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 You are listening to a message from Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama.

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 Our passion is to experience and express grace.

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 Join us.

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 But if you'll turn with me to Luke chapter 9.

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 Luke 9 is on page 867 of the Bible in the pew in front of you.

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 Luke chapter 9.

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 Kids, have you ever played follow the leader before?

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 You played that game?

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 It's kind of a fun to those of us who are wondering about that and what it would mean for them if they were to follow Jesus.

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 So first question Jesus addresses in this passage.

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 What is required of followers of Jesus?

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 Look at verse 23.

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 He said to all, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

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 Here's what it means, Jesus says.

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 Here's what it looks like.

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 Self-denial.

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 Carrying your cross.

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 It's been called the essence of Christian discipleship by theologians as respected as John Calvin and Matthew Henry.

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 But what does it really mean to deny myself and take up my cross daily?

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 What is Jesus talking about when he says that's required for his followers?

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 Let him deny himself.

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 First of all, notice that it's active.

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 It's a requirement not just to endure suffering passively when it comes upon you, but actively to reshape your life.

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 Intentional self-denial.

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 Self-denial.

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 And we think a lot about self-words, don't we?

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 Some of my favorite, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, self-image, self-confidence, self-help.

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 We like to talk about self-words.

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 We know a lot of them, but self-denial.

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 Really?

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 Self-denial?

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 Y'all, to say it nicely, just to be honest about the situation, we have a tendency to focus on ourselves all of our lives, don't we?

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 In infancy, we cry for what we want.

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 And then as toddlers, we turn into little me monsters who everything is mine, mine, mine, right?

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 Crying for that all the time.

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 As grade school children, we begin to think that we know what's best for me more than my parents do, and I know better what I want.

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 Then we become teenagers.

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 And we're actually told by seemingly everyone around us that life is all about us, and we should go and enjoy four years of just the fullness of experiencing life, and it's all about me and what I want.

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 As soon as we can get there, if you can just make it to those four years.

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 And then we graduate, and we get a job, and we start focusing on making enough money so that we can do what we want to do, so that we can go on vacation.

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 So that we can retire early and do what we really want to do with our lives.

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 Self-focus looks different at every age, but it rarely looks like self-denial, which is where Jesus starts.

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 It's the beginning, the minimum requirement, as it were, for being His follower.

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 This is what His followers must do.

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 If anyone comes after me, let him deny himself.

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 That word for deny really means to say no to, which sounds easy enough.

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 But it's bigger than we often think.

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 We often think about self-denial as saying no to a second donut, or saying no to sleeping in when you really want to, and instead waking up early to get ready for VBS.

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 Four days in a row.

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 That's self-denial.

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 What that really is, is that's denying my desires.

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 And these things may well happen as we deny self, but denying self is actually denying a person, not a desire.

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 Think, for instance, of Peter denying Jesus.

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 So when Jesus says, deny yourself, He means over and over in your life, saying no to self-definition, to allegiance to myself, to setting my own agenda for my life.

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 And that may involve some of those other things, but think of it this way.

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 Just as Jesus zealously insisted on following His Father's plan for His life, so He calls us to say yes to His plan, and no to our own agendas.

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 No to self-rule and self-determination.

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 In other words, denying self is not first about changing practices, but rather about changing priorities.

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 Let me give you an example of what I mean in my own life.

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 I drive an old, blue Honda Accord.

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 And when I say old, I mean that it recently got its own driver's license, that it voted in the last election.

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 I won't say for whom, but it's old.

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 Very old.

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 And I've had it for a while.

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 Driving an older car, for you, may sound like self-denial, right?

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 I've thought that.

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 But recently, several of my friends have loved me enough to actually challenge me on my attitude towards the old car.

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 As that car has begun having some mechanical issues and they've seen me respond,

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 they have said to me, some of them more gently than others,

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 I think you have a problem.

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 You want people to think of you as a pastor with an old, cheap car.

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 Humble.

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 Sacrificial.

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 Super spiritual.

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 But they were not joking.

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 And I've realized they're really right.

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 And see, that's actually the opposite of self-denial.

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 That's actually self-definition and self-promotion in the guise of spirituality.

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 Do you see that the thing may have seemed like it was denying self,

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 but what was going on in the heart was actually quite the opposite.

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 Self-denial may eventually mean that some of us drive cheaper cars than we can afford.

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 But it begins by calling us to find our identity in what God says about us,

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 not what others think about us, no matter what car we drive.

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 That's the bigger picture.

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 That's at the heart of self-denial.

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 So denying self means not finding my security in my money, but in Christ.

