[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know, first Kings is the 11th book of the Bible, and so therefore we're going to look up 11, 11, 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: So first Kings being the 11th book, we're going to look up first Kings chapter 11, verse 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you can please stand on to the reading God's word, and let me tell you this before I read it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Read that chapter.
[SPEAKER_00]: was not following the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, therefore, God's telling him he's going to lose the kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he isn't going to take it away from him until later, because not because of him, but because of his love for his father, God's love for David.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that being said, this is a promise to what's going to happen to all the kings after him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we know about that that we know about what happens with Babylon and all that stuff either way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, the Lord said to Solomon, since you have done this and have not kept my covenant and statutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means rules.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which I commanded you, I will surely take the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.
[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honoring it was word and you may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: For over 40 years, for over 40 years, at 11 o'clock a.m., the moment of truth has been done.
[SPEAKER_00]: At 11 a.m., it's been that way for over 40 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: 11 a.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: But bo, bo, bo, the church begins.
[SPEAKER_00]: And today is the 11th of January.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's today, 11th of January.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now when I was 11 years old, my very best friend,
[SPEAKER_00]: A very best friend moved into the neighborhood and went to school with me and became my brother in Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just right for it turned 12, that is.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'd often walk as a child to 7, 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: You all remember that, 7, 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now there's only one in the area.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually there was a whole bunch, not quick trips kind of taking place, but you remember 7, 11, all my goodness.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was thinking about that this weekend was a mistake.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 7 has started really wanting to slushy and I was wanting a big dope.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remember they made a big deal about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was really one that Lamar no way, that was quick trip.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, you all remember Lamar that little dog from 1980.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were like, well, that's a long time ago, pasture, yeah, it was, but my mind is like a track when it comes to something that's not helpful.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to something necessary, I could remember all sorts of things, but if it's something good, I don't need anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_00]: November is the 11th month, the month of thankfulness.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, the month on the K-R calendar, there is a doofy movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean the doofy film, doofy movie, we may be called doofy movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not talking about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a doofy film called Disespinal Tap.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was recently a sequel to it, but in that movie, there's a phrase that says, goes to 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about a little speaker thing on that goes to 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, 10 is the top.
[SPEAKER_00]: 10 is the very best.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if it goes to 11, it means it's one better.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is said, and it's become a statement.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's goes to 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that people have been saying that ever since this goes to 11, it's one better.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, in 11, 11, 11, 11, that was, if every 11, 2011, they had a special showing of that film.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as I said, they recently had a sequel to the movie, and unfortunately, the director of the film was recently killed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they had that, and on my scale to
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 to 11 of that guy, I'll give him 11, just because, you know, why not?
[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, 11 is an important thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the title today's sermon is 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the title today's sermon.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're going to talk about 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is 11 in the Bible?
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Bible, the definition is different.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has several meanings.
[SPEAKER_00]: The definition of a Bible, there's a few.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one of them,
[SPEAKER_00]: is possibly meaning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's go to the meaning of 11 is symbolizing disorder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chaos, judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go into that and why.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first of all, let's take a look at the number 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: 11 is used 24 times in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the 11th can be found 19 times depending on
[SPEAKER_00]: The version that you have, but it's usually that, but the first thing that we see is Genesis chapter 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: So why do they call it disorder?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why do they call it discordination and chaos and judgment?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because of Genesis chapter 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason is because in Genesis chapter 11, men rebel against God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they rebuild against God, because they built a tower of Babylon, you know about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They built a tower of Babylon and he judged him and confused their language resulting in chaos.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is why it has that distinct definition of chaos.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're not going to talk about that quite so much, but let's take a look at 11 and what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, 11 comes after 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Bible, 10 symbolizes law and responsibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know about the Tink Commandments.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know all about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then there's 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: 11, as we said, represents the opposite of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It represents irresponsibility, breaking the law, which brings disorder and judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what is 12?
