I love you guys.
Love the opportunity to spend time with you.
And so this last week was sweet, and this coming week will be as well.
Um, but it was funny because as the week was going on, and I was preparing for this passage, and we're gonna be in Luke chapter 20, verse 41.
And um as I I was working on this, man, I was really struggling to be like, uh, what is a message that's not gonna stink?
So uh I was like, man, God, I really need help in this.
And um, and I really battled this week the feeling of like, I don't know enough.
I don't, I don't know as much as I want to know.
And that might sound like everybody's like, yeah, I don't know as much as I want to.
Like, I feel maybe everybody feels that way.
Or maybe you feel good about yourself.
You're like, no, I know just enough.
I'm good to go.
Um, and the rest I can Google.
Maybe you feel that way.
But as I was saying this, I'm like, Lord, I need more.
I felt like there was something under the surface.
I felt like I was trying to dig for gold, but I wasn't getting there.
And I'm like, and I knew that it was there, and the context was rich, and that the text was rich.
And uh, and it's amazing because I feel like the Lord's just now connecting dots for me.
And so um, we're gonna start in verse 41.
You ready to roll?
So we know that in this passage, Jesus has been consistently teaching at the temple day after day.
Uh, and we know that also at this point, uh, it's like Tuesday before he dies, right?
Uh so we are days away from uh his uh death.
We're days away from his crucifixion, from his beating.
Like it's it's time is drawing near.
You with me on that?
Uh so this is what's going on.
He has been questioned by Pharisees, by Sadducees, he's been questioned by everybody that could try to trip him up, make him stumble, and he's knocked every question out of the park.
And it's just been that people are amazed to the point where they could ask no more questions.
And now Jesus is bringing a question to those that have been questioning him.
Cool?
Right, so that's where we're at.
Jesus is about to ask a question.
Then Jesus presented them with a question Why is it he asked that the Messiah is said to be the son of David?
For David himself wrote in the book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, sit in the place of honor at my right hand, until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.
Since David called the Messiah Lord, how can the Messiah be his son?
And I read that and thought, man, that's a is that a word salad for anybody else in English?
Oh, it's so I'm like, I'm reading it, I'm like, that's that's a lot of words.
I'm trying to figure it out, I'm trying to follow the line of thinking.
And so, context, when we are reading scripture uh in 2026 with Western eyes, but we're reading an Eastern book, we need to know some of what that Eastern thought was to help us get insight into what's going on.
So, what's Jesus talking about?
Because we know at this point there is um uh almost universally, not universally, but but pretty broadly, it was understood that the Messiah would come from the line of David, from the lineage of David.
So even the Jews were looking for the Messiah that would come, and he would come through that kingly line, right?
And so Jesus is making this a point because it's a point where everybody, almost everybody's on the same page.
Why is it, he asks, is verse 41, that the Messiah is said to be the son of David.
So Old Testament prophecies that point to this truth is in Isaiah chapter 11, in Isaiah chapter 16, Jeremiah 22, Ezekiel 37.
There's all these Old Testament prophecies that push towards the Messiah and what family he would be a part of.
A son of David, right?
That's the family that he's gonna be a part of.
But what Jesus is doing is he is about to correct the notion that it would simply be a man coming from that lineage.
And this is huge for us as believers, right?
So go with me.
I need you to roll with me just for a minute because today we're gonna be talking about Christology, Christology, Christology, however you would you like to say it.
So we're gonna get a little theological today, but it's what do we believe about who Jesus is?
So the crowds are listening, and Jesus goes, for David himself wrote in the book of Psalms, he's about to quote Psalm 110, which is the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament, right?
It's alluded to, it's it's mentioned over and over and over throughout the New Testament.
For David himself wrote in the book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.
And everybody said, huh?
So just real quick, footstool.
I'm gonna make your enemies your footstool.
The the imagery there, the understanding, it's a phrase that communicates total to victory, divine vindication.
It's like a universal rule.
I'm uh there's even um there's even uh archaeological digs that would show past cultures where there would be victors standing on top of those they defeated, right?
So we're we're getting this imagery from David, and he says, Until I humble your enemies, making them your footstool under your feet.
Verse 44, since David called the Messiah Lord, how can the Messiah be his son?
Um there's two words that get used here.
The Lord said to my Lord.
Uh the Lord, that word uh that would have been used was Yahweh said to my Lord, Adonai.
