WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:06.080 Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.279 the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.359 glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe 4 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:16.239 God will transform your life. Do today's message. 5 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:19.199 Hope you're well this morning. 6 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:20.640 If we haven't got a chance to meet, my name 7 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.640 is Charles, and I get to serve on our team here. 8 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:25.359 I'm grateful that you're here today. 9 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:28.640 Shout out to all our first time guests. I hope 10 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.280 you're yes, give it up for all the first time Yes, 11 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.719 hope you're enjoying yourself. Hope you met somebody kind, if 12 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:39.799 you if you met somebody that wasn't kind. 13 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.159 They don't go here, they're just visiting, non joking, they're. 14 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.159 Visiting from another church. No, no, we're all. 15 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.799 The truth is, we're all just a bunch of regular 16 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.880 people who've met a completely irregular God who has changed 17 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:00.280 our life and means everything to us. And when we 18 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.799 get the chance to sing about it and talk about it, 19 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:03.560 it's a big deal. 20 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:05.400 And that's what we're about to do. 21 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.000 We're about to read the Bible greatest selling book of 22 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.480 all time always my fun Factor, most stolen book of 23 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.280 all Time, which is awesome. Shout out to the Bible. 24 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.239 But we're going to read that word that we were 25 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:20.920 talking about. This book is not just a book. The 26 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:29.120 truth is, it outpaces outweighs every other ancient manuscript ever. 27 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.799 Like I'm not talking about religious books. I'm talking about 28 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:37.560 any history book ever made. This one trump's it by 29 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.439 a thousand. And I'm not talking like because it's spiritual. 30 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.480 It is deeply spiritual. I'm just talking about, like I 31 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.519 could go down the facts of like the copies of 32 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:49.319 like Caesar's history that you read in your history book. 33 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.079 We have like ten copies of that left like to 34 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.400 this day, and we have like six thousand of this 35 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:57.319 that date back further. 36 00:01:57.599 --> 00:01:58.799 So I'm not gonna cook. 37 00:01:58.640 --> 00:01:59.120 You on that. 38 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:03.359 But if you believe that like Caesar was a real person, 39 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:07.239 or Alexander the Great or Homer's Iliad, it takes way 40 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.159 more faith factually to look at ancient manuscripts and think 41 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.639 that that's really what happened than it does our book. 42 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.280 We have more books of this book than any other 43 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.159 ancient book ever in the history of the world. 44 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:21.280 That's a fact. 45 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.479 Chat gpt it, look it up on Google, ask your grandmother. 46 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.560 It's a fact. So when people come up in here 47 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:29.199 like I don't. 48 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.840 Know about the Bible, Well you don't know about history, 49 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.879 then you got a questions with the Bible. You should 50 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:37.479 be questioning everything in that history book. 51 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:38.800 We have more. 52 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.080 Factual evidence that Jesus was a real person than we 53 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:45.039 do Abraham Lincoln facts. 54 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.560 I'm not making this up, Go check it. 55 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:50.479 So when we gather in here today, yes, there is 56 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.479 a supernatural element of what we're doing, but we ain't 57 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.159 dummies up in here. Don't get it twisted. 58 00:02:57.319 --> 00:02:57.960 Tell me over there. 59 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:59.879 All faith is for people who just need a c 60 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:01.960 and really can't bru Get out of here. 61 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.080 The God I'm talking about. 62 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.159 Is the only creation story that makes sense of all 63 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:07.599 this stuff you talk about. Some gods was worn up 64 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.439 in the sky slid in half, and that made the sun. 65 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:10.360 Get out of here. 66 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:14.319 My God was standing outside of time, and then he 67 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:18.199 created time, and he placed everything I know in time, 68 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:21.039 so at the right time I would be on time, 69 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:25.639 because my God is over time. Get out of here, Bro, 70 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:32.240 get out of here. That weak stuff. You don't want 71 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.000 to go bar for bar with this book. Bro, Get 72 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:39.680 out of here. Don't make no sense. Don't make no sense. 73 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.240 People who talk about the people who believe in the 74 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:45.400 Koran and believe. 75 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.240 In that book. That book says their book is only 76 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:48.479 valid if our book is valid. 77 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.879 So if our book ain't valid, then your whole joint 78 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:52.520 ain't valid. 79 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:53.560 Get out of here. 80 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:55.680 Your whole book is based off the fact that our 81 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:56.319 book is real. 82 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:05.639 Bruh, I would fight you so dug so lame. Don't 83 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:06.360 even make no sense. 