WEBVTT 00:00.151 --> 00:02.712 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the way community church podcast. 00:03.192 --> 00:06.333 [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Darahal and I'm the pastor of the way community church. 00:06.993 --> 00:11.354 [SPEAKER_00]: We are showing people the way to life with Jesus and we are thankful that you joined us today. 00:12.114 --> 00:21.276 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want any info about our church or if you're interested in becoming a member of our church, you can email info at the waycc.online. 00:21.796 --> 00:23.577 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, if you like to worship 00:29.418 --> 00:29.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Giving. 00:30.018 --> 00:41.204 [SPEAKER_00]: Today, we're going to look at perhaps the most popular verse in the whole Bible, Sean 316, on this special family of friends that had the way to be church, we are celebrating. 00:41.964 --> 00:45.186 [SPEAKER_00]: The guests that we have invited to come to worship with us. 00:45.226 --> 00:51.869 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we want to just present a gospel in a way that all ages, stages, and generations can appreciate it. 00:51.969 --> 00:57.452 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want to encourage you to follow along with the transcript of this podcast, grab your Bibles, a study 00:58.312 --> 01:03.956 [SPEAKER_00]: John 360, and I want to talk in his thoughts in my own Jesus, is the way let's pray together. 01:04.937 --> 01:09.920 [SPEAKER_00]: God of our weary years, and God of our silent tears. 01:11.521 --> 01:16.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Now who has brought us the spark on the way? 01:16.044 --> 01:17.626 [SPEAKER_00]: Now who has bought our mind? 01:18.786 --> 01:23.550 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us into the light, keep us forever in the path we pray. 01:24.908 --> 01:26.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, God, for your people who have gathered. 01:27.711 --> 01:40.002 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray now for the person who has unanswered questions, pains of the soul, frustrations of the mind, that you will help us in this moment to hear from you. 01:41.224 --> 01:47.430 [SPEAKER_00]: Holy Spirit of the Living God, would you do in our hearts, only you can do in Jesus' name? 01:47.450 --> 01:47.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 01:51.283 --> 01:54.826 [SPEAKER_00]: What if your struggles are profound? 01:56.387 --> 01:59.290 [SPEAKER_00]: Because your impact will be amazing. 02:02.112 --> 02:11.239 [SPEAKER_00]: William Calper is known for his severe mental illness, and he's also known for the wonderful worship songs that he wrote. 02:12.741 --> 02:20.367 [SPEAKER_00]: So severe was his mental illness that he tried or multiple occasions to take his own life. 02:21.835 --> 02:27.617 [SPEAKER_00]: he tried, he failed, over and over again. 02:29.057 --> 02:42.501 [SPEAKER_00]: The story goes that he was so depressed about being able to successfully end his own life that every failed attempt just pushed him further and further into his depression. 02:44.402 --> 02:49.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Legend has it that one day he was, he was done and he wanted to end it all. 02:49.728 --> 02:51.349 [SPEAKER_00]: So he left his London home. 02:51.369 --> 03:03.258 [SPEAKER_00]: He got the attention of a horse-drawn carriage, a cab, to take him down to the River Thames in London, so he could end his life. 03:03.938 --> 03:08.341 [SPEAKER_00]: He gets into the cab, he tells the man, drive in the carriage, take me to the river. 03:09.042 --> 03:14.125 [SPEAKER_00]: As a man begins to navigate with the horse through the cobblestone streets of London, 03:19.044 --> 03:25.148 [SPEAKER_00]: cab driver who was familiar with these streets just figures that he'll try to navigate safely anyway. 03:25.889 --> 03:28.431 [SPEAKER_00]: After all he has taken his route many times. 03:29.351 --> 03:33.474 [SPEAKER_00]: Time starts to pass by minutes given way and now is been an hour or two. 03:34.435 --> 03:44.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, cab driver after all it is driving through the city and being unable to find the river has to admit to William that I'm lost. 03:45.768 --> 03:48.510 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been driving all this time, but the fire is too thick. 03:48.670 --> 03:51.832 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't find my way to the river, I apologize. 03:52.573 --> 03:55.575 [SPEAKER_00]: William, in frustration, gets out of the cab. 03:56.116 --> 03:58.017 [SPEAKER_00]: He walks to the nearest building. 03:58.717 --> 04:04.862 [SPEAKER_00]: And when he gets to the door of the nearest building, he realizes he's at his own house. 04:09.865 --> 04:13.128 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that moment, he reflected on the mystery of God. 04:14.276 --> 04:22.944 [SPEAKER_00]: and he believed that God used the fog to disorient the cab driver so that he could find his way safely back home. 04:24.186 --> 04:26.528 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk to the person now who is struggling. 04:27.107 --> 04:36.392 [SPEAKER_00]: with any or all parts of your life, who feels disoriented by the fog that you can feel, but is not natural to the perceptible eye. 04:36.412 --> 04:40.654 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a spiritual thing, it's a mental or emotional thing, but it's real to you. 04:41.314 --> 04:45.116 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe today somebody you love or like invited you to church. 04:45.676 --> 04:50.719 [SPEAKER_00]: And so you decided to take them up on their invitation and hear you are in this moment. 04:50.759 --> 04:52.160 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope that you can appreciate. 04:52.820 --> 05:01.405 [SPEAKER_00]: that the fog in your life has been God's mysterious way to lead you back to home in him. 05:04.266 --> 05:08.008 [SPEAKER_00]: To find safety on the other side of the door. 05:09.029 --> 05:14.111 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you face, I don't know what you tried to run from, I don't know what you're trying to grapple with or overcome. 05:14.812 --> 05:17.253 [SPEAKER_00]: The God works in a mysterious way, doesn't he? 05:18.472 --> 05:29.877 [SPEAKER_00]: reflecting on this experience, William Cowper wrote a song that was first called Like Shining Out of Darkness that now we better know as the him, God moves in a mysterious way. 05:30.817 --> 05:33.018 [SPEAKER_00]: For that day was mysterious for him. 05:33.898 --> 05:37.880 [SPEAKER_00]: So he wrote these words, I want you to listen to the third verse of this powerful hymn. 05:38.341 --> 05:43.504 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, God's purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour. 05:44.164 --> 05:48.626 [SPEAKER_00]: The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower. 05:49.607 --> 05:54.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Blind unbelief is sure to am, and scan his work in vain. 05:55.590 --> 05:59.953 [SPEAKER_00]: God is his own interpreter, and he will make it play. 06:02.158 --> 06:05.519 [SPEAKER_00]: My goal today is to speak to those who are in unbelief. 