1 00:00:11,614 --> 00:00:12,094 How are we? 2 00:00:13,044 --> 00:00:13,334 Good. 3 00:00:14,298 --> 00:00:16,328 Let's go to Ephesians chapter six, guys. 4 00:00:16,328 --> 00:00:17,138 We're almost done. 5 00:00:18,098 --> 00:00:20,558 We're gonna talk about the sword of the spirit, which is 6 00:00:20,558 --> 00:00:22,988 such a weird kind of topic. 7 00:00:22,988 --> 00:00:26,038 I got on YouTube and looked up some teachings on the sword of the spirit, 8 00:00:29,668 --> 00:00:33,058 and guys are like pulling out swords on stage. 9 00:00:33,063 --> 00:00:37,678 I'm like, keep that away from the, it's so funny, the armor thing, there's like 10 00:00:37,858 --> 00:00:42,898 full suits of armor and they're like, Some guy's getting super nerdy and deep 11 00:00:42,898 --> 00:00:44,968 into it, and mapped out everything. 12 00:00:44,968 --> 00:00:47,998 And I wonder why Paul left this piece of the art, one guy went into this 13 00:00:47,998 --> 00:00:52,858 like 10 minute thing about the spear, that they had the throw and I'm, and 14 00:00:52,858 --> 00:00:54,273 he is I wonder why Paul left it out. 15 00:00:55,293 --> 00:00:58,293 I'm like, you did and you just wasted 10 minutes. 16 00:00:58,293 --> 00:01:00,123 But cool. 17 00:01:02,433 --> 00:01:09,348 So this is kind of, The way we come to this topic can be goofy 18 00:01:09,348 --> 00:01:12,998 as Christians because it's this thing we're disconnected from. 19 00:01:13,013 --> 00:01:14,293 we're not, surrounded. 20 00:01:15,118 --> 00:01:17,868 Or being occupied by a foreign army. 21 00:01:18,178 --> 00:01:19,318 we're not seeing this. 22 00:01:19,318 --> 00:01:21,818 We're not, front and center to conflicts. 23 00:01:21,868 --> 00:01:26,308 But Paul has drawn our attention to is that we are in a ongoing conflict. 24 00:01:26,358 --> 00:01:29,388 but that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but that we write 25 00:01:29,388 --> 00:01:31,098 soul against principalities and powers. 26 00:01:31,098 --> 00:01:33,588 So let's read, verse 10. 27 00:01:33,898 --> 00:01:34,618 we'll finish up. 28 00:01:34,948 --> 00:01:38,308 The armor today, but then we'll go to prayer next week, which is an 29 00:01:38,308 --> 00:01:39,568 important of the special battle. 30 00:01:40,168 --> 00:01:44,548 Finally, verse 10, be strong in the Lord and the strength of his might Put on the 31 00:01:44,548 --> 00:01:49,048 whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 32 00:01:49,813 --> 00:01:53,353 For, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, 33 00:01:53,353 --> 00:01:56,563 against the authorities, against the cosmic powers, over this present 34 00:01:56,563 --> 00:02:01,693 darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 35 00:02:01,693 --> 00:02:04,093 Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able 36 00:02:04,093 --> 00:02:07,033 to withstand in the evil day. 37 00:02:07,648 --> 00:02:12,778 And having done all to stand firm stand, therefore having fastened on the belt of 38 00:02:12,778 --> 00:02:17,158 truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness and his shoes for 39 00:02:17,158 --> 00:02:21,178 your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace and all 40 00:02:21,178 --> 00:02:24,928 circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the 41 00:02:24,928 --> 00:02:29,158 flaming arrows of the evil one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword 42 00:02:29,158 --> 00:02:31,918 of the spirit, which is the word of God. 43 00:02:32,233 --> 00:02:35,503 Praying at all times in the spirit with all parents supplication. 44 00:02:35,503 --> 00:02:40,153 To that end, keep alert with all parents making supplication for all the saints and 45 00:02:40,153 --> 00:02:44,503 also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim 46 00:02:44,503 --> 00:02:48,973 the mystery of the gospel for which I'm an ambassador in chains, that I may 47 00:02:48,973 --> 00:02:51,643 declare it boldly as I ought to speak. 48 00:02:52,123 --> 00:02:53,263 This is the word of the Lord. 49 00:02:55,483 --> 00:03:00,853 Now, part of having Christian parents is that they each have a testimony. 50 00:03:01,303 --> 00:03:05,033 and my dad's testimony, you guys have heard it. 51 00:03:05,033 --> 00:03:08,083 He was a drug dealer, got kicked outta Oregon, he's a hippie, 52 00:03:08,183 --> 00:03:09,953 in the, sixties and seventies. 53 00:03:10,003 --> 00:03:12,043 and Jesus saves him radically, right? 54 00:03:12,433 --> 00:03:15,643 And, He comes out of a police station after his, friend 55 00:03:15,643 --> 00:03:17,443 overdosed in his house and died. 56 00:03:17,443 --> 00:03:19,523 And they, they tried to drop him off , at a hospital. 57 00:03:19,523 --> 00:03:24,173 They had propped this dead friend up in the back of their car and said, 58 00:03:24,173 --> 00:03:25,343 I think something's wrong with him. 59 00:03:25,348 --> 00:03:27,463 And the doctors at the hospital were like, yeah, you need to stick 60 00:03:27,463 --> 00:03:28,843 around and answer some questions. 61 00:03:28,843 --> 00:03:33,403 And so he was questioned at the end of his rope. 62 00:03:34,603 --> 00:03:35,623 Not finding fulfillment. 63 00:03:35,623 --> 00:03:37,983 He looks up into heaven and says, find God. 64 00:03:37,983 --> 00:03:41,523 I give up a van that had just passed him, turns around, makes a U-turn, 65 00:03:42,273 --> 00:03:46,833 pulls up next to him, the slide door opens up and says, Hey, do you want 66 00:03:46,833 --> 00:03:48,633 to go to a Bible study about Jesus? 67 00:03:48,903 --> 00:03:49,593 literally. 68 00:03:49,643 --> 00:03:50,183 okay. 69 00:03:50,183 --> 00:03:54,153 My mom's testimony, she, got into the occult at an early age. 70 00:03:54,153 --> 00:03:59,183 She had a traumatic childhood raised by an evil aunt and got into the occult 71 00:03:59,183 --> 00:04:04,013 for, some source of power, that turned into a full-blown fascination with it. 72 00:04:04,358 --> 00:04:08,018 My mom became a satanist, also in the hippie era. 73 00:04:08,328 --> 00:04:13,398 and she was a high priestess and had her own Satan church down in Hollywood. 74 00:04:13,968 --> 00:04:18,848 And, and through a process of it, it was a boss who was like Jesus to 75 00:04:18,853 --> 00:04:22,457 her, who didn't judge her, just kept. 76 00:04:22,878 --> 00:04:25,598 Witnessing and showing love, and care and concern. 77 00:04:25,898 --> 00:04:27,308 She couldn't keep that away from that. 78 00:04:27,518 --> 00:04:31,448 Through a series of events, she comes to Jesus and she's radically set free. 79 00:04:32,738 --> 00:04:37,033 one of the things with my mom's testimony is that because, of her 80 00:04:37,033 --> 00:04:42,353 background in the occult, whenever somebody was dealing with something in. 81 00:04:42,832 --> 00:04:46,043 The cult or wanting to come out of it, my, they would call my mom. 82 00:04:46,613 --> 00:04:52,273 And, and so we always got as kids a front row view of things, 83 00:04:52,273 --> 00:04:53,803 not wanting the front row view. 84 00:04:54,103 --> 00:04:55,543 We don't want to go on this ride. 85 00:04:55,743 --> 00:04:59,653 and some of it was pretty crazy, some days where, you know, calling the 86 00:04:59,653 --> 00:05:02,023 pastor and this lady's talking in a. 87 00:05:02,713 --> 00:05:06,083 Otherworldly voice, and there's a lot of . Nuance in the New Testament. 