WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Yeah. 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:27.000 So, Abraham was given this promise by God that nobody else saw nobody else heard, or whom nobody else are heard. I will make you the father of many nations I will make your name famous, I will give land to your descendants I will bless the families 3 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:42.000 of nations of earth with your descendants, your descendants will be as, as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand of the seashore. 4 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.000 And he had that word. 5 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.000 And then he had. 6 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:55.000 And then he had all the evidence that said, you've never had children you never will have children. 7 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.000 Your wife. 8 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:03.000 She's never had children. She never will have children. 9 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.000 And, 10 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:25.000 and it says that he decided when hope was gone to hope on to hope in the one who promised, whom he esteemed was able to raise the dead to life, and to call those things that be not as though they already were. 11 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:30.000 He esteemed hit he was able to do what he promised. 12 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:44.000 So how do you get to that belief, how do you get to, like, you know, Mark 11. Let me see Mark 11 in the amplified. 13 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:51.000 So Mark 11. 14 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:58.000 You remember when. So it's in the passion week, and Jesus goes to reach for a fig. 15 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:06.000 And, and because he was hungry, and there's no figs because it's not the season. 16 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:15.000 You know that scripture be ready in season, and out of season. There's no season so the tree tells him, it's not the sea salt my season. 17 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.000 And there's no fix. 18 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:23.000 And so he says, then neither shall you produce fruit for anyone. 19 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:36.000 And so they go in a whole bunch of stuff happens, and then they're coming out, and they walk by this tree they're coming out of Jerusalem they walk by this tree, and Peter. 20 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.000 They notice this is Mark 1120. 21 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:50.000 They notice that the fig tree was withered completely away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to a master look the fig tree which you doomed has withered away. 22 00:02:50.000 --> 00:03:10.000 And Jesus replying said to him, have faith in God, constantly. The reason for the constantly is because in the Greek text. It's that continuous, you know, have faith now be believing now. 23 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:24.000 And truly I tell you whoever says to this mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but be leaves what he says will take place. 24 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:28.000 It will be done for him. Have you guys heard the verses. 25 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:38.000 It's impossible for them that believe, or all things are possible to those who believe. 26 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:48.000 So, and then how about when the disciples say, Oh, what are the works is tell us the works we must do to please God. 27 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.000 What is it and we'll do it. 28 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:57.000 And Jesus said, Yeah, only believe. 29 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.000 And to Jay Iris. 30 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:04.000 He said, Lord, you're able to come and and heal my daughter. 31 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:13.000 And then they came and said don't bother the master, because she's gone, she's dead. 32 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:18.000 And Jesus turns to him and says, 33 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:27.000 remember, only believe, only believe. So there's an option to doubt. 34 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:34.000 There's an option to be distracted, or you can only believe. 35 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:44.000 Nothing shall be impossible for them to believe. That's what Jesus is saying here in Mark 11. 36 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.000 And whenever. 37 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:59.000 For this reason I'm telling you, whatever you ask in prayer. Believe the Amplify says believe, trust and be confident that it is granted to you. 38 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:09.680 will receive it. Because remember in the first epistle of John, if we ask anything according 39 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:18.800 to God's will, we know he hears us. Elijah, if you ask your mom what she's already planned for you, 40 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:25.600 if you ask her, mom, can I clean my room? Mom, can I help you bring in the groceries? Mom, 41 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:32.320 could I do the dishes after dinner tonight? Is she going to hear you? She is going to hear you. 42 00:05:33.280 --> 00:05:39.280 You are speaking her language, right? She's going to hear you. Are you going to have whatever you 43 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:46.800 asked? You are going to have whatever you asked. So that comes from someone. That comes from our 44 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:53.600 heavenly father. When we ask anything according to his will, we know. And are you going to be 45 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:59.440 blessed on the other side of doing those things? Yeah. It's kind of like church and exercise, 46 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:04.480 right? Do I feel like going? But afterwards, you're so glad you went. You're so glad you did 47 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:11.920 that hard thing for somebody else. So glad you were helpful. So here when we ask anything 48 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:19.200 according to what we know is already God's will, we know he's hearing us. It's not our idea. 49 00:06:19.200 --> 00:06:25.440 When we're asking for someone to be healed, when we're asking, when we're pressing in to find out, 50 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:30.800 you know, that somebody be saved, when we're asking that our hearts would be made pure, 51 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:37.920 that we would hear him, that we would hear God's voice, that we would be hungry and thirsty 52 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:43.120 for his righteousness. None of those things are our idea. We don't have to beg for them, 53 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:50.800 right? We're speaking God's language. So we know he's hearing us. We know we're coming into 54 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:57.280 agreement with those things that God has already said. And Jesus says, when you pray like that 55 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:06.160 and you believe, then you will receive. And whenever you stand praying, this is verse 25, 56 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:14.080 really important in Mark 11. Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, 57 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:26.160 forgive him. Let it drop. Leave it. Let it go. In order that your father who is in heaven 58 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:34.400 may also forgive you your own failings and shortcomings, let them drop. But if you do not 59 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:42.800 forgive, verse 26, neither will your father in heaven forgive you your failings and shortcomings. 60 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:55.600 So in this, in any discussion about believing, we have to have a discussion about what? 61 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:01.200 What would we just hear in Mark 11? 62 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:21.600 And if you have anything against anyone, forgive. So why is that? Because it's also 63 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:30.880 God's will. So if God has shed his blood for the forgiveness of all sins, then 64 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:37.840 we're, forgiveness isn't saying what? Forgiveness doesn't say, forgiveness doesn't pretend anything. 