1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,520 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,480 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,480 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,680 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,400 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,560 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,120 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,280 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,160 In this podcast you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,800 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,840 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,040 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:39,360 If you want to know more about. 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,040 Us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org Otherwise, we 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,080 invite you now into the story. 16 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:48,480 Hello good people. 17 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:53,160 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,160 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:03,270 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 20 00:01:03,270 --> 00:01:05,590 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 21 00:01:06,470 --> 00:01:11,270 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 22 00:01:11,830 --> 00:01:20,310 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 23 00:01:21,270 --> 00:01:26,160 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,880 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:40,440 and on the website, which is heaven earthchurch.org it's now time 26 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,720 to join Pastor Ross Stackhouse and the conversation with the Heaven 27 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:50,010 Earth Church community and the new future and the new human. 28 00:01:52,730 --> 00:01:53,090 Lord. 29 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:54,570 Thank you for gathering us here. 30 00:01:54,810 --> 00:01:59,010 Thank you that you are present with us as proven in the life of 31 00:01:59,010 --> 00:02:02,970 Jesus and yet we may not feel that today, we may not believe it. 32 00:02:03,130 --> 00:02:08,370 So help our unbelief and help us to see you, to know you and to 33 00:02:08,370 --> 00:02:10,890 follow you in Jesus name. 34 00:02:10,970 --> 00:02:11,610 Amen. 35 00:02:13,130 --> 00:02:15,770 And this is the sermon for today. 36 00:02:16,850 --> 00:02:18,210 Thank you, Angela. 37 00:02:18,770 --> 00:02:23,130 Hey, I've asked you a question before that is going to come up in 38 00:02:23,130 --> 00:02:25,410 a minute, but I'd love to hear from you. 39 00:02:25,730 --> 00:02:31,890 What is the best surprise that you can remember in your life? 40 00:02:31,890 --> 00:02:34,770 A time when you were surprised by something wonderful. 41 00:02:35,650 --> 00:02:38,050 And maybe you're somebody who's like, I hate surprises. 42 00:02:38,050 --> 00:02:38,850 So I'm not answering. 43 00:02:38,850 --> 00:02:39,530 Well, that's fine. 44 00:02:39,530 --> 00:02:40,850 You can just chill for a minute. 45 00:02:41,410 --> 00:02:45,070 What's a time when you were surprised by something and it still 46 00:02:45,070 --> 00:02:45,670 sticks with you? 47 00:02:45,670 --> 00:02:48,510 Today when Valerie said yes to marrying Jim. 48 00:02:48,990 --> 00:02:49,870 Yes, sir. 49 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:51,470 Yes, sir. 50 00:02:52,430 --> 00:02:52,990 What else? 51 00:02:52,990 --> 00:02:53,550 Kara? 52 00:02:54,430 --> 00:02:56,350 So Jason's parents threw a surprising. 53 00:02:56,750 --> 00:02:58,910 Your parents threw a surprise engagement party. 54 00:02:58,910 --> 00:03:00,550 Your sister's trying to get you wear makeup. 55 00:03:00,550 --> 00:03:01,870 You're like, no, I'm not doing that. 56 00:03:01,870 --> 00:03:04,070 You got in a fight before the surprise party. 57 00:03:04,070 --> 00:03:04,510 Cool. 58 00:03:06,030 --> 00:03:06,670 No clue. 59 00:03:06,990 --> 00:03:07,550 Emma. 60 00:03:07,630 --> 00:03:09,950 Yeah, so Emma was going to get engaged. 61 00:03:10,570 --> 00:03:13,130 Her mom, mother in law and sister knew it and was like, trying 62 00:03:13,130 --> 00:03:14,570 to get her to get her nails done. 63 00:03:14,730 --> 00:03:15,250 Same thing. 64 00:03:15,250 --> 00:03:16,410 Like mother, like daughter. 65 00:03:16,410 --> 00:03:16,890 Okay. 66 00:03:16,890 --> 00:03:17,290 Yeah. 67 00:03:17,690 --> 00:03:18,410 Natalie. 68 00:03:21,450 --> 00:03:22,610 Natalie got a surprise. 69 00:03:22,610 --> 00:03:24,650 She got full tuition to her dream college. 70 00:03:24,650 --> 00:03:25,050 Yeah. 71 00:03:25,050 --> 00:03:25,930 That's awesome. 72 00:03:26,489 --> 00:03:27,930 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 73 00:03:30,730 --> 00:03:32,330 All right, what else? 74 00:03:32,810 --> 00:03:33,370 Surprise. 75 00:03:33,370 --> 00:03:35,450 That still stays with you today, Jill? 76 00:03:36,580 --> 00:03:38,020 Ellie, the queen of surprises. 77 00:03:39,380 --> 00:03:40,740 Ann's showing up for people. 78 00:03:40,820 --> 00:03:41,380 Yeah. 79 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:43,500 Ellie does not want us to look at her right now. 80 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:44,100 Hi, Ellie. 81 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:45,940 Good to see you. 82 00:03:46,180 --> 00:03:53,740 Lucy, surprised by your son who's getting with flowers when he 83 00:03:53,740 --> 00:03:55,060 was being promoted in the Air Force. 84 00:03:55,060 --> 00:03:55,460 Yeah. 85 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:56,540 Online, people. 