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SPEAKER_02: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_02: The demolish strongholds and everything that exalts itself above the knowledge of God.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes God feels like we're overwhelmed.
SPEAKER_02: And those moments when we feel overwhelmed, remind us that we're surrounded.
SPEAKER_02: The psalmist said, as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people.
SPEAKER_02: So Lord, uh, we we say with Elisha's servant that those who are for us are greater than those who are against us.
SPEAKER_02: And so, Lord, uh, open our eyes to see wonderful things in your law today.
SPEAKER_02: Not just spiritual truths, but but spiritual invitations and opportunities for us to flesh out what we say.
SPEAKER_02: So, Lord, leave an indelible impression today, this morning, uh, on our intellect and our affections, and do that from your word and by your spirit.
SPEAKER_02: We pray for this as your sons and daughters, and we ask for this in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_02: And everyone said, Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: You can have a seat.
SPEAKER_02: If you've got a Bible, I invite you to take it and open up to the Gospel of John.
SPEAKER_02: If you don't have a Bible, there's one in your row.
SPEAKER_02: I'm going to be reading off of page 898.
SPEAKER_02: Uh 808, John chapter 11.
SPEAKER_02: I'll start reading verse 45.
SPEAKER_02: If you're our guest today, uh, let me just remind you that we are uh there's an earring on the stage.
SPEAKER_02: Apparently somebody got too excited in worship.
SPEAKER_02: Put that right there.
SPEAKER_02: Uh do what?
SPEAKER_02: Lindsay's.
SPEAKER_02: It's Lindsay's.
SPEAKER_02: I'll sell it on eBay.
SPEAKER_02: Uh anyway, uh, if you're a guest today, uh we take the Bible very seriously.
SPEAKER_02: You say, uh who doesn't?
SPEAKER_02: Uh well, I'll let you figure that out.
SPEAKER_02: But we're preaching through the Gospel of John, uh, just verse by verse, because we believe the Bible's true, it's authoritative, and we believe it makes sense, okay?
SPEAKER_02: And so today I want to talk to you about the inescapable enoughness of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: The inescapable enoughness of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: You know, like enoughness is not a word.
SPEAKER_02: It is now because I just said it.
SPEAKER_02: Uh I just spoke it into existence right there.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, enoughness.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and that'll make sense as we get into the text.
SPEAKER_02: So if you're if you're our guest, let me tell you what we're gonna do.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna read the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna read from verse 45 to the end of the chapter down about verse 57, and then I'm gonna come back and make five points right out of the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: And then at the end, we'll take some time just to think about what we've heard.
SPEAKER_02: We do not believe in religious guilt, manipulation, pressure, coercion.
SPEAKER_02: I don't have a program I'm selling today.
SPEAKER_02: You don't get a set of ginsu nice if you come early.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, none of that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_02: We just kind of say, hey, take some space, some questions come up at the end on the screen for you to think about because the Bible uh is not just to be taught, it's to be experienced and to be lived, okay?
SPEAKER_02: And we want to do our best in that.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes we don't do so great.
SPEAKER_02: Uh uh but but but God doesn't kick us out and give up on us.
SPEAKER_02: He says, hey, hey, let's learn from this and let's do differently next time, all right?
SPEAKER_02: And so the inescapable enoughness of Jesus from John chapter 11, verse 45, the Bible says this.
SPEAKER_02: Many of the Jews, therefore, now give you the context before I start reading.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, Jesus has healed a blind guy in chapter 9, the guy that was blind from birth, and the religious people just freaked out, the religious people that were in charge, because Christianity, a relationship with God, will do things for you and in you that religion never could.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, you let it out, sister.
SPEAKER_02: Uh she's just squeaked, she's just beating her kids so she can leave church early.
SPEAKER_02: Don't fall for that.
SPEAKER_02: It's like I don't want to hear this.
SPEAKER_02: Enough of this.
SPEAKER_02: That's not a word.
SPEAKER_02: Pinch the baby, we're leaving.
SPEAKER_02: Uh uh, anyway.
SPEAKER_02: Some of y'all are like, you're not a good man.
SPEAKER_02: I haven't preached in a couple of weeks, and so let me remember how to remember how to do this.
SPEAKER_02: Uh uh, Jesus heals a blind guy, and so everything in the Bible happens in a context.
SPEAKER_02: You need to understand this.
SPEAKER_02: He heals a blind guy, and they just go crazy because not only did he do that, because he did for them what the religious people never could.
SPEAKER_02: And then he in chapter 11, this first part of this chapter, he raises a guy named Lazarus from the dead who's been dead for four days.
SPEAKER_02: And so now they are really stoked.
SPEAKER_02: They are just like, who do you think you are?
SPEAKER_02: They're not just stoked, they're threatened, they're afraid.
SPEAKER_02: Because people are seeing what a relationship with God looks like.
SPEAKER_02: That's what Jesus models.
SPEAKER_02: It's just here's how to be intimately related to God, and they are freaking out because people are leaving their little religious gathering and they're going to Jesus because they want the real thing.
SPEAKER_02: John chapter 11, verse 45.
SPEAKER_02: Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary had seen what he did.
SPEAKER_02: By the way, ladies, this is free.
SPEAKER_02: There's always a crowd around Mary.
SPEAKER_02: There's never a crowd around Martha.
SPEAKER_02: Martha was her sister, she was just a busybody, she's just a workaholic, always, and she's always just like, oh, just working for Jesus, just working for Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Those people are not enjoyable, and people don't want to be around them.
SPEAKER_02: Mary showed up with a kind of a crazy look in her eye, kind of like, I've been making potato salad and hanging out with Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Who wants to hear about that?
SPEAKER_02: And women were like, Womp, yes.
SPEAKER_02: And so there's this big crowd.
SPEAKER_02: They've come with Mary and they'd seen what he did, and they believed in him.
SPEAKER_02: But some of them went to Jesus and told them what Jesus, to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done.