06:07.099 --> 06:15.041 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to encourage you to lean into this conversation because unbelief can cause us to air and try to discern the mysteries of God. 06:16.401 --> 06:25.663 [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope that while I'm talking Holy Spirit to be speaking about a time I'm done, God would have made something plain to you that hitherto was a mystery you could not figure out. 06:26.623 --> 06:30.164 [SPEAKER_00]: John 360 and I think is the right verse for the conversation we want to have. 06:31.012 --> 06:38.860 [SPEAKER_00]: Because detention in this one verse is that God is the principal actor who initiates salvation. 06:39.680 --> 06:46.207 [SPEAKER_00]: But human beings possess a genuine freedom and its our responsibility to believe. 06:46.267 --> 06:47.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Let the church say believe. 06:48.709 --> 06:52.393 [SPEAKER_00]: If it was one word, a whole book of John is about, it would be that word. 06:53.188 --> 07:03.454 [SPEAKER_00]: Believe, John said, I wrote these words that you might believe that Jesus is the Son of God and by believing you have a life eternal in his name. 07:03.814 --> 07:10.038 [SPEAKER_00]: This whole book is about that one word, believe so today I want us to have a conversation about that one word, believe. 07:10.318 --> 07:15.962 [SPEAKER_00]: And with John 316, helps us to understand is that God has responsible for the loving. 07:17.062 --> 07:18.583 [SPEAKER_00]: He's responsible for the sending. 07:19.444 --> 07:21.185 [SPEAKER_00]: He's responsible for the sacrifice. 07:22.041 --> 07:24.783 [SPEAKER_00]: but we're responsible for the believing. 07:25.784 --> 07:28.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Salvation is a two sided agreement. 07:28.806 --> 07:33.550 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not something God forces upon us and it's not something we can get without God. 07:33.990 --> 07:36.912 [SPEAKER_00]: It's something God provides and it's something we receive. 07:36.932 --> 07:37.473 [SPEAKER_00]: And I believe 07:37.867 --> 07:45.429 [SPEAKER_00]: that John 3 16 is clear that God has chosen to send salvation to us through His Son, Jesus. 07:45.509 --> 07:54.852 [SPEAKER_00]: So here's our big idea for our sermon today and that is this, Jesus is God's mysterious way of salvation for us. 07:55.912 --> 08:07.195 [SPEAKER_00]: If you really believe it, if you kind of believe it and if you don't know if you believe it, I want you to repeat it with me on account of 31, 2, 3, Jesus is God's mysterious 08:08.423 --> 08:09.264 [SPEAKER_00]: of soundvation. 08:10.906 --> 08:11.686 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a mystery. 08:11.726 --> 08:14.029 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope the Lord makes them clear to us today. 08:14.069 --> 08:17.152 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the first thing we'll notice from John's pre-16 and that is this. 08:17.512 --> 08:23.298 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is my way, heavy on the mind. 08:24.360 --> 08:28.482 [SPEAKER_00]: John 3 16 and the message Bible says, this is how much God loved the world. 08:28.823 --> 08:46.853 [SPEAKER_00]: He gave his son, his one and only son, and this is why so that no one need be destroyed by what church believing in him, I like this part, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. 08:48.754 --> 08:52.796 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that whole and lasting life don't sound nothing like what we think 08:55.349 --> 09:03.731 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of us run from the Lord because when like people who claim to follow the Lord, because the lives they live look nothing like whole, nothing like last day. 09:04.851 --> 09:12.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you assume that the commoner Christian replacing your faith in Jesus means that your life can become boring and you gotta give about a fun stuff that you love and enjoy. 09:12.873 --> 09:21.715 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to challenge you to at least consider that nothing offers holiness and lasting at the same time, but Jesus. 09:23.285 --> 09:23.885 [SPEAKER_00]: What you mean, Ralph? 09:24.085 --> 09:31.530 [SPEAKER_00]: It might be stuff that we enjoy to do and by the time you're done doing it, it might have been fun, but you're not as whole as you were before you do. 09:33.531 --> 09:34.712 [SPEAKER_00]: It took part in you, Witton. 09:37.373 --> 09:39.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Or they might be something you enjoy to do. 09:39.434 --> 09:45.698 [SPEAKER_00]: It may be fun in the moment, but once the high calms down, the joy is not lasting. 09:49.829 --> 09:55.054 [SPEAKER_00]: Place in my faith in Jesus gives me both whole and lasting life. 09:55.254 --> 10:00.379 [SPEAKER_00]: And what it really communicates is the type of dynamic God wants with us is a relational dynamic. 10:01.300 --> 10:02.181 [SPEAKER_00]: It's relationship. 10:02.581 --> 10:03.722 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not religion based. 10:03.882 --> 10:21.719 [SPEAKER_00]: It's relationship based and the type of relationship God wants with you and with me or with anyone who would believe that type of relationship is a healthy parent child relationship that mentors into a friendship. 10:23.335 --> 10:23.815 [SPEAKER_00]: start over. 10:24.216 --> 10:33.183 [SPEAKER_00]: The type of relationship God wants with you and me is a healthy parent child relationship that mentors into a friendship. 10:34.244 --> 10:34.944 [SPEAKER_00]: Which means what? 10:35.425 --> 10:42.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody who desires to be in relationship with us should want something with us not something from us. 10:45.893 --> 10:47.394 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't all have people hanging around 10:50.740 --> 10:54.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they heard you got a raise, or they saw your new car, they saw your new kicks. 10:54.943 --> 11:02.908 [SPEAKER_00]: And they started putting their name in your budget without talking to you about how they were spending your money for you. 11:04.862 --> 11:15.431 [SPEAKER_00]: And at first, you couldn't tell because you got a generous heart and you liked this share, and you probably felt a little subibos, remorse, a subibos, remorse for the goodness in your life. 11:15.691 --> 11:17.392 [SPEAKER_00]: So you want to be good to people who don't have it. 11:17.412 --> 11:22.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you started to realize, oh, now, every time we together and money moving, it's always moving from me. 11:27.020 --> 11:32.805 [SPEAKER_00]: To you, I think you wanted something from me, not something with me. 11:34.626 --> 11:42.029 [SPEAKER_00]: But people who love you authentically want nothing from you, anything they desire, they just desire it with you. 11:43.157 --> 11:45.797 [SPEAKER_00]: I desire joy with you, time with you. 11:46.138 --> 11:48.218 [SPEAKER_00]: I desire experiences with you. 11:48.318 --> 11:53.079 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing from you, just everything with you, because it's the fellowship that fulfills you. 11:54.019 --> 11:54.859 [SPEAKER_00]: I need you to hear me. 11:55.139 --> 12:05.241 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've had any idea that God won't something from you, let me tell you right now, 10 toes down, in a nothing you got, God won't from you. 12:08.082 --> 12:10.