WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500 I just want to say welcome again to Watermark. 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:06.379 We're so happy that you're here worshiping with us this morning. 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:10.200 We just want to take a couple of minutes and turn around and say good morning to your neighbors 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:11.720 and say Jesus loves you. 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:11.759 Thank you. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:50.679 You may be seated. 00:00:50.679 --> 00:01:00.820 Good morning, Watermark. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:01.960 How are you? 00:01:03.340 --> 00:01:03.899 Hi. 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:09.319 My name is Natalie, and I'm the coordinator of children's ministry here at Watermark. 00:01:09.539 --> 00:01:11.180 And so welcome this morning. 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:12.539 We're excited to have you here. 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.000 Hi, I'm Melanie Case, and I help with Watermark kids as well. 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:19.219 And so we are excited to kick off this fall. 00:01:19.219 --> 00:01:21.000 We have a new curriculum. 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:26.739 It's called the Gospel Project for Kids, and we are excited about it. 00:01:26.819 --> 00:01:30.840 There's a lot of modern media, which we know the kids just love. 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:36.539 And so it's visually stimulating, and it's just focused on Jesus Christ, 00:01:36.579 --> 00:01:42.379 which we believe here at Watermark to be just the fundamentals of our faith. 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.759 And so we wanted to give you a sneak preview. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:47.439 So watch now. 00:01:49.219 --> 00:01:55.959 If this is your first time to Watermark or your third or fourth time, 00:01:55.980 --> 00:02:00.939 you realize that we do everything with the family engaged because we feel like it is a family, 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:05.099 and kids need to be involved with the parents, and they need to see the parents' faith, 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.319 and they need to see that lived out, and they need to be able to ask a lot of questions. 00:02:08.539 --> 00:02:13.000 And so we just feel like that is some of you walking in going, that's crazy. 00:02:13.099 --> 00:02:16.020 Tim and Huang are looking at me like, where the heck do we sit right now? 00:02:16.020 --> 00:02:16.939 Come on in, guys. 00:02:17.939 --> 00:02:22.240 But the kids are engaged, and then they will leave. 00:02:22.320 --> 00:02:26.600 But we do crazy things because we feel like we're called to be a family in that sense. 00:02:26.939 --> 00:02:28.860 And so I'm going to try something very crazy here. 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.660 I would like to ask all the kids who are going to go to Kids Club, I need your help. 00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:36.219 I have a problem. 00:02:36.219 --> 00:02:39.620 So if you're going to go to Kids Club, will you kids come up here? 00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:46.800 I have 300 pieces of chocolate candy I can't eat by myself, but that's not my problem. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.319 Okay, so kids, will you come on up here for me, please? 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:50.060 Come on, guys. 00:02:53.900 --> 00:02:55.759 All the kids, come on up here. 00:02:57.259 --> 00:02:58.840 Okay, and just kind of sit right there. 00:02:58.919 --> 00:02:59.419 Good job. 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:02.400 Well, I can tell who's the most eager ones. 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:11.120 Hey, Geraldine. 00:03:11.219 --> 00:03:11.879 Hey, Aurora. 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:12.740 How are you? 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.420 What a beautiful dress. 00:03:16.819 --> 00:03:18.460 Be nice to your sister, okay? 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.900 How are you guys doing? 00:03:24.379 --> 00:03:24.659 Good. 00:03:25.580 --> 00:03:26.599 Ryder, what are you eating? 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:27.480 Apple. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:28.920 Apple, okay. 00:03:29.780 --> 00:03:30.879 Do you have some too, Willow? 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:31.400 No? 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:31.759 Okay. 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.560 Okay, guys, I need your help, okay? 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:35.180 Can you help me? 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:37.099 Okay, okay. 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:37.960 This is what I need. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:43.819 I'm getting old, and this summer, I was able to travel to many different countries. 00:03:44.980 --> 00:03:49.500 Oh, yeah, and in these countries, we used a lot of different money, and some of the money 00:03:49.500 --> 00:03:55.200 is better than other money, as your parents can tell you that, but I get confused in how 00:03:55.200 --> 00:03:57.219 much the money is worth, so can you help me? 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:58.520 Please? 00:03:58.659 --> 00:04:01.840 Okay, so I got some Texas money here. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:02.920 Okay? 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:06.719 U.S. money, okay? 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:07.080 Okay. 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:14.760 Okay, so this is, this is, so I walked around, and this is a brand new $20 bill. 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:17.660 Does anybody know how much this is worth? 00:04:18.580 --> 00:04:19.759 In Hong Kong dollars. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:20.360 What is it? 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.300 Approximately, like $145 to $160. 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:25.860 That's great. 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:31.319 So I, but I forget sometimes, so this is worth like $160, right? 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:32.120 Yeah. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:39.819 So what if I just take it like this, and I fold it, and put all these creases in it, then 00:04:39.819 --> 00:04:40.560 I pull it out. 00:04:41.139 --> 00:04:42.460 How much is it worth now? 00:04:42.459 --> 00:04:46.939 How much? 00:04:46.939 --> 00:04:47.099 Same. 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:48.060 Same. 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:54.779 Okay, so what if I take this dollar bill, and I just, and I rub it all over the carpet 00:04:54.779 --> 00:04:57.879 here, and I get dirty stuff all over it? 00:04:59.819 --> 00:05:00.959 How much is it worth now? 00:05:01.339 --> 00:05:01.779 Same. 00:05:02.379 --> 00:05:03.539 Are you telling me the truth? 00:05:03.779 --> 00:05:04.179 Yeah. 00:05:04.180 --> 00:05:05.939 Okay, what if I do this? 00:05:09.900 --> 00:05:13.620 And I just squeeze it up, then I pull it back. 00:05:18.939 --> 00:05:20.300 How much is this worth now? 00:05:22.699 --> 00:05:25.439 You know the, you know, you know the Bible? 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:31.439 The Bible says that you and I are worth a lot of money. 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:37.139 And that God loves you so much, and the Bible says that no matter what happens in your life, 00:05:37.740 --> 00:05:43.980 no matter how many mistakes you make, no matter how many scars you have on you, no matter 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:49.459 how many marks you have on you, that that doesn't change how much you're worth to God. 00:05:50.159 --> 00:05:56.319 Because no matter what happens in your life, you're worth everything to God. 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:58.360 Did you know that? 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.500 Sometimes we forget. 00:06:01.819 --> 00:06:05.759 Sometimes we make mistakes, and we think God doesn't love us. 00:06:06.259 --> 00:06:11.780 But the Bible says that God always loves us, no matter how many marks we have on us. 00:06:12.900 --> 00:06:13.280 Okay. 00:06:14.580 --> 00:06:15.600 Who wants this? 00:06:16.420 --> 00:06:16.860 Me! 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.560 Adele, I want to give that to you, okay? 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:22.759 Okay. 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.340 Hey, guys, will you pray with me? 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:26.720 Let's pray. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.720 Dear God, thank you for this day. 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:34.040 Thank you for your son, Jesus. 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:42.180 Thank you that no matter what we do, you still love us. 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:45.460 You still sent Jesus for us. 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.480 Father, help us to love you. 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:53.020 Help us to love our friends. 00:06:53.019 --> 00:06:55.740 We love you. 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:57.199 Amen. 00:06:58.199 --> 00:06:59.319 Thank you so much, guys. 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:00.919 And I have some chocolate here. 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:02.259 Does anybody want to help me get rid of this? 00:07:03.579 --> 00:07:05.219 How much is this chocolate worth? 00:07:06.779 --> 00:07:10.339 Okay, I'm going to give this to a teacher, and the teacher's going to take this chocolate 00:07:10.339 --> 00:07:10.680 out. 00:07:11.219 --> 00:07:15.639 Kids Club, all the kids go to one big room, and then after you spend your time in your big 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:17.339 room, you go to your small classrooms, right? 00:07:17.339 --> 00:07:22.019 And the youth, youth are going to dismiss, and they're going to go with Eric, okay? 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:23.659 Okay, so we'll see, you guys. 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:25.159 Watermark kids are dismissed. 00:07:25.659 --> 00:07:29.339 Today's scripture comes from the Book of Isaiah and Gospel of Luke. 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:31.179 Please follow along in your bulletin. 00:07:31.180 --> 00:07:38.079 The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the people on this mountain, a banquet 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.199 of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, and refined aged wine. 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.280 And on this mountain, he will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, even the 00:07:47.280 --> 00:07:49.720 veil which is stretched over all nations. 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:54.800 He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces. 00:07:55.500 --> 00:07:58.500 And he will remove the reproach of his people from all the earth. 00:07:58.500 --> 00:08:04.480 For the Lord has spoken, and it will be said in that day, Behold, this is our God for whom 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.459 we have waited, that he might save us. 00:08:06.899 --> 00:08:09.100 This is the Lord for whom we have waited. 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:11.600 Let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation. 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:16.899 And he was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching and proceeding 00:08:16.899 --> 00:08:18.240 on his way to Jerusalem. 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:22.939 And someone said to him, Lord, are there just a few who are being saved? 00:08:23.220 --> 00:08:26.920 And he said to them, Strive to enter through the narrow door. 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:31.080 For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 00:08:32.139 --> 00:08:37.000 And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will recline at the 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:38.800 table of the kingdom of God. 00:08:39.139 --> 00:08:44.120 And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last. 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:49.860 It happened that when he went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees, on the 00:08:49.860 --> 00:08:53.259 Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him closely. 00:08:53.259 --> 00:08:58.200 When one of those who were reclining at the table with him heard this, he said to him, 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:03.240 Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God. 