1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,160 But I've entitled this message, no excuses. 2 00:00:04,110 --> 00:00:14,940 And I know all the time I have excuses about certain things, and they're really never any good. 3 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:22,120 And when you use excuses too much, that's all you become is an excuse. 4 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:29,180 So we're going to be in chapters 14, verse 15 through 24. 5 00:00:29,980 --> 00:00:32,340 and I'm going to read that to you here real quick. 6 00:00:33,230 --> 00:00:38,940 And we said, well, first of all, we talked last time, and Jesus is talking about, you know, 7 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:45,860 you can have a party, invite all your friends, right, and have a great time. 8 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,120 But you invite them knowing that sometime they're going to invite you back. 9 00:00:50,540 --> 00:00:55,980 But Jesus said, no, you go and invite those people that are poor and can't, 10 00:00:56,140 --> 00:00:58,900 you know they're not going to pay you back at all. 11 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,500 and that's who you need to minister to. 12 00:01:04,460 --> 00:01:11,140 And so that's a hard one for us because we're American snobs. 13 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,540 And that's a true story. 14 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,260 And I even see it in my own life and I get convicted. 15 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:26,120 And so because he says, listen, but it's not all for not. 16 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,920 You think, well, that's not for, that's, I won't. 17 00:01:28,940 --> 00:01:34,680 get anything back but notice what Jesus says how he ends verse 14 and he says for you shall be 18 00:01:35,060 --> 00:01:41,620 repaid at the resurrection of the just well the first question I would have are you just are you going to 19 00:01:41,740 --> 00:01:47,160 make it to that first resurrection because you want no part of the second one just say it right there's 20 00:01:47,220 --> 00:01:53,300 two resurrections there's a resurrection of the just and there's the resurrection of the unjust you want 21 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:58,900 no part of that that resurrection of the unjust because at the end of the end of the 22 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,600 of the resurrection of the unjust, there is this thing called the second death. 23 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:07,720 And it's like an eternal death. 24 00:02:08,580 --> 00:02:11,000 And you know how we don't like death now. 25 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:13,360 It's no fun. 26 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:15,480 Death's not fun. 27 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:16,660 It's the last enemy. 28 00:02:19,239 --> 00:02:28,500 And so I've been having to deal with it this last little bit, and it's not, it's, it's, 29 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,040 It makes life precious. 30 00:02:30,860 --> 00:02:31,940 Think if there was no death. 31 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:34,540 What if there was no death? 32 00:02:37,220 --> 00:02:37,820 I don't know. 33 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:39,720 What would be the point of life? 34 00:02:42,099 --> 00:02:44,040 But because it threatens us. 35 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:45,960 It threatens all of us. 36 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:47,800 How about Kyle Bush? 37 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,080 Is that crazy? 38 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:50,700 It's the craziest thing? 39 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,100 41 years old. 40 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:52,360 Boom. 41 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:53,060 Gone. 42 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:53,740 Just like that. 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,020 I've heard that phrase about two people's deaths this week. 44 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,060 Just like that. 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,180 And then our dear Eunice, 46 00:03:03,820 --> 00:03:05,120 I almost called her Esther again. 47 00:03:09,980 --> 00:03:12,080 Because I called her Esther for like the first year. 48 00:03:12,110 --> 00:03:14,980 She went to church here and she never corrected me. 49 00:03:19,140 --> 00:03:21,000 Because I knew it was an e-name from the Bible. 50 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:24,960 But she got to go home. 51 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:27,240 But Arlen told me, 52 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:28,600 just like that. 53 00:03:29,380 --> 00:03:30,300 It's just like that. 54 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:32,240 We're here and we're gone. 55 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:33,440 That quick. 56 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:35,760 Young and old, it doesn't matter. 57 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,180 I do little juniper roses service in two weeks. 58 00:03:41,860 --> 00:03:42,640 Five months old. 59 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,200 And so there's going to be a payment coming. 60 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:52,420 How are you doing? 61 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:53,920 Right? 62 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:54,560 How are you doing? 63 00:03:58,820 --> 00:04:06,920 man i want to hear those words well done good and faithful servant but i fall short terribly terribly short 64 00:04:07,940 --> 00:04:15,400 and i don't know i don't know why he would say that but he's teaching us some things here 65 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:21,139 and i think we probably should pay attention so he starts in verse 15 he says now when one of these 66 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,200 who sat at the table with him. 67 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,740 This is this place he's at, here at this Pharisees' house, 68 00:04:27,940 --> 00:04:29,020 eating bread on the Sabbath. 69 00:04:29,780 --> 00:04:31,260 And these things he said to him, 70 00:04:31,580 --> 00:04:35,780 Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 71 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,120 And then he said to him, 72 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,360 A certain man gave a supper and invited many 73 00:04:40,820 --> 00:04:44,120 and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 74 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,260 come, for all things are now ready. 75 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,320 But they, with one accord, began to make excuses. 