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever God wants, God won't sit with you. 12:12.372 --> 12:15.033 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever God desires, he desires with you. 12:16.094 --> 12:20.476 [SPEAKER_00]: Not from you, because God is not a taker. 12:20.516 --> 12:21.376 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a go-wither. 12:23.538 --> 12:29.761 [SPEAKER_00]: God, a go-wither, holy through the low end, through the high, God, a go-wither, holy through the fire, and through the blood. 12:29.801 --> 12:34.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody who's ever walked through some things and you realize I'm now walking through it alone? 12:36.648 --> 12:41.632 [SPEAKER_00]: So what God desires is a relationship, not something from us, but something with us. 12:41.872 --> 12:50.480 [SPEAKER_00]: And the type of relationship God desires is a healthy, parent child that matures into a friendship, right? 12:50.640 --> 12:53.582 [SPEAKER_00]: Look what John says in John chapter one verse number 12, you think I'm making it so. 12:53.823 --> 13:02.610 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, but as many as received him to them, he gave the right to become what y'all, children of who God, to those who do what, church? 13:02.910 --> 13:03.371 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 13:04.091 --> 13:04.532 [SPEAKER_00]: You see that? 13:06.463 --> 13:10.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, look at what Jesus says in John 15, saying, book, different chapter. 13:10.545 --> 13:12.166 [SPEAKER_00]: John 15, 13, through 15. 13:12.446 --> 13:14.468 [SPEAKER_00]: Great of love has no one than this. 13:15.168 --> 13:23.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Then to lay down one's life for his, you are my, if you do whatever I command you. 13:23.853 --> 13:29.156 [SPEAKER_00]: No longer do I call you servants for serving don't know what his master's doing, but I have called you wet church. 13:29.956 --> 13:32.478 [SPEAKER_00]: For all things I heard from my father, I may know him. 13:34.509 --> 13:37.030 [SPEAKER_00]: The relational dynamic God wants with us. 13:37.270 --> 13:41.532 [SPEAKER_00]: It's to start out as his children who mature into his friends. 13:42.692 --> 13:44.893 [SPEAKER_00]: But leave makes me a child of God. 13:45.273 --> 13:47.174 [SPEAKER_00]: Obedience makes me a friend of God. 13:50.375 --> 13:50.535 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 13:50.575 --> 13:58.378 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I know why you're looking to me like that because you probably had a black murmur or Auntie or daddy or uncle like me who would tell you when you was little. 13:58.578 --> 13:59.759 [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't one of your love. 14:05.005 --> 14:07.727 [SPEAKER_00]: Because at that time, they wasn't one of your little friends. 14:09.048 --> 14:11.010 [SPEAKER_00]: That was the parent child dynamic. 14:11.450 --> 14:12.992 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's some of I turn 40. 14:13.632 --> 14:21.079 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think I'm close to my dad being one of my little friends. 14:24.081 --> 14:24.822 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm close. 14:26.292 --> 14:49.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the stuff he'd be saying to me, the stuff he'll say to me while we talk and makes me believe that now my dad don't just see me as a little Darrell and he big Darrell or my dad don't just see me as just his son but I think now I'm almost perhaps close to being his friend because what has happened, maturity over time allows me to elevate you in relationship. 14:52.205 --> 14:57.088 [SPEAKER_00]: So we start out as the children of God, then we mature into the friends of God, the friend of God. 14:57.628 --> 15:02.912 [SPEAKER_00]: And whoever believes can stay kind to Jesus being my way. 15:03.792 --> 15:05.534 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a personal relationship, but then I'm gonna too. 15:05.834 --> 15:06.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a good question. 15:06.694 --> 15:08.595 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to take time to answer, and that is this. 15:08.936 --> 15:11.657 [SPEAKER_00]: How can Jesus be the only way? 15:12.898 --> 15:13.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Heavy on the only. 15:14.831 --> 15:30.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, we in John 3 16 again, looking at the end of the new and national version of César Picasso love the world that it gave his one-and-what-church, only son, who, that whoever believes in him, who is him, the one-and. 15:32.976 --> 15:37.678 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know we live in a world that is not a such thing as a one-and-one, nothing. 15:39.658 --> 15:41.619 [SPEAKER_00]: So Christian sounded a little crazy. 15:42.993 --> 15:50.138 [SPEAKER_00]: to people who are outside of the Christian faith when we claim that Jesus is the only way back to God. 15:51.459 --> 16:03.247 [SPEAKER_00]: If you struggle to accept that unto the least, consider with me that Jesus really might be the only way back to God who offers us real, credible salvation. 16:04.048 --> 16:10.012 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when I say real, credible salvation, there are many things in this world that promise to save and don't quite save. 16:11.223 --> 16:18.431 [SPEAKER_00]: Money promises to save us from poverty, but money can't save from poverty, because poverty is not about what's in your pockets. 16:19.972 --> 16:21.013 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about what's in your own. 16:23.235 --> 16:27.360 [SPEAKER_00]: Happiness promises to save us from depression, but a lot of us know it's true. 16:27.540 --> 16:30.203 [SPEAKER_00]: That sometimes I'm just laughing to keep from. 16:33.309 --> 16:42.536 [SPEAKER_00]: likes, loves, and views on social platforms promised to save us from loneliness, but we've all been surrounded by people in a crowd and still feel all alone. 16:44.358 --> 16:52.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Pleasure, promises to save us from boredom, but we all know that as soon as the pleasure is gone, the boredom is deeper than it ever was. 16:54.242 --> 17:01.189 [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's a plethora of all different kind of belief systems that you can engage in to tickle your religious fancy. 17:01.390 --> 17:03.452 [SPEAKER_00]: You got Buddhism and Islam. 17:03.472 --> 17:06.135 [SPEAKER_00]: You got the Baha faith and Hinduism. 17:06.335 --> 17:09.218 [SPEAKER_00]: You got Chinese traditional and atheism. 17:09.378 --> 17:11.300 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you also got just none of the above. 17:11.340 --> 17:12.061 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm agnostic. 17:14.185 --> 17:35.355 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to religious craving to be fulfilled, you can go into a temple, a mosque, or a church, you can go online, you can go in person, or you can go not at all with so many options in the world that promise salvation that it cannot deliver on and so many options in the world, but we can go and get a religious experience, it may sound crazy to walk into this church. 