88 00:05:06,233 --> 00:05:06,923 That's true. 89 00:05:06,923 --> 00:05:14,003 There, there are, demons and beings, and you give place to the enemy. 90 00:05:14,003 --> 00:05:17,128 Scripture says you open yourself up in this way. 91 00:05:17,428 --> 00:05:20,048 And, they dominate an enslave. 92 00:05:20,648 --> 00:05:23,798 But the Bible's nuanced about spiritual battle. 93 00:05:23,848 --> 00:05:28,298 and sometimes Jesus, he, casts out a demon and sometimes he says, 94 00:05:28,303 --> 00:05:29,768 oh, this is a mental disorder. 95 00:05:30,078 --> 00:05:31,878 sometimes it's sickness. 96 00:05:31,878 --> 00:05:34,308 And so it's not a one size fits all. 97 00:05:34,313 --> 00:05:35,538 Everything's a demon. 98 00:05:35,578 --> 00:05:39,188 it's a very nuanced view of evil that the Bible has and that God 99 00:05:39,188 --> 00:05:44,478 has what I wanna say, is that people Think that Satan's main work 100 00:05:44,568 --> 00:05:46,488 against us is like the weird stuff. 101 00:05:46,498 --> 00:05:49,828 Making people foam at the mouth and levitate above their 102 00:05:49,828 --> 00:05:51,768 beds, exorcism type stuff. 103 00:05:51,773 --> 00:05:52,613 you see it in the movies. 104 00:05:52,613 --> 00:05:56,423 it's very exciting, to see this craziness, and we think, oh, 105 00:05:56,473 --> 00:05:58,453 that's the devil, That's the evil. 106 00:05:59,353 --> 00:06:02,743 That he's, working on, we're gonna talk about Jesus being 107 00:06:02,743 --> 00:06:04,453 tested in the wilderness. 108 00:06:04,453 --> 00:06:08,743 And what's fascinating about the story is that Satan's not out there getting 109 00:06:08,923 --> 00:06:14,933 him to blaspheme or showing him porn or it's not, getting him to rebel. 110 00:06:15,053 --> 00:06:19,463 it's not these big things that we often think. 111 00:06:21,173 --> 00:06:25,763 But the thing that Satan does over and over is trying to make him doubt 112 00:06:25,763 --> 00:06:27,413 the goodness of God towards him. 113 00:06:29,363 --> 00:06:34,283 This is our main temptation from the enemy, the root of all 114 00:06:34,283 --> 00:06:39,503 temptations, to establish our identity on something other than God's 115 00:06:39,503 --> 00:06:42,263 declaration over you in Jesus Christ. 116 00:06:43,823 --> 00:06:44,303 That's it. 117 00:06:44,793 --> 00:06:49,323 so often we think, Oh, the enemy spiritual warfare. 118 00:06:49,323 --> 00:06:53,883 I just want us, as we come out of this whole theme of spiritual warfare, to 119 00:06:53,883 --> 00:06:58,593 remember that the main temptation, the root of all temptations, is to establish 120 00:06:58,593 --> 00:07:03,303 your identity on something other that declaration over you in Christ that 121 00:07:03,303 --> 00:07:05,493 you are Hez beloved son and daughter. 122 00:07:06,483 --> 00:07:06,813 That's it. 123 00:07:06,813 --> 00:07:07,983 He's gonna go against that. 124 00:07:09,093 --> 00:07:15,363 So Satan, the enemy of our souls, wants us to base our identity. 125 00:07:16,728 --> 00:07:19,188 On something other than. 126 00:07:20,733 --> 00:07:22,263 What God says over us. 127 00:07:22,323 --> 00:07:25,533 So we're gonna look at that and we're gonna see how Jesus fights that and 128 00:07:25,533 --> 00:07:30,818 how, he uses the sword, to do So we looked at what the sword was the last 129 00:07:30,823 --> 00:07:32,378 time we were together two weeks ago. 130 00:07:32,568 --> 00:07:35,953 we talked about the different ways that we read it, the goldmine approach, 131 00:07:35,953 --> 00:07:39,582 the hero approach, the rules approach, the artifact approach, the guidebook 132 00:07:39,582 --> 00:07:43,873 approach, the doctrine approach this kind of way that we look at the Bible soft. 133 00:07:43,873 --> 00:07:44,413 And as this. 134 00:07:44,723 --> 00:07:48,993 weird thing, and then the gospel approach, what's the Bible actually about? 135 00:07:49,393 --> 00:07:51,703 and that, that's what we need to see. 136 00:07:51,703 --> 00:07:53,293 so what is the word go? 137 00:07:53,293 --> 00:07:55,003 We're gonna get into that a little more. 138 00:07:55,483 --> 00:07:59,233 We saw what the sword is and today we'll see how to use the sword of the spirit, 139 00:07:59,693 --> 00:08:05,903 in this constant ongoing battle because that temptation is always coming our 140 00:08:05,903 --> 00:08:09,733 way, through a, doctor's diagnosis. 141 00:08:09,733 --> 00:08:16,453 through losing a job through the temptation to doubt that God really 142 00:08:16,453 --> 00:08:21,163 cares that he's really after our good, the evil, the suffering we see in the 143 00:08:21,163 --> 00:08:23,623 world, that is always coming our way. 144 00:08:23,623 --> 00:08:25,813 So how do we deal with that? 145 00:08:25,873 --> 00:08:30,013 The battle that we're in, we're told to stand firm, hold the ground 146 00:08:30,013 --> 00:08:32,563 that Jesus has already won, right? 147 00:08:32,863 --> 00:08:34,003 You don't have to win the ground. 148 00:08:35,068 --> 00:08:36,028 He's already won it. 149 00:08:36,388 --> 00:08:38,128 You stand on the ground that he's won. 150 00:08:38,158 --> 00:08:38,758 Stand. 151 00:08:38,847 --> 00:08:40,977 Don't go and take it upon yourself. 152 00:08:40,977 --> 00:08:44,878 Jesus has already won the victory completely and he wants us to 153 00:08:44,878 --> 00:08:47,878 live it experientially, right? 154 00:08:47,878 --> 00:08:48,928 So he's done it. 155 00:08:48,988 --> 00:08:49,768 He's achieved it. 156 00:08:49,798 --> 00:08:50,818 Don't achieve a victory. 157 00:08:50,818 --> 00:08:53,578 Live in his victory, right? 158 00:08:53,968 --> 00:08:55,468 We are not trying to achieve victory. 159 00:08:55,468 --> 00:08:56,548 Jesus has already won it. 160 00:08:56,548 --> 00:08:58,678 You're not fighting for victory. 161 00:08:59,008 --> 00:09:01,528 We're fighting from victory, right? 162 00:09:01,648 --> 00:09:02,788 So Jesus has already won. 163 00:09:02,788 --> 00:09:04,828 The cross is the culmination of history. 164 00:09:05,368 --> 00:09:07,278 We're still not waiting, is the cosmic. 165 00:09:07,788 --> 00:09:11,338 evil powers, we're not waiting for, the clash that's gonna 166 00:09:11,338 --> 00:09:12,388 happen at the end of the age. 167 00:09:12,388 --> 00:09:16,078 The clash of history happened at the cross in resurrection, Jesus Christ. 168 00:09:16,408 --> 00:09:21,748 We now live in the aftermath or the resolution of the risen one, now beginning 169 00:09:21,748 --> 00:09:26,968 to restore things back to the way they were originally made to be an Eden. 170 00:09:27,688 --> 00:09:30,418 so we looked at the belt of truth stand, therefore having 171 00:09:30,418 --> 00:09:31,768 fastened on the belt of truth. 172 00:09:31,768 --> 00:09:32,663 What does that mean? 173 00:09:33,233 --> 00:09:37,913 Jesus, who is true is to encompass our whole being, making every part of us true. 174 00:09:38,553 --> 00:09:39,693 What you see is what you get. 175 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:43,323 Remember we talked about without wax, right? 