1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,120 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,040 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,040 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,280 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,040 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,720 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,840 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,420 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:34,700 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:38,140 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:41,660 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,180 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:47,900 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,940 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:57,980 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:00:57,980 --> 00:01:00,220 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 20 00:01:00,220 --> 00:01:04,900 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:13,940 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:19,860 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:24,580 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 24 00:01:25,230 --> 00:01:33,550 and on the website, which is heavenearthchurch.org Here now is 25 00:01:33,550 --> 00:01:38,230 part three of Pastor Ross Stackhouse's message series on eliminating 26 00:01:38,230 --> 00:01:38,750 hurry. 27 00:01:39,470 --> 00:01:44,430 The title is if the solution was more time, which it isn't. 28 00:01:48,110 --> 00:01:51,350 Lord, speak to us and help us to hear something that we could not 29 00:01:51,350 --> 00:01:52,350 hear on our own. 30 00:01:55,500 --> 00:02:02,780 Teach us your ways, the way of life, an eternal kind of life in 31 00:02:02,780 --> 00:02:03,180 Jesus. 32 00:02:05,820 --> 00:02:07,420 It's in his name I pray. 33 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:09,820 Amen. 34 00:02:12,060 --> 00:02:21,280 So I've told you before, I was in Greece in 2011 on this project 35 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,200 with a professor for about a month. 36 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:30,080 And we were in this little village that is called Ancient Corinth. 37 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:35,840 So the letter to the Corinthians that place Corinth. 38 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:42,520 And my first time driving to the job site, I didn't know what 39 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,800 I was getting in for, what I was in for. 40 00:02:45,610 --> 00:02:48,570 There was a man who was very experienced. 41 00:02:48,570 --> 00:02:53,970 We got in this little itty bitty car on this road, like you 42 00:02:53,970 --> 00:02:56,410 think country road here, ain't nothing like that. 43 00:02:56,890 --> 00:03:00,170 Two cars shouldn't fit on this road, all right? 44 00:03:01,049 --> 00:03:06,410 And this guy is driving like it's like the Indy 500. 45 00:03:07,610 --> 00:03:11,930 And I was like, oh my God, I've only been married for a year 46 00:03:11,930 --> 00:03:15,370 to my wife and I'm gonna die on some road out here in nowhere 47 00:03:15,370 --> 00:03:16,170 in Greece. 48 00:03:16,330 --> 00:03:17,040 This guy. 49 00:03:18,070 --> 00:03:21,470 And I see a car coming up and I was like, okay, he's gonna slow 50 00:03:21,470 --> 00:03:21,990 down now. 51 00:03:22,950 --> 00:03:23,630 It was like a. 52 00:03:23,630 --> 00:03:25,110 He accepted it as a challenge. 53 00:03:25,110 --> 00:03:26,870 I know none of you do that when you drive. 54 00:03:27,110 --> 00:03:31,590 He was like, oh, there's a car coming every day. 55 00:03:31,670 --> 00:03:35,750 So every day when I drove to the job site, I had to accept that 56 00:03:36,390 --> 00:03:40,790 today might be my day because we were on a road that was. 57 00:03:41,510 --> 00:03:45,230 The probability of destruction was high. 58 00:03:46,430 --> 00:03:47,150 The probably. 59 00:03:47,470 --> 00:03:48,830 Luckily I lived. 60 00:03:48,910 --> 00:03:51,910 Did you know I made it very cool. 61 00:03:51,910 --> 00:03:52,990 I'm happy for that. 62 00:03:54,030 --> 00:03:55,470 Here's my question for you. 63 00:03:58,750 --> 00:04:01,470 What roads are you traveling? 64 00:04:03,630 --> 00:04:04,310 What are your. 65 00:04:04,310 --> 00:04:04,870 What's your. 66 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:06,670 What rhythms are you living? 67 00:04:06,830 --> 00:04:09,390 So these are the roads you're traveling day in and day out. 68 00:04:10,910 --> 00:04:12,990 Your rhythms, your routines. 69 00:04:16,270 --> 00:04:17,310 What's your routine? 70 00:04:18,030 --> 00:04:20,030 What roads are you traveling daily? 71 00:04:22,270 --> 00:04:23,630 And here's the next question. 72 00:04:26,030 --> 00:04:31,470 Are the roads you're traveling causing destruction to your body, 73 00:04:32,830 --> 00:04:34,750 mind and spirit? 74 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,240 I'm going to ask you that again in a second and you'll see 75 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:43,560 why. 76 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,320 You may have heard Jesus this verse before. 77 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,360 This happens in what is called Jesus Sermon on the Mount. 78 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,160 It's the longest block of teaching, continuous teaching that 79 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,800 Jesus has in the New Testament. 80 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,080 It's in Matthew, this is chapter seven. 81 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,640 Jesus says, go in through the narrow gate. 82 00:05:04,810 --> 00:05:07,690 The gate that leads to destruction is broad and the road 83 00:05:07,770 --> 00:05:08,250 wide. 84 00:05:09,210 --> 00:05:16,250 So many people enter through it, but the gate that leads to life 85 00:05:16,250 --> 00:05:21,450 is narrow and the road difficult, so few people find it. 86 00:05:23,770 --> 00:05:26,250 Now again, it's going to be your turn to talk in just a minute. 87 00:05:28,660 --> 00:05:36,180 But in some of the circles that I grew up in, maybe I'll ask 88 00:05:36,180 --> 00:05:38,660 you, what does that word destruction equal? 89 00:05:40,260 --> 00:05:40,980 Anybody? 90 00:05:43,140 --> 00:05:44,420 Heather Harris, help me out. 91 00:05:46,420 --> 00:05:48,940 In some of the circles we grew up in, Heather, what would that word 92 00:05:48,940 --> 00:05:49,820 destruction equal? 93 00:05:49,820 --> 00:05:52,180 There, try it again. 94 00:05:52,180 --> 00:05:55,230 What was that, Courtney? 95 00:05:55,230 --> 00:05:56,910 A little louder for the people. 96 00:05:57,230 --> 00:05:57,710 Hell. 97 00:05:57,790 --> 00:05:58,670 Oh, okay. 98 00:05:58,670 --> 00:05:59,390 She got it. 99 00:05:59,390 --> 00:05:59,950 Bang. 100 00:06:02,990 --> 00:06:08,910 That's what this verse means, going through the narrow gate. 101 00:06:08,910 --> 00:06:11,230 The gate that leads to destruction is broad. 