1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,980 Thank you. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:59,980 Thank you. 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:29,980 Thank you. 4 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:59,980 I'm going to go to the next video. 5 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:09,620 Oh, sure. Yeah. 6 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:30,920 They're fine. 7 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:26,000 It's like this size feels like this is the exam. We're beginning to risk the uh... 8 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:55,980 I'm going to get rid of it. 9 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:25,560 Oh, yeah. 10 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:52,080 You know, one of the most irritating pictures of the boys was sitting there for several events, and people are walking in. 11 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:52,920 - Yeah. 12 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,780 - Watch it. 13 00:04:54,780 --> 00:04:56,500 - With all that, all the time. 14 00:04:56,500 --> 00:04:57,340 - Yeah. 15 00:04:57,340 --> 00:04:59,940 - Watch it. 16 00:04:59,940 --> 00:05:01,560 - Watch it. 17 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,320 - Heep, heep, heep, heep. 18 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,040 - What was the program, Donnie? 19 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:08,380 - I hate just me. 20 00:05:08,380 --> 00:05:09,800 - Are you ready to try this? 21 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:11,640 - Everybody here, you know what? 22 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:12,480 - Did he hit? 23 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,440 - When he ended up going down his day? 24 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,440 - Oh, that was, that was crazy. 25 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,920 - Yeah, yeah, he was so crazy. 26 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,900 - I was like, "Man, I don't know what he did." 27 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:23,020 and I haven't sent them to play on them. 28 00:05:23,020 --> 00:05:39,980 I don't know, I don't know, I'm just going to figure out how to play it. 29 00:05:39,980 --> 00:05:56,060 I'm just going to figure out how many times. So, now if you notice my phone. How can you do the iPhone? It's beautiful. The other thing you can do is have to give you the kids to play around. 30 00:06:09,980 --> 00:06:11,720 I don't know what to do. 31 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,520 I don't know what to do. 32 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:20,620 Hey, do you want a big room? 33 00:06:20,620 --> 00:06:22,820 I don't know what to do. 34 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:23,820 I don't know what to do. 35 00:06:23,820 --> 00:06:24,500 I don't know what to do. 36 00:06:35,740 --> 00:06:37,740 It's not always there to be a leader. 37 00:06:37,740 --> 00:06:39,740 I don't even know how to get out of here. 38 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:41,740 I don't know how to get out of here. 39 00:06:41,740 --> 00:06:43,740 Look it up. 40 00:06:43,740 --> 00:06:45,740 It's not by our fire. 41 00:06:45,740 --> 00:07:00,740 I mean, you don't have to. 42 00:07:00,740 --> 00:07:01,740 We can deliver. 43 00:07:01,740 --> 00:07:02,740 Like, we can deliver. 44 00:07:02,740 --> 00:07:04,740 It's not a good thing to get for you. 45 00:07:04,740 --> 00:07:08,400 Yeah, that's going to be like an extra $25 for robbing your free cap. 46 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,120 But, no, if you want it, we'll figure it out. 47 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:20,920 So the only thing it might not is how much it works. 48 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,820 It could be maybe like this one. 49 00:07:23,820 --> 00:07:25,700 No, but there will be a lot of them. 50 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:27,020 Well, that's what he's spending. 51 00:07:27,020 --> 00:07:34,300 So we're going to do everything right now. 52 00:07:34,740 --> 00:07:43,040 I'll do it on the pink TV. 53 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,240 I'll do it on the pink TV. 54 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,540 I'll do it on the pink TV. 55 00:08:04,580 --> 00:08:04,920 I know. 56 00:08:34,580 --> 00:09:04,560 I don't know. 57 00:09:04,580 --> 00:09:34,560 Thank you. 58 00:09:34,580 --> 00:10:04,560 I don't know. 59 00:10:04,580 --> 00:10:34,560 Thank you. 60 00:10:34,580 --> 00:11:04,560 Thank you. 61 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:34,560 Thank you. 62 00:13:04,580 --> 00:13:05,420 - What? 63 00:13:34,580 --> 00:14:04,560 Thank you. 64 00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:34,560 Thank you. 65 00:14:34,580 --> 00:15:04,560 Thank you. 66 00:15:34,580 --> 00:15:55,120 I get a lot of mining, so I feel like I scream all the time. 67 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,800 Yeah, I can tell you were her thing. 68 00:16:04,580 --> 00:16:34,560 Thank you. 69 00:16:34,580 --> 00:17:01,040 Oh, I'll grab it for you in a moment. 70 00:17:04,580 --> 00:17:09,580 - Yeah, no, they're just doing it out there. 71 00:17:34,580 --> 00:17:35,980 It is. 72 00:17:35,980 --> 00:17:38,220 They said what they do. 73 00:17:38,220 --> 00:17:40,980 They said, we got to make a class. 74 00:17:40,980 --> 00:17:42,780 And we're going to have to make a class. 75 00:17:42,780 --> 00:17:45,020 And we're going to have to make a class. 76 00:17:45,020 --> 00:17:47,020 And we're going to have to make a class. 77 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:34,520 Thank you. 78 00:18:34,540 --> 00:19:04,520 Thank you. 79 00:19:04,540 --> 00:19:34,520 Thank you. 80 00:20:34,540 --> 00:21:01,380 I did. 81 00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:30,800 Okay, I think we're getting started, the kids will be back in a little bit. 82 00:21:31,380 --> 00:21:38,020 so they're downstairs practicing they're going to sing some songs this morning I think so 83 00:21:38,020 --> 00:21:43,940 okay so we're going to get started this morning it's a little cold and I'm still tired from the 84 00:21:43,940 --> 00:21:50,880 time change we should we'll just power through if we want to go ahead and stand we're going to be 85 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:59,640 reading together out of Isaiah this morning and it's going to be out of Isaiah 12 verses 2 through 86 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:09,940 4. And it says, Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and will not be afraid, for the 87 00:22:09,940 --> 00:22:17,980 Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. With joy you will 88 00:22:17,980 --> 00:22:24,600 draw water from the wells of salvation, and you will say in that day, Give thanks to the 89 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:32,340 Lord call upon his name make known his deeds among the peoples proclaim that his name is 90 00:22:32,340 --> 00:22:40,020 exalted this is the word of the Lord let's pray God we thank you so much that we're able to gather 91 00:22:40,020 --> 00:22:45,240 here this morning and we thank you for coffee and we thank you for the fellowship that we have 92 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:52,160 together we thank you for those that are watching online and we just ask that our worship today 93 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:58,380 will be glorifying to you and be with Brandon as he brings the sermon today and just thank you so 94 00:22:58,380 --> 00:23:04,780 much for the promise all throughout your word in both the New Testament as well as the old 95 00:23:04,780 --> 00:23:11,180 we thank you for your wells of salvation that always refresh us and just be with us today as 96 00:23:11,180 --> 00:23:17,640 we worship you in Jesus name amen all right our first Song we're going to do is our God saves 97 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:38,420 In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Spirit, Lord, we come. 98 00:23:38,420 --> 00:23:48,120 We are gathered together to lift up your name, to call on our Savior, to call on your grace. 99 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:53,240 Hear the joyful sound of our offering 100 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:58,740 As your saints bow down, as your people sing 101 00:23:58,740 --> 00:24:03,780 We will rise with you, lift it on your wings 102 00:24:03,780 --> 00:24:07,720 And the world will see that 103 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,480 Our God saves 104 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:16,320 Our God saves 105 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:25,980 There is this day 106 00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:35,900 Morning turns to songs of rest 107 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:40,820 Our God saves 108 00:24:40,820 --> 00:24:45,840 Our God saves 109 00:24:45,840 --> 00:25:06,960 In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Spirit, Lord, we come, we gather together, to lift up your name, to call on the Savior, to fall on your grace. 