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The Future of Anxiety
May 16, 2025 · 50 min
Explore Jesus' reassurance and promise of eternal dwelling in our study of John 14, as we celebrate life's milestones in His light.
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The Future of Anxiety 0:00 Well, at this time, we're gonna jump into our message today. And so, if you have your bible by chance, or you brought it on your phone, or anything like that, you could join us. You could join John chapter 14. If you0:12 wanna hold your place there, John chapter 14. We'll be there few moments together. You know, as we continue this series, Red Letters, talking about the life and ministry0:24 of Jesus, we're discovering throughout the gospels. And if you're new to church, the gospels are the 4 books at the beginning of the New Testament. So it's Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And those books are all about the0:35 life and ministry of Jesus here on Earth. All the books end with Jesus' ministry ending with post his resurrection and his ascension into heaven. And so as we've been surveying for the0:47 past couple weeks, some of the words that Jesus gives us that we can find truth in, we've been encouraged to also challenge each other and say, Hey, let's also during this month read the book of Mark together. So I want0:59 to encourage you to continue if you haven't started, to in your Bible, in your phone, or in your physical Bible, to throughout the next couple weeks, read the gospel of Mark And today, we find ourselves1:11 in the life of Jesus in John chapter 14. And I just want to say, I love the message last week from Pastor Aaron. If anyone was here at church, it was a great message. I still1:23 been lit ever since then and it was a great message. I watched it online. I don't know about you, but but I'm blessed whenever I'm not physically in church that I just feel like abundant living does online1:35 church really excellent. I love the quality. I appreciate it. We never want you to be comfortable watching church online and only do that from home. But just like last weekend, I was celebrating my 8 year1:47 anniversary with my wife up in Napa. And so we were, hanging out together in Napa. It's actually tomorrow is our actual anniversary, and today's her 30 fifth birthday as well. And1:58 so, I know you're not supposed to say age, but, you know, 35 it's a good year. But, so she I mean she's smart. She chose our wedding2:10 to be the day after her birthday. So double the gifts and then also double the punishment if I forget. So she's smart. Online with2:22 everybody. And, I love Pastor Aaron's message talking about us being a city lit on a hill. And I if you haven't watched it yet, I encourage you go on our YouTube page and check out that message. Unlike Pastor Aaron, I2:33 only have 1 illustration today. That guy had like 15 up on stage. He's going from lighting light bulbs to putting candles out. I'm thinking, I don't know if the team had a fire extinguisher2:44 nearby or anything like that. I'm like, look what happens when me and pastor Diego aren't here. Pastor Aaron starts lighting things on fire and stuff like that, but it's a great message. So you gotta catch it if you2:55 haven't caught it. If you're ready and you're in John chapter 14, would you join me in the standing of reading of God's word today well? It's found in John chapter3:06 14, a view verses today. It says this, let not your hearts be troubled. What an appropriate thing to share today. Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in3:18 me. In my father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go and prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again. And I will take you to myself3:30 that where I am, you may also be. And you know the way to where I'm going. Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you're going. How can we how can we know the way? Jesus3:42 said to him, I am the way and I am the truth and I am the life. No 1 comes to the father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my father also. From now on, you do3:54 know him and you have seen him. And it is enough for us. Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long and you still don't know do not know me, Philip?4:06 Whoever has seen me has seen the father. How can you say show us the father? Do you not believe that I am in the father and the father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own authority, but the4:18 father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me, I am in the father and the father is in me. Or else believe on account of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to4:30 you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do and greater works than these will he do because I'm going to the father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do. That the father may be glorified4:42 in the sun. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. Praise God. You may be seated. Thank you so much. You know, today what we're gonna be4:53 talking out and we're gonna be sharing about is a little bit deeper to what I believe Jesus is sharing about in this moment. If you if you know a little bit about the context of the conversation in John chapter 14,5:04 what's happening is he's at a dinner with the disciples known as the last supper. And so Jesus is just a few hours away from being, turned in, to be convicted wrongly5:16 and to be crucified. Resurrect and he would put victory on the cross because he has won it all for us through his resurrection. So Jesus is moments5:28 away from that, but he knows there's gonna be a period of time in which he dies. The disciples still don't know fully what is going on. They haven't grasped and captured Jesus's necessity5:40 that he must die for our sins. And so Jesus is trying to give them hope when it can seem a little hopeless. So if you're taking notes today, what I want to share about is a message titled,5:53 the future of anxiety. Future of anxiety. Because in these moments, oftentimes, we live in an emotional state and state of being of anxiousness.6:04 It's very easy that as we leave our house every single day, I find myself to be pretty anxious at times. I'm anxious when I turn on the news. I'm anxious when I go online. I have6:16 anxiousness when my kids go to school. There there's this anxiousness that we all currently feel all the time. So much so that when I begin to feel anxious sometimes, I'll turn on the news and I'll see some type of6:28 crime happen just a few blocks away from my house. It just so happens that that night whenever I see that on the news, I do something that maybe you do. I go and get the Brinks door locks and I put them under the door6:40 bang. I go and I put the little pole in between my sliding glass doors. I triple talk it. Because there's something about when I feel like it's in my own backyard, I just get a little anxious. I have a little more6:51 anxiety. When the kids go to bed, I find myself in the front lawn moseying around a little bit more and checking out what the neighbors are doing a little bit more. Because that's what we do. When we don't know what's7:03 around the corner, we begin to get a little anxious. And Jesus gives the disciples hope knowing that, hey, there's gonna be some attitudes of faith you're gonna exhibit when you don't see me face to face. And7:14 I want you to take courage to know what I'm doing in heaven is preparing a place for you to come and dwell with me. And so Jesus is trying to secure, oftentimes I'll travel and I'll go7:26 preach at a church, or I'll go out with with another organization, and and my son will start to exhibit a little bit worry. And I have to reassure my son, listen son, I'm going to be back before you know it. Dad's going7:37 to be back before you know it. And what that is meant to do is to give us a trust, and a hope, and a faith. And so today, what I want to encourage us through is some unhealthy attitudes of faith that maybe you or I7:49 exhibit on a regular basis. And within these passages, Jesus encourages us not to exhibit these attitudes of faith. So if you're taking notes, the first thing I believe Jesus shows us is what it8:01 Often times our faith will be exhibited through a frantic nature. And so an unhealthy form of faith or attitude of faith, is the faith of franticness. The great8:13 philosopher Seneca, the stoic philosopher said, frenzy is the wound of the mind. In other words, when you are in a state of franticness and frenzy, it consumes your entire thinking. It's all8:25 you think about. It's all you think about. Sometimes, I'm privileged that I get to do marriage counseling. And 1 of the most heartbreaking things to do is when I'm doing marriage counseling, sometimes I'll ask 1 of the8:36 spouses, just remember, why did you marry the person that you married? And sometimes, truth will come out in the answer and 1 of the spouses will say, Well, I married them because I8:48 didn't want to be alone. Had nothing to do with love, had nothing to do with the fact that they saw a future, it was the fact that I was in a frantic frenzy mentality,9:01 and all that I had saw in my mind was to make a decision to try to fix a frenzied problem. And a lot of times we find ourselves making decisions because simply we're frantic, we're in a frenzy.9:13 And we end up making decisions based out of emotion, but not based off of is this where God is calling me, is this where God is leading me. It's more so out of the fact that I don't know how to control the outcome, so9:24 therefore, I will try to take it in my own hand to make a decision without weighing, weighing what will come