SPEAKER_02: And so the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, What are we to do?
SPEAKER_02: For this man performs many signs.
SPEAKER_02: If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
SPEAKER_02: But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, nor do you understand that it is better for you that no that one man should die for the people, that the whole nation should perish.
SPEAKER_02: He did not say this of his own accord, but being a high the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
SPEAKER_02: So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, therefore, no longer walked openly among the Jews, but he went from there to the region near the wilderness to a town called Iphraim, and there he stayed with his disciples.
SPEAKER_02: Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
SPEAKER_02: They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think?
SPEAKER_02: That he will not come to the feast at all?
SPEAKER_02: Now the chief priests of the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know so that they might arrest him.
SPEAKER_02: Now, what do I mean when I say the inescapable enoughness of Jesus?
SPEAKER_02: I'll let the Bible make this case.
SPEAKER_02: There's five things I want to point to in the text.
SPEAKER_02: And the first one is simply this is that Jesus is inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus is inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: The people here in this text are just like the people in this room.
SPEAKER_02: Some people believed in him, others just talked about him, others were threatened by him, and so they formulated a plan to stop him.
SPEAKER_02: If you read the verse, like verse verse four or five verses, verses 45 to 48, you'll see that the people saw what he did and believed in him.
SPEAKER_02: Some of the people heard what he had done, and they went and told the Pharisees, the religious priests of the day.
SPEAKER_02: And then I love this.
SPEAKER_02: The council gets together, verse 47.
SPEAKER_02: So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, What are we to do?
SPEAKER_02: For this man performs many signs.
SPEAKER_02: And if we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him.
SPEAKER_02: And the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
SPEAKER_02: We'll get to that in just a minute.
SPEAKER_02: But what I want you to see is that Jesus is inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: He is inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: You may be in this room right now and thinking, this does not, this defies the laws of logic.
SPEAKER_02: I cannot agree with this.
SPEAKER_02: I have a scientific mind.
SPEAKER_02: That's great.
SPEAKER_02: You can say Jesus is non-existent, but you still have to face the fact that what are you going to do with him?
SPEAKER_02: Some believed, some just tattled on Jesus, and some were threatened by him.
SPEAKER_02: And they said, Hey, we gotta we gotta formulate a plan to stop this guy.
SPEAKER_02: Now it's easy in this day and age to kind of go, oh, my God's a God of love.
SPEAKER_02: He would never threaten me.
SPEAKER_02: If you hear anything I say today, hear this.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, he would.
SPEAKER_02: Let me give you just a few examples.
SPEAKER_02: He threatens our sense of justice.
SPEAKER_02: You say, What do you mean, our sense of justice?
SPEAKER_02: He ju he threatens our sense of justice because he invites us to believe that he will deal with our enemies better than we ever could.
SPEAKER_02: To not believe this is to say that I'm entitled to something that the Bible doesn't give me.
SPEAKER_02: I'm entitled to hold on to feelings towards my enemies that God drops towards me, his greatest enemy.
SPEAKER_02: And so he threatens our sense of justice.
SPEAKER_02: Secondly, he threatens our sense of fairness, he threatens our sense of fairness.
SPEAKER_02: You look around, you watch evil people prosper, and yet we go on doing the right thing while nobody seems to notice.
SPEAKER_02: He threatens our impure motives when we think that by doing this, I'll get that.
SPEAKER_02: So we do this and we don't get that, and then we gotta ask ourselves, now what do you want to do?
SPEAKER_02: See, he he's not safe, he's very threatening.
SPEAKER_02: And so, regardless of what you think or believe, you have to answer this question that this council of religious people had to answer.
SPEAKER_02: And it's simply this what are we to do?
SPEAKER_02: They didn't believe.
SPEAKER_02: You can sit in this room and go, I don't believe any of this.
SPEAKER_02: I think this is a colossal waste of time, not a problem.
SPEAKER_02: What are you going to do?
SPEAKER_02: Because Jesus is inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: Let me give you an example from the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, later on in John's gospel and all the gospels, the gospel just means good news.
SPEAKER_02: It's these guys that walked with Jesus, hung out with Jesus, and after Jesus died, they recorded, hey, we want people to understand how this all went down.
SPEAKER_02: Towards the end of his life, he is um he goes to the cross, he gets, they trumped up some charges, they accused him falsely of doing things and had a trial.
SPEAKER_02: And they got that, they kept sending him for one magistrate, one judge for lack of a better word, to another one.
SPEAKER_02: Because they were like, we don't want to have anything to do with this.
SPEAKER_02: This thing is a this is a railroad job from the beginning.
SPEAKER_02: And so they seem to have got him Pilate.
SPEAKER_02: Pilate talks to Jesus a little bit and he realizes this guy is innocent.
SPEAKER_02: They just hate him and they want to kill him.
SPEAKER_02: And so Pilate's like, I don't want to be responsible for the death of an innocent man.
SPEAKER_02: So there was a custom of the day that at the time of Passover, they would release one criminal and just to say, hey, we're being merciful like God's merciful.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, we're overlooking his sins the way God overlooks our sins.
SPEAKER_02: And so he went to the jail and he got the biggest rapscallion he could find.
SPEAKER_02: I mean the meth head that steals from everybody in town to support his habit, got named Barabbas.
SPEAKER_02: And he stands him up before the crowd.
SPEAKER_02: The crowd is lathered up.
SPEAKER_02: They got torches, they're like, and Pilate thinks this is the way I'm gonna get out of this.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna kill an innocent man.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna get this scoundrel named Barabbas, and I'm gonna say, hey, in keeping with the custom of releasing a criminal this time of year to demonstrate my mercy, I will release one of these men.
SPEAKER_02: Who would you want me to release to you?
SPEAKER_02: Do you want me to release Jesus or you want me to release Barabbas?
SPEAKER_02: And the crowd went crazy.
SPEAKER_02: They said, Give us Barabbas! And Pilate was like, dang.
