WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.599 I'm looking at the stage and realize that the decorations for VBS have been compromised a little bit. 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.679 ! They were concerned that I would trip over the...so I appreciate whoever did that. 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:21.440 Let's hope that I don't have a problem with props like I did with peanuts, you know, and 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.320 we have a problem here. Okay. 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:34.079 One of the disadvantages of being a pastor is that you don't get to print retractions on page 9 of the Columbus Dispatch. 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:44.240 Last Sunday in preaching, I made a statement that was inaccurate, worse than that, it was wrong, 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:52.120 and I said if Jesus Christ were alive today, and one of the things that I am richly blessed by is that 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:58.519 God's people here are in love with the Word of God enough that when I overstep the bounds...and by the 00:00:58.519 --> 00:01:04.679 way, just in case you are wondering, I know He's alive because it says in Hebrews that He ever liveth to do what? 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:11.159 Makes intercession for...I'm glad He's praying for me, even this morning. And so I made that statement about 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:17.879 if Christ were alive today, He would. I probably should have said He could. He is alive today, and He could. 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:23.879 So that's cleared for, okay? Anytime I overstate something or you tell me, 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:31.659 because I want us to have a reverence for the Word of God that holds it as the supreme authority 00:01:31.659 --> 00:01:39.500 and the final Word, and when I blow it...by the way, I was reading in 1 Samuel 3, verse 19, 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:44.599 where it says this about Samuel, and I am quite jealous of the fact that it says this about him. 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:47.939 It says, not a word that he spoke fell to the ground. Do you know what it's saying? 00:01:48.839 --> 00:01:56.379 He was spot on every time. I thought, I wish. Okay. So, having heard my, and I mean it, 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:04.179 my retraction, I appreciate your admonition when I overstepped that, and so now what you have in 00:02:04.179 --> 00:02:09.180 front of you is the responsibility of prayer, that the Word of God would have free course, 00:02:09.259 --> 00:02:14.079 it would not be hindered, and that it would make a difference in your life. So let me tell you ahead 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.800 of time, before we actually get to the sermon, what the takeaway is, what I want you to walk out of 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:38.880 here saying in your heart. I want to grow to know Jesus, and I want to be like Jesus. Write that down. 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:45.939 I don't know. Can you see the top of this? Next year, we're going to have a flop down so that it 00:02:45.939 --> 00:02:51.759 goes...you know, I just got to preach so you can see the words, that kind of thing. Okay, forget it. 00:02:51.960 --> 00:03:01.680 But anyway, I want to grow to be like Jesus. I want to know Jesus. Write that down. Now, 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:09.300 let me tell you something. This is something you can't do by yourself. If you're sitting here 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:14.960 thinking, all right, all right, I got that. I know what I'm supposed to do, and I'm on it. You are dead 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:24.960 wrong. But there's a little piece to that that I want you to understand. You don't have to do it by 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.740 yourself. You can rely upon the Holy Spirit. In fact, if you don't rely upon the Holy Spirit, it 00:03:30.740 --> 00:03:36.580 won't happen. And this is one of those things that when you go to the Holy Spirit and pray and ask Him 00:03:36.580 --> 00:03:42.260 with all humility to help you grow to know Jesus and grow to be like Jesus, He's all over it. He's 00:03:42.260 --> 00:03:48.460 interested. How many of you as parents have had to work very hard to teach your children that there's 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:52.900 some kind of things you won't answer immediately? In fact, you won't ever answer. How many of you 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:58.280 are still in the process of teaching kids to say please and thank you? Come on, raise your hands. 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:06.439 Please and thank you. How do you do that? You do not backhand them godless when they say, 00:04:06.540 --> 00:04:15.060 I want a cookie now. What do you say? Can't hear you. Huh? What was that? Were you talking to me? 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:22.840 There are little things that you let your kids know are off page. And so I want to tell you 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:27.359 that some of you going to the Holy Spirit, to the Lord and saying, listen, I'd like a Lamborghini or 00:04:27.359 --> 00:04:32.019 you know something. He's saying, huh? What were you talking to me? He's not interested in helping 00:04:32.019 --> 00:04:37.120 you with those things. But when you go to Him with humility and say, I want to be like Jesus, 00:04:37.979 --> 00:04:50.079 He'll do that. Now, frankly, I wish He would do it, bang. Still working on me. But He'll do that. 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:57.459 So I want you this morning, when you start to finish, to have one thing fixed in your mind, 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:05.459 I want to grow to be like Jesus. I want to know Jesus. And I am dependent upon the Holy Spirit 00:05:05.459 --> 00:05:15.759 to help me in that process. Well, this is Father's Day. And I want you to know that towards the very end 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:20.879 of the sermon, when Jack and his small group get up, they're not leaving prior to the invitation. 00:05:21.019 --> 00:05:27.480 That's not what's going on. Okay? His group is going to be passing out little reminders to dads 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:33.740 and young men. Is it 18 years and older or something like that? Okay. And so they're not 00:05:33.740 --> 00:05:37.860 walking out. They're just getting to the doors so they can be sure that everybody gets a little 00:05:37.860 --> 00:05:43.599 reminder of a part of our message this morning from the Scriptures. And so I want you to know that 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:49.240 this is Father's Day, and I trust that all of you have said, Happy Father's Day. You've done that. 