Speaker 1: Welcome to Pinoy Tagalog Sermon Podcast. Your daily does of inspiring,
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Speaker 1: participate every day and that yes God and no devil,
Speaker 1: so that you win. Amen. We're looking at a series
Speaker 1: we began last week. Jesus is okay, and I just
Speaker 1: want the character, the nature, the quality of the Lord
Speaker 1: to come alive. All of us have thoughts ideas how
Speaker 1: we were raised, maybe what we've studied up to this point,
Speaker 1: pictures all this of who we think Jesus is and
Speaker 1: what he looked like or what he did and so forth.
Speaker 1: But I think if we can under stand him even
Speaker 1: more as a person because he was a man. I
Speaker 1: said he was a man, you can relate to him
Speaker 1: even more. Now who's here on earth representing him right now?
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is here to help you to be
Speaker 1: able to relate to the man who's God but a man.
Speaker 1: And I believe when we get that in our heart
Speaker 1: and our spirit, it helps bridge this gap that we
Speaker 1: can have, because we don't need a gap. We need
Speaker 1: to see Jesus and who he is. So last week
Speaker 1: we looked at he's my best friend and what we
Speaker 1: developed through that is the first thirty years of his life,
Speaker 1: he was just a person. I said. He lived life.
Speaker 1: He was probably a carpenter for eighteen years. He would
Speaker 1: have gone in the family business at age twelve. He
Speaker 1: did that to age thirty. He dealt with customers that
Speaker 1: weren't satisfied. As I said last week, no nail gun,
Speaker 1: no power saws. He did all this by hand. His
Speaker 1: family thought he was crazy when he went into ministry.
Speaker 1: They actually came to capture him one time. Read it.
Speaker 1: It's a drama in the Bible. Can you imagine your
Speaker 1: family coming with the straight jacket here put this on.
Speaker 1: I mean that's basically what they were doing. They thought,
Speaker 1: who in the world, what is he thinking and doing?
Speaker 1: So we looked at several things that he did so
Speaker 1: that we can relate to him with our human nature,
Speaker 1: because he was a human being. Oh, yes, he's God.
Speaker 1: We're not diminishing that. We're not diminishing the three years
Speaker 1: of his ministry and all that he did. And we'll
Speaker 1: get into that as we get closer to Easter. But
Speaker 1: he still was a person. So that was that week,
Speaker 1: and then two weeks ago when I was out of state,
Speaker 1: Jeanette spoke and I still have people calling me and
Speaker 1: texted me and stopping me every day what they did
Speaker 1: for him. So I haven't heard that message yet, but
Speaker 1: please listen to it about your assignments. And the week
Speaker 1: before that, Pastor Eric Gilbert was here and did a
Speaker 1: fantastic job. But we're using this is a theme verse
Speaker 1: as we launch it. In one Corinthians two one through two,
Speaker 1: Paul is speaking. He says, you'll remember, friends, that when
Speaker 1: I first came to you, this is now after the
Speaker 1: Lord has descended to heaven and so forth. I didn't
Speaker 1: try to impress you with polished speeches and the latest philosophy,
Speaker 1: which is what many people even want today. They would
Speaker 1: rather have philosophy that they can tuck into their brain
Speaker 1: that doesn't challenge the transformation that they need in their life.
Speaker 1: And we all need transformation. And I don't care how
Speaker 1: long you've been saved, you still need transformation. It's an
Speaker 1: ongoing process. Or you can just be satisfied with philosophy.
Speaker 1: Lord change me in Jesus's name, And then he says
Speaker 1: I deliberately kept it plain and simple. I can relate
Speaker 1: to that. First, Jesus and who he is. That's what
Speaker 1: we're really are trying to study. Then Jesus in what
Speaker 1: he did, Jesus crucified. Now, what is something we can
Speaker 1: look at today that we can expand our perspective of
Speaker 1: who Jesus is. As I said last week, we looked
Speaker 1: at he was our best friend. Well, let's look at
Speaker 1: Jesus the teacher. Jesus the teacher. This is not a
Speaker 1: complicated message, but the main thing I want you to
Speaker 1: see and remember, Jesus modeled everything he taught. That's the
Speaker 1: takeaway for today. He modeled what he taught so that
Speaker 1: you could mimic and imitate what he did. That's a
Speaker 1: good teacher. That's the best teacher. Jesus was the greatest
Speaker 1: teacher you ever lived. In the four Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke,
Speaker 1: and John at least forty eight times he is mentioned
Speaker 1: or referred to as the teacher. So we couldn't pass
Speaker 1: this up. People would follow Jesus to some of the
Speaker 1: most remote places when he was trying to rest or
Speaker 1: be with his disciples, and yes, they were looking at
Speaker 1: from miracles and healings and so forth, and we'll cover
Speaker 1: that aspect is one of the things of his nature.