So Yahweh, God, Adonai means master.
But in the context, so Jesus is saying something shocking in this moment, and none of you were shocked by it because you don't, I'm about to give you the insider information.
You would never have in that Near Eastern culture, in that time period, anybody that was a father called their son master.
You would never like honor was always extended the most to the ancestors and the least to the descendants.
You with me on that?
So you're not gonna have dad saying the son, calling him Adonai or calling him Lord, calling him master.
It would not happen because that's not how it worked.
And David was regarded as the greatest king.
So the greatest king is now saying that God spoke to his master.
So everybody in the crowd is thinking, how does David have a master?
He's the greatest king, right?
And and how can this great master be his son?
Because there's there's things that aren't matching up in everybody's minds.
The Messiah is going to come from the line of David, yet David is saying that the Messiah is his master, but we don't say things like that.
It's not making sense unless unless that Adonai is greater than a king.
And the only thing that could be greater than the king is that which is divine.
So the way that David could say that my Lord said to my Lord, or my Yahweh said to my Adonai, the only way he could say that is to recognize that the master that was to come would be divine in nature, not just part of his lineage.
So this is critical because most people thought, okay, the Messiah would just be a man.
And Jesus is pushing on that notion, flipping it upside down that no, the Messiah would not just be a man, though he would be a man, but he would be more than that.
Right?
So so now we're starting to put the puzzle pieces together.
It says he would sit in the place of honor at my right hand.
So, like, he's giving the image that not only is Adonai the master, is David saying that, but he's saying also he's giving co-rule with Yahweh.
And the only way you get co-rule is that you're also God.
Right?
So you're gonna sit at my right hand and we're gonna rule together in this.
And everybody in the crowd is sitting there thinking, this is crazy.
I've never like everybody, like you, you're you're you're just chilling this morning.
Everybody that heard Jesus say that was like, it's a lot to take in.
It's a lot to take.
We're not like it's not registering for us, but for them, it was shocking.
How can the Messiah be his son?
The only way that David could say that is recognizing that the one to come would be divine in nature.
Alright, I gotta I gotta go deep and I gotta nerd out for a minute, and so I just need you to come along for the ride, okay?
This is like, I know some of y'all like Shark Week.
It's coming sometime this summer.
Anybody like Shark Week?
They're like, you know, and you just find yourself sitting there and you're like, I am a nerd.
And there were moments this week I was just diving into theology and digging in and wanting to learn more.
And so one of the things we find out is when Jesus is asking the question, it's a rhetorical question, right?
And we've already discussed before.
When God asks for information, he's not looking for information.
Right?
It's not like Jesus needed to have this answered.
Some guy in the back says, Oh, well, Rabbi, let me explain to you.
Like that guy didn't exist.
So Jesus' rhetorical question suggests the Messiah outranks David, which means this that the Messiah, the Messiah possesses divine authority.
So here's where it gets hard for people.
Israel wanted a Messiah to come to bring back Israel's rule and reign.
They wanted the kingdom restored.
Right?
They wanted the current political landscape to be overthrown and to shift.
That's what they wanted out of their Messiah.
But when you realize the Messiah possesses a divine authority, Jesus is saying he's not just somebody that's going to deliver the people, but he's going to deliver the planet.
Right?
He's a Messiah that's coming, not with just the political intent to free one person, but he's coming with the cosmic intent to free everybody.
And so the thought was so was was so small about what the it was big for them, but it would not have applied to anybody else.
Right?
So Jesus is pushing past that.
But Jesus is saying, no, I'm going to bring a cosmic authority.
And God's kingdom is check this out, we have to remember this.
When you understand that the Messiah is divine in nature, then you realize that his kingdom is larger than any ethnic or political restoration.
Right?
So, so when we catch that and we recognize that, then we recognize the Messiah's reign extends beyond Israel into universal lordship.
Right?
So Israel is included, but those that are not of Israel descent are included as well.
Praise God.
You should be saying, if you're not Jewish, you should be saying, thank you, God.
That's a big deal.
Right?
Okay.
So we're seeing that he's pushing on something here.
So this teaching becomes central to Christian proclamation that our Messiah was man in the flesh and he was God.
We talked about it the other week.
We used a fancy word, hypostatic union, that he was 100% man and 100% God in real time.
And for David to say, My Lord said to my Lord, what he is saying is like the Messiah that's to come is more than I am.
He is divine in nature.
