1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:00,880 Thank you. 2 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:02,240 Thank you for uh 3 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:02,960 coming 4 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:03,440 and 5 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:04,960 and filling a pew 6 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,000 and uh 7 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:08,080 there's so many thank yous 8 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,800 I could take a whole service and thank people 9 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:11,600 for uh 10 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,360 for this place that we've got a place to keep the rain off 11 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:16,320 and hopefully 12 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,160 if we ever get our HVAC 13 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:18,960 system uh 14 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:19,840 figured out 15 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,480 we'll have heat. 16 00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:25,500 But 17 00:00:25,660 --> 00:00:25,820 um 18 00:00:25,980 --> 00:00:27,260 just know this is uh 19 00:00:27,420 --> 00:00:27,740 this is 20 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:31,900 election coming up really fast on us, so vote no on prop 21 00:00:32,140 --> 00:00:33,020 one. 22 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:33,320 And 23 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:33,800 uh 24 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,920 vote for people who are as close to uh 25 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,640 a biblical worldview as possible. 26 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,280 And I know sometimes that's a long ways away, but 27 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:42,839 but 28 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:43,320 uh 29 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:44,600 We can 30 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,000 we'll do what we can, right? 31 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:47,239 And 32 00:00:47,399 --> 00:00:47,720 uh 33 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,000 and let the Lord do what he's gonna do. 34 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:51,079 So 35 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,120 I apologize. 36 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:54,800 Uh you know, a lot of people think we 37 00:00:55,039 --> 00:00:58,640 we got the doors open, we got in, everything's up and functioning. 38 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,440 No, we're we're uh flapping in the wind. 39 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:01,680 So 40 00:01:01,839 --> 00:01:04,320 there's gonna be a lot of changes in the next uh 41 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:04,880 um 42 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,360 month or two trying to get um 43 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:08,640 things going here at 44 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:09,280 at the 45 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:10,720 at the new building 46 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:11,200 and 47 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:11,680 um 48 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:12,880 it's I 49 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:13,840 I'm still 50 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,440 I'm just chasing my tail. 51 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:16,960 My circle's really small now. 52 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:19,360 I just come to the building and chase my tail. 53 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:24,200 Used to be I'd chase it over to the elks and then over to the office and then back here and it was a big circle. 54 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,360 Now my circle's a lot littler, so I don't know if I'll get anything done or not, but 55 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,320 but um 56 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,280 We're gonna get there, Lord willing, and the creek don't rise. 57 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,240 Or the trumpet don't sound, however that that goes. 58 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,960 But if you have a Bible, we're gonna be in the Gospel of Luke today. 59 00:01:41,140 --> 00:01:43,540 I don't even know how long we've been in the Gospel of Luke. 60 00:01:43,540 --> 00:01:45,140 It's been some time, but uh 61 00:01:45,380 --> 00:01:46,900 it sure is uh good 62 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:48,100 stuff. 63 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:48,820 And um 64 00:01:49,060 --> 00:01:50,340 last time we saw 65 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:50,740 where 66 00:01:51,060 --> 00:01:51,380 um 67 00:01:54,140 --> 00:01:54,460 This 68 00:01:55,180 --> 00:01:57,180 massive, incomprehensible 69 00:01:57,500 --> 00:01:58,060 God, 70 00:01:59,020 --> 00:01:59,180 they 71 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:01,899 had the audacity to ask him where he got his 72 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:03,259 authority. 73 00:02:03,580 --> 00:02:05,900 And uh he's the one that gave them the 74 00:02:06,060 --> 00:02:08,619 ability to even ask that question. 75 00:02:08,619 --> 00:02:11,420 But because he was veiled in flesh, uh 76 00:02:11,580 --> 00:02:14,380 they cannot see who he really is. 77 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:15,120 Right? 78 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:15,280 Um 79 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:15,600 they 80 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:16,400 just didn't 81 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:17,760 they didn't get it. 82 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,240 So many people today they don't get it. 83 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,240 They don't get that they have a need. 84 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,360 They don't get that they've sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 85 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:26,560 They don't get it 86 00:02:26,980 --> 00:02:27,700 And um 87 00:02:28,020 --> 00:02:33,140 but boy when you get it it is the it's the lights getting turned on, amen. 88 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:36,180 And uh as you look at yourself and you look at the world 89 00:02:36,340 --> 00:02:36,580 and 90 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:37,240 And 91 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:37,720 uh 92 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,640 as I'm getting a little older, I'm 93 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:39,960 I'm 94 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,520 I'm becoming a little more uh soft 95 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,680 on on the lost in the world 96 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:46,040 where I used to just think, 97 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:47,080 Lord, kill them 98 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:47,720 all 99 00:02:48,299 --> 00:02:49,099 And I know you'll 100 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:50,939 sort them out, but uh 101 00:02:51,579 --> 00:02:52,140 but that 102 00:02:52,299 --> 00:02:53,180 that attitude 103 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:56,220 is not good and it's not Christ-like, and so 104 00:02:57,239 --> 00:02:57,480 So 105 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,440 he's really uh starting to soften me up. 106 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,400 Paul mentions something about a getting older that there's a corruption that comes with that that 107 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,280 And I think it's what it is, it's an awareness. 108 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,159 As you get older, you realize how 109 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,200 wretched you are. 110 00:03:16,660 --> 00:03:20,740 It just kind of starts, as you get older, it just starts sinking in. 111 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:23,380 And that's a good thing 112 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:24,020 because 113 00:03:24,980 --> 00:03:28,340 that makes the good news that much gooder. 114 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,080 But 115 00:03:32,959 --> 00:03:34,319 but the Lord really is. 116 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:42,400 who 117 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,800 has measured the waters in the hollow of his 118 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:55,680 hand, measured the heaven with a span, and calculated the dust of the earth in measure, weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance 119 00:03:55,860 --> 00:04:00,099 Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or has, or 120 00:04:00,260 --> 00:04:00,739 as his 121 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:01,379 counselor 122 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:02,500 taught him? 123 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:05,060 With whom did he take counsel? 124 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:08,820 And who instructed him and taught him in the path of justice? 125 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:13,460 Who taught him knowledge and showed him the way of understanding? 126 00:04:13,460 --> 00:04:14,900 Behold, the nation 127 00:04:15,140 --> 00:04:16,100 Get this one. 128 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:24,020 The nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales. 129 00:04:24,020 --> 00:04:25,940 Look, he lifts up the aisles 130 00:04:26,259 --> 00:04:27,460 as a very little 131 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:29,860 thing. 132 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,720 And this is who he is. 133 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:35,960 Who is his counselor? 134 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,480 You talk to those people. 135 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:38,600 Oh, when I get 136 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,040 when I get to heaven, I've got some questions for God 137 00:04:45,780 --> 00:04:49,699 Really? 138 00:04:49,699 --> 00:04:51,940 I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind. 139 00:04:51,940 --> 00:04:52,020 You 140 00:04:52,340 --> 00:04:52,580 you you 141 00:04:53,139 --> 00:04:53,780 right? 142 00:04:59,220 --> 00:05:02,820 Well, he might just take that piece 143 00:05:03,140 --> 00:05:04,820 of mind. 144 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:05,400 So 145 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,080 here's Jesus, and there 146 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,440 they've questioned his 147 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,120 authority. 148 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:10,440 And 149 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,640 he says, I'm not going to tell you, because you 150 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,080 can't answer my question, so I ain't answering yours. 151 00:05:18,140 --> 00:05:19,740 And he starts in verse 9. 152 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:20,780 Read with me if you would. 153 00:05:20,780 --> 00:05:22,220 We'll read down through verse 19. 154 00:05:22,220 --> 00:05:26,140 It says, Then he began to tell the people this parable. 155 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:33,600 A certain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vine dressers, and went into a far country for a long time. 156 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:33,760 Now 157 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:34,960 at vintage time 158 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:40,960 he sent a servant to the vine dressers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. 159 00:05:41,020 --> 00:05:41,580 But the 160 00:05:41,740 --> 00:05:42,300 wine 161 00:05:42,860 --> 00:05:43,180 vine 162 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:45,420 dressers, excuse me, beat him 163 00:05:45,580 --> 00:05:47,500 and sent him away empty-handed. 164 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:49,580 Again he sent another servant. 165 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:54,960 And they beat him also, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 166 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:55,680 And again 167 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:57,760 he sent a third. 