86 00:03:56,540 --> 00:03:57,620 Come on, wake up. 87 00:03:57,620 --> 00:03:58,580 What's a good one? 88 00:03:58,580 --> 00:03:59,540 Adam, go ahead. 89 00:04:05,870 --> 00:04:09,510 So your brother brought one cousin to surprise your kids, but 90 00:04:09,510 --> 00:04:11,790 then brought another cousin in a duffel bag. 91 00:04:13,230 --> 00:04:14,190 Is this a small. 92 00:04:14,270 --> 00:04:15,710 Is this a small person? 93 00:04:17,710 --> 00:04:20,830 I've shown a video in here when I went to Oklahoma to surprise 94 00:04:20,830 --> 00:04:23,710 my family and I popped out of a box for my brother. 95 00:04:23,950 --> 00:04:25,310 It's a fun thing to do. 96 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:27,310 Kathy, go ahead. 97 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,720 Yeah, yeah. 98 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,160 So 28 years ago, or at the time. 99 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,600 At the time, son had put up a baby for adoption. 100 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:39,760 Then you met the. 101 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:41,440 28 years later. 102 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:41,920 Wow. 103 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,160 Oh, Brad, go ahead. 104 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:45,600 Oh, I've seen this. 105 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:46,880 This is so good. 106 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,480 This picture is so good. 107 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,080 Everyone go to Brad after the. 108 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,840 After we're done and go check out this picture. 109 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:54,560 It's very good. 110 00:04:54,790 --> 00:04:55,590 Huddy, what's up? 111 00:04:55,830 --> 00:04:58,350 Stacy Langenfelter when she found out she was having twins. 112 00:04:58,350 --> 00:04:59,030 Hi, Stacy. 113 00:04:59,030 --> 00:04:59,830 Hi, Mike. 114 00:05:00,070 --> 00:05:00,630 Yeah. 115 00:05:02,070 --> 00:05:04,230 All right, that's it, guys. 116 00:05:04,550 --> 00:05:05,670 We're done for today. 117 00:05:05,670 --> 00:05:06,870 Thank you for sharing. 118 00:05:08,310 --> 00:05:09,070 Don't answer. 119 00:05:09,070 --> 00:05:09,590 Over there. 120 00:05:10,549 --> 00:05:11,350 Not you, Kathy. 121 00:05:11,350 --> 00:05:12,230 The people behind you. 122 00:05:12,870 --> 00:05:14,230 Anybody know what that is? 123 00:05:15,110 --> 00:05:15,630 It is. 124 00:05:15,630 --> 00:05:16,070 Thank you. 125 00:05:16,070 --> 00:05:17,830 Melissa Bryant said a landscape. 126 00:05:18,150 --> 00:05:18,550 Where? 127 00:05:19,430 --> 00:05:20,150 Where is that? 128 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:21,940 Did someone just say Wisconsin? 129 00:05:22,820 --> 00:05:23,220 Close. 130 00:05:24,020 --> 00:05:24,740 Closer. 131 00:05:24,820 --> 00:05:25,780 Getting warmer. 132 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:27,460 That is the Sea of Galilee. 133 00:05:28,180 --> 00:05:28,980 I had. 134 00:05:31,220 --> 00:05:34,260 I was obsessed with the Bible from a young age, even when I was 135 00:05:34,340 --> 00:05:36,260 acting like a fool as a teenager. 136 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:38,340 And then I studied the Bible. 137 00:05:39,620 --> 00:05:40,460 Angela knows this. 138 00:05:40,460 --> 00:05:42,540 When we started dating, she thought I was some partying fool, 139 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:43,460 which is somewhat right. 140 00:05:43,460 --> 00:05:44,260 But I was like, hey. 141 00:05:44,660 --> 00:05:45,700 She thought, yeah. 142 00:05:45,860 --> 00:05:48,900 So I was like, hey, I read my Bible every day. 143 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:50,780 As if one thing cancels out the other. 144 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:51,620 Like, I'd read. 145 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:53,060 I've read the Bible, loved the Bible. 146 00:05:53,060 --> 00:05:53,660 My whole life. 147 00:05:54,140 --> 00:06:01,580 I've studied it in a academic setting, you know, intensely. 148 00:06:02,460 --> 00:06:08,260 And yet when I stood here, when I walked here, I was, like, 149 00:06:08,260 --> 00:06:08,940 shocked. 150 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:14,160 I was so surprised at how rugged was, like, the topography 151 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:14,600 somehow. 152 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,120 I had read the Bible and it was always describing this. 153 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:21,040 Like, Jesus is always on a mountain or in a valley or they're 154 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,120 going up to Jerusalem, even though Jerusalem is south well, it's 155 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:26,800 because Jerusalem is this elevation. 156 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,240 Like, when you're here, you're either like, on a mountain coming 157 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,560 down from a mountain or in a valley or on a hillside. 158 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,920 Like, it's just up and, like, fertile like that. 159 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,550 And I was like, how did I not, like, catch this? 160 00:06:42,550 --> 00:06:43,190 When I read. 161 00:06:43,350 --> 00:06:44,390 I've read this a lot. 162 00:06:44,550 --> 00:06:49,630 And it was so, so beautiful and haunting, though, because the 163 00:06:49,630 --> 00:06:54,709 other thing was, like, this is Jerusalem, and this is the path that 164 00:06:54,709 --> 00:06:57,990 Jesus walked in the midst of his criminal proceedings. 