1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Let us pray. Jesus saith unto him. I am the Way, 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: the Truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: Father but by me John fourteen six. Jesus, you are 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: the way, not a way. You are the truth, and 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: the truth is not relative but absolute. And you are 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: the life, eternal life. People often think all paths lead 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: to God and their good works will vindicate them. Jesus, 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: you are the only path to the Father. No one 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: comes into the Father's presence except by you. My sinful 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: nature cannot stand in the presence of a holy God 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: except through your blood. I am a blood bought child 12 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: of God, and the Father sees me through the sacrifice 13 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: you made for me. I am precious in his side. 14 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: Because of your love for me. I will continually give 15 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: you glory. Amen. Thank you for listening to today's daily 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: prayer for more inspiration and an incredible message from our 17 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: feature pastor. 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Altru a health 31 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: share where we care for one another. 32 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: Welcome to a powerful message featuring Pastor Adam mess Up. 33 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 3: Thanks for listening. 34 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: Let's dive into the transformational word of God. 35 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 4: Because I know you may be sitting up here and 36 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 4: you're there watching me online, or you here in this place, 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 4: and I know you may. 38 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 5: Be thinking one thing right now. 39 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 4: You know, Pastor Adam's been looking really good lately, in 40 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 4: which I would respond, yes, you're right. I have been, 41 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 4: you know, at the top of the year and even 42 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 4: just recently. I got I got I got a personal trainer, 43 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 4: and so I've been I've been working out three to 44 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 4: four times a week. I'm getting you know, getting my 45 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 4: sweat on. Thank you so much for your cheers. Here's 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 4: why I don't appreciate that fact that some of you 47 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 4: guys are cheering, okay, because what I've been getting lately 48 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 4: is people are saying people have come up to me 49 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 4: and said, uh, I'm buddy Dion, who's been my personal trainer. 50 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 5: He comes to ALFC. 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 4: We've been working out a lot, and things have been 52 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 4: starting to feel looser, and clothes have been fitting better, 53 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 4: and so some people will say things like, oh, your 54 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 4: clothes aren't as tight anymore. 55 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 5: So did you see me one day and you thought 56 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 5: my clothes looked tight and you didn't say nothing? Oh? 57 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 4: They say, oh, eyes, your face looks like it's thinning out. 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 4: What did it look like before? Or people are saying, 59 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 4: I'm so happy for you, it's about time, and I'm 60 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 4: thinking to myself, how is that a compliment? 61 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 5: Why didn't you say. 62 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 4: Something before, like you're you're encouraging me now, But apparently 63 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 4: you've had some thoughts before. They you've just chosen you 64 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 4: didn't want to share, whether you didn't want to hurt me, 65 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: you just whatever. I appreciate it, but the reality is was, 66 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 4: why didn't you tell me a long time ago that 67 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 4: you felt, Mike, my clothes were a little too tight. 68 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 4: Now going forward, don't tell me that because I'll get insecure. 69 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 5: But you should have beforehand. And you see, in the same. 70 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 4: Way as we're speaking about truth, we are living in 71 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 4: an era, in an age that tells me I just 72 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 4: want you to tell me or that I look good, 73 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 4: that I want to feel good. I just want you 74 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 4: to not tell me anything that's really the truth, because 75 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 4: I want to live in. 76 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 5: A world where I just feel good. 77 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 4: But the reality is, as we turn on the news 78 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 4: and we go on social media, we realize people need 79 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 4: to hear the truth. People really need hope because the gospel, 80 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 4: the truth of Jesus Christ, gives us hope in times 81 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 4: of dire need. And so more than ever, people need 82 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 4: to be encouraged that they need to get in spiritual 83 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 4: shape as much as anyone would be encouraged to get 84 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 4: in physical shape. I want to encourage you in the 85 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 4: same way and say, you're looking good. But it's not 86 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 4: your weight, or it's not your face thinning out, it's 87 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 4: your spiritual life. 88 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 5: Hey, you're handling that divorce better than ever. 89 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 4: You're looking good, You're handling that singleness better than ever. 90 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 4: You're looking good. You're handling parenting better than ever. You're 91 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 4: looking good. You're handling that job better than ever. You 92 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 4: are looking good. Have you lost some weight? 93 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 5: Yeah? I did. 94 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 4: I've lost some stress, I've lost some anxiety. I've lost 95 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 4: some hopelessness. That is what we need. 96 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 5: To share today. And Jesus goes to show us what 97 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 5: it means to find. 98 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 4: The truth as we look at the scriptures today. In 99 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 4: John chapter fourteen, verse one, and so if you join 100 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 4: me for the next seven verses, we're gonna dig in 101 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 4: with a very simple but yet practical message to that 102 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 4: everyone could walk away and really have memorized in their heart. 103 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 4: It says this, This is Jesus speaking. Let not your 104 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 4: hearts be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 105 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 4: In my father's house are many rooms. If it were 106 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 4: not so, would I have not told you that I 107 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 4: go to prepare a place for you. And if I 108 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 4: go and prepare a place for you, I will come 109 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,559 Speaker 4: again and I will take you to myself that where 110 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 4: I am you may be also. And you know that 111 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 4: the way, and you know the way to where I'm going. 