1 00:00:10,158 --> 00:00:15,558 Joshua Kehler: Ephesians chapter six, I 2 00:00:15,608 --> 00:00:19,818 I'm gonna re start in verse 10, to verse 20. 3 00:00:21,603 --> 00:00:26,793 Finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 4 00:00:28,113 --> 00:00:30,633 Put on the whole armor of God. 5 00:00:30,813 --> 00:00:36,063 That you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil for we do not wrestle 6 00:00:36,063 --> 00:00:41,073 against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, 7 00:00:41,073 --> 00:00:45,513 against the cosmic powers, over this present darkness against the spiritual 8 00:00:45,518 --> 00:00:47,333 forces of evil in the heavenly places. 9 00:00:48,003 --> 00:00:53,103 Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able 10 00:00:53,103 --> 00:00:54,903 to withstand in the evil day. 11 00:00:55,458 --> 00:01:00,798 And having done all to stand firm stand, therefore having fastened on 12 00:01:00,798 --> 00:01:05,598 the belt of truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness and as 13 00:01:05,598 --> 00:01:10,188 shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace 14 00:01:10,878 --> 00:01:15,138 and all circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish 15 00:01:15,198 --> 00:01:17,808 all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 16 00:01:18,408 --> 00:01:23,898 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of 17 00:01:23,902 --> 00:01:28,188 God, praying at all times in the spirit with all parents' application to that, 18 00:01:28,188 --> 00:01:31,908 and keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints 19 00:01:32,358 --> 00:01:37,488 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly 20 00:01:37,488 --> 00:01:42,438 to proclaim the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains. 21 00:01:43,068 --> 00:01:48,198 That I may declare it boldly as I ought to speak, and then I'm gonna 22 00:01:48,198 --> 00:01:52,997 read out of First Thessalonians chapter five verse eight. 23 00:01:54,527 --> 00:02:00,918 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the 24 00:02:00,918 --> 00:02:09,618 breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 25 00:02:11,283 --> 00:02:12,183 This is the word of the Lord. 26 00:02:14,133 --> 00:02:21,153 Victor Frankl was a Jewish Austrian doctor who was imprisoned in Auschwitz 27 00:02:21,933 --> 00:02:24,873 in World War II and, survived. 28 00:02:24,993 --> 00:02:30,903 He wrote a book called Man's Search for Meaning, in which he told stories 29 00:02:30,903 --> 00:02:35,583 from his time there, and described how various prisoners dealt with the despair 30 00:02:36,063 --> 00:02:37,833 of being in that concentration camp. 31 00:02:38,942 --> 00:02:44,553 Many, he said, responded to the hopeless situation by becoming brutal and cruel 32 00:02:44,673 --> 00:02:46,413 themselves, just like their captors. 33 00:02:46,923 --> 00:02:50,192 A kind of survival of the fittest was the mindset. 34 00:02:50,973 --> 00:02:55,083 Others, Frankl said, just gave up, just completely gave up. 35 00:02:55,353 --> 00:02:57,743 He wrote, usually this happened quite suddenly. 36 00:02:58,413 --> 00:03:03,123 The symptoms of which were familiar to us who had been at Auschwitz for a while. 37 00:03:03,483 --> 00:03:06,243 We all feared for this moment in our friends. 38 00:03:06,708 --> 00:03:10,348 Usually it began one morning when the prisoner simply refused to 39 00:03:10,348 --> 00:03:14,308 get dressed or wash or go out to the parade grounds for inspection. 40 00:03:14,608 --> 00:03:17,608 No treaties, no blows, no threats had any effect. 41 00:03:17,878 --> 00:03:18,958 They just lay there. 42 00:03:19,318 --> 00:03:20,368 They had given up. 43 00:03:20,848 --> 00:03:26,188 Nothing bothered them anymore because they had no hope. 44 00:03:28,438 --> 00:03:32,878 Minnie, he said, held on to the hope that if they stayed alive, 45 00:03:33,478 --> 00:03:39,058 Their health, family, professional achievements, fortune and position 46 00:03:39,058 --> 00:03:41,788 in society would be restored to them. 47 00:03:42,418 --> 00:03:45,808 But after liberation, they found those things irretrievably 48 00:03:45,808 --> 00:03:50,817 gone or changed forever, and many went into deep depression. 49 00:03:51,188 --> 00:03:55,138 Many of the survivors even died by suicide. 50 00:03:55,483 --> 00:03:59,713 Popes had been shattered because their hopes were on those things. 51 00:03:59,983 --> 00:04:04,613 Frankel said that the ones who truly overcame Auschwitz were those who, had a 52 00:04:04,613 --> 00:04:10,793 fixed reference point outside the world, something they held onto that was beyond 53 00:04:10,793 --> 00:04:13,493 the grasp of death and destruction. 54 00:04:14,723 --> 00:04:18,442 Those are the ones that made it through in a healthy way, like 55 00:04:18,442 --> 00:04:19,942 the prisoners at Auschwitz. 56 00:04:19,942 --> 00:04:21,113 For many of us are hopes. 57 00:04:22,808 --> 00:04:25,628 Is some fixed reference point in this world. 58 00:04:25,957 --> 00:04:32,718 Too often we would call that a flimsy hope, indeed, building 59 00:04:32,898 --> 00:04:38,148 a house on the sand that our circumstances will change, right? 60 00:04:38,298 --> 00:04:40,678 One day we think things will get better. 61 00:04:41,428 --> 00:04:42,618 I'll get my job back. 62 00:04:42,618 --> 00:04:43,728 I'll find a spouse. 63 00:04:43,728 --> 00:04:48,198 My bank account will grow while I'll be healed from this chronic pain. 64 00:04:49,278 --> 00:04:50,898 But what if those things don't happen? 65 00:04:52,038 --> 00:04:53,688 You don't get the job, you don't get married. 66 00:04:53,688 --> 00:04:55,398 The pain doesn't go away. 67 00:04:57,378 --> 00:04:58,818 Do you have a living hope? 68 00:04:58,823 --> 00:05:04,278 That's what Peter called it, A living hope, that death can't touch a refuge, 69 00:05:04,548 --> 00:05:10,218 that the challenges of life can't overcome a shelter, that the storms 70 00:05:10,218 --> 00:05:12,978 of life can't shake a living hope. 71 00:05:12,978 --> 00:05:15,708 So today I'm gonna see the helmet of salvation. 72 00:05:16,473 --> 00:05:19,413 And then as it says in Thessalonians, cause I think this was Paul's 73 00:05:19,413 --> 00:05:23,073 aspect, we talked about the helmet of salvation a little bit already, but 74 00:05:23,073 --> 00:05:25,143 the helmet of the hope of salvation. 75 00:05:25,953 --> 00:05:31,908 And then finally, and this may seem outta order why hopelessness is good. 76 00:05:35,448 --> 00:05:38,178 So a little bit of background, we've been talking about spiritual warfare. 77 00:05:39,588 --> 00:05:43,908 Any life that yields to the work of the Holy Spirit to be made more like Jesus. 78 00:05:44,403 --> 00:05:48,033 Every day and to be involved in the mission of Jesus, what 79 00:05:48,033 --> 00:05:50,853 is Jesus' mission seeking and saving that which is lost, right? 80 00:05:51,393 --> 00:05:53,823 The restoration of all things. 81 00:05:55,023 --> 00:06:00,423 So any life that is engaged in that walk with Jesus will 82 00:06:00,423 --> 00:06:02,043 face tremendous opposition. 83 00:06:03,573 --> 00:06:07,503 No matter who you are, no matter how much you've been a Christian, or if 84 00:06:07,503 --> 00:06:09,483 you're just getting into the gate. 85 00:06:11,898 --> 00:06:15,438 As, Spurgeon said a sword in one hand, in a trial on the other. 86 00:06:15,498 --> 00:06:18,258 We are builder battlers. 87 00:06:18,678 --> 00:06:24,528 We build for the kingdom of God and his kingdom, and we battle against the enemy, 88 00:06:24,528 --> 00:06:30,258 not flesh and blood as we read about, but against the enemy that wants to seek to 89 00:06:30,258 --> 00:06:33,048 devour and steal and kill and destroy. 90 00:06:33,957 --> 00:06:35,308 we have kingdom resources. 91 00:06:35,308 --> 00:06:39,388 We have the armor of God, and we are not to fight in our own strength. 92 00:06:39,388 --> 00:06:41,908 Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might, not your 93 00:06:41,913 --> 00:06:45,268 strength, how do we get the Lord's strength By admitting our weakness. 94 00:06:45,268 --> 00:06:47,968 It's the encounter, intuitive way of the gospel. 95 00:06:48,228 --> 00:06:50,478 We don't go from weakness to strength. 96 00:06:50,748 --> 00:06:52,758 A mature Christian goes from strength. 97 00:06:52,758 --> 00:06:54,273 To more and more weakness. 98 00:06:54,303 --> 00:06:59,773 They realize how much I can't do, and that I need Jesus every step of 99 00:06:59,773 --> 00:07:02,233 the way, every moment of the day. 100 00:07:02,953 --> 00:07:06,223 So it says, finally, be strong in the Lord and the strength of his might. 