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 This week we have had a fun week at VBS.

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 We learned about the Bible.

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 The Bible is a big book.

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 It's really just one long story about God being so good

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 that he sent his son Jesus to rescue us.

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 Let us show you what we mean.

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 Come with us back to the very beginning.

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 Maybe we can put the banner in front of us.

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 There, maybe hold it down in front.

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 Down just a little bit.

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 Okay, so from the very beginning, tell us what the first one says.

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 God is maker. God is king.

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 The fall. We disobey God and the perfect place is ruin.

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 Abraham and the promises of God.

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 God's special place, God's special people and blessing.

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 David, king of God's people.

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 Solomon that ate raw.

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 Exile from the stone.

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 The coming of the king.

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 Jesus is born.

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 Dead of the king.

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 Jesus is crucified.

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 Jesus is raised.

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 Jesus is king.

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 Jesus promised fulfilled God's people in God's place.

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 Is?

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 Okay.

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 So now you guys get the pleasure of listening to us sing for a little bit.

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 So we have three songs for you.

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 Okay, kids.

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 Come on up.

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 So guys, when you're ready, we're going to sing the creation song with actions.

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 you can watch Melissa with the actions at the front.

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 And if you want to join along with us,

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 you're welcome to join the actions of the kids of Dewey.

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 Day one.

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 Day one.

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 Day three days.

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 Day four.

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 The night had gone on, and it was good to start a tune,

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 As all creation got it full, and by the power of His Word,

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 The power of His Word.

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 They tied up to the sky, and started a fish on the sea.

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 They saved the fish, and they took a pen, and they brought the land.

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 And it was good, just as it should, as all creation got it full,

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 And by the power of His Word, the power of His Word.

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 The second day, when God in this land, on His land,

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 And it was good, just as it should, as all creation got it full,

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 And by the power of His Word, the power of His Word.

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 We're going to sing God rules now, so let's have our hands up guys.

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 We're going to sing God rules, okay, no God's no way,

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 He's the Lord, He's the King, He's the boss of everything, He's the boss of everything.

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 He's the boss of everything, He's the boss of everything.

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 He's the boss of everything.

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 Don't make no mistake, don't follow the same,

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 Like Adam and Eve, who trusted Him,

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 Don't make that mistake, and know what it takes,

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 To worship our faith, and know what it takes,

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 God rules, okay, no God's no way,

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 He's the Lord, He's the King, He's the boss of everything.

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 He's the boss of everything.

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 Don't make no mistake, don't follow the same,

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 He's the Lord, He's the King, He's the boss of everything.

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 He's the boss of everything.

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 God rules, okay.

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 And now we'd like to share with you our last song,

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 which is all about the promises of God that He made to Abraham.

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 Yeah, kids, remember we talked about Louis Armstrong voice?

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 Louis Armstrong voice.

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 For this song, you guys ready?

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 You guys remember the clap for this, right? How's the clap go?

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 Yeah, yeah, something like that.

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 Beautiful.

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 A long, long time ago, when Abraham was born, God promised him a great big family.

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 It seemed too good to do, too good to be the truth.

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 Yes, Abraham said,

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 Yes, God, I believe you can.

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 What a man.

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 What a man.

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 Abraham.

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 Trust in God when he can't understand.

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 What a man.

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 Abraham.

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 Abraham.

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 Man, oh man.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 As well as family. God promised land and trees. A special place to call his Gary home.

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 So Abraham didn't go to see his property home.

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 Abraham didn't go to see his property home.

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 Oh man.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 Oh man.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 As well as family. God promised land and trees. A special place to call his Gary home.

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 Abraham didn't go to see his property home.

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 And Abraham said,

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 Yes, God, I believe you can.

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 What a man.

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 Abraham.

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 Trust in God when he can't understand.

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 Oh, Adam, man.

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 Abraham.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 And lastly, but not least, God said you will be blessed. Your name will be made great in all the earth.

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 You'll be my special one.

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 Now I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 Oh man.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 And lastly, but not least, God said you will be blessed. Your name will be made great in all the earth.

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 You'll be my special one.

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 I'll bless the world through you.

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 And Abraham said,

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 Yes, God, I believe you can.

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 Oh man.

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 Abraham.

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 Trust in God when he can't understand.

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 Oh man.

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 And man, oh man.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 I want to have faith like Abraham.

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 Okay, so CDs will be made available right after this.

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 You know, they're for free and all that.

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 Oh, that's okay.

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 It's not a party until something gets broken, so that's okay.

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 Hey, let me pray for these kids.

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 So you see what our week was like in the community center.

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 And let's pray, guys.

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 Let's pray.

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 And we're going to pray for your teachers and for your school starting up.

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 And after this, Melissa, you're going to get special classes on all the hand signals, right?

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 I'm teasing you.

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 Okay, let me pray for us.

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 Father, we just thank you for this day.

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 We thank you for every one of these kids.

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 We thank you for Amber and Mimi and all these little kids, Esther and Holly and Javi and Robert and Joshua and Lawrence and all of them, Lord.

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 We just pray that you would bless them.

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 We pray that they would come to know your son, Jesus, at an early age.

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 We pray for all the kiddos that are about to release as they go to class, Lord.

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 We pray that that would be a place of sanctuary and peace.

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 We thank you for the volunteers.

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 We're just overwhelmed by people who give their time to serve your children.

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 And so we pray, Lord, for this time that lives would be changed, they would come to know you, and they would do mighty things for your kingdom.

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 We love you, and we pray these things in your son, Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Thanks so much, guys.

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 Okay, so Watermark kids are dismissed, and youth are dismissed with—is that right?

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 No, no youth?

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 Okay.

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 So youth are staying in today.

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 The scripture reading today comes from the Book of Romans and the Gospel of Luke.

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 Please follow along in your bulletin.

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 Don't you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you?

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 Does this mean nothing to you?

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 Can't you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?

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 Now, on the same occasion, there were some presence who reported to him about the Galatians whose blood Palladi had mixed with their sacrifices.

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 And Jesus said to them,

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 Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate?

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 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

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 Or do you suppose that those 18 on whom the Tower of Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?

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 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

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 And he began telling them this parable.

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 A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

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 And he said to the vineyard keeper,

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 Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit in this fig tree without finding any.

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 Cut it down.

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 Why does it even use up the ground?

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 And he answered and said to them,

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 Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer and it bears fruit next year, fine.

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 But if not, cut it down.

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 This is the reading of God's Word.

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 How you guys doing?

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 Okay.

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 If this is your first time here, you're like,

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 Is this always like that?

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 Yes, this is always like that.

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 It's like our home.

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 We're trying to model something after the average home in Hong Kong.

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 So it's crazy and out of control.

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 But welcome to Watermark Community Church and the family of God,

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 because I think that's what Christian life is supposed to be like,

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 crazy and out of control sometimes.

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 Well, all my family got back in yesterday at 3 o'clock.

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 So our house, we had kids waking up.

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 I came in about a week early, a week and a half early.

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 And we had kids waking up at 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock.

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 And so we've been basically up since about 2 o'clock this morning, which is good.

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 And it's neat to have everyone back.

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 After about two days of being by myself, I started walking around the house talking to myself.

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 And that was not good.

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 You know, on my journey with Christ,

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 I think that I've been very blessed,

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 because my dad was not always around.

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 He was flying in the military,

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 that God brought other men into my life

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 to teach me things and things that I just didn't know,

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 because my dad wasn't there at that time.

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 And one of these couples was a couple that I stayed with in seminary in Dallas.

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 And so they gave me free housing.

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 And there was a great, the Mayborns, Don and Cheryl.

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 And I learned so much about being a husband from Don.

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 And I watched them for about a year as I lived with them.

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 And I noticed that every Tuesday night,

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 they would go out on a date.

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 And I was trying to figure out, what is this all about?

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 You're already married.

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 Why are you dating your wife?

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 You don't need to date your wife because you got her, right?

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 So at least that's how I was thinking as a single guy, right?

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 And so he told me, he said, you know, you need to date your wife.

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 Just because you're married doesn't mean you don't spend time with each other.

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 In fact, once you have kids,

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 you probably need to spend more time with each other,

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 because your life is chaos and out of control,

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 and you don't know what's going on.

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 And so single guys, I wrote down, date your wife.

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 Yes, that's good, right?

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 And so then Christina and I started dating.

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 And I said, okay, let's try this.

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 And so we started a date night.

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 And ours in Hong Kong now is every Thursday night.

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 But we have this tradition in America,

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 and this tradition is that the last time we can get away before I come back,

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 we have a date night.

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 And I'm always just so looking forward to this date night.

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 We need the kids and grandparents,

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 and we go out and get something nice to eat

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 and just talk about life and things like that.

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 With four kids, we need to talk about a lot of stuff

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 and just trying to connect with each other.

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 And so I was really excited about this date night.

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 And so we go to my favorite restaurant in the States.

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 It's called the Cheesecake Factory.

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 If you go there, you know why Americans are so fat.

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 Because it's unlimited refills on all drinks,

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 which I'm trying to get that into Hong Kong.

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 I just don't understand that yet.

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 And the portions are like massive.

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 I mean, they're like huge, huge portions, right?

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 And so we go there and we get fat.

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 And so I was looking for this date night.

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 And so we went on date night.

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 We went to the Frisco Mall in Texas area, right above Dallas.

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 And I'm still looking forward to talking to Christina

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 and just debriefing.

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 And we sit down.

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 You don't know I'm going to share this.

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 And we sit down, and there's a couple beside us

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 that are talking.

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 And they're not married.

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 I don't know if they're dating,

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 but it's obvious from their body language

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 that the girl likes the guy.

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 And the guy's life is a mess.

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 I mean, it is just a mess.

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 And the reason I know it's a mess

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 is because they're talking so loudly

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 that we can't even hear each other talk.

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 We just hear all of his problems.

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 And he's had some serious problems go on with death

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 and just poor choices

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 and all of these things in his life.

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 And so I'm trying to talk and engage to Christina.

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 And in the back of my mind,

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 the pastoral part of me is like,

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 I want to go over there and talk to him about Christ

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 and things like that.

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 And I want to, so I'm like, I look at Christina.

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 I go, should I say something?

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 And she goes, no, just focus on me.

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 And just pray.

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 And so we're praying.

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 And as this guy shares his whole story,

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 he basically then shares everything.

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 And this girl goes, well, I know what your problem is.

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 And I'm like, okay, go, go, go, go, go.

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 She goes, well, your problem is

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 is that you just have the wrong focus.

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 I'm like, okay, you're moving in that right direction.

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 You're right.

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 Your problem is is you have the wrong priorities.

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 Okay, yes, go, go, go, go, go.

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 Your problem is you have the wrong perspective.

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 And I'm about to go, preach it!

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 You know, but I didn't say anything like that.

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 Christina's like kicking me under the table,

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 like, be quiet, be quiet, be quiet.

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 And she goes, the problem is is you have the wrong perspective.

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 She said, you need to put, and I'm sitting there going,

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 okay, here it goes, here it goes.

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 You need to put, and I want to say, Jesus.

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 But I didn't.

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 She goes, you need to put yourself at the center of your life.

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 The problem with your life is that you're thinking too much

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 about other people and you haven't thought about yourself.

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 You need to put yourself at the center.

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 If you focus on yourself, your whole life is going to be great

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 and everything's going to be good and there's going to be no problems

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 whatsoever.

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 And I'm like, the world is filled with five million people just focusing

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 on themselves.

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 And we have a lot of problems.

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 And Christina's kicking me underneath the table because I'm saying that

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 underneath my breath.

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 But I don't say it loud enough for them to hear it.

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 You need to focus on yourself.

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 And all of a sudden I want to yell out, that's terrible!

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 Oh!

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 But Christina looks at me and gives me this eye and starts kicking me

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 underneath the table.

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 And we just listen to that, you know, and I've been thinking about that

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 perspective for weeks.

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 And I realize that most of us, including myself, we have the wrong perspective.

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 I mean, even as a pastor, it's often easy to lose focus in perspective.

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 When I talk to people, they want the view of Jesus as a wise man, a good man,

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 someone who's never confrontational, someone who never passes judgment or talks about judgment,

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 someone who seeks peace at all costs, someone who never challenges people or their false

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 beliefs.

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 When we think of Jesus, we want this person who never forces anyone to make a hard choice.

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 He's always inclusive.

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 He's always free and lets everybody think about that.

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 And as I think about it in my life, I have to be brutally honest because I think sometimes

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 that's true.

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 That I want a God who's soft.

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 I want a God who's fluffy.

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 I want a God that owes me.

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 He owes me happiness.

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 He owes me fun.

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 He owes me prosperity.

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 He owes me sickness-free life.

