WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:05.219 All right, if you would take the Word of God with me and turn to Matthew chapter 6. 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:17.660 Matthew chapter 6. We've heard a word quite a bit today in songs that we have sung today. 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:22.100 It's tied closely to the events that we celebrate on Palm Sunday. 00:00:22.219 --> 00:00:23.719 Can anybody tell me what that word is? 00:00:25.580 --> 00:00:28.560 Thank you. I heard it down here. Hosanna. Hosanna. 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.479 What do we mean by Hosanna? What does that word mean? 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:36.079 Sometimes it's easy to come to church, and if you didn't maybe grow up in church, 00:00:36.100 --> 00:00:41.560 or you're not used to some of the words you hear, there's a church lingo that you kind of have to learn. 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:48.619 And we want to try to avoid making it difficult, if possible, for those who maybe aren't familiar with all the terminology. 00:00:48.859 --> 00:00:52.200 But along the way, it's helpful to pick up some of those terms. 00:00:52.340 --> 00:00:55.420 And what we mean by Hosanna is, Lord, save us. 00:00:55.420 --> 00:00:57.560 It's a term of praise. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:06.920 And when Jesus came into the city of Jerusalem shortly before his crucifixion, Passion Week, 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.560 they shouted out the word Hosanna. 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:17.859 Crowds thronged the streets as he's riding in on the donkey accompanied by his disciples. 00:01:17.859 --> 00:01:23.519 And the crowd thronged the streets because his reputation had preceded him. 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:29.539 And they saw him as their Messiah, as their deliverer, many of those people. 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.620 And so they were calling on him to deliver them. 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.200 Likely what those people were calling on him to do was deliver them from Rome. 00:01:38.939 --> 00:01:40.579 Deliver them from Roman oppression. 00:01:41.620 --> 00:01:43.620 Restore to them their great and mighty kingdom. 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:47.180 And that's what they were hoping their Messiah would do. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:53.000 But Jesus came not to set up a kingdom on this earth, to set up a heavenly kingdom. 00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:56.859 And to populate it with the souls of men. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.260 Forgive them for their transgressions. 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.080 And that is what Jesus came to do. 00:02:05.080 --> 00:02:07.180 But everyone saw him as the deliverer. 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:09.700 So they were asking him, Lord, save us. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:10.500 Deliver us. 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:13.840 And that's what they meant by Hosanna. 00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:20.580 If you're in Matthew chapter 6, and you're able and willing, would you join me in standing? 00:02:21.659 --> 00:02:23.860 And let's read one verse today. 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:28.219 Verse 13. 00:02:28.860 --> 00:02:30.060 Matthew chapter 6. 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:37.400 Do not bring us into temptation. 00:02:40.979 --> 00:02:44.180 But deliver us from the evil one. 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.520 Would you say those two words with me? 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:48.319 Deliver us. 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:48.580 Ready? 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:50.900 Deliver us. 00:02:51.939 --> 00:02:56.219 Isn't that interesting that on Palm Sunday, as we say the word Hosanna over and over, 00:02:56.219 --> 00:03:01.240 and we've got it up here on our banners, Hosanna, God deliver us. 00:03:02.580 --> 00:03:06.979 That coincides with the last verse of what we call the Lord's Prayer that we've been studying 00:03:06.979 --> 00:03:08.020 for the last several weeks. 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.979 Lord, deliver us from evil. 00:03:12.979 --> 00:03:13.860 Would you pray with me? 00:03:14.419 --> 00:03:16.840 God, I pray that you would speak to us from your word this morning. 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:22.919 I pray that there's nothing that you have for someone that they would miss from your word. 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:29.419 I pray that it would be not my thinking, my words, but it would be your will that is imparted 00:03:29.419 --> 00:03:30.379 unto every heart today. 00:03:30.899 --> 00:03:34.919 For someone who does not know you, let them start that relationship with you today. 00:03:35.219 --> 00:03:36.179 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:36.699 Amen. 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:37.479 You may be seated. 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.739 We've been in our series on the Lord's Prayer. 00:03:48.379 --> 00:03:49.839 Carson, would you advance this for me? 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:51.399 It's not, there we go. 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:51.959 Got it. 00:03:51.959 --> 00:03:52.879 I think we got it back. 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:59.799 I always want to remind you, some of the things you hear came from my mind. 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:04.119 Some of them came from different authors, and my kind of primary source is this Bible 00:04:04.119 --> 00:04:06.819 exposition commentary by Warren Wiersbe. 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:09.939 We've been in Matthew chapter 6, verses 5 through 13. 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:11.699 We've been talking about the Lord's Prayer. 00:04:12.119 --> 00:04:14.939 Again, this is not a you must pray these words. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.699 It's less of a prescription and more of a pattern. 00:04:18.060 --> 00:04:22.839 The first section of the Lord's Prayer was God-focused petitions, and then this second section, 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.199 that we're concluding today, has been life-focused petitions. 00:04:26.599 --> 00:04:31.419 So, as we read in Matthew 6, 13, Lord, deliver us from evil. 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.219 The theme for today is talking about temptation and deliverance. 00:04:35.220 --> 00:04:38.860 Now, why are you looking at a picture of Hot Wheels cars right now? 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:41.780 To be fair, there's a matchbox in there, too. 00:04:42.140 --> 00:04:42.460 All right? 00:04:43.080 --> 00:04:44.400 Why are you looking at toy cars? 00:04:44.500 --> 00:04:46.200 In case you couldn't tell, that's what that is. 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:49.460 Anybody want to take a guess what that store is? 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:52.040 Not my two boys up front. 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:53.960 Cadran, what do you think? 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:57.360 Oh, so close. 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:58.020 So close. 00:04:58.080 --> 00:04:58.379 Aubrey? 00:04:59.340 --> 00:05:00.120 There you go. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:00.560 There you go. 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:01.040 Dollar Tree. 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:02.520 You got the dollar right. 00:05:02.980 --> 00:05:04.580 That is a Dollar Tree. 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:09.620 Now, boys, why did I show a picture of Dollar Tree Hot Wheels? 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:10.660 Yes, right down front. 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:11.960 Tell me why. 00:05:14.540 --> 00:05:16.220 Yeah, I did say that I would do that. 00:05:16.280 --> 00:05:16.700 That's true. 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:17.800 I told you I was going to do this. 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.860 You're right. 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:28.759 It's because every time we go in a Dollar Tree, me and my boys, we are each going to buy at least one Hot Wheels car. 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.800 They used to be a dollar. 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.319 Now they're $1.25. 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:35.180 Stinking inflation. 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:35.759 Anyway. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.180 But it's still the best price you can get on these Hot Wheels cars. 00:05:41.180 --> 00:05:44.460 Unless maybe you can find a bulk price somewhere, but then you don't know what you're getting. 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:45.160 And, you know. 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:52.020 We have probably compiled just about every Batman-themed Hot Wheels car that they ever made. 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:53.600 And at least recently. 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:59.560 And every time we go in there, we cannot resist the temptation to buy these cars. 00:06:00.060 --> 00:06:00.260 Okay? 00:06:01.400 --> 00:06:03.580 Now, I've shut down other things usually. 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:09.620 Like we're not just going to go buy a bunch of random stuff for them to take home and use once and then it breaks and throw away. 00:06:10.580 --> 00:06:12.720 But these cars, we cannot resist them. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:23.160 And if you go to our house right now, you walk in the living room, there are three piles of cars waiting on us to play with when we get home. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.360 Because you don't understand how many cars we have and how long this process takes. 00:06:28.580 --> 00:06:28.780 Okay? 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:34.120 We've got to, like, play rock, paper, scissors to see who picks first and then who picks second. 00:06:34.220 --> 00:06:36.780 And we go through and each select our favorite car. 00:06:36.779 --> 00:06:40.779 And compile your armies and then you've got to create a whole scenario. 00:06:41.479 --> 00:06:42.659 Anyway, it's a lot of fun. 00:06:42.819 --> 00:06:43.119 All right? 00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:47.219 If anybody wants to play cars, come to our house this afternoon. 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:47.839 We'll have a good time. 00:06:49.579 --> 00:06:50.799 Don't take me up on that, please. 00:06:51.419 --> 00:06:52.399 I'm a little under the weather. 00:06:52.819 --> 00:06:53.699 You're not going to want to get sick. 00:06:54.139 --> 00:06:54.459 All right. 00:06:54.459 --> 00:07:01.079 So, we can't resist this particular temptation. 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:05.139 Now, I've never prayed for God to deliver me from this temptation, okay? 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:06.899 I'm perfectly fine with it. 00:07:07.339 --> 00:07:09.919 As long as it doesn't completely get out of hand, I guess. 00:07:10.060 --> 00:07:11.719 But how about this one? 00:07:12.919 --> 00:07:16.139 Anybody ever been down this aisle in the store with little kids? 00:07:16.139 --> 00:07:21.000 How many of y'all have purposefully avoided going down this aisle in the store with little kids? 00:07:22.740 --> 00:07:29.899 I think that right there, parents avoiding taking their children down this aisle, I think it's biblical, okay? 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:31.800 It is. 00:07:31.919 --> 00:07:33.339 It lines up with scripture. 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:35.379 Somehow, someway. 00:07:35.740 --> 00:07:37.019 No, Psalm 131. 00:07:37.099 --> 00:07:37.519 Watch this. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:39.879 Lord, set up a guard for my mouth. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:41.860 Keep watch at the door of my lips. 00:07:41.860 --> 00:07:47.540 Do not let my heart turn to any evil thing or perform wicked acts with evildoers. 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.920 Wow, that just got dark really fast, didn't it? 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:52.560 Here's the tie-in. 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:55.100 Here's the application. 00:07:56.460 --> 00:07:58.500 God, deliver us from evil. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.199 Deliver us from the evil one. 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:01.879 Set a guard for my mouth. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.460 Keep watch at the door of my lips. 00:08:03.460 --> 00:08:07.620 In other words, don't take me down the candy aisle because I can't handle it. 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:13.959 Don't take me down the Hot Wheels section at Dollar Tree because I'm going to buy whatever I want there, okay? 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:21.860 There are certain things that tempt us more than we can handle. 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.199 And I believe that is why Jesus is teaching us to pray, 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:30.340 Lord, do not bring us into temptation. 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:36.700 Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 00:08:36.700 --> 00:08:40.580 Why would God lead us into temptation? 00:08:42.020 --> 00:08:43.720 Why are we even asking that? 00:08:43.820 --> 00:08:50.379 Why is Jesus telling us, teaching us, to pray in this way to God, 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.120 not to lead us into temptation? 00:08:56.680 --> 00:08:58.740 Does God tempt people? 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:02.620 We're going to see in a few passages that he does not. 00:09:02.620 --> 00:09:07.460 God absolutely does not bring temptation into our lives. 00:09:09.100 --> 00:09:11.159 Does he allow us sometimes to experience temptation? 00:09:11.379 --> 00:09:11.659 Yes. 00:09:12.700 --> 00:09:14.480 But God is not the author of temptation. 00:09:16.379 --> 00:09:24.539 So I really believe what he's teaching us here is that very simple principle that we exercise with our own kids and sometimes ourselves. 00:09:24.539 --> 00:09:31.719 We know, you know, maybe you're trying to cut off caffeine or something and so you're not going to go to Starbucks. 00:09:32.539 --> 00:09:35.639 Well, I swear I'll just get a hot tea that doesn't have caffeine in it. 00:09:35.719 --> 00:09:36.360 No, you won't. 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:38.179 You'll get your favorite coffee drink. 00:09:40.299 --> 00:09:44.000 There are certain things that we know are going to be too much for us to handle. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.480 So we're praying, God, keep us from those things. 00:09:47.139 --> 00:09:48.580 Don't lead us down the candy aisle. 00:09:50.340 --> 00:09:54.360 I love this quote from the author of that commentary series I told you about earlier. 00:09:54.860 --> 00:09:57.700 Temptation is Satan's weapon to defeat us. 00:09:57.980 --> 00:10:00.820 But it can become God's tool to build us. 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:02.419 That's what the theme is about today. 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:04.440 Temptation and deliverance. 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.980 And temptation is going to be something that every single one of us experiences. 00:10:07.980 --> 00:10:13.320 God does allow us to repeatedly experience temptation, sometimes in the same area. 00:10:14.779 --> 00:10:18.320 And we can either see that as a negative or a positive. 00:10:18.779 --> 00:10:21.379 It can be Satan's weapon to defeat us. 00:10:21.659 --> 00:10:22.220 It is. 00:10:23.300 --> 00:10:24.800 And sometimes he wins that battle. 00:10:25.800 --> 00:10:33.560 But it can also become God's tool to build us, to form us, to shape us into his likeness. 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:39.459 So number one, temptation comes from the world, the flesh, and the devil. 00:10:40.859 --> 00:10:43.719 Temptation comes from the world, the culture around us. 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:46.799 Remember when Preston up here said a little bit ago, 00:10:47.359 --> 00:10:51.579 why do we continue to sin even though we're trying to be like Jesus? 00:10:51.899 --> 00:10:54.099 Because, anybody remember? 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:56.839 Because we're used to it. 00:10:56.959 --> 00:10:57.199 Yeah. 00:10:57.699 --> 00:10:58.819 Because we're born into sin. 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:01.000 Because of our sin nature. 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.399 The culture around us is very sinful. 00:11:04.740 --> 00:11:07.879 And then our own flesh, that sin nature within us, 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.600 undermines the Holy Spirit's working in our lives. 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.600 And then the devil, spiritual warfare is very real around us. 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.840 And sometimes he will shoot his arrows directly at us. 00:11:19.500 --> 00:11:23.120 And so temptation can come from the world, the flesh, and the devil. 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.419 Let's look at James chapter 1. 00:11:26.580 --> 00:11:27.639 James chapter 1. 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:29.500 You're going to be turning in your Bibles a little bit today. 00:11:29.500 --> 00:11:32.139 So if you wouldn't mind heading toward the back of the book, 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.899 toward Revelation, and then turn a few pages back until you find James. 00:11:36.139 --> 00:11:40.899 There's five chapters, and we're going to be in chapter 1, verses 12 through 16. 00:11:41.700 --> 00:11:44.559 For sake of time, I'm going to go ahead and read while you catch up. 00:11:44.740 --> 00:11:46.879 Blessed is the one who endures trials, 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.700 because when he has stood the test of time, 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.379 when he has stood that test, 00:11:51.539 --> 00:11:53.460 he will receive the crown of life 00:11:53.460 --> 00:11:56.000 that God has promised to those who love him. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:57.059 Do you see that? 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:59.879 Blessed is the one who endures trials. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:01.100 Verse 13. 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:04.000 No one undergoing a trial should say, 00:12:04.460 --> 00:12:06.379 I am being tempted by God. 00:12:08.500 --> 00:12:10.700 Since God is not tempted by evil, 00:12:11.259 --> 00:12:11.960 here we go, ready? 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.460 And he himself doesn't tempt anyone. 00:12:16.620 --> 00:12:18.200 God is not the one tempting you. 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.740 That's the world, the flesh, and the devil. 00:12:20.740 --> 00:12:26.000 But each person is tempted when he is drawn away 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.139 and enticed by his own evil desire. 00:12:29.379 --> 00:12:31.060 Then, after desire has conceived, 00:12:31.620 --> 00:12:33.180 it gives birth to sin. 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:35.720 And when sin is fully grown, 00:12:36.340 --> 00:12:38.200 it gives birth to death. 