Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message.
Speaker 2: Hope you're well this morning.
Speaker 3: If we haven't got a chance to meet, my name
Speaker 3: is Charles, and I get to serve on our team here.
Speaker 4: I'm grateful that you're here today.
Speaker 3: Shout out to all our first time guests. I hope
Speaker 3: you're yes, give it up for all the first time Yes,
Speaker 3: hope you're enjoying yourself. Hope you met somebody kind, if
Speaker 3: you if you met somebody that wasn't kind.
Speaker 4: They don't go here, they're just visiting, non joking, they're.
Speaker 2: Visiting from another church. No, no, we're all.
Speaker 3: The truth is, we're all just a bunch of regular
Speaker 3: people who've met a completely irregular God who has changed
Speaker 3: our life and means everything to us. And when we
Speaker 3: get the chance to sing about it and talk about it,
Speaker 3: it's a big deal.
Speaker 4: And that's what we're about to do.
Speaker 3: We're about to read the Bible greatest selling book of
Speaker 3: all time always my fun Factor, most stolen book of
Speaker 3: all Time, which is awesome. Shout out to the Bible.
Speaker 3: But we're going to read that word that we were
Speaker 3: talking about. This book is not just a book. The
Speaker 3: truth is, it outpaces outweighs every other ancient manuscript ever.
Speaker 3: Like I'm not talking about religious books. I'm talking about
Speaker 3: any history book ever made. This one trump's it by
Speaker 3: a thousand. And I'm not talking like because it's spiritual.
Speaker 3: It is deeply spiritual. I'm just talking about, like I
Speaker 3: could go down the facts of like the copies of
Speaker 3: like Caesar's history that you read in your history book.
Speaker 3: We have like ten copies of that left like to
Speaker 3: this day, and we have like six thousand of this
Speaker 3: that date back further.
Speaker 4: So I'm not gonna cook.
Speaker 2: You on that.
Speaker 3: But if you believe that like Caesar was a real person,
Speaker 3: or Alexander the Great or Homer's Iliad, it takes way
Speaker 3: more faith factually to look at ancient manuscripts and think
Speaker 3: that that's really what happened than it does our book.
Speaker 3: We have more books of this book than any other
Speaker 3: ancient book ever in the history of the world.
Speaker 2: That's a fact.
Speaker 3: Chat gpt it, look it up on Google, ask your grandmother.
Speaker 2: It's a fact. So when people come up in here
Speaker 2: like I don't.
Speaker 3: Know about the Bible, Well you don't know about history,
Speaker 3: then you got a questions with the Bible. You should
Speaker 3: be questioning everything in that history book.
Speaker 2: We have more.
Speaker 3: Factual evidence that Jesus was a real person than we
Speaker 3: do Abraham Lincoln facts.
Speaker 2: I'm not making this up, Go check it.
Speaker 3: So when we gather in here today, yes, there is
Speaker 3: a supernatural element of what we're doing, but we ain't
Speaker 3: dummies up in here. Don't get it twisted.
Speaker 2: Tell me over there.
Speaker 3: All faith is for people who just need a c
Speaker 3: and really can't bru Get out of here.
Speaker 2: The God I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Is the only creation story that makes sense of all
Speaker 3: this stuff you talk about. Some gods was worn up
Speaker 3: in the sky slid in half, and that made the sun.
Speaker 2: Get out of here.
Speaker 3: My God was standing outside of time, and then he
Speaker 3: created time, and he placed everything I know in time,
Speaker 3: so at the right time I would be on time,
Speaker 3: because my God is over time. Get out of here, Bro,
Speaker 3: get out of here. That weak stuff. You don't want
Speaker 3: to go bar for bar with this book. Bro, Get
Speaker 3: out of here. Don't make no sense. Don't make no sense.
Speaker 3: People who talk about the people who believe in the
Speaker 3: Koran and believe.
Speaker 2: In that book. That book says their book is only
Speaker 2: valid if our book is valid.
Speaker 3: So if our book ain't valid, then your whole joint
Speaker 3: ain't valid.
Speaker 2: Get out of here.
Speaker 3: Your whole book is based off the fact that our
Speaker 3: book is real.
Speaker 4: Bruh, I would fight you so dug so lame. Don't
Speaker 4: even make no sense.
Speaker 2: This is why you gotta know the Bible.
Speaker 3: Because you be scrolling on TikTok and some fourteen year
Speaker 3: old talk you out of your faith. Oh he said that,
Speaker 3: you know, it's not even plausible, that.
Speaker 2: Plausible that what.
Speaker 3: Every other book, this other thing that don't make no sense.
Speaker 3: Every other book was written by one person, and it
Speaker 3: got contradictions. We got thousands of different people from thousands
Speaker 3: of different times, all telling the same story. Which book
Speaker 3: you gonna trust one person telling you how it went?
Speaker 3: Or thousands of years of different people prophesying about a
Speaker 3: man that it all came to pass. It all happened
Speaker 3: exactly as they said it would.
Speaker 2: Get out of here. Your book is.
Speaker 3: Weak, lame, bruh, don't make no sinse y'all don't know
Speaker 3: how law, the court of law work you gotta have
Speaker 3: multiple witnesses. Jesus appeared to five hundred people at the
Speaker 3: same time. Don't nobody do that. This ain't no like
Speaker 3: I know. He kind of looked like jo that is him.
Speaker 3: Holes in his hand, put the hole in my side.
Speaker 3: I'll give you all the facts you want to. Let
Speaker 3: me tell you some. Jesus ain't afraid of facts or science.
