WEBVTT 00:00:05.009 --> 00:00:05.400 All right. 00:00:05.780 --> 00:00:08.449 You're in the series, actually. 00:00:08.451 --> 00:00:09.529 That's perfect. 00:00:10.070 --> 00:00:12.109 Cause we're in the series mix tape 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:16.039 [inaudible] 00:00:16.940 --> 00:00:18.920 Anybody know what a mixed tape is. 00:00:20.809 --> 00:00:29.480 So a mixed tape is whenever you had one of these sitting in your room and you decided that this was, this is today. 00:00:29.481 --> 00:00:34.039 They call them playlists and they're drag and drop downloads. 00:00:34.070 --> 00:00:44.240 But back then we had to work for our playlist and you'd put one tape in one deck and then another tape in another deck. 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.079 And you would line up the song that you were ready to play. 00:00:48.081 --> 00:00:53.780 And if you had a fancy tape deck, then, then you could get it all set up and just hit unpause. 00:00:53.780 --> 00:00:56.179 And they'd both start spinning at the same time. 00:00:56.450 --> 00:01:01.490 But if you weren't that wealthy, then, then you didn't have the unpause. 00:01:01.490 --> 00:01:04.189 And you just had to click them both at the same time as best you could. 00:01:04.370 --> 00:01:11.629 And, and you know that if you didn't hit it right, then the beginning of your song would go like that. 00:01:11.629 --> 00:01:24.709 And you know what I'm talking about, or maybe if you were recording off the radio, you hope that your song that you were looking for would come in after a commercial, because typically they would announce it and say, oh right. 00:01:24.710 --> 00:01:28.579 When we come back from this commercial break, we're going to be playing whatever the song was. 00:01:28.581 --> 00:01:34.010 And you'd be like, all right, so you get all ready and you'd be waiting for all 73,506 commercials. 00:01:34.250 --> 00:01:38.359 And as soon as that last one you thought played you'd, you'd do this, you know? 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.500 And in between the songs there wasn't any kind of standardization. 00:01:42.501 --> 00:01:51.349 You could have a three minute, a three second break, or you could have a 42nd break or one song could just roll right into the next song. 00:01:51.620 --> 00:01:53.030 And that's how it was. 00:01:53.031 --> 00:01:59.930 But the reason you did mix tapes is because my mix tapes were all about wanting to listen to certain things in my car. 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:06.560 And so I would, I would make a mix tape and I'd put it in my car and all my favorite songs would then play. 00:02:06.950 --> 00:02:13.759 But most people, when they did mix tapes, it was to show their great admiration and love for someone. 00:02:14.090 --> 00:02:22.729 And so they would, they would put all of their feelings together by different artists and different bands and stuff like that. 00:02:22.730 --> 00:02:23.810 And different songs. 00:02:23.811 --> 00:02:43.370 They put all of their feelings together and they'd sometimes they'd go hand it to somebody who didn't even know that they existed in order to try to tell them about the deep abiding life long, never gonna end love that they had for them in that moment until next week. 00:02:43.371 --> 00:02:59.439 And somebody else got a big state, but anyway, they, but that's, that was kind of the idea behind the mixtape that, that you would put all of this time and devotion into putting just the right mix of songs together, to share with somebody you love. 00:02:59.620 --> 00:03:02.259 And I'm going to tell you this, I love you. 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:07.419 And I believe that you love me, even if you don't want to, you do, I'm just going to believe it in faith. 00:03:07.449 --> 00:03:08.020 You do. 00:03:08.020 --> 00:03:13.930 And, and we, our team has put together a series of sermons here. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:27.430 It won't all be the same person, speaking different messages, different people, and, but all working together for the encouragement and for the betterment of our faith family, we are, we are moving forward together. 00:03:27.431 --> 00:03:31.479 And so I'm looking forward to mixtape and it's going to be a good series. 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:33.939 I encourage you to be here today. 00:03:33.941 --> 00:03:38.530 I want to talk to you about what it means to have a power shift in your life. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:39.159 A power shift. 00:03:39.161 --> 00:03:40.689 We're going to start off with our big idea. 00:03:40.930 --> 00:03:46.000 The big idea is you live with the power of Christ in your life. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.879 You live with the power of Christ in your life. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:51.789 He's there, he's in you. 00:03:51.790 --> 00:03:54.699 If you are a believer today, it's Christ in you. 00:03:54.700 --> 00:03:55.990 That is your hope of glory. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.539 If you're a believer today, the holy spirit is empowering your life. 00:04:02.650 --> 00:04:03.969 Think about all 00:04:03.969 --> 00:04:06.539 That was expressed through the life of Christ. 00:04:07.409 --> 00:04:08.550 It was a lot. 00:04:08.939 --> 00:04:11.969 It was a lot of power in the life of Christ. 00:04:12.689 --> 00:04:15.569 You might rightly say, I'm not crying. 00:04:16.769 --> 00:04:17.699 I've checked. 00:04:18.029 --> 00:04:19.079 And that's not me. 00:04:20.129 --> 00:04:20.579 I agree 00:04:20.579 --> 00:04:22.379 That it isn't you nor is it me. 00:04:22.380 --> 00:04:32.550 But here's what the Bible says in Romans chapter eight, verse 11, the spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. 00:04:34.170 --> 00:04:37.139 So the spirit of God that 00:04:37.410 --> 00:04:54.779 The miracle of raising Jesus from dead lives in you, you me, the believers, and just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same spirit within you. 00:04:55.740 --> 00:04:59.879 Now he's talking about the resurrection from the dead. 00:05:00.149 --> 00:05:00.600 He's talking. 00:05:00.689 --> 00:05:06.720 You think about how, when Jesus Christ returns, the Bible says that the dead in Christ shall rise first. 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:09.990 Then those which are alive and remain will be caught up together. 00:05:10.170 --> 00:05:10.740 Okay? 00:05:10.980 --> 00:05:13.589 It's the commonly referred to rapture. 00:05:13.591 --> 00:05:20.910 Although the scripture doesn't use that term rapture specifically, the catching away, if you will, but he, this is what he's talking about. 00:05:20.911 --> 00:05:24.990 He's saying even if you die, God has the ability to raise you up. 00:05:25.019 --> 00:05:26.939 Just like he raised up Christ. 00:05:27.180 --> 00:05:27.689 All right? 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.629 But he's saying that that spirit lives in you. 00:05:30.660 --> 00:05:33.779 He's not saying that spirit will live within you. 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:37.439 He's not saying that that spirit at some point will work upon you. 00:05:37.620 --> 00:05:42.449 He said that same spirit is within you present tense. 00:05:42.451 --> 00:05:45.060 And then he also writes in Ephesians one. 00:05:45.389 --> 00:05:51.870 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe him. 00:05:52.439 --> 00:06:07.459 It's the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and him in the place of honor at God's right hand, the same power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him at the right hand of the father. 00:06:07.660 --> 00:06:08.259 Okay? 00:06:08.620 --> 00:06:11.529 That's the power that lives 00:06:11.620 --> 00:06:13.240 In you. 00:06:14.529 --> 00:06:15.040 Then he goes 00:06:15.129 --> 00:06:16.240 On verse 21. 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:23.800 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else, not only in this world, but also in the world to come. 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:33.819 So he's telling us very clearly that the power that raised Jesus from the dead leaves within the believer, present tense, are you, if you're a believer, raise your hand. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:34.750 Okay. 00:06:34.779 --> 00:06:36.790 So that's you that's me. 00:06:36.850 --> 00:06:43.600 If you're a believer, then the same power that lived in Christ that raised Christ from the dead lives in you present tense. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:51.220 And then he says that that power is not only for the next world, but it's also in this present world. 00:06:51.939 --> 00:06:55.149 He says it in reverse, not only in this world, but also in the world to come. 00:06:55.779 --> 00:07:09.790 So he's telling us that that power is within us and that power will work within us, regardless of our situation, our circumstance, our issue, our condition, the power of God works in the life of the believer. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:15.879 And so ultimately we know, and we understand, and we see, and it's obvious that believers are powerful, 00:07:16.899 --> 00:07:17.949 Powerful. 