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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Investigation Jesus (Part 6) | December 6, 2025
- Andy stanley: hi everybody, welcome to "your move" where we
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- Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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- I'm andy stanley and i'll be your guide.
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- Every once in a while somebody asks me why i'm a christian.
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- And my answer is simple.
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- I say because following jesus has made my life better, and
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- Following jesus makes me better at life.
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- Now, it's not always easier, but it sure is better and why it's
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- Better is what we're talking about today right here on
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- "your move."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Andy: today we're wrapping up our series
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- "investigating jesus."
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- It's been a lot of fun.
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- It's been a lot of fun for me to prepare this series.
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- And we've said throughout this series that the subtitle how we
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- Know and why we follow is so important because we're asking
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- The question, how do we know there's anything to the story
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- Of jesus?
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- And then we're asking a more fundamental, a deeper and more
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- Practical question, why follow?
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- I mean, why would anyone in the 21st century commit their lives
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- Or kind of like, you know, as we're gonna talk about today,
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- Sort of write a blank check with our lives to a 1st
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- Century rabbi?
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- How do we know there's anything to it and why in the world
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- Should we choose to follow?
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- How do we know that jesus is even worth following?
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- But this is important to know because christianity or the
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- Credibility of christianity rises and falls really
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- Specifically on the identity or the supposed identity of one
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- Individual, jesus of nazareth.
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- The whole thing rises and falls on this, which means, as we said
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- Throughout, and this is such an important part and that's why
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- I've repeated it throughout the series, which means that if
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- You're considering christianity or you're reconsidering
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- Christianity because you walked away and you're thinking about
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- Coming back, or if you are unconsidering christianity,
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- There's really just one question to wrestle to the ground.
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- And unfortunately, the church hasn't always done a great job
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- Pointing people who are considering christianity to this
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- Question and the question is really this, is matthew, mark,
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- Luke, or john a reliable account of actual events?
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- These are the four 1st century documents that document the life
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- Of jesus from different angles, different perspectives with
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- Different stories, different parables, you know, different,
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- I mean, different approach.
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- But if even if just one of these is a reliable account or even
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- Mostly reliable account of actual events, then everybody
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- Needs to sit up straight and pay attention because it means that
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- What jesus said about himself is true.
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- And if what jesus said about himself is true, then he is in
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- Fact worth following and worth devoting our entire lives to.
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- So in this series, we're exploring, if you've been along
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- Been along the journey with us, we're exploring one of those
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- First century documents that's called the gospel of luke, named
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- After its author.
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- And right up front, luke lets us know he's not writing religious
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- Material, and he says, "i'm not the only one.
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- I'm not in some corner somewhere just making stuff up."
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- Many, many, how many is many?
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- I don't know.
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- Is many just four?
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- Four doesn't sound like many to me, but "many have undertaken to
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- Draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled" or the
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- Things that happened, "among us."
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- Not long ago, you know, somewhere far, far away, the
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- Things that have happened right here among us, "just as they
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- Were handed down to us by those who from the first were,"
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- Actually part of the story, "were eyewitnesses."
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- So luke is not writing in his mind, he's not writing the
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- Bible, but luke's extraordinary document because who wrote it
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- When it was written and what it says about jesus was so precious
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- To the early church that it was collected and it was copied and
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- Eventually it became part of the new testament, which eventually
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- Became part of what we call and what we respect as the bible.
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- But luke's not writing the bible.
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- Luke's just telling us what happened.
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- And what happened at the end is why the story was worth telling
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- In the first place.
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- In fact, luke would be quick to tell us if the story didn't end
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- The way the story ended, there was no story to tell, because
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- Jesus was just another wannabe prophet, wannabe rabbi, wannabe
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- Messiah who went the way of all the wannabe hope to be messiahs
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- In judea.
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- What happened at the end of the story actually makes sense of
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- And creates the context for everything that happened in
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- The story.
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- And here's how the end of the story begins.
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- "when they came to the place called the skull, they crucified
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- Him there, along with the criminals--one on his right, and
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- The other on his left."
