,494 --> 00:03:08,295 Wouldn't that be so nice for a guy to do that? 83 00:03:08,295 --> 00:03:08,655 And yet. 84 00:03:09,344 --> 00:03:10,305 He doesn't do that. 85 00:03:10,575 --> 00:03:11,594 But here's what he does do. 86 00:03:11,864 --> 00:03:17,145 He does break into the sky and tell us, this is my beloved son. 87 00:03:17,145 --> 00:03:18,974 I want you to listen to him. 88 00:03:18,974 --> 00:03:21,885 That's what God does, and that's why tonight's message is so important. 89 00:03:22,005 --> 00:03:24,255 So turn with me, if you will, to Matthew Chapter 17. 90 00:03:24,464 --> 00:03:29,084 We're gonna look at what Jesus says and how God says he wants us to listen to 91 00:03:29,084 --> 00:03:30,464 him, what he wants us to do with him. 92 00:03:31,050 --> 00:03:31,320 Okay. 93 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,599 Matthew chapter 17, starting at verse one. 94 00:03:33,749 --> 00:03:34,440 Here's what we have. 95 00:03:34,469 --> 00:03:36,239 Here's a scene after six days. 96 00:03:36,239 --> 00:03:38,249 Jesus took with him, Peter, James, and John. 97 00:03:38,249 --> 00:03:39,359 Those are his three best friends. 98 00:03:39,359 --> 00:03:41,160 By the way, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 99 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:42,209 Jesus has best friends. 100 00:03:42,450 --> 00:03:46,259 He's got 12 disciples that he's close to, but these three, Peter, 101 00:03:46,259 --> 00:03:48,540 James, and John are his ride or dies. 102 00:03:48,839 --> 00:03:50,879 They are the men that he always goes to. 103 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:54,270 They're the men that are with him in his very last hours when he's praying. 104 00:03:54,540 --> 00:03:57,239 They're the ones that are as closest to him, so he calls to him as best 105 00:03:57,239 --> 00:03:58,320 friends, Peter, James, and John. 106 00:03:58,320 --> 00:03:59,609 By the way, how many best friends do you have? 107 00:03:59,609 --> 00:04:02,219 Yeah, if you have one, what a blessing. 108 00:04:02,219 --> 00:04:03,570 If you have two, super blessing. 109 00:04:03,570 --> 00:04:05,489 If you have three, then you are crushing it. 110 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:07,950 You ought pray for best friends like Jesus did. 111 00:04:07,950 --> 00:04:08,310 Jesus. 112 00:04:08,310 --> 00:04:09,149 That's the example for us. 113 00:04:09,149 --> 00:04:09,869 You oughta listen to that. 114 00:04:10,769 --> 00:04:11,609 We'll come back to that later. 115 00:04:12,329 --> 00:04:16,499 He calls them and he led them up to a high mountain by themselves. 116 00:04:16,685 --> 00:04:19,379 Oh man, that's kind of a bummer here. 117 00:04:19,409 --> 00:04:21,930 And he was, here's the word, transfigured. 118 00:04:22,409 --> 00:04:26,849 The word means to be metamorphos, to be changed in a major way. 119 00:04:26,849 --> 00:04:28,499 Jesus is transformed before them. 120 00:04:29,639 --> 00:04:33,539 And his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. 121 00:04:33,539 --> 00:04:37,259 What you're seeing here is the glory of Jesus pulled back and 122 00:04:37,259 --> 00:04:39,210 made evident to his disciples. 123 00:04:39,210 --> 00:04:42,479 They're able to see something that you and I will see at some point. 124 00:04:42,690 --> 00:04:45,359 They got to see a glimpse of it, like a trailer to the movie they're getting. 125 00:04:45,450 --> 00:04:47,609 They're getting to see something of who Jesus really is. 126 00:04:48,690 --> 00:04:50,460 Stay shown and get this. 127 00:04:50,729 --> 00:04:51,210 Verse three. 128 00:04:51,210 --> 00:04:53,099 Behold, by the way, be the word behold. 129 00:04:53,099 --> 00:04:56,070 When you see this word here, the word means to, to look. 130 00:04:56,249 --> 00:04:57,179 Pay attention to this. 131 00:04:57,389 --> 00:04:58,169 Check this out. 132 00:04:58,440 --> 00:04:59,700 So behold, look at this. 133 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:00,390 Pay attention. 134 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:02,190 Some guys show up. 135 00:05:02,460 --> 00:05:03,119 They appear. 136 00:05:03,119 --> 00:05:05,190 Moses and Elijah talking with him. 137 00:05:05,190 --> 00:05:07,320 Moses represents the law. 138 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,420 Remember Moses is behind the books. 139 00:05:09,420 --> 00:05:12,960 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, oops, Genesis, Exodus, 140 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,160 Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy. 141 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:14,430 There you go. 142 00:05:14,430 --> 00:05:14,999 There's the five books. 143 00:05:15,599 --> 00:05:17,520 And Elijah represents the prophets. 144 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,359 And so you have the law and the prophets coming to Jesus and what you have. 145 00:05:21,359 --> 00:05:22,290 And after that, then. 146 00:05:23,445 --> 00:05:25,965 Peter says, Lord, this is awesome. 147 00:05:26,025 --> 00:05:27,344 This is so good that you're here. 148 00:05:27,344 --> 00:05:29,175 I can see you're, you're in your blazing glory. 149 00:05:29,354 --> 00:05:31,935 Uh, and then we got Moses and Elijah Peter's flipping out. 150 00:05:31,935 --> 00:05:33,374 He's like, let's just build some tents. 151 00:05:33,494 --> 00:05:36,284 This is great, but it doesn't stop there. 152 00:05:37,514 --> 00:05:42,224 He was still speaking when check out verse five, A bright cloud overshadowed them. 153 00:05:42,224 --> 00:05:43,065 This is God. 154 00:05:43,275 --> 00:05:45,945 God in the Old Testament would often show up as a cloud. 155 00:05:45,945 --> 00:05:49,094 He shows up there and he says, with a voice from the cloud. 156 00:05:49,124 --> 00:05:52,244 He says, this is my beloved son. 157 00:05:53,099 --> 00:05:56,550 With him, with whom I am well pleased. 158 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:58,500 Listen to him. 159 00:05:59,310 --> 00:06:00,060 So you see him. 160 00:06:00,420 --> 00:06:02,460 Jesus is being radiated. 161 00:06:02,460 --> 00:06:04,440 There's a glory that's being shown to them. 162 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,020 Moses and Elijah, the law and the prophets show up to pay. 163 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:08,790 Uh, to pay Jesus homage. 164 00:06:09,119 --> 00:06:12,450 And then the father speaks up and says, even though Moses and Elijah are here, 165 00:06:12,450 --> 00:06:16,050 they're great and all, but Jesus is better than the law and the prophets. 166 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,979 Jesus is superior to them because he fulfills both of those things. 167 00:06:20,219 --> 00:06:22,560 The father says, this is my beloved son. 168 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,330 What does the word beloved mean? 169 00:06:24,330 --> 00:06:24,960 Think about that. 170 00:06:25,710 --> 00:06:27,749 Have your parents ever introduced you to their friends? 171 00:06:28,290 --> 00:06:30,479 This is my beloved son Jackson. 172 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,479 This is my beloved daughter, Sophia. 173 00:06:33,989 --> 00:06:35,099 Your parents ever do that. 174 00:06:36,149 --> 00:06:39,269 When you introduce me to your friends, do you say, this is my beloved youth pastor? 175 00:06:40,139 --> 00:06:40,649 Nobody? 176 00:06:40,919 --> 00:06:41,429 Not yet. 177 00:06:41,460 --> 00:06:41,669 Okay. 178 00:06:41,669 --> 00:06:48,659 Someday beloved means someone that is special, a chosen loved one, someone 179 00:06:48,659 --> 00:06:50,190 that you say, this is my person. 180 00:06:50,669 --> 00:06:55,289 They are my special, uh, chosen person that I will choose to put my 181 00:06:55,289 --> 00:06:57,119 love upon for better and for worse. 182 00:06:57,629 --> 00:07:00,060 God says about Jesus, this is my beloved son. 183 00:07:00,765 --> 00:07:01,844 Jesus is the son of God. 184 00:07:01,844 --> 00:07:03,315 He's special in God's side. 185 00:07:03,555 --> 00:07:06,465 And then he says, with Jesus, I'm well pleased. 186 00:07:07,124 --> 00:07:09,435 He's telling everybody, and this is not the first time God says, 187 00:07:09,494 --> 00:07:11,864 says this about Jesus, but he says, with Jesus, I'm well pleased. 188 00:07:12,614 --> 00:07:13,874 That is what Jesus is doing. 