SPEAKER_03: You and I are gonna live one of two lives.
SPEAKER_03: You're gonna live a life that says, save me, get me out of this, protect me, prevent that from happening to me, or you're gonna live a glorify your name.
SPEAKER_03: Glorify your name.
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SPEAKER_03: Amen.
SPEAKER_03: Let's pray together, church.
SPEAKER_03: Father, we uh we stand in that reality today.
SPEAKER_03: We confess that the night will not last.
SPEAKER_03: And whatever the day holds, we can face it because uh you're a living God.
SPEAKER_03: You're not a memory, you're not something that people made up a long time ago to modify or control our behavior.
SPEAKER_03: Uh you're the throbbing reality at the center of all anything that exists.
SPEAKER_03: And you live, you will always live.
SPEAKER_03: There never was a time when you were not, you were pre-existent.
SPEAKER_03: So when we come on the scene, you're already here.
SPEAKER_03: And when we fade into oblivion, you will still live.
SPEAKER_03: And so we want to rest confident in that.
SPEAKER_03: Is there any wonder that you said whoever hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a man who's dug down deep.
SPEAKER_03: It's like a woman who got through all the clutter to something foundational, and she built her life upon that.
SPEAKER_03: And so when the storms came and beat against the house, it did not fall.
SPEAKER_03: There are a lot of houses collapsing in our world today because people built and banked their lives on the wrong things, on insufficient, lesser than God things.
SPEAKER_03: And so, Lord, we don't we're not we don't gloat over that.
SPEAKER_03: We're saddened by that.
SPEAKER_03: As the text will tell us today, that people that walk in darkness don't know where they're going.
SPEAKER_03: That doesn't make us feel superior, it makes us sad, but it also makes us hopeful because we have the light, we have the gospel, we have the truth, we have a living God.
SPEAKER_03: And so, Lord, we're not trying to keep your memory alive, we're not trying to keep alive the memory of a dead God.
SPEAKER_03: We're trying to demonstrate the reality of a God who never died, who died once for all, was raised to walk in newness of life.
SPEAKER_03: Lord, infuse us with a with the juicy goodness of this newness from your word and by your spirit today, we pray.
SPEAKER_03: And we pray in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_03: Would everyone say, Amen.
SPEAKER_03: Amen.
SPEAKER_03: If you've got a Bible, I invite you to take it and open it up to John chapter 12.
SPEAKER_03: John chapter 12.
SPEAKER_03: And I had a hard time as I just read over this text.
SPEAKER_03: I had a hard time uh titling.
SPEAKER_03: I'm not a big person on titles, and so here's my title today is just Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: Uh Jesus, period.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, there's so much in here about Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: I just want it to be all about Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: So I'm gonna start reading.
SPEAKER_03: I think Clyde told you earlier it's Palm Sunday.
SPEAKER_03: It is the day that people select their Passover lambs.
SPEAKER_03: Uh that there's no incidents or accidents in the life of Jesus because he's God.
SPEAKER_03: And and so there's not an accident that he enters Jerusalem on this day because what's happening in the background is that on this day, people are selecting their Passover lambs.
SPEAKER_03: They're going to observe the feast of Passover.
SPEAKER_03: And and the Passover, what happened, people get a lamb and they had to keep it in their home for five days to make sure that it was spotless and without defect, that it was without blemish, so it could be sacrificed.
SPEAKER_03: And so they kept it for five days and they kind of examined it.
SPEAKER_03: Uh and if you kind of track with the Bible, there's two parallel realities happening here in this text.
SPEAKER_03: There's what people are doing, and then there's what God's doing, sovereignly superseding anything and everything anybody's ever done.
SPEAKER_03: So on the Sunday where people are selecting their lambs, as they have since the Exodus 14, uh, thousands of years earlier, to engage in this ritual, God is sending his only begotten Son as our perfect Passover lamb to be sacrificed.
SPEAKER_03: What people do, they would keep the lamb for five days.
SPEAKER_03: That's Holy Week.
SPEAKER_03: That's Jesus being passed around from this person to this person, this person.
SPEAKER_03: And then on Friday, when we celebrate Good Friday, and Pilate says he washes his hands and says, I find no fault in him.
SPEAKER_03: Again, two parallel realities.
SPEAKER_03: What people are doing and what God is doing, what God is doing is saying I've got a perfect, spotless lamb without defect or fault that can be sacrificed for the sins of the world, which is why we don't engage in those behaviors anymore.
SPEAKER_03: And so I just want you to get the historicity.
SPEAKER_03: I say a lot that before Christianity is personal, it's historical.
SPEAKER_03: And so there's a little bit of historical background and backdrop against which everything in John chapter 12, starting in verse 12, uh uh it's against that backdrop that all this stuff happening, thousands of years of ritual become reality with these words starting in verse 12.
SPEAKER_03: The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_03: So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel.
SPEAKER_03: And Jesus found a young donkey and he sat on it, just as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt.
SPEAKER_03: His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
SPEAKER_03: The crowd that had been with him, now already there's two different crowds.
SPEAKER_03: There's the crowd that goes out to meet him, and then there's a crowd that had been with him.
SPEAKER_03: The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to bear witness.
SPEAKER_03: So they got they they were bearing witness, they were telling people, hey, that Jesus raised a man from the dead, and so there's a fervor about Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: They hear he's coming, and they go out with palm branches, which is a sign of royalty, or they're welcoming somebody.
SPEAKER_03: And so the reason, verse 18 says that the reason why the crowd went to meet him, the first crowd, was that they had heard from the second crowd that Jesus had done this sign.
SPEAKER_03: So the Pharisees said to one another, You see that we're gaining nothing.
SPEAKER_03: Look, the world has gone after him.
SPEAKER_03: Now, among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.
SPEAKER_03: So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, Sir, we wish to see Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: And Philip went and told Andrew.
