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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's Daily Prayer for more

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to jump in a message. We're in

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Speaker 2: a series called Inside the Tomb. If any of you

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Speaker 3: So that's what Satan's doing to all the disciples.

439
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 2: Can I try, Peter, No, he actually loves him, He

440
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: actually believes he's Lord. He just has a skewed perception

441
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 2: of what she's here to do. I can't use him.

442
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 3: I can't. Oh, I see this dude still.

443
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 2: In a little bit of money here and there. I've

444
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 2: been hearing his comments lately. So we see that character

445
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 2: is a moral and ethic quality defining individual's values. Care

446
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 2: show is a showing place of empathy and compassion, actively

447
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 2: attending to others well needs, which Judas didn't do. Conduct

448
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 2: behavior in line with godly actions, involving integrity, respect, and

449
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 2: responsibility for one's action.

450
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 3: I want you to look at character for just a moment.

451
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 2: Billy Graham says this, when it comes to character, when

452
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 2: wealth is lost, nothing is lost.

453
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 3: When health is lost, something is lost.

454
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 2: When character is lost lost, all is lost. Someone who

455
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 2: loses their character has lost it all. Judas was one

456
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 2: of those individuals. Want you to look at Judas's statement

457
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: when a woman comes.

458
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,719
Speaker 3: To worship Jesus with a year's worth of her wage

459
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 3: of hew.

460
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 2: Many of us know this verse ourselves, but it says

461
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 2: this in John twelve, verse four. But one of the

462
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 2: disciples Judas is Scariot, who was later to betray him, ejected,

463
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 2: why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given.

464
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 3: To the poor? It was a worth a year's wage.

465
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 2: He did not say this because he cared about the poor,

466
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 2: but because he was a thief, and as keeper of

467
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,959
Speaker 2: the money bag, he used to help himself.

468
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 3: To what was put in it.

469
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: But guess what, John, by the inspirational Holy Spirit, he

470
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 2: fills that in for us.

471
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 3: So we can read it and we can go, oh,

472
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 3: that dog, Judas.

473
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 2: But if you were around Judas, you actually would have thought.

474
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 3: He was very righteous.

475
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 2: When Judas is there and there's a woman breaking perfume

476
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 2: that's worth a year's wage on Jesus's feet, and Judas goes,

477
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 2: this woman could do so we could our ministry could

478
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 2: do so much more for the poor if she just

479
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 2: sold this perfume.

480
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 3: How dares she?

481
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: You know, Jesus is just gonna go wash his feet

482
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 2: after such a waste of perfume. We could have resold that.

483
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 2: You know how many people that could have fed, and

484
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 2: there would have been other people and disciples there going

485
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 2: you so right, Judas, I can't believe her.

486
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 3: Why would Jesus even let her do that? That's ridiculous. Ah.

487
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 2: While his words say one thing, but his heart says another.

488
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 2: Because what his heart is really saying because he's the treasurer.

489
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 3: So if she gave that to Jesus for the ministry,

490
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 3: Jesus would.

491
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 2: Have said, God, bless you, thank you so much here, Judas,

492
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 2: can you go sell that for the work of the ministry.

493
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 3: And Judas would have.

494
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 2: Been like, God, yeah, I got you, Jesus. That's fifty

495
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 2: k right there. They'll never miss five k missing. Judas

496
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 2: knows that in his heart, But his words and what

497
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 2: society hears has made Judas you so right.

498
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 3: But God knows his heart.

499
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 2: So where we have to recognize is a self centered

500
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 2: faith produces a self righteous attitude.

501
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 3: Self centered faith, the me me me faith. Guess what,

502
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 3: you will be.

503
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: Consistently trying to show everyone around you how much you

504
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 2: have figured it out.

505
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: When your faith is centered around.

506
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: You, your own development, your own joy, your own purpose,

507
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 2: your own happiness, and nothing about anyone else, then you

508
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 2: will begin to have a self righteous attitude, and you

509
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: will make comments about everything. You will make comments about

510
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 2: people around you. You will make comments about church. You'll

511
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 2: make cause it just will come out. It just could

512
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 2: come out of you easy. Can you believe she said that?

