WEBVTT 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:06.240 Well, good morning. 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:07.679 How's everybody doing? 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:10.240 I love that Nathan's pedal board is right here. 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:15.759 If I feel like the message just needs an extra kick, I'm just gonna go dial it in. 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.280 So I'm really excited about what we're gonna talk about this morning. 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.039 This is definitely what I need to hear personally. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.399 It's usually the way it is, so if it's just for me, that's wonderful. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:36.479 But if you ever heard a message like on a Sunday morning, and you have the sneaking feeling that you think, you know, I'm pretty sure this person is just repeating back what they've heard somebody else give in another message. 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:38.479 Does that kind of drive you nuts? 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:42.719 Well, I hope it doesn't, actually, because that's exactly what I'm gonna do this morning. 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.079 I'm gonna blatantly steal somebody else's message, uh, but I'm gonna be up front about it at least. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:59.759 And uh, so you know, if Picasso was right when he said that uh good artists imitate and great artists steal, then I'm gonna prove myself this morning to be a truly great artist. 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.079 So the guy's message that I'm gonna steal is the Apostle Peter. 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:09.359 And this is a message, very famous message that he gives at the end of Acts chapter 2. 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:24.560 And the situation is you hear last week Justin started this message series on the book of Acts, and so he he took us through the ascension of Jesus, and his disciples are there waiting, 120 of them in the the upper room, and then Pentecost is where he ended last week. 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:37.920 And so that kind of puts us halfway through Acts chapter two, but the next three things that happen, since this is my Sunday, is Peter gives three of these kind of impromptu messages, famous messages. 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:44.879 And about a third of the book of Acts is actually uh takes takes all these verbatim messages kind of in a row. 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:50.640 So, one way or the other, I'm kind of stuck giving a message about a message this morning. 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:54.239 So you could probably save yourself some time and just read the original, but that's okay. 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:55.680 I'm just gonna go with it. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.000 So think of this like uh like I'm doing a cover message, you know? 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:01.519 Like a cover band. 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:03.280 Everybody likes a good cover. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.319 I'm a musician and I've done so many different covers in my life. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.680 So, like I was thinking of great examples, famous examples of a cover, like twist and shout. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.360 If I say that, you might immediately think of the Beatles version of that. 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.639 But that's originally uh Icely Brothers 2, right? 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:25.599 Or another great American anthem, uh knock, knock, knocking on Heaven's Door. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.080 You might think Guns N' Roses, right? 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:31.280 But no, it's actually Bob Dylan, right? 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:40.159 Or the greatest one, uh, if have you heard this in the last couple weeks online, the viral hit, the uh the duck jam, duck ducktails slow jam. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:41.360 Have you heard this? 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:48.719 Okay, it's not been quite as big of a hit as I as I thought, but if you trust me, it sounds really strange. 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:54.159 It's a slow jam version by this band of the DuckTales Saturday morning cartoon theme song. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:55.680 It's awesome. 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:00.879 And so if you don't remember anything else I say this morning, just remember to YouTube that later. 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:03.919 It's gonna get stuck in your head and you're gonna hate me. 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:04.960 It's great. 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:06.879 Actually, I take that back. 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:08.000 I totally don't mean that. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:13.520 If you don't remember anything at all from this message, you know, think about the things from Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:15.280 It's really not the most important. 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:18.400 Totally, totally take that back. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:25.360 So I'm gonna set the scene here, and then we'll jump right into my uh flagrant plagiarism here. 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.599 So the scene is from last week. 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:35.840 Uh Jesus has been with his disciples for 40 days, and he's been giving them this intensive training on the kingdom of God before he ascends. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:42.879 And then for 10 days or so, they're hanging out in Jerusalem and they're uh waiting for the Holy Spirit. 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.199 Jesus has told them to wait patiently. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.360 And so they're in all in the same house together, all 120 of them. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:56.639 Must be a big house, but it may be even the same place where they have the upper room where they took the Lord's Supper with Jesus. 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:05.680 And so it says in Acts chapter 2, like we talked about last week, that without warning, the Holy Spirit comes, and this is Pentecost. 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:18.079 And it's a huge, mighty wind, it's this huge sound, and flames of fire appear over each person, and they begin speaking the native tongues of everybody that's in town. 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:23.759 And it's such a huge sound that it attracts the whole town to the outside of the house. 