Heart Like Heaven - Heaven Part 11

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A little bit come on, get it for
Jesus Amen.

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Give it up.
May I sing sing these songs just

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thinking about heaven and think
about Jesus man just heart is

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full of just gratitude for what
God is doing A couple things

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that's just happened recently
that is grateful for is our

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men's ministry.
Yesterday I was just blessed to

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sit at the table of guys that
you know, people talk about

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passion and say we passion about
and talk about sports.

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And it got to my table and it
was just Jesus and it was really

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cool to hear.
And there's a man of my group

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that kind of does Celebrate
Recovery.

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And he was talking about a man
fell in a pit and you know, a

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Christian guy walked by.
I said, hell, praying for you,

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rich man walked by.
I said, give you some money.

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He said, I'm the kind of guy
that just jumps in the pit and

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the guy goes, why are you down
here?

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He's like, I've been here
before.

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I can help you out and just
point them to Jesus.

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I've been I'm I'm in the right
group.

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Amen.
I sat next to a guy.

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He's older guy and just
fantastic.

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And he had shared his passion
was that he had helped men

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actually see their heavenly
Father the way Jesus wants us to

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see your heavenly Father because
made us grow up with brokenness

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and heard and all these
different stuff.

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And this guy is like legit, I
just man, we need more of that,

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Amen.
Men find their purpose.

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And so it was just really cool.
Just very grateful for what God

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was doing there, man.
Our church has been growing

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spiritually and numerically, and
I'm grateful for Jesus, what

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he's doing.
Amen.

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You can kind of sense it, you
know, losing little seats here,

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stuff like that.
But.

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It was cool I.
Think Holly mentioned this a few

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weeks ago.
Their church had moved basically

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from mid two 30s to about 270
over this course was last year

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and it didn't, it didn't sound
like super significant but

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that's like 15% growth it was
last year, which is just all

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glory to Jesus.
Amen and thankful for you guys

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that have been inviting and
sharing and loving and and our

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team for your care.
I know a lot.

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We have huge team high scenes
that serves and so all glory to

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Jesus and I'm thankful for our
team and grateful for what God's

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doing.
Amen so get up for a dream team,

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get for a life group leaders
give those to make a difference

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for a church just paving the way
for God.

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Just make a move.
So it's awesome.

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Well, this week we have life
Group community week.

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So what that means if you're a
life group leader, they're

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canceling all the stuff they
normally do, whether it's Bible

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studies or the way or just
different things.

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And they're just making room for
community.

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And so we'd love to see every
everyone of you guys out at a

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life group this week.
We'd love to connect.

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There's no agenda, Amen.
We're not selling anything.

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There's no baiting switch.
We're not even inviting out to

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Easter.
We just want to get to know you.

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And we just believe that you
just get people around the

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people of God.
It's just living proof of a

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loving.
God, Amen and.

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This can sense the Holy Spirit
and so we've been inviting this

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last few weeks.
I've been hanging out at this

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little barbecue joint in the in
Raymore called 816 BBQ.

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It's been been awesome.
I got a chance to meet the owner

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a few times.
He's there quite a bit had a

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food truck forever.
He loves Jesus, he loves the

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city and so I got a chance.
I've got his personal number.

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I've been texting him back and
forth and inviting out.

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So if you show it to my grip on
my night, I'm not going to say

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something to come.
But if he does get the best

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barbecue in town, Amen.
So this is going to happen, but

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we have friends and family all
across our city at the Jesus

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Amen.
And so if you got a brother or

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sister, parents like people
around, they could just come

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just can't come with me.
Hang out as soon introduce them

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some friends.
There's no other gender to it.

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So be inviting and see what God
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There's a story in the Bible
that's pretty cool about

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somebody was invited and Jesus
did this invitation to a lady to

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well, the most like least likely
person you'd ever talk to.

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And he had to serve her and she
served him and she was the first

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one to know about the Messiah.
And it's really cool as she

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start relationship with Jesus
and she went back to her town

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where everybody knew her story
and she said, there's a guy to

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everything about me.
You got to meet him.

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He's the Messiah.
And she brought these people to

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Jesus and many of them came to
Christ.

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Amen.
So one relationship changed

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everything.
But here's the part that's

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really cool.
I didn't know this a few weeks

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ago, that that crowd of people
that followed her to meet Jesus

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was actually the catalyst in the
beginning of the crowd.

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That would be the miracle, the
feeding of 5000.

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Is that crazy?
Like the biggest miracle you see

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in the New Testament by Jesus
outside the resurrection was

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because a woman that everybody
overlooked had a relationship

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with Christ and went and told
somebody, That's amazing.

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Amen.
So you never know who you're

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going to bring in contact.
It's just relationships.

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The gospel goes out.
So encourage it.

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We have a great opportunity in
front of us if you have a card

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on your seat for life groups.
You can just.

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Find any life groups and click
on it, get the address and just

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show up to any of this week.
We'd love to have you out.

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Amen.
So be a part of what God's

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doing.
Well, today I'm preaching on the

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fullness of the gospel.
This is an interesting topic.

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I'll explain all about it
throughout the day, but my

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prayer is that you'd be so moved
by heaven that would it would

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change how you live and share
the gospel on earth.

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You'd see like the fullness of
what God wants to do all across

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the board.
So I start with a question.

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Is there any area of our life
that is beyond the touch of the

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gospel?
You also quick to answer, right?

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There's not.
But sometimes we think there is,

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right?
Like many times we follow like a

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partial gospel.
Like is there any part of our

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marriage or any part of the
things we do for work or how we

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spend our money or, or is there
any, any atom in the universe?

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Is there any isotope or mountain
or nation or war?

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Is there anything beyond the
redemption of Jesus?

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And it's kind of common sense.
If you know Jesus, you're like,

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well, yeah, of course you can do
all things.

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But do we live it out?
Do do we do we live the fullness

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of the gospel or we have a
partial truth to what God has

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for us?
And so think about this verse

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and we're going to do a little
heart surgery today, if you want

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to call it heavenly heart
surgery, Amen.

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Little heart surgery.
And you know your heart by the

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words we speak.
And so you're going to find this

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in Luke chapter 6, verse 45.
It says this a good man brings

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what good things out of the what
good stored up in his heart.