513
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: Can you believe she dressed this way? You know, don't

514
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 2: mind how I talk to my husband. The way that

515
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 2: girl dress is ridiculous. It's self righteous attitude. Look at

516
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 2: this person all while I'm not being obedient in this

517
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 2: space myself and.

518
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 3: So immediately self centered faith.

519
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 2: The me me me mentality, the me me me faith

520
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 2: that Judas was living.

521
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 3: The more that Jesus's ministry grew.

522
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 2: The more that Judas's pockets grew, and the moment that

523
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: he sees Jesus' ministry probably not gonna grow no more.

524
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 2: The moment he tried to get one more big payday,

525
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 2: because the clearer you start to think about you, the

526
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 2: actually more disfigured life begins to be. And so for Judas,

527
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 2: he fell for these lives because he kept looking at

528
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: himself for so long he stopped fixing his eyes on

529
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 2: Jesus and the work of Jesus, that he started to

530
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: only view himself. You know, Papulo Picasso is one of

531
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: the world's greatest painter, definitely in our day in the

532
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 2: nineteen hundreds, and a Picasso is a euphemism for a

533
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 2: great artist. We say someone's a regular Pablo Picasso when

534
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 2: they're a great artist. Well, Pablo Picasso, over his years

535
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 2: he did a set of around ten to eleven self portraits.

536
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: And what's amazing is most art historians think it's incredible

537
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 2: that you'll see when Picasso was fifteen years old, he

538
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 2: used to draw himself really clearly.

539
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 3: But you get all the way towards the bottom right.

540
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: That was his last self portrait he ever did of

541
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 2: himself at the age ninety years old. And so he

542
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 2: went from a point where when he was younger he

543
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: saw himself very clearly, very innocently, but as he got

544
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 2: older he actually towards his nineties, and some of this

545
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: went with his abstract painting, but it was really as

546
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 2: he stepped more and more into older age and realized

547
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 2: his mortality. Most art historians believe that as he got

548
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 2: older he saw himself less clearly, because as he would

549
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 2: paint himself, he'd in at fifteen and twenty, he was

550
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: very innocent, so he saw himself very clearly. But as

551
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: he got older he added all his memories and all

552
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 2: his stories, and it was so much so that all

553
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 2: he could do is kind of just draw himself into

554
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 2: a rock. Because the longer that we fixate on ourselves,

555
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 2: the less clear it becomes, and the more that line

556
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 2: is fudged, and the more that line is tott And

557
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 2: the point of the Gospel and the point of the

558
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: Cross is for us to fix our eyes on Jesus

559
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: and the work of the Cross and the work.

560
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 3: Of his resurrection.

561
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 2: You want to see your life more clearly, you have

562
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 2: to stop looking at your life and start looking at

563
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 2: Jesus's life.

564
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 3: Judas didn't do that.

565
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 2: He looked at Jesus's life and thought everything that would

566
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: benefit him, and so he lacks character in it shows

567
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 2: and Satan can see that.

568
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 3: Satan sees what his morals are. Satan was around.

569
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: When he saw Judas pocket those coins, and he's saying

570
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 2: to himself, Okay, wonder what I could do with that

571
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 2: second thing that we can see the enemy sees is.

572
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 3: Judas lacks care. Judas lacks care.

573
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: Corey ten Boom, a Dutch author but also a Holocaust

574
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 2: survivor someone who survived concentration camps as a Christian, said,

575
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 2: you can never learn that Christ is all you need

576
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: until Christ is all you have.

577
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 3: A lot of times we.

578
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 2: Want Jesus and Jesus and Jesus, and but the reality

579
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 2: is is if you want Christ to be all you need,

580
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 2: then he has to become all that we have, all

581
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 2: that we hold, and all that we trust. Because then

582
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 2: when we see Jesus with clarity in that way, then

583
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: that is the place where Satan has no foothold, and

584
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 2: you can actually live a life where Satan is in

585
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 2: behind you and not in front of you. That Satan

586
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 2: is under your foot and not over your head. It's

587
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 2: when we start living in that space. Matthew chapter twenty

588
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: six to fourteen to sixty says this about Judas. Says, though,

589
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 2: then one of the disciples who was called Judas is

590
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 2: Scariot went to the chief priest and said, what are

591
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: you willing to give me if I hand over Jesus.