176 00:09:43,663 --> 00:09:46,618 without wax, breastplate of righteousness and having put on 177 00:09:46,618 --> 00:09:47,848 the breastplate of righteousness. 178 00:09:47,848 --> 00:09:50,188 Righteousness, covering our hearts and our vital organs. 179 00:09:50,428 --> 00:09:54,598 Not a righteousness we provide or earn, but a foreign righteousness 180 00:09:54,603 --> 00:09:57,148 that was one for us at the cross, and Jesus are righteous. 181 00:09:57,468 --> 00:09:59,118 Ness, is making us righteous. 182 00:09:59,118 --> 00:10:01,968 Preparation of the gospel of peace and his shoes for your feet. 183 00:10:01,968 --> 00:10:04,758 Having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace, 184 00:10:04,938 --> 00:10:08,238 something that keeps our feet from slipping into doubting God's love. 185 00:10:08,598 --> 00:10:12,378 So the gospel of peace, girded about our feet, making our steps, sure and secure. 186 00:10:12,588 --> 00:10:16,308 We remember that while we were enemies, Christ died for us. 187 00:10:16,848 --> 00:10:20,838 When we were in open rebellion to him, he chased us and pursued 188 00:10:20,838 --> 00:10:23,088 us, and made us his friends. 189 00:10:23,178 --> 00:10:26,718 And that's to keep us from slipping shield of faith. 190 00:10:26,718 --> 00:10:28,728 Joshua Kehler: Then all circumstances take up the shield of faith with 191 00:10:28,733 --> 00:10:32,508 which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 192 00:10:33,288 --> 00:10:34,728 So we take this up. 193 00:10:35,628 --> 00:10:38,958 Faith's greatest value is that it connects us with the victor, 194 00:10:39,018 --> 00:10:40,818 right on what God says is true. 195 00:10:41,208 --> 00:10:43,878 The all powerful, all sufficient Lord whose victory over 196 00:10:43,878 --> 00:10:45,318 the enemy is our victory. 197 00:10:46,338 --> 00:10:50,478 As we daily take up the shield of faith that enables us to rest fully upon the 198 00:10:50,478 --> 00:10:54,078 faithfulness of God, the finished work of Christ, and the fullness of the 199 00:10:54,078 --> 00:10:58,228 Spirit, able to quench every flaming arrow of the helmet of salvation 200 00:10:58,228 --> 00:11:01,618 and take the helmet of salvation, the whole grand scope of salvation. 201 00:11:01,618 --> 00:11:02,518 I have been saved. 202 00:11:02,518 --> 00:11:03,538 I am being saved. 203 00:11:03,538 --> 00:11:09,838 I will be saved right from beginning to end the sword of the Spirit and take 204 00:11:09,838 --> 00:11:13,018 the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 205 00:11:13,258 --> 00:11:14,308 It was called the Mera. 206 00:11:15,218 --> 00:11:19,148 the kind of sword that's used there was the long sword, not as long as 207 00:11:19,148 --> 00:11:24,168 the Braveheart sword, but there was the long sword and there was the 208 00:11:24,288 --> 00:11:28,068 dagger that was probably 18 inches long, double-edged, sharp as a needle. 209 00:11:28,818 --> 00:11:31,398 Now think about when you're in the tortoise formation, right? 210 00:11:31,518 --> 00:11:31,698 Okay. 211 00:11:31,703 --> 00:11:33,528 I'm geeking out a little bit like those guys on YouTube. 212 00:11:33,948 --> 00:11:36,828 and I only mention this because the times we think we're out 213 00:11:36,828 --> 00:11:41,688 there battling by ourselves, the Roman soldiers did not do that. 214 00:11:42,753 --> 00:11:44,733 They were together, shields locked. 215 00:11:45,783 --> 00:11:50,253 And so even in interpreting this, you have to interpret it within the idea 216 00:11:50,253 --> 00:11:54,723 of community because you couldn't, if your shields are locked and you're 217 00:11:54,728 --> 00:11:58,653 together, you couldn't pull your long sword outta your sheath, right? 218 00:11:58,803 --> 00:12:01,163 Because then you'd slice your friend's neck or whatever, And 219 00:12:01,163 --> 00:12:02,693 remember, the idea is wrestling. 220 00:12:02,693 --> 00:12:04,733 It's not a wrestling match that has a referee. 221 00:12:05,723 --> 00:12:07,163 Where he's doing rounds. 222 00:12:07,223 --> 00:12:10,523 The wrestling that he's talking about is like struggle in the 223 00:12:10,523 --> 00:12:14,853 dirt, pushing, somebody's face, it's the last ditch you're in 224 00:12:14,853 --> 00:12:16,623 this wrestling for life or death. 225 00:12:16,683 --> 00:12:18,033 That's the kind of wrestling he's talking about. 226 00:12:18,123 --> 00:12:22,908 And so that dagger, in fact, it's the same word that's used in Hebrews four 227 00:12:22,908 --> 00:12:27,468 12 when it talks about the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword. 228 00:12:28,458 --> 00:12:30,648 So it's that double-edged needle-like. 229 00:12:33,693 --> 00:12:36,933 This is a spiritual sword and cuts in the spiritual realm. 230 00:12:38,013 --> 00:12:43,683 We go to human way so often, and that's not the sword the spirit uses. 231 00:12:44,823 --> 00:12:48,483 James one 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 232 00:12:49,563 --> 00:12:51,633 So we talked about this a little bit last time. 233 00:12:51,633 --> 00:12:52,443 Remember Peter? 234 00:12:53,373 --> 00:12:56,763 Peter's got his sword and he's in the garden in Gethsemane. 235 00:12:56,943 --> 00:12:59,973 Everybody's coming and the whole group is coming to arrest Jesus 236 00:13:00,033 --> 00:13:03,003 led by Judas and Peter's it's time. 237 00:13:03,003 --> 00:13:05,818 And he takes out his sword and he cuts off, a servant's ear. 238 00:13:06,328 --> 00:13:08,278 And Jesus said, put it away, Peter. 239 00:13:08,278 --> 00:13:09,478 that's not the sword. 240 00:13:10,063 --> 00:13:11,083 That's not the sword. 241 00:13:11,533 --> 00:13:15,213 And then on the day of Pentecost, what happens is Peter gets up and he 242 00:13:15,213 --> 00:13:17,523 begins to use the sword of the spirit. 243 00:13:17,523 --> 00:13:20,343 He begins to preach the gospel, the good news, and it literally 244 00:13:20,343 --> 00:13:21,933 says people were cut to the heart. 245 00:13:22,923 --> 00:13:24,453 He said, Peter, you cut off the ear. 246 00:13:24,453 --> 00:13:26,043 You did damage physically. 247 00:13:26,223 --> 00:13:27,093 But what does that do? 248 00:13:27,098 --> 00:13:27,693 That turns. 249 00:13:28,108 --> 00:13:32,748 Him against me, but my word, my good news of what I've done to come 250 00:13:32,753 --> 00:13:36,258 and rescue and save and seek the loss, like that melts the heart. 251 00:13:36,258 --> 00:13:37,488 That gets to the heart of things. 252 00:13:37,488 --> 00:13:39,228 That actually changes a person. 253 00:13:40,308 --> 00:13:41,358 That changes a person. 254 00:13:42,018 --> 00:13:53,178 And so you've got, so often we go to the human ways for things and we forget that. 255 00:13:55,478 --> 00:14:01,808 We're wrestling against not flesh and blood, but so often, even in 256 00:14:01,808 --> 00:14:06,578 the church, we're looking for human solutions to spiritual problems. 