189 00:07:13,874 --> 00:07:16,935 I'm really excited about, and there's nothing that Jesus can do to make 190 00:07:16,935 --> 00:07:20,624 me love him more or love him less because he is perfect in my sight. 191 00:07:21,765 --> 00:07:24,374 And then he says to all of us, I want you to listen to him. 192 00:07:25,185 --> 00:07:26,175 I want you to listen to him. 193 00:07:29,010 --> 00:07:29,940 The disciples heard this. 194 00:07:29,940 --> 00:07:31,650 They fell on their faces and they were terrified. 195 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:35,490 If God were to speak out of the heavens right now, sometimes we, we think, 196 00:07:35,490 --> 00:07:37,080 oh, it'd be so cool if God showed up. 197 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,770 But in reality, if God showed up right now and spoke to us, this would 198 00:07:40,770 --> 00:07:43,650 be the same thing that you would experience your face, you'd fall on 199 00:07:43,650 --> 00:07:45,480 your face, and you would be terrified. 200 00:07:46,230 --> 00:07:49,140 Have you ever heard those stories of people that encounter angels and like, oh, 201 00:07:49,140 --> 00:07:53,040 the angel told me that I was supposed to go here, or I was taken to heaven, or I 202 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,780 was taken to hell, or something like that? 203 00:07:55,499 --> 00:07:58,019 I, I wonder about those stories because every time someone has an 204 00:07:58,019 --> 00:08:00,690 encounter with God or an angel in scripture, they're usually afraid. 205 00:08:01,349 --> 00:08:04,379 They're usually terrified, and the way that they typically respond is like this. 206 00:08:04,619 --> 00:08:07,229 They fall on their faces and they're shook. 207 00:08:07,379 --> 00:08:11,190 You would be too, if God spoke there was a cloud in this room and there's thunder and 208 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:14,160 lightning, and then God starts speaking to us through the cloud, you would be shook. 209 00:08:14,340 --> 00:08:15,149 They're shook. 210 00:08:15,780 --> 00:08:16,859 Jesus says, Hey guys, don't worry. 211 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:18,420 Rise, get up. 212 00:08:18,869 --> 00:08:19,925 You have no, no need to fear. 213 00:08:20,415 --> 00:08:21,374 Lifted up their eyes. 214 00:08:21,494 --> 00:08:22,634 There was no one but Jesus. 215 00:08:22,634 --> 00:08:24,675 And so the law and the prophets disappear. 216 00:08:24,675 --> 00:08:26,474 Moses and Elijah, Elijah are gone. 217 00:08:26,535 --> 00:08:27,374 Jesus is there. 218 00:08:28,185 --> 00:08:29,234 Remember what God says? 219 00:08:29,624 --> 00:08:30,734 He's my beloved son. 220 00:08:30,915 --> 00:08:31,874 I'm well pleased with him. 221 00:08:31,874 --> 00:08:33,224 I want you to listen to him. 222 00:08:33,224 --> 00:08:33,914 Point number one. 223 00:08:34,183 --> 00:08:37,573 You ought to carefully consider the son's words. 224 00:08:38,234 --> 00:08:38,744 Carefully. 225 00:08:38,744 --> 00:08:39,644 Consider the son's word. 226 00:08:39,674 --> 00:08:41,174 Jesus is the son of God. 227 00:08:41,384 --> 00:08:43,034 Therefore, you ought to listen to him. 228 00:08:43,304 --> 00:08:46,694 We said, Simon says, do this or that, and you guys did it, but God 229 00:08:46,694 --> 00:08:48,555 says, Jesus says this and that. 230 00:08:48,555 --> 00:08:48,704 Right? 231 00:08:48,704 --> 00:08:49,545 You ought to listen to him. 232 00:08:49,829 --> 00:08:50,040 Why? 233 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,650 Because God is endorsing Jesus as the son of God. 234 00:08:52,650 --> 00:08:53,729 He's saying, this is my son. 235 00:08:53,790 --> 00:08:55,109 He's got my authority. 236 00:08:55,109 --> 00:08:55,949 Listen to him. 237 00:08:56,010 --> 00:08:57,359 He's the one that matters. 238 00:08:57,359 --> 00:08:59,339 I want you to pay attention to what Jesus says. 239 00:09:01,709 --> 00:09:05,310 If you've gone to our church at Sunday morning, you might not have noticed this, 240 00:09:05,670 --> 00:09:10,650 but the air conditioner, when it's on, it goes, Ooh, like that, super loud. 241 00:09:11,189 --> 00:09:15,569 You can not hear it except when you go inside. 242 00:09:16,305 --> 00:09:18,645 Even though your brain might register it, what will happen 243 00:09:18,765 --> 00:09:19,875 is that you'll stop hearing it. 244 00:09:19,875 --> 00:09:22,245 In fact, do you hear what's happening right now? 245 00:09:23,115 --> 00:09:23,204 Yes. 246 00:09:23,444 --> 00:09:24,435 Do you hear it in the back? 247 00:09:25,935 --> 00:09:26,835 That humming in the back? 248 00:09:26,835 --> 00:09:29,324 I don't know what that is, but it's making a sound back there. 249 00:09:30,855 --> 00:09:33,130 When you walk into this room for the first time, what do you smell? 250 00:09:37,064 --> 00:09:38,265 Junior hires, cafeteria. 251 00:09:38,265 --> 00:09:38,895 Junior hire. 252 00:09:38,985 --> 00:09:39,345 What'd you say? 253 00:09:39,345 --> 00:09:40,814 People you smell. 254 00:09:40,814 --> 00:09:42,405 People you might smell stale. 255 00:09:42,405 --> 00:09:43,095 Chicken nuggets. 256 00:09:43,095 --> 00:09:44,564 You might smell cleaning supplies. 257 00:09:44,894 --> 00:09:46,724 But all it takes is about 15 minutes. 258 00:09:46,724 --> 00:09:47,234 And then what? 259 00:09:47,234 --> 00:09:47,894 What do you smell? 260 00:09:47,899 --> 00:09:48,319 Nothing. 261 00:09:48,704 --> 00:09:49,394 Nothing. 262 00:09:49,484 --> 00:09:50,114 You get used to it. 263 00:09:51,584 --> 00:09:53,354 Your brain does something really cool. 264 00:09:54,254 --> 00:09:57,374 It acclimate to the environment after it realizes there's no 265 00:09:57,374 --> 00:09:58,754 threat to your bodily harm. 266 00:09:58,754 --> 00:10:00,435 Your brain says, okay, I can shut this out. 267 00:10:00,435 --> 00:10:02,805 And it stops listening and it stops smelling. 268 00:10:03,285 --> 00:10:05,564 You become nose blind to what's happening. 269 00:10:05,564 --> 00:10:08,535 You become sound deaf to what's happening around you. 270 00:10:09,374 --> 00:10:11,295 The problem is that a lot of us do this with Jesus. 271 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,339 You come to Wednesday nights and you hear everything that, oh, I 272 00:10:14,339 --> 00:10:15,270 feel like I've heard this before. 273 00:10:15,270 --> 00:10:17,970 You go to Sunday mornings, you're pastor PJ preach, oh, I've heard that before. 274 00:10:18,839 --> 00:10:21,660 And then you start becoming deaf to what Jesus is saying. 275 00:10:21,660 --> 00:10:24,569 And this is really dangerous because Jesus is speaking on 276 00:10:24,569 --> 00:10:26,400 behalf of the authority of God. 277 00:10:26,550 --> 00:10:30,420 You ought to carefully consider the son's words or otherwise. 278 00:10:30,449 --> 00:10:34,650 What you're gonna end up doing is ignoring the only one who really matters. 279 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,610 You end up ignoring the words that Jesus is saying to you, and 280 00:10:38,610 --> 00:10:39,390 I can prove it to you right now. 281 00:10:39,390 --> 00:10:40,170 Lemme ask you this question. 282 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:46,829 What has Jesus said to you through his word that you're still not obeying? 283 00:10:47,939 --> 00:10:50,339 All of us have something I can promise you, all of us have something. 284 00:10:50,729 --> 00:10:55,529 What has Jesus said in his word that you're still not obeying at the, 285 00:10:55,589 --> 00:10:57,779 the first time you felt conviction about that you might have said, 286 00:10:57,779 --> 00:10:59,609 oh man, I really should do that. 287 00:10:59,609 --> 00:11:03,779 Jesus wants me to witness to my un, un unsafe friends, or Jesus wants me to 288 00:11:03,779 --> 00:11:07,349 give up listening to certain kinds of this or playing certain kinds of that. 289 00:11:07,410 --> 00:11:08,339 Jesus wants me to give these up. 290 00:11:08,339 --> 00:11:10,319 And then the first time you felt that, you might say, oh man, I feel conviction. 291 00:11:10,665 --> 00:11:14,775 At some point though, you can so ignore Jesus, that you just stop hearing him. 292 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,885 You stop feeling conviction over the things that you 293 00:11:18,885 --> 00:11:20,114 should feel conviction about. 294 00:11:20,775 --> 00:11:23,354 This is why I'm saying you need to carefully consider his worth 295 00:11:23,354 --> 00:11:25,724 because this is not just some random dude talking to you. 296 00:11:26,295 --> 00:11:29,655 It's one thing for someone on the street to say, Hey, I want you to 297 00:11:29,655 --> 00:11:31,094 vote for this particular candidate. 