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:08.100 But he said to him, A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many. 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.720 And at the dinner hour, he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 00:09:13.419 --> 00:09:15.679 Come, for everything is ready now. 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.719 But they all alike began to make excuses. 00:09:19.099 --> 00:09:22.620 The first one said to him, I have bought a piece of land, and I need to go out and look 00:09:22.620 --> 00:09:22.919 at it. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:24.319 Please consider me excused. 00:09:24.779 --> 00:09:30.019 Another one said, I have bought five yukes of us, and I am going to try them out. 00:09:30.339 --> 00:09:32.099 Please consider me excused. 00:09:32.719 --> 00:09:36.579 Another one said, I have married a wife, and for that reason, I cannot come. 00:09:37.079 --> 00:09:39.779 And the slave came back and reported this to the master. 00:09:39.779 --> 00:09:45.339 Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, Go out at once into 00:09:45.339 --> 00:09:50.819 the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and 00:09:50.819 --> 00:09:51.199 lame. 00:09:51.539 --> 00:09:56.699 And the slave said, Master, what you have commanded has been done, and still there is room. 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:02.679 And the master said to the slave, Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:05.519 them to come in, so that my house may be filled. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.679 For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner. 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:11.100 This is God's word. 00:10:12.059 --> 00:10:12.960 How's everybody going? 00:10:16.340 --> 00:10:17.379 It's quiet. 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:28.720 I didn't know how that Texas money comment would go across, but you know, got to try at 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:29.340 least once. 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:33.639 Okay. 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:36.759 I didn't hear a reply. 00:10:36.860 --> 00:10:37.460 How's everybody doing? 00:10:38.139 --> 00:10:38.819 How you guys doing? 00:10:38.899 --> 00:10:39.059 Good? 00:10:39.199 --> 00:10:39.419 Good. 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:39.899 Okay. 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:45.399 You know, I don't know how you feel about the messages we've been listening to and talking 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:46.279 about in Luke. 00:10:47.199 --> 00:10:49.919 I was talking to a guy this week. 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:55.279 I promised that if you and I ever talk and I use you as an example, I will ask you first 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:59.679 if I could use you as an example, because I know people don't want to talk to me anymore 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:01.379 because they're afraid they're going to be an example. 00:11:01.379 --> 00:11:04.600 And we talked about the passages we've been studying. 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:11.879 And he said to me, he said, man, this is really, these are really, these are really difficult. 00:11:13.560 --> 00:11:14.659 I said, well, what do you mean? 00:11:14.700 --> 00:11:19.600 He goes, well, I just feel like I've got my Christian life down and I know how to do what, 00:11:19.700 --> 00:11:22.740 when, where, and I can have my pattern into my schedule. 00:11:22.899 --> 00:11:27.700 And if I go this on Sunday and I do this for community group on Friday and I hang out 00:11:27.700 --> 00:11:30.440 with these people on Wednesday, that's my Christian life. 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:33.820 But the passages we're talking about, they're dealing with our heart. 00:11:35.700 --> 00:11:39.560 And Jesus is looking at people's heart and he goes, man, I realized really quickly that 00:11:39.560 --> 00:11:45.180 I can do all the right things, but have the wrong heart. 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:52.720 And it seems to me as we look at the gospels that Jesus is always going after our motives. 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:55.400 I mean, he doesn't just look at our actions. 00:11:55.500 --> 00:11:59.380 He doesn't want us just to have all our ducks in a row, but he's looking at our heart. 00:11:59.379 --> 00:12:04.980 And I think that's the killer for me because I realized that I can do things very, very 00:12:04.980 --> 00:12:13.519 well and on the outside look perfect, but my heart can be a wreck. 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:16.960 I don't know if you struggle with that. 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:20.379 The Bible says we all struggle with that. 00:12:20.439 --> 00:12:26.360 And the passages we've been looking at make it very clear that Jesus wants our heart. 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:30.060 He wants us. 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:34.680 He doesn't just want us to obey. 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:40.039 The last several chapters and then this summer when we did the Proverbs study, we've been talking 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:41.139 about the kingdom of God. 00:12:41.580 --> 00:12:45.120 And today we continue talking about the kingdom of God in this passage. 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:45.980 It's very clear. 00:12:45.980 --> 00:12:52.120 And what you see in this passage is that Jesus says the kingdom of God is going to be this 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:53.240 massive party. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.840 It's going to be this incredible party. 00:12:56.940 --> 00:12:59.019 We see it in the Isaiah passage that you read. 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:01.940 It was 700 years before the story happens today. 00:13:02.019 --> 00:13:03.779 We see it in this story. 00:13:04.659 --> 00:13:08.899 And we see it throughout all the Bible, banquets and parties and feasts. 00:13:08.899 --> 00:13:10.860 Jesus' first miracle was at a banquet. 00:13:10.980 --> 00:13:16.939 He turned water to wine and he talks about parties over and over and over. 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:22.860 And it seems like if we look at heaven, if we take a picture of the Bible, it talks about 00:13:22.860 --> 00:13:27.600 meals and dinners and parties and banquets hundreds and hundreds of times. 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:37.360 And it's almost as if it's like human history from scripture is one party after another party 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:38.879 after another party. 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:47.259 It starts in the garden and it moves to weddings and Passovers and communions and to the last 00:13:47.259 --> 00:13:47.540 supper. 00:13:47.800 --> 00:13:53.980 And we're told that all of these parties that we're going to be a part of, all of these parties 00:13:53.980 --> 00:14:01.940 pale in comparison to the party that God is going to throw you in heaven when you get 00:14:01.940 --> 00:14:04.879 there and spend time with him as his children. 00:14:05.980 --> 00:14:10.060 I actually started thinking about this sermon this week and I started thinking about maybe 00:14:10.060 --> 00:14:16.080 I would start off with a white piece of paper in everybody's chair and ask you two questions. 00:14:18.060 --> 00:14:21.159 The first question I wanted to ask you is what will heaven be like? 00:14:23.980 --> 00:14:25.680 And have you write out your thoughts here? 00:14:26.539 --> 00:14:29.980 The second question I wanted to ask you is will you be there? 00:14:32.560 --> 00:14:38.460 Because in this passage today, Jesus is talking about the kingdom and he's talking about people 00:14:38.460 --> 00:14:43.740 and he's talking to the leaders, the officials, the rich, the wealthy, the powerful. 00:14:44.019 --> 00:14:48.800 He's talking to the power brokers of his time and he's looking at their heart. 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:54.219 He gets this really deep discussion and all of a sudden somebody shouts out, I don't know 00:14:54.219 --> 00:14:56.039 if you have an uncle like this in your family. 00:14:56.099 --> 00:14:57.899 I think every family has an uncle like this. 00:14:58.099 --> 00:15:01.379 He just says something off the tip of his tongue and you're looking at him like, where 00:15:01.379 --> 00:15:02.240 did that come from? 00:15:04.059 --> 00:15:07.699 But this guy yells out as his leader after he hears this because there's a lot of tension 00:15:07.699 --> 00:15:11.319 in this party because Jesus is talking about the heart. 00:15:12.339 --> 00:15:16.740 And this leader stands up and he yells out, blessed is everyone who eats bread in the kingdom 00:15:16.740 --> 00:15:17.259 of God. 00:15:20.560 --> 00:15:24.680 Now we don't know it when we read it today, but back then that had a lot of assumptions 00:15:24.680 --> 00:15:27.360 and a lot of meanings. 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.960 When he said that and in that people that he was talking to, everybody, everybody in this 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.419 party would have answered question number two, are you going to be there? 00:15:37.139 --> 00:15:38.180 A hundred percent yes. 00:15:38.179 --> 00:15:47.139 The audience that Jesus was talking to today, they knew without a shadow of a doubt that 00:15:47.139 --> 00:15:48.139 they were going to be in heaven. 00:15:49.139 --> 00:15:50.339 I mean, they did everything right. 00:15:50.439 --> 00:15:51.639 They were worthy. 00:15:52.779 --> 00:15:53.819 They kept God's word. 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:55.699 They kept the commandments perfectly. 00:15:56.219 --> 00:15:57.479 They did all the right things. 00:15:57.559 --> 00:15:58.339 They went to church. 00:15:58.439 --> 00:15:59.319 They tithed. 00:16:00.359 --> 00:16:01.679 They did all the studies. 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:08.039 They finished the Beth Moore study and a crusade study and a navigator study and they did all 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:08.620 those studies. 00:16:09.299 --> 00:16:12.019 In fact, some of them probably wrote those studies. 00:16:12.839 --> 00:16:17.799 But there was this assumption that we, at this table, for sure, we're the family of God. 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:18.679 We're going to be in heaven. 00:16:20.819 --> 00:16:29.439 And again, Jesus takes what we think and what we assume and he tells a story. 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:38.500 And every time he tells a story, it's like he takes a knife and he cuts open their chest 00:16:38.500 --> 00:16:47.500 and he shows them their hearts and he shows us our hearts and he shows us about the kingdom 00:16:47.500 --> 00:16:48.000 of God. 00:16:48.300 --> 00:16:50.180 He shows us about this great banquet in heaven. 00:16:50.520 --> 00:16:52.360 He shows us about heaven. 00:16:54.140 --> 00:16:57.660 And there's three things I want to look at really briefly here because we could talk about 00:16:57.659 --> 00:17:03.679 this forever and I usually do talk longer than I need to as I'm reminded constantly by my wife. 00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:05.099 I love you, honey. 00:17:06.819 --> 00:17:10.279 But I want to look at three things this passage tells us today about the kingdom of God, about 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.279 heaven, about the banquet that we're all going to eat. 00:17:13.059 --> 00:17:17.539 The first thing I think it tells us is that the kingdom of God is now, but not yet. 00:17:17.539 --> 00:17:25.079 The next thing I think it tells us is that there is an invite that goes out and it's freely 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:26.940 offered to everybody. 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.139 And the last thing that I want to look at in this passage today is that the kingdom of 00:17:33.139 --> 00:17:36.759 God and the invite that goes out demands a response. 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:41.779 But we all get this invite and we got to do something with it. 00:17:41.819 --> 00:17:46.660 We just can't stick it aside in our box or we can not look at it, but it demands a response. 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:48.920 So let's look in this passage. 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:50.359 Verse 16. 00:17:52.099 --> 00:17:56.619 And he said to him, a man was giving a big dinner in Greek, a massive, so they use watermark 00:17:56.619 --> 00:17:58.539 terms, a massive feast. 00:17:59.479 --> 00:18:01.239 And he invited many. 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:05.339 Now when he did parties in Jesus' day, it took at least two invitations. 00:18:06.399 --> 00:18:10.359 One would go out hours or days or weeks or months ahead. 00:18:10.719 --> 00:18:13.539 It depended on how big the party was going to be and how many people were going to be 00:18:13.539 --> 00:18:13.859 invited. 