WEBVTT 00:02.521 --> 00:03.881 [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts. 00:03.941 --> 00:10.622 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh. 00:10.642 --> 00:15.683 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High Praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast. 00:16.123 --> 00:20.024 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you. 00:20.424 --> 00:24.345 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today. 00:24.365 --> 00:26.905 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, here we go. 00:26.965 --> 00:29.566 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at your neighbor and say, get yoked. 00:31.810 --> 00:34.591 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at your other neighbor and say, you're going to get yoked. 00:36.432 --> 00:37.593 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, start throwing the eggs. 00:38.853 --> 00:39.874 [SPEAKER_01]: Leaders, I'm just kidding. 00:40.154 --> 00:42.755 [SPEAKER_01]: You imagine, I did think about this for just a quick moment. 00:43.115 --> 00:48.117 [SPEAKER_01]: Just if I could just throw eggs or have eggs fall from the ceiling, how horrible that would be. 00:49.318 --> 00:53.259 [SPEAKER_01]: So tonight we're talking about yokes, but not the egg kind. 00:54.540 --> 00:58.502 [SPEAKER_01]: Shout out Jason Lambert, senior, because my guy 01:02.637 --> 01:09.259 [SPEAKER_01]: I put a post out a few days ago just in case you'd had one of these lying around and no one did. 01:09.279 --> 01:11.179 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why, but no one did. 01:12.320 --> 01:12.640 [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever. 01:13.120 --> 01:15.400 [SPEAKER_01]: And so Jason immediately was like, I will make you one. 01:15.880 --> 01:19.001 [SPEAKER_01]: So shout out Jason Lambert Sr. Yeah, he made this. 01:20.502 --> 01:21.102 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is beautiful. 01:27.230 --> 01:29.371 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a mini size, but you get the picture. 01:29.951 --> 01:31.012 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a yolk. 01:31.432 --> 01:39.756 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Keith, we throw my first scripture if they're real quick, because I got to lay this foundation for you guys, or the whole night you're going to be wondering, why the heck is this guy talking about eggs? 01:40.256 --> 01:42.117 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so we're going to be in Matthew 11, 28 through 30. 01:43.931 --> 01:54.381 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to spend our evening and kind of just our last night together, ensuring that everyone here is on the same page Jesus is on, okay? 01:54.781 --> 02:00.006 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is one of my all-time favorite quotes of Jesus for different reasons that we'll get into later. 02:00.307 --> 02:07.573 [SPEAKER_01]: So Matthew 11 verse 28 through 30, he says, come to me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 02:08.274 --> 02:09.135 [SPEAKER_01]: Take my yoke. 02:11.840 --> 02:22.053 [SPEAKER_01]: upon you and learn from me, prime gentle and lowly and heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 02:23.195 --> 02:25.818 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, this is confusing, right? 02:25.898 --> 02:28.222 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we're talking about something that cattle wear. 02:29.063 --> 02:29.663 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 02:29.863 --> 02:32.964 [SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about, and let me just explain how this works. 02:33.444 --> 02:38.366 [SPEAKER_01]: So Jesus uses this word, Yoke, more than one time, right? 02:38.646 --> 02:43.347 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you've heard ministers say, like, we're breaking the Yoke of bondage. 02:43.908 --> 02:48.449 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe someone who loves you in your life has said, are you equally yoked with this person? 02:48.809 --> 02:49.729 [UNKNOWN]: Which we'll talk about later. 02:51.710 --> 02:53.811 [SPEAKER_01]: Here, Jesus says, come take my Yoke. 02:54.991 --> 02:57.292 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, come take my Yoke upon you. 02:58.323 --> 03:10.427 [SPEAKER_01]: And because we don't plow around in oxen most of our days, I think we've lost a little bit of what this means, right? 03:11.327 --> 03:13.608 [SPEAKER_01]: When Jesus makes this invitation, right? 03:13.948 --> 03:16.869 [SPEAKER_01]: He makes this invitation to the crowds. 03:17.649 --> 03:20.030 [SPEAKER_01]: It says, come take my yoke upon you. 03:20.891 --> 03:25.112 [SPEAKER_01]: What they're hearing Jesus say is, let's go to work. 03:26.800 --> 03:36.782 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, let's go do something, you know the the the the the oxen in the cattle's right now that are plowing your fields attached to these things, I've got one for you. 03:38.543 --> 03:42.743 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is odd and this is strange and this is weird and this does it, this does it look like freedom. 03:44.984 --> 03:49.645 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't sound like it, this sounds like we sang last night, break all the chains. 03:51.056 --> 03:51.236 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 03:51.736 --> 03:58.180 [SPEAKER_01]: This doesn't look like what most people, I think, associate when it comes to their relationship with Jesus. 03:58.520 --> 04:02.742 [SPEAKER_01]: But here we have Jesus saying, hey, I've got one of these with your name on it. 04:04.823 --> 04:09.866 [SPEAKER_01]: So, when I was in high school, I don't know, well, I do know, because I'm a youth pastor. 04:10.546 --> 04:12.647 [SPEAKER_01]: When I was in high school, we used, 04:14.883 --> 04:17.224 [SPEAKER_01]: abbreviations, acronyms, a whole lot, right? 04:17.304 --> 04:19.626 [SPEAKER_01]: How many millennials can't send a text without saying LOL? 04:20.206 --> 04:20.606 [SPEAKER_01]: Just me? 04:20.886 --> 04:21.587 [SPEAKER_01]: OK, that's fine. 04:21.947 --> 04:22.827 [SPEAKER_01]: It could be horrible news. 04:22.887 --> 04:23.548 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been LOL. 04:25.169 --> 04:27.970 [SPEAKER_01]: I've texted Pastor Joshua things, but LOL. 04:28.991 --> 04:30.371 [SPEAKER_01]: My kids just kind of, it is what it is. 04:30.992 --> 04:31.912 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm addicted to saying that. 04:31.932 --> 04:32.313 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why. 04:34.130 --> 04:50.545 [SPEAKER_01]: In high school, and I promise I'm going somewhere with this, I learned what the, I learned and more so the girl who's heart, I broke, learned what DTR meant, yellow DTR means and don't take it guess. 04:51.226 --> 04:55.790 [SPEAKER_01]: It means determine or define the relationship. 04:57.277 --> 05:02.864 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'll tell you a little brief story of how I hurt this, and she hurt me, not really. 05:03.045 --> 05:03.906 [SPEAKER_01]: But she just hurt my car. 05:06.109 --> 05:11.856 [SPEAKER_01]: In a faraway land of Fort Smith, Arkansas, there's a place called Brahms, all right? 05:11.916 --> 05:13.999 [SPEAKER_01]: Shout out Brahms, Arkansas people, you'll know Brahms. 05:14.499 --> 05:15.481 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we love it. 05:16.775 --> 05:21.678 [SPEAKER_01]: When I was in high school, spike ball was real popular, especially in Arkansas. 05:21.878 --> 05:23.339 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we don't have a whole lot to do. 05:24.000 --> 05:25.041 [SPEAKER_01]: Pickleball wasn't there yet. 05:25.061 --> 05:26.181 [SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't get into that yet. 05:26.241 --> 05:27.382 [SPEAKER_01]: So we were playing spike ball. 05:27.402 --> 05:30.164 [SPEAKER_01]: And I wanted to enter into this, turn this spike ball tournament. 05:30.704 --> 05:31.665 [SPEAKER_01]: But it was co-ed. 05:31.925 --> 05:34.927 [SPEAKER_01]: It had to be a guy and a girl, which is infuriating. 05:35.287 --> 05:37.809 [SPEAKER_01]: Just we don't get into why that's infuriating. 05:37.829 --> 05:39.130 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's infuriating. 05:39.831 --> 05:41.812 [SPEAKER_01]: No, we're not going to explain that one. 05:42.152 --> 05:43.933 [SPEAKER_01]: So it was difficult for me to find so much eventually 05:46.595 --> 05:50.158 [SPEAKER_01]: kind of going to church and I just can't explain the details of this. 05:50.258 --> 05:55.583 [SPEAKER_01]: All my exes probably watch and we're livestreaming so I don't want to mention any names. 05:56.925 --> 06:03.431 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, we enter this tournament, we practice for weeks and you know, I teach you the ropes and I'm like, man, this girl is like, really loves spikeball. 