1 00:00:38,118 --> 00:00:39,792 Come come on. Come on. 2 00:00:40,988 --> 00:00:42,743 If I were in the band in a 3 00:00:42,743 --> 00:00:44,914 rock band, you gave? I would've have left 4 00:00:44,914 --> 00:00:46,594 to state. But anyways, I'm not in a 5 00:00:46,594 --> 00:00:48,114 band and this is not a rock and 6 00:00:48,114 --> 00:00:48,614 roll 7 00:00:48,994 --> 00:00:50,914 concert, But anyways, are you glad you're here? 8 00:00:52,448 --> 00:00:55,636 I'm glad that you are here today, today, 9 00:00:55,875 --> 00:00:57,092 it's gonna be amazing. 10 00:00:59,062 --> 00:00:59,381 Today, 11 00:01:00,034 --> 00:01:02,588 God is gonna speak to all of us. 12 00:01:03,865 --> 00:01:06,419 I've been praying all week about what I'm 13 00:01:06,419 --> 00:01:09,380 gonna be saying today. No. What the word 14 00:01:09,380 --> 00:01:10,832 of God says. 15 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,904 If you have any problems with it, 16 00:01:14,857 --> 00:01:16,444 talk to God about it. 17 00:01:17,494 --> 00:01:17,734 Okay? 18 00:01:18,772 --> 00:01:19,092 Amen? 19 00:01:19,971 --> 00:01:22,128 Man. I don't know about you guys, but 20 00:01:22,208 --> 00:01:24,146 I love to watch car 21 00:01:25,815 --> 00:01:28,365 renovations. I love it. During the pandemic, I 22 00:01:28,365 --> 00:01:29,422 was, like, watching 23 00:01:29,958 --> 00:01:30,777 episode, the 24 00:01:31,393 --> 00:01:34,196 episode in app episode and episode and episode 25 00:01:34,196 --> 00:01:36,187 in episode and episode. When I had Covid, 26 00:01:36,347 --> 00:01:37,723 I was watching all these 27 00:01:38,099 --> 00:01:39,476 series on car 28 00:01:40,011 --> 00:01:43,052 restoration. I love it when when these restoration 29 00:01:43,052 --> 00:01:44,109 from these cards, 30 00:01:44,723 --> 00:01:45,598 go from junk, 31 00:01:46,473 --> 00:01:46,973 rusted 32 00:01:47,428 --> 00:01:50,372 trash to treasure. Here's an example. Right? 33 00:01:51,024 --> 00:01:51,824 Here's an example. 34 00:01:52,783 --> 00:01:54,541 Here's an example. Here we go. 35 00:01:56,299 --> 00:01:56,619 Right? 36 00:01:57,498 --> 00:01:59,975 Love it. I love it. Here's another picture. 37 00:02:01,429 --> 00:02:01,929 Bam, 38 00:02:03,266 --> 00:02:04,245 from trash 39 00:02:06,062 --> 00:02:06,882 to treasure 40 00:02:08,154 --> 00:02:11,350 I love seeing something broken, brought back to 41 00:02:11,350 --> 00:02:11,749 life, 42 00:02:12,388 --> 00:02:14,785 but what I love the most. Here it 43 00:02:14,785 --> 00:02:18,017 is. What I love the most is seeing 44 00:02:18,236 --> 00:02:19,994 people rise from the dead. 45 00:02:22,311 --> 00:02:23,670 That's what I love the most. 46 00:02:24,243 --> 00:02:27,372 From the pin to the palace from sin 47 00:02:27,589 --> 00:02:30,457 to saying from an instrument of darkness to 48 00:02:30,457 --> 00:02:34,318 an instrument of life from slave to ambassador 49 00:02:34,457 --> 00:02:37,649 from prisoner to royalty from no purpose to 50 00:02:37,649 --> 00:02:40,522 purpose a new creation. Here's a picture of 51 00:02:40,522 --> 00:02:41,160 an example. 52 00:02:42,842 --> 00:02:43,159 Brown. 53 00:02:55,634 --> 00:02:57,246 That guy was crazy. 54 00:02:58,911 --> 00:03:02,442 That guy right there was crazy, crazy, crazy 55 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:03,399 local local 56 00:03:04,175 --> 00:03:04,675 local. 57 00:03:08,254 --> 00:03:11,028 You know? And what made me crazy is 58 00:03:11,028 --> 00:03:12,375 what I thought, what I was thinking. 59 00:03:15,484 --> 00:03:16,762 Because what you think about you, 60 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:20,277 you'll be able to see it in your 61 00:03:20,277 --> 00:03:20,517 actions. 62 00:03:22,843 --> 00:03:25,933 Right? I love seeing this. I love seeing 63 00:03:25,933 --> 00:03:28,151 people it that had no hope now I 64 00:03:28,151 --> 00:03:29,992 have hope. I love seen it. 65 00:03:30,868 --> 00:03:32,541 Renovation is a theme that runs through the 66 00:03:32,541 --> 00:03:33,577 entire book of General, 67 00:03:34,055 --> 00:03:36,683 Jeremiah that the the theme is that god 68 00:03:36,683 --> 00:03:38,810 wants to do a heart 69 00:03:39,649 --> 00:03:40,628 renovation project 70 00:03:41,087 --> 00:03:42,306 on the whole 71 00:03:43,405 --> 00:03:43,725 nation. 72 00:03:45,483 --> 00:03:47,960 And God is using the prophet jeremiah To 73 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:48,460 bring 74 00:03:50,124 --> 00:03:50,839 the people, 75 00:03:52,269 --> 00:03:53,087 this message 76 00:03:55,049 --> 00:03:55,763 to turn, 77 00:03:57,208 --> 00:03:58,323 from your wicked ways, 78 00:03:59,994 --> 00:04:00,733 and follow 79 00:04:03,098 --> 00:04:03,598 Jesus 80 00:04:04,943 --> 00:04:06,398 that is the whole theme 81 00:04:07,011 --> 00:04:07,909 of the book 82 00:04:08,523 --> 00:04:09,341 of Jeremiah 83 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:10,511 to turn. 84 00:04:11,943 --> 00:04:12,340 Turn. 85 00:04:13,707 --> 00:04:14,105 Turn. 86 00:04:15,377 --> 00:04:15,775 Turn. 87 00:04:16,252 --> 00:04:17,684 In order for me to get there, 88 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:20,626 this guy had to get come to a 89 00:04:20,626 --> 00:04:23,266 point in his life, where I realized that 90 00:04:23,345 --> 00:04:24,243 I was re 91 00:04:26,766 --> 00:04:27,323 and I turn. 92 00:04:30,996 --> 00:04:31,789 Very important. 93 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:35,360 So today's section of verses is chapter 18 94 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:36,098 of Jeremiah, 95 00:04:36,470 --> 00:04:38,557 and Jeremiah uses a metaphor, 96 00:04:39,185 --> 00:04:41,365 and it's the picture of a potter 97 00:04:41,824 --> 00:04:43,185 and the clay. I start. 98 00:04:45,904 --> 00:04:47,425 Thank you, Ga. Thank you, Daniel. 99 00:04:49,278 --> 00:04:49,757 Thank you. 100 00:04:51,595 --> 00:04:52,475 So Jeremiah, 101 00:04:52,874 --> 00:04:55,032 wants this wants the god... God's people to 102 00:04:55,032 --> 00:04:56,970 know that there is a master 103 00:04:57,763 --> 00:04:58,083 potter. 104 00:05:00,478 --> 00:05:01,995 That's working in our lives. 