1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: We are in the middle of something and that's where 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: God is. That really blesses me to know that, because 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: waiting for the finished product until I can have joy, 9 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: have peace, trust God, be happy. That doesn't sound very 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: promising to me. But if God is at ever present 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: help in trouble, in times of trouble, That's one thing 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: the Bible says about God. If he'll walk up to 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: me in the middle of a storm, if he'll be 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: with me in the middle of the fire, if he'll 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: split the sea so I can walk through it and 16 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: drown my enemies behind me, I can keep moving. 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: Forward with the faith that God has my back in 18 00:00:59,080 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: every situation. 19 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: So I think the idea of process has really been 20 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: challenging us and celebrating our progress rather than awaiting our perfection. 21 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: Is revolutionizing. Like me and Autumn talk every week, She's 22 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: been in our church eleven years, and she's like, I 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: never have seen Jesus in the way that I've been 24 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: seeing him in this series. And she grew up. She's 25 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: such a church girl, y'all. I mean seriously, she's got 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: Leviticus memorized in Hebrew and she's like, it's just opening 27 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: my eyes. And that's the revelation factor revelation. Today, I 28 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: want to talk about revelation in the context of relationship. 29 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: Please write this down. The greatest pain and pleasure that 30 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: you will experience in your life will be in the 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: context of relationship. I did you kind of dirty. I 32 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: didn't give you a chance to get your pin out, 33 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: your thumbs warmed up. So I'm going to try to 34 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: say it again. The greatest pain and greatest pleasure in 35 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: your life will be experienced in the context of relationship. 36 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: So one of the words that Jesus spoke from the 37 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: cross is commonly called the word of relationship. We're going 38 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: to deal with that today. But I've been using a 39 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: flashback technique. I try to be creative in the way 40 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: I present the word. I don't know if it makes 41 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: sense to everybody else, but just ways that make it 42 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: exciting for me because I figure i'd like my own sermons. 43 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: If nobody else does, I'll subscribe to the podcast. But 44 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: I've been looking at Luke twenty four. These two people. 45 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: One is called we call him Cleo. His full name 46 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: is Cleopus. He has an unnamed traveling companion. They're going 47 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: the wrong way to a no name village called a Maus. 48 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: I mean it has a name, but you can't find 49 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: it if you go to the Holy Land today. They'll say, 50 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: we think this is where a Mais was, but they 51 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: don't even really know where it was. It wasn't some 52 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 1: metropolitan major area where commerce happened. It was where they lived. 53 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: And they were going back from the scene of the cross, 54 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: where they had watched their hope extinguished, and they had 55 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: watched the one that they thought might be the one die, 56 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: and they were burying their dreams along the road when 57 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: the one whose death they were morning walked up right 58 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: beside them, and they didn't know it. And so they're 59 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: like walking back the wrong way. And there's this whole 60 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: thing about why would Jesus follow people who are headed 61 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, Why would he leave the ninety 62 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: nine righteous to find the one? Why would he come 63 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: for the sick and not stay with the well. And 64 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: I think that's one thing that we misconstrue about God's 65 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: presence in our lives, is that He's going to be 66 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: with us as long as we're doing what he told 67 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: us to do and going where he told us to go. 68 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: And yet we're surprised by the grace of God just 69 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: like busting up in the middle of our conversations and 70 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: our hopeless situations and chasing us down to the wrong 71 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: destination so he can turn us around. And when they 72 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: got where they thought they were going, they saw who 73 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: Jesus really was. And I think they saw it in 74 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: his scars when he broke the bread, which is an 75 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: everyday event. You know, you eat every day, and God 76 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: is often found in the common marks of our lives. 