1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,289 . So, as we said earlier, we are studying out a, a series, uh, we're 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,720 that we're calling the real Jesus. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:12,930 And because we started off with the cause of Jesus and that Jesus, uh, is 4 00:00:12,930 --> 00:00:14,900 not just something that to to believe. 5 00:00:15,389 --> 00:00:19,199 You're not just something for followers to subscribe to or to post little cute 6 00:00:19,380 --> 00:00:24,449 little posts on Instagram or maybe do some videos on TikTok, but the real Jesus 7 00:00:24,449 --> 00:00:29,250 is worthy and he's calling us to know him, to follow him, and also to show the 8 00:00:29,250 --> 00:00:32,069 real Jesus to those that we are around. 9 00:00:32,073 --> 00:00:36,299 And so we're studying out through the Book of Luke, the real Jesus. 10 00:00:36,299 --> 00:00:42,239 So we're in search of the real Jesus, the Jesus of the Bible, the Jesus of Nazareth. 11 00:00:42,239 --> 00:00:49,619 Then what does that mean then for us today in 2023 to be followers of the real Jesus? 12 00:00:49,619 --> 00:00:53,069 And so we've been making some observations and last week I thought 13 00:00:53,069 --> 00:00:56,909 Kyle did a phenomenal job there in, in guiding us and helping us to 14 00:00:56,909 --> 00:01:02,699 see how the real Jesus was open and welcomed in interruptions in our life. 15 00:01:03,119 --> 00:01:07,589 And so he even called us to pray that as a church, that we can ask God 16 00:01:07,594 --> 00:01:10,529 to reveal ways that we can welcome. 17 00:01:10,980 --> 00:01:11,820 Interruption. 18 00:01:12,030 --> 00:01:15,300 And so hopefully you've been praying that prayer for all of us, 19 00:01:15,329 --> 00:01:19,170 and we are gonna have something as well to pray through this week. 20 00:01:19,230 --> 00:01:22,380 So here today, we're gonna be talking about how the real 21 00:01:22,430 --> 00:01:27,960 Jesus challenges our worldviews. 22 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:34,700 The real Jesus challenges our worldviews. 23 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:36,210 Let's go to God in prayer. 24 00:01:36,210 --> 00:01:42,870 God almighty, father in heaven, king of kings, we see 25 00:01:42,870 --> 00:01:45,860 your glory in the man, Jesus. 26 00:01:46,740 --> 00:01:53,550 And God, as we see Jesus, he reveals you and we are so in awe of Jesus. 27 00:01:53,759 --> 00:01:58,440 We're so in awe of your character, the way you interacted with 28 00:01:58,445 --> 00:02:00,000 others, the way you interact with. 29 00:02:00,780 --> 00:02:04,829 Father even hearing that was just so cool how, uh, uh, for Lawrence there, 30 00:02:04,890 --> 00:02:06,840 Lord, you, you were a distant figure. 31 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,700 Someone who was a long time ago that really wasn't relevant to his daily life. 32 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:16,800 But now here he is saying he is compelled by the love that you have shown him, 33 00:02:17,130 --> 00:02:21,840 the relationship that you have built with him, to now share that with others. 34 00:02:22,019 --> 00:02:27,240 And God, we're grateful for this opportunity to shake off the religiosity 35 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:32,400 that we maybe some of us grew up with to, uh, uh, to dismiss, uh, certain, uh, 36 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:39,059 ideas and views of you and God be able to come in contact with the real Jesus and 37 00:02:39,059 --> 00:02:44,519 God, I pray today that you will challenge our worldviews and that we will submit 38 00:02:44,519 --> 00:02:48,269 our worldviews to the Lordship of Jesus. 39 00:02:48,269 --> 00:02:49,380 It's in his name. 40 00:02:49,470 --> 00:02:50,130 Amen. 41 00:02:50,349 --> 00:02:50,840 Amen. 42 00:02:51,150 --> 00:02:51,690 Amen. 43 00:02:51,690 --> 00:02:54,180 Well, if you guys can turn over your Bibles to Luke chapter eight. 44 00:02:54,524 --> 00:02:55,694 Luke chapter eight. 45 00:02:55,904 --> 00:02:59,414 First off, it would be good here to understand our worldview. 46 00:02:59,414 --> 00:03:02,624 A worldview we all understand is a particular philosophy of 47 00:03:02,624 --> 00:03:05,444 life or conception of the world. 48 00:03:05,444 --> 00:03:09,914 And so we, we have a worldview and so we view world, uh, uh, we view the world 49 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:11,804 through this lens, and we all have one. 50 00:03:11,809 --> 00:03:12,524 It doesn't matter. 51 00:03:12,524 --> 00:03:16,334 It's usually shaped by our family, our culture, our society, where we 52 00:03:16,334 --> 00:03:21,464 live, what side of the tracks we grew up on, and, and our worldviews. 53 00:03:21,824 --> 00:03:27,134 What happens when they come in, clash with other people's worldviews. 54 00:03:29,234 --> 00:03:30,524 A fight, right? 55 00:03:30,824 --> 00:03:34,394 There's a clash even in that, well, when we have different worldviews 56 00:03:34,394 --> 00:03:38,024 with people, and that's what we see the result of fruit of, even in our 57 00:03:38,024 --> 00:03:42,344 society, in your block, in your, in your school, wherever the case may be. 58 00:03:42,524 --> 00:03:47,954 But our worldviews are so important because they dictate not only how we 59 00:03:47,954 --> 00:03:53,414 view the world, but how we feel about things and our behavior, how we treat. 60 00:03:53,804 --> 00:03:59,654 Our neighbors, how we view others, how we're gonna view each other before and 61 00:03:59,654 --> 00:04:02,275 after this football game today, right? 62 00:04:02,324 --> 00:04:08,295 And so it's important here that we look and see and examine our worldviews. 63 00:04:09,644 --> 00:04:15,855 But here's the thing, when we come in contact with the real Jesus, he's 64 00:04:15,855 --> 00:04:18,974 going to challenge your worldview. 65 00:04:20,024 --> 00:04:22,454 And then we have a choice to make. 66 00:04:23,174 --> 00:04:26,174 Are we going to hold on to our worldview? 67 00:04:26,684 --> 00:04:31,214 Or if we're gonna follow the real Jesus, are we going to then submit 68 00:04:31,219 --> 00:04:33,414 it to the lordship of Jesus? 69 00:04:34,784 --> 00:04:36,404 And that's challenging, isn't it? 70 00:04:37,364 --> 00:04:42,255 And so let's look and see how Jesus, the real Jesus challenges our worldview. 71 00:04:42,255 --> 00:04:42,585 Church. 72 00:04:42,585 --> 00:04:43,724 Are you with me here today? 73 00:04:44,414 --> 00:04:46,034 Going over to Luke chapter eight. 74 00:04:46,039 --> 00:04:47,204 Luke chapter eight. 75 00:04:47,864 --> 00:04:49,904 We're gonna start off here in verse one. 76 00:04:50,625 --> 00:04:53,384 Again, we've been looking through the book of Luke here, and we've seen Jesus 77 00:04:53,384 --> 00:04:56,984 do a number of cool things that we've understood him, and, and we're gonna look 78 00:04:56,984 --> 00:05:00,464 at something here and, and I'm just gonna say this real quickly, man, there is, oh, 79 00:05:00,714 --> 00:05:04,005 I, I really wish we could just go verse by verse throughout the whole book of 80 00:05:04,009 --> 00:05:06,464 Luke, but, but we're not going to, okay? 81 00:05:06,525 --> 00:05:09,554 And, uh, and so we're gonna try to cover as much as we can. 82 00:05:09,704 --> 00:05:12,554 And so I might get a little speedy here on my speed chair. 