SPEAKER_03: And Andrew went and told Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: And Jesus answered them, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
SPEAKER_03: Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone.
SPEAKER_03: But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
SPEAKER_03: Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
SPEAKER_03: If any one serves me, he must follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be also.
SPEAKER_03: If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
SPEAKER_03: Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say?
SPEAKER_03: Father, save me from this hour, but for this purpose I have come to this hour.
SPEAKER_03: Father, glorify your name.
SPEAKER_03: Then a voice came from heaven, I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.
SPEAKER_03: The crowd that stood there heard it, said that it thundered.
SPEAKER_03: Others said, An angel has spoken to him.
SPEAKER_03: And Jesus answered, This voice has come for your sake, not mine.
SPEAKER_03: Now is excuse me, now is the judgment of this world.
SPEAKER_03: Now will the ruler of this world be cast out, and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.
SPEAKER_03: He said this to show what kind of death he was going to die.
SPEAKER_03: So the crowd answered him, We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever.
SPEAKER_03: How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up?
SPEAKER_03: Who is the Son of Man?
SPEAKER_03: So Jesus said to them, The light is among you for a little while longer.
SPEAKER_03: Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you.
SPEAKER_03: The one who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
SPEAKER_03: While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.
SPEAKER_03: This is the summary of why Jesus rides in on this day.
SPEAKER_03: I just want to point to a lot of things about Jesus from the text today.
SPEAKER_03: And the first one is simply this is that Jesus is the fulfillment of every promise God ever made.
SPEAKER_03: It's the first five verses, verses 12 to 16.
SPEAKER_03: It's the word feast.
SPEAKER_03: He says the large crowd had come to the feast.
SPEAKER_03: I already told you that was Passover and what that was all about.
SPEAKER_03: And so Jesus rides in on the day that they are selecting their lamb and preparing to observe the Passover feast as they have forever.
SPEAKER_03: And so the people cry out, the Bible says they cry out, Hosanna, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_03: Now we hear the word Hosanna a lot in the Bible or around church, especially around Easter time.
SPEAKER_03: And we don't, rarely do we stop and say, hey, what does that mean?
SPEAKER_03: What Hosanna means is save us.
SPEAKER_03: Save us now.
SPEAKER_03: Our world is full of people that are crying out right now.
SPEAKER_03: They may not use the word Hosanna, but they're saying, save us, come up with a vaccine.
SPEAKER_03: Somebody do something to bring some relief.
SPEAKER_03: We want a different form of relief, just like these people want a different form of relief because when they say Hosanna, save us, they want a political or or military messiah to come and do something about the geopolitical situation that they're living in.
SPEAKER_03: Here's the problem.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus doesn't come for politics.
SPEAKER_03: He doesn't come for military might.
SPEAKER_03: He comes to deal with a sin problem.
SPEAKER_03: He comes on this day to deal with the biggest problem anybody and everybody has ever had.
SPEAKER_03: And they miss it when I say Jesus is the fulfillment of every promise ever made.
SPEAKER_03: These people on Palm Sunday are blinded by their greed, by their lust of what they believe and what they want, what they expect God to do, and they miss what God is actually doing.
SPEAKER_03: Because the quote there in verse 15 is from Zechariah chapter 9, verse 9.
SPEAKER_03: I'll give you the whole context.
SPEAKER_03: They left off some of it, but but the whole passage, which by the way, the book of Zechariah was written 550 years earlier.
SPEAKER_03: Only God is so integrated and honest and true that he says something 550 years earlier, and it comes to pass.
SPEAKER_03: It was it doesn't change one iota, the integrity or the character of his being.
SPEAKER_03: But back in Zechariah, he said this, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion.
SPEAKER_03: Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_03: Behold, your king is coming to you.
SPEAKER_03: Righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal, the baby of a donkey, the offspring of a donkey.
SPEAKER_03: And I just want to draw your attention to three words in Zechariah 9:9.
SPEAKER_03: Rejoice, rejoice greatly, shout aloud.
SPEAKER_03: They're doing all of that.
SPEAKER_03: But here's the one thing they don't do.
SPEAKER_03: They don't behold that your king is coming to you.
SPEAKER_03: Righteous and having salvation is he.
SPEAKER_03: They don't see, they don't behold, they don't see who Jesus is and what he's bringing.
SPEAKER_03: They see Jesus and they see opportunity.
SPEAKER_03: Okay, I'm gonna finally get my way.
SPEAKER_03: I've been oppressed, but now it's time for me to get mine.
SPEAKER_03: And they they miss the king.
SPEAKER_03: They miss everything, that the fulfillment of every promise God has ever made.
SPEAKER_03: Now, when someone rides in on a donkey, it's an indication that they they've come to bring peace or they've come uh uh under the banner of peace.
SPEAKER_03: Were he to ride in on a white horse?
SPEAKER_03: That's it that that's what a conquering general does.
SPEAKER_03: Uh let me just say to this to you here, Jesus rides in on a donkey.
SPEAKER_03: When he comes again, Revelation 19, about verse 11, tells us that he's gonna come riding that white horse.
SPEAKER_03: So let's don't fall in love with Jesus on a donkey and forget that when Jesus comes again, the Revelation says there's one seated on a white horse and his name is faithful and true.
SPEAKER_03: This Jesus, who's been the fulfillment of every promise God has ever made, he is going to come again.
SPEAKER_03: And so I just want to begin with this statement that he's the fulfillment of every promise.
SPEAKER_03: Well, the Bible says all of God's promises are yes and amen in Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: If God said it, if there's any prophecy or anything predicted about Jesus in the Bible, it has come true or it will come true.
SPEAKER_03: Here's the second thing I want to say about Jesus today on this Palm Sunday is that Jesus is the Savior of the world.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus is the savior of the world.
SPEAKER_03: It starts in verse 17, goes down to about 23.
SPEAKER_03: It's kind of a weird, like, why is that in the Bible?
