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Speaker: I wonder what you would consider
bare necessities for your existence.

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Probably more than you would
think off the top of your head.

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For example, uh, a lawnmower.

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Those of you that have a yard,
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and all you had was scissors to
go out and cut your, your grass

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with all of a sudden a lawnmower.

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Sounds like it's pretty essential
to your existence, doesn't it?

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Or your car, uh, is not too distant in
recent history that you would go back to

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where people didn't necessarily have the,
the cars that we have to be able to get

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from point A to point B and that, that's
certainly convenient that we would say,

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man, that'd be really hard to go back
to that life and, and not have a car.

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Uh, or for me, my, my laptop because I do
a lot of my, my sermon prep on my laptop.

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If I lost that, I'd lose a
lot of my library with it.

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Um, deodorant is something that
is one that we probably don't.

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Consider, but right now, sitting next to
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probably grateful that deodorant exists.

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You would say, man,
that, that's essential.

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That's a, that's a necessity in life.

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Uh, my wife and I, our refrigerator died
a few months back, and even though we

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have another one in the garage, man,
that was the most inconvenient thing to,

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to have to walk all the way out to the
garage to, to get to the refrigerator.

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Plus it was smaller and, and we
couldn't fit all of our food in it.

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Things that we, we don't think
about on a regular basis, become

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necessities for us when they're
removed from our, our presence.

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My wife, it's her sunglasses.

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She walks outside and, and
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like, I need my sunglasses.

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So, uh, sunglasses for most of you in
the room, it's a Stanley water bottle.

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Um, and I know that because you
have it with you and I hear them

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when they get kicked over in the
middle of the service and it's the

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loud thunk that hits the ground.

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Stanley, whatever, you have a walla,
whatever your water bottle is, but

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if we're really pressed on it, those
aren't bare necessities in life.

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We can do without all of them, right?

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I mean, the bare necessities
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ourselves, food, water, and shelter.

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Uh, that's historically been
what people need to survive.

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We might be able to press some
other things, but, but that's pretty

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much, that's what makes for, for
life, food, water, and shelter.

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Have you ever wondered what the bare
necessities of following Jesus look like?

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What are the bare
necessities of discipleship?

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What do I need to be a follower of Jesus?

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There's more than three, but this
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I wanna suggest to you that there's
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for every follower of Jesus that
we're gonna see in this passage.

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Three bare necessities of
discipleship that are gonna merge

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from John 17, 11 through 19.

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So take your Bibles if you've
got 'em, and flip over there.

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As we continue our study of the
high priestly prayer, we continue

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and pick up in this prayer where
God, the Son is praying to God the

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Father, and we get to listen in.

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We get to eavesdrop on this prayer, and
we've been walking our way through as

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really Jesus is wrapping up his time
with the disciples before the cross.

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And so he's been praying.

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He's praying on their behalf, he's
praying to the father and he prays in

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verse 11, and he says this, he says.

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I am no longer in the world, but they
are in the world and I'm coming to you.

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Holy Father, keep them in your
name, which you have given me that

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they may be one even as we are one.

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Stop there for just a second.

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Jesus says, I'm no longer in the world.

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We've talked about the concept of the
our in John's Gospel, and that's what's

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in view here again, is, is the hour.

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And so with, with the hour here,
Jesus is talking about the cross.

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He's talking about his death.

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He's talking about his ascension.

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He's talking about going back to
be with the Father, and he says

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here, I'm no longer in the world.

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Well, I.

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What is, how do we reconcile that?

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Because he's, he's praying, the
disciples are looking at him.

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They're listening to him.

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So how can Jesus say, I'm
no longer in the world?

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And what we need to understand is
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his departure as as good as done.

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In fact, when you read,
I'm no longer in the world.

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What you can understand is Jesus is
saying, my earthly ministry is done.

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I, I've done what the
father charged me to do.

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I have John one 18.

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I've exegeted the father to you.

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I've revealed the father to you.

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I'm no longer in the world in the
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you, my earthly ministry with you
followers, disciples, is done now.

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He still had work to do.

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The cross was the the greatest work
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our behalf, the cross in the empty tomb.

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But his teaching, his time with
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them, his revealing of the
father that had come to an end.

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So he says, I am no longer in the world.

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But then he says they are in
the world and I am coming.

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To you.

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Now we're gonna get back to the fact
that they are in the world still.

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But I want you to focus
in on, I am coming to you.

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So much of this prayer is,
is Jesus teaching still?

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As he's praying, he's teaching
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in his prayer for the benefit
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for the benefit of of the Father.

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But I think this is different.

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I think this is one of those
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intimacy of the son and the father.

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I think the son here is anticipating
the joy of being back with the father,

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and so he's praying, father, I'm coming
to you, and we can almo almost sense

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the eagerness and the anticipation
of being back with the father.

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In fact, back in John 1428, Jesus was
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them, he said, you heard me say to you,
I'm going away and I will come to you.

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If you loved me, you would've rejoiced
because I'm going to the Father.

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For the Father is greater than I.

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Jesus is telling his disciples there, you
would've rejoiced that I'm leaving you.

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I'm rejoicing that I'm going away.

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Why?

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Because I'm going back to the
glory that I had with the Father.

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That's what he means.

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But there by the way, that the father
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the glory that the father possessed
that moment because the son had in

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obedience, veiled his own glory.

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So he is anticipating going back,
and that's what he's saying here.

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I'm going back to you, father.

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And so I think we get the intimacy of the,
the son and the father here with Jesus

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saying, I'm, I'm, I'm coming back home.

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And yet he knew what was in front of him.

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He knew the cross was the path through
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the father again, and that's why the
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joy set before him, the joy of being
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and endured the cross on our behalf.

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So he's saying, father,
I'm coming back home.

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I'm coming to you.

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And his prayer for them, because
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world, so his prayer for them was,
holy Father, keep them in your

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name, which you have given me.

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See, Jesus understood that in him leaving
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this point as he's gonna go on to say in
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He had guarded them.

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He had protected them.

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He had preserved them.

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He had even kept them
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But now that he was leaving, he was asking
the Father to keep them in his name.

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Now, what does that mean to be
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Well, if you look back up the page at
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about the name of the Father already.

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He said, I manifested your name to the
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We talked about that last Sunday.

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The name being, the character, the
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He's saying of the father that,
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the disciples, what he's like, who
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And so now he's praying that the
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the disciples who are gonna stay
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the name that he had given to Jesus.

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What Jesus is praying for here is he's
praying for the holiness of the disciples.

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He's praying for their
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He's praying for their
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And that's why he says, holy
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You may pray in all kinds of different
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You may say, you know, dear God,
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Heavenly Father, maybe even say,
holy Father at times, Lord God.

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And, and sometimes my, my
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lot of intentionality in that.

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It's, it's what comes to
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And Jesus is purposeful with
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So when he says, holy Father,
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He's again doing that for the benefit
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this morning, reminding us and reminding
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ultimately gonna be from the Father.

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Now, how do we get that holiness?

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How can we be kept in the name?

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How can we be, uh, privy to the, the, the
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is praying that you and I would have?

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And I think the answer comes in our.

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Abiding in the sun or abiding in Christ.

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Remember, this is part of the
whole upper room discourse.

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Jesus has been answering that question
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all the way through here in John 17.

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John 15, as he talks about abiding in
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vine and the branch can't bear fruit
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the vine, to the life of the vine there.

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So the way that we will be kept in the
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Christ and by the spirit's work within us.

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We'll develop that more
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But look at the results of
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kept by the father in his name.

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He says in order that for the
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they may be one even as we are one.

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Jesus said in John 10 30,
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And so Jesus is praying that we would
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Christ's likeness, that we would grow in
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the Father's name, in order that we as
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would be one, that we would be together
as indivisible as the body of Christ.

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Christianity is a team sport,
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As believers, we have been saved
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That's part of what's gonna be, uh,
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that's taking place later, that we,
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one body, the body of Christ that's
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saints that we have here this morning.

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And what Jesus is doing here is
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holiness of all of his followers.

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That's gonna be realized through the
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our lives as, as disciples of Jesus.

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And so here's what I want us to think
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here, as Jesus is praying that his
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we would be kept in the Father's
name in order that we would be one.

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I want you to realize that your godliness
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Christ's likeness individually has
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health of the body of Christ.

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Here at our, in our church, point number
one, you can put it this way, pursue

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holiness like the church depends upon it.