Speaker 3: He made all of that for the spirit of God
Speaker 3: was hovering over the earth, and God said, let us
Speaker 3: make man in our image.
Speaker 2: He ain't worried about this brouh Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just trying to tell you because you think
Speaker 3: we in here fighting book to book.
Speaker 2: No, we not.
Speaker 3: This is not equal. You might be playing, but we
Speaker 3: are not the same. We are not the same. Don't
Speaker 3: get it to it. I love you, I've congratulations to you.
Speaker 2: I hope that that works out.
Speaker 3: But if you looking for the truth, not a truth,
Speaker 3: D way, the truth, D life, D King of kings,
Speaker 3: D Lord of lords, we got the one right here
Speaker 3: and his name is Jesus, and there's no other way.
Speaker 2: And I'll stand on it ten toes. If you look
Speaker 2: in I can save you some time. He's the one
Speaker 2: you're looking for. He's the one that made you. He's
Speaker 2: the one you need.
Speaker 3: His name is Jesus, and he's coming back one day.
Speaker 3: Every knee is gonna have to bow at some point,
Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to save you some time and
Speaker 3: low key, some embarrassment.
Speaker 2: You might want to just go ahead. You can live
Speaker 2: your whole life by yourself if you want to, But.
Speaker 4: Not me.
Speaker 3: King of kings. He's not eight king. He's the king,
Speaker 3: the only one. Jesus is King.
Speaker 2: That's it, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, don't play with me. Noah, bro, get out
Speaker 3: of here. Can't nobody mess with our king. Man, and
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: Nobody else tell you otherwise.
Speaker 3: They don't know. They don't know, all right, John, Chapter
Speaker 3: number eight. Y'all just go ahead and rock with me. Man,
Speaker 3: We're gonna do it two weeks in a row. Stay
Speaker 3: back there, let's go, let's do it. Let's do it, John,
Speaker 3: chapter number eight. Starting in the first verse, you already know.
Speaker 3: Gotta break out the readers, John chapter number eight.
Speaker 2: Jesus returned.
Speaker 3: To the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning
Speaker 3: he was back again at the temple. A crowd soon
Speaker 3: gathered around, and he sat down and taught them. As
Speaker 3: he was speaking, the teachers of the religious law and
Speaker 3: the scrubs, I mean, sorry, the.
Speaker 4: Bums of the day. Sorry.
Speaker 3: The Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in
Speaker 3: the act of adultery. How you catch her, though, that's
Speaker 3: my question. We'll talk about that in a second.
Speaker 2: They put her in front of the crowd.
Speaker 3: Teacher, they said, Jesus, this woman was caught in the act.
Speaker 4: You nasty boy. That's what's wrong with you. We caught
Speaker 4: her in the act of adulttery.
Speaker 3: The Law of Moses says, to stone her.
Speaker 4: But what do you say.
Speaker 3: They were trying to trap him into saying something they
Speaker 3: could use against him. But Jesus stooped down and he
Speaker 3: rolled in the dust with his finger.
Speaker 4: They kept demanding an answer.
Speaker 3: So he stood up and he said, all right, but
Speaker 3: let the one who has never sinned.
Speaker 2: Oh you want to stone people? Okay, back, yeah, let's
Speaker 2: do it. Get the stones.
Speaker 3: Out, but real quick, before you do that, let the
Speaker 3: one who has never stinned stone them first. Then he
Speaker 3: stooped down again and rode in the dust. When the
Speaker 3: accusers heard this, they slipped away.
Speaker 4: One by one.
Speaker 3: Here's an interesting detail, and this is where maturity comes in,
Speaker 3: because it says the oldest.
Speaker 4: Slipped away first, because they know how they used to
Speaker 4: get down. I said, O iron, If that's I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to go ahead, and.
Speaker 3: Until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd.
Speaker 4: Then Jesus stooped up again said to the woman.
Speaker 2: Where are your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you.
Speaker 3: This language is interesting because we don't know this woman's
Speaker 3: theological background.
Speaker 4: We don't know if she's prayed the sinner's prayer yet.
Speaker 3: But in this interaction and how Jesus moves her, she
Speaker 3: doesn't speak any words except for these words. And we
Speaker 3: can tell there's a transformation in your heart because she
Speaker 3: doesn't say no Jesus. She doesn't say no sir, she
Speaker 3: doesn't say no man. She says no Lord. And Jesus said,
Speaker 3: neither do I go and sin no more. We're gonna
Speaker 3: keep it rocking from last week, and I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to preach. It's the title of this week's sermon.
Speaker 3: Three powerful words you never forget in your life.
Speaker 4: You're gonna need it.
Speaker 3: I was right, I was right. There was sometimes that
Speaker 3: I was wrong and it wasn't many times, but there
Speaker 3: were a few times.
Speaker 4: I was right. I was right. I was right.
Speaker 2: Jesus, Thank you.
Speaker 4: For your grace, for your love, for your mercy, for
Speaker 4: your kindness.
Speaker 3: Thank you that you're the only reason we are in
Speaker 3: right standing with God, that you made us right when
Speaker 3: we were so wrong. The scripture says that he who
Speaker 3: knew no sin became sin so we could become the
Speaker 3: righteousness of God.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 3: We thank you for your grace, for your mercy. Would
Speaker 3: you encounter us Jesus is our prayer. Amen, Amen, Amen,
Speaker 3: we meet this story. And this is actually a controversial
Speaker 3: story in the early writings and theology and theologians of
Speaker 3: the Church, because Jesus is kind of wiling when it
Speaker 3: comes to how they thought he was supposed to act
Speaker 3: when it came to a situation like this. In early
Speaker 3: writings of the Bible, some people are arguing that they
Speaker 3: should try to take this little story out because Jesus
Speaker 3: is being.