17:35.515 --> 17:41.498 [SPEAKER_00]: And here, preacher, you never heard before, tell you that it's possible that Jesus above all, 17:42.997 --> 17:44.198 [SPEAKER_00]: might just be the only way. 17:46.240 --> 17:55.327 [SPEAKER_00]: I get that is fortifying the listener of the belief systems to strengthen what we believe, but would you consider there as a few reasons why Jesus might just be the only way? 17:55.908 --> 17:58.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the first reason, because he said it himself. 18:03.957 --> 18:11.280 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said Himself of Himself, John 14 and 6, this is what we get the name of our church from. 18:11.860 --> 18:21.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, I am what church, the true and the life, no one comes to the Father except through who. 18:24.339 --> 18:33.721 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you got the confidence to tell me something about yourself, I'ma at least believe it until I can see for myself. 18:35.701 --> 18:47.624 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if you tell me you can cook, I'm gonna be like, okay, until I take your food and then I'm gonna decide, you decide for myself. 18:49.584 --> 18:52.605 [SPEAKER_00]: If yourself revelatory statement is a lie tonight. 18:53.703 --> 18:58.686 [SPEAKER_00]: So we got to start with the fact that he said of himself on the way. 18:59.307 --> 19:07.912 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you can say it, 10 toes down without flinching, that you're the way, at least let me consider that you might be a less unantil. 19:08.052 --> 19:10.434 [SPEAKER_00]: I can prove empirically that you are not. 19:11.655 --> 19:29.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, should double dog down on his confirmation of who he was, he dared people in John, two, 19, look what it says, Jesus answered and said to them, destroy this temple, and in three days, I will raise it up. 19:30.379 --> 19:33.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Jesus said, oh, I don't know why. 19:34.620 --> 19:36.040 [SPEAKER_00]: It's no other way besides me. 19:37.004 --> 19:40.425 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Lord, people say things about themselves all the time. 19:40.585 --> 19:41.865 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't necessarily true. 19:42.605 --> 19:45.066 [SPEAKER_00]: How can you prove what you say is actually true? 19:45.586 --> 19:46.646 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, I'll tell you what. 19:46.666 --> 19:46.826 [SPEAKER_00]: Kill me. 19:46.846 --> 19:51.507 [SPEAKER_00]: And three days after you do, I'm gonna get myself up from the dead. 19:51.527 --> 20:04.950 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, 20:08.888 --> 20:11.109 [SPEAKER_00]: who can speak on that and make good on it. 20:13.850 --> 20:15.851 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't believe I'm not all the way back to God. 20:16.251 --> 20:16.711 [SPEAKER_00]: Cool. 20:17.712 --> 20:18.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Put me to the test. 20:20.453 --> 20:28.496 [SPEAKER_00]: Take my life publicly, so nobody can deny it's a real historical event that wrong lynched Jesus. 20:30.140 --> 20:36.944 [SPEAKER_00]: And in three days later, not two, no, not four, no, not a week, three days later, counting Jewish time. 20:36.964 --> 20:39.525 [SPEAKER_00]: The day he died, in Jewish time, counts as one. 20:40.606 --> 20:42.147 [SPEAKER_00]: The way he's Jews count days. 20:42.607 --> 20:45.469 [SPEAKER_00]: Saturday counts as a day, Sunday counts as the third day. 20:45.669 --> 20:47.810 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, now, all day that I tell you, I was going to get up. 20:47.890 --> 20:56.055 [SPEAKER_00]: I told you, when I was going to get up, and you still kill me anyway, but it's cool, because I was the way now, it's the way. 20:57.536 --> 20:59.577 [SPEAKER_00]: I am an aging athlete. 21:00.495 --> 21:06.019 [SPEAKER_00]: So what that means is, I don't play no sports that can hurt me no more. 21:08.440 --> 21:12.583 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, the last time I went and played basketball, I was playing with some friends early in the morning. 21:12.603 --> 21:14.304 [SPEAKER_00]: I had to be about, I was in my early 30s. 21:14.965 --> 21:17.186 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I was pretty against some young boys. 21:17.206 --> 21:19.308 [SPEAKER_00]: They was in the 18, 19 years old. 21:19.868 --> 21:20.568 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying? 21:20.588 --> 21:21.469 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm about to lie down for them. 21:21.509 --> 21:22.069 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean? 21:22.730 --> 21:24.471 [SPEAKER_00]: I love basketball because you can talk smack. 21:25.071 --> 21:27.353 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, one of these 18-yos hit me with a big beat. 21:29.746 --> 21:29.986 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 21:30.626 --> 21:33.208 [SPEAKER_00]: He went, love, cross me back this way to the right hand. 21:33.728 --> 21:37.590 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking, it's cool, I'm slowing my feet, but I always can catch up. 21:37.890 --> 21:41.332 [SPEAKER_00]: I reverse pivot, he come into the line that hit a layup. 21:41.992 --> 21:46.194 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm usually taller than the most of the guys out there, so I sail out for the block. 21:47.635 --> 21:49.115 [SPEAKER_00]: Sell out, I'm me it out. 21:49.195 --> 21:49.515 [SPEAKER_00]: Huh. 21:53.817 --> 21:54.758 [SPEAKER_00]: I missed the block. 21:55.612 --> 21:56.533 [SPEAKER_00]: He hit the lay on. 21:57.473 --> 22:02.217 [SPEAKER_00]: I term my ankle so bad that I said to myself, I'm retired. 22:02.957 --> 22:03.257 [UNKNOWN]: I'm retired. 22:03.378 --> 22:05.819 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm retired. 22:05.839 --> 22:06.580 [SPEAKER_00]: Never again. 22:08.001 --> 22:08.801 [SPEAKER_00]: So now I go. 22:11.183 --> 22:14.305 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a hooper from the hood, but I go, you understand. 22:14.866 --> 22:19.669 [SPEAKER_00]: What I love about basketball is if somebody really call, they will tell a defender. 22:20.790 --> 22:22.151 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I'm about to do. 22:24.108 --> 22:29.752 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Fender will know that they are about to do, what they said they were about to do. 22:30.553 --> 22:38.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Then it's nothing to the Fender can do to stop them from getting to the point on the floor they wanna be and making a shot. 22:38.299 --> 22:47.426 [SPEAKER_00]: My favorite female whooper right now is a young lady with an Afro-Puff in goggles, her name Olivia Miles and she called. 22:48.497 --> 22:57.691 [SPEAKER_00]: All she do in the WMBA is tell the fenders what she about to do and it's nothing they can do to keep her for rockin' and then sleep, break, break, break, break, break. 