1 00:00:00,340 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: I've been accused of being a slackard. 2 00:00:04,180 --> 00:00:05,220 Speaker 1: So I've been a couple weeks. 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,620 Speaker 1: But you know, I was thinking about it. 4 00:00:10,610 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: And there was a reason when Pastor Joe came and spoke, I was at a rodeo Bible camp. 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:25,020 Speaker 1: And at that rodeo Bible camp, I teach six times in four days. 6 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:28,060 Speaker 1: And it's quite a marathon. 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:29,660 Speaker 1: Always kicks my tail. 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,300 Speaker 1: but the fruit that we see from, it's just awesome. 9 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: But on Sunday, I do a morning chapel for all the families. 10 00:00:41,140 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: So, Grandma's and Grandpa's come, and moms and dads come, 11 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:49,660 Speaker 1: and so I'm able to share the gospel with them. 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:57,780 Speaker 1: And afterwards, my wife, Connie, her first cousin, Holly, her grandson, her grandson, 13 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: was there at rodeo Bible camp. 14 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,739 Speaker 1: And we had a great time visiting with Holly and her husband Harold over the years. 15 00:01:04,860 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: We haven't been real close, but we run into each other, ran into him at a state volleyball 16 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:10,380 Speaker 1: term in a couple of years ago. 17 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:15,020 Speaker 1: And every time we do, you know, family funerals, Harold's just, he's my kind of guy. 18 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,380 Speaker 1: I grew up here in Idaho Falls, a football player, right? 19 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: He was a Tiger Grizz football fanatic. 20 00:01:23,220 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: He loved that game and actually caught a winning touchdown in a pretty big rival. 21 00:01:27,780 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: game. So we have a lot of time where we talk and enjoy each other. And it was just, it was awesome. 22 00:01:35,750 --> 00:01:42,380 Speaker 1: I mean, my, my, my, Connie's cousin, Holly, she had lost part of her foot to AR, you know, R.A. 23 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I get those mixed up all the time. Ritort arthritis, right? And so she showed me some 24 00:01:49,740 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: pictures of her foot and it was just this huge pus pocket. And they had to cut it off. And 25 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: and so she pulled her shoe out of her foot and I go, let me see that. 26 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: and so I'm checking her foot out 27 00:02:00,539 --> 00:02:02,420 Speaker 1: and getting up close and personal. 28 00:02:02,979 --> 00:02:05,740 Speaker 1: Well, that was on Sunday, on Thursday. 29 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: Her daughter texts Connie and said, 30 00:02:07,460 --> 00:02:07,940 Speaker 1: Mom died. 31 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:10,479 Speaker 1: And she's only three years older than me. 32 00:02:11,780 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: And so yesterday morning, 33 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,020 Speaker 1: Connie and I took off and we ran over to Richfield 34 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:19,460 Speaker 1: and did her service. 35 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:22,380 Speaker 1: And they did it in the Richfield High School. 36 00:02:22,620 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: The gym was packed. 37 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:26,540 Speaker 1: And I got to share the gospel with those folks. 38 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,420 Speaker 1: And so it was, it's incredible what God's doing. 39 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,740 Speaker 1: And he doesn't waste anything, even my, me being a slackered. 40 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:41,020 Speaker 1: So last Sunday, right, Alan Frizzell was here. 41 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: And so I'm usually, you know, pretty intensely studying in the morning before service and all that. 42 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: And I get up pretty early. 43 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,580 Speaker 1: And about 5.30, I get a text on my phone from a kid that had been in our school. 44 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: and had kind of a tragic introduction to this boy. 45 00:03:02,620 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: I got a call one morning from the school 46 00:03:04,380 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: that a father of some of our students had died 47 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: and he was still laying in bed. 48 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: And so me and Pastor Gordon go running over there. 49 00:03:13,210 --> 00:03:15,220 Speaker 1: The police officers were still there. 50 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:16,580 Speaker 1: The morgue wasn't there yet. 51 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:18,420 Speaker 1: And the mom asked me, she said, 52 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: would you come in to the bedroom with me 53 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,740 Speaker 1: and help my kids say goodbye to their dad? 54 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:26,780 Speaker 1: 30 years old, laying there dead. 55 00:03:28,180 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: And this boy, 10 years old, he crawled up on his dad's chest and just laid there and wept. 56 00:03:35,740 --> 00:03:38,740 Speaker 1: It was one of those heartbreaking things I'd ever seen in my life. 57 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my gosh, why am I experiencing this? 58 00:03:43,580 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: And so they came into our school and got to hear about Jesus. 59 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,780 Speaker 1: And this kid is now 26. 60 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: And he texts me, he says, hey, Scotty. 61 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: He says, I need to be delivered and I need to be baptized. 62 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: And I said, meet me at the boat dock at 8.30. 63 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:03,900 Speaker 1: This was last Sunday morning. 64 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:09,140 Speaker 1: And he goes, okay, I'll be there. 65 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: Now, he's telling me he wants to be delivered because he had been messing around. 66 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: As a little boy, he had been messing around with the goat of Mendez. 67 00:04:24,340 --> 00:04:25,220 Speaker 1: It's a sign of Satan. 68 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: And he said it impacted him when he was seven years old. 69 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: And so I'm thinking, if this kid has been messing with the occultic stuff, 70 00:04:35,060 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: there is no way he's going to show up at that boat dock. 71 00:04:38,060 --> 00:04:39,860 Speaker 1: Because Satan will detour him. 72 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there and it's getting pretty close to 8.30 and I'm looking, 73 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,140 Speaker 1: and I'm looking to see what he's driving. 74 00:04:46,260 --> 00:04:47,860 Speaker 1: And pretty soon, here he comes. 75 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: He pulls in, gets out of his car. 76 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: I go up and I give him a hug. 77 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,060 Speaker 1: And I just start crying. 78 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:56,100 Speaker 1: I just start crying. 79 00:04:57,580 --> 00:05:03,540 Speaker 1: And, but I had to run to the office and get something first on the way there. 80 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: And I, because what was last Sunday? 81 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:10,100 Speaker 1: September 7th. 82 00:05:10,580 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: Right? 83 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:11,660 Speaker 1: September 7th. 84 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:12,980 Speaker 1: Today's September 14th. 85 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,780 Speaker 1: And so I was running around there and I'm flipping through my desk and all of a sudden this 86 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,500 Speaker 1: bookmark flips up and I grab it and look at it. 87 00:05:19,860 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: And it's my grandpa. 88 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: This is my grandpa. 89 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:23,980 Speaker 1: He's got a blue cowboy hat on. 90 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: and it's my grandpa and it's his obituary and i looked and i said it says uh jesse gilbert jones 91 00:05:35,580 --> 00:05:44,820 Speaker 1: 91 of filer passed away tuesday september 7th 2004 what are the chances right okay 1 365 right 92 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:53,980 Speaker 1: but still i'm just going today's september 7th so i go down there i should i i i you know 93 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,140 Speaker 1: know, and we talk, and I said, Tate, you got to die, man. 94 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,940 Speaker 1: You got to die to yourself and live for Jesus. 95 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: And that's what we're doing with this baptism. 96 00:06:05,060 --> 00:06:06,220 Speaker 1: You're going down under the water. 97 00:06:06,380 --> 00:06:07,580 Speaker 1: You're dying to yourself. 98 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: And you're going to come up and you're going to walk in the newness of life. 99 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: And you're going to be an ambassador of Christ. 