168 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,320 And they wounded him also 169 00:05:59,479 --> 00:06:00,840 and cast him out. 170 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,639 And then the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? 171 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:05,080 I will send my beloved 172 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:05,880 son. 173 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,720 Probably they will respect him 174 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,080 when they see him 175 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,960 But when the vine dressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 176 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:15,640 This is the heir. 177 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,800 Come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. 178 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,800 And so they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. 179 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,600 Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 180 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,440 He will come and destroy those vine dressers, and give the vineyard to others. 181 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:33,760 And 182 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,120 when they heard it 183 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:35,760 they said, 184 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,120 Certainly not 185 00:06:37,460 --> 00:06:40,259 Then he looked at them and said, What then 186 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:41,139 is this 187 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:42,659 that is written? 188 00:06:42,659 --> 00:06:44,900 The stone which the builders rejected 189 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:47,620 has become the chief cornerstone. 190 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:53,960 Whoever falls on the stone will be broken, but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder. 191 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:54,680 And the chief 192 00:06:55,139 --> 00:06:56,340 Priests and scribes 193 00:06:56,580 --> 00:06:57,460 that very hour 194 00:06:57,620 --> 00:07:04,979 sought to lay hands on him, but they feared the people, for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. 195 00:07:04,979 --> 00:07:05,940 Shall we pray? 196 00:07:05,940 --> 00:07:07,540 Lord, thank you. 197 00:07:07,060 --> 00:07:07,699 Thank you for your 198 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:08,500 word, Lord. 199 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:08,820 I just 200 00:07:09,220 --> 00:07:10,419 love the way that you 201 00:07:11,220 --> 00:07:17,699 just lay things out, Lord, in black and white, things that are just as clear as can be, Lord, that 202 00:07:18,419 --> 00:07:20,500 we all have a choice to make 203 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:28,440 Lord, we can come to you, we can humble ourselves, we can bow our knee, we can live an abundant life, Lord, in the here and now 204 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,440 and in the hereafter. 205 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:30,840 But 206 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:31,720 then we 207 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,480 also have that choice to resist you and to keep you at arm's length 208 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,680 and to think that you don't know what's going on in our heart and in our lives and yet 209 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,240 you know every detail of each one of our lives. 210 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:44,520 And so today, Lord, as 211 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:45,560 as we look at this 212 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,320 and we look at you, 213 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:48,200 the 214 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:53,080 creator of the universe and all that is in it, Lord, including us, Lord. 215 00:07:52,639 --> 00:07:54,479 Would you speak to our hearts, Lord? 216 00:07:54,479 --> 00:07:56,160 Would you take us to a place of 217 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,080 fellowship with you, Lord, and 218 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,880 just uh coin a neo with your Holy Spirit 219 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,280 that bears witness with our our spirit that we are truly children of God 220 00:08:05,260 --> 00:08:06,460 And so, Lord, we uh 221 00:08:06,620 --> 00:08:08,380 we just praise you for who you are 222 00:08:08,540 --> 00:08:11,740 and thank you for shooting straight with us in Jesus' name. 223 00:08:11,740 --> 00:08:12,860 Amen. 224 00:08:13,180 --> 00:08:13,820 And so 225 00:08:14,220 --> 00:08:14,540 uh 226 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:17,500 This man plants a vineyard. 227 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:17,980 Uh 228 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:19,180 there's some 229 00:08:19,340 --> 00:08:19,980 obviously 230 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:24,860 some pictures here in this thing, but he plants a vineyard, leases it to tenant farmers 231 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:30,060 or some would call them sharecroppers, and goes away for a long time. 232 00:08:29,699 --> 00:08:30,419 And um 233 00:08:32,180 --> 00:08:32,899 it um 234 00:08:33,860 --> 00:08:33,940 it 235 00:08:34,180 --> 00:08:35,060 's been 236 00:08:35,380 --> 00:08:36,580 quite some time now 237 00:08:36,740 --> 00:08:37,940 and vintage comes 238 00:08:38,099 --> 00:08:41,219 and he sends for uh some fruit 239 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:41,819 and 240 00:08:42,380 --> 00:08:46,380 periodically sends servant after servant. 241 00:08:47,339 --> 00:08:48,540 Wouldn't the landowner 242 00:08:48,699 --> 00:08:50,139 have a right to do that 243 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,400 You'd think, well, right, he owns the place. 244 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:55,040 Uh 245 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:55,920 and so 246 00:08:59,019 --> 00:09:03,019 They had forgotten the person they were leasing from. 247 00:09:03,019 --> 00:09:03,660 And uh 248 00:09:03,980 --> 00:09:04,300 they 249 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:08,220 somehow thought that, oh no, this is mine. 250 00:09:08,220 --> 00:09:08,540 And 251 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:09,019 um 252 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:18,759 But they forgot that because the man owned the land, there was a certain amount of obedience that he could demand. 253 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:19,000 Or 254 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,079 take a hike. 255 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:22,820 This 256 00:09:22,980 --> 00:09:25,700 these food trucks out here have been quite the uh 257 00:09:25,940 --> 00:09:27,300 quite the deal 258 00:09:27,620 --> 00:09:28,980 for us. 259 00:09:28,980 --> 00:09:29,220 Uh 260 00:09:29,459 --> 00:09:29,620 because 261 00:09:29,779 --> 00:09:32,019 we share the parking lot with the food trucks. 262 00:09:32,019 --> 00:09:33,700 But when we have church 263 00:09:34,020 --> 00:09:34,180 they 264 00:09:34,580 --> 00:09:35,140 they uh 265 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:35,460 they 266 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:37,940 have to yield to us. 267 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:38,180 And 268 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:38,660 um 269 00:09:39,060 --> 00:09:39,300 and 270 00:09:39,540 --> 00:09:39,860 but I 271 00:09:40,020 --> 00:09:41,060 I asked our our 272 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:41,540 our 273 00:09:41,860 --> 00:09:43,700 landowner, I said, hey, well 274 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:45,860 do we have any recourse? 275 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,920 If they won't leave, if we ask them to move on a Sunday when we need parking spots 276 00:09:50,079 --> 00:09:52,480 and they don't leave, do we have any recourse at all? 277 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:53,600 He goes, yeah, tell me and 278 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:55,279 I'll tell them to leave. 279 00:09:55,460 --> 00:09:56,500 Right? 280 00:09:56,500 --> 00:09:56,820 So 281 00:09:57,060 --> 00:09:58,820 so there's a guy with authority. 282 00:09:58,820 --> 00:09:59,140 Right? 283 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:00,740 He has authority to do that. 284 00:10:00,740 --> 00:10:01,700 This landowner 285 00:10:01,940 --> 00:10:03,060 had the authority. 286 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:03,700 It says 287 00:10:03,860 --> 00:10:09,220 there, right, that he planted the vineyard, and at vintage time. 288 00:10:10,380 --> 00:10:10,699 He 289 00:10:11,660 --> 00:10:11,980 sent 290 00:10:12,220 --> 00:10:12,380 his 291 00:10:12,620 --> 00:10:16,220 sermon to get some of the fruit that was rightfully his 292 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,040 And my grandpa was a sharecropper 293 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,520 and uh the guy owned 80 acres. 294 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,800 My grandpa didn't, but the guy did, but my grandpa lived on it for 50 years and he farmed that ground 295 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:27,660 But 296 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:30,140 he had to give a portion to the 297 00:10:30,540 --> 00:10:31,260 landowner. 298 00:10:31,260 --> 00:10:33,100 That was the deal. 299 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:34,460 And for him 300 00:10:34,780 --> 00:10:35,100 to 301 00:10:35,900 --> 00:10:39,420 do his own thing and treat the ground like his own, 302 00:10:40,060 --> 00:10:41,900 he had to clear that. 303 00:10:41,740 --> 00:10:43,260 He wasn't free to do that. 304 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:48,220 And these guys thought they were just free to do whatever. 305 00:10:48,220 --> 00:10:49,820 And so, first it says 306 00:10:49,980 --> 00:10:51,580 he plants a vineyard. 307 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:53,580 God planted the earth 308 00:10:53,339 --> 00:10:53,740 This pic 309 00:10:53,980 --> 00:10:58,459 this man in this in this parable is really a picture of the Lord. 310 00:10:58,459 --> 00:10:59,100 And um 311 00:10:59,420 --> 00:11:01,579 and he he planted the earth 312 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:03,180 And then 313 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:06,060 he planted this nation of Israel 314 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:08,140 who is divine. 315 00:11:08,140 --> 00:11:11,580 He planted this nation of Israel in the earth 316 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,960 As a witness for him. 317 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,720 Isaiah tells us that Israel is going to be the light of the world 318 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:18,440 , 319 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:19,240 or a 320 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:20,840 light to the world. 321 00:11:24,459 --> 00:11:27,180 They're not getting it. 322 00:11:27,180 --> 00:11:27,899 That's 323 00:11:28,139 --> 00:11:29,180 where we don't get it 324 00:11:29,339 --> 00:11:29,980 is people. 325 00:11:29,980 --> 00:11:32,220 We believe that our life is our own. 326 00:11:32,220 --> 00:11:35,420 The scripture tells us your life is not your own. 327 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,080 We believe our life is our own. 328 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,840 It's not. 329 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:40,640 It's not. 330 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,240 I did three funerals last week. 331 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:44,640 All three of those people, not one of them was their life 332 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:45,600 their own. 333 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,160 Not one of them. 334 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:49,560 Now 335 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:50,120 one 336 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,760 was uh a subject to maybe taking 337 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,120 his own life 338 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:55,360 But we know that's uh 339 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,360 against the will of the Lord. 340 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,920 But notice the Lord, he planted the earth, he put it in place 341 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:02,560 Right? 