Speaker 2: Too unclear with this bad woman.
Speaker 3: And here's what I want to talk about today.
Speaker 4: It is this is kind of the anchor of the sermon, which.
Speaker 2: Is fear.
Speaker 3: Will doesn't just make you afraid of being wrong. We
Speaker 3: talked about that last week. But fear has this other thing.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 3: It makes you desperate to prove how right you are.
Speaker 3: It works both ways. Fear, what have you scared that
Speaker 3: you're going to be wrong? And so you spend your
Speaker 3: whole life anxious and worried and afraid and trying to
Speaker 3: control situations and trying.
Speaker 2: To do stuff. But the other thing fear does is
Speaker 2: it makes you so desperate.
Speaker 3: That it's not enough just to be right. You gotta
Speaker 3: make sure everybodybody else knows you're right. And this is
Speaker 3: what the Pharisees are doing. They're trying to make sure
Speaker 3: they're right.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing about being right.
Speaker 4: You can be right at the wrong time.
Speaker 3: You can be right about the wrong stuff. There's this
Speaker 3: story me and my wife, and also just by the
Speaker 3: way I get all permission to tell these stories. Somebody
Speaker 3: are like, I don't like how he'd be talking about Abby.
Speaker 4: Don't worry. I clear them before I get up here.
Speaker 3: Me and Abby first year of marriage, super late and
Speaker 3: we're on our phone and we see our friends they post.
Speaker 4: I mean it's literally like midnight. They post just a
Speaker 4: picture and it's their house, and their house is like
Speaker 4: in ashes.
Speaker 3: There had been a fire, electrical fire that happened to
Speaker 3: their home, and they're standing there and me and Abby
Speaker 3: immediately jump in the car drive to their house.
Speaker 4: We show up, like what are you doing here? Like
Speaker 4: we saw what that hap? Are you all okay? What's
Speaker 4: going on? They're like, yeah, there was electrifier. We weren't home.
Speaker 4: We came home, our house had burned out.
Speaker 2: So we're standing there.
Speaker 3: We literally are walking through the home picking up stuff
Speaker 3: that they love, memories, pictures, photos, were walking through the house,
Speaker 3: seeing what we can say.
Speaker 2: We're bringing it out to the front yard. We're doing
Speaker 2: all that, and then we make our way to the
Speaker 2: front yard. We're just standing there and they're a complete
Speaker 2: utter shock.
Speaker 4: Standing at their home. Their dreams, their life, their future
Speaker 4: is burned down. And we're standing there.
Speaker 5: And Abby Rose, the love of my life. Abby used
Speaker 5: to she's not a way at all, but Abby used
Speaker 5: to when we first got together. We were super young,
Speaker 5: and Abby didn't really do well like sitting in just
Speaker 5: really awkward, hard moments.
Speaker 3: Her blessing and her beauty. She's always going to find
Speaker 3: the positive thing. So here's what she does. We're standing
Speaker 3: in the front yard of our friends burnt down house
Speaker 3: and they're just like shocked, and Abby.
Speaker 4: Goes, well, Alicia, you get insurance money.
Speaker 2: You can rebuild the whole thing, right, And I remember, like,
Speaker 2: ain't no way this girl just said that because she
Speaker 2: was right.
Speaker 3: Technically, But just because you're right, don't mean you have
Speaker 3: to be right right now now before you go off
Speaker 3: laughing at that. This is what our society has become.
Speaker 3: The only way to know I'm right is to tell
Speaker 3: you right now how right I am, regardless of what
Speaker 3: it costs, regardless of who.
Speaker 2: It hurts, regardless of how it makes anybody else feel.
Speaker 3: If I'm right, I don't care because I'm right and
Speaker 3: I'm right right now. There's this phenomenon that has happened
Speaker 3: in culture. You may not have noticed it, but they
Speaker 3: did the study and they talked about where the endorphins
Speaker 3: and the high quote unquote of going to a concert
Speaker 3: has shifted over the years.
Speaker 2: Because the exciting part of.
Speaker 3: Going to a concert used to be going to the concert.
Speaker 2: It's not that way no more then it used to be.
Speaker 3: It fluctuated in the generation that going to the concert
Speaker 3: it was going to the concert and then being able
Speaker 3: to like video and experience it with your friends and
Speaker 3: then watch those videos later because you had access to
Speaker 3: relive the moment.
Speaker 2: That's not what it is anymore. You know what.
Speaker 3: Studies say the greatest part of going to a concert
Speaker 3: in everybody's subconscious is the moment they post.
Speaker 2: To show everybody else where they were.
Speaker 3: Why Because there's something in us that feels like it's
Speaker 3: not enough. If I was just there, you gotta know it,
Speaker 3: and I gotta prove it to you.
Speaker 4: And this is what fear does.
Speaker 3: Fear has us walking around trying to prove stuff to people.
Speaker 3: Prove that your church is right, Prove that the person
Speaker 3: you follow is right. Prove that your president is right.
Speaker 3: Prove that your way of raising kids is right. Prove
Speaker 3: that what you eat is right and what they eat
Speaker 3: is wrong. And the best way to gain an audience
Speaker 3: is to make it about.
Speaker 2: Who's right and I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: Here's a little sideways rant that ain't got nothing to
Speaker 3: do with y'all in here. I'm just gonna whoop throw
Speaker 3: this one out there. It's the lamest thing a preacher
Speaker 3: can do to build a church off of making other
Speaker 3: people wrong.