06:03.451 --> 06:04.051 [SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome. 06:04.391 --> 06:07.514 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have not one time to think maybe this girl is interested in me. 06:07.574 --> 06:09.056 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, you love spikeball like me. 06:09.096 --> 06:10.057 [SPEAKER_01]: Like this is so cool. 06:10.657 --> 06:21.761 [SPEAKER_01]: And so the entertainment comes, we play, we get third, her fault, not mine, if you've ever played Spike Ball, you understand that you've set towards the net, and that's just a concept she couldn't grab. 06:22.322 --> 06:26.663 [SPEAKER_01]: Say I'm figured that out today, he got that smoke on the beach, but that's fine. 06:26.743 --> 06:31.965 [SPEAKER_01]: I still got it, I'm 32, and 320 pounds, but I still got it. 06:32.525 --> 06:35.307 [SPEAKER_01]: Sam found out, anyone else want to find out, find me after service. 06:40.072 --> 06:42.954 [SPEAKER_01]: After word, she's like, hey, let's go to Brahms. 06:43.114 --> 06:43.854 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, all right, cool. 06:43.894 --> 06:45.395 [SPEAKER_01]: So we get in the car, we go to Brahms. 06:46.016 --> 06:49.158 [SPEAKER_01]: It reminds you, looking back on it, I am the villain in this story. 06:49.818 --> 06:52.620 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think I was, but I am now, like, thinking backwards. 06:53.220 --> 06:54.881 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we get in the car, we're going to drive through. 06:55.441 --> 06:59.464 [SPEAKER_01]: If you, most of you've never been to Brahms in your life, but it's a nice cream place. 06:59.984 --> 07:01.525 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I ordered ice cream. 07:01.545 --> 07:03.887 [SPEAKER_01]: She's in my passenger seat in my little Pontiac. 07:04.387 --> 07:05.007 [SPEAKER_01]: We get to think. 07:05.528 --> 07:07.149 [SPEAKER_01]: We're in the drive through, and she goes, Garrett. 07:07.649 --> 07:09.410 [SPEAKER_01]: She's like, now this is kind of over. 07:10.672 --> 07:20.036 [SPEAKER_01]: I think we need to DTR, and I was like, Huh? 07:20.076 --> 07:21.957 [SPEAKER_01]: I think we need to determine our relationship. 07:22.998 --> 07:26.499 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, okay, right. 07:27.560 --> 07:31.622 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I didn't really get it, and I kind of probably made a face that said, like, what in the world are you talking about? 07:31.642 --> 07:33.362 [SPEAKER_01]: She says to me, she's like, what am I to you? 07:33.382 --> 07:34.083 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, how are you? 07:34.103 --> 07:36.004 [SPEAKER_01]: You're the reason I got third place today. 07:36.324 --> 07:38.025 [SPEAKER_01]: But she didn't like that. 07:39.962 --> 07:40.663 [SPEAKER_01]: And I did say that. 07:41.923 --> 07:46.147 [SPEAKER_01]: And so after a couple minutes of explaining to her why you set towards the net. 07:46.647 --> 07:50.690 [SPEAKER_01]: And even though we've gone over this and practiced that you set towards the net when you play Spike Ball. 07:50.850 --> 07:51.671 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, whatever. 07:52.751 --> 07:58.656 [SPEAKER_01]: After we moved past that and still sitting in the drive through, she's like, no, like, what are we? 07:59.821 --> 08:02.842 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, Jessica, you're, oh, oops. 08:02.882 --> 08:06.844 [SPEAKER_01]: She's not watching, ah, ah, no way she's watching, right? 08:07.144 --> 08:14.227 [SPEAKER_01]: I said Jessica, she's, as a Jessica, you're one of the guys, man. 08:14.247 --> 08:18.549 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I like hanging out with you because I don't have to worry about you getting weird. 08:19.049 --> 08:19.610 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? 08:19.690 --> 08:24.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we can do this and go get ice cream and like, I don't have to worry about you like catching feelings. 08:25.572 --> 08:26.393 [SPEAKER_01]: And at that moment, 08:27.924 --> 08:29.205 [SPEAKER_01]: things to the twist for me. 08:31.286 --> 08:40.073 [SPEAKER_01]: So by this time, the little person in the windows, handing out a little person, you know, the person in the window, they're handing me the ice cream. 08:40.093 --> 08:41.974 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have these two huge ice creams in my hands. 08:43.935 --> 08:46.497 [SPEAKER_01]: I drink too much energy drinks today to compensate for my tiredness. 08:48.198 --> 08:50.320 [SPEAKER_01]: So I have these two huge ice creams in my hands. 08:50.980 --> 08:51.240 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 08:51.961 --> 08:53.162 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm in the driver's seat. 08:53.972 --> 08:57.793 [SPEAKER_01]: At this point, he, she, who we will not name, is crying. 08:58.754 --> 09:02.495 [SPEAKER_01]: It is like tears in her eyes, like I'm such an idiot. 09:02.515 --> 09:06.077 [SPEAKER_01]: I just spent three weeks playing this stupid gay blah blah blah. 09:06.477 --> 09:12.579 [SPEAKER_01]: And I can't drive because I have my hands are full with these giant waffle cone ice cream. 09:13.819 --> 09:17.021 [SPEAKER_01]: So I have a dilemma, do I just pull forward? 09:17.081 --> 09:17.901 [SPEAKER_01]: No hands on the wheel. 09:19.408 --> 09:20.368 [SPEAKER_01]: She's crying. 09:21.169 --> 09:24.950 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm like, like, Jessica, you've got to take this. 09:25.550 --> 09:29.272 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, I need you to take this. 09:29.292 --> 09:30.252 [SPEAKER_01]: She said, I don't want it. 09:31.132 --> 09:33.773 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, I have to drive and she took it. 09:33.873 --> 09:36.775 [SPEAKER_01]: And she upside down into my cup holder. 09:36.795 --> 09:37.555 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, there! 09:41.688 --> 09:44.230 [SPEAKER_01]: Good for her, good for her, shout out her. 09:44.550 --> 09:45.831 [SPEAKER_01]: I think she's married now, it's fine. 09:46.712 --> 09:49.734 [SPEAKER_01]: We're all hit all ended up well for everyone, right? 09:50.054 --> 09:53.197 [SPEAKER_01]: But here's what I want you to understand, okay? 09:54.197 --> 09:58.841 [SPEAKER_01]: And that car ride was really weird to rest of the way to wherever I took her. 09:59.081 --> 09:59.381 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. 09:59.781 --> 10:00.782 [SPEAKER_01]: We weren't really friends after that. 10:00.822 --> 10:01.583 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure she has a great life. 10:02.323 --> 10:03.964 [SPEAKER_01]: But here's what I want you to understand. 10:05.426 --> 10:10.569 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes you are completely ignorant of the types of relationships 10:12.907 --> 10:21.452 [SPEAKER_01]: And I want to be honest, sometimes you are completely ignorant to the relationship Jesus has called you too. 10:22.153 --> 10:28.057 [SPEAKER_01]: And we have Christians who are like me and just like, isn't it great? 10:28.777 --> 10:30.038 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to hell anymore. 10:30.938 --> 10:31.759 [SPEAKER_01]: This is awesome. 10:31.779 --> 10:32.680 [SPEAKER_01]: You have to go through this. 10:33.860 --> 10:34.721 [SPEAKER_01]: There's people there. 10:35.101 --> 10:37.883 [SPEAKER_01]: They got cheap pizza, right? 10:37.903 --> 10:39.144 [SPEAKER_01]: And we just kind of, and 10:41.105 --> 10:42.225 [SPEAKER_01]: And here's the thing about ignorance. 10:43.526 --> 10:44.646 [SPEAKER_01]: Ignors isn't always your fault. 10:46.687 --> 10:53.269 [SPEAKER_01]: So here I am to tell you, if you're ignorant, I've got some things that's fine to you. 10:54.269 --> 11:09.534 [SPEAKER_01]: So tonight, I want to ensure that we determine the relationship correctly and accurately to the point that when you leave here, none of you have the excuse of being ignorant to the call of Jesus anymore. 11:10.548 --> 11:14.251 [SPEAKER_01]: So as you're chance to leave, you can go, just kidding, no you can't. 11:14.871 --> 11:15.752 [SPEAKER_01]: We have usher's at the back. 11:17.793 --> 11:22.557 [SPEAKER_01]: But from this moment on, we're all on agreement, no more excuses. 11:23.857 --> 11:35.105 [SPEAKER_01]: Note, there's not gonna be any, you're not a, you're lukewarm Christianity, you're excuses, why I didn't know, like I'm gonna explain it really, really, really plainly to you tonight, okay? 11:35.346 --> 11:38.528 [SPEAKER_01]: So the first thing when you ever, you're, I know from experience. 11:39.497 --> 11:47.203 [SPEAKER_01]: When you're determining a relationship, there's two things, there's your role, right? 