83 00:05:12,554 --> 00:05:16,514 So I'm sorry, Emily, if I go too fast, try to stick with me here. 84 00:05:16,605 --> 00:05:17,025 All right. 85 00:05:17,025 --> 00:05:21,464 So in Luke chapter eight in verse one, it says, after this, Jesus 86 00:05:21,469 --> 00:05:25,844 traveled about from one town in village to another, proclaiming the 87 00:05:25,844 --> 00:05:28,094 good news of the Kingdom of God. 88 00:05:28,244 --> 00:05:32,025 The 12 were with him and also some women who have been cured 89 00:05:32,025 --> 00:05:33,585 of evil spirits and diseases. 90 00:05:33,734 --> 00:05:36,824 Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out. 91 00:05:36,884 --> 00:05:41,505 Joanna the wife, Chuah, the manager of Herod's household, Susanna and many 92 00:05:41,534 --> 00:05:45,914 others, these women were helping to support them out of their own means. 93 00:05:45,914 --> 00:05:47,025 Let's stop right there. 94 00:05:47,025 --> 00:05:48,194 Anything stand out? 95 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:52,469 Did anything stand out? 96 00:05:59,369 --> 00:06:00,770 There's women participation. 97 00:06:00,774 --> 00:06:01,319 Did you see that? 98 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:03,839 Did you see that? 99 00:06:03,899 --> 00:06:10,469 It says the 12 were with him and also who some women were right there. 100 00:06:10,619 --> 00:06:12,959 And it says that these women were following. 101 00:06:12,959 --> 00:06:16,409 So as they all went about from town to town and from Village. 102 00:06:16,409 --> 00:06:17,549 Village, he's preaching. 103 00:06:17,609 --> 00:06:18,179 And guess what? 104 00:06:18,179 --> 00:06:18,959 You got the 12. 105 00:06:18,964 --> 00:06:22,139 We all know we're all familiar with who the 12 apostles were. 106 00:06:22,199 --> 00:06:22,859 And guess what? 107 00:06:22,864 --> 00:06:27,299 There were women right there with him and they were also also 108 00:06:27,329 --> 00:06:29,729 financially supporting the cause. 109 00:06:32,099 --> 00:06:33,929 And the woman said, amen. 110 00:06:34,529 --> 00:06:36,509 And the brother should say Amen. 111 00:06:37,145 --> 00:06:37,634 Amen. 112 00:06:37,634 --> 00:06:39,524 And we see this is radical. 113 00:06:39,614 --> 00:06:41,145 We think, wow, look at our room. 114 00:06:41,414 --> 00:06:45,944 That doesn't really mean much, but let's go back in time and let's enter that 115 00:06:45,949 --> 00:06:49,815 culture and then extract what Jesus wants us to see for you and I today. 116 00:06:49,844 --> 00:06:50,504 Can we do that? 117 00:06:50,504 --> 00:06:54,524 Brothers and sisters, you know, this is a male dominated society. 118 00:06:54,524 --> 00:06:55,724 We're familiar with that. 119 00:06:55,815 --> 00:06:59,683 And for many, or maybe some women were considered second class 120 00:06:59,683 --> 00:07:04,994 citizens, women were excluded from participation in synagogue worship. 121 00:07:05,654 --> 00:07:10,094 So they couldn't participate in the, in the local church service there. 122 00:07:10,154 --> 00:07:15,105 They were restricted to a spectator role and forbid in the enter the temple 123 00:07:15,164 --> 00:07:16,964 and had to stay in the court of women. 124 00:07:17,174 --> 00:07:19,364 Says you got to the temple in the court. 125 00:07:19,364 --> 00:07:22,694 They had the court of women, they had the gentile part, but then the 126 00:07:22,699 --> 00:07:24,164 Gentiles couldn't move any forward. 127 00:07:24,224 --> 00:07:26,714 And then the women had their spot and that's where you're supposed to be. 128 00:07:26,804 --> 00:07:28,034 You can't enter the temple. 129 00:07:29,085 --> 00:07:36,164 And then a woman was not to touch the scriptures to avoid her defiling them. 130 00:07:38,369 --> 00:07:39,090 Wow. 131 00:07:40,949 --> 00:07:44,909 That's the setting that we're in. 132 00:07:45,389 --> 00:07:48,150 And so Jesus is walking around with his crew. 133 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,000 They're preaching, and guess who's right along with them? 134 00:07:52,860 --> 00:07:56,490 The women are, they're right along with him. 135 00:07:56,670 --> 00:08:02,639 And again, women weren't taught by rabbis, so this was unfamiliar 136 00:08:03,099 --> 00:08:05,369 territory because they're like, Hey, the, the rabbis might have some women 137 00:08:05,369 --> 00:08:09,059 around maybe doing some, some, some, some, some type of service, but they 138 00:08:09,065 --> 00:08:13,710 weren't following and they definitely weren't being taught by the rabbis. 139 00:08:13,980 --> 00:08:18,990 But here, Jesus, he's teaching the women, the women are following Jesus 140 00:08:18,990 --> 00:08:21,150 as we see, they become his disciples. 141 00:08:21,179 --> 00:08:22,110 And guess what? 142 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:25,020 They're even footing the bill in the ministry. 143 00:08:25,110 --> 00:08:25,170 Yeah. 144 00:08:25,889 --> 00:08:25,920 Okay. 145 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,559 They're spiritually, the sugar mamas of the ministry. 146 00:08:28,650 --> 00:08:28,710 Yeah. 147 00:08:30,059 --> 00:08:31,590 And some of y'all get a little sensitive. 148 00:08:31,809 --> 00:08:33,720 I this, I'm not saying anything to grading. 149 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:34,020 Okay. 150 00:08:34,020 --> 00:08:35,639 I, I'm, you get what I'm saying? 151 00:08:36,568 --> 00:08:38,099 I'm saying the women were like, I got this. 152 00:08:38,099 --> 00:08:38,849 Jesus. 153 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:38,938 Yeah. 154 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:45,569 They were financially supporting while the real Jesus humbled to take help. 155 00:08:46,199 --> 00:08:50,219 He's the real Jesus is not even to take help, but I, I have the 156 00:08:50,219 --> 00:08:54,599 women be able to serve and be able to have this prominent role. 157 00:08:54,629 --> 00:08:56,759 Ooh, this is something radical. 158 00:08:58,259 --> 00:09:01,770 You know, Jesus ministry always depended on people sharing their resources. 159 00:09:01,859 --> 00:09:01,919 Yeah. 160 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:03,629 They supported his ministry. 161 00:09:03,750 --> 00:09:05,579 And I just want to thank all of those here. 162 00:09:05,579 --> 00:09:08,279 I know we gave our financial offering and thank you, Jamie, that 163 00:09:08,339 --> 00:09:10,919 that was a great offering there, uh, leading our thoughts there. 164 00:09:11,009 --> 00:09:15,000 I wanna thank all those who support Jesus ministry today, still 165 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,699 through your sacrificial giving. 166 00:09:19,439 --> 00:09:23,310 I want to thank you so much because Jesus ministry didn't stop then, as we know, 167 00:09:23,310 --> 00:09:24,960 we're a part of Jesus' ministry today. 168 00:09:25,665 --> 00:09:29,024 And we wouldn't have this ministry today without the selfless, 169 00:09:29,504 --> 00:09:31,274 sacrificial giving of the congregation. 170 00:09:31,274 --> 00:09:34,125 So go ahead and give yourselves some love right there. 171 00:09:35,384 --> 00:09:39,464 I wish I could have heard the women do the offering talk, man. 172 00:09:39,464 --> 00:09:43,004 I wonder what they would say today when they would get up and share with us. 173 00:09:43,009 --> 00:09:44,085 But that's another side note. 174 00:09:44,085 --> 00:09:44,355 Right? 