WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.919 Okay, my friends, if you have your Bibles, I want you to open up wherever you want. 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:08.160 Just pick a pick pick a passage. 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.400 Now we're gonna go to the book of Colossians. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.839 Again, we've been in what we're calling summer strong. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.960 Summer strong, not summer weak, summer strong. 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:21.440 And these entire these last few months have been pushing me forward in my walk with God. 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:23.760 I pray they've been doing the same for you. 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.280 So we read through the book of Joshua in uh what was that? 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:36.960 That was June, and then the book of Acts in July, and now in the month of August, we're work walking through what we say, giants enjoy protein and cardio. 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.880 Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians. 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.320 Uh so we're gonna be in Colossians chapter one today. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:53.759 If you did not bring your Bible, we're gonna put the verses on the screen so you can follow along with us, Colossians chapter one, verse number three. 00:00:55.679 --> 00:01:02.320 It says, We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you. 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.799 Because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus. 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:14.079 Quick little side note uh theologians believe that this is not a church that Paul planted, this is a church that he heard about. 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:18.239 He heard about their faith, he heard about their commitment to Christ. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:22.959 Uh so he's writing this letter of encouragement to them uh through through word of mouth. 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:37.599 I've heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God's people, the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:43.760 Everybody say true message, the true message of the gospel that has come to you. 00:01:43.920 --> 00:02:01.599 In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world, just as it has been, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it, and truly understood God's grace. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.079 Go with me, say in chapter one to verse number 19. 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:25.120 It says, For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, in Christ, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood shed on the cross. 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:26.719 You guys tired of verses yet? 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:27.439 Can I keep going? 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:29.360 Okay, verse number 21. 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:30.000 Look at this. 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:37.199 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:49.919 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish, and free from accusation. 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:56.800 If you like to take notes, uh the title of today is I need you to get this. 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:58.800 I need you to get this. 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:00.639 Turn to your neighbor and say, I need you to get this. 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:02.800 Come on, turn to your second choice. 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:04.319 Tell them, I need you to get this. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.319 Tell them it wasn't personal. 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:08.159 Their breast stank. 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:10.080 So you just you had to turn the other way. 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.520 I need you to get this. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:21.280 I uh I'm I'm excited to jump into uh these verses as I was as I was studying. 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:38.319 I actually had so many different thoughts uh coming to me, and uh, and I thought maybe they were all these different messages, but as I as I sat there and praying for praying for our church family, uh it became clear to me that that all of this uh was really for one message. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:43.599 Uh honestly, I was like, man, is this message practical enough? 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:49.439 Because I do like messages to be able to be lived out on Monday. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:56.479 I I don't want you just coming to church on Sunday thinking I'm okay I'm holy on Sunday, then on Monday through you know Saturday I'm ratchet. 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:59.759 Uh what I heard on Sunday doesn't impact my life at all. 00:03:59.919 --> 00:04:00.479 I don't want that. 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:09.199 I want what we're sharing, what what's being preached here to actually be able to help your marriage or help you as a single person or or help you as a student. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.919 I I want you to help you in your business, your career. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.439 I really want that. 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.079 Um but that's not the ultimate goal. 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.199 The ultimate goal is I want you to look like Jesus. 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:20.959 I want him to capture your heart. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.399 I want you to become the man or woman of God that he's called you to be. 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:39.839 So whether or not it it impacts your your Monday in that really practical way, I just have to trust the Holy Spirit that he'll say to you what you need to hear, that the right thing will drop into your heart, that your eyes will be open the way they need to be open, as my eyes and my heart were open this week. 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:49.199 So we're gonna dig into some scriptures today, and I pray, I pray in Jesus' name that you're able to hear what God wants you to hear. 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.360 Go back with me to Colossians chapter one, verse number six, uh, real quick. 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.199 I want you to see some things that I've underlined. 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:59.680 I'm gonna show you some verses that I that I've underlined, chapter one, verse number six. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:07.600 I underline this truly understood God's grace. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:12.720 Truly understood God's grace. 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.040 Go with me over to verse number 20. 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.360 I underlined something else over there. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:25.120 Um making peace through his blood shed on the cross. 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:30.879 Making peace through his blood shed on the cross. 