1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:29,980 All righty. Well, let's just jump right into this thing. Jesus was talking about people standing outside and knocking on the door saying, let us in, let us in. And he says, get away from me. I never even knew you. And I know a lot of people like that. They name the name of Jesus, but then the fruit of their life says something totally different. And I believe Titus had a phrase for that. He says, though you honor me, you say that you love God, but you're not. 2 00:00:30,020 --> 00:00:39,760 your works deny him deny that you love God and so that's kind of what Jesus was talking about and then he 3 00:00:39,980 --> 00:00:45,980 ends in chapter 30 and that's where we're going to start reading and we'll read to the end of the 4 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:53,900 chapter so we'll we'll just do 30 through 35 and it says indeed there are last who will be first 5 00:00:54,340 --> 00:00:59,980 and there are first who will be last on that very day some Pharisees came saying to him 6 00:01:00,540 --> 00:01:07,100 get out and depart from here Herod wants to kill you and he said to them go tell that fox 7 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:13,320 Behold I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow and the third day 8 00:01:14,180 --> 00:01:19,540 I shall be perfected nevertheless I must journey today tomorrow and the day following 9 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,820 For it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem. Oh Jerusalem 10 00:01:26,020 --> 00:01:29,960 Jerusalem the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are 11 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:36,840 were sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under 12 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:45,440 her wings, but you were not willing. See, your house is left to you. Desolate and assuredly I say to you, 13 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:53,080 you shall not see me until the time comes when you say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the 14 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:59,940 Lord. Let's pray. Lord, thank you. Thank you that you're willing to challenge us and to 15 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:05,100 to castize us and to even bring us to the point of death 16 00:02:06,730 --> 00:02:06,920 that we might look to you, 17 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:28,800 there in the book of Revelation, 18 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,840 Strengthen that which remains and lift up your head for your redemption draws near. 19 00:02:34,220 --> 00:02:45,820 Be what this morning we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. And so he says, indeed, there are last who will be first and there are first who will be last. What does this mean? 20 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:54,280 God definitely has a different economic system than you and I. And he, but we know he's a respecter of no person. 21 00:02:55,420 --> 00:02:57,520 God is a respecter of no person. 22 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,180 He respects me no more than he respects my three-year-old grandson. 23 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:06,880 He doesn't respect us. 24 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:08,640 He loves us. 25 00:03:09,460 --> 00:03:10,860 He has a plan for us. 26 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,140 And for us to demand God's respect, I think, is foolish. 27 00:03:17,940 --> 00:03:19,440 Because he could kill you just as easy. 28 00:03:22,140 --> 00:03:24,980 And be totally justified in doing it. 29 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,060 That's what's so wild. 30 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,340 And that's what humanity does not understand. 31 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,900 I was reading this morning in Romans where Paul says there, I believe it's in chapter 9 where he says, 32 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:43,440 he says, how can the thing that is made say to him that made it? Why have you made me thus? 33 00:03:45,820 --> 00:03:53,860 You have no right to do that. He created you. He created you to be in relationship with him. 34 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:56,200 And if you don't want that, that's on you. 35 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:03,240 that's what sends you to separation from God for all eternity 36 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,020 is you don't want you don't want him 37 00:04:08,460 --> 00:04:11,840 how can the clay say to the potter what are you doing 38 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,480 you realize how ridiculous it is right that thought 39 00:04:18,940 --> 00:04:23,040 just saying if you don't if you aren't getting it you and i are the clay 40 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,040 we have no right to say anything to the potter 41 00:04:29,980 --> 00:04:32,180 but oh Lord do with me what you will 42 00:04:36,260 --> 00:04:38,140 that girl is going to be a preacher 43 00:04:48,750 --> 00:04:51,960 but the first she'll be last and for the Jewish mind 44 00:04:51,980 --> 00:04:59,400 this is kind of this is a bit of a dig because the Jews were the chosen people they were the 45 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:06,620 people who God God made covenant with those with with Abraham and and then he makes the the old 46 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:13,920 covenant the the legal covenant of the of the law with Moses and and the Levites and he made this 47 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:20,360 covenant and they should be first but one of the prophets tells us that he says a people who 48 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:27,440 were not your people will be your people that's talking about you and me as gentiles that have 49 00:05:27,740 --> 00:05:35,780 received Christ we've received the gospel he says the the last we were last in line will be first 50 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:45,000 and the first who should have been in line will be last but god's salvation comes to all of us 51 00:05:45,740 --> 00:05:50,320 it's not just a an ethnic group it's just not the jews though 52 00:05:50,420 --> 00:06:01,000 he did say, right? Salvation is of the Jews. Salvation is of the Jews. If it weren't for them, 53 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:10,060 we would have nothing to be grafted into, right? We would be illegitimate. But because of them, 54 00:06:10,380 --> 00:06:20,220 it gives us legitimacy. So, so he says, the first shall be last and the last shall be first. 55 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:22,300 where are you at? 56 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,020 Because really the 57 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:30,920 the ones that don't want to walk with him 58 00:06:33,620 --> 00:06:34,280 not only would 59 00:06:34,580 --> 00:06:36,060 they won't even be last 60 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:37,820 they'll just be separated 61 00:06:40,580 --> 00:06:41,860 we just need to come to him 62 00:06:42,060 --> 00:06:43,420 even if it's a last hour 63 00:06:43,740 --> 00:06:45,120 this might be your last hour 64 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:46,240 please come to Jesus 65 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:49,499 I promise you you won't regret it 66 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,940 I look back in my life and somebody asked me just a little bit ago, so how did you come to the Lord? 67 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:02,840 And I look back at that and I just kind of get giddy because I'm just thinking, 68 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:08,380 because it's just exciting to see what God's done in my life. 69 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,400 And I just have to praise and worship him. 70 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:13,960 And I remember throwing my hands in the air. 71 00:07:14,140 --> 00:07:15,240 I was 23 years old. 72 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,140 And I said, Lord, I can't do this. 73 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,180 I don't know what I'm doing. 74 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,960 I'm just making a mess out of my life and other people's lives. 