112 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 4: Tom has said to him, Lord, we do not know 113 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 4: where we are going, where you are going. How can 114 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 4: we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am 115 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 4: the Way, I am the Truth and the life. No 116 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 4: one comes to the Father except for me. If you 117 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 4: had known me, you would have known my father. Also 118 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 4: from now on, you do know him and you have 119 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 4: seen me. So today we're gonna simply look at Jesus's 120 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 4: three phrases that he talks about what it means to 121 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 4: be the Way, the Truth, and the life. Because Jesus 122 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 4: is making some radical statements in this verse for you 123 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 4: and I to understand, and if we break those down together, 124 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 4: hopefully in this season that we're all in, it gives 125 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 4: us something to cling to. So the first thing that 126 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,559 Speaker 4: we have to share today, because we're talking about no cap, 127 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 4: we're talking about things concerning Jesus attributes concerning God that 128 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 4: are not a lie, they're completely the truth. And so 129 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 4: first we just have to dig in and we have 130 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 4: to answer the question what is truth? 131 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 5: What is truth? 132 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 4: Because today in most universities and most public institutions, most 133 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 4: places will teach that truth is completely relative, that it 134 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 4: can be self defined. But that's not true because if 135 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: I tell myself. I can fly off a cliff and. 136 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 5: I go for it. That's not the truth. So what 137 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 5: does truth me? 138 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 4: While if you were to google the definition right now, 139 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 4: it would say truth. The definition of truth is something 140 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 4: that is true. Seems very counter intuitive. And so if 141 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 4: you allow me to help you out, just really briefly 142 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 4: on what truth really is. Here simply put, what something 143 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 4: can be true is truth is something that can be 144 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 4: substantiated with facts. 145 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 5: That's what truth is. 146 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 4: So here's what potentially isn't a truth, even though I 147 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 4: believe it with my own heart, my whole heart, it's 148 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 4: not a truth. 149 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,599 Speaker 5: Chick fil A is better than Popeyes. 150 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 4: While now I wish in my whole heart that was facts, 151 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 4: it's not because how can you substantiate that? 152 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 5: How can you measure that? 153 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 4: How can you I think that the color red is 154 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 4: better than the color green? 155 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 5: That is purely an opinion. 156 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 4: There is nothing that I can substantiate as facts. But 157 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 4: what I can substantiate is to say, Avengers in Game 158 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 4: is the number one grossing movie of all time? 159 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 5: Well, why is it? How can I prove that to 160 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 5: be true? Well? 161 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 4: All I do is I take all the movies, I 162 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 4: take their prices and I see that that made two 163 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 4: point seven billion dollars and all other movies made less 164 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 4: than that. 165 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 5: That's a fact. 166 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 4: Or you may have a phone right now and your 167 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 4: phone can hunt hold one hundred gigabytes of information in 168 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 4: your phone, and mine may hold three hundred gigabytes of information, 169 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 4: And so I can make a response to you, and 170 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 4: I can say my phone holds more things in information 171 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 4: than yours does. 172 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 5: Is that a fact? Is that true? 173 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, we can easily measure that. And so today what's 174 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 4: gonna happen is is we're going to be able to 175 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 4: measure by what the Gospel is and who Jesus is, 176 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 4: what it means for him to be true, and what 177 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 4: it means for him to be our savior and our lord, 178 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 4: because you can find the facts concerning those things. And 179 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 4: in this age, you and I need to be held 180 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 4: down by what is true and. 181 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 5: What is fact. 182 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 4: Jesus sits on the throne, on the right hand of 183 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 4: the Father, and he is alive. We will dig into 184 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 4: that over the next four weeks. But that is truth 185 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 4: and that is fact. And if it's that, If that's true, 186 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 4: why are your daily habits reflecting otherwise? Why does your 187 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:51,319 Speaker 4: worry reflect otherwise, Why does your temptation reflect otherwise? Why 188 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 4: does your scaredness reflect otherwise? When we know who Jesus 189 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 4: truly is, and that's what we're gonna unpack. We are 190 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 4: gonna give fact and substantiation to Jesus's three statements over 191 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 4: the next four weeks, but today we're gonna begin to 192 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 4: dig in. First, we're gonna look at these three simple 193 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 4: words today, and you're gonna all leave here biblical scholars, 194 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 4: because you're all gonna learn three Greek words really quick, 195 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 4: really easy today. And so we're gonna look at what 196 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 4: Jesus means when he says I'm the Way, I'm the Truth, 197 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 4: and I'm the Life. And so the first point you 198 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 4: could call it a point, but really word that we're 199 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 4: studying today is when Jesus says that he is the way. 200 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 5: And if you're taking notes, and we didn't. 201 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 4: Hand out notes this weekend, and we may not for 202 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 4: the next couple weeks, just to be extra germ conscience 203 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 4: for everybody, but you'll be able to take notes on 204 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 4: your phone or bring your own journal for the next 205 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 4: couple weeks. 206 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 5: But really, as we look at the. 207 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 4: Way Jesus uses this term, now what I want you 208 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 4: to understand is the three terms we're gonna be studying today. 209 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 4: There are multiple other words in the Greek that mean 210 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 4: that same thing. So when the authors use these words 211 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 4: that Jesus said, and you use these specific Greek terms, 212 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 4: they are making a point, and they're making a great point. 