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Turn to Mark chapter six this morning.

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Verse 30,  mark.

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Chapter six.

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And the apostles returned to Jesus
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done and taught, and he said to
them, come away by yourselves to

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a desolate place and rest a while.

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For many were coming and

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.Going, and they had no leisure even
to eat, and they went away in the boat

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to a desolate place by themselves.

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This is the word of the Lord Amen.

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. Guys, in , first John four, eight,
John writes about God,  God is love.

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Not that God has love.

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Or that God is loving at times or that
God likes or that God, depending on

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the circumstances and situations, will
act loving or have love, but that God

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in his very essence is love in the
core of his being, the triune God,

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the uncaused cause the eternal one.

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Before the beginning of creation, before
molecules and atoms, God is loved.

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Before you were born, before you accepted
him as savior in your heart and went down

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to the altar or before, for the 30th time,
you rededicated a previous rededication.

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God is love.

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Before He said, let there be light.

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God is love.

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Before angels were created to
minister before his holy presence.

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God is love.

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It's of his very essence.

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It's of his being.

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Now, it's very important that we
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because love needs an object, and if
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there has to be an object to love.

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There has to be that giving.

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If that is your essence, then
love has to be demonstrated.

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over and over again.

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It's like taking a breath, breathing
in, and then breathing out like

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we are breathing creatures.

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We inhale and we exhale.

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We try to stop that.

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We die the same way.

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God's essence is love, and so he
receives love and then he puts love out.

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So how does that work
for an eternal being?

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from time passed before
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think about that.

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Never a beginning.

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The father doted on the son
said, man, you're amazing.

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You're so great.

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I love you.

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And the son's like, no, dad, you're great.

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I love you.

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The spirit's like the sun.

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He just loved you.

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That's amazing.

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I love you both.

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And that rhythm and that dance.

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It's existed from eternity past.

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God is love.

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That is the environment of the godhood.

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Never selfish.

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No.

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Never envious each one out doing the
other and showing honor and glory.

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Father, I want to give you glory.

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The son's like, I wanna reflect it back.

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You get more glory.

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The spirit's like you both get glory and
they're all like group hugging in this

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rhythm and in this dance for eternity.

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Why did God make man?

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Not because he lacked anything,

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but cuz he said, let's widen the circle.

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You were built in his image
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You were built?

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To receive and to reflect his essence.

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What is his essence?

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God is love.

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God is love.

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You were built for it.

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So he, in the same way as he dotes
on the Father, he dotes on you.

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And we were built in the cool of
day walking in the guard and we were

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to do back on him to be worshipers.

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You are amazing.

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God.

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He's like, I made you in my
image and you are very good.

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That's what he said at the
beginning of Christians.

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It's very good.

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The son's like, thank you father.

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Like he, Ephesians one tells us that
he gave us for the son, so that the

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son might be glorified so that there
might be worshipers of the son and then

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the son is like, no, we can't stop.

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I want the father to be glorified.

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And so as we are even saved before
the foundation of the world, it's to

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bring us into this circle and into
this rhythm of God being love, that

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we might not only receive it, but
that we might give it back to him.

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And  we might give it to others.

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God is love.

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It's a real love fest.

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this idea, it's just people just
think of loving all the time, do we?

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Would any of us hate to be a part of that?

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we crave it because that's
what we've been built for.

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To received and then to reflect that
love back in that rhythm of outdoing

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one another, to give glory to the
father Romans tells us in Romans 1215

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to outdo one another and showing honor.

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do you understand?

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He's literally saying you're part of
a dance now, and the way that you stay

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in this dance is you do what me and my
father have been doing from eternity past.

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God is love a love fest.

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So Jesus even said, it's
not your doctrinal thesis.

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It's not your strength of belief.

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It's not your, amount of miracles.

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It's not, your martyrdom.

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It's not, you giving everything
you have to the poor that

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proves that you're my disciples.

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It's the love fest you have between each
other that you let my love so invade.

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Your lives and your hearts and
your souls, and then that spills

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over to everybody in here, that the
world will say What is going on?

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We have to hear the gospel to make sense
of your lives, One of the most stunning,

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shockingly clear things we learned from
the Bible is that Almighty God, the

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eternally divine, sovereign, the creator,
and the sustainer of all things loves you.

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really loves you, like mad about you.

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this transcendent God really loves you.

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He's crazy about you.

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And we must never lose the
breathtaking grandeur of this ever.

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We must not even miss one note of
his love song to us, the sweetest

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symphony in the whole universe.

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it is the song that plays whether you're
out walking, we were just in Tahoe

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and there's wind whistling through
the trees, and you hear the bark kind

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of bending under the weight of it.

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That's the song that's playing.

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Yeah.

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That's the song that
Creation wants to sing to us.

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It's like you are the beloved.

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What, like it's not just
clapping for redemption.

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It's saying, guys, don't
you know who you are?

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Don't you know that God has
shown his favor upon you?

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We remember in Ephesians one, and I hope
this settles into your soul, Ephesians

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one, four to five, even before he made the
world, God loved us and chose us in Christ

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to be holy and without fault in his eyes,
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his own family by bringing us to himself.

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Through Jesus Christ, this
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And it gave him great pleasure.

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God didn't have to save you.

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God saw you down through the corridor
time and said, I want to save you.

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I hope we know that.

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But sitting in these seats in the
specific time and place, he adores us.

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He loves us.

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Lavishly, mercifully,
radically, fully, completely.

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He's not holding anything back from you.

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I hope we know that.

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You have the full and complete
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life, his face toward you.

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And it is not hidden in the slightest bit.

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There is no shadow in him.

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There is no smirk on his face.

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It is a smile above your life because
of Jesus from the very beginning.

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You've been built to, be with God,
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to be loved by God and to love God.

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Nothing  else in heaven.

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Above or in earth below can
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God created and designed us to flourish
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pleasure and satisfaction when we
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The vine and the branches.

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John 15, four to five Abide in me and I
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by itself unless it abides in the vine.

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Neither can you unless you abide in me.

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I am the vine.

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You are the branches.

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Whoever abides in me
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That bears much fruit.

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For apart from me, you can do nothing.

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This is a picture of living intimately
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next, and then the fruit comes.

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This is the God of the Bible.

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He's a God who wants to be with us
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and he's pursuing us to that end.

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Every moment of the day, he's behold
I stand at the door and knock.

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Let's come in and let's eat some food.

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I wanna feast with you.

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I wanna come near to you.

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He says, draw near to me
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One of the sad things is that
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but never with Jesus, right?

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Judas was one of the 12 who was
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But every soul was built to be with
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People wonder why people take drugs.

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People wonder why people steal.

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People wonder why.

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People sleep around.

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People wonder why people are greedy and
rich and climb the corporate ladder.

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People wonder why pastors
abuse their authority.

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It's all the bottom
line, every single thing.

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The root of it is every soul was built to
God and it is restless until it has him.

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We're all looking for fulfillment
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God is the only one that can satisfy
and we'll all testify He does.

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He is the cup of cold water that when
you drink it, you'll never thirst again.

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Psalm 63, 1 says, oh God, you are my God.

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I earnestly searched for
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My whole body longs for you and
is parched in where he land.

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Where there is no water, Psalm 1 43, 6.

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I lift my hands to you in prayer.

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I thirst for you as a
parched land thirst for rain.

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Psalm 42, 1 to two is the Dear
Longs for streams of water.

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So I long for you.

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Oh God.

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I thirst for the God, the living God.

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When can I go and stand before him?

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And I love in the Old Testament,
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And now what does the New Testament say?

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He says, inter wombly, you
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In fact, he comes and
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Every soul longs to be with God.

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And when we are with him closely and
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Here's your testimony.

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Here's when you know,
here's the barometer.

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Here's the thermometer that you throw
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Psalm 63, 3.

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Because your steadfast love is better
than life, my lips will praise you

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and that you can throw that into
any circumstance in your life.

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Your steadfast love is better than life.

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My lips will praise you, and there are
times where you don't want to throw it in.

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There are times where you're bitter
at God and you're angry or you are

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confused and you don't understand.

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But that  is true of any circumstance
in life and the circumstance

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the Psalm was written out of
was a terrible circumstance.

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Psalm 1611, you make known to me
the path of life and your presence.

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There is fullness of joy at your
right hand are pleasures forever.

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More.

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God is constantly pursuing
us to this wonderful end.

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Even this morning he's calling us.

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In fact, the whole narrative of the Bible
is about God going after us, isn't it?

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You go back to the garden for a moment
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Adam and Eve sinned, the fall happens.

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They believe the serpents lie.

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God calls out to them?

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Where are you physically?

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God knows exactly where
they're cuz he is God.

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What God was asking was, where
are you in relation to me?

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Where are you in relation to me?

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Why are you hiding?

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Where are you in relation to me?

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And I think God wants to ask
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Where are we in relation to God?

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What comes between you
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And I don't really want to talk
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We all, and I'll just put myself there,
have turned it one time or another to

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the pleasures of sin for a season to
try to satiate the appetites of the

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soul that longs for God with worthless
things, the base things, sinful habits.

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It's like drinking salt water.

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, thinking that it's
gonna quench our thirst.

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We're only more thirsty.

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This morning what I wanna
focus on is a much more subtle

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danger to intimacy with God

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,
and that's simply being busy, doing good
things for God instead of being with God

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or even just being busy.

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I have found this true in my
life, and this is probably

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the greatest fight I fight.

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One of the reasons I wanted
to become a pastor, cuz I'd

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have tons of time with God.

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You get paid to study.

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. It's amazing how much you can
avoid God and intimacy with him,

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with the Bible open on your lap

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because you're looking to say good things
about him instead of being with him.

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It's just the truth.

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it's easier for us to do stuff
for Jesus than to be with Jesus.

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It's easier to believe good things
about God than to be with God.

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And those things can be right things.

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it's easier to be satisfied with right
belief than it is to actually believe.

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That leads us into the
throne room of grace.

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This whole thing's predicated on being
in the rhythm and being in the dance.

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The whole thing's about the divine
dance and being with him, expanding

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that circle of the Trinity and
inviting us in and being part of

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that divine community together.

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Jesus says that we should serve one
another even as he has served us.

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He tells us that he's laid
out in Ephesians two 10,

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good works for us to walk in.

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We are his poetry and he's
created this amazing story.