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- It's so interesting in the gospels, none of the gospel
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- Writers give us any details about the crucifixion of jesus,
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- And the reason there are no details is because in the 1st
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- Century no details were needed.
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- Everybody had seen one, everybody's seen the aftermath
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- Of one.
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- Parents had, you know, turned their children the other way as
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- They walked by one.
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- It would be like you telling me, "hey, andy, i've gonna go get my
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- Teeth cleaned."
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- I wouldn't ask any question like what's that like?
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- What happens?
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- What's the procedure? why?
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- Because everybody knows what it means to get your teeth cleaned.
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- So in first century judea and galilee and that whole region,
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- In fact all over the roman empire, all you needed to hear
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- Was he was crucified, he was crucified.
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- No details needed.
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- Crucifixion was created, we think by the persians, the
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- Greeks improved on it, but the romans perfected it.
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- It was a way to keep a man alive as long as possible.
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- It was not just a punishment, it was a deterrent.
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- It was terror on display, reserved mostly for criminals,
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- Political rebels, but never a roman citizen.
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- Luke says, this is the surprise ending.
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- This is the surprise beginning of the end of the story.
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- "when they came to the place called the skull, they crucified
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- Him there, along with criminals--one on his right, and
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- The other on his left.
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- And jesus said..."
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- And jesus said the most remarkable, unsettling
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- Thing imaginable.
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- In fact, what comes next, what jesus said next, what comes next
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- Is actually the end to which jesus invites all of us
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- To follow.
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- Andy: and so what did jesus say that was so remarkable that i
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- Think caused luke to say, "are you sure that's what he said?"
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- From the cross, he said, "father, forgive them, forgive
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- Them because they don't really know what they're doing."
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- They thought they did, but they did not.
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- And the evidence is, the evidence that they didn't know
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- What they're doing is because they just kept on doing exactly
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- What they were doing.
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- Listen to this next callous line that luke adds because this is
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- What happened.
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- And while jesus is dying and while jesus is forgiving, luke
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- Says, and they, while this is going on, "and they divided up
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- His clothes," right at his feet, "by casting lots."
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- What did he say?
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- I don't know who cares, it's your role.
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- Forgive them?
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- Come on, how weak is that?
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- How passive, how spineless.
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- What a loser.
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- In fact, by, this is the story by 1st century standards, by
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- 21st century standards, jesus lost.
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- His enemies won and worse than that, when they came to arrest
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- Him, you know the story, when they came to arrest him, he
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- Didn't even resist.
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- And when his followers who were with him in the garden that
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- Night tried to resist, he said, "no more of this, no more of
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- This, stop this.
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- Put away your sword.
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- This is not my way. this is not the way.
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- That's so kingdoms of this world one on one, and i have come to
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- Pave a new way.
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- I've come to demonstrate a different way to resist.
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- I've come to demonstrate a different way to respond and
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- To react."
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- And when his followers realize he's not even going to resist,
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- You know the story, they all unfollowed and they all fled.
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- But they shouldn't have been surprised at jesus's response to
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- His arrest, because this is how he had lived his entire life.
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- This has been his posture all along, and this was the posture
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- That he insisted they take if they were going to be
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- His follower.
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- But it's so disturbing, it's so on everything in us for most
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- Of us.
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- And it's why most of us would rather just believe than choose
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- To follow.
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- Because following jesus will cost you something.
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- But it's why jesus has so many admirers and so few followers.
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- So here's the question.
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- Which one are you?
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- Which one am i? which, which one are we?
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- The way of jesus, it's disturbing, it's unnerving, it's
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- Really un-american, it's really kinda, if i could be honest,
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- It's kind of unmanly.
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- But when you see it played out, and when you have seen a man or
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- A woman react in such a way that reflects the posture of jesus,
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- It's, well, it's jaw dropping, it's showstopping.
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- Their reaction slices through the darkness.
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- And that's the effect that the way of jesus has when it's lived
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- Out in this imperfect world.
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- It stirs something in us.