23:00.325 --> 23:01.185 [SPEAKER_00]: Look up our highlights. 23:01.766 --> 23:03.826 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's another highlight, higher in our highlights. 23:03.906 --> 23:07.568 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, I'm gonna tell you devil, what I'm going to do? 23:08.068 --> 23:11.389 [SPEAKER_00]: Kill me and three days later, I'm gonna get up from the grave. 23:11.409 --> 23:19.032 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not anybody who's grateful for the fact that even when the defense tries to stop him, there's nothing they can do to stop Jesus from doing. 23:19.052 --> 23:20.572 [SPEAKER_00]: What Jesus said, he was going to do. 23:20.592 --> 23:24.254 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that anybody grateful for the fact that he might just beat the only way? 23:25.734 --> 23:27.715 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he did get up from the grave. 23:29.451 --> 23:33.155 [SPEAKER_00]: First thing Jesus is my way, number two, hand Jesus really beat all the way. 23:33.996 --> 23:35.437 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he said himself, he was. 23:36.698 --> 23:38.520 [SPEAKER_00]: He dared to never kill him and he did. 23:39.501 --> 23:45.587 [SPEAKER_00]: And he made good on the promise, number three, I think that Jesus is the logical way, heavy on the logic. 23:47.049 --> 23:52.595 [SPEAKER_00]: What I mean is, you gotta engage your brain when you're wrestling with belief. 23:54.024 --> 23:59.385 [SPEAKER_00]: I think sometimes we don't want to have faith because we think to have faith in me and you got to be stupid. 24:01.646 --> 24:07.767 [SPEAKER_00]: What faith is faith is walking with belief as far as it'll take you. 24:10.007 --> 24:15.448 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is walking with logic as far as it'll take you and then using belief to get you the rest of the way. 24:16.689 --> 24:18.049 [SPEAKER_00]: We do this all the time. 24:19.016 --> 24:25.680 [SPEAKER_00]: right we use logic as far as the get us and then we add belief based on the logic that took us that far. 24:26.580 --> 24:40.908 [SPEAKER_00]: It's people in this church right now who came to church today because a family member or friend asked you to come to church and your logic is well they said it was going to take me to brunch afterwards so 24:48.665 --> 24:53.927 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'd be hungry, so, and I know the restaurant we're going to eat is good. 24:56.327 --> 25:09.171 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I don't know if this church is going to be any good, but my logic tells me this person who invited me is somebody I can trust, and my faith tells me, even if church ain't good, brunch will be. 25:11.732 --> 25:16.454 [SPEAKER_00]: You use logic as far as it could take you, and then you use faith the rest of the way to walk 25:18.700 --> 25:27.613 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you walk into a church and have a bitty and then nobody come in here with a set of Allen riches to make sure that deceit you sitting in are sturdy before you set down. 25:28.755 --> 25:33.823 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't walk hands and let me check these chairs to make sure they are sturdy. 25:37.755 --> 25:42.257 [SPEAKER_00]: You walked into a church, you never been in before, you seen chairs, you never seen before. 25:42.517 --> 25:49.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Logic told you, these are chairs, these chairs were here, but before I got here and fainted it, we'll sit down and see if it holds you up. 25:52.360 --> 25:56.822 [SPEAKER_00]: And you believe the nut to sit out, not knowing if the chair will fall from under you. 25:58.343 --> 26:04.705 [SPEAKER_00]: But you use a logic to get you as far as it could and then you add it faith on top of where logic could not prove. 26:06.007 --> 26:13.757 [SPEAKER_00]: So when it comes to being a believer in Jesus Christ, every time you come into a church, do not leave your brain in the car. 26:17.978 --> 26:22.899 [SPEAKER_00]: Because when coming here for a minus activity, we didn't come in here to stroke your emotions. 26:22.959 --> 26:32.422 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't come in here to give you religious platitudes to allow you and manipulate you to put you on an emotional high and say you back out into the world as sheep among wolves. 26:32.662 --> 26:38.664 [SPEAKER_00]: We came in here to think with our whole merns and to love the Lord our God with our merns. 26:42.794 --> 26:50.359 [SPEAKER_00]: So John is writing about Jesus and we have to believe his testimony because he was a first-person witness. 26:51.139 --> 27:01.066 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what a struggle comes, the struggle comes with us believing what the word says about Jesus because we wasn't there to see it for ourselves. 27:02.326 --> 27:04.527 [SPEAKER_00]: But we don't have that issue in other parts of our life. 27:05.087 --> 27:12.088 [SPEAKER_00]: The same friend who invited you to church today, if they wanna invite you to a restaurant you never been to, you don't need to say, I don't believe that restaurant good. 27:12.108 --> 27:13.169 [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't gonna see it for myself. 27:14.369 --> 27:27.412 [SPEAKER_00]: If you single and you look in the mango and they see somebody who they think might scratch your itch, and they tell you that it was fun, you not gonna be like, no they wasn't. 27:28.872 --> 27:30.813 [SPEAKER_00]: You gonna be like, send me a bitch like this. 27:34.709 --> 27:35.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's there, am I telling the truth? 27:38.951 --> 27:51.276 [SPEAKER_00]: But then when it comes to the word, we don't want to believe first person testimony and witness this because we think that this makes us stupid to believe testimony and we can be logical and also believe what the word says about Jesus. 27:52.195 --> 28:01.401 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want you to consider that one of the most logical, intellectual professions in our nation is to become a judge in the United States. 28:01.761 --> 28:08.265 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know you may have an issue with some of the moral decisions of some judges on the high court, but I'm not talking about the moral right now. 28:08.285 --> 28:09.145 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about the logical. 28:10.406 --> 28:12.347 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't just wake up tomorrow and say, you know what? 28:13.228 --> 28:14.368 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm gonna be a judge. 28:16.330 --> 28:17.310 [SPEAKER_00]: Why I put my advocate? 28:17.330 --> 28:21.413 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't go on indeed, but in a resume to be a judge. 28:22.722 --> 28:23.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Why should you be a judge? 28:23.722 --> 28:29.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I got decided me because I'm in the church for the first time this year in September. 28:33.804 --> 28:36.324 [SPEAKER_00]: No, if you want to be a judge, you got to go to undergrad. 28:36.344 --> 28:37.024 [SPEAKER_00]: That's full use. 28:37.945 --> 28:39.605 [SPEAKER_00]: After that, you got to pass the L-sat. 28:40.865 --> 28:42.545 [SPEAKER_00]: After that, you got to get in the law school. 