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He's already laid him out.

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He's oh, you're gonna have such fun.

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I've literally made your personality
and gifted you, and I've led you through

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circumstances that have shaped you and
molded you so that you would, when you

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walk into this work that I've got for
you, you're the only one who can do it.

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that's incredible.

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What a story You are.

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My poem.

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You are unique.

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I have made you this multifaceted
being and it with idiosyncrasies,

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likes, personality, all this stuff.

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And I've created this thing
that you are gonna thrive in.

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I think so much time we're
trying to wear Saul's armor.

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I think we, we don't experience the joy,
the work that God gave us because we're

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trying to wear somebody else's work.

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And it's just because, , we're
after bringing glory to

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ourselves by having success.

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We want their success and then
that will make me happy and maybe

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that will bring glory to God.

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We're just bringing glory to ourselves.

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But we must see that Christian
loving and living is to flow

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from intimacy with Jesus.

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The only thing, the vine and the
branches fruit comes only through

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being rooted and grafted in.

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But at times we can find ourselves
just doing Christianity, just

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doing good things for God.

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We're on autopilot.

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Like I can't wait to have a Tesla.

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the only reason though, is cuz I just
want to put my seat back and hold onto my

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steering wheel and just let it autopilot.

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And I know that sounds dangerous.

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I work with somebody who he says
I've, he literally works the hours

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he works cuz he sleeps on his drive
to the next job with his Tesla.

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I'm like, that's amazing.

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. And where that's cool.

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Where that's not cool.

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Maybe that's scary.

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. But where that's scary.

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how often do we do that?

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I'm off to the next thing,
kicked back my hands on God, but

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checked out, I'm not present with
the presence and it's a fight.

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That's the spiritual battle, I think.

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But at times we can find ourselves
just doing Christianity, just

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doing good things for God.

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Intimacy is never to be a means to an end.

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Like we don't just, okay, I need
to be with Jesus so that I'm

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fruitful in doing things for Jesus.

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Guys's intimacy is the end.

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Fruit is the byproduct.

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I don't, how do I say this,
where it's not, it's like being

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intimate as a married couple.

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The byproduct of that is fruit,
but it's not necessarily the focus.

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Intimacy is the focus and the byproduct
of that intimacy is children, right?

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In the same way, like fruit is the
byproduct of intimacy with Jesus.

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That's the idea there.

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It's not I'm going to you
because I need this to happen.

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the whole end.

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The whole end.

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Because guess what, in heaven
missions will end, right?

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What's left?

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What you have now.

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that's why eternal life, Jesus says,
starts as soon as Jesus come and

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invades your heart, and then shackles
you and takes you outta the prison

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of selfishness and death and the
dominion of, all that you were before.

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He says, eternal life begins now.

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Heaven is now.

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Why?

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Because it's him.

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He is heaven, he is eternal wife.

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He and being with him, yes, we'll
see him with an unveiled face.

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Right now we see him from one
degree of glory to the next.

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We get a little glimpse, somebody shares
something, a testimony, and we're like,

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I see Jesus more and it's revealed.

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But one day he's gonna lift that veil
and it's gonna be like, holy moly.

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so how does Jesus rescue the disciples?

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From the busyness of life with all
its demands because they face the

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same stuff that we face nowadays.

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And how might you rescue us this morning?

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Now I have five points, but they're quick.

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Come away.

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Number one, number two, by yourselves.

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Number three, yourselves Number four,
to a desolate, place number five.

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And rest a while.

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Come away.

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A little bit of background.

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Verse 30.

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The apostles returned to Jesus and told
him all that they had done and taught.

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The apostles stop.

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Mark only uses that word two times in
his gospel, so I think it's significant.

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Most of the time.

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He uses the word disciple.

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It's very important that we see the
other place that it's used and that's

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in Mark three 14 to 15 and he appointed
the 12 who mean also named Apostles.

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This is so juicy guys, so that
they might be with him and he

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might send them out to preach and
have authority to cast out demons.

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So Jesus spends all night
alone on a mountain in prayer

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and he chooses his disciples.

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What do you think that
prayer was like that night?

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Because you think the father's
okay, here's the 12, and he is like,

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you're gonna put a zealot
with a tax collector.

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No, but he all night in prayer
and he gets this list of names.

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I.

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And he chose them to be with
him, and then he sent them out

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to preach and have authority over
demons from the very beginning.

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This is to be the priority.

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He chose the disciples or the apostles to
be with him and loving relationship before

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he ever called them to work for him.

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You guys hear that He called
them that they might be with

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him, and then he sent them out.

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He chose the disciples to be with
him in loving relationship before

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he ever called them to work for him.

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Before we attempt to work for the Lord, we
must always, constantly be with the Lord.

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Your primary calling.

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Our primary calling.

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My primary calling as a
Christian is to be with Jesus.

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I honestly think if we focused on that,
everything else would take care of itself.

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If you've worked around anybody who works
at a barbecue place and they come and they

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visit you, they smell like the barbecue.

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Yes.

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And they make you hungry.

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You're just like the smoke and
you're like, did you use cherry wood?

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that is delicious.

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and the thing is as you linger
in the presence of God, that

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environment goes with you.

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That's effusive.

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People sense it, they smell it.

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It's not only what you
say, it's what you do.

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All of a sudden you'll see people
in a whole different light as

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you stand under the grace and the
waterfall of that grace, and you

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realize, I am saved by grace alone.

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And you realize that grace is available
and everyone in this world, whether

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it's someone about to be executed at
midnight, That same grace is for them.

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Jesus bled for that person.

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Like that Grace is for any, and it's
not because of anything that I've done.

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You start to look at people differently.

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you linger.

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That's what abide means.

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It means to be at home with, to
dwell, to linger, to kick back.

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To spend some time with, you know, when
you go and you drop off like a meal to

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somebody because they've just had a baby
or whatever, and you know what's going on.

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So you kind of draw, oh good.

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make small talk and then you're out.

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But then when it's like, the
game's on and they know you just

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got a new projector and stuff.

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And so when somebody takes their
shoes off at the door, you're

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like, oh, they're gonna abide.

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They're gonna hang out here for a bit.

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And they're gonna linger.

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And that's what God's saying.

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Don't bring me a meal.

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Take your shoes off at the door.

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kick back.

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let's hang out.

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That's abiding.

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That's the difference.

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Part of the amazing thing is that
Jesus is on mission to seek and

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save the loss and make the privilege
of being part of that mission.

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Again, Jesus could do
it way better than us.

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I think rocks could do
it better than us, right?

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If these don't speak, then the rocks
will cry out and and they probably won't

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cry out, crucify 'em, but anyways, but
he invites us because we're part of that

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dance, because we're part of that circle.

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And if we're in that environment
of love, love must have an output.

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And not only does God
love the output to him.

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But God actually says as you read through
first John, that output to him is also

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in the same way output to somebody else.

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And he says that it's not just output
to him because the, that's not the

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purest reflection of being in his image.

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He says that being in his image because
he's a dotting God who outdoes one

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another and showing honor is then
as we receive that, we do it to him.

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But the thing that really glorifies
him is when we do it to somebody

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else, there's this environment of
love that we've been created for that

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we're in that when he says, that's
why John can say, if you don't love

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your brother, you don't know God.

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What's he saying?

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He's saying, you're not
in the dance because.

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You can't, that love
can't just stop at you.

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If you're in the dance.

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That love, that rhythm has to flow.

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It has to come to you back to me,
to you, back to somebody else.

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That's why Jesus can say something
like, if my words abide in you and you

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abide in me, ask whatever you wish.

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I don't know how many times that
word wishes in the New Testament.

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And I'll do it for you.

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Why?

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Because as you're in that rhythm, as
you're in that dance, as you're in

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that love, you're receiving his love.

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Guess what?

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What you're gonna be asking
is that person is loved.

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Does God answer loving a person?

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A hundred times, yes.

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But if we are the end,
then that's not the rhythm.

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The rhythm has to be, it's,
have you ever played hot potato?

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That's the rhythm.

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If you have hold on the potato,
you're out, you're burned, right?

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Hot.

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00:25:19,045 --> 00:25:20,295
Potato's boom, back to you.

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00:25:20,295 --> 00:25:21,285
Boom, back to you.

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Boom back.

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That's the rhythm of the divine dance.

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It does not end with us,
but it flows through us.

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That's why he can say so
boldly, ask whatever you wish.

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My words abiding you.

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You abide in me.

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00:25:37,365 --> 00:25:38,415
Ask whatever you Why?

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00:25:38,505 --> 00:25:39,555
Because I'm in that dance.

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00:25:39,615 --> 00:25:44,565
And as I see someone with his eyes,
if I see somebody on the corner, God,

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would you love that person today?

480
00:25:46,455 --> 00:25:49,335
And maybe it's me who you're calling
to love him because I see him.

481
00:25:51,555 --> 00:25:53,415
I think you're gonna start
to see profound things.

482
00:25:53,415 --> 00:25:55,635
You're gonna start to see
miraculous answers to prayer.

483
00:25:56,055 --> 00:25:59,265
Maybe the prayers were like so
frustrated aren't being answered

484
00:25:59,265 --> 00:26:00,765
because maybe we're the end.

485
00:26:03,030 --> 00:26:06,600
they've been given amazing spiritual
authority, so God includes them in

486
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,750
mission and they're stoked at God's work.

487
00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:12,330
And in verse three, they come back
and they report about their mission.

488
00:26:12,335 --> 00:26:14,460
We see from the other
gospels, they're like demons.

489
00:26:14,460 --> 00:26:15,720
Were subject to our name.

490
00:26:15,725 --> 00:26:17,460
We like, we had your power.

491
00:26:17,820 --> 00:26:18,480
Jesus.

492
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:19,760
We're like, what?

493
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,220
You said we heal people,
we did this, we did that.

494
00:26:22,490 --> 00:26:23,660
And they were just blown away.

495
00:26:23,660 --> 00:26:24,890
And he grounds them?

496
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:26,630
Rejoice.

497
00:26:26,630 --> 00:26:29,510
Not that your counsel is subject to
demons, but rejoice that your name's

498
00:26:29,515 --> 00:26:31,070
written in the Lamb's book of life.

499
00:26:32,540 --> 00:26:39,550
remember, it's not about what you do or
the power you have, it's who you are.

500
00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:41,290
That's what's amazing.