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 I want a God who's for me.

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 And sometimes when we come to churches and we listen to sermons, that's what we hear over

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 and over and over and over.

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 God owes you.

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 He's let you down.

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 We want a fluffy and sexy version of Christianity where God is soft.

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 When we sin, he kind of winks at us.

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 It's funny.

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 Javi was up here singing and I winked at him.

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 And Javi goes, winks at me back.

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 But that's the type of God we want, right?

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 That we're about to do something we know we shouldn't do.

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 We want a God who just looks at us and kind of winks at us.

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 And sometimes we want to, as pastors, we want to preach sermons like that because we know

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 that they're fun.

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 And we know that they're fluffy.

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 And we know that people will come because they like to hear fluffy things and soft people

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 come.

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 And the problem is in the churches when that happens, people don't change.

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 There's no reason to change.

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 There's no reason to grow.

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 There's no reason to be maturity.

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 There's no reason to think about things.

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 And as a pastor, I am so tempted sometimes to look at passages like today and look at

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 things like sin and judgment and accountability before God.

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 And I want to be nice and I want to be soft and I want to be fluffy and I want to be sexy.

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 And I want you guys to come and hear it.

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 And you go, wow, that was really cool.

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 That was really neat.

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 Tobin's a really nice guy.

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 He didn't say anything that I disagreed with.

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 Now, if you come to church and you never hear something you disagree with, that's bad.

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 Because if God is working in your heart, the unfluffy God is going to try to show you something

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 and change something in your life.

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 But as a pastor, I struggle with wanting to tie all of these things in a nice, neat bow

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 and make them really cool and fun so that when you leave here, you like us and you ask your

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 friends to come visit us and you want to do these things and you change these things and

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 you bring them here to the soft, fluffy, fun church.

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 But the problem is, is if we live like this, if we lose perspective on Jesus, if we don't

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 see him as he really is, we've lost everything.

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 We miss the gospel.

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 The gospel becomes something nice and fun and cool.

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 We miss change of life.

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 We miss hope.

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 The only hope that we give people if we don't preach the gospel is the same hope the rest

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 of the world has.

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 And what is that?

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 If you're good enough, if you're kind enough, if you don't hurt anybody as much as you can,

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 you get a pass.

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 You get to heaven.

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 And we want to shrink sin and accountability and judgment to make it really small so that

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 we can swallow it.

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 But the problem is, is when we do that, we make our God really small.

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 We make the cross really small.

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 We make grace really small.

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 We started preaching in the gospel, Luke, and we started preaching, and you're wondering,

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 well, when are we going to finish?

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 Because we're at chapter 13 and we've been doing it for a year and a half, and I promise

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 you now it goes faster.

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 The first 13 chapters are all about Jesus' life, and we've covered his life in three

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 years of his ministry.

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 And after chapter 13, it's chapter 14, right?

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 You don't have to be a genius to know that.

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 You don't have to go to seminary to learn that either.

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 But in 14 on, it's just a bunch of parables and stories, and it's the last three weeks

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 of Jesus' life or four weeks of Jesus' life, and he's heading to Jerusalem.

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 But we preached Luke because we realized that we were going to get to places that were going

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 to be uncomfortable, and we needed to talk about them.

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 We couldn't skip them.

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 And so last week was a very tough place, and this week is a very tough place.

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 This week and last week are messages that are kind of like punches in your stomach to me

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 or punches in the arm, and God is seeing how soft we are or how fluffy we are or how we've

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 lost perspective on his holiness and his goodness.

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 Luke 13, Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem.

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 You have it in your bulletin.

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 Ultimately, he's going to be crucified for us.

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 He's in Capernaum, his hometown.

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 It's by the sea.

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 If you go to Israel with us this next May, you'll see that.

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 You'll see where Peter's mom lived.

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 You'll see the synagogue that Jesus preached in.

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 It's pretty amazing.

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 And as he's preaching in 13, some people come to him, and they bring him news that is like

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 CNN-type news.

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 Everybody knows it.

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 This is on all the wires.

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 It's Bloomberg.

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 Everybody's talking about it, and everyone knows it, and everybody's discussing it.

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 And you read in verse 1, now on the same occasion, at the same time in Greek, there were some

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 present.

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 They came there, and they reported to him about the Galileans whose blood

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 Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

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 So this is a story.

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 The pilgrims go to Jerusalem to sacrifice.

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 This probably happened on a Passover because it was the only time that a pilgrim would actually

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 sacrifice the offering.

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 The priest would normally do it.

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 But there were too many people.

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 And in a Passover, sometimes there'd be 500,000 animals killed in that one day.

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 Can you imagine the smell in the blood?

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 And just what it was like.

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 And what we're told by historians is that Pilate, who was the procreator, he's overseeing all of

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 Judea for the Roman Empire.

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 He has this battle going on with Herod.

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 Herod was a Median, and he was overseeing the Jews.

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 He's kind of like the puppet governor for Jerusalem.

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 And Pilate hated the Jews.

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 And so on this occasion, Pilate had several of his men dress up as pilgrims.

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 And as the Jews were making sacrifices, all the soldiers took off their clothes, they had uniforms underneath it, they had clubs, and they beat to death.

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 Everybody making a sacrifice.

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 At one occasion, we were told they killed over 2,000 people.

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 And he did it just for fun.

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 And so they come in, and they share this news, and they're like, this is terrible, because they were in the middle.

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 They were the closest to God that they could be.

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 They were at the safest place they could be.

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 They were in the sanctuary.

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 They were in the temple.

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 They were where it was off limits.

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 It's where they're worshiping God.

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 If God were to be any place, he would be there.

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 And in the middle of their sacrifices, these soldiers come in, and they just kill everybody.

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 Everybody.

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 It says it mixes their blood with the blood of the sacrifices.

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 It would be like if you and I were having communion last week.

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 And in the middle of communion, some men came in, and they shot every person in this church.

00:28:36.019 --> 00:28:47.819
 What do you think the people in the other churches would have been saying after that event?

00:28:50.420 --> 00:28:54.559
 What do you think the news would have been after that event?

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 What would the other Christians have been saying after all the church was destroyed in the middle of a holy time for Passover or communion?

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 Jesus goes on in verse 2 and 3.

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 And Jesus says to him,

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 Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this fate?

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 I tell you no.

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 But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

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 Now the question on everybody's mind, the question that everybody wants to ask,

00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.459
 it's the question why these guys brought this thing up because they want to ask this question.

00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:37.059
 They bring this event up, and they want to say,

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 These people must have been really bad for this to happen to them.

00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:43.299
 Right?

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 I mean, they must have been terrible, terrible people because they were in the middle of a holy thing.

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 In the middle of that holy thing, they got slaughtered, and obviously God was catching up with them.

00:29:55.879 --> 00:29:59.299
 Their karma ran out, and people who were sacrificing,

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 If you get killed this way, you must be really, really, really bad.

00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:06.559
 That's what they were thinking.

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 Now they didn't ask that.

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 But that's how Jesus replies in verses 2 and 3.

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 And I've been thinking about that for a long time.

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 I mean, we think that sometimes, don't we?

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 When somebody has something really bad happen to them,

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 what do we think?

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 When you're the last one on the floor because everybody else has been fired,

00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.539
 and you're still standing,

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 when something really terrible has happened,

00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.039
 all the other people's kids are falling apart,

00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:45.839
 but your kids are doing amazingly well,

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 and they all get into Auburn University or some higher educational place like that.

00:30:51.940 --> 00:30:53.000
 What do you think?

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 Jesus' disciples thought that.

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 Remember in John 9, they're walking by, and they see this blind guy?

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 And the disciples looked at him and said,

00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:07.720
 Hey, who sinned?

00:31:09.299 --> 00:31:10.339
 His mother or him?

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 And Jesus said, No one.

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 And when I look at this passage, I realize that in my life,

00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:22.619
 we tend, I tend to compare myself to other people.

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 I mean, if I'm spared the bad things, I tend to think,

00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:28.559
 we tend to think, well, I must be pretty good.

00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:31.039
 I must be pretty moral.

00:31:31.139 --> 00:31:31.940
 I must be pretty clever.

00:31:32.059 --> 00:31:33.460
 I must be pretty intelligent.

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 My life is better, so I must be better.

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 But when bad things happen, what do we ask?

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 Oh, man, terrible.

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.519
 I'm cursed.

00:31:47.899 --> 00:31:48.839
 God's out for me.

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 And sometimes in our life, if we're honest,

00:31:54.299 --> 00:31:59.939
 when things are going really, really, really exceptionally well,

00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:04.459
 we think to ourselves, God likes me better.

00:32:06.139 --> 00:32:08.419
 I found more favor with God.

00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:09.599
 I wonder what I did.

00:32:09.659 --> 00:32:13.299
 I better go back and do that again because I need to do that again.

00:32:13.299 --> 00:32:19.700
 But in this passage, Jesus says to you and me that often,

00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:21.919
 listen to this,

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 often our circumstances do not dictate our relationship to God.

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 Often our circumstances do not dictate our relationship to God

00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:42.839
 because God is beyond that.

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 And so Jesus says in verse 3, no.

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 He's basically saying if you really saw yourselves,

00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:52.500
 if you really saw your heart,

00:32:53.259 --> 00:32:55.299
 if you really saw what was inside of you,

00:32:56.579 --> 00:32:58.039
 the question you'd be asking is,

00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:01.200
 how come the tower didn't fall on top of me?

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 Because I deserve it.

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 Jesus is looking at his disciples.

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 He's looking at the crown,

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 and he's saying,

00:33:14.379 --> 00:33:18.159
 repent because you're self-righteous.

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 Repent because you're selfish.

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 Repent because you think that your circumstances

00:33:29.019 --> 00:33:31.059
 are dictating your relationship to God,

00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:32.240
 and that's not true.

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 Jesus goes on to tell us another story in verse 4 and 5.

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 Now again, everybody would have known this.

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 Everybody would have known this.

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 Or do you suppose that those 18 on whom the tower of Siloam fell

00:33:46.460 --> 00:33:48.960
 and killed them were worse culprits,

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 the word in Greek is debtors or sinners in Hebrew,

00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:54.339
 than all the men who lived in Jerusalem?

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 I tell you no, but unless you repent,

00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.639
 you will all likewise perish.

00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:01.980
 So here's what he's saying here,

00:34:02.100 --> 00:34:02.960
 and we have a picture of this.

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:03.700
 Do we have a picture of this?

00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:05.020
 We have a picture of this.

00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.340
 This is Christina by the Pool of Siloam.

00:34:07.820 --> 00:34:09.119
 This was eight years ago.

00:34:09.180 --> 00:34:10.960
 If you go today, it's amazing.

00:34:11.059 --> 00:34:12.019
 If you go with us in May,

00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:14.180
 they've restored it, they've redone it,

00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:15.660
 and it is amazing.

00:34:15.659 --> 00:34:17.359
 But this is the picture here.

00:34:18.379 --> 00:34:21.399
 Because I think the idea of towers today

00:34:21.399 --> 00:34:26.199
 has changed a lot since Jesus' time.

00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:29.000
 But in Jesus' time,

00:34:29.879 --> 00:34:31.019
 especially in New York, right?

00:34:31.019 --> 00:34:33.840
 But in Jesus' time,

00:34:33.900 --> 00:34:35.579
 a tower was a place of safety.

00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:37.739
 It was a place of refuge.

00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:38.800
 It was a place of security.

00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:40.800
 It was a place where you could make your living.

00:34:41.179 --> 00:34:44.719
 It was the strongest place in the wall's fortification.

00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:48.559
 And the guy goes in,

00:34:48.619 --> 00:34:49.679
 and he kisses his wife,

00:34:49.739 --> 00:34:50.659
 and he gets on his camel.

00:34:50.759 --> 00:34:51.639
 He goes to Jerusalem.

00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:53.300
 He goes into his tower,

00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:56.000
 and as he's about to pick up his phone

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:57.380
 to call his wife and tell her,

00:34:57.380 --> 00:34:59.699
 hey, I'm not going to make it today,

00:34:59.699 --> 00:35:03.779
 hey, you know, save some stuff for me to eat later on,

00:35:03.919 --> 00:35:05.939
 the wall just collapses.

00:35:07.339 --> 00:35:10.319
 The whole tower just crushes on top of him.

00:35:12.099 --> 00:35:14.039
 And this place that he thought

00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:15.980
 was a place of security,

00:35:17.460 --> 00:35:18.859
 hope,

00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:21.879
 financial stability,

00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:24.179
 success,

00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:26.559
 a haven of safety,

00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:28.319
 a future,

00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:29.580
 all of these things

00:35:29.580 --> 00:35:31.380
 that he was putting his hope in,

00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:32.539
 all of these things

00:35:32.539 --> 00:35:33.760
 crushed him

00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:37.860
 as if tower fell on top of him

00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:38.519
 without a warning.

