WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.500 It's awesome when we come in and we actually are pursuing with our heart how the Lord meets us. 00:06.200 --> 00:08.480 Like, his presence is here already. 00:10.340 --> 00:14.900 And that only comes with true worship and true seeking after him. 00:17.360 --> 00:24.080 And as I was thinking about what the Lord wanted to do during prayer today, 00:24.220 --> 00:25.260 it jumped out at me right away. 00:26.520 --> 00:30.880 There's been a couple things that's been consistently running through me this last, 00:31.780 --> 00:33.560 I'd say the last three months really. 00:34.600 --> 00:38.720 And one of them is, and it just happened a couple weeks ago, 00:38.880 --> 00:46.740 is I just vividly get this image in my mind of Jesus on the cross with the two thieves on each side. 00:47.420 --> 00:52.700 And you have one that's mocking him, you know, taunting him. 00:52.700 --> 00:54.100 Then come down, save yourself. 00:54.900 --> 00:57.820 And you have the other just calling him the other thief of fool and says, 00:57.900 --> 00:59.660 Lord, remember me. 01:00.640 --> 01:05.620 So you have two completely opposite pictures on both sides of Jesus there. 01:07.160 --> 01:13.460 The other thing that keeps running through me, which is really what I want to focus in on right during this next few minutes is 01:14.920 --> 01:16.380 being captivated by the Lord. 01:17.180 --> 01:18.760 Being captivated by Jesus. 01:19.120 --> 01:20.040 And what does that mean? 01:20.940 --> 01:23.780 What does that look like for us in our personal lives? 01:23.940 --> 01:25.360 What does it look like for us as a body? 01:26.160 --> 01:27.920 And what does Scripture say about that? 01:28.020 --> 01:30.960 Because at the end of the day, and we'll read it here in a second, 01:31.180 --> 01:35.620 it's, unless Jesus is the pursuit and the foundation of everything, 01:35.960 --> 01:39.140 it's nothing, worthless, right? 01:40.600 --> 01:43.160 So that's what we're going to speak on today a little bit. 01:43.160 --> 01:45.500 And I'll be honest. 01:46.280 --> 01:51.040 Getting ready for prayer is as much as you know the Lord's on something 01:51.040 --> 01:52.780 or you believe you're following what he wants, 01:53.420 --> 01:57.640 it's a weight to carry and preach the word that Jesus set forth. 01:58.320 --> 02:00.560 To share what he's given you. 02:01.360 --> 02:03.660 So I do not take that lightly. 02:03.800 --> 02:05.180 I just want that to be clear. 02:05.880 --> 02:10.880 So anything I say is simply from the standpoint of doing what he wants 02:12.040 --> 02:14.820 and what I want to get out of that for him. 02:14.900 --> 02:16.840 It's not about me, it's not about anything like that. 02:18.280 --> 02:19.260 So thanks guys. 02:19.540 --> 02:20.760 Brian, if you want, it's up to you. 02:20.820 --> 02:22.140 Stand the keys, however you feel. 02:24.420 --> 02:25.900 I'm going to read a couple of Scriptures here 02:25.900 --> 02:27.080 and kind of jump off on those. 02:27.580 --> 02:29.580 And then we're just going to press in and pray a little bit 02:29.580 --> 02:31.080 before we get back into praise and worship. 02:32.620 --> 02:36.800 First, coming out of Philippians 3 verse 8 through 11. 02:38.620 --> 02:42.100 Yet indeed I also count all things lost for the excellence 02:42.100 --> 02:44.280 of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, 02:45.140 --> 02:47.440 for whom I suffered the loss of all things 02:47.440 --> 02:49.660 and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ 02:50.380 --> 02:53.920 and be found in him not having my own righteousness 02:53.920 --> 02:55.140 which is from the law, 02:56.240 --> 02:57.580 but which is through faith in Christ, 02:57.980 --> 03:00.260 the righteousness which is from God by faith, 03:00.660 --> 03:04.620 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection 03:04.620 --> 03:09.500 and the fellowship of his sufferings being conformed to his death. 03:10.320 --> 03:13.820 If by any means I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 03:19.160 --> 03:22.340 This is 1 Corinthians, yeah, that's fine. 03:22.880 --> 03:24.640 Verse 2, or chapter 2, 1 through 5. 