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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Loudness of Jesus' Life and Death 0:00 Father, thank you so much for this opportunity. Thank you for the privilege of talking about Jesus to people. I just thank you, Lord, that, you will speak to people in such a way that it would be0:12 memorable, God. Not my words, but what the Holy Spirit will say. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. I want you to stand on your feet as we read God's word together. And we're0:23 gonna talk again about walking out loud. That's my l. Walking it out loud. Say that with me, loud. Okay. So everything about Jesus's life was loud,0:35 but we're gonna go to 1 specific point in his life, which deals around with his death. And tell me if you see quietness or silence or you see0:47 loudness around his death. From from noon until 3 in the afternoon, darkness came over the whole earth. When you when have you been alive and have seen that? From 12 noon to 3 in the afternoon0:59 pitch black. But around his death, it happened. About 3 in the afternoon, Jesus cried out in loud voice, Eli, Eli, lema sabachah, that is my God, my God. Notice it says1:11 he with a loud voice, not in silence, not in a whisper, everyone could hear, my God, my God, why have you abandoned or forsaken me? When some of those standing there1:23 heard this, they said he is calling out for Elijah, which was a prophet. Immediately 1 of them ran and got a sponge filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick and offered1:34 him a drink. But the rest said, let's see if Elijah comes to save him. But Jesus cried out again with a loud voice1:47 and he gave up his spirit, which means he died. Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary, the temple was torn in in 2 from top to bottom. That was a1:58 noise. The earthquake. That was a noise. The rock split, that was a noise. Tombs were open, that was a noise. And many bodies of the saints who had2:10 fallen asleep were raised. And they came out of the tombs. Imagine you've seen a dead person that you knew died 10 years ago running around and walking around. After his resurrection, he entered the2:22 holy city and appeared to many. Now, this is huge right now. When the centurion okay. Centurion was a Roman soldier trained in battle. He was a high ranking soldier that had at least2:34 100. That's where the centurion means. He was in charge. So he's like, a master sergeant. He could be a colonel. Okay. He's a police officer. He's a peace officer. He's grown up. He's seen2:46 thousands of people dying across. He's an executioner. He keeps law. And and this is what this guy says who's standing right next to Jesus watching him die. When the centurion and those2:58 who are with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were terrified. They were terrified, and said, truly,3:10 this was the son of God. You may be seated. That was a once atheist that just got converted right in front of your eyes.3:22 Who had a hardened heart, who was very logical, scientific, well trained, but when he said I've never seen a man and I've seen a lot of men die on their crosses. No 13:34 has died like that nor have I heard the noise of the supernatural that took place around this man's death. Truly, he must have been who he said he was. Everything3:46 about Jesus's life was not quiet and serene. Jesus was loud in everything he did. When he entered this world, there was a loud birth. The angels from heaven3:57 sang loudly as they worshiped who he was, announcing his annunciation. His ministry was loud. No 1 could compete and no 1 can compare. I don't care what philosopher,4:09 what guru, or what, theorist lived today, then, or now. It can nothing can compete. His resume was the fact that he raised the dead. He healed the sick.4:21 He cleansed the lepers. He forgave sickness. He changed water into wine. He walked on water. He he wrote in the dirt about4:33 mankind sin, which nobody knew about. He violently and with a noise ran out the money changers in the temple. Everything Jesus did,4:45 he did it loudly, publicly, making a statement to influence someone, to make a difference in someone's life. Hear what I'm trying to say as I begin to divine define what4:57 loudness means. At at we saw at his death that his death was loud. His resurrection when they come to find Jesus's body to prepare it5:09 properly, the stone is rolled away and he's no longer there. How loud was that? When he walks 40 days upon the planet, people get to see the once nail scars5:21 in him. He's now fully blown alive. More than 500 witnesses can testify. I saw this man die on a Sunday. And for the last 40 days, he's been walking, talking, and eating with5:33 us. Then he ascends. And they said that the same Jesus that us send will descend. How loud was that? But there's something