1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:06,920 Alrighty, you can be seated, and if you got a Bible, you can turn to the Gospel of Luke. 2 00:00:08,179 --> 00:00:09,880 Happy Memorial Day to you. 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,840 It's funny, the older you get, the more you think about those who have passed on. 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,720 I'm getting that place in my life where I know more people that are there than are here. 5 00:00:20,860 --> 00:00:25,020 And so kind of an odd deal. 6 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,780 I have to go do a funeral service tomorrow down in the Twin Falls area, 7 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:34,520 for a kid that was 20, or not quite, but 10 years younger than me anyway. 8 00:00:35,350 --> 00:00:38,560 And that always just kind of brings it home, don't it? 9 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:40,680 That it's a real deal. 10 00:00:42,060 --> 00:00:44,360 None of us are getting out of this thing alive. 11 00:00:46,580 --> 00:00:54,220 So, but Jesus reminds us in the word that when we come to him, 12 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:55,900 we've got to die to ourselves anyway. 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,460 So might as well be getting practiced up. 14 00:00:59,860 --> 00:01:03,220 and be ready for that day when it does come. 15 00:01:03,740 --> 00:01:06,680 We're going to be just reading 12 verses here this morning 16 00:01:06,860 --> 00:01:09,920 in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Luke. 17 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,200 And I'm going to start in verse 12, 18 00:01:14,790 --> 00:01:18,140 but Jesus has totally offended everybody, right? 19 00:01:18,780 --> 00:01:21,260 The traditions of the religious leadership, 20 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,580 and they're plotting his death, 21 00:01:25,410 --> 00:01:28,820 and, you know, he's just kind of made a big splash on the scene, 22 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,400 and it's not overly popular. 23 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,160 And so, you know, just please keep that in mind as you walk with the Lord, 24 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:42,860 as you name the name of Christ, and with boldness as you share the word, 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,240 just know that a lot of times it's not very well received, right? 26 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,720 The world don't want to hear it. 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,000 And so we start in verse 12, and it says, 28 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:58,220 Now it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray. 29 00:01:58,780 --> 00:02:01,540 and continued all night in prayer to God. 30 00:02:02,140 --> 00:02:04,980 And when it was day, he called his disciples to himself, 31 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:10,380 and from them he chose 12, whom he also named apostles, 32 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:19,040 Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, 33 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:22,840 Philip and Bartholomew, aka Nathaniel, 34 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,360 Matthew and Thomas, James, the son of Alpheus, and Simon called the zealot, 35 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,459 or as my grandpa would say, the Z-Lot. 36 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:36,320 Judas, the son of James and Judas Ascariot, who also became a traitor. 37 00:02:37,060 --> 00:02:41,900 And he came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of his disciples 38 00:02:42,260 --> 00:02:46,220 and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, 39 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,580 and from the sea coast of Tyrant Sidon, who came to hear him and be healed of their diseases, 40 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,280 as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. 41 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,360 They were healed, and the whole of their diseases, and the whole, 42 00:02:58,380 --> 00:03:06,660 whole multitude sought to touch him for power went out from him and healed them all. Then he lifted up 43 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:12,620 his eyes towards his disciples and said, Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 44 00:03:12,820 --> 00:03:20,060 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now for you shall laugh. 45 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:28,340 Blessed are you when men hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and cast out your 46 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,500 name as evil for the son of man's sake. 47 00:03:32,439 --> 00:03:37,600 Rejoice that day and leap for joy, for indeed, your reward is great in heaven. 48 00:03:38,180 --> 00:03:41,480 For in like manner their fathers did to the prophets. 49 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:42,280 Shall we pray? 50 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,280 Lord, thank you. 51 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:45,300 Thank you for your word, Lord Jesus. 52 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,580 It just cuts to the chase. 53 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:55,620 And it causes us to turn our attention to you and this relationship that we have with you, Lord, 54 00:03:57,100 --> 00:03:58,320 that it would be truly the pre-emble. 55 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:03,960 eminent thing in all of our lives, Lord, that you've called us to lay down our lives, Lord, 56 00:04:04,140 --> 00:04:13,480 to be crucified with Christ and to live this life that is selfless. And it gives glory to the one 57 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,340 who deserves all the glory, knowing that you will never share it with anyone. And so, Lord, 58 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:23,500 we love you. We praise you. We pray that you would speak to us now in Jesus' name. Amen. 59 00:04:25,820 --> 00:04:28,180 So it says, and now it came to pass in those days. 60 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:35,700 that he went out to pray. Now, Jesus was at a critical point in his ministry. Obviously, after all the 61 00:04:36,260 --> 00:04:43,140 stir that he had created, the political leadership also began to plot his destruction. And according to Mark 62 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:49,740 chapter 3, verse 6, where it says, then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians 63 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:55,680 against him, how they might destroy him. Right? They didn't just want to remove him. They wanted to 64 00:04:56,820 --> 00:05:02,440 kill him. They wanted to cut him into little bitty pieces. And that's what a murderous heart does. 65 00:05:02,660 --> 00:05:11,760 You ever had one of those? I have. And if we're honest, I think there is times when we all have. 66 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:21,360 And this hatred that they had for Jesus was actually quite shocking, but so is the condition of man. 67 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,660 And great crowds followed him, but they were not interested in spiritual. 