75 00:07:24,580 --> 00:07:25,460 Do something with me. 76 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,400 And I surrendered. 77 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:32,720 I literally threw my hands in the air, sitting in my chair in my trailer house in central California. 78 00:07:33,310 --> 00:07:36,420 I said, take my life, do something with it. 79 00:07:36,940 --> 00:07:37,640 It's a mess. 80 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,560 You know, it's still a mess. 81 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,760 But I got somebody I can give my mess to every single morning, right? 82 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:54,560 And so I would rather be last than not at all. 83 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:01,600 Like David said, I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to spend 84 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:03,280 a thousand days elsewhere. 85 00:08:08,659 --> 00:08:10,320 So they come to Jesus. 86 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:11,320 They're hearing this. 87 00:08:11,860 --> 00:08:14,780 And when this next verse, in verse 31, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, 88 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:20,080 can't really see the motive because you don't really know which Pharisees is talking about 89 00:08:20,220 --> 00:08:24,620 because there were some Pharisees that actually kind of thought Jesus was all right. We have Joseph 90 00:08:24,780 --> 00:08:30,120 of Veramathia and Nicodemus. You know, they're at the crucifixion. They were faithful. They were 91 00:08:30,220 --> 00:08:38,180 kind of closet believers. And it says, and on the very, on that very day, some Pharisees came to him, 92 00:08:39,820 --> 00:08:46,380 Get out and depart from here for Herod wants to kill you now were they just 93 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:53,360 Wanting to get rid of him or do they were they wanting to push him using the Galilee at this time 94 00:08:53,660 --> 00:09:01,420 Were they wanting to push him back to Geith back to Jerusalem where they knew they could arrest him and and do away with him? 95 00:09:02,290 --> 00:09:07,420 I don't know what the motive was we don't know if Herod really wanted to kill him we knew that Herod was a little 96 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:13,360 nervous when he heard about the things that Jesus was doing because he thought it was John the 97 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:20,360 Baptist raised back from the dead, who he had killed because he had got kind of a little aroused at 98 00:09:20,580 --> 00:09:27,400 the dancing of his stepdaughter and vowed to give her up to half his kingdom. You guys remember 99 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:36,160 the story, right? What do you want? I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Now to give that, 100 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,960 cut that girl a little bit of slack. It was her mother who prompted her to do that. Sure 101 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:48,740 enough, took John the Baptist's head, put it on a platter, here you go, 33 years old. 102 00:09:52,060 --> 00:10:02,960 But he knew, he knew that his time was up. I kind of envy people that know their time's up. 103 00:10:06,660 --> 00:10:09,020 because it gives you an opportunity to get right with God. 104 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,840 No doubt, John, the Baptist was having some doubts in his jail cell when he said, 105 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,720 you go ask that Jesus character. 106 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:17,580 Are you the one or do we look for another? 107 00:10:19,660 --> 00:10:22,920 He wanted to make sure because he knew it was coming. 108 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,560 So they said, Herod wants to kill you. 109 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:31,640 This is Herod Antipus. 110 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,440 he was a son of Herod the Great 111 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:39,400 who tried to kill Jesus 112 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,360 when he killed all the little boys in Bethlehem 113 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,000 like father like son 114 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:51,380 and Jesus answers in verse 32 115 00:10:51,380 --> 00:10:53,340 and he says and he said to them 116 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,240 listen go tell that fox 117 00:10:56,940 --> 00:10:58,840 behold I cast out demons 118 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,660 and perform cures today and tomorrow 119 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:04,440 and the third day, I shall be perfected. 120 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:06,420 He says, you go talk to that boy. 121 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:11,220 And it's interesting what this means, 122 00:11:12,179 --> 00:11:18,280 because it's not quite as nice as it just sounds. 123 00:11:18,380 --> 00:11:19,320 You go tell that fox. 124 00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:21,840 We know a fox is supposedly cunning. 125 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,000 Though you talk to people who trap, 126 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,140 foxes are easy to trap because they're much more stupid 127 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,180 than a coyote, right? 128 00:11:31,460 --> 00:11:33,540 So they're not quite as cunning as you think, 129 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:38,200 but they're sly and they're slithery and they're sneaky. 130 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:44,020 And the actual word he uses here is Apollipax, 131 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,100 which means vixen. 132 00:11:46,740 --> 00:11:49,320 And this is the fox that I remember growing up 133 00:11:49,460 --> 00:11:52,720 hearing about a seductive woman 134 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,640 that would kind of strut her stuff. 135 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:56,500 Hey, she's a fox. 136 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:01,400 Oh, I guess that wasn't. 137 00:12:01,420 --> 00:12:13,940 that good. Because it's used in the feminine here. Jesus uses the feminine word. And a vixen 138 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:21,480 is primarily a female fox as a noun. It also refers to a hot-tempered, quarrelsome, ill-tempered 139 00:12:21,580 --> 00:12:30,099 woman. Now, I don't know if Herod was a little effeminate, right? He had a little stuff 140 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:40,120 going on or what we know he was perverse obviously swiped his brother's wife and and uh and all that 141 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:49,200 it also says it they can be described as sexually attractive alluring or or charming frequently 142 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:59,539 used in media to describe female characters common synonyms include shrewd hussy hellcat 143 00:13:06,039 --> 00:13:09,540 So that's what Jesus calls this, 144 00:13:09,830 --> 00:13:15,380 this Herod, like, you hell cat, you go tell that hell cat, right? 145 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:24,400 It really serves as a vivid emblem of earthly cunning 146 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:29,520 and transient security set against. 147 00:13:29,540 --> 00:13:32,880 It's the steadfast purpose of God in Christ Jesus. 148 00:13:38,340 --> 00:13:42,560 And so he told him, you go tell him. 149 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:44,940 You go tell him. 150 00:13:46,580 --> 00:13:49,180 Because Herod, we know that he wanted to see Jesus. 151 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:50,900 He was intrigued by Jesus. 152 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,940 He was that curious cat. 153 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:56,080 Right? 154 00:13:57,050 --> 00:13:58,540 You remember it, the crucifixion, 155 00:13:58,580 --> 00:14:02,480 And when Pilate, he sends him over, he goes, oh, he's from Galilee. 156 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:03,960 He's from Herod's jurisdiction. 157 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:05,580 You go to Herod, you go. 158 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:06,800 And you remember what happened. 