03:25.560 --> 03:26.680 And I, brethren, when I came to you, 03:26.820 --> 03:28.700 did not come with excellence of speech or wisdom 03:28.700 --> 03:30.700 declaring to you the testimony of God, 03:31.320 --> 03:33.200 for I determined not to know anything among you 03:33.200 --> 03:37.080 except one thing, Jesus and him crucified. 03:37.080 --> 03:39.920 I was with you in weakness and fear 03:39.920 --> 03:41.180 and in much trembling. 03:41.640 --> 03:42.720 And in my speech and my preaching, 03:43.820 --> 03:46.440 you were not, as I move my stick, 03:46.600 --> 03:48.060 you know, you were not persuasive, 03:48.220 --> 03:50.500 persuasive words of human wisdom 03:50.500 --> 03:52.700 but in demonstration of the spirit and power. 03:53.160 --> 03:55.720 And that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men 03:56.540 --> 03:58.000 but in the power of God. 03:59.320 --> 04:02.140 And then one more, chapter 3, 10 through 11. 04:05.220 --> 04:07.200 According to the grace of God, 04:07.460 --> 04:10.220 which was given to me as a wise master builder, 04:10.500 --> 04:13.220 I have laid the foundation and another builds on it 04:13.220 --> 04:16.540 but let each one take heed to how he builds on it. 04:17.060 --> 04:20.140 For no other foundation can anyone lay 04:20.700 --> 04:23.840 than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 04:25.340 --> 04:29.120 So when we talk about being captivated by Jesus, 04:29.700 --> 04:31.840 like that means a lot of different things 04:31.840 --> 04:33.840 but if it's clear in Scripture, 04:35.080 --> 04:38.900 Paul was absolutely captivated by the Lord Jesus. 04:39.840 --> 04:44.380 I mean, we just read, like, unless the foundation is Jesus, right? 04:44.900 --> 04:46.000 There's nothing else in there. 04:47.260 --> 04:49.280 There's nothing that he would rather have 04:49.840 --> 04:52.200 but to follow Jesus, to know Jesus, 04:52.760 --> 04:54.540 the power of his resurrection. 04:56.860 --> 05:00.320 There's no one else that has walked the face of this earth 05:00.320 --> 05:02.820 that could do what Jesus did. 05:03.040 --> 05:04.040 Scripture tells us that. 05:04.500 --> 05:07.560 Revelation talks about how the only one worthy is the Lamb 05:07.560 --> 05:09.340 who opens the scroll, right? 05:10.460 --> 05:13.880 So that's just, to me, that's a fascinating concept of him, 05:14.400 --> 05:16.700 being captivated by him in that sense. 05:18.360 --> 05:21.740 You see it when it comes to the apostles 05:21.740 --> 05:26.160 after Jesus' death in the upper room, right? 05:26.880 --> 05:29.660 There's clearly a pattern there that the Lord laid out 05:29.660 --> 05:32.040 and when you talk about the upper room, 05:32.460 --> 05:36.400 they were doing what for, you know, a week, 10 days, whatever it was? 05:36.900 --> 05:39.320 There's 120 people in that upper room doing one thing, 05:40.840 --> 05:45.080 seeking Jesus, praying for him to come and meet with them, right? 05:46.680 --> 05:53.400 The message of the cross is extremely complex 05:54.720 --> 05:56.960 and foolishness to those that don't believe, 05:56.960 --> 05:59.360 but at the end of the day, it's about one thing. 05:59.520 --> 06:01.440 It's about Jesus on the cross. 06:02.200 --> 06:06.120 He died for us. He was pursuing us 06:06.760 --> 06:09.240 as much as we should be pursuing him. 06:11.900 --> 06:16.720 And there's theologies, there's education that we can get, 06:17.680 --> 06:19.840 but there's only one thing that is salvation 06:19.840 --> 06:20.880 and that's through Jesus. 06:21.620 --> 06:25.160 The message of his power and death 06:25.760 --> 06:31.540 and the resurrection, Satan knew he was defeated then, right? 06:32.540 --> 06:35.020 Like once they thought they won, but at the end of the day, 06:35.080 --> 06:38.960 there's nothing that could hold Jesus back, right? 06:39.080 --> 06:42.340 He went and preached the gospel for three days, right? 