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:53.640 It's an appropriate thing. And I want you to understand that as we think this morning about 00:05:53.640 --> 00:05:59.960 Father's Day, we're going to focus our study in the Scriptures on a perfect model of what a father 00:05:59.960 --> 00:06:07.480 should be. Without question, to say that a father is important in a family is to make an understatement. 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:15.319 There really is no greater indicator of a culture's decline than the failure of fathers to play the 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:19.640 role that they have been divinely appointed. I want you to fix that in your mind and understand it. 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:27.439 The fact of a father's importance in a home cannot be understated. Several weeks ago, as I was beginning 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:32.439 the process of studying and praying about this, I went out on the web and Googled, you know, 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:38.939 father's role and all kinds of hits come up. And I thought, well, I know what the Bible says about 00:06:38.939 --> 00:06:44.540 this, but I'd be curious, does our culture put any emphasis on the role and the importance of a 00:06:44.540 --> 00:06:57.079 father? I was surprised. In fact, did you know that the government keeps track of the declining 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:08.800 position and significance or the presence of fathers in homes? It's not viewed by our government as a 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:15.919 good thing. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, how many of you remember vaguely? This is kind of an age-based 00:07:15.919 --> 00:07:20.979 test. How many of you remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Now, raise your hands and wave at me. 00:07:20.980 --> 00:07:29.480 He was a politician, and he was also a very significant thinker. And about 50 years ago, 00:07:29.660 --> 00:07:39.860 he wrote a study, a research paper, about the role of fathers that was just absolutely blown out of the 00:07:39.860 --> 00:07:49.259 water by the liberal media, but it's dead on. Dead on. If you really want to understand how important 00:07:49.259 --> 00:07:55.079 fathers are to a community and a culture, we're not going to rely on Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We're 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.959 really going to rely on Scripture. And I just want to make a reference to one particular...how do you 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:05.920 know how Malachi closes out? What book is Malachi? It's the last book in the Old Testament. And Malachi 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:11.920 chapter 4, verse 6, gives us a little thread, a little idea of how important fathers are in that 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:20.580 it says this, and he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their 00:08:20.580 --> 00:08:25.939 fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction. If you want to know how 00:08:25.939 --> 00:08:36.080 important fathers are to a people, here is God's Word, the prophet Malachi, saying that the preaching of 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:44.520 the forerunner to the Messiah is going to end up having an effect on the culture through the impact 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:55.379 that he has on fathers. Fathers are incredibly important, and we need good examples of fathers. 00:08:56.740 --> 00:09:02.240 You see, a good example is essential to understanding really how it all plays out, 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:06.700 and I'm reminded in part of what it says in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 1, where the 00:09:06.700 --> 00:09:14.620 apostle says this. He says, you follow me, and does anybody know the remainder of it? Follow me as I, 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:22.320 come on, am following Christ. You want to be a good example? Be sure you're following the right example. 00:09:22.820 --> 00:09:27.440 That's important. You're following the wrong example, and it's going to end up being a disaster, 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:31.180 not only to your life, but it's going to be a disaster to those who are following you. 00:09:31.179 --> 00:09:35.819 And so here's the apostle saying, I want you to follow me because I'm following Christ. 00:09:37.319 --> 00:09:45.279 So, Dad, this Father's Day sermon is going to be a little different in that our focus is not going 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:52.479 to be on one particular passage that talks about fathers, such as a passage in Ephesians chapter 6 00:09:52.479 --> 00:09:57.339 or passage in Deuteronomy chapter 6, though we're going to make reference to a couple of those things. 00:09:57.340 --> 00:10:03.740 But it's a sermon that is going to focus on the best possible example we can have of how to be a 00:10:03.740 --> 00:10:11.960 father and to do the job that you're called to do. And there is no better model to follow than Jesus. 00:10:12.860 --> 00:10:18.560 Agreed? And now you can kind of put it together already. Why would I say at the very beginning of 00:10:18.560 --> 00:10:23.480 the sermon that the thing to be praying about is, hey, listen, as I walk away from there, the thing I 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:28.580 want to be praying about is that I grow to be like Jesus. Why? Because He's the perfect example, the 00:10:28.580 --> 00:10:36.159 model that we ought to pursue. And so I pick out in our study three different passages or three 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:40.659 different characteristics of the Lord Jesus that I want us to focus on this morning. The first is this, 00:10:40.920 --> 00:10:46.779 He was a humble student for their sakes. He was a humble student for their sakes. Turn in your Bible 00:10:46.779 --> 00:10:53.799 to Isaiah chapter 50 verse 4. Go back to it. And it's not a bad passage to underline. It's probably 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:59.299 fairly familiar to you because I have used this on a number of different occasions. I remember, 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:02.559 how many of you read through the Bible on a regular basis? Raise your hand and wave at me. 00:11:04.059 --> 00:11:10.039 Hello? You guys put your hands down. Put them down. How many of you think it'd be a good idea to start 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:14.939 reading through the Bible on a regular basis? The rest of you raise your hands. Okay, now we got it. 00:11:14.940 --> 00:11:19.200 We're there. Okay? Read through the Bible on a regular basis. And I got to tell you something. 