11:47.603 --> 11:50.445 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's Jesus' role, okay? 11:52.427 --> 12:03.935 [SPEAKER_01]: Something that I think is maybe up for something the world tries really hard to do is to make Jesus' role up for interpretation, right? 12:04.468 --> 12:08.389 [SPEAKER_01]: I've talked with the interns a little bit about the summer and just kind of maybe over this year. 12:08.449 --> 12:11.870 [SPEAKER_01]: Like there's this theme that's been coming up at some of my conversation. 12:11.890 --> 12:18.111 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been counseling with this a young man recently and I just plain out asked him the first time we met. 12:18.131 --> 12:23.813 [SPEAKER_01]: I said, are you a follower of Jesus and he responds to us? 12:24.893 --> 12:31.815 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, you know, gave the, which is like an immediate, like, okay, no, but he's like, 12:33.962 --> 12:36.484 [SPEAKER_01]: what Jesus teaches, right? 12:36.944 --> 12:43.369 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, I haven't even said this to me and Pastor Cassas is like, I don't have a problem with anything Jesus says. 12:43.389 --> 12:45.771 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, hmm, right? 12:46.091 --> 12:50.675 [SPEAKER_01]: Because no one ever has ever, like, congrats. 12:51.255 --> 12:53.737 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't say that to him, but in my mind, I'm like, okay, here we go. 12:54.858 --> 12:56.740 [SPEAKER_01]: It's beginning to explain to me, like, 12:58.582 --> 13:05.654 [SPEAKER_01]: I really love what Jesus stands for and I really love what the church is like supposed to be doing and I really agree with them. 13:05.694 --> 13:12.045 [SPEAKER_01]: He got saying this term and throw me nuts like I agree with the message like what no you don't, but anyway. 13:13.233 --> 13:34.514 [SPEAKER_01]: So we can't go on and on and on and on and on and we've had meetings and I've had other conversations with other people that all kind of come back to the same thing and it's It's not even so much that I've had to spend time having conversations about if God is real anymore The great question of your generation is God good And if he take a further is he good enough to follow 13:35.690 --> 13:35.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 13:36.030 --> 13:49.116 [SPEAKER_01]: Because in this world of vast information and everyone's got something to say and there's so much content and there's so much teaching and there's all these things you can avail yourself to on the device in your hand. 13:50.628 --> 14:06.581 [SPEAKER_01]: What has happened, and I see what the enemy's been trying to do is he's trying to just slot Jesus in next to all these other voices, all these other teachings, all these other philosophers, as like, well, the teachings good, his teachings good, his teachings good. 14:08.763 --> 14:19.752 [SPEAKER_01]: And so be honest with you, Jesus, when he comes and says, follow me, he's not inviting you to just subscribe to his teachings. 14:21.356 --> 14:21.896 [SPEAKER_01]: You understand? 14:22.496 --> 14:31.138 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we're not hitting a follow button terms and agreements, conditions, subscribe now. 14:31.178 --> 14:32.819 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, this is what we're doing. 14:34.439 --> 14:37.360 [SPEAKER_01]: And so what, I'm gonna get it way ahead of myself. 14:37.980 --> 14:38.920 [SPEAKER_01]: Good thing is it's Friday night. 14:38.960 --> 14:39.861 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't have any reals to go. 14:40.041 --> 14:41.841 [SPEAKER_01]: So, you're mine now. 14:43.782 --> 14:45.142 [SPEAKER_01]: I wanna make something clear, okay? 14:46.127 --> 14:50.309 [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord has defined His role in this relationship. 14:51.549 --> 14:57.091 [SPEAKER_01]: And John 10 verse 11, Jesus says this about Himself. 14:57.351 --> 15:05.854 [SPEAKER_01]: I could throw up 30 different scriptures where Jesus says, I am, or something like this, who makes it definitively statement, this is the one I really want us to talk about for just a moment. 15:06.074 --> 15:10.356 [SPEAKER_01]: And John 10 11, He says, I am the good shepherd. 15:11.957 --> 15:12.877 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what that makes me and you? 15:15.813 --> 15:20.576 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so he says, I am the good shepherd and comes out of Shepherd if we're not sheep. 15:21.356 --> 15:22.597 [SPEAKER_01]: He calls himself the good shepherd. 15:22.637 --> 15:26.700 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yes, and I will also be a good shepherd as well alongside you. 15:27.240 --> 15:29.221 [SPEAKER_01]: No, you're the sheep. 15:30.502 --> 15:31.122 [SPEAKER_01]: You're the sheep. 15:31.803 --> 15:33.104 [SPEAKER_01]: He's the shepherd, we're the sheep. 15:33.264 --> 15:33.984 [SPEAKER_01]: Very easy. 15:35.225 --> 15:37.626 [SPEAKER_01]: But somewhere along the way, we have put, 15:40.076 --> 15:44.700 [SPEAKER_01]: I had a different message prepared tonight, even the title was so offensive, the whole staff told me I couldn't do it. 15:45.922 --> 15:48.985 [SPEAKER_01]: Just they didn't even know the message about it, but just the title, they're all like you can't do that. 15:49.065 --> 15:55.210 [SPEAKER_01]: So if this is strong for you tonight, you have no idea what I'm capable of, somewhere along the way. 15:56.472 --> 16:05.060 [SPEAKER_01]: We have put good and evil on a spectrum, and we have said, well, God can't be fully good because all the evil. 16:06.310 --> 16:12.373 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, he can't be all good because there's death and there's hurricanes, right? 16:13.093 --> 16:14.234 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's the big 12th. 16:14.874 --> 16:19.216 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's all these other things in the world. 16:19.256 --> 16:24.238 [SPEAKER_01]: So like, if God was good, that stuff just wouldn't exist. 16:25.419 --> 16:34.142 [SPEAKER_01]: If God's really perfectly good, so we slide the goodness of God, we're like, can't be all good, maybe somewhere in the middle. 16:38.630 --> 16:42.451 [SPEAKER_01]: No, wrong, do not pass gold, do not collect $200. 16:42.471 --> 16:43.632 [SPEAKER_01]: You're wrong. 16:44.752 --> 16:47.513 [SPEAKER_01]: Good and evil do not share the same spectrum. 16:48.373 --> 16:53.095 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes I even heard someone as a popular, it's kind of what spurred this whole thing with me. 16:53.635 --> 16:56.636 [SPEAKER_01]: A popular influencer made this claim. 16:57.201 --> 17:01.363 [SPEAKER_01]: So see when Adam ate the fruit and Adam even ate the fruit, right? 17:01.723 --> 17:08.366 [SPEAKER_01]: The second half of the spectrum was revealed and they realized that good and evil are actually on a spectrum and I wanted to throw up. 17:09.286 --> 17:16.249 [SPEAKER_01]: Because it bothered me so much because what he was essentially saying to people, right, is that you can be all good and all evil. 17:16.650 --> 17:23.052 [SPEAKER_01]: And this was his whole purpose is that because God is God, you just have to accept the fact that he's perfect and he wants to be all evil. 17:23.092 --> 17:24.333 [SPEAKER_01]: It's because it's justified. 17:26.395 --> 17:29.476 [SPEAKER_01]: W, the heck, are we talking about? 17:30.076 --> 17:37.337 [SPEAKER_01]: But this is why we have a generation who's like, well, you know, he is good, his teachings are cool, and I think the sacrifice part was great. 17:37.617 --> 17:44.118 [SPEAKER_01]: I just not so sure if he's good enough for me to give him my life yet, because my life has been pretty hard. 17:46.039 --> 17:47.819 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me just tell you this very plainly. 17:48.679 --> 17:52.920 [SPEAKER_01]: If the goodness of God is being judged upon how your life is going, 17:54.263 --> 17:56.324 [SPEAKER_01]: You've fallen from one of the oldest tricks in the book. 17:58.205 --> 17:59.966 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we could spend all night talking about this. 18:00.967 --> 18:03.928 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been, I speak from this from experience. 18:04.829 --> 18:07.791 [SPEAKER_01]: First nine years in my life, no boy, no. 18:08.671 --> 18:10.812 [SPEAKER_01]: Very no boy, no. 18:10.852 --> 18:16.415 [SPEAKER_01]: Was raised by drug addicts was not good. 18:18.657 --> 18:22.759 [SPEAKER_01]: Started hearing things about the Lord, started very thankful 18:23.322 --> 18:29.925 [SPEAKER_01]: for godly grandparents, just shout out, you guys, cause I would not be here without y'all. 18:31.346 --> 18:38.330 [SPEAKER_01]: So as I started getting older, they just started kind of showing the seeds of like, hey, God loves you, you know, read this book. 18:38.630 --> 18:42.452 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like power of teens praying and something like, I don't know, let me talk about it. 18:44.955 --> 18:49.198 [SPEAKER_01]: Because what I couldn't understand is every time someone wanted to talk to me about the goodness of God. 18:49.218 --> 18:51.500 [SPEAKER_01]: And like, God's love is so infinite for you. 18:51.580 --> 18:54.102 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a sloppy wet kiss and all these things. 