65 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:42.159 Forgiveness doesn't say something didn't happen or it's okay that it happened. 66 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:49.760 Forgiveness doesn't take on, it's all right, I'll bear the weight. I'll overlook it. No, 67 00:08:49.760 --> 00:08:56.400 forgiveness says it's yours. Actually, you have, what does it say in Jeremiah? And I will remember 68 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:02.480 their sins no more. I will remove their sins in Isaiah from as far as the East is to the, 69 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:09.280 from the West. I will remember them no more. I will cast their sins into the sea of forgetfulness. 70 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:20.080 Wait a minute. Jeremiah 31, 34, I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I will remember 71 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:29.440 no more. So that's, that's God's, that's God. So you can't believe what feels good, 72 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:33.440 what you want to believe. I want to believe for this provision. I want to believe for this 73 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:38.800 protection, but I don't, I don't want to believe that that person who betrayed me, 74 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:46.800 who hurt me, who stole from me, who beat me, I don't, I don't want to forgive. So what forgiveness 75 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:54.560 is, is making an attachment of yourself with something other than God. If an evil has been 76 00:09:54.560 --> 00:09:59.440 perpetrated by you or someone else, forgiveness 77 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.000 separates you, severs you from the curse of that thing, from the follow through of that thing. 78 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:13.000 It just says the effect of that, that's not what determines who I am. 79 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:19.000 That's not where my mind is going to go. That's not why I come to the Lord. 80 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.000 That is yours. They're yours, God. 81 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:29.000 I just give that whole situation to you. I ask you to bless them like you've blessed me. 82 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:33.000 And I ask mercy like you've given me mercy. 83 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:38.000 So this is powerful to understand because it's so important. 84 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:45.000 You guys remember in Matthew six, when and in Luke when they're saying, you know, 85 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:52.000 well Jesus is on the Sermon on the Mount or in Luke when they're saying, teach us Lord how to pray. 86 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:58.000 And what does he say? 87 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.000 Yeah, nice and loud, honey. 88 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:08.000 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 89 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:13.000 Yeah, our Father acknowledging the Father. 90 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.000 Holy is your name. 91 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.000 Your kingdom come. 92 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:23.000 Your will be done on earth. 93 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:34.000 Your will on earth, your will on earth in me, through me, for others, as it is in heaven. 94 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.000 Give us this day our daily bread. 95 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:40.000 Give us what we need today. 96 00:11:40.000 --> 00:12:01.000 And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive others who trespass, who sin, who have debts against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 97 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:05.000 For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever. 98 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:18.000 Amen. What does it say after the Lord's Prayer. 99 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:26.000 If you forgive those who have sinned against you, your Heavenly Father will forgive you. 100 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:35.000 If you don't forgive, your Heavenly Father will not forgive. Why? Because that blood was shed for the forgiveness of sins for all mankind. 101 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:47.000 And so, if we are receiving forgiveness for us, we have to receive that it's for everyone. 102 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:53.000 And if we don't receive that it's for everyone, then we don't receive that it's for us. 103 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:59.000 So we actually decide whether or not we walk in belief and faith. 104 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.000 Do I believe that the blood was shed? 105 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:08.000 I can't believe that fundamental thing that the nature of God is mercy and that His justice has paid the price. 106 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:17.000 His ultimate vengeance is forgiveness because it robs the true enemy of His prey. 107 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.000 He's not trying to destroy the children. 108 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:29.000 He's trying to rescue, to redeem the children out from under the enemy who has deceived and destroyed them. 109 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:39.000 So, in believing, we have to understand that God alone makes us not guilty. 110 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.000 That's what happened with Abraham. 111 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:50.000 Abraham believed that God was able to do what he promised, that Abraham could do nothing about it. 112 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:57.000 So he had to understand, one, that he was loved so that he would not fear. 113 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:04.000 And he had to believe that none of what God promised was based on anything he had done wrong. 114 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:09.000 And so, in God's eyes, because he believed God, God said, you're not guilty. 115 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.000 You're righteous. 116 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:26.000 So this issue of not being guilty is a gift given by God that allows us to hear him say, now go and sin no more. 117 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.000 So what would make that possible? 118 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:35.000 Like, I don't know about you guys, but when I would read him say, say that to people who were getting saved, 119 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:41.000 like the woman who was thrown at his feet, having been caught in the act, she's an adulteress. 120 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:45.000 She deserves death according to the law. 121 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:49.000 And then he says to her, go and sin no more. 122 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:53.000 Or the paraplegic, he totally healed, go and sin no more. 123 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:59.000 Or the guy he healed from blindness, go and sin no more. 124 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:00.000 So. 125 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.960 I used to think that that was, wow, that's, 126 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:07.160 that that was not kind, that was mean, 127 00:15:07.160 --> 00:15:09.440 because how are they going to go do that? 128 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.760 Because I felt that way about me. 129 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:15.540 Okay, I'll never again, kind of like, okay, 130 00:15:16.520 --> 00:15:21.520 don't let tomorrow come because, you know, I'm back at it. 131 00:15:21.800 --> 00:15:26.800 So I have to believe there's been a transaction. 132 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:29.120 There's been a transaction. 133 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:34.120 So what Jesus did was by taking the guilt away 134 00:15:35.560 --> 00:15:40.560 and giving them either the ability to, 135 00:15:42.160 --> 00:15:47.160 you know, you remember how the disciples said, 136 00:15:48.920 --> 00:15:53.080 Lord, that man that's been blind from birth, who sinned? 137 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:56.520 Was it him or was it his parents? 