1 00:00:01,339 --> 00:00:06,300 I abandoned you all last week and went to hang out with my baby brother, 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,820 and we had a good time, and the Lord's doing cool things in the Treasure Valley. 3 00:00:13,979 --> 00:00:21,400 But it's always good to come home, and we're going to look at the shortest sermon in the Bible, 4 00:00:21,860 --> 00:00:24,220 so we'll pray and then dismiss. 5 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:34,440 If you have a Bible, turn to Luke chapter 4, would you? Luke 4. 6 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,760 And I entitled this message, Jesus goes to church. 7 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:53,659 And if Jesus had the custom of going to church, I think maybe we should take his 8 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,280 and follow his lead. 9 00:00:56,660 --> 00:00:58,760 But we're going to start in verse 14. 10 00:00:58,980 --> 00:01:00,480 I'm just going to read through verse 20. 11 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,260 And we'll get rolling on this. 12 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,260 We remember last time, before we get started here, 13 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,000 last time it was kind of the template for spiritual warfare. 14 00:01:12,810 --> 00:01:15,260 And so when Satan came against Jesus, 15 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,340 and when Satan comes against us, 16 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:22,900 it would do us well to battle the same way that he did, right? 17 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:24,120 It is written. 18 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:25,860 It is written. 19 00:01:26,210 --> 00:01:29,720 A knowledge, having a working knowledge of God's word. 20 00:01:30,510 --> 00:01:33,120 And from Genesis to Revelation, right? 21 00:01:33,550 --> 00:01:37,000 You don't need to exclude anything because it's the full counsel of God. 22 00:01:37,540 --> 00:01:39,980 And it's alive and it's powerful. 23 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:45,660 And it's going to change your life if you'll press into it and learn it. 24 00:01:46,380 --> 00:01:52,120 And so when you don't, psychosis sets in. 25 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:54,420 That's why we're all crazy. 26 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,000 We don't read the Word of God. 27 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:05,900 And so Jesus used the Word of God as a sword against the enemy, Satan, 28 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:12,620 which also tried to use the Word of God in a twisted or perverted way, right? 29 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:20,280 And when we know it and it's deep in our hearts, we can combat the enemy. 30 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,160 And so Jesus is his purpose. 31 00:02:22,180 --> 00:02:29,580 passed the test so to speak. And here we see in verse 14, it says, then Jesus returned in the power of 32 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:37,120 the spirit to Galilee. And the news of him went out through all the surrounding region. And he taught 33 00:02:37,130 --> 00:02:44,300 in their synagogues being glorified by all. And so he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. 34 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:52,100 And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. And he was, 35 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:58,600 handed the book of the prophet Isaiah, and when he had opened the book, he found the place 36 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:05,060 where it was written, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach 37 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:12,020 the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the 38 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:19,960 captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to 39 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:27,020 proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord. Then he closed the book and gave it back to the attendant 40 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:34,180 and sat down and the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on him. 41 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:45,060 Now, the great theologian, R. C. Sproll said the text you have just heard is of critical importance 42 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,940 to understanding the person and work of Jesus in his. 43 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,200 His earthly ministry. 44 00:03:52,060 --> 00:03:58,980 And so it is imperative that we hear this word and receive it in the power of the Holy Spirit. 45 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:02,020 Thus, we ought to pray. 46 00:04:03,420 --> 00:04:05,040 Lord, we come before you right now. 47 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:07,540 Holy Spirit, we need you. 48 00:04:07,980 --> 00:04:10,760 We need you to open our understanding. 49 00:04:11,260 --> 00:04:17,840 Lord, just as your word says that without you, Holy Spirit, somebody can't even say that Jesus is Lord. 50 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:23,160 And so, Father, I just ask right now that you would teach us, that you by your Holy Spirit, 51 00:04:23,340 --> 00:04:28,240 as your word tells us, we need no man to teach us, but you will do it by your Holy Spirit. 52 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:30,820 Through your word that you have given us. 53 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,860 And so, Lord, as we look at these words, especially the ones written in red, 54 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,280 may they sink deep in our hearts, Lord. 55 00:04:37,420 --> 00:04:45,820 May we be truly changed by what we see in the great things that we see in the truth of your word. 56 00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:47,560 And we pray it in Jesus' name. 57 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:47,960 Amen. 58 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:57,760 Amen. So Jesus went to church. Notice right off the bat, it says, in the power of the Holy Spirit. 59 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:04,760 That's where all the power is, is the Holy Spirit of God. You and I have no power. We're powerless. 60 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:11,999 Apart from him. And just as I said that scripture, I believe it's in 2nd Corinthians, that 61 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:17,460 apart from the spirit of God, a man, a woman can't even say that Jesus is Lord. 62 00:05:18,260 --> 00:05:20,900 And so Jesus has passed the test. 63 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,480 He's been walking in the spirit. 64 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,500 He battled in the spirit. 65 00:05:25,620 --> 00:05:26,740 Have you battled in the spirit? 66 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:29,260 What's that like for you? 67 00:05:30,380 --> 00:05:32,500 Some of it's just keeping your mouth shut. 68 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:34,300 Right? 69 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,980 That's a sign that the Holy Spirit is. 70 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,540 is working in you. A fruit of the spirit is self-control. You can control what you say. 71 00:05:50,919 --> 00:05:56,000 And how many couples over the years I've seen that their marriages just fell apart 72 00:05:56,070 --> 00:06:02,020 because they could not bridle their tongue. And they so wounded each other with the words 73 00:06:02,020 --> 00:06:10,660 that they spoke that it dissolved their relationship. Listen, the old the old theologian, 74 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,040 Disney theologian, Thumper. 75 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:17,220 You remember Thumper, right? 76 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:19,760 He's sitting there thumping his little foot. 77 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,060 Now Thumper, his mom has given him instruction. 78 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,680 Now, thumpur, what did your daddy say? 79 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:31,380 If you can't say something good, don't say nothing at all. 80 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,120 There's a lot of power in that, right? 81 00:06:37,159 --> 00:06:38,940 But it's a bottle, right? 82 00:06:39,220 --> 00:06:40,160 We get stirred up. 83 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,240 We feel like we got to talk. 84 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:42,620 especially girls. 85 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:48,880 Because you guys have so many more words to say than what we do. 86 00:06:50,740 --> 00:06:53,080 Us poor guys, sometimes we're dumb down to, uh, 87 00:06:55,340 --> 00:06:55,520 right? 88 00:06:56,860 --> 00:06:57,440 And, uh, 89 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,980 but there's power with the Holy Spirit. 90 00:07:02,980 --> 00:07:07,060 The Bible said anyone who can't bridle their, 91 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:09,400 their tongue, their religion is vain. 92 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:11,780 Right, it's empty. 93 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:13,600 It's not real to you. 94 00:07:16,140 --> 00:07:21,760 And I know the Lord had to put a bear trap on my mouth because it was so foul. 95 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,200 And I remember my mom, you know, writing down how many times I said this certain word, 96 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,620 and I can't even admit it to you, but it was terrible. 97 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:33,420 It shocked me. 98 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,040 I'm going, really, I said it that many times. 