WEBVTT 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:07.200 Welcome to the Rock Family Sermon of the Week. 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.960 For more information about our church, please visit therockfamily.tv. 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:19.280 Now join us for a message from our special guest speaker. 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:25.199 We are in a series called All In, All Flame. 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:26.480 Now it's really easy. 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.679 We can kind of talk all in or we can talk all flame. 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:30.559 Which one, right? 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:37.920 And we recognize this as Pastor Scott's already set us up so brilliantly that they are so tied together we cannot separate them. 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:43.600 Sometimes we have to evaluate: is it a portion of my life that's not all in that causes the flame to lack? 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:47.679 Sometimes we have to evaluate have I made space for the flame to be all in, right? 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.159 There's this give and take that comes back and forth. 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:56.399 But here's the thought, here's the thought that I think sets us on the trajectory that I want to talk through us today, and that's this. 00:00:56.799 --> 00:01:07.760 And it's honestly it's been placed in front of us so much, but Pentecost didn't end as an experience in an upper room, but it actually launches us as a lifestyle of power. 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:09.439 Okay? 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:16.079 If we're looking at Pentecost as, oh, that was great, it was a moment, that was an experience, I missed out, I have FOMO. 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:16.799 Right? 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:20.400 If you think that somehow you missed the upper room, then you missed it. 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:26.239 If that's just the hanging place of faith for Pentecost, then it's actually saying, no, no, no, no. 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:30.560 You have access to a full lifestyle of Pentecost. 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:42.560 That's the moment where now he's walking, willing, moving, correcting, exhorting, like all the things he is doing, we are now in it. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.519 And then here's our role that we've kind of already through week three, we recognize there's a song. 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:55.840 I want to say it's Bethel, it may not be, but um, there's a song I'm thinking through, and it says, You provide the fire. 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:57.760 I'll provide the sacrifice. 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.519 I've been listening to it, getting ready for today. 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:11.439 You provide the fire, and that's the place where we're at as a church where we're saying, Hey, my only job is to make sure that I stay on the altar. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:25.520 He's gonna do what he does in his timing, in his sovereignty, in his goodness, in his knowing my future better than I do, and I have to continue to provide the sacrifice. 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:26.240 Amen? 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:27.280 Amen. 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:34.719 So today I want to talk through what are markers of someone that is all in. 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:39.360 I want to be really careful because I I I felt it already, Pastor Scott, you said it. 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.400 Standing on this stage, I'm just I'm so thankful. 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:45.840 And as I watch by, I'm like, man, I'm so thankful that he's my friend. 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:46.719 I'm so thankful. 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:48.000 I think even Mikey prayed it. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:50.879 She says, Man, when I was when I was faithless, you were faithful. 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:55.840 Can I if that's not your testimony in this room, you gotta you gotta wonky perspective. 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.719 Because there's none of us that have been faithful enough. 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.919 I can pretend that I've been in my faith since I got saved. 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.879 I can pretend that I've been all in, all flame. 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:18.560 I can pretend, but I if I'm honest, I say when men, the seasons when I doubted, the seasons when I wrestled, the seasons when I almost gave up. 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.280 Those seasons when I was faithless, he was faithful. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:25.680 So I want to be really quick and and careful. 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:30.960 He's a good father, and today we're gonna we're gonna be talking through some corrective things, we're gonna be talking through some indicators. 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:38.080 Uh these indicators need to be present because if he is a good father, then I want to display his goodness to the world. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:39.199 Does that make sense? 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:40.960 This isn't performative. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.319 This isn't because I do this thing, then he'll be a good father to me. 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:48.719 I want to make sure we get this really quick, but it's because he's a good father. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.400 I have to give him my all. 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.159 I have to show I'm all in. 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:59.439 I have to if your perspective is off, you'll hear this is condemnation, and I need you to be convicted. 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:01.199 Does that make sense? 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.759 Condemnation puts you in a room isolated by yourself and says you can't fix this. 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:10.479 Conviction calls you higher and says, I have more for you. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.879 If you miss that before we even begin, you're already so I want to caution. 