298 00:11:31,155 --> 00:11:34,995 I want you to, you know, vote for me for a SB, and they want you to put 299 00:11:34,995 --> 00:11:36,555 them on the a SB Student Council. 300 00:11:37,664 --> 00:11:38,234 Well, fine. 301 00:11:38,294 --> 00:11:39,074 Not a big deal. 302 00:11:39,074 --> 00:11:40,154 Doesn't matter if you listen to them. 303 00:11:40,154 --> 00:11:42,674 Doesn't matter if you do or don't, not a big deal. 304 00:11:42,674 --> 00:11:46,514 But when someone says, Hey, I'm the son of God, you might say, okay, well prove it. 305 00:11:46,724 --> 00:11:47,024 Okay. 306 00:11:47,024 --> 00:11:47,714 How about this? 307 00:11:47,774 --> 00:11:51,464 God breaks open the clouds and says, this is my son. 308 00:11:51,974 --> 00:11:53,594 Listen to him. 309 00:11:54,494 --> 00:11:55,754 I mean, what else do you want? 310 00:11:57,224 --> 00:11:59,084 Carefully consider the son's words. 311 00:11:59,864 --> 00:12:03,435 Carefully consider his words, because if you don't, you end up losing 312 00:12:03,524 --> 00:12:06,344 all the benefits and privileges that come with listening to him. 313 00:12:07,409 --> 00:12:08,069 Says who? 314 00:12:08,069 --> 00:12:08,939 Well says God, 315 00:12:12,719 --> 00:12:14,579 Jesus is superior to the law and the prophets. 316 00:12:15,329 --> 00:12:16,260 Here's what that means for you. 317 00:12:16,530 --> 00:12:19,949 If I'm gonna carefully consider what he says, if he's superior to the law 318 00:12:19,949 --> 00:12:24,000 and the prophets, that means Jesus can be all of my righteousness. 319 00:12:24,899 --> 00:12:26,879 He is my rightness with God. 320 00:12:27,359 --> 00:12:29,790 He is the voice that speaks to me for all of my life. 321 00:12:29,790 --> 00:12:30,540 He's my prophet. 322 00:12:31,694 --> 00:12:33,314 Jesus is the only son of God. 323 00:12:33,644 --> 00:12:36,704 Remember, God's God the father says, this is my beloved son. 324 00:12:36,734 --> 00:12:37,814 This is my beloved son. 325 00:12:37,874 --> 00:12:40,664 He doesn't say that about any other religious figure. 326 00:12:41,564 --> 00:12:43,034 He doesn't say that about Muhammad. 327 00:12:43,304 --> 00:12:46,484 He doesn't say that about any of the gods of Hinduism. 328 00:12:46,664 --> 00:12:50,204 He doesn't say that about, uh, about any other religious figure. 329 00:12:50,804 --> 00:12:51,884 No, no one else. 330 00:12:51,944 --> 00:12:55,274 This is my beloved son Jesus and Jesus alone, which means he's 331 00:12:55,274 --> 00:12:56,714 my only offer for salvation. 332 00:12:57,390 --> 00:12:58,530 You have no other options. 333 00:12:58,530 --> 00:13:01,710 If you want to be right with God, then Jesus, you ought to listen to his words. 334 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,190 Jesus is beloved by the Father. 335 00:13:05,819 --> 00:13:08,700 Remember, he's the one who is special in God's sight. 336 00:13:09,270 --> 00:13:10,079 Let me ask you this question. 337 00:13:10,079 --> 00:13:10,980 Let's pretend for a second. 338 00:13:10,980 --> 00:13:12,270 My daughter Phoebe's here. 339 00:13:12,810 --> 00:13:13,110 All right? 340 00:13:13,319 --> 00:13:14,579 My beloved daughter, Phoebe. 341 00:13:15,450 --> 00:13:19,260 Let's say little Phoebe here is goofing off, and you see here and 342 00:13:19,260 --> 00:13:21,000 you're like, oh, Phoebe, that kid. 343 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:23,310 And then you run up and you boo 344 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,119 Poor Phoebe's flying. 345 00:13:29,430 --> 00:13:30,420 Don't do that to my daughter. 346 00:13:31,650 --> 00:13:35,819 What do you think any reasonable father would do in that situation? 347 00:13:37,170 --> 00:13:38,160 He'd pull out his Glock. 348 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:38,190 A 349 00:13:41,565 --> 00:13:41,855 okay. 350 00:13:41,910 --> 00:13:46,589 I wouldn't do that, but you would expect that a, a father that loves 351 00:13:46,589 --> 00:13:49,109 his beloved daughter would step up, like, what are you doing? 352 00:13:49,844 --> 00:13:53,594 I might lose my job for what I have to do in response to what 353 00:13:53,594 --> 00:13:54,915 you do to my daughter, right? 354 00:13:55,484 --> 00:13:57,854 If I put my hands around your neck, you would understand. 355 00:13:58,334 --> 00:14:00,494 If you're kicking my daughter and you know, you're drop kicking 356 00:14:00,494 --> 00:14:02,204 her across the the hallway. 357 00:14:03,615 --> 00:14:09,284 How do you think God feels when we disregard his beloved son's 358 00:14:09,284 --> 00:14:12,794 words when he says, this is my son. 359 00:14:12,794 --> 00:14:13,365 Listen to him. 360 00:14:13,365 --> 00:14:16,304 And you say, well, I'll think about it if I, if I like what he says. 361 00:14:16,664 --> 00:14:17,984 God, maybe he'll listen. 362 00:14:18,254 --> 00:14:21,554 But if he in crowds and crouch is on my life and he tells me to change the 363 00:14:21,554 --> 00:14:25,244 way I live, or change the way I talk or change what I think about the Bible, 364 00:14:25,244 --> 00:14:27,014 then I don't know that's asking too much. 365 00:14:27,524 --> 00:14:30,884 God has every right to say, son, you better watch out. 366 00:14:31,304 --> 00:14:33,794 Daughter, you better step back 'cause I'm about to come down on you. 367 00:14:34,514 --> 00:14:36,224 Jesus is God's beloved son. 368 00:14:36,524 --> 00:14:37,634 He's not just a regular guy. 369 00:14:38,204 --> 00:14:39,734 You ought to carefully listen to know what he says. 370 00:14:41,804 --> 00:14:43,394 Jesus is pleasing to the Father. 371 00:14:44,264 --> 00:14:45,944 This is my beloved son, with whom I'm well pleased. 372 00:14:47,655 --> 00:14:51,855 One of your greatest areas of weakness is that you know, and 373 00:14:51,855 --> 00:14:53,835 I know you're not good enough. 374 00:14:54,944 --> 00:14:55,754 We all know that. 375 00:14:56,175 --> 00:14:57,764 In fact, this is why we all do what we do. 376 00:14:57,764 --> 00:15:01,425 We wanna, we wanna aspire for a lot of money or status. 377 00:15:01,425 --> 00:15:03,254 We wear certain clothes to signal to people. 378 00:15:03,254 --> 00:15:03,885 I'm cool. 379 00:15:03,885 --> 00:15:04,454 I'm good enough. 380 00:15:04,454 --> 00:15:10,274 I'm worthy enough in Jesus, though we can be joined with Jesus, and God can look at 381 00:15:10,274 --> 00:15:12,764 you and say with you, I am well pleased. 382 00:15:13,214 --> 00:15:15,464 Because of your association with Jesus. 383 00:15:15,554 --> 00:15:17,204 You don't have to rely on your good looks. 384 00:15:17,294 --> 00:15:18,824 You don't have to rely on your intellect. 385 00:15:18,884 --> 00:15:21,194 You don't have to rely on your money making ability. 386 00:15:21,405 --> 00:15:26,444 You can say, with Jesus, I, I can be associated, uh, with him and 387 00:15:26,444 --> 00:15:28,034 become well pleasing in God's sight. 388 00:15:28,814 --> 00:15:31,244 You gotta carefully consider Jesus' words 'cause he tells you how to do that. 389 00:15:31,935 --> 00:15:33,524 Jesus says, turn from your sin. 390 00:15:33,734 --> 00:15:36,194 Put your trust in me, and you can be well pleasing in my 391 00:15:36,194 --> 00:15:37,304 father's side, just like me. 392 00:15:38,655 --> 00:15:39,974 Super important that we start there. 393 00:15:41,925 --> 00:15:43,364 Gotta pay careful attention to Jesus' words. 394 00:15:43,364 --> 00:15:43,724 Why? 395 00:15:44,264 --> 00:15:45,704 Because he's got God's endorsement. 396 00:15:45,734 --> 00:15:46,874 He is the son of God. 397 00:15:47,054 --> 00:15:47,864 You ought to listen to him. 398 00:15:50,895 --> 00:15:52,304 It's one thing to hear Jesus. 399 00:15:53,084 --> 00:15:54,794 It's another one to listen to what he says. 400 00:15:54,794 --> 00:15:57,405 I can hear him without doing what he says. 401 00:15:57,614 --> 00:15:58,814 I gotta hear and I gotta listen. 402 00:15:59,474 --> 00:16:00,675 So the disciples here. 403 00:16:01,425 --> 00:16:03,165 When the test comes, they kind of mess it up. 404 00:16:03,194 --> 00:16:07,844 Take a look here, Matthew 17, verses 14 through 20, when the crowds, uh, sorry. 405 00:16:08,264 --> 00:16:12,375 And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him, kneeling before 406 00:16:12,375 --> 00:16:15,165 him, said, Lord, have mercy on my son. 407 00:16:15,165 --> 00:16:17,204 Here's another father talking about his son. 408 00:16:17,204 --> 00:16:20,234 There's lots of fathers and sons in this text here, uh, comes 409 00:16:20,234 --> 00:16:21,675 and says, have mercy on my son. 410 00:16:21,974 --> 00:16:24,074 He has seizures and suffers terribly. 