SPEAKER_02: Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_02: You ever have a plan and all of a sudden you realize your plan's not working?
SPEAKER_02: He is on the horns of a dilemma here, beloved.
SPEAKER_02: He is just like, uh, uh, and then he he utters this great question.
SPEAKER_02: This is why Jesus is inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: He looks at the crowd and he says, Then what shall we do with Jesus who's called the Christ?
SPEAKER_02: You see, he's inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: You can deny him, you can doubt him, you can, but you're going to have to reckon with him in this life or in the one to come.
SPEAKER_02: So we start this morning with the Bible just kind of reminding us that Jesus is inescapable.
SPEAKER_02: Secondly, here's what the Bible tells us political solutions without spiritual renewal never changes a nation.
SPEAKER_02: That's a lot.
SPEAKER_02: So let me say it again.
SPEAKER_02: Political solutions without spiritual renewal never changes a nation.
SPEAKER_02: You say, Where do you get that?
SPEAKER_02: Look at verse 48 in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want you to think I made this up and just pulled this out of thin air.
SPEAKER_02: The council ends in 47.
SPEAKER_02: They say, What are we to do?
SPEAKER_02: This man performs many signs.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 48.
SPEAKER_02: If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him.
SPEAKER_02: And the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
SPEAKER_02: But one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year, he said to them, You know nothing at all, nor do you understand that it's better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.
SPEAKER_02: He did not say this of his own accord, but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation.
SPEAKER_02: Now, when I say political solutions without spiritual renewal never changes the nation, here's what I mean.
SPEAKER_02: People disagree.
SPEAKER_02: They did it in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: We do it nowadays, we act like this is all sudden new.
SPEAKER_02: We come up with some new hidden agenda.
SPEAKER_02: It's always been this way.
SPEAKER_02: People disagree with and they doubt the truth of Jesus, not based on the merit of their argument or logic.
SPEAKER_02: They doubt it and they deny it because of what it will mean for them and their preferred lifestyle.
SPEAKER_02: These men are no different.
SPEAKER_02: They said, hey, if Jesus keeps getting more popular, the Romans are going to come and take away our place, the temple, where we're in charge, of the rules about how you get right with God and our nation, the Jewish nation.
SPEAKER_02: So this is not a spiritual decision.
SPEAKER_02: Caiaphas, he's a leader of an institutional organization.
SPEAKER_02: He wants to protect us.
SPEAKER_02: So this is not a spiritual decision, it's a political decision.
SPEAKER_02: And so the problem is that the nation failed anyway.
SPEAKER_02: It was in 8070.
SPEAKER_02: Jerusalem was sacked and just overrun.
SPEAKER_02: The nation failed anyway, and it failed for the same reasons that all other nations failed.
SPEAKER_02: Because the problem is moral and spiritual, not political.
SPEAKER_02: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_02: Now, I'm not saying because some of you are kind of like, well, politics is important.
SPEAKER_02: I think to some degrees, politics is important.
SPEAKER_02: I don't think it's ever going to be ultimate.
SPEAKER_02: If politics and politicians are ultimate for you, uh, this is going to be a hard slog because here's a question I want you to think about.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, when I say political solutions without spiritual renewal never changes a nation.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, here's a question.
SPEAKER_02: What if we took all the money that we spent on politics and we put it and put it to spiritual use?
SPEAKER_02: You ever think like that?
SPEAKER_02: This is what I do in my spare time.
SPEAKER_02: My friends that I play golf with, a bunch of cheating liars.
SPEAKER_02: They're like, hey, what's it like working one day a week?
SPEAKER_02: And this thought goes through my head, hey God, can I just smash him in the face with a seven iron?
SPEAKER_02: Uh and God says no.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02: Uh so anyway, a couple weeks ago when I'm studying, getting ready for this, thinking about it, I was just like, so I went online and I just went to the Center for Political Reform and blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_02: And in the 2018 election cycle alone, that means like November of last year, uh, five months ago, however long, in that election cycle, midterm elections, here's how much money was spent.
SPEAKER_02: The Democratic Party, I mean, raised.
SPEAKER_02: The Democratic Party raised$954,729,$729,181.
SPEAKER_02: The Republicans,$993,963,461.
SPEAKER_02: And then there's the Democratic and the Republican National Committee, they raised extra.
SPEAKER_02: The Democratic and Republican Congressional Committee, they raised another$296 million.
SPEAKER_02: The Democratic and the Republican Senatorial Committee, they uh and so it this is what a loser I am.
SPEAKER_02: I'm in my house trying, I don't have a calculator that can add all that up.
SPEAKER_02: So I got my iPhone, I thought the iPhone can do everything.
SPEAKER_02: I started the iPhone started putting E's in there instead of numbers.
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, where's a teenager that can explain this to me?
SPEAKER_02: What is happening to my phone?
SPEAKER_02: And then this thought went across my mind.
SPEAKER_02: What if you were in charge of whatever that adds up to?
SPEAKER_02: This is just one year, one election cycle.
SPEAKER_02: This is not in the history of humanity.
SPEAKER_02: This is not a presidential election.
SPEAKER_02: It's worse than a presidential election year.
SPEAKER_02: 2020, we will spend off the charts billions of dollars to get the right person in the White House.
SPEAKER_02: And here's here's here's the way I think about it.
SPEAKER_02: Let's just take one of the numbers.
SPEAKER_02: How about Republican Party?
SPEAKER_02: 993,963,461.
SPEAKER_02: People gave of their own free will that money so they could eat a lukewarm bad steak and get their picture taken with their favorite politician at some fundraiser.
SPEAKER_02: What if you just took that money alone?
SPEAKER_02: What would you do with that kind of money?
SPEAKER_02: Would you go to Walmart and get on the PA?
SPEAKER_02: Attention, Walmart shoppers, everything's free, free, free, free.
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'd do?
SPEAKER_02: I'd go down to MD Anderson in the Med Center and stand by the billing department.
