WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 The Bible says do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.000 I'm not part of this culture, I'm above this culture. 3 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.000 I think at a higher level than this culture, I'm not conformed with the form. 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.000 I'm transformed, which means over and above. 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.000 This culture thinks on this level, I think on this level. 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.000 Because I have perspective, they don't have. 7 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.000 I can see it to the future because I see what the word says about things. 8 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.000 Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast. 9 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:35.000 Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 10 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:41.000 If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com. 11 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.000 That's CityLightNYC.com. 12 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 13 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:57.000 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, 14 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:05.000 that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 15 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.000 Let's put our hands together for evangelist Nathaniel St. Lloyd, 16 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.000 a dear friend of this house. 17 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:19.000 I just realized 15 years now went by like that, huh? 18 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.000 For 15 years, he's been a dear friend, and when I say a friend of this house, 19 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.000 he's ministered here throughout the last 15 years. 20 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:31.000 And thank you that I really have the day off, and I'm just able to enjoy Easter Sunday. 21 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.000 Appreciate it, but he's got a word for you that's going to bless you. 22 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.000 This morning, put your hands together one more time. 23 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.000 15 years, wow. 24 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.000 Wow. That's a long time. 25 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:51.000 I didn't get to do that this morning because I was kind of like rushing for service. 26 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.000 I wanted to finish on time. 27 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.000 I gave my word. 28 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.000 I was going to finish in 25 minutes. 29 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.000 I finished in 25 minutes. 30 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.000 But I didn't get to... 31 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.000 My wife is here with me, baby. 32 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:11.000 She's the greatest part of my life, other than Jesus. 33 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.000 She's really the bomb. 34 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:18.000 I'm not going to have her stand up because she's eight and a half months pregnant. 35 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.000 Doesn't she look good for eight and a half months? 36 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.000 My God. 37 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.000 I'm blessed. 38 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.000 Y'all ready for the word? 39 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:37.000 I shared this in the first service, because it just came to my mind, and the Holy Spirit just dropped it. 40 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.000 Have y'all ever gotten one of those scam calls? 41 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.000 This is the IRS? 42 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.000 You ever get that one? 43 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.000 Because there's a lot of different ones. 44 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.000 The car warranty is my favorite. 45 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:50.000 Your car won't. 46 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.000 I was like, never had car warranty. 47 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.000 I don't know what you're talking about. 48 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.000 But I got an IRS one a few years ago. 49 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:01.000 And they called me, hey, is this Nathaniel St. Aloy? 50 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.000 I was like, yes. 51 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.000 It's the IRS. 52 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.000 A number of blah, blah, blah. 53 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:08.000 I'm like, okay. 54 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.000 You owe this amount of money, and I was like, okay. 55 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.000 I started getting a little nervous. 56 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:16.000 Okay. 57 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.000 Do I owe the IRS money? 58 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.000 I don't pay my taxes. 59 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.000 What's going on? 60 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.000 And then I went online, 61 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.000 as the person was talking to me, and I googled, 62 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.000 does the IRS call you? 63 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.000 Google said, no. 64 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.000 And then that's when the Holy Spirit, 65 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.000 years later, gave me a revelation. 66 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.000 Because the IRS doesn't call you, 67 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.000 the IRS writes you. 68 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.000 The IRS could call you if you're like a major client, 69 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.000 but they always have to write you first. 70 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.000 If it's not written, it's a scam. 71 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.000 That's when the Holy Spirit gave me a revelation 72 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.000 that if it's not written in the word, 73 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.000 I don't care who's saying it. 74 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.000 I don't care if it's your favorite preacher. 75 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.000 I don't care if it's your mama. 76 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:12.000 I don't care if it's your daddy. 77 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.000 I don't care if it's your friends. 78 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.000 I don't care who said it. 79 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.000 If it's not written, I don't believe it. 80 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:18.000 It's a scam. 81 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.000 I only believe what's in the book. 82 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.000 I need about three people to say, 83 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.000 if it's not written, I don't want it. 84 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.000 I only believe what's in the word. 85 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.000 I only believe what he said. 86 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:32.000 Y'all ready to get in the word? 87 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.000 Y'all ready to get in the written word? 88 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.000 Yes. 89 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.000 Because if it's not written, it's a scam. 90 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.000 I'm telling you, we should only preach what's in the book. 91 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:45.000 If it's not written, it's a scam. 92 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.000 All right, let's go. 93 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:50.000 All right, Luke chapter 23. 94 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:51.000 Let's get into this. 95 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.000 Luke chapter 23. 96 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.000 I'm going to read a few verses here, 97 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.000 and then we're going to get right into the word. 98 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.000 Are y'all here with me? 99 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.000 Can I see this? 100 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.000 How many people here at your first time ever at city like church? 101 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.000 Just raise your hand if this is your first time ever. 102 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.000 Oh wow. 103 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Wow. 104 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.000 How many people like, this is your second third time. 105 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.000 You just don't come often. 106 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.000 You are an Eastern Christmas Christian. 