WEBVTT 00:00:00.522 --> 00:00:02.528 The title of my message is let's Go. 00:00:02.528 --> 00:00:05.628 I thought we just, you know, let's go, let's go on an adventure. 00:00:05.628 --> 00:00:08.605 And how about? 00:00:08.605 --> 00:00:24.745 We stand up and make a confession first, though, just grab your Bible and stand up with me and let's say this out loud say Heavenly Father, you're a good God, we serve a good God and we want to follow you in lockstep. 00:00:24.745 --> 00:00:28.765 You're led by your Holy Spirit. 00:00:28.765 --> 00:00:42.689 We have a prayer life where you can speak to us and make adjustments, make calibrations that put us over in every area. 00:00:42.689 --> 00:00:45.526 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:48.042 --> 00:01:01.972 Well, last Sunday morning my dad was preaching and on cooperating with the Holy Spirit, and he was basically saying something to the effect of when you get saved, nothing spectacular has to happen. 00:01:01.972 --> 00:01:07.772 You didn't have to see a vision, or you know, and I kind of I said it pretty loud out. 00:01:07.772 --> 00:01:11.103 Well, you did, and he didn't interrupt him. 00:01:11.103 --> 00:01:12.147 He didn't hear me, thank God. 00:01:12.147 --> 00:01:14.165 We do that in youth a lot. 00:01:14.165 --> 00:01:22.849 We'll interrupt each other over there, but in here it's a little bit more formal, I guess, and so I'm glad that I didn't interrupt him on a Sunday morning. 00:01:22.849 --> 00:01:32.245 But I thought about, you know, he received a vision the day that he got saved, and so last night. 00:01:32.245 --> 00:01:34.111 I knew I wanted to preach this message, and I was. 00:01:34.111 --> 00:01:43.263 I remembered the first line, or one of the lines of his vision that he received when he got saved, and so last night I called him. 00:01:43.263 --> 00:01:43.605 I'm like. 00:01:43.825 --> 00:01:47.085 I have looked all over our website, I've been all over the server. 00:01:47.085 --> 00:01:47.581 I can't. 00:01:47.581 --> 00:01:55.730 I know you've preached your testimony on purpose, but you didn't title it like pastor's testimony and I have no clue where it's at. 00:01:55.730 --> 00:02:00.429 And he, he took a picture of his notes and he sent them to me. 00:02:00.429 --> 00:02:02.233 So, praise God, now I have him. 00:02:02.233 --> 00:02:08.951 I still don't know the date though, so I'm going to try and track that down and get that obvious on our website to search. 00:02:08.951 --> 00:02:23.868 We'll try to get through that this week, but anyways, you know, as as he was, you know, as he prayed the sinner's prayer, he received a vision of him and Jesus walking along the beach and he. 00:02:23.868 --> 00:02:34.080 They were holding hands and they began to walk across the water and Jesus said my beloved brother, come and walk with me. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:45.830 Where you think you cannot walk, I have a way for you which is beyond your understanding, and this is, you know so, so that come and walk with me. 00:02:45.830 --> 00:02:47.764 I thought it was come and go with me. 00:02:47.764 --> 00:02:49.250 But it was come and walk with me. 00:02:49.250 --> 00:02:53.764 And so that's just stuck out to me, title on message being let's go. 00:02:53.764 --> 00:02:54.707 It just fit together. 00:02:54.707 --> 00:02:57.646 But this, this next line in it, is my favorite. 00:02:57.646 --> 00:03:11.009 The Jesus said to him your sense of adventure will be satisfied as you go where I go, as you think what I think and as you do what I do. 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.728 Do not think that you are here by coincidence, you have. 00:03:15.728 --> 00:03:17.693 I have chosen you, my brother. 00:03:17.693 --> 00:03:29.566 I have chosen you to stand tall, and this day my power will be imparted to with you, so that as you lay hands on the sick, they too shall recover. 00:03:29.566 --> 00:03:31.907 You shall mend the brokenhearted. 00:03:31.907 --> 00:03:34.286 You shall preach the gospel to the poor. 00:03:34.286 --> 00:03:35.811 Can I just go ahead and finish this? 00:03:35.811 --> 00:03:39.122 I was going to stop, but it's so good, I'm just going to keep anybody. 00:03:39.764 --> 00:03:44.587 You know you woke back up from earlier, right, I shall preach the gospel to the poor. 00:03:44.587 --> 00:03:47.407 You shall preach deliverance to the captives. 00:03:47.407 --> 00:03:50.608 You shall set it liberty them that are bruised. 00:03:50.608 --> 00:04:02.362 You have wondered what I have been calling you for and you have felt confused, but that is because my voice was from afar and you could not hear it clearly. 00:04:02.362 --> 00:04:17.701 Forever lavish your wonder if I was calling you to the priesthood, but I am calling you to the ministry, and this ministry that I have and you shall be, I and you shall put together. 00:04:17.701 --> 00:04:18.281 I like that. 00:04:18.281 --> 00:04:22.300 So my dad had a part in putting his ministry together. 00:04:22.379 --> 00:04:24.557 Right, that I and you shall put together. 00:04:24.557 --> 00:04:40.922 You will feel the joy and the happiness as you walk in my light, and this light shall so shine forth through you that those in darkness shall see your light and shall draw to you people as light draws moths. 00:04:40.922 --> 00:04:48.158 These people shall be brought to you by me and they shall become your flock, over which you shall be their shepherd. 