99 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:35,720 Yeah. 100 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,580 But there's this power that God wants to. 101 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:47,860 give us. We read when we do spiritual battle there in 2 Corinthians chapter 10 where it talks about 102 00:07:47,860 --> 00:07:53,960 the weapons of our warfare, they're not carnal, right? They're not a big bicep, right? 103 00:07:54,540 --> 00:07:59,180 But they're mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds. That's spiritual strongholds. 104 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:10,100 And some of us, we've all had these weaknesses, right? And yet so much of our battle is right up here. 105 00:08:10,260 --> 00:08:11,120 in our mind. 106 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,660 And it tells us that we can cast down arguments, 107 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:15,540 this power of the Holy Spirit. 108 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,480 It helps take our thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ. 109 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:22,280 That's good, that's good scrapping. 110 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:24,300 That's good spiritual warfare. 111 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,020 And we're all in it. 112 00:08:27,379 --> 00:08:30,280 If you're breathing, you're in a spiritual battle. 113 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,880 Now you might be getting your spiritual tail kicked, right? 114 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,880 You might be just getting a whooping, 115 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,640 but we're all in the spiritual battle. 116 00:08:39,419 --> 00:08:41,580 And how you doing? 117 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:44,580 How are you doing? 118 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:47,580 Praise God, his mercies are new every morning, 119 00:08:47,630 --> 00:08:50,100 and we need a lot of grace and mercy to get through this thing. 120 00:08:52,790 --> 00:08:55,080 But Satan never takes a day off, folks. 121 00:08:56,060 --> 00:08:57,200 Why do we think we can? 122 00:08:59,040 --> 00:08:59,720 We think we can. 123 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:01,240 I need a little R&R. 124 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,560 Throughout Scripture, when we see people taking R&R, 125 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:05,640 they get in trouble. 126 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,100 How about David? 127 00:09:07,820 --> 00:09:07,980 Right? 128 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:09,320 It's the time. 129 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:15,200 You notice, it's very specific in that scripture passage when David, it's a time when kings go to war. 130 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,760 Well, David wasn't at war. He wasn't on the battlefield. Where was he? He was kind of kicking back, right? 131 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:28,140 Sipping on a cup with a little umbrella on it. You know, seeing the girl bathing. And, oh, who's that? 132 00:09:28,140 --> 00:09:34,660 Oh, that's your wife's well send her to me. He's the king. He can call for anyone he wants. 133 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,460 Destroyed his family. He destroyed it. 134 00:09:40,620 --> 00:09:42,020 because he got a spiritual tail kicked. 135 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:45,200 Because he thought, oh, I need to take a break. 136 00:09:46,780 --> 00:09:48,140 Spiritually, you don't ever take a break. 137 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,320 You don't ever take a break, spiritually speaking. 138 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,160 And so Jesus is filled with his spirit. 139 00:09:57,140 --> 00:10:00,000 He's engaged in this spiritual battle. 140 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,380 And because he had been tested, right, 141 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:05,200 it's time for him to enter into his ministry. 142 00:10:06,060 --> 00:10:08,500 And now we don't know how much time he elapsed. 143 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:13,180 from the time that he started his ministry and the time that Satan tempted him. 144 00:10:13,340 --> 00:10:15,140 Some scholars think it was up to a year. 145 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:22,680 But notice he was making some waves because it says there in those first couple of 146 00:10:22,780 --> 00:10:24,300 verses we read 14 and 15. 147 00:10:24,470 --> 00:10:28,780 It says, then the news of him went out through all the surrounding region 148 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:32,880 and he taught in their synagogues being glorified by all. 149 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:37,900 People are going, wow, when this dude talks, it's powerful. 150 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:40,260 right and you remember 151 00:10:41,150 --> 00:10:43,060 the soldiers that were sent to arrest him 152 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:44,300 and they came back and they said 153 00:10:44,460 --> 00:10:45,940 why do you? How come you don't have him? 154 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:49,700 They said because we've never heard anybody speak like this man. 155 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:51,800 His words were powerful. 156 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:56,060 That's why it's important to write on your tongue 157 00:10:56,220 --> 00:10:57,240 because your words are powerful. 158 00:10:58,340 --> 00:11:00,260 See, we're created in the image of God, folks. 159 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,540 I remember being a little boy and my mom telling me, 160 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,400 oh, Scotty, honey, now we're sticks in stones, 161 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:07,900 we'll break your bones, but words will be. 162 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:17,760 never hurt you. That's a lie. Right? That is a lie. And why is that words are so powerful? The 163 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:23,700 Proverbs tell us that life and death are in the power of the tongue. You can speak life into somebody, 164 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:35,100 a husband or a wife or a child or a friend, or you can speak death into them. And because God's 165 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:36,160 word is so powerful. 166 00:11:37,980 --> 00:11:41,960 Everything we see, he spoke into existence. 167 00:11:42,510 --> 00:11:45,460 We are created in his image. That's why our words 168 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,960 carry so much weight and so much power. 169 00:11:49,110 --> 00:11:49,620 And so 170 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,200 Jesus is 171 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,400 the living word. The word become flesh as it tells us in 172 00:12:01,860 --> 00:12:02,400 John. 173 00:12:03,930 --> 00:12:05,080 And he's 174 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,000 going from church to church. 175 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:08,720 Synagogue to synagogue. 176 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,840 They're in the Galilee area around Nazareth, where he grew up. 177 00:12:14,180 --> 00:12:15,000 There's Copernum. 178 00:12:15,140 --> 00:12:16,680 That's where he moved his ministry to. 179 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,740 And there was Cana where he did the wedding, you know, and turned the water into wine. 180 00:12:21,130 --> 00:12:22,960 And he's going from synagogue to synagogue. 181 00:12:24,860 --> 00:12:30,140 And some think that the synagogues kind of came into play after Solomon built a temple. 182 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:35,060 Some think that it was more launched when during the captain. 183 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,740 The Assyrian and the Babylonian captivity where the people could come together, 184 00:12:39,090 --> 00:12:45,260 where two or three could gather together and to pray and to seek the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 185 00:12:46,660 --> 00:12:51,500 Synagogues just are a Greek word for church or assembly, right? 186 00:12:53,079 --> 00:12:56,540 And Jesus saw a fit to go assemble. 187 00:12:57,920 --> 00:12:59,300 And I'm glad you're all here today. 188 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:00,000 We're assembly. 189 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:01,100 Right? 190 00:13:01,180 --> 00:13:01,860 We're synagoguing. 191 00:13:01,860 --> 00:13:05,000 We're churching here this morning. 192 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:09,600 and it's always good. 193 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,080 It's always good to fellowship and to encourage one another 194 00:13:14,590 --> 00:13:19,040 and to bear one another's burdens, it says, in the scriptures. 195 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:27,480 And so he's been teaching, and it says he was very successful. 196 00:13:27,780 --> 00:13:29,340 Everybody glorified him. 197 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,780 It says there that I think there's the word fame. 198 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:36,220 and the fame of him. 199 00:13:37,820 --> 00:13:40,140 Fame must have been of NIV. 200 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,120 That's the nearly inspired version. 201 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:46,340 Just kidding. I'm just joking. 202 00:13:48,810 --> 00:13:48,940 Okay. 203 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,460 But the word fame, actually, it's a Greek word. 204 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:55,220 It means fame. 205 00:13:55,790 --> 00:13:59,800 It means to report the news of, fame of, or the rumor. 