101 00:07:07,363 --> 00:07:09,883 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand 102 00:07:09,883 --> 00:07:11,113 against the schemes of the devil. 103 00:07:11,113 --> 00:07:15,613 Each piece of the armor we've learned is an aspect of the gospel applied 104 00:07:15,613 --> 00:07:17,623 to different part of our lives. 105 00:07:18,313 --> 00:07:21,643 And the gospel is like a diamond full of facets. 106 00:07:21,643 --> 00:07:26,143 And the light hits it as you turn it, and shoots color all over and light all over. 107 00:07:26,413 --> 00:07:29,563 And so the gospel isn't just, simplistic. 108 00:07:29,593 --> 00:07:32,203 It's multifaceted, it's deep. 109 00:07:32,203 --> 00:07:34,113 It's not the shallow end of the pool. 110 00:07:34,113 --> 00:07:35,103 It's the whole pool. 111 00:07:35,103 --> 00:07:36,783 It's the deep end, it's everything. 112 00:07:37,203 --> 00:07:41,883 And so Paul is saying all the gospel I've been teaching you through 113 00:07:41,888 --> 00:07:45,004 the chapters and Ephesians, I want you to put it on to apply it. 114 00:07:45,783 --> 00:07:49,408 Now that can sounds so abstract. 115 00:07:49,408 --> 00:07:52,588 Put on the whole armor of God, apply this piece of the gospel. 116 00:07:53,938 --> 00:07:55,318 Have you ever rented a tuxedo? 117 00:07:55,707 --> 00:07:57,268 I don't know if any of you have bought 'em. 118 00:07:57,273 --> 00:07:57,328 No. 119 00:07:57,957 --> 00:08:04,488 Or, a really nice fancy dress or a, for prom or a dance or something like that. 120 00:08:04,968 --> 00:08:05,449 I remember when. 121 00:08:06,408 --> 00:08:09,903 I got married, we went on a cruise, and my wife got such a bad sunburn. 122 00:08:09,953 --> 00:08:12,513 She's fair-skinned, and we didn't know the, we'd snorkeled 123 00:08:12,513 --> 00:08:14,183 all day without, sunscreen. 124 00:08:14,183 --> 00:08:17,528 And she was just brutally and to the point. 125 00:08:17,528 --> 00:08:21,008 Then the humidity hit and she was like, in such pain. 126 00:08:21,008 --> 00:08:22,739 We kept going to the doctor on the ship. 127 00:08:23,008 --> 00:08:25,508 We were on a cruise and, She was taking all this medicine. 128 00:08:25,508 --> 00:08:26,348 They're like, try this one. 129 00:08:26,348 --> 00:08:27,098 Nothing was working. 130 00:08:27,098 --> 00:08:28,868 And finally it, like all hit at once. 131 00:08:28,868 --> 00:08:31,207 And she slept for 20 hours straight. 132 00:08:31,968 --> 00:08:35,563 I had rented a tuxedo, , cause we were gonna do a fancy dinner that night. 133 00:08:35,683 --> 00:08:40,118 So I went and, put on my tuxedo and went to dinner by myself. 134 00:08:40,778 --> 00:08:43,337 And I was playing arcade games, on the ship and stuff. 135 00:08:43,828 --> 00:08:46,678 But I tell you like my whole mindset was different. 136 00:08:46,708 --> 00:08:50,208 It wasn't flip flops and shorts and, a Hawaiian, button up. 137 00:08:50,928 --> 00:08:54,498 When you put on something like a tuxedo, you almost want to talk 138 00:08:54,503 --> 00:08:57,738 with an accent a little bit or, , shaken, not stirred kind of a thing. 139 00:08:58,188 --> 00:09:03,568 And, it's just by putting something on it changes how you perceive things. 140 00:09:03,688 --> 00:09:06,918 And what's fascinating is we forget this as adults, but kids get it 141 00:09:06,948 --> 00:09:09,118 early on, , put on a princess dress. 142 00:09:09,118 --> 00:09:11,628 They think they're a princess, they're like convinced and 143 00:09:11,628 --> 00:09:13,348 it's, they put on this outfit. 144 00:09:14,068 --> 00:09:17,193 my son, wanted to be a cowboy, and he dressed up like a cowboy, 145 00:09:17,243 --> 00:09:18,703 and, he thought he was a cowboy. 146 00:09:18,703 --> 00:09:20,053 He'd like, Hey, partner. 147 00:09:20,053 --> 00:09:21,243 it changed everything. 148 00:09:22,243 --> 00:09:24,583 And and it's fascinating me, and that's what he's saying. 149 00:09:24,583 --> 00:09:30,493 He's saying, put this on and let it change how you see things, how you perceive, 150 00:09:30,493 --> 00:09:37,873 how you take in information, how you walk through this world like God loves you. 151 00:09:38,923 --> 00:09:40,303 It will never pull that love away. 152 00:09:41,213 --> 00:09:43,843 How does that change how we walk through our workplace? 153 00:09:45,013 --> 00:09:49,183 God so loved the world that he gave us on, not just for you, but for the world. 154 00:09:49,183 --> 00:09:53,203 How does that change how we work alongside a coworker who's frustrating? 155 00:09:53,473 --> 00:09:58,363 So we're putting on in every day, every moment of the day, these aspects of 156 00:09:58,363 --> 00:10:03,333 what Paul's been preaching to us we're to take up the whole armor and we saw 157 00:10:03,338 --> 00:10:06,693 the belt of truth stand, therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, 158 00:10:06,693 --> 00:10:12,363 Jesus, who is true and truth itself is to encompass our whole being. 159 00:10:12,768 --> 00:10:15,288 Making every part of us true, right? 160 00:10:16,278 --> 00:10:20,268 What is what you get breastplate of righteousness and having put on 161 00:10:20,268 --> 00:10:21,378 the breastplate of righteousness. 162 00:10:21,378 --> 00:10:25,668 Righteousness covering our hearts and our vital organs, not a righteousness that 163 00:10:25,673 --> 00:10:28,198 we provide our earn to make God love us. 164 00:10:29,598 --> 00:10:33,348 But a foreign righteousness that was one for us at the cross of Jesus Christ. 165 00:10:33,798 --> 00:10:37,188 And Jesus, our righteousness is making us righteous. 166 00:10:37,188 --> 00:10:41,478 Jesus' life applied to us like Jesus' life had given for us, so that 167 00:10:41,478 --> 00:10:45,038 when the Father at us, he sees the beauty and the perfection of Jesus. 168 00:10:45,408 --> 00:10:46,938 He sees the obedience of Jesus. 169 00:10:46,998 --> 00:10:52,398 He relates to you not as someone who's failed multiple times a day, but as 170 00:10:52,398 --> 00:10:57,588 someone who's obeyed as perfectly as Jesus, he loves you perfectly. 171 00:10:58,233 --> 00:11:01,803 And without restraint, preparation of the gospel of peace and his shoes 172 00:11:01,803 --> 00:11:04,473 for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace, 173 00:11:04,473 --> 00:11:07,743 something that keeps her feet from slipping into doubting God's love. 174 00:11:08,283 --> 00:11:12,753 So the gospel of peace, girded about our feet, making our steps, sure and secure. 175 00:11:13,023 --> 00:11:16,054 We remember that while we were enemies, Christ died for us. 176 00:11:16,323 --> 00:11:21,843 When we were in open rebellion to him, he chased us and pursued 177 00:11:21,843 --> 00:11:23,813 us, and made us his friends. 178 00:11:24,813 --> 00:11:25,083 He. 179 00:11:26,058 --> 00:11:27,558 Loves us. 180 00:11:31,608 --> 00:11:36,228 Shield of faith in all circumstances, take up the shield of faith with 181 00:11:36,228 --> 00:11:39,438 which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 182 00:11:40,038 --> 00:11:42,948 Faith is simply acting on what God says is true. 183 00:11:42,948 --> 00:11:43,848 That's faith. 184 00:11:44,688 --> 00:11:47,658 Faith's greatest values that it connects us with the victory, the all 185 00:11:47,658 --> 00:11:52,338 powerful, all sufficient Lord whose victory over the enemy is our victory. 186 00:11:53,208 --> 00:11:57,318 We can face the flaming arrows of suffering by trusting our sovereign 187 00:11:57,318 --> 00:12:01,248 God in King, that he is working all things together for his good, 188 00:12:01,758 --> 00:12:04,428 for his glory, and for our joy. 189 00:12:04,428 --> 00:12:07,698 So the helmet, and take the helmet of salvation. 190 00:12:08,308 --> 00:12:10,523 We talked about the different types of helmets that were 191 00:12:10,523 --> 00:12:12,203 worn by the Roman soldiers. 192 00:12:12,563 --> 00:12:15,483 One was metal and it covered the ears. 193 00:12:15,483 --> 00:12:17,403 It had a piece over your nose. 194 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:18,813 It protected your whole head. 195 00:12:18,933 --> 00:12:19,773 It was heavy. 196 00:12:19,923 --> 00:12:24,243 And so they would take sponge out of the ocean and that they would pad it. 197 00:12:24,433 --> 00:12:28,978 you weren't just clanking about in a, just a metal helmet, getting hit. 198 00:12:29,488 --> 00:12:30,778 If you're just wearing that would hurt. 199 00:12:31,138 --> 00:12:35,608 But the idea is that it, it was this complete covering, no soldier's 200 00:12:35,608 --> 00:12:38,308 outfit, cle without the helmet. 