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Well, we’re going to be in Matthew chapter 21. We’re just going to read the Bible. Is that okay with everybody? Okay. Sometimes you just need to read from the Bible. It’s a good thing. Thanks, pastor John. Lovely man. All right. Am I too loud? Am I cavernous? Please turn to Matthew 21. Okay. This will be good. All right.

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Well, and the, the subject today is going to be the Kingdom Way series continued, rejected, but victorious. And it’s the parable of the wicked Tenants. So I’ve had a great month preparing for this. This message, because it is a pretty severe section of Scripture. And, you know, last time we had a severe message, somebody died.

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So I’m just going to try not to. I’m going to try not to go, like, too severe. But if you think it’s severe, it’s really our king Jesus. And he’s bringing judgment to those that reject his kingdom. But we have to understand what his judgment is and what his judgment does, because sometimes we have a wrong, unbiblical idea of God’s judgment.

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And it’s actually something for those of us in covenant with God, those of us in relationship with God. His judgment is what purifies us. Does that make sense to everybody? Okay, let me pray for us. Father. We need your help today, to truly see Jesus, we come to your house to kneel before our king, your only begotten son, Jesus Christ.

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We thank you for your grace to us that you would send him, just to fulfill everything that we need God to be our everything to deliver us from darkness and sin. Death. Thank you so much for your finished work. That gives us hope. In Jesus name, Amen. Okay, so we’re talking about the Kingdom way and God’s kingdom.

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If you’re new, it sort of sounds like a Christian term, but it just means the rule of God. God’s kingdom is where God rules directly. God rules everywhere indirectly because he’s going to get what he wants in the end. But first Corinthians 1528 says, in the end, God will be all in all. He’s going to get his way in the end.

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But right now, does anyone realize that God doesn’t always get his way? Sometimes people resist, sometimes I resist. Sometimes there’s a humanity within us that kicks against what God wants to do and what God is speaking to us. And the Lord will not stop speaking truth to you just because you don’t want to hear it.

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He won’t stop speaking truth to me when I don’t want to hear it. And when I get mad at him for saying it, and when I get mad at the person he sends to tell it to me.

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And so Jesus comes in this parable. He’s he’s, the context is very important of this parable because Jesus is coming to his own people, the place of worship, the church of ancient Judea. He’s coming to the Temple Mount, to Herod’s Temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world. And he’s confronting the chief priests and the Pharisees about how they have mismanaged both the religious and the political life of their nation.

00:03:05:18 – 00:03:32:20
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So in doing this, Jesus is the capital prophet of the Old Covenant. He’s the last one. He’s bringing the the fulfillment of everything that the prophets spoke and what he’s going to say. At the end of the section, section is really Matthew 21 to 25 at the end of of his his dialogs with the Pharisees, he’s going to say all the blood of the prophets from able to Zachariah from A to Z, are coming in on this generation.

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And so it’s a very heavy word that he’s bringing. Now I want you to understand, when God drops the hammer, he doesn’t shut the door. If I can mix metaphors. Right. When he drops the hammer, there’s still a chance to repent. If you think, oh, it’s too late for me. I’ve made too many mistakes. I’ll never be able to get out of God’s judgment.

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Well, if the judgment is not on you, you still have a minute to readjust, to repent. God, through the prophet Jonah told the Ninevites 40 days, and you will be destroyed. And he didn’t say, now I’m new on this because I know I need to persuade you and all that. You know, he just said, in 40 days you’re going to be destroyed.

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And you might think, okay, well, that’s the end of that. He has to do it now. But actually they repented. They turned, they saw God. They repented of, cruelty to the poor, to bloodshed, to exploitation. And it said the Lord did not do the disaster that he had said that he would do so. God’s statement of judgment is also an invitation to turn.

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You understand that? Okay, do I understand? I don’t know, okay. So Jesus is fulfilling a prophecy from the old covenant when he walks in, or actually he rides in to Jerusalem on a donkey. Not the beast of war, not the white horse of a conquering king, but the peace animal. The animal. We won’t say what the animals call it, but it’s, you know, it’s a it’s not a war symbol.

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So he comes in on palm branches. Okay. But he’s fulfilling a scripture. It says this in Malachi three one through three. Behold, I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me. The Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

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But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like refiner’s fire, and like Fuller’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi. The priesthood, and refine them like gold and silver. And they will bring offerings and righteousness to the Lord.

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See, that’s what could have happened. They could have received Jesus’s message. When we resist and we reject the Son of God, judgment will come, refining will come, but the kingdom will prevail. When we reject God’s messengers, when we reject God, God doesn’t give up. God doesn’t change. God doesn’t stop being steadfast love. You just get to experience that a different way.