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.120 Spirit of condemnation, you got to shut up today. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:29.040 Conviction, Holy Spirit, we invite you into this room to speak to our hearts, to sharpen us, to challenge us. 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:30.240 Now hear me out. 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:40.160 Conviction still challenges, still corrects, still exhorts, just like a good father, still chastens those he loves. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:41.439 Right? 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.360 Come on. 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:49.040 So, I'm gonna give a sermon title, we're gonna read some scripture, and then we're gonna have a great time. 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:50.079 Sound good? 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:51.600 Let's do this. 00:04:51.839 --> 00:05:00.480 Um if I was to title today, it would be To Be All In, We Must Go All Out. 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:10.399 Rico, if I was gonna give a next gen title for the week, an uncstatus title for the week, I would say all gas, no breaks. 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:17.040 If I wanted to be a little bit more, I would say full send or don't send. 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.360 Full send or don't send. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:24.319 Okay, so if you're taking notes or you need to use it this week, all gas, no breaks, full send or don't send. 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:24.560 Ready? 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.680 You guys ready to read with me? 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:31.040 Uh 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 3 through 6 is gonna be our text today. 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:36.800 A text that we're all pretty familiar with, I would say, um, especially around here, especially my freedom people. 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.959 This is probably one of like our core scriptures when we're in freedom. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:50.959 Um, but I want to read it and I want to kind of throw out three little phrases I want you to highlight, and then we're gonna do this, we're gonna tuck this away, we're gonna come back at the end, okay? 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.920 So we're gonna read, give us framework, come back. 00:05:54.079 --> 00:06:01.439 All right, says this for though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:02.639 Come on, somebody. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:11.279 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power to do what? 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.199 To destroy strongholds. 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:21.600 We destroy arguments and every I want you to highlight that lofty opinion. 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:27.920 Another translation says, high thoughts, things that are put above what the Lord has. 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:31.759 Vain imaginations, some translations say, right? 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.759 These lofty ideas raised against what? 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:52.399 The knowledge of God, seated in a place above the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete. 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:54.480 Can I stop and preach for a little bit? 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:08.399 Some of us are so concerned about the moment of disobedience, and it's simply starting again and getting in obedience to conquer that disobedience season. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:12.480 Before we even begin, I want to encourage you. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:14.639 What's the last thing he told you? 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:16.240 We're gonna get into it in a minute. 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:18.560 What's the last thing he said to you? 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.399 Sometimes I think we're in seasons where we want to pick up new things, pick up new things. 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:24.959 It's easier to start something than to complete something. 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:32.399 Here's why: because started things are celebrated, finished things are often forgotten. 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:37.439 When they're in the middle, we're in there in that phase of loading. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:39.839 It's easy to forget about them. 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:42.639 The pump, Pastor Scott, you know this. 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:44.399 We just cut ribbons around here. 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:50.240 Everybody's here, everybody's celebrating what happens now in the next five years. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.839 It can be forgotten, or it can be stewarded. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:55.600 This is the hard part. 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.120 Everyone's there to celebrate. 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:57.839 Everyone's there. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:03.120 It's can we be obedient to it when people don't show up? 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:08.480 When people may not have the same vision, when people may not carry the same weight, right? 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:10.639 We or you're just gonna start something again. 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.519 No, this is a vision. 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:15.360 We're ten toes down. 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.000 We're ten toes down for the next generation. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.800 This is this is the church that we're gonna be. 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:25.439 We're a legacy church, and we're gonna stay ten toes down for the next generation. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:25.920 Amen? 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:26.639 Amen. 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:27.920 Hey, okay, let's pray. 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:28.800 Can we pray? 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:29.680 Let's pray. 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:33.600 Jesus, we love you, we honor you, we bless your name. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.840 God, I thank you today that you're with us, leading us, guiding us, directing us. 