1 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:03,140 If you got a Bible, turn to Luke chapter 5, 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:15,580 Be thou cleansed, is the title of today. 3 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:23,000 It is, Jesus has been wowing people with his abilities. 4 00:00:25,220 --> 00:00:28,360 I don't know if you've noticed the ability of the Lord to, 5 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,460 to speak life into us, his subjects. 6 00:00:32,740 --> 00:00:38,160 But it's the more you get to know it, the more you crave it. 7 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,340 And it is the words that he speaks to us. 8 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:44,820 The Bible says is spirit in their life. 9 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:55,000 And so last time we saw him call the four fishermen and 10 00:00:55,540 --> 00:01:03,180 And Peter and his brother and James and John. And it says, and so when they had brought their boats to land, 11 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:09,660 they first took all and followed him. Are you following Jesus today? Because you really do have to 12 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:15,680 forsake all. That doesn't mean you stop, you know, doing your jobs and stuff like that. But the Lord 13 00:01:15,780 --> 00:01:23,700 is incorporated into your life. It's who you are. It's not just something you do. It's being a follower, 14 00:01:23,740 --> 00:01:27,060 or a disciple of Christ, Jesus, it really is who you are. 15 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:33,540 In every area of your life, as a worker, and as a husband, and as a father, and as a mother, 16 00:01:34,180 --> 00:01:38,160 and a parent and an employee and all those things. 17 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:43,640 And it just works its way into your life, and it's in every part. 18 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:50,880 And that's kind of how the Lord invades us. 19 00:01:51,060 --> 00:01:53,660 Or I've heard people say they've been freight trained. 20 00:01:53,720 --> 00:02:07,340 by Jesus. And I think that's a good analogy. But so he is going about and he goes from city to city. 21 00:02:07,490 --> 00:02:14,960 And we picked the story up in verse 12 and we'll read just a few verses here. And it's in verse 12. And it's in 22 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:22,680 verse 12. And it says, and it happened when he was in a certain city that behold, a man who was full of leprosy, saw Jesus. 23 00:02:23,260 --> 00:02:25,720 and he fell on his face and then poured him, saying, 24 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:29,200 Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean. 25 00:02:29,980 --> 00:02:34,020 And then he put out his hand and touched him, saying, 26 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,760 I am willing, be cleansed. 27 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:42,700 Immediately the leprosy left him, and he charged him to tell no one. 28 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:49,680 But go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing 29 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,720 as a testimony to them, just as a testimony to them, 30 00:02:52,740 --> 00:02:53,840 as Moses commanded. 31 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,640 And so here he encounters this dude with leprosy. 32 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:02,340 And throughout scripture, leprosy is a type of sin. 33 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,840 That it creeps up on you and it infects you. 34 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:11,000 And when it does, it just infects the whole lump. 35 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,940 Kind of like yeast, right? 36 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:13,580 Leaven. 37 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,160 Jesus said a little leaven, leaven's a whole lump. 38 00:03:16,940 --> 00:03:20,840 The true leprosy, they call it today Hansen's disease. 39 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:28,680 But back then, there were a few things that they would consider leprosy, maybe psoriasis or different kind of sin. 40 00:03:31,030 --> 00:03:31,180 Skin. 41 00:03:32,820 --> 00:03:33,740 Skin conditions. 42 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,740 And but this guy seemed to be noticed. 43 00:03:38,970 --> 00:03:41,740 It said there he was full of leprosy. 44 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,500 It had infected his whole body. 45 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:51,440 And so what would happen in the Old Testament law, if a person had leprosy, 46 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:56,900 then they were basically excommunicated from society. 47 00:03:56,970 --> 00:03:58,920 They had to live in a leper colony. 48 00:03:59,570 --> 00:04:03,580 And when people got close, they would have to shout out unclean. 49 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:09,320 And not only that, but they had to stay two meters or six feet away. 50 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:10,100 Ring a bell? 51 00:04:19,140 --> 00:04:21,340 I'll bet Jesus wouldn't have worn a bell. 52 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:51,280 Right? He's not intimidated or scared by these things that infect us. He's the healer of all those things. And so that's a glorious thing. But that's what they would have to do. They would have to yell unclean. And no doubt, as Jesus was walking through this area around this city, he probably heard that. Unclean, unclean. But this guy came running to him. And notice, as Jesus was walking through this area around this city, he probably heard that. Unclean, unclean. But this guy came running to him. And notice, 53 00:04:51,360 --> 00:05:01,780 what he does there. It says, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus and he fell on his face and implored him. 54 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:10,100 He fell on his face. That's what the actual word humble means to get low. It means to get low. 55 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:19,900 To humble yourself before the Lord and get low. This guy's low, right? He's about as low as you can go here with 56 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,940 this leprosy. Just nasty looking stuff. Years ago, my brother Rick went to India with 57 00:05:26,180 --> 00:05:31,560 Pastor Bob Caldwell from Boise, and he had a ministry going on there in India. And there was a 58 00:05:31,810 --> 00:05:39,060 there was a leper house where lepers were. And they were trying to provide shoes for the lepers, 59 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:46,740 because they would have to wear shoes at night when they slept. Otherwise, the rats would come and 60 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,880 eat their toes off. And, uh, 61 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:51,700 It was just a nasty thing. 62 00:05:52,750 --> 00:05:58,020 And so, but leprosy, it's a type of sin. 63 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:00,260 That's what sin does to us. 64 00:06:01,919 --> 00:06:03,840 It's silently kills you. 65 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,680 Chuck Missler in his study of Leviticus, 66 00:06:07,380 --> 00:06:11,560 he says leprosy is a type of sin in seven ways. 67 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:12,980 I just wanted to share them with you. 68 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,700 And number one, you can't hide it. 69 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:18,520 You couldn't hide leprosy, right? 70 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:21,620 They would be these wounds that would ooze, right? 