00:11:20.300 --> 00:11:24.920 As I read through the Bible, I keep on finding new things that are there. They're already there. 00:11:26.060 --> 00:11:31.000 I remember last year or so, I was reading through Isaiah chapter 50 verse 4, and I hit this passage. 00:11:31.540 --> 00:11:37.180 Whoa! Man, that's significant. I'd never seen that before. And there it is. Let me read it to you. 00:11:38.380 --> 00:11:40.640 Isaiah 50 verse 4. It says, 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.379 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught. 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.620 Ooh, wouldn't you like to have a tongue that was well taught? 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.799 How many of you have a tongue that needs further teaching? 00:11:52.259 --> 00:11:53.460 Okay. Okay. 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:58.100 How many of you are kind of brain dead and don't realize that your tongue needs further teaching? 00:11:59.220 --> 00:12:01.759 I mean, other people are trying to tell you, and you're just not listening. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:05.840 Anyway, for those who recognize that they need further teaching, 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:12.180 I want you to recognize here is the Holy Spirit giving us a little bit of insight into something that is profound. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.340 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught 00:12:18.340 --> 00:12:23.300 that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:27.840 I want you to do a little mental computation. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:35.040 How many of you know people that you love and care about that are wounded and frail because of the heartaches 00:12:35.040 --> 00:12:36.920 and the difficulties of life and sin? 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:37.740 You know people? 00:12:40.460 --> 00:12:42.060 You see the wheels coming off. 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:44.420 You see the heartache. 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.160 You see the difficulties, and you think, 00:12:47.280 --> 00:12:50.040 Man, oh, how do I help? 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:51.860 Well, here it says, 00:12:51.860 --> 00:12:58.639 Now, let's mark the rest of it. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:00.720 Morning by morning he awakens. 00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:05.200 He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:14.680 So when are you going to learn the product or the material whereby you are a comfort and an encouragement to other people? 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:24.399 It is in your own personal devotional life where you, with humility and gladness, are on your face before God, 00:13:24.539 --> 00:13:24.779 saying, 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:34.759 Listen, I need to learn and grow, and I want your word to be the thing that forms and shapes the heart and life that I have. 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:39.039 Now, here's part of the thing that's really stunning. 00:13:40.199 --> 00:13:42.059 Do you know who this passage is about? 00:13:42.059 --> 00:13:49.599 Does anybody know who this passage is talking about? 00:13:55.779 --> 00:13:56.759 How many of you, 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:02.899 and I remember the story of the little Sunday school kid that the teacher held up the picture and said, 00:14:03.139 --> 00:14:04.439 What is this a picture of? 00:14:04.459 --> 00:14:05.139 And it was a squirrel. 00:14:06.099 --> 00:14:09.899 And nobody wanted to say, because in Sunday school every answer is Jesus. 00:14:09.899 --> 00:14:13.379 And they were all kind of, and it's like, you know, so yeah, that's a picture. 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:15.699 And finally the little boy says, Well, it's a squirrel. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:17.000 You know, I was like, that's what. 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:21.620 At the end of the day, the real picture of the scriptures is who? 00:14:22.539 --> 00:14:22.860 Hello? 00:14:23.939 --> 00:14:24.939 John 539. 00:14:25.100 --> 00:14:26.279 Remember last week when I preached? 00:14:26.379 --> 00:14:29.799 John 539 says they testify of me, speaking about the scriptures. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:31.840 This passage is messianic. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.460 It's recited later in reference to the Lord Jesus. 00:14:36.740 --> 00:14:43.580 And one of the things that's kind of flummoxing, it's like, you know, in the beginning was the Word, 00:14:43.620 --> 00:14:45.340 and the Word was God, and the Word was with God. 00:14:45.700 --> 00:14:51.160 And Jesus, I was kind of reading this morning in Colossians chapter 1 where it says, 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:55.079 In Him the fullness of the Godhead pleads to dwell. 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:56.039 I mean, He's it. 00:14:56.439 --> 00:14:56.959 He's all. 00:14:58.059 --> 00:15:02.919 And yet here it tells us that Jesus had morning devotions day by day, 00:15:03.059 --> 00:15:08.559 and it was in that morning time that He learned things in His humanness. 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:21.299 I want you to understand, it was Christ's grasp of the scriptures that was gleaned in His private time 00:15:21.299 --> 00:15:27.099 in the Word of God that enabled Him to comfort those who were wearied. 00:15:32.979 --> 00:15:37.239 What is your most important contribution to the well-being of your family? 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.699 Is it your paycheck? 00:15:43.839 --> 00:15:46.779 What is the most important contribution you make? 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:52.679 It is not your character in and of itself. 00:15:52.779 --> 00:15:53.599 Do you understand that? 00:15:54.639 --> 00:16:04.519 It is your fidelity in reflecting the character and the person of Christ as found and discovered in the Word of God. 00:16:04.599 --> 00:16:05.479 Does that make sense to you? 00:16:06.339 --> 00:16:08.159 And I've got to tell you, that's not going to happen. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:16.379 If you're doing the daily bread, kind of like a three-minute flyby, I grabbed a verse, I grabbed a thought, and I'm gone. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:24.079 Some of you probably spend more time brushing your teeth because you have an electric toothbrush that kind of goes through these phases, 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:24.639 and you're supposed to go, 00:16:24.719 --> 00:16:28.679 How many of you do that? 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.379 Lots of time brushing your teeth, morning and evening, 00:16:31.379 --> 00:16:39.259 and yet your time in the Word of God is far less than you use with an electric toothbrush trying to take care of dental hygiene. 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:42.500 Jesus was all over the Word. 00:16:42.500 --> 00:16:59.360 And as a result of His being all over the Word, His ministry to those that He ministered to was colored by what He learned. 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:04.660 You know, dads are family pathfinders. 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:10.559 They're the ones that are appointed by God to carry the biblical load of headship. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:18.940 And I've got to tell you, when a father is disconnected from the Lord and his devotional life is an abysmal failure, 00:17:19.259 --> 00:17:22.420 it is a heartache for his family. 00:17:22.420 --> 00:17:28.240 Can I tell you that if you have seven minutes of devotions every single day, 00:17:28.380 --> 00:17:33.240 that you are guaranteed to get a new car and a new house and a new family? 00:17:33.360 --> 00:17:34.460 I mean, do you follow what I'm saying? 00:17:34.660 --> 00:17:35.600 That's not the deal. 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:38.080 But here's what I can tell you. 00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:44.820 If the Word of God is not the foundational thing that is governing the way you think and how you play out life, 00:17:44.980 --> 00:17:50.160 and you won't have the Word of God influence you that way if you don't connect with it on a regular basis. 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:55.380 When a father has his own heart established in the Word, 00:17:56.259 --> 00:18:02.060 and he finds the promises of God and the counsel of God to be sufficient for the challenges of life, 00:18:02.180 --> 00:18:05.560 he then carries that forward and ministers to his wife, 00:18:07.620 --> 00:18:08.820 ministers to his children, 00:18:10.320 --> 00:18:11.860 ministers to the people that he's around. 00:18:13.220 --> 00:18:17.019 Furthermore, it's a man's love for God 00:18:17.019 --> 00:18:21.460 and his willingness to obey the Word that really allows him to teach with conviction 00:18:21.460 --> 00:18:24.579 in the flow of life. 00:18:24.879 --> 00:18:27.480 I want you to look at Deuteronomy chapter 6 just for a moment. 00:18:27.579 --> 00:18:28.680 We're going to reference it briefly. 00:18:29.299 --> 00:18:32.500 But Deuteronomy chapter 6, verse 4 through 9, 00:18:32.579 --> 00:18:37.779 very interesting that this is a passage that was given principally to the heads of homes, 00:18:38.420 --> 00:18:38.799 to men. 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:42.559 It doesn't mean that it doesn't apply to all the rest of us, 00:18:42.740 --> 00:18:47.460 but its bearing in particular was given to those that were responsible. 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.379 How many of you work at a place where the supervisors get called into the office 00:18:52.379 --> 00:18:54.779 and given direct, explicit marching orders? 00:18:55.500 --> 00:18:57.740 Hey, you guys be doing this today? 00:18:57.960 --> 00:18:59.079 I want this, this, this. 00:18:59.899 --> 00:19:01.579 You walk out, yes, sir, I'll get it. 00:19:02.159 --> 00:19:03.359 That's what was happening here. 00:19:03.460 --> 00:19:05.339 Moses was speaking to the heads of households, 00:19:05.339 --> 00:19:07.419 and he said, guys, I want you to get together. 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:09.659 We're going to get this thing errant out and understand it. 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:12.319 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 00:19:12.679 --> 00:19:13.039 Bang! 00:19:13.299 --> 00:19:15.139 The one talking to you is God. 00:19:18.399 --> 00:19:20.279 And these words that I command you, 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:22.259 he says, you'll love the Lord. 00:19:22.379 --> 00:19:22.939 This is the thing. 00:19:23.220 --> 00:19:24.139 You'll love the Lord. 00:19:24.399 --> 00:19:25.299 You'll love the Lord. 00:19:25.299 --> 00:19:29.179 And as a result of that, out of that flows an obedience to the Word 00:19:29.179 --> 00:19:32.500 and a willingness to apply it in the life that He gives to you. 00:19:32.500 --> 00:19:39.480 So, we find here that before you teach the Word, you have to love the Word. 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:47.259 And understand this, one of the principal reasons you see so little actual teaching of the Word 00:19:47.259 --> 00:19:52.579 in the family construct today in many homes is because Dad really doesn't believe it's sufficient. 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:54.880 He's not invested in it. 00:19:56.460 --> 00:20:00.220 I have to tell you, one of the things that I greatly appreciate about my dad and my mom, 00:20:00.220 --> 00:20:05.360 dad with the Lord right now, but I will remember dad was up far earlier than we were, 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:10.279 and I would walk out in the morning after I'd gotten up, and he had gone to work, 00:20:11.019 --> 00:20:15.440 but there sitting on the veranda was his Bible and his journal where he kept his personal notes 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:16.860 of things that God was teaching him. 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:25.000 And I watched my dad grow in tenderness and kindness and humility 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.640 as a result of the impact of the Word of God in his life. 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:31.759 So, if there's nothing you take home other than this, here's what I want. 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:33.380 Take this home. 00:20:34.299 --> 00:20:38.539 Christ's life and His ministry flowed out of His personal time in the Word of God. 00:20:38.700 --> 00:20:39.960 Remember the prayer that we're going to pray? 00:20:40.299 --> 00:20:40.740 What is it? 00:20:41.539 --> 00:20:43.180 I want to grow to know Jesus. 00:20:43.339 --> 00:20:44.839 I want to grow to be like Jesus. 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:51.220 Christ's life was influenced by what happened in His personal devotional life in the morning. 00:20:51.220 --> 00:20:53.799 And some of you are sitting here saying, well, that's good for Him. 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:58.259 No, I want you to grow out of here saying, that's how I'm going to be. 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:05.620 Second, a student, submissive. 