1 00:00:04,019 --> 00:00:07,080 Rod Gomez: The Titan Submersible, you guys know what this is? 2 00:00:07,530 --> 00:00:12,570 2023, the Titan Submersible was run and owned by the CEO who said, you know what? 3 00:00:12,570 --> 00:00:17,250 We're gonna go down so deep that we're going to see the Titanic. 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,180 Titanic, as you know, was that big ship that was indestructible, and 5 00:00:21,180 --> 00:00:22,950 of course they were destructible. 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,410 As evidenced by the fact that they sank. 7 00:00:25,980 --> 00:00:29,250 Well, these explorers were still interested in seeing the Titanic 8 00:00:29,250 --> 00:00:32,310 that they entered into this thing called the Ocean Gate Titan. 9 00:00:33,090 --> 00:00:36,030 The problem with this is that there were several people that told them over and 10 00:00:36,030 --> 00:00:38,430 over again, your vessel is not safe. 11 00:00:38,850 --> 00:00:42,240 There are things wrong with this that you need to figure out before you dive deep. 12 00:00:42,930 --> 00:00:45,269 He ignored all the warnings, but there were plenty. 13 00:00:45,269 --> 00:00:46,379 Here are just a few here. 14 00:00:46,860 --> 00:00:49,920 From the first, from the first side here, this thing was only 15 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,140 certified to go down to 4,300 feet. 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,040 Titanic was at 12,500 feet. 17 00:00:56,430 --> 00:00:57,480 That's a little different. 18 00:00:58,230 --> 00:01:02,130 On top of that, the material that they used fundamentally 19 00:01:02,130 --> 00:01:03,300 flawed, and you go that deep. 20 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:06,000 You need something solid and strong that's not gonna cave in. 21 00:01:06,540 --> 00:01:10,920 Ocean Gate Sea admitted that it broke design rules, not just one rule. 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,090 There are actually several. 23 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:15,630 He fluted them because he thought, this is worth it. 24 00:01:15,660 --> 00:01:20,190 We're gonna do something so exciting and so fun and so valuable to humankind. 25 00:01:21,164 --> 00:01:23,535 That we're gonna put away some of these rules. 26 00:01:24,075 --> 00:01:29,414 Safety monitoring system would only detect an issue milliseconds before an implosion. 27 00:01:30,195 --> 00:01:34,035 Well, in 2023, that's exactly what happened. 28 00:01:34,905 --> 00:01:40,215 Just milliseconds before the submersible was about to cave in, imploding, 29 00:01:40,215 --> 00:01:44,085 and being destroyed and killing everybody inside an alarm went off 30 00:01:44,085 --> 00:01:45,705 to let them know this is the end. 31 00:01:47,145 --> 00:01:48,315 At what point then. 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,140 When they were diving into the water, did they know that this 33 00:01:52,140 --> 00:01:53,550 is the point of no return? 34 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:57,630 Was it when they got past the 4,300 feet? 35 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,130 Was it at the top when they entered into the submarine knowing that it 36 00:02:02,130 --> 00:02:04,770 wasn't the most safe thing to be inside? 37 00:02:04,770 --> 00:02:08,610 Or was it when they were down low and they heard the millisecond alarm go off 38 00:02:10,350 --> 00:02:14,370 before this whole thing caved in one of the youngest men in there, it was 39 00:02:14,370 --> 00:02:18,000 a father son duo, one of the youngest men in there who was 19 years old. 40 00:02:19,185 --> 00:02:23,144 Trusting his dad, trusting the captain who is piloting the submersible. 41 00:02:23,445 --> 00:02:26,295 He gets in there, loses his life. 42 00:02:28,005 --> 00:02:33,315 A lot of people don't realize that there are warnings all over the gospels 43 00:02:33,315 --> 00:02:36,404 saying You need to know there are warnings about the way that you live 44 00:02:36,404 --> 00:02:37,785 your life, the things that you do. 45 00:02:38,265 --> 00:02:40,785 And what you also need to know is that there's a time when you 46 00:02:40,785 --> 00:02:42,435 pass the point of no return. 47 00:02:42,959 --> 00:02:46,019 When at some point, and we don't know when that is, we don't know what it looks like. 48 00:02:46,019 --> 00:02:48,989 The Bibles didn't tell us always what that's gonna be, but you need to know 49 00:02:48,989 --> 00:02:53,280 that when you ignore the warnings of the Bible and your life's about to implode, 50 00:02:53,790 --> 00:02:55,980 there are signs along the way to tell you. 51 00:02:55,980 --> 00:02:57,119 You need to be careful. 52 00:02:58,079 --> 00:03:00,239 God wants you to know the truth. 53 00:03:00,885 --> 00:03:03,614 And the truth sounds a lot like, Hey, you can't go this far. 54 00:03:03,614 --> 00:03:04,725 Don't go this far down. 55 00:03:04,935 --> 00:03:07,095 The Bible sounds a lot like, Hey, you shouldn't do that. 56 00:03:07,095 --> 00:03:07,995 It sounds like warnings. 57 00:03:07,995 --> 00:03:09,465 It sounds like, don't do this, don't do that. 58 00:03:09,495 --> 00:03:11,954 But if we ignore those things, what could happen for all of us? 59 00:03:11,954 --> 00:03:15,734 In fact, what will happen, the Bible promises is catastrophe. 60 00:03:16,935 --> 00:03:18,075 Your life will implode. 61 00:03:18,734 --> 00:03:21,644 Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not 20 years from now, maybe 62 00:03:21,644 --> 00:03:22,665 not a hundred years from now. 63 00:03:22,665 --> 00:03:25,695 Maybe because we find ways to keep you alive for a long time. 64 00:03:26,025 --> 00:03:28,515 But if we ignore the Bible's warnings, what we're gonna find out. 65 00:03:30,075 --> 00:03:34,125 Is that we set ourselves up to inevitably destroy ourselves. 66 00:03:35,054 --> 00:03:39,165 This is a problem 'cause many think that they can def divinely, reject Jesus. 67 00:03:39,345 --> 00:03:41,625 Many people can say, look, I'll get to it at some point when 68 00:03:41,625 --> 00:03:43,665 I'm older or when I know more. 69 00:03:43,665 --> 00:03:46,725 Or at some point when I'm older, I'll maybe I'll get baptized. 70 00:03:46,725 --> 00:03:47,834 I just saw some people get baptized. 71 00:03:47,834 --> 00:03:48,404 I was cool. 72 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:52,815 But when you continue to flaunt and push away Jesus' warnings and 73 00:03:52,815 --> 00:03:57,584 say, I don't want to do that, you can't expect that at some point. 74 00:03:58,140 --> 00:03:59,130 Jesus is gonna say, Hey, look. 75 00:03:59,130 --> 00:04:00,330 I'm here anytime you want. 76 00:04:00,330 --> 00:04:00,960 You want to come to me? 77 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:01,980 Come to me anytime you want. 78 00:04:02,190 --> 00:04:03,210 Jesus doesn't say that. 79 00:04:04,230 --> 00:04:05,640 He doesn't say that. 80 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,820 It's always possible to turn to him in repentant faith. 81 00:04:09,465 --> 00:04:13,125 Which is why me and Lewis and Matt, Daniel, anyone else has preached to 82 00:04:13,125 --> 00:04:16,695 you, pastor pj, we always warn you, Hey, now's the day of salvation. 83 00:04:16,725 --> 00:04:18,644 Take the time now to not reject Jesus. 84 00:04:18,644 --> 00:04:19,995 Make sure that you're running to him. 85 00:04:20,144 --> 00:04:22,365 Make sure that you're surrendering your life to him because there 86 00:04:22,365 --> 00:04:24,075 may not always be an opportunity. 87 00:04:24,285 --> 00:04:27,525 You may not always have the chance to do what the Bible calls you to do. 88 00:04:28,005 --> 00:04:29,055 And here's the rub, guys. 89 00:04:29,055 --> 00:04:30,075 Here's what's awful about this. 90 00:04:30,075 --> 00:04:33,495 The more you reject Jesus, the harder your heart becomes, 91 00:04:34,215 --> 00:04:35,715 the more you ignore warnings. 92 00:04:36,225 --> 00:04:40,005 The more you become immune to the sound of those warnings, it's like when you're 93 00:04:40,005 --> 00:04:44,685 in your house, you become immune to the smell of what your house smells like. 94 00:04:45,015 --> 00:04:47,895 You ever go to a friend's house and it smells like, oh, that's interesting smell. 95 00:04:47,925 --> 00:04:48,885 It smells like curry. 96 00:04:48,885 --> 00:04:51,585 Or it smells like, you know, a, a deodorizer, you know, 97 00:04:51,585 --> 00:04:52,515 one of those fun smells. 98 00:04:52,935 --> 00:04:58,425 Or even if you, if you go to a, I don't know, you get the idea here, you become 99 00:04:58,425 --> 00:05:00,195 immune to those things on Sunday. 100 00:05:00,794 --> 00:05:04,724 If you went to church, there was this low hum that happened the whole time 101 00:05:04,724 --> 00:05:06,825 Pastor PJ was preaching like that. 102 00:05:06,825 --> 00:05:07,604 It was woo. 103 00:05:08,715 --> 00:05:12,195 If you heard it, at some point you probably stopped hearing it because 104 00:05:12,195 --> 00:05:15,674 your brain's like, okay, not a threat, just going to zone it out. 105 00:05:15,674 --> 00:05:18,075 And so now I'm gonna just focus on whatever Pastor PJ's saying. 106 00:05:18,405 --> 00:05:18,945 That's a lot. 107 00:05:18,945 --> 00:05:19,455 What happens. 