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:43.600 God, I thank you, God, that today, as we open your word, it's your word that changes life. 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:47.840 Not stories, not exegesis. 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:51.919 God, not not not the the the greatest revelation. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:09:00.080 God, it is literally you, your presence and your word that has been spoken time after time over our life. 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.679 God, I thank you that today you are here. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.919 God, I today I thank you that it's your word that goes forth and accomplishes what it pleases, God. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:14.080 It's your word that has the ability to pierce uh soul and uh and spirit and divide between joint and marrow. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:18.080 God, it's your word that has the ability to discern the thoughts and the intents of our heart today. 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.519 And today, God, I ask that you would discern us in this room. 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:22.879 Discern us. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:28.080 Holy Spirit, we give you access in every area to discern our lives. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:36.240 God, I pray today that somehow you make my tongue like the pen of a ready writer, that I could write your heart for this, your generation. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:40.960 And God, we will be careful to give you all glory, all honor, all praise that's due your name. 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.720 In Jesus' name, everybody said amen, amen, and amen. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:52.320 Hey, listen, it's uh it's already been a great summer if you love sports. 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.000 Um it's just too easy, right? 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:57.840 It's just it's too easy. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:59.200 Uh Nixon Five. 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:00.320 Oh, I'm sorry. 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.639 Um it's just, it's just it's just too easy. 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.279 No matter where you sit on that thing, it's incredible. 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.679 Um, I and I'm not even gonna, I honestly wasn't even gonna highlight it because I didn't know if we'd win or lose. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.279 I, you know, it's just like whatever. 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:14.559 That wasn't my highlight. 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:23.519 My actual highlight is more based on an event that happens every four years that we're in the thick of right now called World Cup. 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:31.360 Um we were, it's funny because my my daughter, we had the TV on the other day, right? 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:33.519 And everybody's USA, USA. 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:35.440 She's like, Dad, you don't even like soccer. 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:37.679 And I was like, but I like World Cup. 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:38.399 Right? 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:39.360 Does that make sense? 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:48.559 Like, there is something galvanizing, there is something uh uh being even I I'll I'll I'll throw my my sins out there on my spending half. 00:10:48.720 --> 00:11:00.320 Even when I was a youth pastor and World Cup came around, it's like you gotta go get the pink cleats, you gotta go get the matching shin guards, you gotta I don't know how to play soccer, but it's World Cup, y'all. 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.480 It's World Cup, right? 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:03.840 It's different. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:12.080 There's something so galvanizing, so incredible, because all of USA is all in. 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:16.480 They're all and when you're all in, there's a uniform. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.879 When you're all in, there's a swagger, when you're all in, there's chance in the street. 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:27.759 When you're all I know you see, I I'm not talking World Cup here now. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.600 I'm talking the church, talking us. 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:37.279 I'm talking that there are indicators in our life that show that we are all in. 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:46.000 And so, hey, listen, I know Cisely did a great job of it this morning, but I wanted to I wanted to help our people show them how we get all in in the mornings, okay? 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.759 Now, so for my servant leaders, you guys already know this, okay? 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.679 So, all my serve team, you know this. 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:52.559 You can help me. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.639 I debated on making the room stand. 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.840 I don't need to get you your calisthenics in, I just need you to participate. 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:05.360 So, like Scott said, if there are clappers on vacation, I needed you to channel their superpower and know how to clap right now as well, okay? 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:10.960 So here's what we do every single Sunday to get ready for today. 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:33.840 Every single Sunday to remind ourselves with our serve team, we like to do a little chant, do a little thing that makes us, that encourages us, that focuses us, that maybe we were walking in a little slumpy, maybe we're walking in with without vision of what we get to be a part of, but this thing kind of re-engages our body to what our spirit knows to do. 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:34.399 Okay? 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.200 And you may not look at it that way, that's the way I look at it. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:38.720 That's why I think it's so important, right? 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:41.840 And so, anyways, we call this the slow clap, okay? 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:42.960 Really important. 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.159 You must start slow or it doesn't work. 