76 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:55,660 The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. 77 00:04:58,230 --> 00:04:58,360 I ask you to have me excused. 78 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,140 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen and am going to test them. 79 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,080 Still another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 80 00:05:11,890 --> 00:05:14,120 So that servant came and reported these things to his master, 81 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,440 when the master of the house being angry, said to his servant, 82 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:24,880 go out quickly into the streets and the lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind. 83 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,920 And the servant said, master, it is done as you commanded and still there is room. 84 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:37,200 And then the master said to the servant, go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, 85 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:39,960 that my house may be filled. 86 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:45,840 For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper. 87 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:46,500 Let's pray. 88 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:53,240 Lord, thank you. Thank you for these words that seem to be directed right at some of us. 89 00:05:54,220 --> 00:06:02,860 Lord, just as you reminded us that the cares of this life try to get our attention and take it away from you. 90 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:10,020 And, Lord, I just pray that as we look at this passage, Lord, that we would, if we need to be convicted, that we would do so. 91 00:06:10,140 --> 00:06:12,640 If we need to get our houses in order, we would do so. 92 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:16,680 Because we know that just like that, we can be gone in a moment. 93 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:24,820 And so, Father, we pray that you, by your spirit, would just convict our souls, Lord, take us deeper with you. 94 00:06:24,820 --> 00:06:29,860 You have things and plans and purposes for each person's life in this room. 95 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:37,380 And Lord, I pray that we would have a hunger to desire your will with all that we are in Jesus' name. 96 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:37,980 Amen. 97 00:06:39,220 --> 00:06:43,100 And so Jesus tells a parable here, but it's provoked. 98 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,520 It's brought on by a statement that someone makes. 99 00:06:46,540 --> 00:06:52,540 in verse 15. He says, now one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things and said, 100 00:06:52,660 --> 00:06:59,020 blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. Can you imagine? We get to eat in the kingdom. 101 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:09,560 Yee ha! We may eat and not even have to go potty. Wouldn't that be nice? Right? Just absorbed right into the 102 00:07:09,690 --> 00:07:16,360 old carcass and there's no elimination process. Yehoo! I mean, think about it. 103 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:25,840 never mind i i better not go there it might be coarse jesting and i don't want to be i don't want to be 104 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,000 especially as you get older right depends is as far as i want to go 105 00:07:36,820 --> 00:07:41,060 but he said blessed are those this is going to be a blessing it's going to be a blessing to be a 106 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:46,340 blessing to eat in the kingdom and and to fellowship and the the tree of life that 107 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:51,480 there that talks about the 12 fruits that bear every month, and it's going to be incredible. 108 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,000 There's going to be no downtime. 109 00:07:54,870 --> 00:07:56,880 It wouldn't be cool if plants didn't have a downtime. 110 00:07:58,440 --> 00:07:59,500 Farmers would dig that. 111 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:08,720 But it's like it provoked the Lord's to go and talk about this parable here. 112 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,980 A certain man gave a supper and invited many. 113 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:24,880 There, verse 16. And it's interesting that Matthew's version of this, this, this parable, 114 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:34,800 it's the marriage supper of the lamb. He's preparing a wedding for his son. And he invites 115 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:44,080 these people to this party. It's his boy. And it's a marriage feast. 116 00:08:44,980 --> 00:08:46,420 because you and I are his bride. 117 00:08:51,380 --> 00:08:53,220 And it's about the kingdom. 118 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:56,080 So he tells about this banquet. 119 00:08:57,060 --> 00:09:00,860 And in Matthew chapter 22 verses 2 through 5 it says, 120 00:09:01,220 --> 00:09:03,600 And the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king 121 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,580 who arranged a marriage for his son 122 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,780 and set out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding 123 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,600 that they were, but they were not willing to come. 124 00:09:13,620 --> 00:09:15,600 and again he sent out other servants saying, 125 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:17,020 tell those who are invited. 126 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:18,520 See, I have prepared my dinner, 127 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,820 my oxen, my fatted cattle are killed, 128 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,160 and all things are ready. 129 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:24,760 Come to the wedding. 130 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,000 But they made light of it 131 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:29,500 and went their ways, 132 00:09:29,980 --> 00:09:31,620 one to his own farm 133 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,340 and another to his business. 134 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:37,960 These people got priorities. 135 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,060 You got priorities? 136 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:41,420 What are your priorities? 