201 00:12:38,803 --> 00:12:43,823 And so there is in our, , journey, as Christians, , one of the ways the 202 00:12:43,823 --> 00:12:47,033 enemy attacks is our mind, right? 203 00:12:47,793 --> 00:12:49,113 , Romans, 12, one to two. 204 00:12:49,113 --> 00:12:52,653 I appeal to you, therefore brothers, by the mercies of God to present 205 00:12:52,653 --> 00:12:56,043 your bodies as a living sacrifice. 206 00:12:56,193 --> 00:12:59,783 Holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 207 00:13:01,193 --> 00:13:03,413 Do not be conformed to this world. 208 00:13:03,443 --> 00:13:04,583 And there's that conforming. 209 00:13:05,078 --> 00:13:10,208 But be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may 210 00:13:10,208 --> 00:13:15,728 discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 211 00:13:16,148 --> 00:13:21,398 And so there is a sense that the enemy wants you to think his thoughts, the. 212 00:13:22,508 --> 00:13:24,638 Jesus wants you to think his thoughts, right? 213 00:13:24,758 --> 00:13:28,838 So there's a conflict, there's a battle, but we don't only face the enemy we face 214 00:13:28,838 --> 00:13:30,398 the world, the flesh, the devil, right? 215 00:13:30,398 --> 00:13:33,908 As it talks about in First John, the world is trying to conform 216 00:13:33,908 --> 00:13:35,948 our minds into that image. 217 00:13:35,978 --> 00:13:37,928 We're just talking about consumerism, right? 218 00:13:38,288 --> 00:13:40,868 Everything in our, , culture is. 219 00:13:41,628 --> 00:13:42,948 Geared to, you need more. 220 00:13:43,128 --> 00:13:45,288 If you just have this, finally you'll be happy. 221 00:13:45,498 --> 00:13:49,538 And all you need is this and we're gonna make it so much easier. 222 00:13:49,658 --> 00:13:51,788 Apple just came out with a pay later. 223 00:13:51,948 --> 00:13:52,438 Amazing. 224 00:13:53,168 --> 00:13:53,858 Is it? 225 00:13:54,638 --> 00:13:57,818 Because now you don't have to save and screw and really think about it. 226 00:13:57,848 --> 00:14:00,978 Now you get it, now, and then you'll be happy. 227 00:14:00,978 --> 00:14:04,643 It'll be worth it, and so it's constantly trying to put us 228 00:14:04,673 --> 00:14:07,373 in this mode, this framework. 229 00:14:07,493 --> 00:14:09,143 That's something that we have to fight against. 230 00:14:09,148 --> 00:14:13,043 Second Corinthians 10, four, and five says, for the weapons of our warfare, not. 231 00:14:13,228 --> 00:14:18,118 Of the flesh, but have divine power for destroying strongholds. 232 00:14:18,388 --> 00:14:22,858 We destroy arguments in every lofty opinion, raised against the 233 00:14:22,863 --> 00:14:29,128 knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ You. 234 00:14:29,188 --> 00:14:30,778 That literally means you. 235 00:14:31,523 --> 00:14:36,713 Go and capture your thoughts, and then you interrogate them like in a room, right? 236 00:14:36,843 --> 00:14:39,313 You, there's, it's two-sided mirrors. 237 00:14:39,413 --> 00:14:40,553 It's a bright light. 238 00:14:40,613 --> 00:14:43,223 You're looking at your thought and you're like, what did you mean by that? 239 00:14:43,293 --> 00:14:44,253 What's behind this? 240 00:14:44,303 --> 00:14:48,383 , you're literally capturing them and interrogating them, and the 241 00:14:48,388 --> 00:14:50,693 truth of what is truly true. 242 00:14:51,143 --> 00:14:51,923 You ever do that? 243 00:14:52,823 --> 00:14:55,903 You ever have thoughts and you're like, man, That is not, 244 00:14:55,933 --> 00:14:58,363 yeah, that is not of the Lord, 245 00:14:58,413 --> 00:14:59,163 where did that come from? 246 00:14:59,163 --> 00:15:00,333 Or do you ever react? 247 00:15:01,173 --> 00:15:02,823 So happens when I'm driving. 248 00:15:02,823 --> 00:15:02,943 Yeah. 249 00:15:03,333 --> 00:15:05,398 I'll just leap outta my mouth and I'm like, no, wait. 250 00:15:07,348 --> 00:15:08,878 And I'm like, where did that come from? 251 00:15:09,508 --> 00:15:13,018 And so he's saying, there is a battle on the mind. 252 00:15:13,288 --> 00:15:17,458 There's a battle to be conformed into the image of this world, to 253 00:15:17,548 --> 00:15:19,168 believe the lies of the enemy. 254 00:15:19,168 --> 00:15:22,348 Has God really said, does God really love you? 255 00:15:22,498 --> 00:15:23,908 Why is he allowing all this suffering? 256 00:15:23,908 --> 00:15:25,198 Why is he allowing all this trials? 257 00:15:25,198 --> 00:15:27,178 Where's the rescue that you've read about? 258 00:15:27,788 --> 00:15:29,818 And to, the battle on the mind? 259 00:15:29,818 --> 00:15:34,138 And so Paul says, that the helmet. 260 00:15:34,693 --> 00:15:37,753 Specifically of salvation and the hope of salvation is what 261 00:15:37,753 --> 00:15:39,643 he gives us to battle against. 262 00:15:39,643 --> 00:15:43,753 That sings one of the characters in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Princess 263 00:15:43,753 --> 00:15:46,483 Ida, right before entering a dual. 264 00:15:46,543 --> 00:15:49,753 Here it is, this helmet, was meant to ward off blows. 265 00:15:49,758 --> 00:15:51,373 It's very hot and weighs a lot. 266 00:15:51,733 --> 00:15:56,973 So off this helmet goes, so off this helmet goes and that's the 267 00:15:56,973 --> 00:16:02,073 temptation is to step out of what God has protected and what he's given us. 268 00:16:02,403 --> 00:16:04,803 Through his work in the gospel. 269 00:16:05,433 --> 00:16:09,063 Salvation in the Bible refers to the whole scope of God's saving work. 270 00:16:09,303 --> 00:16:12,393 Salvation is a broader term than how we typically use it In church. 271 00:16:12,393 --> 00:16:14,103 We use terms like saved. 272 00:16:14,103 --> 00:16:16,823 I've been saved, redeemed, past tense. 273 00:16:16,853 --> 00:16:17,453 Only. 274 00:16:19,313 --> 00:16:23,453 If we're accustomed to use just the past tense when it talks about salvation, then 275 00:16:23,453 --> 00:16:28,133 we might get confused when we look at the Bible and see most of it's used in 276 00:16:28,133 --> 00:16:30,333 the present tense or in the future tense. 277 00:16:31,328 --> 00:16:34,448 Salvation in the Bible is the whole scope of redemption. 278 00:16:34,958 --> 00:16:38,288 , God created a good world not to take from us, but to give to us 279 00:16:38,288 --> 00:16:39,578 out of the overflow of his heart. 280 00:16:39,608 --> 00:16:40,358 God doesn't mean anything. 281 00:16:40,358 --> 00:16:45,188 He doesn't need you to love him, but because he is a God whose essence 282 00:16:45,218 --> 00:16:49,209 is love outta the overflow of his perfect community, he said, Hey, 283 00:16:49,448 --> 00:16:50,978 let's bring more people into this. 284 00:16:51,818 --> 00:16:55,258 Let's share this love , let's expand our community. 285 00:16:55,258 --> 00:16:56,938 Let's make man and our image. 286 00:16:57,058 --> 00:16:58,678 And it was beautiful, right? 287 00:16:58,888 --> 00:17:02,998 It was walking with God in the cool of the day, like cultivating the ground. 288 00:17:03,508 --> 00:17:05,728 Just amazing relationship. 289 00:17:05,828 --> 00:17:09,008 there was this perfection almost to it. 290 00:17:09,488 --> 00:17:10,897 And then we believe the lie and. 291 00:17:11,252 --> 00:17:13,542 All of Earth got thrown into chaos. 292 00:17:14,223 --> 00:17:16,833 All of our relationships got thrown into chaos. 293 00:17:17,042 --> 00:17:21,242 Adam, Chuck and Eve under the bus, and the first time they were together, 294 00:17:21,473 --> 00:17:26,483 with a counselor, God, as he's asking them, did you run hiding all of a 295 00:17:26,483 --> 00:17:30,473 sudden who they really were hiding behind fig leaves that they had sewn 296 00:17:30,743 --> 00:17:35,063 such a picture of the religion that we build up to make ourselves look good. 297 00:17:35,273 --> 00:17:38,903 We cover ourselves with our apparent goodness. 298 00:17:39,298 --> 00:17:44,918 To hide our nakedness and on, and Kane kills Abel and there's war 299 00:17:44,918 --> 00:17:48,723 and infighting to the point where at Noahs time it says, I see. 300 00:17:48,728 --> 00:17:54,873 And I go across this earth and every thought is only evil, continually. 301 00:17:55,323 --> 00:17:59,733 Like it's just a constant, it's turn the channel and every 302 00:17:59,733 --> 00:18:03,123 station is only evil, continually. 303 00:18:04,323 --> 00:18:06,123 And so salvation. 304 00:18:06,663 --> 00:18:09,363 Not only did we break, but creation broke. 