Speaker 1: But they wanted to hear him speak too. They wanted
Speaker 1: to hear him teach because it was just taking everything
Speaker 1: from the Old Testament and bringing it over in the
Speaker 1: New Testament, where there's the whole transformation of your nature,
Speaker 1: and doing away with the rote of the law and
Speaker 1: mechanically serving God to understanding him with your heart. So
Speaker 1: they would find they would skip eating, hallelujah, whatever they
Speaker 1: had to do so they could hear him speak. He
Speaker 1: was so relevant, he was authentic. He I mean, he's
Speaker 1: just so concerned. That's our Jesus. And when I think
Speaker 1: about a great teacher, I think about what Jesus did,
Speaker 1: and he taught it by example. He lived it. He
Speaker 1: didn't just tell you what to do like a dictator
Speaker 1: who lived high moightily in a different echelon of life
Speaker 1: and come out and come down to his subjects and
Speaker 1: his servants and those that are supposed to obey him
Speaker 1: and tell them to do all this stuff and then
Speaker 1: retreat back up to the hills somewhere and live a
Speaker 1: totally different life. No, he shows us what to do.
Speaker 1: He demonstrated what to do so we could follow him.
Speaker 1: Jesus the teacher has something to say. Not only is
Speaker 1: it an answer for you, not only is he the
Speaker 1: answer for you, but you can follow him as an example.
Speaker 1: In John thirteen, Jesus was talking to his disciples and
Speaker 1: he says this getting ready for his death, burial and
Speaker 1: resurrection eventually, and he's going to wash their feet and
Speaker 1: so forth. He says this, I have set you an example.
Speaker 1: In other words, my life has been an example that
Speaker 1: you should do as I have done for you and
Speaker 1: of you that teach, you coach, you work with people,
Speaker 1: you have a staff, you have people under you at
Speaker 1: work or whatever. You show them as an example what
Speaker 1: you do, and then you want them to follow that example.
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus has done for us. The question is
Speaker 1: are we following his example? This was way before any
Speaker 1: other thing in his heart. Let me live it, let
Speaker 1: me be your friend, Let me live it so you
Speaker 1: can glean it from my life and then follow me.
Speaker 1: And at this point right here is really going to
Speaker 1: demonstrate humility. He didn't just say be humble. He got
Speaker 1: down on the ground and he washed their feet, knowing
Speaker 1: what was getting ready to happen. The teacher elevated the
Speaker 1: feet of Judas, knowing that he was going to betray him.
Speaker 1: I think about it, if you knew somebody's getting ready
Speaker 1: to betray you, you might elevate their feet and then
Speaker 1: flip them over. You know what I'm saying. Oh no,
Speaker 1: not Jesus. He washed his feet. He elevated the feet
Speaker 1: of Peter, knowing he was going to deny him. See
Speaker 1: when you've read the Bible so many times in his
Speaker 1: end of that, you can just gloss over the emotion
Speaker 1: or the personhood of Jesus and what he's teaching us.
Speaker 1: Jesus knew the disciples would face situations that if they
Speaker 1: weren't humble, like he was going ready to show them,
Speaker 1: they're going to mess up. Their mouth was going to
Speaker 1: get them in trouble. I know none of us are
Speaker 1: mouths ever got us in trouble, But you might know
Speaker 1: someone you know, when you don't have an example, and
Speaker 1: who is our greatest example, because he's the best teacher,
Speaker 1: and you don't know what to do, then you just
Speaker 1: kind of follow yourself or the example that you set yourself.
Speaker 1: Proverbs fourteen twelve. There's a way which seems right to
Speaker 1: a man my way, but its end is the way
Speaker 1: of death. So left to ourself, we is in trouble.