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about religion like I just did.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about people.
Speaker 3: Will pick a side and they demonize the other side
Speaker 3: and they build their church because I like that past
Speaker 3: that he stands on the truth.
Speaker 2: No, you mean he don't like who you don't like.
Speaker 3: That's what you mean. Let's call a spade a spade.
Speaker 3: There's only one truth you get to stand on in here.
Speaker 3: And it's not opinions, and it's not policies, and it's
Speaker 3: not people. It's the man, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: But it's so easy to be right, but it's so wrong.
Speaker 4: And this is the.
Speaker 3: Playing field of John ad Jesus in the temple. He's
Speaker 3: sitting there, he's teaching, and it's actually kind of a
Speaker 3: familiar scene because it involves a woman.
Speaker 2: Making her way through a crowd. To Jesus.
Speaker 4: There's only a slight difference.
Speaker 3: This woman is not making her way through a crowd
Speaker 3: under her own volition.
Speaker 4: She's being drug by pastors and preachers.
Speaker 2: We just read the Bible like it ain't real. Imagine this.
Speaker 2: We are in the middle of church.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting down here, Jesus himself is up up on
Speaker 3: the stage, and some small group leaders and Bible study
Speaker 3: leaders start dragging a naked woman, starting from the back
Speaker 3: against her will as she fights them, and they drag
Speaker 3: her to the front of the stage and throw her down.
Speaker 4: This is John ed.
Speaker 2: Friend.
Speaker 3: They're not concerned with the question they're about to ask.
Speaker 3: They could care less what the law says. The scriptures
Speaker 3: tell us this. They don't care about this woman. They
Speaker 3: don't care about right and wrong. They don't care about
Speaker 3: what Moses says in Deuteronomy seventeen and Leviticus twenty two.
Speaker 2: They that could care less about that. They care about
Speaker 2: trapping Jesus.
Speaker 3: This is what you think you're right. You'll do anything
Speaker 3: to prove you'll step over people. And here's the worst
Speaker 3: thing that happens. You dehumanize people.
Speaker 4: This is what the comment section does to us.
Speaker 3: You think you ain't talking to a real person. You
Speaker 3: think it's just a little bubble. So you start ripping,
Speaker 3: saying stuff, talking crazy, And.
Speaker 2: This is what happens in the story.
Speaker 3: They are dragging a woman in front of Jesus because.
Speaker 2: They're right, and guess what they are. They're right one
Speaker 2: hundred percent except for a few small details.
Speaker 3: They find themselves in the middle of Jesus, and they
Speaker 3: rhetorically say teacher, kind of sarcastically, because they don't they
Speaker 3: don't follow him as a teacher. We got this woman
Speaker 3: in the act of adultery, and the law of Moses
Speaker 3: says we should stone her.
Speaker 4: What do you say? And Jesus is about to execute
Speaker 4: to perfection grace and truth.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something about grace and truth. Because
Speaker 3: we get this conflicted. We think these are signs. Some
Speaker 3: churches are a grace church, some churches are a truth church.
Speaker 3: Let me tell your friend, is both at the same time.
Speaker 2: Because the truth is grace is how Jesus works. The
Speaker 2: most clear, potent truth and human.
Speaker 3: History is that for God so loved the world that
Speaker 3: he gave his only son, that who soever black, white, tall, short,
Speaker 3: whosoever would believe in him, would not perish, but.
Speaker 2: Have everlasting life. That's the truth, and it's full of grace.
Speaker 3: And sometimes the most gracious thing I could do is
Speaker 3: tell you the truth.
Speaker 4: It's not either or it's both.
Speaker 3: And today we're gonna take a few moments and I
Speaker 3: want to show you, for the life of Jesus, three
Speaker 3: ways on how to be right.
Speaker 4: If you want to be right, how do I know
Speaker 4: I'm right? How do I make sure that I'm right?
Speaker 4: How do I know how do I know.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you three easy ways to know you're
Speaker 3: right based off how Jesus navigates a situation where right
Speaker 3: and wrong are being thrown in his face. First thing,
Speaker 3: if you want to know you're right, first thing Jesus
Speaker 3: does is is he slows down.
Speaker 2: Fear of proving that you're right.
Speaker 3: Well, have you speeding up the situation. You ever been
Speaker 3: in an argument and you know you right?
Speaker 4: You just wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: That's not how it went.
Speaker 3: I know, no out because something about that, the pride
Speaker 3: of being right, and when you know it, it had
Speaker 3: to be ready to fire off, ready to say something,
Speaker 3: wishing they would question, wishing somebody would look at you sideways,
Speaker 3: wishing you because there's something about being right that humans
Speaker 3: can't handle all too well. We start to carry this arrogance,
Speaker 3: we start to carry this intensity, we start to carry
Speaker 3: where we stop looking at people as people and we
Speaker 3: just start thinking, oh, I'm about to prove my point.
Speaker 3: And let me tell you, friend, I'm just as jacked
Speaker 3: up as the next one because I will be in
Speaker 3: argument with my wife and she make one wrong step
Speaker 3: and I'm like, damn, got her already?
Speaker 4: Know?
Speaker 2: I mean, I talk for a living.
Speaker 3: So when you if you say that, oh, I'm about
Speaker 3: to blow this out of proportion and use that comparison
Speaker 3: and make an analogy and just take that thought all
Speaker 3: the way to the end and.
Speaker 6: Blow up this argument. Come on, oh man, I be
Speaker 6: so wrong when I'm right, so wrong?
Speaker 2: Know when I'm right?