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 It means not finding my pleasure in my pet sin, but in Christ.

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 It means not finding my identity in my success, however I define it, but in Christ.

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 And yes, when those priorities shift, if you stop and think about that for a minute,

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 if those priorities genuinely changed in your life, our practices will follow,

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 perhaps even more radically than you've imagined so far this morning,

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 what it may mean to deny yourself.

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 We're actually called to a daily life that is modeled every single day on the way that Jesus died.

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 That's what he says next, right?

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 What does self-denial look like?

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 Carrying your cross daily.

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 Now, Jesus died on the cross, certainly.

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 But this command for us focuses on taking up our cross daily.

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 There's a difference for us.

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 This is about how we are to live.

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 And that the taking up of the cross in this culture,

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 that moment of taking it up was when you hoisted the cross across your back

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 and began your long walk to the place where you would be crucified on it.

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 It was designed to be an excruciating physical, emotional, and social experience.

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 Imagine it as you put that cross beam on your back

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 and you're dragging it along in front of the crowds who've gathered.

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 You were a dishonorable failure in a culture that valued honor and success above almost anything else.

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 You'd seen people come back triumphant from victory to a parade and march through the city,

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 celebrated and rejoiced over, and this is exactly the opposite.

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 You're not the conquering hero.

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 You're the failure being spit upon and mocked and humiliated as you drag the cross through the street.

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 It was the ultimate in social rejection.

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 Your reputation is shattered entirely.

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 You're mocked by the world as you walk to your death.

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 And I hate that part because I love for people to praise me, not mock me.

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 To think well of me, not poorly of me.

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 To accept me, not reject me.

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 And Jesus says this is what it means to take up your cross.

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 This painful rejection is required of anyone who would follow him.

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 In fact, it's required repeatedly for us to live as he died.

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 Remember last week, his suffering and rejection and then his death.

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 So what does that look like for us?

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 Here are just some categorical ideas that I hope will prompt specific ideas in your hearts.

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 It may mean that in a culture that prizes image,

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 we willingly look bad, even on Facebook.

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 We live below our means or find ourselves called foolish because we hold to the things of Christ.

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 It may mean that in a culture that prizes independent strength and autonomy of the individual,

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 we willingly declare and demonstrate our dependence on God and on others.

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 We admit our needs.

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 We boast in our weaknesses because we see our strength is in Christ.

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 It may mean that in a culture that prizes comfort and safety,

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 we willingly suffer physically in ways that we think are beneath us.

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 We risk our physical well-being for the sake of another or alter our beloved schedules

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 in order to love someone in need because we have a security, a safety in Christ that no one can steal.

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 It may be that just in the midst of those types of things,

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 we would meet Jesus since that's the path our Savior walked.

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 It may be, in fact, that if we never seem to find ourselves on that path at all,

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 that we need to admit we're not really following Jesus at all,

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 but rather following self and sprinkling some good Jesus stuff in it

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 so that we feel better about ourselves as we go towards reaching our goals.

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 Self-fulfillment, self-promotion is actually what we're following.

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 This is the point in the sermon where you begin to wish that I said what this means

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 is that we all needed to downsize our homes and give the extra money to the church each month

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 because that becomes a bit easier, a little bit more palatable,

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 and there's actually something bigger and broader being asked of us

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 than a box we could check even that easily.

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 Jesus is going to have some more specifics for us even before we get to the end of chapter 9.

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 But y'all, he starts by saying that following him should cost us everything.

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 Everything.

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 He walked the path where it cost him everything, right?

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 When did we begin to think we should have it easier?

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 The wonderful cross, the one he went to,

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 bids me come and die and find that I may truly live.

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 That's the path he's called us to follow and

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 sometimes we think it should be easier than that.

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 My pastor in Clemson, who was also a professor of mine at Covenant in St. Louis,

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 his name is Jimmy Agin,

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 has studied and written about Jesus' downward path to glory

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 and it's helped me so much with this particular passage

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 that in a couple of places I'll just quote him directly.

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 So anyway, that's who he is.

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 Here he says,

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 those who carry a cross

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 define themselves not by greatness and glory

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 but by their nearness to Jesus.

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 Now that's what self-denial and cross-bearing is all about.

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 I'm about proactively shaping my life around his priorities,

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 defining myself by being near Jesus.

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 You want to know something that's a little bit scary?

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 When we talk about core commitments as a church,

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 last week I mentioned those a little bit,

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 you can read about them in branches.

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 When we talk about what we're committed to,

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 we start at saying we're committed to being Christ-centered

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 and that sounds nice, doesn't it?

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 Yes, we're about Jesus.