411 00:16:24,074 --> 00:16:24,675 Think about this. 412 00:16:25,004 --> 00:16:26,385 Have you ever seen someone have a seizure? 413 00:16:26,895 --> 00:16:28,064 Their body gets rigid. 414 00:16:28,064 --> 00:16:29,534 They might start foaming from the mouth. 415 00:16:29,534 --> 00:16:30,584 They just start, you know, one of. 416 00:16:30,929 --> 00:16:31,379 Terrifying. 417 00:16:31,379 --> 00:16:34,319 It's a strange experience to see someone have an actual seizure in front of you. 418 00:16:34,859 --> 00:16:40,530 Well notice here his seizures and his suffering is not only physical. 419 00:16:40,739 --> 00:16:43,679 When we see it, we typically think, oh, he needs a certain medication. 420 00:16:43,679 --> 00:16:46,169 He needs to see a doctor to get diagnosed, and that doctor's gonna 421 00:16:46,169 --> 00:16:48,209 give him an anti-seizure medication. 422 00:16:48,209 --> 00:16:50,069 That's usually what we do, pay attention to. 423 00:16:50,069 --> 00:16:53,699 What happens though, he often falls into the fire and into the water. 424 00:16:54,494 --> 00:16:57,224 Uh, in and of itself, you might say, okay, I guess he's seizing, and as 425 00:16:57,224 --> 00:16:59,564 he's walking next to the fire in the water, he seizes up and then he 426 00:16:59,564 --> 00:17:00,764 falls into the water in the fire. 427 00:17:00,794 --> 00:17:02,084 Wow, that's, that's kind of scary. 428 00:17:03,284 --> 00:17:06,824 He says in verse 16, I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him. 429 00:17:06,855 --> 00:17:10,905 This is a big deal because his disciples were given a special authority to heal, 430 00:17:11,145 --> 00:17:14,115 and so if they're unable to do the thing that God says that they should 431 00:17:14,115 --> 00:17:18,493 do, something's amiss, something's broken, and Jesus answered them. 432 00:17:18,855 --> 00:17:19,665 No problem. 433 00:17:19,665 --> 00:17:20,204 Be patient. 434 00:17:20,204 --> 00:17:21,013 I got your back. 435 00:17:21,223 --> 00:17:21,704 No. 436 00:17:21,763 --> 00:17:23,085 Look at what Jesus says. 437 00:17:23,355 --> 00:17:25,425 To his disciples and to this father. 438 00:17:25,994 --> 00:17:26,925 Here's what Jesus says. 439 00:17:27,135 --> 00:17:27,795 He's flaming. 440 00:17:27,825 --> 00:17:28,605 He's spiting fire here. 441 00:17:28,605 --> 00:17:29,355 Look at what he says. 442 00:17:30,105 --> 00:17:37,515 He says, oh, faithless and twisted generation, faithless and 443 00:17:37,515 --> 00:17:39,735 twisted Jesus is not full punches. 444 00:17:40,545 --> 00:17:43,905 He says, part of the reason here that we're having this issue, the reason the 445 00:17:43,905 --> 00:17:46,245 disciples couldn't do is because they were faithless and they were twisted. 446 00:17:46,245 --> 00:17:47,505 They were seeing this the wrong way. 447 00:17:49,215 --> 00:17:50,384 How long am I to be with you? 448 00:17:50,384 --> 00:17:51,945 And in other words, Jesus saying, I'm not gonna be here forever. 449 00:17:51,945 --> 00:17:54,045 I can't, I, I'm, I've gotta go to the father soon. 450 00:17:54,884 --> 00:17:56,384 How long am I to bear with you? 451 00:17:56,925 --> 00:17:57,884 Bring him here to me. 452 00:17:58,695 --> 00:18:01,245 Jesus rebuked the what? 453 00:18:02,355 --> 00:18:02,775 You see it? 454 00:18:02,804 --> 00:18:05,925 Jesus rebuked the, the demon. 455 00:18:06,375 --> 00:18:07,154 Well hold on a second here. 456 00:18:07,154 --> 00:18:08,264 He had seizures. 457 00:18:10,395 --> 00:18:12,855 Jesus is saying here, not that, not that every seizure is a demon, 458 00:18:13,125 --> 00:18:14,054 but he's saying in this case. 459 00:18:14,384 --> 00:18:18,074 This physical effect that this young man was experiencing was the result of 460 00:18:18,074 --> 00:18:22,424 a demon inhabiting him and that demon tried to destroy him, tried to put 461 00:18:22,424 --> 00:18:24,014 him in the fire, tried to drown him. 462 00:18:24,195 --> 00:18:27,315 The demon was doing something to him to destroy his physical body. 463 00:18:27,315 --> 00:18:28,904 By the way, that's what demon possession looks like. 464 00:18:29,565 --> 00:18:32,955 If you wanna have any sense of, is my friend possess or is something happening? 465 00:18:33,165 --> 00:18:38,114 Typically a demon's goal is to destroy the human inhabitant or the 466 00:18:38,114 --> 00:18:39,404 human person that they're inhabiting. 467 00:18:39,404 --> 00:18:40,185 That's what I'm trying to say. 468 00:18:40,485 --> 00:18:43,185 The the demon's goal is to mar the image of God. 469 00:18:43,605 --> 00:18:44,475 This is part of their fun. 470 00:18:44,804 --> 00:18:46,695 They enjoy hurting mankind. 471 00:18:46,845 --> 00:18:50,475 And so one of the signs that there's a demon behind something is if 472 00:18:50,475 --> 00:18:54,225 there's deliberate bodily harm that's happening because of the demon. 473 00:18:54,225 --> 00:18:55,034 Does this still happen today? 474 00:18:55,034 --> 00:18:55,875 I believe it does. 475 00:18:56,415 --> 00:18:56,955 We just don't. 476 00:18:57,315 --> 00:18:59,745 We don't see it the same way anymore because when we see a seizure or a 477 00:18:59,745 --> 00:19:01,815 headache, we just think, oh, it's automatically a physical thing. 478 00:19:02,175 --> 00:19:04,455 Not saying that it's not, but I'm also saying there could be 479 00:19:04,455 --> 00:19:05,655 a spiritual component to it. 480 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:09,389 So he says, uh, rebukes a demon. 481 00:19:09,389 --> 00:19:11,130 He goes out, everything's fine. 482 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,620 The Dece, the disciples are like, okay, Jesus, what happened? 483 00:19:13,949 --> 00:19:15,779 We understand that you said we're a faithless and twisted 484 00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:16,889 generation, but what happened? 485 00:19:17,250 --> 00:19:24,120 Jesus says, because of your little faith there baby, baby faith, undeveloped 486 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:27,719 faith, which is by the way, in contrast to the woman who had great faith. 487 00:19:27,719 --> 00:19:29,040 Remember that woman from tire. 488 00:19:29,565 --> 00:19:32,715 She's coming for her daughter and he says, oh, woman, great is your faith. 489 00:19:32,715 --> 00:19:33,915 And she was like, oh lord. 490 00:19:33,915 --> 00:19:36,855 Even the ma, even the dogs get the crumbs that fall on the floor. 491 00:19:36,855 --> 00:19:39,495 And Jesus says, wow, your faith is so great. 492 00:19:39,884 --> 00:19:42,465 He says, your faith is mega faith, but of the disciples. 493 00:19:42,465 --> 00:19:43,935 He says, you guys have small faith. 494 00:19:44,384 --> 00:19:46,335 So interesting because these are the ones that are, he's 495 00:19:46,335 --> 00:19:48,375 training to, to be his leaders. 496 00:19:48,975 --> 00:19:51,915 And then he goes on to say, look, if you have, if you have faith, if you had a 497 00:19:51,915 --> 00:19:55,844 robust, healthy, mega faith, you could say to this mountain, move and go there. 498 00:19:56,025 --> 00:19:57,404 Nothing will be impossible for you. 499 00:19:57,404 --> 00:19:58,034 Jesus says. 500 00:19:58,364 --> 00:20:01,304 In Mark chapter nine, Jesus says it like this same, same story. 501 00:20:01,634 --> 00:20:03,165 Mark provides a slightly different account. 502 00:20:03,165 --> 00:20:09,284 He says, this kind of demon cannot be driven out by anything but prayer. 503 00:20:09,284 --> 00:20:11,025 And I think that's the key for us. 504 00:20:11,054 --> 00:20:14,715 Point number two, you ought to prayerfully pursue mega faith in the sun. 505 00:20:15,404 --> 00:20:20,235 Probably what went wrong for the disciples is that they were just trusting in their 506 00:20:20,235 --> 00:20:22,965 previous activity, their prior success. 507 00:20:23,025 --> 00:20:25,485 And so when this father brought his son, they're like, Hey, demon 508 00:20:25,485 --> 00:20:26,594 be gone, or whatever they said. 509 00:20:27,405 --> 00:20:28,725 They didn't take time to pray. 510 00:20:28,755 --> 00:20:30,405 They didn't take time to seek God's will. 511 00:20:30,405 --> 00:20:35,115 They didn't take time to pursue God, God's will in this situation. 