100 00:06:17,380 --> 00:06:19,420 Speaker 1: And so we did. 101 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,700 Speaker 1: And we get out of the water, and I show him this. 102 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:27,180 Speaker 1: and he looked at my grandpa's obituary and he goes, 103 00:06:28,260 --> 00:06:30,140 Speaker 1: Tate Martin died on September 7th. 104 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:32,100 Speaker 1: Right? 105 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:32,700 Speaker 1: He got it. 106 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: He got it. 107 00:06:35,460 --> 00:06:39,660 Speaker 1: And so, so I was slacking, yes, because I wasn't here. 108 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:47,660 Speaker 1: But the Lord was using this bonehead because I'm like that guy that, you know, that pastor that didn't want to preach one Sunday. 109 00:06:47,820 --> 00:06:50,380 Speaker 1: So he had his, had his assistant preach for him. 110 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: And he goes to the golf course. 111 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: And he's just, he is killing it. 112 00:06:54,940 --> 00:06:55,660 Speaker 1: He's under par. 113 00:06:56,300 --> 00:06:58,540 Speaker 1: And on the 18th, he hits a hole in one. 114 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:00,860 Speaker 1: He hits a hole in one. 115 00:07:01,820 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: And the story goes that there's a conversation in heaven that, you know, Peter looks at the Lord and goes, what are you doing? 116 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:10,620 Speaker 1: What are you blessing this guy for? 117 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:11,820 Speaker 1: Right? 118 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: Having the best golf game he's ever had. 119 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,980 Speaker 1: Hits a hole in one on the 18th hole. 120 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: And he goes, who's he going to tell? 121 00:07:27,580 --> 00:07:31,060 Speaker 1: If you have a Bible, would you turn to Luke chapter 8? 122 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:34,180 Speaker 1: Reaching out for Jesus. 123 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: Buck to Heester reminded me that we had Charlie Kirk here in 2023 that led into a lawsuit. 124 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,060 Speaker 1: Out West has been getting sued for the last two and a half years. 125 00:07:49,940 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: because of that and how things went down. 126 00:07:53,920 --> 00:08:02,140 Speaker 1: But anyway, you can go on YouTube and see just punch in Charlie Kirk at Out West Bible Church on YouTube. 127 00:08:02,550 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: And you can listen to the dialogue. 128 00:08:04,980 --> 00:08:06,500 Speaker 1: My brother Rick was here with Charlie. 129 00:08:07,310 --> 00:08:11,580 Speaker 1: And it was a good event that we had with him. 130 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:18,060 Speaker 1: I don't know that there is a person in the world that our time. 131 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:28,300 Speaker 1: articulated the truth better than Charlie Kirk, right? He's he he he's not Jesus, but God is using this boy's death, 132 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:38,380 Speaker 1: right, to move the masses around this little terra firma ball we live on called the earth, right? I don't know if you see what's going on in London, Italy. 133 00:08:39,539 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: It's just, it's wild what God is doing. Hey, listen, do you think he might be getting his bride ready? 134 00:08:49,580 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: to come and get her. 135 00:08:55,279 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: And so just keep your ear tuned for a trumpet. 136 00:09:01,530 --> 00:09:04,060 Speaker 1: And because I think that we're going to see stuff 137 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,780 Speaker 1: in the coming days that are just absolutely incredible. 138 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,940 Speaker 1: And it's the hand of God moving up on people. 139 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:11,820 Speaker 1: Because one thing about, you know, 140 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: this really hit me at the funeral yesterday, 141 00:09:14,340 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: was death is powerful. 142 00:09:16,860 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: Right? 143 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: death is powerful. And the power that it has over us, you and I, is that when we look into the 144 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: face of death, you and I personally are helpless. We're helpless, right? We can't stop it. 145 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: We don't want loved ones to die. We can't even stop our own when our number is up. It's just a 146 00:09:43,540 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: powerful thing. And yet has been swallowed up by this king that we call Jesus, right? Death has been 147 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:59,620 Speaker 1: swallowed up in victory, it says, oh, death where is your sting? Oh, grave, where is your victory? And so that's 148 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: kind of a bittersweet thing because, you know, we still deal with it. This side of the veil, right? This side of 149 00:10:07,460 --> 00:10:12,579 Speaker 1: time. But in eternity, it's no big deal. And so, 150 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: God's going to use that. He's going to use it powerfully. And because I'm thinking that Charlie's blood is crying out. 151 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:29,420 Speaker 1: Right? You remember when Abel came, killed Abel, and he says, your brother's blood cries out to me. 152 00:10:30,620 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: Right? As a witness against you. And the blood of Jesus Christ cries out. But it's the only thing that can wash us clean. So just keep 153 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: that in mind today as we as we look at this here in Luke chapter 8 we're going to read i'm just going to 154 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: read through this real quick well that's i usually fudge when i say that because i don't read very fast 155 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: but we're going to start in verse 40 uh like i said i entitled this message reaching out to jesus 156 00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:08,940 Speaker 1: and it says and so it was when jesus returned and the multitude welcomed him for they were all 157 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,540 Speaker 1: waiting for him and behold there came a man named yirus 158 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: and he was a ruler of the synagogue, and he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house, 159 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: for he had an only daughter about 12 years old, or 12 years of age, and she was dying. 160 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,460 Speaker 1: But as he went, the multitude thronged him. 161 00:11:29,740 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: Now, a woman having a flow of bud of 12 years who had spent all her livelihood on physicians 162 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,260 Speaker 1: could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of his garment, 163 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:42,460 Speaker 1: and immediately her flow of blood. 164 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:49,620 Speaker 1: stopped and Jesus said, who touched me. When all denied it, Peter wrote, and those with him said, 165 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: Master, the multitudes strong impress you and you say who touched me? And Jesus said, somebody touched me, 166 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: for I perceived power going out from me. And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, 167 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,860 Speaker 1: she came trembling and falling down before him, she declared to him in the presence of all the people 168 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: the reason she had touched him and how she was healed immediately. 169 00:12:12,820 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: And he said to her daughter, be of good cheer. 170 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:17,060 Speaker 1: Your faith has made you well. 171 00:12:17,180 --> 00:12:17,860 Speaker 1: Go in peace. 172 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,340 Speaker 1: And while he was still speaking, someone came from the rulers of the synagogue's house, 173 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,980 Speaker 1: saying, your daughter is dead. 174 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,220 Speaker 1: Do not trouble the teacher. 175 00:12:25,380 --> 00:12:28,140 Speaker 1: But when Jesus heard it, he answered him saying, 176 00:12:28,260 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: Do not be afraid, only believe, and she will be made well. 177 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,820 Speaker 1: And when he came into the house, he permitted no one to go in except Peter. 178 00:12:35,860 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: James and John and the father and mother of the girl. Now all wept and mourned for her, but he said, 179 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:47,060 Speaker 1: do not weep. She is not dead, but sleeping, and they ridiculed him knowing that she was dead, 180 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:54,380 Speaker 1: but he put all them outside, took her by the hand, calling and called saying, little girl arise, 181 00:12:54,880 --> 00:13:00,500 Speaker 1: and then her spirit returned, and she rose immediately, and he commanded that she be given 182 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:05,820 Speaker 1: something to eat. And her parents were astonished, but he charged them to tell 183 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: no one what had happened. Let's pray. Lord, thank you. Thank you that you've come. Lord, 184 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: you've come to heal our wounds. You've come to make us whole. You've come to raise us from the dead, 185 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: so to speak. Lord, that we were lost and dead in our sins and trespasses. And you have come to give us 186 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: life. And so, Lord, as we look at this truth that we see in these two people's lives, Lord, 187 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: may we be able to, Lord, apply it to our own. 188 00:13:36,020 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: and realize that you, Lord, you're no respecter of persons. 