Speaker 1: We need a teacher what's his name? Yes, So with
Speaker 1: the absence of that relationship, the one who wants to
Speaker 1: be our best friend, the one that wants to be
Speaker 1: a teacher by example, we have some tendencies with no example.
Speaker 1: We're on our own and we don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: So how we handle things. We're going to fix it ourself.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying that's always bad. I mean God
Speaker 1: gives us common sense, I understand that. But things that
Speaker 1: are beyond us, things that are more complicated. If we
Speaker 1: try to fix it in ourselfs we approach it with
Speaker 1: an independent approach. So if there's a marriage issue, or
Speaker 1: an addiction issue, or struggle, or a sin issue, don't
Speaker 1: rely on yourself. Jesus led by example. If ever, you
Speaker 1: have gone to our local detention center to minister, or
Speaker 1: you've gone to a prison to minister. A common denominator
Speaker 1: amongst all the men there especially is they did not
Speaker 1: have a father, They did not have an example to follow.
Speaker 1: There wasn't someone guiding them. There's not someone saying don't
Speaker 1: do that or do this or watch for this. And
Speaker 1: when we fix it ourselves, without teachers, without examples, without
Speaker 1: the ultimate teacher, we mess up. I will mess up,
Speaker 1: you will mess up. Then what happens Then we try
Speaker 1: to learn to live with it. This is my lot,
Speaker 1: this is my situation, this is what I've done. Got
Speaker 1: to make the best of it, and believing that then
Speaker 1: there would be some change. And when you get to
Speaker 1: the place where you quit and don't seek help and guidance,
Speaker 1: it's just we're just being stubborn. I said, We're being stubborn,
Speaker 1: and we've got to be able to say, wait, I've
Speaker 1: tried this, that didn't work. Am I just going to
Speaker 1: live with this? Or I'm going to allow quote my
Speaker 1: salvation experience and feeling of holy ghost experience to take
Speaker 1: me to a new spot in the lord? Or am
Speaker 1: I just going to put it on cruise and just
Speaker 1: kind of suck air and grow old and die. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, I said, I don't anybody
Speaker 1: else want to do that. We need to keep changing
Speaker 1: and changing and changing because the teacher wants to help us.
Speaker 1: So at last, but not least, when you finally wake up,
Speaker 1: what you do, then as you do, turn to God.
Speaker 1: And what would be like if we would do that
Speaker 1: with our first response all the time. What if we
Speaker 1: modeled Jesus as the teacher and mimic him and his
Speaker 1: attitudes and his thoughts and his decisions until it becomes
Speaker 1: part of our nature. Jesus walked the earth as a man,
Speaker 1: not a book of instructions. I said, he walked the
Speaker 1: earth as a man, but a man who took humanity
Speaker 1: through a process of things that you can see with
Speaker 1: the disciples and others and be able to look at
Speaker 1: what they did and how they maneuvered in life and
Speaker 1: follow that. He knew they would go through times they
Speaker 1: wouldn't know what to do, and so He's guiding them
Speaker 1: way in advance so that they can make good choices. Again,
Speaker 1: the ministry of the Holy Spirit today is to bring
Speaker 1: you the uninterrupted attention of Jesus Christ. So when you're
Speaker 1: in the Word, and then you're in praise and you
Speaker 1: are in worship and you're seeking Him and you're praying,
Speaker 1: suddenly you can hear in your spirit the voice of
Speaker 1: the Lord what he did and what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Because he is the teacher and he wants to teach
Speaker 1: you today, don't put yourself here, and he's way over
Speaker 1: there and there's this big gulf. No, he wants to
Speaker 1: walk real close. And if you remember the illustration last
Speaker 1: week that Connelly and Derek did, it was great because
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Derek. I mean, Derek had to be the
Speaker 1: God who didn't care man, he had to look. He
Speaker 1: did a good job with that. And then Connley was
Speaker 1: the Jesus walking close wanting to give you his uninterrupted attention.
Speaker 1: That's what he wants to do. And as he does it,
Speaker 1: it's not just to make your life easy. It's to
Speaker 1: teach you so you can make right choices. And when
Speaker 1: you make the right choices, even sometimes when it's hard,
Speaker 1: he takes you from glory to glory. Turn to him,
Speaker 1: Just turn to him. Ephesians five, Verse one. Watch what
Speaker 1: God does. Now, how we're going to watch what he does?