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Pursue holiness like the
church depends upon it.

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If you're a sports fan of any sport,
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with all Dallas Mavericks fans.

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When Fire and Nico Harrison traded
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Lakers, it's one of the most
mind-boggling trades in NBA history.

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Nobody understands it.

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Matt, stop it.

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I see you gloating back there.

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He's not a Mavericks fan.

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He's cheering that on, but it's, Luca
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Nobody trades a 25-year-old generational
talent for Anthony Davis, as good as

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Anthony Davis has been in his career,
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is been injured, but nobody does that.

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But when asked about it,
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I think this is, is revisionist
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This is what they said.

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They said they were concerned
about Lucas's conditioning.

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In fact, recently this week I saw an
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came out and said, we think Lucas'
Prime may already be behind him and

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that his body's not gonna hold up
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seasons to come because he just doesn't
take care of himself off the court.

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That's a little bit about
what we're talking about here.

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I would never trade Luka Donk ever.

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I would not trade Luka
Dong ever for anything.

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I don't, I don't agree with the
assessment, but the point is they're, at

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least what they're saying is they were so
concerned about what he was doing off the

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court and the impact that it was gonna
have on the team, on the court, that

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they were willing to cut ties with him
before they couldn't get anything from

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him, for him and, and let him walk in.

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Free agency.

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Your, if I can make the
connection here for us, your

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life off the court, so to speak.

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Has a direct bearing on your life, on
the court here as part of this church

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body, the way that you are conditioned,
not physically so much, but spiritually

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has a direct bearing on the overall
impact that we can have as a church.

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And even if you're not saying, if you're
saying, well, I'm, I don't feel like

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I'm a key player, I, I, I feel like
I'm, I'm here and I, I show up, but I'm

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mostly here because, you know, I, I, I.

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It's a, the preaching or
the worship or whatever.

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I'm, I'm not super involved.

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They're not relying upon
me, so it doesn't matter.

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I, I would say yes, and here's why.

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If we are a church that's marked by more
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think God's gonna bless this church.

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Even if, you know, the, the,
the quote unquote starters

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are running hard after Jesus.

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If we're not collectively a church
running hard after Jesus, I don't

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think that we're gonna be used
by God to do great things here.

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And to accomplish what I think he
wants to accomplish through us.

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And so Your Holiness has a direct
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and unity of the church body.

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Let me make the point a different way.

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Uh, think about what the, the Spirit, the
Holy Spirit who dwells within believers.

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Think about what the Bible talks
about the Holy Spirit does within us.

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Galatians five, the fruit
of the Spirit, right?

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As you read through that list.

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Love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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gentleness, and self-control.

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Notice how many of those have to do with.

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One another.

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Notice how many of those are,
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in the context of community.

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And as you grow in your understanding
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likeness and you see more of the
fruit of the spirit, we are gonna

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be a healthier body overall.

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We are gonna be a more
unified body overall.

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Or Colossians chapter
three, a similar list here.

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You read through these, these are
the byproducts of us being united

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with Christ, of raised with Christ.

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These things should be
present in our life.

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Notice again, how much of an impact
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the unity of the body of Christ.

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And unfortunately, we can
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Here's the the works of the
flesh from Galatians five.

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Notice if you are not walking by the
spirit but walking according to the flesh.

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Look at this list and look at how
many of these things have a negative

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impact on the overall health of
the one another relationship.

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How many of these sinful expressions
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Colossians three, again, a similar list.

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Negative impacts on the overall unity
in in wholeness of the body of Christ.

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Again, the more Christ like we
are, the more effective we will

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be as a lampstand, the more united
we will be as a body of Christ.

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So your holiness is important to the
overall health of the church here.

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It's not just about pastors who are holy.

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It's not just about having
ministry leaders that are holy.

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It's about having a body that is
holy, a body that is being kept

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in the name of the Father, and we
do that through abiding in Christ.

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I want you to consider another passage
if you will, take your Bibles over to one

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Peter chapter one, one Peter chapter one.

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If you're in John's
gospel, turn to the right.

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A few books.

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First Peter, chapter one.

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Peter is talking here and, and I want
you to pick up in verse 17, and he's

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gonna talk about the gospel first,
but then he want, I want you to notice

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that he has something to say about the
impact that the gospel is gonna have

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on our community, on the church here.

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First Peter one, verse 17.

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Peter writes this, if you call on
him as father, who judges impartially

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according to each one's deeds.

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Conduct yourselves with fear
throughout the time of your exile.

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Knowing that you were ransomed,
here comes the gospel.

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You were ransom from the feudal ways,
inherited from your forefathers.

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Not with perishable things such
as silver or gold, but with the

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precious blood of Christ like that
of a lamb without blemish or spot.

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He, the lamb was foreknown
before the foundation of the

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world, but was made manifest.

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Was revealed in the last times
for the sake of you who threw him.

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Our believers in God who raised him
from the dead and gave him glory so

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that your faith and hope are in God.

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Okay?

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That's the gospel he's
talking about there.

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He's establishing for those that are
reading this, you have been saved.

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He's reminding us of that
you have been redeemed with

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the precious blood of Christ.

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Verse 22, now having then purified your
soul's by obedience to the truth for

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a sincere, brotherly love, love one
another, earnestly from a pure heart.

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Since you've been born, again, not a
perishable seed, but of imperishable

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through the living and abiding word of
God for all fleshes like grass and its

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glory, like the flower of grass, the
grass withers, the flower falls, but

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the word of the Lord remains forever.

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And this is the, this
word is the good news.

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The gospel that was preached to you.

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Look at verse 22 again.

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Look at one of the results, one of the
impacts, one of the purposes of your

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salvation, having purified your souls.

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How do you purify your soul through
faith and repentance in Jesus

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Christ as your Lord and Savior?

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That's the gospel.

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In other words, he could have
written, having been saved by

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your obedience to the truth.

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Notice for a sincere, brotherly love.

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Okay, that's the word, philto in the
Greek, where we get the, the misnomer for

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Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love.

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It's, it's the love of one another.

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It's the mutual expression of, of
brotherly love for one another.

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But then he says this love
one another earnestly.

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And, and so the gospel is meant to create
a love for one another, a brotherly

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love for one another that's going to
manifest itself in loving one another.

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Earnest earnestly.

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Now, the, the word love
there changes to agape.

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Agape and the word agape
is a fatherly love.

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It's a love that has as its, its
end the good of the other person.

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Regardless of how the
other person treats you.

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It's a selfless, it's a sacrificial
love, and the gospel is meant to produce

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a community that loves one another.

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Philos one another, well through
Agape loving one another earnestly.

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Loving one another earnestly,
you say, okay, well what does

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that agape love look like?

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That's a great question.

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I'm glad you asked.

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It looks like this.

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This is the love of one Corinthians 13.

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It's a love that's patient.

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It's a love that's kind.

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It's a love that does not envy or boast.

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It is not arrogant or rude.

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It does not insist on its own way.

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It is not irritable or resentful.

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It does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
but rejoices with the truth.

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Love bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all

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things, endures all things.

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So your pursuit of Christ's likeness
is gonna produce a brotherly love

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for one another that's gonna show
up in an agape love that works

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itself out in this body of Christ.

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Here, y'all, that's why
your Christlikeness.

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Is crucial.

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It's a bare necessity of
discipleship because your

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church depends on your holiness.

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Again, it's not just about
the holiness of the pastors.

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It's not just about the holiness of a few.

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It's about the holiness
of the body of Christ.

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Church, the enemy would love
nothing more than to divide us

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here at Compass Bible Church.

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The enemy would love nothing more
than to see this church broken

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up and factionalized by different
competing self-centered agendas.

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And here's the thing, y'all division
grows in the manure of fleshliness.

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Division grows in the
manure of fleshliness.

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We have to make sure that we are
cultivating godliness, holiness

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Christ-likeness in our life.

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Throughout the entirety of our
life, throughout the entirety of

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our weeks, so that when we come
together, we will be a more effective

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lampstand than we would be otherwise.

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We need your holiness.

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Your holiness is crucial.

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It's a bare necessity to discipleship
because the church depends upon it.

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The church depends upon it.

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Verse 12.

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Jesus continued.

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He says, while I was with them, I
kept them in your name, which you

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have given me, and I've guarded them
and not one of them has been lost

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except the son of destruction that
the scripture might be fulfilled again

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while Jesus was with them during those
three years that he had called them and

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they had been following him as their
rabbi, Jesus had been protecting them.