68 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:34,140 things so they could quickly be turned against Jesus. In response to these pressures in changing 69 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:40,060 situations, Jesus secluded himself for the time of special prayer. And it says he went and he prayed 70 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:46,380 all night. Have you ever done that? I've never done that. I've been woken up at night and sent 71 00:05:46,660 --> 00:05:55,640 aloft some prayers, but I've never just consistently been in prayer all night. And maybe it was 72 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:03,720 it was for this particular need, he went to the, he secluded himself right all night and was alone 73 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:11,140 with his father. I like what Charles Haddon's Spurgeon said. He said one night alone in prayer 74 00:06:11,620 --> 00:06:18,360 might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to 75 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,980 triumping. Amen? Just being still before God and getting alone with God. I got a buddy that 76 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:27,240 he travels about doing ministry. 77 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,200 But when he comes home, he loads up a couple horses 78 00:06:30,490 --> 00:06:32,000 and gets in his truck and trailer 79 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:33,720 and heads to the mountains for a couple weeks. 80 00:06:34,340 --> 00:06:35,360 And you won't see him. 81 00:06:36,020 --> 00:06:38,520 And he's just up there and he's getting filled up 82 00:06:38,550 --> 00:06:40,260 and he's having the Lord speak to his heart. 83 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:42,800 And it's powerful. 84 00:06:43,220 --> 00:06:45,460 We need our cups filled up. 85 00:06:46,410 --> 00:06:49,260 And we're way too busy of a world, right? 86 00:06:49,740 --> 00:06:51,880 So if you've got to do it, you've got to do it on purpose. 87 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:56,400 and being still before the Lord and knowing that He's God 88 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,660 and letting him soothe your soul, so to speak. 89 00:06:59,980 --> 00:07:04,140 I had to have one of a few of those moments with the Lord in my own life this week, 90 00:07:04,260 --> 00:07:07,260 just being still and reading his word 91 00:07:07,420 --> 00:07:11,340 and reading accounts of other believers that are going through hard things. 92 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:13,700 Because this life is hard. 93 00:07:15,060 --> 00:07:16,280 It seems to be getting harder, 94 00:07:16,420 --> 00:07:18,840 the closer we are getting to the coming of the Lord. 95 00:07:21,099 --> 00:07:22,800 And he's coming soon. 96 00:07:23,580 --> 00:07:24,440 and verses 97 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,960 14 and 15 there 98 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,220 he calls his disciples 99 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:32,520 and 100 00:07:35,139 --> 00:07:36,940 a good way to remember their names 101 00:07:36,940 --> 00:07:38,220 I try to remember all the time 102 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:40,020 I think it's just a good thing to put to memory 103 00:07:40,170 --> 00:07:41,020 is all the disciples 104 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:42,720 so a good way to remember it is there's 105 00:07:43,180 --> 00:07:45,180 two Simons, two Jameses 106 00:07:45,260 --> 00:07:46,180 and two Judices 107 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:47,840 well there's half of them right there 108 00:07:49,060 --> 00:07:50,420 right there's two Simons 109 00:07:50,940 --> 00:07:52,820 two Jameses and two Judas 110 00:07:53,620 --> 00:07:57,120 And then I go in alphabetical order, right? 111 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,660 You got Andrew Bartholomew, John, Matthew, Philip, and Thomas. 112 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,600 And these guys are stellar. 113 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:09,500 There was a lot of disciples following Jesus. 114 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,520 They were learners of Christ, this multitude. 115 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:21,840 And here he picks his team out of this multitude of those. 116 00:08:24,980 --> 00:08:25,700 those disciples. 117 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,640 And he was getting ready. 118 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,580 So no doubt he was spending time in prayer 119 00:08:32,780 --> 00:08:34,680 because these men that he was going to choose 120 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,120 were going to turn the world upside down. 121 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:42,099 Think about Jesus' ministry three and a half years. 122 00:08:44,620 --> 00:08:48,340 And he changed history in three and a half years. 123 00:08:49,180 --> 00:08:51,020 And then his disciples went on 124 00:08:51,620 --> 00:08:54,220 and did, like he said, they did many more works 125 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,680 because their life was extended a little longer than his. 126 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:03,780 And not only were they going to turn the world upside down, 127 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:06,820 but they were going to be willing to die in the process. 128 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:08,760 Willing to die. 129 00:09:10,340 --> 00:09:13,540 And we remember a lot of people that were willing to die this weekend, don't me? 130 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:15,480 Memorial Day, right? 131 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:21,000 I used to work at a cemetery, and the amount of people that would come to this 132 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:29,600 big cemetery. You know, you always, you learn all the cemetery funnies when you get there. 133 00:09:30,340 --> 00:09:34,600 Right? Like we, around here we get ourselves in a hole occasionally. 134 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,460 Business is always dead. 135 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:44,440 Never had a complaint. 