WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:06.040 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 --> 00:00:15.759 God will transform your life. Do today's message. 5 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:18.079 So we're gonna jump into the message today. 6 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:20.399 If you got your bibles, open up your bibles to 7 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:24.800 the Book of John. The Book of John, chapter number ten. 8 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.879 The Book of John. A little bit about John. 9 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:31.640 He's one of Jesus' disciples and he's a little prideful. 10 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.560 You won't catch this unless it's in the nuance of 11 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.039 how he writes. But in one of his stories, he's 12 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:41.399 talking about him and a friend. We're running to get somewhere, 13 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:43.399 and he talked about himself. 14 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:46.359 In the third person. He's like, but then the other 15 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.799 disciple beat Peter to the tomb. But he's talking about himself. 16 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:52.399 It's just random fact he'd be doing. 17 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.039 He calls himself the one Jesus loved, so he'd be 18 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:55.880 in the joint. 19 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:57.479 He'd be like, yeah, you know, James. 20 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:59.600 Was there, Peter was there, The one Jesus loved was there. 21 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.000 But you can't do that write in your own letter. 22 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:06.560 That's crazy. John's the best. But John chapter number ten, 23 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:09.159 Verse ten is going to kind of be our starting 24 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.239 point today. If you got it, say I got it. 25 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.959 If you don't, don't worry. We got you all right. 26 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.480 Could you throw that up on the screen for me? 27 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:21.000 John ten ten says, this funny story. Actually, I grew 28 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:22.680 up in a church. My dad was a pastor. It 29 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:26.239 was called Abundant Life Church, Abundant Life Christian Church. I 30 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:27.879 don't know they had some more spiritual words in there, 31 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:30.680 but this was the anchor verse. So John ten ten 32 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:32.319 and the NIV, this is what it says. 33 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:33.640 He throw it up there for me. It says this, 34 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:35.359 the thief. 35 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:41.439 Comes only to steal and kill and destroy. 36 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.319 But I have come that they may have life and 37 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.799 have it to the full. 38 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.519 This is what Jesus is saying. He says, there's a 39 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:55.920 thief and he's here to steal. 40 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.200 Stuff, to kill and destroy. 41 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:59.959 But the reason I showed up, the reason I'm here, 42 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:04.439 the reason I stepped out of heaven and into human history. 43 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.480 He explains, in these words, I came that they may 44 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:09.800 have life and have it to the fool. 45 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:10.759 Look at the message. 46 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.319 Eugene Peterson, I was a professor. He kind of paraphrase it. 47 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:16.639 This way, he says, a thief is only there to 48 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.120 still kill and destroy. I have come so that they 49 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:23.840 can have real and eternal life, and look at this language, 50 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:29.080 more and better life than they ever dreamed of. 51 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.199 Jesus is setting some context here. 52 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.039 If you want to know why I showed up on 53 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:41.919 the scene, why I stepped out of perfection and gold 54 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:43.800 streets to relate to you. 55 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.800 Why I put on this flesh suit. 56 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.240 Why I had to deal with people that I was 57 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:50.840 there when they were created. 58 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.199 Why I stepped out of heaven. 59 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.360 The reason I'm here today is just to let everybody know. 60 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:01.400 He showed up so you could have more and better 61 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.479 life than you've ever dreamed of. 62 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.280 That's the point. Why is Jesus here. 63 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.879 Jesus tells us himself in John Tinton, I showed up 64 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:19.280 so you could have a better life than your dreams. 65 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.599 So you wouldn't escape life to dream, but you would 66 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.199 live your dreams while you're awake. 67 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:28.280 I gotta calm down. I'm not even supposed to be 68 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:28.759 preaching yet. 69 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:31.680 Okay, the title of my sermon today, I'm taking notes. 70 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:32.280 Write it down. 71 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:36.759 Better than dreaming, better than dreaming, better than dreaming, better 72 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:38.199 than dreaming. 73 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.960 Lord Jesus, we thank you that you are here. 74 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:44.080 You are here with us in this moment, and I 75 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.319 pray that you would reveal yourself in a way that 76 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:51.319 we cannot ignore, a way that changes us, a way 77 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.439 that helps us see you differently, a way that changes 78 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:55.560 how we see ourselves. 79 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.240 And Lord God, we love you. So you let me pray, 80 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.560 and everybody said amen. 81 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.680 When we jump into John chapter number ten, Jesus talking 82 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:07.159 to a religious group of leaders who are in summary, 83 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:11.439 super lame. They're super lame. They think they're really cool. 84 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:14.240 They've memorized a lot of the Old Testament, and they 85 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:15.280 think because they. 86 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.240 Know a lot about God that they know God. But 87 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:19.319 these are two different things. 