108 00:05:19,544 --> 00:05:22,905 You begin to hear the warnings from the Bible and they just become noise, or it 109 00:05:22,905 --> 00:05:24,044 becomes like the smell of your house. 110 00:05:24,044 --> 00:05:25,695 You stop smelling it, you stop caring about it. 111 00:05:25,695 --> 00:05:27,794 So you don't wanna do anything about it because it's like, it's always been there. 112 00:05:27,945 --> 00:05:28,724 It's always gonna be there. 113 00:05:29,490 --> 00:05:29,760 Here. 114 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,659 You need to know that the more you reject Jesus, the harder your heart becomes, 115 00:05:35,159 --> 00:05:41,880 and because of that, the less likely you become to ever become a Christian 116 00:05:42,810 --> 00:05:45,420 because you harden your heart to a point where there's no more opportunity. 117 00:05:46,770 --> 00:05:49,440 Matthew chapter 12 is all about rejection. 118 00:05:50,070 --> 00:05:53,820 The rejection of the Pharisees over and over again, and how 119 00:05:53,820 --> 00:05:55,650 Jesus responds to their rejection. 120 00:05:55,965 --> 00:05:56,715 Chapter 12. 121 00:05:56,715 --> 00:05:57,585 We're gonna look a lot. 122 00:05:58,005 --> 00:05:58,515 Well, not a lot. 123 00:05:58,515 --> 00:06:01,245 We're gonna look at rejection and we're gonna see how Jesus deals with it. 124 00:06:01,485 --> 00:06:02,805 Turn to me to Matthew chapter 12. 125 00:06:02,805 --> 00:06:03,915 We're gonna go rapid fire. 126 00:06:03,915 --> 00:06:06,855 We're gonna go pretty quick, so make sure you have your Bibles open. 127 00:06:06,855 --> 00:06:07,815 You're ready to rock and roll. 128 00:06:07,815 --> 00:06:09,555 'cause we have a lot of territory to cover. 129 00:06:10,185 --> 00:06:14,385 We begin in Matthew chapter 12 with an argument about the Sabbath. 130 00:06:14,625 --> 00:06:18,795 Now, the Sabbath was a day that was set aside for Israel, for rest and 131 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:22,785 for worship, and so on This particular day, Israel was supposed to just. 132 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:24,090 Sit back and relax. 133 00:06:24,090 --> 00:06:25,200 They were to worship the Lord. 134 00:06:25,380 --> 00:06:26,550 They were to enjoy their family. 135 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:28,860 They were to do things that contributed to their rest. 136 00:06:28,980 --> 00:06:31,380 Well, on this day, which is one of the 10 Commandments, right? 137 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:33,630 This is a, you shall honor the Sabbath and keep it hol is what 138 00:06:33,630 --> 00:06:35,880 the Bible says on this day. 139 00:06:36,150 --> 00:06:40,770 Here's what took place at that time, Jesus went through the 140 00:06:40,770 --> 00:06:42,210 grain fields on the Sabbath. 141 00:06:42,645 --> 00:06:43,425 Okay, here's what he's doing. 142 00:06:43,425 --> 00:06:45,555 He's going to the grain fields and what's he doing? 143 00:06:45,735 --> 00:06:49,875 His disciples were hungry and they began to pluck the heads of grain and and eat. 144 00:06:50,475 --> 00:06:54,284 But when the Pharisee saw it, the religious leaders of the day, they said 145 00:06:54,284 --> 00:06:57,585 to him, look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath. 146 00:06:57,795 --> 00:06:58,815 You're breaking the law. 147 00:06:58,875 --> 00:06:59,595 You're a sinner. 148 00:06:59,595 --> 00:07:00,315 I knew it. 149 00:07:00,465 --> 00:07:01,785 You're not the Messiah. 150 00:07:01,875 --> 00:07:04,005 Even though you're doing a lot of cool tricks, you're not 151 00:07:04,005 --> 00:07:05,415 the guy and we can prove it. 152 00:07:05,415 --> 00:07:07,425 You're breaking the Sabbath is what they were saying. 153 00:07:07,515 --> 00:07:11,835 And Jesus responds to them and says, look, guys, you've got it all wrong. 154 00:07:12,164 --> 00:07:14,205 Let me tell you how he gives three reasons why. 155 00:07:14,205 --> 00:07:18,705 He says, have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who were with 156 00:07:18,705 --> 00:07:23,055 him, how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the presence, which was 157 00:07:23,055 --> 00:07:26,474 not lawful for him to eat, nor those who were with him, but only for the priest. 158 00:07:26,474 --> 00:07:29,354 So he's talking about an occasion where David needed help, he needed 159 00:07:29,354 --> 00:07:32,174 provision, he didn't have the normal means, and so he went to the House 160 00:07:32,174 --> 00:07:35,805 of God, the tabernacle, and he ate the bread that was dedicated to God. 161 00:07:35,835 --> 00:07:37,005 He wasn't supposed to do that. 162 00:07:37,515 --> 00:07:41,325 But the priest made an exception because of David's situation, and he 163 00:07:41,325 --> 00:07:42,765 said David wasn't accountable for that. 164 00:07:42,765 --> 00:07:44,715 He wasn't guilty, he wasn't breaking the law. 165 00:07:45,585 --> 00:07:49,575 He says here in verse five, or have you not read in the law how on the 166 00:07:49,575 --> 00:07:53,415 Sabbath, the priest in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless. 167 00:07:53,415 --> 00:07:54,375 That is the priest. 168 00:07:54,375 --> 00:07:57,675 They're working, they're the ones sacrificing the animals. 169 00:07:57,735 --> 00:07:59,685 They're the ones cleaning up the ashes. 170 00:07:59,685 --> 00:08:02,505 They're the ones who are caring for the tabernacle and no one 171 00:08:02,505 --> 00:08:03,525 says, oh, you guys are guilty. 172 00:08:03,525 --> 00:08:04,545 You're breaking the Sabbath. 173 00:08:04,875 --> 00:08:06,165 He says, no, of course not. 174 00:08:06,570 --> 00:08:08,039 They do what they're supposed to do. 175 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,810 So the law of the Sabbath is not binding at all situations at all times. 176 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,760 He continues on, I tell you, I tell you, verse six, something 177 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,140 greater than the temple is here. 178 00:08:19,469 --> 00:08:20,280 Pop quiz. 179 00:08:20,669 --> 00:08:21,659 Who's he talking about? 180 00:08:21,659 --> 00:08:23,280 Something greater than the temple is here. 181 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:23,909 Who's he talking about? 182 00:08:24,325 --> 00:08:24,815 Himself. 183 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:25,620 Himself. 184 00:08:26,159 --> 00:08:28,770 Jesus is saying, look, I am bigger than the temple. 185 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,380 I am more significant than the temple. 186 00:08:31,380 --> 00:08:34,590 This is another way that, you know, Jesus is saying, I'm more than a man. 187 00:08:35,865 --> 00:08:37,845 I am God in the flesh, essentially is what he's saying. 188 00:08:37,845 --> 00:08:40,184 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 189 00:08:40,424 --> 00:08:42,945 That would've been scandalous to the Pharisees. 190 00:08:43,005 --> 00:08:43,934 What are you talking about? 191 00:08:43,934 --> 00:08:44,205 Dude? 192 00:08:44,205 --> 00:08:44,895 You're weird. 193 00:08:45,195 --> 00:08:46,605 You're not greater than the temple. 194 00:08:46,725 --> 00:08:48,045 This thing's fabulous. 195 00:08:48,045 --> 00:08:48,825 It's magnificent. 196 00:08:48,825 --> 00:08:50,805 You're just a man, and Jesus is saying, no, I'm not. 197 00:08:50,955 --> 00:08:51,525 Verse seven. 198 00:08:51,555 --> 00:08:55,035 And if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice. 199 00:08:55,035 --> 00:08:56,805 He would not have condemned the guiltless. 200 00:08:56,865 --> 00:08:58,095 Jesus is saying, I'm innocent. 201 00:08:58,365 --> 00:09:00,885 For the son of man is Lord the Sabbath. 202 00:09:01,350 --> 00:09:04,290 That's another way that you know, he's claiming deity because he's 203 00:09:04,290 --> 00:09:05,850 saying, I oversee the Sabbath. 204 00:09:05,910 --> 00:09:09,510 I tell you how the Sabbath is to work, and you need to recognize that 205 00:09:10,079 --> 00:09:13,350 I'm the one who tell tells you how it works and how it shouldn't work. 206 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:15,000 So you guys are wrong about this. 207 00:09:15,525 --> 00:09:18,944 What we see here is Jesus charging them with learning how to actually 208 00:09:18,944 --> 00:09:20,175 read their Bible the right way. 209 00:09:20,235 --> 00:09:22,844 He said, you guys are reading the Bible and, and you really, you're 210 00:09:22,844 --> 00:09:25,425 really trying hard to entrap me, but you're getting it all wrong. 211 00:09:25,635 --> 00:09:27,584 This is what happens when you reject Jesus. 212 00:09:27,795 --> 00:09:30,314 You begin to read your Bible like a rule book, and you begin to 213 00:09:30,314 --> 00:09:31,755 say, well, I gotta obey this rule. 214 00:09:31,755 --> 00:09:32,895 I shouldn't do that thing. 215 00:09:33,194 --> 00:09:35,324 These guys are trying to say, well, Jesus, you're a rule breaker. 216 00:09:35,535 --> 00:09:37,574 You're breaking all the rules in the Bible, and Jesus saying, you 217 00:09:37,574 --> 00:09:38,925 don't even know your Bible, dude. 218 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:40,830 You guys are reading it all wrong. 