And there's a phrase that I love that's in Revelation 19.
We're going to talk a little bit of Revelation today.
You good with that?
Okay.
Yeah.
Woo.
Chills ran out your spine.
Like he's coming back.
On his robe, this is Revelation 19, verse 16.
It won't be on your screen, but this is Revelation 19, verse 16.
On his robe, talking about Jesus and his thigh, he has a name written.
Listen, King of kings and Lord of Lords.
King of kings and Lord of Lords.
When you say that, you're like, okay, well, then nothing is above that.
So who Jesus is matters immensely to us.
And listen, and can I just extend it a little bit more?
You have to know more than just Jesus is Messiah.
And you say, well, Joey, that seems like a critical point.
It is a critical point, but Christians would not be the only people to claim Jesus as the Messiah.
Right?
So it matters who Jesus is.
Because even in Islam, Muslims revere Jesus as a major prophet and the Messiah, but believe he was a human messenger, not divine, or the Son of God, that he was not crucified, nor did he die and rise again from the dead.
But they do believe that he is coming back again.
Right?
So you can't just say, well, he is the Messiah, because there's going to be people that say, yeah, I agree, he's the Messiah.
Who is Jesus?
He is a hundred percent God, a hundred percent man that died on the cross for the sin of all creation and then rose again three days later.
Right?
He was not replaced by some other person on the cross that died in his place because he was too good to die.
No, no, no, no.
Scripture doesn't teach that.
False religion teaches that.
He died on the cross because it blows my mind that people would say such things, and then you look at a moment where Jesus looks down at his mother while she's standing next to John and she says, Mother, behold your son, son, behold your mother.
If it was a stranger on the cross, that interaction makes no sense at all.
With me?
So we have to know who Jesus is.
Unitarianism will believe that Jesus was a human prophet or a teacher inspired by God, but not God Himself.
Judaism will consider Jesus a historical figure, but does not recognize him as the Messiah, divine, or a prophet, often viewing him as a teacher.
Man, I tell you what though, you want to meet somebody that's incredible, you bump into somebody who's a messianic Jew and believes Jesus is Lord, the wisdom, the insight.
I was listening to two uh messianic Jews, two rabbis this week on a podcast, and my mind was getting just blown.
Like the information was so deep, so rich.
Jehovah's Witnesses, you had one knock on your door anytime recently.
They believe that Jesus is the Son of God, but that he was created by God and distinct from him, making him, making Jesus a subordinate.
And oh, and by the way, the spirit brother of Satan.
So he's not part of the Godhead, he's below God, and his brother is Lucifer.
That's not the same Jesus I'm talking about when I use the name Jesus.
You with me on that?
We have to know who Jesus is because you'll find yourself agreeing with people that are using the name in the context that you're not using that name.
And it's not wrong to say, I don't think we're talking about the same person.
We can't be talking about the same person.
Deism, enlightenment era thinkers often view Jesus as a wise moral teacher and philosophy, but reject the miracles and the divine natures attributed to him.
So he he's like he's like a guru.
And he's got some good thoughts and he said some cool things.
But that but but scripture doesn't lend itself to that because he claimed divinity.
So either he's a psycho or he is who he says he is, right?
Because have you bumped into anybody lately and they say, hey, how you doing?
Good.
Oh, and by the way, I'm God.
Yeah, so it's like, well, let me pull out my phone real quick, and I'm not dialing any number in particular, right?
Like, but when somebody claims divinity, you can't just say, Oh, well, they're a good person, they're a solid thinker.
They said some nice things.
Some of what they teach, uh, I can apply to my life, and it helps my life be a little bit better.
Who Jesus is matters.
You need to you need to have that in your brain, like carved in, who Jesus is matters.
Because if we remove the fact that he was 100% God, then we remove the hope for his death and what it means for our salvation.
Your foundation for your faith completely shifts the moment Jesus changes or the narrative of Jesus changes.
Right?
Let me let me say it like this: how you treat Jesus changes the moment the narrative shifts about who he is.
Because if he was a good prophet or just a guru or he had some good thoughts, or just a teacher, then you will teach him as less than divine.
You'll treat him as less than divine.
And so you're giving him praise or thought or whatever that's less than he's worthy of.
So moving him to any other level, other as divine and holy and part of the triune Godhead, God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, taking him from that place is this.
Listen to me, it is heresy.
