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 The scripture reading today comes from the book of Luke, chapter 12.

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 Please follow along in your bulletin.

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 Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together,

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 that they were stepping on one another,

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 he began saying to his disciples, first of all,

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 Beware of the laven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

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 but there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed,

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 and hidden that will not be known.

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 Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard,

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 in the light and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

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 I say to you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body,

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 and after that have no more that they can do.

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 But I will warn you whom to fear.

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 Fear the one who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.

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 Yes, I tell you, fear him.

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 Are not five sparrows sold for two cents?

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 Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

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 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

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 Do not fear.

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 You are more valuable than many sparrows.

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 And I say to you, everyone who confesses me before men,

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 the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God.

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 But he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

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 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man,

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 it will be forgiven him.

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 But he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit,

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 it will not be forgiven him.

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 When they bring you before the synagogues,

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 and the rulers,

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 and the authorities,

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 do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense,

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 or what you are to say.

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 For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour

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 what you ought to say.

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 This is the reading of God's Word.

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 How's everybody doing?

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 Who made it in before they got poured on?

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 Because I saw some people just running.

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 I looked up, and all of a sudden it was dark,

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 and it was like just pouring out there.

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 And so you get an extra blessing if you made it in the rain, right?

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 You get an extra, extra blessing if you made it in the rain without getting wet.

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 So that's even no one else gets that, I understand.

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 That's okay.

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 Okay.

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 We are looking at this passage.

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 My question is,

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 when you heard Kelvin read the passage for today,

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 did you have a lot of questions about that passage?

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 If you're honest, you have a lot of questions.

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 I mean, there's a lot of things.

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 It's the passage where pastors don't like to teach it or preach it.

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 It's one of those passages that you get in there and you're like, wow, there's some really hard stuff here.

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 There's some really difficult stuff.

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 The way the room is configured, I might just walk back here and grab somebody.

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 This is interesting configuration.

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 But you read this passage and it's hard.

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 There's some tough stuff here.

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 I said, those last five verses, there's some hard words going on there, right?

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 When I was praying about this passage for the last couple weeks, I had a lot of things going through my mind.

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 One of the thoughts or these images I experienced, it kind of flashed me back to 1999, 2000.

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 So in 1989, I'm getting old, 1989, 1900.

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 A couple of friends and I were teaching in mainland China.

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 And we thought that we wanted to do something fun for the Chinese New Year.

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 And so we had this bright idea.

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 It was me and two other, another guy and two girls and our team.

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 We were in Tianjin.

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 And we had this bright idea.

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 We said, hey, let's take a vacation for the Chinese New Year.

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 Let's go to North Vietnam.

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 So this is 1999, North Vietnam.

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 And that sounds like a really neat place.

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 Sounds like a fun place.

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 We've never been there.

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 Let's do this.

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 Let's see what it's like.

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 And so we could speak Mandarin.

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 And so we went to Beijing and we went to the North Vietnamese embassy.

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 And the Chinese guard at the front let us in because we spoke Mandarin.

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 We walked in there.

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 And the guy came to the front desk.

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 And there's two pictures of the fathers, the father and the father in the back.

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 And the army officer came there.

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 And so we're still speaking Mandarin to him.

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 And we say, yeah, we'd like to visit your country during the Chinese New Year.

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 And he started asking some questions.

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 And finally he just stopped and he looked at us and he goes, what country are you from?

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 And we said, we're Americans.

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 And we just want to come check out North Korea because we've heard so much about it.

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 And we just want to experience your culture.

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 And all of a sudden the guy looked at us and he stopped speaking Mandarin and he spoke English.

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 And he said, perhaps we will not have tourism in our country this year.

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 We took that to mean that they didn't want Americans into North Korea in 1999.

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 And so we ended up going into Cambodia, which was also just weird.

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 I've said before that if I were going to write a book, probably the first chapter of my book would be the dumb things I've done in my life.

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 I would use stupid, but we're not supposed to use stupid in our family, right?

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 So the dumb things I've done in my life.

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 And chapter one, the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life would be this story here.

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 As we were walking into Cambodia, there was still this conflict going on with the Khmer Rouge and the government fighters.

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 In fact, when we went into Phnom Penh in 99, they had just built this kiosk with the skulls.

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 And there were actually skeletons still in some of the schools where they were torturing people.

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 And so we said, let's fly up to Angkor Wat.

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 Now, I've never been to Angkor Wat and I haven't been there since then.

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 Now I know it's this big resort area with casinos and all that.

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 But back then it was just an airport and a village.

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 And so we flew up there and we didn't know what we were doing at all.

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 So my wife is very glad that I wasn't married to her at this time and that I was a single guy.

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 And so we came into the airport and we just walked out of the door and this little boy grabbed us and he said, do you need a place to stay?

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 We said, yeah, we need a place to stay.

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 We don't have any place to stay.

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 We need a tour guide.

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 We want you to show us around Angkor Wat.

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 He said, okay.

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 And so something should have clicked in my head because we drove into the village of Siem Reap and there were army units everywhere.

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 There were soldiers guarding the bridge.

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 There were machine guns set up.

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 There were mortar emplacements.

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 There were just soldiers everywhere.

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 And we ended up staying in this guy's house with his parents.

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 And about 12 o'clock at night, all of a sudden the sky was lit up with machine gun fire.

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 And there were mortars going off and just everything was just chaos.

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 And the only thing we could think is, okay, we're going to get kidnapped.

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 We're going to get kidnapped and someone's going to sell us for a lot of money because we're a Westerner or whatever.

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 And that night we slept.

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 We got very little sleep.

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 And we made it through the night.

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 And the morning he took us to Angkor Wat and we were walking around this temple complex and it was beautiful.

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 We walked out the back of this temple complex and we ran into this UN mine sweeping team.

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 Okay, so there was a Swedish guy.

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 He might have been Finnish.

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 I can't tell.

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 They all look alike, tall, blonde hair.

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 And he was directing four Khmer guys and they were basically sweeping the field for mines.

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 And so we started talking to him and he showed us the mines that they were uncovering because Cambodia is one of the most heavily populated bombed mine places in the world.

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 And as we were talking, his walkie-talkie went crazy.

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 And he picked up his walkie-talkie and he's listening and he's yelling.

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 And we were just sitting there and we're like, okay, this cannot be good.

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 And he says, we have to leave right now.

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 And we said, why?

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 He says, a Khmer Rouge unit was just seen.

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 They're sweeping back into this area.

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 They've heard there's some foreigners here and they're looking for you.

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 We have to leave right now.

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 And we said, okay, where are we going to go?

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 We're going to go through this minefield.

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 And we said, what?

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 He says, we're going to go through this minefield.

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 He says, watch me wherever I step.

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 Put your feet there.

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 Know why?

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 Okay, so we're in the middle of this chaos in this jungle.

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 The Khmer Rouge are rushing in.

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 We're following this Finnish guy followed by four Khmer minesweepers.

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 And we're walking through a minefield.

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 And all I'm thinking is mines everywhere.

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 Mines bad.

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 Where's that guy's footprints?

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 And stepping in those footprints.

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 But we made it out.

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 When I think of today's passage, it's all about mines that we as Christians walk into every day.

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 Sometimes we don't know we're in the middle of the minefield.

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 Sometimes we're playing ball or basketball.

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 We're doing stuff within the minefield.

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 But the passage today is all about disciples.

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 Luke 12 is all about Christ followers.

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 It's all about disciples, people who are following Christ.

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 And what Christ is going to warn us and his disciples is that there's mines all around you.

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 Be careful where you step.

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 Because you'll get hurt.

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 Now in Luke 11, we haven't been there for about five weeks.

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 We're going through Luke as a church.

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 We're halfway through right now.

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 So we're about a year and eight months old.

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 We're halfway through.

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 So in two years from now, we'll finish Luke and we'll start something else.

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 But in Luke 11, remember, there was this scene.

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 And Jesus was having dinner with these Pharisees.

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 And it got intense.

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 I mean, it got really intense.

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 In fact, it got so intense that the Pharisees walked out.

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 And in their mind, we're told in Scripture, they want to kill Jesus.

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 That's all they're thinking about is we are going to get rid of this guy.

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 He's dangerous.

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 He's terrible.

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 We're going to kill him.

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 Now at the same time as he's having this conflict with the religious leaders of his day,

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 all the people are flocking to Jesus.

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 All the masses were told in Luke 11 and Luke 12.

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 The word there, myriads, is the largest word in Greek.

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 It means 10,000 people.

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 It means at least 10,000 people, maybe more than 10,000 people.

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 So all these people are flocking to Jesus because they want to hear of this young teacher who's come in,

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 and he's basically taking to task all the religious leaders of the day because everyone knows that the Pharisees are corrupt and they're no good.

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 And you have to understand here that as the people flock in in this passage,

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 it's becoming very difficult to keep being a disciple of Jesus.

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 On one hand, it's getting dangerous because now they know that the religious leaders, the synagogue, and everybody is out to kill Jesus.

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 And if you're with Jesus, you are in risk of getting killed.

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 So the disciples are worried, and some of them are actually falling away because it's becoming too difficult to say,

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 I follow Jesus.

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 The pressure in their workplace, the pressure at home, the pressure in their community,

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 it's just getting so high and so difficult, people are falling away.

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 And they say, I can't say it anymore.

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 Every time I say it at the bank, people laugh at me.

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 Every time I say it at school, people think, well, you must not be educated because everyone knows that Christianity and science can't interact with each other.

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 And so you have this group of disciples who are following Jesus, and they're sneaking out the back door

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 because they realize that pretty soon the cost is going to become very difficult and very high for them to follow Christ.

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 On the other hand, you have this mass of people that are coming to visit Jesus.

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 I mean, if you read the Luke 12 passage, the way Luke, the physician, very detailed, is writing it,

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 he's almost describing it like a rock concert.

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 He's saying, there's a rock concert, and 10,000 people have come to see Jesus perform.

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 And there's so many people that they're crawling all over each other.

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 I mean, literally in Greek, that's what he's saying.

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 They're stepping over each other to get to Jesus.

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 They want to hear him talk.

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 They want to hear him do miracles.

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 They want to see him perform.

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 They want to see him fight the Pharisees.

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 And so there's this atmosphere like Woodstock where everybody wants to be with Jesus.

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 And in the midst of this, Jesus sees all of these things happening.

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 And he knows what's going on in our hearts.

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 And he knows what's going on in the disciples' hearts.

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 And he pulls them aside.

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 And he teaches them a lesson about what it means to follow him when things are difficult and when things are good.

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 Are you with me?

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 Am I making sense?

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 Do you know where we're at?

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 And so if you go to your passage in Luke, we look at this passage here.

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 So the disciples are being pulled away.

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 Things are crazy.

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 And in Luke chapter 12, verse 1, we read these first passages here.

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 Jesus is going to warn his disciples.

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 He's going to warn us about something that we need to be careful of.

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 He's going to warn us that we're going to walk into this minefield.

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 And this minefield is going to destroy us.

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 And we're not even going to know that we're playing around in it.

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 Verse 1.

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 Under these circumstances, after so many thousands, the Greek word is myriads, the same word in heaven, myriads and myriads of angels,

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 at least 10,000 people are gathered together.

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 They're stepping on one another.

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 And he pulls his disciples aside.

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 Now he's speaking to Christians.

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 And he says this,

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 Beware.

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 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

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 Now the word beware is very intentional.

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 It says put your mind to, think about, study, know where it is, and not only do that, but avoid it.

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 Avoid it.

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 And so he brings his disciples together.

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 And he says this huge word picture.

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 The minute they heard leaven, they would have thought back to Exodus when all of the people of God left Egypt.

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 And they're to bring no leaven with them.

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 Leaven is this microbe.

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 It's this yeast.

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 It's a microorganism.

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 I mean, if you're a cooker, you know what it does.

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 You stick it in dough and put water in it.

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 And with sugar, and I tell, if you're at my home and I was telling my kids what I would say is,

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 you put this little creature inside the dough, it eats, and then it poops.

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 And its poop is gas, and the gas makes the bread rise.

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 Right?

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 That's what's happening.

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 So next time you eat leavened bread, you think you're eating bread with poop in it.

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 Right?

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 Little da bien.

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 Right?

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 Okay.