88 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.680 You can know a lot about God and still not 89 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:25.079 know God. How do we know this because they knew 90 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.600 the most quote unquote and they killed him. They had 91 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.560 the first five books in your Bible, they had that 92 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:37.120 memorized since they were teenagers, and they still couldn't see 93 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:41.040 God when he was walking around healing people doing miracles. 94 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.000 So you can know about God and still not see God. 95 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.519 But Jesus is talking to them, and the context of 96 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:51.199 this scripture is Jesus heals a blind man and the 97 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:52.000 Pharisees or. 98 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.000 These religious group leaders. They go and they. 99 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.079 Start interrogating the blind man. Why because they're not concerned 100 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.639 with the miracle. They're more frustrated about Jesus's method of 101 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.600 how he gets to miracles. This is something that still 102 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:06.160 happens today, and I'm not gonna go on a whole 103 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.480 rant with it, but people will be more frustrated with 104 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.519 the method of how people get saved than the actual 105 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:16.800 fact that five hundred and twenty four people are getting saved. 106 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:19.279 Still happens today. 107 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:22.360 They frustrated because Jesus, You're not supposed to do it 108 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:26.160 like that. That's not how people are supposed to get saved. 109 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.720 And so Jesus goes on this whole rant as he 110 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:29.399 normally does. 111 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:30.160 He's kind of like. 112 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.319 Talking to the crowd, but he's also taking direct shots. 113 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.480 At all the Pharisees. It's very gangster of Jesus. 114 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:38.560 But he does this whole illustration about sheep and he's like, 115 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.959 there's a sheep gate and I'm at the gate and 116 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:42.959 other people are trying to get in the gate, and 117 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:44.879 if you come and it's stuff that doesn't make sense now, 118 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:46.920 but if you were a shepherd back then and you know. 119 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:48.680 It made a lot of sense. And here's the connection. 120 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:50.560 Have you ever, I don't know if you've heard the 121 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.040 scripture of the twenty third song. 122 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.160 Some of y'all, you know, if you played any. 123 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:56.319 Type of sports in the two thousands, you probably have 124 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:57.120 that tattooed on your. 125 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.600 Ribs or something like that. But it's like a very 126 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.519 specific call. But somebody in here is like, dang it, 127 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:02.839 I do. 128 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:07.600 But one of the things that starts out and says, 129 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:12.480 the Lord is my shepherd. So when Jesus starts talking 130 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.920 about he's the real shepherd, that he's the good shepherd, 131 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.480 everybody in the crowd says, is he saying what I 132 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.480 think he's saying. Everybody knows there's a connection that's deeper 133 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.560 that's happening right now. He is making a claim to 134 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.360 be somebody who we've been looking for for hundreds of years, 135 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:33.839 and he's saying, yeah, I know you've been looking for him, 136 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:34.279 but it's me. 137 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:36.759 Just make the pharise. He's very, very angry. 138 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.279 But then he backs up and he uses this verse 139 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.560 verse number ten, and he says, the enemy or the 140 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.879 devil with adversary, he has three goals in your life 141 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:51.839 to steal to kill and destroy it. Now, I'm not 142 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.439 gonna spend much time on the devil because he don't 143 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:56.600 need no time and just a little bit of vice. 144 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:58.959 Don't give the devil any of your time. It's a 145 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:00.839 waste of your time to get him your time. It's 146 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:02.800 just it don't make no sense. And some people love 147 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.079 to be like, oh the devil, be quiet. The devil's defeated. 148 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.839 He's dead. He has literally no powers at all. 149 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.480 I don't give the devil the pleasure of even getting 150 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.040 the opportunity to use my vocal course to talk about him. 151 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.920 He just ain't that important. But for two seconds, let 152 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:19.759 me explain. 153 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:20.399 This scripture to you. 154 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:23.680 Still kill and destroy here's the easy illustration. I went 155 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.279 down the whole rabbit hole of the original language just 156 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:28.279 to give it to you simply where you can understand. 157 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.680 Still kill and destroyer is like these three steps. If 158 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:31.839 I got the. 159 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:33.600 Password to your phone. 160 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:37.519 That was I stole your password, so now I have access. 161 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.240 Nothing's changed, you don't know it, but I have an 162 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:45.560 access point to something you desperately need. That's the steal 163 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:47.959 to kill would be like if I went into your 164 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.480 phone and I deleted all your apps in all your contacts. 