165 00:06:58,310 --> 00:06:58,950 Like, his. 166 00:06:59,110 --> 00:07:02,310 The bottom of his sandals were right on that. 167 00:07:02,470 --> 00:07:04,070 And I've told you, like, I'm. 168 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:05,240 There's. 169 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:05,600 There's. 170 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,480 There's a contingent of folks who, like, say, well, Jesus never 171 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:09,000 existed. 172 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,720 Listen, again, I'm telling you as an historian, like, first, this 173 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,320 guy existed historically. 174 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:15,600 There's no doubt about it. 175 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,880 But what haunted me is, like, that was a theory in my head for 176 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:21,200 years. 177 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,160 Like, I believed in Jesus, but, like, when I was here, it's 178 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,360 like, there is a guy who walked here, walked this ground, 179 00:07:30,250 --> 00:07:34,570 and there are people who staked their lives on the belief 180 00:07:34,890 --> 00:07:36,890 that he was the anointed one of God. 181 00:07:36,890 --> 00:07:38,650 They were willing to die for it. 182 00:07:38,650 --> 00:07:39,930 And that haunted me. 183 00:07:40,010 --> 00:07:44,610 Like, I left this trip never the same, because it's kind of like 184 00:07:44,610 --> 00:07:46,249 Jesus asked of Peter. 185 00:07:46,730 --> 00:07:50,250 I felt the question being asked me, who do you say I am? 186 00:07:50,330 --> 00:07:52,770 And I'm still living that today. 187 00:07:52,770 --> 00:07:58,050 And I remember I was dunked in the Jordan river to reaffirm my baptism. 188 00:07:58,450 --> 00:08:02,770 And that was a literally watershed moment, I think. 189 00:08:03,010 --> 00:08:05,090 Heather, is that the right use of literal there? 190 00:08:05,250 --> 00:08:07,170 Don't act like you don't care about grammar now. 191 00:08:09,490 --> 00:08:10,530 Okay, thank you. 192 00:08:11,730 --> 00:08:12,210 Love you. 193 00:08:12,210 --> 00:08:13,090 I love you, Heather. 194 00:08:15,410 --> 00:08:21,570 Like, I took my place all over again, and maybe for the first time 195 00:08:21,650 --> 00:08:25,020 and in, like, the new creation of Jesus. 196 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:27,180 Can you clear the background there, Hudson? 197 00:08:27,180 --> 00:08:29,180 If you know how to do that, Maybe you haven't learned that before. 198 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:31,220 Oh, hey, look at this guy. 199 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:32,060 He's an expert. 200 00:08:32,060 --> 00:08:32,940 What am I talking about? 201 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:33,820 My bad, bro. 202 00:08:33,980 --> 00:08:35,020 You know what you're doing? 203 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:36,580 I experience all over again. 204 00:08:36,580 --> 00:08:39,660 If we give ourselves to a whole life of companionship with. 205 00:08:39,660 --> 00:08:43,300 With Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and we're humble, hungry 206 00:08:43,300 --> 00:08:46,860 and willing, we're going to be surprised by the goodness of Jesus. 207 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,430 We're going to be surprised of, like, by the joy of being a part 208 00:08:50,430 --> 00:08:52,870 of this new creation or new harvest. 209 00:08:53,270 --> 00:08:57,590 Really quick a pointing back to last week, that first phrase, 210 00:08:57,590 --> 00:08:59,590 a whole life of companionship. 211 00:09:00,150 --> 00:09:02,990 Our first discipleship, essential here at Heaven Earth Church, 212 00:09:02,990 --> 00:09:06,150 is that we want to be shaped from the inside out by Continuous 213 00:09:06,150 --> 00:09:07,590 companionship with God. 214 00:09:07,910 --> 00:09:11,230 We talked about the opposite of that last week is the compartmentalized 215 00:09:11,230 --> 00:09:11,590 life. 216 00:09:12,230 --> 00:09:14,790 So even if we're the best prayers in the world. 217 00:09:14,790 --> 00:09:15,350 So we. 218 00:09:15,430 --> 00:09:19,960 So, like, we spend an hour in meditation and scripture and prayer, 219 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,200 like all of you do every day. 220 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:21,520 Right? 221 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:22,280 Right. 222 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:23,360 Yeah, of course you do. 223 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,320 But if we then, like, go, okay, now I'm done, Jesus, my time 224 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,520 was well spent with you now. 225 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,480 And we just go put him in the container and we set him aside. 226 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,320 And then we go about the rest of our day. 227 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:37,920 And then we. 228 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:39,040 That's the rest of our day. 229 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,600 We've had our time with God, now we go do our stuff. 230 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,000 Well, that means for the rest of that day, we're being taught by 231 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,240 everybody else besides Jesus. 232 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,240 But if we give ourselves to a continuous companionship with Jesus, 233 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:54,080 and this second thing we'll talk about today, more humble and 234 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:59,240 hungry willing as we do it, we are going to feel this incredible 235 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:04,440 joy of being a part of this new harvest. 