77 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: I'm teaching already if you didn't know, this is not 78 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: a review. So seeing where he had been wounded and 79 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: now seeing his scars, which were the greatest demonstration of 80 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: his strength that proved his resurrection, they had their eyes 81 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: open and he was revealed and recognized by them in 82 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: that moment. One thing I didn't point out that I 83 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: think is very important. And I'm going to read the 84 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: text and I'm going to emphasize certain words and see 85 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: if you can find the theme. The Bible says in 86 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: verse thirty two that after they recognized Jesus, you know, 87 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: you have these moments where you're like, oh, yeah, that 88 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: was God. Oh yeah, that was God that had him 89 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: break up with me. He was broke. God was looking 90 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: out for me. But sometimes you don't see it on 91 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: the road. You only realize it in reverse. You like, 92 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: see their picture ten years later and you're like, oh, 93 00:04:54,520 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: thank you, love Mary now. So they're like, oh, that 94 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: was him, that was the one we were crying over. 95 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: But he's not dead, he's risen. And look at this. 96 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to emphasize certain works. Verse thirty two. They 97 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: asked each other, were not our hearts burning within us? 98 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,239 Speaker 1: While he talked with us on the road and opened 99 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: the scriptures to us, are you noticing anything? Okay, one 100 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: more verse? Make sure you get it. They got a 101 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: and returned it. Once to Jerusalem, they found the eleven 102 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: and those with them assembled together. Their revelation of Jesus 103 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 1: was completed not in the context of their conversation with him, 104 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: but in the context of their conversation with each other. 105 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: This message is called complete the cross and it is 106 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: meant to confront some of the things that we say 107 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: in church that sound spiritual but really make no sense 108 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: in real life, things like, you know, all I need 109 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: is Jesus. As long as I've got Jesus, I don't 110 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: need anybody else. And I understand the spirit of that 111 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: that he is the most important, and seek he first, 112 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: the King, to God his Righteous. All these things be 113 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: added under you and my mother and Father for save me, 114 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: then the Lord will take me up. I know those 115 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: Bible verses too, But even Jesus needed a team, and 116 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: it is significant I think, maybe you don't think so, 117 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 1: that he revealed himself to two people and they talked 118 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: with each other, and it was in talking with each 119 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: other that they figured out who he was. Because for 120 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: all of us who think all we need is God 121 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,799 Speaker 1: and all we need is Jesus. The last time I checked, 122 00:06:52,800 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: the cross had two beams. This one that's the main one. 123 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: Got to get that right. But it's not a cross 124 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: until it does like this. And sometimes the reason we 125 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: like to say things like all I need is Jesus 126 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: and all I need is God is because as long 127 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: as we keep the context of our relationship limited to 128 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: an invisible God. We don't have to deal with people, 129 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: and we can kind of manipulate our image of God 130 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: into somebody who is comfortable for us to relate to. 131 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: And then you'll start saying things like, well, nobody else 132 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: gets me, but God does. And so you're all this, 133 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: all this, and that's awesome and I love it. But 134 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about this, the relationship. 135 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: The relationship that is a little bit harder. So to 136 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: do it. I want to remember what happened on the cross. 137 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: And I wonder when Cleophus and his unnamed companion are 138 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: walking back, because the Bible says they got up, they 139 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: turned around, they thought it was the end. It was 140 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: really the beginning. They had watched Jesus die on the cross, 141 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: watching him die, they thought this is it. But Heaven 142 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: is watching and saying no when he said it is finished, 143 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 1: that was just the beginning. Come on, I need somebody 144 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: who travels six hours or more to know that where 145 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: you are right now is not the end of what 146 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: shall be in your life. I feel like preaching to 147 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: somebody who's got your head hung down. You've been in 148 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: a mayis long enough. Come on, you got a round 149 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: prim ticket and they turned around and they went back, 150 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: And the Bible says that the road they walked was seven. 151 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: So we've been using each of the seven miles to 152 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: represent a different word that Jesus spoke from the cross, 153 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: and there were seven of them, the word of forgiveness, Father, 154 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: forgive them they know not what they do, or the 155 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: word of salvation. Today you will be with me in paradise. 