WEBVTT 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:14.640 Your life is not about chocolate. 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:17.199 Life is bigger than you. 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:21.600 It has purpose, and its purpose is to bring glory to God. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:23.839 I love the opening that's opening music today. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:24.879 It was fantastic. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:26.800 I'm made for you. 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:31.600 I'm made for you to worship team, just setting the tone from what we were going to experience today. 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:33.359 And that's what it is, Church. 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:34.560 We're made for him. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:36.640 We're made for his glory. 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.520 And to deny that is deny the very essence and the purpose for our creation. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:47.679 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.079 For more information on the road, visit theroad.org. 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.359 We hope you are encouraged by today's message. 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.359 And some of you bring your middle schoolers weekly and we get to hang out with them. 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:16.719 I had this interesting transition in my life that happened about a week ago. 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.680 I went and I got myself a teenager. 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:20.159 Okay? 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:22.879 For the first time, this is new ground for me. 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.439 And I'm and I'm learning as I go. 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:27.040 There's no manual for this. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:31.200 I talk to friends, I talk to guys that have walked in front of me on this, and you know, what can I expect? 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:32.480 What should I expect? 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:41.280 And I heard this, uh I heard this quote, I thought this was great, in that teenagers are God's reminder to us about how we perceive Him. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.079 They're made in our image, but oftentimes fail to recognize that we exist. 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:53.519 So as I walk through that process, you know, uh pray for us in our home, that God would give us wisdom and that we would do well with our teenagers. 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.439 But we love teenagers, we love youth, and it's a joy to serve that way. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:05.439 One of the things that we're gonna go into today, where I want to take us, and and Pastor Steve started the uh kingdom revolution. 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:07.120 We're done, we started Matthew last week. 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.800 He'll be back next week to start chapter two uh and go into that. 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:14.639 We're gonna take just a brief pause because we have Passion Week just in front of us. 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.280 I mean, Easter is only just a short throw away. 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:21.599 We got spring break this week and around the country, and then we'll be right into Easter. 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:26.240 And so, with that, um, we're gonna take a look and we're gonna be in John 12 today. 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:41.120 But what I want to ask, this is a pretty practical thing, this hit me kind of right between the eyes uh when I was reading through uh the scriptures, and we've been studying John in middle school at flagship, and so we've been going through verse by verse, chapter by chapter, um, in middle school, it's been great. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:56.080 But we had a chance to unpack chapter 12 a couple weeks ago, and so it was amazing because I was uh speaking to this group of citizens, good citizens, and uh asked them the question you know, who here has experienced trouble in their life this week? 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:57.520 And every hand went up. 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:08.080 So you have a demographic of sixth through eighth graders that are already familiar with this concept, and probably even before that, because I thought about growing up some things where my heart felt troubled. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:13.759 And it was often the response, and we can all relate to this, where mom said, just wait till your dad gets home. 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:14.800 Boom! 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:23.280 And the trouble sets in, and then you wait, and you wait for what dad wants to unpack, mostly on my bottom. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.680 Um, and that I and I deserved it. 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:31.439 I will tell you that I never got a whooping that I didn't deserve, and probably should have gotten more than I did. 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:48.159 So, but so this is a very practical thing that we're all dealing with today, and I want us to go somewhere in the text because I think the Holy Spirit is revealing something here in this passage that if we're not if we're not careful, we miss it and we pass it over. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:52.479 And it's these two verses that are tucked inside the middle of John chapter 12. 00:03:52.639 --> 00:04:00.800 And it's something where we all relate and what we can do, and Jesus is walking this out in a very real moment in his humanity. 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:11.360 So, what I want to do, just as we start, I'm gonna ask you, and you may not know your neighbor, so we're gonna ask the trust factor to kick in here, but I want you to close your eyes for a minute. 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:21.680 Just briefly, close your eyes and search your heart right now, search your soul for the moment of either this week, this month, this year, or maybe this day. 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:24.240 Where is your heart troubled? 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:27.839 Where has it been troubled inside of 2019? 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:32.240 And let's just pause there for a minute, because I want you guys to wrestle with this for just a moment. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.680 Okay, you can open your eyes. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:36.959 Here's the deal. 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:44.160 I get the privilege of being on staff and seeing the prayer chains that come through this church, the prayer requests on a daily basis. 00:04:44.319 --> 00:05:04.240 And I will just tell you, I don't know what was happening in the universe on March 19th of this week, but March 19th was I got more emails about prayer from this body, about the things that we were experiencing and troubling on our hearts, about things that you guys are walking through than any time in recent history or my mind. 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:10.720 And so I love the fact that we have that, it goes up, and then our prayer warriors come around and we support you guys. 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.639 Uh, Pastor Steve was on it this week. 