105 00:05:03,591 --> 00:05:06,327 And wants to mold us and changes 106 00:05:07,119 --> 00:05:09,058 as he sees 107 00:05:09,596 --> 00:05:12,873 fit, but it requires for us to remain 108 00:05:12,873 --> 00:05:13,373 humble 109 00:05:16,402 --> 00:05:17,355 in the potter hands. 110 00:05:20,056 --> 00:05:20,533 Say with me. 111 00:05:23,649 --> 00:05:25,667 So he can shape us and use 112 00:05:26,685 --> 00:05:29,321 as he see as he sees as he 113 00:05:29,321 --> 00:05:30,300 sees fit 114 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:33,878 Here it is, Jeremiah 18 01:12 says this. 115 00:05:35,391 --> 00:05:37,700 Remember, I'm reading the word of god. Here 116 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:38,019 we go. 117 00:05:39,627 --> 00:05:41,061 This is the word that came to Jeremiah 118 00:05:41,061 --> 00:05:43,052 mai from the Lord. Go down to the 119 00:05:43,132 --> 00:05:44,725 Potter house and there I will give you 120 00:05:44,725 --> 00:05:45,362 a message. 121 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,071 So I went down to the Potter house, 122 00:05:48,484 --> 00:05:50,478 and I saw him working out at the 123 00:05:50,478 --> 00:05:50,797 wheel. 124 00:05:51,435 --> 00:05:53,689 But the but the pot he was shaping 125 00:05:55,262 --> 00:05:57,176 from the clay was marred. 126 00:05:57,828 --> 00:06:00,158 You can say ruins and with me ruined 127 00:06:01,249 --> 00:06:03,635 in his hands. So the potter formed it 128 00:06:03,635 --> 00:06:04,510 into another pie. 129 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,808 Shaping it as he said as he seemed 130 00:06:08,024 --> 00:06:10,648 best to him. And that's why that was 131 00:06:10,648 --> 00:06:11,125 my life. 132 00:06:11,841 --> 00:06:13,750 And the and the key here is I 133 00:06:13,750 --> 00:06:14,386 was willing. 134 00:06:16,713 --> 00:06:18,069 Right? I was willing. 135 00:06:19,345 --> 00:06:21,499 Verse 5. Then the word of the lord 136 00:06:21,499 --> 00:06:23,892 came to me and he said, can? Here 137 00:06:23,892 --> 00:06:24,211 it is. 138 00:06:24,943 --> 00:06:26,852 Can I not do with you Israel? 139 00:06:27,409 --> 00:06:28,443 He's talking to his people? 140 00:06:30,034 --> 00:06:31,148 As this potter does, 141 00:06:32,199 --> 00:06:32,759 declares the lord. 142 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:35,480 Like clay in the hands of the potter. 143 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:38,919 So are you in in my hands, Israel? 144 00:06:41,406 --> 00:06:44,510 Seventh verse 7. If at any time, I 145 00:06:44,510 --> 00:06:46,421 announced that a nation or a kingdom is 146 00:06:46,421 --> 00:06:47,557 to be uproot 147 00:06:48,029 --> 00:06:50,506 torn down and destroyed. And if that nation, 148 00:06:50,745 --> 00:06:51,405 I warned 149 00:06:52,583 --> 00:06:53,083 pets 150 00:06:55,394 --> 00:06:56,111 of its evil, 151 00:06:57,068 --> 00:06:58,206 then I will re 152 00:06:59,939 --> 00:07:02,910 and not a fl on it, the disaster 153 00:07:03,128 --> 00:07:04,027 I had planned 154 00:07:04,736 --> 00:07:05,371 verse 9. 155 00:07:06,245 --> 00:07:08,548 And if at and another time, I announced 156 00:07:08,548 --> 00:07:10,692 that a nation or a kingdom is to 157 00:07:10,692 --> 00:07:13,154 be built up implanted verse 10, 158 00:07:14,043 --> 00:07:16,613 and it does evil in my sight 159 00:07:17,386 --> 00:07:18,841 and does not obey 160 00:07:19,216 --> 00:07:19,455 me, 161 00:07:20,490 --> 00:07:23,196 then I will reconsider the good I had, 162 00:07:23,767 --> 00:07:24,267 intended 163 00:07:25,117 --> 00:07:25,514 for it. 164 00:07:26,467 --> 00:07:29,166 Verse 11. Now, therefore, say to the people 165 00:07:29,166 --> 00:07:31,469 of Judah, Judah and those living in Jerusalem. 166 00:07:31,628 --> 00:07:34,510 This is what the Lord says, look, I 167 00:07:34,510 --> 00:07:37,463 am preparing a disaster for you and devi 168 00:07:37,463 --> 00:07:40,358 devi a plan against you sir 169 00:07:42,346 --> 00:07:43,144 So turn, 170 00:07:48,664 --> 00:07:49,164 turn 171 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:51,216 from your evil ways. 172 00:07:52,492 --> 00:07:53,710 Each 1 of you 173 00:07:54,167 --> 00:07:57,437 and reform your ways and your actions. 174 00:07:58,569 --> 00:07:59,127 Check this out, 175 00:08:00,084 --> 00:08:01,600 but they will reply. 176 00:08:05,188 --> 00:08:05,986 It's no use. 177 00:08:07,980 --> 00:08:08,115 But 178 00:08:08,790 --> 00:08:10,935 We will continue with our own plans, 179 00:08:12,127 --> 00:08:14,693 and we will allow and we will all 180 00:08:14,749 --> 00:08:16,282 follow the stubborn, 181 00:08:17,069 --> 00:08:18,366 of our evil 182 00:08:19,061 --> 00:08:19,459 hearts. 183 00:08:23,603 --> 00:08:26,654 Church, I see this again and again and 184 00:08:26,654 --> 00:08:27,854 again and again. 185 00:08:28,495 --> 00:08:31,134 When you don't say it, people don't say 186 00:08:31,134 --> 00:08:32,674 it with their mouth 187 00:08:33,389 --> 00:08:35,781 But with their actions, this is what they 188 00:08:35,781 --> 00:08:37,318 say. We will continue 189 00:08:37,696 --> 00:08:40,806 with our own plans, we will all follow 190 00:08:40,806 --> 00:08:42,662 the stubborn of our 191 00:08:43,214 --> 00:08:43,714 evil 192 00:08:45,689 --> 00:08:45,928 hearts. 193 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,597 God sends jeremiah mind to this part to 194 00:08:51,597 --> 00:08:54,161 the potter workshop. To teach him a lesson, 195 00:08:55,275 --> 00:08:57,105 so that he can share with the people. 196 00:08:58,299 --> 00:09:00,527 He wants Jeremiah to understand who he is 197 00:09:00,527 --> 00:09:03,010 and who we are, in how he works 198 00:09:03,010 --> 00:09:06,140 in our lives and how our own 199 00:09:07,393 --> 00:09:07,893 decisions 200 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:10,120 shapes, 201 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:11,559 gods, 202 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:13,320 plants. 