206 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,300 Let's just say that Jesus at this point is the talk of the town. 207 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:05,380 right he's the 208 00:14:05,490 --> 00:14:07,460 talk of the town and he 209 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,120 should be should he not 210 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,180 the Bible says he's created all 211 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,780 things all things were made by him 212 00:14:16,130 --> 00:14:16,880 and for him 213 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:19,040 you realize that's why you're here 214 00:14:19,810 --> 00:14:19,940 that's why you're here 215 00:14:20,700 --> 00:14:21,940 that's why you're drawing breath 216 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:23,440 is for him 217 00:14:24,310 --> 00:14:27,400 he created 218 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:28,620 you for his good pleasure 219 00:14:29,070 --> 00:14:30,500 to have relationship with you 220 00:14:31,839 --> 00:14:33,300 to show you 221 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:34,620 life's purpose. 222 00:14:39,140 --> 00:14:39,920 You know, it's funny. 223 00:14:42,020 --> 00:14:43,700 You talk to people all the time. 224 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,200 I talk to people in their 70s. 225 00:14:46,660 --> 00:14:48,820 They still don't know what they want to be when they grow up. 226 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,200 I'm going, hmm, I guess I'm with you. 227 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:02,740 But ultimately, no matter what you do in this life, 228 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:05,960 is the name of Jesus on your lips. 229 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:11,080 Is he your life source? 230 00:15:12,740 --> 00:15:14,280 Is he the source of your love? 231 00:15:16,380 --> 00:15:19,780 Because I know I don't got the kind of love Jesus God. 232 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,340 But I know that I can be a vessel in it. 233 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:26,440 And if I choose to and yield and surrender 234 00:15:27,180 --> 00:15:31,080 and put away my flesh and just let myself be a vessel of his love, 235 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:31,740 I can do that. 236 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:34,000 but it's he that does it. 237 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,060 And I don't know why he does that. 238 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,240 Because in doing so, I am extremely blessed 239 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,080 when I allow myself to be a vessel of God's love. 240 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,480 And sometimes people mistake that. 241 00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:53,420 They say, well, man, Pastor Scott, you're so harsh. 242 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,180 And one guy called me, he's mean. 243 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,200 He said, I was mean for telling him the truth. 244 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:01,500 Because it hurt. 245 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,420 The truth does hurt, right? 246 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:09,820 Because we're so flawed and we have so much yuck in our life. 247 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:18,820 And yet, Jesus' fame is going out in spite of that. 248 00:16:18,930 --> 00:16:22,580 And people are faced, no doubt, with their own. 249 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,720 When you come in contact with Jesus, it's like, you know, 250 00:16:27,660 --> 00:16:30,100 there's some kind of conviction that goes on. 251 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:31,560 It was kind of like when we were reading, 252 00:16:31,580 --> 00:16:36,920 about John the Baptist and he was proclaiming the word of the Lord and telling people to repent for the 253 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:43,660 kingdom of heaven as an end. It's like, oh, I need to get right with God. I need to be right with God. 254 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:51,040 I wake up every day thinking that. I need to be right with God. Because I know that if I don't do 255 00:16:51,180 --> 00:16:57,660 that on purpose, if I don't pursue him, if I don't seek him, if I don't read his word and put it in my 256 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:07,000 heart, then I go do my own thing. And my own thing is never good. It's always a mess when I do 257 00:17:07,579 --> 00:17:13,819 my own thing. And like I said before, we see it throughout scripture when when people start 258 00:17:13,959 --> 00:17:22,180 to do their own thing. So now he shows up in his hometown. He's there in Nazareth and he went to 259 00:17:22,980 --> 00:17:27,640 synagogue. He went to the assembly. It was his custom. Right. He was his custom. Right. 260 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:32,200 Have you noticed that when you go to church, you have to kind of do it on purpose? 261 00:17:34,940 --> 00:17:35,080 Right? 262 00:17:35,820 --> 00:17:38,620 You kind of got to, okay, we're going to church. 263 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:44,240 When Jesus radically saved me and my wife and I got married, 264 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,400 I just like, we got to go to church. 265 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:47,160 Right. 266 00:17:47,660 --> 00:17:51,200 And then you're married for a little while, you know, and the chafing begins. 267 00:17:52,340 --> 00:17:52,480 Right? 268 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,460 You just kind of rub each other the wrong way, you know? 269 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:00,740 And I'm thinking we really got to go to church now because we're in trouble. 270 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,940 And then you throw a couple kids in the mix. 271 00:18:04,420 --> 00:18:06,680 You got all these sinners under the same roof. 272 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,120 And it's just absolute chaos. 273 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:10,120 Right. 274 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,920 And the most chaotic is Sunday mornings right before church. 275 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:15,620 And why is that? 276 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,780 Because we have a real enemy that does not want us to go into church. 277 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:22,080 Right? 278 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:23,340 It's a real deal. 279 00:18:23,540 --> 00:18:26,980 I remember I was thinking, why is it mean her kid in the most? 280 00:18:27,020 --> 00:18:28,760 knock down, drag out, worse. 281 00:18:29,340 --> 00:18:31,100 Fine, if you ain't going, I ain't going. 282 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 And then I thought, oh, bingo, I know what it is. 283 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:38,540 So we kind of kept our distance. 284 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:39,660 Right? 285 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:41,600 She gave me my schedule. 286 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,220 This is what I need you to do on Sunday morning. 287 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,100 I need you to help me. 288 00:18:45,060 --> 00:18:45,180 Right? 289 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:46,320 We had four kids. 290 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,180 Right, we were wiping hindis and noses. 291 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,280 And, you know, if you have a butt kicking down in, 292 00:18:52,940 --> 00:18:53,640 it's just chaos. 293 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:56,960 So we have to do it. 294 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,260 We had to go to church on purpose. 295 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:00,140 I remember one time our kids were little. 296 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:03,040 Back a couple of them were sick, and my wife stayed home. 297 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,820 And I went to church. 298 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,320 I went to church by myself. 299 00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:07,520 Actually, all the kids stayed home. 300 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:09,400 And I went to church by myself. 301 00:19:09,860 --> 00:19:15,020 And I get back home and we're Saturday. 302 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:16,580 We're going to go to church the next day. 303 00:19:17,260 --> 00:19:19,560 And I can't remember if she got sick or something, 304 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:20,400 and she didn't go. 305 00:19:21,060 --> 00:19:22,660 And we got to talk in about a week later. 306 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,940 And she says, you know, that first time, that first Sunday, 307 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,380 I missed. I really missed it. 308 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,100 She goes, the second one, I didn't miss it near as much. 309 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:30,720 Right? 310 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:32,660 It's a slow fade. 311 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:40,280 And I think we saw the impact of that during COVID when they shut things down, you know, 312 00:19:40,420 --> 00:19:41,580 and that we couldn't get together. 313 00:19:43,860 --> 00:19:44,980 And listen, we're a body. 314 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:50,720 We're a body made up of a bunch of cells that make up the body of the body of Christ. 315 00:19:51,540 --> 00:19:51,680 Right. 316 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:53,260 And some are stinky. 317 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:55,100 Right? 318 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:56,800 Some are hard to love. 319 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,780 Some people you have to love from a distance. 320 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,200 But we need each other. 321 00:20:01,110 --> 00:20:04,340 For a body to function, everything needs to be working. 322 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,140 And we are that body of Christ Jesus. 323 00:20:09,460 --> 00:20:10,880 And so it's important. 