219 00:09:40,860 --> 00:09:43,440 He says, haven't you read what a slap in their face? 220 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,930 It's like going to your professor or going to your high school teacher 221 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,840 who's teaching you chemistry, and they're saying, have you never picked 222 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,250 up a chemistry textbook before? 223 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:51,930 And then they're, of course they have. 224 00:09:52,020 --> 00:09:53,910 Of course, that's a slap in the face. 225 00:09:53,910 --> 00:09:56,100 He's coming right at them and bah hit them in the face. 226 00:09:56,220 --> 00:09:57,840 He's saying, look, you guys don't even know your Bible. 227 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,000 I rule all of these things. 228 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,940 I oversee this point. 229 00:10:02,940 --> 00:10:07,410 Number one, if you don't wanna reject Jesus for the wrong reasons, at least. 230 00:10:08,115 --> 00:10:10,155 You don't wanna become like a Pharisee who's only looking at 231 00:10:10,155 --> 00:10:11,265 the Bible like a list of rules. 232 00:10:11,265 --> 00:10:13,875 And you need to always read the Bible with Jesus in mind. 233 00:10:14,715 --> 00:10:16,575 Always read the Bible with Jesus in mind. 234 00:10:17,055 --> 00:10:20,444 As you read your Bible, you have an Old Testament and a New Testament. 235 00:10:20,535 --> 00:10:24,675 It's kind of like 60% Old Testament, about 40% New Testament. 236 00:10:25,335 --> 00:10:29,595 The Old and New Testaments work together to tell the whole story of 237 00:10:29,595 --> 00:10:32,475 God in interacting with humanity. 238 00:10:32,685 --> 00:10:35,655 And in fact, someone once observed that the word history. 239 00:10:36,030 --> 00:10:39,510 Is appropriate because it tells us his story. 240 00:10:39,870 --> 00:10:43,410 It is God's story of his interactions with humanity. 241 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:48,329 One of the problems that you'll encounter if you have a hard heart toward God, 242 00:10:48,329 --> 00:10:51,030 you'll read your Bible and you'll say, well, this doesn't make any sense. 243 00:10:51,030 --> 00:10:51,780 This is too hard. 244 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:53,010 I'm not tracking with it. 245 00:10:53,130 --> 00:10:54,870 I'm, I'm really just not getting it. 246 00:10:54,870 --> 00:10:58,380 This is, this is not what I expect God to do, but there's a problem with 247 00:10:58,380 --> 00:11:01,740 what you're doing and to show you that problem, I need a volunteer. 248 00:11:02,550 --> 00:11:02,819 Okay? 249 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:03,540 I need a volunteer. 250 00:11:06,345 --> 00:11:06,675 Come on up. 251 00:11:06,675 --> 00:11:06,915 Come on up. 252 00:11:08,865 --> 00:11:09,135 I'll come. 253 00:11:09,135 --> 00:11:09,435 I'll come. 254 00:11:09,435 --> 00:11:10,485 I'm come get you after Josh. 255 00:11:12,555 --> 00:11:12,885 Okay. 256 00:11:14,325 --> 00:11:17,355 In this bag, I have a hundred piece puzzle. 257 00:11:17,925 --> 00:11:19,125 Really easy to do. 258 00:11:19,545 --> 00:11:20,325 Really easy. 259 00:11:20,625 --> 00:11:22,305 Are you ready to do a hundred piece puzzle? 260 00:11:23,445 --> 00:11:23,805 No. 261 00:11:23,985 --> 00:11:24,135 Yes. 262 00:11:24,465 --> 00:11:25,005 Okay, good. 263 00:11:25,215 --> 00:11:25,995 No, but yes. 264 00:11:26,025 --> 00:11:27,015 Alright. 265 00:11:27,495 --> 00:11:28,335 You have 10 seconds. 266 00:11:28,335 --> 00:11:28,605 Go ahead. 267 00:11:28,785 --> 00:11:33,225 10, 9, 8. 268 00:11:34,814 --> 00:11:52,814 7, 6, 5. 269 00:12:00,824 --> 00:12:05,055 Four, you're down to the last three seconds. 270 00:12:10,425 --> 00:12:12,585 Three 271 00:12:15,915 --> 00:12:17,295 is you actually doing pretty good. 272 00:12:17,385 --> 00:12:18,285 You're actually doing really good. 273 00:12:18,285 --> 00:12:24,045 Considering that you don't have any of the helps two. 274 00:12:31,755 --> 00:12:32,475 Good try. 275 00:12:32,475 --> 00:12:32,655 Alright. 276 00:12:32,655 --> 00:12:33,105 Give it up. 277 00:12:33,110 --> 00:12:33,490 Good try. 278 00:12:33,525 --> 00:12:33,765 Good try. 279 00:12:35,685 --> 00:12:37,455 I just want you to know you were meant to fail. 280 00:12:37,905 --> 00:12:42,255 It was on purpose, so I appreciate your, your sportsmanship, but 281 00:12:42,255 --> 00:12:43,575 you may go back to your seat. 282 00:12:44,055 --> 00:12:44,385 Okay. 283 00:12:44,385 --> 00:12:44,925 Josh? 284 00:12:47,535 --> 00:12:49,245 Josh, you have 10 seconds as well. 285 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:54,210 No, but you will have the added help of looking at the front board. 286 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:54,870 Okay. 287 00:12:55,860 --> 00:12:57,660 You're gonna get the same 10 seconds. 288 00:12:57,660 --> 00:12:58,320 I don't need the box. 289 00:12:58,350 --> 00:13:00,450 Oh, you don't need the, okay. 290 00:13:00,450 --> 00:13:00,451 Okay. 291 00:13:02,670 --> 00:13:03,750 Alright, you ready? 292 00:13:04,050 --> 00:13:05,430 You got 10 seconds starting now. 293 00:13:05,435 --> 00:13:07,590 Okay, 10 done. 294 00:13:07,590 --> 00:13:07,680 Done. 295 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:09,840 I was going for a Picasso, by the way. 296 00:13:09,985 --> 00:13:10,405 Oh, okay. 297 00:13:10,595 --> 00:13:11,490 Just the spread out. 298 00:13:11,550 --> 00:13:12,000 Thank you. 299 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:12,420 Okay. 300 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,710 It still works in the illustration. 301 00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:14,220 Thank you, Brad. 302 00:13:14,220 --> 00:13:14,910 Give him a hand. 303 00:13:18,555 --> 00:13:19,844 Can you put this back in your Dr. 304 00:13:20,114 --> 00:13:21,974 Thank you actually hope before you do that. 305 00:13:22,755 --> 00:13:23,415 Okay. 306 00:13:25,484 --> 00:13:29,954 Putting a puzzle is hard to do all by itself, but if you try to put a 307 00:13:29,954 --> 00:13:33,199 puzzle together and you don't have the reference to the photo, it makes it a, 308 00:13:33,375 --> 00:13:34,905 a much more challenging thing to do. 309 00:13:35,114 --> 00:13:38,354 In fact, the photo itself is what gives you all the clues for context. 310 00:13:38,594 --> 00:13:42,255 Otherwise, all you're doing is looking at yellows and blues and reds. 311 00:13:42,255 --> 00:13:45,074 And I see, I see, uh, oranges over here. 312 00:13:45,344 --> 00:13:46,064 It's hard to do. 313 00:13:46,064 --> 00:13:46,935 It's not impossible. 314 00:13:47,310 --> 00:13:52,290 Really hard to do unless you have the reference to what the photo is in the 315 00:13:52,290 --> 00:13:54,480 Bible, there's a lot of puzzle pieces. 316 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:55,500 Way more than a hundred here. 317 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:56,250 You can put that in here please. 318 00:13:56,250 --> 00:13:56,430 Thanks. 319 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,720 Uh, there's a lot more than a hundred puzzle pieces in the Bible, but what makes 320 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:05,370 the picture make sense is if you see Jesus in those photos, in those puzzle pieces. 321 00:14:05,460 --> 00:14:09,540 Looking at Jesus as the fulfillment, as the culmination of everything the Bible 322 00:14:09,540 --> 00:14:11,730 points to makes the picture make sense. 323 00:14:12,150 --> 00:14:12,390 Okay. 324 00:14:12,390 --> 00:14:13,290 This is so important. 325 00:14:13,290 --> 00:14:15,150 Lemme give you one more illustration of how this works. 326 00:14:15,735 --> 00:14:18,165 I want you to listen to this, okay? 327 00:14:18,735 --> 00:14:21,555 This is Symphony number six, a pastoral symphony by Beethoven. 328 00:14:21,555 --> 00:14:22,425 Here's, here's what it sounds like. 329 00:14:29,205 --> 00:14:29,355 Okay? 330 00:14:29,355 --> 00:14:33,225 You'll notice in this symphony, lots of instruments are playing. 331 00:14:34,545 --> 00:14:40,125 Each symphony component has its part here, the oboe is doing her solo, the oboist. 332 00:14:40,485 --> 00:14:41,685 She's doing his wonderful solo. 333 00:14:41,685 --> 00:14:43,185 But you'll notice in the background, if you listen, the 334 00:14:43,185 --> 00:14:44,355 violins are still doing their part. 335 00:14:47,550 --> 00:14:47,790 There. 336 00:14:47,790 --> 00:14:48,720 I think that's a French horn. 337 00:14:51,540 --> 00:14:51,870 You hear that? 338 00:14:52,350 --> 00:14:53,459 That's staccato in the background. 339 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,485 All these pieces, putting their part together to make the hole. 340 00:15:03,630 --> 00:15:03,870 Okay. 341 00:15:03,870 --> 00:15:07,260 French horn, he's soloing now, but they're still supporting instruments. 342 00:15:07,260 --> 00:15:10,110 The violins are supporting him as he plays. 343 00:15:19,350 --> 00:15:20,580 You got the bases over here. 344 00:15:20,580 --> 00:15:21,960 You say you have all these instruments. 