102 00:06:11,390 --> 00:06:16,550 So I heard that interpretation all the time for a lot of the Christian 103 00:06:16,550 --> 00:06:18,030 circles in which I grew up. 104 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,440 The basics of what Christianity is about is that most 105 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:28,040 people are destined to go to this eternal place deservingly of 106 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:29,640 torment, punishment. 107 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:33,320 It's a just punishment for being born with sin. 108 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,080 Many people will end there. 109 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:45,680 Few people will enter into life because this Jesus showed up 110 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:50,320 on the scene, died for our sins, to open up a narrow gate and 111 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,440 a narrow road that leads to life. 112 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,720 That was kind of always Christianity's hammer. 113 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,040 You heard the phrase, I've said it before. 114 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,400 When you got a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail. 115 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:06,600 Here's my thing. 116 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,970 First of all, that's a poor representation of what the good news 117 00:07:12,970 --> 00:07:13,330 is. 118 00:07:14,530 --> 00:07:16,370 The good news is so much bigger. 119 00:07:17,410 --> 00:07:18,450 So Much bigger. 120 00:07:18,610 --> 00:07:21,610 I've told you before, in Luke chapter nine, Jesus sends out his 121 00:07:21,610 --> 00:07:22,170 disciples. 122 00:07:22,170 --> 00:07:22,850 Two by two. 123 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:24,210 They go to neighboring villages. 124 00:07:24,930 --> 00:07:27,570 Jesus gives them power and authority over demons. 125 00:07:27,570 --> 00:07:31,450 He tells them to go heal, go teach, go do this stuff that I'm 126 00:07:31,450 --> 00:07:31,730 about. 127 00:07:31,890 --> 00:07:34,130 They go do it, they come back. 128 00:07:34,130 --> 00:07:35,170 And it said that they. 129 00:07:36,090 --> 00:07:38,650 They proclaim the good news of God's kingdom. 130 00:07:38,650 --> 00:07:39,930 It's Luke, chapter nine. 131 00:07:40,570 --> 00:07:41,930 Is Jesus dead yet? 132 00:07:44,570 --> 00:07:48,850 Well, I guess the good news must be bigger because if they're 133 00:07:48,850 --> 00:07:52,690 proclaiming the good news of God's kingdom before he's dead, it 134 00:07:52,690 --> 00:07:53,610 must be bigger. 135 00:07:54,490 --> 00:07:55,770 And praise God, it is. 136 00:07:57,370 --> 00:08:00,690 Jesus says in Revelation, behold, I am making all things new. 137 00:08:00,690 --> 00:08:05,150 The good news is that Jesus has come here to renew this creation, 138 00:08:05,630 --> 00:08:07,710 to bring the kingdom of the heavens to earth. 139 00:08:08,190 --> 00:08:11,190 Ross, we've heard this so many times, we got to keep hearing it 140 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:13,950 because that other message is so prominent out there. 141 00:08:13,950 --> 00:08:16,270 That's why the name of our church is Heaven Earth. 142 00:08:16,270 --> 00:08:18,830 Jesus says the kingdom of the heavens has come near. 143 00:08:20,110 --> 00:08:24,630 He prays, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it 144 00:08:24,630 --> 00:08:25,390 is in heaven. 145 00:08:27,950 --> 00:08:35,150 Jesus comes to save this entire creation, to restore it, to 146 00:08:35,230 --> 00:08:39,830 drag evil kicking and screaming into the light, and to 147 00:08:39,830 --> 00:08:40,510 destroy it. 148 00:08:41,310 --> 00:08:44,830 Which means he'll destroy the evil that's taken over our hearts 149 00:08:44,830 --> 00:08:45,150 too. 150 00:08:46,270 --> 00:08:47,630 So it is part of it. 151 00:08:48,110 --> 00:08:49,310 We got some work to do. 152 00:08:49,310 --> 00:08:49,950 Did you know. 153 00:08:52,670 --> 00:08:55,910 And the reason I bring that up today is that when we take a verse 154 00:08:55,910 --> 00:09:01,680 like this, just reduce it to a heaven and hell version of Christianity 155 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:07,120 that's in a box that's about this big, we're actually making this 156 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,680 verse easier on ourselves. 157 00:09:12,759 --> 00:09:17,560 Because if that's not it, we got a hard question to ask of ourselves. 158 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:26,000 We have to ask ourselves what broad gates I going through in my 159 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:32,960 life right here, right now, and wide interstate roads am I traveling. 160 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,840 And I'm doing it so much all the time as my normal. 161 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,040 And those broad gates and those wide paved roads are doing 162 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,840 destruction and violence to my soul. 163 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,680 They are keeping me from the eternal kind of life that Jesus destined 164 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:53,480 for me to live right here and right now. 165 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:54,400 And yes, later. 166 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,560 Ross, you have no basis for this. 167 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,160 I did my homework. 168 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:03,840 Do you guys want to learn a little Greek today? 169 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,240 I knew you did. 170 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,560 That's why you came to church. 171 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:07,120 You were. 172 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,160 I can't wait. 173 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:09,440 Here's the word. 174 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,120 Say it with me. 175 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,240 Apuleia, you're going to tell your friends this week. 176 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,560 Hey, can I tell you about this word? 177 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:18,240 Say it again. 178 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,120 Apolea. 179 00:10:23,610 --> 00:10:25,250 One of the dudes that knows Greek. 180 00:10:25,250 --> 00:10:27,370 Best guy by the name of Bill Mount. 181 00:10:27,370 --> 00:10:29,850 Says it means destruction, ruin, or waste. 182 00:10:32,730 --> 00:10:35,530 So, for example, let me see if I got that in here. 183 00:10:35,530 --> 00:10:36,170 I do. 184 00:10:36,650 --> 00:10:37,490 Isn't that cool? 185 00:10:37,490 --> 00:10:38,250 No, I don't. 186 00:10:39,210 --> 00:10:39,890 No, I don't. 187 00:10:39,890 --> 00:10:40,490 I lied. 188 00:10:41,610 --> 00:10:42,330 Darn it. 189 00:10:42,810 --> 00:10:45,210 Sometimes you think you got it together and you just don't. 190 00:10:48,020 --> 00:10:48,380 Nope. 191 00:10:48,380 --> 00:10:49,500 Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. 