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.480 Verse number 22. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:34.720 Here's something else I have underlined. 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.240 Free from accusation. 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:42.800 Free from accusation. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:49.279 Okay, um does anybody remember Kmart? 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:55.360 Okay, I'm dating myself here, I recognize that, okay? 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.800 This is for all of us old heads. 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:00.000 Kmart. 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.920 Kids, y'all don't know, you don't know about Kmart, okay? 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:06.879 Kmart is now out of business. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:11.120 Um, but it's like it was Walmart before before Walmart. 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:14.959 And they had something at Kmart that was phenomenal. 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:16.319 Layaway. 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:20.480 Come on now. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:22.000 Layaway. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.120 What is layaway, you might ask? 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:29.199 This is when you're at the store with your mom, like, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom. 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:30.800 I need that, I need that, I need that, I need that. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.160 She's like, Well, I'm not buying that for you. 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:33.759 I'm like, come on, mom, come on, mom, come on, mom. 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:34.800 She's like, I don't have the money for that. 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:36.319 Come on, mom, come on, come on, mom. 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.160 She's like, okay, I'll put it on layaway. 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:47.600 Which means she goes to the counter with your jeans or the shoes or whatever, and she says, I want to put this on layaway. 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.360 That means it's set aside for you, but you don't own it yet. 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.680 What she starts to do is she makes payments on it. 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.959 Weekly payments, monthly payments, whatever it is. 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.199 Now, now it's set aside for you. 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.680 If she stops making the payments, it goes back on the rack. 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:11.439 It's not yours any longer. 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:19.519 But if she keeps making the payments, one day you're wearing those new, we used to call them Skippies, you know, they're just raggedy shoes from Kmart. 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:23.519 There were no J's there back in the day. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:25.279 That's layaway. 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:31.519 Nowadays, we don't really use layaway, we use credit a lot. 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:38.000 Credit is when you go and you swipe your card and you have your Bank of America or your Chase card or whatever. 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:39.439 Well, it's Fargo, whatever. 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:44.639 You have your credit card and you say, Oh, I like those shoes, but I don't have any money for it. 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:45.360 You know what? 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.519 Let me go ahead, I'll put it on credit. 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:48.639 And then you swipe. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.439 Some of y'all got really tense when I just said that right there. 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:52.240 Okay. 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:54.319 So a lot of us live, right? 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:57.360 I mean, I don't really have the money for it, I'll pay it later. 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:06.560 So you swipe it, and you now have it, and you technically own it, but really you're still making payments on it. 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:12.319 There'll be a day that you won't have that debt anymore if you keep making the payments. 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:13.519 That's credit. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:20.800 Now, there's another thing that's even better for a lot of us, and Dave Ramsey would tell you it is that's that debit card. 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:28.240 Now, when you swipe your debit card, the money automatically comes out of your account and you own the thing immediately. 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.000 You're not making any payments on that. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:34.399 But if you have a thousand dollars and you buy something for$200, you now have$800. 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:36.240 We we get this. 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:42.960 So this is you got layaway, you got credit, and you also have debit. 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:51.919 Now, I feel like going off verse number six, when he says, I need you to truly understand God's grace. 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:56.799 Some of us are thinking God's grace is layaway. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.720 I make payments on this. 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:05.519 I don't own it just yet. 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:15.360 And if I can make enough payments and be consistent enough in my payments, then I'll own it and then it'll be mine. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.559 But it's mine because I paid for it. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.799 It's mine because I was consistent in my payments. 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.799 You don't truly understand God's grace, it's not layaway. 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.639 Some of us think it's credit. 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.600 It's like, okay, now, now I'm I'm in debt. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:37.919 It's mine, but man, I still gotta pay on it. 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.039 I uh I'm it's just kind of hovering over my head. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.639 No, no, you you didn't pay for God's grace, you don't truly understand God's grace. 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.840 It's it's not it's not a credit card, and it's not a debit card either. 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:53.600 Where you think now that you you now have less because you earned it, you cannot have less. 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:55.600 Matter of fact, I'll tell you this, I'll tell you this. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:10:04.320 God, in his infinite power and wisdom and grace, he does not do layaway, he does not do credit, he does not do debit. 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:06.320 What God did is he gave you a gift. 