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.759 You know, relapse into sickness, traveling, stress is that way. 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:19.279 Uh Pastor Vince had to travel, and Cindy is recovering from illness. 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.240 And you heard Pastor Vince's testimony about what happened in her life. 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:27.199 And so, stress, troubled hearts, troubled hearts, and so what do we do with that? 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.759 Where do we go in those moments where we are troubled? 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.079 And what does Jesus give us? 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:38.639 So, real quick, um, just recap. 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:46.560 Obviously, the Gospel of Matthew, as Steve explained, is the emphasis on Jesus as the Messiah and the one who prophesied. 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.120 It also, Jesus is explaining the kingdom of God. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:52.319 But in John, in the Gospel of John, we see something a little bit different. 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.839 It's a different spin, right? 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.439 What do you know was written several years later and after the book of Matthew? 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:03.839 And in the book of John, what we see is the focus of Jesus' identity as the Son of God. 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:07.279 Essentially, it's about his sonship to the Father. 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:07.759 Okay? 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:09.680 So that's where I want to pick this up. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:15.680 The Gospel of John is giving us an invitation not only to understand, but to participate in the message of sonship. 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:21.439 It's revealing throughout the text this relationship of God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.839 Jesus is so tangible in his humanity in these moments that we see in this scripture. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.720 And how he speaks to his disciples, the broken, the cast down, the sinners. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:40.319 But most importantly, it's how he talks to his father that if we're not careful, we miss some of this language and what we're supposed to have the opportunity, where we have the opportunity to communicate to the Father ourselves. 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.120 And so, just an example here, John 5.19. 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.240 Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself. 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.279 He can do only what he sees his father doing. 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.319 Because whatever the Father does, the Son does also. 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:59.040 John 12.50, therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told me, so I speak. 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:03.120 Don't you believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:09.120 The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me. 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:11.519 That said, we have trouble. 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:21.279 And if I asked everybody to raise their hands, my guess is I'd have at least 95% participation on who's experienced trouble in their lives this week, this year. 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.879 In John chapter 14, 1, how do we face trouble, right? 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.720 Jesus opens John 14, 1 to his disciples. 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.639 Do not let your hearts be troubled. 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:34.639 Trust in God, trust also in me. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.439 But just two verses before that, two chapters before that, we see Jesus is troubled. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.000 The Son of God is troubled. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:51.360 And so his point here is that it's not that you're not going to have trouble, but don't let your trouble overwhelm your soul. 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:53.040 So what is your soul? 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.120 That's what I want to unpack real quick for you guys. 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:56.480 Everybody say soul. 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.839 Okay, your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:02.720 Say it after me. 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:08.160 Your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions. 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:09.360 Okay. 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:16.399 So when we get to chapter 12, what we see is Jesus is processing this situation in his heart. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.839 And he's processing it through his mind, his will, and his emotions. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.519 So give a little context. 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:25.839 Chapter 11, Jesus has just done the greatest miracle of his time on this earth. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:27.519 He raised Lazarus from the dead. 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.199 This will be his greatest miracle apart from his own resurrection. 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:40.799 That particular miracle puts him in the sole focus and concentration of the Pharisees and the priests, and the plot to kill him now accelerates. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:42.879 This guy's gone too far. 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:43.759 This is too much. 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.080 And oh, by the way, we're not going to go after just Jesus, but we're going to go after Lazarus too. 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.879 So now Lazarus is trying to duck and dodge. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.919 Chapter 12 opens up, it's the feast. 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:55.519 Jesus comes in on the donkey. 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:56.960 We see him, he's glorified. 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:01.039 Hosanna, King of Kings, Majesty, they're worshiping him with palm branches. 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:13.440 But in the middle of this chapter, he has just finished talking to a group of Greeks who had come to see him to meet the Messiah, to hear about the guy who's raising people from the tombs, bringing them back to life. 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.480 If there was a guy walking the earth right now, I'd want to meet that guy too. 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:16.879 Okay? 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:18.000 I'd like to talk to him. 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:19.200 I have some questions. 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:20.799 So the Greeks do the same thing. 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:21.919 They're sitting down with him. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:30.480 And in this passage, right before we get to chapter, or verse 27, Jesus has just finished talking about his own end, where he's headed. 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.759 He's just described to them his own death. 