Speaker 1: What do we have to be in every day? And
Speaker 1: then you do it? Watch what he does? Then you
Speaker 1: do it like children who learn proper behavior from their parents.
Speaker 1: Mostly what God does is love. You keep company with him,
Speaker 1: and you're going to learn a life of love. Thank you, Lord.
Speaker 1: Jesus did not only give us instructions. He gave us
Speaker 1: a great example through his life. And there's a scripture
Speaker 1: I love in one Corinthians eleven. It won't come up
Speaker 1: on the screen, but Paul speaking, he says, be imitators
Speaker 1: of me as I am of Christ. Wow. So what
Speaker 1: he did He tried to live his life to imitate,
Speaker 1: not be fake, but bring it into his character and
Speaker 1: his nature. This is what did. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: live it out in front of you, and now you
Speaker 1: can follow me. Here's a question. Can people follow you?
Speaker 1: Can they follow your life, your thoughts, your choices and
Speaker 1: see Jesus Christ. Yes, everybody say yes, that's our aim,
Speaker 1: that's our goal. Oh the world needs tell me yep,
Speaker 1: what they need all of us to be examples someone
Speaker 1: who's listened to the teacher, and we're following his instructions.
Speaker 1: So what are just a few examples today that Jesus taught.
Speaker 1: We could be on this subject for weeks. But not
Speaker 1: only did he teach it, he modeled it. He lived
Speaker 1: it out so that we would make the same choice
Speaker 1: and live it out ourselves. So what are a few
Speaker 1: things that we can see Jesus came to show us.
Speaker 1: Number one, how to overcome temptation. How to overcome temptation
Speaker 1: Jesus in the wilderness after he was water baptized is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest teachings, one of the greatest examples.
Speaker 1: It's so powerful. Jesus was in the wilderness, it says
Speaker 1: in Matthew Ford. Look it up. Sometimes he was led
Speaker 1: there to be tempted. Who understand why, because you've got
Speaker 1: to overcome it. You will be tempted, just face it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen, and normally it sneaks up on you unexpectedly.
Speaker 1: And if you're not in the Bible understanding the moral
Speaker 1: will of God, remember the door we had up here
Speaker 1: for a month and a half, the moral will of
Speaker 1: God and the sovereign will of God hearing his voice.
Speaker 1: If you're not in that, when temptation comes and you're
Speaker 1: not in relationship with the Body of Christ and people
Speaker 1: that speaking life to you, it's easy to veer off,
Speaker 1: open a door and go a wrong direction where temptation wins.
Speaker 1: So he was in the wilderness to be tempted. He
Speaker 1: knew it. He knew it was going to happen. And
Speaker 1: we're not immune to it either. You need to know him.
Speaker 1: You need to know he's going to happen. And I
Speaker 1: know I'm going over this over and over, because if
Speaker 1: you don't get strong and stay strong when it comes
Speaker 1: your way, you fall pray to it. Jesus was praying
Speaker 1: and fasting and seeking God in relationship and fellowship for
Speaker 1: forty days. You would think he's immune. Well, he's weak
Speaker 1: at that point physically, and temptation came. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've noticed this, but sometimes the greatest temptations will
Speaker 1: come after one of your greatest victories. Tuck that in
Speaker 1: your little spirit. Okay, you have some great victory in
Speaker 1: your life and you're excited and you think, man, I'm
Speaker 1: making progress. Get ready, there could be a temptation coming
Speaker 1: right after that. So he knew this was going to happen.
Speaker 1: And we're vulnerable. And guess who comes creeping in all
Speaker 1: three of these temptations. Jesus responded with what it is written,
Speaker 1: All right, here's our door again. Just picture it up here.
Speaker 1: I guess I should have just kept it up here.
Speaker 1: But the morral will the Word of God, and I
Speaker 1: know many many of you are reading the Word have
Speaker 1: got through this year, maybe even more than once. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's give yourself a handclapfirm being in the word. Oh
Speaker 1: that's week. Come on, I ought to be better than
Speaker 1: UK win in a basketball game, you're in the world.
Speaker 1: You want to win in life, You've got to be
Speaker 1: in the Word. And because when you're in the Word
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis, when those things come, that stuff
Speaker 1: that you've put in your spirit comes out. It's there
Speaker 1: and you're able to You might not be able to
Speaker 1: find it, but thank God for your phone and you
Speaker 1: can google it real quick and get it, and you
Speaker 1: can find that verse and you can get strength and overcome.