592
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 2: At this time, he doesn't even know if he's going

593
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 2: to hand over Jesus. He wants to see how sweet

594
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 2: the deal is going to be first, so he says,

595
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 2: what are you gonna give me if I give Jesus

596
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 2: to you? And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver,

597
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 2: and from that moment, Judas began looking for an opportune time.

598
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 3: To betray Jesus. Started with one thought.

599
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: Here was the thought for Judas, I wonder how much

600
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 2: they would give me if I turned Jesus in. He

601
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: was undecided whether he would do it or not. But wooh,

602
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 2: when that deal was sweet, he couldn't resist it. And

603
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: Satan was working through every crevice of that deal. He

604
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: was working through every Pharisee, he was working through every Sadducey,

605
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 2: He's working through every conversation of Judas, looking for a

606
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: moment when Satan could say I can enter him and

607
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 2: now it's my game time. And it just started with

608
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: one thought, I have a question for you. I got

609
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: this beautiful self portrait of mine.

610
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: See this look at that handsome man. That's a good

611
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 3: looking guy. Look. Look, look, let me ask you guys

612
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 3: a question.

613
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 2: You think you think if I took this piece right here,

614
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 2: would you say that I'm still all there?

615
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay?

616
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: What if I took this piece right here? Would you

617
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: still say that I'm all there?

618
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: Okay? What if I took this piece right here? Would

619
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 3: you say I'm all there? Oh? So it's fifty to fifty.

620
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: Now let's see if I took let's just take the tattoos, right,

621
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 2: let's just remove the tattoos.

622
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 3: Would you still say that I'm pretty much there? Yeah? Okay? Here,

623
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:49,959
Speaker 3: yeahs and knows?

624
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,959
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, well, what if I start taking like this

625
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 2: right here, like my eyes, let's remove I got great eyes,

626
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: but let's remove those.

627
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 3: Now I just got the small would you start? Am

628
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 3: I all there? Oh? It's getting clearer now right.

629
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: A lot of us tend to think that sin and

630
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 2: the time to turn around is at this point, But

631
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: really it all started downhill with one white piece, one piece,

632
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 2: just one piece.

633
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 3: Of me, was enough to say that was not bad.

634
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 3: I still feel like me.

635
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 2: Just one night out, just one drip, just one smoke,

636
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,479
Speaker 2: just one relationship, just one time just one thought. Nobody's around,

637
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 2: nobody's here. It won't hurt nobody, it won't affect nobody.

638
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 2: And we wonder what happens. Why we say, well, that

639
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 2: wasn't all bad, and how about another piece? How about

640
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: another piece? And then at some point, when you've revealed

641
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 2: enough of your say it self didn't satan?

642
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 3: And the enemy can come and say.

643
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 2: Let's start taking some bigger pieces. And you've already showed

644
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: the enemy you don't know how to stop. You've already

645
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 2: showed the enemy that you don't know to put these

646
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: pieces back together, because only.

647
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: Jesus could put these back together.

648
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: Peter went back to Jesus to put his pieces back together.

649
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 3: Judas did it.

650
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 2: Judas hung himself after he did what he did because

651
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 2: he couldn't live with the guilt, not because he had repentance,

652
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: but because he didn't want to face anybody for what

653
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: he did. And so there's a difference between regret and repentance,

654
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 2: just like there's difference between and I'm sorry and I

655
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: will you forgive me.

656
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 3: We've all heard it before, Okay, I'm sorry. You don't

657
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 3: mean that. We know you don't mean that. You're just

658
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 3: saying it.

659
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 2: There's a difference between repentance and forgiveness than just regret

660
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 2: and sorrow.

661
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 3: Hey my bad, I see I hurt you. It's my fault.