[SPEAKER_00]: 12, it represents completion.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it represents, and be able to be speaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: But before we get too deep into that, let's take a look at the 12 disciples.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, number 11, and Jesus' disciples.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well,
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the greatest news in the New Testament events is Jesus' last Passover.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's when he had the last Passover with the 12 disciples.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see the paintings of the 12 disciples.
[SPEAKER_00]: We think about him having that Passover with all 12 of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: That signs exactly what happened though.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's now turn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's turn to Matthew, chapter 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: What they're gonna go back to again here later on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew, chapter 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in Matthew chapter 26, we get to take a look at all these disciples.
[SPEAKER_00]: All 12 of them are duly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's take a look.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew chapter 26, verse 20, through 25.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll give you a little split second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 26, 20 through 25.
[SPEAKER_00]: When evening came, he set down with the 12 and as they were eating, he said, truly I say to you, one of you will betray me.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were very sorrowful and each of them
[SPEAKER_00]: He answered and said, he who has dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Son of Man goes as it, excuse me, the Son of Man goes as it is written of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But whoa to him, that man whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then Judas, who betrayed him, answered, master, is at I.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, you have said it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I move on here for this second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we're gonna go to Mark, Mark 1443.
[SPEAKER_00]: And immediately while he was still speaking, Judas, now this is later on.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is when Jesus is in the garden, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Immediately while he was still speaking, he being Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the 12, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs came from the chief priest and the scribes and the elders.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so then we have a question.
[SPEAKER_00]: The question then comes, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why did this happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Luke 22 verse 3.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luke, after 22 verse 3.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, if you, I don't know if you can tell, I've done Matthew now going to mark, I'm covering the gospel here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm in Luke chapter 22 verse 3, then Satan entered into Judas called a scariot who was one of the 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now that's going back a little bit to what was going on at the time of the the dinner.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see that Judas wasn't alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has faith in enter into him.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, Judas didn't know Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Judas knew him personally and knew him in the physical sense like I know y'all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Judas didn't have Jesus Christ's Lord and Savior.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, they couldn't just yet, but by point is he didn't know him and he didn't follow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't follow him like you do.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people love to say, well, do this isn't heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that in a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we already said, why now the other question is, didn't God know this was going to happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he knew.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we're going to go to John.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last of those guys was John 670.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there's more than 70 verses in that one chapter.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of verses.
[SPEAKER_00]: John 6, verse 70, Jesus entered them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have I not chosen you the 12 and yet?
[SPEAKER_00]: One of you, boy, listen to this, have a not choosing you the 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yet, one of you is a devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that's a bold statement.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what is a devil?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean V devil?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, now, let me explain to you what the word devil means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Devil is another word, almost a Latin word, but of demon.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's been taken in English, demon, Satan is his actual name.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that, but devil means demon.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one of these demons, in other words, a demon has come in.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's been taken and guided by a demon.
[SPEAKER_00]: So only 11 of the Lord's disciples took the bread and wine symbolic of Jesus' broken body and shed blood and taken the new covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do we know that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we're not going to read it to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we just now read,
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, maybe I'll read it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll get to this in a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we just read what happened in chapter 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: After that, we see that they took of the bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, this is my body.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, this is my blood.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm at the wine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Judas wasn't there for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus got up and whoop left.
[SPEAKER_00]: He got out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: That means they made the vow to follow God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Judas wasn't there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's...
[SPEAKER_00]: He's good at all, let's say.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's good at all now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he's not made of all.
[SPEAKER_00]: His vow was a something else for the love of money, for the love of himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we'll get to that too.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then before we go into that, it was that was by the way, that was Matthew 26, first 26 through 29, when that happened, when the disciples took of the bread and the wine and said, Bollock of Jesus broken body and shed blood that in other words, they took a new covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the same covenant you take in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pastor, I wasn't there.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you were here, you were here, you were here, you were here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one thing I could tell you and we'll talk about next week just a little bit on the talk about being in the promised land.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to be in the place that they believe that happened in that room.