that's gonna take place in the future5:45 that is very loud. The Bible says the voice of the archangel, the trumpet of God, and he shall descend with a shout. That's his second coming.5:58 Everything Jesus did, he did it very loudly, and we need to figure out what does it mean to live a loud life for Jesus Christ. How many of you ever seen somebody who's a6:10 loud dresser? They got a loud wardrobe. Here are a few pictures of me where I've this was me. They told me I was going to a mobsters party and I had to dress up like6:21 a mobster. This is back in the day. You might remember this. Some of you still come to church looking like this.6:33 They're allowed We recognize some people are loud talkers. How many of you ever known somebody who's a loud talker? How many have ever known somebody who's a loud walker? My I know when my wife gets6:45 up because I'm usually downstairs and I hear this. She's a loud walker. Where so I wanna talk a little6:57 bit about what I mean when I talk about that. See, because I recognize today, we live in a loud7:09 world With so much hatred, anger, fighting, feuding, hostility, complaining, criticizing.7:21 Today, you and I live in a very loud world. Loud in people's immorality, sin, wickedness, meanness, ungodliness.7:33 They are fearless in being loud. And if we find ourselves being just as loud as them, then it's gonna silence our7:45 faith. And I think that that's what's happening today. The subtlety is is the enemy has silenced our faith because we are just as loud as this7:57 angry world. We're fighting over the same things. We're feuding over the same things. We're angry over the same things. And here's something you need to think about.8:09 We are in this world, but we are not of this world, John tells us. The Bible tells us. My values are different than the world. My language is different from the world.8:21 My behaviors, my mannerisms, how I think is absolutely different. I am called and you are called as a Christian, a Christ like follower of Jesus Christ. You are called to8:33 stand out and not blend in. You may be you may have an opportunity to share your faith, open your mouth and tell other people. But people can can take notice8:44 on your job. You work differently than everybody else. You're not talking about the boss. You're not stealing stuff from the company. You're not coming to8:56 work late. You're not complaining and picketing that of injustice. And I'm not saying that that's wrong subject. But you know what I'm talking about. In in in of how people act and treat their jobs9:08 sometimes. Makes a vast difference. Here's a quote I wanna give you today as I describe what this loudness means. Loudness is not about drawing attention to ourselves,9:21 but about our lives drawing attention to Jesus. That's the loudness we want. It's not about being attractive to the world, but about being attractive to Jesus.9:35 That's the kind of loudness that God wants us because if we're not loud, then the reality is is that we're gonna become very passive in this world, non contributors,9:46 watchers who are not making a difference. And that's what I'm talking about, making a difference, influencing something in a positive way toward Christ, making our9:58 my life meaningful, Meaningful in everything that I do. In 15 in in 1 55 AD, which was a long time ago, obviously, but10:10 it's recorded in Fox Books of Martyrs and the eyewitnesses recorded it with historians. So we believe that what happened was was very, very accurate.10:23 There was the last living apostle of Jesus's name was John. John held a high position in the church. He was a bishop. You read in10:35 Revelations when pastor Adam did a masterful teaching on the book of Revelations, what he was the bishop over. He was the Bishop over the 7 churches of Asia Minor where Turkey is10:46 today. He held that high position. But he had a disciple. He had a mentee, and his mentee was called Polycarp. And Polycarp10:58 was very, honored in the church because because of his status with the last living apostle, meaning John, and now having his position. He11:10 was the Bishop of Smyrna. Well, this was the days now of persecution by the Roman Empire. They hated Christians. They hated them. They tolerated Jews.11:23 Everyone pledged allegiance to the empire of Rome. Caesar was God. And to defile the emperor, then you could face and they that's why they hated Christian. Because11:35 Christians would not pledge their they would not bow their knee to the Roman Empire and call him God. They would not do that. And in doing that, they would face mass persecution. And that's where you would11:47 see them thrown into arenas, torn apart, by by lions. And and Romans would show up and it was like the entertainment center of the world. You just watch it. Well, 111:59 individual who's a Christian was thrown into the lion's den. And usually they