06:43.960 --> 06:46.880 Seeking him, pursuing him, being captivated by him. 06:48.260 --> 06:50.580 And when you look at what we're pushing for, 06:50.660 --> 06:53.460 I mean, this church, our body, we'll speak to our body 06:53.460 --> 06:55.360 and my personal life, I'll say. 06:55.720 --> 06:58.740 But as a body, we've been going through something 06:58.740 --> 07:01.480 for the last year, right? 07:01.600 --> 07:04.320 It's been foundation after foundation, 07:04.720 --> 07:06.800 building upon things, going back to, you know, 07:06.880 --> 07:09.220 pastor's series on Christian basics, right? 07:09.420 --> 07:11.560 Then we talked about what? The secret room, 07:12.380 --> 07:13.860 or the secret place, excuse me, right? 07:14.680 --> 07:17.620 Dead to self, now we're loneliness, even tithing, right? 07:17.720 --> 07:18.480 It's about one thing. 07:18.900 --> 07:20.900 We can't do anything in and of ourselves 07:21.980 --> 07:24.320 except be with him, right? 07:24.920 --> 07:28.320 We are nothing without Jesus, nothing. 07:29.240 --> 07:31.280 The sifting that we're going through now, to me, 07:31.440 --> 07:34.320 the sifting, the sifting is that image I keep seeing 07:34.320 --> 07:36.940 of the thieves on the cross, right? 07:37.540 --> 07:38.800 Are we going to go after Jesus? 07:39.720 --> 07:41.680 Or are we going to sit back and be sifted out 07:41.680 --> 07:43.620 and be a mockery and mock him 07:43.620 --> 07:46.740 and at the end of the day, not be there with him 07:46.740 --> 07:48.940 when push comes to shove, right? 07:50.320 --> 07:52.340 We keep talking about the end times revival. 07:52.880 --> 07:53.700 Where does that start? 07:54.380 --> 07:56.680 That starts with pursuing Jesus, the upper room, right? 07:56.760 --> 07:58.360 You see the upper room, you see Peter and John 07:58.360 --> 08:01.440 and walking through the Bethesda, 08:01.640 --> 08:04.280 or the gate of Bethesda, beautiful, gate beautiful, right? 08:04.960 --> 08:07.040 You have pursuing Jesus. 08:07.700 --> 08:10.820 You have the gospel preach, which is Christ crucified, 08:11.420 --> 08:13.740 which, with all the 120 in the room, 08:13.880 --> 08:16.300 the 120 in the room, they were, you know, 08:16.300 --> 08:19.420 I'm assuming they were all believed that Jesus was the Messiah. 08:20.520 --> 08:23.120 When Peter stood up and preached the gospel, 08:23.760 --> 08:27.020 a whole other revelation about what had occurred hit them 08:27.020 --> 08:29.440 and repentance fell on that group. 08:30.780 --> 08:31.240 And then what? 08:31.880 --> 08:34.260 Then revival broke out, right? 08:35.160 --> 08:36.320 Then revival broke out. 08:37.020 --> 08:38.860 Peter and John walking through the temple, beautiful, 08:39.180 --> 08:42.500 or gate beautiful, the man gets healed. 08:42.500 --> 08:45.660 Peter and John, Peter says, it's not me, it's Jesus. 08:46.560 --> 08:47.980 It's Jesus that did it. 08:48.560 --> 08:49.960 Repent, then what happens? 08:50.780 --> 08:52.140 Then revival comes. 08:53.560 --> 08:57.280 It starts with the simple pursuit of Jesus 08:57.280 --> 09:00.380 and knowing Him, pursuing Him. 09:02.240 --> 09:03.740 So what does that look like? 09:05.500 --> 09:07.720 I mean, there's a lot in the scripture that we just talked about. 09:07.860 --> 09:10.740 You see John, or Jesus doing it, 09:11.540 --> 09:13.120 talked about Peter and John there. 09:13.600 --> 09:17.280 Even Jesus, we want to be captivated by Jesus. 09:17.480 --> 09:18.800 We sing about it, we talk about it. 09:18.800 --> 09:20.740 What was Jesus captivated by? 09:22.600 --> 09:23.380 The Father. 09:24.560 --> 09:26.680 And AI confirmed it for me, so we know it's true. 09:27.200 --> 09:34.060 But he was captivated by the Father, right? 09:34.720 --> 09:36.800 As we're captivated with Jesus, 09:37.780 --> 09:40.380 we get to know Him, right? 09:40.940 --> 09:43.040 We want to call Him friend, saying it. 09:43.620 --> 09:44.620 Does He call us friend? 09:45.760 --> 09:47.540 How do you become friends with someone? 09:48.540 --> 09:50.060 You spend time with them. 09:50.740 --> 09:52.100 You get to know them. 09:52.760 --> 09:53.760 What do they want? 09:54.140 --> 09:55.620 Do you share their desires? 09:56.140 --> 09:58.180 Are you more intimate with them, right? 09:58.540 --> 09:59.680 With what you're feeling? 