18:54.863 --> 19:00.748 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, no, he's not because I have experienced X, X, X, X, and X. 19:01.428 --> 19:02.049 [SPEAKER_01]: This has happened. 19:02.069 --> 19:02.589 [SPEAKER_01]: This has happened. 19:02.609 --> 19:03.590 [SPEAKER_01]: This has happened where was he? 19:03.890 --> 19:09.475 [SPEAKER_01]: And so the trick that I was falling for was placing God's goodness based upon what my life had looked like. 19:10.195 --> 19:12.017 [SPEAKER_01]: What had happened to what I was a victim of. 19:12.797 --> 19:16.198 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, God can't be good because bad things have happened to me. 19:16.738 --> 19:22.780 [SPEAKER_01]: And it wasn't until I really grabbed a hold of the cross to realize the best thing had happened to me already. 19:23.260 --> 19:26.481 [SPEAKER_01]: And that overpowered any bad thing that had ever happened to me. 19:27.021 --> 19:28.481 [SPEAKER_01]: So here's my point, and I'll move on. 19:29.542 --> 19:30.142 [SPEAKER_01]: God is good. 19:31.082 --> 19:31.862 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not up for debate. 19:33.043 --> 19:37.784 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're stuck on that, get some counsel and talk to a pastor. 19:38.213 --> 19:42.774 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I know that, again, we could spend three hours talking about that. 19:43.855 --> 19:48.296 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you're in the room tonight and you're like, I'm just not convinced of his goodness yet. 19:49.936 --> 20:00.620 [SPEAKER_01]: I could march up about 300 people on this platform to tell you why this leads and shows his goodness. 20:01.360 --> 20:05.321 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, most people that try out God, 20:07.348 --> 20:09.009 [SPEAKER_01]: never actually put one of these on. 20:09.910 --> 20:16.134 [SPEAKER_01]: And then something bad happens because they're somewhere they're never supposed to be in the first place because they weren't being led by Jesus himself. 20:17.815 --> 20:22.038 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone wants to be led by the Spirit nowadays, but no one actually wants to follow Jesus with one of these. 20:23.639 --> 20:24.960 [SPEAKER_01]: Why does want to be led by the Spirit? 20:24.980 --> 20:30.144 [SPEAKER_01]: Because then no one can tell you what the Spirit says or what Spirit does to the Spirit's a mystery and God speaks to everyone correct. 20:32.591 --> 20:40.317 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but here's one of the great issues, especially with us, Gen Z and Millennials, is that when you put one of these on, Jesus is on the other side. 20:40.978 --> 20:42.819 [SPEAKER_01]: So when he says, come take my yoke. 20:44.000 --> 20:44.881 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm right here with you. 20:45.661 --> 20:47.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Says my burden is a light. 20:48.063 --> 20:49.604 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, yoke is, may I say this backwards? 20:49.644 --> 20:49.905 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. 20:51.126 --> 20:53.047 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he's the one doing the hard work. 20:53.087 --> 20:56.370 [SPEAKER_01]: He's the one next to you during this entire process. 20:57.250 --> 21:00.433 [SPEAKER_01]: But we reject this, because that looks like a old religion in bondage. 21:01.376 --> 21:02.897 [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to be led by the Spirit. 21:03.878 --> 21:04.819 [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to do me. 21:05.940 --> 21:08.542 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm, you don't know, my Collins and my annoying things. 21:11.244 --> 21:15.087 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll get, we'll go back, we'll go back to. 21:15.107 --> 21:18.689 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 21:18.830 --> 21:20.791 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to stop or anything, but I just want to make sure, okay. 21:24.574 --> 21:26.656 [SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, we could continue this conversation, right? 21:26.676 --> 21:27.476 [SPEAKER_01]: He's the good shepherd. 21:27.636 --> 21:28.217 [SPEAKER_01]: God is love. 21:29.230 --> 21:31.252 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we could continue defining God. 21:33.235 --> 21:38.081 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know this might sound like, we know these things, because we've heard them or hopefully you're reading them. 21:39.542 --> 21:45.369 [SPEAKER_01]: The issue is, I think most of us are more interested in sitting down and negotiating. 21:47.661 --> 21:50.743 [SPEAKER_01]: With the Lord, then we are actually just being like, that's definitive. 21:50.763 --> 21:54.786 [SPEAKER_01]: There's no, you know, I've said this before in my T.H. 21:54.806 --> 21:57.348 [SPEAKER_01]: We always joke about Jesus flipping tables, right? 21:57.368 --> 21:58.909 [SPEAKER_01]: And like this is always one of the most common things. 21:58.969 --> 22:01.091 [SPEAKER_01]: Anytime you get angry, you're like, well, Jesus flipped a table, okay? 22:01.431 --> 22:02.192 [SPEAKER_01]: So I could do this. 22:04.173 --> 22:08.637 [SPEAKER_01]: If Jesus walked into your life today, the negotiation table, I think it would be the first one he flipped. 22:09.177 --> 22:15.662 [SPEAKER_01]: Because it seems like we have a generation who wants to sit, Jesus across a table and be like, well, how about I be really good at this? 22:15.702 --> 22:17.043 [SPEAKER_01]: And we not care about this one so much. 22:17.738 --> 22:17.918 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 22:18.118 --> 22:29.551 [SPEAKER_01]: How about, I'm like really spiritual, but the, the, the, the, the be attitudes, the gifts, come on, the fruit, not so much. 22:30.512 --> 22:38.401 [SPEAKER_01]: And for some reason we, we play it, we play into this, this game with the Lord where it's like, well, I'm really good at some stuff, and that's better than being bad at everything. 22:41.978 --> 22:43.479 [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord's defined his role in your life. 22:43.659 --> 22:44.979 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I said about it said this last night. 22:45.439 --> 22:52.862 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the greatest, if you would do this one thing, I'll retire happy if you'll do this one thing after my message tonight. 22:53.682 --> 23:05.027 [SPEAKER_01]: If you in your life will allow God to define who he is and what he teaches and not filter it through the voices you want to hear. 23:05.887 --> 23:08.428 [SPEAKER_01]: If you'll do that, I'm good. 23:09.288 --> 23:10.349 [SPEAKER_01]: It will say so much. 23:11.698 --> 23:17.186 [SPEAKER_01]: Because when we read something, when we stand on the Word of God, and He says, I'm gonna have it the praises of my people. 23:17.868 --> 23:20.171 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't come into worship, look, I wonder if the Spirit's here yet. 23:21.493 --> 23:22.455 [SPEAKER_01]: That third song has it. 23:23.116 --> 23:23.256 [SPEAKER_00]: It. 23:24.678 --> 23:24.838 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 23:24.998 --> 23:41.344 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, there are things that, when God says, this is my truth, this is my promise, this is my word, this is my son, this is the blood, this is the body, this is the life, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life that we say, awesome, yes, no more argument, no more conversation. 23:42.324 --> 23:48.266 [SPEAKER_01]: But we didn't, of course we don't admit this and we're like, well, well, that's not how we respond, but that's how we live. 23:49.107 --> 23:52.128 [SPEAKER_01]: We live as if this stuff is up for debate within our lives. 23:53.013 --> 24:21.117 [SPEAKER_01]: Will the context was really little the context is that you're bad at loading people The context is that this is maybe a way more this is way more strong than we make it out to be We're gonna keep going Keith Shut up Keith Web Being Keith we're talking about this in the day 24:24.078 --> 24:28.260 [SPEAKER_01]: All throughout Scripture, we see this just repeating phrase, okay? 24:28.901 --> 24:31.482 [SPEAKER_01]: And it goes like this, follow me. 24:32.943 --> 24:33.764 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the invitation. 