159 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,760 Jesus didn't say, didn't make a sound. 160 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,120 He did not make a sound with Herod prompting him. 161 00:14:16,420 --> 00:14:17,880 Come on, do a miracle for me. 162 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:19,060 I want to see all these here. 163 00:14:19,140 --> 00:14:20,460 I hear all these miracles you do. 164 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:21,780 Do a miracle for me. 165 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:24,380 The Lord wasn't going to give him that. 166 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:37,600 It fascinates me that people, people, us humans, try to impose our will on our God. 167 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:40,600 Shouldn't it be the other way around? 168 00:14:42,940 --> 00:14:44,980 Shouldn't we be yielded to the will of God? 169 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,600 Shouldn't we seek out the will of God? 170 00:14:52,380 --> 00:14:54,380 It's the will of God that we would love Him with all. 171 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,080 all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, 172 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:57,380 and love our neighbor as ourself. 173 00:14:57,700 --> 00:14:58,640 That's the will of God. 174 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,620 Your will, my will, Jesus was willing to have his will, 175 00:15:06,180 --> 00:15:06,980 I'll go bye-bye, 176 00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:11,360 where he said, not my will, but thine be done. 177 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:22,540 I'll read that passage where Pilate and Herod kind of came together 178 00:15:22,740 --> 00:15:23,800 in Luke chapter 23. 179 00:15:24,420 --> 00:15:27,280 coming off of resurrection week. 180 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,260 It says when Pilate heard this, 181 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:32,440 he asked whether the man was a Galilean. 182 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,080 And when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, 183 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:37,740 he sent him over to Herod, 184 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:40,200 who was himself in Jerusalem at the time. 185 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,720 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, 186 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,860 for he had long desired to see him 187 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,980 because he had heard about him 188 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,180 and was hoping to see some sign done by him. 189 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:52,640 So he questioned him, 190 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,220 at some length, but he made no answer. 191 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,020 The chief priests and the scribes stood by vehemently accusing him, 192 00:16:00,380 --> 00:16:04,080 and Herod with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, and mocked him. 193 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:08,380 Then arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilot. 194 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:13,180 And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, 195 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,880 for before this they had been at enmity with each other. 196 00:16:17,740 --> 00:16:20,440 Ah, we got a common enemy, Jesus. 197 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,660 We got a common enemy. 198 00:16:30,660 --> 00:16:35,940 So Jesus tells the people that Pharisees that come to him, he says, you go and you tell him, 199 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,820 you tell him what you see, right? 200 00:16:40,940 --> 00:16:45,560 That I cast out demons perform cures today and tomorrow. 201 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,840 Jesus is saying, I don't care what that guy says. 202 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:51,720 I'm on a mission. 203 00:16:52,420 --> 00:16:53,600 I got a job to do. 204 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:58,400 I'm able to cast out these demons. 205 00:16:58,660 --> 00:17:01,340 I'm able to heal the sick, to raise the dead. 206 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,360 And he says, today and tomorrow. 207 00:17:05,990 --> 00:17:07,540 In other words, Herod knows where he's at. 208 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:15,140 There was nothing he could do to stop Jesus from completing what he was going to do. 209 00:17:15,780 --> 00:17:16,319 Nobody could. 210 00:17:17,020 --> 00:17:17,640 Satan couldn't. 211 00:17:18,220 --> 00:17:18,900 Pilate couldn't. 212 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:20,160 Herod couldn't. 213 00:17:20,699 --> 00:17:21,699 The Sanhedron couldn't. 214 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,240 nobody could stop him from doing what he was going to do. 215 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,020 And the third day, 216 00:17:34,180 --> 00:17:35,820 and the third day I will be perfected. 217 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,220 He's speaking of resurrection here. 218 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:38,780 Not only am I, 219 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,440 I have the power to do these things, 220 00:17:40,820 --> 00:17:42,880 but I have the power to overcome death. 221 00:17:44,140 --> 00:17:45,240 And he declares that here. 222 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,400 He declares it again in John chapter 4, verse 34. 223 00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:56,840 I have glorified you on earth 224 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,020 by accomplishing me the work you gave me to do. 225 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:03,420 That was John 174, sorry. 226 00:18:06,460 --> 00:18:07,320 He did the work. 227 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,280 Jesus tells him in John 6th, 228 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,240 that this is the work of God that you believe in the one that the father has sent. 229 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,320 It's like Jesus is telling those who are in authority, 230 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:19,800 I'm going to do this, 231 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,380 and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it 232 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:28,300 because of his mission to rescue you and me 233 00:18:29,020 --> 00:18:31,500 and nothing would deter him from that listen 234 00:18:33,140 --> 00:18:41,480 a fox is no match for a shepherd right all the shepherds i knew packed firearms 235 00:18:42,140 --> 00:18:44,000 and they were dropping foxes left and right 236 00:18:46,620 --> 00:18:49,820 no match at all for a shepherd now what's interesting about 237 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:58,820 about Herod is he goes into exile when Emperor Kligula, that's how I think it's pronounced, 238 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:10,520 right, exiles him and he lives like eight or ten years. He has this opportunity. I'm wondering if his mind ever went back thinking, 239 00:19:12,699 --> 00:19:19,780 oh, that Messiah, that Jewish Messiah, we know that other people, 240 00:19:19,820 --> 00:19:25,640 people from the Roman Empire were saved when they saw what Jesus did, I wonder if he got saved. 241 00:19:26,980 --> 00:19:38,200 Because nobody is beyond God's reach. He's willing that none should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 242 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:46,780 So he doubles down in verse 33. He says, nevertheless, I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following. 243 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:53,020 for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem. 244 00:19:54,940 --> 00:19:56,060 Jesus said, I'm on the way. 245 00:19:56,580 --> 00:19:57,360 I'm headed south. 246 00:19:57,780 --> 00:19:58,940 I'm going to Jerusalem. 247 00:20:01,380 --> 00:20:03,420 And I must go down there. 