Speaker 3: And if we're supposed to be followers of Jesus, I
Speaker 3: would argue to you your greatest testimony and test it's
Speaker 3: not only how you handle being wrong, but how you
Speaker 3: handle being right. Because it's our being right that gets
Speaker 3: us in trouble a lot of times. It's our being
Speaker 3: right that has us looking down at people were called
Speaker 3: to love.
Speaker 4: It's our being right that trips us up.
Speaker 3: Jesus slows down the moment, Jesus, what do you say,
Speaker 3: Jesus don't.
Speaker 2: Say, nothing, says. He stops, and he does something interesting.
Speaker 4: He stoops down.
Speaker 3: And he begins writing in the dust. Now we don't
Speaker 3: know what he's writing.
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 3: I can say though a lot of the audience, especial
Speaker 3: ascribes in the Pharisees, would have had Jeremiah seventeen memorized.
Speaker 3: Jeremiah seventeen says, those who are in the ill, or
Speaker 3: the anger of the Lord.
Speaker 4: Their names will be written in the dust.
Speaker 3: Or my king gets down with this book because he
Speaker 3: is the book.
Speaker 2: Well, Jesus, he stops and he steals. Notice the order.
Speaker 3: He stoops before he speaks. He stoops before he speaks.
Speaker 3: This is my beef with a lot of us. We
Speaker 3: don't want to stoop down to anybody's level. We want
Speaker 3: to talk about them from up here. And to be
Speaker 3: honest with you, I don't want to hear nothing you
Speaker 3: have to say.
Speaker 2: If you ain't stooped recently, this will get me messed up.
Speaker 3: Don't come in here talk about how right you are
Speaker 3: about this group of people, and you don't nobody know
Speaker 3: nobody in that group. You ain't stooped. You ain't never
Speaker 3: been on their level. You ain't never talked to nobody.
Speaker 3: You ain't never been.
Speaker 2: In their pain.
Speaker 3: You ain't ever asked them what's that actually like? You
Speaker 3: ain't never stepped out of your personal comfort bubble.
Speaker 2: I'm right, so I get to say it, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: you're right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4: But when Jesus is right, he stoops down. Because this
Speaker 4: is the story of God in the beginning was the Word.
Speaker 4: The Word was God, and was with God. In word became.
Speaker 3: Flesh and dwelt among us. For we do not have
Speaker 3: a high priest who cannot relate to us, for he
Speaker 3: was tempted in every way.
Speaker 2: This is the gospel. I stuck. I get on your level,
Speaker 2: don't get it twisted. I'm about to say the truth.
Speaker 3: I'm about to say some real But before I say anything,
Speaker 3: let me be clear what being right looks like. It's
Speaker 3: not standing lording over people. It's getting down next to
Speaker 3: people in the dirt, with people, with people that said
Speaker 3: you can't eat with sinners and Jesus.
Speaker 2: They're not qualified to be a disciple. And do you
Speaker 2: see what they look like? He says, no, No, I
Speaker 2: know I'm right.
Speaker 3: But because I'm right, I can let you think I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: See, the Pharisees are unsure footing. They don't know if
Speaker 4: they're right.
Speaker 3: And when you don't know you're right, you'll do anything
Speaker 3: to prove it to anybody. So Jesus scoops down and
Speaker 3: he slows down the moment. And I don't know what
Speaker 3: that looks like for you, but some of you, if
Speaker 3: you start to feel like, oh, I'm right, I know,
Speaker 3: I know. Just let's slow down for a second. First
Speaker 3: of all, are you actually right?
Speaker 4: Because you would be.
Speaker 3: Quick to be like, oh yeah, I'm out of here,
Speaker 3: But are you actually right? Okay, yes you are, Okay,
Speaker 3: you're right, But it is right now, the time to
Speaker 3: be right. We're not good at this because we like
Speaker 3: to spiritualize stuff to a level that is unhealthy people.
Speaker 2: Going through hard stuff. You at a funeral talk about well,
Speaker 2: you come on.
Speaker 3: We ain't got nothing to be sad about. They ain't heaven.
Speaker 3: Why you're sad? Why am I sad? I will hit
Speaker 3: you in your face.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Why am I sad? Because I
Speaker 2: loved them? Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: Technically, one day I will see them in heaven. And
Speaker 3: Esus weft before he raised last red back to the dead,
Speaker 3: back from the dead. We have a king that knows,
Speaker 3: not just that he is right, but when is the
Speaker 3: time to be right?
Speaker 2: Slow down?
Speaker 4: Jesus stoops down.
Speaker 3: And the next thing you do, if you're trying to
Speaker 3: stand and be right, is you got to slow down.
Speaker 4: But Jesus does stand firm.
Speaker 2: He does not fluctuate the truth at all. He knows
Speaker 2: the truth.
Speaker 3: So well he cooks the people who are trying to
Speaker 3: cook one of his children, little tidbit, Be careful whose
Speaker 3: kids you mess with.
Speaker 2: I ain't that tall and I don't weigh that much.
Speaker 2: But if you mess with.
Speaker 3: Him at cash, you will rule the dead.
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 3: If you beat me up the first time, I will,
Speaker 3: I will go regroup.
Speaker 4: Come, I'm gonna go regroup.
Speaker 2: You gotta regroup, but.
Speaker 3: I'll show back up the next day on your front door.
Speaker 2: I'm back, and I got Aaron and Scott and.
Speaker 3: They you know, they'll handle it if I can't handle it.
Speaker 2: So why are you out here and ripping off talking
Speaker 2: about wrong and talking down to people. Just remember whose
Speaker 2: kids you're talking about.