24:35.084 --> 24:36.305 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the invitation of the Lord. 24:37.225 --> 24:38.566 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what He says to Matthew. 24:38.966 --> 24:40.207 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what He says to Philip. 24:43.529 --> 24:45.150 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what He says to Simon and Andrew. 24:45.990 --> 24:47.431 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what He says to the rich young ruler. 24:48.072 --> 24:49.472 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what He says to the multitudes. 24:49.492 --> 24:50.613 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what He says to the women. 24:50.633 --> 24:51.894 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what He says to the children. 24:58.835 --> 25:24.887 [SPEAKER_01]: Come be with me, come walk behind me, there's an old ancient is really blessing, they would pray over people once they decided to follow certain rabbis, they would pray over them and say, may the dust of your rabbi be upon you, meaning may you follow him so closely 25:28.909 --> 25:32.271 [SPEAKER_01]: And the dust kicks up, may it be all over you. 25:34.493 --> 25:37.755 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, come on now. 25:38.636 --> 25:39.937 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a little extreme. 25:41.238 --> 25:45.020 [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds a little religious. 25:45.881 --> 25:48.643 [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like more than a few church services in month, Garrett. 25:49.624 --> 25:51.445 [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds a little bit more than something. 25:51.465 --> 25:53.386 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'm willing to sign up for tonight. 25:54.647 --> 25:56.889 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, then you need to find the relationship, my friend. 25:58.165 --> 26:08.951 [SPEAKER_01]: You just have it, because not only has God defined his role through his son, he's also defined your role, surprise, one of those things that aren't up for debate. 26:09.751 --> 26:15.614 [SPEAKER_01]: It's one of these things that we've made being a follower of Jesus like, well, it's different for everyone. 26:16.034 --> 26:21.958 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not up for debate. 26:22.218 --> 26:24.019 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't look, it's not supposed to look differently for me. 26:25.180 --> 26:26.481 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't look differently for me. 26:26.501 --> 26:29.302 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't look differently for high praise, YTH, and Hirmpan, and Mocity. 26:29.502 --> 26:30.903 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't look differently in Crestview. 26:30.923 --> 26:32.624 [SPEAKER_01]: This doesn't look differently in Little Rock. 26:32.664 --> 26:34.465 [SPEAKER_01]: This doesn't look differently anywhere. 26:34.945 --> 26:35.845 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not meant to. 26:37.686 --> 26:43.429 [SPEAKER_01]: It's rather bothersome that all of a sudden, like, why does Christianity look differently based upon where you go geographically? 26:44.289 --> 26:49.572 [SPEAKER_01]: Why does Christianity look differently based upon the determination or the sign that's hanging on the buildings? 26:51.374 --> 26:53.536 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we don't follow Jesus closely enough. 26:53.576 --> 26:57.278 [SPEAKER_01]: We just want to observe Him from a distance that what can we learn from this. 26:59.020 --> 27:00.281 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not the invitation. 27:01.221 --> 27:02.763 [SPEAKER_01]: The invitation has come follow me. 27:02.783 --> 27:04.644 [SPEAKER_01]: The invitation has come take my yoke. 27:05.785 --> 27:10.769 [SPEAKER_01]: The invitation is, hey, you're not going to call the shops. 27:10.889 --> 27:13.831 [SPEAKER_01]: The invitation is very, very simple. 27:16.147 --> 27:19.789 [SPEAKER_01]: And Pastor Micah's talk, this is what I've learned about being a little guy that gets to speak last. 27:20.310 --> 27:22.771 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone else gets to take things that you were going to say. 27:24.212 --> 27:25.032 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Micah did it? 27:25.372 --> 27:26.133 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Jared did it? 27:27.013 --> 27:27.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Alex did it? 27:29.355 --> 27:29.735 [SPEAKER_01]: It's fine. 27:31.156 --> 27:31.596 [SPEAKER_01]: I agree. 27:32.056 --> 27:32.717 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, an amen. 27:34.438 --> 27:37.219 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Jared says something other day and I almost stood up and said, you have to stop. 27:39.220 --> 27:40.541 [SPEAKER_01]: You're getting, you have to stop. 27:41.121 --> 27:41.662 [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously I did not. 27:46.378 --> 27:48.360 [SPEAKER_01]: We respond to the invitation of Jesus. 27:50.381 --> 27:57.307 [SPEAKER_01]: You respond to, when you say yes, and this is just if you really want some ancient context to make yourself feel better. 27:58.287 --> 28:00.329 [SPEAKER_01]: The ancient context of Jesus says follow me. 28:00.349 --> 28:05.793 [SPEAKER_01]: When a rabbi of that day would come around and find followers, he said come follow me. 28:06.174 --> 28:11.638 [SPEAKER_01]: It meant one, the first thing you had to prove was that you knew everything that rabbi was teaching. 28:13.437 --> 28:16.520 [SPEAKER_01]: Go find yourself a random Christian this week and be like, hey, where did it be out of toot? 28:19.542 --> 28:21.023 [SPEAKER_01]: What was Jesus say about this, this and this? 28:22.284 --> 28:26.728 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think Jesus' heart is actually for this. 28:30.291 --> 28:40.319 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of us have subscribed to his teachings, meaning that we know about three or four things that were pretty confident in, but we actually don't know anything. 28:41.517 --> 28:43.718 [SPEAKER_01]: So don't follow him that closely anymore. 28:44.998 --> 28:48.960 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what I love so much about the invitation with the yoke. 28:48.980 --> 28:50.300 [SPEAKER_01]: We throw that one up there. 28:50.380 --> 28:51.761 [SPEAKER_01]: One more time, guys, Matthew 11. 28:54.042 --> 28:57.903 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, come to me, all who labor and are heavy, laden. 29:00.904 --> 29:03.485 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, all of you that are trying all this other stuff, 29:05.125 --> 29:10.549 [SPEAKER_01]: Those of you that are trying to earn this yourself, and he's talking to a group of people that have been taught, they're entire lives. 29:11.310 --> 29:15.273 [SPEAKER_01]: If you do this well, if you perform this well, you keep the law, don't break the rules. 29:16.474 --> 29:23.280 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe God and his by chance is gonna show grace to you and mercy to you. 29:24.320 --> 29:32.227 [SPEAKER_01]: But you must sometimes know over silly, what would I would call silly things, eat men, death, and definitely meant that God would reject you. 29:33.060 --> 29:40.621 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he's talking to a group of people that have been convinced that everything about their salvation, everything about God's goodness was in their hands. 29:41.721 --> 29:43.422 [SPEAKER_01]: That everything was up to them. 29:44.602 --> 29:47.422 [SPEAKER_01]: They had laws upon laws, rules upon rules. 29:48.023 --> 29:49.283 [SPEAKER_01]: Things I don't even understand. 29:49.843 --> 29:51.343 [SPEAKER_01]: Things mean you wouldn't understand. 29:53.383 --> 29:58.304 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, hey, all of you that are anxious. 29:58.364 --> 29:59.905 [SPEAKER_01]: All of you that are depressed because it's 30:04.380 --> 30:08.084 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I've got something different for you. 30:08.184 --> 30:11.267 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I've got, I've got a different kind of work for us. 30:12.648 --> 30:15.490 [SPEAKER_01]: And here's the, I really want you to understand this. 30:20.555 --> 30:21.216 [SPEAKER_01]: Need a volunteer. 30:24.258 --> 30:28.202 [SPEAKER_01]: And in this moment, I've realized that we need to turn off the live stream. 