Speaker 1: He knew what to do. It is written. Listen, Jesus
Speaker 1: defeated the devil as a man, as a man, with
Speaker 1: the Word of God. Now you can read that. I understand. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was God's son, but he laid down all those
Speaker 1: privileges when he came to earth to live in a
Speaker 1: weakened state, hungry, exhausted, thirsty. A man defeated the devil
Speaker 1: with the word. You can defeat the devil as a man,
Speaker 1: as a woman, as a child with the word. But
Speaker 1: you got to have the word. The teacher is telling
Speaker 1: us through his own life example. The power is in
Speaker 1: the words. So what is the solution temptation or the word?
Speaker 1: Jesus did that those three areas that really any temptation
Speaker 1: can relate to the lust of the flesh, lust of
Speaker 1: the eye, and pride of life Matthew four to eleven.
Speaker 1: Then then the devil left him. Why because of the
Speaker 1: power of the word. Then the devil will leave you
Speaker 1: because of what the power it's not. Thank God for willpower,
Speaker 1: that's great. Thank God for positive thinking, that's great. Thank God.
Speaker 1: Running from temptation like Joseph did, that's great. But if
Speaker 1: you want to see the devil kind of leave or
Speaker 1: a season, and the Word of God has got to
Speaker 1: begin to come out of your mouth, out of your spirit.
Speaker 1: In combat, the devil left him and the angels came
Speaker 1: and attended him. Now wouldn't it be great if you
Speaker 1: could literally see the angels coming in strengthening you after
Speaker 1: you overcome a temptation. Jesus defeated the devil as a man,
Speaker 1: and you can draw strength through the word as well.
Speaker 1: Number two, Another thing Jesus the Teacher taught and displayed
Speaker 1: is how to face impossible situations. How to face them?
Speaker 1: Now I know our nature because I've got one just
Speaker 1: like you. When we face impossible situations, we either try
Speaker 1: to fix it, or we try to deny it, or
Speaker 1: we try to run from it, or we're mad at it.
Speaker 1: Come on, help me out right, all that type of
Speaker 1: stuff because we don't like impossible situations, respecting them. I'm
Speaker 1: spearfilled believer. I'm not supposed to have hard thanks you're
Speaker 1: gonna have some hard things. I'm not a prophet of doom.
Speaker 1: It's just called earth. And you don't have to let
Speaker 1: that become your identity and fold up and quit. Think
Speaker 1: of the story of the Lord's friend Lazaruth see now,
Speaker 1: please go deeper, thinking him as a man, as a friend,
Speaker 1: he was our best friend, he's our teacher. Okay, Lazarus died,
Speaker 1: he's buried. Jesus gets there a few days after his burial,
Speaker 1: and the two sisters Mary Martha, they're really laying a
Speaker 1: guilt trip on him. I mean really they are. You know,
Speaker 1: if you had been here, this wouldn't happened, and all
Speaker 1: that type of stuff. They faced an impossible situation and
Speaker 1: they wanted it resolved on their own timetable. I understand
Speaker 1: that that's not bad. All of us want everything resolved
Speaker 1: on our timetable we do they did, and Jesus he
Speaker 1: had wept over this, and he wept over this when
Speaker 1: he got there. We can speculate numerous reasons. Number one,
Speaker 1: the loss that was his friend. Number two, he would
Speaker 1: have loved to have gotten there and seen the man
Speaker 1: healed instead of die, but he had to be obedient
Speaker 1: and he had to wait. And I have a feeling
Speaker 1: that was hard. Come on, Maybe he was even weeping
Speaker 1: that they didn't think he would still be able to
Speaker 1: do something. Just just think a moment, just let your
Speaker 1: brain think. What was he weeping about? The teacher our
Speaker 1: best friend. Jesus asked them, do you believe now your
Speaker 1: impossible situation? Let me ask you, do you believe now?