71 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:22,800 It would ooze fluid. 72 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,700 And if you got it on your scalp or men got it on their faces, 73 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:30,180 it would cause white hair to show up. 74 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,720 And they had different tests that they would do for the lepers. 75 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,160 And isn't that just like sin? 76 00:06:37,180 --> 00:06:37,640 Right? 77 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:39,980 You can pretend to hide it. 78 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,260 You can try to cover it up. 79 00:06:41,620 --> 00:06:44,520 But just like what Moses told the two and a half tribes, 80 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,180 he told them this, Ruben Gad and the half tribe of Manassan, 81 00:06:48,180 --> 00:06:48,560 and he said, 82 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,360 And be assured your sin will find you out. 83 00:06:51,860 --> 00:06:52,760 It's kind of like leprosy. 84 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:54,480 It's going to be found out, right? 85 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:00,700 Because pretty soon it just shows its face everywhere on your body. 86 00:07:01,540 --> 00:07:05,060 And because it oozes and it also stinks. 87 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:06,440 It's obvious. 88 00:07:07,540 --> 00:07:08,740 And sin is obvious. 89 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:10,260 And all of us. 90 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:12,160 We examine one another. 91 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:14,400 You examine me very close. 92 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:15,200 You're going to see sin. 93 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:16,340 Right? 94 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:18,320 I'm a sinful man. 95 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,280 and yet I bring my sin to Jesus, right? 96 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:29,360 And he forgive me and he dusts me off and he helps me. 97 00:07:30,180 --> 00:07:31,200 He helps me resist. 98 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:37,080 And it drives me to him and it should you as well. 99 00:07:37,460 --> 00:07:40,040 Secondly, it's a horrible disease. 100 00:07:40,260 --> 00:07:47,720 The Holy Spirit chooses in the scripture, right, to use leprosy as a type of sin. 101 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:57,580 and the people who it infects is it's sad, actually. 102 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,720 It begins in small ways, just a little here and a little there. 103 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:05,980 We were talking the other day about the movie nefarious. 104 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,360 Who's seen that movie? 105 00:08:08,250 --> 00:08:09,540 The movie nefarious. 106 00:08:09,550 --> 00:08:11,380 And it was done by Christians. 107 00:08:12,380 --> 00:08:13,040 It's a recommend. 108 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,000 But it's a... 109 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:25,120 it's really a narrative of a demon as he speaks to this man. 110 00:08:25,490 --> 00:08:30,780 And basically the whole movie is just this confrontation between a counselor 111 00:08:31,190 --> 00:08:33,560 and a death row prisoner that was demon possessed. 112 00:08:36,180 --> 00:08:40,719 And the demon said it starts with a bunch of little yeses, 113 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,720 a little yes here, and a little yes there, and a little yes here. 114 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:51,420 And pretty soon, people are under the sway of the devil. 115 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:52,700 And they don't even know it. 116 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,760 And sin rules their lives. 117 00:08:57,420 --> 00:08:59,580 That's how leprosy works. 118 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:01,760 James 1.15 tells us, 119 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:06,780 then when desire is conceived, it gives birth to sin. 120 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,580 And sin when it is full grown, brings forth death. 121 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:12,040 Right? 122 00:09:13,260 --> 00:09:14,400 It brings forth death. 123 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,260 So three, it starts in small ways. 124 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:21,920 Four, it progresses slowly but surely. 125 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:23,220 Right? 126 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:25,660 I mean, that was the way it was with me. 127 00:09:26,860 --> 00:09:28,700 I was a sinner at a very young age. 128 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:32,620 At the age of nine, I was convicted as I heard a message on hell, 129 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:34,220 and I thought, oh, no, I'm going there. 130 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:35,980 At nine years old. 131 00:09:36,260 --> 00:09:38,440 Now, I don't know what all I had done at nine years old, 132 00:09:38,820 --> 00:09:41,240 but I knew that there was something not right in me. 133 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:44,420 And I was faith in me. 134 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:57,520 with my own sin. And I cried out to Jesus. But right after that is when my mom married this ex-convict. 135 00:09:58,540 --> 00:10:04,260 You know, and the Bible says to be saved and be baptized and disciples. Well, I got saved all right, 136 00:10:04,380 --> 00:10:12,420 but my discipller was an ex-con. Right? Out of San Quentin. And he knew how to sin really well. 137 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,280 And he taught me and my brother how to do it. 138 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:18,840 And I actually got quite good at it. 139 00:10:21,060 --> 00:10:21,220 You? 140 00:10:26,220 --> 00:10:30,920 But slowly, by the time I was 23, I had enough. 141 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,400 I realized, oh, no, this is going to lead to death. 142 00:10:34,140 --> 00:10:35,440 This is not going to be good. 143 00:10:36,180 --> 00:10:37,620 This is not going to end well. 144 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:43,180 And actually that thought that when I almost did die in a rodeo, 145 00:10:43,220 --> 00:10:50,400 accident that I thought, oh, maybe I better start dealing with this whole, whole sin and death 146 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:55,200 thing. Because they seem to go hand in hand. And I didn't even know what it says in Romans, right? 147 00:10:57,860 --> 00:11:03,560 623, the wages of sin is death. But I love the backside of that verse, yeah. But the gift of 148 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:10,560 God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen. That is a beautiful thing, right? 149 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,720 And but so many people don't get that. 150 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:15,500 I got friends that are there. 151 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:16,880 They're in their 60s now. 152 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,700 I know some in their 70s and they're still in their sin. 153 00:11:21,580 --> 00:11:22,740 And Jesus encouraged us. 154 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:24,620 You don't want to die in your sin. 155 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:26,960 You want to do something with that. 156 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,180 You want to get payment for. 157 00:11:30,180 --> 00:11:32,340 You want to get it paid for, get that debt paid for, 158 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:34,160 and get out from underneath that sin. 159 00:11:34,820 --> 00:11:36,520 Because it will condemn you to hell. 160 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,180 And so, fifthly, 161 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:46,520 leprosy goes beyond pain. It's interesting because it's not painful in the traditional sense. 