00:12:38.820 --> 00:12:42.940 Don't be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.820 So that's what I hope we can take away from today. 00:12:46.180 --> 00:12:48.320 Don't be deceived by temptation. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.260 Don't be deceived into thinking 00:12:50.260 --> 00:12:51.500 you are strong enough 00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:53.760 to resist temptation on your own. 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:55.960 You might have resisted it in your mind, 00:12:56.060 --> 00:12:58.340 but in reality, it took root in you, 00:12:58.540 --> 00:13:01.800 and it will grow up into a kind of fruit 00:13:01.800 --> 00:13:03.320 that you never wanted in your life. 00:13:05.420 --> 00:13:08.100 So, temptation comes not from God, 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:10.140 but from the world, the flesh, and the devil, 00:13:10.220 --> 00:13:12.520 and their goal is to trick you, to deceive you. 00:13:13.660 --> 00:13:15.900 How does temptation deceive us? 00:13:15.899 --> 00:13:18.500 I love this quote from Rick Warren. 00:13:18.939 --> 00:13:20.939 Every temptation is an offer 00:13:20.939 --> 00:13:24.039 to doubt God's love and wisdom. 00:13:26.199 --> 00:13:29.079 Every kind of temptation that comes into your life, 00:13:29.539 --> 00:13:33.919 whether it is sexual, whether it is power, 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:35.079 whether it is money, 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.679 whatever kind of temptation comes after you, 00:13:37.899 --> 00:13:41.559 that is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom for you, 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:43.639 saying, God is not enough. 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.500 You also need this. 00:13:46.939 --> 00:13:48.539 You also need this. 00:13:49.539 --> 00:13:52.039 God's word is not true in this area. 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.740 It is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom. 00:13:56.860 --> 00:13:58.779 What are the different types of temptation? 00:13:59.100 --> 00:13:59.819 How are we tempted? 00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:03.199 1 John 2 and verse 16 tells us everything in the world. 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.000 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:07.319 and the pride of life. 00:14:07.379 --> 00:14:09.019 We've got three different types right there. 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:11.019 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 00:14:11.019 --> 00:14:13.579 and the pride of life comes not from the Father, 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:15.179 but from the world. 00:14:15.299 --> 00:14:17.439 Once again, God does not tempt us. 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.740 The world, the flesh, and the devil, 00:14:21.860 --> 00:14:24.319 it appeals to our sin nature, 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:26.340 and we respond. 00:14:26.340 --> 00:14:29.060 So the lust of the flesh, 00:14:29.180 --> 00:14:30.840 the lust of the eyes, 00:14:30.920 --> 00:14:31.860 and the pride of life. 00:14:32.060 --> 00:14:36.180 I found this handy Venn diagram on the internet. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:37.660 Anybody love a good Venn diagram? 00:14:38.460 --> 00:14:39.160 It's awesome, right? 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.000 You can see it all kind of come together. 00:14:41.379 --> 00:14:43.480 I don't know if this is completely comprehensive, 00:14:43.620 --> 00:14:45.280 if this covers every area, 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:47.259 but I thought it was helpful to look at 00:14:47.259 --> 00:14:49.519 and kind of get an idea of how this works. 00:14:49.580 --> 00:14:50.580 So the lust of the eyes, 00:14:50.680 --> 00:14:51.360 they're on the left. 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:52.480 What are we talking about? 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:52.560 What? 00:14:52.860 --> 00:14:54.920 Envy, greed, wrath. 00:14:55.659 --> 00:14:58.460 These are the things that appeal to our eyes. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.039 We want what somebody else has. 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:02.740 What somebody else has. 00:15:03.300 --> 00:15:05.440 We see something that makes us angry. 00:15:08.100 --> 00:15:09.500 The lust of the flesh. 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:10.800 Laziness. 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:13.700 Kind of crosses over into that greed. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:15.920 I want what appeals to me. 00:15:16.259 --> 00:15:16.779 Gluttony. 00:15:17.899 --> 00:15:19.360 How many of us struggle with gluttony? 00:15:20.259 --> 00:15:21.659 Yeah, you and me both. 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:24.139 And then pride of life. 00:15:25.259 --> 00:15:25.779 Pride. 00:15:25.940 --> 00:15:28.539 Man, that gets every one of us, I think, in this room. 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.220 At some point, pride has led you down the wrong path. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:34.759 Again, gluttony. 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:36.940 Getting everything that I have for myself. 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:40.279 Everything I want. 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:41.259 And then wrath. 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:44.460 And all of it combines into lust. 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:46.340 Lust of the flesh. 00:15:46.560 --> 00:15:47.360 Lust of the eyes. 00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:48.460 And pride of life. 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.980 It is elevating man above God. 00:15:50.980 --> 00:15:52.340 That is the sin here. 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:59.779 You understand that God does not, and young people, I want to make sure y'all hear this. 00:16:00.820 --> 00:16:04.560 God does not set up a bunch of rules just to have rules. 00:16:06.139 --> 00:16:08.180 God is not trying to cramp our style. 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:08.740 Okay? 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.240 God's not trying to just make life as unenjoyable as possible for us. 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:20.560 God is making sure that we do not lift ourselves up above him. 00:16:21.700 --> 00:16:25.180 And he knows that there is sin in the world. 00:16:25.620 --> 00:16:29.279 Because Satan lifted himself up above God. 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:32.360 And he was cast out of heaven. 00:16:35.419 --> 00:16:41.360 And so then, in the original sin in the Garden of Eden, that the kids talked about earlier, 00:16:43.199 --> 00:16:47.480 that sin was lifting themselves up above God. 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:49.879 It was saying, I know this is what God told us, 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.500 but Lucifer appealed to their pride, 00:16:53.500 --> 00:16:56.720 and they responded to that. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:59.159 Because God gave us a choice. 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:01.600 Because he did not make us robots. 00:17:02.620 --> 00:17:04.579 Because he gave us that free will, 00:17:05.019 --> 00:17:08.599 then we could choose to lift ourselves up above God. 00:17:08.900 --> 00:17:11.420 And that ultimately is the root of every sin. 00:17:11.500 --> 00:17:13.640 It's saying, I know this is what God says, 00:17:13.700 --> 00:17:14.960 but I'm going to go a different way. 00:17:15.700 --> 00:17:17.460 There is a conscience in each one of us. 00:17:17.460 --> 00:17:19.840 And so often, we resist that conscience. 00:17:19.980 --> 00:17:20.779 We go against it. 00:17:21.140 --> 00:17:23.680 Even if you haven't heard a teaching on the Word of God, 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:28.100 every man is responsible to obey his Creator. 00:17:28.579 --> 00:17:30.500 And every man is born into sin. 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.519 And every man has resisted God. 00:17:34.140 --> 00:17:35.960 At some point in his life. 00:17:36.579 --> 00:17:37.779 Usually many times. 00:17:38.860 --> 00:17:43.000 So that lust for life, for power, for pride, 00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:47.400 for gaining everything we can possibly compile, 00:17:48.059 --> 00:17:50.279 to get ahead, to lift ourselves up, 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:52.000 that does not come from God. 00:17:53.059 --> 00:17:55.880 God can lift you up as high as he wants you to go. 00:17:57.079 --> 00:17:59.960 But when you scrap and fight to get ahead, 00:18:01.340 --> 00:18:03.759 often that comes from a place of pride. 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:07.380 I'm not saying don't work hard in your job. 00:18:07.460 --> 00:18:09.259 I'm not saying don't try to do well in school. 00:18:09.500 --> 00:18:12.700 I'm not saying don't try to be the best if you're an athlete, etc. 00:18:12.700 --> 00:18:14.140 I'm not saying those things. 00:18:14.520 --> 00:18:16.759 Certainly, everything that you find to do, 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.120 do it with all your might, do it with all your strength. 00:18:19.320 --> 00:18:20.580 But what does the Bible teach us? 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.880 Do those things to bring glory to God, not yourself. 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:28.300 And that goes completely against the lust of the flesh, 00:18:28.420 --> 00:18:30.340 the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. 