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When you keep going against your dad or your mom, if they’re a good dad or mom over and over again, they don’t change from having a steadfast love for you, but you just are going to experience that a little differently. Okay, sin is in itself self-destructive, and so God will warn you, if I stick a fork in a light socket, something’s going to happen.

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That’s what sin is. That’s why Jesus is so severe in these passages. He comes to refine his people, right? And so he tells them parables so that they understand what he’s talking about. And before I read the parable, I’m going to continue giving the context of it, because if we just read the parable and we apply it to ourselves without understanding the historical setting, we’re going to miss important details.

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So like I said, the context is really Matthew 21 through 25. If you’re going to go back later, I would actually encourage you to read those chapters. And just see you see the motion of of his thought here. He enters like I said, he enters Jerusalem riding on a donkey. He cleanses the temple, he flips the tables.

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He says, you made the court of the Gentiles, the nations. You made it a den of thieves. They can’t even worship in here because you guys are, you know, money changing. You guys are turning, rubles into euros here. You know, this is not a good place for them to worship, okay? And then he curses the fig tree, which is an emblem of Israel.

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According to Hosea 910 Joel one seven, he curses the fig tree because he doesn’t find any fruit on it. All he finds are leaves. All he finds is the external fluff. He doesn’t find what what is the fulfillment of a tree. He doesn’t find that outflow. Then he tells the disobedient son parable which Nicholas which Samuel company leader.

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He spoke to us about it, where one son said, oh, yeah, dad, I’ll go work out in the field. Okay. Big gulps. All right. I’ll see you later. You know. Then he didn’t he didn’t do it. Okay. Then the other son said, no way, dad, you’re ruining my life. You’re such a bummer. But then later he said, oh, wait, you know, I’m actually going to go work out in the field.

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And Jesus said, you religious leaders are like the first son. You give the right answer, but you don’t. You don’t follow. And the prostitutes and the Gentiles and the tax collectors are like the second son, because at first they weren’t doing what was right. But then they said, well, God wants me. I’ll take that. I’ll follow God. Okay.

00:08:46:13 – 00:09:11:08
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Then he goes, and he weeps over. Well, first he gives woes to the Pharisees. In chapter 23, it’s again very severe. Then he weeps over Jerusalem. He talks in Matthew 24 or 25 about Jerusalem being destroyed, surrounded by armies, the temple being destroyed. And he says, all this is going to come on that generation.

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So Jesus is coming as a prophet to tell the truth, to people. And, you know, sometimes you preach to the choir and Jesus is not doing that right now in this in this section right now, I think I’m preaching to the choir. I don’t know, you never really know. There’s a great choir in this room. I’m not part of it.

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But, you know, maybe I’m preaching to it, but Jesus was not. Sometimes you’re preaching to the choir, other times you’re preaching to the tenants. You know, people that are paying rent to be there, people that are giving God, you know, they’re part people that are earning their spot, paying their dues, doing their duty, going to church.

00:09:53:07 – 00:10:18:22
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The tenants, old covenant believers got to do what’s right to keep my spot. That’s old covenant. But in this passage, he’s in the Old covenant. Sometimes people say, why does Jesus sometimes sound like he’s preaching law and he’s in the law and he’s in the Old covenant? Well, because he was yeah, he fulfilled that so we could have a new relationship with God.

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Okay. That’s what maybe we’ll get back into that another time. But so he’s in the old covenant. Let’s go to Matthew 2133 346. He’s going to tell a parable. And, the audience of this parable, like I said, is the chief priest in the Pharisees. The Pharisees were the religious people that agreed with Jesus’s doctrine. Do you know that the Pharisees said we should follow the law?

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We believe in the resurrection. We believe in the spirit. We believe in angels. They agreed with this theology, just not his heart.

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Then there’s the Sadducees, who are the chief priests. And they didn’t believe in the resurrection or the spirit or angels. They thought this temple is a really good way to exercise political power.

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Okay. It’s the person that wears the mask of religion to control you, right? And he speaks to both of them. They both have deep flaws. Okay. And in this parable, there’s a master of a house whose god? There’s a vineyard, which, according to Isaiah five, the vineyard stands for Israel itself. The land. Then there’s tenants, the leaders of Israel, those that have a workspace, performance based relationship with God, transactional relationship with God.

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You do this for me, God, and I’ll do this for you. I’m not going to do this for you until you do this for me. Pharisee. Okay. Then there’s servants that are sent to the tenants. Those are the Old Testament prophets. And then there’s a son that gets sent, last of all, and that’s Jesus himself. So let me read this without further ado.

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But context is important, isn’t it? Yes. So there was a master of the house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit, and the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another again.

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He sought other servants more than the first, and they did the same to them. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, they will respect my son. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, this is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance. And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

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When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?

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They said to him, who? The Pharisees and Sadducees, they said to him, he will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their season. Jesus now explains it. Verse 42, Jesus said to them, have you never read in the scriptures the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

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This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces. The stone is Jesus, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.