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So this is a good person, right?
A good man, good things has good

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stored up in his heart.
An evil man brings evil things

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out of the evil stored up in his
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For the mouth speaks what the
heart is, what, what your heart

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is full of, like what, what the
fear and anxiety and the worry

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and the criticism and the anger
in, in the, in the, the put

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downs or the, OR the
compliments, all are flowing

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from your, your heart.
And so if you want somebody's

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hearts at you, just look at what
comes out of their heart.

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You look at the words that
people say.

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And so they also want to spend
some time looking at the words

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that we say and we share.
And if we're honest, many of us

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have fallen to the trap that we
believe the gospel is really

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about salvation and that church
is about knowledge.

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Many people would don't say
this, but they're saying this is

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that we preach the gospel to the
community and we preach the

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Bible to church.
It's just done by so many groups

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of churches.
And I grew up in that kind of

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church.
Like the gospel is for

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salvation, but it really doesn't
change the other things.

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And I want to encourage you
today that the gospel is about

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everything.
You just don't add the gospel.

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You don't put like the ice in
the gospel on a burnt cake and

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everything's great.
The gospel infiltrates every

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molecule of that cake,
infiltrates every part of your

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marriage, every part of your
life, every part of your

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finances, every part of your
heart, every interaction you

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have, every relationship.
The gospel is being woven into

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every fabric of your being.
But it changed our words.

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So I'm going to look through
some different areas.

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We might have some words that
are partially true.

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I hear there's all times as a
pastor, someone's going to walk

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through them and God will just
speak to you through it.

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So #1 where it's about death and
eternity.

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And there's so many times we're
in a, in a situation where we

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lose a friend or fan member
somewhere close throughout a

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funeral.
And there's just certain senses

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that you see over and over
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And one of the partial gospel
senses I hear a lot is I'll

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never see them again.
There's many people have this

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this bleak reality that people
die and they slip slip into

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oblivion like we'll never know
them and it is destitute.

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I've been to many funerals of
people that I'm very close to

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that were atheists and would
believe like this is to cease to

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exist.
And when people believe that and

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they see that there is obviously
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Amen.
There's a great despair.

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Some people believe that death
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It's the victory.
It's it's the final victory and

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there's this great confusion
that happens at death because

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you're face to face.
And I think in America, like we

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like to, it's just we try to
avoid death at all costs, right,

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like just a sense of death or
around death and we just make it

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all these things and the rest of
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It's it's it's just so
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Like my wife was in Africa and
somebody passed away in the

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hospital.
She was in the larrigue.

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They would just take him out
back and and literally put him

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in the pickup truck and drive
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It was just just normal
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And here we have these funeral
parlors and we just just people

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don't even show up at all, like
for their family stuff and then

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sneak in the back and then
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And like death is just great
confusion for so many people.

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People say this, I'll never talk
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I'll never hug them again.
I've heard this one quite often

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and it it's, it's so natural.
I can see myself saying this,

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but I wish I had more time.
I just wish I had more time.

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And you see this and and it's
it's human nature.

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Like we want this here and now
to last forever, but the reality

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is you don't have to wish for
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If they know Jesus, you will
have eternity with them.

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Amen.
That's good news.

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Like, I really get excited
because I've been to a lot of

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funerals as a pastor.
I've seen small caskets.

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I've seen families in car
accidents.

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I've seen five kids that died at
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I've seen generations that are
old and generations.

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I've seen every person.
Every type of person.

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There's a pastor.
I'm like, thank you, Jesus.

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This is in the end, Amen.
That this is just a partial

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truth, like, well, yeah, we
should have more time because

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what I have time.
And so the gospel is this, that

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death is defeated, Amen.
That the death that happens in

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our body is just a temporary
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And that Jesus rose again and
shaped death where it's just not

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the end of the story.
And one day we're resurrected

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and our soul and spirit is
united back to our bodies.

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So I started thinking about this
truth.

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And you might have heard this
old added adage.

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You may have heard ashes.
The ashes.

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Dust to dust.
What a poor representation of

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the Gospel.
That's actually the curse from

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dust.
Who came from dust.

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You shall be returned.
What a great place to put that

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at a funeral.
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Like, OK, yeah, we died because
of sin, but what better thing to

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say?
And I didn't write this.

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I don't know who wrote this.
It sounds like a, you know,

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medieval, you know, liturgy.
I don't know who did it, but ash

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to ashes, dust, dust.
It should be like from dust to

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dust and from dust again, we
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We returned to dust with curse
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from dust once again.
That's the gospel Amen that

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that's a fullness of the gospel.
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just given a partial gospel like
the ads hopeless that we

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returned to dust.
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That dust is the end of the
story and a moment in the eye

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and twinkling that we are
changed and their body is raised

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immortal.
Think about eternity that you

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have this time in relationships
with your family and friends.

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We talked about this before you
get to dine with your family.

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We talked about sharing coffee.
Where's Hannah?

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I'm going to call her out today.
It was Hannah was out by the she

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she didn't want me to stand up.
Hannah.

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Come on, Hannah.
Come on.

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Hannah.
Yeah, I said I saw her earlier.

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I was like, how are you doing?
She goes, next time you use my

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name, you're going to use my
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And she goes, no, don't.
I said we will, they'd be coffee

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in heaven, Hannah.
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We get to dine together.
We, we have friends, we get to

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spend eternity adventures and
hiking and, and just spending

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quality time with each other.
It's, it's, it's just beyond

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what we could ever imagine.
But a lot of times we think it's

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bleak and it's, it's destitute
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There's a person asked us a few
weeks ago, So how do we find

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people in heaven if we have
resurrected bodies and we don't

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know what they look like?
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There's a book I'm reading by
David Burke called Imagine

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Heaven and every story of
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So this isn't in the gospel, but
this is what people have seen

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and come back.
Is it that they've gone and

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there was family members and
friends waiting for them as they

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entered heaven?
That's a pretty cool picture.

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Amen.
That, that, that you're not

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going to go like, hmm, I wonder
if I know anybody here, right?

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Like Jesus is, they're watching
this great cloud of witness is

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seeing us from heaven and is
watching and praying for the

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things of earth.
And you show up.

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It's a family reunion, Amen.
That's good news.

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I just want you to know that the
best hugs you're ever going to

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get are going to come at the
gates of heaven, Amen.