Speaker 4: He stands firm.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about how Jesus just cooks them because Jesus
Speaker 3: knows the law. They're saying, Jesus, you know, technically, and
Speaker 3: they're referencing the Book of Leviticus, in the book of Gearrotomy.
Speaker 3: They're saying, God, if there's adultery that's happened, she should
Speaker 3: be stoned.
Speaker 4: And they're right kind of.
Speaker 3: Because the scriptures say that they're both accusers, both.
Speaker 2: People who are in the wrong. Gotta be there.
Speaker 4: Where the brother at.
Speaker 2: Where's your friend?
Speaker 3: Many theologians and writers believe they got somebody they knew,
Speaker 3: because how else they know where she's sleeping out, when
Speaker 3: she's sleeping out, who's she's sleeping with?
Speaker 2: And how to friend?
Speaker 4: Go on?
Speaker 2: How you know that? How you know where she was
Speaker 2: gonna be, at.
Speaker 3: What time she was gonna be, and she was gonna
Speaker 3: be close enough there to the temple that you could
Speaker 3: track her there? How'd you find that out?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: Because you don't care about people. You're using people to
Speaker 3: prove your points. And Jesus knows this, so he says, Okay,
Speaker 3: you want to get down, Sure, let's throw stones because
Speaker 3: you're right technically. But before you do, whoever hasn't sinned,
Speaker 3: get your first stone and go ahead, brother, And he's
Speaker 3: standing on gray sand truth because they knew what the
Speaker 3: laws said, but they didn't know why the law said
Speaker 3: what is said.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing about Jesus. He knows what it says,
Speaker 4: but I also know why.
Speaker 3: It says what it says, And it says in John
Speaker 3: three sixteen, we know this one for God so love
Speaker 3: the world that he gave his only son. They're wh's
Speaker 3: whoever believed him in not Paris, but have everlasting life.
Speaker 3: But do you know John three seventeen.
Speaker 4: For I did not come into the world to condemn
Speaker 4: the world.
Speaker 3: So God does not use his truth to make people smaller.
Speaker 3: That's not how you know you're right. When you make
Speaker 3: people small, That is not mean you're right.
Speaker 2: You may be.
Speaker 3: Technically right, but friend, you're so wrong.
Speaker 2: Because Jesus he stands on the truth.
Speaker 4: Yeah we can, let's do it. Let's go ahead. And
Speaker 4: the stoner. I know the law. I was there when
Speaker 4: it was written.
Speaker 2: I am the law. What are we talking about. I
Speaker 2: didn't come to abolish the law, but to fill the law.
Speaker 2: And here's where it gets fishing.
Speaker 4: Because people think this woman is skirting out of her punishment.
Speaker 4: Jesus knows in just a couple of weeks, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: pay for this.
Speaker 3: Punishment is just simply being postponed for a moment. But
Speaker 3: because he stands on the law, he knows there's gotta
Speaker 3: be a lamb to pay for this. And I know
Speaker 3: in a couple of days, I'm gonna be on a
Speaker 3: cross for this girl. He slows the moment down. He
Speaker 3: stands on the truth. And this is what I believe
Speaker 3: to be the lynchpin and the most intricate part of
Speaker 3: believers king and how we act when we are right.
Speaker 4: The last one is he uses the truth to set
Speaker 4: her free. You don't use the truth to trap people.
Speaker 2: I got convicted of this.
Speaker 4: I be I was talking with a friend about parenting.
Speaker 3: I think I've said this before, but every parent is
Speaker 3: guilty of the trick trap question.
Speaker 4: Yea kid walking got chocolate over the face. So do
Speaker 4: you have any chocolate?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: I didn't even what is chocolate? I ain't even never
Speaker 4: heard of chock.
Speaker 2: It's a trap. I know the truth, but I'm kind
Speaker 2: of trying.
Speaker 4: To Jesus don't do that. He uses the truth.
Speaker 3: For you shall know the truth, and the truth will
Speaker 3: set you free. Jesus leans down in the dust, he
Speaker 3: writes in the dust. He stands back up, and again
Speaker 3: he's standing on the law the language. Woman, where are
Speaker 3: your accusers? There has to be multiple accusers for you
Speaker 3: to be judged correctly. They've all left, and he wants
Speaker 3: her to know they're not here anymore. It's just me
Speaker 3: and you and they will take technically right. But I'm
Speaker 3: here so you can be righteous. And there's a difference
Speaker 3: between being right and righteous kind of similar.
Speaker 2: But right.
Speaker 3: Is about you and your judgment and interpretation of the scripture.
Speaker 3: Righteous is something only He can do. For he who
Speaker 3: knew no sin became sin, so we can become the
Speaker 3: righteousness of Christ. The goal as a follower of Jesus
Speaker 3: is not to run around parading how right you are,
Speaker 3: but the goal is to run around declaring the goodness
Speaker 3: of how righteous He made you.
Speaker 2: This is why Paul says, I'm a chief sinner.
Speaker 3: I'm the sinner above all sinners.
Speaker 7: But God made me right in any right I stand
Speaker 7: on is simply because of Him.
Speaker 3: You gotta slow down, you gotta stand firm, you gotta
Speaker 3: set free. And this is where we close and get
Speaker 3: out of here, and we go watch Brazil and Mexico win.
Speaker 4: That's the first time I sick has class all service.
Speaker 4: Go England.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm a spiritual man.
Speaker 2: I love you. It could be said, it should be said.
Speaker 3: That the most right a human has ever been in human.
Speaker 2: History is Jesus, while the people he created.