00:18:14.699 --> 00:18:17.519 And the slave or the servant would take that invite to the person. 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.099 And the person would open it up and they would look at it and immediately they would 00:18:22.099 --> 00:18:22.500 respond. 00:18:23.099 --> 00:18:24.419 Of course, I'm going to go. 00:18:24.979 --> 00:18:25.559 That's incredible. 00:18:25.919 --> 00:18:26.720 I'm going to be there. 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:27.859 He throws great parties. 00:18:27.980 --> 00:18:28.819 It's an amazing place. 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:31.099 Why would I not want to miss the event of the year? 00:18:32.059 --> 00:18:33.480 And so this invite goes out. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:39.399 The slaves or the helpers send it out to everybody and everybody says, yes, we'll do it. 00:18:41.059 --> 00:18:42.339 Now the real work happens. 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.819 The master goes back home and he starts cooking and preparing and putting things together. 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.619 And I don't know how long does it take. 00:18:49.679 --> 00:18:49.940 I don't know. 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:50.960 It depends on how big the party is. 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:51.919 How long is the party going to last? 00:18:52.220 --> 00:18:53.259 But it could take a long time. 00:18:53.259 --> 00:18:57.640 And as he's doing that, people are going, wow, what's this party going to be like? 00:18:58.500 --> 00:18:59.140 I don't know. 00:18:59.220 --> 00:18:59.819 I've heard it's great. 00:18:59.900 --> 00:19:01.220 I heard he throws incredible parties. 00:19:01.299 --> 00:19:03.579 I wanted to get into his party last year, but I couldn't get into it. 00:19:03.779 --> 00:19:06.720 But he throws incredible, incredible parties. 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:08.299 How big is it going to be? 00:19:08.299 --> 00:19:10.440 I don't know, but it's going to be amazing. 00:19:11.379 --> 00:19:14.399 And as people started to talk and they speculated, there would be a wait. 00:19:16.259 --> 00:19:23.940 There would be a period of time when people waited and guessed and asked questions. 00:19:23.940 --> 00:19:31.720 Today, I forgot to embarrass her, is my daughter Rachel's 13th birthday. 00:19:33.100 --> 00:19:38.720 Okay, so we had 13 13-year-olds spend the night at my house. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.620 It was out of control. 00:19:43.580 --> 00:19:46.620 I mean, I just didn't realize how much girls ate. 00:19:46.619 --> 00:19:52.439 I thought that guys ate a lot, but 13-year-old girls, I think I need to take a love offering 00:19:52.439 --> 00:19:58.399 just to fill up our refrigerator because our house is like a pair of locusts or 13 locusts. 00:19:58.459 --> 00:20:04.739 Just went through and just, if it wasn't made out of wood or steel, they got eight, right? 00:20:05.699 --> 00:20:12.199 And so Rachel had this 13th birthday party and she has been talking about this 13th party 00:20:12.199 --> 00:20:13.559 for a long time. 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:16.000 And my question for you is, how long do you think she's been talking about it? 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:18.720 One day? 00:20:20.419 --> 00:20:21.119 A year. 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:24.819 When I turn 13, this is what I want to do. 00:20:25.859 --> 00:20:28.059 When I turn 13, this is who I want to have over. 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:30.000 Can I do this? 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:31.559 Can I do that? 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:33.200 Can I have this type of food? 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:34.259 What kind of food should I have? 00:20:34.919 --> 00:20:37.639 I don't know if I can wait that long because these are the people I want to invite 00:20:37.639 --> 00:20:40.779 and this is what I want to do and this is what I want to see happen. 00:20:41.099 --> 00:20:41.859 Can I do that? 00:20:41.859 --> 00:20:43.719 And she just talked about it all the time. 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:46.459 And it lasted 10 hours, literally. 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:51.159 But she was so consumed with that party. 00:20:52.179 --> 00:20:54.779 I was in my room studying and I smelled cake. 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:01.079 And I walked into the kitchen and when Christina wasn't looking, I took my finger 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.839 and I dipped it and ate it. 00:21:04.879 --> 00:21:05.500 I'm sorry, honey. 00:21:05.500 --> 00:21:07.099 And it was good. 00:21:07.180 --> 00:21:10.559 And I asked her, how much longer until the cake? 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.319 And she said, tomorrow. 00:21:14.819 --> 00:21:20.359 And I realized that you and I are terrible, terrible waiters. 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:24.940 I mean, there's something in human nature that we do not like to wait at all. 00:21:24.940 --> 00:21:29.580 Elevators, lines, escalators, parking places. 00:21:29.900 --> 00:21:32.019 We just hate waiting. 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:37.160 C.S. Lewis says that we are terrible waiters. 00:21:38.140 --> 00:21:42.240 He says we live in this shadow time. 00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:46.279 That we see pieces of heaven. 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:51.039 We see glimpses of glory. 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:53.359 And we want it. 00:21:56.940 --> 00:21:59.220 But we don't get it because we have to wait. 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:08.960 And he says that we live in this time of now and not yet in this shadow lands. 00:22:10.059 --> 00:22:12.160 Jesus talks about it often in the scriptures. 00:22:13.120 --> 00:22:15.799 I mean, every time he talks about heaven, he does a miracle. 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:17.380 And these miracles are called sign miracles. 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:21.519 And what he means by sign miracles is it points us to heaven. 00:22:23.299 --> 00:22:25.319 It points us to God. 00:22:26.100 --> 00:22:27.539 It points us to the banquet. 00:22:27.539 --> 00:22:34.180 It shows us how things are going to be in the end times and what things are supposed to be like. 00:22:34.740 --> 00:22:36.940 But now we just see a shadow of it. 00:22:37.740 --> 00:22:38.740 I mean, we see it truly. 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:42.279 But we don't see it fully. 00:22:43.659 --> 00:22:44.599 We see grace. 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.359 We see mercy. 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:46.099 We see love. 00:22:46.180 --> 00:22:47.200 It comes into our lives. 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:49.980 We see people's lives totally satisfied. 00:22:50.159 --> 00:22:52.159 People's lives totally changed by the gospel. 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:59.420 But it's like we live in this shadow because we still feel hungry. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:03.180 We still feel anxious. 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:06.820 We still feel scared. 00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:10.880 We see sunrises, birth, love, community, redemption. 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:13.220 Things that point us to heaven. 00:23:13.360 --> 00:23:15.820 Things that say, this is what heaven's going to be like. 00:23:15.819 --> 00:23:19.119 But we see just a glimpse of it. 00:23:20.099 --> 00:23:21.419 And we're left waiting. 00:23:22.980 --> 00:23:24.439 And we're left wondering. 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:27.500 And we're left asking questions. 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:31.039 We live in the now and not yet. 00:23:32.659 --> 00:23:34.119 Have you ever felt that tension? 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:41.559 Have you ever felt God enter into the now and not yet and show you a little piece of heaven? 00:23:43.539 --> 00:23:47.599 I saw a piece of heaven three years ago in an ICU room. 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:52.239 Good friends of ours, Wayne and Alice. 00:23:52.339 --> 00:23:53.959 Wayne was a doctor in Shanghai. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:58.939 And Wayne one day went to pick up his child. 00:23:58.940 --> 00:24:04.820 And as he picked him up and lifted him up, his back snapped, broken too. 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:09.440 He fell to the floor in incredible pain. 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:13.559 They took him to the hospital in Shanghai. 00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:18.259 They evac'd him here to the ICU at Adventist. 00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:21.880 We were visiting them and it was terrible. 00:24:23.299 --> 00:24:24.700 Cancer throughout his whole body. 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:28.820 Spine eaten to pieces. 00:24:29.860 --> 00:24:32.160 There's no chance he's going to leave that ICU. 00:24:34.320 --> 00:24:36.200 Systems start to fail one after another. 00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:40.059 We visit and he goes, hey, can you do me a favor? 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:42.680 I'm like, okay, what is it? 00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:47.539 He goes, I want you to renew our wedding vows. 00:24:50.220 --> 00:24:52.440 I want you to come back tomorrow. 00:24:54.019 --> 00:24:55.880 And I want you to renew our wedding vows. 00:24:55.880 --> 00:25:05.180 So it's me and Wayne and Alice, his wife, and Christina and the brother. 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:07.260 And it's ICU room. 00:25:08.760 --> 00:25:12.340 And as we get there and as Christina, you know, you've never seen me cry, right? 00:25:12.380 --> 00:25:15.320 So I don't cry, but what am I thinking? 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:19.740 Christina, she's a wimp because she's behind the camera. 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:23.539 So you can't see her crying, but you can tell that she's crying. 00:25:23.539 --> 00:25:32.919 And we start to talk and Wayne looks at Alice and he goes, you know, I just need to apologize to you. 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:35.180 Because I've been so selfish. 00:25:37.340 --> 00:25:41.519 I said I've been doing these things for the kids and for you, but it's really been about me. 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:44.820 And I've neglected our family. 00:25:45.019 --> 00:25:46.019 I've neglected you. 00:25:48.140 --> 00:25:50.420 Glimpses of heaven coming in. 00:25:50.420 --> 00:25:53.480 Will you forgive me? 00:25:54.320 --> 00:25:54.640 Redemption. 00:25:55.320 --> 00:25:55.680 Forgiveness. 00:25:56.180 --> 00:25:58.340 Glimpses of heaven coming in. 00:25:58.980 --> 00:26:01.720 I mean, I feel like I'm sitting in this place and it's like holy place. 00:26:02.500 --> 00:26:03.680 Like God is here. 00:26:04.460 --> 00:26:05.820 In the now and not yet. 00:26:07.600 --> 00:26:08.700 Christina's just over there filming. 00:26:10.120 --> 00:26:11.440 Then he goes, I want to sing a song. 00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:12.940 And I'm like, oh, dude, you're killing me. 00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:19.940 Because I'm just thinking I'm biting my lip and I'm pinching myself and I'm trying to do everything I can not to cry. 00:26:20.660 --> 00:26:21.860 But I'm seeing heaven. 00:26:22.259 --> 00:26:23.180 I'm seeing redemption. 00:26:23.340 --> 00:26:24.039 I'm seeing forgiveness. 00:26:24.220 --> 00:26:25.320 I'm seeing renewal. 00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:28.039 I'm seeing things as they are, but I'm seeing just a glimpse of it. 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:31.660 We all do. 00:26:34.059 --> 00:26:35.440 Sometimes we're just not looking for it. 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:41.840 They do their vows. 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:43.519 It's incredible. 00:26:44.740 --> 00:26:45.519 I'm weeping. 00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:46.539 He's weeping. 00:26:46.679 --> 00:26:47.539 The brother's weeping. 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:48.459 Alice is weeping. 00:26:48.879 --> 00:26:50.199 Christina's hiding behind the camera. 00:26:51.019 --> 00:26:53.659 It looks like she's weeping because the film's going like this. 00:26:56.399 --> 00:26:57.439 The evac. 00:26:57.959 --> 00:26:59.079 Wayne to the States. 00:26:59.419 --> 00:26:59.779 Emergency. 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.639 Send him to Cleveland Clinic because it's getting worse and everything's shutting down. 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:09.459 And all of a sudden, he starts to heal. 