512 00:20:36,825 --> 00:20:40,485 But if you wanna see someone who has genuine faith in the sun, if you wanna 513 00:20:40,485 --> 00:20:43,095 know, if you have real faith in the sun, I would ask you, how's your prayer life? 514 00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:45,435 That's really where you get to see things like this. 515 00:20:46,695 --> 00:20:49,455 Things that we tell my kids to do, we tell my kids all the time 516 00:20:49,485 --> 00:20:50,895 like, Hey, eat your vegetables. 517 00:20:50,955 --> 00:20:52,185 We want them to eat their vegetables. 518 00:20:53,295 --> 00:20:55,245 We tell them and we mostly mean it. 519 00:20:55,245 --> 00:20:56,835 Like, if you eat your vegetables, you're gonna be strong. 520 00:20:56,835 --> 00:20:59,685 We tell 'em that, but they only kind of believe us. 521 00:21:00,045 --> 00:21:02,985 They only kind of believe us because they don't actually always eat it. 522 00:21:02,985 --> 00:21:05,145 They just sit there, they'll, you know, push it around the plate. 523 00:21:05,145 --> 00:21:09,825 Particularly the girls and Jacob, they'll just push it around the plates. 524 00:21:10,005 --> 00:21:11,325 They don't typically eat the veggies, 525 00:21:13,455 --> 00:21:14,804 but we do the same thing with God. 526 00:21:15,225 --> 00:21:18,014 We believe prayer is powerful until it costs us. 527 00:21:18,525 --> 00:21:20,955 Yeah, I believe vegetables make me healthy, but I'll, I'll. 528 00:21:21,510 --> 00:21:23,370 I'll eat them at some point when I get older. 529 00:21:24,510 --> 00:21:28,050 Prayer is faith in action. 530 00:21:28,110 --> 00:21:30,840 Prayer is how you show that you really do have faith in God. 531 00:21:31,380 --> 00:21:35,130 If you don't pray, it's because you don't believe that God does anything. 532 00:21:35,310 --> 00:21:37,800 You don't believe that God has your best interest at heart. 533 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,890 Prayer is one way that we say, God, I trust that what you tell 534 00:21:40,890 --> 00:21:44,580 me is true and that when I pray to you, you want to hear from me and 535 00:21:44,580 --> 00:21:45,750 that this is good for me to do. 536 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,340 Jesus wants us to pray. 537 00:21:51,195 --> 00:21:52,245 This is where our faith grows. 538 00:21:52,245 --> 00:21:54,015 This is what's what makes our faith good. 539 00:21:54,195 --> 00:21:58,275 In fact, one of the reasons that you may pray and not find your answer, James 540 00:21:58,275 --> 00:22:02,565 says in James four, he says, you desire and you do not have, so you murder. 541 00:22:02,805 --> 00:22:06,465 You have desires inside of you where they're unmet, so you 542 00:22:06,465 --> 00:22:07,635 just kill people to get it. 543 00:22:07,635 --> 00:22:09,915 Not literally in this case, murder the heart. 544 00:22:10,155 --> 00:22:11,595 You covet and you cannot obtain. 545 00:22:11,595 --> 00:22:12,735 So you fight and quarrel. 546 00:22:12,975 --> 00:22:17,175 You do not have James says, because you do not ask one of the reasons. 547 00:22:17,490 --> 00:22:20,700 Your life is not what you want it to be, it's because you're not praying about it. 548 00:22:21,090 --> 00:22:23,040 You do not have because you do not ask. 549 00:22:23,580 --> 00:22:25,800 If you want to grow in your faith, you should pray about it. 550 00:22:26,190 --> 00:22:29,130 If you wanna see progress in your relationship with God, 551 00:22:29,130 --> 00:22:30,120 you should pray about it. 552 00:22:30,450 --> 00:22:33,510 If you want better and deeper friendships, you should pray about it. 553 00:22:33,810 --> 00:22:36,450 If you wanna see changes that are significant in your life, 554 00:22:36,510 --> 00:22:37,530 you should be praying about it. 555 00:22:37,530 --> 00:22:39,780 You do not have because you do not ask. 556 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,430 That's the first problem. 557 00:22:41,580 --> 00:22:44,940 If you want mega faith in the sun, genuine, robust faith 558 00:22:44,940 --> 00:22:46,170 in the sun, you have to pray. 559 00:22:46,665 --> 00:22:47,775 There's no shortcut. 560 00:22:48,825 --> 00:22:51,915 If Christianity doesn't make sense to you, you should pray. 561 00:22:52,125 --> 00:22:54,615 God, if you're real, if the Bible's legit, show me. 562 00:22:54,645 --> 00:22:55,275 I want to know. 563 00:22:56,625 --> 00:23:00,435 And if you have a sincere heart before God, I doubt he will turn you away. 564 00:23:00,435 --> 00:23:01,275 Say no, I'm not gonna tell you. 565 00:23:01,485 --> 00:23:02,085 I don't want you to know. 566 00:23:02,895 --> 00:23:03,405 Gotta pray. 567 00:23:03,405 --> 00:23:04,725 You do not have because you do not ask. 568 00:23:04,725 --> 00:23:07,935 James says, you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly 569 00:23:07,935 --> 00:23:09,165 to spend it on your passions. 570 00:23:09,435 --> 00:23:12,555 This is another hiccup when you're praying for mega faith in the sun. 571 00:23:12,705 --> 00:23:14,415 Sometimes you're praying for the wrong thing. 572 00:23:15,195 --> 00:23:17,205 You're praying for things that are shortsighted. 573 00:23:17,745 --> 00:23:20,324 One of the things that my girls like to do is they play with everything. 574 00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:21,375 Everything and anything. 575 00:23:21,375 --> 00:23:24,495 If it's in their space, if they look at things, they're just gonna play with it. 576 00:23:25,425 --> 00:23:28,935 One of my daughters was helping cut, uh, vegetables recently, and so she 577 00:23:28,935 --> 00:23:31,905 picked up a knife and she was like, oh, Phoebe took, come over here. 578 00:23:31,905 --> 00:23:32,355 Phoebe. 579 00:23:32,534 --> 00:23:33,495 Phoebe, come play with me. 580 00:23:33,585 --> 00:23:33,824 Phoebe. 581 00:23:33,824 --> 00:23:35,025 She's got a knife on him the whole time. 582 00:23:35,054 --> 00:23:36,074 Come over here, Phoebe. 583 00:23:36,945 --> 00:23:39,315 And she, oh, she just, literally, she's gonna kill somebody. 584 00:23:39,525 --> 00:23:40,574 Doesn't even think twice about it though. 585 00:23:41,625 --> 00:23:44,235 If she were to say, dad for my next birthday. 586 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:45,810 I want a machete. 587 00:23:46,380 --> 00:23:46,800 Machete. 588 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:47,940 Gimme machete. 589 00:23:47,940 --> 00:23:49,230 Dad, that's all I want. 590 00:23:50,370 --> 00:23:54,360 Would you, if you were me, would you buy my daughter tabby a machete? 591 00:23:55,470 --> 00:23:56,580 That's a good answer. 592 00:23:56,820 --> 00:23:57,180 I'm glad. 593 00:23:57,389 --> 00:23:58,860 No, no. 594 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,530 You're not allowed to come over Carson. 595 00:24:03,165 --> 00:24:05,670 Her a good, yeah, maybe that that'd work. 596 00:24:06,060 --> 00:24:07,260 No, 'cause I don't want it to play with the real one. 597 00:24:07,260 --> 00:24:07,830 I think it's okay. 598 00:24:08,130 --> 00:24:13,770 Yes, a good father, a good mother, a good brother and sister is not gonna buy 599 00:24:13,770 --> 00:24:16,139 their siblings something that they're probably gonna kill themselves with. 600 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:19,889 God does the same thing you, you do not have, because you do not ask. 601 00:24:19,889 --> 00:24:23,340 And when you ask, you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions. 602 00:24:23,340 --> 00:24:28,409 That is, God is not in the business of making you selfish, and so if your goal 603 00:24:28,409 --> 00:24:31,260 is to please Jesus, those are prayers that he'll be interested in answering. 604 00:24:31,260 --> 00:24:33,060 If your goal is to please yourself, not so much. 605 00:24:33,780 --> 00:24:35,760 He continues you adulterous people. 606 00:24:35,790 --> 00:24:39,030 Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? 607 00:24:39,090 --> 00:24:40,950 Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world 608 00:24:40,950 --> 00:24:42,240 makes himself an enemy of God. 609 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,600 One of God's cares is that your prayers reflect friendship with God 610 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:46,650 and not friendship with the world. 611 00:24:47,580 --> 00:24:49,530 So maybe your prayer is, Hey look, I wanna be famous. 612 00:24:49,530 --> 00:24:52,980 I wanna be an pro eSports athlete. 613 00:24:52,980 --> 00:24:57,929 God, I wanna be the next That guy. 614 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:00,930 You guys know who I'm talking about. 