28:43.286 --> 28:45.746 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's about three years to earn your jurist, doctor. 28:46.966 --> 28:51.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you got to pick which state you want to practice in because you can't just practice everywhere. 28:52.053 --> 28:57.575 [SPEAKER_00]: The state you pick got his own bar exam that you got to take and pass. 28:58.535 --> 29:08.218 [SPEAKER_00]: Then once you pass the bar exam, before you can become a judge, you got to be a practicing attorney for like a decade, then it might help to be a clerk for another judge before you become a judge. 29:09.319 --> 29:11.699 [SPEAKER_00]: So at this point, you 20 years in. 29:13.680 --> 29:15.961 [SPEAKER_00]: Before you can even passively put on the black roll. 29:17.197 --> 29:27.481 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you become a judge, one of the most intellectual, logical, intelligent, professions in the nation, and you got a judge a case based on stuff you didn't see yourself. 29:29.742 --> 29:34.104 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody would say a judge is not smart, nobody would say a judge is not intelligent. 29:34.364 --> 29:37.166 [SPEAKER_00]: What a judge does is look at evidence. 29:38.199 --> 29:41.021 [SPEAKER_00]: and testimony and make a decision. 29:41.041 --> 29:45.283 [SPEAKER_00]: A judge can say, well, I want that to see for myself if they robbed the bank. 29:45.323 --> 29:50.866 [SPEAKER_00]: So regardless of this evidence, I can't adjudicate in this matter. 29:51.467 --> 30:01.933 [SPEAKER_00]: No, the judge looks at testimony, the judge looks at evidence, and uses logic as far as logic can take the judge, use precedence in law to then make a decision. 30:03.235 --> 30:16.015 [SPEAKER_00]: So if one of the most intellectual jobs in our country requires that you believe the testimony of our witnesses, why then won't you believe the testimony of people who saw Jesus with their own eyes? 30:20.219 --> 30:22.922 [SPEAKER_00]: because Jesus is the logical way, it makes sense. 30:23.083 --> 30:25.225 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the Bible talks about it, but not just the Bible. 30:25.706 --> 30:39.162 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people outside of the Bible who talk about Jesus, a man named Tathitis, say it consequently, to get rid of the report, narrow, fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class, hate it for their abominations. 30:40.026 --> 30:43.547 [SPEAKER_00]: called Christians by the populists. 30:43.567 --> 30:44.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see that? 30:44.648 --> 30:45.488 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a tacitist. 30:45.608 --> 30:46.288 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there you go. 30:46.849 --> 30:48.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Christians by the populists. 30:48.269 --> 30:49.089 [SPEAKER_00]: Go to the next slide. 30:49.730 --> 30:58.453 [SPEAKER_00]: Christus, as Jesus, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of top barriers at the hands of one of our procurators, punches, piloted. 30:59.753 --> 31:00.754 [SPEAKER_00]: That's real history. 31:01.294 --> 31:04.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Talking about a real Christ and a real people who followed him. 31:05.700 --> 31:10.827 [SPEAKER_00]: During the reign of Neuro, 1st century AD Rome. 31:11.568 --> 31:16.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Look what Lucien said, Lucien said, the Christians, you know, worship a man to this day. 31:17.634 --> 31:22.197 [SPEAKER_00]: the distinguished person who introduced their novel rights and was crucified on that account. 31:22.897 --> 31:25.538 [SPEAKER_00]: You see, these misguided creatures, he told me about us. 31:26.479 --> 31:35.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Start with the general conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains the contempt of death and voluntary self-devotion which is so common among them. 31:36.384 --> 31:38.746 [SPEAKER_00]: Lucian is saying, he roasting creatures. 31:39.006 --> 31:40.747 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, these fools, follow Jesus. 31:41.867 --> 31:42.808 [SPEAKER_00]: So, they don't flirt out. 31:43.956 --> 31:46.338 [SPEAKER_00]: They really believe they're gonna live for all time. 31:47.059 --> 31:52.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Look what Josephus is, one of the most profound writers of Jewish history. 31:53.304 --> 31:59.609 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, at this time, the time of pilot, there was a wise man who was called what church Jesus. 32:00.169 --> 32:03.412 [SPEAKER_00]: His conduct was good, and he was known to be what? 32:03.652 --> 32:07.896 [SPEAKER_00]: Virtuous, and many people from among the Jews and other nations became his watch-off. 32:08.757 --> 32:12.139 [SPEAKER_00]: This real history, outside of the Bible, 32:13.193 --> 32:15.914 [SPEAKER_00]: These three writers don't have faith. 32:16.655 --> 32:22.118 [SPEAKER_00]: They're actually using mockery to roast Christians for trust in Jesus. 32:22.798 --> 32:28.881 [SPEAKER_00]: But the point is, you cannot be intellectually honest and deny the historical person Jesus. 32:30.302 --> 32:34.884 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you don't believe Jesus walked the earth, you're not being logical. 32:36.285 --> 32:37.145 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because you didn't see them. 32:38.766 --> 32:42.108 [SPEAKER_00]: The issue we have with Jesus though is that we gotta see them again. 32:44.847 --> 32:47.270 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't doubt nobody walked the earth that we can see. 32:48.651 --> 32:51.454 [SPEAKER_00]: Then she would Jesus is, because we got to go see him again. 32:52.295 --> 32:54.798 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we want to wrestle with and down if he actually lived. 32:55.819 --> 33:07.071 [SPEAKER_00]: So if he actually lived and he's a historical figure that outside and inside of the Bible writes about, we should at least consider logically that he might actually be who he trained to be. 33:08.506 --> 33:11.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is my way, how can Jesus be the only way? 33:11.709 --> 33:13.131 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the logical way. 33:13.171 --> 33:14.412 [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, I'm almost done. 33:14.853 --> 33:18.997 [SPEAKER_00]: Is Jesus the sure way, the sure way? 33:19.838 --> 33:23.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the other foot, my faith in some ways before that wasn't sure. 33:25.183 --> 33:26.625 [SPEAKER_00]: So is this, is this sure? 33:27.185 --> 33:28.647 [SPEAKER_00]: How do I know it to be sure? 33:29.586 --> 33:39.033 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, John 3, 16, and the New King James Version is says, for God's all over the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 33:41.255 --> 33:42.376 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the claim of the verse. 33:43.116 --> 33:49.621 [SPEAKER_00]: And what this forces us to do is make a decision on what we believe about the historical figure Jesus Christ. 