110 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:26,280 Hear the joyful sound of our offer, as your saints bow down, as your people say, arise with you, lift it on your wings, and the world will see that. 111 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:34,820 Our God saves, our God saves 112 00:25:34,820 --> 00:25:44,120 There is hope in your name 113 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:54,440 Morning turns to songs of praise 114 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:59,300 Our God saves 115 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:04,400 Our God saves 116 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:10,480 Hear the joyful sound of our offering 117 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:15,740 As your saints bow down, as your people sing 118 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:20,960 We will rise with you, lift it on your wings 119 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,500 And the world will see that 120 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:28,740 Our God saves 121 00:26:28,740 --> 00:26:33,880 Our God saves 122 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,080 There is hope 123 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:43,220 In your name 124 00:26:43,220 --> 00:26:50,540 Mornings and love 125 00:26:50,960 --> 00:27:12,560 all right it's nice to know in a few years we'll have a lot of volunteers for a full band 126 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:20,280 so that's good we'll keep them in mind so all right our next song we're going to be doing is 127 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,760 How Majestic Is Your Name 128 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:23,920 from Psalm 8 129 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,380 and then we're going to have our prayer and share time 130 00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:28,460 so if you're watching online, just please text 131 00:27:28,460 --> 00:27:30,520 the number if you have anything you'd like us 132 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,420 to share and then we'll be muted here during 133 00:27:32,420 --> 00:27:33,080 that time. 134 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:40,140 I pressed play. 135 00:27:40,140 --> 00:27:42,120 I pressed play. 136 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:46,220 We might sing it. 137 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:55,620 No. You want to do something else? Okay. 138 00:27:55,620 --> 00:28:11,320 Share time. Let's do that. So if you want to sit down, we'll be back after this. 139 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:50,260 Thank you. 140 00:28:50,280 --> 00:29:20,260 Thank you. 141 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:50,260 Thank you. 142 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,580 Next time we're going to be singing Man of Sorrows. 143 00:37:23,580 --> 00:37:48,620 Man of sorrows, Lamb of God, by his own betrayed. 144 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:56,740 The sin, the man, and the wrath of God 145 00:37:56,740 --> 00:38:02,920 Has been on Jesus' name 146 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:12,280 Silent as he stood accused 147 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:19,280 Beaten, mocked, and scorned 148 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:32,000 Bowing to the Father's will, he took the crown of course. 149 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:46,480 Oh, that rugged cross, my salvation, where your love poured out on me. 150 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:59,480 Now my soul cries out, Hallelujah, praise and honor unto Thee. 151 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:15,220 Send of heaven, God's own Son, to purchase and redeem. 152 00:39:15,220 --> 00:39:22,740 And reconcile the very one 153 00:39:22,740 --> 00:39:35,060 Oh, that rugged cross, my salvation 154 00:39:35,060 --> 00:39:41,300 Where your love worked out over me 155 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:55,360 Now my soul cries out, Hallelujah, praise and honor to Thee. 156 00:39:55,360 --> 00:40:10,360 Now my death is paid, it is paid in full, by the precious blood that my Jesus spilled. 157 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:17,320 Now the curse of sin has no hold on me 158 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:23,660 When the sun sets free, oh it's free indeed 159 00:40:23,660 --> 00:40:29,800 Now my hand is paid, it is paid in full 160 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:36,300 By the precious blood that my Jesus spilled 161 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:49,280 Now the curtain has no hold on me, and the sun sets free me in thee. 162 00:40:49,280 --> 00:41:01,280 Oh, that rugged cross, my salvation, where your love poured out over me. 163 00:41:02,180 --> 00:41:15,240 Now my soul cries out, hallelujah, praise and honor unto Thee. 164 00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:30,240 See, the stone is rolled away, behold the empty tomb. 165 00:41:31,980 --> 00:41:43,040 Hallelujah, God be praised. He's risen from the grave. 166 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:55,680 Oh, that rugged cross, my salvation, where your love poured out over me. 167 00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:14,780 Now my soul cries out, Alleluia, praise and honor, love to Thee, praise and honor, love to Thee. 168 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:35,520 So there are times I find myself in life, probably like many of us, where we maybe need 169 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,960 help, but we are not very excited about asking for help. 170 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:44,920 The project may be too big or the thing we're trying to move too heavy. 171 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:51,300 And so rather than just simply asking for help, we say, I'm going to do it myself. 172 00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:59,040 And sometimes maybe just by an inch we're able to do it, and then other times we're frustrated and broken. 173 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:04,200 And so Jesus, on the night before he goes to the cross, he meets with his disciples. 174 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:11,800 They celebrate the Passover together in a wonderful, beautiful remembrance of God's salvation in the past. 175 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:17,960 And unknown to the disciples, a beautiful and wonderful foreshadowing of God's salvation in the future. 176 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:25,240 And in the Gospel of John, Jesus will take several chapters and he'll just sit down with his disciples 177 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:33,540 and he will prepare them for what is about to happen, while also kind of teaching and explaining to them some important things. 178 00:43:33,540 --> 00:43:35,720 So in John 15, he says this. 179 00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:44,200 I am the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit. 180 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:53,580 for apart from me you can do nothing and so that part of my self-sufficiency that says to me when 181 00:43:53,580 --> 00:44:00,800 i say to me i can do this all by myself Jesus gives us this picture of a vine growing and says 182 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:06,060 if the branches are separated from the vine they no longer have nourishment they no longer bear 183 00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:12,200 fruit and he says the way in our life is to be close to Jesus you see Jesus is challenging 184 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:20,640 this attitude and idea that we all have that we can do things by ourself and then Jesus will end 185 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:27,540 by speaking to the disciples i think they realize in that moment how poignant it is but he will say 186 00:44:27,540 --> 00:44:33,400 at the very end after he talks with the vine and the remaining in him he simply say this 187 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:40,040 greater love has no one than this that someone lay down his life for his friends and 188 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:51,240 Jesus, they'll walk him through a mockery of trials and eventually crucify him. 189 00:44:51,240 --> 00:45:01,420 Jesus, for his friends, we come to the Lord's Supper and we drink this little piece of 190 00:45:01,420 --> 00:45:10,600 beer and we drink this cup, because they remind us of all our souls, it's a connection and 191 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:19,380 And it's a reminder to us that our strength is sufficient, but the strength of Jesus in heaven. 192 00:45:19,380 --> 00:45:39,340 For the power in heaven, Jesus is self-sufficient, and we would try to help you alone. 193 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:50,120 I'm trying not to stand under our own strength, but through the strength of this meal together. 194 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,640 It's in Jesus' name we pray. 195 00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:52,180 Amen. 196 00:45:52,180 --> 00:46:02,680 As we pray, we pray that there's a last word where Jesus will say, 197 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,440 this is me, we'll partake together. 198 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:10,100 Amen. 199 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:34,060 And as you eat bread and drink this, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 200 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:40,980 We're going to jump right into our text, which is going to be in the loop chat. 201 00:46:40,980 --> 00:46:48,140 This morning, it's a slow start. 202 00:46:48,140 --> 00:46:59,460 Start, start, so for a moment, come in and listen and say God's word. 203 00:46:59,460 --> 00:47:02,500 Okay. 204 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:17,020 And so we're going to sing a couple of short children's songs. 