138 00:15:56.520 --> 00:15:58.920 Does anybody remember what Jesus said? 139 00:15:58.920 --> 00:15:59.760 No. 140 00:16:00.680 --> 00:16:03.400 Yeah, he said, he said, nobody sinned. 141 00:16:03.400 --> 00:16:07.000 I'm like, yeah, nobody sinned. 142 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.920 Jesus, come on, you and I know, sinned. 143 00:16:11.040 --> 00:16:16.040 But that's not what he comes into agreement with. 144 00:16:16.280 --> 00:16:19.880 And he says, this is to glorify my father. 145 00:16:19.880 --> 00:16:24.600 He immediately, he will not agree with the accuser. 146 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:26.880 He will not agree with the liar. 147 00:16:26.880 --> 00:16:31.320 He will let you agree, but he will not. 148 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:32.920 And he says, this is for God's glory. 149 00:16:32.920 --> 00:16:36.560 And he claims that for the kingdom. 150 00:16:38.280 --> 00:16:41.880 And so when he tells these people, your sins are forgiven, 151 00:16:41.880 --> 00:16:43.600 go and sin no more, 152 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.880 he's literally made a transaction with them. 153 00:16:47.880 --> 00:16:49.640 I've taken the whole of the curse. 154 00:16:49.640 --> 00:16:52.760 You're not, you're free, you're not cursed. 155 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:56.840 You're not rejected. 156 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:58.160 You're not accepted. 157 00:16:58.160 --> 00:17:01.040 I mean, you're not, you're not unaccepted. 158 00:17:01.040 --> 00:17:05.119 Neither do I condemn you, he said. 159 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.560 So when it comes to believing, 160 00:17:07.560 --> 00:17:11.000 there has to be this vital connection, 161 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.880 this searching of heart to, 162 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:18.880 do I esteem in any place in me that I bear guilt, 163 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:22.440 that I am guilty? 164 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:28.440 So not guilty and only believe, 165 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:34.200 those are really deep because the accuser's got two things. 166 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:36.920 One, he's going to tell you how guilty you are. 167 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.040 And two, he's going to tell you how sick you are, 168 00:17:39.040 --> 00:17:41.000 how impossible this thing is. 169 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:46.880 So I think about like Psalm 51, this audacity, 170 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.760 this total audacity of David, 171 00:17:51.760 --> 00:17:56.760 who, I mean, y'all, 172 00:17:58.040 --> 00:18:01.960 what are the things he's guilty of in this time 173 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:06.200 when he doesn't go out when all the kings go out to war? 174 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:12.640 Yeah, so first he stays home where he's not supposed to be 175 00:18:13.800 --> 00:18:15.320 and he's idle. 176 00:18:15.320 --> 00:18:17.200 So he's looking over his balcony 177 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:20.240 and he's checking out the neighbors 178 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:22.040 that he shouldn't be checking out. 179 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:26.640 And he starts lusting after Bathsheba 180 00:18:28.360 --> 00:18:31.480 and then commands someone to go get her 181 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:33.800 as if she is his possession. 182 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:41.720 And then he commits adultery with her 183 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:44.880 as if he has the right to do that. 184 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.480 And then what happens? 185 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:52.040 Yeah, but why? 186 00:18:52.040 --> 00:18:53.720 She's pregnant. 187 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:58.320 He's like, oh, we can't have this. 188 00:18:58.320 --> 00:19:01.520 My gosh, Uriah the Hittite, 189 00:19:01.520 --> 00:19:04.480 he's out there fighting and I'm not fighting. 190 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.040 He's fighting for my kingdom. 191 00:19:06.040 --> 00:19:10.320 And so somebody go get him, 192 00:19:10.320 --> 00:19:12.480 go get him and bring him in 193 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:14.920 because he's so faithful, so loyal. 194 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:19.920 So he brings in Uriah and Uriah, he says, 195 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:23.120 go relax, refresh in yourself, 196 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:26.520 go lay with your wife and eat. 197 00:19:28.560 --> 00:19:32.360 Pretending he's good, like he's totally manipulating. 198 00:19:33.280 --> 00:19:35.000 And Uriah's like, how can I? 199 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:37.600 My army is out there fighting. 200 00:19:37.600 --> 00:19:40.160 Everyone's out there on the front lines. 201 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:44.840 How could I go like indulge myself? 202 00:19:44.840 --> 00:19:49.120 So he lays outside David's door fasting. 203 00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:52.960 David's completely indulged himself. 204 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:57.360 And this man just like the convictions are heaped on here. 205 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:00.040 So then he sends. 206 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:10.920 a note out and, you know, and orders Joab to put your eye in the front of the line and 207 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:18.760 everybody else pull back. So he implicates other people in murdering. It's just, you 208 00:20:18.760 --> 00:20:26.640 know, whenever we don't humble ourselves. What is it Shakespeare says? Oh, what a tangled 209 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:41.760 web we weave when first we practice to deceive. So, so now that he's dead, he takes in Bathsheba 210 00:20:41.760 --> 00:20:52.440 and then the baby dies. Nathan comes, you know, and so and tells him, you know, here's 211 00:20:52.440 --> 00:21:06.960 what you did. And he's convicted and he goes into the, he goes into the show to the, yeah, 212 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:22.400 with the sheep. You guys remember that story? Yeah. Oh. And then, so then he, he, 213 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:31.080 um, so David goes in and just listen to this. I mean, this is someone, so this is why God 214 00:21:31.080 --> 00:21:43.680 calls him a heart, a man after his own heart, not because he was flawless, but because of 215 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:55.000 his faith. Like he was so completely filthy and covered in guilt. In fact, uh, unfortunately 216 00:21:55.000 --> 00:22:04.880 his family suffered violence there on out and his own son compromised the whole kingdom. 217 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:12.320 His own, one other son raped his sister. Another son murdered him. It just went on and on. 218 00:22:12.320 --> 00:22:21.680 There was weakness throughout. And, but like Abraham, who wasn't perfect, right? Who went 219 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:28.200 down to Egypt and lied and went, you know, here and there and lied to protect himself. 220 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:44.160 His faith was in God. And so in, in Psalm 51, um, here, a prayer of confession. When 221 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:54.840 the prophet Nathan exposed King David's adultery with Bathsheba, God give mercy from your fountain 222 00:22:54.840 --> 00:23:01.600 of forgiveness. This is, this all precedes the cross. This is the audacity of someone 223 00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:12.320 who will believe God in every way, even that he has good intentions for us personally. 224 00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:17.400 I know. So give me mercy from your fountain of forgiveness. He knows that that's what 225 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:23.960 God possesses is forgiveness and mercy. I know your abundant love is enough to wash 226 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:34.800 away my guilt. It's enough. My guilt, my sin is not bigger than God's mercy. My rebellion, 227 00:23:34.800 --> 00:23:44.280 my hard heartedness is not bigger than, than God's goodness. The devil is not more evil 228 00:23:44.280 --> 00:23:50.520 than God is good. The evil is the absence of God's goodness. It's a choice to separate 229 00:23:50.520 --> 00:23:57.640 from God's goodness. My sin was a choice to agree with the lack of God. So here, David, 230 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:07.600 before the cross, how many centuries, many centuries before the cross, believing in God's 231 00:24:07.600 --> 00:24:18.600 goodness, that his goodness was greater than his own wickedness than, than all his guilt. 