Speaker 3: Are beating him to where he is un recognizable. He's
Speaker 3: right about the law, he's right about humanity, he's.
Speaker 2: Right about every question.
Speaker 3: Perfect without sin dragging across up a hill. He is
Speaker 3: pinned to a cross, and he's right. He knows the
Speaker 3: consequence that should be happening to them, and he is right.
Speaker 3: Yet he lets them do it. Why because when you
Speaker 3: know you are eternally right, you're okay with being.
Speaker 2: A little earthly wrong.
Speaker 3: Because he knows I technically shouldn't be up here.
Speaker 2: It should be you up here.
Speaker 3: But Jesus knows I'm right about the right things. And
Speaker 3: because I know I'm right, I can let you think
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. I can let you think I'm.
Speaker 4: Crazy, the craziest one to me. I can let you
Speaker 4: think I'm weak.
Speaker 2: I think how confident the Roman soldiers.
Speaker 4: Feel of the Jews. He ain't nobody.
Speaker 3: Jesus knows with one snap he could snatch the breath
Speaker 3: out of their body. He could drop the whole audience
Speaker 3: that is making fun of him in a second if
Speaker 3: he wanted to. The earth is about to respond to
Speaker 3: the lack of life.
Speaker 2: In his body. The earth is about.
Speaker 3: To shake because the person that formed them is being
Speaker 3: beaten by its creation.
Speaker 2: He knows that he could call.
Speaker 3: Legions of angel armies at a moment.
Speaker 2: He knows who he is.
Speaker 3: He knows that he is the King and in three
Speaker 3: days he's about to get back up again.
Speaker 2: He knows that.
Speaker 3: This is the defining moment in human history. He knows
Speaker 3: he's right. But it's not just the fact that you're right,
Speaker 3: but how you're right. And so he says, I I'll
Speaker 3: let them think I'm weak. I'll let the devil think
Speaker 3: for a couple of days.
Speaker 4: He won because I know I'm right on this one.
Speaker 3: And friend, there's something about being right about the right things.
Speaker 4: It is my belief that the reason we read acts
Speaker 4: the way we do.
Speaker 3: Is because those guys saw it with their own eyes.
Speaker 3: They saw how many times Jesus didn't speak back. They
Speaker 3: saw how crazy his creation talked to him.
Speaker 4: And I think some of.
Speaker 2: Them disciples start to realize, wait, he's God, what.
Speaker 4: Did he he let?
Speaker 3: This is why Jesus, why Paul is so gangster?
Speaker 2: Jesus, you're gonna let them take you like that? Oh no, dog,
Speaker 2: I'm taking an ear or something. We can't.
Speaker 3: But they see the meekness of their savior, and there's
Speaker 3: something gangster about being that meek. The scariest people you
Speaker 3: meet in life are not the loud people trusting them.
Speaker 3: I'm one of them. You shouldn't be too afraid of me.
Speaker 3: My violence stops at the vocal cords once I run
Speaker 3: out of words. What it is people who real quiet?
Speaker 3: Some of the most deadly jokers up in this room
Speaker 3: right now looking at you, just like this, super smooth,
Speaker 3: super chill. If you ever get in a fight, don't
Speaker 3: worry about the friend.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh ahead, I promise you I will.
Speaker 4: That's not the person to be worried about.
Speaker 3: It's that one friend that come around the corner like
Speaker 3: this and then they some reason, their shoulders start dipping
Speaker 3: because they about to they about to catch up.
Speaker 2: It's like an angle thing.
Speaker 4: Come around.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. They come around just
Speaker 2: shoulder rotator cuff ripped out the socket when I was
Speaker 2: going up.
Speaker 4: They call that stole on somebody. You ever heard her
Speaker 4: it stole off? Yeah? I ain't never really stole off
Speaker 4: on nobody like that. But here's my encouragement friend this week.
Speaker 3: When that part of you that so desperately wants to
Speaker 3: be right shows up, slow down, take a deep brain.
Speaker 3: You in an argument with your spouse, I just don't
Speaker 3: even want to happened. Okay, cool?
Speaker 2: So what.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I remind myself all the time.
Speaker 3: It's I'll be going to argue in argument, and I
Speaker 3: think about, Okay, if this marriage is the house I
Speaker 3: live in, why am I finna tear up my own.
Speaker 2: Over being right? And there's some stuff that you're saying.
Speaker 2: You can't take it back. Man, So yeah, you were.
Speaker 4: Right, but now you alone. So I showed her no,
Speaker 4: you are now alone. So just be careful. It's not
Speaker 4: that big of a deal.
Speaker 3: You can stand firm at peace knowing that you have Jesus.
Speaker 3: I want to take a moment. I'm ask you about
Speaker 3: your heads and close your eyes. I'm ana pray over
Speaker 3: risk today that our fear of being wrong wouldn't have
Speaker 3: us fighting to prove we're right.
Speaker 2: Whether it's it's social media with the family member. There's
Speaker 2: some family members that.
Speaker 3: You know are wrong, and you so desperately think about
Speaker 3: the day when you prove that you were right.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, friend, that moment ain't gonna be
Speaker 2: a special as you think it is.
Speaker 3: Let it go, Let them think what they want to think,
Speaker 3: let it go. You're right, Okay, cool?
Speaker 2: Now what Jesus?
Speaker 3: We so desperately find ourselves struggling to be right.
Speaker 4: But the truth is.
Speaker 3: We have been wrong so many times, and sometimes we've
Speaker 3: been right and still wrong. And so Jesus, we come
Speaker 3: before you humbly right now, asking that you would make
Speaker 3: us right.