84 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.280 This is why you gotta know the Bible. 85 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.759 Because you be scrolling on TikTok and some fourteen year 86 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.240 old talk you out of your faith. Oh he said that, 87 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:21.079 you know, it's not even plausible, that. 88 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:22.480 Plausible that what. 89 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.000 Every other book, this other thing that don't make no sense. 90 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:28.439 Every other book was written by one person, and it 91 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:32.680 got contradictions. We got thousands of different people from thousands 92 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:37.279 of different times, all telling the same story. Which book 93 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:39.600 you gonna trust one person telling you how it went? 94 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:43.959 Or thousands of years of different people prophesying about a 95 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:48.000 man that it all came to pass. It all happened 96 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.279 exactly as they said it would. 97 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:52.639 Get out of here. Your book is. 98 00:04:52.600 --> 00:05:01.720 Weak, lame, bruh, don't make no sinse y'all don't know 99 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:05.439 how law, the court of law work you gotta have 100 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:11.439 multiple witnesses. Jesus appeared to five hundred people at the 101 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:16.360 same time. Don't nobody do that. This ain't no like 102 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.759 I know. He kind of looked like jo that is him. 103 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.639 Holes in his hand, put the hole in my side. 104 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.040 I'll give you all the facts you want to. Let 105 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.680 me tell you some. Jesus ain't afraid of facts or science. 106 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.279 He made all of that for the spirit of God 107 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.519 was hovering over the earth, and God said, let us 108 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:35.720 make man in our image. 109 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.720 He ain't worried about this brouh Oh, my goodness. 110 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:44.519 Okay, I'm just trying to tell you because you think 111 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.240 we in here fighting book to book. 112 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:46.879 No, we not. 113 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.800 This is not equal. You might be playing, but we 114 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.920 are not the same. We are not the same. Don't 115 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.079 get it to it. I love you, I've congratulations to you. 116 00:05:58.199 --> 00:05:59.519 I hope that that works out. 117 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.560 But if you looking for the truth, not a truth, 118 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:07.399 D way, the truth, D life, D King of kings, 119 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:11.800 D Lord of lords, we got the one right here 120 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:16.040 and his name is Jesus, and there's no other way. 121 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.959 And I'll stand on it ten toes. If you look 122 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.800 in I can save you some time. He's the one 123 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.839 you're looking for. He's the one that made you. He's 124 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:25.680 the one you need. 125 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:38.079 His name is Jesus, and he's coming back one day. 126 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.319 Every knee is gonna have to bow at some point, 127 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:45.800 So I'm just trying to save you some time and 128 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:47.199 low key, some embarrassment. 129 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:56.240 You might want to just go ahead. You can live 130 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:58.000 your whole life by yourself if you want to, But. 131 00:06:59.439 --> 00:06:59.720 Not me. 132 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:07.800 King of kings. He's not eight king. He's the king, 133 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.279 the only one. Jesus is King. 134 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:12.600 That's it, man. 135 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:22.959 Yeah, bro, don't play with me. Noah, bro, get out 136 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:34.120 of here. Can't nobody mess with our king. Man, and 137 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:34.399 don't know. 138 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:35.959 Nobody else tell you otherwise. 139 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:43.800 They don't know. They don't know, all right, John, Chapter 140 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:47.279 number eight. Y'all just go ahead and rock with me. Man, 141 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:48.920 We're gonna do it two weeks in a row. Stay 142 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:52.240 back there, let's go, let's do it. Let's do it, John, 143 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:57.160 chapter number eight. Starting in the first verse, you already know. 144 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:05.519 Gotta break out the readers, John chapter number eight. 145 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:10.160 Jesus returned. 146 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:15.600 To the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning 147 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:21.040 he was back again at the temple. A crowd soon 148 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.360 gathered around, and he sat down and taught them. As 149 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.920 he was speaking, the teachers of the religious law and 150 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.680 the scrubs, I mean, sorry, the. 151 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.799 Bums of the day. Sorry. 152 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:43.000 The Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in 153 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:47.360 the act of adultery. How you catch her, though, that's 154 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:51.720 my question. We'll talk about that in a second. 155 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:56.519 They put her in front of the crowd. 156 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:03.600 Teacher, they said, Jesus, this woman was caught in the act. 157 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:08.720 You nasty boy. That's what's wrong with you. We caught 158 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:09.960 her in the act of adulttery. 159 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:14.080 The Law of Moses says, to stone her. 160 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.200 But what do you say. 161 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.200 They were trying to trap him into saying something they 162 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:25.159 could use against him. But Jesus stooped down and he 163 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:26.600 rolled in the dust with his finger. 164 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.399 They kept demanding an answer. 