WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.040 Uh well, good morning. 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:03.600 Let's begin by remembering the Leviticus structure. 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:07.120 We're actually three sermons away from the end of Leviticus. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:10.000 You never thought that could happen, right? 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:11.519 When we started in January. 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:13.919 And hey, good job, guys, because we're gonna do it. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:15.119 We're gonna finish Leviticus. 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.320 And all of us quit reading Leviticus when you tried to read through the Bible. 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:24.239 Maybe like ten of you made it through and you're really self-righteous about it, and we're judgmental of you, but the rest of us quit. 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:26.719 But we're almost through the sermon series on it. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:29.760 This is the structure of Leviticus that we've been talking about. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:35.119 Everything is driving to and coming out of chapter 16, the Day of Atonement. 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:43.359 And then last week we learned that Leviticus is the center of the books of the law, meaning those five first books of the Bible. 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.000 Leviticus is the center of that. 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:55.520 And Sam Rapp said last week, therefore, the center of the center is God's free forgiveness of sinners. 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:57.600 And this is all the way from the beginning of the Bible. 00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.759 God's free forgiveness of sinners. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.799 And now in chapter 21, we get some words about spiritual leadership. 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.159 We're going to read Leviticus 21, 10 through 15. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:18.799 The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let his hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes. 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:25.200 So it means he can't even go grieve for something, for some lost per person, somebody who's passed. 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:26.000 Verse 11. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:39.359 He shall not go out of the sanctuary lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:40.159 I am the Lord. 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:46.000 So point number one is this leaders are called to utmost holiness and loyalty. 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:56.400 And just when you think the bar can't get higher, this call to holiness and being clean, and just when you think it can't get higher, God just keeps raising the bar. 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:57.680 Verse 13. 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:15.039 And he shall take a wife and her virginity, a widow or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry, but he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people, that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him. 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:21.039 So all these restrictions and regulations, they're all designed to ensure purity. 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:31.439 Purity of the priest, purity of the sacrifice, utmost loyalty to God, utmost loyalty to the service of God. 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:33.439 That's what's going on here. 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:37.599 The passage goes on and the bar is raised even again in the text. 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.639 And the text says that the priest's body should be unblemished. 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:52.240 So you can be a priest if you act as good and you're as holy as Billy Graham, and then your body, you know, looks like Brad Pitt. 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:56.080 Like if you have this, this is who's enabled to be a priest. 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.879 It just sort of shows the impossibility of this call, right? 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.840 Like, I mean, I mean, look at look, it's not Brad Pitt here. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:02.719 Like I'm out. 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:05.599 I'm already out of the competition for leadership. 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:12.719 This week I was wearing some shorts, a t-shirt, I had a hat on, and sunglasses. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.599 And I thought, I thought I was looking pretty good. 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.360 I mean, I was like, it's not bad, it's not bad. 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:20.560 I mean, it's not like great, but I was like, you know, it's not bad. 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:33.120 So I was with my daughter, so I looked at my six-year-old daughter and I said, Hey, uh, like if you just saw me walking, like, could I be in high school? 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:39.199 Like if you just saw me, like, because I thought I was, I mean, I was doing okay. 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:50.159 Like you just saw, I had a hat on, sunglasses, I was like, like if you just saw, you know, like maybe not like super, you know, up close, you know, but could have been, you know, and and she said no very quickly. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.479 I was like, well, why? 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.599 And she said, because your skin is old. 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:05.840 Like, dad, you got on a good hat, your sunglasses, okay. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:07.840 But like it's your it's your skin. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:12.560 Like the problem is just all, just all of you is the problem. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:14.400 Your skin's old. 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.399 So I'm processing. 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:25.839 Uh worse, worse yet, my skin's one issue, but worse is like I'm not perfectly loyal, um, and I'm not perfectly dedicated. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.360 So, what's the point here for leaders and leadership? 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:34.160 Well, the the point is made slowly and painfully, and this is point number two. 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:38.079 Leaders are called to utmost holiness and loyalty. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:38.800 True. 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:40.480 True and needed. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.519 And every leader needs a savior. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.519 In about a month or so, the Summer Olympics will begin in Paris. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:48.480 Are we excited? 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:50.319 Do we have Summer Olympic people? 