137 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:42,640 Do you know? 138 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:52,600 because a lot of times this life just we just get caught up in the flow of it and it just seems to be running away with this 139 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,800 I don't know if you ever been on a runaway horse I've been on lots of them 140 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:06,140 lots of them this one run away with me one time his name's butt monkey 141 00:10:09,180 --> 00:10:10,759 seriously that was his name 142 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:18,320 and he grabs the bit and he takes off and I'm just thinking you know I've been cowboying for quite a while 143 00:10:18,420 --> 00:10:23,360 I thought I can ride just as fast as you can run yeah you know and just made him run faster 144 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:32,100 but we were coming to a fence a five-strand bobwire fence I don't know if you've seen 145 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:37,940 what bobwire can do but it it's it's brutal and this horse and I try to turn him and he's 146 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,740 already he set his jaw he's got a hold of that bit 147 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,580 I ain't turned them for all the tea in China. 148 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:45,920 And I didn't know whether to jump, 149 00:10:46,030 --> 00:10:48,300 so I just closed my eyes and I hung on tight. 150 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,140 And I heard the wire stretch and snap. 151 00:10:52,260 --> 00:10:53,680 I heard those wires snap. 152 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,460 He snapped three of the five. 153 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:56,460 Snap them. 154 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:58,180 He was going that fast. 155 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:03,060 And I thought, surely this dude's front legs are cut off. 156 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,540 And finally he got tired and stopped. 157 00:11:06,460 --> 00:11:07,340 And I got off. 158 00:11:07,980 --> 00:11:12,500 and he had five, five little puncture wounds in his chest. 159 00:11:12,580 --> 00:11:14,000 That's all I had, just little puncture wounds. 160 00:11:14,860 --> 00:11:16,360 And I thought, if you would have been a good horse, 161 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:17,880 it would have cut your front legs off. 162 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:21,580 But because you're a dink and you're going to run off with somebody else, 163 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:23,840 you live. 164 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,240 But when they run away with you, 165 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,340 it's like you can do nothing about it. 166 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,420 You just have to take a deep seat and get a far away look in your eye. 167 00:11:37,420 --> 00:11:40,360 right because you're going somewhere maybe over the horizon 168 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:47,820 but the world and the way of the world can 169 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:53,520 catch us up and Jesus spends so much of his ministry talking about this stuff 170 00:11:54,660 --> 00:11:58,940 we don't get it why do we don't get it I I don't get it 171 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,740 because I'm selfish and I'm I'm I'm it's all about me and it's about what I can 172 00:12:05,660 --> 00:12:06,980 get in all these things. 173 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:10,740 And it's very convicting. 174 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:16,560 But if we even had a clue of what we might be forfeiting 175 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:24,660 by ignoring the invitation that God gives to you and me, 176 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,020 it would take our breath away. 177 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,580 It would be, it would be overwhelmed. 178 00:12:35,620 --> 00:12:46,720 The Apostle John was having a conversation with an angel, a messenger of the Lord, and in Revelation 19. 179 00:12:47,540 --> 00:12:48,360 Versus 9 and 10. 180 00:12:48,670 --> 00:12:51,520 This is, because this is the marriage supper. 181 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,080 This is what Jesus is talking about. 182 00:12:54,440 --> 00:13:01,060 This is the banquet that God is putting together for those who would fully give themselves to him. 183 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:04,820 And it says, then he said to me, 184 00:13:05,580 --> 00:13:07,300 this John, right. 185 00:13:08,260 --> 00:13:12,420 Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. 186 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:14,600 You've been called. 187 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:17,680 You've got an invitation. 188 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:20,620 Have you RSVPed? 189 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:23,680 Because you need to. 190 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:28,300 And then you know that you know that you know you're going. 191 00:13:28,620 --> 00:13:29,480 We're going to be there. 192 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:32,220 All else is going to be put behind us. 193 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,820 This is the focus of, of, 194 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,120 our very lives. 195 00:13:38,340 --> 00:13:39,320 And he says, 196 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:42,180 Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of their land. 197 00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:43,340 And he said to me, 198 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,900 these are true sayings of God. 199 00:13:47,580 --> 00:13:48,540 This is a true saying. 200 00:13:49,420 --> 00:13:49,800 In other words, 201 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,080 you can take it to the bank. 202 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:52,400 It's going to happen. 203 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,420 There's going to be a marriage supper. 204 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:55,940 Are you going to be there? 205 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:02,360 And it says, 206 00:14:02,460 --> 00:14:04,100 after he said these are true sayings, 207 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,820 It says, and I fell at his feet to worship him. 208 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:09,900 This is an angel. 209 00:14:10,820 --> 00:14:12,800 So the angel corrects him, but he said to me, 210 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:19,240 see that you do not do that, I am your fellow servant and your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. 211 00:14:19,899 --> 00:14:21,760 Listen, here we go. 212 00:14:21,910 --> 00:14:25,180 This is the jest of the whole thing. 