WEBVTT 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:12.480 This podcast is brought to you by Grand Parkway Fapter, helping people to know, joy, and glorify God. 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:17.920 For more information about Grand Parkway, visit GrandProquay.org. 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:28.399 Well, we've come to do just that, to behold you, to see you as you are, not as we prefer you to be, or we were told one time that you were like. 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:35.359 We've come to experience you, to taste and see that the Lord is good, to remember you, because we are hardwired to forget God. 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:45.039 That's why we have to we have to have ordinances like communion that kind of bring us back and reorient us around and help us to remember who you are and what you've done. 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.000 That is humbling and liberating at the same time. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:54.240 And so we've come today to engage in this process that you said, hey, this is not just ritual, this is reality. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.679 And so, Holy Spirit, lead us into this time, we pray in Jesus' name. 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:59.679 And everyone said, Amen. 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:01.119 You can have a seat if you're our guest. 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.000 Let me say, welcome. 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.719 My name is Neil, I'm the lead pastor at Grand Park Way. 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:06.799 Uh, and let me explain to you what you see around the room. 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.239 You may be like, what's the deal? 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.079 Uh, today we're observing communion, and communion is the entire service. 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:18.480 And so uh I'll read a passage of scripture and then I'll give like what's called a homily, which is a big word for a short sermon. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:20.640 And we love short sermons here, amen. 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:24.799 I'm gonna fight every one of you in the parking lot as soon as church is over. 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:27.200 You just take your shirts off and meet me out there. 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:28.879 Anyway, uh, no? 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:29.439 Okay. 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:31.680 Uh, and so, and so here here's the thing. 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:32.959 We practice a couple things. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:43.920 Uh, we practice open communion, which means if you're a Christian, not just oh, I believe in God, but you've been converted, you have a relationship with God, then you're welcome, more than welcome to come and receive the elements today. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.239 Here's how we do it we do it kind of family style. 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:53.760 I'll I'll read a passage of scripture, I'll talk for about 10 minutes, uh, and then some of our servers will go to our stations, and then we'll just continue to worship. 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:55.680 And as we're worshiping, people will come. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:00.159 You come as groups of friends, come as family members, whatever, and we'll serve you the elements. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:03.760 We've got nine stations set up in here, so it doesn't take all afternoon. 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:04.480 Amen. 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:11.199 And so uh some of our late people and our staff and elders will be at different stations, and you come and we'll serve you the elements, by the way. 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:13.199 All of the elements are gluten-free. 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.120 So you don't have to go, oh, no bread for me. 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:15.680 It's not bread. 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:16.800 They're all gluten-free. 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:21.360 Uh, and so once you receive the elements, if we can pray for you, just say, Hey, you this is how you can pray for me. 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:22.400 And we'll pray for you. 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:26.000 Then you go back to your seat and you're not done, just continue to engage in worship. 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:30.879 There'll be singing songs, there'll be readings from different places of scripture, people will be praying. 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:36.080 And so the entire worship service and communion is immersed in the context of worship. 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:37.120 Does that make sense? 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:38.080 Say amen. 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:47.120 All right, let me read because the Bible gives us very sp very clear directions on how to go about this to keep it from just becoming a ritual and let it stay a reality. 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.319 The Bible says this in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 23. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.439 He says, For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you. 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:00.879 But the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and he said, This is my body which is for you. 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:03.120 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:08.560 In the same way also he took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.599 Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:16.479 For as often as you eat the bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:23.840 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and the blood of the Lord. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.800 Let a person examine himself then, and also and and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:33.199 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.479 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.680 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:44.639 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.240 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.639 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home. 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.439 So that when you come together, it will not be for judgment. 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:56.719 About the other things, I will give directions when I come. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:01.360 Now, uh three words I want us to think about as we prepare to come to the table. 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:02.879 Number one is necessity. 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:03.599 Necessity. 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:04.560 It's verse 26. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:07.840 He says, As often as you do this, you proclaim the Lord's death. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:27.759 And so if you leave your seat today, and I hope you will, and come to one of these stations in the front or in the back of the auditorium here, uh what you're doing is you're you're saying, I am by nature so sinful and by choice, so separated from God, that I am so imperfect that a perfect being has to be sacrificed in my place and for my sins. 