501
00:26:41,290 --> 00:26:42,910
That's the miracle Jesus is telling him.

502
00:26:44,410 --> 00:26:46,810
Because there's other people
who have power in this world.

503
00:26:46,930 --> 00:26:48,790
There's other people who
look like counterfeits.

504
00:26:48,845 --> 00:26:54,845
there's counterfeit things, and he's
telling them what you do can't be

505
00:26:55,595 --> 00:26:57,875
the measurement of your identity.

506
00:26:59,075 --> 00:27:02,835
So verse 30, they come back and
they report that, their mission

507
00:27:02,835 --> 00:27:07,325
to Jesus, and they're asking Jesus
We're being mightily used by God.

508
00:27:07,355 --> 00:27:10,085
Ministry is going forward,
the kingdom is advancing.

509
00:27:10,085 --> 00:27:11,015
There's a revival.

510
00:27:11,015 --> 00:27:11,885
Jesus, what's next?

511
00:27:11,885 --> 00:27:13,385
Should we start a revival crusade?

512
00:27:13,565 --> 00:27:14,615
Do you wanna send us back out?

513
00:27:14,615 --> 00:27:19,085
Things are popping off and we must not
miss what's going on right now In Jesus'

514
00:27:19,090 --> 00:27:21,215
ministry, Jesus was at his most popular.

515
00:27:21,425 --> 00:27:25,835
Crowds were flocking to him and despite
his own hometown, rejecting him.

516
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:31,040
We were told in John in this context, John
1415, when the people saw the sign that

517
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,490
he had done, they said, this is indeed
the prophet who is coming to the world.

518
00:27:34,490 --> 00:27:37,130
Perceiving then that they were
about to come and taken him

519
00:27:37,130 --> 00:27:38,210
by force to make him king.

520
00:27:38,210 --> 00:27:40,550
Jesus withdrew to the mountain by himself.

521
00:27:40,790 --> 00:27:42,950
Things were never better in ministry wise.

522
00:27:42,955 --> 00:27:45,080
He had crowds of people.

523
00:27:45,565 --> 00:27:49,795
Around him and the ministry was
growing, the crowds kept coming.

524
00:27:49,855 --> 00:27:51,595
Word of mouth was off the charts.

525
00:27:51,595 --> 00:27:55,195
People were coming from hundreds
of miles away to see Jesus.

526
00:27:55,195 --> 00:27:56,695
Just to hear him teach.

527
00:27:57,695 --> 00:28:01,175
Though there were real difficulties and
painful realities, cuz there always are.

528
00:28:01,175 --> 00:28:04,865
John the Baptizer had just been beheaded
and the needs were never ending.

529
00:28:04,865 --> 00:28:07,055
Verse 31 says, for many were
coming and going, and they

530
00:28:07,115 --> 00:28:09,035
had no leisure even to eat.

531
00:28:10,295 --> 00:28:11,195
That's how busy they were.

532
00:28:12,390 --> 00:28:16,950
Jesus's amazing response to disciples and
he said to them, come away by yourselves

533
00:28:16,950 --> 00:28:18,540
to a desolate place and rest a while.

534
00:28:18,540 --> 00:28:22,890
And we know that here, the crowds
even interrupt this rest eventually.

535
00:28:23,190 --> 00:28:27,180
But this concept was so important enough
for Mark to record in his gospel and

536
00:28:27,180 --> 00:28:31,920
was a regular rhythm of Jesus and was to
become a regular rhythm as his disciples

537
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,340
in Mark 1 35 and rising very earlier in
the very early in the morning while it

538
00:28:35,340 --> 00:28:39,600
was still dark, he departed to speaking of
Jesus and went out into a desolate place.

539
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:45,990
And there he prayed Luke five 15 to
16, but now even more, the report

540
00:28:45,990 --> 00:28:50,020
about him went abroad and great crowds
gathered to hear him, to be healed

541
00:28:50,020 --> 00:28:54,550
of their infirmities, but Jesus would
withdraw to a desolate place to pray.

542
00:28:54,550 --> 00:28:57,640
Luke six 12 and these days he went out
into the mountain to pray all night.

543
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,900
He continued in prayer to God.

544
00:28:59,825 --> 00:29:02,875
If the son of God needed to pull away
and be refreshed in the presence of

545
00:29:02,875 --> 00:29:08,335
his father, how much more do we need
to, Jesus's reaction is not the one

546
00:29:08,340 --> 00:29:10,585
we would have expected or even wanted.

547
00:29:11,245 --> 00:29:12,535
Maybe they were wanting to hear.

548
00:29:12,535 --> 00:29:13,195
Well done now.

549
00:29:13,195 --> 00:29:14,155
Good and faithful servant.

550
00:29:14,155 --> 00:29:16,975
Now that you've been faithful
over a little, I'll make you

551
00:29:17,485 --> 00:29:20,005
ruler over much right now.

552
00:29:20,965 --> 00:29:22,675
I'm gonna give you more.

553
00:29:22,675 --> 00:29:24,535
You've been so great at ministry.

554
00:29:24,715 --> 00:29:26,185
You've had such success.

555
00:29:26,215 --> 00:29:27,715
Here's more ministry.

556
00:29:28,615 --> 00:29:30,175
Disciples always wanted more.

557
00:29:31,555 --> 00:29:34,705
James and John in Matthew's account,
send their mom to ask Jesus for a favor.

558
00:29:34,705 --> 00:29:38,125
when you come into your kingdom, can my
boy sit at your right hand and your left

559
00:29:39,055 --> 00:29:40,735
Jesus is like, you have no
idea what you're talking about.

560
00:29:41,935 --> 00:29:43,645
Can you drink the cup
that I'm gonna drink?

561
00:29:44,425 --> 00:29:45,745
We want more though.

562
00:29:46,015 --> 00:29:49,405
But Jesus had a deal way of
dealing with first things first.

563
00:29:49,405 --> 00:29:50,515
What is Jesus doing here?

564
00:29:50,725 --> 00:29:53,125
The moment must have felt so urgent.

565
00:29:53,305 --> 00:29:56,155
People, crowds, people are
sleeping in the fields.

566
00:29:56,305 --> 00:29:58,555
They waiting to hear Jesus.

567
00:29:58,560 --> 00:29:59,425
The next morning.

568
00:29:59,905 --> 00:30:03,655
The ministry of Jesus is going
forward, gaining traction, and the

569
00:30:03,655 --> 00:30:05,995
disciples have seen some effectiveness.

570
00:30:06,985 --> 00:30:10,225
It was crazy what Jesus said in
this, the urgency of the moment.

571
00:30:11,185 --> 00:30:11,665
He stopped.

572
00:30:11,665 --> 00:30:15,925
All the momentum come, he said, come away.

573
00:30:17,575 --> 00:30:20,215
What we find wonderful about
Jesus is somewhat off-putting

574
00:30:21,565 --> 00:30:23,065
when we read the gospels.

575
00:30:23,095 --> 00:30:26,455
He is aware of the work of the
kingdom, but he pursues it with

576
00:30:26,455 --> 00:30:30,775
amazing patience, never in a hurry.

577
00:30:31,775 --> 00:30:33,065
How often are we in a hurry?

578
00:30:33,065 --> 00:30:33,485
Busy.

579
00:30:34,355 --> 00:30:39,120
But Jesus always showed patience in the
face of real urgency, patience of soul

580
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,230
am admits the demands of doing good
things for God come away by yourselves

581
00:30:43,235 --> 00:30:44,790
to the lonely place and rest a while.

582
00:30:44,795 --> 00:30:46,650
He's not just after rest for their souls.

583
00:30:46,830 --> 00:30:48,900
He's not just stopping the momentum.

584
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,990
He is not just looking to teach
them a lesson, but he's saying,

585
00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:56,370
I love you and I care about you
more than what you do for me.

586
00:30:57,370 --> 00:31:00,520
You are not just someone I use.

587
00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:04,120
You are someone I love.

588
00:31:06,250 --> 00:31:08,800
You're not just someone
I saved to have a worker.

589
00:31:10,180 --> 00:31:11,440
I saved you to have you.

590
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,280
I like you.

591
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,510
I want you to come away.

592
00:31:17,690 --> 00:31:18,920
Where does just us and rest?

593
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:24,260
Jesus is always concerned more with
us than what we can do for him.

594
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,960
We are the hard ones that have a hard time
saying, Jesus, I love you more than blank.

595
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:36,420
Because we get so much identity out of
doing and that leads us into the next,

596
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,370
because often the way we feel loved and
appreciated is to be needed and useful.

597
00:31:43,290 --> 00:31:46,350
And it's hard for us to grasp that
God loves us just because he loves us.

598
00:31:47,350 --> 00:31:48,460
Is that hard for us?

599
00:31:49,460 --> 00:31:50,450
Two, come away.

600
00:31:50,870 --> 00:31:54,110
Jesus is creating a buffer,
doing something that they didn't

601
00:31:54,110 --> 00:31:55,970
know how to do for themselves.

602
00:31:56,250 --> 00:32:00,720
Pascal once wrote that most of
the disorders and evils in the

603
00:32:00,780 --> 00:32:04,860
in life are a result of man's
inability to sit still and think.

604
00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:09,100
In an incredibly busy time, and
Jesus and the disciples are in great

605
00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:12,310
demand, and with a crowd pressing
around, they're faced with endless

606
00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:16,240
needs, and they had been learning
how to face those needs with Jesus.

607
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:16,675
But now that.

608
00:32:16,675 --> 00:32:18,115
I have to learn something else.

609
00:32:18,115 --> 00:32:20,185
How to walk away from
those needs with him.

610
00:32:22,195 --> 00:32:22,915
That's hard.

611
00:32:25,015 --> 00:32:25,825
That's hard to Sabbath.

612
00:32:26,995 --> 00:32:29,635
In this day and age, we are
an Antis Sabbath society.

613
00:32:30,475 --> 00:32:33,990
Antis Sabbath culture, and I don't
say Jesus is the fulfillment of the

614
00:32:33,990 --> 00:32:39,720
Sabbath, but actually Jesus built into
the rim, human nature, the need to rest.

615
00:32:40,110 --> 00:32:41,370
He even built it into the soil.

616
00:32:41,805 --> 00:32:46,015
Like people who try to get crops every
year, the crops start to degrade.