324 00:20:11,260 --> 00:20:12,060 And we see Jesus. 325 00:20:12,570 --> 00:20:13,620 It was his custom. 326 00:20:14,220 --> 00:20:14,380 Right. 327 00:20:14,980 --> 00:20:17,920 If anyone could say, I don't need church, it would have been Jesus. 328 00:20:18,580 --> 00:20:18,700 Right? 329 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:20,120 Jesus didn't need church. 330 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:21,160 Jesus don't need anything. 331 00:20:21,940 --> 00:20:23,220 Don't need you, don't need me. 332 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:32,600 But he didn't. He showed up. And what did he do? He ministered people. He ministered to people. 333 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:42,900 And so he's there. Because of all his fame, they would invite visiting rabbis to read. 334 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:52,500 And so he stood up to read. And the usual order of service in a synagogue began with an opening prayer and praise. 335 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:54,640 had some of that going on here. 336 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:57,940 Then a reading from the law, the Torah, 337 00:20:58,260 --> 00:20:59,900 which would be the first five books of the Bible, 338 00:21:00,420 --> 00:21:04,180 that would be Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. 339 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,560 The first five books of the Bible. 340 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,300 And then there would be a reading from the prophets, 341 00:21:11,820 --> 00:21:13,040 and then a sermon. 342 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:14,820 Reading from the prophets. 343 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:18,160 Been reading through the prophets lately, 344 00:21:19,460 --> 00:21:20,600 and it's powerful. 345 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,400 The things that point to Jesus. 346 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,960 And so they would have this sermon. 347 00:21:27,230 --> 00:21:30,980 And what happened was the teacher would read and then he would sit. 348 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:32,660 And then the people would sit on the floor. 349 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,820 It's the idea of sitting at the feet, right, of a teacher, sitting at the feet. 350 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,380 Mary sat at the feet of Jesus. 351 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:46,100 And Jesus commended her for doing the better part instead of the nervous Nellie, Martha. 352 00:21:48,179 --> 00:21:52,400 And so on this occasion, Jesus, Jesus, 353 00:21:52,420 --> 00:21:56,380 Jesus must have been the visitor and was able. 354 00:21:57,020 --> 00:21:59,520 So they hand him the scroll of Isaiah. 355 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,200 So that would have been on the priest to decide whoever was ahead of the synagogue, 356 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,400 gave him the scroll of the book of Isaiah. 357 00:22:09,220 --> 00:22:12,260 And he read, 358 00:22:13,020 --> 00:22:15,960 The Spirit of the Lord is up on me, 359 00:22:16,420 --> 00:22:20,220 because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. 360 00:22:21,220 --> 00:22:22,380 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. 361 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:32,440 on me. This is very literal. He is talking about himself. Right here. And this is very, this was written 362 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:40,280 700 years before Christ was on the earth. And so here, the king of kings is reading the Bible. 363 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:51,760 Listen, if the king of kings read the word of God, and the kings in the Old Testament were required, 364 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,660 to read the word. 365 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:55,640 And yet when you read through the kings, 366 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,880 they were an absolute mess. 367 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,580 They got into false worship. 368 00:23:01,860 --> 00:23:04,380 They married women who worshipped false gods. 369 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,000 They got drug down. 370 00:23:06,780 --> 00:23:09,140 But that wasn't how it was supposed to be. 371 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,180 It was supposed to be different. 372 00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:15,740 If you have a Bible, turn to Deuteronomy 373 00:23:17,559 --> 00:23:18,600 chapter 17. 374 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:28,920 king. And this was the instruction to the kings. Now, there were no kings yet. Right, God was their king. 375 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:38,280 Would there be a better king than God? Do you hear that? Out of the mouths of babes. 376 00:23:41,020 --> 00:23:45,440 Would there be a better king than God? And these two little ones go, now! 377 00:23:54,020 --> 00:23:56,800 And so the instruction was for these kings. 378 00:23:56,980 --> 00:23:58,700 Now, they hadn't had any kings yet. 379 00:23:58,820 --> 00:24:02,080 It was going to be, it was going to be quite a while, right? 380 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:05,020 A couple hundred years before they were going to have any kings. 381 00:24:05,740 --> 00:24:07,500 And the first king we know was King Saul. 382 00:24:07,940 --> 00:24:14,320 But God gave Moses the groundwork for what a king was supposed to be. 383 00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:16,620 And this is what he was supposed to be. 384 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,860 In chapter 17 and verse 14, it says, 385 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,700 now when you come into the land, right, 386 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,200 they hadn't gone through the Red Sea yet, 387 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,320 when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you 388 00:24:30,090 --> 00:24:32,860 and possess it and dwell in it and say, 389 00:24:33,220 --> 00:24:38,480 I will be a king, I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me. 390 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:43,280 You shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, 391 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,920 one from among your brothers. 392 00:24:46,940 --> 00:24:48,820 You shall set a king over you. 393 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,800 You may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 394 00:24:56,220 --> 00:24:59,420 But he shall not multiply horses for himself, 395 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:04,180 nor cause the people to return to Egypt, or back to sin, 396 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:07,940 or to multiply horses for the Lord has said to you, 397 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,260 you shall not return that way again. 398 00:25:10,380 --> 00:25:13,340 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself. 399 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,500 Now, you guys know the story of the kings, right? 400 00:25:15,860 --> 00:25:17,060 They all had multiple wives. 401 00:25:20,020 --> 00:25:24,180 Solomon had 300 and 700 porcupines. 402 00:25:28,980 --> 00:25:30,640 No wonder that poor burger fell. 403 00:25:34,740 --> 00:25:36,200 They weren't to multiply wives. 404 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:37,840 People said, well, they did in the Bible. 405 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,240 Listen, they did a lot of things in the Bible 406 00:25:41,380 --> 00:25:43,360 that were not instructed to do from Scripture. 407 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,180 Well, it's in the Bible, right? 408 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,100 Well, there's murder in the Bible. 409 00:25:49,340 --> 00:25:51,720 There's homosexuality in the Bible, right? 410 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,920 There's thievery in the Bible. 411 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,320 There's eating of your own children in the Bible. 412 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:02,540 Nasty. 413 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:03,560 That's right. 414 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,280 But this is instructional right here in Deuteronomy, right? 415 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,940 It's instructional for the people that they shouldn't multiply. 416 00:26:12,140 --> 00:26:12,780 He should not. 417 00:26:12,790 --> 00:26:13,320 The king. 418 00:26:13,620 --> 00:26:17,020 should not multiply wives to himself, left his heart turn away, 419 00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:21,000 nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. 420 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,200 He's not supposed to chase after the almighty dollar. 421 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:29,280 One of my friends one time said, 422 00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:32,020 making money is not the problem, keeping it is. 423 00:26:33,340 --> 00:26:33,480 Right? 424 00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:37,040 Because the Bible tells us that if you're rich is increased, 425 00:26:37,220 --> 00:26:40,900 don't set your heart on them, because they grow wings and they fly away. 426 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:42,500 Mine does every month. 427 00:26:42,740 --> 00:26:43,220 How about you? 428 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:45,940 Don't set your heart on that stuff. 429 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,240 Also, it shall be when he sits on the throne of his kingdom. 430 00:26:52,370 --> 00:27:03,040 Listen, that he shall write for himself a copy of the law, of this law, in a book from the one before the priest, the Levites. 431 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:13,200 And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words. 