WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:03.353 [SPEAKER_00]: I wish you pay ladies, thank you so much for coming to our women's breakfast. 00:03.853 --> 00:04.633 [SPEAKER_00]: It's great to have you. 00:04.653 --> 00:11.496 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, don't I literally say to ourselves like often that we have the best church in the whole wide world. 00:11.516 --> 00:13.137 [SPEAKER_00]: We love Redeemer Church. 00:13.197 --> 00:13.998 [SPEAKER_00]: We're so thankful. 00:14.018 --> 00:18.380 [SPEAKER_00]: We've been here, you know, 20 whatever years and it highs and lows, but we love you. 00:18.480 --> 00:23.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Our family, like we've raised our kids here and you mean a lot to us. 00:23.242 --> 00:25.083 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a great privilege to be with you this morning. 00:25.423 --> 00:32.585 [SPEAKER_00]: If I haven't met you, I'm Betsy, married to Pastor John 33 years, and we have, I had to look down at my notes. 00:33.045 --> 00:33.685 [SPEAKER_00]: Five children. 00:34.025 --> 00:35.746 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I don't look down on my notes for that. 00:36.766 --> 00:43.868 [SPEAKER_00]: Five kids who are all married now, and we have nine grandchildren, and I had to give you the latest family picture. 00:45.532 --> 00:46.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Now look at that. 00:46.812 --> 00:49.593 [SPEAKER_00]: That's Olivia getting married to Luke and here's the deal. 00:50.073 --> 00:51.434 [SPEAKER_00]: That's our Christmas card this year. 00:51.474 --> 00:55.175 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want one, update your information on CCB. 00:55.335 --> 01:02.737 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, because listen, last year we sent out, we had duplicates go out, we missed a ton of people because your address isn't correct. 01:03.537 --> 01:11.239 [SPEAKER_00]: I sent one to a saint who's gone home to be with the Lord and I didn't mean to so I need to update our system So cadence between you and me. 01:11.259 --> 01:15.260 [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna nail down the addresses this year But we really love sending a card out to our church family. 01:15.560 --> 01:23.703 [SPEAKER_00]: So could you please for cadence and my sake go into our RCCB and update our your information so anyhow That's my awesome family. 01:23.723 --> 01:28.024 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so we praise God for oh my word look at all those blessings It is awesome. 01:28.044 --> 01:29.124 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey on a side note. 01:29.224 --> 01:31.945 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a little guy Let me come over here and say if I could point 01:32.625 --> 01:44.917 [SPEAKER_00]: Rodney, Rodney Landman, he's, I don't know how he's different than Zeke or Augee, but anyhow, Rodney, he is having a little surgery on Monday morning, and so if you could just keep him in prayer, keep mom and dad in prayer. 01:44.957 --> 01:47.740 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not easy to give you a little one-year-old away to the surgeon. 01:47.800 --> 01:52.825 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got to fix some things that God has made a little uniquely in his system around his colon. 01:53.145 --> 01:58.187 [SPEAKER_00]: So would you pray as I have a, you know, a grandma heart for my grandson and for my kids? 01:58.207 --> 01:58.907 [SPEAKER_00]: So pray for them. 02:00.408 --> 02:06.711 [SPEAKER_00]: I have titled this message home home and I have been thinking a lot about home. 02:07.171 --> 02:10.712 [SPEAKER_00]: As my home has changed, I've gone through a lot of different things. 02:10.732 --> 02:16.474 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, even the 20 years I've been here, our homes changed and I'm pretty sure your home has changed. 02:16.494 --> 02:19.996 [SPEAKER_00]: We go through a lot of different seasons as women with our homes. 02:20.556 --> 02:34.342 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've been thinking a lot about it, and I think back to, you know, when I married Johnny was a pastor already, and I remember as a young pastor's life, coming upon the section of scripture that John often talks about, I don't need to look this part up. 02:35.522 --> 02:50.827 [SPEAKER_00]: John, I think yearly will come and tell you that we're going to have new elders or new pastors join our team and he always goes to the qualifications because the Bible has very specific qualifications for a pastor to be leading, very specific qualifications for an elder to be leading. 02:51.327 --> 02:54.108 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember as a young pastor's wife reading that list going, 02:54.968 --> 03:00.176 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh dear God, I literally, I mean there's kind of a funny side too, there's kind of a very sobering side to it. 03:00.696 --> 03:11.552 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to get to the finish line with John and get on the other side of that and make sure that, you know, as far as it's up to me that John, you know, meets those qualifications obviously most of that's on him. 03:12.112 --> 03:29.065 [SPEAKER_00]: But as a pastor's wife, I carry that very seriously, and the part that I carried the most seriously in 1 Timothy 3, which is where these are lined out, is that the pastor, the overseer, the elder, would manage his home well, keeping his children submissive. 03:29.486 --> 03:30.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when we move here, 03:31.668 --> 03:38.794 [SPEAKER_00]: We had a two-year-old A, three-year-old, A, five-year-old, a seven-year-old, I think, and a nine-year-old, I can't remember, did that, was that five numbers? 03:38.834 --> 03:39.795 [SPEAKER_00]: I just spat them out. 03:40.936 --> 03:52.347 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are all ages where you really can't predict where they're going to land in terms of their faith and to be in a fishbowl sort of a sense to grow up in that world. 03:52.720 --> 03:53.941 [SPEAKER_00]: where everybody's watching you. 03:54.861 --> 04:09.371 [SPEAKER_00]: And as a mom, I felt that immense pressure that if John, if one of our kids wasn't submissive, we really truly believe that if a child isn't submissive while they're in your home, then if for that season an elder wouldn't be qualified to be an elder. 04:09.911 --> 04:14.314 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that that was a range of time where John possibly might not have been qualified to be your pastor. 04:14.974 --> 04:17.875 [SPEAKER_00]: because one of his children perhaps might not be submissive. 04:17.915 --> 04:26.939 [SPEAKER_00]: We take God's word very seriously and I have a good friend that actually stepped aside as a pastor for two or three years until his son came around. 04:27.019 --> 04:34.362 [SPEAKER_00]: And so all of that to say that John and I take those qualifications very seriously, but I am telling you today. 04:36.003 --> 04:53.412 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel immense relief because after marrying our last daughter off, we can safely say that John has managed his home well and I am so thankful, like that's such a big burden off of my heart, to get to the finish line of raising children in the ministry. 04:54.112 --> 04:54.373 [SPEAKER_00]: Now. 04:55.333 --> 04:56.014 [SPEAKER_00]: pray for him. 04:56.775 --> 04:59.097 [SPEAKER_00]: All that's left is managing me. 05:00.999 --> 05:05.204 [SPEAKER_00]: And that perhaps might be the biggest burden of them five children ever was. 05:05.704 --> 05:08.528 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've been thinking about my home a lot because it's changed. 05:08.568 --> 05:09.208 [SPEAKER_00]: Live moved out. 05:09.569 --> 05:10.650 [SPEAKER_00]: We're now empty nesters. 05:10.690 --> 05:11.351 [SPEAKER_00]: However, I'm like 05:11.711 --> 05:15.374 [SPEAKER_00]: There are 19 people that know our garage code and can show up any time in our house. 05:15.655 --> 05:18.517 [SPEAKER_00]: So kind of an empty nest or kind of not. 05:19.298 --> 05:24.763 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, most of you are not asked to live under the same qualifications that John and I have been asked to live under. 