00:18:31.540 --> 00:18:35.560 Matthew, back in Matthew, but toward the end of the book, 00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:36.840 Matthew 26, 41, 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.879 stay awake and pray so that you don't enter into temptation. 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.240 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 00:18:44.539 --> 00:18:47.319 You see the setting here? 00:18:47.399 --> 00:18:48.459 This is the Garden of Gethsemane, 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:50.319 right before Jesus is crucified, 00:18:50.679 --> 00:18:52.319 and he's been praying all night, 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:53.759 and he goes to check on his disciples, 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:55.179 and they've all fallen asleep. 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:57.039 And this happens multiple times. 00:18:57.579 --> 00:18:59.000 And Jesus tells Peter, 00:18:59.879 --> 00:19:03.199 kind of the leader, so to speak, of the group, 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.279 he says, Peter, I'm disappointed in you. 00:19:07.059 --> 00:19:10.100 Stay awake and pray so that you don't enter into temptation. 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.220 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 00:19:12.360 --> 00:19:13.460 I love the last part of that. 00:19:13.819 --> 00:19:16.920 And can I just make this application today? 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:18.460 Can I make this application for you? 00:19:22.140 --> 00:19:24.120 There's one interpretation of Scripture. 00:19:24.860 --> 00:19:28.319 Every passage, there's one incorrect interpretation of Scripture. 00:19:28.819 --> 00:19:30.279 As you read through the original manuscript, 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:32.160 and you look at it, what is the Bible teaching here? 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.279 But there can be multiple applications 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:36.080 that you take away from a certain passage. 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:37.160 Because we're all different. 00:19:37.420 --> 00:19:39.519 The Holy Spirit is working with us differently in every life. 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.300 So I want to make this particular application from this passage. 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:45.120 Some of us need to wake up. 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.700 Some of us are sleeping through our life with Jesus. 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:55.980 And the devil wants nothing more 00:19:55.980 --> 00:19:58.259 than for a Christian to fall asleep. 00:19:58.259 --> 00:20:02.379 And just go through life like everybody else. 00:20:04.059 --> 00:20:06.500 The Bible tells us, wake up. 00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:09.180 Now is the appointed time. 00:20:10.019 --> 00:20:13.019 Now it is high time to awake out of sleep, 00:20:13.140 --> 00:20:14.379 we read in the book of Romans. 00:20:15.379 --> 00:20:19.119 For now, your redemption is nearer than when you first believed. 00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:21.319 Jesus is coming back. 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:25.559 We are not promised forever on this earth. 00:20:25.779 --> 00:20:28.619 We are promised a wonderful eternity in heaven with God. 00:20:28.740 --> 00:20:30.460 But until that time comes, 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:32.059 you and I have a job to do, 00:20:32.099 --> 00:20:33.299 and we can't do it if we're asleep. 00:20:33.619 --> 00:20:36.139 I'm not talking about not getting your eight hours of sleep at night. 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:39.119 I'm talking about sleeping through your life, 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:41.859 not listening to the Holy Spirit of God, 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:44.359 not ever sharing the gospel with somebody else, 00:20:44.500 --> 00:20:46.740 not ever resisting temptation, 00:20:47.159 --> 00:20:48.980 just giving in to the lust of the flesh, 00:20:49.059 --> 00:20:49.700 the lust of the eyes, 00:20:49.700 --> 00:20:50.539 and the bride of life. 00:20:50.860 --> 00:20:52.920 The Bible says, wake up! 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:56.860 Because it's time to listen to God 00:20:56.860 --> 00:20:59.160 and let God change your life. 00:20:59.259 --> 00:21:00.840 Let God change your thinking. 00:21:01.819 --> 00:21:03.860 The Holy Spirit is not the problem. 00:21:04.819 --> 00:21:05.799 The Spirit is willing, 00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:07.680 but the flesh is weak. 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:10.480 But Jesus had to teach those guys 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.140 that walked with Him every day 00:21:12.140 --> 00:21:14.940 on the most important night of His time on earth. 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:16.940 When He could not sleep, 00:21:17.019 --> 00:21:17.980 He knew what was coming. 00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:20.720 He had even given them clues of what was coming. 00:21:22.360 --> 00:21:23.640 But they fell asleep. 00:21:23.980 --> 00:21:25.400 How many of us fall asleep 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.400 when God needs us to pray? 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:29.500 How many of us fall asleep 00:21:29.500 --> 00:21:31.960 when God needs us to stand strong? 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:33.640 How many of us fall asleep 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:35.140 when God needs us to resist? 00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:37.900 How many of us fall asleep 00:21:37.900 --> 00:21:40.380 when God needs us to help someone else? 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:43.160 So that's just an application there 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:44.559 that I hope we can take. 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.240 Now, 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:56.859 y'all, I think I took out, 00:21:56.940 --> 00:21:58.579 I think I messed up one of my slides here 00:21:58.579 --> 00:21:59.619 and I apologize for that. 00:22:00.419 --> 00:22:01.659 So I'm just going to focus 00:22:01.659 --> 00:22:03.200 on the latter part of this verse right here. 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:05.619 Jesus was praying for us 00:22:05.619 --> 00:22:06.299 and He said, 00:22:06.399 --> 00:22:07.899 I'm not praying that you would take us 00:22:07.899 --> 00:22:08.759 out of this world, 00:22:08.940 --> 00:22:11.279 but I'm praying that you would protect us, 00:22:11.539 --> 00:22:12.000 you and I, 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:13.259 from the evil one. 00:22:13.259 --> 00:22:14.680 So that's God's goal, 00:22:14.779 --> 00:22:16.579 that's Jesus' goal for you and for me 00:22:16.579 --> 00:22:18.900 is to protect us from the evil one. 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:19.779 That's, I think, 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:21.160 why God was, 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:23.279 Jesus was teaching us 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:24.680 in Matthew 6, 00:22:25.099 --> 00:22:25.379 Lord, 00:22:26.299 --> 00:22:27.660 don't lead us into temptation, 00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:29.779 deliver us from the evil one. 00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:30.839 Right here He says, 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:32.339 protect them, 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:33.099 Father, 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:34.339 from the evil one. 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:35.660 So that's God's goal for us. 00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:36.180 Now, 00:22:36.379 --> 00:22:37.839 that leads us into point number two. 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:40.000 Obedience to God's Spirit 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.299 can rescue us from temptation. 00:22:42.299 --> 00:22:43.680 So that's the theme, 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:43.940 right? 00:22:44.019 --> 00:22:45.220 We have temptation first 00:22:45.220 --> 00:22:47.159 and then we have deliverance. 00:22:47.259 --> 00:22:48.700 So this is the deliverance part. 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:49.440 This is the good part. 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:50.819 We're excited about this. 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:52.460 Obedience to God's Spirit 00:22:52.460 --> 00:22:53.680 can rescue us 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:54.799 from temptation. 00:22:54.980 --> 00:22:55.759 Let's go to 2 Peter. 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:58.200 2 Peter 2, 00:22:58.419 --> 00:22:59.619 verse 7. 00:23:01.139 --> 00:23:02.680 2 Peter 2, 7. 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.180 If He rescued righteous Lot, 00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:08.320 Y'all remember the story of Lot? 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:15.840 He was a righteous man, 00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:17.220 truly a righteous man, 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.600 followed God, 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:20.500 but he couldn't resist the flesh. 