662
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: Would you ever do it again? What does it matter? Like, oh,

663
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 2: what does it matter? Because it's not coming from a

664
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 2: place of repentance. And so for Judas, what started with

665
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: one piece, which was just a dollar or two from

666
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 2: Jesus's bag, was.

667
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 3: Enough that as he kept it consistently.

668
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 2: And now Satan is hearing his words about what these

669
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 2: wom and his other comments, he's going, oh, this is

670
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: a guy I can use.

671
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 3: So I want to encourage you to be careful.

672
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: If you've ever heard this statement before, if you ever

673
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 2: said this statement before the enemy made me or Satan's

674
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: all involved in this, you maybe.

675
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 3: Have said it or heard it before. And it's actually

676
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 3: a very.

677
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 2: Dangerous statement to make, because what you're saying is that

678
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 2: the Satan saw something in you that he felt like

679
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 2: he could use. You have to be very cautious. Now

680
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 2: we've seen it. There is an opportunity where Satan does try.

681
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 2: He attempts, he tries, he attacks, he makes effort. But

682
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 2: just like Romans eight says, if you're full of the spirit,

683
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: he'll have no effect. So therefore he'll give up and

684
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 2: he'll move on. But if you're someone that he likes

685
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 2: to tap dance on, then it means you gave him

686
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 2: a dance floor. And if he's dancing, then you gotta say, God,

687
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 2: I gotta repent.

688
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 3: You gotta put these pieces back together, because.

689
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 2: The only ones that Satan enters and uses are the

690
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 2: ones who crack the door open. And the way we

691
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 2: find freedom is to say, Jesus, I repent. I need

692
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: you to carry all of this.

693
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 3: I can't do that. You gotta rid the self centered faith.

694
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 3: I can't do this on my own.

695
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 2: And the last point we're gonna share is and he

696
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 2: reveals to us what his conduct is like. And we've

697
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: seen through Judas how he conducts himself as a disciple

698
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 2: of Jesus.

699
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 3: He did not represent Jesus well, nor did he lead well.

700
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 2: Philippian Chapter one twenty seven says, whatever happens, conduct yourselves

701
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 2: worthy in a.

702
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 3: Matter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

703
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 2: To conduct ourselves worthy, our actions must be conducted away

704
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: worthy of the claim that we say that we follow

705
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 2: Jesus has to match.

706
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 3: Our conduct has to match that call.

707
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: Francis of an Ec, one of the great Saints, says, Priest,

708
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 2: the Gospel in all times, and when necessary, use words,

709
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: which means your conduct preaches the Gospel, whether you recognize

710
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: it or not. Your conduct speaks louder than your words.

711
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: Saint Francis would say, the way you live your life

712
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: will preach for Jesus or against Jesus. It will rid

713
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 2: the enemy of his attempts at thwarting you, or it'll

714
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: give the enemy encouragement to lean towards you. Because the

715
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 2: enemy loves messing with the world, but he sure loves

716
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 2: messing with people who claim to follow God, because that

717
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 2: gives God the worst pr possible. People who call themselves Christians,

718
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: who don't act like Christians.

719
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 3: That's who Satan wants. And that's why Satan.

720
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: Used one of Jesus's disciples, not a random person, one

721
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: of his inner circle, because what better way to stop

722
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 2: Jesus than one of his friends.

723
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 3: What better way to make Jesus look bad.

724
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 2: Than someone who says they follow him. And so that

725
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: is the person he's looking for. And so that's why

726
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: Philippians encourage us that we have to live this life

727
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 2: even when it's hard and when temptation comes. The Bible

728
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: talks about taking every thought captive so that you would

729
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 2: not give a place for the enemy, so that you

730
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 2: would not give a foothold for the enemy. James Chapter

731
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: four says, submit yourselves therefore to God resists the devil,

732
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 2: and he will flee. Resist him, and he will flee.

733
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 2: In other words, he's gonna attempt. He's gonna try, but

734
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 2: if you resist him, he will go. If you don't,

735
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 2: he'll set up a base camp, and he'll look for

736
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 2: an opportune time, like.

737
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 3: He did with Judas. And so we need to periodically go.