00:07:18.129 --> 00:07:18.850 If you're a believer 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.810 Where you are powerful, but it does not always seem like it. 00:07:24.430 --> 00:07:28.120 There are times when it does not seem like you're powerful at all. 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:39.519 Sometimes the world presses against you, pushes against you situations, push and press against you to the point where you just feel crowded and, and you feel weak. 00:07:39.521 --> 00:07:40.689 You feel powerless. 00:07:40.690 --> 00:07:46.660 You feel like you cannot do anything about the situation that you're in and you need a power shift in your life. 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:49.000 And that's what I want to talk about. 00:07:49.389 --> 00:07:50.649 This power shift. 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:51.910 Jesus 00:07:51.910 --> 00:07:54.910 Gave us an example of a power shift in the garden of gifs. 00:07:55.329 --> 00:07:59.980 Semini he's in the garden, praying 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:00.610 To the father. 00:08:00.610 --> 00:08:06.310 In fact, John chapter 17 is where we were last, last month, talking about the prayer that he prayed. 00:08:06.310 --> 00:08:18.879 God father, let them be one, even as we are one, but now we're in John 18 and he has this incredible moment of intimacy and wonder what the father, he says, things like not my will, but thy will be done. 00:08:19.060 --> 00:08:21.129 And, and everything seems to come together. 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:24.879 And man, he's at peace and he's ready to do what needs to be done. 00:08:24.939 --> 00:08:26.319 And then, 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.839 And then he still pressed 00:08:33.549 --> 00:08:35.470 Theirs seasoned here where he stressed. 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:36.820 He stretched, he strained, 00:08:37.690 --> 00:08:39.039 The friends came with him. 00:08:39.730 --> 00:08:40.990 It's nice to have friends. 00:08:42.370 --> 00:08:43.809 They came with him, but they were sleeping. 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:46.870 They theoretically 00:08:46.870 --> 00:08:49.570 Understood what was going on, but they didn't feel what he was feeling. 00:08:51.250 --> 00:08:53.710 They didn't know exactly what was happening there. 00:08:54.429 --> 00:09:01.679 And when he to make peace with the moment, the moment shifted, he says, not 00:09:01.889 --> 00:09:03.059 Now I will, but thine be done. 00:09:03.061 --> 00:09:04.019 He gets up. 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:06.000 He's ready to roll. 00:09:06.450 --> 00:09:07.200 He's feeling good. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:08.190 Ooh, I got this. 00:09:09.419 --> 00:09:13.169 I don't know if Jesus did that, but I got this. 00:09:13.171 --> 00:09:13.679 I can. 00:09:15.990 --> 00:09:18.750 And then the sound of soldiers filled the garden. 00:09:20.309 --> 00:09:22.740 Have you ever been at peace with something? 00:09:23.370 --> 00:09:24.090 And then just 00:09:24.090 --> 00:09:28.080 One or two things shifted and it seemed like you were going, Hey, peace, peace, peace. 00:09:28.149 --> 00:09:29.250 Where would that go? 00:09:30.269 --> 00:09:32.850 Where, where suddenly you can't seem to get a hold of it. 00:09:33.929 --> 00:09:35.610 I don't think that was Jesus at all. 00:09:35.610 --> 00:09:41.009 He he's at peace now, but now the soldiers are filling the garden to arrest him. 00:09:41.309 --> 00:09:43.289 And they are in control 00:09:45.179 --> 00:09:47.429 By every logical 00:09:47.429 --> 00:09:50.519 Way of looking at this, the soldiers are controlling the situation. 00:09:50.669 --> 00:09:53.639 They have political control because they're the Roman soldiers. 00:09:53.640 --> 00:10:03.059 Rome is ruling the territory and the Romans are enforcing their, their rule, their wall, their ways upon the people. 00:10:03.061 --> 00:10:10.039 And so if the Roman soldiers are coming to get you, you got[inaudible], 00:10:10.309 --> 00:10:12.379 They're in control politically, 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:13.129 Economically. 00:10:13.130 --> 00:10:15.679 They they're running the economy of the world. 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:16.519 Romas 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:18.799 Socially. 00:10:19.370 --> 00:10:25.309 They can impress their society on anyone that they want to because they have all the power numerically. 00:10:25.700 --> 00:10:26.929 There's one Jesus. 00:10:26.931 --> 00:10:28.519 And there's a bunch of soldiers. 00:10:29.570 --> 00:10:41.330 So they're in control in every way, except yes, even relationally, because while the Roman soldiers may not have known who Jesus was and he might be able to say, Hey, who are you looking for? 00:10:41.331 --> 00:10:43.129 And they said, we're looking for Jesus of Nazareth. 