203 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:16,200 Stay with me. 204 00:09:19,007 --> 00:09:21,393 So here's 4 lessons from Jeremiah 18. The 205 00:09:21,393 --> 00:09:23,620 first 1 is this. God shapes us because 206 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:24,177 he loves us. 207 00:09:26,658 --> 00:09:27,372 Say with me Love. 208 00:09:28,087 --> 00:09:28,587 Love 209 00:09:29,198 --> 00:09:30,412 Love. Love 210 00:09:31,024 --> 00:09:32,055 God shakes us. 211 00:09:40,205 --> 00:09:40,924 Because he loves us. 212 00:09:45,579 --> 00:09:47,019 Going back to the car renovation, 213 00:09:48,779 --> 00:09:50,699 I personally don't know anything about it. This 214 00:09:50,699 --> 00:09:51,740 is what I would be doing. 215 00:09:57,156 --> 00:09:57,394 Right? 216 00:09:59,693 --> 00:10:00,407 Who said right? 217 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:02,600 Wow. 218 00:10:03,940 --> 00:10:05,940 Okay. Okay. Okay. I see. I see. 219 00:10:06,820 --> 00:10:08,259 But the good news for all of us 220 00:10:08,259 --> 00:10:09,700 is that God is amazing. 221 00:10:12,344 --> 00:10:14,971 Our creator knows us better than we know 222 00:10:14,971 --> 00:10:15,369 ourselves. 223 00:10:16,961 --> 00:10:18,097 And if we place 224 00:10:18,408 --> 00:10:20,478 our life in his hands, 225 00:10:21,194 --> 00:10:22,808 he will shape us 226 00:10:24,536 --> 00:10:25,253 for his good. 227 00:10:26,924 --> 00:10:27,322 Purpose. 228 00:10:29,013 --> 00:10:30,690 So the idea of God, the part of 229 00:10:30,690 --> 00:10:32,847 the creator shape on life 6 is way 230 00:10:32,847 --> 00:10:35,737 back to the to creation. The story of 231 00:10:35,896 --> 00:10:38,130 Genesis 1 where it tells her that God 232 00:10:38,130 --> 00:10:41,320 began creation through his word. He spoke and 233 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,952 the sky was there. He spoke and there 234 00:10:43,952 --> 00:10:46,595 was land. He spoke there was eve. He 235 00:10:46,595 --> 00:10:48,425 spoke there were plants and animals. 236 00:10:48,902 --> 00:10:51,687 He called it into existence. But then in 237 00:10:51,687 --> 00:10:55,859 in Genesis tube. God takes and hands on 238 00:10:56,073 --> 00:10:58,297 approach with us. Genesis 2 7 says this. 239 00:10:58,694 --> 00:11:00,758 1 day, the your turn got scoop dirt 240 00:11:00,758 --> 00:11:02,029 up with his own hands, 241 00:11:06,822 --> 00:11:07,641 sc it 242 00:11:08,098 --> 00:11:08,895 into the shape, 243 00:11:09,453 --> 00:11:10,272 we call 244 00:11:10,649 --> 00:11:11,149 human 245 00:11:12,259 --> 00:11:14,497 Breath the breath that gives life into the 246 00:11:14,497 --> 00:11:14,997 nostrils 247 00:11:15,775 --> 00:11:17,853 of your human and say with me and 248 00:11:17,853 --> 00:11:18,673 the human 249 00:11:19,452 --> 00:11:21,290 became a living soul. 250 00:11:22,581 --> 00:11:24,892 This tells us that god, the potter of 251 00:11:24,892 --> 00:11:28,318 creator is closer and more involved than we 252 00:11:28,318 --> 00:11:30,230 know. We have a God that is not 253 00:11:30,230 --> 00:11:33,515 distant or distract did or dis interested in 254 00:11:33,515 --> 00:11:36,629 his creation. And second, this first tells that 255 00:11:36,629 --> 00:11:37,607 something about 256 00:11:37,986 --> 00:11:39,922 ourselves about our humanity 257 00:11:41,431 --> 00:11:42,966 that we are the pinnacle 258 00:11:44,297 --> 00:11:45,491 of God's creation. 259 00:11:49,249 --> 00:11:50,068 Say with me. 260 00:11:51,403 --> 00:11:53,956 We are a set above. We are set 261 00:11:53,956 --> 00:11:55,312 above all creation. 262 00:11:57,082 --> 00:11:58,061 Because we're made 263 00:11:58,519 --> 00:11:59,498 into the image 264 00:12:00,115 --> 00:12:00,754 of god. 265 00:12:04,917 --> 00:12:05,792 With an eternal, 266 00:12:07,064 --> 00:12:07,462 living, 267 00:12:08,734 --> 00:12:08,972 so. 268 00:12:10,403 --> 00:12:11,914 God shape does here go. 269 00:12:14,554 --> 00:12:15,693 To be with him 270 00:12:16,871 --> 00:12:17,371 forever. 271 00:12:21,598 --> 00:12:23,589 And even when sin ruined and messed up 272 00:12:23,589 --> 00:12:24,943 our lives, God was present. 273 00:12:26,934 --> 00:12:29,005 He became even more hands on through Jesus. 274 00:12:30,611 --> 00:12:32,356 If he's at shoot tense is this where 275 00:12:32,356 --> 00:12:33,650 we are God's masterpiece, 276 00:12:34,736 --> 00:12:36,029 tell your neighbor and you're a masterpiece. 277 00:12:38,958 --> 00:12:40,472 Even if your husband or your wife, there 278 00:12:40,472 --> 00:12:42,009 tell me your masterpiece. 279 00:12:45,336 --> 00:12:47,977 He created a anew in Christ. Jesus, so 280 00:12:47,977 --> 00:12:50,514 we can do the things he planned for 281 00:12:50,514 --> 00:12:51,306 us long ago. 282 00:12:52,019 --> 00:12:54,159 So the first lesson is that God shapes 283 00:12:54,159 --> 00:12:54,397 us, 284 00:12:55,128 --> 00:12:57,358 Because he loves us. The next 1 is 285 00:12:57,358 --> 00:12:59,133 we tend to resist him 286 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:02,457 because of our pride. 287 00:13:10,606 --> 00:13:11,425 It's like 288 00:13:11,962 --> 00:13:12,781 the junk 289 00:13:13,397 --> 00:13:13,897 car 290 00:13:15,165 --> 00:13:16,222 telling the reno, 291 00:13:18,267 --> 00:13:18,824 I'm good. 292 00:13:21,861 --> 00:13:22,975 I'm good in the junkyard. 293 00:13:24,327 --> 00:13:25,600 I'm good all rested. 294 00:13:28,955 --> 00:13:29,749 I don't need you. 295 00:13:38,747 --> 00:13:40,182 I have to realize I was in the 296 00:13:40,182 --> 00:13:40,581 pigs in. 297 00:13:42,815 --> 00:13:44,250 And realize that I wasn't good. 298 00:13:47,056 --> 00:13:47,875 Some of us 299 00:13:48,651 --> 00:13:50,803 are addicted to this to that. 300 00:13:52,079 --> 00:13:53,195 Our marriage is a mess. 301 00:13:54,884 --> 00:13:55,441 I'm good. 302 00:14:00,142 --> 00:14:00,620 Still the end. 303 00:14:09,006 --> 00:14:11,638 How are you? I'm good. Hundred p, hundred 304 00:14:11,638 --> 00:14:11,798 percent. 305 00:14:17,245 --> 00:14:18,764 The truth is that were not really that 306 00:14:18,764 --> 00:14:19,664 different than 307 00:14:21,804 --> 00:14:22,284 than them. 308 00:14:24,298 --> 00:14:26,876 We think we are so much more sophisticated 309 00:14:27,813 --> 00:14:29,491 and and so much more advanced. 310 00:14:31,024 --> 00:14:33,339 But we are... We struggle in the same 311 00:14:33,339 --> 00:14:34,936 ways. I was wondering if I was gonna 312 00:14:34,936 --> 00:14:35,734 use this mask. 313 00:14:37,730 --> 00:14:39,008 A lot of us put the mask on. 314 00:14:39,167 --> 00:14:39,327 Right? 