192 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:49,820 There it is. 193 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:50,500 There's a question. 194 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:52,060 There's a story. 195 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:58,300 In Mark and Matthew, when a woman enters the room, Jesus is eating 196 00:10:58,300 --> 00:10:59,660 with Simon the leper. 197 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:02,580 Did I tell you today that Jesus specializes in weird? 198 00:11:04,180 --> 00:11:08,820 Nobody would go be next to a leper, let alone eat with them, because 199 00:11:08,820 --> 00:11:10,740 you would then be ritually unclean. 200 00:11:11,470 --> 00:11:12,990 Jesus is not worried about that. 201 00:11:12,990 --> 00:11:17,150 He came to heal the sick, so lepers were his friends. 202 00:11:19,550 --> 00:11:23,870 So he goes into this home, he's eating, having meal with Simon 203 00:11:23,870 --> 00:11:24,350 the leper. 204 00:11:25,150 --> 00:11:32,350 And this woman, how dare she interrupts the party, has this expensive 205 00:11:32,510 --> 00:11:38,590 jar, alabaster jar of perfume, and she breaks it, anoints Jesus 206 00:11:38,590 --> 00:11:39,390 head with it. 207 00:11:40,110 --> 00:11:48,510 An odd thing to do at supper, but she's excited about Jesus. 208 00:11:49,550 --> 00:11:53,429 Sometimes I think to myself, am I so nervous about how people 209 00:11:53,429 --> 00:11:58,030 will perceive my adoration of Jesus that I don't express it? 210 00:11:59,390 --> 00:12:00,830 She's not worried about that. 211 00:12:01,710 --> 00:12:04,900 She's like, I really appreciate this guy and I want him 212 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:05,420 to know it. 213 00:12:07,260 --> 00:12:10,380 And the disciples, they're so smart. 214 00:12:14,780 --> 00:12:15,940 I need to say it again. 215 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:22,500 Guys, three years they're with him, and they always say the wrong 216 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:22,860 thing. 217 00:12:23,980 --> 00:12:26,620 They always miss what the point is. 218 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:31,990 Always they get all sanctimonious. 219 00:12:33,110 --> 00:12:34,070 Do you know what that means? 220 00:12:34,070 --> 00:12:37,470 Like, when you want to show how you're right and righteous and 221 00:12:37,470 --> 00:12:44,390 holy and you want everybody else to see it, they go, jesus, why 222 00:12:44,390 --> 00:12:44,790 this? 223 00:12:45,030 --> 00:12:45,909 Say the word. 224 00:12:47,510 --> 00:12:50,390 Why this waste? 225 00:12:51,990 --> 00:12:54,870 We could have sold this perfume and given it to the poor. 226 00:12:56,220 --> 00:12:56,940 Sanctimonious. 227 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:03,380 Jesus knows they're going to spend their whole careers serving 228 00:13:03,380 --> 00:13:03,980 the poor. 229 00:13:06,460 --> 00:13:07,980 He's like, don't hate on her. 230 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:15,580 So that word gets used a lot of ways, and it doesn't equal hell. 231 00:13:15,580 --> 00:13:20,940 It literally means waste, destruction, ruin. 232 00:13:21,850 --> 00:13:26,650 And so I ask you now, again, and now I really want your feedback. 233 00:13:29,370 --> 00:13:35,210 What is your normal that's doing destruction to your soul? 234 00:13:37,610 --> 00:13:42,090 It's a broad gate in an interstate that has traveled widely, 235 00:13:43,370 --> 00:13:47,530 and you're traveling it, too, and it's doing violence to your soul. 236 00:13:49,630 --> 00:13:52,750 If you're new to us, I actually get feedback at this time. 237 00:13:53,150 --> 00:13:54,750 You can holler out an answer. 238 00:13:57,070 --> 00:13:58,030 Distractions. 239 00:13:59,950 --> 00:14:01,390 Crystal, we've been talking about. 240 00:14:01,390 --> 00:14:03,470 We're in a series called Eliminating Hurry. 241 00:14:03,549 --> 00:14:04,990 We've said distraction. 242 00:14:05,310 --> 00:14:06,070 Some people. 243 00:14:06,070 --> 00:14:07,230 I'm not in a hurry. 244 00:14:07,950 --> 00:14:11,790 I Sit in a comatose state on my couch at night watching my favorite 245 00:14:12,270 --> 00:14:14,270 Netflix show while I'm doom scrolling. 246 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,720 Anyone feel attacked right now? 247 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:23,600 I'm not in a hurry. 248 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,960 I'm like in a. I'm not doing distraction is hurry. 249 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,280 Remember we talked about that. 250 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,920 Because sometimes when we're distracting ourselves, we're running 251 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,880 in a hurried manner from our pain, from our misery, from our trauma. 252 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:43,220 We may not be using substances or alcohol. 253 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:44,580 We may be using those too. 254 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:47,940 We're trying to run in a hurried manner from our pain. 255 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:49,500 What else? 256 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:49,860 What? 257 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:50,980 Broad gate. 258 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:52,980 Worry. 259 00:14:55,380 --> 00:14:58,420 Worry is a normal road in our world, isn't it? 260 00:14:59,380 --> 00:15:01,300 So glad you mentioned that. 261 00:15:01,780 --> 00:15:02,820 That'll come up later. 262 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:03,540 What else? 263 00:15:04,580 --> 00:15:06,220 Interstate that you're traveling. 264 00:15:06,220 --> 00:15:07,780 Broad gate that you're entering through. 265 00:15:08,350 --> 00:15:09,510 It's widely traveled. 266 00:15:09,510 --> 00:15:11,470 It's normal in our neck of the woods. 267 00:15:11,470 --> 00:15:13,070 And it's doing violence to your soul. 268 00:15:16,430 --> 00:15:24,110 Nick Ann Bingus Pride. 269 00:15:26,830 --> 00:15:28,430 I'll just give an amen to that. 270 00:15:28,670 --> 00:15:39,170 Ego, age and pain, self doubt. 271 00:15:41,250 --> 00:15:42,970 Back to the age and pain thing. 272 00:15:42,970 --> 00:15:44,210 I don't think anyone. 273 00:15:44,210 --> 00:15:46,290 Any of us can avoid traveling that road. 274 00:15:46,290 --> 00:15:47,730 Has anyone figured that out yet? 275 00:15:48,130 --> 00:15:49,090 I think we're all. 276 00:15:49,090 --> 00:15:52,170 I think by the from the time you get here to the time you leave, 277 00:15:52,170 --> 00:15:53,490 you will have aged one hour. 278 00:15:54,210 --> 00:15:55,170 Can't avoid it. 279 00:15:56,850 --> 00:15:58,130 But perhaps. 280 00:15:58,130 --> 00:15:59,410 Sorry, did that hit too hard? 281 00:15:59,410 --> 00:15:59,970 I'm sorry. 282 00:16:00,050 --> 00:16:00,610 Sorry. 283 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:07,440 Yeah. 284 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,400 But what you may bring up is what is a wide road is our relationship 285 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:19,200 with our aging and our pain, our relationship with our mortality. 