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 Yes, you preach about Jesus

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 but you know what being Christ-centered means for us?

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 It's not only about the pastor preaching about Jesus.

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 It's about all of us following Jesus.

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 And there's only one path that Christ, the Messiah, takes.

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 There's only one Christ-centered path

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 and it's the one that goes down first.

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 down to places where we give up the right

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 to determine our own priorities,

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 the right to demand our own preferences,

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 the right to determine our own identities.

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 The path we're on calls us to give those things up.

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 We begin to define ourselves instead

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 by being near Jesus on that downward path with him.

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 Y'all, it's not easy.

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 It's hard for me.

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 It's hard for you.

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 It's hard for all of us who've been called to follow Jesus.

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 That's part of the point.

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 If we're going to go on that path,

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 we need the Holy Spirit working in each of us.

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 And we need each other

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 to make the painfulness and the loneliness of that path

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 seem just even a little less lonely and painful

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 because we're walking it together.

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 It's a counter-cultural, painful, marked-by-rejection path.

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 And if we're to walk it as Jesus did,

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 we're going to need to walk it together as he intends.

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 Amen?

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 We need him.

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 We need each other for that.

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 I think our brothers and sisters in Egypt

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 have modeled this beautifully for us recently.

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 You've probably heard in the news

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 there have been many attacks on Christians in Egypt

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 in recent weeks.

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 Dozens of them losing their lives in attacks

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 because of their following Jesus.

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 And in spite of their deep grief,

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 in spite of living in a culture

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 marked by honor and revenge,

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 where what would be expected

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 and promoted as noble and worthy

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 is attempts at retaliation and revenge.

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 In spite of that,

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 they're striving together to forgive.

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 One woman whose husband was killed by a suicide bomber

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 stood with her children on national television

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 and said this,

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 I'm not angry at the one who did this.

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 I'm telling him,

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 may God forgive you

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 and we also forgive you.

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 Believe me,

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 we forgive you.

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 You put my husband in a place

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 I couldn't have dreamed of.

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 And the Muslim community around them has marveled.

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 One famous Muslim talk show host saying,

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 how great is this forgiveness you have?

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 If it were my father,

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 I could never say this.

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 But this is their faith and religious conviction.

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 Yes.

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 And even more than that,

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 it is the countercultural way of our Savior.

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 May God make us more and more a community

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 where we are defined and shaped in our lives

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 by the priorities of Jesus,

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 His forgiveness,

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 His sacrificial love,

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 His glory.

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 As God does this among us,

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 as He brings us together to follow Him

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 in these ways that are painful and difficult

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 and often unfamiliar,

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 what's the hope offered to us?

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 Is Jesus just saying,

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 we're going to be increasingly miserable

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 and there's nothing ever for you in this?

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 Just go lose your life,

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 give up everything?

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 Nothing.

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 Actually, He's offering the promise of true life.

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 The life we were created to live, right?

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 Listen to what He says, verse 24.

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 Whoever would save his life will lose it,

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 but whoever loses his life for my sake

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 will actually save it.

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 For what does it profit a man

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 if he gains the whole world

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 and loses or forfeits himself?

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 It's that seemingly upside down path again,

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 isn't it?

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 How do you save your life?

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 Lose it.

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 Give up your sovereignty over yourself.

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 And Jesus says here,

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 I know the path appears

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 and even feels to be headed downward,

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 but I'm promising you a destination

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 of true life,

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 eternal glory.

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 He understands that it's not in the places

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 we often think to look for it.

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 But remember last week

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 how Jesus insisted on His gospel

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 being a cross-centered gospel,

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 that He must go there,

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 that it must be about the cross,

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 not merely a prosperity gospel

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 or social gospel

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 or an American gospel.

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 Now in light of that,

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 the cross says to us,

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 loud and clear,

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 your great need

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 and God's great goal for you

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 is not material prosperity,

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 moral reformation

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 or temporal security.

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 Did you hear that?

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 That's not God's greatest goal for you.

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 Material prosperity,

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 moral reformation,

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 temporal security.

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 Jesus came to suffer

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 and die for you.

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 His great goal for you in that

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 is not that you would make

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 a few more thousand dollars

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 on your salary next year

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 or that you would have

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 a more comfortable life

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 for a few more years

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 on this earth.

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 It's just not His goal for you.

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 It's not the greatest thing

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 He can imagine you having.

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 His goal for you

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 is a restored relationship with Him.

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 The true life that comes from that

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 that's so fulfilling,

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 you can give it away

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 to everybody else

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 because you have everything

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 you need in Him.

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 That's His heart for you.

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 That's where life is truly found.