617
00:32:46,015 --> 00:32:46,795
The soil degrades.

618
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,195
They don't have enough nutrients
in it, but when you let it rest,

619
00:32:49,615 --> 00:32:50,815
you're gonna keep getting good crops.

620
00:32:50,815 --> 00:32:54,835
It's kind of insane how he built it
into the very nature of everything

621
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,135
in the universe, that rhythm of rest.

622
00:32:58,140 --> 00:33:00,415
But we are an anti rests society.

623
00:33:00,475 --> 00:33:05,035
We need more, and we have so much
to keep us busy and going, we

624
00:33:05,035 --> 00:33:06,685
forget that's like a part of life.

625
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:09,095
I think it's the West
minster shorter catechism.

626
00:33:09,135 --> 00:33:13,785
the chief end demand is to
glorify God and enjoy him forever.

627
00:33:14,385 --> 00:33:15,315
I like John Piper.

628
00:33:15,315 --> 00:33:16,245
He changes one word.

629
00:33:16,245 --> 00:33:20,565
The chief end demand is to glorify
God by enjoying him forever.

630
00:33:21,105 --> 00:33:26,680
I like that, that like he bids us to enjoy
him and there's that rest of enjoyment

631
00:33:26,730 --> 00:33:28,560
in Colossians, Whether you eat or drink.

632
00:33:29,060 --> 00:33:29,930
Do all the glory.

633
00:33:29,930 --> 00:33:34,325
it literally is saying enjoy everything
in light of God and his gifts that

634
00:33:34,325 --> 00:33:36,555
he's given, Worship as you eat.

635
00:33:36,585 --> 00:33:37,965
Worship as you talk.

636
00:33:37,965 --> 00:33:39,975
Thank the Lord for the
friends that you have.

637
00:33:39,975 --> 00:33:42,995
Thank the Lord that we have
a car to drive somewhere.

638
00:33:42,995 --> 00:33:44,675
That's an amazing thing.

639
00:33:44,675 --> 00:33:49,050
thank the Lord for every blessing
that we enjoy him, enjoy nature.

640
00:33:49,050 --> 00:33:52,860
We're just up in Tahoe,
just so freaking beautiful.

641
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,340
it all points to him,
but it's hard for us.

642
00:33:57,530 --> 00:34:00,380
To walk away from those needs, especially
when those needs are urgent and

643
00:34:00,380 --> 00:34:02,720
especially when those needs are about him.

644
00:34:03,020 --> 00:34:07,100
Mary and Martha Martha's serving Jesus.

645
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,370
She's, that's, we're doing something good.

646
00:34:10,370 --> 00:34:11,420
We're serving Jesus.

647
00:34:11,425 --> 00:34:13,250
We're meeting Jesus's need.

648
00:34:13,585 --> 00:34:15,745
And Mary's on her knees.

649
00:34:15,775 --> 00:34:22,105
You lazy person, you four on the Enneagram
who's just there, vibing and worshiping,

650
00:34:22,295 --> 00:34:26,385
and not doing anything because you're
having your moment, There you are.

651
00:34:26,385 --> 00:34:27,614
And we're doing everything.

652
00:34:27,614 --> 00:34:30,130
We're busy and Martha's fed
up and she's like, Jesus, tell

653
00:34:30,130 --> 00:34:31,389
her to get in the kitchen.

654
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:32,620
She's had enough time.

655
00:34:32,620 --> 00:34:34,449
I've kept track of every minute.

656
00:34:34,510 --> 00:34:37,800
and Jesus says, actually,
she's found the better part.

657
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,060
Why are you so anxious?

658
00:34:39,989 --> 00:34:41,489
This isn't gonna be taken away from her.

659
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:42,969
this is what it's all about, Martha.

660
00:34:44,350 --> 00:34:46,210
This is food that, that meal can wait.

661
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:47,889
this is the bread of life right here.

662
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,199
this is where you're fed and
everything flows outta this meal.

663
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,210
The meal you're gonna make is
supposed to flow outta the meal

664
00:34:53,210 --> 00:34:54,350
you have right now with me.

665
00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:57,040
I think I've shared this, but
a preacher said worship like

666
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,660
Marion, work like Martha.

667
00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:02,840
And, I kind of think worship
like Marion work like Mary Yeah.

668
00:35:03,110 --> 00:35:05,205
Is the point of all three of her stories.

669
00:35:05,235 --> 00:35:10,845
You've got her falling on her face,
that Lazarus's tomb and her utter

670
00:35:10,935 --> 00:35:16,395
pain, and then she's the one out
of everybody who seems to get.

671
00:35:17,145 --> 00:35:20,145
That he's going to the cross
and she anoints him for

672
00:35:20,145 --> 00:35:22,785
burial a couple days before.

673
00:35:23,275 --> 00:35:27,325
he goes to the cross and he even
says everywhere the gospel's told.

674
00:35:27,325 --> 00:35:31,435
So I'm doing my part, that
her story will be told.

675
00:35:32,635 --> 00:35:36,865
so worship like Mary and work like
Mary, keep him ever before you,

676
00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:39,745
she gives away a life savings.

677
00:35:40,255 --> 00:35:41,305
To annoy him for burial.

678
00:35:41,305 --> 00:35:44,855
That's why it says in the gospels
they scream the, and Judas is

679
00:35:44,855 --> 00:35:48,585
like, I could have used all that
money had he been stealing, out

680
00:35:48,590 --> 00:35:50,025
of the giving purse or whatever.

681
00:35:50,245 --> 00:35:52,585
and they're all like, what are you doing?

682
00:35:52,645 --> 00:35:53,815
A drop is fine.

683
00:35:53,815 --> 00:35:54,295
It's enough.

684
00:35:54,295 --> 00:35:59,435
She says, no, everything I'm putting like
a, it's so lavish, it's so over the top.

685
00:35:59,825 --> 00:36:01,385
And Jesus says, stop what you're doing.

686
00:36:01,385 --> 00:36:02,895
This will not be taken from her.

687
00:36:02,945 --> 00:36:03,815
this is normal.

688
00:36:04,430 --> 00:36:09,650
When you see me like so many churches
are on about giving and tithing

689
00:36:09,650 --> 00:36:11,520
and it's all this like arm bar.

690
00:36:11,530 --> 00:36:16,850
it's ecclesiastical juujitsu to get people
to give because I think we're not really

691
00:36:16,850 --> 00:36:19,580
confident that God is actually a provider.

692
00:36:19,580 --> 00:36:22,020
And so we've gotta, meet our
quotas and, we've gotta have

693
00:36:22,020 --> 00:36:23,190
this and we've gotta have that.

694
00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:27,150
But so much of it is that instead
of just presenting Jesus is the

695
00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:28,560
most beautiful thing in the world.

696
00:36:29,310 --> 00:36:30,030
How could you not?

697
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,640
You're like the guy in the field
who got rid of everything to

698
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:33,840
have the pearl of great price.

699
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,900
Like I, it makes sense like.

700
00:36:38,685 --> 00:36:40,455
How could I not have this?

701
00:36:40,455 --> 00:36:43,635
How could I not give everything
away to the one who was

702
00:36:43,635 --> 00:36:45,135
rich and became poor for me?

703
00:36:45,285 --> 00:36:48,465
How could I not touch lightly
on the things of this world?

704
00:36:48,465 --> 00:36:49,425
They're worthless.

705
00:36:49,430 --> 00:36:50,445
They're gonna rust away.

706
00:36:50,445 --> 00:36:51,315
They're gonna corrupt.

707
00:36:51,315 --> 00:36:52,425
They're not my identity.

708
00:36:52,635 --> 00:36:54,165
They don't define me.

709
00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:57,920
He is the one worth anything
if he asks me for it.

710
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,050
If he takes everything
away though, helay me.

711
00:37:00,050 --> 00:37:05,000
Yet, will I praise him that
somebody who sees the majesty.

712
00:37:05,735 --> 00:37:07,085
And the glory of King Jesus.

713
00:37:07,385 --> 00:37:11,345
Oh, if we preached King Jesus,
more and less about meeting our

714
00:37:11,345 --> 00:37:15,995
budget, but we won't cuz it's
just the pattern of humanity.

715
00:37:16,745 --> 00:37:19,475
we grew up and we're, learned
about the tithe and, we're pretty

716
00:37:19,475 --> 00:37:22,565
faithful to do that all our lives,
I think, or all our marriage.

717
00:37:23,285 --> 00:37:28,055
but there's, you reach a point where
you're just like, man, I wish I

718
00:37:28,055 --> 00:37:34,245
could just give a little more and
then nobody's Telling you like you

719
00:37:34,245 --> 00:37:36,195
should increase from 10% to 11%.

720
00:37:37,135 --> 00:37:38,215
how long have you been a Christian?

721
00:37:38,215 --> 00:37:45,385
We've got this chart and formula, but just
that like he peels your hands off of the

722
00:37:45,385 --> 00:37:46,885
things of this world finger by finger.

723
00:37:46,940 --> 00:37:47,840
When you stare at him.

724
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:53,804
You just, we don't need
everything and we have everything.

725
00:37:54,899 --> 00:37:58,569
This world's telling you you
don't, you need a house, you

726
00:37:58,574 --> 00:37:59,619
need two cars or you need

727
00:37:59,669 --> 00:38:01,079
Cuz we're so wealthy.

728
00:38:01,419 --> 00:38:04,119
sometimes I'm like, oh, we're
outgrow the house we live in.

729
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:07,799
We're six kids and we have a mansion.

730
00:38:08,819 --> 00:38:09,569
It's amazing.

731
00:38:10,319 --> 00:38:11,429
And we love each other.

732
00:38:12,149 --> 00:38:13,319
There's peace in the home.

733
00:38:13,319 --> 00:38:15,179
There's so it's a sanctuary.

734
00:38:15,179 --> 00:38:19,759
It's, there's an ac like the, we have
running water and flushing toilets.

735
00:38:19,764 --> 00:38:21,349
We have three toilets in the house.

736
00:38:21,529 --> 00:38:22,489
What a gift.

737
00:38:23,829 --> 00:38:25,119
I just think it's easy.

738
00:38:26,904 --> 00:38:28,614
Preston in the mold of this world.

739
00:38:28,619 --> 00:38:32,634
and all of a sudden we're not working
for his kingdom, we're working for ours.