236 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:05,960 We're going to talk about, like, what. 237 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:06,840 What harvest? 238 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,680 We're in a series called Growing what is Good. 239 00:10:09,460 --> 00:10:11,140 I want to talk with you about that today. 240 00:10:12,180 --> 00:10:17,180 And what I think about is I've often described in some of my classes 241 00:10:17,180 --> 00:10:19,260 and stuff the first 48 hours. 242 00:10:19,260 --> 00:10:20,980 No, I don't mean like the crime show. 243 00:10:21,060 --> 00:10:22,580 How many of you love true crime? 244 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:26,940 Were you a little bit disappointed that, oh, my gosh, he's 245 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:28,060 going to talk about true crime now? 246 00:10:28,060 --> 00:10:28,580 No, I'm not. 247 00:10:28,580 --> 00:10:28,980 Sorry. 248 00:10:29,140 --> 00:10:33,460 The first 48 hours of following Jesus, like Peter and John 249 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:37,740 and James and Andrew, they said yes to following Jesus. 250 00:10:37,740 --> 00:10:40,090 They said yes to not quite yet. 251 00:10:40,090 --> 00:10:43,130 A continuous companionship of being disciples of Jesus. 252 00:10:44,090 --> 00:10:47,210 But boy, did they regret it for a minute. 253 00:10:47,930 --> 00:10:50,970 Ever done that where you're like, yes, I'm all in on this. 254 00:10:50,970 --> 00:10:51,810 This is for me. 255 00:10:51,810 --> 00:10:53,730 And then you were about 24 to 48 hours in. 256 00:10:53,730 --> 00:10:56,650 You're like, man, I want to go back and say no now. 257 00:10:56,970 --> 00:10:58,170 This was a bad idea. 258 00:10:58,890 --> 00:10:59,930 Well, this was them. 259 00:11:00,810 --> 00:11:04,170 Because when they said yes to Jesus, it wasn't like, okay, we'll 260 00:11:04,170 --> 00:11:04,890 see you in a month. 261 00:11:06,150 --> 00:11:10,310 We'll have an orientation period that will help you on board 262 00:11:10,310 --> 00:11:12,390 and feel comfortable about what we're doing. 263 00:11:13,110 --> 00:11:16,110 And then we'll have another week of rest where you can process 264 00:11:16,110 --> 00:11:16,390 it. 265 00:11:16,390 --> 00:11:17,590 Cause it's a lot to process. 266 00:11:17,590 --> 00:11:18,710 And then we'll hit the ground. 267 00:11:20,950 --> 00:11:24,910 When they said yes, I kind of picture it being like, Jesus, like, 268 00:11:24,910 --> 00:11:25,750 all right, come on. 269 00:11:26,230 --> 00:11:28,350 And they're like, still hanging around, doing their thing. 270 00:11:28,350 --> 00:11:32,450 He's like, hey, like, now it's like, me with my kids, I, I have 271 00:11:32,450 --> 00:11:35,250 to ask him five times to come along. 272 00:11:35,250 --> 00:11:38,130 And I'm like, I didn't mean like next week, I mean now. 273 00:11:39,170 --> 00:11:42,210 Well, that was Jesus right now. 274 00:11:42,210 --> 00:11:43,250 Mark, chapter one. 275 00:11:43,250 --> 00:11:46,770 It's like an action film, the first 48 hours. 276 00:11:46,770 --> 00:11:49,090 Like, boom, boom, boom, boom. 277 00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:53,290 They're going in the synagogue and typically they're used to being 278 00:11:53,290 --> 00:11:56,370 quiet in the synagogue while all the important people talk. 279 00:11:56,530 --> 00:12:00,430 But then here this Jesus fella comes, who's an artisan, kind of 280 00:12:00,430 --> 00:12:03,790 blue collar type who's not very well educated according to everybody 281 00:12:03,790 --> 00:12:04,150 else. 282 00:12:04,150 --> 00:12:08,750 And this fellow thinks he can talk and he heals somebody on the 283 00:12:08,750 --> 00:12:12,710 Sabbath, which is, you don't do that. 284 00:12:13,350 --> 00:12:18,030 And then after that they go, and Jesus cares about Simon's mother 285 00:12:18,030 --> 00:12:20,150 in law and goes and heals her from a fever. 286 00:12:20,150 --> 00:12:21,550 It's just one thing after another. 287 00:12:21,550 --> 00:12:24,950 Then chapter two, Jesus like, hey, we're gonna have a dinner party 288 00:12:24,950 --> 00:12:26,510 with tax collectors and sinners. 289 00:12:26,510 --> 00:12:27,270 You guys ready? 290 00:12:28,430 --> 00:12:30,030 But yet what they caught was this. 291 00:12:30,190 --> 00:12:37,030 Like, they saw like very early on that something entirely new had 292 00:12:37,030 --> 00:12:37,550 begun. 293 00:12:37,630 --> 00:12:41,310 There was a new kind of human on the earth and there was a new 294 00:12:41,310 --> 00:12:42,750 humanity that was beginning. 295 00:12:43,390 --> 00:12:45,150 They just kept being shocked by this. 296 00:12:45,150 --> 00:12:47,310 One more scene, one time in John chapter four. 297 00:12:47,310 --> 00:12:48,990 That's early on in that gospel. 298 00:12:49,150 --> 00:12:53,150 It's high noon and Jesus disciples walk up and Jesus is sitting 299 00:12:53,150 --> 00:12:55,090 at a well with a what? 300 00:12:55,090 --> 00:12:55,890 With a who? 301 00:12:57,090 --> 00:12:59,170 One of those cockroach Samaritans. 302 00:12:59,410 --> 00:13:00,770 And a woman, no less. 303 00:13:01,970 --> 00:13:04,290 A woman who's been like married five times. 304 00:13:04,690 --> 00:13:05,890 What is this guy doing? 305 00:13:06,770 --> 00:13:07,970 I'll tell you what he's doing. 306 00:13:08,290 --> 00:13:11,770 He's starting a new creation where everybody has a place at the 307 00:13:11,770 --> 00:13:12,130 table. 