00:21:07.819 --> 00:21:10.920 The second thing that I want to draw to your attention this morning 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:14.339 is the submissive heart that the Lord Jesus Christ had. 00:21:14.339 --> 00:21:21.199 I don't know how deeply affected you are by our culture, 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:26.279 but I do want to tell you that our culture just can hardly stand hearing the word submission. 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.279 Do you follow that? 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:30.359 It's not just a woman thing. 00:21:30.740 --> 00:21:32.439 All of us, what, you mean submit to you? 00:21:34.259 --> 00:21:35.839 Listen to what Jesus has to say. 00:21:35.879 --> 00:21:37.539 I just kind of rattle off a couple different passages. 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:40.519 John chapter 4, verse 34, He says this. 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:44.920 He says, my food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to accomplish His work. 00:21:44.980 --> 00:21:45.700 What am I doing? 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:48.119 I'm doing what my Father wants. 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.779 In fact, it's more important to me than having a Big Mac and being fed. 00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:57.279 And when we get to be around 1230 and I'm preaching still, 00:21:57.339 --> 00:21:59.819 and you guys are sitting here thinking about, it's time for lunch. 00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:03.599 I want you to know, hey, the Word's more important than, 00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:06.299 and Jesus is my food. 00:22:06.299 --> 00:22:10.180 The thing that sustains me is the Word, my Father's will. 00:22:10.879 --> 00:22:12.339 John chapter 5, verse 30. 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:15.400 I can do nothing on my own. 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:16.139 What? 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:18.900 I can do nothing on my own. 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:23.200 As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, 00:22:23.259 --> 00:22:27.160 because I seek not mine own will, but the will of Him who sent me. 00:22:27.220 --> 00:22:28.240 John 6, 38. 00:22:29.900 --> 00:22:31.900 Some of you are thinking, I'm preaching ahead through John, 00:22:31.940 --> 00:22:33.420 and we won't come back and cover these verses. 00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:34.019 Relax. 00:22:34.019 --> 00:22:34.220 Relax. 00:22:34.220 --> 00:22:39.120 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, 00:22:39.339 --> 00:22:41.039 but the will of Him who sent me. 00:22:42.180 --> 00:22:45.019 I could keep on going, and I've got more, but watch in the time. 00:22:45.299 --> 00:22:46.579 Here's what I want you to understand. 00:22:46.579 --> 00:22:57.379 Christ saw His submission to the Father as the only right and reasonable thing to do. 00:22:57.460 --> 00:22:57.919 Why? 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:07.820 Because submission to the Father was nothing other than a wholesome reflection of true love for the Father 00:23:07.820 --> 00:23:12.720 and complete confidence in His wisdom and His character and will. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:24.680 So, dads, understand that Christ's life was lived in loving obedience to what His Father wanted. 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:34.400 Your children's lives will be marked by your willingness to obey the explicit Word of God. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:39.380 And by the way, if you're not sure what the will of God is, is there anything wrong with asking Him? 00:23:39.380 --> 00:23:39.579 Huh? 00:23:39.579 --> 00:23:39.899 Huh? 00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:41.419 Huh? 00:23:41.659 --> 00:23:42.699 Can I say that again slowly? 00:23:43.879 --> 00:23:47.919 It says in James, if any man lacked wisdom, what do you want? 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:50.199 If anybody lacks wisdom, what do we do? 00:23:51.419 --> 00:23:51.779 Ask! 00:23:53.439 --> 00:23:54.220 Nothing doubting. 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:55.879 And by the way, what's the nothing doubting? 00:23:57.439 --> 00:23:59.759 It's the, I didn't want to hear you say that anyway. 00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:00.939 I knew what you thought. 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:02.279 I just didn't want to hear it. 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:05.019 So, don't ask if you're not willing to follow. 00:24:05.019 --> 00:24:15.900 I want you to understand this morning that your model of loving and willing dependence on Him is essential to your family. 00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:20.279 How can you bless the children and the family that God has made you head over? 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:20.759 It's this. 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:22.759 By, first of all, being a student of the Word. 00:24:22.859 --> 00:24:27.480 Study, study, study the Word that it radiates into the lives of those that you minister to. 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:29.720 Second, be submissive to the Father. 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:31.559 Be submissive to Him. 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:37.419 Third, be a sacrifice for their sake. 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:40.919 When we think about the Lord Jesus, I think there's one thing that we should never miss. 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.139 It is that He was a sacrifice. 00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:48.839 He willingly sacrificed His will to serve those that He loved. 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:53.579 Turn over in your Bible, if you will, just for a moment to Luke chapter 22, verse 24 through 27. 00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:57.240 Luke chapter 22, verse 24 through 27. 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:03.200 And if you've ever kind of, how many of you every now and then get a little discouraged with just how brain dead you are spiritually? 00:25:03.859 --> 00:25:04.720 Out there? 00:25:05.700 --> 00:25:10.220 Some of you, how many of you feel like you've arrived and it's like, I just showed up to get points? 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:12.380 I mean, you know, I'm there. 00:25:12.660 --> 00:25:13.160 I'm good. 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:15.140 I really don't have anything to learn. 