345 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,670 I dunno how many people are there, 75 people, maybe. 346 00:15:24,180 --> 00:15:27,750 They're all playing individual parts or parts corresponding 347 00:15:27,750 --> 00:15:29,190 to their, your instrument. 348 00:15:29,820 --> 00:15:34,890 They're all putting pieces together with the purpose of playing the whole 349 00:15:34,890 --> 00:15:36,420 symphony, the whole harmony together. 350 00:15:38,010 --> 00:15:39,510 If you were just to listen to the tuba. 351 00:15:40,199 --> 00:15:41,730 Or the elbow by itself. 352 00:15:42,810 --> 00:15:44,579 It'll sound strange, it'll sound incomplete. 353 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:47,579 It'll sound weird if you just heard one instrument. 354 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,910 But when all of them play together, something beautiful happens. 355 00:15:50,910 --> 00:15:53,400 You hear the full melody as it was meant to be. 356 00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:58,920 All these components working together to produce something incredible, a sound. 357 00:16:01,020 --> 00:16:04,170 This is what it's like to read the Bible with Jesus in mind. 358 00:16:05,010 --> 00:16:07,350 Each piece of scripture has its, has its component. 359 00:16:07,380 --> 00:16:09,900 Each piece of scripture is beautiful in its own right, but it doesn't 360 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,300 sound quite right unless you're seeing it for the whole thing that 361 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:13,830 it's pointing to, which is Jesus. 362 00:16:13,890 --> 00:16:15,240 Jesus is the fulfillment. 363 00:16:15,690 --> 00:16:18,750 So when you read your Bible, here are a few ways to keep Jesus in 364 00:16:18,750 --> 00:16:21,990 mind as you read your Bible so that you're not missing the whole thing. 365 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,240 You're looking at one piece for getting the whole. 366 00:16:24,330 --> 00:16:27,390 When Jesus challenges them to read their Bible rightly, he's saying, look, 367 00:16:27,390 --> 00:16:28,740 you need to read the Bible carefully. 368 00:16:29,370 --> 00:16:30,930 You need to handle the Bible carefully. 369 00:16:30,930 --> 00:16:33,930 If you don't want to reject Jesus for the wrong reasons, don't read the 370 00:16:33,930 --> 00:16:36,089 Bible looking for the wrong things. 371 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,140 You need to read the Bible. 372 00:16:37,140 --> 00:16:40,439 Looking for Jesus, looking for signs of how Jesus. 373 00:16:40,785 --> 00:16:45,345 Has fulfilled or how that passage pointed to him, what Jesus says about it, 374 00:16:45,405 --> 00:16:49,395 marriage, being a man, being a girl, what it says about your schooling, what it says 375 00:16:49,395 --> 00:16:51,405 about how to be a, a good son or daughter. 376 00:16:51,555 --> 00:16:54,705 What it says about being a family member, what it says about being an employee. 377 00:16:54,705 --> 00:16:56,355 The Bible has a lot to say about that. 378 00:16:56,385 --> 00:16:58,635 And as you read your Bible carefully, you're looking for 379 00:16:58,635 --> 00:17:00,405 evidence of how it points to Jesus. 380 00:17:00,885 --> 00:17:05,234 Number two, as you read the Bible looking for Jesus, you want to apply the Bible 381 00:17:05,234 --> 00:17:08,954 consistently, which is to say the Old Testament and the New Testament are not. 382 00:17:09,645 --> 00:17:11,444 Are not in combat with one another. 383 00:17:11,444 --> 00:17:14,655 Some people will say, well, the God of the Old Testament, he's a mean God. 384 00:17:14,655 --> 00:17:16,395 And the God of the New Testament is a nice God. 385 00:17:16,815 --> 00:17:18,345 That's not the way the Bible works. 386 00:17:18,615 --> 00:17:23,055 To read it consistently means to read it, saying, how do these pieces fit together? 387 00:17:23,145 --> 00:17:25,575 How do they harmonize speaking of music? 388 00:17:25,785 --> 00:17:28,965 And lastly, you need to understand that the whole Bible 389 00:17:28,965 --> 00:17:30,465 really does point to Jesus. 390 00:17:30,885 --> 00:17:34,935 Jesus is the fulfillment of all that was pointed to even in the Sabbath. 391 00:17:35,370 --> 00:17:38,460 When Jesus says, I'm the Lord the Sabbath, he's saying that even the 392 00:17:38,460 --> 00:17:44,820 Sabbath law pointed to the eventual rest that can be found only in Jesus, 393 00:17:45,150 --> 00:17:48,000 which is to say, your true rest is not. 394 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:48,810 Stop. 395 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:53,580 Uh, your stopping from working, your true rest is found in Jesus Christ, the one who 396 00:17:53,610 --> 00:17:56,640 gives rest to your soul, the one who gives you salvation, the one who makes your 397 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,930 life whole, complete, full, real, joyful. 398 00:18:02,610 --> 00:18:04,320 That's the first part of Matthew chapter 12. 399 00:18:04,679 --> 00:18:05,879 Jesus Lord of the staff. 400 00:18:06,449 --> 00:18:10,290 He's arguing about his rule in creation saying, I'm the Lord of it all. 401 00:18:10,469 --> 00:18:12,480 I'm the one that points to, but there's more. 402 00:18:12,870 --> 00:18:16,139 If we don't wanna reject Jesus, if we don't want to mistake or, 403 00:18:16,139 --> 00:18:18,449 or misunderstand what Jesus is saying, we need to keep reading. 404 00:18:18,780 --> 00:18:23,639 Back to Matthew chapter 12, starting at verse 24, there is a kind of rejection 405 00:18:23,639 --> 00:18:29,909 of Jesus that is so bad and so pronounced that eventually you can't turn back. 406 00:18:29,909 --> 00:18:32,010 I was talking about this at the beginning, taking the tight 407 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,629 the Titan down to the Titanic. 408 00:18:34,950 --> 00:18:37,560 Jesus talks about something super, super important. 409 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,900 I want you to follow along here in Matthew chapter 12, starting at verse 410 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:45,450 22, a demon oppressed man who is blind and mute, which is interesting, isn't it? 411 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,200 Someone who has a demon inside of them could have physical effects. 412 00:18:49,260 --> 00:18:51,480 This guy is blind, he can't see, and he's mute. 413 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:52,050 He can't talk. 414 00:18:52,050 --> 00:18:54,360 So this demon is constricting those passages. 415 00:18:55,215 --> 00:18:59,895 It was brought to Jesus the man and Jesus healed him so that the man spoke and he 416 00:18:59,895 --> 00:19:04,185 saw, and all the people were amazed and they said, can this be the Son of David? 417 00:19:04,455 --> 00:19:07,605 The Son of David is a title that means is Jesus the Messiah? 418 00:19:07,665 --> 00:19:12,765 Is he the one that was prophesied about to come and to rule as the new King 419 00:19:12,765 --> 00:19:14,685 David, as the ultimate King David? 420 00:19:14,685 --> 00:19:15,885 And of course, they're right about that. 421 00:19:15,885 --> 00:19:17,205 Jesus is the fulfillment. 422 00:19:17,805 --> 00:19:21,045 But when the Pharisees heard it, remember the Pharisees, they 423 00:19:21,045 --> 00:19:22,485 have a hard heart against Jesus. 424 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,890 This is the danger that you might be in having a hard heart against Jesus. 425 00:19:25,890 --> 00:19:27,330 The Pharisees come, they hear it. 426 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,320 Here's what they say. 427 00:19:28,830 --> 00:19:29,730 They hear about it. 428 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,600 They said, it is only by Beals bull, which is a way to say the 429 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,190 devil, shorthand for the devil. 430 00:19:35,190 --> 00:19:39,540 It's only by the devil, the prince of demons, that this man cast out demons. 431 00:19:39,810 --> 00:19:42,750 So they're saying, Jesus, you're not actually doing anything important here. 432 00:19:42,870 --> 00:19:46,350 You're actually the devil and you're just, you're just using 433 00:19:46,350 --> 00:19:51,750 demonic tricks to send demons out of the way, knowing their thoughts. 434 00:19:52,710 --> 00:19:56,670 Jesus said to them, every kingdom divided against itself is laid 435 00:19:56,670 --> 00:20:00,570 waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. 436 00:20:00,930 --> 00:20:06,450 It is if, if there's conflict inside of a kingdom, it's not gonna do well because 437 00:20:06,450 --> 00:20:08,220 that kind of disunity is destructive. 438 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,680 He says, if, if Satan, verse 26, Satan cas out Satan, he's divided against 439 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,270 himself, how then will his kingdom stand? 440 00:20:15,570 --> 00:20:16,860 Jump down to verse 31. 441 00:20:16,860 --> 00:20:20,970 Therefore, I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people. 442 00:20:21,630 --> 00:20:22,500 Pay close attention. 