205 00:47:17,020 --> 00:47:28,320 Thank you so much. 206 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:41,320 I'm a little bit more than a day. 207 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:48,320 I'm a little bit more than a day. 208 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:34,300 Thank you. 209 00:48:34,320 --> 00:49:04,300 Thank you. 210 00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:11,320 I'm a little bit more than a day. 211 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:16,320 I'm a little bit more than a day. 212 00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:22,320 I'm a little bit more than a day. 213 00:49:34,320 --> 00:50:04,300 Thank you. 214 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:09,240 Yeah. 215 00:50:34,320 --> 00:51:04,300 Thank you. 216 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:23,420 But now that I'm so much in the situation, I'm actually in the job of the Hill. 217 00:51:23,420 --> 00:51:28,840 I think that he's a big fan of the Hill. I was running away from the Hill. I was running away from the Hill. 218 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:45,240 the fulfillment and power 219 00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:45,900 of grace 220 00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:46,880 of God 221 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:47,100 and then 222 00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:50,320 he turns 223 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,060 he begins 224 00:51:53,060 --> 00:51:54,680 to have 225 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,160 a focal outcome 226 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:57,540 of Jesus' life 227 00:51:57,540 --> 00:51:59,060 and you can see 228 00:51:59,060 --> 00:51:59,940 God 229 00:51:59,940 --> 00:52:01,880 poured out 230 00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:02,680 through the gift 231 00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,200 of his 232 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:04,660 son. 233 00:52:04,660 --> 00:52:09,000 The guy by the name of 234 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,120 Zophilus, and 235 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:11,200 he's saying 236 00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,140 I've 237 00:52:13,140 --> 00:52:17,000 researched 238 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,700 all the things that Zophilus 239 00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:20,260 made in a Christian, maybe he was 240 00:52:20,260 --> 00:52:23,040 going to make 241 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:24,040 a humanity too. 242 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,500 But one of the reasons you have this 243 00:52:26,500 --> 00:52:28,000 well-ordered 244 00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:47,700 Everything is going to change and transition. 245 00:52:47,700 --> 00:52:50,220 So let me read to you our text this morning, 246 00:52:50,220 --> 00:52:54,260 and we'll spend a few minutes just unpacking it. 247 00:52:54,260 --> 00:52:56,520 Chapter 9, verse 51. 248 00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:00,820 When there was a day for him to be taken up, 249 00:53:00,820 --> 00:53:03,520 there was a space to go to Jerusalem. 250 00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,460 And he sent messengers ahead of him who went and entered a village of the Samaritans 251 00:53:08,460 --> 00:53:10,540 to make preparations for him. 252 00:53:10,540 --> 00:53:15,120 But the people did not know that his face was set toward Jerusalem. 253 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,660 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, 254 00:53:18,660 --> 00:53:22,800 Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them? 255 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:28,480 But he turned and rebuked them, and they went on to another village. 256 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:34,200 And so Jesus, at this point in his ministry, we're more than halfway through the ministry of Jesus. 257 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:40,660 We're walking toward the cross, and Jesus sets his face to go to Jerusalem. 258 00:53:40,660 --> 00:53:47,020 Now this journey to Jerusalem, there's two routes you can take as you're going from down to Jerusalem. 259 00:53:47,020 --> 00:53:55,080 You can go sort of the western route, which will take you down sort of the western side of Israel. 260 00:53:55,220 --> 00:53:58,700 It's going to go through real mountainous and hilly terrain. 261 00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:02,840 So, for example, if you've hiked on the Appalachian Trail in the area, 262 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:09,720 there's a section near the roller coaster where it just goes up and down and up and down, 263 00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:15,660 a little longer than it might normally because of all the hills. 264 00:54:15,660 --> 00:54:18,260 And so where Jesus, if he was to take the western route, 265 00:54:18,260 --> 00:54:21,500 it would be up and down, up and down, and it would take longer. 266 00:54:21,500 --> 00:54:22,400 It was more difficult. 267 00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,840 Not a lot of people live along that area. 268 00:54:25,220 --> 00:54:31,800 And so what would happen is you would leave Galilee, cross over the Jordan River, 269 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:38,120 and come down through Samaria and end up eventually in Jerusalem. 270 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:42,720 And so what's going to happen is Jesus is going to take that route. 271 00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:47,040 And the problem with the easy route is that the Jews and Samaritans, 272 00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,540 they do not like each other. 273 00:54:49,540 --> 00:54:52,060 They do not get along with each other. 274 00:54:52,460 --> 00:54:56,360 There's issue that the Samaritan people come from the Jewish people, 275 00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,080 but when the Jewish people went into exile, 276 00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:03,300 the Samaritans will intermarry with the people in the land, 277 00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:06,220 and so the Jewish people will come back and they will say, 278 00:55:06,220 --> 00:55:10,800 well, you're not really Jewish, we only discriminate against the Samaritans. 279 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,380 They worship differently. 280 00:55:12,380 --> 00:55:17,040 They worship God on Mount Gerizim rather than on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, 281 00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,600 and so you have all of these differences. 282 00:55:19,820 --> 00:55:23,600 And in fact, in Jesus' day, Samaria became kind of a hideout 283 00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,340 from people who are on the run from the Jewish authorities. 284 00:55:26,340 --> 00:55:29,440 So it's like, I'm getting in trouble here in Israel. 285 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,160 I'm going to jump across the river to Samaria. 286 00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:36,140 They have non-extradition with Israel, so I will be safe there. 287 00:55:36,140 --> 00:55:40,280 And so there's this sort of difficult choice that you have to make 288 00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:41,940 going from Galilee to Jerusalem. 289 00:55:41,940 --> 00:55:45,500 And that choice is simply, am I going to take the route to the mountains? 290 00:55:45,500 --> 00:55:48,800 It's strenuous, it's hard, there's not a lot of places to stop. 291 00:55:48,900 --> 00:55:54,680 Or am I going to take this route through the Samaritans where I don't like them because they're different than I am? 292 00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:59,320 I don't like them because they worship differently, and I don't like them because there's a lot of outlaws. 293 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:04,960 And so what Jesus does is he chooses to travel through Samaria. 294 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:13,800 And one of the lessons that we see here about Jesus is he doesn't really care a lot for what some of us think of as norms, right? 295 00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,500 Jesus cares about saving people. 296 00:56:17,020 --> 00:56:21,380 He doesn't look at their opinions and look down on them and say they're not worthy of my time. 297 00:56:21,380 --> 00:56:27,420 In fact, from this text, it seems that Jesus wants to go into the church and teach 298 00:56:27,420 --> 00:56:30,920 and help them to understand the gospel. 299 00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:35,480 And so you have a picture of Jesus sort of declaring through his actions 300 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,620 that nobody is outside of the word of God. 301 00:56:39,620 --> 00:56:43,380 Now, Jesus, the other thing that's happening is Jesus is traveling 302 00:56:43,380 --> 00:56:46,560 just a little bit differently than most of us are. 303 00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:52,380 So for us, when we go on a trip, what we want to do is we want to go as far and as fast as possible. 304 00:56:52,380 --> 00:56:56,600 So we look at our destination, and we say, right, at 75 miles an hour, 305 00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,540 I can do this trip in this amount of time, and that's what we shoot for. 306 00:57:00,540 --> 00:57:06,340 Now, Jesus' journey is not so much about how fast he can get to the destination. 307 00:57:06,340 --> 00:57:09,700 It's that he's ultimately going to end up there. 