out of it. And so what happens is Jesus says in the verses that we read at the top in the9:36 first section, he says, he begins in verse 14, Let not your hearts be troubled. This is an encouraging word from Jesus to say, you may be frantic when I leave, you may be in a frenzy when I leave, and we know9:48 it. When you study the life of the disciples after Jesus was crucified, I mean, I mean, Peter starts rejecting Jesus and denying Jesus. Other disciples go back to being whatever they were before10:00 they found Jesus. Others are just frozen in time. They can't move forward. They're just they're in a frenzy and Jesus is trying to get ahead of it to encourage them to say, hey, listen. When the franticness and the10:11 frenzy comes, first things first, let not your hearts be troubled. He says, The second thing is this, believe in God and also believe in me. Believe in the father and believe in me. And then Jesus gives this10:23 this massive amount of encouragement by saying, in my father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go and prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come10:33 again and will take you to myself. That where I am, you may also be. And you know the way to where I'm going. Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you're going. There's so much like I10:45 mean, I'm kind of like a Thomas. Like Thomas is like a little smart Alec right here. Jesus is like, Jesus telling Thomas, guys, you're going to go where I go. And Thomas goes, Jesus, we don't even know where you're10:55 going. How can we go where you go when we don't even know where it is that you're going? And then Jesus goes, and then Thomas says this, we don't know the way. Like we don't11:07 got no GPS or anything like that. And Jesus said to him, I am the way. Go ahead. Like what you've been missing Thomas? You've been missing. I am the way. I am the truth and I am the life.11:19 No 1 comes to the father except for me. Through me, if you had known me, you would have known my father also from now on, you do know him and you have seen him. So Jesus begins to encourage11:31 his disciples, and he begins to give them what we would say, and there's a lot of it in the bible. A marriage analogy to the kingdom of God. And so Jesus tells Thomas and all the rest of the disciples,11:43 I'm going to go and prepare a place for you. And when the time is right, I'm gonna come and I'm gonna take you to where I'm at. And so in the in between time, you're gonna be here on earth. And in11:55 in between time here on earth, I'm hoping that you get prepared as much as I'm making preparations for you. For you. And so what happens is, is oftentimes in Jesus's12:07 day, in Jerusalem and in Israel, is when a man wanted to betrothed and marry a woman, he would first go to the father of the bride, and he would say, hey, I'd like to marry your daughter. From12:19 there, they would begin a kind of a dowry negotiation. He would ask questions about him as a man, and investigate, and other things like that. And when he decided, okay, you're a man worthy married worthy of marrying12:31 my daughter. The man would go back home and he'd go to his father and he'd say, dad, they accepted. I can marry her. In which it was the father's job to then walk him outside of12:42 his home, and next to the home, almost like a room addition, he would say, son, this is your plot of land, and you may build a home here, a room addition. I12:54 know your bible may say that, you know, mine says in ESV that he has prepared a room for us. Yours may say, if you have King James, it may say mansion, but the more accurate translation is13:06 like an apartment addition. But don't get caught a lot of times people get caught up on like, what we're gonna be living in in heaven. Don't don't let that catch you up, because, I I would rather be in a room13:18 addition connected to God's house, than a mansion connected to the devil's house. So, I'll I'll take the room addition in God's kingdom. And so, what would often happen is the father would have13:30 his house, he would give a plot of land, either an acre away or sometimes connected to it and say, hey, this is for your family. And then it was the job of of that son that say a brother or say his children 1 day get13:42 married, they just continue to build on that property together. And they continue to inhabit, and so what happens is is Jesus goes, hey, where I'm going, I'm going to set up and prepare a13:54 place. I'm gonna set up a place, this kind of a tent. And I'm gonna establish a place for you, Thomas. That's what I'm going to do, Thomas. I'm gonna go set up a place for14:05 you. And then Thomas would be like, okay Jesus, so how long is that going to take for you to, set up my place before you come back? Well, Jesus goes, well,14:17 that's between the that's the father's decision, is when