WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:07.100 Hey church, good morning. It's 1030, so I'm going to go ahead and get us started. 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:13.599 Normally I would just jump right in, but since we're separated this morning, there are a few announcements that we need to cover. 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:20.640 First of all, I just want to thank our deacons again for the way that they manage our property and for their diligence this morning 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:26.080 in checking on our church and determining that we are in fact an ice skating rink in our parking lot, 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:28.740 which is what prevents us from gathering together. 00:00:28.739 --> 00:00:34.739 I also want to remind you all that the new members class is going to start next Sunday, February 5th. 00:00:35.659 --> 00:00:40.960 If you're interested in that, please do email me. It's mcapone at cmpca.net. 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:49.119 I know many of you have already, and if you haven't heard back from me, that's because I'm just backlogged from being at a bunch of regional church things this past week 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:52.259 and then also being gone for a couple weeks after Christmas. 00:00:52.259 --> 00:00:58.259 But do know that I'm tracking with you all, and I hope to see you 9-15 next Sunday, February 5th. 00:00:58.259 --> 00:01:01.280 We're going to meet right by the piano at the front of the sanctuary. 00:01:02.059 --> 00:01:08.719 Also a good reminder for next Sunday is next Sunday is the last day to bring back physical baby bottles 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.420 if you're taking part in the baby bottle campaign for the Life Network. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.900 And I'm told that we are leading right now. 00:01:15.979 --> 00:01:18.579 We're leading all the other churches in terms of percentage raise. 00:01:18.579 --> 00:01:27.079 We've already raised two-thirds of the goal that they have given us, and we're at $400, so we want to stay in the lead there 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.420 because, of course, our goal is to crush all the other churches. 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:32.379 Just kidding, mostly. 00:01:32.379 --> 00:01:41.479 Finally, I wanted to remind you that this is the last Sunday of the month, and one of our challenges when we're separated like this 00:01:41.479 --> 00:01:45.659 is that we're not able to take an offering, and even though our worship service is canceled, 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.699 our mortgage is not canceled, and our utility bills have not been canceled. 00:01:49.859 --> 00:01:54.219 So if you can just remember any gifts you would have given today to remember to go online, 00:01:54.219 --> 00:01:58.920 you can do that at our website, which is cmpc.church. 00:01:59.459 --> 00:02:00.760 We'd be very grateful for that. 00:02:01.039 --> 00:02:07.620 Finally, I do want to mention in the life of our community that Burke Ivey was born to Paul and Lakin Erickson this past Wednesday, 00:02:08.020 --> 00:02:14.240 and they're all doing well but can continue to use our prayers for health and strength and recovery. 00:02:15.539 --> 00:02:17.079 I think I have everything. 00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:20.879 With that, let's jump in. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:25.199 And, of course, you're here with us this morning, which is an interesting choice 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:30.579 because if you're at home and you're online, you can choose from any church in the country. 00:02:30.579 --> 00:02:34.419 You can choose from some of the best preachers alive and dead, 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:40.120 and instead you're here with a few folks on a Facebook Live, and you're listening to just a normal guy. 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.419 And so the question is why, and the answer is that we're a community. 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:44.960 We're here together. 00:02:45.099 --> 00:02:47.439 We're going through a book of the Bible together. 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:53.000 And so our interest is in belonging to one another, which we do. 00:02:53.139 --> 00:02:56.419 So in that spirit, I'm just going to ask you all to consider if you're on Facebook, 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.000 and you can leave a comment to do that, to share where you're watching from, 00:03:00.099 --> 00:03:02.439 to welcome one another and greet one another. 00:03:02.539 --> 00:03:08.319 I know it's a small consolation to do it online when we are not able to be together physically, 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:14.019 but it does give us that small sense of community, and it also reminds me that I'm not crazy 00:03:14.019 --> 00:03:18.000 and just talking alone to a camera in my family room. 00:03:19.019 --> 00:03:21.560 So I appreciate you all doing that. 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:26.519 With that, we're going to jump right in to our passage this morning. 00:03:26.799 --> 00:03:29.479 You know that we're going through the Gospel of Mark, 00:03:29.579 --> 00:03:35.060 which tells the story of Jesus in his life and his death and his resurrection. 00:03:35.060 --> 00:03:37.960 And we're going to have a little bit of a throwback this morning. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.719 So you'll remember in the first eight chapters of the Gospel of Mark, 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:44.259 I kept asking you over and over these two questions. 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:47.000 Who is Jesus and how do we respond to him? 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.960 And that question is actually going to make a comeback this morning. 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.080 Even though we've moved into Passion Week, 00:03:53.539 --> 00:03:58.900 Jesus is going to force us once again to wrestle with the question of his identity. 00:03:58.900 --> 00:04:01.659 If you've been with us the last few weeks, 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:07.060 you know that we've finished up this series of three questions that Jesus has been asked, 00:04:07.099 --> 00:04:11.259 and now Jesus decides it is time to turn the tables a little bit. 00:04:11.340 --> 00:04:13.280 It's time for him to ask a question. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.139 And he asks a question about the Messiah, of course, who he is. 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:18.840 And as we wrestle with this, 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:22.280 we wrestle with who Jesus is and how we respond to him. 00:04:22.340 --> 00:04:25.220 There's just a couple of simple things that we see in this passage. 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:28.700 As Jesus reminds us that he's the king, first of all, 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.860 we see encouragement for the hurting, 00:04:32.260 --> 00:04:35.120 and we also see challenge for the hard-hearted. 00:04:35.380 --> 00:04:38.680 It's encouragement for the hurting and challenge for the hard-hearted. 