443 00:20:23,910 --> 00:20:25,800 You listening, this is critical. 444 00:20:25,860 --> 00:20:27,420 Listen closely to what Jesus is about to say. 445 00:20:27,420 --> 00:20:29,010 If you're not tuned in, tune in now. 446 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,400 This is important verse verse 20, verse 31. 447 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:32,820 Again, listen. 448 00:20:32,820 --> 00:20:33,450 Read this again. 449 00:20:33,450 --> 00:20:34,080 Follow along with me. 450 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:34,560 Look at the screen. 451 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,910 If you don't have your Bible, therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will 452 00:20:38,910 --> 00:20:44,610 be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven. 453 00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:48,570 There's a category of sin that Jesus says is unforgivable. 454 00:20:49,095 --> 00:20:52,245 There's a kind of sin that you can commit against God that 455 00:20:52,245 --> 00:20:53,715 doesn't allow you to go backward. 456 00:20:54,315 --> 00:20:55,575 There's no repentance available. 457 00:20:56,025 --> 00:20:57,825 There's no opportunity to be right with God. 458 00:20:58,845 --> 00:21:01,215 He says whoever speaks a word against the son, a man will be forgiven. 459 00:21:01,215 --> 00:21:03,075 That is whoever says bad things about Jesus. 460 00:21:03,195 --> 00:21:04,005 You can. 461 00:21:04,005 --> 00:21:08,415 You can eventually repent from that, but whoever speaks against the Holy 462 00:21:08,415 --> 00:21:12,915 Spirit will not be forgiven either in this age or the age to come. 463 00:21:13,245 --> 00:21:15,615 There is a kind of hardheartedness against God. 464 00:21:16,125 --> 00:21:19,575 A kind of constant rejection against God that you cross a 465 00:21:19,575 --> 00:21:21,855 threshold and you can't go back. 466 00:21:22,635 --> 00:21:26,504 You dive in your titan down to a depth where there's no returning. 467 00:21:27,315 --> 00:21:31,185 It's game over, and the thing is just like those in the Titan, you don't 468 00:21:31,185 --> 00:21:34,275 know when that line is, but Jesus is saying there's a kind of sin. 469 00:21:34,305 --> 00:21:38,445 He calls it the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, which people debate what it means. 470 00:21:38,445 --> 00:21:40,065 But let me just shoot straight with you here. 471 00:21:40,815 --> 00:21:42,615 Even if we were to say, look, this is something that can 472 00:21:42,675 --> 00:21:44,715 only happen with the Pharisees. 473 00:21:45,645 --> 00:21:49,455 The type of sin that's committed here can be committed by Christians today. 474 00:21:50,685 --> 00:21:51,975 When I say Christians, I mean people. 475 00:21:52,695 --> 00:21:54,045 It can be committed by people Today. 476 00:21:54,975 --> 00:22:00,045 There's a kind of rebellion against God, rejection of God, where you 477 00:22:00,045 --> 00:22:03,765 reject him so much, you harden your heart against him so much that there's 478 00:22:03,765 --> 00:22:05,595 no more opportunity to turn around. 479 00:22:06,855 --> 00:22:10,965 That being the case then so that you don't reject Jesus for the wrong reasons, and 480 00:22:10,965 --> 00:22:12,285 so that you don't act like a Pharisee. 481 00:22:12,315 --> 00:22:13,425 I don't want you to become a Pharisee. 482 00:22:13,425 --> 00:22:14,865 The Pharisees basically. 483 00:22:15,225 --> 00:22:17,535 They try to discredit Jesus to avoid the truth. 484 00:22:17,745 --> 00:22:19,965 Jesus is saying, look, you know that I've given you every 485 00:22:19,965 --> 00:22:20,835 reason to believe in people. 486 00:22:20,835 --> 00:22:23,925 You discredit me because you don't wanna submit to the truth 487 00:22:24,855 --> 00:22:25,905 if you don't want that to be you. 488 00:22:25,905 --> 00:22:29,115 Point number two, you need to fight and pray for a pure heart before God. 489 00:22:29,955 --> 00:22:33,975 You have to fight for this guys because your heart is wayward and wicked. 490 00:22:34,305 --> 00:22:36,645 The Bible says that your heart is deceitful. 491 00:22:37,020 --> 00:22:37,860 And it does evil. 492 00:22:37,860 --> 00:22:41,700 Your heart will lean toward doing the wrong thing unless you fight and pray 493 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:45,240 tooth and nail before God to say, God, please give me a pure heart. 494 00:22:47,850 --> 00:22:48,450 Please help me. 495 00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:51,420 God, I know that my heart goes the wrong way. 496 00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:53,010 I can't trust it. 497 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,070 I can only trust you and God, I'm praying. 498 00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:58,950 Please give me a soft, humble heart before you. 499 00:23:00,630 --> 00:23:01,410 Some of you need to pray. 500 00:23:01,410 --> 00:23:03,240 God, please help me to care about the things that I should 501 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,760 care about because I don't care. 502 00:23:06,659 --> 00:23:08,070 God, I'm bored by the Bible. 503 00:23:08,129 --> 00:23:09,330 I'm bored by small groups. 504 00:23:09,330 --> 00:23:13,110 I'm bored by the things that my parents believe, and so God, I'm praying. 505 00:23:13,110 --> 00:23:15,240 Please help me to care about the things I should care about. 506 00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:21,149 I want you to imagine with me, you're a pilot. 507 00:23:22,110 --> 00:23:25,500 You're flying in in Texas, weather storms. 508 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:27,149 There's lightning. 509 00:23:27,149 --> 00:23:31,200 There's thunder, and so you're in the middle of this massive storm system. 510 00:23:31,710 --> 00:23:34,170 It's dark all around and you can't see out the window. 511 00:23:34,890 --> 00:23:38,130 In a situation like that where it's dark outside, you got your 512 00:23:38,130 --> 00:23:40,860 instrument panel, you don't, you can't see up, you can't see down. 513 00:23:41,070 --> 00:23:42,840 You have to trust your instruments. 514 00:23:43,620 --> 00:23:46,380 And in fact, one of the cool things that a pilot can do now is 515 00:23:46,380 --> 00:23:47,820 that they can turn on autopilot. 516 00:23:48,390 --> 00:23:51,330 Autopilot will take them in in the direction that they program, and 517 00:23:51,330 --> 00:23:55,020 it'll take care of the wind speed, or it'll take care of your engine speed. 518 00:23:55,230 --> 00:23:57,240 It'll take care of your tilt, and it'll take care of your rudder. 519 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,700 It'll do all of that to help keep you going the right direction. 520 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:01,260 So a pilot can say, look. 521 00:24:01,590 --> 00:24:03,180 We're just gonna put this thing on autopilot. 522 00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:05,580 We'll just keep an eye on it as we make our progress toward 523 00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:06,540 whatever the destination is. 524 00:24:06,540 --> 00:24:10,590 I want you to pretend that you're, that you're that captain, but you find out, 525 00:24:11,879 --> 00:24:16,260 even though everything seems fine, you find out because someone will let you 526 00:24:16,260 --> 00:24:18,750 know the autopilot actually has a virus. 527 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,389 And even though it looks like you're making progress, it's actually 528 00:24:21,389 --> 00:24:22,560 taking you in the wrong direction. 529 00:24:23,129 --> 00:24:27,000 And even though it looks like things are fine, it's actually sabotaging your input. 530 00:24:27,030 --> 00:24:29,909 You put in four degrees south and it's actually gonna put 531 00:24:29,909 --> 00:24:31,110 you in 10 degrees north. 532 00:24:31,725 --> 00:24:34,425 Everything you put in gets distorted and twisted, and even though you're 533 00:24:34,425 --> 00:24:36,555 putting in the right things, you're trying to say, oh, go this way. 534 00:24:36,555 --> 00:24:40,425 Go to Heathrow airports, uh, or go this speed and go this altitude. 535 00:24:40,665 --> 00:24:44,055 It's taking it and it's distorting it because there's a virus in your autopilot. 536 00:24:45,645 --> 00:24:47,235 What kind of situation would you be in at that point? 537 00:24:47,475 --> 00:24:49,755 What would need to happen for you to get where you need to go? 538 00:24:50,745 --> 00:24:51,285 What would happen? 539 00:24:51,345 --> 00:24:54,255 You would have to take control of your, your vessel, or you couldn't just stay 540 00:24:54,255 --> 00:24:55,605 there and hope that it worked out okay. 541 00:24:56,325 --> 00:24:58,965 This is a little bit of how our hearts work like. 542 00:24:59,504 --> 00:25:03,945 You can be blind, flying blind in, in, in your life trusting 543 00:25:03,945 --> 00:25:06,135 that your autopilot, your heart is taking you the right direction. 544 00:25:06,314 --> 00:25:08,804 But what you don't realize is that your heart is inclined toward evil. 545 00:25:09,104 --> 00:25:10,665 Your heart is not on your side. 546 00:25:10,665 --> 00:25:11,445 It's not your friend. 