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:20.279 In fact, I'm a little miffed that I'm here because, you know, the guy is, he's 66 and I wanted someone who was a little younger. 00:25:20.539 --> 00:25:21.299 You know, something like that. 00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:24.960 How many of you say, no, I still have things to learn. 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:25.779 I've got to grow. 00:25:27.619 --> 00:25:32.539 Luke chapter 22, we find that the disciples didn't get the first pass or the second pass. 00:25:32.659 --> 00:25:33.960 That's a little comfort to us. 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:42.059 But here we have on the other side of the Last Supper, you have verse 24. 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:43.559 It says, Luke 22, 24. 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:49.519 A dispute also arose among them to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:52.339 Now, what had the context to do with this? 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:54.559 Remember, here's what had happened. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:57.619 They had come together for the Last Supper, right? 00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:02.579 And Jesus in the Last Supper had told them, I'm going to die for you. 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:06.259 This is my body, which is for you. 00:26:06.579 --> 00:26:12.819 This cup is the cup in the New Testament, my blood, which is shed for you for the remission of sins. 00:26:13.220 --> 00:26:18.339 Jesus made his coming sacrifice clear to his disciples. 00:26:18.339 --> 00:26:22.000 Then to top that off, now the supper being ended, what did he do? 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:23.819 I'm out of here. 00:26:23.899 --> 00:26:24.519 I'm going to the cross. 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:26.699 No, what he did was he grabbed a basin, he grabbed a towel. 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:28.199 And what happened next? 00:26:28.299 --> 00:26:29.679 He washed their feet, right? 00:26:30.579 --> 00:26:31.519 They're stunned. 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:33.639 They're stunned. 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:40.300 But in case you're a little frustrated with just how slow you are in making spiritual progress, 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.060 take some rare comfort from the frailty of the disciples. 00:26:44.520 --> 00:26:50.580 Immediately after this absolute knockout, smashing Bible lesson and illustration, 00:26:51.340 --> 00:26:54.640 as they are trucking towards Gethsemane, right? 00:26:55.100 --> 00:26:58.320 Hey, guys, we're going, and the cross is just around the corner. 00:26:58.740 --> 00:26:59.560 Yeah, we're with you, Jesus. 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:03.200 And they're walking away from the meal and the lesson, and what are they arguing about? 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:07.740 They're bickering with each other about who's going to be first. 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:13.460 Jesus stops and he says, let's go at this again. 00:27:14.460 --> 00:27:17.679 The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:20.480 and those in authority over them are called benefactors. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:21.859 But it's not so with you. 00:27:21.859 --> 00:27:28.699 Rather, let the greatest among you become the youngest and the leader as one who serves. 00:27:28.859 --> 00:27:32.519 Now, I don't know if you have it underlined in your Bible, but it's well worth a pen stroke. 00:27:32.639 --> 00:27:33.539 Look at verse 27. 00:27:34.219 --> 00:27:37.159 I am among you as the one who what? 00:27:38.399 --> 00:27:41.639 I am among you as the one who serves. 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:47.199 Jesus sacrificed his will to serve. 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:54.700 And I want you to understand that it was love for the Father and for others that drove Jesus to be the servant of all. 00:27:56.380 --> 00:27:58.920 He found pleasure in meeting the needs of other people. 00:27:59.860 --> 00:28:02.460 He was incredibly attentive to those needs. 00:28:03.860 --> 00:28:12.480 And his care and interest in other people meant that he was tuned to the heartaches and the difficulties that were going on in people's lives. 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.799 He saw them, and he picked up on them, and he met them. 00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:24.380 I've got to tell you, watching what's been going on here this last two weeks in VBS has just been such a pleasure to me 00:28:24.380 --> 00:28:27.460 as I've watched our people working behind the scenes. 00:28:27.779 --> 00:28:31.960 So many of the people that put their time and energy into what you see here, 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:34.160 this is just a small part of it, 00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:37.700 are never going to have public attaboys. 00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:39.339 It's not like I'm going to say next Sunday, 00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:43.240 I want all the people who painted on that to come forward. 00:28:43.379 --> 00:28:46.559 We're going to give them a little plastic token, you know, 00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:48.159 best painter in the church. 00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:49.259 We're not going to do that. 00:28:50.939 --> 00:28:53.259 But I watched these people putting their heart into this, 00:28:53.619 --> 00:28:55.699 and their servanthood and their example, 00:28:55.899 --> 00:28:56.480 what a blessing. 00:28:56.939 --> 00:28:57.839 They're like Jesus, 00:28:58.579 --> 00:28:59.459 serving other people. 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:03.679 Jesus was a servant to all, 00:29:03.679 --> 00:29:06.199 and he was willing 00:29:06.199 --> 00:29:09.179 to step into the hardship of life 00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:10.640 to serve you 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:11.799 and to serve me. 00:29:12.259 --> 00:29:13.220 And if you're going to grow 00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:14.340 to be like Christ, 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:15.920 then you are going to grow 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:17.140 in being a servant. 00:29:17.360 --> 00:29:19.120 There's a second thing I want you to note this morning. 00:29:20.259 --> 00:29:20.700 Jesus 00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:22.680 sacrificed his life 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:23.560 to save. 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.299 How is it that you and I have eternal life? 00:29:28.140 --> 00:29:28.960 Let's get this clear. 