33:50.642 --> 33:53.704 [SPEAKER_00]: If we believe He didn't exist, we're not being intellectually honest. 33:54.665 --> 33:58.068 [SPEAKER_00]: What we believe about His nature is up to each one of us. 33:59.050 --> 33:59.930 [SPEAKER_00]: So, C.S. 33:59.971 --> 34:05.573 [SPEAKER_00]: Lewis, the right of mere Christianity, he laid out three possible realities for Jesus' real nature. 34:06.874 --> 34:07.194 [SPEAKER_00]: C.S. 34:07.254 --> 34:11.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Lewis, look that Jesus' life is saying, okay, he won of three things. 34:12.917 --> 34:21.922 [SPEAKER_00]: Based on what I've said in your read it, Jesus is in the, what church, of, of, of, or, 34:26.536 --> 34:31.138 [SPEAKER_00]: Says, what was like, I got to be honest, man, because the claims he made, this and bowl claims. 34:32.119 --> 34:34.139 [SPEAKER_00]: The stuff he said about this and bowl stuff. 34:34.820 --> 34:37.741 [SPEAKER_00]: So he wanted these three and none in between. 34:38.501 --> 34:42.323 [SPEAKER_00]: And I got to make a decision of where I'm going to stand or him. 34:42.503 --> 34:43.344 [SPEAKER_00]: Is he liar? 34:44.904 --> 34:49.907 [SPEAKER_00]: Is he lunatic or is he actually the Lord he claim to be? 34:50.587 --> 34:51.807 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's no in between. 34:52.388 --> 34:55.009 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he wanted a three based on some of the stuff he said. 34:56.073 --> 34:56.774 [SPEAKER_00]: Stuff like what? 34:57.194 --> 34:59.636 [SPEAKER_00]: Stuff like John chapter eight, verse number 58. 35:00.557 --> 35:02.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus at this time is in his early thirties. 35:03.759 --> 35:10.525 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus says, before Abraham was, I am. 35:14.428 --> 35:22.495 [SPEAKER_00]: The claim was so egregious that the people who hurt him in verse 59 picked up stones to stone him in death. 35:23.311 --> 35:30.784 [SPEAKER_00]: Because in a man they like, but you either a liar or you a lunatic, but you're 32 years old. 35:31.365 --> 35:35.232 [SPEAKER_00]: How you talking about before Abraham, you existed. 35:36.854 --> 35:50.400 [SPEAKER_00]: And when Jesus used the phrase, I am, it is a foreshadow or it is a motif pointing back to Exodus 314 when that bush was in the desert burning, but not consumed. 35:50.660 --> 35:55.542 [SPEAKER_00]: And the voice from the bush told Moses, tell Pharaoh, I am sent you. 35:58.383 --> 36:01.024 [SPEAKER_00]: So Jesus comes all the way over here, John eight. 36:01.985 --> 36:05.106 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, remember that I am who spoke the Moses from the bush, 36:06.037 --> 36:09.982 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm used. 36:15.249 --> 36:18.613 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's either a lie or a little, he's straight online, right? 36:18.853 --> 36:23.419 [SPEAKER_00]: He, I mean, he's telling people here why we're seeing photos, same Cisco 49ers. 36:34.030 --> 36:39.913 [SPEAKER_00]: if you don't know, keep not knowing, it's okay. 36:40.614 --> 36:41.454 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a straight line. 36:42.455 --> 36:48.978 [SPEAKER_00]: Or he'll lunatic, meaning he actually believes this, but it's not true. 36:48.999 --> 36:51.600 [SPEAKER_00]: Or he might actually be lower. 36:52.721 --> 36:58.664 [SPEAKER_00]: The sure way, the promise Messiah who was to come to deliver us from our sins. 36:59.484 --> 37:01.566 [SPEAKER_00]: Because before, he was, 37:02.608 --> 37:02.908 [SPEAKER_00]: I am. 37:03.548 --> 37:05.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, other stuff like, Son, your sins are forgiven. 37:06.830 --> 37:11.852 [SPEAKER_00]: Knowing only God can forgive sins, but if you've got it in the flesh, you can forgive sins too. 37:13.293 --> 37:24.358 [SPEAKER_00]: He said about Himself in John 313, the same chapter 3 verses earlier, he says, no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven, the Son of man. 37:25.318 --> 37:29.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Ain't nobody been to heaven, but me, I've been to heaven and I came from heaven. 37:32.748 --> 37:35.550 [SPEAKER_00]: So I believe that Jesus is, he's just sure away. 37:35.770 --> 37:37.211 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, what you do with him is up to you. 37:37.431 --> 37:38.832 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a story of an old rich man. 37:38.872 --> 37:50.340 [SPEAKER_00]: He had a huge trust fund, a huge amount of wealth that he wanted to be queen to whoever would purchase his estate. 37:50.760 --> 37:53.942 [SPEAKER_00]: The thing was, he had a son, but his son had already died. 37:54.723 --> 37:57.925 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he loved his son, so much he got a portrait made of his son. 37:58.465 --> 38:01.806 [SPEAKER_00]: The all-penning was nice, but it's on one really handsome to look at. 38:01.846 --> 38:03.067 [SPEAKER_00]: He won easy on the eyes. 38:03.587 --> 38:04.067 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the truth. 38:04.727 --> 38:11.530 [SPEAKER_00]: But the man loved this song, regardless of the fact that that he was unseen lead from a physical attraction standpoint. 38:12.458 --> 38:35.048 [SPEAKER_00]: So when the man's estate goes on the sale, people come with all their money, they ready, they happy, they excited about his boat and his cars and his houses and his clothes and his furniture, and they get that and his state salesman says, all right, the first thing we know auction off before we auction off any other other stuff is this all painting of his son. 38:36.809 --> 38:38.450 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody in the room like, ugh. 38:42.017 --> 38:47.139 [SPEAKER_00]: People can't even make eye contact with the photo because he's just not easy to look at. 38:48.740 --> 39:01.605 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the old ladies sitting in the back, she didn't have much, but she decided that the painting was nice enough and if the song was important to the father that she at least wanted to honor his legacy and help get things moving. 39:01.645 --> 39:05.807 [SPEAKER_00]: So she raises her hand, she puts her in an auction and a bid for the painting. 39:06.247 --> 39:07.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody challenges her. 39:09.580 --> 39:15.746 [SPEAKER_00]: going once, going twice, so the picture of the sun to the little lady in the back. 39:17.047 --> 39:20.811 [SPEAKER_00]: After that painting was sold, the auctioneer said, thank you all for attending the day. 39:21.031 --> 39:22.493 [SPEAKER_00]: This auction is now closed. 39:24.298 --> 39:42.144 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody saw it looking around like, hello, no, no, no, no, what about the boats and the cars and what about the houses and what about the furniture and the auction is said, oh, what are they reading to y'all is that he put in his last wheel that he wanted to give his whole estate away, but he will only give his estate to the person who was willing to buy the picture of his son. 39:42.904 --> 39:46.586 [SPEAKER_00]: So when she bought the son, she got everything that came with him too. 39:46.926 --> 39:49.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody in this house who can testify? 