740
00:38:32,844 --> 00:38:36,354
Cuz we're trying to look like the
neighbor or the coworker next to us

741
00:38:36,404 --> 00:38:37,724
.
We'll be busy our whole life.

742
00:38:38,144 --> 00:38:38,324
Yeah.

743
00:38:38,894 --> 00:38:41,504
Chasing mist and shadow.

744
00:38:42,174 --> 00:38:42,464
Yeah.

745
00:38:44,804 --> 00:38:47,504
your day will be full today
chasing mist and shadow.

746
00:38:47,744 --> 00:38:48,464
It's just there.

747
00:38:48,944 --> 00:38:49,604
It's everywhere.

748
00:38:50,314 --> 00:38:53,524
And he just bids you to come
and have a meal with him.

749
00:38:54,364 --> 00:38:57,574
And as you feast and you're full.

750
00:38:58,909 --> 00:38:59,599
See what happens.

751
00:39:00,949 --> 00:39:02,629
our culture is one of busyness.

752
00:39:03,379 --> 00:39:04,759
What do we say when we greet someone?

753
00:39:05,029 --> 00:39:06,739
How are you busy?

754
00:39:07,879 --> 00:39:08,719
It's our default.

755
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:09,859
It's normal for our culture.

756
00:39:09,889 --> 00:39:14,234
We feel bad if we don't say busy, cuz
we're like, oh man, I had a good week.

757
00:39:14,564 --> 00:39:17,774
We'll even lie about it a little
bit, Or we'll try to prove,

758
00:39:17,774 --> 00:39:18,944
no, this is how busy I was.

759
00:39:18,944 --> 00:39:19,994
I do that all the time.

760
00:39:19,994 --> 00:39:22,784
I catch myself sometimes Matt
asks me and I'm like, I'm

761
00:39:22,784 --> 00:39:23,954
thinking while I'm telling him.

762
00:39:23,984 --> 00:39:26,114
I'm like, am I that busy?

763
00:39:26,654 --> 00:39:28,754
There's, that is a difficulty.

764
00:39:28,754 --> 00:39:32,954
We find ourselves busy and doing good
things for God so that we're not with God.

765
00:39:33,854 --> 00:39:35,954
We are just not beset by busyness.

766
00:39:35,954 --> 00:39:38,204
We are addicted to busyness.

767
00:39:38,234 --> 00:39:40,844
We'll even lie to be perceived as busy.

768
00:39:41,414 --> 00:39:43,694
The needs are ever ending,
and that will never change.

769
00:39:43,699 --> 00:39:45,284
Being busy makes us feel important.

770
00:39:45,284 --> 00:39:46,724
Who doesn't want to be needed?

771
00:39:46,874 --> 00:39:47,864
We want to be needed.

772
00:39:48,044 --> 00:39:52,454
We like to feel as if we're
in demand, No, that's true.

773
00:39:52,634 --> 00:39:53,654
Oh my gosh.

774
00:39:53,654 --> 00:39:55,184
I love feeling I'm in demand.

775
00:39:55,184 --> 00:39:58,304
Everybody's pulling my attention
and I'm like, that's so hard.

776
00:39:58,304 --> 00:39:59,984
So many people wanna meet with me.

777
00:40:00,034 --> 00:40:00,844
so many texts.

778
00:40:00,844 --> 00:40:03,634
They can't even answer them in demand.

779
00:40:03,874 --> 00:40:09,424
so Jesus is going to do the disciples
for the disciples and teach them that

780
00:40:09,424 --> 00:40:11,524
they're absolutely not indispensable.

781
00:40:13,144 --> 00:40:14,044
One of the great lessons.

782
00:40:15,644 --> 00:40:16,064
Sorry guys.

783
00:40:16,064 --> 00:40:17,804
You're not indispensable
to the ministry here.

784
00:40:18,164 --> 00:40:18,434
No.

785
00:40:19,034 --> 00:40:20,594
You're not indispensable to my mission.

786
00:40:20,594 --> 00:40:20,894
I could.

787
00:40:21,764 --> 00:40:22,664
I don't need you guys.

788
00:40:23,924 --> 00:40:25,004
You get to join me.

789
00:40:25,634 --> 00:40:26,654
I love using you.

790
00:40:26,744 --> 00:40:31,154
I love sending you out, but
I saved you to be with me.

791
00:40:31,724 --> 00:40:35,624
I prayed all night on the mountain and
there were 12 names my father gave me.

792
00:40:36,904 --> 00:40:37,194
Yeah.

793
00:40:38,114 --> 00:40:40,574
Which is just like the beginning
of the creation of the world

794
00:40:40,574 --> 00:40:41,804
before the foundation of the world.

795
00:40:42,854 --> 00:40:46,694
God gave him your name, the
father said, here's one for you.

796
00:40:48,734 --> 00:40:53,744
So who puts a stop to all
the fruitful ministry?

797
00:40:54,134 --> 00:40:55,274
It's not any one of them.

798
00:40:55,454 --> 00:40:58,094
They're not indispensable,
but Jesus puts a stop to it.

799
00:40:59,024 --> 00:41:01,924
But Jesus, the the ministry's
off the hook right now.

800
00:41:01,924 --> 00:41:04,204
People are getting saved and
healed and he says, come away.

801
00:41:04,204 --> 00:41:06,964
Jesus is doing for them what they
would never do for themselves.

802
00:41:07,294 --> 00:41:09,694
And sometimes he has to do
that to us in hard ways.

803
00:41:10,264 --> 00:41:13,714
He's teaching them in a healthy way
to minister to the needs and not

804
00:41:13,714 --> 00:41:16,444
be crushed by the endless demands.

805
00:41:16,744 --> 00:41:19,384
He wants to keep them from the
addiction to busyness and feeling

806
00:41:19,384 --> 00:41:21,304
indispensable and from feeling important.

807
00:41:21,574 --> 00:41:24,334
So he says to them, step away from
all the good that you're doing.

808
00:41:24,664 --> 00:41:26,194
For me and be with me.

809
00:41:26,194 --> 00:41:26,644
Come away.

810
00:41:26,824 --> 00:41:30,394
These last couple points
are shorter by yourselves.

811
00:41:30,484 --> 00:41:34,354
He's really saying, let's not
just give you some space, but

812
00:41:34,354 --> 00:41:36,184
let's deal with your identity.

813
00:41:36,814 --> 00:41:39,964
You are in demand and doing big
things and part of something big,

814
00:41:39,964 --> 00:41:43,084
and people want you and people need
you, but I want you to think about

815
00:41:43,084 --> 00:41:45,214
who you are when you're by yourself.

816
00:41:46,654 --> 00:41:48,784
When I take you away from people.

817
00:41:49,264 --> 00:41:54,154
Who need you and everything that
keeps you busy, who are you really?

818
00:41:54,154 --> 00:41:56,014
And how does that make you feel?

819
00:41:57,424 --> 00:42:01,264
No needs, no people, no big deals.

820
00:42:01,804 --> 00:42:05,164
Who are you now and how
does that make you feel?

821
00:42:05,164 --> 00:42:07,114
Are you okay when nobody needs you?

822
00:42:08,194 --> 00:42:12,064
Are you okay when you're not in the midst
of important things and places and people?

823
00:42:12,949 --> 00:42:15,889
When you're simply by yourself,
wow, that's so hard for me.

824
00:42:16,789 --> 00:42:23,009
Who are you when you, when you can't
do anything and what is your value?

825
00:42:23,789 --> 00:42:24,689
What are you worth?

826
00:42:26,009 --> 00:42:28,649
Because we are a culture that sets
the value of worth according to

827
00:42:28,654 --> 00:42:34,649
what we have done and what we can
do and what we will do, especially

828
00:42:34,649 --> 00:42:35,969
if you're three on the Enneagram.

829
00:42:37,204 --> 00:42:41,794
Jesus is giving them a tremendous gift
by calling them to be by themselves.

830
00:42:41,799 --> 00:42:45,364
At this moment, he's trying to give
them the freedom from needing to

831
00:42:45,364 --> 00:42:47,944
be seen and needing to produce.

832
00:42:48,694 --> 00:42:52,324
The only thing that frees us from the
need to be seen and the need to produce

833
00:42:53,224 --> 00:42:58,054
is to know that we are the beloved of God
and that our identity is already settled.

834
00:42:58,414 --> 00:42:59,014
First John three.

835
00:42:59,014 --> 00:43:00,484
One, behold, what manner of love is this?

836
00:43:00,604 --> 00:43:03,904
And again, John is like,
Thinking about this writing.

837
00:43:04,234 --> 00:43:12,814
Behold, what manner of love the
fathers bestowed on us that we

838
00:43:12,814 --> 00:43:14,314
should be called the children of God.

839
00:43:14,364 --> 00:43:16,259
He's literally, writing in bold.

840
00:43:16,259 --> 00:43:18,879
probably behold, fills the
one page of the scroll.

841
00:43:18,879 --> 00:43:21,189
He's just like, what in
the world is going on?

842
00:43:21,189 --> 00:43:22,989
Where are the children of God?

843
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:24,729
What is happening?

844
00:43:25,629 --> 00:43:26,739
You're the beloved of God.

845
00:43:28,299 --> 00:43:33,129
Before anyone else ever saw us
or we ever did anything that

846
00:43:33,129 --> 00:43:34,269
we are the beloved of God.

847
00:43:34,269 --> 00:43:36,879
He wants us to know that you think
of Jesus and John the baptizer.

848
00:43:36,879 --> 00:43:38,559
Jesus goes to get baptized.

849
00:43:38,559 --> 00:43:43,749
Jesus has done no public ministry and
what a voice comes from the heavens,

850
00:43:43,754 --> 00:43:45,159
A spirit descending like a devil is.

851
00:43:45,159 --> 00:43:46,119
He comes out of the water.

852
00:43:46,269 --> 00:43:48,609
This is my beloved son
and whom I'm well pleased.

853
00:43:49,089 --> 00:43:51,219
His identity is a settled
issue at that moment.

854
00:43:51,399 --> 00:43:52,449
He hasn't done anything yet.

855
00:43:52,449 --> 00:43:53,949
He hasn't done the ministry yet.

856
00:43:54,609 --> 00:43:58,239
He hasn't even successfully gone
through temptation, which he's

857
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,169
about to do, but his identity is
settled before he ever does a thing.