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He'd been keeping them,
he'd been teaching them.

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He had been literally discipling them.

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And now he was leaving and he was
saying here, not one of them has been

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lost except the son of destruction.

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And he, in order that the
scripture might be fulfilled.

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What scripture?

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A good question.

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And, and there's debate upon this,
but I, I, most people point back

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to, uh, scripture like Psalm 1 0
9 verse eight, Psalm 1 0 9, verse

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eight says this, may his days be
few and may another take his office.

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So many think that that is
a, a, a prophecy about Judas.

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That Judases days would be few,
that he would not live a long life,

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and certainly that came to fruition
and may another take his office.

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And that also came to fruition.

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That was Matthias, as we
see in the book of backs.

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And so here Jesus is
saying, I've kept them all.

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I've protected them.

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Remember he's saying this in context of
the fact that saying, I'm, I'm going away.

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But while I was here, I kept them, I
protected them, and not one of them

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was lost except the son of destruction
that the scripture might be fulfilled.

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This is in keeping with other passages
that we've read about in John's

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gospel before John 6 37 through 39.

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Jesus said there, all the Father
gives me, will come to me and whoever

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comes to me, I will never cast out.

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I will never cast out for, I have come
down from heaven not to do my own will,

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but the will of him who sent me, and this
is the will of him who sent me that I

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should lose nothing of all that he has
given me, but raise it up on the last day.

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So Jesus is saying, at least for
the disciples during his earthly

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ministry, father, I've done that.

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It.

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I've kept them.

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I've guarded them, I've protected them.

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Or John 10, 28 and 29, John 10, 28 and 29.

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Jesus says, I give them eternal life
and they will never perish and no

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one will snatch them outta my hand.

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My father, who's given them to me is
greater than all, and no one is able

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to snatch them outta the father's hand.

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Again, Jesus is saying, father, to
this point, while I've been here on

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Earth, I've done that, and yet if,
if they're gonna make it all the

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way, Jesus understands that they're
gonna need to continue to be kept.

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To continue to be protected.

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And that's why he prayed at the
beginning of our time together this

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morning, father, keep them in your
name and, and this is where he goes

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next in verse 13, look at John 1713.

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Now he says, but now I'm coming
to you and these things I speak

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in the world that they may have
my joy fulfilled in themselves.

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Okay?

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Can you come with me for a
second through some, some.

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Strange.

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Not strange, but just extra
reasoning here with me.

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00:22:44,699 --> 00:22:48,240
We do something that they
weren't doing at this time.

450
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,659
The disciples weren't
going home for six days.

451
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,730
In between these sections of John's
gospel, you and I are for them.

452
00:22:56,730 --> 00:22:58,800
This was all Jesus just talking to them.

453
00:22:58,860 --> 00:23:00,570
This was a matter of of hours.

454
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:01,139
Okay?

455
00:23:01,709 --> 00:23:05,820
And so for us, it's been a handful of
weeks, at least since we were in John 15.

456
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,270
For them it was a matter of half an hour.

457
00:23:09,930 --> 00:23:12,000
Since they had heard
Jesus talking in John 15.

458
00:23:12,540 --> 00:23:16,139
So when Jesus says in John 17, 13,
now I'm coming to you and these things

459
00:23:16,139 --> 00:23:19,110
I speak in the world, that they may
have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

460
00:23:20,070 --> 00:23:23,399
I think they would've been quick
to go back to what he had just said

461
00:23:23,399 --> 00:23:28,320
contextually in John 15 verse 11, notice
what he says in John 15, verse 11.

462
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:33,030
He says these things I've spoken
to you that my joy may be in

463
00:23:33,030 --> 00:23:35,370
you and your joy may be full.

464
00:23:36,885 --> 00:23:40,185
And so the parallel there is,
is evident that they may have

465
00:23:40,185 --> 00:23:41,774
my joy fulfilled in themselves.

466
00:23:41,774 --> 00:23:42,945
John 1713.

467
00:23:42,945 --> 00:23:47,294
John 1511, that my joy may be in
you and that your joy may be filled.

468
00:23:47,655 --> 00:23:50,205
Okay, so what was he
talking about in John 15?

469
00:23:50,205 --> 00:23:51,764
Because I think that helps us understand.

470
00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:55,814
John 17, he's talking
about abiding in Christ.

471
00:23:55,814 --> 00:23:56,564
In John 15.

472
00:23:57,314 --> 00:23:59,054
He says, if you abide in me.

473
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,000
Then you will be, you will
prove to be my disciples.

474
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,060
If you abide in me and bear much
fruit, you'll prove to be my disciples.

475
00:24:06,270 --> 00:24:08,790
If you abide in me,
you will have this joy.

476
00:24:08,820 --> 00:24:12,389
And so in John 1713, I think
Jesus is calling back to that.

477
00:24:12,629 --> 00:24:15,840
I think Jesus is referencing back to
that in this prayer so that they will

478
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,060
remember, okay, Jesus is leaving.

479
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,889
How are we gonna be okay with him?

480
00:24:19,889 --> 00:24:22,740
Gone abiding in Christ.

481
00:24:23,475 --> 00:24:25,784
And what does it look like to
abide in Christ, but to abide

482
00:24:25,784 --> 00:24:27,705
in his word through his spirit.

483
00:24:27,764 --> 00:24:28,784
Look at verse 14.

484
00:24:28,995 --> 00:24:32,145
I have given them your word,
and the world has hated them

485
00:24:32,145 --> 00:24:33,284
because they're not of the world.

486
00:24:33,284 --> 00:24:34,725
Just as I'm not of the world.

487
00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:37,995
And and so here, the, the
connection comes back.

488
00:24:38,115 --> 00:24:39,435
I've given them your word.

489
00:24:39,435 --> 00:24:41,865
He had said this, uh, uh,
earlier in John's gospel.

490
00:24:41,865 --> 00:24:42,675
I'm still in one Peter.

491
00:24:42,675 --> 00:24:44,895
By the way, if you're not back in
John, just follow me back to John,

492
00:24:47,145 --> 00:24:51,675
John 17, he said in verse eight for I
have given them the words you gave me.

493
00:24:52,034 --> 00:24:55,485
So here he says, again, I've
given them your word, y'all.

494
00:24:55,485 --> 00:24:58,274
If we're gonna be kept in the father's
name, we have to be kept in the word.

495
00:24:58,455 --> 00:25:00,705
We have to be abiding in Christ
through the word and again

496
00:25:00,705 --> 00:25:01,935
through the spirit of God.

497
00:25:02,805 --> 00:25:05,325
The word is the, the means of our abiding.

498
00:25:05,325 --> 00:25:06,764
It's the medium of our abiding.

499
00:25:06,764 --> 00:25:10,155
The the agent of the abiding
is the spirit of God.

500
00:25:10,485 --> 00:25:15,315
And both of these things have been
given to us by Jesus, but Jesus says

501
00:25:15,315 --> 00:25:19,514
the world has hated them as a result
of this, because they're not of the

502
00:25:19,514 --> 00:25:21,135
world, just as I am not of the world, I.

503
00:25:22,365 --> 00:25:22,965
Verse 15.

504
00:25:22,995 --> 00:25:25,275
I don't ask that you take them
out of the world, but that you

505
00:25:25,275 --> 00:25:26,475
keep them from the evil one.

506
00:25:27,254 --> 00:25:30,254
And so here Jesus is saying the
word that I've given them is gonna

507
00:25:30,254 --> 00:25:32,385
create a problem for them and
that the world is gonna hate them.

508
00:25:32,385 --> 00:25:34,635
But I'm not gonna ask that
you take them outta the world.

509
00:25:35,025 --> 00:25:36,615
We're gonna find out why
in just a minute here.

510
00:25:37,305 --> 00:25:38,535
But instead, what is he gonna pray?

511
00:25:38,535 --> 00:25:40,725
He's gonna pray in keeping with
his whole prayer, for their

512
00:25:40,725 --> 00:25:44,415
protection, their preservation,
that they be kept from the evil one.

513
00:25:45,225 --> 00:25:49,335
The evil one being the prince of the power
of the heir, from Ephesians chapter two.

514
00:25:49,755 --> 00:25:52,095
The God of this world from
Second Corinthians chapter four.

515
00:25:52,605 --> 00:25:53,625
That is Satan.

516
00:25:56,265 --> 00:25:58,185
He had just said, I lost none of them.