175 00:09:44,984 --> 00:09:49,544 And here's something interesting that says Joanna the wife, Chuah, 176 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:54,915 the manager of Hart's household, Hart was a a, a ruler there. 177 00:09:54,974 --> 00:09:56,054 And that's interesting. 178 00:09:56,474 --> 00:09:58,665 Check that out. 179 00:09:59,654 --> 00:10:02,234 She was married and her man is linked up with her. 180 00:10:02,234 --> 00:10:04,065 He's politically connected. 181 00:10:04,185 --> 00:10:08,384 It depends on maybe what's meant here, but he could have been the financial 182 00:10:08,415 --> 00:10:14,355 manager of Herod and here she is, what bravery to followed Jesus at a time 183 00:10:14,359 --> 00:10:16,454 where women's rights were very limited. 184 00:10:16,514 --> 00:10:16,574 It. 185 00:10:19,094 --> 00:10:21,435 And you know, I've heard this term, I actually only heard it here in, 186 00:10:21,435 --> 00:10:25,545 um, in Orange County, but, but even back then, they had what we call 187 00:10:25,574 --> 00:10:31,545 the spiritually single people in the church who were married, but yet they, 188 00:10:31,605 --> 00:10:33,585 their spouse is not a disciple yet. 189 00:10:33,585 --> 00:10:37,214 So even in Jesus's ministry then, just like it is today, there were 190 00:10:37,214 --> 00:10:38,654 those who were spiritually single. 191 00:10:38,804 --> 00:10:43,964 And I just wanna lift up every brother and sister who is faithful to Jesus. 192 00:10:44,025 --> 00:10:46,815 And your spouse is not a disciple of Jesus yet. 193 00:10:48,134 --> 00:10:54,944 I wanna lift you up because that takes a lot and we appreciate and 194 00:10:54,944 --> 00:10:58,545 we admire the example that you are setting for every single one of us. 195 00:10:58,545 --> 00:11:03,224 And again, let's be praying for those that we know that are spiritually single. 196 00:11:03,224 --> 00:11:06,284 Let's be praying and serving and loving upon their spouses. 197 00:11:06,290 --> 00:11:06,855 Amen. 198 00:11:08,504 --> 00:11:11,895 I mean, how much harder was it back then when women had less rights and she could 199 00:11:11,895 --> 00:11:13,994 have easily been abandoned by her husband? 200 00:11:15,270 --> 00:11:18,770 But she's still faithfully committed to following Jesus. 201 00:11:19,349 --> 00:11:21,209 She probably was the one that had a lot of the money. 202 00:11:24,029 --> 00:11:26,520 In a side note here, that's really cool. 203 00:11:26,909 --> 00:11:31,439 This is probably how Hared heard of Jesus and probably his initial 204 00:11:31,439 --> 00:11:32,849 thought of Jesus was negative. 205 00:11:33,270 --> 00:11:35,879 Cuz he's hearing from choosing like, man, my wife is running around 206 00:11:35,939 --> 00:11:38,429 and she's going on with Jesus and preaching and all that type of stuff. 207 00:11:38,459 --> 00:11:39,659 Man, what's wrong with this guy? 208 00:11:41,189 --> 00:11:44,099 And so that's probably how Harriet had heard of Jesus initially. 209 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:47,399 But then we know he has his other things that he has against him. 210 00:11:47,459 --> 00:11:51,989 But Jesus challenges the worldview of many with his treatment of women. 211 00:11:52,349 --> 00:11:55,859 And we see this clearly in the Book of Luke. 212 00:11:55,919 --> 00:12:00,479 You see the role of women from the beginning of Jesus', time and life here on 213 00:12:00,484 --> 00:12:03,239 earth, to the time in which he resurrects. 214 00:12:03,239 --> 00:12:06,779 Check this out, right here in Luke one, we see Mary and Elizabeth. 215 00:12:06,929 --> 00:12:10,589 There's some of the heroes of the infancy narratives about 216 00:12:10,589 --> 00:12:12,149 John the Baptist in Jesus. 217 00:12:12,630 --> 00:12:17,160 We see in Luke seven that Jesus lets a sinful woman touch his feet. 218 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,560 This is what we studied out last week, right through, uh, through 219 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:23,910 Kyle there, and he defended her in an argument with the Pharisees. 220 00:12:24,150 --> 00:12:26,910 Then at Luke eight, we see here what we're looking at now, the women 221 00:12:26,915 --> 00:12:30,550 follow Jesus, just like disciples and then provided material support. 222 00:12:31,050 --> 00:12:34,860 Luke 10, we see Jesus commends Mary for sitting at his feet 223 00:12:34,860 --> 00:12:36,630 and learning like a disciple. 224 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:41,110 Only disciples would be at the feet, and here she is and Jesus commends 225 00:12:41,115 --> 00:12:43,950 her publicly for what she is doing. 226 00:12:44,610 --> 00:12:48,540 Luke 13, Jesus cared for the dignity of this crippled woman 227 00:12:48,630 --> 00:12:51,090 over it and against the Pharisees. 228 00:12:51,570 --> 00:12:55,740 Again, in Luke 13, he uses a woman's work in his parable, in his 229 00:12:55,740 --> 00:13:01,260 teaching, Luke 21 and 23, he showed his sorrow over the sufferings that 230 00:13:01,260 --> 00:13:05,160 the woman would be forced to endure because they decided to follow him. 231 00:13:05,550 --> 00:13:11,160 Later on in Luke 23, he, we see the women and they, they attend to his final rights. 232 00:13:13,274 --> 00:13:18,704 And then we see in Luke 24 at the cmb, the women were the first to see, 233 00:13:19,194 --> 00:13:25,904 recognized and also even proclaim the news of the resurrected Jesus again. 234 00:13:25,935 --> 00:13:28,634 Can I get a amen from the brothers and the sisters? 235 00:13:30,404 --> 00:13:33,164 You know what's a side note that's pretty wild is that the gospels 236 00:13:33,634 --> 00:13:37,604 actually never record any women ever taking action against Jesus. 237 00:13:37,784 --> 00:13:39,314 All his enemies were men. 238 00:13:41,264 --> 00:13:42,435 Isn't that interesting? 239 00:13:44,444 --> 00:13:45,435 That's just a little cool. 240 00:13:45,435 --> 00:13:45,854 Side note. 241 00:13:45,854 --> 00:13:47,894 I see, I see women all fired up like, yeah, Uhhuh. 242 00:13:47,984 --> 00:13:49,604 It's the men messing it up. 243 00:13:54,254 --> 00:13:55,424 But this is incredible. 244 00:13:56,894 --> 00:14:00,284 This is incredible for Jesus in this time. 245 00:14:00,284 --> 00:14:01,294 He's challenging. 246 00:14:01,299 --> 00:14:04,064 How do you view the operative sex? 247 00:14:04,394 --> 00:14:07,604 He's lifting it up that they are valuable and it's just as important 248 00:14:07,604 --> 00:14:08,984 in my ministry as anybody else. 249 00:14:11,909 --> 00:14:13,199 Let's continue reading. 250 00:14:13,409 --> 00:14:15,210 Luke chapter eight, verse 19. 251 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:19,560 Now, Jesus' mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able 252 00:14:19,565 --> 00:14:21,030 to get near him because of the crowd. 253 00:14:21,030 --> 00:14:24,690 Someone told him, your mother and brothers are standing outside wanting to see you. 254 00:14:24,690 --> 00:14:27,000 He replied, my mother and brothers are those who hear God's 255 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,030 word and put it into practice. 256 00:14:30,570 --> 00:14:32,489 We'll stop right there. 257 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:35,400 The gospel of Mark tells us that the family actually came in and 258 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,219 take charge of him, and they said, Hey, he's out of his mind. 259 00:14:38,219 --> 00:14:41,190 So that's a little bit of the context that's there. 