432 00:27:13,220 --> 00:27:15,840 of this law and these statutes, 433 00:27:16,140 --> 00:27:18,900 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, 434 00:27:19,340 --> 00:27:23,840 that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, 435 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,920 and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, 436 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,680 he and his children in the midst of Israel. 437 00:27:30,540 --> 00:27:32,100 This instruction to the kings, 438 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:37,300 that instruction goes this way too, to you and me. 439 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,700 Notice what happens, right? 440 00:27:40,820 --> 00:27:42,940 There's greed, there's relational, 441 00:27:42,980 --> 00:27:46,660 dysfunction when you're not letting God's word direct your life. 442 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,000 There's a desire for power. That would be the horses. 443 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,800 Those were the Sherman tanks of the day. 444 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:00,620 And so, it keeps our mind right when we read the word. 445 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:03,540 Right? It's alive. It tells us. 446 00:28:04,820 --> 00:28:09,300 Those of you who Bible scholars know, Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12, right? 447 00:28:09,580 --> 00:28:12,720 It is a sharp sword. 448 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,180 It's powerful. 449 00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:17,840 Cutting to dividing bone and marrow 450 00:28:18,510 --> 00:28:21,260 and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of our heart. 451 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:23,120 This word. 452 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:24,820 It's powerful. 453 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:31,440 And here, Jesus reads a very powerful passage from the Word of God. 454 00:28:32,660 --> 00:28:36,380 And so Jesus says in Luke 2444, 455 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:37,640 then he said to them, 456 00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:41,640 these are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, 457 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:48,200 that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and the prophets in the Psalms concerning me. 458 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,160 He's talking about his words that are written and read that we have in our New Testament, 459 00:28:52,590 --> 00:28:57,960 and he's talking about all the Old Testament, prophetic words pointing towards him. 460 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,840 And notice, it's in the law, it's in the prophets, and it's in the Psalms. 461 00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:07,340 And it all points to him. 462 00:29:08,940 --> 00:29:10,900 Thousands of years before he came on the scene. 463 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,740 He is the fulfillment of this, this powerful word. 464 00:29:16,140 --> 00:29:19,580 And he's going to relay that message to these people. 465 00:29:20,140 --> 00:29:24,080 So Rabbi Jesus, he read from the scroll of Isaiah, read six things. 466 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,360 Right. First was the gospel to the poor. 467 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,300 Remember when he said the beatitudes, blessed of the poor, what? 468 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:30,140 In spirit. 469 00:29:30,860 --> 00:29:32,040 He's poor in spirit today. 470 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:38,600 You just don't have a confidence in the depths of your heart that you're good with God. 471 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,720 That's why Jesus came. 472 00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:42,880 He says, no, I want to give you confidence. 473 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,680 I want you to know that you know that you're on your way to heaven. 474 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:52,120 John tells us in First John, these things are written that you may know, not hope, 475 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:57,200 not think so, that you may know that you have eternal life. 476 00:29:58,580 --> 00:30:01,660 When you know you have eternal life, what can stop you? 477 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,500 Nothing when you know that. 478 00:30:06,460 --> 00:30:10,420 But those who are poor in spirit are going through this life like a wish, 479 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,300 Wash a machine. 480 00:30:11,660 --> 00:30:12,400 Wish she was. 481 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:13,400 We shie wash. 482 00:30:13,470 --> 00:30:14,860 You don't know if you're coming or going. 483 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:15,880 Right? 484 00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:24,460 Blessed is the poor and spirit, 485 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,280 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, he tells us in Matthew, 486 00:30:28,020 --> 00:30:29,120 chapter 5, verse 3. 487 00:30:30,260 --> 00:30:32,900 Back in Isaiah chapter 52, 488 00:30:33,460 --> 00:30:36,680 a few chapters back from what he read there in the synagogue. 489 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,260 It says, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him, 490 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,460 who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, 491 00:30:45,610 --> 00:30:50,340 who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, your God reigns. 492 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,100 This is good news. 493 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,280 Do you know the good news? 494 00:30:55,860 --> 00:30:58,300 Has it had that impact on your life? 495 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,160 It's news that you can be saved. 496 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,740 Jesus first came to save us. 497 00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:07,100 Listen, he's coming again. 498 00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,260 He's not coming as the nice, great. 499 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,800 gracious, merciful savior. 500 00:31:12,740 --> 00:31:15,800 He's coming as a ferocious warrior. 501 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,760 That's going to execute the kings of the earth. 502 00:31:19,060 --> 00:31:20,920 He is going to cut their heads off. 503 00:31:23,260 --> 00:31:27,620 That's this Jesus meek and mild that so many people are confused about who he is. 504 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:28,720 Right? 505 00:31:29,060 --> 00:31:30,860 He came as a loving suffering. 506 00:31:31,660 --> 00:31:33,540 You see that through the book of Isaiah. 507 00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:34,780 Savior. 508 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,760 To save you and me, we need saved. 509 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:38,920 You need saved. 510 00:31:39,180 --> 00:31:40,200 These little ones need save. 511 00:31:40,940 --> 00:31:41,860 They need to know Jesus. 512 00:31:42,540 --> 00:31:44,080 Because he is the only salvation. 513 00:31:44,780 --> 00:31:45,500 There is no other. 514 00:31:47,220 --> 00:31:47,660 And so 515 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:50,420 it's good news. 516 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,080 And he brought this good news to the people. 517 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:53,940 Hey! 518 00:31:55,420 --> 00:31:57,580 You can be saved. God wants you to be right with him. 519 00:31:57,660 --> 00:31:58,940 He's willing that none should perish, 520 00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:00,680 but that all would come to repentance. 521 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,460 But if you don't want to repent, his judgment's coming. 522 00:32:05,380 --> 00:32:08,540 And it is ferocious. 523 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,560 He is a perfect judge 524 00:32:13,340 --> 00:32:16,760 executing the just judgment that everyone deserves 525 00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:24,560 and giving a pass to those of us who have accepted him for who he is. 526 00:32:28,020 --> 00:32:31,860 And I don't about you, but I say, thank you, Jesus. 527 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,060 Right, that's the good news. 528 00:32:34,420 --> 00:32:38,060 Secondly, right, he came to heal the brokenhearted. 529 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,440 I better get back there 530 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:40,780 lest I get lost here. 531 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,580 He sent me to heal the broken heart. 532 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:49,860 Think about that for a second. 533 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,700 That is a powerful statement. 534 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,480 Do you know any doctors that can heal a broken heart? 535 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:57,800 You seen them? 536 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,200 They would be the richest man in the world 537 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,100 if they could heal a broken heart. 538 00:33:05,380 --> 00:33:06,840 Jesus came to heal the broken heart. 539 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,820 is because he can touch the part of you that nothing, 540 00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,620 nothing else can touch and heal. 541 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,840 When Greg and Kathy Loria lost their son Christopher in a horrific car wreck, 542 00:33:21,390 --> 00:33:25,420 I remember Kathy telling her story how this happened. 543 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,680 And he was a young guy. 544 00:33:27,690 --> 00:33:30,520 I think his wife was pregnant with their second child. 545 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,700 He was 32 or 33 their son was when he was killed in a car wreck. 