00:10:43.130 --> 00:10:44.929 And he goes, yeah, my name's Bob, how you doing? 00:10:45.470 --> 00:10:47.779 Um, I don't know where Jesus is at all. 00:10:47.899 --> 00:10:48.980 He was just here. 00:10:50.090 --> 00:10:50.269 He 00:10:50.450 --> 00:10:58.340 Could have done that, maybe potentially to the Roman soldiers, but he could not have done that to Judas his friend who was leading the soldiers to him. 00:11:00.169 --> 00:11:00.649 There was no 00:11:00.649 --> 00:11:01.879 Way for him to get out of that. 00:11:01.880 --> 00:11:03.049 They're arresting Jesus. 00:11:03.110 --> 00:11:05.539 And there seems to be nothing he can do about it. 00:11:05.541 --> 00:11:07.100 And maybe you can relate. 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:12.019 Maybe you can relate in your own world that you've reached your limit, but the world isn't quite 00:11:12.019 --> 00:11:12.799 Done with you yet, 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:18.259 Maybe in your life it's COVID and issues dealing with it. 00:11:18.830 --> 00:11:27.259 Maybe it's economic issues that are relating from it or other things, you know, everything in the world isn't directly COVID related though. 00:11:27.260 --> 00:11:32.419 It seems like it is at times there's other things going on, economic. 00:11:32.421 --> 00:11:45.350 How about societaly there, there are situations going on in culture and society that just are putting stress and strain on different things and, and how you interact with people that maybe you've interacted with them your whole life. 00:11:45.379 --> 00:11:49.320 But all of a sudden, it seems like things are more pressurized than they'd been before. 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:50.840 Maybe it's not society at all. 00:11:50.841 --> 00:12:08.860 Maybe it's in your own home and your family within the four walls of your house and things are stressed and strained and, and you've reached your limit and you might have good friends that are walking with you, but just because they're your friends doesn't mean don't doesn't mean that they can always relate exactly to what's going on in your world. 00:12:11.250 --> 00:12:25.769 And in this mall, you might feel logically disadvantaged And listen, it's easy if you don't have a lot, or if you think you don't have a lot to say, well, if I just had more of this or just had more of that, or, or if that was right in my life, then everything would be okay. 00:12:25.770 --> 00:12:30.809 It doesn't matter where you are on any, on any measure of status. 00:12:30.811 --> 00:12:34.889 The fact of the matter is that everybody feels down. 00:12:35.610 --> 00:12:45.870 Sometime everybody is overwhelmed at some time, and everybody needs a power shift to occur in their life at some point. 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:50.309 So Jesus here, soldiers come in and, and, and he doesn't shrink away. 00:12:50.311 --> 00:12:52.889 In fact, Jen Jesus, knowing that all would happen to him. 00:12:53.429 --> 00:13:04.830 So he didn't walk into this, not understanding what was going on in John 18, verse four, it says Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, 00:13:05.129 --> 00:13:06.090 Whom do you seek? 00:13:06.899 --> 00:13:09.480 They answered Jesus of Nazareth. 00:13:11.129 --> 00:13:14.100 And Jesus said to them, I am he 00:13:14.789 --> 00:13:16.950 Judas who betrayed him, was standing with them. 00:13:17.070 --> 00:13:22.409 And when Jesus said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. 00:13:24.299 --> 00:13:25.620 So here are 00:13:25.710 --> 00:13:29.519 A bunch, two Roman soldiers looking at one Jesus. 00:13:29.789 --> 00:13:33.330 And Jesus says, I am he and bam. 00:13:33.331 --> 00:13:35.429 They fall to the ground power 00:13:35.460 --> 00:13:37.289 Shifts in that moment. 00:13:39.899 --> 00:13:43.350 Prior to that, they were absolutely in control. 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:44.759 I cannot 00:13:44.889 --> 00:13:47.519 Imagine that they felt threatened in any way whatsoever. 00:13:48.179 --> 00:13:50.909 They're walking in with swords, they're walking in with numbers. 00:13:50.910 --> 00:13:55.259 They're walking in with all the temporal authority that they could, that could be mustard. 00:13:55.409 --> 00:14:04.230 And they're standing in front of one guy who is in a small region, in a, in an insignificant place, in all reality in the Roman world. 00:14:04.409 --> 00:14:08.850 And they're standing there and they're about to take him into custody and there's nothing he can do. 00:14:08.850 --> 00:14:12.750 And yet he says three words and they're on the ground. 