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When the chief priests and Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds because they held him to be a prophet. Thanks for that encouragement, Jesus. Let’s get let’s get the cross out. Let’s get the crucifix out. Don’t come in here and tell us that.

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Now I want to say this. Look at the patience of the master of the house. Look at the patience of God. Servant after servant after servant after servant, killed, stoned, mocked, spit on, thrown in a well, saw it and have go through the list of Old Testament prophets. And now he goes, you know what? What if I send my only son?

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Maybe they’ll respect him. He doesn’t give up. He himself comes in the person of Jesus, the person of the son, to say, come home, come renew the covenant, come give justice, have mercy upon the poor. Walk in humility all the things that the old old covenant says. Take care of the sojourner. Don’t oppress those around you. Don’t take bribes like all the things that they’re doing, all the things he just flip the tables on.

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He’s like, I’m going to tell them that because this is what it means to be in relationship with God. Being in relationship with God is not a Gnostic concept. Oh, have a relationship with God. No, it’s a covenant relationship that takes on flesh. It touches your family. It touches your workplace. It touches your finances, it touches your dealings.

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It touches what you say to the people around you that are hurting others. It touches that. That’s the kingdom of God. That’s the grace of God. Do you guys know that I love grace, grace? Okay. You know, and this is the grace of God. The grace of God trains us to renounce ungodliness. Titus two the grace of God says, you have the nature of being a good, righteous, godlike person.

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Now let’s get the character.

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Do you know my son, Samson? He shares my nature, but he doesn’t yet share my character. That’s probably good, you know, and a lot of in a lot of areas. But if I get better, if I get Jesus’s character, it be nice for him to share my character someday. But it’s not the same thing, right? And if you consistently resist the character, you continuously resist the messengers of God.

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Well, he’ll send another one and he resists. Oh, and he’ll send another one. And some of you maybe in this room you think I’ve resisted like 48 of his messengers?

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Well, the son is here today. Will you receive his son, or do you have to get him out of your sight? Cast him out of the vineyard. Crucify him! Don’t talk to me. I’m more mad at you telling me about my sin than I am about my son. My God.

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God will tell you. God will make you look at it.

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It’s better to look at it now. Some will wait until the Day of Judgment to look at it. I don’t want to wait that long. But guess what? You will look at it now. George MacDonald said, God is not bound to punish sin. He’s bound to destroy sin. The eyes of Jesus are a fire. That fire is of love, but it is a fire.

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Love loves on to purity. It wants a pure devotion. God is jealous. He’s more committed to your holiness than you are. My father is more committed to my holiness than I am. That’s his grace. That’s his transformative power. When I don’t want it, he disciplines me and gives me an opportunity to want it, because he will not allow me to not come into the fullness of who he’s created me to be.

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That could be a scary thought for you, or it could be an encouraging thought for you. It could be both at the same time, because that’s the judgment of God. The judgment of God is a refining fire. It’s a restorative judgment. It’s a truth telling. It’s a revelation. It’s look at the thing that you don’t want to see.

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It’s let me into that deepest part of you that you have not yielded, whether it’s your finance, whether it’s your relationship, whether it’s a place of grief.

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Whether it’s a place that you’ve been abused. Let his judgment come. That’s not the same as condemnation. Do you know, in the Old Testament, the word for judge is like a deliverance. The whole book of the judges is about deliverance. It’s about, you know, Jeff Toth, that’s kind of a weird name. You know, they’re all kind of strange names, but, you know, Deborah Barak, all those guys, they were deliverers.

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They judged what was wrong. They brought reformation, they brought transformation. They removed the pressure of the enemy. If you allow God’s judgment, hear me. If you allow God’s judgment, the pressure of the enemy will be removed from you. Do you know what happened to Israel when they did not allow the judgment of the Son of God? The pressure increased.

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The Romans came in A.D. 70. They burned the city. They were cast out into exile, the nation of Israel. And so now that was another opportunity to reevaluate things. After that, there was another, you know, after Jesus died, after they crucified him, he gave another 40 years before the temple was destroyed. So even after they rejected the son, his patience was not over.

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Let me read this other scripture. It’s in it’s in Matthew 23, right after he talks to the Pharisees. Matthew 2334. We might have it to put on the screen. Yeah. Jesus said, therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes. That’s you and me. We get to be these messengers that people don’t want to hear. Good news.

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Everybody all right? I feel like Buddy the Elf. What’s your favorite color? You know. Good. Therefore, I send you these prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify. Some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous bloodshed on the earth from the blood of righteous able to the blood of Zachariah, the son of bear, a.k.a, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

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Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent to it. How often would I have gathered your children together? As a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing? See, your house is left to you desolate, for I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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Man.