342 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:03,120 Isaiah 343 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:04,080 tells us in 344 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:13,520 chapter 42, verse 5, it says, Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth 345 00:12:13,339 --> 00:12:21,100 and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, the spirit to those who walk on it. 346 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:22,880 Now 347 00:12:23,199 --> 00:12:23,519 I 348 00:12:23,839 --> 00:12:24,160 think 349 00:12:24,319 --> 00:12:30,160 that that guy is probably the boss. 350 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:31,680 Don't you think? 351 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:34,080 Now 352 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:39,280 last I looked, if you work for somebody, you're subject to that boss 353 00:12:40,779 --> 00:12:41,580 Years ago 354 00:12:41,740 --> 00:12:43,500 I went and helped a uh uh 355 00:12:43,899 --> 00:12:44,060 uh 356 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:48,860 a ranch move some cows and I was kind of friends with some of the family that owned the ranch. 357 00:12:48,860 --> 00:12:53,740 So we was moving cows and they had this hired man that was just a kid, he was like 19 358 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,400 And we were moving these cows and 359 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:57,280 and um 360 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:57,840 he 361 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:58,160 his 362 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:04,960 boss told him, I heard him tell him, his boss said, he says, hey, you stay back here with the drag and make sure these baby calves don't go back 363 00:13:04,860 --> 00:13:07,020 Because on the drag on a cow herd can be 364 00:13:07,340 --> 00:13:09,820 can be problematic, especially when calves are really young. 365 00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:10,220 They just 366 00:13:10,380 --> 00:13:12,780 they think they've lost their mom because they can't find them 367 00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:14,780 and they go back. 368 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,840 And it's a pain sometimes. 369 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,720 Well, this kid, he doesn't stay on the drag at all. 370 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:21,800 He rides to the lead. 371 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:22,040 And 372 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:22,520 um 373 00:13:22,959 --> 00:13:24,560 Goes up there and stays with the lead. 374 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:25,839 The whole time we get to this gate, 375 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,560 we're kicking these cows through, and the boss comes up to me. 376 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:33,040 He says, hey, I told you to stay back. 377 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,320 With the drag. 378 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,720 And this kid looks at him and he goes, just 379 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,800 because you're my boss don't mean you can tell me what to do. 380 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:42,959 I about 381 00:13:43,199 --> 00:13:44,319 fell off my horse 382 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:45,519 laughing. 383 00:13:45,519 --> 00:13:46,160 And this big 384 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,800 he's a big old rancher guy and he went to grab that kid. 385 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:49,440 He was gonna give him 386 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:50,319 show him some what 387 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:50,959 for. 388 00:13:50,959 --> 00:13:54,160 And uh the kid quit and turned around and and rode off. 389 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:54,480 But 390 00:13:54,740 --> 00:13:55,220 Just because 391 00:13:55,460 --> 00:13:59,460 you're my boss don't mean you can tell me what to do. 392 00:13:59,460 --> 00:14:03,860 That's how some people treat the Lord. 393 00:14:03,860 --> 00:14:04,180 And 394 00:14:04,340 --> 00:14:04,660 um 395 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,959 But he's big, Isaiah 45, 18. 396 00:14:08,959 --> 00:14:13,120 It says, For thus says the Lord who created the heavens, who 397 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,279 is God, who formed the earth and made it, who established it. 398 00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:18,620 who did not create it in vain, who 399 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:20,780 formed it to be inhabited. 400 00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:23,020 Why is the earth inhabitable? 401 00:14:23,020 --> 00:14:26,220 Because God created it to be inhabitable. 402 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:31,920 Scientists, this fascinates them, we're this little tiny speck on a speck in the Milky 403 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,040 Way galaxy 404 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:33,440 and 405 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:34,080 can 406 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,760 sustain life. 407 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,040 Why? 408 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:37,360 Because 409 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:38,560 the God of life 410 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,640 who created it. 411 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,200 He planted the earth. 412 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,880 Psalm 146, 5 through 9. 413 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,800 It says, Happy is he who has the God of Jacob 414 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,640 for his help. 415 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,520 Whose hope is in the Lord his 416 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:56,080 God, who 417 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,240 made heaven and earth, the sea 418 00:14:58,400 --> 00:14:59,920 and all that is in them, who 419 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:07,840 keeps truth forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. 420 00:15:07,060 --> 00:15:09,140 The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners. 421 00:15:09,140 --> 00:15:11,060 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. 422 00:15:11,060 --> 00:15:13,700 The Lord raises those who are bowed down. 423 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:15,140 The Lord loves the righteous. 424 00:15:15,140 --> 00:15:17,620 The Lord watches over the strangers. 425 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:17,940 He 426 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:21,380 relieves the fatherless and widow. 427 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:22,560 But the way of the wicked 428 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,320 he turns upside down. 429 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:25,279 Where are you at? 430 00:15:25,279 --> 00:15:26,080 Which camp you 431 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:26,880 in? 432 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:27,920 Has it 433 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,000 been getting turned upside down? 434 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,280 The Lord will allow a trouble to come in your life to get your attention 435 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:40,520 Hopefully 436 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,400 we're soft enough to realize, God, I need you, like that song. 437 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,040 And secondly, he planted Israel 438 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:51,880 very specifically 439 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,600 In fact, it tells us in the Old Testament, Isaiah 5. 440 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:01,160 7, for the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. 441 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:03,240 Right? 442 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:12,640 The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant. 443 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,160 He looked for justice, but behold, oppression 444 00:16:16,140 --> 00:16:19,740 for righteousness, but behold, a cry for hope. 445 00:16:24,579 --> 00:16:27,220 The typology there is pretty impressive 446 00:16:27,380 --> 00:16:28,899 when you start looking at 447 00:16:29,139 --> 00:16:33,380 and you cross-reference this to the to the story we just read about the 448 00:16:33,699 --> 00:16:33,940 about 449 00:16:34,259 --> 00:16:35,940 the vineyard owner and the vine 450 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:36,899 dressers 451 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:39,540 Really, about 452 00:16:41,220 --> 00:16:41,940 God and his 453 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:44,019 subjects, and that would be us 454 00:16:46,140 --> 00:16:46,780 Psalm 455 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:49,020 80, verses 8 and 9. 456 00:16:49,020 --> 00:16:53,100 You have brought a vine out of Egypt. 457 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:56,060 You have cast out the nations and planted it 458 00:16:56,060 --> 00:16:57,740 You prepared room for it 459 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:00,220 and caused it to take deep root 460 00:17:00,380 --> 00:17:03,500 and it filled the land. 461 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:04,140 The people 462 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:04,940 that say 463 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:10,220 that God is done with Israel, they don't read their Bibles. 464 00:17:09,919 --> 00:17:10,799 They don't 465 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:11,360 they 466 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,199 they don't know the Bible 467 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:17,360 and they'll they'll try to use New Testament verses. 468 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,240 It's a wave in the church today 469 00:17:20,620 --> 00:17:22,060 Guys, it's a lie 470 00:17:22,860 --> 00:17:24,940 because of what it produces. 471 00:17:24,940 --> 00:17:25,420 Right? 472 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:29,500 Jesus said, I've come that you might have life and that more abundantly. 473 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:31,100 He said that, right? 474 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:32,680 But when 475 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:33,320 you 476 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:42,360 adopt the idea that the church has replaced Israel, it stirs a hatred for the Jewish people. 477 00:17:43,659 --> 00:17:45,340 Even in the church. 478 00:17:45,340 --> 00:17:46,539 Oh, it's all the Jews' 479 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:48,220 fault. 480 00:17:48,220 --> 00:17:50,220 No, it's not the Jews' fault. 481 00:17:50,220 --> 00:17:52,380 It's mankind's fault. 482 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,120 Right, God made a covenant with this 483 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,360 these sinful people. 484 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:00,640 We know them as Jewish people. 485 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,200 But I'm looking at a bunch of people right in here that God made a covenant with 486 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,799 If you've accepted his 487 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,760 son, you're in the new covenant. 488 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,120 And you're sinful. 489 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,120 And I'm sinful. 490 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:15,640 So 491 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,320 if he forsakes Israel, he has to forsake us. 492 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,560 But he hasn't forsaken this vine. 493 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:23,960 He was hoping that it would be fruitful. 494 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:25,460 Isaiah, it's funny. 495 00:18:25,460 --> 00:18:25,539 Uh 496 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:25,860 we 497 00:18:26,019 --> 00:18:28,100 we start uh in chapter six. 498 00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:29,779 We had just gone through uh 499 00:18:30,019 --> 00:18:30,899 chapter five 500 00:18:31,059 --> 00:18:31,539 when we 501 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:32,019 um 502 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,160 When we 503 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,080 took a break, because the 504 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,520 main reason was 505 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:38,320 we were 506 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:38,960 uh 507 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,240 we were gonna get red 508 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,080 red tagged. 