162 00:11:47,180 --> 00:11:53,680 Right? It works away at the nerve endings. It makes things numb. And that's why they were putting the shoes on those 163 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,820 lepers is because they couldn't feel it when the rat was eating their toes off their feet. 164 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:04,380 You couldn't feel it. There's a numbing to it. That's kind of like sin. You know, 165 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,500 how many people you talk to that are deep into sin. I'm not hurting anybody. Really? 166 00:12:10,220 --> 00:12:11,660 no man sins unto himself. 167 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,060 Nobody sins unto themselves. 168 00:12:15,830 --> 00:12:18,020 Your sin affects everyone who loves you. 169 00:12:19,710 --> 00:12:25,320 And so many of us have come to the place we realize that is so true. 170 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:26,460 Right? 171 00:12:29,380 --> 00:12:33,120 And so it goes beyond feeling. 172 00:12:36,220 --> 00:12:38,520 And Ephesians mentions it. 173 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:40,580 in Ephesians 419, it says, 174 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,180 who being past feeling 175 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:47,500 have given themselves over to lewdness, 176 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,780 to work all unclean cleanliness with greediness. 177 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:53,860 Pretty soon you don't even realize what you're doing. 178 00:12:55,020 --> 00:12:58,820 You've lied to yourself so much you believe the lies that you tell yourself. 179 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:00,060 Have you been around people like that? 180 00:13:01,580 --> 00:13:06,980 But when they lie, it's like, I think the truth would do you a whole lot better off right now. 181 00:13:06,980 --> 00:13:08,500 It'd treat you a lot better right now. 182 00:13:09,180 --> 00:13:17,580 But they're so, it's such a habit, there's such habitual liars, and they've deceived them their own selves. 183 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,660 And sin unchecked, that's what it, that's what it does. 184 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:31,760 1st Timothy 4th says, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron. 185 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:35,100 That's scary. 186 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,460 Because things are falling off and you don't. 187 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:39,660 even realize it. 188 00:13:45,820 --> 00:13:51,880 Lepercy Sixly was thought to be hereditary, though it's not, but we know that sin is. 189 00:13:52,780 --> 00:13:56,420 You know, you're born S-I-N- Positive. 190 00:13:57,220 --> 00:13:57,480 Right? 191 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,820 And so are your children? 192 00:13:59,820 --> 00:14:03,320 S-I-N- Positive. 193 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,120 These little ones, that little Charlotte. 194 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:08,180 She's so beautiful. 195 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:08,199 Oh, my gosh. 196 00:14:08,220 --> 00:14:13,580 I just could have just hugged and cuddled her for hours. 197 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:15,240 She's a sinner. 198 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,700 And she's going to deal without her whole life. 199 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,800 She's going to bring out the best and the worst in her parents. 200 00:14:30,260 --> 00:14:34,320 I love telling parents that this child will bring out the best and the worst in you. 201 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:35,280 Right? 202 00:14:36,940 --> 00:14:38,180 Isn't it amazing you can have mercy? 203 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,240 murdering your heart for something that you love so much. 204 00:14:42,940 --> 00:14:44,400 Just fascinating stuff. 205 00:14:49,620 --> 00:14:51,840 Though you get it from your parents, 206 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:54,660 you're accountable for your own. 207 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:56,560 Right? 208 00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:00,060 We live in a culture and a society where it's a blame game. 209 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,300 Well, it's the way I was raised. 210 00:15:03,140 --> 00:15:03,960 No, sorry. 211 00:15:04,660 --> 00:15:08,040 Once you get to that age of accountability, and all right, 212 00:15:08,140 --> 00:15:14,960 we could have a two-hour conversation about when is the age of accountability. Right. But once you know, 213 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:21,200 right, the Bible says that the father is not going to suffer for the sins of his son, nor does the 214 00:15:21,350 --> 00:15:28,920 son suffer for the sins of his father. Or he doesn't have to pay for him. Though the sins of the 215 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:37,220 father affect the children. It gives them an excuse. Right. Rick and I had a great excuse when our 216 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:38,760 our stepdad showed us how to sin. 217 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:40,640 Well, he does it. 218 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:41,680 Right? 219 00:15:43,180 --> 00:15:48,220 He does drugs and drinks whiskey and, you know, and steals things from people. 220 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:50,100 Why not? 221 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,120 But ultimately, we're accountable for our own sin. 222 00:15:57,580 --> 00:16:01,020 Last of all, leprosy and sin separates us from God. 223 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:03,960 Sin separates us from God. 224 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,480 The Bible says in the Psalms, if we regard iniquity and our heart, God does not hear us. 225 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:21,760 Isaiah 592 says, but your iniquities have separated you from God and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear. 226 00:16:22,460 --> 00:16:23,300 You ever feel like that? 227 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,640 You know something's not right and you're trying to pray? 228 00:16:28,580 --> 00:16:30,420 Jesus talked about that. He says, wait a minute. 229 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,220 We know somebody has something against you. 230 00:16:32,820 --> 00:16:33,940 God has something against you. 231 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:42,220 against you that in your sin you haven't repented. Go to him. Confess your sin. It tells us in 1st John 1.9, right? 232 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,860 Confess your sin and he's faithful in just to forgive you of your sin and cleanse you from all 233 00:16:46,980 --> 00:16:55,440 unrighteousness. Then he will hear you. But not until. Don't go to him with some big issue. 234 00:16:55,620 --> 00:17:03,560 If you haven't sought him for forgiveness and cleansing, it's a good good thing to do it daily. 