213 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:26,140 Worship God. 214 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:28,100 Worship him. 215 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,500 For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 216 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:34,740 It's all about Jesus. 217 00:14:35,450 --> 00:14:36,460 I know that's elementary, 218 00:14:37,420 --> 00:14:38,600 but it is all about Jesus. 219 00:14:39,780 --> 00:14:41,880 All about Jesus invading our lives, 220 00:14:42,260 --> 00:14:45,720 day in, day out, hour by hour, morning by morning. 221 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,040 It's all about Jesus. 222 00:14:53,020 --> 00:14:54,380 This is a banquet, folks. 223 00:14:55,180 --> 00:14:58,560 This is a party that we do not want to take lightly. 224 00:14:59,220 --> 00:15:01,820 And these people seem to, right? 225 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:04,240 where he says there. 226 00:15:07,660 --> 00:15:12,360 And he sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, come. 227 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,100 For all things are now ready. 228 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,440 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. 229 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:24,760 The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground and I must go and see it. 230 00:15:25,140 --> 00:15:26,900 I ask you to have me excused. 231 00:15:27,340 --> 00:15:28,000 Piece of ground. 232 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:31,880 What an excuse. 233 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:38,260 So I got to back up a second 234 00:15:38,420 --> 00:15:39,960 Because he said this is a great party 235 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:41,320 The word there is mega. 236 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:43,180 It's the mega party. 237 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:45,420 It's the party of all parties, right? 238 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:47,080 Exceedingly great. 239 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,680 And that many have been invited. 240 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:52,580 Anyone who would humble themselves before God, 241 00:15:52,780 --> 00:15:55,000 Jew, Gentile alike, all around the world, 242 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,280 anyone who would, that's who's invited to this. 243 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:01,180 But especially the Jews, 244 00:16:01,260 --> 00:16:02,380 because Jesus tells us that 245 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:04,880 salvation is of the Jews. 246 00:16:06,140 --> 00:16:06,540 And so 247 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,340 there's this invitation to come, 248 00:16:12,460 --> 00:16:13,360 but they don't do it. 249 00:16:16,740 --> 00:16:18,080 They make excuses. 250 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:21,900 He sent out his servant, it said. 251 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:23,280 Singular. 252 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:24,960 It was a bond slave. 253 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,820 And this is used in the New Testament, 254 00:16:29,980 --> 00:16:35,700 mainly of believers who willingly live under Christ's authority as his devoted followers. 255 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:42,640 And here comes the excuses. 256 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:44,020 Ben Franklin said, 257 00:16:44,140 --> 00:16:48,000 somebody that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else. 258 00:16:53,660 --> 00:16:55,480 And the first excuse, right? 259 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:58,180 Please have me excused. 260 00:17:02,020 --> 00:17:18,220 we read it back in Luke chapter 12 when when Jesus said to them be careful and guard against all kinds of greed is life is not measured by or held together by how much one owns 261 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:28,199 and here's this guy buys a piece of ground there's nothing wrong with buying a piece of ground but it appears that the piece of ground bought him right 262 00:17:28,220 --> 00:17:29,440 He's got to go, I got to go see it. 263 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:32,320 Like he didn't look at it before he bought it. 264 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:35,480 We know he probably did, right? 265 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,360 I don't think that's what that's, what's that's alluding to. 266 00:17:39,450 --> 00:17:40,780 I don't think he was that stupid. 267 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,360 I mean, who buys a piece of ground without looking at it? 268 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:54,040 But, but he's, he, he's bought this piece of dirt. 269 00:17:54,340 --> 00:17:57,260 And who doesn't want, I mean, everybody wants a piece of ground, right? 270 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:58,480 if you could have it. 271 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:02,420 God's not making any more of it, like the song says. 272 00:18:03,340 --> 00:18:05,300 So if you're going to get some, you probably should get it. 273 00:18:07,580 --> 00:18:10,820 But to use it as an excuse, a possession, 274 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,460 that is going to go to somebody else. 275 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:15,580 Watch it happen all the time. 276 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,720 Everything you have is going to end up in somebody else's possession. 277 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:27,280 Because that isn't what life. 278 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:36,360 about. Can we enjoy it? Yeah, we can enjoy it. But I think what happens here is he didn't want to go 279 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:46,160 just see it. The truth is he wanted to go rebel in his purchase. He went, look, look what I was able 280 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:52,900 to do and get this piece of property, right? Just gets all prideful about it. I'll puffed up. 281 00:18:53,620 --> 00:18:57,000 Kind of like old Nebuchadnezzar. You remember Nebuchadnezzar, right? Daniel, 282 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:04,480 comes and he tells him, he says, oh, Nebuchadnezzar, I pray that this vision is about your enemies and not about 283 00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:10,420 you. But if it is about you, then you better break off your sins, dude, and you better get right with God. 284 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:18,200 And it seems that he takes it to heart for 12 months. But 12 months, then he just couldn't stand it. 285 00:19:18,460 --> 00:19:23,740 He had to go out on his balcony, look out over the kingdom. And he says, let's see what does he say here? 286 00:19:24,340 --> 00:19:30,660 And the king spoke saying, is not this great Babylon that I have built for a royal dwelling 287 00:19:31,140 --> 00:19:35,480 by my mighty power for the honor of my majesty? 