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 So anyway, so you're eating this leaven, and when Jesus uses that word for leaven,

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 he always attaches it to Pharisees, and leaven is almost always a bad thing.

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 Leaven is this small little thing that you can't see.

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 It's like a mine.

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 It's something that you don't know, but if it's there in your life, it does a lot of damage.

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 It changes, and it can hurt you, and it can destroy you.

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 And in this case, Jesus says that what it will do is it will make you a hypocrite.

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 Now, Jesus is going to tell his disciples three times to beware of leaven.

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 The first time he's going to say, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, because that's hypocrisy.

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 The second time he's going to say, beware of the leaven of the Sadducees, because that's materialism.

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 And the third thing he's going to say is, beware of the leaven of Herod,

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 which is political power in the misuse of friendships, because that will destroy you.

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 And so these mines are laid out there, and he's telling his disciples,

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 beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, because this leaven is hypocrisy.

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 Now, hypocrisy, to be a hypocrite, is a very interesting Greek word.

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 It's very, very old.

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 Actually, to be a hypocrite, all it meant would be to be one who speaks.

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 And the word hypocrisy, actually, all it means is to be one who is answering.

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 But that Greek word moved from being something that was in a monologue or a dialogue in a play

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 to being something that was done in acting.

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 And so now, when the people heard this word hypocrite,

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 immediately what they would understand is someone who wears a mask.

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 And so if you went to a Greek play, there wasn't a lot of costumes,

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 there wasn't a lot of fanfare, there wasn't a lot of backdrops.

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 It was barren.

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 But whenever somebody changed character, they put on a mask.

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 And in Greek, you would say, he is playing a hypocrite.

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 He is acting outwardly, what he's not like on the inside.

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 He's wearing a mask.

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 He's acting a part.

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 He's conforming to the values that everybody expects him to in his world, in his family.

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 He's a chameleon.

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 He changes who he is.

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 He's trying to fit in.

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 He's trying to make people think, to believe that there's something that they are not.

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 Have you ever met anybody like that?

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 He's inconsistent.

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 And what Paul says and what Jesus says about hypocrisy is that it is always deliberate.

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 It's always on purpose.

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 And that we use our words and our actions either positively or negatively to determine what people think about us.

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 Now, Jesus is going to talk about it a couple times here in this passage and later on.

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 Actually, he's going to use the word hypocrisy and fear four times.

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 And he's going to say, the reason you and I are hypocrites.

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 And let's just get this out right away, okay?

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 I'm not speaking because I'm not a hypocrite.

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 I'm speaking because I am a hypocrite.

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 And for three weeks, I've been struggling with this passage.

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 Like, okay, God, show me where I'm a hypocrite.

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 Show me where I'm acting hypocritical of people.

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 Show me where my actions and my words are hypocrisy.

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 For three weeks, I've been doing that.

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 You only get to do it for 40 minutes.

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 But Jesus wants to show us that there's a huge danger if we do that.

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 And if we do that, we lose the gospel.

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 We lose the power of walking in the spirit that God has given us.

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 And so he's going to talk about this struggle that we have.

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 And at the core of this struggle is this idea of fear.

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 He's going to say to you and me that we all fear something.

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 We all fear something.

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 We either fear man and the things around us or we fear God.

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 I mean, there's not two other thrones in our life.

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 There's one throne.

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 There's one center.

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 There's one heart in our life.

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 And Jesus is saying to his disciples, he's pleading to them as they begin this journey as disciples,

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 he's going to say, hey, you either fear man or you fear God.

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 And you need to be careful of who you fear because if you fear the wrong thing,

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 you're walking into a landmine field and it's going to destroy you.

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 Is that clear?

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 I mean, I want to make sure that there's no unclearness here.

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 Because sometimes my wife says that wasn't very clear.

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 And she's totally right.

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 I love you.

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 But I want to make sure this is really clear.

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 Because what Jesus is saying here is that you and I fear.

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 And this fear drives us to become hypocrites.

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 And it causes us to change our life and to change our actions.

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 And when we walk into the boardroom tomorrow, we're either fearing God or we're fearing man.

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 When you walk into your classroom as a professor or a teacher,

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 either God is on the throne of your life and you're fearing him,

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 or you're fearing your students, the administration, the people who pay your salary, you're fearing them.

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 When you walk down the street as you're living life, going to Lan Kui Fung,

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 or wherever God has you meeting people and being missional and sharing with them about Jesus in your life,

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 wherever that is, you're either fearing God or you're fearing man.

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 And whatever you fear controls the destiny of your life.

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 Do you see why this is so important?

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 I mean, everybody's becoming rock stars.

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 Everybody's getting popular.

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 Everybody's going towards the disciples.

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 They all want to be with them.

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 They're the in crowd.

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 Everybody wants to hear what they have to say.

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 And Jesus says, be careful.

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 Because when you get popular,

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 you tend to fear people

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 more than you fear God.

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 Be careful.

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 Because when people start liking you,

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 which isn't a bad thing,

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 you're going to change how you act

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 and how you dress

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 and what you say

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 because you want to keep that popularity.

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 And Jesus is saying,

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 be careful.

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 Be careful who you fear.

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 Maybe you could ask yourself these questions.

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 These are questions I've been asking myself

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 the last three weeks.

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 Are you a people pleaser?

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 When people come and ask you to do something,

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 do you say, yeah, I can do it,

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 even though you know you can't do it?

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 I mean, when you look at your schedule,

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 is your schedule overcommitted?

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 Do you have a billion things you're doing this week,

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 but none of them have a focus,

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 none of them have a purpose?

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 They're all just things that people say,

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 you need to do this,

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 you need to do this,

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 you need to do this,

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 you need to do this.

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 Do you answer yes to everything?

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 When people ask you to do something,

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 do you say yes?

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 Question two,

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 do you second guess your decisions?

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 Do you make a decision,

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 but then you change it

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 because you're worried about

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 what people are going to think?

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 Come on, girls.

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 I like the pink outfit.

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 No, no, no, I should wear the blue outfit.

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 Now, this never happens in my house,

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 but I've heard that it does happen

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 with women in households.

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 Guys, you're the same way.

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 Do I wear this tie?

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 Do I wear that tie?

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 What's the power tie?

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 What is going to give me

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 the most respect in this boardroom?

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 What am I going to do?

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 How am I going to dress?

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 And Jesus says, be careful.

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 Not that that's necessarily a bad thing,

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 but if you do it out of fear,

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 it's a terrible thing.

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 Do you struggle with peer pressure?

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 Is it important what people think about you?

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 Do you struggle with family pressure?

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 When your family says,

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 we need you to do this,

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 do you go, okay, we'll do that?

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 When your family sets up this agenda

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 of things you need to be doing

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 and how you need to be doing it,

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 do you drop everything

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 even if you already have your own family?

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 Do you struggle with,

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 as a 35-year-old guy,

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 your mom still coming into the house

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 and making your bed

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 and doing your laundry

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 and putting groceries

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 in your refrigerator?

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 And your wife looks at you and goes,

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 you know, I really hate it

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 when your mom comes in

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 and rearranges all the furniture.

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 Can you tell her not to do that?

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 And the guy goes, oh, man, oh.

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 Yeah, I wish I could,

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 but you know, it's my mom.

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 I can't do it.

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 Do you struggle with that?

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 And finally, the question is,

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 are you worried about your self-esteem?

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 Is self-esteem critical for you?

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 And how you answer all these questions

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 determine what you fear.

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 There's a lot of talk in America nowadays

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 about bullying and schools and Internet

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 and the interaction of peers

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 among our children

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 and in the American papers,

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 and I think it's a little here,

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 the big thought is peer pressure.

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 And when we talk about our high school kids,

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 we say there's a lot of peer pressure.

00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:23.859
 As adults, we use the words differently.

00:26:24.539 --> 00:26:25.539
 We don't use pressure,

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 but we say people-pleasing.

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 We're not under peer pressure.

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 We're under people-pleasing.

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 But what Jesus is going to say in this scripture

00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:38.779
 and what God's word says

00:26:38.779 --> 00:26:41.160
 is it's called the fear of man.

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 And hypocrisy is always a bad thing,

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 that it will destroy you,

00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:50.720
 it will destroy your life,

00:26:50.779 --> 00:26:51.960
 it will un-gospel you.

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:54.000
 You won't understand what the gospel means

00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:56.319
 because you're so worried about living lives

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:57.600
 the way people want you to live it.

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 And in the passage,

00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:00.960
 Jesus gives us four ways

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 to detect hypocrisy in our life.

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 He says four things

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 that you need to be aware of.

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 If you experience any of these four things,

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 or these are things that you get yourself

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 out of the minefield,

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 if you're about to walk into the minefield

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 of people-pleasing,

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 think about these four things.

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 And these four things,

00:27:19.180 --> 00:27:20.079
 he says to his disciples,

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 these things will change everything.

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 In verse two and three,

00:27:25.460 --> 00:27:26.160
 he says this,

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 but there's nothing covered up

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 that will not be revealed.

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 That word revealed is a word

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 that only can be associated with God.

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 And so what he's saying there

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 is there's nothing covered up.

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 It's this word of like,

00:27:39.579 --> 00:27:40.639
 you dug this deep hole,

00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:41.839
 10 feet deep,

00:27:41.900 --> 00:27:42.680
 you put something in it,

00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:43.359
 you buried it up,

00:27:43.379 --> 00:27:43.799
 and you say,

00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:46.079
 no one will ever find out what's here.

00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:49.859
 But Jesus says,

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 God will come around

00:27:51.740 --> 00:27:53.659
 and he will reveal that.

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 So there's nothing covered up

00:27:55.899 --> 00:27:56.819
 that will not be revealed.

00:27:56.919 --> 00:27:57.559
 There's nothing hidden

00:27:57.559 --> 00:27:58.579
 that will not be known.

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 Accordingly,

00:27:59.639 --> 00:28:01.139
 whatever you have said in the dark

00:28:01.139 --> 00:28:02.460
 will be heard in the light.

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 What you have whispered

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 in the inner rooms,

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 in Greek it's the secret place.

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 What you've whispered

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 in the secret place of your house

00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:09.919
 or of your heart

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 will be proclaimed,

00:28:12.059 --> 00:28:12.419
 shouted,

00:28:12.980 --> 00:28:14.079
 yelled out from the mountaintops.

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 And so the first warning

00:28:17.539 --> 00:28:18.339
 that Jesus gives us,

00:28:18.699 --> 00:28:19.399
 he says this,

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 if you're tempted

00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:22.159
 to be a hypocrite,

00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:25.299
 if you're being tempted

00:28:25.299 --> 00:28:26.519
 with fearing man

00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:28.460
 more than you fear God,

00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:31.419
 remember that whatever is said,

00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:33.879
 whatever is hidden,

00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:37.379
 eventually God will bring out

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 into the light.

00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:42.319
 Now in this passage,

00:28:42.980 --> 00:28:44.759
 he's saying it in a good way.

00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:47.839
 He's saying it to his disciples

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 who are worried about

00:28:49.819 --> 00:28:50.319
 what people are going

00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:50.980
 to think about him,

00:28:51.779 --> 00:28:52.379
 who are worried about

00:28:52.379 --> 00:28:53.539
 whether they're making a difference,

00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:54.859
 who are worried about

00:28:54.859 --> 00:28:56.460
 whether they leave father and mother

00:28:56.460 --> 00:28:57.480
 and come to follow Jesus.

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 Will that make a difference

00:28:58.900 --> 00:28:59.519
 in the end?

00:29:01.180 --> 00:29:02.059
 And what Jesus says

00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:02.720
 to his disciples

00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.099
 and he says to us is this,

00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.259
 keep doing the right thing.

00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:12.920
 Keep following me.

00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.920
 Keep fearing me.

00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:19.480
 Keep being a good employee

00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:20.600
 even though no one else

00:29:20.600 --> 00:29:22.000
 in the office recognizes

00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:23.039
 or cares about it.

00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:26.940
 Keep being a good boss

00:29:26.940 --> 00:29:29.759
 who treats your people fairly.

00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:35.019
 Keep being a kind wife

00:29:35.019 --> 00:29:38.400
 whose husband probably isn't here

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:39.460
 on Sunday

00:29:39.460 --> 00:29:40.880
 and he could care less

00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:42.160
 about spiritual things.