509 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:42,120 here 510 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:42,600 at the 511 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:44,120 at the building on our permit. 512 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,560 We didn't want to slow anything down. 513 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:47,320 It was going slow enough 514 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:48,520 as it was 515 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:54,000 But Isa 516 00:18:54,799 --> 00:18:55,200 You know 517 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,279 he said there in Isaiah he had 518 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,120 come to look for fruit, but all he found was poisonous berries. 519 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,880 He comes to your life and mine and looks for fruit. 520 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,279 The eyes of the Lord, the Bible says, go 521 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,120 throughout the whole earth 522 00:19:09,279 --> 00:19:13,120 looking for those who would show themselves loyal to 523 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:14,399 him. 524 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:14,960 On his 525 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:16,080 behalf. 526 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,320 And then he'll bless them. 527 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,440 He blesses that loyal servant. 528 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,600 These guys are having a hard time. 529 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:28,960 So he plants the earth, he plants Israel, and then he gives instructions. 530 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,000 In Leviticus 531 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,440 chapter 25, it says, So you shall observe 532 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:43,480 , this is speaking to the Jewish people, so you shall observe my statutes and keep my judgments and perform them. 533 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,760 And you will dwell in the land in safety. 534 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:51,080 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill 535 00:19:51,340 --> 00:19:53,260 And dwell there in safety. 536 00:19:53,260 --> 00:19:58,620 And if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow 537 00:19:58,780 --> 00:20:00,059 nor gather? 538 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:00,560 our 539 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:01,920 produce, which was the 540 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:02,240 the 541 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:08,640 year of rest, then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth pro 542 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,200 produce enough for three years. 543 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,920 And you shall sow in the eighth year and eat 544 00:20:14,340 --> 00:20:14,660 Old 545 00:20:14,820 --> 00:20:17,380 produce until the ninth year. 546 00:20:17,380 --> 00:20:18,020 The land 547 00:20:18,340 --> 00:20:21,059 is mine, the Lord says. 548 00:20:21,059 --> 00:20:25,620 The land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me 549 00:20:25,620 --> 00:20:32,260 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. 550 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:35,940 And this so this was God's way of keeping the land fresh 551 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:37,620 and and and uh 552 00:20:38,220 --> 00:20:38,540 strong 553 00:20:38,780 --> 00:20:40,780 that it might produce fruit. 554 00:20:40,780 --> 00:20:41,740 But notice he says 555 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:43,420 it's mine. 556 00:20:43,420 --> 00:20:45,100 And in our story, they're 557 00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:46,460 they're not realizing 558 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:48,060 it's his. 559 00:20:49,460 --> 00:20:50,980 Maybe you're not realizing 560 00:20:51,140 --> 00:20:52,420 your life is in his 561 00:20:52,740 --> 00:20:54,260 hand. 562 00:20:54,260 --> 00:20:58,740 And as Daniel told Belshazzar, He owns all your ways. 563 00:20:58,740 --> 00:21:00,980 He owns all my ways. 564 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:04,600 And the thing that God 565 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:10,040 the things that God uses to divert us sometimes is, oh, you're you're going the wrong way. 566 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:11,720 I I'm gonna have to get you over here. 567 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,080 Oh, maybe I'll have to 568 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,200 whack 569 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:16,760 you a little bit. 570 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,400 It's good to be soft towards 571 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:22,720 Lord 572 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,560 Lord, you know 573 00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:29,460 So the he 574 00:21:29,620 --> 00:21:30,820 he can as the psalmist 575 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:33,700 said, he can guide you with his eyes. 576 00:21:33,700 --> 00:21:34,820 Well versus 577 00:21:35,019 --> 00:21:35,100 ten 578 00:21:35,260 --> 00:21:35,899 and twelve says 579 00:21:36,059 --> 00:21:36,220 now 580 00:21:36,380 --> 00:21:37,019 at vintage 581 00:21:37,179 --> 00:21:37,340 time 582 00:21:37,580 --> 00:21:39,500 he sent a servant to the vine 583 00:21:39,659 --> 00:21:40,139 dressers 584 00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:43,260 that he might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. 585 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:45,340 But the vine dressers beat him 586 00:21:45,620 --> 00:21:46,260 and sent 587 00:21:46,420 --> 00:21:54,740 him away empty handed, and again he sent another servant, and they beat him also, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty handed. 588 00:21:54,740 --> 00:22:00,260 And again he sent a third, and they wounded him also, and cast him out. 589 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,360 Being an Old Testament prophet wasn't that popular of an occupation. 590 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:08,840 Right? 591 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,080 They rejected the prophets. 592 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:15,800 Jesus indicts the city of Jerusalem in Matthew 23, 37. 593 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,800 He says, you have. 594 00:22:20,139 --> 00:22:26,700 Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. 595 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:27,980 You kill them. 596 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,800 Micaiah, they whacked him on the cheek. 597 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,440 Isaiah, 598 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:34,920 history 599 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,120 says they cut him in half. 600 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,720 Jeremiah was stoned. 601 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,240 Zachariah was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. 602 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:48,760 Yeah, it wasn't very fun. 603 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:49,160 But 604 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,120 it continued in the church age. 605 00:22:52,220 --> 00:22:52,860 Right? 606 00:22:52,860 --> 00:22:54,380 People didn't want to hear. 607 00:22:54,380 --> 00:22:56,540 They don't want to hear God's word. 608 00:22:56,540 --> 00:22:57,740 This is kind of a 609 00:22:59,180 --> 00:23:00,140 cool thing. 610 00:23:00,140 --> 00:23:02,620 People actually want to come hear God's word 611 00:23:04,940 --> 00:23:06,940 And someone might say, no, Pastor Scotty, 612 00:23:07,180 --> 00:23:10,780 some of the stories you tell, they're hilarious. 613 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:11,900 Not really. 614 00:23:14,980 --> 00:23:17,140 I used to get that at the school a lot. 615 00:23:17,140 --> 00:23:18,500 I mean, we'd have a chapel 616 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:22,020 and I was thinking I was sharing some incredible truth with the kids 617 00:23:22,180 --> 00:23:22,500 and 618 00:23:22,980 --> 00:23:23,300 uh 619 00:23:23,460 --> 00:23:24,100 you know 620 00:23:24,820 --> 00:23:28,740 Kids would come up to me afterwards, Pastor Scotty, that was so cool that that horse bit 621 00:23:29,060 --> 00:23:31,220 you. 622 00:23:31,220 --> 00:23:35,060 That's all they remembered from the whole service. 623 00:23:36,539 --> 00:23:38,539 Bad, Pastor, bad 624 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,760 But Stephen addressing the same group of people 625 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,200 in Acts chapter 7 626 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:56,080 says, you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. 627 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:57,680 You 628 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,160 always resist the Holy Spirit. 629 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,960 As your fathers did, so do you. 630 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,480 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute 631 00:24:11,460 --> 00:24:13,460 And they killed those who 632 00:24:13,779 --> 00:24:15,779 foretold the coming of the just 633 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:18,899 one, of whom you now have been 634 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:19,560 Become 635 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,320 the betrayers and murderers 636 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,680 who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it. 637 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,240 They know what the Word of God says. 638 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:35,720 They actually recognized Jesus for who he was, but they weren't willing to give up their place. 639 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,600 They weren't willing to give up their place positionally 640 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:42,960 as leaders 641 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,160 or their place 642 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,559 physically in the land. 643 00:24:46,559 --> 00:24:48,000 They weren't willing. 644 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:51,380 I was sitting in my house 645 00:24:51,860 --> 00:24:52,340 this morning 646 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:58,820 thinking, this place is a pain in my neck. 647 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,840 Right, there's always something to fix. 648 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,120 You know? 649 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:08,000 And you have to weigh the difference between wants 650 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,920 and needs. 651 00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:15,700 And my wife says, I want a new deck. 652 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:20,100 And I'm thinking, we don't need a new deck. 653 00:25:22,140 --> 00:25:24,940 Husbands and wives, you've had these conversations, right? 654 00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:27,100 Or maybe you've at least thought them. 655 00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:28,940 That's the first time she's heard me say 656 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:30,700 we don't need a new deck, but 657 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:33,500 she's gonna get a new deck, just saying. 658 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:38,200 I think 659 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,080 that's a chance to 660 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:40,679 make 661 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,039 it. 662 00:25:48,140 --> 00:25:49,820 But they didn't want to hear. 663 00:25:49,820 --> 00:25:51,100 They don't want to hear it. 664 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:52,700 They want to do their own thing. 