WEBVTT 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:07.120 Well, good morning, everybody. 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:08.480 Everybody good? 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:13.119 Listen, I just so you know, I I help pastor your pastor. 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:14.560 And Lord help me. 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:15.919 Please pray for me. 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:16.719 You know. 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:17.839 I'm kidding. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:18.719 I'm only kidding. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:19.519 Jason's a great guy. 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:21.199 I think he's gonna be will he be back next week. 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:21.920 Okay, great. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.199 I know he's coming Wednesday night because he wants to see what I say to teenagers. 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.480 So I'll be here Wednesday night with your students, so it's fun. 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.879 Just so you know, I deal with students all the time and young adults. 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:39.200 We have about 500 teenagers that attend our youth ministry, and then another 500 young adults that are 18 to 29 that come every week. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.039 So we're around a bunch of rascals all the time, which is awesome. 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:46.000 Hey, I wanted to I have a life change to tell you about. 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:52.079 Uh some of you, I've been here multiple, multiple times, and I told Jason I wouldn't come here in the winter anymore, and I'd fly in yesterday and it's snowy. 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:53.439 I don't even know what to say. 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:55.920 But this is this is my family. 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.960 I just had my son, my youngest son, get married. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:00.560 Gabe is in the middle. 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:06.640 And so the people on the left, this is my uh oldest son, Ethan, with the beard, and his wife, Amy. 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:08.560 And these are my two grandboys. 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.680 Uh that's Milo on your right, and this is Jack. 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.680 They're actually uh Irish twins. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:15.439 Milo's the oldest, he's 10. 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:20.159 Jack is nine, and so for about three weeks, they're the same age. 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.319 And so they had no more kids after that. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.159 So don't ever do that, okay? 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:27.280 This is my bride, Polly, in the middle here. 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:28.799 She's awesome and the best one. 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:30.319 This is my daughter, Abigail. 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:31.120 She's a rebel. 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.760 She moved to Nashville, Tennessee and hasn't returned. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.640 And so there's me, and this is Gabe and his beautiful bride Carissa. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:46.159 And so she we we uh have a Hispanic young lady in our family, which is so awesome. 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:48.239 Here's how you know they fit in your family, okay? 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:49.200 I love it. 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:56.319 And so um she came over, uh, Carissa came over really early when they were dating, and we were like, we're Americans. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.680 We we we do tacos from Walmart. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.040 You know, I'm talking about when you crunch it, you can crunch the whole thing. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:09.439 I mean, it's uh we were fixing them, and she she walked up to Gabe, my son, and this is awesome. 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:13.280 She said, Hey, she said, I don't want to eat white people tacos. 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:18.400 I heard her and I went, What did you say? 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:19.520 It was awesome. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:20.960 I was hooked after that. 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:21.680 It was awesome. 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:26.719 So they got married about a month ago, and so we're empty nesters and I got a race. 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:29.599 I don't have to feed that kit no more. 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:30.960 It's awesome. 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:32.479 What about this? 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:33.919 Isn't this not amazing? 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:36.879 This is so cool that God's done this guys for you guys. 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:38.319 This is so cool. 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:39.840 You just need to know this. 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:40.719 Most of you wouldn't know it. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:48.800 Maybe you don't pay any attention to this kind of stuff, but you know, when a church goes from a building to a to from a rented facility to a building, it's a big deal. 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:51.360 Because most people, most churches don't even make it through that. 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.039 I'm just telling you, they don't make it five or seven years, what Jason and Bethany and you guys have done here. 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:58.240 It's actually a miracle. 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:00.000 This does not happen all the time. 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:01.680 Most of them don't survive. 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:09.360 And I'm I'm talking to Jason weekly, and and how many know there's wars that go on that you don't know anything about, you don't know anything. 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.560 And I mean, there's things going on and people attacking and all kinds of things going on. 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:13.759 But we win. 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:14.879 We're not quitting. 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:16.319 We don't, we don't quit. 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:18.400 And so, congratulations. 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:20.159 This is so awesome. 