257 00:14:10,928 --> 00:14:15,608 It's because we don't believe in the power of this sword, and we know we 258 00:14:15,608 --> 00:14:18,698 don't believe in it because we so rarely use it in those situations. 259 00:14:20,138 --> 00:14:21,788 I, and I'm, I'll be the first. 260 00:14:23,108 --> 00:14:28,508 I so rarely, like you say here about who I am in you. 261 00:14:29,868 --> 00:14:34,383 I so often want to change my circumstances in the physical 262 00:14:34,388 --> 00:14:36,153 realm through physical means. 263 00:14:36,603 --> 00:14:41,763 When the Lord's telling us here, man, we are in this spiritual battle, and 264 00:14:41,763 --> 00:14:43,773 that there's one weapon to use the O. 265 00:14:44,343 --> 00:14:45,603 It's the only one in the arsenal. 266 00:14:45,603 --> 00:14:48,693 Maybe because it's the only one we need, one weapon. 267 00:14:50,163 --> 00:14:50,643 You know why? 268 00:14:50,643 --> 00:14:54,843 Just one I want, in Call of Duty, I've got like 40 guns unlocked, right? 269 00:14:55,173 --> 00:14:57,423 With each gun has a hundred attachments. 270 00:14:57,423 --> 00:14:58,923 you're like, I want more. 271 00:14:59,313 --> 00:15:00,723 And he's this is the only one you need. 272 00:15:01,263 --> 00:15:02,493 It's the only one you need. 273 00:15:02,883 --> 00:15:06,573 It is a sword that belongs to the spirit, but it's putting your hand to use. 274 00:15:06,873 --> 00:15:09,188 Now, here's what I want to get into a little bit, and this is nerding 275 00:15:09,188 --> 00:15:10,238 out in the original language. 276 00:15:10,238 --> 00:15:12,608 There's three words that are used in the Greek for. 277 00:15:13,518 --> 00:15:14,408 The word of God. 278 00:15:15,038 --> 00:15:15,368 Okay. 279 00:15:15,898 --> 00:15:21,228 graphe, the writings, the written word, the sixties books and 280 00:15:21,228 --> 00:15:24,798 the words that make them up and compose the canon of scripture. 281 00:15:25,488 --> 00:15:29,088 When Paul is talking about the word of God here, he's not talking about walking 282 00:15:29,088 --> 00:15:30,498 around with a Bible under your arm. 283 00:15:30,768 --> 00:15:31,788 That's not the word he uses. 284 00:15:31,788 --> 00:15:34,848 He uses the word rama when he talks about the sword. 285 00:15:36,108 --> 00:15:40,248 So you've got Graphe, which has used a lot about the word of God. 286 00:15:40,248 --> 00:15:44,268 It's the writings, it's the scripture, it's compiled, it's been put together. 287 00:15:44,598 --> 00:15:47,628 And then the next word that's used is you've got the word logos, 288 00:15:48,438 --> 00:15:50,328 which we see in John one, one. 289 00:15:50,863 --> 00:15:54,733 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. 290 00:15:54,913 --> 00:16:00,403 The word logs in the beginning was the logs, and the logs was 291 00:16:00,403 --> 00:16:03,313 with God, and the logs was God. 292 00:16:03,313 --> 00:16:04,033 What does that mean? 293 00:16:04,033 --> 00:16:08,953 Log Os means that it's the message of the book, what it's about. 294 00:16:10,663 --> 00:16:14,983 So you've got Graphe, which is the compiled scripture, the words 295 00:16:14,983 --> 00:16:18,163 written down, but then you've got the message or the meaning. 296 00:16:18,213 --> 00:16:19,443 What's the story about? 297 00:16:20,673 --> 00:16:28,893 And we know, cuz you've been places where sometimes the Bible's treated 298 00:16:28,893 --> 00:16:30,723 like some kind of charm or something. 299 00:16:31,893 --> 00:16:36,313 Or, you still have people in court swear on the Bible, right? 300 00:16:36,553 --> 00:16:39,943 Like it's some superstitious thing that if they lie, God's 301 00:16:39,943 --> 00:16:41,173 gonna strike 'em with lightning. 302 00:16:41,233 --> 00:16:42,103 You know what? 303 00:16:42,103 --> 00:16:45,943 that's, they don't care about the logos or the message of the Bible. 304 00:16:45,948 --> 00:16:46,693 The meaning. 305 00:16:47,713 --> 00:16:50,263 What they're just doing is they're putting their hand on the graph A, 306 00:16:50,263 --> 00:16:52,543 the writings, the compiled writings. 307 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:57,133 So Log os the message of the book, what it's all about, 308 00:16:57,133 --> 00:16:58,993 understanding what the passage says. 309 00:16:58,993 --> 00:17:03,313 Like when we're together and we're studying, you understand 310 00:17:03,318 --> 00:17:07,423 the log os or the meaning of the graph or the written word, right? 311 00:17:09,053 --> 00:17:14,028 when I was young, we'd go to church on Tuesdays and help at women's ministry. 312 00:17:14,358 --> 00:17:16,397 I think every homeschooler is bound to do that. 313 00:17:17,088 --> 00:17:20,022 and we'd watch the kids and stuff, but sometimes Pastor would come on and we'd 314 00:17:20,022 --> 00:17:24,282 have study time and, and I'd pull out my Bible and I would just underline random 315 00:17:24,282 --> 00:17:31,073 passages, cuz I wanted to appear like I knew the message of the Bible, And, 316 00:17:31,123 --> 00:17:34,613 You're like, why did you underline and Judas went out and hung himself, a thing. 317 00:17:34,733 --> 00:17:36,563 I was a poser, right? 318 00:17:36,693 --> 00:17:39,748 I understood the graph, I understood the written text. 319 00:17:39,753 --> 00:17:41,008 I memorized it. 320 00:17:41,008 --> 00:17:41,428 I had it. 321 00:17:41,608 --> 00:17:44,608 I didn't know the message or the logos of it. 322 00:17:46,088 --> 00:17:49,058 we grew up in a place where the word the Graphe was the 323 00:17:49,058 --> 00:17:50,258 fourth member of the Trinity. 324 00:17:51,018 --> 00:17:55,183 I heard a sermon once and I was some, for some reason paid attention, cuz 325 00:17:55,183 --> 00:18:00,223 that's what I don't know, the word God was talked about over and over and over. 326 00:18:00,433 --> 00:18:01,753 Not one mention of Jesus. 327 00:18:02,113 --> 00:18:05,113 I'm like, you can't se because that's that's the logs, right? 328 00:18:05,113 --> 00:18:06,103 The logs became flesh. 329 00:18:06,103 --> 00:18:10,633 The meaning, the message became flesh and dwelt among us, right? 330 00:18:10,688 --> 00:18:15,668 to let us know and to give us the full revelation of what the story's all about. 331 00:18:16,298 --> 00:18:22,298 So you've got the logs, and then you have the rama, and that's 332 00:18:22,298 --> 00:18:23,648 the word that Paul uses here. 333 00:18:23,648 --> 00:18:26,648 The sort of the spirit, which is the word of God or the rama of God. 334 00:18:26,768 --> 00:18:29,438 And rama means utterance of the word. 335 00:18:30,098 --> 00:18:35,198 Spoken or declared the declaration of the message that is contained 336 00:18:35,228 --> 00:18:36,728 in the written word of God. 337 00:18:37,478 --> 00:18:43,388 You need the logos from the graphe and then you need to ram utter it, right? 338 00:18:43,898 --> 00:18:49,688 And so here's what Hebrews four 12 says, for the word of God is living in. 339 00:18:49,718 --> 00:18:55,268 That's logos for the logos of God is living and active. 340 00:18:56,423 --> 00:19:02,063 It's so important to understand the meaning of the graphe. 341 00:19:02,843 --> 00:19:05,633 The written word is what's alive and powerful. 