SPEAKER_02: And people would come up, men and women would come up sobbing, begging for mercy, and I'd go, hey folks, don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, but our bill's$963,000.
SPEAKER_02: I said, well, I got$963 million.
SPEAKER_02: And ain't no step for a stepper.
SPEAKER_02: Paid in full.
SPEAKER_02: Go enjoy your kid.
SPEAKER_02: Let me ask you a question.
SPEAKER_02: When you get to heaven, which one of those uses of that money is God going to recognize?
SPEAKER_02: It was all given to politicians and politics, or it was used to alleviate poverty and change the culture around you?
SPEAKER_02: I laid in bed that night and I just kept thinking because I was like, oh, the Democrats, I got 954 million.
SPEAKER_02: I want that too, God.
SPEAKER_02: You ever ask yourself how much money God can trust you with?
SPEAKER_02: I'd love to God down here and went, not really.
SPEAKER_02: Because it's easy to look around and kind of go, well, you rich baby, blah, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_02: Ask God, ask, maybe sometime today, just ask God, hey God, how much money do you think you can trust me with?
SPEAKER_02: Because it's just, I just, here, here, again, here's the point.
SPEAKER_02: Political solutions without spiritual renewal never changes a nation.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying politics is bad.
SPEAKER_02: I'm saying politics is not ultimate.
SPEAKER_02: You can email me all you want to, you're not going to change my mind.
SPEAKER_02: Politics and politicians, especially, are not the answer to our problem, beloved.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not saying we shouldn't vote, we shouldn't do our civic duty.
SPEAKER_02: I am saying unapologetically and unequivocally that if your hope is in people to change a nation and not God, you're betting on the wrong horse.
SPEAKER_02: Third thing the Bible tells us is simply this: in the big picture, God uses little people.
SPEAKER_02: In the big picture, God uses little people.
SPEAKER_02: Back to verse 49, this guy Caiaphas, but one of them.
SPEAKER_02: You say, What do you mean he uses uh little people?
SPEAKER_02: I'm not making light of him.
SPEAKER_02: I just think there's people in our lives that if we're not careful, they feel so insignificant or so frustrating that we dismiss them.
SPEAKER_02: And those are the very people that God is using to reveal to you something about you that needs to be addressed, matured, tweaked, changed, repented of.
SPEAKER_02: You say, I don't know what you mean.
SPEAKER_02: God works on such a big scale that he uses people in ways that they don't even understand, but we need to recognize because it changes the way you view all the people in your life that you've kind of said, hey, that person doesn't really matter.
SPEAKER_02: Here, verse 49 again.
SPEAKER_02: Having said all that, one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year, said, said to them, You know nothing at all, nor do you understand that it's better for you that one man should die for the people, that the whole nation should perish.
SPEAKER_02: He did not say this of his own accord, but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation.
SPEAKER_02: Here's what just happened: through the mouth of an insecure religious politician, God introduces the idea of substitutionary atonement into the dialogue.
SPEAKER_02: It is the first time in John's gospel that the idea that Jesus is gonna die for the sins of the world is talked about by somebody besides Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: It just comes right out.
SPEAKER_02: That's why the Bible says in verse 51, he did not say this of his own accord.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because God's using this man on a scale that he does not understand.
SPEAKER_02: You gotta ask yourself this morning who is God using in your life right now to teach you things about yourself, to reveal things, areas of your life that need working on.
SPEAKER_02: Does that make sense to anybody besides me?
SPEAKER_02: I'll go first.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you back there in the back.
SPEAKER_02: I'll go first.
SPEAKER_02: Yesterday was a crazy full day for me.
SPEAKER_02: Had two funerals, beautiful, evocative, just incredibly just moving and powerful.
SPEAKER_02: At the end of the second one, I am done.
SPEAKER_02: I am fried.
SPEAKER_02: My wife's with me.
SPEAKER_02: We're going to home.
SPEAKER_02: She says, Hey, I didn't have time to cook.
SPEAKER_02: We'll pick up something.
SPEAKER_02: We text our 15-year-old, hey, what would bless you for dinner?
SPEAKER_02: Chick-fil-A.
SPEAKER_02: Imagine that.
SPEAKER_02: And so we go to Chick-fil-A.
SPEAKER_02: They are, I don't know if you know, they're working on the Chick-fil-A up here at Greywood.
SPEAKER_02: It's closed on Saturday.
SPEAKER_02: You would have thought Jesus had a girlfriend when we texted her and said, Chick-fil-A is closed.
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, it's Saturday.
SPEAKER_02: No, it's not.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're working on it.
SPEAKER_02: They're expanding it.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, it's getting bigger.
SPEAKER_02: That's okay.
SPEAKER_02: And she goes, How about go next door to Whataburger and just get me, you know, chicken nuggets and fries?
SPEAKER_02: Okay, great.
SPEAKER_02: So we pulled up, nobody in the line at Whataburger.
SPEAKER_02: I thought, oh, favors on me.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna get home to my nap, get up about 9:30, look over my notes.
SPEAKER_02: This will be great.
SPEAKER_02: Ordered and turned a corner, and there's two lanes of vehicles waiting.
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, all right, they've been here.
SPEAKER_02: This is fast food.
SPEAKER_02: This is coming.
SPEAKER_02: So after waiting about five minutes, they come and say, sir, could you pull up a little bit?
SPEAKER_02: So I pulled up.
SPEAKER_02: They get your money at that first window.
SPEAKER_02: And then they put you in the queue like you're at the airport waiting to take off.
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm just kind of sitting there and I'm thinking five minutes, seven minutes, eleven minutes.
SPEAKER_02: Not that I'm watching.
SPEAKER_02: My wife, she's got her phone out, she's checking her Facebook, and oh, we have 238 women coming to the women's retreat.
SPEAKER_02: Isn't God good?
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like the space shuttle.
SPEAKER_02: I'm about we're about to launch, okay?