235 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:07,900 Because the Bible says he who knows to do good and does not do it to him. 236 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:08,420 It is sin. 237 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:09,959 So how much sin do we have? 238 00:17:11,140 --> 00:17:11,459 Lots. 239 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:13,120 Bucket loads. 240 00:17:14,819 --> 00:17:16,579 And so we bring that to the Lord. 241 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:21,520 And then he's free to bless us and direct us and to hear our prayer. 242 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:29,840 But if we regard iniquity in our heart, if there's a root of bitterness there, get rid of it. 243 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:33,580 Humble yourself and ask for it. 244 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,680 cleansing. So here Jesus says, he's going from place to place, and he comes to this city, 245 00:17:40,039 --> 00:17:50,220 and this leper sees him, no doubt he's calling out unclean. And Jesus looks at him, and then he does 246 00:17:51,020 --> 00:17:59,500 the unthinkable, where this guy says, Lord, if you're willing, you can, you can heal me. 247 00:18:00,620 --> 00:18:04,900 And it says, and he put out his hand and he touched him. 248 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:11,980 I would imagine at that point, all the air in the region was sucked out from the gasp of the people. 249 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:14,640 He touched him. 250 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:21,740 Don't you just love the Lord? 251 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:28,540 He just does things so that are not apropos. 252 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:35,060 and he touches this guy. 253 00:18:35,460 --> 00:18:36,040 He goes, I'm willing. 254 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:38,120 I'm willing. 255 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:40,480 The Lord is willing. 256 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,240 When we're humble and we bow before him, he's willing. 257 00:18:45,820 --> 00:18:52,340 He's willing to reach out and touch you and to deliver you from whatever it is that has you bound up. 258 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:54,700 It says he implores him. 259 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,240 That word actually, he begs him. 260 00:18:57,720 --> 00:18:58,480 Lord, if you're willing. 261 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,520 and because this dude was saturated with leprosy. 262 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:07,500 And notice he calls Jesus Lord. 263 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,660 He's already determined in his heart who this guy is. 264 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:12,060 Have you? 265 00:19:13,460 --> 00:19:15,760 Have you determined in your heart really who Jesus is? 266 00:19:15,860 --> 00:19:16,580 Who is he to you? 267 00:19:17,380 --> 00:19:18,320 Is he just a savior? 268 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:20,700 Because that's pretty lame. 269 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:22,220 Right? 270 00:19:22,850 --> 00:19:24,000 Is he just your savior? 271 00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:26,400 Or is he your Lord also? 272 00:19:28,180 --> 00:19:29,420 because there's a difference. 273 00:19:32,220 --> 00:19:34,220 And we'll get to that a little bit later. 274 00:19:36,899 --> 00:19:38,760 But he touches him. 275 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:47,120 And this statement, right, they say there's seven of these statements in the gospel of 276 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,700 John, but I think there's more than that. 277 00:19:49,340 --> 00:19:53,180 Jesus says something, though it's not punctuated the way you would think, 278 00:19:53,740 --> 00:19:57,500 but every time I hear these two little words come out of Jesus' 279 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:12,320 mouth. I go, yeah. He says this, I am. I am. He says, I am willing. He's willing. And he's the I am. 280 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,480 I mean, is there any more thing more powerful than that? Because when you look at the I am statements in the book of John, 281 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:26,240 right, they're powerful. I am the way the truth of life. I am the resurrection and the life. I am the bread of life. 282 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,380 Before Abraham was, I am. 283 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:33,120 And he says, I am willing. 284 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:34,400 Be cleansed. 285 00:20:36,180 --> 00:20:36,880 Be cleansed. 286 00:20:38,940 --> 00:20:43,520 Now, this is pretty intense. 287 00:20:43,550 --> 00:20:45,600 It says immediately, right? 288 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:46,780 Still in verse 13. 289 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,560 Immediately, the leprosy left him. 290 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,100 And he charged him to tell no one. 291 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:53,660 Why did Jesus do that? 292 00:20:53,980 --> 00:20:54,440 Like, really. 293 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:57,080 Really, people are going to tell nobody. 294 00:20:57,140 --> 00:21:01,240 I mean, the fame of him is going abroad like crazy. 295 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,540 But some think it's because Jesus's time wasn't yet. 296 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:12,000 Daniel chapter 9 tells us it's a very specific day that Jesus is to be revealed. 297 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:17,460 That the Messiah of the world is to be revealed on a certain day. 298 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,360 Right? Daniel tells us about that in Daniel chapter 9. 299 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,720 You can read it later and check it out. 300 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:24,800 But pretty intense. 301 00:21:27,820 --> 00:21:32,760 And so from the time that our exerxes told Nehomiah to go back and rebuild Jerusalem 302 00:21:32,860 --> 00:21:39,840 to the time that Jesus rides into Jerusalem, and they say, you remember what they say? 303 00:21:40,539 --> 00:21:45,140 Hosanna, Hosanna, blessed to see who comes in the, that was the day that he was to be revealed. 304 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:46,320 And not until then. 305 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:53,740 And so maybe that's why he tells him, but sinners can't keep a secret. 306 00:21:59,260 --> 00:22:00,300 We try. 307 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:01,740 Right? 308 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,760 But he says, don't tell anybody. 309 00:22:06,220 --> 00:22:08,120 But listen, listen to what he says here. 310 00:22:08,390 --> 00:22:12,120 He says, but go and show yourself to the priest 311 00:22:12,130 --> 00:22:16,580 and make an offering for your cleansing as a testimony to them, 312 00:22:17,140 --> 00:22:18,380 just as Moses commanded. 313 00:22:19,430 --> 00:22:23,460 So he's telling this guy, you've been cleansed, so go and make an offering. 314 00:22:24,260 --> 00:22:25,160 to the priest. 315 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,840 And that's where we're going to go next. 316 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,420 If you have a Bible, turn to Leviticus chapter 14. 317 00:22:35,580 --> 00:22:37,360 Turn to Leviticus chapter 14. 318 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,520 I remember when I was in Bible school in my excavator, you know, 319 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,480 dig and ditch for 10 years, listening to Chuck Missler. 