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- It doesn't look weak.
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- In fact, for example, you should look up the story of
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- Rachael denhollander.
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- She was the person who addressed, she actually
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- Addressed larry nassar and during the sentencing phase of
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- His trial for years and years and years of sexual assault.
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- As you may know, rachael was the first person to publicly accuse
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- Larry nasser, the former usa gymnast doctor, of sexually
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- Abusing over 200 little girls and young women.
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- And you should look up her statement in the courtroom.
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- I was gonna read part of it.
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- It's so emotional.
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- I can't even get through the first line.
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- Some of you know what that first line was.
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- It's so powerful, it's so disarming, and i know for so
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- Many people, even in our audience, it's so close to the
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- Reality of your experience that i just don't wanna go there, but
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- You should look it up.
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- And then you should ask yourself the question, is following
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- Jesus weak?
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- Is following jesus passive?
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- Is following jesus a way to simply lose and to lose and to
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- Lose and to lose?
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- But when you read her words, when you read what she says
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- Publicly to the man that did more damage to her than anyone
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- That'll ever do damage to her, you just stop and stare.
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- It's suddenly a little light cuts through.
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- And here's the point.
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- Jesus invites all of us to be that better.
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- And in the end, he died that better.
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- Luke actually documents jesus's specific invitation to his
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- Followers to live that kind of life and to demonstrate
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- That posture.
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- Jesus says, okay, let me put it out there for you this way.
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- If any one of you, if any one of you desires to come after me,
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- Literally, if any of you desire to line up behind me, be a part
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- Of my movement and move along with me.
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- Yeah, that's what we wanna do, jesus.
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- He said, okay, then here's what you're gonna have to do.
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- You're going to have to--they're going to have to
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- Deny themselves.
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- It's going to require that you say no to you.
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- It's gonna require that you are not ruled by your appetite,
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- You're not ruled by your ambition, and you're not ruled
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- By the rules of the day.
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- You will neither have the opportunity to act or react like
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- Everybody else around you.
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- And then he said something that means almost nothing to us, but
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- It meant everything to the people in his audience.
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- And to be specific, you're gonna deny yourself and you're gonna
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- Take up a cross.
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- We'll take up his cross.
- 00:13:29.260 --> 00:13:30.594
- Now, in the 1st century, if you were carrying a cross, you
- 00:13:30.594 --> 00:13:33.564
- Know what that meant?
- 00:13:33.564 --> 00:13:34.932
- It meant that your independence had come to an end.
- 00:13:34.932 --> 00:13:39.770
- And then jesus adds a very disturbing but very important
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- Word to what he says.
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- This is the challenge.
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- This is honestly is the differentiator.
- 00:13:47.511 --> 00:13:49.880
- This is the difference between a believer and a follower.
- 00:13:49.880 --> 00:13:53.951
- This is the difference between somebody who has internalized
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- Their christianity because they hope it will serve them well and
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- Someone who is following jesus and wants to make a difference
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- In the world.
- 00:14:02.793 --> 00:14:05.796
- Daily, daily, you can pray a sinner's prayer, pray a
- 00:14:05.796 --> 00:14:11.835
- Salvation prayer once, but this is different.
- 00:14:11.835 --> 00:14:15.973
- And luke would say, and i'm telling you this is what makes
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- The difference, and this is what made the difference, and this is
- 00:14:20.077 --> 00:14:23.914
- Why the message of jesus survived the empire and survived
- 00:14:23.914 --> 00:14:28.152
- The temple because his followers were difference makers and they
- 00:14:28.152 --> 00:14:31.956
- Actually did this stuff and it caught on.
- 00:14:31.956 --> 00:14:37.895
- This is a daily decision.
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- This is every single morning, thy kingdom come, not
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- My kingdom.
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- Every single morning, thy will be done, not my will be done.
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- This is every single morning, in my life as it is in heaven.
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- Because you are my, not just my savior, not just the forgiver of
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- My sins, you are my lord and you are my king, and i submit all i
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- Am to all of you, my hands, my feet, my eyes, my ears, my
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- Thoughts, my resources.