[SPEAKER_00]: And boy, I'm gonna tell you something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought of a couple of things up there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I kept looking at that room, and I kept thinking about what it must have been like, and I kept thinking, that scum sucking pig.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's what I said is my mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't out loud, that scum sucking pig Judas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Set right here in this wonderful room, where Jesus was,
[SPEAKER_00]: He heard all these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had his feet washed and everything as we see in John chapter 13.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had his feet washed and even in those clean feet, he was dirty within and he got up and went to do what he did.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, the Judas before the disciples took these symbols.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had left the gathering in order to betray Christ to the Judas religious leaders.
[SPEAKER_00]: And where can we find that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, as I just said, John chapter 13.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's best to write these things down, because your pastor's don't, like a top.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the 11, the 11, after Jesus Christ was killed, what happened to the 11?
[SPEAKER_00]: The 11 were alone for three days.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you've ever been through depression.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm assuming you've been depressed before.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not quite the same as going through depression, but I'm sure you've been through
[SPEAKER_00]: They live in were long for three days, three days of depression and betrayal by the 12th, by Judas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he didn't just betray Jesus, he betrayed them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you think about this?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the money keeper.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was like a brother to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was one of the day thought of his brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever had a friend that's been so very close?
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone that you thought would never do you wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have.
[SPEAKER_00]: One that I thought, oh, he or she, they've never do me dirty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they're closer to me than me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden, careful Philip, I hear sometimes by the spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, no, no, I don't want to hear that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop up my ears.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't want to hear that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes that's stupid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Other times, people will try to spread dirty things because they want to cause division.
[SPEAKER_00]: But many of times, it's the spirit trying to tell you something.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to hear it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, there was division already in there because he was not one of them, not in the spirit he was.
[SPEAKER_00]: And can't you understand how desperately bad that was of how horrible it must have felt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now turn back to Matthew 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: This time is from a verse 31 through 35.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 26, 31 through 35, then Jesus said to them, all of you will fall away on account of me this night.
[SPEAKER_00]: For it is written, I will strike this shepherd and this sheep, by the way, this from Zachariah, chapter 13 verse 7, that's what he's quoting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I will strike this shepherd and this sheep of the flock shall be scattered.
[SPEAKER_00]: But after I have risen, I will go before you to get a lead and Peter, Peter, Peter answered, though, oh man, we'll fall away on a counter you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will never fall away.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the think about that for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's calling Jesus a liar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I don't sure he didn't mean it that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just a negative dude, like all of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you may not be a dude, you may be a dude that out there that'll talk and so you might be a gal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, let's be honest, there's been times that we've at times like not me, God, not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we did, and then we, oh, that are head down.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Peter's going through now, four Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only does he feel depressed about Jesus passing and depressed about Judas, he's depressed because he let God down and he called out, he swore not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care of all of them to, he was also kind of mean to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna let you down, but not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm better than them, but that's what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think about that, what a treat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we've all been like Peter,
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, it's true, if you here have been kind of unintentionally arrogant, I have unintentionally, I'll never be arrogant because I'm better than my brothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm better than my sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God says, are you really?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, Jesus said to him, truly I say to you this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter said him,
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter said in verse 35, Peter said to him, though I should die with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will not deny you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all the disciples, of course, they were all like a repeating him because they are like little parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all said with him they're very same.
[SPEAKER_00]: The disciple spoke in this manner.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me too, me too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you had an older brother or an older sister.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually the oldest is the leader.
[SPEAKER_00]: And once says, I want that in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me too, me too.
[SPEAKER_00]: That happens almost every family, you've heard it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've probably been one of the little parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: OK, let's now turn to Luke 22.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is the same moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want you to hear this, because I love the way Luke said Luke was so cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luke said it really great in Luke 22, 31 through 34.