00:14:14.070 --> 00:14:15.389 Can I tell it to you this way? 00:14:15.419 --> 00:14:19.259 God is always the most powerful player in the situation. 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:24.419 There is never a moment in which God is not the most powerful player. 00:14:24.509 --> 00:14:26.909 He is always the one that is in control. 00:14:26.910 --> 00:14:33.480 He is the almighty God and God's identity defines as authority 00:14:35.070 --> 00:14:43.889 When he declares something to be, it becomes, he is one who shifts the power dynamic 00:14:43.889 --> 00:14:47.549 In any moment when he's engaged, when he's involved. 00:14:47.551 --> 00:14:49.919 And he has a long history of working through people. 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:52.940 Think about all the way back in the old Testament. 00:14:52.941 --> 00:15:00.649 When you have this guy named Moses, that, that he's, he's, he's born to a Jewish mother, but he's raised by a Pharaoh's daughter in the palace. 00:15:00.830 --> 00:15:03.440 And, and then years later, he understands who he is. 00:15:03.441 --> 00:15:05.690 He sees injustice being done. 00:15:05.691 --> 00:15:11.059 And so he strikes out, but in his striking out, he aligns himself with the people of God. 00:15:11.061 --> 00:15:15.500 And, and, and now he's, he's not in alignment with Pharaoh anymore. 00:15:15.500 --> 00:15:17.240 And suddenly he's running for his life. 00:15:17.269 --> 00:15:20.330 And now he's in the backside of the desert, which is a bad place to be. 00:15:20.539 --> 00:15:21.860 And he's in the backside of the desert. 00:15:21.940 --> 00:15:24.409 And he's a, he's now a shepherd instead of a prince. 00:15:24.410 --> 00:15:28.129 And, and he's, he's trying to figure out what to do in God. 00:15:28.190 --> 00:15:30.470 In fact, he thinks he's escaped the situation. 00:15:30.471 --> 00:15:32.149 He's got a wife now he's got a family. 00:15:32.150 --> 00:15:33.440 Now things are going good. 00:15:33.441 --> 00:15:35.899 He's building a life for himself, way back over here. 00:15:36.019 --> 00:15:40.570 But God appears to him in a burning Bush and says, listen, dude, I'm not 00:15:40.570 --> 00:15:41.889 Done with you yet. 00:15:42.610 --> 00:15:45.940 The Hebrew of dude, I don't know the, uh, 00:15:47.470 --> 00:15:49.059 He says, I'm not done with you yet. 00:15:49.061 --> 00:15:51.100 And Moses is trying to figure out, all right. 00:15:51.100 --> 00:15:54.850 So here's the, here's a, here's a couple of issues that I have God with your plan. 00:15:55.389 --> 00:15:59.500 Um, and me, uh, and so, and so number one, I can't talk really well. 00:15:59.509 --> 00:16:02.529 Number two, who do I say? 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:08.200 When I look at Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the known world at the time, do I, who do I say 00:16:09.490 --> 00:16:11.259 Is sending me on this mission? 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:12.789 Whose 00:16:12.789 --> 00:16:14.710 Authority am I working within? 00:16:15.940 --> 00:16:23.860 And God speaks to Moses and says in Exodus three, I am who I am say this to the people of Israel I am has sent me 00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:24.909 To you. 00:16:25.870 --> 00:16:26.110 So 00:16:26.110 --> 00:16:31.149 The, I am God, the one who is what needs he needs to be in this very moment. 00:16:31.870 --> 00:16:44.110 The God who's not going to be or was, but the one who is present tense in this moment, in this situation, in this circumstance, he's the one who was working in you and through you Moses. 00:16:44.259 --> 00:16:53.230 And when Pharaoh asks, who sends you say the God, who's right here right now and who, who can be anything he needs to be in order to get the job done. 00:16:53.230 --> 00:16:55.539 That's the one that sent me to you right now. 00:16:57.340 --> 00:17:01.480 The I am has sent me to you and 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:03.700 That declaration still changes everything 00:17:03.700 --> 00:17:04.329 Today. 00:17:05.230 --> 00:17:06.009 The I am 00:17:06.130 --> 00:17:06.130 Good. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.650 God is the one that raised Jesus from the dead. 00:17:08.651 --> 00:17:11.619 The I am, God is the one who dwells within you. 00:17:11.621 --> 00:17:15.130 The, I am, God has not stopped being the, I am. 00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:16.329 He remains the, 00:17:16.329 --> 00:17:17.019 I am. 00:17:18.130 --> 00:17:19.000 And he remains 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.210 The, I am God in your life today. 00:17:22.211 --> 00:17:22.690 In fact, 00:17:23.650 --> 00:17:25.359 He spoke through Moses. 