00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:42.360
 Jesus tells these two stories.

00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:44.400
 One is evil,

00:35:44.720 --> 00:35:45.039
 pilot,

00:35:45.600 --> 00:35:45.920
 evil.

00:35:46.140 --> 00:35:46.320
 One,

00:35:46.700 --> 00:35:47.940
 one is natural,

00:35:48.519 --> 00:35:49.480
 but in both stories,

00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:51.019
 the end comes quickly.

00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:53.019
 But in both stories,

00:35:53.100 --> 00:35:54.300
 the end is unexpectedly.

00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:55.059
 In both stories,

00:35:55.140 --> 00:35:56.480
 the groups are doing

00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:57.340
 what they would normally do.

00:35:57.340 --> 00:35:58.260
 It was a place of safety.

00:35:58.380 --> 00:35:59.079
 They would be okay.

00:35:59.500 --> 00:36:00.700
 In both places,

00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:02.519
 the people felt comfort.

00:36:03.620 --> 00:36:04.420
 In both places,

00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:06.000
 the people felt security.

00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:08.460
 And these places,

00:36:08.680 --> 00:36:09.320
 these things

00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:10.380
 that they were hoping in,

00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:11.860
 that they were drawing on,

00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:12.440
 that they would say,

00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:13.300
 this would give me meaning,

00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:14.140
 this would make me happy,

00:36:14.200 --> 00:36:15.059
 this would give me security,

00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:16.559
 this would make me closer to God,

00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:18.059
 all of these things

00:36:18.059 --> 00:36:21.579
 destroyed them.

00:36:21.579 --> 00:36:27.659
 Have you ever felt that way sometimes?

00:36:31.659 --> 00:36:32.519
 That there are things

00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:34.000
 you cling to in your life,

00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:34.980
 there are things you hope

00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:35.639
 will bring meaning,

00:36:35.779 --> 00:36:36.799
 there are things that you're expecting

00:36:36.799 --> 00:36:37.500
 to bring purpose,

00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:38.960
 there are things that you are,

00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:40.199
 you're looking at,

00:36:40.759 --> 00:36:42.840
 and when you grab onto them,

00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:44.259
 or when you go to them,

00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:45.819
 or when you stay in them,

00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:46.619
 ultimately,

00:36:47.619 --> 00:36:49.639
 they cause your destruction.

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:56.339
 Jesus says again in verse five,

00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:56.779
 no.

00:36:57.900 --> 00:36:58.900
 He doesn't answer the question

00:36:58.900 --> 00:36:59.980
 how, or why,

00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:00.699
 or who's to blame.

00:37:00.779 --> 00:37:01.639
 I always find it interesting

00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:02.839
 that he doesn't go after Pilate,

00:37:03.219 --> 00:37:04.279
 say Pilate's a bad person,

00:37:04.339 --> 00:37:04.839
 you should know this.

00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:06.000
 He doesn't say all these,

00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:06.599
 any of those things.

00:37:06.659 --> 00:37:07.440
 He just says no,

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:08.379
 repent.

00:37:10.299 --> 00:37:11.539
 Repent because you

00:37:11.539 --> 00:37:14.079
 are radically self-centered.

00:37:17.179 --> 00:37:18.339
 Repent because you

00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:20.900
 are radically selfish.

00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:23.980
 Repent because you believe

00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:24.760
 all these things

00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:26.000
 are happening to you

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:26.800
 because you're good,

00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:27.700
 and somehow your goodness,

00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:28.180
 God,

00:37:28.900 --> 00:37:29.720
 owes you.

00:37:32.180 --> 00:37:32.620
 Somehow,

00:37:32.740 --> 00:37:34.160
 if I do all the right things,

00:37:34.579 --> 00:37:36.039
 if I answer all the questions,

00:37:36.180 --> 00:37:37.800
 God owes us,

00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:38.120
 right?

00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:41.579
 I wanted to start

00:37:41.579 --> 00:37:42.279
 the service off

00:37:42.279 --> 00:37:43.500
 by having a card

00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:44.159
 in everybody's chair

00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:44.880
 and just say,

00:37:45.299 --> 00:37:46.079
 before we begin,

00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:48.059
 I want you to write down

00:37:48.059 --> 00:37:48.699
 on your card

00:37:48.699 --> 00:37:50.179
 what you think

00:37:50.179 --> 00:37:51.079
 God owes you.

00:37:53.900 --> 00:37:54.859
 And we're gonna talk

00:37:54.859 --> 00:37:55.339
 about that.

00:37:57.480 --> 00:37:57.920
 Repent,

00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:00.099
 Jesus says,

00:38:00.179 --> 00:38:01.079
 because we all

00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:03.139
 deserve to have towers

00:38:03.139 --> 00:38:04.059
 fall on us.

00:38:04.059 --> 00:38:10.420
 Do we deserve

00:38:10.420 --> 00:38:11.239
 anything from God?

00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:16.139
 Do we?

00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:17.420
 And we're talking

00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:18.380
 about perspective here.

00:38:19.779 --> 00:38:21.199
 And we walk around

00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:22.719
 like we think we do.

00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:25.960
 But do we?

00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:29.340
 Repentance is a scary thing.

00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:30.639
 I mean,

00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:31.699
 it's a word that we use here,

00:38:31.739 --> 00:38:32.299
 we don't talk about,

00:38:32.300 --> 00:38:33.620
 but in Jesus' day,

00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:34.480
 when his,

00:38:35.120 --> 00:38:35.900
 remember his audience

00:38:35.900 --> 00:38:37.100
 is all religious people.

00:38:37.860 --> 00:38:38.920
 He's talking to people

00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:39.560
 in church.

00:38:42.660 --> 00:38:43.900
 He's talking to good people.

00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:46.880
 He's not talking

00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:47.440
 to outsiders,

00:38:47.580 --> 00:38:48.720
 he's talking to the family members,

00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:49.700
 he's talking to insiders.

00:38:50.680 --> 00:38:51.480
 And when he used

00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:52.180
 the word repent,

00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:53.400
 what they would have heard

00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:53.580
 is,

00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:54.000
 okay,

00:38:54.019 --> 00:38:54.720
 I need to feel sorry

00:38:54.720 --> 00:38:55.420
 for my sin.

00:38:56.060 --> 00:38:56.680
 I need to think

00:38:56.680 --> 00:38:57.480
 of the consequences.

00:38:57.640 --> 00:38:58.200
 I need to think of,

00:38:58.580 --> 00:38:59.720
 what if somebody sees me?

00:38:59.820 --> 00:39:01.320
 What if somebody catches me?

00:39:01.640 --> 00:39:02.280
 What if I lose?

00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:03.039
 Lose my job?

00:39:03.500 --> 00:39:04.539
 I shouldn't do that

00:39:04.539 --> 00:39:05.820
 because I might look really bad

00:39:05.820 --> 00:39:06.480
 in front of other people.

00:39:06.680 --> 00:39:08.039
 The focus is on self,

00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:08.920
 self,

00:39:09.340 --> 00:39:09.860
 self.

00:39:11.240 --> 00:39:12.400
 There's some image management

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.200
 going on here.

00:39:14.180 --> 00:39:14.860
 When they heard

00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:15.600
 the word repent,

00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:16.600
 they would have thought

00:39:16.600 --> 00:39:18.440
 things like sacrifice.

00:39:20.060 --> 00:39:21.560
 I need to sacrifice more.

00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:22.900
 I need to kill another lamb.

00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:24.080
 I need to kill another sheep.

00:39:24.140 --> 00:39:25.400
 I need to kill a cow

00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:26.960
 because my sin is really bad.

00:39:27.220 --> 00:39:28.700
 I need to pay for my sin.

00:39:28.900 --> 00:39:30.019
 I need to do penance.

00:39:30.019 --> 00:39:31.900
 I need to kill a cow

00:39:31.900 --> 00:39:34.079
 because I did something

00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:34.840
 really bad

00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:36.880
 and I got to pay for that.

00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:40.159
 Or maybe I'm going to make

00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:42.500
 myself feel so terrible.

00:39:43.579 --> 00:39:45.380
 I'm going to act so bad.

00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:45.679
 I mean,

00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:46.840
 my little two-year-old,

00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:47.360
 three-year-old,

00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:48.380
 she's five now,

00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:48.639
 right?

00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:49.679
 Six.

00:39:49.860 --> 00:39:50.079
 Okay.

00:39:52.759 --> 00:39:53.460
 You can tell

00:39:53.460 --> 00:39:54.719
 the jet lag's still not gone.

00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:56.320
 My six-year-old

00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:57.179
 does that still.

00:39:57.179 --> 00:39:59.339
 When she's going to get in trouble,

00:39:59.419 --> 00:40:00.659
 she feels so bad

00:40:00.659 --> 00:40:02.359
 and she just puts on this face

00:40:02.359 --> 00:40:03.659
 and she mourns

00:40:03.659 --> 00:40:04.480
 and she cries

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:05.379
 and she wails

00:40:05.379 --> 00:40:06.419
 and it's terrible

00:40:06.419 --> 00:40:07.000
 and she thinks,

00:40:07.139 --> 00:40:08.659
 if I make myself feel terrible enough,

00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:10.000
 then everybody's going to forgive me.

00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:15.019
 Sometimes we do that,

00:40:15.059 --> 00:40:15.359
 don't we?

00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:19.379
 I was walking

00:40:19.379 --> 00:40:20.639
 to an amazing cathedral

00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:21.199
 in Italy

00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:24.119
 and about two miles

00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:24.719
 from the cathedral,

00:40:24.859 --> 00:40:26.099
 people were on their knees,

00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:27.839
 scuffing up their knees

00:40:27.839 --> 00:40:29.299
 and getting up

00:40:29.299 --> 00:40:29.819
 and they'd walk

00:40:29.819 --> 00:40:30.960
 and they'd scuff their knees again.

00:40:32.139 --> 00:40:32.359
 You're like,

00:40:32.379 --> 00:40:32.960
 what are you doing?

00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:36.119
 I'm doing penance.

00:40:37.699 --> 00:40:38.579
 I got to do something

00:40:38.579 --> 00:40:39.480
 and work out

00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:40.719
 what I did wrong.

00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:42.899
 I got to show people

00:40:42.899 --> 00:40:43.599
 that I deserve

00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:44.139
 to be forgiven.

00:40:44.219 --> 00:40:45.139
 One of my favorite movies

00:40:45.139 --> 00:40:45.619
 of all time,

00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:46.219
 and don't watch it

00:40:46.219 --> 00:40:47.099
 because you'd be totally bored,

00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:48.339
 but it's called The Mission.

00:40:48.839 --> 00:40:49.359
 And in The Mission,

00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:50.039
 Robert De Niro

00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:51.019
 is a soldier.

00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:52.119
 He accidentally kills

00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:52.940
 this friar.

00:40:53.219 --> 00:40:54.360
 He feels such a weight

00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:55.219
 of guilt on him

00:40:55.219 --> 00:40:56.259
 that as they're going

00:40:56.259 --> 00:40:57.099
 up into the mountains

00:40:57.099 --> 00:40:58.300
 to reach out to the Indians,

00:40:58.699 --> 00:41:00.579
 he's carrying this large load

00:41:00.579 --> 00:41:01.320
 behind him

00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:02.500
 on his string

00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:03.920
 and for miles

00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:04.539
 and for days,

00:41:04.619 --> 00:41:05.659
 he's carrying this armor

00:41:05.659 --> 00:41:06.980
 and he's pulling it

00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:08.159
 and he's beating them up

00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:09.559
 and he's bloodied,

00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:10.239
 he's terrible.

00:41:11.099 --> 00:41:12.759
 It's an amazing scene.

00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:13.440
 And finally,

00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:13.900
 the priest,

00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:15.079
 Jeremy Irons,

00:41:15.139 --> 00:41:16.480
 comes and he takes a knife

00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:18.380
 and he cuts the load loose.

00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:20.320
 And he said,

00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:21.000
 you've done enough.

00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:23.940
 You've done enough.

00:41:25.860 --> 00:41:26.719
 And that's what

00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:28.079
 Jesus' followers

00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.059
 would have been thinking

00:41:29.059 --> 00:41:29.800
 when they heard that.

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:30.940
 When they heard the idea

00:41:30.940 --> 00:41:31.420
 of repentance,

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:31.900
 they would have said,

00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:32.059
 okay,

00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:32.980
 I gotta change my lifestyle,

00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:33.960
 I gotta look outwardly,

00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:34.259
 differently,

00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:35.699
 I gotta do something

00:41:35.699 --> 00:41:36.960
 so that when people look at me

00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:37.980
 and when God looks at me,

00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:39.579
 if I do it enough,

00:41:39.739 --> 00:41:41.139
 hopefully God will bless me.

