WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:02.799 So last Monday, Christy left early for work. 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:08.000 She works on Mondays, and so she left early for work, super, super early, like before anybody else in the house wakes up. 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:11.759 And so I'm in charge on Monday mornings of the girls getting to school. 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.720 And so I'm in wake up dad strategy mode. 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:16.399 I have pre-packed the lunches. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:25.679 They're already the night before, pre-filled the water bottles, they're in the fridge, everything is ready so that I can just sort of progress them through the morning. 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:27.120 Because some of y'all know what I'm talking about. 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:29.519 If you have kids, you progress them through. 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:31.039 And it's a great morning. 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.200 Everything's strategized and worked out. 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:34.320 I got everything in place. 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:35.200 I'm waking them up. 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:36.399 I'm progressing them through. 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.000 I'm singing worship songs. 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:39.039 Everything's wonderful, right? 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:41.920 I mean, it's a wonderful, blessed be the name of the Lord. 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:43.679 You know, everything's so great. 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:50.000 And then eventually, one child comes into the kitchen as I'm doing my pre-packed lunches into the backpacks. 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:51.359 Everything's working so well. 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:52.960 I'm so pleased with myself. 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.920 And she comes in to get her medicine. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:57.759 And I know the deal in the medicine. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.240 5 ml three times a day. 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:01.359 It's on the bottle. 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:02.320 I know about it. 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:03.679 I've known about it for a week. 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:04.719 I know the deal. 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.480 And so I'm doing the little suction thing out of the bottle, the 5 ml, and I'm ready for it. 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.920 And she says, no, no, Dad, it's 7.5 ml. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.079 I said, no, I know it's 5 ml. 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:17.200 Don't try to tell me what it is. 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:17.920 I know what it is. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.719 It's three times a day, 5 ml. 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:30.319 But but dad, dad is no like, no, no, like I'm in charge, I'm progressing you through the morning, and it's 5 ml, and we're not gonna talk about it. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.239 So, you know, keep your mouth shut. 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.959 No, I need your need your mouth open so I can give you the medicine. 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:38.239 Open your mouth, I'm gonna give you the medicine, and that's it. 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.879 And she says, but dad, but dad, and I'm like, no, that no, no. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:47.439 And so she takes off down the hall, crying, of course. 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:52.000 Because this is actually what I do in the mornings, is I crush the hearts of little girls. 00:01:52.319 --> 00:02:06.799 And so I decide, you know, I'm gonna let that play out down there, and I'm gonna finish stuff in here, I'll let that play out, see if she recovers, uh, because that's all it's of me, you know, holding my line, I'm gonna hold the line here, hold my ground, and then I hear her yell at a sister, which is not normal. 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.360 She yells at a sister, and I go, okay, here we go. 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:14.560 So now I walk down the hall to handle this part, and she's under her covers, right? 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.759 Like maybe you remember this with a sibling, or maybe you have a kid. 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:27.680 She's under the covers and she's she's crying and she's upset, and I finally get her out of there, and of course she's not mad at sister, right? 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:29.520 We know who she's mad at. 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:31.680 Do you know who she's mad at? 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:32.879 It's me, right? 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:33.599 It's me, right? 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:34.719 That was very clear. 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:45.199 And really, it wasn't even the 7.5 ml versus the 5 ml controversy as big of a deal as it was that 2.5 ml, like a really big deal to me at least. 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:46.719 It wasn't even that. 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:51.520 And she says, Daddy, you just wouldn't listen to me. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:00.319 And mom had to switch the dosage to two times at 7.5 ml, right? 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:02.639 And not three times 5 ml. 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.599 And dad didn't know, but dad wouldn't listen. 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:07.199 And she knew, right? 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:14.240 Like she knew something I didn't know, and I wouldn't hear it. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:16.719 So now we're at a point, right? 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:20.479 Like in the morning, like what is clear, what has happened, is very clear. 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:22.800 I have caused all of this. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:24.080 There's no way around this. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:25.439 This is actually what happened. 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:26.800 I caused all of this. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:34.960 And by the grace of God, and I say grace of God, I would say by the grace of God, and also uh making these mistakes many times over with the older children, right? 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:36.560 Like that's the good thing about the younger children. 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.319 You've kind of like learned some things. 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:43.919 I've learned the only way out of this is confession. 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:48.960 It's the only way out, it's the quickest and cleanest way out of this situation. 00:03:49.680 --> 00:04:00.479 And so I apologize to her and I hug her and I say, you know what, babe, you you were right, which she loved that moment, right? 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.800 Like that's quite an empowering moment for a kid. 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.400 And we will never have a problem again. 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:05.360 That's a wonderful thing. 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:06.960 No, that won't happen. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:08.800 But that's our text this morning. 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:09.919 Our text is this. 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:19.439 Our text is there's this moment when you're called out by a greater truth, and it's so abundantly clear. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:25.279 And will your heart yield to that, or are you just gonna hold your ground? 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.360 Like, will you hear it? 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:33.519 Like in the moment in the kitchen where the person who actually holds the truth is trying to tell you the truth, like, will you hear it? 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:41.199 Are you like, no, no, no, no, like I know, I already know, I know how it's done, I know, and this is the way I'm gonna do it, or will you hear the truth? 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:49.120 So a rich young man shows up, he's talking to Jesus, he says, Hey, uh, let me know what I can do to inherit eternal life. 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:51.759 So right away, Jesus goes, like, I the guy doesn't get it. 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:57.920 Like, I'm gonna have to break this guy apart to hope he can get the understanding of this. 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.000 And Jesus starts listing a bunch of things. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:07.519 He says, Well, okay, well, here's some stuff to do, like uh uh don't do this and don't do that, and don't steal, and don't murder, and honor your father and mother, like a whole bunch of really good things. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.240 And the guy replies, he says, Hey, I've done them. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.480 Like, I've done all these things, all these things. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:18.319 I'm a well-resourced, wealthy guy, and I've done these things. 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:25.759 And Jesus goes, Okay, all right, let's let's see if I can let's see if I can get into his heart in some other way. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:36.079 And that's where we get Mark 10, 21, and Jesus looking at him, and I love this, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, You lack one thing. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:43.199 Go sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come follow me. 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:44.079 Right? 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.759 Like this is the moment where Jesus is saying, Hey, like, I know it's true. 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.720 Will you will you hear it or not? 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:58.319 And verse 22, disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.920 Point number one is this God's always after the heart. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:02.800 Right? 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:12.959 Like if he's if he's in his kindness, he's he's pursuing you, in his kindness, he wants to try to lead you to repentance for you to be more healed and more whole and understanding of your belovedness. 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:20.639 And in that kindness, he's not just coming to your at your sin behaviorally, he will and he wants to, but also the sin underneath. 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:21.279 Right? 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.000 Like for this guy, the greed in his heart. 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.959 Like this guy didn't own his money. 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:29.279 His money owned him, right? 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.720 Like that's very clear, and that's why he can't be released. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:37.120 He's actually a prisoner of the very thing he thinks will deliver him. 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:41.360 And this sets Jesus up for a teaching moment with his disciples in verse 23. 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:48.079 And Jesus looked around and said to disciples, how difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God. 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:54.639 And the disciples were amazed at his words, but Jesus said to them again, children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God. 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:00.560 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.199 So the disciples heard this and reacted. 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.160 A rich man can't earn the kingdom of God? 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:22.959 Like the rich guy, like rich in monetary means, but also like just well resourced and morally elite, like that guy, the guy who has it together, if that person can't earn the kingdom, then who can who can do this? 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:25.839 And the disciples reacted to this. 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.240 Like if anybody could figure it out, it would have been that that rich young guy who had just come. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:32.800 Right? 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:34.399 Like, where's my hope? 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:36.959 Like, if truett Cathy couldn't get in, right? 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:43.199 Like let's put it modern, if truett didn't get in by his means, like, like how am I? 