165 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:37.320 So he stood up and he said, all right, but 166 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.080 let the one who has never sinned. 167 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:46.200 Oh you want to stone people? Okay, back, yeah, let's 168 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.240 do it. Get the stones. 169 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:52.360 Out, but real quick, before you do that, let the 170 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.960 one who has never stinned stone them first. Then he 171 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:01.840 stooped down again and rode in the dust. When the 172 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:06.320 accusers heard this, they slipped away. 173 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.720 One by one. 174 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.600 Here's an interesting detail, and this is where maturity comes in, 175 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:16.960 because it says the oldest. 176 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.360 Slipped away first, because they know how they used to 177 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:24.200 get down. I said, O iron, If that's I'm gonna 178 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:25.120 have to go ahead, and. 179 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.279 Until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd. 180 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.440 Then Jesus stooped up again said to the woman. 181 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:45.879 Where are your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you. 182 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:51.000 This language is interesting because we don't know this woman's 183 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:52.000 theological background. 184 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.159 We don't know if she's prayed the sinner's prayer yet. 185 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.919 But in this interaction and how Jesus moves her, she 186 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.759 doesn't speak any words except for these words. And we 187 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:02.440 can tell there's a transformation in your heart because she 188 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:05.600 doesn't say no Jesus. She doesn't say no sir, she 189 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:11.960 doesn't say no man. She says no Lord. And Jesus said, 190 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:22.159 neither do I go and sin no more. We're gonna 191 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:27.440 keep it rocking from last week, and I'm not gonna lie. 192 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:31.759 I'm excited to preach. It's the title of this week's sermon. 193 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.879 Three powerful words you never forget in your life. 194 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:38.080 You're gonna need it. 195 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:47.360 I was right, I was right. There was sometimes that 196 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:52.840 I was wrong and it wasn't many times, but there 197 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:54.240 were a few times. 198 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.320 I was right. I was right. I was right. 199 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:00.759 Jesus, Thank you. 200 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.519 For your grace, for your love, for your mercy, for 201 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:07.799 your kindness. 202 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.039 Thank you that you're the only reason we are in 203 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:18.240 right standing with God, that you made us right when 204 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.720 we were so wrong. The scripture says that he who 205 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.000 knew no sin became sin so we could become the 206 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.399 righteousness of God. 207 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:26.639 God. 208 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.080 We thank you for your grace, for your mercy. Would 209 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:37.000 you encounter us Jesus is our prayer. Amen, Amen, Amen, 210 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:47.120 we meet this story. And this is actually a controversial 211 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:52.679 story in the early writings and theology and theologians of 212 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:57.519 the Church, because Jesus is kind of wiling when it 213 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.960 comes to how they thought he was supposed to act 214 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:04.320 when it came to a situation like this. In early 215 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:07.600 writings of the Bible, some people are arguing that they 216 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.639 should try to take this little story out because Jesus 217 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:11.320 is being. 218 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.320 Too unclear with this bad woman. 219 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.840 And here's what I want to talk about today. 220 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.600 It is this is kind of the anchor of the sermon, which. 221 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:24.360 Is fear. 222 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:30.080 Will doesn't just make you afraid of being wrong. We 223 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.600 talked about that last week. But fear has this other thing. 224 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:32.960 It does. 225 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:37.080 It makes you desperate to prove how right you are. 226 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.879 It works both ways. Fear, what have you scared that 227 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:45.720 you're going to be wrong? And so you spend your 228 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.279 whole life anxious and worried and afraid and trying to 229 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:50.039 control situations and trying. 230 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:51.919 To do stuff. But the other thing fear does is 231 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.720 it makes you so desperate. 232 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.240 That it's not enough just to be right. You gotta 233 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:03.759 make sure everybodybody else knows you're right. And this is 234 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:08.279 what the Pharisees are doing. They're trying to make sure 235 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:10.000 they're right. 236 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:12.759 But here's the thing about being right. 237 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.039 You can be right at the wrong time. 238 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:25.120 You can be right about the wrong stuff. There's this 239 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.919 story me and my wife, and also just by the 240 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:34.159 way I get all permission to tell these stories. Somebody 241 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:37.440 are like, I don't like how he'd be talking about Abby. 242 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.039 Don't worry. I clear them before I get up here. 243 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.639 Me and Abby first year of marriage, super late and 244 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.399 we're on our phone and we see our friends they post. 245 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.559 I mean it's literally like midnight. They post just a 246 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.919 picture and it's their house, and their house is like 247 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:57.200 in ashes. 