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I mean, the full embrace of
intimacy and love and the story

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of God's redemption.
I mean, we think we have made

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right now, this is the worst it
gets, Amen?

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Like this world.
I mean, you hate to say it, but

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this isn't that fun, right?
Like we strive and we have

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burdens.
Paul called life the burden of

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life.
And that's a great way of saying

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it.
Like we, we struggle through

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life.
But there's another side.

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And you could be excited about
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You know, many times we wonder
how to say goodbye at a funeral.

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We wonder what like, goodbye has
so many meanings, right?

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Like goodbye forever.
Like, do I believe I'll see you

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again?
Like, what do you really say?

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Like in your heart?
Like, I know you can say

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whatever words, but like, what
do you really believe in?

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And Diane, she was at her
grandma's funeral graveside and

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she came just found this amazing
poet.

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This poem is about all the
different.

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Forms we buy.
And it came up with a really

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good word and it was the words
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And it was like, OK, this is
interesting, right?

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And it means if it has to be
this way, like it just has to be

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in this moment, like I don't
agree with death.

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It's terrible.
It was never meant to be this

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way, by the way.
Like we were never supposed to

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fall into the curse.
We made a choice.

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It feels so unnatural because it
is unnatural, Amen.

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And just sign R, like if it has
to be this way, it has to be

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this way.
I'm going to see you again.

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And her grandma knows Jesus.
She's watching this right now,

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Amen.
And we're going to see her

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again.
And we believe that.

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If we hope in the resurrection,

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we hope in the resurrection of
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And so we just have bold faith
of what God is doing.

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You can study this in the
Scripture, but sayonara is a

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great word.
You know, if you're not ready to

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say goodbye, I would say don't
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Don't say goodbye.
You're not saying goodbye.

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I mean, this feels like eternity
when you have separation of some

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of you loved, you know, but if
it's five years or 50 years or

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whatever, you.
Get all eternity.

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You're going to spend with that
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That's good news.
Amen.

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The world needs to hear this
good news.

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By the way, this is not what's
usually preached at us at a

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funeral.
I've been to hundreds and

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hundreds and hundreds of
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I've seen people killed on the
way to funerals, legit in car

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accidents, like in ministry, you
spend a lot of time next to

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death.
And thank God it's not the end.

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Amen.
But the fullness of the gospel.

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Let's use it.
Let's, let's build our life on

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the entire gospel, not just,
well, I know Jesus, but my life

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is terrible.
No, no, no, we know Jesus, but

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we know what's coming.
There's a whole complete side to

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it.
We wrote a core value when we

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launched our church.
And this may be a little salty

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because I came out of a really
legalistic background and sort

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of this, this core value that
says always only Jesus, somebody

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say always only Jesus, always
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And that just means the gospel
permeates everything in our

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life.
The gospel is center of every

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area of our lives.
We don't separate the secular

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from the spiritual.
That's a whole nother world.

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It's always only ever been Jesus
in all areas of our life.

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He is a sustainer in the
solution to everything.

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We don't preach the gospel, the
community in the Bible, the

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church.
We preach the gospel in every

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area of our lives through the
church, placing Jesus at the

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center of all things.
We put nothing else in the

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center, including any idol of
man and even this Rico salty the

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Bible itself.
There is nothing else at the

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center except for Jesus.
I know if you've been to a

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church that they preached the
Bible, but you didn't seem like

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the new God.
You've been to those type of

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churches where like they just
know all the rules, but they

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don't really love.
There's no grace.

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And we, for whatever reason, and
maybe it's just because we are,

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we have a lot of people that
come to our church that come up

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some pretty salty places.
And they, they come with a lot

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of a lot of a lot of hurt that
they came and like, fathom the

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fact of like talking to the
Heavenly Father because they've

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been wounded so much by
honestly, church.

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There are people that have been
the seminary and Bible colleges

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and you know, you know the
Bible.

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But do you know the God of the
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How many guys know that the
Bible is a door to step into the

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presence of God?
Like the goal is not to know the

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Bible with the goal is to be
transformed into, into the what

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the Bible is into the license of
Jesus.

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And so if you know the Bible and
you don't follow God, there's a

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couple things I'll say about
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One, Satan knows that you're a
lot more like Satan than like

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Jesus.
Satan knows every part of the

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Scripture enough to twist it,
manipulate it, whatever.

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The demons know it as well.
The Pharisees knew the Bible

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that they, they knew it so well
they created laws on top of the

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Bible so they they looked more
holy.

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They were actually the least
holy people in the room.

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Jesus never condemned anybody
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Like to know the Bible without
knowing God may be the greatest

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sin.
It's still a sin of apostasy,

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right?
I mean, you got Matthew 7/20/21

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right though those be on that
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They'll say, Lord, Lord, we cast
out these demons and great

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miracles in your name and
they'll say depart from me.

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I did not know you work of
iniquity like you knew all about

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me here, but you didn't know me
here.

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It's been said that the greatest
distance between hell and heaven

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is 13 inches right.
So I want to encourage you guys

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like our church.
It's it's it's not enough to

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memorize a verse.
It's not enough to open the

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Bible and do your Bible say this
is not check box Christianity.

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Amen.
Like you're not earning your way

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to God by some kind of
flatulence and being like torn

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down because you just don't give
a good enough because that's

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where that religion goes.
But the point of it is that you

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would trust Jesus and it'd be
the Holy Spirit would do

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transformational work and we
just point people to Christ.

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I think a lot of churches over
time have taken the pruners from

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the Father's hand and pruned
people instead of letting God

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prune people.
Like we just set the table,

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Amen.
We plant seeds, we water and the

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Holy Spirit, God the Father
shows up and he says, we're

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going to cut that out of your
life.

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We're going to we're going to
show you a better way.

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Thank Dee Jesus.
I'm, I'm a sheep.

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I'm not, I'm not the guy holding
the shears, Amen.

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You don't want me pruning your
life, Amen.

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Dying says, Amen.
I've tried lookout this.

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Let the Holy Spirit do its work,
Amen, But let get into God's

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presence like you.
You should feel better when you

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read this scripture.
There is there's there's no con

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nation, but there's conviction.
Like there's no shame.

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But I think a lot of times, like
people, I know what it is.

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If if they don't show up to
church and feel bad for going,

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it's not church.
That's crazy to me.