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.120 They want to know what's going on. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:33.360 So everybody goes outside, and this big crowd, some of these people here are kind of cynical, and they demand an explanation. 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:40.560 And so Peter is the one that stands up and gives this message that we're gonna cover this morning to the crowd. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.120 So you've got to imagine kind of this scene in your head. 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:49.040 This is Peter comes out and immediately gets, you know, uh demands an explanation by the crowd. 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.839 So he gives this message, and the message is amazing. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:05:03.360 It's in this one message, he lays out salvation through Jesus so clearly in the way that we've always talked about, even for thousands of years since this. 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:11.680 And then also he lays out all the core principles of the church, which is founded that day, modern church. 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:22.800 But all this, but imagine, like visually, while this is going on, uh, as a result of this day, 3,000 people are baptized and immediately found the church. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.920 And so there's 120 of these disciples that have just been filled with the spirit at Pentecost. 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:42.000 So Peter's making this amazing historic message, but then 119 other people are around the sides, you know, kind of like the prayer team we have here, and they're speaking exactly in the native tongues of these people, just reaping the harvest. 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:48.639 And those people are saying, My life has changed, and they're going to get more people, and they come and then they get spoken to. 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:50.560 So it's an amazing scene. 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.680 But Peter's message is also given verbatim. 00:05:54.720 --> 00:06:05.199 So I would suspect while they're in this upper room that they're probably praying exactly as Jesus had instructed them to pray in in the Lord's Prayer. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.439 Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.639 So that's the prayer that Jesus has taught them. 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.839 And so this is going to be the answer at Pentecost. 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:19.279 What does this mean for heaven to come to earth? 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:21.120 So here's the way it starts. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:23.759 This is Acts chapter 2. 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:29.600 That's when Peter stood up and backed by the other eleven, spoke out with bold urgency. 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:36.000 Fellow Jews, all of you who are visiting Jerusalem, listen carefully and get this story straight. 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.879 These people aren't drunk, as some of you suspect. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:40.480 They haven't had time to get drunk. 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:42.480 It's only 9 o'clock in the morning. 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:47.199 So, like every great message, he starts with a joke, puts the crowd at ease. 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:48.319 You probably think we're drunk. 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.079 We're not drunk, it's only 9 a.m. 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:53.199 If it were 11 a.m., maybe. 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:55.360 9 a.m., not adoring. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:57.199 So if he keeps going. 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:02.160 Now, or no, what you see was predicted long ago by the prophet Joel. 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:06.800 In the last days, God says, I will pour out my spirit upon all people. 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:13.439 Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:21.439 In those days, I will pour out my spirit even on my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy. 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:22.959 So I love this. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.319 This is the Spirit flooding the earth. 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:35.040 I think it's great that we're talking about the Holy Spirit here in Acts in a message series, right after we've talked about the great flood in Genesis. 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.959 Because this is truly the great flood. 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:43.279 This is the flood of life, the flood of the spirit that comes into the world. 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.480 And once this flood starts, it never stops. 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.959 It's still going on today, more and more, and it always, it always will. 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.240 And that's that's the image that is given. 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:56.160 The spirit flows. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:02.079 Like in Joel, it says, this is not just for a few select people or at a certain place. 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:13.680 Like in the Old Testament, the Spirit was very active, but he was active in like the patriarchs and David and the prophets, and they would would write these wonderful words and speak them. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.120 But now the spirit has gone out, flooding the world. 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:21.279 This is for young and old, men and women, everyone. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:27.600 The another great prophecy, you had that one in Joel that Peter just quoted. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:31.120 There's another one in Ezekiel 47, which is one of my favorites. 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:39.519 Um, and it describes this this visual is the temple, and there's this spring that's coming out of the temple, this spring of water. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.279 And it goes underneath the door and it begins to flood the valley to the east. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:47.679 And wherever this water from the temple flows, life springs up. 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:52.960 Trees on both sides, and it brings life even to the Dead Sea forever. 00:08:53.600 --> 00:09:01.919 And so that's the image, the flood of the spirit that's gonna come from the temple, that's been the expectation for generations through the prophets. 