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0:00 Happy Labor Day weekend everybody at Waters Church across all locations. We are so excited for this weekend for just 1 reason particularly, but let me just say a couple things. Labor Day is a day0:12 that we honor the value of work, and anybody who works knows that eventually you're gonna get paid for that work. It's actually a biblical principle. The workman is worthy of his hire. But the question is, what are you0:24 gonna do with that pay? And we have a class to help you understand how to handle that pay. That money that you're gonna make is called financial peace. We want you to take that class. It's gonna teach you how to handle0:35 God's money because it's all his. You have it for a season, and you're leave it behind when you're done living. How are you gonna do that? How are you gonna avoid the dangers and the traps of financial jeopardy in your0:47 life? The class is 9 weeks. It's a small commitment that could change your life and pay huge dividends long term for you and your family. So sign up today for0:59 financial peace, and enjoy your Labor Day tomorrow. Now, 1 other thing. Next week, we start a new series called Power Up. Couple weeks ago, we had a power outage1:10 at Waters Church in North and it kinda reminded me how dependent we are on power to fuel our lives. Well, there are things that give power to our spiritual lives, and we're gonna start looking at those next week,1:22 so be here for that. Also, I'll see you on first Tuesday in our North Attleboro location. We're gonna have the choir. We're gonna pray for our Tiverton team going into the work of Jesus at our new and sixth1:34 location. So excited for that. I will see you there. Prayer at 6, 7 pm Word, worship and word. But today, and this is what I'm really excited about. Brandon Braddock is in the house, missionary1:46 to Guatemala. This mighty man of God is going to preach the word to you. So everybody at all locations, let's put our hands together and welcome pastor Brandon Braddock. Come on.1:59 Good morning. How are you? It's nice to see you. Happy Labor Day. Why don't we start out by welcoming everybody online? We wanna welcome our2:10 campuses. Let's give them a round of applause. Apollo Beach, Wooden Socket, and my family in Guatemala, Bienvenidos. Nice to see you. I am so glad to be here2:22 today. I've missed you guys. Man, I miss this building. I miss the smiles. I miss English people. There's no English people in Guatemala. No. There is a few.2:34 On my team, I kinda only have 3 though. You know? So it's like when the missionaries came in last week or 2 weeks ago, it was nice to have that encouragement of my Christian brothers and just see some people who2:46 love the Lord. But listen, I am so happy to be here today. I would like to embarrass my wife, missus Miasposa Bonita, right over here. Wanna stand up and wave? I3:00 would like to stand here and give glory to God because he has taken a minister of unrighteousness, and he's turned turned3:12 him into a vessel to be used for his glory. That's me. And I'm 1 of you. I'm just a member of Waters Church. I have a pastor too,3:24 pastor Tim, just like you do. It's just that God put on my heart to leave you and to spread his good word across the earth. So we love our ministry out in Guatemala.3:35 I actually miss it. I'm just 1 of those people who likes to work. I find peace in working, and God has just flourished everything that we're doing. And today, I'd love to just tell you tons of stuff3:47 about it, but I'm actually here to close out the series, the summer of psalms. And I have 1 of my favorite psalms for you today. It's a short 1. And I'm glad to do it because my topic today for3:59 you is the glory of God. And I think I have a good word for you. Something that means a lot to me. It's the driving force that has made me leave you,4:12 leave my children, and go to the other side of the earth. So today, let me just give you a quick brief thing about what we're doing in Guatemala. So we have about 354:23 different things we do a week. We are very busy. We start at 7 AM. I have about a whole construction crew. We've built 6 homes or restored 6 homes so far. We have about4:35 60 volunteers that work with us, help us. Sometimes they sweep the streets. Sometimes they pack food bags. Some they they're just open hands ready to serve the lord for free. We have about a 10 person team on4:47 payroll. And I love what we do. I love our ministry, and we we teach the good news of Jesus Christ to little ninos, little4:59 children, orphans whose moms and dads have left them. Some of them for filthy reasons, some of them because they just didn't wanna take care of them. And we have a children's ministry with5:10 elementary, teen, we have a big teen ministry. They come out of the woods to come see us. It's awesome. We have an elderly ministry, and I love them. And we5:22 sing with them. Some of the songs we sing are when the saints go marching in. You know, we go old old school with them. And every couple months, some of them pass