305 00:18:09,393 --> 00:18:11,523 Romans eight says That creation's groaning. 306 00:18:11,523 --> 00:18:12,333 It's waiting. 307 00:18:12,613 --> 00:18:16,543 , in Psalms it says the day when the Lord comes back, the trees are gonna clap. 308 00:18:16,963 --> 00:18:19,933 Like they're gonna celebrate, they're gonna worship, they're gonna break out 309 00:18:19,933 --> 00:18:22,453 of their bark, and they're gonna bark. 310 00:18:22,483 --> 00:18:23,563 They're gonna go for it. 311 00:18:23,908 --> 00:18:23,968 Yeah. 312 00:18:24,748 --> 00:18:26,938 And so salvation, when the Bible talks about salvation, 313 00:18:26,943 --> 00:18:29,308 it's this whole sweeping epic. 314 00:18:29,458 --> 00:18:35,908 It's this picture from beginning to end of man lost creation, lost man, found a 315 00:18:35,908 --> 00:18:40,768 man saved creation, being redeemed and restored, thorns and thistles being done 316 00:18:40,773 --> 00:18:46,158 away with, sickness, being, given , a time limit, death being put in the grave. 317 00:18:46,208 --> 00:18:50,698 it's all this sweeping thing of what God is doing. 318 00:18:51,428 --> 00:18:53,168 And so we come to that Salvation Pastor. 319 00:18:53,168 --> 00:18:58,298 We, last time we talked about salvation past and salvation present, and , I 320 00:18:58,298 --> 00:19:02,548 just want to touch on it briefly and then we'll anchor in on hope. 321 00:19:03,818 --> 00:19:06,878 Second Peter tells us how we should be growing in grace 322 00:19:07,358 --> 00:19:09,518 and in Christ-like character. 323 00:19:10,058 --> 00:19:15,258 And then in chapter one, verse nine, he says, but those who fail to develop 324 00:19:15,258 --> 00:19:19,068 in this way are short-sighted or blind, forgetting that they have 325 00:19:19,068 --> 00:19:22,878 been cleansed from their old sins. 326 00:19:23,478 --> 00:19:24,558 Why is he blind? 327 00:19:25,848 --> 00:19:28,428 Because he is forgotten that he was cleansed from his sins. 328 00:19:30,273 --> 00:19:31,233 You guys know the story? 329 00:19:31,283 --> 00:19:33,413 I haven't told it in a long time, but you guys know it. 330 00:19:33,443 --> 00:19:38,153 It's ha Ironside tells a story about, a group of settlers who are coming 331 00:19:38,158 --> 00:19:43,193 out west and they hit this prairie, right this flat, and it's just long 332 00:19:43,198 --> 00:19:45,023 grass for as far as the, I can see. 333 00:19:45,153 --> 00:19:47,733 they would send out a scout just to make sure everything's okay up 334 00:19:47,733 --> 00:19:51,123 ahead and they had noticed that there's some smoke in the distance. 335 00:19:51,123 --> 00:19:52,203 the scout rides back. 336 00:19:53,268 --> 00:19:55,998 As fast as he can, he jumps off his horse and he gets everybody around. 337 00:19:55,998 --> 00:19:58,428 He says, there's a fire coming this way, and the wind is 338 00:19:58,428 --> 00:19:59,928 blowing it right towards us. 339 00:20:00,348 --> 00:20:04,338 So they're surrounded in this tall, dry grass in every direction. 340 00:20:04,938 --> 00:20:06,298 And everybody starts to panic. 341 00:20:06,298 --> 00:20:07,648 We need to start, we need to leave now. 342 00:20:07,648 --> 00:20:08,728 We need to try it out, run it. 343 00:20:08,733 --> 00:20:10,373 And they can see the smoke is just growing. 344 00:20:10,373 --> 00:20:13,153 They can now see the orange from the blaze getting close. 345 00:20:13,423 --> 00:20:14,863 There's no way they're gonna outrun it. 346 00:20:14,863 --> 00:20:15,763 And they know that. 347 00:20:15,913 --> 00:20:16,993 And there's all this panic. 348 00:20:16,993 --> 00:20:18,918 And then somebody, Has a good idea. 349 00:20:18,918 --> 00:20:22,848 They say, why don't we light a fire behind us and by the time the fire gets here, 350 00:20:22,848 --> 00:20:27,558 we can go and we can put everything on the burned out ground and we can be safe. 351 00:20:27,563 --> 00:20:29,178 And so they're like, that's brilliant. 352 00:20:29,178 --> 00:20:31,638 And so they start a fire behind where they were and the wind 353 00:20:31,638 --> 00:20:34,028 takes the fire and it clears out. 354 00:20:34,268 --> 00:20:39,248 This burn scorched earth, and then they move all their stuff just in time. 355 00:20:39,248 --> 00:20:41,738 And as the fire's approaching, this little girl asked her dad, she 356 00:20:41,738 --> 00:20:43,508 says, dad, are you sure we're safe? 357 00:20:43,508 --> 00:20:45,338 They could feel the heat of the fire. 358 00:20:45,338 --> 00:20:45,968 It's close. 359 00:20:46,028 --> 00:20:48,818 And the dad says, yes, daughter, because the fire can't go 360 00:20:48,823 --> 00:20:50,048 where the fire's already been. 361 00:20:53,638 --> 00:20:54,538 That's why 362 00:20:58,578 --> 00:21:02,038 Paul says there's therefore now no condemnation. 363 00:21:02,258 --> 00:21:03,438 For those who are in Christ Jesus. 364 00:21:05,828 --> 00:21:10,278 There's the word there I is so strong in Greek, it means that 365 00:21:10,458 --> 00:21:13,908 there's not even a trace of it left. 366 00:21:14,128 --> 00:21:16,733 Like when there's a fire and it burns everything, you could still smell it. 367 00:21:17,123 --> 00:21:19,303 You can't even smell the smell of condemnation. 368 00:21:21,263 --> 00:21:21,893 It's gone. 369 00:21:23,903 --> 00:21:27,983 And we're safe in him because he took the fire. 370 00:21:29,213 --> 00:21:30,263 It fell on him. 371 00:21:31,943 --> 00:21:34,523 No more condemnation. 372 00:21:35,273 --> 00:21:39,233 And I just wanna say, we should celebrate and praise and 373 00:21:39,238 --> 00:21:40,643 worship every day of her life. 374 00:21:40,648 --> 00:21:40,843 Yes. 375 00:21:41,363 --> 00:21:41,993 Just for that fact. 376 00:21:41,993 --> 00:21:43,493 You remember the story of the 10 lepers? 377 00:21:44,213 --> 00:21:46,553 They have leprosy, they're dying, they're gonna die, and they're dying 378 00:21:46,558 --> 00:21:49,763 outside of their community, away from their families, their outcast. 379 00:21:51,203 --> 00:21:52,133 And Jesus says, I'll heal you. 380 00:21:52,133 --> 00:21:53,363 Go show yourselves to the priest. 381 00:21:54,113 --> 00:21:55,763 And on their way there, they're healed. 382 00:21:57,003 --> 00:21:59,013 is that limbs being restored? 383 00:21:59,013 --> 00:22:00,393 Back sores. 384 00:22:00,583 --> 00:22:04,423 all of a sudden, all the skin and one comes back who is an outsider Samaritan, 385 00:22:04,428 --> 00:22:06,853 he couldn't go show himself to the priest. 386 00:22:06,853 --> 00:22:08,113 He couldn't go into the temple. 387 00:22:09,253 --> 00:22:13,113 So we went to the priest that all the other priests pointed to, and he fell 388 00:22:13,113 --> 00:22:17,283 down on his sneeze and he said, thank you. 389 00:22:20,043 --> 00:22:20,973 And it was a sign. 390 00:22:22,203 --> 00:22:25,893 That because Jesus actually says, your faith has saved you. 391 00:22:27,073 --> 00:22:29,863 And he uses the word for salvation, not just healed. 392 00:22:31,123 --> 00:22:34,403 And and that was just a sign of that thankful heart thankfulness. 393 00:22:35,423 --> 00:22:39,683 Spurgeon said, I do not think the church rejoices enough. 394 00:22:40,043 --> 00:22:44,993 We all grumble enough and grown enough, but very few of us rejoice enough. 395 00:22:46,653 --> 00:22:48,503 It can be often that we're known. 396 00:22:48,713 --> 00:22:52,283 The church is known more for what we're against than what we're for. 397 00:22:52,343 --> 00:22:52,563 yes. 398 00:22:52,613 --> 00:22:58,593 Uhhuh, Instead of being people of perpetual gratitude, we can fall, I do 399 00:22:58,983 --> 00:23:04,113 fall quickly to grumbling as the next person instead of this never ending. 400 00:23:04,118 --> 00:23:04,833 Thanks. 401 00:23:04,833 --> 00:23:08,463 We're prone to constant complaining like the rest of the world. 402 00:23:10,023 --> 00:23:14,163 The variations of the word thank and thankful are used 403 00:23:14,163 --> 00:23:15,903 almost 150 times in the Bible. 404 00:23:16,473 --> 00:23:19,803 38 of those times were specifically told to give thanks. 405 00:23:20,433 --> 00:23:24,573 So this is like kind of important, the Greek word thanks is eucharisteo, 406 00:23:25,063 --> 00:23:29,173 which is where we get Eucharist, the Lord supper, communion. 407 00:23:29,833 --> 00:23:32,443 it's the word that Jesus used when he was administering the Lord 408 00:23:32,443 --> 00:23:36,193 supper with the disciples as he broke the bread he gave thanks. 