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God’s last straw is this go serve the gods you’ve chosen and see if they can save you.

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How often I would have gathered you. You keep choosing that relationship. You keep choosing that pursuit. You keep choosing the performance. You know, the merit based system. You keep choosing this. Go see if that could save you.

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When? It can’t all be here.

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While his son was still a long way off, the father ran to him and kissed him. Prodigal son, the father will never change. We have to change our relationship to the father. We have to change the relationship to Jesus who is our judge. The father is not the judge. Jesus said he handed all judgment over to me. Jesus is our judge.

00:21:51:28 – 00:22:18:14
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We must deal with him. He’s the Lord. He wants transformation in our life. He will keep making us look at that thing, that stealing our life until it burns away. And when it’s gone, you’re not going to say that hurts so much. I wish God wouldn’t have done it. You’re going to say that thing was a cancer. I didn’t even see it as that.

00:22:18:21 – 00:22:48:09
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I didn’t have the diagnosis, judgment, diagnosis you. But it also purges you. It also cleanses you because it reveals to you who you really are and who God really is. So all that blood had to be visited on Israel. Jesus said, the kingdom will be taken away from you and given to a people who produce its fruits. The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and whoever fights against him will be broken to pieces.

00:22:48:11 – 00:23:03:23
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Jesus said again, I’m a rock. I can be the rock underneath your house as your foundation, or I can be the rock you just keep breaking your teeth against over and over again because you’re not getting it. I’m still a rock either way.

00:23:03:25 – 00:23:22:22
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Does this make sense to everybody? God is constant. God is good. God is in our best interests. God does not mess around or flatter you. I wish he did. I wish I was like, David, you know, all this stuff. So cool how you just ate three double decker tacos, the Taco Bell, you know, it’s like. It’s like you can’t keep doing that.

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That has major consequences. Okay? It really does. And that’s a trivial example. But, you know, maybe not. You know, maybe not. Over time. But, you know, God is not really going to mess around. He’s a serious God. He’s not a somber god. Good, serious. No football on the Lord’s day. That’s.

00:23:47:20 – 00:24:07:24
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Super Bowl Sunday. I mean, it is kind of a lame game. Patriots and Seahawks I mean it’s like, come on. It makes it really easy to prioritize. God. You know, it’s like you get the you get the 40 niners in here. It might be a bit of a temptation I don’t know. See that’s preaching to the choir. Look at that.

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You know it can be done. You can preach to the choir. It’s awesome. Yeah. But yeah. So it’s okay. God’s not somber. You better be serious about consecration. Let’s let’s not. But he’s like, look, your sin will kill you. What to you if you keep doing this, you cross land and sea to make one proselyte. You make him twice.

00:24:30:10 – 00:24:51:21
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The son of Gahanna. That you are. That’s okay. All right, so we won’t get into that. All right. So, he is the stone that the builders rejected that became the cornerstone. This should blow your guys’s mind. The rejection of the Son of God is the foundation of his kingdom. Yeah. He said you reject me. That’s what I.

00:24:51:23 – 00:25:16:13
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That’s what I was counting on. In effect. And I’m coming back. I’m not staying dead. I’m raising up the whole cosmos with me and reject me. Okay, Satan, you know, the church fathers said Jesus mounted his flesh on the hook of his divinity, his godhood, the devil swallowed it down, and then it ripped his guts out. Right? So he’s like, that’s pretty cool.

00:25:16:13 – 00:25:44:03
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You know, you should read like Maximus the Confessor. He goes into that, he also is the coolest name church Father Maximus the Confessor. That’s pretty cool. All right, so when we reject God, he’s not, like, super sulky about it, you know? Oh, my feelings are hurt. No. He’s perfect love. He’s perfect love. But you are going to experience him differently when you reject him.

00:25:44:06 – 00:26:02:29
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When I when we reject him, I’m using inclusive language. Jesus. Didn’t he just goes to you, you know, because he actually had no sin so he could do this stuff. You know, I, you know, sometimes I think you’re the only perfect leader worth following. Is Jesus the only perfect political leader. But he came as a perfect political leader.

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What do we do?

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Oh, boy.

00:26:08:10 – 00:26:15:15
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Okay, hopefully there’s a bigger plan than our ability to recognize a good leader.

00:26:15:18 – 00:26:38:06
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Hopefully there’s a father who will save us even if we don’t see things perfectly at first. A father who who says I’m going to guard you against irreversible damage, even if you have to go through something horrible, I’m going to be who I am. That’s his name. I am who I am. We need to settle that. His love is an everlasting love.

00:26:38:08 – 00:27:02:25
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The father deals with our sin, but he doesn’t deal with us on the basis of our sin. Do we understand that distinction? The father will deal with your sin. You know Jesus will judge your sin, but he doesn’t judge you on the basis of your sin. He judges you based on who? Anybody in spirit one. Okay, yeah. Jesus.