286 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:26,040 A lot of the reasons we're hurried, distracted, busy is because 287 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:27,600 we're running from our mortality. 288 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,560 We know our time is short and buddy, we're trying to avoid that 289 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:32,800 with everything we've got. 290 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:35,680 What else? 291 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:36,800 Wide road. 292 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,600 Wide, broad gate, easy to enter through. 293 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:44,960 We worry too much about fitting in. 294 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:45,839 We want to fit in. 295 00:16:45,839 --> 00:16:46,240 We want. 296 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,360 We don't want to not be one of the. 297 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,440 We want to sit at the cool kids lunch table. 298 00:16:55,770 --> 00:16:56,330 I don't. 299 00:16:56,330 --> 00:16:56,890 Okay. 300 00:16:57,290 --> 00:16:58,170 Right on, man. 301 00:16:58,810 --> 00:16:59,410 What else? 302 00:16:59,410 --> 00:17:00,330 Wide roads. 303 00:17:01,450 --> 00:17:02,330 People pleasing. 304 00:17:02,330 --> 00:17:03,690 I've never struggled with that. 305 00:17:03,690 --> 00:17:04,570 It must be tough. 306 00:17:06,250 --> 00:17:08,090 It's tough in the back. 307 00:17:13,530 --> 00:17:16,650 Stress about something we can't control. 308 00:17:16,650 --> 00:17:17,650 A wide road is. 309 00:17:17,650 --> 00:17:23,140 We desperately want to control our situations. 310 00:17:23,380 --> 00:17:25,540 We hate as most. 311 00:17:25,860 --> 00:17:26,540 Wide road. 312 00:17:26,540 --> 00:17:30,460 We hate uncertainty in our culture. 313 00:17:30,460 --> 00:17:34,500 Mystery is no mystery. 314 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:46,790 Joanna Best. 315 00:17:46,790 --> 00:17:48,190 And then like, I'll sit down. 316 00:17:58,190 --> 00:17:58,990 Analysis. 317 00:17:58,990 --> 00:17:59,870 Paralysis. 318 00:18:01,390 --> 00:18:02,870 You set up the whole plan. 319 00:18:02,870 --> 00:18:04,230 You've got everything mapped out. 320 00:18:04,230 --> 00:18:06,830 And it took you so long to map out the plan that you don't do it. 321 00:18:07,950 --> 00:18:08,670 What else? 322 00:18:10,430 --> 00:18:11,230 Depression. 323 00:18:11,710 --> 00:18:12,270 Yeah. 324 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:14,240 Alicia. 325 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,280 Doing enough. 326 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:21,040 Being enough. 327 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:23,920 The scarcity, mindset. 328 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:25,520 Joey. 329 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:27,360 Anger. 330 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:35,680 Road rage. 331 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,280 I Know somebody that I'm very close with. 332 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,240 Like, as close as you can be with another human in this life. 333 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:49,920 Joey. 334 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,080 It might have been her bro. 335 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:59,480 May have been, I don't know, crystal. 336 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:01,520 Self hatred. 337 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:01,960 Yeah. 338 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:02,760 Shame. 339 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:09,310 Shame is a very wide, wide gate in our time, especially if you 340 00:19:09,310 --> 00:19:10,190 come out of trauma. 341 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:15,110 A lot of people, many of us, carry with us shame out of trauma. 342 00:19:15,590 --> 00:19:18,230 It's not just, I don't feel good about this thing I did. 343 00:19:18,230 --> 00:19:19,510 I don't feel good about me. 344 00:19:20,629 --> 00:19:23,350 I saw another hand somewhere right there. 345 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,080 So, like, something about, like, yelling, for instance. 346 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:37,680 My dad's reel hurts me a lot. 347 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,680 And then I find myself yelling beside my mom, and it's really hard 348 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,040 for me to, like, rise above. 349 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,160 Yeah. 350 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:47,840 Yeah. 351 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,640 A wide gate that we pass through is we. 352 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,840 We repeat the patterns of our family system, our family of origin, 353 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,000 without examining them. 354 00:19:57,210 --> 00:20:01,770 So we just carry forward the tendencies that came from our system, 355 00:20:02,330 --> 00:20:07,450 and we don't step back and go, is that good for my soul, body, mind? 356 00:20:09,290 --> 00:20:10,170 Anybody else? 357 00:20:11,690 --> 00:20:12,250 Vanity? 358 00:20:12,890 --> 00:20:13,770 Yeah, for sure. 359 00:20:14,410 --> 00:20:16,010 Wide, wide gate. 360 00:20:17,690 --> 00:20:18,890 Oh, don't go there yet. 361 00:20:18,970 --> 00:20:19,530 Sorry. 362 00:20:19,850 --> 00:20:20,250 All right. 363 00:20:20,250 --> 00:20:21,130 We better keep going. 364 00:20:21,860 --> 00:20:22,180 Yeah. 365 00:20:26,180 --> 00:20:26,780 Obviously. 366 00:20:26,780 --> 00:20:29,060 We're in a series called the Eliminating Hurry. 367 00:20:29,060 --> 00:20:30,820 Paul, did you have your hand up, by the way? 368 00:20:31,460 --> 00:20:32,140 Are you good? 369 00:20:32,140 --> 00:20:32,660 Okay. 370 00:20:33,780 --> 00:20:35,220 One of the wide roads that we. 371 00:20:36,980 --> 00:20:38,180 Oh, I just got a text. 372 00:20:38,180 --> 00:20:39,060 This is a first. 373 00:20:39,940 --> 00:20:47,460 I got a text with an answer while I'm preaching cynicism. 374 00:20:50,220 --> 00:20:53,940 Oh, man, I could go on that one for a while. 375 00:20:53,940 --> 00:20:54,700 Stay on the. 376 00:20:54,860 --> 00:20:55,500 Stay on. 377 00:20:56,060 --> 00:20:57,260 No rabbit holes. 378 00:20:59,100 --> 00:20:59,660 Okay. 379 00:21:02,780 --> 00:21:06,500 A wide gate, interstate, that so many of us. 380 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:07,740 Of us travel is this. 381 00:21:09,660 --> 00:21:13,260 This busy, hurried, distracted life. 382 00:21:15,790 --> 00:21:19,550 And it's connected, seriously, to all the things you just mentioned. 