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.399 Okay, so I'm gonna ask the room. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.559 When I start, we're gonna go. 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:54.240 Okay You got it, you got it. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:55.039 You already followed me. 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:56.720 It's really easy if you follow the leader. 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:58.320 I promise you, I promise you, okay? 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.600 We're gonna start slow, we're gonna build fast. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.360 When we get to this fast as we can do, I need you to do this. 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:11.360 I'm gonna say all in, and you're gonna say if you couldn't guess what the final words were there. 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.200 I mean, week three, sermon series, vision, come on, okay? 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.519 All in, all flame. 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:18.960 Servant leaders, you're gonna help them. 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.200 This is gonna be the great Scott, this is the greatest huddle ever. 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:23.360 This is this is selfish, can I be honest? 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:24.799 This is so selfish. 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:27.519 Like, I was like looking through and I was like, can I get away with this? 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.519 I was like, yes, I can get away with this. 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.960 This is awesome! It's the greatest huddle ever! All right? 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:34.080 So, y'all gonna help me? 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:35.840 We're gonna start slow, follow the leader. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:36.559 Ready? 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.440 To get a full room like that's even better than a circle. 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:44.399 All right, all right, ready? 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:45.519 Ready, all in. 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:49.600 Don't speed it up too quick. 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:56.639 Okay. 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.360 Come on, you've got a shot of friends. 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.639 Now that's pretty incredible, right? 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:18.879 If you can't get fired up to serve after that, here's another, here's your sign, right? 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.120 Like baptism, here's your sign. 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.080 Remember, we're gonna go full Jeff Foxworthy in here, okay? 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:29.360 If you can't get excited, something may be wrong with you. 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.240 Here's my dilemma. 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:42.159 All in is easy when everyone's wearing the jersey, all in is easy when people are celebrating, all in is easy when someone's reminding you of the vision. 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.440 But what does all in look like on Monday morning? 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:59.840 Because I feel like sometimes we can come into spaces like this where maybe there's a pressure to perform my faith. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:02.480 Hear me, hear me, hear me. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:08.639 The local church will always be a place to be encouraged, to be gathered, to be sent. 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.519 Hey, when you don't have faith, Brian, I have faith. 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:12.000 Right? 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:20.720 Like there's there's a shared, there's a there's a posture of when I'm walking through something, it's a place to pray, it's a place to be strengthened and sharpened. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:21.519 Right? 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:23.759 The church will always be that. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:31.120 But if we're not careful, the church is only public and never personal. 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:41.679 And it begins to build a faith in me that knows how to be all in in big rooms like this, but doesn't know where to begin when I start my day on Monday. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.320 This is the tension of Christianity. 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.639 This is the tension that we're sitting in where we've experienced highs. 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:52.240 It's the same thing as Pentecost. 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:55.519 We want the upper room, but what do we do with it? 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:57.600 Where does it live? 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:58.799 How does it go? 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.320 What happens beyond this moment? 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:10.080 This moment for all of us, it encourages us, it lifts our faith, it centers our purpose. 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:14.480 This this cheer, this this moment where the church arrives. 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:20.159 But my faith must be personal and be public. 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:30.879 Let me let me challenge you really quick, too, on that, because there's some of you that immediately turned off this message because you're like, Well, I know how to pray, I know how to do this, I know how, I know, I know, I know. 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:32.480 I know I'm so glad you know. 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:33.519 Who are you teaching? 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:40.240 I'm so glad you're mature. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:42.559 When I look at mature saints in the Bible, you know what they do? 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:43.679 They give it away. 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:46.879 So, so so hear me. 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:50.639 Here, and here's all of our dilemma in everything we do. 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:56.399 We gravitate towards the one that we do good, and we ostracize the thing that we do bad. 