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Jesus is the answer. Yeah. He judges us based on his son, based on his son. His son lived as you died. As you. He rose. As you. He was condemned as you. So that doesn’t have to happen to you. And he also he did it as you, and he also did it ahead of you. He gave his life for you.

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That’s a done deal. Now you get to give your life for others.

00:27:30:18 – 00:27:44:08
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He lived a holy life for you. Done deal. Finished. And he also lived it ahead of you. Here’s the spirit of holiness. You go live a life of holiness.

00:27:44:10 – 00:28:05:28
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Just make sense to everybody. So we’re not judged on the basis of our sin, but on the basis of Jesus’s righteousness. That’s amazing. Good news. And there’s even better news. He’ll also deal with your sin. That is good news because your sin is killing you. Oh, cool. You know God, he provided meals for the rest of my life.

00:28:05:28 – 00:28:29:08
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But he you know, he didn’t. He didn’t save my life. I’m going to die tomorrow. That doesn’t really help you. You know, the thing that’s killing you has to be addressed. And there’s also the provision forever. Just make sense. Okay, so Israel’s rejection of Jesus became the foundation of the salvation of the Gentiles.

00:28:29:10 – 00:28:36:24
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It also became the foundation of their own salvation when they would return to the vineyard.

00:28:36:26 – 00:28:58:18
Unknown
This is a pretty cool stuff. We’ll get into it. So some people say, look, in the Bible, it says, the kingdom will be taken away from you, Hebrews, and it will be given to a people producing its fruit. Who is that? The Gentiles, the non-Jews. So look, God is done with Israel. He replaced Israel. Make sense?

00:28:58:21 – 00:29:19:28
Unknown
Wrong. Paul says, as Paul gets this, Paul gets this. I worried you guys for a minute. Okay. Don’t worry. I might worry you again later. Okay. You never know. All right. Anyways. Okay. Romans 11 one through two. Paul is getting this question, and, he’s. And someone asks him this, by the way, all the way through the book of Romans.

00:29:20:00 – 00:29:47:09
Unknown
There’s somebody interrogating Paul. He’s where he writes it as a Socratic dialog, if you like ancient literature. So there’s all these people asking. There’s a hypothetical person asking Paul questions, and then Paul responds to the person. So not everything that the person says is what Paul believes. He is responding to what the person, the hypothetical person says. The hypothetical person says, I ask then has God rejected his people?

00:29:47:12 – 00:30:16:10
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And Paul says, by no means, for I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew. Okay, that’s the ethnic people of the tribe of Benjamin. So antisemitism is absolutely unacceptable for a Christian. It’s absolutely unacceptable. I hope everybody hears that. That’s that’s not good.

00:30:16:12 – 00:30:40:15
Unknown
And you know why I say that? Because I married a Jewish lady. You know, I’m just getting by. And she made me. She made me sad. I’m just kidding. Now, I, I’m allowed to say that because I married her. But anyway, so anti-Semitism is forbidden. Okay. And their actual their rejection of Jesus became the foundation of their eventual salvation.

00:30:40:18 – 00:31:00:20
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Paul goes on, he says in Romans 1125, unless you became wise in your own sight, I don’t want you to be unaware of this mystery. Brothers. So he’s going to tell us how this is going to work. Okay. A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved.

00:31:00:23 – 00:31:30:09
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So God’s not just trying to save Jews. They also don’t have an exceptionalism. There is no longer Jew or Greek right? Do you see how Jesus angers everybody? Okay. It’s just there’s not. It’s not that. So just have attention in understanding the scripture. So he’s not just saving Jews and he’s not just saving Gentiles. He actually wants to save.

00:31:30:11 – 00:31:55:13
Unknown
Oh, oh, God wills all to be saved. Oh, yeah. That’s those in the Bible. Okay, look at this. So look at this. Romans 1130. Just as you Gentiles were at one time disobedient to God, and you have now received mercy because of Israel’s disobedience. So they too have been obedient, have been disobedient in order by the mercy shown to you, they also may receive mercy.

00:31:55:15 – 00:32:19:16
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For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. That is a mind blowing thing. What he basically said was God moved to the Gentiles, to the Jew first, then to the Greek. All the way through the New Testament he moved to the Gentiles. And the Jews are meant to say, hey, that’s our God, that you Gentiles are worshiping.

00:32:19:18 – 00:32:39:20
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We want some of those miracles. We want some of that grace. We want some of that blessing. And then through envy, they will also be brought in in a mass conversion. They can’t be saved apart from Christ. Peter, a Jew, said, there’s one name under heaven by which we’re saved. Jesus Christ. Acts 427. So I just want to settle a few of these things.