00:23:20.840 --> 00:23:21.720 He couldn't resist 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:23.759 the pride of life, 00:23:25.180 --> 00:23:26.060 the lust of the flesh, 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:27.120 the lust of the eyes. 00:23:27.460 --> 00:23:29.100 So he kept going to places 00:23:29.100 --> 00:23:30.759 where he shouldn't have gone 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.180 to set up his domain, 00:23:33.180 --> 00:23:34.400 domain to set up 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:35.799 his little mini kingdom there 00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:38.600 and eventually it culminated 00:23:38.600 --> 00:23:41.660 in him finally begrudgingly 00:23:41.660 --> 00:23:43.940 leaving Sodom and Gomorrah, 00:23:44.560 --> 00:23:47.920 but his wife stopped 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:48.759 and looked back, 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:51.320 missing that life 00:23:51.320 --> 00:23:52.380 she was leaving behind 00:23:52.380 --> 00:23:53.340 to follow God 00:23:53.340 --> 00:23:54.759 at God's command 00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:55.860 and what happened? 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:57.580 Old Testament man, 00:23:57.660 --> 00:23:58.360 there's nothing like it. 00:23:58.359 --> 00:23:59.240 She was turned into 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:00.199 a pillar of salt. 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:03.459 I mean, just wild things 00:24:03.459 --> 00:24:04.059 you can read about 00:24:04.059 --> 00:24:04.740 in the Old Testament. 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:07.279 God's way of dealing 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:08.500 with his people back then 00:24:08.500 --> 00:24:10.039 was incredible to watch. 00:24:11.159 --> 00:24:12.819 So we read about this 00:24:12.819 --> 00:24:13.599 reference to Lot 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:14.459 right here all the way 00:24:14.459 --> 00:24:15.319 toward the end of the book 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:16.519 in 2 Peter 2, 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:17.379 verse 7. 00:24:18.059 --> 00:24:20.500 If God rescued righteous Lot, 00:24:20.899 --> 00:24:22.799 distressed by the depraved 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:24.019 behavior of the immoral. 00:24:24.779 --> 00:24:25.719 Oh, he was distressed, 00:24:25.899 --> 00:24:26.199 all right, 00:24:26.539 --> 00:24:27.740 but he couldn't walk away from it. 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:30.319 Verse 8, 00:24:30.399 --> 00:24:31.879 for as that righteous man 00:24:31.879 --> 00:24:33.419 lived among them 00:24:33.419 --> 00:24:34.339 day by day, 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:35.699 his righteous soul 00:24:35.699 --> 00:24:36.619 was tormented 00:24:36.619 --> 00:24:38.019 or vexed 00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:39.740 by the lawless deeds 00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:41.240 he saw and heard. 00:24:41.819 --> 00:24:42.399 Verse 9, 00:24:42.479 --> 00:24:43.500 so if he could do that 00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:43.859 for Lot, 00:24:43.919 --> 00:24:44.979 he could rescue Lot 00:24:44.979 --> 00:24:47.359 almost against Lot's will, 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:49.719 then the Lord knows how 00:24:49.719 --> 00:24:51.939 to rescue the godly 00:24:51.939 --> 00:24:52.759 from trials 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:54.219 and to keep the unrighteous 00:24:54.219 --> 00:24:55.019 under punishment 00:24:55.019 --> 00:24:57.199 for the day of judgment. 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:00.160 God knows how to rescue us. 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:01.460 So that's the good news. 00:25:01.779 --> 00:25:02.920 Obedience to God 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:04.279 can deliver us. 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:05.360 Obedience to God 00:25:05.360 --> 00:25:06.740 can rescue us. 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:08.340 1 Corinthians 10, 13. 00:25:08.660 --> 00:25:09.620 No temptation 00:25:09.620 --> 00:25:11.000 has overtaken you 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:12.660 that's not common to man. 00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:13.759 Remember that Jesus 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:14.340 was tempted? 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:16.160 Jesus was tempted 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:17.279 just like we are 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:18.580 in all three areas, 00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:19.819 the lust of the flesh, 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:20.720 the lust of the eyes, 00:25:20.759 --> 00:25:21.620 and the pride of life. 00:25:21.819 --> 00:25:22.480 When Satan 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:24.019 led him up on that mountain, 00:25:24.019 --> 00:25:24.879 he tempted him. 00:25:25.879 --> 00:25:26.980 When Jesus was at 00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:28.000 his weakest point 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:29.480 after starving 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:30.039 in the wilderness 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:30.980 for 40 days, 00:25:31.779 --> 00:25:34.420 then Satan 00:25:34.420 --> 00:25:35.220 pounced on him. 00:25:35.859 --> 00:25:36.119 Of course, 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:36.599 he wasn't going to 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:37.400 get anywhere with Jesus, 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:39.379 but Jesus wanted to show us, 00:25:39.460 --> 00:25:40.259 give us the template 00:25:40.259 --> 00:25:41.759 for resisting temptation. 00:25:42.019 --> 00:25:44.160 It's by the word of God. 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:45.420 Every time Satan 00:25:45.420 --> 00:25:46.079 came at him 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:46.980 with temptation, 00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:48.359 he quoted scripture 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:49.079 back to Satan. 00:25:49.259 --> 00:25:50.259 The power is in 00:25:50.259 --> 00:25:50.960 the word of God. 00:25:51.220 --> 00:25:52.420 Jesus was the living 00:25:52.420 --> 00:25:53.180 word of God. 00:25:53.180 --> 00:25:55.880 But he quoted that word 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:57.420 right back to Satan, 00:25:57.740 --> 00:25:58.519 and that's the word 00:25:58.519 --> 00:25:59.160 that we have. 00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:01.060 The power that Jesus 00:26:01.060 --> 00:26:02.680 used to resist temptation 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:05.440 was the very same power 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:06.120 that you and I 00:26:06.120 --> 00:26:06.960 have access to. 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.259 So no temptation 00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:09.460 has overtaken you 00:26:09.460 --> 00:26:10.039 or me 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:11.340 that is not already 00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:12.299 common to man, 00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:14.140 but God is faithful. 00:26:15.140 --> 00:26:16.320 And he will not allow you 00:26:16.320 --> 00:26:16.860 to be tempted 00:26:16.860 --> 00:26:18.440 beyond your ability, 00:26:18.600 --> 00:26:19.700 but with the temptation, 00:26:20.080 --> 00:26:21.200 he will also provide 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:22.480 the way of escape. 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:23.880 Man, some of the 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:25.420 most reassuring words 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:25.900 in the Bible 00:26:25.900 --> 00:26:26.620 that you can read 00:26:26.620 --> 00:26:28.680 is this way of escape. 00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:30.240 God will provide 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:31.039 a way of escape. 00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:32.200 So every time 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:33.799 we are tempted, 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:34.819 number one, 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:35.539 we know it is not 00:26:35.539 --> 00:26:36.259 coming from God. 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:37.120 Number two, 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:38.259 we know that God 00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:39.160 has provided a way 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:39.640 of escape 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:40.860 so that you and I 00:26:40.860 --> 00:26:41.539 can endure 00:26:41.539 --> 00:26:42.700 that temptation. 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:45.079 2 Timothy 4.18, 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:46.779 the Lord will rescue me 00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:48.759 from every evil work 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:50.119 and will bring me 00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:51.599 safely into his 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:52.319 heavenly kingdom. 00:26:52.679 --> 00:26:53.119 Amen. 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:55.919 What a powerful prayer. 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:56.659 I don't think it's wrong 00:26:56.659 --> 00:26:57.439 to pray scripture. 00:26:57.899 --> 00:26:58.319 I don't think it's 00:26:58.319 --> 00:26:59.439 inappropriate to read 00:26:59.439 --> 00:27:00.399 things in the word of God 00:27:00.399 --> 00:27:01.679 and pray them word for word. 00:27:02.779 --> 00:27:03.720 I think that's just fine 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:04.720 if you in your quiet time 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:05.799 want to pray that to God. 00:27:05.899 --> 00:27:06.839 God, rescue me 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:07.899 from every evil work 00:27:07.899 --> 00:27:09.159 and bring me safely 00:27:09.159 --> 00:27:10.599 into your heavenly kingdom. 