107 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:19.000 Don't lie. 108 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.000 Because God sees you. 109 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:22.000 Oh yeah, a few raisers here. 110 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.000 I like that honesty. 111 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:25.000 I like that. 112 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.000 I like that. 113 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.000 They were being honest. 114 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:32.000 By Luke 23, we're going to look at verse 33, here's what it says. 115 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:36.000 And when they had come to the place called Calvary, 116 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.000 there they crucified him and the criminals, 117 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:43.000 one to the right hand and the other to the left. 118 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:44.000 Then Jesus said, 119 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.000 Father, forgive them. 120 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.000 For they do not know what they do, 121 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:52.000 and they divided his garments and cast lots. 122 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.000 And the people stood looking on. 123 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.000 Even the rulers with them sneered, 124 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.000 saying he saved others, 125 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:00.000 let them save himself. 126 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.000 If he is the Christ, the chosen of God. 127 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.000 The soldiers also mocked him, 128 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:08.000 coming and offering him sour wine. 129 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.000 And saying, 130 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.000 if you are the king of the Jews, save yourself. 131 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.000 And an inscription also was written over him 132 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.000 in the letters of Greek Latin and Hebrew. 133 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.000 This is the king of the Jews. 134 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.000 Then one of the criminals 135 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.000 who were hanged, blasphemed him, 136 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.000 saying, if you are the Christ, 137 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.000 save yourself and us. 138 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:31.000 Verse 40. 139 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:32.000 But the other answered, 140 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:33.000 rebuking him, saying, 141 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.000 do you not even fear God, 142 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.000 seeing that you are under the same condemnation? 143 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:39.000 Verse 41. 144 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.000 And we indeed, justly, 145 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.000 for we receive the due reward of our deeds. 146 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.000 But this man has done nothing wrong. 147 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.000 Then he said to Jesus, 148 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. 149 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:54.000 And Jesus said to him, 150 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.000 surely I say to you, 151 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:02.000 today you will be with me in paradise. 152 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.000 May God bless the reading of his word. 153 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.000 I want to talk about two crosses. 154 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.000 Even though there were three crosses in this story, 155 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.000 Jesus was beaten. 156 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:15.000 He was scorched. 157 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.000 He was taken up to the mountain. 158 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.000 He was crucified. 159 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.000 I want to actually talk about the two other crosses 160 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.000 because I think a lot of us have heard the story of Jesus' cross. 161 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.000 But we haven't heard the story of the two other crosses 162 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.000 that were with Jesus when he was being crucified. 163 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:37.000 These two other crosses were two men. 164 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.000 There were two men who the Bible calls criminals. 165 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:40.000 They were robbers. 166 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:41.000 They were thieves. 167 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.000 You know, one thing I realize about life 168 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.000 is that life is the great equalizer. 169 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:48.000 I don't care where you come from. 170 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.000 I don't care what you do. 171 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.000 You're going to go through what other people have gone through in life. 172 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.000 I know you're upbringing maybe different. 173 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:56.000 I know your family may be different. 174 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.000 I know maybe you weren't even born here, 175 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.000 but life is a great equalizer 176 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.000 and that it's a lot of the times 177 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.000 at the end brings us to the same place. 178 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Death. 179 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.000 I don't care how much money you have. 180 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:13.000 You will die. 181 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:15.000 Amen. 182 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.000 I don't care how poor you are. 183 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.000 You will die. 184 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.000 Life is just great equalizer 185 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:24.000 where it brings everyone to the same place. 186 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:27.000 It may take a little longer for one person to get there 187 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.000 than another person to get there. 188 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.000 But you end up in the same place. 189 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:32.000 So there's these two men. 190 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.000 And I don't know how they end up thieves. 191 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.000 I don't know how they end up robbers. 192 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.000 I don't know how they end up with this severe punishment 193 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.000 of crucifixion. 194 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.000 But they must have done something wrong. 195 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.000 They must have done something illegal. 196 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.000 They've brought them to this place of crime. 197 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.000 Life has brought them to a place of them being accused. 198 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:49.000 And guess what? 199 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.000 They're going through this process with each other 200 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.000 and with Jesus. 201 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.000 You see, these men had the privilege, 202 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.000 if I can call it, to see Jesus being scorched. 203 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.000 Jesus crucified a crown of thorns on his head. 204 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.000 They had this encounter where they saw all of this. 205 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.000 They had an encounter where they saw Jesus saying, 206 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.000 Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. 207 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:16.000 They were able to see the Roman soldiers trying to give Jesus 208 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.000 an ascended wine, this vinegar and wine mixture 209 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.000 so that the pain wouldn't be as severe. 210 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.000 And Jesus saying, no, it's okay. 211 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.000 I'm willing to take all of the beatings. 212 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.000 I'm willing to take all of the pain. 213 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:32.000 I'm willing to take all of it so that my people could have redemption. 