give him like a shield or a sword or something to try to defend themselves and and prolong the event, so that12:11 people could be there a long time for the entertainment. This 1 didn't wanna do it. He just virtually laid down his weapons, put his head out and and it was over. They felt ripped off like I came in for a you know, I12:22 paid all this money to watch a a 12 round fight and it's over in 30 seconds. So what they said is all of an all that all of them began to cheer. Polycarp, Polycarp.12:34 Because he was on the most wanted list in Rome because they hated him. So the Roman soldiers and they commissioned, go get Rome, go get Polycarp. We know where he's at.12:46 And bring him in and we will kill him now in front of everyone. This 86 year old old man will bring him in. Everyone shows up, but they they warned him ahead of time so he could have fled, but he12:58 didn't. And so when they came to him, they thought they the soldiers didn't know who he was much of anything. They they didn't realize he was an old man. And so Polycarp just said, you know what? You're about ready13:10 to take me. I'm not gonna run from you. How about sitting down and let me cook you a meal? Have my servants cook you a meal. So these soldiers cook got a meal. He said, before I leave, let me pray. He prayed 2 hours to13:21 God before he was led away. Then they tied him on a stake to burn him. And he said, can I pray 1 more time and just talk to the Lord? And they And he said, can I pray 1 more time and just talk to the lord? And they13:29 yelled out, denounce, denounce, denounce. If you will denounce Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, we'll set you free. You could go back to your home and die a full life, old man. Just13:41 simply deny and denounce your pronounce your faith in Jesus Christ. And he said, all these 86 years I've lived and God has never done me no wrong and I will not denounce him. And they lit him a13:53 flame. They could not kill him. And so they literally had to spear him. The blood gushed out and it quenched the fire. They said his body did not smell like smoke, but14:05 smelled like fresh break baked bread. Communion that he was having with God. That's living a loud life even to the end. If you got threatened, come on now.14:17 Denounce the Lord and we'll give you your job back. Denounce the Lord and we won't kill you. How many of us honestly would you know what? It's just 1 time. It's denouncing the Lord. The Lord knows my heart. I'll just go14:27 back and say, Jesus, I repent. Very quickly, 4 things I wanna share with you now. And I don't know where time went. But 4 things very quickly, how to14:39 live a how to live a loud life. If you wanna live a loud life, I'm gonna try to share you. Number 1, they're all 4 r's. You have to be a resilient person. To live a loud14:51 life, you have to be resilient. Jesus was extremely resilient. He never allowed things to stop him. He never allowed things to stick to him, and he never got15:03 stuck. 3 things that happen to people all the time. They're stopped by everything. They're stuck to things, and they let things stick to them. Everybody in Jesus's life forsook him. Every 1 of them.15:16 His friends forsook him. His disciples forsook him. His family forsook him. They thought he was a crazed man. Read the Bible. They thought he was a lunatic. The Roman the Roman politicians15:29 forsook him. The Pharisees and Sadducees, the religious leaders forsook him. Everybody forsook him, but he would continue to be resilient and set his face toward Flint to15:41 Jerusalem to not let anyone stop him from the mission of dying on that cross. I wanna ask you how thick skinned are you? How resilient are you in life? How quickly do you15:53 the the here's the reality. It's not that you're not gonna get knocked down. Every 1 of us are gonna get knocked down through trials, through problems, through people, through issues, through heartache. My question to16:04 you is how long you will stay down? That's the key to resiliency. It's not getting knocked down. You none of us are Teflon. Life is tough. And you16:16 and I are gonna get knocked down. But the key is how long will you stay down? The longer you stay down, the more the enemy wins in your life, and the more something is stopped in your16:28 life from happening in the good and righteous way. So like some people you know, how many of you know when a fighter goes down, the ref goes over and gives him what the 10 count. Right? 1,16:40 2, 3, 4, 10. Here's here's what happens when the enemy knocks you down. 10, 36 months, 1 year, 5 years,16:52 10 years, 25 years. You're still down? Okay. I can understand 10 when Mike Tyson knocks you out. Even 30 seconds will bring the stool out and you can wobble17:03 back. But as long as you've been down, what do what knocks us down? People. You let people get to you. You're17:15 not resilient with people. People's opinion knocked you down. People's criticism knocked you down. People's offense knocked you down. People's betrayal knocked you down. 3 years. 