288 00:19:36,820 --> 00:19:40,500 The Bible says while the word was still in his mouth, he became an animal. 289 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:47,080 He became an animal and grazed eight grass for seven years. 290 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:49,420 God humbled him. 291 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,180 Why? Because he wouldn't humble himself. 292 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:56,980 but it was his arrogance. 293 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,340 Look where I got. 294 00:20:04,679 --> 00:20:07,640 I'm so much better than those people down at the homeless shelter. 295 00:20:08,260 --> 00:20:08,760 No, you're not. 296 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,560 That's so prideful and so arrogant. 297 00:20:17,460 --> 00:20:19,180 Maybe you should go spend a few nights there. 298 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:23,780 Maybe we all should. 299 00:20:29,540 --> 00:20:32,900 A stinking, rotten excuse. 300 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:36,640 Well, that's the way most excuses are. 301 00:20:36,740 --> 00:20:37,260 They're like feet. 302 00:20:37,380 --> 00:20:38,620 Everybody has them and they stink. 303 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,520 Then the next guy, right? 304 00:20:46,140 --> 00:20:48,720 His was, it was more business, right? 305 00:20:48,980 --> 00:20:50,400 And another said, verse 19, 306 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,640 I have bought five yoke of oxen, 307 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,600 and I am going to test them. 308 00:20:55,140 --> 00:20:57,040 I ask you to have me excused. 309 00:20:57,740 --> 00:20:59,340 Like he didn't go check him out, I'm sure. 310 00:21:00,860 --> 00:21:01,040 Right? 311 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:05,000 It's a fool who buys a horse and don't look him in the mouth. 312 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:05,960 Right? 313 00:21:06,460 --> 00:21:06,940 You're a fool. 314 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,660 Because the mouth tells a lot, doesn't it? 315 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,800 Your mouth, my mouth, tells a lot. 316 00:21:18,980 --> 00:21:20,320 Because we usually can't keep it shut. 317 00:21:22,580 --> 00:21:23,320 that's why 318 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,660 James' encouragement is to be slow to speak 319 00:21:27,660 --> 00:21:28,640 and yet we don't 320 00:21:29,460 --> 00:21:31,820 but I'm sure this guy saw that 321 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:34,940 that yoke of oxen obviously in this culture 322 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:36,820 that was pretty 323 00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:40,080 prolific farming to have 324 00:21:41,740 --> 00:21:42,480 five sets 325 00:21:43,620 --> 00:21:45,160 that's they can do a lot of work 326 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,640 a lot of work 327 00:21:49,020 --> 00:21:50,300 and and 328 00:21:50,340 --> 00:21:57,340 bless the people that own them no it's it's like this guy no i got to go i got to go i got to go i got to 329 00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:06,340 go i got to go see them and uh and test them i want to see those five yoke of oxen all yoked up 330 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:12,860 all have a implement behind him doing some work on my ground that's what i want to see 331 00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:20,280 is there anything wrong with that i think if it's prideful and arrogant yes 332 00:22:20,380 --> 00:22:21,620 There is something wrong with that. 333 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,860 The issue is the issue of the heart. 334 00:22:29,340 --> 00:22:31,820 Instead of falling on their knees and praising God, 335 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,620 saying, you bet I'm coming to that party, 336 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,060 because I'm a blessed man. 337 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,280 I got five yoke of oxen. 338 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:38,820 I got a piece of dirt. 339 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,240 I was 40 when we bought our first. 340 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:59,700 first property and but I was looking for it long before that right it was a desire of my heart 341 00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:07,960 yesterday I took out some trees in my my back soar and that piece of dirt is a lot of work and 342 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:17,700 I'm thinking that tent is looking better and better all the time right and the price is right 343 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,760 I'd call this compounded arrogance. 344 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,380 The third excuse, still another said, 345 00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:35,500 I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 346 00:23:39,340 --> 00:23:40,960 Now, Paul does talk about this. 347 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:47,680 The two shall become one, and there's times when the Lord might put a call on your 348 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:52,780 life and you can't do it because of your commitment to the marriage, which is important. 349 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,740 It's a very important commitment. 350 00:24:00,460 --> 00:24:05,540 But it should never supersede your relationship with the Lord, ever. 351 00:24:07,220 --> 00:24:07,400 Ever. 352 00:24:08,420 --> 00:24:12,380 There is, every relationship is secondary to Christ, right? 353 00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:16,500 Simply because, listen, Jesus is our life source. 354 00:24:17,260 --> 00:24:22,060 If I don't have Jesus, what life do I have to share with my wife or my kids? 355 00:24:23,020 --> 00:24:23,640 I don't. 356 00:24:23,940 --> 00:24:24,840 I don't have any. 357 00:24:25,220 --> 00:24:27,200 I have to be plugged into the source. 358 00:24:30,620 --> 00:24:34,540 Because he is the way, the truth, and the life. 359 00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:44,680 So if you want your wife or your husband or your children to have any true life in them, 360 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,580 then you got to be getting filled up. 361 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:50,940 Because, I don't about you, 362 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,560 have you noticed you run dry sometimes? 