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:02.559 So, for those of you that lean in and love Sundays and work, you're like, I'm all that, but I don't know how to walk Monday. 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:11.759 There's others you that say, man, I run a Bible study, I do this, I go Monday, but you don't know how to function in the local church, and you think your small group is the gift to humanity. 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:19.119 I'm I'm just there's a tension between, and I'm I'm holding like neither one of us are are worse than. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:20.799 But can we be honest? 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:25.039 It's really just our proclivities and our preferences, not Bible. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:33.359 The tension of Bible is that He is walking with us, that He is leading us, and that we are called to both. 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:38.240 If there is a public, I mean, if there's a private faith, can I tell you you should have a public faith? 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:41.839 Because a private faith can't stay public. 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:48.480 And a public faith that has no private, it's only a matter before there's collapse. 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.920 There's only a matter before it's burnout. 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:52.559 Right? 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.599 There's this tension, they both have downfalls. 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.680 I want you, and I'm saying this because no one of us is better than the other. 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:00.880 We both need him. 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:05.599 I'm just trying to say, if we could be honest, and you're gonna notice a really big theme today. 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:07.119 It's be honest. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.000 Be honest with with where you're at. 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:11.519 Stop pretending. 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:18.640 I want to get up here as vulnerable and transparent as I can to say, hey guys, where has pretending got us? 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:39.680 Today I want to look at the life of Josiah to give us some insight because I may I think he may be the greatest example of going all out in a time when no one was willing to. 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:50.319 Josiah is one of the kings in the litany of all my shredders in the room when it says, and the king did evil in the sight of the Lord. 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:51.680 And the king did evil, right? 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:58.640 Well, you know, when you're flying through Kings and Chronicles, and the king did evil in the sight, you're like, bro, can these kings get it right? 00:18:58.799 --> 00:18:59.920 Bibed, I don't know about you. 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:10.160 That's not I'm like, I've if I hear that one more time, and the kings, and on the side of Judah, there happens to be two kings that get it right Hezekiah and Josiah. 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.680 There's a couple others that we give glory to, but those are the two kings that really, really give reform. 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:24.079 And Josiah's was always the most impressive to me because it says that when he was eight years old, he took kingship. 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:25.200 Now, now read this. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:28.319 Let's let's go to 2 Kings 22, verse 1 through 2. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.960 I'm gonna throw this up and then we're gonna storytell a little bit of Josiah because it's so much content. 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:35.599 We just gotta kind of give the abbreviated cliff notes. 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:41.839 In verse 1, it says, Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 31 years in Jerusalem. 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:49.680 His mother's name was Jedediah, the daughter of Adiah of Boscheth, and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:52.000 We got one, we got one. 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:58.480 He did right and walked in all the ways of David, his father. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:19:59.680 Really important here. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:05.039 David isn't his actual father, it's saying his spiritual father, as in the lineage of David, right? 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:06.880 So when you're reading that, you're like, what? 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:08.000 David had another son? 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.839 No, yeah, he has lots of them, but this is in the spiritual sense, right? 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:18.559 All right, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.359 To the right or to the left. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:31.519 We're gonna continue to talk about Josiah, but the first thought I have about him is go to go all out, we have to pick a team. 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.880 To go all out, we have to pick a team. 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.519 Um I know that the Knicks went in five. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:40.400 Hello. 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:45.119 I may jab it in here like every 10 minutes or so often, right? 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:46.079 Yeah. 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:48.559 But here's here's the thing. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:53.039 Um, we are taking applications for all bandwagon fans next week. 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:56.000 Okay, let us have three days, but then like next week we'll take them. 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:56.400 Okay? 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.000 And and and I'm kind of joking, but I'm I'm I'm kind of not. 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:19.759 How many guys know you all have that one friend that every time some player or some team is in the throes of a championship, you see them rock a new jersey, you see them buy a new hat, you see them show up like you're like you were a Bama fan last week. 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:20.720 How'd you get it? 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.359 Is that a is that an Indiana jersey? 