WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.300 When you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. 2 00:00:04.300 --> 00:00:08.400 So when you said, I believe Jesus has already forgiven me of my sins, 3 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:11.500 you have that according to your words, hallelujah. 4 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:14.600 When you say, even with pain, even with sickness, 5 00:00:14.600 --> 00:00:17.800 I believe that by his stripes I was healed, 6 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:22.300 you'll have what you say, death and life are in the power of the tongue, 7 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:23.700 and they that love it. 8 00:00:23.700 --> 00:00:26.100 We'll eat the fruit thereof. 9 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:28.600 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 10 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.000 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word 11 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.500 and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 12 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:37.900 If you want to connect with City Light Church, 13 00:00:37.900 --> 00:00:41.400 feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com 14 00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:44.700 that citylightnyc.com. 15 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:49.300 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit 16 00:00:49.300 --> 00:00:52.500 is already working in our hearts and minds. 17 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:54.500 As you listen to today's teaching, 18 00:00:54.500 --> 00:00:57.500 remember that you are deeply loved by God, 19 00:00:57.500 --> 00:00:59.900 that you are surrounded by His grace, 20 00:00:59.900 --> 00:01:03.200 and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 21 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:09.700 Are you all ready for Hebrews chapter 5 this morning? 22 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:15.500 Do not provoke me. 23 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:19.000 I know what you're doing. 24 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.900 Hallelujah. 25 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:22.900 I would love to share this with the second service, 26 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:25.900 but verily, they cannot bear me now. 27 00:01:29.900 --> 00:01:33.900 That was a first service message. 28 00:01:33.900 --> 00:01:37.900 Some here need to be gently massaged into that room. 29 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:43.400 We're in Hebrews 5. 30 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:45.400 We're going through the whole book of Hebrews. 31 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:49.900 Line upon line, precept upon precept. 32 00:01:49.900 --> 00:01:52.900 The monumental task to end biblical illiteracy, 33 00:01:52.900 --> 00:01:55.900 but we're here to take it on. 34 00:01:55.900 --> 00:01:57.900 So that we're strong in the Word. 35 00:01:57.900 --> 00:01:59.900 In fact, you'll see in Hebrews 5, 36 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.900 he talks about a people who are just, 37 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:03.900 they're milk drinkers. 38 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:05.900 And milk is nice when you're a baby, 39 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:08.900 but eventually you want to get on to solid food. 40 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:12.900 And so as a Christian, we shouldn't just be used to milk. 41 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:16.900 We have to have the meat, the solid food. 42 00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:19.900 I reach that point in my Christianity. 43 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:24.900 I've read the New Testament several times over a couple of dozen times. 44 00:02:24.900 --> 00:02:27.900 By the time I was in my early 20s. 45 00:02:27.900 --> 00:02:30.900 And there are parts that I just didn't understand at all. 46 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:31.900 But what do you do? 47 00:02:31.900 --> 00:02:33.900 You ask the Lord to help. 48 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:34.900 Maybe try to study it out. 49 00:02:34.900 --> 00:02:35.900 And then you keep reading. 50 00:02:35.900 --> 00:02:37.900 You can't get stuck in God. 51 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:39.900 I'm going to stop reading because it's part I don't understand. 52 00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:41.900 But after reading at a couple of times, 53 00:02:41.900 --> 00:02:43.900 through I got to the place where I said, 54 00:02:43.900 --> 00:02:46.900 all right, I don't want to skip entire chapters 55 00:02:46.900 --> 00:02:49.900 because I don't know what in the world is guys talking about. 56 00:02:49.900 --> 00:02:52.900 I'm going to do the work with the Lord and dig in. 57 00:02:52.900 --> 00:02:54.900 And that's what I invite you to do. 58 00:02:54.900 --> 00:02:55.900 And may you dig in. 59 00:02:55.900 --> 00:03:01.900 Think your teeth into the glorious truths contained in the book of Hebrews. 60 00:03:01.900 --> 00:03:02.900 Hallelujah. 61 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:04.900 Well, Hebrews chapter five is what we're up to. 62 00:03:04.900 --> 00:03:11.900 Remember Hebrews is a book or letter written to a very disgruntled group of people. 63 00:03:11.900 --> 00:03:14.900 A despondent community of Christians. 64 00:03:14.900 --> 00:03:16.900 They were persecuted. 65 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:18.900 They were in a sad place. 66 00:03:18.900 --> 00:03:19.900 And they were pushed. 67 00:03:19.900 --> 00:03:22.900 And they're on the verge of quitting. 68 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:24.900 Quitting what you say. 69 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:26.900 Literally quitting their Christianity. 70 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:29.900 Or on the verge of apostasy. 71 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:31.900 Abandoning Jesus and abandoning the faith. 72 00:03:31.900 --> 00:03:33.900 That's how bad it got. 73 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:38.900 And the letter of Hebrews is how somebody with apostolic authority 74 00:03:38.900 --> 00:03:41.900 would address the community in a people group like that. 75 00:03:41.900 --> 00:03:43.900 What he would say to them. 76 00:03:43.900 --> 00:03:46.900 Let's begin Hebrews chapter five, verse one. 77 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:50.900 For every high priest, 78 00:03:50.900 --> 00:03:58.900 taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God. 79 00:03:58.900 --> 00:04:03.900 That he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 80 00:04:03.900 --> 00:04:07.900 And the idea is that he could have compassion. 81 00:04:07.900 --> 00:04:11.900 So you had under the mosaic law, under the Old Testament, 82 00:04:11.900 --> 00:04:17.900 you had lots and lots of priests, but you had one high priest. 83 00:04:17.900 --> 00:04:21.900 They all performed sacrifices offered up gifts to the Lord. 84 00:04:21.900 --> 00:04:24.900 The high priest was the main guy in charge. 85 00:04:24.900 --> 00:04:27.900 He didn't get to campaign for that position. 86 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:32.900 You didn't like go up the corporate ladder to get that position. 87 00:04:32.900 --> 00:04:35.900 That was given by God himself. 88 00:04:35.900 --> 00:04:38.900 And the idea was that in offering up the sacrifice, 89 00:04:38.900 --> 00:04:40.900 he wasn't just a meat cutter. 90 00:04:40.900 --> 00:04:42.900 It wasn't just a butcher. 91 00:04:42.900 --> 00:04:45.900 But he actually had compassion. 92 00:04:45.900 --> 00:04:52.900 And he understood even his outfit was designed in a way with the 12 tribes of Israel's names on his shoulders. 93 00:04:52.900 --> 00:04:55.900 It was designed in a way to remind him of the people. 94 00:04:55.900 --> 00:04:59.900 He's doing this for the people. 95 00:04:59.900 --> 00:05:03.900 Two, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray 96 00:05:03.900 --> 00:05:08.900 since he himself is also subject to weakness. 97 00:05:08.900 --> 00:05:12.900 Because of this, he's required as for the people, 98 00:05:12.900 --> 00:05:17.900 so also for himself, to remind him that he's just a human, 99 00:05:17.900 --> 00:05:20.900 to offer sacrifices for sins. 100 00:05:20.900 --> 00:05:22.900 And no man takes this honor to himself, 101 00:05:22.900 --> 00:05:28.900 but he who is called by God just as Aaron was. 102 00:05:28.900 --> 00:05:31.900 Now I want you to know that everybody here, 103 00:05:31.900 --> 00:05:34.900 everybody on planet earth needs a priest. 104 00:05:34.900 --> 00:05:36.900 Did you know that? 105 00:05:36.900 --> 00:05:38.900 You didn't know that. 106 00:05:38.900 --> 00:05:39.900 I'm glad I could tell you. 107 00:05:39.900 --> 00:05:41.900 You need a priest. 108 00:05:41.900 --> 00:05:44.900 If you don't have one, you've come to the right place. 109 00:05:44.900 --> 00:05:48.900 You get yourself one. 110 00:05:48.900 --> 00:05:55.900 How are you going to approach a holy, untouchable God without a priest? 111 00:05:55.900 --> 00:05:58.900 You know what a priest is? 112 00:05:58.900 --> 00:06:01.900 The actual word means bridge builder. 113 00:06:01.900 --> 00:06:05.900 See, just let me take your hand. 114 00:06:05.900 --> 00:06:07.900 See, I'm making a bridge. 115 00:06:07.900 --> 00:06:09.900 You guys are friends. 116 00:06:09.900 --> 00:06:13.900 It's okay. He's not going to hurt you. 117 00:06:13.900 --> 00:06:17.900 A mediator, a bridge builder, a priest. 118 00:06:17.900 --> 00:06:23.900 All of mankind innately knows this. 119 00:06:23.900 --> 00:06:26.900 They came from Europe to South America, 120 00:06:26.900 --> 00:06:27.900 guess what they found. 