And you have to say it is what it is, because the moment you say, no, no, no, no, let's see what all we kind of have in common with these people, the problem is you're trying to find common ground with the false doctrine that's leading people to hell and not heaven, and you don't have the same starting point.
Because my calling as a follower of Jesus is to get them from there to him, to take them closer to Jesus and not further away.
Because if they're waiting on a Messiah that hasn't come yet or hasn't died for them, they're gonna wait for one that's already happened.
They they they've they've missed it completely.
I I told myself I wasn't gonna get loud today.
I feel like I get last few weeks I've gotten a little loud.
I was like, yeah, Jess says she likes it, so y'all are done for now.
Right?
Philippians.
Philippians chapter 2.
Philippians chapter 2, this is verse 5.
Write this down, Philippians 2, verse 5.
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
Though he was God, he did not think of uh though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
Instead, check this out, he gave up his divine privileges, he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being when he appeared in human form.
Verse 8 says, He humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on the cross.
Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
When we recognize and we say, okay, who is Jesus?
That's who Jesus is.
I'm gonna go a little bit further.
I'm gonna I'm gonna hit up Revelation again.
Can y'all handle it twice in one day?
Twice in one day.
It's just crazy.
We're reading so much Bible.
It's like it's church right now.
Revelation chapter 5, verse 6 says, then I saw, now John's having a vision, right?
John's having a vision on the Isle of Patmos.
Then I saw a lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered.
So if you really can dive into the the the text itself, you're like, I'm looking at a lamb and we say that had been slaughtered, you think after the fact.
Like there's a lamb laying there dead.
Like anybody ever passed by a deer that looked as though it had been hit?
Right?
It's like it's like, man, that's a curious sleeping place, like right by the edge of the road.
He's a thrill seeker, right?
No, he's gone.
But but but but what's happening here is John saying, I I saw a lamb that looked as if it had been slain.
It looked as if he had already been slain, but he's standing there.
Right?
The price has been paid.
The lamb had gone through the sacrifice and now it's standing, right?
As though the lamb looked as it had been slaughtered, but it was now standing between the throne of the four living beings.
Now, listen, if you never dive and like jumped into Revelation, come Wednesday, we'll talk about Revelation, right?
If you want to, because you're about to hear some weird things right now.
Just heads up, okay?
It was now standing between the throne of the four living beings, or some versions say the four creatures.
Four living creatures, and among the twenty-four elders, he had seven horns.
That's weird, right?
And seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth.
When you get that, that, that, that symbology, I'm not diving into all that this morning.
But when you dive in and dig into it, it's a beautiful thing.
Revelation should be a book that brings you comfort, not fear.
If revelation brings you fear, we're reading it wrong.
Yeah, okay.
So he's standing there.
There's the there's the there's the four living creatures, there's the 24 elders.
It looks like he's got seven horns and seven eyes.
It says verse seven here.
This is Revelation 5, verse 7.
He stepped forward and took the scribble from the right hand of the one sitting on the throne.
And when he took the scribble, the four living beings and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb.
Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with the incense, which are check this about, the prayers of God's people.
And they sang a new song with these words.
You are worthy to take the scroll, break it still, and open it.
For you were slaughtered, and your blood has been ransomed for people of uh uh ransom.
Excuse me, I'm gonna start over for you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
Verse 10 says, and you have caused them to become a kingdom of priests.
Who's a kingdom of priests?
You are a kingdom of priests.
It's not just a pastor that's a priest, you're a priest.
In your workplace, you're a priest, in your school, you're a priest, in your marriage, you're a priest.
As a parent, you're a priest.
We are a priesthood in this place.
So stop, listen.
Your gift to this body is not sitting in your city.
Okay, a warm spot when you leave is not your gift to the kingdom.
And you have caused them to become a kingdom of priests for our God, and they will reign on the earth.
Verse 11 says, Then I looked again and I heard the voice of thousands and millions of angels around the throne of the living, being with and with the elders, and they sang in a mighty chorus, Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.
And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the city, they sang, blessing and honor, and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever.
So, like this one theologian kind of put it like this you have the lamb standing there, and it's like concentric circles upon concentric circles.
And in the middle is the lamb, and then there's the four elders, and there's uh excuse me, the four living creatures, and then there's the 24 elders, and there's the angels, and then there's the tribe of every tongue and every language, and there's like concentric circle, concentric circle, and it's and at the in at the middle, this is what this theologian said.