248 00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:59.919 There had been a fire, electrical fire that happened to 249 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.720 their home, and they're standing there and me and Abby 250 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:04.960 immediately jump in the car drive to their house. 251 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:07.440 We show up, like what are you doing here? Like 252 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.080 we saw what that hap? Are you all okay? What's 253 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.120 going on? They're like, yeah, there was electrifier. We weren't home. 254 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.360 We came home, our house had burned out. 255 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:16.440 So we're standing there. 256 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:21.120 We literally are walking through the home picking up stuff 257 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:26.080 that they love, memories, pictures, photos, were walking through the house, 258 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:27.240 seeing what we can say. 259 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:29.440 We're bringing it out to the front yard. We're doing 260 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:31.000 all that, and then we make our way to the 261 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.240 front yard. We're just standing there and they're a complete 262 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:35.200 utter shock. 263 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.200 Standing at their home. Their dreams, their life, their future 264 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.399 is burned down. And we're standing there. 265 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:48.399 And Abby Rose, the love of my life. Abby used 266 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.639 to she's not a way at all, but Abby used 267 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:52.279 to when we first got together. We were super young, 268 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:55.480 and Abby didn't really do well like sitting in just 269 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.679 really awkward, hard moments. 270 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.600 Her blessing and her beauty. She's always going to find 271 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.120 the positive thing. So here's what she does. We're standing 272 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.360 in the front yard of our friends burnt down house 273 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.000 and they're just like shocked, and Abby. 274 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:15.840 Goes, well, Alicia, you get insurance money. 275 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:21.039 You can rebuild the whole thing, right, And I remember, like, 276 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.519 ain't no way this girl just said that because she 277 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:27.440 was right. 278 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:34.000 Technically, But just because you're right, don't mean you have 279 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:42.039 to be right right now now before you go off 280 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:48.679 laughing at that. This is what our society has become. 281 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:53.720 The only way to know I'm right is to tell 282 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:58.480 you right now how right I am, regardless of what 283 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.879 it costs, regardless of who. 284 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:06.200 It hurts, regardless of how it makes anybody else feel. 285 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:11.319 If I'm right, I don't care because I'm right and 286 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:16.160 I'm right right now. There's this phenomenon that has happened 287 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:18.839 in culture. You may not have noticed it, but they 288 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.039 did the study and they talked about where the endorphins 289 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.079 and the high quote unquote of going to a concert 290 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:26.559 has shifted over the years. 291 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.400 Because the exciting part of. 292 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:31.680 Going to a concert used to be going to the concert. 293 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:36.200 It's not that way no more then it used to be. 294 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.799 It fluctuated in the generation that going to the concert 295 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:41.200 it was going to the concert and then being able 296 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:43.640 to like video and experience it with your friends and 297 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.319 then watch those videos later because you had access to 298 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:47.319 relive the moment. 299 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:49.359 That's not what it is anymore. You know what. 300 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.319 Studies say the greatest part of going to a concert 301 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.920 in everybody's subconscious is the moment they post. 302 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.160 To show everybody else where they were. 303 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.880 Why Because there's something in us that feels like it's 304 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.680 not enough. If I was just there, you gotta know it, 305 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:10.559 and I gotta prove it to you. 306 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:12.960 And this is what fear does. 307 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.640 Fear has us walking around trying to prove stuff to people. 308 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.880 Prove that your church is right, Prove that the person 309 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.920 you follow is right. Prove that your president is right. 310 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.720 Prove that your way of raising kids is right. Prove 311 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:28.079 that what you eat is right and what they eat 312 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.759 is wrong. And the best way to gain an audience 313 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:32.000 is to make it about. 314 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:33.400 Who's right and I'm wrong. 315 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:36.680 Here's a little sideways rant that ain't got nothing to 316 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:38.680 do with y'all in here. I'm just gonna whoop throw 317 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.799 this one out there. It's the lamest thing a preacher 318 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:44.640 can do to build a church off of making other 319 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:45.240 people wrong. 320 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.200 And I'm not talking about religion like I just did. 321 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:50.000 I'm talking about people. 