121 00:06:27.900 --> 00:06:30.900 People didn't even speak the same language, 122 00:06:30.900 --> 00:06:31.900 didn't believe what they believed, 123 00:06:31.900 --> 00:06:32.900 but you know what? 124 00:06:32.900 --> 00:06:33.900 They had priests. 125 00:06:33.900 --> 00:06:34.900 Go over to Japan. 126 00:06:34.900 --> 00:06:35.900 What even? 127 00:06:35.900 --> 00:06:36.900 Priest. 128 00:06:36.900 --> 00:06:39.900 Going to the bush in Africa, priests. 129 00:06:39.900 --> 00:06:44.900 Because mankind, universal man, innately knows. 130 00:06:44.900 --> 00:06:47.900 I cannot touch upon the divine without a priest. 131 00:06:47.900 --> 00:06:52.900 I need that bridge maker, that mediator. 132 00:06:52.900 --> 00:06:55.900 By the way, I'm not him. 133 00:06:55.900 --> 00:06:59.900 That's why you don't hear the term priest in association 134 00:06:59.900 --> 00:07:02.900 with church governance and how a church should be run in the New Testament. 135 00:07:02.900 --> 00:07:04.900 I'm a pastor. 136 00:07:04.900 --> 00:07:06.900 That is in the New Testament. 137 00:07:06.900 --> 00:07:09.900 I shepherd God's people. 138 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:11.900 You have entire denominations, 139 00:07:11.900 --> 00:07:17.900 hard ones with over billion people that have priests. 140 00:07:18.900 --> 00:07:22.900 Yet the only priest you're supposed to have is Jesus Christ. 141 00:07:22.900 --> 00:07:26.900 The Bible says there is one mediator between God and man. 142 00:07:26.900 --> 00:07:29.900 The man, capital and Christ Jesus. 143 00:07:29.900 --> 00:07:31.900 There's only one bridge maker. 144 00:07:31.900 --> 00:07:35.900 So I don't need saints to go through. 145 00:07:35.900 --> 00:07:38.900 I don't need Mary to go through. 146 00:07:38.900 --> 00:07:39.900 She's not a mediator. 147 00:07:39.900 --> 00:07:41.900 Saints aren't a mediator. 148 00:07:41.900 --> 00:07:43.900 Icons on a wall. 149 00:07:43.900 --> 00:07:45.900 They're not mediating for me. 150 00:07:45.900 --> 00:07:47.900 I'm a mediator, Jesus. 151 00:07:47.900 --> 00:07:50.900 He is mine in yours, high priest. 152 00:07:50.900 --> 00:07:55.900 And this high priest, what's so beautiful is he's 100% man. 153 00:07:55.900 --> 00:07:58.900 So he knows what you go through. 154 00:07:58.900 --> 00:08:01.900 That's what the ideal was of the Old Testament high priest. 155 00:08:01.900 --> 00:08:04.900 Yet you have stories of how they got proud, arrogant anyway, 156 00:08:04.900 --> 00:08:06.900 and still couldn't relate to the people. 157 00:08:06.900 --> 00:08:08.900 Jesus is not that way. 158 00:08:08.900 --> 00:08:09.900 He knows you. 159 00:08:09.900 --> 00:08:10.900 He knows your pain. 160 00:08:10.900 --> 00:08:12.900 He knows your suffering because he became fully man. 161 00:08:12.900 --> 00:08:15.900 Yet listen to this and the characteristics of this high priest. 162 00:08:15.900 --> 00:08:17.900 He's also fully God. 163 00:08:17.900 --> 00:08:21.900 In fact, he is God and he's within the Father. 164 00:08:21.900 --> 00:08:22.900 He's within God. 165 00:08:22.900 --> 00:08:27.900 He said I came out from him and will return to him. 166 00:08:27.900 --> 00:08:31.900 What do you think is happening when you pray Father in the name of Jesus? 167 00:08:31.900 --> 00:08:33.900 You think you're just being poetic? 168 00:08:33.900 --> 00:08:37.900 You're saying Father, Almighty God, I'm praying to you. 169 00:08:37.900 --> 00:08:41.900 I'm talking to you in the name of Jesus, in the name of my high priest. 170 00:08:41.900 --> 00:08:43.900 My bridge maker, my mediator. 171 00:08:43.900 --> 00:08:44.900 I'm coming to you. 172 00:08:44.900 --> 00:08:48.900 How I'm so confident, the God, Almighty, here's every word I say, 173 00:08:48.900 --> 00:08:51.900 is because I offered up always in the name of Jesus. 174 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:53.900 That's why Jesus taught us to pray. 175 00:08:53.900 --> 00:08:57.900 He said whatever you ask for, in my name, I will do for you. 176 00:08:57.900 --> 00:09:01.900 And if you find other priests, you got a problem. 177 00:09:01.900 --> 00:09:02.900 They're not even hearing you. 178 00:09:02.900 --> 00:09:03.900 They're dead. 179 00:09:03.900 --> 00:09:09.900 Or if they're living, you've got some false teacher over you. 180 00:09:10.900 --> 00:09:13.900 No, you got a high priest. 181 00:09:13.900 --> 00:09:14.900 Jesus. 182 00:09:14.900 --> 00:09:19.900 No lawsuits against Jesus. 183 00:09:19.900 --> 00:09:22.900 No weird stories you're going to hear in the media. 184 00:09:22.900 --> 00:09:24.900 Very good high priest, hallelujah. 185 00:09:24.900 --> 00:09:26.900 Loves the little children. 186 00:09:32.900 --> 00:09:33.900 You thought that's crazy. 187 00:09:33.900 --> 00:09:36.900 You should have been your first service. 188 00:09:37.900 --> 00:09:38.900 First. 189 00:09:41.900 --> 00:09:42.900 Hallelujah. 190 00:09:45.900 --> 00:09:49.900 Let me just read this to you from the Theologian pool. 191 00:09:49.900 --> 00:09:54.900 A sinner can undertake to manage nothing towards God immediately, 192 00:09:54.900 --> 00:09:58.900 or by himself, but with a mediating priest, 193 00:09:58.900 --> 00:10:01.900 who must know God's mind and performance. 194 00:10:01.900 --> 00:10:06.900 The common sense of mankind about it since the fall, 195 00:10:06.900 --> 00:10:09.900 death, evidence, it, no nation being without a religion, 196 00:10:09.900 --> 00:10:12.900 a temple, a place of worship, or a priest. 197 00:10:12.900 --> 00:10:15.900 Today, we are also prohibited from being our own priest. 198 00:10:15.900 --> 00:10:20.900 It is great arrogance to think we can approach God on our own without a priest. 199 00:10:20.900 --> 00:10:27.900 But it is also great superstition to think we need any priest other than Jesus Christ himself. 200 00:10:27.900 --> 00:10:31.900 God provides Jesus as a mediator and a priest. 201 00:10:31.900 --> 00:10:34.900 And we must use the priest God provides. 202 00:10:34.900 --> 00:10:36.900 Hallelujah. 203 00:10:36.900 --> 00:10:38.900 So every one of your words is heard. 204 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:42.900 He's writing these discouraged people. 205 00:10:42.900 --> 00:10:44.900 Some of you you got to hear this. 206 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:48.900 I ran early in my 20s. 207 00:10:48.900 --> 00:10:53.900 I ran a prayer line for ministry. 208 00:10:54.900 --> 00:10:58.900 Like you know when the television preacher is preaching, 209 00:10:58.900 --> 00:11:01.900 and then there's the 1-800 number to call, 210 00:11:01.900 --> 00:11:05.900 I was the guy, and we had these phone booths, and I would be managing that. 211 00:11:05.900 --> 00:11:07.900 And I was there from the start. 212 00:11:07.900 --> 00:11:09.900 So I was excited and my early 20s. 213 00:11:09.900 --> 00:11:11.900 I went to what kind of, because I never made the call. 214 00:11:11.900 --> 00:11:15.900 I wonder what kind of people actually call the 800 number for prayer. 215 00:11:15.900 --> 00:11:17.900 Don't you wonder? 216 00:11:17.900 --> 00:11:19.900 Well, I had to fund first few weeks. 217 00:11:19.900 --> 00:11:21.900 I got to know the people who call. 218 00:11:21.900 --> 00:11:23.900 I mean, we had a phone bank. 219 00:11:23.900 --> 00:11:25.900 20, 30 phones are overing and off the hook. 220 00:11:25.900 --> 00:11:26.900 Who's calling? 221 00:11:26.900 --> 00:11:28.900 I got to know them. 222 00:11:28.900 --> 00:11:29.900 I'll tell you who they are. 223 00:11:29.900 --> 00:11:32.900 They would say, can you please pray for me? 224 00:11:32.900 --> 00:11:34.900 But they didn't mean like, I'm praying, 225 00:11:34.900 --> 00:11:36.900 and you link with me and agree with me. 226 00:11:36.900 --> 00:11:38.900 They literally meant, can you pray for me? 227 00:11:38.900 --> 00:11:41.900 Like, my prayers aren't strong, and I don't pray. 228 00:11:41.900 --> 00:11:42.900 So you do it for me. 229 00:11:42.900 --> 00:11:44.900 Can you pray for me? 230 00:11:44.900 --> 00:11:46.900 I'm not praying. 231 00:11:46.900 --> 00:11:48.900 I'm not praying because I'm full of doubt and unbelief. 232 00:11:48.900 --> 00:11:51.900 And secretly, I don't even believe that God hears me. 233 00:11:51.900 --> 00:11:54.900 I'm so dirty. 234 00:11:54.900 --> 00:11:55.900 Thank you, Lord. 235 00:11:55.900 --> 00:11:57.900 Say, too grand right there. 236 00:11:57.900 --> 00:12:00.900 I'm so dirty. 237 00:12:00.900 --> 00:12:01.900 I'm so sinful. 238 00:12:01.900 --> 00:12:02.900 I'm so condemned. 239 00:12:02.900 --> 00:12:03.900 God's not going to hear me. 240 00:12:03.900 --> 00:12:05.900 But you, you're working for that ministry. 241 00:12:05.900 --> 00:12:07.900 Probably you got, you know, you got all access passed. 242 00:12:07.900 --> 00:12:09.900 Somehow, it must be really, really good. 243 00:12:09.900 --> 00:12:11.900 So you pray for me. 244 00:12:11.900 --> 00:12:13.900 Oh, there's people like that here right now. 245 00:12:13.900 --> 00:12:14.900 I know it. 246 00:12:14.900 --> 00:12:16.900 I've been doing this a while. 247 00:12:17.900 --> 00:12:19.900 You may not even admit it, but deep down in there, 248 00:12:19.900 --> 00:12:21.900 this God hears me. 249 00:12:21.900 --> 00:12:23.900 Maybe I get somebody else. 250 00:12:23.900 --> 00:12:24.900 They'll pray. 251 00:12:24.900 --> 00:12:25.900 He'll hear them. 252 00:12:25.900 --> 00:12:26.900 No. 253 00:12:26.900 --> 00:12:28.900 Our ministry team, they're not supposed to pray instead of you. 254 00:12:28.900 --> 00:12:29.900 Pray for. 255 00:12:29.900 --> 00:12:31.900 They're supposed to agree with you in prayer. 256 00:12:31.900 --> 00:12:32.900 You come with your faith. 257 00:12:32.900 --> 00:12:33.900 They come with their faith. 258 00:12:33.900 --> 00:12:36.900 Now we've got oodles of faith. 259 00:12:36.900 --> 00:12:40.900 Oodles. 260 00:12:40.900 --> 00:12:44.900 Faith compounded. 261 00:12:44.900 --> 00:12:46.900 That's why this is so important. 262 00:12:46.900 --> 00:12:49.900 You have a high priest whose job, 263 00:12:49.900 --> 00:12:52.900 it says he's the high priest of our confession. 264 00:12:52.900 --> 00:12:57.900 Part of Jesus's job is he carries your words to the Father. 265 00:12:57.900 --> 00:13:01.900 He's the high priest of your confession of your words. 266 00:13:01.900 --> 00:13:05.900 That's why when you say Jesus, I receive you as my Lord and Savior. 