00:27:10.819 --> 00:27:11.019 Amen. 00:27:11.019 --> 00:27:13.440 We know that he's 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:14.279 promised to do that. 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:15.359 He will do that. 00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:18.279 So how do we resist? 00:27:18.879 --> 00:27:19.799 It's through the power 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:21.079 of his word. 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:24.299 2 Thessalonians 3.3, 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:26.299 kind of the same thing. 00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:27.920 I love how many times 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:28.920 he put this in the scriptures 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:30.240 so he can drive 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:31.240 that point home with us. 00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:32.639 The Lord is faithful. 00:27:33.059 --> 00:27:34.099 He will strengthen you 00:27:34.099 --> 00:27:35.279 and guard you 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:36.500 from the evil one. 00:27:37.639 --> 00:27:38.859 That's God's desire. 00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:39.859 He prayed it to his 00:27:39.859 --> 00:27:40.539 father in heaven. 00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:43.160 And he wants us 00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:43.920 to do that now. 00:27:45.099 --> 00:27:46.099 John 17. 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:48.240 This is the passage 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:49.619 we quoted just a minute ago. 00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:52.579 And I had these slides 00:27:52.579 --> 00:27:53.000 out of order 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:53.539 and I apologize. 00:27:54.180 --> 00:27:55.139 This should have been 00:27:55.139 --> 00:27:55.559 back there 00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:56.200 to kind of help us 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:56.859 transition in 00:27:56.859 --> 00:27:57.480 but that's okay. 00:27:57.940 --> 00:27:58.720 John 17. 00:27:58.819 --> 00:27:59.539 Let's turn there anyway 00:27:59.539 --> 00:27:59.960 real quick. 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:01.420 John 17 in verse 6. 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:03.639 Jesus is praying 00:28:03.639 --> 00:28:04.579 for his disciples. 00:28:05.099 --> 00:28:06.279 We can jump in 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:06.920 and be included 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:07.680 on this prayer. 00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:09.259 I have revealed your name, 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:09.940 Jesus says. 00:28:09.940 --> 00:28:11.039 I have revealed your name, 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:11.340 Father, 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.660 to the people you gave me 00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:13.299 from the world. 00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:14.240 They were yours 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.320 and you gave them to me. 00:28:15.820 --> 00:28:16.900 They have kept your word. 00:28:17.259 --> 00:28:18.059 Now they know 00:28:18.059 --> 00:28:19.539 that everything you have 00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:22.059 given is from you 00:28:22.059 --> 00:28:23.160 because I have given them 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:24.240 the words you gave me. 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:25.600 They have received them 00:28:25.600 --> 00:28:26.720 and they know for certain 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:27.980 that I came from you. 00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:29.680 They believe that you sent me. 00:28:30.019 --> 00:28:31.080 I pray for them. 00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:32.539 And what a powerful thought 00:28:32.539 --> 00:28:34.039 that Jesus is praying for us. 00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:35.920 This isn't the only time 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:36.339 in scripture 00:28:36.339 --> 00:28:37.799 that Jesus assures us 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:39.680 that he is praying for us. 00:28:40.399 --> 00:28:40.779 He says, 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.720 I pray for them. 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:43.200 I'm not praying for the world 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:44.019 but for those 00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:44.859 that you have given me 00:28:44.859 --> 00:28:46.319 because they are yours. 00:28:46.639 --> 00:28:47.859 Everything I have is yours. 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:49.519 Everything you have is mine 00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:50.839 and I am glorified in them. 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:52.579 I am no longer in the world 00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:53.879 but they are in the world 00:28:53.879 --> 00:28:54.839 and I am coming to you. 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:55.539 By the way, 00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:56.559 you want a little clue 00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:57.579 as to why we believe 00:28:57.579 --> 00:28:58.180 in the Trinity? 00:28:58.440 --> 00:28:59.319 A three-part God, 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:00.039 Father, Son, 00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:00.700 and Holy Spirit? 00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:02.000 Right here we believe 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:02.900 that the Father and Son 00:29:02.900 --> 00:29:03.579 are co-equal 00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:04.539 because right here 00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:05.539 did you see in verse 10? 00:29:05.859 --> 00:29:07.039 Everything I have is yours. 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:08.400 Everything you have is mine. 00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:10.119 They are on equal footing 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:10.880 with one another. 00:29:11.019 --> 00:29:11.880 Equally God, 00:29:12.500 --> 00:29:13.519 all three parts. 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:14.660 Different roles, 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.539 different personalities sometimes 00:29:16.539 --> 00:29:18.359 as they express themselves 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:20.640 but they are all one God. 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:23.960 All co-equal with one another. 00:29:24.099 --> 00:29:25.460 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:27.660 So, let's jump back in. 00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:28.160 Verse 11. 00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:29.559 I'm no longer in the world 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:30.480 but they are in the world 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:31.519 and I am coming to you. 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:32.639 Holy Father, 00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:34.619 protect them by your name 00:29:34.619 --> 00:29:36.660 that you have given me 00:29:36.660 --> 00:29:38.319 so that they may be one 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:39.680 as we are one. 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:45.059 Just as the Father and Son 00:29:45.059 --> 00:29:45.759 are united, 00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:46.619 are one, 00:29:47.299 --> 00:29:48.379 God wants his people 00:29:48.379 --> 00:29:49.480 to be united 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:51.039 and one 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.480 and he wants to protect us 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:55.460 from Satan trying to mess that up. 00:29:56.700 --> 00:29:58.519 Satan trying to get in between us 00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:00.339 and drive us apart. 00:30:02.139 --> 00:30:03.519 So, he's praying for us 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:05.539 that God would protect us. 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:08.619 Jump down, if you would, 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:13.180 to verse 15. 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:14.500 I'm not praying 00:30:14.500 --> 00:30:15.819 that you take them out of the world. 00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:17.059 We read it just a moment ago. 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:18.900 But that you protect them 00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:20.299 from the evil one. 00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:21.660 They're not of the world 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:22.920 just as I am not of the world. 00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:26.400 Sanctify them by the truth. 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:27.120 Your truth, 00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:27.860 your word, 00:30:27.860 --> 00:30:28.840 is truth. 00:30:29.220 --> 00:30:30.519 As you sent me into the world, 00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:32.360 I also have sent them into the world. 00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:33.060 That's us, y'all. 00:30:33.140 --> 00:30:34.320 He sent us into this world. 