WEBVTT - The Facts Aren't Final 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.760 All right, get out your phones real quick. Those of 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:09.080 you that have an alarm system, put seven pm every 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.600 night for an alarm to go off for the next 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.880 couple weeks, so you can pray for us for elevation nights. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.560 Because we start our tour of eight cities this Tuesday 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:26.560 in Chicago. We're going to Indianapolis. We're going to Columbus, Ohio, Washington, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:32.839 d C, Boston, Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.680 Reading Holly's going with me on every stop. I cannot 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.400 be without Holly that long. By night six, I'd be 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.839 so depressed. I'd be talking about all the sad scriptures. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.960 I'd be preaching from job and the Garden of Death. Semine, 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.000 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It'd 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.200 be so sad if I didn't have So's. She's going 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:59.240 to be there, and many of these folks are loading up. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.280 Rhythm is gonna share in the opening set as well. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.880 Y'all got twelve minutes to get the praise right. It's 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.080 gonna be awesome, and I'm gonna be preaching. There are 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.720 still some tickets available. They might be sold out by 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.520 the time you see this, but maybe you can find 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.920 a scalp or go to Elevation Nights dot com or 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.360 your official ticket master tickets and we will see you there. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.320 Oh it's gonna be exciting. So seven pm each night, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.360 pray that God would give us a fresh annointing seven pm. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.120 Just put a little alarm when it goes off. Oh yeah, God, tonight, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.840 may there be breakthroughs, chains broken, people set free, dreams rekindled, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.720 all of that, people saved, comeing to Christ. We're expecting 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.960 all of that. So I appreciate your prayers. We cannot 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.280 do it without the Holy Spirit. It'll just be a show. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:50.160 But if God shows up, Wow, something awesome could happen. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.640 And you know what, I believe God is here right now. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.160 How about you? They don't believe it. I'm gonna go 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.960 to Chicago. Don't believe it in Chicago. I said, God 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:12.040 is here right now. WHOA I heard you were doing 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.000 a little spring cleaning doctor g the other day. All right, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.120 we're gonna do some spring cleaning in the word of 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.560 God today. Get all that unbelief out of our spirits. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.400 And God's been stirring up a faith annoying in me. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.520 I think he's getting me ready for this for this 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.200 elevation Night's tour, and he's been stirring up my faith, 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.480 so I want to share it with you today, all 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:36.440 right in Mark chapter five, that's where we want to go, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:41.560 Mark chapter five all the first time. Gess like, do 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.960 we have to stand up the whole time? Why they 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.400 give you this seat? If they're not gonna let me 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.000 use it, you get to use it right after I 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:54.200 read this scripture. Calm down, It's all right. I love it. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.200 I love it. I love it. I love preaching the 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.440 word now more than I ever did before. My passion 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.520 for it has never been greater than right now, And 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.160 even in the last few months, God has been recentering 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.720 my passion on it showed me that's the purpose that 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.959 He put me here on earth for is to share 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:17.280 this word with you so much? Why do you holler 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.280 so much and scream so much? When you preach? It 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.360 gets exciting to me. It gets exciting to me. It 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.840 gets exciting to me. Don't you know you have a microphone. Yeah, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.720 but it gets exciting to me. It gets exciting to me. Now, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.840 if you get excited during my sermon, you can shout 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.600 to all right, I could do permission, Let's look at 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:46.400 Mark chapter five, verse thirty five. While Jesus was still speaking, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:53.080 some people came from the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:04:04.040 Your daughter is dead, they said, why bother the teacher anymore? 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:14.720 Daughter is dead? They said, why bother the teacher anymore? 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:22.480 Verse thirty six. Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:31.880 don't be afraid, just believe he. Jesus did not let 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:38.599 anyone follow him except Peter James and John who Peter 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.320 James and John, the brother of James. And when they 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.320 came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:51.839 a commotion with people crying and wailing loudly. He went 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.719 in and said to them, why all this commotion and wailing. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:03.640 The child is not dead but asleep. But they laughed 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:11.000 at him, laughed at him. After he put them all out, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:16.160 he took the child's father and mother and the disciples 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.680 who were with him, Peter, James, and John, and went 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.800 in where the child was. He did not avoid the 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:30.560 desperate situation. He walked right into it. He took her 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:36.000 by the hand, which is ceremonially unclean for a Jewish 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.320 rabbi to do if she's dead. But maybe she's not dead. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:47.280 Maybe Jesus knows something that we don't know about this 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.039 little girl, about your life. He took her by the 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:56.240 hand and said, listen to this to Alitha koumb, which 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:03.200 means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:09.200 the girl stood up started walking around. She was twelve 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:15.400 years old, Hannah Beth, she was twelve years old Abby 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:20.159 Faith at this they were completely astonished, and he gave 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.640 strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:31.600 told them to make her a sandwich. Wow. Let's give 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:40.839 God praise for his miracle working power. And what I 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.520 want to tell you today as a sermon title is 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:55.920 an announcement over your life. The facts aren't final. The 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:03.039 facts aren't final. I don't know who this is for, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.080 but I have been wrestling with this text all week, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.720 and at the end of all my wrestling with the text, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.280 the Lord released me to get up here and tell 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:26.800 you the facts aren't final. Oh yeah, Now look at 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.840 the person next to you and shout it right in 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:35.240 their face. The facts aren't fire. Put it in the chat. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:44.760 The facts aren't fire. You may be seated. What's going 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:50.120 on in your life? What's going on in your house. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.200 What's going on in your mind? Do I really want 0:07:55.200 --> 0:08:00.640 to know? You might be sorry you asked you. Now 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.080 you ask somebody sometimes how you doing, and then you 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.240 wish about five minutes later you would have said something 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.720 different to start a conversation. There's better icebreakers than how 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.320 you're doing. Let me tell you right now. I started 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.880 trying to just tell people good things about themselves rather 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.720 than ask them how they're doing, because I figure I 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.880 can trick them in to thinking they're doing better than 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.240 they are. Man, you look amazing. You've been getting great sleep, 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.000 haven't you. You've been getting massages every day and doing 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.400 dead lifts. Look at you. You look relaxed and focused 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.120 all at the same time. How is that even possible? 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.599 What's going on in your house? You wouldn't have necessarily 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.600 known that Gyrus had a dying daughter if you saw 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.280 him in the synagogue, because he was a leader there, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.240 not a paid professional. He wasn't the priest that offered 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.480 the sacrifices. The synagogue leader was like in our church 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.599 what we would think of as a campus pastor not 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.520 even really that because they weren't paid all right, So 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.400 JJ's like, please don't make me a sa n agogue 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.400 leader pastor more like a volunteer team leader or something 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.480 like that. But he was in charge of all of 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.720 the practical duties in the synagogue. That was his job. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.760 She had to keep certain wrecords and uphold certain standards. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.440 That was Gyrus's job. And the contrast of how I 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.920 jumped right in was probably pretty start. I know. We 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.720 went from singing a minute ago about you are the 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.760 same God, you were a healer then, and all of 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.400 the wonderful things that we started calling God when we 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:37.319 said waymaker, miracle worker, promise keeper. I'm gonna stop quoting 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.520 that song because I didn't write it. I don't know 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.280 if it'll get copyright flag if I keep using the 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.280 lyrics on YouTube. But all of those things that God is. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.600 And then we jumped right into this passage of scripture 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.280 where it says in verse thirty five, Jesus was still speaking, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.920 and some people came from the house of Gyrus. It's 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.880 kind of crazy how the son of God is speaking 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:06.680 and there is an interruption and the interruption results in 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.560 the worst news that any human being can possibly hear. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:16.679 It doesn't get worse than this, Your daughter is dead, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.760 doesn't get worse than that doesn't get worse than that. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:26.280 It doesn't get worse than this what Gyrus hears. And 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.040 so we are thankful as we journey through this passage 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.880 that it has a happy ending. And yet we know 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:37.040 that some stories don't. And somebody said to me, actually 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:42.199 this week, they said your Easter sermon was almost too 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:49.000 real and too raw for me. Well, I always thought 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.520 that keeping it real was what y'all loved about me 0:10:51.840 --> 0:11:01.640 as a preacher. I thought if y'all wanted fiction, you'd 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:14.480 turn on the news. Oh yeah, ah yeah, it's to raww. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.320 It is amazing, isn't it. It represents a shift in 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.480 my thinking where the Lord dealt with me in the 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:28.080 last few years. Stop preaching your sermons to people like 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.680 they are an audience to be feared, and start speaking 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:39.240 to them like they are people to be loved, which 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:44.000 means that we have to keep this conversational and relational. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.200 And yet I don't really know you. I feel like 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.600 I do some of you. Some of you. I know 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.920 you so well, like your face comes through my mind 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.520 when I'm all alone, listening to my worship music, studying 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.040 my word of God. I will see homeboy on the 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:08.360 fourth row two seats in that always wears a hoodie. Jerry, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.040 I told you before, Holly used to watch you worship 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.719 before we even knew who you were, and she was 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.080 watching this guy worship the Lord and I was like, well, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.439 that's weird, big who are you watching worship the Lord? 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.880 She's like, no, it's just he cries while he worships. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.079 And I wonder what's behind all of those tears. And 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.079 the more we understood your story, we understood why you 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:34.680 wouldn't have necessarily known that Jerry was crying because of 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.280 how close he came to losing everything. You wouldn't have 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.040 necessarily known that Gyrus, as he performed his function in 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:47.000 the synagogue, was dealing with the situation at home that 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:52.079 is every parent's worst nightmare. And the more we can 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.440 bring the reality of what's happening at home into this 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:01.559 sanitized space that we call sacred, the more like the 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:06.640 ministry of Jesus our worship services will be. You know, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.000 he did most of his ministry in the interruptions between 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:16.200 places that the disciples thought he should go. Think about 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.520 that for a moment, that much of the ministry of 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:26.080 Jesus not only happened outside of the church, services, but 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.640 it happened on the way to something else, which makes 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:34.280 me think that maybe I'm not smarter than God about 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.680 what needs to happen in my life, and that maybe 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.760 even when I'm planning my day, some of the things 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.840 that I don't know to be aware of will become 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.760 the most significant things about that day, the conversations that 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.400 we will have. In fact, I'm trying really hard these 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.760 days that when me and Holly talk, because I love 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.160 talking to Holly, all right, when I say that, there 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.240 are times I tune her out. Okay, there are times 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:03.679 I don't want to lie to you. I want to 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.440 keep it real, like we said five minutes ago, and 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.840 keep it real. But when we really get in a conversation, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.320 there aren't like to mes. There aren't to mes. They're 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.760 actually like fifty mes. But when it comes to what 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.800 I care about, we talk about these things that I 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.680 talk to you about. And then sometimes my goal in 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.320 preaching is I want you to overhear a conversation that 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.600 I'm having with God, or that I'm having with my wife, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.560 or that I'm having with my kids about what God 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.560 is doing, because I think the more relational the word is, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.600 the greater the revelation can be so that you can 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.400 make it flesh in your life, not just theory in 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.720 your mind or a formula in a history book. God 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.000 did this, and God did that. And I believe that 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.560 it is the personal experience of faith that has the 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.600 most power touch somebody say it's personal to me, it's 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.080 personal to me. I have personal issues, I have a 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.360 personal God. I have personal fears, I have personal phobias. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.400 I have a personal God. I love the phrase that 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.240 we use in the Baptist Church to make Jesus Christ 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.360 your personal Lord and savior. It's something that we used 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.360 in the Baptist Church to mean he is Lord and Savior, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.680 whether you say he is or not. But when it 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.040 gets personal to you, that means you go to Him 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.120 to save you, not a pill bottle. That means you 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.960 go to Him to save you. Not a plastic card 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.800 where you spend money. You don't have to buy stuff. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.720 You don't need to impress people who aren't paying attention 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.120 to you because they're doing the same thing. You go 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.560 to Jesus to save you. You You go to Jesus to 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.000 deliver you. You go to Jesus to speak to you, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.280 not potato chips. You go to Jesus to speak to you, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:57.320 not porn. Help you. Go to Jesus. I thought y'all 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:10.640 wanted it real. This is a personal word that Jesus 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.760 spoke to Gyros. Go back to verse thirty five. While 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:20.840 he was still speaking, some people from Gyrus's house came 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:26.880 to him and gave him a bad report. Don't shy 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.480 away from relating to this story just because you cannot 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:36.520 sympathize with the specific situation. The principles that are in 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.440 this passage of scripture apply to any situation in your 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:45.440 life that requires faith where fear is present. And I 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.720 used to shy away from these heavy passages because I thought, well, man, 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.640 I've never lost a child. But this passage isn't so 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:58.520 much about losing a child as it is keeping faith. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:07.520 Keeping faith, and keeping faith means sometimes believing God in 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:13.240 the face of a bad report. So this word, first 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.760 of all, is about somebody who has received a report 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.800 this week in your life that has caused you to fear, dread, 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:26.200 or to fall into a place of despondency. As Jesus 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:31.640 is speaking, some people come from Gyrus's house and say 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:37.280 it got worse the whole time that you've been standing 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.200 here at the feet of Jesus because I didn't read 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.000 this part, because I can't read the whole Bible to you. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.000 Every time we get together, I just have to choose 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.439 a frame and start there. I would love to, actually, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.919 I would love to talk to you about what was 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.720 in Mark four, Mark three, Mark seven, Mark eight, Mark nine, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.320 Mark Tenka. That's all good, but just for this frame today. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.480 I didn't tell you that Cyrus fell at the feet 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.280 of Jesus, which means he had to come down from 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:07.200 his high position as a synagogue leader and put himself 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.640 in a low place at the feet of a rabbi 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.440 who wasn't even a part of his religion. Church didn't 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:22.359 exist yet. Jyrus was Jewish leading a synagogue, and he 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.840 came to Jesus, who was outside the system of what 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.199 he even knew to be true religion. But here's what 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:35.040 I learned about desperate situations in your life. Desperate situations 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.960 will cause you to do things differently than you did 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.919 them when you thought you had all the answers and 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.080 everything you need and you had it all figured out. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.040 And now the leader is at the feet of a teacher, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.560 and he hopes that he can do something for his daughter. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.600 And every dad of a daughter stand up, every dad 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.240 of a daughter stand up. Wouldn't you do the same thing. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.119 Wouldn't you do the same thing when you fall at 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.200 his feet? Your daughter is dying, wouldn't you fall at 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.400 his feet? Wouldn't you do the same thing for your daughter? Now? 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.520 I have three kids, two boys, one girl. I'm not 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.879 sure I would do it for them, the boys, but 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.600 for Abby. I'm just kid, not doing for any of 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.320 my kids, I said, I said, I'll said out. I 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:22.879 mean and Holly were talking about this the other night. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.240 This is the conversation I want to bring you on. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.879 This is our conversation. We were talking about how really, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.280 in the end you have to give your kids to God. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.080 You really do now, I mean, you know, you could 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.119 put them on a sleep schedule when they're too but 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:50.800 when they're thirty two, when they're when they're transitioning through life, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.879 there's there's a there's a point where God calls you 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:02.600 to participate in parenting your children. But there's a fine 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:09.959 line between participating and manipulating. This is not a parenting sermon, 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.640 but that's what the text is talking about. So as 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.280 I relate to this text, I relate as a dad, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.840 as a dad who would do anything, and I do 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.200 anything I would. I'm almost I'm almost like making my 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.880 kids seft because I would almost do anything so they 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.399 never have to go through anything hard. And I know 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.720 I shouldn't do that, but I'm almost like a Dwight 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.560 Shrewt in the Office when he was going ahead of 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.360 Michael and making sure that he didn't starve. Remember when 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.520 Michael wanted to go out in the woods. Y'allna watch 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.320 The Office. I'm gonna give an altar call for everybody 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.480 who hadn't seen The Office at least twice the whole series. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:53.520 And and and I'll admit that I coddled them because 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.160 I care about them. And you would do the same. 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:04.600 You would do the same. It looks strange to see 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:09.000 somebody down in the dirt like Gyrus was when he 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.679 came to Jesus, until you have felt that kind of 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:20.480 desperation yourself. And we were talking, how you know you 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:25.359 have a baby, right? Well, like I didn't personally, I 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:35.480 participated and then I thought, oh, that's wonderful. They were 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:40.600 born healthy, right, and that is the end of worrying 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:52.360 about your kids. Because we had the baby. Okay, God, 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.680 we're good. Now, we don't need you anymore. From here 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:58.520 on out, this kid is going to go in the 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.240 way that they should go, do the things they should do, 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.600 say the things they should say. It's all good. God, 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:12.040 thank you for bringing this baby into the world, because 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.520 we had the baby, and now we have the baby, 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.720 and now that we got it, we're good. God right. 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.119 It's ridiculous, as ridiculous as it is for you to 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.600 think that trusting Jesus is something you do one time 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.680 when you give him your life and even the language, 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:38.080 watch the language. To place your faith in Jesus is 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:45.440 not an event. It is a practice. It is a practice, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.680 just like raising your kids. Should I step in here, 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.800 Should I step back there? Should I let them bust 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:55.000 their butt on this one so that they don't end 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.719 up busting their whole head wide open on the next one? 