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September 19, 2024 · 37 min
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Stay Awake: The Call to Spiritual Vigilance 0:00 How you guys doing, Patriot? You feeling good? Yeah. Who's ready to squeeze them scriptures?0:07 Yeah. Hey, what book are we in? Mark. That's what I'm talking about. Mark chapter 13. If we haven't met yet, my name is Aaron. I'm your friend. Get the honor to be the campus pastor here. And just0:19 give a round of applause for our church. So far being in 1 book for the entire year, has that been beneficial for you? Amen. Amen. Who was here last week when0:31 pastor Joel Holm was in Mark chapter 13? Wasn't that amazing? You know, I'm a little upset with pastor Nathan right now because he schedules me right after0:43 Pastor Joe home, and then he gives me a little sliver of scripture at the end. So what happened is Pastor Joe, he did the whole rib. There's no more meat on the0:55 bone, And then, said, I'm just gonna put some barbecue sauce. That's that's what that's what I got for you tonight. You guys okay with that? That's right. We're gonna be in Mark chapter 13. We're gonna be in verses 321:05 through 37. But before we go there and stand to read the scriptures, I wanted to I wanted to, put all families on notice. Everybody anybody know what this is? Yeah. What what is1:17 this? Online, what is this? So so I I I don't even really know about this this much. Well, now I do. But this is an elf on a shelf, and in1:29 families, you have a little over 2 months to decide what you're gonna do with your family as to not have arguments with your spouse, if that's your situation. But if Elf on the Shell from December first to1:41 December 20 fourth, what ends up happening when our kids were smaller, we would wait till they go to sleep, and we would deceive them by hiding this1:53 elf somewhere in the house, and then they wake up in the morning like, Oh my God, look what the elf is doing! And I don't know who named it elf on the shelf, because it's not elf on the shelf. They'll be in crazy2:04 places, they'll be in toilets, they'll be on your tree, they'll be in the kitchen, and so forth. And I don't even really know if this is for the kids, or if this is like competitions with mom2:16 on Instagram. Right? So my so my wife, she sees this. She's like, I think this will be cool. I'll wake up. I'll do it myself. But then if you don't know my wife, what ends up happening is2:28 she's a great starter and then she'll move on. So what happens is the first week of December, she's putting out elf on the shelf and doing different things, taking the pictures. The girls are getting up in2:40 the morning. Oh my God, look at this sign. The elf is here. That means Santa's closer. And I'm like, Yeah. I don't know if this is okay, I'm a Christian, but yeah, right? So2:52 that's about the first week. Now it's like December ninth, and then my wife forgets. But I wake up earlier than her in the morning, and somehow she can feel when I get up in the3:04 morning. So I get up around 5 45, she's like, Hey, remember Elf on the Shelf. Oh, now it's our responsibility. I'm getting up for devotion time. So3:15 now I'm going downstairs, trying to figure out a place and the kids could always know when mom does it versus when dad does it, because I'm just trying to finish the task. So then I'll just be like,3:27 Hey, he was right there by the cereal. You know, hey, you know. But the whole point of it is, is that this is a sign pointing to Santa coming.3:40 And the only way that we could deceive our kids with it is if they're asleep. If they're awake and they catch us doing it, they know it's all fake, but we deceive3:52 them while they're asleep. Why am I saying this? Well if we stand to our feet and go to Mark chapter 13, there are some things that Jesus wants to warn us4:03 about, and it's not about being asleep, it's about being awake. Because once we're asleep, it's easy to be deceived. And signs that Santa is coming4:15 is fake, but in Mark chapter 13, Jesus talks about some real signs that we'll be able to see for the sun that's coming, and that's real. So Mark chapter4:27 13 verse 32 through 37, I'll read from ESV. It says, But concerning that day or that hour, no 1 knows.4:40 Not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard, keep awake, for you do not know when the time will come.4:52 It is like a man going on a journey when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore, stay awake,5:03 for you do not know. When the master of the house will come in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning, lest he come suddenly and he5:15 finds you asleep. And what I say to you, I say to all, stay awake. Look to your neighbor and say, stay awake. Online, stay awake.5:28 Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this opportunity to open your scriptures. Now use your word to penetrate our hearts. I thank you that we'll understand5:40 your scriptures by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Convict us, challenge us, free us, heal us. In Jesus name, amen. You may be seated.5:53 5 little chunks of verses, and if I were to organize these chunks of verses, Mark chapter 32 