308 00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:13,280 And so on this journey, he's going to stop, and he's going to teach. 309 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,580 He's going to heal. He's going to help people. 310 00:57:15,580 --> 00:57:19,120 He's going to point people toward the goodness of God. 311 00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:22,160 It's ultimately going to end in Jerusalem. 312 00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,400 And so I want to just for a brief moment 313 00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:29,120 about those people that Jesus encounters in these verses. 314 00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,960 First of all, you have James and John. 315 00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,440 If you've ever gone on a walk or gone hiking with kids, 316 00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,200 one of the things that kids tend to do 317 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,240 is they like to run on ahead of you, scout the trail, 318 00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,080 and then sometimes they'll run back and tell you to hurry up 319 00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,160 and then they'll run ahead, and they'll run back and say, 320 00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:52,080 you're not going fast enough, and oh, we found something amazing that you have to see. 321 00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,700 There is a tendency for some people to try to run ahead. 322 00:57:55,700 --> 00:57:58,940 Now, in this text, we're going to see that happen in two ways. 323 00:57:58,940 --> 00:58:04,400 One is that Jesus is going to intentionally tell some of his followers to run ahead. 324 00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:09,560 Run into town, and whether he's making arrangements to stay, to find food, 325 00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:16,480 or whether he's made arrangements for them to allow him to speak and to preach and to teach, we don't know. 326 00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:20,500 All we know is that some people are sent ahead under the instruction of Jesus. 327 00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:27,760 But then we're going to see James and John, and they're sent ahead, not necessarily distanced, 328 00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:31,660 but sort of in their idea of what Jesus should be doing. 329 00:58:31,660 --> 00:58:37,780 Kind of saying, Jesus, you need this, instead of what he is doing. 330 00:58:37,780 --> 00:58:43,900 So these couple disciples that run ahead, they get to this town in Samaria, 331 00:58:43,900 --> 00:58:48,140 and they want to come here, and the town is a resounding no, we want Jesus. 332 00:58:48,140 --> 00:58:51,080 We'll talk about that more in just a minute. 333 00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,740 So they come back out, and they tell Jesus and the disciples, 334 00:58:54,740 --> 00:58:58,640 and I want you to see how James and John sort of run ahead, 335 00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,600 maybe in terms of the mission they think Jesus should be on. 336 00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,820 So here's what they say to Jesus. 337 00:59:04,820 --> 00:59:06,680 The people in the town come out and say, we don't want you. 338 00:59:07,140 --> 00:59:15,200 James and John will say, Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them? 339 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,380 What they're saying is, let's light this town up. 340 00:59:17,380 --> 00:59:18,960 They don't want you here. 341 00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,160 They don't deserve to be here. 342 00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:25,520 This is a really kind of James and John type of thing to say. 343 00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,400 Jesus, in the Gospel of Mark, when they're listing the disciples, 344 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:35,060 he will call James and John, sort of give them this nickname called Boanerges, 345 00:59:35,260 --> 00:59:40,420 And it just means Sons of Thunder, which, to be honest, is kind of a cool nickname, right? 346 00:59:40,420 --> 00:59:43,740 To be called Sons of Thunder. 347 00:59:43,740 --> 00:59:47,680 It does that because these are young guys and they have a temper, right? 348 00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,840 So when somebody comes up again, they're like pretty stormy dudes. 349 00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,460 And so when somebody offends them or says something they don't like, 350 00:59:54,460 --> 00:59:59,260 they're going to respond, maybe not in the most polite way, 351 00:59:59,260 --> 01:00:02,720 and in some cases, they're just going to start to throw hands. 352 01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:08,420 And so this reaction by James and John is not necessarily out of character for them, 353 01:00:08,420 --> 01:00:12,540 but it is for a follower of Jesus. 354 01:00:12,540 --> 01:00:17,540 And Jesus will turn around, he'll correct, he'll rebuke them sternly, 355 01:00:17,540 --> 01:00:22,260 and you see Jesus' love for all people, even Samaritans. 356 01:00:22,260 --> 01:00:25,600 And so we see that James and John are kind of stormy people, 357 01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:30,700 but they have kind of a terrible track record thus far of following Jesus. 358 01:00:31,140 --> 01:00:34,780 So just in Luke chapter 9, let me tell you what has happened. 359 01:00:34,780 --> 01:00:37,580 All the disciples are kind of gathered together, 360 01:00:37,580 --> 01:00:39,680 and they're trying to argue about who's better, right? 361 01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:41,840 I'm a better disciple, I'm a better disciple. 362 01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,400 Interestingly, they just get back from a mission trip, 363 01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:45,760 and so they're all kind of gathered, 364 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,080 well, I did this, and I did this, so I'm better than you because I did this. 365 01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:54,020 And they're bragging about who is the best in the followers of Jesus. 366 01:00:54,020 --> 01:00:58,020 And what's interesting is that this is not the first time 367 01:00:58,020 --> 01:01:01,400 that this argument has happened among the disciples. 368 01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,860 And in fact, one of the times in Matthew chapter 20, 369 01:01:04,860 --> 01:01:06,780 this is what James and John do. 370 01:01:06,780 --> 01:01:07,560 Listen to this. 371 01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,200 Then came the mother of the sons of Zebedee, 372 01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:11,320 that's James and John. 373 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:16,680 They came up to Jesus with her son, 374 01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:17,680 kneeling before him. 375 01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,120 She asked him something. 376 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:20,640 He said to her, what do you want? 377 01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:24,180 She said, say that these two sons of mine are to sit, 378 01:01:24,180 --> 01:01:27,440 one at your right hand, one at your left hand, 379 01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:33,820 in your kingdom. James and John, in their desire to be better than all of the disciples, they get 380 01:01:33,820 --> 01:01:42,920 their mom to go up to Jesus and go, hey, my sons are more than all these other clowns. One should 381 01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:47,980 be second in command. One should be third in command. Now, I have to imagine that that does 382 01:01:47,980 --> 01:01:54,920 not endear James and John to the other disciples, right? When they get mommy to come snitch to Jesus 383 01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:58,820 that her sons are better than everybody else. 384 01:01:58,820 --> 01:02:04,640 And then in Luke 9, 49, listen to what John will say. 385 01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,040 Master, speaking to Jesus, 386 01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:09,060 we saw someone casting out demons in your name 387 01:02:09,060 --> 01:02:13,040 and we tried to stop him because he does not follow with us. 388 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,080 But Jesus said, do not stop him 389 01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:18,420 for the one who is not against you is for you. 390 01:02:18,420 --> 01:02:22,380 So what they do, James and John specifically is walking along, 391 01:02:22,380 --> 01:02:25,660 sees the guy in the middle of spiritual warfare. 392 01:02:25,660 --> 01:02:27,980 He's casting out demons, and he goes, 393 01:02:27,980 --> 01:02:31,220 hey, you're not one of us, meaning the 12, 394 01:02:31,220 --> 01:02:34,660 and they kind of pin him up against the wall. 395 01:02:34,660 --> 01:02:37,260 You don't get to do that. That's only for us. 396 01:02:37,260 --> 01:02:42,260 And they come back and tell Jesus how they told one of his other followers 397 01:02:42,260 --> 01:02:46,460 that he can't do what Jesus has called them to do. 398 01:02:46,460 --> 01:02:48,980 And now, sort of progressively worse, 399 01:02:48,980 --> 01:02:50,860 they want to firebomb an 400 01:02:50,860 --> 01:02:52,800 entire town, right? 