136 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:49,880 And I had about 10,000 people under me. 137 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:57,160 you learn all those really quick but on that Memorial Day weekend obviously is the biggest weekend 138 00:09:57,220 --> 00:10:04,200 of the year for us there at the cemetery and just absolutely unbelievable the amount of decoration 139 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:13,160 and the amount of attention that was given to those who had passed on and so it's a good thing 140 00:10:14,580 --> 00:10:17,920 Jesus established a Memorial Day for himself, right? 141 00:10:17,980 --> 00:10:20,480 Every time we do communion, it's a memorial. 142 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:27,060 It's a remembering of his body and his blood and his death on Calvary's Cross. 143 00:10:28,180 --> 00:10:32,780 And also the pearl of the good news, right, is the resurrection. 144 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:33,840 Amen. 145 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:42,240 So Jesus was looking for some dudes with some guts, some intestinal fortitude. 146 00:10:42,980 --> 00:10:44,300 Jesus wasn't interested. 147 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,100 for anyone who wanted a life of ease. 148 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:51,600 Well, that just pretty much blows all the Americans out the water. 149 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:53,960 Right? 150 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,760 This week, I read, like I said, I was going through some heavy, 151 00:11:02,980 --> 00:11:04,880 so I have a Founder's Bible, 152 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:06,960 and so I was reading through it. 153 00:11:07,950 --> 00:11:11,520 And when Washington got his troops ready to go 154 00:11:11,780 --> 00:11:13,760 and do a surprise attack, 155 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:15,740 in Trenton, New Jersey. 156 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,180 They were going across the Delaware 157 00:11:18,660 --> 00:11:20,740 and through the ice and the snow and the rain 158 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,280 and it was on Christmas night 159 00:11:22,860 --> 00:11:23,640 that they were going. 160 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,460 And then it was a nine-mile hike 161 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:28,960 once they got across the Delaware to Trenton. 162 00:11:29,780 --> 00:11:33,720 And it said that Washington was riding 163 00:11:33,940 --> 00:11:36,280 up and down the troops as they were marching, 164 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,540 encouraging them, telling them that we can do this. 165 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:41,240 We can have a victory. 166 00:11:42,020 --> 00:11:43,760 It's interesting that in his, 167 00:11:43,780 --> 00:11:50,220 his quarter before they got into the boat, there was a soldier or a officer and a little piece 168 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:55,940 of paper had fallen off the table of Washington's desk and was on the floor and he picked it up 169 00:11:56,620 --> 00:12:09,700 and it read, victory or death. Victory or death. And so he was riding up and down and some of the 170 00:12:09,940 --> 00:12:13,700 soldier's shoes had worn out. And so they'd wrapped their feet in burlaps. 171 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:19,260 Saxon is said that there was a trail of blood in the snow where the soldiers were marching to 172 00:12:19,420 --> 00:12:28,260 Trenton. And they hadn't eaten or slept for 48 hours. And as they would have it, things didn't 173 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:37,980 go according to plan. Do they ever? Do things ever go according to plan? And as the Lord would 174 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:43,560 have it, they got the victory. But Thomas Payne wrote about this time. 175 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:44,780 And it says this. 176 00:12:45,740 --> 00:12:48,840 And just know that that's what this life affords us. 177 00:12:49,140 --> 00:12:52,920 When Jesus said, in the world, you all have tribulation, but be of good courage. 178 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:54,520 I have overcome the world. 179 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,940 Pain writes, these are the times that try men's souls. 180 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:07,120 The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country. 181 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:12,520 But he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of men and women. 182 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:23,620 tyranny like hell is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. 183 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:32,020 What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value. 184 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:43,180 Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be high, 185 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:52,920 rated. And I just think that's so true. Our souls need to be tried. Right? We need these hard 186 00:13:53,080 --> 00:14:01,420 things in our life to refine us and to remind us. This is not our home, folks. Right? We're just 187 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:09,480 passing through. We're on the battlefield of life, so to speak. I don't have a lot of 188 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:12,120 hopes for the golden age that's been talked about lately. 189 00:14:14,460 --> 00:14:14,620 Okay? 190 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,960 So these men that Jesus chose here were these kind of men. 191 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:27,640 James, right? 192 00:14:28,620 --> 00:14:29,600 Dyes by the sword. 193 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,520 The first Christian martyr, even before Stephen is stone, 194 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,480 James dies by the sword. 195 00:14:34,620 --> 00:14:36,360 Peter is well on his way in prison, 196 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,840 and you remember the people prayed him out of jail. 197 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,120 first automatic gate 198 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,180 right opened of its own accord the bible tells us 199 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:49,480 and they pray him out of there 200 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,820 and then they crucify him upside down 201 00:14:52,660 --> 00:14:54,560 Andrew along with Matthias 202 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,040 the one who replaced Judas Ascaria 203 00:14:57,620 --> 00:15:00,640 were crucified and burned and killed in North Africa 204 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,740 the other James was chucked off the temple 205 00:15:03,790 --> 00:15:06,000 it didn't kill him so then they 206 00:15:06,530 --> 00:15:08,840 they stoned him and beat him to dead with with clubs 207 00:15:10,780 --> 00:15:12,840 because he wouldn't recant. 