260 00:14:41,310 --> 00:14:44,369 And so here Jesus is, and just imagine if you were there 261 00:14:44,375 --> 00:14:46,050 and you heard this statement. 262 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:48,690 Jesus is in this crowd and they say, Hey, your mom, your brothers 263 00:14:48,690 --> 00:14:49,829 are all outside to get you. 264 00:14:49,980 --> 00:14:54,000 And he says, Hey, no, these people in here listening to me, the people who actually 265 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,750 do my, that do the the bidding of God who followed God through these are my mother. 266 00:14:57,750 --> 00:14:59,250 My brothers are my sisters. 267 00:14:59,849 --> 00:15:00,329 Whoa. 268 00:15:03,030 --> 00:15:05,909 How would you feel if you heard that? 269 00:15:06,764 --> 00:15:07,724 That's a little jarring. 270 00:15:07,724 --> 00:15:10,215 That's a, that that does something to us, doesn't it? 271 00:15:10,264 --> 00:15:10,744 Yeah. 272 00:15:10,935 --> 00:15:12,014 It's challenging the day. 273 00:15:12,014 --> 00:15:13,244 And it was challenging back then. 274 00:15:13,244 --> 00:15:14,954 Again, this was a collective society. 275 00:15:15,045 --> 00:15:18,074 Family was vital, family was important. 276 00:15:20,375 --> 00:15:23,744 Families usually lived together in family units. 277 00:15:24,074 --> 00:15:28,425 Oftentimes they would can, they would have parents, children, and grandparents. 278 00:15:28,605 --> 00:15:32,985 And even in the same uh, area, you would have aunts, uncles, cousins, so 279 00:15:32,985 --> 00:15:37,335 auntie, auntie Jan, uncle Joey, uh, uh, they would all be in the same place. 280 00:15:37,335 --> 00:15:41,715 And in many cases you needed the whole family unit just for survival. 281 00:15:42,045 --> 00:15:42,534 Yeah. 282 00:15:43,065 --> 00:15:48,554 So this mindset of family was, Hey, family is important, families needed. 283 00:15:49,005 --> 00:15:57,795 And Jesus says, those who do God's will are my true brothers and sisters. 284 00:15:59,145 --> 00:16:02,985 This is jarring not just for the family, but for those around hearing this. 285 00:16:04,859 --> 00:16:08,909 Jesus says, my true family is the spiritual family. 286 00:16:10,589 --> 00:16:15,479 I don't believe he's really trying to disrespect or dismiss his physical family. 287 00:16:15,479 --> 00:16:19,439 That could, that could be the case when we read this, but we also know that Jesus' 288 00:16:19,444 --> 00:16:23,069 brothers, at least two of them, and also his mom, become followers of Jesus, and 289 00:16:23,074 --> 00:16:26,819 he makes sure even on the cross that he takes care of his mother and that 290 00:16:26,824 --> 00:16:29,219 she gets taken care of after he's gone. 291 00:16:29,310 --> 00:16:32,459 So Jesus never was anti his own family. 292 00:16:33,029 --> 00:16:33,899 What's he doing? 293 00:16:33,929 --> 00:16:36,989 He's actually lifting up the spiritual family. 294 00:16:38,879 --> 00:16:42,029 He's challenging our view of church. 295 00:16:43,409 --> 00:16:46,699 He's challenging our views of our relationships. 296 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,649 We see here, Jesus, the spiritual family ties are stronger than 297 00:16:52,654 --> 00:16:55,199 any physical ties can ever be. 298 00:16:55,229 --> 00:16:59,520 He's saying, basically, my relatives imitate me and obey God. 299 00:17:00,750 --> 00:17:06,299 You know, this is challenging, but if you think about it, it makes sense. 300 00:17:07,109 --> 00:17:10,170 You know, one of my favorite, uh, uh, biblical commentaries, his name is 301 00:17:10,170 --> 00:17:13,739 William Bar Barclay, and, uh, Barclay said this, I thought it was really cool, 302 00:17:13,739 --> 00:17:14,969 and I wanted to read it with you guys. 303 00:17:15,179 --> 00:17:19,329 It says, the deepest relationship of life is not merely a blood relationship. 304 00:17:19,888 --> 00:17:24,420 It is the relationship of mind to mind and heart to heart. 305 00:17:24,929 --> 00:17:28,949 It is when people have common aims, common principles, common 306 00:17:29,489 --> 00:17:34,380 interests, a common goal that they become really and truly kin. 307 00:17:35,940 --> 00:17:37,620 Some of us can attest to that, can't we? 308 00:17:38,759 --> 00:17:40,049 We're, we're connected. 309 00:17:40,054 --> 00:17:43,080 So to soul, mind to mind, heart to heart, passion. 310 00:17:43,179 --> 00:17:45,420 We, we are driven for the cause of Jesus. 311 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,770 And so we look around and we go, man, you're my brother, man. 312 00:17:49,770 --> 00:17:51,029 You're my sister. 313 00:17:51,989 --> 00:17:54,719 You know, we've all heard the phrase, blood is thicker than water, but the 314 00:17:54,719 --> 00:17:56,819 blood of Jesus is the thickest of all. 315 00:18:00,449 --> 00:18:06,539 You know, this is challenging for many, but this is also freeing for all. 316 00:18:08,309 --> 00:18:11,639 This means that nothing in our physical birth or environment 317 00:18:11,639 --> 00:18:13,499 determines our relationship to God. 318 00:18:13,529 --> 00:18:16,979 The only thing that does is our response to the word of God. 319 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,699 And so it doesn't matter what, what side of the tracks I grew up on. 320 00:18:20,789 --> 00:18:23,580 It's all about how I respond to God's word. 321 00:18:24,929 --> 00:18:27,449 I mean, again, this is challenging, but this is freeing. 322 00:18:28,169 --> 00:18:28,919 This is helpful. 323 00:18:28,924 --> 00:18:35,639 This is, this is incredible to be a part of God's spiritual family. 324 00:18:36,389 --> 00:18:40,949 So when you become a child of God through baptism, you enter a spiritual family. 325 00:18:42,089 --> 00:18:46,109 You know the person who follows the real Jesus enters a family in which includes 326 00:18:46,109 --> 00:18:49,169 all the saints in earth and in heaven. 327 00:18:51,029 --> 00:18:56,189 Now, this requires a change in our worldview. 328 00:18:57,855 --> 00:19:05,085 This means that if we follow the real Jesus, then my church folk 329 00:19:05,145 --> 00:19:10,275 aren't my church friends, but they are my true brothers and sisters. 330 00:19:11,495 --> 00:19:11,985 Amen. 331 00:19:12,255 --> 00:19:15,165 Because you can't view the person to your right or left 332 00:19:15,165 --> 00:19:17,235 as, oh, that's my church friend. 333 00:19:17,745 --> 00:19:21,225 That's somebody I know and see on Sunday and be following the Jesus 334 00:19:21,225 --> 00:19:22,605 who says, no, no, no, no, no, no. 335 00:19:22,635 --> 00:19:25,305 My family are those who actually follow the word of God. 336 00:19:25,305 --> 00:19:26,445 That's my true family. 337 00:19:26,695 --> 00:19:27,185 Amen. 338 00:19:28,185 --> 00:19:30,945 See, it requires a change in worldview. 339 00:19:31,335 --> 00:19:32,715 It requires a difference. 340 00:19:32,775 --> 00:19:37,155 It requires relationships, not just attending service and 341 00:19:37,155 --> 00:19:38,925 sitting in the pews together. 342 00:19:40,545 --> 00:19:44,715 It requires a commitment, not to an organization, but to what? 343 00:19:44,745 --> 00:19:45,465 To people. 344 00:19:46,905 --> 00:19:48,225 To individuals. 345 00:19:49,035 --> 00:19:52,125 It requires a commitment to serving one another. 346 00:19:53,264 --> 00:19:56,284 And it requires a commitment to resolving conflict. 