through 37, I would say 32 verse 33 is the play.6:05 Verse 34 through 36 is the parable. And every time that there's a parable, you know that there's going to be the principle. So those are the 3 things on how I would break it down. The play, and the play is6:17 be on guard, that's defense, and then the offense is keep awake. The parable, we're going to venture to to to interpret this parable, but we'll do it last because in order6:29 to do that we gotta look at context, but we're also gonna see what principle is being driven tonight. In Mark 13 is is a complex chapter if we allow it to be.6:40 Pastor Joel Holm did a great job explaining a lot of it, but we're just gonna bounce around a little bit so we can know the context for the parable. But what we're talking about tonight is eschatology.6:53 And eschatology is 2 words, eschatos, which means, the last or the final or the end of time, And logos or logia means the study of. Just like theology is the7:05 study of God. Eschatology is the study of last things. And there's 3 things that Jesus is saying. He said it 3 I mean he said it 3 times.7:17 He said you won't know when. He said it 3 times. Now you know how many people have predicted that it's about to happen right7:29 here and now. Let me give you 1 for example. There's a cat named Edgar Wiesenap. He wrote a book called 88 Reasons Why the Rapture's Coming in7:40 19 88. You remember that, Pastor Kenny? Now here's the thing. The rapture didn't come in 19 88, so then he wrote a book in 197:52 89. Got another reason. Didn't work. Pastor Kenny, do you remember Harold Camping? 2011. He was a Christian radio broadcast guy,8:04 and he says the end of the world is coming. Judgement day, May 20 seventh, 2011. Anybody seen that on billboards? That was everywhere. It did not happen, and when it didn't8:16 happen instead of him saying, man, I got that wrong. He said, it happened in the spiritual. But in November it's happening, and it didn't happen. Even8:28 recently it was going crazy on x on April 8 2024. Are you ready? The rapture's coming. Because that's when we got our glasses and we were trying8:40 to see the sun and the moon, and we're like, is that Jesus?8:45 But if we look at the bible it says 3 times,8:48 you will not know when. We won't know when. So what ends up happening is we try to be smarter than what Jesus is expecting us to9:00 be. And then we end up being wrong, but there's something deeper that I think Jesus is trying to get us to emphasize if we squeeze a little, a couple of verses in9:12 Mark chapter 13, and then we can look at the parable. But let's look at here in verse 1 through 4. Let's look at what he does, which actually starts this conversation with the disciples. Mark chapter9:23 13 verse 1 through 4. I'll read it from here. And as He came out of the temple, 1 of His disciples said to Him, Look teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings.9:35 And Jesus said to Him, do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here 1 stone upon another that it will not be thrown down. And as he sat on the Mount of Olives,9:47 opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign, everybody say sign,9:59 when all these things are to be accomplished. So the title of this message is Stay Awake. But Jesus wants to challenge us tonight. What are we staying awake10:11 for? Are we staying awake to see the signs? Are we staying awake to see the sun? Or is it our sin that keeps us awake? That's right. And that's what10:22 we're gonna do as we look at a couple of verses, because if I look at this verse in verse 1 through 4, I can picture the disciples looking at this great temple because this great temple gave national10:34 pride for the Jews. It was a center of religion. It was something great. And they're like, wow, this is a sign of the presence of the Lord while they're walking with the Lord.10:47 So notice in verse, I think 3, it says that he went on the other side opposite the temple. It's kind of what he did in John chapter 4. Many of you guys know that story. The woman at the10:58 well. The woman was at the well with natural water and Jesus was sitting right next to it. Which 1 do you value more? Natural water or me as the living water? Or just like John chapter 6. He would11:10 he would give thousands of people bread and fish and as they're eating bread, he's saying I'm the bread of life. This is kind of what he's doing here in Mark chapter11:22 13 where he's saying this is who I am. I'm the son. That's only a sign. That sign is going to be destroyed, but I am the temple. I am the fulfillment. Are you11:34 staying awake to see the signs, or are you staying awake to see the sun? A lot of times I've been in Christian circles11:46 where people do a lot of study about the signs. And I've learned that the smarter we are with people, sometimes it's easier to hide that we're not surrendered to Jesus.11:59 So if I just get more intellectual about scripture, that doesn't necessarily mean that my values are changing.12:05 That's right.12:07 Right? So I could I could talk about all these hypotheticals about what I think these things mean, but if it's not drawing me closer to Jesus, what am I really doing? John chapter 5 talks about that. He said, hey,12:19 you search me because you think you know the scriptures, but I am the fulfillment of the scripture. You're missing Jesus by looking at the signs. That's what Jesus tried to tell them. So what I want to do12:31 here is get us more acquainted with the son. And I want to draw on the board here because I think a lot of us know the first coming of Jesus,12:43 but Mark chapter 13 has a lot to do with the second coming of Jesus. So I want to I want to kind of draw some things on the screen. Now, here's what I will say. I'm about to share some12:55 things that many Christians on their way to heaven disagree with. We're not going to major on the minors. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example. A13:07 major, minor, major, minor. It is a major thing that my wife and I should go out on dates. But you know what? When we go out on dates, you know what I can't stand about my wife?13:19 She has the nerve to think that corn tortillas are better than flour tortillas. Online, tell me which ones are better, corn or flour13:31 tortillas? Okay. Okay. Make some noise for corn tortillas. Make some noise for flour tortillas.13:46 Hey, we're a multi cultural, multi generational. Hey, somebody said you gotta be healthy. That's, I'm a come back to that. Okay, so what, what I'm a do How do I do it?13:58 Okay. Yes. What I'm a do is I'm a talk about the first coming. Hey, don't don't laugh at my drawings either, please. And then we got the second coming.14:10 Okay? Now, here's a lot of things that we do agree with. Let's talk about the first coming. Okay? Because right now we're talking about seeing the sun. Okay. The sun came in a manger. Stone manger.14:22 Here's the baby Jesus. It's baby Jesus. I told you that's it. Okay. We're all in agreement so far? Jesus came from heaven and the earth.14:33 Now, we're gonna fast forward about 33 years. Died on the cross. Okay. Then here's the tomb, he resurrected.14:45 Why no hating man?14:47 I think that's pretty good. I mean,14:49 okay. Everybody good? Come on man. Okay. Then after that, now he's King Jesus. Right? Happy. Right?15:01 This is Jesus. Right? And come on man. I think y'all learning low key too. Okay, so this is King Jesus, and then what King Jesus does is he goes to15:13 heaven. Right? And then he promised the Holy Spirit, but Holy Spirit came in to win, you know, and it looks like a dove. So here's a dove. Okay.15:28 Okay. Then so then Holy Spirit comes and here's the church. Okay. Here's Patriot. Here's the door and then here's you15:39 Pastor Kenny since you laughing at me. Okay. Jess. Okay. I think we all know this. Okay. Now who wants to come up here and talk about the second coming? Somebody15:51 said, I got you. And here's what it was for me for years. Man, really foggy. I just know that I go to church and when I die I'm gonna go to heaven. And when people would16:03 talk about eschat eschat I don't even know what it's eschatology. When people would talk about the millennial period. When people would talk I don't. My sins are forgiven, right? And as long as my sins are forgiven, I'm16:15 gonna go to heaven. And this will be very cloudy for a lot of people. We know Jesus is coming back, but do we all have clarity on what that's gonna look like? See we16:27 know baby Jesus, we know crucified Jesus, resurrected Jesus, ascended Jesus. Do we know white throne Jesus? Do we know when he comes on a horse with a sword Jesus? Do we know the millennial period? So, remember we talked16:38 about tortillas, right? Let's talk about Well, I'm gonna say I was gonna say corn tortillas, but let's let's just do it like this. People have a position of being16:50 pre millennial. This is millennial. There's a millennial period. You're going to look at Revelation 19 through 20 to get the context of what I'm saying, of that thousand17:02 year period. And people are saying pre millennial, which means that Jesus, he's in heaven, but if you're pre millennial and have this position, Jesus,17:14 it's coming down, King Jesus. Here he is right here. He's on a horse, though. Okay.17:30 I'm helping y'all. Okay? So he comes down, and then there's this thousand year period. And it's this thousand year period, Satan17:42 is going to be bound in a pit when he's going to come out at a time, and then he'll be crushed by Jesus, so here's Jesus' feet. He'll crush him. There's gonna be judgment, and then17:54 we're gonna live forever with him in a new heavens and a new earth. Okay. That looks clear. Right? Okay. There's there's a camp that's post millennial.18:06 So if pre millennial means that Jesus is coming before the thousand year period, what does post millennial mean? Yeah. And in this view it means things get better and18:18 better and better and better, and then if we, the church, usher in Jesus Here's Jesus. Because now the whole world got the gospel,18:30 Jesus is coming in on his horse, and now this thousand year period is here, and now Jesus is here, he crushes the enemy with his feet,18:42 we have forever. You guys root me? Corn tortilla, flour tortilla. But somebody said you got to be healthy. Somebody said no tortillas. That's amillennial. So Homemade is18:54 fire. Homemade is fire. But that's not in the