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:52.720 Anybody like you get into it, you're watching. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.439 Is anybody going to the Summer Olympics? 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:01.360 Good, because we were gonna hate you and like just talk bad about you behind your back while you're gone. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.720 Uh most popular Summer Olympic sports. 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:05.680 Do we know what they are? 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:06.319 Do you know? 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:07.519 We can interact here. 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.160 Um swimming. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:14.480 Y'all named them. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:15.360 You're doing great. 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:16.480 You're doing a great job. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:17.920 Swimming, number one. 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:19.519 Number yes. 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:21.600 Wherever that came from. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.439 Gymnastics is number two. 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:24.399 Diving. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:25.199 Diving. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:26.720 Did anybody say diving? 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:27.759 Yeah. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.120 I like the little towel. 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:30.160 You know. 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:35.920 It's like I wish they had a bigger towel specifically to cover up their waist, but that's up to them. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.000 Alright, do y'all know this sport? 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:39.040 This summer sport? 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:40.079 Do y'all know this? 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:42.480 Dressage. 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:44.079 I I thought it was dressage. 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:45.279 I mean, that's not what we say. 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:46.160 Georgia. 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:54.319 Georgia people say dressage, but it's a French word, dressage, which is it's just French for uh like horse stomping around. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:59.920 And then some pretentious people just uh they grade it, apparently, is that sport. 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:01.040 So that's not my sport. 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:01.759 Maybe you love it. 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:03.279 Maybe you're into dressage. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.680 I actually like the high jump, so I love the high jump. 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:11.920 I learned this week that the high jump record has been held for a long time, since 1993. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:13.519 That's a long time. 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:20.639 This one record, this high jump's been held by a Cuban Javier Sotomayer, eight foot one fourth inch. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:25.759 So eight foot was set, the bar was set at eight foot, he cleared it, no problem. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:31.120 Eight foot one fourth inch, set, the bar set, he cleared it, no problem. 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.680 Eight foot one half inch. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:40.240 Nobody in the world has ever jumped over eight foot half inch. 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:41.040 Right? 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:46.000 The bar keeps being raised until it gets to a point nobody can do it. 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.079 This is how holiness is. 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:58.000 Because holiness is absolutely pure, as soon as we begin to talk about like rules for holiness or a code for holiness, eventually the bar gets to a point where people just can't do it. 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:02.399 The holiness code becomes a raised bar that eventually no one can jump over. 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:10.079 Alright, now before we kind of reconcile that, let's first pull out some leadership principles from Leviticus chapter 21. 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:18.480 Because I need these, and maybe you're a leader at work, or maybe you're a leader with your friends or school group, or maybe in your neighborhood or your family or something, but we're all leaders in some way. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.680 So here are five principles being pulled from Leviticus 21. 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:22.639 I'm gonna read through them. 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.000 You're probably not gonna have time to write them. 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.160 So if you're a note taker, maybe you want to take a picture. 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:27.360 Um, but here they are. 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.199 These are from Leviticus 21. 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:38.319 Leader, number one, leaders have loyalty to God above personal convenience, emotions, or the desire to be liked. 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.959 Number two, leaders strive for integrity through all of life. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.600 Who you see is who we are. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:51.920 Number three, leaders live in this world but are not preoccupied by this world. 00:07:52.160 --> 00:08:00.720 Number four, leaders care for all parts of their life, spiritual, emotional, and physical, including old skin. 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:02.560 You got a lotion up. 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:03.920 We got a lotion up, people. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:04.800 Number five. 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:10.879 Leaders are compassionate as priests while executing their roles with excellence. 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:16.240 Now, 30 years ago, I started going to a really big Baptist church in our town. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.000 And the Big Baptist church, I was about 15 years old or so. 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:21.920 Uh Larry was the pastor. 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.959 Larry was the preacher, and the pastor, there's a picture of Larry. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.519 This is at the Starlight Crusade, 1996. 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:32.320 I'm sure I'm out there as a good Southern Christian boy sweating it for Jesus. 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:36.080 Uh I just remember being miserably hot, and you were supposed to be there. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:37.759 So I was there, and that's Larry. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:39.039 So that's Pastor Larry. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:48.399 And Larry, uh, I watched him from a distance, and I what he was friendly, like he had, you know, the pastor-friendly thing that we do where we like walk through a crowd and we're like friendly to everybody. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:49.840 Like he was so good at it. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:51.039 He was a pro. 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:52.480 He had it down. 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:53.840 He could work a crowd. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:55.120 And he led the church. 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:00.879 I mean, he took like a hundred people in like rural Georgia, and like the church speaking of thousands and thousands of people. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:05.039 I mean, the guy was an incredible preacher, great preacher, great leader. 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.679 Uh, he, everybody knew that Larry loved Jesus, and Larry loved people. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:11.759 And it was never even up for debate. 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:13.120 Everybody knew this. 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:18.879 He was a great leader, and I think he was a great leader because he knew who he was as God's child. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:25.600 Now, let's take one time out from Larry and just a few leadership nuggets from Paul Tripp's book, Lead. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:30.320 Here are four of them that I pulled out, trying to kind of chapter principles for leadership. 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:32.399 Chapter two is this gospel. 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:39.600 If your leaders are going to be tools of God's grace, they need to be committed to nurturing that grace in one another's lives. 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.919 Chapter five is about character. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:48.720 His spiritually healthy leadership community acknowledges that character is more important than structure or strategies. 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:54.559 Chapter 9, identity, where your leaders look for identity always determines how they lead. 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:56.879 Chapter 12 is presence. 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:07.360 You will only handle the inevitable weakness, failure, and sin of your leaders when you view them through the lens of the presence, power, promises, and grace of Jesus. 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.240 Now, that takes us back to Larry. 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:16.159 Because when I was in seminary, I had a class, I needed to have a pastor mentor relationship. 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:22.639 And so I emailed Larry and just explained this, and he fortunately he said, yes, no problem. 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:30.399 So we met together like once a month throughout the semester, and he would do all these like you know Baptist revival services, like at different Baptist churches and stuff. 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:36.240 And so I would I would go with him to some of these and ride with him and just kind of be with him and he would preach. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:44.159 Um, and what I learned about Larry is Larry really was a great preacher and a great pastor. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:48.720 He really was exactly who he showed himself to be. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:51.360 He loved Jesus, he loved people. 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.519 But I also started to see some other things. 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.679 Like Larry probably worked too much. 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.559 Like Larry worked a lot, like a whole lot. 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.279 His family loved him, but he was working. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.919 And sometimes Larry seemed to be stubborn about some things. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:15.279 So it turns out that Larry was a great leader, a great preacher and a great pastor. 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.159 And it turns out Larry was also a human being. 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:24.799 He is, in fact, just like me, or just like you, like a sinner in need of God's grace. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.720 And this is where Leviticus leads us, talking about priests. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.799 And this is where Paul Tripp's whole book for leadership points us. 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:42.000 Any leader, me or you, whatever realm of leadership you have, we must be defined by Jesus long before we do anything for Jesus. 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:49.039 We could say it this way: your soul is served by Jesus before you serve for Jesus. 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:55.759 Or we could say, you are loved by Jesus before you do for Jesus. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.480 Now back to Leviticus, and we'll tie it all together. 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:02.879 The call to holiness is repeated, coming out of Leviticus 16. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:04.879 We go into chapter 19, verse 2. 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:11.519 Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:12.960 Leviticus 27. 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.480 Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I the Lord your God. 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.639 Leviticus 20, verse 26. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:26.879 You shall be holy to me, for I am the Lord, am holy, and have separated you from the peoples that you should be mine. 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:28.480 Leviticus 21, eight. 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.679 You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.759 He shall be holy to you, for I, the Lord who sanctify you, am holy. 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.919 So Leviticus calls us to be holy. 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.240 It's very, very, very clear. 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:43.039 It just doesn't tell us, like, how? 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:45.919 Like, how do we like how do we do this? 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:47.840 Like, how do we desire to be holy? 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.159 Or how do we want to do that? 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.879 How do we, how are we empowered to do it? 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.200 It just tells us to do it. 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:57.759 Well, the structure actually helps us. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.919 The structure actually points to what the New Testament teaches so clearly. 