away. But I know where they are because5:34 I've saved them, not me, but my lord. We've baptized them. We sprinkle water on their head because they're not able to go under the water. We have an incredible prison ministry,5:47 which was the original reason I started to grow. This was going into the prisons and you couldn't talk to Muslims, you know, with respect unless you had a a beard. And I started the prisons here in America, and I5:59 launched it immediately in Guatemala. Just it's just something that God has just put on my heart, those prisoners. And it's an amazing ministry. I see just grown murderers crying because they6:11 know their guilt, and they're hoping for some forgiveness, you know, so we give them that hope. Let's see. We the orphan the orphanage ministry we have is amazing6:23 because the orphanages that we've been going to, not 1 of them has been saved, And today, 100 percent of them are saved. Isn't that amazing what God did? And we just got in a new6:34 orphanage, and the very first question I asked was, do you guys teach bible? No. Are any of the children Christians? Would they identify themselves as Christians? I was told 1. And I was like, good. There's6:46 an open door. I'll come here. What did the apostle Paul say? I try to deliver the gospel where no man has preached before. Now that's kinda hard because everyone's heard the name, but we try to if you have the6:58 need for us, we come. But we try not to just go where we're not needed. So we love our ministry. Our new mission home has been 3 homes converted into 1 massive piece of property, and I think it sleeps7:10 up to 17. And we are looking forward to having orphan children come into that place and preachers. So right now, we have a couple of preachers ready to come into the prison ministry and preach with us. They were7:20 prisoners. There's just an amazing thing that's actually happening out there. The most important though is that I was sent out there with no7:32 experience. I've been taught through pastor Tim's leadership classes. I've come here for years. I've learned a lot. I've read the bible, learned a lot. I was faithful serving all over the church.7:44 But when I went to Guatemala, Tim didn't come with me. But Tim taught me and you every single week to chase the true shepherd. Right? Says his7:56 name over and over. Jesus Christ, the shepherd of life. When I got to Guatemala, I found myself in prisons, up mountains, no talking experience. I only preached I preached to you guys 08:08 times when I became a missionary. I preached to you once so far. This is my second time. But God showed up with me, and he put a voice on my tongue, and he put words in my mouth, and he was8:19 able to teach me to remember all the stories that he's done for me. And I became a witness of his testimony in my life. So I'm excited. I got an awesome message for you today about8:31 the glory of God. My focus for you because I'm a missionary is gonna be different than other people's. Mine's gonna be to challenge you to give him your most valued commodity, your8:43 time. Think about it. Think about how valuable your time is and how much it means to you. And that think about who you wanna give it to and8:55 how worthy he is and place that at his feet. It doesn't have to be a missionary. I'm not here to tell you to leave your family. It doesn't even mean you have to be full time9:06 anything, but you stop by considering the cost, the value. You give him your time. Jesus said, except a man loses his life, he's never gonna find it. And the happiest thing I've ever done9:19 was leave all, pretty much, all my friends, all my ways of life, where I went on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, what I did, what I drank, what I smoked, all of it. And I found9:31 some of the glory of God that I'm excited to share with you. It's a secret of mine. It's what motivates me and moves me. And no matter what stage you're9:43 at in life, whether you're new to Waters Church or you've been here for a long time or you've never been here before, this message is for you. Let's start with9:55 the deaf let's define glory. Something that secures praise. I love that 1. Something that makes you wanna sing a song. A distinguished quality, 1 that's different than10:07 everything else. A state of gratification or exaltation. When her daughter was born, she was in her glory.10:18 The height of prosperity, a great beauty, something a great splendor, magnificence, the glory of Rome back in her day, the glory of Greece.10:32 The main purpose though today, because I only have a limited time to talk to you, and I did this study for about 100 hours, taking every keyword of the bible glory10:44 and going into it, I just was blown away. But today, I wanna share something with you that I think is the biggest number 1 thing about his glory. And I wanna ex I10:56 wanna tell you that at the end of the sermon. And it's not Jesus because it's about his glory. Okay? So it can't be him. It's about his glory. And it's not the11:08 cross. If it was all about the cross, then I would tattoo