SPEAKER_02: We done fired the rockets.
SPEAKER_02: 18 minutes, I'm starting to lose my peripheral vision.
SPEAKER_02: 22 minutes.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not kidding.
SPEAKER_02: 22 minutes.
SPEAKER_02: This teenager in an orange shirt walks up to me and says, Hey sir, would you mind pulling up?
SPEAKER_02: And I slammed my truck and parked.
SPEAKER_02: I said, I ain't moving until you bring me that chicken.
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, they're used to everyone being like sheeple and people just, yes, I will move.
SPEAKER_02: And he goes, Excuse me.
SPEAKER_02: I said, I didn't cuss.
SPEAKER_02: I don't raise my voice.
SPEAKER_02: I don't do that.
SPEAKER_02: I just, I'm like, my wife sitting there and she goes, You're this is embarrassing.
SPEAKER_02: And I went, Yeah, this is embarrassing.
SPEAKER_02: She goes, No, you're embarrassing.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, and the guy's kind of like thinking she's funny.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, no, she's not funny.
SPEAKER_02: I may be funny.
SPEAKER_02: No, listen to her.
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, I said, hey man, I'm not being a jerk.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just protecting you from disappointing more customers like you've disappointed me.
SPEAKER_02: So, and I said, Yeah, I'm not pulling up.
SPEAKER_02: You bring me my chicken and I'll move.
SPEAKER_02: Until then, I ain't moving.
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: Dude, walk in.
SPEAKER_02: Walked right back out with my chicken.
SPEAKER_02: I had the bag, and my wife's like, oh Lord, don't reward this.
SPEAKER_02: 23 minutes now.
SPEAKER_02: Took one minute.
SPEAKER_02: They gotta understand.
SPEAKER_02: Kid, don't play.
SPEAKER_02: Drove home, took me a nap, got up at 9:30 last night, just sat down and read, looked over my notes.
SPEAKER_02: I was making sure, hey, does this make sense?
SPEAKER_02: Does it make sense?
SPEAKER_02: Was doing good till I got to point number three.
SPEAKER_02: In the big picture, God uses little people.
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Well, how can I apply that?
SPEAKER_02: And the voice said, to yourself for starters.
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Lord, the devil's trying to tempt me.
SPEAKER_02: What's going on here?
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, hey, do you, are you okay living in a world where I'm in charge, or do you have to be in charge?
SPEAKER_02: I know none of you are this way, but when I see people not doing their job very well, I gotta help them.
SPEAKER_02: Because in the store, there were two girls on break, sitting there, they were done eating, sitting there with their cell phones laughing.
SPEAKER_02: Showing each other stuff.
SPEAKER_02: And I said to the guy, hey, how about tell those girls to get back on the clock and let's get this food going?
SPEAKER_02: We got two lines of traffic.
SPEAKER_02: He said, Sir, we're wrapped around the building because you won't pull up.
SPEAKER_02: Sounds like a personal problem.
SPEAKER_02: All I want is six chicken nuggets and some fries.
SPEAKER_02: And I'll pull off.
SPEAKER_02: I done paid you.
SPEAKER_02: Now you're going to reward me.
SPEAKER_02: It's called capitalism.
SPEAKER_02: That was funny in the moment last night about 11:45.
SPEAKER_02: My wife's in there sound asleep.
SPEAKER_02: The Lord's like, Are you okay if I'd just be in charge of the world, Neil?
SPEAKER_02: Because that poor kid, you scared him to death.
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Ah, Lord, I'll pray for him.
SPEAKER_02: Because I remember what he looked like.
SPEAKER_02: I saw his name tag.
SPEAKER_02: And the Lord's like, You gonna pray for him?
SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna walk back down there this week.
SPEAKER_02: And you're gonna find him.
SPEAKER_02: And you're gonna apologize.
SPEAKER_02: What you talking about, Willis?
SPEAKER_02: Because you're not the general manager of the universe.
SPEAKER_02: You scared him.
SPEAKER_02: He didn't do it.
SPEAKER_02: I tell you, hey, it's not you, man.
SPEAKER_02: I just want my chicken.
SPEAKER_02: I paid you 22 minutes ago.
SPEAKER_02: And here, you never do this, but here's what I was thinking.
SPEAKER_02: Well, I'll go down there and say, hey, man, if I that's not an apology.
SPEAKER_02: That's not that's conditional uh responsibility.
SPEAKER_02: Well, if I hurt your feelings, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02: And so the Lord's like, I want you to go down there and confess to that kid that sometimes you think you're in charge of the world that you're not.
SPEAKER_02: He's a kid.
SPEAKER_02: I'm a grown adult.
SPEAKER_02: And the response is, and I'm God.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, that's the trump card we're gonna play.
SPEAKER_02: All right.
SPEAKER_02: Wonderful.
SPEAKER_02: Ask yourself, who's the little people?
SPEAKER_02: I'm not demeaning that young man.
SPEAKER_02: Hardworking kid.
SPEAKER_02: Trove off, it dawned on me, one of the kids from our church works there.
SPEAKER_02: So I quickly grabbed the rearview mirror to make sure I didn't see him back there working.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because some guy walks in, you know, hey, who is that?
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's my pastor.
SPEAKER_02: He wouldn't move.
SPEAKER_02: Now again, I'm not a yeller, I don't curse and that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just, I'm just, I'm smiling.
SPEAKER_02: No, I'm not moving until you bring me my food.
SPEAKER_02: There's been a couple times the Lord's like, hey, you need to go back and make that right.
SPEAKER_02: And every time I go back, I say, I don't know if you remember me.
SPEAKER_02: They go, Yeah, we remember you.
SPEAKER_02: Don't don't dismiss these little people in your life.
SPEAKER_02: Fourthly, here's what the Bible tells us today.
SPEAKER_02: The cross is God's will, not man's.