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:12.480 Glimpses. 00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:14.259 Of heaven. 00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:18.539 His body starts to reject the cancer. 00:27:20.439 --> 00:27:23.359 His back strengthens. 00:27:24.639 --> 00:27:26.119 He starts to walk. 00:27:26.819 --> 00:27:27.259 Glimpses. 00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:28.799 Of heaven. 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:33.700 Now he's holding his kids and he's throwing them up. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:35.480 And he's a doctor again in Philadelphia. 00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:37.200 And he's doing all these things. 00:27:38.180 --> 00:27:43.859 And when that moment I look at it and I think about it, I say God was there. 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:45.039 God was doing something. 00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:46.720 God was changing people's lives. 00:27:47.099 --> 00:27:49.359 We're living in the now and not yet. 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:49.979 God was changing people's lives. 00:27:50.639 --> 00:27:52.459 The question is, can we wait? 00:27:55.779 --> 00:28:00.279 Because what we see is amazing, but it's nothing compared to heaven. 00:28:03.639 --> 00:28:06.439 The kingdom points us that it is now and not yet. 00:28:07.459 --> 00:28:08.559 Verse 17. 00:28:10.479 --> 00:28:15.019 And at the dinner hour, the slave said to those who had been invited, 00:28:15.019 --> 00:28:17.779 come, for everything is ready now. 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:20.019 Come, for everything is ready. 00:28:20.099 --> 00:28:20.720 It's the second invite. 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:21.579 The meal is ready. 00:28:22.019 --> 00:28:23.160 Everybody's supposed to go there. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:24.379 The second invite comes out. 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:28.599 And we see in this passage that the invite goes out broadly. 00:28:28.779 --> 00:28:29.539 It goes out to everybody. 00:28:29.740 --> 00:28:33.079 We see it in verse 16 and verse 17 and verse 21 and verse 23. 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:35.559 The invite goes out to everyone. 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:40.740 Now remember, Jesus is only talking to guys who thought that they were going to 00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:41.819 only be the people in heaven. 00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:46.399 The Pharisees thought they were the only ones in heaven. 00:28:46.819 --> 00:28:49.939 And Jesus is talking to them about this invite that goes out. 00:28:55.379 --> 00:28:57.460 You ever walk down the street and you see somebody? 00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:00.000 Maybe somebody in your office. 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:03.579 And you go, you know, there's no way they're going to come to Christ. 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:05.639 They're just too mean. 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:09.819 They're just too rich. 00:29:09.819 --> 00:29:13.139 There's no way they're going to ever hear about Christ. 00:29:14.879 --> 00:29:19.960 These are the verses, or these are the people in verses 21 and 23. 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:22.839 Maybe we're walking down the street. 00:29:22.939 --> 00:29:23.539 We see a Muslim. 00:29:23.659 --> 00:29:24.879 He's dressed in his Muslim garb. 00:29:24.899 --> 00:29:25.799 And we want to share with him. 00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:27.059 But we go, no way, no way. 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:35.460 Maybe we see a politician or a lawyer or a banker or someone who's driving a 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:38.360 really cool, fast car, and they're really into themselves. 00:29:38.539 --> 00:29:41.079 And we say, there's no way he needs the gospel. 00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:44.480 There's no reason why I should share with him. 00:29:44.539 --> 00:29:47.720 There's nothing that he needs that the gospel has to offer. 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:53.400 Maybe it's a girl holding the hand of her female lover, and you see them walking 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.460 down, and there's something inside of you that says, I should share the gospel with her. 00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:58.840 But then you realize there's no way. 00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.220 She hates Christians. 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:10.039 But the passage says that the minute we do this, the minute we take away the power of 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:14.100 the invite, we de-gospel ourselves. 00:30:14.420 --> 00:30:17.980 I know it's a word we made up here, but we basically detach ourselves from the power of 00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:18.400 the gospel. 00:30:19.600 --> 00:30:23.400 The minute we look at somebody and we say, you know, there's no way that the gospel has 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.360 anything they need, there's no way that we could talk to them. 00:30:26.580 --> 00:30:28.680 There's no way that the gospel can change them. 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:32.420 The minute we do that, we forget the power of the invite, and we forget that the invite 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:37.040 is for everybody, and we forget that the master has asked you and I to take the invite to 00:30:37.040 --> 00:30:37.360 everybody. 00:30:40.060 --> 00:30:44.259 I mean, we're called to share this message everywhere. 00:30:47.120 --> 00:30:53.320 You know, in Jesus' day, the guys he's talking to right now, they thought of you and me 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.079 is firewood for hell. 00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:07.960 The only reason that God would create Gentiles was because hell was a fire and it needed firewood. 00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:16.740 But we see in the book of Acts that the invite goes out. 00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:21.160 And it changes everything. 00:31:24.099 --> 00:31:28.400 It's why you and I are here right now, because the message won out. 00:31:30.140 --> 00:31:34.559 Verse 17, at the dinner hour, he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.019 come, for everything is ready now. 00:31:37.059 --> 00:31:39.880 The party, the kingdom, it requires nothing. 00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:42.780 Did you hear that? 00:31:43.780 --> 00:31:48.800 I mean, I know that is a strange concept for us, because we're doers and movers and type 00:31:48.800 --> 00:31:53.560 A people, but the passage says that the party requires nothing from us. 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:56.200 It says that God has provided everything. 00:31:56.560 --> 00:31:58.400 It's only for us to be received. 00:31:58.860 --> 00:32:00.140 We can't do anything. 00:32:00.780 --> 00:32:03.100 He wants to give this thing to us. 00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:09.740 He offers us salvation because he's the only one who will take the credit. 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:17.079 And I have a hard time with this, guys, because when I get invited to a party, what do I say? 00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:19.139 What do you say? 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:22.579 If you get invited to a party, what do you say? 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:26.059 After you say thank you, what's the next thing you say? 00:32:27.059 --> 00:32:27.819 Can I bring anything? 00:32:28.219 --> 00:32:29.039 Joe got it right down. 00:32:29.699 --> 00:32:30.719 Joe said, yeah, can I bring anything? 00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:31.519 That's the first thing you say. 00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:32.799 You say, hey, can I bring anything? 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.079 Because it's in our nature. 00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:36.339 We want to bring stuff. 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.019 We feel like we have to provide. 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:44.819 And in the middle of a deep meal, you're eating with a friend, and you look at him and you go, hey, how's the wine? 00:32:46.339 --> 00:32:46.899 And the guy goes, that's real. 00:32:46.919 --> 00:32:47.639 Wine is really good. 00:32:47.659 --> 00:32:48.359 He goes, I brought it. 00:32:52.680 --> 00:33:01.519 But the passage says here that in God's kingdom, in God's party, that everything is given to us, that God pays for everything. 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:05.079 And we bring nothing. 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:06.720 I think this is foreign to us. 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:15.139 I mean, it's why the leaders and the powerful and the educated and the movers and shakers in Jesus' time, they had a really hard time with Christianity. 00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:19.119 I mean, Christianity was very difficult for people who have it together. 00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:26.459 Because, and listen to my heart here, because I'm going to offend you because it offends me. 00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:31.739 Because Christianity is for wicked sinners. 00:33:31.740 --> 00:33:37.099 Christianity is for people who can bring nothing. 00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:44.559 Christianity is for people who can do nothing to save themselves. 00:33:46.460 --> 00:33:50.120 Christianity says that Jesus died to save you and me. 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:55.479 That he gave his life to pay for our sins. 00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:58.859 That he died so that God could adopt you and me. 00:34:00.639 --> 00:34:05.339 I know there's been a lot of talk about adoption in the news, especially in Christian circles. 00:34:05.459 --> 00:34:09.480 But, you know, the Bible says very clearly that every one of us in here is adopted. 00:34:13.799 --> 00:34:17.380 That we're adopted by God's grace and God's love. 00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:20.740 Let's face it. 00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:28.599 Judaism and Buddhism and Islam and all the other religions, they're so much easier to swallow, aren't they? 00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:32.079 Because in those religions, it says something like this. 00:34:32.380 --> 00:34:34.180 All you need to do to get right with God is this. 00:34:35.200 --> 00:34:37.180 All you need to do to make God happy is this. 00:34:38.680 --> 00:34:40.640 All you need to do to get to paradise is this. 00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:42.579 Live a good life. 00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:43.160 Be kind. 00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:43.720 Be gentle. 00:34:44.340 --> 00:34:45.019 Don't hurt people. 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:46.460 If you have to hurt somebody, don't hurt them too bad. 00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:51.960 And if you do all those things, God is going to be happy and you're going to be important and God's going to like you. 00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:59.880 But the passage says, come because everything's ready. 00:35:03.900 --> 00:35:06.940 Heaven can't be earned by us. 00:35:09.220 --> 00:35:11.380 God gives us this. 00:35:11.380 --> 00:35:15.460 I think sometimes we forget that, don't we? 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.480 It'd be like you and me going and you come to me one day. 00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:22.579 I like spending other people's money because, you know. 00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:24.740 Anyway, you come to me and say, hey, I can go buy a new car. 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:25.460 Can you help me? 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:26.640 I say, oh, dude, that's great. 00:35:26.680 --> 00:35:27.800 I'd love to go help you go buy a new car. 00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:31.760 And we go to the car lot or to the store or whatever it is. 00:35:31.780 --> 00:35:32.500 And we're looking around. 00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:34.780 And I ask you, well, how much money you got to spend? 00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:36.000 He goes, I got $480 U.S. 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:40.980 So $480 U.S. to buy a new car. 00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:42.360 He said, yeah, yeah, let's look around. 