214 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:34.000 You see, Jesus didn't even take a short cut 215 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.000 when it came to your salvation. 216 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.000 He didn't take the easy way out. 217 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.000 When it came to giving you eternal life, 218 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.000 I'm so glad he suffered so that I can live. 219 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.000 I'm so glad he suffered so I could be healed. 220 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.000 I'm so glad he suffered so I don't have to be depressed. 221 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:53.000 I'm so glad he suffered so that I don't have to be down and out. 222 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:57.000 I'm glad that I serve a God who went through the process 223 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.000 of the cross to give me eternal life. 224 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.000 Woo! 225 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:13.000 I'm looking at this story and there's two men. 226 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.000 When I say life's the great equalizer, 227 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.000 I really mean it. 228 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.000 We're all on the equal playing field. 229 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.000 Because we all end up in a place in life 230 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:30.000 where we're lost, depraved, hopeless, no life. 231 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.000 These men ended up in the same place, crucified. 232 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.000 On one side, there was one thief. 233 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.000 In the middle was Jesus. 234 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.000 And on the other side was another thief. 235 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:45.000 And life had brought them there. 236 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.000 But can I tell you something? 237 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:55.000 Even though these two men were being crucified 238 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.000 for the same crime, 239 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:02.000 they had a different reaction to what they were going through. 240 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.000 I'm going to say it like this. 241 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.000 I don't care who you are. 242 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 You're going to go through some stuff. 243 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.000 Amen. 244 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.000 And you're going to go through similar things 245 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.000 that other people have gone through before you. 246 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:19.000 There's nothing new on the earth. 247 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.000 What you've gone through, people have gone through. 248 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.000 I know you think, oh, I'm so unique. 249 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.000 No one's had a parent who's abused them. 250 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.000 Okay. 251 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.000 People have had that, right, amen? 252 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:37.000 No one has gone through a divorce, like my divorce. 253 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.000 Yes, someone has. 254 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:43.000 I know you think so highly of yourself. 255 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:47.000 Y'all can laugh from joking. 256 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:48.000 It's tight, right? 257 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.000 First service, he was like, ha, ha. 258 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.000 He came with me. 259 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:59.000 I was like, oh, he's Easter, he should not be telling jokes. 260 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:03.000 It's serious. 261 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.000 It's interesting. 262 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.000 Life had brought them to the same place, 263 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:12.000 but they had two different reactions to what they were going through. 264 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.000 Amen. 265 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:17.000 They had two different perspectives, 266 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.000 even though they ended up in the same place. 267 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.000 And can I tell you something that there's people all over this church 268 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:25.000 who've gone through stuff, 269 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:29.000 but you don't want to know why their perspective is not a perspective of death 270 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.000 and is a perspective of life. 271 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.000 Why their perspective is one of a future and a hope 272 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.000 and not one of being depressed and feeling like they're hopeless. 273 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.000 It's because they have Jesus. 274 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.000 Can I tell you what's going to change your perspective? 275 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:45.000 Because I don't see me right now. 276 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.000 You're looking like, I don't feel like I have a future. 277 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:48.000 I don't feel like I'm good enough. 278 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.000 I don't feel like I'm ever going to get out of this. 279 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.000 I don't feel like I'm ever going to break free from this addiction. 280 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.000 I don't ever feel like my family's going to get saved. 281 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.000 I don't ever feel like things are going to turn around. 282 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.000 Can I tell you the difference? 283 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.000 You have hope in Jesus. 284 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.000 The culture can't give you hope. 285 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.000 Only Jesus. 286 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.000 Oh, don't be tight with me. 287 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.000 Only Jesus. 288 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.000 All right, so I'm going to tell you three differences. 289 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:24.000 I'm going to tell you three differences between these two men. 290 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.000 You know what's interesting? 291 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.000 You don't even know their names. 292 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.000 There's no way the scripture even distinguishes who they are. 293 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.000 Two criminals, two robbers, same crime. 294 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.000 The only difference was the one in the middle. 295 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:52.000 It's so interesting that there's two robbers and one is focused on his cross. 296 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.000 And the other one's focused on Jesus cross. 297 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:03.000 In life, you can focus on how bad things are for me. 298 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:10.000 Or you can focus on how bad things were for him. 299 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.000 This is so good. 300 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:17.000 You can focus on how bad things are for him. 301 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:22.000 And that means things have to be good for me. 302 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.000 Only three people said, hey, man. 303 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.000 Because things were bad for Jesus. 304 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.000 That means things would be good for me. 305 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.000 Because Jesus suffered. 306 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:40.000 Because the detachment of my peace was upon him and by his stripes I am healed. 307 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.000 He didn't suffer so I can suffer. 308 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 He suffered so I can have eternal life. 309 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.000 He suffered so I can have peace. 310 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.000 All right, three differences. 311 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.000 Number one. 312 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:57.000 One followed the crowd and the other changed the culture. 313 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:01.000 Okay, you have two options while you're going through. 314 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:04.000 You could either follow what the crowd says. 315 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.000 One of the robbers, right? 316 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.000 He followed the crowd. 