00:04:48.158 --> 00:04:57.410 Do not feel overwhelmed, for you are not unprepared for this and you, as you may think, you're not as unprepared for this as you may think. 00:04:57.410 --> 00:04:58.093 I like that. 00:04:58.093 --> 00:05:06.970 But I have prepared for you over the years, and you have been a willing and obedient student, and now I have greater things for you to do. 00:05:06.970 --> 00:05:11.278 The things which I have done, you shall do, and greater than these shall you do. 00:05:11.278 --> 00:05:13.454 It's talking about the greater works, amen. 00:05:13.454 --> 00:05:24.336 Walk in the light which I have provided for you and as you walk in this light, you shall fear no evil, for the power that is in you will clear the way before you. 00:05:24.336 --> 00:05:25.017 Amen. 00:05:25.711 --> 00:05:32.156 And now, my brother, walk in joy, walk in peace, walk in love, walk in righteousness Sounds like the food of the spirit right. 00:05:32.156 --> 00:05:33.632 Walk in my name. 00:05:33.632 --> 00:05:36.721 My name is, which that's above every name. 00:05:36.721 --> 00:05:43.314 And now, my peace I give unto you, not the peace the world gives, but my peace I give unto you. 00:05:43.314 --> 00:05:45.220 Walk in that peace. 00:05:45.220 --> 00:05:52.932 And so I just that, going back, your sense of adventure will be satisfied and I just. 00:05:52.932 --> 00:06:06.437 It has been such an adventure to get to come along with my dad in this venture and then to be called to serve right alongside him, and it's not something I take for granted. 00:06:06.529 --> 00:06:19.120 And so I just kind of wanted to use the Bible as an example tonight, in the book of Luke, of Jesus, making some corrections along the way to the disciples who seemed a little slow to get it. 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:25.160 And I don't know about you, but every time, every now and then, I feel a little bit like a slow responder. 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:29.940 Like you know, we're stretching out to be a first responder. 00:06:29.940 --> 00:06:39.937 But I'm telling you, sometimes your flesh can get in the way, or you could be distracted in one area or another not necessarily sin and you get held up a little bit. 00:06:39.937 --> 00:06:45.613 And I'm telling you, only God can accelerate you into his plan. 00:06:45.653 --> 00:06:48.172 You know I was going to use Derek as an example. 00:06:48.172 --> 00:06:54.555 I don't see him back there, but you know, derek, I believe he grew up Lutheran he's not here to correct me, right? 00:06:54.555 --> 00:07:02.973 Okay, mr Loretta's here and so years ago we went to a funeral at his church that he grew up in. 00:07:02.973 --> 00:07:11.581 It was his mom's funeral, and I, just I was sitting there in awe that this is the only Jesus he knew growing up. 00:07:11.581 --> 00:07:33.338 This was his home church, and I just looked at how I'm bragging on your husband, carol, and just how easy it is to lean on him in any area and how God accelerated him into position once he received word of faith, revelation. 00:07:33.338 --> 00:07:40.661 I'm telling you, it's so important what we believe, right here, we guard it and we study it. 00:07:40.661 --> 00:07:42.637 We study to show ourselves approved. 00:07:42.637 --> 00:07:59.978 But I'm telling you there's so many we'll get to that later on there's so many adjustments that we need to make in order to go to the next level in him, and so all of us, myself included, are making these adjustments right, but our sense of adventure will be satisfied. 00:08:00.069 --> 00:08:02.598 You know, I have such a large sense of adventure. 00:08:02.598 --> 00:08:04.375 Selena and I, we get to travel. 00:08:04.375 --> 00:08:11.259 From time to time we love to go to all kinds of different places, nice places, but sometimes just in the middle of nowhere. 00:08:11.259 --> 00:08:15.939 Have you ever, like, found a restaurant just by accident, driving through a small Texas town? 00:08:15.939 --> 00:08:17.194 That was really good. 00:08:17.194 --> 00:08:33.041 We've done that several times and I'm just always really impressed with our state and with our country, and pretty much every state, arkansas, all over the place, oklahoma especially, and this is a beautiful place to live. 00:08:33.041 --> 00:08:35.975 We live in America, we're proud to be Americans. 00:08:35.975 --> 00:08:47.076 But I'm telling you, the sense of adventure that we have gets satisfied, doing the will of God, doing kingdom business, and that's what we've been called to do. 00:08:47.669 --> 00:08:57.919 And so I just, if you'll open your Bible to Luke, chapter nine you know Luke is just. 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.073 We're going to read it, ms Nancy, out of the message Bible. 00:09:01.073 --> 00:09:04.037 If you don't mind, I'm going to go ahead and open up my new King James. 00:09:04.037 --> 00:09:10.596 Maybe I'll refer to it every now and then, but I have it printed out in the message because it was just so simple. 00:09:10.596 --> 00:09:18.936 And so you have in the book of Luke, just not to go off on a whole thing, little Bible history for you. 00:09:19.009 --> 00:09:35.359 But Luke is, he is not a Jew and he's the only non-Jewish writer of the New Testament and he's also not one of the 12 disciples, and so it blows you away that he's able to write this account. 