00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:49.320 And we look around the lot and I'm like, dude, we don't, there's nothing here for $480 U.S. 00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:53.900 And finally we get kind of discouraged and we're walking out. 00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:57.139 And the salesperson runs over to us. 00:35:58.199 --> 00:35:59.880 He said, hey, are you looking for a new car? 00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:02.820 He said, yeah, yeah, we kind of are. 00:36:03.900 --> 00:36:05.440 He goes, well, come back here. 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:06.039 I want to show you something. 00:36:07.700 --> 00:36:10.800 And he takes you around the corner and there's the car of your dreams. 00:36:11.800 --> 00:36:13.099 I don't know what your dream car is. 00:36:13.220 --> 00:36:17.920 You know, I don't know if you're a Porsche person or a Ferrari person or a minivan person. 00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:20.480 You know, I like to have a Land Rover and drive it around occasionally. 00:36:20.940 --> 00:36:21.780 Whatever it is. 00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:25.300 And you look at that and the guy hands you the keys. 00:36:26.579 --> 00:36:27.360 And he says, it's yours. 00:36:30.019 --> 00:36:32.159 The manager saw you looking around the lot. 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:36.119 And he wanted to give you this car. 00:36:39.579 --> 00:36:40.519 What would you think? 00:36:44.099 --> 00:36:45.000 Some of you are laughing. 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:47.399 What's the catch? 00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:49.879 What's wrong with it? 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:53.819 What do I have to do to get it? 00:36:55.399 --> 00:36:56.359 The guy said, you have to do nothing. 00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:57.219 You just have to take it. 00:36:57.379 --> 00:36:58.579 The manager wants to give it to you. 00:36:58.579 --> 00:37:06.480 And you look at him and he goes, no one would do that. 00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:09.440 That makes no sense whatsoever. 00:37:11.759 --> 00:37:13.239 And you're like, you're right. 00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:17.380 That's grace. 00:37:17.380 --> 00:37:25.160 It makes no sense whatsoever. 00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:26.380 No one would do that. 00:37:28.700 --> 00:37:29.700 But that's what God did. 00:37:34.700 --> 00:37:38.680 It'd be funny if you walked back to the manager and said, hey, I want to help you pay a little of the cost here. 00:37:39.260 --> 00:37:39.980 Here's $480. 00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:42.460 On the Ferrari. 00:37:44.300 --> 00:37:45.099 What did the manager do? 00:37:45.140 --> 00:37:46.059 He kind of looked at you like, what? 00:37:46.059 --> 00:37:46.140 What? 00:37:47.380 --> 00:37:48.180 Really? 00:37:48.660 --> 00:37:49.019 No. 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:55.599 But that's what we do sometimes when it comes to salvation. 00:37:57.420 --> 00:37:58.660 No one would do that. 00:38:00.180 --> 00:38:01.519 It doesn't make any sense. 00:38:03.539 --> 00:38:04.619 But that's what God does. 00:38:05.740 --> 00:38:06.660 Verse 17. 00:38:07.380 --> 00:38:12.500 In a dinner, our sent and a slave said to those who have been invited, come, for everything is ready. 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:13.900 And mark the word everything. 00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:14.900 It means everything. 00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:15.400 It means everything. 00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:16.960 Everything you need in heaven. 00:38:17.099 --> 00:38:17.940 Everything you desire. 00:38:18.059 --> 00:38:19.119 Everything you long for. 00:38:19.579 --> 00:38:20.780 Everything that you want. 00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:21.800 Everything will be there. 00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:23.059 There's nothing that's missing. 00:38:23.700 --> 00:38:27.220 The master provided for the party in incredible ways. 00:38:27.619 --> 00:38:28.500 Everything is there. 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:30.760 Your salvation is there. 00:38:31.099 --> 00:38:31.980 Love is there. 00:38:32.180 --> 00:38:33.119 Abundant salvation. 00:38:33.340 --> 00:38:34.099 Abundant grace. 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:35.180 Abundant hope. 00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:36.240 Abundant everything. 00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:37.320 Everything is there. 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:37.519 Abundant. 00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:39.400 Is this going to be there? 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:40.320 Everything you need. 00:38:41.240 --> 00:38:42.039 What about this? 00:38:42.240 --> 00:38:43.300 Everything you're going to need. 00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:45.100 Are dogs going to be there? 00:38:45.980 --> 00:38:46.480 Yes. 00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:48.179 But not cats. 00:38:50.260 --> 00:38:51.000 I'm teasing. 00:38:51.300 --> 00:38:52.119 I love cats too. 00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:52.840 Kind of. 00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:54.800 But everything. 00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:55.960 Everything is going to be there. 00:38:58.460 --> 00:39:01.340 And so we see that the kingdom is now but not yet. 00:39:01.340 --> 00:39:04.659 We see that the kingdom is given in abundance. 00:39:05.500 --> 00:39:06.780 And it's given freely. 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.320 And it makes no sense whatsoever. 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.080 But it's how God works. 00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:16.900 And finally in verses 21 through 23. 00:39:18.080 --> 00:39:20.360 We see the last thing we got to realize. 00:39:21.900 --> 00:39:24.280 That the invite to the banquet. 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.620 The invite to the kingdom. 00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:31.100 The invite to heaven. 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:34.280 Demands a response. 00:39:35.700 --> 00:39:37.559 The first invitation went out. 00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:39.759 The second invitation comes. 00:39:40.059 --> 00:39:42.179 And something unheard of happened in Jesus' day. 00:39:43.739 --> 00:39:44.679 The people said no. 00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:49.619 I mean people listening to Jesus tell the story. 00:39:49.699 --> 00:39:50.500 They would have laughed. 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:52.179 When he said that. 00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:55.259 Because no one would say no. 00:39:56.659 --> 00:39:59.099 I mean it would be a massive loss of face to the host. 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:01.279 I mean in some Arab cultures. 00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:02.719 It would be a case for war. 00:40:02.799 --> 00:40:03.440 You could go to war. 00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:04.900 You could kill the people for saying no. 00:40:06.299 --> 00:40:07.539 No one would say no. 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:07.619 No. 00:40:09.059 --> 00:40:09.980 But in verse 18. 00:40:10.059 --> 00:40:11.159 One guy says this. 00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:13.139 I bought a piece of land. 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:14.340 I need to go out and look at it. 00:40:14.860 --> 00:40:16.299 Please consider me excused. 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:18.019 And when the people heard that. 00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:18.980 They would have started laughing. 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:22.759 Because no one just buys land. 00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:24.139 It takes years in the Middle East. 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:25.500 Most of the land is desert. 00:40:26.460 --> 00:40:27.739 And by the time you know the land. 00:40:27.799 --> 00:40:28.900 You know everything about it. 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:29.679 Is it arable? 00:40:29.799 --> 00:40:30.639 Where the water hits? 00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:31.679 Where the water runs off? 00:40:31.820 --> 00:40:32.639 Where the sun hits? 00:40:32.739 --> 00:40:34.759 What season does it produce the best crops in? 00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.360 You would know everything about that piece of land. 00:40:38.700 --> 00:40:40.300 You would never just buy it. 00:40:40.740 --> 00:40:42.580 And then go check it out afterwards. 00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:45.020 And everybody would have been laughing. 00:40:45.600 --> 00:40:47.000 When they heard this excuse. 00:40:48.520 --> 00:40:49.780 And everybody would have thought. 00:40:49.900 --> 00:40:50.160 You know. 00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:53.960 That guy doesn't really care about the master. 00:40:56.059 --> 00:40:57.779 What he cares about is his possessions. 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:01.619 That his stuff. 00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:04.980 Is more important. 00:41:06.059 --> 00:41:06.980 Than the master. 00:41:08.779 --> 00:41:09.579 In verse 19. 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:10.659 The next excuse comes. 00:41:10.759 --> 00:41:12.279 I bought five yoke of oxen. 00:41:12.339 --> 00:41:13.199 I'm going to try. 00:41:13.359 --> 00:41:14.179 Test them out. 00:41:14.659 --> 00:41:16.259 Please consider me excused. 00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:17.260 Again. 00:41:18.140 --> 00:41:19.100 People would have been laughing. 00:41:19.220 --> 00:41:20.000 The minute they heard that. 00:41:21.500 --> 00:41:22.800 Because before you bought an animal. 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:23.720 There was a trial area. 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:25.000 You watched them work together. 00:41:25.080 --> 00:41:25.780 And you wanted to make sure. 00:41:25.860 --> 00:41:26.260 As a team. 00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.800 That they pulled well together. 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:29.320 You wanted to make sure. 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:29.920 That they pulled. 00:41:30.240 --> 00:41:31.020 A straight line. 00:41:31.080 --> 00:41:31.580 You wanted to make sure. 00:41:31.660 --> 00:41:32.700 That they tired well together. 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:33.660 You wanted to make sure. 00:41:33.720 --> 00:41:34.680 They worked well together. 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:38.600 And animals were expensive. 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:41.620 This guy's a rich guy. 00:41:41.620 --> 00:41:42.420 He has ten ox. 00:41:42.540 --> 00:41:43.860 Most people only had one or two. 00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:48.120 When people heard this. 00:41:48.180 --> 00:41:48.960 They would have laughed. 00:41:49.020 --> 00:41:50.060 It would have been like me saying. 00:41:50.520 --> 00:41:51.380 To Christina. 00:41:53.160 --> 00:41:53.560 Okay. 00:41:54.040 --> 00:41:55.500 Next week is our. 00:41:56.100 --> 00:41:56.460 Anniversary. 00:41:57.740 --> 00:41:58.420 It's not. 00:41:59.460 --> 00:42:00.840 But on the day of our anniversary. 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:01.740 I call her up and say. 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:02.020 Honey. 00:42:02.140 --> 00:42:02.700 I really. 00:42:02.980 --> 00:42:04.500 I really want to be at the anniversary. 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.200 But I bought five used cars. 00:42:09.560 --> 00:42:10.520 I need to go check. 00:42:10.560 --> 00:42:11.280 And see if they start. 00:42:13.900 --> 00:42:14.980 Would that be a good excuse? 00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:18.160 It would be a terrible excuse. 00:42:20.260 --> 00:42:20.580 I mean. 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:22.260 Everyone listening would have thought. 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:22.600 You know. 00:42:23.140 --> 00:42:23.320 He. 00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:23.700 He. 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:25.960 He doesn't really. 00:42:26.300 --> 00:42:27.620 He's not really saying no. 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:28.600 To the banquet. 00:42:31.120 --> 00:42:32.000 He's saying no. 00:42:32.060 --> 00:42:32.820 To the relationship. 00:42:35.560 --> 00:42:36.000 Again. 00:42:36.060 --> 00:42:36.380 He's saying. 00:42:36.460 --> 00:42:36.560 You know. 00:42:36.600 --> 00:42:37.820 My stuff is more important. 00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:40.280 Than my relationship with God. 00:42:42.060 --> 00:42:42.800 Verse 20. 