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- I am 100% yours.
- 00:15:04.855 --> 00:15:07.224
- I am carrying a cross.
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- I am abandoning my independence.
- 00:15:08.892 --> 00:15:18.402
- "and follow me," because that's what it means to follow jesus.
- 00:15:18.402 --> 00:15:25.342
- To get in line behind him, to move along with his movement
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- Means i say no to me, and you say no to you, that i submit to
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- Him, that i literally follow.
- 00:15:32.683 --> 00:15:36.653
- So again, if you're a christian, if you're a believer, do you
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- Do that?
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- Do i do that?
- 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:44.728
- Is that what characterizes us?
- 00:15:44.728 --> 00:15:47.231
- Or have we fallen into the average christian experience of
- 00:15:47.231 --> 00:15:51.068
- Forgive me of my sin, bless my family and thank you for the
- 00:15:51.068 --> 00:15:54.038
- Food, and if there's a problem, i'll let you know.
- 00:15:54.038 --> 00:15:57.174
- Those aren't the people that changed the world, those aren't
- 00:15:57.174 --> 00:15:59.276
- The people that changed anything.
- 00:15:59.276 --> 00:16:02.679
- And luke's like, i know it sounds like a lot.
- 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:05.315
- And when he said it, it sounded like a lot and people withdrew
- 00:16:05.315 --> 00:16:08.952
- And people didn't get it and at the very end, i mean, luke
- 00:16:08.952 --> 00:16:11.321
- Documents it, the gospel writers documented.
- 00:16:11.321 --> 00:16:13.490
- I think peter's like, "yeah, just put it in there."
- 00:16:13.490 --> 00:16:16.593
- We all ran away.
- 00:16:16.593 --> 00:16:17.961
- It was too much for us.
- 00:16:17.961 --> 00:16:19.296
- We didn't wanna lose.
- 00:16:19.296 --> 00:16:22.332
- Because we didn't understand, we didn't understand that the
- 00:16:22.332 --> 00:16:25.536
- Alternative to what jesus was inviting us to do was to be
- 00:16:25.536 --> 00:16:29.239
- Small, to be independent and small, and to live small little
- 00:16:29.239 --> 00:16:33.610
- Lives that was gonna be just all about us, appetite driven,
- 00:16:33.610 --> 00:16:37.281
- Consumer driven, close handed, striving, you know, clinging
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- To things.
- 00:16:41.118 --> 00:16:42.920
- He says, here's how to ensure that that's not the situation
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- With you, "for whoever wants to save their life, he's gonna
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- Lose it."
- 00:16:51.562 --> 00:16:53.464
- Well, whatever, don't miss this, whatever you cling to diminishes
- 00:16:53.464 --> 00:17:00.003
- Over time, loses its value.
- 00:17:00.003 --> 00:17:03.774
- If you hoard seed, they don't produce a crop.
- 00:17:03.774 --> 00:17:08.378
- If you hoard seed, they eventually rot.
- 00:17:08.378 --> 00:17:13.884
- "for whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever
- 00:17:13.884 --> 00:17:16.520
- Loses their life for me," that is for my kingdom, for my
- 00:17:16.520 --> 00:17:20.390
- Adventure, for my movement, ultimately you save it.
- 00:17:20.390 --> 00:17:25.829
- Or as we say around here all the time, if you live for yourself,
- 00:17:25.829 --> 00:17:28.499
- You're only gonna have yourself to show for yourself.
- 00:17:28.499 --> 00:17:31.535
- Live for yourself, you're only gonna have yourself to show
- 00:17:31.535 --> 00:17:34.471
- For yourself.
- 00:17:34.471 --> 00:17:35.806
- And jesus is inviting us to sow our lives, our time, our talent,
- 00:17:35.806 --> 00:17:40.244
- Our resources so that there's something more to show.
- 00:17:40.244 --> 00:17:44.214
- To give our lives away to something other than us that's
- 00:17:44.214 --> 00:17:47.584
- Bigger than us so we'll have something other than us to show
- 00:17:47.584 --> 00:17:51.255
- For us.