156 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: And I wonder where they have a flashback of what 157 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: happened on the cross. And that's not a bad thing 158 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: to do, by the way, to have a flashback every 159 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: now and then, to strengthen your faith, to remember what 160 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: really happened on that cross. I mean, what really happened 161 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: beyond the crown of thorns that marked his brow, beyond 162 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: the sign that Pilot put above him in three different 163 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: languages that said king of the Jews, the title that 164 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: he used to mock him, which was actually announcing him. 165 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: Because sometimes the insults that people will say about you 166 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: are the greatest compliment they can give you. I mean, 167 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: beyond that, what really happened on the cross. I've been 168 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: telling my soul, when my shackles fell off, when my 169 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: same was nailed to those beams, when the chastisement that 170 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: brought my peace was upon him. On the cross, somebody say, 171 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: on the cross, On the cross, that's where my sin is. 172 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: On the cross, That's where my mistakes are. On the cross. 173 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: That's where my second guessings and second givings. That's where 174 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: all of my regrets are redeemed. On the cross. That's 175 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: where I hung all my fears and all my talents 176 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: and all my failures that happened on the cross. And 177 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: I wonder did they reflect on the road on what 178 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: happened on the cross? And I wonder, now, in the 179 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: light of his resurrection, did they reflect on his death 180 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: differently to know that what had caused them to hang 181 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: their heads and walk away was actually the greatest proof 182 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: of his love. When I need to know that God 183 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: loves me, I don't look at what's happening in my life. 184 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: I flash back to what happened on the cross. That's 185 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: where it was settled. That's where it was nailed down forever. 186 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: He's always good and he does good, and he showed 187 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: it to me on the cross. On the cross, that's 188 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: where that thing that the devil is tormenting you with, 189 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: that's down deeper than anybody else can see, that's where 190 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: it should be hanging. It shouldn't be hanging around in 191 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: your heart and in your soul, it should be on 192 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: that cross. I feel kind of old timey today. I 193 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: don't feel very modern today. I feel like going and 194 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: putting my eyes on the middle man, the one who 195 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: hung there because he loved me, the one who could 196 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: have dissed that's twelve legions of angels, but homed there 197 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: on that cross for me. Well, it was his love 198 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: that held him there on the cross. So that's the 199 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: first picture I wondered, did they remember what happened on 200 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: the cross? Because they were actually at the cross. Maybe 201 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: not actually in the general vicinity, but they were at 202 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: the cross. And you know, I've heard sermons, seen movies 203 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 1: about what happened on the cross, and sometimes it makes 204 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: you feel kind of sentimental. Sometimes it makes you feel 205 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: kind of sick. What happened on the cross went far 206 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 1: beyond what a film camera can present. In twenty four 207 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: what happened on the cross is the release of the 208 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: freedom that God wants to produce in my life. But 209 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: I think there's something to be seen not just what 210 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: happened on the cross, but who was at the cross. 211 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: I mean, we know who was on the cross between 212 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: two thieves, but at the cross. Now, to get a 213 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: clear picture of this, you kind of have to do 214 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: a little bit of study. And don't worry, I already 215 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: did it for you, so I'm gonna tell you don't 216 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: have to look anything up. I looked at all up 217 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: this week while you were doing your real job. It 218 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: was interesting because I was putting together what Matthew said 219 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: and what Mark said, and what Luke said and what 220 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: John said, and so Matthew, who is one of the disciples, 221 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: they're all telling the same story but from a different perspective, 222 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: and they're describing the cross. And when it came to 223 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: exactly what happened at the cross, Matthew didn't have a 224 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: lot to say because he wasn't there. Okay, he was 225 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: there for the fish and the loaves, so he can 226 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: tell you about that. He was there for that water 227 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: walking thing where Peter got out of the boat because 228 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: he's kind of crazy and didn't content to just sit 229 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: in the boat. He has to do something special and spectacular. 230 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: He was there when Peter almost drowned himself and Jesus 231 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 1: gave him CPR and but when it came to the 232 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: isn't it funny how the cross will thin out a crowd, 233 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: Because it was really loud on Sunday when Jesus came 234 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: into Jerusalem, I mean deafening. They were crying out something. 