208 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:22,860 And so it's these kind of men, these kind of people that the Lord is interested in. 209 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,800 Jesus tells us this interesting phrase in Matthew 20, verse 16, 210 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,060 it says, for many are called, but few chosen. 211 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:32,680 What does that mean? 212 00:15:34,420 --> 00:15:38,800 So all those disciples that were following him, just the 12 were chosen? 213 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:41,760 And one of them was the devil, the Bible tells us, right? 214 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:44,380 What does it mean to be chosen? 215 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,780 Maybe it means that when you're called, you choose to follow. 216 00:15:52,850 --> 00:15:53,760 I mean, really follow. 217 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:55,260 Not just to put on. 218 00:15:57,740 --> 00:16:04,340 And so these guys were some pretty salty guys. 219 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,800 Though we see their humanness, we see them scattered 220 00:16:08,820 --> 00:16:14,020 about when they arrest Jesus and fear fills their heart. 221 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,820 But he chooses them, he calls them, 222 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,920 and then he immediately takes them and shows them how to minister to people. 223 00:16:24,060 --> 00:16:24,660 Verse 17. 224 00:16:25,460 --> 00:16:29,280 And he came down with them and stood on a level place. 225 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,120 That means like a lowland or a valley. 226 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,080 With a crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people 227 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,240 from all Judea, Jerusalem, 228 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,420 from the sea coast of Tyre and Seiden, 229 00:16:41,220 --> 00:16:44,240 some of these people travel to waste to get here 230 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,600 and to be in the presence of the Lord, 231 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,880 who came to hear him 232 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,580 to be healed of their diseases 233 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:58,520 as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. 234 00:16:59,180 --> 00:17:01,020 And they were healed. 235 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,319 And the whole multitude sought to touch him, 236 00:17:04,740 --> 00:17:08,060 for power went out from him and healed them. 237 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,100 Wow. That's pretty powerful. 238 00:17:12,420 --> 00:17:14,020 They wanted to get close to Jesus. 239 00:17:14,100 --> 00:17:15,199 First, they wanted to hear him. 240 00:17:16,260 --> 00:17:18,660 I think it's good because the Bible says, 241 00:17:18,819 --> 00:17:21,220 faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 242 00:17:22,380 --> 00:17:23,500 Why do you want to hear God? 243 00:17:25,199 --> 00:17:28,540 You want to hear him just because, oh, I know he's got some blessing for me. 244 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:30,920 Right? Well, just hearing him as blessing. 245 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:37,900 And, but he might have some healing or might have a, 246 00:17:38,420 --> 00:17:42,880 a career that might be a blessing to you and your family. 247 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:53,060 But I think it's an incredible hunger to want to hear the words of Jesus. 248 00:17:53,810 --> 00:18:01,820 And it's a great thing to read through those letters written and read over and over and over again. 249 00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:05,100 Because the Lord promises us, right? 250 00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:08,020 They came to hear him. 251 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,820 And in verse 24 of the fifth chapter of the gospel of John, Jesus said, 252 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,200 Most assuredly I say to you, 253 00:18:15,780 --> 00:18:21,740 He who hears my word and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life 254 00:18:23,260 --> 00:18:28,560 and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. 255 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,160 That's powerful. 256 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,300 He who believes in him who who, 257 00:18:36,420 --> 00:18:38,960 my word and believes in him who sent me. 258 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,140 The word of God is, it is powerful. 259 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,120 It'll speak life into you every time you pick it up. 260 00:18:51,860 --> 00:18:53,860 The sad part is we don't pick it up enough. 261 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:56,040 That's the sad part. 262 00:18:58,640 --> 00:18:59,840 We need to do it every day. 263 00:19:01,340 --> 00:19:03,740 The days when I don't do it, I feel it. 264 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:05,760 And my very soul. 265 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:11,760 So first they came to hearing. 266 00:19:12,060 --> 00:19:14,300 Second, to be healed of their diseases. 267 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,200 These people wanted to be touched by Jesus. 268 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,120 They wanted to have a whole body. 269 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:20,620 Is that what you want? 270 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:23,580 We do want that. 271 00:19:25,820 --> 00:19:29,860 We desire to experience the touch of the master's hand. 272 00:19:31,180 --> 00:19:34,260 Thirdly, to deliver those tormented by spirit. 273 00:19:35,580 --> 00:19:39,180 I think some people are in a spiritual darkness and they don't even know it. 274 00:19:39,220 --> 00:19:40,920 They may even come to church every Sunday. 275 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,180 And they got demons all about them and maybe even in them. 276 00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:49,460 Have you been oppressed? 