317 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.000 The crowd was screaming at Jesus. 318 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:16.000 If you are God, you would just come down from that cross. 319 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.000 If you're God, you would just save yourself. 320 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.000 You would call angels. 321 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.000 You would save yourself. 322 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.000 Guess what happened? 323 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:31.000 The man on the cross started repeating what they said. 324 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.000 Instead of being different, he followed what the culture told him. 325 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:42.000 Oh, we have a lot of culture vultures here. 326 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:46.000 I know I'm not using the context, mostly we use it, but can't y'all stick with me? 327 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:51.000 We got a lot of culture vultures who are Christians so called. 328 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:56.000 We have a lot of people that are married to the culture and not married to the scriptures. 329 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.000 They only echo what they hear on TV. 330 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.000 They only echo what they see on social media. 331 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.000 Blind following the blind. 332 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:06.000 Sheep. 333 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.000 Oh, yeah. 334 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.000 This is what they told me about COVID. 335 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:10.000 Oh, my gosh. 336 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:11.000 I got to follow the culture. 337 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:12.000 I'm not following the culture. 338 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.000 I'm following the word. 339 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:15.000 That's right. 340 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.000 You know, the culture always has to do. 341 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.000 They always have to come back and say they were wrong about something. 342 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:26.000 What's one thing the culture ever said they were right about? 343 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.000 Yeah, now we're looking at this. 344 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.000 And if kids actually take these hormones, it's going to destroy them. 345 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:32.000 Duh. 346 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.000 Amen. 347 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.000 A duh. 348 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.000 Oh, yeah, yeah. 349 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:46.000 Kids who are transgender, they have more of a risk of suicide, like 50 times as much. 350 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.000 Duh. 351 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.000 This is not an attack on any group. 352 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.000 This is just saying that the culture is always wrong. 353 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:00.000 Because the culture does not get their foundation from scripture. 354 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.000 They get it from feeling. 355 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:05.000 They get it from what feels right in the moment. 356 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.000 And what feels right in the moment is not what the word says. 357 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:13.000 And so if you live by what feels right in the moment, you will always be a slave to that. 358 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.000 Then you will always have to change your opinion about something. 359 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.000 Because someone says something different about it. 360 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.000 And someone feels something different about it. 361 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:23.000 Your foundation can't be what the culture says. 362 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.000 Because the culture is going to change every week. 363 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.000 Now, COVID is not a big deal. 364 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:31.000 It's just like a cold. 365 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:32.000 Right. 366 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.000 Because the culture is changing every week about something. 367 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.000 That's why I don't live by culture. 368 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.000 That's why I went past the boy on. 369 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:51.000 Under the detriment of New York City, the advice of Dr. Fauci. 370 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:55.000 He said, I want to keep these doors open. 371 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.000 While all the churches in New York were running afraid, I'm not going to do this. 372 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:05.000 He was not a slave to the culture. 373 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:08.000 That's the type of pastor I want to be under. 374 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:12.000 I want to be under these Peewee Herman preachers. 375 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:17.000 These pusillatomists, no backbone. 376 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:24.000 I want a preacher who's going to stand on the Word of God and say, I won't be moved. 377 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.000 Tell me you're easily moved. 378 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:31.000 You're like, Jello, man. 379 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:36.000 I feel like preaching like this because the Holy Spirit said there's people in here. 380 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:39.000 The reason you're like Jello is because you're not. 381 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:42.000 Your foundation isn't on Jesus. 382 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.000 And when you're foundation on Jesus, you're everywhere. 383 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.000 One day you're into this. 384 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:47.000 Oh, yeah. 385 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:50.000 So I'm into this energy now. 386 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.000 Next day. 387 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:52.000 Oh, yeah. 388 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.000 So I'm into Buddhism and Hindu. 389 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:00.000 You've got to get found foundation of who Jesus is for real. 390 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:05.000 Because if you do, your life will never be the same. 391 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:06.000 All right. 392 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.000 So one was like, man, I'm going to follow the crowd. 393 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:12.000 Whatever the crowd says, just repeats what the crowd says. 394 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:13.000 Just repeats what the crowd says. 395 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.000 I'm not repeating what they tell me. 396 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.000 MSNBC is going to have their story. 397 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:17.000 I'm not repeating it. 398 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:18.000 Fox News has their story. 399 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:19.000 I'm not repeating it. 400 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:23.000 CNN, no one watches that. 401 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:29.000 You can't repeat something, no one watches. 402 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:34.000 Oh, I crank myself up, okay. 403 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.000 I'm not going to echo the culture. 404 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.000 I'm not going to repeat what the culture says. 405 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.000 I'm going to speak what the word says. 406 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.000 All right. 407 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:46.000 So there was one thief echoing the crowd. 408 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.000 The other thief spoke up and was like, no, I know what the crowd says. 409 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:54.000 But this man's in the same. 410 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:58.000 You look crazy when you speak opposite to what the culture tells you. 411 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.000 You look nuts when you... 412 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:03.000 You know what the scripture says? 413 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.000 Broad is the way to death. 414 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:06.000 It's easy. 415 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.000 Everyone goes that way. 416 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.000 Everyone goes to the way of smoking weed to feel comfort 417 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.000 when things aren't going right. 