00:41:42.300 --> 00:41:43.460
 Because if I do it enough,

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:44.380
 then God owes me

00:41:44.380 --> 00:41:45.219
 because I've done it all

00:41:45.219 --> 00:41:46.279
 the right way.

00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:49.280
 But you know,

00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:50.500
 that's not what this passage

00:41:50.500 --> 00:41:51.000
 is about

00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:52.560
 and that is not the repentance

00:41:52.560 --> 00:41:53.560
 that Jesus talks about

00:41:53.560 --> 00:41:54.440
 and that's not the repentance

00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:55.100
 of the Bible.

00:41:56.580 --> 00:41:57.720
 When you hear the word

00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:59.420
 repentance in these verses,

00:41:59.660 --> 00:42:00.800
 what he's talking about

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:01.640
 is seeing yourself

00:42:01.640 --> 00:42:02.640
 as you truly are.

00:42:06.220 --> 00:42:07.720
 Seeing yourself as broken.

00:42:10.620 --> 00:42:11.920
 Seeing yourself as radically

00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:13.720
 self-centered.

00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.739
 We are all radically

00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:16.899
 self-centered.

00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:22.699
 NBC Wild World Sports said it.

00:42:23.019 --> 00:42:24.119
 They're interviewing the gymnast

00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:25.159
 after she got a gold medal

00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:25.919
 and they said,

00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:27.059
 how did you become a gymnast

00:42:27.059 --> 00:42:28.399
 and how did you do so well?

00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:29.039
 And she said,

00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:29.339
 well, you know,

00:42:29.379 --> 00:42:29.959
 to be an athlete,

00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:31.019
 you have to be very self-centered.

00:42:32.179 --> 00:42:32.319
 I mean,

00:42:32.319 --> 00:42:34.019
 she says it right on TV

00:42:34.019 --> 00:42:34.959
 so it must be true, right?

00:42:36.579 --> 00:42:37.980
 But the Bible says it over

00:42:37.980 --> 00:42:39.159
 and over

00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:40.799
 and over again.

00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:43.240
 To repent sees

00:42:43.240 --> 00:42:44.240
 that we are self-centered.

00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:45.140
 To repent sees

00:42:45.140 --> 00:42:45.960
 that we are needy.

00:42:46.019 --> 00:42:46.760
 To repent sees

00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:47.560
 that we are hopeless.

00:42:47.780 --> 00:42:49.220
 No matter how much penance we do,

00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:50.120
 no matter how many times

00:42:50.120 --> 00:42:50.840
 we scrape our knees,

00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:52.140
 no matter how many times

00:42:52.140 --> 00:42:52.800
 we give money,

00:42:53.100 --> 00:42:53.940
 no matter how many times

00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:55.380
 we serve in the Sunday school,

00:42:55.620 --> 00:42:57.080
 no matter what we do,

00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:00.220
 it's not enough.

00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:03.060
 Repentance is seeing

00:43:03.060 --> 00:43:03.740
 each one of us

00:43:03.740 --> 00:43:04.700
 as deserving a tower

00:43:04.700 --> 00:43:06.000
 falling on top of us.

00:43:07.860 --> 00:43:09.100
 Think about that next day

00:43:09.100 --> 00:43:09.640
 you go to work

00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:10.279
 and you get fired.

00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:13.199
 Aren't you angry?

00:43:13.319 --> 00:43:13.639
 And you go,

00:43:13.739 --> 00:43:13.940
 well,

00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:15.119
 at least I didn't have

00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:16.199
 a tower fall on top of me.

00:43:17.619 --> 00:43:17.779
 Now,

00:43:17.819 --> 00:43:18.559
 don't ever counsel

00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:19.599
 somebody that way,

00:43:20.139 --> 00:43:20.440
 okay?

00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:22.119
 If they're in bad mood

00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:22.819
 or things are bad,

00:43:22.879 --> 00:43:23.179
 don't go,

00:43:23.279 --> 00:43:23.400
 you know,

00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:24.059
 but it could be worse.

00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:24.739
 You could have a tower

00:43:24.739 --> 00:43:25.359
 fall on top of you.

00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:27.420
 That's not the meaning

00:43:27.420 --> 00:43:28.480
 of this passage, right?

00:43:29.980 --> 00:43:31.879
 But it is for us.

00:43:34.099 --> 00:43:35.379
 Repentance is seeing us

00:43:35.379 --> 00:43:36.359
 as we really are

00:43:36.359 --> 00:43:38.539
 and seeing God

00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:39.539
 as he really is.

00:43:40.579 --> 00:43:41.519
 The God is holy.

00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:43.739
 The God is merciful.

00:43:44.819 --> 00:43:45.980
 The God is just.

00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:47.879
 The God is gracious.

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:50.420
 The God comes to you

00:43:50.420 --> 00:43:51.019
 and me

00:43:51.019 --> 00:43:53.019
 and we don't deserve it.

00:43:55.819 --> 00:43:56.639
 Repentance is

00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:58.500
 not being self-centered

00:43:58.500 --> 00:44:01.619
 but being God-centered.

00:44:01.619 --> 00:44:04.920
 The next time you're tempted

00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:06.359
 to cheat on the books

00:44:06.359 --> 00:44:08.519
 or cheat on your wife

00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:10.039
 or husband

00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:11.339
 or go to the internet

00:44:11.339 --> 00:44:12.219
 and look at things

00:44:12.219 --> 00:44:13.319
 you shouldn't look at

00:44:13.319 --> 00:44:15.159
 on your company computer

00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:17.139
 or cheat on your taxes

00:44:17.139 --> 00:44:19.319
 or owe people money

00:44:19.319 --> 00:44:20.500
 and not pay them back

00:44:20.500 --> 00:44:21.639
 or just be mean

00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:22.259
 to your wife

00:44:22.259 --> 00:44:23.000
 or your spouse.

00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:25.779
 Remember that repentance

00:44:25.779 --> 00:44:26.500
 isn't about

00:44:26.500 --> 00:44:28.039
 I'm feeling bad,

00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:29.139
 I'm bad,

00:44:29.259 --> 00:44:29.880
 I'm bad

00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:30.420
 but repentance

00:44:30.420 --> 00:44:31.000
 in the Bible

00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:31.460
 is saying

00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:32.920
 look at what I just did

00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:33.400
 to God.

00:44:37.779 --> 00:44:38.759
 Look at how much

00:44:38.759 --> 00:44:40.239
 I just hurt God's heart.

00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:45.279
 Look at how much

00:44:45.279 --> 00:44:46.980
 I just ruin

00:44:46.980 --> 00:44:48.300
 God's testimony

00:44:48.300 --> 00:44:51.400
 in my office

00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:54.500
 or with my kids

00:44:54.500 --> 00:44:57.180
 or with my friends.

00:44:58.680 --> 00:44:59.340
 Repentance is being

00:44:59.340 --> 00:45:00.560
 radically God-centered

00:45:00.560 --> 00:45:01.560
 instead of self-centered

00:45:01.560 --> 00:45:02.180
 and understanding

00:45:02.180 --> 00:45:02.980
 that when we sin

00:45:02.980 --> 00:45:04.320
 we dishonor God

00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:05.240
 and we displease Him

00:45:05.240 --> 00:45:05.840
 and that's it.

00:45:08.220 --> 00:45:09.019
 Repentance is not

00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:09.800
 doing penance.

00:45:09.940 --> 00:45:10.900
 It's not trying to earn

00:45:10.900 --> 00:45:11.560
 our salvation.

00:45:11.900 --> 00:45:12.640
 Not trying to earn

00:45:12.640 --> 00:45:13.060
 forgiveness.

00:45:13.539 --> 00:45:14.480
 Jesus suffered

00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:15.460
 for our sin.

00:45:16.740 --> 00:45:17.840
 Jesus did everything.

00:45:19.140 --> 00:45:19.880
 There's nothing

00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:20.640
 you could add on

00:45:20.640 --> 00:45:21.380
 to what Jesus did.

00:45:22.560 --> 00:45:23.039
 Nothing.

00:45:25.100 --> 00:45:25.860
 Repentance means

00:45:25.860 --> 00:45:26.840
 understanding that

00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:27.360
 and saying that

00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:28.160
 what Jesus did

00:45:28.160 --> 00:45:29.220
 was enough

00:45:29.220 --> 00:45:30.640
 and I cannot work

00:45:30.640 --> 00:45:31.460
 and be good enough

00:45:31.460 --> 00:45:32.200
 because it's never

00:45:32.200 --> 00:45:32.720
 going to happen.

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.019
 I just have to receive

00:45:34.019 --> 00:45:34.860
 that salvation

00:45:34.860 --> 00:45:35.460
 from Jesus.

00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:38.380
 Repentance is knowing

00:45:38.380 --> 00:45:38.680
 that

00:45:38.680 --> 00:45:41.120
 I cannot

00:45:41.120 --> 00:45:42.680
 live good enough.

00:45:45.820 --> 00:45:46.539
 That no matter

00:45:46.539 --> 00:45:47.160
 what you do,

00:45:47.220 --> 00:45:47.740
 no matter how

00:45:47.739 --> 00:45:48.459
 you try to do it,

00:45:48.619 --> 00:45:49.199
 no matter where

00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:49.779
 you put your hope,

00:45:49.839 --> 00:45:51.159
 no matter what you do,

00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:52.399
 you can never

00:45:52.399 --> 00:45:53.239
 live good enough.

00:45:53.319 --> 00:45:53.839
 Only Jesus

00:45:53.839 --> 00:45:54.599
 lived good enough.

00:45:57.619 --> 00:45:58.500
 And so when Paul

00:45:58.500 --> 00:46:00.119
 and Luke

00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:01.579
 and the gospel writers

00:46:01.579 --> 00:46:02.559
 talk about repentance,

00:46:02.979 --> 00:46:03.679
 they talk about

00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:04.879
 this incredible realization

00:46:04.879 --> 00:46:06.099
 that Christ

00:46:06.099 --> 00:46:07.399
 did it all

00:46:07.399 --> 00:46:08.699
 and that we need

00:46:08.699 --> 00:46:09.319
 to see Him

00:46:09.319 --> 00:46:10.039
 as our hope

00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:11.000
 and if we see Him

00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:11.459
 as our hope,

00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:12.579
 if we surrender to Him,

00:46:12.579 --> 00:46:13.420
 our lives

00:46:13.420 --> 00:46:14.360
 are going to change.

00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:18.219
 Our minds

00:46:18.219 --> 00:46:19.380
 are going to change.

00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:20.920
 Our hearts

00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:21.679
 are going to change.

00:46:21.759 --> 00:46:22.299
 Our actions

00:46:22.299 --> 00:46:23.179
 are going to change.

00:46:23.559 --> 00:46:24.299
 Our intellect

00:46:24.299 --> 00:46:25.179
 is going to change.

00:46:25.259 --> 00:46:25.779
 Our will

00:46:25.779 --> 00:46:26.799
 is going to change

00:46:26.799 --> 00:46:27.719
 and eventually

00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:29.400
 our feelings

00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:30.000
 will change,

00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:30.639
 our emotions.

00:46:33.319 --> 00:46:33.519
 You know,

00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:34.159
 a lot of times

00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:35.119
 I just obey

00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:36.279
 what God calls me to do

00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:37.400
 and I really

00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.300
 don't feel like it.

00:46:40.160 --> 00:46:41.100
 It's inconvenient.

00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.220
 It's really bothersome.

00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:44.920
 I'd really just go home

00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:45.780
 and take a nap

00:46:45.780 --> 00:46:47.260
 or read a book.

00:46:48.940 --> 00:46:50.220
 But as I continue

00:46:50.220 --> 00:46:50.920
 to repent,

00:46:51.040 --> 00:46:51.720
 as we continue

00:46:51.720 --> 00:46:53.060
 to come before the Lord

00:46:53.060 --> 00:46:54.080
 and realize who we are

00:46:54.080 --> 00:46:54.920
 and who He is,

00:46:56.820 --> 00:46:58.140
 God slowly

00:46:58.140 --> 00:47:01.000
 changes those feelings

00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:01.480
 in you.

00:47:04.200 --> 00:47:05.200
 God slowly

00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:06.679
 changes your mind.

00:47:06.799 --> 00:47:07.679
 He changes everything.

00:47:08.099 --> 00:47:09.019
 And so when we repent,

00:47:09.460 --> 00:47:10.319
 Jesus is changing

00:47:10.319 --> 00:47:11.199
 everything in you.