30:31.039 --> 30:54.098 [SPEAKER_01]: Jackson and Asher I feel way more yeah come on let's go fellas up on stage run quickly climb here we go All right guys Casey you're you're good with this awesome my all right No, don't say that He said I'll tell you 31:01.100 --> 31:02.320 [SPEAKER_01]: Can we rabbit trail for a moment? 31:02.921 --> 31:04.661 [SPEAKER_01]: Me, okay, let's rabbit trail for a moment. 31:06.062 --> 31:08.883 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I don't want to miss, don't go, you have to go where I say. 31:09.863 --> 31:10.483 [SPEAKER_01]: Just hand right here. 31:11.504 --> 31:13.524 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't look into the camera, look happy, smile. 31:15.665 --> 31:16.305 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't go anywhere. 31:17.946 --> 31:21.207 [SPEAKER_01]: Mark, sidebar, okay, sidebar. 31:22.368 --> 31:27.009 [SPEAKER_01]: This is my child, too, if then if you're worried about child abuse right now, it's fine. 31:28.230 --> 31:28.990 [SPEAKER_01]: These are staff kids. 31:30.651 --> 31:41.916 [SPEAKER_01]: Sidebar, I've watched more young people lose their relationship with the Lord and their faith because of the wrong friendships and wrong relationships. 31:42.316 --> 31:47.639 [SPEAKER_01]: Then I think any other thing, so I just want to make sure that I explain something while this is happening. 31:48.059 --> 31:52.521 [SPEAKER_01]: When Jesus says, don't be unequally yoked. 31:54.181 --> 31:57.403 [SPEAKER_01]: There's two real important things about being unequally yoked. 31:58.556 --> 32:03.059 [SPEAKER_01]: you've got to be able to carry the same weight and you've got to move it the same pace. 32:04.620 --> 32:09.903 [SPEAKER_01]: So when you, next time, we're gonna break some people up tonight. 32:10.303 --> 32:12.684 [SPEAKER_01]: Someone who decided not to come to movement, they're gonna get a text later. 32:12.704 --> 32:15.246 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I don't think this is gonna work out any more. 32:15.286 --> 32:15.606 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch. 32:16.887 --> 32:17.707 [SPEAKER_01]: No, you're not. 32:21.830 --> 32:22.790 [SPEAKER_01]: I picked the wrong one. 32:24.471 --> 32:25.272 [SPEAKER_01]: Shoulda grabbed Katie. 32:29.963 --> 32:35.526 [SPEAKER_01]: When Jesus gives the analogy of being unequally yoked, he's like, you sign up? 32:35.686 --> 32:36.146 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't hurt. 32:36.466 --> 32:39.848 [SPEAKER_01]: You're signing up for something, you'll complain too much. 32:39.868 --> 32:41.909 [SPEAKER_01]: You're signing up for a relationship. 32:42.009 --> 32:44.670 [SPEAKER_01]: You better be able to move at the same pace as the person next to you. 32:45.846 --> 33:06.305 [SPEAKER_01]: And my Lord, I'm going to be nice, but ladies, y'all sacrifice, you sacrifice more destiny, trying to pull somebody up next to you out of fear of loneliness and rejection, and whatever else you've got going on. 33:07.541 --> 33:16.409 [SPEAKER_01]: And young men, you have the pick of the whole church if you just worry about running well and carrying well instead of impressing. 33:17.650 --> 33:21.614 [SPEAKER_01]: You look at this front row, our wives are beautiful and we are not. 33:22.014 --> 33:24.076 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a blessing that comes with it. 33:24.536 --> 33:31.242 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a blessing that comes with it because we ran our race well. 33:32.483 --> 33:33.865 [SPEAKER_01]: And then there's 40 girls going, 33:35.750 --> 33:39.752 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, I'll have a lemon, you know what I'm saying? 33:43.574 --> 33:49.337 [SPEAKER_01]: So ladies be patient and quit selling yourself short for someone that can play a game, okay? 33:51.278 --> 33:58.963 [SPEAKER_01]: And young men, you work and you work well in Lord will take care of you, I promise, okay? 33:59.763 --> 34:02.985 [SPEAKER_01]: Sidebar over, back to Matthew 11. 34:04.913 --> 34:07.676 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus has come take my yoke upon you. 34:09.318 --> 34:21.652 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's one of the things that I've realized in my study of this is that when farmers would yoke together to oxen, they would take an experience one, take an experience one. 34:23.174 --> 34:24.756 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought for a moment who's older, I have no idea. 34:26.070 --> 34:35.653 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, they would take an older one and a younger one and they'd pair them together to work because what would happen is the farmer could not spend all day steering the ox around. 34:35.973 --> 34:47.896 [SPEAKER_01]: So they trusted the older one to just show the younger one what to do and they just went to work and they worked all day long and this was their lives over and over and over again. 34:48.736 --> 34:51.418 [SPEAKER_01]: And so when Jesus has come, come be yoked with me. 34:51.698 --> 34:54.521 [SPEAKER_01]: He's saying, hey, I'm the more experienced one. 34:54.861 --> 34:56.322 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to do the heavy work here. 34:56.602 --> 34:57.943 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to show you where to go. 34:58.264 --> 35:01.286 [SPEAKER_01]: You won't wander off into the wrong relationships all the time. 35:01.566 --> 35:04.388 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're yoked with Jesus, you won't wander off. 35:04.448 --> 35:05.469 [SPEAKER_01]: You all can take this off now. 35:05.549 --> 35:06.290 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so sorry. 35:06.830 --> 35:07.171 [SPEAKER_00]: I know. 35:07.411 --> 35:07.751 [SPEAKER_00]: I know. 35:08.091 --> 35:08.392 [SPEAKER_00]: I know. 35:08.732 --> 35:09.012 [SPEAKER_01]: I know. 35:09.632 --> 35:10.473 [SPEAKER_01]: You poor children. 35:14.396 --> 35:15.037 [SPEAKER_00]: Good job, guys. 35:18.967 --> 35:24.771 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to wander into the places you're not supposed to go when you and Jesus are this close. 35:25.292 --> 35:28.154 [SPEAKER_01]: You won't wander into the wrong friendships. 35:28.174 --> 35:30.716 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to wander into the wrong places. 35:31.056 --> 35:41.023 [SPEAKER_01]: You won't even, it's this right here that's going to be the difference maker. 35:42.224 --> 35:46.968 [SPEAKER_01]: For tonight, you'll find out how seriously you've taken this moment in August, though. 35:48.477 --> 35:56.824 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll find out how seriously you've taken this moment and how real your commitment is to the Lord whenever something else better comes along. 35:57.084 --> 35:59.486 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll realize what your yoke to rather quickly. 36:00.587 --> 36:02.529 [SPEAKER_01]: Youth pastors, we hate the month of August, don't we? 36:04.691 --> 36:04.931 [SPEAKER_01]: I do. 36:06.532 --> 36:12.557 [SPEAKER_01]: I realize, I realize quickly who's yoke to the Lord and who was just here because something was happening. 36:14.779 --> 36:15.079 [SPEAKER_01]: And I, 36:16.652 --> 36:22.217 [SPEAKER_01]: multitude showed it for Jesus, because they heard of miracles and fish and bread. 36:22.517 --> 36:23.217 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't offend me. 36:23.658 --> 36:40.992 [SPEAKER_01]: Someone asked me the other day, like if that's the abolish man, like if the people could walk away from Jesus if he was a given him something, if one of his followers could betray him, who did follow him closely, when people hurt me, it's actually almost a sign of relief, because it means I'm in good company. 36:41.793 --> 36:45.216 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the perfect one, the greatest leader of all time, 36:45.937 --> 36:48.618 [SPEAKER_01]: was betrayed, mocked, and turned on quickly. 36:49.638 --> 36:53.680 [SPEAKER_01]: So leaders in youth pastors and the room, let me just tell you something real quick. 36:54.860 --> 36:55.741 [SPEAKER_01]: You're in good company. 36:57.381 --> 36:58.782 [SPEAKER_01]: You probably do in something right. 37:00.463 --> 37:07.525 [SPEAKER_01]: It's those that are, this is supposed to be your relationship with the Lord. 37:09.346 --> 37:11.547 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what the cure to your anxiety looks like. 37:12.613 --> 37:18.017 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the cure to your issues, is you not being able to do in whatever you want. 37:18.077 --> 37:23.480 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know the world is telling you that you do you, you be your own person. 37:24.761 --> 37:27.343 [SPEAKER_01]: You figure out your truth, you speak your truth. 37:28.103 --> 37:30.725 [SPEAKER_01]: It's yours, it's no one else is no one can tell you how to live. 37:31.426 --> 37:32.847 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't know what you've been through. 