409 00:23:36,223 --> 00:23:39,823 That's where we get the idea of the Eucharist, which is an amazing 410 00:23:39,823 --> 00:23:43,243 thing to think about because he's literally, Giving Thx that he's 411 00:23:43,243 --> 00:23:45,133 about to be torn apart for them. 412 00:23:46,393 --> 00:23:49,633 He's like, thank you that I get to, that should melt our hearts. 413 00:23:49,633 --> 00:23:54,373 Like he's breaking, he's giving thanks as he is breaking the bread, 414 00:23:54,373 --> 00:23:57,453 saying this is what I'm going to do right now, but he's giving thanks. 415 00:23:58,123 --> 00:23:59,353 I get to do this for them. 416 00:23:59,358 --> 00:24:01,843 Lord, I get to do this for them Lord. 417 00:24:02,983 --> 00:24:09,583 in, in Hebrew there are at least seven words, for praise and thanks. 418 00:24:09,733 --> 00:24:15,023 Listen to these toda, a Thanksgiving choir, Barack, to Neil in Thanksgiving. 419 00:24:15,503 --> 00:24:19,313 Tequila, not tequila, to sing a song of Thanksgiving. 420 00:24:19,883 --> 00:24:20,723 Hello? 421 00:24:20,993 --> 00:24:22,613 Where we get our word, hallelujah. 422 00:24:22,613 --> 00:24:23,363 To give thanks. 423 00:24:23,363 --> 00:24:25,103 By boasting and praising God. 424 00:24:25,433 --> 00:24:26,754 I love that boasting about God. 425 00:24:27,613 --> 00:24:28,673 He welcomes that. 426 00:24:29,693 --> 00:24:30,353 That's amazing. 427 00:24:31,203 --> 00:24:32,543 Yadda to give thanks. 428 00:24:32,543 --> 00:24:35,433 With expressive gratitude to extend your hands. 429 00:24:36,983 --> 00:24:41,673 That's a very biblical thing, where, why do we raise our hands in worship, Amar 430 00:24:41,673 --> 00:24:43,593 to give thanks with a musical instrument. 431 00:24:43,833 --> 00:24:48,933 Shabbat to give thanks and a loud tone or a shout that doesn't really have words. 432 00:24:48,933 --> 00:24:53,824 CS Lewis talked about how being thankful is woven into a life of worshiping God. 433 00:24:54,183 --> 00:24:58,113 He notes that our tendency is to give God thanks for what he has done for 434 00:24:58,118 --> 00:25:02,463 us, the blessings that he has bestowed upon us, namely the gift of salvation 435 00:25:02,463 --> 00:25:04,083 through Jesus, which is awesome. 436 00:25:04,863 --> 00:25:06,063 We should definitely do that. 437 00:25:06,063 --> 00:25:07,773 Literally count our blessings. 438 00:25:08,073 --> 00:25:11,463 But when we really get down to the, what our thankfulness should spring 439 00:25:11,463 --> 00:25:15,933 from for the believer, it is not just from what God has given us. 440 00:25:15,963 --> 00:25:19,673 We should be thankful simply for who God is. 441 00:25:21,843 --> 00:25:24,933 Being thankful is one thing Lewis says, but knowing who we're 442 00:25:24,933 --> 00:25:28,683 thanking leads us into a life saturated with both Thanksgiving 443 00:25:29,763 --> 00:25:31,953 and listen to this than living. 444 00:25:32,088 --> 00:25:36,558 Living a life of worship, often we say it's, we have an attitude of gratitude. 445 00:25:36,558 --> 00:25:37,338 No, no, no. 446 00:25:37,698 --> 00:25:39,048 It's much more than that. 447 00:25:39,738 --> 00:25:43,568 It's a whole life of joy and worship and gratitude and thanks and 448 00:25:43,568 --> 00:25:47,048 fellowship with the one true God. 449 00:25:47,128 --> 00:25:50,628 think about again, we're saved. 450 00:25:50,788 --> 00:25:53,158 But he also saved you to himself. 451 00:25:53,698 --> 00:25:58,648 So that you might know how good he is, taste and see that the Lord is good. 452 00:25:59,398 --> 00:26:02,428 Like he saved you, not just to have you do your own thing. 453 00:26:02,738 --> 00:26:07,478 he took the people out of Egypt to bring him to himself into covenant relationship. 454 00:26:07,658 --> 00:26:13,123 Like he took you out of the, grave of death to bring you 455 00:26:13,128 --> 00:26:14,533 into the newness of life. 456 00:26:14,533 --> 00:26:15,133 That's him. 457 00:26:15,798 --> 00:26:18,678 Like he brought you out to bring you in. 458 00:26:18,798 --> 00:26:20,568 It's about him. 459 00:26:20,868 --> 00:26:25,368 So not only are we thankful for what God has done in saving us, but we're 460 00:26:25,368 --> 00:26:27,798 thankful that he saved us to himself. 461 00:26:28,248 --> 00:26:32,958 And that's like a deep rooted thankfulness that he is good. 462 00:26:33,578 --> 00:26:36,078 God is good all the time, right? 463 00:26:38,098 --> 00:26:38,788 Present Grace. 464 00:26:38,788 --> 00:26:41,608 God is at work in you and at work for you. 465 00:26:41,968 --> 00:26:44,878 Philippians one, six, and I am sure of this, that he who began a 466 00:26:44,878 --> 00:26:50,008 good work and you'll bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. 467 00:26:50,398 --> 00:26:54,608 Hebrews 12, two says that he is the author and the perfector of our faith. 468 00:26:55,248 --> 00:26:56,268 Or the finisher. 469 00:26:56,508 --> 00:26:57,828 He is the potter. 470 00:26:57,828 --> 00:26:59,538 We are the clay. 471 00:26:59,568 --> 00:27:01,008 Second Corinthians three 17. 472 00:27:01,008 --> 00:27:05,298 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is 473 00:27:05,298 --> 00:27:12,138 freedom and we all, with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord are 474 00:27:12,138 --> 00:27:17,238 being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to the other. 475 00:27:17,628 --> 00:27:20,208 For this comes from the Lord who is spirit. 476 00:27:20,728 --> 00:27:23,818 So the Lord is making us more like Him as we behold Him. 477 00:27:23,818 --> 00:27:27,968 So the present work of salvation is to get us to gaze at Jesus. 478 00:27:28,978 --> 00:27:31,948 The Holy Spirit is preaching to our hearts as Romans eight says, you're 479 00:27:31,948 --> 00:27:33,718 adopted, you're part of the family. 480 00:27:33,723 --> 00:27:35,128 You're his beloved child. 481 00:27:35,428 --> 00:27:40,088 One of my favorite parts of First John is he's writing and he emotes on the page. 482 00:27:40,448 --> 00:27:45,618 he says, behold, What man, which is terrible writing if you're sending 483 00:27:45,618 --> 00:27:49,338 somebody a letter, but he is behold, what manners, of love is this, that 484 00:27:49,338 --> 00:27:51,258 we should be called the sons of God. 485 00:27:51,618 --> 00:27:52,578 This is insane. 486 00:27:52,583 --> 00:27:54,528 It's like it overwhelmed him as he is writing. 487 00:27:54,528 --> 00:28:00,013 He's behold, where children of God, what love is this? 488 00:28:02,363 --> 00:28:07,863 So we gaze, the breathtaking method of the spirit is to show us the glory of Christ. 489 00:28:08,898 --> 00:28:12,598 The complex verb that Paul uses, it means to behold in a mirror. 490 00:28:12,598 --> 00:28:16,108 This word combines the ideas of looking long and hard at something 491 00:28:16,228 --> 00:28:19,318 and resembling or reflecting the thing that you're looking at. 492 00:28:19,483 --> 00:28:24,253 Yeah, we are called a long contemplative gazing at the Lord Jesus and 493 00:28:24,253 --> 00:28:26,443 changing so as to reflect his image. 494 00:28:26,533 --> 00:28:27,673 What a vivid image that is. 495 00:28:27,673 --> 00:28:30,763 The more we gaze and contemplate Jesus, the more the spirit shows us 496 00:28:30,763 --> 00:28:35,833 his glory and we become transformed into the likeness of what it sees. 497 00:28:35,833 --> 00:28:40,363 So what does it mean to see the glory of something cvo in the Old Testament? 498 00:28:40,363 --> 00:28:42,163 It's weight, right? 499 00:28:43,438 --> 00:28:47,158 It means you realize in your heart its importance, the beauty and 500 00:28:47,158 --> 00:28:49,288 how it connects and affects you. 501 00:28:49,678 --> 00:28:53,248 So the way the spirit creates character in you is by affecting 502 00:28:53,248 --> 00:28:56,403 the heart and the life by what in the person and the work of Jesus. 503 00:28:57,093 --> 00:28:58,233 That's why Jesus is central. 504 00:28:58,233 --> 00:28:59,823 That's why he's gotta be everything. 505 00:28:59,828 --> 00:29:03,103 That's why he didn't say, if you lift your theology up, 506 00:29:03,103 --> 00:29:04,653 I'll draw 'em in onto myself. 507 00:29:06,348 --> 00:29:09,888 He didn't say, if you lift up celebrity pastors, I'll draw 'em in unto, he didn't 508 00:29:09,888 --> 00:29:12,678 say, he didn't even say the church. 509 00:29:12,678 --> 00:29:20,508 He said, if I'm lifted up, if you lift up Jesus, he'll draw all men unto himself. 510 00:29:20,513 --> 00:29:23,838 It's the goal of the church is to make much of Jesus and the 511 00:29:23,838 --> 00:29:26,928 goal of the Spirit is to make much of Jesus through the church. 