342 00:19:06,203 --> 00:19:10,013 That's why Paul says the gospel is the power God unto dis salvation. 343 00:19:10,793 --> 00:19:15,893 It is not just obscure scriptures that we hang on our wall or that we are 344 00:19:15,893 --> 00:19:19,103 disconnected from in some weird way. 345 00:19:19,423 --> 00:19:22,953 Like it's not just, I had a book, a counseling book. 346 00:19:23,443 --> 00:19:26,753 where, if somebody was going, you'd look up temptation or you'd look 347 00:19:26,753 --> 00:19:30,143 up the, and it would just, it would give you verses on that, and I would 348 00:19:30,143 --> 00:19:32,423 quote 'em to 'em, and the kids would come back when I was a youth pastor, 349 00:19:32,423 --> 00:19:33,503 and they're like, it doesn't help. 350 00:19:33,503 --> 00:19:36,593 I don't, you're not, I'm not doing anything. 351 00:19:37,023 --> 00:19:40,288 they, I'm praying it, I quote, I it's not, there's no power there. 352 00:19:40,558 --> 00:19:45,338 And it's because it's, I was disconnecting it from the message, The 353 00:19:45,343 --> 00:19:48,703 things that changed kids' lives was like I've told you about, the kid who. 354 00:19:49,438 --> 00:19:50,428 Stole the CDs. 355 00:19:50,428 --> 00:19:52,048 And his mom was like, you need to punish him. 356 00:19:52,048 --> 00:19:57,088 She was a single mom and and I went out by God's grace, I'm not this smart, but 357 00:19:57,093 --> 00:19:59,008 I bought him a whole bunch of CD cases. 358 00:19:59,038 --> 00:19:59,968 It was blank CDs. 359 00:19:59,968 --> 00:20:01,678 He stole a whole hundred pack. 360 00:20:01,678 --> 00:20:03,808 So I bought him a hundred pack of cases and he came into the 361 00:20:03,808 --> 00:20:05,218 office and his head was hung low. 362 00:20:05,398 --> 00:20:06,778 And I said, I can't believe you did this. 363 00:20:06,778 --> 00:20:08,308 I can't believe you forgot the cases. 364 00:20:08,668 --> 00:20:09,898 And I gave him the cases. 365 00:20:10,678 --> 00:20:11,308 And he is what? 366 00:20:12,268 --> 00:20:13,978 I'm like, yeah, they're yours, man. 367 00:20:17,443 --> 00:20:20,803 That was the biggest thing I ever saw, change a kid, because 368 00:20:20,803 --> 00:20:22,093 that's the message of the gospel. 369 00:20:23,503 --> 00:20:23,983 And he got it. 370 00:20:23,988 --> 00:20:27,073 He got the logos, he got the meaning of the written word. 371 00:20:28,393 --> 00:20:29,713 He got graced. 372 00:20:29,783 --> 00:20:30,743 can I be honest? 373 00:20:30,743 --> 00:20:32,243 I was a pastor and I didn't get it. 374 00:20:37,153 --> 00:20:40,303 but I would read and I'd be okay. 375 00:20:41,023 --> 00:20:45,313 God's really upset with me today that I read, but maybe he's not. 376 00:20:46,018 --> 00:20:47,188 But I think he is. 377 00:20:47,938 --> 00:20:48,748 I didn't get the message. 378 00:20:48,748 --> 00:20:49,828 I didn't get the tension. 379 00:20:49,828 --> 00:20:52,078 I didn't get the meaning right. 380 00:20:52,633 --> 00:20:55,983 Of that, the volume of the book was about Jesus, that he's the 381 00:20:55,983 --> 00:20:57,843 substance behind every shadow. 382 00:20:57,893 --> 00:21:00,143 like that the Old Testament is about him. 383 00:21:00,203 --> 00:21:01,973 that's how we understand the Old Testament. 384 00:21:02,123 --> 00:21:03,443 Read it in the lens of the gospel. 385 00:21:03,523 --> 00:21:06,943 like that he's the meaning, the rescuer, the Messiah, whether you're 386 00:21:06,943 --> 00:21:11,703 looking forward to him or whether we look back That gospel message that 387 00:21:11,703 --> 00:21:15,483 God saves sinners of who I am chief. 388 00:21:15,533 --> 00:21:22,683 like that message that, he created me good with a personality in a 389 00:21:22,683 --> 00:21:24,783 good world, and he said it's good. 390 00:21:25,803 --> 00:21:27,153 He didn't start with sin. 391 00:21:27,513 --> 00:21:32,043 It started with his rejoice and celebration over this story of making 392 00:21:32,043 --> 00:21:36,273 us, not because he needed from us, but to include us cuz he wanted to share with us. 393 00:21:36,363 --> 00:21:40,023 That is the foundation and the fabric of every molecule in the universe 394 00:21:40,083 --> 00:21:42,303 is this one of generosity in giving. 395 00:21:42,873 --> 00:21:44,253 that's the beginning of the story. 396 00:21:44,253 --> 00:21:47,703 Then we fall because we doubt his love and then God comes and he rescues us. 397 00:21:48,243 --> 00:21:51,753 He lets us read the whole testament that's saying, can you save yourself? 398 00:21:51,753 --> 00:21:54,363 They're like, maybe if we make a stronger commitment so they 399 00:21:54,363 --> 00:21:57,603 have commitments and they have and tabernacles and remembrances. 400 00:21:57,813 --> 00:21:58,203 Okay. 401 00:21:58,303 --> 00:22:00,133 maybe if we have a good judge. 402 00:22:00,193 --> 00:22:00,403 Okay. 403 00:22:00,403 --> 00:22:02,643 So he sends 'em a lot of judges and they fall short. 404 00:22:02,673 --> 00:22:02,853 Okay. 405 00:22:02,853 --> 00:22:05,883 Maybe if we have a king and then the kings fall. 406 00:22:06,213 --> 00:22:09,858 So the whole story is saying, You guys can't rescue yourselves. 407 00:22:09,858 --> 00:22:15,378 You need a rescuer, and you guys can't be righteous enough to fulfill this covenant. 408 00:22:15,508 --> 00:22:19,888 one of the greatest stories is when Abraham falls asleep and he sees a vision 409 00:22:20,218 --> 00:22:22,018 because he is making a covenant with God. 410 00:22:22,108 --> 00:22:26,248 So before he falls asleep, what you would do in that day is you would. 411 00:22:27,028 --> 00:22:28,258 Cut animals in half. 412 00:22:28,258 --> 00:22:31,598 Brutal, you cut 'em in half and then you walk through with the 413 00:22:31,598 --> 00:22:32,858 person you're making covenant try. 414 00:22:32,888 --> 00:22:34,328 This would be a good marriage ceremony. 415 00:22:34,628 --> 00:22:37,658 and you walk through it and what you're saying is you're saying, if I failed 416 00:22:37,658 --> 00:22:43,358 this covenant, let me be like this wild animals, let me be torn apart like this. 417 00:22:44,438 --> 00:22:46,148 It was this like heavy. 418 00:22:46,623 --> 00:22:51,393 And so Abraham falls asleep and he sees the fire of God walking through it 419 00:22:51,723 --> 00:22:52,953 and Abraham's not walking through it. 420 00:22:52,953 --> 00:22:56,013 And what God is saying from the very beginning, this is the story. 421 00:22:57,963 --> 00:23:00,423 He's saying, I will never fail my covenant to you. 422 00:23:00,663 --> 00:23:01,353 I'm the keeper. 423 00:23:01,353 --> 00:23:02,223 Not you, Abraham. 424 00:23:02,493 --> 00:23:09,903 But then he says, even if you fail Abraham, because he walked through 425 00:23:09,903 --> 00:23:12,633 it alone, I'll be ripped apart. 426 00:23:14,148 --> 00:23:21,628 Like bread and I'll be poured out like wine, like that is the logas, 427 00:23:21,678 --> 00:23:27,228 The Logos of God is living, not just the book, but the message of the book. 428 00:23:27,768 --> 00:23:32,838 It is alive and active, the story about Jesus, the Gospel, why so many 429 00:23:32,838 --> 00:23:36,318 sermons, like you said, are dead or dulls because they miss the message. 