it's time to return. Because what happens is it's God's desire that many room additions happen in the kingdom of14:28 God. And so for my life, like I gave my life to Christ in 2007. And you want to know what happened in 2007? Not only do we know heaven rejoices, but what happened in 2007 when I gave my life to14:40 Christ, is what happened was, is Jesus set a new tenant. It's a new dwelling place. He's preparing a place for me. So when I gave my life to Christ, he set14:52 up a new place. There's Adam's. Got your name on it and everything, Adam. I'm looking at that, I'm going, man that's nice Jesus. Thank you so much. I'll take that in your kingdom. And15:04 then what happened was, is 1 of my friends from high school, when I led them to the Lord, Jesus said, man Adam, you're doing a good job. You're adding room additions to this kingdom. You're continually sharing about15:16 the love, hope, and salvation of Jesus. And so here we are, there's more room. And what happens is, Adam, you're making space for grace. You're making space to share the love of15:28 God, and what's gonna happen is, 1 day, which I look forward to is the day that 1 of my sons come up to me. They may be 13, 15, 25, 26, and they say, dad, you've been following Jesus for so15:40 long, it's time that I want to give my life to Christ. And you want to know what heaven's going to be doing at that time? They're going to be like, hey, ring it up. We got another 1. Let's make some more space. Let's15:50 make some more room. And so you and I, Jesus is looking for us as we share the grace of God. What heaven does is heaven begins to expand16:02 and make space for all those that would call upon Jesus. All those that would go to Jesus to know the father. And what Jesus is doing in heaven today is the father is16:14 surveying how kingdom how the kingdom of heaven is growing and Jesus waits for the day that the father says, okay Jesus, it's time to head back. You can go gather your bride. You can go get your church. We're16:26 still, according to revelations, we are waiting for that day. But in the meantime, you and I are not meant to kick up on our lazy boy. We're we're not meant to kick up and just chill, or just go and do our own thing.16:37 It's it's part of our job that we're meant to share our testimony of God's goodness. We're meant to preach the way named Jesus. We're meant to share about the truth of Jesus, the life of Jesus, that16:49 as we go and share this with people, and they may not look like you and I, they may not talk like us, they may not be people that we would naturally gravitate to, but the reality is, is God is looking to17:01 expand his house. Jesus says, in my father's house, there are many rooms. I go to prepare a place for you. In other words, what Jesus is looking to do by the power of the17:13 spirit, is to add more room additions. Add more room additions. And so what happens is God has called us not to be frantic, but to take hope and peace to say, man, Jesus17:25 has prepared a place for me in heaven. Life is not just here on this earth. Life is just not what I see today because Jesus is waiting in heaven and he has17:37 established a kingdom, not just here on earth, but also a kingdom in heaven. 1 that I will be in his presence. Not far off. It's not like God says, hey, I have heaven,17:49 and then I got all y'all common people. There's you guys are gonna be somewhere else. Because I only want to see you guys on special occasions. No. God God says, and we know in the future, let's say, New Jerusalem will18:00 come down from heaven to earth. It's a place where God will dwell. Because what? God wants to dwell with his people. The the reason why Satan hates you guys so much is not only because he wanted18:12 to be like God, but also because he looks at God's love for his creation, and he's thinking to himself, why does God not love me as much as his creation? He's created, but he looks at humanity and says, these18:24 sinful people, humans who go to war and kill each other and do that. What does God want to do with them? God wants to redeem them. God wants to rescue them. God wants to give us18:36 life. God wants to fill us with truth. God wants to show us the way, and his love for you is something that makes the enemy very angry, because of how much God loves you. Let18:48 us not miss out on the opportunity that God has made every effort to make space for you. God has made every effort to show you his grace to make room for you. In 1919:00 70, there was a man named Steve, and he was a computer science major up in San Francisco. And it just so happened when Steve was at school, some of his friends said, hey, tonight there's supposed to be this19:11 private surprise lecture, with a special guest. Do you want to go with us? And a young man named Steve said, no, I got school and work, and I got other things