512 00:29:26,933 --> 00:29:26,948 Yes. 513 00:29:27,558 --> 00:29:27,918 That's. 514 00:29:28,383 --> 00:29:34,063 The mission, and it's to impact us, in effect in every way. 515 00:29:34,183 --> 00:29:38,663 So we come to first Alians five, eight, but since we belong to the 516 00:29:38,663 --> 00:29:41,093 day, there's that new identity. 517 00:29:41,453 --> 00:29:45,263 Let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and 518 00:29:45,263 --> 00:29:47,603 for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 519 00:29:47,933 --> 00:29:52,823 So the biblical word, hope we talk about it versus the worldly 520 00:29:53,093 --> 00:29:55,043 we use hope, like I hope so. 521 00:29:55,093 --> 00:29:56,413 is so-and-so coming over? 522 00:29:56,443 --> 00:29:57,073 I hope so. 523 00:29:58,053 --> 00:29:59,203 Is so-and-so coming Sunday? 524 00:29:59,263 --> 00:29:59,773 I hope so. 525 00:30:01,813 --> 00:30:06,723 And, we are stuck in that way of using hope, biblical hope. 526 00:30:07,443 --> 00:30:08,853 Never used it like that. 527 00:30:09,333 --> 00:30:12,033 We use it like maybe we'll see. 528 00:30:13,083 --> 00:30:13,503 I don't know. 529 00:30:14,403 --> 00:30:16,903 que what will be, will be. 530 00:30:17,743 --> 00:30:21,583 Biblical hope is a concrete expectation of future. 531 00:30:21,583 --> 00:30:26,773 Good hope is an indication of certainty. 532 00:30:28,273 --> 00:30:32,258 That's what Hebrew says in chapter six, that it's an anchor for our souls. 533 00:30:32,668 --> 00:30:32,888 Yes. 534 00:30:34,598 --> 00:30:38,408 It's a concrete expectation of future. 535 00:30:38,408 --> 00:30:38,768 Good. 536 00:30:39,548 --> 00:30:44,438 So it's, it is being convinced so thoroughly that what God says he's 537 00:30:44,438 --> 00:30:51,148 gonna do, he's gonna do, and then shaping your life around that. 538 00:30:51,938 --> 00:30:55,898 when you woke up today, What was the first thing you hoped for? 539 00:30:57,188 --> 00:30:57,728 Go back to sleep. 540 00:30:58,028 --> 00:30:59,618 I, that's the first thing I wrote down. 541 00:30:59,618 --> 00:31:00,858 Maybe for a better night's sleep. 542 00:31:01,198 --> 00:31:02,018 You're so tired. 543 00:31:03,888 --> 00:31:04,698 pain-free day. 544 00:31:05,748 --> 00:31:07,908 Traffic Free ride over here to Manteca. 545 00:31:09,898 --> 00:31:13,608 Maybe you're hoping this week the inspection at work would be 546 00:31:13,608 --> 00:31:14,988 delayed cuz you're not ready yet. 547 00:31:16,038 --> 00:31:22,558 Or perhaps you just hoped that someone, had left you something for breakfast. 548 00:31:23,258 --> 00:31:26,378 probably a few days go by without us using the word hope. 549 00:31:26,768 --> 00:31:27,758 I hope we're on time. 550 00:31:27,818 --> 00:31:28,359 I hope it doesn't rain. 551 00:31:28,418 --> 00:31:29,588 I hope it does rain. 552 00:31:29,828 --> 00:31:30,998 I hope it's not cancer. 553 00:31:31,058 --> 00:31:32,078 I hope she'll understand. 554 00:31:32,108 --> 00:31:33,098 I hope he'll be okay. 555 00:31:33,308 --> 00:31:34,298 I hope he isn't angry. 556 00:31:34,418 --> 00:31:35,618 I hope God hears this. 557 00:31:35,738 --> 00:31:36,758 I hope he loves me. 558 00:31:37,598 --> 00:31:40,778 From the smallest concerns to the grandest ones, our lives are shaped, directed, 559 00:31:40,778 --> 00:31:42,938 motivated, and frustrated by hope. 560 00:31:43,958 --> 00:31:50,048 Everyone hopes, everyone hooks their hope to something or someone every. 561 00:31:50,588 --> 00:31:53,018 Person is motivated by hope. 562 00:31:53,228 --> 00:31:57,368 Remember that Victor Frankl story about the people and the Auschwitz. 563 00:31:57,518 --> 00:32:02,188 Human beings are not like animals living moment by moment, by instinct. 564 00:32:02,488 --> 00:32:05,038 No matter who we are or what we have experienced. 565 00:32:05,098 --> 00:32:10,828 We live by hope, and hope transforms. 566 00:32:11,068 --> 00:32:12,928 We view the present. 567 00:32:13,258 --> 00:32:13,898 And shapes us. 568 00:32:13,968 --> 00:32:18,743 You take the two workers, we're gonna hire him on, to dig, trench for us. 569 00:32:18,813 --> 00:32:22,613 we just had, one of our apprentices tell us that, he didn't want to dig 570 00:32:22,913 --> 00:32:25,433 and that if he's gonna be a laborer, he needs to be paid way more. 571 00:32:26,093 --> 00:32:27,883 we're like, never heard that one before. 572 00:32:28,453 --> 00:32:30,773 we're like, we all dig, we all gotta do it. 573 00:32:30,773 --> 00:32:34,553 But, so you've got two guys and you tell one of 'em, you tell one of 'em, you 574 00:32:34,553 --> 00:32:36,653 know you're gonna make 20 bucks an hour. 575 00:32:37,098 --> 00:32:39,828 to dig this and you tell the other guy, you get this done. 576 00:32:39,828 --> 00:32:43,548 By the end of the day, I'm gonna bestow my inheritance on you. 577 00:32:44,188 --> 00:32:45,958 And he signs it over right there, geez. 578 00:32:46,418 --> 00:32:48,008 And it's a couple million dollars he's worth. 579 00:32:49,553 --> 00:32:54,893 Those two people are gonna work entirely different in the present. 580 00:32:55,553 --> 00:32:58,198 One's gonna be like 20 bucks an hour, I can't believe, I need to be 581 00:32:58,198 --> 00:33:00,368 paid more, And I've just begrudging. 582 00:33:00,368 --> 00:33:02,288 I can't believe we're d the other guy's what? 583 00:33:02,348 --> 00:33:02,648 What? 584 00:33:02,738 --> 00:33:03,648 You know what? 585 00:33:03,708 --> 00:33:10,508 You know that hope because he's certain it's been signed over. 586 00:33:10,628 --> 00:33:12,278 He has a guarantee. 587 00:33:17,348 --> 00:33:19,928 A concrete expectation of future good. 588 00:33:19,928 --> 00:33:21,458 And it shapes the present moment. 589 00:33:25,088 --> 00:33:29,798 In Ephesians, it says that the Holy Spirit is the guarantee of our inheritance. 590 00:33:30,718 --> 00:33:32,808 like he's, yes, exactly the down payment. 591 00:33:32,808 --> 00:33:37,758 He's the signatory, he's the hey and the proof that it's 592 00:33:37,758 --> 00:33:39,648 so is the resurrection, right? 593 00:33:39,948 --> 00:33:41,118 That we've been talking about. 594 00:33:41,328 --> 00:33:49,138 So it, it depends on what your hope is of how you're shaped in the present. 595 00:33:49,903 --> 00:33:51,613 It depends on where your anchor is. 596 00:33:51,613 --> 00:33:55,873 It depends on where you're building that foundation, first. 597 00:33:55,873 --> 00:33:57,253 John three, two to three. 598 00:33:57,253 --> 00:34:02,143 Beloved, we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared, 599 00:34:02,203 --> 00:34:07,273 but we know that when he appears we shall be like him because we shall see 600 00:34:07,278 --> 00:34:14,112 him as he is unveiled faces and everyone listen to this, who thus hopes in him. 601 00:34:14,818 --> 00:34:17,697 Purifies himself as he is pure. 602 00:34:17,848 --> 00:34:21,598 Literally, just the expectation of Jesus coming back and seeing him face 603 00:34:21,598 --> 00:34:23,848 to face changes you right now today. 604 00:34:24,463 --> 00:34:28,753 Literally just all of a sudden changes you, changes how you see things, what 605 00:34:28,753 --> 00:34:33,487 you value, changes, starts to change attitudes and behaviors in these things. 606 00:34:34,257 --> 00:34:35,938 It's called the Vizio Day, right? 607 00:34:35,938 --> 00:34:39,478 The day where we see him with unveiled faces. 608 00:34:39,748 --> 00:34:43,318 We're purified just by thinking on return. 609 00:34:44,152 --> 00:34:46,822 We are to prepare our hearts of that heavenly meeting. 610 00:34:46,822 --> 00:34:48,803 We're to fix our eyes on eternity. 611 00:34:49,013 --> 00:34:53,003 The life, this life is compared to a vapor, compared to eternity 612 00:34:53,003 --> 00:34:57,663 and the glory that awaits right it puts suffering in perspective. 613 00:34:58,173 --> 00:34:58,653 It puts. 614 00:34:59,358 --> 00:35:01,428 Sacrifice into perspective. 615 00:35:01,638 --> 00:35:06,738 It put generosity into perspective because I'm laying up treasures in heaven. 616 00:35:06,738 --> 00:35:11,928 I don't have to build riches here because they actually don't translate there. 617 00:35:12,078 --> 00:35:13,908 I wanna invest in what actually translate. 618 00:35:13,913 --> 00:35:15,738 It changes generosity. 619 00:35:16,008 --> 00:35:21,018 It changes kindness and gentleness that like God is saving, seeking, and saving 620 00:35:21,018 --> 00:35:24,348 the lost, that's what this time is for. 621 00:35:26,853 --> 00:35:30,013 We are to look at Christ's victory, who is one and that 622 00:35:30,013 --> 00:35:33,323 he'll bring, bring that victory through every inch of the universe. 