547 00:25:11,594 --> 00:25:13,094 Your heart works against you. 548 00:25:13,094 --> 00:25:15,375 And so even though you might say, ah, heart, I want you to 549 00:25:15,375 --> 00:25:17,294 go to the right direction, your heart's gonna say, no thank you. 550 00:25:17,294 --> 00:25:18,044 I'm gonna do my own thing. 551 00:25:18,314 --> 00:25:19,935 I want to, I wanna serve my own ends. 552 00:25:21,044 --> 00:25:23,955 If you're on autopilot spiritually, you're just coasting through life. 553 00:25:24,314 --> 00:25:26,594 You may not notice that your compass is broken. 554 00:25:26,895 --> 00:25:28,514 You may not notice that you're going. 555 00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:33,255 Totally in the wrong direction, and that's why we can't afford to fly on 556 00:25:33,255 --> 00:25:35,055 autopilot when it comes to our faith. 557 00:25:36,015 --> 00:25:40,275 One way that you can check your autopilot is to make sure that your plane gets 558 00:25:40,275 --> 00:25:43,575 maintenance, could send it to the mechanic and say, Hey, I need you to make sure that 559 00:25:43,575 --> 00:25:45,885 the plane is calibrated to fly properly. 560 00:25:46,095 --> 00:25:48,555 So the mechanic will look at it, he'll, he'll run, hi, he'll run your 561 00:25:48,555 --> 00:25:49,935 computer system through his computer. 562 00:25:50,205 --> 00:25:53,265 He'll make sure your plane is air worthy and that everything's 563 00:25:53,265 --> 00:25:54,225 working as it should. 564 00:25:54,435 --> 00:25:56,475 And that's a little bit of like how our heart works. 565 00:25:57,824 --> 00:25:59,895 And a little bit of like how the Bible works. 566 00:26:00,764 --> 00:26:05,294 When you're allowing your plane, your life to be controlled by the spirit and 567 00:26:05,294 --> 00:26:10,245 to be updated by the spirit and to be, uh, calibrated by his word, your plane 568 00:26:10,245 --> 00:26:11,745 now suddenly can fly the right direction. 569 00:26:11,774 --> 00:26:13,875 'cause you have a map that's reliable. 570 00:26:16,665 --> 00:26:18,675 The pharisees hard harden their heart against Jesus. 571 00:26:18,675 --> 00:26:22,514 They know they can't see, but they don't care that they're on the wrong path. 572 00:26:22,574 --> 00:26:23,955 They're working against Jesus. 573 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:30,720 You need to fight and pray that your autopilot is working well. 574 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:31,860 In fact, let's put it like this here. 575 00:26:32,130 --> 00:26:37,590 I need you to do that by distrusting your heart, your autopilot, the 576 00:26:37,590 --> 00:26:39,450 thing that directs you and your life. 577 00:26:39,690 --> 00:26:43,230 In fact, Proverbs says this twice word for word. 578 00:26:43,230 --> 00:26:44,400 Here's what it says in the Proverbs. 579 00:26:44,730 --> 00:26:49,590 There's a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. 580 00:26:50,130 --> 00:26:52,410 There's a way where your autopilot directs you, where you 581 00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:53,970 like, oh, this feels so right. 582 00:26:54,615 --> 00:26:57,435 It feels like the right thing to do, but at the end is the way to death. 583 00:26:57,435 --> 00:27:00,284 It says that in two passages verbatim. 584 00:27:00,375 --> 00:27:02,685 Proverbs, Proverbs 1412 and 1625. 585 00:27:03,195 --> 00:27:04,665 Don't trust your autopilot. 586 00:27:05,235 --> 00:27:06,375 You need to trust the word of God. 587 00:27:06,615 --> 00:27:11,534 Number two, fight and pray for a pure heart by asking God to guide your heart. 588 00:27:11,534 --> 00:27:13,725 You know, one thing that I didn't say that you could do, that you could 589 00:27:13,725 --> 00:27:14,895 do that would really be helpful. 590 00:27:15,705 --> 00:27:17,834 The pilot can say, Hey, air traffic control. 591 00:27:17,834 --> 00:27:19,695 I'm on the way to Heathrow Airport in London. 592 00:27:20,010 --> 00:27:22,350 My autopilot's jacked up my instruments. 593 00:27:22,350 --> 00:27:23,340 I'm not sure if I can trust them. 594 00:27:23,340 --> 00:27:26,400 Can you help me guide to the right destination? 595 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,440 Air traffic control can say, yep, we got you. 596 00:27:28,590 --> 00:27:30,390 We see you, you're at 24,000 feet. 597 00:27:30,570 --> 00:27:32,670 We need you to go down to, you know, this many feet, and we 598 00:27:32,670 --> 00:27:33,870 need you to go to this air speed. 599 00:27:34,110 --> 00:27:34,650 Keep doing it. 600 00:27:34,650 --> 00:27:35,670 We'll let you know how you're doing. 601 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,300 So air traffic control can actually guide you pretty manually 602 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:40,350 all the way to their airport. 603 00:27:40,350 --> 00:27:43,890 Now, not without a lot of in information, a lot of input, but this is like 604 00:27:43,890 --> 00:27:46,320 what it's, this is what it's like to say, God, please guide my heart. 605 00:27:47,715 --> 00:27:49,605 God, I don't know how, how I should live my life. 606 00:27:49,635 --> 00:27:50,715 I don't know what I should do. 607 00:27:51,075 --> 00:27:53,475 I don't always know what my Bible says, but Lord, you can do that. 608 00:27:53,475 --> 00:27:54,435 Would you please lead me? 609 00:27:54,465 --> 00:27:55,185 And here's the thing, guys. 610 00:27:55,185 --> 00:27:56,835 God wants to answer this request. 611 00:27:57,525 --> 00:28:01,605 He just, you just need to ask, this is how you fight and pray 612 00:28:01,605 --> 00:28:05,385 for a heart that doesn't reject Jesus for all the wrong reasons. 613 00:28:06,075 --> 00:28:07,785 Thirdly, if you're gonna fight and pray for a pure heart, 614 00:28:08,085 --> 00:28:11,055 you can do so by listening to the authoritative word of God. 615 00:28:11,415 --> 00:28:13,845 The Bible says in Psalm one 19, how can a young man or 616 00:28:13,845 --> 00:28:15,285 young woman keep his way pure? 617 00:28:15,615 --> 00:28:17,835 By guarding it according to your word. 618 00:28:17,835 --> 00:28:18,855 That's what the Bible says. 619 00:28:19,725 --> 00:28:23,715 And if talking to God is like talking to air traffic control, listening to 620 00:28:23,715 --> 00:28:27,495 the air, traffic control, listening to what they say is the third point. 621 00:28:28,545 --> 00:28:32,175 If they say, turn three degrees this way, you should do that because 622 00:28:32,175 --> 00:28:33,825 they can see things you can't see. 623 00:28:35,595 --> 00:28:36,975 This is how God works with us. 624 00:28:37,695 --> 00:28:39,975 When you read your Bible, you're seeing what God sees. 625 00:28:39,975 --> 00:28:41,085 At least in microscope. 626 00:28:41,115 --> 00:28:43,515 You can't see it all, but he's telling you, this is how life works. 627 00:28:44,025 --> 00:28:44,745 This is what's good. 628 00:28:44,745 --> 00:28:45,315 This is what's bad. 629 00:28:45,315 --> 00:28:47,415 And when you trust him, it's like saying, air traffic control. 630 00:28:47,415 --> 00:28:47,955 What do I do? 631 00:28:48,135 --> 00:28:48,915 Oh, I should go this way. 632 00:28:48,945 --> 00:28:49,125 Okay? 633 00:28:49,125 --> 00:28:49,665 I'm gonna trust you. 634 00:28:49,665 --> 00:28:51,405 I can't see, so I'm just gonna trust that what you're saying 635 00:28:51,405 --> 00:28:52,185 is the right thing to do. 636 00:28:54,615 --> 00:28:59,445 Otherwise, the danger is that you reject Jesus, and the more you reject 637 00:28:59,445 --> 00:29:00,885 him, the harder your heart becomes. 638 00:29:01,635 --> 00:29:03,495 We finish off with these final few verses here. 639 00:29:03,975 --> 00:29:06,165 These guys are now asking Jesus for a sign. 640 00:29:06,225 --> 00:29:09,885 Jesus, show us and prove to us that you are who you say you are. 641 00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:13,650 Jesus says to them, okay, you want a sign? 642 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:14,640 Let me give you one. 643 00:29:15,330 --> 00:29:18,600 He answered, well, before he says this, here's what he says, an evil 644 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,230 and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and the reason he says 645 00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:25,140 this is because they've already had several signs to look at. 646 00:29:25,470 --> 00:29:30,360 He says, no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 647 00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:34,410 In just a few days, we're gonna celebrate this sign that Jesus talks about. 648 00:29:34,410 --> 00:29:36,090 This is the sign of his resurrection. 649 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,020 Jesus. 650 00:29:37,605 --> 00:29:40,455 Predicts that he's gonna die and then rises again on the third 651 00:29:40,455 --> 00:29:42,405 day defeating sin and death. 652 00:29:42,585 --> 00:29:44,055 And this is exactly what he does. 653 00:29:44,775 --> 00:29:48,855 And he says, this kind of sign is a special sign that if you reject it, you're 654 00:29:48,855 --> 00:29:52,965 in big trouble because you have more knowledge of what's true and therefore you 655 00:29:52,965 --> 00:29:54,705 have more accountability for that truth. 