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 Jesus is telling us

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 we can get all the world

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 has to offer

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 and still end up empty

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 in the end.

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 It's why we sang

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 I'd rather have Jesus

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 than anything

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 this world affords today.

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 That He is no fool

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 who gives what He cannot keep,

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 the things of this world

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 to gain what He cannot lose.

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 An eternal relationship

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 with His Father,

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 the fullness of life

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 that He created us for.

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 And we sing it

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 because it's true

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 and because we struggle

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 to believe it.

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 And we need to help each other

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 believe it

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 and so we sing about it.

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 Young people,

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 following Jesus is not easy.

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 Sometimes it hurts.

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 Sometimes it costs you things

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 that you really care about a lot.

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 And we want to be honest

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 with you about that.

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 It's joyful.

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 We love coming to church.

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 We love being together.

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 We'll have a great barbecue

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 in a couple of weeks.

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 There's a lot of joy in it

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 but it's hard.

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 The life that Jesus promises you

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 is so much more fulfilling

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 and so much more beautiful

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 than what the world offers.

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 And I want you to know that

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 because it's going to be difficult

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 to see that sometimes.

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 God's greatest goal for you,

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 the good life He sets out for you

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 that you look forward to

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 is not just getting into

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 a good college.

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 It's not just being known

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 as a good kid.

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 It's not just to stay safe

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 so you can live to be 100

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 or something like that

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 because that's awesome.

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 He actually has something

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 so much more significant for you.

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 He defines what's really good.

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 Those are the types of goals

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 we set for ourselves.

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 God says,

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 let me tell you what's good.

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 where life really is.

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 It's in knowing Him

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 and trusting Him

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 and being valuable

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 because you're His child.

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 And when you get filled up

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 by that kind of value

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 and significance,

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 you can give away your life.

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 You don't have to be

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 in control of it.

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 You don't have to have

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 everything go your way.

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 Some of you are going to

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 find yourselves in places

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 where you have to say no

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 to your own instincts

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 about what to do

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 with your body,

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 about how to treat

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 your classmates.

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 And when you do that,

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 when you say no

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 to those things

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 in order to follow Jesus

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 and what He calls you to,

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 you'll get made fun of.

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 You won't like it.

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 It'll hurt.

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 And you're going to have to believe

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 that Jesus is worth it.

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 That what He's calling you to

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 is a life more beautiful

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 than what you thought

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 you were going after.

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 You might be left out

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 and you won't feel like

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 you're living the good life

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 and Jesus says,

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 that's what it means

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 to follow me.

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 You're actually not alone.

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 I'm there

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 and you can find me

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 infinitely valuable.

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 It's what Moses found out.

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 Hebrews chapter 11

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 tells us about the value

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 Moses found.

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 By faith when he was grown up,

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 he refused to be called

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 the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

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 choosing rather

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 to be mistreated

00:23:52.619 --> 00:23:53.980
 with the people of God

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 than to enjoy

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 the fleeting pleasures

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 of sin.

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 He considered the reproach,

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 that means having a bad name,

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 having bad things said about you

00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:06.339
 and feeling bad.

00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:08.319
 The reproach of Christ

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 of following Jesus.

00:24:10.339 --> 00:24:11.299
 Greater wealth

00:24:11.299 --> 00:24:13.439
 than the treasures of Egypt.

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 All that the world

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 had to offer for him.

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 For he was looking

00:24:17.159 --> 00:24:18.480
 to the reward.

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 I use these verses a lot.

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 I'm aware of that.

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 It's because he considered

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 the reproach of Christ

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 greater value,

00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:28.620
 of greater wealth

00:24:28.620 --> 00:24:29.360
 than the treasures

00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:30.480
 of Egypt.

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 And I think we need

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 the reminder

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 of the choice

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 that we face

00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:35.000
 in following Jesus.

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 And we also need to know

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 that others have followed him

00:24:38.360 --> 00:24:39.559
 at great cost

00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:41.019
 and found him

00:24:41.019 --> 00:24:42.120
 worth it.

00:24:43.160 --> 00:24:44.299
 Found Jesus

00:24:44.299 --> 00:24:45.400
 more valuable

00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:47.660
 than all the world

00:24:47.660 --> 00:24:48.180
 could offer.

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 Have you seen

00:24:49.340 --> 00:24:49.960
 the emptiness

00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:51.519
 of worldly things?