- 00:17:51.255 --> 00:17:52.656
- And if this, come on, if this sounds threatening, if this
- 00:17:52.656 --> 00:17:56.560
- Sounds terrible, it's because we don't understand it.
- 00:17:56.560 --> 00:18:01.064
- And if this sounds threatening and terrible, it's because we've
- 00:18:01.064 --> 00:18:03.333
- Never seen it lived out or we haven't recognized it when we
- 00:18:03.333 --> 00:18:05.669
- Have, because when you see it, it is amazing, and when you see
- 00:18:05.669 --> 00:18:08.572
- It, it is attractive, and when you see it, you stand at a
- 00:18:08.572 --> 00:18:11.108
- Distance and you think, i would like to be more like that, and i
- 00:18:11.108 --> 00:18:14.211
- Hope i would have responded like that, and i hope i would have
- 00:18:14.211 --> 00:18:16.713
- Reacted like that, and i hope i could come through on the other
- 00:18:16.713 --> 00:18:19.249
- End and look like him and look like her and have the confidence
- 00:18:19.249 --> 00:18:21.985
- They have and the contentment they have.
- 00:18:21.985 --> 00:18:23.687
- I hope, i hope, i hope, and jesus is saying, this is what
- 00:18:23.687 --> 00:18:26.623
- I'm inviting you to do.
- 00:18:26.623 --> 00:18:28.659
- Because whatever it is you're clinging to, you're gonna lose
- 00:18:28.659 --> 00:18:31.295
- Anyway and whatever you're clinging to and hoping it never
- 00:18:31.295 --> 00:18:33.664
- Slips out of your hands, it's just going to diminish and i am
- 00:18:33.664 --> 00:18:36.533
- Inviting you to something bigger and something better and
- 00:18:36.533 --> 00:18:40.771
- Something far more significant.
- 00:18:40.771 --> 00:18:43.140
- It is the invitation.
- 00:18:43.140 --> 00:18:44.541
- It really is the invitation of a lifetime, an invitation to do
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- Something noticeable and noteworthy, that's not
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- About you.
- 00:18:53.250 --> 00:18:54.585
- And then he ends with this question, "what good is it?"
- 00:18:54.585 --> 00:19:01.792
- It's like, let's go to the end.
- 00:19:01.792 --> 00:19:03.126
- Let's turn this whole thing around.
- 00:19:03.126 --> 00:19:05.229
- "what good is it if somebody gains the whole world," that is
- 00:19:05.229 --> 00:19:09.633
- Whatever you wanted, whatever you were chasing, you got it,
- 00:19:09.633 --> 00:19:14.071
- "and yet in the end they lose or forfeit their very self."
- 00:19:14.071 --> 00:19:18.842
- And in other words, he says, what good is it to think the
- 00:19:18.842 --> 00:19:22.746
- Whole time you're winning only to discover that when the clock
- 00:19:22.746 --> 00:19:27.017
- Runs out, you weren't even playing the right game.
- 00:19:27.017 --> 00:19:30.354
- And luke's like, okay, this is the point.
- 00:19:30.354 --> 00:19:33.156
- This is why you gotta go back and reread everything he said
- 00:19:33.156 --> 00:19:35.525
- And did now that you have the end of mind.
- 00:19:35.525 --> 00:19:37.628
- Because he is inviting us not to a better version of the way that
- 00:19:37.628 --> 00:19:41.765
- You're currently living.
- 00:19:41.765 --> 00:19:43.100
- He's not inviting us to, you know, to current culture,
- 00:19:43.100 --> 00:19:46.303
- Current pace, current priorities, you know, 201.
- 00:19:46.303 --> 00:19:49.506
- He's luke's like, no, no, we finally understood.
- 00:19:49.506 --> 00:19:52.242
- He was inviting us to something entirely different.