SPEAKER_03: Here's why it's in the Bible.
SPEAKER_03: What's happening is that the crowd that had been with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, he raised him from the dead, they continue to bear witness to tell people.
SPEAKER_03: And the reason why this crowd went up to meet him, they'd heard all this stuff.
SPEAKER_03: And then in verse 20, it starts talking about these Greek people that came to the feast, and they came up to Philip and said, Hey, or Andrew, and they said, Hey, we want to see Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: And he goes to the other guy, and they both go to Jesus and they say, Hey, there's some couple of Greek guys here that want to see you.
SPEAKER_03: It sounds like the punchline to a joke or the setup for a joke, actually, but you notice Jesus never answers the question.
SPEAKER_03: He never even refers to these Greek people.
SPEAKER_03: It's just kind of like all of a sudden he starts talking about the cross.
SPEAKER_03: Why?
SPEAKER_03: Here's why.
SPEAKER_03: When I say Jesus is the savior of the world, because the gospel has begun to spread to the Gentiles.
SPEAKER_03: If you'll remember, if you read much of the New Testament, every once in a while Jesus says things that sound kind of harsh and kind of exclusive, like people would come up to him and ask him, Gentile people, people that were non-Jewish would come up and ask him something.
SPEAKER_03: And Jesus said, Hey, I've come for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
SPEAKER_03: In other words, the Jewish people, okay?
SPEAKER_03: And so he said, I've come for them.
SPEAKER_03: And one woman asked him for something, and Jesus said, I don't give my bread to the dogs.
SPEAKER_03: And she's like, Well, even the dogs deserve something, do they not?
SPEAKER_03: And so here you see Jesus, when I say that he's the savior of the world, he God loves the world.
SPEAKER_03: Uh he comes to save the world, and now the gospel is beginning to spread because he comes to the Jews, and the Jewish people reject him, okay?
SPEAKER_03: Uh they say, There's no way you're not the Messiah.
SPEAKER_03: Even to this day, an Orthodox Jew doesn't believe that Jesus is the Son of God, much less the Messiah.
SPEAKER_03: And so, just as the Bible predicted, he comes to his own, his own received him not, and so the gospel begins to go to the Gentiles.
SPEAKER_03: And so the reason Jesus never responds to the question is that, hey, there's some Greeks here that want to see you, is he realizes that the gospel, God loves the world.
SPEAKER_03: I came to save the world, the gospel is spreading to the world, and now I can go to the cross as the savior of the world.
SPEAKER_03: Not just this limited description that they nail on the cross above me, King of the Jews.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus is saying, I didn't come just for the Jewish people.
SPEAKER_03: Which, by the way, there's going to be a spiritual awakening and a revival among the Jewish people.
SPEAKER_03: If you read the book of Romans, okay, and so let's don't get all high and mighty at well, the Jews had their chance and did.
SPEAKER_03: No, there's going to be a great returning.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, remember I said that those promises that God makes, that's very clearly spelled out in the Bible.
SPEAKER_03: So let's don't lose sight of that.
SPEAKER_03: He doesn't just come for the Jews, he comes for everybody.
SPEAKER_03: And so he dies as the Savior of the world.
SPEAKER_03: It's why in the book of Acts, when you hear them preaching, you'll hear this phrase a lot, you'll read this phrase a lot.
SPEAKER_03: He that somebody's preaching like Peter's preaching, and he says, the promise is for you and for those who are far off.
SPEAKER_03: He's talking to very religious Jewish people.
SPEAKER_03: The promise is for you, you people that are all about religion but don't have a relationship.
SPEAKER_03: And the promises for those who are far off.
SPEAKER_03: The single parent who's got two kids, who's lost her job this past week, and right now is thinking, how in the world am I gonna make ends meet?
SPEAKER_03: The promises of God are for you.
SPEAKER_03: Not just everybody else that's got it sorted out and has a Dave Ramsey emergency fund that they can burn through for the next 60 days and they're gonna be fine.
SPEAKER_03: The promises of God are not just for people that know all the answers, it's also for the people who don't know what the questions are.
SPEAKER_03: This is what I mean when I say Jesus is this He dies as the Savior of the world.
SPEAKER_03: The third thing the text tells us is that Jesus dies so we can have life.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus dies so we can have life.
SPEAKER_03: Now, if you've been around church for 10 minutes, you've heard that probably five times.
SPEAKER_03: Let me just read verse 24 to 26 again.
SPEAKER_03: Here's what it says Jesus is talking here, and he says, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone.
SPEAKER_03: But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
SPEAKER_03: By the way, that is a summary of the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: Notice the language of verse 24 again.
SPEAKER_03: Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus is saying, Hey, I'm the grain of wheat that's going to fall into the earth.
SPEAKER_03: I'm going to die, and I'm which is going to require me to be actually buried.
SPEAKER_03: He says, Unless it does this, it remains alone.
SPEAKER_03: But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
SPEAKER_03: Just stop right there in verse 24.
SPEAKER_03: When I say Jesus dies so that we can have life, it sounds like no big deal until you and I realize that our life is the much fruit that is born out of Jesus' death.
SPEAKER_03: And so we've got to ask yourself, hey, if this is true, and it is, it might be helpful to ask yourself when you just look at your life, just think about your life.
SPEAKER_03: Just you and your wife have a conversation, or you and your kids have a conversation if they're old enough to have this kind of conversation, and just ask them, hey, when you look at the life you're currently living, is this what Jesus died for?
SPEAKER_03: Is this what Jesus died to make possible and available and real?
SPEAKER_03: Is it did Jesus die for you to sit on your couch, hypnotized by all seven sessions, all seven episodes of the Tiger King?
SPEAKER_03: I don't know that there's seven personally.
SPEAKER_03: Clyde watched them and told me all about it.
SPEAKER_03: But are you just, did Jesus really die for us to just sit on our couch and just be hypnotized by that big blue flickering box and just kind of this is awesome, and just another episode, another episode.