[SPEAKER_00]: And remember, this is the exact same moment when he's speaking a Peter, then the Lord said to Peter, Luke 22 verse 31 through 34, in case I didn't say, what's up on out of Luke chapter 22 verse 31 through 34, then the Lord said Simon Simon, listen, and I want you to listen, you may not be called Simon, that's Simon Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: But listen what the Lord says to us sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Simon, Simon, listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Satan has demanded to have you sift.
[SPEAKER_00]: Excuse me, Ted, to have you to sift you as weak.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you have repented, so here, he knew what was going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a sweaty says that you may not feel and when you have repented, strengthen your brothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the falling.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the getting back up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the failing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the getting back up to keep walking forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all have sinned to fall ashore of the glory God.
[SPEAKER_00]: From a street 23.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is are you gonna get back up again?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you may not be able to tell by me, you seem to be walking with the cane and all that, but let me just tell you before I could do that, even before I had to have a cane.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would walk, but I was never very stable.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would run a boom, fall, get back up, get boom, fall, get back up and get, part of it's because I was bullheaded.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was determined.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not gonna stop me now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I still that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: As a bi-dolly bi-dum, I'm gonna get to where I'm supposed to get to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one thing I say all the time, greatest he's in me and the he's of the world first all four four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get done with God wants me to get done.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how we are to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Peter was gonna go through the test.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not about the strength of Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about the strength of the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to him, talk about,
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter said to Jesus, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he being Jesus said, I tell you, Peter, before the Rooster Proced day, you will deny me three times that you know me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there will be times that you fall.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not the real test, not the falling, getting back up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you going to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: the 11 were long for three days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what do I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Were they literally alone all by themselves in a room?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that because it says they were in a house.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they weren't alone on that Sabbath day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what it was.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a Sabbath day where they couldn't do anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: They basically had their hands tied.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean literally, of course, but they had their hands tied.
[SPEAKER_00]: They couldn't do anything on the Sabbath.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the people of the religion of Judaism were so ridiculous and so straining until what you could do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they didn't want you to, and I'm exaggerating, but very, barely.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't want you to harvest knees on the Sabbath day.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were really weird about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were together in a home or so, it appears.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they weren't alone because they were out without their Lord and Savior.
[SPEAKER_00]: And though the Lord God had told them it was gonna happen, they were surprised and they felt all alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever been in a big crowd?
[SPEAKER_00]: A huge crowd in that you felt alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard a man one time say in a book, he was talking about, this is a real story.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said he was the middle of New York.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, you could go barely go elbow without touching someone, but he says he's the middle of New York and he felt all alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: That happens when we feel alone without the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever sinned and fallen and you feel like you're alone?
[SPEAKER_00]: The very one who tempted you to do it is the very ones that you're alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is not with you anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember he's a liar.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a liar.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the one who tempted Peter to be arrogant.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're very one who tempted Peter and then when Peter fell, he fell to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he won alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And everyone who was in that home with them wasn't alone either.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, only where they together, they also knew the same savior who was now dead, loved him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus told him he was gonna come back, but you know how it is, it's human.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's human, by the way, if you ever get that way, before you beat yourself up for feeling like that, what's we all do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just remember, God already knew you were going to do that and he knew you were going to feel alone, but you're not, you're not alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were wanted by the law and so they were afraid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, after the Sabbath, they, the women went to the gym.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that, I've heard people say, well, those men were real cowards.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't even go to the gym.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks there were one to buy the law.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there were law men sitting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they were Roman law men.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there are law men sitting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are some of them were Jewish.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, they were law men.
[SPEAKER_00]: They was actually kind of wise they didn't go.
[SPEAKER_00]: They could have been killed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the women went either way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what we see.
[SPEAKER_00]: after all that, the 11 finds completion in Christ and how this happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 11 now are complete.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, yes, we look at the numbers in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: People say 12 was complete.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, 12 was not complete, because they weren't complete even when they had Judas, not really.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now the 11 will be fine completion in Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will find faith inside them again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And how this happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well,
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: How's that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it says, and this, by the way, is in, uh, it's in a couple places, but we'll look at it, uh, and where's that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a John chapter 20.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to read it, but I'm just going to tell you about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, in John chapter 20, that he appeared to tinnit them, and why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Thomas wasn't there.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was Thomas?