213 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 4: And so the first thing that Jesus says is he says, 214 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 4: I'm the hawdas. You see what haw doas means is 215 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 4: it means road or way means way or road, it 216 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 4: means both ways. 217 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 5: And unlike right now, if. 218 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 4: You and I were gonna be able to journey somewhere, 219 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 4: let's just say after service, we were gonna go eat 220 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 4: with one another, and we said, hey, let's just go 221 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,599 Speaker 4: find some food at the mall. Let's go to Victoria 222 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 4: Gardens mall. And I were to say, okay, what are 223 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 4: the directions. One person here may say, oh, well, the 224 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 4: directions are you go out to Foothill, and you go 225 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 4: down Footnill, and you go up Day Creek and then 226 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 4: there you'll be at Victoria Gardens. But another person may say, 227 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 4: you go out to Foothill, and I like to take 228 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 4: Millikan up because it kind of bypasses the traffic, and 229 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 4: then I go to church and then I get to 230 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 4: Victoria Gardens. Or another person may say, I actually like 231 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:56,719 Speaker 4: to go all the way up in the two ten 232 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 4: because I like to come off. 233 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 5: The freeway to get to Victoria Gardens. You see, when. 234 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 4: Jesus makes a statement and his disciple asks, well, how 235 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 4: will we know the way? And Jesus says, I am 236 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 4: the way. He doesn't say I'm a way, he doesn't 237 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 4: say I'm a road. He says I'm the way. I'm 238 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 4: the road. And here's what we have to recognize is 239 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 4: in the early Church today, if I were to ask you, 240 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 4: when someone asks you what your faith is, what your 241 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 4: religion is, you may respond in some way, shape or form. 242 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 4: Really in probably two words, you'd say either I'm a 243 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 4: Christian or you may say I'm a christ Follower. You 244 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 4: may say a couple variations. That by and large, that's 245 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 4: how we all would leave this place and identify ourselves. 246 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 4: But if you were talking to the early Church that 247 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 4: after Jesus ascended to heaven and now it was the 248 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 4: disciples who were leading the churches by the power of 249 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 4: the Holy Spirit, if you were to ask them what 250 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 4: they're faith was in that day. They actually wouldn't have 251 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 4: responded as Christian. They actually may not have even responded 252 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 4: as christ followers. What they would have said is they 253 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 4: would have said, I'm part of the Hadas. 254 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 5: See. 255 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 4: What they would have said was is I follow the road. 256 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 4: I follow the way, the road to what? Well, what 257 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 4: are you looking for? I'm looking for peace? That's the 258 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 4: road I'm looking for. I'm looking for joy. That's the way. 259 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 4: It's not a physical road, it's a person, Jesus. For 260 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 4: thousands of years, but in the beginning of hundreds of years, 261 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 4: was referenced and. 262 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 5: Known as the road. What road? Where you trying to go? 263 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 5: That's him? So I'd ask you today, where are you 264 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 5: trying to go? Where are your pray? Is that? 265 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 4: Where is your life at? Where are your actions at? 266 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 4: Because I know and you know the way to those things? 267 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 5: And his name is Jesus. 268 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 4: So Jesus expresses himself as the way and the road 269 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 4: that you and I need to follow. So Jesus tells 270 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 4: his disciples, I'm the Hadas. When I was when I 271 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 4: was in high school, before I joined cross country, I 272 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 4: wanted to I wanted to try, and I wanted to 273 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 4: lose some weight. 274 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 5: So I started riding a road. 275 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 4: Bike, and and I'd always ride up to Lyto Creek 276 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 4: that's over here in the mountains, and in Lyto Creek, 277 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 4: on my way up there, there was always this freeway overpass, 278 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 4: and I wrote it so many times. I'd go over 279 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 4: this freeway overpass, and I always thought it was fun 280 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 4: because then i'd i'd chill, and i'd go down this 281 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 4: hill and I wouldn't have to peddle anymore. And then 282 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 4: i'd make a turn and i'd start climbing up Lyto Creek. 283 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 4: So part particularly what happens this time is on my 284 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 4: way to the freeway overpass, I begin to see these 285 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 4: construction signs that begin to give notice of roadwork. So 286 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 4: I saw one, two, three, four, there were even some 287 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 4: that said don't take this road. And so I just 288 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 4: continue to persist because I'm like, I've been on this 289 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 4: road a thousand times. I'll be fine. I know where 290 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 4: I'm going. And so I begin to ride down this 291 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 4: road and I come downhill, and I'm going downhill, and 292 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 4: I'm going about forty miles an hour, and as I'm 293 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 4: going forty nine miles an hour, I begin to make 294 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 4: a turn where I normally make a turn. But what 295 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 4: I didn't realize was that week there was construction going 296 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 4: on in the road and there was loose gravel everywhere. 297 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 5: In the road. 298 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 4: And so I go to make this turn, going about 299 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 4: forty miles an hour, and as I turn, my pedal 300 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 4: and my wheels slip in the gravel and one pedal. 301 00:16:58,120 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 4: Mind you, I'm in a road bike, so my feet 302 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 4: are clipped into the bike. I don't have the little 303 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 4: baskets where you just pop your shoe in. My feet 304 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 4: are clipped into the bike. And so one pedal hits 305 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 4: a rock, the bike flips me on the other side, 306 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 4: and going about forty miles an hour, the gravel begins 307 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 4: to take the bike and pull me all the way 308 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 4: across the road, and so my pants are completely ripped 309 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 4: and torn. I can't move my left shoulder. It's in 310 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 4: the worst pain I've ever felt before. My bike was 311 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 4: completely bent. The wheels were. 312 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 5: Bent because I flipped. 