430 00:23:36,693 --> 00:23:41,103 Of the graphe, but they're really good at teaching the graphe, right? 431 00:23:41,108 --> 00:23:43,618 They're good at going expositionally or what? 432 00:23:43,618 --> 00:23:46,858 Or maybe not, like Ryan said, picking and choosing two verses. 433 00:23:46,858 --> 00:23:49,168 and we were just talking about it. 434 00:23:49,173 --> 00:23:53,973 so much of teaching preaching is, I feel like I want to teach on, sympathy 435 00:23:53,973 --> 00:23:58,588 or I wanna teach, and so now I'll form something around that, instead of just. 436 00:23:58,903 --> 00:24:03,083 Just letting, that message as we go through it inform us. 437 00:24:03,263 --> 00:24:06,623 if all you get is some facts about the Bible, then all you get is the graph. 438 00:24:06,628 --> 00:24:12,893 A, but when you get the message, that's different, right? 439 00:24:13,043 --> 00:24:14,633 When that gospel starts to impact. 440 00:24:15,153 --> 00:24:15,783 Tim Keller. 441 00:24:15,813 --> 00:24:16,893 Tim Keller passed away. 442 00:24:17,313 --> 00:24:18,123 I'm a fan. 443 00:24:19,033 --> 00:24:19,423 he. 444 00:24:21,418 --> 00:24:25,918 Coming out of it somewhere where it was like, about the graphe and 445 00:24:25,918 --> 00:24:34,338 then hearing the logos in every sermon I would, he's an old guy. 446 00:24:34,338 --> 00:24:37,508 He's my parents' age, he's not super dynamic speaker. 447 00:24:37,988 --> 00:24:40,478 He's not, there's not lights on the stage. 448 00:24:40,838 --> 00:24:42,128 he very, he's super tall. 449 00:24:42,128 --> 00:24:45,768 He very awkwardly, stands in lumbers and doesn't ever move. 450 00:24:46,098 --> 00:24:48,018 He likes classical music for worship. 451 00:24:48,298 --> 00:24:49,468 he's so different. 452 00:24:49,468 --> 00:24:50,968 He's such a different generation. 453 00:24:52,228 --> 00:24:56,108 He gets to Jesus at the end and I would. 454 00:24:56,923 --> 00:25:02,173 I would have to pull my car over because I was bawling driving on the way to work. 455 00:25:02,173 --> 00:25:05,473 Or I'd be at work working in a walk-in and doing electrical and stuff. 456 00:25:05,533 --> 00:25:07,683 And I'm listening to Tim Keller and it's oh, that's a good point. 457 00:25:07,683 --> 00:25:07,863 Wow. 458 00:25:07,863 --> 00:25:08,343 That's amazing. 459 00:25:08,373 --> 00:25:10,353 That's, it gets Jesus as the hero is. 460 00:25:10,353 --> 00:25:15,633 Jesus is the rescuer, the log offs, the word that became flesh and dwelt among us. 461 00:25:15,843 --> 00:25:18,993 And I would just lose it and people would be like, are you okay? 462 00:25:19,043 --> 00:25:20,933 I'm like, yeah, never been better. 463 00:25:21,203 --> 00:25:23,393 Jesus has God as good, and I just, 464 00:25:23,913 --> 00:25:24,133 Wow. 465 00:25:24,263 --> 00:25:26,208 And I was like, who else teaches this? 466 00:25:26,208 --> 00:25:26,538 That's right. 467 00:25:26,988 --> 00:25:28,668 I've never heard this before. 468 00:25:28,698 --> 00:25:30,288 Why am I just hearing it now? 469 00:25:30,338 --> 00:25:31,528 And they're out there. 470 00:25:31,588 --> 00:25:33,328 God has his remnant, right? 471 00:25:33,358 --> 00:25:35,248 And you start to find them and you start to go, oh. 472 00:25:35,578 --> 00:25:39,618 And, and so it's so important though. 473 00:25:40,308 --> 00:25:44,783 And then we come to the RMA and this is something that's I guess something maybe 474 00:25:44,883 --> 00:25:49,983 and that's why we're supposed to sing one another, hymns and spiritual songs 475 00:25:49,983 --> 00:25:54,033 that we're supposed to tell one another, the gospel that we're supposed to exhort 476 00:25:54,038 --> 00:25:55,623 one another while it's still the day. 477 00:25:55,673 --> 00:25:58,543 don't wait, it's so fascinating because God said, let there 478 00:25:58,543 --> 00:26:00,133 be light, and there was light. 479 00:26:00,703 --> 00:26:01,783 He didn't just think about it. 480 00:26:01,983 --> 00:26:03,813 It'd be nice to be light for some reason. 481 00:26:03,813 --> 00:26:05,463 God built the universe. 482 00:26:06,513 --> 00:26:10,413 Because he is a communicating God and a speaking God, and he 483 00:26:10,413 --> 00:26:12,003 spoke and it happened, right? 484 00:26:12,153 --> 00:26:15,633 The word the logus came and became flesh so that we might know the 485 00:26:15,633 --> 00:26:19,473 tone and the tenor of God, right? 486 00:26:19,893 --> 00:26:24,153 there's so often that I think my daughter is wearing something beautiful 487 00:26:24,213 --> 00:26:25,983 and I just, oh, she looks beautiful. 488 00:26:26,163 --> 00:26:28,293 Or My wife, oh, she looks pretty. 489 00:26:28,293 --> 00:26:31,173 That's an amazing outfit, and I leave it in here. 490 00:26:31,763 --> 00:26:34,523 And sometimes I like, she's like, how do I look? 491 00:26:34,643 --> 00:26:35,903 I'd appreciate it if you let me know. 492 00:26:36,233 --> 00:26:37,403 She's much kinder than that. 493 00:26:38,183 --> 00:26:41,288 and I'm like, oh, I totally thought, yeah, this is the, you look good. 494 00:26:41,293 --> 00:26:42,628 And she's you can let me know next time. 495 00:26:43,498 --> 00:26:48,838 There's something about not just having the meaning say, saying. 496 00:26:49,828 --> 00:26:52,858 So I always used to be afraid of this because of the name it and 497 00:26:52,858 --> 00:26:54,448 claimant word of faith movement. 498 00:26:54,508 --> 00:26:56,938 But here's where it's different. 499 00:26:57,298 --> 00:27:00,898 The name it and claimant use the Graphe and not the logas. 500 00:27:03,058 --> 00:27:07,128 They use scriptures out of context. 501 00:27:07,133 --> 00:27:09,293 we'll see the enemy knows scripture and takes things outta 502 00:27:09,293 --> 00:27:14,603 context, but it's really hard to take the message outta context. 503 00:27:15,488 --> 00:27:20,228 And when we speak the message of the gospel, that God loves you no matter what. 504 00:27:20,738 --> 00:27:22,538 That'll never pull his love away from you. 505 00:27:22,718 --> 00:27:26,138 That there's nothing you can do to make him love you less, and there's 506 00:27:26,138 --> 00:27:28,868 nothing you can do for the rest of your life to make him love you more. 507 00:27:28,868 --> 00:27:32,018 That it's complete and everlasting. 508 00:27:32,648 --> 00:27:37,568 That speaking is speaking the logos, is speaking the meaning. 509 00:27:38,098 --> 00:27:38,388 Amen. 510 00:27:38,428 --> 00:27:41,238 Where the other is, oh, I've just got this. 511 00:27:41,748 --> 00:27:43,608 We'll see Satan quote scripture. 512 00:27:44,193 --> 00:27:44,483 Yeah. 513 00:27:44,623 --> 00:27:49,183 but he, but outta context, he removes it from the logo, the meaning of the passage. 514 00:27:50,263 --> 00:27:54,403 here, Romans 10, 13 to 17, right? 515 00:27:54,408 --> 00:27:58,213 I think this is verse he like, for everyone who calls on the 516 00:27:58,218 --> 00:28:00,133 name of the Lord will be saved. 517 00:28:00,913 --> 00:28:02,173 That's an amazing verse right there. 