401 01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:54,880 For these guys, they've kind of gone from 402 01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,040 lovable doofuses to people 403 01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,840 who are now advocating 404 01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:01,100 for something really terrible. 405 01:03:01,100 --> 01:03:03,100 If you think through 406 01:03:03,100 --> 01:03:05,040 the implications of what it means 407 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:06,840 for them to say, call down 408 01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:08,840 fire on this town, right? 409 01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:10,700 They don't care about the property. 410 01:03:10,700 --> 01:03:12,760 They don't care about the loss of life. 411 01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:14,820 All they care about is getting the 412 01:03:14,820 --> 01:03:17,220 recognition that they deserve. 413 01:03:17,220 --> 01:03:18,840 And I'll 414 01:03:18,980 --> 01:03:22,660 And I'll say this, the struggle of James and John, 415 01:03:22,660 --> 01:03:29,180 whether it's the fight for position or sort of this possessiveness over the ministry of Jesus, 416 01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:34,060 or even calling down fire on the town, these are all symptoms of a bigger problem. 417 01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:37,240 They're symptoms of a problem that begins in the heart. 418 01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,280 And it's not just that they're getting this wrong, 419 01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:43,160 but it's become this sort of ingrained pattern of behavior. 420 01:03:43,740 --> 01:03:49,460 They have become focused on what I think is best in Jesus. 421 01:03:49,460 --> 01:03:52,980 So they think, hey, Jesus, it's best for second and third command. 422 01:03:52,980 --> 01:03:57,300 It's best if we get to decide who gets to do what we want, 423 01:03:57,300 --> 01:03:59,800 who get to sort of give out judgment. 424 01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,920 James and John, although they're friends with Jesus, 425 01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:04,900 they're not really walking with Jesus, right? 426 01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:08,880 They're following their own path and their own desires. 427 01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,840 And here's the thing that is so, so important. 428 01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:19,500 You and I can be so close to Jesus and still get things really, really wrong. 429 01:04:19,500 --> 01:04:23,040 And that's where James and John are in this text this morning. 430 01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:24,740 They're close to Jesus. 431 01:04:24,740 --> 01:04:29,840 John is referred to as the disciples of the disciples of the disciples of the disciples of the disciples of the disciples. 432 01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:42,720 The Samaritans, when Jesus seeks to come, did not receive him. 433 01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:46,000 And here's the reason why his face was set toward Jerusalem. 434 01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:47,760 Now, we don't have all the details. 435 01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:51,620 Maybe they didn't receive him because they didn't want him staying with them. 436 01:04:51,620 --> 01:04:53,100 Maybe he didn't receive him because they didn't want to hear him teach. 437 01:04:53,100 --> 01:04:57,860 But the big reason is because he was going to Jerusalem. 438 01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:03,460 He's going to go to the wrong mountain, worship God in the wrong way with the wrong people. 439 01:05:03,460 --> 01:05:04,940 We don't want him here. 440 01:05:04,940 --> 01:05:08,400 And what you see, it's the same story as the disciples, right? 441 01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,660 We have our own agenda, our own plan, the only thing we want to follow. 442 01:05:12,660 --> 01:05:16,660 And Jesus, like, you're not really a part of it. 443 01:05:16,660 --> 01:05:25,700 And so you have the disciples and you have the Samaritan of both their lives of pride that we know better. 444 01:05:25,700 --> 01:05:27,940 James and John say, we know better who should be in charge. 445 01:05:27,940 --> 01:05:30,420 We know better who should be teaching and preaching. 446 01:05:30,420 --> 01:05:32,960 We know better who should be bringing out judgment. 447 01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:34,680 And the Samaritans say, 448 01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,800 we know all of these things about what's better, 449 01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,720 and it's not Jerusalem. 450 01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,100 And so the disciples for the ministry of Jesus, 451 01:05:43,100 --> 01:05:45,760 and so they run out ahead of Him. 452 01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:46,500 And I'll say this, 453 01:05:46,500 --> 01:05:50,460 energy and excitement for Jesus 454 01:05:50,460 --> 01:05:52,620 without the knowledge to follow Him 455 01:05:52,620 --> 01:05:54,440 is going to get you into trouble, right? 456 01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:57,340 When you start to get ahead of Jesus, 457 01:05:57,340 --> 01:05:58,700 that goes badly. 458 01:05:58,700 --> 01:06:01,260 And the Samaritans, they're upset 459 01:06:01,260 --> 01:06:02,780 because Jesus will go to Jerusalem 460 01:06:02,780 --> 01:06:03,440 and why? 461 01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:05,080 Good enough. 462 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,200 And it's his focus on himself and on me. 463 01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:10,560 And as a result, 464 01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,680 both groups end up missing the message 465 01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:15,540 of Jesus in this place. 466 01:06:15,540 --> 01:06:18,880 Now Jesus comes back to both John 467 01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:20,720 and to James and to Samaria, 468 01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:23,420 but I want to contrast this selfishness. 469 01:06:23,420 --> 01:06:25,600 Jesus, we're going to bring down judgment 470 01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:26,980 and this idea of Jesus, 471 01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:28,200 We don't want you here. 472 01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:32,180 I want you to see the contrast with the attitude of Jesus. 473 01:06:32,180 --> 01:06:35,380 And so let's take a look at the mission of Jesus. 474 01:06:35,380 --> 01:06:37,740 This is in Luke chapter 9 and verse 51. 475 01:06:37,740 --> 01:06:42,160 And it's both heartbreaking and it's wonderful. 476 01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:46,140 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, 477 01:06:46,140 --> 01:06:49,460 he set his face to go to... 478 01:06:49,460 --> 01:06:52,560 These words I think are filled with both grief and wonder, right? 479 01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,460 These words are filled with grief 480 01:06:55,460 --> 01:06:59,100 because what is in Jerusalem for Jesus 481 01:06:59,100 --> 01:07:02,500 is betrayal, suffering, and death. 482 01:07:02,500 --> 01:07:05,400 In fact, in Luke chapter 9, 483 01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,600 in the verses that precede this, 484 01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:08,580 Jesus will tell us, 485 01:07:08,580 --> 01:07:11,540 Jerusalem, they're going to arrest me. 486 01:07:11,540 --> 01:07:12,840 We're going to go to Jerusalem 487 01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:14,480 and they're going to kill me. 488 01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:16,980 And when Jesus sets His face to go to Jerusalem, 489 01:07:16,980 --> 01:07:18,600 He knows where He's going 490 01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,900 and He knows what's going to happen. 491 01:07:20,900 --> 01:07:23,000 So read these things 492 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:26,240 because at this moment 493 01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:28,660 Jesus is setting His face 494 01:07:28,660 --> 01:07:30,400 towards the cross 495 01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:32,940 but I think these words 496 01:07:32,940 --> 01:07:34,900 are also filled with wonder 497 01:07:34,900 --> 01:07:37,220 that should lead us to worship 498 01:07:37,220 --> 01:07:39,100 because here's the thing 499 01:07:39,100 --> 01:07:41,260 this trip to Jerusalem was planned 500 01:07:41,260 --> 01:07:43,300 and there is no doubt in my mind 501 01:07:43,300 --> 01:07:45,600 that as Luke writes these words 502 01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,460 maybe solemnly 503 01:07:47,460 --> 01:07:48,540 maybe with wonder 504 01:07:48,540 --> 01:07:49,840 maybe with grief 505 01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:51,360 he writes these words 506 01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,260 The Spirit of God directs Him. 507 01:07:53,260 --> 01:07:56,640 Because these words echo words elsewhere in Scripture. 508 01:07:56,640 --> 01:08:00,940 In Isaiah 50, verse 7, 509 01:08:00,940 --> 01:08:02,840 you find these words. 510 01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,660 But the Lord God helps me, 511 01:08:05,660 --> 01:08:08,520 for I have not been disgraced. 512 01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:13,100 I have set my face like a flint, 513 01:08:13,100 --> 01:08:15,360 and I know that I shed shame. 514 01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:19,100 Those words were 700 years before 515 01:08:19,100 --> 01:08:23,600 Luke will write this verse in Luke chapter 9. 