277 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,600 Are you in a place of depression? 278 00:19:57,620 --> 00:20:00,660 It's like an epidemic depression. 279 00:20:01,780 --> 00:20:03,960 And the scripture tells us where that comes from. 280 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:11,160 The proverb says that anxiety in the hearts of men causes depression. 281 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:13,240 What are you anxious about? 282 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,120 Because the word tells us to be anxious for nothing. 283 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,400 But in everything, by prayer and supplication, 284 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,380 let your request be made known to God. 285 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:24,680 You anxious? 286 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,380 Giving the enemy a foothold? 287 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:29,880 You bitter? 288 00:20:35,180 --> 00:20:36,940 He's come to heal us of those things. 289 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,720 All it says there, 290 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,080 all desired to touch him. 291 00:20:52,340 --> 00:20:55,880 For power went out from him and listened and healed them all. 292 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:58,420 Jesus is showing his disciples. 293 00:20:58,560 --> 00:20:59,760 This is how you do ministry, boys. 294 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:06,680 right you go make yourself available to these these demon-possessed people and these people with diseases 295 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,800 no doubt the homeless and the the broken 296 00:21:12,860 --> 00:21:15,000 the first and foremost you share the word of God with them 297 00:21:18,620 --> 00:21:27,860 and so he uh he heals every every one of them that says that all of them are healed 298 00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:36,020 this is the power that these disciples were in awe of and desired in their own life, 299 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:37,940 and they needed it in their own life. 300 00:21:38,820 --> 00:21:40,480 You and I, we need this power in our life. 301 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,300 I can't do this. 302 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,320 I can't do this Christian life, ain't? 303 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:44,520 Right? 304 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:45,760 I'm too much of a wanny. 305 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:47,640 I'm just a weakling. 306 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:50,300 I'm prideful. 307 00:21:50,820 --> 00:21:51,620 I'm arrogant. 308 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,660 I'm just so fallen and so flawed. 309 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:55,660 I can't do this. 310 00:21:56,540 --> 00:21:57,840 But when the Lord comes along and he, 311 00:21:57,860 --> 00:22:05,500 he fills you with this spirit, there's a, there's an ability that he gives you an eye. 312 00:22:06,420 --> 00:22:09,580 And we can never take the glory from for it, right? 313 00:22:09,820 --> 00:22:11,740 Because it's not us, it's him. 314 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,460 It's borrowed power. 315 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:13,900 Amen? 316 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,280 Do you need to borrow a little power from the Lord? 317 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:19,000 Would you just ask him? 318 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,740 Because he tells us, if you'll ask for the Holy Spirit, he'll give it to you. 319 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,580 Some of us don't want the Holy Spirit. 320 00:22:28,140 --> 00:22:31,560 Yeah, oh no, the Holy Spirit's going to make me do some things that it's going to be uncomfortable. 321 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:33,580 He's going to stretch me a little. 322 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,100 I don't want that in my life. 323 00:22:36,420 --> 00:22:37,660 No, you need that in your life. 324 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:42,880 First Peter 1-3. 325 00:22:43,540 --> 00:22:51,780 As his divine power, divine power has given to us, listen, all things that pertain to life and godliness 326 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:56,420 through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue. 327 00:22:58,020 --> 00:23:01,700 everything you need that pertains to life and godliness is available to you. 328 00:23:02,020 --> 00:23:04,160 If you're not drawing on it, it's your fault. 329 00:23:07,780 --> 00:23:13,720 Don't be crying about not having enough strength or being depressed or just pressed down. 330 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,120 No, he's giving you everything. 331 00:23:17,740 --> 00:23:19,460 Your job is to reach out and grab it. 332 00:23:20,980 --> 00:23:22,160 And yes, that takes energy. 333 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:23,660 Yes, that's hard sometimes. 334 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,920 It's more important now, folks, than ever, to be walking with the Lord. 335 00:23:39,099 --> 00:23:42,000 Because the world offers a power also. 336 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,440 The enemy offers a power. 337 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,920 The flesh offers a power. 338 00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:51,080 Are they not powerful? 339 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:53,640 The flesh, the world. 340 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,300 and the devil, right? The three great enemies of the saint, of the Christian. 341 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:09,220 And because there is this artificial power available to us right now, 342 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,600 it's going to leave the world astray like no other time in history. 343 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,480 You know, when Jesus says this in Matthew chapter 24, 344 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,920 he's talking about the last days and he says, 345 00:24:21,380 --> 00:24:27,700 he says unless those days were shortened no flesh would be saved but for the elects sake those days 346 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:34,560 will be shortened the lord has to shorten our days guys right i mean he needs to shorten it really make it 347 00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:42,420 really short and and come and uh because this AI stuff is going absolutely crazy 348 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:50,320 and our golden age president right is he's pushing it right which i don't know that i wouldn't if i was 349 00:24:50,340 --> 00:24:57,780 in his position, but it is scary stuff, what is coming down the road at us. 350 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:04,820 It's getting so advanced and so fast that Jesus must come soon. Think about this. 351 00:25:06,740 --> 00:25:14,820 What is it that God wants with us? A relationship, right? He's created us for his good 352 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:20,300 pleasure. God desires this relationship with us. Well, now a, 353 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,060 AI can offer you all kinds of relationship, right? 