00:32:39:20 – 00:33:10:06
Unknown
Just I mean, we look at the scriptures here, so God did not judge Israel so that he could replace them. He judge them to refine them. He didn’t judge them in order to replace them, but to expand them, to fulfill them. The church is not the replacement of Israel. It is the fulfillment of Israel. It is the expansion of Israel because Gentile branches are stuck right into the the Israel olive tree.

00:33:10:09 – 00:33:30:18
Unknown
We’re grafted in. We didn’t belong there to begin with, but now we’re in because God wants everybody in his judgment, is to get everybody in. Fair enough. Okay, hopefully. I don’t know if I threaded the needle. If you’re mad at me, I’ll talk to you afterwards. Okay? I got to get on to the actual application to us today, okay?

00:33:30:18 – 00:33:45:15
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If you have bad tenants, you have to evict those guys. That’s the. That’s the application. No, I’m just kidding. But, I just thought, you know, what’s what’s the most basic application I could make of this? And it’s like you got horrible tenants kick those guys out. You know, you could get the law on your side, kick them out.

00:33:45:15 – 00:34:06:19
Unknown
All right. Our tenants probably want to kick the landowners out because we have three kids and a dog running around upstairs. I heard a loud amen from back there. Maybe you didn’t hear it because Reese is a good person, but he didn’t. He didn’t say that. Okay. Now. So let’s let’s get into some some meanings for us today, okay?

00:34:06:22 – 00:34:16:19
Unknown
Jesus spoke against evil and he suffered for it. That was his call as a prophet. Is this a house of prophets?

00:34:16:21 – 00:34:44:02
Unknown
Okay, good. That is also our calling. Being a prophet isn’t just having words of knowledge. And, you know, that’s that’s not a it’s calling for justice and it’s calling for repentance, even to the choir and preaching to the choir. Okay. That’s important for us on both sides, every side. We need to speak the truth in love, in the hope of restoration, in the hope of someone returning.

00:34:44:05 – 00:34:54:29
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It’s not to ever condemn anybody, right? You know, if whatever you think God’s idea of judgment is, that will become your idea of judgment.

00:34:55:01 – 00:35:18:10
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If you think God’s idea of judgment is cutting someone off forever and staying mad at them, that’s going to be your idea of judgment. Lamentations 331 says, the Lord will not cast off forever, for though he cause grief, he will have compassion. According to the abundance of his steadfast love. For he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.

00:35:18:12 – 00:35:39:13
Unknown
It’s not in his heart to want to do this stuff. You know, if you have kids, it’s not in your heart that you want to discipline them. You’re like, why don’t you just listen? Why don’t you just. Okay? Yeah. Why? Why can’t you just open up your ears and just listen, okay. But yeah. So his heart is not to grieve and afflict the children of men.

00:35:39:15 – 00:36:02:08
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His heart is not to just shut the door and say, well, I guess, you know, I did everything I could there. No, he went to the bowels of the underworld and kicked the gates out to lead captivity captive. He kicked the gates out of the underworld. We’re like, yeah, well, I mean, God’s probably done with me, though.

00:36:02:10 – 00:36:28:11
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Now you’re here. You’re hearing the son. The son is talking to you. If he would go to the bowels of the underworld to get people, he’s not done. He’s not done with you. Just receive him. And don’t pretend like he’s not talking to you. He is. Okay, He’s trying to transform my life. In our life? Yeah. So it’s pretty amazing.

00:36:28:11 – 00:36:52:23
Unknown
No, it’s a pretty good word of encouragement that even all the times you resisted the Lord, every time you rejected him, every time you even liked the things that you did when you were sinning. God can use that to restore you. God is not done. He’s drawing you back to himself. Yeah, but I did it on purpose. Jesus died for things you did on purpose.

00:36:52:25 – 00:37:12:15
Unknown
Because if he didn’t, he would only have died for like 2% of the sins that are ever committed. At least I’m just speaking for myself, okay? And I have liked sin before too, so it’s, you know, or nobody would do it. But when you receive God’s judgment, it pretty much loses its flavor. Has anyone ever experienced this parable?

00:37:12:18 – 00:37:43:18
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Servant after servant after servant, breaking yourself against the rock of ages, doing stupid stuff over and over and over again, losing maybe important relationships? You could lose everything. You’re like, I understand now what that thing was. It doesn’t deceive me anymore. It doesn’t tempt me anymore because it really was allowed to hit me not to do irreparable damage, but to bring transformation.

00:37:43:20 – 00:37:58:05
Unknown
Do we understand this? It’s a tough word, but it’s a word of hope. It’s another word of hope is Jesus speaks against evil and he suffered for it. But he also judges evil and he destroys it.

00:37:58:07 – 00:38:21:15
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You know, I’m not going to comment on the news cycle, but there’s a lot of evil in our world on every single side and in our hearts. My heart. And nobody is getting away with it. Nobody is getting away with it. The stuff that’s redacted, not to God.