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:04.080 But how is this gonna happen? 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.360 No one has really known what this is gonna look like. 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.559 So the twist in the story comes with Jesus. 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:22.000 Jesus stands up in his ministry in John 7, and Jesus says, On the final and climactic day of the feast, Jesus took his stand. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.879 He cried out, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:33.679 Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me in this way. 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:35.919 Just as the scripture says. 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:41.279 And he said this in regard to the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.840 The Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not been glorified. 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:51.600 So Jesus was saying that in advance, but now at Pentecost, this has happened, what Jesus said was going to. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.000 So now the Spirit is pouring out. 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.000 So that's the great plot twist. 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:59.679 That's how Jesus, the king, decides to rule his kingdom. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.559 The temple is no longer just one geographical location. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:10.399 Like in the temple, you know, you they have this altar that has a fire perpetually burning there. 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:17.759 But the fire now, literally in the symbol, this the fire is over every single person in the spirit. 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:23.279 And then, like in Ezekiel 47, you've got the water that springs out of the temple and and brings life. 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:27.519 Jesus says, Now the temple is with each of you. 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.720 Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:38.320 So Jesus says, Anyone who believes in me, rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths. 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:42.480 So that's how he's going to bring life to this world through us. 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:45.440 We are his temple, because the temple was all about Jesus. 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:51.440 It's just thousands of symbols, and you could write books of all the stuff that just it was just screamed Jesus. 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:58.879 And then Jesus, when he accomplishes his victory and sends the Holy Spirit, then now wherever Jesus is, that's the temple. 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.360 Jesus is with us, and he's never gonna leave. 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:09.279 So keep that image in your mind, this never-ending spring of life that's coming now from all of us. 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:14.639 So, and we know this is possible, by the way, that to live in this new kind of way. 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:16.559 I know that kind of opens a can of worms. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:17.600 What does that look like? 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:22.879 But we know what that looks like because that's exactly how Jesus was described. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.519 Jesus is the one that sets the example. 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:39.919 In John 3, John the Baptist is describing Jesus, and he describes Jesus like this Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God is true, for he's sent by God. 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:46.080 He speaks God's words, for God gives him, God gives Jesus the Spirit without limit. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:47.360 So he's our example. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.879 Jesus is the one that is so filled with the Spirit without limit. 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.240 There's this endless supply of life that comes from him. 00:11:55.440 --> 00:12:03.200 So that's that this new way of living starting in Jerusalem and it's gonna break out across the whole world. 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.440 Alright, so Peter continues here. 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.679 He says, Fellow Israelites, listen carefully to these words. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:14.159 Jesus the Nazarene, a man thoroughly accredited by God to you. 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:18.960 The miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him are common knowledge. 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:29.440 This Jesus, following the deliberate and well-thought-out plan of God, was betrayed by men who took the law into their own hands and was handed over to you. 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.000 And you pinned him to a cross and killed him. 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.759 But God untied the death ropes and raised him up. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:38.480 Death was no match for him. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:44.799 So already we're seeing this amazing example of this new abundant way to live. 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:51.200 Peter's a great example of this, because this is abundant courage and forgiveness that he's talking about. 00:12:52.080 --> 00:13:00.960 You have to remember the same crowd that's assembled, you know, we don't know how many thousands of people, at least 3,000 were baptized that day, so it had to have been even more. 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:10.080 But this is the same crowd, a lot of the literal same people that just a few months ago had been shouting to crucify Jesus. 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.399 This is the bloodthirsty mob. 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:21.440 And now Peter is standing before them, and his message, as we're about to see, is gonna be Yes, you crucified Jesus. 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.240 He is the king, the Messiah we've been waiting for. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.759 But you need to experience forgiveness and come join the church. 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.440 Welcome to our church. 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.000 That is what, isn't that amazing? 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:42.080 The same mob of people is the 3,000 people that found the church after the 120 that were there at Pentecost and the apostles. 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:44.720 That's the loving God that we have. 