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:14.879 This is what God did, and God said, I purchased this, and when I purchased it, I do not have any less of me because I purchased this. 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:20.320 God cannot go down in his account because he's God no matter what. 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:26.480 So when he gives grace, he does not have less grace because he is immutable, he cannot change. 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:37.600 So I need you to truly understand the gospel of grace that you're not making payments on this, you're not in debt per se, and you're not the one that now has lost something in your account. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:48.080 You need to understand that God said, I purchased this for you of my own free will, and I'm bringing it to you, and I'm offering you this gift. 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:50.080 Open it. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:55.360 Open it. 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:58.159 Open it. 00:10:59.919 --> 00:11:01.039 It's for you. 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:02.799 Open it. 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:07.600 And don't just open it and go, oh man, that's too nice for me. 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:13.039 Put it back in the box and then live your life outside of God's grace. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:17.440 No, open it, and put it on. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.159 What he has given you as a free gift. 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:30.320 You cannot make enough payments, and God's account does not go down. 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.919 I've heard some erroneous theology, like, no, I don't need God's forgiveness. 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.000 He can give that to somebody else. 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:42.960 As if the forgiveness that God has can be exhausted. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:47.279 Once he gives it to you, he still has enough for me. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:53.200 And when he gives it to me, he still has enough for my kids and your kids and my friends and your friends. 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:55.440 His account can never go down. 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:01.600 I need you to truly understand God's grace. 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.039 Because there's some lies out here in our world today. 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:22.960 I mean, I can't spend all the time with you that I'd like to when you're scrolling through Instagram or TikTok or YouTube, and there's this short, and somebody says something, and they've got a book, or they've got this platform, or they've got this thing, or that thing, and they, well, since all these people are following them, they must be right. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:26.720 And I'm telling you, there's a lot of people with a lot of followers, but they're still not right. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:35.840 I'm trying to make sure we are always getting back to this glorious book right here, centered on the person of Jesus Christ, and this is the final authority. 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:40.080 I need us to truly understand God's grace. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:45.039 And as we do, I pray that our eyes continue to be opened. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.519 Now keep on going with me until this next verse. 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.679 This next verse, uh, verse number 20. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:56.799 It says, by making peace through his blood shed on the cross. 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.919 By making peace through his blood shed on the cross. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:16.399 Um, the the words here in the NIV are you know making peace, and this really captures the the Greek word here because it's not just that Jesus brought peace, it's that Jesus made peace. 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:28.559 Like there was a disconnection between God and humanity, and Jesus reconciled, He made peace. 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:35.279 There was not a way between us and God, and Jesus came and made a way for us. 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.159 I I looked up um the Golden Gate Bridge. 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.519 My wife is uh born in San Francisco, raised in Sacramento. 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:45.919 Uh so I looked up the Golden Gate Bridge, uh, it popped into my head, and I was like, when was that made? 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.360 And it was made in the 19 um 1937 or something like that. 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:50.559 I think it could open. 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:58.480 Um, but there was this massive chasm between one side of San Francisco and this other side, and people were just going through on ferries all the time. 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:03.360 And then when automobiles, more people started having automobiles, there was not really a way to get across. 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:07.600 They had to put their cars on the ferry, and it was just taking forever and ever and ever. 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:12.639 If somebody wanted to get to the other side, they had to drive hundreds of miles all the way around. 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:16.159 So they had the idea: let's build this golden gate bridge. 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:22.399 And when they built the bridge, it cut down the time, and now everyone could get from one side to the other. 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.960 I need you to understand that Jesus is that Golden Gate Bridge, if you will. 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:32.960 And what he did on the cross, now what took forever for you to get to God, it doesn't take forever anymore. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.279 It's by grace through faith in Jesus that you are made new. 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.120 He made a way, he made it. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:47.759 So now this bridge has happened, but there's something else happening on the cross. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:55.120 There is making peace with God through his, what's the what's the Bible say here? 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:00.399 Through his blood shed on the cross. 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:03.679 I want to show you another verse in chapter 2. 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:08.320 Go with me to verse number 13 of Colossians chapter 2, verse number 13. 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:11.840 It says this. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:18.639 It says, when you were dead in your sins, when you were dead in your sins, not like just a bad person, but when you were dead in your sins. 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:23.679 Because Jesus didn't didn't come to make bad people good, he came to make dead people alive. 