the cross all over my whole body. You know? We would go to heaven and Jesus would have this room of 1000 crosses. The cross,11:20 we know what took place on the cross, and I wanna teach you that purpose. I wanna teach you that glory. If I said to you, 1 of my employees, and they said, what do you love about Brandon? And he's like, well, he pays me11:32 on Friday. I know I pay you on Friday. I know you need the money. I know your whole family uses the money. I know that's your lifestyle, the money, but is that what I could get from you if you were my employee? Glory11:42 needs to be a height of achievement. The glorious splendor, the magnificence of Jesus. We gotta I wanna try to get to that with you. To in order to jump into God's glory, I'm just gonna look at man's glory for just11:54 1 minute. I'll start with my life. So if you ask me, what do you think is the glory of your life? You know, your glory days. I don't really think it's like the height of the most amount of money I12:06 made. I probably would go back to my childhood. I would probably say it was just when I was young, and I just remember those days when my mom would kick me out of the house. She'd kick all of us out of the house. We12:15 couldn't even come back until dinner. That's it. I just learned how to fight, play basketball, street hockey, football, everything. I just I didn't even need a high school for a sports team. I learned it all on the12:23 streets. And then after dinner, we screwed right back outside. We stayed there till 10 o'clock till the it just was dark. We came in, went to bed. And I just we were poor. So we had hand me down clothes. You know?12:35 Hand me down, down, down. So what do you do with that? You take scissors, you start to chop it up. And I would chop my stuff. I would chop my shirts, wrap them around my head so the American flag was here. I cut my12:46 shorts, my sleeves, everything. And I love those days. I love Bruce Springsteen. 19 85, I was 11 years old. And I love his song, Glory Days. Glory Days, glory days,12:58 yeah, they'll pass you by. Glory Days, glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days. Probably the shortest chorus of any song. But Bruce, in13:10 his autobiography, Born to Run, said, I have a personal relationship with Jesus. I was like, wow. I believe in his power to save and love, but not to13:22 damn. I don't participate in my religion. I kind of expected that. But I know somewhere deep inside, I'm still on the team. I was like, wow. That's pretty interesting. I started to think about13:34 that Christ doesn't have the power to damn. And and I thought about it. I'm 7 years old. I know that I'm going to hell because I knew how bad13:45 I was, and my mom taught me about Jesus. And I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt, hell was for me. I wasn't offended about that because I13:57 understood hell actually wasn't made for me. Hell was made for Satan and his followers. But I knew my mom told me about Jesus and he died and I just believed. So I asked him to be my savior, save me from hell. I started14:08 glorifying God at a young age because I glor I I understood 1 of his distinguished qualities. He saved me from a bad place. Revelations 1 says Jesus holds the14:20 keys to death and hell. That's a distinguished quality. My Jesus is strong. See, the bible says give to God strength and honor and14:32 glory. And I give him that strength. He holds those keys to death and hell. But I also understood the glorious splendor of him, and he secured my praise. I was a little14:44 child. My mother told me that I would sing louder than everybody in the church, you know, And I would tell all my family they're going to hell if they smoke cigarettes. I didn't know what I was doing. I wasn't a14:53 preacher, you know. I asked a girl, what do you think Gloria is? And she says, can you rephrase the question? I think many of you, if I asked you, what is15:04 the glory of God, the magnificence? You'd be like, So I rephrased it, and I asked her again. She said to me, oh, nature. I love science, water,15:16 sunrises. Sorry. I love the ocean. I love farm animals. Who loves farm animals? Everybody loves farm animals. Okay. It was my wife. I can't go talk to another girl about this question. I asked my wife,15:29 but what exactly is the glory of God? What is it in relation to the bad? See, it's so easy to sing the songs, long you're glorious, and and I just found the new wife. I'm so happy. That's15:41 great. Where is he in the bad? Why is this a burden for me? Well, I'll tell you why. Because when darkness comes and trouble comes, we blame him and we15:53 leave him, and that's why it eats me up. And I wanna read this verse to you. Psalms 1 45. Let each generation tell its children of your16:04 mighty acts. What kind of acts? Your mighty acts. Let them proclaim your power. There's the strength. They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty,16:17 and I will meditate on your wonderful works. David said that. Can you name me 10 things about his glorious splendor? Most people who call