665 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:54,620 They want to go their own way. 666 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:57,419 They think they have it figured out. 667 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:06,840 And for some bizarre reason, they think God is subject to them. 668 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,760 Kind of like those people that question 669 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:09,720 God. 670 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:16,400 So in verse 13 it says, Then the owner of the vineyard, right, after sending these 671 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:23,440 messengers, these servants, and having them rejected and killed. 672 00:26:23,620 --> 00:26:23,940 He 673 00:26:24,180 --> 00:26:27,620 said, what shall I do? 674 00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:29,620 I will send my son. 675 00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:32,260 I will send my beloved son. 676 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,240 Surely, right? 677 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,080 Probably they will respect him 678 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:44,760 when they see him, but when the vine dressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir. 679 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,080 Come, let us kill him. 680 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,280 that the inheritance may be ours. 681 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,720 So they cast him 682 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,280 out of the vineyard and killed him. 683 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,440 Therefore, what will the owner 684 00:26:58,380 --> 00:26:58,460 of 685 00:26:58,620 --> 00:26:59,420 the vineyard 686 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:00,780 due to them. 687 00:27:00,780 --> 00:27:03,820 He will come and destroy those vine-dressers 688 00:27:03,980 --> 00:27:06,460 and give the vineyard to others 689 00:27:10,140 --> 00:27:13,100 When Jesus is presented to people 690 00:27:17,860 --> 00:27:20,580 You always see a response, right? 691 00:27:21,060 --> 00:27:23,460 I was at a funeral the other day, I think I might have even 692 00:27:23,620 --> 00:27:27,140 shared this, but I was at a funeral the other day, and and um 693 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,360 And this man, I says, you know, do you believe this, that Jesus was the resurrection and the life? 694 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:36,120 And he goes, and he said out loud in front of all the people, I do. 695 00:27:37,059 --> 00:27:38,260 I do. 696 00:27:38,260 --> 00:27:42,260 And the look on some of the other people's faces was like, what 697 00:27:42,419 --> 00:27:44,740 are you doing saying that at a funeral 698 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,320 Well, I mean, is there a better place in a funeral to share the good news, right? 699 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,280 About the resurrection and the life? 700 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,680 There is no better place. 701 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,880 But there's there's a response. 702 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:57,920 There's one or the other. 703 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,960 It's like Jesus said, you cannot be neutral. 704 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,200 You're for me or against me. 705 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,120 Where are you at today? 706 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,480 You're struggling, maybe, maybe 707 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:08,600 weighing some things. 708 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,680 Maybe the Lord's calling you to do something that you don't really want to do. 709 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,800 If He's calling you to do something, man, can I just encourage you? 710 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,480 Save yourself a lot of heartache. 711 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,400 Just do it. 712 00:28:19,260 --> 00:28:19,899 Right? 713 00:28:19,899 --> 00:28:20,620 Just do it. 714 00:28:20,620 --> 00:28:21,179 What is that? 715 00:28:21,179 --> 00:28:21,419 Is that 716 00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:21,899 Nike 717 00:28:22,139 --> 00:28:22,299 or 718 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:23,659 just 719 00:28:23,820 --> 00:28:24,779 do it. 720 00:28:24,779 --> 00:28:27,419 Just do what the Lord's calling you to do. 721 00:28:27,419 --> 00:28:28,539 Because that's where he 722 00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:30,140 that's where his buckets of best 723 00:28:30,299 --> 00:28:32,539 blessings start getting poured out on your life. 724 00:28:32,539 --> 00:28:33,820 Just do it. 725 00:28:35,260 --> 00:28:36,460 I remember dragging 726 00:28:36,620 --> 00:28:37,580 my feet 727 00:28:38,340 --> 00:28:42,340 Dragging my feet, starting this fellowship. 728 00:28:42,820 --> 00:28:45,299 Like, no. 729 00:28:45,299 --> 00:28:46,899 People are hard 730 00:28:48,340 --> 00:28:50,260 and stinky. 731 00:28:57,340 --> 00:28:58,780 I'm right there with ya. 732 00:28:58,780 --> 00:28:59,660 I mean it's just 733 00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:01,020 but it's just like, oh 734 00:29:01,260 --> 00:29:01,980 really? 735 00:29:01,980 --> 00:29:04,700 And and I was dragging my feet. 736 00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:05,700 But 737 00:29:07,060 --> 00:29:14,020 it was the encouragement of people, but it was the nudge of the Holy Spirit that caused me to, you know, to go with it. 738 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,640 And it's been a blessing. 739 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,520 Hasn't been easy, but it's been a blessing. 740 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:18,840 And 741 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,840 hopefully the Lord's glorified in all of it. 742 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:25,440 So 743 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:26,400 here is 744 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,160 his son, and they say, let's kill him. 745 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,360 Now, this this is religious church people. 746 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:39,280 Years ago I heard a pastor friend of mine, he was telling me, uh, I had got 747 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:40,559 actually got him a job. 748 00:29:40,559 --> 00:29:42,960 There was a church in our hometown where we lived 749 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,120 looking for a pastor and I knew this guy 750 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:45,160 he was in Texas and he says 751 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,160 I've always wanted to pastor a church in the Northwest and so I told him about the church 752 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:49,799 and he 753 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:50,120 come 754 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:50,760 up 755 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,840 and he was there about a year 756 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,840 and he came and saw me 757 00:29:55,380 --> 00:29:57,460 And he says, those people 758 00:29:57,620 --> 00:29:59,380 that you called me to pastor? 759 00:29:59,380 --> 00:30:01,380 I said, Pat, I didn't call you. 760 00:30:01,380 --> 00:30:02,180 I told you about it. 761 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:03,460 That's between you and the Lord. 762 00:30:03,460 --> 00:30:05,060 Quit blaming me. 763 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:06,960 He said 764 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:07,279 they 765 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,360 have roast preacher for lunch every single Sunday 766 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,000 after my messages 767 00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:19,220 It was b 768 00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:20,740 it was bad. 769 00:30:20,740 --> 00:30:22,260 He lasted one more year 770 00:30:22,419 --> 00:30:25,620 and he never pastored again after that. 771 00:30:25,620 --> 00:30:28,020 Because of the people. 772 00:30:28,020 --> 00:30:28,660 And so 773 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,480 That's the attitude that these men 774 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,120 had 775 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,960 towards the sun 776 00:30:39,140 --> 00:30:43,460 Jesus is basically in this parable giving his death announcement. 777 00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:46,020 They're going to kill the son. 778 00:30:46,020 --> 00:30:48,580 Actually, you're going to kill the son. 779 00:30:48,580 --> 00:30:50,580 That's what he's telling him. 780 00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:56,980 Because this son in this story is me, and you're gonna kill me. 781 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,640 And so he sent his son, the landowner, right? 782 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:04,800 The 783 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,480 the rightful heir to the land. 784 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:10,660 In Exodus 19 785 00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:13,780 it tells us, much like Leviticus, it says, 786 00:31:13,940 --> 00:31:21,380 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me, speaking of Israel 787 00:31:21,540 --> 00:31:23,300 above all people. 788 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,080 For the earth is mine. 789 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,760 The earth. 790 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,080 Not just the little strip of land there 791 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:35,680 on the eastern side of the Mediterranean, but the whole earth belongs to him. 792 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:36,680 He is 793 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:37,720 the sovereign 794 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,680 lord that we read about in the beginning here. 795 00:31:43,620 --> 00:31:43,940 But 796 00:31:44,180 --> 00:31:44,820 what will 797 00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:46,980 this owner do? 798 00:31:46,980 --> 00:31:48,180 It says. 799 00:31:48,180 --> 00:31:51,940 Come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. 800 00:31:52,020 --> 00:31:52,100 Or 801 00:31:52,260 --> 00:31:53,860 we're going to get it all. 802 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,080 I see this in families all the time. 803 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:05,480 I mean you can almost see it's almost like a, you know when the the the old matriarch or patriarchs getting ready to die? 804 00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:05,840 The 805 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:10,080 some of the kids and grandkids turn into vultures. 806 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:10,880 It's just like 807 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,440 I just pray that God would kill me if I ever got that way. 808 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,600 God just kill me. 809 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,799 That is so self-centered and so wicked. 810 00:32:29,140 --> 00:32:34,260 And yet that's the condition of the human heart. 811 00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:35,540 These people, they 812 00:32:37,220 --> 00:32:37,380 they 813 00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:39,060 got a healthy one. 814 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,560 Therefore, what will the vineyard, the owner of the vineyard, do to them? 815 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:46,520 He will come 816 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,440 and destroy those vine 817 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,080 dressers 818 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,000 and give the vineyard to others. 819 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,240 He's going to destroy them. 820 00:32:53,019 --> 00:32:54,779 He's gonna kill them. 821 00:32:54,779 --> 00:32:56,539 You know, God kills people. 822 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:00,460 Why God's not killed me, I do not know yet 823 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,880 Those who reject his 824 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,000 son, they put themselves in a place of judgment. 825 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,120 Whoever has the son 826 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,080 has life. 827 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,360 Whoever does not have the son 828 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,200 does not have life. 829 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,760 But is condemned already. 