1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:01,280 Yeah. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:03,840 Amen. 3 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:04,560 Amen. 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,640 I'm just grateful to be in a place that loves my Savior and my 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:25,000 king and my master and, man, it's rare to feel so at home because 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,840 the place is just in love with Jesus. 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,440 Don't care about nothing else but his name being lifted up. 8 00:00:29,930 --> 00:00:31,810 And so I'm so grateful to be among you. 9 00:00:31,810 --> 00:00:32,250 For real? 10 00:00:32,250 --> 00:00:33,050 Like, for real? 11 00:00:37,450 --> 00:00:37,850 Yeah. 12 00:00:37,850 --> 00:00:41,530 If I ain't got the chance to meet you yet, my name is Recap Gray. 13 00:00:42,410 --> 00:00:44,490 We coming from Orlando, Florida. 14 00:00:44,570 --> 00:00:48,490 New Creation Fellowship is the name of our church. 15 00:00:48,890 --> 00:00:53,210 And if you wouldn't mind, go ahead and grab Matthew 12. 16 00:00:53,530 --> 00:00:56,850 Grab Matthew 12, Matthew 12, my father, Matthew 12. 17 00:00:57,890 --> 00:01:00,370 But, yeah, coming from Orlando, Florida. 18 00:01:00,930 --> 00:01:02,930 And while you're turning there, I just want to let you know 19 00:01:02,930 --> 00:01:03,970 a little bit about my family. 20 00:01:03,970 --> 00:01:09,490 So I think I got a picture on the screen of my family, maybe. 21 00:01:10,210 --> 00:01:11,570 Okay, then maybe not. 22 00:01:11,570 --> 00:01:15,970 All right, well, I got a picture of me, clearly. 23 00:01:16,050 --> 00:01:16,650 There they go. 24 00:01:16,650 --> 00:01:17,250 There they go. 25 00:01:18,450 --> 00:01:19,450 So this is my family. 26 00:01:19,450 --> 00:01:20,850 Yeah, I can celebrate. 27 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:25,700 So this is my family. 28 00:01:25,940 --> 00:01:28,660 Hadassah is the youngest one, smiling right there. 29 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:34,500 And then I got Jonathan, who's brought so much joy to our family. 30 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:38,820 And then we got my oldest daughter, Zipporah. 31 00:01:39,460 --> 00:01:42,140 And then my oldest son, who we call Mini Me. 32 00:01:42,140 --> 00:01:42,980 That's Aaron. 33 00:01:43,860 --> 00:01:46,100 And then the one I love the most is. 34 00:01:46,180 --> 00:01:48,340 And I told him that is Brittany, my wife. 35 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:49,400 And she's actually with us. 36 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,440 Would you mind standing there and just say what's up? 37 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 38 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,760 I don't know if y' all remember Terrell Owens. 39 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:02,800 I love me some me. 40 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,360 I love me some her. 41 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:14,480 She is a godly woman, loves the Scriptures, knows how to pray. 42 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,120 Like pray. 43 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:22,900 Pray is centered on the Lord, selfless, and women of valor like 44 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:23,940 that are to be honored. 45 00:02:23,940 --> 00:02:25,940 So would y' all mind just honoring the Lord? 46 00:02:25,940 --> 00:02:34,380 For my wife Brittany, and he made her fine, too. 47 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:35,900 So that's just a surplus for me. 48 00:02:36,460 --> 00:02:39,660 I ain't asked for all that, but I'll take that, too. 49 00:02:39,740 --> 00:02:41,900 So bad, bad, bad. 50 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:43,380 I love me some Brittany, y'. 51 00:02:43,380 --> 00:02:43,580 All. 52 00:02:44,810 --> 00:02:48,650 Well, we also coming from New Creation Fellowship, and I don't 53 00:02:48,650 --> 00:02:49,930 know if the QR code is working. 54 00:02:49,930 --> 00:02:50,690 You can see the. 55 00:02:50,690 --> 00:02:52,250 At least you can see the logo on the John. 56 00:02:52,250 --> 00:02:53,850 You could try pulling out your phone. 57 00:02:54,090 --> 00:02:59,210 Some of the folks were having trouble with that, but new creationorl.org 58 00:02:59,210 --> 00:03:00,250 is our website. 59 00:03:00,890 --> 00:03:06,050 New creationorlforlando.org and you can just keep up to date 60 00:03:06,050 --> 00:03:07,930 with what's going on at our church. 61 00:03:08,650 --> 00:03:11,010 But whether you know it or not, if you're a part of this church, 62 00:03:11,010 --> 00:03:14,960 y' all have been supporting a move of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 63 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,000 Like, I've never personally experienced it. 64 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,600 I've been pastoring for quite some time, been doing full time ministry 65 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,760 since about 2013, 2014, and have never experienced anything like 66 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:28,080 that. 67 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,400 We have parachuted into Orlando, myself and my wife, our 68 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,240 family, another brother and his wife and another dude. 69 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,320 And we just came together and a few people just from different 70 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,320 states moved into Orlando. 71 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,280 We ain't know nobody. 72 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:44,410 There was no church that we had a relationship with when we got 73 00:03:44,410 --> 00:03:44,690 there. 74 00:03:45,650 --> 00:03:48,850 And yet by the grace of God, found some dope churches. 75 00:03:49,490 --> 00:03:54,450 The Lord plugged us into some places and man, we have seen the 76 00:03:54,450 --> 00:03:56,610 Lord do some amazing, amazing things. 77 00:03:56,610 --> 00:04:00,370 Now if you think in Orlando, we not near Disney, somebody say, 78 00:04:00,370 --> 00:04:01,170 not Disney. 79 00:04:02,290 --> 00:04:03,130 Y' all gotta say that. 80 00:04:03,130 --> 00:04:05,010 Say, not Disney, all right? 81 00:04:05,010 --> 00:04:05,970 Say, not Disney. 82 00:04:06,690 --> 00:04:07,090 All right? 83 00:04:07,090 --> 00:04:09,850 So don't be coming to Orlando, Florida, like, looking for Mickey, 84 00:04:09,850 --> 00:04:10,450 where we at? 85 00:04:11,290 --> 00:04:13,130 Mickey don't come to our hood, I promise you. 86 00:04:14,570 --> 00:04:16,090 So we ain't, we ain't there. 87 00:04:16,890 --> 00:04:21,050 But by the grace of God, the gospel is moving there. 88 00:04:21,370 --> 00:04:28,170 And just like in the last 13 months, we've seen over like 53 baptisms, 89 00:04:28,650 --> 00:04:29,450 which has been. 90 00:04:31,050 --> 00:04:35,210 Yeah, it has been absolutely amazing. 91 00:04:35,210 --> 00:04:38,610 And I can tell you one thing, it ain't been good preaching, it 92 00:04:38,610 --> 00:04:40,730 ain't been good leading. 93 00:04:40,730 --> 00:04:42,010 It's been none of those things. 94 00:04:42,250 --> 00:04:45,730 We praise God that we offer those things as an offering, but 95 00:04:45,730 --> 00:04:48,530 if the wind of the Spirit of God don't blow on that thing, it 96 00:04:48,530 --> 00:04:49,530 ain't moving nowhere. 97 00:04:49,690 --> 00:04:54,770 And so God, the Holy Spirit has decided to save a lot of people. 98 00:04:54,770 --> 00:04:59,010 And we can't even tell you the amount of times we've met someone 99 00:04:59,010 --> 00:05:02,810 who has said, this is my first time stepping into a church ever 100 00:05:04,180 --> 00:05:07,380 and then baptizing that very person. 101 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:10,580 And it has been just ridiculous. 102 00:05:10,580 --> 00:05:12,940 So when I say God is doing some amazing things through your 103 00:05:12,940 --> 00:05:16,540 giving and your partnership, it's been incredible. 104 00:05:16,540 --> 00:05:19,300 And I genuinely say filled the church. 105 00:05:19,300 --> 00:05:24,060 We have various different partners, but y' all carry so much 106 00:05:24,060 --> 00:05:26,100 of our DNA of prayer. 107 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:29,780 Caring about the word of God, like, for real, for real. 108 00:05:29,780 --> 00:05:33,380 Been ferocious in the scriptures, but also fervent in prayer. 109 00:05:34,460 --> 00:05:37,260 The combination is, like, rare, as you know. 110 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:41,900 And so can y' all just join me in celebrating your leadership for 111 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:44,940 leading a church that cares about both things at the same time, 112 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:48,300 it's just a really big deal. 113 00:05:48,540 --> 00:05:49,420 Really big deal. 114 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:54,660 So, yeah, if y' all ever come through Orlando, stop by our spot. 115 00:05:54,660 --> 00:05:55,860 It'd be dope to see y'. 