235 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: They were saying, Hosanna, it means save now, and that's 236 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: what they wanted him to do, to save now. But 237 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: when he died, it deferred their hope. And so as 238 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: he hung there at the cross, the crowds that were 239 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: there to be fed and taught by his hand were 240 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: kind of quiet at the cross, kind of quiet where 241 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: he died, kind of quiet where he suffered. It was 242 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: real loud when he was teaching, preach Jesus. Can you 243 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: imagine Jesus's front row, blessed of the poor and spirit 244 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: preach Jesus. I mean, if the word was preaching the word, 245 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: that would be kind of cool to witness. It'll probably 246 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: be exciting. I'm just saying you probably shall you probably 247 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: jump up. But when he came to his cross, crowd 248 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: wasn't so loud. Oh. By the way, something that Peter 249 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: proofs to us is that those who are the loudest 250 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: are not always the most loyal. Because when it comes 251 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: to the cross, Matthew tells us something so disturbing. I 252 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: imagine it must have hurt him to write this, you know, 253 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: because Jesus had done so much for them and they 254 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: really believed in him, and I think they really wanted 255 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: to follow him, but they can only go so far. 256 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: And then he came to the cross, and the cross 257 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: is confusing because it's not supposed to end like this. 258 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: And the cross is confusing because if he really is 259 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: who he says he is, how can he be hung 260 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: up there to die in this kind of humiliation? And 261 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: so Matthew says that at the cross, everybody deserted him 262 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: all twelve because remember he had a team, a really 263 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: big team, a really big team, touch somebody say, a 264 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: really big team until it came to the cross. And 265 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: then sometimes circumstances in your life will show you who 266 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: was really with you because they loved you, and who 267 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: was really with you because there was something that they 268 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: got from you in the moment. They don't get from 269 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: you what they wanted from you. Now, that's really painful. 270 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: That's a hard thing. Some people will be with you, 271 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: what's the saying. They'll ride with you in the limo, 272 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: but they won't take the bus when the limo breaks down. 273 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: I don't know who said that. I think that's from 274 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: the Book of Oprah. But but Matthew says it is 275 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: a good one. But Matthew says, they all left him. 276 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: Now here's what's interesting. There's one disciple. His name is John, 277 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: and I love John because he gave himself a nickname. 278 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: There's a lot to love about John. Because at the 279 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: Last Supper, when Jesus is telling the disciples, you're all 280 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: gonna leave, Peter's like, not me, a gotzi bro. And 281 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: John isn't saying much. But John, he saw himself a 282 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 1: little differently. Here's what he called himself. Okay, how many 283 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: of you have a nickname that your friends call you 284 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: and stuff? How many of you gave yourself a nickname? Okay? 285 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: John is so confident he gave himself a nickname. And 286 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 1: let me tell you what he calls himself when he 287 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: writes about himself in the Gospel. According to John, he 288 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 1: calls himself, how's this for a nickname? The one Jesus 289 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: love so not Hey, I'm John, Hey, I'm his favorite. 290 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: I love John. It's a certain kind of confidence that 291 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: he has that he doesn't need to say much with 292 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: his lips to prove his loyalty. He's just there. And 293 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: so when John writes his Gospel, he's like, hey, wait 294 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: a minute, Matthew, we didn't all run. And he describes 295 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,360 Speaker 1: for a moment who was at the cross, and it's 296 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: not who you would expect, because you're looking for Peter 297 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: at the cross, but Peter isn't at the cross. He 298 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: couldn't get past the courtyard the moment it became scandalous 299 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: to stand with Jesus, and Jesus didn't do it like 300 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: he thought it ought to be done. 301 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 3: Peter started cutting people out. 302 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: And maybe you're looking for Andrew at the cross, because 303 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: Andrew was Peter's brother. He's the one who came and 304 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: got Peter and said, hey, you gotta meet this man. 305 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: He's amazing, and he was amazing until it came to 306 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: the cross, and then Andrew was absent. And so on 307 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 1: the day that Jesus did what he came to do 308 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: to begin with, he's calling the roll and no one 309 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: is present. That's a bad day for the teacher when 310 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 1: the whole class is gone, and the loneliness of hanging 311 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: there all alone no Bartholomew, No Nathaniel. 312 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 4: Because when I read it, John tells us who was 313 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 4: at the cross, everybody say, at the cross, there's soldiers 314 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 4: gambling for his garments at the foot of the cross, 315 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 4: everybody grabbing what they can from him, just like they 316 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 4: did while he was living, Just grabbing what they wanted. 