00:17:25.900 --> 00:17:29.140 He is who Jesus claimed to be. 00:17:29.589 --> 00:17:31.839 And he lives in you. 00:17:33.130 --> 00:17:33.549 You and I 00:17:33.549 --> 00:17:40.180 Accepting that and working within that reality is what causes a power shift to occur in our lives. 00:17:40.420 --> 00:18:01.829 It allows us to experience a power shift, whether it be on our job or in our company that we own, or, or run or manager or in our family or in our relationships or in our finances or wherever it may be understanding who is within us, who we are and whose we are makes a big difference in, in the power dynamic that we're operating within. 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:08.609 And I have two thoughts for us today, and I cannot promise you that I'll stay with my notes, but I can promise you that I will give you two blanks to fill in. 00:18:08.611 --> 00:18:09.089 Okay. 00:18:09.509 --> 00:18:17.940 Thought number one is this private devotion results in public expression, private devotion results in public expression. 00:18:18.779 --> 00:18:22.410 Devotion is this thing that it's the love. 00:18:22.411 --> 00:18:24.630 It's the loyalty, it's the enthusiasm 00:18:24.809 --> 00:18:26.579 For someone or something. 00:18:27.210 --> 00:18:29.099 That's what devotion means. 00:18:29.579 --> 00:18:30.089 It means 00:18:30.089 --> 00:18:34.680 That we love them, that we're excited about them, that we, that we're loyal 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.119 To, to them, to them or to 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:38.329 That. 00:18:38.869 --> 00:18:40.579 Cause whatever it may, may be. 00:18:41.569 --> 00:18:46.369 But in Christianity, we often say devotion, as in, at 00:18:46.369 --> 00:18:50.240 Six 30 every morning, I sit down with my Bible and my pen and my journal. 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:51.859 And I read the Bible. 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.839 I say, hello and good morning to Jesus. 00:18:53.840 --> 00:18:55.579 And then, uh, write some stuff down in my journal. 00:18:55.940 --> 00:18:57.200 Now there's nothing wrong with that. 00:18:57.201 --> 00:19:04.700 If you know anything about five lakes, church, we encourage that every single day in our life Bible reading plan and our journaling plan and so on. 00:19:04.701 --> 00:19:05.150 I love it. 00:19:05.151 --> 00:19:07.099 I love it, but that's not all of devotion. 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.309 It's just one expression of devotion. 00:19:10.339 --> 00:19:11.720 We call it devotion. 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.420 But devotion really is 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:22.069 A consistent honoring of something, a consistent connection to something. 00:19:23.849 --> 00:19:23.849 It 00:19:23.859 --> 00:19:26.509 It's not saying, okay, I'm devoted to my wife. 00:19:26.779 --> 00:19:31.130 And, and so on Tuesdays at six 30, I say hello to her. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:39.380 We talked for a minute and I write some things down and then I'll see you next Tuesday at six 30. 00:19:40.950 --> 00:19:44.269 No, that's not how that works 00:19:45.410 --> 00:19:47.089 Or I'd be a single man. 00:19:47.090 --> 00:19:51.680 That's what would be in my devotional right there you are single. 00:19:54.109 --> 00:19:56.960 No devotion means more than just a particular. 00:19:59.779 --> 00:20:03.500 It means a life lifestyle. 00:20:03.500 --> 00:20:07.910 It means how we make decisions and, and determine our actions 00:20:07.910 --> 00:20:10.490 And move into our futures. 00:20:11.630 --> 00:20:12.380 In fact, public, 00:20:12.710 --> 00:20:16.430 This expression always follows private devotion. 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:19.759 It always follows private devotion. 00:20:21.390 --> 00:20:22.069 Think about those 00:20:22.069 --> 00:20:33.980 People who have publicly express certain things politically or, or in faith, religiously declared themselves to be something that later on, we all discovered that they weren't what they are. 00:20:36.529 --> 00:20:42.230 What you find now does that their private devotion did not match or align with their public. 00:20:44.900 --> 00:20:46.519 We would like it. 00:20:46.609 --> 00:20:54.759 If our devotion followed our public expression, I am thin. 00:20:54.760 --> 00:20:55.930 I do not like cake. 00:20:55.931 --> 00:20:57.069 I hate ice cream. 00:20:58.269 --> 00:21:04.930 That may be my public expression, but my private devotion to cake and ice 00:21:04.930 --> 00:21:07.900 Cream will actually 00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:11.019 Be the thing that is eventually publicly expressed. 