320 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:49,180 And Missler said, he said this. 321 00:22:49,620 --> 00:22:51,940 And I love it when it just jumps out and grabs you. 322 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:53,460 He said, in the old. 323 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,120 Old Testament, listen, is the New Testament concealed? 324 00:22:58,740 --> 00:23:04,020 In the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed, right? 325 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:04,960 Get that? 326 00:23:05,460 --> 00:23:08,540 So in the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed. 327 00:23:09,660 --> 00:23:12,240 In the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. 328 00:23:13,250 --> 00:23:20,340 And so his ploy was that you see Jesus Christ on every single page of the Bible 329 00:23:20,610 --> 00:23:22,780 from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. 330 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,100 You see, he's on every page of the Bible. 331 00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:29,260 Now, you're not going to get that just at face value, 332 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:35,840 but as you begin to dig and you look at the entirety and the power of the word of God, 333 00:23:38,860 --> 00:23:42,000 it's impressive how God does this. 334 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:45,120 And so I just want you to look at this real quick. 335 00:23:46,460 --> 00:23:48,640 So I guess I'm going to have to turn there too. 336 00:23:52,540 --> 00:23:56,480 Leviticus chapter 14, we'll just read the first seven verses. 337 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,520 And I'm going to let you guys read some of it on your own if you want to look at it later. 338 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:11,200 So it says here now, and this is a ritual for the cleansing of the leper. 339 00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:13,760 And this is what Jesus is telling this guy to go do. 340 00:24:14,180 --> 00:24:16,520 And it says, then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, 341 00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:22,260 this shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing he shall be brought to the priest 342 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:29,440 and the priest shall go out of the camp and the priest shall examine him and indeed if the leprosy 343 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:36,840 is healed in the leper then the priest shall um command to take for him who is to be cleans 344 00:24:36,980 --> 00:24:42,660 to living and unclean birds or excuse me clean birds cedarwood scarlet and hyssop 345 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:46,540 and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in the 346 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:52,540 earthen vessel over running water. As the living bird, he shall, as for the living bird, 347 00:24:52,540 --> 00:24:59,720 he shall take it the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop and dip them and the living 348 00:24:59,980 --> 00:25:06,540 bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. And he shall sprinkle it 349 00:25:06,820 --> 00:25:15,260 seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean and shall 350 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:18,560 let the living bird loose in the open field. 351 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,960 Okay, we're going to stop there for a second. 352 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:23,900 So here's this cleansing. 353 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,780 And this is what this guy is supposed to do, right? 354 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,560 He's supposed to go to the priest. 355 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:32,240 But notice that he can't go into the temple because he's unclean. 356 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:33,660 And that was just it. 357 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,200 Because of leprosy, that kept him out of the congregation. 358 00:25:38,180 --> 00:25:43,320 So he has to go, let somebody know that, hey, I'm here for the cleansing. 359 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,240 So the priest would have to come out to end. 360 00:25:45,260 --> 00:25:54,220 him. That's a type of Christ. Jesus has come to you and me, right? We didn't come to him. You and I don't 361 00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:02,500 want to come to him, right, until we're faced with our own failure and fault and sin that overwhelms us. 362 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:09,040 And then we cry out to a priest who has come to us. Jesus came to us. Jesus came to earth for us. 363 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:14,100 And that's the type of this priest that comes out to him. 364 00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:21,200 And so the priest, first the priest goes out. Second, a sacrifice is made, right? This is interesting. 365 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,780 So it is, what is it? It's two birds, clean birds. They have to be clean. So it's probably turtle 366 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:35,140 doves or maybe pigeons. And they are a picture of death and resurrection. One dies. The blood of one is 367 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:44,040 shed, right? And then everything, the cedar, the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the live bird are dipped. 368 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:51,360 in the blood. They're dipped in the blood. You and I, we need to be dipped in the blood. 369 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:57,000 The speaking of the death of Christ, the live bird is a picture of the resurrection. 370 00:26:57,820 --> 00:27:05,040 And what does he do? He flies away free. But guess what he's covered with? Blood. Right? 371 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:11,900 You've heard the term free as a bird. Not the Leonard Skinner one, but... 372 00:27:12,260 --> 00:27:14,060 Right? You're free. It's a bird. You're free as a bird. You're free as a bird. You're free as a bird. 373 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:19,860 a bird. Why? Because your sins have been washed away by the blood of the lamb. Right? 374 00:27:20,220 --> 00:27:24,640 This is a beautiful picture of the gospel here in the book of Leviticus within the law. 375 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:32,920 It's just like, really? Yeah, really. And cedar. Cedar is typical of a place of worship because 376 00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:38,920 most of the Solomon's temple was built out of cedar. Right? And then you have Hyssup. 377 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:44,020 And Hissup was a type maybe a purification. They used Hissup when they dog. 378 00:27:44,060 --> 00:27:51,660 the blood over the doorposts there at Passover, right? The hyssop and the cedar. And then the scarlet. 379 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:58,760 The scarlet thread that runs throughout scripture. It's really faith in the blood. 380 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:08,120 It's also a picture of the stain of sin. And yet Jesus came and with the same color, he washed the stain of 381 00:28:08,180 --> 00:28:14,000 your sin and mine away. Right? You remember when when Rehab put the scarlet core. 382 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:14,960 out her window. 383 00:28:15,740 --> 00:28:15,860 Right? 384 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,380 And that was her show of faith that God was going to save her. 385 00:28:22,199 --> 00:28:27,400 And so I'm just looking at this and I'm going, wow, this is, this is way cool. 386 00:28:28,260 --> 00:28:28,400 Right? 387 00:28:29,159 --> 00:28:36,420 That the gospel here speaking and showing here in the book of Leviticus. 