39:49.727 --> 39:57.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, I know I might have mystery if I saw you in my own house, but today I'll choose you because I know we too come to everything else. 39:57.751 --> 40:05.514 [SPEAKER_00]: If there are error of salvation in this room, a daughter of the divine of son of the son who can testify, follow the art truths to son. 40:09.470 --> 40:12.753 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm during church number five, Jesus is the way. 40:15.556 --> 40:21.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus not just my way, we can have a conversation about the only way logical way, sure way. 40:22.082 --> 40:25.626 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just say it, 10 toes down, Jesus is the way. 40:35.859 --> 40:48.064 [SPEAKER_00]: For God's soul of the world, John 3, 16 King James, that he gave his only begot and soul that who's so ever believe it in him should not perish for half everlasting life. 40:49.084 --> 40:53.826 [SPEAKER_00]: When I tell you, Jesus is the way, even though this church is named the way, I'm not talking about churches. 40:55.527 --> 40:59.568 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no guarantee salvation if the church is baptized, Methodist, and non-denominational. 40:59.908 --> 41:04.110 [SPEAKER_00]: Church of God, church of God, and Christ, big church, little church, medium church, mega church. 41:05.393 --> 41:10.435 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's not talking about Jesus, then it's not pointing you to the way. 41:12.835 --> 41:15.736 [SPEAKER_00]: And we here, we not in competition with no other church. 41:16.336 --> 41:17.817 [SPEAKER_00]: We in competition with the world. 41:19.577 --> 41:25.159 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say Jesus is the way, Jesus is the only one who can say not the preacher. 41:26.539 --> 41:34.842 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if that preacher is a pastor, a pastor, a pastor, Bishop, Reverend, Dr. Elder, overseer, or got three out of the five in front of the name. 41:37.447 --> 41:39.389 [SPEAKER_00]: They got mortitals, then they got names. 41:41.152 --> 41:45.136 [SPEAKER_00]: And no salvation in no preacher, and I can tell you, because I'm in the preacher. 41:45.157 --> 41:51.745 [SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus is the way, not all lies with new names. 41:53.527 --> 41:55.710 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time I remember, Black Hebrew is the light. 41:57.917 --> 42:06.159 [SPEAKER_00]: old lives with a new name, baptizing legalism and Afro-centricity, don't make it the truth. 42:06.939 --> 42:11.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I'm proud to be black, but no, I can't keep the book and do the run of me. 42:13.620 --> 42:17.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Trying to persuade me to go back to the law and keep the law. 42:17.501 --> 42:22.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't make me a real Jew, it make me a real fool, because the law can't be kept. 42:22.302 --> 42:24.863 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you break one law, you guilty of the whole thing. 42:29.033 --> 42:30.413 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm also black and I'm proud. 42:33.174 --> 42:41.836 [SPEAKER_00]: Sovation is in Christ alone, and I know I read 16, but I can't leave you without reading John 3, 17 and 18. 42:42.557 --> 42:51.039 [SPEAKER_00]: For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. 42:51.859 --> 42:55.200 [SPEAKER_00]: He that believe it on him is not condemned. 42:55.908 --> 43:04.493 [SPEAKER_00]: But he, that believe it not, is condemned already because they do not believe in the name of the only big God in Son of God. 43:06.054 --> 43:13.698 [SPEAKER_00]: What you say, however, I'm saying Jesus is the one way street in or out of a relationship with God. 43:15.780 --> 43:18.521 [SPEAKER_00]: In a minute, I'm gonna let y'all go, you're gonna get in your cars and drive home. 43:18.721 --> 43:21.023 [SPEAKER_00]: I just want you to know, the parking lot is gonna preach to you. 43:23.847 --> 43:24.673 [SPEAKER_00]: What's your name, Ralph? 43:24.934 --> 43:26.364 [SPEAKER_00]: At T-Dub, is one way in? 43:27.378 --> 43:28.319 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's one way out. 43:28.959 --> 43:34.804 [SPEAKER_00]: When you turn right there before you hit 138, just remember that Jesus is one way in. 43:35.164 --> 43:36.205 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's one way out. 43:36.685 --> 43:38.107 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't make your own way. 43:38.167 --> 43:39.828 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't pave another way. 43:40.088 --> 43:42.810 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't park at the dollar general and walk across. 43:43.251 --> 43:45.172 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to, it's one way in. 43:45.452 --> 43:46.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's one way out. 43:46.313 --> 43:49.135 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to church as anybody who can testify forever. 43:49.535 --> 43:50.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Show your right. 43:50.596 --> 43:53.759 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the way to try to handle life. 43:58.683 --> 43:59.383 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he is. 44:07.208 --> 44:08.548 [SPEAKER_00]: I got two action items for you. 44:08.568 --> 44:09.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the first one. 44:11.530 --> 44:19.674 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have seriously contemplated or attempted suicide, I want you to talk to somebody today. 44:20.675 --> 44:21.855 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to call the number 988. 44:29.139 --> 44:33.300 [SPEAKER_00]: whose struggles were severe, but his impact was greater. 44:34.921 --> 44:40.162 [SPEAKER_00]: This man who wrote these songs we sang to glory and sang to God, try to take his life. 44:41.102 --> 44:48.524 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would never use some light that in the sermon without giving somebody who hears that sermon or real resource if you're struggling to. 44:50.125 --> 44:51.165 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all picking up what I'm putting down? 44:52.765 --> 44:55.666 [SPEAKER_00]: I know right now I'm at the sound of my voice and somebody who's contemplated it. 44:58.580 --> 45:02.302 [SPEAKER_00]: He's somebody who's trotting. 45:05.143 --> 45:07.184 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the second action item, and that is this. 45:08.385 --> 45:10.085 [SPEAKER_00]: Take a step closer to Jesus today. 45:11.326 --> 45:12.627 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if that step is for you. 45:14.007 --> 45:17.089 [SPEAKER_00]: For Brendan, for Tatiana, that step was bad to them. 45:18.849 --> 45:21.051 [SPEAKER_00]: For some of you, that step was accepted in the invitation. 45:22.671 --> 45:26.033 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's another step beyond the invitation to come to church. 45:27.114 --> 45:36.441 [SPEAKER_00]: It's taken a step for the invitation to have a conversation with somebody to discuss the gospel, to place your faith in Jesus on.