SPEAKER_02: The cross is God's idea, not man's.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: Look at verse 54.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, after this says, hey, after Caiaphas, out of the mouth of this insecure religious politician, God says, by the way, here's here's how this is gonna go down in the end.
SPEAKER_02: This is what I'm gonna do, okay?
SPEAKER_02: I use everybody big, small, rich, poor, fat, skinny, popular, unpopular.
SPEAKER_02: Got a lot of followers on social media, got six, and they're all in your family.
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_02: God says, hey, this is the way I move, this is the way I do things.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not hiding.
SPEAKER_02: I I'm using everybody of this big story that I'm telling.
SPEAKER_02: And so then the Bible says, Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but he went from there to the region near the wilderness to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples.
SPEAKER_02: Now, when I said the cross is God's will, God's idea, not man, what do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: Uh what Jesus is saying is that God is the one who's in charge of the times and the timing as it pertains to my life.
SPEAKER_02: Because if Jesus doesn't do this, because all through John's gospel up to this point, people would get mad at him and they they would take up stones to kill him, and Jesus would just walk off.
SPEAKER_02: And the Bible would explain it by saying, His time had not yet come.
SPEAKER_02: His time had not yet come.
SPEAKER_02: Because Jesus' life was ruled by this sense that God was in charge of the times and the timing of his life.
SPEAKER_02: And so if he just goes to Jerusalem right then, they're gonna think, oh, see, Jesus was this upstart radical Jewish rabbi teacher, and we killed that fool.
SPEAKER_02: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_02: You'll see in a couple weeks when we get to Holy Week.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, whom John in the first part of this gospel saw him come on the scene and he said, Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.
SPEAKER_02: This Jesus, who's lived surrendered to the time and the timing of God, walks into Jerusalem on the first day of Passover, is everybody is selecting their lambs to be slaughtered for Passover.
SPEAKER_02: See, the cross is God's idea.
SPEAKER_02: It's God's will.
SPEAKER_02: It's not man's.
SPEAKER_02: And the people in the Bible understood this.
SPEAKER_02: That, hey, even in the book of Acts, it's after the gospels.
SPEAKER_02: The book of Acts just kind of tells the story of how the church got started.
SPEAKER_02: One of the things that you see repeated over and over and over is that, hey, God used you guys, but you didn't do it.
SPEAKER_02: This was God's idea.
SPEAKER_02: Let me read to you one of those.
SPEAKER_02: This is from Acts chapter 4, starting verse 23.
SPEAKER_02: It says, These guys, Peter and John, have been beat up because they were telling people about Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: And they scuffed them up and let them go and said, Don't talk about it anymore.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible says when they were released, they went to their friends and they reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
SPEAKER_02: And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together and said, This is their prayer, sovereign Lord, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, Why do the Gentiles rage and the people's plot in vain?
SPEAKER_02: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his anointed.
SPEAKER_02: For truly in this city they were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you appointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
SPEAKER_02: And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness while you stretch out your hand to heal.
SPEAKER_02: And signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Just draw your attention to that line a couple sentences back to do whatever your hand and your plan have predestined to take place.
SPEAKER_02: See, this is God's idea.
SPEAKER_02: The idea of Jesus dying instead of us is God's idea.
SPEAKER_02: It's why the most popular verse in the world is John 3.16, for God so loved the world that he gave us one and only Son.
SPEAKER_02: Whoever believes in him shouldn't perish, but have everlasting life.
SPEAKER_02: God introduces that reality through the mouth of somebody that doesn't even understand the magnitude of what they're saying.
SPEAKER_02: The last thing the Bible says to us, the fifth thing the Bible says says this morning is simply this Jesus is enough.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus is enough.
SPEAKER_02: Are you still with me?
SPEAKER_02: You're not mad about that political thing, are you?
SPEAKER_02: I don't care if you are or not.
SPEAKER_02: I just my hope is not in politicians.
SPEAKER_02: I think we need righteous men and women, but we need renewal and revival and repentance.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean, Jesus is enough?
SPEAKER_02: Look at verse 55.
SPEAKER_02: Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
SPEAKER_02: Hear that sentence again.
SPEAKER_02: Now, now I I let me say this: the Bible says a whole lot with very little.
SPEAKER_02: And right here it just said a lot.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want you to miss it.
SPEAKER_02: Look at verse 55 again.
SPEAKER_02: Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
SPEAKER_02: Now, why did they purify themselves?
SPEAKER_02: They went up from the country because people in order to Passover was one of the high feast of a Jewish religion.
SPEAKER_02: But before they could uh uh participate in Passover, people had to make sure they were ceremonially clean.
SPEAKER_02: And so if you've been to Jerusalem and some of you just got back from there, you look around, there's baths everywhere.
SPEAKER_02: They just dug out like holes in the ground, they line them with stones around the edges so they can mark the edges, and people would go and they would take go through all these religious rituals to cleanse themselves and purify themselves.
SPEAKER_02: And especially one of the biggest sources of contamination where you're ceremonially unclean was if you touched a dead body.
SPEAKER_02: Now, why am I telling you that?
SPEAKER_02: You're like, do we touch no dead bodies this day?
SPEAKER_02: Jesus just healed, just raises Lazarus from the dead.
SPEAKER_02: In chapter, early part of this chapter.
SPEAKER_02: You're ceremony unclean for seven days.
SPEAKER_02: That happens.
SPEAKER_02: This is the day after he raises.
SPEAKER_02: Chapter 12 begins six days before Passover.
SPEAKER_02: See how exacting the Bible is?
SPEAKER_02: God is the God of detail.
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't leave anything out.
SPEAKER_02: He just winks at us and says, Hey, I'm so in charge of this.
SPEAKER_02: Let me tell you how it went down.
SPEAKER_02: Not so you'll be some religious nerd with Bible facts and trivia, but here's why.
SPEAKER_02: So that you'll go through your life realize, and you know what?
SPEAKER_02: That God can be trusted.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes it's gonna feel like I'm overwhelmed and really I'm just surrounded.