00:29:43.059 --> 00:29:44.480
 But Christ is in your heart

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:45.940
 and you're loving him,

00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:47.299
 you're caring for him,

00:29:47.539 --> 00:29:48.519
 you're serving him

00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:49.500
 and you wonder,

00:29:50.019 --> 00:29:51.860
 is this ever going to make a difference?

00:29:53.740 --> 00:29:55.980
 Because no one sees what I'm doing.

00:29:58.180 --> 00:30:00.059
 And what Jesus says here is,

00:30:00.819 --> 00:30:01.180
 yes,

00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:03.460
 it will make a difference.

00:30:03.460 --> 00:30:05.640
 because one day

00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:06.980
 everything good

00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:08.019
 that you've done,

00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:09.440
 even though it's been hidden

00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:10.160
 in the dark,

00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.579
 will be seen.

00:30:12.660 --> 00:30:13.100
 Honor me.

00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:14.079
 One day,

00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:15.220
 I am going to get up

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:16.059
 on the hilltop,

00:30:16.140 --> 00:30:16.779
 I'm going to get up

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:17.400
 on the housetop

00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:18.700
 and I'm going to reveal

00:30:18.700 --> 00:30:19.819
 everything

00:30:19.819 --> 00:30:22.380
 of your faithfulness

00:30:22.380 --> 00:30:22.940
 and your goodness.

00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:25.600
 In Hebrew,

00:30:25.860 --> 00:30:26.700
 there's an idiom

00:30:26.700 --> 00:30:27.880
 that's attached to this story

00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:28.720
 and it's basically

00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:30.540
 you can't hide the sun.

00:30:32.500 --> 00:30:33.480
 That if you're shining,

00:30:33.700 --> 00:30:34.780
 if you're being faithful,

00:30:35.060 --> 00:30:35.940
 if you're doing what God

00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:36.840
 has called you to do,

00:30:37.140 --> 00:30:38.060
 don't worry about

00:30:38.060 --> 00:30:38.720
 what's going to happen.

00:30:38.820 --> 00:30:39.660
 It might not seem

00:30:39.660 --> 00:30:40.580
 like anything's happening,

00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:42.140
 but what Jesus says here

00:30:42.140 --> 00:30:43.740
 is don't be a hypocrite,

00:30:44.100 --> 00:30:45.080
 don't cover it up,

00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:46.360
 don't stop doing it,

00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:47.800
 be who you are

00:30:47.800 --> 00:30:48.960
 because one day

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:50.260
 all of these things

00:30:50.260 --> 00:30:51.280
 you're being faithful

00:30:51.280 --> 00:30:52.240
 right now,

00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:56.140
 all of these things,

00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:58.440
 you're going to be rewarded for.

00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:00.740
 All of these things

00:31:00.740 --> 00:31:01.580
 are going to be seen

00:31:01.580 --> 00:31:02.220
 in the light.

00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:04.580
 All of these things,

00:31:04.660 --> 00:31:05.440
 I'm going to bless you

00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:06.400
 for your faithfulness.

00:31:07.360 --> 00:31:08.120
 But the disciples

00:31:08.120 --> 00:31:08.720
 were struggling

00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:09.340
 and they were like,

00:31:09.420 --> 00:31:10.160
 well, no one sees

00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:10.740
 what we're doing.

00:31:11.780 --> 00:31:12.320
 I mean, we're speaking

00:31:12.320 --> 00:31:13.280
 the gospel to everybody,

00:31:13.420 --> 00:31:15.320
 but everybody wants

00:31:15.320 --> 00:31:16.340
 to do this.

00:31:17.060 --> 00:31:17.700
 What do we do

00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:18.520
 when you're gone?

00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:21.040
 And Jesus says to them,

00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:23.840
 be aware

00:31:23.840 --> 00:31:25.180
 that everything you do

00:31:25.180 --> 00:31:26.259
 will be seen.

00:31:28.259 --> 00:31:29.120
 Everything you do

00:31:29.120 --> 00:31:29.640
 will be seen.

00:31:31.299 --> 00:31:31.980
 Another thing

00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:32.880
 that Jesus says here

00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:34.180
 to avoid the minefields,

00:31:34.220 --> 00:31:35.140
 to avoid hypocrisy

00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:36.320
 is in verse 4 and 5.

00:31:37.259 --> 00:31:38.220
 He says to his disciples,

00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:39.279
 I say to you,

00:31:39.340 --> 00:31:39.900
 my friends,

00:31:39.980 --> 00:31:40.799
 it's the only time

00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:42.000
 in the Greek Bible

00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:42.700
 that that word

00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:43.019
 is used,

00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:43.680
 my friends,

00:31:43.940 --> 00:31:44.600
 it's the only time

00:31:44.600 --> 00:31:45.480
 that Jesus speaks it

00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:46.600
 and what he means there

00:31:46.600 --> 00:31:47.039
 is there's this

00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:48.000
 intimate relationship

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:48.900
 with him

00:31:48.900 --> 00:31:49.900
 and his disciples.

00:31:50.060 --> 00:31:50.560
 There's an intimate

00:31:50.560 --> 00:31:51.640
 relationship with God

00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:52.259
 and you.

00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:54.460
 You are God's friends.

00:31:54.460 --> 00:31:55.039
 He says,

00:31:55.140 --> 00:31:55.480
 I say to you,

00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:55.819
 my friends,

00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:56.620
 don't be afraid

00:31:56.620 --> 00:31:57.860
 of those who can

00:31:57.860 --> 00:31:58.660
 kill the body,

00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:00.019
 but after that

00:32:00.019 --> 00:32:00.900
 they have no more

00:32:00.900 --> 00:32:01.480
 they can do.

00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:03.480
 But I warn you

00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:03.940
 whom to fear.

00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:04.559
 Fear the one

00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:05.700
 who after he is killed

00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:07.259
 has the authority

00:32:07.259 --> 00:32:08.259
 to cast into hell.

00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:08.579
 Yes,

00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:09.180
 I tell you

00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:10.600
 to fear him.

00:32:11.779 --> 00:32:12.340
 And what Jesus

00:32:12.340 --> 00:32:12.940
 is saying here

00:32:12.940 --> 00:32:13.500
 is that you can

00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:15.000
 avoid hypocrisy,

00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:16.759
 you can avoid

00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:17.460
 the minefield

00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:18.539
 by realizing

00:32:18.539 --> 00:32:19.600
 that as you walk

00:32:19.600 --> 00:32:20.200
 with him,

00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:22.920
 things are not

00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:23.740
 always perfect.

00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:27.100
 Because sometimes

00:32:27.100 --> 00:32:27.900
 stepping out

00:32:27.900 --> 00:32:28.259
 and saying

00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:29.560
 I follow Christ

00:32:29.560 --> 00:32:32.960
 has repercussions

00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:33.640
 to it.

00:32:35.320 --> 00:32:36.060
 Sometimes those

00:32:36.060 --> 00:32:36.539
 repercussions

00:32:36.539 --> 00:32:37.259
 are financial,

00:32:37.779 --> 00:32:38.400
 sometimes they're

00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:38.840
 emotional,

00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:39.980
 sometimes they're

00:32:39.980 --> 00:32:40.519
 physical,

00:32:40.700 --> 00:32:41.519
 sometimes they're

00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:42.220
 spiritual.

00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:44.340
 I mean,

00:32:44.360 --> 00:32:44.779
 we don't ever

00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:45.600
 talk about that

00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:46.320
 often in church

00:32:46.320 --> 00:32:46.840
 because we want

00:32:46.840 --> 00:32:47.820
 the gospel to seem

00:32:47.820 --> 00:32:49.340
 sexy and fun

00:32:49.340 --> 00:32:50.080
 and everything's

00:32:50.080 --> 00:32:50.539
 perfect and

00:32:50.539 --> 00:32:51.279
 everything's good,

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.119
 but what Jesus

00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.180
 is warning his

00:32:53.180 --> 00:32:53.619
 friends,

00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:54.339
 what he's

00:32:54.339 --> 00:32:54.960
 warning us,

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:55.839
 is that if we

00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:56.819
 walk with him,

00:32:57.759 --> 00:32:59.059
 if we do the

00:32:59.059 --> 00:32:59.759
 right thing,

00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:02.200
 sometimes things

00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:02.779
 will become

00:33:02.779 --> 00:33:03.299
 difficult.

00:33:04.899 --> 00:33:06.000
 And that's okay.

00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.160
 Be aware of that.

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:11.259
 That same summer

00:33:11.259 --> 00:33:12.259
 we went to

00:33:12.259 --> 00:33:12.859
 Saigon

00:33:12.859 --> 00:33:14.319
 and I was in

00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:14.940
 this park of

00:33:14.940 --> 00:33:15.379
 Saigon

00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:18.440
 1990,

00:33:18.980 --> 00:33:19.619
 1989,

00:33:20.019 --> 00:33:20.519
 1990,

00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:22.480
 and we were

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:23.039
 walking with

00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:23.639
 our friends

00:33:23.639 --> 00:33:24.079
 and this

00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:24.819
 little old

00:33:24.819 --> 00:33:25.680
 Vietnamese guy

00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:26.259
 came up to

00:33:26.259 --> 00:33:27.220
 us and he

00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:28.059
 spoke perfect

00:33:28.059 --> 00:33:28.440
 English.

00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:30.660
 I mean,

00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:31.799
 America still

00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:32.299
 hadn't normalized

00:33:32.299 --> 00:33:33.119
 relationships with

00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:33.339
 Vietnam,

00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:34.779
 so we could be

00:33:34.779 --> 00:33:35.339
 there as tourists

00:33:35.339 --> 00:33:35.740
 but we weren't

00:33:35.740 --> 00:33:36.299
 supposed to have

00:33:36.299 --> 00:33:37.180
 American dollars

00:33:37.180 --> 00:33:37.920
 in there and

00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:38.519
 we weren't

00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:38.960
 supposed to do

00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:39.680
 business there

00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:40.099
 and all these

00:33:40.099 --> 00:33:40.359
 things.

00:33:40.940 --> 00:33:41.660
 And this little

00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:42.259
 Vietnamese guy

00:33:42.259 --> 00:33:42.960
 came up to us

00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:43.700
 in the middle

00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:44.180
 of this park

00:33:44.180 --> 00:33:44.940
 and he spoke

00:33:44.940 --> 00:33:45.920
 perfect English.

00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:48.319
 And we were

00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:49.480
 astounded and I

00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:49.579
 said,

00:33:49.579 --> 00:33:52.199
 tell me,

00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:53.939
 who are you?

00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:55.199
 And he goes,

00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:55.539
 I was a high

00:33:55.539 --> 00:33:56.279
 school teacher.

00:33:59.159 --> 00:33:59.779
 And when the

00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:00.399
 communists came

00:34:00.399 --> 00:34:00.639
 in,

00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.079
 they put me in

00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:03.819
 prison for 20

00:34:03.819 --> 00:34:04.179
 years.

00:34:06.659 --> 00:34:07.519
 And after 20

00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:07.899
 years,

00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:08.659
 they just let us

00:34:08.659 --> 00:34:09.319
 go because they

00:34:09.319 --> 00:34:09.699
 figured we were

00:34:09.699 --> 00:34:10.259
 too old to do

00:34:10.259 --> 00:34:10.579
 anything.

00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:12.860
 And they said to

00:34:12.860 --> 00:34:12.960
 me,

00:34:12.980 --> 00:34:13.460
 don't share your

00:34:13.460 --> 00:34:13.759
 faith.

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:13.820
 faith.

00:34:15.700 --> 00:34:16.140
 And I'm

00:34:16.140 --> 00:34:16.680
 looking at this

00:34:16.680 --> 00:34:17.440
 guy right there

00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:17.680
 and he's

00:34:17.680 --> 00:34:18.320
 speaking perfect

00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:18.920
 English to us

00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:19.240
 and I said,

00:34:19.300 --> 00:34:19.720
 so what are you

00:34:19.720 --> 00:34:19.920
 doing?