383 00:21:21,870 --> 00:21:22,590 All of it. 384 00:21:24,110 --> 00:21:25,830 Something that in the book. 385 00:21:25,830 --> 00:21:30,430 His book, Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer, we work 386 00:21:31,150 --> 00:21:35,310 more than I believe the data says than anyone Americans do. 387 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,000 We don't take Sabbath days off. 388 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,200 We don't have days of rest, boundary days of rest. 389 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,520 We go and go and go. 390 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,720 We distract, distract, distract, escape. 391 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,600 And it's doing violence to our souls. 392 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,080 We're doing so much that we don't have any connection with our 393 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,510 being, the One who made our being. 394 00:22:11,750 --> 00:22:15,190 And so, oddly, as John Ortberg says. 395 00:22:15,190 --> 00:22:16,070 Listen to this. 396 00:22:16,150 --> 00:22:17,990 This quote gets me. 397 00:22:17,990 --> 00:22:18,550 Whoo. 398 00:22:20,150 --> 00:22:23,310 On the one hand, sorry. 399 00:22:23,310 --> 00:22:25,270 Ortberg says this for many of us. 400 00:22:25,270 --> 00:22:26,150 Did I put it in here? 401 00:22:26,150 --> 00:22:27,030 I think I did. 402 00:22:27,910 --> 00:22:28,390 Bam. 403 00:22:29,750 --> 00:22:32,390 For many of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce 404 00:22:32,390 --> 00:22:33,030 our faith. 405 00:22:33,250 --> 00:22:36,810 It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied 406 00:22:36,810 --> 00:22:39,490 that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. 407 00:22:43,650 --> 00:22:47,490 We will Just skim our lives instead of actually living them. 408 00:22:52,850 --> 00:22:56,250 Listen, folks, I've heard many people who are struggling with faith 409 00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:57,890 and religion, and it's real. 410 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:02,460 They've come from an experience that made faith really, 411 00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:03,500 really difficult. 412 00:23:04,620 --> 00:23:08,860 They've come from a past that makes being in a church really hard, 413 00:23:11,340 --> 00:23:12,060 full stop. 414 00:23:13,660 --> 00:23:19,260 And I hear a lot of folks that are telling me about one thing, I 415 00:23:19,260 --> 00:23:19,980 do it, too. 416 00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:23,500 They're telling me about their struggle, and this is it. 417 00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:27,990 They're not disillusioned with faith. 418 00:23:29,110 --> 00:23:33,350 They're disappointed with the mediocre version of faith that they're 419 00:23:33,350 --> 00:23:33,670 living. 420 00:23:37,110 --> 00:23:41,790 They're treating faith as a hobby, something to dabble in when 421 00:23:41,790 --> 00:23:47,310 you've got extra time, and they're just skimming the surface 422 00:23:47,310 --> 00:23:47,670 of it. 423 00:23:47,670 --> 00:23:49,430 And why isn't this working? 424 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:02,000 And so that's why this week, we're starting to talk more about 425 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,200 the solution to all this. 426 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,600 Some of you are like, God, get to the solution already. 427 00:24:05,679 --> 00:24:06,520 Ross, we get it. 428 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:07,280 We got a problem. 429 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:12,240 Hey, before I get to it again, do you accept that you got a problem? 430 00:24:20,170 --> 00:24:21,610 The 12 steps teaches it. 431 00:24:21,610 --> 00:24:22,810 Jesus taught it first. 432 00:24:23,610 --> 00:24:30,050 The first step is moving out of denial to acceptance and saying, 433 00:24:30,050 --> 00:24:32,890 I need a power greater than me. 434 00:24:34,250 --> 00:24:36,210 And with this one, folks, it is true. 435 00:24:36,210 --> 00:24:37,770 Our willpower won't be enough. 436 00:24:39,050 --> 00:24:39,770 It won't. 437 00:24:42,980 --> 00:24:45,900 Just like the alcoholic we've had in our meeting so many times, 438 00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:50,500 or the addict who wanted sobriety so bad and their willpower 439 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:53,220 wasn't enough because the sickness was too tough. 440 00:24:54,820 --> 00:24:57,460 So the first step was acceptance and then surrender. 441 00:24:57,460 --> 00:24:59,220 So that's what the solution starts with. 442 00:24:59,220 --> 00:25:02,420 Today, I want to give a. I want to hand out two things today, 443 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:05,620 and we're going to keep talking about the solution the next 444 00:25:05,620 --> 00:25:06,180 couple weeks. 445 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:12,580 On the one hand, I want to tell you that the solution to our 446 00:25:12,580 --> 00:25:22,340 problem is certainly a spiritual one, like what we're going 447 00:25:22,419 --> 00:25:26,820 through, if we're going to be healed of the sickness of busyness, 448 00:25:27,140 --> 00:25:30,700 the hurried life, the distraction, which is so normal in 449 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:34,110 our culture, we have to start with our spirits. 450 00:25:35,230 --> 00:25:40,550 We have to seek a spiritual solution from God to transform us 451 00:25:40,550 --> 00:25:41,550 from the inside out. 452 00:25:41,550 --> 00:25:43,550 Our willpower is not going to be enough. 453 00:25:45,230 --> 00:25:49,630 And already, my friends, acceptance is a narrow gate. 454 00:25:50,190 --> 00:25:51,150 Are you with me? 455 00:25:51,310 --> 00:25:53,470 Because denial is the broad gate. 456 00:25:54,670 --> 00:25:57,390 We talk a lot about the four rooms of change in here. 457 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,280 It goes contentment, denial, confusion, renewal. 458 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,800 Contentment, denial, confusion, renewal. 459 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,120 You can't skip to renewal. 460 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:07,000 We try hard. 461 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,480 We want to get to the solution right now. 462 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,600 So we leap to action with the gimmicks, the quick fixes. 463 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,080 We want to leap straight from the problem to the renewal. 464 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:23,160 We have to go from denial, the denial room to the confusion room. 465 00:26:24,980 --> 00:26:25,460 Yay. 466 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:31,260 Do you like confusion, man? 467 00:26:31,260 --> 00:26:34,260 I've seen it on so many people's faces in recovery church. 468 00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:40,740 They've accepted that they have a problem for which willpower 469 00:26:40,740 --> 00:26:41,540 won't be enough. 470 00:26:41,940 --> 00:26:45,380 And you can see the confusion on their faces and in their bodies. 