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:44.879 Now, this is a very real moment because now he has just heard the words come out of his mouth, and now his soul is troubled with what's directly in front of him. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.039 The Son of God is troubled. 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:48.000 He has a troubled soul. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:53.279 He is grieving because he knows that his appointment with the cross is directly in front of him. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:00.639 The word in the front of John, the beginning of John that opens across the waters, right? 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:02.159 The word became flesh. 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.440 The word was God, the word was with God, the word became God. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.480 God in the flesh is having a troubled soul. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:15.519 Let's let that sink in for a minute because we, as humans, discount maybe the fact that we should or shouldn't have troubles. 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:23.360 But if God, the Son of God, God is in the flesh and he's having a troubled soul and a troubled heart, well then we should we are not exempt from this. 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:30.399 Troubled in this text, distressed, full of heaviness, greatly afflicted, right? 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:32.480 He's stirred, he's agitated. 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.120 Now my soul is deeply troubled. 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:44.559 See, since he was born, Jesus has had a death sentence hanging over his head, and a grisly one. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:46.960 I mean, he knows that he's going to face the cross. 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:53.039 He knows that he's here, his sole purpose of his life is to exchange on the cross what Adam failed to do in the garden. 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.120 He's here to redeem eternity. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.799 He's here to redeem humanity for all eternity. 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.600 So we're not exempt from this problem as followers of the faith. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:06.399 Christianity is not a crossless faith. 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:11.039 We have trials and we should have to expect that we're going to face them. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:16.240 This isn't necessarily to say that we're going to go face them in a masochistic way and we're looking forward to the problems and we're excited for it. 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:17.279 No, of course not. 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:18.960 Neither was Jesus. 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:28.480 But 1 Peter 4 12, dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through as if something strange were happening to you. 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:29.919 Instead, be very glad. 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:41.360 For these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.519 Christianity, and I found this fascinating. 00:11:45.600 --> 00:12:00.960 I was looking this up and actually verifying and fact-checking and all that, but Christianity is the only religion in world history that at the center, at the core of its faith, lies the humiliation, pain, and suffering of its own God. 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.600 Nothing else in world history has that as its core of its faith. 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:16.399 So if our own God goes through that and is troubled by it, then let's not discount the things that we feel about the troubles that we face. 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.960 What's a posture that we take in the moments when the phone rings and we get the news? 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.759 Where does our heart align and point in those moments? 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.679 Is our initial response of trouble to go to prayer? 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.440 Is that where we go right to the phone call? 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.759 We hang up the phone and we go right to our knees? 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.799 And we tap into the source that's available to us? 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:40.879 We say, God, what do we do with this? 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:46.320 Or do we take it to friends or our spouses or our parents or our pastors? 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.559 Maybe we go to Google. 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:50.559 Guilty? 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.200 Something's wrong, doesn't feel right. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:56.240 You wake up, you're like, uh, my big toe's not bending. 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:57.600 What does that mean? 00:12:57.840 --> 00:12:58.480 This is weird. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:12:59.360 I should be able to walk. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:06.080 All I did was go to bed and I woke up and now my big toe won't bend, and you go to WebMD, and that's a bad idea. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:15.679 There should be a disclaimer when you go to that website that if you are not medically, if you don't have medical black background and training, you have no business being on that website. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:27.440 Because the next thing you know, your big toe won't bend, and then then there's something wrong with your elbow, and you have devoid journal uh deferred joint pain, and and the next thing you know is that it's gonna tell you that your arm's gonna fall off or something awful like that. 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:32.720 You're gonna lose a limb, and uh I've never had a lot of experience with WebMD that's been positive. 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:40.720 Although it did give me enough symptoms that I did go figure out that the big toe problem, there's a word for that, it was gout, and I thought, what is gout? 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:45.120 But these are the things you start to think about when you click over that uh fourth decade. 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.039 And so I'm going, okay, gout's a real thing. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.080 Sorry, that's a lot of information, more than you probably want to know about me. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:55.519 But listen, I've heard Steve up here talk about all kinds of things, pulling splinters out, almost cutting his hand off with a knife. 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:00.240 I mean, there's a lot of things that he unpacks up here, so I make no apologies for my gout. 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:02.480 All right, which is under control. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:03.440 I'll have you know. 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:04.399 So thank you. 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.159 Thank you for your prayers. 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.320 No, but what is our posture? 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:14.399 What is the posture that we take when we get those calls? 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:24.320 Of course, we take it to our friends, we take it to our community, and we and we want to support each other, we want to bear each other's cross, we want to lift up each other's burdens. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.600 And so it's natural for us to do that too. 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:32.320 We're gonna find out here in a minute what Jesus' response is in a little bit deeper way. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:44.879 And let me just say, on the heels of this, just knowing so many people's stories, beloved people in the church, that I've I've just been, it's been an honor and a privilege to walk beside this year. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:50.240 And and I was talking with the staff, we were having a staff team meeting, and it was early on in the year. 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:54.480 I mean, 2019 had clicked over, and we were just maybe in the first half of February. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.360 And I thought 2018 was rough for me personally. 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:57.679 Right? 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.279 There were some challenges that I had to face. 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:13.840 I had a troubled heart for most of 2018 from what I, you know, in looking back and looking in the rearview mirror, but I would trade every problem I had in 2018 for the first 60 days of what happened this year. 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:25.360 And my problems pale in comparison to a situation in this church, a family, a dear family, beloved family, friends of ours that are walking through some of the hardest moments and days they've ever faced. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.960 And I look to them and I'm like, how are you doing this, man? 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.159 I pray for you, I love you, but I don't know how you're doing this. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:35.759 And they give glory to God. 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.159 So I'm not doing it on my own. 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.639 I can't do this in my own strength. 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:43.519 All right, chapter 27. 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.720 Now my soul is troubled, and what should I say? 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:51.120 See, Jesus has two responses, two options in this moment that he's looking at. 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:55.279 As he's looking at the cross, and his heart is troubled, he's got two options in front of him. 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:57.440 What should I say? 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.639 Father, save me from this hour question mark. 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:03.600 That's an honest response. 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:11.200 Save here, sozo, the Greek word sozo, uh, immediate rescue, deliver now, keep safe from danger, healing. 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:12.720 We love the immediate sozo. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:13.600 We welcome that. 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:15.519 You know, it's like we say the prayer, I need healing. 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:17.039 Sozo, deliver me now. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:17.519 We love that. 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.159 We pray for that, we want that, and we invite that. 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:21.919 It's a natural response. 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.200 Jesus is exit is modeling that out. 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.639 His first response to that is a question: save me from this hour. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:30.559 Will you, Father, save me from this hour? 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:36.080 Not unlike what we're gonna see him pray three times in the Garden of Gethsemane a few chapters after this, right? 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:41.200 But in this moment, in this moment, save me from this hour. 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.759 On the way to church today, my son asked me, What are you speaking on, Dad? 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:56.399 And I kind of unpacked this a little bit to him and was explaining a little bit, gave him the cliff notes, and um we had this dialogue, and he was still kind of like, oh, you know, trouble, okay, I get that. 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.879 And I go, but there's something deeper here. 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:10.000 What if, son, you knew on Tuesday of this coming week that you were gonna die a horrible, grisly death, and that was the situation you were looking down at. 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.000 That was directly in front of you. 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.799 It wasn't, it wasn't like if or when. 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:16.799 It's it's now. 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:20.400 Jesus knows that his time is coming to the cross. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:22.559 How do you deal with that? 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.039 Man, it was an honest answer, and I love that. 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.319 I love that honesty from our children sometimes. 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:30.880 He's like, I'd find another way, probably something less painful. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:32.720 I'd try and find another way out of it. 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:33.519 And we do. 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:39.200 We try and kind of slip by, we try to we try to go past it, we want to sidestep some things, right? 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:41.599 We all want it. 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:42.960 It's in our nature. 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:50.720 But the question today, church, is that the trouble that we face today, maybe it's part of our purpose, right? 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:56.160 This hour that we've come to in our lives is part of his purpose for us. 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.640 Now I agree that we should all pray for sozo, right? 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:01.519 Healing now. 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:02.640 I don't disagree with that. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:03.839 I think that we should pray for that. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:08.640 We believe that, we pray with each other for that, and I'm not disagreeing or saying that we should do otherwise. 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:18.559 Because he hears our prayers, but often it's not in the way that we think he's gonna respond or might expect us to uh to come and meet us there. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:19.440 It's not the timing. 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:21.440 Maybe we're not saved from that hour. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.160 Oftentimes it's a now and not yet, right? 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:28.400 There's an agreement made, Father meets us in this, and now we walk it out in faith. 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:36.079 You said in that prayer and the faith, the Lord does something, and you walk in faith knowing that he met you, but it's a process to that promise. 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:40.640 Many of us are in a process at this moment, and that's okay. 