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:31.759 I just sent a text to this Star Lead pastor, and he said, This is a gorgeous building because he wants a building like this, and we don't we have one of those, you know, warehouses, you know, and he wants a building like this, but he can't have it. 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:32.639 So, anyway. 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:34.159 So good. 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.719 Listen, I know you guys are in the middle of a series on miracles, so I'm gonna pick up with that and uh go. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.560 Uh I've read part of the book and and picked up here, but we're gonna go to uh John chapter 11. 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:50.639 This is the story of the miracle of uh Jesus raising Lazarus, his friend from the dead. 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:58.719 And the title of my message today is Finding Jesus in our deepest pain, which is I think the fifth chapter of the book are you reading, or it's something like that. 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:07.680 So just to summarize, the first 16 verses of this chapter uh just gives you the starting point of the story where Lazarus is sick. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.759 He's very close friends with Jesus. 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.439 Uh Martha and Mary uh are his siblings. 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:18.959 And uh you hear of Martha, Mary, and Martha in another story in Luke. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:26.319 You remember they were they were the ones where Jesus was teaching, and Martha was so upset at Mary because she wouldn't help serve the tables. 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.879 She just went to Jesus and said, Hey, tell this girl to help me. 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.279 And he just looks at her and says, I don't think so. 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.160 And so you can see their personalities, all this, and then especially this story. 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:38.959 So there they they are always around Jesus. 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:40.240 They're very, very close to him. 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:46.879 And they called Jesus because he was about two miles away or so, and they called him and said, Hey, we need you to come. 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.000 Your your friend's um dying or he's sick. 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.240 And Jesus waits two more days. 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:55.199 Isn't that an awesome Jesus? 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:01.600 And how many of you ever been somewhere and you prayed for something and the delay was so long you just went, I don't know, is he coming or is he not coming? 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.720 Yeah, everybody experiences this, so it's very common. 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:10.240 So don't freak out on it just because you pulled you pulled a slot machine at the casino and Jesus didn't show up, you know? 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:13.040 No, it's all in all lemons, it wasn't all sevens, okay? 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:14.160 That's not how God works. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:19.920 Now listen, I'm around teenagers a lot and young adults, so my my humor could be a little sarcastic, so just go with me, okay? 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.040 I do it, it's a survival technique, all right. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:30.879 So we're gonna pick up in verse 17 and go through this as fast as we can, and I'm gonna do this so uh the children's workers will come back next week. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:33.600 Verse 17, it says this. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:38.399 So when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:47.920 Now Bethany was near uh Jerusalem, but it was about two miles away, and many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary to confront them concerning their brother. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:49.199 So we've got a big issue here. 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:53.439 This guy is dead, he's been dead for four days, and uh he's been in the tomb. 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:58.399 And here's what we need to understand most people who need a miracle find themselves in pain. 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:01.439 And most people here, you've been through something. 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.639 If you've lived long enough, you've gone through pain, hurt, something's happened. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.800 Like I've gone through many, many, many issues. 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.000 I'm 59 years old, and I never thought I would go through some of the things I've been through. 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:10.959 Anybody ever been there? 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:12.160 Anybody ever went through something? 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.480 You go, I thought this was not in the plan. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:16.879 It was not in my 10-year journal. 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:18.879 I did not have this, I didn't ask for this. 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.279 Uh my mom never went through it, my dad never went through it. 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:22.240 Here I am. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:26.240 I've also seen people in in some cases, I did this when I was a student. 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.199 I found myself in places I thought, how did I get here? 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:35.199 And you just sit there and go, Man, my gosh, and then you're mad at God, but it was your decisions that got you there. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.279 Isn't that the craziest thing? 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.279 We do that kind of stuff. 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.800 Yeah, and I've gotten bad news before. 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.800 I mean, have you ever been had something happen to you that shook you to your core? 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.480 Heard news, and I mean it's just like, whoa. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:52.879 That stops the day. 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:53.839 The day stops. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:07:01.279 Some people, something's happened to them, not that their day has stopped, their week has stopped, their month has stopped, their year has stopped, their decades have stopped. 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:05.519 And they stopped serving God, they stopped doing a lot of things because something bad happened to them. 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:07.519 How many of you know we gotta fight? 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:13.680 We have to fight that stuff so easy in American culture because we're not used to having to do that, especially spiritual things. 