116 00:05:55,860 --> 00:05:56,020 All. 117 00:05:56,020 --> 00:06:00,660 And yeah, just continue to pray for us as we continue that work. 118 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:03,950 And by the way, if you do end up coming like, it's gonna be crazy. 119 00:06:03,950 --> 00:06:09,630 We got like ex Crips and very people who drive Teslas, let's say 120 00:06:09,630 --> 00:06:10,990 it like that, all in the same church. 121 00:06:10,990 --> 00:06:15,510 So we got a very beautifully diverse church. 122 00:06:15,510 --> 00:06:16,710 So just be ready. 123 00:06:16,950 --> 00:06:18,229 Y' all ready for the scriptures. 124 00:06:19,830 --> 00:06:20,790 Well, let's do it. 125 00:06:21,030 --> 00:06:24,230 Why don't we just go before the Lord in prayer before we get 126 00:06:24,230 --> 00:06:24,550 started? 127 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,960 There is none like you. 128 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,400 No one else can touch my heart like you do. 129 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:52,800 Thank you, Jesus. 130 00:06:54,410 --> 00:07:06,090 I can search for all eternity long and find there is none like 131 00:07:07,050 --> 00:07:07,450 you. 132 00:07:12,250 --> 00:07:14,410 Lord, as we love to say, you just different. 133 00:07:15,930 --> 00:07:17,450 Ain't nobody on your level. 134 00:07:18,580 --> 00:07:19,700 Nobody comes close. 135 00:07:22,340 --> 00:07:25,060 We can search and search and search and we ain't going to find 136 00:07:25,220 --> 00:07:26,500 nobody like you. 137 00:07:28,340 --> 00:07:30,500 You in a class all by yourself. 138 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:37,460 You're holy, you're set apart. 139 00:07:37,460 --> 00:07:38,740 You're distinguished. 140 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:47,130 We agree with the angels who cry, holy, holy, holy is the Lord 141 00:07:47,130 --> 00:07:47,770 God Almighty. 142 00:07:47,770 --> 00:07:49,330 The whole earth is full of your goodness. 143 00:07:52,210 --> 00:07:56,930 So, Lord, to preach the goodness of you, our perfect and 144 00:07:56,930 --> 00:08:01,250 holy God, is a task that really nobody can do. 145 00:08:03,330 --> 00:08:09,970 Yet I pray, O God, that in my weakness you will show off your strength, 146 00:08:13,420 --> 00:08:18,420 Lord, at worst, if you don't show up, this is a train wreck waiting 147 00:08:18,420 --> 00:08:18,740 to happen. 148 00:08:18,740 --> 00:08:20,140 And the TED Talk, at best. 149 00:08:21,180 --> 00:08:23,260 Your people do not need either one of those. 150 00:08:23,260 --> 00:08:25,260 They need transformational preaching. 151 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:35,260 So transform, change, save, sanctify, O God, reconcile, restore. 152 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:38,140 Do the kind of stuff that only you can do. 153 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:41,860 And we will give you the credit that only you deserve. 154 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:43,740 We love you and we praise you. 155 00:08:43,740 --> 00:08:45,820 We honor you, King of kings and Lord of Lords. 156 00:08:45,820 --> 00:08:48,260 Be with us as we listen. 157 00:08:48,260 --> 00:08:50,660 Be with me as I preach in Jesus, mighty name. 158 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:53,180 All God's people say amen. 159 00:08:53,180 --> 00:08:56,100 Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. 160 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:01,780 Do you know what a cuckold is? 161 00:09:03,780 --> 00:09:05,060 Right, right, right. 162 00:09:05,060 --> 00:09:05,780 I like that. 163 00:09:05,780 --> 00:09:06,420 I like that. 164 00:09:07,550 --> 00:09:08,990 Everybody should be confused. 165 00:09:10,670 --> 00:09:14,390 First time I ever heard the word was watching a family favorite 166 00:09:14,390 --> 00:09:16,950 movie, one of me and my wife's probably top five. 167 00:09:16,950 --> 00:09:18,550 You say top five, babe, Top five? 168 00:09:18,550 --> 00:09:19,910 Yeah, she gave me this one. 169 00:09:19,910 --> 00:09:20,830 So maybe top ten. 170 00:09:23,230 --> 00:09:26,670 Crazy Stupid Love was the movie. 171 00:09:26,750 --> 00:09:32,590 And it's a movie starring Steve Carell and who y' all know 172 00:09:32,590 --> 00:09:33,790 is Michael Scott from the Office. 173 00:09:33,790 --> 00:09:34,990 That's the best way to put that. 174 00:09:35,550 --> 00:09:37,590 I had to learn his name for this sermon because I don't know 175 00:09:37,590 --> 00:09:41,910 his name other than Michael sc, but starring him and a few others 176 00:09:41,910 --> 00:09:42,630 in the cast. 177 00:09:43,750 --> 00:09:47,990 And it's all about how these different couples from different 178 00:09:48,150 --> 00:09:51,990 generations, you got your Gen Z ers and your millennials and your 179 00:09:51,990 --> 00:09:55,750 baby boomers and silent generation all existing in this one 180 00:09:55,750 --> 00:09:56,230 movie. 181 00:09:56,390 --> 00:10:00,790 And it's all about these love stories of these different generations. 182 00:10:01,510 --> 00:10:07,600 And in the middle of the movie, the primary couple, Cal Weaver 183 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:12,920 and Emily Weaver, they are going through a rough patch in their 184 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:13,400 marriage. 185 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:16,440 As a matter of fact, the whole movie begins with them being at dinner. 186 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,000 They're looking at a menu, and they say, let's say what we want 187 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:19,800 on the count of three. 188 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,480 And as they looking at the menu, 1, 2, 3. 189 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,480 Cal Weaver, the husband, says something on the menu, and his wife 190 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:26,760 says, I want a divorce. 191 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,600 And it was one of those openings of the movies that you don't 192 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,200 know where to laugh or cry or what. 193 00:10:33,090 --> 00:10:34,450 And it got the movie going. 194 00:10:34,450 --> 00:10:35,690 And in the middle of the movie. 195 00:10:35,690 --> 00:10:37,690 He'S at a club, just depressed over. 196 00:10:37,690 --> 00:10:40,090 The fact that he's going through this divorce, and he's yelling 197 00:10:40,090 --> 00:10:42,730 out at the bar, she made a cuckold out of me. 198 00:10:42,730 --> 00:10:44,010 She made a cuckold out of me. 199 00:10:44,010 --> 00:10:45,530 She made a cuckold out of me. 200 00:10:45,530 --> 00:10:47,250 So I had to go look up what is a cuckold. 201 00:10:47,490 --> 00:10:49,170 And lo and behold, it's a term. 202 00:10:49,490 --> 00:10:53,090 It means a husband with an adulterous wife. 203 00:10:54,770 --> 00:10:59,370 And while it was a joke in the movie, some of you have experienced 204 00:10:59,370 --> 00:11:00,290 it in reality. 205 00:11:01,450 --> 00:11:05,930 And whether you experience unfaithfulness personally or not, 206 00:11:06,410 --> 00:11:07,610 I got news for you. 207 00:11:08,090 --> 00:11:09,930 You have participated in it. 208 00:11:10,570 --> 00:11:15,650 Because the truth of the matter is God's son, the Lord Jesus 209 00:11:15,650 --> 00:11:18,890 Christ, is a good and faithful husband. 210 00:11:19,930 --> 00:11:25,370 And we the people, have tried to make a cuckold out of Jesus. 211 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:31,940 We have been, as Ezekiel and the prophets would say, an adulterous 212 00:11:31,940 --> 00:11:32,580 generation. 213 00:11:34,020 --> 00:11:40,020 Through our idolatry, our wickedness, our sinfulness, we have 214 00:11:40,020 --> 00:11:45,460 run after any and every lover except our good husband, Jesus. 215 00:11:47,220 --> 00:11:50,780 And Jesus has some heavy words to say to you, and I ain't even. 216 00:11:50,780 --> 00:11:51,540 Going to hold you. 217 00:11:51,890 --> 00:11:52,930 The reason why I wanted to start. 218 00:11:52,930 --> 00:11:55,730 Off with a comedic movie is because. 219 00:11:55,730 --> 00:11:57,530 I needed something lighthearted to tell you all. 220 00:11:57,530 --> 00:12:02,730 I'm really a nice guy, but everything else I have to say to 221 00:12:02,730 --> 00:12:04,770 you is heavy, because the text is heavy. 222 00:12:05,810 --> 00:12:09,450 This ain't going to be a cute, pretty word, but I pray it's a. 223 00:12:09,450 --> 00:12:14,690 Convicting word that will cause us to long so badly for Jesus. 224 00:12:15,490 --> 00:12:20,040 But by the time we're done, nobody's eyes would be distracted 225 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:24,360 on anything else other than our great husband, Jesus Christ. 226 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:31,320 So what Jesus wants to say to us is that we are a faithless generation, 227 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,800 and he's going to describe our faithlessness in three ways. 228 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,120 That we're an evil generation. 