317 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: From him, just like sometimes we come to church, just 318 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: grab what we want from God. Just grab a goosebump, 319 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 1: just grab a word. Oh I came to get a word, 320 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: but when it came time to it was kind of quiet. 321 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: Nathaniel Andrew Simon, the Zealot, James, son of Thunder. John here, 322 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: don't you appreciate the people who are just there likewashes. 323 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: It's not who you expect. It's not even the loud ones. 324 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: Look us at the cross. Look, John tells us. Because 325 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: he was there, Matthew can't quite tell us because he wasn't. Again, 326 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: he can tell you how delicious the bread was, He 327 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: can tell you how delicious the fish tasted. But John 328 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: tells us who was at the cross. I'm gonna give 329 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: you something right now. God gave me something to give 330 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,959 Speaker 1: to you. You're about to be set free from some 331 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: things that you didn't even though had locked you inside 332 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: of yourself. You are about to get something from God 333 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: that is going to release you to love like you 334 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: haven't been able to love and enjoy the life he 335 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: died to give you. So John says that near the 336 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:21,239 Speaker 1: cross of Jesus, remember he's on the cross, and now 337 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: let's see who's at the cross. First of all, his mother, 338 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: the one who carried him now had to watch him 339 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: carry her cross that she deserved that he did not. 340 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: And I think there's a whole message. Maybe I'll preach 341 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: Mother's Day on this verse one time, because it'd be 342 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: a great Mother's Day scripture. What kind of strength does 343 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: it take for a mom to stand there and watch 344 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: her son die, completely unable to do anything about it, 345 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: just standing there. It says that near the cross of 346 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: Jesus stood his mother. It does not record one word. 347 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 5: That she spoke, but she stood with him. 348 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: She stood with him. Sometimes the greatest testimony of your 349 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: loyalty is not what you will say to someone, but 350 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: how you will stand with them. Because we've all got 351 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: a cross, we've all got seasons that we will go 352 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: into that will divide those who are loud from those 353 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: who are really loyal and who I see at the 354 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: crosses and who I expect to see at the cross 355 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: Here's Mary, the mother of Jesus. There's her sister, there's 356 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: Mary the wife of Clopus. And there's Mary Magdalene. She 357 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: had a rough life. Jesus really helped her. He cast 358 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: some demons out of her that nobody else had been 359 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: able to deal with, and that created a kind of 360 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: loyalty within her that she was like, even if all 361 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: I can do is stand here and cry, I'm not leaving, 362 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: could you get there with God? That, even if all 363 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: I can do is stand here and wait to see 364 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: what will becolm, you can't run me off. You've been 365 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: too good to me and done too much for me. 366 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere. You have the words of eternal life, 367 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: I'll say it near the cross. And when Jesus saw 368 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: his mother there, John tells us and the disciple whom 369 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: he loved, John says, as me standing nearby, He said 370 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: to her, woman, here is your son, and then watch this. 371 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: He looked at the disciple whom he loved, the self 372 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: proclaimed favorite, and gave him a job. Here is your mother. 373 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 1: Let's skip the fact that none of us in the 374 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: room would be able to put us on our own 375 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: self elfishness enough if we were suffering like that to 376 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 1: think about anyone else, because you know, when you're going 377 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: through something, you don't ask anybody how their day is, 378 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 1: and if you do, you really don't want to know, 379 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,959 Speaker 1: and you hope they don't answer you. All you can 380 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: really handle is fun. I'm telling you when you're going 381 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: through something, and you really need to watch for this 382 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: because I went through something a couple of years ago 383 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: with my dad, and somebody gave me good advice. They said, 384 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 1: don't tell a lot of people what you're going through. 385 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: Find a few people you can tell what you're going through. 386 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: Most people are going to ask you. They really don't care. 387 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: That would have been worth your trip to church today, 388 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: just to know that they really don't mean tell me 389 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: all about it. They really don't. They see you coming, 390 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: they dodge you. Because your niece have been hurting six 391 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: months and it's all you talk about your sore back, 392 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 1: it's all you talk about how hard it's been with 393 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: your kids. Most people don't want to know all that 394 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: because they've got their own stuff. They've got their own 395 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: things they're dealing with, and to me the the presence 396 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: of mind of Jesus. And I want to be more 397 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: like this because I'm really not here yet, nor am 398 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: I in the vicinity of this kind of christ likeness. 