05:24.843 --> 05:30.969 [SPEAKER_00]: However, the scriptures have some very specific things to say to us as women regarding our homes. 05:31.329 --> 05:36.092 [SPEAKER_00]: And when we have a women's event, a lot of times, I'm going to talk about things that are specific to women, right? 05:36.112 --> 05:37.573 [SPEAKER_00]: We wouldn't do that at a men's event. 05:37.913 --> 05:40.835 [SPEAKER_00]: This is my opportunity to encourage, exhort you as women. 05:41.315 --> 05:50.781 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, if you know a passage of scripture probably the most common passage of scripture that we would go to, for anything about women, would be tightest chapter two, okay? 05:50.821 --> 05:52.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Titus chapter two, you don't need to turn there. 05:52.162 --> 05:54.383 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm still not in my big interaction today. 05:54.663 --> 05:56.564 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not in my main passage yet. 05:57.125 --> 05:59.786 [SPEAKER_00]: So, but I do need a sip of water because my mouth is getting dry. 06:00.147 --> 06:00.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Hold on. 06:04.695 --> 06:14.883 [SPEAKER_00]: Titus chapter two, Titus the book of Titus Paul writes to Titus to give him instructions for some specifics for how to the church works, how Christians are supposed to work within the church. 06:15.043 --> 06:25.472 [SPEAKER_00]: And Paul gets very specific, he's like, older men, this is your job, older women, this is your job, younger men, you need to be doing this, younger women, you need to be doing this. 06:26.410 --> 06:32.051 [SPEAKER_00]: So with a specific, here's chapter two, verse three, it says this, older women. 06:32.491 --> 06:35.852 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, whoever wants to be the older women, I'll just pause right there. 06:37.092 --> 06:46.454 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel like the older women, but little research, but, you know, Dr. MacArthur, John MacArthur would say that would tend to be post-child-bearing age, okay? 06:46.734 --> 06:50.955 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're not bearing children anymore, sorry, you're in that category. 06:51.115 --> 06:52.275 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in that category. 06:52.415 --> 06:55.176 [SPEAKER_00]: None of us ever want to say we're older, but I'll call you this, you're wiser. 06:55.736 --> 07:02.143 [SPEAKER_00]: You've had life experience, and it's time to pass something on, whether you feel equipped or not. 07:02.784 --> 07:05.006 [SPEAKER_00]: It's what God asks you to do as older women, right? 07:05.026 --> 07:07.228 [SPEAKER_00]: Where to be, what are the qualifications? 07:07.248 --> 07:08.149 [SPEAKER_00]: Not really qualifications. 07:08.169 --> 07:11.873 [SPEAKER_00]: What does Paul, what is the Lord expect of older women? 07:12.414 --> 07:16.879 [SPEAKER_00]: To be reverent in behavior, not slanders, 07:18.028 --> 07:19.409 [SPEAKER_00]: So self-control their mouths. 07:19.769 --> 07:21.270 [SPEAKER_00]: Not slaves too much whine. 07:21.830 --> 07:22.791 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it about whine? 07:23.411 --> 07:27.233 [SPEAKER_00]: All my friends at the gym who are my age are all about going out for glass of wine, not a big deal. 07:27.714 --> 07:35.458 [SPEAKER_00]: But there is a tendency for older women to kind of slide into being, what does it say, slaves too much whine? 07:36.519 --> 07:38.940 [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, he says, this is what they're supposed to do. 07:39.120 --> 07:44.143 [SPEAKER_00]: To teach the younger women, to teach what is good. 07:44.703 --> 07:46.504 [SPEAKER_00]: And so train the younger women, younger women, 07:48.940 --> 08:01.384 [SPEAKER_00]: to love our husbands, to love our children, to be self-controlled, working at home, kind and submissive to their own husbands that the word of God may not be reviled. 08:01.444 --> 08:04.505 [SPEAKER_00]: And I loved just a little study on this this week. 08:04.525 --> 08:17.849 [SPEAKER_00]: The word to teach is actually the word to train, correct, or admonish, and just as a side note, all that list that I just read to you from Titus II, we have to be trained in those things. 08:18.437 --> 08:23.718 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would we have to be trained or corrected because it's not in our nature to love our husbands? 08:24.138 --> 08:26.139 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not in our nature to love our children. 08:26.179 --> 08:29.279 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not in our nature to love being at home. 08:29.779 --> 08:31.820 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not in our nature to be self-controlled or pure. 08:32.700 --> 08:33.480 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to be trained. 08:33.520 --> 08:41.082 [SPEAKER_00]: So older women here at Redeemer, if you're like, I don't really know what I should be doing here at this church, right there, Titus after two. 08:41.542 --> 08:42.982 [SPEAKER_00]: Find a younger woman who needs help. 08:43.022 --> 08:44.762 [SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't mean that you have it all together. 08:45.182 --> 08:47.403 [SPEAKER_00]: It just means that you're like, hey, I've got a few years on you. 08:48.075 --> 08:52.877 [SPEAKER_00]: in loving my husband, or in being pure, or loving my home. 08:53.798 --> 08:55.539 [SPEAKER_00]: So we could be on that list all day long. 08:55.559 --> 08:57.019 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to go to that whole list today. 08:57.059 --> 09:02.382 [SPEAKER_00]: For today, I want to really want to emphasize the phrase, working at home, because I've titled the message home, right? 09:02.402 --> 09:05.303 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about biblical hospitality today. 09:05.664 --> 09:12.167 [SPEAKER_00]: So it means that young women, we need to be trained to work at home, to manage our household, okay? 09:13.207 --> 09:25.633 [SPEAKER_00]: We will not be able to display biblical hospitality if we have not first been taught to be a good homemaker, to be a keeper of our home, to love building a home. 09:27.073 --> 09:32.236 [SPEAKER_00]: Now side note, I know you're all kind of thinking this because our culture sort of flags this in our minds right away. 09:32.836 --> 09:40.039 [SPEAKER_00]: Side note is this that what this does not say is that we cannot work outside of our home, okay? 09:42.123 --> 09:51.205 [SPEAKER_00]: that our homes and those relationships around our home are to be primary in our affections and efforts, okay? 09:51.825 --> 09:57.806 [SPEAKER_00]: That the relationships in our home around our home, that's to be primary in your affections and efforts. 09:58.746 --> 10:06.427 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 141 says, the wisest of women builds her home, but the fool tears it down with her own hands. 10:06.987 --> 10:09.528 [SPEAKER_00]: You have the opportunity to build into your home 10:12.853 --> 10:15.677 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, why is the home to be such an important priority? 10:15.717 --> 10:18.840 [SPEAKER_00]: Why is Paul saying, Titus, we got to get this into these ladies' hearts? 10:19.862 --> 10:28.813 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you get a little further down after he lists what we're supposed to be trained in, he says, that so that the Word of God may not be revealed. 10:30.028 --> 10:35.314 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 10 says that they may adorn the doctrine of God or Savior. 10:35.374 --> 10:36.835 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all about our testimony. 10:37.496 --> 10:50.470 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, did you know that the way you manage your home, the way you treat your husband, your children, the way you care or don't care for your neighbors can adorn or disgrace the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ? 10:51.772 --> 11:00.641 [SPEAKER_00]: Your home is the platform for biblical hospitality, and it's either making God look good or Making him not his testimony not look good. 11:00.681 --> 11:01.582 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want Christianity. 11:01.602 --> 11:04.325 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want nothing to do with that I don't want anything to do that. 11:05.246 --> 11:09.550 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you using your home to adorn the gospel of Jesus Christ? 