830 00:33:18,159 --> 00:33:21,200 Are you feeling condemned? 831 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,000 Just come to Jesus. 832 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,399 He'll take that condemnation away. 833 00:33:26,399 --> 00:33:27,919 Maybe it's conviction. 834 00:33:27,919 --> 00:33:31,919 If it's conviction, just say, Lord, forgive me, I've sinned. 835 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:40,080 If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 836 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,600 He'll destroy him. 837 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,000 And he'll give it to another. 838 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:54,980 The response to this is quite interesting, right, there 839 00:33:55,140 --> 00:33:55,539 in the 840 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,940 in the very next verse, right? 841 00:33:59,220 --> 00:34:02,100 Or excuse me, at the end of verse 16. 842 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:02,740 And when 843 00:34:02,980 --> 00:34:06,500 they heard it, they said, certainly not. 844 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,200 What? 845 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,440 Certainly not. 846 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:11,560 You don't think 847 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:12,760 what? 848 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,600 What are you saying certainly not to? 849 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,679 Are you saying certainly not that he will destroy them or are you saying certainly not 850 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,560 he will give the vineyard to others? 851 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,080 Right, because they knew all about the Abrahamic covenant to the 852 00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:26,120 to the land. 853 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:27,960 They knew all about that. 854 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,320 That that was a that was an e 855 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,159 uh a promise. 856 00:34:31,139 --> 00:34:32,020 Most believe an 857 00:34:32,179 --> 00:34:33,379 eternal promise 858 00:34:33,539 --> 00:34:38,020 that God had made to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and David. 859 00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:38,740 Right? 860 00:34:38,740 --> 00:34:43,059 David was promised that there would be an heir set on his throne throughout eternity 861 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,340 Forever and ever. 862 00:34:47,340 --> 00:34:48,139 So when they say 863 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:53,740 certainly not, I don't know totally what they're what they're disagreeing with. 864 00:34:53,740 --> 00:34:55,580 But he would destroy the vine 865 00:34:55,740 --> 00:34:56,860 dressers. 866 00:34:59,780 --> 00:35:02,100 And that was the Jewish nation. 867 00:35:03,140 --> 00:35:04,900 And that happened in eighty 868 00:35:05,220 --> 00:35:06,340 seventy. 869 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:07,720 When Titus 870 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,520 the Roman came in and sacked Jerusalem 871 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,920 and everything stopped. 872 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,160 All their religion stopped. 873 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,320 There were no more sacrifices, right? 874 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:18,440 There were no more 875 00:35:19,420 --> 00:35:25,900 Priestly garments made, it was, it was done. 876 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:26,140 Now 877 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:27,420 you removed them 878 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,600 And he gave it to another, and many believe that it is the 879 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,600 church. 880 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:34,760 But 881 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,440 what is so interesting is 882 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,760 God used, right? 883 00:35:38,820 --> 00:35:39,140 God 884 00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:41,060 used this little ragtag 885 00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:42,260 group of 886 00:35:42,980 --> 00:35:47,300 Jewish fishermen and tax collectors. 887 00:35:48,420 --> 00:35:53,460 To start his church, to start the new covenant, the others. 888 00:35:53,460 --> 00:35:54,980 But it is by and large 889 00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:57,700 not Jewish, it's Gentile. 890 00:35:57,700 --> 00:35:59,700 The church is Gentile. 891 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,520 For the most part. 892 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:06,800 He gave it to others. 893 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,160 Which was rightly yours. 894 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,600 And Paul talks about this, right? 895 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,000 Being grafted in, that you and I as Christians 896 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,200 are grafted into 897 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:13,600 the 898 00:36:13,859 --> 00:36:15,460 the whole Jewish um 899 00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:17,940 system, so to speak. 900 00:36:17,940 --> 00:36:19,780 Because God's not forsaken it. 901 00:36:19,780 --> 00:36:21,060 God's not forsaken his 902 00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:21,859 law 903 00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:24,619 Jesus said, You think I came to destroy the law? 904 00:36:24,619 --> 00:36:26,460 I did not come to destroy the law. 905 00:36:26,460 --> 00:36:29,660 I came to fulfill the law and make it complete. 906 00:36:29,660 --> 00:36:30,859 We just see the 907 00:36:31,099 --> 00:36:33,260 law during the thousand-year reign of Christ. 908 00:36:33,260 --> 00:36:36,140 It's still there, it's not going anywhere. 909 00:36:37,380 --> 00:36:40,500 It's just that God has extended his grace and mercy to you and I 910 00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:43,220 because you and I cannot keep the law. 911 00:36:43,220 --> 00:36:44,500 And nor could they 912 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:47,660 And praise God, these little 913 00:36:47,820 --> 00:36:49,740 Jewish apostles 914 00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:54,300 had the wherewithal to say, neither we nor our fathers could keep this law. 915 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:56,620 And now you're going to try to put it on the Gentiles? 916 00:36:56,620 --> 00:36:58,540 It's not going to work. 917 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,440 So that's what God did. 918 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,520 And I've shared before that 919 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,760 a million Jews were. 920 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,120 Were killed there in 70 AD. 921 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,080 Destruction came, just like you promised. 922 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:29,760 Destruction will come to all those who reject the sun. 923 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,720 The older I get, the more that troubles me. 924 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,880 It just troubles me. 925 00:37:35,579 --> 00:37:38,460 Because it's so simple to come to Jesus. 926 00:37:38,460 --> 00:37:45,500 To turn from your sin, to turn from your hardness of heart, to turn from your lust and your covetousness and all those things. 927 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:45,660 Just 928 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:46,540 turn from it. 929 00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:48,940 It's so simple. 930 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,440 It's not easy, but it's simple. 931 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,240 Certainly not. 932 00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:06,360 The religious leaders understood the parable immediately and objected that Jesus compared them to the rebellious and foolish tenets. 933 00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:11,900 It's so true. 934 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:13,740 People cannot see their own sin. 935 00:38:14,860 --> 00:38:15,260 There's a 936 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:17,340 it's a blindness. 937 00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:19,340 I remember having it. 938 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:22,060 I remember having that blindness. 939 00:38:22,060 --> 00:38:28,380 I couldn't see my sin, and yet I would see people look at me and shake their head, going, I can't believe you. 940 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:31,060 I'm a boy. 941 00:38:31,060 --> 00:38:32,900 I'm a good guy. 942 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:38,560 And they 943 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,880 knew he had spoken this parable 944 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:43,520 against them. 945 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,400 They were thinking in their heart, this could never be us. 946 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,520 We're righteous. 947 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:47,839 Right? 948 00:38:47,839 --> 00:38:49,520 We wear the word of God on our 949 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:50,160 on our 950 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,920 on our heads. 951 00:38:52,740 --> 00:38:55,700 We wear religious underwear. 952 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,020 I know that strikes a chord here in eastern Idaho, but 953 00:39:05,980 --> 00:39:07,740 the priest did as well 954 00:39:10,359 --> 00:39:12,760 Those of us in the Western culture 955 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:13,720 call the 956 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,720 the holy underwear we call it 957 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,520 angel shaps. 958 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:18,920 All you 959 00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:21,480 got is angel shaps on. 960 00:39:29,119 --> 00:39:29,440 So 961 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:31,760 he destroyed them 962 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,240 and he replaced them, right 963 00:39:36,460 --> 00:39:40,460 Jesus told Peter, he said, Upon this rock I will build my church. 964 00:39:40,460 --> 00:39:41,180 What the rock 965 00:39:41,340 --> 00:39:42,140 Peter? 966 00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:42,940 No. 967 00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:44,140 It was not the Rock 968 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:45,020 Peter. 969 00:39:45,020 --> 00:39:48,540 You know, our Catholic friends believe Peter was the first Pope, not 970 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,000 Right? 971 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,680 No, it was on his statement. 972 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:52,720 Who are you? 973 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:54,320 Who do men say that I am? 974 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,400 You're the Christ, the Son of the Living God. 975 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:57,680 It's up on that 976 00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,760 statement, that rock 977 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:02,640 solid statement, that Jesus was going to build his 978 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:03,760 church. 979 00:40:03,940 --> 00:40:06,420 And these guys missed it. 980 00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:08,900 They missed it big time. 981 00:40:11,380 --> 00:40:12,500 It was over. 982 00:40:12,580 --> 00:40:13,300 You know, it was 983 00:40:13,460 --> 00:40:16,340 it was totally over for the Jews at that point. 984 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:24,600 Like I said, no more religious ceremonies, no more sacrifices. 985 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:25,240 But now 986 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,840 they're back in the land, and what are they looking to do? 987 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,960 They're gonna build one. 988 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,320 They want to build a temple. 