00:47:12.779 --> 00:47:13.339
 I don't know

00:47:13.339 --> 00:47:13.839
 if you know that,

00:47:13.879 --> 00:47:14.279
 but the scripture

00:47:14.279 --> 00:47:15.279
 says very carefully

00:47:15.279 --> 00:47:16.639
 that as we repent,

00:47:16.739 --> 00:47:17.579
 the more that we repent,

00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:18.379
 the more that we come

00:47:18.379 --> 00:47:18.659
 to Him,

00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:19.759
 the more that we grow

00:47:19.759 --> 00:47:20.299
 in our relationship

00:47:20.299 --> 00:47:21.039
 to Christ

00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:21.439
 and the more

00:47:21.439 --> 00:47:22.159
 that we trust Him.

00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:28.419
 Jesus continues

00:47:28.419 --> 00:47:29.299
 with this parable

00:47:29.299 --> 00:47:30.119
 which to me

00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:30.739
 has been

00:47:30.739 --> 00:47:33.799
 one of my

00:47:33.799 --> 00:47:35.079
 all-time favorite

00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:35.539
 parables,

00:47:35.659 --> 00:47:36.380
 especially as I've

00:47:36.380 --> 00:47:37.059
 been studying it

00:47:37.059 --> 00:47:38.619
 over and over.

00:47:38.799 --> 00:47:39.819
 He tells this parable

00:47:39.819 --> 00:47:41.059
 that drives the point home.

00:47:41.340 --> 00:47:42.219
 He tells this parable

00:47:42.219 --> 00:47:42.860
 that everyone

00:47:42.860 --> 00:47:44.079
 in his audience

00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:44.759
 would have understood.

00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:45.759
 Now we don't understand it

00:47:45.759 --> 00:47:46.079
 because we're,

00:47:46.380 --> 00:47:47.059
 I think that one time

00:47:47.059 --> 00:47:47.920
 I said I'm the only farmer

00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:48.860
 in here so I'm the only one

00:47:48.860 --> 00:47:49.880
 that kind of understands

00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:50.539
 a little bit of farming

00:47:50.539 --> 00:47:52.819
 but every agricultural

00:47:52.819 --> 00:47:53.719
 person would have

00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:54.519
 understood this

00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:56.099
 and the parable

00:47:56.099 --> 00:47:56.559
 is this.

00:47:57.920 --> 00:47:58.699
 Verse 6,

00:47:59.699 --> 00:48:00.360
 He began telling

00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:00.980
 this parable,

00:48:00.980 --> 00:48:01.079
 example,

00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:03.059
 a man had a fig tree

00:48:03.059 --> 00:48:04.579
 which he planted

00:48:04.579 --> 00:48:05.240
 in a vineyard

00:48:05.240 --> 00:48:06.880
 and he came

00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:07.659
 looking for fruit.

00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:09.300
 In Greek he's saying

00:48:09.300 --> 00:48:10.139
 he came every day.

00:48:10.219 --> 00:48:11.119
 The man in Greek

00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:12.960
 is a very important person

00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.380
 and so he plants

00:48:15.380 --> 00:48:16.400
 this fig tree

00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:17.219
 in the middle

00:48:17.219 --> 00:48:18.139
 of this vineyard

00:48:18.139 --> 00:48:18.860
 so there's grapes

00:48:18.860 --> 00:48:19.360
 everywhere.

00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:20.880
 Often you would do that

00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:21.440
 because you'd want

00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:21.940
 the grapes

00:48:21.940 --> 00:48:22.619
 and the wine

00:48:22.619 --> 00:48:23.199
 to get some

00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:23.820
 different taste

00:48:23.820 --> 00:48:24.260
 so you'd plant

00:48:24.260 --> 00:48:24.780
 an apple tree

00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:25.300
 in the middle of it

00:48:25.300 --> 00:48:25.740
 or you'd plant

00:48:25.740 --> 00:48:26.599
 a fig tree

00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:27.199
 in the middle of it

00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:28.299
 and as the animals

00:48:28.299 --> 00:48:28.899
 pollinated

00:48:28.899 --> 00:48:29.919
 the wine

00:48:29.919 --> 00:48:31.919
 acquired that taste

00:48:31.919 --> 00:48:34.639
 and the man came

00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:35.019
 and it says

00:48:35.019 --> 00:48:36.419
 often he came

00:48:36.419 --> 00:48:36.779
 and he looked

00:48:36.779 --> 00:48:37.339
 for fruit

00:48:37.339 --> 00:48:37.980
 a harvest

00:48:37.980 --> 00:48:38.779
 and he didn't

00:48:38.779 --> 00:48:39.379
 find any

00:48:39.379 --> 00:48:40.899
 and he said

00:48:40.899 --> 00:48:41.439
 to the vineyard

00:48:41.439 --> 00:48:41.759
 keeper

00:48:41.759 --> 00:48:42.480
 behold

00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.339
 listen up

00:48:45.339 --> 00:48:47.599
 for three years

00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:48.039
 I've come

00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:48.899
 looking for fruit

00:48:48.899 --> 00:48:49.679
 on this fig tree

00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:50.799
 without finding any

00:48:50.799 --> 00:48:52.299
 cut it down

00:48:52.299 --> 00:48:54.379
 why do we even

00:48:54.379 --> 00:48:55.359
 use up the ground

00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:57.440
 now this is

00:48:57.440 --> 00:48:58.500
 this is the law

00:48:58.500 --> 00:48:59.700
 of agricultural

00:48:59.700 --> 00:49:01.620
 you find

00:49:01.620 --> 00:49:02.720
 very few farmers

00:49:02.720 --> 00:49:03.539
 keeping things

00:49:03.539 --> 00:49:04.120
 in the ground

00:49:04.120 --> 00:49:04.559
 that aren't

00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:05.360
 benefiting them

00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:06.820
 or producing fruit

00:49:06.820 --> 00:49:08.240
 and everybody

00:49:08.240 --> 00:49:08.940
 would have understood

00:49:08.940 --> 00:49:09.700
 what he was saying

00:49:09.700 --> 00:49:09.940
 here

00:49:09.940 --> 00:49:10.700
 he's basically saying

00:49:10.700 --> 00:49:11.400
 if it doesn't

00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:12.059
 produce fruit

00:49:12.059 --> 00:49:12.820
 cut it ground

00:49:12.820 --> 00:49:14.840
 it's using up

00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:15.740
 too many resources

00:49:15.740 --> 00:49:17.340
 it's using up

00:49:17.340 --> 00:49:17.920
 too much water

00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:18.700
 its leaves

00:49:18.700 --> 00:49:19.559
 have grown over

00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.480
 and he said

00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:23.340
 he answered

00:49:23.340 --> 00:49:24.180
 and said in verse 8

00:49:24.180 --> 00:49:25.200
 let it alone

00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:26.699
 in Greek

00:49:26.699 --> 00:49:27.339
 the words actually

00:49:27.339 --> 00:49:27.639
 mean

00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:28.960
 forgive it

00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:31.219
 forgive it sir

00:49:31.219 --> 00:49:33.039
 for this year

00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:33.679
 this period

00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:34.159
 of time

00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:34.559
 too

00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:36.139
 until I dig

00:49:36.139 --> 00:49:36.579
 around it

00:49:36.579 --> 00:49:37.419
 and put fertilizer

00:49:37.419 --> 00:49:37.739
 in

00:49:37.739 --> 00:49:38.419
 the word is

00:49:38.419 --> 00:49:39.000
 manure

00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:42.919
 and it bears

00:49:42.919 --> 00:49:43.460
 fruit

00:49:43.460 --> 00:49:44.179
 next year

00:49:44.179 --> 00:49:44.679
 fine

00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:46.339
 but if it

00:49:46.339 --> 00:49:46.779
 doesn't

00:49:46.779 --> 00:49:48.500
 cut it down

00:49:48.500 --> 00:49:51.199
 see the story

00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:51.519
 here

00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:54.199
 so Jesus

00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:54.900
 says

00:49:54.900 --> 00:49:55.259
 this guy

00:49:55.259 --> 00:49:55.659
 plants

00:49:55.659 --> 00:49:56.159
 this fig tree

00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:56.500
 in the middle

00:49:56.500 --> 00:49:56.880
 of the garden

00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.159
 it grows huge

00:49:58.159 --> 00:49:58.960
 it shades

00:49:58.960 --> 00:49:59.739
 everything

00:49:59.739 --> 00:50:00.519
 it's taking up

00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:01.340
 resources

00:50:01.340 --> 00:50:02.000
 it's taking up

00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:02.380
 sun

00:50:02.380 --> 00:50:03.860
 it's using the soil

00:50:03.860 --> 00:50:04.759
 it's using care

00:50:04.759 --> 00:50:06.300
 and for three years

00:50:06.300 --> 00:50:07.340
 the vine keeper

00:50:07.340 --> 00:50:08.440
 has come into that garden

00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:09.539
 and for three years

00:50:09.539 --> 00:50:10.199
 he's taking care

00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:11.059
 of that fig tree

00:50:11.059 --> 00:50:12.960
 for three years

00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:13.980
 he's taking care

00:50:13.980 --> 00:50:14.179
 of it

00:50:14.179 --> 00:50:14.860
 and finally

00:50:14.860 --> 00:50:15.300
 the owner

00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:15.639
 comes

00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:15.960
 and it says

00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:16.320
 he comes

00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:17.079
 fairly frequently

00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:18.079
 and he's looking

00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:19.199
 and he sees no change

00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:19.980
 he sees no fruit

00:50:19.980 --> 00:50:20.919
 he sees no harvest

00:50:20.919 --> 00:50:22.359
 he sees nothing different

00:50:22.359 --> 00:50:23.139
 and he says

00:50:23.139 --> 00:50:23.799
 cut it down

00:50:23.799 --> 00:50:27.500
 and in verse 8

00:50:27.500 --> 00:50:28.500
 he says

00:50:28.500 --> 00:50:29.460
 forgive it

00:50:29.460 --> 00:50:32.559
 leave it alone

00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:34.759
 and this is what

00:50:34.759 --> 00:50:35.739
 the vine keeper does

00:50:35.739 --> 00:50:37.239
 the vine keeper

00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:37.779
 comes

00:50:37.779 --> 00:50:39.299
 every day

00:50:39.299 --> 00:50:40.859
 and he puts

00:50:40.859 --> 00:50:41.699
 massive

00:50:41.699 --> 00:50:42.379
 that's a

00:50:42.379 --> 00:50:43.679
 watermark word

00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:43.919
 I think

00:50:43.919 --> 00:50:44.939
 massive amounts

00:50:44.939 --> 00:50:47.119
 of time

00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:49.679
 in energy

00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:51.239
 grace

00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:52.779
 and mercy

00:50:52.779 --> 00:50:54.559
 I mean the tree

00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:55.239
 it says here

00:50:55.239 --> 00:50:55.880
 is being stunted

00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:56.900
 by things

00:50:56.900 --> 00:50:58.420
 that are clinging

00:50:58.420 --> 00:50:59.339
 to its roots

00:50:59.339 --> 00:51:01.339
 and so the keeper

00:51:01.339 --> 00:51:02.000
 comes in

00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:02.819
 and literally

00:51:02.819 --> 00:51:03.799
 in Hebrew and Greek

00:51:03.799 --> 00:51:04.480
 what it says

00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:05.039
 is he's doing

00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:06.019
 is he's breaking

00:51:06.019 --> 00:51:06.759
 the hold

00:51:06.759 --> 00:51:07.359
 that the earth

00:51:07.359 --> 00:51:08.079
 has on it

00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:10.699
 because the earth

00:51:10.699 --> 00:51:11.359
 is clumped up

00:51:11.359 --> 00:51:12.119
 so much around

00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:13.079
 the roots of the tree

00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:13.900
 that the tree

00:51:13.900 --> 00:51:14.920
 cannot get nutrients

00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:15.980
 and it cannot grow

00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:18.579
 and so the vineyard

00:51:18.579 --> 00:51:19.320
 guy comes in

00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:20.199
 and he literally

00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:21.659
 breaks away

00:51:21.659 --> 00:51:22.420
 everything

00:51:22.420 --> 00:51:23.059
 that's clinging

00:51:23.059 --> 00:51:23.460
 to it

00:51:23.460 --> 00:51:24.619
 he breaks away

00:51:24.619 --> 00:51:25.500
 things that are

00:51:25.500 --> 00:51:25.900
 going to stun

00:51:25.900 --> 00:51:26.320
 his growth

00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:27.099
 he breaks away

00:51:27.099 --> 00:51:27.639
 pride

00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:28.500
 he breaks away

00:51:28.500 --> 00:51:29.559
 idols

00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:30.659
 he breaks away

00:51:30.659 --> 00:51:31.900
 self

00:51:31.900 --> 00:51:32.840
 he breaks away

00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:33.320
 money

00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:34.340
 he breaks away

00:51:34.340 --> 00:51:35.059
 relationships

00:51:35.059 --> 00:51:36.440
 he's breaking away

00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:36.960
 everything

00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:38.099
 because he wants

00:51:38.099 --> 00:51:38.920
 that tree to grow

00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:40.320
 the Romans passage