313 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 4: I mean I did a full on tumble down and 314 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 4: then it dragged me across the street. And so at 315 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 4: the time, I was trying to be a real bicyclist, 316 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 4: so I wore all the tight everything I had spandex on, 317 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 4: I had the really tight shirt on. But like I said, 318 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 4: I was trying to lose some weight, so you know, 319 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 4: I was hefty in some areas, so you know up top, 320 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 4: and my belly was a little big. My hips we're 321 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 4: a little thicker than they should have been. And so 322 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 4: these two other bicyclists see what happened, and they run 323 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 4: up and they say, excuse me, ma'am, are you okay? 324 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 4: And then he looks at his buddy and he says, 325 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 4: she fell so hard because mind do I have a 326 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 4: helmet on, sunglasses, just tight everything, Butt's looking big, the 327 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 4: whole nine. So I had a decision I had to 328 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 4: make in that moment. Do I correct them or do 329 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 4: I just go along with it? Because I am mortified 330 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 4: right now, So I go. I went all in. I 331 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 4: just went for it. 332 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 5: I say yes, thank you so much. 333 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 4: And they begin, I'm just glad they didn't ask for 334 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 4: my number. 335 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 5: Or anything like that. 336 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 4: But and they begin to help me in my bike 337 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 4: and want somewhat shape. 338 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 5: But I was hurting so bad. 339 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 4: My leg was ripped, my clothes on one side was 340 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 4: completely ripped, so I couldn't even ride my back bike 341 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 4: homes before cell phones or anything like that. So I 342 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 4: couldn't call for help or anything, so I'd to walk 343 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 4: five miles back to my house. And the whole time 344 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 4: all I was saying to myself was this one thing. 345 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 4: Why did I ignore the caution signs? 346 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 5: That was it? 347 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 4: Because it technically should not caught me by surprise. There 348 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 4: were enough warning signs that were telling me pause, turn back, 349 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 4: pay attention to what's going on. But instead I thought, 350 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 4: I have done this one hundred times, nothing could go wrong. 351 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 4: And I would encourage you as we look at what's 352 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 4: going on in this world, and we'd turn on the 353 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 4: news and we'd turn on social media. I think we 354 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 4: can all agree that there are some caution and warning 355 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 4: signs going around where God is trying to get our attention. 356 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 5: And there's too many people who. 357 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 4: Are like, oh, I've done I've lived my life my 358 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 4: way a million times. 359 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 5: Nothing can go wrong. But at some point you'll hit 360 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 5: some gravel. 361 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 4: So there are enough caution signs right now in America 362 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 4: and in this world that we can see. 363 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 5: Is what we should be turning to. 364 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 4: Is the road that is less traveled, but the road 365 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 4: that will lead you, the road that will guide you. 366 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 4: And it's not a physical road, it's a person, and 367 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 4: his name is Jesus. 368 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 5: See, Jesus is. 369 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 4: Trying to make a true statement to say, I'm the 370 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 4: way wherever you're going, whatever you're looking for, come this way. 371 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 5: Because that road you're headed. 372 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 4: Down, it is gonna end up in hurt, it is 373 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 4: gonna end up in pain, it's gonna end up in addiction, 374 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 4: it's gonna end up in sorrow. But my myself, this way, 375 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 4: it will lead you. And so he begins to show 376 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 4: us what it means for him to be the way, 377 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 4: and then he jumps into the second statement. So immediately 378 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 4: right now he's telling his disciples, I'm the road that 379 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 4: you want to travel on. 380 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 5: Then he says, I am the truth and the word 381 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:20,959 Speaker 5: hear the truth. 382 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 4: This isn't like this isn't like a like a legal truth. 383 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 4: In the Greek, that's another word. They have another word 384 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 4: for that. So if you were in court and you 385 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 4: were saying, I'm telling the truth, they have a whole 386 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 4: other word for that. 387 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 5: You know, you see what this truth is is this 388 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 5: truth the Greek is a lathia. A lathia. 389 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 4: Now in English we would simply just translate it as 390 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 4: truth or true, but it's far more than that. 391 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 5: It actually more or less is a symbolism. 392 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 4: It's trying to get across an idea more than just 393 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 4: a word. And the idea that this tries to get 394 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 4: across when the word alathia is used, is the word 395 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 4: that goes across is this is everything opposed to an illusion, 396 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 4: reality as opposed to illusion. 397 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 5: That's what the word truth in this statement is. 398 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 4: So when Jesus says I'm the waight on the road, 399 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 4: and then he says I'm the Alaithia, what he's saying 400 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 4: is is he saying I am not an illusion, I 401 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 4: am your reality. He's making a powerful statement because in 402 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 4: these words, this whole scene, this scenario in this chapter 403 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 4: is Jesus is telling his disciples that he's gonna die 404 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 4: on the cross and he's gonna send to heaven. 405 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 5: So what is. 406 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 4: Disciples can't get across is how are you gonna be 407 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 4: in heaven? And how will you be with us no longer? 