He says, concentric circle after concentric circle after concentric circle, and standing at the center, at the bullseye on the target of reality was Jesus Christ.
You're like, that's who Jesus is.
How does that change now how you encounter him on a daily basis?
Because if he's a good teacher, you won't treat him as the center of everything, you just treat him as a part of your thing.
He's just a part of your life.
He just he's just he just plays a role.
No, no, no, no.
He's the center of everything, and every knee will bow, every tongue will confess.
I'm like, I don't know.
I I forget about your holiness sometimes, God.
I want to have intimacy with God, like I want to have a relationship with him.
I want to talk to him, right?
He's a friend of sinners.
I'm like, I want to talk to him as a friend, but I I've got to also remember there's this there's this balance, there's this rhythm, there's this understanding that he is fully God.
And apart from his sacrifice for me, I could never dare stand in his presence.
Who is God?
Christology matters.
Christology matters, right?
Like it's it's if we allow our theology to get weak, we'll look at Jesus as a guru, and then our faith will look like soft serve that it tastes sweet, but it has no substance.
You can roll up into a service and like, oh that was tasty.
But then when the storm hits in your life on Wednesday, you've got no foundation even to stand on.
You've got a soft serve faith that it's like, oh, it's real sweet, but there's nothing to it to sustain you, to hold you down.
I have a concern with that, right?
Like, sweet friend this week sent 1 Corinthians chapter 3 to me.
And it wasn't until this morning I was like, oh my gosh, that verse, 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 10, because of God's grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder.
Now others are building on it.
But whoever is building on the found on this foundation must be very careful.
Check this out, verse 11.
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have, Jesus Christ.
There is no other foundation as a body of believers that we can stand on other than Jesus Christ, fully God, fully manned, fully paid for the sins of the world, fully paid for your life, ransomed you.
Right?
He took care of it all.
If we forget that, our foundation shifts, and then we walk through life for unstable by every single circumstance, it pops up.
You see gas that's four dollars, and you're like, this is the worst.
Instead of God, how do you want to provide now?
Right?
Because if you're like me, you get done pumping your gas and then ask if you want a receipt, and you're like, I would like my memory wiped.
Y'all have the little thing from men in black.
I just want to like erased.
If I want to get in my car, and it's full, and I don't remember this last 10 minutes of watching that price climb.
Like, if you're like me, you experience that, but there's a part of me now that I'm like, even then pumping gas, I'm like, God, how do you how do you want to take care of your people?
Oh, and by the way, I'm gonna keep worshiping you whether the the money comes in to fill the tank or not, because you're worthy of my praise.
So I trust you, you're gonna take care of it and you're gonna give me what I need.
But listen, the reality is my eternity is set up.
I am solid.
You rolling with me this morning?
All right.
Now I'm gonna try to jump into this next little part because I we're gonna finish up chapter 20 this week.
It's gonna be incredible.
We're we're we're nearing the end.
I'll probably cry, weep a little bit when we get done with Luke.
That's why we're gonna go into Acts right after.
Uh yeah, just a heads up, just a teaser.
Um, so so Jesus has just like kind of dropped this bomb on them.
Then with the crowds listening, this is verse 45.
We're there, verse 45.
Then with the crowds listening, he turned to his disciples and said, Beware of these teachers of religious lumba.
You might have a version that says the scribes, right?
What were what were the teachers of religious lama?
The teachers of religious lama, they were known as scribes, they were legal scummers, interpreters of the mosaic lama, they were super influential religious authorities.
That's who these people are.
Beware of the teachers of religious lama, for they are for they like to parade around in flowing robes.
What's that about?
They're fashionistas, right?
They like to parade around very smessy and then flowing robes.
The longer the robe for the scribes, the more um.
So the mama removed an extra, an extra larger next to grim.
And when the wind hits just right, it just blows in the wind, right?
Like how glorious that is.
It's like they they wanted the robes long because they they they they saw they wanted people to see them and go, wow, must be a lot of honor on you because look at that robe, right?
Like, wow.
How how fancy, how snazzy that is.
They prayed around in flowing robes and they love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in marketplaces.
They loved how people treated them.
Like, oh so good to see.
And they would just that they wanted, listen, they they love for people just to give them accolades, pat them on the back, like you're the best.
They love to receive respectful greetings and they walked as they walked in marketplaces, and they love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the head tables, uh, and the head table at banquets.
Check this out, verse 47.
Yet they shamelessly listen.