989 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:38,320 I had a friend that went over there in the 90s and back then he says you could go walk through the temple 990 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,000 institute, you could handle the 991 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:40,400 the 992 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:40,880 the 993 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:41,760 you know 994 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:42,960 The ephod 995 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:43,760 and the the 996 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,440 all the utensils of the temple, he said it was fascinating. 997 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,680 They had them all they're ready, they're prepped. 998 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,440 All they have to do is build it 999 00:40:54,220 --> 00:40:57,099 And that proves to us that though God 1000 00:40:57,339 --> 00:40:58,460 separated himself 1001 00:40:58,619 --> 00:41:04,859 from the Jews for a time, there was a time when he was going to bring them back to himself, and that is yet 1002 00:41:05,180 --> 00:41:06,140 future. 1003 00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:12,340 And he was going to build his church that the 1004 00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:14,020 apostles were the 1005 00:41:14,580 --> 00:41:15,300 stones, 1006 00:41:15,540 --> 00:41:18,020 the foundation of the church. 1007 00:41:17,940 --> 00:41:23,300 And that we're living stones, us who are a part of the church of our Lord and Savior 1008 00:41:23,460 --> 00:41:24,260 Jesus 1009 00:41:31,180 --> 00:41:31,820 And so 1010 00:41:32,140 --> 00:41:37,420 Israel had been under Gentile rule until nineteen forty-eight. 1011 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:38,120 Jesus, 1012 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,080 when the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled, he'll come. 1013 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:41,800 When is that? 1014 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,080 Everybody's asking. 1015 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,160 Some think it was 1948. 1016 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,880 The time of the Gentiles, it was fulfilled. 1017 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,440 Well, Jesus hasn't come back yet. 1018 00:41:51,220 --> 00:41:51,460 Or 1019 00:41:51,620 --> 00:41:52,580 1967 1020 00:41:52,740 --> 00:41:58,020 or 1973. 1021 00:41:58,020 --> 00:41:58,180 John 1022 00:41:58,420 --> 00:42:03,700 Corston used to say that we've been on spiritual overtime since 1948. 1023 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,559 Spiritual over time. 1024 00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:10,440 Because the Jewish people are back in the land. 1025 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,120 And when they said 1026 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,160 certainly not, Jesus checked them when he said, then 1027 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,120 he looked at them and said, He's looking right at them. 1028 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,640 And he says, What then is this that is written? 1029 00:42:24,980 --> 00:42:26,500 These people knew. 1030 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:28,099 They knew the Torah. 1031 00:42:28,099 --> 00:42:30,260 They knew the Old Testament. 1032 00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:32,339 They knew what he was talking about 1033 00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:35,300 He says, what 1034 00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:38,900 is this that is written? 1035 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:39,620 So many he 1036 00:42:39,780 --> 00:42:44,100 times he questions people about what is written, expecting them to know 1037 00:42:44,340 --> 00:42:46,260 them to know what is written. 1038 00:42:46,260 --> 00:42:47,940 Do you know what is written? 1039 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,240 You don't know what's written unless you're reading the Word. 1040 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:51,720 Right? 1041 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:53,720 And I mean really reading the Word 1042 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,760 Now, that's something I struggle with. 1043 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,640 I've got a routine down. 1044 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,680 My routine gets disrupted sometimes and 1045 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:04,080 I 1046 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,160 really get scattered. 1047 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,000 I'm a scatter 1048 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:07,320 brain 1049 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,000 anyway, but man, when I'm not reading the word, it gets worse. 1050 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:11,400 Right? 1051 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,880 I just kind of go off the rails. 1052 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,640 But reading the word. 1053 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,000 It is written. 1054 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:20,400 Then 1055 00:43:20,559 --> 00:43:21,359 what this is 1056 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,960 that is written, the stone which the builders rejected 1057 00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:27,760 has become the chief cornerstone. 1058 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,200 Your rejection 1059 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,119 is pointing 1060 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,359 out. 1061 00:43:33,380 --> 00:43:35,300 The true cornerstone. 1062 00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:36,980 And the cornerstone was perfect. 1063 00:43:36,980 --> 00:43:39,860 It was perfectly square. 1064 00:43:39,860 --> 00:43:42,340 And everything went off of that. 1065 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:42,320 All 1066 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,400 all the the the plumb lines and stuff went off of 1067 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:47,840 the cornerstone 1068 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,640 because it had to be perfect. 1069 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:55,120 And it held everything together, the cornerstone did. 1070 00:43:56,580 --> 00:43:59,220 That's such a beautiful picture of Jesus. 1071 00:43:59,220 --> 00:44:04,180 If you want to get straight in your life, then you better go to the rock. 1072 00:44:04,180 --> 00:44:06,020 You better go to the cornerstone 1073 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:07,920 Because he's straight 1074 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,400 and he's righteous and he's true 1075 00:44:15,740 --> 00:44:19,020 The stone, the chief cornerstone. 1076 00:44:19,020 --> 00:44:20,700 It's straight and true 1077 00:44:20,859 --> 00:44:21,820 and solid. 1078 00:44:21,820 --> 00:44:24,540 It is the base that everything else is built on. 1079 00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:29,099 Jesus is often likened unto a stone or a rock. 1080 00:44:28,559 --> 00:44:33,920 Throughout Scripture, he is the rock of provision that followed Israel in the desert. 1081 00:44:34,799 --> 00:44:35,119 First 1082 00:44:35,279 --> 00:44:37,680 Corinthians 10, verse 4. 1083 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:38,319 He is 1084 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,400 He is our rock. 1085 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,360 He is the stone of stumbling that Peter talks about in 1 1086 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:44,920 Peter 1087 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,080 2, verse 8. 1088 00:44:47,580 --> 00:44:52,140 Peter also mentions this in Acts chapter 4, verses 11 and 12. 1089 00:44:52,140 --> 00:44:55,900 He says, this is the stone which was rejected by you builders. 1090 00:44:55,900 --> 00:44:58,460 And he's pointing at the Sanhedrin when he does this. 1091 00:44:58,460 --> 00:44:58,860 Peter 1092 00:44:59,100 --> 00:44:59,420 is 1093 00:45:00,180 --> 00:45:00,579 He said 1094 00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:02,180 this is the stone 1095 00:45:02,420 --> 00:45:05,060 by which you builders have rejected the 1096 00:45:05,380 --> 00:45:05,460 it 1097 00:45:05,700 --> 00:45:07,859 it has become the chief cornerstone 1098 00:45:08,140 --> 00:45:09,020 Nor is there 1099 00:45:09,260 --> 00:45:13,020 salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven 1100 00:45:13,180 --> 00:45:16,380 given among men whereby we must be saved. 1101 00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:18,460 That's Jesus. 1102 00:45:18,460 --> 00:45:20,859 He's our rock that don't roll. 1103 00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:26,760 And then he is 1104 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:31,240 he's called the stone there in Daniel 2, just reading through Daniel uh 1105 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,839 this this last week or so 1106 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:33,160 has 1107 00:45:33,319 --> 00:45:33,960 just been 1108 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:35,960 I mean 1109 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:40,120 about all you can do is say, wow. 1110 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,480 It's just, it's 1111 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:46,120 it's a wild book that predicts the future 1112 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,200 perfectly. 1113 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,720 Perfectly. 1114 00:45:49,940 --> 00:45:57,940 But in Daniel chapter 2 verse 45 it says, he is the stone cut without hands that crushes the kingdoms of the world. 1115 00:46:05,820 --> 00:46:10,460 And then he finishes up there, verse eighteen. 1116 00:46:10,580 --> 00:46:15,300 Whoever falls on the stone will be broken, but on whomever 1117 00:46:15,460 --> 00:46:18,100 it falls, it will grind 1118 00:46:18,740 --> 00:46:19,060 him 1119 00:46:19,380 --> 00:46:20,340 to powder 1120 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,760 It'll grind him to powder. 1121 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,400 Change your name to Dusty. 1122 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:43,160 Notice, on whomever, whoever falls on that stone will be broken. 1123 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,640 When Hillary blew the shofar, there was a certain 1124 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,040 cadence that spoke of our brokenness. 1125 00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:54,200 I don't know about you. 1126 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:55,240 I'm broken. 1127 00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:57,160 I feel like I'm more broken now than 1128 00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,320 when I first came to Jesus in 1984. 1129 00:47:02,020 --> 00:47:04,340 I'm more broken now. 1130 00:47:04,340 --> 00:47:05,540 Maybe it's just that I 1131 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:06,180 I'm I'm 1132 00:47:06,340 --> 00:47:08,500 I'm closer to the Lord than I was then. 1133 00:47:08,500 --> 00:47:09,700 I didn't see it 1134 00:47:13,319 --> 00:47:17,880 But I'm broken, but I keep coming to this one who can fix my brokenness. 1135 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:18,279 Right? 1136 00:47:18,279 --> 00:47:19,559 I just keep coming to him 1137 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:21,160 every day. 1138 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,599 Sometimes hourly. 1139 00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:24,200 Sometimes minute by minute. 1140 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,279 Oh Lord, please help me. 1141 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:26,520 God, you 1142 00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:27,560 gotta help me. 1143 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,640 I'm a mess. 1144 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,000 That's coming to Jesus. 1145 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,760 That's what he invited us to do. 1146 00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,880 Come unto me, all you who are weary and heavy 1147 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,320 laden. 1148 00:47:38,940 --> 00:47:39,740 Hey, weight 1149 00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:40,460 down. 1150 00:47:41,180 --> 00:47:43,020 Seems like the world's getting heavier. 1151 00:47:43,020 --> 00:47:45,579 Just living in it, it's getting weightier. 1152 00:47:45,579 --> 00:47:46,060 Right? 1153 00:47:46,060 --> 00:47:48,460 The veil's getting thinner. 