- 00:19:52.242 --> 00:19:55.112
- He really was the king that came to reverse the order of things,
- 00:19:55.112 --> 00:19:59.082
- That when he said, "the son of man did not come to be served
- 00:19:59.082 --> 00:20:02.019
- But to serve and to give his life a ransom for many," that
- 00:20:02.019 --> 00:20:04.988
- Wasn't a metaphor, that wasn't a word picture, that was literal.
- 00:20:04.988 --> 00:20:10.560
- And in the end it all came into focus.
- 00:20:10.560 --> 00:20:13.830
- And we finally understood that if we're not careful, we're
- 00:20:13.830 --> 00:20:17.267
- Gonna live little itty bitty lives consumed on ourselves, and
- 00:20:17.267 --> 00:20:21.738
- He was inviting us to something grand, bigger, something that
- 00:20:21.738 --> 00:20:27.744
- Would have fruit that would last and remain beyond our lifetime,
- 00:20:27.744 --> 00:20:32.416
- Beyond our generation.
- 00:20:32.416 --> 00:20:35.686
- It's an invitation to give what we can't keep anyway.
- 00:20:35.686 --> 00:20:41.491
- And he played that out and lived that out to the very end.
- 00:20:41.491 --> 00:20:48.965
- "father, forgive them," because they think they know, but they
- 00:20:48.965 --> 00:20:58.141
- Don't really know what they're--they don't know what
- 00:20:58.141 --> 00:20:59.676
- They're doing because they're not in the game.
- 00:20:59.676 --> 00:21:02.946
- Just forgive them.
- 00:21:02.946 --> 00:21:06.516
- Then luke got the following from the folks who were there, the
- 00:21:06.516 --> 00:21:09.786
- Rulers, the people who were kind of responsible for jesus being
- 00:21:09.786 --> 00:21:12.789
- Crucified, the rulers sneered at him while he's dying.
- 00:21:12.789 --> 00:21:16.193
- They said, "he saved others; let him save himself if he is the
- 00:21:16.193 --> 00:21:19.930
- Christ," if he is the messiah, "if he is the chosen one."
- 00:21:19.930 --> 00:21:22.866
- Come on, if he's a king, come on, if he's a king, didn't he
- 00:21:22.866 --> 00:21:26.803
- Say he was a king?
- 00:21:26.803 --> 00:21:28.138
- If he's a king, he should act like a king.
- 00:21:28.138 --> 00:21:30.574
- Kings don't allow themselves to be taken without a fight.
- 00:21:30.574 --> 00:21:33.810
- He is no king.
- 00:21:33.810 --> 00:21:36.713
- The soldiers joined in.
- 00:21:36.713 --> 00:21:38.048
- The soldiers came up and mocked him.
- 00:21:38.048 --> 00:21:40.650
- They offered him wine vinegar.
- 00:21:40.650 --> 00:21:42.285
- These are auxiliaries.
- 00:21:42.285 --> 00:21:44.254
- These are men who've been hired by rome to serve in the legions
- 00:21:44.254 --> 00:21:47.524
- Who aren't roman citizens.
- 00:21:47.524 --> 00:21:48.892
- They're not even roman.
- 00:21:48.892 --> 00:21:50.227
- They've never been to italy.
- 00:21:50.227 --> 00:21:51.595
- They're from the surrounding regions, and they hate the
- 00:21:51.595 --> 00:21:53.630
- Galileans and they hate the judeans anyway, and they're
- 00:21:53.630 --> 00:21:56.533
- Allowed to crucify one.
- 00:21:56.533 --> 00:21:57.968
- This is--they're celebrating.
- 00:21:57.968 --> 00:21:59.870
- They don't know who he is. they don't care who he is.
- 00:21:59.870 --> 00:22:01.571
- They're just celebrating the end of another galilean.
- 00:22:01.571 --> 00:22:06.243
- "they offered him wine vinegar and they said, 'if you are the
- 00:22:06.243 --> 00:22:08.078
- King of the jews, save yourself.'"
- 00:22:08.078 --> 00:22:11.648
- Come on, if you're a king, do what kings do, do something for
- 00:22:11.648 --> 00:22:14.985
- You, we know how it works.