00:04:39.180 --> 00:04:42.540 Encouragement for the hurting, that Jesus is the king, that he's coming back, 00:04:42.580 --> 00:04:43.880 he's going to make all things right, 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.340 and challenge for the hard-hearted, that Jesus is the king. 00:04:47.420 --> 00:04:49.740 He's not just an advisor or a comforter, 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:54.340 but he's actually one who's able to command our obedience and our lives. 00:04:55.220 --> 00:04:59.120 And so it's with that that I'm going to invite you to turn with me to 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:04.220 which we are continuing in Mark chapter 12, 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:06.700 and we're starting in verse 35, 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:08.780 and we're going to read through verse 37. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.900 So I invite you to open up your Bible or your phone or computer, 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:13.640 whatever you have with you. 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:17.200 Remember, regardless of what you open, that this is God's word. 00:05:17.500 --> 00:05:20.500 And God tells us that his word is a lamp to our feet, 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:22.120 and it's a light to our path. 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:25.720 So God has not left us alone to stumble in the dark, 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:27.500 but instead he's shown us the way to go. 00:05:28.340 --> 00:05:31.120 And so that's why we read now Mark chapter 12, 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.120 the son of David. 00:05:34.019 --> 00:05:36.780 David himself in the Holy Spirit declared, 00:05:36.779 --> 00:05:39.239 The Lord said to my Lord, 00:05:39.559 --> 00:05:43.719 Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. 00:05:44.500 --> 00:05:46.719 David himself calls him Lord. 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:49.979 So how is he his son? 00:05:50.619 --> 00:05:54.039 And the great throng heard him gladly. 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.639 I invite you to pray with me as we come to this portion of God's word. 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:00.479 Our Father in heaven, 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.319 we thank you this morning for the gift and the wonder of technology, 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:09.500 that we're able to come together virtually from a distance, 00:06:09.580 --> 00:06:14.540 even as we're separated physically because of the weather and the snow and the ice. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.540 We ask that you'd help us with the challenges that that presents, 00:06:17.580 --> 00:06:20.759 as it presents distraction and disconnection, 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:22.020 that you'd be with us, 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:24.600 that you'd help us to focus on your word, 00:06:24.980 --> 00:06:26.319 what you have to say to us. 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:27.120 And most of all, 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:28.319 you'd show us Jesus. 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.639 We ask these things in his name. 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:31.420 Amen. 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:36.360 You'll remember from the past several weeks 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.120 that we're finishing this series of three questions 00:06:39.719 --> 00:06:41.899 over three weeks that come up against Jesus. 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.139 We started out with Drew. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.439 I preached on the question about paying taxes to Caesar. 00:06:47.659 --> 00:06:49.519 That was an attempt to trap Jesus. 00:06:49.719 --> 00:06:50.600 And then the next week, 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.100 we had that question about a woman who had seven husbands 00:06:54.100 --> 00:06:56.180 and what that had to do with the resurrection. 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.480 And we talked about the reality of there being no marriage in heaven. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:00.899 And then last week, 00:07:00.939 --> 00:07:03.480 we had the third and final question pointed to Jesus, 00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:04.420 where he was asked, 00:07:04.579 --> 00:07:05.899 what is the greatest commandment? 00:07:06.379 --> 00:07:07.099 And Jesus says, 00:07:07.219 --> 00:07:07.399 actually, 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:08.139 there's not just one, 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:08.600 there's two. 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:10.600 Love the Lord your God with your whole self 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:12.899 and to love your neighbor as yourself. 00:07:13.779 --> 00:07:14.879 Now in this section, 00:07:15.339 --> 00:07:20.079 Jesus decides it is time to stop the stump the chump series. 00:07:20.500 --> 00:07:20.779 In fact, 00:07:20.819 --> 00:07:22.519 we saw in verse 34 last week, 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:24.779 no one wanted to ask him questions anymore 00:07:24.779 --> 00:07:27.179 because it wasn't fun anymore. 00:07:28.039 --> 00:07:31.399 And Jesus decides it's time for him to ask a question. 00:07:31.539 --> 00:07:34.559 It's his turn to turn the tables. 00:07:35.539 --> 00:07:37.939 And so that's what we come up against here in verse 35. 00:07:38.099 --> 00:07:40.599 Jesus poses this very strange question. 00:07:40.719 --> 00:07:41.479 And to understand it, 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:43.019 I want you to think about it this way. 00:07:43.019 --> 00:07:45.959 Imagine I came to you and I said, 00:07:46.579 --> 00:07:48.879 I am two things at the same time. 00:07:49.699 --> 00:07:51.560 I am my dad's father. 00:07:52.539 --> 00:07:54.839 And I'm also my dad's son. 00:07:55.159 --> 00:07:55.759 I'm both. 00:07:56.479 --> 00:07:57.219 And if you think about it, 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:59.560 you realize that there's no way that that could happen. 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:02.399 I would have to actually be my own grandfather. 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:05.159 I want something that's mutually exclusive, 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:06.719 two things that can't go together. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.899 That's the conundrum that Jesus is giving 00:08:09.899 --> 00:08:12.120 to the religious leaders here. 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:13.300 He's telling them, 00:08:13.379 --> 00:08:16.060 hey, there's two things that we agree about. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.560 I believe in you believe in the Old Testament. 00:08:18.840 --> 00:08:21.540 How can those two things go together? 00:08:21.660 --> 00:08:23.660 Because we know that there's this Messiah 00:08:23.660 --> 00:08:24.680 that we're expecting. 00:08:25.420 --> 00:08:27.459 And we believe two things about that Messiah. 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.959 First, he says this here in verses 35 and 37, 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.200 that this Messiah is going to be the son of David. 