165 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:53.120 So it's still a phone. 166 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.759 It looks like it functions, it turns on the same way, 167 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.839 but there's something that is missing that is primary to 168 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.639 its immediate fund and purpose. It was created destroyed after 169 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:05.680 he does all that, your. 170 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:06.319 Phone is destroyed. 171 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.439 Not in the sense that it's crushing that got ran over, 172 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.240 but it can't be used for its intended purpose. 173 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:15.879 This is what the devil tries to do to you. 174 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.600 So he doesn't start off with trying to destroy you completely. 175 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:20.920 He starts off by just trying to steal a little 176 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.279 bit of your connection and communication in your marriage. Then 177 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:27.519 he kills your intimacy so that y'all still technically married, 178 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:30.319 but there's no life actually happening in the middle of 179 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.559 your marriage. So then he can destroy the ultimate purpose, 180 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:35.600 which is for you to be a picture of God 181 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.080 on earth. You still married, you still find you still 182 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.480 look good on the outside. But he's stolen, he's killed, 183 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:48.480 and he's destroyed. He is he's slow with He doesn't 184 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.480 come out yelling at you in a red pitchfork and 185 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:52.960 being like I'm here to take. 186 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:54.279 Your purpose, give it over. 187 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.519 That's why I be so interested Christians me sometimes man 188 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.799 just begiving me because we be missing the plot. Sometimes 189 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.840 we're like, oh, man, you watching that show you going 190 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.360 to head there's demons and devils jumping off that TV 191 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:14.440 into your soul. Maybe maybe I'm not saying there's not, 192 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:19.320 but I'm saying when you when you stop being kind 193 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.279 and you lose joy, you don't realize the Bible says 194 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.759 the joy of the Lord is your strength. So if 195 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:31.679 he can take your joy, you can't get stronger. So 196 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:34.600 I'm just saying, you gotta be you gotta be aware. 197 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:35.759 Of the enemy's taxes. 198 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.720 He still kills and destroyers. But then Jesus he summarizes 199 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:44.320 his whole mission and he says, the reason I am 200 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:47.720 here is so you can have a better life than 201 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.519 you've ever dreamed of. Now it's interesting to me, Jesus, 202 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.679 does I mean, if I'm reading this scripture, I don't 203 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:55.440 know what it's about to say Jesus like, this is what. 204 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:56.080 The enemy does. 205 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.679 Now I'm about to tell you why I am here, 206 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:01.039 and I'm not going, Okay, here we go. 207 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.679 He's here to beat up the devil. He's here to 208 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:10.080 make sure I go to heaven. He's here to. 209 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.679 Make sure I'm always healed. He's here to answer all 210 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:14.960 my questions. He's here to do what I need him 211 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:16.159 to do when I need him to do it. He's 212 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:17.679 here to make me feel good here. 213 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.399 He doesn't say any of that. I'm here so you 214 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.279 can have a good life. Now. 215 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.480 I know some of you are like, that's not spiritual enough. 216 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:30.120 That can't be that simple. 217 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:37.519 In today's time, where there's no peace, no clarity, full 218 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.120 of anxiety, full of fear, full of worry, full of 219 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:42.120 all these things. 220 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.039 I want to submit to you this morning. 221 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.360 The life that Jesus is presenting could be the most 222 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:51.960 spiritual act ever, you having a better life than you 223 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:52.679 could dream of. 224 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:54.639 Now. 225 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.600 I get this because we are trained spiritually to want 226 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:58.879 super deep like. 227 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.919 Stuff where we go, oh my gosh. 228 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:03.879 So when you just say, like Jesus here so you 229 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.879 can have like a super fulfilling life, you're. 230 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.559 Like, what what does that? What does that mean? 231 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:10.480 I'm about to walk you through it here. But here's 232 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.679 my submission today. When Jesus says I came that you. 233 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.759 Might have life and life to the full, the language that. 234 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.879 He's using is I am here so that you can 235 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:28.440 have an exceeding and obnoxious, overflowing amount of fulfillment and 236 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:34.039 satisfaction in your life. The word picture is like it's 237 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:38.840 just an exorbitant amount, Like it's so much you cannot contain. 238 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:40.879 It's it's you have a little cup and you just 239 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:44.360 pour on it for fifty years and then another fifty 240 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.720 It's it's so much life, so much peace, so much joy, 241 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:52.759 so much love, so much patience, so much peace in 242 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.720 your life. He says, That's why I'm here, so you 243 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:57.039 can have a full. 244 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:00.519 And satisfying life. What kind of life. Let's just start 245 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:01.440 off with the fruits of the spirit. 