00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:52.360
 Honestly,

00:24:52.580 --> 00:24:53.320
 ask yourself,

00:24:53.700 --> 00:24:54.480
 when you run

00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:55.580
 the profit sheet,

00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:57.200
 when you put on one side

00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:58.160
 all the things

00:24:58.160 --> 00:24:58.680
 that the world

00:24:58.680 --> 00:24:59.440
 has to offer

00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:00.900
 and on the other side,

00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:01.580
 Jesus,

00:25:02.580 --> 00:25:04.200
 true life in Jesus,

00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:07.759
 which one's more valuable

00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:08.500
 to you?

00:25:08.500 --> 00:25:11.240
 Jesus asks us

00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:11.880
 that question.

00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:13.160
 Have you grasped

00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:13.740
 the hope

00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:14.720
 of true life

00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:15.680
 in Jesus?

00:25:15.819 --> 00:25:16.839
 Jesus points us

00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:17.940
 to that eternal perspective

00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:19.059
 in the last two verses

00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:19.960
 of this passage.

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 Whoever's ashamed

00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:21.720
 of me

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 and of my words,

00:25:22.660 --> 00:25:23.539
 of him will the

00:25:23.539 --> 00:25:24.240
 Son of Man

00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:24.819
 be ashamed

00:25:24.819 --> 00:25:25.380
 when he comes

00:25:25.380 --> 00:25:26.039
 in his glory

00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:26.559
 and the glory

00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:27.140
 of the Father

00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:28.059
 and the holy angels.

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 But I tell you,

00:25:29.500 --> 00:25:29.700
 truly,

00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:30.180
 there are some

00:25:30.180 --> 00:25:30.799
 standing here

00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:31.960
 who will not taste death

00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:32.759
 until they see

00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:34.799
 the kingdom of God.

00:25:35.180 --> 00:25:35.880
 The hope

00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:36.440
 of a God

00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:37.559
 who is not ashamed

00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:39.000
 of us on that day

00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.000
 but who delights

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:40.679
 in us

00:25:40.679 --> 00:25:41.639
 as he delights

00:25:41.639 --> 00:25:42.679
 in his Son

00:25:42.679 --> 00:25:44.419
 of an eternal kingdom

00:25:44.419 --> 00:25:46.399
 that we look forward to,

00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:47.500
 the reward.

00:25:49.919 --> 00:25:51.179
 It's worth it

00:25:51.179 --> 00:25:53.559
 even when you follow Jesus

00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:54.899
 out of a stable job

00:25:54.899 --> 00:25:56.480
 into a scary,

00:25:57.599 --> 00:25:59.079
 unpredictable calling.

00:26:00.419 --> 00:26:01.399
 It's worth it

00:26:01.399 --> 00:26:02.819
 even when you follow Jesus

00:26:02.819 --> 00:26:06.559
 to stay in an unfulfilling marriage

00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:08.119
 and show love

00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:09.639
 and forgiveness.

00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:12.059
 It's worth it

00:26:12.059 --> 00:26:13.240
 even when you let your kids

00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:14.879
 take the gospel

00:26:14.879 --> 00:26:15.539
 to a place

00:26:15.539 --> 00:26:16.139
 you're not sure

00:26:16.139 --> 00:26:16.919
 they'll be safe.

00:26:19.639 --> 00:26:20.679
 Why is it worth it?

00:26:22.339 --> 00:26:23.119
 It's worth it

00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:24.039
 because you meet Jesus

00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:25.460
 in those places

00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:27.859
 and he's worth it

00:26:27.859 --> 00:26:30.200
 because he's

00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:31.240
 that valuable.

00:26:31.779 --> 00:26:32.639
 In the places

00:26:32.639 --> 00:26:33.679
 where you deny yourself

00:26:33.679 --> 00:26:34.879
 and take up your cross,

00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:35.940
 you meet Jesus

00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:36.880
 and find him

00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.960
 to be worth it.

00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:38.860
 Jimmy Agin says

00:26:38.860 --> 00:26:40.740
 the call to deny ourselves

00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:42.320
 rests on the assumption

00:26:42.320 --> 00:26:44.280
 that we value Jesus

00:26:44.280 --> 00:26:45.040
 enough

00:26:45.040 --> 00:26:46.600
 to lose our lives

00:26:46.600 --> 00:26:47.560
 for his sake.

00:26:47.760 --> 00:26:48.300
 In fact,

00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:49.340
 that we would rather have

00:26:49.340 --> 00:26:50.280
 the kind of life

00:26:50.280 --> 00:26:50.920
 he gives

00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:52.460
 than the kind of life

00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:53.440
 that would enable us

00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:54.140
 to gain

00:26:54.140 --> 00:26:56.000
 the whole world.