00:09:35.359 --> 00:09:40.140 And he wrote it before he wrote Acts, supposedly. 00:09:40.140 --> 00:10:05.804 And yet I was reading some EW Kenyon on this and he was saying how it amazes him that there's no part of the revelation of Paul in this gospel and so there's like a hint of it near the end and that's all you get of the Pauline experience in the book of Luke. 00:10:05.804 --> 00:10:12.328 But I just aren't you grateful for the book of Luke, aren't you think, like Mark? 00:10:12.328 --> 00:10:18.815 Mark wasn't a disciple either and he was John Mark. 00:10:18.815 --> 00:10:27.557 He was immature, he was like in the book of Acts you read about John Mark and he wasn't profitable, and then he went back and studied and became profitable. 00:10:27.557 --> 00:10:31.655 Where would we be without the book of Mark, right, the Gospel of Mark? 00:10:31.655 --> 00:10:34.804 And so both Mark and Luke are really important. 00:10:34.804 --> 00:10:38.495 John's like in a whole you know world on his own right. 00:10:38.495 --> 00:10:42.355 He's kind of the different writer, pretty much one of my favorite. 00:10:43.749 --> 00:10:55.413 If you're new at reading the Bible, I would encourage you to start with the book of John actually, but here in Luke nine, so you have about 10 chapters in the middle of Luke that are different from Matthew and Mark. 00:10:55.413 --> 00:11:07.211 So the first eight, roughly eight chapters are very similar to Matthew and Mark, and then the last I don't know five, six, seven, after Jesus gets to Jerusalem. 00:11:07.211 --> 00:11:24.990 The last five or six chapters are very similar to Matthew and Mark, but in the middle you have this, these group of stories that only that are, only Luke tells, and so again. 00:11:24.990 --> 00:11:32.804 So, just starting at verse one, we're just going to kind of go through Luke nine and pretty much all through the chapter, but we won't read it word for word. 00:11:32.804 --> 00:11:48.397 And it says Jesus now called the twelve and gave them authority and power to deal with all demons and cure all diseases, and he commissioned them to preach the news of God's kingdom and heal the sick. 00:11:48.397 --> 00:11:54.195 And he said you know, keep it simple, basically, don't load yourself up with equipment. 00:11:54.195 --> 00:11:58.804 You have everything that you meet, need, you've, you've, you are, you are the equipment right. 00:11:58.804 --> 00:12:09.597 And then commissioned verse six commission they left and they traveled from town to town telling the latest news of God, the message, and curing people everywhere they went. 00:12:09.597 --> 00:12:14.414 And so I'm just going to kind of go back over here and just kind of go through it. 00:12:14.414 --> 00:12:16.927 You know we have. 00:12:16.988 --> 00:12:22.453 In verse 10, he feeds the 5,000, right, we have heard about that before and other accounts. 00:12:22.453 --> 00:12:27.035 And then in verse 18, we have Peter confessing who Jesus is. 00:12:27.035 --> 00:12:29.784 Jesus asked them who do you say I am? 00:12:29.784 --> 00:12:33.535 And Peter says the Christ of God. 00:12:33.535 --> 00:12:38.697 And then Jesus begins to warn them hey, keep that private, keep that secret. 00:12:38.697 --> 00:12:44.658 And then you know, in verse 23, take up your cross. 00:12:44.658 --> 00:12:55.028 I'm in New King James, if any, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 00:12:55.028 --> 00:12:58.636 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it. 00:12:58.636 --> 00:13:02.755 But whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 00:13:02.755 --> 00:13:10.784 For what profit is it of a man if he gains the whole world and is himself destroyed or lost? 00:13:10.784 --> 00:13:18.599 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him, the Son of man, will be ashamed when he comes in his own glory. 00:13:18.599 --> 00:13:26.764 But I tell you truly, there are some standing right here who shall not taste death until they see the kingdom of God. 00:13:26.764 --> 00:13:33.457 And so that's where we are to deny ourselves and pick up our cross daily. 00:13:33.457 --> 00:13:37.294 What God has given us to do, our ministry, amen. 00:13:38.086 --> 00:13:43.804 And so from there is the Mount of Transfiguration, starting in verse 28. 00:13:43.804 --> 00:13:55.658 And Peter, james and John get to go up the mountain and then God visits them and but I think it's a significant that Peter just kind of starts spouting off. 00:13:55.658 --> 00:13:57.705 You know, he thinks he knows what's going on. 00:13:57.705 --> 00:14:03.804 Hey, let's live here, let's just let's build a tabernacle, let's let's build some shelter and just stay right here. 00:14:03.804 --> 00:14:05.808 This is awesome. 00:14:05.808 --> 00:14:17.669 And God interrupts him, not Jesus, not James and not John, but God himself interrupts him and says this is my beloved son, hear him. 00:14:17.669 --> 00:14:23.799 And so even God was trying to get their attention focused on the words of Jesus. 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:30.804 You know, jesus only said what his father said to say right, his words were very important. 00:14:31.485 --> 00:14:49.809 And so right after that they get down from the mountain, in verse 37, and a boy needs healing, he has demons and they're like Master, you know, we tried to have your disciples pray over them, but the but they wouldn't, they couldn't get the demons out. 00:14:49.809 --> 00:14:52.056 And he's, he like, starts rebuking them. 00:14:52.056 --> 00:14:57.496 Right, oh, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? 