Speaker 1: Man, hey, good to see everybody this morning.
Speaker 1: Family, we're in John, chapter 7, and I was one of those kids growing up that used to ask all kinds of questions and, yes, as you would imagine, I drove my dad crazy at times.
Speaker 1: In fact, sometimes I would ask the wrong questions at the wrong time.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever ask the wrong question at the wrong time?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I would ask the wrong question at the wrong time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes my dad, he would tell me to do something and I would ask him a question that starts with a W.
Speaker 1: Any guesses what that question was?
Speaker 1: When my dad would ask me to do something, that's right.
Speaker 1: It was why.
Speaker 1: And sometimes he would explain it.
Speaker 1: Other times he would say because I said so, how many parents in the room have?
Speaker 1: He would say because I said so, how many parents in the room have used that line because I said so?
Speaker 1: I knew when dad said because I said so, that meant to shut up and do it right.
Speaker 1: Dad was not messing around and I used to ask this question why?
Speaker 1: I think all of us at times in our life we ask different questions.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we ask this question why?
Speaker 1: Sometimes we ask other questions, sometimes the people in the slides.
Speaker 1: They wonder the question when is the next slide going to come up?
Speaker 1: And we get to a text in scripture where they were asking the question and they were arguing about the question who is Jesus?
Speaker 1: Who is Jesus?
Speaker 1: And they weren't just kind of like talking about this, like who do you think Jesus is?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 1: They were like we think we should arrest him.
Speaker 1: Other people are like why would you arrest him?
Speaker 1: He's done all these good things.
Speaker 1: Other people are like I can see y'all being right.
Speaker 1: I can see y'all being right.
Speaker 1: They were like arguing how many guys have ever got into an argument before?
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, y'all are in the house of God and y'all are lying.
Speaker 1: Y'all are waiting.
Speaker 1: Who's ever gotten an argument before?
Speaker 1: Come on, who was in an argument on the way to church this morning?
Speaker 1: No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: They were asking this question who is Jesus?
Speaker 1: And the answer to this question, they understood, would change everything else about them.
Speaker 1: Here's the reality.
Speaker 1: The way you answer this question and what you do with Jesus has the potential to change everything about you, has the potential to change everything about you and ultimately determines your eternal destiny.
Speaker 1: Who is Jesus?
Speaker 1: What will you do with Jesus?
Speaker 1: So we're going to jump into John, chapter 7, and we're jumping into an argument where there's a group of people that are going at it, and I wish somebody made a YouTube video of this text because I would have watched it.
Speaker 1: John 7, verse number 25,.
Speaker 1: If you're ready for it, would you say amen?
Speaker 1: It says some of the people of Jerusalem were saying isn't this the man they are trying to kill?
Speaker 1: This is Jesus.
Speaker 1: They are the religious leaders and the authorities.
Speaker 1: How many of you would say if we're talking about killing somebody?
Speaker 1: That's a really heated argument.
Speaker 1: That's intense.
Speaker 1: They're saying isn't this that person?
Speaker 1: Verse 26, yet look, he's speaking publicly and they are saying nothing to him.
Speaker 1: Can it be true that the authorities know that he is the Messiah?
Speaker 1: What does the word Messiah mean?
Speaker 1: The word Messiah means the Son of God, the forgiver of sin, the anointed one.
Speaker 1: This isn't just like this religiously churchy talk.
Speaker 1: This means that Jesus was God in the flesh.
Speaker 1: This means that he has all power and all authority.
Speaker 1: This means that he has all power and all authority, and the crowd was like could it be that they actually think that he's the Messiah?
Speaker 1: Is that why they're not saying anything?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Here's the reason why they didn't want to admit that he was the Messiah Because if they did that, they would have to kneel before him and trust him to be their Lord, to be their Savior and follow him.
Speaker 1: And none of them have time for that.
Speaker 1: Because if he was the Messiah, that required humility.
Speaker 1: And the crowd's watching and they're like man.
Speaker 1: Maybe they actually know that he is who he says he is.
Speaker 1: But then they have some more questions amongst themselves.
Speaker 1: Verse 27, but we know where this man's from.
Speaker 1: When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he's from, as he verse 28, was teaching in the temple.
Speaker 1: This is Jesus.
Speaker 1: Jesus cried out you know me, you know me and you know where I'm from.
Speaker 1: Yet I have not come on my own.