189 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,380 Speaker 1: Lord, you've come from everyone. 190 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:45,980 Speaker 1: Lord, you're that propitiation for not just our sins, but the whole world. 191 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,580 Speaker 1: And so we glory in that. 192 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: And we thank you for that. 193 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:51,420 Speaker 1: And we love you for that. 194 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,020 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Amen. 195 00:13:53,860 --> 00:13:54,260 Speaker 1: Okay. 196 00:13:54,940 --> 00:13:56,020 Speaker 1: So here he is. 197 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,340 Speaker 1: This multitude, right, is waiting for Jesus on the seashore. 198 00:13:59,340 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: Now you remember where he's coming from, right? 199 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 1: He's coming from the dude that was demon possessed with the legion, you know, 200 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: that had the first account of deviled ham there. 201 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: And anyway. 202 00:14:17,140 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: And so they're hearing all these things that Jesus is doing, you know. 203 00:14:22,580 --> 00:14:25,860 Speaker 1: The masses begin to seek him. 204 00:14:26,060 --> 00:14:30,020 Speaker 1: And they're waiting for him as he returns from this exorcism 205 00:14:31,220 --> 00:14:34,460 Speaker 1: because he's been displaying his power, right? 206 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: he displayed it over the demons. 207 00:14:36,060 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: He displayed his power over the wind and the waves. 208 00:14:40,340 --> 00:14:42,100 Speaker 1: His power to heal. 209 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,540 Speaker 1: And so they're waiting for him. 210 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:55,940 Speaker 1: And in verse 41 and 2, it says there that he, it says, 211 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: and behold, there came a man J. Iris, 212 00:15:00,060 --> 00:15:03,860 Speaker 1: and he was a ruler of the synagogue and fell down at Jesus' feet. 213 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:06,660 Speaker 1: and begged him to come to his house, 214 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,380 Speaker 1: for he had only had an only daughter about 12 years old 215 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: and was, she was dying. 216 00:15:14,620 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: And so here's this guy from the synagogue. 217 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,300 Speaker 1: Do you remember the people that were having the problem with Jesus? 218 00:15:18,660 --> 00:15:20,180 Speaker 1: Do you got a problem with Jesus? 219 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: Right? 220 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,340 Speaker 1: A lot of people have a problem with Jesus. 221 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,460 Speaker 1: You know, that's why I think so much, 222 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's words angered so many people 223 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: because he talked about Jesus. 224 00:15:34,460 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: right that Jesus is 225 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: Jesus is the most important thing 226 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: right 227 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:41,940 Speaker 1: he's the most important thing 228 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:43,260 Speaker 1: and 229 00:15:44,260 --> 00:15:46,020 Speaker 1: and this this ruler 230 00:15:46,460 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: this teacher 231 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: of the synagogue comes to Jesus 232 00:15:49,940 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: and falls at his feet 233 00:15:51,820 --> 00:15:53,580 Speaker 1: now a lot of the rulers were 234 00:15:53,780 --> 00:15:55,340 Speaker 1: wanting to kill him right 235 00:15:55,940 --> 00:15:57,620 Speaker 1: they're there in Nazareth they marched him 236 00:15:57,620 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: to the brow of the hill and they were going to chuck him off 237 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,580 Speaker 1: right because he quotes the prophet Isaiah and he says 238 00:16:03,620 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: day in you're hearing, this prophecy is fulfilled. And they're like, oh, who does he think he is? 239 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: Well, he knew who he was. Right? And then when he heals the man's hand in the temple there, 240 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: he says, stretch forth your hand, and he heals him. He says, you can't do that on the Sabbath. 241 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,620 Speaker 1: Or the disciples, you know, thrashing grain in their hand and pop it in him out. Oh, you can't do that on 242 00:16:27,650 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: the Sabbath. They didn't like him. I wonder if Jay Iris was one of those. But that had a 243 00:16:33,580 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: a turn of heart, all the sudden, this human need overwhelms people. They forget all about the law, 244 00:16:42,660 --> 00:16:53,380 Speaker 1: right? Because this synagogue leader, this religious man, he didn't need his religious law right then 245 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: because it could do nothing for him. He needed somebody that could fix his problem and the law 246 00:16:59,940 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: couldn't do that. All the law could do is point out his problem. Dude, you got a problem. Sorry, 247 00:17:04,819 --> 00:17:10,420 Speaker 1: you're on your own. That's what the law does. And the law is good in that because it's perfect. 248 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:21,579 Speaker 1: It perfectly exposes us for what we are and shows us what we need. And so he was desperate. 249 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: He was desperate for Jesus. The older I get, the more I realize that it's important. 250 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,940 Speaker 1: for me to be desperate for Jesus. You desperate? 251 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:40,540 Speaker 1: Right? Just desperate. I am desperate for him every day. My wife buys this milk cow. 252 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: This is going to affect me. 253 00:17:49,980 --> 00:17:53,880 Speaker 1: We didn't think she is pregnant. We put her with the bull. We go get her two months after she's 254 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,900 Speaker 1: with the bull and I'm going, oh my gosh, she looks pregnant. But it was pregnant from last year. 255 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: She's getting ready to calf. She has a calf. 256 00:18:01,460 --> 00:18:02,700 Speaker 1: Guess who has to milk her? 257 00:18:07,580 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: I told my wife, I said, honey, I marched in our bedroom the other morning. 258 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,700 Speaker 1: I said, honey, I have not read my Bible in two days because of you. 259 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 2: Because of your milk cow. 260 00:18:21,020 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 2: I was desperate for Jesus. I need to be in his word. 261 00:18:23,780 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 2: I'm a pastor for crying out loud. 262 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 2: Not a dairyman. 263 00:18:29,340 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'm both, but 264 00:18:35,740 --> 00:18:37,260 Speaker 1: But I need to be desperate for him. 265 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:39,580 Speaker 1: You need to be desperate for him 266 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,020 Speaker 1: To speak to your heart 267 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: Because his words are spirit and their life 268 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: And if you don't put him in, what are you living on? 269 00:18:47,060 --> 00:18:47,220 Speaker 1: Right? 270 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: And so 271 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,460 Speaker 1: the people, the religious people, were having a hard time with this Jesus character, 272 00:19:02,620 --> 00:19:04,260 Speaker 1: but they had heard what he was doing. 273 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 1: And when they heard the power that he had, 274 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: he had already raised the woman's son at Nane and he'd stilled the sea and the wind. 275 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: No doubt this guy got, thinks, okay, if this guy can really do that, 276 00:19:18,980 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: I need to put it to the test. 277 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:27,980 Speaker 1: And he falls at his feet absolutely desperate for him to fix his. 278 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: his problem, the death of his daughter. There's that helplessness that I just talked about. In the face of 279 00:19:33,940 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: death, we are helpless. Watching people die is a wild thing, right? It's just when they take that last breath. 280 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:56,940 Speaker 1: It's so powerful. And we can't help them and we can't fix them. We can't bring them back. 281 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:04,460 Speaker 1: And so he comes to Jesus and he falls down. 282 00:20:04,460 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: So Jesus obliges him, right? 283 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,340 Speaker 1: He starts on his track, but it's so crowded. 