Speaker 1: For me? A test I can tell that I'm believing
Speaker 1: or trusting. Is I come at rest and I come
Speaker 1: at peace. Now the star might be around and all
Speaker 1: that type of stuff, but I come at rest and
Speaker 1: I come at peace. And so if you're not at
Speaker 1: rest and not at peace, don't leave your house, Okay,
Speaker 1: don't go out because you spread confusion. And we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be example of trusting in impossible situations. You come
Speaker 1: at rest and you come at peace. Lazarth had been
Speaker 1: dead for four days. It's not like they're still doing
Speaker 1: CPR on him. And maybe he's alive. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: stinking dead. Are you with me? Okay, he's dead. Jesus
Speaker 1: walked up and asked do you believe? And I believe.
Speaker 1: Jesus asked us that today, in our impossible situation as
Speaker 1: a teacher, do you think I can do it? Do
Speaker 1: you trust me? He really was letting the sisters know,
Speaker 1: trust me and let me demonstrate God in your life.
Speaker 1: Let me demonstrate the resurrection. Now, he said, you believe
Speaker 1: in resurrection? Oh yeah, non, he says, no, I am
Speaker 1: the resurrection and the life. So for your impossible situation, anybody,
Speaker 1: let me see anybody have something that seems impossible. Let
Speaker 1: me see your HND. Okay, all right, he is the
Speaker 1: resurrection and he's the life. I said, Jesus is your
Speaker 1: resurrection and the life for your impossible situation. That's what
Speaker 1: the teacher wants you to know today. The solution, what
Speaker 1: is it? Faith? Hebrews eleven six. Without faith, it is
Speaker 1: impossible to please him. Oh Lord, all I want to
Speaker 1: do is live for the glory of God. I've heard that,
Speaker 1: so many religious times. Well, great, trust him, live with
Speaker 1: faith in your life, because you're not going to please
Speaker 1: him otherwise. Living for the glory of God is loving, trusting, believing,
Speaker 1: knowing that He's bigger, and I want to please you God.
Speaker 1: Number three, they're getting None of these are complicated. But
Speaker 1: we've got to see the teacher relaying these not only
Speaker 1: to the disciples and the followers of that time, he's
Speaker 1: teaching us today how to submit to God's plan. How
Speaker 1: to submit to God's plan. Now, this is tough because
Speaker 1: we all have flesh. Right you ever hear the phrase, oh,
Speaker 1: they're just in the flesh. Have you heard that phrase before?
Speaker 1: Come on, let me see heh gens she said that phrase.
Speaker 1: What means is I'm about to sin big time. That's
Speaker 1: what that means. Are they about to sin big time
Speaker 1: when you're in the flesh. Jesus saw the importance of
Speaker 1: teaching us obedience, the solution on how to submit to
Speaker 1: God's plan obedience. Remember back at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year with the door. Okay, the moral will of God
Speaker 1: and the sovereign will of God. In the sovereign will,
Speaker 1: we looked at Acts twenty Paul speaking, he says, I
Speaker 1: was compelled by the spirit. I was moved by the spirit. Now,
Speaker 1: when's the last time you allowed the Lord to move
Speaker 1: you by the spirit that takes you out of your routine?
Speaker 1: Are your comfort zone or your schedule? That is just
Speaker 1: something you had to do. You had to do this.
Speaker 1: Are you new you would be disobeying the Lord? How
Speaker 1: many know what I'm talking about? And you understand that phrase?
Speaker 1: If not, you haven't developed a close walk yet with
Speaker 1: the Lord. I'm just telling you because when you walk close,
Speaker 1: he just he speaks to you and it's then stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you pray about it, but it's stuff. Then you are
Speaker 1: to respond to something you're supposed to do, something you're
Speaker 1: supposed to follow through with and be a part of
Speaker 1: the solution. What have you allowed the Lord to mess
Speaker 1: with you about? What is he messing with your heart about? Today?
Speaker 1: Then the question becomes do we submit to God's plan
Speaker 1: and what he wants to do? Will we be obedient?
Speaker 1: Have you truly submitted your life to God? How about
Speaker 1: to his will? One Peter two twenty one. To this
Speaker 1: you recall because Christ suffered for you? Well, great, he
Speaker 1: did it, and I don't have to do it. Leave
Speaker 1: you you what an example, as a teacher who modeled it,
Speaker 1: then just say it. He taught it that you should
Speaker 1: what following his steps? Why don't like that suffering part?
Speaker 1: Why don't either? Let's just be honest. Suffering sometimes, though is.