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:42.720 I'm gonna be honest with you guys. 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.319 I hate that word. 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.319 I hate that word process. 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.839 Because that means that it's not now, right? 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:50.960 We want the now. 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:57.200 But we're all being transformed from glory to glory and Morin's image through that process. 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:01.519 We're all in a process, we're all in some sort of a process today. 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:03.440 27b. 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.559 This is Jesus' response to that first question. 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:09.839 That's the second choice that he makes. 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:13.759 But for this purpose, I came to this hour. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.960 This is the hour I was meant for. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:18.720 This is why I was born. 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:23.759 There's purpose for this hour, and Jesus steps into the trouble. 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:28.079 He positions his soul and steps into his purpose. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.160 He doesn't step to the side, he doesn't try to maneuver, he owns it. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.680 It's not wrong to feel this way about our troubles. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:39.039 Jesus is feeling this way initially about his trouble. 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:40.160 Is there a way to get around this? 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:41.680 Do I have to do this? 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:53.119 The difference is though, instantaneously, Jesus recognizes this particular trouble, he recognizes this particular trouble as his purpose. 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.000 It's why he was born, it's why he was created. 00:19:57.119 --> 00:20:07.039 More times than not, we feel that these horrible things and these situations that happen to us, if we're being completely honest, they stand in the way of what we feel our perceived purpose is. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:12.240 The reality is that the trouble we face is often part of our purpose. 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:14.240 So he's settled now. 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.000 He's settled, and what does he do? 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:18.079 This is where he models it. 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:26.559 And I love how he explains this to his disciples and the crowd around him, is he steps into this and he says, Take this thing. 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:29.359 Father, glorify your name. 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:32.000 Glorify your name. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.119 See, this trouble is bigger than me, is what Jesus is saying. 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.920 It's not about me, it is about bringing glory to the name of the Father. 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.200 And if we're not careful, we miss this interaction. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.720 He steps right into it and says, Glorify your name. 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:51.200 See, your life is not about you. 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:52.240 Shocker. 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:55.039 Your life is bigger than you. 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:59.119 It has purpose, and its purpose is to bring glory to God. 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:01.279 I love the opening sets of music today. 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:02.880 It was fantastic, right? 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:04.319 I'm made for you. 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:05.440 I'm made for you. 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:10.799 The worship team, just setting the tone for what we were going to experience today, and that's what it is, church. 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:12.160 We are made for him. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:14.240 We are made for his glory. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:19.359 And to deny that is to deny the very essence and the purpose for our creation. 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:23.519 Our life is not about us, it's bigger than us. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:27.599 Jesus is saying, I exist for the glory of God. 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:34.160 This ultimate mattered, this ultimately mattered more to him than his own suffering. 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:36.400 I exist for the glory of God. 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:37.279 Can you? 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:40.000 That's what the challenge is right now, church. 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:41.680 He existed for the glory of God. 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:47.119 Can we exist in our own presence, in our own problems, in our own situations for the glory of God? 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:56.000 And that's the challenge I have to everybody in this room that's carrying troubled hearts today, troubled souls, how we're experiencing life, how we're processing that. 00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.759 Our soul is the unit of which we pray. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.799 Process our will, our mind, and our emotions. 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:03.759 Our souls are troubled. 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:05.200 Jesus' soul is troubled. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.000 He's like, it's bigger than me, and I give it to you. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:10.720 And use this to glorify your name. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.359 Heaven's response to this, heaven's response to this is so beautiful. 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:19.359 It's so, if we're not careful, sometimes too, we miss the Father's response. 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:27.759 And then three times in the Gospels, twice in John, but three times in the Gospels, we see the Father, God the Father, open up the heavens and respond to his Son. 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:29.519 This is the second time in John. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:32.640 Heaven's response to Jesus' prayer. 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:33.920 28. 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:41.039 Then a voice came from heaven saying, I have both glorified it and I will glorify it again. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:45.680 I have already glorified it, and I'm going to glorify it again. 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.200 What is he saying here? 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:48.240 What is he saying? 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:52.400 The Father's responding to his son, and he's unifying his heart with the Son. 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.759 And he's saying, Heaven's perspective of Jesus' trouble is this. 