11:10.423 --> 11:15.025 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Romans 12, 13, here's some specific verses about hospitality. 11:15.065 --> 11:25.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Pastor John just preached on this, a couple of weeks ago, Romans 12, 13, says this, contribute to the needs of the saints, seek to show hospitality. 11:26.831 --> 11:30.933 [SPEAKER_00]: First Peter 49, show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 11:32.863 --> 11:34.904 [SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 13, one through two. 11:35.564 --> 11:38.525 [SPEAKER_00]: Let brotherly love, sisterly love, continue. 11:39.305 --> 11:48.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unaware of what a crazy thing. 11:48.787 --> 11:52.068 [SPEAKER_00]: And just a quick little illustration, my parents, for so good at this. 11:52.508 --> 11:53.769 [SPEAKER_00]: I grew up in Southern California. 11:54.189 --> 11:57.790 [SPEAKER_00]: I lived off the five freeway, which by the way, I called the five. 11:57.830 --> 11:58.690 [SPEAKER_00]: I still call the 90. 11:59.330 --> 12:15.942 [SPEAKER_00]: because in California there's so many freeways you say the five to the 405 to the 118 to the 101 that's how you talk when you're saying like how do I get to church the the the so I keep calling 90 the 90 because it's what I grew up doing yeah but I grew up next to the five I guess it would be inner state five 12:16.662 --> 12:29.010 [SPEAKER_00]: freeway, we are literally a half a mile off the freeway, and the exit to get to our house for whatever reason is kind of between Los Angeles and kind of North Calilabot or middle California. 12:29.030 --> 12:30.691 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you call that middle section. 12:31.271 --> 12:33.113 [SPEAKER_00]: What central California, thank you. 12:33.933 --> 12:36.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Zoe, you know, because you live there. 12:36.155 --> 12:40.678 [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so our exit, we always had people. 12:40.738 --> 12:42.820 [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so I should say they're two mountain passes. 12:43.301 --> 12:49.946 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can't tell you how often we had a car that would pull over overheating in my house. 12:50.326 --> 12:53.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Like they would slide our houses, the first house right off the freeway. 12:54.169 --> 13:01.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And I get a little uncomfortable with strangers, but my parents always said, no, we're always going to help whoever pulls up, because it could be an angel. 13:02.075 --> 13:02.496 [SPEAKER_00]: unaware. 13:02.896 --> 13:06.518 [SPEAKER_00]: So as a child, I was always like, oh, you know, here it comes. 13:06.558 --> 13:07.579 [SPEAKER_00]: And they were so great. 13:07.599 --> 13:11.281 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't feel my parents were not uncomfortable with people they had no idea who they were. 13:11.301 --> 13:13.363 [SPEAKER_00]: They were literally, sometimes they were Hispanic. 13:13.383 --> 13:14.584 [SPEAKER_00]: We couldn't even speak their language. 13:14.944 --> 13:17.926 [SPEAKER_00]: And my dad would get the hose out, fill up the radiator with water. 13:18.506 --> 13:22.989 [SPEAKER_00]: My parents were such a tremendous example to me in terms of entertaining angels possibly, right? 13:23.610 --> 13:26.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when you think of hospitality, what comes to mind? 13:28.184 --> 13:29.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it about the decor of your home? 13:30.466 --> 13:32.889 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it about having a clean house when someone stops in? 13:33.670 --> 13:35.191 [SPEAKER_00]: Or having everything in its place? 13:36.032 --> 13:40.136 [SPEAKER_00]: Then nice as furniture, the finest China or Olivia, the seasonal rice. 13:41.137 --> 13:42.419 [SPEAKER_00]: We just went shopping for a rice. 13:44.007 --> 13:49.895 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a new homeowner, you know, it's not about that, sorry to say, it's not that. 13:50.355 --> 14:01.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Webster, good old Webster, would define hospitality as the friendly and generous reception, treatment, and care of guests, visitors, or strangers. 14:02.535 --> 14:06.517 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, generous reception of guests, visitors, or strangers. 14:06.577 --> 14:11.519 [SPEAKER_00]: Now that's not too far, actually, from the biblical definition, which is love of strangers. 14:11.539 --> 14:14.160 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, they kind of sound similar, love of strangers. 14:15.300 --> 14:25.485 [SPEAKER_00]: Now neither of these definitions says anything about having decorations, the right furniture, or a Joanna Gaines approved color scheme in your home. 14:27.045 --> 14:31.167 [SPEAKER_00]: What they both have in common is that hospitality is all about people. 14:32.480 --> 14:33.240 [SPEAKER_00]: all about people. 14:33.761 --> 14:35.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Hospitality is all about relationship. 14:36.902 --> 14:44.706 [SPEAKER_00]: Both the Romans passages that I read from and the first Peter passage, they're talking about in the context of the church family, hospitality to one another, right? 14:45.466 --> 14:50.089 [SPEAKER_00]: The Hebrews passage took a little bit further to love and care for strangers. 14:51.105 --> 14:54.827 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, wait, you might say, I was supposed to love that people in my home, right? 14:55.008 --> 14:55.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yes, you are. 14:56.689 --> 15:01.532 [SPEAKER_00]: But then we are also called and expected to welcome the saints into our home, right? 15:01.552 --> 15:03.233 [SPEAKER_00]: We're supposed to have life poops in our homes. 15:03.253 --> 15:12.179 [SPEAKER_00]: We're supposed to minister to the saints that our homes would be a place for our family, for the saints, and then even further to welcome neighbors and strangers. 15:13.680 --> 15:24.148 [SPEAKER_00]: Biblical hospitality is joyfully and generously welcoming all sorts of community into your home for the purpose of kingdom relationship. 15:24.228 --> 15:26.730 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say that again, it was a mouthful. 15:27.050 --> 15:27.851 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all about mission. 15:28.671 --> 15:38.018 [SPEAKER_00]: Biblical hospitality, joyfully generously welcoming all sorts of community into your home, for the purpose of kingdom relationship, right? 15:38.038 --> 15:41.020 [SPEAKER_00]: John's always saying, declare Jesus, develop Jesus followers. 15:41.040 --> 15:42.501 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what our homes are actually supposed to be, 15:43.833 --> 15:52.416 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so here we go, I'm gonna start my points in your home, in your homes, welcome community, welcome community. 15:52.756 --> 15:56.678 [SPEAKER_00]: And my two points are gonna mesh together to be a sentence John taught me to do this. 15:57.178 --> 15:59.839 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome community as Christ has welcomed you. 16:00.099 --> 16:03.380 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the two main points, but we'll talk about welcome community first. 16:05.979 --> 16:08.480 [SPEAKER_00]: In Luke chapter 10, why don't you open there? 16:08.500 --> 16:09.981 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I do want you to open your Bibles. 16:10.021 --> 16:11.302 [SPEAKER_00]: Hope your Bibles are your phones. 16:12.922 --> 16:20.146 [SPEAKER_00]: In Luke chapter 10, we have a really awesome, wonderful, well-known parable that the Lord Jesus tells. 16:20.446 --> 16:21.987 [SPEAKER_00]: It's called the Good Samaritan. 16:23.336 --> 16:27.118 [SPEAKER_00]: In this parable, Christ gives us the greatest example of biblical hospitality. 16:27.158 --> 16:30.800 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to pull four principles out of the story. 16:31.060 --> 16:34.222 [SPEAKER_00]: And if there was anything I wanted you to write down today, it's not even my big points. 