471 00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:47,220 They're having a hard time. 472 00:26:47,220 --> 00:26:51,250 I'm rejoicing because I know they've made the step that makes 473 00:26:51,250 --> 00:26:52,250 everything else possible. 474 00:26:55,370 --> 00:26:59,610 For many of us, we're hurrying because we hate confusion. 475 00:27:00,970 --> 00:27:01,690 We heard it. 476 00:27:01,690 --> 00:27:03,130 I told you, all these things are related. 477 00:27:03,370 --> 00:27:04,330 We want control. 478 00:27:04,810 --> 00:27:05,850 We want results. 479 00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:07,530 We want to lead to action. 480 00:27:07,530 --> 00:27:09,370 We want to get to renewal right now. 481 00:27:10,810 --> 00:27:12,250 And so we're like, I'm changing. 482 00:27:12,250 --> 00:27:12,970 It's game over. 483 00:27:13,130 --> 00:27:14,690 I'm changing this time, Ross. 484 00:27:14,690 --> 00:27:15,690 You're not going to stop me. 485 00:27:15,690 --> 00:27:18,000 Watch changing. 486 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:18,880 It's happening. 487 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,160 And the rubber band effect starts happening. 488 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:23,440 You ever heard of that? 489 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,200 You in the present, the future, you're trying to get it. 490 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:27,760 Get to. 491 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:28,880 There's a rubber band. 492 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,960 Stretch, stretch, stretch, stretch, stretch, stretch, stretch. 493 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:34,920 Harder, harder, harder. 494 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,160 More confusion, more confusion. 495 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:36,880 Oh, it's stressful. 496 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:37,640 I hate confusion. 497 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,320 I want certainty. 498 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:38,920 I want the results. 499 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:47,690 Now you get sucked back to the comfort of what you've always known. 500 00:27:50,490 --> 00:27:51,330 We need help. 501 00:27:51,330 --> 00:27:52,570 It's a spiritual one. 502 00:27:55,690 --> 00:28:02,810 We need Jesus to come into our hearts because he has come near, 503 00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:06,490 guys, to bring the eternal to us. 504 00:28:06,490 --> 00:28:10,690 And he is inviting us into this eternal reality, this eternal 505 00:28:10,690 --> 00:28:13,570 kind of life we can live right here, right now, not letting our 506 00:28:13,570 --> 00:28:16,470 lives, our beautiful God created lives, go to waste. 507 00:28:19,190 --> 00:28:21,590 He doesn't want to see our lives go to waste. 508 00:28:21,590 --> 00:28:25,550 He doesn't want us to contribute to the waste that's destroying 509 00:28:25,550 --> 00:28:29,830 our earth, destroying people, destroying our neighbors. 510 00:28:32,710 --> 00:28:40,230 So full stop, you might be saying, ross, I need practical stuff 511 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:42,240 for my life. 512 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,840 We're gonna keep doing that. 513 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:52,000 We're going to, but we need this. 514 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,880 So before I do the practical thing, another minute of silence 515 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:08,940 with just you and God and the people around you, offer your silent 516 00:29:08,940 --> 00:29:14,940 prayer to God about whatever it may be, whatever it may be in 517 00:29:14,940 --> 00:29:20,260 this time, because I want to honor that the help we need is spiritual 518 00:29:20,260 --> 00:29:21,380 first and foremost. 519 00:29:31,870 --> 00:29:32,110 It. 520 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:05,800 Amen. 521 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:07,680 All right. 522 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,880 We're going to start talking more practically, too. 523 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,480 By the way, the solution is not more time to our hurried, distractive 524 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:14,760 lives. 525 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,920 And you're going to be like, man, if I just had eight more hours 526 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:17,560 in the day. 527 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:19,720 You ever said that. 528 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:22,680 Guess what? 529 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:23,960 If we had more time. 530 00:30:24,910 --> 00:30:27,550 We do to that what we're already doing with the time we Got. 531 00:30:29,310 --> 00:30:29,830 Let me. 532 00:30:29,830 --> 00:30:31,750 I'll just eliminate that suspense for you. 533 00:30:31,750 --> 00:30:33,150 The solution is not more time. 534 00:30:34,030 --> 00:30:37,230 The solution is spiritual and it's super practical. 535 00:30:37,230 --> 00:30:39,910 It's slowing down and simplifying our lives around what 536 00:30:39,910 --> 00:30:40,350 matters. 537 00:30:42,750 --> 00:30:43,470 Everybody good? 538 00:30:43,630 --> 00:30:45,150 Good to go home and do that now. 539 00:30:47,390 --> 00:30:49,270 Just go home and this is it. 540 00:30:49,270 --> 00:30:50,030 Just do it. 541 00:30:55,630 --> 00:30:57,230 Slowing down and simplifying our lives. 542 00:30:57,790 --> 00:31:02,030 We have to part of accepting that we have the next step of acceptance. 543 00:31:02,670 --> 00:31:04,110 So we accept we have a problem. 544 00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:05,470 We know we need a spiritual. 545 00:31:05,470 --> 00:31:06,750 We need something greater than ourselves. 546 00:31:06,750 --> 00:31:08,670 We need the power of Jesus to intervene. 547 00:31:08,990 --> 00:31:12,590 But we also have to accept this is part two of the message today. 548 00:31:12,590 --> 00:31:14,110 Accept our limitations. 549 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:19,640 Celebrate them. 550 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,840 In his book the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, he talks about, 551 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,960 like, all these limitations we have that we actually have to embrace. 552 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:35,640 Limitations of time, limitations of gifting, limitations 553 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,160 from our family of origin. 554 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,640 Part of what we have to do is say, I. 555 00:31:42,450 --> 00:31:45,490 As much as our world teaches, we have to experience it all. 556 00:31:45,490 --> 00:31:46,690 We have to do it all. 557 00:31:48,770 --> 00:31:51,970 Actually, I'm gonna say something that's really just blasphemous. 558 00:31:52,770 --> 00:31:56,690 Listen, you actually cannot do everything you put your mind to. 559 00:31:59,010 --> 00:32:00,210 Does that hurt your feelings? 