00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:41.240
 says that he gives

00:51:41.240 --> 00:51:42.519
 us all good things

00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:44.119
 he gives us all

00:51:44.119 --> 00:51:44.639
 good things

00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:45.420
 so that we grow

00:51:45.420 --> 00:51:47.900
 it's not because

00:51:47.900 --> 00:51:48.440
 we're good

00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:50.420
 and so this guy

00:51:50.420 --> 00:51:51.500
 comes in every day

00:51:51.500 --> 00:51:52.599
 he puts all his

00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:53.460
 energy in there

00:51:53.460 --> 00:51:54.260
 and he's digging

00:51:54.260 --> 00:51:55.019
 and he's tearing

00:51:55.019 --> 00:51:55.659
 and he's breaking

00:51:55.659 --> 00:51:56.019
 loose

00:51:56.019 --> 00:51:57.260
 and the passage

00:51:57.260 --> 00:51:58.159
 says that Jesus

00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:01.539
 is constantly

00:52:01.539 --> 00:52:02.500
 digging into our

00:52:02.500 --> 00:52:03.059
 lives

00:52:03.059 --> 00:52:05.760
 to free us

00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:06.460
 from things

00:52:06.460 --> 00:52:08.760
 that are preventing

00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:09.599
 us from growing

00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:10.000
 fruit

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.340
 that Jesus is

00:52:13.340 --> 00:52:13.860
 coming in

00:52:13.860 --> 00:52:14.780
 he's constantly

00:52:14.780 --> 00:52:16.260
 digging up

00:52:16.260 --> 00:52:16.680
 things

00:52:16.680 --> 00:52:17.380
 he's constantly

00:52:17.380 --> 00:52:18.400
 taking away

00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:18.640
 things

00:52:18.640 --> 00:52:19.539
 because he wants

00:52:19.539 --> 00:52:20.000
 fruit in your

00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:20.220
 life

00:52:20.220 --> 00:52:20.700
 and you hear the

00:52:20.700 --> 00:52:20.980
 passage

00:52:20.980 --> 00:52:21.860
 fruit is

00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:23.019
 repentance

00:52:23.019 --> 00:52:24.180
 and worship

00:52:24.180 --> 00:52:27.260
 fruit is

00:52:27.260 --> 00:52:28.260
 repentance

00:52:28.260 --> 00:52:29.340
 and worship

00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:31.940
 and it says that

00:52:31.940 --> 00:52:32.940
 Christ comes in

00:52:32.940 --> 00:52:33.599
 to your

00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:34.380
 and my life

00:52:34.380 --> 00:52:35.360
 every day

00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:36.320
 and he gives us

00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:36.680
 mercy

00:52:36.680 --> 00:52:37.599
 he gives us

00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:38.000
 grace

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:39.180
 and he comes in

00:52:39.180 --> 00:52:39.420
 there

00:52:39.420 --> 00:52:40.680
 and he breaks up

00:52:40.680 --> 00:52:41.400
 all the things

00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:42.039
 that cling to

00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:42.200
 us

00:52:42.200 --> 00:52:42.720
 traditions

00:52:42.720 --> 00:52:43.680
 and doctrine

00:52:43.680 --> 00:52:44.780
 and religions

00:52:44.780 --> 00:52:46.059
 and family

00:52:46.059 --> 00:52:47.619
 and culture

00:52:47.619 --> 00:52:48.820
 and he breaks up

00:52:48.820 --> 00:52:49.539
 all these things

00:52:49.539 --> 00:52:50.200
 because they're not

00:52:50.200 --> 00:52:51.019
 allowing us to grow

00:52:51.019 --> 00:52:51.680
 they're not allowing

00:52:51.680 --> 00:52:52.139
 us to be

00:52:52.139 --> 00:52:53.400
 the tree that we're

00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:54.039
 supposed to be

00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:55.059
 and he puts

00:52:55.059 --> 00:52:56.740
 manure

00:52:56.740 --> 00:52:58.300
 over us

00:52:58.300 --> 00:53:00.039
 he puts

00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:00.680
 relationships

00:53:00.680 --> 00:53:01.400
 over us

00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:01.800
 he puts

00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:02.700
 the church

00:53:02.700 --> 00:53:03.300
 over us

00:53:03.300 --> 00:53:03.579
 he puts

00:53:03.579 --> 00:53:04.139
 community

00:53:04.139 --> 00:53:04.639
 over us

00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:05.160
 he puts

00:53:05.160 --> 00:53:05.740
 his word

00:53:05.740 --> 00:53:06.360
 over us

00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:06.880
 he puts

00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:07.559
 the Holy Spirit

00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:08.340
 all around us

00:53:08.340 --> 00:53:09.300
 he puts

00:53:09.300 --> 00:53:10.500
 everything

00:53:10.500 --> 00:53:11.380
 in our life

00:53:11.380 --> 00:53:11.900
 to help us

00:53:11.900 --> 00:53:12.260
 grow

00:53:12.260 --> 00:53:13.019
 maybe

00:53:13.019 --> 00:53:14.440
 maybe even

00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:15.039
 this sermon

00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:16.180
 is manure

00:53:16.180 --> 00:53:18.579
 think about that

00:53:18.579 --> 00:53:22.019
 but the parable

00:53:22.019 --> 00:53:22.680
 tells us

00:53:22.680 --> 00:53:23.579
 the keeper

00:53:23.579 --> 00:53:23.980
 Jesus

00:53:23.980 --> 00:53:25.079
 is committed

00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:27.460
 to saving

00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:28.220
 the tree

00:53:28.220 --> 00:53:30.340
 from what

00:53:30.340 --> 00:53:30.980
 it deserves

00:53:30.980 --> 00:53:32.860
 did you hear

00:53:32.860 --> 00:53:33.180
 that

00:53:33.180 --> 00:53:35.579
 Christ

00:53:35.579 --> 00:53:37.880
 is committed

00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:40.400
 to saving

00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:41.220
 us

00:53:41.220 --> 00:53:44.519
 from what

00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:45.099
 we deserve

00:53:45.099 --> 00:53:54.539
 he's committed

00:53:54.539 --> 00:53:55.019
 to saving

00:53:55.019 --> 00:53:55.220
 us

00:53:55.220 --> 00:53:55.599
 he's committed

00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:56.880
 to rescuing

00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:57.300
 the tree

00:53:57.300 --> 00:53:57.860
 he's committed

00:53:57.860 --> 00:53:59.019
 to getting

00:53:59.019 --> 00:54:00.039
 fruits of repentance

00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:00.720
 and worship

00:54:00.720 --> 00:54:01.539
 out of the tree

00:54:01.539 --> 00:54:02.860
 and the Bible

00:54:02.860 --> 00:54:03.780
 says clearly

00:54:03.780 --> 00:54:06.079
 it's not the tree

00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:07.140
 that does it

00:54:07.140 --> 00:54:07.720
 by itself

00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:08.039
 the tree

00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:08.879
 has no energy

00:54:08.879 --> 00:54:09.639
 in and of itself

00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:10.659
 the vine keeper

00:54:10.659 --> 00:54:11.239
 doesn't come in

00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:11.759
 and break up

00:54:11.759 --> 00:54:12.119
 the stuff

00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:12.779
 the tree

00:54:12.779 --> 00:54:13.619
 cannot produce

00:54:13.619 --> 00:54:14.339
 fruit

00:54:14.339 --> 00:54:17.039
 and as all

00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:17.899
 Jesus parables

00:54:17.899 --> 00:54:18.539
 we don't know

00:54:18.539 --> 00:54:19.259
 how it ends

00:54:19.259 --> 00:54:23.819
 I think he does

00:54:23.819 --> 00:54:24.599
 that on purpose

00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:26.579
 I mean we don't

00:54:26.579 --> 00:54:27.759
 know how it ends

00:54:27.759 --> 00:54:28.119
 we don't know

00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:28.480
 what's going to

00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:28.859
 happen here

00:54:28.859 --> 00:54:29.279
 we don't know

00:54:29.279 --> 00:54:30.159
 if it produces

00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:30.539
 fruit

00:54:30.539 --> 00:54:31.219
 we don't know

00:54:31.219 --> 00:54:32.239
 how long

00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:32.879
 the vine keeper

00:54:32.879 --> 00:54:33.219
 is going to

00:54:33.219 --> 00:54:33.779
 come in

00:54:33.780 --> 00:54:35.840
 we don't know

00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:37.180
 how long

00:54:37.180 --> 00:54:37.580
 we have

00:54:37.580 --> 00:54:38.000
 until our

00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:38.400
 end

00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:41.820
 we don't know

00:54:41.820 --> 00:54:42.500
 when a tower

00:54:42.500 --> 00:54:42.880
 is going to

00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:43.480
 fall on us

00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:43.900
 or we're going

00:54:43.900 --> 00:54:45.040
 to get in

00:54:45.040 --> 00:54:45.840
 a car accident

00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:46.220
 or we're going

00:54:46.220 --> 00:54:47.100
 to find a speck

00:54:47.100 --> 00:54:47.800
 on our lung

00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:49.280
 we don't know

00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:50.180
 how long

00:54:50.180 --> 00:54:50.720
 but we know

00:54:50.720 --> 00:54:51.260
 that Jesus

00:54:51.260 --> 00:54:51.940
 is committed

00:54:51.940 --> 00:54:53.300
 to saving us

00:54:53.300 --> 00:54:53.880
 from what we

00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:54.320
 deserve

00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:56.760
 and everyday

00:54:56.760 --> 00:54:57.519
 mercy

00:54:57.519 --> 00:54:58.600
 and everyday

00:54:58.600 --> 00:54:59.420
 grace

00:54:59.420 --> 00:55:00.360
 and everyday

00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:01.000
 and amazing

00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:01.800
 things are poured