16:34.262 --> 16:36.523 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome community as Christ is welcome to you. 16:37.104 --> 16:41.426 [SPEAKER_00]: It's these four points that I find in the passage under welcoming community. 16:41.726 --> 16:43.107 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it like to be a good neighbor? 16:43.907 --> 16:47.229 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to read, let's read the passage first, and then we'll pull out those four principles. 16:47.830 --> 16:50.251 [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so Luke chapter 10, verse 25, 16:52.312 --> 16:53.314 [SPEAKER_00]: Where do I want to end? 16:53.534 --> 16:54.195 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll read the whole thing. 16:54.956 --> 16:59.523 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and behold, a lawyer stood up to put Christ to the test. 17:00.083 --> 17:03.548 [SPEAKER_00]: Saying teacher, what shall I do to inherit internal life? 17:04.353 --> 17:06.635 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said to him, what is written in the law? 17:07.295 --> 17:08.056 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you read it? 17:08.516 --> 17:15.942 [SPEAKER_00]: And he answered, oh, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself. 17:16.282 --> 17:18.204 [SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus said, well, you've answered correctly. 17:18.304 --> 17:20.065 [SPEAKER_00]: Do this and you will live. 17:21.166 --> 17:28.972 [SPEAKER_00]: And the lawyer, being a little bit arrogant, not super teachable, says desiring to justify himself said to Jesus, Ed, who is my neighbor? 17:30.133 --> 17:31.854 [SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus replied, here comes the story. 17:32.878 --> 17:36.225 [SPEAKER_00]: A man going down from Jerusalem, remember Jerusalem's up nice and high. 17:37.578 --> 17:42.460 [SPEAKER_00]: And you've got to kind of go down some cave like rocky area to get down to Jericho. 17:42.520 --> 17:48.961 [SPEAKER_00]: So, and remember, this isn't a real story, this is a parable that Jesus is telling, and he's got principles he wants to encourage, right? 17:49.021 --> 17:56.984 [SPEAKER_00]: So, man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 17:57.844 --> 18:04.806 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, by chance, a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 18:06.574 --> 18:11.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Likewise, a Levite, sort of like a priest also, religious person. 18:11.941 --> 18:16.606 [SPEAKER_00]: When he came to the place and saw this man, he passed by on the other side as well. 18:17.345 --> 18:24.129 [SPEAKER_00]: but the Samaritan, and what was so ironic about this story, is the Samaritan to the lawyer is like the worst person ever. 18:24.530 --> 18:29.132 [SPEAKER_00]: It could never be a Samaritan that would do the best, most ideal thing. 18:29.172 --> 18:35.216 [SPEAKER_00]: So Jesus, of course, has so such amazing ability to cut to the heart, right? 18:35.837 --> 18:43.802 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's telling the story, but a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where this man was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 18:44.837 --> 18:48.559 [SPEAKER_00]: He went to him and he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. 18:49.600 --> 18:53.503 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 18:54.503 --> 19:00.828 [SPEAKER_00]: And the next day he took out two denariahs and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, hey, take care of him. 19:01.228 --> 19:04.330 [SPEAKER_00]: And whatever more you spend, I'm going to repay you when I come back. 19:05.927 --> 19:13.017 [SPEAKER_00]: story ends, Jesus says to the lawyer, which of these three do you think prove to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers? 19:13.998 --> 19:18.204 [SPEAKER_00]: And the lawyer said, the one who showed mercy, and Jesus said you go and do likewise. 19:19.210 --> 19:20.492 [SPEAKER_00]: awesome little parable, right? 19:21.172 --> 19:22.814 [SPEAKER_00]: So what does it look like to be a good neighbor? 19:22.834 --> 19:24.696 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about biblical hospitality. 19:24.756 --> 19:25.717 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you use our homes? 19:25.757 --> 19:27.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's pull out a couple of principles number one. 19:28.440 --> 19:32.805 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome community with compassion, compassion. 19:33.146 --> 19:39.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Both a priest and a Levi saw the man lying there, stripped, perhaps naked, 19:39.933 --> 19:41.314 [SPEAKER_00]: beaten and half dead. 19:41.794 --> 19:43.595 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't miss these things, right? 19:44.056 --> 19:47.838 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not like, oh, they're so driven on the path that they kind of just didn't see it over here. 19:47.898 --> 19:51.841 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it says they saw him and they went to the other side. 19:53.002 --> 19:57.444 [SPEAKER_00]: So very intentional was not an accident that they missed this poor guy on the road. 19:57.885 --> 20:01.367 [SPEAKER_00]: They saw went to the other side, intentionally neglected. 20:02.211 --> 20:03.856 [SPEAKER_00]: someone in need. 20:04.618 --> 20:09.792 [SPEAKER_00]: They purposely did not want to stop or slow down their agenda, right, to help. 20:10.920 --> 20:23.766 [SPEAKER_00]: And the indictment here from Christ to this lawyer, who is a religious person, is that the religious people, they've preached in the Levite, the ones that were supposed to love God and do what God would do, don't do it, right? 20:23.786 --> 20:24.467 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the indictment. 20:24.487 --> 20:33.931 [SPEAKER_00]: The religious people don't end up loving God by loving this person, but it says in verse 33, when the Samaritan saw him, he had compassion. 20:34.952 --> 20:37.153 [SPEAKER_00]: He saw and he was moved. 20:38.378 --> 20:42.119 [SPEAKER_00]: He could not ignore what he saw and keep going on with his day. 20:42.699 --> 20:43.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever had a moment like that? 20:43.740 --> 20:48.401 [SPEAKER_00]: We were just like, oh, that's awful, right? 20:49.641 --> 20:54.623 [SPEAKER_00]: He was immediately aware of the suffering that this man was in and moved toward him. 20:55.943 --> 20:58.244 [SPEAKER_00]: Loving our neighbor requires compassion. 20:59.533 --> 21:02.678 [SPEAKER_00]: Biblical hospitality requires a tender heart. 21:03.599 --> 21:10.250 [SPEAKER_00]: It calls for a heart of sympathy, where you strive to sense what another person perhaps is feeling. 21:11.872 --> 21:16.976 [SPEAKER_00]: It requires what I call emotional intelligence, and we're supposed to be really great at that, we're women, right? 21:17.297 --> 21:18.057 [SPEAKER_00]: We're emotional. 21:18.638 --> 21:20.840 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's beyond even just being emotional. 21:20.880 --> 21:25.484 [SPEAKER_00]: It's intelligence, it's being able to read something and go, oh, out. 21:26.204 --> 21:29.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Or awesome, like we're emotionally intelligent. 21:30.067 --> 21:32.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you don't have to go through what the person went through. 21:33.090 --> 21:47.717 [SPEAKER_00]: But just to be aware, and I got to see that this this week, one of our elder's wives, got to minister to someone who is in a lot of sadness and she had texted me later and said God was so good because I ended up crying with this with this lady and I thought all that's awesome. 21:48.338 --> 21:51.019 [SPEAKER_00]: I was so encouraged by that because our heart was moved. 21:51.299 --> 21:52.880 [SPEAKER_00]: She hadn't gone through the same situation. 21:53.440 --> 21:56.542 [SPEAKER_00]: but when she went to meet, she broke in the tears and cried. 21:56.602 --> 22:00.704 [SPEAKER_00]: That's beautiful, emotional intelligence, that is beautiful compassion and sympathy. 22:01.065 --> 22:03.966 [SPEAKER_00]: And what we're supposed to be like as Christians, right? 