546 00:33:35,220 --> 00:33:37,840 And she said she remembers standing in the heart. 547 00:33:37,860 --> 00:33:40,000 hallway right in front of their front door. 548 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,520 And her mom walked in. 549 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:49,860 And she said, just the weight of it, seeing everybody and the weight of losing their son, 550 00:33:50,380 --> 00:33:51,800 she just collapsed on the floor. 551 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,080 And she said her mom come over and tried to console her. 552 00:33:57,420 --> 00:33:57,960 And she couldn't. 553 00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:01,820 She said, nobody could touch my heart at that moment. 554 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:03,280 Except Jesus. 555 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,820 He was the only one that could really minister to me. 556 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:16,899 suffering such a great loss. In the Greco-Roman world, healing was often associated with various deities and 557 00:34:17,139 --> 00:34:24,060 rituals. You've heard of the Greek gods. However, the New Testament presents Jesus as the ultimate healer 558 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:30,619 whose authority over sickness and disease demonstrates his divine power and compassion. The act of healing 559 00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:32,260 was a sign of the 560 00:34:32,610 --> 00:34:34,320 end-breaking kingdom of God 561 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:35,840 where the 562 00:34:38,659 --> 00:34:40,399 restoration and wholeness 563 00:34:41,300 --> 00:34:42,480 are central themes. 564 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,500 We just seem to do it over and over again 565 00:34:46,340 --> 00:34:47,980 just making people complete 566 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:49,639 that were incomplete. 567 00:34:50,980 --> 00:34:52,020 You feel incomplete today? 568 00:34:54,820 --> 00:34:56,280 The Lord can heal your broken heart. 569 00:34:58,220 --> 00:34:59,800 Because, honestly, you guys, 570 00:35:01,140 --> 00:35:02,480 we have broken hearts. 571 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,200 It comes from different angles, don't it? 572 00:35:04,740 --> 00:35:06,620 We have family members that break our heart. 573 00:35:07,420 --> 00:35:08,520 We have loved ones. 574 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:13,440 We have fellow church members break our heart. 575 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:16,900 We break our own hearts. 576 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:18,460 Right? 577 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,240 We're a flawed, fallen people. 578 00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:26,780 And Jesus has come to straighten those things up 579 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:27,620 and to make them right. 580 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:29,780 It's so cool. 581 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:36,620 It's so refreshing to know that that is our Messiah. 582 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:46,020 The use of this Greek word to heal, I can't pronounce it, 583 00:35:46,340 --> 00:35:50,420 but in the New Testament underscores the belief in Jesus as the Messiah 584 00:35:50,420 --> 00:35:54,620 who fulfills the Old Testament prophecies of healing and restoration. 585 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,080 And that's what he quoted here of Isaiah. 586 00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:58,840 The people knew this was coming. 587 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,900 They knew that as this rabbi stands up and he begins to read, 588 00:36:04,060 --> 00:36:07,540 they knew that he was reading a passage that pointed to the Messiah, 589 00:36:07,980 --> 00:36:09,100 the one that would come and save. 590 00:36:09,780 --> 00:36:10,380 They knew that. 591 00:36:12,340 --> 00:36:17,680 And so he makes us complete. 592 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:18,800 He restores us. 593 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,740 Colossians 2, 9, and 10 says, for in him, that is Jesus, 594 00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:25,720 dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, 595 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,840 and you are complete in him. 596 00:36:29,460 --> 00:36:30,100 who is the head. 597 00:36:31,820 --> 00:36:32,600 You and I, we're complete. 598 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:33,640 You got Jesus? 599 00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:35,020 You got it all. 600 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,160 I think there's a song about that, actually. 601 00:36:38,140 --> 00:36:39,400 If I got Jesus, I got it all. 602 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:40,900 I got all I need. 603 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,660 And so the third thing he says, to free the captives, right? 604 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:48,940 We see him freeing people who are captive. 605 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:54,660 They were captive to infirmity and sickness and demon possession, 606 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:57,120 blindness, leprosy. 607 00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:58,820 Remember, the world. 608 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,080 woman bent over for 18 years. 609 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:07,240 And that famous saying, what Jesus says to her, woman, you are loosed from your infirmity. 610 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:10,540 He's come to set the captives free. 611 00:37:10,620 --> 00:37:11,420 What's got to captive? 612 00:37:12,380 --> 00:37:15,460 Some people are captive by, they're taken captive by fear. 613 00:37:16,780 --> 00:37:19,760 Some people are taken captive by their hatred. 614 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:22,540 What has you captive? 615 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,600 Some people are captive by the chasing the buck. 616 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:27,600 Right? Just get a little bit more. 617 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:30,160 Just get me a little bit more and I'll be happy. 618 00:37:30,380 --> 00:37:30,960 No, you won't. 619 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:33,580 Right? They've already done. 620 00:37:33,740 --> 00:37:38,660 Proved that. They went to all the billionaires and said, hey, how much money is enough? 621 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:39,220 Right? 622 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:40,940 You know what they all said? 623 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:43,340 The majority of them said, just a little bit more. 624 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:45,720 Just a little bit more. 625 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:54,520 But he's come to set you free from that, that nothing would possess you, that nothing would have 626 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:56,820 control over you. 627 00:37:56,980 --> 00:37:58,340 Fourthly, to resource. 628 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:07,000 store sight. He healed physical blindness. But more importantly, he healed spiritual blindness. People are 629 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:12,160 blind. I am shocked at the people that come to church. That when I get to talking to him, I'm going, 630 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:20,660 you don't see it, do you? You're not seeing this. You're not seeing this. You're not seeing what most 631 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:28,440 people who follow the prince of peace, the light of the world. You're not seeing. You're 632 00:38:28,460 --> 00:38:31,220 you're still kind of in some dark areas there. 633 00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:32,740 You're not seeing it. 634 00:38:34,300 --> 00:38:36,900 But Jesus came to take the blinders off. 635 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,620 Sin blinds us. 636 00:38:38,980 --> 00:38:42,920 And the Messiah comes along to heal our spiritual and moral blindness. 637 00:38:43,980 --> 00:38:51,200 How many people I talk to think, oh, you know, we're cool with you shacking. 638 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:53,240 No sense can get married. 639 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:55,880 Well, now wait a minute. 640 00:38:56,020 --> 00:38:57,300 Now God's a God of covenant, right? 641 00:38:59,260 --> 00:39:00,540 God's down with covenant. 642 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,500 So what you do when people are shocked, 643 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:07,340 and I don't need to just pick on you if you're shocked, 644 00:39:07,820 --> 00:39:10,160 and God bless you, but get married. 645 00:39:10,820 --> 00:39:12,180 It's easy fix, right? 646 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,020 What they're saying is, listen, what you're saying is, 647 00:39:17,140 --> 00:39:21,140 you're calling something holy that God has called holy, 648 00:39:21,220 --> 00:39:22,160 you're calling it common. 649 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:26,740 Right? That's the whole thing with homosexuality as well. 650 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:27,540 right? 651 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,140 If God had given us that freedom, 652 00:39:31,660 --> 00:39:32,460 knock yourself out. 653 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:33,880 But he hasn't. 654 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,300 He's put parameters on our sexual life. 655 00:39:37,860 --> 00:39:39,960 That is very healthy, by the way. 656 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,340 Just talking from experience. 