347 00:19:56,294 --> 00:19:59,384 Ooh, can the church have some conflicts? 348 00:19:59,584 --> 00:20:00,004 Yep. 349 00:20:00,254 --> 00:20:00,975 All of y'all like mm-hmm. 350 00:20:01,274 --> 00:20:02,745 , I had some on the way up in here. 351 00:20:06,224 --> 00:20:08,654 And so we can, we, we can view each other as that and then 352 00:20:08,654 --> 00:20:10,005 keep each other at a distance. 353 00:20:10,005 --> 00:20:11,715 Let me give the Heisman to that brother. 354 00:20:11,715 --> 00:20:14,625 That's sister, but not in God's family. 355 00:20:15,284 --> 00:20:15,974 I gotta serve. 356 00:20:15,974 --> 00:20:18,314 I have to love, and you know, I need to get resolved. 357 00:20:21,795 --> 00:20:28,245 And again, for the Jew, or even for many Gentiles at this time, the idea of 358 00:20:28,250 --> 00:20:32,024 family, it was necessary for survival. 359 00:20:34,904 --> 00:20:39,465 So now how do I view you and how do you view me? 360 00:20:40,125 --> 00:20:43,604 Are we necessary for spiritual survival? 361 00:20:45,824 --> 00:20:47,644 That's why I'll make a commitment to be there on Wednesday. 362 00:20:48,585 --> 00:20:51,045 That's why I'll make a commitment to be there on Sunday. 363 00:20:51,255 --> 00:20:54,105 That's why I'll make a commitment to pray for you on those days. 364 00:20:54,105 --> 00:20:57,675 This is why I'll make a commitment to spend time with you despite Wednesday 365 00:20:57,675 --> 00:21:01,185 and Sunday and church activities, brother and sister, do you hear what I'm saying? 366 00:21:02,985 --> 00:21:04,784 And I just wanna lift up the church. 367 00:21:05,865 --> 00:21:10,455 The recent responses for a couple of the deaths that we've, that we've had 368 00:21:10,455 --> 00:21:12,485 to endure and suffer here recently. 369 00:21:12,795 --> 00:21:15,135 The memorial that was set up for Brene Turner. 370 00:21:15,135 --> 00:21:18,765 I mean, she, she, she passed away in Texas, but here in California. 371 00:21:18,765 --> 00:21:18,975 Why? 372 00:21:18,975 --> 00:21:20,295 Because she was so loved. 373 00:21:20,475 --> 00:21:23,355 There was a little memorial here for her. 374 00:21:24,765 --> 00:21:28,215 Then a love and support that's been had for the Laier family. 375 00:21:28,515 --> 00:21:33,165 I had a brother, uh, come up to me earlier and say, Hey, what can we do as college 376 00:21:33,165 --> 00:21:38,415 students to be there to support the Laier family that is the family of God? 377 00:21:39,315 --> 00:21:42,075 And I just wanted to commend the brothers and sisters, even as 378 00:21:42,075 --> 00:21:46,485 Karina shared earlier, so grateful that we had true relationships. 379 00:21:47,580 --> 00:21:50,220 But if we're honest for just a quick second, we're on the verge 380 00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:53,370 of losing some of that for covid. 381 00:21:53,370 --> 00:21:58,020 Some of us, we started to extract ourselves out of this, and so 382 00:21:58,020 --> 00:22:03,359 we're not fully delving in to relationships with one another. 383 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,699 And so we might show up in the pews. 384 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,300 We might show up every now and then to an event, but we don't 385 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:11,760 have that kinship with one another. 386 00:22:11,765 --> 00:22:12,870 You guys get what I'm saying? 387 00:22:13,770 --> 00:22:16,500 And I know we've had some new brothers and sisters in Christ to get baptized. 388 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:19,409 I wanna encourage you never just bolt outta here after service. 389 00:22:19,649 --> 00:22:23,220 Go ahead and go out to eat with somebody, engage in conversation and 390 00:22:23,250 --> 00:22:24,960 build those lifelong relationships. 391 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:25,470 Amen. 392 00:22:25,470 --> 00:22:25,620 Amen. 393 00:22:25,979 --> 00:22:29,550 Because here's the thing, if we do anything less than being committed 394 00:22:29,550 --> 00:22:33,270 to each other, that means we are no longer following the real Jesus. 395 00:22:34,170 --> 00:22:39,000 We're following some form of Jesus, but we're not following the real Jesus. 396 00:22:39,750 --> 00:22:45,260 And so hallelujah, that the real Jesus challenges our view of church. 397 00:22:45,734 --> 00:22:45,915 Amen. 398 00:22:46,644 --> 00:22:47,134 Amen. 399 00:22:47,139 --> 00:22:49,184 Is Jesus challenging your worldview yet? 400 00:22:50,894 --> 00:22:52,274 I dunno about you, but I get so excited. 401 00:22:52,274 --> 00:22:53,924 But man, I get challenged by this. 402 00:22:54,284 --> 00:22:55,304 We don't have enough time. 403 00:22:55,415 --> 00:22:55,784 Uh uh. 404 00:22:55,784 --> 00:22:58,755 So in Luke 8 22 to 25, he calms a storm. 405 00:22:58,755 --> 00:23:02,444 He shows that he has authority over power, uh, the power over nature. 406 00:23:02,625 --> 00:23:05,444 Luke 8 26 to 39, you have to read it on your own. 407 00:23:05,594 --> 00:23:06,284 Jesus heals. 408 00:23:06,314 --> 00:23:10,394 This man was a demonn possessed, and, uh, we're gonna take it up in Luke 409 00:23:10,394 --> 00:23:12,194 chapter eight in verse 40, church. 410 00:23:12,194 --> 00:23:13,424 Oh, you're still with me here. 411 00:23:14,024 --> 00:23:15,734 Let's go to Luke chapter eight, verse 40. 412 00:23:16,064 --> 00:23:20,745 Now, when Jesus returns, a crowd welcomed him for they were all expecting him. 413 00:23:20,745 --> 00:23:24,524 Then a man named Gyrus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus's 414 00:23:24,524 --> 00:23:28,364 feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his only daughter, 415 00:23:28,455 --> 00:23:30,344 a girl of about 12, was dying. 416 00:23:31,034 --> 00:23:33,375 As Jesus was on his way, the crowd almost crushed him. 417 00:23:34,005 --> 00:23:36,585 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 418 00:23:36,589 --> 00:23:38,144 years, but no one could heal her. 419 00:23:38,205 --> 00:23:40,574 She came up behind and touched the edge of his cloak, and 420 00:23:40,574 --> 00:23:42,194 immediately her bleeding stopped. 421 00:23:42,255 --> 00:23:42,915 Who touched me? 422 00:23:42,974 --> 00:23:43,604 Jesus has. 423 00:23:44,084 --> 00:23:46,245 When they all denied it, Peter said, master, the people are 424 00:23:46,245 --> 00:23:47,774 crowding, pressing against you. 425 00:23:47,864 --> 00:23:51,284 The, the Greek word basically means like they were, they were being crushed. 426 00:23:51,284 --> 00:23:54,284 And because maybe the streets were so narrow, it was like, Hey man, you're 427 00:23:54,344 --> 00:23:57,224 we're basically being suffocated around here, and you're asking who touched you? 428 00:23:57,224 --> 00:23:58,694 Like, what kind of question is that? 429 00:23:58,699 --> 00:23:59,384 Jesus? 430 00:24:00,314 --> 00:24:02,324 And he said, but Jesus says, someone touched me. 431 00:24:02,330 --> 00:24:04,814 I know that power has gone out for me. 432 00:24:05,834 --> 00:24:10,394 Then the woman seeing that she cannot go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his 433 00:24:10,394 --> 00:24:12,344 feet in the presence of all the people. 434 00:24:12,344 --> 00:24:15,884 She told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. 435 00:24:16,274 --> 00:24:19,064 Then he said to her Daughter, your faith has healed. 436 00:24:19,069 --> 00:24:20,894 You go in peace. 