738
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: And the Bible talks about when we take community to

739
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 2: reflect in our hearts and see what sin exists and

740
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: confess it so that it could leave. It's a moment

741
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: of cleansing to allow the spirit at work in our lives.

742
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: And you never know how much it will bless someone.

743
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 2: I'll close you with this before we leave. You know,

744
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: last week we celebrate a special moment where or of

745
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 2: the widows in our church, Nicole, and she was here

746
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: for service. She was so blessed. She heard story for

747
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 2: the first time. I thought she heard it this week,

748
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 2: but she did it. We featured a story last week,

749
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 2: if you were with us and one of our dear members, Nicole,

750
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 2: she lost her husband before he even turned forty and

751
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 2: she's now raising her three children. And we brought her

752
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: on stage and she had a great story of faith

753
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 2: and trust in God, and we honored her by sowing

754
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 2: a seed into her life. But what happened was if

755
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 2: you got many of you remember if he didn't. It's

756
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: on our YouTube channel you can you could go rewatch it.

757
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 2: But she tells a story on how God showed a

758
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 2: moment of goodness in her life where her husband had

759
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 2: passed and her car was going to be repossessed because

760
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: she couldn't make the payments for the vehicle. And so

761
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 2: the tow truck driver comes to repossess her vehicle. She

762
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: falls on her knees and she pleads out to God

763
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 2: not for her car to be taken. The man resonates

764
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 2: with that. He tells her, you know, my name is Gabriel.

765
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 2: I was named after the angel, and so he had

766
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,959
Speaker 2: compassion on her. And so he said, here's the number

767
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 2: to the banker of the bank that's trying to repossess

768
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 2: your car. Give him a call to borrow. See what

769
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 2: they could work out with you. He said, I'm gonna

770
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 2: get on the horn and I'm gonna get on dispatch,

771
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna tell everyone that your house has been

772
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 2: taken care of. So if they get another call to

773
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 2: leave it alone, it's been taken care of. It's being

774
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: figured out to leave your car where it is. And

775
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: so she said, thank you so much. Well, last week,

776
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 2: one of our members in our church says, I have

777
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 2: a friend named Gabriel who's a tow truck driver, and

778
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: I think I've heard him say a story like that before.

779
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 2: And so he goes on our YouTube channel. He pulls

780
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 2: her testimony and he sends it to Gabriel.

781
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 3: He says, hey, bro, is.

782
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 2: This story about you? And Gabriel says, yes, that is me.

783
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:51,919
Speaker 2: I remember that night. And he tells his friend, this

784
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 2: video has changed me so much because I was just

785
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 2: about to give up.

786
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,760
Speaker 3: I'm going through some things.

787
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 2: I'm having such a hard time, and this is just

788
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,760
Speaker 2: a reminder from God that I have to keep going.

789
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: I shouldn't give up, and I'm gonna trust God through

790
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 2: it all. What happened over a year ago to one

791
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: woman who was pleading to God when that very man

792
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 2: needed encouragement himself. The Holy sphere said, I'm gonna bring

793
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: it a back around this a Uno reverse card.

794
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 3: He said, I'm gonna bring it back to you.

795
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 2: The very grace that you showed this woman is gonna

796
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: be the very grace that I'm gonna show.

797
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 3: You through her story, that you have impacted someone.

798
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: What was just a normal night of him towing vehicles,

799
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 2: and guess what, when tow truck drivers leave repossessed cars,

800
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 2: they lose money, So he also lost out on money

801
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 2: as well. What turned out to something that he felt

802
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 2: like was gonna be a loss, but he just felt

803
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 2: like he was doing a good thing to someone. Over

804
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 2: a year later, he'd be sent a video where tens

805
00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 2: of thousands of people would.

806
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 3: Be in uraged by his story.

807
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 2: And the story of God's goodness, which was just enough

808
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 2: for him to keep going. I don't know about you,

809
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: but that day when the world said to repossess the car, he.

810
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 3: Said, Satan, get behind me. Quit. When he was in

811
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: a moment this past week where he.