00:42:42.900 --> 00:42:44.460 Which is probably the worst excuse of all. 00:42:44.520 --> 00:42:44.820 He says. 00:42:44.820 --> 00:42:46.220 I have married a wife. 00:42:46.260 --> 00:42:46.920 And for that reason. 00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:47.760 I cannot come. 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:49.120 And in the Middle Eastern culture. 00:42:49.220 --> 00:42:50.480 No one would talk about women. 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:51.019 In public. 00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:53.360 No man would ever talk about his wife like that. 00:42:53.660 --> 00:42:54.900 No one would ever say those words. 00:42:55.380 --> 00:42:55.800 In fact. 00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:56.500 In Hebrew. 00:42:56.700 --> 00:42:57.440 In an Aramaic. 00:42:57.680 --> 00:42:58.960 For people to hear this. 00:42:59.140 --> 00:43:00.280 What they would have heard. 00:43:00.340 --> 00:43:00.980 Is this. 00:43:02.160 --> 00:43:02.500 Hey. 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:03.080 I got a woman. 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:05.080 In the back of my house. 00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:07.160 I gotta go take care of her. 00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:09.600 I can't come to the party. 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:10.219 You know. 00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:12.159 And everyone. 00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:13.739 Listening to this guy's excuse. 00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:14.259 Would have gone. 00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:14.980 Dude. 00:43:17.759 --> 00:43:20.539 You really caused serious loss of face there. 00:43:21.500 --> 00:43:23.559 You must really hate the master. 00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:28.380 Everyone would have heard. 00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:28.980 Well this guy. 00:43:29.139 --> 00:43:30.259 He just likes his pleasures. 00:43:30.260 --> 00:43:34.760 he likes his pleasures and his experiences 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:37.380 more than he likes knowing God 00:43:37.380 --> 00:43:43.300 I've been thinking about this passage for a long time 00:43:43.300 --> 00:43:44.320 and I have to do that 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:46.340 you guys just need to hear it and forget it after lunch 00:43:46.340 --> 00:43:49.560 but I've been trying to figure out what's going on here 00:43:49.560 --> 00:43:52.660 because every one of these guys 00:43:52.660 --> 00:43:54.180 was in the family of God 00:43:54.180 --> 00:43:58.460 I mean there's no outsiders here 00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:00.720 they're all family members 00:44:00.720 --> 00:44:02.460 they all would have been in the in club 00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:06.539 why didn't they want to go to the party 00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:08.000 because all of their excuses 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.099 maybe they were feeble but maybe they were real 00:44:10.099 --> 00:44:11.539 but all of those excuses 00:44:11.539 --> 00:44:13.139 all those things would have been there 00:44:13.139 --> 00:44:15.179 after the party 00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:18.420 they could have taken care of the sheep later 00:44:18.420 --> 00:44:19.480 they could have taken care of the oxen later 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:20.579 they could have taken care of their wife later 00:44:20.579 --> 00:44:21.679 or their mistress or their prostitute 00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:22.599 whoever that person was 00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:24.659 they could have taken care of all those things later 00:44:24.659 --> 00:44:26.699 why didn't they do it now? 00:44:26.699 --> 00:44:30.639 and it seems to me 00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:31.839 this is what's going on 00:44:31.839 --> 00:44:35.259 it seems to me that these people 00:44:35.259 --> 00:44:37.239 in the family of God 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:40.579 they wanted the kingdom 00:44:40.579 --> 00:44:43.939 they wanted the party 00:44:43.939 --> 00:44:47.899 they wanted heaven 00:44:47.899 --> 00:44:51.559 as long as it could be on their terms 00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:55.880 as long as being in church 00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:56.900 or going to the party 00:44:56.900 --> 00:44:58.079 didn't interfere 00:44:58.079 --> 00:44:59.639 with their schedules 00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:01.199 or interfere with their time 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:03.139 or if it didn't take too long 00:45:03.139 --> 00:45:05.380 or if it didn't make them feel uncomfortable 00:45:05.380 --> 00:45:07.239 then they were okay with it 00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:10.079 but the moment it started disrupting 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.199 their schedule 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:16.420 or their free time 00:45:16.420 --> 00:45:20.280 the moment it started disrupting 00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:21.880 how they did business 00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:25.720 or how they could make money 00:45:25.720 --> 00:45:29.099 the moment it started disrupting 00:45:29.099 --> 00:45:29.900 their families 00:45:29.900 --> 00:45:33.220 the time they spend with them 00:45:33.220 --> 00:45:36.340 the moment it started disrupting 00:45:36.340 --> 00:45:36.980 their ego 00:45:36.980 --> 00:45:39.920 and what people thought of them 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:41.900 the moment the invite 00:45:41.900 --> 00:45:43.460 messed with those things 00:45:43.460 --> 00:45:44.280 they said I'm out of there 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:46.840 I don't need it 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:48.940 it's too difficult 00:45:48.940 --> 00:45:49.720 it's too hard 00:45:49.720 --> 00:45:51.660 you see in verse 24 00:45:51.660 --> 00:45:51.900 he says 00:45:51.900 --> 00:45:52.440 for I tell you 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:53.160 none of these men 00:45:53.160 --> 00:45:54.260 who were invited 00:45:54.260 --> 00:45:55.240 shall taste of my dinner 00:45:55.240 --> 00:45:56.460 Jesus is coming back 00:45:56.460 --> 00:45:57.840 and he stopped telling the story 00:45:57.840 --> 00:45:59.120 and he's telling personally 00:45:59.120 --> 00:46:00.540 he's talking about himself 00:46:00.540 --> 00:46:01.400 and he's saying 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:02.580 these guys think 00:46:02.580 --> 00:46:03.620 that they can come back later 00:46:03.620 --> 00:46:04.060 they think 00:46:04.060 --> 00:46:05.120 well after I've 00:46:05.120 --> 00:46:06.780 made a lot of money 00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:07.519 I'll come back to 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:08.440 the family 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:11.260 or maybe after I've 00:46:11.260 --> 00:46:12.920 done a lot of business 00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:14.680 or had a lot of women 00:46:14.680 --> 00:46:15.320 or men 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:17.519 or I've graduated 00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:19.159 or there's a billion excuses 00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:20.420 you hear people use 00:46:20.420 --> 00:46:22.599 for not following God 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:24.800 those people thought 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.019 that the minute they did that 00:46:26.019 --> 00:46:27.220 the moment they did that 00:46:27.220 --> 00:46:29.039 the moment they retired 00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:30.159 then they could come back 00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:31.579 to walk with God 00:46:31.579 --> 00:46:34.860 and Jesus says no 00:46:34.860 --> 00:46:38.139 I mean Jesus is making 00:46:38.139 --> 00:46:40.460 a very pointed statement 00:46:40.460 --> 00:46:43.119 and he's talking about 00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:43.719 our choices 00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:44.679 and he's talking about 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:45.400 coming to the banquet 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:46.420 and what's interesting to me 00:46:46.420 --> 00:46:48.259 is that all of those people 00:46:48.259 --> 00:46:49.379 and all of those excuses 00:46:49.379 --> 00:46:50.819 that the banquet 00:46:50.819 --> 00:46:52.019 that walking with God 00:46:52.019 --> 00:46:53.279 the being in the family 00:46:53.279 --> 00:46:54.579 that would help them 00:46:54.579 --> 00:46:56.239 deal with all those things 00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:57.379 it would help them 00:46:57.379 --> 00:46:58.039 deal with their family 00:46:58.039 --> 00:46:58.420 it would help them 00:46:58.420 --> 00:46:59.119 deal with relationships 00:46:59.119 --> 00:46:59.619 it would help them 00:46:59.619 --> 00:47:00.339 be a better dad 00:47:00.339 --> 00:47:00.779 a mother 00:47:00.779 --> 00:47:01.779 a business person 00:47:01.779 --> 00:47:02.639 it would help them 00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:03.359 do all that 00:47:03.359 --> 00:47:04.519 but the people in the story 00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:05.299 couldn't see that 00:47:05.299 --> 00:47:06.079 all they saw was 00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:07.359 this is what I like 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:08.420 this is what God's 00:47:08.420 --> 00:47:09.079 demanding of me 00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:10.220 I don't want to do it 00:47:10.220 --> 00:47:14.640 I think it's a struggle 00:47:14.640 --> 00:47:15.599 sometimes in a church 00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:15.940 right 00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:20.920 as a pastor 00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:21.940 you want to make 00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:23.400 the gospel seem sexy 00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:25.260 and cool 00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:28.780 you want it to seem 00:47:28.780 --> 00:47:29.260 like a Rolex 00:47:29.260 --> 00:47:29.960 you want a Rolex 00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:30.180 right 00:47:30.180 --> 00:47:30.860 everybody wants a Rolex 00:47:30.860 --> 00:47:31.760 yeah sure I want a Rolex 00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:32.720 give me a Rolex 00:47:32.720 --> 00:47:33.400 I want that 00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:35.480 but the gospel 00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:36.579 is really like a parachute 00:47:36.579 --> 00:47:39.539 because the airplane 00:47:39.539 --> 00:47:40.380 is going down 00:47:40.380 --> 00:47:42.980 and so we give this person 00:47:42.980 --> 00:47:43.440 a parachute 00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:44.420 and they wear it around 00:47:44.420 --> 00:47:45.360 but after a while 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:46.599 the parachute is uncomfortable 00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:49.139 I mean I can't really 00:47:49.139 --> 00:47:50.319 do all my moves 00:47:50.319 --> 00:47:51.059 and win Kui Fung 00:47:51.059 --> 00:47:51.500 with the parachute 00:47:51.500 --> 00:47:52.039 on my back 00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:54.259 or I can't 00:47:54.259 --> 00:47:56.699 enter into that business deal 00:47:56.699 --> 00:47:57.619 that I know I shouldn't 00:47:57.619 --> 00:47:58.219 enter into 00:47:58.219 --> 00:47:58.940 because that parachute 00:47:58.940 --> 00:47:59.519 is on my back 00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:00.400 and it's preventing me 00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:01.940 from doing those things 00:48:01.940 --> 00:48:04.840 or I can't be the dad 00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:05.700 that I want to be 00:48:05.700 --> 00:48:06.740 because I really just 00:48:06.740 --> 00:48:07.420 want to be selfish 00:48:07.420 --> 00:48:08.400 and go hang out 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:08.860 and do something 00:48:08.860 --> 00:48:09.679 by myself 00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:12.960 like work on my sermon 00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:16.420 but my kids really 00:48:16.420 --> 00:48:17.320 need time with me 00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.840 and they need me 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:20.460 to be present 00:48:20.460 --> 00:48:20.920 with them 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:24.780 