229 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,760 We're an empty generation and we're an entitled generation. 230 00:12:44,210 --> 00:12:48,770 And he begins by describing the evilness of this generation, 231 00:12:49,490 --> 00:12:52,690 but he's going to do so by speaking to the people of his own 232 00:12:52,690 --> 00:12:53,330 time period. 233 00:12:54,210 --> 00:12:57,850 You got to understand if you have been trekking through the Gospel 234 00:12:57,850 --> 00:13:01,210 of Matthew, just how important the Pharisees and the Scribes and 235 00:13:01,210 --> 00:13:02,690 the Sadducees actually were. 236 00:13:02,770 --> 00:13:07,490 There were multiple different sects, different sectors of society, 237 00:13:07,490 --> 00:13:09,410 especially within the Jewish community. 238 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,640 And they had arisen for a myriad of different ways and reasons. 239 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:19,120 The Roman occupation had come in, and therefore there was a response 240 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,840 to this pagan nation taking over this Jewish community who was 241 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,880 desiring to be faithful to their God. 242 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,600 So you have the Essene community who's kind of like, yo, 243 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:32,880 everybody wilding. 244 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,120 Now it's getting too secular for us. 245 00:13:35,890 --> 00:13:37,090 We gonna dip to the caves. 246 00:13:37,970 --> 00:13:42,410 From them we get the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran community, but 247 00:13:42,410 --> 00:13:45,170 you also have the Sadducees. 248 00:13:45,650 --> 00:13:50,050 They had more of a well if you can't beat them, join them type of 249 00:13:50,050 --> 00:13:50,610 mentality. 250 00:13:51,010 --> 00:13:55,410 And so they're a little bit what you would consider the liberals. 251 00:13:56,930 --> 00:14:00,570 That's why it's interesting in the Gospels that the Pharisees and 252 00:14:00,570 --> 00:14:05,340 the Sadducees oftentimes seem like they're working together because 253 00:14:05,420 --> 00:14:07,180 they really don't like each other. 254 00:14:08,060 --> 00:14:12,940 But when you have a common enemy, you can become common friends. 255 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:16,220 And their common enemy is Jesus Christ. 256 00:14:16,220 --> 00:14:19,500 Because the Pharisees could not be further from the Sadducees 257 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:23,100 and that the Pharisees would be considered the conservatives. 258 00:14:23,980 --> 00:14:27,940 But I want all you good Americans to understand just from 259 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:33,250 that, something that we can learn that both the conservatives 260 00:14:33,250 --> 00:14:35,210 and the liberals didn't really like Jesus. 261 00:14:37,130 --> 00:14:43,530 And the reality is, from the rip of this text, you have the conservatives 262 00:14:43,530 --> 00:14:46,650 coming to Jesus to test him. 263 00:14:47,930 --> 00:14:50,930 They should be the ones who should be longing for the Messiah. 264 00:14:50,930 --> 00:14:53,050 They should be the ones looking for the Messiah. 265 00:14:53,130 --> 00:14:56,710 And yet instead they test the Messiah. 266 00:14:56,790 --> 00:14:58,910 And what is the test? 267 00:14:58,910 --> 00:15:02,870 Then Some of the scribes and the Pharisees answered him, responded 268 00:15:02,870 --> 00:15:03,350 to him. 269 00:15:03,510 --> 00:15:05,110 So what are they answering? 270 00:15:05,190 --> 00:15:06,790 They're answering what he just said. 271 00:15:06,950 --> 00:15:08,070 What did he just say? 272 00:15:08,230 --> 00:15:11,310 He said, either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make 273 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:13,070 the tree bad, and its fruit bad. 274 00:15:13,070 --> 00:15:15,270 For the tree is known by its fruit. 275 00:15:15,270 --> 00:15:16,470 And then verse 37. 276 00:15:16,630 --> 00:15:20,470 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you, 277 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:21,900 you will be. 278 00:15:22,140 --> 00:15:24,140 Here's the word, condemned. 279 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:28,540 Now I know we like Peachy King Nice cuz he was he Jesus. 280 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:32,980 You know, the fuzzy wuzzy one who comes with us at night and cuddles 281 00:15:32,980 --> 00:15:33,500 us up. 282 00:15:34,460 --> 00:15:36,380 And yes, he is a great comforter. 283 00:15:37,740 --> 00:15:41,780 But the last words he said to them was, by your words, you will 284 00:15:41,780 --> 00:15:43,820 be justified, and by your words, you will be. 285 00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:44,540 Here's the word. 286 00:15:45,420 --> 00:15:46,220 Condemned. 287 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:48,040 Heavy. 288 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:48,920 Harsh. 289 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,640 So what do we do as humans when we hear a heavy and harsh word 290 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,840 that we know is true that is convicting our hearts? 291 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,360 You know what we do? 292 00:15:58,920 --> 00:15:59,960 Change the subject. 293 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:06,720 So they respond to those words with something. 294 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,080 Ain't got nothing to do with what Jesus just said. 295 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,440 Teacher, flattery. 296 00:16:13,220 --> 00:16:14,740 Y' all know how we do when we real convicted. 297 00:16:14,740 --> 00:16:17,380 We start flattering the person that convicted us, hoping that they'll 298 00:16:17,380 --> 00:16:18,500 take away some of the conviction. 299 00:16:19,780 --> 00:16:20,900 Oh, teacher. 300 00:16:21,540 --> 00:16:27,460 Rabbi, we want to see a sign from you now. 301 00:16:27,460 --> 00:16:33,860 Love Jesus because he's not swayed by people's approval and applause. 302 00:16:34,980 --> 00:16:36,820 He's not moved by their flattery. 303 00:16:37,220 --> 00:16:39,780 It's not like he said, oh, well, since you guys said, teacher, 304 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,440 let me be nice to you. 305 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,600 Jesus responds to them and says an evil. 306 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,800 Here's the word, an adulteress. 307 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:49,640 Say adulteress. 308 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,360 Say adulteress one more time. 309 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,240 Say, adulteress. 310 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:59,720 Generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except 311 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,600 the sign of the prophet Jonah. 312 00:17:07,010 --> 00:17:08,930 Jonah was in the belly of the well for three days. 313 00:17:09,490 --> 00:17:10,290 So what does he say? 314 00:17:10,290 --> 00:17:13,650 For just as Jonah was in the three days and three nights in the 315 00:17:13,650 --> 00:17:16,290 belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days 316 00:17:16,290 --> 00:17:18,690 and three nights in the heart of the earth. 317 00:17:19,650 --> 00:17:22,850 He said, y' all looking for a sign, but you're not going to get 318 00:17:22,850 --> 00:17:25,570 any sign except for the sign of Jonah. 319 00:17:26,210 --> 00:17:30,050 And that sign will be demonstrated by the Son of Man being 320 00:17:30,050 --> 00:17:34,370 in the belly of the earth three days and. 321 00:17:34,370 --> 00:17:36,450 Then being vomited out just as Jonah was. 322 00:17:37,490 --> 00:17:43,130 Now, I cannot wait to dive in more to that reality, but here's 323 00:17:43,130 --> 00:17:43,250 what. 324 00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:43,970 I want to say. 325 00:17:45,170 --> 00:17:49,410 They are demanding another sign other than this one from Jesus 326 00:17:49,810 --> 00:17:53,170 when they have already received multiple signs. 327 00:17:53,810 --> 00:17:56,130 He just got done healing a blind person. 328 00:17:56,450 --> 00:17:59,250 He just got done healing somebody with a withered hand. 329 00:17:59,690 --> 00:18:03,610 If you were to watch somebody with a withered hand go from having 330 00:18:03,610 --> 00:18:09,810 a withered hand to being Popeye Ministry, you would say sign 331 00:18:09,810 --> 00:18:10,410 was done. 332 00:18:11,290 --> 00:18:15,050 If you were to watch somebody who was truly blind run up out of 333 00:18:15,050 --> 00:18:19,210 this job and not run into anything, you would say a sign was 334 00:18:19,210 --> 00:18:19,850 being done. 335 00:18:20,810 --> 00:18:28,810 And yet, because of the coldness of their heart, their stubbornness 336 00:18:29,690 --> 00:18:30,610 has turned them. 337 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:34,090 Into a blindfold, and they are unable. 