354 00:25:27,580 --> 00:25:31,460 This intimate endwelling that we get to experience with the Holy Spirit 355 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,000 as we seek the Lord as we put God's word in our heart. 356 00:25:37,940 --> 00:25:38,780 AI can mimic. 357 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,400 And it's going to affect every area of our lives. 358 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,200 There's an AI Jesus now. 359 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:52,720 you can go ask this AI Jesus all kinds of questions 360 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,340 who do you think those answers are coming from 361 00:25:59,180 --> 00:25:59,620 right 362 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,240 you can go to AI Jesus and ask all kinds of things 363 00:26:05,820 --> 00:26:09,360 all of our assignments in education now can be generated by AI 364 00:26:09,830 --> 00:26:12,980 I just talk to a guy says the school I went to he says there's a kid that 365 00:26:13,430 --> 00:26:15,580 that's coming up behind me he's going to the same school I went to 366 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,180 he says all his papers are AI 367 00:26:19,519 --> 00:26:22,160 He reads through them and then writes them in his own words. 368 00:26:23,860 --> 00:26:26,440 I talked to a high school senior here a year or so ago, 369 00:26:26,570 --> 00:26:30,620 and he's told me about, chat GPT got him through high school. 370 00:26:31,620 --> 00:26:32,900 I said, you can be able to do that in college? 371 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:33,840 He said, I don't think so. 372 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:35,360 I think they can nail you on it in college. 373 00:26:42,220 --> 00:26:46,020 And now AI can produce artificial relationships. 374 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,740 There are these things called metahumans. 375 00:26:56,260 --> 00:26:57,600 This is freaking me out, you guys. 376 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:02,720 And the Associated Press, there is an Associated Press article, 377 00:27:02,750 --> 00:27:04,080 and this was the headline of it. 378 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,020 Artificial intelligence, real emotion, 379 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,920 people are seeking a romantic connection with the perfect bot. 380 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:15,940 This is where we're at right now. 381 00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:17,040 We're there right now. 382 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,020 I'm just like, oh my gosh. 383 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:21,920 This is insane. 384 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,060 And yet, will there be any resistance to it? 385 00:27:29,140 --> 00:27:29,960 I don't think so. 386 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,060 I don't think so. 387 00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:34,240 I think people are going to be all into it. 388 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:40,040 In fact, this one, I'm going to just read a couple paragraphs out of this article. 389 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,940 This one gal says, a romantic relationship with an AI can be a very powerful. 390 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:56,280 mental wellness tool, said Eugenia Keita, who founded replica nearly a decade ago after using text message 391 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:01,040 exchange to build an AI version of a friend who had passed away. 392 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:13,020 And you're just like, oh my goodness. 393 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:15,600 Lord Jesus, please come today. 394 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:17,380 please don't wait till midnight 395 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,780 one person in the article 396 00:28:21,340 --> 00:28:23,280 pointed out some problems 397 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,140 for those who choose this 398 00:28:25,460 --> 00:28:25,980 she says 399 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,240 you as the individual 400 00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:30,860 aren't learning to deal with basic things 401 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,080 that humans need to learn to deal with 402 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,580 right yeah like having an argument with your wife 403 00:28:36,140 --> 00:28:37,320 could you imagine having a bot 404 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:37,960 for a wife 405 00:28:38,580 --> 00:28:40,960 you get in an argument with her you just hit the power button 406 00:28:46,260 --> 00:28:49,540 or girls, if he makes him mad, just go throw him in the closet. 407 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:50,140 Tell your... 408 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,840 With basic things that humans need to learn to deal with since our inception. 409 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:10,940 How to deal with conflict, how to get along with people that are different from us, said Dorothy 410 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,080 Lender, professor of business ethics at the University of Virginia. 411 00:29:15,380 --> 00:29:17,380 Actually, this woman has a voice of reason. 412 00:29:17,860 --> 00:29:22,480 And so all these aspects of what it means to grow as a person 413 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,160 and what it means to learn in a relationship you're missing 414 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,240 with your cute little bot. 415 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:33,100 God help us. 416 00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:40,080 It's truly a scary time we're living in. 417 00:29:45,580 --> 00:29:48,100 And if this was the last days yesterday, 418 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,660 this right here's the last days today. 