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:52.879 You know, so maybe you're getting baptized today, you're thinking about that, and you're wondering, you know, could Jesus ever dare love me? 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:59.519 And you're maybe listing in your minds right now all the different things that might scare him away. 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:03.519 But please know, like he just said, death is no match for him. 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:05.679 That's the God that we serve. 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.720 So please take courage. 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:13.120 That's what Peter is want is wanting to see in us through the Spirit. 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.759 So he continues here, Acts 2.25. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.960 King David said this about him I see that the Lord is always with me. 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.799 I will not be shaken, for he's right beside me. 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.720 No wonder my heart is glad, and my tongue shouts his praises. 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:38.720 My body rests in hope, for you will not leave my soul among the dead, or allow your holy one to rot in the grave. 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:44.159 You have shown me the way of life, and you will fill me with the joy of your presence. 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:45.600 I really love that. 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.879 King David says this about him I will see that the Lord is always with me. 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:57.279 So Peter is saying to the crowd, he's quoting a famous Psalm written by King David, like in Psalms in the Old Testament. 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:02.879 And he's saying, You've been risk reading this passage, because this isn't David just talking about himself. 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:09.279 David is looking through the corridors of history to Jesus, and he's saying this about the Messiah. 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.759 David says, This is how you'll know the Messiah's here. 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.519 This is the attitude that will be in the Messiah. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:21.759 He will say, to paraphrase, God is always with me. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:23.440 He will have that conviction. 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.799 My heart is glad, my body rests in hope. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.519 The fear of death will not rule my life. 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:33.840 And I'm filled with joy in the presence of God forever. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:42.720 King David says, When that guy shows up, then salvation is about to begin in Jerusalem, and it's gonna spring and it's gonna fill this whole world. 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:49.600 So that's been the promise in the Old Testament, and now, finally at Pentecost, the reality is here. 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.039 So that's the attitude with the Holy Spirit. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:55.519 That's that's the perspective we have now, also. 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:58.240 Jesus was the model, he started it. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.440 I am never alone, but we have the same conviction ourselves. 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:15.440 Uh, an example of this in John 16, just that first part of it, when uh King David said, The Messiah is going to know that God, you are always with me. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:26.399 John 16, Jesus says, But the time is coming, indeed, it's here now, when you will be scattered, each of you going his own way, leaving me alone. 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:30.159 And yet, I'm not alone, because my father is with me. 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:42.159 So he's talking about, you know, he's about to be betrayed, and uh, and Peter's gonna deny him three times, and this is gonna be the bottom of Jesus' life, and he's gonna know everyone else is gonna leave him alone. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.919 But Jesus lives with this conviction that I'm never alone. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:50.559 The Spirit is always with me, my father is always always with me. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.120 So that's the attitude we can have now. 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.559 That's the great, great gift that we have. 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:01.679 And this is not just in spiritual kind of categories either. 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.120 We can't make that mistake. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:09.440 God's not just with us in spiritual stuff and we're alone in everything else, because we're not alone in in anything. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:20.480 Like, as a practical example of this, this is kind of funny to me, I'm not sure I can communicate this, but this past week uh on Monday, I was having a really rough day at work. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:31.200 Um we do software design, and uh, I don't normally have to do like support calls with angry customers, but every once in a while something will escalate and the buck gets passed. 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:40.240 So there's a guy I had to call on Monday, and I could see from the whole support thread on it, it was just he was being really unreasonable and very difficult to work with. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:50.880 And he was, but yet he was kind of highlighting some stuff that we probably needed to improve, but it's kind of iffy, you know, so it just kind of made me defensive more than anything else. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:52.799 So I had a bad attitude about this. 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.839 Like, I know I'm gonna call this guy, he's just gonna lay into me. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:04.880 And uh we had another support guy that had sent an email to him that had a little bit of attitude to it, you know, which didn't help. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.119 So I knew I was walking into something. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:12.960 So I I was getting myself all worked up in advance, you know, he's gonna lay into me and I'm not gonna let this happen. 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.599 And I was not living out of abundance at all. 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.359 I was living out of this place of utter lack. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:24.720 And I just knew somebody's about to steal my little precious idol of control. 