418 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:15.000 Oh, I knew there was a... 419 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:21.000 They get quiet when we eat when you talk about marijuana here. 420 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:25.000 Last time, everything just seemed like, oh... 421 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:28.000 Pastor, you can't talk about that. 422 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:33.000 Some of you, you're controlled by the culture. 423 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.000 The culture tells you you need these pills. 424 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.000 You start taking the pills. 425 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.000 The culture says you need to do this. 426 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.000 This remedy, this thing, you follow it. 427 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:45.000 No, I'm going to live by what the scripture says, 428 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:47.000 because that's anti-culture. 429 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:50.000 The Bible says, do not be conformed to this world, 430 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:53.000 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 431 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:55.000 I'm not part of this culture. 432 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.000 I'm above this culture. 433 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.000 I think at a higher level than this culture. 434 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:01.000 I'm not conformed with the form. 435 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.000 I'm transformed, which means over and above. 436 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.000 This culture thinks on this level. 437 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.000 I think on this level, because I have perspective. 438 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:09.000 They don't have. 439 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:12.000 I can see it to the future, because I see what the word says about things. 440 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:16.000 And the word gives me a perspective that they don't have. 441 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:18.000 I hear my second point. 442 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:20.000 Five minutes to go. 443 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.000 Let's do it. 444 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.000 In my second point, the difference between these two men. 445 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:31.000 One was accountable and took accountability. 446 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:35.000 And the other didn't take accountability. 447 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:38.000 Oh, this is good. 448 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.000 We have a culture that likes to run away. 449 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:44.000 A generation that likes to run away from accountability. 450 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.000 You know, if people stop being my friends, 451 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:48.000 because I called them out. 452 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:55.000 Accountability is one of the things that will save your life. 453 00:21:55.000 --> 00:22:00.000 Some of you, the reason why your marriage is a failure is because 454 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.000 you have no accountability in your marriage. 455 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:06.000 You're to end all be all when it comes to your marriage. 456 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.000 I say do this, you do it. 457 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.000 But what does the word say? 458 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:17.000 If a man or a woman can't live by the scriptures before the marriage. 459 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.000 They're not going to after. 460 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:28.000 If a man or a woman can't be accountable to someone before the marriage, 461 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:32.000 they will not be accountable to anyone during the marriage. 462 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.000 Oh, this is so good. 463 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:38.000 I'm giving some good wisdom here. 464 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:40.000 Can I say this? 465 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:45.000 I don't trust any man who's never been accountable to another man. 466 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:48.000 This is some good stuff. 467 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:52.000 Women, if he's a man, he can't be accountable to his father. 468 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:54.000 He can't be accountable to his spiritual father. 469 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.000 He can't be accountable to a pastor, a leader. 470 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.000 Don't trust him. 471 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.000 That week clap. 472 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.000 They're making a decision. 473 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:11.000 Should I be with him, I'm about to break up. 474 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:14.000 Because that man ain't accountable to no one. 475 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:16.000 Yep. 476 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:17.000 Peace out. 477 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:24.000 One took accountability. 478 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:25.000 He saw his sin. 479 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:26.000 He saw what he did. 480 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.000 And he even looked at the other man who didn't take accountability and rebuked him. 481 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:32.000 And like, hey, I'm here because I messed up. 482 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:34.000 We're here because we sin. 483 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:36.000 He did nothing wrong and we sinned. 484 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:37.000 We made a mistake. 485 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:39.000 We're here because of our failure. 486 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.000 He took accountability. 487 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.000 The Holy Spirit wants you to take accountability. 488 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.000 God wants you to take accountability. 489 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:50.000 Once you take accountability, then you open the door for Jesus to come in and fully cleanse you. 490 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.000 You know what's interesting? 491 00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:00.000 Most lawyers, you tell them the truth of what happens, then they spin the story, how they want to. 492 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:02.000 Right, you tell them, yo, I'm really guilty. 493 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.000 This will really happen. 494 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:09.000 And then the lawyer finds a way to spin the story, to make it seem like you're not guilty. 495 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.000 Jesus doesn't do that. 496 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:13.000 Amen. 497 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:16.000 You tell Jesus, I'm guilty. 498 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.000 Jesus looks at the devil. 499 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:18.000 He's guilty. 500 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:20.000 This is the worst. 501 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:22.000 Jesus, how you tell them I'm guilty? 502 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.000 Jesus goes, oh, oh. 503 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.000 They're guilty. 504 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:30.000 But because they receive me. 505 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.000 We got to throw out the sentence. 506 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:37.000 Because it doesn't stand up in court. 507 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.000 Because you know what Jesus does? 508 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:49.000 When you say you're guilty, he superimposes his image. 509 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:54.000 You know, like they do on cameras, they superimpose the person's image and it's someone completely different. 510 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.000 And then you got the video tape right here. 511 00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:02.000 Look, and then once they showed a video tape to the devil. 512 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:10.000 There's a superimposed image of Jesus now on the camera doing the crime and you're no longer guilty. 513 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:17.000 Oh, I want to tell you something today, not guilty. 514 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:20.000 Because of what Jesus did on the cross, not guilty. 515 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.000 Because he rose on the third day, not guilty. 516 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:28.000 Because he resurrected to new, he's resurrecting you to new life, not guilty. 517 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:32.000 Oh, I just need some not guilty people to give God a praise. 