315 00:14:52,526 --> 00:14:53,881 A lot of us are walking with the 316 00:14:53,881 --> 00:14:54,359 mask on. 317 00:14:55,714 --> 00:14:56,272 I'm good. 318 00:14:58,438 --> 00:14:59,870 Your life is a disaster, 319 00:15:00,347 --> 00:15:00,983 but I'm good. 320 00:15:06,014 --> 00:15:08,411 You're addicted to to to porn. You're addicted 321 00:15:08,411 --> 00:15:10,569 to this. You're addicted to that. I'm good. 322 00:15:17,529 --> 00:15:18,485 We resist by. 323 00:15:20,876 --> 00:15:24,323 We ignore his warranties and and in worship 324 00:15:24,381 --> 00:15:27,255 idol 2. I know that sometimes we're reading 325 00:15:27,255 --> 00:15:28,843 the word of God and we're like, I 326 00:15:28,843 --> 00:15:31,645 can't believe they did that. No point could 327 00:15:31,780 --> 00:15:32,549 shit on this. So 328 00:15:34,020 --> 00:15:35,292 in the word doing it too. 329 00:15:38,709 --> 00:15:40,776 We are nor god and follow the idol 330 00:15:40,776 --> 00:15:41,594 of self 331 00:15:41,904 --> 00:15:44,379 or the idol of success, the idol of 332 00:15:44,379 --> 00:15:47,332 money, the idol of core of culture. I'm 333 00:15:47,332 --> 00:15:48,631 good in my chaos. 334 00:15:55,567 --> 00:15:57,003 I was watching video a day. 335 00:15:59,331 --> 00:16:01,883 They were entry interviewing this kid in in 336 00:16:01,883 --> 00:16:02,362 the streets, 337 00:16:03,478 --> 00:16:05,073 and he had a bad with with some 338 00:16:05,073 --> 00:16:05,313 pain. 339 00:16:06,429 --> 00:16:07,466 I never did that. 340 00:16:10,437 --> 00:16:11,097 He was 341 00:16:11,556 --> 00:16:12,035 messed up, 342 00:16:14,913 --> 00:16:15,413 homeless, 343 00:16:16,911 --> 00:16:17,411 dirty 344 00:16:18,681 --> 00:16:19,555 And in the streets. 345 00:16:22,101 --> 00:16:23,532 And the guy asked him, do you want 346 00:16:23,532 --> 00:16:25,043 him? Oh, no. I'm good. 347 00:16:30,627 --> 00:16:31,184 I'm good. 348 00:16:35,894 --> 00:16:37,173 I'm good in my chaos. 349 00:16:40,210 --> 00:16:42,527 It's really hard for us humans to to 350 00:16:42,527 --> 00:16:44,706 realize that we are in the denim pigs 351 00:16:49,311 --> 00:16:51,377 And just like the people that ignore Jeremiah 352 00:16:51,377 --> 00:16:53,379 is warning you, we think that We're better 353 00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:55,765 or we know better, so we resist God. 354 00:16:56,242 --> 00:16:58,468 In our pride, we are telling the potter, 355 00:16:58,945 --> 00:17:00,399 we know best. 356 00:17:04,059 --> 00:17:04,859 Look at what it says. 357 00:17:06,140 --> 00:17:08,940 I isaiah 45 9. Again, I'm reading the 358 00:17:08,940 --> 00:17:10,859 word of God. Okay. Don't get mad. Me. 359 00:17:11,019 --> 00:17:12,713 You have a problem. Talk to god. Here 360 00:17:12,713 --> 00:17:13,032 it is. 361 00:17:14,309 --> 00:17:15,188 How terrible, 362 00:17:16,066 --> 00:17:18,461 it will be for anyone who are used 363 00:17:18,461 --> 00:17:19,498 with their maker. 364 00:17:22,306 --> 00:17:24,855 They're like the broken piece of pottery living 365 00:17:24,855 --> 00:17:26,448 on the ground in the pig in the 366 00:17:26,448 --> 00:17:27,085 in the pigs then. 367 00:17:28,758 --> 00:17:30,612 Does the clay say to the potter 368 00:17:31,083 --> 00:17:31,956 What are you making? 369 00:17:33,941 --> 00:17:36,085 Does the pot say, there's a pot the 370 00:17:36,085 --> 00:17:38,467 the powder doesn't know... Doesn't have any skill? 371 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:40,159 Say with me whom. 372 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,839 This this attitude is still so often what 373 00:17:45,839 --> 00:17:46,240 we do. 374 00:17:48,095 --> 00:17:51,375 And what, God god's people do throughout scripture. 375 00:17:52,095 --> 00:17:54,894 We critique and we questioned God. We don't 376 00:17:54,894 --> 00:17:56,515 think he knows what he's doing 377 00:17:56,829 --> 00:17:59,532 and we say, it if I was making 378 00:17:59,532 --> 00:17:59,850 this, 379 00:18:01,837 --> 00:18:02,870 I would do it differently. 380 00:18:03,427 --> 00:18:04,699 How many of you have ever said that? 381 00:18:07,022 --> 00:18:07,900 Or your medi. 382 00:18:09,177 --> 00:18:10,773 Because he's not responding the way you want 383 00:18:10,773 --> 00:18:13,007 him to respond. If I was making this, 384 00:18:13,247 --> 00:18:15,017 I would do it and I would do 385 00:18:15,017 --> 00:18:17,571 it better. And we say we're as clay 386 00:18:17,571 --> 00:18:20,385 speaking to the to the potter, how ridiculous. 387 00:18:21,002 --> 00:18:21,241 Right? 388 00:18:22,532 --> 00:18:23,725 Say it would be ridiculous. 389 00:18:24,997 --> 00:18:25,497 Ridiculous 390 00:18:27,145 --> 00:18:28,338 It happens at church too. 391 00:18:30,106 --> 00:18:31,303 If I was a pastor, 392 00:18:33,616 --> 00:18:35,153 say with me, Ridiculous. 393 00:18:41,596 --> 00:18:43,446 In sports, I know there's a lot of 394 00:18:43,662 --> 00:18:45,647 professionals out there yelling at the Tv. 395 00:18:49,557 --> 00:18:51,073 There's some of you that believe that you're 396 00:18:51,073 --> 00:18:51,950 better than the pros. 397 00:18:52,748 --> 00:18:54,822 Not even you ever played a game or 398 00:18:54,822 --> 00:18:56,895 coach the game or played at that level 399 00:18:56,895 --> 00:18:58,730 and you're yelling at the Tv. Right rock. 400 00:19:08,038 --> 00:19:09,334 Stay with me ridiculous. 401 00:19:14,184 --> 00:19:15,404 I know some of you 402 00:19:17,785 --> 00:19:19,005 how much 403 00:19:19,384 --> 00:19:20,605 more ridiculous, 404 00:19:21,158 --> 00:19:23,807 it is for us to do the same 405 00:19:24,183 --> 00:19:24,740 to god. 406 00:19:31,919 --> 00:19:34,069 Our simple pride leads us to question god's 407 00:19:34,069 --> 00:19:34,569 sovereignty. 