338 00:18:34,170 --> 00:18:37,130 To see what can clearly be seen. 339 00:18:37,610 --> 00:18:40,570 Which is a sign right in front of their face. 340 00:18:41,689 --> 00:18:42,810 Can I just say something to you? 341 00:18:42,810 --> 00:18:43,290 Real quick. 342 00:18:44,810 --> 00:18:51,370 Be careful that either suffering or sin isn't starting to 343 00:18:51,370 --> 00:18:53,290 cause you to have a callus over your heart. 344 00:18:55,380 --> 00:19:00,340 Because as soon as your heart starts to callous, you become incapable 345 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:02,580 of seeing the work of God right in front of you. 346 00:19:04,260 --> 00:19:05,620 But he doesn't stop there. 347 00:19:06,340 --> 00:19:06,980 I love this. 348 00:19:06,980 --> 00:19:07,540 He says this. 349 00:19:07,540 --> 00:19:11,620 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly 350 00:19:11,620 --> 00:19:14,140 of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three 351 00:19:14,140 --> 00:19:15,180 nights in the heart of the earth. 352 00:19:15,180 --> 00:19:18,620 The men of Nineveh, Nineveh of all places, will rise up at the judgment 353 00:19:18,620 --> 00:19:21,700 with this generation and condemn it for they repented at the 354 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:23,250 preaching of of Jonah. 355 00:19:23,810 --> 00:19:26,050 And behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 356 00:19:26,050 --> 00:19:28,770 The Queen of the south will rise up in judgment with this generation 357 00:19:28,770 --> 00:19:31,810 and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear 358 00:19:31,810 --> 00:19:33,090 the wisdom of Solomon. 359 00:19:33,090 --> 00:19:37,290 And behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 360 00:19:37,290 --> 00:19:39,810 Do you see the swag that Jesus talks with? 361 00:19:42,210 --> 00:19:44,530 He's not like false humility. 362 00:19:45,330 --> 00:19:46,850 Well, you know, I'm great too. 363 00:19:48,780 --> 00:19:52,620 No, they listened to Jonah. 364 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:54,060 I'm better. 365 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:57,580 They listened to Solomon. 366 00:19:58,220 --> 00:19:59,500 I'm better. 367 00:20:00,940 --> 00:20:04,900 And he's saying to our generation as well, y' all listen 368 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:08,700 to all these TikTok teachers, y' all listen to all these Instagram 369 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:10,700 instructors, and I'm better. 370 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:22,320 And forbear that the Ninevites or the Queen of the south, you know, 371 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:29,480 them Gentiles, them pagans, have more of a respect for lesser 372 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,520 messengers than y' all do for the Messiah. 373 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,480 So what Jesus is basically saying is that we are a faithless 374 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,740 generation because we are evil. 375 00:20:43,460 --> 00:20:49,740 And our evil is shown in the simple fact that one, we reject what. 376 00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:57,340 Jesus is doing, and two, we reject what Jesus is saying no matter 377 00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:57,500 how. 378 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:58,420 Many signs he does. 379 00:20:58,500 --> 00:20:59,380 Prove it again. 380 00:21:00,740 --> 00:21:03,260 He could have just came through in the clutch. 381 00:21:03,260 --> 00:21:03,780 Jordan. 382 00:21:03,780 --> 00:21:05,380 98, six seconds left. 383 00:21:07,390 --> 00:21:11,470 Then you quickly forget exactly what he just did because 384 00:21:11,470 --> 00:21:13,310 we have spiritual amnesia. 385 00:21:13,950 --> 00:21:15,990 And it don't matter what he did yesterday. 386 00:21:15,990 --> 00:21:17,470 I need more proof today. 387 00:21:20,990 --> 00:21:23,070 That's the heart of wickedness. 388 00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:27,550 But on the flip end, we don't. 389 00:21:27,550 --> 00:21:28,510 Listen to what he's saying. 390 00:21:29,310 --> 00:21:30,830 We refuse to embrace it. 391 00:21:31,550 --> 00:21:39,090 We have a sort of serpentine syndrome in our flesh that says all 392 00:21:39,090 --> 00:21:39,290 the. 393 00:21:39,290 --> 00:21:45,330 Time, did God actually say so we do this over and over again. 394 00:21:45,730 --> 00:21:47,730 And he says, that's the heart of wickedness. 395 00:21:49,250 --> 00:21:50,450 Can I just tell you something? 396 00:21:52,130 --> 00:21:54,290 We bought this little machine in our crib. 397 00:21:55,330 --> 00:21:57,770 It's called one of those Alexa Echo Jones. 398 00:21:57,770 --> 00:21:59,510 Y' all had echo in your crib. 399 00:21:59,510 --> 00:22:00,630 Everybody got a little echo. 400 00:22:00,630 --> 00:22:01,870 John, you know what I'm talking about. 401 00:22:02,110 --> 00:22:02,710 Little Echo. 402 00:22:02,710 --> 00:22:05,270 Okay, I see those who got the Google one got the Google John. 403 00:22:05,270 --> 00:22:06,590 Okay, I see a few more hands. 404 00:22:06,830 --> 00:22:08,470 All right, everybody got Siri, right? 405 00:22:08,470 --> 00:22:08,710 Okay. 406 00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:09,790 Some people got Siri. 407 00:22:09,790 --> 00:22:10,070 Okay. 408 00:22:10,070 --> 00:22:10,430 All right. 409 00:22:10,670 --> 00:22:12,550 So with all these machines, they supposed. 410 00:22:12,550 --> 00:22:13,950 To, like, respond to your voice. 411 00:22:14,590 --> 00:22:18,510 So in my crib just recently, I was trying to listen to some James 412 00:22:18,510 --> 00:22:18,990 Brown. 413 00:22:19,550 --> 00:22:22,030 So I'm shouting at the machine like. 414 00:22:22,830 --> 00:22:24,590 Like, play James Brown. 415 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,080 And, you know, almost irritating the word. 416 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,640 As soon as she says sorry, I'm like, don't apologize to me. 417 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:32,320 Just work. 418 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:36,680 Here come. 419 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,400 My son just basically says it in passing. 420 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,520 I think you just got to say, play James Brown. 421 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:43,840 Playing James Brown. 422 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,320 Never been there before. 423 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,920 It's the most irritating thing in the world. 424 00:22:50,730 --> 00:22:52,930 Now, it's not just irritating because I got control issues, because 425 00:22:52,930 --> 00:23:00,250 I do got that, but it's also irritating because my son ain't paying 426 00:23:00,250 --> 00:23:02,010 a nan cent for Echo. 427 00:23:05,370 --> 00:23:06,729 Like, I bought you. 428 00:23:08,250 --> 00:23:09,450 You should listen to me. 429 00:23:10,730 --> 00:23:15,370 And we chuckle at that, and we laugh at that, but Jesus could say 430 00:23:15,370 --> 00:23:17,210 the same exact thing to us. 431 00:23:17,450 --> 00:23:18,490 I bought you. 432 00:23:19,510 --> 00:23:21,190 I purchased you with my blood. 433 00:23:21,750 --> 00:23:23,670 I paid good money for you. 434 00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:24,230 And what? 435 00:23:24,230 --> 00:23:28,230 First Peter says, it's not silver or gold, but the precious 436 00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:33,350 blood of Christ that redeemed you, the most expensive commodity 437 00:23:33,350 --> 00:23:35,190 in all of the cosmos. 438 00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:37,350 He paid good money for you. 439 00:23:37,350 --> 00:23:40,910 And if that is the case, certainly we should listen to his 440 00:23:40,910 --> 00:23:42,150 voice above all else. 441 00:23:43,670 --> 00:23:44,310 Certainly. 442 00:23:45,710 --> 00:23:50,670 Yet here's what I know from pastoring for many years when I've 443 00:23:50,670 --> 00:23:54,950 seen marriages break down because of infidelity, that when 444 00:23:54,950 --> 00:24:02,910 a husband or a wife's heart is set on adultery, here's what happens. 445 00:24:04,270 --> 00:24:08,870 Nothing their spouse can do or nothing their spouse can say is ever 446 00:24:08,870 --> 00:24:09,310 good enough. 447 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,760 Some of you, even as I speak, are slowly getting there with Jesus. 448 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:19,640 Because. 449 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,920 You have an idol in your heart, something you love more than 450 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:24,200 Christ. 451 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:31,520 Right now, nothing he does and nothing he says right now is ever 452 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:32,360 going to be good enough. 