308 00:13:12,210 --> 00:13:14,570 Throughout the Bible, Jesus is referred to. 309 00:13:14,570 --> 00:13:17,770 There's these parts where I want to point out some scriptures 310 00:13:17,770 --> 00:13:18,730 that get, get. 311 00:13:18,730 --> 00:13:22,740 You remember we talked about how for whatever reason, I don't 312 00:13:22,740 --> 00:13:24,460 know, do we know who decide this? 313 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:27,940 That dandelions are from Satan and they need to be eradicated at 314 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:28,380 all cost? 315 00:13:28,860 --> 00:13:30,300 Who decided that in history? 316 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:31,260 Okay. 317 00:13:31,340 --> 00:13:31,900 Okay. 318 00:13:32,780 --> 00:13:33,340 Yeah. 319 00:13:33,340 --> 00:13:34,980 So it was a marketing ploy. 320 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:38,260 Like these things will kill you when actually like, you can, 321 00:13:38,260 --> 00:13:38,980 you can eat them. 322 00:13:38,980 --> 00:13:39,900 Right, Joanna? 323 00:13:40,220 --> 00:13:40,700 Yeah. 324 00:13:41,580 --> 00:13:42,060 Yeah. 325 00:13:42,140 --> 00:13:42,700 Okay. 326 00:13:42,940 --> 00:13:47,980 Well, you know though, when you see one of these evil demons 327 00:13:47,980 --> 00:13:50,420 of Satan, what is, what do you know? 328 00:13:50,420 --> 00:13:53,540 If you see one, does it mean that you're, you're, you're not going 329 00:13:53,540 --> 00:13:57,060 to see any more, you're going to keep on going, right? 330 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:01,180 That's what the Bible describes. 331 00:14:01,180 --> 00:14:02,100 Jesus is like. 332 00:14:02,260 --> 00:14:04,420 Jesus is like the first dandelion. 333 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:08,180 Beautiful, abundant, radiant. 334 00:14:08,980 --> 00:14:12,180 He is the firstborn from the dead. 335 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:14,100 So, you know, like you thought when. 336 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:14,460 Winter. 337 00:14:14,460 --> 00:14:15,620 It was a hard winter. 338 00:14:16,290 --> 00:14:21,650 Dark, short days, long nights, maybe seasonal affective disorder. 339 00:14:22,290 --> 00:14:22,930 Cold. 340 00:14:24,050 --> 00:14:27,530 And you thought maybe you were under the illusion that the dandelions 341 00:14:27,530 --> 00:14:28,370 weren't coming back. 342 00:14:28,690 --> 00:14:31,370 And then one day you walked out in the yard, you took a drink, 343 00:14:31,370 --> 00:14:35,170 your coffee, and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, my God, there's 344 00:14:35,170 --> 00:14:36,770 one of Satan's children right there. 345 00:14:37,250 --> 00:14:40,130 Well, when Jesus that. 346 00:14:40,290 --> 00:14:41,810 From Friday and Saturday. 347 00:14:41,890 --> 00:14:43,170 Good Friday, he's crucified. 348 00:14:43,250 --> 00:14:46,050 Saturday, when everybody's waiting, it's like that long winter. 349 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,880 But then on Sunday, that first dandelion of the new creation popped 350 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:51,120 up. 351 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:56,560 He's called the firstborn among the dead, or the first crop 352 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:57,560 of the harvest. 353 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:58,760 Watch, I'll show you. 354 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,040 I'm not just making this up. 355 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:00,840 Look right here. 356 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,040 Yeah, go for it again. 357 00:15:02,119 --> 00:15:02,760 Look at this guy. 358 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,960 I don't even tell him he's on top of it. 359 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,400 From Colossians, chapter one. 360 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,480 He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning 361 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,770 of the one, who is the one who is from among the dead. 362 00:15:15,770 --> 00:15:17,970 He's the first dandelion after a long winter. 363 00:15:18,050 --> 00:15:19,410 And he's not the only one. 364 00:15:19,650 --> 00:15:22,450 So that he might occupy the first place in everything. 365 00:15:23,090 --> 00:15:23,650 Look at this. 366 00:15:23,650 --> 00:15:24,410 Revelation 1. 367 00:15:24,410 --> 00:15:26,690 And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness the. 368 00:15:27,010 --> 00:15:28,210 From among the dead. 369 00:15:28,450 --> 00:15:31,090 Firstborn says that he's not the lastborn. 370 00:15:31,330 --> 00:15:32,050 You're next. 371 00:15:32,290 --> 00:15:33,010 We're next. 372 00:15:33,570 --> 00:15:35,330 Elsewhere it said that he's like the. 373 00:15:36,290 --> 00:15:37,600 He's the first born. 374 00:15:37,750 --> 00:15:40,150 Born are the first fruits of a new harvest. 375 00:15:40,470 --> 00:15:41,750 Check it out again. 376 00:15:41,750 --> 00:15:45,590 I'm not making it up, but in fact, this is First Corinthians 15. 377 00:15:46,630 --> 00:15:49,030 Paul closes this letter First Corinthians 13. 378 00:15:49,110 --> 00:15:51,470 He's like, hey, you guys have to believe in the resurrection. 379 00:15:51,470 --> 00:15:52,790 It's the most important thing. 380 00:15:52,790 --> 00:15:54,390 It means death has been destroyed. 381 00:15:54,470 --> 00:15:55,430 Evil's been put. 382 00:15:55,430 --> 00:15:56,230 Put to death. 383 00:15:56,550 --> 00:15:59,270 Jesus has dealt with the things that keep us from this new 384 00:15:59,270 --> 00:15:59,590 life. 385 00:15:59,990 --> 00:16:02,030 In fact, he has been raised from the dead. 386 00:16:02,030 --> 00:16:05,210 He's the first of the harvest of those who have died. 387 00:16:05,210 --> 00:16:06,890 He's that first dandelion. 388 00:16:06,890 --> 00:16:08,170 Which means there are more coming. 389 00:16:08,650 --> 00:16:09,610 Not making it up. 390 00:16:10,170 --> 00:16:10,970 Romans 8. 