246 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:02.960 What if he just said, I want you to have 247 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:09.679 an exceeding amount of love, joy, and peace, an overflowing, 248 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.519 obnoxious amount. 249 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.120 Of love in your life. That's why I showed up. 250 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:15.559 So you just have so much love you don't even 251 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:17.799 know what to do with it. People bump into you 252 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:19.879 and they feel love. People look at you and they 253 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:21.399 just think, I don't know what that is. But I've 254 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:24.080 never seen somebody that seemed to that present with me, 255 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:26.799 that God showed up so that you could have more 256 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.559 joy than you know what to do with. Not so 257 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:33.279 you're scratching and clawing and fighting for these little moments 258 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:34.559 where you kind of have peace. 259 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.120 He said, I want you to have an abundance of peace. 260 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.679 I want the world to be following apart and you 261 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:40.720 not think nothing of it. 262 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:42.840 Because you know who holds the future. 263 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.720 Now, the question is if this is what Jesus is promising. 264 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.759 Here's the question. I've asked the time into my life, 265 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:52.879 and I know people in here are asking why am 266 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:57.120 I following Jesus? And I still don't feel that way. 267 00:12:57.159 --> 00:13:01.159 If the whole reason like his, the whole reason is 268 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.559 I can have a lot of love, a lot of joy, 269 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:05.919 a lot of peace, a lot of patience. 270 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:08.399 And I feel like I got a little bit here 271 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:08.960 and there. 272 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.919 What's the distance? What's the gap? What's the delta? Why 273 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.279 is it that the whole reason he showed up is 274 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:17.879 something that we can barely seem to find. 275 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:19.080 I want to present to. 276 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:23.480 You today that you can live this life and it's 277 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:24.600 easier than you think. 278 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.720 Okay, let me let me, let me, let me get. 279 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.360 Myself together here because I'm sometimes I have so much 280 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:31.720 to say and it would just be too much. 281 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:32.720 Let me give you this point. 282 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:35.200 Here's kind of the anchor point of the sermon. 283 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:35.840 Write this down. 284 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:40.360 The fulfillment we seek is usually found in the action 285 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:46.960 we avoid. The fulfillment we seek is found in the 286 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:48.720 action we avoid. 287 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.360 Here's here's the whole sermon. I'm gonna give it to you, and. 288 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:52.720 Then I'm gonna prove it to you for the next 289 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:54.600 twenty minutes, and then I'm gonna really prove it to 290 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.320 you for the last Like ten. Okay, there is a 291 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:06.919 difference between accepting grace and acting on grace. And you 292 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:10.799 can live your whole life having accepted the grace of 293 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.879 God but never acted on the grace of God. 294 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:17.039 And I want to present to you this morning. 295 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:22.240 The reason John ten ten feels like a such outlandish 296 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:25.919 idea is because many of us live a significant amount 297 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.639 of our life having accepted Jesus but never acted on 298 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.960 the grace he gave us. What I mean, if I 299 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.840 gave you one hundred million dollars. 300 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.360 You could accept it and never spend it. And this 301 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:41.960 is what you would do. You would walk around like, 302 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:48.600 sh I got a hundred million dollars and people be like, 303 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:49.120 how much money? 304 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:49.279 Oh? 305 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:51.639 You was what you were checking your bank account? Siri, 306 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:56.240 read to me my bank account number. They have twenty 307 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.320 eight cents. No the other account. The other. 308 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.440 What you would do is you would start to get 309 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.320 prideful because you think that since you accepted it and 310 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.440 it's in your account, you know how to use it. 311 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:13.320 Oh, I'm about to I'm about to get into it. 312 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:19.679 This is how we get spiritually obese, because oh, I 313 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:21.559 was listening. I was listening to the sermon and it 314 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.679 was so good. It really just spoke to my heart. 315 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.240 And here this happens all the time. And please, if 316 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:28.879 this is if this has ever fault happened to you, 317 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:29.559 I love you. 318 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:30.480 But here's what be happening. 