248 00:20:05,780 --> 00:20:06,800 Nobody's going to kill me. 249 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,480 Nobody's going to interrupt this. 250 00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:12,340 We know that nobody's going to kill him because John 1018 says, 251 00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:16,380 no one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of myself. 252 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,520 I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up again. 253 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,300 This command I have received from my father. 254 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:24,800 That's a powerful verse. 255 00:20:25,860 --> 00:20:26,800 Who has that power? 256 00:20:27,860 --> 00:20:28,240 I don't. 257 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:29,760 You got that power? 258 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:32,440 You have the power to lay your life down and take it up again? 259 00:20:33,460 --> 00:20:34,360 We don't have that power. 260 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:36,820 But praise God. 261 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:44,240 Jesus came as a substitute sacrifice for you and me. 262 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,220 And he offers us eternal life. 263 00:20:50,420 --> 00:20:52,580 The only way we could even come close to that, 264 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,960 having that power is putting our faith in trust in the one who did have that power. 265 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,300 And he's saying, I must go to Jerusalem. 266 00:21:04,460 --> 00:21:07,580 Because that's the place where prophets go to die. 267 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:09,520 Jerusalem. 268 00:21:11,380 --> 00:21:11,860 Jerusalem. 269 00:21:13,580 --> 00:21:14,360 City of peace. 270 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:16,300 That's what Jerusalem is called. 271 00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:17,660 City of Peace. 272 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:19,800 It's still on the map today. 273 00:21:20,530 --> 00:21:21,380 You can Google it. 274 00:21:22,380 --> 00:21:23,100 It says Jerusalem. 275 00:21:24,660 --> 00:21:26,460 Jerusalem means, literally means, 276 00:21:26,940 --> 00:21:27,620 city of peace. 277 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,320 And it's anything but 278 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,000 it's the most contested 279 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,040 piece of real estate 280 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:37,360 on the face of the planet. 281 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:38,300 Why is that? 282 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:49,280 and until the prince of peace comes and sets up his throne in the city of peace 283 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,640 it will cease to be the city of peace 284 00:21:58,420 --> 00:21:59,600 wild stuff 285 00:22:00,940 --> 00:22:04,960 he goes oh jerusalem jerusalem twice 286 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:07,699 when the lord says something twice 287 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:15,980 you should pay attention right as we look through the the the the the Bible the men that he called 288 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:22,700 when he he doubled up on their name Abraham Abraham Moses Moses Jacob Jacob 289 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,960 Simon Simon Martha Martha you got to throw a girl in there right 290 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:36,319 Saul Saul here he says Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem 291 00:22:37,820 --> 00:22:38,360 Why is that? 292 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:40,660 Jesus loved this place. 293 00:22:41,540 --> 00:22:43,340 He desired it to be the city of peace. 294 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:50,880 It was him coming to this place, presenting the good news, but it was rejected. 295 00:22:51,230 --> 00:22:53,620 He came to his own and his own received him not. 296 00:22:56,660 --> 00:22:57,600 Have you received Jesus? 297 00:23:00,580 --> 00:23:06,060 Because I remember those times that he came along in my life before that I turned 23. 298 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,600 and there was a knock at the door of my heart. 299 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,100 I remember it happened when I was nine years old, 300 00:23:15,980 --> 00:23:17,640 happened when I was 14 years old, 301 00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:21,580 and then it kind of got louder and louder 302 00:23:21,740 --> 00:23:23,380 the closer I got to turn in 23. 303 00:23:28,060 --> 00:23:28,840 And that's what he tells. 304 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:29,500 The church, 305 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:35,040 they're in Revelation 3. 306 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,580 behold I stand at the door and I knock 307 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,740 if anyone will open unto me I will come in to him 308 00:23:43,580 --> 00:23:44,480 and be his God 309 00:23:49,620 --> 00:23:50,140 and so 310 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,080 this is more I think of a 311 00:23:57,060 --> 00:23:58,340 this is a morning 312 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:01,180 the Messiah is mourning 313 00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:03,500 oh Jerusalem Jerusalem 314 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,080 the one who 315 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:12,180 kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your 316 00:24:12,580 --> 00:24:18,620 children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing. 317 00:24:23,820 --> 00:24:29,980 Are you willing? Sometimes that's a scary thought. You ask yourself that thought. I still 318 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:34,660 ask myself that question, am I willing? I don't know if I'm willing. I'm willing. 319 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:37,740 I'm kind of weakly. 320 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:40,700 Lord, I don't know if I'm willing. 321 00:24:40,820 --> 00:24:42,660 I don't know if I can do what you call me to do. 322 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:47,320 And I've learned that it's just, just walk by faith. 323 00:24:48,740 --> 00:24:48,860 Right? 324 00:24:48,860 --> 00:24:50,120 You don't have to have all the answers. 325 00:24:50,660 --> 00:24:51,640 This week we had none. 326 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:53,580 What are you guys going to do? 327 00:24:54,540 --> 00:24:55,260 We don't know. 328 00:24:59,700 --> 00:24:59,920 All right. 329 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,540 So the statement holds true. 330 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,380 You can worship with us if you can find us. 331 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,760 It's, you know, we're just, we're all over the place. 332 00:25:12,060 --> 00:25:14,980 And when we first got the call, we were having a prayer meeting. 333 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:20,580 So I told everybody that, you know, that was in the prayer room there, there were 10 or 12 of us. 334 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:21,780 Some clapped. 335 00:25:21,940 --> 00:25:22,740 Some went, eh-ha. 336 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,000 Easy for you to say. 337 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:31,980 No, but just excited. 338 00:25:32,180 --> 00:25:33,380 That's the attitude of faith. 