656 00:29:54,705 --> 00:29:57,615 He says here in verse 41, the men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with 657 00:29:57,615 --> 00:30:03,465 this generation and condemn it for they repented at the sign of Jonah's preaching. 658 00:30:03,525 --> 00:30:04,635 And behold, look. 659 00:30:04,965 --> 00:30:07,004 Something greater than Jonah is here. 660 00:30:07,004 --> 00:30:12,735 Jesus is saying, if Nineveh had the chance to hear Jesus preaching, 661 00:30:12,735 --> 00:30:14,805 they, they would've repented because they pre, they were repented at 662 00:30:14,805 --> 00:30:16,725 the, at the preaching of of Jonah. 663 00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:19,875 Jonah went to Nineveh, said, Hey guys, you need to repent. 664 00:30:19,875 --> 00:30:22,514 They re, they responded and they repented. 665 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:26,504 Jesus is saying, you guys have far more to work with and yet your 666 00:30:26,504 --> 00:30:28,305 heart is hard and cold against me. 667 00:30:31,365 --> 00:30:32,595 The danger for you all. 668 00:30:33,765 --> 00:30:37,695 The danger for all of us is that when people reject Jesus, part of 669 00:30:37,695 --> 00:30:43,215 the reason they do that, one of the reasons they do that is that they, they 670 00:30:43,215 --> 00:30:45,885 make unreasonable demands of Jesus. 671 00:30:46,095 --> 00:30:48,855 I was listening to an atheist this week on a, on a, on a 672 00:30:48,855 --> 00:30:50,865 YouTube video, and he said this. 673 00:30:51,705 --> 00:30:55,155 He said, Christians make bold claims about who God is, what 674 00:30:55,155 --> 00:30:56,295 he's come to do, all those things. 675 00:30:56,295 --> 00:31:02,385 He says, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. 676 00:31:02,970 --> 00:31:04,440 Which sounds pretty reasonable, right? 677 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,460 Extraordinary claims. 678 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:06,270 Jesus is the God. 679 00:31:06,270 --> 00:31:08,520 He's the son of God, and he came to live and die in our place, and 680 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:09,570 a rose again on the third day. 681 00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:13,020 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. 682 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,000 Makes sense. 683 00:31:17,130 --> 00:31:19,860 But I would say, how about the, how about the resurrection? 684 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:21,540 That's a pretty good one. 685 00:31:22,650 --> 00:31:24,180 He died, he rose again. 686 00:31:24,180 --> 00:31:27,270 There's really no better explanation than, than what we say here is true. 687 00:31:27,270 --> 00:31:27,570 I mean. 688 00:31:29,730 --> 00:31:32,310 The challenge for all of us, and the challenge for you, especially if you're 689 00:31:32,310 --> 00:31:35,610 on the verge of rejecting Jesus again after another sermon about him, is 690 00:31:35,610 --> 00:31:37,230 that you examine the evidence fairly. 691 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,500 Jesus tells the Pharisees, look, you've had plenty of signs, 692 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:41,580 you've had plenty of miracles. 693 00:31:41,580 --> 00:31:45,300 You've had plenty of options and opportunities to respond as you should. 694 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,280 So if you're not gonna examine the the evidence reasonably, 695 00:31:52,020 --> 00:31:53,640 you'll end up rejecting Jesus. 696 00:31:55,530 --> 00:31:58,140 I would encourage you to think about the evidence that the Bible offers. 697 00:31:58,170 --> 00:31:58,230 You. 698 00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:05,100 If Jesus is who he says he is, and he's done what, what the Bible says he's 699 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:10,020 done, you ought to be 100% sure that it's not true if you're gonna reject 700 00:32:10,020 --> 00:32:13,560 it, because tonight, Jesus is calling you to repent and put your trust in him. 701 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,280 Tonight, Jesus is calling you not to play games anymore. 702 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,430 Not to play church, but to trust him. 703 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:23,850 Turning away from your sin, putting your full trust and your confidence in 704 00:32:23,850 --> 00:32:26,340 Jesus because the evidence is there. 705 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:28,080 Jesus has provided so much of it. 706 00:32:29,490 --> 00:32:31,169 There's something called the watchmaker analogy. 707 00:32:31,169 --> 00:32:31,860 Have you heard this before? 708 00:32:31,860 --> 00:32:33,149 The watchmaker analogy. 709 00:32:33,870 --> 00:32:35,879 This is a very common one, but I want you, I want you to know this one. 710 00:32:36,419 --> 00:32:39,480 This was, uh, designed by a guy named William Paley in the 18 hundreds. 711 00:32:40,050 --> 00:32:43,199 Here's what he said, um, in a nutshell, I'm gonna make it really 712 00:32:43,199 --> 00:32:44,939 simple 'cause that's what I need. 713 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,800 But he says, imagine you're in a forest and all you see is dense woods. 714 00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:52,290 You got trees and shrubs, and you got rabbits and all sorts of 715 00:32:52,290 --> 00:32:53,220 things in there in the forest. 716 00:32:53,250 --> 00:32:57,330 And as you're making your way through this dense forest, you come across a watch. 717 00:32:58,275 --> 00:33:01,245 And you pick up the watch and you begin to look at the watch and you say, oh, look at 718 00:33:01,245 --> 00:33:04,905 all this, the machinery inside, it's got someone's name, it's got initials on it. 719 00:33:05,985 --> 00:33:10,335 William Paley said The only reasonable thing to think if you pick up a 720 00:33:10,335 --> 00:33:14,775 watch in the middle of a forest is that somebody left the watch. 721 00:33:15,855 --> 00:33:17,145 Makes perfect sense, right? 722 00:33:17,355 --> 00:33:18,465 No one's gonna guess. 723 00:33:18,825 --> 00:33:21,585 I wonder if the tree made this watch. 724 00:33:22,485 --> 00:33:24,195 I wonder if it evolved. 725 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,790 If it just kind of emerged by itself, I wonder if the alphabet 726 00:33:29,790 --> 00:33:31,710 just kind of magically showed up. 727 00:33:32,460 --> 00:33:37,530 This is a little bit of what Evolution teaches, and William Paley says, if 728 00:33:37,530 --> 00:33:41,790 you can see a watch in the force and recognize, oh, somebody made this and 729 00:33:41,790 --> 00:33:45,990 left it behind, then it's really not a stretch to look at all of creation and 730 00:33:45,990 --> 00:33:48,870 say, well, clearly somebody made this. 731 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:53,910 Because a watch, even though it's complex, is not nearly as complex. 732 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:56,460 And as well designed as your DNA. 733 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:03,060 Your DNA is far more dense with information, far more beautiful and is 734 00:34:03,060 --> 00:34:06,000 designed by God, and it communicates far more than a watch ever would. 735 00:34:06,930 --> 00:34:08,130 The evidence is there. 736 00:34:08,580 --> 00:34:11,550 Your job is to evaluate it fairly. 737 00:34:11,550 --> 00:34:13,440 And again, going back to my last point, your heart wants 738 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:14,250 to go a different direction. 739 00:34:14,250 --> 00:34:15,750 That means you really have to work hard at this. 740 00:34:15,929 --> 00:34:18,179 Here are three things that I need you to evaluate. 741 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,370 Three areas of evidence that you need to consider. 742 00:34:21,850 --> 00:34:23,085 The first one is the resurrection. 743 00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:25,485 Jesus lived, he died, he rose again On the third day. 744 00:34:25,605 --> 00:34:26,985 There's no, there's no denying that. 745 00:34:27,225 --> 00:34:30,554 People have tried to debate this for years and they realize it's impossible to do it. 746 00:34:30,764 --> 00:34:34,815 The most probable explanation is that Jesus really did die and rise again. 747 00:34:35,625 --> 00:34:41,355 Second, I want you to examine the evidence that manmade religion fails. 748 00:34:41,355 --> 00:34:42,135 It doesn't work. 749 00:34:42,435 --> 00:34:46,755 Jesus has this interesting story about a demon being cast out of a person. 750 00:34:47,114 --> 00:34:50,324 And then seven demons coming back and entering into that person. 751 00:34:51,315 --> 00:34:55,995 There is evidence that people can cast out demons, even if they're not Christians. 752 00:34:56,324 --> 00:34:58,875 Jewish Exorcist did this, and it seems like Jesus acknowledges 753 00:34:58,875 --> 00:35:01,035 this, but that's manmade religion. 