37:33.387 --> 37:34.688 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't know your story. 37:36.303 --> 37:48.774 [SPEAKER_01]: And we have this, John Mark Chroma calls it rugged individualism, that we're all obsessed with becoming our own person, because we're so unique and it's up to us, so to make our story and do all these wonderful things. 37:49.174 --> 37:50.155 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you guys be honest with you, God? 37:50.175 --> 37:53.939 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, no, okay, I was saying. 37:53.999 --> 38:03.147 [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, makes way more promises about building churches than he does individuals. 38:04.392 --> 38:06.253 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, that doesn't mean he won't. 38:06.313 --> 38:08.013 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying, that doesn't happen. 38:08.034 --> 38:09.574 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying the Lord won't do things for you. 38:09.594 --> 38:10.154 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll yield you. 38:10.354 --> 38:11.315 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what I mean. 38:12.575 --> 38:20.238 [SPEAKER_01]: But someone of us, we reject things like this, and we've convinced ourselves that that's not what God has for me, because what God has for me is me. 38:21.139 --> 38:22.980 [SPEAKER_01]: What God has for me is my happiness. 38:23.760 --> 38:26.441 [SPEAKER_01]: But God, the Lord's gonna give me the desires of my heart. 38:26.461 --> 38:31.103 [SPEAKER_01]: No, because James says that when you pray to you, don't get what you pray for, because you pray selfishly. 38:33.327 --> 38:36.210 [SPEAKER_00]: See, scripture, I can't sidebar again. 38:37.351 --> 38:40.714 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, Pastor Micah, you've got to come on, I will never stop. 38:46.040 --> 38:47.942 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I get the full band up here. 38:50.084 --> 38:56.430 [SPEAKER_01]: Y'all are so awesome, even if no one responds, I think it'd just be great to be in worship but you guys one more time before you go back home. 39:08.787 --> 39:11.388 [SPEAKER_01]: In May of every year, May April, May. 39:13.929 --> 39:16.010 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's starting to have a more conversation with people about. 39:16.030 --> 39:20.792 [SPEAKER_01]: As soon as my destiny is, I don't know what my calling is. 39:20.812 --> 39:23.533 [SPEAKER_01]: I just trying to fail out the words will for my life. 39:24.713 --> 39:26.514 [SPEAKER_01]: Trying to make these big decisions. 39:30.080 --> 39:40.005 [SPEAKER_01]: It would be honest, if you would carry one of these around with you daily in the little things, those big decisions would come quite easily, right? 39:41.045 --> 39:55.532 [SPEAKER_01]: But you won't let God speak into what's who your friends with, you won't let him speak into who you're dating, you won't let him speak into the way you talk or the apps on your phone, but then all of a sudden you gotta go to college or pick a career or make a big financial decision like God, you don't speak to me. 39:59.564 --> 40:04.985 [SPEAKER_01]: Very, imagine how much easier it would be to hear the Lord if y'all read this close. 40:06.886 --> 40:11.346 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just want to hear God at the big altar conference moments. 40:12.527 --> 40:13.067 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't hear me. 40:13.887 --> 40:14.707 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to alter call. 40:14.727 --> 40:15.307 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to pray. 40:16.067 --> 40:17.488 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you something to respond to. 40:17.508 --> 40:18.468 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong at all. 40:21.369 --> 40:25.209 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, if any of us read it all, right? 40:25.229 --> 40:27.790 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Patrick Chelsea kind of started, you know, 40:29.905 --> 40:31.826 [SPEAKER_01]: You kind of started it on this towards the end, like... 40:35.387 --> 40:36.908 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what revival would look like. 40:38.468 --> 40:40.109 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that looks like bondage to me. 40:40.689 --> 40:42.290 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, tough. 40:43.490 --> 40:44.330 [SPEAKER_01]: Not up for debate. 40:45.511 --> 40:47.111 [SPEAKER_01]: Because Jesus says, come to me. 40:47.191 --> 40:48.372 [SPEAKER_01]: All of you who are weary. 40:48.952 --> 40:49.992 [SPEAKER_01]: All of you that are tired. 40:50.012 --> 40:53.414 [SPEAKER_01]: All of you that have been trying all these other things and you're realizing they don't work. 40:53.774 --> 40:58.195 [SPEAKER_01]: And you've tried this teaching and this teaching and that teaching and this idea and that idea. 40:58.556 --> 40:59.416 [SPEAKER_01]: It ain't gonna work. 41:00.713 --> 41:04.335 [SPEAKER_01]: He still just stands here waiting, but like, hey, whenever you're ready, me and you, we got to work to do. 41:04.375 --> 41:07.737 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you last night, the harvest was plenty, but the workers are few. 41:07.977 --> 41:13.320 [SPEAKER_01]: The workers are few because Satan's convinced you that this is bondage, and this is what God has for you. 41:13.600 --> 41:18.423 [SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus himself says, you want to walk with me, this is how we walk. 41:19.723 --> 41:21.965 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to walk with me, this is how we walk. 41:22.836 --> 41:24.758 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to go step by step with me. 41:24.838 --> 41:26.319 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to listen to me. 41:26.359 --> 41:27.620 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to hear my voice. 41:27.881 --> 41:28.721 [SPEAKER_01]: You want my fruit. 41:28.741 --> 41:29.602 [SPEAKER_01]: You want my gifts. 41:29.942 --> 41:31.544 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what connects us. 41:31.804 --> 41:37.629 [SPEAKER_01]: See, the life of a Christian is meant to be defined by a yolk around your neck and a cross on your back. 41:38.250 --> 41:40.192 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they call you to follow him empty handed. 41:40.752 --> 41:46.277 [SPEAKER_01]: And he sure does it call you to follow him so he can build you up into some self-manmade empire. 41:47.138 --> 41:50.499 [SPEAKER_01]: But he has a look at for people who said, who's going to follow me? 41:51.380 --> 41:53.621 [SPEAKER_01]: And when I say we're going this way, we're going this way. 41:54.301 --> 41:56.042 [SPEAKER_01]: And when I say we're doing this, we're doing this. 41:58.583 --> 42:01.184 [SPEAKER_01]: Peter, we're going to the Samaritan woman if you like it or not. 42:02.484 --> 42:04.565 [SPEAKER_01]: Paul, you're going to go here if you like it or not. 42:05.005 --> 42:06.106 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what we're doing. 42:07.266 --> 42:09.907 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what's on the agenda today. 42:11.088 --> 42:14.689 [SPEAKER_01]: And I feel this even just kind of as I'm coming to a close that some of you 42:18.780 --> 42:21.845 [SPEAKER_01]: This has been just on my heart all week. 42:23.588 --> 42:23.728 [SPEAKER_01]: This. 42:23.748 --> 42:27.674 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you once had this said that maybe Jesus is an old friend to you. 42:28.676 --> 42:29.978 [SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, yeah, I used to have men. 42:31.264 --> 42:34.105 [SPEAKER_01]: For some reason, we've made certain things just for youth groups. 42:34.846 --> 42:39.168 [SPEAKER_01]: The older our realized that like the well, the youth need to be really passionate about the loss. 42:39.208 --> 42:41.709 [SPEAKER_01]: They need to be really passionate about being filled with the spirit. 42:41.749 --> 42:43.390 [SPEAKER_01]: They need to be really passionate about worship. 42:43.410 --> 42:44.511 [SPEAKER_01]: They're young and they're youthful. 42:44.771 --> 42:45.911 [SPEAKER_01]: And I did the same thing. 42:46.151 --> 42:57.197 [SPEAKER_01]: And you took this off a long time ago and you just ride on your old friend relationship with Jesus and your memories pop up and you remember some things and the song plays and you remember some things and pastors. 