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:44.800 How do I have hope? 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:46.639 I mean, I don't have that wealth. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:58.160 I don't have that monetary wealth, I don't have that wealth of good deeds and ability to build foundations and give, you know, I like so if he can't get in by his own means, like where, like, where does that leave me? 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.519 And this is where that good news of verse 27 comes in. 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:10.000 It is Jesus' whole point is to just kind of like level everybody off of this paradigm of merit and get us over to the truth of grace. 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:15.519 Verse 27, with man it is impossible, but not with God. 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:17.920 For all things are possible with God. 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:28.720 Point number two is this eternal life is not reserved, eternal life is not reserved or granted to the wealthy, the well-positioned, or the morally elite. 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:35.039 And that is really great if you're not wealthy, not well positioned, or not morally elite. 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.039 So that covers all of us, right? 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:38.960 Like all of us, okay, that's me. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:39.759 I'm with you. 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.320 And the good news is it's not reserved for those people. 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:49.600 And it means your relationship with God has no base in what you do for Him. 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:54.639 Now, it doesn't mean it has no role, it has no base, right? 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.639 Like, so my mentor Scotty Smith was here a few weeks ago, and what did he say? 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:04.559 He said, Grace is not the end of effort, it's the end of earning. 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:11.120 So the base of our relationship with God is not in what we do, it's in what he did. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.039 That's why with man it's impossible. 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.960 We sort of know this by romantic love. 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:20.639 So you remember this, right? 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.000 You're in philosophy 101 and you meet Kenny. 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.799 And Kenny was a senior, and he took philosophy as an elective. 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:35.519 And I mean, as soon as you learned that, he sat next to you, and as soon as he dropped that little, he kind of like slid that in on you, and you're, oh, that's impressive. 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:38.960 He could have taken tennis, and he's in here taking philosophy. 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:44.960 I mean, that's amazing, and you could tell he was wonderful as y'all started to talk about different philosophers. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:49.600 You were so impressed by the way he could talk and he would share his views. 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:50.639 I mean, it was unbelievable. 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.320 His heart, he would just share his heart, and then y'all became study partners. 00:09:54.480 --> 00:10:02.480 You couldn't believe that you got grouped up with him to be study partners, and you ran home to all your roommates, and you said, Oh, I'm I'm you know, I'm study partners with Kenny. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:09.279 They already knew about Kenny, you've been sending secret pictures of him to your text group with your roommates, of his hair and his, you know, his muscles. 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:10.480 I mean, you were so imperial. 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.840 You had this leather bag from Italy when he did study abroad. 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:15.039 I mean, he was perfect. 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:20.080 Kenny was wonderful, and you all start studying, and then he actually was this great. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.000 Like he's getting better and better. 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.480 Like, you're and he writes poetry, right? 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:26.320 I mean, he's amazing. 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:31.440 And and then you sort of start falling in love with him. 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:33.519 Work with me here, guys, okay? 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.000 Just kind of reverse some things, okay? 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:39.200 You're in love with them. 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:40.480 You're in love with Kenny. 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:42.320 I mean, who wouldn't be, right? 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:48.000 And there's one problem Kenny doesn't love you. 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:56.159 And you know it because after you had been great friends for a while and y'all had been going to different things, and he knew about he knew about all sorts of stuff. 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.759 He was taking you to like coffee shops you didn't know and bands you didn't know. 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:01.360 I mean, I mean, he's getting so great. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:05.120 You oh, you just love him, and finally you go, like, okay, he's not making a move. 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.000 I'm gonna make a move. 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:09.679 And you're like, you, you, you tell him, go for it. 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:12.399 You tell him you love him. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.279 And he was gracious, but he declined. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.519 And now you have sorrow. 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:22.480 Right? 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:25.039 Now you have a you have a real problem. 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:32.879 And you know what the problem is you can't cause someone to love you. 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:35.120 It doesn't work. 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.679 The person has to choose to love you. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.519 Love always has to be given. 