00:38:21:18 – 00:38:29:06
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There’s no blackouts on heaven’s understanding of things. Understand that.

00:38:29:09 – 00:38:58:00
Unknown
That’s the good news. Okay, So we can break ourselves against the Rock of ages, or we can build our life upon him. That’s the choice before us. When Jesus confronts us, we go, yeah, you know what? Thank you. Thank you, Lord, for judging me. God would never judge anyone. No, he will, because he’s delivering you. Because if you don’t want his judgment, you don’t want his deliverance.

00:38:58:03 – 00:39:03:24
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If you’re not willing to let the knife come, the cancer is not going to be cut out.

00:39:03:26 – 00:39:26:18
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It’s not fun to go through it. I will give you that. I’ve never enjoyed it. No discipline ever. In the moment it seems, fun. That’s a bad translation. But Hebrews 12, in the moment it doesn’t seem great, but it brings life giving peace when the Lord lets us reap what we have sowed. Because he’s not mocked, he’s not tricked.

00:39:26:20 – 00:39:33:11
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When we reap what we sow, when we taste that harvest, it does something to us.

00:39:33:14 – 00:39:37:14
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It tells us where the real food should be found.

00:39:37:16 – 00:40:05:10
Unknown
And sometimes there’s no other way than to taste it. And God will allow you to taste it. That’s not it’s mercy. Even though it’s a very severe mercy. Mercy is always the final word. I believe, I believe God’s mercy is ultimate and his judgment is penultimate. It’s the second to last. It’s a means to your restoration. Okay? God will hold his own people to account.

00:40:05:12 – 00:40:24:13
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First Peter 417 says it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? Worse, that’s the answer. You know, he’s it’s a rhetorical question, but I just answered it. It’ll be worse. Okay. It’s better to cooperate with God.

00:40:24:13 – 00:40:50:13
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It’s better to receive his correction and make an adjustment and let life be produced in us. Let him produce that character, which is in line with our nature. You know, I think sometimes we don’t receive the correction because we don’t believe God’s asking us to do something that we can actually do. Like God’s telling me, I have to give up that habit.

00:40:50:15 – 00:41:13:03
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I have to give up that substance. I have to break away from that person or that circle of friends. I’m not strong enough. That’s not who I am. But God says it is who you are. He was made sin for you so you could be made into the righteousness of God. Second Corinthians 521. You’ve been made God like, Christ like in your spirit.

00:41:13:06 – 00:41:33:20
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That’s who you are. That’s who God has made you by the power of the Holy Spirit. So when God calls you to that character, it makes sense that you would walk that way. It makes sense that you would turn from that false identity and you would say, that’s not even who I am anymore. When Jesus calls me out to my face, he’s not calling me out.

00:41:33:20 – 00:41:53:11
Unknown
He’s calling that sin, that fake self, that fake ID. Burn your fake IDs. How about that one? Okay, you don’t need him to get into those alcohol clubs anymore, okay? That was that made it a good moralist, a good moralist sermon. Okay. Good. But, yeah, we can burn our fake IDs because there’s a real ID. There’s actually, there’s a fullness.

00:41:53:11 – 00:42:14:02
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There’s a righteousness that God has given you totally free of charge. Strong’s concordance. It defines righteousness in the Greek as the state of the of him who is as he ought to be. And God would look at you and say, you are as you ought to be, and you’re not everything you will be, but you’re exactly who you should be.

00:42:14:05 – 00:42:39:25
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You will come into that fullness. I will make sure you do. That’s our father. That’s a real serious good father. I know who you are, son. See, the thing that Israel had become when Jesus brought judgment was not who they really were. I want us to see this. Is that, Israel became something different than what they really were.

00:42:39:28 – 00:43:08:23
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God saw the sun underneath. He saw the bride underneath, and he drew them out through judgment. He’s still drawing them back in. By the way, have they yet said, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. They’re all believers in Messiah, right? No. Okay. The exile is still going according to Jesus’s own measure, but it will not last forever.

00:43:08:25 – 00:43:26:00
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It won’t. All Israel shall be saved. That’s the promise in the Word of God. Okay? But God sees even in this state, even in the state of rebellion, even in your state, even where you’ve become something you don’t even recognize when you look in the mirror.

00:43:26:02 – 00:43:51:26
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God says, I see who’s underneath. I know who you really are. Jeremiah two two thus says the Lord, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. That’s how God starts off. Before he brings a lot of corruption. He goes, I remember our love in your youth.

00:43:51:28 – 00:44:20:27
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I remember who you are. Hosea 11 one through three. When Israel was a child, I loved him. And out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away. They kept sacrificing to the bails and burning offerings to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that it was I who healed them.