232 00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:25.320 I know your abundant love is enough. This is the passion translation to wash away my 233 00:24:25.320 --> 00:24:35.240 guilt because your compassion is so great. Take away the shameful guilt of sin. Forgive 234 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:45.400 the full extent of my rebellious ways. This is audacity. Erase the deep stain on my conscience. 235 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:55.040 If I cannot believe God to make me into his image, if I cannot trust him to take me out 236 00:24:55.040 --> 00:24:59.920 from under the dominion of darkness, out from under the law that all. 237 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.240 stakes bring forth death. Sin brings death. Sin brings death. Sin brings death. Total judgment. 238 00:25:07.040 --> 00:25:16.000 If I don't, if I can't believe him to bring me from death, to pass me from death through himself 239 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:23.600 into life through his cross and his capacity to put me in the kingdom of the son of his love, 240 00:25:23.600 --> 00:25:31.680 where the law is the spirit of life, the original breath breathed into man was the breath of life, 241 00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:40.000 the spirit of life, the Ruach spirit of life. So now my life is the spirit of life 242 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:48.000 in Christ Jesus. So it's not based on what I did, didn't do, anyone else did or didn't do. 243 00:25:48.960 --> 00:26:02.800 So now David goes on, I am so ashamed. I feel such pain and anguish within me. I can't get away from 244 00:26:02.800 --> 00:26:13.120 this thing of my sin against you. Everything I did, Lord, I did right in front of you and against you 245 00:26:13.120 --> 00:26:23.760 only and you saw it all. Against you and you above all have I sinned. Everything you say to me 246 00:26:23.760 --> 00:26:32.400 is infallibly true. Your judgment conquers me. So here's another key to believing and forgiving. 247 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:39.840 Was this the same God, the same God David's talking to now, 248 00:26:40.560 --> 00:26:46.640 the same God that went to the cross that said to the adulteress, neither do I condemn you, 249 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:51.280 go and sin no more. Was this the same God that was in the garden of Eden? 250 00:26:53.120 --> 00:27:01.040 Yes. So what's the difference between what David's doing here and what Adam did in that garden? 251 00:27:01.600 --> 00:27:10.080 David took responsibility. He didn't blame someone else. He didn't blame his father. 252 00:27:10.080 --> 00:27:15.040 He didn't blame his cruel brothers. He didn't blame being ignored by his parents, 253 00:27:15.040 --> 00:27:20.240 being discredited. He didn't blame being on the run for years when King Saul tried to kill him. 254 00:27:20.320 --> 00:27:22.400 He didn't blame. He said, 255 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:36.720 yeah, and he didn't, he didn't blame God. He didn't blame someone else. He didn't blame God. 256 00:27:37.360 --> 00:27:44.800 He didn't align himself with the accuser. So he's taking full responsibility and yet 257 00:27:44.800 --> 00:27:52.880 yielding himself to the mercy. He didn't blame Nathan. Right. Right. Which how many 258 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.800 prophets were killed because they confronted the King with their sin. 259 00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:06.000 So he was convicted. It was the truth and he wasn't going to lie against the truth and he 260 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:13.840 wasn't going to make an excuse. And so he could come and call on the mercy and forgiveness of God 261 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:19.840 and he could believe in him because he didn't make it someone else's problem. 262 00:28:21.520 --> 00:28:28.320 I know you delight to set your deep truth in my spirit. So come into the hiding places of my heart 263 00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:38.320 and teach me wisdom. Purify even my conscience. Make this leper clean again. This is, this is 264 00:28:38.320 --> 00:28:48.720 incredible. Like not only take away my guilt before you as if I never did it, take away, 265 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:58.720 purge my memory of it as if I never did it. Wash me in your love until I'm pure in heart. 266 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:06.720 Satisfy me in your sweetness and my song of joy will return. The places within me you have crushed 267 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:14.640 will rejoice with your healing touch. Hide my sins from your face. Erase my guilt, all of it, 268 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:21.200 by your saving grace and create in me a clean heart within me. He's believing for the impossible. 269 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:27.120 I mean, that's part of what our whole society mess is. If you've committed it, 270 00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:31.440 that's who you are. If you feel it, that's who you are. There's no hope for you. 271 00:29:32.320 --> 00:29:38.480 But Abraham hoped and believed in God. David hoped and believed in God for all new life. 272 00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:47.680 Created me a clean heart. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires. I can't do it myself. 273 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:56.080 I want to be ready to please you. May you never reject me. May you never take from me your sacred 274 00:29:56.080 --> 00:29:58.400 spirit. 275 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:08.040 Oh, in considering, um, in considering, 276 00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:17.480 got some excited patrons here in considering, huh? 277 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:20.200 No, no. 278 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:25.200 Yeah, I'm sorry. 279 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:28.800 Well, just pull it down one if you want. 280 00:30:29.560 --> 00:30:32.280 This way, this way. 281 00:30:32.280 --> 00:30:33.560 I like to have some air. 282 00:30:34.080 --> 00:30:34.480 Okay. 283 00:30:34.520 --> 00:30:42.480 So, um, in, in considering, in considering forgiveness in its 284 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:48.240 connection to being able to believe, to being able to approach the father, ask 285 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:53.880 the father for his will, for his kingdom, for his provision, for his protection, 286 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:55.640 to even come and praise him. 287 00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:01.840 Remember even Jesus said, when you bring a gift to the altar, if you have 288 00:31:01.840 --> 00:31:08.880 ought against anyone or someone has ought against you, go and reconcile. 289 00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:19.880 So this issue of, of, of, um, clearing ourselves, being cleared from guilt 290 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:24.160 is a major component of, of believing. 291 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:30.720 So let me just, for our last scripture, let me just look at, uh, Isaiah 53. 292 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:41.280 Who has believed, who has trusted in, relied upon and clung to our message, 293 00:31:41.800 --> 00:31:47.120 which, which has been revealed to us, who will believe in this report? 294 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:49.800 Who will believe in this report? 295 00:31:50.040 --> 00:31:52.240 Because there's, who are the witnesses? 296 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.680 We're telling you the truth. 297 00:31:53.800 --> 00:32:01.720 Who will believe, you know, when, when, when God changed Abraham's, Abram's 298 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:08.760 name to Abraham from father to father of many nations by sticking his own 299 00:32:08.760 --> 00:32:14.440 name in the middle from changing Sarah's name to Sarah, he had to walk 300 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:18.640 around to all his servants, his nephew. 301 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:23.360 He had to walk around to all his people and say, now you're going to call me. 302 00:32:23.800 --> 00:32:25.560 Father of many nations. 