267 00:13:05.900 --> 00:13:09.900 Oh, Jesus, carry those words to the Father and you got born again. 268 00:13:09.900 --> 00:13:10.900 Hallelujah. 269 00:13:10.900 --> 00:13:12.900 Whenever you agree with the Word of God, 270 00:13:12.900 --> 00:13:15.900 Jesus, he brings those words to the Father. 271 00:13:15.900 --> 00:13:17.900 Some of us aren't giving Jesus the Word of God, 272 00:13:17.900 --> 00:13:20.900 giving him a bunch of complaints, 273 00:13:20.900 --> 00:13:22.900 a bunch of grumbling, 274 00:13:22.900 --> 00:13:24.900 and Jesus and heaven go, 275 00:13:24.900 --> 00:13:26.900 give me something to work with here. 276 00:13:26.900 --> 00:13:29.900 You want me to bring that to the Father? 277 00:13:29.900 --> 00:13:31.900 That's why he said in Mark 1124, 278 00:13:31.900 --> 00:13:34.900 you will have whatever you say. 279 00:13:34.900 --> 00:13:37.900 You will have whatever you say. 280 00:13:37.900 --> 00:13:39.900 Whatsoever things you desire, 281 00:13:39.900 --> 00:13:42.900 when you pray, believe that you receive them 282 00:13:42.900 --> 00:13:44.900 and you shall have them. 283 00:13:44.900 --> 00:13:46.900 But before that, he said, 284 00:13:46.900 --> 00:13:48.900 if you speak to this mountain 285 00:13:48.900 --> 00:13:50.900 and command it to be moved, 286 00:13:50.900 --> 00:13:55.900 it'll obey you and you'll have whatever you say. 287 00:13:55.900 --> 00:13:56.900 So when you said, 288 00:13:56.900 --> 00:13:59.900 I believe Jesus has already forgiven me of my sins, 289 00:13:59.900 --> 00:14:01.900 you have that according to your words. 290 00:14:01.900 --> 00:14:02.900 Hallelujah. 291 00:14:02.900 --> 00:14:05.900 When you say, even with pain, even with sickness, 292 00:14:05.900 --> 00:14:07.900 I believe that by his stripes, 293 00:14:07.900 --> 00:14:08.900 I was healed. 294 00:14:08.900 --> 00:14:10.900 You have what you say, 295 00:14:10.900 --> 00:14:12.900 death and life are in the power of the tongue, 296 00:14:12.900 --> 00:14:14.900 and they that love it. 297 00:14:14.900 --> 00:14:17.900 We'll leave the fruit thereof. 298 00:14:17.900 --> 00:14:18.900 Hallelujah. 299 00:14:18.900 --> 00:14:20.900 Verse 5. 300 00:14:20.900 --> 00:14:25.900 So also Christ. 301 00:14:25.900 --> 00:14:31.900 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become high priest. 302 00:14:31.900 --> 00:14:33.900 But it was he, the Father, who said to him, 303 00:14:33.900 --> 00:14:36.900 you are my son, today I have begotten you. 304 00:14:36.900 --> 00:14:44.900 That means that's the day, the moment of his resurrection. 305 00:14:44.900 --> 00:14:47.900 Today I have begotten you. 306 00:14:47.900 --> 00:14:49.900 As he also says in another place, 307 00:14:49.900 --> 00:14:51.900 you are priest forever, 308 00:14:51.900 --> 00:14:53.900 according to the order of Melchizedek. 309 00:14:53.900 --> 00:14:55.900 We're going to get to Melchizedek. 310 00:14:55.900 --> 00:14:56.900 That's Hebrews 7. 311 00:14:56.900 --> 00:14:57.900 This eluded me for years. 312 00:14:57.900 --> 00:14:59.900 I don't even know how to pronounce his name. 313 00:14:59.900 --> 00:15:02.900 Let alone what the deeper meaning behind it is. 314 00:15:02.900 --> 00:15:05.900 But it's there for a reason, and we should know it. 315 00:15:05.900 --> 00:15:06.900 Let's keep reading. 316 00:15:06.900 --> 00:15:08.900 Who in the days of his flesh Jesus, 317 00:15:08.900 --> 00:15:12.900 when he had offered up prayers and supplications, 318 00:15:12.900 --> 00:15:14.900 would vehement cries and tears? 319 00:15:14.900 --> 00:15:16.900 What's he talking about? 320 00:15:16.900 --> 00:15:19.900 When did this happen? 321 00:15:19.900 --> 00:15:20.900 Thank you. 322 00:15:20.900 --> 00:15:21.900 The Garden of Gethsemane. 323 00:15:21.900 --> 00:15:24.900 He's crying out to the Father. 324 00:15:24.900 --> 00:15:27.900 If it's possible, let this cup pass for me. 325 00:15:27.900 --> 00:15:30.900 Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. 326 00:15:30.900 --> 00:15:32.900 So what was the prayer of Jesus? 327 00:15:32.900 --> 00:15:36.900 His honest prayer was give me the strength to go through with this, 328 00:15:36.900 --> 00:15:39.900 and that prayer was heard. 329 00:15:39.900 --> 00:15:42.900 With vehement cries and tears to him 330 00:15:42.900 --> 00:15:45.900 who was able to save him from death and was heard, 331 00:15:45.900 --> 00:15:47.900 Jesus was heard. 332 00:15:47.900 --> 00:15:50.900 He did what he was supposed to do for us, 333 00:15:50.900 --> 00:15:54.900 even though in that moment he was terrified. 334 00:15:54.900 --> 00:15:56.900 You know why he was terrified? 335 00:15:56.900 --> 00:15:58.900 Because of the boo-boos? 336 00:15:58.900 --> 00:16:01.900 What do you think Jesus dreaded about the cross? 337 00:16:01.900 --> 00:16:06.900 She did. 338 00:16:06.900 --> 00:16:08.900 She said it like standard English too, 339 00:16:08.900 --> 00:16:10.900 like perfect like a newscaster would. 340 00:16:10.900 --> 00:16:11.900 She did. 341 00:16:11.900 --> 00:16:15.900 She did say it good. 342 00:16:15.900 --> 00:16:18.900 Did you hear what she said? 343 00:16:18.900 --> 00:16:21.900 The separation from the Father. 344 00:16:21.900 --> 00:16:22.900 Yeah. 345 00:16:22.900 --> 00:16:24.900 Yeah, because when you talk about the cross, 346 00:16:24.900 --> 00:16:26.900 and when I first got saved, 347 00:16:26.900 --> 00:16:28.900 everybody talked about the physical pain of the cross, 348 00:16:28.900 --> 00:16:29.900 which is no joke. 349 00:16:29.900 --> 00:16:33.900 Those like railroad-sized spikes they put through him. 350 00:16:33.900 --> 00:16:35.900 And it wasn't, I mean, some of us, 351 00:16:35.900 --> 00:16:38.900 we studied it out years before the Passion of the Christ, 352 00:16:38.900 --> 00:16:40.900 what actually happened in the crucifixion. 353 00:16:40.900 --> 00:16:42.900 And then people were horrified to watch, 354 00:16:42.900 --> 00:16:44.900 remember the Passion of the Christ? 355 00:16:44.900 --> 00:16:46.900 They were like, this is our rated. 356 00:16:46.900 --> 00:16:48.900 We never thought it was like, yes, that's how it is. 357 00:16:48.900 --> 00:16:52.900 It's whipped, flesh torn off of him. 358 00:16:52.900 --> 00:16:55.900 But that's not what he was dreading. 359 00:16:55.900 --> 00:16:57.900 He was dreading for the first time ever 360 00:16:57.900 --> 00:16:59.900 being separated from the Father, 361 00:16:59.900 --> 00:17:01.900 because sin separates us from God. 362 00:17:01.900 --> 00:17:04.900 And Jesus would become sin on the cross. 363 00:17:04.900 --> 00:17:06.900 And for the first time ever in history, 364 00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:09.900 he would hear the Father moving away from him. 365 00:17:09.900 --> 00:17:11.900 And we would hear, my God, my God, 366 00:17:11.900 --> 00:17:13.900 why have you forsaken me? 367 00:17:13.900 --> 00:17:17.900 That's what he dreaded. 368 00:17:17.900 --> 00:17:19.900 When I'm experiencing the holiness of God, 369 00:17:19.900 --> 00:17:21.900 the presence of God, 370 00:17:21.900 --> 00:17:23.900 I don't even like one little sin. 371 00:17:23.900 --> 00:17:25.900 It's like, get that off of me. 372 00:17:25.900 --> 00:17:28.900 You're going to mess with the holiness of God 373 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:29.900 in me and around me. 374 00:17:29.900 --> 00:17:30.900 And who am I? 375 00:17:30.900 --> 00:17:31.900 I'm nothing. 376 00:17:31.900 --> 00:17:33.900 I need a lot of help still. 377 00:17:33.900 --> 00:17:35.900 Imagine Jesus in perfect holiness 378 00:17:35.900 --> 00:17:41.900 then becoming sin. 379 00:17:41.900 --> 00:17:43.900 Verse 8. 380 00:17:43.900 --> 00:17:46.900 All right, though he was a son, 381 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:48.900 and this is what Sean and the worship team 382 00:17:48.900 --> 00:17:49.900 so beautifully saying about, 383 00:17:49.900 --> 00:17:54.900 we learned obedience by the things which he suffered. 384 00:17:54.900 --> 00:17:57.900 And by the way, do you know that Christ is our example 385 00:17:57.900 --> 00:18:00.900 that we learn obedience through the things which we suffer? 386 00:18:00.900 --> 00:18:02.900 Amen. 387 00:18:02.900 --> 00:18:12.900 Of course, that always gets a real rowdy response. 388 00:18:12.900 --> 00:18:17.900 Now, we have to let the Bible define the Bible. 389 00:18:18.900 --> 00:18:22.900 And I found that whatever people are going through, 390 00:18:22.900 --> 00:18:24.900 they blame God. 391 00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:27.900 Whatever kind of suffering they're going through, 392 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:30.900 they blame God and go, I must be just like Jesus. 393 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:33.900 You know, Jesus learned obedience by the things he suffered. 394 00:18:33.900 --> 00:18:37.900 So I got a lot of crud going on in my life right now. 395 00:18:37.900 --> 00:18:39.900 In fact, there's always crud going on in my life. 396 00:18:39.900 --> 00:18:40.900 I've never not known crud. 397 00:18:40.900 --> 00:18:44.900 I'm married to crud every day. 398 00:18:44.900 --> 00:18:49.900 I'm just, God, take me home today. 399 00:18:49.900 --> 00:18:52.900 That's not God's will. 400 00:18:52.900 --> 00:18:58.900 And not all suffering is the sufferings of Christ. 401 00:18:58.900 --> 00:19:00.900 And I want to show you from the scriptures 402 00:19:00.900 --> 00:19:01.900 because no matter what I say, 403 00:19:01.900 --> 00:19:03.900 some of you, your minds won't be changed 404 00:19:03.900 --> 00:19:04.900 because you're addicted to your suffering. 405 00:19:04.900 --> 00:19:05.900 You're married to your suffering. 406 00:19:05.900 --> 00:19:06.900 You love your suffering. 407 00:19:06.900 --> 00:19:08.900 You make bad decisions all the time. 408 00:19:08.900 --> 00:19:09.900 That's why you're suffering. 409 00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:10.900 You have bad theology. 410 00:19:10.900 --> 00:19:11.900 You're not in the Word. 411 00:19:11.900 --> 00:19:12.900 That's why you're suffering. 412 00:19:12.900 --> 00:19:14.900 And then you're getting your butt kicked by the devil. 