284 00:20:09,650 --> 00:20:11,220 Speaker 1: The masses are so big. 285 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:18,180 Speaker 1: They're pressing in upon Jesus and the people around him. 286 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:25,620 Speaker 1: And so then there comes this woman kind of trying to mess yourself through this traffic jam. 287 00:20:28,420 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: And it says, and having a flow of blood for 12 years who had spent all her livelihood on physicians 288 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of his garment, 289 00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: and immediately her flow of blood stopped. 290 00:20:46,860 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: So here's another desperate person coming to Jesus, reaching out to Jesus. 291 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:54,300 Speaker 1: Right? 292 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,940 Speaker 1: she's desperate because she's been hemorrhaging for 12 years. 293 00:20:59,420 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 1: When my mom gave birth to my younger brother, Rick, she uterine prolapsed. 294 00:21:05,510 --> 00:21:12,300 Speaker 1: And so for the next five or six years before she had a hysterectomy, my mom would get all dolled up. 295 00:21:12,490 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: And she was a looker back in the day and go to her job. 296 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: She worked in a bank, and she would get all cleaned up and nice and get to the car and her shoes would be full of blood. 297 00:21:24,580 --> 00:21:33,940 Speaker 1: and so she had this this constant problem that she dealt with for about five years think of this woman right spend in all of her livelihood it almost appears that she's alone 298 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: and maybe was a woman of questionable character we don't know some commentators think she was a a gentile 299 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: because she was unclean because of this constant flow of blood right women on their menstrual cycle the law had them to separate themselves for seven days 300 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,020 Speaker 1: so she wouldn't have been allowed to be around a rabbi, let alone touch him. 301 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: We don't know that for sure, but some believe that that could be the case here. 302 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: But notice her what her desperation caused her to do, to just reach out and just like in her 303 00:22:14,740 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: desperate, if I can just touch his clothes, right? 304 00:22:18,620 --> 00:22:22,420 Speaker 1: It appears that she wants to be incognito, doesn't want to be found out. 305 00:22:22,980 --> 00:22:23,380 Speaker 1: right? 306 00:22:25,180 --> 00:22:26,820 Speaker 1: That she's really seeking Jesus. 307 00:22:27,860 --> 00:22:28,900 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people like that. 308 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,300 Speaker 1: They're kind of seeking Jesus, 309 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,580 Speaker 1: but they don't want anybody to know about. 310 00:22:33,260 --> 00:22:35,260 Speaker 1: I can talk about Jesus to you, but no one else. 311 00:22:36,420 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: Right? 312 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: But she, so she kind of wants to be, 313 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 1: and immediately, as soon as she touched the hem of his garment, 314 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:46,300 Speaker 1: boom. 315 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:48,420 Speaker 1: She could feel it. 316 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: She's healed. 317 00:22:52,060 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: It's a problem. 318 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: story. 319 00:22:55,260 --> 00:23:02,700 Speaker 1: And the garment, the hem of the garment in the old time was kind of interesting. 320 00:23:02,730 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: You know, the priest, they had the tassels and the blue thread, the four tassels and the blue 321 00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:13,340 Speaker 1: thread that went around their hem, speaking of authority. 322 00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:19,180 Speaker 1: And you remember when David snuck in when Saul was pooping. 323 00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:29,660 Speaker 1: you remember that and he and he cuts off the corner of his robe and then david gets afraid oh no 324 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: i just i just cut the hem of the garment of the king of israel god's anointed he was afraid he thought 325 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:47,059 Speaker 1: oh man god might smite me in the babylonian world the hymn was a powerful symbol for the man and the woman a man 326 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 1: could actually cut the hymn of his wife's garment if he wanted to divorce. And if it was cut, 327 00:23:52,380 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: that meant he divorced her, had that authority. And so she comes. Well, I'm just going to read that 328 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:11,060 Speaker 1: verse to you there about the garment in Numbers chapter 15, verses 38 and 39. It says, 329 00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: speak to the children of Israel. Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their 330 00:24:17,820 --> 00:24:21,460 Speaker 1: and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. 331 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,020 Speaker 1: And you shall have the tassel that you may look upon it. 332 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:26,740 Speaker 1: Listen to this. 333 00:24:27,220 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: Look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them. 334 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:38,740 Speaker 1: And that you may not follow the harlot tree to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined. 335 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: Oh, that people would take that to heart. 336 00:24:42,980 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: Right? 337 00:24:43,740 --> 00:24:47,020 Speaker 1: That when they looked at the hem of the garment and they saw these things, 338 00:24:47,060 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: tassels and that blue thread, it reminded them what, of God's word? 339 00:24:52,340 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: Which is the greatest authority in existence is the power of God's word. 340 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: Some would actually take the hem of their garment and press it into clay and it would become their seal, actually. 341 00:25:12,580 --> 00:25:14,220 Speaker 1: back in ancient times. 342 00:25:15,660 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: But just know this. 343 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,420 Speaker 1: Jesus has the authority to heal your wounds, 344 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,100 Speaker 1: forgive your sin, 345 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,060 Speaker 1: and raise you from the dead. 346 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: That's the authority that he's got. 347 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,620 Speaker 1: So it's really important to reach out to him, 348 00:25:31,420 --> 00:25:35,460 Speaker 1: reach for him, reach for the hymn of his garment. 349 00:25:37,660 --> 00:25:40,180 Speaker 1: Now there's something really interesting here that, 350 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 1: and some of you caught probably. 351 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: How old was the girl? 352 00:25:46,940 --> 00:25:48,100 Speaker 1: How long had the woman been bleeding? 353 00:25:49,340 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 1: Twelve years, right? 354 00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: I think there's something to this 355 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:56,740 Speaker 1: because usually if something is repeated, 356 00:25:57,380 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: there's something to it. 357 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,180 Speaker 1: If the woman was in fact Gentile, right? 358 00:26:02,660 --> 00:26:04,260 Speaker 1: And the young girl is Jewish. 359 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: Obviously, her dad's a part of the synagogue. 360 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: She's a daughter of Jerusalem. 361 00:26:09,940 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: And in the Old Testament, the daughter of Jerusalem or the daughter of Zion or the daughter of Israel 362 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: refers to Israel as a nation. 363 00:26:19,260 --> 00:26:19,420 Speaker 1: Right? 364 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:23,900 Speaker 1: And a Gentile woman would be picturesque of what? 365 00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: The church. 366 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:26,620 Speaker 1: Right? 367 00:26:26,620 --> 00:26:27,220 Speaker 1: The church. 368 00:26:28,340 --> 00:26:35,380 Speaker 1: Jesus gets this call to come and heal this little Jewish girl or actually heal Israel. 369 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,780 Speaker 1: And on his way, he encounters this. 370 00:26:39,860 --> 00:26:48,060 Speaker 1: gentile woman that pictures his church on his way to deal with the death of, if you will, 371 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: Israel. That's why we're here. Do you get that? We are his Gentile bride. He's on his way 372 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: to restore the nation of Israel and he does it during the seven-year tribulation period. 373 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: That's what that period is for, is for the people and the city of Jerusalem and the people of Israel. 374 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,820 Speaker 1: That's what that specifically is for. 375 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,620 Speaker 1: He's on his way and he gathers up his Gentile bride. 376 00:27:16,020 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: Folks, I'm thinking it's coming really soon. 377 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:17,860 Speaker 1: Are you ready? 378 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: Right? 