Bible. Okay, so, amillennial says, hey, we're in the Kingdom of God now. So when Jesus ascended, Jesus is on19:06 the throne, we're in the kingdom of God now. So it's not really a thousand year period, that's more of a spiritual symbol.19:17 That represents a time that we're in and Jesus, I'll just bring this down, is going to come down because it's kind of similar to the post millennial position, but it's just that this time19:29 frame is on a thousand year period. The reason why I'm taking the time to do that is because I avoided this type of language for years. All I knew was this Jesus.19:42 And Mark 13 is in our Bibles, so I'm just trying to do a commercial to have you more acquainted with who this Jesus is. Not for us all to be on the same page, because there will be people19:54 that disagree about this that will still rejoice in heaven. So what ends up happening is if I know the who, I don't have to get stuck on the when.20:06 I know who Jesus is. This is in the Bible, so I want to get more acquainted with it, but as I'm more acquainted with it, I won't let the minors have me arguing with other Christians.20:19 I may look at this 5 years from now and be like, what was I doing? Because we grow as Christians, and we gotta allow people to be in their faith journey, but as you grow in your faith journey,20:31 sometimes you're gonna need more than just baby Jesus. You're gonna need more than crucify Jesus. The fog that's going on in our life, if we start clearing this up, it'll give20:43 more color to what we read, and faith comes by hearing, hearing the word of God. Does that make sense? So if we know this, this is really cool to know because we'll come back to that later,20:55 but at the same token we're recognizing that Jesus is saying, I'm giving you some signs only to point to the sun. So let's look at another case study. Mark chapter 13,21:06 verse 24 through 26. Is this helpful for you guys? Yes. Okay. Mark chapter 13 verse 24 through 26. Watch this, watch this. Signs, right? He says,21:18 but Let me see. Let's do that. It says, but in those days after the tribulation the sun will be darkened. That's crazy.21:30 The moon will not give its light because the moon gets light off the reflection of the sun. And look at this, the stars will be falling from heaven. And the powers in the heavens will be21:42 shaken and then they will see the son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. Now, if I'm focused on the signs,21:55 the only thing I'm thinking is like, wait, what? The sun's going to be dark? So then when I go and try try to charge my Tesla and it doesn't work, oh that's a sign.22:06 That's a sign. Something's going on with the sun. I'm going to the beach with my wife. You're using that sunblock? Well you know the sun's gonna be darkened. Where's your faith? I'm only looking at the signs. But what22:17 it's say what it's saying is, hey there will be some signs. If I look at the signs, what are the signs? That everything that I look to for natural light, I can't look to for natural light,22:29 and then I see Jesus. What is the spiritual application of that? Whenever it gets dark in your life, don't look to the world, look to the sun. When it's dark, then you22:41 will see the sun. So as long as I'm looking to the sun, it doesn't matter what the signs look like. But, we're building the case of what Jesus is doing because in verse 1 through 4, hey,22:53 this temple's going to be destroyed. What is He doing in verse 24 through 26? He's saying, the sun, the moon, the stars are going to be destroyed. Because what does he say in verse 31? Let's go to verse 31.23:07 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word won't pass away. Do you want the sign or the sun? And we know that the sun is23:19 the word of God. So what Jesus is trying to convey, no matter how you interpret Revelations 19 through 20, no matter how you look at premillennial, postmillennial, whenever it's dark in your life,23:31 you can see the sun, and the sun is coming for you. So when we read the scriptures, we're not trying to be smarter about the signs, we're trying to be surrendered to the sun. Does that make sense? I give a practical23:43 example of that. I live in Ontario, and there was 2 earthquakes that happened within half hour of each other. The first earthquake happened, it was 3.5 magnitude. So I go and I23:55 go check on my daughters, Faith and Trinity. You guys good? Now Trinity, she was like, Wow, this is crazy, Dad. I said, What happened? She said, I had a dream it was going to be an earthquake, but I was on the toilet24:06 peeing, and then pee got everywhere. And I'm like, word? Okay. So then 30 minutes later, the next earthquake come. It's 3.9. So I24:18 go and check on my girls. Girls, you okay? And Trini was like, oh my God. Oh my God.24:23 I said, what happened? What happened? She said, another earthquake came and I wasn't on the toilet.24:31 What an example of being so caught up in a sign that we missed that the sun kept us safe. And sometimes we miss gratitude on what's actually happening,24:43 but I got a word spoken over me when I was 15 years old and I need that to come Wait wait. But are you looking at that word? Are you looking in this word? Word? Because Heaven and Earth will pass away, but God's bringing24:54 a new Heaven into Earth and his word will not pass away. Amen? Now with that context, now let's interpret the parable. You guys ready to interpret the parable? 