SPEAKER_03: And pretty soon you start watching on Tuesday and you wake up and it's Friday and you need to shave and you're like, what in the world is happening?
SPEAKER_03: What's happening is that the much fruit that's impossible and available is not being experienced.
SPEAKER_03: And you want to blame everybody, but it's really us.
SPEAKER_03: It's really us.
SPEAKER_03: So when I say Jesus dies so we can have life, think of it like this: the Bible always calls you and I to proportionality.
SPEAKER_03: It always calls us to proportionality.
SPEAKER_03: It says things like this: conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel.
SPEAKER_03: Conduct yourself, live your life in a way that reflects the value and the worth and the capacity of the gospel.
SPEAKER_03: Or as Jesus says, hey, if the seed dies, it produces much fruit.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus dies so we can have life.
SPEAKER_03: So it's it's important, I say it's paramount, that we kind of take our life and kind of look at it and turn it over and hold it up to the light of the gospel and say, is this the life that Jesus died for me to live?
SPEAKER_03: Is the way I live, does it demonstrate to everybody that there is a God, that he's sufficient, that he's sovereign, that he's good, that he's enjoyable?
SPEAKER_03: Are you just another person who's just kind of muddling through life?
SPEAKER_03: They have their things they rely on.
SPEAKER_03: You kind of rely on Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: This is the muchness of the life that's available to us.
SPEAKER_03: Here's the fourth thing the text tells us Jesus is highly motivated.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus is highly motivated.
SPEAKER_03: Verse 27.
SPEAKER_03: Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say?
SPEAKER_03: Father, save me from this hour, but for this purpose I've come to this hour.
SPEAKER_03: Father, glorify your name.
SPEAKER_03: Hear this next part.
SPEAKER_03: And then a voice came from heaven.
SPEAKER_03: That'd be the voice of God.
SPEAKER_03: I have glorified it and I will glorify it again.
SPEAKER_03: By the way, there's three times in the New Testament where God speaks.
SPEAKER_03: And one of them is right here.
SPEAKER_03: The first one is when Jesus is baptized.
SPEAKER_03: God speaks from heaven and says, This is my son, whom I love, with whom I'm well pleased.
SPEAKER_03: The second time is on the Mount of Transfiguration, uh, where basically, you know, there's two guys on the Mount of Transfiguration.
SPEAKER_03: They see Jesus transfigured.
SPEAKER_03: In other words, his physical being changes.
SPEAKER_03: He floats up in the sky and basically glows, it comes back down.
SPEAKER_03: And all Peter can come up with is, it's good that we're here.
SPEAKER_03: And God speaks and says, This is my son, whom I love, with whom I'm well pleased, and he adds this addendum to the end of it.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, you would do well to listen to him.
SPEAKER_03: And if I watch Jesus transfigure and float up in the sky and become this glowing reality, I'm gonna listen to him.
SPEAKER_03: But when God says you would do well to listen to him, he's just kind of like, in case anyone's wondering who's in charge here, listen to the glowing man, okay?
SPEAKER_03: Uh and then here, and here's what happens here.
SPEAKER_03: God summarizes the life of Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: He says, I have glorified it.
SPEAKER_03: That's the life of Jesus, I will glorify it again.
SPEAKER_03: That's the death of Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: One of the questions, since you're having conversations with your spouse, you should ask yourself, uh, how is God going to summarize my life?
SPEAKER_03: He summarizes the life of his son by saying, I have glorified it.
SPEAKER_03: Because Jesus says, What come to this hour?
SPEAKER_03: My heart is troubled.
SPEAKER_03: What shall I say then?
SPEAKER_03: Save me?
SPEAKER_03: No, it's for this very reason that I came.
SPEAKER_03: Father, glorify your name.
SPEAKER_03: You and I are gonna live one of two lives.
SPEAKER_03: You're gonna live a life that says, Save me, get me out of this, protect me, prevent that from happening to me, or you're gonna live a glorify your name.
SPEAKER_03: Glorify your name.
SPEAKER_03: And and that's the motivation.
SPEAKER_03: When I say Jesus is highly motivated, that's the that that's all through the gospels.
SPEAKER_03: This is what motivates him, this is what pushes him forward.
SPEAKER_03: And to get to this proper motivation, what we've got to do is we've got to burn through some of what I call these lesser motivations.
SPEAKER_03: Let me list three of them for you.
SPEAKER_03: First of all, there's fear.
SPEAKER_03: Fear.
SPEAKER_03: Fear leads us to do nothing or the easiest thing.
SPEAKER_03: It just leads us to fear leads us to do, it paralyzes us in place.
SPEAKER_03: And it grinds to a halt the sanctification process, which is the process where where we become more and more like Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: Okay?
SPEAKER_03: Here's another lesser motivation: pity.
SPEAKER_03: Pity.
SPEAKER_03: Fear leads us to do nothing or the easiest thing.
SPEAKER_03: Pity leads us to depend on others to do everything.
SPEAKER_03: You just you just kind of live palm up.
SPEAKER_03: You're the guy, girl, it's always like, hey, hey, and you're here's how you know you're motivated by pity because you're afraid of people knowing the actual circumstances of your life.
SPEAKER_03: Then they may change the way they feel about you, and you couldn't get pity anymore, or you couldn't look to them to meet your needs anymore.
SPEAKER_03: So you're constantly underrepresenting how good God is to you because you're addicted to pity.
SPEAKER_03: And you just, if you want to just do something interesting, start listening for how many people poor-mouth their circumstance or situation in life versus how many people are positive.
SPEAKER_03: I don't mean cheesy or religious.
SPEAKER_03: I mean they're just like, you know what?
SPEAKER_03: It's crazy right now, but I'm going to get through this.
SPEAKER_03: God is faithful.
SPEAKER_03: How are you guys doing?