00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:02.600
 out on us

00:55:02.600 --> 00:55:06.640
 and this story

00:55:06.640 --> 00:55:07.920
 basically tells us

00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:08.460
 that we are

00:55:08.460 --> 00:55:09.940
 called to respond

00:55:09.940 --> 00:55:10.660
 that you and I

00:55:10.660 --> 00:55:11.519
 we have an

00:55:11.519 --> 00:55:11.980
 obligation

00:55:11.980 --> 00:55:12.660
 and that obligation

00:55:12.660 --> 00:55:13.539
 is to respond

00:55:13.539 --> 00:55:15.000
 to God

00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:15.660
 working in our

00:55:15.660 --> 00:55:16.100
 life

00:55:16.100 --> 00:55:19.200
 we're called

00:55:19.200 --> 00:55:19.580
 to say

00:55:19.580 --> 00:55:20.039
 am I going

00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:20.600
 to bear fruit

00:55:20.600 --> 00:55:20.980
 am I going

00:55:20.980 --> 00:55:21.400
 to do it

00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:22.220
 am I going

00:55:22.220 --> 00:55:23.100
 to be a part

00:55:23.100 --> 00:55:23.300
 of this

00:55:23.300 --> 00:55:23.760
 am I going

00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:24.760
 to repent

00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:25.720
 see Christ

00:55:25.720 --> 00:55:26.300
 as he really

00:55:26.300 --> 00:55:26.600
 is

00:55:26.600 --> 00:55:27.460
 see myself

00:55:27.460 --> 00:55:28.340
 as I really

00:55:28.340 --> 00:55:28.600
 am

00:55:28.600 --> 00:55:29.300
 realize that

00:55:29.300 --> 00:55:29.840
 there's no way

00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:30.300
 that I can get

00:55:30.300 --> 00:55:30.820
 to him on my

00:55:30.820 --> 00:55:31.039
 own

00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:31.640
 surrender

00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:32.179
 my life

00:55:32.179 --> 00:55:32.539
 to him

00:55:32.539 --> 00:55:33.199
 and allow

00:55:33.199 --> 00:55:33.599
 him to

00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:34.259
 change me

00:55:34.259 --> 00:55:34.859
 and to

00:55:34.859 --> 00:55:35.420
 heal me

00:55:35.420 --> 00:55:35.980
 and to

00:55:35.980 --> 00:55:36.480
 fix me

00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:37.179
 and put

00:55:37.179 --> 00:55:37.659
 fruit in

00:55:37.659 --> 00:55:38.279
 my life

00:55:38.279 --> 00:55:46.519
 both stories

00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:47.000
 tell us

00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:47.199
 that we

00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:47.739
 don't realize

00:55:47.739 --> 00:55:48.579
 how bad

00:55:48.579 --> 00:55:49.079
 off we

00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:49.440
 are

00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:53.539
 sometimes

00:55:53.539 --> 00:55:53.819
 we might

00:55:53.819 --> 00:55:54.159
 be walking

00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:54.559
 around and

00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:54.920
 everything's

00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:55.319
 perfect

00:55:55.319 --> 00:55:57.339
 and this

00:55:57.339 --> 00:55:57.920
 passage says

00:55:57.920 --> 00:55:58.359
 it might

00:55:58.359 --> 00:55:58.799
 be perfect

00:55:58.799 --> 00:55:59.379
 because God

00:55:59.379 --> 00:55:59.779
 is putting

00:55:59.779 --> 00:56:00.599
 amazing things

00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:00.920
 into your

00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:01.280
 life

00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:02.599
 because he

00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:02.920
 wants you

00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:03.380
 to repent

00:56:03.380 --> 00:56:05.639
 you know

00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:05.960
 why your

00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:06.280
 life has

00:56:06.280 --> 00:56:06.700
 gone so

00:56:06.700 --> 00:56:07.000
 well up

00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:07.180
 to this

00:56:07.180 --> 00:56:07.440
 point

00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:08.720
 God is

00:56:08.720 --> 00:56:09.159
 just putting

00:56:09.159 --> 00:56:09.960
 amazing things

00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:10.240
 into your

00:56:10.240 --> 00:56:10.539
 life

00:56:10.539 --> 00:56:10.880
 because he

00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:11.280
 wants your

00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:11.559
 heart

00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:13.119
 he wants you

00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:13.539
 to repent

00:56:13.539 --> 00:56:14.000
 he wants

00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:14.400
 to worship

00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:15.139
 he's doing

00:56:15.139 --> 00:56:15.460
 all these

00:56:15.460 --> 00:56:15.760
 incredible

00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:16.059
 things

00:56:16.059 --> 00:56:16.700
 don't think

00:56:16.700 --> 00:56:17.000
 that all

00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:17.400
 these great

00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:17.680
 things are

00:56:17.680 --> 00:56:17.920
 happening

00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:18.320
 because you're

00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:18.680
 doing it

00:56:18.680 --> 00:56:19.280
 the passage

00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:20.079
 says all

00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:20.539
 these great

00:56:20.539 --> 00:56:21.099
 things happening

00:56:21.099 --> 00:56:21.860
 because the

00:56:21.860 --> 00:56:22.500
 vine keeper is

00:56:22.500 --> 00:56:23.000
 going in there

00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:23.240
 and he's

00:56:23.240 --> 00:56:23.700
 breaking up

00:56:23.700 --> 00:56:24.059
 those things

00:56:24.059 --> 00:56:24.619
 he's changing

00:56:24.619 --> 00:56:25.039
 those things

00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:25.780
 he's giving

00:56:25.780 --> 00:56:26.220
 you all the

00:56:26.220 --> 00:56:26.539
 things that

00:56:26.539 --> 00:56:26.840
 you need

00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:27.440
 and the

00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:27.860
 question is

00:56:27.860 --> 00:56:28.160
 how do we

00:56:28.160 --> 00:56:28.660
 respond to

00:56:28.660 --> 00:56:28.880
 that

00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:32.160
 that's why

00:56:32.160 --> 00:56:32.700
 Jesus didn't

00:56:32.700 --> 00:56:33.940
 answer the

00:56:33.940 --> 00:56:34.900
 why or how

00:56:34.900 --> 00:56:35.260
 or who's

00:56:35.260 --> 00:56:35.700
 responsible

00:56:35.700 --> 00:56:36.280
 question in

00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:36.680
 the parable

00:56:36.680 --> 00:56:37.079
 and in the

00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:37.340
 story

00:56:37.340 --> 00:56:38.240
 because that

00:56:38.240 --> 00:56:38.539
 at that

00:56:38.539 --> 00:56:39.079
 point wasn't

00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:39.440
 important

00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:39.780
 what was

00:56:39.780 --> 00:56:40.280
 important was

00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:40.700
 that life

00:56:40.700 --> 00:56:41.120
 is short

00:56:41.120 --> 00:56:41.820
 and at any

00:56:41.820 --> 00:56:42.880
 time these

00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:43.340
 things will be

00:56:43.340 --> 00:56:43.960
 taken away

00:56:43.960 --> 00:56:44.220
 and the

00:56:44.220 --> 00:56:44.640
 question is

00:56:44.640 --> 00:56:44.940
 what are you

00:56:44.940 --> 00:56:45.280
 going to do

00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:45.720
 with that

00:56:45.720 --> 00:56:52.120
 okay we're

00:56:52.120 --> 00:56:52.519
 way over

00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:55.940
 two minutes

00:56:55.940 --> 00:57:01.360
 God has

00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:01.660
 really been

00:57:01.660 --> 00:57:02.080
 working on

00:57:02.080 --> 00:57:02.480
 me in this

00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:03.240
 place on

00:57:03.240 --> 00:57:03.740
 this passage

00:57:03.740 --> 00:57:04.019
 in our

00:57:04.019 --> 00:57:04.320
 hearts

00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:05.760
 and I

00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:06.480
 realized in

00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:07.240
 Jesus day

00:57:07.240 --> 00:57:07.760
 the church

00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:08.500
 was filled

00:57:08.500 --> 00:57:09.280
 with people

00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:11.720
 the church

00:57:11.720 --> 00:57:12.300
 was filled

00:57:12.300 --> 00:57:12.760
 with people

00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:13.160
 who just

00:57:13.160 --> 00:57:13.820
 sat in the

00:57:13.820 --> 00:57:14.280
 garden and

00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:14.540
 they did

00:57:14.540 --> 00:57:14.900
 nothing

00:57:14.900 --> 00:57:17.720
 the church

00:57:17.720 --> 00:57:18.320
 was filled

00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:18.820
 with people

00:57:18.820 --> 00:57:19.519
 who just

00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:20.200
 sat there

00:57:20.200 --> 00:57:20.880
 and watched

00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:21.579
 they came

00:57:21.579 --> 00:57:22.000
 to church

00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:22.680
 they observed

00:57:22.680 --> 00:57:23.320
 but there was

00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:23.840
 no fruit

00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:24.160
 there was

00:57:24.160 --> 00:57:24.720
 no life

00:57:24.720 --> 00:57:25.400
 and this

00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:26.320
 passage says

00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:27.260
 don't be

00:57:27.260 --> 00:57:27.760
 an observer

00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:30.059
 don't just

00:57:30.059 --> 00:57:30.440
 sit there

00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:30.840
 don't just

00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:31.440
 do nothing

00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:32.280
 but to

00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:32.720
 repent

00:57:32.720 --> 00:57:33.880
 and know

00:57:33.880 --> 00:57:34.180
 how good

00:57:34.180 --> 00:57:34.700
 God is

00:57:34.700 --> 00:57:36.500
 the passage

00:57:36.500 --> 00:57:37.019
 isn't saying

00:57:37.019 --> 00:57:37.800
 you can come

00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:38.340
 as much as

00:57:38.340 --> 00:57:38.680
 you want

00:57:38.680 --> 00:57:39.079
 and you see

00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:39.420
 all these

00:57:39.420 --> 00:57:39.619
 things

00:57:39.619 --> 00:57:40.099
 you're observing

00:57:40.099 --> 00:57:40.480
 all these

00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:40.700
 things

00:57:40.700 --> 00:57:41.360
 and just

00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:41.700
 take your

00:57:41.700 --> 00:57:42.079
 time

00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:42.720
 because you

00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:43.039
 got all

00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:43.400
 the time

00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:43.639
 in the

00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:43.900
 world

00:57:43.900 --> 00:57:46.579
 the passage

00:57:46.579 --> 00:57:47.019
 doesn't say

00:57:47.019 --> 00:57:47.360
 that

00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:48.980
 and remember

00:57:48.980 --> 00:57:49.420
 he's talking

00:57:49.420 --> 00:57:49.940
 to believers

00:57:49.940 --> 00:57:50.300
 he's not

00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:50.780
 talking just

00:57:50.780 --> 00:57:51.260
 to non-believers

00:57:51.260 --> 00:57:51.599
 he's talking

00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:52.260
 to everybody

00:57:52.260 --> 00:57:53.940
 and he's saying

00:57:53.940 --> 00:57:54.380
 you don't have

00:57:54.380 --> 00:57:54.900
 all the time

00:57:54.900 --> 00:57:55.220
 in the world

00:57:55.220 --> 00:57:55.639
 you don't know

00:57:55.639 --> 00:57:56.260
 how much time

00:57:56.260 --> 00:57:56.500
 you're going

00:57:56.500 --> 00:57:56.800
 to have

00:57:56.800 --> 00:57:57.760
 and one day

00:57:57.760 --> 00:57:58.780
 God is going

00:57:58.780 --> 00:57:59.320
 to remove

00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:00.180
 his grace

00:58:00.180 --> 00:58:00.840
 and his mercy

00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:01.680
 from your life

00:58:01.680 --> 00:58:01.940
 he's going

00:58:01.940 --> 00:58:02.320
 to stop

00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:02.920
 nudging your

00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:03.200
 heart

00:58:03.200 --> 00:58:03.860
 and in that

00:58:03.860 --> 00:58:04.240
 day you're

00:58:04.240 --> 00:58:04.420
 going to

00:58:04.420 --> 00:58:05.019
 meet him

00:58:05.019 --> 00:58:08.139
 and the

00:58:08.139 --> 00:58:08.679
 whole part

00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:08.920
 of this

00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:09.300
 story

00:58:09.300 --> 00:58:09.500
 and the

00:58:09.500 --> 00:58:09.759
 whole part

00:58:09.759 --> 00:58:10.000
 of this

00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:10.239
 sermon

00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:10.440
 and the

00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:10.639
 whole part

00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:10.860
 of this

00:58:10.860 --> 00:58:11.219
 passage

00:58:11.219 --> 00:58:11.639
 is

00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:13.259
 we love

00:58:13.259 --> 00:58:13.739
 you too

00:58:13.739 --> 00:58:14.219
 much

00:58:14.219 --> 00:58:16.739
 for you

00:58:16.739 --> 00:58:16.960
 have a

00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:17.239
 tower

00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:17.759
 full on

00:58:17.759 --> 00:58:17.940
 you

00:58:17.940 --> 00:58:20.000
 and you

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:20.400
 come before

00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:20.739
 a holy

00:58:20.739 --> 00:58:21.059
 God

00:58:21.059 --> 00:58:21.280
 and you

00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:21.480
 say

00:58:21.480 --> 00:58:22.159
 why

00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:22.420
 should

00:58:22.420 --> 00:58:22.559
 you

00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:22.860
 let me

00:58:22.860 --> 00:58:23.179
 in here

00:58:23.179 --> 00:58:23.380
 and he

00:58:23.380 --> 00:58:23.599
 goes

00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:24.139
 well I've

00:58:24.139 --> 00:58:24.400
 done all

00:58:24.400 --> 00:58:24.599
 these

00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:24.880
 things

00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:25.119
 I'm

00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:25.380
 great

00:58:25.380 --> 00:58:25.579
 I've

00:58:25.579 --> 00:58:25.679
 done

00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:25.800
 it

00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:26.199
 all

00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:30.859
 I mean

00:58:30.859 --> 00:58:31.199
 that's just

00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:31.879
 the wrong

00:58:31.879 --> 00:58:32.619
 perspective

00:58:32.619 --> 00:58:33.159
 it's why

00:58:33.159 --> 00:58:33.939
 we're here

00:58:33.939 --> 00:58:34.339
 it's not

00:58:34.339 --> 00:58:34.779
 why God

00:58:34.779 --> 00:58:35.059
 has come

00:58:35.059 --> 00:58:35.359
 into your

00:58:35.359 --> 00:58:35.579
 life

00:58:35.579 --> 00:58:35.919
 it's not

00:58:35.919 --> 00:58:36.359
 why Christ

00:58:36.359 --> 00:58:36.799
 continues

00:58:36.799 --> 00:58:37.199
 to break

00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:37.579
 your roots

00:58:37.579 --> 00:58:37.819
 up

00:58:37.819 --> 00:58:40.399
 don't

00:58:40.399 --> 00:58:40.719
 keep

00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:41.099
 sitting

00:58:41.099 --> 00:58:42.419
 in church

00:58:42.419 --> 00:58:43.639
 and doing

00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:43.939
 nothing

00:58:43.939 --> 00:58:44.460
 don't keep

00:58:44.460 --> 00:58:44.939
 sitting in

00:58:44.939 --> 00:58:45.119
 church

00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:45.439