453 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:41,250 But today is an opportunity to repent of the evil of this generation. 454 00:24:43,570 --> 00:24:45,410 Second point, empty generation. 455 00:24:46,690 --> 00:24:50,490 When the unclean spirit has gone out, verse 43 of a person, it 456 00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:54,290 passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 457 00:24:54,290 --> 00:24:57,170 Then it says, I will return to my house, from which I came. 458 00:24:57,170 --> 00:25:00,650 And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in 459 00:25:00,650 --> 00:25:00,930 order. 460 00:25:01,270 --> 00:25:05,790 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil 461 00:25:05,790 --> 00:25:08,030 than itself, and they enter and dwell there. 462 00:25:08,030 --> 00:25:11,110 And the last state of that person is worse than the first. 463 00:25:11,350 --> 00:25:15,670 So also will it be with this, here's the word evil generation. 464 00:25:17,110 --> 00:25:21,190 Now, this is wild, because when you read this in the other gospels, 465 00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:26,950 Jesus Exclusively primarily applies this to the individual. 466 00:25:28,030 --> 00:25:32,990 We know how to hear that an individual person, because of their 467 00:25:32,990 --> 00:25:39,110 sin, an unclean evil spirit, this is what we call demons, enters 468 00:25:39,110 --> 00:25:39,950 into that person. 469 00:25:41,070 --> 00:25:45,630 Now, by the grace of God, that person receives an exorcism, a removing 470 00:25:45,630 --> 00:25:47,870 of that demon, that unclean spirit. 471 00:25:48,190 --> 00:25:52,350 But here's the problem, this is my problem that I have, even with 472 00:25:52,430 --> 00:25:57,290 the exorcism services that I've been seeing online, is that 473 00:25:57,290 --> 00:26:01,610 if the gospel isn't being preached and Christ isn't able to 474 00:26:01,610 --> 00:26:06,170 be received during that time, what you're simply doing is emptying 475 00:26:06,170 --> 00:26:10,570 that person out of one unclean spirit and then opening that person 476 00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:11,810 up to receive more. 477 00:26:13,010 --> 00:26:14,770 Because here's the problem. 478 00:26:15,970 --> 00:26:24,120 If no new spirit, good spirit, you know him as the Holy Spirit, 479 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,840 does not take up residence in the home of that person's heart, 480 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,280 it is prime. 481 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:36,200 Picking for the forces of darkness to come in and set up shop. 482 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,680 This is why it's so critically important to receive the spirit of 483 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:43,480 the living Christ. 484 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,080 It is about the spirit of Christ that we cry out, Abba Father. 485 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,080 It is the spirit of the living Christ who raised Christ from the 486 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:51,320 dead. 487 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,500 Romans 8 says that actually enables us to overcome our addictions. 488 00:26:57,620 --> 00:27:01,260 It is the spirit of the living Christ who is the guarantee of our 489 00:27:01,260 --> 00:27:05,100 inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of 490 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:05,860 his glory. 491 00:27:06,020 --> 00:27:10,740 It is the spirit of Christ we need to take up residence in us so 492 00:27:10,740 --> 00:27:12,340 that no unclean spirit can. 493 00:27:14,340 --> 00:27:18,100 When unclean spirit shows up to that door, trying to break in, 494 00:27:19,460 --> 00:27:20,340 he sees. 495 00:27:21,610 --> 00:27:27,530 The strong man like, oh snap, my fault, my fault. 496 00:27:28,170 --> 00:27:30,090 And has no choice but to back up. 497 00:27:30,730 --> 00:27:33,250 If you're an Old Testament reader of the Scriptures, you know, 498 00:27:33,250 --> 00:27:36,649 when the glory of the Lord filled the temple, not even the priest 499 00:27:36,649 --> 00:27:37,450 could stay in there. 500 00:27:39,370 --> 00:27:43,410 Well, you know that you house the. 501 00:27:43,410 --> 00:27:46,820 Glory of the Lord and you. 502 00:27:48,260 --> 00:27:52,260 So when he comes in, no unclean spirit can come in. 503 00:27:53,140 --> 00:27:55,740 Which is why it's critically important to. 504 00:27:55,740 --> 00:27:59,300 Receive the spirit of Christ as an individual. 505 00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:02,180 But he doesn't just say as an individual. 506 00:28:02,980 --> 00:28:06,100 He says, this generation will be like that. 507 00:28:06,740 --> 00:28:10,780 Which means even societies have ways of. 508 00:28:10,780 --> 00:28:14,750 Removing one bad spirit and letting another follow. 509 00:28:15,630 --> 00:28:17,550 I've been alive long enough to see this happen. 510 00:28:18,350 --> 00:28:22,110 When I was growing up, 2002, I came to faith in Jesus Christ. 511 00:28:22,430 --> 00:28:25,790 I just began to read through the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. 512 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,150 Fell in love with the word of God. 513 00:28:27,150 --> 00:28:28,310 I was on fire for Jesus. 514 00:28:28,310 --> 00:28:30,270 I was a knucklehead, as all dudes are. 515 00:28:30,270 --> 00:28:33,630 And by the way, if you're like in high school here or college here, 516 00:28:35,310 --> 00:28:39,230 all dudes are Just knuckleheads just don't work. 517 00:28:39,230 --> 00:28:42,390 Somebody do this, you just notice, don't work, it don't work. 518 00:28:42,390 --> 00:28:44,110 So where are my young sisters at? 519 00:28:44,110 --> 00:28:45,190 Just give me a whoop real quick. 520 00:28:45,990 --> 00:28:47,110 I hear those whoops. 521 00:28:48,550 --> 00:28:52,230 If the dude ain't madly in love with Jesus, just run far away. 522 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:55,190 No chance, no chance, no chance, no chance. 523 00:28:55,670 --> 00:28:56,790 Because here's the deal. 524 00:28:57,669 --> 00:28:59,750 Even if he is, he's still a knucklehead. 525 00:29:01,110 --> 00:29:03,430 You might as well find one who knows how to repent. 526 00:29:06,310 --> 00:29:07,310 So I was a knucklehead. 527 00:29:07,310 --> 00:29:07,870 I was a knucklehead. 528 00:29:07,870 --> 00:29:08,390 I was a knucklehead. 529 00:29:08,390 --> 00:29:09,430 But I was in love with Jesus. 530 00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:14,010 I got to college, I took a course, and we went to public school. 531 00:29:14,570 --> 00:29:16,090 Temple University in Philly. 532 00:29:17,210 --> 00:29:20,970 Our Bible teacher, first day of class. 533 00:29:21,130 --> 00:29:22,330 This is a true story. 534 00:29:22,810 --> 00:29:25,769 He was an ethnic Jew, but not spiritually Jewish. 535 00:29:25,769 --> 00:29:28,250 And so he said, first day of class. 536 00:29:28,250 --> 00:29:29,730 I got two purposes in this class. 537 00:29:29,730 --> 00:29:31,850 Number one, to teach you the Hebrew scriptures. 538 00:29:32,010 --> 00:29:33,850 Number two, that everybody who is a. 539 00:29:33,850 --> 00:29:36,010 Christian today won't be by the final class. 540 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,600 So we actually took a poll who would say or consider themselves 541 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:43,160 to be a Christian. 542 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,360 There were six of us in the class. 543 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,520 I told you, it was a public school. 544 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:52,679 By the end of the class, there were two, which means he served his 545 00:29:52,679 --> 00:29:53,120 purpose. 546 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:55,280 And me. 547 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:57,040 Yes, me. 548 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,440 I struggled and wrestled in that class. 549 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,640 Because he was throwing out all types. 550 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,670 Of arguments against my faith. 551 00:30:04,550 --> 00:30:07,430 Now, at the time, it was arguments about evolution. 552 00:30:08,230 --> 00:30:10,430 At the time, it was arguments about. 553 00:30:10,430 --> 00:30:11,590 Errors in the scripture. 554 00:30:11,590 --> 00:30:13,670 You know, errors in the scripture. 555 00:30:15,270 --> 00:30:21,870 Now, here's what's wild is at that time, it was all about facts, 556 00:30:21,870 --> 00:30:22,790 facts, facts. 557 00:30:22,790 --> 00:30:24,470 I got to prove my. 558 00:30:24,790 --> 00:30:27,830 My other way of looking at things through facts and science 559 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,400 because it was a materialistic kind of spirit. 560 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,440 But that got replaced with relativism. 561 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,520 That was like, no facts matter. 