I can only imagine the tone of Jesus.
The scribes are listening in, they're leaning.
Oh, I didn't know that he knew about the rope thing.
I didn't know that he knew about the table of honor, and I never told anybody that I love that table, but I do love that table.
And then Jesus says, yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and they pretend to be punished by making long prayers in public.
They couldn't even wait.
What it means is they couldn't even wait to get to the temple to pray because they wanted more people to hear them.
So they would stop on the corner and begin this long soliloquy, this long prayer, so everybody can hear this prayer and think, wow, how amazing and how godly they can't even wait to the temple.
They gotta start praying on the curb and how great and how mighty and how amazing they are.
And Jesus said, Jim, they take advantage of widows.
Widows in the ancient world were among, we said this over and over in Luke, right?
They were among the most economically vulnerable groups.
The Torah, that that would be the law for them, repeatedly commands protection for widows, orphans, and foreigners.
So Jesus frames the scribes' behavior as violating, check this out, covenant justice, not just personal morality.
They weren't just crummy people, they were breaking the covenant with God by how they treated these people.
And yet they wanted to be praised by everybody they encountered.
I'm gonna wrap up with this.
Mika, would you come up for me, sis?
They had essentially created a system for other people to be able to worship God, they had to first worship the scribe.
And we're not that far removed from that today.
And that there are pastors that claim they want people to know God, but are glad to receive the praise of the people before the people praise God.
Who is Jesus?
There's only one King.
And all the praise and all the glory and all the honor goes to Him.
If we're not careful, we can make a system where I see it.
It makes me feel nervous when there's like, and maybe there's no ill intent behind it, but when I see like book signings.
Or when like I see people that like I've been at churches where there'll be a line for prayer and they'll only want to get prayed for by the pastor, but not anybody else on the team.
Not anybody else in the family.
I gotta be prayed for by the pastor.
I've seen it happen with worship leaders, I've seen it happen.
I like listen, and here's what I want to say for us as a family.
Man, I so value and I am honored.
If there's ever a message and it encourages you, praise God.
I'm so glad for that.
But I am running the race with you, along with you.
Not not listen, sounds so weird to say this.
I haven't come to this to try to get a pedestal or a place of honor.
I come to this because I love you.
At this point, there's a lot of other things that have been a lot easier than this.
And you guys are incredible.
I'm just keeping it real.
This is not easy.
Who is Jesus?
Man, when we forget who he is, we'll start worshiping people.
It's not that you can't honor somebody, it's not that you can't thank somebody.
But man, sometimes there's a fine line where you start worshiping a person.
I'll only listen to this person.
I'll only, I'll only go to you stop going to prayer because you want a prophetic word from a person.
You stop going to the word because you're like, man, I just need I'll hear, I'll I'll take, I'd rather take 30 minutes to listen to this pastor teach a message than take 30 minutes and get in the word myself.
Jesus does not want to have a surrogate relationship with you through another person.
He died for you to have a personal relationship with you.
With me on that, I don't even know what to do right now.
I just really pray that we get a glimpse of Jesus right now.
Just close your eyes for a moment.
So, Holy Spirit, I need you to do what I can't do.
Would you come convict our heart for any way that we've held Jesus as average?
That we've held you as average, that we've held the Father as average, that would you Would you give us a picture in our mind right now of the Lamb that had been slain standing right now?
In the circle upon circle upon circle upon circle, and he stands there at the center of existence, being worshipped and being praised.
Would you bring in this place in our lives a reverence that we've forgotten.
A reverence that we've maybe misplaced.
Jesus, we exhaust you right now in this place.
We exhaust you, guys.
You just stand right now.
I don't wanna rush, I just like I we just need to um just stay in this moment.
Can we just stay in this moment?
We're amazed by you.
King of Kings.
You're the King of Kings.
You're the Lord of Lords.
You're the Alpha, you're the Omega, you're the beginning and the end.
Jehovah Jireh, our provider.
Jehovah Nisha, you're great in victory.
You're Jehovah Shalom, the God that brings us peace.
Jehovah Rafa, the God that heals.
Your Lord of the Breakthrough.
Whatever it is that you're really like, man, that life has you wrestling with now.
Man, I I I fully believe in my heart that if you could get your eyes on Jesus as the King of Kings, everything else begins to get smaller.
I believe that your situation even has to change for your perspective to change.
If your perspective can just land on Jesus.