themselves Christians have no idea about the16:29 glory of God or what the heights, the highest things of his achievements are. So point number 1, I grow in Christ when I come to appreciate the glory of God. I'm convinced that we16:41 don't actually understand the glory of God because we diminish it, We remove the value of it. I was on my way to church. It was raining out, and God stopped the rain, and my hair didn't16:53 get wet. You know, glory to God. I hear this all the time when people tell me about his glory, and I'm like, that's not my father's glory. But a little orphan whose mom17:04 and dad left them guys, we have orphans pregnant by their own fathers. And you say, where's the glory in that? I'll tell you where it is. He brings the17:16 solitude in that family. He sanctifies that girl before she even knows his name, sets her apart in hope of life, which is Jesus, the true hope of life, surrounds her with his17:29 missionaries and his pastors, his shepherds, and starts to teach this girl. You know what? Let me tell you about another father who experienced shame like you. When I went to an orphanage17:41 and every girl was a disaster, And we we saved and baptized every single girl. I had a message to preach to them, but when I showed up, Jesus showed up with me. And I ended up giving them an17:53 incredible message about him. Just came right out of my mouth. This man hung on a cross naked, not clothes. They divvied up his clothes, and he was disgraced and shamed. They18:05 laughed at him, spit him, spit upon him, and mocked him. You see, these girls think that they're actually some of the culprits in this situation. We don't understand the glory18:17 of God because we diminish it. Point number 2, I grow in Christ when I enjoy God's glory and I want to enhance it. When we remove the value of his glory, this is what we do.18:28 Listen to this really quick. We mistake him. We mistake who he is, his world, your world, his wonder, his word,18:40 his power, his jealousy over you. He's a jealous God, just so you know. His strength, his goodness. Don't forget about his wrath and his justice and his opinions, what makes18:52 him happy and not, what gets him angry. And I wish it stopped there, but it didn't. We mistake our purpose, and then we mistake his purpose with us. We19:04 mistake the order of our own home. As for me and my house will serve the Lord and our home doesn't serve the Lord. We don't put his music on in our home and we don't talk about him from when we wake up till we go to19:14 sleep. Then we mistake the order of his house. And that's why some of you are online and you're not in here. I'm not talking to the sick ones who can't come in or the someone who doesn't have a car, but some of you don't19:26 understand the glory of God, you diminish it, and then you diminish so many other things. You're not in this house. Then we mistake his eternal19:37 house up in heaven, and then we mistake his salvation, how to get into that house, and we create this ridiculous amount of stuff, how our good works and help us get into heaven and blah blah blah.19:50 When we remove the value of his glory, we remove the value of the way that he thinks of us. Listen to this real quick. In Isaiah 45, for the sake of Jacob my20:01 servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and I bestow on you a title of honor, though you didn't even acknowledge me.20:14 I am the Lord. There is no other. Apart from me, there is no God. I will strengthen you though you have not Here it is again. You haven't even acknowledged me. Now I20:26 see a big gap between mankind and my father. Okay? I had to see this because I had to see where I fit in. I had to see what he's doing, what he's done, and what he's going to do, and where do I fit into this story?20:39 Before we did a single thing, he loves us, chooses us, sets us apart for himself, calls us his own, gives us20:51 a title of honor. What is what is this title of honor? You have to think when you when you read scripture. The bible says a wise man. His eyes are in his head. What title of honor? I'm a Christian. I bear the name of21:02 Christ and who I am. That's my identity. I am a missionario para eso Christo. I'm a missionary for Jesus Christ. We get our titles through him. He chooses us. That's why many of you21:14 are here. He's drawing you to himself. What did you do for him? Nothing. And Jesus says, when he saw the crowd, he had compassion on them. Why?21:26 Because they were like sheep with no pastor, no shepherd. Romans 3, there's none righteous, none that truly seek him. You say, well, you seek him pastor.21:38 You did 100 hours on that bible study. Sometimes I pray to God and fall right asleep. I read my bible and I start to daydream. There is none that truly seek him. I want to seek him. My flesh21:50 sometimes doesn't want to, but my soul loves to, and I fight my soul and my flesh and but there's none that truly truly seek him or we'd all just forsake everything we have and just give every single penny to the poor.22:02 No. No. No. The bible says he knows our frame and