379 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: He's going to call his bride out. 380 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: And so, but the number 12 in the Bible symbolizes God's power, his authority and 381 00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: completeness, right? 382 00:27:31,540 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: The church is the 12 apostles. 383 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,580 Speaker 1: Israel is the 12 tribes. 384 00:27:37,660 --> 00:27:39,420 Speaker 1: It's his symbol of, 385 00:27:39,740 --> 00:27:46,780 Speaker 1: of governance and prominence, and we see both of them in the millennial reign. 386 00:27:49,860 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: Just a side note. 387 00:27:53,510 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: And this woman is healed, and Jesus goes, verse 45, and Jesus said, who touched me? 388 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 1: Who touched me? 389 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, 390 00:28:06,140 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: master, the multitude strong impress you, 391 00:28:09,460 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: and it means to squeeze violently. 392 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,100 Speaker 1: And you say, who touched me? 393 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:20,500 Speaker 1: But Jesus said, somebody touched me, for I perceive power going out from me. 394 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: Now, when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling and falling down before him, 395 00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:31,020 Speaker 1: she declared to him in the presence of all the people, the reason she touched him, 396 00:28:31,580 --> 00:28:33,580 Speaker 1: and how she was healed immediately. 397 00:28:38,860 --> 00:28:43,100 Speaker 1: First of all, Jesus says, right, who touched me because I felt power, leave me. 398 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: Do you realize that's why he came to give you an eye power? 399 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: Right? 400 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,780 Speaker 1: That we, as we reach out to him, he gives us a power by His Holy Spirit, right? 401 00:28:53,580 --> 00:28:55,660 Speaker 1: That we can live this life. 402 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,140 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I can't do this. 403 00:28:58,940 --> 00:29:00,100 Speaker 1: I can't do this on my own. 404 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,100 Speaker 1: I don't have the wherewithal. 405 00:29:02,180 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: I don't have the guts. 406 00:29:03,380 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: I don't have the strength, the power to live the Christian life. 407 00:29:08,180 --> 00:29:09,260 Speaker 1: You and I have to be helped. 408 00:29:10,220 --> 00:29:13,020 Speaker 1: And if you think you're doing it on your own, you are an absolute fool. 409 00:29:13,940 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: Right? 410 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: You are a fool. 411 00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: Because the Bible talks about the power of God. 412 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,220 Speaker 1: And Jesus is, he's like that drink offering. 413 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,580 Speaker 1: He came to be poured into you and me. 414 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:34,940 Speaker 1: And this, this measly woman that didn't think herself of any importance as she reeked out and touched him, 415 00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: she received power from on high to be healed. 416 00:29:39,740 --> 00:29:42,340 Speaker 1: How cool is that? It's awesome. 417 00:29:45,860 --> 00:29:52,460 Speaker 1: When the Lord speaks to Paul on the Damascus Road, he says this to him, we don't see it, I don't think, in the early chapter, 418 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:59,740 Speaker 1: but back when he recounts it in Acts 26, verses 17 and 18, he says, now I send you, he's telling Paul this, 419 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: now I send you to open their eyes in order to turn them from darkness to light, from the power of 420 00:30:07,820 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are 421 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: sanctified by faith in me. 422 00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: He says, well, I'm going to call you, Paul. 423 00:30:20,180 --> 00:30:26,860 Speaker 1: I'm going to empower you to go out and turn people who are under the power of Satan to the power of God. 424 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:29,740 Speaker 1: Do you have that in your life? 425 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,540 Speaker 1: It tells us, it tells us, Jesus tells us, he says, listen, ask for it. 426 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,860 Speaker 1: Ask for the Holy Spirit. 427 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,380 Speaker 1: Will not the Father give it to you? 428 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,980 Speaker 1: And, you know, that's when he does the whole contrast with the, boy, I ask you for a piece of bread. 429 00:30:47,060 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: You're not going to give him a rock. 430 00:30:48,060 --> 00:30:49,180 Speaker 1: Here, kids, you're on the rock. 431 00:30:50,060 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: Right? 432 00:30:50,860 --> 00:30:52,260 Speaker 1: A loving father doesn't do that. 433 00:30:53,620 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: No, he butteres it and puts a jetty on it. 434 00:30:56,260 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 1: He says, here. 435 00:31:01,940 --> 00:31:02,580 Speaker 1: It's my grandkids. 436 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: Papa, I want some, I want some toast with jetty. 437 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:15,380 Speaker 1: He says, if you fathers being evil know how to give good gifts to your kids, 438 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: how much more will the Lord give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? 439 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: Maybe you need to ask for that today. 440 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: If you're just floundering, your sin just seems to be hanging on. 441 00:31:28,990 --> 00:31:29,860 Speaker 1: You can't get rid of it. 442 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,420 Speaker 1: The prayer team's going to come up here in just a little bit and come pray with them. 443 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: tell him I need the Holy Spirit. 444 00:31:38,090 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: You might need to tell them I need saved. 445 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: I need to get right with Jesus. 446 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing this Charlie Kirk thing. 447 00:31:45,380 --> 00:31:47,700 Speaker 1: It's inspiring people to get right with Jesus. 448 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:49,060 Speaker 1: Right? 449 00:31:49,180 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: Because he proclaimed that so well. 450 00:31:53,380 --> 00:31:57,220 Speaker 1: Charlie said that Jesus Christ is the chairman of the board of my life. 451 00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: Is he yours? 452 00:32:02,900 --> 00:32:04,420 Speaker 1: And then in Acts chapter, 453 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: chapter 8. Jesus tells him, he says, listen, you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit 454 00:32:10,420 --> 00:32:14,820 Speaker 1: comes upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria, 455 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:22,740 Speaker 1: and to the othermost parts of the earth. Jesus came to pour his power into us. He said, 456 00:32:22,780 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: that's why I have to go. And then the power will come into you guys. 457 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: Verse 48 says, and he said to her daughter, be of good cheer. 458 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: Your faith has made you well. Notice he calls her daughter. 459 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: Another thing to note, if I back up a verse or so, what did she do? 460 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:50,060 Speaker 1: She proclaimed Jesus to the multitudes. 461 00:32:50,820 --> 00:32:52,620 Speaker 1: Do you know the Jews aren't really doing that? 462 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,420 Speaker 1: It's a Gentile bride that does that. 463 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: It's the church that proclaims Jesus to the masses. 464 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:10,380 Speaker 1: that's what Charlie was doing and that's what is going to exponentially grow from here on out among young people 465 00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:18,500 Speaker 1: because they heard him declare the gospel so clearly like I said that kid articulated things like 466 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:25,460 Speaker 1: nobody's business I've I've never heard anybody speak the way he speaks and how fast he could do it 467 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: he could talk fast and I mean just bam bam bam and you know I watch it 468 00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:32,660 Speaker 1: several of his interviews just last, I mean, hasn't everybody? 469 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: Have you watched a Charlie Kirk interview this last few days? 470 00:33:36,260 --> 00:33:36,420 Speaker 1: Yeah. 471 00:33:36,940 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. 472 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:46,940 Speaker 1: And it's funny, he could just, he just machine gums him with the truth, and all they can do is drop F-bomb in response. 473 00:33:47,780 --> 00:33:51,140 Speaker 1: Oh, F-Mu, that's all they could say. 474 00:33:51,460 --> 00:33:51,660 Speaker 1: Wow. 475 00:33:53,060 --> 00:33:53,900 Speaker 1: You know, he never cussed. 476 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: He never threw a punch. 477 00:33:57,180 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. 478 00:33:58,660 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: That could never be my colleague. 479 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:01,980 Speaker 1: because I wouldn't get past the first guy on the microphone. 