00:26:58.800 --> 00:27:00.020
 Everything in our culture

00:27:00.020 --> 00:27:01.980
 tells us to promote self

00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:03.440
 and protect self

00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:03.460
 and protect self

00:27:03.460 --> 00:27:05.440
 not deny self.

00:27:06.220 --> 00:27:07.480
 Most of the inclinations

00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:08.319
 of our hearts

00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:09.620
 do the same thing.

00:27:11.140 --> 00:27:12.740
 So why deny self?

00:27:14.339 --> 00:27:15.500
 What is the inspiration

00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:17.980
 for followers of Jesus?

00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:21.460
 It has to be him, right?

00:27:22.460 --> 00:27:24.319
 The cost of following Jesus

00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:25.920
 is certainly high.

00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:26.900
 Let's not be unclear.

00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:29.060
 But he doesn't ask you

00:27:29.060 --> 00:27:30.140
 to give anything

00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:31.780
 he hasn't already given.

00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:33.519
 And he doesn't call you

00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:34.259
 to go anywhere

00:27:34.259 --> 00:27:36.240
 he hasn't already gone.

00:27:38.820 --> 00:27:39.720
 See, when we play

00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:40.440
 follow the leader

00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:41.019
 with Jesus,

00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:41.700
 it's not a game.

00:27:41.800 --> 00:27:42.960
 It's not child's play.

00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:44.900
 When we play

00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:45.500
 follow the leader

00:27:45.500 --> 00:27:46.160
 with Jesus,

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 the image I have in mind

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:48.800
 is rather one

00:27:48.800 --> 00:27:50.280
 of a battle scene

00:27:50.280 --> 00:27:51.980
 where before

00:27:51.980 --> 00:27:53.580
 they march into battle

00:27:53.580 --> 00:27:54.780
 in the hand-to-hand combat,

00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:55.900
 you see the leader,

00:27:55.900 --> 00:27:57.120
 the king,

00:27:57.259 --> 00:27:57.740
 the general,

00:27:57.860 --> 00:27:58.519
 William Wallace,

00:27:58.640 --> 00:27:59.960
 whoever it is in your mind,

00:28:00.300 --> 00:28:01.560
 he calls them

00:28:01.560 --> 00:28:02.440
 to go and march

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 but then he does what?

00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:05.380
 He rides right in front of them

00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:06.800
 out at the head of the pack

00:28:06.800 --> 00:28:09.180
 into almost certain death

00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:11.880
 in that battle.

00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:13.960
 Why do they follow him?

00:28:15.620 --> 00:28:16.320
 Because he made

00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:17.200
 such a great speech?

00:28:18.580 --> 00:28:19.460
 Because he told them

00:28:19.460 --> 00:28:20.120
 they had to?

00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:22.080
 That they must follow?

00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:25.639
 They follow him

00:28:25.639 --> 00:28:26.939
 because he willingly

00:28:26.939 --> 00:28:29.379
 rides in front of them

00:28:29.379 --> 00:28:30.659
 into that battle.

00:28:31.899 --> 00:28:32.579
 Remember,

00:28:32.740 --> 00:28:33.619
 before calling us

00:28:33.619 --> 00:28:34.519
 to self-denial

00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:35.819
 and cross-bearing,

00:28:36.259 --> 00:28:37.539
 Jesus has just said what?

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:38.859
 That he

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 must

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 suffer

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:43.159
 and be rejected

00:28:43.159 --> 00:28:45.679
 and be killed.

00:28:45.939 --> 00:28:46.779
 Verse 22.

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 And this morning,

00:28:49.099 --> 00:28:50.059
 he calls us

00:28:50.059 --> 00:28:52.379
 to follow him

00:28:52.379 --> 00:28:53.319
 there.

00:28:54.059 --> 00:28:55.160
 Dr. Agin says

00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:56.220
 the new priority

00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:57.099
 of the follower

00:28:57.099 --> 00:28:57.619
 of Jesus

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 is this.

00:29:00.019 --> 00:29:01.099
 I believe it is safer

00:29:01.099 --> 00:29:02.680
 to follow Jesus

00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:04.720
 to the place of death

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:06.680
 than to run away.

00:29:08.619 --> 00:29:10.599
 Safer to follow Jesus

00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:12.399
 to the place of death

00:29:12.399 --> 00:29:14.099
 than to run away.

00:29:14.099 --> 00:29:16.619
 this table reminds us

00:29:16.619 --> 00:29:18.559
 that the Savior

00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:19.379
 we follow

00:29:19.379 --> 00:29:21.919
 denied himself

00:29:21.919 --> 00:29:23.679
 the glories

00:29:23.679 --> 00:29:24.579
 and comforts

00:29:24.579 --> 00:29:25.139
 of heaven

00:29:25.139 --> 00:29:26.399
 way more than

00:29:26.399 --> 00:29:27.199
 we've been asked

00:29:27.199 --> 00:29:28.639
 to deny ourselves.