Speaker 1: But the one who sent me is true, you don't know him.
Speaker 1: He's talking to people that prided themselves in knowing God, in knowledge of God, and Jesus says you don't even know him.
Speaker 1: You know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's challenging and confronting the Pharisees here.
Speaker 1: I know him verse 29, because I am from him and he sent me.
Speaker 1: So, in response to this, look what they did in verse number 30.
Speaker 1: It says this.
Speaker 1: It says then they tried to seize him.
Speaker 1: He got all up in their business and they didn't like it.
Speaker 1: He says that he's the Messiah.
Speaker 1: They did not like that.
Speaker 1: Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.
Speaker 1: Remember, his hour had not yet come.
Speaker 1: What that means is that's the time when he's going to go to Golgotha, to Calvary, he's going to die on the cross and then he's going to resurrect.
Speaker 1: That time was not yet going to happen.
Speaker 1: It was about six months after this, but it wasn't happening yet.
Speaker 1: So because it was not yet in God, the Father's plan for that to happen, they didn't seize him because it wasn't time yet for that.
Speaker 1: However, verse 31, many from the crowd, many from the crowd what's that word?
Speaker 1: They, many from the crowd believed, they trusted in him and said when the Messiah comes, trusted in him and said when the Messiah comes, he won't perform more signs than this man has done, will he?
Speaker 1: They're trying to figure this out and here's what these people understood.
Speaker 1: They understood that in the book of Isaiah, isaiah was a prophet in the Old Testament that was written 500 years earlier.
Speaker 1: Prophecy is that in Isaiah it talks about how the Messiah is going to do all these different signs, all these different miracles.
Speaker 1: The people are seeing Jesus and they know this prophecy from the past.
Speaker 1: They know what Isaiah wrote about.
Speaker 1: Now they're seeing Jesus and they're like you all see all the signs he's doing.
Speaker 1: You all see all the signs he's doing.
Speaker 1: There's no way he'll do more signs than Jesus the Messiah.
Speaker 1: It's got to be him Now.
Speaker 1: Verse 32, the Pharisees they hear all this.
Speaker 1: They heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to.
Speaker 1: They want to lock him up, they want to arrest him.
Speaker 1: This is getting heated, guys.
Speaker 1: Some people want to arrest him, others are trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: Is he the Messiah?
Speaker 1: Verse 33, then Jesus said I am only with you for a short time, that I'm going to those who sent me.
Speaker 1: You will look for me, but you won't find me.
Speaker 1: And where I am, you cannot come.
Speaker 1: Then the Jews said to one another where does he intend to go?
Speaker 1: That we won't find him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?
Speaker 1: Verse 36, what is this remark he made?
Speaker 1: You will look for me and you will not find me.
Speaker 1: And where I am, you cannot come.
Speaker 1: What is Jesus talking about?
Speaker 1: That's what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: We read Acts, chapter 1, which is about seven months or so after this, seven or eight months or so after this, jesus is going to be on the Mount of Olives and he's going to ascend back up to heaven to be with his Father.
Speaker 1: That's what he's referring to, and people are like man.
Speaker 1: What does he mean by this?
Speaker 1: And on verse number 37, on the last and most important day of the festival, jesus stood up and cried out if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
Speaker 1: The one who believes in me, as the scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.
Speaker 1: Now, this kind of sounds like kind of random, like why, all of a sudden, is Jesus talking about water inside of you when people are arguing?
Speaker 1: This is why, and this is why it's so important to understand context of Scripture.
Speaker 1: So what's happening here is they are at a certain festival.
Speaker 1: Here they're at a festival and in this specific festival that they have at this festival, one of the main parts of the festival a seven-day festival was about had a water element to it.
Speaker 1: The priest would start off by going to the pool of Shalom.
Speaker 1: They would take water every morning.
Speaker 1: They would walk all the way to the temple and they would put water on the temple.
Speaker 1: They would do it every morning throughout the seven-day festival.
Speaker 1: On the seventh day of the festival, they would walk around the altar seven times before they would put the water on the altar.
Speaker 1: So the people are seeing all this happen.
Speaker 1: This is the context.
Speaker 1: Water's a significant part of the festival that they're celebrating, which is why he's in Jerusalem, and this is what Jesus says.
Speaker 1: They understood the water.
Speaker 1: They saw the water.