22:05.707 --> 22:09.790 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it means weeping with those that weep, hurting with those that hurt. 22:11.091 --> 22:13.292 [SPEAKER_00]: Our homes are to be a place of compassion. 22:13.868 --> 22:17.169 [SPEAKER_00]: were comfort and solace are offered, right? 22:17.269 --> 22:17.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Important. 22:17.849 --> 22:20.450 [SPEAKER_00]: So we welcome community with compassion. 22:21.150 --> 22:23.611 [SPEAKER_00]: How else are we a good neighbor or love our neighbors? 22:23.931 --> 22:25.711 [SPEAKER_00]: We welcome community with proximity. 22:25.771 --> 22:28.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Point number two under the first big point. 22:29.312 --> 22:30.232 [SPEAKER_00]: With proximity. 22:30.252 --> 22:30.692 [SPEAKER_00]: What's that? 22:30.913 --> 22:31.733 [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of as a big word. 22:32.053 --> 22:33.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, look at verse 34. 22:34.934 --> 22:39.335 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, the Samaritan, when he saw him he had compassion and he went to him. 22:40.426 --> 22:41.567 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't go to the other side. 22:42.227 --> 22:43.608 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's really insightful. 22:44.289 --> 22:46.750 [SPEAKER_00]: He moved toward the person in need. 22:47.851 --> 22:54.895 [SPEAKER_00]: Loving our neighbor requires physical presence, entering into someone's space or welcoming them into your space. 22:54.955 --> 22:56.857 [SPEAKER_00]: It requires physical presence. 22:57.177 --> 22:58.898 [SPEAKER_00]: Now just to know a card, a text, 22:59.415 --> 23:01.517 [SPEAKER_00]: physical presence, proximity. 23:02.337 --> 23:08.522 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a challenging one, and I think it's not in most of our natures to go toward people, especially strangers, right? 23:09.262 --> 23:16.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps we don't want to offend or bother someone, we want to honor privacy, we worry about saying the right thing, or don't want to say the wrong thing. 23:17.008 --> 23:21.890 [SPEAKER_00]: And truly our society and the way that we're living our culture's developing does not help us, right? 23:22.610 --> 23:28.211 [SPEAKER_00]: In this culture, times of the Bible, that we're very, very social culture, but we're kind of pulling away, right? 23:28.251 --> 23:30.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we're increasingly less social. 23:31.312 --> 23:32.673 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't grocery shop anymore. 23:33.193 --> 23:33.913 [SPEAKER_00]: We get pickup. 23:34.553 --> 23:35.634 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a big difference. 23:36.634 --> 23:37.714 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't eat out anymore. 23:37.855 --> 23:38.775 [SPEAKER_00]: We get door-dash. 23:39.275 --> 23:41.116 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a big social change. 23:41.876 --> 23:42.976 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't go to movies anymore. 23:43.176 --> 23:44.437 [SPEAKER_00]: We can stream them in our home. 23:44.817 --> 23:45.877 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a social change. 23:46.678 --> 23:49.479 [SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps we really go to church anymore because we can watch online. 23:50.379 --> 23:53.160 [SPEAKER_00]: We've grown more skeptical unless trusting of people. 23:53.180 --> 23:54.040 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you noticed that? 23:54.140 --> 23:54.861 [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't admit that. 23:55.481 --> 23:56.681 [SPEAKER_00]: Strangely, what's going on? 23:56.721 --> 23:58.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Why am I like, mm-hmm. 23:59.953 --> 24:02.635 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of, it's in our culture is really encouraging that, right? 24:02.655 --> 24:03.075 [SPEAKER_00]: Division. 24:03.855 --> 24:06.216 [SPEAKER_00]: And the pandemic did not help. 24:06.577 --> 24:08.418 [SPEAKER_00]: It taught us not to touch people. 24:10.219 --> 24:10.859 [SPEAKER_00]: No hugging. 24:11.439 --> 24:12.440 [SPEAKER_00]: No shaking hands. 24:13.140 --> 24:16.362 [SPEAKER_00]: No touching door handles to hold the door open for a stranger. 24:17.723 --> 24:20.844 [SPEAKER_00]: What could be more opposite of Christianity? 24:21.865 --> 24:25.187 [SPEAKER_00]: What could be more further from what Jesus Christ was like? 24:26.441 --> 24:29.284 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ went toward the dirtiest people. 24:29.845 --> 24:31.127 [SPEAKER_00]: He touched the lepers. 24:31.667 --> 24:35.372 [SPEAKER_00]: I just read this morning that when Peter's mom had a fever, he touched sure. 24:36.173 --> 24:38.555 [SPEAKER_00]: Do we live in a culture where someone has a fever to we touch? 24:38.736 --> 24:41.138 [SPEAKER_00]: No, we're like put a mask on, right? 24:42.327 --> 24:47.892 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus went toward the dirtiest people, touched the lepers, ate with prostitutes and tax collectors. 24:48.553 --> 24:50.554 [SPEAKER_00]: He loved being in people's homes. 24:51.175 --> 24:53.037 [SPEAKER_00]: He loved sharing meals together. 24:53.717 --> 24:55.058 [SPEAKER_00]: He loved being present. 24:55.139 --> 24:56.980 [SPEAKER_00]: He loved relationship and community. 24:57.060 --> 24:59.603 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what biblical hospitality is, right? 25:00.163 --> 25:10.950 [SPEAKER_00]: Could it be that if we pressed for proximity, actual presence with our co-workers, our neighbors, that could be the door to opening up a harvest of salvations? 25:11.750 --> 25:13.912 [SPEAKER_00]: What if it's just that we need to move a little closer to people? 25:14.292 --> 25:16.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Invite people into our home. 25:16.333 --> 25:19.815 [SPEAKER_00]: You have no idea, maybe that's like going to trigger. 25:20.175 --> 25:21.656 [SPEAKER_00]: What John's always praying for, right? 25:21.716 --> 25:23.337 [SPEAKER_00]: A great awakening here. 25:26.387 --> 25:29.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine how many people are alone these days and isolated in their homes. 25:30.174 --> 25:36.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Binging TV shows, growing social media like zombies, they don't have community, they don't have relationship. 25:37.113 --> 25:46.463 [SPEAKER_00]: What if you made one small effort to love your neighbor, your coworker, by inviting them over for tea or coffee, or on a walk in your neighborhood? 25:47.604 --> 25:51.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Loving our neighbor requires proximity presence. 25:51.068 --> 25:54.391 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're on mission, we're going toward people. 25:55.032 --> 25:55.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Number three. 25:56.313 --> 26:00.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome community with your resources, verse 34. 26:00.780 --> 26:09.412 [SPEAKER_00]: The Samaritan bound up the wounds, poured oil and wine on him, set him on his animal, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 26:10.313 --> 26:17.299 [SPEAKER_00]: Loving our neighbor requires your resources, loving my neighbor requires my resources. 26:17.739 --> 26:20.622 [SPEAKER_00]: The Samaritan used his oil and his wine. 26:20.642 --> 26:25.466 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kind of imagining, you know, Jerusalem is real all about olive trees. 26:25.786 --> 26:30.070 [SPEAKER_00]: So perhaps he went to the big city to get his olive oil for the month or his wine. 26:30.530 --> 26:32.432 [SPEAKER_00]: What did he use when he found the good Samaritan? 26:32.452 --> 26:35.114 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't save his best oil, you know, for something else. 26:35.835 --> 26:37.076 [SPEAKER_00]: He was like, this is what I got. 26:37.156 --> 26:38.077 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna use it right now. 26:39.379 --> 26:45.361 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he puts his poor guy on his own animal, which means he is now walking. 26:46.221 --> 26:47.221 [SPEAKER_00]: He's trying to get to Jericho. 26:48.302 --> 26:49.482 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not on his animal anymore. 