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:38.060 So verse 35, he said, 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.580 how can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 00:08:40.580 --> 00:08:42.240 Then verse 37, 00:08:42.400 --> 00:08:43.740 so how is he his son? 00:08:44.460 --> 00:08:45.900 So fact number one, 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:47.780 the Messiah, who we know to be Jesus, 00:08:47.940 --> 00:08:48.860 is David's son. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.080 But there's also fact number two, 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:51.820 inconvenient, 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:53.680 David himself, 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:54.400 verse 35, 00:08:54.620 --> 00:08:55.540 in the Holy Spirit, 00:08:55.680 --> 00:08:56.040 declared, 00:08:56.180 --> 00:08:57.840 the Lord said to my Lord, 00:08:57.960 --> 00:08:58.879 sit at my right hand 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:00.740 until I put your enemies under your feet. 00:09:01.139 --> 00:09:04.480 So the Messiah is not just David's son. 00:09:04.820 --> 00:09:06.800 He's also David's Lord. 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.299 So it's similar again to me saying, 00:09:09.419 --> 00:09:10.659 hey, I'm not just my dad's son, 00:09:10.719 --> 00:09:11.659 I'm also his father. 00:09:12.319 --> 00:09:14.299 Now, one of the disadvantages we have 00:09:14.299 --> 00:09:15.599 of being separated this morning 00:09:15.599 --> 00:09:16.679 is if we had been in worship, 00:09:16.819 --> 00:09:19.019 I would have already read to you Psalm 110 00:09:19.019 --> 00:09:21.259 as our Old Testament reading, 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:23.479 which is what Jesus is quoting from here. 00:09:23.740 --> 00:09:25.199 If you look in your Bible, 00:09:25.259 --> 00:09:28.459 and I encourage you to read Psalm 110 later this morning, 00:09:28.620 --> 00:09:29.899 you'll see that it's marked, 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:31.479 at least in the ESV translation, 00:09:31.779 --> 00:09:33.019 as a Psalm of David. 00:09:33.019 --> 00:09:35.000 So David's the one speaking here, 00:09:35.179 --> 00:09:38.759 and we have the first verse of Psalm 110 in verse 36. 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:39.980 So when it says, 00:09:40.139 --> 00:09:41.539 the Lord said to my Lord, 00:09:41.579 --> 00:09:42.460 what he's saying is, 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:44.679 God the Father said to the Messiah. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.340 And so that first Lord is God the Father. 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:49.600 The second Lord is the Messiah. 00:09:49.740 --> 00:09:51.899 And so the critical word there is my Lord. 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:55.559 David is saying the Messiah is my Lord. 00:09:56.579 --> 00:09:59.279 And that's what Jesus is honing in on here 00:09:59.279 --> 00:09:59.840 is to say, 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:03.780 okay, we all agree that the Messiah is going to be David's son. 00:10:03.940 --> 00:10:06.660 We're told this over and over in the Old Testament. 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:11.920 We also all agree that Psalm 110 is referring to the Messiah. 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:13.480 And in that Psalm, 00:10:13.700 --> 00:10:16.700 we're being told that the Messiah is not David's son, 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:17.660 but his Lord. 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:21.180 So we have two things that cannot possibly go together. 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.220 You've asked me, Jesus, many hard questions. 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:27.120 And here I am to ask you a hard question. 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:30.120 How can you, in fact, resolve these things? 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.659 How can I be my dad's father and my dad's son? 00:10:33.740 --> 00:10:35.860 Of course, this is ridiculous, 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:37.480 but you've agreed to it. 00:10:37.500 --> 00:10:38.860 You're the experts in the law. 00:10:38.940 --> 00:10:40.220 So you tell me. 00:10:40.620 --> 00:10:42.440 You want to ask hard questions. 00:10:42.560 --> 00:10:46.679 Now it's time for you to answer a hard question. 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:51.979 Now it tells us here the crowds were glad to hear Jesus, 00:10:52.099 --> 00:10:52.939 and they're glad to hear him 00:10:52.939 --> 00:10:54.559 because they can tell, again, 00:10:54.659 --> 00:10:56.679 just his insight and knowledge of the scriptures 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:57.579 as an intelligence. 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:01.000 He's doing something that I'm sure is satisfying for them, 00:11:01.059 --> 00:11:03.679 which he's putting the religious leaders on their heels. 00:11:03.819 --> 00:11:05.859 These men who keep coming and pretending 00:11:05.859 --> 00:11:07.279 as if they know everything. 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:08.939 And Jesus is actually saying, 00:11:09.019 --> 00:11:10.839 look, there is a very simple problem 00:11:10.839 --> 00:11:13.139 that you don't know how to solve. 00:11:13.139 --> 00:11:18.220 This problem, though, is one that we know the answer to, 00:11:18.539 --> 00:11:19.559 and it's this. 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:21.580 This can be resolved, 00:11:21.740 --> 00:11:22.860 that Jesus, the Messiah, 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.139 can be both David's Lord above him 00:11:25.139 --> 00:11:26.860 and his son under him 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:29.919 when we recognize Jesus' full identity, 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.139 that Jesus is both God, 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:35.939 he's both divine, and he's human. 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.659 And when we understand that Jesus is 100% man 00:11:39.659 --> 00:11:41.120 and 100% God, 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.340 we can untangle this riddle 00:11:43.340 --> 00:11:45.460 that Jesus presents to the religious leaders. 00:11:45.980 --> 00:11:49.460 He can be David's Lord in his divinity. 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:51.360 In Jesus' divinity, 00:11:51.560 --> 00:11:54.519 we know he was already there at the beginning. 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:56.000 John chapter 1 tells us, 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:57.799 in the beginning was the Word, 00:11:57.860 --> 00:11:58.639 referring to Jesus, 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:00.240 and the Word was God. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.019 So as Jesus functions in his divinity, 00:12:03.100 --> 00:12:04.820 according to his divine nature, 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:05.580 of course, 00:12:05.980 --> 00:12:07.700 he is David's Lord 00:12:07.700 --> 00:12:09.960 because he pre-exists David. 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.440 In his human nature, however, 00:12:13.780 --> 00:12:16.879 he comes after David chronologically. 00:12:17.560 --> 00:12:20.700 He is born after David is born. 