we're like dust. Why does this make me wanna glorify him? Because when I offered him nothing, he gives me22:13 everything. If you don't ask to see his glory, you're not gonna be able to see that it's on display everywhere.22:25 When I say everywhere, I mean everywhere. It's in the death. It's in the divorces. It's in the solitude. What does he do? He brings solitude to this church. Right? He brought22:37 solitude to Hope of Life. No missionaries have come down to Hope of Life in 2 years, maybe 7, 8 groups, but that's not what used to be. It used to be 400 people a week. Now there's nobody22:48 because of COVID. He brings desolation to his whole earth. And if you don't think he's in control of all this, you don't understand he's governing, seeing, hearing everything, and you think, oh,23:00 I'm gonna remove some power from him. This is the CDC's fall. This is the president's fall. And you'll start to blame other people. Point number 4, I grow in Christ when I23:12 ask to see his glory. See, if there was just glory in beauty, like the ocean, and there was just glory in farm animals, which we all love farm animals,23:25 why would we blame him and then leave him? We wouldn't. We blame him and we leave him because when the darkness comes into our life,23:37 we blame him for everything in the disaster and we actually think he forsakes us. Isaiah 45. So that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting, I want people to know that there's none23:49 besides me. I bring I am the Lord and there's no other. I form light. I create Say it. Darkness. I bring prosperity.24:01 I create disaster. He's not saying somebody else does it. He's putting himself there saying, I do it. Does it get me angry? No. Lets me know he's in control.24:13 What is your gospel? What is the gospel that we preach? Know? The apostle Paul, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus. What is the gospel? Beauty from24:25 ashes. Proclaiming good news to the poor. They have no money. They can't even afford food and drink and he's trying to get them this good news and the orphans and the abandoned24:37 people. Healing who? The brokenhearted. How does that feel when your heart gets broken? Setting who free? The oppressed, the prisoner, those bound in chains, mental chains,24:50 creating light from darkness. When he's doing these things, he's not trying to draw you from the poverty, draw you from the ashes25:01 just because of the event that's taking place, like the divorce or whatever. He's drawing you to himself, and I want your eyes to see this glory, how much he cares for you. Point number 4, just reminding25:13 you, I grow in Christ when I ask him to see his glory. Let's say a quick prayer. Lord, Moses asked to see your glory.25:25 And Lord, you said, if our gospel be hid, it's hid to them that are lost. Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ would25:37 shine unto them. And today, Lord, I'm asking for your glory. I'm asking for your glorious gospel of Jesus to be25:49 seen in this house right now, in the next few minutes. Reveal yourself, your son, your love to us In Jesus' name.26:01 Our passage for today to close out the summer of Psalms is on Psalms 46. It's a very small 1. Most Psalms are. If you've never read the26:13 book of Psalms, you really should. It's a beautiful book. And let let's I'm gonna read something to you real quick. Verse 1, God is our refuge and strength.26:25 Let's skip down to verse 4. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God. They're either talking about the river that went through Jerusalem that supplied their water or they're talking about the river in26:34 Revelations that goes right to God's throne. But either way, the holy habitation of the most high, that's what makes me think it's Jerusalem, the city of David. God is in the midst of her. She won't be moved. God will26:46 help her when the morning dawns. Okay. So we're talking about an event here. And the next morning, then he says, the nations rage, the kingdom's totter. He utters his voice, the earth melts. The lord of26:58 hosts is with us. And down in verse 10, be still and know that I am god. So we take that plaque, we put it in our house, and I'm guilty too. I put the27:09 plaque in my house way before I knew what it was about. I was like, hey. Be still and know that I'm God. I like peace. You know? It was much deeper than that. To understand27:22 what I'm trying to get at with this Psalms, I wanna take you to understand the author really fast, which is God, and I want you to understand this word glory as we unpack it. Jeremiah 9 24 says, if27:34 any man glories, let him glory in this, that he understands and knows me. That was my verse. That's what got me through all the years here and all my faithfulness and all my27:46 troubles and everything, the ups and downs, and eventually to pack my bags and move my life to a thirsty and a dry land was because I I had this passion.27:58 I need to know who you are. I was very confused at at 1 point in my life. And God did this to me to make me search him. He said, seek me