00:29:29.019 --> 00:29:29.559
 That he

00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:30.579
 became nothing

00:29:30.579 --> 00:29:31.659
 and humbled himself

00:29:31.659 --> 00:29:32.419
 to the point of

00:29:32.419 --> 00:29:34.059
 death on the cross

00:29:34.059 --> 00:29:35.859
 for us

00:29:35.859 --> 00:29:37.480
 because he

00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:38.579
 loves us.

00:29:39.339 --> 00:29:39.980
 This table

00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:40.639
 reminds us

00:29:40.639 --> 00:29:41.599
 that the Savior

00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:42.259
 we follow

00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:42.899
 is the one

00:29:42.900 --> 00:29:44.240
 who has ridden

00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.360
 before us

00:29:45.360 --> 00:29:46.460
 into the battle

00:29:46.460 --> 00:29:47.900
 not just with the possibility

00:29:47.900 --> 00:29:48.880
 that he might die

00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:50.040
 but with the intent

00:29:50.040 --> 00:29:51.259
 that he would die

00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:52.780
 for us

00:29:52.780 --> 00:29:54.060
 in our place.

00:29:54.780 --> 00:29:55.540
 Remember how

00:29:55.540 --> 00:29:56.880
 Paul recounts it

00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:57.519
 for us.

00:29:58.560 --> 00:29:59.180
 The Lord Jesus

00:29:59.180 --> 00:29:59.720
 on the night

00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:00.440
 he was betrayed

00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:01.140
 took bread

00:30:01.140 --> 00:30:01.820
 and when he had

00:30:01.820 --> 00:30:02.460
 given thanks

00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:03.240
 he broke it

00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:03.920
 and said

00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:05.480
 this is my body

00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:06.680
 which is for you

00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:07.580
 do this

00:30:07.580 --> 00:30:08.140
 in remembrance

00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:08.720
 of me.

00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:10.480
 In the same way

00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:11.519
 also he took the cup

00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:12.220
 after supper

00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:12.700
 saying

00:30:12.700 --> 00:30:13.620
 this cup

00:30:13.620 --> 00:30:14.080
 is the new

00:30:14.080 --> 00:30:14.440
 covenant

00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:15.340
 in my blood

00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:16.259
 do this

00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:16.880
 as often

00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:17.580
 as you drink

00:30:17.580 --> 00:30:17.860
 it

00:30:17.860 --> 00:30:18.900
 in remembrance

00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:19.539
 of me.

00:30:20.779 --> 00:30:21.580
 Jesus came

00:30:21.580 --> 00:30:21.880
 and said

00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:22.340
 this is what

00:30:22.340 --> 00:30:22.759
 I'm doing

00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:23.279
 I'm going

00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:23.880
 to give

00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:24.420
 my life

00:30:24.420 --> 00:30:24.960
 for you

00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:25.700
 and so

00:30:25.700 --> 00:30:26.240
 this table

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:26.620
 where we

00:30:26.620 --> 00:30:27.380
 celebrate that

00:30:27.380 --> 00:30:28.100
 is not the

00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:29.220
 table of Southwood

00:30:29.220 --> 00:30:30.220
 or the Presbyterian

00:30:30.220 --> 00:30:30.500
 church

00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:31.400
 it's his table

00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:32.519
 that he sets

00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:33.080
 before us

00:30:33.080 --> 00:30:34.039
 to remind us

00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:34.600
 of his great

00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:35.380
 love for us

00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:35.799
 and giving

00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:36.880
 his life

00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:37.559
 for us

00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:38.039
 his body

00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:38.420
 broken

00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:38.980
 his blood

00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:39.440
 shed

00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.059
 for us

00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:41.980
 if you know

00:30:41.980 --> 00:30:42.279
 him

00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:43.340
 and trust

00:30:43.340 --> 00:30:43.680
 him

00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:45.000
 if you're a part

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:45.840
 of his church

00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:46.680
 the people

00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:47.080
 who are

00:30:47.080 --> 00:30:48.420
 imperfectly

00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:49.240
 and with

00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:50.279
 great failures

00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:51.320
 following after

00:30:51.320 --> 00:30:51.740
 him

00:30:51.740 --> 00:30:52.980
 come here

00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:53.559
 eat

00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:55.039
 be refreshed

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:56.320
 remember

00:30:56.320 --> 00:30:57.320
 and celebrate

00:30:57.320 --> 00:30:58.059
 his love

00:30:58.059 --> 00:30:58.940
 for you

00:30:58.940 --> 00:30:59.580
 the one

00:30:59.580 --> 00:31:00.140
 you're following

00:31:00.140 --> 00:31:00.600
 after

00:31:00.600 --> 00:31:01.380
 has already

00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:01.900
 died

00:31:01.900 --> 00:31:02.880
 and suffered

00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:03.480
 the worst

00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:04.640
 you could imagine