408 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 4: This doesn't make any sense. So immediately they begin to think, Jesus, 409 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 4: are you no longer going to be real to us? 410 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 5: And so Jesus tells them i Am. 411 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 4: Not gonna not be real. I'm gonna be more than real. 412 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 4: I'm gonna be part of your daily reality. I'm not 413 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 4: gonna be an illusion, and I'll break down. 414 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 5: In a moment. But I don't know as anyone here 415 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 5: ever bought something online before and it didn't come exactly 416 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 5: the way that it was supposed to be sold. Ass 417 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 5: heyever it happened to you. For I got some. 418 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 4: People up on the screen, like this guy, he was 419 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 4: trying to buy a carpet and that's what arrived. Or 420 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 4: this next person, they were actually trying to buy a dress. 421 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 5: And that's the dress that they got. Some of you 422 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 5: ladies are like, well, it's not too bad, you know, no. 423 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 4: And then this next person, they bought some Yeezies. First 424 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 4: of all, paying seven hundred and fifty dollars for those 425 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,239 Speaker 4: is crazy, But then you get some slippers instead of that, 426 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 4: of all things. Or this next guy, he was buff. 427 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 4: He wanted to go to the gym and he wanted 428 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 4: to show himself his muscles, and that's what came for him. 429 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 4: And some of you guys are saying that's not that bad, 430 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 4: in which I say, shame on you if you would 431 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 4: wear that shirt to the gym. These are all people 432 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 4: who bought something online, bought something that they couldn't see 433 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 4: and when. 434 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 5: It came, it was not as advertised. And see the reality. 435 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 4: When Jesus says I'm the truth, what he's saying is 436 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 4: is he's saying what I sell myself as I will 437 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 4: come to you as advertised. You're not gonna give your 438 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 4: life to Jesus and get a little piece of carpet. 439 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 4: You're not gonna trust your hope in Jesus and get 440 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 4: a dressed that wasn't what you bought. Jesus is saying 441 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 4: a statement. He's saying, I am gonna be your reality. 442 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 4: And so the disciples are saying, how is. 443 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 5: Is that true? When you're gonna be in heaven. 444 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 4: And what begins to happen during the rest of the 445 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 4: chapter that we're not looking at today is he begins 446 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 4: to share and he says, when I go to heaven, 447 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 4: I will send to you someone a comforter or known 448 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 4: as the Holy Spirit. And so when I was a child, 449 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 4: I used to say, I used to say prayers like, Jesus, 450 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 4: disappear in my room so that I can see you. 451 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever thought that before. 452 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 5: God, I just like you said that, if you show 453 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 5: up right. 454 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 4: Now in front of me, stand right in front of me, 455 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 4: then I then I'll know that you want me to 456 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 4: do what you want me to do. You're not new 457 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 4: to that prayer. The disciples were saying that same thing. 458 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 4: They were saying, Jesus, when you go to heaven, how 459 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 4: can we follow you when you'll no longer be standing 460 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 4: right in front of us. And Jesus looks at his 461 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 4: disciples and he says, because I'm gonna do you one better. 462 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be standing in front of you. I'm 463 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 4: gonna be dwell inside of you. 464 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 5: How's that so? 465 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 4: Jesus is saying, you want me to be standing in 466 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 4: front of you, win my due lost power. The Spirit 467 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 4: of God, part of the Trinity, can dwell in you. 468 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 4: You would prefer me not being with you in every 469 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 4: waking moment, and you see me one or two hours 470 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 4: a day than me be with you twenty four hours 471 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 4: a day. And he says, because I'm your truth, I'm 472 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 4: your reality. He says, I'm not an illusion when I 473 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 4: go to heaven. I'm not gonna be a figment of 474 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 4: your imagination. I'm gonna be more real to you than 475 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 4: you can ever imagine. Because the Spirit of God will 476 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 4: dwell inside of you. 477 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 5: And so in this. 478 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 4: Season that we're facing, take courage that God is with 479 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 4: you every single place that you go, that the spirit 480 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 4: of God dwells in you everywhere that you go, That 481 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,239 Speaker 4: the spirit of God is in your home, it is 482 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 4: in your workplace, wherever you go, God is with you. 483 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 4: That is the truth. That's not an illusion. That is reality. 484 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 4: You can trust the road of Jesus. 485 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 5: And so Jesus says, I'm the way, I'm the truth. 486 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 4: And then the last one here that we're gonna look 487 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 4: at today is he says I'm the life. 488 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 5: I'm the life. 489 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 4: You see, once again, this is another there are other 490 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 4: Greek words that mean life. And so when Jesus uses 491 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 4: this specific term zoeey life, this word is far more 492 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 4: than just the air that we breathe in our lungs. 493 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 4: You see, the term Zoe life means, and I'm gonna 494 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 4: break it down. It means both physical life and metaphysical life. 495 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 4: It means the life that you live now and the 496 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 4: life that will come. 497 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 5: That's what Zoe life means. So when Jesus says I 498 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 5: will give you. 499 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 4: Zoe a life, he is saying I am gonna give 500 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 4: you more life than you could ever imagine. 501 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 5: You see, Zoe life was rare used and given conversations. 502 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 4: If a doctor resuscitated someone and they said they were alive, 503 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 4: they wouldn't use the term zoee life. 504 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 5: See. 505 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,479 Speaker 4: But Jesus, if you were to look at you and 506 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 4: if you were redeemed by his blood, he would say, oh, 507 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 4: that's a living Christian, not just a Christian that has 508 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,719 Speaker 4: breadth in their lungs, but Christian that has eternal life. 509 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 5: They have Zoe Way life. 510 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 4: They have not just life in the now, but they 511 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 4: have life in the latter. So when Jesus says I'm 512 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 4: the Way, the truth, and the life, he's saying I'm 513 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 4: the road that you need. I'm the reality that you 514 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 4: need and on. 515 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 5: The life that you need. 516 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 4: And if Jesus was living in twenty twenty, he would 517 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 4: in that statement and he would say, no, cap, that's 518 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 4: not a lie. 519 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 5: He'd say, on God, no lie, I'm. 520 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 4: The way, I'm the truth, on the life, No cap 521 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 4: you could bank on that. And we see that in 522 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 4: John chapter ten, verse ten, which is our verse of 523 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 4: our church where we get our name. But I start 524 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 4: in verse nine here and it says this Jesus speaks 525 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 4: and he says, I'm the door. If anyone enters by me, 526 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 4: he'll be saved and will go in and out and 527 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 4: find pasture. 