 and not

00:58:45.439 --> 00:58:46.000
 growing fruit

00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:46.719
 don't keep

00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:47.119
 sitting in

00:58:47.119 --> 00:58:47.279
 church

00:58:47.279 --> 00:58:47.559
 and not

00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:47.980
 repenting

00:58:47.980 --> 00:58:48.460
 and realizing

00:58:48.460 --> 00:58:49.259
 that everything

00:58:49.259 --> 00:58:49.879
 you have

00:58:49.879 --> 00:58:50.219
 is because

00:58:50.219 --> 00:58:50.739
 God gave

00:58:50.739 --> 00:58:51.199
 it to you

00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:57.339
 he wants

00:58:57.339 --> 00:58:57.839
 an amazing

00:58:57.839 --> 00:58:58.419
 life for

00:58:58.419 --> 00:58:58.519
 you

00:58:58.519 --> 00:58:58.939
 he wants

00:58:58.939 --> 00:58:59.359
 a fruit

00:58:59.359 --> 00:58:59.639
 and he

00:58:59.639 --> 00:58:59.839
 wants

00:58:59.839 --> 00:59:00.379
 abundance

00:59:00.379 --> 00:59:02.019
 he wants

00:59:02.019 --> 00:59:02.460
 incredible

00:59:02.460 --> 00:59:03.000
 things

00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:04.879
 but he

00:59:04.879 --> 00:59:05.279
 wants your

00:59:05.279 --> 00:59:05.699
 worship

00:59:05.699 --> 00:59:08.519
 and he

00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:08.879
 wants your

00:59:08.879 --> 00:59:09.199
 heart

00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:12.559
 and that's

00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:12.899
 why Jesus

00:59:12.899 --> 00:59:13.199
 says

00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:13.739
 repent

00:59:13.739 --> 00:59:16.219
 the kingdom

00:59:16.219 --> 00:59:16.539
 of God

00:59:16.539 --> 00:59:16.779
 is at

00:59:16.779 --> 00:59:17.039
 hand

00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:19.939
 repent

00:59:19.940 --> 00:59:22.420
 father

00:59:22.420 --> 00:59:22.700
 we just

00:59:22.700 --> 00:59:23.119
 come before

00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:23.519
 you

00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:24.800
 and we

00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:25.420
 just are

00:59:25.420 --> 00:59:25.800
 humbled

00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:26.200
 by your

00:59:26.200 --> 00:59:26.559
 mercy

00:59:26.559 --> 00:59:27.159
 and your

00:59:27.159 --> 00:59:27.579
 grace

00:59:27.579 --> 00:59:29.860
 lord we

00:59:29.860 --> 00:59:30.380
 come before

00:59:30.380 --> 00:59:30.599
 you

00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:30.900
 and we

00:59:30.900 --> 00:59:31.159
 just

00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:32.000
 we repent

00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:33.920
 we realize

00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:34.360
 that when

00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:34.740
 things are

00:59:34.740 --> 00:59:35.300
 going good

00:59:35.300 --> 00:59:38.480
 maybe you're

00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:39.260
 just fertilizing

00:59:39.260 --> 00:59:39.800
 us really

00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:40.280
 a lot

00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:41.500
 because you

00:59:41.500 --> 00:59:41.760
 want a

00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:42.139
 change of

00:59:42.139 --> 00:59:42.400
 heart

00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:44.420
 and lord

00:59:44.420 --> 00:59:44.960
 we realize

00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:45.380
 when things

00:59:45.380 --> 00:59:45.659
 are going

00:59:45.659 --> 00:59:46.099
 bad

00:59:46.099 --> 00:59:48.820
 for sure

00:59:48.820 --> 00:59:49.220
 they're not

00:59:49.220 --> 00:59:49.599
 as bad

00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:49.860
 as they

00:59:49.860 --> 00:59:50.360
 can be

00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:52.179
 we will

00:59:52.179 --> 00:59:52.500
 never

00:59:52.500 --> 00:59:53.759
 as christians

00:59:53.759 --> 00:59:54.219
 we will

00:59:54.219 --> 00:59:54.860
 never get

00:59:54.860 --> 00:59:56.440
 all that we

00:59:56.440 --> 00:59:56.839
 deserve

00:59:56.839 --> 00:59:57.299
 lord we

00:59:57.299 --> 00:59:58.019
 realize that

00:59:58.019 --> 00:59:58.579
 we realize

00:59:58.579 --> 00:59:59.059
 we'll never

00:59:59.059 --> 00:59:59.500
 get all

00:59:59.500 --> 00:59:59.759
 that we

00:59:59.759 --> 01:00:00.139
 deserve

01:00:00.139 --> 01:00:00.739
 because your

01:00:00.739 --> 01:00:01.199
 son

01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:02.960
 took all

01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:03.259
 that we

01:00:03.259 --> 01:00:03.579
 deserve

01:00:03.579 --> 01:00:03.880
 on the

01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:04.279
 cross

01:00:04.279 --> 01:00:06.619
 and so we

01:00:06.619 --> 01:00:06.920
 just come

01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:07.339
 before you

01:00:07.339 --> 01:00:07.679
 now we

01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:08.059
 ask you

01:00:08.059 --> 01:00:08.739
 to change

01:00:08.739 --> 01:00:09.339
 our hearts

01:00:09.339 --> 01:00:09.719
 to look

01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:09.980
 at our

01:00:09.980 --> 01:00:10.339
 hearts

01:00:10.339 --> 01:00:11.679
 break away

01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:12.259
 the soil

01:00:12.259 --> 01:00:12.599
 that's

01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:13.239
 clogging up

01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:13.699
 the roots

01:00:13.699 --> 01:00:14.019
 in our

01:00:14.019 --> 01:00:14.480
 life

01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:15.579
 help us

01:00:15.579 --> 01:00:15.900
 to see

01:00:15.900 --> 01:00:16.279
 you as

01:00:16.279 --> 01:00:16.699
 you truly

01:00:16.699 --> 01:00:16.960
 are

01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:17.279
 help us

01:00:17.279 --> 01:00:17.539
 to see

01:00:17.539 --> 01:00:17.860
 us as

01:00:17.860 --> 01:00:18.500
 we truly

01:00:18.500 --> 01:00:18.759
 are

01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:19.540
 help us

01:00:19.540 --> 01:00:20.060
 to walk

01:00:20.060 --> 01:00:20.320
 in the

01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:20.620
 tension

01:00:20.620 --> 01:00:21.180
 of realizing

01:00:21.180 --> 01:00:22.200
 that we're

01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:22.720
 lost and

01:00:22.720 --> 01:00:23.180
 we're broken

01:00:23.180 --> 01:00:23.780
 but that you're

01:00:23.780 --> 01:00:24.720
 amazing and we're

01:00:24.720 --> 01:00:25.360
 your child

01:00:25.360 --> 01:00:26.540
 and amidst that

01:00:26.540 --> 01:00:29.300
 tension help us to live and be in community every day

01:00:29.300 --> 01:00:31.460
 and to worship you

01:00:31.460 --> 01:00:37.420
 father we come before you and we just repent of our self-righteousness

01:00:37.420 --> 01:00:42.500
 we repent of our sin we repent of our smugness we repent of our pride

01:00:42.500 --> 01:00:51.719
 i confess lord just the pride of my life and just the arrogance and just the anger i feel sometimes when people don't do things the way i want them done

01:00:51.719 --> 01:00:54.599
 father i just repent of that

01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:57.639
 and i know that i'm not the vine keeper

01:00:57.639 --> 01:01:00.599
 that you are

01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:08.380
 and so we trust you and we're so thankful for everything you've done

01:01:08.380 --> 01:01:11.880
 we pray these things in your son jesus name

01:01:11.880 --> 01:01:13.159
 amen

01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:17.819
 you know if god has worked in your heart we would pray that you wouldn't leave here

01:01:17.819 --> 01:01:29.199
 you know there'll be people up here up front who are trained to pray with you and i would love to pray with you christina and so please don't leave here if you have a burden on your heart or you want to talk to somebody about the message today

01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:34.439
 the next step if you're here for the first time or any time is community groups

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 i have a picture of our community group up here i think and so that's where everything happens in the church that's where people gather that's where people do things and so we would encourage you that if this is our community group if you're not in the community group please sign up it's where we sharpen each other iron on iron

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 and it's it's kind of the lifeblood of our church because we believe that we're on a journey together in community

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 and so there'll be a table out there to sign up for the community group

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 ours meet on friday night about 200 yards from here but they're different places on the island we have one starting up in tst in a week and we have a couple others around so please take that step of faith and there's a table out there to sign up and there's no one there come see me and i'll make sure that you get in one on september 2nd we have churchwide

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 uh buffet i get in trouble when i say picnic uh and so we have a churchwide buffet so you're not going to be able to get out of here that way you have to go through that way

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 there'll be food and fellowship and it's just a great time so if you have a friend who's not in church

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 please uh this is a great time to invite them to come and meet the watermark family and be a part of that

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 one of the things that we prayed about a lot is the church is that

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 everyone would do something they would use their gifts that we wouldn't be trees just sitting in a garden but

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 we would produce fruit where god has us and one of the the blessings for us has been we've had

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 volunteers and interns people who actually raise support from america to come work at the church at

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 your church which to me is amazing you know free late people come and they want to be here that's

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 that's incredible and they do an internship here from two months to over a year

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 and so one of our interns jonathan is leaving jonathan will you come up here i'm just i'm not

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 going to put you on a spot but jonathan's been here all summer he's going back to indiana he's

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 going to get married he's going to work in his dad's business and work in his local church and so

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 if you get a chance jonathan's basically been loving on our kids taking care of them pointing them to

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 christ uh just to thank him for that and uh we i feel like we're sending you out as a

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 mission and i want to pray for you before that but but don't leave yet and we have one other person

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 i have a i have a slide here do you have that slide here of uh so this is kind of a sack maybe it's not

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 a sacrilege we had the picture of the our kids uh trick-or-treating and so in 2004 uh our kids we

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 take our kids trick-or-treating because we feel like it's a way to get to know people in the community

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 and people like that and um we might not have it and and so in 2004 we were taking our kids trick-or-treating

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 here they are so this is kip that's rachel that's rebecca and caitlin isn't even born yet which is

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 amazing but on this halloween chase anderson chase came to our house he's checking out hong kong wondering

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 if he should move here and so this is chase's first halloween with us and in hong kong and we

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 have this tradition where he comes back every halloween and he helps us take all that we take

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 about 20 kids around we get to meet their parents and so this is what this is what our kids looked

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 like in 2004 so chase can you come up here just really quickly and chase so chase has been with us

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 for that long he's he's one of the original 44 who signed the covenant to come over and plant the

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 church uh he's been overseeing he's actually been an intern in the church for free uh for over a year

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 just serving in the church and helping with prayer and everything else and so chase is moving uh back

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 to dallas uh to to continue work there with his family's business but he has been a huge blessing

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 to us and so uh i just wanted to bring him up here just because he's been leading the prayer ministry

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 and he's been doing incredibly incredibly he's been doing amazing things and so god has been doing

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 amazing things in his life which has been amazing to see just the change the gospel and repentance and

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 all these things god does in our life so i'm going to pray for both you guys and then uh i think we're

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 dismissed father we just thank you for our brothers here thank you for jonathan just for his faithfulness

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 and just coming for these two months and pray that you would go before him in his future marriage

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 pray that he would date his wife often um and that he would do well as he works as a businessman

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 and shares your love and the gospel and just the need for people in his community and in his church

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 and father we thank you for chase you brought him here for so many years we've seen him in probably the

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 worst times of his life physically and we've seen him in the best times and in between and what a

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 privilege it has been to see your hand move in his life and see just what happens when the gospel

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 comes in and you as the vine keeper get into the garden and you start breaking away things that

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 prevent all of us from growing and so we pray for chase as we send him out as one of our missionaries

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 back to dallas where dallas really needs a lot of missionaries uh if you're from there you can say amen

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 and uh so we just pray for chase that you would go before him just give him favor and that you would

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 help him to find a great community where he could plug into and continue the journey that you have him on

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 and father for all of us i just pray for this message and for your spirit that you would change

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 us help us to realize that you are amazing that you're pursuing us that you're trying you're trying

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 to prevent us from getting what we deserve you're trying to prevent us from getting what we deserve

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 father help us to see that and help us just to worship you and just to realize that you are amazing

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 and we love you and so we pray these things your son jesus holy name amen god bless you guys thank you

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 for hanging in there with us and we'll see you next sunday take care