518 00:28:02,773 --> 00:28:07,603 How then will they call on him who they have not believed, and how are they to 519 00:28:07,603 --> 00:28:10,303 believe in him who they have never heard? 520 00:28:11,278 --> 00:28:14,098 And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 521 00:28:15,268 --> 00:28:18,088 And how are they to preach unless they're sent as it is written. 522 00:28:18,088 --> 00:28:20,488 How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news, 523 00:28:20,998 --> 00:28:25,858 but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah says Lord, who has 524 00:28:25,858 --> 00:28:28,168 believed what he has heard from us? 525 00:28:28,258 --> 00:28:32,968 So faith comes by hearing and hearing through the word of 526 00:28:32,968 --> 00:28:36,028 Christ or the logos, right? 527 00:28:36,028 --> 00:28:40,908 So Yeah, getting it out there is a major important That's, so Paul, 528 00:28:40,908 --> 00:28:47,418 we, the sword of the spirit is the uttered meaning of scripture. 529 00:28:47,548 --> 00:28:48,388 Of the written word. 530 00:28:48,808 --> 00:28:53,848 So Paul's saying the sword of the spirit is actually uttering it, declaring it. 531 00:28:54,058 --> 00:28:54,238 Yes. 532 00:28:55,018 --> 00:29:00,178 And we all know I'm pretty reserved, like at sports games, cuz Anna carries the 533 00:29:00,178 --> 00:29:04,288 load of the weight on that, and she's just like, yeah, mean, it's amazing. 534 00:29:04,318 --> 00:29:05,218 She's a super fan. 535 00:29:05,938 --> 00:29:07,498 but sometimes something happens. 536 00:29:08,398 --> 00:29:09,748 And I have to let it out. 537 00:29:10,288 --> 00:29:11,448 Like Yeah. 538 00:29:12,508 --> 00:29:17,858 You know, and, and there's that sense that as we get the meaning, that's why God says 539 00:29:17,858 --> 00:29:21,968 worship is and praise and Thanksgiving is such a part of the Christian life. 540 00:29:21,998 --> 00:29:23,588 There has to be vent. 541 00:29:23,918 --> 00:29:23,978 Yeah. 542 00:29:24,038 --> 00:29:28,698 In fact, like CS Lewis said, praising something or Thanksgiving is just. 543 00:29:29,748 --> 00:29:33,918 Something you do after it actually completes what you're doing. 544 00:29:33,978 --> 00:29:35,058 It's part of it. 545 00:29:35,428 --> 00:29:39,563 and and why I say all that is because why the tangent? 546 00:29:39,983 --> 00:29:43,133 Because Jesus says when he faces off against the devil, 40 547 00:29:43,133 --> 00:29:46,553 days fasted in the wilderness, 548 00:29:49,763 --> 00:29:52,468 he doesn't do some power display. 549 00:29:53,488 --> 00:29:57,688 Guys, he says, over and over, this is, it is written, and he declares the 550 00:29:57,688 --> 00:29:59,728 log offs or the meaning of scripture. 551 00:30:01,468 --> 00:30:03,238 And the enemy has to flee. 552 00:30:03,898 --> 00:30:06,088 The enemy has to leave. 553 00:30:09,058 --> 00:30:19,178 The devil loves to hear us say, I think, or my opinion is, or 554 00:30:19,183 --> 00:30:20,348 This is what my friends say. 555 00:30:21,783 --> 00:30:26,133 this is what the latest poll says, or my political party stance is, 556 00:30:26,793 --> 00:30:28,443 or this is what this religion says. 557 00:30:28,473 --> 00:30:33,903 He loves it because it's devoid of power. 558 00:30:35,253 --> 00:30:42,663 What he hates is if we have the graphe, the written word, and we know the meaning, 559 00:30:42,873 --> 00:30:46,163 the gospel, and we declare it, we say it. 560 00:30:46,778 --> 00:30:49,568 We preach to our own heart, as Tim Keller used to say, you gotta take 561 00:30:49,568 --> 00:30:51,998 your heart out as you see in the Psalms and preach to your heart. 562 00:30:51,998 --> 00:30:54,788 You hold it and you're like, why are you cast down within me? 563 00:30:54,788 --> 00:30:55,658 Oh my soul. 564 00:30:55,658 --> 00:30:57,278 Hoping God, that's what he's doing. 565 00:30:57,283 --> 00:31:02,168 He's preaching to his heart, but we preach to other people, How are we doing? 566 00:31:03,638 --> 00:31:04,298 Should we stop? 567 00:31:05,768 --> 00:31:11,258 I've got another half an hour probably, but that seems like a good chunk, right? 568 00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:12,338 Are we good? 569 00:31:12,338 --> 00:31:13,358 Do we feel full? 570 00:31:14,768 --> 00:31:15,098 Okay. 571 00:31:15,308 --> 00:31:15,908 let me see. 572 00:31:16,148 --> 00:31:16,598 Let me just, 573 00:31:29,008 --> 00:31:32,128 god didn't come to, to help us win at Bible trivia. 574 00:31:32,798 --> 00:31:36,848 like God didn't come to just tell us random stories, right? 575 00:31:37,948 --> 00:31:42,778 like everything is in the word and the canon for a purpose 576 00:31:42,778 --> 00:31:44,038 and what's that purpose? 577 00:31:44,093 --> 00:31:47,303 To tell us the story of our rescue and our redemption and 578 00:31:47,303 --> 00:31:48,623 the restoration of all things. 579 00:31:48,743 --> 00:31:50,783 And that he's the hero every step of the way. 580 00:31:52,503 --> 00:31:53,643 what's your favorite? 581 00:31:53,643 --> 00:31:56,943 what gets to you when you think about okay, let me give you one second, 582 00:31:56,943 --> 00:32:00,573 Samuel 23, we'll won't jump into the other, but you've got David's mighty 583 00:32:00,573 --> 00:32:02,373 man and he tells a story about men who. 584 00:32:03,918 --> 00:32:09,028 Go into, hear David, he's in the cave and he's oh, this water sucks. 585 00:32:09,128 --> 00:32:11,228 it's probably like stagnant cave water. 586 00:32:11,233 --> 00:32:12,848 They can't go out cuz they're being hunted. 587 00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:17,158 And he's oh, I remember what it was like growing up in Bethlehem, playing 588 00:32:17,163 --> 00:32:20,908 my heart, leaving those sheep and if I could just have a drink out of the well 589 00:32:20,908 --> 00:32:25,498 of Bethlehem and a couple of his mighty men, I think it was three guys hear it 590 00:32:25,498 --> 00:32:34,783 and they're like, As you wish, and they go through, there's an Air Enemy Garrison 591 00:32:34,783 --> 00:32:41,653 of Philistines Encamped in, in Bethlehem at the time, and they sneak through and 592 00:32:41,653 --> 00:32:45,523 everything and they, at the risk of their life, they bring him a pitcher of water 593 00:32:47,653 --> 00:32:49,183 and he does the most fascinating thing. 594 00:32:51,343 --> 00:32:52,933 He takes it and he pours it out in front of him. 595 00:32:55,018 --> 00:32:57,028 He says, I'm not worthy of that kind of devotion. 596 00:33:00,328 --> 00:33:01,078 I'm just a man. 597 00:33:03,868 --> 00:33:12,118 But the greater day came and he fought through death itself, not at the 598 00:33:12,118 --> 00:33:18,508 risk of his life, but at the cost of it to bring you the water of life. 599 00:33:19,858 --> 00:33:21,808 And he gives it to you every single day. 600 00:33:24,028 --> 00:33:27,898 And he says, don't pour this kind of devotion out cuz this 601 00:33:28,108 --> 00:33:29,908 is a worthy devotion to drink. 602 00:33:31,108 --> 00:33:35,218 This is something we should be drinking every day that he's so devoted to us. 603 00:33:35,878 --> 00:33:37,408 He loves you guys. 604 00:33:37,408 --> 00:33:39,418 He like adores you. 605 00:33:39,418 --> 00:33:44,808 You see how that story just whispers the logos. 