858
00:44:02,349 --> 00:44:06,969
This is my beloved son and whom I'm
well pleased, his identity is settled.

859
00:44:07,629 --> 00:44:11,319
If our identity is unsettled, then we
draw our identity and self-worth from

860
00:44:11,319 --> 00:44:16,239
what we do and how much we are needed, and
then we become a slave to people's needs

861
00:44:16,389 --> 00:44:19,299
rather than a beloved son or daughter.

862
00:44:20,454 --> 00:44:21,894
It's much like a birthday.

863
00:44:22,704 --> 00:44:25,884
You think about your birthday, I don't
know how many of you like birthdays?

864
00:44:25,884 --> 00:44:27,234
I don't know, getting older.

865
00:44:27,234 --> 00:44:28,374
Do you like birthdays?

866
00:44:28,914 --> 00:44:30,654
See, I didn't consider
myself old right there.

867
00:44:31,974 --> 00:44:32,394
I'm old.

868
00:44:32,754 --> 00:44:33,624
I still like birthdays.

869
00:44:34,104 --> 00:44:38,754
the day on which your sheer existence
is celebrated is your birthday,

870
00:44:41,124 --> 00:44:46,074
but think about it, you don't get
any credit for your role in it.

871
00:44:47,964 --> 00:44:49,884
You didn't will it into existence.

872
00:44:50,874 --> 00:44:52,134
You didn't work hard.

873
00:44:54,474 --> 00:44:57,894
No credit for that event at all.

874
00:44:59,244 --> 00:45:03,924
You were never less competent on that day.

875
00:45:04,614 --> 00:45:09,254
Your birth you were dumber, slower.

876
00:45:10,769 --> 00:45:14,099
And Slimier than any other day.

877
00:45:15,509 --> 00:45:16,859
In fact, you know what's amazing?

878
00:45:17,699 --> 00:45:21,389
If you live to a hundred, you get
a card from the president of the

879
00:45:21,389 --> 00:45:23,159
United States congratulating you.

880
00:45:23,209 --> 00:45:24,349
What do you do to get that?

881
00:45:24,809 --> 00:45:25,829
What do you do to get that?

882
00:45:26,099 --> 00:45:26,329
Oh, that's great.

883
00:45:26,714 --> 00:45:28,274
No, just don't die.

884
00:45:28,844 --> 00:45:29,354
That's it.

885
00:45:30,524 --> 00:45:31,334
That's it.

886
00:45:31,754 --> 00:45:36,704
It is grace celebration for who you are
and not what you've accomplished, and

887
00:45:36,709 --> 00:45:41,644
that's why the Christ, Christian life is
likened to the new birth being born again.

888
00:45:41,644 --> 00:45:43,444
You didn't will it into existence.

889
00:45:43,684 --> 00:45:50,434
It was out of the loving community
of the father that brought you life.

890
00:45:51,274 --> 00:45:54,964
New life, not a anything
you did or willed.

891
00:45:54,964 --> 00:45:59,764
And so that is your identity, beloved son
and daughter, before you did anything,

892
00:45:59,824 --> 00:46:01,744
you were cherished, you were adored.

893
00:46:02,644 --> 00:46:06,124
we've got Nathaniel taking the trash
out now and he does some vacuuming

894
00:46:06,154 --> 00:46:08,134
and I just taught him how to weed eat.

895
00:46:08,614 --> 00:46:10,384
but he doesn't do a very good job yet.

896
00:46:11,374 --> 00:46:11,824
Just kidding.

897
00:46:11,824 --> 00:46:13,174
We just love him because we love him.

898
00:46:13,414 --> 00:46:14,314
He's our beloved.

899
00:46:15,314 --> 00:46:17,324
Does he contribute Yes.

900
00:46:17,324 --> 00:46:18,914
To the trash in his diaper pail?

901
00:46:19,344 --> 00:46:19,634
Yeah.

902
00:46:20,634 --> 00:46:21,564
But he's our beloved.

903
00:46:21,654 --> 00:46:22,294
so come away.

904
00:46:24,144 --> 00:46:25,134
By yourselves.

905
00:46:25,314 --> 00:46:27,234
Because it's plural and we miss this.

906
00:46:28,284 --> 00:46:31,854
Every time I've heard this or read the
scripture, I think of my individual faith,

907
00:46:32,394 --> 00:46:34,134
but he calls them together to be with him.

908
00:46:35,964 --> 00:46:40,934
We need community so bad when I
drive, to Sacramento or come home from

909
00:46:40,934 --> 00:46:43,784
Sacramento or somewhere up there where
I'm working Woodland or whatever.

910
00:46:45,074 --> 00:46:47,354
Sometimes I drive by myself
and I'm stuck in traffic.

911
00:46:47,354 --> 00:46:48,104
It's rush hour.

912
00:46:48,104 --> 00:46:50,084
I've worked long, just
to get the job done.

913
00:46:50,084 --> 00:46:54,904
It's four 30 or five and I'm just
sitting there and it's still frustrating

914
00:46:54,904 --> 00:46:58,784
and I'm slowly moving and it's
inching forward and inching forward.

915
00:46:58,784 --> 00:47:03,934
But there's this one lane that's
flying and it's just, boom.

916
00:47:04,934 --> 00:47:05,834
It's the carpooling.

917
00:47:06,854 --> 00:47:08,834
What is the one difference?

918
00:47:09,569 --> 00:47:13,259
That they have to what I
have, there was somebody else.

919
00:47:14,939 --> 00:47:17,699
I think that's so emblematic
of our Christian journey.

920
00:47:18,959 --> 00:47:23,549
We are, every time I do this
solo, I am in traffic and it's

921
00:47:23,579 --> 00:47:24,989
inching and inching energy.

922
00:47:24,989 --> 00:47:25,709
There's growth.

923
00:47:26,519 --> 00:47:27,719
God won't deny us that.

924
00:47:27,749 --> 00:47:30,719
Yes, but man, you jump in
a car with somebody else,

925
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:31,679
you're flying down the lane.

926
00:47:32,999 --> 00:47:34,589
You are flying down the lane.

927
00:47:36,299 --> 00:47:38,509
The Trinity beloved, first
John four, seven, and eight.

928
00:47:38,509 --> 00:47:41,239
Let us love one another for love
is of God and whoever loves has

929
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:42,739
been born of God and knows God.

930
00:47:42,739 --> 00:47:46,099
Anyone who does not love does
not know God because God is love.

931
00:47:46,104 --> 00:47:46,309
Again.

932
00:47:46,309 --> 00:47:49,819
We already talked about this,
the rhythm of the dance, right?

933
00:47:49,909 --> 00:47:56,309
So that this community that God has been
us for we're to be as we receive the love,

934
00:47:56,519 --> 00:47:59,879
reflecting that love back to him and that
love flowing through us to somebody else.

935
00:47:59,879 --> 00:48:02,219
That is just the dance
that we're involved in.

936
00:48:02,459 --> 00:48:04,499
That is the rhythm that is to be.

937
00:48:05,114 --> 00:48:09,564
the whole point of this John 1334
to 35, a new commandment I give

938
00:48:09,564 --> 00:48:11,274
to you that you love one another.

939
00:48:12,099 --> 00:48:13,479
Just as I have loved you.

940
00:48:13,534 --> 00:48:15,034
Not just love, but as I've loved you.

941
00:48:15,244 --> 00:48:15,694
Okay?

942
00:48:15,934 --> 00:48:16,234
Thanks.

943
00:48:16,234 --> 00:48:16,444
Lord.

944
00:48:16,714 --> 00:48:18,244
You are also to love one another.

945
00:48:18,249 --> 00:48:20,314
By this, all people will
know that you're disciples.

946
00:48:20,314 --> 00:48:21,574
If you have love for one another.

947
00:48:21,629 --> 00:48:23,279
It's not a new command,
it's an old command.

948
00:48:23,279 --> 00:48:24,479
We were told to love one another.

949
00:48:24,484 --> 00:48:26,099
And Leviticus 1918.

950
00:48:26,309 --> 00:48:26,969
So what does he mean?

951
00:48:26,969 --> 00:48:27,629
It's a new command.

952
00:48:27,629 --> 00:48:30,449
He means it's new in quality because
he just defined it in a new way.

953
00:48:32,879 --> 00:48:33,779
New in quality.

954
00:48:35,024 --> 00:48:37,424
It's not just love and how you
wanna read your love into it

955
00:48:37,754 --> 00:48:38,924
or how you feel at the moment.

956
00:48:39,074 --> 00:48:43,364
The thing about Agape is that
it's a decision to do good for the

957
00:48:43,364 --> 00:48:45,284
other person despite what you feel.

958
00:48:47,204 --> 00:48:48,434
It's not about feelings.

959
00:48:48,434 --> 00:48:49,214
Agape isn't.

960
00:48:49,214 --> 00:48:53,894
It's a decision to act for one's
good, even if they're not good.

961
00:48:55,214 --> 00:48:57,764
That's the kinda level of love he's
talking about because that's what he,

962
00:48:58,064 --> 00:49:01,604
while we were enemies, Christ died for us.

963
00:49:03,234 --> 00:49:04,734
Love is, I have loved you.

964
00:49:04,854 --> 00:49:07,774
Other religions teach us to
love, but it's new in quality.

965
00:49:07,774 --> 00:49:10,324
He fill the definition full into the brim.

966
00:49:10,324 --> 00:49:12,334
This love is so far above.

967
00:49:13,549 --> 00:49:14,869
Anything else.

968
00:49:14,869 --> 00:49:17,899
And we know that, and we'll get that
to the gospel, as we get to the gospel.

969
00:49:19,129 --> 00:49:22,489
we're just as love and honored as
if we had done all the wonderful

970
00:49:22,494 --> 00:49:25,159
deeds that Jesus has done, all
the love and compassion, the

971
00:49:25,159 --> 00:49:27,409
truth and the faithfulness.

972
00:49:27,739 --> 00:49:28,639
First Corinthians 13.

973
00:49:28,644 --> 00:49:31,609
If I speak with tongues of men and
of angels, but have not love, I

974
00:49:31,609 --> 00:49:33,409
am a noisy gong or a clanging sel.

975
00:49:33,409 --> 00:49:37,189
And in Corinth, that was actually
the pagan call to worship.