419 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:51,840 Right? 420 00:29:52,820 --> 00:29:54,200 We're right on the edge. 421 00:29:55,180 --> 00:29:58,700 And people have all kinds of arguments for Jesus not to come back. 422 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,920 Well, I want to see my baby grow up in heaven. 423 00:30:02,420 --> 00:30:04,920 Without any of this crazy stuff, right? 424 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:06,280 I don't know how that works. 425 00:30:06,290 --> 00:30:08,620 If they grow up on the way up or, right, 426 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:13,340 Or once you get there, they get to have a glorious time. 427 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:19,400 I don't know, but I know God's got only good plant for our kids and for our grandkids. 428 00:30:20,260 --> 00:30:25,360 And because there's a lot of stuff, I would just want my grandkids to forego in this life. 429 00:30:30,420 --> 00:30:38,560 I'm going to wrap it up here with Luke's little condensed account of the, 430 00:30:38,580 --> 00:30:44,360 the beatitudes. And it says, then he, Jesus, lifted up his eyes towards his disciples and said, 431 00:30:45,140 --> 00:30:49,980 blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Now, it doesn't say it here because it is 432 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,980 condensed here in Luke, but Matthew says, blessed are those who are poor in spirit. In other words, 433 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:02,340 you recognize the spiritual deficit in your life apart from God. Right? Do you have this, 434 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:08,520 this poorness in your spirit where you know that you need Jesus? 435 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,920 It says, yours is the kingdom of heaven. 436 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:12,240 Why? 437 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:13,840 Because you're going to chase after it. 438 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,200 Because you're poor in spirit. 439 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:21,760 You want your spirit to be full and not to be poor, but to be vibrant. 440 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:23,540 And so you'll seek him. 441 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:30,020 Blessed, it says, for those who hunger, for they shall be filled. 442 00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:31,040 Hunger for what? 443 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:32,460 For spiritual life. 444 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,640 Years ago, I watched this. 445 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,100 It was a bodybuilding movie. 446 00:31:38,540 --> 00:31:41,060 and the subtitle was called Stay Hungry. 447 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:44,940 And I think that's what should be over every Christian's heart. 448 00:31:45,380 --> 00:31:46,580 Stay hungry for Jesus. 449 00:31:47,740 --> 00:31:48,780 Don't lose that hunger. 450 00:31:50,419 --> 00:31:54,020 Because that appetite, that spiritual appetite for him, 451 00:31:54,140 --> 00:31:54,800 you'll be filled. 452 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,820 You'll be fulfilled when you read through His Word 453 00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:00,160 and let it minister to you. 454 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,720 Thirdly, it says, 455 00:32:07,539 --> 00:32:08,100 and... 456 00:32:08,340 --> 00:32:12,300 Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. 457 00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:15,660 This world causes a lot of tears. 458 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,800 You know, you think you get older and you kind of got it together. 459 00:32:22,620 --> 00:32:25,100 I get more tearing now than I ever have in my life. 460 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:26,420 It's terrible. 461 00:32:27,260 --> 00:32:27,880 It's embarrassing. 462 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:31,640 But I think it's good. 463 00:32:32,220 --> 00:32:37,920 I remember it happened to my grandpa, one of the gruffest, toughest, toughest, hardest men I knew growing up. 464 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:45,280 and right before his 80th birthday, I'd go over and talk to him, and he'd start quoting scripture. 465 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,980 One thing he knew, he knew the Bible. 466 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,040 And as he would quote scripture, he would start crying. 467 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,400 And I could tell it, just unsettled him. 468 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,020 He was just so embarrassed by it. 469 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:55,920 And he apologized. 470 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,360 And I was thinking in my heart, I never said it because I had so much respect for this guy. 471 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,500 I didn't even know if I could talk to him half the time. 472 00:33:04,140 --> 00:33:07,440 But in my heart, I'm just going, I told him, I said, Grandpa, don't apologize. 473 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,040 and at my heart I'm thinking, 474 00:33:09,660 --> 00:33:10,420 because God's getting you, 475 00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:11,840 crusty old fart for heaven. 476 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,440 He's ready, right? 477 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,040 He's getting you ready for heaven. 478 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:17,040 And he did. 479 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:18,820 And with a month later, 480 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,240 after we had that conversation, 481 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,880 he would quote out of Ezekiel 482 00:33:23,060 --> 00:33:25,240 where it likens Israel 483 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,600 to this baby that was born 484 00:33:27,780 --> 00:33:30,080 and the cord was still attached 485 00:33:30,260 --> 00:33:30,940 to the afterbirth 486 00:33:30,980 --> 00:33:32,380 and the afterbirth was laying there 487 00:33:32,380 --> 00:33:34,540 and this baby's just wallowing 488 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:35,960 in its afterbirth. 489 00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:37,420 And God comes. 