657 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,560 But when you do that and you call something that is holy, 658 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,720 right, this matrimony that God covenants and then blesses, 659 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:01,420 as he blessed Adam and Eve saying being fruitful and multiply, he said that's holy. 660 00:40:01,860 --> 00:40:06,680 Because the man is holy in his maleness, the woman is holy in her femaleness. 661 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:13,060 And that union in marriage or that actual sexual union, it's holy. 662 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:14,700 And people say, oh, no, it's common. 663 00:40:15,140 --> 00:40:16,540 So I can do it with whoever I want. 664 00:40:17,820 --> 00:40:20,340 Not before God you can and get away with it. 665 00:40:20,980 --> 00:40:22,500 Right? Well, I've been doing it for years. 666 00:40:23,060 --> 00:40:24,760 Yeah, but judgment's common, Bubba. 667 00:40:27,759 --> 00:40:35,540 right there is a day of reckoning for all of us and praise god for the blood of jesus or i would be at the 668 00:40:35,740 --> 00:40:49,400 front of line on the diving board into the lake of fire and so don't be blind don't be blind to your own 669 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,740 failure and your own sin own it right there's great freedom and 670 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,160 and owning your own sin, I screwed up. 671 00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:58,820 God forgive me. 672 00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:03,320 There's great freedom in that transparency. 673 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:04,100 Just be real. 674 00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:07,340 Like you're really going to tell God a whopper 675 00:41:07,340 --> 00:41:08,280 and he's going to believe it. 676 00:41:09,540 --> 00:41:09,860 Seriously? 677 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,460 That's not the way it works. 678 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,220 He knows your very heart and the thoughts and the intents of it. 679 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,400 And which the Bible tells us is desperately wicked. 680 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,700 That's why when we ask Jesus to come in, 681 00:41:24,740 --> 00:41:26,760 into our lives. We ask him to come into our heart. 682 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:28,500 Lord, you got to do something with this ugly thing. 683 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:32,440 And he will. He's faithful. 684 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,580 John 9 tells us, and Jesus said, 685 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,480 for judgment, I have come into the world, right? 686 00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:41,900 That those who do not see may see. 687 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,940 And that those who see may be made blind. 688 00:41:45,460 --> 00:41:48,880 Then some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and said to him, 689 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,500 are we blind also? 690 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:53,900 And Jesus said to them, if you are blind, 691 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,120 you would have no sin. 692 00:41:55,620 --> 00:41:57,500 But now you say we see. 693 00:41:57,700 --> 00:41:59,080 Therefore, your sin remains. 694 00:42:01,260 --> 00:42:01,840 They didn't get it. 695 00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:04,680 They were like some of those people I was talking about. 696 00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:05,760 They're not seeing it. 697 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,560 They don't see their wickedness. 698 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,220 They don't see that they need to get that right before the Lord. 699 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,680 That they need to embrace this Messiah, the one who came to save us. 700 00:42:15,980 --> 00:42:18,920 The one who by his stripes, it tells us later in Isaiah, 701 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,000 who by his stripes, we are healed because of what he did. 702 00:42:23,100 --> 00:42:25,220 the payment that Christ made for us. 703 00:42:25,340 --> 00:42:28,940 Fifthly, he says, to set free the oppressed. 704 00:42:29,620 --> 00:42:32,800 The oppressed, the word means to break, to shatter, to crush. 705 00:42:33,820 --> 00:42:35,320 Life seems to do that to people, don't it? 706 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:41,680 I just had an opportunity to go pray with a family, 707 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,720 had a little girl last night, and she was, she was, 708 00:42:46,060 --> 00:42:48,580 actually, she was getting mad, and she was holding her breath. 709 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,480 And she stopped breathing a couple times. 710 00:42:52,720 --> 00:43:00,000 And this mom and dad were on the verge of being crushed, right, if they would have lost this little girl. 711 00:43:01,740 --> 00:43:03,860 So what life does to a lot of people, right? 712 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:05,840 Crushes them, breaks you. 713 00:43:08,340 --> 00:43:10,700 But God can bring beauty from ashes, right? 714 00:43:11,420 --> 00:43:14,520 Second Corinthians 317, now the Lord is the spirit. 715 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,960 And where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 716 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,820 That God can set us free from that brokenness. 717 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:28,200 and deliver us. Sixly, this is where I'm getting. How am I doing on time? I better look. 718 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:39,380 Right on. Right on the money. The sixth thing he says, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. 719 00:43:39,900 --> 00:43:44,360 Now, you Bible scholars, you would understand he's talking about Jubilee. 720 00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:50,800 How many know what the year of Jubilee was all about? Right. A few of you. So the, 721 00:43:50,820 --> 00:43:55,280 The year of Jubilee was powerful because it's when debts were released. 722 00:43:55,740 --> 00:44:00,840 Actually, I can quote one of those theologians, a real smart guys in the Bible. 723 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:01,800 His name is Marvin Pate. 724 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:06,960 He says, Jesus came to preach the Lord's acceptable year, a reference to the year of Jubilee. 725 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:14,760 It is just possible that the reason Jesus returned to his hometown was because it was Jubilee year. 726 00:44:15,180 --> 00:44:20,240 And in the year of Jubilee, slaves were set free, debts were canceled, and things 727 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,660 set to a new start. 728 00:44:23,180 --> 00:44:24,780 It was truly a new beginning. 729 00:44:26,140 --> 00:44:26,280 Right? 730 00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:28,140 That's what Jesus came. 731 00:44:29,580 --> 00:44:31,960 He goes, I proclaim to you this good news. 732 00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:35,180 If you accept it, you have a new beginning. 733 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,600 And not only that, but you have new beginnings daily. 734 00:44:41,780 --> 00:44:44,540 For his mercy is new every morning. 735 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:45,680 God's mercy. 736 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,860 I don't know how thankful you are for that. 737 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,240 but I am extremely thankful 738 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,220 that God's mercy is her new every morning 739 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:55,820 because I need a lot of mercy. 740 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,920 Because you know mercy is not getting what you deserve. 741 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,460 Grace is what you get when you don't deserve it. 742 00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:08,440 So I used to have little kids that were nasty to their teacher. 743 00:45:09,340 --> 00:45:11,240 And they would come into my office. 744 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:13,460 And I would think, 745 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:16,440 you want some grace? 746 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,860 And occasionally they would do this because they would do this 747 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,060 They didn't know what grace was. 748 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:21,500 They thought. 749 00:45:22,060 --> 00:45:24,900 If I say yes and it's a swap, I don't want that. 750 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,720 So they would move their head like this. 751 00:45:29,020 --> 00:45:30,480 I said, okay, I'll give you grace. 752 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:31,780 And I'd hand him a Snickers board. 753 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:33,600 That's grace. 754 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:35,180 Right? 755 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:37,860 Or I would ask him, do you want mercy? 756 00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:40,280 This one little boy I asked him one time. 757 00:45:40,620 --> 00:45:42,520 He was a frequent flyer. 758 00:45:42,940 --> 00:45:45,620 And Pastor Scott's office. 759 00:45:46,660 --> 00:45:47,440 His name was Nicholas. 760 00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:49,180 I said, so, Nicholas. 761 00:45:50,580 --> 00:45:52,060 should I give you mercy today? 762 00:45:52,450 --> 00:45:53,620 And man, I mean, he was like this. 763 00:45:54,670 --> 00:45:56,820 I said, well, Nicholas, what's mercy? 764 00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:58,540 He said, mercy? 765 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,320 Murphy is like medicine. 766 00:46:05,460 --> 00:46:06,540 Mercy is like medicine. 767 00:46:07,100 --> 00:46:08,400 I said, mercy is like medicine? 768 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,160 You got it, dude, you got mercy. 