and that parachute 00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:25.559 becomes uncomfortable 00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:26.159 sometimes 00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:29.579 Jesus is saying 00:48:29.579 --> 00:48:30.259 hey guys 00:48:30.259 --> 00:48:31.159 make a choice 00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:33.119 and realize 00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:34.579 that what you're choosing 00:48:34.579 --> 00:48:36.299 has eternal significance 00:48:36.299 --> 00:48:39.019 verse 21 00:48:39.019 --> 00:48:40.759 the message comes back 00:48:40.759 --> 00:48:41.440 the slave reported 00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:41.980 to his master 00:48:41.980 --> 00:48:42.500 then the head 00:48:42.500 --> 00:48:42.940 of the household 00:48:42.940 --> 00:48:43.899 became angry 00:48:43.899 --> 00:48:44.599 in Greek 00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:45.460 very angry 00:48:45.460 --> 00:48:46.159 he's furious 00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:47.460 and he said to that slave 00:48:47.460 --> 00:48:48.579 he turns his anger 00:48:48.579 --> 00:48:49.079 into grace 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:49.879 he says to that slave 00:48:49.879 --> 00:48:50.859 go out at once 00:48:50.859 --> 00:48:51.399 into the streets 00:48:51.399 --> 00:48:51.920 and the lanes 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:52.379 and the city 00:48:52.379 --> 00:48:53.599 and bring them in 00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:55.159 bring the poor 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:56.440 the cripple 00:48:56.440 --> 00:48:57.579 the needy 00:48:57.579 --> 00:48:59.139 bring them all in 00:48:59.139 --> 00:49:02.819 see what's happening here 00:49:02.819 --> 00:49:07.019 the master gets angry 00:49:07.019 --> 00:49:08.699 it turns to grace 00:49:08.699 --> 00:49:10.400 and he sends out 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:11.239 this urgent plea 00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:12.339 for you and I 00:49:12.339 --> 00:49:14.039 to the banquet 00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.360 and he invites us 00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:16.779 to come 00:49:16.779 --> 00:49:21.559 the words there 00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:22.400 are incredible 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:24.400 between the hedges 00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:26.860 means homeless people 00:49:26.860 --> 00:49:30.420 on the highways 00:49:30.420 --> 00:49:31.300 means foreigners 00:49:31.300 --> 00:49:32.139 who have no place 00:49:32.139 --> 00:49:32.660 to live 00:49:32.660 --> 00:49:35.500 the power of the invite 00:49:35.500 --> 00:49:36.280 goes out 00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:38.500 to everyone 00:49:38.500 --> 00:49:41.420 and it's so amazing 00:49:41.420 --> 00:49:42.420 that people can't believe 00:49:42.420 --> 00:49:42.940 that the master 00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:43.559 would invite them 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:43.880 and he says 00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:45.579 impel them 00:49:45.579 --> 00:49:46.720 tell them 00:49:46.720 --> 00:49:47.680 that it's true 00:49:47.680 --> 00:49:48.760 and the master's good 00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:50.079 and he wants you here 00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:53.460 and in this story 00:49:53.460 --> 00:49:55.599 everybody who accepted 00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:58.199 they could have also 00:49:58.199 --> 00:49:58.880 made excuses 00:49:58.880 --> 00:49:59.500 couldn't they have 00:49:59.500 --> 00:50:02.400 they could have 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:02.739 right 00:50:02.739 --> 00:50:04.679 well I'm poor 00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:06.659 I don't have enough money 00:50:06.659 --> 00:50:07.380 to buy clothes 00:50:07.380 --> 00:50:08.159 to come into the banquet 00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:09.079 the master's not going 00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:09.840 to be pleased with me 00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:11.179 well I'm lame 00:50:11.179 --> 00:50:12.219 I can't get there 00:50:12.219 --> 00:50:13.400 I'm blind 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:14.340 what good is it 00:50:14.340 --> 00:50:14.799 for me to come 00:50:14.799 --> 00:50:15.340 to the banquet 00:50:15.340 --> 00:50:17.500 I'm hurt 00:50:17.500 --> 00:50:19.120 I have a bad past 00:50:19.120 --> 00:50:20.820 my reputation 00:50:20.820 --> 00:50:21.740 is tarnished 00:50:21.740 --> 00:50:23.240 the master 00:50:23.240 --> 00:50:24.140 wouldn't want me 00:50:24.140 --> 00:50:25.940 in the banquet 00:50:25.940 --> 00:50:29.240 and it's interesting 00:50:29.240 --> 00:50:29.720 to me 00:50:29.720 --> 00:50:30.680 in verse 21 00:50:30.680 --> 00:50:32.460 and verse 23 00:50:32.460 --> 00:50:34.559 that the invites 00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:35.059 go out 00:50:35.059 --> 00:50:35.720 to everybody 00:50:35.720 --> 00:50:38.539 and they're not 00:50:38.539 --> 00:50:39.059 based 00:50:39.059 --> 00:50:40.340 on anything 00:50:40.900 --> 00:50:42.400 about the person 00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:43.019 who's getting them 00:50:43.019 --> 00:50:47.539 did you hear that 00:50:47.539 --> 00:50:50.179 this month 00:50:50.179 --> 00:50:50.960 or next month 00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:52.460 every one of you 00:50:52.460 --> 00:50:52.860 in here 00:50:52.860 --> 00:50:54.460 is probably going 00:50:54.460 --> 00:50:55.179 to get an invite 00:50:55.179 --> 00:50:56.679 to some kind of party 00:50:56.679 --> 00:50:59.139 some kind of gathering 00:50:59.139 --> 00:51:01.139 some type of event 00:51:01.139 --> 00:51:02.840 and you're going 00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:03.719 to get that invite 00:51:03.719 --> 00:51:05.380 because 00:51:05.380 --> 00:51:06.659 you're connected 00:51:06.659 --> 00:51:09.840 you know people 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:12.340 you're powerful 00:51:12.340 --> 00:51:14.380 you have a lot 00:51:14.380 --> 00:51:14.800 of money 00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:16.519 you have a lot 00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:17.240 of influence 00:51:17.240 --> 00:51:19.140 someone has 00:51:19.140 --> 00:51:19.720 invited you 00:51:19.720 --> 00:51:20.340 or you invited 00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:20.920 somebody else 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:21.200 and they want 00:51:21.200 --> 00:51:21.940 to pay you back 00:51:21.940 --> 00:51:23.760 you're going 00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:24.519 to get that invite 00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:26.140 because of those 00:51:26.140 --> 00:51:26.579 things 00:51:26.579 --> 00:51:28.680 now I'm not 00:51:28.680 --> 00:51:29.180 saying that 00:51:29.180 --> 00:51:29.800 is bad 00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:32.180 but what I am 00:51:32.180 --> 00:51:32.940 saying is this 00:51:32.940 --> 00:51:35.420 the invite 00:51:35.420 --> 00:51:35.940 to heaven 00:51:35.940 --> 00:51:38.260 the invite 00:51:38.260 --> 00:51:38.820 to the kingdom 00:51:38.820 --> 00:51:39.300 of God 00:51:39.300 --> 00:51:41.080 the invite 00:51:41.080 --> 00:51:41.740 to that last 00:51:41.740 --> 00:51:42.180 banquet 00:51:42.180 --> 00:51:44.920 depends on 00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:45.420 none of those 00:51:45.420 --> 00:51:45.800 things 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:49.980 God gives you 00:51:49.980 --> 00:51:50.700 that invite 00:51:50.700 --> 00:51:54.140 because he loves 00:51:54.140 --> 00:51:55.000 you 00:51:55.000 --> 00:52:01.039 not because 00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:01.300 of what you 00:52:01.300 --> 00:52:01.700 can do for 00:52:01.700 --> 00:52:03.340 not because 00:52:03.340 --> 00:52:03.700 of who you 00:52:03.700 --> 00:52:03.940 are 00:52:03.940 --> 00:52:04.240 what you 00:52:04.240 --> 00:52:04.480 have 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:04.720 what you 00:52:04.720 --> 00:52:04.980 haven't 00:52:04.980 --> 00:52:05.200 done 00:52:05.200 --> 00:52:05.460 what you 00:52:05.460 --> 00:52:05.600 have 00:52:05.600 --> 00:52:05.900 done 00:52:05.900 --> 00:52:07.100 God 00:52:07.100 --> 00:52:07.360 gives 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:07.600 it to 00:52:07.600 --> 00:52:07.840 you 00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:09.640 just because 00:52:09.640 --> 00:52:10.140 he's good 00:52:10.140 --> 00:52:13.360 and one of 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:13.680 the things 00:52:13.680 --> 00:52:14.220 we have to 00:52:14.220 --> 00:52:14.579 do as a 00:52:14.579 --> 00:52:14.880 family 00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:15.920 with ourselves 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:16.400 and speak 00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:16.820 the gospel 00:52:16.820 --> 00:52:17.300 to ourselves 00:52:17.300 --> 00:52:17.840 over and 00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:18.140 over and 00:52:18.140 --> 00:52:18.480 to the people 00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:18.960 around us 00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:19.700 is we got 00:52:19.700 --> 00:52:20.059 to keep 00:52:20.059 --> 00:52:20.480 reminding 00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:20.880 people 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:21.820 that the 00:52:21.820 --> 00:52:22.220 invite 00:52:22.220 --> 00:52:22.940 is real 00:52:22.940 --> 00:52:27.079 and that 00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:27.480 the host 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:28.019 is good 00:52:28.019 --> 00:52:28.620 and true 00:52:28.620 --> 00:52:33.740 because sometimes 00:52:33.740 --> 00:52:34.220 we forget 00:52:34.219 --> 00:52:34.559 that 00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:38.559 sometimes 00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:38.899 we forget 00:52:38.899 --> 00:52:39.159 that 00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:42.000 what does 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:42.619 your response 00:52:42.619 --> 00:52:43.279 look like 00:52:43.279 --> 00:52:44.859 to the 00:52:44.859 --> 00:52:45.279 kingdom of 00:52:45.279 --> 00:52:45.519 God 00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:45.899 today 00:52:45.899 --> 00:52:51.259 you have an 00:52:51.259 --> 00:52:51.559 invite 00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:52.099 you don't know 00:52:52.099 --> 00:52:52.599 that but you 00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:52.839 have an 00:52:52.839 --> 00:52:53.139 invite 00:52:53.139 --> 00:52:56.839 what are you 00:52:56.839 --> 00:52:57.359 doing with the 00:52:57.359 --> 00:52:58.339 master's invitation 00:52:58.340 --> 00:53:03.980 do you really 00:53:03.980 --> 00:53:05.340 desire to be at 00:53:05.340 --> 00:53:05.680 the banquet 00:53:05.680 --> 00:53:09.079 do you really 00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:09.700 desire to be in 00:53:09.700 --> 00:53:10.019 the kingdom 00:53:10.019 --> 00:53:13.000 or is there 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:13.340 something 00:53:13.340 --> 00:53:15.500 else that's 00:53:15.500 --> 00:53:16.160 more important 00:53:16.160 --> 00:53:16.720 to you 00:53:16.720 --> 00:53:21.000 is there 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:21.720 someplace else 00:53:21.720 --> 00:53:22.100 you would 00:53:22.100 --> 00:53:22.940 rather be 00:53:22.940 --> 00:53:25.240 is there 00:53:25.240 --> 00:53:25.820 something else 00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:26.500 you need 00:53:26.500 --> 00:53:27.140 more than 00:53:27.140 --> 00:53:27.500 you need 00:53:27.500 --> 00:53:28.019 God 00:53:28.019 --> 00:53:36.179 my prayer 00:53:36.179 --> 00:53:36.619 for us 00:53:36.619 --> 00:53:37.219 as a church 00:53:37.219 --> 00:53:37.860 as individuals 00:53:37.860 --> 00:53:38.260 is that we 00:53:38.260 --> 00:53:38.900 would understand 00:53:38.900 --> 00:53:40.000 that God's 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:40.619 offer is 00:53:40.619 --> 00:53:41.019 true 00:53:41.019 --> 00:53:41.360 and that 00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:41.519 it's 00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:42.079 amazing 00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:44.679 and the 00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:45.239 only question 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:45.659 is are we 00:53:45.659 --> 00:53:45.880 going to 00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:46.420 accept that 00:53:46.420 --> 00:53:46.780 offer 00:53:46.780 --> 00:53:51.280 accept it 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:51.840 by