Speaker 1: He says hey guys, hey guys, if you believe in me, you will have streams of living water flowing from deep within you.
Speaker 1: If you trust in me, I will spiritually satisfy your soul.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see this water.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something.
Speaker 1: Believe in me, see what I can do something.
Speaker 1: Believe in me, see what I can do.
Speaker 1: Can I just say that you can spend your entire life looking for something to satisfy your soul, but only Jesus can satisfy your soul.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can think if I just get a better job, if I just get a little bit more money, if some things happen where I get in a better relationship or I get a better house, or if I could just move out of California, whatever.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times we think that something will satisfy our soul in a way that it never can.
Speaker 1: And then what happens is we'll come to a place in our life of disappointment and we'll look to things to cover the pain that we have things like alcohol, things like drugs, food, netflix.
Speaker 1: We run to things to make us feel a certain way when really only Jesus can satisfy our souls.
Speaker 1: And Jesus comes to these people and he says hey, hey guys, hey guys, hey guys, it's me, it's me.
Speaker 1: In verse 39, he said this about the Spirit those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, but the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Speaker 1: So, those who believe, we're going to receive the Spirit.
Speaker 1: This is the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Notice, when we believe, when we trust, we receive the Spirit.
Speaker 1: Ephesians 1 talks about this too, about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: So it's not okay.
Speaker 1: You trusted in Jesus, you believed in Jesus.
Speaker 1: Now, years later, if you feel really some type of way, then you receive the Spirit.
Speaker 1: Jesus says those who believe.
Speaker 1: He says this about the Spirit those who believe in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Speaker 1: When some of the crowd verse 40, heard these words, they said this truly is the prophet.
Speaker 1: Others said this is the Messiah.
Speaker 1: But some said surely the Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does it?
Speaker 1: Does he?
Speaker 1: Verse 42.
Speaker 1: Doesn't the scripture say the Messiah comes from David's offspring and from the town of Bethlehem where David lived?
Speaker 1: Can somebody tell me where was Jesus born?
Speaker 1: Bethlehem?
Speaker 1: They didn't realize this.
Speaker 1: Verse 43,.
Speaker 1: So the crowd was divided because of him.
Speaker 1: Some of them verse 44, wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.
Speaker 1: And here's the reality when it comes to the identity of Jesus and your posture towards Jesus is that you cannot be neutral towards somebody that claims to be God.
Speaker 1: I'll say it again you cannot be neutral towards somebody that claims to be God.
Speaker 1: Why did they want to seize him here?
Speaker 1: Claims to be God, messiah.
Speaker 1: Let's think about it right here.
Speaker 1: Let's pretend I walked up on stage this morning.
Speaker 1: Pastor Cody prayed.
Speaker 1: I said all right, everybody, we're not going to be teaching a text of scripture this morning.
Speaker 1: Have something to share.
Speaker 1: I'm God.
Speaker 1: Y'all would be like Nate has lost his stinking marbles.
Speaker 1: Nate has gone loony.
Speaker 1: Others of you would say why is Nate lying to everybody?
Speaker 1: I thought Nate was a halfway decent guy.
Speaker 1: He's kind of short, but I mean, come on, why is Nate lying?
Speaker 1: You would not be neutral about me if I claimed to be God.
Speaker 1: Jesus claimed to be God.
Speaker 1: Jesus claimed to be God, the Messiah.
Speaker 1: And because he claimed to be God, jesus is either a liar, a lunatic, or he's actually Lord or he's actually Lord.
Speaker 1: So Jesus knowingly deceived the masses of people and people came to follow him.
Speaker 1: People died for him.
Speaker 1: Jesus knew that and Jesus was like oh, it's all good, or Jesus was mentally unstable.
Speaker 1: Because if you believe that you're God and you're not, you're mentally unstable.
Speaker 1: Or he actually was Lord or he was who he said he was.
Speaker 1: And here's why we bring this up.
Speaker 1: People say Jesus was just a good guy, he was just a good teacher.
Speaker 1: No, he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Either he was a liar and he deceived the masses of people, he was a lunatic and out of his mind, or he really was who he said he was.
Speaker 1: And you might be in the room and you might be watching online and you might be just kind of discovering and trying to figure out like what's this whole faith thing about and you're like man was Jesus just a good teacher?
Speaker 1: Jesus could not have been just a good teacher because of what he claimed about himself.