303 00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:31.520 Everybody knew he didn't have one son or one daughter and he had to tell them, 304 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:35.520 okay, you're going to call me father of many nations now, because 305 00:32:35.520 --> 00:32:37.240 that's, that's who God says I am. 306 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:43.920 I mean, can you imagine the smirks and Snickers like what's something, 307 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:50.480 what's something that you would want to see in your life, but it's not 308 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:56.160 manifested yet and you want, um, like, okay, Jeremiah, suppose you 309 00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:06.200 introduced yourself as attorney, Jeremiah Moniz, because God said, 310 00:33:06.360 --> 00:33:12.640 this is what I'm making you for the purpose of bringing my gospel into 311 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:19.600 the nations, or, you know, what if, what if, you know, what, when you 312 00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:27.160 have to go tell people, okay, here's like Jacob, Jacob, Jacob's name 313 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:36.400 means deceiver, supplanter, usurper through trickery, and he's, and, and 314 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:43.440 God changed his name to Israel, to Prince, to one who, who, uh, wrestles 315 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:48.200 with God, and so he had to tell them, okay, now, now my name is Prince, 316 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:51.640 one who wrestles with God and his name was deceiver. 317 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:59.520 So like, you know, believing in what God says and does has to 318 00:33:59.520 --> 00:34:02.040 come first between you and God. 319 00:34:02.520 --> 00:34:04.720 You have to wrestle these things out with God. 320 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:13.120 So that's how this Isaiah 53 starts, who has believed, trusted in, relied 321 00:34:13.120 --> 00:34:15.719 upon and clung to our message. 322 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:24.000 And to whom has the arm of the Lord, the arm to save the arm of strength to 323 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:31.880 save from Isaiah 59 been disclosed for the servant of God grew up before him 324 00:34:32.120 --> 00:34:36.400 like a tender plant, like a root out of dry ground. 325 00:34:36.600 --> 00:34:42.920 He has no form or comeliness, no Royal or Kingly pomp that we should look at him. 326 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.920 No beauty that we should desire him. 327 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:55.880 He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a man of sorrows and pains and 328 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:59.800 acquainted with grief and sickness. 329 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.680 So, this is the amplified version to pull out the meanings of those words, that not 330 00:35:06.680 --> 00:35:11.360 only does that word mean grief, it also means sicknesses. 331 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:22.640 It means illness of mind and body, and sorrows includes also pain, pain of mind and body. 332 00:35:22.640 --> 00:35:29.120 And like one from whom men hid their faces, so much shame, so much humiliation. 333 00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:38.320 He was despised, this is what, 800 years before Christ, and we did not appreciate his worth 334 00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:49.640 or even have any esteem for him, like, surely though, he has borne our griefs. 335 00:35:49.640 --> 00:35:51.800 He bore our sicknesses. 336 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:54.640 He bore our weaknesses and distresses. 337 00:35:54.640 --> 00:35:58.760 He carried our sorrows and our pains of punishment. 338 00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:06.960 That we ignorantly considered him stricken, smitten and afflicted by God as if with leprosy. 339 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:10.080 But he was wounded for our transgression. 340 00:36:10.080 --> 00:36:15.120 He was bruised for our guilt, mine, yours. 341 00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:20.080 So the price for forgiveness was upon him. 342 00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:25.840 Even the chastisement needful for us to obtain peace like David was crying out for, and for 343 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:34.000 well-being like David was actually asking for, what all fell upon Jesus. 344 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:42.720 And with his stripes that wounded him, we are healed and made whole. 345 00:36:42.720 --> 00:36:46.120 And all we like sheep, we've all gone astray. 346 00:36:46.120 --> 00:36:48.760 We've all turned to our own way. 347 00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:55.500 And the Lord has made to land upon him the guilt and iniquity of us all. 348 00:36:55.500 --> 00:37:04.180 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted, he was submissive and opened up, opened not 349 00:37:04.180 --> 00:37:05.780 his mouth. 350 00:37:05.780 --> 00:37:08.460 He didn't point to us. 351 00:37:08.460 --> 00:37:14.400 He didn't talk about how righteous he was, which he was. 352 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:16.220 He didn't defend himself. 353 00:37:16.220 --> 00:37:18.100 He didn't accuse anyone else. 354 00:37:18.100 --> 00:37:20.700 He didn't talk about how unfair it is. 355 00:37:20.700 --> 00:37:22.380 He kept his mouth shut. 356 00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:29.460 And like a lamb that's led to a slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, 357 00:37:29.460 --> 00:37:33.300 he opened not his mouth. 358 00:37:33.300 --> 00:37:41.900 He let it all, he let all the violence, all the sin, all the sickness, all the shame, 359 00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:50.180 all the grief, all the sorrows, all the blame, and all the pain fall upon him. 360 00:37:50.180 --> 00:38:00.380 When he argued not, he didn't say one thing. 361 00:38:00.380 --> 00:38:06.460 Like a lamb that is led to a slaughter, and a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he 362 00:38:06.460 --> 00:38:08.020 opened not his mouth. 363 00:38:08.020 --> 00:38:10.580 He just let it happen. 364 00:38:10.580 --> 00:38:13.260 Not my will, but yours be done, remember? 365 00:38:13.260 --> 00:38:15.380 Not my will, but yours be done. 366 00:38:15.380 --> 00:38:19.240 By oppression and judgment, he was taken away. 367 00:38:19.240 --> 00:38:26.420 And for his generation, who among them considered that he was cut off out of the land and stricken 368 00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:34.860 to his death for the transgressions of my people, to whom the stroke was due? 369 00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:36.640 We deserve this. 370 00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:40.080 And they assigned him a grave with the wicked. 371 00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:41.920 He died on the cross. 372 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:47.600 And with a rich man in his death, he was buried in a brand new tomb when Joseph of Arimathea 373 00:38:47.600 --> 00:38:49.000 took him. 374 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:55.880 Although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 375 00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:58.240 He had no guile and no guilt. 376 00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:00.680 He had no guile and no guilt. 377 00:39:00.680 --> 00:39:05.440 Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him. 378 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:12.480 He put him to grief, made him sick, so that when you make his life an offering for your 379 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:20.440 sin, and he has risen from the dead, he shall see his spiritual offspring. 380 00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:25.760 He shall prolong his days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his 381 00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:26.760 hand. 382 00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:36.280 He shall see the fruit of his travail and be satisfied by his knowledge of himself. 383 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:44.080 Shall my uncompromisingly righteous one, my servant, justify many and make many righteous 384 00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:50.760 upright and in right standing with God, for he will bear their iniquities, and he will 385 00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:56.720 carry their guilt with all of its consequences, said the Lord. 386 00:39:56.720 --> 00:40:00.080 Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the grace of God. 387 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.400 eight kings and rulers. 388 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:04.240 He shall divide the spoil with the mighty 389 00:40:04.240 --> 00:40:07.720 because he poured out his life unto death. 