00:14:57.496 --> 00:14:59.528 Bring your son over here. 00:14:59.528 --> 00:15:00.070 And what does he do? 00:15:00.070 --> 00:15:11.365 He cast the demons out and all as well, right, and but but they, the, the disciples missed, they missed their own rebuke here. 00:15:11.365 --> 00:15:20.937 They had a lack of faith and they missed it, and so I just want to start back in the message Bible in verse 43. 00:15:20.937 --> 00:15:36.990 It says while they continued to stand around exclaiming over all of the things that he was doing, jesus said to his disciples treasure and ponder each of these next words. 00:15:36.990 --> 00:15:40.518 The son of man is about to be betrayed into human hands. 00:15:40.518 --> 00:15:42.769 And they didn't get what he was saying. 00:15:42.769 --> 00:15:52.250 It was like he was speaking a foreign language and they couldn't make heads or tails of it, but they were embarrassed to ask what he meant. 00:15:53.272 --> 00:15:53.974 How many of you know? 00:15:53.974 --> 00:16:01.833 Maybe you've been reading your Bible and you really don't understand what that story, what that parable is about, or what that you know. 00:16:01.833 --> 00:16:03.177 That happens time to time. 00:16:03.177 --> 00:16:09.956 The advantage that we have, though we have the Holy Spirit living and dwelling on the inside of us, and you can just ask. 00:16:09.956 --> 00:16:11.466 You know it's it. 00:16:11.466 --> 00:16:15.196 It doesn't take a theologian to understand the Bible. 00:16:16.186 --> 00:16:24.410 I believe it's Catholics that are that are taught to not read their Bibles because they're taught that they can't, that there's no way for them to understand the Word of God. 00:16:24.410 --> 00:16:27.376 But no, we have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us. 00:16:27.376 --> 00:16:33.764 That that explains it to us, amen, and it reveals to us these meanings, and so we don't have to be afraid. 00:16:33.764 --> 00:16:38.745 But here the disciples they didn't understand what Jesus was saying and they just kind of ignored it. 00:16:38.745 --> 00:16:46.804 Hey, they were so excited they went on and on about what Jesus was doing, but they ignored what he was saying. 00:16:47.469 --> 00:16:57.418 And so sometimes, while we're focused on the works of Jesus and we miss the words of Jesus. 00:16:57.418 --> 00:17:05.147 And so it's so important, you know, the works of Jesus are really important, right, what he's done. 00:17:05.147 --> 00:17:24.135 We've been called like in my dad's vision that he had that I was reading we're called to do greater works, right, and we believe God for the miraculous, and we get excited around here and we run around the church and we're filled with the Holy Ghost and we shout and we praise really loud. 00:17:24.135 --> 00:17:35.393 And I'm telling you, though, when we get more enamored with the works of Jesus and ignore the words of Jesus, dangerous things begin to happen. 00:17:35.393 --> 00:17:52.165 And so the works of Jesus, disconnected from His words, produce actions far from His heart, and the fruit of your labor doesn't it, won't, it won't ever match the fruit of His labor, what he did. 00:17:52.165 --> 00:18:03.210 We're supposed to be Christ-like in all things, but if you don't understand what God's telling you and you begin to go out on your own and you're just looking for the miraculous. 00:18:03.210 --> 00:18:19.329 You're going to miss it every time, and so, truly, they miss the point on this, and so I just I'm going to keep reading, but I have to go back and forth between two pages here to get to where I'm, you know. 00:18:19.329 --> 00:18:21.233 I basically let's start my points. 00:18:23.845 --> 00:18:28.515 I have four calibrations that Jesus is making to have a successful journey. 00:18:28.515 --> 00:18:29.798 Right, they're on a journey. 00:18:29.798 --> 00:18:31.351 They're on a journey in between. 00:18:31.351 --> 00:18:38.233 The journey is to Jerusalem, right, and so we know that the journey ends in death and really ends in resurrection. 00:18:38.233 --> 00:18:46.675 Right, but they have to go on this journey to get there, and so that leads them through Samaria, and that's where this journey is right now. 00:18:46.675 --> 00:18:52.929 And Samaria is not a very fun place, it's not a very inviting place, and we'll read about that here in a second. 00:18:56.207 --> 00:19:04.529 And so the word calibrate means to adjust precisely for a particular function, or to measure precisely. 00:19:04.529 --> 00:19:14.153 And so I'm telling you, we're to allow the Holy Spirit to calibrate us, to adjust us precisely for the function that God has for us. 00:19:14.153 --> 00:19:22.750 It's really important to not miss a step and not miss something on the inside of us that God's trying to change. 00:19:22.750 --> 00:19:34.077 And I'm telling you when you, when you open up your heart to God, you know, mark just came up here for prayer and he, he was, you know, he just wants, he didn't want to miss it, he wants to hit it every time. 00:19:34.077 --> 00:19:41.553 So that was his way of just coming up for prayer, was his way of consecrating himself to the Lord and to God's will. 00:19:41.553 --> 00:19:48.049 And so I didn't, you know, we kind of prayed privately, but that wasn't, you know, something private really to talk about. 