00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:20.140
 He goes,

00:34:20.540 --> 00:34:20.680
 well,

00:34:20.680 --> 00:34:21.620
 I just come to

00:34:21.620 --> 00:34:23.760
 the park and

00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:24.480
 anybody I see

00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:25.040
 who looks like a

00:34:25.040 --> 00:34:25.380
 Westerner,

00:34:25.420 --> 00:34:25.960
 I just go up and

00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:26.600
 start speaking to

00:34:26.600 --> 00:34:28.320
 them and sharing

00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:28.800
 with them about

00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:29.680
 Jesus in my life.

00:34:31.220 --> 00:34:31.780
 And I was like,

00:34:32.120 --> 00:34:32.380
 dude,

00:34:32.420 --> 00:34:32.980
 you spent 20

00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:33.760
 years in prison.

00:34:34.520 --> 00:34:35.260
 Aren't you worried

00:34:35.260 --> 00:34:35.580
 that they're going

00:34:35.580 --> 00:34:36.040
 to put you back

00:34:36.040 --> 00:34:36.280
 there?

00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.240
 And he said

00:34:38.240 --> 00:34:38.780
 this to me,

00:34:40.040 --> 00:34:41.080
 God's word says,

00:34:42.040 --> 00:34:43.740
 don't fear him

00:34:43.740 --> 00:34:44.160
 who can just

00:34:44.160 --> 00:34:44.660
 kill you.

00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:47.200
 But fear him

00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:47.620
 who can,

00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:48.600
 after he kills

00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:48.820
 you,

00:34:49.160 --> 00:34:50.019
 takes your soul

00:34:50.019 --> 00:34:52.620
 and separates

00:34:52.620 --> 00:34:53.140
 it away from

00:34:53.140 --> 00:34:53.380
 him.

00:34:56.860 --> 00:34:57.460
 You know how

00:34:57.460 --> 00:34:58.060
 big I felt at

00:34:58.060 --> 00:34:58.540
 that time because

00:34:58.540 --> 00:34:59.100
 I'm this missionary

00:34:59.100 --> 00:34:59.840
 living in China

00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:00.400
 doing all these

00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.180
 cool things and

00:35:01.180 --> 00:35:03.000
 sacrificing nothing,

00:35:03.100 --> 00:35:03.720
 which is okay.

00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:06.779
 But this guy

00:35:06.779 --> 00:35:07.659
 realized the

00:35:07.659 --> 00:35:08.259
 principle of

00:35:08.259 --> 00:35:08.899
 hypocrisy,

00:35:10.219 --> 00:35:11.739
 that if you

00:35:11.739 --> 00:35:12.359
 feel like you

00:35:12.359 --> 00:35:13.239
 need to change,

00:35:13.299 --> 00:35:13.759
 if you feel like

00:35:13.759 --> 00:35:14.359
 the pressure is

00:35:14.359 --> 00:35:14.719
 intense,

00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:15.639
 if you feel like

00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:16.059
 something's going

00:35:16.059 --> 00:35:16.639
 to happen to you

00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:17.000
 physically,

00:35:17.359 --> 00:35:18.199
 what Jesus says

00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:18.959
 to his disciples,

00:35:19.279 --> 00:35:19.980
 and every one of

00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:20.819
 them died that way

00:35:20.819 --> 00:35:21.639
 except for John,

00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:22.519
 he says,

00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:23.519
 don't worry about

00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:24.059
 those who can

00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:24.579
 kill you because

00:35:24.579 --> 00:35:25.179
 all they can do

00:35:25.179 --> 00:35:25.819
 is kill you.

00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:29.299
 But worry about

00:35:29.299 --> 00:35:29.939
 him who holds

00:35:29.939 --> 00:35:30.419
 your soul.

00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:36.399
 I thought about

00:35:36.399 --> 00:35:36.959
 that a lot.

00:35:41.139 --> 00:35:41.779
 I don't know if

00:35:41.779 --> 00:35:42.399
 you struggle with

00:35:42.399 --> 00:35:42.839
 it, but I think

00:35:42.839 --> 00:35:43.659
 I do sometimes.

00:35:44.939 --> 00:35:46.000
 I struggle with

00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:46.719
 thinking that

00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:48.980
 heaven is here

00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:49.439
 and now,

00:35:50.459 --> 00:35:52.659
 that this is all

00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:53.319
 there is.

00:35:55.099 --> 00:35:55.679
 And I don't

00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.239
 really think about

00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:56.879
 what happens

00:35:56.879 --> 00:35:57.659
 afterwards.

00:35:59.419 --> 00:36:00.139
 But what Jesus

00:36:00.139 --> 00:36:00.919
 is trying to tell

00:36:00.919 --> 00:36:01.519
 his disciples,

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:01.959
 what he's trying

00:36:01.959 --> 00:36:02.500
 to tell you and

00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:03.360
 me, is that

00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:04.280
 amidst the

00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:05.179
 struggle, amidst

00:36:05.179 --> 00:36:05.920
 the minefields,

00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:06.679
 amidst the

00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:07.159
 hardness and

00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:08.000
 the difficult

00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:09.300
 times, realize

00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:10.639
 that your

00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:11.440
 physical body

00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:12.239
 will experience

00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:13.059
 hard things.

00:36:15.460 --> 00:36:16.119
 But that's

00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:16.480
 okay.

00:36:18.019 --> 00:36:18.619
 Because you

00:36:18.619 --> 00:36:18.860
 have an

00:36:18.860 --> 00:36:20.480
 eternity in

00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:22.320
 heaven waiting

00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:23.659
 for you with

00:36:23.659 --> 00:36:23.880
 me.

00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:27.400
 Jesus goes on

00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:28.059
 in verse 6 and

00:36:28.059 --> 00:36:28.360
 7.

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:29.659
 Again, this is a

00:36:29.659 --> 00:36:30.239
 heavy passage.

00:36:30.380 --> 00:36:30.719
 This is like,

00:36:31.139 --> 00:36:31.320
 whoa!

00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:32.820
 He says this

00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:33.440
 to his disciples.

00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:34.260
 He goes, if

00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:34.820
 you're tempted

00:36:34.820 --> 00:36:35.180
 to be a

00:36:35.180 --> 00:36:35.700
 hypocrite, if

00:36:35.700 --> 00:36:36.039
 you're tempted

00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:36.800
 to walk into

00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:37.760
 the minefield,

00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:38.240
 if you're tempted

00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:39.559
 to realize that

00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:40.420
 I need to be

00:36:40.420 --> 00:36:40.980
 something that I'm

00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:41.900
 not, the

00:36:41.900 --> 00:36:42.539
 sixth, he says

00:36:42.539 --> 00:36:44.180
 this, are not

00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:46.500
 five sparrows

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:47.400
 sold for two

00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:47.740
 cents?

00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:50.160
 Yet not one of

00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:51.340
 them is forgotten

00:36:51.340 --> 00:36:52.519
 before God.

00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:54.460
 I mean, he takes

00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:55.960
 the smallest animal

00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:56.680
 in their culture

00:36:56.680 --> 00:36:58.120
 in a market sense.

00:36:58.119 --> 00:36:59.460
 that you would

00:36:59.460 --> 00:37:00.779
 buy two sparrows

00:37:00.779 --> 00:37:02.000
 for one cent.

00:37:03.319 --> 00:37:04.119
 You could buy

00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:05.199
 four sparrows

00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:06.519
 for two cents.

00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:07.819
 But they were

00:37:07.819 --> 00:37:08.719
 so cheap, they

00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:09.219
 threw in a

00:37:09.219 --> 00:37:09.699
 fifth one.

00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.079
 That's how

00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:12.099
 worthless sparrows

00:37:12.099 --> 00:37:12.380
 are.

00:37:13.699 --> 00:37:14.420
 And what Jesus

00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:15.039
 says to his

00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:15.739
 disciples and to

00:37:15.739 --> 00:37:16.679
 us is that

00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:18.319
 here God has

00:37:18.319 --> 00:37:19.519
 so much concern

00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:20.480
 over something

00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:21.659
 that seems so

00:37:21.659 --> 00:37:23.179
 small and so

00:37:23.179 --> 00:37:23.980
 insignificant.

00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:24.199
 arrogant.

00:37:27.900 --> 00:37:31.019
 Surely, he's

00:37:31.019 --> 00:37:31.519
 more concerned

00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:32.099
 about us.

00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:37.460
 Melissa,

00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:39.139
 Henrika,

00:37:40.139 --> 00:37:41.760
 144,000.

00:37:44.260 --> 00:37:45.139
 Scientists say

00:37:45.139 --> 00:37:45.740
 that if you have

00:37:45.740 --> 00:37:46.519
 blonde hair,

00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:49.519
 you have 144,000

00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:50.800
 pieces of hair

00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:52.199
 in your head.

00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:54.179
 Ed,

00:37:54.899 --> 00:37:55.519
 Mervyn,

00:37:56.279 --> 00:37:57.739
 122,000.

00:37:59.339 --> 00:38:00.339
 Scientists say

00:38:00.339 --> 00:38:00.779
 if you have

00:38:00.779 --> 00:38:01.559
 dark hair,

00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:03.399
 the average

00:38:03.399 --> 00:38:04.099
 person has

00:38:04.099 --> 00:38:06.399
 122,000

00:38:06.399 --> 00:38:07.059
 hairs

00:38:07.059 --> 00:38:08.299
 in their head.

00:38:09.419 --> 00:38:10.059
 Charles,

00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:11.619
 for redheads,

00:38:11.819 --> 00:38:12.819
 it's 90,000.

00:38:14.259 --> 00:38:15.419
 So scientists

00:38:15.419 --> 00:38:15.960
 tell us that

00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:17.259
 for redheads,

00:38:17.359 --> 00:38:18.439
 you have 90,000

00:38:18.439 --> 00:38:19.579
 hairs in your

00:38:19.579 --> 00:38:19.919
 head.

00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:22.340
 Mike,

00:38:24.340 --> 00:38:25.940
 Kelvin,

00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:28.159
 some of those

00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:28.659
 guys who are

00:38:28.659 --> 00:38:29.440
 losing that hair

00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:29.880
 right here,

00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:31.880
 it's less than

00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:32.460
 90,000.

00:38:33.980 --> 00:38:34.760
 Okay, God is

00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:35.659
 subtracting there,

00:38:35.720 --> 00:38:35.980
 right?

00:38:37.460 --> 00:38:38.400
 But what the

00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:39.119
 scripture says

00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:39.740
 here is that

00:38:39.740 --> 00:38:40.900
 as you're tempted

00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:42.940
 to be a hypocrite,

00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:44.980
 as you're tempted

00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:46.639
 to act apart,

00:38:47.780 --> 00:38:48.500
 as you're tempted

00:38:48.500 --> 00:38:49.539
 to be something

00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:50.219
 that you're not

00:38:50.219 --> 00:38:50.679
 because you're

00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:51.099
 worried about

00:38:51.099 --> 00:38:51.440
 what people

00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:51.760
 are going to

00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:52.400
 think about you

00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:52.760
 and how they're

00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:53.239
 going to act

00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:53.860
 around you,

00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:56.639
 realize that

00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:58.039
 God loves you

00:38:58.039 --> 00:38:59.739
 so much

00:38:59.739 --> 00:39:02.639
 that every hair

00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:03.659
 in your head

00:39:03.659 --> 00:39:04.099
 is numbered.

00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:07.539
 And not one

00:39:07.539 --> 00:39:09.480
 hair in your

00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:10.840
 head can fall

00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:11.260
 out

00:39:11.260 --> 00:39:14.659
 without God

00:39:14.659 --> 00:39:15.300
 allowing it to

00:39:15.300 --> 00:39:15.559
 happen.

00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:19.940
 how do you

00:39:19.940 --> 00:39:20.400
 feel when you

00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:20.860
 hear that?

00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:24.079
 I got to tell

00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:24.980
 you, this is

00:39:24.980 --> 00:39:25.299
 the hardest

00:39:25.299 --> 00:39:25.920
 one for me

00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:27.779
 because I have

00:39:27.779 --> 00:39:28.579
 so many doubts

00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:29.460
 about God's

00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:30.299
 goodness sometimes.

00:39:32.299 --> 00:39:33.159
 I have so many

00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:33.799
 doubts of whether

00:39:33.799 --> 00:39:34.259
 he really

00:39:34.259 --> 00:39:35.039
 understands,

00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:36.659
 if he really

00:39:36.659 --> 00:39:37.880
 sees my future,

00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:39.420
 if he really

00:39:39.420 --> 00:39:41.139
 cares amongst

00:39:41.139 --> 00:39:41.639
 the hard,

00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:42.679
 difficult times.