00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:31.880 There are really only two propositions 00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:33.740 about how a person gets to heaven. 00:29:34.860 --> 00:29:35.259 Two. 00:29:35.259 --> 00:29:38.759 Now, they have all kinds of varieties on it, 00:29:38.779 --> 00:29:39.640 but it really boils down 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:42.599 to one is a works-based religion 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:44.599 that if I'm good enough 00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:45.500 and I do enough 00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:46.559 and I'm kind enough 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:47.879 and I sacrifice enough, 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.839 I can kind of climb my way on up to heaven. 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:55.720 My brother, Mark, 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.720 who's an archaeologist 00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:00.379 in the University of Wisconsin, 00:30:00.380 --> 00:30:03.360 just spent probably the last three months 00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:05.160 in China and Tibet. 00:30:06.840 --> 00:30:10.360 And he had literally hundreds of pictures 00:30:10.360 --> 00:30:12.360 of Lhasa. 00:30:13.260 --> 00:30:14.500 And in Lhasa, 00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:15.700 the Tibetans, 00:30:16.020 --> 00:30:18.280 in order to get merit with God, 00:30:18.380 --> 00:30:19.060 what they will do 00:30:19.060 --> 00:30:20.920 is they prostrate themselves 00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:22.020 and kind of go around. 00:30:22.340 --> 00:30:23.400 There's an outer ring 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:24.180 and a middle ring 00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:24.940 and an inner ring. 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:26.440 And the really spiritual 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:27.720 do the outer ring first 00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:28.620 and then the middle ring 00:30:28.620 --> 00:30:29.500 and then the inner ring. 00:30:30.059 --> 00:30:31.839 And there are people 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:32.740 who have enough money 00:30:32.740 --> 00:30:33.480 that they don't make 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:34.160 the outer ring 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:34.779 and the inner ring 00:30:34.779 --> 00:30:36.019 and what they do 00:30:36.019 --> 00:30:36.960 is they hire people 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:37.839 to prostrate. 00:30:38.360 --> 00:30:39.819 Instead of just walking around, 00:30:40.100 --> 00:30:40.940 you have to kind of 00:30:40.940 --> 00:30:42.420 flop yourself down on the ground 00:30:42.420 --> 00:30:43.660 and then pick yourself up 00:30:43.660 --> 00:30:45.279 and go another five and a half feet 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:46.259 if you're a Tibetan. 00:30:46.420 --> 00:30:46.559 You know, 00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:47.680 you're shorter than Americans. 00:30:48.220 --> 00:30:48.740 So, yeah, 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:49.660 five and a half feet, 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:50.480 five and a half feet, 00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:51.360 five and a half feet, 00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:52.220 five and a half feet, 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:52.940 five and a half feet, 00:30:53.019 --> 00:30:53.539 take a break, 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:54.360 five and a half feet. 00:30:54.360 --> 00:30:54.900 Do you follow that? 00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:56.420 That's how you earn points. 00:30:57.720 --> 00:30:58.920 You didn't know that, 00:30:58.980 --> 00:30:59.180 did you? 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:00.420 That's the way to go about it. 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:02.480 Well, there are people in America 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.740 that get points different ways. 00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:08.960 Only two systems of religion. 00:31:10.620 --> 00:31:12.200 I can work my way to heaven 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:14.960 or I understand 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:16.019 that I am a broken, 00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:17.100 ruined sinner 00:31:17.100 --> 00:31:19.660 and God sent His Son, 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:20.680 the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:22.500 to die for my sins. 00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:26.299 And the Bible makes it clear 00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:27.680 that whosoever calls upon 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:28.659 the name of the Lord 00:31:28.659 --> 00:31:29.680 shall be saved. 00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:33.180 Jesus was willing 00:31:33.180 --> 00:31:37.159 to sacrifice His life for you. 00:31:37.579 --> 00:31:39.799 He died your death. 00:31:41.659 --> 00:31:42.680 Does that get you excited? 00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:43.299 Huh? 00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:44.099 Come on. 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:45.099 Hey, look at me. 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:45.539 Look at me. 00:31:46.700 --> 00:31:47.619 Some of you out here 00:31:47.619 --> 00:31:49.119 have a cramp in your face right now. 00:31:49.220 --> 00:31:49.399 It's like, 00:31:51.019 --> 00:31:52.440 it's all right. 00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:54.779 Maybe you're having some troubles. 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:55.980 But I want to tell you something. 00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:57.380 There is no thought, 00:31:57.860 --> 00:31:58.900 there's no thought 00:31:58.900 --> 00:32:00.819 that puts a shadow 00:32:00.819 --> 00:32:03.140 on life 00:32:03.140 --> 00:32:04.120 when you're thinking 00:32:04.120 --> 00:32:05.059 about the reality 00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:06.819 that Jesus took your place. 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:08.319 Am I right? 