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.860 When, because Jesus is both 100% God 00:12:25.860 --> 00:12:27.480 and 100% man, 00:12:27.560 --> 00:12:30.300 because he's both human and divine, 00:12:30.420 --> 00:12:32.600 that is the way and the only way 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:34.400 that these two things can come together. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.600 And so Jesus here is showing 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:39.579 that the Old Testament has revealed all along 00:12:39.579 --> 00:12:41.620 that this son of David 00:12:41.620 --> 00:12:43.480 is going to be more than a man. 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.459 He is going to be God himself. 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:50.860 Jesus existed as God before he became man. 00:12:50.980 --> 00:12:53.100 He now exists as God and man, 00:12:53.199 --> 00:12:54.259 100% one, 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:56.319 100% the other. 00:12:56.579 --> 00:12:58.559 That is the answer to the riddle. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.439 That is how this gets resolved. 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.079 There is no answer, by the way, 00:13:03.459 --> 00:13:06.159 to how I could be my dad's father and his son 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:07.259 because that's impossible. 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.179 But Jesus can be David's son and David's Lord 00:13:11.179 --> 00:13:13.899 because he's both human and divine. 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.159 And so Jesus is saying something indirectly 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:18.479 to these religious leaders. 00:13:18.959 --> 00:13:22.239 You think that I am just this good teacher. 00:13:22.379 --> 00:13:24.259 I'm just a chump for you to stump. 00:13:24.500 --> 00:13:27.459 I'm just someone who can answer questions very well, 00:13:27.460 --> 00:13:28.259 but in fact, 00:13:28.420 --> 00:13:30.920 I am much more than a teacher. 00:13:31.460 --> 00:13:34.639 I am the Psalm 110 King. 00:13:36.920 --> 00:13:39.480 I am more than just a man. 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:41.320 I'm God himself. 00:13:41.800 --> 00:13:43.700 I am the promised Messiah, 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.600 the one who is going to rule over the nations. 00:13:47.160 --> 00:13:49.320 I'm not your answer, man. 00:13:50.180 --> 00:13:52.860 I'm the King of the earth. 00:13:52.860 --> 00:13:57.879 I am so much more than you realize 00:13:57.879 --> 00:13:59.340 and give me credit for. 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:02.039 This is the reason I'm able to trap you 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:03.340 in your own questions. 00:14:04.139 --> 00:14:07.720 I am more than you have bargained for. 00:14:09.019 --> 00:14:10.539 And so that's the simple, 00:14:10.740 --> 00:14:13.159 the clear explanation of what's happening in this passage. 00:14:13.300 --> 00:14:14.419 Jesus is letting them know, 00:14:14.800 --> 00:14:16.600 hey, you don't realize who you're dealing with. 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:19.620 And you don't know as much as you think you know. 00:14:20.259 --> 00:14:21.620 I'm 100% God. 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:23.620 I'm 100% man. 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.139 And so we've seen what this has to do 00:14:26.139 --> 00:14:27.120 with the teachers of the law. 00:14:27.220 --> 00:14:28.519 It's again a rebuke of them. 00:14:28.820 --> 00:14:30.659 Remember last week was a rebuke 00:14:30.659 --> 00:14:31.519 as Jesus was saying, 00:14:31.620 --> 00:14:33.759 look, you care about these technical questions, 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:35.399 but you don't care about love, 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:36.779 which is actually the heart of the law. 00:14:37.040 --> 00:14:38.560 And Jesus is rebuking them again. 00:14:38.700 --> 00:14:41.040 You care about solving these riddles, 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:43.180 but you don't even realize who I am. 00:14:43.179 --> 00:14:45.399 You talk about the becoming Messiah, 00:14:45.539 --> 00:14:47.519 but then when he shows up, you miss him. 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:49.959 The question for us though is, 00:14:50.359 --> 00:14:54.039 what do these three verses have to do with us in 2023? 00:14:54.359 --> 00:14:55.779 We're not the religious leaders. 00:14:56.319 --> 00:14:58.379 We understand the answer to the riddle 00:14:58.379 --> 00:15:00.159 in a way that they did not. 00:15:00.239 --> 00:15:03.579 And so this needs to shape and form us as well. 00:15:03.839 --> 00:15:06.379 And I'm just gonna tell you two simple things. 00:15:06.599 --> 00:15:08.539 First of all, it's going to encourage us. 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:10.659 And second, it's gonna challenge us. 00:15:10.779 --> 00:15:11.919 It's gonna encourage us. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:14.079 And it's going to challenge us. 00:15:14.319 --> 00:15:15.279 In its encouragement, 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:19.319 Jesus is reminding us of basic and simple things, 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:20.379 not easy things, 00:15:20.979 --> 00:15:24.500 but simple things that we've talked about over and over. 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.559 If we had read Psalm 110, 00:15:26.839 --> 00:15:29.500 in fact, you see it here in verse 36 quoted, 00:15:30.099 --> 00:15:30.500 it says, 00:15:30.659 --> 00:15:34.419 sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. 00:15:35.439 --> 00:15:36.259 And that's an idea, 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.399 this image of Jesus sitting and the nations, 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:41.159 he's using them as his footstool. 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:46.039 Jesus has the greatest rulers and powers of this world as his Ottoman. 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.980 That's what it means to be the Psalm 110 king. 00:15:50.299 --> 00:15:52.439 In verses five through seven of Psalm 110, 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:54.980 we see he's shattering the nations of the earth, 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:57.620 that Jesus acts as this great king. 00:15:57.959 --> 00:16:02.459 He comes as this great judge to bring judgment and justice to the earth. 00:16:02.460 --> 00:16:05.639 And so the encouragement is this. 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.620 In a world that is filled with abuse, 00:16:10.400 --> 00:16:13.940 in a world that's filled with imperfect rulers, 00:16:14.180 --> 00:16:17.759 we find in Jesus a pure authority. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:25.000 In a world that is filled with limited authorities, 00:16:26.580 --> 00:16:27.580 temporary authorities, 00:16:27.580 --> 00:16:30.360 we have an authority that's permanent and powerful. 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:40.519 And so the encouragement is that if and when someone who's in power uses that to exploit you, 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:42.399 to abuse you, 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:44.379 to take advantage of you, 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:52.180 we know from Psalm 110 that that will not be the last word. 00:16:52.179 --> 00:16:57.459 We know that's not the end of the story, 00:16:57.459 --> 00:17:00.219 and it's not the end of your story. 