976
00:49:38,189 --> 00:49:43,409
So he's saying if you can literally
speak with the tongues of angels,

977
00:49:43,979 --> 00:49:49,709
but you're lacking this agape
love, to me it's pagan worship.

978
00:49:51,269 --> 00:49:51,569
Okay?

979
00:49:53,429 --> 00:49:55,619
And if I have prophetic powers
and understand all mysteries

980
00:49:55,619 --> 00:49:58,319
and all knowledge, how many
of us are working to that end?

981
00:49:59,069 --> 00:50:00,749
Or theologians or people searching.

982
00:50:00,749 --> 00:50:03,269
If I have all faith so as to
remove mountains, that's a

983
00:50:03,269 --> 00:50:04,859
good one, but have not love.

984
00:50:04,859 --> 00:50:08,369
I am nothing if I give away all
I have and deliver up my body.

985
00:50:09,059 --> 00:50:11,879
To be burned but have not love.

986
00:50:11,879 --> 00:50:12,629
I gain nothing.

987
00:50:12,629 --> 00:50:15,869
It's not the act, but the attitude
that Jesus is after because that

988
00:50:15,899 --> 00:50:19,439
validates the act or gives value to it.

989
00:50:19,769 --> 00:50:20,669
Love is patient.

990
00:50:20,669 --> 00:50:21,479
Love is kind.

991
00:50:21,479 --> 00:50:23,369
Love does not envy or boast.

992
00:50:23,369 --> 00:50:23,849
It's not.

993
00:50:24,009 --> 00:50:25,899
Arrogant or rude.

994
00:50:25,899 --> 00:50:27,849
It does not insist on its own way.

995
00:50:27,849 --> 00:50:30,189
It's not irritable or resentful.

996
00:50:30,189 --> 00:50:33,759
It does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
but rejoices with the truth.

997
00:50:34,119 --> 00:50:36,909
Love bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all

998
00:50:36,914 --> 00:50:38,229
things, endures all things.

999
00:50:38,229 --> 00:50:39,279
Love never ends.

1000
00:50:39,609 --> 00:50:41,109
As for prophecies though will pass away.

1001
00:50:41,109 --> 00:50:43,779
As for tongues, they will cease, says
for knowledge, it will pass away.

1002
00:50:44,779 --> 00:50:48,949
And you have to read that as
that's aeb that Jesus has for you.

1003
00:50:50,359 --> 00:50:50,579
Yes.

1004
00:50:51,039 --> 00:50:56,269
First and foremost, if you
realize he's barred all things

1005
00:50:56,274 --> 00:50:58,159
in your life, he's patient.

1006
00:51:00,319 --> 00:51:03,709
Me and my wife were just talking and
we're like, man, so many of the youth

1007
00:51:03,709 --> 00:51:07,339
are saying, how could God do this?

1008
00:51:07,344 --> 00:51:09,889
And how could, allow
suffering if he could end it?

1009
00:51:10,349 --> 00:51:13,889
how could God allow evil and
injustice if he's really good?

1010
00:51:13,939 --> 00:51:17,259
me and my wife say now that we're older,
in the faith we're like, how is God so

1011
00:51:17,259 --> 00:51:22,869
patient with man and man's free will and
how they use that free will too, abuse

1012
00:51:22,874 --> 00:51:28,599
one another and climb over each other and
murder and kill and just whole countries

1013
00:51:28,599 --> 00:51:31,209
that kill a certain group of people.

1014
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:32,469
it's insane.

1015
00:51:32,469 --> 00:51:35,089
His patience and his
forbearance And his grace.

1016
00:51:36,499 --> 00:51:39,079
Josh Preaching: Trinitarian love, love
one another with brotherly affection,

1017
00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:40,459
outdo one another and showing love.

1018
00:51:40,459 --> 00:51:43,789
And so the one another, as you can
start to see as that Trinitarian dance.

1019
00:51:45,229 --> 00:51:52,429
Ways to dance with someone else as
you dance with the Trinity John 1335.

1020
00:51:52,429 --> 00:51:53,989
By this, all people will know
that you're my disciples.

1021
00:51:53,989 --> 00:51:55,399
If you have love for one another.

1022
00:51:55,639 --> 00:51:59,479
Called away with Jesus in
community, the carpool lane.

1023
00:51:59,809 --> 00:52:02,539
This is not a solo thing we're doing.

1024
00:52:02,539 --> 00:52:03,739
We're called away with Jesus.

1025
00:52:04,069 --> 00:52:04,669
We're bad at it.

1026
00:52:04,669 --> 00:52:05,479
I'm bad at it.

1027
00:52:05,899 --> 00:52:06,859
I want to get better.

1028
00:52:07,039 --> 00:52:07,459
Please.

1029
00:52:07,459 --> 00:52:08,299
Jesus, help me.

1030
00:52:08,419 --> 00:52:10,189
I wanna ride with people
in the carpool lane.

1031
00:52:10,939 --> 00:52:15,499
I want to tell people during the week
what Jesus is doing in my life, or what

1032
00:52:15,499 --> 00:52:18,379
I don't think he is and how I need help.

1033
00:52:18,619 --> 00:52:19,339
How I need prayer.

1034
00:52:19,339 --> 00:52:22,459
I need to hear those stories of
what God's doing in your life.

1035
00:52:22,549 --> 00:52:24,704
Like it, I wanna be in the carpool lane.

1036
00:52:25,364 --> 00:52:28,394
I've lived too long in traffic.

1037
00:52:29,394 --> 00:52:30,804
It's time to have
somebody hop in the ride.

1038
00:52:33,144 --> 00:52:39,084
To a lonely place, come away by
yourselves, to a lonely place.

1039
00:52:39,864 --> 00:52:42,174
The discipline of solitude
is key discipline for

1040
00:52:42,179 --> 00:52:43,554
anyone who'd seek after God.

1041
00:52:43,914 --> 00:52:49,884
And all this means, and I think I'll just
go through this quick, is disconnect.

1042
00:52:52,234 --> 00:52:53,514
Put your phone down for a while.

1043
00:52:54,504 --> 00:52:57,504
So I'm famous for
listening to an audio book.

1044
00:52:58,484 --> 00:52:58,774
Okay.

1045
00:52:59,154 --> 00:53:04,614
While I'm studying the Bible and playing
Call of Duty in between rounds with

1046
00:53:04,614 --> 00:53:09,059
the news on, just ask my, she's like,
how do you even get anything done?

1047
00:53:09,059 --> 00:53:10,379
I'm like, I'm a multitasker.

1048
00:53:10,384 --> 00:53:13,739
She's you're not a
multitasker calling me out.

1049
00:53:14,399 --> 00:53:17,759
yesterday we're coming back from Tahoe
and Mario's I don't have anything to do.

1050
00:53:17,759 --> 00:53:21,149
And I'm like, But I'm listening
to podcasts and stuff and I

1051
00:53:21,149 --> 00:53:22,229
was like, fine, take my phone.

1052
00:53:22,229 --> 00:53:23,249
And I was like, itchy.

1053
00:53:23,249 --> 00:53:25,229
And I was like, oh, what the do?

1054
00:53:25,229 --> 00:53:27,299
I gotta look out the
window, I'm like, what?

1055
00:53:29,279 --> 00:53:31,379
And then I was like, I sat
with my thoughts for two hours

1056
00:53:31,384 --> 00:53:32,879
and I was like, disconnect.

1057
00:53:33,749 --> 00:53:36,749
It doesn't mean that we have to
drive to the beach and spend a day.

1058
00:53:37,409 --> 00:53:38,849
In fact, I've done that multiple times.

1059
00:53:38,849 --> 00:53:41,039
I used to get paid to like
have a day where I just go

1060
00:53:41,044 --> 00:53:43,529
away Not super fruitful for me.

1061
00:53:43,559 --> 00:53:48,349
Everybody's different if Andrea did
that, she'd be like, angels would

1062
00:53:48,349 --> 00:53:51,374
be like flying her through the
valley, And she'd just be like, woo.

1063
00:53:52,724 --> 00:53:58,584
but what it means is, it means
giving place, not through the noise.

1064
00:54:00,549 --> 00:54:03,729
There are times when the army's
around us and God says, stand still

1065
00:54:03,729 --> 00:54:05,019
and see the salvation of the Lord.

1066
00:54:05,169 --> 00:54:06,939
That's, that is life.

1067
00:54:08,049 --> 00:54:12,699
But there are times where we get
to go and hide in a cave and we

1068
00:54:12,699 --> 00:54:14,649
realize God's not in the whirlwind.

1069
00:54:15,459 --> 00:54:19,089
He's not in the fire, but
he's in the still small voice.

1070
00:54:20,919 --> 00:54:27,009
And those two things are equally important
and it needs to be like something we

1071
00:54:27,014 --> 00:54:33,699
fight for in our life because, There's
never been a generation or time and a

1072
00:54:33,699 --> 00:54:37,509
place that is as distracted as we are.

1073
00:54:39,009 --> 00:54:43,689
You know, it used to be that you had to
plan a trip to go see the chariot races.

1074
00:54:43,989 --> 00:54:45,669
You had to plan it like six months out.

1075
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:49,089
It would take you two months to get there
and it take you two months to get back.

1076
00:54:51,039 --> 00:54:52,599
Now we can just turn it on instantly.

1077
00:54:52,629 --> 00:54:53,589
Instant gratification.

1078
00:54:53,589 --> 00:54:54,699
It just so it's just.

1079
00:54:55,479 --> 00:54:57,609
Disconnect to a lonely place.

1080
00:54:57,819 --> 00:55:01,779
Jesus would go away to a lonely
place, to a desolate place.

1081
00:55:01,989 --> 00:55:04,899
No distraction, nothing
vying for our attention.

1082
00:55:05,199 --> 00:55:07,449
Just disconnect is what he's saying.

1083
00:55:07,929 --> 00:55:12,009
God is calling us to be radically present
to him and to one another, to disconnect.

1084
00:55:13,659 --> 00:55:17,109
It can be hard to come away to a lonely
place because it's in the lonely places

1085
00:55:17,109 --> 00:55:18,939
where we're faced with who we really are.

1086
00:55:19,179 --> 00:55:21,969
I think sometimes we like being
so distracted because when we

1087
00:55:21,999 --> 00:55:25,959
aren't distracted, at least for
me, I've gotta sit with myself.