00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.039
 I wonder

00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:46.940
 if he really

00:39:46.940 --> 00:39:47.639
 understands what's

00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:48.319
 going on in my

00:39:48.319 --> 00:39:48.899
 world

00:39:48.899 --> 00:39:50.699
 sometimes.

00:39:53.659 --> 00:39:54.460
 But Jesus

00:39:54.460 --> 00:39:55.139
 says when you're

00:39:55.139 --> 00:39:56.440
 tempted to

00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:57.539
 fear man

00:39:57.539 --> 00:39:57.980
 instead of

00:39:57.980 --> 00:39:58.659
 fear God,

00:39:58.799 --> 00:39:59.960
 you cling to

00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:00.539
 the fact

00:40:00.539 --> 00:40:02.000
 that God

00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:02.619
 loves you,

00:40:03.399 --> 00:40:04.819
 he knows you,

00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:06.539
 he's always

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:06.960
 there,

00:40:07.619 --> 00:40:08.339
 he's always

00:40:08.339 --> 00:40:08.940
 involved,

00:40:09.179 --> 00:40:09.779
 that nothing

00:40:09.779 --> 00:40:10.440
 can happen to

00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:11.099
 you without him

00:40:11.099 --> 00:40:11.679
 allowing it to

00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:12.179
 happen to you.

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:12.899
 And if you

00:40:12.899 --> 00:40:13.579
 cling to that,

00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:14.319
 if you understand

00:40:14.319 --> 00:40:14.739
 that,

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:15.659
 then you won't

00:40:15.659 --> 00:40:17.659
 fall into

00:40:17.659 --> 00:40:18.379
 hypocrisy.

00:40:23.539 --> 00:40:24.239
 That you'll

00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:25.599
 fear God

00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:27.699
 more than

00:40:27.699 --> 00:40:28.379
 you fear man.

00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:29.299
 And that word

00:40:29.299 --> 00:40:29.799
 fear there

00:40:29.799 --> 00:40:30.599
 basically means

00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:31.199
 awe,

00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:33.359
 and reverence,

00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:35.460
 and worship.

00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:37.980
 And Jesus

00:40:37.980 --> 00:40:38.739
 says when we

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:39.619
 walk through our

00:40:39.619 --> 00:40:39.899
 day,

00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:40.259
 Lenny,

00:40:40.260 --> 00:40:40.860
 when you

00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:41.360
 leave here

00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:41.660
 with your

00:40:41.660 --> 00:40:42.040
 family,

00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:42.640
 and you're

00:40:42.640 --> 00:40:43.180
 going out

00:40:43.180 --> 00:40:43.460
 to eat

00:40:43.460 --> 00:40:43.720
 lunch,

00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:43.940
 and then

00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:44.060
 you're

00:40:44.060 --> 00:40:44.160
 going to

00:40:44.160 --> 00:40:44.360
 go to

00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:44.580
 work

00:40:44.580 --> 00:40:44.960
 tomorrow,

00:40:45.300 --> 00:40:45.640
 and you're

00:40:45.640 --> 00:40:45.760
 going to

00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:46.060
 be doing

00:40:46.060 --> 00:40:46.480
 things that

00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:46.820
 no one's

00:40:46.820 --> 00:40:46.960
 going to

00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:47.300
 see you

00:40:47.300 --> 00:40:47.540
 do,

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:48.380
 God's

00:40:48.380 --> 00:40:48.580
 going to

00:40:48.580 --> 00:40:48.820
 say,

00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:50.560
 be in

00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:50.980
 awe of

00:40:50.980 --> 00:40:51.260
 me.

00:40:53.660 --> 00:40:54.020
 Worship

00:40:54.020 --> 00:40:54.480
 me.

00:40:56.080 --> 00:40:56.440
 Jason,

00:40:56.520 --> 00:40:56.720
 when you

00:40:56.720 --> 00:40:57.060
 leave here

00:40:57.060 --> 00:40:57.220
 and you

00:40:57.220 --> 00:40:57.480
 go to

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:57.760
 China,

00:40:57.860 --> 00:40:58.020
 and you're

00:40:58.020 --> 00:40:58.700
 doing what

00:40:58.700 --> 00:40:59.080
 God has

00:40:59.080 --> 00:40:59.460
 you doing,

00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:00.780
 every step

00:41:00.780 --> 00:41:01.040
 that you

00:41:01.040 --> 00:41:01.440
 take,

00:41:01.580 --> 00:41:01.960
 God is

00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:02.180
 going to

00:41:02.180 --> 00:41:02.400
 say,

00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:03.120
 no matter

00:41:03.120 --> 00:41:03.860
 what happens

00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:04.180
 to you,

00:41:04.240 --> 00:41:04.620
 I'm in

00:41:04.620 --> 00:41:05.260
 control of

00:41:05.260 --> 00:41:05.920
 those things.

00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:07.639
 and I

00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:07.880
 want you

00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:08.300
 to worship

00:41:08.300 --> 00:41:08.579
 me,

00:41:08.720 --> 00:41:09.220
 and love

00:41:09.220 --> 00:41:09.420
 me,

00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:09.639
 and be

00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:10.059
 in awe

00:41:10.059 --> 00:41:10.440
 of me.

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:13.000
 Don't fear

00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:14.360
 man,

00:41:14.619 --> 00:41:15.579
 don't worship

00:41:15.579 --> 00:41:16.780
 men,

00:41:17.099 --> 00:41:17.519
 don't be

00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:18.139
 in awe

00:41:18.139 --> 00:41:19.380
 of men,

00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:20.400
 but be in

00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:20.740
 awe of

00:41:20.740 --> 00:41:21.139
 God.

00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:23.360
 And if we

00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:23.780
 keep that

00:41:23.780 --> 00:41:24.139
 in our

00:41:24.139 --> 00:41:24.619
 forefront,

00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:26.760
 it helps us

00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:27.220
 to see the

00:41:27.220 --> 00:41:27.920
 landmines,

00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:29.599
 and it

00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:30.119
 prevents us

00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:30.599
 from stepping

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:31.039
 on them

00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:31.420
 and blowing

00:41:31.420 --> 00:41:31.880
 ourselves

00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:32.219
 up.

00:41:34.340 --> 00:41:35.099
 And finally,

00:41:35.219 --> 00:41:35.619
 the hard

00:41:35.619 --> 00:41:35.960
 verses,

00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:37.360
 verses 8

00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:37.980
 through 12,

00:41:38.980 --> 00:41:40.099
 Jesus says

00:41:40.099 --> 00:41:40.480
 this,

00:41:41.759 --> 00:41:42.320
 and I

00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:42.840
 say to you,

00:41:42.940 --> 00:41:43.360
 everyone who

00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:43.920
 confesses me

00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:44.559
 before men,

00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:45.380
 the Son of

00:41:45.380 --> 00:41:45.759
 Man will

00:41:45.759 --> 00:41:46.400
 confess him

00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:46.960
 also before

00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:47.320
 the angels

00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:47.820
 of God,

00:41:48.219 --> 00:41:48.679
 but he

00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:49.340
 who denies

00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:49.840
 me before

00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:50.219
 men will

00:41:50.219 --> 00:41:50.699
 be denied

00:41:50.699 --> 00:41:51.119
 before the

00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:51.500
 angels of

00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:51.779
 God.

00:41:53.619 --> 00:41:54.300
 Everyone who

00:41:54.300 --> 00:41:54.699
 speaks a

00:41:54.699 --> 00:41:55.179
 word against

00:41:55.179 --> 00:41:55.559
 the Son of

00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:55.779
 Man,

00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:56.179
 it will be

00:41:56.179 --> 00:41:56.519
 forgiven

00:41:56.519 --> 00:41:56.900
 him,

00:41:58.119 --> 00:41:58.619
 but he

00:41:58.619 --> 00:41:58.820
 who

00:41:58.820 --> 00:41:59.460
 blasphemes

00:41:59.460 --> 00:41:59.800
 against the

00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:00.279
 Holy Spirit,

00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:00.860
 it will not

00:42:00.860 --> 00:42:01.340
 be forgiven

00:42:01.340 --> 00:42:01.680
 him.

00:42:03.720 --> 00:42:04.240
 When they

00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:04.519
 bring you

00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:04.920
 before the

00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:05.440
 synagogues

00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:05.700
 and the

00:42:05.700 --> 00:42:06.160
 rulers and

00:42:06.160 --> 00:42:06.680
 the authorities,

00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:08.120
 do not worry

00:42:08.120 --> 00:42:09.079
 about how or

00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:09.640
 what you are to

00:42:09.640 --> 00:42:10.140
 speak in your

00:42:10.140 --> 00:42:10.760
 defense or what

00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:11.039
 you are to

00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:11.440
 say,

00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:13.620
 for the Holy

00:42:13.620 --> 00:42:14.059
 Spirit will

00:42:14.059 --> 00:42:15.840
 teach you in

00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:16.260
 that very

00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:18.500
 hour what

00:42:18.500 --> 00:42:18.980
 you need to

00:42:18.980 --> 00:42:19.340
 say.

00:42:21.200 --> 00:42:21.519
 And what

00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:22.320
 Jesus says to

00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:22.980
 his disciples

00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:23.680
 and he says

00:42:23.680 --> 00:42:25.680
 to us is

00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:26.039
 that throughout

00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:26.880
 our life we

00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:27.380
 have these

00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:28.000
 options,

00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:30.740
 we have

00:42:30.739 --> 00:42:31.519
 these choices

00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:32.179
 of who

00:42:32.179 --> 00:42:32.359
 we are

00:42:32.359 --> 00:42:32.539
 going to

00:42:32.539 --> 00:42:32.819
 put on

00:42:32.819 --> 00:42:33.359
 our throne.

00:42:34.359 --> 00:42:34.819
 Now you are

00:42:34.819 --> 00:42:34.919
 going to

00:42:34.919 --> 00:42:35.319
 come back

00:42:35.319 --> 00:42:35.619
 to that and

00:42:35.619 --> 00:42:35.899
 go what

00:42:35.899 --> 00:42:36.119
 does that

00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:36.299
 mean?

00:42:36.339 --> 00:42:36.519
 What does

00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:36.859
 number 10

00:42:36.859 --> 00:42:37.039
 mean?

00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:37.379
 I want to

00:42:37.379 --> 00:42:37.599
 know did

00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:38.039
 I blaspheme

00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:38.259
 the Holy

00:42:38.259 --> 00:42:38.459
 Spirit?

00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:38.719
 What does

00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:39.019
 that mean?

00:42:39.379 --> 00:42:39.679
 Am I

00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:40.439
 unforgiven?

00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:40.699
 Am I

00:42:40.699 --> 00:42:41.339
 unforgivable?

00:42:42.939 --> 00:42:43.559
 I think it

00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:44.219
 depends on

00:42:44.219 --> 00:42:44.939
 where you are

00:42:44.939 --> 00:42:45.219
 at.

00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:47.179
 If this is

00:42:47.179 --> 00:42:47.639
 written to

00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:48.439
 non-Christians

00:42:48.439 --> 00:42:48.819
 what that

00:42:48.819 --> 00:42:49.539
 means is that

00:42:49.539 --> 00:42:50.739
 God keeps

00:42:50.739 --> 00:42:51.419
 bringing himself

00:42:51.419 --> 00:42:52.019
 to you.

00:42:52.339 --> 00:42:52.839
 People keep

00:42:52.839 --> 00:42:53.639
 inviting you to

00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:53.899
 church.

00:42:54.259 --> 00:42:54.579
 You keep

00:42:54.579 --> 00:42:55.579
 hearing of

00:42:55.579 --> 00:42:56.279
 God's grace

00:42:56.279 --> 00:42:56.599
 and his

00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:56.919
 mercy.

00:42:57.359 --> 00:42:57.679
 You keep

00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:58.619
 seeing how

00:42:58.619 --> 00:42:59.579
 incredible community

00:42:59.579 --> 00:43:00.159
 is you keep

00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:01.000
 seeing the

00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:01.519
 power of the

00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:02.219
 gospel change

00:43:02.219 --> 00:43:02.799
 and transform

00:43:02.799 --> 00:43:03.539
 people's lives

00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:04.460
 and even as

00:43:04.460 --> 00:43:04.920
 that is put in

00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:05.259
 front of your

00:43:05.259 --> 00:43:06.319
 face you say

00:43:06.319 --> 00:43:07.199
 no, no.