SPEAKER_02: This is this is how he fights my battles, okay?
SPEAKER_02: I'm not in this alone.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not at the mercy of whatever I fear and whatever I'm tempted to do.
SPEAKER_02: We say Jesus is enough, here's why the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_02: Anybody go to the rodeo this week?
SPEAKER_02: You ever notice at the rodeo people don't have spatial boundaries?
SPEAKER_02: They just touch you and bump into you, and some guy gouges you with a turkey leg, and you're like, whoa, walk into the crowd.
SPEAKER_02: When I go to the rodeo, I just sit down somewhere for two hours and just people watch.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just like, no, really, hey, ladies, this is free.
SPEAKER_02: Not all y'all need to wear yoga pants, okay?
SPEAKER_02: That's all.
SPEAKER_02: I love everybody.
SPEAKER_02: I love you.
SPEAKER_02: I do.
SPEAKER_02: But dang.
SPEAKER_02: Uh and so I just people watch.
SPEAKER_02: I just, I'm I'm like old.
SPEAKER_02: I just get there and get something like a deep-fried Twinkie and just sit down and get yang, yang, yang.
SPEAKER_02: Uh Jerusalem was like that.
SPEAKER_02: All these people, again, hear it again.
SPEAKER_02: It says, now the Passover of the Jews was at hand.
SPEAKER_02: Many went up from the country to Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_02: Why many?
SPEAKER_02: Because these people lived with the sense that they were unclean.
SPEAKER_02: It's like some of you.
SPEAKER_02: You live with the sense that God is somehow disappointed with you.
SPEAKER_02: They live the sense of the unclean.
SPEAKER_02: What they would do, they'd go and they'd get these baths and they would cleanse themselves and go through all these religious rituals so they could participate in the religious ritual called Passover.
SPEAKER_02: Why do I say Jesus is enough?
SPEAKER_02: We sang it a few earlier in our service.
SPEAKER_02: We sang the old hymn, Are you washed in the blood?
SPEAKER_02: In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb?
SPEAKER_02: Are your garments spotless?
SPEAKER_02: Are they white as snow?
SPEAKER_02: Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
SPEAKER_02: What we're talking about is when Jesus dies on the cross and we have faith.
SPEAKER_02: We're not saying take a bath in blood.
SPEAKER_02: We're saying we have faith in what Jesus said, that Jesus died on the cross in my place and for my sins.
SPEAKER_02: And so I don't have to go through some religious ritual to cleanse myself.
SPEAKER_02: I've been cleansed and made right by the sacrifice of Jesus once for all.
SPEAKER_02: The book of Hebrews says it like this it says that every priest stands every day and performs the same religious duties who can never take away sin.
SPEAKER_02: But when this priest, Jesus, had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sits down at the right hand of God and it's finished.
SPEAKER_02: So when I say to you that Jesus is enough, just ask yourself this question.
SPEAKER_02: Have you ever thought about all you would have to do in order to purify yourself, to make yourself acceptable to God?
SPEAKER_02: Because if you don't believe that Jesus is enough, you have to come up with some way by which you can get right with God apart from Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Now the Bible tells you, and I would tell you, that that doesn't exist.
SPEAKER_02: That's religion.
SPEAKER_02: Do this, give that, do good, you've been doing bad.
SPEAKER_02: Why don't we do all that stuff nowadays?
SPEAKER_02: Because we believe that Jesus was enough.
SPEAKER_02: So much so that the Apostle Paul wrote the book of Romans, recorded the book of Romans under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: He wrote this in Romans chapter 9, verse 16.
SPEAKER_02: He says, so then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God who has mercy.
SPEAKER_02: Let's end on that note today and just ask yourself, what do you want this all to depend on?
SPEAKER_02: You want it to depend on human will or exertion or effort?
SPEAKER_02: Or do you want it to depend on God?
SPEAKER_02: Who, by the way, has mercy?
SPEAKER_02: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_02: I told you in the beginning we'd like to teach the Bible and give you some soul space to think about it.
SPEAKER_02: And that's what we'd like to do right now.
SPEAKER_02: And so Lindsay will come.
SPEAKER_02: Just play.
SPEAKER_02: Some questions will come up on the screen just for you to kind of reflect on, think about.
SPEAKER_02: You'll discuss them tonight in your community group if you're in one.
SPEAKER_02: You can just don't try to write them down.
SPEAKER_02: You can just slip your phone out and just take a picture of it.
SPEAKER_02: But just ask yourself, hey, what did what had my name on it?
SPEAKER_02: When I heard it, I was like, whoo, I want to think more about that.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible's not just to formulate an opinion, it's intended to shape our lives.
SPEAKER_02: Let's spend a few moments just kind of thinking about how it's shaping our lives this morning.
SPEAKER_02: Father, we want our lives just to kind of echo that anthem that just says to the culture around us that great is the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: That there's a greatness to God that we don't find in anybody or anything else.
SPEAKER_02: That doesn't mean we don't enjoy things like the rodeo and good music and good food and good friends and good love and all that stuff and good money.
SPEAKER_02: Money's not bad.
SPEAKER_02: We're not here to bag on money today.
SPEAKER_02: We're here to confess, God, that our hope is not in man.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible says that some trust in horses and some trust in chariots, but we will trust in the name of the Lord our God.
SPEAKER_02: And we we are those people, God, we trust in you.
SPEAKER_02: We lift our eyes up into the hills because that's where our help comes from.
SPEAKER_02: Our help comes from the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Our help does not come from ourselves, it doesn't come from our spouse, it doesn't come from our resources, it comes from the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: And so we look to you in ways that we don't look to anybody or anything else.
SPEAKER_02: Because you are inescapable and you're enough.
SPEAKER_02: And we rest in that today.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you for it.
SPEAKER_02: We say thank you in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_02: And everyone said, Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: If you're our guest, let me say thanks for being a part of our service.