437 00:24:20,899 --> 00:24:24,005 While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the house of gyrus to 438 00:24:24,010 --> 00:24:25,754 synagogue leader, your daughter is dead. 439 00:24:25,754 --> 00:24:27,404 He said, don't bother the teacher anymore. 440 00:24:27,464 --> 00:24:30,314 Hearing as Jesus said to Gyrus, don't be afraid. 441 00:24:30,314 --> 00:24:33,044 Just believe and she will be healed. 442 00:24:33,284 --> 00:24:35,864 We won't have time to read the whole thing, but Jesus goes into 443 00:24:36,074 --> 00:24:40,214 the house of Gyrus and he heals and brings back to life his daughter. 444 00:24:40,514 --> 00:24:42,205 And what do we see from this? 445 00:24:43,170 --> 00:24:50,340 As we see that the real Jesus challenges our view of who's valuable, he 446 00:24:50,340 --> 00:24:55,290 challenges our view of who is valuable. 447 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,680 Let's go ahead and let's let, let's break it down here again. 448 00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:02,280 You see, we have the synagogue ruler and we have this bleeding 449 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,510 woman and see the synagogue ruler. 450 00:25:06,570 --> 00:25:08,700 For him, that means he had wealth. 451 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:10,470 He was a wealthy man. 452 00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:13,980 He's in charge of the local, uh, uh, uh, worship center there. 453 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,270 So he has respect. 454 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:16,350 He has prestige. 455 00:25:16,350 --> 00:25:18,920 He has clout amongst his peers and in the community. 456 00:25:19,290 --> 00:25:22,680 While the bleeding woman, while she's ostracized from her community, 457 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,870 she's ceremonially unclean. 458 00:25:24,870 --> 00:25:28,800 She has no clout respect, and we know from, from the Book of Mark 459 00:25:28,830 --> 00:25:32,820 that, that she spent all her money to on doctors trying to get healed. 460 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,510 It's funny that, that Luke o omits that part cuz he's a doctor. 461 00:25:37,485 --> 00:25:41,025 I think he asked Holy Spirit, can I just like not leave that part? 462 00:25:41,025 --> 00:25:41,534 You know what I'm saying? 463 00:25:41,534 --> 00:25:43,755 Not have that part about the doctors couldn't help. 464 00:25:43,755 --> 00:25:44,475 You know what I'm saying? 465 00:25:44,865 --> 00:25:47,055 Holy Spirit was like, yeah, go ahead, because we're gonna 466 00:25:47,055 --> 00:25:52,965 still expose it anyway, , and so here we have this situation. 467 00:25:53,745 --> 00:25:56,955 You have this synagogue ruler, and then you have this woman 468 00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:59,385 who's been bleeding, ostracized. 469 00:25:59,955 --> 00:26:02,295 Let me ask you this, how would you view these two? 470 00:26:05,865 --> 00:26:07,815 Where's your personal bias? 471 00:26:09,525 --> 00:26:14,025 How do you, how does our society view these two scenarios? 472 00:26:15,255 --> 00:26:19,215 Who do they value some value? 473 00:26:19,515 --> 00:26:22,995 The person with wealth, it probably worked hard. 474 00:26:23,175 --> 00:26:24,105 They did this. 475 00:26:24,284 --> 00:26:25,215 They're respected. 476 00:26:25,245 --> 00:26:27,255 They're, they're, they're, they have great faith. 477 00:26:28,845 --> 00:26:32,115 Some, her bias would be towards the woman. 478 00:26:32,115 --> 00:26:33,525 Well, she's ostracized, she's poor. 479 00:26:33,585 --> 00:26:34,415 She's part of the people. 480 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:37,860 She's the outcast. 481 00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:40,620 But what about Jesus? 482 00:26:41,580 --> 00:26:42,840 Where does his bias lie? 483 00:26:44,430 --> 00:26:45,720 You see the real Jesus. 484 00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:46,620 What did he do? 485 00:26:46,650 --> 00:26:48,150 He sees people. 486 00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:53,520 Jesus saw them as people in need. 487 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:58,279 He didn't focus in on their, their, their sociopolitical, socioeconomic status. 488 00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:02,430 He didn't look at that and let that determine what he was going to do. 489 00:27:03,270 --> 00:27:07,140 He saw them as people who were both in need. 490 00:27:07,409 --> 00:27:07,920 Check this out. 491 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:13,440 It says the woman had been bleeding for 12 years and it said that JI'S 492 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,840 daughter was about 12 years old. 493 00:27:17,070 --> 00:27:19,260 These are two totally different experiences for the 494 00:27:19,260 --> 00:27:20,340 last 12 years, aren't they? 495 00:27:21,420 --> 00:27:22,290 She's been suffering. 496 00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:25,949 She's been ostracized for the last 12 years while he's been loving and raising 497 00:27:25,949 --> 00:27:27,900 up his daughter for the last 12 years. 498 00:27:28,050 --> 00:27:30,720 These are two totally different scenarios, aren't they? 499 00:27:31,290 --> 00:27:35,849 And again, maybe our biases start to lean toward one or the other. 500 00:27:36,479 --> 00:27:40,949 However, Jesus saw them as what both in desperate need. 501 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,849 These are people that need help. 502 00:27:45,689 --> 00:27:47,580 His heart was moved. 503 00:27:47,670 --> 00:27:51,840 He ends her suffering and her isolation and restores a woman's 504 00:27:52,340 --> 00:27:53,790 religious and social life. 505 00:27:53,849 --> 00:27:54,599 And you know what? 506 00:27:54,599 --> 00:27:58,620 Her overall dignity, he could have denounced a woman. 507 00:27:59,069 --> 00:28:01,739 He had every right to denounce her for touching him, and he 508 00:28:01,739 --> 00:28:03,090 could have demanded punishment. 509 00:28:03,179 --> 00:28:05,009 You touched me like this woman. 510 00:28:05,009 --> 00:28:06,000 What is wrong with you? 511 00:28:06,090 --> 00:28:07,620 And then you're unclean. 512 00:28:08,550 --> 00:28:09,809 But is that what he did? 513 00:28:10,380 --> 00:28:13,859 By no means Jesus stands up. 514 00:28:13,889 --> 00:28:14,849 He has her stand up. 515 00:28:14,849 --> 00:28:15,359 He have her. 516 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:20,790 He has her openly identify herself, and then he affirms her publicly. 517 00:28:21,149 --> 00:28:23,040 I want everybody to see this. 518 00:28:23,340 --> 00:28:25,620 Your faith has saved you. 519 00:28:27,029 --> 00:28:28,349 He lifts her up. 520 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,420 Confirms reaffirms that she is what valuable. 521 00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:40,710 You could go back to your social community, you could go back to the 522 00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:46,710 religious participation in what you had at this time, but Jesus doesn't 523 00:28:46,710 --> 00:28:50,790 resist or resent Gru at the same time. 524 00:28:50,909 --> 00:28:55,349 Well might be the case where some of us, remember Gru is a synagogue 525 00:28:55,349 --> 00:28:57,449 ruler, so who are his peers? 