grace 00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:54.320 allow it 00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:54.780 to change 00:53:54.780 --> 00:53:55.159 us 00:53:55.159 --> 00:53:57.679 share that 00:53:57.679 --> 00:53:58.139 offer with 00:53:58.139 --> 00:53:58.619 those around 00:53:58.619 --> 00:53:58.980 us 00:53:58.980 --> 00:54:02.379 the kingdom 00:54:02.379 --> 00:54:03.339 is now 00:54:03.339 --> 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01:00:19.860 hey how's it going 01:00:19.860 --> 01:00:21.260 so yeah our group 01:00:21.260 --> 01:00:23.500 is branching out from Mike and Katie's group 01:00:23.500 --> 01:00:27.240 kind of got super huge and there was no more room in their house 01:00:27.240 --> 01:00:30.680 so we will be meeting also in Sying Poon every Thursday 01:00:30.680 --> 01:00:31.980 at 730 01:00:31.980 --> 01:00:34.019 and it's mostly 01:00:34.019 --> 01:00:36.840 mostly young professionals and university students 01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:37.800 but uh 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:38.180 so yeah 01:00:38.180 --> 01:00:40.220 Sying Poon Thursday 730 01:00:40.220 --> 01:00:41.600 okay and Bill and Shannon 01:00:41.600 --> 01:00:43.360 hey Watermark 01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:44.300 um 01:00:44.300 --> 01:00:45.100 I'm Shannon 01:00:45.100 --> 01:00:45.800 this is Bill 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:48.380 we meet at our place here in Cyberport 01:00:48.380 --> 01:00:50.840 we're literally right next door in Bel Air 01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:51.640 phase two 01:00:51.640 --> 01:00:53.400 and so they're always on time to church 01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:54.440 they never come late 01:00:54.440 --> 01:00:55.260 because they're just like 01:00:55.260 --> 01:00:57.220 never 01:00:57.220 --> 01:00:57.780 never 01:00:57.780 --> 01:00:59.180 did my nose just grow 01:00:59.180 --> 01:01:01.240 um 01:01:01.240 --> 01:01:03.840 we meet up on Mondays at 730 01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:05.579 we share a meal at 730 01:01:05.579 --> 01:01:07.500 and then we begin group study at 8 01:01:07.500 --> 01:01:08.259 um 01:01:08.259 --> 01:01:09.799 our group is open to everyone 01:01:09.799 --> 01:01:11.519 we have um 01:01:11.519 --> 01:01:14.920 I'd say mid-20s to late 01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:16.739 mid to late 50s in our group 01:01:16.739 --> 01:01:18.319 we have single male 01:01:18.319 --> 01:01:19.039 single female 01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:20.380 we have um 01:01:20.380 --> 01:01:22.679 moms, dads, families 01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:23.980 without kids 01:01:23.980 --> 01:01:24.759 so 01:01:24.759 --> 01:01:25.579 come on 01:01:25.579 --> 01:01:25.860 join 01:01:25.860 --> 01:01:26.699 everyone's welcome 01:01:26.699 --> 01:01:27.400 every Monday 01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:28.360 every Monday 01:01:28.360 --> 01:01:29.159 730 01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:30.039 um 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:30.679 four meal 01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:31.679 and then 8 o'clock 01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:32.279 for the study 01:01:32.279 --> 01:01:33.199 Graham 01:01:33.199 --> 01:01:34.539 I don't know if you guys know 01:01:34.539 --> 01:01:35.440 Joshua Hammond 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:37.940 but he once described our community group as 01:01:37.940 --> 01:01:38.739 special 01:01:38.739 --> 01:01:39.679 okay 01:01:39.679 --> 01:01:40.199 and uh 01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:41.380 the reason we're special 01:01:41.380 --> 01:01:43.119 is because we're kind of homeless 01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:43.599 right 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:45.779 we're nicknamed the uncharted group 01:01:45.779 --> 01:01:47.579 we don't belong to a specific area 01:01:47.579 --> 01:01:48.380 but we 01:01:48.380 --> 01:01:49.960 we're even closer than Bill and Shannon 01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:51.579 we meet right here 01:01:51.579 --> 01:01:53.800 so we literally do 01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:54.940 we meet in the Rapids room 01:01:54.940 --> 01:01:56.639 on Sunday afternoons 01:01:56.639 --> 01:01:58.300 right after church 01:01:58.300 --> 01:02:00.159 so you don't have to go very far 01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:01.000 to get to us 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:01.679 uh 01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:03.579 the most of the people in our group 01:02:03.579 --> 01:02:04.320 uh 01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:05.800 we welcome everyone 01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:06.659 but 01:02:06.659 --> 01:02:07.760 we find it's 01:02:07.760 --> 01:02:08.619 it's people with kids 01:02:08.619 --> 01:02:09.220 little kids 01:02:09.220 --> 01:02:10.860 who find it difficult to get out 01:02:10.860 --> 01:02:11.900 during the week 01:02:11.900 --> 01:02:12.460 late at night 01:02:12.460 --> 01:02:12.980 with kids 01:02:12.980 --> 01:02:14.940 it's a great time for them to be involved 01:02:14.940 --> 01:02:16.000 in community groups 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:16.659 uh 01:02:16.659 --> 01:02:17.880 we've got single boys 01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:18.200 girls 01:02:18.200 --> 01:02:18.659 everything 01:02:18.659 --> 01:02:19.639 dogs, cats 01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:20.159 they all 01:02:20.159 --> 01:02:21.179 they all come along 01:02:21.179 --> 01:02:22.119 so yeah 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:23.480 but we meet at the moment 01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:24.860 we're meeting every second 01:02:24.860 --> 01:02:25.300 Sunday 01:02:25.300 --> 01:02:26.079 uh 01:02:26.079 --> 01:02:27.320 we gather at one 01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:28.519 we eat together 01:02:28.519 --> 01:02:29.760 which is really important 01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:31.280 and then we start at 1.30 01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:32.620 and we're done by 01:02:32.620 --> 01:02:33.579 three 01:02:33.579 --> 01:02:35.920 so that's every second Sunday 01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:36.620 and we're hoping 01:02:36.620 --> 01:02:38.019 to bump that up this year 01:02:38.019 --> 01:02:39.460 to about three times a month 01:02:39.460 --> 01:02:40.320 yeah 01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:40.840 that's us 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:41.300 that's great 01:02:41.300 --> 01:02:42.800 so you've seen them 01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:44.059 there are other community groups 01:02:44.059 --> 01:02:45.559 as you walk out on the table 01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:45.980 there'll be 01:02:45.980 --> 01:02:47.840 information about community groups 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:48.519 and sign ups 01:02:48.519 --> 01:02:49.620 and so please 01:02:49.620 --> 01:02:50.380 feel free 01:02:50.380 --> 01:02:52.220 to ask questions from them 01:02:52.220 --> 01:02:53.079 if you're in their area 01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:54.019 or uh 01:02:54.019 --> 01:02:54.420 Charles 01:02:54.420 --> 01:02:55.019 will you stand up 01:02:55.019 --> 01:02:55.980 and Franklin stand up 01:02:55.980 --> 01:02:57.700 so Charles and Franklin 01:02:57.700 --> 01:02:59.019 keep me straight 01:02:59.019 --> 01:02:59.420 and they're 01:02:59.420 --> 01:03:00.280 so the three of us 01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:01.380 are the elders of the church 01:03:01.380 --> 01:03:01.980 uh 01:03:01.980 --> 01:03:03.139 God brought them to us 01:03:03.139 --> 01:03:04.340 after a year and a half 01:03:04.340 --> 01:03:05.360 of planning the church 01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:05.720 and so 01:03:05.720 --> 01:03:07.079 if you have any questions 01:03:07.079 --> 01:03:07.820 about the church 01:03:07.820 --> 01:03:08.800 the rhythm of the church 01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:09.760 the life of the church 01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:11.700 why we don't pass around offering 01:03:11.700 --> 01:03:13.340 and ask you to do it 01:03:13.340 --> 01:03:14.039 at the kiosk 01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:15.000 or anything like that 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:16.260 please grab us 01:03:16.260 --> 01:03:16.639 uh 01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:18.440 in an appropriate place 01:03:18.440 --> 01:03:19.119 out here 01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:20.740 so let us get our food first 01:03:20.739 --> 01:03:22.179 that didn't 01:03:22.179 --> 01:03:22.979 that didn't sound 01:03:22.979 --> 01:03:23.539 the way I meant 01:03:23.539 --> 01:03:24.119 for it to the south 01:03:24.119 --> 01:03:25.339 uh 01:03:25.339 --> 01:03:26.139 yeah 01:03:26.139 --> 01:03:26.559 well 01:03:26.559 --> 01:03:28.619 delete that 01:03:28.619 --> 01:03:29.179 from the tape 01:03:29.179 --> 01:03:29.479 Dylan 01:03:29.479 --> 01:03:30.299 okay 01:03:30.299 --> 01:03:31.239 uh 01:03:31.239 --> 01:03:32.079 anyway 01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:32.959 so just 01:03:32.959 --> 01:03:33.579 uh 01:03:33.579 --> 01:03:35.019 get a hold of us 01:03:35.019 --> 01:03:35.859 and talk to us 01:03:35.859 --> 01:03:36.739 and we want to 01:03:36.739 --> 01:03:37.339 we want to ask 01:03:37.339 --> 01:03:38.099 answer any questions 01:03:38.099 --> 01:03:38.599 you have 01:03:38.599 --> 01:03:39.479 and with that 01:03:39.479 --> 01:03:40.119 would you guys 01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:40.799 please stand 01:03:40.799 --> 01:03:41.439 and I just want to pray 01:03:41.439 --> 01:03:42.399 for us as a family 01:03:42.399 --> 01:03:43.439 and for this meal 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:48.079 you know 01:03:48.079 --> 01:03:48.639 what I 01:03:48.639 --> 01:03:50.159 I always am fearful 01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:52.740 of doing sermons 01:03:52.740 --> 01:03:55.119 uh 01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:56.000 just the weight of it 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:56.539 sometimes 01:03:56.539 --> 01:03:58.400 and wondering 01:03:58.400 --> 01:03:59.099 what people are going 01:03:59.099 --> 01:04:00.039 to walk away with 01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:01.960 it keeps me up 01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:02.480 at nights 01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:03.760 my 01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:04.400 my prayer 01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:05.240 my hope is 01:04:05.240 --> 01:04:06.840 that you walked away 01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:07.380 from today 01:04:07.380 --> 01:04:08.820 you saw how amazing 01:04:08.820 --> 01:04:09.480 God is 01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:12.019 you saw how patient 01:04:12.019 --> 01:04:12.860 he is with us 01:04:12.860 --> 01:04:14.860 how kind 01:04:14.860 --> 01:04:15.700 he is with us 01:04:15.700 --> 01:04:17.780 how his grace 01:04:17.780 --> 01:04:18.640 is abundant 01:04:18.640 --> 01:04:20.599 and it's free 01:04:20.599 --> 01:04:22.920 and you can trust him 01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:25.160 that's what I hope 01:04:25.160 --> 01:04:25.480 you heard 01:04:25.480 --> 01:04:28.019 father I thank you 01:04:28.019 --> 01:04:28.460 for my brothers 01:04:28.460 --> 01:04:29.300 and sisters here 01:04:29.300 --> 01:04:30.320 thank you for this food 01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:31.099 we're about to eat 01:04:31.099 --> 01:04:32.460 for this family 01:04:32.460 --> 01:04:33.059 for this 01:04:33.059 --> 01:04:34.039 this place you've 01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:34.680 put us in 01:04:34.680 --> 01:04:35.960 these facilities 01:04:35.960 --> 01:04:36.760 all these things 01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:37.400 are from you 01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:38.780 and we pray that 01:04:38.780 --> 01:04:39.420 we would use them 01:04:39.420 --> 01:04:40.360 well to honor you 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:42.380 we pray for this food 01:04:42.380 --> 01:04:43.480 that it would be 01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:44.140 great time 01:04:44.140 --> 01:04:44.800 communication 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:46.900 and Lord we love you 01:04:46.900 --> 01:04:47.780 we pray these things 01:04:47.780 --> 01:04:48.700 in your son Jesus name 01:04:48.700 --> 01:04:49.119 amen 01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:50.059 God bless you 01:04:50.059 --> 01:04:50.460 and we'll see you 01:04:50.460 --> 01:04:50.880 at the tables