390 00:40:07.720 --> 00:40:11.840 He let himself be regarded as a criminal 391 00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:15.640 and be numbered with the transgressors. 392 00:40:15.640 --> 00:40:18.200 Yet he bore and took away the sin of many 393 00:40:18.200 --> 00:40:21.220 and made intercession for the transgressors." 394 00:40:21.220 --> 00:40:25.200 So every criminal lineup, every criminal exchange, 395 00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:27.620 every frustrating exchange, 396 00:40:27.620 --> 00:40:31.740 every person who didn't clean their dish 397 00:40:31.740 --> 00:40:32.860 and put it in the sink, 398 00:40:32.860 --> 00:40:36.020 every person who killed another like David, 399 00:40:36.020 --> 00:40:41.020 committed adultery, betrayed, raped, abused, 400 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:46.400 stole, lied, extorted, just on and on and on and on, 401 00:40:48.020 --> 00:40:51.940 on and on and on, all corruption, wherever they are, 402 00:40:51.940 --> 00:40:56.940 there's Jesus Christ in all roles. 403 00:40:58.620 --> 00:41:03.620 With the victim, being humiliated with them, 404 00:41:03.820 --> 00:41:07.380 being abused with them so that if they connect to him, 405 00:41:07.380 --> 00:41:10.900 all of it can fall on him, all of the humiliation, 406 00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:13.300 all of the sickness, all of the shame. 407 00:41:13.300 --> 00:41:18.300 And then with the abuser, with the oppressor, 408 00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:22.860 it's unthinkable, he's redeeming him. 409 00:41:22.860 --> 00:41:27.260 He's there to take all the guilt, all the shame, 410 00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:32.900 all the blame, all of the chastisement and torment away. 411 00:41:33.220 --> 00:41:34.860 He takes it all. 412 00:41:34.860 --> 00:41:39.220 His vengeance is not against the children of men. 413 00:41:39.220 --> 00:41:42.340 His vengeance is against the devil. 414 00:41:42.340 --> 00:41:44.820 His vengeance is against the true enemy, 415 00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:48.860 to rob him of being able to take the children. 416 00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:51.340 Jesus has paid the price for the children. 417 00:41:51.340 --> 00:41:55.180 So when we go through, like Isaiah 53, 418 00:41:55.180 --> 00:41:59.460 to see how many ways Jesus made it possible 419 00:41:59.460 --> 00:42:03.460 for us to hear, not guilty, not guilty, 420 00:42:03.460 --> 00:42:05.980 not guilty, not guilty. 421 00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:10.180 1 John 1, one, nine. 422 00:42:10.180 --> 00:42:13.100 But if we freely, if we, verse eight says, 423 00:42:13.100 --> 00:42:16.180 if we boast that we have no sin, 424 00:42:16.180 --> 00:42:17.620 we're only fooling ourselves 425 00:42:17.620 --> 00:42:19.180 and we're strangers to the truth. 426 00:42:19.180 --> 00:42:22.340 So we're not approaching God when we come with excuses. 427 00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:23.940 Lord, if he hadn't done this, 428 00:42:23.940 --> 00:42:25.500 and if they hadn't done that, 429 00:42:25.500 --> 00:42:29.380 and why, and you can see it, Lord, and you can, no. 430 00:42:29.380 --> 00:42:32.020 You can't come to God that way. 431 00:42:32.020 --> 00:42:34.580 You have to turn from your own wicked ways. 432 00:42:34.580 --> 00:42:38.420 That's 2 Chronicles 7, 14. 433 00:42:38.420 --> 00:42:41.460 So, but look at verse nine. 434 00:42:41.460 --> 00:42:46.460 But if we freely admit our sins, 435 00:42:46.740 --> 00:42:48.860 when his light uncovers them, 436 00:42:48.860 --> 00:42:53.780 so when we're aware of them, he will be faithful. 437 00:42:53.780 --> 00:42:57.420 His faithfulness forgives us every time 438 00:42:57.420 --> 00:43:00.580 because God is just to forgive. 439 00:43:00.580 --> 00:43:04.140 If you bring him your sin, he gives you what he has, 440 00:43:04.140 --> 00:43:06.300 and that's forgiveness. 441 00:43:06.300 --> 00:43:09.260 He forgives all your sins because of Christ, 442 00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:14.260 and he will continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 443 00:43:14.900 --> 00:43:16.820 That's who God is. 444 00:43:16.820 --> 00:43:19.060 So we can believe that he heals us. 445 00:43:19.060 --> 00:43:21.060 We can believe that he prepares for us. 446 00:43:21.060 --> 00:43:22.820 We can believe he provides for us. 447 00:43:22.820 --> 00:43:24.660 We can believe he protects us. 448 00:43:24.660 --> 00:43:28.380 We can believe he gives us the wisdom and insight we need. 449 00:43:28.380 --> 00:43:31.140 We can believe he increases our life 450 00:43:31.140 --> 00:43:36.140 to give us greater and greater levels of skill and capacity 451 00:43:36.900 --> 00:43:41.860 as we faithfully engage in the things he places in our life, 452 00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:44.060 that we overcome, that we can forget, 453 00:43:44.060 --> 00:43:46.700 that we can move on, that we are forgiven 454 00:43:47.780 --> 00:43:50.740 because of the price Jesus paid. 455 00:43:50.740 --> 00:43:54.100 One last passage, 1 John 2. 456 00:43:54.100 --> 00:43:59.100 You are my dear children, and I write these things to you 457 00:43:59.580 --> 00:44:02.140 so that you won't sin. 458 00:44:03.100 --> 00:44:08.100 But if anyone does sin, so be in the word, 459 00:44:08.220 --> 00:44:10.540 because when you're washed with the water of the word, 460 00:44:10.540 --> 00:44:12.660 you're transformed into his righteousness. 461 00:44:12.660 --> 00:44:14.100 Your mind is renewed. 462 00:44:14.100 --> 00:44:17.540 You believe that you're his, and you don't sin. 463 00:44:17.540 --> 00:44:22.540 But if you do, we continually have a forgiving redeemer 464 00:44:24.140 --> 00:44:28.140 who is face-to-face with the father, Jesus Christ, 465 00:44:28.140 --> 00:44:29.900 the righteous one. 466 00:44:29.900 --> 00:44:34.900 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, 467 00:44:36.260 --> 00:44:41.260 and not only ours, but also for the whole. 468 00:44:43.140 --> 00:44:43.980 World. 469 00:44:45.820 --> 00:44:50.820 And so grab elements, and we will celebrate 470 00:44:55.780 --> 00:45:00.780 why it is that he tells us only believe. 471 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.480 believe. Only believe. Only believe in me. Don't place your faith. Don't place your fear 472 00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:14.760 in the sins. Don't place your fear in what's gone wrong. Don't place your fear in what 473 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:25.840 other people say. Just believe. Just believe. I not only am the one who says all these good 474 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:34.000 things, the creator of heaven and earth, the creator of all the palm trees and oceans and 475 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:45.360 creatures that keeps everything going, but I'm greater than the power of all the power 476 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:54.480 of the enemy. And, you know, I just think of John 6 this morning when, you know, Jesus 477 00:45:54.480 --> 00:46:01.160 was telling all those people that were following him after he had fed the multitudes, many were 478 00:46:01.160 --> 00:46:12.880 following him. They're like, hey, we can believe in this guy. He feeds us. We could save a 479 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:25.080 lot of money following this guy. And then he walks on water. And they're like, hey, 480 00:46:25.080 --> 00:46:35.520 Jesus, we've been looking for you. And he says in John 6 26, let me make this very clear. 481 00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:44.520 You came looking for me because I fed you by a miracle, not because you believe in me. 482 00:46:44.520 --> 00:46:55.920 Why would you strive for food that is perishable and not be passionate to seek the food of 483 00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:06.480 eternal life, which never spoils? I, the son of man, am ready to give you what matters most. For 484 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:13.920 God, the father, has destined me for these purposes. They replied, so what should we do if 485 00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:23.440 we want to do God's work? Jesus answered, the work you can do for God starts with believing in the 486 00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:36.960 one he sent. And then if you come down to 35, he's saying, you know, well, first in, in 32, Jesus 487 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:44.160 says, Moses didn't give you the bread of heaven. It's my father who gives you bread that comes down 488 00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:53.440 from heaven. The bread God gives is the one who came out of heaven to give this life to feed the 489 00:47:53.440 --> 00:48:02.560 whole world. Believe in the one whom Jesus sent. This is the work of God. I am the bread of life. 490 00:48:03.600 --> 00:48:10.960 Come to me every day, and you will never be hungry. Believe in me and you will never thirst. 