339 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,820 you're excited what are you going to do now Lord we're at the red sea and the waters ain't parted yet 340 00:25:43,220 --> 00:25:49,240 but he can't do it with or without us he's going to do what he's going to do why not just jump on 341 00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:55,120 board it's like that old song this get on this train it's the last train it's leaving town 342 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:03,360 but it's really heartbreaking as the Lord oh Jerusalem Jerusalem I 343 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:10,940 city of peace city of peace you're anything but you kill the prophets i sent messengers to you and you 344 00:26:11,010 --> 00:26:19,320 would not hear he says i would have gathered you up like a hen i love this illustration 345 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:25,660 because i i checked for my wife's eggs every morning every morning we're getting about 25 eggs a day 346 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:32,080 three of them are duck eggs but there's this one hen and i think my wife calls her 347 00:26:32,940 --> 00:26:40,420 twinkle toes or something like that. But she's broody. She's broody. And so every time I lift the, 348 00:26:40,590 --> 00:26:47,220 I lift the little nest box where she's his and she goes, I mean, she swells up and puffs up and 349 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,240 puts her wings out. And there's always about two or three eggs under her that I swipe from her. 350 00:26:51,980 --> 00:27:00,300 But she had chicks sometime back a couple years ago. And I think she hatched 16, 16 chicks. And what night, 351 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,180 I went in there and I looked and there were chicks that had crawled up under her wings 352 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,780 and their little heads were sticking out all across her chest on both sides. 353 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,440 It was the wildest thing. 354 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,340 And Jesus says that's a kind of compassion. 355 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,340 That's a kind of protection I want to give you. 356 00:27:20,260 --> 00:27:21,020 But you weren't willing. 357 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:22,520 You wouldn't come. 358 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:25,540 When he spread out his wings, you wouldn't come under him. 359 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:27,980 You want to go it alone. 360 00:27:29,420 --> 00:27:29,720 Fool. 361 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:31,260 that's foolish 362 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,100 years ago I heard a story 363 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:36,900 it was in a sermon 364 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,380 a pastor had heard about a barn fire 365 00:27:40,660 --> 00:27:42,500 in his neighborhood 366 00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:43,920 and so he went to the family and 367 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:46,940 prayed with them and they had lost some livestock 368 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:49,920 and he was walking through the barnyard 369 00:27:50,020 --> 00:27:53,040 where some of the ash heap was and he kicked this pile of ashes 370 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,940 and about 15 little chicks ran out from underneath 371 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,720 who was a hen who had put her 372 00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:07,220 wings out over the babies and was burned up in the fire but they survived but that's the heart 373 00:28:07,660 --> 00:28:16,720 that's the heart of our Savior it says but you were not willing so here's a big question this thing 374 00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:27,220 is so controversial election or free will but you were not willing so that would be election you 375 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:38,260 didn't elect to embrace the Savior. But some believe, well, they could not. Why? Why could they not? 376 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,780 Because no one can come to Jesus except the Father draw him. Doesn't he say that? He does say that. 377 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,600 So they would not, so they could not. Or is it the other round? They could not because they would not. 378 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,100 I'll leave that for you guys to figure it out. You figure that out. You let me know how that goes. 379 00:28:57,100 --> 00:29:06,180 goes. But I know this. I know this. Anyone who will sincerely and honestly humble their self 380 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:18,280 before the Lord and say, oh, Lord, save my soul. He's ready. He's at the ready because he loves 381 00:29:19,980 --> 00:29:26,500 humility. But it's almost like there's some that can't. There's some that can't. There's some that 382 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:27,660 that can't do that. 383 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:35,500 Jerusalem, folks, is a eternal city, right? 384 00:29:35,580 --> 00:29:37,460 That's why we still see it on the map today. 385 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,440 It is an eternal city. 386 00:29:39,580 --> 00:29:40,880 It's never going to go anywhere. 387 00:29:42,060 --> 00:29:45,260 It started clear back in Genesis, chapter 14, 388 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,540 when Abraham had this encounter with his character called Melchizedat. 389 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,180 And in verse 18, it says, 390 00:29:52,260 --> 00:29:55,780 then Melchazadegh, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, 391 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,520 and he was the priest of the Most High God. 392 00:29:59,060 --> 00:30:00,480 And he blessed and said, 393 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,420 Blessed be Abram of God Most High, 394 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:04,780 possessor of heaven and earth. 395 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:07,040 And blessed be God most high, 396 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,020 who has delivered your enemy into your hand. 397 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:11,300 This Melchizedek, 398 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:14,620 we just read about him through the book of Hebrews. 399 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:17,620 He's mentioned also in the Psalms. 400 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,180 But he was the king, listen. 401 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,100 He was the king of Salem. 402 00:30:24,780 --> 00:30:25,560 That's Jerusalem. 403 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:34,700 him. But Melchizedek's kingship and his, he was a king, a prophet, and a priest. He was all three. 404 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:43,660 And he, and he was eternal. Most believe it was a Christophony, something, we don't know who this 405 00:30:43,740 --> 00:30:48,280 guy is, but he is one unique individual because he didn't have mother, father, beginning of 406 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:55,560 days, end of life, unique individual. Most believe it was just a picture of Jesus in the Old 407 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:07,740 that he was in a position that Jesus would assume in the future as the eternal king seated in the eternal city 408 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:18,080 Jerusalem the city of peace now people say well Israel has nothing to do with the church today 409 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:25,540 the church is replaced is it what that's just backwards that it doesn't work 410 00:31:27,340 --> 00:31:34,360 because the reason God chose Jerusalem, not we was because, it wasn't because of Jacob, right? 411 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,560 No, it was because that's who he chose. 412 00:31:37,140 --> 00:31:40,400 And God can choose to give it to anybody he wants to. 413 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,340 God can give his land to anybody he wants to. 414 00:31:44,340 --> 00:31:50,360 He just happened to keep his promise to Abraham, and he gave it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 415 00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:52,880 That's who God promised it to. 416 00:31:54,060 --> 00:31:55,060 Does that make them righteous? 417 00:31:55,180 --> 00:31:55,900 No, they're evil. 418 00:31:57,260 --> 00:32:00,000 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was just as evil as you and I are. 419 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,380 You and I are evil. 420 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:03,240 Do you understand that? 421 00:32:05,380 --> 00:32:06,560 That's what he told his disciples. 422 00:32:06,780 --> 00:32:08,200 You remember when he's talking to his disciples? 