388 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:42,320 And so he has proclaimed clean. 389 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,820 He's proclaimed clean. 390 00:28:45,820 --> 00:28:46,440 Just like that. 391 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:47,780 Just like that. 392 00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:58,300 I shared this story Wednesday night, but it was about a girl that had come to a cowboy church years ago at George and Robbins barn. 393 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:05,120 And I'll never forget, we stepped off into a little side room there where they had their refrigerator and stuff there at the barn. 394 00:29:05,780 --> 00:29:10,540 And she asked me to pray with her and she received Christ and repented of her sins. 395 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,140 And I congratulated her. 396 00:29:15,220 --> 00:29:16,980 And she said, I got a question. 397 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:18,880 I said, what's that? 398 00:29:18,980 --> 00:29:22,220 She goes, what about all the things I've done? 399 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:24,840 I said, girl, they're gone. 400 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:26,640 Right? 401 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:27,840 They're gone. 402 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,460 He's faithful and just to forgive us or and to cleanse us. 403 00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:32,460 You're clean. 404 00:29:33,460 --> 00:29:33,540 Right? 405 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:34,620 You're clean. 406 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:35,560 You've been washed clean. 407 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,380 That's tough to take, isn't it? 408 00:29:39,380 --> 00:29:41,420 Because we have this guilt. 409 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:46,540 complex that just overwhelms us at times when I can't believe I did that sort of a thing. 410 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,320 And I can tell it was written all over her face. Like, I've done some really bad things. 411 00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:58,780 Yeah, but you're forgiven. When you confess them to the king of kings and the Lord of 412 00:29:58,810 --> 00:30:05,360 the Lord's and the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus to wash you from your sin. That verse in 413 00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:11,380 Revelation chapter 1, verse 5. It would be tattooed word. 414 00:30:11,420 --> 00:30:13,280 I'm not into ink, right? 415 00:30:14,740 --> 00:30:18,780 But it says, and he has washed us from our sins in his own blood. 416 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:20,860 Thank you, Jesus. 417 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:21,860 Right? 418 00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:27,840 And so I've seen that in the Old Testament. 419 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,600 It says, but it doesn't stop there. 420 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,540 Like I stopped reading there at verse 8. 421 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:37,820 But I'm going to read a little bit more to you, okay? 422 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:39,280 And this is Old Testament. 423 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,220 People go, oh, really do we have to go. 424 00:30:41,260 --> 00:30:42,160 into the Old Testament. 425 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,060 Listen, it is the full counsel of God. 426 00:30:46,420 --> 00:30:50,500 You don't understand the gospel until you know the book of Leviticus, right? 427 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,300 Because you don't know how guilty you are until you know the book of Leviticus. 428 00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:55,220 Have you read it lately? 429 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:56,180 Please read it. 430 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,000 Because the Bible says the law, the Levitical law is a schoolmaster to drive you to Christ. 431 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,600 Because when you read it, you think, oh no, we're all sunk. 432 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,020 We're all dead meat. 433 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:07,840 God's going to kill us all. 434 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:10,420 And justifiably so. 435 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,920 So he goes on here and he says, 436 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,040 in verse 10 and on the eighth day, 437 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,020 who knows what the number eight is, the number of, 438 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,740 new beginning, the number of new beginning. 439 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,900 When you come to Jesus and he watches your sins away, 440 00:31:29,260 --> 00:31:30,520 listen, you've got a new beginning. 441 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:32,820 It's exciting. 442 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:33,820 Yeah. 443 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:35,140 Right? 444 00:31:37,919 --> 00:31:40,360 And that's the life, the abundant life, 445 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:46,880 that's why he came was to give you and I, this abundant life, that we can be excited about waking up 446 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:53,540 in the morning in a dark world that just seems to have lost its way. And we're fine because we know the way. 447 00:31:54,360 --> 00:32:01,420 Right? We got a hold of him. We've laid hold of Jesus. And it says, and on the eighth day, 448 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,480 he shall take two male lambs without blemish, a unlam of the first year without blemish, 449 00:32:06,660 --> 00:32:10,200 three-tenths of an epa, fine flour mixed with oil as a green offering. 450 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:18,180 and one log of oil, and then the priest who makes him clean shall present the man who is to be made 451 00:32:18,540 --> 00:32:25,240 clean and those things before the Lord at the door of the taberlac of me, and the priest shall take one of the male lambs 452 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:30,560 and offer it as a trespass offering in the log of oil and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord, 453 00:32:30,660 --> 00:32:36,299 and he shall kill the lamb in his place where he kills the sin offering and the burnt offering in a 454 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:44,260 holy place for the sin offering. And the priest is so is the priest. So is the trespass offering. It is most 455 00:32:44,380 --> 00:32:50,320 holy. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering. Listen. And the priest shall 456 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:57,820 put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed. And on the thumb of the right hand 457 00:32:58,180 --> 00:33:06,280 and on the big toe of the right foot. What's this about? Listen, this is wild. Because 458 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:15,740 here's this leper who is unclean, right? Unworthy. Just like us sinners are unclean and unworthy. 