408 00:19:35,263 --> 00:19:38,789 This attitude is pride and it always pushes 409 00:19:39,579 --> 00:19:40,079 god 410 00:19:41,096 --> 00:19:41,415 away. 411 00:19:43,890 --> 00:19:45,028 But the good news 412 00:19:45,885 --> 00:19:47,801 we see in this passage and in the 413 00:19:47,801 --> 00:19:51,156 whole story of scripture again and again and 414 00:19:51,156 --> 00:19:53,856 again, that even in our pride and that 415 00:19:53,856 --> 00:19:54,809 even in our sin, 416 00:19:55,524 --> 00:19:57,430 here's the less... Here's the next lesson. God 417 00:19:57,430 --> 00:20:00,069 always has more mercy than we have a 418 00:20:00,069 --> 00:20:00,229 miss. 419 00:20:06,931 --> 00:20:08,685 If you remember back in in verse 4, 420 00:20:08,845 --> 00:20:10,679 it said to that well, the potter was 421 00:20:10,679 --> 00:20:12,833 shaping the clay. He noticed that it was 422 00:20:12,833 --> 00:20:14,907 ruined and messed up. But rather than throwing 423 00:20:14,907 --> 00:20:15,465 it away, 424 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:18,360 He just started to a new peace. 425 00:20:23,014 --> 00:20:25,885 He we work... He works it and restores 426 00:20:25,885 --> 00:20:28,618 it and remakes it into something different 427 00:20:28,996 --> 00:20:32,208 into something better into something beautiful. 428 00:20:33,955 --> 00:20:35,708 This is what God wanted to do with 429 00:20:35,708 --> 00:20:37,063 the ancient Jewish people. 430 00:20:37,780 --> 00:20:39,613 Even though they they they had turned their 431 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:41,625 back on God. And the kings and the 432 00:20:41,625 --> 00:20:43,785 religious leaders had led the people away from 433 00:20:43,785 --> 00:20:45,945 god and they set up idol of worship 434 00:20:45,945 --> 00:20:49,144 in pagan rituals and it sacrificed children and 435 00:20:49,144 --> 00:20:53,148 and actual women idol that that approved and 436 00:20:53,148 --> 00:20:57,216 promoted their simple behavior sign as now. 437 00:21:03,199 --> 00:21:04,947 Even though their nation and their heart were 438 00:21:04,947 --> 00:21:06,797 wear a mess, God wanted to give them 439 00:21:06,854 --> 00:21:07,354 mercy 440 00:21:08,860 --> 00:21:10,559 He was ready to forgive them 441 00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:12,160 and renew them 442 00:21:12,460 --> 00:21:13,759 if they would just 443 00:21:15,019 --> 00:21:15,340 turn. 444 00:21:19,991 --> 00:21:20,391 Turn. 445 00:21:22,069 --> 00:21:22,468 Turn. 446 00:21:35,250 --> 00:21:36,527 God will do the same with us if 447 00:21:36,527 --> 00:21:37,006 you let him. 448 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,077 When we make a mess of our lives 449 00:21:41,077 --> 00:21:42,329 or or or make a mess 450 00:21:43,328 --> 00:21:44,387 of of our 451 00:21:44,926 --> 00:21:45,246 situations. 452 00:21:46,604 --> 00:21:47,962 God is the master potter, 453 00:21:48,521 --> 00:21:49,960 and and he doesn't throw us out. 454 00:21:52,527 --> 00:21:54,760 If we let him, he will rework us 455 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:55,718 and reshape us. 456 00:21:56,595 --> 00:21:58,350 The good news is in this passage and 457 00:21:58,350 --> 00:21:59,705 the good news of the gospel is that 458 00:21:59,785 --> 00:22:03,229 God always has more mercy than we have 459 00:22:03,229 --> 00:22:03,708 a mess, 460 00:22:04,505 --> 00:22:06,578 ephesians 2 4 and 5 says this. But 461 00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:08,594 God's mercy is so abundant 462 00:22:10,898 --> 00:22:12,991 And his life for us so great 463 00:22:14,801 --> 00:22:17,032 that while we were spiritually dead, 464 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,559 In our disobedience, 465 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,099 he brought us to life 466 00:22:24,799 --> 00:22:25,359 with Christ. 467 00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:34,102 This is the summary of the 468 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:35,439 bible story. 469 00:22:37,846 --> 00:22:39,140 That God keeps it 470 00:22:39,513 --> 00:22:42,528 showing up offering mercy in the middle of 471 00:22:42,528 --> 00:22:45,623 humanity's mess. Again and again and again and 472 00:22:45,623 --> 00:22:47,950 again, and the story of the bible is 473 00:22:47,950 --> 00:22:50,824 not God finding a good people and perfect 474 00:22:50,824 --> 00:22:53,698 people and rewarding them. It's a story of 475 00:22:53,778 --> 00:22:57,243 God finding messed up, jacked up people 476 00:22:59,290 --> 00:23:00,825 and rewarding them 477 00:23:01,837 --> 00:23:02,633 when they turn. 478 00:23:14,616 --> 00:23:15,412 In other words, 479 00:23:16,845 --> 00:23:18,198 if you humble yourself, 480 00:23:20,187 --> 00:23:21,403 make yourself 481 00:23:21,858 --> 00:23:23,052 available to the potter. 482 00:23:32,913 --> 00:23:34,290 The imagery of us 483 00:23:34,906 --> 00:23:36,979 as clay is continuing in the new testament. 484 00:23:37,298 --> 00:23:38,574 Look at what it says the second corinthians 485 00:23:38,574 --> 00:23:39,211 it's 4 7. 486 00:23:40,261 --> 00:23:41,693 Well, will we have this treasure? 487 00:23:42,648 --> 00:23:45,034 What is the treasure? Jesus in the in 488 00:23:45,034 --> 00:23:45,670 the new testament? 489 00:23:46,704 --> 00:23:47,817 In jars of clay, 490 00:23:48,707 --> 00:23:49,764 who is the jar. 491 00:23:51,094 --> 00:23:51,332 Us. 492 00:23:55,070 --> 00:23:56,343 We are the jar of. 493 00:23:57,153 --> 00:23:58,768 And why will he keep treasure 494 00:23:59,302 --> 00:24:00,575 in the jar of clay? 495 00:24:01,769 --> 00:24:04,258 To show that it that this all 496 00:24:04,713 --> 00:24:05,929 surpassing power 497 00:24:06,798 --> 00:24:08,334 is from god 498 00:24:08,871 --> 00:24:10,226 and not from us. 499 00:24:11,104 --> 00:24:14,155 There's people that are also walking with a 500 00:24:14,293 --> 00:24:15,010 religious mask. 501 00:24:15,901 --> 00:24:16,401 Santo. 502 00:24:28,797 --> 00:24:30,864 You are called the say because Jesus lived 503 00:24:30,864 --> 00:24:32,875 and you're not being you behave. You you 504 00:24:32,875 --> 00:24:34,154 don't drink and dance and smoke. 505 00:24:35,914 --> 00:24:38,575 But we walk around with this sample mask 506 00:24:38,634 --> 00:24:40,634 and you're criticizing and judging people. 507 00:24:43,906 --> 00:24:44,857 Modern day pharmacy. 508 00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:50,668 So that's why he did there, but the 509 00:24:50,668 --> 00:24:52,899 2 much in royal. You're a jar clay, 510 00:24:53,218 --> 00:24:55,290 the treasure in you is Jesus. 