399 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: But that he was able to look to the needs 400 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: of others while he died for them, not after he 401 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: got up. 402 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 3: While he's bleeding for their sins. 403 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: He says, hey, look out for her, and you look 404 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: out for him. And he's doing in his death what 405 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: he did in his life, bringing them together as he dies. Hey, John, 406 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: I need you to do something for me. Look out 407 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: for her, and and he's he's your son. Now that's crazy, 408 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: isn't that crazy? Because I would have been up there, 409 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: I would not have even seen John standing at the 410 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: cross because I would have been so mad at Peter. 411 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: I would have been so mad at Anne. And don't 412 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: even get me started on Judas. Oh my God, I 413 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: would not have seen John because I would have been 414 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: making up my plan for how I was gonna get 415 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: back at Judas. Sometimes we don't see those who are 416 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: with us because we can only think of those who 417 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: left us. But I want to declare over your life today, 418 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: God will always leave a John at your cross. 419 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 5: You got who you need. You got what you need. 420 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 5: If they left you, who was that for it? Be 421 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 5: honest about it. 422 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: You have been so upset about the encouragement that you're 423 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: not getting from somebody. You are tripping over the encouragement 424 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: of sixteen other people because you're mad at Bob. Well 425 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: what about Bob? 426 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 3: If Bob left the cross, reach out to John. 427 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: There's a John, it's a cross. Feel something happening in 428 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: your heart right now? That just sets you free. 429 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about who left. 430 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: If they left their God, if John is at the cross. Besides, 431 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: why would Jesus be mad at Judas? He needed John 432 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: to be there at the cross, but he needed Judas 433 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: to get him to the cross. This is a hard one. 434 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: This is a hard one. You might have to realize 435 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 1: that some of the people that you hate the most 436 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: actually helped you get to the place where you need 437 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: it to be to do what God called you to do. 438 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: Do you believe that? 439 00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 3: Can you receive this? This is a hard say that's 440 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 3: the kind of stuff Jesus would say and people would 441 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 3: just walk away. 442 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: But Jesus wasn't cursing Judas. It took Judas, It took 443 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: a broken heart. It took a betrayal. 444 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,239 Speaker 3: Some of the people that left you were teaching you 445 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 3: to love. 446 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: The people who are still there. It took that. It 447 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: doesn't justify what they did. But maybe I'm gonna get 448 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: mature enough one day where I can be like Jesus 449 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: and I won't miss John cursing Judas. Yes it is. 450 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this about six different ways before I 451 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: close to make sure you get it, because that's my 452 00:28:52,800 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: message is that it takes two. It takes two. It 453 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: takes two. I want to rock right now. Touch somebody 454 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: say I'm not internationally known, and see when you got 455 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: it like this? Come on, somebody say I got it 456 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: like that. 457 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 2: Jesus so knew who he was, and he had so 458 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 2: received the affirmation that could only be given in the 459 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 2: baptism at the Jordan. 460 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: This is my son, and I am pleased with him that, 461 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: no matter who wasn't there, he was so convinced about 462 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: who was that he could look at John and look 463 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: at Mary and give like that. And when you really 464 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,239 Speaker 1: get it like this, I mean, when you wake up 465 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: in the morning and know that God has blessed you 466 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: to see another day, you will not be needy anymore. Okay, 467 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: I'll say it just like that. You're too needy and 468 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: you're too blessed to be this needy. I'm just telling 469 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: you what God told me. You think it's hard for 470 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: you to hear. I had to hear it all week. 471 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: God kept me out all week getting this message ready 472 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: for you, and he said, I need for your validation 473 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: not to be in somebody else's mouth. I need your 474 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 1: validation to be in that cross. I need you to 475 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: be complete in that cross, so that if you don't 476 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: get it from your mom, if you don't get it 477 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: from your daughter, Listen, sometimes people are giving you all 478 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: they can give you. They can't give you anymore. And 479 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: if you don't get it like this, you will never 480 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: get it like that. You need to set some people 481 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: free today from not giving you keys to your freedom 482 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: that they don't hold. You. Have got to release some 483 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: people from the expectation of perfection. They can't be everything 484 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: to you. Even John couldn't get him down. All he 485 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: could do was stand there. So I don't want to 486 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: look to people to do for me, but only God can. 487 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to be grabbing for garments at the 488 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: foot of the cross. If I got it like this. 489 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: I can give it like that. Whoever this is for, 490 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: you've been trying to get affection from the wrong direction. 491 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: You've been reaching for validation and all the wrong places. 492 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: You're not going to get it like this. That's where 493 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: you give. That's where Paul said, if there's any comfort 494 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: from being united with Christ, what she's drawn across. He's saying, 495 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: this Philippian Church. You can look at U Philippians one 496 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: in chapter two, verse one and two. Something like that 497 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: is in Philippians. Somewhere google it says you got it. Oh, 498 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: if there's any encouragement from being united with Christ, somebody say, 499 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: I got it like that. Okay, that's the part we're 500 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: good at in church. He forgave me, he saved me, 501 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: he loves me, he accepts me. But Paul says, if 502 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 1: you got it like that, any comfort from His love? 503 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: How many are comforted by the love of Christ in 504 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: your heart today? If you got it like that, having 505 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: the same love, being one inspirit and of one mind, 506 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: I love this next instruction, then make my joy complete. 507 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: If you got it like that, give it like this. 508 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: So I want to wake up this week and I 509 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: want to see all of my shame my need on 510 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: that cross. I want to receive all of my validation 511 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: at that cross. I want to carry whatever cross God 512 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: has given me and not resent the people who didn't 513 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: give me what I thought I needed. Because I am 514 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: complete in that cross. I don't need you to tell 515 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: me that I'm loved. Maybe it's time for me to 516 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: tell you that you're loved. Maybe I've lived my life 517 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: doing this long enough. Maybe it's time to live like 518 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 1: he died at the cross. There's job on the cross. 519 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: There's Jesus in the cross. Here's us. That's where our 520 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 1: strength is. You know, not in what people say or 521 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: don't say. You feel the release in that. When I 522 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: receive it, I can release it. God show me who 523 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: to encourage today. I don't need anything from you today. 524 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: Here I got mine at the Cross. I got mine 525 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 1: in the presence of God. In His presence is the 526 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: fullness of I am complete in Him. I am the 527 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,760 Speaker 1: righteousness of God. I am comple. Somebody shout, I am complete. 528 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: I am complete. I don't need you to complete me. 529 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: I am complete in the Cross of Jesus Christ, where 530 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: he led is still flowing today, and it is flowing 531 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: through me. 532 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 3: Come on, give him sixty seconds of praise for the crown, for. 533 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: The cross at the cross. I got it in the cross. 534 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: I got it at the cross. I got it in 535 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:39,760 Speaker 1: the cross. 536 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 3: Last I know I love I got it in the cross. 537 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 1: The world didn't give it, and the world can take 538 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: it away. Received this ministry. God is trying to get 539 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:05,399 Speaker 1: you to release what you have received. You've been doing 540 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: it the wrong way. You've been trying to receive it. 541 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:18,400 Speaker 2: Release it, receive it, release it, receive it, release it, 542 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 2: receive it, release it. 543 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: Receive it from him. Don't try to receive it from them. 544 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 1: They are unpredictable and they got their own stuff and 545 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: their own reasons. Receive it. Release it. If you receive 546 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: this word, lift your hands. Lift him high, like you 547 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,440 Speaker 1: have a father who loves you and made up his 548 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: mind about you, and isn't trying to decide whether or 549 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: not to accept you on the basis of your performance. 550 00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: Somebody say, my righteousness is in the cross. Keep your 551 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 1: hands stretched. This is how you live. This is how 552 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: you get it. This is how you get it. This 553 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 1: is how you get it. This is how you get it, 554 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,920 Speaker 1: not when a group accepts you, not when a promotion comes. 555 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: This is how you get it. You're going to go 556 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: into this week with something to give. 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