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I found somebody that's been
there before, right?

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It's just, it's just weird to
me, like the there's a goodness

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of God and the kindness of God
and the grace of God is what

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draws people and what shapes
people.

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This is not a religion, Amen.
It's a partial gospel just to

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preach the Bible and not
actually know God deeper every

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time.
So second area marriage and

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relationships.
And this is partial gospel, but

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you hear this a lot.
And then we we struggle through

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this.
If you're married, there'll be

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two seasons, right?
But you'll say our marriage is

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beyond repair.
You've been in those seasons

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where it's like, this is just
like, I don't see a way out.

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Like we were in a pit or people
never change.

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Just in general, like I've just
given up on people.

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I mean, you, you may have a
class of people that may be

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Republicans, that may be
Democrats, right?

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And you're thinking, oh, this is
too far, you know, and you

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wouldn't like say it, but you
may say it right in private or

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this relationship is just too
broke.

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I mean, there's too much water
to the bridge.

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We, we can never go back.
It's just too difficult.

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We can give up on God's grace
and God's restoration and his

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resurrection power.
I met a man probably two months

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ago and.
Opportunity to pray with him.

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He was in a real difficult
season.

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I can't give you all the
details, but he was separated

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from his wife and not because
they wanted to be, but there was

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like a legal thing happening.
I've never seen it before.

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It was crazy.
But he couldn't be home and

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there and it wasn't, it was just
a, it's a dynamic and I, I

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can't, if I told you, you might
go figure it out.

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So there's a dynamic and he
can't be home.

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But then his wife started
cheating on him and he was

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sitting there and, and we're
talking, he's got tears in his

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eyes and he's, I don't know what
to do.

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00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,800
Like I might, I may file, I have
to file divorce today or

452
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,400
tomorrow.
And I just don't know if I

453
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,840
should sign the papers or not.
And I was like, listen man, I

454
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,160
cannot give you.
Any direction, but I will pray

455
00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,800
that the Holy Spirit makes it
clear to you what you should do.

456
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,880
Like should you sign or should
you not?

457
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,040
Because biblically he has every
right to sign the paper.

458
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,280
Like, you know, adultery.
There's there's grounds for

459
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,560
divorce in the Bible, by the
way, right?

460
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,400
Abuse, adultery, of course,
death.

461
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:36,360
That's a good.
But I will say, if you have been

462
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,520
through marriage and God didn't
bless your divorce, there's

463
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:45,040
still the grace of God because
sometimes we jump the gun and

464
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,400
we're not who we're called to be
in that season and we're so

465
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,760
bitter and all those things that
blows up.

466
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,560
But God's grace covers that.
Amen.

467
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,440
But I do think with maturity, we
get stepped in and say there is

468
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:54,880
resurrection power.
Maybe there's a chance.

469
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,600
And this band was just so great,
so gracious, like he did not

470
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,200
want to, but he moved forward
because he's just so tired of

471
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,200
walking through the season.
He, I saw him again and I talked

472
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,400
to him.
I said, hey, what's God doing?

473
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,760
He said, look, I've showed up.
I talked to her.

474
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,560
I said, look, I got these
papers.

475
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,600
I don't want to deliver these
papers, but I can't keep doing

476
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,400
this.
And his wife was like, I cannot

477
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,880
believe, like I put myself in
the situation, like I've totally

478
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,880
screwed up.
Like, I don't know how I could

479
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,520
ever bring your stuff back.
Of course, he had a plan, right?

480
00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:30,200
Ditch the side project, right?
Like he had the thing and he

481
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,760
laid it out.
In the last few weeks, they've

482
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,320
been working together and he
didn't file divorce.

483
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,640
And I thought, man, what a great
picture of like the patience of

484
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,520
God in the resurrection power of
Christ and desiring what Jesus

485
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,120
can do, Amen.
And I'm every season is a

486
00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,680
different thing, right?
So I'm not giving you like a

487
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,080
catch all, like what you should
do in all the pieces, but just

488
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,640
giving room for God.
And when people come to me and

489
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,800
they're like, Sean, should I get
divorced?

490
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,880
And then they're like, I was
like, have you given Jesus every

491
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,560
opportunity to restore this
relationship?

492
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,000
Right now?
I think I've counseled people to

493
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,560
be divorced because I think that
grace has been given far enough.

494
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,520
Just be honest with you.
There's a there's there's but

495
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,720
it's between them of God,
obviously right, but give grace

496
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,520
and listen to the Spirit of God.
And if you've messed up, no like

497
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,560
learn and next time like be wise
as best you can and sometimes

498
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,960
you do all the right things that
doesn't work out.

499
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,960
I get that seen it.
But let's be the men and women

500
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,800
of God's calls to be Amen.
And so the better confession is

501
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,280
this about marriage.
Nothing is beyond the

502
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,240
restoration power of Jesus.
Amen.

503
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,320
And God specializes in
rebuilding what sin destroyed.

504
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,760
That's his specialty, not ours.
We are terrible at rebuilding

505
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,920
things.
If you're like me, he goes bad

506
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,200
the worse and the more I try the
worse it gets.

507
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,840
You could ask Diane, anybody
been around me.

508
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,240
It's like just stop working on
it.

509
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,000
Like just let Jesus just trust
God in this less of you and more

510
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,160
of him.
So third year I'll share is

511
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,560
personal failures in the sin.
This is where we like to really

512
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,240
have a partial gospel.
And I've lived this and many of

513
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,320
you live this, but you'll say
stuff like this.

514
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,760
I'll always struggle with this.
They'll always be this way.

515
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,000
It's just who I am or I'm gone
too far.

516
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,600
It's a real interesting thought.
I think Satan is so good.

517
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,520
Like he'll throw a lure and
you'll bite on it and he'll just

518
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,760
start reeling in.
He'll hook you and he'll just

519
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,160
drag in and he'll throw another
one and you hook it and it just

520
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,560
knows the same way He'll do it
over and over and over and he'll

521
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,080
do your entire life if you let
him.

522
00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:36,680
What's interesting about saying
these truths, it's a real

523
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,840
partial gospel.
What you're really saying is I

524
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,800
know Jesus paid for every part
of my sin and I'm not good

525
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,400
because of who I am good because
Jesus is, but I have to earn it

526
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,960
still.
And so I, I know what you're

527
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,240
saying, but I have to somehow
prove the fact I deserve to be

528
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,000
loved by you.
And So what you're ultimately

529
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:03,760
doing is, is that you're paying
on the cross yourself instead of

530
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,560
trusting Jesus.
So you're paying twice.