511 00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:01,286 God wants our our lives to tell his 512 00:25:01,286 --> 00:25:03,279 story. He wants others to see what God 513 00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:05,273 has done in us. He he wants the 514 00:25:05,273 --> 00:25:07,678 very weakness of our lives to tell the 515 00:25:07,678 --> 00:25:08,178 greatness 516 00:25:08,711 --> 00:25:09,268 of his. 517 00:25:13,322 --> 00:25:16,225 Here's the last 1. You We are responsible 518 00:25:17,318 --> 00:25:18,593 for our response to him. 519 00:25:22,993 --> 00:25:23,973 We are responsible 520 00:25:24,432 --> 00:25:25,711 for our response to him. 521 00:25:27,149 --> 00:25:29,147 God is going to keep loving us and 522 00:25:29,147 --> 00:25:31,305 pursuing us no matter how far we run 523 00:25:31,305 --> 00:25:31,705 from him. 524 00:25:34,904 --> 00:25:37,609 And God is going to keep giving us 525 00:25:37,609 --> 00:25:40,554 chance after chance, after chance, after chance, after 526 00:25:40,554 --> 00:25:42,323 chance to turn around. 527 00:25:46,159 --> 00:25:46,958 To repent, 528 00:25:50,008 --> 00:25:50,722 from pride, 529 00:25:52,706 --> 00:25:53,444 to humble, 530 00:25:57,879 --> 00:25:59,650 Pain from our mistakes, bring 531 00:26:01,295 --> 00:26:02,192 brings humble. 532 00:26:04,154 --> 00:26:05,449 Pain from our mistakes 533 00:26:06,061 --> 00:26:06,879 takes us 534 00:26:07,348 --> 00:26:09,364 in in in your heart of a humble 535 00:26:09,662 --> 00:26:11,996 and and we put ourselves back 536 00:26:13,251 --> 00:26:14,208 on the potter wheel. 537 00:26:25,439 --> 00:26:27,833 But here's here's here's a here's an here's 538 00:26:27,833 --> 00:26:28,711 something I wanna say. 539 00:26:34,235 --> 00:26:35,515 He not gonna force you. 540 00:26:41,928 --> 00:26:43,041 He not gonna force you. 541 00:26:50,693 --> 00:26:52,131 This is what we see in verse 5 542 00:26:52,131 --> 00:26:54,288 to 10, but has plans and even those 543 00:26:54,288 --> 00:26:54,528 plans, 544 00:26:55,167 --> 00:26:58,057 plans to bring the structure big be but 545 00:26:58,057 --> 00:27:00,611 because of the nation's sin, God has mercy 546 00:27:00,611 --> 00:27:03,245 and he says that if in that at 547 00:27:03,245 --> 00:27:04,043 any point, 548 00:27:05,734 --> 00:27:06,234 if 549 00:27:07,410 --> 00:27:07,910 people 550 00:27:08,767 --> 00:27:09,086 repent. 551 00:27:10,762 --> 00:27:11,262 If 552 00:27:12,758 --> 00:27:13,976 they turn around 553 00:27:16,450 --> 00:27:17,490 He will change his plans. 554 00:27:21,649 --> 00:27:22,789 The sovereign God 555 00:27:23,821 --> 00:27:24,718 who made us 556 00:27:25,091 --> 00:27:26,702 us a sovereign self 557 00:27:27,551 --> 00:27:29,003 introduces the idea of 558 00:27:29,693 --> 00:27:30,193 conditional. 559 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:34,793 Into our relationship with him. 560 00:27:35,509 --> 00:27:37,679 God is essentially saying your destiny 561 00:27:38,769 --> 00:27:39,882 is in your hands. 562 00:27:48,828 --> 00:27:49,705 You're responsible. 563 00:27:51,237 --> 00:27:52,514 Jessica, you're responsible. 564 00:27:55,387 --> 00:27:56,585 Oscar you're responsible. 565 00:28:02,258 --> 00:28:03,316 I am responsible 566 00:28:04,567 --> 00:28:06,739 for how I respond 567 00:28:07,369 --> 00:28:07,849 to god. 568 00:28:12,730 --> 00:28:14,349 Look at what it says in Romans 10 569 00:28:15,063 --> 00:28:17,363 Romans 14 10 to 12 says is. Remember 570 00:28:17,363 --> 00:28:19,584 each of us will stand personally before the 571 00:28:19,584 --> 00:28:21,726 judgment seat of god, where it is written. 572 00:28:22,059 --> 00:28:24,292 As I live says the Lord, even every 573 00:28:24,292 --> 00:28:27,184 knees shall bow to me and every tongue 574 00:28:27,481 --> 00:28:28,359 confess to god, 575 00:28:29,316 --> 00:28:31,091 and every tongue confessed to god 576 00:28:31,563 --> 00:28:34,136 each of us will give an account 577 00:28:34,991 --> 00:28:36,027 of himself to god. 578 00:28:42,493 --> 00:28:43,311 We're responsible. 579 00:28:44,641 --> 00:28:45,754 He's not gonna force you. 580 00:28:46,550 --> 00:28:47,743 He's not gonna force us. 581 00:28:49,194 --> 00:28:50,174 We must choose 582 00:28:51,355 --> 00:28:52,174 our path 583 00:28:53,035 --> 00:28:53,674 or his. 584 00:28:56,009 --> 00:28:58,410 This ancient trouble of wills goes on and 585 00:28:58,410 --> 00:29:01,049 on and on and on and on. My 586 00:29:01,049 --> 00:29:01,549 will 587 00:29:02,169 --> 00:29:02,890 or his will. 588 00:29:13,137 --> 00:29:14,354 I wanna show you how 589 00:29:14,811 --> 00:29:16,007 this whole metaphor ends. 590 00:29:17,601 --> 00:29:18,956 I know that some of you already know 591 00:29:18,956 --> 00:29:19,355 the story. 592 00:29:24,484 --> 00:29:25,445 And this is how it ends. 593 00:29:27,125 --> 00:29:28,085 All the ifs, 594 00:29:29,378 --> 00:29:30,177 if you will be pen. 595 00:29:30,976 --> 00:29:31,935 If you turn around. 596 00:29:33,054 --> 00:29:35,290 All the opportunities to turn around, 597 00:29:36,343 --> 00:29:38,974 to get off the path to destruction, 598 00:29:41,206 --> 00:29:42,003 get rejected. 599 00:29:51,505 --> 00:29:52,461 A matter of fact, 600 00:29:53,114 --> 00:29:54,872 He was giving the message of God to 601 00:29:54,872 --> 00:29:56,710 his people and that people were trying to 602 00:29:56,710 --> 00:29:57,109 kill him. 603 00:30:04,627 --> 00:30:06,084 Mat they were so 604 00:30:07,498 --> 00:30:10,130 decided of their way of living that they 605 00:30:10,130 --> 00:30:11,740 were trying to kill the prophet. 606 00:30:16,605 --> 00:30:18,599 Sometimes as this pastor, we don't look like 607 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:18,759 the... 608 00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:21,321 The cool people. 609 00:30:30,233 --> 00:30:32,787 God Jeremiah. Even before he share these words, 610 00:30:33,106 --> 00:30:34,943 the people will say, hey, shut up. 611 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:37,896 We're gonna do what we wanna do. 612 00:30:39,425 --> 00:30:40,959 We're gonna continue doing 613 00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:43,185 what we wanna do 614 00:30:44,514 --> 00:30:45,388 as a matter of fact, 615 00:30:46,025 --> 00:30:48,171 you better stop and wanna sock you up. 616 00:30:57,048 --> 00:30:58,398 Look at what it says in the next 617 00:30:58,398 --> 00:30:58,795 chapter. 