00:17:01.899 --> 00:17:04.740 Jesus, as the Psalm 110 king, 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:09.039 uses all the powers of this earth as his footstool. 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.359 Jesus, as the Psalm 110 king, 00:17:12.639 --> 00:17:15.740 is going to put everything right. 00:17:15.740 --> 00:17:19.700 That's the personal encouragement for you. 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:22.319 There's also a global encouragement. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:24.400 Nations and rulers, 00:17:24.620 --> 00:17:28.819 we watch them every day doing terrible things that God detests. 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:30.740 We see them oppressing and attacking. 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.880 And Psalm 110 reminds us, 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.779 one day God will bring all of that to an end. 00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:43.839 Jesus is going to have the last word. 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.919 It will not go on forever. 00:17:48.899 --> 00:17:52.740 And so there's an encouragement there for us to look forward with hope, 00:17:52.919 --> 00:17:55.099 knowing how the story is going to end, 00:17:55.259 --> 00:18:00.279 and a pulling away that we don't look to others to ultimately solve our problems. 00:18:00.339 --> 00:18:01.419 We don't look to ourselves. 00:18:01.539 --> 00:18:04.720 We don't believe that it's our job to make everything right, 00:18:04.740 --> 00:18:08.459 because that's a crushing burden that a human is not meant to bear. 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.519 But instead, we have hope in the midst of darkness. 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:15.299 We have light that we can look forward to in the midst of sadness. 00:18:16.059 --> 00:18:19.019 As we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 00:18:19.139 --> 00:18:20.779 to use the words of Psalm 23, 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:23.319 we know that he is with us. 00:18:24.339 --> 00:18:30.400 We know that mercy and goodness will follow us all the days of our life. 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:36.700 You can imagine the crowds here being delighted to hear Jesus, 00:18:37.360 --> 00:18:41.680 because Jesus is challenging these abusive authorities. 00:18:42.500 --> 00:18:44.720 He's revealing who they truly are. 00:18:44.820 --> 00:18:47.840 He's asking a question they can't answer. 00:18:48.840 --> 00:18:51.060 So we can imagine them having hope, 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:53.560 perhaps for the first time, perhaps in a long time, 00:18:54.100 --> 00:18:57.540 saying, okay, there's something more than what we see. 00:18:57.539 --> 00:19:00.279 That's our encouragement as well, 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:05.920 as we look around in a world filled with exploitation and violence and sin. 00:19:07.379 --> 00:19:11.519 We can be reminded that Jesus is the Psalm 110 King, 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:14.779 and we can take our hope from him, 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.440 and place our hope in him. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.480 It's not just encouragement, though. 00:19:22.539 --> 00:19:25.779 Remember I told you there's also a challenge. 00:19:25.779 --> 00:19:28.579 If Jesus is the King, 00:19:29.460 --> 00:19:33.500 he knows better than you what's best for you. 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.279 There's a man named Bill Wilder, 00:19:37.399 --> 00:19:38.539 who's a Bible teacher, 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:41.819 and he defines perfect authority in this way. 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:42.059 He says, 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.619 A perfect authority is an authority that loves you 00:19:45.619 --> 00:19:48.240 more than you love yourself. 00:19:49.059 --> 00:19:51.500 Perfect authority is one that loves you 00:19:51.500 --> 00:19:53.379 more than you love yourself. 00:19:53.380 --> 00:19:57.420 Now that's a little bit different than someone who loves their neighbor as themselves. 00:19:57.540 --> 00:19:58.880 That was what we saw last week. 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:01.020 This is an even higher standard than that. 00:20:01.100 --> 00:20:02.920 It's not loving your neighbor as yourself. 00:20:03.100 --> 00:20:06.280 This is loving someone more than they love themselves, 00:20:06.520 --> 00:20:10.200 which reminds us that authority is actually not the problem. 00:20:10.380 --> 00:20:16.200 We think about authority often as this dangerous and harmful and damaging thing. 00:20:16.280 --> 00:20:17.340 And we think about it that way, 00:20:17.380 --> 00:20:18.420 because in this world, 00:20:18.520 --> 00:20:19.800 it often is. 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:22.720 But it's not authority that's actually the problem. 00:20:22.879 --> 00:20:25.899 It's misused and abused authority. 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:31.639 It's authority by rulers who care more about themselves than they care about you. 00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:33.440 In his book, 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:34.599 You Are Not Your Own, 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:38.279 Alan Noble makes this observation that others abuse us, 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:42.579 but that we also abuse ourselves. 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:45.899 We don't love ourselves enough. 00:20:46.019 --> 00:20:48.740 We don't know what's best for ourselves. 00:20:48.740 --> 00:20:51.460 We think that we have our best interests in mind, 00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:54.920 but we're actually falling so far short of that. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:21:00.859 And so the answer is not that we care for ourselves and protect ourselves against all odds. 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:04.200 The answer is not that we prevent others from being in our lives. 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:08.980 The answer is we need a ruler, an authority, a leader, 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:12.960 who cares more about us than we care about ourselves. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:14.059 And as he points out, 00:21:14.140 --> 00:21:17.519 there's only one ruler who fits that description. 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:25.200 It's only our Lord Jesus who can care equally about his glory and our good. 00:21:25.840 --> 00:21:28.600 It's only those two things that are not in conflict, 00:21:28.700 --> 00:21:32.740 that what is good for us is also what glorifies God. 00:21:32.980 --> 00:21:38.920 And so we have this perfect authority who's not going to use or exploit or abuse us. 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:44.720 Jesus is not selfishly interested in. 00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:48.539 Your good and his good are the same. 00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:50.920 That gets back to what we talked about last week, 00:21:50.980 --> 00:21:52.779 that love is the fulfillment of the law. 