413 00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:16.900 And you're going to go and testify in church and say, 414 00:19:16.900 --> 00:19:20.900 God is putting me through all this to mature me and disciple me 415 00:19:20.900 --> 00:19:22.900 and that I might learn obedience. 416 00:19:22.900 --> 00:19:24.900 Yeah. 417 00:19:24.900 --> 00:19:28.900 You're your own worst nightmare. 418 00:19:28.900 --> 00:19:30.900 You're your own worst enemy. 419 00:19:30.900 --> 00:19:33.900 You need a mind renewing. 420 00:19:33.900 --> 00:19:40.900 So we are promised the sufferings of Christ. 421 00:19:40.900 --> 00:19:43.900 That's a specific kind of suffering. 422 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:46.900 Sickness is not a part of that. 423 00:19:46.900 --> 00:19:49.900 Lack is not a part of that. 424 00:19:49.900 --> 00:19:51.900 Emotional turmoil. 425 00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:53.900 Not a part of that. 426 00:19:53.900 --> 00:19:55.900 You got your heart broken by somebody. 427 00:19:55.900 --> 00:19:57.900 Oh, it's sufferings of Christ. 428 00:19:57.900 --> 00:19:59.900 No. 429 00:19:59.900 --> 00:20:01.900 No. 430 00:20:01.900 --> 00:20:03.900 You dated the wrong person. 431 00:20:03.900 --> 00:20:05.900 You thought they were loving you. 432 00:20:05.900 --> 00:20:08.900 Meanwhile, they were DMing 50 other people. 433 00:20:08.900 --> 00:20:11.900 All right. 434 00:20:11.900 --> 00:20:18.900 Oh, it's the sufferings of Christ. 435 00:20:18.900 --> 00:20:21.900 First Peter. 436 00:20:21.900 --> 00:20:25.900 Pastor Moe is doing a mental count of how many texts and emails 437 00:20:25.900 --> 00:20:28.900 he's going to have to reply to this week is like, 438 00:20:28.900 --> 00:20:31.900 you don't make my job easier. 439 00:20:31.900 --> 00:20:33.900 Let's go to first Peter. 440 00:20:33.900 --> 00:20:35.900 I want to let the Bible define the Bible. 441 00:20:35.900 --> 00:20:37.900 No, but this is important. 442 00:20:37.900 --> 00:20:40.900 This is important because the rap that God gets, 443 00:20:40.900 --> 00:20:42.900 he should be arrested for child abuse 444 00:20:42.900 --> 00:20:45.900 the way some of you think about him. 445 00:20:45.900 --> 00:20:47.900 All right. 446 00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:49.900 First Peter, the one in chapter four. 447 00:20:49.900 --> 00:20:51.900 You got that? 448 00:20:51.900 --> 00:20:53.900 First Peter, four, twelve. 449 00:20:53.900 --> 00:20:55.900 I had this somewhere here. 450 00:20:55.900 --> 00:20:56.900 I'm just going to have to trust you. 451 00:20:56.900 --> 00:20:57.900 Okay, it's up there. 452 00:20:57.900 --> 00:20:59.900 First Peter four. 453 00:20:59.900 --> 00:21:00.900 By the way, first Peter, 454 00:21:00.900 --> 00:21:02.900 if you want to learn about suffering, 455 00:21:02.900 --> 00:21:03.900 which I encourage you to, 456 00:21:03.900 --> 00:21:05.900 because we learned that Jesus, 457 00:21:05.900 --> 00:21:08.900 he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. 458 00:21:08.900 --> 00:21:10.900 And by the way, we are promised suffering. 459 00:21:10.900 --> 00:21:13.900 You know when the Apostle Paul got saved. 460 00:21:13.900 --> 00:21:15.900 How'd you like to get saved like this? 461 00:21:15.900 --> 00:21:19.900 He gets blasted by the light of God off his donkey. 462 00:21:19.900 --> 00:21:22.900 And here's the call that's pronounced over him. 463 00:21:22.900 --> 00:21:24.900 When God is speaking to Nanias. 464 00:21:24.900 --> 00:21:26.900 He says, Nanias, go lay hands on him. 465 00:21:26.900 --> 00:21:28.900 Command that the scales come down. 466 00:21:28.900 --> 00:21:31.900 I'm going to show him what great things he must suffer 467 00:21:31.900 --> 00:21:32.900 for my namesake. 468 00:21:32.900 --> 00:21:34.900 What kind of call is that? 469 00:21:34.900 --> 00:21:40.900 But it's a divine call. 470 00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:42.900 Beloved, do not think it's strange 471 00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:45.900 concerning the fiery trial which is to try you 472 00:21:45.900 --> 00:21:49.900 as though some strange thing has happened to you. 473 00:21:49.900 --> 00:21:54.900 But rejoice to the extent that you partake of whose sufferings? 474 00:21:54.900 --> 00:21:55.900 Christ. 475 00:21:55.900 --> 00:21:56.900 Christ's. 476 00:21:56.900 --> 00:21:57.900 Christ's sufferings? 477 00:21:57.900 --> 00:21:58.900 Good. 478 00:21:58.900 --> 00:21:59.900 You have to pray about those. 479 00:21:59.900 --> 00:22:00.900 Just go here. 480 00:22:00.900 --> 00:22:01.900 I am Lord. 481 00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:04.900 I know you're going to do what you're going to do. 482 00:22:04.900 --> 00:22:08.900 All the other stuff, you have a responsibility to pray against 483 00:22:08.900 --> 00:22:10.900 to stand your ground in the Word. 484 00:22:10.900 --> 00:22:13.900 So what are the sufferings of Christ that were promised? 485 00:22:13.900 --> 00:22:16.900 Well, number one, persecution. 486 00:22:16.900 --> 00:22:20.900 People speaking bad of you, one in a harm you, 487 00:22:20.900 --> 00:22:25.900 trying to sabotage you, not because you're a jerk, 488 00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:28.900 but because of your faith in Jesus. 489 00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:30.900 I've met Christians who were jerks. 490 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:32.900 Everybody hates them. 491 00:22:32.900 --> 00:22:35.900 And they go, it's the person who created me for my faith. 492 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:36.900 No. 493 00:22:36.900 --> 00:22:39.900 It's because you're drenched in the annoying. 494 00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:42.900 And what you really need is the anointing. 495 00:22:42.900 --> 00:22:44.900 But you're majorly annoying. 496 00:22:44.900 --> 00:22:46.900 You step on toes and you're rude. 497 00:22:46.900 --> 00:22:47.900 You're ugly. 498 00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:50.900 And now you're going to blame Jesus because everyone hates you? 499 00:22:50.900 --> 00:22:51.900 No. 500 00:22:51.900 --> 00:22:53.900 Right? 501 00:22:53.900 --> 00:22:55.900 Okay. 502 00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:58.900 Number one, persecution. 503 00:22:58.900 --> 00:22:59.900 Envy. 504 00:22:59.900 --> 00:23:01.900 Being misunderstood. 505 00:23:01.900 --> 00:23:03.900 Your good intentions being called evil. 506 00:23:03.900 --> 00:23:05.900 Those are the sufferings of Christ. 507 00:23:05.900 --> 00:23:07.900 You partake of Christ sufferings. 508 00:23:07.900 --> 00:23:11.900 Notice he doesn't say sickness, getting fired, 509 00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:15.900 emotional turmoil, feeling lonely all the time, 510 00:23:15.900 --> 00:23:17.900 feeling like unfulfilled. 511 00:23:17.900 --> 00:23:19.900 Don't know what my destiny is. 512 00:23:19.900 --> 00:23:24.860 That stuff that God invites you to come and work out with Him. 513 00:23:24.860 --> 00:23:30.620 That when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 514 00:23:30.620 --> 00:23:36.060 Verse 14, if you are reproached, see reproached, chained, those are the sufferings of Christ. 515 00:23:36.060 --> 00:23:38.180 Is this helping anybody? 516 00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:40.780 This should help you. 517 00:23:40.780 --> 00:23:47.500 There's one thing I want you to note, the cross of Jesus, the grace of Jesus, and know this, 518 00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:52.860 and you'll know more than most Ph.D. Theologians, God, good, devil, bad. 519 00:23:52.860 --> 00:23:57.620 And so many people have scribed very bad things to God, and then still somehow say He's good. 520 00:23:57.620 --> 00:24:02.220 Well, you know His ways are mysterious and past finding out, no, you know, if you believe 521 00:24:02.220 --> 00:24:06.780 a piano fell from the 20th floor and crushed your infant next to you, don't try to spiritual, 522 00:24:06.780 --> 00:24:09.660 I know something good is going to, no, that's the devil. 523 00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:13.580 The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy. 524 00:24:13.580 --> 00:24:18.660 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the spirit of glory and 525 00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:20.380 of God rests upon you. 526 00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:26.140 On their part, He is blasphemed, but on your part, He is glorified. 527 00:24:26.140 --> 00:24:30.940 So what are the sufferings of Christ, reproach, right, persecution? 528 00:24:30.940 --> 00:24:34.900 This is a good list you should have, it's not that long, it's like three things on it. 529 00:24:34.900 --> 00:24:38.140 Being misunderstood by people, being envy by people to the point that they want to kill 530 00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:40.980 you, and being persecuted. 531 00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:47.580 By the way, if you don't have any of this in your life, get some. 532 00:24:47.580 --> 00:24:52.740 Maybe first service happened just so I could get some. 533 00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:55.420 See I'm not in a popularity contest. 534 00:24:55.420 --> 00:25:00.220 Jesus said, whoa unto you when all men speak well of you. 535 00:25:00.220 --> 00:25:06.620 No, you should always be persecuted for the uncompromised word of God. 536 00:25:06.620 --> 00:25:10.540 If there's not enough persecution, that means my fire is not bright enough. 537 00:25:10.540 --> 00:25:13.220 Hallelujah. 538 00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:17.060 But let none of you suffer, then He actually knew what people would think. 539 00:25:17.060 --> 00:25:20.460 They think, you know, all sufferings from God and whatever bad things happen, it's God 540 00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:21.500 trying to mature me. 541 00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:26.380 He said, no, don't suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evil doer. 542 00:25:26.380 --> 00:25:29.380 And it seems like He's listing random things, He's like, murder good, well, I'm not going 543 00:25:29.380 --> 00:25:30.380 to do that. 544 00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:31.380 Then He's a busy body. 545 00:25:31.380 --> 00:25:32.380 You on social media? 