Speaker 1: It could be something emotional, it could be something just
Speaker 1: painful relationally, whatever it is. But you've got to be
Speaker 1: willing to say because your Lord, and I'm not the
Speaker 1: things that I face. You're going to help me and
Speaker 1: I'm going to follow through in obedience to what you
Speaker 1: would have me to do. Lord. I'm going to respond
Speaker 1: with the attitude, the action, the thoughts of what you
Speaker 1: would want from my life, because you went through all
Speaker 1: of this and you're teaching me the teacher you modeled it,
Speaker 1: and now I'm going to follow your plan. Yes, are
Speaker 1: y'all awake today? I know you lost an hour of sleep.
Speaker 1: Jesus prayed, not my will, but yours be done. You
Speaker 1: know why he did not want to die on the
Speaker 1: cross in his flesh. Sure he knew the purpose, and
Speaker 1: sure he was willing to do it, but his flesh
Speaker 1: did not want to. It hurt, It was painful, the
Speaker 1: rejection of humanity, of his disciples, of all those who
Speaker 1: were yelling a week before Hosannah are now yelling crucify.
Speaker 1: It was a rough time, but he submitted. Jesus prayed,
Speaker 1: if at all possible, God, anyway, let this cup pass,
Speaker 1: and you're going to have some cups from the Lord. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about everything's hard and terrible and this,
Speaker 1: but you will have some cups. You're gonna have to say,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna drink of this and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do what you would have me to do. Lord, if
Speaker 1: it all possible, let this cup pass, but not my will,
Speaker 1: but yours be done, and every step of obedience. Listen
Speaker 1: in my heart. I believe as Jesus took it carrying
Speaker 1: the cross, he could just see the countless millions of names,
Speaker 1: including yours, that will have a way to go to
Speaker 1: the Father, someone filling the gap of perfection and a purity.
Speaker 1: So you do not have an eternal separation because there's
Speaker 1: no way for you to follow all the Old Testament laws.
Speaker 1: You didn't bring any animal to church today to crucify.
Speaker 1: I meant, think about it, Jesus, and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: a way. I'm gonna make away. He was willing to
Speaker 1: be obedient. So he came to teach us, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: he came to model model OBEI he did it. And
Speaker 1: then one more thing I want us to look at.
Speaker 1: He wanted to teach us how to show unconditional love.
Speaker 1: Unconditional love. I know it's easy to read the gospels
Speaker 1: and think, oh, what an awesome savior. Please do and
Speaker 1: say that, what a great god. He lived a sinless life. Wow,
Speaker 1: he saved me. His blood is saved me. He did everything,
Speaker 1: and I just reap all the benefits. Well, part of
Speaker 1: the benefit is you're supposed to follow his example. And
Speaker 1: one of the things is us knowing how to operate
Speaker 1: and live in unconditional love. Thank you Jesus for teaching
Speaker 1: us how to overcome temptation with the word. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having a tangible solution. Thank you Jesus. When I
Speaker 1: have possible, impossible situations, you are giving me a way out.
Speaker 1: You want me to trust you and let you be
Speaker 1: God and come at rest and peace in that, and
Speaker 1: You're gonna help me wake my way through. Thank you
Speaker 1: Jesus for teaching me the importance of submitting to your plan. Lord.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be obedient to what you show me I'm
Speaker 1: to do now, know my unconditional love. We've got to
Speaker 1: know it, We've got to experience it and walk in it.
Speaker 1: We can't even fully fathom what this word love means
Speaker 1: unless it's filtered through the teacher who modeled this. Jesus
Speaker 1: modeled this unconditional love. And this is how he taught
Speaker 1: us what we're supposed to do, so we can understand.
Speaker 1: It's called forgiveness. Everybody say forgiveness. Now, now hear this.
Speaker 1: When you receive forgiveness, how many have received that in
Speaker 1: your life? Okay? When you receive forgiveness, your heart begins
Speaker 1: to expand, to extend that which has been freely given
Speaker 1: to you. Your heart begins to expand to give what's
Speaker 1: been freely given to you. And the more you extend forgiveness,
Speaker 1: not just with words, but I'm talking about your body language,
Speaker 1: your nonverbal I'm talking about every fiber of your being.