562 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:39,920 You believe what you want to believe. 563 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,360 I believe what I want to believe. 564 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,760 We're going to sing Kumbaya and everybody tolerate each other. 565 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:52,000 So then Kumbaya don't work because we don't really know how 566 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,720 to tolerate. 567 00:30:54,250 --> 00:30:58,450 So then this Gen Z is coming on the scene and they like, yo, like, 568 00:30:58,450 --> 00:31:00,970 we want something deeply real, spiritual. 569 00:31:01,130 --> 00:31:02,090 See how this works. 570 00:31:03,050 --> 00:31:05,770 But they still not going after the spirit of the living Christ. 571 00:31:06,410 --> 00:31:08,010 They're just going after spirits. 572 00:31:09,370 --> 00:31:13,290 So they reading tarot cards and all of this astrology. 573 00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:15,130 Gemini. 574 00:31:16,730 --> 00:31:20,050 And out of nowhere, we've seen three different spirits. 575 00:31:20,050 --> 00:31:24,250 Materialism, relativism, and this false spiritualism. 576 00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:27,210 And each one has gotten worse. 577 00:31:28,410 --> 00:31:28,810 Why? 578 00:31:29,450 --> 00:31:33,130 Because we've just replaced one bad spirit with another. 579 00:31:34,410 --> 00:31:37,090 And we haven't married ourselves to a. 580 00:31:37,090 --> 00:31:38,970 Husband who can keep them all out. 581 00:31:42,090 --> 00:31:46,130 If you're under the sound of my voice and you're just going from 582 00:31:46,130 --> 00:31:46,410 one. 583 00:31:46,410 --> 00:31:49,090 Bad principality to another, God is calling. 584 00:31:49,090 --> 00:31:53,690 You by name today and saying, no, no, no. 585 00:31:53,690 --> 00:31:55,370 I want to take a residence in your home. 586 00:31:55,370 --> 00:31:57,410 Give me the deeds, the title to. 587 00:31:57,410 --> 00:31:58,330 The home of your heart. 588 00:31:59,450 --> 00:32:03,490 And if I take up residence there, you won't have to worry about 589 00:32:03,490 --> 00:32:09,130 another unclean spirit entering in final, and I'm out of 590 00:32:09,130 --> 00:32:09,610 your way. 591 00:32:09,850 --> 00:32:11,130 An entitled generation. 592 00:32:11,130 --> 00:32:12,810 And this is for our Bible betters. 593 00:32:13,050 --> 00:32:15,210 I want to preach this, like, with my back turns so y' all don't 594 00:32:15,210 --> 00:32:15,650 get mad at me. 595 00:32:15,650 --> 00:32:16,650 But it's just his words. 596 00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:24,220 While he was speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his 597 00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:26,740 brothers stood outside asking to speak to him. 598 00:32:26,740 --> 00:32:30,260 But he replied to the man who told him, who is my mother and who 599 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:30,940 are my brothers? 600 00:32:30,940 --> 00:32:33,780 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, here 601 00:32:33,780 --> 00:32:35,180 are my mothers and my brothers. 602 00:32:35,180 --> 00:32:38,740 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother 603 00:32:38,740 --> 00:32:41,900 and my sister and my mother. 604 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:42,300 Now. 605 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:45,720 I ain't gonna hold you. 606 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:46,680 I got a black mama, y'. 607 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:46,880 All. 608 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,040 So my black mama was outside saying. 609 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,440 Like, told somebody, come get that boy. 610 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,400 I'mma close this sermon real fast. 611 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,560 My mom, five foot, nothing, but she. 612 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:00,880 Like, she proved to me she a. 613 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:01,840 Little crazy, you know what I mean? 614 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,240 Love Jesus, but a little off, like, you know what I mean? 615 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:04,560 Like. 616 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,200 Like, I believed her when she said, I brought you in this world, 617 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:08,760 I could take you out. 618 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:09,360 Like, I believed her. 619 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:09,920 I believed her. 620 00:33:12,340 --> 00:33:15,940 But Jesus is like, no, no, no, no, no. 621 00:33:17,220 --> 00:33:23,140 Even genetics can't replace obedience. 622 00:33:26,019 --> 00:33:28,180 And this is not what we do in the Bible Belt. 623 00:33:29,220 --> 00:33:31,460 I can't tell you since I've been pastor in Florida. 624 00:33:31,460 --> 00:33:33,700 Now, in Philly, it never happened, but in Florida, I can't 625 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:39,910 tell you how many times in how many times I've asked somebody, are 626 00:33:39,910 --> 00:33:41,390 you a follower of Jesus? 627 00:33:42,030 --> 00:33:43,230 They say, of course. 628 00:33:44,590 --> 00:33:46,230 Well, man, it's going to be the. 629 00:33:46,230 --> 00:33:47,710 Most powerful testimony I've ever heard. 630 00:33:48,830 --> 00:33:51,230 They say, yeah, my uncle would pastor for, like, 20 years. 631 00:33:52,190 --> 00:33:53,150 Of course I am. 632 00:33:54,030 --> 00:33:54,670 Of course. 633 00:33:56,030 --> 00:33:57,390 My dad was a pastor. 634 00:33:57,630 --> 00:33:59,550 Of course, my mom was a missionary. 635 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,160 And what they've done is they believed in a gospel of genealogies. 636 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,800 Rather than a gospel of grace. 637 00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:14,040 Here's the deal. 638 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,920 We do this in subtle ways, and. 639 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,080 Then we have a sort of entitlement that we should have access 640 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:26,600 to God because we've been around Christian type of stuff. 641 00:34:29,340 --> 00:34:31,340 There was a saying, blood is thicker than water. 642 00:34:33,340 --> 00:34:35,020 And I like that. 643 00:34:35,020 --> 00:34:38,300 But then I, like, heard like somebody, like, literally this week, 644 00:34:39,340 --> 00:34:41,740 like, almost expand on that. 645 00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:44,020 I think they said this might have been the original quote, that 646 00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:47,500 the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. 647 00:34:50,140 --> 00:34:52,460 And is that not what Jesus is saying? 648 00:34:52,460 --> 00:34:54,380 Is that not what even John the Baptist said? 649 00:34:55,660 --> 00:34:57,900 Don't say to yourself, I got Abraham as a dad. 650 00:34:58,460 --> 00:35:01,180 Okay, great. 651 00:35:02,940 --> 00:35:04,620 Congratulations. 652 00:35:06,860 --> 00:35:09,100 God can raise up rocks. 653 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:13,820 Proud of yourself for your genetics? 654 00:35:14,380 --> 00:35:15,020 Don't be. 655 00:35:16,140 --> 00:35:19,020 Because he's after those who have obeyed the gospel. 656 00:35:22,310 --> 00:35:26,630 So, as I say all of those things, I ask you the question. 657 00:35:28,230 --> 00:35:33,510 Have you had the residue of faithlessness because of evil? 658 00:35:35,030 --> 00:35:36,310 That you have started to have a. 659 00:35:36,310 --> 00:35:41,390 Calloused heart and you've rejected either the work of Christ 660 00:35:41,390 --> 00:35:42,510 or the words of. 661 00:35:42,510 --> 00:35:43,830 Christ in subtle ways? 662 00:35:45,190 --> 00:35:52,070 Have you embrace faithlessness by being empty, going from one evil 663 00:35:52,070 --> 00:35:52,750 spirit to another? 664 00:35:52,750 --> 00:35:59,870 Have you embrace faithlessness by, excuse me, being entitled because 665 00:35:59,870 --> 00:36:03,030 of your relationship to somebody who's actually faithful 666 00:36:03,030 --> 00:36:09,510 to Christ, if in large, important, deep, or in subtle and 667 00:36:09,510 --> 00:36:14,750 soft ways you have been convicted by any one of those areas 668 00:36:14,980 --> 00:36:19,290 or we gotta ask ourselves the question, what is our hope? 669 00:36:22,090 --> 00:36:23,610 What is our hope? 670 00:36:25,290 --> 00:36:28,450 Well, I think the answer comes from. 671 00:36:28,450 --> 00:36:30,010 The title of the movie we just. 672 00:36:30,010 --> 00:36:34,250 Learned about when we are Crazy and Stupid. 673 00:36:36,090 --> 00:36:38,410 Christ came to show us love. 674 00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:44,900 And that love came down to an. 675 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:49,780 Evil, empty and entitled generation. 