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.480 I have no other means of getting right with God. 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.160 So when you come and receive communion, you're proclaiming the Lord's death. 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:41.279 You are saying with your behavior, absolutely, there's no way I could get right with God in and of myself. 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:42.959 You proclaim the Lord's death. 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.160 Now, I sent you an email yesterday and somebody texted me and said, Man, you kind of that kind of made me think. 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.199 And I was like, yeah, I'm not trying to play keep away, but we got to be sober and honest and authentic. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:05:00.480 We love the word authenticity in our culture, except when it comes to church, because you can be authentic out there and be really phony in here. 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.040 And so this is listen carefully to what I'm about to say. 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.279 Because some of you, if you're just living in willful standing, you're like, I'm not, I'm not gonna stop. 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:10.560 You should abstain today, but you shouldn't stay in your seat. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:19.279 Like if you're a teenager and you're like, I don't give a rip about this, or if you've deconstructed your faith and you're like, I don't believe this at all, you should come with your family. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:25.439 And when the server says, you know, hold out the element, you should just say, I'm abstaining because I think I'm smarter than God. 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.480 And why would I worship a being who's beneath me? 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:31.680 Yes. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:37.680 You should hear, give yourself the experience of hearing out loud what you actually believe on the inside. 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:40.720 Because we act like as long as I keep it in here, nobody knows. 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:45.600 No, and by the way, we're not gonna shame you or condemn you, or think we'll just say, Oh, thank you for letting me know. 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:47.360 Let's let's learn how to pray for you. 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:51.839 Or if you're living in sin and you just think this satisfies me, I'm not gonna stop. 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:57.839 Just say, hey, I sleep with my girlfriend and it meets my needs in ways that I don't think Jesus ever could. 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:58.959 No, thank you. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:03.680 I wish y'all could see your faces. 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:11.600 Y'all are like, or pull out your pill bottle and just hold it up and just say, hey, no, my addiction is gonna take care of me. 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:12.800 I don't need Jesus. 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.040 Let's just be authentic. 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.519 Be who you really say you are. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:21.839 And not that the church is gonna mock you. 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:22.639 That's not our place. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:24.240 It is our place to pray for you. 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:28.160 Some of my dearest friends think I am crazy because I believe in God. 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.519 They don't hold back, and so I don't hold back. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:37.360 And so I'm just saying, don't sit in your seat and think, oh, if I haven't done this, I wouldn't shave my legs and come to church. 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.439 No, come and just say, you know what, I'm abstaining. 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:40.399 And here's why. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:42.639 It lets us know how to pray for you. 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:45.519 This is still necessary. 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:49.600 Here's the second word I want to give you sufficiency, necessity and insufficiency. 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:55.920 Not only did a perfect God sacrifice himself for us in our place, but his death was sufficient. 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:00.319 It not only purchases my forgiveness, but it ensures my sanctification. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:06.480 Big word, sanctification just means I'm becoming more and more every day who the Bible says I am. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:07.600 Does it make sense? 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:08.560 Say amen. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:16.160 I'm because I'm not perfect, I haven't arrived, but I am in progress, and I'm not the person I used to be, and I'm not the person I'm going to be. 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.879 It's going to get better and better and better for me. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:26.000 Now, here's one of the ways, a real practical way you can tell that you believe in the sufficiency of Christ's death on the cross. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.040 And it's very simple, very accessible, and it's simply this you're not defensive. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.560 People that do not believe in the sufficiency of the crucifixion, they're defensive. 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:38.720 They're never wrong, they never make a mistake. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.319 Can you imagine going to work tomorrow if you're a boss when the employee comes to you and says, hey, you know what? 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:45.839 I totally screwed this up. 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:47.439 I don't have a leg to stand on. 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:58.240 I'm even tempted to shade the truth or what the Bible would call lie, but I'm not going to because my imperfection has been paid for by the perfection of Jesus on the cross. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:00.720 Can you imagine your kids? 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.040 Can you imagine your 16-year-old who you hadn't bought a car for yet? 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.120 Well, she took your truck, Dad. 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:10.720 And she comes in a little bit late and she has that sheepish look on her face. 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:12.079 You're like, hey, what's going on? 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:16.879 Well, Dad, I wanted to park your truck in the street and make it look like one of the neighbors hit it. 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.879 But I was going through the drive-thru at Starbucks and I just scraped it all down the side. 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.240 You're going to need a side view mirror and probably a new quarter panel. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:29.600 Some of you are like, you don't know my kids. 