SPEAKER_03: Versus, yeah, I don't know where my next meal's coming from.
SPEAKER_03: I don't know what I'm going to do.
SPEAKER_03: I don't know where I'm going to get the money to pay that.
SPEAKER_03: In your savings account.
SPEAKER_03: We've had people come here to the church and ask for benevolence, financial assistance.
SPEAKER_03: And we have a form.
SPEAKER_03: We're going to just dole money out the door.
SPEAKER_03: And it's amazing.
SPEAKER_03: Some people are like, hey, well, do you have any family you could call on?
SPEAKER_03: Have you called on family or close friends?
SPEAKER_03: Have you gone through your savings?
SPEAKER_03: One person said, I'm saving my savings account because I got to go on vacation in a few months.
SPEAKER_03: That's a person that lives on pity.
SPEAKER_03: That says, I look to everybody else to do for me what I could very well do for myself, but why do that?
SPEAKER_03: Because I can't, I might I might have to miss a vacation.
SPEAKER_03: Pity will cause you to become a person that nobody respects, and ultimately in the end, you won't respect yourself either.
SPEAKER_03: It's a lesser motivation.
SPEAKER_03: Here's another one that sounds good, but it's a lesser motivation.
SPEAKER_03: Love.
SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying love's a bad thing.
SPEAKER_03: Love leads us to do anything.
SPEAKER_03: Now, you say, what do you mean?
SPEAKER_03: Remember a couple months ago, I don't know, four or five months ago, all this big eyes like, I don't want a dog.
SPEAKER_03: My wife and kids want a dog.
SPEAKER_03: I don't want a dog.
SPEAKER_03: We're fixing to be 18 months from an empty nest.
SPEAKER_03: I don't want a dog in my house.
SPEAKER_03: His name's Charlie.
SPEAKER_03: We had coffee this morning.
SPEAKER_03: Every morning that dog gets up in bed with me, and he's awesome, by the way.
SPEAKER_03: Have your parents come to my house, kids.
SPEAKER_03: You can have a play date with my puppy.
SPEAKER_03: He's not a dog, he's a puppy.
SPEAKER_03: It is incredible.
SPEAKER_03: Of course, my wife's doing all the heavy lifting.
SPEAKER_03: She's training the thing.
SPEAKER_03: I'm just the guy that plays and gets him kind of riled up, all right?
SPEAKER_03: He's so enjoyable.
SPEAKER_03: I wish I would have done this sooner.
SPEAKER_03: Now, for some of my friends, like, hey, heard you got a dog.
SPEAKER_03: Thought you were gonna get a dog.
SPEAKER_03: And I say different things, but what I really should just say is love.
SPEAKER_03: Love leads you, excuse me, love leads you to do anything.
SPEAKER_03: And so, uh, did I want a dog six months ago?
SPEAKER_03: Not at all.
SPEAKER_03: Okay?
SPEAKER_03: That dog left a little present by the garage door last night in the house.
SPEAKER_03: And I was like, oh, I got it, I got it, no big deal.
SPEAKER_03: It's okay, it's okay, puppy.
SPEAKER_03: You're okay.
SPEAKER_03: I don't want to shame him or anything.
SPEAKER_03: Six months ago, I was like, I'm gonna throw this dog over the fence.
SPEAKER_03: Anybody puts a hand on my dog, I'm like, I'm gonna love.
SPEAKER_03: But you gotta burn through these lesser motivations to get to the right motivation, which is glory.
SPEAKER_03: This is what motivates Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: Glory leads us to do the right thing.
SPEAKER_03: Again, what shall I say?
SPEAKER_03: Save me from this hour?
SPEAKER_03: No, this is the very reason I came to this hour.
SPEAKER_03: What's the very reason to glorify God?
SPEAKER_03: The Bible does the same thing, okay?
SPEAKER_03: It invites you and I to do everything that we do for the glory of God.
SPEAKER_03: Whatever you do, 1 Corinthians 10, 31, whatever you do.
SPEAKER_03: Whether you play basketball, whether you play football, whether you're in the band, whether you own a business, whether you just work for the business, whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do all for the glory of God.
SPEAKER_03: The question you have to learn to ask yourself, to catechize your own self, is to ask yourself this question: how do I do what I do to the glory of God?
SPEAKER_03: How do I teach school in such a way that people don't just love and appreciate me?
SPEAKER_03: Nothing wrong with being loved or appreciated, but they go, you know what?
SPEAKER_03: The way you do that makes me think more highly of God than I thought before.
SPEAKER_03: So thank you for doing that.
SPEAKER_03: This is why God summarizes the life of his son Jesus and says, I have glorified it.
SPEAKER_03: And it's his life, and I will glorify it again.
SPEAKER_03: This is his death.
SPEAKER_03: Again, ask yourself, how will God summarize your life?
SPEAKER_03: Is God gonna look at you when you get to heaven and go, you were a nervous little man?
SPEAKER_03: You had everything you needed, and you freaked out anytime something happened.
SPEAKER_03: You like pull the van over and yell at your kids.
SPEAKER_03: What are you freaking out about?
SPEAKER_03: Or is God gonna look at you ladies and be kind of like, yeah, you you had the capacity to be so big and yet you chose to live so small?
SPEAKER_03: Why, why, why, why did you you you you continually look to your little three or four girlfriends to meet your deepest need?
SPEAKER_03: Never to me.
SPEAKER_03: You could have had so much, so much deeper and richer and fuller experiences, but you ran to them instead of coming to me.
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
SPEAKER_03: What a small way to live.
SPEAKER_03: How's he gonna summarize your life?
SPEAKER_03: Here's the next thing the text tells us is that Jesus' death is consequential.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus' death is consequential.
SPEAKER_03: Look at verse 30.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus answered, This voice has come for your sake, not mine.
SPEAKER_03: Now is the judgment of this world.