363 00:24:53,770 --> 00:24:54,680 You just run dry. 364 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:00,160 And think, well, I ain't got no more to give. 365 00:25:00,860 --> 00:25:02,580 Well, of you, that's good. 366 00:25:03,380 --> 00:25:04,740 Because you needs to go away, 367 00:25:04,860 --> 00:25:08,580 and Jesus needs to step up and be all that you are. 368 00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:12,520 Be your source of love and compassion and help 369 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,480 and all those things that we need in relationship. 370 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:19,680 but how dare us ever put a relationship above the Lord? 371 00:25:20,420 --> 00:25:22,900 I see mammas struggle with this, with their babies. 372 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,480 They struggle with it. 373 00:25:25,460 --> 00:25:27,660 Because, I mean, they pour their life into that little one, 374 00:25:29,660 --> 00:25:30,940 just to have them grow up and leave you. 375 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:44,340 So keeping everything in proper perspective is so important. 376 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:56,280 And the only way to keep your cup full is to walk with your God and to be having him direct your path. 377 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:02,580 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, acknowledge him in all your ways. 378 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,200 He truly will direct your paths. 379 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:14,340 So verse 21 says, so that servant came and reported these things, these excuses that people were making. 380 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,320 He reported this to his master. 381 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:21,340 Then the master of the house being angry, said to his servant, 382 00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:25,520 go out quickly into the streets, the lanes of the city, 383 00:26:25,740 --> 00:26:29,700 and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind. 384 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:32,600 Go tell them all. 385 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:33,800 Come on. 386 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:34,760 There's room. 387 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,440 Come and dine at the master's table. 388 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:39,520 Come and dine. 389 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:40,580 Who remembers that song? 390 00:26:41,380 --> 00:26:41,520 Right? 391 00:26:42,580 --> 00:26:44,120 Come and dine at the master's table. 392 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:45,240 Come and dine. 393 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:50,580 And your cup will be full. 394 00:26:52,820 --> 00:26:57,180 It appears here, God doesn't take too kindly, because he is the, he's the master. 395 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:00,280 He doesn't take too kindly to these excuses. 396 00:27:01,380 --> 00:27:01,920 He's angry. 397 00:27:03,860 --> 00:27:06,600 And so it provokes him to call the poor. 398 00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:08,860 The word for poor there is worthless. 399 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:10,820 You know any worthless people? 400 00:27:14,540 --> 00:27:21,260 call them the worthless maimed and crippled lame 401 00:27:25,010 --> 00:27:30,620 lame meaning halted from doing what they normally can blind they can't see 402 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:36,179 and isn't it interesting when people come to Jesus 403 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:38,840 the poor 404 00:27:43,140 --> 00:27:47,260 understand that they have worth with the Lord. 405 00:27:47,740 --> 00:27:49,400 The maimed become whole. 406 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,220 The lame are sound, and the blind can see. 407 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:56,300 That's what he came to do. 408 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,240 That's what Jesus came to do. 409 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,580 To give us worth, to make us sound, 410 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,080 that he can make us whole, 411 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:06,160 and he can give us those spiritualized, 412 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:07,120 that we need to see. 413 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,020 Verse 22, it says, 414 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:10,900 and the servant said, 415 00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:13,380 Master, I have done as you commanded, 416 00:28:13,660 --> 00:28:14,760 and still there's room. 417 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,500 God has room for everyone. 418 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:19,700 Everyone. 419 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,040 Everyone, the whole world. 420 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,400 Jesus' sacrifice, it says, 421 00:28:24,660 --> 00:28:25,740 not just for you and I, 422 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,540 did he lay down his life, 423 00:28:27,820 --> 00:28:30,720 but for the sins of the whole world. 424 00:28:30,860 --> 00:28:31,500 It says that. 425 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:33,140 What is there? 426 00:28:33,260 --> 00:28:33,640 8 billion. 427 00:28:33,740 --> 00:28:35,740 I think that we've surpassed 8 billion. 428 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,480 My statistician. 429 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:47,180 Right. 430 00:28:48,180 --> 00:28:49,480 That is a lot of people. 431 00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:51,540 And we hear all this, 432 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:53,940 you know, 433 00:28:56,180 --> 00:28:58,580 these people saying you've got to have population control. 434 00:29:00,899 --> 00:29:02,440 And that's just crazy 435 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,820 because I don't see anywhere in scripture where God 436 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,620 it says, okay, stop being fruitful and multiplying. 437 00:29:08,420 --> 00:29:09,960 No, just keep them coming. 438 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:13,060 I like it. 439 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,580 I like my kids, you know, prolificating. 440 00:29:21,740 --> 00:29:23,540 So, but we just have to come. 441 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:25,180 You're invited. 442 00:29:25,980 --> 00:29:26,240 Come. 443 00:29:27,060 --> 00:29:28,460 Whosoever will let them come. 444 00:29:28,540 --> 00:29:31,700 That's what it says in Revelation chapter 22, verse 17. 445 00:29:31,820 --> 00:29:33,280 The Spirit and the bride say, come. 446 00:29:33,820 --> 00:29:35,620 And let him who hears say come. 447 00:29:36,060 --> 00:29:37,560 And let him who thirst come. 448 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,480 Whoever desires, let them take of the water of life freely. 