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:51.279 It's why the most remarkable statement in the passage is that Jesus loved the guy as he began to talk to him, right? 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:58.480 He didn't even know the guy's response, and it says he saw him, he loved him while he was a mess. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:10.399 The only problem here is that the man didn't realize Jesus' love was greater than the illusion of the love that he thinks he's gonna be able to pull out of his wealth. 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:16.399 So the point is, the point is, is salvation is by gift. 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:19.039 It has to be by gift. 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.720 It is not by man, it's how love works. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:34.559 God himself, love himself, incarnated into history by Jesus, taking on the cross our sin, given to us his righteousness, so we are forever the beloved. 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:40.399 This week I heard preacher Paul Zall say, this means we are separate but universal. 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:41.759 We're separate but universal. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.679 And let me explain what he means by those two words, because the more I read, the more I liked it. 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:53.759 We are separate, meaning because we believe in the spirit of the world, which says, you need a little more, you need a little more. 00:12:53.919 --> 00:13:14.159 You need to have more, get more, look better, and then if you get all that together and get a little more moral and get a little more good deeds piled up, and if you get all that together, if you get all that together, and you've positioned yourself just right, like then you've made it, then you'll be accepted by God, you'll be accepted by people. 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:27.360 But what we know, what we know is that it's the spirit of the world telling us that message of what we know by experience is the nearer we get to the places that we think will deliver us, they never deliver us. 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.159 They just keep moving. 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.759 Where does your heart go to when you feel anxious? 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:39.279 Like, what do you rest in? 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:40.320 What do you hope in? 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:42.240 When you feel guilty. 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:45.440 When you feel ashamed. 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:51.039 Like, what do you use to relieve yourself? 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:57.440 And I don't say that to say shame on you or shame on me. 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:06.399 It's to say his kindness is calling us to repentance that we might know the salvation we already have in Jesus. 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:14.480 And to find rest and find peace, that we could find our hope and contentment in the Lord and not actually somewhere else where that target just keeps moving. 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:23.759 This is why Jesus says in Matthew 7, 19 through 21, do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rush destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.480 He's just saying, stuff that last. 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.279 Like, let's just be real and see it as it is. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:38.320 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rush destroy, where thieves do not break in and steal, where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.600 So point number three is this we have a hope. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:43.919 This is such good news, you've heard it before. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:48.879 We have a hope greater than that which rusts and fades. 00:14:49.759 --> 00:15:05.200 And I'm just starting to pray, I'm just starting to pray for myself and us that we would become people that own things to live, not live to own things. 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:06.320 Right? 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:08.000 That's a big difference. 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.519 And we we can catch our heart, like where's our heart in that? 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.159 Is our heart living to own things, or is our heart owning things to live? 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:23.279 And one way is very freeing, and the other way, the other way is slavery. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:37.519 This is why in Romans 12, after 11 chapters of Paul laying out how Jesus is supreme, that for our acceptance and absolution, he writes this in Romans 12. 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:47.120 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:51.840 To say, like, like this is your worship is to be doing this ongoing, day to day. 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.960 And then verse 2 says, Do not be conformed to this world. 00:15:58.320 --> 00:15:58.639 Right? 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:17.039 Because the spirit of the world and even our natural thinking is molding us to try to convince us to hold on and want and grip everything that is temporary and to try to use it to deliver us, to save us, to make us whole. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:28.159 And the target keeps moving, and because the target keeps moving, what it means is you just keep hoping and you keep laboring and working, and it never works. 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:41.600 But be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:52.960 And this is why we preach to ourselves daily the gospel, and we say, I mean, I need every day, I need truth coming into me because I live in a world that is trying to convince me. 00:16:53.120 --> 00:17:02.399 And I am very much convinced often that the temporary is all there is, and it's gonna be the thing that delivers me. 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.400 And the good news is you are free. 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:14.640 You are free from the spirit of the world, but our minds need to be transformed. 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:21.680 A few years ago, I saw this documentary called Wasteland. 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:22.480 I don't know if you've seen it. 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:23.599 It was made in 2010. 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:30.960 It was by an artist, an artist in New York, and he'd become very successful in New York, and I mean he had gone from poverty to wealth. 