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:31.120 When you were dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:40.879 He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:47.279 He has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:50.399 Okay, uh let me have my papers real quick, please. 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:51.840 Thank you. 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:59.919 Okay, so on the cross, he's nailed our sins to the cross, is what's being communicated here. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.679 So so I got some sins that uh some of some of y'all are dealing with. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.799 Here's the first one. 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:06.240 Yeah. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:09.440 This is Frisco. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.080 Last, lost, las, las, las, las, lust. 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:17.120 Let me see. 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:18.799 Uh greed, oh Dallas. 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.080 This is this is us. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:21.279 Okay. 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:23.600 So I'm going through, kidding. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:25.679 I mean, we we were all battling, you know, different things. 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:26.720 I got some other ones too. 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:27.519 What's my other one? 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:28.960 Um, worry. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:33.200 Worry. 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:41.039 So the Bible here tells us that he uh he took the things that stood opposed to us in God. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.360 And he nailed them to the cross. 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:46.000 Okay. 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:48.320 So follow me here. 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:50.879 He nailed it to the cross. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.799 He took he took our lust and nailed it to the cross. 00:16:55.919 --> 00:17:00.799 He took our greed, nailed it to the to the cross. 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:02.799 Uh he took our pride. 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:04.400 Pride. 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:06.480 Nailed it. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:08.960 Nailed it to the cross. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.359 Took our worry. 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:12.400 You're like, worry is a sin. 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:16.799 Yeah, Jesus is like, hey, look at these lilies. 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.279 You see how God takes care of them? 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:21.440 He's gonna take care of you. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.119 Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, everything else will be added to you. 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:26.400 You don't need to worry about tomorrow. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:27.599 Tomorrow has enough problems of his own. 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:28.400 You don't even need to worry. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:29.359 You don't need to worry. 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:31.680 That's what Jesus is teaching us. 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:33.920 Jesus is teaching, I got you. 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:34.799 I got you. 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:36.400 The birds, they're not worried. 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:37.599 You shouldn't be worried. 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.759 Because your words more than birds is what Jesus actually teaches. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:44.480 Here we are still. 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:46.480 Worry. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:48.319 Worry. 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:51.759 Oh, last one, selfishness. 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.599 Man, this is for the newlyweds. 00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:58.799 Remember when you were single? 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:03.839 You were single, and you thought, I think I'm really gonna bless somebody when they marry me. 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:14.000 I mean, wow, God, what you have done with me is gonna bless somebody's life. 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:17.200 Like they've never been blessed before. 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:23.440 And now you're kind of fighting with each other because you didn't realize how selfish you actually were. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:29.359 All these things, all these things, and and there's a whole nother list. 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:35.759 This is why uh here at Sherlot City, we're not trying to point at other people's sins. 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:43.839 Like because you're dealing with that, you know God must be really, really mad at you. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:46.480 No, we all got stuff. 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:50.559 There's not one person under the sound of my voice that doesn't have something. 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.759 This week, something. 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:56.960 This week didn't honor God the way we wanted to. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:05.920 This week did not say what we ought to have, what we should have said, didn't do what we should have done, or we did something we wish we wouldn't have done. 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:13.039 I mean, all of us have sinned and fallen short of God's glory, so we're not a church that's pointing at people saying you're the worst of the worst. 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:16.559 We're instead saying we're pointing at Jesus saying he's the best of the best. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:18.000 That's what we're doing here. 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:23.359 And I know we got to deal with things and confront sins, do not get me wrong. 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:28.000 And if a relationship is broken and fractured and things need to be dealt with, they definitely need to be dealt with. 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:32.559 But we're not judging people like we're looking down on other people. 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:38.400 We are all at the foot of the cross in need of God's grace and truly understanding his grace. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:45.119 So now everything that we have done wrong has been nailed to the cross. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:51.039 Now go back to Colossians chapter one, verse number twenty. 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:00.000 What else is on the cross? 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.839 Making peace through his what? 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:12.400 His blood that's been shed on the cross. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:16.480 So now you have two things on the cross. 