560 00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:04,370 You can't and you shouldn't. 561 00:32:07,250 --> 00:32:08,370 Listen to this, you guys. 562 00:32:08,370 --> 00:32:09,170 This is crazy. 563 00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:12,180 There was this man. 564 00:32:12,420 --> 00:32:13,620 His name was Jesus. 565 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:17,620 Listen to how he lived his life. 566 00:32:18,740 --> 00:32:19,380 Listen. 567 00:32:20,820 --> 00:32:24,060 First of all, he accepted a pretty big fat limitation. 568 00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:27,620 He emptied himself as divinity and took the form of a servant. 569 00:32:27,940 --> 00:32:29,380 Would you say that's a limitation? 570 00:32:31,540 --> 00:32:34,500 He accepted the limitation of living in a human body. 571 00:32:39,230 --> 00:32:40,270 He Listen to this. 572 00:32:40,590 --> 00:32:45,830 Jesus spent 99% of his life in an area of small villages and towns 573 00:32:45,830 --> 00:32:47,230 around a freshwater lake. 574 00:32:47,710 --> 00:32:49,710 99% of his life. 575 00:32:53,230 --> 00:32:55,390 You can't change the world doing that, can you? 576 00:32:57,150 --> 00:33:01,550 He spent 99% of his life in some backwater small town where a 577 00:33:01,550 --> 00:33:02,750 bunch of rejects lived. 578 00:33:06,070 --> 00:33:07,750 Do you think he accepted his limitations? 579 00:33:10,390 --> 00:33:13,190 He spent something like 90% of his life. 580 00:33:13,350 --> 00:33:14,150 Wait for it. 581 00:33:14,710 --> 00:33:16,710 Not in active ministry. 582 00:33:19,190 --> 00:33:22,630 90% of his life, he was just working a job. 583 00:33:23,750 --> 00:33:25,510 He was a carpenter, an artisan. 584 00:33:27,190 --> 00:33:29,510 He grew up like a child, as we do. 585 00:33:30,070 --> 00:33:31,430 He went through adolescence. 586 00:33:31,510 --> 00:33:31,990 Yuck. 587 00:33:35,990 --> 00:33:38,390 And he spent grueling hours learning a trade. 588 00:33:38,950 --> 00:33:41,710 Even when he was in his ministry, he invested most of his 589 00:33:41,710 --> 00:33:44,310 time and energy in a handful of core relationships. 590 00:33:49,270 --> 00:33:50,310 Jesus did that. 591 00:33:52,150 --> 00:33:55,750 When he did something miraculous, he did this weird thing. 592 00:33:55,750 --> 00:33:57,430 He told people to keep it a secret. 593 00:34:00,540 --> 00:34:03,100 How many of us, deep down, want to be popular and famous? 594 00:34:06,140 --> 00:34:06,940 Not me. 595 00:34:07,180 --> 00:34:08,420 I don't want to be a star. 596 00:34:08,420 --> 00:34:09,900 I don't want to be the center of attention. 597 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:10,540 Good for you. 598 00:34:13,660 --> 00:34:14,540 It's in Me. 599 00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:17,580 It's true. 600 00:34:19,660 --> 00:34:23,540 Jesus said, don't tell anybody about it, accepted his limitations. 601 00:34:23,540 --> 00:34:25,140 He fasted for 40 days. 602 00:34:25,140 --> 00:34:26,380 He practiced Sabbath. 603 00:34:28,169 --> 00:34:33,169 How many of you think it's even possible to have a 24 hour boundary 604 00:34:33,169 --> 00:34:36,409 space where you don't have any productivity? 605 00:34:36,969 --> 00:34:40,809 You look at no emails, you don't do any social media. 606 00:34:41,369 --> 00:34:45,609 You have an intentional 24 hour period of rest and enjoyment 607 00:34:47,049 --> 00:34:48,729 with some core relationships. 608 00:34:50,729 --> 00:34:54,569 How many of you, hey, we, this is a safe space. 609 00:34:54,569 --> 00:34:55,929 How many of you are doing that right now? 610 00:34:56,969 --> 00:35:04,809 24 hour period of no emails, no social media, no work, no productivity, 611 00:35:05,049 --> 00:35:08,569 intentional rest, relationships, joy. 612 00:35:13,209 --> 00:35:14,569 Did I say we got a problem? 613 00:35:20,420 --> 00:35:22,900 I got way more to talk about than I can get to today. 614 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:25,180 So I need to accept my limitations right now, don't I? 615 00:35:25,180 --> 00:35:31,700 Amanda, I could turn a two minute speech into a 45 minute one, 616 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:32,260 I swear. 617 00:35:35,380 --> 00:35:37,700 Listen, I have one more story, then I have a question, then we'll 618 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:38,660 be done, okay? 619 00:35:39,140 --> 00:35:40,860 Yesterday I practiced Sabbath. 620 00:35:40,860 --> 00:35:42,020 I've not been good at it. 621 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:49,770 I'm not, but I've been doing it more my screen time this week, 622 00:35:49,770 --> 00:35:52,330 guys, my average screen time was under four hours. 623 00:35:53,050 --> 00:35:57,450 Some of you, like Ross, you need help where it's been. 624 00:35:58,250 --> 00:35:59,050 That's a win. 625 00:36:01,290 --> 00:36:03,370 I wasn't around my phone for most of the day. 626 00:36:03,370 --> 00:36:06,890 We went out to the apple orchard in Pleasant View. 627 00:36:06,890 --> 00:36:08,570 Jesus is from a town like that. 628 00:36:09,940 --> 00:36:10,660 Not exactly. 629 00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:18,420 And I was so fully present, you guys, and my soul was going, 630 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:19,420 oh man. 631 00:36:19,420 --> 00:36:25,300 Do you feel that I was seeing God in all of the ordinary things? 632 00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:32,100 Even as I was sweating profusely because did you know it's 633 00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:32,980 been hot and humid? 634 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:38,590 We wanted to pick some apples and we were down to the last group 635 00:36:38,590 --> 00:36:40,030 of trees we could pick from. 636 00:36:40,510 --> 00:36:42,990 And of course we said, where are those trees, sir? 637 00:36:43,070 --> 00:36:44,270 He's like, they're over there. 638 00:36:44,270 --> 00:36:47,190 And oh, by the way, you have to go to the trees all the way in 639 00:36:47,190 --> 00:36:48,350 the back of that row. 640 00:36:49,710 --> 00:36:52,110 I'm like, okay, cool. 641 00:36:56,590 --> 00:36:58,030 I was so present though. 642 00:36:58,830 --> 00:37:04,730 My mind is healing, my soul is healing from being distracted, Hurried. 643 00:37:06,010 --> 00:37:10,330 So I was fully present and I watched as my two older ones ran 644 00:37:10,330 --> 00:37:11,690 down the row of the orchard. 645 00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:17,930 And it was so holy, so sacred. 646 00:37:21,130 --> 00:37:26,010 And it's been there all along, all along. 647 00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:33,460 And so I'm tasting what this eternal kind of life is like. 648 00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:36,620 Because it ain't over yet. 649 00:37:36,620 --> 00:37:37,820 This battle ain't over. 650 00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:39,540 That broad gate is waiting for me. 651 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:41,060 That broad road is right there. 652 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:43,820 So here's what I want to ask you. 653 00:37:43,820 --> 00:37:44,900 We have five more minutes. 