491 00:48:11.680 --> 00:48:16.640 Yet I've told you that even though you've seen me and you still don't believe, 492 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:24.480 but everyone my father has given to me, they will come to me and all who come to me, I will embrace 493 00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:32.160 and will never turn them away. I have come out of heaven, not for my own desires, but for the 494 00:48:32.160 --> 00:48:39.840 satisfaction of my father who sent me. My father who sent me has determined that I will not lose 495 00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:46.080 even one of those he has given to me. And I will raise them up in the last day, 496 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:55.360 because this is the will of my father. It is what he longs to give everyone who embraces his son 497 00:48:55.360 --> 00:49:02.880 and believes in him to experience eternal life. And I will raise them up on the last day. 498 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:13.440 So then he tells them to stop grumbling and complaining. And he says, whoever eats my body, 499 00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:26.400 drinks my blood, will live forever. Whoever feeds upon me, I will become his life. 500 00:49:27.200 --> 00:49:35.360 And of course, there's this whole, they're like, how can he tell us to eat his flesh and drink his 501 00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:48.960 blood? And they all walk away. And he says, eat this bread and you will live forever. Many of 502 00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:57.040 Jesus's followers heard these things saying, that's disgusting. How can anyone accept it 503 00:49:57.600 --> 00:49:59.920 without anyone telling him? 504 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.600 Jesus knew they were outraged and offended. 505 00:50:04.600 --> 00:50:09.600 So, oops, one second. 506 00:50:12.040 --> 00:50:14.560 Are you offended over my teaching? 507 00:50:14.560 --> 00:50:18.000 What will you do when you see the Son of Man 508 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:23.000 ascending into the realm from where he came? 509 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:26.600 The Holy Spirit is the one who gives life. 510 00:50:26.600 --> 00:50:30.200 That which is of natural is of no help. 511 00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:33.960 The words I speak to you are spirit and life, 512 00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:38.040 but there are still some of you who won't believe, 513 00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:41.120 only believe. 514 00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:44.280 In fact, Jesus already knew from the beginning 515 00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:47.980 who the skeptics were and who his traitor would be. 516 00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:51.480 And he went on to tell you, this is why I told you, 517 00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:54.440 no one embraces me unless the Father 518 00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:57.680 has given him to me. 519 00:50:57.680 --> 00:51:01.560 And he said to the 12, do you also want to leave? 520 00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:06.120 But Peter spoke up and said, but Lord, where would we go? 521 00:51:06.120 --> 00:51:11.120 No one but you gives us the revelation of eternal life. 522 00:51:12.680 --> 00:51:15.200 We are fully convinced that you are the anointed one, 523 00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:20.200 the Son of the living God, and we believe in you. 524 00:51:21.200 --> 00:51:26.200 So here he understood, he marveled, 525 00:51:30.600 --> 00:51:35.020 Jesus marveled at genuine faith, marveled at believing. 526 00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:41.640 Believing has to have all its weight 527 00:51:41.640 --> 00:51:43.280 in the character of God. 528 00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:48.040 I'm not really believing if I feel deserving 529 00:51:48.040 --> 00:51:50.160 because I can lose my deserving. 530 00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:54.000 And what do I deserve? 531 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:56.100 Do I want what I deserve? 532 00:51:56.100 --> 00:51:58.800 Do I want other people to get what they deserve? 533 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:01.400 Well, then I'm asking for that for myself. 534 00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:07.560 So Lord, we thank you so much 535 00:52:07.560 --> 00:52:11.980 that you have offered us your body. 536 00:52:12.980 --> 00:52:17.220 The body of the one we read about in Isaiah 53 537 00:52:17.220 --> 00:52:21.460 offered to take on all sickness, all disease, 538 00:52:21.460 --> 00:52:26.460 all sorrow, all pain, all sin, all shame, 539 00:52:27.740 --> 00:52:32.640 all chastisement, all torment, all blame. 540 00:52:33.940 --> 00:52:38.940 Every criminal, every victim, everyone, 541 00:52:39.620 --> 00:52:44.620 everyone finds the scars of their own payment, 542 00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:52.180 the price, the punishment that they deserve, 543 00:52:52.180 --> 00:52:57.180 the curse, having fallen, been poured out 544 00:52:58.180 --> 00:53:01.900 with the wrath of God upon the body, 545 00:53:02.740 --> 00:53:07.740 the covenant body given for the forgiveness of sins, 546 00:53:08.700 --> 00:53:11.140 given for us to be healed, 547 00:53:11.140 --> 00:53:13.720 taken stripes for us to be healed. 548 00:53:14.620 --> 00:53:18.260 And so we receive that in your brokenness 549 00:53:19.700 --> 00:53:22.020 comes our wholeness. 550 00:53:22.020 --> 00:53:23.540 And we exchange this with you 551 00:53:23.540 --> 00:53:26.360 and we do this in remembrance of you. 552 00:53:26.360 --> 00:53:31.360 And I forgot all our lovely Psalms, I totally forgot. 553 00:53:43.040 --> 00:53:48.040 Lord, there's one I'll play in just a moment. 554 00:53:52.080 --> 00:53:54.640 Lord, we believe in you. 555 00:53:54.640 --> 00:53:59.640 We believe in the Father, the creator of heaven and earth, 556 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:02.960 of all that is seen and unseen. 557 00:54:05.520 --> 00:54:08.960 We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, his Son, 558 00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:14.280 Son of the living God, perfect image of the living God, 559 00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:18.360 begotten, not made, one in being with the Father, 560 00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:20.800 through him all things were made. 561 00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:25.800 He is righteous, sinless, 562 00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:28.840 laid down his life as the worthy lamb, 563 00:54:31.200 --> 00:54:35.480 dead, buried, and risen again 564 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:38.540 for our sins and our righteousness' sake. 565 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.840 And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the giver of life, 566 00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:47.640 proceeds from the Father and the Son, 567 00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:50.280 and with the Father and the Son, 568 00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:55.880 you are also, Holy Spirit, worshiped and glorified. 569 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:00.280 You have spoken through the prophet. 570 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:08.260 And now you live in the saints to bring healing to our mortal bodies, to transform us into 571 00:55:08.260 --> 00:55:11.840 the image of the Son. 572 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:18.520 And all this because the blood was shed for the forgiveness of sins. 573 00:55:18.520 --> 00:55:21.100 We are not guilty. 574 00:55:21.100 --> 00:55:25.300 And now we may believe we are the children of God. 575 00:55:25.300 --> 00:55:35.420 We praise you in Jesus name, amen. 576 00:55:35.420 --> 00:55:53.140 So here, there's just one song that actually had three of them, but no, I, I, um, okay. 577 00:55:53.140 --> 00:55:54.140 Okay. 578 00:55:54.140 --> 00:55:55.140 Hang on. 579 00:55:55.140 --> 00:55:56.140 Let's see. 580 00:55:56.140 --> 00:55:57.140 Okay. 581 00:55:57.140 --> 00:55:58.140 The song is called not guilty. 582 00:55:58.140 --> 00:55:59.140 Ready? 583 00:55:59.140 --> 00:56:00.140 Okay. 584 00:56:00.560 --> 00:56:05.140 I'm ready. 585 00:56:05.140 --> 00:56:25.140 Okay, the song is called not guilty. Ready. 586 00:56:25.140 --> 00:56:47.140 I'm ready. 587 00:56:47.140 --> 00:56:51.140 I stand accused. 588 00:56:51.140 --> 00:56:58.140 There's a list of my loan of all my sins. 589 00:56:58.140 --> 00:57:02.140 Of everything that I've done wrong. 590 00:57:02.140 --> 00:57:06.140 So ashamed. 