with your whole heart. You'll find me. Our hearts are28:10 so little anyways, and they're dark. But he was like, seek me with the heart that you have. You'll find me. And Moses was the first 1 to ask to see his glory. I personally think Moses wanted to see28:21 God. He's like, hey, show me your glory. I think he wanted to see Jehovah. But God's like, you wanna see my glory? Okay. I'll be merciful to who I wanna be merciful to.28:34 That's not seen as glory. Well, it is. I know this now. You know what? You wanna see my glory? I'm gonna be gracious to who I want to be gracious to. These are deep thoughts. I'm not here to unpack them with you,28:46 but I wanna get you to this point. I'm gonna do mighty acts and the whole world is gonna see them, and all the nations are gonna see them. And what does he do? He brings in28:58 just to just to redeem his people, he brings in locusts and lice and the water turns to blood and he kills Pharaoh's child and and frogs and all these things that took place. And and the people are trying to take over29:09 well, keep the children of Israel as slaves. And what does he do? He splits the Red Sea, murders all those people, kills the whole entire army. Judaism is born. He starts to teach them structure, how29:21 to be clean, how to eat good food, what not to eat. He starts to feed them from manna. He starts to give them water from a stone. He starts to defend them so that he can be the feeder of them. He can be the provider. He29:31 can be the 1 who defends them. What does he do? He increases their land. That was his number 1 thing. Remember? The promised land. We're all going to the promised land, 400000 of them through the desert. And here comes29:43 the stab in the heart. He wants, he desires to be their king, they want a man, and it all crashed. You guys know, if you pick up any piece of29:55 literature, the ending of that story. He gives them the desires of their heart. They remove the value of his glory, and they remove the value therefore of what he thought of them.30:07 He loved them. Those were his chosen people. He said it so many times. That he was like a hen that just wanted to gather the chicks into his arms.30:20 Let's jump back into Psalms 46 where he talks about be still and know that I am God. Psalms 46 is written by the sons of Korah, gatekeepers.30:31 Korah was Moses' cousin. Thousand years before Moses' cousin Korah tries to do a revolt against him. What does God do? Opens the earth and eats them all.30:43 This is the height of his achievements, just so you know. The the sons of Korah Samuel was a son of Korah. The sons and sons and sons scroll all the way down to BC30:54 500, and they're writing the psalm. It's the same grandfathers that got swallowed. And I'm gonna skip through a lot of my notes because I wanna close this up with you. That the city of Jerusalem31:06 is surrounded. The king of Assyria is taking over country after country after country, and he's killing everybody, undefeated. He just got done conquering Samaria. He's coming right down. The31:18 king of Hezekiah doesn't wanna keep giving him tax money and gold and silver. And and the king Hezekiah goes to the prophet Isaiah, and he's like, listen. This guy is just gonna take us over and kill us. And 18500031:30 people are surrounding Jerusalem. I'm the type of person when I read scripture, I don't know. I have 1 of those cartoon brains. I just jump in. I can see it all, touch it, feel it, smell it. What are they thinking? I31:41 hear a noise in the middle of the night and I jump out of bed. What are these guys hearing when 185000 people are just doing stuff outside your walls? They had to be petrified. And Hezekiah is like, Lord, if you don't31:52 come down and save us, we're gonna die. The bible says not 1000 angels came down,32:04 but 1 angel came down, the angel of the lord. The angel of the Lord. Genesis 16 21, 22, Exodus 3, Judges 2, 5, 6, Samuel 24,32:16 Zechariah 1, 3, and 12. There's 1 angel in the bible called the angel and there's a bunch of angels and cherubims and the seraphims and all of other stuff. But 1 angel came down, and the bible says32:28 that 1 angel slew 185000 people, and I studied 5 styles of sword fighting. I love swords and blah blah blah. And I'm saying to myself, like, was he just spinning? Did he just say a word32:40 and everybody dies? Did was he, like, smacking shins? I'm like, no. He would put it right to the heart. He would chop the head off. I think that 1 angel, personally, I think he drew a sword on32:51 185000 individual men personally. I think he was moving. The bible says give glory to the lord. Give him33:03 strength. Stop thinking he's weak. You wanna know why I love the prisoners? Probably33:14 because they don't wanna follow that Jesus because he was spit upon, mocked, laughed at, you know, punch him in the face. Hey. Give me the other cheek. Punch this 1 too. That's not my god.33:26 My god hung on that cross. He was beaten, whipped, and all that stuff happened late at night till 9 o'clock in the morning. 