615 00:25:01,410 --> 00:25:02,250 I don't even have to say his name. 616 00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:03,210 You know who I'm talking about. 617 00:25:05,370 --> 00:25:08,880 Maybe God doesn't wanna do that for you because that would make you more worldly. 618 00:25:08,970 --> 00:25:11,550 That would make you more unlike Jesus. 619 00:25:12,150 --> 00:25:14,040 So that's on the per of God's interested in answering. 620 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,080 Some of you guys wanna make a ton of money, man. 621 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,670 I see some of the houses down Frontier. 622 00:25:17,670 --> 00:25:18,780 I'm like, oh, I want that house. 623 00:25:18,780 --> 00:25:19,800 And some of the houses in Prosper. 624 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,030 Oh, I want that house. 625 00:25:21,390 --> 00:25:22,410 Some of the houses in Frisco. 626 00:25:22,410 --> 00:25:23,730 Oh, a huge house. 627 00:25:24,060 --> 00:25:26,820 Do you guys know Dion Sanders house in Prosper just went on the market. 628 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:28,770 I'm looking at buying it. 629 00:25:28,830 --> 00:25:29,639 I'm telling, telling the truth. 630 00:25:29,639 --> 00:25:31,350 I'm just thinking about it, thinking about it. 631 00:25:31,980 --> 00:25:36,960 I, I might put a down payment today, it's on sale, but God probably doesn't want to 632 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,550 gimme that, doesn't wanna give you that. 633 00:25:38,730 --> 00:25:40,590 Not because he doesn't like giving us good gifts, but because 634 00:25:40,590 --> 00:25:42,239 he knows what our hearts need. 635 00:25:43,050 --> 00:25:46,920 You should pray for mega faith in the Son because of who the son is. 636 00:25:47,639 --> 00:25:48,750 He's the son of God. 637 00:25:48,810 --> 00:25:49,650 He's the son of man. 638 00:25:49,679 --> 00:25:51,179 He's the one that matters. 639 00:25:51,690 --> 00:25:54,360 And ultimately, your life and my life matters insofar as we're 640 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:55,770 supporting what Jesus is doing. 641 00:25:56,909 --> 00:25:57,870 So let's say you get it. 642 00:25:58,050 --> 00:26:01,020 You're praying, well, what happens when it seems like God 643 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:01,830 isn't answering our prayers? 644 00:26:01,830 --> 00:26:04,889 We see some things here in what James says, but there's more. 645 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,920 Take a look with me at Matthew 17 verses 22 and 23. 646 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:11,190 Here's another thing that might happen when we pray to God and God doesn't 647 00:26:11,190 --> 00:26:12,659 answer the way that we think he should. 648 00:26:12,659 --> 00:26:15,840 In fact, Lewis talked a little bit about this last week and a and a great sermon. 649 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:17,670 If you weren't here for that, you should go back and listen to that. 650 00:26:18,389 --> 00:26:21,270 Here's what Jesus says in Matthew 17, verses 22 and 23. 651 00:26:21,270 --> 00:26:24,210 He says, as they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, the son of 652 00:26:24,210 --> 00:26:28,199 man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. 653 00:26:28,469 --> 00:26:31,110 They'll kill him, and he will be raised on the third day. 654 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,949 They're gonna kill the Son of man and they're gonna raise him on the third day. 655 00:26:34,949 --> 00:26:38,699 The son of man is a term that Jesus is using to refer to Daniel chapter 656 00:26:38,699 --> 00:26:43,889 seven, which is the special name for the person who would be the ruler. 657 00:26:44,385 --> 00:26:46,605 He'd be the ruler, the ultimate ruler. 658 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,405 This is the God man. 659 00:26:48,405 --> 00:26:50,264 That's why Jesus calls himself the son of man. 660 00:26:50,775 --> 00:26:53,175 So he says, I'm gonna be betrayed into the hands of men. 661 00:26:53,264 --> 00:26:54,975 I'm gonna be killed, but I'm gonna rise in the third day. 662 00:26:54,975 --> 00:26:58,065 Now, notice how the apostles, uh, the disciples respond. 663 00:26:58,455 --> 00:27:00,225 They were greatly distressed. 664 00:27:00,225 --> 00:27:02,025 They were sad, they were way down. 665 00:27:02,235 --> 00:27:04,575 They're, they're, they're tripping on this like, what are you talking about? 666 00:27:04,575 --> 00:27:07,365 Jesus, we have every expectation that you're gonna be the man. 667 00:27:07,785 --> 00:27:08,775 How are you gonna die? 668 00:27:08,805 --> 00:27:09,675 What's this about? 669 00:27:09,945 --> 00:27:10,635 They don't get it. 670 00:27:11,775 --> 00:27:16,365 What they don't get though is that Jesus is always going to do the father's will, 671 00:27:16,365 --> 00:27:18,525 so you ought to trust the Son to do. 672 00:27:18,525 --> 00:27:21,975 The father's will trust the son to do the father's will. 673 00:27:22,125 --> 00:27:23,595 Now, here's the problem with that. 674 00:27:24,255 --> 00:27:31,095 The problem is that the father's will is often not our will. 675 00:27:32,115 --> 00:27:36,525 Your will and God's will are often not the same. 676 00:27:38,070 --> 00:27:43,350 Maybe a little bit, but in large ways, your will and God's will are at odds. 677 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:50,219 So when we say the son, the one who's well pleasing to the father, the one 678 00:27:50,219 --> 00:27:53,159 that we should have mega faith in, we're trusting him to do the father's will. 679 00:27:53,159 --> 00:27:55,920 The father's will, is gonna be against our will most of the time. 680 00:27:56,010 --> 00:28:00,000 I could probably say that with safety, unless your heart is fully united 681 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,699 with Jesus, you're gonna have a hard time because he's gonna tell you to 682 00:28:02,699 --> 00:28:04,409 do things that you don't want to do. 683 00:28:06,029 --> 00:28:07,259 Son's gonna do the father's will. 684 00:28:08,159 --> 00:28:11,429 When I went to a summer camp years ago, we played this game called the trust fall. 685 00:28:11,759 --> 00:28:12,659 It's a terrible game. 686 00:28:12,750 --> 00:28:13,350 I hated it. 687 00:28:13,770 --> 00:28:16,949 But probably the scariest part of the trust fall A after you step up on the 688 00:28:16,949 --> 00:28:20,070 log or whatever tall thing that you're standing on, you cross your arms like 689 00:28:20,070 --> 00:28:23,639 this, and then you hope that all of your friends are still behind you. 690 00:28:24,750 --> 00:28:29,370 The moments that is the scariest is probably not like when you're 691 00:28:29,370 --> 00:28:30,929 just about to do it, right. 692 00:28:31,170 --> 00:28:34,529 It's not that it's, it's the second you actually commit to doing it. 693 00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:36,330 That is the scariest part. 694 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,740 The actual falling is kind of thrilling, but it's the part before the falling. 695 00:28:40,980 --> 00:28:42,750 It's where you lose control. 696 00:28:42,810 --> 00:28:45,870 It's like I'm giving up control and I'm gonna let myself fall back. 697 00:28:45,930 --> 00:28:46,770 It's terrifying. 698 00:28:46,770 --> 00:28:47,640 Have you ever done this before? 699 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:47,700 Yeah. 700 00:28:48,540 --> 00:28:50,460 We should do this as one of our illustrations. 701 00:28:50,460 --> 00:28:51,930 We might do this after we're done with this. 702 00:28:52,170 --> 00:28:52,260 Nope. 703 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:54,060 Trust fall. 704 00:28:54,060 --> 00:28:54,780 Scariest part. 705 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:55,620 Letting go. 706 00:28:56,190 --> 00:28:56,700 Letting go. 707 00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:57,420 And losing control. 708 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,530 But that's what faith looks like. 709 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,190 I'm letting go and I'm letting God control what happens next. 710 00:29:02,610 --> 00:29:03,420 'cause I can't. 711 00:29:03,765 --> 00:29:06,075 I can't be trusted, but I know he can be trusted. 