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:34.319 And uh so I called him on, and we have this IP-based phone system, you know, and it it was crazy that day, and I sounded like a robot, and he couldn't hear me. 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.400 He's getting every other word, it was not helping. 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:37.440 He was getting frustrated. 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:38.720 So I started shouting at him. 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:44.640 I told him, You gotta call me back on my cell, because uh I can't make an outgoing call internationally on my cell right now. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:50.240 And he finally understood that, and I geek out my number, and it's he hung up and I was like, oh, this is not helping. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:54.720 So I knew I only had a matter of seconds before this guy calls back on my cell. 00:18:54.880 --> 00:19:01.039 And I wanted to use a headset, it's gonna be a long call, so I'm unplugging that with an adapter, I'm plugging it into my cell, and trying to get it charging. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:08.559 So somewhere in all that, me fumbling around on my phone, I must have inadvertently started a playlist on my phone. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:12.160 And my headset is now attached, and it freaked me out. 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:17.359 Because as soon as I put my headset on, this man was talking to me, or some man, and I don't know who it was. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.640 Like, am I in another phone call, or is this has he already called? 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:22.720 But it sounds like Jesus. 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.079 And it and it literally was. 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:28.640 It was Jesus in Matthew 11 speaking. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:38.559 And this playlist had started, and it was miraculously fast-forwarded to the end of this chapter, and it must have been playing all day, and this was this was immediately what I heard. 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:44.960 Right after that, it said, Are you tired, worn out, burned out on religion? 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:46.079 It's like, yes. 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:47.119 Who are you talking? 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:48.559 Who's talking to me? 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:52.559 Jesus says, Come away with me. 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.759 Get away with me, and you'll recover your life. 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:58.319 I'll show you how to take a real rest. 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:01.920 Walk with me and work, work with me, Ben. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.359 Stop working alone. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:05.680 Literally, your work doing alone. 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:07.599 Watch how I do it. 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.240 I bet he can sell some software. 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:13.200 Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:16.160 I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:21.680 Keep company with me, and you'll learn how to live freely and rightly. 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:28.799 And I just, my eyes were wide, and instantly, this dun dun bada da. 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:31.759 He was calling in in my ringtone, ringtone. 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:33.680 And I was right into it. 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:35.920 But the message was received. 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:38.640 You know, no longer was I living alone. 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.279 I was not in this place of lack. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.880 I was in this place of abundance. 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:49.039 Jesus was working this day with me, and he was saying, please, alarm bell, do not take that attitude into this call. 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:52.880 Because he's with us in everything in our lives. 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:59.359 So I started with an apology, and we went from there, and it was after a week of hard work, it was fine. 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:02.400 But that's the promise that we have. 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:04.720 Jesus is always with us. 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:08.799 He will not lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on us. 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:12.079 But the way that he works is not the way that we would work. 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:16.160 The way he moves is not how we would move. 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:20.000 Literally, I didn't put this in the the message. 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:23.440 It just happened last night, 10 o'clock last night. 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:30.880 Uh, my brother and I just decided last minute we were helping out my parents who were moving and coming, moving from a big house to a smaller house. 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:33.279 And so, I don't know why we did this. 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:37.599 We were moving three refrigerators and a washer and dryer. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.799 And I'm a small guy, and my brother's not that much bigger, but we were doing this, trying to move it out. 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:46.559 And one of these, the biggest refrigerator, we were trying to get into our home. 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:56.799 And so we had to get it up these four steps and then a little landing, and then up this big step into the front door, and we didn't know what we were doing. 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:59.759 And he had done so much of the work, we got to this big one. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.759 I said, let me take the other side of the dolly. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:02.720 I can do this. 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.240 And so I'm lifting this whole thing. 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:11.039 We get it up the ramp, and I'm holding this the weight of the refrigerator like this. 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.839 And I woke up this morning and I have bruises all across here. 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:17.359 So ugh. 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:20.559 And we get it up there and I'm holding the weight of this. 