517
00:25:58,185 --> 00:25:59,205
Except for who?

518
00:25:59,535 --> 00:26:00,135
Judas.

519
00:26:00,165 --> 00:26:00,465
Right?

520
00:26:00,465 --> 00:26:01,365
The son of destruction.

521
00:26:02,985 --> 00:26:06,285
I think he was mentioning that
for the sake of the disciples,

522
00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:07,275
because of where he goes.

523
00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:12,045
Here again, the father is not up there
going, wait a minute, you lost someone.

524
00:26:13,065 --> 00:26:14,475
Come on Jesus.

525
00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:17,310
The father knew all things.

526
00:26:17,310 --> 00:26:19,950
In fact, it was all part of
his ordained plan for all of

527
00:26:19,950 --> 00:26:20,970
these things to take place.

528
00:26:21,270 --> 00:26:24,420
So as Jesus is, is praying and say,
I kept them all and I didn't lose any

529
00:26:24,420 --> 00:26:25,889
of them except the son of destruction.

530
00:26:26,220 --> 00:26:29,970
I think he's praying for the benefit
of those listening to be reminded

531
00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:32,010
of the danger falling away from him.

532
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,260
And now he comes and he says,
and I've given them their word.

533
00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:34,590
And you know what?

534
00:26:34,590 --> 00:26:38,100
The world's gonna hate them, which
means the heat's gonna get turned up.

535
00:26:38,340 --> 00:26:41,250
And as the heat gets turned up, what's
our temptation gonna be to drift

536
00:26:41,250 --> 00:26:42,900
away from Jesus, just like Judas did.

537
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:44,385
It, but he's praying.

538
00:26:44,385 --> 00:26:46,545
Father, I'm praying that you
keep them from the evil one.

539
00:26:46,905 --> 00:26:48,254
I'm praying that you protect them.

540
00:26:48,254 --> 00:26:52,215
I'm praying that you preserve them because
verse 16, they are not of the world.

541
00:26:52,215 --> 00:26:53,475
Just as I'm not of the world.

542
00:26:54,074 --> 00:26:54,314
Y'all.

543
00:26:54,314 --> 00:26:57,524
That's our reality as followers
and disciples of Jesus today.

544
00:26:57,524 --> 00:26:59,774
And so as we're considering the
bare necessities, the essentials

545
00:26:59,774 --> 00:27:02,594
of what it looks like to follow
Jesus, we need to understand that

546
00:27:02,594 --> 00:27:04,274
that tension exists for us as well.

547
00:27:04,455 --> 00:27:06,074
We have to stay in the Father's name.

548
00:27:06,074 --> 00:27:07,875
We have to be kept in the
father's name, and that's gonna

549
00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:09,225
come as we abide in Christ.

550
00:27:09,584 --> 00:27:12,915
But abiding in Christ is gonna mean
this world is gonna be hostile towards

551
00:27:12,915 --> 00:27:17,865
us as believers, as followers of
his Don Carson put puts it this way,

552
00:27:17,865 --> 00:27:22,605
he says this, the cosmic spiritual
nature of the conflict is laid bare.

553
00:27:23,175 --> 00:27:27,225
The followers of Jesus are permitted
neither the luxury of compromise

554
00:27:27,225 --> 00:27:30,915
with a world that is intrinsically
evil under the devil's power,

555
00:27:31,125 --> 00:27:33,465
nor the safety of disengagement.

556
00:27:34,575 --> 00:27:35,865
That's where we find ourselves.

557
00:27:36,105 --> 00:27:40,185
That's what's what Jesus is praying here
in this intersection of this, this text.

558
00:27:40,575 --> 00:27:44,205
He's praying, saying they're gonna
be in the world, not of the world.

559
00:27:44,925 --> 00:27:48,405
And, and I've given them your
word to keep them in your name.

560
00:27:48,524 --> 00:27:52,334
And when they're kept in your name by
the word, you know what that's gonna do.

561
00:27:52,425 --> 00:27:54,495
That's gonna mean the
world is gonna hate them.

562
00:27:55,425 --> 00:27:59,324
And so I'm not allowing them to escape
the world, but I'm also not allowing

563
00:27:59,324 --> 00:28:00,554
them to compromise with the world.

564
00:28:01,334 --> 00:28:03,584
And so I, they have to walk the narrow.

565
00:28:04,274 --> 00:28:07,574
They have to stay between those
two ditches on either side of the

566
00:28:07,574 --> 00:28:12,524
path and the question that should
be begged in all of our minds.

567
00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:12,584
I.

568
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:14,580
Is how?

569
00:28:16,110 --> 00:28:17,159
How do we do that?

570
00:28:17,940 --> 00:28:21,690
How do you live in a world that hates
the savior that you love and not

571
00:28:21,690 --> 00:28:23,550
compromise, but also not retreat?

572
00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:26,220
What does that look like?

573
00:28:26,310 --> 00:28:29,340
Well, it looks like point number
two this morning, a abide in Christ

574
00:28:29,340 --> 00:28:30,600
like your life depends upon it.

575
00:28:31,409 --> 00:28:33,629
Abide in Christ like
your life depends on it.

576
00:28:35,430 --> 00:28:39,450
Jesus is gonna say in verse 17, he
says this, sanctify them in your truth.

577
00:28:39,780 --> 00:28:40,350
In the truth.

578
00:28:40,409 --> 00:28:41,520
Your word is truth.

579
00:28:42,540 --> 00:28:43,469
Sanctify them.

580
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,629
It, it's the word that
means to be set apart.

581
00:28:45,659 --> 00:28:50,189
We talked about this a couple weeks
ago, to be made more like Jesus.

582
00:28:50,639 --> 00:28:51,389
That's our goal.

583
00:28:51,389 --> 00:28:55,949
While we're here in this world to be more
and more and more Christlike, and so how

584
00:28:55,949 --> 00:28:57,629
can we become more and more and more?

585
00:28:57,629 --> 00:28:58,169
Christlike?

586
00:28:58,169 --> 00:29:00,120
Jesus answers the question,
your word is truth.

587
00:29:01,110 --> 00:29:02,280
It's the scriptures.

588
00:29:02,429 --> 00:29:03,629
It's the Bible.

589
00:29:04,020 --> 00:29:06,419
I've made this analogy before, but
it's, it's one of the ones that just

590
00:29:06,419 --> 00:29:09,419
impacts me the most, and so it gets
to impact you the most by extension.

591
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:17,610
Uh, David's, Michelangelo started
out as a, a large chunk of marble

592
00:29:17,610 --> 00:29:20,580
that two master artisans looked
at and said, I don't want this.

593
00:29:20,580 --> 00:29:21,810
It's, it's imperfect.

594
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,850
No one can use this.

595
00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:25,320
There's too many imperfections in it.

596
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:30,300
And so two master artisans rejected
this hunk of marble, and it was

597
00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:33,840
left outside exposed to the elements
in the courtyard of one of the,

598
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,370
the cathedrals there in Florence.

599
00:29:35,370 --> 00:29:39,510
And it was just abandoned
until Michelangelo came along.

600
00:29:40,065 --> 00:29:42,255
And looked at it and saw David inside.

601
00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:46,335
But to get David out, what
did Michelangelo have to do?

602
00:29:47,145 --> 00:29:50,115
He had to take the hammer and he had to
take the chisel and he had to go to work.

603
00:29:52,095 --> 00:29:56,625
As he did, David began to emerge, and the
more and more he took off, the more and

604
00:29:56,625 --> 00:29:59,475
more you saw the form of David Church.

605
00:29:59,565 --> 00:30:00,825
That's sanctification.

606
00:30:03,060 --> 00:30:05,909
The word of God is the
hammer in the chisel.

607
00:30:05,909 --> 00:30:10,110
The spirit of God is the artisan
making you look more like Jesus.

608
00:30:11,370 --> 00:30:14,429
If you wanna know what it is to walk
the, the narrow path and avoid the

609
00:30:14,429 --> 00:30:17,490
ditch of compromise and avoid the
ditch of retreat, then, then that

610
00:30:17,490 --> 00:30:20,820
means you've got to be abiding in
Christ like your life depends upon it.

611
00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:22,290
Because church, it does.

612
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:26,129
It's like the warning passages in
Hebrews that warn you from drifting

613
00:30:26,129 --> 00:30:27,689
away or falling away from Christ.