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:27.359 Like, like, like anybody know what I'm talking about? 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:34.400 Like, it's funny because I feel like this generation more than ever, they just like they've gone to this thing where like, well, I just like him. 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:41.359 I mean, I just like, I like, uh, I like uh I like Kat, I like Anthony Edwards, I like Curry, I like LeBron, whatever. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.200 And it's so funny to me that we'll, and this is just a side note, this is a sidebar. 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:46.640 It has nothing to do with the message. 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:47.039 Okay? 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:47.759 This is a sidebar. 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:58.079 It's so funny that we'll get mad at them for just liking players and not having loyalty when there's a generation that showed them before how to do it because all of you guys are Michael Jordan fans and none of you were born in Chicago. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.839 Just throw it out. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:00.640 Out there? 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.039 Just throwing it out there. 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:09.359 I expect lots of Facebook posts on that one more than the content I preach, okay? 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:10.799 It's awesome. 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:17.680 But here's what I noticed: bandwagon fans want the feeling of victory without the cost of enduring. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:31.039 To me, it's very interesting that Josiah is in a range where honestly he hasn't seen people do it good. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:36.799 Josiah is in a range where it's like, and the king, and the king, and the king, and the king. 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:42.000 And there's something in him that says there has to be better. 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.519 There's something in him that that's like wants more. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.599 Because here's what I found studying out Josiah, which is very interesting. 00:22:49.759 --> 00:23:02.720 We always go to when he turns 18 and he receives the book of the law, but it says when he was eight, he gathers the elders, he gathers the count, because most theologians believe at eight years old he wouldn't be old enough to lead, so he had kind of a council with him, right? 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:08.799 He had priests with him, he had leaders with him, government officials with him, and he says, Hey, we're gonna rebuild the temple. 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:13.119 We're gonna do some things different because where we're at ain't working. 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:23.440 So he gathers people in, he gathers all the people, and then he begins to start. 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:29.839 And he did what was right, he didn't turn aside, he didn't turn to the right, he didn't turn to the left. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:44.960 I think it's really good language that when we start there, it before we even take off into his journey, before he gets to the book of the law, before he creates reform, before he tears down astro poles, before he accomplishes all that he accomplishes, it says this was his perspective. 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.640 He didn't turn to the right or to the left. 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:55.200 Hey, church, can I tell you there's a war for you to turn to the right and to the left? 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.319 There's a war for your allegiance. 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:05.599 There's a war for what you are gonna give your time, your focus, your devotion, what you're gonna be all in on. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:10.480 Just as much as today I would say, all in, all flame, and it feels exciting. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:14.319 A lot of times why Monday's hard is because Instagram is all in. 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:20.559 Sometimes it's the bills are all in. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:24.000 Sometimes my marriage feels all in. 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:26.559 Do you hear what I'm saying? 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:37.279 It's so easy to go left or to go right, or to be Josiah and say, hey, I trust the Lord. 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:46.079 The reason why I love baptism is because there's people in that moment that just gave their allegiance to Jesus. 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:50.400 Do you get that? 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:56.640 Like people just signed up and said, I'm His, his His alone. 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.079 I'm forsaking this world, everything it has to offer me. 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:01.599 It's simply Him. 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:03.440 And can I be honest? 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:10.400 Like, there's a place in our life that is fighting for Jesus plus something else. 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.599 Jesus plus your horoscope. 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:26.160 Jesus plus I dabble in some things. 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:36.880 Jesus plus religion, Jesus plus Buddha, Jesus plus Allah, Jesus plus coexists. 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:40.720 Can I tell you the end of the day, he's still the only way. 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:43.519 He's the way, the truth, the life. 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:46.319 No man comes to the Father but by him. 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:51.920 There's not Jesus plus anything. 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:59.200 And and and here, here's what's kind of hard to translate, I think, from going from a teenager to an adult. 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:09.279 Like in the beginning, it feels like it's Jesus plus like the things that vie as my connection, whether that be uh sexual addiction, whether that be drugs, whether that like it's like all these fruits. 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:14.799 But the older I get, it's it's Jesus plus my experience, or Jesus plus I know better, Brian. 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:16.160 I've lived this season already. 