423 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:09,060 He calls him evil. 424 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,860 I think this just really gets stuck in people's craw. 425 00:32:13,340 --> 00:32:14,600 Pastor, you're calling us evil. 426 00:32:15,980 --> 00:32:16,520 We're not evil. 427 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:17,380 We're good people. 428 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,940 There's no such thing as good people. 429 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,120 Because all goodness comes from God. 430 00:32:26,899 --> 00:32:28,320 God makes us good. 431 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,800 You don't have any goodness of your own. 432 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,400 In fact, the Bible condemns that. 433 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,160 It calls it self-righteousness, right? 434 00:32:38,860 --> 00:32:41,620 And it's a stench in the nostrils of the righteous one, 435 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:42,900 the only righteous one. 436 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:50,000 But listen, Jerusalem is significant and is legitimate 437 00:32:51,879 --> 00:32:55,120 because it's where God chose to put his name. 438 00:32:56,919 --> 00:33:03,380 name right it's not about the people because all people are alike it's about the god who put 439 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:13,960 his name there second chronicles chapter six I think this is verses three and four I got 440 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:20,680 it messed up on my nose but it says yet I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there 441 00:33:20,820 --> 00:33:23,780 and that I have chosen David to be over my people Israel. 442 00:33:25,580 --> 00:33:26,780 He chose his name to be there. 443 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:28,140 He chose David. 444 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:31,620 David was a murderer and adulterer 445 00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:35,840 that should have been stoned to death. 446 00:33:37,940 --> 00:33:39,020 But God made promises. 447 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,900 He promised that the son of David would come. 448 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,180 Second Chronicles 33 tells us this. 449 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:44,940 It says, 450 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,780 He also built altars in the house of the Lord 451 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:57,760 for which the Lord had said in Jerusalem shall my name be, listen, forever, forever. 452 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:14,139 But when Jesus came, he wasn't received by his own, right? We just read that. In fact, in Romans 11, 8, it says, a stupor was upon Israel. 453 00:34:14,980 --> 00:34:21,720 It's like a, it's synonymous with a spiritual numbness that they just don't get it. 454 00:34:23,919 --> 00:34:29,419 Until some of them read Isaiah 53 and they go, oh, that sounds like that carpenter dude. 455 00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:39,280 God tells us in Leviticus chapter 25, verse 23, hey, listen, the land is mine. 456 00:34:39,659 --> 00:34:40,280 It's mine. 457 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:46,360 You can't sell it. 458 00:34:47,060 --> 00:34:49,700 No one can take it from you unless I allow it. 459 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:52,540 And God did allow that. 460 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:58,560 Because of their hardness, because of their idolatry, because of their adultery, 461 00:34:59,860 --> 00:35:05,000 God allowed them to be in captivity. 462 00:35:09,660 --> 00:35:13,520 But he never, ever, went back on his promise, ever. 463 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,300 Second Chronicle 716, 464 00:35:17,310 --> 00:35:20,800 For now I have chosen and sanctified this house 465 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,960 that my name may be there forever. 466 00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:28,660 And my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. 467 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,300 That's why when they get attacked, 468 00:35:34,940 --> 00:35:38,700 for some reason, the rockets 469 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,080 rarely hit their target. 470 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,000 That one Hamas soldier that was launching rockets. 471 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:48,340 In 2014, I remember this. 472 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:49,760 I remember this. 473 00:35:51,140 --> 00:35:55,580 A journalist was there, and he went to and interviewed one of the Hamas soldiers. 474 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,720 He says, you guys, you guys are just sending an arsenal into Israel. 475 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:03,900 1,100 rockets you sent into Israel. 476 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,640 And none of them hit their targets. 477 00:36:07,740 --> 00:36:08,460 What's up with that? 478 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,900 That's just because the God of the Jews keeps blurring them out into the ocean. 479 00:36:16,020 --> 00:36:17,060 And you're still shooting? 480 00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:22,740 Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem. 481 00:36:26,660 --> 00:36:29,980 But it's almost like he's preparing it now. 482 00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:31,740 Because he's coming again. 483 00:36:31,820 --> 00:36:34,460 The Lord's coming again soon and very soon. 484 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:37,660 First King's 1421. 485 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:45,920 I've kind of been camping on this, this thing where God chose it, but people overlook it. 486 00:36:47,060 --> 00:36:52,340 The fact that God chose this, and he's going to keep his promise to, to Jacob, to Jerusalem, 487 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,240 and Rehoboam, the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. 488 00:36:55,620 --> 00:37:00,060 And Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king, and he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, 489 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:05,300 the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. 490 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:16,660 that's why it's legitimate is because God did it and nobody's going to wipe that away 491 00:37:18,020 --> 00:37:24,220 not the not the sin of the Jewish people not the sin of the church which is just as bad 492 00:37:29,260 --> 00:37:35,320 and so this is when the wheels really begin to start falling off for Israel is when the separation of 493 00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:42,640 the kingdom, there was Jeroboam in the north and Rehoboam in the south, and God started ripping 494 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:50,040 in them apart because of idol worship and sexual perversion and baby sacrifice. And then here 495 00:37:50,140 --> 00:37:57,500 comes the Gentiles. And they're going to rule and reign. And then that most wicked king 496 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:05,060 I think that Israel ever had was Manasseh. And in 2nd King's 217, it says, 497 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:10,880 even, this is what Manassah did, he even set his, he put his little babies, his own babies, 498 00:38:11,460 --> 00:38:18,140 on the fiery hot hands of Molek and killed them, sacrificed them. Manassah did. 499 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,300 Killed his own children as a sacrifice to an idol. 500 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:31,300 And he even set a carved image of Assyra, which is sexual perversion, that he had made in the house 501 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,040 which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon, his son, 502 00:38:35,220 --> 00:38:40,920 in this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name 503 00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:47,820 forever. And we know that Manassah did all that wickedness, and at the end of his life, he repented. 504 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:57,880 I think he is a picture. He's a picture of Israel. He's a picture of you and me. 505 00:39:00,180 --> 00:39:05,040 How long did it take you to throw your hands in the air? I mean, at 23, I, I, I, I, I, 506 00:39:05,140 --> 00:39:06,240 I'd had enough. 