SPEAKER_03: Now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
SPEAKER_03: And I, when I am lifted up, will draw all people to myself.
SPEAKER_03: There's three consequences of the death of Jesus mentioned right there.
SPEAKER_03: Let me just touch on each one of them briefly.
SPEAKER_03: Number one, he says, the world is judged.
SPEAKER_03: Now, now, excuse me, is the judgment of this world.
SPEAKER_03: The cross, the fact that the perfect Son of God is going to the cross and he is going to die should make us ask this question.
SPEAKER_03: What does God believe about humanity that makes the death of his son necessary?
SPEAKER_03: Because the world is under judgment.
SPEAKER_03: Now is the judgment of the world.
SPEAKER_03: The cross, beloved, is the biggest indictment on the guilt of humanity you'll ever know.
SPEAKER_03: Now is the judgment.
SPEAKER_03: Now is the judgment of this world.
SPEAKER_03: And so that we've all sinned and we've all fallen short of the glory of God.
SPEAKER_03: So much so that God has to send his perfect son as a perfect sacrifice to restore us, to live for what we were created for, and that's glory.
SPEAKER_03: It's Romans uh 623, uh excuse me, 3.23, uh, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
SPEAKER_03: Stop thinking so much about sin and think more about glory, because that's your created environment, okay?
SPEAKER_03: And the world is judged.
SPEAKER_03: Secondly, Satan is defeated.
SPEAKER_03: He says right there, he says, after he says, and now is the judgment of the world, he says, now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
SPEAKER_03: Now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
SPEAKER_03: He's a worthy foe, but he's a defeated foe.
SPEAKER_03: This is the way the book of Colossians talks about it in chapter 2, starting verse 13.
SPEAKER_03: He says, And you who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, Jesus, having forgive us all our trespasses by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands.
SPEAKER_03: This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
SPEAKER_03: He disarmed the rulers and the authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in him, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: And so when he says that I say Satan is defeated, this is what all happens because of the cross.
SPEAKER_03: The world experiences judgment, okay?
SPEAKER_03: The ruler of this world is cast out.
SPEAKER_03: And the last thing he says is he says this.
SPEAKER_03: He says, and I, when I'm lifted up from the earth, think the cross, I'm lifted up from the earth, this is what will happen.
SPEAKER_03: I will draw all people to myself.
SPEAKER_03: Now that's not all people as in everybody, that's universalism.
SPEAKER_03: The Bible does not teach that.
SPEAKER_03: But all people, people from all different backgrounds and walks of life, ask yourself this question.
SPEAKER_03: Is there anybody in your life that you just think, man, they would never become a Christian?
SPEAKER_03: If you believe what Jesus is saying, see, the pressure is off of you and I in evangelism.
SPEAKER_03: And I'm not saying don't do evangelism.
SPEAKER_03: A lot of people that are like, they're so theological.
SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm a Calvinist, I don't share my faith because if God wants people saved, he's gonna elect them and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_03: You can have great theology and live in sin.
SPEAKER_03: It's not an excuse for being lazy and unintentional when it comes to people, as Jesus says later, these that the one who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
SPEAKER_03: How in God's name can you know that about people that they walk in darkness and they don't know where they're going, and you call yourself their friend, and you just stand by and just rest in your theology and read books by your favorite author and do nothing to speak the good news of the gospel to them.
SPEAKER_03: It's terrible.
SPEAKER_03: It's terrible theology, and you should be embarrassed.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus says, I'll draw people, all people, to myself.
SPEAKER_03: That doesn't mean we don't engage in evangelism.
SPEAKER_03: If anything, it means that we engage in evangelism from this place of freedom and joy and life and winsomeness.
SPEAKER_03: And now is a great time, beloved, for us to engage in evangelism.
SPEAKER_03: Not a sexy word.
SPEAKER_03: We call it a bunch of different things.
SPEAKER_03: Let's have spiritual dialogue with the culture and blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_03: Ask yourself this question: how should these realities inform and affect the way you engage in evangelism?
SPEAKER_03: This world is under judgment.
SPEAKER_03: The prince of this world has been defeated.
SPEAKER_03: Satan's been defeated.
SPEAKER_03: He's been disarmed.
SPEAKER_03: God triumphed over him on the cross through the life, death, burial, resurrection of Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: And he says, Hey, when I be lifted up, I'll draw all men into myself.
SPEAKER_03: You and I don't have to do that.
SPEAKER_03: You don't have to persuade.
SPEAKER_03: You have to trust the efficacy and the sufficiency of the atonement to bring people to Christ.
SPEAKER_03: The pressure is off, but the responsibility isn't.
SPEAKER_03: Here's the last thing the text says He says, This is that Jesus invites you to believe.
SPEAKER_03: You still with me?
SPEAKER_03: Stay with me.
SPEAKER_03: I want you to see this because it's a long passage for which I do not apologize.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, because it all comes down to this.
SPEAKER_03: In verse 30, he says this.
SPEAKER_03: Excuse me, uh, verse 35.
SPEAKER_03: So Jesus said to them, The light is among you for a little while longer.
SPEAKER_03: Hello, talking about himself.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you, overtakes you.
SPEAKER_03: The one who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
SPEAKER_03: While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.
SPEAKER_03: Hear that part.
SPEAKER_03: While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.
SPEAKER_03: There's two things I want you to see as we close this morning.
SPEAKER_03: Number one, notice the order of Jesus' words.
SPEAKER_03: He says, while you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light, okay?
SPEAKER_03: You believe, and then you become.
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes we get it backwards in church.
SPEAKER_03: We want people to become so that it is evidence that they've actually believed, okay?
SPEAKER_03: Uh you should remember when you first became a Christian.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, it should have been a, and by the way, I think it's a noticeable, obvious difference that's made in your life.
SPEAKER_03: I'm not one of those people that's like, oh, that guy's a Christian, but we can't really tell.