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.320 Because remember the structure we talked about? 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:10.240 The center of the center is God's free forgiveness for us in Jesus. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:14.960 And so out of chapter 16, out of that forgiveness flows this call to holiness. 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.159 Now, here's how Paul teaches in the New Testament. 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:19.679 Much clearer. 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:21.919 Ephesians 5, 1 and 2. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:31.840 Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:38.399 So point number three is this you, including any leader, you are a dearly loved child of the Heavenly Father. 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:43.919 This is our starting point in the thing that we keep repeating back to every single day. 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.840 Paul is setting for us a framework that the entire New Testament teaches. 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:59.519 This is something that can really transform us from like a guilt-driven, exhaustive, exhausting faith and spirituality into something that's grace-centered and restful and is from the heart outward. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:04.720 What we like to say in our church is we live the imperatives, what we should do, that's the imperative. 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:10.240 We live the imperatives through the indicatives, what's been indicated to us or what's promised to us in Jesus. 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:17.360 Meaning, how we should live is fueled by what is already true about us. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.120 So we read Leviticus, be holy, be holy, be holy. 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:21.600 Well, how? 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:22.639 How do we do that? 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:25.440 Well, Paul is teaching us how we do this. 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:29.360 Now, let's just take verse one, just as like a Bible study. 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:29.919 Verse one. 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.200 Be imitators of God as beloved children. 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.159 So we can break that down and look for the imperatives and the indicatives. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:40.639 Well, the imperative is be an imitator of God, be holy, be like him, act like him. 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:41.600 That's great, right? 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:42.559 What would Jesus do? 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:43.200 Fantastic. 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:44.480 That's the imperative. 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:45.600 Now, how do we do that? 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:46.559 How are we empowered to that? 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:47.360 How do we desire? 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.000 You're a beloved child. 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:51.360 God really loves you. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:52.080 You're his child. 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:53.279 That's your identity. 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:57.039 The more we rest in the identity, the more the fruit of that can come out. 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.440 So who we are fuels where we live. 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:00.879 Now here's another example. 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.039 Sort of Bible study practice. 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:10.159 So as I read this verse, why don't you think about and look for the imperative and the indicative? 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.120 1 Peter 5, 6, and 7. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:22.000 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.240 So just as a Bible study, we can get the practice. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:25.120 Let's do this as a group. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:25.840 We can interact. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:26.879 You can call it out loud. 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:28.720 What are the imperatives? 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:34.480 What do you see in the passage that is telling you what you should do or how you should behave? 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:35.279 What are they? 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:36.399 What do you see? 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:37.919 Humble yourself. 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:38.960 Humble yourself. 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:39.679 There's one more. 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:41.759 Cast your anxieties, right? 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:42.559 They jump right out. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:44.639 Okay, now indicatives. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:49.120 What do you see in there that is indicating promise to you? 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:50.960 Something's already true about you. 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:52.240 He cares for you. 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:53.840 He cares for you, right? 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:55.039 That's the one that jumps out. 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:56.559 Definitely is that indicative. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.679 So the imperative, humble yourself, cast your anxieties and pray. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:00.639 Okay, how do we do that? 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:01.519 How do we want to do that? 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:02.240 How do we keep doing that? 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:03.440 How are we empowered to do that? 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.639 And the indicative, God is mighty, and you are God's, and He cares for you. 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:15.519 So we cast our anxieties because we are immeasurably cared for by God and Christ. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.399 This is how growth and grace occurs. 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:23.600 Out of the wealth of your identity in Jesus comes the Christian life. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.320 Now let's jump over to Hebrews 13, 7. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:27.440 Back to leadership. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:31.919 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:33.120 Point number four is this. 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:38.879 Spiritual leadership is repeating what is already true about God and you. 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.600 For my birthday, Christy got me Cirrus Radio. 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.159 Do we have any of y'all Cirrus people? 