1088
00:55:27,099 --> 00:55:27,879
I've gotta wrestle.

1089
00:55:28,629 --> 00:55:33,099
Remember Jacob sent everybody away on
a head to wait for his brother Esau,

1090
00:55:33,159 --> 00:55:36,399
and that's when the angel of the Lord
came and wrestled with him all night.

1091
00:55:36,399 --> 00:55:38,229
Yeah, that's what it feels like.

1092
00:55:38,229 --> 00:55:41,949
It feels like when you get into
that lonely place, the Joel Lord's

1093
00:55:41,949 --> 00:55:43,239
gonna come do some wrestling.

1094
00:55:43,539 --> 00:55:45,319
He's gonna do some, juujitsu to you.

1095
00:55:45,859 --> 00:55:50,874
he might pull things out of, socket,
but then you're able to lean on him.

1096
00:55:51,804 --> 00:55:53,034
The rest of your days.

1097
00:55:54,084 --> 00:55:55,614
Jesus is in the lonely places.

1098
00:55:55,614 --> 00:55:56,664
He's in the solitude.

1099
00:55:56,934 --> 00:56:00,144
When we come face to face with our mess,
he's there in our deepest places of pain.

1100
00:56:00,144 --> 00:56:03,474
Those times where it feels like our
pain is all we have, he is there.

1101
00:56:03,654 --> 00:56:08,042
He shows us a little bit of the depth
of who we are and that desperately,

1102
00:56:08,082 --> 00:56:10,752
need for our souls to be restored.

1103
00:56:10,752 --> 00:56:12,521
He leads me besides still waters.

1104
00:56:12,731 --> 00:56:15,731
He restores my soul.

1105
00:56:16,731 --> 00:56:17,571
And rest a while.

1106
00:56:18,651 --> 00:56:19,941
Rest is not a bad thing.

1107
00:56:20,631 --> 00:56:21,861
Rest is a God thing.

1108
00:56:22,701 --> 00:56:26,271
when we respond to Christ's call
and our minds and our bodies call

1109
00:56:26,361 --> 00:56:27,981
be still and know that I'm God.

1110
00:56:27,981 --> 00:56:33,831
That He is God, and that we are not
rest teaches us that we have limits.

1111
00:56:35,331 --> 00:56:40,221
To live in a way that we don't have
limits is delusional and it's destructive.

1112
00:56:41,361 --> 00:56:42,819
We have a hard time saying we need rest.

1113
00:56:42,843 --> 00:56:43,228
I do.

1114
00:56:43,233 --> 00:56:45,093
this is, I'm preaching to
my heart this whole thing.

1115
00:56:45,543 --> 00:56:50,013
What we see is they need me I've
been often quoted in the past, is

1116
00:56:50,013 --> 00:56:51,723
saying, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

1117
00:56:52,773 --> 00:56:54,333
probably not the healthiest view on life.

1118
00:56:55,743 --> 00:56:59,673
Lots of demands and people need
you come away to a lonely place.

1119
00:56:59,673 --> 00:57:05,343
There's, here's the thing, there
is enough time in the day to

1120
00:57:05,343 --> 00:57:06,753
do what God requires of you.

1121
00:57:06,753 --> 00:57:06,843
Yes.

1122
00:57:08,283 --> 00:57:08,943
Do you believe that?

1123
00:57:09,483 --> 00:57:09,703
Yes.

1124
00:57:10,833 --> 00:57:13,421
Do you think God's like,
You don't have enough time.

1125
00:57:13,421 --> 00:57:14,081
What are you gonna do?

1126
00:57:14,081 --> 00:57:14,981
What are you gonna choose?

1127
00:57:14,981 --> 00:57:17,981
You know, he gives you
enough time in the day.

1128
00:57:18,981 --> 00:57:22,911
The goal of our coming away and
resting is, you're the goal.

1129
00:57:22,971 --> 00:57:23,721
Enjoying you.

1130
00:57:23,781 --> 00:57:26,511
Knowing you for who you are as the goal.

1131
00:57:27,261 --> 00:57:29,451
So we are created to be with God.

1132
00:57:29,911 --> 00:57:31,111
because of sin.

1133
00:57:31,111 --> 00:57:32,551
We couldn't be with him any longer.

1134
00:57:33,991 --> 00:57:39,151
But our heart's hungered and panted for
him, but there isn't anything we could do.

1135
00:57:39,151 --> 00:57:42,391
There's no way we could get to
him no matter how thirsty we are.

1136
00:57:44,431 --> 00:57:49,201
And they will call his name
Emmanuel, which means God with us.

1137
00:57:49,201 --> 00:57:52,201
God came and pursued us to make
a way where there was no way,

1138
00:57:52,381 --> 00:57:53,641
and that way was the cross.

1139
00:57:53,641 --> 00:58:00,271
The father called the son to go to a
lonely place, the loneliest place in

1140
00:58:00,271 --> 00:58:04,261
the history of the world not to rest
and refresh, but to experience cosmic

1141
00:58:04,261 --> 00:58:07,441
unrest, he became the sin substitute.

1142
00:58:07,831 --> 00:58:12,211
It took away all our sin and unrest upon
himself so that we could experience the

1143
00:58:12,211 --> 00:58:17,161
rest of being with him, so that we could
be brought back into the divine dance.

1144
00:58:18,161 --> 00:58:21,611
What are the barriers of you getting
alone to a lonely place with Jesus?

1145
00:58:22,611 --> 00:58:24,651
I'm not talking about
expanding your quiet time.

1146
00:58:25,581 --> 00:58:29,061
I'm not just talking about the first
45 minutes of your day, but the next

1147
00:58:29,066 --> 00:58:31,101
23 hours and 15 minutes of the day.

1148
00:58:32,031 --> 00:58:34,221
Cuz it's not this weird
like, okay, check in.

1149
00:58:34,221 --> 00:58:35,871
God's not a piece of the pie.

1150
00:58:35,876 --> 00:58:36,831
He's the whole pie.

1151
00:58:37,431 --> 00:58:38,061
He's not, okay.

1152
00:58:38,061 --> 00:58:40,491
I got this for God and I've got
this for my family and I've got.

1153
00:58:40,941 --> 00:58:42,801
Man, you don't have enough pie to do it.

1154
00:58:43,491 --> 00:58:47,211
But if he's the whole pie, if he's
with you all through the day, if your

1155
00:58:47,211 --> 00:58:51,531
thoughts are with him, if you're in that
fellowship with him, how many moments of

1156
00:58:51,951 --> 00:58:58,731
my life today can I fill with conscience
awareness and surrender to God's presence?

1157
00:58:59,181 --> 00:59:02,811
We must surrender our day so we are
experiencing deep contentment and joy and

1158
00:59:02,811 --> 00:59:05,001
confidence in our everyday life with God.

1159
00:59:05,691 --> 00:59:08,721
Where are you as the
opening question said.

1160
00:59:09,771 --> 00:59:10,971
In relation to me.

1161
00:59:12,531 --> 00:59:13,701
Adam, where are you?

1162
00:59:13,851 --> 00:59:14,901
Eve, where are you?

1163
00:59:16,071 --> 00:59:19,606
Have we left our first love by becoming
so busy with doing good things for him.

1164
00:59:19,606 --> 00:59:20,626
He's calling you today.

1165
00:59:20,626 --> 00:59:27,136
Come away with me by yourselves to
a lonely place and rest a while.

1166
00:59:29,446 --> 00:59:30,316
Let me pray for us.

1167
00:59:30,316 --> 00:59:31,486
Father, we thank you so much.

1168
00:59:31,486 --> 00:59:32,626
We thank you for your son.

1169
00:59:32,626 --> 00:59:36,226
We thank you for Sidney
and him in our place.

1170
00:59:38,026 --> 00:59:40,066
We thank you that Lord, you want us.

1171
00:59:41,066 --> 00:59:43,136
Thank you that you've laid out
good works for us to walk in.

1172
00:59:43,136 --> 00:59:50,096
We can't wait to walk in him and your
power and with the right attitudes because

1173
00:59:50,096 --> 00:59:56,186
Lord, as we in you, we'll bear fruit,
love, peace, patience, faithfulness,

1174
00:59:56,186 --> 00:59:58,166
joy, self-control, all these things.

1175
00:59:58,171 --> 00:59:58,346
Lord,

1176
00:59:59,346 --> 01:00:00,356
rescue us from the.

1177
01:00:01,746 --> 01:00:05,076
Sway and the course of this world,

1178
01:00:06,076 --> 01:00:11,386
may we be marked with just a boldness
that we, your beloved, that we're

1179
01:00:11,386 --> 01:00:15,241
loved, no matter our circumstance
and situation, Lord as you pour

1180
01:00:15,241 --> 01:00:16,711
that out into our lives, may that.

1181
01:00:18,251 --> 01:00:20,161
May we share that dance with others?

1182
01:00:21,161 --> 01:00:25,631
Thank you for helping me this week just
by this text, Lord, and my wrestle and my

1183
01:00:25,631 --> 01:00:34,061
struggle with loving difficult individuals
cuz I was a difficult individual.

1184
01:00:36,101 --> 01:00:36,761
I still am.

1185
01:00:39,101 --> 01:00:41,051
Thank you for rescuing me
every day by your grace.

1186
01:00:42,746 --> 01:00:46,706
Thank you that you're so
patient and long suffering.

1187
01:00:48,556 --> 01:00:53,416
Thank you that there's nothing I
do that you recoil back at because

1188
01:00:53,421 --> 01:00:54,946
you've already paid for it all.

1189
01:00:57,226 --> 01:00:57,976
You are good.

1190
01:01:00,146 --> 01:01:03,166
You are the treasure, you are the prize.

1191
01:01:03,976 --> 01:01:05,086
You are our feast.

1192
01:01:05,086 --> 01:01:05,866
You are our food.

1193
01:01:05,866 --> 01:01:06,856
You are our sustenance.

1194
01:01:08,536 --> 01:01:09,916
You are our living water.

1195
01:01:10,546 --> 01:01:11,506
You are our joy.

1196
01:01:11,506 --> 01:01:12,436
You are our delight.

1197
01:01:12,436 --> 01:01:14,716
You are the pleasures at
our right hand forevermore.

1198
01:01:16,546 --> 01:01:16,936
Thank you.

1199
01:01:16,936 --> 01:01:18,386
In Jesus name, amen.