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:33.279 That thing will be parked in the street and they go, Oh, look like somebody hit you, Dad. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.919 But if you believe in the sufficiency, listen to me. 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:41.039 If you believe in the sufficiency of Jesus, why would you ever be defensive? 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.720 Why would you ever want somebody to think you were never wrong? 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:50.240 Would you not boast all the more gladly about your weaknesses because when you're weak, you're really strong? 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.440 Here's the last word I want to give you responsibility. 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:54.639 It's that last part down there. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:55.600 It gets kind of kooky. 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:57.360 It's kind of like, what's he talking about? 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:58.159 Verse 27. 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:04.080 Whoever therefore eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and the blood of the Lord. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:08.000 Let a person examine himself then and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:12.639 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:21.600 When he talks about discerning the body, he's talking about uh thinking about yourself in light of the people, the body, the local church that you're sitting around right now. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:23.840 Let me keep reading. 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:28.080 He says, For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.639 This is why many of you are weak and ill and some have died. 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:36.639 But if we judge ourselves truly, that word judged is the same word, Greek word used for discerning the body. 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:47.600 If we discerned ourselves truly, accurately, if we stop lying to ourselves about who we really are, if we uh assess ourselves honestly, you would not be judged. 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:52.480 But when we're judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned along with the world. 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:55.919 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:01.679 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you come together, it will not be for judgment about these other things. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.200 I'll give you direction when I come. 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.279 Why is it what's the Bible talking about there? 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:06.159 It's very simple. 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:10.639 They would get together before they had communion, they would have what's called a love feast, a big meal. 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.200 Baptists call it a potluck dinner, amen. 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.799 And so rich people would come and they would bring food and the best wine, and they would get there early. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.639 And the poor people get there later, and the rich people get there, they look around, they kind of go, you know what? 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:23.919 Let's don't wait, let's get started. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.480 And they would eat all the food and drink all the wine, kind of like your sister-in-law at Christmas. 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:36.080 And then the poor people come, and by the way, when they run through the love feast, the meal, they would look around and go, Let's go ahead and have communion. 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.679 And they would use all the communion, they drink all the wine and eat all the bread. 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.600 And the poor people would get there and they'd be like, Hey, I thought we were all in this together. 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:54.960 This is why the Bible says, Hey, when anyone eats and drinks without discerning the body, you don't come to church just to enhance your individualistic status and standing on Instagram. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.120 This is not for individuals, this is a corporate body. 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.120 You got to discern the body. 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.200 Now, that sounds like, oh, what do you mean? 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.240 Uh let me just give you a practical example out of my own life, okay? 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:11.440 Last Sunday, I was marching to have some friends, and the wife's parents just moved here. 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.720 And I was talking to them, the mom, the mother, the parent that just moved here from Florida, and they said, I said, How's the new house? 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.320 I said, Well, how many hoses? 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:24.799 Now, I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to my yard, and I have like a 75-foot hose with a hose stand concreted in. 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.399 I put it in there myself, and but it's kind of heavy, and you pull it, you gotta drag it. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:36.960 And I saw that at the store on these little lightweight hoses, it's about that long, and you turn the water on and pull, it comes 100 feet long with a spray nozzle on bonus feature. 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.919 And I was like, Bam! I got that thing, I put it in the garage. 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.799 One of my neighbors was in my driveway, he goes, When are you gonna get your hose out? 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.159 I said, I'm waiting for the right occasion. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.279 Don't rush me. 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:51.120 So I saw the family last week and I said, Hey, I've got a new, I've got a hose I'm not using, thinking of the old one. 00:11:51.600 --> 00:12:00.720 Got home about Monday, walked out of my garage, and that little voice in me said, Uh, you're gonna give that heavy old hose to that couple that's older than you. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:02.240 Really? 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.960 Why don't we discern the body? 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.759 Oh Lord, the devil's trying to tempt me to be a bad steward of my new hose. 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.960 It comes with an attachable spray sprayer on the end of it. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:21.039 So I texted the daughter and said, Hey, I got a hose for your mom and dad. 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:22.799 Why? 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.120 Because when you just look at me, don't miss this. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:30.320 When you actually discern the body, you become capable of more than by nature you think you're capable of. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:38.879 And so necessity, sufficiency, responsibility, discern the body. 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.279 Your sin affects your faith community. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.519 And the Bible says, hey, take some time and think about what you're fixing to do. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:46.559 So that's what we're gonna do right now. 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:52.320 I'll voice a brief prayer, and then we'll just spend about a minute just kind of thinking about what we're getting ready to do. 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.440 And if you leave your seat, and listen to me, I hope you will. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:56.639 I hope you will. 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:57.679 Leave your seat and come. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.039 And even if you say, I gotta abstain it, I don't want to say why, it's none of our business. 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.679 We're not gonna go, wow, why that's between you and God. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.679 But if you're like, here's why. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:09.679 That lets us know how to pray. 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:10.559 Look at me. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.799 We're here to love you, not judge you. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.120 That's not our responsibility, okay? 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:16.799 Let me voice a prayer. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:24.960 God, thanks for your sacrifice on the cross because it reminds us that greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends. 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:32.799 And so we say we love each other until it comes time for us to lay down our stuff for each other, and it's a different story. 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:38.000 But Lord, we're here, we're humbled by the necessity of your death. 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.120 Because without it, there's no way we could be right with God. 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:45.120 We are by nature sinful and separated from God. 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:49.519 That's just who we are, and there's no hope of getting right with you. 00:13:49.840 --> 00:14:03.600 And so you came, you left the sanctity of heaven and came to the uncertainty of earth to make us right with you, to give us an out where we could just say, I needed a power greater than myself to help me regain control. 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:05.279 I can't do this. 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:14.879 And so, Lord, there's not just necessity in your death, but there's sufficiency that you died is enough. 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:23.759 The resurrection is the receipt that confirms that God has accepted Jesus' death on the cross in my place and for my sin. 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:26.879 And finally, God, we have a responsibility. 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:29.519 We just can't just glibly walk all over that. 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:36.080 We have a responsibility when it comes to each other, and let us steward that well now. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.200 Let us steward that in Jesus' name. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.559 As we just think and reflect and get our head and our heart ready. 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.039 Root over us, Holy Spirit, we pray. 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.240 Just be still for a minute. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.840 Just ask the Holy Spirit what you walk away with today. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:59.840 If you're visiting today, you may be thinking that's a little bit different. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.000 Uh, this is the way the church should be. 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:07.840 We should be together and look around and kind of think, yeah, it matters that I'm in this room with these people. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:09.759 It's not about being efficient. 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.279 Life is not about being efficient, it's about being available. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:15.679 Be available to each other. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:19.759 So when you're 17, you don't think you're all alone and it depends on you. 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:24.159 Or you're getting ready to graduate college, and you're like, you know, every time I turn on the TV, God, there's bad news. 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:25.440 Is there gonna be a job for me? 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:26.879 Absolutely. 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:31.279 And not because of the economy, but because of the kingdom. 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.600 You don't live in the economy, you live in the kingdom of God if you're a Christian. 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:40.720 And so relax, the cross is not just payment for your sin, it is that. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.200 But then God says, I throw your sin into the sea and I remember it no more. 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:49.440 And so He didn't want you relating to Him out of the basis of your failure. 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.720 It's not pay just payment, it's provision. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:54.960 That's who God is. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.159 He says, I want to provide for you. 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:01.440 I already know who you're gonna marry, and it's none of the losers you go to high school with, so be freed up. 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:06.399 Go to school tomorrow and tell some boys off, ladies, it's liberating. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:09.440 Trust your father. 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.200 Romans chapter 8 says this, and we'll be done. 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:18.799 He who spared not his own son, that's the cross, but freely offered him up for us all. 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:24.720 How will he not also, along with him, graciously, freely give us all things? 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.679 The crucifixion, the cross is an indication of God's heart towards you. 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:32.960 Why would you want to live anywhere else? 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.200 Why would you want to live in anything else besides that kind of provision? 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:42.320 Would you walk away with today? 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:22.000 He paid for you in full. 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.640 You were not on the clearance rack either. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.160 Forty percent off, because this was defective. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:29.440 No. 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:35.839 You are the prize that he wanted, and you are the people that he prayed for. 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:41.200 Therefore, the Bible says, once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:42.720 Depart. 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:43.920 Live in. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:45.200 Enjoy. 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.880 Accept, and believe your true identity. 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.240 In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:53.119 Amen.