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:19.089 It doesn't go the other direction, uh, 00:21:19.890 --> 00:21:20.519 In our world. 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:31.109 They, they say fake it till you make it think like where you want to go dress, like where you want to go, you know, drive like where you want to go speak, like where you want to go. 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:34.349 And I agree with the thinking like where you want to go and speak, like where you want to go. 00:21:34.351 --> 00:21:34.920 I completely 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:35.430 Agree with that. 00:21:36.660 --> 00:21:38.910 But driving like where you want to go. 00:21:39.809 --> 00:21:45.809 If, if, if, if it fits your budget drive like where you want to go. 00:21:47.609 --> 00:21:56.069 But if your budget says Hondai and you're where you want to go, says Mercedes point your bicycle to the Honda dealership. 00:21:56.099 --> 00:21:56.519 Okay. 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:03.869 Because w because you're going to find yourself in deficit. 00:22:05.670 --> 00:22:07.589 Consistently people 00:22:07.589 --> 00:22:09.029 Say dress like where you want to go. 00:22:09.030 --> 00:22:13.740 Well, if, if your budget says target, but where you want to go says, Nordstrom's 00:22:14.190 --> 00:22:15.480 Drive to target. 00:22:16.289 --> 00:22:17.970 Don't go to Nordstrom's. 00:22:18.539 --> 00:22:18.809 If 00:22:18.809 --> 00:22:31.109 You'll drive to target long enough and maintain your, uh, stewardship properly, then you'll end up being able to drive to Nordstrom's without trying to worry about how you're going to pay for where you're going. 00:22:34.380 --> 00:22:35.700 Amen to that. 00:22:36.930 --> 00:22:37.200 So 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:44.789 What happens and why this is difficult is because private devotion doesn't instantly show up in public expression. 00:22:46.259 --> 00:22:48.809 So if I eat an entire cheesecake tonight, 00:22:50.309 --> 00:22:59.190 Tomorrow, my pants size won't change, but eventually y'all will say, huh? 00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:04.769 His private devotion is different than his public expression. 00:23:05.700 --> 00:23:11.759 Because now after several months of this, he is expressing publicly what he's actually doing privately. 00:23:12.569 --> 00:23:13.500 And that's what we 00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:30.359 Find in a politician that fails a religious leader that fails in a business leader that fails in every person that ends up not, not living out what they declare themselves to be what's happened in his public expression is, is following there. 00:23:30.390 --> 00:23:38.849 So you're worried about what everybody thinks about you and what actually is what you should be worried about is what you're doing when no one's looking at it. 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:42.180 Yeah, I am. 00:23:42.181 --> 00:23:52.039 I am more dedicated to Christie, not when I'm standing in front of Christie, but by my actions, my attitudes and my comportment when I'm not in front of her, when she's not in the room. 00:23:52.040 --> 00:23:53.809 And she would never ever know 00:23:55.730 --> 00:23:56.869 Until 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:01.670 My public expression aligned with my private devotion. 00:24:03.049 --> 00:24:16.029 And then she wouldn't know private devotion results in public expression, Jesus ended and we'll start it in, into his ministry. 00:24:16.150 --> 00:24:17.289 In private places. 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:19.750 In the beginning, he was in the wilderness. 00:24:19.750 --> 00:24:24.819 He was privately tested in the lust of the flesh, less to the eye and pride of life. 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:32.650 He was faithful in his private devotion, and that became public miracles. 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.519 Disciples developed an unmatched impact made in the world. 00:24:37.809 --> 00:24:43.150 He ended his ministry in the same way, private testing in the garden, 00:24:43.930 --> 00:24:45.460 Stressed and strained, and 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.789 So overwhelmed that it was like he was sweating 00:24:50.670 --> 00:24:51.279 And, and 00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:54.609 Yet he's privately faithful. 00:24:56.170 --> 00:25:09.940 And so he is publicly, publicly tied, publicly tried publicly beaten, publicly crowned with thorns and publicly nailed to a cross 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:12.279 He's publicly pierced with the spirit. 