812
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: Was just gonna give I don't know if that was

813
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 2: gonna give up hope. I don't know if that was

814
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 2: just gonna stop working. I don't know what that was,

815
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 2: But that very video was a moment where Jesus said,

816
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: you said get behind me a year ago. I'm getting

817
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 2: him behind you right now where God can interject in

818
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 2: his mercy. Are we willing to do like Paul says,

819
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: which is to say, fight the good fight of faith

820
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 2: because it's a fight.

821
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 3: Are we willing to resist the devils.

822
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 2: Where he could flee because it's found oftentimes in our

823
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 2: character and our care and our conduct, where the Satan

824
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 2: will try to find a foothold, Or it's enough that

825
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: your faithfulness to the Cross, your faithfulness to focus on.

826
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 3: Jesus, then he'll say you resisted, he'll flee.

827
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 2: Seasons where Satan feels to be throwing everything at you

828
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 2: is only.

829
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 3: Seasons when you're faithful to Jesus. It's not a lifetime.

830
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 2: There's freedom, there's victory, and there's mercy, and there's hope

831
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 2: found in the Cross. So I want to encourage you

832
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 2: today as we go to close and leave this place together.

833
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: If you've never confessed Jesus Christ as your personal Lord

834
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 2: and savior, if you've never got to a place where

835
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 2: you said, God, I'm ridding everything that views me about me,

836
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 2: and I'm completely surrendering it.

837
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 3: I'm giving it all to you God.

838
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 2: It's only through Jesus's death and resurrection that you and

839
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 2: I can truly find freedom. Why is it found only

840
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 2: in Jesus, Because Jesus is the only one on earth

841
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 2: who walked this earth, who died on a cross for

842
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 2: you and I, who was put in a tomb, suspected

843
00:43:55,640 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 2: to be dead forever, and three days later would resurrect

844
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 2: and spend forty days on earth reiterating the resurrection of

845
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: God and the goodness of God and the forgiveness of God.

846
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 2: For you and I not to listen to and say, oh,

847
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 2: that's nice, but for you and I to receive, for

848
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 2: us to receive, the gospel is only there when.

849
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 3: We receive it.

850
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 2: It's not something that exists in making a sign of

851
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,720
Speaker 2: a cross or wearing a cross. The gospel is those

852
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 2: who take it and wear it for themselves. Say Jesus

853
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 2: your forgiveness, You're death and resurrection as for me. So

854
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 2: I encourage you in this moment. If you've never given

855
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 2: your life to Christ, whether you're in the courtyard, cafe

856
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: or in this room, don't wait another day before you

857
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 2: choose Jesus. One day all of us will stand before God.

858
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 2: I pray it's a long time till anyone here stands

859
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: before God.

860
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 3: But we do know the reality. There will be a day.

861
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 3: There's only one thing that's one hundred percent in this world.

862
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 3: It's the fact that.

863
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 2: All of us will die at some point, and all

864
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 2: of us will stand before God.

865
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 3: The beauty about the work of.

866
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 2: Jesus is there any There's an eternity secure in the

867
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 2: hands of the Savior in Jesus's work. And not only

868
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 2: will God give us a promise in the future. God

869
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: gives us a promise here on earth. His work of

870
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: the Cross is not just for heaven one day. It's

871
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 2: also here for life, to give you a peace, a grace,

872
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 2: a mercy, and a hope like you never thought was possible.

873
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 2: To give you a rest from the work of your

874
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 2: life like you never thought was possible.

875
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 3: That's the goodness of God. So I encourage you in

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Speaker 2: Don't wait another day before you receive Jesus as your savior.

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Speaker 2: Would you all do me a favor in this moment,

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Speaker 2: Would you bow your head and close your eyes. We're

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Speaker 2: all gonna say a prayer out loud right now, But

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Speaker 2: some people are gonna be saying this for the first time,

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Speaker 2: or they're gonna be rededicating their life. So I encourage

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Speaker 2: join me in saying this right now, Dear Lord Jesus,

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Speaker 2: in this moment, I confess you as Lord and Savior.

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Speaker 2: I repent to my sins, and I believe in this moment,

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Speaker 2: and I confess in this moment that I'm committed to

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Speaker 2: follow you for the rest of my days in Jesus' name.

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