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:24.160 You've got your sins and my sins, and we also have the blood of Jesus on the cross. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:30.160 Both of these things meet at the cross. 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:45.359 And for many of us, we are believing the lie that when our sins met the blood of Jesus on the cross, our sins are somehow more powerful than the blood of Jesus. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:58.319 But I need you to understand and truly understand God's grace that when your sins and my sins met the blood of Jesus Christ on that cross, it wasn't even a fight. 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:10.160 The blood of Jesus every single time defeats and overcomes every single sin that I committed and that you committed. 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:22.880 There is another thing that you have battled in your life, there is another problem that you have had, there is not something you have done or someone has done to you that once it gets on the cross, the blood of Jesus runs the other way. 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:31.759 As a matter of fact, the blood of Jesus runs right towards it and says you bow your knees after the authority of who I am and where I'm from. 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:37.279 Every single one of us are free because of the blood of Jesus. 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:39.920 It wasn't even a fight. 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:46.720 Now, I wanna I wanna um tell you a quick little story. 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:53.680 This week, something happened at church with two guys on staff. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:58.960 One guy's name is Chris, the other guy's name is Kemuell. 00:21:59.279 --> 00:21:59.440 Okay? 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:07.200 Chris, I've known for man, gosh, number of years now, maybe seven years or so, something like that. 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:10.319 Cameo, I've known since he was a little kid. 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:12.400 I've known Cameo since he was five years old. 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:21.200 Well, Chris, I found out from his wife, he likes to yap about how he can beat everybody in a race. 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.079 This is like his thing. 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:25.119 I didn't know this was his thing. 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:26.160 I've known him for a long time. 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:28.079 He's never said to me, hey, early on a race. 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:29.519 He's never said that to me. 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.880 But I found out from his wife, he does this all the time. 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:43.759 Somehow he'll take a conversation, I don't know, about whatever, and bring it and make it about, hey, I'll beat you in a race. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.400 So he is yapping. 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:51.519 Camel, I'll beat you in a race. 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:56.880 Now, um, these two guys who are on staff at this church, I love these guys a whole bunch. 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.039 I know Camel, I said he was five years old. 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:02.079 His uh mom and dad are uh campus pastors at our Frisco campus. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.839 Cameo is at the Oak Cliff uh campus, he's the campus coordinator there. 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:13.279 Um, but Tuesday of this week during work hours, okay? 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:15.119 We're supposed to be saving souls. 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:24.240 I get a video, I get a video of these two guys in the parking lot racing, okay? 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:30.240 So I get this video, I see Kim and Chris racing. 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:33.920 I want to show you this video, okay? 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:43.519 I'm gonna show you what happened this Tuesday at our Dallas location in the parking lot this past week. 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:44.640 Go ahead, play that video. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:45.839 Play that video for me. 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:46.640 Play that video. 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:47.759 Watch this, okay? 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:49.279 You're gonna know who is who real quick. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:24:03.920 You're gonna know who's who did you see that? 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:09.839 Watch how watch how Kim looks back at Chris. 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:12.640 You see, you'll see this, but we put it in a slow mo. 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:14.160 He looks back. 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:29.039 Fool yapping, you're over here yapping. 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:31.759 Camuel was wearing loafers, okay? 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.480 He did not even put on tennis shoes. 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:53.279 Your boy was wearing loafers and absolutely demolished him when your sins met the blood of Jesus on the cross, and your sins are yapping and yapping and yapping and yapping. 00:24:53.440 --> 00:25:04.799 The blood of Jesus look back and you can beat me, you never put anybody to beat me. 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:07.359 I've always had more power than you. 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:16.160 You have your destiny to think you can come against me. 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:35.039 I need this picture in your head when you have made a mistake or fallen or done something you wish you wouldn't have done, and you are thinking some lie that the blood of Jesus has somehow lost its power. 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:42.880 This is the blood that gives me strength from day to day, and it will never ever lose its power. 00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:47.839 It reaches from the highest mountain, it flows to the lowest valley. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:58.960 You and I are part of this battle, and we're just watching Jesus do what Jesus does. 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:14.720 You don't even have to be the one to win the fight because Jesus won it for you, but you do have to be the one that puts your faith in Jesus to say, Lord, I believe what you did for me is true. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.200 I know there's some dark things that we have done. 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:42.000 I know there's some dark things that have been done to us, and every one of those things have been nailed to this cross, and the blood of Jesus met every one of those things, and it always wins the race. 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:48.720 Every time, every time, every time. 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:01.200 Every time, every time. 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:18.960 Peace made by Jesus through his blood that was shed on the cross. 