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:09.740 I don't know, 00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:10.559 I fire you up. 00:32:10.779 --> 00:32:11.160 Not only that, 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:12.279 you go to skipping out of church 00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:12.500 saying, 00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:13.860 believe this, 00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:14.799 He saved me. 00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:15.940 He died for me. 00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:17.500 He died for me. 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:22.079 This is Father's Day. 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:26.199 I got to tell you, 00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:27.279 I think in our country 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:28.599 we are coming to a day 00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:29.259 and an age 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:32.839 when professing believers 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:34.339 are going to get winnowed out 00:32:34.339 --> 00:32:35.679 from real believers. 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:38.480 How many of you understand 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:38.939 what I just said? 00:32:38.940 --> 00:32:43.380 I got to tell you, 00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:45.480 in the middle of what is coming 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:46.759 one of the critical pieces 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:48.160 is going to be godly dads. 00:32:49.299 --> 00:32:50.080 Godly dads. 00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:53.240 Can you be a godly dad 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:53.720 on your own 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.380 and what's the answer? 00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:54.940 I can't. 00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:57.620 But I can hear 00:32:57.620 --> 00:32:58.420 the Word of God 00:32:58.420 --> 00:32:58.940 this morning 00:32:58.940 --> 00:32:59.700 tell me about 00:32:59.700 --> 00:33:00.340 the supremacy 00:33:00.340 --> 00:33:01.580 and the glory of Christ 00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:02.619 and I can say 00:33:02.619 --> 00:33:03.619 thank you Jesus 00:33:03.619 --> 00:33:04.839 for being my Savior 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:06.419 and the best thing 00:33:06.419 --> 00:33:07.519 I can do 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:08.699 with my life 00:33:08.699 --> 00:33:10.299 is make you look good 00:33:10.299 --> 00:33:11.679 by acting like you. 00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:15.019 And so I want to grow 00:33:15.019 --> 00:33:15.699 to know you 00:33:15.699 --> 00:33:18.639 and I want to grow 00:33:18.639 --> 00:33:19.500 to be like you. 00:33:20.619 --> 00:33:22.799 And that is a prayer 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:24.819 that the Holy Spirit 00:33:24.819 --> 00:33:25.839 hears. 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:30.659 Let's close. 00:33:31.579 --> 00:33:35.740 Father God, 00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:36.179 this morning 00:33:36.179 --> 00:33:36.899 as we lift up 00:33:36.899 --> 00:33:37.279 the glory 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:38.519 of the Lord Jesus Christ 00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:39.839 we are thankful 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:45.139 that He is supremely worthy. 00:33:48.220 --> 00:33:49.119 We're thankful 00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:50.079 that He is the 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:51.919 perfect and complete 00:33:51.919 --> 00:33:52.619 revelation 00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:56.079 of the Godhead to us. 00:33:57.659 --> 00:33:58.559 We're thankful 00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:59.579 that the Holy Spirit 00:33:59.579 --> 00:34:00.799 is actively engaged 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.339 in helping 00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:02.279 us 00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:03.299 who are 00:34:03.299 --> 00:34:04.319 your children 00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:05.939 learn and grow 00:34:05.939 --> 00:34:06.839 to love Him 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:07.599 and to know Him. 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:09.279 And help us 00:34:09.279 --> 00:34:10.000 to be humble enough 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:10.779 this morning Lord 00:34:10.779 --> 00:34:11.400 those of us 00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:12.039 who know Christ 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:13.380 that as we sit here 00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:14.219 we say 00:34:14.219 --> 00:34:15.319 I want to grow 00:34:15.319 --> 00:34:16.400 to be more like Jesus. 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:17.779 I want that 00:34:17.779 --> 00:34:19.199 to be a consuming prayer 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:21.819 that is evident 00:34:21.819 --> 00:34:22.719 in the life 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:23.319 that I live 00:34:23.319 --> 00:34:24.000 moving forward 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:24.739 from this day. 00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:27.920 Holy Father 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:28.719 those that are here 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:29.900 that do not know Christ 00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:30.639 it is our prayer 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:31.200 this morning 00:34:31.200 --> 00:34:32.780 that even as we sing 00:34:32.780 --> 00:34:34.079 this song together 00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:35.720 that you would convict 00:34:35.720 --> 00:34:36.400 their hearts 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:37.660 of the bankruptcy 00:34:37.660 --> 00:34:39.119 and the terror 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:40.099 of their sin 00:34:40.099 --> 00:34:41.019 and that they would 00:34:41.019 --> 00:34:41.980 cry out to the Lord 00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:42.680 Jesus Christ 00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:43.920 asking for forgiveness 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:45.599 and salvation. 00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:47.980 We ask this in Jesus name. 00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:48.780 Amen. 00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:48.880 Amen. 00:34:49.380 --> 00:34:49.900 Let's 00:34:49.900 --> 00:34:50.900 Amen.