546 00:25:32.380 --> 00:25:33.380 Boom. 547 00:25:33.380 --> 00:25:34.380 God. 548 00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:35.380 God. 549 00:25:35.380 --> 00:25:36.380 God. 550 00:25:36.380 --> 00:25:37.380 God. 551 00:25:37.380 --> 00:25:38.380 Are you having fun because I am? 552 00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:39.380 Join me. 553 00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:44.340 Join me this morning on enjoying God's presence, total forgiveness of sin, and let His word 554 00:25:44.340 --> 00:25:46.140 wash over you. 555 00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:50.780 And if you are enjoying yourself, send a quick text message to your face and notify it, 556 00:25:50.780 --> 00:25:55.660 and let what's happening on the inside reflect on the outside of Tad. 557 00:25:55.660 --> 00:25:58.860 All right. 558 00:25:58.860 --> 00:26:00.620 First Peter is the great book on suffering. 559 00:26:00.620 --> 00:26:03.100 There's three portions where he speaks about it. 560 00:26:03.100 --> 00:26:05.620 Next one, first Peter three. 561 00:26:05.620 --> 00:26:09.020 You're going to see a theme here. 562 00:26:09.020 --> 00:26:18.620 Next Peter three, verse 13. 563 00:26:18.620 --> 00:26:23.620 And who is He who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? 564 00:26:23.620 --> 00:26:34.220 But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake. 565 00:26:34.220 --> 00:26:40.460 But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you are blessed. 566 00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:42.780 And do not be afraid of their what? 567 00:26:42.780 --> 00:26:44.380 What kind of suffering is he talking about? 568 00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:47.420 He's talking about suffering for righteousness sake. 569 00:26:47.420 --> 00:26:52.260 He's talking about people threatening you, persecuting you. 570 00:26:52.260 --> 00:26:55.660 Hey, again, I've got to knock it every, which way? 571 00:26:55.660 --> 00:27:00.180 Again, this is so if you're suffering in a way that doesn't fall in line with this. 572 00:27:00.180 --> 00:27:04.500 It means it's not the sufferings of Christ, it's not your portion. 573 00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:06.060 It doesn't belong to you. 574 00:27:06.060 --> 00:27:08.580 I'm talking about there's some people. 575 00:27:08.580 --> 00:27:13.660 You know, I know, as a pastor there's some people, they're married to their suffering. 576 00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:19.100 It's this weird abusive relationship that's unholy alliance they have with their suffering. 577 00:27:19.100 --> 00:27:20.100 You try to pull them out. 578 00:27:20.100 --> 00:27:22.700 No, no, this is all I've ever known. 579 00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:24.460 I'm so comfortable here. 580 00:27:24.460 --> 00:27:30.140 If I'm not just underneath life's boot and in agony, I don't even know why. 581 00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:31.140 I am. 582 00:27:31.140 --> 00:27:37.580 In fact, when it's peaceful, I get scared and I make drama for myself. 583 00:27:37.580 --> 00:27:42.300 And do not be afraid of their threats nor be troubled, verse 15. 584 00:27:42.300 --> 00:27:46.700 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and always be ready to give a defense to everyone 585 00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:52.820 who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you with meekness and fear, having a good 586 00:27:52.820 --> 00:27:57.980 conscience that when they defame you as evil doers, see that's the suffering. 587 00:27:58.980 --> 00:28:04.500 They're going to defame you talk about you as an evil doer. 588 00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:09.020 Those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 589 00:28:09.020 --> 00:28:13.900 For it is better if it is the will of God to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. 590 00:28:13.900 --> 00:28:20.740 In other words, you will suffer persecution, reproach, being envied. 591 00:28:20.740 --> 00:28:23.900 Yeah, part of the suffering is being envied. 592 00:28:23.900 --> 00:28:29.060 The word blessed, its primary meaning is empowered to prosper. 593 00:28:29.060 --> 00:28:32.380 You know what it's second there is to be envied. 594 00:28:32.380 --> 00:28:38.980 When your blessed is going to be haters, they're going to be peaking from the shadows, 595 00:28:38.980 --> 00:28:41.220 praying for your downfall. 596 00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:43.660 They don't, they think God is cheap. 597 00:28:43.660 --> 00:28:46.780 So whatever he gave you, now he's run out and there's no more left for them. 598 00:28:46.780 --> 00:28:51.420 They're going to be hating on you. 599 00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:53.700 Let's go to first Peter, the next passage. 600 00:28:53.700 --> 00:29:00.580 I'm just letting the Bible define what suffering is. 601 00:29:00.580 --> 00:29:02.420 Hallelujah. 602 00:29:02.420 --> 00:29:05.340 So all that other stuff you don't like that's in your life, you realize the devil put it 603 00:29:05.340 --> 00:29:07.340 there, not God. 604 00:29:07.340 --> 00:29:08.340 What do you do about that? 605 00:29:08.340 --> 00:29:11.700 You stand on the word, you stand on its promises. 606 00:29:11.700 --> 00:29:14.420 After you've done that, then you just ignore the problem. 607 00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:19.980 The most offensive thing you can do to your enemy is to ignore him. 608 00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:22.140 So do I pray about my problems all the time? 609 00:29:22.140 --> 00:29:23.140 No. 610 00:29:23.140 --> 00:29:24.140 You're dealt with that? 611 00:29:24.140 --> 00:29:25.140 Now I'm ignored. 612 00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:26.140 I'm focused on Jesus. 613 00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:27.740 I'm focused on where he's taking me. 614 00:29:27.740 --> 00:29:31.380 And I ignored and you know what happens like several months later, I'm like, wasn't I ignoring 615 00:29:31.380 --> 00:29:32.380 that thing? 616 00:29:32.380 --> 00:29:33.380 What was that thing? 617 00:29:33.380 --> 00:29:36.620 Anyway, the Lord took it or the Lord just dealt with it. 618 00:29:36.620 --> 00:29:37.620 It's gone. 619 00:29:37.620 --> 00:29:41.220 It's like you removed the splinter out of my sight, I didn't feel the operation and now 620 00:29:41.220 --> 00:29:43.460 I'm walking better. 621 00:29:43.460 --> 00:29:45.460 Hallelujah. 622 00:29:45.460 --> 00:29:50.300 For what credit is it, he's talking about suffering again, is it if when you are beaten 623 00:29:50.300 --> 00:29:53.580 for your faults, you take it patiently. 624 00:29:53.580 --> 00:29:58.220 Now he's also saying biblical suffering is when you haven't done anything wrong. 625 00:29:58.220 --> 00:30:00.300 Now I don't know if you're this way, but I am. 626 00:30:00.300 --> 00:30:08.860 When I look at my suffering in my life, 99% of what I've experienced suffering had nothing 627 00:30:08.860 --> 00:30:10.500 to do with God. 628 00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:12.500 It wasn't Christ's sufferings. 629 00:30:12.500 --> 00:30:15.340 I've had Christ's sufferings, but this is a little portion. 630 00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:27.540 So all the other stuff, me experiencing the consequences of my own bad decisions. 631 00:30:27.540 --> 00:30:33.140 I'm not getting an amen because everybody, because everybody inwardly said, oh me instead 632 00:30:33.140 --> 00:30:35.580 of amen. 633 00:30:35.580 --> 00:30:36.580 That's what he's saying. 634 00:30:36.580 --> 00:30:41.460 He's saying, when you suffer the sufferings of Christ, it's you didn't do anything wrong, 635 00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:47.100 but a lot of the stuff is just our own bad decisions or consequences of sin. 636 00:30:47.100 --> 00:30:50.900 It's not God punishing you if you're a Christian because that punishment has already been poured 637 00:30:50.900 --> 00:30:54.580 out on Jesus, but sin has its own consequences. 638 00:30:54.580 --> 00:30:59.260 And then there's just the virtue of living in this fallen world. 639 00:30:59.260 --> 00:31:03.060 I actually now have no suffering right now. 640 00:31:03.060 --> 00:31:09.980 There's no, I got total shalom in my home, in my wife, but still there's a cry in my 641 00:31:09.980 --> 00:31:10.980 heart. 642 00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:11.980 I can't wait to see him. 643 00:31:11.980 --> 00:31:16.500 I'd like to see some things on earth before I see him, but bigger than that is I want to 644 00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:17.500 piece out already. 645 00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:18.500 I love the Lord. 646 00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:20.780 I want to be with him. 647 00:31:20.780 --> 00:31:25.980 So there's a suffering that is a yearning still you have for the revelation of the sons 648 00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:32.060 of God, hallelujah, but when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is 649 00:31:32.060 --> 00:31:36.620 commendable before God, verse 21. 650 00:31:36.620 --> 00:31:40.700 Number two, this where you call, so you're calling his suffering, but only the sufferings 651 00:31:40.700 --> 00:31:48.060 of Christ, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow 652 00:31:48.060 --> 00:31:54.780 in his steps, who committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth. 653 00:31:54.780 --> 00:32:00.420 For when he was reviled, he did not revile in return when he suffered, he did not threaten, 654 00:32:00.420 --> 00:32:04.660 but committed himself to him who judges righteously. 655 00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:05.660 Amen. 656 00:32:05.660 --> 00:32:10.820 So if you're being persecuted, the Bible says, don't even pray about it, rejoice for in 657 00:32:10.820 --> 00:32:14.220 that day the Spirit of God and of glory rests upon you. 658 00:32:14.220 --> 00:32:15.580 That's Christ's sufferings. 