449 00:29:42,340 --> 00:29:42,800 You come. 450 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:45,560 Everyone's invited. 451 00:29:48,340 --> 00:29:50,760 But for crying out loud, don't make excuses. 452 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,400 Well, I can't. 453 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,400 No, you won't. 454 00:29:56,020 --> 00:29:57,720 There's a big difference between cat and won't. 455 00:29:58,580 --> 00:29:58,720 Right? 456 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:00,300 You won't. 457 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,480 God never runs out of room. 458 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,980 The invitation is there in Isaiah chapter 1, verse 18. 459 00:30:09,990 --> 00:30:13,620 It says, now come, let us reason together, says the Lord, 460 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,840 though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow. 461 00:30:17,260 --> 00:30:20,040 There are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 462 00:30:20,460 --> 00:30:23,520 If you're a willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land. 463 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:28,560 But if you refuse and make excuses, that doesn't say that. 464 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:35,380 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword, 465 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,660 for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. 466 00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:49,540 Verse 23, it says, 467 00:30:49,660 --> 00:30:51,280 Then the master said to the servant, 468 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:53,480 go out into the highways and the hedges, 469 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,600 and compel them to come in, 470 00:30:57,140 --> 00:30:58,360 that my house may be full. 471 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,640 filled. 472 00:31:02,340 --> 00:31:03,000 Compel them. 473 00:31:04,620 --> 00:31:07,440 In the parable of the great banquet, the master commands, 474 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,400 go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in so that my house will be full. 475 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:19,020 The verb portrays zealous persuasion, not coercion, that violates conscience. 476 00:31:19,180 --> 00:31:26,360 The picture is of earnest, loving insistence grounded in the host's generosity. 477 00:31:30,580 --> 00:31:35,660 is our lives as believers provocative to the world? 478 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,120 Is our lives as believers provocative to the world? 479 00:31:40,620 --> 00:31:41,320 Because it should be. 480 00:31:42,460 --> 00:31:44,640 People should look at your life in Jesus and go, 481 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:46,500 how do I get some of that? 482 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:48,020 Right? 483 00:31:48,430 --> 00:31:49,140 I want some of that. 484 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:50,400 You remember? 485 00:31:51,010 --> 00:31:52,300 I remember seeing Christians. 486 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,140 They're just, this one guy I was thinking today, 487 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,380 You know, people that have impacted my life over the years. 488 00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:03,920 He's a rodeo cowboy, great guy, and had a couple of different conversations with him over the years. 489 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,400 And I just looked back and I'm just thinking, what he had, I wanted. 490 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:10,760 Right? 491 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:11,760 I wanted that. 492 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:13,380 He provoked me. 493 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:16,740 Paul talks about that provocation. 494 00:32:18,860 --> 00:32:19,780 And it's the love of God. 495 00:32:20,020 --> 00:32:23,280 It's that cup when it's full of the love of God. 496 00:32:26,140 --> 00:32:32,540 and it is it's grounded in generosity grace and mercy incredible stuff 497 00:32:37,980 --> 00:32:43,320 and god's just waiting he's willing that none should perish that we would all come 498 00:32:44,540 --> 00:32:50,220 second peter three nine for the lord is not slack concerning his promises as some count slackness 499 00:32:50,540 --> 00:32:54,200 but is long suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, 500 00:32:54,540 --> 00:32:56,240 but that all should come to repentance. 501 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,560 And I'm learning this repentance thing. 502 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:01,400 It's a lifestyle. 503 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:03,480 It's like a daily thing. 504 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:04,700 Oh, God, forgive me. 505 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:08,260 That thought was terrible. 506 00:33:08,860 --> 00:33:09,880 How could I think that way? 507 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:10,780 And yet we do. 508 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:11,900 Right? 509 00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:14,940 Have murder in our hearts, lust. 510 00:33:16,540 --> 00:33:17,060 You name it. 511 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,200 All the gamut of, of, 512 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,440 Things that go on in our life that aren't right. 513 00:33:23,220 --> 00:33:24,040 Road rage. 514 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:25,200 Right? 515 00:33:31,580 --> 00:33:35,780 And verse 24, we'll start wrapping this up. 516 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:41,440 For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper. 517 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,880 I don't know about you, but that strikes fear in my heart. 518 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:47,640 Right? 519 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:49,040 Because I know I've been invited. 520 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,100 I've tasted and seen how good my God is. 521 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:59,100 And I've asked him, and I ask him this morning even, 522 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,560 oh Lord, you got to help me. 523 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:02,700 Lord, I need your help. 524 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,760 I need your help to breathe and to walk and to function, 525 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,139 not even talking about doing stuff here at the church and at the building. 526 00:34:12,379 --> 00:34:16,899 And I just need these help to not get in trouble. 