516 01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:27,220 Our prediction of a Messiah who would come. 517 01:08:27,220 --> 01:08:30,060 The verse that immediately precedes it is this, 518 01:08:30,060 --> 01:08:32,200 I gave my back to those who would strike. 519 01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:34,940 I gave my cheeks to those who would pull out the beard. 520 01:08:34,940 --> 01:08:37,900 And I did not hide my face and spit. 521 01:08:37,900 --> 01:08:39,580 And in the very next verse, 522 01:08:39,580 --> 01:08:41,420 you find this Redeemer saying, 523 01:08:41,420 --> 01:08:44,280 I set my face like flint, 524 01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:47,760 knowing the suffering that was ahead of me. 525 01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:50,280 I looked at it with a stony face 526 01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:52,100 and I did not look to the right eye. 527 01:08:52,100 --> 01:08:56,000 I fixed my eyes on the redemption of God's people. 528 01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,160 When Luke writes in Luke 9, verse 51, 529 01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,680 he sets his face to go to Jerusalem. 530 01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:04,060 He's calling us back to this picture 531 01:09:04,060 --> 01:09:07,280 of a promised Savior who set his eyes 532 01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,140 on the redemption of God's people. 533 01:09:09,140 --> 01:09:12,500 That this is God's plan. 534 01:09:12,500 --> 01:09:16,680 In fact, if you look back through Scripture, 535 01:09:16,860 --> 01:09:18,440 you find it's echoed. 536 01:09:18,440 --> 01:09:20,100 It's echoed in Psalm 22, 537 01:09:20,100 --> 01:09:22,480 those words that Jesus cries out on the cross, 538 01:09:22,480 --> 01:09:24,400 God, my God, for your safety. 539 01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:28,000 Or in Genesis 3, where it talks about 540 01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,440 this battle with the serpent, 541 01:09:29,440 --> 01:09:31,580 where you will crush His head 542 01:09:31,580 --> 01:09:33,560 and He will strike your heel. 543 01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,200 And the early church, as they pray, 544 01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:39,040 as they're suffering from persecution 545 01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:40,440 in Acts chapter 4, 546 01:09:40,440 --> 01:09:43,920 they will say about Jesus and His suffering 547 01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,820 that this is what God's hand and plan 548 01:09:46,820 --> 01:09:49,360 had predestined to take place. 549 01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:50,980 The understanding of the early church 550 01:09:50,980 --> 01:09:52,780 was that the cross was not, 551 01:09:52,780 --> 01:09:55,140 and this is part of God's plan. 552 01:09:55,140 --> 01:09:57,660 And I want you to be filled with wonder 553 01:09:57,660 --> 01:09:59,600 as you see this happen. 554 01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:04,180 God's plan is to save and to redeem His people, 555 01:10:04,180 --> 01:10:06,240 and nothing will stand in His way. 556 01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:09,020 And if you think about the brokenness of sin 557 01:10:09,020 --> 01:10:11,240 that occurs in Genesis chapter 3, 558 01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:13,920 the hiding and the fear and the shame 559 01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:15,500 and the excuses and the blame 560 01:10:15,500 --> 01:10:17,840 and relationships that are shattered. 561 01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:20,480 And God promises there is redemption. 562 01:10:20,480 --> 01:10:23,420 And you see throughout the Old Testament 563 01:10:23,420 --> 01:10:26,740 that God walks with some people. 564 01:10:26,740 --> 01:10:31,320 He wrestles with Jacob. 565 01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,900 He leads the people out of Israel. 566 01:10:34,900 --> 01:10:39,540 He speaks as an angel and a warrior to Joshua. 567 01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:41,800 He walks in the fiery furnace 568 01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,500 with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 569 01:10:44,500 --> 01:10:52,760 And then, as Paul will say, in Galatians 4, when the full God stepped into human history, 570 01:10:52,760 --> 01:11:00,360 not in power and in royalty and in majesty, but humbly born in a manger. 571 01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:07,660 And then, as Jesus goes through his life, he will say, I must be about my Father's purpose. 572 01:11:07,660 --> 01:11:10,760 And that purpose is the redemption. 573 01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:13,500 There's a sense of longing in the words 574 01:11:13,500 --> 01:11:15,320 of Jesus as he sits down at the Last Supper 575 01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:17,540 with his disciples and he says, I have long 576 01:11:17,540 --> 01:11:19,060 desired to deal with you. 577 01:11:19,060 --> 01:11:21,480 He's not just talking 578 01:11:21,480 --> 01:11:23,080 about, man, I've really been wanting to have 579 01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:23,980 dinner with you. 580 01:11:23,980 --> 01:11:27,020 But this last meal 581 01:11:27,020 --> 01:11:29,180 marks a 582 01:11:29,180 --> 01:11:31,680 that God has been moving 583 01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:33,080 all over, and that is the salvation 584 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:35,460 of his people. And so when Isaiah 585 01:11:35,460 --> 01:11:37,440 says he has set his face like 586 01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:39,620 a flint, it's set on the redemption 587 01:11:39,620 --> 01:11:41,280 of his people, and it's with 588 01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:46,660 I wonder, I think, that we realize as it says this of Jesus in Luke chapter 9, 589 01:11:46,660 --> 01:11:49,380 it happens because of His love. 590 01:11:49,380 --> 01:11:53,820 And as we read this morning, Jesus will say in John 15, 591 01:11:53,820 --> 01:11:57,580 greater love has no man than this, that He lays down His life for His friends. 592 01:11:57,580 --> 01:11:59,260 Think about the friends of Jesus for a minute. 593 01:11:59,260 --> 01:12:02,260 The ones that are sitting around the table with Him. 594 01:12:02,260 --> 01:12:04,840 One's going to deny Him in front of the Romans, 595 01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:08,240 and the rest are all going to run away, 596 01:12:09,380 --> 01:12:11,080 With the exception of the Apostle John, 597 01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:13,120 who will come back and stand at the foot of the cross, 598 01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:17,320 Jesus' friends either betray Him, deny Him, or abandon Him. 599 01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:21,640 Then think about what kind of friend we've been to Jesus. 600 01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,560 Because it's really easy for me to beat them up. 601 01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:24,480 But what about me? 602 01:12:24,480 --> 01:12:29,940 While we were still weak, at the right time, God's only. 603 01:12:29,940 --> 01:12:34,020 For one will scarcely die, though perhaps for a good person, 604 01:12:34,020 --> 01:12:35,860 one would dare even to die. 605 01:12:35,860 --> 01:12:39,200 But God shows His love for us that while we were yet sinners, 606 01:12:39,380 --> 01:12:41,020 Christ died for us. 607 01:12:41,020 --> 01:12:42,980 Or 1 John 4. 608 01:12:42,980 --> 01:12:46,800 In this is love, not that we have loved God, 609 01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:50,660 but that He has loved us 610 01:12:50,660 --> 01:12:52,740 and sent His Son to be a propitiation. 611 01:12:52,740 --> 01:12:54,860 Here's the wonder of this passage 612 01:12:54,860 --> 01:12:56,940 that Jesus sets His face 613 01:12:56,940 --> 01:12:59,320 to go to Jerusalem firm in His resolve. 614 01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:00,740 His face is like flint. 615 01:13:00,740 --> 01:13:02,600 And He walks towards suffering, 616 01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,460 not pushed, not forced, 617 01:13:04,460 --> 01:13:06,660 intentionally. 618 01:13:06,660 --> 01:13:09,160 And He goes out of love 619 01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:13,020 out of a desire to do good and broken people. 620 01:13:13,020 --> 01:13:16,580 And so Luke, in this section, what he's doing 621 01:13:16,580 --> 01:13:21,540 is he's calling us to make a decision about following Jesus. 622 01:13:21,540 --> 01:13:25,180 He's saying, you've seen Jesus, you've heard about Jesus, 623 01:13:25,180 --> 01:13:28,040 Jesus has now set His face on your redemption. 624 01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:31,540 What are you going to do about it? 625 01:13:31,540 --> 01:13:34,320 And when we hear things like that, 626 01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:38,260 and this call to maybe evaluate our life and look at it, 627 01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:42,960 I'll be honest, as a Christian, yeah, I follow Jesus, right? 628 01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,460 And my tendency is to tune that out. 629 01:13:45,460 --> 01:13:49,000 Here's the thing, you know who else followed Jesus in this passage 630 01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:50,580 and really messed things up? 631 01:13:50,580 --> 01:13:52,460 James and John, right? 