- 00:22:14.985 --> 00:22:19.156
- Remember this part?
- 00:22:19.156 --> 00:22:20.524
- And then one of the criminals who hung there, hurled insults
- 00:22:20.524 --> 00:22:24.494
- At him, "aren't you the christ?
- 00:22:24.494 --> 00:22:27.330
- Save yourself."
- 00:22:27.330 --> 00:22:28.665
- Come on, do you not know how the world works?
- 00:22:28.665 --> 00:22:30.801
- If you are a king, save yourself, that's what kings do.
- 00:22:30.801 --> 00:22:36.973
- And while you're at it, "and us."
- 00:22:36.973 --> 00:22:45.282
- What they did not know, what they did not understand, and
- 00:22:45.282 --> 00:22:48.652
- What luke is, you know, he's like he just wants to reach off
- 00:22:48.652 --> 00:22:51.421
- The page and grab us again by the collar, put his hand behind
- 00:22:51.421 --> 00:22:54.291
- Her neck and say, "do you understand what happened?"
- 00:22:54.291 --> 00:22:58.028
- Luke would say, what they did not know because they weren't at
- 00:22:58.028 --> 00:23:01.364
- The end of the end of the story yet.
- 00:23:01.364 --> 00:23:03.033
- What they did not know is if he had saved himself, he would have
- 00:23:03.033 --> 00:23:08.238
- Forfeited his ability to save them.
- 00:23:08.238 --> 00:23:15.745
- If he had saved himself, he would have forfeited his
- 00:23:15.745 --> 00:23:19.916
- Ability, his opportunity to save you.
- 00:23:19.916 --> 00:23:24.621
- He was others first to the bloody, bitter, painful,
- 00:23:24.621 --> 00:23:30.460
- Shameful end.
- 00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:36.132
- Kingdoms of this world, kingdom of god.
- 00:23:36.132 --> 00:23:39.703
- Kingdoms of this world, kingdom of god.
- 00:23:39.703 --> 00:23:44.508
- So who?
- 00:23:44.508 --> 00:23:47.511
- Who are you gonna follow?
- 00:23:47.511 --> 00:23:50.313
- Who am i gonna follow?
- 00:23:50.313 --> 00:23:52.415
- What am i gonna follow?
- 00:23:52.415 --> 00:23:53.750
- What are you gonna follow?
- 00:23:53.750 --> 00:23:55.719
- Who's gonna rule me?
- 00:23:55.719 --> 00:23:57.487
- Me?
- 00:23:57.487 --> 00:23:58.855
- Who's gonna rule you?
- 00:23:58.855 --> 00:24:00.190
- You?
- 00:24:00.190 --> 00:24:01.525
- Who's gonna be the boss of you, the king of you?
- 00:24:01.525 --> 00:24:03.059
- Your appetites, your ambition, your goals and your subset of
- 00:24:03.059 --> 00:24:07.964
- Goals and all those things that we should all do because all
- 00:24:07.964 --> 00:24:10.033
- Those things are important, but at the end of the day, who has
- 00:24:10.033 --> 00:24:12.969
- The final say in your life?
- 00:24:12.969 --> 00:24:14.304
- Who has the final say in my life?
- 00:24:14.304 --> 00:24:17.340
- So we all have a decision to make, every single one of us.
- 00:24:17.340 --> 00:24:22.946
- Are you an admirer?
- 00:24:22.946 --> 00:24:26.216
- I mean, pretty much everybody on planet earth admires
- 00:24:26.216 --> 00:24:29.519
- Jesus, right?
- 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:30.854
- Even people of other religions, because they extract certain
- 00:24:30.854 --> 00:24:34.124
- Parts of the message that like all the one liners and the punch
- 00:24:34.124 --> 00:24:36.593
- Lines, the parables.
- 00:24:36.593 --> 00:24:37.961
- Luke's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, you can't admire this guy.
- 00:24:37.961 --> 00:24:40.931
- You haven't read my account.