Speaker 1: And if Jesus isn't a liar, if Jesus isn't a lunatic and Jesus is actually Lord, then what Jesus is going to do is at times he will confront you, at other times he will challenge you, and sometimes he will confront you.
Speaker 1: At other times he will challenge you and sometimes he will comfort you.
Speaker 1: In the text of scripture, he challenges these people.
Speaker 1: At the end he says yet I have not come on my own.
Speaker 1: But the one who sent me is true, you don't know him.
Speaker 1: What is he doing?
Speaker 1: He's challenging them.
Speaker 1: There were times where Jesus would go to his disciples, I think the time, specifically, they were lacking faith.
Speaker 1: Jesus said why do you lack faith?
Speaker 1: Challenge, or rather confronting them, confronting them.
Speaker 1: There was another time where he wanted them to go out and preach the gospel and teach about the kingdom and just go right, where they are, to people they didn't even know.
Speaker 1: What was he doing.
Speaker 1: He was challenging them.
Speaker 1: There was another time people were worried, they were anxious.
Speaker 1: He says hey, hey.
Speaker 1: He says hey, if you seek first my kingdom, I'm going to take care of what you're worried about.
Speaker 1: What was he doing?
Speaker 1: Comforting them.
Speaker 1: Now, here's the problem with American Jesus followers Oftentimes we run and we cling to the things that comfort us, but we push back or try to explain away the things that either challenge us or confront us.
Speaker 1: Oh, I like this over here.
Speaker 1: Like this makes me feel good, this comforts me.
Speaker 1: The part over there that confronts me and my lifestyle.
Speaker 1: I'm not about that.
Speaker 1: I'm peacing out the part that challenges me to take steps of growth in my faith.
Speaker 1: I can't do that.
Speaker 1: You don't understand.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I'm busy, but it's all good, I'm resting in your love.
Speaker 1: And this is what Jesus says.
Speaker 1: If Jesus is Lord, then he's going to do all three.
Speaker 1: He's going to do all three.
Speaker 1: And you say, man, I don't like that, like why would he do that?
Speaker 1: This is why he does this Because he cares about your spiritual maturity.
Speaker 1: He wants you to grow, because growth happens one step at a time.
Speaker 1: So, because Jesus cares more about your maturity and he cares more about here's a word your sanctification, setting you apart.
Speaker 1: He's going to confront, he's going to challenge and other times he's going to comfort, because what he wants to do is sanctify you by changing your mindset, changing your worldview, changing your things about your view of things.
Speaker 1: So when you are overwhelmed, in the past, your view was okay, I'm overwhelmed, I'm going to run to alcohol or weed or this over here.
Speaker 1: He wants your mindset to change to say, no, I'm going to run to God and who he says I am and his word.
Speaker 1: That's a mindset change.
Speaker 1: That's different Mindsets and worldviews matter.
Speaker 1: They matter.
Speaker 1: There's a guy very few people in our world have ever heard of him.
Speaker 1: His name is Saeed.
Speaker 1: I'm curious has anybody ever heard of this guy?
Speaker 1: Anybody?
Speaker 1: Not one person in this room.
Speaker 1: He died in 1966.
Speaker 1: Prolific author, gifted writer, 24 books he wrote, lived in Egypt, politician educator, but he had a worldview.
Speaker 1: It was about one thing the destruction of the West Jews and Christians, of the West Jews and Christians, and he wrote extensively about this.
Speaker 1: In fact, because of his writings he was jailed and incarcerated and eventually executed by his own government.
Speaker 1: This guy had a brother.
Speaker 1: His brother took his teachings and went to Saudi Arabia and became a college professor and took his worldview and indoctrinated it into the student of the classes that he had.
Speaker 1: One of his students was very bright, was very smart.
Speaker 1: This student has affected every single person in this room directly or indirectly.
Speaker 1: This student's name, osama bin Laden, and what he did was he took Saeed's worldview, embraced it and acted on it.
Speaker 1: And now today we live in an age of terrorism because one person's worldview Guys, worldviews, matter.
Speaker 1: What's a worldview?
Speaker 1: It's just a set of beliefs that you build your life upon.
Speaker 1: That's what this is.
Speaker 1: Every person in the room has a worldview.
Speaker 1: Whether you can articulate what you actually believe or not, you have one In church.
Speaker 1: The church answer is I believe everything Jesus says.
Speaker 1: Do we actually believe everything he says?