Speaker 1: When you extend that, the more revelation you have of
Speaker 1: your own forgiveness, did you hear me? The more you
Speaker 1: give it, the more revelation you have of yours. Hear
Speaker 1: me about get this, get this? The more I extend it,
Speaker 1: the more you extend it the more revelation you're going
Speaker 1: to have of your own, and I'm gonna show you
Speaker 1: a scripture in a moment. The more you say, well,
Speaker 1: I'll get that family member of forty years ago who
Speaker 1: then at my fender, I guess I need to forgive them. Yes,
Speaker 1: you do, or whatever it is. The more you extend
Speaker 1: it with every ounce of fiber within you, the more
Speaker 1: you understand what's been given to you. Think about the
Speaker 1: lady caught in the act of adultery. They bring her
Speaker 1: to Jesus for him to condemn her. Jesus looks at her.
Speaker 1: Be free, I forgive you. Leave this life of sin,
Speaker 1: turn and be free, he was teaching everyone watching. This
Speaker 1: is how you forgive. Jesus is at a dinner party.
Speaker 1: The lady walks in with this jar, expensive jar of perfume,
Speaker 1: breaks it, pours it over. The Lord begins to wipe
Speaker 1: his feet with her hair, and she's weeping and praying,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, and just trying to love the Lord the
Speaker 1: best she knew how. And in Luke seven, verse forty seven,
Speaker 1: it says this, because everybody's making fun of her, this
Speaker 1: could be sold and given to the poor and all that. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I tell you her many, many many sins, her many
Speaker 1: sins have been forgiven, and her great love has shown.
Speaker 1: I watch this, But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you want, a big check of
Speaker 1: how spiritual we are as an individual, family, church, body
Speaker 1: of Christ, whatever, How well can you love unconditionally? And
Speaker 1: the only way you can do that is when you
Speaker 1: start getting a greater revelation of your own forgiveness. Because
Speaker 1: he who's forgiven little, they don't love that much. There's
Speaker 1: not love. There's not this wow man, And I'm not
Speaker 1: just doing humanitarian things. That's great and we need to
Speaker 1: do that, but that's a door to then bring the gospel.
Speaker 1: So if we're not involved, if you're not involved in loving,
Speaker 1: you've got a small revelation of your forgiveness. And the
Speaker 1: more you begin to love unconditionally, the more you understand
Speaker 1: your forgiveness. And you gon find yourself weeping over the
Speaker 1: Lord symbolically just thanking him, loving him, And you know what,
Speaker 1: He's going to accept it all as a sweet savor
Speaker 1: from your life. He taught us. The compassion she was
Speaker 1: showing is causing her to experience her own forgiveness. She
Speaker 1: knows where she's been, she knows what she's done, and
Speaker 1: she's overwhelmed with tears. All I need to do is
Speaker 1: to just show the Lord I love him. I've got
Speaker 1: to care for him, to do something for him that's
Speaker 1: costly and demonstrates that I want to do something different.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said, Wow, she loves a lot. She loves
Speaker 1: a lot. Forgiveness expands our capacity to love because it
Speaker 1: purifies our heart. And the Bible says, blessed her those
Speaker 1: who have a pure heart. You know why, you know
Speaker 1: what the scripture says, they're going to see God. So
Speaker 1: that unconditional love, it purifies your heart. Maybe there's someone whatever,
Speaker 1: you just need to forgive. And when we forgive, it
Speaker 1: allows us to love unconditionally. Jesus taught us that he
Speaker 1: demonstrated it, he lived it. He's dying on the cross.
Speaker 1: They've done all these horrific things to him, and he says, Father,
Speaker 1: forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. And can
Speaker 1: we do that in any situation where we need to
Speaker 1: be extending forgiveness. Father, just forgive them. They don't know
Speaker 1: what they're doing, because you showed me unconditional love. You
Speaker 1: demonstrated it. And you show me how to overcome temptation.
Speaker 1: You showed me how to face impossible situations. You showed
Speaker 1: me how to be obedient. So last thought here and
Speaker 1: we're going to stand. Jesus did not come to earth
Speaker 1: just to die. That was his ultimate goal. He came
Speaker 1: to teach us how to live. Because you ain't dead yet.
Speaker 1: You need to know how to live. I said, you
Speaker 1: need to know how to live. He taught us, he
Speaker 1: demonstrated it. Now we have a big responsibility to eat
Speaker 1: of that every day until it becomes second nature for us,
Speaker 1: just second nature. Let's stand experienced it. Thank you for listening.
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