769 00:46:10,860 --> 00:46:10,980 Right? 770 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:12,500 I didn't give him a swat. 771 00:46:12,660 --> 00:46:13,400 He had one coming. 772 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:14,380 Right? 773 00:46:14,860 --> 00:46:15,920 But I showed him mercy. 774 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:18,140 Mercy is not getting what you deserve. 775 00:46:18,260 --> 00:46:19,020 I am so. 776 00:46:19,180 --> 00:46:21,900 thankful for God's mercy every morning. 777 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,900 Because it's available to you and me. 778 00:46:27,020 --> 00:46:32,440 So, but what is so fascinating about this, this scripture, 779 00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:35,760 is the period at the end. 780 00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:38,860 If you're looking in your Bibles, how many of your Bibles, it's in red letters? 781 00:46:39,620 --> 00:46:40,220 It's in red letters. 782 00:46:40,660 --> 00:46:42,300 And there's a period after Lord, right? 783 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,740 The acceptable year of our Lord. 784 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:45,980 And there's a period there. 785 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,120 In Isaiah, it's not so. 786 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,080 In Isaiah, it's a comma. 787 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:52,860 It's a comma. 788 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,960 It's a 2,000-year-old comma. 789 00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,440 Well, maybe let's go 2,700-year comma. 790 00:47:02,199 --> 00:47:06,000 Because when you read what it says 791 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,500 and to proclaim the vengeance of our God, 792 00:47:12,020 --> 00:47:13,800 he came as a savior the first time. 793 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,520 When the vengeance of our God is proclaimed, 794 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:17,960 it's when Jesus comes again. 795 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:25,740 right? And that's when he comes as a judge. And he had to stop it right there. He had to stop it right there. 796 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:31,120 I came to proclaim the acceptable year of our Lord. In other words, that's why the Bible says, 797 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:38,740 it is the accepted time today. Today is the day of salvation. Right? That's when you get right with 798 00:47:38,860 --> 00:47:46,140 God. You don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may not come. I've had a lot of friends. I do a lot of 799 00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:50,180 funerals. And a lot of people's tomorrow's don't come. That's why the Bible says, 800 00:47:50,420 --> 00:47:54,080 today is the day of salvation. And that's what Jesus came to proclaim. Today. 801 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,900 If you're not saved, get saved today. Well, how do you do that? Say, Lord Jesus, 802 00:48:00,279 --> 00:48:05,260 Lord Jesus, come into my heart. Come into my heart. Lord Jesus, forgive me in my sin. 803 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:11,660 I turn from it and I turn to you. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Save my soul. In Jesus' name, 804 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,900 amen. A simple prayer like that, that is a prayer of sincerity from your heart. 805 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:18,200 Lord, God, I need you. 806 00:48:20,220 --> 00:48:22,260 God's not into big flower of prayers. 807 00:48:22,740 --> 00:48:24,120 He knows the condition of your heart. 808 00:48:24,780 --> 00:48:28,140 And if you'll come to him and accept him, you're saved. 809 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,860 So, Jesus reads the Bible. 810 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:34,680 He sits down. 811 00:48:34,820 --> 00:48:40,520 Everybody's looking at him going, hmm, there was an emphasis on me in this scripture. 812 00:48:41,100 --> 00:48:43,500 Because it says the Spirit of the Lord is on me. 813 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:44,780 He has anointed me. 814 00:48:45,740 --> 00:48:46,780 He has sent me. 815 00:48:47,860 --> 00:48:48,040 Right? 816 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:51,260 There was an emphasis. 817 00:48:52,110 --> 00:48:53,960 And so everybody's looking at Jesus. 818 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,040 In fact, there at the end of verse 20, notice what it says. 819 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,120 It says, and all their eyes were fixed on him. 820 00:49:02,300 --> 00:49:04,780 So let's read the next couple of verses, verse 21 and 2. 821 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:11,520 It says, and he began to say to them, today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. 822 00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,700 So all bore witness to him and marbled at the grave. 823 00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:23,560 gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, is not, is this not Joseph's son? 824 00:49:25,180 --> 00:49:29,840 So they hear what he's saying. They know this passage is about the Messiah. 825 00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:36,860 And Jesus says, today in your hearing, this scripture is fulfilled. In other words, I'm right here. 826 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:44,600 The Messiah. He's making claim that he's the Messiah. That's why they say, wait a minute, isn't this Joseph's son? 827 00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:48,740 no he wasn't Joseph's son biologically. 828 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:52,100 Joseph raised him. He was God's son. 829 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:54,880 Sent for you and me. 830 00:49:56,100 --> 00:50:01,200 And so we'll look at it next time how rough that gets after that 831 00:50:01,340 --> 00:50:05,740 and how people hear what the Lord says, 832 00:50:06,140 --> 00:50:10,900 but so often they don't do what the Lord says. 833 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:13,440 And so 834 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:16,500 Today 835 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:22,020 just a little of self-examination of the things that we looked at in this passage out of Isaiah 836 00:50:22,460 --> 00:50:23,560 Are you poor in spirit? 837 00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:24,660 Are you broken-hearted? 838 00:50:25,100 --> 00:50:26,260 Do you need set free? 839 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,080 Are you captive to someone or something? 840 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,880 Is there a spiritual blindness that hinders you? 841 00:50:36,900 --> 00:50:37,980 Are you broken inside? 842 00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:40,160 There's good news. 843 00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:41,900 and his name is Jesus. 844 00:50:42,780 --> 00:50:45,220 So simple, but so powerful, 845 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,800 because he has the power to set us all free. 846 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:49,960 Let's pray. 847 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:51,340 Father, thank you. 848 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:53,980 Thank you for your love. 849 00:50:54,140 --> 00:50:55,040 Thank you for your word. 850 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:56,700 It is powerful. 851 00:50:56,940 --> 00:51:00,640 So pointing to the future, Lord, that you're coming again. 852 00:51:01,460 --> 00:51:02,960 Lord, and you've come to save us. 853 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,100 And even this day, this day, this accepted time, 854 00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:10,120 this day of salvation that you've presented for us today. 855 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,880 Lord, where life and death is before us. 856 00:51:14,140 --> 00:51:19,520 And you encourage us out of your word to choose life, Lord, that we would be fulfilled. 857 00:51:19,980 --> 00:51:24,240 And so, Father, I just pray for any who need a prayer, Lord, 858 00:51:24,380 --> 00:51:27,080 that they would just seek someone out, the prayer team. 859 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:28,520 I don't even know where we're going to be. 860 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:29,640 Probably down front here. 861 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,580 If that's you and you need prayer, you feel like the Lord is knocking on the door of your heart, 862 00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:39,760 come and grab myself or one of the prayer team, and get right with the Lord. 863 00:51:39,780 --> 00:51:43,660 and be set free from anything that hinders you. 864 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,940 So Lord Jesus, we just surrender this week to you that's before us, Lord. 865 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,180 May we go in the spirit and the power of your Holy Spirit, Lord. 866 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,760 Not leaning on our own understanding, but acknowledge you in all of our ways, 867 00:51:55,860 --> 00:51:57,540 knowing that you're going to direct our steps. 868 00:51:58,020 --> 00:52:00,020 And we pray it in Jesus' name. Amen. 869 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:01,140 Let's all stand. 870 00:52:01,780 --> 00:52:03,240 We'll close with the doxology. 871 00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:15,520 Praise be to God from whom all blessings flow. 872 00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:21,560 Praise him all creatures here below. 873 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:28,540 Praise him above all ye heavenly hosts. 874 00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:33,180 Praise Father, son and whole. 875 00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:43,120 Holy ghost. Amen. God bless you guys. Have a great week in Jesus. See you back at the 876 00:52:43,460 --> 00:52:44,140 Shiloh next week.