507 00:39:06,340 --> 00:39:09,840 I'd tried it all, man, sex, drugs, rock and roll, you name it. 508 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:10,680 I'd tried it all. 509 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:20,680 But when God puts his name on you, 510 00:39:23,580 --> 00:39:26,960 and he makes a promise to you, he keeps it. 511 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:28,860 You may not keep it. 512 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:34,240 You know, the Bible says, when we are not faithful, he is faithful. 513 00:39:35,260 --> 00:39:35,960 God is faithful. 514 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,100 God is faithful to reel us in. 515 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:41,800 I know people that's been flopping out there in the world for years, 516 00:39:41,980 --> 00:39:43,780 knowing that they need to get right with God. 517 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,880 It's by his kindness that he leads us to repentance. 518 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,400 Now, Jesus predicted this. 519 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,960 In Luke 21, he said, listen, you guys are going to get a whooping. 520 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,380 You guys are going to get a whooping for 2,000 years. 521 00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:07,940 because I was here and you were not willing. 522 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,820 Is the Lord knocking on the door of your heart this morning? 523 00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:16,940 If he's knocking on the door of your heart, man, can I just encourage you? 524 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:17,700 Surrender. 525 00:40:18,460 --> 00:40:18,980 Say yes. 526 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:20,600 Say yes, Lord. 527 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,440 I just heard a testimony of a young kid. 528 00:40:23,740 --> 00:40:27,460 He was 23 years old and he died of withdrawals from alcohol. 529 00:40:27,740 --> 00:40:29,420 He was coming off alcohol and he died. 530 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,160 And he had a vision, a vision of health. 531 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:39,860 this kid did. And he said, and, and he said, there was all of a sudden there was this figure in front of him. 532 00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:45,220 It was like a grandma like figure. And one side of her face was beautiful and lit up and the other side was 533 00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:51,860 dark. And she, he thought she was there to help him. And, and she turned her face where all he could 534 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,800 see was the vileness and the wickedness. And he realized, no, she's going to kill me. 535 00:40:57,980 --> 00:41:03,120 He says, and I looked up and there was this light and, and he said, everything within me wanted to say this. 536 00:41:03,180 --> 00:41:04,460 So I said it. I said yes. 537 00:41:08,260 --> 00:41:09,620 And boom, he was back in his body. 538 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,360 And he says, I was in my bed laying there. 539 00:41:15,060 --> 00:41:17,180 And he says, I looked up and he says, I looked over. 540 00:41:17,340 --> 00:41:23,140 And on the wall of this hospital room was John 316, the address. 541 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,820 And he said, I remembered that verse from when I was in VBS when I was a little kid. 542 00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:32,200 And he said, oh, praise God. 543 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:33,760 That's what I said yes to. 544 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:39,820 I hear to do say yes. 545 00:41:45,580 --> 00:41:51,620 Because Jesus says, he says, listen, Luke 21, 24, and they will fall by the edge of the sword. 546 00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:56,420 This is what's going to come to Israel when the Romans come in and sock it in 70 AD. 547 00:41:57,180 --> 00:42:02,520 He says, and they will, and be led away captive into all nations in Jerusalem will be trampled by the 548 00:42:02,540 --> 00:42:06,420 Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 549 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:09,720 The time of the Gentiles fulfilled. 550 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:10,260 What is that? 551 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:11,560 What is that? 552 00:42:11,980 --> 00:42:14,780 Well, they've been, they were under control of the Gentiles. 553 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:17,080 Until the last century. 554 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,780 May 14th, 1948. 555 00:42:20,780 --> 00:42:22,740 Some think it was 67, some 73. 556 00:42:22,820 --> 00:42:23,440 I don't know. 557 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,740 It was in the last millennia, or last century, I guess. 558 00:42:30,660 --> 00:42:38,720 Many believe that's when the time of the Gentiles were fulfilled, that Israel wasn't under the control of non-Jewish peoples. 559 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,580 I don't know. Maybe. 560 00:42:45,540 --> 00:42:48,800 Some commentators think we've been in spiritual overtime since 1967. 561 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:52,120 The time of the Gentiles have been fulfilled. Jesus is coming back. 562 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,560 There's nothing that has to happen for that to not happen. 563 00:42:59,860 --> 00:43:02,240 Isaiah tells us that Israel is going to be reborn. 564 00:43:03,420 --> 00:43:03,860 And they were. 565 00:43:03,940 --> 00:43:05,920 They became a nation in a day. 566 00:43:06,140 --> 00:43:08,320 Isaiah 66, verses 8 and 9. 567 00:43:08,580 --> 00:43:10,080 Who has heard such a thing? 568 00:43:10,660 --> 00:43:11,180 Check this out. 569 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:12,740 Who has heard such a thing? 570 00:43:13,020 --> 00:43:14,740 Who has seen such things? 571 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,720 Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? 572 00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:20,480 Or shall a nation be born at once? 573 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,400 For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children. 574 00:43:25,580 --> 00:43:29,240 Shall I bring the time of birth and not cause delivery? 575 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,740 says the Lord, shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb? 576 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:38,760 Labor pains. 577 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:44,000 They were having labor pains for 2,000 years. 578 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,960 People that say that God is done with Israel should look in the mirror. 579 00:43:55,780 --> 00:43:58,800 Because if God is done with Israel, then he is done with you. 580 00:43:59,380 --> 00:43:59,700 and me. 581 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:02,260 Right? 582 00:44:05,620 --> 00:44:06,700 It's his kindness 583 00:44:07,380 --> 00:44:08,620 that leads us to repentance. 584 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:13,080 Because 585 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,180 the sad, sad truth about most people 586 00:44:17,580 --> 00:44:18,680 and especially those 587 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,560 who maybe even believe 588 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:22,900 is they do not 589 00:44:23,180 --> 00:44:24,600 understand the gravity 590 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:25,980 of their own sin. 591 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:29,940 people don't understand that 592 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:33,220 so then we pass judgment 593 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:35,460 whether it be a person or a nation 594 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:37,260 we pass judgment 595 00:44:41,039 --> 00:44:43,240 and we have no right to do that 596 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:46,540 Paul said judge yourselves 597 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:48,860 if you're to judge some sin 598 00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:49,780 judge your own 599 00:44:51,380 --> 00:44:52,360 believe me 600 00:44:52,820 --> 00:44:54,720 you have a bucket full enough 601 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,820 to keep you busy till Jesus comes, right, of your own. 602 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,220 We don't need to be pointing fingers. 