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:23.519 And my brother says, Yeah, this is not gonna fit in the door. 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:25.039 We gotta take the door off. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.240 So I'm just left. 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:30.319 And then it's you know reminds me of this vo this work with Jesus. 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.599 I will not lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.400 I'm like, Jesus, this is really heavy. 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:39.039 And it's absolutely ill-fitting. 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:41.039 It's not gonna fit. 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:46.000 But Jesus, the way that Jesus moves is not the way that we move. 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:51.839 Literally, if he was designing the move there, he would say, you know, you're 5, 6, 160. 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:55.359 You don't need to be the bottom end of the dolly with a refrigerator. 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:57.519 That's not the way I would do it. 00:22:57.759 --> 00:22:58.640 But we don't like it. 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:00.480 We don't like the way Jesus has his own plan. 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.880 You know, it's like, hey, what's most important, Jesus, is I want to look strong in front of my brother. 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:06.559 He's got his own plan. 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:08.960 He wants us to walk through that. 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:12.480 So Peter continues here. 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:15.119 He says, Dear friends, let me be completely frank with you. 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:17.519 Our ancestor David is dead and buried. 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:19.759 His tomb is in plain sight today. 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:29.279 But being also a prophet and knowing that God had solemnly sworn that a descendant of his would rule his kingdom, seeing far ahead, he talked of the resurrection of the Messiah. 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:31.599 No trip to Hades, no stench of death. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:37.279 This Jesus God raised up, and every one of us here is a witness to it. 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:43.440 So he says, David was an amazing king, but here's the thing David died, and his tomb is still in plain sight. 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:45.839 Jesus, not the same with him. 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:47.440 Jesus is alive. 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:52.160 This is the king we've been waiting for, the king that's stronger even than death. 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:55.279 Should we not listen to him as king? 00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:04.240 And then he says, but even though you crucified the Lord of life, come join the church. 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:05.599 That's what we're about. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:06.799 Come join the church. 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:08.640 He says, Cut to the quick. 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:14.799 Those who were listening asked Peter and the other apostles, brothers, brothers, so now what do we do? 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:19.519 Peter said, Change your life, turn to God and be baptized, each of you. 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:22.640 In the name of Jesus Christ, so your sins are forgiven. 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:24.799 Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:33.200 The promise is targeted to you and your children, but also to all who are far away, whomever, in fact, the Master God invites. 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:38.319 He went on in this vein for a long time, urging them over and over, get out while you can. 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.799 Get out of this sick and stupid culture. 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:41.599 I love that. 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:46.000 I know it's a paraphrase in the message version, but it's like, what do you really think, Peter? 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:47.440 Don't hold back. 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:52.799 That day, about 3,000 took him at his word and were baptized and signed up. 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:57.039 So that's an amazing day one of the church. 00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:59.920 But that's still going on today. 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:02.079 That's what happened on day one. 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.160 3,000 people were baptized. 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:06.720 But that same spirit is still alive. 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:10.480 We've got at least 70 people being baptized today. 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:16.640 Justin gave me this perspective yesterday in an email, but I'm going to steal it like it's my idea because that's the theme here. 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:25.519 But he said, you know, I would suspect all around the world at this very hour, don't you think there's probably 2,930 other people being baptized? 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:30.160 The spirit is at least 3,000 a day, more and more and more. 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:32.319 The spirit has always been flowing. 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.359 That's that spring coming from the temple. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.240 So, but this is all about Jesus. 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:40.720 That's the real point I want to make in all this. 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:43.519 This is the Spirit, and we our brains kind of lock up with that. 00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:44.720 What does the Spirit mean? 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:46.960 The Spirit, this is the Spirit of Jesus. 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:50.240 This is how he brings about his kingdom. 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:57.039 So, as an illustration of that, rewind to the beginning of the book of Mark. 00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:59.759 Um like the second gospel. 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:04.480 The Gospel of Mark was written by a guy named Mark, believe it or not. 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.839 And Mark was, I say it's tricky, right? 