00:25:12.309 --> 00:25:15.579 He publicly dies and he publicly goes 00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:17.019 To the grave. 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:26.019 And so one might think, well, why on earth would I want to be privately devoted to something that's going to publicly result in all of those 00:25:26.019 --> 00:25:26.710 Things. 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:28.599 Now I liked the public 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:33.339 Expression of miracles and disciples and, and expansion of influence. 00:25:33.340 --> 00:25:41.440 I love all that part, but w w w w why would I want to be privately devoted? 00:25:41.950 --> 00:25:43.390 Can I cut a deal on the side? 00:25:43.391 --> 00:25:48.130 Can I, can I do something different that will cause the public expression of my private devotion to be something different? 00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:51.099 Huh? 00:25:51.130 --> 00:25:53.049 How about we work it out some other way. 00:25:53.050 --> 00:26:05.079 That's what Jesus was doing when he said, if there's another way, Lord, if there's another way father, but when the father didn't say, yeah, there's another way he said, but not my will done be done. 00:26:05.080 --> 00:26:13.390 And he, and he publicly went through with the father's plan and everybody thought he lost until the third day. 00:26:14.980 --> 00:26:15.519 Because on 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:17.829 The third day, yes, he, yes, he was tied. 00:26:17.830 --> 00:26:18.069 Yes. 00:26:18.070 --> 00:26:18.730 He was tried. 00:26:18.819 --> 00:26:19.119 Yes. 00:26:19.121 --> 00:26:19.690 He was beaten. 00:26:19.691 --> 00:26:19.930 Yes. 00:26:19.931 --> 00:26:20.650 He was crowned in. 00:26:20.651 --> 00:26:20.890 Yes. 00:26:20.891 --> 00:26:22.990 He was nailed to a cross where he died. 00:26:22.990 --> 00:26:26.920 But on the third day he rose and he rose in power and authority. 00:26:27.009 --> 00:26:32.380 He rose in a power and authority that could not be matched by anything this earth had to offer. 00:26:32.470 --> 00:26:37.779 He rose in power and authority in such a way as that, where he would never go down again. 00:26:37.869 --> 00:26:42.970 He rose in power and authority in such a way as to where right now he sits at the right hand of the father. 00:26:42.990 --> 00:26:47.519 And he was able to say, all power in heaven and earth belongs to me. 00:26:47.549 --> 00:26:51.119 It's been given to me by my father, by your father. 00:26:51.269 --> 00:26:52.920 That's where he sits right now. 00:26:52.921 --> 00:26:54.240 Yes, yes. 00:26:54.329 --> 00:27:07.079 For a moment, the private devotion led to a difficult public expression, but it w it ended in absolute total authority being given over to him, I would say the three days were worth it. 00:27:08.869 --> 00:27:15.380 Praise God, certainly I'd say those three days were worth it for you and me. 00:27:16.579 --> 00:27:23.900 Because when he went through all of that, he'll he, he was able to give you an I a power and authority that was beyond this world. 00:27:24.529 --> 00:27:29.240 And that's why Paul could write that that same power lived in you and lives 00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:30.529 In me. 00:27:31.130 --> 00:27:31.670 And so my 00:27:31.670 --> 00:27:35.180 Encouragement today is revealed God's power through your life. 00:27:35.210 --> 00:27:38.599 By aligning your private devotion with your public expression, 00:27:40.730 --> 00:27:43.369 You said, well, my public expression, isn't good. 00:27:43.549 --> 00:27:44.630 Then repent. 00:27:46.339 --> 00:27:46.519 You 00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:47.930 Said private devotion. 00:27:47.931 --> 00:27:48.559 Isn't good. 00:27:48.560 --> 00:27:49.579 Then repent. 00:27:50.630 --> 00:27:56.240 What repentance is, is saying, um, I'm off a norm off, I'm sorry that I'm off and I'm going to get 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:56.599 It right. 00:27:58.190 --> 00:28:00.710 And by getting it right with him, his 00:28:00.710 --> 00:28:02.210 Forgiveness flowing in our life. 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:05.240 Now we're able to walk and stand with power. 00:28:05.329 --> 00:28:09.049 And suddenly we become a clear conduit for God's power to work in us. 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:10.849 The power is there. 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:14.720 It's just like you take a water hose, the Allstate, a water hose. 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:15.349