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:20.880 Okay, go with me to this next verse. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:21.839 Go with me to this next verse. 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:22.720 Y'all still with me? 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:23.759 Come on, you still with me? 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:24.319 Here we go. 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:25.839 Look at this look at this, look at this now, look at this. 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:26.799 Verse number 23. 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:28.000 Verse number 23. 00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:32.559 Free from accusation. 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:37.039 Free from accusation. 00:27:39.279 --> 00:28:00.480 Um you're in the Bible, you you can and you're reading it, you'll see, and we talked about this some last week, with the full armor of God, how the devil is scheming to try to try to get you, to try to knock you off course. 00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:05.839 And sometimes it's not what we might call big sins, whatever that means. 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:09.039 But it can even be the little things that he just sees. 00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:15.440 Remember, we talked about the scouting report that the devil can have on you to try to figure out your tendencies. 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:21.839 He's looking at your tendencies and go, oh, okay, I can get him here, I can get her there. 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:26.559 And there's some tendencies that I have that you don't have, and some tendencies you have that I don't have. 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:47.599 But the devil in his scheming, trying to figure out how do I get this son and daughter of God to not trust the Lord anymore, to not follow hard after Jesus, to maybe even just live a lukewarm, mundane Christian life rather than going all in for the glory of Savior. 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:49.759 Scheming, scheming, scheming. 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:55.920 The word devil uh in the Greek, it means accuser. 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:58.160 Same thing in Hebrew. 00:28:58.400 --> 00:28:59.920 It means accuser. 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:04.000 It can also uh connect with like slanderer. 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.599 Look with me in the book of Revelation, last book of the Bible. 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:12.960 Revelation chapter 12, verse number 10, I believe. 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:15.519 Let me see if I'm got that right. 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:21.200 Yeah, yeah, Revelation chapter 12, verse number 10. 00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:28.880 Again, last book of the Bible, chapter 12, verse number 10. 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:44.240 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah. 00:29:44.720 --> 00:30:00.640 For the accuser of our brothers and sisters who accuses them, accuses them before our God, day and night, has been hurled down. 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:11.039 The picture here is if in God's courtroom there's a prosecutor. 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:16.799 And the prosecutor is the devil, the accuser. 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:22.799 Day and night, walking up to God, going, You see what he did. 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:26.720 You see what she did. 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.039 You see how they said that they're a Christian. 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:33.039 They're not living like one. 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:34.720 You see it. 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:41.119 You see how they had that chance to share your light and your love with somebody, but they didn't. 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.480 They got scared. 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:46.079 You see how they're intimidated to talk about you. 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:48.079 You see it. 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:53.440 You you see that they keep falling into that same sin over and over and over again. 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:54.559 You see it. 00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:56.160 You see it. 00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:59.519 They keep saying, I'm never grabbing that bottle again, but they always go back to it. 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:00.720 You see it, God. 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:02.799 Accusing. 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:04.880 Accusing. 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:08.079 These are some of the things that are running through our minds sometimes. 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.680 There's some of the reasons some of us are like, I'm not even coming to church anymore. 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:14.720 I'm gonna get things right with God before I come back. 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:20.880 I'll get everything right, and then I'll come back to church, and then then then I'll be good to go. 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:24.640 God, let me clean myself up first, and then I'll come back. 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:26.400 I I can't show my face again. 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.000 I don't want anybody to know what I've been navigating and what I've been walking through. 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:34.880 I I was once on the top of the mountain, but now things are not where they used to be anymore. 00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:42.319 I I I've I've lost some battles, I've I've lost some opportunities, my my life is kind of falling apart all in front of me. 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:46.160 Let me just go ahead and get myself right, then I'll come back. 00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:50.160 And this is the enemy accusing, accusing, accusing, accusing. 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:59.920 Some of us it takes us so much effort and energy just to go to a connect group or ask somebody for prayer. 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.799 Because the accusations are real. 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:11.599 You look at that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, or look at your kids and feel like I wasn't there for them the way I want it to be. 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:16.160 Look at your spouse and go, man, I messed up on my last marriage. 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:18.160 I don't want to mess up in this one. 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:20.880 Still carrying so much weight. 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:30.160 I am shocked at how much guilt is weighing on the shoulders of God's sons and daughters. 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:32.319 I'm shocked. 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:35.119 I also get it. 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:40.079 Sometimes I'm like, girl, you know better. 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:42.640