480 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: I'll pray for you when you're in the hospital. 481 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:11,240 Speaker 1: I'll come see you. 482 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,360 Speaker 1: Listen, Jesus is our power source. 483 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,659 Speaker 1: And our job is to activate that power by faith. 484 00:34:31,940 --> 00:34:34,179 Speaker 1: and people tell me, well, Pastor, I don't have that kind of faith. 485 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,179 Speaker 1: Well, who does? 486 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:39,399 Speaker 1: Right? 487 00:34:41,919 --> 00:34:43,540 Speaker 1: I mean, really, think about it. 488 00:34:44,580 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 1: I love the dude in Mark chapter 9 in verse 23, right? 489 00:34:49,879 --> 00:34:52,419 Speaker 1: He's the dude with the demon-possessed son. 490 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,859 Speaker 1: And he's going, Jesus, and he's been like this from childhood 491 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: and I'm helpless. 492 00:35:05,660 --> 00:35:06,860 Speaker 1: And so Jesus comes and he says, 493 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,180 Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, 494 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:09,940 Speaker 1: if you can believe, 495 00:35:10,380 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: all things are possible to him who believes. 496 00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:13,820 Speaker 1: Check the dude out. 497 00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:14,100 Speaker 1: He says, 498 00:35:14,420 --> 00:35:18,760 Speaker 1: immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, 499 00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. 500 00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: You ever feel like that? 501 00:35:24,220 --> 00:35:26,780 Speaker 1: I believe, but help my unbelief. 502 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 1: I'm a little shaky here. 503 00:35:30,740 --> 00:35:33,380 Speaker 1: Because we got these things called eyes, and it's like we need to see. 504 00:35:33,540 --> 00:35:34,440 Speaker 1: I got to see. 505 00:35:35,020 --> 00:35:35,860 Speaker 1: If I see, I'll believe. 506 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:38,900 Speaker 1: Jesus calls us just the opposite, right? 507 00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: No, believe, and you'll see. 508 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 1: Believe, and you'll see. 509 00:35:48,460 --> 00:35:57,220 Speaker 1: And so he goes on, and they come to him in verse 49, and they say, I got to get back, 510 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:06,540 Speaker 1: there. They come to him in verse 49 and say, while he was still speaking, someone came of the 511 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:12,300 Speaker 1: ruler of the synagogue's house saying to him, your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher. 512 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: I'm wondering, you know, people say the stupidest things sometimes. Especially in the face 513 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:27,220 Speaker 1: when somebody passes, you know? I remember a guy getting so fired up. I mean, 514 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:31,020 Speaker 1: he was so mad, a dad so mad, had lost a 30-year-old boy, 515 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,060 Speaker 1: and he was so mad, and somebody walked up to him and said he's in a better place. 516 00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: And that dad said, he's not in a better place. 517 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:38,840 Speaker 1: His best place is right here with me. 518 00:36:39,860 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 1: It's a bet when people lose loved ones, right? 519 00:36:43,260 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: They're not overly rational, right? 520 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: But people feel like they have to talk. 521 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,700 Speaker 1: If you go up to somebody who's lost a loved one, don't say anything. 522 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:53,580 Speaker 1: Put your arm around them. 523 00:36:54,540 --> 00:36:55,140 Speaker 1: Cry with them. 524 00:36:56,540 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: You know, pray for them. 525 00:36:57,220 --> 00:37:06,700 Speaker 1: them. But don't try to explain stuff, right? I think well-meaning people can be so offensive. 526 00:37:09,619 --> 00:37:20,080 Speaker 1: No words is good. Right? It's the whole Abraham Lincoln thing, right? I'd rather be silent and 527 00:37:20,140 --> 00:37:22,220 Speaker 1: thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. 528 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:33,340 Speaker 1: She's dead, right? Don't trouble the teacher. Obviously, they didn't know who Jesus was, right? 529 00:37:34,100 --> 00:37:38,320 Speaker 1: I love Jesus' response in verse 50. He says, but when Jesus heard it, he answered him saying, 530 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:43,320 Speaker 1: Don't be afraid. In other words, don't listen to those guys. Only believe, and she will be made well. 531 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:49,940 Speaker 1: Don't listen to them. Listen, don't listen to the world, the flesh, and the devil. Listen to Jesus. 532 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: He says that to us as well, right? 533 00:38:01,839 --> 00:38:03,840 Speaker 1: Just listen to me. 534 00:38:04,980 --> 00:38:09,280 Speaker 1: And folks, we're living in a time where that's sketchy. 535 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: People go online to try to find the words of Jesus. 536 00:38:14,630 --> 00:38:15,840 Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that if I'd you. 537 00:38:17,740 --> 00:38:18,840 Speaker 1: Here, get one of these. 538 00:38:21,420 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: right have a hard copy 539 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: sit down read it 540 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,660 Speaker 1: let the Lord speak to your heart and he will 541 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:30,940 Speaker 1: you can focus on the words in red 542 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:33,600 Speaker 1: gospel of John has the most of them 543 00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:38,700 Speaker 1: and you'll be safe 544 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,500 Speaker 1: but with technology and what people are doing 545 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,400 Speaker 1: and the things they can change in the AI 546 00:38:46,150 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: I mean just AI with the Charlie Kirk thing 547 00:38:49,140 --> 00:38:54,800 Speaker 1: They're saying, oh, George Strait did this, and I'm thinking, that ain't George Strait, right? 548 00:38:55,060 --> 00:38:56,740 Speaker 1: Or Alan Jackson did this for the show. 549 00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:58,780 Speaker 1: That's not Alan Jackson. 550 00:39:00,660 --> 00:39:00,840 Speaker 1: Right? 551 00:39:02,730 --> 00:39:03,960 Speaker 1: I know my country singers. 552 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:06,740 Speaker 1: I say, wear a cowboy hat like me. 553 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:18,700 Speaker 1: But they, in that culture, they had these professional mourners, and they would come, 554 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:23,500 Speaker 1: and mourn, and especially if there were people of affluence, they would come and mourn because they'd get 555 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 1: paid to do it. And when he came to the house, verse 51, he came into the house. He permitted no one to go in 556 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:40,320 Speaker 1: except Peter, James and John, and the father and mother. He kicked everybody else out. You guys get out 557 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:48,680 Speaker 1: here, right? You're weeping and wailing and carrying on. And Jesus knew what he was going to do. And 558 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:55,820 Speaker 1: right? It's interesting. Peter James and John, why is that? It's like, were they elevated above those other guys? 559 00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:04,220 Speaker 1: I mean, Peter was a bonehead, right? He sunk in the, when he got out of the boat, he stuck his foot in his mouth, right? 560 00:40:04,230 --> 00:40:10,060 Speaker 1: And Jesus had to tell him, Satan, get behind me, right? He denied the Lord, he cut his ear off. 561 00:40:11,340 --> 00:40:17,100 Speaker 1: And James and John, they just wanted to be like Elijah. Can we call fire down from heaven and kill these people that won't come to you? 562 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:20,560 Speaker 1: He's just like 563 00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: And Jesus 564 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:24,460 Speaker 1: You guys don't know what spirit you're up 565 00:40:24,860 --> 00:40:27,900 Speaker 1: Now obviously he turned all of their passions 566 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:28,760 Speaker 1: Towards himself 567 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:32,960 Speaker 1: And James and Peter were some of the first to go 568 00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:33,900 Speaker 1: Right 569 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:35,860 Speaker 1: John had to hang around a while 570 00:40:35,980 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 1: But 571 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:39,680 Speaker 1: But he 572 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,320 Speaker 1: He stops him 573 00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:42,740 Speaker 1: And 574 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: And he says to him in verse 52 575 00:40:46,540 --> 00:40:51,240 Speaker 1: now all wept and mourned for her, but he said, do not weep. She is not dead, but sleeping. 576 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:56,500 Speaker 1: And they ridiculed him knowing that she was dead. These guys had been around a lot of dead people. 577 00:40:56,580 --> 00:41:02,940 Speaker 1: They knew she was dead. She wasn't just asleep or in a comatose state. She was dead. 578 00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:14,800 Speaker 1: Now, I think some people might use this as a, you know, a reference for soul sleep. There's certain churches that teach soul sleep. 