00:19:48.049 --> 00:20:00.611 Just you're allowing your heart on the inside, you're allowing the Holy Spirit to calibrate, to make some adjustments in order to hit your function, and all of us have a function. 00:20:00.611 --> 00:20:11.976 And so, back on verse 43, we'll start with with our number one point, and that is Jesus helps calibrate how we see ourselves. 00:20:12.865 --> 00:20:23.474 And so in verse 43, while they continued to stand around oh, I'm sorry, we read that already treasure and ponder each of these words the Son of man is about to be betrayed. 00:20:23.474 --> 00:20:26.848 They didn't get it and they started arguing. 00:20:26.848 --> 00:20:27.531 Verse 46. 00:20:27.531 --> 00:20:30.553 They started arguing over which of them would be most famous. 00:20:30.553 --> 00:20:32.688 Isn't that funny? 00:20:32.688 --> 00:20:38.747 They totally they missed all of them getting chewed out for not having enough faith, casting out the devil. 00:20:38.747 --> 00:20:44.750 And then they get all focused on what Jesus is doing and they missed all of his words. 00:20:44.750 --> 00:20:50.730 And then Jesus is trying to explain to him what's coming, hey, what's ahead of the journey? 00:20:50.730 --> 00:20:57.155 They totally ignore it, and instead they're over here arguing over which one is going to be more, more famous. 00:20:57.155 --> 00:21:11.726 And when Jesus realized how much this mattered to them, he brought a child to his side and he said whoever accepts this child is as if the child were me accepts me, he said. 00:21:11.726 --> 00:21:15.075 And whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me. 00:21:15.075 --> 00:21:19.673 You become great by accepting, not asserting. 00:21:19.673 --> 00:21:24.114 Your spirit, not your size makes the difference. 00:21:24.114 --> 00:21:26.991 So, in other words, humility, right. 00:21:26.991 --> 00:21:30.731 He who becomes least becomes greatest of all. 00:21:31.133 --> 00:21:42.097 The new King James version says and so that points us back to humility, and so pride is a grace repellent. 00:21:42.097 --> 00:21:46.096 You know, I think it's first Peter, I think I have it in here. 00:21:46.096 --> 00:21:54.058 First Peter, five, five says God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. 00:21:54.058 --> 00:22:06.577 And so we know that pride is a repellent of grace, and so it requires grace in order to achieve what God has us doing. 00:22:06.577 --> 00:22:14.196 Grace is God's ability, right, and so we require it, requires his ability in order to do things for God. 00:22:14.196 --> 00:22:19.096 And so God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. 00:22:19.096 --> 00:22:25.576 Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time. 00:22:26.105 --> 00:22:32.258 And so here we are, reading out of the book of Luke that that verse six out of was out of first Peter. 00:22:32.258 --> 00:22:37.156 So you get to see that eventually Peter got it right, eventually, james got it. 00:22:37.156 --> 00:22:39.211 You read the book of James James received it. 00:22:39.211 --> 00:22:41.532 You know, right now they didn't have the Holy Spirit. 00:22:41.532 --> 00:22:46.212 We're reading out of the gospel of Luke and so they were a little bit slow to respond. 00:22:46.212 --> 00:22:49.867 But I'm telling you, in the book of Acts, peter got it right. 00:22:49.867 --> 00:22:57.347 He received the Holy Spirit and he was first out the gate to explain what in the world is going on. 00:22:57.347 --> 00:23:00.432 And so we're to do the same thing. 00:23:00.432 --> 00:23:01.888 We're filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:23:03.744 --> 00:23:04.990 Pastor preached a great message. 00:23:04.990 --> 00:23:07.231 Dad preached a great message on that this morning. 00:23:07.231 --> 00:23:10.573 Part two, if you weren't here, I really encourage you to get that message. 00:23:10.573 --> 00:23:25.741 It was being talked about being led by the Holy Spirit, and so we need to calibrate ourselves with humility and the kingdom of God, our entire focus. 00:23:25.741 --> 00:23:30.868 And so the only way to go up is to get down is to be humble, right. 00:23:32.567 --> 00:23:42.413 And so there's a Smith-Wigglesworth quote that we quote a lot and I literally I don't think a week goes by without me quoting this at some point or another. 00:23:42.413 --> 00:23:49.494 And that quote is if you want what God wants, for the same reasons he wants it, you're unstoppable. 00:23:49.494 --> 00:23:51.951 So Mark Hanken says that all the time. 00:23:51.951 --> 00:24:06.375 That quote over and over and over again, and I'm telling you it's something that I grabbed ahold of, and whenever I'm wading through something where I need to test my humility, I need to test my attitude, I think of that quote. 00:24:06.375 --> 00:24:08.009 And is this really something? 00:24:08.009 --> 00:24:09.728 Do I really want this? 00:24:09.728 --> 00:24:12.836 For the same reasons God wants it? 00:24:12.836 --> 00:24:14.813 Cause it's obvious I'll be looking at something. 00:24:14.813 --> 00:24:18.230 I know that's God's will, but do I want it for the same reasons? 00:24:18.230 --> 00:24:20.907 God wants it, and it's so important. 00:24:21.008 --> 00:24:28.691 I'm telling you to grab ahold of the heart of God, to be passionate about what he's passionate about. 