Speaker 1: And what Jesus wants you to do is to have a kingdom-centered worldview, a worldview where we see the world through the lens of God reigning, god ruling and his purposes being lived out.
Speaker 1: So a kingdom-centered worldview is when we are hurt by somebody and we probably should forgive them.
Speaker 1: Which can we just say?
Speaker 1: Forgiveness is super hard.
Speaker 1: If I have a kingdom-centered view of being hurt by somebody, my kingdom-centered view, understanding that God is reigning, that God is ruling, how can I have God's purposes being lived out?
Speaker 1: I'm going to see this hurt as an opportunity, as hard as it is to forgive, because in the gospel I have been forgiven.
Speaker 1: That's a kingdom-centered worldview.
Speaker 1: Now here's the challenge.
Speaker 1: A kingdom-centered worldview is directly in opposition to a lot of the worldviews that we have in our world today.
Speaker 1: In fact, there are five predominant worldviews in our culture.
Speaker 1: The first one is this is hedonism.
Speaker 1: This is what hedonism says the most important thing in life is how I feel.
Speaker 1: This is the number one American worldview.
Speaker 1: The foundation of truth is feelings.
Speaker 1: If this feels good, then it is good.
Speaker 1: So feelings are my ultimate trump card that I'm putting out in front of you.
Speaker 1: Number two materialism.
Speaker 1: The most important thing in life is what I have.
Speaker 1: He who dies with the most toys wins.
Speaker 1: So with this worldview, we're going to be living in debt because we have to get more toys, we're going to be overworking and we're going to prioritize work over family, over our spiritual health, because we have to work to make money so we can get more toys.
Speaker 1: Because it's all about what I have.
Speaker 1: Number three individualism.
Speaker 1: The most important thing in life is me.
Speaker 1: Cue the Frank Sinatra song my Way.
Speaker 1: This is the recipe for a miserable life, because the most miserable people are selfish people.
Speaker 1: Because the most miserable people are selfish people, and this is where self-care goes extreme and it becomes all about me.
Speaker 1: This is where narcissism is birthed.
Speaker 1: Number four pragmatism.
Speaker 1: The most important thing in life is what works.
Speaker 1: So this worldview says there's no truth and everything is relative.
Speaker 1: All that matters is if it works for you, so I could be doing something that's unhealthy, that I shouldn't be doing, and you have no right to even speak into my life or even ask me about it, because it's working for me.
Speaker 1: Pragmatism there is no right or wrong.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if I'm doing things that are actually going to hurt me or people around me because it's right for me.
Speaker 1: This is a worldview pragmatism.
Speaker 1: Worldview number five hedonism or humanism.
Speaker 1: People are the ultimate authority and not God.
Speaker 1: So I get to decide the morals, absolutes and truths If I like what God's word says.
Speaker 1: If it comforts me over here, I'm in, but if it challenges or it confronts me, I'm out, because I'm the authority.
Speaker 1: But here's the reality.
Speaker 1: When it comes to this, we can't pick and choose where in Scripture we want to lean into and lean out of.
Speaker 1: We can't go to choose where in scripture we want to lean into and lean out of.
Speaker 1: We can't go to the place where we're like, yes, this makes sense and oh, this is outdated and this is archaic.
Speaker 1: Here's the reality.
Speaker 1: Scripture is timeless and because it's timeless, it's always timely.
Speaker 1: Because it's timeless, it's always timely.
Speaker 1: So, down through the ages, the word of god has confronted cultures and societal norms.
Speaker 1: It always has.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1: First century greek culture the idea of being humble was a vice Ain't?
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be humble.
Speaker 1: America 2025, we're like we love humble people.
Speaker 1: I stand up here and I'm like guys, we should be humble.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, yeah, we should.
Speaker 1: I'm like prides, prides.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, yeah, you're right, I stand up.
Speaker 1: Paul stood up.
Speaker 1: First century Greek culture says, hey, a kingdom-centered mindset is one of humility.
Speaker 1: All the Greeks are like, no, we're Greeks.
Speaker 1: What's happening?
Speaker 1: God's word and scripture is confronting societal norms.
Speaker 1: It always has and it always will.
Speaker 1: Norms it always has and it always will.
Speaker 1: There's a place in 2025 where the Word of God confronts societal norms.
Speaker 1: This is where it is our current sexual climate of our day.