00:30:34.660 --> 00:30:36.340 I sanctify myself for them 00:30:36.340 --> 00:30:37.600 so that they also 00:30:37.600 --> 00:30:38.780 may be sanctified 00:30:38.780 --> 00:30:40.140 by the truth. 00:30:40.140 --> 00:30:45.600 God wants to protect us 00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:46.840 from the evil one 00:30:46.840 --> 00:30:48.620 because we are here 00:30:48.620 --> 00:30:49.500 for a great purpose. 00:30:50.259 --> 00:30:51.140 He has sent us 00:30:51.140 --> 00:30:51.880 into the world 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:53.120 as his light. 00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:54.880 If the light 00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:55.860 is extinguished 00:30:55.860 --> 00:30:57.120 by the power of darkness, 00:30:57.240 --> 00:30:58.340 if the light is hidden 00:30:58.340 --> 00:31:00.620 by the power of darkness 00:31:00.620 --> 00:31:01.660 and us giving in 00:31:01.660 --> 00:31:02.340 to temptation, 00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:04.080 it extinguishes that light. 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:05.040 It hides that light 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:05.740 and nobody can see 00:31:05.740 --> 00:31:06.519 that light anymore 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:08.159 because all they see 00:31:08.159 --> 00:31:10.480 is us giving in 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:10.920 repeatedly, 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:11.500 continually 00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:13.119 to the same temptations 00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:14.079 that they give in to. 00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:15.259 And there's no difference. 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:16.180 There's no change. 00:31:16.399 --> 00:31:17.319 There's nothing special 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:18.519 about the power of God 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:19.099 in our lives. 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.720 So there's much at stake. 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:23.299 There's much at stake. 00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:25.359 That's why, once again, 00:31:25.460 --> 00:31:26.339 we're going back to it. 00:31:26.899 --> 00:31:28.159 Can we read this together, please? 00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:30.639 Don't copy the behavior 00:31:30.639 --> 00:31:32.480 and customs of this world. 00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:32.920 Here we go. 00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:33.119 Ready? 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.059 But let God transform you 00:31:36.059 --> 00:31:38.039 into a new person 00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.259 by changing the way you think. 00:31:41.479 --> 00:31:43.279 This is my prayer for you. 00:31:43.539 --> 00:31:44.919 It's my prayer for me 00:31:44.919 --> 00:31:46.019 and my family 00:31:46.019 --> 00:31:47.000 on a daily basis 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.459 that God would change 00:31:48.459 --> 00:31:49.619 the way we think 00:31:49.619 --> 00:31:53.000 so that we would not 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:54.099 so easily give in 00:31:54.099 --> 00:31:55.179 to the sins 00:31:55.179 --> 00:31:56.000 that easily 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:58.159 pull us off track, 00:31:58.419 --> 00:31:59.479 the sins that easily 00:31:59.479 --> 00:32:00.339 beset us, 00:32:01.699 --> 00:32:03.059 that we wouldn't give in 00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:03.679 to temptation. 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:05.279 So that's the takeaway. 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:06.579 Do I resist temptation 00:32:06.579 --> 00:32:07.639 through prayer 00:32:07.639 --> 00:32:09.500 or through my own strength? 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:12.139 Do I resist temptation 00:32:12.139 --> 00:32:13.339 on my knees? 00:32:14.879 --> 00:32:15.960 You don't always have to be 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:16.480 on your knees. 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:17.440 You could be driving 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:18.019 in your car, 00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:19.559 you could be at work, 00:32:19.619 --> 00:32:20.259 you could be engaged 00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:21.059 in another activity, 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:21.740 but God 00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:23.679 is just a moment away. 00:32:24.339 --> 00:32:25.259 He's always there. 00:32:25.859 --> 00:32:27.099 Do I resist temptation 00:32:27.099 --> 00:32:28.339 through His power 00:32:28.339 --> 00:32:29.439 or through my power? 00:32:30.439 --> 00:32:31.299 I want to leave you 00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:31.819 with the words 00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:32.480 to this song 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:33.259 by Phil Wickham, 00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:34.459 great Christian songwriter 00:32:34.459 --> 00:32:34.839 out there. 00:32:34.919 --> 00:32:35.220 He said, 00:32:35.299 --> 00:32:36.139 so when I fight, 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:37.799 I'll fight on my knees 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:39.459 with my hands lifted high. 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:40.099 Oh God, 00:32:40.339 --> 00:32:42.319 the battle belongs to you. 00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:43.500 Whether you're fighting 00:32:43.500 --> 00:32:44.819 against someone else 00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:45.720 trying to hurt you 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:46.639 or you're fighting 00:32:46.639 --> 00:32:47.599 against temptation 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:49.379 trying to pull you off track, 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:50.699 fight that battle 00:32:50.699 --> 00:32:51.559 on your knees. 00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:53.220 I can personally testify, 00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:55.160 when I try to resist temptation 00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:56.079 with my own strength, 00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:57.519 I don't win. 00:32:59.860 --> 00:33:01.240 Now you can put your name 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:02.160 in the middle of that too. 00:33:02.460 --> 00:33:03.960 When you resist temptation 00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:04.680 on your own, 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:05.779 you don't win, 00:33:05.860 --> 00:33:06.180 do you? 00:33:07.740 --> 00:33:09.220 But when we fight 00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:10.440 through the power of God, 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:11.880 He wins. 00:33:12.579 --> 00:33:13.940 He always wins. 00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:15.380 So if we want 00:33:15.380 --> 00:33:16.319 to defeat temptation, 00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:17.860 let's go to the book. 00:33:18.860 --> 00:33:19.940 Let's go to our knees 00:33:19.940 --> 00:33:20.440 in prayer. 00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:21.740 And let's ask 00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:22.759 for God's help 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:24.319 He wants to help us. 00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:25.379 And He says 00:33:25.379 --> 00:33:26.140 to come to Him 00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:27.579 and ask Him for help. 00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:29.440 God, deliver us from this. 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:30.640 Would you pray with me? 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:32.819 God, I pray that 00:33:32.819 --> 00:33:33.920 You would deliver us 00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:34.859 from sin. 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:35.839 I know beyond 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:36.660 a shadow of doubt 00:33:36.660 --> 00:33:37.240 there is sin 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:38.099 in our church, God. 00:33:38.420 --> 00:33:39.359 Because any time 00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:40.279 you get a group of people 00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:41.279 together in this world, 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:42.279 there's going to be 00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:42.879 plenty of sin 00:33:42.879 --> 00:33:43.680 represented there. 00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:45.259 We are all sinners. 00:33:46.339 --> 00:33:47.519 We all have our 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:48.400 pet sins 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:49.339 that we can't seem 00:33:49.339 --> 00:33:49.759 to shake. 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:51.940 Whether it's pride, 00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:52.620 whether it's lust 00:33:52.620 --> 00:33:53.140 of the flesh, 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:54.340 whether it's lust 00:33:54.340 --> 00:33:54.900 of the eyes, 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:55.700 the pride of life, 00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:56.660 whatever category 00:33:56.660 --> 00:33:57.759 really trips us up 00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:58.240 the most, 00:33:58.920 --> 00:33:59.500 there's something 00:33:59.500 --> 00:34:00.320 in there that just 00:34:00.320 --> 00:34:02.120 maybe multiple things 00:34:02.120 --> 00:34:04.320 that we just can't seem 00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:05.380 to get victory over. 00:34:07.580 --> 00:34:08.880 God, reveal to us 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:09.500 how much 00:34:09.500 --> 00:34:10.300 You want to give us 00:34:10.300 --> 00:34:10.720 the victory. 