579 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:18,060 Speaker 1: but the Bible doesn't teach that. 580 00:41:18,980 --> 00:41:20,480 Speaker 1: The Bible does not teach soul sleep, 581 00:41:20,820 --> 00:41:23,480 Speaker 1: that the body and the soul sleep in the grave until the resurrection. 582 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 1: Right? No, the body goes into the grave 583 00:41:28,020 --> 00:41:29,900 Speaker 1: and gently decays 584 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:32,920 Speaker 1: until the resurrection. 585 00:41:34,140 --> 00:41:37,700 Speaker 1: And then whatever's left of that at the resurrection, 586 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,500 Speaker 1: we know that the dead in Christ rise first, 587 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:44,780 Speaker 1: as it says in 1st Thessalonians chapter 4, 588 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,900 Speaker 1: And then Jesus actually believes, says those who sleep in Jesus, 589 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 1: and the sleep is referring to their physical death, right? 590 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:53,860 Speaker 1: But they are with him when he comes. 591 00:41:54,980 --> 00:42:00,720 Speaker 1: And that's what it says in 2nd Corinthians, chapter 4, verse, excuse me, 592 00:42:00,820 --> 00:42:02,720 Speaker 1: chapter 5, verses 4 through 8. 593 00:42:02,820 --> 00:42:04,940 Speaker 1: If you have a Bible, turn there real quickly with me. 594 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,500 Speaker 1: It was in today's reading through the Bible. 595 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,140 Speaker 1: And I think it's something that we're, 596 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,100 Speaker 1: especially us gray hairs are all looking forward to. 597 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:22,780 Speaker 1: It says in verse four of chapter five of second Corinthians, 598 00:42:24,580 --> 00:42:27,920 Speaker 1: for we who are in this tent, 599 00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:30,360 Speaker 1: that's a reference to the body, grown, 600 00:42:30,940 --> 00:42:36,560 Speaker 1: being burdened not to because we want to be unclothed, 601 00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:38,220 Speaker 1: but further clothed. 602 00:42:38,420 --> 00:42:40,920 Speaker 1: That mortality may be swallowed up by life. 603 00:42:41,380 --> 00:42:44,440 Speaker 1: Now he who has prepared us for this very thing, 604 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:52,920 Speaker 1: thing is God, who also has given us his spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident knowing that 605 00:42:53,020 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith and not by sight. 606 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:05,020 Speaker 1: We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 607 00:43:06,060 --> 00:43:12,300 Speaker 1: And so when this separation comes, right, you're in the presence of the Lord. And people say, well, yeah, but you're 608 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:19,000 Speaker 1: sleeping. Really? Have you ever read Luke 16? Right? Then these two dead guys are having a conversation. 609 00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:25,800 Speaker 1: Abraham's been dead for hundreds, thousands of years, right? And the rich man had just died. 610 00:43:26,420 --> 00:43:29,300 Speaker 1: And they're both conscious and they're both talking and having a conversation. 611 00:43:31,740 --> 00:43:37,380 Speaker 1: And Abraham's telling him, he says, listen, dude, you're in a place of judgment. And there's this 612 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:41,060 Speaker 1: great gulf fix between me, you and me. You can't come to me. I can't go to you. 613 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,560 Speaker 1: to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 614 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,440 Speaker 1: And so when our loved ones leave this life, 615 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,420 Speaker 1: they're either looking at the face of Jesus, right? 616 00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:59,320 Speaker 1: Or they're in a place of torment, just the way it is. 617 00:44:00,590 --> 00:44:01,980 Speaker 1: You either believe it or you don't. 618 00:44:02,340 --> 00:44:03,180 Speaker 1: That's what the Bible teaches. 619 00:44:04,820 --> 00:44:08,300 Speaker 1: So this girl was, her body was dead. 620 00:44:08,380 --> 00:44:09,280 Speaker 1: Where did her spirit go? 621 00:44:09,460 --> 00:44:10,140 Speaker 1: Did it just hover? 622 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:11,640 Speaker 1: Some think that it did. 623 00:44:12,460 --> 00:44:21,100 Speaker 1: You know, some, the old-time rabbis believed that the spirit would hover over the body for a certain amount of time before it took off. 624 00:44:21,820 --> 00:44:22,280 Speaker 1: I don't know. 625 00:44:23,140 --> 00:44:23,660 Speaker 1: Never been there? 626 00:44:24,660 --> 00:44:25,280 Speaker 1: Haven't done that. 627 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:35,180 Speaker 1: But for believers, it's just like falling asleep. 628 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,480 Speaker 1: Pastor Justin's actually going to teach on Acts 7 tonight, Stephen. 629 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:42,520 Speaker 1: when they stone him, right? He just falls asleep. 630 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:45,200 Speaker 1: That's no big deal for the believer. 631 00:44:46,140 --> 00:44:48,060 Speaker 1: That's why I said the other night, Charlie's just fine. 632 00:44:48,730 --> 00:44:50,840 Speaker 1: It's everybody else that's all undone. 633 00:44:53,800 --> 00:45:05,100 Speaker 1: But this girl had come to the end and Jesus was going to do something big. 634 00:45:05,940 --> 00:45:07,340 Speaker 1: And he told him, only believe. 635 00:45:09,740 --> 00:45:10,540 Speaker 1: But he put the... 636 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:17,080 Speaker 1: them all outside, took her by the hand, saying, little girl arise. Then her spirit returned, 637 00:45:17,580 --> 00:45:23,200 Speaker 1: and she rose immediately, and he commanded that she be given something to eat, and her parents were 638 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:30,940 Speaker 1: astonished. But he had charged them all to tell no one that this had happened. Tolitha Kumi 639 00:45:32,260 --> 00:45:39,980 Speaker 1: arise. This was going to do for us if we're in the grave. If not, it's just going to be do-do-do-do-do-do. 640 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:46,900 Speaker 1: right? A trumpet sound. A flash of lightning. Right? And we'll be changed in a moment in the twinking 641 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:55,340 Speaker 1: of an eye. And I can't wait. But he tell him, don't tell him yet. It hadn't, wasn't time for him to be 642 00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:06,660 Speaker 1: revealed as the Messiah. But now it is. Right? Now it is. And it's our call, you and I. 643 00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:16,120 Speaker 1: And he encourages them to give her something to eat, and the parents were absolutely astonished. 644 00:46:16,460 --> 00:46:17,740 Speaker 1: That can be translated. 645 00:46:17,900 --> 00:46:24,860 Speaker 1: They were actually out of their mind with glee that their daughter was alive. 646 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,020 Speaker 1: But that's what Jesus does. 647 00:46:27,820 --> 00:46:30,520 Speaker 1: When you come to him, he can fix the problem. 648 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:32,740 Speaker 1: He fixes what's wrong. 649 00:46:33,980 --> 00:46:37,140 Speaker 1: He exchanges life for death. 650 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:49,140 Speaker 1: And so you think about those who say they walk with Jesus, 651 00:46:50,540 --> 00:46:54,360 Speaker 1: but then the way they speak and the way they live are totally different. 652 00:46:54,710 --> 00:46:57,340 Speaker 1: That is, you know, Jack Hib was talking about this the other day. 653 00:46:57,740 --> 00:47:05,220 Speaker 1: It's totally, you know, it's just not appropriate for a Christian to live the way they live. 654 00:47:05,310 --> 00:47:08,100 Speaker 1: And yet, so what they say and what they do are two different. 655 00:47:08,140 --> 00:47:17,300 Speaker 1: things. What do you call that? Hypocrisy, right? And people hate it. I hate hypocrisy. I hate to see a 656 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:28,880 Speaker 1: hypocrite. I hate hypocrisy in me. Because sometimes I'm not so faithful, right? But we have a very short 657 00:47:29,060 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 1: time, I think, folks. And it's time to reach out to Jesus and to be desperate for him and to grab a hold. 658 00:47:36,180 --> 00:47:37,520 Speaker 1: grab a hold of his garment. 659 00:47:40,820 --> 00:47:42,140 Speaker 1: It was appropriate on Wednesday. 660 00:47:42,580 --> 00:47:45,760 Speaker 1: After we heard the news, I was teaching through Zechariah chapter 8. 661 00:47:47,180 --> 00:47:52,060 Speaker 1: And the last verse of Zachariah 8 really kind of jumped out and grabbed me. 662 00:47:52,980 --> 00:47:55,640 Speaker 1: And if you have a Bible, I'm just going to close with this really quick. 663 00:47:56,980 --> 00:48:04,900 Speaker 1: But in Zachariah, he, I think Zachariah just fell out of my Bible. 664 00:48:09,380 --> 00:48:14,320 Speaker 1: but he's talking about the millennial reign in the millennial reign and the millennial reign is the 665 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:21,320 Speaker 1: the thousand-year reign of Jesus right and this is after Jesus restores the Jewish people right 666 00:48:21,980 --> 00:48:29,680 Speaker 1: establishes them a third of them make it through the tribulation period and and they're part of 667 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,880 Speaker 1: the the people in the flesh that actually help populate the earth during 668 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:43,300 Speaker 1: the thousand-year reign of Christ. And in this passage of Zechariah chapter 8, verse 23, 669 00:48:43,510 --> 00:48:49,540 Speaker 1: notice what it says. Just one verse. It says, thus says the Lord of hosts. That's the Lord of 670 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:59,880 Speaker 1: armies, the commander-in-chief. It says, in those days, listen, 10 men from every language of the 671 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:04,700 Speaker 1: nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man saying, 672 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:09,040 Speaker 1: let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you. 673 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:17,560 Speaker 1: They grab them by the sleeve, these people of the nations say, hey, we heard that God's with you. 674 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:18,600 Speaker 1: Can we go with you? 675 00:49:19,860 --> 00:49:20,720 Speaker 1: We want to go with you. 676 00:49:22,340 --> 00:49:28,120 Speaker 1: And I was thinking, man, if you applied that to us, the church, which we're apart, right? 