459 00:33:16,220 --> 00:33:24,320 And then he gets washed and then the priest treats him like a priest. Because this anointing of the 460 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:32,140 blood on the ear and the thumb and the right toe, it's symbolic of what you hear and what you 461 00:33:32,420 --> 00:33:36,260 receive and conceive in your mind, right? The work of your 462 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:45,820 hands and your walk where it takes you. Right. And they're all to be, there all to be a witness of the God 463 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:53,180 of heaven. Right. And, and so it doesn't stop there. It goes on and I don't got a time to go there 464 00:33:53,260 --> 00:33:57,520 because we're running out of time. But then he takes the oil. He takes the oil. He takes the oil. 465 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:04,240 What's an oil type of in scripture? Holy Spirit, right? The oil. And he takes the oil and he 466 00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:09,360 puts dabs the oil on top of the blood. And he dabs it on top of the blood on the thumb and on the 467 00:34:09,570 --> 00:34:15,500 toe. That this life would be anointed by God's Holy Spirit. Is your life anointed by God's 468 00:34:15,510 --> 00:34:20,760 Holy Spirit? It should be. If you've been, if you've come under the blood, you've been cleansed, 469 00:34:21,460 --> 00:34:31,280 right? You freeze a bird to do what God's called you to do. See, that's why it's so important 470 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,620 for him to not just be your savior. 471 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,200 But for him to be your God that anoint you, 472 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:40,740 covers you with his blood, 473 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,260 and anoint you to do a priestly ministry. 474 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:45,820 You're all. 475 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,700 All of us are called to be kings and priests. 476 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:50,419 Do you realize that? 477 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,860 I've got a little saying here that I wanted to share with you. 478 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:01,000 God doesn't just cleanse your wretched hide from sin. 479 00:35:01,420 --> 00:35:03,800 to save us from the flames of the lake of fire. 480 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:07,400 That's not why he saves us, right? 481 00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:13,440 But that we might go into the world, right, 482 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,200 and be the kings and the priests that he's called to. 483 00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:16,980 What kings do? 484 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:18,140 They had authority. 485 00:35:19,380 --> 00:35:21,380 Greater is he that is in us than he is in the world. 486 00:35:21,540 --> 00:35:22,520 God has given us authority. 487 00:35:23,020 --> 00:35:25,640 Spiritual authority as we put our faith and trust in him. 488 00:35:25,980 --> 00:35:29,220 To them, he gave the right, the power, the authority 489 00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:30,500 to become the children of God. 490 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:37,860 right? John chapter 1, verse 12. And so, and priests, what's the priests do? They intercede. 491 00:35:39,580 --> 00:35:44,440 They intercede in their families. They intercede at the workplace. They intercede at church. 492 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:46,420 They intercede. 493 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,580 Revelation chapter 9, verses 9 and 10. It says, 494 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:58,660 And they sang a new song saying, you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals. 495 00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:05,120 for you were slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people 496 00:36:05,150 --> 00:36:11,380 and nation and have made us kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth. 497 00:36:11,820 --> 00:36:22,040 Can anybody say amen? Right? Not awesome. But it's all him. We just have to come under that promise and that 498 00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:26,400 blessing and that power that God has made available to us. 499 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:35,880 1. Peter chapter 2, verses 9 and 10. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 500 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:42,360 his own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness 501 00:36:42,510 --> 00:36:49,220 into his marvelous light, who once were not a people, but are now the people of God, 502 00:36:49,620 --> 00:36:55,200 who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Has God been merciful to you? 503 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:56,680 Right? 504 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,320 Doesn't that just kind of create? 505 00:36:58,580 --> 00:37:03,040 Oh, I mean, it just kind of makes you want to get Pentecostal, right? 506 00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:08,060 I can become a pew jumper, right? 507 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:09,060 Woo-hoo! 508 00:37:12,860 --> 00:37:15,280 This stuff, I don't know if you know there, it can excites me. 509 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,440 It just gets me all giddy, right? 510 00:37:23,180 --> 00:37:24,660 He chose us. 511 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,800 He chose to do this for us. 512 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:31,720 We didn't choose him. 513 00:37:32,620 --> 00:37:36,680 We were under the wrath of God, sons of disobedience, children of darkness. 514 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:48,220 John 15, 16, you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, 515 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,300 and that your fruit should remain. 516 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,320 And whatever you ask the father in my name, he may give you. 517 00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:58,420 that's what we have available to us 518 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,900 by coming and bowing before the king 519 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,720 with our sin, just like this leopard did. 520 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:11,140 And he totally yielded and he's, Lord, if you're willing, 521 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,140 if you're willing, you can do, you can do with me what no one else can. 522 00:38:20,140 --> 00:38:21,860 So we go to our priest. 523 00:38:23,180 --> 00:38:24,340 He's coming to the world first. 524 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:32,340 us and we go to him. We can go to him with everything and anything. There's no mediator between God and man, 525 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:38,120 but the man Christ Jesus. Right? You don't have to come to me. You don't have to come to your priest over at 526 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:43,860 the Catholic Church or your bishop at the Mormon Church. You don't go to them. You come to Christ 527 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:50,880 Jesus. Right? He is your great high priest, Hebrews 4. For we do not have a high priest who cannot 528 00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:54,320 sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all point. 529 00:38:55,020 --> 00:38:57,740 tempt as we are, yet without sin. 530 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:03,380 Let us therefore come boldly before the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find 531 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,220 grace to help in time of need. 532 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,500 I remember like the words of my little granddaughter. 533 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,000 Hello, Papa, I'm right here. 534 00:39:16,860 --> 00:39:18,220 That's what Jesus is saying to us. 535 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:19,660 Hello, I'm right here. 536 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:20,660 Right? 