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:09.880
 No, I

00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:10.779
 just can't do

00:43:10.779 --> 00:43:10.920
 it.

00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:11.119
 No.

00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:12.340
 I don't want

00:43:12.340 --> 00:43:12.440
 it.

00:43:13.500 --> 00:43:14.059
 I'm more

00:43:14.059 --> 00:43:15.619
 happy where I'm

00:43:15.619 --> 00:43:15.860
 at.

00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:16.500
 I don't want

00:43:16.500 --> 00:43:16.739
 that.

00:43:18.739 --> 00:43:19.340
 And for those

00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:20.400
 he says that

00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:21.000
 on that moment

00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:21.639
 you close your

00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:23.819
 eyes you've

00:43:23.819 --> 00:43:24.819
 blasphemed God's

00:43:24.819 --> 00:43:25.400
 Holy Spirit

00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:26.819
 because the Holy

00:43:26.819 --> 00:43:27.259
 Spirit is the

00:43:27.259 --> 00:43:27.799
 giver of life.

00:43:27.900 --> 00:43:28.480
 He brings truth.

00:43:28.759 --> 00:43:29.219
 He presents

00:43:29.219 --> 00:43:29.919
 Jesus Christ

00:43:29.919 --> 00:43:30.339
 to people

00:43:30.339 --> 00:43:30.959
 and in

00:43:30.959 --> 00:43:31.559
 saying no

00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:31.879
 I don't

00:43:31.879 --> 00:43:32.459
 want that

00:43:32.459 --> 00:43:34.239
 what you've

00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:34.739
 done is you've

00:43:34.739 --> 00:43:35.419
 rejected him.

00:43:38.500 --> 00:43:39.199
 If you're in a

00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:39.879
 family of God

00:43:39.879 --> 00:43:40.480
 it doesn't mean

00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:41.039
 that you lose

00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:41.819
 your salvation

00:43:41.819 --> 00:43:46.000
 but what it

00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:46.399
 means and

00:43:46.399 --> 00:43:46.839
 there's a lot

00:43:46.839 --> 00:43:47.299
 of questions

00:43:47.299 --> 00:43:47.779
 on this but

00:43:47.779 --> 00:43:48.239
 what I tend

00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:48.679
 to think it

00:43:48.679 --> 00:43:49.219
 means is

00:43:49.219 --> 00:43:52.259
 that one

00:43:52.259 --> 00:43:52.939
 day as

00:43:52.939 --> 00:43:53.599
 Christians we'll

00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:53.959
 go before

00:43:53.959 --> 00:43:56.319
 God and

00:43:56.319 --> 00:43:56.659
 there will be

00:43:56.659 --> 00:43:57.559
 this panorama

00:43:57.559 --> 00:43:58.500
 played of our

00:43:58.500 --> 00:43:58.960
 life.

00:44:00.780 --> 00:44:01.159
 And every

00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:02.820
 word and

00:44:02.820 --> 00:44:04.019
 deed and

00:44:04.019 --> 00:44:05.800
 action will

00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:06.239
 be played

00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:07.000
 before us

00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:07.460
 and before

00:44:07.460 --> 00:44:07.840
 God.

00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:10.619
 And we

00:44:10.619 --> 00:44:11.679
 will see the

00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:12.639
 opportunities we

00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:14.420
 had to make

00:44:14.420 --> 00:44:15.239
 Christ known.

00:44:16.820 --> 00:44:17.739
 We'll see the

00:44:17.739 --> 00:44:18.400
 opportunities we

00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:19.500
 had to be a

00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:20.039
 part of his

00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:21.039
 kingdom and

00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:21.619
 allow it to

00:44:21.619 --> 00:44:22.280
 grow and reach

00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:23.019
 out to people.

00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:24.880
 We'll see

00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:25.539
 opportunities that

00:44:25.539 --> 00:44:26.119
 we had with the

00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:26.639
 giftings and

00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:27.239
 the talents and

00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:27.719
 the money that

00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:28.719
 he's given us to

00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:29.519
 make an incredible

00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:30.139
 impact.

00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:31.519
 And we said

00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:31.799
 no.

00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:35.039
 And there

00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:35.799
 seems to be a

00:44:35.799 --> 00:44:37.480
 sense that we're

00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:37.960
 going to lose

00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:38.359
 something.

00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:42.639
 We're still

00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:43.159
 saved.

00:44:46.279 --> 00:44:46.759
 But we're

00:44:46.759 --> 00:44:47.139
 going to lose

00:44:47.139 --> 00:44:47.460
 something.

00:44:47.460 --> 00:44:47.539
 We're going to

00:44:47.539 --> 00:44:47.559
 lose something.

00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.099
 The passage is

00:44:53.099 --> 00:44:53.839
 really clear.

00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:55.600
 you and I

00:44:55.600 --> 00:44:56.200
 have two

00:44:56.200 --> 00:44:56.680
 options.

00:44:57.680 --> 00:44:57.960
 We have

00:44:57.960 --> 00:44:59.320
 one throne in

00:44:59.320 --> 00:44:59.960
 our life with

00:44:59.960 --> 00:45:00.660
 two people to

00:45:00.660 --> 00:45:01.160
 put on it.

00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:02.220
 And the

00:45:02.220 --> 00:45:02.880
 question is do

00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:03.740
 we fear man or

00:45:03.740 --> 00:45:04.180
 do we fear

00:45:04.180 --> 00:45:04.559
 God?

00:45:06.620 --> 00:45:07.380
 Do we care

00:45:07.380 --> 00:45:07.740
 about what

00:45:07.740 --> 00:45:08.360
 others think?

00:45:10.780 --> 00:45:11.440
 Or do we

00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:11.980
 care about what

00:45:11.980 --> 00:45:12.740
 God thinks more?

00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:13.140
 And I'm not

00:45:13.140 --> 00:45:13.840
 saying it's bad

00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:14.400
 to care about

00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:14.700
 what other

00:45:14.700 --> 00:45:15.400
 people think.

00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:17.039
 But what I'm

00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:17.600
 saying is that

00:45:17.600 --> 00:45:19.039
 becomes the

00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:20.100
 idol that drives

00:45:20.100 --> 00:45:20.559
 you in your

00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:21.519
 life and it

00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:22.340
 predicts everything

00:45:22.340 --> 00:45:23.079
 you do.

00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:24.039
 then scripture

00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:24.759
 says that you're

00:45:24.759 --> 00:45:25.779
 fearing man

00:45:25.779 --> 00:45:26.860
 instead of

00:45:26.860 --> 00:45:27.500
 fearing God.

00:45:28.799 --> 00:45:29.920
 Do we strive to

00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:30.679
 please others

00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:33.179
 or do we strive to

00:45:33.179 --> 00:45:33.900
 please God?

00:45:35.900 --> 00:45:37.659
 Do we trust God

00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:41.000
 with everything

00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:42.119
 that we have

00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:42.480
 and everything

00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:43.039
 that he's given

00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:43.420
 us?

00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:45.739
 Or do we

00:45:45.739 --> 00:45:48.119
 trust whatever?

00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:50.139
 You fill in the

00:45:50.139 --> 00:45:50.420
 blank.

00:45:50.420 --> 00:45:52.420
 If you're like

00:45:52.420 --> 00:45:53.119
 me it was my

00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:53.559
 family.

00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:55.139
 It was my

00:45:55.139 --> 00:45:55.840
 medical degree.

00:45:57.460 --> 00:45:58.380
 It was the

00:45:58.380 --> 00:45:58.920
 people I hung

00:45:58.920 --> 00:45:59.500
 out with.

00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:01.079
 It was the

00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:01.740
 bank account.

00:46:02.860 --> 00:46:03.300
 It was the

00:46:03.300 --> 00:46:04.300
 280Z that I

00:46:04.300 --> 00:46:04.760
 drove in

00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:05.180
 college.

00:46:06.099 --> 00:46:07.019
 Whatever it is

00:46:07.019 --> 00:46:07.659
 you fill it in

00:46:07.659 --> 00:46:07.760
 there.

00:46:07.820 --> 00:46:08.180
 I don't know

00:46:08.180 --> 00:46:08.700
 what it is in

00:46:08.700 --> 00:46:09.220
 your life or

00:46:09.220 --> 00:46:09.760
 what you've put

00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:10.340
 on the throne

00:46:10.340 --> 00:46:10.880
 of your life

00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:11.500
 but the

00:46:11.500 --> 00:46:12.079
 question Jesus

00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:12.760
 asked in his

00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:13.619
 passage and

00:46:13.619 --> 00:46:14.320
 what he warns

00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:14.860
 us about is

00:46:14.860 --> 00:46:15.139
 that we're

00:46:15.139 --> 00:46:16.159
 walking into

00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:16.980
 this minefield

00:46:16.980 --> 00:46:17.960
 and we need

00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:18.920
 to be careful

00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:19.699
 of these

00:46:19.699 --> 00:46:20.539
 things because

00:46:20.539 --> 00:46:21.240
 if we don't

00:46:21.240 --> 00:46:21.860
 we'll become

00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:22.960
 hypocrites and

00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:24.119
 we'll fear man

00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:24.960
 instead of God

00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:25.900
 and the outcome

00:46:25.900 --> 00:46:26.800
 of that is

00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:27.599
 always bad.

00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:28.179
 It's always

00:46:28.179 --> 00:46:28.579
 bad.

00:46:28.659 --> 00:46:29.039
 It's always

00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:29.420
 bad.

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:31.500
 Does that

00:46:31.500 --> 00:46:31.920
 make sense?

00:46:34.659 --> 00:46:35.340
 This is a

00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:35.940
 tough passage

00:46:35.940 --> 00:46:36.400
 guys because

00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:37.019
 this is the

00:46:37.019 --> 00:46:37.639
 only time where

00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:38.240
 Jesus actually

00:46:38.240 --> 00:46:39.219
 uses a negative

00:46:39.219 --> 00:46:40.280
 thing to

00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:41.059
 reinforce what

00:46:41.059 --> 00:46:41.579
 he wants us

00:46:41.579 --> 00:46:42.000
 to do.

00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:43.159
 It's almost

00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:43.960
 always positive

00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:44.500
 do this and

00:46:44.500 --> 00:46:44.800
 these things

00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:45.400
 happen but

00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:45.800
 here he's

00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:46.579
 saying guys

00:46:46.579 --> 00:46:47.179
 if you don't

00:46:47.179 --> 00:46:47.940
 do this

00:46:47.940 --> 00:46:49.759
 this is what's

00:46:49.759 --> 00:46:49.960
 going to

00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:50.340
 happen.

00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:52.599
 And he wants

00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:53.380
 us to be very

00:46:53.380 --> 00:46:54.099
 clear as we

00:46:54.099 --> 00:46:54.799
 walk with him

00:46:54.799 --> 00:46:55.159
 and as we

00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:55.860
 follow him.

00:46:58.779 --> 00:46:59.480
 So where are

00:46:59.480 --> 00:46:59.860
 you standing

00:46:59.860 --> 00:47:00.299
 today?

00:47:10.019 --> 00:47:10.960
 What do you

00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:11.319
 fear?

00:47:16.579 --> 00:47:17.900
 on Monday

00:47:17.900 --> 00:47:18.340
 when you

00:47:18.340 --> 00:47:19.099
 leave here

00:47:19.099 --> 00:47:20.539
 what's the

00:47:20.539 --> 00:47:21.019
 worst thing

00:47:21.019 --> 00:47:21.299
 that could

00:47:21.299 --> 00:47:21.759
 happen to

00:47:21.759 --> 00:47:21.860
 you?

00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:22.239
 What's your

00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:23.039
 greatest fear?