614
00:30:28,575 --> 00:30:31,034
And you say, but pastor
once saved, always saved.

615
00:30:31,034 --> 00:30:34,095
And I say, yeah, if you're actually
saved, that's true, but it's

616
00:30:34,155 --> 00:30:36,014
because you will abide in Christ.

617
00:30:36,014 --> 00:30:38,175
It's because you will remain
on the straight and narrow.

618
00:30:39,315 --> 00:30:44,925
And so it's, it's you, but it's, it's the
spirit in you working to pursue Jesus.

619
00:30:45,675 --> 00:30:48,405
This is one of those mysteries
of what it is to be a follower

620
00:30:48,405 --> 00:30:49,815
of Jesus, to be a disciple.

621
00:30:50,504 --> 00:30:53,745
It's the Apostle Paul writing Work
out your salvation with fear and

622
00:30:53,745 --> 00:30:56,325
trembling, but it's the spirit that's
at work within you both to willing

623
00:30:56,325 --> 00:30:57,495
to work for his good pleasure.

624
00:30:57,524 --> 00:31:01,544
It is the Apostle Paul saying, by
the grace of God, I am what I am.

625
00:31:01,544 --> 00:31:04,215
Yet I worked harder than all of
them, but it wasn't I who was

626
00:31:04,215 --> 00:31:05,894
working, but God working in me.

627
00:31:07,124 --> 00:31:09,165
See, church, we have a role to play.

628
00:31:09,524 --> 00:31:13,245
We have something that we have to do, and
that is we have to pursue christlikeness.

629
00:31:13,245 --> 00:31:17,655
We have to abide in Christ through
the spirit in the word, like our life

630
00:31:17,804 --> 00:31:22,604
depends upon it because it does your
spiritual wellbeing depends upon it.

631
00:31:23,415 --> 00:31:27,975
I don't have time, but if I did, we
would walk through Psalm 1, 1 19.

632
00:31:28,155 --> 00:31:32,925
So much of Psalm one 19 walks through
what the word of God does in keeping

633
00:31:32,925 --> 00:31:34,995
us, protecting us, preserving us.

634
00:31:35,595 --> 00:31:39,525
Just one example for, for instance,
uh, Psalm 1 19 9, how can a

635
00:31:39,525 --> 00:31:43,725
young man keep his way pure by
guarding it according to your word?

636
00:31:45,315 --> 00:31:50,235
Psalm 1 19, 1 0 5, Lord, your word is a
lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

637
00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:55,874
The word of God helps us see
how we are to walk church.

638
00:31:55,874 --> 00:31:59,804
If you desire security as a believer
in Christ, it will not come apart

639
00:31:59,804 --> 00:32:04,364
from abiding in Christ, and yet
ironically, abiding in Christ is gonna

640
00:32:04,364 --> 00:32:07,004
produce more opposition in your life
than you've ever experienced before.

641
00:32:08,415 --> 00:32:08,864
Because why?

642
00:32:08,864 --> 00:32:10,935
Because the word is what the world hates

643
00:32:13,425 --> 00:32:15,945
Since the overthrow, if you've been
following the news of the Assad

644
00:32:15,945 --> 00:32:19,304
regime in Syria, Christians have
been massacred by the thousands.

645
00:32:21,030 --> 00:32:22,335
Uh, numbers vary.

646
00:32:23,055 --> 00:32:26,115
One number I saw, I don't, I don't
know if this is since the overthrow

647
00:32:26,115 --> 00:32:30,735
of asah, but, but just in general,
one number of, of late, the number of

648
00:32:30,735 --> 00:32:32,790
Christians in Syria has dropped from 1.5

649
00:32:32,790 --> 00:32:34,155
million to 300,000.

650
00:32:38,085 --> 00:32:43,545
If I was to preach this point in Syria
right now, it would hit a lot different

651
00:32:43,545 --> 00:32:46,335
than it hits this morning in North Texas.

652
00:32:48,405 --> 00:32:51,255
See, they don't have the luxury to say
things like, well, I'll get around to my

653
00:32:51,255 --> 00:32:58,335
Bible reading later, or I'm just too busy
to to worry about my Bible reading today.

654
00:32:59,775 --> 00:33:01,065
They don't have the luxury
to say, you know what?

655
00:33:01,065 --> 00:33:03,225
Next year will be the year that
I get serious about prayer.

656
00:33:05,295 --> 00:33:07,065
They don't have the luxury to
say, well, I'll take my faith

657
00:33:07,065 --> 00:33:08,505
seriously when I grow up.

658
00:33:10,965 --> 00:33:13,875
Reason being is they may not grow up.

659
00:33:14,955 --> 00:33:18,885
They may not see next year,
they may not have later.

660
00:33:21,014 --> 00:33:26,715
So for them to say, Hey, abide in Christ,
like your life depends upon, it hits way

661
00:33:26,715 --> 00:33:31,215
different than it hits for us sitting here
this morning, and I, I don't say that to

662
00:33:31,215 --> 00:33:35,715
make you feel guilty, but to encourage
you to utilize the freedoms that God has

663
00:33:35,715 --> 00:33:40,245
given you to, to lean into the blessings.

664
00:33:40,530 --> 00:33:42,660
Of the time that you
have to pursue Christ.

665
00:33:42,870 --> 00:33:45,780
Can you imagine they, they would love
to be able to sit down in the morning

666
00:33:45,780 --> 00:33:49,680
with their Bible on their lap and a
cup of coffee in their hands and not

667
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:50,940
worry about being killed for that

668
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:54,480
church.

669
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,450
One of my greatest fears personally
is to stand before Jesus at the

670
00:33:57,450 --> 00:33:59,700
Bema seat and have him just point
out how much time I wasted to

671
00:34:01,770 --> 00:34:02,850
with the freedoms that I have

672
00:34:05,399 --> 00:34:07,169
to abide in Christ like
your life depends upon it.

673
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,739
I remember in eighth grade we
went on this wilderness trip to

674
00:34:10,739 --> 00:34:12,510
Arkansas and we went repelling.

675
00:34:14,219 --> 00:34:18,300
When you're backing over the edge of,
of a cliff, your life depends upon that

676
00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:24,510
rope and you know it does, and you feel
it and you're not tempted to think,

677
00:34:24,510 --> 00:34:28,260
well, maybe I could disconnect from that
rope for a little bit and still be okay.

678
00:34:29,850 --> 00:34:30,120
Nope.

679
00:34:30,150 --> 00:34:32,280
You disconnect from that rope and
they're scooping you up off the

680
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:33,840
bottom of the, the, the cliff.

681
00:34:36,585 --> 00:34:41,264
We have to de to depend upon Christ
and abide in Christ to that degree,

682
00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:46,395
to have that level of desperation and
need for Jesus, the way that somebody

683
00:34:46,395 --> 00:34:49,514
repelling off the side of a cliff has
for that rope as they're going over.

684
00:34:51,105 --> 00:34:53,565
Because if we're gonna be kept in the
name of the Father, that's how we do that.

685
00:34:55,185 --> 00:34:58,095
So the bare necessities of being
a follower of Jesus is pursuing

686
00:34:58,095 --> 00:35:01,275
Christ's likeness, like your church
depends upon it and abiding in Christ

687
00:35:01,275 --> 00:35:02,385
like your life depends upon it.

688
00:35:03,405 --> 00:35:04,005
Verse 18.

689
00:35:04,845 --> 00:35:06,435
Jesus says, as you sent me into the world.

690
00:35:06,435 --> 00:35:11,385
So I've sent them into the world, and for
their sake, I consecrate myself that they

691
00:35:11,385 --> 00:35:16,725
may also be sanctified In truth, y'all,
this is why Jesus said I, I'm not praying

692
00:35:16,725 --> 00:35:17,835
that you take them outta the world.

693
00:35:18,045 --> 00:35:21,345
This is it right here, and this is
why he hasn't taken us outta the world

694
00:35:22,125 --> 00:35:23,510
because there's still work to be done.

695
00:35:23,980 --> 00:35:24,630
Acts one, eight.

696
00:35:24,675 --> 00:35:27,765
I read it during scripture reading that
we've gotta reach the ends of the earth.

697
00:35:28,395 --> 00:35:29,745
And we haven't reached
the ends of the earth yet.

698
00:35:29,745 --> 00:35:31,785
And you say, how do you know we haven't
reached the ends of the earth yet?

699
00:35:31,785 --> 00:35:33,075
Because Christ hasn't come back yet?