518 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:35.000 And I was supposed to get the punishment of death. 519 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:38.000 I was supposed to get the punishment of eternal judgment. 520 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:40.000 I was supposed to get the punishment. 521 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:45.000 But because of the cross, now I'm redeemed. 522 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.000 That's not what I say, not guilty. 523 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.000 The culture. 524 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.000 You have to take accountability. 525 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:02.000 Here's how I know people have really been saved when they take accountability. 526 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:07.000 Because the spirit of the first Adam is not taking accountability. 527 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:11.000 Right? Adam says, God, first of all, God tells Adam. 528 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:16.000 Adam, don't eat of this tree right here. 529 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:20.000 He didn't tell Eve. 530 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.000 Oh, this is so good with accountability. 531 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:28.000 Because God doesn't get at the woman. 532 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:30.000 He gets at the man. 533 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.000 Because the man had the responsibility to tell the woman. 534 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:39.000 And the Bible says that Adam was literally with her the whole time the temptation was happening. 535 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:43.000 Because the scripture says she took the fruit and gave it to her husband who was with her. 536 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:48.000 Which means the whole time the devil is doing this whole temptation. 537 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.000 The serpent is doing this whole temptation. 538 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:56.000 And Adam standing right there the whole time and not fighting for his family. 539 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.000 Okay, so as soon as he sends Eve eats first, 540 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:07.000 but God comes to Adam first and says, Adam, why did you do this? 541 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:12.000 Adam said, it was the woman. 542 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:17.000 Then God comes to Eve and he goes, it was the serpent. 543 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:22.000 And the serpent is like, yep, it was me. 544 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:28.000 But here's how I know people are operating in the spirit of the first Adam. 545 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:33.000 Is when you can't take accountability, blaming everyone. 546 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:39.000 The second Adam never blamed anyone but took everyone's blame. 547 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.000 He never blamed you. 548 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:43.000 This is your fault. 549 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:46.000 He goes, this is my fault now. 550 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.000 Oh, but I did the crime. 551 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.000 It's okay, I'll do the time. 552 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.000 Oh, I love it. 553 00:27:53.000 --> 00:28:01.000 You did the crime. Jesus did the time. 554 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:06.000 Honestly, that would have made me shout. 555 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.000 Can we get to the last point, y'all ready? 556 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:11.000 Y'all still with me? Some people sleeping. 557 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.000 Wake up in the name of the Resurrection Prayer. 558 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.000 Resurrection from the dead. 559 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.000 Those who sleep arise. 560 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.000 If I find you sleeping, I'm gonna pass you the mic. 561 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:29.000 You don't have to finish the sermon. 562 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:31.000 Because you're telling me I'm boring and you're a great preacher. 563 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:33.000 So I'm gonna pass you the mic. 564 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.000 We're the sleepers, let me see. 565 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:45.000 You're lucky these lights is blinding me. 566 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:47.000 My last point is this. 567 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:50.000 The difference between these two men. 568 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.000 One focused all his attention on what he was going through 569 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:58.000 and the other focuses attention on what he was going to. 570 00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.000 Oh, this is good. 571 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:07.000 All right, so why are you going through life? 572 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:10.000 You have two perspectives. 573 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:15.000 You can focus on how bad your cross is, how terrible what you're going through. 574 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.000 I'm in so much pain. I'm in so much agony. 575 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:25.000 I feel hopeless or you could say there's something that this season 576 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.000 is about to bring me into. 577 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:32.000 That's greater than where I am right now. 578 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:36.000 And for a believer, you got a lot of future hope in store for you. 579 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.000 I'm not even talking about heaven. 580 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:42.000 You have such an abundance of life that God wants you to live right here, 581 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.000 right now on the earth, that you shouldn't be crying about how bad things were 582 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.000 and how terrible things were. 583 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.000 You have a hope and a future that's so great in God. 584 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:55.000 You have things to conquer. 585 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.000 You have mountains to overcome. 586 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000 You have challenges that you're about to win. 587 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.000 You have a family that's about to shift this world. 588 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:07.000 You have ideas and concepts and apps that are about to make you a millionaire. 589 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.000 You got so much inside of you. 590 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:15.000 You got a gospel that you're going to preach to the world and see souls save. 591 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:16.000 You got a hope. 592 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.000 I'm not crying about the past. 593 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:23.000 I'm going to focus on how great my future isn't God. 594 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:31.000 Winners and champions focus on how good things look in the future. 595 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:34.000 Losers cry about the past. 596 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.000 I'm not a loser. 597 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.000 Oh, amen. 598 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.000 How many winners we have in here? 599 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:43.000 How many champions we have in here? 600 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:46.000 How many, some of y'all can't even praise God, 601 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.000 because you don't feel like a winner. 602 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.000 I may not feel like it, but we're like past a boy on set. 603 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:57.000 There's some stuff that I receive by faith. 604 00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:59.000 I'm a winner. 605 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.000 I look at this soul. 606 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:03.000 It's super-spectives. 607 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.000 Focus on me and my cross. 608 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:07.000 My cross is so bad. 609 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.000 When I'm going through so bad. 610 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:13.000 When can I get off this? 611 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:16.000 Jesus, when are you going to get me out of this? 612 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.000 It's so bad. 613 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:27.000 This generation needs a backbone again. 614 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:29.000 They give up over anything. 615 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:31.000 They leave a church over anything. 