391 00:16:11,210 --> 00:16:14,690 It's not only the creation, we ourselves who have the spirit as 392 00:16:14,690 --> 00:16:15,450 the first. 393 00:16:16,490 --> 00:16:18,570 Oh, you see that little switcheroo Paul did. 394 00:16:19,289 --> 00:16:20,810 Who's the first crop now? 395 00:16:21,850 --> 00:16:23,690 You, me, them. 396 00:16:24,090 --> 00:16:29,770 We are all part of this new harvest that has begun. 397 00:16:30,290 --> 00:16:35,090 That's our calling in life, my friends, is to, like, follow behind 398 00:16:35,330 --> 00:16:40,410 this firstborn from the dead Jesus, this first crop, and then 399 00:16:40,410 --> 00:16:42,290 work that new harvest with him. 400 00:16:42,450 --> 00:16:43,010 Like we. 401 00:16:43,010 --> 00:16:46,890 We talked about it, like Evan has a beautiful, wonderful, like, 402 00:16:46,890 --> 00:16:49,970 farmer giddy up that he wears at every costume party that I've 403 00:16:49,970 --> 00:16:50,810 ever seen him at. 404 00:16:50,810 --> 00:16:53,650 Like, he's gonna wear it next week as an illustration. 405 00:16:54,530 --> 00:16:57,170 So we're reminded that all of us are farmers, okay? 406 00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:00,180 All of us. 407 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:02,340 That's why Galatians says this. 408 00:17:03,140 --> 00:17:05,700 Make no mistake, God is not. 409 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:08,900 Mark mocked a personal harvest, what they plant. 410 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:12,180 You know that phrase, you'll reap what you sow? 411 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:13,699 That's where it came from. 412 00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:15,540 What's Paul saying to these people? 413 00:17:15,540 --> 00:17:16,820 Like, join the harvest. 414 00:17:16,820 --> 00:17:20,260 Don't waste your time planting stuff that ain't worth planting. 415 00:17:20,740 --> 00:17:22,500 Plant the good stuff with Jesus. 416 00:17:23,670 --> 00:17:27,030 Be a part of the new harvest here on Earth. 417 00:17:27,750 --> 00:17:29,190 He started something new. 418 00:17:29,190 --> 00:17:31,110 He's the first crop you follow next. 419 00:17:31,590 --> 00:17:32,070 Don't. 420 00:17:32,070 --> 00:17:35,430 Don't, like, give in to all your selfish cravings and stuff. 421 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:37,030 Don't just think it's about you. 422 00:17:37,430 --> 00:17:38,190 Plant something. 423 00:17:38,190 --> 00:17:39,670 Be a part of something bigger. 424 00:17:39,830 --> 00:17:41,430 Don't get tired of doing good. 425 00:17:41,670 --> 00:17:44,310 Because in time we'll have a harvest if we don't give up. 426 00:17:45,510 --> 00:17:47,030 But let's pause right there. 427 00:17:47,830 --> 00:17:51,080 How many of you been feeling like giving up lately, huh? 428 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:52,800 Go on, show your hands. 429 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,880 How many of you feel like giving up lately, huh? 430 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:57,800 That's why I asked you a question. 431 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:58,880 Somebody asked me. 432 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,880 I asked you at the very beginning about surprises. 433 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,160 How many of you just hate surprises? 434 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:04,920 Come on, let's hear it. 435 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:05,240 Let's see. 436 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,520 You just don't want to be surprised. 437 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:07,880 Look at all you people. 438 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,400 What, is it because you like control? 439 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,360 Is that it, Debbie? 440 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,200 It makes you nervous, okay? 441 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:15,880 Causes you anxiety. 442 00:18:16,620 --> 00:18:17,020 Yeah. 443 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:19,020 And Brad likes to surprise her. 444 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:22,380 Translation, Brad likes to make you nervous and anxious. 445 00:18:23,420 --> 00:18:24,060 Okay? 446 00:18:24,460 --> 00:18:25,380 Hey, guys, let's. 447 00:18:25,380 --> 00:18:27,300 Hey, let's meet sometime this week, okay? 448 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:27,820 I'm concerned. 449 00:18:27,820 --> 00:18:28,620 No, I'm just kidding. 450 00:18:29,660 --> 00:18:32,620 Do you have capacity to be surprised anymore? 451 00:18:32,860 --> 00:18:35,340 I know that part of what makes it so difficult. 452 00:18:35,340 --> 00:18:40,100 You know, honestly, part of the group of people who will have 453 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:45,080 the hardest time with being surprised by Jesus anymore are all 454 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,960 the people who have heard of him already, are all the people who 455 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,840 have been in church for a long time. 456 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,280 It's going to be hard for us to be excited about being a part 457 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,560 of this new harvest because nothing of it feels new. 458 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:02,160 It feels old and jaded and decaying and not worth it. 459 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:03,760 Am I right? 460 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,360 Or maybe you're like, no, Ross, I had my time where I went 461 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,560 all in with that farming business with Jesus. 