5 years. You're down.17:28 What happened? You let problems knock you down. The difficulties of life. Losing a job, bankruptcy, threat threat of of my home. You're17:39 letting problems divorce. You're you're just letting those things keep you down in life. You're letting principalities, what the devil is doing in your life, the attacks that the enemy17:51 brings into your life. And you and I are gonna have to learn how to grow our pain threshold. It'd be different if you walked into a gym at 20 years old and you18:03 pushed up a hundred pounds. But 30 years later, you're still pushing up a hundred pounds? Something's wrong with that.18:15 You can't take much, can you? Good teacher, pastor. You gotta grow your pain threshold without cussing someone out, getting drunk, and going screwing the dog next door or whatever. Excuse18:27 my vulgarity. Grow your pain threshold, man. Stop being a wimp and a sissy, man. Take your ball home because you didn't win. You don't want to play no more.18:39 My favorite story is Cha Shazun, 69 years old grandma. She wanted her driver's license. It took her 960 tries before she got her driver's license. She failed. Read18:51 it. Look it up. 959 times she failed to get her driver's license. But on 900 and sixtieth, the chick got her driver's license.19:03 And you can't be resilient in what you're going through. The second thing, if you're gonna live a loud life, live walk it out and live live loud, you have to learn how to be remorseful.19:16 Remorseful. We live in a society, in a world today where doing wrong doesn't bother you. It's actually labeled cleverness. I don't feel no guilt about19:27 anything. I don't feel no shame about anything. You should have been as smart as me. I'm gonna do it to you before you do it to me. It's there's no remorse.19:39 Jesus would often use this phrase to people, go go and sin no more. He loved them. He forgave them. He accepted them, but he was clear. You better not sin no more.19:52 And we live in a world that doesn't even understand what the world sin what the word sin is anymore. Because we're not remorseful. We're not repented. We don't live apologetic life, a sorrowful life, a20:04 broken life over what? What am I sorrowful for? What I need to be remorseful for? Wrong and do wrong and behave wrong20:16 and but more remorseful? But if you're gonna live a loud life, because if not, you're gonna be filled with shame. You're gonna be filled with regret. You're gonna be filled with guilt, and that's probably what20:27 drives our personality of anger. We're workaholics. We work out too much. We get drunk all the time, because we're trying to pacify what's going on inwardly. This loud noise on the inside that I20:39 can't silence. So we have to learn. What that means is when I'm violating scripture, should I not have remorse? When I know20:51 to do right and I don't do it, should I not have remorse? Have a21:03 bad attitude going to work, should I not be remorseful? When I continue to say no to what God is asking me to do, should I not feel21:15 and the list can go on. We've almost become callous, you know, on my middle thumb here I'm a middle thumb. That's not a thumb. Middle finger, my middle finger, there is21:27 this bump right here. And I have this bump, it's callous because I'm old school. I I, I write out I write out my notes. And I, I, everything, I21:39 don't use computer. I just don't. I write out everything. All my books I've done, they're all written out first in Manus. And so this thing is always, heightened and it's always there. But21:51 I don't feel nothing here. Don't feel nothing because it's callous. And there's a lot of callousness in in people. They don't feel nothing.22:07 What's you talking about? Feel, guilt, shame, remorse, sad sorry. Sorry for what? You don't know the house I lived in. You don't know what they did to me.22:20 Remorse. See, and that's the that you don't live a loud life that way. You live you live loud this way. Watch because there's 2 ways. You you may live this way22:33 because you're angry. You're angry. But God tells you, I want you to live loud but not this way. This way draws attention to you. Live this way.22:49 This is this is ringing just as loud as this, but it's on a different frequency. This is a Christian frequency, so to speak. It's a silent whistle, but it's a23:01 different noise. It's a different noise and our noise has to be different from the way of the world. Amen.23:13 We're noisy for the glory of God. We're we're gonna bring our problems and our cares to him. I don't wanna sound like the world. And so we live today. I wanna give it to you today. It'll be on your screen just so that23:24 you could see today, in