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.180 If you want to be a maximizer of love, 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.940 you follow Jesus as king. 00:21:57.100 --> 00:21:58.500 You obey his command. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:01.300 You listen to what he has to say. 00:22:01.299 --> 00:22:04.339 And so the challenge then is this. 00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:06.940 Who is Jesus to you? 00:22:09.059 --> 00:22:14.139 Is Jesus merely a good advisor who has some wisdom? 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.480 You know, if you meet with a financial advisor, 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:24.859 they probably know much more about investments and savings and financial instruments than you do. 00:22:24.919 --> 00:22:27.019 They can give you advice and direction. 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:30.159 But who has the last word over your money? 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:32.400 Well, it's you, right? 00:22:33.180 --> 00:22:35.800 The financial advisor is only that. 00:22:36.019 --> 00:22:38.180 She's only an advisor. 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:43.240 Someone to consider, not necessarily someone to submit to or to obey. 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:47.340 If Jesus is the king, which he is, 00:22:47.700 --> 00:22:50.960 and he knows better than we do what's good for us, 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:52.340 which he does, 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:55.100 he is more than an advisor. 00:22:55.360 --> 00:22:58.180 He's someone we submit to and obey. 00:22:58.180 --> 00:23:02.799 Maybe you think of Jesus merely as a comforter. 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.160 He's there to remind you that you're loved. 00:23:05.820 --> 00:23:07.320 And don't hear what I'm not saying. 00:23:07.420 --> 00:23:09.400 Jesus is, in fact, a comforter. 00:23:10.120 --> 00:23:14.000 We see that throughout the Old Testament and throughout the New Testament. 00:23:14.100 --> 00:23:15.779 He does love you and comfort you. 00:23:15.860 --> 00:23:18.080 He's just not merely that. 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:25.299 Jesus is also a king who calls you to obedience in uncomfortable places. 00:23:25.299 --> 00:23:29.000 That's why he says, Mark chapter 8, verse 34, 00:23:29.740 --> 00:23:39.299 If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and follow me. 00:23:39.299 --> 00:23:43.359 After me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 00:23:44.059 --> 00:23:46.680 Which is a way of saying that Jesus is more than an advisor. 00:23:46.859 --> 00:23:47.960 He's more than a comforter. 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:50.159 He's the king of the world. 00:23:50.819 --> 00:23:53.720 And so he calls us to obedience and sacrifice. 00:23:54.659 --> 00:23:57.779 What's a comfort to us is also a challenge. 00:23:57.919 --> 00:23:59.819 It's two sides of the same cord. 00:23:59.819 --> 00:24:04.980 It's a comfort that Jesus loves us more and better than we love ourselves. 00:24:05.539 --> 00:24:10.779 And it's a challenge because it means he knows better than we know. 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:20.299 Jesus commands our best for us, even when we don't see it, understand it, like it, want it. 00:24:21.779 --> 00:24:24.000 Remember last week, the law is love. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:29.179 We protect and preserve and promote love when we obey the law. 00:24:30.679 --> 00:24:35.439 So because Jesus is the king, we love our neighbors as ourselves. 00:24:36.859 --> 00:24:40.019 Even harder than that, we love our enemies. 00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:48.700 Because Jesus is the king, we know our resources belong first to him and not to us. 00:24:48.779 --> 00:24:51.240 They were merely stewards of the things that he's given us. 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:56.399 There's one man that said that the early church turned the ancient world upside down 00:24:56.399 --> 00:24:59.619 because in the ancient world, people were stingy with their money. 00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:01.539 And generous with their bodies. 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:03.559 And Christians did the opposite. 00:25:03.779 --> 00:25:07.700 They were generous with their money and stingy with their bodies. 00:25:08.439 --> 00:25:15.539 They did the opposite of what the culture told them would bring them satisfaction and joy because of King Jesus. 00:25:15.539 --> 00:25:18.180 Because Jesus is king. 00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:20.279 We rest one day in seven. 00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:27.159 Whether we, in our limited wisdom, believe that's best or not, Jesus as the king has told us, 00:25:27.220 --> 00:25:29.859 Hey, I love you more than you love yourself. 00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:32.240 This is what is good for you. 00:25:32.339 --> 00:25:34.639 This is what I command you as the king. 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:37.200 We submit to him. 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:38.320 We obey him. 00:25:38.320 --> 00:25:38.620 We obey him. 00:25:39.100 --> 00:25:42.600 Because Jesus is the Psalm 110 king. 00:25:43.120 --> 00:25:44.900 That's our great encouragement. 00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:48.280 And it's also our great challenge. 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:57.980 The 1988 film Stand and Deliver tells the real life story of a math teacher named Jaime Escalante. 00:25:58.339 --> 00:26:04.000 And Jaime teaches calculus and he becomes a teacher in the East Los Angeles public school system. 00:26:04.460 --> 00:26:09.119 In the late 70s and the early 80s, he starts teaching math to these underprivileged students. 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:15.859 And he's convinced that this is the way to raise them out of poverty, to give them a future and a hope, 00:26:16.339 --> 00:26:22.199 to give them an opportunity to exceed what they would otherwise be limited by. 00:26:22.719 --> 00:26:27.219 And against all odds, he gets these students to pass the AP calculus exams. 00:26:27.899 --> 00:26:31.279 Now, there's one student that we meet in the movie whose name is Pancho. 00:26:31.439 --> 00:26:36.179 Pancho is a mechanic and he loves to work on cars, but he struggles with math. 00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:39.180 And so at one point, he comes to his teacher. 00:26:39.340 --> 00:26:40.620 He comes to Escalante and he says, 00:26:40.840 --> 00:26:42.320 Look, I'm out of this. 00:26:42.380 --> 00:26:43.840 I've got to put school on hold. 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:45.880 My uncle has offered me this job. 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:49.519 I can be a forklift operator on Saturdays and Sundays. 00:26:49.840 --> 00:26:54.519 In two years, I'm going to be in the union and I'll be making more money than you do as a teacher. 