591 00:57:06.140 --> 00:57:09.140 It's not me. 592 00:57:09.140 --> 00:57:14.140 This is the day. 593 00:57:14.140 --> 00:57:18.140 I must answer for my life. 594 00:57:18.140 --> 00:57:29.140 My fate is in the judge's hands. 595 00:57:29.140 --> 00:57:58.140 And so. 596 00:57:58.140 --> 00:58:17.140 I'm ready. 597 00:58:17.140 --> 00:58:20.140 I stand accused. 598 00:58:20.140 --> 00:58:23.140 There's a list of my loan of all my sins. 599 00:58:23.140 --> 00:58:26.140 Of everything that I've done wrong. 600 00:58:26.140 --> 00:58:37.140 I'm ready. 601 00:58:37.140 --> 00:58:52.140 I'm ready. 602 00:58:52.140 --> 00:59:17.140 I'm ready. 603 00:59:17.140 --> 00:59:20.140 I stand accused. 604 00:59:47.140 --> 00:59:50.140 I'm ready. 605 00:59:50.140 --> 00:59:51.140 I'm ready. 606 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.000 . 607 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:10.000 . 608 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:15.000 . 609 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:20.000 . 610 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:25.000 . 611 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:30.000 . 612 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:35.000 . 613 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:40.000 . 614 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:45.000 . 615 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:50.000 . 616 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:55.000 . 617 01:00:55.000 --> 01:01:00.000 . 618 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:05.000 . 619 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:10.000 . 620 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:15.000 . 621 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:20.000 . 622 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:25.000 . 623 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:30.000 . 624 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.000 . 625 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:40.000 . 626 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:45.000 . 627 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:50.000 . 628 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:55.000 . 629 01:01:55.000 --> 01:02:00.000 . 630 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:05.000 . 631 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:10.000 . 632 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:15.000 . 633 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:20.000 . 634 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:25.000 . 635 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:30.000 . 636 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:35.000 . 637 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:40.000 . 638 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.000 . 639 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:50.000 . 640 01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:55.000 . 641 01:02:55.000 --> 01:03:00.000 . 642 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:05.000 . 643 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:10.000 . 644 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:15.000 . 645 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:20.000 . 646 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:25.000 . 647 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:30.000 . 648 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:35.000 . 649 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:40.000 . 650 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:45.000 . 651 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:50.000 . 652 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:55.000 . 653 01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:00.000 . 654 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:05.000 . 655 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:10.000 . 656 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:15.000 . 657 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:20.000 . 658 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:25.000 . 659 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:30.000 . 660 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:35.000 . 661 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:40.000 . 662 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:45.000 . 663 01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:50.000 . 664 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:55.000 . 665 01:04:55.000 --> 01:05:00.000 . 666 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:01.000 . 667 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:12.120 you for touching us with your love. Thank you. Thank you. Precious nearness, face your 668 01:05:12.120 --> 01:05:28.360 hands. Thank you. We don't want to get up here with the same mindsets, Lord. We want 669 01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:52.600 to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. Jesus, does anyone have a prayer on your heart? A 670 01:05:52.600 --> 01:06:06.360 praise on your heart? Revolution. We do lift up so many people struggling physically, financially, 671 01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:20.920 emotionally, mentally. My parents, Charlotte in room 508 here, we want to speak life, health 672 01:06:20.920 --> 01:06:44.760 and eternal life over Charlotte and her being. Love you. Peace. Thank you. In Jesus' name, 673 01:06:44.760 --> 01:07:03.560 amen. Oh, good. I could just rest in his presence. How are you doing, my friend? What is that? 674 01:07:03.560 --> 01:07:15.000 I think that was a beautiful prayer. Yeah, I am. Sorry, we didn't have our worship time and 675 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:22.120 miss that connection with the Lord. I don't know how I just skipped right over it. Oh, 676 01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:25.000 oh, yeah, right there, right there. 677 01:07:25.560 --> 01:07:34.760 Yeah, for whatever reason, I could not hear the worship. I could see you singing and I could hear 678 01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:42.600 it like maybe a couple seconds and then I couldn't hear it, but it's okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, 679 01:07:42.600 --> 01:07:48.360 I'll send you the song. I would have sung it then. I mean, I was just kind of... 680 01:07:48.600 --> 01:08:00.360 Yeah, thank you. All right. Well, thank you so much, Heidi. I love that you always come. 681 01:08:02.680 --> 01:08:13.720 Yeah. Thank you for inviting me. Yes. It's good to have the service for sure. Amen. Amen. Yeah. 682 01:08:13.800 --> 01:08:23.319 Yeah. And to visualize Jesus in my life where I have focused on things, 683 01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:34.120 but yeah, that's good. It's a good imagery. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was getting out of your 684 01:08:34.120 --> 01:08:41.720 prayers. So that's a good thing. So imagining me with Jesus rather than imagining me dealing with 685 01:08:42.439 --> 01:08:50.120 things that may or may not be important, but it reminds me of the verse that whether I'm in 686 01:08:50.120 --> 01:08:57.640 heaven or hell, I am the Lord. So no matter what I go through, I pray he is with me. I 687 01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:10.359 accept he is with me. Yeah. There are so many testimonies of heart healing encounters with him 688 01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:19.319 where a memory of someone being humiliated and there was Jesus right with them, having the same, 689 01:09:19.319 --> 01:09:26.279 going through the same thing right with them. And then also if they were being abused or 690 01:09:26.279 --> 01:09:35.960 committing adultery or in sin, and there was Jesus both in them and on the other side, 691 01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:44.200 but it was holy. The thing that was unholy became totally holy and redeemed 692 01:09:45.240 --> 01:09:55.320 as he became the other side of that. There are so many testimonies that bear out what Isaiah saw 693 01:09:55.320 --> 01:09:59.880 in Isaiah 53. It's so that... 694 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.800 There would be no place where we could have a reason 695 01:10:04.800 --> 01:10:09.600 for the curse, no place we would need to identify 696 01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:14.600 with sin or unholiness or lack or no place. 697 01:10:16.080 --> 01:10:18.160 It's miraculous. 698 01:10:18.160 --> 01:10:19.600 Right. 699 01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:20.440 Yeah. 700 01:10:20.440 --> 01:10:25.360 Maybe one day I can share some of the visions I have 701 01:10:25.360 --> 01:10:27.120 that are hard to let go. 702 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:31.240 You know, that are hard for me to let go. 703 01:10:32.480 --> 01:10:37.480 Yeah, so those are perfect for heart healing. 704 01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:41.200 Yeah. 705 01:10:41.200 --> 01:10:43.760 Those are perfect for...