32 through 37. Now what is a25:05 parable? By by a round of applause, let me know if you went to the bible. Sprint. Great. Great. So that means you know what a parable is. It means to,25:17 the para means beside or alongside, bole means throwing or placing aside. So I'm casting aside a teaching to help drive a principle. That's what a parable is. So if I25:29 look at this parable, let's go to verse 34 through 37, and just interpret this parable. Now that we have a little bit more of understanding. It says Let me let me25:41 let me do this. Boom. You guys doing good? Okay. So it is like, when he says it is like, you know he's about to do a parable. Now we gotta squeeze this a little bit. So we25:53 gotta pay attention. It is like a man going on a journey. Sometimes I read the bible to make it about me. So okay, it's me and it's my faith journey. So I already have a bias, but I26:05 gotta just look at the bible without bias. Who is this man? And when he leaves home, yeah, I'll be leaving home, and puts his servants, okay, wait a minute, his servants. So I'm getting a clue of what Jesus is trying26:17 to drive about his second coming that we looked at in Mark chapter 13. So he left his service in charge. Okay, must not be me. Okay. Faith and training, don't be listening to me like26:28 that. Each with his work on commands the doorkeeper. So this is what I do when I'm just looking at the scriptures. So there's a man going on a26:40 journey, he leaves, he puts service in charge to do work, and he commands their work as a doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore, stay awake. You don't know when the master of the house.26:52 Ah, okay. So this man is a master. Now I know it's not me. This is like Jesus who went away, but he's coming back. I'm the servant, and27:03 my work is to be a doorkeeper. Ah, okay, okay, okay, okay. And I don't know when he's going to come, when the rooster comes in the morning, unless he comes suddenly, he finds you asleep, and what I say to you, I say to27:13 all, stay away. So as I try to interpret this, I can say, okay you know what? Jesus went on a journey. We just plotted out his first and second, his first and second coming. He27:25 went on a journey. He's going on a journey. And as he's on this journey, I'm a servant and I have work to do. It's my calling. It's my assignment. It's my purpose. That's for you guys as well. But it's27:37 it's described as a doorkeeper. So that's when we start using our holy imagination in reading the bible slower. That's a doorkeeper? Doorkeeper. Doorkeeper. So, okay. John chapter 1027:49 verse 9. Jesus said he's the door. So Jesus is the door, and I'm the doorkeeper. Okay. What what does door represent? Door represents entrance. Door represents security. And28:01 I'm gonna keep the door. I gotta keep myself close to the door. Ah, I'm hospitality. Okay, okay, okay. So Jesus is the door, I'm the doorkeeper. So as long as I'm close to the28:12 door as people are coming to the door I'm inviting them into a relationship with Jesus, which means that my life should shine so people should want to see Jesus. Oh, that's why28:24 I need to stay awake because if I go to sleep, I can miss people that I'm a call to sign to in my work. See, I'm making this about the sun. I'm not making this about28:36 the signs. So then if I use my holy imagination Oh wait, Genesis chapter 4 verse 7. Cain killed Abel and he said, if you do well, But he says, Sin28:48 is crouching at the door. So Jesus is the door. We are the doorkeepers. So we are the doorkeepers of the church.29:00 Just like dream team, when people come in, hopefully you got a smiley face and a greeting, an environment inviting you in to the door. So when you enter, you have security in the presence of God. Amen. Now,29:12 as I go to the door, sin's crouching at the door. So as sin is crouching at the door, I will be tempted when I come to the door to look down at my sin or look up29:24 to the sun. Now I have a better understanding of how I apply this in my life. This is why he's telling me to stay awake because29:36 there are times where I can get tripped up by temptation and be out of my post trying to fight battles that aren't assigned for me to fight, and now I'm not at my post. Stay awake. Stay awake.29:48 Stay awake. There are so many temptations for distractions that stop us from being a doorkeeper. And we want to ask ourselves the question.30:00 Last week Pastor Joe said, today Lord? Today Lord? So if that is the case, we've got to ask ourselves the question, if Jesus were to come right now,30:12 what do we want him to find us doing? That's why he's saying that we have work to do. Yeah. Doesn't that bring more emphasis to our co workers?30:24 To our spouse? I want to be found by Jesus loving my wife. Loving my kids. I want to be found by Jesus being kind to my enemies. What about you?30:37 But there's so many times when we get tempted and we get away from the door, that we haven't kept the commitment that we