SPEAKER_03: Well, we don't really know who's Christian and who not, so that's judgment.
SPEAKER_03: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_03: That's not true either, okay?
SPEAKER_03: Uh, we don't want to fall off on either extreme.
SPEAKER_03: We just want to say this, that believing in the light, believing in Jesus is a deeply consequential thing.
SPEAKER_03: No one as Jesus said, lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, but they put it on a lampstand and it gives light to the whole room, okay?
SPEAKER_03: So if you have a relationship with God that's as simple as believing, if you believe, that's gonna give light to every room you're in.
SPEAKER_03: You cannot hide that, okay?
SPEAKER_03: It's I just want you to notice the order.
SPEAKER_03: And I want us to be a little more gracious people and realize, hey, does this person believe?
SPEAKER_03: And where are they on the scale of becoming?
SPEAKER_03: Which brings me to the second and last thing I want to point to this morning.
SPEAKER_03: You become what you believe.
SPEAKER_03: So if you're wondering what you believe, look at the trajectory of what you're becoming.
SPEAKER_03: That's the greatest indication.
SPEAKER_03: I know no more simple or better way to say it.
SPEAKER_03: You become what you believe.
SPEAKER_03: That's what Jesus says.
SPEAKER_03: He says, while you have the light, believe in the light.
SPEAKER_03: Why?
SPEAKER_03: That you may become sons of light.
SPEAKER_03: You become what you believe.
SPEAKER_03: So again, if you're wondering, hey, what do I believe?
SPEAKER_03: Look at the trajectory of what you're becoming, and that will indicate to you what you actually believe.
SPEAKER_03: Everything else is just religious gossip.
SPEAKER_03: It's just stuff you write down in church or you and your friends talk about, or you watch your favorite podcast.
SPEAKER_03: Some of you need to stop watching podcasts because all it does is create more unlived truth in you, which eventually will make you feel guilty.
SPEAKER_03: You'll choke on your own hypocrisy.
SPEAKER_03: This is where technology cannot give you the experience that simple obedience can and will.
SPEAKER_03: It's not about collecting, oh, I love that, and I love that, I love that.
SPEAKER_03: Now, am I saying don't watch podcasts?
SPEAKER_03: Not at all.
SPEAKER_03: I'm saying this.
SPEAKER_03: That will not help you become.
SPEAKER_03: Listening to other people talk about spiritual reality.
SPEAKER_03: I know people listen to podcasts on the way to work, listening to podcasts at lunch, listen to a different on the way on the way home.
SPEAKER_03: That's 21 a week, okay?
SPEAKER_03: Or I'm back at a 15, five work a day.
SPEAKER_03: 15 a week.
SPEAKER_03: And I just asked this question hey, how much of that truth can you traffic?
SPEAKER_03: Well, what's your point?
SPEAKER_03: I I just, I just, I mean, you're like the most interesting Bible information guy, but the life you live is not very interesting.
SPEAKER_03: You talk a lot, but I look at your life, you're just a basically a fear-driven man.
SPEAKER_03: You should stop listening to all that stuff.
SPEAKER_03: The conversation did not go well.
SPEAKER_03: And here's why.
SPEAKER_03: Because unlived truth eventually erodes just into spiritual gossip.
SPEAKER_03: You become what you believe.
SPEAKER_03: So I think it would behoove us just to ask ourselves, what who am I becoming?
SPEAKER_03: And what does that indicate about what I actually believe?
SPEAKER_03: Because Jesus says, you believe in the light, you believe in the Son of God, and you'll become sons of light.
SPEAKER_03: You'll become daughters of light, you'll become this incandescent, uh, uh, uh, obvious reality that everybody around you takes note of and wants to understand a little bit more.
SPEAKER_03: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_03: Father, thanks for your your word.
SPEAKER_03: Thanks that it's always going out and never coming back void.
SPEAKER_03: It is very obvious to us.
SPEAKER_03: It's very clear, it's very satisfying, it's very thought-provoking, it's very engaging of head and heart and hand.
SPEAKER_03: And so, Holy Spirit, just brood over us now while we just take a moment, just sitting there in our living room or our office or wherever we are, and just thinking about what the gospel has said to us today.
SPEAKER_03: Thinking about the questions that'll come up on the screen for us and our small groups to kind of chop up and think about later tonight when we meet on Zoom.
SPEAKER_03: And so, Lord, this is inconvenient, but it reminds us of the beauty of gathering together.
SPEAKER_03: And we can't wait to be together and to just explode in worship of you and to say, thank you, God.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, God.
SPEAKER_03: So, Jesus, there's so many things the text here says about you.
SPEAKER_03: To try to summarize it in a title would be offensive.
SPEAKER_03: So we just say, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: Look at how great Jesus is.
SPEAKER_03: Look at how reality comes along and swallows up empty religious ritual.
SPEAKER_03: We ask for the same thing in our lives.
SPEAKER_03: That God use the questions that come up on the screen now to swallow up all the pretense, all the unlived truth in our life.
SPEAKER_03: It's just sitting dormant on the shelf of our intellect.
SPEAKER_03: Lord, we want to love you with our mind.
SPEAKER_03: So teach us to think in ways that inform our living.
SPEAKER_03: We pray and we listen now in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Promises passed down.
SPEAKER_01: I went into the water.
SPEAKER_01: My father, he was pleased.
SPEAKER_01: I built it and I'll tear it down so you will be set free.
SPEAKER_01: I found thieves and I found salesmen living in my father's house.
SPEAKER_01: I know how they got in here, or I know how to get 'em out.
SPEAKER_01: I'm turning this place over Florida, Palphany, then just like these doves and sheep.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, you will be set free.
SPEAKER_01: I have always been a lover, even before I drew breath.
SPEAKER_01: Some things I loved easy, oh, and some I loved death.
SPEAKER_01: You see, love's no competition, cause it listens carefully.