654 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:45,940 I'm going to take them. 655 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:48,500 I want you to think about, write it down on a phone. 656 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:50,420 Whatever you got to do, write it down in your mind. 657 00:37:50,420 --> 00:37:52,420 If I were slick, I would have had paper for you. 658 00:37:52,420 --> 00:37:53,620 I don't get over it. 659 00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:58,350 So what are the three things that are most important to you? 660 00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:00,670 Take a minute to think about that. 661 00:38:04,830 --> 00:38:06,590 What is most important to you? 662 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:32,440 What is the most? 663 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:38,520 These are the things that you value the most or you wish you valued 664 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:39,000 the most. 665 00:39:08,690 --> 00:39:11,650 How we spend our time is how we spend our lives. 666 00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:19,220 What do you value the most? 667 00:39:19,620 --> 00:39:21,780 What is the most important thing to you? 668 00:39:21,780 --> 00:39:23,460 What are the most important things? 669 00:39:54,910 --> 00:39:55,590 Because of time. 670 00:39:55,590 --> 00:39:59,830 I'm not going to ask you to share back what you wrote down, but 671 00:39:59,830 --> 00:40:02,350 I do would like to see a show of hands. 672 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,160 How many of you on your list? 673 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:07,840 We're almost done. 674 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,400 Put you on the list. 675 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:25,240 All right, Now, I don't do this often, so I'm going to use one 676 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:28,000 of my few times I got to do this. 677 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,530 All of you need to put you on that list. 678 00:40:33,370 --> 00:40:34,090 All of you. 679 00:40:38,650 --> 00:40:43,850 Because until we do, until we see how important we are to God, 680 00:40:43,850 --> 00:40:48,890 we're going to keep hurrying, we're going to keep busying ourselves. 681 00:40:49,690 --> 00:40:52,890 We're going to approach life with scarcity, with a sense of self 682 00:40:52,890 --> 00:40:55,370 doubt and insecurity that's going to run rampant and it's going 683 00:40:55,370 --> 00:40:56,090 to destroy us. 684 00:41:00,020 --> 00:41:03,220 Jesus came to this earth and drew near to you because you are 685 00:41:03,220 --> 00:41:03,660 valued. 686 00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:07,380 He didn't draw near so that you could like, earn a spot with 687 00:41:07,380 --> 00:41:07,700 him. 688 00:41:10,900 --> 00:41:13,780 And so strangely, when we slow down our lives. 689 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:16,940 I've been doing extended stillness and silence, you guys. 690 00:41:16,940 --> 00:41:22,340 Like I said, I'm hearing how just sitting in a spot and doing 691 00:41:22,340 --> 00:41:22,820 nothing. 692 00:41:25,730 --> 00:41:27,490 Sitting there, still doing nothing. 693 00:41:29,890 --> 00:41:30,290 Enough. 694 00:41:30,530 --> 00:41:39,890 Elisha said it, if I achieve nothing, God feels the same about 695 00:41:39,890 --> 00:41:40,290 me. 696 00:41:41,090 --> 00:41:45,330 We've said it before, when God said to Jesus, the voice of the Father 697 00:41:45,330 --> 00:41:46,210 came upon Jesus. 698 00:41:46,210 --> 00:41:48,770 This is my son, in whom I'm well pleased. 699 00:41:49,140 --> 00:41:50,820 Had Jesus done any ministry yet? 700 00:41:51,620 --> 00:41:52,180 Zip. 701 00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:55,300 Zip. 702 00:41:57,460 --> 00:42:01,940 Until we see how valued we are in God's eyes before we have done 703 00:42:01,940 --> 00:42:05,780 anything, we will continue to run around trying to achieve something, 704 00:42:05,860 --> 00:42:06,900 to gain our worth. 705 00:42:09,700 --> 00:42:17,590 So put yourself on the list, simplify and slow down your life 706 00:42:17,590 --> 00:42:18,350 around that. 707 00:42:21,390 --> 00:42:22,750 The next two weeks, we're gonna. 708 00:42:22,750 --> 00:42:25,710 We're gonna keep talking about the solution to this next three weeks. 709 00:42:25,950 --> 00:42:27,950 So we're just getting a start. 710 00:42:29,230 --> 00:42:30,429 Okay, let's pray. 711 00:42:30,429 --> 00:42:33,030 And then we're gonna sing one song, one more song to end for the 712 00:42:33,030 --> 00:42:33,310 day. 713 00:42:36,030 --> 00:42:37,790 God, our willpower is not enough. 714 00:42:38,030 --> 00:42:38,910 We know that. 715 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,160 And so help us intervene. 716 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:55,280 Give us power and might from heaven to slow down and simplify 717 00:42:55,280 --> 00:43:02,840 our lives around what matters, giving us awareness and courage to 718 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,480 face and accept our limitations. 719 00:43:08,610 --> 00:43:09,810 Bless us in these things. 720 00:43:11,010 --> 00:43:12,850 In Jesus name, Amen. 721 00:43:15,490 --> 00:43:19,930 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 722 00:43:19,930 --> 00:43:21,010 Earth Church. 723 00:43:21,569 --> 00:43:26,850 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 724 00:43:27,890 --> 00:43:32,410 Eastern Time, either at the main campus at 309 East Main in Whiteland, 725 00:43:32,410 --> 00:43:36,440 Indiana or online at YouTube Live. 726 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:44,000 That's@YouTube.com heavenerthchurch the audio podcast 727 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,560 is always available at Apple Podcast and on Spotify. 728 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:54,280 You can help others find out about the Heaven Earth Church podcast 729 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,410 by going to Apple Podcasts and or Spotify and leaving a five star 730 00:43:59,410 --> 00:44:01,010 rating annual review. 731 00:44:01,810 --> 00:44:05,730 Instructions on how to do just that and links are in the show notes. 732 00:44:06,770 --> 00:44:12,370 You can always find out more by going to the church website heavenearthchurch.org 733 00:44:13,410 --> 00:44:13,690 we. 734 00:44:13,690 --> 00:44:15,890 Want to thank you for spending time with us today. 735 00:44:16,050 --> 00:44:19,410 My name is Ross Stackhouse, the Pastor to Heaven Earth Church 736 00:44:19,810 --> 00:44:23,130 and you may think out there that your story is over, but in fact 737 00:44:23,130 --> 00:44:26,220 your faith story may just be beginning. 738 00:44:26,540 --> 00:44:29,300 If you want more information about our church or you're interested 739 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:33,700 in a next step, you can go to heavenearthchurch.org otherwise we 740 00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:36,940 look forward to being with you next time at the Heaven Earth Church 741 00:44:36,940 --> 00:44:37,580 Podcast.