603 00:45:02,940 --> 00:45:04,820 Let things play out. 604 00:45:05,420 --> 00:45:06,500 History is going to play out. 605 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,040 The will of the Lord is going to be done. 606 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,760 With you or without you, with me or without me, 607 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,720 it doesn't really matter what my opinion is. 608 00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:17,280 I know I need to stay humble before the Lord. 609 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,120 Really, because Israel's done no greater sin than any of us. 610 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:26,960 And it's definitely done no greater sin than what the church has done. 611 00:45:28,860 --> 00:45:29,020 Right? 612 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:41,160 And why is God's grace okay for us, but not for them? 613 00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:45,320 Answer me that. 614 00:45:45,860 --> 00:45:50,860 Why would God's grace be okay for us as the church, who many think have replaced Israel? 615 00:45:53,420 --> 00:45:54,300 and not for them. 616 00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:58,960 That's hypocrisy. 617 00:46:00,260 --> 00:46:02,000 Last verse, and I'll wrap this up. 618 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,580 See, your house is left to you, desolate, 619 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,660 and assuredly I say to you, you shall not see me 620 00:46:12,140 --> 00:46:13,800 till the time comes when you say, 621 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,980 blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 622 00:46:17,860 --> 00:46:20,640 Now, some think this is a fulfillment of Zechariah's prophecy, 623 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:25,160 where he talks about the donkey and Jesus riding in, 624 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:26,960 and they did say that at that time. 625 00:46:33,559 --> 00:46:39,600 But now many believe that it's when he comes again. 626 00:46:41,220 --> 00:46:44,760 And it says in Zechariah 12, they'll recognize him. 627 00:46:45,820 --> 00:46:48,000 God's been merciful and long-suffering, 628 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,280 and that Israel will not recognize him. 629 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:59,440 and all of Israel that is left from all the persecution will be saved, is what Paul tells us. 630 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:00,780 Zek 1210 says, 631 00:47:02,140 --> 00:47:06,260 And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 632 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,100 the spirit of grace and supplication. 633 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:14,500 Then they will look on me whom they pierced. 634 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,340 Yes, they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, 635 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,860 and grieve for him as one grieves for a firstborn. 636 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,740 That's what it's going to be like at the end of the age. 637 00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,780 I hope we're not those ones that are stuck outside knocking. 638 00:47:37,820 --> 00:47:38,920 Let me in, let me in. 639 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:40,320 It's getting hot out here. 640 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,040 Jesus started this chapter by telling the people, listen, 641 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,680 no one's worse sinner than any other sinner, right? 642 00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,620 Remember when the Tower of Siloom and the people who would, 643 00:48:02,430 --> 00:48:07,360 who Pilate had mingled their blood with the sacrifices of their pagan worship? 644 00:48:08,210 --> 00:48:09,220 And he just, no. 645 00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:12,280 The issue is just be right with God. 646 00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:18,020 Just turn from your sin, turn to me, and you're good to go. 647 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:29,740 The remedy for everyone is to repent and be right with God. 648 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,040 It's a like I said before, it's a lifestyle. 649 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,060 You're saying, oh, Lord, forgive me today. 650 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,500 For those, those things I'm going to do. 651 00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:45,700 and help me not do them right because you know when james when james lays down that law saying 652 00:48:46,380 --> 00:48:51,760 he who knows to do good and does not do it to him it is sin it's like that happens to me every day 653 00:48:52,380 --> 00:48:58,460 i should have picked up that piece of paper out in the parking lot and i didn't do it right 654 00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:09,080 we're all people of like passion like the prophet said we're just people esteemed it like like 655 00:49:09,100 --> 00:49:38,340 Elijah way up here. He was a man just like you and me. Paul, Peter, there were people just like us who had totally fallen short of God's glory. He's going, come on, golly, dust you off. Keep going. Don't weaken now, right? Please don't weaken because I see a lot of gray hair in here. You don't want to weaken now. We're getting close, really close. 656 00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:41,540 Let's all stand, shall we? 657 00:49:42,540 --> 00:49:43,060 And we'll pray. 658 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,520 Father, we just, we worship you today. 659 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:52,000 Your word is truly a lamp into our feet and a light into our path. 660 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:57,160 Lord, the work that you're doing in us and in your body around the world, 661 00:49:57,300 --> 00:50:00,420 the work that you're doing in Israel and in the Arab world, Lord, 662 00:50:00,860 --> 00:50:02,940 you're drawn all men to yourself. 663 00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:05,960 People are having visions of seeing the Christ. 664 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,660 Lord, I pray that they would say yes to you. 665 00:50:09,340 --> 00:50:10,680 just a simple yes. 666 00:50:11,660 --> 00:50:12,920 Yes, Lord, yes, Lord. 667 00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:14,520 Yes, Lord, yes. 668 00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:16,700 We love you today, Lord. 669 00:50:16,860 --> 00:50:18,680 Would you turn our hearts? 670 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:23,300 Turn our hearts to those things that, Lord, that are good for us. 671 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:29,220 Lord, seeking you and reading your word, Lord, I just pray for that passion to be in all 672 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:33,220 of our hearts, Lord, that we would read your word and write it up on the pages and the 673 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:38,660 tablets that is in the very depths of our soul, Lord, that it truly touches our 674 00:50:38,700 --> 00:50:44,620 conscience, Lord, and it discerns the thoughts and intents of what we are and who we are. 675 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,380 And may we become more and more like our king. 676 00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,680 Lord, we know you're coming soon. 677 00:50:49,860 --> 00:50:54,380 So help us keep looking up and proclaiming you until then. 678 00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,400 And we pray it in the mighty, powerful name of Jesus. 679 00:50:57,180 --> 00:50:57,380 Amen. 680 00:50:58,060 --> 00:50:58,740 God bless you guys. 681 00:50:58,860 --> 00:50:59,760 Have a great week in Jesus. 682 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,860 If you need prayer, there'll be some prayer folks over here to the right.