have to Jesus. And that just brings color to us as30:49 we conclude this this this sermon tonight. Because the person who who ghostwrote this is Peter. Peter is the 1 that is giving Mark the31:00 place to write. And Peter being the first, Peter being the first pastor would have an understanding of what it's like to supposed to be at your31:12 post and go away from your post. So as we conclude, when you stay awake, 1 of the reasons why you're staying awake is because you're looking at your31:24 sin. And as we look at our sin, feel like we're too far from the sun, the31:36 only thing that we would want, I just need a sign. So if that person treats me better, I must be in good graces with God. If I get this job, I must be in31:48 good graces with God. If I get this compliment, and we look for signs because we're staying awake from our sin. Peter will be Peter Peter will relate to that.32:00 He was supposed to be a doorkeeper with Jesus. I'm ready to die for you, Jesus. But when it got hard and you got the temptation, he said I don't32:12 even know who Jesus is. And I know I get tempted to be like that, and this is not this is not saying that I say or you say I'm not a Christian. I'm not saying that, that we32:24 do that. But could it be that we deny Jesus and how we treat people that we say we love? Because we're not as bold to say, I don't know Jesus. We have the32:36 liberty of living in a free country where we can say that, but we also have the liberty of flipping somebody off when they cut us off. That's denying Jesus. We have the liberty of staying32:48 silent when we're too in our emotions, or we got the liberty to really share all of our feelings. Doorkeeper. Doorkeeper. If we are next to the door,33:01 and we recognize that he keeps us, let us be an example that can invite others to have an invitation for Jesus. So Peter, when33:13 he was at his worst, Jesus still offered him his best. Peter gave up on Jesus. And Peter would be known as the first pastor. And that should give us all33:24 hope that no matter how far you've gone from the sun, he stretches his hands out to you right now. So I want to invite everybody to bow their heads and33:36 close their eyes for a moment. As we looked at Mark chapter 13, we talked about some abstract concepts, hopefully gave you more interest33:48 in knowing about the Bible. We also want to drive the point of, has your sin been causing you to stray from the sun?34:00 There's hope for you tonight. It starts with a prayer. And prayer directs our attention to the sun. Peter would be confronted with34:12 that in John chapter 21, where he failed, he was at his worst, and Jesus would meet him where he was at. That's called compassion. And that same compassion Jesus offers to you. He doesn't want34:24 to talk about the sin right now. What he just wants to talk about is your surrender. Would you be courageous enough to confess that you may not have a relationship with Jesus yet? Would you be34:36 courageous enough to confess that maybe you have been looking at the signs and not looking at the sun. Looking at good things happening to your life and that's like a sign to you that you have34:48 a relationship with Jesus. No. You having a relationship with Jesus, me having a relationship with Jesus starts with saying, hey, I confess that I'm a sinner, and I believe in the35:00 gospel. And the gospel is the good news that Jesus lived the life that I couldn't live, died the death that I deserve, and is seated on the throne, and he's my advocate in heaven for me. And then I live a35:12 life according to the value, believing that I'm worth dying for. So with your head bowed and your eyes closed, if you haven't made that decision35:23 yet, we invite you tonight to make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life. Or you've already made that decision years ago. You know Mark35:35 chapter 13, you know Peter's story, but there are things that have happened in your life that cause you to stray from the door. Jesus has an open door policy. You35:47 could come right back to him as you are, and as you come back to him and experience his compassion, that influences you to continue your faith journey. So I would invite us35:59 all to repeat this prayer to encourage those that are praying this prayer for the first time. To give your life to Jesus or to continue your faith journey with Jesus. Say this with me, please. Dear Lord Jesus,36:12 I confess that I'm a sinner, but I thank you for dying on the cross for all of my sin. From this moment forward,36:24 you are my savior and my lord. Teach me to trust you with my decisions. Guide me with the right community36:36 to help me to follow you. In Jesus' name.36:43 See how they're scoring on us? Shots left and right.36:46 I know. They know our next play before we even make it.36:49 We gotta tighten up off the court too. Businesses track and sell our personal information. They dunk on us all the time with that data.36:56 Wait. What do you mean?36:57 You have to exercise your privacy rights. If you don't opt out of the sale and sharing of your information, businesses will always have the upper upper hand.37:04 The ball is in your court. 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