616 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:33.000 All the passengers say hi to me. 617 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.000 I'm just so sad. 618 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:44.000 Yeah, because you got 6,000 other things he's trying to do before the service starts. 619 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:47.000 If you want to say hi to me, hey, pastor, what's up? 620 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.000 You want to say hi to me? 621 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:50.000 Man, a God? 622 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:53.000 Come give me a hug. 623 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:54.000 Right? 624 00:31:54.000 --> 00:32:00.000 That's a simple solution to a major problem for a lot of folks. 625 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.000 Someone doesn't say hi to me. 626 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:04.000 I say hi to them on purpose. 627 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.000 If I know they don't want to say hi to me, I purposely say hi to them. 628 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000 You guys, my wife, I purposely. 629 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:12.000 They're having an attitude, hey, what's up? 630 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:13.000 How you doing, girl? 631 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:15.000 Your hair looks nice. 632 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:16.000 And I don't lie. 633 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.000 If their hair don't look nice, I'm not going to say it. 634 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:25.000 That's the spirit of truth in me. 635 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:37.000 If I just want to say hi, if their hair don't look nice, I'm like, God bless you. 636 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.000 Now your shoes are fired up. 637 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.000 My God, what's the size? 638 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.000 What's the size? 639 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:50.000 Oh, we're nine and a half old. 640 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:57.000 See the Lord saved you. 641 00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.000 What's your focus? 642 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:03.000 Is your focus on what's eternal or what's temporal? 643 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:06.000 One man focused, his focus was on right now. 644 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:07.000 Things are bad. 645 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:13.000 The other one was like, hey, Jesus, when you get to heaven, remember me. 646 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.000 When you get to your kingdom, remember me. 647 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.000 Because I don't want to focus. 648 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:19.000 I know how bad the situation in good right here. 649 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.000 I'm on the cross. 650 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.000 Things ain't all great right now. 651 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.000 I'm in a mess of situation, but I don't want to focus too much on now. 652 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:32.000 I want to focus on eternity. 653 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:35.000 I want to ask you a question. 654 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.000 What's your focus? 655 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:39.000 Is it on right now? 656 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:43.000 Is it on what's temporal or what's on eternal? 657 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.000 My focus on eternity. 658 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:52.000 I want to focus on my future and not focus on my past. 659 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.000 I want to do this. 660 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:56.000 Passimo, can you help me again? 661 00:33:56.000 --> 00:34:00.000 Don't put, don't. 662 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:03.000 I am holding the wrong side. 663 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:04.000 Okay. 664 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:10.000 You got me, you got me, bro? 665 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.000 Victor, your PK, you got to help me. 666 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:15.000 You see, you see? 667 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.000 When you're a PK, get put to work. 668 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.000 So I might have you hold, recruit them early. 669 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:25.000 Next time I'll give you the mic to preach. 670 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.000 And it better be a good sermon too. 671 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:32.000 We're good, we're good. 672 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:35.000 So this is a rope. 673 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:37.000 It's a rope. 674 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:41.000 I have a four year old, so I had to explain every single thing now. 675 00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:47.000 This rope, most of it is white. 676 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:52.000 This small section right here is... 677 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.000 I changed the color, you see? 678 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.000 Some of y'all didn't look. 679 00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:58.000 Because it was green. 680 00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.000 Last service is black. 681 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:00.000 This service. 682 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.000 See, I knew I was going to catch some of you slipping. 683 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:04.000 I was green. 684 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:05.000 You didn't look. 685 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:06.000 Nope, it's not green. 686 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.000 It's black. 687 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.000 Now. 688 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:17.000 Ah. 689 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:20.000 Let's make it tighter. 690 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.000 And step back a little bit. 691 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.000 Yeah, perfect. 692 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:26.000 How small are you holding it all the way up here? 693 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:33.000 Are you sure? 694 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:36.000 If it was me and him, I could hold it up there. 695 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:47.000 He would be perfectly fine. 696 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:53.000 This rope symbolizes your life and eternity. 697 00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:58.000 How long eternity is? 698 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:02.000 You see how short life is? 699 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:09.000 But what you do in this short life determines where you spend eternity. 700 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:11.000 So there's a lot of us. 701 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:19.000 We live a life without God, without hope, without a savior. 702 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:30.000 And we think we could like live like hell and make it to heaven. 703 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:46.000 But how you live here determines how you spend your life here. 704 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:49.000 I want to make the most of this. 705 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:53.000 Not by drinking, not by partying, not by smoking. 706 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:56.000 Not by doing things I feel good to the flesh. 707 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:59.000 I'm going to live the most by living in purpose. 708 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:06.000 I'm going to do the most to live in the call of God for my life. 709 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:12.000 By saying yes to the things of God and no to the things of the world. 710 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:16.000 Because I know there's a future. 711 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:20.000 Two men, they could stop breathing at any moment. 712 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.000 They're being crucified literally. 713 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.000 That means there are lungs collapsing on itself. 714 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.000 And they had a decision to make. 715 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:32.000 With the little time I have left. 716 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:34.000 Am I going to be better? 717 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.000 Am I going to be angry? 718 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.000 Am I going to be upset? 719 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.000 Am I going to live with no life? 720 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:45.000 Am I going to make a decision to serve God and say yes to Jesus. 721 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:48.000 You've got to make that decision today. 722 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:52.000 That I'm going to live to the fullness, to the fullness. 