[SPEAKER_00]: He was out looked the first twin brother, because he was, they called him, did him as what does
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's twin.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's out there looking for his twin brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's his very kind?
[SPEAKER_00]: He was afraid his twin brother was going to be taken and hurt, and maybe even killed because of what him falling Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus appeared to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They felt alone and all alone and it says that Jesus appeared.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now they were in a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: building a locked room.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would be terrified.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's suddenly a dead man boom, appeared in front of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not even though I had been told he was alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Woo, that would bring a little bit of fright.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, he's appeared to them and what did he say, said, peace be with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the part I want you to realize, in that moment, he breathes on them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when he breathes on him, he said this, and I repeat, he said, receive the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you might ask, well, wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean Thomas didn't have the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first of all, it doesn't specify, but I will tell you this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I assume, and I'm only assuming, I assume he did the same to Thomas later on.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, we see this.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see that in the Bible, Jesus showed himself alive only three times to all of the eleven apostles together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now he appeared more than 11 times.
[SPEAKER_00]: He appeared again and again and again to many different people.
[SPEAKER_00]: But to only eleven apostles as a group on their own, only three times.
[SPEAKER_00]: He appeared to them in John chapter 20.
[SPEAKER_00]: for his 26 and 27 and in the 29 we see that it says that he appeared in the house when doubting Thomas had his doubts removed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we know what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that this had just happened to them and they were in the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: And once again he appeared to them and doubting Thomas had not only did he had to seem he had to touch his finger inside his wounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had to touch his finger inside the wounds of a stomach.
[SPEAKER_00]: All that stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: You talk about doubting.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Jesus wasn't a spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was flesh.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to understand that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He won a ghost.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he won a ghost.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a Scooby-Doo movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus also appeared to them in Matthew chapter 28, verses 16 and 17.
[SPEAKER_00]: He met with them in the group in Galilee sometime between.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a group in Galilee.
[SPEAKER_00]: He met with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then his last appearance, this is the third one, is found twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a large group, over 500 people.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and they were there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see it, Luke chapter 24, verse 51, had also Acts chapter 1.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the same event.
[SPEAKER_00]: And both times it's written by Luke.
[SPEAKER_00]: His last appearance was before the 11 on the Mount of Olives.
[SPEAKER_00]: He ascended, rose up and ascended to the right hand of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: He appeared to all 11 and more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want you to think about the 11th.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 11th have been betrayed by that chosen that other apostle, that other apostle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And after doing so, they decided to go out and choose another.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they did, they chose another apostle to replace them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They decided not to stay just 11th.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they chose a 12th apostle.
[SPEAKER_00]: and that 12th Apostle's name was Matthias.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we see this in Acts chapter one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people like to make a statement.
[SPEAKER_00]: They say, well, if Matthias was of God, how come we only hear about him once?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, folks, if you was to write a story today about this,
[SPEAKER_00]: situation of us here at the church and you wrote a story and Sam was mentioned just one time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean he's not here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just means you only mentioned his name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people wouldn't even be mentioned.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean they're not here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthias was a man of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean he's not of the Lord because we don't hear about it at the one time when he's chosen from the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we do hear about another apostle, a strong apostle that God shows a man by the name of Paul, who went out to the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: This apostle, that's what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: There was another 12 or does that mean that there was 13?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we know there was other disciples besides that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we also know that it's not about the number, it's about the one who's within the people.
[SPEAKER_00]: and that is Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: But listen what John says in John chapter 10 verse 27.