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.279 We do it all the time in our businesses. 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.439 Anybody ever been diagnosed with something? 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.199 You just go, My gosh, this is a shock. 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:23.680 About a month, uh no, it's been about three, four months ago, I was putting one of my contacts in. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:29.199 I usually I I don't wear contacts all the time, but I was putting my contact in and I hadn't w I hadn't worn them in a long time. 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:33.040 And I pulled my right eyelid down and there was a black, dark spot on the inside of my eyelid. 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:33.920 Hadn't seen it before. 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:35.040 I went, what is this? 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:36.560 It looked really funky. 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:38.879 And uh I said, This is odd. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:45.439 And so I I mean, every thought in my mind, I mean, that you can think went through my mind. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:49.199 So I went to the eye doctor and he said, Oh, I mean, you hear one of those, oh. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.199 I went, oh, oh what? 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:55.199 I mean, don't say oh, say oh, that's good, or say oh something. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.319 And he said, Well, you need to go see a specialist that doesn't look very good. 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:03.439 And do you know how much your mind can freak out over just a dot in your eye? 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:10.079 Or the word, this might be cancer. 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:11.519 I heard that. 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.759 And oh my gosh, I'm going, what the heck? 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:20.639 I I don't know if y'all have ever done this, but how many of you if you let your mind go, it won't grow, it won't get better. 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:23.920 If you just leave it on neutral. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:26.079 Anybody ever rafted? 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.079 How many of you know if you're on a raft, this thing's going downhill and it's not good? 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:34.960 You gotta fight to get uphill with your mind, and I had to fight it. 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.440 And so I went to a specialist and he looked at it and he said, Oh, well, we're gonna have to take that out and surgery and all that kind of stuff. 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:45.440 So I had surgery on my eyes, and then you gotta wait for the biopsy, the pathology. 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:46.720 And they don't tell you anything. 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:47.279 It's like, what? 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:48.320 Just tell me. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:56.559 Well, it could be this, it could be this, and they've but my mind, you would not believe in a month how much your mind can actually where it can go and what it can say to you. 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.559 Anyone know what's crazy stuff. 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:06.240 I mean, I've seen myself, I mean, I actually saw myself at my own funeral. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:08.639 It's like, what is this? 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.480 But how many of you know you gotta fight to keep your mind out of the uh out of the out of those caves? 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:13.679 I mean, it will go there. 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.720 John Maxwell says this everything good in life is uphill. 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:19.919 Everything spiritually, it's uphill. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.440 Most of us spiritually think, you know, if we come to church and just coast through life, God will show up. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:24.879 How many of you know that's just not true? 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:26.960 How many of you know we gotta work this thing? 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.159 Yes, yeah, we do, we do. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.679 So so Jesus is dealing with all this stuff. 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:39.039 Any everybody anybody ever had a bad, just a bad report about one of your kids, or one of your kids went crazy? 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:41.600 Okay, nobody, nobody's gonna raise their hand. 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:43.440 Okay, you are the kid. 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.679 Don't raise your hand, don't you raise your hand? 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:51.440 So some of y'all the kid, y'all 50 years old, y'all been messing with mama for years. 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:53.200 It ain't your kid. 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:55.679 Oh my gosh, man. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:10:00.240 Nobody ever told me what would happen to me when I had to raise adult kids. 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.840 Now, when they're teenagers and they're in your house, you tell them what to do, they just go do it. 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:08.320 But when they leave and they go go hot, you ain't you become a suggester. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.000 So I'm just preparing you, all you adults that know what I'm talking about. 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:17.600 I said, listen, you just see ya. 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.519 That's not how it goes. 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.360 I still pray for my kids, it's my responsibility. 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:26.480 I don't get to tell them what to do, so I just said, Lord, sick them. 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:27.679 Just get them. 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:30.879 I just say, go get them, Lord. 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:32.559 I'm tired of messing with them, go get them. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:33.519 What are you doing here? 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:34.879 I love my kiddos. 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:40.000 Or something happens in your marriage, something crazy, somebody does something stupid in a marriage, creates a crisis in your life. 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:41.279 You need a miracle. 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.320 Or in business, some of you run businesses, work at a business. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.440 How many of you know you need to be praying for your business, not hating them behind their back? 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.240 There's things that try to tear businesses down, and miracles have to happen, and God's got to intervene. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.720 It's easy to talk about your employer, it's hard to be an employer. 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:00.799 Okay, thanks. 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.000 So I'm gonna tell you three three thoughts I'm gonna share with you today. 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:08.639 Here's the first one in our deepest pain, we talk a lot. 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:14.159 There's a couple of ways people process things, and Martha was one of these, she liked to talk a lot. 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:17.120 As a matter of fact, if you look at Martha, she's very assertive. 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:21.759 As a matter of fact, her word the her name actually means she's rebellious. 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:24.399 Don't raise your hand. 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.240 How many of y'all are like, don't raise your hand? 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.840 She could go to zero to sixty in seconds. 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:34.720 She was loud, she talked a lot, she was spiritual, she was anxious. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:36.080 Now, this is guys too. 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:37.519 We're not just talking about the females in here. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.120 This is dudes, dudes can do this too. 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.039 You get bossy, you get sassy. 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:42.320 She was a know-it-all. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:51.039 And when this when when a crisis happens in your life, most of the time this gets exaggerated because of pain. 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:52.639 People go through pain. 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.000 Anybody ever know anybody that go through pain? 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:55.200 Now they do is they never stop talking. 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:59.039 They just want to you just want to tell them, hey, could you please be quiet and just give it a rest? 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.240 And I understand that, but how many of you know people process pain like that? 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:11.200 And so they have to talk and they have to talk a lot and they get real anxious and they get real flam, I mean, just real obnoxiously loud. 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:17.279 And I understand some of you uh introverts just don't like that, but Jesus had no problem with her. 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:18.960 He actually let her talk. 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:21.919 Now he had some things to say to her, but let's look at it. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.919 It says this this is verse 20. 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:28.559 When Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, she went out and met him. 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.039 She's just gonna go, hey, I'm going. 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.360 The Bible actually, the rest of the story says he wasn't even in town yet. 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.720 When Martha, when Mary went to see him, he wasn't even in the city limits. 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:42.320 This girl ran outside the city limits to talk to Jesus. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:43.440 She went to meet him. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:48.480 But Mary was sitting in the house, and Martha said to Jesus, now she's always got a pipe up. 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.279 And she said, This, Lord, if you'd have been here, my brother would not have died. 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.000 But even now, I know. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:57.919 Well, she knows everything. 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:02.879 I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you. 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:04.399 And Jesus responded to her. 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.039 He didn't go, Hey, you just be quiet and get out of the way. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.559 He knew this girl's processing something because she's in pain. 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:12.000 She's talking. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.840 And Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:22.159 And Martha said, I mean, if Jesus' talking, it'd just be best for you not to say anything. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.080 Just don't talk. 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:25.440 But we love to talk. 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:33.600 Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:36.879 And Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.600 He who believes in me, though he dies, he will live. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:44.639 And whoever lives and believes in me will never die. 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.879 This is something we need to get we need to understand this as Christians. 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:54.799 And I don't know what your theology is around this, but how many of you know if you die today and you're a believer, you didn't die. 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:58.159 I'm here in an earth suit. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:58.639 You understand? 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.360 You know, reason you're here today is because you have a suit on. 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.320 As soon as you get rid of this suit, you ain't here. 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:06.480 You have to have a body to live here. 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.519 And as soon as your body malfunctions, you're gone. 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:12.159 And I'm going to heaven. 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:13.440 Yes? 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:14.799 It ain't even a wonder. 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:16.639 I'm not even wondering where I'm going, brother. 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:17.679 I'm going up. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:19.600 Hello? 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:22.320 And I'm going to be there so fast, it's going to make your head spin. 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:22.960 Where's Greg? 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:23.519 He out. 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:24.480 He's gone. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.240 That's what they're going to say. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:27.440 That's what they're going to say. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.240 You say, Well, I don't know how you so sure, because I know the master. 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:32.320 I'm not wondering. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.600 Hey, when you get there, how many of you know you're not going to see Peter at no gate? 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:37.519 You're going to no gate at no Peter. 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:39.279 Ain't no Peter holding no gate. 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:41.919 Wondering whether you're going to get in here or not. 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:43.440 I heard a story not long ago. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:48.960 There's this the the thief, one of the thieves on the cross, you know, one of them got Jesus talked to him, the other one was just terrible. 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.399 And this thief on the cross got to heaven, got up to Peter. 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:55.919 And Peter said, Hey, tell me why you get to come here. 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.960 And the guy said, Well, I have no idea. 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:03.200 He says, Well, do you know all 66 books of the Bible? 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:04.159 No. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.360 Do you know the Nicene Creed? 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:08.799 I know. 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:09.840 I know. 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:12.639 Well, what makes you think you can come here? 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:15.519 So you don't meet any of the qualification. 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:16.159 What is it? 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:21.919 So he says, Let me go get my supervisor for Peter go get the supervisor, which should have been Jesus, you know. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:27.679 Goes over to get the supervisor, walks over and said, Hey sir, I understand you can't do this, and you don't know your Bible very well. 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:32.000 You don't even know who why are why are you here? 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.519 And the thief says, The man on the middle cross said I could come. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:43.360 What the heck? 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.960 The man on the middle cross said I could come. 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:49.200 You know why you go to heaven? 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.240 Because the man on the middle cross said you could go. 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:53.679 That's why. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:54.639 That's why I go. 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.159 I'm not going because I'm good enough. 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:57.360 Listen, you don't even want to know. 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:58.960 You don't even want to know. 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:00.799 Someone said, Well, you're a pastor. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:02.960 You so you're supposed to be nice. 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:04.480 I'm not nice. 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:09.039 Have y'all listen, anybody any drivers in here that don't like other drivers? 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:10.320 I don't like drive. 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:13.360 Listen, I don't even like drivers that ride the speed limit. 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:22.399 Anybody ever drove up the side hump somebody behind somebody and you're mad at them and you look down and they're actually driving the speed limit? 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:24.159 I go, I don't like those people. 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:25.519 Let's roll. 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.320 I have flesh just like you have. 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.120 But here's the problem people get into. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:34.960 You think because your your behavior gets you something with God. 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.480 And it doesn't, Jesus' behavior got you something with God. 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:40.240 Now we can't do everything we want. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:41.679 We can't just go around and sin all the time. 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.240 But how many of you know there's a reason I get to go? 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.639 And he asked her, said, Hey, I'm the resurrection and the life. 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:51.440 Whoever believes in me, though he he dies, uh he'll live. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:52.960 Do you believe this? 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.240 Now here's the point I want you to understand about Martha. 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.480 Jesus, she's thinking about her brother and the miracle that needs to happen. 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:04.400 And Jesus is going, I need you to change your focus and I need you to think about me for a while. 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:11.119 Because the resurrection is not Lazarus coming up out of the ground, the resurrection to them was Him. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.000 And some of us we get it all mixed up. 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:14.880 I do the same thing. 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.519 I'm looking for a miracle, but I forget the master. 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:24.000 And so I want the relationship with God to get the miracle, but I don't want a relationship with Jesus for him to talk to me about things. 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:29.920 And so you have to be really careful when you try to get something supernatural to happen, but you won't talk to the Messiah. 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:35.680 It's a huge conflict that we have, and Jesus is trying to refocus. 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:37.440 He's not mad at her because she's talking a lot. 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:42.640 She's not even He's not even mad at her because or upset with her because we think God's mean. 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.359 We have a view of God like our dad. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.359 Like God's like our father. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:49.839 God's so much better than your dad. 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:54.160 I had a really good dad, but God's so much better than my dad. 