531
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,600
Does.
That make sense, Like you're

532
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,560
like, you know, I know you're
crucified and you died for

533
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,240
everyone of my sins.
You wiped Far East from the

534
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,400
West.
I know you love me.

535
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,760
You're not counting your sins
against me, but I have to go on

536
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,240
that cross and earn it.
There's like a deep

537
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,160
perfectionism there.
There's a deep like insecurity

538
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,960
driving us to pay twice and you
may say stuff like I'm too ugly,

539
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,440
I'm worthless, I'm not enough or
I'm afraid or there's deep

540
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,320
insecurity or doubt or this
unhindered drive to become

541
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,800
somebody because you have to
prove yourself a validation.

542
00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:43,720
Am I preaching today?
It's literally just it's in our

543
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:48,520
soul and say nose like if I can
just captivate your need for

544
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,520
penance and for flagellation and
for you to earn this yourself, I

545
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,640
will just keep you in that cell
your entire life.

546
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,720
And it's just what he does.
This is the enemy's tactic.

547
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,840
And the gospel truth is that he
creates new people and it says

548
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:09,800
this in the 2nd Corinthians 517.
Therefore, if anyone is in

549
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,160
Christ, like if you know Jesus,
you're a Jesus follower.

550
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:21,160
The new creation has come and
the old has gone and the new is

551
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,240
here like you.
You're a new creation like God

552
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,360
didn't like just sprinkle some
Jesus on you, but the gospel

553
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:33,400
does not add Jesus to your life.
The gospel is well, Jesus saved

554
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,120
me, so I'm I'm going to earn it
still.

555
00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:36,400
So I'm going to be a good
person.

556
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:37,720
I'm going to say the right
things.

557
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,280
I'm going to do the right
things.

558
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,320
I'm going to treat people the
right way.

559
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,880
I'm always going to be the right
thing.

560
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,160
I'm going to strive for
perfection.

561
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,880
When when you pray, did you say
Lord bless my perfect effort?

562
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,240
Now I'm saved.
Did they prayer that ever?

563
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,880
But we act like that, right?
Like there's a difference

564
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,280
between perfection and
confession.

565
00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:00,640
Amen.
You confess, Lord, I am not

566
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,520
good, but you are.
You are good.

567
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,040
So you got to finish the entire
sentence.

568
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,360
But you're a new creation.
Jesus didn't just he didn't

569
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:11,520
sprinkle in your life.
Matter of fact, you're not even,

570
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,560
you're not even a good person
becoming better.

571
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,160
Somebody may have thought that
your best life now, right?

572
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,840
Like you're just a good person
and you just do some more good

573
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,960
stuff.
That's not it.

574
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,080
The gospel is that you were
dead.

575
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,920
Hello, dead.
And you were what, now?

576
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,240
Alive to God.
Amen.

577
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,040
There's not a single party
that's not alive.

578
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,240
Like your soul and spirit were
resurrected through Christ.

579
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,000
And so when you look down at
yourself and you treat yourself

580
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000
poorly or you're walking through
insecurity and fear, you're

581
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,800
giving a lot of glory to
yourself and not to the gospel.

582
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,040
Let me just be real honest.
Amen.

583
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,640
And if you ever walked through
the seasons, like we, we could

584
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,520
play that same record over and
over and over and over and over.

585
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,800
So I can only expect like walk
and like, I'm never going to

586
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,760
struggle.
But I want you to walk out here

587
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,880
knowing the gospel truth.
Like I don't want you to live in

588
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,960
a partial truth.
The Bible says he picks our feet

589
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,080
out of the miry clay and he sets
them on a rock and he puts a new

590
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,320
song on her heart.
And we start what those terrible

591
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,080
version, but we start dancing.
We started dancing.

592
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,720
I don't know about you, but we
need some more Christians

593
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:21,520
dancing.
Amen.

594
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,000
I mean, it's like we got saved
with my reclay set on the rock.

595
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,080
And it's like just a terrible
and we sit in this mopey, broken

596
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,480
position and we never get our
eyes back on Jesus.

597
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,720
And somebody told you along the
way, I don't know who told you

598
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,360
that you weren't good enough.
Like who told you that?

599
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,480
Like who who told you that you
would not measure up?

600
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,480
Who told you that you had to be
good enough?

601
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,600
Forgotten to love you.
Who told?

602
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:48,920
I'm Willie.
Who told you.

603
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,720
I mean, maybe in your dad.
That is my story.

604
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:55,720
I've never heard the words my
dad.

605
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:56,800
I love my dad.
All my heart.

606
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,160
I love my dad.
But I've never heard the words.

607
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,600
I love you, son.
I'd walk through that.

608
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:06,200
Amen.
Thank you, Jesus, that I can

609
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,680
have a heavenly Father that
loves me fully.

610
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,040
That was hard to do.
That took some years of

611
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,360
stripping away with insecurity
and fear like, but you know

612
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,280
what?
I, I, I could just look at the

613
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,320
gospel and know this is better.
And I, even though I didn't get

614
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,120
the words from my father, I get
the words from God.

615
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,280
I have to trust God with that
like and, and, and for years.

616
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,840
It's like you have to replace
your earthly father.

617
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,680
You have the, your earthly
father with the heavenly Father.

618
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,520
Like, I don't want to replace
him, right, But I want to, I

619
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,480
want to know who my father is in
heaven.

620
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,520
You know what the words are
spoken by the Father to the Son

621
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,640
are in the Bible.
Let me know you'll you see it

622
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,120
twice in the New Testament.
You see it once the baptism and

623
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,280
once the mountain change
figuration.

624
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,360
You know what the Father said to
the Son?

625
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:48,000
You guys remember this for this
is my Son, whom I'm what well

626
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:55,000
pleased and I love him.
This ownership, this proud

627
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,160
moment and love.
That's the words of the Father,

628
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,000
Amen.
If you got somebody speaking a

629
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,520
word in your life and it brings
shame and combination, those

630
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,480
words are not from God.
That is not from God.

631
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,840
That is a small person making
themselves feel big at your

632
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,840
expense.
That's not from God.