623 00:35:33,513 --> 00:35:38,013 Every place the soul of your foot treads, he will belong to you. 624 00:35:38,013 --> 00:35:42,943 And that same mindset, that like this universe belongs as part of our 625 00:35:42,943 --> 00:35:48,753 inheritance, this restored, there's a boldness there, to this and for us. 626 00:35:49,758 --> 00:35:52,638 Would anything change if you knew that Jesus was coming 627 00:35:52,638 --> 00:35:54,288 back at the end of the week? 628 00:35:55,668 --> 00:35:56,568 I'll have to play that in my head. 629 00:35:56,568 --> 00:36:00,063 Like for some reason he's Hey, I know I said nobody knows the 630 00:36:00,063 --> 00:36:02,103 day or the hour, but I like you. 631 00:36:04,203 --> 00:36:07,354 I'm don't tell anybody else. 632 00:36:07,623 --> 00:36:08,073 No, just kidding. 633 00:36:08,313 --> 00:36:09,723 I'm coming back in five days. 634 00:36:10,023 --> 00:36:13,173 does anything change in your mind? 635 00:36:13,173 --> 00:36:17,903 Five days, And that's the genius of him saying no one knows the day or the hour. 636 00:36:17,993 --> 00:36:20,573 It's, I'm, it could be by the end of today. 637 00:36:21,483 --> 00:36:24,303 I've always imagined I would love to just be worshiping, 638 00:36:24,843 --> 00:36:26,703 Andrew's plane or Matt singing. 639 00:36:26,703 --> 00:36:29,733 All of a sudden they get really good, my eyes close, and 640 00:36:29,733 --> 00:36:31,263 you're like, what is happening? 641 00:36:31,263 --> 00:36:34,593 They're going next level, And they're just like, you're like, 642 00:36:34,593 --> 00:36:36,343 and everybody's singing so well. 643 00:36:37,503 --> 00:36:39,423 Like Tony, you sing so well. 644 00:36:40,273 --> 00:36:43,543 your eyes still closed, and then you open it in your own glory. 645 00:36:47,923 --> 00:36:49,963 Literally could happen today. 646 00:36:50,263 --> 00:36:53,563 See how it's the mind and the world wants to conform and say, oh no, 647 00:36:53,563 --> 00:36:56,893 you gotta burn yourself out and you gotta get this and work for 648 00:36:56,898 --> 00:36:58,783 this and spend your life this way. 649 00:36:58,783 --> 00:37:04,363 and the hope of salvation has come in and say, oh, eternity, it's already begun. 650 00:37:04,363 --> 00:37:10,273 eternity isn't something that's coming when you come to Jesus, eternity starts. 651 00:37:11,443 --> 00:37:12,493 Eternal life. 652 00:37:12,553 --> 00:37:18,163 Everlasting life, So I think sometimes our hopes are divided too. 653 00:37:19,043 --> 00:37:22,223 we're building on the sand and on the rock. 654 00:37:22,643 --> 00:37:26,093 A singleness of hope though is our life shape, structured and directed by the 655 00:37:26,093 --> 00:37:31,763 pursuit of one glorious hope, fulfilling, heart, satisfying longing, or is our life 656 00:37:31,763 --> 00:37:35,693 a picture of constantly changing narrative of fickle affections, careening from one 657 00:37:35,693 --> 00:37:38,183 hope to the next, like a pinball machine. 658 00:37:40,058 --> 00:37:44,498 That's how I feel sometimes I'm just like, and I'm got an obsessive personality, so 659 00:37:44,503 --> 00:37:46,868 I'll be like all in, I study everything. 660 00:37:46,873 --> 00:37:47,528 I read everything. 661 00:37:47,528 --> 00:37:48,668 I like, learn everything. 662 00:37:48,668 --> 00:37:49,688 And then I'm like, okay, next. 663 00:37:49,688 --> 00:37:51,938 and it's just Karina off. 664 00:37:51,943 --> 00:37:56,998 I love, David's writing, psalm 27, he says, one thing, have I asked of the Lord 665 00:37:57,058 --> 00:38:00,388 that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days 666 00:38:00,388 --> 00:38:05,008 of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. 667 00:38:05,908 --> 00:38:09,508 This is an incredible statement, one that I'm not sure I always make, 668 00:38:10,018 --> 00:38:13,048 and it's even more powerful when you realize that it was written by a man 669 00:38:13,048 --> 00:38:17,458 who is under attack, his one thing. 670 00:38:18,048 --> 00:38:22,753 Isn't safety or vindication or victory? 671 00:38:23,263 --> 00:38:27,103 His one thing isn't power control or retribution. 672 00:38:27,493 --> 00:38:27,643 No. 673 00:38:27,643 --> 00:38:32,443 Even under personal duress, the one thing that David wishes for is to be in 674 00:38:32,443 --> 00:38:36,683 God's house, taking in the grandeur and the glory and the beauty of the Lord. 675 00:38:37,783 --> 00:38:38,083 That's amazing. 676 00:38:38,653 --> 00:38:40,333 Did we put on the helmet of salvation? 677 00:38:41,353 --> 00:38:42,633 And think about meeting Jesus. 678 00:38:43,243 --> 00:38:45,103 Think about being next in line. 679 00:38:45,433 --> 00:38:51,313 As you meet your savior, you behold his scars as he takes you into his arms. 680 00:38:51,793 --> 00:38:55,123 Romans eight 18, for, I consider that the sufferings of this present 681 00:38:55,123 --> 00:39:01,363 time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 682 00:39:01,843 --> 00:39:05,203 So how can we defeat hopelessness or this. 683 00:39:05,728 --> 00:39:07,258 Double mindedness. 684 00:39:07,258 --> 00:39:12,028 Ironically, single minded hope starts with hopelessness. 685 00:39:14,068 --> 00:39:18,868 Yes, you have to realize by God's grace that nothing can 686 00:39:18,868 --> 00:39:20,338 carry the weight of your hope. 687 00:39:20,338 --> 00:39:23,848 But God alone, despair of everything else. 688 00:39:24,658 --> 00:39:25,858 See it for what it is. 689 00:39:25,858 --> 00:39:27,748 Let ask the Lord. 690 00:39:27,748 --> 00:39:30,658 Lord, show me how you see things in this world. 691 00:39:30,658 --> 00:39:35,118 Show me how, what you put value on, We should despair of all other 692 00:39:35,123 --> 00:39:36,438 things to anchor our hope in. 693 00:39:36,498 --> 00:39:38,748 But God alone, he's the only one. 694 00:39:39,008 --> 00:39:41,938 Where cuz you can hope in family, you can hope in good 695 00:39:41,938 --> 00:39:43,588 things, you can hope in marriage. 696 00:39:43,828 --> 00:39:45,868 But what if that, what if the spouse dies? 697 00:39:45,873 --> 00:39:47,728 What if there's a divorce like. 698 00:39:48,568 --> 00:39:50,128 Relationships fall apart. 699 00:39:50,128 --> 00:39:56,338 It like we can't anchor our hope, our meaning, our life shaping 700 00:39:56,698 --> 00:40:00,268 hope, expectation of what's gonna happen and shapes the present 701 00:40:00,268 --> 00:40:01,528 into anything other than God. 702 00:40:01,528 --> 00:40:02,948 He's the only one who could hold that frame. 703 00:40:03,988 --> 00:40:08,608 The only hope, the only help, the only rescue, the only healing, the 704 00:40:08,608 --> 00:40:13,408 only solace, the only balm, the only redemption, the only restoration for 705 00:40:13,408 --> 00:40:18,778 a broken, dysfunctional sins scarred, evil, infected, morally fallen, dark, 706 00:40:18,778 --> 00:40:25,078 and dangerous world isn't found in information socialization education. 707 00:40:25,168 --> 00:40:26,488 Political solution. 708 00:40:26,488 --> 00:40:30,988 Psychological insight are personal reformation, but in the willing birth, 709 00:40:31,168 --> 00:40:37,498 righteousness, humiliation, suffering, sacrifice, and resurrection of godman. 710 00:40:37,678 --> 00:40:44,368 The redeemer, Jesus, no idea can liberate, no power, can save, no institution 711 00:40:44,373 --> 00:40:48,608 can redeem, restore, resuscitate, or recreate what sin is destroyed. 712 00:40:49,243 --> 00:40:50,533 So son had to come. 713 00:40:50,533 --> 00:40:55,843 Son of God, son of man, creator, came to recreate the savior came to 714 00:40:55,903 --> 00:40:57,913 the sacrifice to be the sacrifice. 715 00:40:58,093 --> 00:41:01,333 The blessed one came to suffer and an end suffering to bless the world with 716 00:41:01,333 --> 00:41:06,373 hope, help rescue healing, solace, bomb redemption, and restoration. 717 00:41:06,373 --> 00:41:08,413 The cost of it all was his life. 718 00:41:08,623 --> 00:41:12,973 It was his birth mission, his resurrection, victory, history 719 00:41:12,973 --> 00:41:14,263 marched toward his coming. 720 00:41:14,443 --> 00:41:15,853 There was no other way. 721 00:41:15,938 --> 00:41:18,788 That he could save us, but he was glad to do it. 722 00:41:18,788 --> 00:41:23,698 Nothing else can carry the weight of our hope, but Jesus 723 00:41:23,703 --> 00:41:26,068 alone, can carry the weight. 724 00:41:26,248 --> 00:41:28,138 So we put on the hope of salvation. 