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:56.400 You can't you can't think like that. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.160 Because God's trying to help her. 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:02.160 He's letting her talk, but he's gonna have to say something to her to get her to refocus. 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.680 Get your focus right. 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:04.720 Get your focus back. 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:07.279 Whenever it's happening, I mean, you know, you need a resurrection. 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.200 You don't need the event, you need the person. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.640 It's so important for you to understand that. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:26.240 So I remember, I think I've told this story here before, but back in 2020, COVID hit everywhere, of course, and even in Tulsa, and we had to shut down a lot of things for a while. 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:32.319 And we we started our youth ministry back before the adults went back because kids aren't afraid of anything. 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:34.480 And so the parents even let them go. 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:36.480 They were so sick of them, they just said, go, we don't even care. 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:37.599 Go, just go. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:43.119 So we started doing student ministry again, and we just decided we're gonna do in Tulsa, they have something called the State Fair. 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:49.839 And so, if you don't know what a state fair is, it's like all of these little carnival rides that come by your house, and then you can ride them in two hours. 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:51.359 I mean, that's not a good thing. 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.000 You shouldn't be riding carnival rides that just come by your house. 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:55.519 That's how it is. 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:56.799 And so they would go to the student. 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:02.000 I mean, they have this big event in Tulsa, and I mean, all I mean, thousands of people go to it, and they had to cancel it. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:05.599 So we thought it would be a great idea to capture that for our students. 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.160 So we did what was called our student ministry, it's called 180. 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:09.039 Just make it 180. 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:10.160 We just turn around. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:13.119 And so we called it the 180 State Fair and we posted it out. 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:15.759 We thought we'd have about 800 kids show up. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:22.000 And so this event comes that night, and evidently it went viral somewhere, some on something, because I'm not on social media that much. 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:23.519 I just go, I don't really care. 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:28.400 And evidently it goes viral, and I stopped the count at 2200. 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:29.200 Oh my god. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.759 I'm in line outside of our 180 building. 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.079 Our 180 building holds about 1,200 students. 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:37.039 It's too big. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.599 I don't even like it when it's that way because it's just so big. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.079 We can't, we have about 500, so half the room's empty. 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.000 It's like having church and this room's half empty. 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:44.799 It's hard. 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:52.319 Anyway, I I I heard more foul language in the in the check-in line than I have heard in my entire life. 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:54.559 It's like, are anybody these people Christians? 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:55.839 I don't think they are. 00:19:57.599 --> 00:19:59.039 And I got really, really nervous. 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:04.240 And I mean, we had so many kids we had to do two different services, so there'd be we had a fairest will, we bought the whole thing, man. 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:06.960 I mean, we had anything. 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:08.960 We also had a riot. 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:18.480 So people go to we had two rival gang members show up to fight at our Christian event. 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:22.400 I guess they heard state fair and thought, here we go. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:24.079 So they show up now. 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:35.519 I got 800 kids in the service and thousands of them outside, and there's a fight goes on, about 40 of them get into this fight, and there's dreads flying everywhere, shoes. 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:37.759 We found everything you could think of. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:43.200 We had to get the sheriff's department to come and actually put tear gas on them and rubber bullets to get these kids to stop. 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:45.839 Now, this is a Christian event. 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:50.400 Hello, and I'm responsible for this thing. 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:52.160 Yeah, that's funny. 00:20:53.440 --> 00:21:00.880 Plus, plus, we have a Christian school, about a thousand kids in it, and most half half of those kids went to that Christian school. 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.799 And how many of you know Christian mamas don't like their babies being around that kind of stuff? 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:08.960 I sent my kid up here for salvation, not a fight. 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:11.279 And how many of you know kids get in a fight now? 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:12.880 They just pull out their phone and video it, man. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.039 They don't stop it, they just go on, let's see who's going down. 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:17.759 I mean, this thing went all over everywhere. 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:20.160 It was amazing. 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:23.440 Not that that time. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.319 I got over 300 emails from Christian parents. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:28.559 Oh, brutal. 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:29.759 Here's one of them. 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:30.960 Do better. 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:36.640