our world today, we we kind of have said this. Today in our world, of everything is about political correctness, not offensiveness.23:36 Acceptance of everything. Nondenials of nondenial of self interest, pleasure, and wrongness, and morality. Truth is subjective today. Let's not call it sin. Let's just relabel it. Let's23:48 just rebrand it today because that's the society we are at today. Let's just call it preferred choices. Let's just call it challenges, accepted behavior, psychological24:00 conditions, therapeutic diagnosis. But the Bible calls it sin. Here's what the Bible says. This is what the Bible says. Here's what the Bible says in Psalms 51. Here's what the scripture say in24:11 Psalms 51. For I am conscious of my rebellion for my sin is always before me against you and you alone have I sinned and done this evil in your sight. So you are24:23 right when you pass sentence, you are blameless when you judge. Another scripture says this, your sins or your iniquities are separating you from God, and your sins have hidden his face from24:35 you so he doesn't listen. We don't use words this is this is a previous generation. They knew what the word lasciviousness means. We don't know what24:47 lasciviousness is. They knew knew what promiscuity means. We don't know what promiscuity is. They knew what adultery was. We don't know what adultery is. They use the word fornication. We don't24:58 know. See, we have relabeled these things because we don't want to say they're sin. They're acceptable behavior, and now I feel no25:10 remorse in doing it. I was at a former church, a job. It was my pastor's, an employee. An employee went to the house, cleaning the house,25:22 pastor, and they saw something questionable. And they came to me as assistant pastor and said, Pastor Diego, I want to just share with you something I saw. I don't know. I don't want to judge.25:34 I I don't want to come to conclusions. I just want to bring it to you. In my innocence, I went to my senior pastor and I said gently, this employee came. They were cleaning your house. They25:46 saw this and I just want to share that with you. About a day later, I'm called into the office. Don't know why I'm called into the office of the pastor. I see them.25:58 Then I see the lady and I thought, Oh, my God. What is about ready to take place? They brought God. What is about ready to take place? They brought me in and said, did you say that this girl saw us as I'm26:10 thinking, what are you doing? What are you doing? And that that lady at that moment said the pastor went ahead and pronounced judgment on them and said, you are26:21 now fired. You can never come back to this church and started using judgmental words about their future because of what they did. I stood there in passive26:33 silence. And as and inwardly, I said, this is wrong. This is wrong. But I did not have the courage to confront that26:45 person. And that innocent little lady lost her job. You don't know how that made me feel.26:57 But when I started Abundant Living Family Church, I ran into that girl. She never because she could see she was older than me. She could see,27:10 how uncomfortable it was for me. And we hugged and I said, what are you doing? She said, I'm looking for a job. I said, I would be honored if you would come and work for Abundant Living Family27:21 Church. And I put my arm around her and I apologize for what I did that day. That I did not have the courage to stand up for righteousness27:34 but fell victim to the fear of man of losing my job or whatever. That's I think sometimes the kind of remorsefulness god wants. Here's the third word. You27:46 and I, if we're gonna live a loud life, then we have to figure our reason and why for living. What is your purpose? What is your calling? What is your assignment? Let me ask you a27:57 question. Why are why are you alive today? Tell me why you're alive. Why are you alive? Well, I'm a a lot I'm a lie because I'm a husband or wife. I'm a lie because I'm a father and a mother. Okay.28:09 I'm a lie because I I'm I'm a, you know, I'm a plumber. I'm an electrician. I'm a lot okay. At the end, why are you alive? Why did you sir let's just scenarios.28:21 Why why were you not aborted? Why didn't you catch a childhood disease? Why didn't you die in the midst28:33 of your mischievousness of drunkenness and overdose and craziness. Why why why are you a liar? Don't tell me I'm smarter than anybody out. Don't tell me I'm28:45 better looking than anyone. I'm more talented than anyone out. No. No. No. No. No. Tell me why God is why why are you blessed with what you why do you drive what you drive, live where you live, have the influence, the28:56 French, the friendships, the marriage, the kids. Why? What? Tell me a reason. See, you're gonna struggle. You're gonna struggle if you've not figured this thing out.29:08 You're not gonna you'll