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:57.799 Jaime tries to tell him, 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:00.680 Look, that's great in the short term. 00:27:00.779 --> 00:27:03.340 It is not good in the long term. 00:27:03.339 --> 00:27:07.139 He takes him on this drive in one of his cars and he says, 00:27:07.339 --> 00:27:10.779 Wouldn't you rather be designing these things than fixing them? 00:27:11.379 --> 00:27:14.839 And then they come up to this turn and they're not sure which way to go. 00:27:14.939 --> 00:27:17.459 And he just keeps driving straight until Pancho finally yells at him, 00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:18.419 Turn right, turn right. 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:23.559 And so he turns right and where they find themselves is straight into a street with a dead end. 00:27:23.659 --> 00:27:27.839 And so he has to slam the brakes as hard as he can to get the car to stop 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:30.179 before they smash into the curb and the dead end sign. 00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:33.259 And he turns to Pancho and he says, 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:39.160 You see the turn, but you do not see the road ahead. 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:43.080 You see the turn, but you don't see the road ahead. 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:44.620 Which is a way of saying, 00:27:44.740 --> 00:27:46.620 Your perspective is so limited. 00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:49.560 You see what's good in the here and now. 00:27:49.660 --> 00:27:52.080 You want what's going to satisfy in this moment. 00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:54.880 But there's a bigger and a broader world out there. 00:27:54.980 --> 00:27:57.660 There are long-term consequences to your choices. 00:27:57.660 --> 00:28:02.779 There are sacrifices that you can make now that will lead to flourishing in your future. 00:28:03.259 --> 00:28:06.840 You have to trust that I am wiser than you. 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:08.759 That I have had more experience than you. 00:28:08.860 --> 00:28:11.680 That I know how all of this is going to play out. 00:28:13.340 --> 00:28:16.540 In the end, Pancho listens to his teacher, 00:28:16.660 --> 00:28:18.980 returns to his math class, 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.300 and looks to the road ahead and not just the turn. 00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:25.980 Brothers and sisters, 00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:28.419 we obey our King Jesus. 00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:29.559 We listen to him 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:32.519 because we only see the turn. 00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:36.180 He sees the road ahead. 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:38.759 We have a limited perspective. 00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:40.700 He has an eternal perspective. 00:28:41.639 --> 00:28:42.759 We are creatures. 00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:45.440 He is the King. 00:28:46.419 --> 00:28:47.480 And so we trust him. 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:52.279 We trust him because he always sees that road. 00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:59.140 So I've shared with you the encouragement from this passage 00:28:59.140 --> 00:29:03.259 that Jesus is the King who's bringing justice to this earth. 00:29:03.380 --> 00:29:06.319 He's the King who cares about us more than we care about ourselves. 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:08.519 I've also given you the challenge, 00:29:08.660 --> 00:29:11.380 which is that if he loves us more than we love ourselves, 00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:12.420 we trust him. 00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:13.900 We obey him, 00:29:14.140 --> 00:29:15.460 even when we don't like it. 00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:17.660 None of that matters, though, 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:22.100 if we don't see and fall in love with Jesus. 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.200 It's not logic that compels our hearts. 00:29:25.779 --> 00:29:28.120 And so as we prepare for worship every week, 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:32.200 I pray for us that we wouldn't just be encouraged 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:33.360 and we wouldn't just be challenged. 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:34.400 That most of all, 00:29:34.500 --> 00:29:35.660 we would see Jesus. 00:29:35.860 --> 00:29:38.980 That we would grow in our love and our affection for him. 00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:41.720 We'd grow in our reverence and our awe for him. 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:46.559 And those things would flow into our obedience to him. 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:50.680 And so what do we need to see for our affection to grow, 00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:51.920 for our love to grow? 00:29:52.539 --> 00:29:55.160 Well, we need to see what we've already talked about, 00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:58.839 that Jesus is the one who cares about us 00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:00.880 more than we care about ourselves. 00:30:01.860 --> 00:30:04.000 Jesus is the only authority 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:09.039 that his interests don't conflict with our interests. 00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:13.259 Jesus is the king who's come to die. 00:30:13.420 --> 00:30:16.940 Jesus is the king who doesn't just love his neighbor as himself. 00:30:17.099 --> 00:30:21.700 He has love that leads to him sacrificing himself. 00:30:22.900 --> 00:30:26.859 That's the love that leads us to trust him and obey him and follow him. 00:30:26.859 --> 00:30:30.099 I have this saying that I mention from time to time. 00:30:30.219 --> 00:30:31.799 I've never mentioned it in a sermon before, 00:30:31.899 --> 00:30:35.000 but I say it when we're talking about interactions of people. 00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:35.379 And I'll say, 00:30:35.459 --> 00:30:38.119 sometimes it doesn't matter what is said, 00:30:38.399 --> 00:30:40.319 it matters who says it. 00:30:40.959 --> 00:30:41.599 Which is to say, 00:30:41.719 --> 00:30:42.479 most of us, 00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:43.479 maybe all of us, 00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:45.619 have one or two people in our lives 00:30:45.619 --> 00:30:47.099 who have earned the right 00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:52.159 to say hard and strange and difficult things to us. 00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:54.759 That if anyone else were to say it to us, 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:59.339 we would be tempted to respond in anger and frustration and walk away. 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.640 But because that person has invested so much in us, 00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:05.599 because we know that they care so much about us, 00:31:05.660 --> 00:31:07.720 we're willing to stay there and listen. 00:31:08.700 --> 00:31:09.799 Maybe for you, 00:31:09.900 --> 00:31:10.680 that's your spouse. 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:11.460 I hope so. 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.339 Maybe it's a friend that you've been with for many years 00:31:15.339 --> 00:31:17.200 who's shown their deep love for you. 