00:24:28.691 --> 00:24:49.375 I'm telling you we're gonna fall flat on our face every time when we're just passionate about our own things, and so we need, it's required to be excited and to have the same reasons why God wants something is the same reason I wanted amen. 00:24:49.375 --> 00:24:51.392 And then you're unstoppable praise God. 00:24:51.392 --> 00:24:55.613 And so we're calibrating the way we see ourselves. 00:24:55.613 --> 00:24:57.349 God is calibrating us. 00:24:57.349 --> 00:25:06.872 Jesus is calibrating the disciples right here, and we're learning from it, amen and so don't spend any time exalting yourself. 00:25:06.872 --> 00:25:14.593 Instead, have humility, and then grace is multiplied. 00:25:14.593 --> 00:25:17.374 His ability is multiplied back to you, amen. 00:25:17.374 --> 00:25:22.988 And so in Romans 12, it talks about not thinking too highly of ourselves. 00:25:22.988 --> 00:25:26.012 Amen and so in not being full of ourselves. 00:25:26.605 --> 00:25:44.075 And so, before I get to number two, I was Selena, was reading this book out loud last night, and it's the title of the book is in search of Timothy, and it's by Tony Cook, and Tony Cook is a really good author. 00:25:44.075 --> 00:25:45.891 He's written three or four really good books. 00:25:45.891 --> 00:25:57.732 He was just with Mark Hankins over in Turkey ministering together, and it had to do with the same story that we just read, so I just wanted to read like a little excerpt of it. 00:25:57.732 --> 00:26:04.615 It says on at least three occasions, jesus's disciples argued about which of them was the greatest. 00:26:04.615 --> 00:26:10.011 One of these heated discussions even took place at the Last Supper in Luke 22. 00:26:10.605 --> 00:26:24.511 There was a problem of comparison and competitiveness that existed among Jesus's staff, and if we allow human nature to dictate our actions, there will always be quarrels among us too. 00:26:24.511 --> 00:26:32.965 It's human nature to focus on others, but we need to focus on obeying what God has called us to do, amen. 00:26:32.965 --> 00:26:39.798 And so it kind of talks about in a staff setting under your pastor. 00:26:39.798 --> 00:26:42.653 But I'm telling you, all of us are underneath our pastor, right? 00:26:42.653 --> 00:26:48.057 So we're not to compete with our fellow supportive members. 00:26:48.057 --> 00:26:53.568 We're not like competing over the attention of our pastor who can do it better. 00:26:53.568 --> 00:26:54.707 No, we're serving. 00:26:54.707 --> 00:27:05.027 Our motivation must not be about who is going to be the greatest or who will receive the most recognition, but about there goes a Harley, praise the Lord, harley-luiah. 00:27:05.027 --> 00:27:09.672 But about how we can work together as a team to serve others. 00:27:09.672 --> 00:27:10.509 Sorry, it's just in me. 00:27:10.509 --> 00:27:14.973 About how we can work together as a team to serve others. 00:27:14.973 --> 00:27:20.355 I'm telling you all around, we have lots of teams operating in here and we're successful. 00:27:20.355 --> 00:27:23.994 But we're successful because we want to see other people grow, amen. 00:27:23.994 --> 00:27:30.753 We want to see other people receive the same revelation we have in order for them to go to the next level. 00:27:30.753 --> 00:27:32.570 And we're taking people with us, amen. 00:27:32.570 --> 00:27:35.628 So we're making the necessary adjustments that we need to make. 00:27:36.365 --> 00:27:43.872 And so, number two, jesus is calibrating how we see others, and that's back in verse 49. 00:27:43.872 --> 00:27:48.375 And so we'll turn, we'll go back to the message translation. 00:27:48.375 --> 00:28:00.573 And so it says John spoke up and said, master, we saw a man using your name to expel demons, and we stopped him because he wasn't of our group. 00:28:00.573 --> 00:28:03.352 And Jesus said don't stop him. 00:28:03.352 --> 00:28:06.112 If he's not an enemy, he's an ally. 00:28:06.112 --> 00:28:16.070 And so let me see I'm going to read that out of do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is on our side. 00:28:16.070 --> 00:28:26.734 And so Jesus is calibrating the way they see other people, the way they see others, and so Jesus is an exclusive to your brand name. 00:28:26.734 --> 00:28:34.253 Right, he'll package himself inside someone that you don't like. 00:28:34.253 --> 00:28:36.178 Have you ever noticed that? 00:28:36.178 --> 00:28:41.008 I mean, like we get to be around all kind of different people and there's not. 00:28:41.008 --> 00:28:41.711 Sometimes there's. 00:28:41.711 --> 00:28:44.733 People can rub you the wrong way, but they're saved. 00:28:44.733 --> 00:28:48.609 They got the same Jesus on the inside of us, and so that we do. 00:28:49.105 --> 00:28:57.714 And so I just think back corporately on the my God votes thing that we've been doing, and James and Tara and others can attest to this. 00:28:57.714 --> 00:29:16.553 But you know, we we partnered with 20, some odd other churches to make that happen, where we had a church in the, in the state capital, every week during the whole session of Congress, and they weren't all word of faith churches, they were all Bible believing churches. 00:29:16.553 --> 00:29:17.909 They were all Jesus churches. 00:29:17.909 --> 00:29:20.951 Of course we didn't have any mosques or anything. 00:29:20.951 --> 00:29:29.856 The emoms come out but in minister, but they weren't all word of faith holy ghost churches. 00:29:29.856 --> 00:29:33.849 And so we, tara, would tell these stories of meeting the pastors. 