26:49.502 --> 26:54.503 [SPEAKER_00]: He puts the guy on the animal and he's walking, which means he's slowing down. 26:54.583 --> 26:57.364 [SPEAKER_00]: Now his time is being used to care for someone. 26:58.425 --> 26:59.445 [SPEAKER_00]: Huge inconvenience. 27:00.398 --> 27:02.279 [SPEAKER_00]: Loving our neighbor is rarely convenient. 27:02.820 --> 27:09.144 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why first Peter 49 says show a hospitality without grumbling, because a lot of times we feel like grumbling. 27:09.865 --> 27:16.029 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether it's your home, your time, your money, your food, biblical hospitality costs something. 27:17.290 --> 27:19.151 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not gonna be free, okay? 27:19.992 --> 27:24.295 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't think it's someone else's job or wait for someone else to do it or that's the church's job. 27:24.935 --> 27:25.636 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're the church. 27:26.637 --> 27:27.037 [SPEAKER_00]: You do it. 27:28.350 --> 27:34.618 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just would encourage you, when your home life, your budget, keep room in your home budget to accommodate needs that come up. 27:35.779 --> 27:36.500 [SPEAKER_00]: Neighbors needs. 27:37.021 --> 27:39.383 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is where I kind of think about, we know, in time at resources. 27:39.424 --> 27:43.248 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we, you know, back in the day, my mom, we, you know, she gave me fine China. 27:44.380 --> 27:49.988 [SPEAKER_00]: It was that you would have fine, you know, all the young people today are like, why would I get fine China on my, my, you know, registry? 27:50.589 --> 27:58.922 [SPEAKER_00]: It was because you would bring out your best when you had guests not to show off like you had perfect stuff, but to honor people who came to your home. 27:59.402 --> 28:00.242 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was so fun. 28:00.262 --> 28:03.444 [SPEAKER_00]: My mom was so great at honoring people, and she didn't have it all perfect. 28:03.844 --> 28:06.686 [SPEAKER_00]: But we got best stuff out when people came over. 28:07.106 --> 28:09.367 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not because I'm not like something to be honored. 28:09.387 --> 28:13.309 [SPEAKER_00]: It was just like that she modeled for me how to honor guests coming into my home. 28:13.369 --> 28:18.291 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's where you might have China that you pull out, confession. 28:18.932 --> 28:19.432 [SPEAKER_00]: I never did. 28:19.492 --> 28:21.553 [SPEAKER_00]: And John has always bought them because I never did that. 28:23.217 --> 28:30.160 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the real reason I got four play, no five play settings, which was never enough for our whole family and guests. 28:30.300 --> 28:32.181 [SPEAKER_00]: So anyhow, it's long past. 28:32.201 --> 28:32.981 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't bring it up with him. 28:34.882 --> 28:37.664 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I have really cool fine China, but I only have five play settings. 28:38.884 --> 28:42.425 [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes, you're like, well, why don't you have a perfect house? 28:42.465 --> 28:43.165 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, no, you're not. 28:43.626 --> 28:44.686 [SPEAKER_00]: But you do bring your best. 28:45.186 --> 28:46.647 [SPEAKER_00]: I was so encouraged again. 28:46.707 --> 28:48.107 [SPEAKER_00]: Your elders' wives are rocking it. 28:48.407 --> 28:51.248 [SPEAKER_00]: This last week, Amy Warren couldn't be here today. 28:51.288 --> 29:01.971 [SPEAKER_00]: But Amy and Doug hosted a party for our missionaries, Matt and Sarah Titus, who haven't been here in many years, and they just hosted something, and Amy brought her best. 29:02.572 --> 29:03.292 [SPEAKER_00]: I showed up like, 29:04.292 --> 29:04.833 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my word. 29:05.173 --> 29:06.155 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so encouraged. 29:06.495 --> 29:09.799 [SPEAKER_00]: She had name tags for each little dish. 29:10.159 --> 29:14.645 [SPEAKER_00]: She displayed the food really intentionally and purposefully so that would look good. 29:15.165 --> 29:17.168 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought, oh my word, Matt and Sarah. 29:17.709 --> 29:18.730 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what they deserve. 29:19.050 --> 29:21.053 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm so thankful my friend Amy. 29:21.533 --> 29:27.678 [SPEAKER_00]: knew how to bless and go above and beyond, Amy didn't have to do that to start opening her home was great, but she went above and beyond. 29:27.758 --> 29:31.762 [SPEAKER_00]: So there is a little bit of, you want to bring honor when using your raised resources. 29:32.062 --> 29:35.245 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe if it's a crisis, you're not thinking about, you know, you're very best. 29:35.625 --> 29:38.688 [SPEAKER_00]: But if it's having someone over for dinner, you're thinking, what's my best? 29:38.768 --> 29:46.034 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, not perfect, not Joanne Gaines, but just something that would level up honoring just giving honor to someone who's coming over. 29:46.054 --> 29:46.094 [SPEAKER_00]: So 29:47.135 --> 29:47.716 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, number four. 29:48.197 --> 29:49.038 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome community. 29:49.098 --> 29:49.879 [SPEAKER_00]: What have we said so far? 29:49.899 --> 29:53.583 [SPEAKER_00]: We've compassion, proximity, resources, and follow-up. 29:54.615 --> 29:55.095 [SPEAKER_00]: follow-up. 29:55.155 --> 29:56.957 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome community number four with follow-up. 29:57.197 --> 29:58.318 [SPEAKER_00]: I love this part of the story. 29:58.338 --> 29:59.099 [SPEAKER_00]: You might have missed it. 29:59.599 --> 30:02.181 [SPEAKER_00]: The next day, so he stays overnight, by the way. 30:02.201 --> 30:05.184 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good American stays overnight at the end, to take care. 30:05.464 --> 30:06.044 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. 30:06.705 --> 30:09.027 [SPEAKER_00]: Pays two to an area, which is two days' wages. 30:09.047 --> 30:13.590 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about $100 to $200 in today's money. 30:13.770 --> 30:14.851 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you call it, currency? 30:14.951 --> 30:16.172 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 30:16.232 --> 30:17.934 [SPEAKER_00]: And gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 30:18.868 --> 30:19.409 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what he said. 30:19.449 --> 30:20.390 [SPEAKER_00]: I hear the Bible reading. 30:20.790 --> 30:21.291 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all good. 30:22.993 --> 30:23.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what it said. 30:25.295 --> 30:26.957 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what the Samaritan said to the innkeeper. 30:26.997 --> 30:28.138 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, take care of this guy. 30:28.579 --> 30:31.242 [SPEAKER_00]: And whatever more you spend, I will pay you what? 30:32.223 --> 30:37.248 [SPEAKER_00]: When I come back, that is so great. 30:38.169 --> 30:40.412 [SPEAKER_00]: Loving our neighbor requires follow-up. 30:41.468 --> 30:45.370 [SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't it be nice if ministry loving people could be packed up in a nice tidy bow? 30:46.250 --> 30:51.653 [SPEAKER_00]: Where fit perfectly on your calendar between your running to Aldi and your after-school pick up? 30:51.993 --> 30:55.415 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to schedule caring for someone right here one to two after two, no bum out. 30:55.775 --> 30:56.075 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 30:56.675 --> 31:00.357 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm sorry to break it to you, but that's rarely how loving our neighbor works. 31:00.877 --> 31:03.699 [SPEAKER_00]: For this good Samaritan, he had already done a lot for this man, right? 