633
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,560
And you need to be careful about
what you LED in your heart.

634
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,840
And you, when you're young, you
don't know any different, but

635
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,680
you get older, you get a choice
to say, was that from God or was

636
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,000
that from man?
Was that gospel?

637
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,280
Or was that just somebody's best
effort or maybe their worst

638
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,880
effort?
And anybody that has words over

639
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,720
you has power over you.
And there's no greater power in

640
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,240
your life than the resurrection
power of Jesus.

641
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,240
And some of us had to get real
serious about the words we put

642
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,120
in our life because you can't
lead somebody where you've never

643
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,000
been.
If you cannot truly love

644
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,440
somebody, it's because you can't
love yourself because the gospel

645
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,840
has not taken effect deep enough
in your life.

646
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,240
Chase it down, brother.
I took all the time and I

647
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,760
fellowed Jesus.
I said, you know Jesus, you need

648
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,760
to get in this Bible.
And you swim to the depth of

649
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,680
God's grace.
You'll swim for eternity and

650
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,160
you'll never see the bottom.
That's how you love yourself.

651
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,520
Amen.
This is not a self help gospel

652
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,960
by the way.
Just do a little better.

653
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,520
Change up your life, clean up
your mess, then God will bless.

654
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,400
That's not it, Amen.
You did not help yourself, The

655
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,880
ball says when we were yet
helpless, Romans 5-6, Christ

656
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,760
died for us.
There is nothing good in you

657
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,840
that could help yourself.
So we all can obey, Amen.

658
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,760
We all can humble ourselves.
We can look and say, Father,

659
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,640
just teach me.
Forgive me for being so blind.

660
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,360
And we've, we've learned these
things, we've learned these

661
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,960
patterns, but now we need to
change that for the next

662
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:26,640
generation.
Amen.

663
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,480
Here's what happens ultimately
with all what I'm saying with

664
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,960
insecurity and fear and all
these things on us is Jesus.

665
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,280
He unlocked the cell and we're
still sitting at thinking we're

666
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,480
captive.
I just believe today, and every

667
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,800
time you preach the gospel, it
would just be amazing if

668
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,400
somebody would just look up and
just walk out of the cell a

669
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:51,120
little bit and go, wow, that's
what freedom tastes like, Amen.

670
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,800
Because we get used to where
we're at.

671
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,800
I just believe that God has
called us to step into his

672
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,360
presence and feel His goodness.
I mean, you don't have to do

673
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:00,520
anything.
He's like knocking on the door

674
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,280
of a heart.
That's to Christians, by the

675
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,240
way.
If you open the door, he'll dine

676
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,640
with you.
And you with me should just be

677
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,280
in the presence of Jesus today.
That enough, Amen.

678
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,800
Just go do some battle in your
heart for the things of God.

679
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,760
Romans 81 says there's now no
condemnation for those who are

680
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,400
in Christ Jesus.
Amen, no condemnation.

681
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,320
So when you say you're not good
enough, I got to major up, I got

682
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,920
to achieve things.
I need validation.

683
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,760
I've got to be somebody.
I don't have numbers, followers,

684
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,240
popularity, all these why are
are you enough for Jesus down

685
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,960
the cross for you, you're
enough.

686
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,480
Amen, because of Jesus, he loved
you.

687
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,600
You don't have to be anymore.
You don't have to be better.

688
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,400
You have to clean up your mess.
You just got to embrace the

689
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,880
grace of God.
That's real life church, by the

690
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,360
way.
I went to church for a long

691
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:50,520
time.
I never heard that message.

692
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,360
There's no air of your life
that's off limits to God.

693
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,560
He's in no limits to God.
Amen.

694
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,680
He turned sin into forgiveness,
shame into dignity, broke

695
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,800
relationship into
reconciliation, working into

696
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,640
purpose, suffering into glory
and death in a life.

697
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,600
That's the gospel.
He'll do it for you.

698
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,120
He did it for us.
The Bible says that Jesus is the

699
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,800
Lord of every single thing in
your life.

700
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,520
Ephesians 19 to bring unity to
all things in heaven on earth

701
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,240
under Christ.
It's the fullness of the gospel.

702
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,160
It's not you just get saved and
and OK, it works out.

703
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,120
It's like, no, he wants every
part of your life to be under

704
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,120
him and then God changes your
life.

705
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,480
Last thing is culture in the
world.

706
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,400
And you might think about this
because I mean, if you very he

707
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,280
pushed the news out on us a
little bit earlier.

708
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,880
It's a little bleak.
It's a little interesting, a

709
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,480
little bit like, I don't know
what's happening, but hopefully

710
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,920
this is right.
Is this even true?

711
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,560
Can I trust what I'm reading
right now and be at that point

712
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,520
yet with AI just kind of
wondering, like, did that happen

713
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,160
or not?
But you might say the world is

714
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,240
too far gone.
Is this is too hard.

715
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,960
The culture is hopeless.
You know, the city will never

716
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,720
come to Christ.
I've seen pastors.

717
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,760
My city is too hard to reach.
Just difficult.

718
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,440
I'm like, yeah, if it was easy,
you know, Satan's got a hold of

719
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,240
it.
Nothing will ever change.

720
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,080
You've been in that spot.
Just kind of like give up on it.

721
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,840
Just seems like, Nah, the world
is just this and that.

722
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,080
And we almost like keep the
gospel to ourselves, like do

723
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,680
like, you know, communal living
and this like, hey, I'm not

724
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,440
going to go out, you know, at
night, like we're staying close.

725
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,280
I will say this about this.
God is not finished, and neither

726
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,280
are we.
God is not finished with the

727
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,440
culture in the world.
We're still here, Amen.

728
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,640
And so we're not finished there.
There's a purpose to why we're

729
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,000
still here.
We don't, we don't like the

730
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,520
mess.
We don't understand everything

731
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,200
that's going on.
One day we will.

732
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,040
But God has called us right now
to be salt and light and

733
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,960
ambassadors for Christ and be
the hands of feet in Jesus and

734
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,800
the only Bible that most people
are ever going to read.

735
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,240
He's called us to to be into the
culture and not of the culture,

736
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,160
to shine a light into the
darkness, which by the way, it

737
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,360
doesn't take the you don't, you
don't remove darkness, you add

738
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,160
light.
Right.