00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:12.400 Mark was one of a close friend of Peter, and you see that in the book of Acts, and they're good friends. 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:18.240 So a lot of people think that a lot of the details in the Gospel of Mark came from Peter, and he communicated this stuff firsthand. 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.880 So sure enough, a lot of the uh there are a lot of stories about Peter in Mark. 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:30.160 So Mark chapter one gives uh kind of a rundown of Peter's day one with Jesus. 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:34.400 And quick summary: day one with Jesus, with Peter. 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:55.200 Uh Jesus has just been in the desert for 40 days, being prepared for ministry and tempted, and uh then he meets, calls Peter and his brother Andrew, James and John, the sons of thunder, these uh gruff fishermen, calls them to be his disciples, and they go back into town in Capernaum to Peter's house. 00:26:55.440 --> 00:27:02.160 And inside Peter's house, his mother-in-law is very sick, so Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law. 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:08.079 And it's a dramatic miracle, so dramatic that the entire town assembles outside the house. 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:09.359 They want to know what's going on. 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:16.960 So Peter walk or Jesus walks outside and speaks to the crowd and heals them one by one, all of these people. 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:18.160 Huge harvest. 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:26.559 And then later, Jesus goes off away to pray, and his disciples find him and say, Everybody's trying to get you, and he says, Actually, I need to move on to the next town. 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:28.720 We need to get this message out wider. 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:34.720 So, that's the that day one of Peter's life with Jesus. 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:41.599 Doesn't that sound strangely familiar to day one of Peter's life with the Holy Spirit? 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.920 Peter's just been 40 days with Jesus, being prepared for ministry. 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:53.200 He's waiting in a house, praying, and then the Spirit comes, this amazing miracle in the house. 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:57.039 It's such a big miracle, the whole town assembles outside the house. 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:05.119 And he walks outside and he gives this message, and there are, and from that moment on, there's miracles in the church, and people are healed. 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:15.759 And then Peter and then Paul, they begin to have this uh this leading that they need to get this message out, even beyond Jerusalem to Samaria, to the ends of the earth. 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:19.839 So it had to have been this deja vu moment for for Peter. 00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:22.960 And it's like that because this is Jesus. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:30.000 Jesus is now choosing to do his work, his kingdom is coming through the Holy Spirit. 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:36.880 And the reason this day is different for Peter is because Peter's not living it alone. 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.119 Peter's living this through the Spirit with Jesus. 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.319 And it's Jesus' spirit joined with his. 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:49.119 So it's going to continue here in Peter. 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:51.200 This is the very end of the chapter. 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:59.599 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship and to sharing in meals, including the Lord's Supper and to prayer. 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:02.400 And a deep sense of awe came over all of them. 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:06.160 And the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.920 All the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:13.759 They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need. 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:25.680 They worshipped together at the temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity, all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of the people. 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:30.319 And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved. 00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:39.519 So that might seem like a really simple paragraph there, but that lays out all the core fundamentals of a church. 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:42.880 And those were true on day one of the church. 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.960 And those things are still true thousands of years later. 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:55.759 That is the church that has prevailed for thousands of years through countless cultures and countries and generations. 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:06.880 Teaching, baptism, fellowship in homes, the Lord's Supper, prayer, miracles, generosity, worship, joy, and a deep sense of awe. 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:10.160 That's what we value here at his hands. 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:14.000 And those are literally the things that we do day in and day out. 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:27.359 But the reason the Spirit urged all of these disciples to set up the church in that way is exactly because that's the way Jesus did his ministry. 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:30.559 Jesus is the one that's still working. 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:35.200 In Jesus' life, Jesus taught about his father. 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:36.799 He was baptized. 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:40.160 He was always in people's homes, sharing a meal, making friends. 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:41.759 He gave us the Lord's Supper. 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:44.079 He prayed to his dad constantly. 00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:47.119 He performed miracles that brought glory to God. 00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:50.000 He was generous with everything that he had. 00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:53.839 And even the Spirit was given without measure. 00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:56.079 He worshiped. 00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.480 Several times in the Gospels, we have pictures of Jesus singing with his friends. 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:02.000