526 00:28:58,409 --> 00:29:00,989 Probably other synagogue rulers, maybe a couple Pharisees in the mix 527 00:29:00,989 --> 00:29:06,059 with, and by this time, Jesus doesn't do a lot of teaching in a synagogue. 528 00:29:06,090 --> 00:29:07,109 He's more outside. 529 00:29:07,109 --> 00:29:08,939 It's possible because the crowds are larger. 530 00:29:09,090 --> 00:29:11,939 It's also possible because the synagogue rulers are like, Hey, 531 00:29:11,939 --> 00:29:13,139 we don't want this man anymore. 532 00:29:13,139 --> 00:29:15,029 He's had problems in other places. 533 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:22,710 So who gyrus hangs out with either or, or potentially enemies of Jesus? 534 00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:24,840 These are the ops of Jesus. 535 00:29:26,189 --> 00:29:26,849 And what does he do? 536 00:29:27,734 --> 00:29:28,755 Treats him with dignity. 537 00:29:29,685 --> 00:29:31,064 He serves him, he helps him. 538 00:29:31,064 --> 00:29:36,165 He restores his daughter's health and brings her back to life, treats him with 539 00:29:36,165 --> 00:29:39,734 respect, and he honors their requests. 540 00:29:40,154 --> 00:29:46,425 He takes note of both people and sees that they both are valuable in his sights. 541 00:29:47,114 --> 00:29:48,135 Let me ask you this again. 542 00:29:49,635 --> 00:29:54,524 Has the real Jesus challenged your worldview yet has 543 00:29:54,524 --> 00:29:55,965 he challenged your world? 544 00:29:56,055 --> 00:30:02,835 Worldview, the view of the opposite sex, the view of church and relationships, 545 00:30:03,585 --> 00:30:07,854 the view that, that, that, that, uh, uh, others may be more valuable 546 00:30:07,854 --> 00:30:11,354 than others or some aren't valuable or some, whatever the case may be. 547 00:30:11,415 --> 00:30:13,395 Has he challenged your worldview yet? 548 00:30:14,955 --> 00:30:19,755 I know for me, he continues to challenge, but I know in particular, 549 00:30:19,845 --> 00:30:25,125 even with some of these instances, how Jesus has transformed my worldview. 550 00:30:25,724 --> 00:30:25,784 , yeah. 551 00:30:26,114 --> 00:30:29,654 Growing up, I know, I, I, I, I used to idolize the idea of, of being 552 00:30:29,654 --> 00:30:33,194 a womanizer and, and so being able to use women and, and for, for, 553 00:30:33,404 --> 00:30:35,174 uh, my own particular pleasure. 554 00:30:35,174 --> 00:30:38,474 And so I, I, that's what I, I went and sought after and tried to do. 555 00:30:38,474 --> 00:30:42,614 And so my view of women wa was, was not necessarily maybe subconsciously, 556 00:30:42,614 --> 00:30:45,734 but maybe I even said it in into a certain extent, that they were sat 557 00:30:45,734 --> 00:30:48,074 class citizens for my enjoyment. 558 00:30:48,464 --> 00:30:50,114 Now again, women, this was my past. 559 00:30:50,144 --> 00:30:52,755 Okay, I see some of y'all getting ready to get some stones and throw 'em at me. 560 00:30:52,755 --> 00:30:54,014 Okay, hold on for a sec. 561 00:30:54,074 --> 00:30:55,545 Let her brother finish the story. 562 00:30:57,705 --> 00:30:58,604 , but that was my view. 563 00:31:00,585 --> 00:31:02,264 Then I think of other issues. 564 00:31:02,264 --> 00:31:05,384 I think of, I think of class issues, I think of race issues. 565 00:31:05,835 --> 00:31:08,594 I know for a long period of time there, there was this idea of 566 00:31:08,594 --> 00:31:12,314 resentment towards white people in particular, white people with wealth. 567 00:31:14,924 --> 00:31:17,474 Then I'm, I'm a brother from Southern California. 568 00:31:17,474 --> 00:31:21,194 I was involved in street stuff and street life and gangs and stuff like that, and 569 00:31:21,194 --> 00:31:24,974 so black and brown, we get down, but black and brown, we get down as well. 570 00:31:26,295 --> 00:31:30,644 And so I had issues with, with Hispanic males because oftentimes 571 00:31:30,644 --> 00:31:32,354 we'd be at odds and we'd be fighting. 572 00:31:32,505 --> 00:31:34,934 And so my worldview was like, Hey, it's all about me. 573 00:31:34,934 --> 00:31:37,005 It's about my race, it's about the poor. 574 00:31:37,064 --> 00:31:38,234 Let's go. 575 00:31:38,295 --> 00:31:41,295 And so there was resentments, and my worldview was like, you 576 00:31:41,295 --> 00:31:42,734 guys understand what I'm saying? 577 00:31:43,604 --> 00:31:45,885 Then it started coming in contact with the real Jesus and 578 00:31:45,885 --> 00:31:48,795 going, whoa, this is ungodly. 579 00:31:49,095 --> 00:31:52,154 You claim to be religious, but yet look at your worldview. 580 00:31:53,654 --> 00:31:55,184 That's not the real Jesus. 581 00:31:55,724 --> 00:31:58,245 You're following some other form of Jesus. 582 00:31:59,295 --> 00:32:02,264 And so then it ha, I have to, and I still have to submit it 583 00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:03,854 now to the lordship of Jesus. 584 00:32:03,854 --> 00:32:05,114 You guys get what I'm saying? 585 00:32:05,564 --> 00:32:06,404 And God's so funny. 586 00:32:06,404 --> 00:32:07,995 He's like, oh yeah, you used to be a womanizer. 587 00:32:08,114 --> 00:32:08,684 Hey, guess what? 588 00:32:08,684 --> 00:32:10,034 I'm gonna give you two daughters. 589 00:32:11,774 --> 00:32:13,245 , we gonna keep working on you, Marcel. 590 00:32:15,045 --> 00:32:17,085 He says, oh, I know you should have some issues with some race. 591 00:32:17,175 --> 00:32:17,534 Guess what? 592 00:32:17,534 --> 00:32:19,215 You gonna fall in love with a Latina? 593 00:32:21,045 --> 00:32:22,905 I'm like, Lord, you just keep working on me. 594 00:32:22,905 --> 00:32:23,655 You know what I'm saying? 595 00:32:23,835 --> 00:32:25,784 My whole world has been flipped upside down. 596 00:32:26,505 --> 00:32:28,335 I'm like, man, I got a whole bunch of women at the house. 597 00:32:28,335 --> 00:32:29,805 I got people speaking Spanish at the house. 598 00:32:29,925 --> 00:32:30,795 What's going on, 599 00:32:34,215 --> 00:32:35,534 And I'm grateful to God though. 600 00:32:35,705 --> 00:32:37,995 Yeah, I'm grateful to God. 601 00:32:39,225 --> 00:32:40,995 And then I think about it, I said, oh, you know what? 602 00:32:41,055 --> 00:32:46,245 You know some of my mentors, some of my best friends, good old classic white 603 00:32:46,245 --> 00:32:51,315 guys, some of the two of my mentors, Reese kneeling and Bruce Williams, man, they 604 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,315 didn't really have any experience with black people until they became Christians 605 00:32:55,185 --> 00:32:57,585 I'm like, man, if you ask me that question, that means you really didn't 606 00:32:57,585 --> 00:32:58,815 grow up with any black people have you. 607 00:32:59,985 --> 00:33:03,255 But God is just so cool how he's continually transforming our 608 00:33:03,255 --> 00:33:06,575 world, views, our characters, our behaviors, our attitudes. 609 00:33:06,575 --> 00:33:07,485 You guys get what I'm saying? 610 00:33:07,490 --> 00:33:08,205 Church. 611 00:33:10,665 --> 00:33:12,075 And so what does that mean for us? 612 00:33:12,075 --> 00:33:16,815 That means we need to know, we need to follow and show the real Jesus, right? 613 00:33:17,774 --> 00:33:20,175 The real Jesus out there is not one who values women. 614 00:33:20,175 --> 00:33:21,824 I mean, the, the, the false Jesus death out there. 615 00:33:21,824 --> 00:33:24,404 Excuse me, people will take Christianity. 