739
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:57,880
And there's a reason you're
here.

740
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,000
And there's people who need to
know Christ and be encouraged in

741
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,240
Christ to build up the church,
those new Jesus, and to reach

742
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,000
those new Jesus if you're not
living under that umbrella.

743
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,480
It would be pretty hopeless and
bleak.

744
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,719
There's really no reason to be
here.

745
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,280
But God has called us to step
out into our culture, and if

746
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,000
he's not giving up, then neither
have we, Cautions 119 says this.

747
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:20,280
For God was pleased to have all
his fullness dwell in him, which

748
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,159
is Jesus.
So every bit of God is in Jesus

749
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:30,320
and through him to reconcile to
himself what all things, every

750
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,239
single thing is reconciled to
Christ, whether things this is

751
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,760
interesting on earth or things
where in heaven.

752
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,800
Every single thing by making
peace through his blood shed on

753
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,920
the cross, Jesus reversed the
curse.

754
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,719
Amen.
He made right every single wrong

755
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,520
and everything is going to be
reconciled to Jesus.

756
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,199
And so the resurrection of Jesus
not just about saving souls,

757
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,720
it's about resurrecting and
recreating all of creation.

758
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,680
So you think about people and
systems and economy and nations,

759
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,560
like everything is under the
resurrection power of Christ,

760
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,000
Amen.
It's the fullness of the gospel.

761
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,760
So the question I'd like to ask
today is how big is your gospel?

762
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,200
Like, how effectual is your
gospel?

763
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,080
Like is there anything that you
put and said, man, that's a

764
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,720
partial gospel?
Like maybe the gospel you

765
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,000
believe in and maybe you preach
is smaller than the gospel that

766
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,400
Jesus died for?
Like do you have full

767
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:25,800
confidence?
Like there's parts of my life

768
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:26,960
that don't look like Jesus, but
they can.

769
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,120
And I know you've been to
battle.

770
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,200
I know I can see the wounds,
I've seen the tears.

771
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,680
I've been in counselors, I know
who I'm talking to.

772
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,320
I've been there.
But we got to step up to the

773
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,320
plate.
Like the gospel is effectual,

774
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,640
Amen.
If you apply it, there's always

775
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,600
healing.
God always changes the parts of

776
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,680
you allow him to change.
And it's a it's a fight every

777
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,000
day for I'm crucified to Christ
no longer I live, but Christ

778
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,720
live to me and he crucifies
himself.

779
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:56,840
How often, daily, daily you make
a choice.

780
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,640
You're follow Jesus, you
champion the power of Christ.

781
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,800
One day it's going to make
perfect sense.

782
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,000
It may not be tomorrow or today,
but it will one day.

783
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,880
Amen.
There's a day coming when.

784
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,400
We're going to see.
The resurrection of the dead,

785
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:10,720
the word dying, we're going to
present heaven.

786
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:13,360
Then God does new creation or
new heaven, new earth, and

787
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,800
there's a day where the our
bodies come out of the tomb.

788
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,880
It's called the rapture and we
go dust from dust to dust from

789
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,040
dust again.
And there's a resurrection day

790
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,960
and there's a battle that's
going to be fought and we're

791
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,080
going to see Jesus face to face
and we're going to go to war.

792
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,760
And I want to talk about the
resurrection day and and it's

793
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,800
better than me created.
I've been reading this book,

794
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,480
like I was saying, but he has
this great passage he wrote

795
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,280
about this and this is the
fullness of the gospel.

796
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,880
So here's a little flavor of the
resurrection day and just stay

797
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,080
with me.
It's going to be a a few pages.

798
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,360
So.
The Babel cry of 100 million

799
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,720
warriors erupted from one end of
heaven to the other.

800
00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:51,760
There was a war on the narrow
isthmus between heaven and hell,

801
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,200
a planet called Earth.
The air was filled with the den

802
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,040
of combat.
The whales of oppressors begin

803
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,600
begins.
Or being slain in the jealous or

804
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,280
sorry joyous celebrations of the
oppressed, rejoicing that at

805
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,920
long last their liberators had
arrived.

806
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Sorry, the lights are great up
here.

807
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,040
Some of the warriors sang as
they slew, singing, swinging

808
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,240
swords to hew the oppressors
with one arm with the other,

809
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:18,840
pulling victims up on their
horses.

810
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,720
The long arm of the king moved
with swiftness and power.

811
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,840
The hope of reward that kept the
sufferer sane was vindicated

812
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,920
last.
No child of heaven was touched

813
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,160
by a sword that day, for the
universe could not no longer

814
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,000
tolerate the shedding of one
more drop of righteous blood.

815
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,160
Heaven released fury.
Earth bled.

816
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,000
It was the old world's last
night.

817
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,600
Amen.
At the lion's nod, Michael

818
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,920
raised his mighty sword and
brought it down upon the great

819
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,000
dragon, It's muscles bulging at
the strain.

820
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,160
Michael picked up the evil twin
and cast the rhythming beast

821
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,040
into the great pit.
The mauler of men, the hunter of

822
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,600
women, the predator of children,
the persecutor of the righteous

823
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,600
shrieked in terror.
The vast army of heavens

824
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,520
warriors cheered.
The battalions of Karis, which

825
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,160
means grace, gazed upon the
disseminated faces of the earth,

826
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:09,240
the scorched soil of the Old
World.

827
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,280
Nothing had survived the fires
of this Holocaust of things.

828
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,600
Nothing but the King's word, his
people, and the deeds of gold

829
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,000
and silver and precious stones
that done for him.

830
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,880
During the long night since
Eden's twilight.

831
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,640
Soldiers dropped their weapons
and the crippled tossed their

832
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,880
crutches, and they ran.
The blind opened their eyes and

833
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,600
saw.
They pointed and shouted and

834
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,560
danced, throwing their arms
around each other, for each knew

835
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,040
that any now left on earth were
under the King's blood and could

836
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,720
be fully trusted.
The king gathered children upon

837
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,800
his lap and wiped away their
tears.

838
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,200
The sound of a great multitude,
like the roar of rushing waters

839
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,680
and the loud peels of Thunder,
shouted Hallelujah for the Lord

840
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,320
God Almighty rains, lest rejoice
me glad and give him glory.