528 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 5: The thief comes only to still kill and destroy. 529 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 4: And he says, I came that they may have life 530 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 4: and have it abundantly. 531 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 5: I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd LAIDs his life 532 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 5: down for his sheep. See. 533 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 4: Jesus makes this statement in John ten ten and he says, 534 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 4: I came that my sheep may have life. And he 535 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 4: says zoeh same Greek word life, but they may have 536 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 4: it abundantly. 537 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 5: See. 538 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 4: The term abundantly means an excess. It means too much 539 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 4: for you to even handle. It means like, does anyone 540 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 4: here just I mean you have to have an absolute love? 541 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 4: Does anyone just absolutely We loved donuts? Like if you 542 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 4: see him at work or somewhere, it's like you cannot 543 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,239 Speaker 4: get enough. My brother, right here? Can you come up 544 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 4: here real quick? I got a special treat for you today. 545 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 4: Look at all these jealous people. Just look just look 546 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 4: at those donuts right there? Do we have that on camera? Oh? 547 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 5: Just delicious, so delicious. You love donuts? Would you would 548 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 5: you like one? Yes? Okay? 549 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 4: Go ahead and grab one. Oh wait, hold on, hold on, 550 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 4: hold on, hold on. I already got you a piece. Okay, 551 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 4: I already have one pre picked out for you. There 552 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 4: you go, go ahead, go ahead? 553 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 5: How is that? My goodness? Delicious? What about your choice? 554 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 5: I had a piece for you? Are you? Are you? 555 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 5: Are you full? Are you good? Are you happy? You're 556 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 5: not satisfying? 557 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 4: Go ahead and pick the one that you wanted this 558 00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 4: whole time. 559 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 5: You can have it. Yeah, go ahead, get the way 560 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 5: you could touch it. 561 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 4: If you touch it, it's yours, especially during this season. Yes, 562 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 4: you touch all of them, they'd all be yours. Go 563 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 4: ahead and treat yourself. Go sit in out and eat 564 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 4: that thank you. You see when Jesus makes the statement, 565 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 4: I'm the life. What he's saying it, and if I 566 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 4: can illustrate, if I could illustrate this in any other way, 567 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 4: I would, But truly, this is the illustration of what 568 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 4: zoeet life is is. He's saying this, I can't be sampled, 569 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 4: I can't be tasted, I can't be nibbled on. If 570 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 4: you're gonna have me, you're gonna have me in excess. 571 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 4: You're gonna have me in abundance. And so in this season, 572 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 4: if there is fear or there is an anxiety, then 573 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 4: Jesus is trying to say, I'm the way, the truth 574 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 4: in life. I cannot be just tasted. I cannot just 575 00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 4: be sampled. I am abundantly excessive in your life. You 576 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 4: cannot just have a little bit of this or a 577 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 4: little bit of that. 578 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 5: If you have me, you better have all of me. 579 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 4: It's on the same way my brother said that bite 580 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 4: was not enough. That's what we should be saying right 581 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 4: now with. 582 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 5: Our prayer life. 583 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 4: Those five minutes, that's not enough for what we're going 584 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 4: through right now. That one Sunday service I go to 585 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 4: or watch online, that's not enough. I need to do 586 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 4: some digging myself that little moment I read one verse 587 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 4: in one scripture to day It's just not enough right 588 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 4: now in this season. If I want life, if you 589 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 4: want life, then you have to have Jesus in abundance 590 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 4: right now. Your trust in him has to be in 591 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 4: abundance right now, because he's the way, the truth, and 592 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 4: the life. 593 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 5: He's the road that you and I need. He's the 594 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 5: reality that you. 595 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 4: And I need, and he's the life that you and 596 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 4: I need. And you see the reality of all this 597 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 4: is what Jesus was trying to say, because all of 598 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 4: this so into the fact that he said he was 599 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 4: going to ascend to heaven and he was going to 600 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 4: be at the right hand of the Father, and for 601 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 4: all eternity was he gonna reign? 602 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 5: You see you? 603 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 4: And I can rest in that truth, in that reality 604 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 4: because so long as Jesus is alive. This is why 605 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 4: Easter is so supportant. This is why the resurrection of 606 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 4: Christ is so important, because everything that Jesus just said 607 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 4: is predicated upon him being alive. If Jesus was not alive, 608 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 4: if you believe that you could find his body in 609 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 4: Israel today, if you believe that his bones rested in Jerusalem, 610 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 4: then everything he just said is alive because when he died, 611 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 4: his truth died with him. 612 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 5: But the very fact. 613 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 4: That we believe that he stands on the right hand 614 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 4: of the Father, and the very fact that we believe 615 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 4: that he is resurrected, means that he is alive, and 616 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 4: he's alive, then he can be the way, the truth 617 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 4: and the life he is. 618 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 5: Why do I say that, I say that. 619 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 4: Is because this and we all have natural feelings and emotion. 