- 00:24:40.931 --> 00:24:42.465
- If you just admire him, you don't get it.
- 00:24:42.465 --> 00:24:46.870
- Admirer, follower.
- 00:24:46.870 --> 00:24:54.077
- This is a daily decision.
- 00:24:54.077 --> 00:24:59.182
- And the people who choose wisely daily are the people who change
- 00:24:59.182 --> 00:25:04.087
- The world.
- 00:25:04.087 --> 00:25:05.455
- And if i could just, you know, twist the knife just a little
- 00:25:05.455 --> 00:25:08.725
- Bit, isn't there something, isn't there something a little
- 00:25:08.725 --> 00:25:11.962
- Bit, you know, duplicitous or disingenuous about accepting
- 00:25:11.962 --> 00:25:18.234
- Jesus forgiveness, but resisting his invitation to follow?
- 00:25:18.234 --> 00:25:25.609
- You know, i don't want to eat broccoli, i'll just have
- 00:25:25.609 --> 00:25:28.111
- Ice cream.
- 00:25:28.111 --> 00:25:29.813
- Now, i don't like this.
- 00:25:29.813 --> 00:25:31.181
- I just like--luke's like, whoa, you can't do that.
- 00:25:31.181 --> 00:25:35.085
- He hasn't just invited you to get forgiven.
- 00:25:35.085 --> 00:25:39.255
- He's invited us to follow, and it is a good invitation.
- 00:25:39.255 --> 00:25:43.493
- It is a good decision.
- 00:25:43.493 --> 00:25:45.528
- It is a better way to live.
- 00:25:45.528 --> 00:25:52.769
- "it was about noon, darkness came over the whole land until
- 00:25:52.769 --> 00:25:57.307
- Three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining."
- 00:25:57.307 --> 00:26:04.748
- And nobody saw this coming.
- 00:26:04.748 --> 00:26:06.182
- There was no prophecy.
- 00:26:06.182 --> 00:26:07.517
- This was like what?
- 00:26:07.517 --> 00:26:09.452
- "and the curtain of the temple was torn in two."
- 00:26:09.452 --> 00:26:13.790
- Now there were two giant curtains in the temple.
- 00:26:13.790 --> 00:26:16.626
- We don't know which one luke's referring to, but two other
- 00:26:16.626 --> 00:26:20.463
- Gospel writers say the curtain was ripped in two, and it wasn't
- 00:26:20.463 --> 00:26:24.034
- Ripped in two from the bottom to the top like two folks got hold
- 00:26:24.034 --> 00:26:26.836
- Of it, slit it, and just ripped it open, plus the thing's about
- 00:26:26.836 --> 00:26:29.205
- 12 inches thick, you know.
- 00:26:29.205 --> 00:26:31.408
- It was ripped from the top to the bottom, and one of these
- 00:26:31.408 --> 00:26:37.213
- Curtains separated the holy of holies from everything outside
- 00:26:37.213 --> 00:26:40.050
- The holy of holies that most holy place, and the other one
- 00:26:40.050 --> 00:26:42.752
- Just separated the temple from the outer court.
- 00:26:42.752 --> 00:26:45.689
- We don't know which one was torn.
- 00:26:45.689 --> 00:26:47.691
- It doesn't matter.
- 00:26:47.691 --> 00:26:49.626
- But do you know what it symbolized?
- 00:26:49.626 --> 00:26:52.095
- It symbolized that god in some sort of 1st century
- 00:26:52.095 --> 00:26:56.166
- Understanding way was leaving the temple to seek and to find
- 00:26:56.166 --> 00:27:02.372
- And to reclaim his rebel race, his lost sheep, his lost coin,
- 00:27:02.372 --> 00:27:08.144
- His lost son, his lost daughter and that the era of the temple
- 00:27:08.144 --> 00:27:14.250
- Had come to an end.
- 00:27:14.250 --> 00:27:16.486
- That everybody was invited because if everybody
- 00:27:16.486 --> 00:27:22.192
- Participated, the world would certainly change.
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- Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching today.
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