going on. I don't think I'm gonna be19:23 able to make it. So he skips out on it. It just so happened that the next day he sees all his friends, and he says, hey, who spoke last night? They said, you won't believe who spoke last night. It was19:35 doctor Clark. Doctor Clark, the father of computer science and the father of futurism. This guy is like the Einstein of computer technology. It just so happened to be that it was this young19:47 man Steve's hero on having they said all of us got to ask him a question, all of us got to talk to him. And this guy Steve was fuming19:59 because of his missed opportunity. He couldn't be mad at anyone but himself because he chose I just got a busy life. I'm gonna pass up on the opportunity. When he found out it was his20:11 hero, he made a pledge to himself that he would never miss an opportunity of futurism and invention ever again. That young man was a man known by Steve Jobs, which was the inventor of Apple.20:23 He invented Apple computers, Apple phones, everything that you and I tend to have in our back pocket, he invented it. And and Steve Jobs was famous, famous for not missing20:34 opportunity. He wanted to be the first to invent a touch screen. He wanted to be the first to invent the type of phone we have. He wanted to be the first to invent the type of computers we have, the size we have, and20:44 everyone would always say, where does this come from? They didn't ask him. He said, because there was 1 time in college where I missed 1 opportunity and I made a promise to myself, I would never miss an opportunity like20:55 that ever again. And so Steve Jobs says, I wake up every single day saying yes to whatever I think is going to go further, and whatever is going to create the future. Now if a human can decide that about technology,21:07 how come we can't every day wake up and say, God, I'm not going to miss an opportunity to see you. God, I'm not going to miss an opportunity to see your hand in my life. God, I'm not going to pass another opportunity to21:18 experience your presence, to experience your grace, to love someone, to forgive someone, to walk something out. And so many times we just think, I can miss church. I can miss reading my Bible. I can21:30 miss walking in love. I'll figure it out in the long run. How many times do we miss the opportunity that God has given us to exhibit his grace? Instead, we just live in this frantic state21:42 of personal control. A lot of times God has called us to share that love with someone else. Just about a month ago, our head of security, Vince, went off on vacation. He went to the Philippines for21:54 a couple weeks. And so, in the meantime, during the normal hours that Vince is here to cut kind of look after us, we ended up hiring an outsourced security company. Many of you guys may remember that. And so this was an22:06 armed security company. They're such a great company to work with. It just so happened 1 Saturday, we do Saturday morning prayers from, 10 30 to 11 30 every Saturday. And so what happened is is22:18 1 of the security guards came, this young man, Hispanic in his thirties, and he met me here at the front of the altar and he said, Hi, are you the, you know, guy in charge today? I said, Yeah, I'm the guy in charge22:27 today. He said, Do you want me to be doing security outside or inside? I said, If you could be inside because there's only a few of us, nothing really is going to happen outside, just look after us on the inside. He22:37 seemed a little uncomfortable about that. So he said, no, no, no, no, no. I'll stand outside. I said, no, I'd really rather you be inside. He said, okay. So we start Saturday morning prayer.22:49 What happens on Saturday morning prayers, we do 10 minutes of worship, then we do 10 minutes of bible reading about prayer, and then we do 10 minutes of personal prayer, or 20 minutes of personal prayer, and then we do22:59 20 minutes of corporate prayer where people now come up and you can make intercession. You could pray for things. You could pray for things that are on your heart. You could pray for family, anything like that. So this23:08 young man, he comes up to me with 5 minutes left of prayer service. And I'm sitting up here in the front with my head down praying, and he walks up to me and he says, excuse me sir,23:20 what are they doing over there? I said I said, what are they they're praying over there. I I thought he didn't know what prayer was and so I said, no, they're praying, they're talking to God. He said, no, I know that but23:32 like did you pre choose those people to go up and pray? I said, no. The the microphone's open. They they chose on their own. So now I'm starting to get the hint. And and he's like, could I23:44 go up there and pray? And I thought to myself, at first I was like, you on the clock. So,23:56 I don't know. And Then my follow-up thought was, are you a Christian? I didn't know him. He just outsourced company.24:09 And then my third thought was, do you go to church? And then my fourth thought was God telling me to shut up. That was the fourth thought. Where God was like, Adam,24:20 what do you care? What is this your business? Like, move on. And so, and so, and so, I so then I back up and I'm like, you know what man? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.24:32 Feel free. You you could go pray. You can go go pray. And he walks up to the microphone and he says, hi. He introduces himself and says, hi. My name is Armando. He said, this is my first time in church in 2024:44 years. He said, I work for a security company. I happen to be scheduled to be in security today. He said, I tried to ask the pastor if I could do security outside. He wanted me to stay inside24:56 and I haven't been in church for 20 years. Had cancer and she passed away and she loved Jesus. And she said, the 1 thing she told me is, Mijo, if I25:08 pass, do not lose your relationship with God. Do not walk away from God. And he said, that was 20 years ago. When she passed, I did lose my relationship with God. I never returned to church after her funeral ever25:20 again. And he says, and I've as I've sat here, God began to speak to me, and today I want to give my life to Jesus Christ here in this room. And all25:31 of us, all the hundred of us that were there for prayer, many were there. I mean, we just start erupting, and we're clapping, and we're thinking to ourselves this. And then he says, and if you don't mind, can I pray? And25:42 he goes and in his prayer, he says, God, I haven't talked to you in a long time. And it's a moment like that where God just works on you and just reminds you. I'm thinking of the schedule of prayer, the25:54 set up a prayer, and God's just like, I'm doing stuff, would you just I'm making space for people, would you just would you just get out of the way and point them to a tent?26:06 Say, hey, hey, You get some good sleep over here. With Jesus, you get some good rest in this tent. Would you just start pointing instead of trying to control this thing and trying to and what happened26:18 was, is later on after prayer, Phil who works with me, many of you know Phil, he met Armando out in the parking lot and they talked for an hour. Phil began to tell him what a relationship with the Lord looked like in his26:29 own life, and then Armando asked, could I be baptized here at abundant living at that moment? That's what transformation looks like. That's what understanding that God's26:41 making space every single day for people all the time. And if we would just allow the power and the love of God to exhibit through us, and we would just get out of our own way sometimes, and just say, God use26:52 me, don't let me miss these opportunities where you're speaking to people. How many times has someone text you and said, hey, are you available? I'm going through a tough time. And you're like, I'm going through a tough27:01 time too. No, I'm not available. How many times have you walked past a neighbor and you thought, man, they're going through it. The lawn isn't kept, they haven't took their trash cans out, and instead of just knocking on27:13 their door and checking on them and saying, hey, God put you on my heart. Is there anything I can pray for you? A on a put their name on some type of prayer card. Right? I'm like27:25 that too. I fall guilty of that old same thing, but how many times could we just get to a place where we just allow God to speak and use our lives? And so, with the few most have, here's the second point I wanna share27:34 with you. Not only does an attitude of unhealthy faith exhibit that of a frantic nature of anxiety, it also exhibits a foolish nature of anxiety. There's been times27:46 that Adam has just been foolish about things. But also other people will see your love for God as foolish too. First Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18 says this, for the message of the cross is foolishness27:58 to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it's the power of God. And so we see God's power on display all the time, and to other people it may not make sense.28:10 It just looks like foolishness to them. For you to say, I'm praying about this. I'm believing God for this. They may roll their eyes and say, What a foolish person you are to believe God for something, to pray about28:21 something. But we know there is power in those things. We know that the spirit of God is active in those ways. We can trust God, but also in our own life sometimes we're like Philip and we28:33 believe some foolish things. It said this in verse 8. It says Philip said to him, Lord show us the father and it's enough for us. Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long you still don't know me28:45 Philip? Like look at this, this is a disciple who has spent every day pretty much with Jesus for 3 years. And Philip has the audacity to look at Jesus and say, when28:57 do we get to meet Papa? Like, you've been good Jesus, but when does the big dog come out? That's what we're waiting on. Like Jesus And so29:09 Jesus looks at him. He's like, whoever has seen me has seen the father. What do you mean, Philip? How can you say show us the father? Do you not believe that I am29:20 in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his work. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father's in me, or else29:32 believe on account of the works themselves. See, Philip began in that moment to have a very twisted view of who Jesus is and what Jesus is there to accomplish.29:45 Because as we engage and get to know Jesus, you begin to see God the father face to face all the more. And to know the life and ministry and miracles of Jesus is to know the heart of the29:56 father. And so what Philip's trying to do is he's trying to usurp for the big man, and what Jesus is trying to say is, we're unified. If you see me, you have seen the30:08 Father. I want you to do me a favor. If you have your cell phone out, so 1 time, you can use your cell phone, okay? You can pull it out. I'm just kidding, half of the people have been Instagram this half time,30:20 half the time. But you can use it now. You'll pull out your cell phone real quick, and pull out whatever web browser you use. So, you know, Safari or Chrome or whatever like that. Or if, you know, you're a bit30:32 fallen and you have an Android, whatever Android people use to search the Internet, God bless you guys. Yeah. You can send all complaints to Pastor Nathan. His email30:43 is it. No. Go to your browser, and then go to Google dot com. Go to Google dot com, and then once you get to Google dot com, I just want you in the browser not to not to put30:55 anything other than just put in Google, a s k e w. A s k e w. It's up on the screen as well. A s k e w. Put that in your Google browser, and31:07 then hit enter. And then I want you, once you do it, I want you to scroll up and down in the browser. I want you to see if you notice anything unique about your Google browser.31:20 It gets crooked. It's a little askew. It's a little off centered. Some stuff is on the page, some stuff is off the page. The more you scroll down, the more askew it31:32 gets. It just so happens that a board engineer at Google decided that whenever someone would Google a SKU, that not only would it tell them what a SKU is, it would show them what a31:44 SKU means. Is that it's it's off. It's a little off. And so, often times what happens is because of us,31:56 because we're just a little, we're a little crooked. Sometimes we we just, we're on the page, we're off the page in our faith. We just, you know, instead of instead of just talking about being askew, we just show32:08 ourselves to be askew. Like, we just sometimes we're there and sometimes we're not. So sometimes we pray and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we read and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we go to church and sometimes we don't.32:19 And what happens is, is we wonder to ourselves, we think to ourselves, you know, the way that God is defined in my life and who God is, I think there's something wrong with him. Like, no, there's something wrong with us.32:31 We've just been askew, we're a little crooked, you know. And we find ourselves off the page, and so it's not it's not an issue with God, it's an issue like Philip with my belief. Like Philip saying, hey, when when do I32:41 get to meet the big man? Jesus like, you've met the big man. What are you talking about? Like, when you talk to me, I am here and the father are 1, not 1 beings, but they're unified in thought. They're unified32:53 in principle. They're unified in what they came to accomplish together. And so what Jesus says, he's like, Philip, your thought about who I am and what I'm here to do, just a little skewed. It's a little33:04 skewed. And he says this, We are 1 and we believe the same thing. And then Jesus says, And if you don't believe that, then why don't you believe all of the works I've done? Why don't33:16 you look and survey how good I have been? And sometimes when I find my faith a little askew and a little crooked, what I need to do is I need to just pause, and I just need to remember how good God has been to me. How33:28 far the Lord has brought me to where I'm at today. I just say, God, it may look ugly right now, but man, you've you have been good to me. You and and and even more than that, you are also33:40 being good to me. You are preparing a place for me. You have a namesake for me in heaven. And for that, I'm thankful and a lot of people don't understand. Why do