322 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:53.400 Will pick a side and they demonize the other side 323 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.400 and they build their church because I like that past 324 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:57.440 that he stands on the truth. 325 00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:59.640 No, you mean he don't like who you don't like. 326 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.720 That's what you mean. Let's call a spade a spade. 327 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.119 There's only one truth you get to stand on in here. 328 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.319 And it's not opinions, and it's not policies, and it's 329 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.440 not people. It's the man, Jesus Christ. 330 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.920 But it's so easy to be right, but it's so wrong. 331 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:27.920 And this is the. 332 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.960 Playing field of John ad Jesus in the temple. He's 333 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.799 sitting there, he's teaching, and it's actually kind of a 334 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.359 familiar scene because it involves a woman. 335 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:41.559 Making her way through a crowd. To Jesus. 336 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:44.240 There's only a slight difference. 337 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:48.480 This woman is not making her way through a crowd 338 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:50.160 under her own volition. 339 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:55.200 She's being drug by pastors and preachers. 340 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:02.319 We just read the Bible like it ain't real. Imagine this. 341 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:04.920 We are in the middle of church. 342 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.279 I'm sitting down here, Jesus himself is up up on 343 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:13.839 the stage, and some small group leaders and Bible study 344 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:19.279 leaders start dragging a naked woman, starting from the back 345 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:23.359 against her will as she fights them, and they drag 346 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:25.839 her to the front of the stage and throw her down. 347 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:30.480 This is John ed. 348 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:33.680 Friend. 349 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.160 They're not concerned with the question they're about to ask. 350 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:42.880 They could care less what the law says. The scriptures 351 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:44.799 tell us this. They don't care about this woman. They 352 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.160 don't care about right and wrong. They don't care about 353 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:50.680 what Moses says in Deuteronomy seventeen and Leviticus twenty two. 354 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.640 They that could care less about that. They care about 355 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:55.400 trapping Jesus. 356 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:01.559 This is what you think you're right. You'll do anything 357 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:06.160 to prove you'll step over people. And here's the worst 358 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:08.200 thing that happens. You dehumanize people. 359 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:11.279 This is what the comment section does to us. 360 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:13.880 You think you ain't talking to a real person. You 361 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:16.480 think it's just a little bubble. So you start ripping, 362 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:19.440 saying stuff, talking crazy, And. 363 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:20.799 This is what happens in the story. 364 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:25.240 They are dragging a woman in front of Jesus because. 365 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:31.079 They're right, and guess what they are. They're right one 366 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:36.240 hundred percent except for a few small details. 367 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:39.720 They find themselves in the middle of Jesus, and they 368 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:45.640 rhetorically say teacher, kind of sarcastically, because they don't they 369 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.440 don't follow him as a teacher. We got this woman 370 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.920 in the act of adultery, and the law of Moses 371 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.200 says we should stone her. 372 00:21:54.240 --> 00:22:01.920 What do you say? And Jesus is about to execute 373 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:07.119 to perfection grace and truth. 374 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:13.559 Let me tell you something about grace and truth. Because 375 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:18.640 we get this conflicted. We think these are signs. Some 376 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:22.839 churches are a grace church, some churches are a truth church. 377 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:27.480 Let me tell your friend, is both at the same time. 378 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:35.720 Because the truth is grace is how Jesus works. The 379 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:40.240 most clear, potent truth and human. 380 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:44.440 History is that for God so loved the world that 381 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:50.160 he gave his only son, that who soever black, white, tall, short, 382 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:54.359 whosoever would believe in him, would not perish, but. 383 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:58.599 Have everlasting life. That's the truth, and it's full of grace. 384 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:03.559 And sometimes the most gracious thing I could do is 385 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:04.440 tell you the truth. 386 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:07.920 It's not either or it's both. 387 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:11.759 And today we're gonna take a few moments and I 388 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:13.880 want to show you, for the life of Jesus, three 389 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:16.279 ways on how to be right. 390 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:18.960 If you want to be right, how do I know 391 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:20.720 I'm right? How do I make sure that I'm right? 392 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:21.920 How do I know how do I know. 393 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:25.440 I'm gonna give you three easy ways to know you're 394 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:32.240 right based off how Jesus navigates a situation where right 395 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:35.960 and wrong are being thrown in his face. First thing, 396 00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:39.359 if you want to know you're right, first thing Jesus 397 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:42.759 does is is he slows down. 398 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:46.960 Fear of proving that you're right. 399 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:50.960 Well, have you speeding up the situation. You ever been 400 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.759 in an argument and you know you right? 401 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:56.240