725 00:41:28,143 --> 00:41:32,658 So there's some theology I wanna read, Psalm 27 again and I'll be done. 726 00:41:34,746 --> 00:41:35,916 We'll just look at verse one. 727 00:41:38,856 --> 00:41:41,466 The Lord is light. 728 00:41:42,156 --> 00:41:45,246 And salvation, whom shall I fear? 729 00:41:45,906 --> 00:41:52,086 The Lord is the stronghold of whom shall I be afraid? 730 00:41:54,746 --> 00:41:57,006 I left some words out there on purpose 731 00:42:00,156 --> 00:42:04,586 because the difference between going away with the Theology of Hope 732 00:42:04,586 --> 00:42:08,666 today and it penetrating your heart. 733 00:42:09,986 --> 00:42:11,906 Is to read it in the way that David said it. 734 00:42:13,346 --> 00:42:19,496 The Lord is my light and my salvation. 735 00:42:21,506 --> 00:42:22,736 Whom shall I fear? 736 00:42:25,166 --> 00:42:27,766 The Lord is the stronghold of my life. 737 00:42:29,476 --> 00:42:31,466 Of whom shall I be afraid? 738 00:42:34,676 --> 00:42:35,576 This hope isn't just. 739 00:42:36,206 --> 00:42:36,896 An idea. 740 00:42:36,896 --> 00:42:40,586 It's not just a theology, but it's something that's for you personally. 741 00:42:41,966 --> 00:42:43,286 Like he rescued you. 742 00:42:44,396 --> 00:42:45,506 He knows all about you. 743 00:42:45,836 --> 00:42:47,066 He knows all the hidden rooms. 744 00:42:47,066 --> 00:42:50,546 He knows the things that you would never tell people. 745 00:42:50,551 --> 00:42:51,596 At least you think you wouldn't. 746 00:42:53,586 --> 00:42:55,436 He knows it all and he loves you. 747 00:42:55,436 --> 00:43:00,536 He's after you like, like this has to go from just being something we 748 00:43:00,536 --> 00:43:03,236 know into something that's for us. 749 00:43:04,631 --> 00:43:13,741 like this eternity where he's restoring all things includes you per on purpose. 750 00:43:14,371 --> 00:43:14,661 Yeah. 751 00:43:15,131 --> 00:43:17,351 Like he's taken note of you. 752 00:43:18,131 --> 00:43:20,651 It says that he keeps your tears in his bottle. 753 00:43:20,656 --> 00:43:25,031 The psalmist writes that your name's written in the lamb's book of life, 754 00:43:25,481 --> 00:43:27,821 not in a pencil, but in his blood. 755 00:43:30,281 --> 00:43:31,601 He knows he heals you. 756 00:43:31,961 --> 00:43:35,291 And We need to despair of all other things, putting our hope in all other 757 00:43:35,291 --> 00:43:37,271 things, and be liberated and be free. 758 00:43:38,291 --> 00:43:40,271 Like whom the sunset's Free is free indeed. 759 00:43:40,271 --> 00:43:45,041 And when our hopes are anchored onto people or places or achievements 760 00:43:45,041 --> 00:43:46,821 or things, we are not free people. 761 00:43:47,951 --> 00:43:51,701 We're tethered to the things of this world and we're being conformed 762 00:43:51,701 --> 00:43:53,141 into the image of this world. 763 00:43:53,681 --> 00:43:58,721 But when our hope is anchored in him, when he is who we're after who we're 764 00:43:58,721 --> 00:44:01,381 for like that changes everything. 765 00:44:01,381 --> 00:44:02,371 We're free. 766 00:44:02,971 --> 00:44:06,421 That's why the apostles were like, what can man do to us? 767 00:44:06,501 --> 00:44:06,991 Nothing. 768 00:44:07,171 --> 00:44:08,701 You can't take Jesus away. 769 00:44:08,706 --> 00:44:09,661 You put us in prison. 770 00:44:09,661 --> 00:44:10,411 We're not in prison. 771 00:44:10,411 --> 00:44:11,161 We're free. 772 00:44:11,641 --> 00:44:14,341 We've been liberated from the prison of sat sin and death. 773 00:44:14,341 --> 00:44:15,481 We're free. 774 00:44:16,336 --> 00:44:19,906 It just changes how we touch and walk through this world. 775 00:44:20,216 --> 00:44:21,746 it changes things. 776 00:44:22,046 --> 00:44:27,726 And so I would say bring hopelessness and ask God to do that for us 777 00:44:28,316 --> 00:44:30,176 because we can't just go generate it. 778 00:44:30,181 --> 00:44:31,506 We can't, work hard. 779 00:44:31,566 --> 00:44:32,866 Okay, now I'm gonna make this mine. 780 00:44:33,246 --> 00:44:38,406 We have to just cast ourselves on the mercy of God and come boldly before 781 00:44:38,406 --> 00:44:42,516 his throne to obtain grace in the time of need, who he loves doing. 782 00:44:42,891 --> 00:44:45,561 He loves when you come to the throne and say, I need help. 783 00:44:45,661 --> 00:44:46,981 I will see this. 784 00:44:46,981 --> 00:44:48,331 I want this in my life. 785 00:44:48,331 --> 00:44:49,531 I want to be shaped by hope. 786 00:44:49,711 --> 00:44:50,911 I need you to do it. 787 00:44:51,511 --> 00:44:56,111 My, I'm too wily in this way and that way, and the new shiny 788 00:44:56,111 --> 00:44:57,311 thing has caught my attention. 789 00:44:57,311 --> 00:45:03,011 I need you to grab my face in your nail scarred hands and just hold me. 790 00:45:04,346 --> 00:45:05,516 I need you to capture me. 791 00:45:06,116 --> 00:45:08,006 I need you to rescue me once again. 792 00:45:08,306 --> 00:45:11,396 I need you to take me captive unto you. 793 00:45:12,296 --> 00:45:15,076 and that is the hope, and that's the helmet that we wear. 794 00:45:16,756 --> 00:45:17,776 the Lord appeared to him. 795 00:45:17,776 --> 00:45:20,791 Jeremiah 31 13 says, From far away. 796 00:45:20,791 --> 00:45:22,591 I've loved you with an everlasting love. 797 00:45:22,591 --> 00:45:25,651 Therefore, I've continued my faithfulness to you. 798 00:45:26,341 --> 00:45:30,811 I've loved you with an everlasting loved. 799 00:45:31,531 --> 00:45:33,061 You have been saved. 800 00:45:33,241 --> 00:45:35,791 Be thankful you are being saved. 801 00:45:35,796 --> 00:45:40,681 You are being made like Christ Yield to that ongoing work you will be saved. 802 00:45:40,711 --> 00:45:46,441 That work will one day be finished as you stand with him face-to-face. 803 00:45:46,441 --> 00:45:48,391 The helmet of salvation fuels thankfulness. 804 00:45:48,391 --> 00:45:50,836 Us like the leper who came back and worshiped. 805 00:45:50,956 --> 00:45:52,066 I have been saved. 806 00:45:52,336 --> 00:45:55,276 The helmet of salvation encourages my present, surrender to his work 807 00:45:55,276 --> 00:45:59,056 rescuing me daily from the power of sin and making me more like my Jesus. 808 00:45:59,056 --> 00:46:02,506 The helmet of salvation grounds my assurance that I am my beloveds and 809 00:46:02,506 --> 00:46:06,046 he is mine and strengthens my hope that the night is far spent in the 810 00:46:06,046 --> 00:46:09,376 day is at hand, that salvation is near than when we first believed. 811 00:46:09,736 --> 00:46:11,236 He's coming soon. 812 00:46:12,586 --> 00:46:13,396 Are we ready to meet him? 813 00:46:14,941 --> 00:46:15,301 Let's pray. 814 00:46:15,781 --> 00:46:16,531 Father, we thank you. 815 00:46:16,561 --> 00:46:18,321 We thank you for your, word. 816 00:46:18,421 --> 00:46:24,061 we thank you for just this aspect of the armor and spiritual warfare, the enemy 817 00:46:24,061 --> 00:46:26,391 who wants to steal, kill, and destroy. 818 00:46:29,151 --> 00:46:30,141 Lord, we just ask for help. 819 00:46:30,861 --> 00:46:32,691 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 820 00:46:35,121 --> 00:46:38,841 We need your rescue, Lord, every moment of every day. 821 00:46:40,611 --> 00:46:41,961 Lord, we need to lean on you. 822 00:46:41,961 --> 00:46:42,921 Lean into you. 823 00:46:43,866 --> 00:46:45,306 To be our everything. 824 00:46:46,776 --> 00:46:51,516 God, we pray that you would capture our hearts once again with your beauty, with 825 00:46:51,516 --> 00:46:56,496 your glor nest, that Lord, you would just 826 00:46:59,826 --> 00:47:02,316 make much of yourself and our hearts right now. 827 00:47:02,836 --> 00:47:03,726 So we thank you. 828 00:47:03,731 --> 00:47:09,056 We thank you Lord, again that you broke bread and said, this is my body that's 829 00:47:09,056 --> 00:47:10,976 broken for you that you gave thanks. 830 00:47:12,596 --> 00:47:16,466 That you're willing Lord to come and to chase us and to rescue us. 831 00:47:18,776 --> 00:47:19,916 And that your blood was shed. 832 00:47:19,916 --> 00:47:22,196 That it's the only way that we have redemption. 833 00:47:22,226 --> 00:47:28,076 A life for a life you had to your life, exchange for our life. 834 00:47:28,076 --> 00:47:28,736 It's the only way. 835 00:47:28,736 --> 00:47:30,276 So Lord, we just say thank you. 836 00:47:31,146 --> 00:47:34,836 And we can't wait for the day where we see you face to face. 837 00:47:35,916 --> 00:47:39,126 So continue your work in and through us in Jesus' name. 838 00:47:39,396 --> 00:47:39,846 Amen.