00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:27.440
 What's the

00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:27.759
 thing that's

00:47:27.759 --> 00:47:27.940
 going to

00:47:27.940 --> 00:47:28.360
 happen in

00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:28.819
 your place

00:47:28.819 --> 00:47:29.340
 that the

00:47:29.340 --> 00:47:29.679
 minute you

00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:30.139
 leave here

00:47:30.139 --> 00:47:30.380
 and you've

00:47:30.380 --> 00:47:30.900
 been worshiping

00:47:30.900 --> 00:47:31.199
 and everything

00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:31.559
 is good

00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:32.199
 and someone

00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:32.779
 looks at you

00:47:32.779 --> 00:47:33.239
 and all of a

00:47:33.239 --> 00:47:33.380
 sudden you're

00:47:33.380 --> 00:47:33.739
 like whoop.

00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:37.079
 And it's like

00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:37.619
 you just shut

00:47:37.619 --> 00:47:38.500
 down what God's

00:47:38.500 --> 00:47:39.019
 been doing in

00:47:39.019 --> 00:47:40.920
 your life for

00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:42.900
 the weekend or

00:47:42.900 --> 00:47:43.500
 however long you've

00:47:43.500 --> 00:47:43.719
 been in

00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:44.079
 community.

00:47:46.860 --> 00:47:49.480
 We need to

00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:50.579
 be in

00:47:50.579 --> 00:47:51.719
 community.

00:47:54.059 --> 00:47:55.519
 We need to

00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:56.480
 be with

00:47:56.480 --> 00:47:57.280
 brothers and

00:47:57.280 --> 00:47:58.760
 sisters all

00:47:58.760 --> 00:47:59.500
 the time.

00:48:00.860 --> 00:48:02.059
 We need to

00:48:02.059 --> 00:48:02.820
 have people

00:48:02.820 --> 00:48:04.099
 around us who

00:48:04.099 --> 00:48:04.699
 are continually

00:48:04.699 --> 00:48:05.480
 gospeling,

00:48:05.900 --> 00:48:06.440
 sharing the

00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:07.159
 gospel message

00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:07.599
 with us,

00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:08.599
 asking us

00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:09.039
 questions,

00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:10.039
 challenging us,

00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:11.239
 encouraging us,

00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:12.400
 spurring us on to

00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:13.360
 great and

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:14.460
 incredible things.

00:48:16.380 --> 00:48:17.240
 We need to

00:48:17.240 --> 00:48:17.780
 beware that

00:48:17.780 --> 00:48:18.079
 there's a

00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:18.840
 minefield all

00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:19.760
 around us and

00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:20.500
 this minefield is

00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:21.200
 going to blow up

00:48:21.200 --> 00:48:21.980
 if we're not

00:48:21.980 --> 00:48:23.099
 careful and that's

00:48:23.099 --> 00:48:23.880
 why we need people

00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:24.860
 around us and we

00:48:24.860 --> 00:48:25.599
 need to understand

00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:26.820
 and think every

00:48:26.820 --> 00:48:27.599
 moment that we go

00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:28.220
 through our day,

00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:29.740
 who am I fearing

00:48:29.740 --> 00:48:30.200
 here?

00:48:34.620 --> 00:48:35.620
 Who have I put

00:48:35.620 --> 00:48:36.240
 on the throne

00:48:36.240 --> 00:48:36.980
 of my life?

00:48:41.200 --> 00:48:42.140
 Because Jesus is

00:48:42.140 --> 00:48:42.740
 saying to us,

00:48:42.739 --> 00:48:43.559
 the minute we

00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:44.439
 put anybody but

00:48:44.439 --> 00:48:45.199
 God on there,

00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:46.939
 we lose the

00:48:46.939 --> 00:48:47.579
 power of the

00:48:47.579 --> 00:48:47.959
 gospel.

00:48:49.439 --> 00:48:49.919
 And what we've

00:48:49.919 --> 00:48:50.459
 done, instead of

00:48:50.459 --> 00:48:51.119
 saying it's Jesus

00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:52.000
 plus nothing is

00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:52.839
 everything, we

00:48:52.839 --> 00:48:53.539
 say it's Jesus

00:48:53.539 --> 00:48:55.299
 plus something.

00:48:58.799 --> 00:48:59.419
 And Jesus is

00:48:59.419 --> 00:48:59.799
 telling his

00:48:59.799 --> 00:49:00.439
 disciples, and

00:49:00.439 --> 00:49:01.039
 Paul told us

00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:01.839
 last week, that

00:49:01.839 --> 00:49:02.679
 if we do that,

00:49:03.619 --> 00:49:04.699
 we've lost

00:49:04.699 --> 00:49:05.939
 everything.

00:49:05.940 --> 00:49:14.400
 every significant

00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:15.820
 event in my life

00:49:15.820 --> 00:49:17.300
 that's happened to

00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:19.700
 me is because for

00:49:19.700 --> 00:49:21.099
 some reason, I'm

00:49:21.099 --> 00:49:21.720
 hesitant to share

00:49:21.720 --> 00:49:22.400
 this, I wasn't even

00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:22.740
 going to share

00:49:22.740 --> 00:49:24.760
 this, for some

00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:26.900
 reason, I took a

00:49:26.900 --> 00:49:27.900
 step of faith and I

00:49:27.900 --> 00:49:29.280
 chose to fear God

00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:29.980
 more than I feared

00:49:29.980 --> 00:49:30.300
 man.

00:49:30.300 --> 00:49:33.380
 Now there are many

00:49:33.380 --> 00:49:34.539
 significant things in

00:49:34.539 --> 00:49:36.080
 my life when I did

00:49:36.080 --> 00:49:36.920
 not choose that.

00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:39.440
 And now as I look

00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:43.340
 back, I grieve and I

00:49:43.340 --> 00:49:44.680
 grab onto God's grace

00:49:44.680 --> 00:49:46.820
 and mercy and thank

00:49:46.820 --> 00:49:47.820
 him for where I am

00:49:47.820 --> 00:49:48.180
 now.

00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:51.980
 The first significant

00:49:51.980 --> 00:49:52.700
 thing was when I

00:49:52.700 --> 00:49:53.580
 wanted to tithe.

00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.220
 I was in high school.

00:49:56.819 --> 00:49:58.219
 I made $50 a week.

00:49:59.319 --> 00:50:00.500
 I heard this talk

00:50:00.500 --> 00:50:01.299
 about going on an

00:50:01.299 --> 00:50:02.199
 adventure with God

00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:03.179
 and giving money

00:50:03.179 --> 00:50:03.879
 because it was all

00:50:03.879 --> 00:50:04.779
 God's money anyway

00:50:04.779 --> 00:50:06.119
 and that was really

00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:07.039
 novel for me.

00:50:08.339 --> 00:50:09.279
 Because I grew up,

00:50:09.500 --> 00:50:10.480
 it's all my money.

00:50:11.939 --> 00:50:12.659
 And so I heard this

00:50:12.659 --> 00:50:13.879
 guy preach and I

00:50:13.879 --> 00:50:14.839
 said, okay, I'm going

00:50:14.839 --> 00:50:15.759
 to trust God and I'm

00:50:15.759 --> 00:50:16.199
 going to take a step

00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:16.779
 of faith and I'm

00:50:16.779 --> 00:50:17.399
 going to give my

00:50:17.399 --> 00:50:17.899
 $5.

00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:20.639
 I remember that $5.

00:50:21.839 --> 00:50:22.899
 Up until about 10

00:50:22.899 --> 00:50:23.480
 years ago, I

00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:24.359
 remembered the serial

00:50:24.359 --> 00:50:25.379
 number on that $5.

00:50:26.219 --> 00:50:27.299
 But I had it written

00:50:27.299 --> 00:50:28.099
 in my Bible and I

00:50:28.099 --> 00:50:28.759
 lost that Bible.

00:50:30.799 --> 00:50:32.339
 But taking that step

00:50:32.339 --> 00:50:33.379
 of faith and trusting

00:50:33.379 --> 00:50:35.539
 God changed everything

00:50:35.539 --> 00:50:36.539
 in my life.

00:50:37.859 --> 00:50:39.039
 Because it started to

00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:41.319
 free me from stuff and

00:50:41.319 --> 00:50:43.299
 from money and it

00:50:43.299 --> 00:50:44.099
 allowed me to give

00:50:44.099 --> 00:50:45.359
 freedom to give things

00:50:45.359 --> 00:50:46.379
 that God has given me

00:50:46.379 --> 00:50:47.919
 and see his kingdom

00:50:47.919 --> 00:50:49.279
 multiplied and blessed

00:50:49.279 --> 00:50:50.919
 and expanded in ways I

00:50:50.919 --> 00:50:51.480
 never would have

00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:51.859
 imagined.

00:50:56.219 --> 00:50:57.439
 marrying Christina.

00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.359
 I saw this girl walk

00:51:01.359 --> 00:51:02.339
 down this Christmas

00:51:02.339 --> 00:51:04.059
 conference and something

00:51:04.059 --> 00:51:05.459
 inside of me, all my

00:51:05.459 --> 00:51:06.619
 being said, you need to

00:51:06.619 --> 00:51:08.099
 go and pursue that girl.

00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:10.759
 I know without a shadow

00:51:10.759 --> 00:51:11.939
 of a doubt it was God

00:51:11.939 --> 00:51:12.939
 telling me that.

00:51:13.019 --> 00:51:13.639
 I don't know.

00:51:13.959 --> 00:51:15.059
 I'm not always mystical,

00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:16.019
 but I knew here.

00:51:16.019 --> 00:51:18.980
 I walked up to my best

00:51:18.980 --> 00:51:19.259
 friend.

00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:20.199
 We were roommates and I

00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:21.639
 said, what do you think

00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:22.280
 about Christina?

00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:23.599
 I really feel like God's

00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:24.980
 called me to marry her or

00:51:24.980 --> 00:51:25.759
 to pursue her.

00:51:26.019 --> 00:51:27.300
 I was 33 years old that

00:51:27.300 --> 00:51:28.139
 time, so I was getting

00:51:28.139 --> 00:51:28.679
 old, right?

00:51:28.739 --> 00:51:29.639
 I didn't think I'd ever

00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:30.259
 get married anyway.

00:51:31.179 --> 00:51:31.860
 And my friend looked at

00:51:31.860 --> 00:51:32.480
 me and said, don't do

00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:32.639
 it.

00:51:34.739 --> 00:51:36.199
 He said, because her old

00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:37.099
 boyfriend's coming back

00:51:37.099 --> 00:51:37.559
 in town.

00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:39.659
 And I think that they're

00:51:39.659 --> 00:51:40.139
 going to get back

00:51:40.139 --> 00:51:40.519
 together.

00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:43.019
 And so all the guys

00:51:43.019 --> 00:51:44.420
 around me, all the peers,

00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:45.820
 all the men said, don't

00:51:45.820 --> 00:51:46.280
 do it, dude.

00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:47.300
 Do the right thing and

00:51:47.300 --> 00:51:48.360
 let her get back with

00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:48.920
 her old boyfriend.

00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:50.019
 But there was just

00:51:50.019 --> 00:51:51.000
 something inside of me

00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:52.119
 that kept saying, pursue,

00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:53.039
 pursue, pursue.

00:51:54.659 --> 00:51:55.500
 And I took a step of

00:51:55.500 --> 00:51:55.940
 faith.

00:51:58.019 --> 00:51:59.159
 And we're here.

00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:03.719
 Coming to China.

00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:08.300
 I grew up in Montana,

00:52:08.659 --> 00:52:09.440
 Montgomery, Alabama,

00:52:09.659 --> 00:52:10.400
 Texas, New Jersey,

00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:10.940
 and Delaware,

00:52:11.139 --> 00:52:11.679
 and Colorado.

00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:14.019
 Never outside of the

00:52:14.019 --> 00:52:14.400
 States.

00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:16.400
 I felt God was calling

00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:17.300
 me to come to China to

00:52:17.300 --> 00:52:18.820
 work in mainland China.

00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:20.619
 All my friends, all the

00:52:20.619 --> 00:52:22.460
 words, all my parents,

00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:23.239
 everything said, don't

00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:23.800
 come to China.

00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:25.820
 China's terrible.

00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:28.159
 Go to Europe.

00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:30.559
 Europe's nicer.

00:52:32.259 --> 00:52:33.300
 But for some reason, I

00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:33.960
 just took a step of

00:52:33.960 --> 00:52:34.800
 faith and said, I feel

00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:36.679
 like God is calling us to

00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:37.579
 come to China.