462 00:19:11,290 --> 00:19:13,850 I tried to plant what is good and I got burned. 463 00:19:14,090 --> 00:19:16,250 I gave myself to a group of people. 464 00:19:16,810 --> 00:19:19,690 I put in sweat, tears, blood. 465 00:19:19,930 --> 00:19:23,570 I tilled the soil I planted and I kept showing up. 466 00:19:23,570 --> 00:19:27,490 I kept working the ground, I tried to grow fruit, and all I got 467 00:19:27,490 --> 00:19:28,890 in the end was I got burned. 468 00:19:29,130 --> 00:19:30,330 Anybody feel that way? 469 00:19:30,890 --> 00:19:32,090 It's tough, isn't it? 470 00:19:32,170 --> 00:19:34,010 Good thing the world's not hard too. 471 00:19:34,250 --> 00:19:36,090 Good thing the world's easy to deal with. 472 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:39,670 It's hard to be surprised anymore by good. 473 00:19:39,910 --> 00:19:42,390 Well, shoot, it's hard to be anymore. 474 00:19:42,390 --> 00:19:44,550 It's like, are you surprised by the evil either? 475 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:46,630 It just keeps happening. 476 00:19:46,710 --> 00:19:47,510 Doggone it. 477 00:19:47,510 --> 00:19:50,070 Human beings, we're good at that. 478 00:19:50,310 --> 00:19:50,950 It's hard. 479 00:19:51,830 --> 00:19:52,910 We become like the. 480 00:19:52,910 --> 00:19:56,910 The writer of Ecclesiastes who, like, grew jaded and he said, 481 00:19:56,910 --> 00:19:58,390 there's nothing new under the sun. 482 00:19:59,510 --> 00:20:00,710 Everything is meaningless. 483 00:20:01,030 --> 00:20:03,070 Some of you, that's the only part of the Bible you're like, now 484 00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:05,450 there, that person gets me everything. 485 00:20:06,010 --> 00:20:07,290 There's nothing new under the sun. 486 00:20:07,610 --> 00:20:08,890 Everything is meaningless. 487 00:20:08,970 --> 00:20:11,850 I'm just going to eat, drink and marry, be married till I drop 488 00:20:11,850 --> 00:20:12,250 dead. 489 00:20:13,130 --> 00:20:14,570 And that doesn't work either. 490 00:20:14,730 --> 00:20:17,770 You try to escape into things that just make you feel better, give 491 00:20:17,770 --> 00:20:21,209 in to your selfish cravings or go into substance use or whatever. 492 00:20:21,209 --> 00:20:24,290 Whatever you use to numb or escape, you just feel worse than 493 00:20:24,290 --> 00:20:24,890 when you started. 494 00:20:26,170 --> 00:20:26,970 You know why? 495 00:20:27,210 --> 00:20:29,370 Because you're made to be a part of this harvest. 496 00:20:29,530 --> 00:20:33,780 That's your entire purpose in life, is to be a part of this new 497 00:20:33,780 --> 00:20:37,140 creation that began with Jesus. 498 00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:39,940 Your greatest joy is found in that. 499 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:42,020 And yes, there's pain in it too. 500 00:20:42,660 --> 00:20:45,060 So I have two questions for you. 501 00:20:45,060 --> 00:20:46,020 Can I ask you? 502 00:20:46,740 --> 00:20:49,860 This is a space to be honest with yourself and with God. 503 00:20:50,660 --> 00:20:52,100 Have you given up on it? 504 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:54,660 If you have, it's okay. 505 00:20:55,140 --> 00:20:56,980 It's okay to just say it. 506 00:20:57,230 --> 00:20:58,750 Jesus disciples gave up. 507 00:20:58,750 --> 00:20:59,790 They went back home. 508 00:21:00,030 --> 00:21:00,750 All of them. 509 00:21:00,910 --> 00:21:02,110 They left him for dead. 510 00:21:02,110 --> 00:21:03,790 Well, except for a couple of ladies. 511 00:21:03,950 --> 00:21:04,910 They didn't give up. 512 00:21:05,630 --> 00:21:06,910 That's why we're sitting here. 513 00:21:07,550 --> 00:21:08,910 It's because they didn't give up. 514 00:21:09,630 --> 00:21:11,190 But all the dudes, they gave up. 515 00:21:11,190 --> 00:21:12,110 Good job, guys. 516 00:21:12,350 --> 00:21:13,790 They all gave up and went home. 517 00:21:14,910 --> 00:21:21,150 And luckily gracefully, this Jesus fella showed back up to them 518 00:21:21,310 --> 00:21:23,310 and basically said like, hey, you still in? 519 00:21:23,730 --> 00:21:24,370 Because I am. 520 00:21:24,690 --> 00:21:29,490 So here's my next question for you, is what is your next yes? 521 00:21:29,890 --> 00:21:31,170 What is your next yes? 522 00:21:31,650 --> 00:21:35,490 Maybe is a big, big giant yes that you're being called to. 523 00:21:35,810 --> 00:21:39,490 So, like, I know we have some people who are considering baptism. 524 00:21:39,490 --> 00:21:43,650 That is a giant big yes, and it's worth it. 525 00:21:43,810 --> 00:21:44,810 It's a big yes. 526 00:21:44,810 --> 00:21:47,490 It's a yes to being born again from above. 527 00:21:47,490 --> 00:21:49,970 You're saying I'm joining in with this new Humanity. 528 00:21:49,970 --> 00:21:51,090 With Jesus, I'm in. 529 00:21:51,250 --> 00:21:53,090 I want to be born again from above. 530 00:21:53,090 --> 00:21:55,330 I want to start working this new creation with J. 531 00:21:55,870 --> 00:21:58,750 And I'm going to seek his help to be in continuous companionship 532 00:21:58,750 --> 00:21:59,230 with him. 533 00:21:59,390 --> 00:22:00,350 So I'm a part of this. 534 00:22:00,350 --> 00:22:04,470 Maybe you've got a big yes that's coming, but hey, full stop 535 00:22:04,470 --> 00:22:04,950 on that. 536 00:22:04,950 --> 00:22:07,550 If you've got a big yes that you're considering, let's talk. 537 00:22:07,710 --> 00:22:08,910 I'll be honest with you. 538 00:22:09,790 --> 00:22:16,150 I have found that in faith, a lot of it comes down to very little 539 00:22:16,150 --> 00:22:16,750 yeses. 540 00:22:16,830 --> 00:22:19,070 And like, that's when we don't give up. 541 00:22:19,150 --> 00:22:21,870 So I'm just going to let this breathe for a couple more seconds. 