620 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 4: If you are worried by what's going on today in 621 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 4: our world. Then there is a disconnect between the truth 622 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 4: that Jesus reigns and the reality that you believe it 623 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 4: or not. It's not a God problem. Now, there's wisdom. 624 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 4: There could be an earthquake, so we should always be 625 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 4: stocked up and prepared for any other type of thing. 626 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 5: That's just wisdom. 627 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 4: But when people are literally buying toilet paper because they 628 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 4: think their life depends on it, I get one or 629 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:46,879 Speaker 4: two cases to buy nine cases, there shows that there's 630 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,399 Speaker 4: a disconnect between understanding that. 631 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 5: God is on the throne. Because if you believe that 632 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 5: Jesus is on the throne, then you'd say I'm gonna 633 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 5: be all right. 634 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 4: And if you believe Jesus is sitting at the right 635 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 4: hand of the Father and he mediates. 636 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 5: For us, and you'd say I'm gonna be all right. 637 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 5: But here's the problem. 638 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 4: Here's the reality of the whole nature, the reason why 639 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 4: people are going in chaos, the reason why people are 640 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 4: buying things left and right, and they're buying hand sanitizer 641 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,399 Speaker 4: and they're buying toilet paper and they're just doing really 642 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 4: we're all acting really crazy right now. In a lot 643 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 4: of ways. Some people are using wisdom and some people 644 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 4: are just going crazy. See, the problem isn't that they're 645 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,359 Speaker 4: scared that we may be quarantined in their homes. Because 646 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,319 Speaker 4: you may be like me, I'm completely fine with being 647 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 4: at home. I love being at home. I'm not scared 648 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 4: of that government. Lock me up at home. Oh I'm 649 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 4: so scared, you know. I mean, shoot Netflix all day, 650 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,240 Speaker 4: lock me up in my room. 651 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 5: I'm gonna be all right. I got enough string cheese 652 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:51,839 Speaker 5: to last. 653 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 4: Meet till Jesus returns. I'm a parent. I got them 654 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 4: apple juice boxes, I got the frozen peanut butter and 655 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 4: jelly on crust the I'm good. But here's why people 656 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 4: are scared and freaking out. Here's the underlying reason that 657 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,280 Speaker 4: they may say or not. They are afraid to die. 658 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:18,080 Speaker 5: That's what it is. That's what people are freaking out over. 659 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:24,839 Speaker 4: I'm afraid to die. Now, death can be a fearful thing. 660 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 4: But the reality is is if you know someone who 661 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:39,640 Speaker 4: has life and has it abundantly, then like for me, 662 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 4: if I had and someone did reach out to us 663 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 4: in between service, they said, hey, I do I do deliveries. 664 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,200 Speaker 5: I'm a delivery company. 665 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,359 Speaker 4: We have we have palettes of toilet paper in case 666 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 4: you need any And I said, oh, shoot, we were. 667 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 5: Going to go to the store this. 668 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 4: Week and buy some toilet paper. But I don't need 669 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 4: to know more because I know a guy who's got palettes. 670 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 4: And there's people that reach out and said, we got 671 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 4: cases of water. And immediately, for me, what once was 672 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,000 Speaker 4: a worry, I was like, I'm good. I got a plug, 673 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 4: I got a dealer H two zero on deck, toilet 674 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,440 Speaker 4: paper on deck. All my fear went like this, And 675 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 4: so in the same way as I would one day 676 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 4: face death, I would not be scared of it because 677 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:33,360 Speaker 4: I have a plug. I know the guy who offers life. 678 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 4: I know the guy that can keep me alive. I 679 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 4: know the guy who offers me eternal life. I know 680 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,160 Speaker 4: the guy who died for my sins. I know the 681 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,279 Speaker 4: guy who can, even in this life too, heal me 682 00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 4: and restore me and protect me and guide me. 683 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 5: And so I will not be afraid. 684 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,280 Speaker 4: Because I know the guy who took fear on the cross. 685 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,439 Speaker 4: And so I encourage you today, if there's been any 686 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 4: fear or lack of hope, then I encourage you just 687 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,799 Speaker 4: to evaluate. Do I believe that Jesus is on the 688 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 4: throne or not. If my answer is yes, then you 689 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 4: have nothing to be scared of, and you can let 690 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 4: at your neighbor and you can say no cap, that's 691 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 4: not a lie. Or if you're watching online, you can 692 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 4: say it to your TV screen or your iPhone, that's 693 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:33,200 Speaker 4: no cap. And so as we close today, I just 694 00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 4: truly want to encourage you that if you don't know 695 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 4: Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, what better 696 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 4: time than right now as people are watching the caution 697 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,319 Speaker 4: signs in this world and starting to go what is 698 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 4: going on? And the Bible has always said that we're 699 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 4: living in the last days. At any point Jesus can 700 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 4: return for his church, and I would love to know 701 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,760 Speaker 4: that your eternity is secure in the hands of God. 702 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 4: What's crazy is as I was preparing my message and 703 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 4: preparing these final thoughts, God brought to my recollection. You know, 704 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 4: for many years, twenty five plus years, my dad has 705 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,480 Speaker 4: preached every Sunday, and by and large, in the majority 706 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 4: of his sermons, when he concludes his sermon, he says 707 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,239 Speaker 4: something very famous and many people here could repeat his 708 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,359 Speaker 4: alter calls if they wanted to. Because we've heard him 709 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,240 Speaker 4: for so many years, but he always, for many years 710 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 4: has introduced his invitation with Jesus with this statement, and 711 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,880 Speaker 4: he would say this. He would say, everyone here is 712 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 4: one germ virus accident or mishap away from Heaven's gates 713 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,880 Speaker 4: or Hell's doors, and then he'd begin to make an invitation. 