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:59.839 The things you are facing, I'm going to use again to bring glory to the earth. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:07.200 I am essentially taking you from glory to glory to glory to glory to glory. 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:09.200 Hello, can I get an amen? 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:12.079 This is encouragement for us. 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:12.880 This is meat. 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:14.880 This is milk to our bones. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:24.319 The problem is, is that sometimes for us, and by the way, if you have had heaven open up and respond immediately after your prayers, I want to talk to you. 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:25.359 This doesn't happen to me. 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:31.440 Not to say that it's not available, but sometimes it's more like in my life, it's glory. 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:39.039 Glory. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:39.759 Right? 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:45.200 There's that little word, two, T-O, it's two, it's a short word, but sometimes there's so many O's in between. 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.000 You're like, oh, oh, I need glory. 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:49.680 Okay, I need your glory in my life. 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:53.519 I need rescued from this purpose, from this mission, from this situation. 00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:57.119 But it's glory to glory. 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:01.519 This is the Father's response to our situation at this time and place. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.000 That's what he's giving us. 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:08.319 Now, last week Steve unpacked the term Kavad. 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:09.920 He didn't know it was already in my notes. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:10.799 He took it from me. 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:11.440 We could. 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:14.240 It actually was in my notes, to be fair. 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:18.480 But I love the fact that he started with it because he did a better job explaining it, but it's in the notes today too. 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:24.960 But Kavad, the Hebrew word, has meant importance, weight, deference, heaviness. 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:31.519 But primarily the word kvad means glory, respect, the weight, the majesty, right? 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:35.599 And so what God is saying to the Father is, I'm giving you my Kabbod. 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:36.799 I mean, this is coming on. 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:38.160 I'm going to raise you from the dead. 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:41.680 I'm going to glorify my name through your purpose. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:44.000 My will will be done. 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.119 There's deliverance in this for us. 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:49.200 For our souls, right here, right? 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:59.039 Because we can anchor ourselves in the name, the strength, and the power, the might of his glory in the Kavad and rise above our troubles. 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:04.640 Because what Jesus does in that moment when he says, Father, glorify your name, he uses it as a pivot point. 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:06.240 He uses it as leverage. 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:09.039 And he comes out and he comes above his situation. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:10.480 And that's what we have option. 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:14.079 That's what we have access to, church. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:18.799 Because when we do it in our own strength, in our own understanding, and our own energy, we fail. 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:22.319 The stuff that life throws at us is hard, it's heavy, and we fail. 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:28.319 But when we use it and we step into it and we use it as a leverage point and we come above it, then we become an anchor. 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:30.160 Then we become an example to the world. 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:32.640 And the world looks at it and says, How is he doing that? 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:35.519 How is she going through that in her in this way? 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:40.240 But it's because the weight and the kavod and the glory of God is sitting on your situation. 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:44.240 He's using it through you and from you, and he's lifting you above your situation. 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:45.759 And there's hope there. 00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:47.440 Right? 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:50.319 It lifts you above what you're going through. 00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:51.839 It renews your mind. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:54.319 It brings alignment to your heart. 00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:57.039 Externally, things may not change. 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:00.160 Externally, the situation remains the same. 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:08.319 The diagnosis, the finances, the divorce notice, the phone call, you know, suicide of a loved one. 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:10.160 In there? 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:12.720 That's heavy trouble. 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:14.880 That is deep water for our souls. 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:16.960 That is deep water for our souls. 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:18.480 And what do we do with that? 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:20.480 How do we respond? 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:24.319 God, glorify your name in this. 00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:26.480 Use this for your purpose. 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:29.599 Use my life for your purpose, God. 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.279 Then internally, things change. 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:33.839 Right? 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:35.599 Internally, things start to change. 00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:46.559 Trouble is dealt with because God's glory, his supremacy, his majesty, his weight, his kabbat, and the reality of who he is for me and with me and in me begins to transform me. 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.359 And then we become thankful for the trouble, right? 00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:53.440 Because it changes us, it grows us, and we become stronger. 00:26:54.160 --> 00:27:00.000 We hear the Father saying, The things you're facing, the trouble you have, I will use it to glorify my name. 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:02.160 This is the posture we see in Jesus. 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:06.720 This should be the position of our souls and the context of our prayers to heaven. 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.480