712 00:29:06,705 --> 00:29:09,435 Here's some things about the father's will that we can just read from, from 713 00:29:09,435 --> 00:29:10,575 what Jesus said in these few verses. 714 00:29:10,785 --> 00:29:14,385 The father's will, first of all, is often painful when Jesus says, 715 00:29:14,385 --> 00:29:15,675 the son of man's gonna be killed. 716 00:29:15,765 --> 00:29:17,535 That's not a joyful experience. 717 00:29:17,565 --> 00:29:19,365 He's not saying Things are gonna be great for me. 718 00:29:19,455 --> 00:29:20,385 I'm gonna go into Jerusalem. 719 00:29:20,385 --> 00:29:21,045 They're gonna love me. 720 00:29:21,045 --> 00:29:22,155 They're gonna lift me high. 721 00:29:22,365 --> 00:29:24,015 They're gonna put me on a on a throne. 722 00:29:24,015 --> 00:29:24,735 They're gonna crowd me. 723 00:29:24,735 --> 00:29:25,695 It's gonna be wonderful. 724 00:29:25,965 --> 00:29:28,365 No, Jesus' death was painful. 725 00:29:28,365 --> 00:29:31,335 In fact, it was one of the most painful and excruciating 726 00:29:31,335 --> 00:29:33,225 experiences you could ever imagine. 727 00:29:33,225 --> 00:29:33,285 I. 728 00:29:33,735 --> 00:29:36,675 The father's will for your life is gonna be painful because here's the thing, the 729 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:40,875 father's will, is that you be conformed to the image of the son, which is gonna push 730 00:29:40,875 --> 00:29:47,385 you out of your comfort zone so often for your good so that you become like Jesus. 731 00:29:47,385 --> 00:29:48,345 It's gonna be painful. 732 00:29:48,945 --> 00:29:50,445 The father's will is often painful. 733 00:29:50,595 --> 00:29:52,365 It is also often perplexing. 734 00:29:53,175 --> 00:29:53,655 Pop quiz. 735 00:29:53,655 --> 00:29:54,735 What does the word perplexing mean? 736 00:29:54,915 --> 00:29:55,545 Call it out. 737 00:29:56,505 --> 00:29:57,285 Confusing. 738 00:29:57,675 --> 00:29:58,605 I'm confused about this. 739 00:29:58,605 --> 00:30:02,085 I chose perplexing 'cause it was what the, you'll see perplexing. 740 00:30:03,420 --> 00:30:04,170 It's perplexing. 741 00:30:04,170 --> 00:30:05,310 I don't, God, what are you doing? 742 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,290 Have you ever asked that of God, God, what are you doing? 743 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,139 God, why are you, why is this situation happening? 744 00:30:10,710 --> 00:30:12,389 Why does my mom not understand this? 745 00:30:12,719 --> 00:30:14,610 Why does my math teacher hate my guts? 746 00:30:15,270 --> 00:30:16,889 Why does my youth pastor talk for so long? 747 00:30:17,850 --> 00:30:18,779 God, why do you do that? 748 00:30:18,779 --> 00:30:19,500 I'm, I'm perplexed. 749 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:20,429 I don't understand. 750 00:30:20,969 --> 00:30:21,779 Here's the thing, guys. 751 00:30:21,929 --> 00:30:28,020 God's will is like level 500 billion and we operate on like level three most days. 752 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:32,715 God is doing 10 billion things at one time and you and I 753 00:30:32,715 --> 00:30:34,065 can see five of those things. 754 00:30:35,295 --> 00:30:41,205 God is playing 3D chess with a infinite board of billions of people making 755 00:30:41,205 --> 00:30:42,945 billions of decisions all the time. 756 00:30:43,695 --> 00:30:46,095 And we can see like three of those things at once. 757 00:30:46,095 --> 00:30:48,405 God sees everything at once, past, present, and future. 758 00:30:48,405 --> 00:30:51,885 He knows exactly what he's doing, so you might be confused, but he's not. 759 00:30:52,470 --> 00:30:53,490 That's his will. 760 00:30:53,639 --> 00:30:56,070 You just have to be comfortable to say, I'm gonna need to trust the son because 761 00:30:56,070 --> 00:30:59,100 he's gonna do things that are gonna be way outside of my realm of understanding. 762 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,490 The father's will is always purposeful though. 763 00:31:03,179 --> 00:31:06,510 You might be confused, but God's not saying, oh, what did I do that for? 764 00:31:06,510 --> 00:31:08,159 Where did I, where did I leave Carson? 765 00:31:08,250 --> 00:31:08,940 I forgot. 766 00:31:09,630 --> 00:31:10,889 Did I get Carson married yet? 767 00:31:10,889 --> 00:31:11,340 No, no. 768 00:31:11,340 --> 00:31:12,750 He's, he's 45 and still single. 769 00:31:12,755 --> 00:31:13,345 I forgot about him. 770 00:31:14,070 --> 00:31:14,670 My bad. 771 00:31:17,940 --> 00:31:18,509 Well, hold on. 772 00:31:19,170 --> 00:31:20,549 Maggie, are you gonna be 45 and single? 773 00:31:22,230 --> 00:31:23,940 How about if you're 46 and you're still single? 774 00:31:24,659 --> 00:31:25,080 No. 775 00:31:25,590 --> 00:31:26,340 Let's commit right now. 776 00:31:28,049 --> 00:31:28,320 No. 777 00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:28,770 Okay. 778 00:31:29,670 --> 00:31:30,179 No pressure. 779 00:31:30,570 --> 00:31:31,020 Think about it. 780 00:31:31,020 --> 00:31:31,409 Let me know. 781 00:31:31,770 --> 00:31:32,340 Talk about it later. 782 00:31:34,679 --> 00:31:37,980 God's will is painful, perplexing, but it's always purposeful. 783 00:31:38,190 --> 00:31:42,210 God has a plan, and here's the thing, that plan is good. 784 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:44,520 God's plan is good. 785 00:31:44,639 --> 00:31:45,780 In fact, lemme just give you the last one. 786 00:31:46,020 --> 00:31:48,540 It is good because it is always perfect. 787 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,239 God's will is always perfectly good. 788 00:31:51,270 --> 00:31:54,900 He will accomplish his greatest glory and your ultimate good 789 00:31:54,929 --> 00:31:56,639 if you're on God's side. 790 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,620 If you're mega faith is in the sun, listening to his words, carefully, 791 00:32:01,620 --> 00:32:04,500 considering them, putting them into practice and trusting the Son to do the 792 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:06,300 father's will, you have nothing to fear. 793 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:08,370 It's just gonna be hard. 794 00:32:09,270 --> 00:32:13,620 Just like the son says, I'm gonna be delivered by the way, the son will be 795 00:32:13,620 --> 00:32:15,870 delivered is a passive word delivered. 796 00:32:16,380 --> 00:32:18,060 Jesus isn't going there by himself. 797 00:32:18,060 --> 00:32:19,260 The father is leading him. 798 00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:20,940 He's recognizing that God's behind it. 799 00:32:21,450 --> 00:32:24,090 They're gonna kill him, and he's gonna rise on the third day. 800 00:32:24,180 --> 00:32:26,130 What did Jesus accomplish with this resurrection? 801 00:32:27,420 --> 00:32:30,300 Only the salvation of those who were to repent and believe in him. 802 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:30,720 That's it. 803 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,770 Just the salvation of all. 804 00:32:31,770 --> 00:32:33,330 Who would ever trust and believe in Jesus? 805 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,760 That's all the best plan ever. 806 00:32:36,420 --> 00:32:38,100 Jesus had to suffer the the most. 807 00:32:38,475 --> 00:32:40,395 Devastating and painful experience ever. 808 00:32:41,355 --> 00:32:44,145 Father's will is often painful, perplexing, but it is always 809 00:32:44,145 --> 00:32:45,435 purposeful, and it is perfect. 810 00:32:45,435 --> 00:32:46,365 You ought to trust that. 811 00:32:46,695 --> 00:32:50,325 Finally, as we close out this sermon here, I need to show you this last 812 00:32:50,325 --> 00:32:53,355 section, which is kind of unusual, but let me show you the point behind it. 813 00:32:54,075 --> 00:32:55,095 They came to Capernaum. 814 00:32:55,155 --> 00:32:56,295 This is Peter's hometown. 815 00:32:56,295 --> 00:32:58,935 This is likely Jesus hometown as well. 816 00:32:58,935 --> 00:32:59,685 He was staying with Peter. 817 00:33:00,315 --> 00:33:02,115 Collectors of the two drop attacks. 818 00:33:02,385 --> 00:33:05,475 Came to Peter and said, does your teacher not pay the tax? 819 00:33:05,985 --> 00:33:07,725 Peter's like, yes, of course he does. 820 00:33:07,740 --> 00:33:11,910 It goes to Jesus and says, Hey, Jesus, uh, about that tax, you didn't pay it yet. 821 00:33:12,030 --> 00:33:12,990 Uh, I didn't pay it yet. 822 00:33:13,260 --> 00:33:14,940 Are we gonna, are we gonna get to that some point soon? 823 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,380 Jesus says to him, Simon, what do you think about this? 824 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:25,950 From whom do the kings of earth take toll or tax from their sons or from others? 