Speaker 4: You would make us right. Lord, forgive us where our
Speaker 4: pride has stood up.
Speaker 3: Try to show people who we were, what we knew,
Speaker 3: what we could do. There is nothing to prove in you.
Speaker 3: We can walk in peace. I pray this week that
Speaker 3: when we find ourselves fighting to be right, would we
Speaker 3: slow down, stand on your truth, and use the truth
Speaker 3: to bring freedom that every head bowed, every eye closed.
Speaker 3: Some of you are under the sound of my voice
Speaker 3: in this room right now. And there's one thing I
Speaker 3: would never want you to get wrong. And it would
Speaker 3: be wrong for you to think that you could do
Speaker 3: this by yourself.
Speaker 4: And when I say this, I mean life.
Speaker 3: Some of you are carrying pressure and weight and responsibility
Speaker 3: and it's overwhelming, and you're dealing with anxiety and fear
Speaker 3: and worry.
Speaker 4: And maybe nobody knows on.
Speaker 3: The outside, but on the inside you're filled with turmoil
Speaker 3: and doubt.
Speaker 4: Friend, you can be right today.
Speaker 3: You can make one decision that is the best decision
Speaker 3: that will change your life forever. And it's accepting Jesus
Speaker 3: your Lord and savior. And I promise you, if you
Speaker 3: get this thing right, you can get everything else wrong.
Speaker 4: But this is the one thing, the one moment that matters.
Speaker 4: If you're in this room or watching online and you
Speaker 4: want to.
Speaker 3: Accept Jesus as your Lord and savior, I'm telling you, friend,
Speaker 3: the good news of Jesus is that he was right
Speaker 3: all time about everything, and he lived a perfect life.
Speaker 4: That you and I could not live.
Speaker 3: And he died on that cross for you and for me,
Speaker 3: so that when we were wrong, Jesus and God. God
Speaker 3: looks at us, but he doesn't see us. He sees
Speaker 3: the right that Jesus did. And today is the day
Speaker 3: where you make the decision to give your life to Jesus.
Speaker 4: It'll change everything. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: count to three.
Speaker 3: If you want to accept Jesus as your Lord and savior,
Speaker 3: You're gonna lift your hand boldly. You're not gonna be
Speaker 3: worried about anybody around you, not what anybody else thinks.
Speaker 3: You may be riding in the car right now with
Speaker 3: a bunch of friends. It does not matter. If you
Speaker 3: want to accept Jesus as your lord and Savior. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna ask you to boldly raise your hand on the
Speaker 3: count of three, because you're saying I want to be
Speaker 3: right about Jesus.
Speaker 4: This is the day, This is.
Speaker 3: The moment, one two three, right now in this room
Speaker 3: and all over the world.
Speaker 2: Right here, so many of you.
Speaker 3: I got you, sister, I see you two friends together, amazing.
Speaker 2: So proud of you.
Speaker 3: People online, I got you up top here, so proud
Speaker 3: of you.
Speaker 4: Greatest moment you could have in your life.
Speaker 3: Everybody out loud, pray this prayer together. Everybody say, Dear God,
Speaker 3: I admit I'm wrong. I need you, Jesus, Thank you
Speaker 3: for dying.
Speaker 2: For me, change me, save me, make me new, and
Speaker 2: Jesus name I pray.
Speaker 4: Amen.
Speaker 3: Hey, can we celebrate people who just made that choice.
Speaker 3: It's the best decision you could ever make. It's a
Speaker 3: big deal. Your life is different forever. As a church,
Speaker 3: we would love to support you. If you text the
Speaker 3: word save to the number eight two eight two eight two,
Speaker 3: we'll send you some easy resources so you can kind
Speaker 3: of start finding your way.
Speaker 4: You can scan the QR code. Well, here's what I
Speaker 4: would encourage you to do on your way out. Just
Speaker 4: tell somebody, tell somebody who was sitting next to you, Hey,
Speaker 4: I raise my hand.
Speaker 3: And if somebody tells you that, give them the biggest
Speaker 3: hug and you can help them find their way. As
Speaker 3: you walk out, there's a sign that says God said,
Speaker 3: or did you raise your hand? You can go right there.
Speaker 3: We've got a gift for you. Some people just want
Speaker 3: to meet you. We're so so grateful for you.
Speaker 4: We love you. Hey, listen, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: Our amazing, incredible worship team is going to continue to worship.
Speaker 3: If you want to head out, you can. If you
Speaker 3: want to stay in worship for a moment, you can,
Speaker 3: But I want to pray for you.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 3: Also, if you need prayer for anything, we have a
Speaker 3: group of people who will be here at the front
Speaker 3: and the back and they want to pray with you.
Speaker 4: Nothing too big, nothing too small, but prayer.
Speaker 2: It matters.
Speaker 4: It makes a difference. But if you see anybody.
Speaker 3: Hold one of those signs that says need prayer, go
Speaker 3: find them and they love to pray with you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pray for you as we get out of here.
Speaker 3: Lord God, we thank you Jesus for your gift, for
Speaker 3: your grace, for your mergency. God, we thank you that
Speaker 3: you have made us right eternally, that your grace, by
Speaker 3: your power and by your strength, we can stand firm
Speaker 3: and we don't have to walk in fear, but we
Speaker 3: can know that we are chosen by God.
Speaker 2: I pray a blessing over this week.
Speaker 3: I think you that your favor, your mercy, your grace,
Speaker 3: and your love would.
Speaker 2: Chase us down and follow us all week.
Speaker 3: It's in the beautiful name of Jesus we pray, and
Speaker 3: everybody said Amen, Amen, Amen,