700
00:35:34,275 --> 00:35:35,625
Because there's still work to be done.

701
00:35:35,625 --> 00:35:36,735
There's still laws to be saved.

702
00:35:36,735 --> 00:35:38,715
There's still people that need to
hear the good news of the gospel.

703
00:35:38,715 --> 00:35:41,985
And so Jesus is telling his disciples,
as you sent me into the world,

704
00:35:41,985 --> 00:35:43,545
so I've sent them into the world.

705
00:35:43,665 --> 00:35:46,515
And you're saying, well, pastor, that
he's talking about the disciples, not me.

706
00:35:47,055 --> 00:35:47,505
Okay.

707
00:35:48,345 --> 00:35:50,295
Matthew 28 19 through
20, great commission.

708
00:35:51,225 --> 00:35:53,445
Jesus says, go and make disciples.

709
00:35:53,445 --> 00:35:56,055
And you're like, again,
only to them, not to me.

710
00:35:56,055 --> 00:35:56,715
I don't have to.

711
00:35:57,315 --> 00:36:00,855
Go and make disciples, baptizing
them in the name of the Father,

712
00:36:00,855 --> 00:36:01,725
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

713
00:36:01,725 --> 00:36:02,535
We're gonna do that later.

714
00:36:02,955 --> 00:36:04,125
And then what does he say after that?

715
00:36:04,185 --> 00:36:06,375
Teaching them to obey,
what's the next word?

716
00:36:07,335 --> 00:36:09,225
All that I have commanded you.

717
00:36:09,555 --> 00:36:10,335
Including what?

718
00:36:10,995 --> 00:36:12,165
Go and make disciples.

719
00:36:12,915 --> 00:36:16,305
Teaching them the disciples that you're
gonna make to go and make disciples.

720
00:36:16,455 --> 00:36:18,405
So you see, we're, we're
in this no matter what.

721
00:36:19,065 --> 00:36:21,045
This is applying to every
single believer in this room.

722
00:36:21,465 --> 00:36:24,735
There's no, nobody that gets
to tap out of the the mission.

723
00:36:25,335 --> 00:36:27,885
Of Jesus, of being sent in
the world to make disciples.

724
00:36:27,885 --> 00:36:32,475
It's the job of every single Christian
to do this, and Jesus says, and for

725
00:36:32,475 --> 00:36:35,505
their sake, I consecrate myself that
they may also be sanctified in the truth.

726
00:36:35,505 --> 00:36:36,705
He's talking about the cross right there.

727
00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:40,035
He's saying I'm setting myself apart
ultimately to the point of obedience

728
00:36:40,035 --> 00:36:43,395
to the cross in order that they might
be sanctified, they might be set

729
00:36:43,395 --> 00:36:48,525
apart for the mission that I'm sending
them to go and accomplish church.

730
00:36:49,035 --> 00:36:50,535
We have the same mission that they had.

731
00:36:51,255 --> 00:36:54,195
And it's our third bare necessity of
being a disciple of Christ this morning.

732
00:36:54,195 --> 00:36:58,095
It's this, pursue the loss like their
souls depend upon it, pursue the

733
00:36:58,095 --> 00:36:59,985
loss like their souls depend upon it.

734
00:37:02,775 --> 00:37:06,315
How many lost people do you
genuinely know right now?

735
00:37:08,265 --> 00:37:11,895
Not by assumption, but you know, this
person doesn't believe in Christ.

736
00:37:13,965 --> 00:37:15,945
How many of them have
heard the gospel from you?

737
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,040
When's the last time that they
heard the gospel from you?

738
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,290
Paul writes in Colossians one, something
that's, that's pretty astounding.

739
00:37:28,290 --> 00:37:31,890
We've, we've covered it before, but just
to remind us, chapter one, verse 24,

740
00:37:31,890 --> 00:37:36,090
Paul says, in my flesh, I'm filling up
what's lacking in Christ's afflictions,

741
00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:39,540
what was lacking in Christ's afflictions.

742
00:37:40,380 --> 00:37:44,670
Certainly nothing atoning, nothing
that would result in our being saved.

743
00:37:45,780 --> 00:37:46,260
To tell us.

744
00:37:46,260 --> 00:37:46,950
That's finished.

745
00:37:46,950 --> 00:37:48,090
He said on the cross.

746
00:37:48,870 --> 00:37:51,870
So what was lacking is the work of
the church to go out and see more

747
00:37:51,870 --> 00:37:53,760
people made followers of Jesus.

748
00:37:53,910 --> 00:37:54,900
That's what Paul means here.

749
00:37:55,170 --> 00:37:55,800
I'm feeling what?

750
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,950
What's lacking by going out and doing the
work of an evangelist, doing the work of

751
00:37:58,950 --> 00:38:03,240
ministry, planting more churches, seeing
more people come to faith in Christ.

752
00:38:03,510 --> 00:38:05,670
And in that sense, you and I
still today are filling up what's

753
00:38:05,670 --> 00:38:06,960
lacking in Christ afflictions.

754
00:38:07,170 --> 00:38:07,950
Why is it lacking?

755
00:38:07,950 --> 00:38:10,080
Because Jesus isn't physically
here doing the work.

756
00:38:10,470 --> 00:38:11,940
He's the one doing the work through us.

757
00:38:12,795 --> 00:38:15,585
But in our flesh, we are filling
up, bringing to completion.

758
00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:16,155
What's lacking?

759
00:38:16,155 --> 00:38:18,585
What's lacking is the proclamations of
the gospel to the ends of the earth.

760
00:38:18,945 --> 00:38:20,175
That's our mission church.

761
00:38:20,175 --> 00:38:21,015
That's what we're here to do.

762
00:38:21,015 --> 00:38:25,305
We're here to pursue the loss like our
soul, like their souls depend upon it.

763
00:38:26,055 --> 00:38:29,505
Evangelism isn't just for pastors
and preachers, and a subset of

764
00:38:29,505 --> 00:38:30,705
Christians who have the gift.

765
00:38:31,455 --> 00:38:34,005
Evangelism is for every
single follower of Jesus.

766
00:38:34,335 --> 00:38:35,475
All of us have a mission field.

767
00:38:36,495 --> 00:38:39,135
If nothing else, you have a
mission field wherever you live.

768
00:38:39,855 --> 00:38:42,255
In the community, the neighborhood,
the apartment complex.

769
00:38:42,465 --> 00:38:44,955
Wherever you happen to live right
now, there's your mission field.

770
00:38:46,035 --> 00:38:47,805
You have a mission
field at your workplace.

771
00:38:48,225 --> 00:38:50,145
Some of you have the
mission field of your home.

772
00:38:50,205 --> 00:38:53,205
You have children that you're raising
and that they need to know Christ.

773
00:38:53,655 --> 00:38:55,875
You have unbelieving family members
sitting at your dinner table.

774
00:38:55,875 --> 00:38:56,805
That's your mission field.

775
00:38:58,035 --> 00:38:59,205
We all have a mission field.

776
00:38:59,205 --> 00:39:03,735
You evangelism is for every follower of
Jesus and we have to take it seriously.

777
00:39:04,215 --> 00:39:06,885
Baseball season is here
because God is gracious to us.

778
00:39:08,310 --> 00:39:11,340
And spring training is wrapping
up because God is gracious to us.

779
00:39:12,510 --> 00:39:13,650
But spring training is funny, isn't it?

780
00:39:13,650 --> 00:39:16,050
Because there's all kinds of
different people at spring training.

781
00:39:16,590 --> 00:39:18,870
You've got your veterans
and your veterans are there.

782
00:39:18,870 --> 00:39:19,890
They've got a roster spot.

783
00:39:20,190 --> 00:39:21,120
They're not worried about it.

784
00:39:21,660 --> 00:39:24,480
So you've got guys like Corey Seger
and Marcus Simmon who play for the

785
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,020
Texas Rangers, the greatest baseball
team in the state of Texas, bar none.

786
00:39:28,410 --> 00:39:30,810
And they're there and, and
they know they've got a roster

787
00:39:30,810 --> 00:39:31,890
spot and so they're not.

788
00:39:32,265 --> 00:39:33,855
Yeah, they need to get in shape.

789
00:39:33,855 --> 00:39:35,955
They need to get their, their timing down.

790
00:39:36,195 --> 00:39:39,225
They need to get some reps, but
they're not really gonna try to

791
00:39:39,225 --> 00:39:42,435
beat out the ground ball that's
hit the shortstop, not now.