677 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:29,380 Speaker 1: We're grafted in. 678 00:49:29,940 --> 00:49:30,380 Speaker 1: We're apart. 679 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:31,180 Speaker 1: We know God. 680 00:49:32,180 --> 00:49:34,680 Speaker 1: And people this week might be grabbing you by the sleeve. 681 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:36,560 Speaker 1: saying, I hear you know God. 682 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:37,620 Speaker 1: I see that you pray. 683 00:49:37,740 --> 00:49:42,080 Speaker 1: I see you got Bible verses on your car or tattooed on your arm or whatever. 684 00:49:45,940 --> 00:49:47,460 Speaker 1: And, of course, I thought about Charlie. 685 00:49:48,420 --> 00:49:48,520 Speaker 1: Right? 686 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,600 Speaker 1: He was only hours gone from this earth. 687 00:49:55,740 --> 00:49:58,400 Speaker 1: He had millions hanging on to his sleeve. 688 00:50:00,460 --> 00:50:00,540 Speaker 1: Right? 689 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:02,760 Speaker 1: Millions hanging on to his sleeve. 690 00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:04,040 Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. 691 00:50:04,340 --> 00:50:04,680 Speaker 1: Who's on your sleeve? 692 00:50:04,700 --> 00:50:11,340 Speaker 1: your sleeve? Who's grabbing you by the sleeve saying, hey, I know that you know God. Is your life 693 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:17,900 Speaker 1: that bold that people know that you know God? Or they grabbing you by the sleeve and go, 694 00:50:18,340 --> 00:50:26,560 Speaker 1: how do I get saved? How do I get right with God? Because I think, listen, folks, the pickens are 695 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:32,740 Speaker 1: ripe, right? The fields are white unto harvest simply because of what happened Wednesday. 696 00:50:38,420 --> 00:50:40,400 Speaker 1: Because Jesus invites everybody to come to him. 697 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,380 Speaker 1: Come, all you who are weary and heavy laden. 698 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,020 Speaker 1: I will give you rest. 699 00:50:46,980 --> 00:50:47,740 Speaker 1: But will you come? 700 00:50:49,460 --> 00:50:50,240 Speaker 1: Be like this woman. 701 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:51,780 Speaker 1: She proclaimed it in front of everybody. 702 00:50:52,420 --> 00:50:53,920 Speaker 1: What Jesus had just done for her. 703 00:50:55,180 --> 00:50:55,760 Speaker 1: It's powerful. 704 00:50:56,980 --> 00:50:59,280 Speaker 1: No doubt the parents probably weren't too quiet. 705 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:10,800 Speaker 1: And so I'm going to ask if the prayer team would come up here and Buster's going to come close with the song. 706 00:51:12,060 --> 00:51:20,460 Speaker 1: And while he's singing, if you need prayer, if you need to come to Jesus, if you don't need to know how to get right with God, you come forward. 707 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:22,380 Speaker 1: And these people will lead you. 708 00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:24,860 Speaker 1: They can make that clear for you. 709 00:51:28,380 --> 00:51:31,560 Speaker 1: It's in Revelation chapter 22, the last verse I want to read. 710 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,480 Speaker 1: And it's that glorious kingdom of heaven. 711 00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:44,520 Speaker 1: And the words of Jesus are in verse 16 of Revelation 22. 712 00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:50,140 Speaker 1: I Jesus have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. 713 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,240 Speaker 1: I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star. 714 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:57,680 Speaker 1: And the spirit and the bride say come. 715 00:51:58,340 --> 00:52:00,600 Speaker 1: And let him who hears say come. 716 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,680 Speaker 1: and let him who thirst come 717 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,640 Speaker 1: whoever desires let him take 718 00:52:07,620 --> 00:52:08,620 Speaker 1: of the water of life 719 00:52:09,020 --> 00:52:09,320 Speaker 1: freely 720 00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:12,320 Speaker 1: that's you you come 721 00:52:13,460 --> 00:52:14,540 Speaker 1: well Buster does this song 722 00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:16,660 Speaker 1: and then we'll close with prayer at the end 723 00:52:16,950 --> 00:52:17,400 Speaker 1: you come 724 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,000 Speaker 3: I'm forgiven 725 00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,220 Speaker 3: because you were forsaken 726 00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:31,580 Speaker 3: and I'm accepted 727 00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:35,320 Speaker 3: you were condemned 728 00:52:35,690 --> 00:52:36,720 Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and stand again 729 00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,360 Speaker 3: I'm alive and well 730 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,840 Speaker 3: Your spirit is within me 731 00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:49,160 Speaker 3: Because you died and rose again 732 00:52:56,039 --> 00:52:58,200 Speaker 3: Amazing love 733 00:52:58,220 --> 00:52:59,360 Speaker 3: it be 734 00:53:01,540 --> 00:53:05,140 Speaker 3: that you, my king, would die for me. 735 00:53:09,140 --> 00:53:14,900 Speaker 3: Amazing love, I know it's true. 736 00:53:17,340 --> 00:53:20,760 Speaker 3: It's my joy to honor you 737 00:53:22,260 --> 00:53:24,620 Speaker 3: and all I do. 738 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,180 Speaker 3: I honor you. 739 00:53:36,620 --> 00:53:38,060 Speaker 3: I'm forgiven 740 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,120 Speaker 3: Because you were 741 00:53:41,500 --> 00:53:42,280 Speaker 3: Foraken 742 00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,080 Speaker 3: Oh I'm accepting 743 00:53:47,900 --> 00:53:49,300 Speaker 3: You were condemned 744 00:53:51,980 --> 00:53:53,660 Speaker 3: And I'm alive 745 00:53:53,660 --> 00:53:54,240 Speaker 3: And well 746 00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:58,160 Speaker 3: Your spirit is within me 747 00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:02,900 Speaker 3: Because you died a rose again 748 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:13,020 Speaker 3: Amazing love, how can it be? 749 00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:18,740 Speaker 3: That you my king would die for me. 750 00:54:21,810 --> 00:54:22,680 Speaker 1: You can come. 751 00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:28,140 Speaker 3: Amazing love, I know it's true. 752 00:54:30,660 --> 00:54:34,080 Speaker 3: And it's my joy to honor you 753 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:37,820 Speaker 3: In all I do 754 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:41,560 Speaker 3: I honor you 755 00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:45,360 Speaker 3: You 756 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,620 Speaker 3: are my king 757 00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,040 Speaker 3: Oh you 758 00:54:55,460 --> 00:54:57,140 Speaker 3: are my king 759 00:54:58,620 --> 00:55:04,900 Speaker 3: Jesus you are my king 760 00:55:05,540 --> 00:55:12,580 Speaker 3: Jesus you are my king 761 00:55:21,700 --> 00:55:22,400 Speaker 3: but you my king 762 00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,120 Speaker 3: but you my king would die from you 763 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,700 Speaker 3: amazing love 764 00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:37,280 Speaker 3: I know it's true 765 00:55:39,380 --> 00:55:40,840 Speaker 3: it's my joy 766 00:55:41,180 --> 00:55:43,080 Speaker 3: to honor you 767 00:55:43,770 --> 00:55:45,040 Speaker 3: sing amazing love 768 00:55:47,100 --> 00:55:49,160 Speaker 3: amazing love 769 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,600 Speaker 3: how can it be 770 00:55:54,430 --> 00:55:57,100 Speaker 3: that you my king would die 771 00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:58,300 Speaker 3: for me 772 00:56:02,380 --> 00:56:04,040 Speaker 3: amazing love 773 00:56:05,060 --> 00:56:07,840 Speaker 3: I know it's true 774 00:56:09,980 --> 00:56:11,640 Speaker 3: it's my joy 775 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,520 Speaker 3: to honor you 776 00:56:15,660 --> 00:56:17,420 Speaker 3: and all I do 777 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,840 Speaker 3: I honor you 778 00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:24,500 Speaker 1: Lord we just pray that you would 779 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:26,619 Speaker 1: be honored in our lives this week 780 00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:32,800 Speaker 1: Lord, that when we have that opportunity to share Jesus with this world that we live in, 781 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,580 Speaker 1: Lord, whether it's in the workplace or walking down the street or in a restaurant, Lord, 782 00:56:36,740 --> 00:56:39,440 Speaker 1: or just talking to friends and family members, Lord. 783 00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:44,980 Speaker 1: Give us boldness in these days, Lord, that time is short, Lord. 784 00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,360 Speaker 1: So may we lift our heads knowing our redemption draws near. 785 00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,240 Speaker 1: Be with your people and bless them in Jesus' name. 786 00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:51,840 Speaker 1: Amen. 787 00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:53,040 Speaker 1: Hey, God bless you guys. 788 00:56:53,540 --> 00:56:54,580 Speaker 1: Have a great week in Jesus. 789 00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,800 Speaker 1: and also feel free. 790 00:56:57,980 --> 00:57:00,100 Speaker 1: Come forward and be prayed for.