00:44:21:00 – 00:44:45:22
Unknown
You hear the passion of our father. When he was a child, I loved him. They gave credit for all their blessings to bail and Asherah and false gods. They didn’t know it was me who took care of them. Because he’s a dad. He’s a husband. He know he weeps over Jerusalem, he’s weeping over them. He’s weeping over you.

00:44:45:22 – 00:45:08:15
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And he says, if you could just see what I see when you look in the mirror. If you could see what’s underneath, you wouldn’t believe in the person you’ve become. That’s insane. That is not who you are. Go ahead and leave it behind. Leave it in the ashes. Rise from the ash heap and sit with princes. Rise from the ash heap.

00:45:08:17 – 00:45:21:08
Unknown
Sit with princes. That’s the word of the Lord. That’s the word of our father. So you guess what? You’re not a tenant. You’re a son.

00:45:21:10 – 00:45:44:17
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That was the old covenant. It was true. The Bible says you’re no longer that. You’re no longer a slave. You’re a son. You’re no longer a tenant. You’re the heir. You’re a co-chair with Jesus Christ. Jesus really did something. He really changed things. He fulfilled the old, and he’s brought us into the new. You don’t have to worry.

00:45:44:17 – 00:46:07:25
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Oh, I screwed up too much. I lost the vineyard, I lost everything. I can never get it back. It’s still yours. He deals with you on the basis of Jesus, not on the basis of you. But he’s going to deal with the things that keep you from enjoying the inheritance. God’s really like. He’s really committed to your joy.

00:46:07:28 – 00:46:14:26
Unknown
And it’s like, if I gave you this vineyard now, you wouldn’t even have fun.

00:46:14:29 – 00:46:28:05
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If I brought you to heaven right now, you wouldn’t even like it. There’s too much of the flesh in you, but to burn it out of you so you can enjoy what you’re made for.

00:46:28:07 – 00:46:54:02
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Don’t settle for this third rate pleasure. I have a deified cosmos. For you. I have a transfigured universe. I have a glorified universe. For you I have the resurrection of all things. I have the most assist the restoration. I have the power in Genesis, the the regeneration. I got better than you think. Don’t get off social media stuff and get off that, David.

00:46:54:02 – 00:47:16:11
Unknown
Get off that. There’s way better for you and we’re all in it together. There’s nobody who’s left out unless you put yourself out there. Unless you like it. I don’t think so. Who are you to tell me? Crucify him. His blood be on us and our children.

00:47:16:14 – 00:47:38:21
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If Jesus didn’t die and resurrect, that’s who you would still be. That’s who I would still be. But he really changed something. He changed who we are. He gave new life to our spirits. He gave new appetites to our soul. He gave a desire to know him. That’s why you’re pulled. That’s why you’re pulled towards him. That’s why you pull others towards him.

00:47:38:24 – 00:47:43:27
Unknown
Because you say, if you could just see the sun.

00:47:43:29 – 00:47:51:21
Unknown
You’d build your life on him. You build your life on him.

00:47:51:23 – 00:48:13:12
Unknown
Father, we thank you so much for your grace. We pray, Lord, that we would lay aside anything that’s hindering our growth, anything that is stealing our life. And we thank you so much for bringing truth and bringing judgment so that we can develop more of a taste for you. Restore into us the joy of your salvation today. Lord, set our hearts at rest.

00:48:13:15 – 00:48:37:05
Unknown
Thank you that you’re so committed to saving us, and you’ll even risk offending us if you can save us. God, we thank you so much. We don’t want to be those that would reject you or would resist you in any way. We want to be those that trust you, and that walk in to the fullness of the righteousness that you’ve given us, free of charge.

00:48:37:08 – 00:49:09:09
Unknown
Thank you so much for delivering us even at the cost of your life. You died so that we could be free. God, just make me, make us willing to lay down our lives to to bring truth, to bring justice, to bring mercy, to bring grace in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

00:49:09:12 – 00:49:13:06
Unknown
Amen. What a great day.

00:49:13:09 – 00:49:38:20
Unknown
We go to fellowship from here, across this parking lot. We eat food together. And if you’re new here, we have food that we’d love for you to chow down on with us. Okay, so, do you find your way over there? But, as I pray and dismiss everybody, I just want to, create an opportunity. If there’s somebody that needs to respond to this message today.

00:49:38:23 – 00:49:59:23
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And God’s in your heart. Stay behind. Come on. Forward up here. Talk to us. We want to share with you this great gift of redemption and salvation that Jesus has given us. Amen. So, father, we thank you for this time. Thank you for such a rich word for a brother Lord, who can bring your truth to us. God bless him.

00:49:59:23 – 00:50:15:05
Unknown
Blesses family. Bless everyone here today. God with your love and greater understanding that we might follow you in the fullness of your call for our lives. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Let’s go to fellowship.