[SPEAKER_00]: John says in John 10 27 say this Jesus speaking, by the way, he says, my sheep here, my voice, I know them and they what they follow me.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So
[SPEAKER_00]: We then also hear from that other apostle talk about Paul Paul wrote this I'm going to be three wonderful scriptures that he wrote or maybe one of them he didn't I don't know I believe he did but I could be wrong and I'm talking about Hebrews but I wanted to give you places where it's in the 11th place okay so each one of these is from the 11th chapter of their book
[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians 11, one, follow me as I follow Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Follow me as I follow Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now in some versions, it doesn't say follow me as a follow Christ says, try to behave like me, basically, as I try to behave like Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we should follow him just like, as he follows Christ, in other words, when you have a minister or a teacher,
[SPEAKER_00]: Follow them as if let us me try to be like the picture and me try to be like the one that teacher is doing their best to be like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Too many people are like, well, I need to be more like Billy Graham and Billy Graham would have told you, no, don't be like me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the son of man, Jesus Christ, that's still what we need to be like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 11 1, whoever the writer was, I will be called back.
[SPEAKER_00]: We wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 11 1 says, now faith is the substance of things hope for.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're to have faith in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, not proof of seeing these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have faith in the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Faith is the substance of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hope for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The evidence of things not same.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need to have proof.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard people say, prove it to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I'll believe for folks.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll never believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if Jesus was a come down in front of you, you still wouldn't believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you would say, well, that must have been a special effect.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you have to have faith at faith in what, in grace, in grace, Romans 116 and Romans 116.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if by grace, then it is no longer by works.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our works cannot save us.
[SPEAKER_00]: It goes on to say, otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if it is by a works, then it is no longer by grace.
[SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, work would no longer be work.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is by grace, our faith in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we need to follow Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 11 live long, strong forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute, you mean they're all still alive?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about the fact that they lived on the surfer ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about the fact that they and their ministry is still living today, even after they fell asleep,
[SPEAKER_00]: A viable use of the term falling asleep very often.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not talking about the fact that they fall asleep while the pastor is being boring.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not talking about they fell asleep when they went home and tried to watch the football game to choose when ever went, helped me Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't jump me, I'll just talk about this season, not all the other seasons, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the season, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, I'm not talking about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They died here on earth, but they're only resting because they're alive and haven't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your love one is as Jesus to save them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they're saved or not because I don't know them personally, but I'm assuming your love one is as Jesus to save them is alive and heaven right now right now you might be missing them, but they're alive forever more.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you're a loved one, like my father, like my grandfather, like my grandmother, like people who came here, like people of other churches who left a wonderful ministry.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are ministry still lives two day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned Billy Graham want to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's long gone, but you know what, his ministry still lives the day this morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was watching duck
[SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Adrian Rogers, and guess what, his ministry still lives today every Sunday morning the air.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charles Stanley is gone, there's ministry still lives today.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's others who are no longer withage in the physical sense, and yet their ministry still lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just today, we are reading from John.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are reading from others, and every single person who wrote down in the Bible, they're gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yet, their ministry still lives this very day.
[SPEAKER_00]: It relips us up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it because of them, no?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because the Lord got the Holy Spirit through them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the ministry still lives because they gave the best they had.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there a magical number?
[SPEAKER_00]: 11?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: They gave the best they had.
[SPEAKER_00]: If 11 was the top, 10 was the top, and they gave 11, even more than they're best for the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll give them that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God gives more than 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: More than 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gives the better than the best.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was an old stupid movie called Best of the Best.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of y'all for the 90s remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was dumb, but I enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because I like a lot of stupid movies.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact is, it was a fighting film, and that nothing good about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, in that film, the best of the best, I want to remember this, God gives better than the best, always, and he's given it to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only three of the remaining 11 disciples, as we mentioned one ago, only three of those 11 disciples after Jesus' resurrection had their writings included in the New Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only three of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: These writers were Matthew, he wrote down one book.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, he wrote down two.
[SPEAKER_00]: First and second Peter, in case you didn't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: as the gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gave us first second third John, these were letters and then he gave us the book a revelation of the revelation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Five wonderful books and they all died of martyrs death every single one of those eleven except for John.