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:21.279 It's Jesus plus does he really have the throne of my heart and can he tell me stay when I'm frustrated? 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:24.319 It's Jesus when he says go, but it doesn't make any sense. 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:30.480 It's Jesus that that's the hard part. 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:44.160 Sin management, okay, I can identify, but what about when the areas of my life left or right, left or right, left or right. 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:49.119 The actual definition, we love using this word holy, we love using this word pure. 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:53.119 Do you know like the like the core definition of pure is to be unmixed? 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:56.720 To be unmixed. 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.200 Can I tell you that's what the Lord's asking of our faith? 00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:00.960 To be unmixed? 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:03.359 That's what we'll go on and we'll we'll hear in the story. 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:05.759 Josiah actually finds the book of the law. 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:12.640 A lot of people believe it was the Mosaic law plus some other things that had been a long way abolished for a really long time. 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:14.960 When he gets it, he he brings it to the surface. 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:16.799 He goes, This this can't be real. 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:18.559 The Lord can't be happy with us. 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:21.440 There's there's there's no that we gotta fix this. 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:35.759 And when he sees it, he begins to run, he begins to tear down the asher poles, he begins to uproot all the child sacrifice places, he begins to any any other person that gave glory to any other God, he goes in, he uproots their bones, he burns them up. 00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:39.839 He like I'm telling you, if there's a guy that's all in, it's Josiah. 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:47.599 I remember reading the story as a teenager, it's literally why our oldest son's middle name is Josiah. 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:53.279 Because I said, I want a son that, in the face of everything else that's going on, said can say, No, no, no. 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.640 The Lord said this and we will go after it. 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:07.759 This is the definition of all in, and the reason he realizes that something is off is because things got mixed. 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:11.279 Things got mixed. 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.440 Can I be honest? 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:19.039 There's a lot of us in this room that we're in a season, and you almost go, how did we get here? 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:25.839 I don't think anybody in this room, just being honest, I just met some of you today. 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:31.200 I don't think any of you guys were like, hey, let's go set up an ashera pole in our living room. 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:37.039 How about a good old child sacrifice altar right at the front of the house? 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:38.799 That feel really feels good. 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:44.640 How about we put a adjacent mother-in-law suite that's a uh a male prostitute? 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:50.079 Like this, these are the things that are happening in the house of the Lord. 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:59.440 What happened though, it wasn't big decisions, it wasn't floor plans that said, ah, this will be the great male prostitute center. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:02.640 I'm being facetious, but I need you to hear me. 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:08.640 It was small compromises in marriage, in taking of things, in oh, well, that's not that bad. 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:12.079 You can still do your God and come over here, and that this isn't too bad. 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:18.640 And it was compromise after compromise after compromise after compromise until we got here. 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:34.160 Sometimes all in is recognizing the first compromise instead of waiting until it feels so big and so daunting that you have to be the only person to go after it. 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:35.039 Amen? 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:38.559 Josiah realizes it. 00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:47.279 Josiah realizes there's too much mixing going on for too long, and I'm gonna build the Lord a temple that he deserves. 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:57.920 His reform pushes them into one of the only great times when the kingdoms are split. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:00.400 Let's talk about this. 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.319 Second thought, second thought. 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.799 Go all out today. 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:07.599 Go all out today. 00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.000 Second Kings 22, 11 through 13, we're gonna read it. 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:15.599 This is the moment where Josiah actually finds the book of the law. 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:20.640 And he's about to step into the season I just kind of told you, right? 00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:25.039 When the kings heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:44.480 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Hakim the son of Shaphan and Akbar and the son of Micah, and Safan the secretary, and Isaiah, the king's servant, saying, Go inquire of the Lord for me and for the people, and for all of Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:55.680 For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our father have not obeyed these words of this book to do according to all that is written concerning us. 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:58.400 Here's why I love Josiah. 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:02.480 Here's why I say, people that are all in, go all out today. 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:07.039