319 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.080 Man, past a child, that was the best sermon you 320 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:37.559 ever preached. Sometimes I'd be like, I don't know, but 321 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:42.399 I appreciate it. I hear in the middle of church, 322 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.639 we mean saying something, ooh that's so good man, I 323 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:50.000 needed that. But just because you heard it and you 324 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:53.600 felt it doesn't mean you did anything with it. 325 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:57.960 I'm not. I'm not. 326 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.480 I'm being super I'm super wool man, and I'm trying 327 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:00.919 to keep. 328 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:04.000 It calm, kind and collected and confident. I'm going through 329 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:05.639 my frame. Croc, come on, man, I'm locking in. Man. 330 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:10.879 But I'm saying, it's very easy to. 331 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.120 Be in church and thinking because you hearing what Jesus 332 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:18.360 does that you do what Jesus did. It's very easy 333 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.080 to watch your favorite preacher and say, man, that was good, 334 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.759 and you never do nothing with what they said. 335 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.519 It's very easy. I'm saying it's very easy because I 336 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.159 do it all the time. We'd be like, whooh man, 337 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:31.840 I love that. 338 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.080 And sometimes I'll be saying to myself, don't tell me 339 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.360 you love it. Show me you love it by changing 340 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.639 something in your life. 341 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.440 Oh man, I really needed that. Tell me how much. 342 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:44.159 Show me how much you needed it by what you 343 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:48.840 did differently on Monday because of what you heard on Sunday. 344 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:53.159 It's so easy because many times the fulfillment we seek 345 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.600 is in the action we're avoiding. So we think that 346 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:59.639 just hearing information and hearing people talk and hearing people 347 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:03.279 pray is the same as actually doing it. But this 348 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.200 is how you get this delta and this internal frustration 349 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:10.400 because you feel like you should be further along because 350 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.599 you got so many notes, and you got so many 351 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.400 prophetic words, and you got so many revelations, and you 352 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.000 have so much power written down in your phone. 353 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.759 But then you look at your life and you barely. 354 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:23.519 Got any peace, you barely got any joy, you barely 355 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.720 got any love, and now you mad because it was 356 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:27.680 like I was at church and I wrote it down 357 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:29.880 and I felt the goosebumps, and they went to the 358 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:32.079 chorus and they said, just y'all sing it, and I 359 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:33.279 sang it, and I did. 360 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.279 It and I felt it. But I went to work 361 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:36.200 and felt the same. 362 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:43.519 Maybe there's an opportunity to close the distance between what 363 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:47.519 you've accepted and what you're acting on. Because here's the deal. 364 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:52.359 Your life is not changed by the truth you accept 365 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.759 to and believe. They are changed by the truth you 366 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.920 accept and then act like you believe them. 367 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:00.000 There's a difference. 368 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.759 Your life is not changed by just accepting. There's a 369 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.039 transformational thing that happens. Yes, but if you really want 370 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:12.640 the full life here on earth, it's gotta show up 371 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:16.319 in your actions. Because here's the deal. Accepting grace gets 372 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:19.079 you into heaven. And let me just say this, if 373 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:20.960 that's really you was all trying to get out of this, 374 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:25.880 you good, You into heaven. 375 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:29.200 Bam, he's going to hell. Now you're going to heaven. 376 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:35.559 But your life on earth, like you know, like the 377 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:40.960 seventy eighty ninety, well, however many years you got accepting grace, 378 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.519 it secures your eternity and so if you're just trying 379 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.359 to live like a super mediocre life and just make 380 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:49.200 sure you make it into heaven, I don't. 381 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:50.039 Want to take that from you. 382 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:52.240 So if you're just like Charles, I'm really only in 383 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:54.880 here to secure my past so that when I die, 384 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.480 i'm in the line. That's the only reason I come 385 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:58.960 to church. That's the only reason I read my Bible. 386 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:00.759 That's the only reason I pray, that's the only reason 387 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:02.440 I give. That's the only reason I do anything. Is 388 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:03.599 because I just didn't want. 389 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:03.920 To go to hell. 390 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:06.079 And so Jesus said that if I believed in him, 391 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:07.039 then I'll go to heaven. 392 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:08.880 And that's really all I want. I don't really want 393 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:10.759 the peace he has. I don't want the joy he has. 394 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.680 I would actually like to believe in him and go 395 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:14.799 to heaven, but still be anxious like all my friends, 396 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:16.960 and be worried about the future, and just try to 397 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:18.720 control my kids because I'm afraid. 398 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:20.960 And I'd love to be terrified. 399 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.000 Politically and just use it to like control things. And 400 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:24.759 I'd love to fight with people in the comments, and 401 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.559