00:29:33.849 --> 00:29:45.394 We didn't get to meet all of them, but you know, they're going through the routine and it had such an effect on them that opened doors for them and it left a mark on them just to work with us. 00:29:45.625 --> 00:29:47.111 And so what was that? 00:29:47.111 --> 00:29:58.073 It was because we had adjusted our hearts and adjust, you know, to to look at what we agree with and not what, all the things that we disagree on. 00:29:58.073 --> 00:30:04.451 And I'm telling you it was by the Holy spirits designed and designed it. 00:30:04.451 --> 00:30:10.134 And so, uh, even what they preached about was amazing to me. 00:30:10.134 --> 00:30:20.395 Like they would, the pastors would be preaching and they'd preach messages they hadn't even thought about because of hooking up with this church, amen. 00:30:20.395 --> 00:30:22.548 And so the same thing is happening with you. 00:30:22.548 --> 00:30:25.707 It's happening on your job, it's happening with your family. 00:30:25.707 --> 00:30:32.315 Maybe your sister is Baptist and your cousin is Methodist, and you're sitting at the family reunion or whatever. 00:30:32.315 --> 00:30:35.868 You're a light everywhere you go, and so we were. 00:30:36.170 --> 00:30:40.580 Jesus is calibrated how we speak to others. 00:30:40.580 --> 00:30:52.512 We always speak with the love of God, and so we have to see others the way God sees them and through the love of God, and I mean every time we do. 00:30:52.512 --> 00:31:00.509 We have a supply of the love of God, of the mercy of God on the inside of us and it'll change circumstances. 00:31:00.509 --> 00:31:02.478 It will change situations. 00:31:02.478 --> 00:31:08.219 It'll change situations in your family and begin to turn things around just by being a light, amen. 00:31:08.219 --> 00:31:17.239 And then in verse 3, verse 51, we have number 3, god calibrates how we see the outsider. 00:31:17.239 --> 00:31:29.512 So we talked about Luke being an outsider, because he wasn't a Jew, and I really liked the way the message Bible introduced the book of Luke talking about how Luke was an outsider. 00:31:29.512 --> 00:31:33.203 So you have the words of an outsider. 00:31:33.203 --> 00:31:38.780 He brought a different revelation and a different perspective to the conversation. 00:31:39.383 --> 00:32:00.028 But here in verse 51, when it came close to the time of Jesus' ascension, he gathered up his courage and steeled himself for the journey to Jerusalem and he sent messengers ahead and they came to a Samaritan village to make arrangements for his hospitality. 00:32:00.028 --> 00:32:07.855 But then the Samaritans learned that Jesus' destination was Jerusalem and they refused his hospitality. 00:32:07.855 --> 00:32:15.327 The real reason behind that, because it would have been unsafe for them in the natural. 00:32:15.327 --> 00:32:20.752 They weren't thinking about the supernatural, they were just letting this group of people come in that weren't going to stay there long. 00:32:20.752 --> 00:32:24.092 They're going to Jerusalem, and they didn't want anything to do with that, right? 00:32:24.092 --> 00:32:36.992 And so when the disciples, james and John learned that they were being rejected, in other words, they said Master, do you want us to call a bolt of lightning down out of the sky and incinerate them? 00:32:36.992 --> 00:32:39.825 And Jesus turned to them and said of course not. 00:32:39.825 --> 00:32:44.434 And so that's really much better than the New King James. 00:32:44.555 --> 00:32:57.076 Let me find that you do not know what manner of spirit you are of, for the Son of man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. 00:32:57.076 --> 00:32:59.726 And then they went on to another village, right? 00:32:59.726 --> 00:33:06.758 And so you know, you really have to know how to treat people. 00:33:06.758 --> 00:33:12.519 When you treat people in the love of God, you make the calibrations on the inside. 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:16.210 You know how to deal with rejection, right? 00:33:16.210 --> 00:33:20.071 That's nowhere in my notes, I just the word rejection came up. 00:33:20.071 --> 00:33:27.096 That was from the Holy Spirit, and so you know, maybe you've been rejected over and over and over again. 00:33:27.096 --> 00:33:31.736 It's the power of the Holy Spirit on the inside of you that heals you of that. 00:33:31.736 --> 00:33:46.792 But if you want to be offended and you go around looking for opportunities and ways to be offended, the devil will feed you that over and over and over again, all day long, until you feel run over, until you've got, you know, tire marks across your cheeks. 00:33:46.792 --> 00:33:47.493 And. 00:33:47.493 --> 00:33:56.109 But I'm telling you, when you make that calibration on the inside, that you will not be offended, no matter what, no matter what it takes. 00:33:56.109 --> 00:34:02.731 You won't feel rejected, even when you receive no as your answer. 00:34:02.731 --> 00:34:05.522 I'm telling you, god's taken you to the next level. 00:34:05.522 --> 00:34:11.340 You refuse to go down, you refuse to be down and you refuse to be depressed, amen. 00:34:11.340 --> 00:34:18.231 And so, number four Jesus calibrates our timing. 00:34:18.291 --> 00:34:28.518 And so, starting in verse 58, 57, on the road, someone asked if he could go along. 