SPEAKER_01: So those who come, I can't lose one, so you will be set free.
SPEAKER_01: Go on and take my picture, go on and make me up.
SPEAKER_01: I still be a defender.
SPEAKER_01: You'll be my missing son, and I'll send down an army just to bring you back to me.
SPEAKER_01: So you missed it before I'm in love with it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm in love with mine.
SPEAKER_01: So you bring all your history, and I'll bring the bread and wine.
SPEAKER_01: We'll have a best party for all the dreams around me and assume the as the rising sun, all you will be set free.
SPEAKER_03: Oh Father, is it any wonder that the that the gospel says it was for freedom you set us free?
SPEAKER_03: And so, Lord, we just we want to live in the freedom you you lived and died and rose again for us to have.
SPEAKER_03: We want to reject religion in favor of a relationship, a winsome, life-altering, intellect-bending relationship with God that gives light to the every room that we're in.
SPEAKER_03: Not as some moral superiority, but as a moral presence where we are unapologetic.
SPEAKER_03: And God, now there's thieves and liars that have got into your house.
SPEAKER_03: How to do church, and it's not the church.
SPEAKER_03: And I pray that one of the fruits that come of this economic downturn is that those people go out of business.
SPEAKER_03: Those thieves and liars we put outside of your house in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_03: The church does not need to be marketed, the church needs to be experienced.
SPEAKER_03: And that comes from us being who the Bible says we are.
SPEAKER_03: And so, Lord, thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03: When you come in on Palm Sunday, the first thing you did was disrupt the temple.
SPEAKER_03: You just drove the money changers out, the thieves and the liars.
SPEAKER_03: Drive the money changers out of your church in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_03: Give the body of Christ eyes to see and stop tolerating nonsense and being lazy.
SPEAKER_03: Stop hiring people to hire your staff like you don't hear from God.
SPEAKER_03: God, if we have staffs that don't hear from God, let them be fired in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_03: This is ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03: Jesus, you came in on Palm Sunday just to upset everything that had ever happened.
SPEAKER_03: Is it any wonder that you said, repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand.
SPEAKER_03: Thank you for being the king, and thank you for bringing the kingdom.
SPEAKER_03: We are grateful and we're privileged to be a part of it.
SPEAKER_03: So we say thank you in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_03: And everyone said, Amen.
SPEAKER_03: Amen.
SPEAKER_03: Sorry about that.
SPEAKER_03: I got a little, I got a little wire.
SPEAKER_03: Clyde sang that song I didn't know he was going to sing, got me fired up.
SPEAKER_03: Uh anyway, uh, just a couple of announcements today.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, by the way, uh, we haven't, some of you have asked, are we doing Maundy Thursday?
SPEAKER_03: We're not doing Maundy Thursday this year because it's way too experiential.
SPEAKER_03: However, we do have a good Friday service.
SPEAKER_03: Friday night at seven, we'll live stream it right here if you'd like to join us.
SPEAKER_03: Love to be part of that.
SPEAKER_03: Clyde and I are working on that.
SPEAKER_03: And so we look forward to being with you Friday night at 7 o'clock.
SPEAKER_03: Here's the other thing.
SPEAKER_03: You may be sitting on your couch right now thinking, man, I've been in lockdown.
SPEAKER_03: I want to do something.
SPEAKER_03: Here's a very practical way uh uh to do something to express your faith.
SPEAKER_03: Uh, starting here in about an hour, less than an hour, about because I went a little longer today.
SPEAKER_03: Whoopsie.
SPEAKER_03: Um uh in about 45 minutes from 12 to 2, we're gonna be collecting food right out here in front of the church.
SPEAKER_03: And so if you're like, hey, I want to grab my kids or like, hey, honey, you watch the kids, I'm gonna go get some alone time.
SPEAKER_03: Uh uh, just go by.
SPEAKER_03: I sent you an email last night with the things that Second Mile is collecting, uh, and we're gonna we're gonna pick them up right here in front of the church.
SPEAKER_03: All you gotta do is pull up, we'll practice social distancing.
SPEAKER_03: You can pop the trunk, we'll unload them and bring them in, and then tomorrow we're gonna load up everything we have and take it to Second Mile, okay?
SPEAKER_03: Uh, and so if you'd like to do something practical to express your faith, you could do that.
SPEAKER_03: They are feeding, they're giving away five to six hundred meals a day uh these days, and so the need is great there.
SPEAKER_03: So you cannot bring too much, okay?
SPEAKER_03: Whatever you got, bring it.
SPEAKER_03: As I said in the email, load the wagon.
SPEAKER_03: Last thing, be praying for our blood drive that is going on.
SPEAKER_03: It kicks off here in a few minutes.
SPEAKER_03: We're all set up out in the warehouse.
SPEAKER_03: We have social distancing protocols.
SPEAKER_03: We have 70 people that are going to give blood, which is gonna meet another need.
SPEAKER_03: This is what the church does.
SPEAKER_03: This is us being the church, capital C, okay?
SPEAKER_03: And so I'm proud of you.
SPEAKER_03: Keep doing what you're doing.
SPEAKER_03: Let's all do our part.
SPEAKER_03: We'll turn the corner on this, flatten the curve, and then we'll get back to being together as the church.
SPEAKER_03: Let me let me speak a blessing over you.
SPEAKER_03: So if you would get up off the couch, uh hold your hands out, uh, and receive this as a gift from God.
SPEAKER_03: By his coming, God has given you something to believe in that is sure and certain.
SPEAKER_03: And by believing in this, you become.
SPEAKER_03: You become.
SPEAKER_03: Who you are right now, what that means is that who you are right now is not who you're always going to be.
SPEAKER_03: So do not come to any conclusions about yourself.
SPEAKER_03: Keep becoming, because this is the power and the promise of the gospel.
SPEAKER_03: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_03: Amen.
SPEAKER_03: Bless you.