825 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,540 So, of course, Peter says, well, from others, not from the sons, the sons of the 826 00:33:30,540 --> 00:33:32,730 kings don't pay the, the, the royal taxes. 827 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:34,890 He says, you're absolutely right. 828 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,480 Then the sons are free. 829 00:33:36,945 --> 00:33:37,995 The sons are free. 830 00:33:38,325 --> 00:33:39,585 Who's the son that's in mind here? 831 00:33:39,585 --> 00:33:40,605 Here's fathers and sons again. 832 00:33:40,605 --> 00:33:42,105 The son of God is free. 833 00:33:42,105 --> 00:33:43,545 He doesn't have to pay the temple tax. 834 00:33:43,545 --> 00:33:44,295 It's his temple. 835 00:33:44,805 --> 00:33:47,805 It's like Jesus saying, let me give $2 from my right hand and my 836 00:33:47,805 --> 00:33:49,485 left hand, like this is my money. 837 00:33:49,845 --> 00:33:50,685 Nothing's happening here. 838 00:33:51,405 --> 00:33:53,895 However, he says not to give offense to them. 839 00:33:54,315 --> 00:33:58,875 Go and catch a fish in the fish's mouth is gonna be enough money for 840 00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:00,015 both of us and go give it to them. 841 00:34:00,015 --> 00:34:00,620 That's what happens here. 842 00:34:01,860 --> 00:34:03,750 Jesus tells Peter something remarkable. 843 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,860 If you are alive with Jesus, if you are part of Jesus' family, you 844 00:34:07,860 --> 00:34:10,800 got special Jesus level privileges. 845 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,429 Point number four, you ought to enjoy the privileges of sonship. 846 00:34:15,270 --> 00:34:15,690 Sonship. 847 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,199 Sonship is another way to say being a child, being a son in the family. 848 00:34:19,710 --> 00:34:22,530 Of course, you could say, enjoy the privileges of daughtership. 849 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,090 That just doesn't sound as nice. 850 00:34:24,780 --> 00:34:27,060 Sonship being a son or daughter in a family. 851 00:34:30,855 --> 00:34:34,574 When I came to FCA, um, I forgot my id. 852 00:34:35,594 --> 00:34:38,534 Um, and if you know anything about FCA, they don't let you in unless 853 00:34:38,534 --> 00:34:39,915 you have an ID during school hours. 854 00:34:39,915 --> 00:34:42,105 And so I came like, no, but I, but I'm here all the time. 855 00:34:42,554 --> 00:34:43,755 I'm a pastor. 856 00:34:44,085 --> 00:34:46,304 Uh, I like, I'm, I've got a degree. 857 00:34:46,304 --> 00:34:47,415 Like I, I'm okay. 858 00:34:47,475 --> 00:34:48,614 I'm not gonna hurt anybody. 859 00:34:49,215 --> 00:34:54,675 Uh, but they weren't listening until I had the headmaster with me and the 860 00:34:54,675 --> 00:34:56,025 headmaster's like, oh, he's chill. 861 00:34:57,255 --> 00:34:57,855 Let him pass. 862 00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:00,690 Headmaster just had to give a wave of the hand, and she's like, all 863 00:35:00,690 --> 00:35:04,350 right, you go, sir, I strolled on in and dreaded after them. 864 00:35:04,650 --> 00:35:05,460 You can't touch this. 865 00:35:06,570 --> 00:35:07,440 Now stopping me. 866 00:35:08,250 --> 00:35:11,490 I was able to get in because of the access that the headmaster had, not 867 00:35:11,490 --> 00:35:14,010 because I didn't have my my id, so I couldn't get in, so I trusted her. 868 00:35:14,010 --> 00:35:14,790 She got me in. 869 00:35:15,150 --> 00:35:18,810 You get access to God, not because you earn it, but because of who you're with. 870 00:35:19,470 --> 00:35:21,150 Who you're with in this case is the son. 871 00:35:21,270 --> 00:35:23,790 The son gives you full and free access to the father. 872 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,370 In fact, family privileges, two major ones. 873 00:35:26,370 --> 00:35:26,880 Okay, here you go. 874 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:27,450 Number one. 875 00:35:28,275 --> 00:35:29,145 Riches in Christ. 876 00:35:29,145 --> 00:35:29,895 Actually, I have three here. 877 00:35:30,135 --> 00:35:31,335 Riches in Christ. 878 00:35:31,485 --> 00:35:33,795 Number two, freedom from the Old Testament law. 879 00:35:33,885 --> 00:35:37,815 Number three, full Never ending Acceptance by the Father. 880 00:35:37,815 --> 00:35:42,435 These are three family privileges that you get when you are allied with Christ. 881 00:35:42,435 --> 00:35:44,865 When you repent of your sin, put your trust in Jesus. 882 00:35:45,375 --> 00:35:47,355 You are given the full riches of Christ. 883 00:35:47,355 --> 00:35:48,045 The sons are free. 884 00:35:48,045 --> 00:35:51,525 Jesus says, the sons are free in Christ, they're rich. 885 00:35:51,555 --> 00:35:56,445 You have all of the heavenly blessings that Heaven can offer. 886 00:35:56,940 --> 00:35:58,230 They're yours in Christ. 887 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,280 Secondly, you are free from the Old Testament law. 888 00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:07,380 You no longer are obligated to sacrifice goats and sheep and things like that. 889 00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:08,220 Praise God for that. 890 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,060 If you've ever read the book of Leviticus, you'll feel how important that is. 891 00:36:12,630 --> 00:36:15,900 Lastly, I, again, I had to come back to this 'cause it's so important. 892 00:36:16,260 --> 00:36:20,730 Being allied with Jesus, turning from your sin, putting your trust in him means 893 00:36:20,730 --> 00:36:25,920 that you will never, ever find yourself on the business end of God's wrath. 894 00:36:26,865 --> 00:36:32,415 You'll always enjoy full never ending acceptance by the father, and this is 895 00:36:32,415 --> 00:36:33,915 what you and I most desperately want. 896 00:36:36,165 --> 00:36:38,654 There's a thousand voices telling you who to follow, who 897 00:36:38,654 --> 00:36:40,305 to listen to, what to trust. 898 00:36:41,025 --> 00:36:43,515 Wouldn't it be great if God just opened the heavens and told us 899 00:36:43,815 --> 00:36:45,225 who to listen to and who to trust? 900 00:36:45,470 --> 00:36:47,985 Of course, this is what Jesus did. 901 00:36:48,105 --> 00:36:49,634 This is what He did for you and for me. 902 00:36:49,965 --> 00:36:51,795 Our job is to ask the question. 903 00:36:51,825 --> 00:36:52,965 Are we listening? 904 00:36:53,865 --> 00:36:55,154 Says who Well says God. 905 00:36:55,650 --> 00:36:57,990 He's the one who says, listen to Jesus, follow him. 906 00:36:58,590 --> 00:36:59,370 Are you listening? 907 00:37:00,510 --> 00:37:03,840 Are you willing to submit yourself to the beloved son? 908 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:06,300 If so, two major takeaways. 909 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:09,120 One, if you're not a Christian, listen to the beloved son. 910 00:37:09,540 --> 00:37:11,370 Repent of your sin and put your trust in him. 911 00:37:11,820 --> 00:37:16,170 Two, if you are a Christian, what area of your life has Jesus spoken? 912 00:37:16,170 --> 00:37:18,360 And you're still just dragging your heels saying, well, I'll get to 913 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,620 it eventually, or when I grow up. 914 00:37:20,595 --> 00:37:21,885 This is my beloved son. 915 00:37:21,885 --> 00:37:23,475 The father says, listen to him. 916 00:37:23,565 --> 00:37:25,245 Let's pray about that and we'll go talk about it in our small groups. 917 00:37:25,245 --> 00:37:28,425 Now, God help us to pay attention to the Son. 918 00:37:29,235 --> 00:37:30,435 He is the Son of God. 919 00:37:30,435 --> 00:37:31,005 The Son of man. 920 00:37:31,005 --> 00:37:33,435 You've proven it, Lord, you've given us every reason to believe. 921 00:37:33,705 --> 00:37:36,975 We pray that you help us now to do that, to believe in Him, and to 922 00:37:36,975 --> 00:37:38,775 show our belief in him by actions. 923 00:37:39,135 --> 00:37:41,445 Let those actions be solidified tonight in our small groups. 924 00:37:41,445 --> 00:37:42,825 In Jesus name, amen.