632 01:13:52,460 --> 01:13:54,680 And they followed Jesus more closely. 633 01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,760 John was his best friend on earth. 634 01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:00,520 And they're about to blow up a town. 635 01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:02,820 And it's not even the first time for them. 636 01:14:02,820 --> 01:14:06,960 At one point, they try to get their mom to curse Jesus 637 01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:09,840 into making them more important in the kingdom. 638 01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:14,560 And if they can miss what God has called them to do, 639 01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:17,420 if they can miss the mission of God, 640 01:14:17,420 --> 01:14:21,200 how much more can you and us be the mission of God? 641 01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:25,100 When He calls us Jesus, 642 01:14:25,100 --> 01:14:28,720 this is not just for those who may be Christians. 643 01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:33,680 This is for us as Christians as well. 644 01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:36,540 And so the question for us this morning 645 01:14:36,540 --> 01:14:39,820 is are you following God or are you following yourself? 646 01:14:39,820 --> 01:14:43,620 God can change you and it's not hopeless. 647 01:14:43,620 --> 01:14:46,860 This is what I love about the good news of the gospel. 648 01:14:46,860 --> 01:14:50,580 Jesus dies, he's buried, he rises again. 649 01:14:50,580 --> 01:14:54,800 James will end up as the head for a short period of time 650 01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:57,400 and then he will die for Christ. 651 01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:59,540 The apostle John, 652 01:14:59,540 --> 01:15:02,640 the one who had cajoled his mom 653 01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:04,740 into trying to get Jesus to make them more important, 654 01:15:04,740 --> 01:15:06,560 the one who's sort of beat up a guy 655 01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:08,500 for trying to do similar things, 656 01:15:08,500 --> 01:15:09,040 the disciples, 657 01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,080 the one who sought to call down fire on a town 658 01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:12,980 who missed Jesus. 659 01:15:12,980 --> 01:15:16,340 He devotes his life to Jesus 660 01:15:16,340 --> 01:15:19,660 in a different world that lives the longest. 661 01:15:19,660 --> 01:15:21,520 He suffers. 662 01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,680 He is persecuted. 663 01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:24,660 He is tortured. 664 01:15:24,660 --> 01:15:26,180 He is exiled. 665 01:15:26,180 --> 01:15:29,200 This guy from wanting to blow up a town 666 01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:30,480 and kill everybody in it. 667 01:15:30,480 --> 01:15:32,500 From church history, 668 01:15:32,500 --> 01:15:33,900 we learn at the end of his days, 669 01:15:33,900 --> 01:15:35,900 they will carry him into church 670 01:15:35,900 --> 01:15:37,940 because he can't walk on his own. 671 01:15:37,940 --> 01:15:40,140 And he can't preach a sermon 672 01:15:40,140 --> 01:15:42,120 because his voice is too weak. 673 01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:44,660 And they will bring him into the church 674 01:15:44,660 --> 01:15:45,700 and everybody in the church 675 01:15:45,700 --> 01:15:48,440 will gather around this beloved apostle. 676 01:15:48,440 --> 01:15:51,020 And he'll just say one thing to them. 677 01:15:51,020 --> 01:15:54,280 He'll say, beloved, love one another. 678 01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:57,820 Look at how God has changed him 679 01:15:57,820 --> 01:16:00,900 from looking at those outside 680 01:16:00,900 --> 01:16:02,420 and saying, you know what? 681 01:16:02,420 --> 01:16:03,380 We don't need them. 682 01:16:03,900 --> 01:16:06,740 to now with His dying breath 683 01:16:06,740 --> 01:16:08,600 calling the church 684 01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:10,100 to love one another, 685 01:16:10,100 --> 01:16:11,460 to follow Jesus, 686 01:16:11,460 --> 01:16:13,840 God can transform you. 687 01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:16,360 And so the question for us 688 01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:17,500 as we evaluate our life, 689 01:16:17,500 --> 01:16:18,760 it's so easy for us to say in pride, 690 01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:19,680 yeah, I follow Jesus. 691 01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:22,360 Well, James and John in Luke 9 692 01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:23,920 thought they were following Jesus too. 693 01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,620 And it took some realization 694 01:16:26,620 --> 01:16:28,940 and some hard conversations 695 01:16:28,940 --> 01:16:31,120 with the Savior to be changed. 696 01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:33,440 How are we operating? 697 01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:36,080 How do we treat those who disagree? 698 01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:37,900 How do we treat those who are outside? 699 01:16:37,900 --> 01:16:41,680 Are we seeking to follow Jesus 700 01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,980 or are we seeking our own agenda? 701 01:16:43,980 --> 01:16:46,160 Let's take a look at the Samaritans 702 01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:47,180 just very quickly. 703 01:16:47,180 --> 01:16:50,300 Jesus cares for those that nobody else does. 704 01:16:50,300 --> 01:16:51,440 We don't know what happens specifically, 705 01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:54,120 but we do this before He goes back into heaven. 706 01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,180 In Acts 1, in verse 8, 707 01:16:57,180 --> 01:16:58,240 He'll say to the disciples, 708 01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:01,600 you will be My witnesses here in Judea, 709 01:17:01,700 --> 01:17:03,720 or in Jerusalem, in Judea, 710 01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,600 and then Samaria, and to the ends. 711 01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:07,740 Do you know what happens? 712 01:17:07,740 --> 01:17:11,120 The Gospel, intentionally by the command of Jesus, 713 01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:12,040 goes to Samaria. 714 01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,080 Not a big place, likely to this very town 715 01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:16,160 that rejected Jesus, 716 01:17:16,160 --> 01:17:18,420 gets a Gospel preacher to tell them 717 01:17:18,420 --> 01:17:20,040 about the good news of the Gospel. 718 01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,640 But more is fine in the book of Acts. 719 01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,160 Ends up being a place of revival, 720 01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:26,940 a new church has begun. 721 01:17:26,940 --> 01:17:30,920 The Gospel spreads out from Samaria, 722 01:17:31,100 --> 01:17:33,880 just as it spreads out from Jerusalem and Judea 723 01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:35,580 to the ends of the earth. 724 01:17:35,580 --> 01:17:38,320 And what we see is that it is not hopeless. 725 01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,980 Here are people who reject Jesus. 726 01:17:40,980 --> 01:17:42,940 This one town in Samaria, 727 01:17:42,940 --> 01:17:45,560 and when Jesus ascends back into heaven, 728 01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:47,860 He says, make sure you go tell people in Samaria about Me. 729 01:17:47,860 --> 01:17:49,060 And they do. 730 01:17:49,060 --> 01:17:50,080 And a church is formed, 731 01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:51,140 and the Holy Spirit comes, 732 01:17:51,140 --> 01:17:54,340 and good and wonderful things happen. 733 01:17:54,340 --> 01:17:58,160 I want you to see God's patient pursuit 734 01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,740 of those who are far from Him. 735 01:18:01,100 --> 01:18:03,560 And in this text, we see two interesting things. 736 01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,580 We see sort of this salvation or transformation 737 01:18:06,580 --> 01:18:08,320 in James and John. 738 01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:11,020 And in terms of the Samaritan people, 739 01:18:11,020 --> 01:18:14,200 we see this transformation of salvation. 740 01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:17,800 And what Luke is calling us to this morning 741 01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:22,060 is maybe it's the transformation of maturity. 742 01:18:22,060 --> 01:18:24,360 Saying, I've been following myself, 743 01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:25,800 my own opinions, my own ideas. 744 01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:28,100 It's time to set those aside and follow Jesus. 745 01:18:28,100 --> 01:18:31,060 But maybe He's calling you to transformation. 746 01:18:31,100 --> 01:18:33,560 to see your brokenness 747 01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:35,580 and your hurt and your shame and your fear 748 01:18:35,580 --> 01:18:37,060 and to see that in Jesus 749 01:18:37,060 --> 01:18:39,760 He takes that away and He gives you a new life 750 01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:41,740 and a new direction and a new strength 751 01:18:41,740 --> 01:18:42,920 and a new place to walk 752 01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:44,460 and He doesn't just tell you how to do it 753 01:18:44,460 --> 01:18:46,840 but He walks there with you and ahead of you 754 01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,160 and He puts His Spirit within you 755 01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,480 and He transforms and changes you. 756 01:18:51,480 --> 01:18:54,440 So this is a call this morning 757 01:18:54,440 --> 01:18:56,540 for both transformation 758 01:18:56,540 --> 01:18:58,040 in terms of our maturity 759 01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:01,080 and in terms of our salvation. 