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:19.900 Maybe it's a mentor who's poured into you. 00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:22.680 But I would venture to guess most of us, 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:23.599 if not all of us, 00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:24.440 have someone 00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:26.740 that it doesn't matter what they say, 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:28.320 it matters who says it. 00:31:29.059 --> 00:31:31.620 And that's what we see here in Jesus in this passage, 00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.320 that Jesus, 00:31:32.660 --> 00:31:35.480 because of his great love for us, 00:31:36.259 --> 00:31:39.900 is the one to whom we can and should listen. 00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:44.039 Because he loves us more than we love ourselves, 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:46.600 we rest when he tells us to rest. 00:31:47.380 --> 00:31:49.900 Because he laid down his life for us, 00:31:49.900 --> 00:31:51.840 we give when he tells us to give. 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.339 Because he has loved us, 00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:58.480 we love when he tells us to love. 00:31:59.299 --> 00:32:02.699 Jesus takes the golden rule to the next level. 00:32:02.700 --> 00:32:06.279 We see here, 00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:07.240 verse 36, 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:08.680 the Lord said to my Lord, 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:10.480 sit at my right hand 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:12.740 until I put your enemies under your feet. 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.180 And so we know that Jesus is the one right now 00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:17.380 in his physical body, 00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:18.120 as a man, 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:20.440 who is sitting at the right hand of God the Father. 00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:21.539 And as he sits there, 00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:23.660 he's interceding for us. 00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:25.279 He continues to speak for us 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:26.680 and to advocate for us. 00:32:27.420 --> 00:32:32.279 He continues to be the Psalm 110 King. 00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:34.740 He's the Psalm 110 King 00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:36.019 who brings justice, 00:32:36.120 --> 00:32:37.140 where there needs to be justice. 00:32:38.060 --> 00:32:40.000 He's the Psalm 110 King 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.160 who leads us and directs us 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:44.019 and guides us where we need to be led 00:32:44.019 --> 00:32:45.880 and directed and guided. 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:48.040 And so who is Jesus? 00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:53.220 Jesus is the great and mighty King. 00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:56.279 How do we respond to him? 00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:58.379 We hope in his justice 00:32:58.379 --> 00:33:02.099 and we submit to his rule. 00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:04.579 Let's pray together. 00:33:05.539 --> 00:33:06.740 Our Father in heaven, 00:33:06.940 --> 00:33:10.659 we thank you again for this blessing 00:33:10.659 --> 00:33:12.279 that we can gather together 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:13.359 even as we're separated. 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:15.379 And we ask most of all 00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:17.480 that you would grow our love 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:18.160 and our affection 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:20.039 for your Son and our Savior, 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:20.799 our Lord Jesus, 00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:22.000 that we would see 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.519 and know his power 00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:25.420 and his love 00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:27.220 and that because of that 00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:28.380 we would hope in him, 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:29.720 we'd follow him, 00:33:30.099 --> 00:33:30.920 we'd obey him. 00:33:31.779 --> 00:33:32.440 We thank you 00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:33.299 that we don't have to worry 00:33:33.299 --> 00:33:34.180 this morning about 00:33:34.180 --> 00:33:35.079 whether we've earned 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:36.279 or deserve these things, 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:37.519 but instead we ask them 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:38.720 in the mighty name 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.599 of Jesus Christ. 00:33:40.059 --> 00:33:40.259 Amen. 00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:43.759 Now normally 00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:45.120 we would end 00:33:45.120 --> 00:33:47.220 our time together 00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:49.160 by singing a final song. 00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:50.319 We're not going to be able 00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:51.160 to do that together 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:52.079 over Facebook Live, 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:53.000 so I am going to leave you 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:53.759 with a benediction, 00:33:53.900 --> 00:33:54.740 which is a good word 00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:55.779 from God 00:33:55.779 --> 00:33:57.140 from Numbers chapter 6. 00:33:57.819 --> 00:33:59.039 The Lord bless you 00:33:59.039 --> 00:33:59.920 and keep you. 00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:01.660 The Lord make his face 00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:02.579 to shine upon you 00:34:02.579 --> 00:34:03.740 and be gracious to you. 00:34:04.299 --> 00:34:05.279 The Lord lift up 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:06.460 his countenance upon you 00:34:06.460 --> 00:34:07.220 and give you peace 00:34:07.220 --> 00:34:08.220 now and forever. 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:09.800 So go in the grace 00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:10.280 and peace 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:11.300 of our Lord and Savior, 00:34:11.460 --> 00:34:12.139 Jesus Christ. 00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:12.780 Amen. 00:34:12.780 --> 00:34:14.260 Thank you all 00:34:14.260 --> 00:34:15.600 for joining us online 00:34:15.600 --> 00:34:16.780 and I look forward 00:34:16.780 --> 00:34:17.800 to seeing you next Sunday 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:18.400 if not before. 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:19.400 Thank you. 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:20.400 Thank you.