606 00:33:46,668 --> 00:33:49,608 It all through it, it warms your heart. 607 00:33:49,608 --> 00:33:50,688 There's something it does. 608 00:33:50,688 --> 00:33:52,148 It's just it's that heartburn. 609 00:33:52,153 --> 00:33:55,208 In fact, that's what the disciples on the road to am Emmaus. 610 00:33:55,658 --> 00:33:57,698 they're like, they're so depressed. 611 00:33:58,898 --> 00:34:00,038 Jesus is like, what's wrong? 612 00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:00,968 Why are you so sad? 613 00:34:00,998 --> 00:34:03,218 Didn't you hear the one who is gonna save? 614 00:34:03,218 --> 00:34:05,528 Israel is dead? 615 00:34:07,928 --> 00:34:10,958 He says, OU foolish of heart and slow to believe in all 616 00:34:10,963 --> 00:34:12,547 that the scriptures have said. 617 00:34:13,478 --> 00:34:19,328 And from Moses, which includes Genesis and the whole first five, all the way 618 00:34:19,328 --> 00:34:25,388 through to the prophets, he revealed to them all the things concerning himself. 619 00:34:26,978 --> 00:34:30,757 And so then when he reveals himself and the sacrament of broken 620 00:34:30,757 --> 00:34:35,108 bread, they realize it's Jesus. 621 00:34:35,168 --> 00:34:36,069 And he's out. 622 00:34:36,277 --> 00:34:40,388 He's, he disappears and they run the seven mile journey back 623 00:34:41,138 --> 00:34:42,128 and they say to one another. 624 00:34:43,088 --> 00:34:45,518 Did our hearts not burn within us? 625 00:34:47,558 --> 00:34:51,518 And that is, I think that's the affections being stirred. 626 00:34:52,058 --> 00:34:54,967 That is because we all have strings in our heart, like a musical 627 00:34:54,967 --> 00:34:56,828 instrument, and the gospel plays it. 628 00:34:56,858 --> 00:35:02,018 That's why we watch Lord of the Rings, and at the end, a Frodo, 629 00:35:02,018 --> 00:35:03,908 it can't carry it anymore. 630 00:35:04,988 --> 00:35:07,898 And he says, I can't carry the ring, but I'll carry you. 631 00:35:07,898 --> 00:35:08,588 We're like, ah. 632 00:35:10,508 --> 00:35:13,148 Because it's plucking the strings of our heart. 633 00:35:13,358 --> 00:35:16,538 It's about a friend that sticks closer than a brother. 634 00:35:16,958 --> 00:35:19,688 It's about someone carrying our burdens when we couldn't. 635 00:35:20,888 --> 00:35:24,068 there's stories out there that it just resonates. 636 00:35:24,308 --> 00:35:28,358 That's why we can't do any better than the story of somebody sacrificing 637 00:35:28,688 --> 00:35:30,518 themselves for the person they love. 638 00:35:30,518 --> 00:35:35,793 Or we rarely see movies where a hero dies for an enemy to win them back. 639 00:35:36,688 --> 00:35:39,328 but the stories are all around it. 640 00:35:39,478 --> 00:35:43,638 The, it's in music, it's it's in the lyrics of songs. 641 00:35:43,638 --> 00:35:45,648 It's not just in, it's in the stories. 642 00:35:45,648 --> 00:35:48,228 We like the gospel, right? 643 00:35:48,228 --> 00:35:48,648 it's reverent. 644 00:35:49,198 --> 00:35:54,898 it, our affection start to like light up and all of a sudden there's, when 645 00:35:54,898 --> 00:35:58,648 your heart burns within you, you're like, I see the universe in a new way. 646 00:35:58,708 --> 00:35:59,428 At this moment. 647 00:36:01,438 --> 00:36:03,318 I feel like I. 648 00:36:03,853 --> 00:36:06,433 I'm in a place of victory and not defeated. 649 00:36:07,093 --> 00:36:12,583 I feel like I'm being hugged and not ostracized and cast away. 650 00:36:13,393 --> 00:36:18,763 I feel like the one who is life itself, the Yahweh, the breath is 651 00:36:18,763 --> 00:36:22,953 bringing me in and he's drawed me close to his heart and I'm like 652 00:36:23,073 --> 00:36:25,683 there and that he's demonstrating. 653 00:36:26,403 --> 00:36:31,383 All that he's done for me and declaring over me, he's singing over me, rejoicing 654 00:36:31,383 --> 00:36:36,003 over me, that I'm his beloved son and whom he's well pleased, not because of what I 655 00:36:36,003 --> 00:36:38,223 did, but because of what Jesus did for me. 656 00:36:38,493 --> 00:36:43,203 Because Jesus, as will see, is faithful in the test, in the wilderness. 657 00:36:43,293 --> 00:36:45,153 Israel failed and we failed. 658 00:36:45,643 --> 00:36:49,563 And so the graphene not just this, not just knowing. 659 00:36:49,863 --> 00:36:54,243 We need it because it contains the log offs or the story. 660 00:36:55,023 --> 00:37:00,543 And when by God's grace, we tell that story to one another over and 661 00:37:00,543 --> 00:37:06,303 over, the enemy's routed hearts burn. 662 00:37:07,413 --> 00:37:08,613 Worship happens. 663 00:37:08,943 --> 00:37:13,743 Thanksgiving happens, and revival happens because what is revival? 664 00:37:13,748 --> 00:37:16,053 But God awakening his church. 665 00:37:16,728 --> 00:37:20,328 To the logos, to the good news of what he's doing. 666 00:37:20,748 --> 00:37:21,618 let me pray for our time. 667 00:37:21,618 --> 00:37:21,978 We'll take him. 668 00:37:21,978 --> 00:37:23,028 And you want to close this? 669 00:37:24,288 --> 00:37:24,738 study. 670 00:37:24,978 --> 00:37:26,688 I guess we're not done with Ephesians yet. 671 00:37:26,788 --> 00:37:30,088 I heard there were some bets going on at that bets. 672 00:37:30,188 --> 00:37:32,768 father just be so kind and gracious right now. 673 00:37:40,868 --> 00:37:41,948 Every temptation. 674 00:37:43,673 --> 00:37:51,743 It is rooted to doubt the meaning, the logos of the graph there, 675 00:37:53,933 --> 00:37:56,873 the meaning that you declare over us because of what Jesus done. 676 00:37:58,253 --> 00:38:00,863 My beloved son and daughter, in whom I'm well pleased 677 00:38:05,603 --> 00:38:08,693 that we're adopted into your family. 678 00:38:14,273 --> 00:38:15,443 That we're beloved children 679 00:38:18,443 --> 00:38:21,713 that you see is that living word. 680 00:38:22,553 --> 00:38:25,523 Nothing's hidden in your sight, and you knew who you were getting. 681 00:38:26,423 --> 00:38:32,213 There's no masks with you, and yet you chase us down like that father, 682 00:38:35,843 --> 00:38:38,243 and so rescue us again. 683 00:38:38,513 --> 00:38:40,403 Make this story loud in our ears. 684 00:38:40,503 --> 00:38:42,093 Make it reverberate in our heart. 685 00:38:45,783 --> 00:38:50,013 So we remember your body broken, your bloodshed. 686 00:38:52,233 --> 00:38:52,793 Remember the story? 687 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:55,673 That the only way for our wholeness was your brokenness. 688 00:38:57,938 --> 00:39:00,908 The only way for our everlasting life was your death. 689 00:39:03,368 --> 00:39:07,688 And so Lord, we worship you in response to that because you're 690 00:39:07,688 --> 00:39:10,058 good and you're good all the time. 691 00:39:11,528 --> 00:39:12,668 So we lean into that. 692 00:39:12,728 --> 00:39:18,068 Rescue us where we're weak, in that for your glory and our joy 693 00:39:18,368 --> 00:39:19,388 in the salvation of the city. 694 00:39:19,388 --> 00:39:20,738 In Jesus name, amen.