537 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,940 Hebrews 7, for we do not have a high priest. 538 00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:32,880 Well, I had a different one, sorry. 539 00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:40,560 Let us therefore come boldly before that throne of gase that we may find mercy. 540 00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:45,140 We are to go to our high priest with everything. 541 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,180 And with that thought, we're going to enter into communion. 542 00:39:50,780 --> 00:39:53,720 and maybe there's something in your life. 543 00:39:53,820 --> 00:39:55,560 You're going, man, I don't know if I should take communion. 544 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:57,240 Just get it right. 545 00:39:57,980 --> 00:39:59,520 Confess it before the Lord right now. 546 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,960 As we just have a moment of prayer before we partake of the elements. 547 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,440 Get your heart right before the Lord. 548 00:40:05,780 --> 00:40:06,500 Just humble yourself. 549 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:07,680 He's willing. 550 00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:09,460 You'll be cleansed. 551 00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,480 He wipes it away until tomorrow. 552 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,080 Then you probably have to do it again. 553 00:40:16,260 --> 00:40:16,860 But that's okay. 554 00:40:18,180 --> 00:40:18,960 Because he's willing. 555 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:22,380 If anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father. 556 00:40:24,420 --> 00:40:25,940 Christ Jesus, our Lord. 557 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:26,560 Let's pray. 558 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:36,140 Father, we come before you now as we enter in to this sacred act of communion, Lord, 559 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,360 remember in your body and your blood. 560 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:42,580 So I just pray for any, Lord, that just need to humble themselves right now. 561 00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:45,620 They can just whisper that prayer and get right with you. 562 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,360 Lord, as they hold the elements in their hand, 563 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:53,700 and they realize maybe there's some things that they haven't confessed, Lord, 564 00:40:55,060 --> 00:40:59,780 but they're saying, Lord, if you're willing, you can clean this up in my life. 565 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:01,200 And maybe that's you. 566 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,580 Just take a second right now and do that business with the Lord. 567 00:41:14,780 --> 00:41:18,480 And Lord, we just take the bread and we do that business with the Lord. 568 00:41:19,180 --> 00:41:21,880 us, Lord, that it was that sacrifice. 569 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:30,400 Lord, that offering of yourself, your back, and your hands and your feet and your side 570 00:41:30,460 --> 00:41:37,420 and your scalp, Lord, and even the plucking of your beard, Lord, is a sacrifice for us. 571 00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:40,160 And your body that was broken. 572 00:41:40,340 --> 00:41:44,140 You said as often as we do this, that we would do it in remembrance of you. 573 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,440 So, Lord, we just pray that you would pierce our hearts. 574 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,840 Lord, with the power and the weight of that sacrifice, as you lay down your body for us. 575 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,980 Lord, totally willing. 576 00:41:57,060 --> 00:42:02,440 And then require that of us as well to lay down our lives, Lord, to be totally willing. 577 00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:05,920 And, Lord, to complete your will. 578 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,140 So, Lord, we just lift the bread before you. 579 00:42:09,180 --> 00:42:09,980 We pray over it. 580 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,020 We thank you for it. 581 00:42:11,420 --> 00:42:13,320 Pray that you would bless it now in Jesus' name. 582 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:14,060 Let's partake. 583 00:42:18,380 --> 00:42:19,520 Likewise, he took the cup. 584 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,000 He said, this is the new covenant of my blood that was shed for you. 585 00:42:25,140 --> 00:42:30,420 Lord, thank you, that you literally poured your life out for us. 586 00:42:31,580 --> 00:42:36,940 Lord, the color of love was crimson, and it flowed. 587 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:42,560 And it flowed out of your body and down the cross and out of your side and out of your side. 588 00:42:43,620 --> 00:42:49,920 And Lord, Lord, is truly that detergent for the sin that so easily ensnars and entangles us, Lord. 589 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,000 And so we just pray you for it. 590 00:42:52,140 --> 00:42:58,240 Pray that you would bless the cup as we partake and we remember your precious blood that was shed for us. 591 00:42:59,040 --> 00:42:59,240 Lord. 592 00:42:59,980 --> 00:43:02,040 And it truly makes us clean. 593 00:43:02,340 --> 00:43:02,980 White is snow. 594 00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:07,040 I don't know how that works, but I sure believe it and I sure praise you for it. 595 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,040 So bless the cup now as we partake in Jesus' name. 596 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:11,240 Let's partake. 597 00:43:15,260 --> 00:43:16,100 Let's all stand, shall we? 598 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,560 May we all commune with the Lord this week. 599 00:43:25,020 --> 00:43:27,880 There's an old ditty that I remember singing when I was a little, 600 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,420 little guy church with my granny in it. 601 00:43:31,380 --> 00:43:34,160 It's called Have That I Own Way, and it goes like this. 602 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,160 Have Thine own way, Lord. 603 00:43:39,220 --> 00:43:41,180 Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way. 604 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:56,220 Thou art the potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me after thy will. 605 00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:05,080 While I am yielding, yielded and still, have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way. 606 00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:11,780 Lord, have thine own way. 607 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:19,580 Thou art the potter, I am the claim. 608 00:44:20,180 --> 00:44:35,280 Bow me and make me after thy will, while I am waiting, while I am waiting, yielded and still. 609 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,540 Lord, we yield to your direction this week. 610 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:42,860 go before us, make our paths straight, Lord, and fill us with your Holy Spirit. 611 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,200 The only way we can be successful in this life you called us to. 612 00:44:46,490 --> 00:44:49,200 In Jesus' name, everybody said, amen, God bless you. 613 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:51,080 If you need prayer, the prayer team will be up here. 614 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:53,100 Have a great week in Jesus.