841
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,160
For the wedding of the Lamb has
come, and his bride has made

842
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,680
herself ready.
All eyes turn to the King.

843
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,880
The entire universe fell silent,
anticipating his words.

844
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,360
I will turn the wasteland into a
garden called paradise, the king

845
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,760
announced.
I'll bring here the home I've

846
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,320
made for you, my bride.
There will be a new world, a

847
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,440
life filled blue-green world,
greater than all that's ever

848
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,720
been.
The shall lands are mine again,

849
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,560
and I shall transform them.
My Kingdom has come, My will

850
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,400
shall be done.
Winter is over and spring is

851
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,320
here at last.
A great roar rose from the vast

852
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,680
crowd.
The King raised his hands upon

853
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,120
seeing the scars, the crowds,
the cheering crowds.

854
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,200
Remember the unthinkable cost of
the great celebration.

855
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,200
Warriors slapped each other on
the back.

856
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,200
The delivered hugged at their
deliverers, enjoying a great

857
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,720
reunion.
There was once that once parted

858
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,600
from them, the multitudes or
innumerable began to sing the

859
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,440
song for which they've been
made, a song that echoed off a

860
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,560
trillion planets and
reverberated in quadrillion

861
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,680
places and every nook and cranny
of the creation expanse.

862
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,600
Audience and orchestra and choir
all blended into one great

863
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,880
Symphony, a grand cantata of
rhapsodic melodies sustaining

864
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,040
harmonies.
All were participants.

865
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,360
Only one was the audience, the
audience of 1.

866
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,160
The smile of the King's approval
swept through the choir like a

867
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,440
fire across a dry wheat field.
When the song was complete, the

868
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,760
audience of 1 stood and raised
his arms, then clapped his

869
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,720
scarred hands together in a
thunderous applause, shaking

870
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,520
ground in the sky and drawing
every corner of the cosmos.

871
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,760
His applause went on and on,
unstoppable and unstopping.

872
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,560
Every one of them realized
something that with undiminished

873
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,200
clarity.
In that instance, they wondered

874
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,000
why they had not seen it all
along, what they knew in that

875
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,880
moment, and every fiber of their
being.

876
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,280
Was that in this person, in this
place where all they'd ever

877
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,480
longed for and all they ever
would?

878
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:47,880
Pretty good.
Amen.

879
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,240
There's a resurrection day
coming.

880
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,960
You may not understand
everything about heaven and all

881
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,640
the things of God.
There's a man of God that wrote

882
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:56,760
this.
His name's Tom Albright.

883
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,120
It's actually Tony Taylor's
grandpa.

884
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,520
He wrote a little devotional to
heaven a few weeks ago.

885
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,360
He said my children were very
small.

886
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,120
When they would hold my hand, it
was too big for them to get a

887
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,280
hold of.
So they grasped my finger and

888
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:10,640
that's all they needed.
No matter that they knew nothing

889
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,160
of my their dad's ability or
bind.

890
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,160
They had a hold of daddy and
such as the grasp of my God in

891
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,080
heaven.
I have a hold of him and more

892
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,840
importantly, he has a hold of
me.

893
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,480
That's good, Amen.
You don't understand every piece

894
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,240
of it and the Bible really ends
in Revelation 21.

895
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,960
Five says, behold, I'll make all
things new.

896
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,560
That's a good word, Amen.
That's the full gospel that's

897
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,680
going to happen one day.
You guys believe that that

898
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,880
picture, that feeling, this is
all we ever needed.

899
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,760
It's all going to make sense.
Thank you Jesus.

900
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,880
So Father, we come before you
God, I pray for our church God

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that we would have the full
gospel.

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God will come part every part of
our lives, God, whether it's our

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marriage or it's our inner
thoughts of the secret sins of

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self God, of the brokenness that
we walk through.

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God, I pray that we strengthen
us today through your gospel.

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How many today say in our house
to say, I want the fullness of

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the gospel?
I've been leaving a partial

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gospel, but today I want the
fullness of the gospel, the

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fullness of Christ.
I want to know him in the power

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of his resurrection and the joy
of his suffering.

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I'll know all pieces of Christ.
That's you.

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Just put your hands out in front
of you and say, Lord, just touch

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me.
God, I surrender to you Again,

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there's parts of me, there's
words I've been speaking,

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there's lies I've been
believing.

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My identity's been wrapped up
too much in me or too much what

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somebody else has said.
God, don't put my identity in

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you.
Am I marriage in you?

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No, I hope in you.
Oh, I believe by other people in

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you.
God set my mind and my heart on

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eternity.
God on heaven.

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I'll pray for one more group of
people that's those of you today

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that recognize that you need
Jesus, but the gospel has not

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touched you yet that you're a
Sinner stranded in sin and need

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the gospel to bust open the
gates of hell, the gates of sin

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in your life and step into Jesus
into his presence.

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The first time the Bible says
that Jesus became sin and do no

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sin that you might become the
righteousness of God that says

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you make confess you the mouth
you believe that Jesus down the

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cross for your sins that you
rose again that you be saved and

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forgiven and made new today if
you need Jesus, if you need

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heaven, you only get there
through Jesus is the only way in

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the Bible and his grace.
Jesus loves you enough to save

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you from your sin and give you
life now that lasts for eternity

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through heaven.
So you even need Christ?

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I've been looking around.
If that's you need a star

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00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,800
relationship with Jesus, we
should raise your hand high.

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So I need Christ.
Today I'm not going to call you

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and make it weird because I need
Jesus.

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Come on, see your hand to be
able to I need Jesus today

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relationship with Christ.
There's no shame they'd be

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coming for a season.
You're like, man, I don't know.

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00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,480
Today you can know see your hand
as well.

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If that's you just call it to
your father.

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Father, thank you so much for
sending Jesus.

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You did for me what I could
never do in a million lifetimes.

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God, thank you for loving me
when I was unlovable thus far

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from you.
God, forgive me for building my

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life and myself, my own power,
my insecurity, my fear if I've

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wandered this world, but God,
I'm coming home.

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God, thank you for loving me.
God, I pray forgive me for my

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00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:19,760
sins.
God, I trust, redeem the cross

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00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,680
with me.
I believe in you Jesus, and I

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pray this in Jesus name.
And the church said, hey man,

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give up.
Give some glory to God today.

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Amen.
Let them know you love them.

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