618 00:31:00,383 --> 00:31:03,084 Chapter 19 1 to 4 and verse 10 619 00:31:03,084 --> 00:31:03,560 says this. 620 00:31:04,672 --> 00:31:06,102 This is what the Lord says. 621 00:31:07,471 --> 00:31:09,146 Go and buy a jar, 622 00:31:09,944 --> 00:31:11,619 a clay jar from the potter. 623 00:31:12,895 --> 00:31:14,809 Take along some of you... Some of the 624 00:31:14,809 --> 00:31:15,867 elders in 625 00:31:16,578 --> 00:31:18,825 of the people and the priest 626 00:31:19,436 --> 00:31:21,103 and go out to the valley of Ben 627 00:31:21,818 --> 00:31:24,174 Near the entrance of pot pot 628 00:31:24,615 --> 00:31:25,975 pots hurt gate, 629 00:31:27,015 --> 00:31:27,515 they're 630 00:31:27,815 --> 00:31:28,634 pro proclaimed 631 00:31:28,934 --> 00:31:29,674 the words 632 00:31:30,535 --> 00:31:31,994 I tell you 633 00:31:32,375 --> 00:31:33,015 and say, 634 00:31:34,549 --> 00:31:36,250 Hear the word of the Lord 635 00:31:36,710 --> 00:31:37,929 you kings of Judah 636 00:31:38,470 --> 00:31:39,369 and people 637 00:31:40,150 --> 00:31:40,970 of Jerusalem 638 00:31:41,681 --> 00:31:43,585 This is what the Lord on almighty, the 639 00:31:43,664 --> 00:31:45,408 God of Israel says. 640 00:31:48,343 --> 00:31:48,898 I'm going... 641 00:31:49,469 --> 00:31:50,288 To bring 642 00:31:50,905 --> 00:31:51,804 a disaster 643 00:31:54,655 --> 00:31:55,554 on this place 644 00:31:57,142 --> 00:31:58,893 Then he says, grab the jar. 645 00:32:03,191 --> 00:32:03,509 Remember, 646 00:32:04,305 --> 00:32:05,101 we are the jar. 647 00:32:07,268 --> 00:32:07,828 He says, 648 00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:13,580 smash it. 649 00:32:25,784 --> 00:32:27,960 Then bring the jar, well, those go in 650 00:32:29,135 --> 00:32:30,731 with you watch that are watching. 651 00:32:31,702 --> 00:32:33,210 And say to them. Here it is. 652 00:32:34,083 --> 00:32:36,385 This is what the Lord almighty says. 653 00:32:37,814 --> 00:32:38,949 I will smash 654 00:32:39,659 --> 00:32:42,156 this nation and this city 655 00:32:42,775 --> 00:32:46,291 just as this pot jar is smashed and 656 00:32:46,291 --> 00:32:46,791 cannot 657 00:32:47,583 --> 00:32:48,083 be 658 00:32:48,778 --> 00:32:49,096 repaired? 659 00:33:03,974 --> 00:33:05,808 This reveals a sad truth, Church? 660 00:33:07,483 --> 00:33:09,956 That ultimately me our response to God, should 661 00:33:09,956 --> 00:33:10,833 we reject him? 662 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:14,700 Has consequences. 663 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,680 For the people in And in Jeremiah, they 664 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,993 meant that the Babylon 665 00:33:22,449 --> 00:33:24,201 empire was coming, and there was gonna be 666 00:33:24,201 --> 00:33:26,670 captivity. There was gonna be destruction and there 667 00:33:26,670 --> 00:33:28,502 was gonna be death and God was not 668 00:33:28,502 --> 00:33:29,777 going to hold them back. 669 00:33:35,595 --> 00:33:38,615 The consequences of their choices were at the 670 00:33:38,615 --> 00:33:39,013 door. 671 00:33:44,031 --> 00:33:45,937 This tells us that God doesn't enforce his 672 00:33:45,937 --> 00:33:48,659 love and grace on us. And anymore that 673 00:33:48,659 --> 00:33:50,819 he did in and with those ancient people. 674 00:33:51,140 --> 00:33:53,619 He did, however make us so so much 675 00:33:53,619 --> 00:33:56,259 easier for all of us to receive his 676 00:33:56,259 --> 00:33:58,907 love and grace. Through Jesus and his death 677 00:33:58,907 --> 00:34:01,775 on the cross because of Jesus just like 678 00:34:01,775 --> 00:34:04,723 those first disciples receive the holy spirit as 679 00:34:04,723 --> 00:34:07,849 the gift when Jesus breath the breath of 680 00:34:07,849 --> 00:34:08,349 life 681 00:34:08,730 --> 00:34:10,409 and they received the holy spirit. 682 00:34:14,090 --> 00:34:14,489 Today, 683 00:34:16,264 --> 00:34:17,139 when we repent. 684 00:34:19,129 --> 00:34:20,106 When we turn 685 00:34:21,357 --> 00:34:23,426 when we turn from things from things. 686 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,160 Turn from things that hurt you. 687 00:34:35,512 --> 00:34:36,331 Things that 688 00:34:37,183 --> 00:34:38,160 brought you pain 689 00:34:39,266 --> 00:34:39,743 turn. 690 00:34:41,412 --> 00:34:43,559 But then you when you ask Jesus to 691 00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:46,024 forgive you and bless you with the holy 692 00:34:46,024 --> 00:34:48,114 spirit and you're right there desperate. 693 00:34:48,663 --> 00:34:50,096 Holy spirit come. 694 00:34:52,485 --> 00:34:53,042 Help me. 695 00:34:55,032 --> 00:34:55,532 No 696 00:34:57,673 --> 00:34:58,173 No. 697 00:35:01,173 --> 00:35:01,673 Desperately 698 00:35:08,024 --> 00:35:08,739 and born again. 699 00:35:12,410 --> 00:35:14,001 But the first step is you need to 700 00:35:14,001 --> 00:35:16,467 turn, you need to realize that this doesn't 701 00:35:16,467 --> 00:35:16,967 work. 702 00:35:19,744 --> 00:35:20,623 Doesn't work. 703 00:35:23,580 --> 00:35:25,737 What your body is asking of you the 704 00:35:25,737 --> 00:35:28,135 sin, and all that doesn't work. 705 00:35:33,190 --> 00:35:34,869 But some of us are so hard headed. 706 00:35:36,639 --> 00:35:37,774 And gonna respond 707 00:35:38,464 --> 00:35:40,925 like they did. Shut up pastor. 708 00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:46,827 We're gonna continue doing what we're doing. 709 00:35:53,554 --> 00:35:54,994 At that moment when we believe. 710 00:35:56,355 --> 00:35:58,775 And we say yes to Jesus, We're spilling, 711 00:35:59,155 --> 00:36:01,474 spiritually born again and and made alive with 712 00:36:01,635 --> 00:36:01,929 Christ 713 00:36:02,526 --> 00:36:04,934 in the holy spirit, the God's very present 714 00:36:05,149 --> 00:36:07,137 lives in presence lives in us. 715 00:36:08,170 --> 00:36:09,203 There's a change of, 716 00:36:09,934 --> 00:36:12,633 of a heart. A ci precision of the 717 00:36:12,633 --> 00:36:15,570 heart. Our conscious is is is awakened. We 718 00:36:15,570 --> 00:36:17,555 we we we we cheated and now we're 719 00:36:17,555 --> 00:36:19,477 of faithful, we used to lie and now 720 00:36:19,477 --> 00:36:21,782 we're we're on as we become a a 721 00:36:21,782 --> 00:36:22,736 new creation. 