490 00:33:37,460 --> 00:33:43,500 along and scoops this baby up and swaddles it and takes care of it and it becomes the nation of 491 00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:49,700 Israel and my grandpa would talk about that and he said that's me and he would just he would just weep 492 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:57,400 God came along I was just this helpless wallowing chunk of meat and God came along and he picked me up 493 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:05,419 and he saved me and he would just get all teary I said well God's getting urine for heaven man 494 00:34:06,940 --> 00:34:07,080 Right? 495 00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:09,260 Lessor those who we're going to laugh. 496 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,100 All the way through the pearly gates, man. 497 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:12,700 Yeah! 498 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:20,280 It'll be over. 499 00:34:22,220 --> 00:34:22,919 Our sojourn. 500 00:34:23,940 --> 00:34:24,320 It's hard. 501 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:26,260 It's full of tears. 502 00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:32,020 My grandson was just shedding all kinds of tears out there 503 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,899 because his daddy left him with the Sunday school. 504 00:34:42,020 --> 00:34:43,360 Versus 22 and 23 505 00:34:43,860 --> 00:34:45,879 Blessed are you when men hate you 506 00:34:46,700 --> 00:34:48,040 and when they exclude you 507 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,780 and revile you and cast out your name as evil 508 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:53,419 for the son of man's sake 509 00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:55,720 rejoice in that day and leap for joy 510 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:57,620 for indeed your reward is great in heaven 511 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,360 for in like manner their fathers did to the prophets 512 00:35:01,570 --> 00:35:04,319 listen when we stand up and proclaim Jesus 513 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,460 in this golden age that we're going into, 514 00:35:06,940 --> 00:35:08,460 and we say that this stuff, 515 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,060 like this AI stuff, is like, 516 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:10,860 no way. 517 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:13,440 I ain't going there. 518 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,020 It's not going to control my life. 519 00:35:18,580 --> 00:35:20,920 And when it comes to that place, right? 520 00:35:23,140 --> 00:35:23,620 Just know. 521 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,080 Just like the early church. 522 00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:27,980 They would not say three words 523 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,280 that cost thousands of them their life. 524 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:33,560 Caesar is Lord. 525 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:34,860 They wouldn't say it. 526 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:36,420 They said, no. 527 00:35:37,180 --> 00:35:37,940 Feed me to the lions. 528 00:35:38,740 --> 00:35:39,620 Cut off my head. 529 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,280 Run me through. 530 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,240 Burn me at the stake. 531 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,320 Crucify me upside down. 532 00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,700 I will not bow. 533 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:51,180 And so, 534 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:54,660 it's going to come against us. 535 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,220 You Christ's followers, 536 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,760 for those you are kind of wishy-washy, 537 00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:01,400 no problem. 538 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:04,040 You guys will just slide. 539 00:36:04,140 --> 00:36:09,140 right into the tribulation period and experience all kinds of hell. 540 00:36:14,740 --> 00:36:20,220 It's getting more and more evident that this is not our home, right? 541 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:22,560 We're just passing through. 542 00:36:26,740 --> 00:36:27,520 I'm with Washington. 543 00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:31,720 Give me victory in Jesus or give me death. 544 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:32,700 Amen. 545 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:33,280 Let's pray. 546 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,060 Father, thank you. 547 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:40,060 Thank you. Thank you for your boldness, Lord Jesus, to go to Calvary's Cross. 548 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,320 Lord, you would not compromise on our salvation. 549 00:36:45,820 --> 00:36:54,000 And that your followers, Lord, your apostles, those ambassadors, those those ones that were sent out to upset this world. 550 00:36:55,660 --> 00:36:56,940 Lord, they did the same thing. 551 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:04,020 Lord, help us to be those people that are willing to just lay it down, lay down our selfishness, 552 00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:10,440 lay down our desire for ease and comfort and to walk with you, 553 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,460 to walk with you in a way that is so disruptive to the world, 554 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:16,580 the flesh, and the devil. 555 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:18,440 Lord, that is so obvious. 556 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,060 Lord, that we're your people. 557 00:37:21,660 --> 00:37:25,720 That we are truly lights shining in a dark place. 558 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,720 I pray for those who need to be delivered. 559 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:33,040 Lord, that you would be with them. 560 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,300 and bless them and fill them with your spirit. 561 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,780 Lord, that you would be there all in all 562 00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:42,940 in our preeminent focus. 563 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,280 Lord, walk with us this week. 564 00:37:46,740 --> 00:37:48,260 We don't know what it's going to afford, 565 00:37:48,420 --> 00:37:49,800 but we know that we need you. 566 00:37:52,380 --> 00:37:53,260 Direct our steps. 567 00:37:54,380 --> 00:37:55,580 Lord, when we plan out our way, 568 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:56,560 may we involve you. 569 00:37:57,240 --> 00:37:58,280 In Jesus, holy name. 570 00:37:58,580 --> 00:37:58,720 Amen. 571 00:37:58,900 --> 00:37:59,720 Let's all stand, shall we?