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:47.759 A few Cirrus people. 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:48.080 Okay. 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:49.519 I love the I love the radio. 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:50.320 I'm old. 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.799 I got old skin and I listen to the radio. 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:05.039 I love, I mean, there is nothing better to me than driving around and I got one hand on the wheel and one hand rests on, you know, like the shift thing, and I can just touch the radio, and I have six preset radio stations. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:06.720 Did your 99X is back, by the way? 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:08.480 Anybody else 45 years old? 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:09.839 9NX is back. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.319 That's amazing if you're from Atlanta and you're 45. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.480 Like it's back, which is unbelievable. 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:15.759 I'm still not over it. 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:22.720 Anyway, so I have six presets FM stations, and then boom, to jump up, six Cirrus presets. 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:26.319 And I've discovered channel 30 on Cirrus. 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.960 Does anybody know what channel 30 on Cirus is? 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:30.880 DMB, baby. 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:32.480 Dave Matthews band. 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:34.240 All the time. 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.039 Every time I hit it, it's Dave Matthews band. 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.200 It's not what Dave Matthews likes, like the Kenny Chesney station. 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:42.400 I picked up on that. 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:46.079 DMB radio, it is Dave Matthews all the time. 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.240 Live shows, studio recordings, every time I go there. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.079 It's different, different songs, different, you know, different, different seasons. 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:57.440 He's had a long career, different seasons, but it's always him. 00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:58.400 Always him. 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:00.319 Always the same music. 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:01.359 That's the point. 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.079 That's the point of Hebrews, of like leadership. 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:06.640 What's a pastor supposed to do? 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:13.759 Well, a good pastor, and hopefully I'm like learning to get there, is just refreshing the gospel to you. 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:15.839 Just refreshing you in the gospel. 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:17.039 Primarily. 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:18.720 There's lots of other stuff, trust me. 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.640 It's not it, but primarily. 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:22.160 Just refreshing the gospel. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:27.279 It's the same powerful musical notes every single time. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:32.559 True spiritual leadership isn't looking to invent a new spiritual truth for you. 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.519 It's to remind you of what's already true. 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:39.440 It's to remind you of this Leviticus structure and what it's pointing to. 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.440 All the forgiveness you ever need is in Jesus. 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.440 All the righteousness you ever need is in Jesus. 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:52.640 All the validation and acceptance you ever need is in Jesus. 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.799 This is about your identity. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:57.359 Who you are as a child of God. 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.960 Who you are in the wealth of Christ for you. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.799 And this Jesus doesn't just pursue you when you get your act together. 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:09.359 He pursues you to change us today, exactly as you are. 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.000 Last point is exactly that. 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:13.920 Point number five. 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:18.319 There is only one great high priest who is Christ Jesus. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:24.079 Leviticus 21 and 22 make it clear: no human being will be a perfect priest. 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:28.079 We all need a perfect high priest, and Jesus is that. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.920 Let's close with Hebrews 7, verse 26 through 28. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:40.720 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens. 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:42.240 He has no need. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:53.759 Jesus has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of his people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. 00:19:54.240 --> 00:20:04.640 For the law appoints men and their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a son who has been made perfect forever. 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:05.680 Let's pray together. 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:16.559 Heavenly Father, we thank you that Jesus is enough for us, that Leviticus and all of the Old Testament is appointing us to our need, the sufficiency and the beauty of Jesus for us. 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:31.200 Thank you that Jesus is enough for the law, for the holy and righteous call for our lives, all the ways that we need forgiveness, all the ways we fall short, all the ways we're not performing as we should, that Jesus is enough for us. 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.319 Thank you that this call to loyalty to you never stops. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:41.119 And at the same time, thank you that Jesus has performed it perfectly for us. 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:47.519 On this Father's Day, we remember that you are the Heavenly Father that cares for us like a Abba Papa. 00:20:49.200 --> 00:21:00.640 And for us in this broken world that are performing imperfectly as fathers, and we've experienced imperfect fathering, what a rescue it is to rest. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:08.079 That we have a heavenly father that's not a reflection of our earthly dad, but a perfection. 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:14.079 And that you love us with a limitless love, and that Jesus is enough for us. 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:15.519 In Christ's name we pray. 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:16.000 Amen.