714 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:42,760 Speaker 5: Every single week. 715 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,040 Speaker 4: Almost for twenty five years, I have heard him say, 716 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,560 Speaker 4: everyone here is one germ virus accident or mishap from 717 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 4: Heaven's gates or Hell's doors. 718 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,799 Speaker 5: Then he'd make an invitation to accept Jesus. What I 719 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 5: never thought would be the biggest deal would be that 720 00:39:58,360 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 5: second word virus. 721 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,239 Speaker 4: I never thought that that one word when I was here, 722 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 4: when I was five years old or six years old. 723 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,799 Speaker 4: I never thought, Oh, in twenty plus years, there's going 724 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 4: to be a day where virus is the scariest word 725 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,800 Speaker 4: of all the other words, where virus would be scarier 726 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 4: than the word cancer, or virus would be the scarier 727 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 4: word than this, than that, or a car accident or 728 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,279 Speaker 4: something like that. But in this season that we're in, 729 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 4: it's a reality. But the greater reality than this is 730 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,279 Speaker 4: that Jesus is real, and that Jesus is bigger than 731 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,359 Speaker 4: any germ. He's bigger than any virus. He's bigger than 732 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 4: any accident or mishap. 733 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 5: Jesus can restore us. 734 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,440 Speaker 4: And so I just want to encourage you today if 735 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 4: you've not rested your hope on Jesus. A living Jesus Romans, 736 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 4: Chapter ten, verses nine and ten says this, if you 737 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 4: confess with your mouth that Jesus's Lord, and you believe 738 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 4: that he rose again, it just simply says you will 739 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:01,200 Speaker 4: be saved. See the reason why Jesus said I'm the way, 740 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,440 Speaker 4: the truth in the life. No one comes to me, 741 00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 4: to the Father except through me, is because what he 742 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,400 Speaker 4: was saying was is he was saying, I'm the path 743 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,040 Speaker 4: that you need. And people for many generations and errors 744 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,879 Speaker 4: have said, why does it have to be Jesus and. 745 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,240 Speaker 5: Why can't it be anyone else. 746 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 4: Well, I don't know of anyone else who has ever 747 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,400 Speaker 4: said I'm the road that you need to travel on. 748 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,080 Speaker 5: I've never heard. 749 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,480 Speaker 4: Of someone say I'm the truth incarnates, and I've never 750 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,520 Speaker 4: heard anyone say that I'm your life. 751 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:32,239 Speaker 5: And then he. 752 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 4: Begins to give facts that substantiate that to show that 753 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 4: that's true. If you can find someone else, I'd be 754 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,359 Speaker 4: interested to know, but you can't. Jesus is the only 755 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 4: one to make such audacious claims. But it's because what 756 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 4: he was saying was true. He's the way, He's the 757 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,000 Speaker 4: truth in the life, and he died on the cross. 758 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,480 Speaker 4: He chose to go on that cross, not for himself, 759 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,480 Speaker 4: he didn't need to go, but for you and I. 760 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,719 Speaker 4: The godspels so beautiful because it gives us hope when 761 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,680 Speaker 4: oftentimes everything is hopeless. And so I just want to 762 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,000 Speaker 4: give you an invitation. Today we're all gonna say a 763 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,720 Speaker 4: prayer together. But it's not a prayer of salvation, because 764 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,440 Speaker 4: God's transformation by the power of the Holy Spirit is 765 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,759 Speaker 4: what's working in you right now and saving you by 766 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 4: His grace. But this prayer we're gonna say is gonna 767 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,879 Speaker 4: confirm and acknowledge what it is that God is doing 768 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,919 Speaker 4: in our life and in your life. And so there's 769 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,920 Speaker 4: gonna be two types of people in this room right now. 770 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,759 Speaker 4: The first person is gonna give their life to Jesus for. 771 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,359 Speaker 5: The very first time. You're gonna say today. 772 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,160 Speaker 4: Is the first time I'm gonna confess Him as Lord 773 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,600 Speaker 4: and Savior. Or you may be in this place and say, 774 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 4: you know what I once called myself a Christian, I 775 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,600 Speaker 4: once followed Christ. But the way that my life looks 776 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,359 Speaker 4: right now does not reflect that of a Christian at all. 777 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,239 Speaker 4: And so as you say this prayer today, just know 778 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,120 Speaker 4: that we're with you, and we're for you, and we're 779 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 4: celebrating what it is that God's doing in your life. 780 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,440 Speaker 4: But what I can also encourage you with is don't say, 781 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:03,040 Speaker 4: like I did with those caution signs, maybe I'll give 782 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 4: my life next month, maybe next year, maybe when I 783 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,600 Speaker 4: get my life together. If your life is in complete disarray, 784 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:15,160 Speaker 4: you are Jesus's favorite. He loves working with people who 785 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,799 Speaker 4: are in disarray. So you say, let me figure out 786 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,360 Speaker 4: my addictions, let me quit this, let me stop doing this. No, 787 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 4: you don't need to stop doing anything. Eventually, the Holy 788 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,919 Speaker 4: Spirit will remove those things from you. But where you're 789 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 4: at right now, you can confess him Lord and Savior, 790 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,840 Speaker 4: and God will begin to pull those things from you. 791 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,360 Speaker 4: He'll begin to speak to you and the Holy Spirit. 792 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,239 Speaker 4: God's presence will be with you everywhere that you go. 793 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,120 Speaker 4: It's the miracle of Jesus's resurrection, the power. 794 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:41,760 Speaker 5: Of the Holy Spirit. 795 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,760 Speaker 4: And so if you're in this place, we're all gonna 796 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 4: say this prayer together. If you're watching online, why don't 797 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 4: you say it with us as well? But Church, can 798 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:49,840 Speaker 4: we do this all as a family right now for 799 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,920 Speaker 4: those that are going to be giving their life to Jesus. 800 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,960 Speaker 4: Can we all say, right now, Dear Lord Jesus, right 801 00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:01,640 Speaker 4: now in this place, I confess you has Lord and Savior. 802 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:07,359 Speaker 4: I believe in my heart that you rose again. 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