659 00:32:15.580 --> 00:32:19.060 All the other sufferings take a stand. 660 00:32:19.060 --> 00:32:22.340 Don't be a Christian wimp that's actually an axiomoron. 661 00:32:22.340 --> 00:32:23.900 You're a true Christian. 662 00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:28.540 The Bible says the righteous are as bold as a lion and you have to draw the line. 663 00:32:28.540 --> 00:32:32.340 Some of you haven't opened up your mouth and forever to the Lord or sometimes you've 664 00:32:32.340 --> 00:32:38.700 got to open it up to the devil and say, devil, this far and no further, I break your plans 665 00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:39.700 over my life. 666 00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:42.020 Your power over my life is broken. 667 00:32:42.020 --> 00:32:44.140 The blood of Jesus is against you. 668 00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:51.580 You are not permitted to operate in my home and my place of work and I don't permit you. 669 00:32:51.580 --> 00:32:58.580 Jesus said, whatever you bind on earth, it will be bound in the spirit realm in the heavens 670 00:32:58.580 --> 00:33:04.820 and then loose, Lord, and I loose the blessings of God upon city lighters, the prosperity of 671 00:33:04.820 --> 00:33:09.580 God and whatever you loose on earth with your words here, be loosed in the spirit realm 672 00:33:09.580 --> 00:33:11.660 in the heavenlies. 673 00:33:11.660 --> 00:33:13.220 Hallelujah. 674 00:33:13.220 --> 00:33:17.100 Let's go back to Hebrews. 675 00:33:17.100 --> 00:33:23.060 Though he was a son yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered, the sufferings 676 00:33:23.060 --> 00:33:24.300 of Christ. 677 00:33:24.300 --> 00:33:32.300 And having been perfected, he became the author, Sean, our worship leader, he read from 678 00:33:32.300 --> 00:33:39.260 a different version, same meaning, he became the source of eternal salvation. 679 00:33:39.260 --> 00:33:42.540 But watch this, to all who obey him. 680 00:33:42.540 --> 00:33:48.900 Remember, he's writing to a group of people who are being tempted to not obey and completely 681 00:33:48.900 --> 00:33:50.740 backslide and forsake the faith. 682 00:33:50.740 --> 00:33:52.140 So what do I want you to see here? 683 00:33:52.140 --> 00:33:58.700 I just want you to see here that obedience is packaged in with believing. 684 00:33:58.700 --> 00:34:01.700 The scripture doesn't differentiate between the two of them. 685 00:34:01.700 --> 00:34:09.060 Now at some point in churchyality, not Christianity, but churchyality in America, I understand 686 00:34:09.060 --> 00:34:10.740 the gospel is easy. 687 00:34:10.740 --> 00:34:12.180 It really is. 688 00:34:12.180 --> 00:34:13.580 And salvation is easy. 689 00:34:13.580 --> 00:34:14.980 It really is. 690 00:34:14.980 --> 00:34:20.980 But it is possible to make it too easy and unscriptural. 691 00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:25.140 And so that's why you have hundreds of thousands if that millions of people who believe they're 692 00:34:25.140 --> 00:34:29.060 going to heaven because they said a prayer when they were in third grade at summer camp 693 00:34:29.060 --> 00:34:30.060 that year. 694 00:34:30.060 --> 00:34:32.220 Oh yeah, I said a prayer. 695 00:34:32.220 --> 00:34:33.220 I received. 696 00:34:33.220 --> 00:34:34.220 I believed. 697 00:34:34.220 --> 00:34:37.660 And the response to them is even the demons believe from James. 698 00:34:37.660 --> 00:34:43.300 Even the demons believe and they tremble at least. 699 00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:48.740 What's required to receive salvation, faith, believing, but not the way we define believing, 700 00:34:48.740 --> 00:34:50.460 like mere meant intellectual ascent. 701 00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:51.460 Oh yeah, I believe in Jesus. 702 00:34:51.460 --> 00:34:55.740 Meanwhile, I'm just going to live my own life and not even study the word and I care what 703 00:34:55.740 --> 00:34:56.740 the word says. 704 00:34:56.740 --> 00:34:58.060 I'll make every excuse. 705 00:34:58.060 --> 00:35:00.100 I see that on Christian's profiles. 706 00:35:00.100 --> 00:35:03.380 I'm a Christian, but don't be scared if you see me at the club. 707 00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:05.580 I'm going to be scared. 708 00:35:05.580 --> 00:35:07.940 First for me, what am I doing at the club and you're there? 709 00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:08.940 I'm scared. 710 00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:12.260 I actually read that. 711 00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:16.500 I thought, you're telling me how carnal you are. 712 00:35:16.500 --> 00:35:18.860 That's the fur, that's your intro. 713 00:35:18.860 --> 00:35:27.740 I'm kind of a Christian, but not really. 714 00:35:27.740 --> 00:35:34.020 So when you believe, it means I believe, I believe with my whole heart, I believe with 715 00:35:34.020 --> 00:35:36.020 everything within me. 716 00:35:36.020 --> 00:35:37.020 You gave your life to me. 717 00:35:37.020 --> 00:35:39.020 Now I believe I'm giving my life to you. 718 00:35:39.020 --> 00:35:40.020 And so I obey. 719 00:35:40.020 --> 00:35:41.540 Do you see that? 720 00:35:41.540 --> 00:35:46.420 And having been perfected, he became the author, the source of eternal salvation to all 721 00:35:46.420 --> 00:35:55.860 who obey him, hallelujah, the way we back up our faith and our believing is through 722 00:35:55.860 --> 00:35:56.860 obedience. 723 00:35:56.860 --> 00:36:02.260 That's how we show that we actually believe, hallelujah. 724 00:36:02.260 --> 00:36:08.780 Verse 10, oh, hallelujah, man, that was good worship. 725 00:36:08.780 --> 00:36:10.100 These mashups are getting to me. 726 00:36:10.100 --> 00:36:12.620 There's something anointed about them. 727 00:36:12.620 --> 00:36:21.620 Every heart, and I was like, I was ready to do laps around here. 728 00:36:21.620 --> 00:36:26.340 Called by God as a high priest, according to the order of Melchizedek, we'll get to that 729 00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:31.860 in Hebrew 7, of whom we have much to say. 730 00:36:31.860 --> 00:36:41.060 And hard to explain, now this is a huge rebuke, since you have become dull of hearing. 731 00:36:41.060 --> 00:36:43.380 What does dull of hearing mean? 732 00:36:43.380 --> 00:36:48.500 It's happened to all of us, myself included, happened to my wife and I, we talked about 733 00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:49.500 it. 734 00:36:49.500 --> 00:36:54.260 It comes at times where you're not hungry for the word. 735 00:36:54.260 --> 00:36:57.700 You love the Lord, you know you do, but you're like, that hunger I used to have for the 736 00:36:57.700 --> 00:36:59.460 word is not there. 737 00:36:59.460 --> 00:37:04.540 And oh, it's a satanic attack to make me dull of hearing. 738 00:37:04.540 --> 00:37:06.380 And what was the problem with the Hebrews? 739 00:37:06.380 --> 00:37:09.220 They were on the verge of quitting. 740 00:37:09.220 --> 00:37:12.700 Now which do you think happened first, that they were on the verge of quitting? 741 00:37:12.700 --> 00:37:17.780 And they became dull of hearing, or they wallowed in their lukewarm state of dull of hearingness, 742 00:37:17.780 --> 00:37:19.140 and then they were tempted to quit. 743 00:37:19.140 --> 00:37:24.700 I promise you, it was that they first allowed themselves to wallow in being dull of hearing. 744 00:37:24.700 --> 00:37:29.060 And when you wallow in that swamp for too long, next thing you know, you're tempted to abandon 745 00:37:29.060 --> 00:37:31.540 the faith and depart from Christ. 746 00:37:31.540 --> 00:37:35.700 So shun dull of hearing. 747 00:37:35.700 --> 00:37:40.380 If I don't have a passion for the Lord, for the word of God, that is a huge red flag. 748 00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:42.380 And it'll happen to all of us. 749 00:37:42.380 --> 00:37:48.980 There's times, you gotta say, even if I don't feel it, no, Jesus, keep me hungry, Jesus, 750 00:37:48.980 --> 00:37:53.620 keep me in your will, Lord, set me a blaze that I would burn for you. 751 00:37:53.620 --> 00:37:58.900 I don't want to be normal, I don't want to be regular, I don't want to have a balance, 752 00:37:58.900 --> 00:38:00.900 Christianity. 753 00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:06.780 Yeah, people say, you know, I'm Christian, I'm not like extreme or anything, that is not 754 00:38:06.780 --> 00:38:07.780 Christian. 755 00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:15.820 But God coming in the flesh and dying for the world is extreme. 756 00:38:15.820 --> 00:38:20.540 He didn't do it quietly in a closet, he didn't make it an amount for all to be old. 757 00:38:20.540 --> 00:38:21.580 That's extreme. 758 00:38:21.580 --> 00:38:27.900 He calls us into extreme living. 759 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:31.460 Verse, verse 12. 760 00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:39.180 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, this is something, he's rebuking them again, 761 00:38:39.180 --> 00:38:42.220 which I like his style, whoever wrote Hebrews. 762 00:38:42.220 --> 00:38:44.180 He's not pulling any punches. 763 00:38:44.180 --> 00:38:49.420 He's being very loving and he's presenting Jesus in a wonderful way and the truth of Jesus, 764 00:38:49.420 --> 00:38:52.580 but at the same time he's saying, you're in this mess because you've allowed some bad 765 00:38:52.580 --> 00:38:54.700 things to brew here. 766 00:38:55.700 --> 00:39:01.580 And one of those things is that you're dull of hearing, you're not in the word and you're 767 00:39:01.580 --> 00:39:08.220 past the baby stage of Christianity and you ought to be teaching others, but you're not. 768 00:39:08.220 --> 00:39:12.420 And I want you to know that my heart is 100% obviously exactly the same in accordance 769 00:39:12.420 --> 00:39:14.020 with the word of God. 770 00:39:14.020 --> 00:39:17.980 It's not saying necessarily that you should be a teacher of the word, have a traveling 771 00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:19.580 ministry where you teach the word. 772 00:39:19.580 --> 00:39:24.900 He just means that every believer should have in them the ability, the capacity through 773 00:39:24.900 --> 00:39:29.940 the years, through exercising to teach people. 