676 00:36:51,140 --> 00:36:54,740 But he was going to solve that evil, empty and entitled generation 677 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:57,140 through the work of the Gospel. 678 00:36:58,980 --> 00:37:00,740 Paul says it like this in Philippians. 679 00:37:00,980 --> 00:37:04,140 He says in Philippians chapter two, who, though he was in the form 680 00:37:04,140 --> 00:37:08,900 of God, talking about Jesus, in other words, the one who should 681 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:09,900 be entitled. 682 00:37:11,340 --> 00:37:15,740 He did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but he 683 00:37:15,740 --> 00:37:19,180 emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in 684 00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:22,660 the likeness of men and being found in human form. 685 00:37:22,660 --> 00:37:26,700 He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even 686 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:27,780 death on a cross. 687 00:37:27,780 --> 00:37:30,460 And what happened on the cross? 688 00:37:30,940 --> 00:37:36,320 He made him who knew no sin to be saved sin for us, so that in him 689 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,440 we might become the righteousness of God. 690 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:44,720 In other words, for an evil, in an empty and entitled generation, 691 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:50,680 God the Father sent, God the Son, who could be entitled, but emptied 692 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,760 himself and took on our evil so that we would no longer be faithless 693 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:55,840 but be faithful. 694 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,440 Because even when we are faithless, he. 695 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,610 Remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. 696 00:38:05,290 --> 00:38:08,410 And on that cross, I want you to see your Savior taking your evil. 697 00:38:11,450 --> 00:38:15,690 All the times that you rejected his works, all the times 698 00:38:15,690 --> 00:38:17,610 you refused to embrace his words. 699 00:38:19,050 --> 00:38:23,530 I want you to see your Savior bleeding out for your emptiness. 700 00:38:25,290 --> 00:38:28,170 And I want you to see your Savior Dying for your entitlement 701 00:38:30,810 --> 00:38:32,410 at the end of crazy, stupid love. 702 00:38:33,050 --> 00:38:35,770 There's this crazy scene where, like, all the generations 703 00:38:35,770 --> 00:38:36,090 are there. 704 00:38:36,090 --> 00:38:38,610 The Gen Z, the traditionalists, all of them are 705 00:38:38,610 --> 00:38:38,810 there. 706 00:38:38,810 --> 00:38:40,930 And it's a chaotic scene. 707 00:38:40,930 --> 00:38:41,490 It's messy. 708 00:38:41,490 --> 00:38:43,210 It's a whole big fight that breaks out. 709 00:38:43,370 --> 00:38:44,170 It's wild. 710 00:38:44,490 --> 00:38:45,610 It's all over the place. 711 00:38:45,610 --> 00:38:47,610 There's no way to kind of contain it. 712 00:38:48,650 --> 00:38:50,650 And yet the whole reason for that. 713 00:38:50,650 --> 00:38:57,140 Scene was because Kyle Reaver was trying to pursue what he called 714 00:38:57,860 --> 00:38:58,980 his soulmate. 715 00:39:00,980 --> 00:39:07,380 The cross of Calvary on a hill called Golgotha is not a pretty scene. 716 00:39:07,860 --> 00:39:10,580 It was crazy, it was chaotic, it was messy. 717 00:39:10,580 --> 00:39:11,940 Don't try to beautify it. 718 00:39:11,940 --> 00:39:13,380 It was all that. 719 00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:17,780 And yet all of that was because Jesus, the good husband, 720 00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:21,360 was pursuing us, his soulmate. 721 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,400 Yet in order to do that, he couldn't just get in a fight. 722 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,160 As a matter of fact, that was his proposal moment. 723 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:33,200 But he couldn't simply bend down on one knee. 724 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,360 He had to get up on a tree. 725 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,840 And on that tree, he cried out, tetelestai. 726 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:39,400 It is finished. 727 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,760 He bowed his head, gave up the ghost, and he died. 728 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:44,160 He really died. 729 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,440 He really died. 730 00:39:47,290 --> 00:39:48,970 But there's something important you gotta understand. 731 00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:53,290 That son, Aaron, I was talking to you about, who can talk to Alexa 732 00:39:53,290 --> 00:39:54,090 better than I can? 733 00:39:56,170 --> 00:40:00,570 He has a food allergy of tree nuts and peanuts. 734 00:40:01,210 --> 00:40:02,810 And we learned this when we were. 735 00:40:03,290 --> 00:40:06,170 Actually, I think, on a way to give birth to our other child. 736 00:40:06,170 --> 00:40:07,210 If I ain't tripping. 737 00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:07,690 Yes. 738 00:40:08,810 --> 00:40:10,890 So my wife's trying to deliver a. 739 00:40:10,890 --> 00:40:13,970 Child, and my son is throwing up. 740 00:40:14,610 --> 00:40:15,770 And we have no clue why. 741 00:40:15,770 --> 00:40:17,890 And it was because he had ate some walnuts earlier. 742 00:40:17,890 --> 00:40:20,130 We learned that he has an allergy. 743 00:40:20,850 --> 00:40:22,850 Now, we made many mistakes through our parenting. 744 00:40:22,850 --> 00:40:23,570 Don't judge us. 745 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:26,090 But we'd always have to find out the hard way. 746 00:40:26,090 --> 00:40:32,170 Because no matter how long it took, when them tree nuts and walnuts 747 00:40:32,170 --> 00:40:32,370 and. 748 00:40:32,370 --> 00:40:39,420 Peanuts went down, they had to come out because his digestive system 749 00:40:39,420 --> 00:40:40,500 could not handle it. 750 00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:47,060 All I came to tell you is that when Jesus, the perfect, innocent, 751 00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:50,620 righteous son of God, was buried in the. 752 00:40:50,620 --> 00:40:55,780 Belly of death, death realized it had. 753 00:40:55,780 --> 00:40:57,460 An allergy for the first time. 754 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:05,880 So Friday, death started getting queasy. 755 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,960 Saturday, it was like, oh, I'm getting sick. 756 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:17,320 But then early Sunday morning, when that stone rolled away, death 757 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:24,280 had no choice but to vomit up perfection, to vomit up righteousness, 758 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,200 to vomit up purity. 759 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,320 Because death cannot stomach sinlessness. 760 00:41:30,610 --> 00:41:34,890 So when the sinless Savior died, death had no choice but to 761 00:41:34,890 --> 00:41:36,130 vomit him back up again. 762 00:41:37,090 --> 00:41:45,650 And so now your Messiah, your savior, our Husband has given his 763 00:41:45,650 --> 00:41:46,970 proposal, and. 764 00:41:46,970 --> 00:41:47,690 I ain't gonna hold you. 765 00:41:47,690 --> 00:41:48,930 My proposal was pretty nice. 766 00:41:48,930 --> 00:41:50,050 I thought I did a good job. 767 00:41:50,130 --> 00:41:51,490 But mine did not come with the. 768 00:41:51,490 --> 00:41:57,670 Death and a resurrection, but his came with a provedness that he 769 00:41:57,670 --> 00:42:00,830 gave his life for you, then he rose from the dead. 770 00:42:01,550 --> 00:42:02,990 The proposal is out there. 771 00:42:03,870 --> 00:42:04,990 Will you marry him? 772 00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:08,190 Now is your opportunity to say yes. 773 00:42:09,310 --> 00:42:11,350 There are some of you who have. 774 00:42:11,350 --> 00:42:12,989 Already put your yes on the table. 775 00:42:13,310 --> 00:42:15,430 And for you, it's now time to. 776 00:42:15,430 --> 00:42:16,670 Prepare for your wedding day. 777 00:42:17,390 --> 00:42:18,350 You know what it is. 778 00:42:18,910 --> 00:42:21,710 As a woman prepares for their wedding day, they're trying to look 779 00:42:21,710 --> 00:42:22,030 good. 780 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:23,440 They trying to get in shape. 781 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:24,640 They trying to work out. 782 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,280 They trying to get in the best shape ever because they want to look 783 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,720 good for their spouse on that day. 784 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,920 Friends, church, that's called sanctification. 785 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,720 We're not just doing it out of obligation. 