9 o'clock in the morning hung on a cross. He's dead by 3 PM. That's the last time33:38 anyone would ever do that to him. He was weak for 10 hours. He's not weak. You33:50 have to picture this battlefield. They get out of Jerusalem. They walk outside the next morning. They don't know who killed these people. Isaiah's with34:02 them. Isaiah wrote in, like, chapter 46. It doesn't matter. But he's like, the Lord Jehovah will fight for you. You will be silent, and he will fight for you. They were silent. He did all the fighting.34:16 And that was BC 500 when they wrote the psalm. 100 years later, God goes silent with the Jews for 400 years, and he34:28 shows up again. The angel of the Lord showed up again in the womb of a virgin named Mary, espoused to a young34:39 Jewish boy, Joseph. And that angel of the Lord in the womb of Mary was not son of Joseph, my friend. He was son of God.34:52 Now he's hanging on a tree in the same city that he just defended. The same people he just killed everybody for are killing him. He's not there to kill another group of hundred35:04 thousand. He's there to kill himself, and it pleased the father to crush him. Psalms 22, he poured out his life as an offering.35:16 Why? All he wanted to do was to show them, number 1, how glorious he was, how important and valuable they were. He wanted to secure a people for35:28 himself, but they don't want him. They don't want to give him what? Their time. We ain't giving you a minute. Hundred and 68 hours a week. We35:40 ain't gonna read your book for a minute. We're not gonna pray to you for 2 minutes. We'll go to church for an hour, but that's it. We won't go to that small group though for the hour, but maybe we'll help out in the35:51 parking lot for a half hour. Guys, he wants your time. I told you at the beginning of the message that I wanted to display 1 of the biggest things for36:03 you to bring him glory. The greatest thing in my opinion. And it wasn't Jesus, and it wasn't the cross, and it wasn't the blood. Your father's not a vampire. He doesn't like to drink blood, although he poured his blood36:15 out for you. The biggest thing in my opinion after being his missionary is you. The whole story of him dying on a cross is for you. He creates36:27 you. He wants you. His glory is on display for you. He wants to brag about his love for you. The bible's not about you. It's about him, but the story is about you. It's his story.36:40 You run from him. He chases you. He wants to bring you back to him. You did nothing for him. He does everything for you, and he wants you the way you are. It's in his names. What's his name? The everlasting father.36:51 Father of who? Father of you. What's the point of being a father if it's not about you or it's not about you? It's it's father of you. Father of you. And he's the shepherd of who? You. He's the protector of you. He's the37:02 defender of you. He's the lord of you. It's about you. Widows, he wants to be the husband of you. Those of you far from him, he wants you to come back. New Christian, he wants you to37:14 follow him so he can bless you. And you're not a Christian. He desires you. He wants you. You don't wanna see this37:25 because you just wanna live your best American life, but he wants you to recognize him for his distinguished qualities. He wants to secure your praise. I love it when I come to this church and I see some of37:37 you guys not singing. I love it. I don't know why. You don't have a song. I didn't have a song for years. I wouldn't dare sing a song here. I didn't want someone to see me. And eventually, he secured my37:49 praise and I started to sing to him. And I remembered he captured me as a little child and I used to love to sing his praises, but I went so far from him. And he pulls me back. The whole thing38:01 is about me. I'm not saying that in an off balanced way, but he wants you to learn more of him. He wants you to read about his heights of achievement. Read his bible. Read his word or38:13 don't. But at least I told you you ought to. I'm here to preach you his good news. It's for you to accept it or not. He wants to bring you to a high state of exaltation and he wants you38:25 to glory him. When you read the scripture and you see what he was doing back then, you can see what he's doing now. You gotta read these stories guys. My sermon in a sentence. When we understand how valuable we are to38:35 him, we can properly grow in our love for his glory. And we can discover the joys of this life that are found in38:47 Christ. Listen. I'll give you a secret. He doesn't want you to get this relationship with him so he can give you that home in heaven and have eternal life. He wants to give you that life now. It starts38:59 now. It's this life that I can't I didn't really wanna come up here and brag and tell you guys tons of stories on Guatemala. I don't like that. I wanted to brag to you about him. But I wanted to share 1 thing39:10 with you, that at the heights of the glory that I felt from him, this is the honest truth, I felt that if I died and saw him face to face,Show more
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