616 00:33:24,404 --> 00:33:25,484 Ah, putting women down. 617 00:33:26,745 --> 00:33:28,184 That's not the real Jesus. 618 00:33:30,255 --> 00:33:30,854 The real Jesus. 619 00:33:30,854 --> 00:33:32,864 There are whole bunch of hypocrite, the relationships and all. 620 00:33:33,045 --> 00:33:34,045 That's not the real Jesus. 621 00:33:36,224 --> 00:33:36,765 The real Jesus. 622 00:33:36,795 --> 00:33:38,805 Oh, they only value certain types of people. 623 00:33:38,835 --> 00:33:39,885 They look down upon others. 624 00:33:39,974 --> 00:33:41,774 That's not the real Jesus. 625 00:33:43,654 --> 00:33:50,505 The real Jesus has a worldview that challenges our very core, what 626 00:33:50,510 --> 00:33:53,234 we grew up with, our experiences. 627 00:33:53,835 --> 00:33:56,144 And so now again, that question that we asked at the beginning, 628 00:33:56,474 --> 00:34:00,974 when we come in contact with the real Jesus, what are we going to do? 629 00:34:01,965 --> 00:34:07,995 Are we gonna hold on or are we gonna submit it to the lordship of Jesus? 630 00:34:08,534 --> 00:34:10,245 That means, Hey, you know, I'm gonna pray. 631 00:34:10,364 --> 00:34:11,534 I'm going to read scriptures. 632 00:34:11,534 --> 00:34:14,804 I'm gonna allow you now to form and shape. 633 00:34:15,734 --> 00:34:20,684 My worldview of people of how I should behave. 634 00:34:23,385 --> 00:34:26,114 You know, you can't keep the same worldviews that you had before 635 00:34:26,114 --> 00:34:28,784 following Jesus, after following Jesus. 636 00:34:29,114 --> 00:34:30,585 There's no way it's incompatible. 637 00:34:32,415 --> 00:34:36,944 But when we do, when we submit it to the Lordship of Jesus, we now align 638 00:34:36,944 --> 00:34:42,045 ourselves with our creator and we allow, align ourselves with the real Jesus. 639 00:34:43,063 --> 00:34:44,594 And so let's get real practical church, right? 640 00:34:44,594 --> 00:34:45,465 You still with me here? 641 00:34:46,455 --> 00:34:48,734 Here's an action step in prayer for the week. 642 00:34:48,734 --> 00:34:50,774 First up here, I asked you to pray. 643 00:34:50,774 --> 00:34:51,495 Please pray. 644 00:34:51,495 --> 00:34:54,434 Join with us every day this week, seven days this week. 645 00:34:54,434 --> 00:34:54,524 Here. 646 00:34:54,529 --> 00:34:57,915 You can continue past seven if you want, but pray for our church to 647 00:34:57,915 --> 00:35:03,135 have the humility to submit our worldview to the lordship of Jesus. 648 00:35:03,644 --> 00:35:08,684 Not just yourself, but for every single one of us to submit it. 649 00:35:08,684 --> 00:35:11,684 Just imagine if we all submitted our worldviews to the Lordship of 650 00:35:11,684 --> 00:35:13,175 Jesus, what would that look like? 651 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:19,215 You think our fellowship might be enhanced a little bit, yes. 652 00:35:19,365 --> 00:35:21,825 You think the people around us who come in contact might 653 00:35:21,825 --> 00:35:23,925 have a different view of this? 654 00:35:23,925 --> 00:35:26,295 Jesus, of course they would. 655 00:35:27,194 --> 00:35:29,085 And then I, since we're, we're still studying now, 656 00:35:29,090 --> 00:35:30,194 Luke, I asked you to do this. 657 00:35:30,285 --> 00:35:31,425 Read Luke chapter nine. 658 00:35:31,455 --> 00:35:34,035 We're gonna go over Luke nine next week and just take note, 659 00:35:34,035 --> 00:35:35,505 whatever note of the real Jesus. 660 00:35:35,505 --> 00:35:37,064 You can do this one day, one sit in. 661 00:35:37,064 --> 00:35:39,045 You can break it up in the seven days, however you wanna do it. 662 00:35:39,224 --> 00:35:42,825 But just go ahead and read the, the chapter in Luke chapter nine so that 663 00:35:42,825 --> 00:35:46,604 when we come together, you already have some ideas of the real Jesus and how 664 00:35:46,604 --> 00:35:49,035 he has impacted or resonated with you. 665 00:35:49,274 --> 00:35:50,564 Right now, we're gonna take communion. 666 00:35:51,375 --> 00:35:53,535 It's where, remember Jesus' death on the cross. 667 00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:56,745 We take the emblems that represent his body and blood that was shed 668 00:35:56,745 --> 00:36:01,575 upon the cross and sacrifice for the opportunity for us to have salvation. 669 00:36:02,205 --> 00:36:06,375 And if you think about this, through the sacrifice of Jesus, our view of God. 670 00:36:07,350 --> 00:36:13,200 Of love, of grace, of mercy, of judgment, of hope, of purpose, has 671 00:36:13,260 --> 00:36:16,319 all been radically transformed. 672 00:36:17,490 --> 00:36:21,680 Even the fact that ju, that that, that God had Jesus go upon and suffer a, 673 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:26,440 a, a criminal, a wicked criminal's death, he flipped that to being a 674 00:36:26,444 --> 00:36:32,160 symbol of grace and mercy, again, transforming our worldviews of who 675 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:37,290 God is, what's his character like, and what's our response to him. 676 00:36:37,890 --> 00:36:41,430 I wanna close out here in one Corinthians chapter one in verse 13. 677 00:36:41,430 --> 00:36:45,270 It says, for the message of the cross is foolishness to those who 678 00:36:45,270 --> 00:36:51,960 are perishing, but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God. 679 00:36:52,990 --> 00:36:53,480 Amen. 680 00:36:53,490 --> 00:36:54,090 Let's pray. 681 00:36:54,090 --> 00:36:56,850 Father in heaven, I thank you so much for Jesus. 682 00:36:56,850 --> 00:37:02,240 I thank you that, that He, he just, I'm just so incredibly in awe. 683 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:08,069 God, when we study and we see your, your character, When we see how you 684 00:37:08,069 --> 00:37:12,260 view things, what you value God is, it's just like, wow, I am, I, I, I. 685 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,410 That's not who I am. 686 00:37:13,410 --> 00:37:17,819 That's not who I once was, but God, I, we look at it and we go, but that is good. 687 00:37:18,510 --> 00:37:19,859 We're inspired by it. 688 00:37:20,130 --> 00:37:21,540 We see the truth in it. 689 00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:22,680 We see the reasoning. 690 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,420 We see the benefit of it, and God, we're humbled and we're grateful. 691 00:37:26,425 --> 00:37:28,980 Thank you that we have a chance to respond to your grace. 692 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:32,760 Thank you for, for, for challenging our worldviews. 693 00:37:32,970 --> 00:37:36,300 And God, I do pray that as a church, we will submit our 694 00:37:36,300 --> 00:37:39,240 worldviews to the lordship of Jesus. 695 00:37:39,630 --> 00:37:43,560 Thank you that you turned cross upside down, God, allowing it to be 696 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,859 a sign of love and grace and mercy. 697 00:37:47,310 --> 00:37:50,010 God, we're so thankful that Jesus stayed upon a cross. 698 00:37:50,550 --> 00:37:55,200 They did not come down, but allowed himself to suffer, but to raise again 699 00:37:55,410 --> 00:38:00,180 so that we could die to our old selves and be raised in the faith in Christ. 700 00:38:00,180 --> 00:38:01,290 Thank you for your spirit. 701 00:38:01,470 --> 00:38:02,790 Thank you for your love. 702 00:38:02,850 --> 00:38:05,190 Thank you for Jesus in His name. 703 00:38:05,370 --> 00:38:05,550 Amen.