722 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,242 Faithful from killers and and adult and cheater 723 00:36:28,242 --> 00:36:30,790 and and this and not to be people 724 00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:33,760 serving a church, serving the homeless 725 00:36:34,947 --> 00:36:35,606 A miracle. 726 00:36:44,433 --> 00:36:46,581 And this is for everyone. It doesn't matter 727 00:36:46,581 --> 00:36:48,887 what you did last night. It doesn't matter 728 00:36:48,887 --> 00:36:50,875 what you've been doing. It doesn't matter when 729 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:51,988 we turned to him. 730 00:36:52,798 --> 00:36:54,861 When you call out his name, Jesus, 731 00:36:55,258 --> 00:36:55,734 Jesus, 732 00:36:56,131 --> 00:36:56,607 Jesus, 733 00:36:57,004 --> 00:36:57,504 Jesus. 734 00:36:59,464 --> 00:37:00,178 You will be saved. 735 00:37:08,329 --> 00:37:10,166 Our lives don't have to stay broken in 736 00:37:10,166 --> 00:37:10,485 pieces. 737 00:37:24,535 --> 00:37:26,463 I don't know if there's anyone here that, 738 00:37:26,994 --> 00:37:29,479 you know, it's has said, Am a Christian 739 00:37:29,630 --> 00:37:30,829 it's only like from their mouth. 740 00:37:31,710 --> 00:37:33,710 I'm a Christian, but it's just because of 741 00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:34,610 what you live 742 00:37:34,989 --> 00:37:37,309 doesn't add up to what you're what you're 743 00:37:37,309 --> 00:37:37,789 saying, 744 00:37:38,190 --> 00:37:40,110 and You say you're a Christian but you're 745 00:37:40,110 --> 00:37:40,746 over year, 746 00:37:42,889 --> 00:37:43,762 sleeping around. 747 00:37:44,715 --> 00:37:46,960 Doing all kinds of stuff, and you and 748 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,960 you don't feel the the the the the 749 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,640 the the the conviction. 750 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,860 But you say you're a Christian 751 00:38:00,249 --> 00:38:02,108 faith without action is 752 00:38:03,606 --> 00:38:04,106 is 753 00:38:05,138 --> 00:38:05,457 dead. 754 00:38:14,723 --> 00:38:16,789 Paul ended up in a ship shipper because 755 00:38:16,789 --> 00:38:17,663 people didn't listen. 756 00:38:18,458 --> 00:38:21,104 So often when we listen to other voices, 757 00:38:22,209 --> 00:38:24,283 There's a bunch of good, the church, the 758 00:38:24,362 --> 00:38:26,436 Bible tells you to walk this way, the 759 00:38:26,436 --> 00:38:28,670 world and your friends that the do not 760 00:38:28,670 --> 00:38:30,344 believe in Jesus Are telling you to continue 761 00:38:30,344 --> 00:38:31,621 to walk this way. 762 00:38:32,828 --> 00:38:35,052 They're actually inviting you to the party. 763 00:38:42,295 --> 00:38:43,570 Obedience doesn't feel right. 764 00:38:44,924 --> 00:38:46,836 It doesn't feel right to our home our 765 00:38:46,836 --> 00:38:47,792 human condition. 766 00:38:54,734 --> 00:38:56,644 There's a lot of stuff that God told 767 00:38:56,644 --> 00:38:58,235 his people to do in the bubbles that 768 00:38:58,235 --> 00:38:59,270 didn't make any sense. 769 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,840 When God told Moses to, oh 0, extend 770 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,760 his hands or to open his arms and 771 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,840 the sea will will will will open. It 772 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,039 didn't make any sense. 773 00:39:09,454 --> 00:39:11,952 When Joshua when god told Joshua to walk 774 00:39:12,251 --> 00:39:14,889 around Jericho 6 times, so the walls could 775 00:39:14,889 --> 00:39:17,047 come down. It didn't make any sense. 776 00:39:33,664 --> 00:39:35,202 If you're living your life 777 00:39:36,218 --> 00:39:37,336 by what makes sense, 778 00:39:38,068 --> 00:39:39,263 you will never have faith. 779 00:39:43,723 --> 00:39:45,735 The outcome is god's responsibility. 780 00:39:47,565 --> 00:39:48,605 Obedience is yours. 781 00:39:52,925 --> 00:39:53,244 Turn. 782 00:39:55,974 --> 00:39:56,372 Turn, 783 00:39:58,519 --> 00:39:58,996 turn, 784 00:40:01,461 --> 00:40:01,938 turn, 785 00:40:04,324 --> 00:40:04,824 turn 786 00:40:05,611 --> 00:40:07,439 I don't know if there's anyone here that 787 00:40:07,439 --> 00:40:10,141 that's that's feeling the conviction that maybe you've 788 00:40:10,141 --> 00:40:12,208 you've been saying that you're a Christian, but 789 00:40:12,208 --> 00:40:14,036 it doesn't add up with your actions. 790 00:40:18,505 --> 00:40:19,005 Turn 791 00:40:22,344 --> 00:40:24,501 Maybe you just realized that you're living your 792 00:40:24,501 --> 00:40:26,659 life over here and you need to turn. 793 00:40:26,899 --> 00:40:29,296 And maybe you realize that you you you 794 00:40:29,296 --> 00:40:30,835 probably gen genuinely 795 00:40:31,628 --> 00:40:34,021 received Jesus in your heart that you're not 796 00:40:34,021 --> 00:40:35,079 truly saved 797 00:40:36,174 --> 00:40:38,030 because you've been living on this side 798 00:40:39,285 --> 00:40:39,785 comfortably. 799 00:40:42,327 --> 00:40:42,724 Turn. 800 00:40:46,463 --> 00:40:46,963 Turn 801 00:40:55,260 --> 00:40:55,579 Turn. 802 00:40:58,226 --> 00:40:58,726 Change 803 00:40:59,815 --> 00:41:00,554 the lineage 804 00:41:03,391 --> 00:41:04,289 of your family 805 00:41:08,178 --> 00:41:09,314 Your decision 806 00:41:10,405 --> 00:41:11,414 will impact 807 00:41:12,488 --> 00:41:12,965 eternity. 808 00:41:15,192 --> 00:41:15,431 Turn. 809 00:41:17,896 --> 00:41:18,213 Turn. 810 00:41:20,043 --> 00:41:20,360 Turn. 811 00:41:21,808 --> 00:41:22,924 You can trust God. 812 00:41:24,279 --> 00:41:24,779 He 813 00:41:25,236 --> 00:41:26,055 has made 814 00:41:26,990 --> 00:41:27,309 away. 815 00:41:28,345 --> 00:41:29,701 Lord, we thank you. 816 00:41:31,789 --> 00:41:32,427 For your love, 817 00:41:34,341 --> 00:41:35,719 and for your forgiveness 818 00:41:37,053 --> 00:41:38,010 in Jesus name. 819 00:41:39,366 --> 00:41:39,606 Amen.