723 00:37:52.000 --> 00:38:04.000 I'm going to live a life where the Holy Spirit can take full control over. 724 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:08.000 I said there's two men similar. 725 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.000 But there's only one difference. 726 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:16.000 In this church, there's people who've gone through what you've gone through. 727 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.000 There's people in this church. 728 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:23.000 Ex prostitutes. 729 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:27.000 They were addicted to drugs, addicted to pornography. 730 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:30.000 Gone through messy divorces. 731 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:33.000 I mean, life has hit them hard. 732 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:35.000 And I know some of them personally. 733 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:38.000 I know their stories. 734 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.000 And guess what? 735 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:45.000 They were not letting what they went through define them. 736 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:52.000 Because they had a story, but they knew that that story was not their ending. 737 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.000 They said, this story won't define me. 738 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.000 I'm going to let God rewrite my story. 739 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.000 So I want to ask you a question today. 740 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.000 Will you let God rewrite your story? 741 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:05.000 There was one man. 742 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:07.000 He said, God, you're going to rewrite my story. 743 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.000 I repent. 744 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:09.000 I'm sorry. 745 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:11.000 And then at that moment, his whole story was rewritten. 746 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:12.000 You'll be with me and paradise. 747 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.000 There was another man on the other side. 748 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.000 Oh, God, I'm complaining and mad and angry. 749 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:21.000 And his story was never rewritten. 750 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:27.000 Are you going to let the Holy Spirit rewrite your story today? 751 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:33.000 And when he rewrites your story, it's a New York Times bestseller. 752 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:40.000 He will take your message and make it a message. 753 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:45.000 He will take your test and make it a testimony. 754 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:47.000 Today, the Holy Spirit wants to rewrite your message. 755 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:52.000 Close your eyes by your heads. 756 00:39:52.000 --> 00:40:01.000 This whole time, this sermon is about Jesus. 757 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:06.000 What made one man different from the other was one focused on himself 758 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:11.000 and the other one looked at the cross of Jesus. 759 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:16.000 And his perspective changed when he looked at the cross. 760 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:23.000 Today, as you heard about Jesus and what he did 2,000 years ago for you, 761 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:28.000 how he took the punishment in your place, 762 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.000 how when you accept him, you're no longer a sinner, 763 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:40.000 you are a son, a daughter of the most high God. 764 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:46.000 Now is your time to make a decision because he already made it 2,000 years ago for you. 765 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:50.000 He died for you to have life. 766 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.000 So with all heads bowed, if you've never accepted Jesus before, 767 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.000 if you're saying, man, I'm so far away from God, 768 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:04.000 I know that I need him, but I'm not sure how to even do this. 769 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.000 Easy. 770 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:14.000 Just invite him in your heart. 771 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:19.000 I want every single person who wants to say yes to Jesus, 772 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:22.000 yes to this redemption, yes to this hope, 773 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.000 yes to this peace. 774 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:26.000 I'm not telling you life is going to be perfect. 775 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:29.000 I'm not telling you that all your troubles are going to go away. 776 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:31.000 What I'm telling you is that you're going to have peace. 777 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.000 The peace that passes all understanding. 778 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.000 What I'm telling you is you're not going to live hopeless and depressed anymore. 779 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:42.000 The joy of the Lord is going to become your strength. 780 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:47.000 I'm telling you that fear and anxiety won't swallow you up. 781 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:53.000 You'll be free. 782 00:41:53.000 --> 00:42:04.000 If you want to accept this God, this gift of life, of salvation, of hope, 783 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:08.000 I want you with all heads bowed, all eyes closed, 784 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:11.000 I want you to lift up your hands right now. 785 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:14.000 Come on, lift up your hand, just lift up your hand, 786 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.000 just lift up one hand. 787 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:20.000 Yep, I see those hands, I see that hand, I see that hand, 788 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:26.000 I see that hand, I see that hand, I see it. 789 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:30.000 If you made that decision to say yes to Jesus, 790 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.000 I want you to just do one more thing with me, 791 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:34.000 I want you to stand to your feet right now. 792 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:38.000 Come on, if you're making that decision, 793 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:43.000 stand to your feet quickly. 794 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:53.000 There's a few more of you, I'm going to give 30 more seconds. 795 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:56.000 I'm going to give you 30 more seconds. 796 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.000 There's about two or three more of you who are saying, 797 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:03.000 I say yes. 798 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:06.000 Your age doesn't matter, your sex doesn't matter, 799 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000 your background doesn't matter, 800 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.000 what you did yesterday doesn't matter, 801 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.000 in this morning it doesn't matter. 802 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:25.000 There is hope for you in Jesus. 803 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:28.000 As your head is bowed and your eyes are closed, 804 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:32.000 I want you to repeat this prayer. 805 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:35.000 Lord Jesus. 806 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:37.000 Come on, let's all say it as a church, 807 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:39.000 and I know some of you have already accepted Jesus, 808 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:42.000 but just as a show of unity. 809 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:43.000 This will say it together, 810 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:51.000 Lord Jesus, I accept your gift of salvation. 811 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:55.000 Thank you for dying on the cross for me, 812 00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.000 and resurrecting on the third day, 813 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:04.000 and giving me new life. 814 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:07.000 I accept you as my Lord, 815 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:12.000 and my Savior, in Jesus' name. 816 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000 Amen. 817 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:37.000 We pray that you have been encouraged today, 818 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.000 that you have been reminded how much God loves you, 819 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:43.000 and that you are surrounded by grace. 820 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:44.000 Thank you for listening. 821 00:44:44.000 --> 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