[SPEAKER_00]: John did not.
[SPEAKER_00]: And first, John 511, this is a good one that God gave me just this morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: First, John 511, it says this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the testimony.
[SPEAKER_00]: God has given us eternal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this life is in his son.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's given us eternal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So even when we pass, that life keeps going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: it goes to 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: It keeps on going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Better than the best of this or goes to 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And did you know that there are 11 promises that John gave us it as gospel?
[SPEAKER_00]: He did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those records that 11 very special promises, one was John 3, 16, everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Son of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two is eternal life, which may sound like the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: In some ways, they are, but it's talking about eternal life by eating spiritually the body of Jesus as John 654.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, sometimes they're the same thing where it was from a different type of promise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three, by following Jesus, you will not walk in darkness as John 8, 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: Four, those who continue in Jesus's word will be set three.
[SPEAKER_00]: As John 8,
[SPEAKER_00]: John 836 also says, you can be truly made free by Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number six was God, the Father will honor those who serve Christ as from John chapter 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: From John chapter 14, those who believe in Jesus will do greater deeds than he did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number eight, those who obey Christ commands will receive the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number nine, those who keep Jesus commands will be loved by both Him and God the Father, John 14, verse 21.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then John 155, those who abide and Jesus will be fruitful and then the last John 1514, it's the 11th.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last of the promises is that the person can be Christ friend if they obey Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: We be as friend and He's our friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 11 are complete.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you, do you follow him every day?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you with him every day?
[SPEAKER_00]: And even when you fall, you're married to get back up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Follow him like they're living did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter fell, John fell.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all fell.
[SPEAKER_00]: James, every single one of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: When that day came and Jesus was taken captive, not one, not one of them stayed.
[SPEAKER_00]: John was the only one that went to the cross, but every single one of them fell short.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every one of those 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say this to you because before you compare yourself to one of the disciples, that's not what we're going to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Youngsters, children of God, we're going to compare ourselves
[SPEAKER_00]: And remember that Jesus Christ brought them to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the last things he did with him was have a meal with many of them on the beach.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he helped Peter to see that it was okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: He not, yes, Peter did deny him three times, but he also gave them the opportunity.
[SPEAKER_00]: The opportunity to bring him back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you love me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Lord, I love you once.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Lord, I love you twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Lord, I love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: and Peter fulfilled it in Acts chapter two in the Lord God through the Holy Spirit spoke to him through him to the others.
[SPEAKER_00]: My point is, is even when you fall, get back up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't fall down to stay down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be like the 11 they fell, but they didn't stay down.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happened to Judas?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we know he killed himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't following God, but they were.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I will finish
[SPEAKER_00]: for 16 through 20, and listen to this, then the 11 disciples went away to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then Jesus
[SPEAKER_00]: came and spoke to them saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and other Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And remember, I am with you always, even to the end of the age of men.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is how Matthew ends his gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Preach the word to all people, knowing that you are the follow just like the 11 did.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you fall, don't stay fallen like Judas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get back up again and follow.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's about prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your precious Heavenly Father, I pray right now that you be with us,
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, if we trip, if we fall, I pray Lord God that you will help us to see your hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's always there to help us to get back up again, that we will quit trying to help ourselves to get back up, that we will quit trying to be the ones to lead us and guide us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, that we will see that you are the one who has always had your hand out for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: The very hand that has the nail scars on and more.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord God that we will see that, grab ahold of it, grab no other hands, but your Neil's guard hands, and Lord be guided by it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord Jesus Christ that we will see our hope in you and follow it and feel it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord Jesus Christ for all people right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: who are here or at home or are needing assistance, who are needing to feel your love, who are right now feeling as if they're all alone, just like those disciples did on those days at Youth Left.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray that they will remember that they did not stay alone and neither will I brother or sister right now, that they will call out to you and feel your presence.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray this in Jesus' holy and precious name, amen, and amen.