SPEAKER_02: In just a moment, when we're going to submit us, we have an invitation every Sunday.
SPEAKER_02: It's not like if you grew up in church, you're like, uh, we think it's more natural to have a spiritual conversation.
SPEAKER_02: Just when the service is over, we'll be down front myself and some of our pastors and elders.
SPEAKER_02: Uh we'd love, if this is your first time, we'd love to meet you.
SPEAKER_02: Just put a name with a face.
SPEAKER_02: Um uh but if you have any questions, if you're going through something, you say, hey man, could you pray for me about this?
SPEAKER_02: We would love to.
SPEAKER_02: All we ask of you today, if you're our guest, is you hopefully you've had an opportunity to fill out one of those guest cards.
SPEAKER_02: It's in the seat pocket in your row.
SPEAKER_02: And just if you fill that out, just on your way out, drop it on these wooden boxes by the doors on your way out.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, that's all we ask of you.
SPEAKER_02: That's also where we receive our offering.
SPEAKER_02: So if this is your church and today's the day you worship God through obedience or generosity, that's where you do that as well.
SPEAKER_02: Lots of things going on in the life of our church we want you to know about.
SPEAKER_02: So direct your attention to the screen for this week's announcements.
SPEAKER_01: Here's a look at what's happening at Grand Parkway Baptist Church.
SPEAKER_01: Registration for Pine Cove's Camp in the City is available for grades one through five.
SPEAKER_01: This is a one-week day camp where your kids will be taught the Bible, have fun, and come home ready for a nap.
SPEAKER_01: Mark your calendars for June 24th through 28th and register online at GrandProquay.org.
SPEAKER_01: Men's breakfast is this Tuesday at 6 a.m.
SPEAKER_01: in the warehouse.
SPEAKER_01: We'll gather for one hour to be fed by a good breakfast and to be fed by each other.
SPEAKER_01: Mark your calendars for June 14th and 15th, as Rosaria Butterfield will be speaking at our church.
SPEAKER_01: Whether you want to learn more about a Christian response to homosexuality, sharing your faith, or hospitality, there will certainly be something for you this weekend.
SPEAKER_01: So be sure and make your plans today.
SPEAKER_01: Today is a community group Sunday where we look forward to unpacking the sermon in each other's lives.
SPEAKER_01: We would love to see you there.
SPEAKER_01: If there's anything you've heard today and you have questions or you would like someone to pray with you, some of our pastors and elders will be available by the stage at the conclusion of our service.
SPEAKER_02: Also, I want to remind you that uh today they're also registering for the women's retreat uh in the lobby.
SPEAKER_02: That if you see a couple women standing there by one of the kiosks, that's what that's about.
SPEAKER_02: It is coming up at the end of March.
SPEAKER_02: Uh they have a great group already signed up, but there's room for others.
SPEAKER_02: Uh and men, uh I'll send you an email about this, but we need to be uh not asking, we need to be encouraging and insisting our wives to just kind of unplug and have a weekend away.
SPEAKER_02: Uh not just for Friday and Saturday, but tell your wife, hey, get a hotel room with a girlfriend or two for Saturday night, and I'll meet you at church on Sunday with the kids because I ain't babysitting.
SPEAKER_02: These are my kids, so you ain't gotta be feeling guilty for being gone all weekend long just to be blessed.
SPEAKER_02: You're welcome.
SPEAKER_02: I can feel some of you.
SPEAKER_02: This is like Star Wars.
SPEAKER_02: I can feel your hatred.
SPEAKER_02: Take your lightsaber and strike me down.
SPEAKER_02: Uh here's the thing: when your wife goes off to a retreat, she shouldn't be hurried getting back to you.
SPEAKER_02: You shouldn't be that insecure.
SPEAKER_02: You should be like, hey, get some girlfriends, go to dinner, go to a wine bar on Saturday night, do whatever you want to do.
SPEAKER_02: I'll see you back at church on Sunday.
SPEAKER_02: I got this, we're all good.
SPEAKER_02: We should be contending for what's best for our wives instead of insisting on what's best for us.
SPEAKER_02: Now, I say that.
SPEAKER_02: Here's my other confession for the week.
SPEAKER_02: Nobody else gets this.
SPEAKER_02: I can't tell you some other services.
SPEAKER_02: This week, because my wife works here on this hallway, I work on this hallway.
SPEAKER_02: I had crazy, had five council appointments in one day.
SPEAKER_02: I walked over to my wife's office.
SPEAKER_02: I had about 20 minutes for our next appointment, and I said, Can you go home and make me a sandwich and bring it to me?
SPEAKER_02: I thought that was so innocent, and she looked at me like, like, my work's not as important as yours.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I wasn't even thinking about that.
SPEAKER_02: I was just thinking, I got 20 minutes, and she's like, We live right there.
SPEAKER_02: You can make it.
SPEAKER_02: And so I had to drive all the way to my house and open the refrigerator and make my own sandwich, and then come back and sit in my office and eat it all by myself because my wife was so busy.
SPEAKER_02: Shut up, no yay, Marcy.
SPEAKER_02: I was just like, So I had to say to her, hey, I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_02: I know it kind of made it look like, and she's like, Yeah, it kind of did.
SPEAKER_02: I don't think that.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, then don't ask me to do that.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna go watch TV now.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm just telling you, I haven't arrived.
SPEAKER_02: I want to bless my wife.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want to presume upon her.
SPEAKER_02: So, anyway, hey, let's let's let's let's insist that our wives get what they need and what they enjoy.
SPEAKER_02: That's all I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02: All right?
SPEAKER_02: Stand to your feet, let me speak a blessing over you.
SPEAKER_02: Hold your hand out.
SPEAKER_02: Your God is inescapable, not because he's the boogeyman, he's out to get you.
SPEAKER_02: He's just better than all the other stuff you're chasing right now.
SPEAKER_02: And he's enough.
SPEAKER_02: Depart now and live like you actually believe that in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.