I need to go to Jesus to attain salvation?33:52 Because the father sent his son to die for us. Why why would there be any other opportunity to attain heaven outside of the sun if the father sent his son to die?34:05 Jesus is the way to salvation because Jesus is the only 1 who sacrificed for us the way he did. And so we have to honor the son in the way that says, I follow you Jesus and as I see you, I can see the34:17 father. So further, it was a couple years ago. I know many times, even myself, I fall for this. I think because someone's like a pastor or religious leader, I I don't I think they're perfect,34:29 you know, like so I think that they've never done anything wrong before. They don't have bad moods or anything like that. I mean I may be a pastor, but I look at other pastors and I think, oh man they're so awesome.34:40 They're so amazing. And it just so happened there was a pastor that I was a big fan of. I watched his stuff. I'd seen his stuff online, and I'm like, man, that guy's he just does great stuff, and blah blah blah blah. I34:51 happen to be at a conference he was speaking at. I have another friend, a pastor friend that's like really close with him, and so I told my pastor friend, hey, I'm going to be at this conference. He said, oh, my friend35:01 pastor so and so is there. And he says, if you see him, tell him that we're friends and tell him hello, and And I'm sure he'll talk with you and blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, Oh man, great. So there was a35:12 break in the conference and I worked up my courage and I went up to this pastor that I look up to. And I said, Hey, pastor so and so. My name is Adam Mesa. I pastor over at Rancho Cucamonga. Your good friend so and so35:24 told me to come and say hi to you if I saw you. And the guy looks at me and he says, I don't care. Now here's the thing. Okay?35:36 So I'm a Christian, I'm a pastor myself. I may have a church in Rancho Cucamonga, but here's the thing,35:48 depending on the crowd, I'll either introduce myself because you know Rancho Cucamonga could be a little bougie nowadays. Okay? So so so I may live in Rancho Cucamonga, but when I gotta make a point, often times I'll35:59 say, I'm from San Bernardino County. That that's usually what it is. Right? I'll say I'll say, I'm from San Bernardino County.36:11 I was born in West Covina. That, like, if I have to, like, emphasize something like that. And then, if I wanna add a cherry on top, I say, and my dad was raised in East LA.36:24 Like, that's the, like, that's the, like, hey, I could go there if I need to go there. Okay? And so in that moment, I'm thinking to myself, he must have not heard where I'm from.36:38 Because in that moment, I think I said I'm from Rancho Cucamonga. It was the wrong introduction. So let him know. So he says that, I don't care. And so I just say, okay. Nice to meet you, sir. I didn't warn you36:50 anything. I felt stupid. I that's what I felt. And so, I walk away. I'm thinking to myself, man, that was rude. You know? The San Bernardino county side wanted to come out really fast, but37:03 but you know, I was out of our state. I don't I don't know any police officers in that state, or anything like that. So I had to play it cool. I had to play it cool. It just so happened a few few years later, 1 of that37:14 pastor's friends, who's good friends with pastor Diego, my dad, reached out to him and said, hey, 1 of my good friends happens to be in the area on a certain day, he has an open availability37:26 to preach. Would you like to have him preach at your church? Now at this time, my dad don't know what happened at all. So my dad texts me and says, hey, do we have37:38 room on the space to have 1 of my friend's friends come preach at the church? And so I messaged pastor Diego back, and I said, hey, listen. I'm cool if you want to have him, but here's the37:50 story of what happened. I met him 1 time, I introduced myself and he responded and said, I don't care. And so then pastor Diego responded, got you.38:05 He he reached out to his friend and he said this, your friend disrespected my son. He disrespected my son, he disrespected me. We don't got no space on our calendar. I'm sorry.38:17 He ain't gonna be able to come. Because, you mess with the son, you mess with the father. You disrespect the son, you disrespect the father.38:29 And so, I don't have to worry about nothing. Now, pastor Diego said, if your friend would like if he remembers that moment, if he'd like to apologize and make amends, I mean, we're still believers. We can38:41 still we can still forgive and walk, but as of right now, that's the last guy we met, the jerk, that's the guy that's not rocking with us. But it was the perspective to38:53 say, hey, pastor Diego has never personally met that person. 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