42:57.677 --> 43:07.039 [SPEAKER_01]: Prophecy or preach a sermon, and you remember some things, but you laid this down a long time ago because you realized there was more for you out there or you thought there were. 43:10.300 --> 43:11.500 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what provision looks like? 43:14.481 --> 43:15.981 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what prosperity looks like? 43:16.921 --> 43:18.682 [SPEAKER_01]: Being led to places you should never go. 43:18.702 --> 43:23.623 [SPEAKER_01]: To be with people that you were never meant to be with. 43:24.673 --> 43:31.500 [SPEAKER_01]: But the longer I do this, the more I look back and I'm like, I'm so thankful for your know. 43:33.001 --> 43:36.525 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord Jesus, I'm so thankful for your know, so many times. 43:37.606 --> 43:39.968 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so thankful that you said, get over here. 43:40.989 --> 43:46.294 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so thankful that I was close enough and had one of these on and I walked with you and you said, hey, we're going this way. 43:46.975 --> 43:47.836 [SPEAKER_01]: Complete all you want. 43:49.517 --> 43:59.325 [SPEAKER_01]: And every time I took one of these off and said, you know what I'm gonna call, I'm gonna do things my own way, there he was just standing just waiting and the exact same place is going when you're ready to do, like, you know, you know how this works. 44:00.146 --> 44:06.491 [SPEAKER_01]: And be honest with you, there've been times I've come to the altar for him and like, I know, I'm coming back, this didn't work. 44:08.112 --> 44:13.777 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's where some of you might be tonight, where you've lost what you once had. 44:17.180 --> 44:18.421 [SPEAKER_01]: Intimacy looks like this. 44:21.593 --> 44:27.802 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll stand your feet. 44:27.822 --> 44:28.523 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what I want to do. 44:28.543 --> 44:29.665 [SPEAKER_01]: I know it's the last night. 44:29.685 --> 44:31.248 [SPEAKER_01]: I know someone got traveling. 44:31.268 --> 44:33.230 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to get up early and you got to do all these things. 44:36.727 --> 44:38.308 [SPEAKER_01]: But I believe we're in the presence of God. 44:38.328 --> 44:47.015 [SPEAKER_01]: So my attitude in my mind, even what I do is gonna reflect the fact that I believe that I'm in the presence of God, that his word is coming forth. 44:47.536 --> 44:49.557 [SPEAKER_01]: And there is a call into you tonight. 44:50.278 --> 44:52.760 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care if I don't care your age. 44:53.260 --> 44:54.501 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care your background. 44:54.781 --> 44:56.142 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care how long you've done this. 44:56.162 --> 44:56.763 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care. 44:56.783 --> 44:57.964 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care. 44:58.724 --> 45:04.149 [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever excuses run into your mind right now because whatever else you've got going on, I just don't care. 45:05.542 --> 45:08.063 [SPEAKER_01]: I do want to make something very clear to you tonight. 45:09.243 --> 45:14.505 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus stands before you and says, we throw that verse up there, just keep it up there for a minute. 45:15.166 --> 45:15.746 [SPEAKER_01]: It says, come on. 45:17.907 --> 45:29.511 [SPEAKER_01]: Since you're tired, you're anxious, you're confused, you're lonely, you're bored, you're whatever, you're depressed, whatever labels you've given yourself to make yourself feel better, to empower you. 45:29.551 --> 45:31.972 [SPEAKER_01]: He simply says this, come to me, all of you that are tired. 45:36.025 --> 45:37.646 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, in this, you'll find rest. 45:37.666 --> 45:38.466 [SPEAKER_01]: It don't make sense. 45:39.246 --> 45:40.247 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't look like it. 45:41.007 --> 45:42.207 [SPEAKER_01]: In this, you'll find peace. 45:43.508 --> 45:44.528 [SPEAKER_01]: And they know it's comfortable. 45:45.409 --> 45:47.069 [SPEAKER_01]: A peace and comfort aren't the same thing. 45:47.089 --> 45:50.951 [SPEAKER_01]: It says, in this, you're gonna find purpose. 45:51.271 --> 45:52.391 [SPEAKER_01]: And you'll find destiny. 45:52.652 --> 45:54.552 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna take you the places you're supposed to be. 45:54.832 --> 45:56.853 [SPEAKER_01]: And you're gonna be at the lunch tables you're supposed to be. 45:57.093 --> 45:59.114 [SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna be in the group chats, you're supposed to be. 45:59.754 --> 46:03.636 [SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna be doing the things you're supposed to be because I'm the one that's carrying the weight. 46:04.685 --> 46:06.666 [SPEAKER_01]: have, has already carried the way. 46:07.867 --> 46:09.707 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is the call of the Christian life. 46:11.288 --> 46:13.089 [SPEAKER_01]: This right here is the call of the Christian life. 46:13.389 --> 46:13.549 [SPEAKER_01]: It is. 46:15.370 --> 46:18.291 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the determining factor of the relationship with Jesus. 46:18.912 --> 46:20.392 [SPEAKER_01]: And He says, come take my yoke. 46:20.933 --> 46:23.534 [SPEAKER_01]: Come take my yoke upon you. 46:24.634 --> 46:25.955 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't say there's no burden. 46:25.995 --> 46:27.556 [SPEAKER_01]: He just said that the burden is light. 46:28.476 --> 46:29.837 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't say there's no work. 46:30.697 --> 46:31.878 [SPEAKER_01]: If you notice, He says, come to me, 46:36.366 --> 46:38.106 [SPEAKER_01]: The labor is not the problem. 46:40.307 --> 46:44.808 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, count to me, all of you that are working and it ain't actually working. 46:45.428 --> 46:49.369 [SPEAKER_01]: They come, come work alongside me, and you're gonna find the things you're so desperate for. 46:54.210 --> 46:56.730 [SPEAKER_01]: Every eye closed in every headbout just for a moment. 47:01.211 --> 47:02.871 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, would you raise up a generation? 47:03.812 --> 47:05.652 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you start a revival? 47:08.554 --> 47:11.515 [SPEAKER_01]: Holy Spirit, would you lead us into this yoke? 47:11.555 --> 47:13.196 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you bring us to this place? 47:13.736 --> 47:17.858 [SPEAKER_01]: God, when we leave here, can we have some yoke people with you, Lord? 47:19.319 --> 47:19.979 [SPEAKER_01]: Can we leave here? 47:19.999 --> 47:33.885 [SPEAKER_01]: Can we know that it is the yoke around our neck and the cross on our back and step and step with you that this is the invitation that you invited us to follow you to do as you do, to talk as you talk, 47:38.911 --> 47:42.732 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he hit. 47:49.514 --> 47:52.955 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, may we walk with you and be led by your spirit. 47:53.255 --> 48:04.338 [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to go back to even Micah's message on Pastor Micah's message on Wednesday that even some of you, your pride right now is telling you, hmm. 48:06.863 --> 48:08.664 [SPEAKER_01]: I do really well just being led by the Spirit. 48:10.744 --> 48:15.706 [SPEAKER_01]: I really want the freedom to go where I want and wander where I want. 48:15.726 --> 48:17.247 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's the word I'm looking for. 48:17.487 --> 48:27.310 [SPEAKER_01]: That some of you have taken so much pride in your wandering, wandering from sight to sight, from teacher to teacher to influencer to influencer. 48:27.550 --> 48:33.512 [SPEAKER_01]: You like the freedom of always chasing the next thing that is going to satisfy you for a moment. 48:35.157 --> 48:41.342 [SPEAKER_01]: And here, Jesus is what the Yoke says, come, take this glass for men, you'll, you will never thirst again. 48:41.362 --> 48:50.729 [SPEAKER_01]: As some of you know that this is the final solution to your issue, but you've taken up so much enjoyment trying all the other things. 48:51.830 --> 48:53.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for downloading this podcast. 48:53.872 --> 48:57.615 [SPEAKER_00]: We trusted this message has blessed and encouraged and identified you. 48:58.130 --> 49:01.814 [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you subscribe so you never miss a message here for a high praise. 49:02.314 --> 49:10.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, you can follow us on social media, on Facebook and on Instagram, and don't forget to go subscribe to our YouTube channel. 49:10.883 --> 49:13.145 [SPEAKER_00]: 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