774 00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:33.380 Before I pastored, I got very good at teaching people. 775 00:39:33.380 --> 00:39:35.900 I was actually pastoring before I pastored. 776 00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:37.660 That's why I started pastoring. 777 00:39:37.660 --> 00:39:38.660 How was I doing that? 778 00:39:38.660 --> 00:39:42.700 In my early 20s, even in my late teens, the same way most of you are going to be doing 779 00:39:42.700 --> 00:39:43.700 it. 780 00:39:43.700 --> 00:39:46.740 Lots and lots of coffees. 781 00:39:46.740 --> 00:39:49.260 Lots and lots of coffees. 782 00:39:49.260 --> 00:39:53.580 Every one of you should be equipped, there should be a goal that you can have coffees 783 00:39:53.580 --> 00:39:59.860 with people, meet with people and teach them the ABCs of Christianity. 784 00:39:59.860 --> 00:40:04.940 If your Christianity is all locked up on the inside, you're not encouraging anyone, edifying 785 00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:06.660 anyone, teaching somebody. 786 00:40:06.660 --> 00:40:09.180 There's people, they don't even, we sing about the blood of Jesus. 787 00:40:09.180 --> 00:40:10.180 They have no clue. 788 00:40:10.180 --> 00:40:11.180 They think it's a horror movie. 789 00:40:11.180 --> 00:40:12.860 Why are they singing about? 790 00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:15.340 You teach them the power of the blood of Jesus. 791 00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:17.580 Most people don't even understand the Trinity. 792 00:40:17.580 --> 00:40:18.580 Help them. 793 00:40:18.580 --> 00:40:20.620 Don't know how to get baptized in the Holy Spirit. 794 00:40:20.620 --> 00:40:24.740 Get good at teaching someone, the ABCs of getting baptized in the Holy Spirit. 795 00:40:24.740 --> 00:40:27.020 Then start having lots and lots of coffees. 796 00:40:27.020 --> 00:40:30.140 If somebody comes up to me and says, I want to be in full-time ministry. 797 00:40:30.140 --> 00:40:33.620 I'm called to fivefold ministry to the offices. 798 00:40:33.620 --> 00:40:34.860 My advice would be great. 799 00:40:34.860 --> 00:40:35.860 Start right where you're at. 800 00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:39.980 Have lots of lots of coffees, Zoom meetings, send a lot of encouraging texts. 801 00:40:39.980 --> 00:40:41.860 Teach via text. 802 00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:44.540 Don't please don't go right on Facebook and put a camera to yourself and start doing. 803 00:40:44.540 --> 00:40:46.860 We have enough of those. 804 00:40:46.860 --> 00:40:49.420 No, but really, because it's not for the whole world. 805 00:40:49.420 --> 00:40:52.380 You're not called to teach a bunch of rando people who are going to watch your five minute 806 00:40:52.380 --> 00:40:55.940 video for six seconds anyway and you go on to the next one. 807 00:40:55.940 --> 00:40:59.940 You're called to other people that God has put around you. 808 00:40:59.940 --> 00:41:01.260 Teach them. 809 00:41:01.260 --> 00:41:05.940 You know you possess the truth when you can teach it to somebody else. 810 00:41:05.940 --> 00:41:07.420 You know you own it. 811 00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:11.660 You have revelation of it when you can now impart it to another person. 812 00:41:11.660 --> 00:41:17.740 He says, for by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again. 813 00:41:17.740 --> 00:41:23.460 The first principles, the ABCs of Christianity, the first principles of the oracles of God. 814 00:41:23.460 --> 00:41:24.780 And you have come to need milk. 815 00:41:24.780 --> 00:41:30.780 It's like, I can't even get to milk his at that until chapter seven because you're a baby. 816 00:41:30.780 --> 00:41:34.660 You need milk. 817 00:41:34.660 --> 00:41:37.420 And that's solid food. 818 00:41:37.420 --> 00:41:47.300 So this is why we have life groups, discipleship 101, you get your milk and you can get the 819 00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:54.300 cajun steak, hallelujah, amen, after milk comes cajun steak. 820 00:41:54.300 --> 00:41:58.580 For he is a babe. 821 00:41:58.580 --> 00:42:02.900 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness. 822 00:42:02.900 --> 00:42:05.980 Now that phrase, unskilled in the word of righteousness. 823 00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:07.980 That gives me the hibi jibis. 824 00:42:07.980 --> 00:42:08.980 Ooh. 825 00:42:08.980 --> 00:42:22.540 It's like when the other hyena say Mufasa, ooh, ah, unskilled. 826 00:42:22.540 --> 00:42:25.420 So become skilled in the word of righteousness. 827 00:42:25.420 --> 00:42:31.020 By the way, this isn't a minister as he's writing, this is to regular people. 828 00:42:31.020 --> 00:42:32.020 I know. 829 00:42:32.020 --> 00:42:33.020 I heard this voice. 830 00:42:33.020 --> 00:42:35.020 It's from the devil. 831 00:42:35.020 --> 00:42:40.380 He gives you every excuse why to have just a superficial cursory understanding of the Bible. 832 00:42:40.380 --> 00:42:44.180 When I would read in the early years of the Bible, I mean, I heard a mocking voice all the 833 00:42:44.180 --> 00:42:45.180 time. 834 00:42:45.180 --> 00:42:46.180 You'll never get this. 835 00:42:46.180 --> 00:42:47.180 You know, this has passed you. 836 00:42:47.180 --> 00:42:49.420 You don't have the intellectual capacity for this. 837 00:42:49.420 --> 00:42:51.860 You don't have a spiritual capacity for this. 838 00:42:51.860 --> 00:42:54.060 You heard that like a broken record in my head. 839 00:42:54.060 --> 00:42:55.660 You got to ignore that. 840 00:42:55.660 --> 00:42:56.660 And make a decree. 841 00:42:56.660 --> 00:42:59.980 Lord, you've given me the Holy Spirit who's the spirit of truth. 842 00:42:59.980 --> 00:43:02.260 You promised he would guide me into all truth. 843 00:43:02.260 --> 00:43:03.660 You and your word are one. 844 00:43:03.660 --> 00:43:06.700 When I partake of your word, I'm actually partaking of you. 845 00:43:06.700 --> 00:43:12.940 Make me skilled in the word of righteousness so I can pluck others out of darkness, present 846 00:43:12.940 --> 00:43:15.180 them into your marvelous light. 847 00:43:15.180 --> 00:43:18.180 Yeah, I don't want to be a babe. 848 00:43:18.180 --> 00:43:20.220 I don't want to be unskilled in the word of righteousness. 849 00:43:20.220 --> 00:43:21.860 How about you? 850 00:43:21.860 --> 00:43:25.460 But solid food belongs to those who are a full age. 851 00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:27.060 That is those who bite. 852 00:43:27.060 --> 00:43:28.060 Now, this is important. 853 00:43:28.060 --> 00:43:31.940 By reason of use, worship team, come on up. 854 00:43:31.940 --> 00:43:37.460 Who those, everybody shout reason of use. 855 00:43:37.460 --> 00:43:43.340 Have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 856 00:43:43.340 --> 00:43:49.780 This is a huge key to the supernatural, to flowing in the Holy Spirit, to hearing the voice 857 00:43:49.780 --> 00:43:50.780 of God. 858 00:43:50.780 --> 00:43:55.580 It's that you have spiritual senses that can be exercised. 859 00:43:55.580 --> 00:44:00.900 And get better with exercising them. 860 00:44:00.900 --> 00:44:09.500 So for example, when I first started hearing the voice of God, just to be very clear, 861 00:44:09.500 --> 00:44:16.660 not with my audible ears, my physical ears, but with my spiritual ears, on the inside. 862 00:44:16.660 --> 00:44:22.180 First of all, and this is healthy, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to go crazy. 863 00:44:23.180 --> 00:44:24.940 This is healthy. 864 00:44:24.940 --> 00:44:25.940 People should be. 865 00:44:25.940 --> 00:44:29.620 You talk about hearing from God, make sure you're not as schizophrenic. 866 00:44:29.620 --> 00:44:32.660 No, really, make sure you're not. 867 00:44:32.660 --> 00:44:38.620 I mean, I was like 19, 20 years old when I really started pressing into hearing the voice 868 00:44:38.620 --> 00:44:39.620 of God. 869 00:44:39.620 --> 00:44:43.260 And the first thing I wanted to make sure was I wasn't going to get deceived. 870 00:44:43.260 --> 00:44:46.540 And so the one of the first things I learned was that God's voice will never contradict 871 00:44:46.540 --> 00:44:48.100 his word. 872 00:44:48.100 --> 00:44:51.940 Because there were times, many times, more often than not, where I would think I heard 873 00:44:51.940 --> 00:44:55.380 from God, and it wasn't God. 874 00:44:55.380 --> 00:44:57.660 So you know what I did then? 875 00:44:57.660 --> 00:44:59.700 Something I found a lot of Christians don't do. 876 00:44:59.700 --> 00:45:08.980 I simply made note of that because I see people all the time, God told me to move to 877 00:45:08.980 --> 00:45:09.980 Iowa. 878 00:45:09.980 --> 00:45:11.740 I'm going to start a business. 879 00:45:11.740 --> 00:45:12.740 And then they do that. 880 00:45:12.740 --> 00:45:13.740 They come back. 881 00:45:13.740 --> 00:45:15.540 I'm like, all right, what do you do now? 882 00:45:15.540 --> 00:45:19.060 I told me I'm going to make it on Broadway, and I'm going to, and then I go do that. 883 00:45:19.060 --> 00:45:20.060 And they're all over the place. 884 00:45:20.060 --> 00:45:24.020 And I'm going, all right, you have now obviously clearly missed the voice of God five times 885 00:45:24.020 --> 00:45:25.020 in a row. 886 00:45:25.020 --> 00:45:30.860 Do you ever stop and just do like a review and exercise your spiritual senses so you know 887 00:45:30.860 --> 00:45:34.300 where you messed up so you hear more accurately the next time? 888 00:45:34.300 --> 00:45:37.900 The flakes, the nuts, they don't do that. 889 00:45:37.900 --> 00:45:44.460 So they have a 50 year history, 20 year history of just, and they never do a review. 890 00:45:44.460 --> 00:45:48.140 But for a big, you try to correct them. 891 00:45:48.140 --> 00:45:53.180 The level of your inner healing, the level of your wholeness in Christ will always be evident 892 00:45:53.180 --> 00:45:55.980 in proportion to how much you can receive correction. 