527 00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:20,480 I'm always just this far away. 528 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:26,600 I remember my dad told me that, you know, after he turned 80, he said, son, my whole life, 529 00:34:26,659 --> 00:34:27,800 I've been right on the edge. 530 00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:31,220 And I'm just like, I got that to look forward to you. 531 00:34:33,379 --> 00:34:34,280 Yeah, right on the edge. 532 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,120 Right on the edge. 533 00:34:38,460 --> 00:34:41,659 So if you get a chance, take it. 534 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,740 If the Lord knocks on your heart, that's why the Bible says that today is now is the 535 00:34:48,780 --> 00:34:54,800 accepted time. Today is the day of salvation. It's because people make excuses and they put it off and 536 00:34:54,810 --> 00:34:59,520 they put it off. How many times will God let you put it off? I don't know the answer to that question. 537 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:08,480 I had put it off several times. But when you think about the guys that went into the 538 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,360 promised land, they got one shot at it, one shot. And they changed their mind and said, oh no, we want to 539 00:35:13,380 --> 00:35:17,680 go back. We want to go into the promise land. God goes, no, sorry. You're too late. 540 00:35:19,340 --> 00:35:32,400 you're too late you can't come now you can't go now that is a very healthy fear to think you would 541 00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:38,240 miss that it is a very healthy it's a good fear hopefully it drives you to the foot of the cross 542 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:47,140 but if you get a chance take it I'm telling you to come that's what this servant was telling 543 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:55,240 these people. You come. There's a lot of room. Because you don't know when that last call's going to be. 544 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:10,500 You don't. Just like that. It was just like that. I heard that from Arlen and I heard that from the article that I read about Kyle Bush. 545 00:36:10,780 --> 00:36:17,120 Just like that. Gone. And then 546 00:36:17,140 --> 00:36:22,500 They know at that moment, they know whether they're going to be at that banqueting table or not. 547 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:30,680 So what's your excuse? 548 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:31,560 Oh, wait. 549 00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:33,100 You don't have any. 550 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:35,200 Right? 551 00:36:35,740 --> 00:36:36,900 You don't have any excuse. 552 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,980 The scripture tells us that, right? 553 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:43,540 Romans, Chapter 1. 554 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,100 You have no excuse simply by going out. 555 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:52,320 outside and looking at creation. The Bible says they are without excuse, not zip, not one, 556 00:36:52,740 --> 00:36:56,880 no excuse whatsoever. I don't care what you've been through in this life. You have no excuse. 557 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:03,480 And the second one is in Ecclesiastes 311. He's put eternity in your hearts and you know better. 558 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:09,720 You know better. You know that this is the end. This life isn't the end. You and I know that. 559 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,420 Instinct intuitively, in our spirit, in our very soul, we know this isn't it. 560 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,740 And so I know that I am the maimed and the lame and the poor and the blind. 561 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,140 And I don't ever want to lose sight of that because I want to go in no matter what. 562 00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:35,580 How about you? 563 00:37:36,260 --> 00:37:36,580 Let's pray. 564 00:37:37,740 --> 00:37:43,120 Father, thank you for an incredible life that you've given us, Lord. 565 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,440 You've blessed us so far beyond. 566 00:37:45,460 --> 00:37:53,060 anything we ever could have imagined simply by giving us breath. 567 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:59,040 And Lord, you give us each other and you give us life and we have, in freedom here, 568 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,340 till now anyway, in America. 569 00:38:03,130 --> 00:38:04,840 And we know these things may change. 570 00:38:05,420 --> 00:38:08,500 We know that life may end as we know it. 571 00:38:10,060 --> 00:38:13,260 And we know that maybe our lives might end. 572 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:18,260 And Lord, I just pray that we're all prepared for that day. 573 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:26,340 Lord, that we would be ready to join those who have gone before us in a moment, 574 00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:27,820 in the twinkling of an eye. 575 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,160 People leave this world. 576 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,640 And so, Lord, I just pray that as your people, we would be on the ready, 577 00:38:37,540 --> 00:38:44,300 on the ready to see you face to face, but also on the ready to speak and to invite people to come to you. 578 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:55,220 you, Lord, that they would know that there is this incredible life beyond this life, that in reality 579 00:38:55,300 --> 00:39:01,120 there's no comparison, no comparison at all. So, Lord Jesus, we just, we love you this week. 580 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:08,020 Pray that you would minister to our hearts, take us deeper, convict us, Lord, where if we need 581 00:39:08,060 --> 00:39:12,440 to get our house in order and put some things behind us, Lord, I pray that you would help us do that, 582 00:39:12,540 --> 00:39:17,380 Lord, if we need to mend some fences and some relationships, I pray that you'd help us to do that. 583 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:24,020 Lord, help us to not put anything in front of you because we know that you truly are our life 584 00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:29,820 source. We pray in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Hey, you need a touch from the Lord. The prayer team's 585 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:33,280 going to be up here. We're going to do this last song. I'm just going to have you sit tight. 586 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,740 I want you to listen to this song, right? You don't have to sit. You can stand. 587 00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:42,460 But because we're going to be a little country fight on this one.