live loud for the world, but you will not live loud in the kingdom of God. You gotta understand that. What what what is29:20 the reason? What is the reason? See here let me just share with you some things that is killing our reason. I'm gonna give you these 4. They're gonna look like this. This is what's29:31 killing our reason today. Consumerism. Consumerism today is on the rampage. Takers, not givers. Watchers and observers, non29:43 participators. That'll kill your reason. Number 2, secularism. Conforming and compromising to the ways of this world. We're just gonna act, think, our values, our beliefs are gonna just be like the world.29:55 Number 3, materialism. Thinking that comfort and security and identity comes from things. And the last word, atheism. The absence of belief30:07 in God will kill. 2 of the most richest men on this earth are professed atheists. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. Though we30:18 applaud them for their humanitarianism, they're doing nothing in the kingdom of God. They don't know who God is. They don't know their creator. And until you30:30 know your creator, you can't give live out your God given purpose. Your purpose is connected to your creator. Though I applaud what they're doing,30:43 when they're dead it's over. Heaven will not talk about them. It they won't know God. I went a lifetime of30:54 60, 80, a hundred years. I was given philanthropy wealth and I never built the kingdom of God and I never the 2 main purposes why you're here on the planet is to know God31:06 and to let him be known. That's why you're here at the end of the day. There it is. You wanna know your essence of life? To know God and to let him be known. So so many31:18 people struggle to understand that they spend their life wandering and wondering. I love these 2 quotes by Rick Warren. And these 2 quotes by Rick Warren kind of bring a synopsis31:30 to what it is. An impression without an expression causes depression. And a lot of people have an impression of who Jesus is, but they have no expression of it and that's why the31:42 church is so depressed. This Is that the only 1 or do you have another 1? Yeah. Without a purpose, life is emotion without meaning, activity without direction, events without31:54 look at this look at these things. We have motion in our life. We have activity in our life. We have events in our lives. Without a purpose is trivial, petty, and pointless. How many have ever played Monopoly?32:07 How many of you wanna win win in Monopulate? How many of you really think you're good in Monopulate? Okay. Okay. How many of you know at the end of the game, everything goes back in the box and it's over?32:20 All your emotions, all your fears, all your frustrations, all your covetousness, all your side deals, all the stealing of the money, all that you did to hike everything up goes back in the box it's over with.32:32 It's the way life is. It all goes back in the box and it's over, but life continues to live on. And so you and I have to realize that God created us for a32:44 reason. There's an intention in mind. It wasn't accidental. God gifted you for a reason. That's why that's why you have the talent, the gifts, the abilities, the personality, the passions,32:57 the heart, the experience that you have because it speaks to your purpose. That Has anybody ever told you that you are weird? Raise your hand. Half of you. The other are liars.33:09 Has anybody ever told you Let We'll use the word weird. How many have ever Has anybody ever told you you're different? Yes. How many have ever felt different? Yes. Has anybody ever told you you're unique?33:21 Yes. Okay. You're weird. Every 1 of you are weird. You're different. You're unique. Because that speaks into your purpose. And you've got to channel all that to build the33:32 kingdom of God. So many people spend their lifetime, and there's no wrong with that, with their talent and gift building their career and empire, but they never give that talent and gift back into the kingdom of God.33:45 They never give it back. Here's the here's the last 1 and I ran out of time. So I wanna be very sensitive sensitive to time right now. But the last 1 is33:57 God sent you for a reason to your church, your home, your job, and your family. Because I'll get to that 1. Because every 1 of us should wake up every day and recognize that I'm on a mission, and I have a34:08 ministry to do, and I have a message. I don't just go to work, I'm sent to work. I don't just go home, I'm sent to work. It's the difference. See, when you feel like you're sent, then I'm sent with a mission in34:20 mind. Jesus said, I've come to this earth to seek and to save that which was lost. He was on a mission to give ministry out, which is to help something, encourage something, influence something, and change something.34:32 And then I have a message to my