Speaker 1: The current sexual climate of our day.
Speaker 1: God's design for marriage and sexuality is one man and one woman in a covenant marriage.
Speaker 1: Not one man and one woman that think each other's hot.
Speaker 1: Not one man or one woman that are dating each other.
Speaker 1: Not one man and one woman that are in love with each other.
Speaker 1: Scripture says anything outside of that is sin.
Speaker 1: So what that does me just saying that, guys, that's like confronting our culture.
Speaker 1: In fact, like right now, I know I said that Some of y'all are getting a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Pastor Nate, it's time to wrap it.
Speaker 1: Wrap it up.
Speaker 1: You're getting like sweaty.
Speaker 1: So here's the question what do we actually do with that?
Speaker 1: Some of you are like you're reading my mind.
Speaker 1: What do you actually do with that?
Speaker 1: This is one thing we do.
Speaker 1: First thing, we align ourselves with God's truth on that matter, even if it's convenient or not.
Speaker 1: So we personally say what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my life and I'm going to put it in alignment with that.
Speaker 1: Can I just say there's no judgment here, right?
Speaker 1: If you say, man, maybe I'm living with my boyfriend, girlfriend or whatever, I want to make this right.
Speaker 1: Listen, we want to help you make that right.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing we do.
Speaker 1: The second thing that we do is we have grace and compassion for people that are living outside of God's design for sexuality.
Speaker 1: We should not be shocked when people who don't know Jesus live like people who don't know Jesus.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be shocked with that right.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 1: I personally have multiple relatives that are in the LGBTQ lifestyle Intelligent, caring, kind, incredible people.
Speaker 1: So what do I do?
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 1: This is what we do.
Speaker 1: We look at Jesus and this is what Jesus did.
Speaker 1: Jesus accepted everyone, but he did not affirm everything.
Speaker 1: So the world says this in any area that if you don't affirm everything about me, then you hate me.
Speaker 1: Either you affirm or you don't accept me.
Speaker 1: Guys, I don't even affirm everything about myself.
Speaker 1: This is a false dichotomy.
Speaker 1: This is what a kingdom worldview does.
Speaker 1: A kingdom-centered worldview loves people deeply while standing firmly on God's truth.
Speaker 1: Sexual conviction, compassion, truth, grace we don't get to choose which one.
Speaker 1: We're going to have.
Speaker 1: A keydom-centered worldview has both, and if we genuinely stand on truth, we're going to have a lot of compassion.
Speaker 1: And if we genuinely have compassion, we're going to have truth.
Speaker 1: Here's why I bring this up, because right now, we are being fed a lot of false dichotomies this or this.
Speaker 1: This is over here.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, we got to be able to see through this.
Speaker 1: We're going to be told if we don't wear this pin or wave this flag, then we don't love people.
Speaker 1: That's not what that means at all.
Speaker 1: That's a false dichotomy.
Speaker 1: It is possible to have convictions and also have compassion, and we have to have both.
Speaker 1: Now, here's how I want to wrap this up.
Speaker 1: It's very possible that every person, because of the world that we live in, we have a worldview that's not kingdom-centered seeping into our lives and influencing us.
Speaker 1: My hand goes up.
Speaker 1: I live in the same world y'all do.
Speaker 1: It's so easy for me to have pragmatism as my worldview.
Speaker 1: I'm like it works for you, like I love you, bro, like do you?
Speaker 1: It's easy for me to be materialistic, like I just need to get more stuff.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is and this is what we got to see is, worldviews are going to change all the time is, worldviews are going to change all the time, and we have a choice.
Speaker 1: We can build our life on the truth of the word of God.
Speaker 1: We can build our life on a kingdom-centered worldview, or we can build our life on trends, but we cannot build our life on both.
Speaker 1: We can't do it.
Speaker 1: So here's what I'm gonna invite us to do this morning, every one of us, to consider what is influencing my worldview, what worldview do I actually have right now, and surrender that to the lord.
Speaker 1: Because if jesus is who he said he is, then he's lord, and sometimes we love that, sometimes it's uncomfortable, but here's the reality he is Lord of all.
Speaker 1: So, in our reflection and response time, this is what I want us to think about.
Speaker 1: If we can get the next slide up, reflect on your current worldview, and what places do you not have a kingdom-centered worldview?
Speaker 1: Whatever that is, let's just surrender it to the Lord.
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