00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:38.659
 And I don't know what it

00:52:38.659 --> 00:52:39.420
 looks like, but I'm going

00:52:39.420 --> 00:52:40.079
 to trust you.

00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:41.639
 And I'm not going to put

00:52:41.639 --> 00:52:42.819
 on a mask, but I'm going

00:52:42.819 --> 00:52:43.759
 to trust you and I'm going

00:52:43.759 --> 00:52:44.539
 to walk with you.

00:52:47.099 --> 00:52:48.219
 Those three things have

00:52:48.219 --> 00:52:49.539
 changed my life, but I

00:52:49.539 --> 00:52:50.559
 know there are many other

00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:51.219
 things that could have

00:52:51.219 --> 00:52:51.980
 changed my life.

00:52:54.179 --> 00:52:56.179
 But instead, I feared man

00:52:56.179 --> 00:52:59.319
 more than I feared God.

00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:02.260
 God, my prayer for us as a

00:53:02.260 --> 00:53:04.780
 church, my prayer for you,

00:53:04.900 --> 00:53:06.320
 where you're at right now, I

00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:06.840
 don't know what you're

00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.640
 fearing, but I pray that you

00:53:09.640 --> 00:53:11.420
 would leave it here before you

00:53:11.420 --> 00:53:11.960
 leave here.

00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:14.420
 And you walk in faith and

00:53:14.420 --> 00:53:15.120
 say, God, I don't know what

00:53:15.120 --> 00:53:16.140
 this looks like, but I'm going

00:53:16.140 --> 00:53:16.820
 to fear you.

00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:19.000
 Can you show me what it looks

00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:20.220
 like to fear you in my work?

00:53:21.220 --> 00:53:22.059
 Can you show me what it looks

00:53:22.059 --> 00:53:22.860
 like to fear you in this

00:53:22.860 --> 00:53:23.300
 relationship?

00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:24.920
 Can you show me what it looks

00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:27.360
 like to fear you at church so

00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:28.220
 that when I walk in those

00:53:28.220 --> 00:53:28.940
 doors, I don't have to put

00:53:28.940 --> 00:53:30.120
 this mask on and people say,

00:53:30.180 --> 00:53:30.460
 how are you doing?

00:53:30.500 --> 00:53:30.800
 Oh, great.

00:53:30.860 --> 00:53:31.340
 Everything's good.

00:53:34.380 --> 00:53:35.900
 My prayer for us as a church

00:53:35.900 --> 00:53:36.880
 is that we would hear Jesus'

00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:41.000
 words and that we would trust

00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:43.539
 God in the gospel to change

00:53:43.539 --> 00:53:46.720
 our lives and to turn it into

00:53:46.720 --> 00:53:48.039
 something so incredible we

00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:51.840
 could not even imagine instead

00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:53.220
 of walking in fear of man.

00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:56.539
 Father, we thank you for this

00:53:56.539 --> 00:53:56.840
 day.

00:53:57.739 --> 00:53:59.059
 We thank you for your word,

00:53:59.179 --> 00:54:00.219
 which is living and active,

00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:01.400
 and it changes us.

00:54:03.380 --> 00:54:04.779
 As we look back at the

00:54:04.779 --> 00:54:07.099
 minefields that your son puts

00:54:07.099 --> 00:54:08.539
 forth, we realize that so many

00:54:08.539 --> 00:54:09.840
 times we've made mistakes and

00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:11.039
 we've stepped on those mines,

00:54:11.460 --> 00:54:13.259
 and yet you're still there.

00:54:13.380 --> 00:54:14.300
 You're still with us.

00:54:17.980 --> 00:54:20.000
 Father, help us to trust you.

00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:25.679
 You know where each one of us is

00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:26.339
 that right now.

00:54:27.339 --> 00:54:28.599
 You know the things that we

00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:29.000
 fear.

00:54:31.460 --> 00:54:32.980
 I am very confident that most

00:54:32.980 --> 00:54:34.059
 of us would never want to share

00:54:34.059 --> 00:54:35.139
 them in any big group.

00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:39.419
 But I pray, Lord, that we would

00:54:39.419 --> 00:54:42.159
 share them with you, that we

00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:43.419
 would confess them to you, that

00:54:43.419 --> 00:54:44.919
 we'd repent of these things that

00:54:44.919 --> 00:54:47.919
 we fear more than you, and that

00:54:47.919 --> 00:54:52.000
 your spirit would change us, that

00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:53.380
 your spirit would renew us.

00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:57.159
 Father, we are thankful of the

00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:58.780
 mines we've already stepped on, and

00:54:58.780 --> 00:55:00.000
 so many times we've become

00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:00.599
 hypocrites.

00:55:01.820 --> 00:55:03.460
 And still you come towards us, and

00:55:03.460 --> 00:55:05.460
 you heal us, and you clean us, and

00:55:05.460 --> 00:55:06.920
 you pick us up.

00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:11.099
 May we be in a community of people

00:55:11.099 --> 00:55:13.940
 who know us so well, and who know

00:55:13.940 --> 00:55:17.320
 our minefields so well, that they

00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:19.519
 lovingly and quickly redirect us

00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:20.240
 away from them.

00:55:23.160 --> 00:55:24.880
 Father, I pray for those in here

00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:25.700
 who don't know you.

00:55:27.680 --> 00:55:29.620
 Your word says that they fear man.

00:55:31.980 --> 00:55:33.280
 And I think if we're honest, we

00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:34.539
 would say, yeah, that's true.

00:55:36.260 --> 00:55:37.480
 That there are certain things in my

00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:38.800
 life that hold me captive.

00:55:40.300 --> 00:55:42.260
 That I'm a slave to my work.

00:55:42.260 --> 00:55:46.720
 I'm a slave to alcohol or drugs.

00:55:46.940 --> 00:55:48.700
 I'm a slave to money and gambling.

00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:51.940
 I'm a slave to something that has

00:55:51.940 --> 00:55:53.420
 done a really poor job of being

00:55:53.420 --> 00:55:54.680
 master in my life.

00:55:56.760 --> 00:55:58.040
 Father, I pray for them that this

00:55:58.040 --> 00:55:59.520
 moment that you would speak to them,

00:55:59.640 --> 00:56:01.860
 that they would trust you in your

00:56:01.860 --> 00:56:04.900
 goodness and your son, and they

00:56:04.900 --> 00:56:06.160
 would confess those things and

00:56:06.160 --> 00:56:07.460
 invite you into their life.

00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:12.240
 And start off with a new mask.

00:56:12.260 --> 00:56:12.300
 mask.

00:56:13.720 --> 00:56:15.200
 The mask of a child of God.

00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:18.880
 And Father, I pray for our church.

00:56:20.220 --> 00:56:21.800
 Help us not to be a church who just

00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:22.720
 gathers on Sunday.

00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:25.340
 Father, if that's the type of church

00:56:25.340 --> 00:56:27.500
 we're going to end up being five

00:56:27.500 --> 00:56:28.560
 years from now, I pray that you would

00:56:28.560 --> 00:56:29.320
 just shut us down.

00:56:30.720 --> 00:56:32.260
 Just remove us from here.

00:56:33.460 --> 00:56:35.020
 Because your spirit has so many

00:56:35.020 --> 00:56:36.880
 greater things to do in Hong Kong and

00:56:36.880 --> 00:56:40.220
 beyond than to waste time with people

00:56:40.220 --> 00:56:41.980
 who just want to do status quo every

00:56:41.980 --> 00:56:42.320
 Sunday.

00:56:44.139 --> 00:56:45.420
 Father, help us to see the people

00:56:45.420 --> 00:56:46.599
 around us who don't know you.

00:56:47.940 --> 00:56:49.559
 Help us to see the community and the

00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:51.000
 government and the schools that need

00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:52.940
 fixing and praying for.

00:56:54.440 --> 00:56:57.039
 Help us to trust you to be big because

00:56:57.039 --> 00:56:58.699
 you are and you control all those

00:56:58.699 --> 00:57:00.119
 things and you have all their hairs

00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:00.840
 numbered also.

00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:04.880
 And so as we have this fear of becoming

00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:06.420
 hypocrites when we leave here, Lord,

00:57:06.460 --> 00:57:08.760
 help us to fall in love with you more

00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:09.180
 and more.

00:57:11.019 --> 00:57:12.660
 Help us to realize the power of your

00:57:12.660 --> 00:57:14.280
 spirit and the power of the gospel to

00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:15.019
 change us.

00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:19.760
 May we be different.

00:57:22.260 --> 00:57:23.160
 May we be different.

00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:26.000
 Lord, we love you.

00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:28.539
 We pray all these things in your son Jesus' name.

00:57:29.539 --> 00:57:29.839
 Amen.

00:57:31.019 --> 00:57:33.500
 Hey, we are back here next week.

00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:36.000
 There are some people with little blue

00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:37.159
 lanyards around their neck.

00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:38.519
 They're part of our prayer team.

00:57:39.319 --> 00:57:41.839
 Don't leave here without having someone

00:57:41.839 --> 00:57:42.739
 pray with you.

00:57:43.219 --> 00:57:44.539
 Especially if you're in this issue of

00:57:44.539 --> 00:57:49.039
 struggling about where you have your heart

00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:49.480
 focused.

00:57:51.059 --> 00:57:52.460
 Who's on the throne of your life?

00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:56.619
 What are you fearing as you walk into

00:57:56.619 --> 00:57:59.159
 the classroom on Monday or into the

00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:01.500
 boardroom or as you go on your business

00:58:01.500 --> 00:58:04.159
 trip or if you do dinner with the

00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:08.019
 extended family tonight or if you walk

00:58:08.019 --> 00:58:11.480
 home into your house and it's divided

00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:14.719
 or you have kids out of control?

00:58:16.179 --> 00:58:17.960
 The passage here says that God,

00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:22.240
 God is awesome and big enough for you to

00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:22.940
 trust him.

00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:26.019
 That he wants you to do that.

00:58:27.059 --> 00:58:28.960
 He wants to work in your life.

00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:31.780
 But he's not going to force himself in

00:58:31.780 --> 00:58:32.059
 there.

00:58:33.340 --> 00:58:35.720
 He wants you to surrender to him and

00:58:35.720 --> 00:58:37.380
 allow him to do that in your life.

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 And our hope and our prayer is that you

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 would do that.

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 All of us, that we'd be a people with

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 Christ at the center, fearing God and

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 all of him and allowing him to change us

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 in Hong Kong.

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 Father, we just thank you for this day.

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 I thank you for my brothers and

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 sisters here.

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 Again, I just thank you for this place

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 that you've made available for us.

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 And we pray and thank you for your

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 spirit and for your word.

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 And we pray, Holy Spirit, that you would

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 change us, that you would come upon us,

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 that you would convict us of sin, that you

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 would convict us of idols, you would

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 convict us of things that we've put on the

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 throne of our life instead of you.

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 And that we would surrender those things to

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 you.

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 And that your power and your passion would

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 flow through us and change us.

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 And that we could trust you because you're

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 good.

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 And Father, I thank you for my brothers and

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 sisters because we do it in community.

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 And we trust you to change us as a family.

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 And so we lift up today, we lift up this

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 week, we lift up Hong Kong, we lift up the

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 leaders, we lift up the schools, we lift up all

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 the things going around in the world.

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 We know that all those things are numbered

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 and counted and you control those things.

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 And we trust you.

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 We pray these things in your Son, Jesus

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 Christ's holy and beautiful name.

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 Amen.

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 God bless you.

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 We'll see you back here next week.

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 Amen.

01:00:00.720 --> 01:00:01.019
 Amen.

01:00:01.019 --> 01:00:01.039
 Amen.

01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:01.119
 Amen.

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 Amen.

01:00:01.200 --> 01:00:01.619
 Amen.

01:00:01.619 --> 01:00:02.000
 Amen.

01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:02.660
 Amen.

01:00:02.660 --> 01:00:03.140
 Amen.

01:00:03.140 --> 01:00:03.200
 Amen.

01:00:03.200 --> 01:00:03.280
 Amen.

01:00:03.280 --> 01:00:03.519
 Amen.

01:00:03.519 --> 01:00:03.559
 Amen.

01:00:03.559 --> 01:00:03.599
 Amen.

01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:03.680
 Amen.

01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:03.760
 Amen.

01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:03.780
 Amen.

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 Amen.