life, whether it speaks out of my lips or it speaks through my lifestyle. And the last the last r is this, if you're gonna live an epic life then you or it's gonna live34:44 life loud, you have to have an amazing relationship with Jesus Christ. It'll make you stand out. Now this is Jesus, 2 scriptures I wanna share with you. This was what he he did. He did34:56 9 times, at least the scriptures tell us, but he did it many more times. The bible says this, I believe in in Luke. Yep. During those days,35:08 he went out into the mountain to pray and he spent all night in prayer to God. Why would Jesus have to pray? And why didn't he pray all night? The second scripture here says the same thing repeated. So35:20 but just from a different angle, very early in the morning while it was still dark, he got up and went out and made his way to a desert place and there he was praying. He had amazing relationship with35:32 his father. And the reality is is that whether it's your time in the bible, whether it's coming to church, whether it's prayer, or whether it's lifting your hands and worshiping God, that is building an35:44 amazing relationship with Jesus Christ, which will have help you to live loud in this world. The reality is this is that you become like what you spend time with.35:56 Your time tells me what you value and and and is important in your life. Time time with Jesus is not wasted time. It's not it's36:08 not a wasted time. It's a transforming time. Time with Christ is not optional. It's essential. You know, people are dedicated to their therapy.36:21 People are dedicated to their medication. People are dedicated to their prescriptions. Why? Because it they feel like it and it probably does. It makes them feel better, But they're not dedicated to36:32 Christ. And Jesus will be greater to you than your medicine, your prescriptions, and your therapy. Because the reality is this, all of us all of us again are36:44 weird. And you can act weird, and some of you are weird all the time. And that's why you need therapy. And we can tell when you aren't making your therapy.36:56 We could tell when you're coming off your medication. Or that's How many of you ever met a crazy cousin? You look at them and say, are you on your medication? Are you off Sometimes you gotta go to a Christian brother and37:06 sisters that acting crazy. Are you taking your medication? Have you been in the presence of God? How long how long have you gone without praying, going to church, reading your bible?37:19 That's the question that you and I need to ask. I'll end with this. Having an amazing so if you were to judge, you know, if you were to judge your relationship with Christ, would it be distant,37:31 casual? Would it be a relationship that's close, besties, intimate? Where where would you rate your relationship with Christ?37:43 And I wanna just challenge in you to go to another level in in getting closer to him. You know, there's amazing how many people spend thousands of dollars and painful37:55 surgeries to look like a celebrity. There are people that want to look like Kim Kardashian. That was my38:07 wonderful time to have a slide come up, but there are we won't look over there and see what's going on. But how many of you ever seen people that will have thousands of dollars and many surgeries? People want to have38:16 thousands of dollars and many surgeries? People want to look like Michael Jackson, MJ. Ever known somebody that Yeah. They want to do that. That guy spent38:28 thousands of dollars and had tons of work. Justin Beamer or whatever his name is. Tons of work. Justin Beamer or whatever his name is. They want to look like him. How much pain are you willing to go through38:41 to look like Jesus? How much time are you going to spend to look like Jesus? This world needs us to live38:53 loud, not the way the world is living loud, but to live loud in our faith in this time more than ever. Don't look like the world. Don't talk like the world. Don't think like the world. Act39:04 like Jesus in this world. Father, I just ask you to help us God. Help us to live loud for you wherever we go. Help us to make a difference to not blend in but to really stand out. How39:19 to be resilient in difficult times. Help us to be remorseful when when we've done wrong. Teach us God how to live out our purpose and our reason for life, and help us to have an amazing39:30 relationship with you, oh God. In Jesus name, amen. We're getting ready to leave this church. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for you coming to church today.39:43 I want to share with you a thought. I kind of allude to it, but I think I'm remembering it now in the message. If we were to line up all the so called religions of this world, if we wereShow more In this video 0:00 The Loudness of Jesus' Life and Death1:02:32
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