792
00:39:42,795 --> 00:39:44,235
They're gonna save that
for the regular season.

793
00:39:44,955 --> 00:39:47,565
Then you've got other guys, you've
got the, the first year players that

794
00:39:47,565 --> 00:39:50,955
have the, the minor leaguers with the
invites of spring training just to say,

795
00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:52,545
Hey, this is what's in your future.

796
00:39:52,545 --> 00:39:54,315
And they're there just
trying to soak it all in.

797
00:39:54,945 --> 00:39:56,595
They're there going, man, this is amazing.

798
00:39:56,595 --> 00:39:57,705
I can't believe I'm here.

799
00:39:58,710 --> 00:39:59,910
And then you've got the other guys.

800
00:39:59,910 --> 00:40:04,410
These are the guys called the non roster
invitees and the non roster invitees.

801
00:40:04,410 --> 00:40:08,220
They're there by invitation, but
they don't have a guaranteed spot.

802
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,140
Usually these are veterans.

803
00:40:10,530 --> 00:40:12,900
These are guys that have played,
some of 'em are past their prime or

804
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:15,930
trying to prove that they're not yet
past their prime and they're there.

805
00:40:15,930 --> 00:40:19,830
And for them, every at bat
matters a hundred percent.

806
00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:22,590
They're gonna try to beat out
the ground ball to shortstop.

807
00:40:23,130 --> 00:40:24,870
Every ball hit to the outfield gap.

808
00:40:24,870 --> 00:40:27,600
They're gonna try to chase that
thing down and make the top 10 play.

809
00:40:28,515 --> 00:40:30,795
Every opportunity they
have to step on the field.

810
00:40:30,795 --> 00:40:32,745
They're doing so with gratitude
and they're doing so to give

811
00:40:32,745 --> 00:40:35,895
everything that they have because
they know what's at stake.

812
00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:39,134
They know that if they don't, they
may not have a spot in the end.

813
00:40:40,965 --> 00:40:43,665
It's an imperfect analogy because
you've already got your spot if you're

814
00:40:43,665 --> 00:40:48,405
in Christ, but I want you to have the
methodology of the non roster invitee

815
00:40:48,405 --> 00:40:49,785
when it comes to reaching the lost.

816
00:40:50,430 --> 00:40:54,660
I want you to take every conversation,
every interaction, every opportunity to

817
00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:58,410
pray for the lost, every conversation that
you have to teach your kids about Jesus,

818
00:40:58,590 --> 00:41:03,240
I want you to take it seriously knowing
that their souls are at stake, because you

819
00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:07,080
might be the only person they ever have,
tell them about Jesus, or you might be the

820
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,480
last person to ever tell them about Jesus.

821
00:41:09,780 --> 00:41:11,820
And so I want you to take it seriously.

822
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,500
I don't want you to mail it in.

823
00:41:13,770 --> 00:41:15,690
I don't want you to think
they'll have another shot down

824
00:41:15,690 --> 00:41:17,700
the road because you never know.

825
00:41:18,615 --> 00:41:22,065
If you're the last person that will
have the chance to tell them about

826
00:41:22,065 --> 00:41:25,515
Jesus, pursue the loss like their
souls depend upon it because it might

827
00:41:25,815 --> 00:41:27,705
be that their souls depend upon it.

828
00:41:29,175 --> 00:41:32,325
Y'all, we have a great opportunity in
this regard right now because this is,

829
00:41:32,355 --> 00:41:36,225
we're coming up on Easter season and, and
people expect the church to talk about

830
00:41:36,285 --> 00:41:40,455
Jesus around Easter, and so you have an
opportunity to talk to your neighbors

831
00:41:40,455 --> 00:41:44,625
and your coworkers and your family
members about Christ this Easter season.

832
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,910
We have yard signs that are
over here for you to grab that.

833
00:41:47,910 --> 00:41:50,640
It's got our extravaganza graphic
on one side and our Easter

834
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:51,840
service times on the other side.

835
00:41:52,140 --> 00:41:53,040
Please grab one of those.

836
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:53,940
They're over on the other side.

837
00:41:53,940 --> 00:41:55,320
Please grab one and stick it in your yard.

838
00:41:55,320 --> 00:42:00,210
That's, that's a, that's level one
that's super low as far as what it looks

839
00:42:00,210 --> 00:42:01,980
like to tell other people about Jesus.

840
00:42:02,250 --> 00:42:03,930
Let your grass do the hard work for you.

841
00:42:05,130 --> 00:42:05,940
Stick it in there.

842
00:42:06,690 --> 00:42:07,980
People will drive by and see it.

843
00:42:07,980 --> 00:42:10,800
They'll walk by and see it and think,
okay, maybe I wanna go be a part of that.

844
00:42:11,310 --> 00:42:11,970
Please grab one.

845
00:42:11,970 --> 00:42:12,390
They're over there.

846
00:42:12,390 --> 00:42:15,450
Like I said, we have these
invites on our tables.

847
00:42:15,540 --> 00:42:18,780
They've got, again, same thing as the
yard side, extravaganza on one side,

848
00:42:18,780 --> 00:42:20,010
Easter services on the other side.

849
00:42:20,340 --> 00:42:22,500
Take some of these with
you and pass 'em out.

850
00:42:22,650 --> 00:42:25,410
Have your kids take 'em because
they're cuter than you are and

851
00:42:25,410 --> 00:42:26,460
have them give them to people.

852
00:42:26,850 --> 00:42:28,410
It's hard to say no to a kid, right?

853
00:42:28,650 --> 00:42:31,680
So have them use them for the
kingdom and get them out there

854
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,360
passing out invitations to our event.

855
00:42:34,155 --> 00:42:35,055
Whatever it looks like.

856
00:42:35,055 --> 00:42:35,865
Baked some cookies.

857
00:42:35,865 --> 00:42:38,835
We had somebody back in in California
that would bake a bunch of cookies around

858
00:42:38,835 --> 00:42:41,805
this time and they would, they would
time in in little baggies and leave them

859
00:42:41,805 --> 00:42:43,035
with these invites on their neighbors.

860
00:42:43,095 --> 00:42:45,975
Just make sure they're good cookies
if you don't bake well, I think

861
00:42:45,975 --> 00:42:48,705
I said this last year, buy the
cookies and put them in there.

862
00:42:49,545 --> 00:42:53,025
We want to adorn the
gospel, not, um, yeah.

863
00:42:53,415 --> 00:42:57,285
If you've got snack duty for your kids,
it literally slip an invite into the

864
00:42:57,285 --> 00:42:58,665
snack bag when you hand it out to them.

865
00:42:59,955 --> 00:43:03,075
If you've got a bulletin board
at your local Starbucks, put

866
00:43:03,075 --> 00:43:05,385
one of these up on the bullet
bulletin board and leave it there.

867
00:43:06,735 --> 00:43:09,705
Leave it in the lobby of your
auto mechanic post about it on

868
00:43:09,705 --> 00:43:10,935
your neighborhood Facebook page.

869
00:43:11,175 --> 00:43:15,195
These are all ways for us to be
passively kind of pursuing the

870
00:43:15,195 --> 00:43:16,515
loss like their souls depend upon.

871
00:43:17,025 --> 00:43:19,905
But we're also gonna be going out
as the church a few times leading up

872
00:43:19,905 --> 00:43:22,575
to extravaganza to pass out invites
on the neighborhoods around us.

873
00:43:22,575 --> 00:43:25,425
We've got a team, an evangelism team
that's working on mapping these out,

874
00:43:25,425 --> 00:43:27,945
and we're gonna go out together and
we're gonna hand out these invites

875
00:43:27,945 --> 00:43:30,705
and we're gonna leave these with
people to invite them to be here.

876
00:43:30,705 --> 00:43:30,975
Why?

877
00:43:30,975 --> 00:43:33,075
Because we believe that this is important

878
00:43:35,355 --> 00:43:35,955
for Easter.

879
00:43:35,955 --> 00:43:37,275
This year we have three things going on.

880
00:43:37,275 --> 00:43:40,275
We've got extravaganza
and that's out of order.

881
00:43:40,455 --> 00:43:42,735
Uh, we've got on Friday night,
we've got our Good Friday service

882
00:43:42,735 --> 00:43:43,965
here at the church, six 30.

883
00:43:44,655 --> 00:43:45,315
We want you to be here.