760 01:19:01,320 --> 01:19:01,820 Let's pray. 761 01:19:01,820 --> 01:19:04,380 In heaven, I thank You for Jesus. 762 01:19:04,380 --> 01:19:06,020 I thank You for grace. 763 01:19:06,020 --> 01:19:12,980 Help us as we look at our hopes 764 01:19:12,980 --> 01:19:15,140 and as we look at our priorities 765 01:19:15,140 --> 01:19:17,420 and as we look at where we're walking 766 01:19:17,420 --> 01:19:19,500 and what we're doing and how we're doing it, 767 01:19:19,500 --> 01:19:22,860 that You would cause us to be convicted 768 01:19:22,860 --> 01:19:24,480 if we're walking in our own pride. 769 01:19:24,480 --> 01:19:28,000 And we thank You that You call us to maturity 770 01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:29,920 and You change us and transform us. 771 01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:32,260 And we thank You that You call us to salvation 772 01:19:32,260 --> 01:19:33,400 and You save us. 773 01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,760 In Jesus' name we pray. 774 01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:36,580 Amen. 775 01:19:36,580 --> 01:19:38,600 And then sing glorious day. 776 01:19:59,960 --> 01:20:13,940 came forth to be born of a virgin, dwelt among men, my example is He, the Word said, 777 01:20:13,940 --> 01:20:27,400 the light shined among us, His glory revealed, living He loved me, dying He saved me, buried 778 01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:47,040 He carried my sins far away, rising He justified freely forever, one day He's come, oh glorying this day, oh glorying this day. 779 01:20:53,640 --> 01:21:17,640 They led him up Calvary's mountain, one day they nailed him lay on a tree, suffering anguish detected, very now since my redeemer is he. 780 01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:27,320 The hands that healed nations, stretched down on a tree, took the nails for me. 781 01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:38,620 Living he loved me, dying he believed me. Buried he carried, my sins far away. 782 01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:53,600 Rising, free forever, one day he's coming, oh glorious day, oh glorious day. 783 01:21:53,600 --> 01:22:06,420 One day the grave could conceal him no longer. 784 01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:12,220 One day the stone rolled away from the door. 785 01:22:12,220 --> 01:22:18,720 Then he arose over death he had conquered. 786 01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:24,580 Now is ascended, my Lord, evermore. 787 01:22:24,580 --> 01:22:33,720 Death could not hold him, the grave could not keep him rising again. 788 01:22:34,780 --> 01:23:02,780 Living he loved me, dying he saved me, he carried my sins far away, rising he justified, freely forever, one day is coming, oh glorious day, oh glorious day. 789 01:23:04,780 --> 01:23:16,240 I want to thank you all for being here this morning. 790 01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:17,960 Just a couple of announcements. 791 01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:23,140 We'll be here Wednesday night for our Wednesday night Bible study. 792 01:23:23,140 --> 01:23:25,580 Coming up here in a few Sundays. 793 01:23:25,580 --> 01:23:31,820 So three Sundays from now is Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday. 794 01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:36,700 So I want to give you kind of an idea of what we're doing leading up to that. 795 01:23:36,700 --> 01:23:41,820 So on April 2nd, not next Sunday, but the Sunday after, is Palm Sunday. 796 01:23:41,820 --> 01:23:48,000 And that's the day that Jesus comes into Jerusalem sort of as a triumphant king. 797 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:51,520 And it's kind of a remarkable thing because you've got a bunch of people celebrating, 798 01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:55,960 a bunch of kids singing, everybody's waving palm branches and putting them on the road. 799 01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:57,100 There's some people grumbling. 800 01:23:57,100 --> 01:23:59,660 The disciples think they're at top of the world. 801 01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:06,260 Jesus, by contrast, as he looks at the hurt and the brokenness of this city, is weeping. 802 01:24:06,260 --> 01:24:13,560 So we're going to sort of join Jesus as he goes into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. 803 01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:20,580 Additionally, from the Gospels, we know more about the last week of Jesus than any other period of time. 804 01:24:20,580 --> 01:24:27,140 And so that week we won't have Wednesday night Bible study, but on Thursday night we'll get together at 6 p.m. 805 01:24:27,180 --> 01:24:30,360 We've done this, I think the last time we did it was, what, 2019? 806 01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:34,820 We did a Passover, kind of a Passover meal. 807 01:24:34,820 --> 01:24:38,120 And the purpose of that is not just to come together and eat, 808 01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:43,060 but help you have some context for what is happening with Jesus. 809 01:24:43,060 --> 01:24:46,540 And so we'll have this sort of a symbolic Passover meal, 810 01:24:46,540 --> 01:24:51,820 sort of picturing the original salvation that was celebrated at Passover 811 01:24:51,820 --> 01:24:54,800 of Israelites out of Egypt, but pointing forward to Jesus. 812 01:24:55,380 --> 01:25:01,400 Certainly a very good, kind of encouraging, and kind of a very different time. 813 01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:03,540 So we'll eat together, we'll do some stuff. 814 01:25:03,540 --> 01:25:08,600 There's always really hot horseradish as part of it, as part of the meal. 815 01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:11,460 So I want you to join us for that. 816 01:25:11,460 --> 01:25:17,020 We have to RSVP for that, though, because there's a lot of extra things that go into that. 817 01:25:17,020 --> 01:25:23,080 For the symbolic meal, we have to put together sort of an individual thing for every person who's coming. 818 01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:24,760 So you can let me know. 819 01:25:24,860 --> 01:25:27,700 We'll have a sign-up sheet next Sunday, or you can shoot me an email. 820 01:25:27,700 --> 01:25:31,220 But it's been kind of a good service in the past, 821 01:25:31,220 --> 01:25:32,600 and we're looking forward to doing it again. 822 01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,920 And then on Good Friday, we'll be here at 6 p.m., 823 01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:40,780 and we're going to do kind of a Good Friday service as we remember the cross. 824 01:25:40,780 --> 01:25:44,940 It's going to be probably a little darker and a little quieter, a little shorter. 825 01:25:44,940 --> 01:25:51,340 We're going to focus more, I think, on worship and worshiping through Scripture and through song. 826 01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:55,900 So that will be on Good Friday as we remember the crucifixion of Jesus. 827 01:25:55,900 --> 01:26:01,080 Then on Easter Sunday, we come together and we celebrate the good that God has done, 828 01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:04,080 the victory that is achieved through the resurrection of Jesus. 829 01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:05,440 So those are coming up. 830 01:26:05,440 --> 01:26:07,220 They're in the email we sent out yesterday. 831 01:26:07,220 --> 01:26:09,860 They're also on the little handouts in the back. 832 01:26:09,860 --> 01:26:14,120 And so just a reminder, the Passover meal is for all ages. 833 01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:18,800 In fact, one of the big things that is very clear in Scripture 834 01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:23,220 is that, in fact, it's specifically focused on helping children understand 835 01:26:23,220 --> 01:26:25,960 not just words, but through action. 836 01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:28,200 So you eat this that helps you understand that. 837 01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:31,340 So it's just a really good time, and I'd encourage you to join us. 838 01:26:31,340 --> 01:26:34,880 We're going to go ahead and have a word of prayer and sing the doxology. 839 01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:38,520 Father in heaven, thank you for your church and for your people. 840 01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:41,120 Thank you for Jesus and for grace and for hope. 841 01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:46,140 As we leave this place, that we would seek to follow you. 842 01:26:46,140 --> 01:26:47,940 It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 843 01:26:48,800 --> 01:27:03,140 Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 844 01:27:03,140 --> 01:27:08,600 Praise Him, all creatures here below. 845 01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:13,420 Him above, ye heavenly host. 846 01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:19,080 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 847 01:27:44,280 --> 01:28:14,260 Thank you. 848 01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:44,260 Thank you. 849 01:28:44,280 --> 01:29:14,260 Thank you.