786 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,840 We want to get prepared for the day we will see our Messiah face 787 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:39,280 to face. 788 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,240 But there are others of you who. 789 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:47,280 You've heard his proposal, you've heard about his death, you've 790 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,900 heard about his resurrection, but you have yet to say yes. 791 00:42:53,180 --> 00:42:57,980 I pray that today is your day to receive him and to obey the gospel 792 00:42:58,620 --> 00:42:59,580 through baptism. 793 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:02,740 Because there's coming a day when our husband will return and 794 00:43:02,740 --> 00:43:04,060 he will make good on his promise. 795 00:43:04,860 --> 00:43:10,300 And there will be no crying anymore, no pain anymore, no suffering 796 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:15,020 anymore, no evil anymore, no emptiness anymore. 797 00:43:15,670 --> 00:43:17,270 No entitlement anymore. 798 00:43:17,750 --> 00:43:19,910 For we will be with our husband. 799 00:43:20,310 --> 00:43:24,310 Our Messiah, forever and ever and ever. 800 00:43:24,710 --> 00:43:26,390 And ever and ever. 801 00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:32,830 Father, we thank you for the good. 802 00:43:32,830 --> 00:43:33,990 News of the kingdom. 803 00:43:34,950 --> 00:43:36,310 We thank you for the king of. 804 00:43:36,310 --> 00:43:38,230 Kings, our Messiah, Lord and husband. 805 00:43:40,070 --> 00:43:44,120 Lord, I pray right now for those who have already said yes that 806 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,240 they would experience more and more sanctification. 807 00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:49,680 But for those who have yet to say yes, that they would do so today. 808 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,240 Lord, we love you and we thank you and we honor you. 809 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,760 Pray these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our 810 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,600 king and savior. 811 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,519 All God's people say amen. 812 00:43:57,519 --> 00:43:57,960 Amen. 813 00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:58,280 Amen. 814 00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:58,600 Amen. 815 00:43:58,600 --> 00:43:58,960 Amen. 816 00:43:58,960 --> 00:43:59,280 Amen. 817 00:43:59,280 --> 00:43:59,760 Amen. 818 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:05,440 Here's what I want you to know. 819 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,720 You don't get to sit back and hear the word of God. 820 00:44:09,910 --> 00:44:10,190 Golf. 821 00:44:10,190 --> 00:44:10,830 Clap it and go. 822 00:44:10,830 --> 00:44:11,190 All right. 823 00:44:11,270 --> 00:44:12,150 What's for lunch? 824 00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:15,950 There's nothing more important you've got to do than respond right 825 00:44:15,950 --> 00:44:16,870 now to the word of God. 826 00:44:17,990 --> 00:44:19,230 So here's what I want to encourage you to do. 827 00:44:19,230 --> 00:44:20,910 I want to encourage you all to stand to your feet right now, if 828 00:44:20,910 --> 00:44:21,430 you don't mind. 829 00:44:21,830 --> 00:44:25,470 I want to encourage the staff and prayer team to come spread out 830 00:44:25,470 --> 00:44:28,470 down front and I'm giving you one of three ways to respond this 831 00:44:28,470 --> 00:44:28,790 morning. 832 00:44:29,030 --> 00:44:31,590 Number one, there are some of you who. 833 00:44:31,590 --> 00:44:33,310 You hear the invitation right now. 834 00:44:33,310 --> 00:44:34,350 He's saying, come to me. 835 00:44:34,350 --> 00:44:35,030 Believe in me. 836 00:44:35,030 --> 00:44:35,510 Trust me. 837 00:44:35,510 --> 00:44:36,150 Marry me. 838 00:44:37,420 --> 00:44:37,980 And you've been. 839 00:44:37,980 --> 00:44:42,260 You've been trusting in your grandpa and your uncle and somebody 840 00:44:42,260 --> 00:44:44,300 else and your parents and thinking that's why you're. 841 00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:44,620 No. 842 00:44:44,620 --> 00:44:48,900 Every single one of you has to say, jesus is my Savior or you're 843 00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:49,900 turning your back on him. 844 00:44:50,700 --> 00:44:53,300 Every single one of us must pass through the moment where we 845 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:53,820 testify. 846 00:44:54,220 --> 00:44:57,540 May this person die, be buried and raised from the dead in Christ 847 00:44:57,540 --> 00:44:57,860 Jesus. 848 00:44:57,860 --> 00:44:59,100 That's what baptism is about. 849 00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:01,940 And I believe there are some of you who need to take that step 850 00:45:01,940 --> 00:45:05,020 this morning, saying, I accept your invitation, Jesus. 851 00:45:05,020 --> 00:45:05,980 I choose you. 852 00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:10,460 That's where you find power and salvation in the work of God. 853 00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,900 But I also know there are some of you right now, and you are here 854 00:45:13,900 --> 00:45:15,260 and you are carrying burdens. 855 00:45:15,820 --> 00:45:17,340 You are overwhelmed by certain things. 856 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:20,060 I want to remind you, this same Jesus that saves you, loves 857 00:45:20,060 --> 00:45:21,100 you and cares for you. 858 00:45:21,580 --> 00:45:24,180 And every Sunday, you have a chance to come before the Savior 859 00:45:24,180 --> 00:45:27,100 and say, I can't carry this load any longer, Jesus, I need you. 860 00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:31,230 If we are the bride and he is the groom, one of the most important 861 00:45:31,230 --> 00:45:34,350 things that we remember is that we will always need him. 862 00:45:35,150 --> 00:45:37,510 When two people are married, the worst thing that can happen is 863 00:45:37,510 --> 00:45:39,390 one person start thinking they don't need the other person. 864 00:45:39,870 --> 00:45:41,390 That's when that marriage is broken. 865 00:45:42,350 --> 00:45:44,750 The moment you start thinking you don't need the groom, you're 866 00:45:44,750 --> 00:45:45,230 in trouble. 867 00:45:46,029 --> 00:45:48,110 And there are some of you here today, and you've forgotten that 868 00:45:48,110 --> 00:45:50,510 you have a good husband who's ready to meet your needs. 869 00:45:50,510 --> 00:45:52,910 And you need to bring that before him and say, today, Jesus, 870 00:45:52,910 --> 00:45:53,550 I need you. 871 00:45:53,550 --> 00:45:54,470 Here's my struggle. 872 00:45:54,470 --> 00:45:55,470 It's a financial struggle. 873 00:45:55,470 --> 00:45:56,510 It's an emotional struggle. 874 00:45:56,510 --> 00:45:57,720 It's a mental struggle. 875 00:45:57,720 --> 00:45:58,920 It's a relationship struggle. 876 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,880 It's someplace, Jesus, I need you. 877 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,280 And I bring it before you in prayer. 878 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,400 Or maybe you need to come bow down in the steps and say, I don't 879 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,200 need to talk to anybody. 880 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,280 I just need to talk to Jesus and say, I've failed you. 881 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,360 I've been adulterous. 882 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,319 I've sought other things more than you. 883 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,800 I've sought identity in work and in relationships and sex and 884 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,440 money and whatever. 885 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,240 And I've done all that. 886 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:19,080 Oh, forgive me. 887 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,760 Maybe you need to come down and remember he is your husband and 888 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,440 let him forgive you and be reconciled to him. 889 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,720 Or maybe you just need to worship the Lord here's what I know. 890 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:30,800 Yeah, there's. 891 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,160 There's other stuff taking place outside. 892 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,360 You can go, leave, go do the next thing, or you can respond to 893 00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:35,880 the king of glory right here, right now. 894 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,520 And I want to encourage you, make that your priority. 895 00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:40,200 However you need to respond. 896 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:40,920 The front is open. 897 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,120 You do so.