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:48.720 And after he hit wealth and could buy and get whatever he wanted, he decides to make this documentary, and he goes to Mexico and he finds this group of people that every day their lives, the way that they live, is to scavenge in a dump and then take things, live off of them, and sell them. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.759 And he makes a documentary on that group of people. 00:17:53.440 --> 00:18:00.880 And here's what he says of what he learned through that process of going from poor to wealthy and then working with that group of people. 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:04.480 He said this, I'm starting to see things in a simpler way. 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.839 I don't have as much material ambition as I used to. 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.119 When I was poor, I only wanted material things. 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.000 I just wanted to have things. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.480 And I had to buy a lot of crap to get rid of that complex. 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.200 And I can remember seeing that years ago. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:21.920 It stuck with me. 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:23.680 It came back, like I haven't seen it since. 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.400 It's been like five or six years since I've seen this documentary. 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:30.000 And that one statement, it took me a little bit of Googling to get back to that statement. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:44.480 That one statement I remember so clearly because I can feel within myself so much of remembering as a child not having stuff and wanting stuff, and then me being able to start to get some stuff, and yet it's not working. 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.640 Like I had to buy a lot of crap to get rid of that complex. 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:59.200 But how free we could be if we could just skip having to buy a lot of crap to get rid of the complex and just believe Jesus' words here. 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.400 And this is the way that we are universal, meaning we are the rich man. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:08.640 Like we are the young rich man who we do tight grip. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:15.519 And we do believe things we shouldn't believe, and we are Vic Muniz, this artist who tries to buy a lot of stuff to find peace. 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:20.799 And it's very hard for us to let go of that which we own and we have and we want. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:31.440 Or what could I buy? 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:36.000 Or what could I tight grip today to be right with God or to feel accepted? 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:42.079 And what is needed is not more hurry or complexity or stuff. 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:48.559 It's for us to actually slow down and remember what's already true about us. 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:51.920 That you are already God's beloved. 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:55.359 And this is the good news, last point. 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:01.119 Point number four, because you are already loved, you don't have to walk away in sorrow. 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:12.240 The only thing the man lacked was realizing that Jesus' love was greater than the illusion of the love he was trying to get out of his stuff. 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:16.079 I don't even know if Jesus really wanted the guy to get rid of everything. 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:17.680 Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:25.440 I mean, the main point that Jesus was trying to do is to get the guy to realize that his heart was in his stuff. 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:31.839 And my heart has been this week that none of us would walk away sad this morning. 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:36.640 But we would hear this call that's actually unbelievably freeing. 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.400 That you are already loved, already absolved, already accepted. 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:48.720 And that God is, in his kindness, he is chasing you and me to repent of all this. 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:55.599 And for us to begin to say, you know what, I'll use that and I'll buy that and I'll save that and I'll invest in that and I'll buy some more of that. 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:56.960 But you know what? 00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:58.720 None of it owns me. 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.400 You can't have my heart. 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:10.480 My hope is in Jesus, meaning he is my source for deliverance. 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:22.960 And the good news of the gospel is even while, even while we keep clinging to all this other stuff, he's clinging to us because he is sufficient for us. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.960 That's what it means that Christ died for us while we're sinners. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:36.240 My brothers and sisters, may you rest in the hope which transcends poverty and riches, life and death, God's love for you and Jesus. 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:38.000 Let's pray together. 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:48.079 God, thank you for the good reminder today that you are greater than all that which we desire in the world and all that which we own. 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:53.359 Thank you for the reminder that we are surrounded by illusions. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:07.759 And we repent in your kindness and in your grace of the way that we hand our hearts over to stuff that promises and it never delivers. 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:16.880 It gives us little tastes, but it never gives us lasting, enduring internal peace. 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:28.480 Help us in greater ways to find our life here, an eternal life, to know it is sealed in the work of Jesus for us, that you are sufficient, you are supreme. 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:37.039 Holy Spirit, we ask that you would both convict and comfort this morning. 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:40.319 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:41.200 Amen.