884
00:43:45,315 --> 00:43:47,055
We're gonna be focused on the cross.

885
00:43:47,355 --> 00:43:50,415
In fact, it just so happens by God's
providence that the, the Gospel of John

886
00:43:50,415 --> 00:43:53,175
in our study, we're gonna be landing
on the cross on Good Friday together.

887
00:43:53,805 --> 00:43:56,685
So if you want to stay with the Gospel
of John series with us, you gotta

888
00:43:56,685 --> 00:43:58,005
be there on Good Friday with us.

889
00:43:58,275 --> 00:43:59,655
We're gonna cover the
section on the cross.

890
00:43:59,715 --> 00:44:02,325
And then Sunday morning, Lord willing,
we're gonna gather together, we're

891
00:44:02,325 --> 00:44:03,705
gonna cover the resurrection together.

892
00:44:04,215 --> 00:44:06,285
But in between there, we've
got Extravaganza, extravaganza

893
00:44:06,285 --> 00:44:07,275
is our outreach event.

894
00:44:07,815 --> 00:44:09,645
And so here's what my challenge is.

895
00:44:10,065 --> 00:44:11,055
You guys know what this is, right?

896
00:44:11,055 --> 00:44:11,535
What is that?

897
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:13,845
What, what is that emoji?

898
00:44:15,075 --> 00:44:15,465
It is.

899
00:44:15,465 --> 00:44:15,975
Somebody said it.

900
00:44:15,975 --> 00:44:16,995
It's the high five emoji.

901
00:44:17,445 --> 00:44:19,365
You guys think it's the praying
hands, but you'll never be able to

902
00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:20,475
look at that the same way again.

903
00:44:20,715 --> 00:44:21,765
It's the high five emoji.

904
00:44:21,795 --> 00:44:22,095
All right?

905
00:44:22,305 --> 00:44:22,545
Right.

906
00:44:22,545 --> 00:44:23,535
We're giving each other a high five.

907
00:44:24,375 --> 00:44:25,185
Here's my challenge.

908
00:44:25,185 --> 00:44:27,405
Church high five for five.

909
00:44:27,435 --> 00:44:29,535
Okay, high five for five.

910
00:44:29,775 --> 00:44:30,555
What in the world is that?

911
00:44:30,885 --> 00:44:34,305
It's super dorky, but you'll remember
it, and so I don't care that it's dorky.

912
00:44:35,145 --> 00:44:36,105
Here's what I want you to do.

913
00:44:36,135 --> 00:44:39,405
I want you to challenge yourself
to invite five different units,

914
00:44:39,405 --> 00:44:42,435
so don't find a family with five
people and be like, check, I did it.

915
00:44:42,465 --> 00:44:42,855
I'm good.

916
00:44:44,115 --> 00:44:48,075
Five different units, so five different
families, five different coworkers,

917
00:44:48,345 --> 00:44:50,625
five different neighbors, whatever.

918
00:44:50,985 --> 00:44:53,505
I want you to invite at least five
different people to at least one of

919
00:44:53,505 --> 00:44:54,825
the three events that I just mentioned.

920
00:44:55,245 --> 00:44:58,575
Good Friday, extravaganza Easter
Sunday Resurrection Sunday.

921
00:44:58,575 --> 00:45:00,825
For those of you that are offended
by Easter Sunday, I'll, I'll

922
00:45:00,885 --> 00:45:01,905
check your box for you too.

923
00:45:03,315 --> 00:45:04,575
Pick one, invite them.

924
00:45:05,655 --> 00:45:07,305
You say, well, how do I think about that?

925
00:45:07,305 --> 00:45:10,365
Well, maybe you've got somebody
that's a neighbor of yours.

926
00:45:10,605 --> 00:45:12,105
Ardent, avowed, atheist.

927
00:45:12,450 --> 00:45:15,120
Hates everything about God and
Christianity, but they've got young kids.

928
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,890
Maybe invite them to extravaganza.

929
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,480
That might be a great on-ramp for them to
get around people of the church and to see

930
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,340
that we love them and we care about them.

931
00:45:24,150 --> 00:45:29,400
To have conversations with other people
that might point them to Christ or, or

932
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,930
maybe let's say you've got a, a, a mom
that is in your, your school group, your,

933
00:45:33,930 --> 00:45:37,680
your co-op, or you've got somebody in,
in your neighborhood who's a mom and,

934
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,180
and she comes from a Mormon family.

935
00:45:39,945 --> 00:45:42,855
Invite her to the Good Friday service
where she's gonna hear about the all

936
00:45:42,855 --> 00:45:45,825
sufficient atoning death of Jesus
Christ on the cross for her sins.

937
00:45:46,455 --> 00:45:49,635
That it's not by grace alone, after
all she's done, but it's by grace.

938
00:45:49,695 --> 00:45:50,805
Grace alone, period.

939
00:45:51,705 --> 00:45:55,425
Maybe that'd be a great thing to
invite her to, or resurrection Sunday.

940
00:45:55,425 --> 00:45:59,415
Inviting somebody who needs to
come and hear the good news of the

941
00:45:59,415 --> 00:46:02,535
fact that we worship a resurrected
savior and there's hope that we

942
00:46:02,535 --> 00:46:04,095
too will one day overcome death.

943
00:46:04,425 --> 00:46:06,525
Maybe you got somebody in your
neighborhood who's struggling

944
00:46:06,525 --> 00:46:07,965
with a disease that's terminal.

945
00:46:08,895 --> 00:46:10,605
They need to come and they
need to hear about life after

946
00:46:10,605 --> 00:46:12,525
death that Sunday morning.

947
00:46:13,065 --> 00:46:14,025
So high five for five.

948
00:46:14,025 --> 00:46:16,425
If you show up next week or you show
up in the coming weeks, you come up

949
00:46:16,425 --> 00:46:19,185
to me, say, Hey, pastor PJ High five,
I'll know what you're talking about.

950
00:46:19,665 --> 00:46:22,365
Let's normalize the high five
here, because we're gonna be just

951
00:46:22,365 --> 00:46:24,285
inviting a ton of people for Jesus.

952
00:46:24,285 --> 00:46:27,135
I wanna go home with a hand that
hurts in the next couple weeks here.

953
00:46:27,165 --> 00:46:30,795
That would make me so happy, uh,
not just because we want numbers.

954
00:46:32,100 --> 00:46:32,670
But because why?

955
00:46:32,670 --> 00:46:35,580
Because we want to pursue their souls,
like their lives, their pursue the

956
00:46:35,580 --> 00:46:36,840
loss, like their lives depend upon it.

957
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,030
Their souls depend upon
it because they do.

958
00:46:40,290 --> 00:46:40,710
They do.

959
00:46:42,210 --> 00:46:45,630
That's why we're a church committed
to reaching people for Christ,

960
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:49,680
teaching people to be like Christ
and training people to serve Christ.

961
00:46:50,580 --> 00:46:52,470
We wanna be that church.

962
00:46:52,830 --> 00:46:56,310
There's more than three bare
necessities for discipleship, but

963
00:46:56,310 --> 00:47:00,300
this morning we've at least uncovered
these three and to pursue holiness.

964
00:47:00,705 --> 00:47:04,125
Because your church depends upon
it to abide in Christ because

965
00:47:04,125 --> 00:47:05,145
your life depends upon it.

966
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,565
And to pursue the lost 'cause,
their souls depend upon it.

967
00:47:11,055 --> 00:47:13,155
We live in a, a world
with so many luxuries.

968
00:47:14,085 --> 00:47:17,235
It's easy for us to forget how important
the bare necessities of life really are.

969
00:47:18,435 --> 00:47:19,995
And I think that's true
of discipleship as well.

970
00:47:20,685 --> 00:47:23,055
And so I appreciate the reminder
that we get from Jesus this morning.

971
00:47:24,315 --> 00:47:27,975
These three things about discipleship, man
pursuing godliness because of the body.

972
00:47:28,905 --> 00:47:32,025
Abiding in Christ because of our
own being kept in the Father's

973
00:47:32,025 --> 00:47:32,955
name and pursuing the loss.

974
00:47:32,955 --> 00:47:34,935
Those are three things that we need
to make sure are there 'cause those

975
00:47:34,935 --> 00:47:38,385
are part of the bare necessities of
what it looks like to follow Jesus.

976
00:47:38,685 --> 00:47:41,715
Lemme pray together if you'll stand
with me and then we'll be dismissed.