00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:13.420 Change the way 00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:13.980 we think 00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:16.300 by submitting 00:34:16.300 --> 00:34:17.079 to Your Spirit, 00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:18.460 by actually 00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:19.219 spending time 00:34:19.219 --> 00:34:19.799 in Your Word, 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:21.420 by actually 00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:22.059 going to You 00:34:22.059 --> 00:34:22.480 in prayer 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:23.000 and not just 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:23.819 talking about it, 00:34:25.099 --> 00:34:25.880 but actually 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:26.840 taking the time 00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:28.199 to re-center 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:28.719 ourselves 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:29.579 on You. 00:34:31.799 --> 00:34:32.559 We'll give You 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:33.279 all the glory, God. 00:34:33.319 --> 00:34:34.099 We're not going to say, 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:35.299 man, I finally 00:34:35.299 --> 00:34:36.039 kicked this habit 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:36.559 that I've been 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:37.500 trying to kick. 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:39.779 No, it was Jesus. 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:41.519 It was Your power. 00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:43.860 You did a transforming 00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:44.519 work in us. 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:48.119 Let that be 00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:49.059 our testimony here. 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:50.380 God, if there's 00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:51.119 someone who needs 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:51.659 You to deliver 00:34:51.659 --> 00:34:52.420 them from sin, 00:34:54.380 --> 00:34:57.840 someone needs 00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:58.500 to put their faith 00:34:58.500 --> 00:34:58.719 in You 00:34:58.719 --> 00:34:59.500 for the first time. 00:35:00.860 --> 00:35:01.739 Just last week, 00:35:02.420 --> 00:35:03.039 we had someone 00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:03.719 raise their hand 00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:05.420 and You've been 00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:06.039 working on them, 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:06.619 You've been drawing 00:35:06.619 --> 00:35:07.199 them, and they've 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:07.900 placed their faith 00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:08.300 in You 00:35:08.300 --> 00:35:09.960 for the first time. 00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:11.860 We want to see 00:35:11.860 --> 00:35:12.380 that happen 00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:13.380 as often as 00:35:13.380 --> 00:35:13.719 you're willing 00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:14.879 to let us 00:35:14.879 --> 00:35:15.279 see that. 00:35:16.319 --> 00:35:16.980 So right now, 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:17.639 I'll ask again 00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:18.139 with our heads 00:35:18.139 --> 00:35:18.500 bowed, 00:35:19.099 --> 00:35:19.359 if there's 00:35:19.359 --> 00:35:19.879 somebody else 00:35:19.879 --> 00:35:20.179 who'd like 00:35:20.179 --> 00:35:20.480 to slip 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:20.779 your hand 00:35:20.779 --> 00:35:21.239 up and say, 00:35:21.319 --> 00:35:21.579 I want to 00:35:21.579 --> 00:35:22.179 place my faith 00:35:22.179 --> 00:35:22.579 in Jesus. 00:35:22.939 --> 00:35:23.439 I want to 00:35:23.439 --> 00:35:23.980 turn from my 00:35:23.980 --> 00:35:24.500 sin and turn 00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:24.899 to Jesus. 00:35:25.939 --> 00:35:26.559 Thank You. 00:35:27.339 --> 00:35:27.919 Thank You. 00:35:32.019 --> 00:35:32.599 I want to 00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:33.199 pray for that one, 00:35:33.279 --> 00:35:33.599 God, that You 00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:33.959 would give them 00:35:33.959 --> 00:35:34.480 understanding 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:36.259 to how much 00:35:36.259 --> 00:35:37.000 they need You. 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:40.519 Give them 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:41.259 full understanding 00:35:41.259 --> 00:35:42.139 of what it means 00:35:42.139 --> 00:35:42.920 to be a child 00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:43.279 of God. 00:35:44.579 --> 00:35:45.199 For the rest 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:45.699 of us, God, 00:35:45.739 --> 00:35:46.279 I pray that You 00:35:46.279 --> 00:35:47.199 would continue 00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:47.799 to work in our 00:35:47.799 --> 00:35:48.079 hearts. 00:35:48.319 --> 00:35:48.819 How many of you 00:35:48.819 --> 00:35:49.299 would slip your 00:35:49.299 --> 00:35:49.839 hand up and just 00:35:49.839 --> 00:35:50.599 say, pray for me? 00:35:50.859 --> 00:35:51.559 I'm working on 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:52.159 something, God's 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:52.759 convicted me of 00:35:52.759 --> 00:35:53.299 something, and I 00:35:53.299 --> 00:35:53.859 just need prayer. 00:35:54.259 --> 00:35:55.059 I'll pray for You. 00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:55.639 Thank you. 00:35:55.839 --> 00:35:56.299 Thank you. 00:35:56.679 --> 00:35:57.199 Thank you. 00:35:57.259 --> 00:35:57.639 All over. 00:35:57.699 --> 00:35:58.359 God, You see the 00:35:58.359 --> 00:35:58.599 hands. 00:35:58.819 --> 00:35:59.339 You know what's 00:35:59.339 --> 00:35:59.879 going on, Lord. 00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:00.359 You know what's 00:36:00.359 --> 00:36:00.920 going on in every 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:01.159 heart. 00:36:01.299 --> 00:36:02.199 You've been with 00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:03.179 us every step of 00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:03.639 this journey. 00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:05.799 I pray that we 00:36:05.799 --> 00:36:06.519 would fight this 00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:07.279 battle on our 00:36:07.279 --> 00:36:09.299 knees, not in 00:36:09.299 --> 00:36:09.960 our own strength. 00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:10.820 It's in Jesus' name 00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:11.199 I pray. 00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:12.199 Amen. 00:36:12.900 --> 00:36:13.400 Brother Greg's 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:13.880 going to lead us 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:14.480 through a song. 00:36:15.179 --> 00:36:15.579 I'm going to be 00:36:15.579 --> 00:36:16.260 down front if you'd 00:36:16.260 --> 00:36:16.760 like to meet me 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:17.260 down here for 00:36:17.260 --> 00:36:17.800 prayer, if you'd 00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:18.480 like to come pray 00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:19.559 quietly by yourself, 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:20.420 that's what these 00:36:20.420 --> 00:36:21.079 steps are for. 00:36:21.420 --> 00:36:22.039 If you'd like to go 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:22.720 to the back and 00:36:22.720 --> 00:36:23.599 find a quiet room, 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:24.800 our campus is here 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:25.559 for you to pray. 00:36:26.220 --> 00:36:26.900 Stay out of the 00:36:26.900 --> 00:36:27.720 children's area because 00:36:27.720 --> 00:36:28.360 that's where they're 00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:29.519 going, but y'all just 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:30.639 use a few minutes to 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:31.059 pray here. 00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:31.980 Whatever's going on in 00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:32.699 your heart, why 00:36:32.699 --> 00:36:33.260 don't you keep your 00:36:33.260 --> 00:36:33.900 seat for now? 00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:35.119 Just remain 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:35.539 comfortable. 00:36:35.699 --> 00:36:36.579 Just stay sitting 00:36:36.579 --> 00:36:37.639 down and let's all 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:38.519 spend this time with 00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:39.239 our heads bowed. 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:40.179 You can sing along 00:36:40.179 --> 00:36:40.960 to the song if you'd 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:41.900 like, but let's spend 00:36:41.900 --> 00:36:42.559 just a couple of 00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.480 minutes dedicated to 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:43.699 prayer.