542 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:23,500 Let you sit on it. 543 00:22:23,580 --> 00:22:24,380 Sit with it. 544 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:26,460 What is your next yes? 545 00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:27,660 Don't give up. 546 00:22:27,660 --> 00:22:29,180 As Galatians says, don't. 547 00:22:29,180 --> 00:22:29,820 Don't quit. 548 00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:31,260 You have. 549 00:22:31,260 --> 00:22:32,700 You maybe have good reason to. 550 00:22:32,860 --> 00:22:33,660 Maybe you do. 551 00:22:33,740 --> 00:22:35,980 And then I'll read you this, and then I'm done for today. 552 00:22:36,460 --> 00:22:37,020 Okay? 553 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:37,900 Deal. 554 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:41,500 Perhaps today is actually the day to give up. 555 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:42,300 What? 556 00:22:42,620 --> 00:22:44,220 Didn't you just say, don't give up? 557 00:22:44,460 --> 00:22:47,420 I said, this is someone in seeking recovery, recent, recently. 558 00:22:48,070 --> 00:22:50,470 Maybe it's time to give up in a good way. 559 00:22:51,430 --> 00:22:52,870 Maybe it's time to give in. 560 00:22:53,430 --> 00:22:54,630 What's your next yes? 561 00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:56,950 I'm not trying to sell you something here. 562 00:22:57,190 --> 00:23:00,230 Many of you gave up because you were in a church or in Christian 563 00:23:00,230 --> 00:23:01,910 circles with a lot of salespeople. 564 00:23:02,390 --> 00:23:05,710 I'm bearing witness today, guys, to something that utterly changed 565 00:23:05,710 --> 00:23:06,230 my life. 566 00:23:07,190 --> 00:23:10,350 If I didn't ask you to consider this, I would be betraying 567 00:23:10,350 --> 00:23:10,870 myself. 568 00:23:10,870 --> 00:23:12,390 Something deeply true to me. 569 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,880 Saying yes to Jesus once and saying yes to him over and again 570 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,280 after a bunch of no's has utterly changed my life in the best 571 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:21,680 way. 572 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,640 So if I invite you to consider baptism, for example, I'm not trying 573 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:26,360 to sell you something. 574 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,320 I'm inviting you to become part of something. 575 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:33,200 Someone who has started a new creation, a new harvest that we are 576 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,200 destined by God to be a part of right here and right now for all 577 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:36,960 of eternity. 578 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,440 This new creation is the reality. 579 00:23:40,150 --> 00:23:41,990 Everything else is the illusion. 580 00:23:42,790 --> 00:23:43,750 Everything else is. 581 00:23:43,990 --> 00:23:45,910 I'm not trying to sell you something, guys. 582 00:23:45,910 --> 00:23:48,550 I just bearing witness to something that is the most important 583 00:23:48,790 --> 00:23:49,550 capital T. 584 00:23:49,550 --> 00:23:49,870 Truth. 585 00:23:49,870 --> 00:23:50,390 I know. 586 00:23:50,470 --> 00:23:53,630 And I'm just in a long line of people experience it also and bore 587 00:23:53,630 --> 00:23:55,430 witness to it again. 588 00:23:56,150 --> 00:23:59,870 I know you've been subject to a lot of salesmen and sales women 589 00:23:59,870 --> 00:24:04,230 and conquerors and kings and celebrities who are selling you something 590 00:24:04,230 --> 00:24:05,990 and treated you as a means to an end. 591 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:07,920 Please don't let them fool you. 592 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,800 Please don't let them deter you. 593 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,240 Don't let them define Jesus for you. 594 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,040 Don't let them keep you from becoming new in Jesus and working 595 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:16,720 the harvest. 596 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,800 You are made and saved to work with Him. 597 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,240 What is your next yes, let's pray. 598 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,840 Help us find the answer to that Lord. 599 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,360 Not by our own strength, but by being humble, hungry and willing 600 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:39,360 for the yes that you might show to us for the ways we've been 601 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,920 proud, satisfied and stubborn. 602 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:47,000 Forgive us for the ways that we've just chosen self protection 603 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,560 and self justification. 604 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:49,440 Forgive us. 605 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:54,000 Help us to turn back to you as you have drawn near to us. 606 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,440 In the name of Jesus. 607 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,480 Amen. 608 00:25:01,050 --> 00:25:05,370 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 609 00:25:05,370 --> 00:25:06,490 Earth Church. 610 00:25:06,970 --> 00:25:12,250 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 611 00:25:13,290 --> 00:25:17,890 Eastern Time, either at the main campus at 309 East Main in Whiteland, 612 00:25:17,890 --> 00:25:21,930 Indiana or online at YouTube Live. 613 00:25:22,250 --> 00:25:32,120 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