31:03.719 --> 31:04.319 [SPEAKER_00]: He stopped. 31:04.459 --> 31:06.120 [SPEAKER_00]: He had an agenda, he had something to get to. 31:06.460 --> 31:06.960 [SPEAKER_00]: He stopped. 31:07.000 --> 31:08.081 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, that's already amazing. 31:08.761 --> 31:11.107 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's not where he ends with this. 31:11.708 --> 31:15.056 [SPEAKER_00]: He has to leave, but he says, I'm gonna repay you when I come back. 31:15.096 --> 31:15.837 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm coming back. 31:16.990 --> 31:21.774 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna check on this guy tomorrow, and I'll pay you whatever else it costs so back to his resources. 31:22.434 --> 31:25.376 [SPEAKER_00]: This man goes the extra mile above and beyond. 31:26.237 --> 31:34.844 [SPEAKER_00]: Does your life, the way you manage your home, allow for space for you to go above and beyond and follow up with someone, a neighbor. 31:35.264 --> 31:37.966 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you heard that the neighbor's mom passed away. 31:38.386 --> 31:40.848 [SPEAKER_00]: You sent a note or you went over and brought flowers. 31:41.268 --> 31:44.251 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, do you have time to mark that on your calendar? 31:44.771 --> 31:47.792 [SPEAKER_00]: And note that in a year, she's going to be really sad on that day. 31:48.292 --> 31:49.532 [SPEAKER_00]: You just put a note on your calendar. 31:49.552 --> 31:54.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Neighbors, mom passed away this day and a year later, you say, hey, I'm thinking about you today. 31:54.874 --> 31:56.654 [SPEAKER_00]: My next door neighbor and that happened. 31:56.714 --> 32:00.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Her husband passed away suddenly six years ago. 32:00.675 --> 32:01.556 [SPEAKER_00]: I have it on my calendar. 32:01.636 --> 32:03.136 [SPEAKER_00]: I text her every time. 32:03.796 --> 32:07.617 [SPEAKER_00]: As July 25th happened to be the same day that my son-in-law lost his father. 32:08.218 --> 32:10.058 [SPEAKER_00]: So special day for us, I text her and I 32:14.112 --> 32:14.752 [SPEAKER_00]: That's all it takes. 32:14.832 --> 32:15.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Follow up. 32:15.232 --> 32:15.953 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not great at this. 32:16.493 --> 32:17.233 [SPEAKER_00]: That's an example. 32:17.493 --> 32:18.033 [SPEAKER_00]: The rest of this. 32:18.053 --> 32:18.834 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not great at it. 32:18.874 --> 32:19.894 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what. 32:19.914 --> 32:21.594 [SPEAKER_00]: When you study a passage, you're like, oh. 32:23.415 --> 32:24.535 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I hurry up and get through this? 32:24.555 --> 32:26.616 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't want to learn anymore lessons, right? 32:27.036 --> 32:31.558 [SPEAKER_00]: But one thing that someone else taught me is just put it on your mind or on your phone. 32:32.038 --> 32:32.938 [SPEAKER_00]: That'll minister. 32:33.438 --> 32:35.339 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you aware enough to do that to follow up? 32:36.322 --> 32:39.543 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so we talked about compassion, proximity, resources, follow-up. 32:39.563 --> 32:43.684 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I really want you to go home with, but I'm gonna wrap it up with something really amazing, which the Lord showed me. 32:44.284 --> 32:47.965 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome community as Christ has welcomed you. 32:48.965 --> 32:53.967 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know that the Lord God is the original homemaker? 32:55.767 --> 32:58.088 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we say, oh, homemaker, it's such a low job. 32:58.268 --> 32:59.048 [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, sorry. 32:59.668 --> 33:02.549 [SPEAKER_00]: The God of the Universe is the original homemaker. 33:03.629 --> 33:11.411 [SPEAKER_00]: He needed a home, when he told the Israelites, hey, I need you to build me a home, a tabernacle, for my presence, because I want to be with you. 33:11.431 --> 33:19.053 [SPEAKER_00]: Exodus 25-8 says, and let me make, and let them make me a sanctuary that I might dwell in their midst. 33:19.093 --> 33:21.634 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to move in and be with his people. 33:21.974 --> 33:22.454 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that. 33:23.554 --> 33:24.895 [SPEAKER_00]: 29-45 in Exodus. 33:24.975 --> 33:27.375 [SPEAKER_00]: I will dwell among the people of Israel, and I will be their God. 33:27.395 --> 33:29.876 [SPEAKER_00]: They shall know that I am the Lord, their God. 33:30.516 --> 33:37.500 [SPEAKER_00]: It was in God's heart to dwell among his people, live, move in, be with, abide with those he loves. 33:38.301 --> 33:42.043 [SPEAKER_00]: In the Old Testament, the Tabernacle was a home for the presence of God. 33:42.863 --> 33:46.485 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the access point into a personal relationship with God. 33:46.505 --> 33:47.206 [SPEAKER_00]: There it is again. 33:47.766 --> 33:50.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Homes are about relationship and God's the designer of it. 33:51.821 --> 34:02.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward to the New Testament, the death of Christ, shifts God's dwelling place from a physical building, the tabernacle, the temple, into the heart of every believer. 34:03.415 --> 34:04.256 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. 34:05.197 --> 34:05.538 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 34:06.359 --> 34:09.382 [SPEAKER_00]: Because He loves us and wants a relationship with us. 34:10.316 --> 34:11.557 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. 34:11.597 --> 34:20.805 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to these verses, and I spent too long on this, and I had to cut all this section out of my message, but I was so carried off into worship with an idea that God dwells in us. 34:21.526 --> 34:24.308 [SPEAKER_00]: John 1423, oh, I missed one. 34:24.348 --> 34:33.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, first Corinthians 3, 16, do you not know, ladies, that you yourselves are God's temple, and that God's spirit dwells in you? 34:34.157 --> 34:36.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Right now you have the Holy Spirit dwelling in you. 34:36.539 --> 34:36.940 [SPEAKER_00]: That is, 34:38.054 --> 34:38.815 [SPEAKER_00]: mind boggling. 34:39.135 --> 34:40.376 [SPEAKER_00]: John 1423. 34:41.297 --> 34:43.519 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus says, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word. 34:43.979 --> 34:45.180 [SPEAKER_00]: And my father will love him. 34:45.320 --> 34:48.123 [SPEAKER_00]: And we, that's Jesus and God. 34:48.423 --> 34:50.845 [SPEAKER_00]: First verse was about the Holy Spirit, but this is about Jesus and God. 34:51.766 --> 34:54.328 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll come to Him and make our home. 34:54.868 --> 34:55.509 [SPEAKER_00]: with him. 34:55.949 --> 35:03.796 [SPEAKER_00]: You have the whole Trinity living inside of you as like tremendous power for love, hospitality, reaching out, all the other things. 35:03.856 --> 35:05.197 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like massive resource. 35:05.878 --> 35:07.139 [SPEAKER_00]: My mind can't even get that. 35:07.580 --> 35:08.741 [SPEAKER_00]: He lives in me. 35:08.761 --> 35:11.743 [SPEAKER_00]: Galatians 220, I've been crucified by Christ. 35:11.803 --> 35:12.504 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise the Lord. 35:12.564 --> 35:13.865 [SPEAKER_00]: Betsy is crucified. 35:14.806 --> 35:16.588 [SPEAKER_00]: It is no longer I who live, but what? 35:17.951 --> 35:21.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ who lives in me, that's awesome. 35:21.792 --> 35:23.512 [SPEAKER_00]: God is the original homemaker. 35:24.092 --> 35:32.934 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of staying distant, He decided to move in and make His home in every single one of us that calls Christ her Savior. 