00:34:28.518 --> 00:34:30.485 I'll go with you wherever you go. 00:34:30.485 --> 00:34:33.498 And Jesus said are you really ready to rough it? 00:34:33.498 --> 00:34:36.027 We're not staying in the best of ends, you know. 00:34:36.027 --> 00:34:38.873 And Jesus said to another follow me. 00:34:38.873 --> 00:34:45.835 And the man said certainly, but first excuse me for a couple of days, please. 00:34:45.835 --> 00:34:48.590 I have to make arrangements for my father's funeral. 00:34:48.590 --> 00:34:52.885 And then Jesus said first things first. 00:34:52.885 --> 00:34:59.378 Your business is life, not death, and life is urgent, announce God's kingdom. 00:34:59.378 --> 00:35:01.793 So he told him to do it immediately, right. 00:35:01.793 --> 00:35:03.117 And then another. 00:35:03.117 --> 00:35:09.356 He said I'm ready to follow you, master, but first excuse me while I get things straight at my home. 00:35:09.356 --> 00:35:13.969 And Jesus said no procrastination, no backwards looks. 00:35:13.969 --> 00:35:17.820 You can't put God's kingdom off till tomorrow. 00:35:17.820 --> 00:35:20.056 You must seize the day. 00:35:20.056 --> 00:35:21.735 Amen, seize the day. 00:35:21.735 --> 00:35:25.300 And so Jesus is calibrating our timing. 00:35:25.300 --> 00:35:30.179 The timing for God's to put God's kingdom first is now. 00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:30.681 Amen. 00:35:30.681 --> 00:35:33.398 We must run through the open door now. 00:35:33.398 --> 00:35:35.697 We must be quick to obey. 00:35:35.697 --> 00:35:37.255 We must not slow down. 00:35:37.255 --> 00:35:44.077 It's not time to take a break on the sidelines and drink Gatorade and kick our feet up. 00:35:44.077 --> 00:35:50.235 I'm telling you the harvest is plentiful, it's white, the fields are white with harvest. 00:35:50.235 --> 00:35:58.159 Let's get after it, let's do our part, let's do what God's called us to do, let's make the necessary calibrations and let's go. 00:35:59.090 --> 00:36:10.358 You know I didn't tell that story when I started, but for about seven or eight years we had this big passenger bus and we started out with a school bus. 00:36:10.358 --> 00:36:11.393 We made like one trip. 00:36:11.393 --> 00:36:24.735 God gave us a school bus and so I made some inquiries and brother John Dyer he knew a guy and they provided him and Loretta provided the money to buy us a bus and it was such a blessing. 00:36:24.735 --> 00:36:30.617 We would schedule church when it wasn't broken down, when the air conditioner worked, all those things. 00:36:30.617 --> 00:36:39.259 It was kind of an older bus but I'm not complaining, but it kind of turned me into a bus driver and we would make these events around the bus. 00:36:39.259 --> 00:36:47.719 You know, we'd take, like everybody to, anybody who wanted to go out to the antique festival and round top or lavender farms. 00:36:47.719 --> 00:37:00.338 We went berry picking, I'm trying to think, went to a few Astros games together in the bus and it just it really helped everybody talk and fellowship and get to know one another, and especially for kids events and youth events. 00:37:00.338 --> 00:37:10.014 And that led me into driving my son's college baseball team around the country as well in their bus and so. 00:37:10.074 --> 00:37:12.710 But you know, let's go, let's get on the bus. 00:37:12.710 --> 00:37:17.530 We got work to do and all aboard, right, we're not leaving anybody behind. 00:37:17.530 --> 00:37:18.710 We're all in this together. 00:37:18.710 --> 00:37:21.369 We're all have a job to do each of us. 00:37:21.369 --> 00:37:30.829 You know it's not more on one than another and we're linked arm in arm in the last days, ready to reap this harvest. 00:37:30.849 --> 00:37:33.043 Amen, are you excited? 00:37:33.043 --> 00:37:33.969 Amen, hallelujah. 00:37:33.969 --> 00:37:37.760 Well, lift your hands and let's receive the word of God. 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:43.516 Father, we just thank you right now, in this atmosphere, holy spirit, have your way. 00:37:43.516 --> 00:38:00.996 Well, you're dealing with us on the inside, each individually, and, lord, you're making necessary changes, necessary necessary calibrations, and order us for us to function in the right areas, lord, to the right degree. 00:38:01.070 --> 00:38:06.998 And so, father, we turn our hearts towards you and we allow you to make these changes. 00:38:06.998 --> 00:38:20.876 Lord, we're quick to obey, we're quick to forgive, we're quick to lay aside every weight that ensnares us, and we're running our race with patience, and we're running it to win. 00:38:20.876 --> 00:38:32.757 We're paying attention, lord, to the things that matter to you, not to the things that matter for us, for those will pass away, but, lord, the things that matter to you are eternal. 00:38:32.757 --> 00:38:53.815 And so we adjust our focus, we adjust what we're looking at, we adjust our vision ahead of us and we can see, through the eyes of faith, us performing your kingdom business in the right, in the middle of this harvest, lord, living in the last days. 00:38:53.815 --> 00:38:57.891 What a pleasure, what an honor it is to live in the last days, lord. 00:38:57.891 --> 00:39:07.079 You put every single one of us, you've hooked us up together, arm in arm, and, lord, we refuse to put our feet up. 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:14.416 We get busy working for you in this harvest, and we won't miss a beat in Jesus' name Amen.