00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:05.840
 so that you

00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:06.280
 could know

00:31:06.280 --> 00:31:06.640
 him

00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:07.460
 forever

00:31:07.460 --> 00:31:08.580
 if you

00:31:08.580 --> 00:31:09.100
 don't know

00:31:09.100 --> 00:31:09.560
 Jesus

00:31:09.560 --> 00:31:11.040
 I'd encourage

00:31:11.040 --> 00:31:11.200
 you

00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:11.720
 don't come

00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:12.280
 to this table

00:31:12.280 --> 00:31:12.860
 this morning

00:31:12.860 --> 00:31:14.120
 but come

00:31:14.120 --> 00:31:14.680
 to Jesus

00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:15.660
 come and talk

00:31:15.660 --> 00:31:16.000
 with us

00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:16.500
 about who

00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:17.000
 he is

00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:17.600
 and what

00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:17.880
 it is

00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:18.420
 that he

00:31:18.420 --> 00:31:18.840
 would call

00:31:18.840 --> 00:31:19.160
 you to

00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:19.640
 it's a kind

00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:20.040
 of life

00:31:20.040 --> 00:31:20.380
 you didn't

00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:20.740
 show up

00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:21.180
 this morning

00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:21.480
 wanting

00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:21.940
 to sign

00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:22.360
 up for

00:31:22.360 --> 00:31:24.700
 it's

00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:25.140
 beautiful

00:31:25.140 --> 00:31:25.960
 it's

00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:26.500
 glorious

00:31:26.500 --> 00:31:27.700
 because

00:31:27.700 --> 00:31:28.140
 he's

00:31:28.140 --> 00:31:28.320
 there

00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:28.900
 with you

00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:29.940
 pray

00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:30.240
 with me

00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:30.420
 and we'll

00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:30.660
 come to

00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:31.080
 this table

00:31:31.080 --> 00:31:31.500
 together

00:31:31.500 --> 00:31:34.440
 father

00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:34.980
 for the gift

00:31:34.980 --> 00:31:35.579
 of your son

00:31:35.579 --> 00:31:36.259
 we give you

00:31:36.259 --> 00:31:37.619
 great thanks

00:31:37.619 --> 00:31:39.980
 we ask

00:31:39.980 --> 00:31:40.220
 that

00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:41.380
 this bread

00:31:41.380 --> 00:31:41.980
 and this juice

00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:43.019
 that remind us

00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:44.859
 of his body

00:31:44.859 --> 00:31:45.380
 and blood

00:31:45.380 --> 00:31:46.279
 would be set

00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:46.720
 apart

00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:47.460
 this morning

00:31:47.460 --> 00:31:48.180
 for you

00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:48.740
 to do

00:31:48.740 --> 00:31:49.599
 great things

00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:50.380
 in our hearts

00:31:50.380 --> 00:31:51.359
 she would

00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:51.839
 teach us

00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:52.240
 again

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.019
 of your love

00:31:53.019 --> 00:31:54.059
 she would

00:31:54.059 --> 00:31:54.640
 show us

00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:54.880
 again

00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:55.079
 that we

00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:55.680
 would taste

00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:56.259
 the path

00:31:56.259 --> 00:31:56.619
 that our

00:31:56.619 --> 00:31:56.900
 savior

00:31:56.900 --> 00:31:57.519
 has walked

00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:58.000
 and calls

00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:58.339
 us to

00:31:58.339 --> 00:31:58.839
 follow him

00:31:58.839 --> 00:31:59.119
 in

00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.479
 would you

00:32:01.479 --> 00:32:01.839
 encourage

00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:02.399
 and strengthen

00:32:02.399 --> 00:32:02.879
 our faith

00:32:02.879 --> 00:32:03.259
 through it

00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:03.699
 we ask

00:32:03.699 --> 00:32:04.039
 in his

00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:04.359
 name

00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:05.379
 amen

00:32:05.379 --> 00:32:10.559
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00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:11.059
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00:32:11.059 --> 00:32:11.859
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00:32:11.859 --> 00:32:12.379
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00:32:12.379 --> 00:32:12.779
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