893 00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.980 Amen. 894 00:45:56.980 --> 00:46:04.320 You see, yeah, you know the Demaniac, the Demaniac legion, you know how they knew he was 895 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:09.220 delivered because it says they were coming upon him and they saw him seated. 896 00:46:09.220 --> 00:46:12.100 That's the posture of a disciple. 897 00:46:12.100 --> 00:46:16.340 And they saw him listening to the Word of God and he's, oh, he understands authority. 898 00:46:16.340 --> 00:46:22.380 He submitted and his Demaniac pride is gone and he can now be taught. 899 00:46:22.380 --> 00:46:28.380 Hallelujah. 900 00:46:28.380 --> 00:46:32.180 I was at a party about a month after I got saved. 901 00:46:32.180 --> 00:46:36.180 Not like a wild party, just a party, high school kids. 902 00:46:36.180 --> 00:46:41.420 And I didn't know anything after a month of being saved. 903 00:46:41.420 --> 00:46:47.980 But I had this thing that I did at parties, no joke, that my father taught me. 904 00:46:47.980 --> 00:46:51.580 And it was where we would get people and I would, I'm not going to go through the whole 905 00:46:51.580 --> 00:46:56.740 thing in detail, but I would have them place their index fingers under the only four people 906 00:46:56.740 --> 00:47:01.060 in a particular pattern that would lift the person up to the ceiling. 907 00:47:01.060 --> 00:47:05.380 Now my father said it was having to do with magnetic poles and things. 908 00:47:05.380 --> 00:47:09.220 He was taught it when he was a kid. 909 00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:11.260 When I started doing that, I was the life of the party. 910 00:47:11.260 --> 00:47:12.940 So then they're like, oh, will it work for anyone? 911 00:47:12.940 --> 00:47:18.940 I'm talking about superhuman strength where they pick them up to the ceiling using only 912 00:47:18.940 --> 00:47:24.340 two fingers. 913 00:47:24.340 --> 00:47:25.620 And so they got the biggest kid. 914 00:47:25.620 --> 00:47:29.340 He was a huge sumo guy. 915 00:47:29.340 --> 00:47:31.860 Seventeen going on 30, you know, and they said, well, where I said do it and they did 916 00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:34.700 the pen, they went right up to the ceiling. 917 00:47:34.700 --> 00:47:37.660 And I noticed that I've done this many times, but now I was saved. 918 00:47:37.660 --> 00:47:42.100 I noticed, oh, I started getting a huge headache like my head was going to explode. 919 00:47:42.100 --> 00:47:45.860 I started feeling very dirty and dark on the inside. 920 00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:47.580 And the girl who led me to the Lord was there. 921 00:47:47.580 --> 00:47:53.580 She didn't know much, but she said, hey, boy on because I wasn't bow yet. 922 00:47:53.580 --> 00:47:55.580 Hey, boy on. 923 00:47:55.580 --> 00:48:04.580 I think what you're doing is demonic and I thought, no, I haven't, no. 924 00:48:04.580 --> 00:48:11.540 And now my spiritual senses were getting exercised to discern good and evil. 925 00:48:11.540 --> 00:48:16.900 And it actually was demonic. 926 00:48:16.900 --> 00:48:24.380 This is an invitation to exercise your spiritual senses. 927 00:48:24.380 --> 00:48:28.300 To learn to hear from God and when you miss God, which will happen, you want to play 928 00:48:28.300 --> 00:48:29.300 it safe? 929 00:48:29.300 --> 00:48:30.300 Great. 930 00:48:30.300 --> 00:48:31.300 You won't be deceived. 931 00:48:31.300 --> 00:48:32.300 You also won't hear from God. 932 00:48:32.300 --> 00:48:37.140 Whether go and press in and want to hear God's instruction for my life, God's direction, 933 00:48:37.140 --> 00:48:42.700 God's opportunities, knowing, though, with humility that I can be deceived. 934 00:48:42.700 --> 00:48:44.100 And I'm holding his hand. 935 00:48:44.100 --> 00:48:48.540 I'm using the written word of God as a metric and as a plumb line. 936 00:48:48.540 --> 00:48:51.980 He'll never tell me something that contradicts his written word. 937 00:48:51.980 --> 00:48:52.980 And then I'm going to learn. 938 00:48:52.980 --> 00:48:55.620 There's, there's, I've had huge misses in my life. 939 00:48:55.620 --> 00:48:56.620 You know what? 940 00:48:56.620 --> 00:48:57.620 I'm talking about a miss. 941 00:48:58.620 --> 00:48:59.620 This is what we're doing. 942 00:48:59.620 --> 00:49:00.620 This is where we're going. 943 00:49:00.620 --> 00:49:01.620 Drop. 944 00:49:01.620 --> 00:49:03.620 Doesn't work out. 945 00:49:03.620 --> 00:49:08.260 That's so much lately, but back in the early, look, you know, sometimes I talk about how 946 00:49:08.260 --> 00:49:12.460 we've had 30 locations in 20 plus years. 947 00:49:12.460 --> 00:49:15.060 That's not because God moved us around so much all the time. 948 00:49:15.060 --> 00:49:17.100 Some of it was just me. 949 00:49:17.100 --> 00:49:23.140 And then I learned, oh, okay, I was really, really desperate. 950 00:49:23.140 --> 00:49:27.900 I really, really wanted to make something happen, so I resorted to my own strength. 951 00:49:27.900 --> 00:49:31.100 And then I told myself that it's you, and then I got up in front of the people and said 952 00:49:31.100 --> 00:49:32.100 it was you. 953 00:49:32.100 --> 00:49:33.100 Uh-huh. 954 00:49:33.100 --> 00:49:34.100 Not good. 955 00:49:34.100 --> 00:49:35.100 Better learn from that. 956 00:49:35.100 --> 00:49:36.100 Don't do that again. 957 00:49:36.100 --> 00:49:37.100 Amen. 958 00:49:37.100 --> 00:49:40.540 And that's how you learn. 959 00:49:40.540 --> 00:49:41.940 Is this making sense? 960 00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:43.340 Okay. 961 00:49:43.340 --> 00:49:45.500 Is that it for Hebrews? 962 00:49:45.500 --> 00:49:49.260 I think we have a little more. 963 00:49:49.260 --> 00:49:51.140 What an anticlimactic way to end. 964 00:49:51.140 --> 00:49:55.560 If that's how, if that is the last verse, because my laptop shut off, that's the last 965 00:49:55.560 --> 00:49:56.560 verse. 966 00:49:56.560 --> 00:49:57.560 Wow. 967 00:49:57.560 --> 00:50:01.060 I got to, I got to learn how to close the service. 968 00:50:01.060 --> 00:50:02.060 That's it. 969 00:50:02.060 --> 00:50:05.340 I got to, it's very, talk about new. 970 00:50:05.340 --> 00:50:11.340 I'd like every head bowed, every eye closed, because I didn't know, we must be over. 971 00:50:11.340 --> 00:50:12.340 Okay. 972 00:50:12.340 --> 00:50:15.180 But listen, I want an extended invitation. 973 00:50:15.180 --> 00:50:17.460 If you want your sins forgiven. 974 00:50:17.460 --> 00:50:23.060 If you're not certain that if you were to die today, if you're not 100% certain that 975 00:50:23.060 --> 00:50:27.660 you're heaven bound, that you're going to be with God forever, I want to pray with you 976 00:50:27.660 --> 00:50:31.420 and for you. 977 00:50:31.420 --> 00:50:33.100 So I'm going to ask you to raise your hand. 978 00:50:33.100 --> 00:50:35.860 I'm not even going to ask you to get up out of your seat. 979 00:50:35.860 --> 00:50:39.740 I want you to raise your hand and keep it up every head bowed, every eye closed. 980 00:50:39.740 --> 00:50:41.260 I'm the count of three. 981 00:50:41.260 --> 00:50:46.780 If you're not absolutely certain that all of your sins are forgiven, that you're heaven 982 00:50:46.780 --> 00:50:47.780 bound. 983 00:50:47.780 --> 00:50:53.780 If you were to die tonight, lift your hand up in the count of three, one, two, three, lift 984 00:50:53.780 --> 00:50:54.780 your hand up. 985 00:50:54.780 --> 00:50:55.780 Thank you. 986 00:50:55.780 --> 00:50:56.780 Thank you. 987 00:50:56.780 --> 00:50:57.780 Thank you. 988 00:50:57.780 --> 00:50:58.780 Keep it up. 989 00:50:58.780 --> 00:50:59.780 Thank you. 990 00:50:59.780 --> 00:51:00.780 Thank you. 991 00:51:00.780 --> 00:51:01.780 Who else? 992 00:51:01.780 --> 00:51:02.780 Thank you in the back. 993 00:51:02.780 --> 00:51:03.780 Thank you sir in the back. 994 00:51:03.780 --> 00:51:04.780 Thank you. 995 00:51:04.780 --> 00:51:05.780 Keep your hand up. 996 00:51:05.780 --> 00:51:09.780 I want you to have the humility to keep that hand up, every head bowed, every eye closed. 997 00:51:09.780 --> 00:51:11.780 All right. 998 00:51:11.780 --> 00:51:12.780 Anybody else? 999 00:51:12.780 --> 00:51:14.780 Keep your hand up while we say the spirit. 1000 00:51:14.780 --> 00:51:18.060 We're all going to pray together, but here's what you're going to be doing. 1001 00:51:18.060 --> 00:51:23.500 You're going to be repenting and receiving Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you're giving 1002 00:51:23.500 --> 00:51:26.260 your whole life to Him. 1003 00:51:26.260 --> 00:51:31.060 And when you walk out of here, you're walking out with zero condemnation, zero guilt, zero 1004 00:51:31.060 --> 00:51:37.540 shame, knowing that you are saved, knowing that you are born again, you are God's property 1005 00:51:37.540 --> 00:51:40.740 and you will be with Him in heaven forever. 1006 00:51:40.740 --> 00:51:46.780 All of you say this out loud, especially you with your hands lifted up, say it loud, 1007 00:51:46.780 --> 00:51:53.300 say, dear Jesus, louder, dear Jesus, I believe in you. 1008 00:51:53.300 --> 00:51:57.860 You died on the cross and took away my sin. 1009 00:51:57.860 --> 00:52:03.980 I repent, I change my mind, I believe in you. 1010 00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:08.620 Your blood has washed away all of my sins. 1011 00:52:08.620 --> 00:52:10.460 I am now forgiven. 1012 00:52:10.500 --> 00:52:12.300 I am born again. 1013 00:52:12.300 --> 00:52:16.140 I'm a new creation in Jesus Christ. 1014 00:52:16.140 --> 00:52:19.060 Fill me with your Holy Spirit. 1015 00:52:19.060 --> 00:52:20.580 Teach me your ways. 1016 00:52:20.580 --> 00:52:27.500 I believe and I receive eternity in Jesus' name. 1017 00:52:27.500 --> 00:52:31.620 Shout a big hallelujah. 1018 00:52:31.620 --> 00:52:34.060 This is the City Light Church podcast. 1019 00:52:34.060 --> 00:52:38.020 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about 1020 00:52:38.020 --> 00:52:46.900 Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 1021 00:52:46.900 --> 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