35:33.394 --> 35:38.916 [SPEAKER_00]: Where we strangers, yeah, we were actually enemies. 35:40.376 --> 35:43.097 [SPEAKER_00]: And He still loved us, still loved us. 35:43.657 --> 35:44.297 [SPEAKER_00]: How did He love us? 35:46.112 --> 35:52.316 [SPEAKER_00]: with compassion, proximity, his own resources, and follow-up. 35:52.836 --> 35:55.678 [SPEAKER_00]: The story of the good Samaritanist is the story of Christ. 35:56.997 --> 36:01.278 [SPEAKER_00]: with compassion, and I turn to Ephesians 2, and again, I just have this like a little worship service this week in the Word. 36:01.658 --> 36:06.399 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you what, get yourself in God's Word and sit in it, it is life-changing. 36:07.259 --> 36:09.019 [SPEAKER_00]: He moved toward us with compassion. 36:09.059 --> 36:11.060 [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 2, verse 4, and listen to this. 36:11.660 --> 36:14.420 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually need to turn there because I love Ephesians. 36:14.801 --> 36:21.962 [SPEAKER_00]: I study Ephesians as a teenager, and I am still being changed by it and remembering what God did to me in me. 36:22.742 --> 36:27.326 [SPEAKER_00]: When I studied at the book of Ephesians, when I was younger, okay, come on, find it, find it, find it. 36:27.866 --> 36:32.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 2 though, I'm going to refer to that right away, Ephesians 2, I love this, okay. 36:34.031 --> 36:42.638 [SPEAKER_00]: You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to this world, following the Prince of the Power of the Air, disobedient. 36:43.608 --> 36:45.709 [SPEAKER_00]: carrying out the desires of the body and the mind. 36:45.729 --> 36:49.491 [SPEAKER_00]: And you were by nature, children of wrath, like the rest of mankind, but God. 36:49.891 --> 36:50.911 [SPEAKER_00]: What does it say about God? 36:51.612 --> 36:55.834 [SPEAKER_00]: Rich in mercy, he moved toward us with compassion. 36:56.554 --> 36:57.975 [SPEAKER_00]: We were enemies, ladies. 36:58.475 --> 37:06.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty sure there's not that many of us that have an enemy that we need to stay away from, but even the scriptures tell us to move toward them. 37:06.079 --> 37:08.400 [SPEAKER_00]: And John just preached on that last week. 37:09.373 --> 37:15.896 [SPEAKER_00]: We were literal enemies of God, and he, I don't know, how do you be rich and mercy toward enemies? 37:15.936 --> 37:19.597 [SPEAKER_00]: But God is, he loves us with compassion, with proximity. 37:20.538 --> 37:32.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 1, verse 5, oh my word, if you ever have an abad day and you think life is horrible, just read Ephesians 1 and 2, you only riches in what he's done for us in chapter 1. 37:33.444 --> 37:35.064 [SPEAKER_00]: Proximity, did he get close to us? 37:35.304 --> 37:35.905 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wait, what? 37:35.945 --> 37:36.205 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 5? 37:38.112 --> 37:42.133 [SPEAKER_00]: predestined us for adoption, didn't keep us over here. 37:42.213 --> 37:44.554 [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, hey, move on in with me. 37:45.054 --> 37:46.335 [SPEAKER_00]: You're now my child. 37:47.015 --> 37:49.016 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm your father, proximity. 37:49.036 --> 37:49.836 [SPEAKER_00]: He moved in close. 37:49.876 --> 37:53.657 [SPEAKER_00]: I love it says in chapter two verse six, that he raised us up with him. 37:53.997 --> 37:56.058 [SPEAKER_00]: We're seated with him in the heavenly places. 37:56.558 --> 37:57.498 [SPEAKER_00]: Does he near us? 37:58.039 --> 37:58.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Are we near him? 37:59.119 --> 37:59.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 38:00.039 --> 38:05.221 [SPEAKER_00]: Chapter two verse 13, you who were far off have been brought near. 38:08.594 --> 38:10.156 [SPEAKER_00]: He loves us with proximity. 38:10.717 --> 38:11.638 [SPEAKER_00]: How about resources? 38:11.678 --> 38:13.280 [SPEAKER_00]: Has Christ loved us with his resources? 38:13.340 --> 38:14.541 [SPEAKER_00]: His greatest resource? 38:15.422 --> 38:16.684 [SPEAKER_00]: His son, right? 38:16.984 --> 38:26.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ, giving him up to die for our sins, chapter two, verse seven, again, Ephesians, that he might show us the immeasurable riches. 38:27.585 --> 38:31.628 [SPEAKER_00]: of his grace in kindness through Christ, through Christ, we get immeasurable riches. 38:32.548 --> 38:35.731 [SPEAKER_00]: He's all of his resources to love us and bless us, right? 38:35.911 --> 38:36.371 [SPEAKER_00]: Amazing. 38:37.132 --> 38:52.522 [SPEAKER_00]: And with loving follow-up, just like the Good Samaritan, he follows up, Ephesians 219 says, so then you're no longer strangers and aliens, I love that verse, there's that stranger, that word stranger, we were strangers, but now you're fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. 38:52.542 --> 38:53.723 [SPEAKER_00]: He's following up, he's like, you know what? 38:53.743 --> 38:55.024 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not just gonna forgive you. 38:55.544 --> 38:58.286 [SPEAKER_00]: just like the Samaritan, do that job, right? 38:58.686 --> 39:01.027 [SPEAKER_00]: Now he's like, actually, I'm gonna make you a citizen. 39:01.847 --> 39:02.748 [SPEAKER_00]: Move you into my country. 39:03.028 --> 39:04.029 [SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing. 39:04.789 --> 39:05.489 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise the Lord. 39:05.529 --> 39:08.551 [SPEAKER_00]: I think of Psalm 23, when we talk about follow-up. 39:08.771 --> 39:10.492 [SPEAKER_00]: I say this all the time to myself. 39:10.612 --> 39:14.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Surely his goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. 39:15.375 --> 39:16.515 [SPEAKER_00]: He's following you. 39:17.316 --> 39:17.836 [SPEAKER_00]: Always. 39:18.276 --> 39:19.717 [SPEAKER_00]: He's always following up, right? 39:21.693 --> 39:32.641 [SPEAKER_00]: The problem is 24, one, I was trying to think about this first so much, it says that by wisdom, a house is built and there are pleasant and precious riches in all the rooms. 39:33.102 --> 39:41.148 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me tell you my friends, the fact that God, Jesus, and always spirit living you, you have precious and pleasant riches. 39:41.888 --> 39:48.310 [SPEAKER_00]: oozing out of you, accessible at your on demand for you in ministering to people, okay? 39:48.690 --> 39:53.131 [SPEAKER_00]: We open our homes because God made room for us in his home. 39:53.671 --> 39:56.812 [SPEAKER_00]: We welcome community because he first welcomed us. 39:57.833 --> 40:00.573 [SPEAKER_00]: We love others because his love has changed us. 40:01.274 --> 40:02.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Has it changed you? 40:04.148 --> 40:06.050 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know the love of the Savior? 40:06.570 --> 40:08.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have a relationship with him? 40:09.252 --> 40:18.600 [SPEAKER_00]: And if not whoever you came with, whoever you're sitting by would love to tell you how she's been changed by this amazing love of Jesus Christ? 40:20.062 --> 40:23.665 [SPEAKER_00]: The fruit of God's presence in you, my friends, as I wrap up. 40:24.708 --> 40:32.034 [SPEAKER_00]: In every true Christian is love, and it will be seen in the way that you welcome community into your home. 40:32.314 --> 40:36.918 [SPEAKER_00]: In the way you love your husband and the way you love your kids, the way you love saints maybe you're a widow. 40:36.938 --> 40:42.803 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have a husband anymore, but the way you love the saints, the way you love your neighbors, that you'll be seen. 40:42.823 --> 40:44.925 [SPEAKER_00]: It'll be testimony that God has changed you. 40:45.625 --> 40:57.388 [SPEAKER_00]: As a single, maybe a single woman, a wife, a mom, an empty nester, a widow, are you adorning the testimony of Jesus Christ in the way that you're building your home? 40:58.349 --> 40:59.709 [SPEAKER_00]: The world is watching. 41:00.329 --> 41:04.630 [SPEAKER_00]: May the Lord strengthen us to be a light in this dark place. 41:05.891 --> 41:06.371 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's pray.