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:01.320 What do I do right here? Like following Jesus is 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:05.240 exactly the same way, because you will find yourself in 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:09.240 moments of weakness and moments of strength, in moments of knowledge, 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.520 and in moments of ignorance, in moments of highs, moments 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.399 of loves. You will find yourself every step of this 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:19.440 journey like Gyros saying, in one area of my life, 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.480 I'm a leader. In one area of my life, I'm 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.960 the top man on the food chain. In one area 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:28.000 of my life, I have the answers. I am Gyros, 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:31.280 the synagogue leader. But on the day we meet Gyros, 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.920 he is not standing at the front of the synagogue, 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.920 issuing the sacraments for the people, or checking the role 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.400 at the back of the room. He is a desperate 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:51.600 dad at the feet of Jesus, Jesus the teacher. That's 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.240 what the men who came from his house said to him. 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.399 He comes, he says, my daughter is dying. Will you 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.080 come with me to my house and heal her? And 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:07.160 she's like, yeah, I'll go. Sure, Sure, because you came 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.560 here and asked me. I love Gyrus because he didn't 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:15.840 just assume that it was all God's job. You understand. 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:19.040 He didn't just assume that if God wants it to happen, 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:23.119 it will just naturally happen. He didn't just assume that 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:26.479 God is like an automatic faucet where you put your 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.159 hands under it and wait. Some of y'all are going 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:33.800 to be waiting a long time under a facet that 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.320 God has given you the faith to turn on by 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:47.160 your actions, because faith without works is dead. So he 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:51.560 did something. He went to Jesus. He did something risky, 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.480 he did something dangerous. He had to cut through a 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:58.440 crowd to do it, and it worked until the interruption. 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:01.159 Now I want to speak to you of the interruption, 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.080 the interruption that you're going through in your life, the 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:09.520 interruption that happened to you from the outside, the interruption 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:11.920 that happened to you that kept you from your goal. 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:16.880 Because we all had goals, and we all had dreams, 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:23.879 and we all had things in between the idea and 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:30.840 the dream. Call them roadblocks. Just call it a roadblock. 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:36.720 In this particular instance, the crowd is pressing around Jesus 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:40.560 so tight. One gospel writer, it's not in Mark says 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:45.480 that it almost crushed the crowd. It almost crushed the 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:48.720 crowd in Mark's gospel Evan, the crowd is never seen 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:50.840 as a good thing, like when we go out to 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:55.200 elevation nights. Shameless plug number two. I want the crowds 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:59.000 to be big man, so we can have church. When 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:01.760 Mark mentions the crowd, a lot of times that's something 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:03.960 that's standing in the way of what God really wants 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:07.840 to do. So a lot of what we celebrate in 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.679 life is a lot of what God tries to strip 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:15.439 away to perform his agenda. Like you know how you 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:18.359 think it would be so cool to be famous. Most 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.520 famous people wish they could be anonymous, even for five minutes. 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:25.080 Trust me, I talked to them. They talk about it. 0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:27.440 The thing that I went after actually proved to be 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:31.960 a great distraction. And in this passage there is a 0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:35.000 woman and if God so leads, I'm going to preach 0:26:35.000 --> 0:26:38.880 about her on tour over the next two weeks, because 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:42.280 she comes to Jesus through the crowd, gets a miracle 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:45.280 for her situation, which has been going on for twelve 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:48.800 years as long as the little girl has been alive. 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:53.000 And as she is being healed by touching the dirty 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:58.400 hymn of Jesus's garment in the Palestinian streets, Gyrus's daughter 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:03.080 is home die and so her healing from a human perspective, 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:08.359 cost Gyrus's daughter her life. And now this is the 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:11.080 part of the teaching that I want to become flesh 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:13.800 in your life, because this is where we find ourselves 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:20.560 in moments of interruption, in moments of disruption, in moments 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:25.320 where something that we couldn't control affected something that we 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:31.160 were moving toward. And the people came from Gyrus's house 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:34.760 while Jesus was still speaking. I know I've only dealt 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:36.840 with one verse, but it's a good one. Verse thirty five. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:41.679 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:46.840 house of Gyrous, the leader who was at the feet 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:51.159 of Jesus, the one with a lot of prestige in 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.919 the community, who had a problem at home that all 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:56.639 the prestige in the world couldn't buy him out of 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:01.560 some stuff. It doesn't matter how much of that you 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:06.359 have that people celebrate. Something could happen in your life 0:28:06.520 --> 0:28:10.280 right now that would make everything else seem worthless in comparison. 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:15.040 Often do an exercise where it's like a reverse gratitude 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:18.520