1154 00:47:48,460 --> 00:47:51,260 I find myself being jealous of those 1155 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:56,180 Ashes sitting on the table when I do a funeral. 1156 00:47:57,220 --> 00:47:58,500 You lucky dog 1157 00:48:06,980 --> 00:48:08,099 You're out of here, your 1158 00:48:08,260 --> 00:48:10,339 sojourn is over. 1159 00:48:10,500 --> 00:48:13,859 He's lucky to be out of the bottle, but if you don't know Jesus, it's 1160 00:48:14,339 --> 00:48:14,500 even 1161 00:48:14,819 --> 00:48:17,619 ashals will burn there. 1162 00:48:22,780 --> 00:48:25,580 But whoever falls on this rock will be broken. 1163 00:48:25,580 --> 00:48:27,180 That's a good brokenness. 1164 00:48:27,180 --> 00:48:29,660 That's something that you and I need. 1165 00:48:30,579 --> 00:48:33,619 Scotty needs to be broken. 1166 00:48:33,619 --> 00:48:36,020 Cause he ain't got no goodness in him. 1167 00:48:36,020 --> 00:48:36,339 But 1168 00:48:36,579 --> 00:48:39,140 that brokenness reminds me of that. 1169 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:39,200 And 1170 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:40,400 I glom 1171 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,800 on to the goodness of the Lord. 1172 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,160 And I want to stay there. 1173 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,600 And I want to stay true and straight and solid 1174 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:50,400 on that cornerstone. 1175 00:48:50,580 --> 00:48:54,100 But whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder. 1176 00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:56,500 Speaking of judgment. 1177 00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:59,220 This choice that people have to make. 1178 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:05,119 If you haven't chosen Jesus, please, please don't leave today without doing it. 1179 00:49:05,119 --> 00:49:06,320 Come over to the prayer team. 1180 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,960 They're gonna, they'll lead you in a prayer. 1181 00:49:09,099 --> 00:49:11,900 And you and you get this confidence. 1182 00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:13,099 Wow, God 1183 00:49:13,339 --> 00:49:17,099 really knows all this about me and He still loves me? 1184 00:49:17,099 --> 00:49:19,579 He still offers me salvation? 1185 00:49:19,579 --> 00:49:20,700 Yeah. 1186 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:23,020 Yeah, He does. 1187 00:49:23,060 --> 00:49:26,260 He's close to the brokenhearted. 1188 00:49:26,260 --> 00:49:28,180 I still get broke over my sin. 1189 00:49:28,180 --> 00:49:33,460 I found myself weeping the other day for sins I committed 30 years ago. 1190 00:49:33,460 --> 00:49:34,820 And I know that. 1191 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,800 You're not supposed to dwell there. 1192 00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:40,120 But 1193 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:41,640 but 1194 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:42,840 I don't ever 1195 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,200 want to go back there 1196 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,839 I don't ever want to go back there. 1197 00:49:46,839 --> 00:49:49,000 I would rather die first. 1198 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:50,280 Lord, kill me. 1199 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:51,560 Take me out. 1200 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,240 Take me to be with you. 1201 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:57,880 Don't let me ever go back there and make a terrible mess. 1202 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,440 Which I see pastors doing all the time. 1203 00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,880 Making terrible messes. 1204 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,320 Now I'm good enough just making a mess in this building when I'm in here. 1205 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:08,560 I mean 1206 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:09,040 dirt 1207 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:09,680 flies 1208 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:10,160 and 1209 00:50:10,620 --> 00:50:12,620 Scuff marks and things spilled 1210 00:50:12,780 --> 00:50:13,980 and food particles 1211 00:50:14,140 --> 00:50:14,460 and 1212 00:50:15,420 --> 00:50:17,660 I can live with that. 1213 00:50:17,660 --> 00:50:20,620 But it's the mess that affects other people that is 1214 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,240 The one that's so terrible. 1215 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:24,600 I'm going to close 1216 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:25,800 with this 1217 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:26,760 idea 1218 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:27,160 of 1219 00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,880 the stone in Psalm chapter 2. 1220 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:30,520 The psalmist 1221 00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,760 mentions it over here in chapter 2. 1222 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:33,240 Many 1223 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:34,400 of you know this psalm 1224 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,160 it's very familiar to you 1225 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:36,880 but it's 1226 00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:37,280 um 1227 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,000 it's verses 10 and 12 1228 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:42,400 it says 1229 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:42,720 now 1230 00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:43,280 therefore 1231 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:44,000 be wise 1232 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:45,119 oh kings 1233 00:50:46,260 --> 00:50:48,900 Be instructed, you judges of the earth. 1234 00:50:48,900 --> 00:50:50,260 Serve the Lord with fear 1235 00:50:50,420 --> 00:50:53,780 and rejoice with trembling. 1236 00:50:54,099 --> 00:50:56,820 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry 1237 00:50:58,039 --> 00:50:58,359 This 1238 00:50:58,599 --> 00:50:59,319 angry sun 1239 00:50:59,559 --> 00:51:02,039 would be that stone falling on 1240 00:51:02,359 --> 00:51:02,680 people 1241 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,440 and pulverizing them in judgment. 1242 00:51:06,580 --> 00:51:09,140 crushing them to powder. 1243 00:51:09,140 --> 00:51:13,780 Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when 1244 00:51:13,940 --> 00:51:16,340 his wrath is kindled but a little. 1245 00:51:16,340 --> 00:51:21,060 Blessed are all those who put their trust in him. 1246 00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:23,980 Not good. 1247 00:51:23,980 --> 00:51:25,100 It's just good. 1248 00:51:25,100 --> 00:51:26,380 It's simple. 1249 00:51:26,380 --> 00:51:28,300 It's doable. 1250 00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:29,340 Just to put 1251 00:51:29,980 --> 00:51:31,580 our trust. 1252 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,680 in him, just to set 1253 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,680 our feet on a solid rock. 1254 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:38,079 And his 1255 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:39,839 name is Jesus. 1256 00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,960 And verse 19, so they watched him 1257 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:43,920 and sent 1258 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:44,720 spies 1259 00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,280 who pretended to be righteous 1260 00:51:48,220 --> 00:51:50,060 Don't pretend to be righteous, right? 1261 00:51:50,060 --> 00:51:52,300 All your righteousness comes from him. 1262 00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:53,500 That they might 1263 00:51:53,820 --> 00:51:54,380 seize 1264 00:51:54,540 --> 00:51:54,860 on his 1265 00:51:55,100 --> 00:51:58,300 words in order to deliver him. 1266 00:51:59,420 --> 00:52:04,620 to the power and authority of the governor. 1267 00:52:04,620 --> 00:52:09,980 Sorry, back up, for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. 1268 00:52:10,380 --> 00:52:12,140 They knew it. 1269 00:52:12,140 --> 00:52:13,180 And they hated him 1270 00:52:13,339 --> 00:52:13,980 for it. 1271 00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:19,500 I pray that our hearts would be soft to the Lord, that truly we would 1272 00:52:19,660 --> 00:52:20,380 we would make him 1273 00:52:20,539 --> 00:52:21,500 our rock 1274 00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,119 It's funny we use that word all the 1275 00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:24,760 time 1276 00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:25,720 in families. 1277 00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:32,359 I remember my grandparents being a rock for me, uh, because of their faith, both sets 1278 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,039 actually, and other people 1279 00:52:34,279 --> 00:52:36,359 throughout my life. 1280 00:52:35,980 --> 00:52:36,620 that that 1281 00:52:36,780 --> 00:52:37,100 uh 1282 00:52:37,740 --> 00:52:40,140 that they've been a rock, rock 1283 00:52:40,300 --> 00:52:43,260 solid in their relationship with Jesus. 1284 00:52:43,260 --> 00:52:43,580 So 1285 00:52:43,980 --> 00:52:44,300 because 1286 00:52:44,540 --> 00:52:46,860 he is our example, may we 1287 00:52:47,020 --> 00:52:48,460 be that rock for others. 1288 00:52:48,460 --> 00:52:50,060 Would you pray with me? 1289 00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:51,880 Father, we thank you. 1290 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:53,560 Thank you for today. 1291 00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,320 Thank you for this time. 1292 00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:00,520 We pray that we could worship you with all of our spirit, even right now, Lord, as we just 1293 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:01,000 uh 1294 00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,000 do a closing song and 1295 00:53:03,340 --> 00:53:04,700 And worship you, Lord. 1296 00:53:04,700 --> 00:53:07,900 I pray that you would minister to our hearts. 1297 00:53:07,900 --> 00:53:10,780 Thank you that you're a sure foundation, Lord. 1298 00:53:10,780 --> 00:53:12,380 You never move. 1299 00:53:12,420 --> 00:53:14,340 And we can build everything that we are, 1300 00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:16,500 everything that we ever hope to become. 1301 00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:17,780 We can build it 1302 00:53:18,660 --> 00:53:20,020 on who you are. 1303 00:53:20,020 --> 00:53:20,900 And so, Lord, 1304 00:53:21,060 --> 00:53:25,860 just thank you for being our cornerstone, our rock of salvation, Lord. 1305 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:26,200 And 1306 00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:29,480 may we never be moved from that. 1307 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,960 Lord, we live in some wild times. 1308 00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:32,279 And 1309 00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:33,960 the world's shaky 1310 00:53:34,119 --> 00:53:34,520 and its 1311 00:53:34,839 --> 00:53:35,799 ways. 1312 00:53:36,020 --> 00:53:36,579 But you 1313 00:53:36,900 --> 00:53:40,900 are the same, yesterday, today, and forever. 1314 00:53:40,900 --> 00:53:42,980 So may we be faithful 1315 00:53:43,300 --> 00:53:46,579 in following you, Lord, and having ears to hear 1316 00:53:46,740 --> 00:53:50,580 What you would say to us, Lord, we lift up our week of prayer and fasting. 1317 00:53:50,580 --> 00:53:52,500 We pray for our country. 1318 00:53:52,500 --> 00:53:59,780 We pray for babies to be saved here in Idaho, Lord, and that you would destroy this wicked proposition, Lord. 1319 00:54:00,420 --> 00:54:04,660 And God, that people would realize that they can turn to you for help 1320 00:54:04,900 --> 00:54:05,060 and 1321 00:54:05,220 --> 00:54:05,380 uh 1322 00:54:05,540 --> 00:54:06,500 and not to 1323 00:54:06,660 --> 00:54:06,980 uh 1324 00:54:07,380 --> 00:54:07,700 not 1325 00:54:07,940 --> 00:54:11,060 to those who bring death, but to you who brings life 1326 00:54:11,220 --> 00:54:12,819 And we thank you for that life. 1327 00:54:12,980 --> 00:54:15,220 May we have an abundance of it even this week 1328 00:54:15,380 --> 00:54:17,460 as we trust you and walk with you. 1329 00:54:17,460 --> 00:54:18,020 And we pray 1330 00:54:18,180 --> 00:54:19,380 in Jesus' name. 1331 00:54:19,380 --> 00:54:20,099 Amen. 1332 00:54:20,099 --> 00:54:20,900 Amen. 1333 00:54:20,900 --> 00:54:21,140 Hey 1334 00:54:21,299 --> 00:54:22,180 God bless you guys. 1335 00:54:22,180 --> 00:54:23,779 Have a great week in Jesus. 1336 00:54:23,779 --> 00:54:25,859 Let's all stand and worship.