754 00:35:01,095 --> 00:35:04,515 They might be able to do something good, but even the little good that they do 755 00:35:04,605 --> 00:35:06,734 makes a lot more problems for that person. 756 00:35:06,765 --> 00:35:10,875 'cause it creates a vacuum where more demons can enter, more evil can enter. 757 00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:13,095 The only thing that works is when. 758 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,360 Evil is eradicated and filled in by the spirit, spirit of God changing us. 759 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,130 That's evidence you should look at. 760 00:35:20,130 --> 00:35:21,060 Religion doesn't work. 761 00:35:21,450 --> 00:35:22,290 Jesus. 762 00:35:22,410 --> 00:35:25,890 He works Jesus, he saves Jesus. 763 00:35:25,980 --> 00:35:27,150 He makes all things work. 764 00:35:27,450 --> 00:35:31,965 Number three, Jesus is approached by his mother and his brothers, and 765 00:35:31,965 --> 00:35:33,960 he, and they say, Hey, Jesus, your mother and your brother are here. 766 00:35:34,290 --> 00:35:36,060 And Jesus says, oh, fantastic. 767 00:35:36,060 --> 00:35:38,700 Hail Mother Mary, full of grace and truth. 768 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,055 Blessed is thy womb and thy womb of your a. 769 00:35:41,625 --> 00:35:43,544 Jesus doesn't say anything like that. 770 00:35:43,544 --> 00:35:47,325 In fact, this is the one time Jesus could have said Mary is special. 771 00:35:47,354 --> 00:35:47,865 Honor her. 772 00:35:47,865 --> 00:35:48,975 Pray to her, revere her. 773 00:35:49,515 --> 00:35:50,294 You know what he says? 774 00:35:50,955 --> 00:35:56,055 He says, my mother and my brother, who are my mother and my brother, 775 00:35:56,774 --> 00:35:58,185 and then he points to his disciples. 776 00:35:58,814 --> 00:36:03,464 He says, these guys, these guys who do the will of my father, 777 00:36:03,555 --> 00:36:05,745 this is my mother and my brother. 778 00:36:06,555 --> 00:36:07,395 These are my people. 779 00:36:08,055 --> 00:36:09,435 Jesus does something remarkable. 780 00:36:10,154 --> 00:36:10,875 He says. 781 00:36:11,790 --> 00:36:18,870 These men are more important than my family because they're doing God's will. 782 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:20,670 They're following the signs. 783 00:36:21,029 --> 00:36:22,440 They know the signs of the Bible. 784 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,540 They know the signs of my, my life, my work. 785 00:36:24,990 --> 00:36:25,770 These guys get it. 786 00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:30,089 That's a big thing to say, especially 'cause we think his 787 00:36:30,089 --> 00:36:31,259 mom was some kind of believer. 788 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,380 But even his mom takes a backseat to his disciples. 789 00:36:34,410 --> 00:36:37,860 Remember, he has three favorite disciples, Peter, James, and John, and then he 790 00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:40,710 has the others who are following his teaching and is following his leadership. 791 00:36:40,770 --> 00:36:43,529 That's a big sign for any Christian who becomes a Christian. 792 00:36:43,529 --> 00:36:45,270 They recognize Jesus becomes everything. 793 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:47,370 He's number one priority in my whole life. 794 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,270 That's what a Christian says. 795 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,430 He's number one in my, my marriage. 796 00:36:50,430 --> 00:36:51,570 He's number one in my schooling. 797 00:36:51,630 --> 00:36:53,190 He's number one in my college choices. 798 00:36:53,250 --> 00:36:54,630 He's number one in my hobbies. 799 00:36:54,660 --> 00:36:56,250 He's number one on my Wednesday nights. 800 00:36:56,250 --> 00:36:57,990 When I think about what I'm gonna do and how I'm gonna spend 801 00:36:57,990 --> 00:36:59,610 my time, Jesus is number one. 802 00:36:59,820 --> 00:37:01,920 That's the big change in Christian relationships. 803 00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:03,330 Jesus becomes number one. 804 00:37:03,330 --> 00:37:07,200 That's a big sign, and you ought to pay attention to that and evaluate 805 00:37:07,230 --> 00:37:08,610 and examine that evidence fairly. 806 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:09,960 Why? 807 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,720 Well, because the more you reject Jesus, the harder your heart becomes. 808 00:37:15,990 --> 00:37:16,710 Here's something interesting. 809 00:37:17,805 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaking of the Titanic, why did the Titanic sink hit an iceberg? 810 00:37:25,995 --> 00:37:26,774 Hit an iceberg. 811 00:37:27,165 --> 00:37:31,305 That's, that's the technical reason, but I don't think the Titanic 812 00:37:31,305 --> 00:37:32,504 sunk because it hit an iceberg. 813 00:37:32,504 --> 00:37:38,085 It sank because those in charge ignored multiple warnings. 814 00:37:38,955 --> 00:37:43,365 They had different opportunities to avoid a collision course with an 815 00:37:43,365 --> 00:37:44,355 iceberg in the middle of the night. 816 00:37:45,285 --> 00:37:46,305 So they hit the iceberg. 817 00:37:46,305 --> 00:37:46,605 Yes. 818 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,910 But they, they did that because they ignored warnings, multiple 819 00:37:50,910 --> 00:37:52,590 opportunities to avoid the iceberg. 820 00:37:53,250 --> 00:37:56,790 Tonight, you have yet another opportunity to avoid the iceberg called death. 821 00:37:57,750 --> 00:38:01,230 It's coming for all of us at some point, and Jesus is giving you yet 822 00:38:01,230 --> 00:38:04,380 another opportunity and a warning to say, look, you either repent and you 823 00:38:04,380 --> 00:38:06,900 trust Jesus Christ, or you live for yourself and you do your own thing. 824 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,250 Please don't put away your stuff yet. 825 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:09,180 Stay with me. 826 00:38:09,210 --> 00:38:09,720 I'm almost done. 827 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:10,740 I promise I shouldn't have changed it. 828 00:38:10,740 --> 00:38:13,140 Let me, I know the last line is the key to put things away. 829 00:38:13,170 --> 00:38:13,590 Don't do that yet. 830 00:38:13,770 --> 00:38:15,450 'cause I, I wanna make an impassion plea with you. 831 00:38:18,660 --> 00:38:20,370 You don't know your last opportunity. 832 00:38:22,020 --> 00:38:24,240 Can I just say that honestly, without trying to be scary? 833 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:25,109 I'm not trying to scare you. 834 00:38:25,109 --> 00:38:26,160 I'm just saying the reality. 835 00:38:26,460 --> 00:38:27,870 None of us know our last opportunity. 836 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,290 Are you confident that you're right with your Lord? 837 00:38:31,890 --> 00:38:33,299 Are you trusting Jesus tonight? 838 00:38:33,779 --> 00:38:35,819 Are is your heart right with the one who made you? 839 00:38:36,689 --> 00:38:38,040 What does Jesus call us to do? 840 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:39,419 Repent and believe. 841 00:38:39,450 --> 00:38:40,259 Turn from your sin. 842 00:38:40,259 --> 00:38:41,580 Put your full trust in Jesus. 843 00:38:41,669 --> 00:38:42,600 That's what he calls us to do. 844 00:38:42,810 --> 00:38:43,259 That's it. 845 00:38:44,009 --> 00:38:46,319 I mean, that's really a life changing decision, but that's it. 846 00:38:48,390 --> 00:38:51,089 The more you reject Jesus though, the more you kick the can down the 847 00:38:51,089 --> 00:38:53,580 road and say, well, maybe I'll do it later, or maybe I'll think about 848 00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:54,779 it and I still need more time. 849 00:38:55,890 --> 00:38:56,940 You don't know how much time you have. 850 00:38:58,649 --> 00:39:00,839 The more you reject Jesus, the harder your heart becomes. 851 00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:06,690 Rejecting Jesus never really leaves you the same. 852 00:39:07,620 --> 00:39:09,149 Tonight, I would love for you to examine your heart. 853 00:39:09,779 --> 00:39:11,069 Are you listening to Jesus? 854 00:39:11,069 --> 00:39:13,169 Are you responding to him or. 855 00:39:13,904 --> 00:39:14,835 Are you still resisting him? 856 00:39:14,835 --> 00:39:15,465 Still rejecting him? 857 00:39:15,465 --> 00:39:16,095 Like the Pharisees? 858 00:39:16,845 --> 00:39:19,365 I encourage you to think long and hard about that as you prepare 859 00:39:19,365 --> 00:39:20,085 to go to your small groups. 860 00:39:20,085 --> 00:39:21,134 Let's pray and I'll send you out. 861 00:39:21,855 --> 00:39:25,125 God, we thank you for the night and ask that you please now help us to spend 862 00:39:25,125 --> 00:39:29,775 great time, honest time, vulnerable time, even fun time in our small groups. 863 00:39:29,775 --> 00:39:31,785 Give us a great time interacting with this truth. 864 00:39:31,965 --> 00:39:35,835 Help us to learn from one another and to grow as a result of what we study tonight. 865 00:39:36,075 --> 00:39:37,215 We ask this all in Jesus name. 866 00:39:37,695 --> 00:39:38,145 Amen.