09:59.940 --> 10:03.260 Especially in the husband and wife relationship, right? 10:04.020 --> 10:06.000 You know, we are the bridegroom of Christ. 10:09.040 --> 10:13.360 Scripture, you know, forget which of our pastors have said it, right? 10:13.460 --> 10:16.900 But Scripture starts with the marriage, it ends with the marriage, right? 10:17.540 --> 10:21.460 So when you look at that, who should know us best on this earth? 10:22.240 --> 10:23.080 It's our spouse. 10:23.240 --> 10:27.420 And if you're not married, you know, apply it in your own way there, 10:27.480 --> 10:30.200 whether it's with your personal relationship with those close to you. 10:30.480 --> 10:32.260 But I'm going to speak from my own experience, 10:32.260 --> 10:35.700 which is all I can, and that's with my spouse, with my wife, with Heidi. 10:37.540 --> 10:40.840 You see, when my relationship with the Lord, 10:41.180 --> 10:42.740 and this is something that he revealed to me, 10:42.780 --> 10:45.640 and this is my barometer, if it fits for you, great, if not, 10:46.000 --> 10:49.340 you know, you'll have to work with the Lord on what should help with you. 10:49.420 --> 10:53.340 But for me, if my relationship with the Lord is strong, 10:53.440 --> 10:55.120 if I'm close to him, if I'm hearing him, 10:55.940 --> 10:58.780 I have a lot more patience with Heidi. 10:59.860 --> 11:03.160 I'm a lot more affectionate towards her, right? 11:03.280 --> 11:04.980 I'm anticipating her desires. 11:05.420 --> 11:09.560 I'm preferring her over my own needs. 11:09.980 --> 11:13.260 And when I'm not, that's when what happens. 11:13.360 --> 11:14.300 I get short with the kids. 11:15.860 --> 11:18.520 I'm selfish, I'm quiet, I'm reserved. 11:20.040 --> 11:22.600 Like, that's not what Jesus wants with us. 11:23.320 --> 11:26.420 So for us to sit and pray and ask for him to move, 11:26.860 --> 11:28.180 he's going to be sitting here saying, 11:29.520 --> 11:33.100 great, you show up on Sundays, you want me, you want to be pursuing me, 11:33.120 --> 11:35.240 but you're not interested in me in the rest of the week. 11:36.240 --> 11:37.560 And it's not, and when I say captivated, 11:38.160 --> 11:40.480 it's not every day, every hour of the week, 11:40.560 --> 11:41.940 we're sitting there, we're preaching the gospel. 11:42.020 --> 11:43.860 That's not it, right? 11:44.780 --> 11:46.920 It's what's going through your spirit 11:46.920 --> 11:49.140 as you're working throughout the day, right? 11:49.460 --> 11:51.940 Pastor talked about it a couple of years ago 11:51.940 --> 11:54.360 about praying continually in the spirit, right? 11:54.360 --> 11:56.480 How do we do that? You can't do that with your mouth. 11:56.820 --> 11:58.320 It's your spirit man doing that. 11:58.820 --> 12:00.500 Pause, what's your spirit speaking? 12:01.700 --> 12:03.400 Is it saying when you sit there and sit quiet, 12:03.520 --> 12:05.500 it's saying, alright Lord, what do you want me to do next? 12:05.680 --> 12:08.040 Jesus, is it singing, is it, what is it doing? 12:08.540 --> 12:11.720 That's the intimacy, that's being captivated by him. 12:12.920 --> 12:14.900 And every time you sit through those, 12:15.120 --> 12:16.240 your personal times with him, 12:16.260 --> 12:18.080 it should be deeper and deeper and deeper. 12:18.820 --> 12:19.860 And if you don't believe him, again, 12:19.920 --> 12:22.360 we just saw it in Acts 1. 12:22.360 --> 12:24.700 But the 120 that were there with Jesus, 12:24.940 --> 12:25.680 like Psalm crucified, 12:26.600 --> 12:28.480 the whole new revelation came. 12:29.320 --> 12:31.580 Like we could be sitting in that up room 12:31.580 --> 12:33.980 for the rest of our earthly lives, 12:34.300 --> 12:36.400 and we would not understand 12:36.400 --> 12:38.120 the depth of Jesus and the Father. 12:38.800 --> 12:40.060 We just couldn't do it. 12:43.420 --> 12:44.840 It's funny, so this summer, 12:45.100 --> 12:47.240 we had the chance to go through 12:47.240 --> 12:49.660 the Billy Graham Library or Museum 12:49.660 --> 12:50.820 or whatever you want to call it. 12:50.820 --> 12:54.280 And there's two things that stood out to me with that. 12:54.540 --> 12:57.140 I mean, Billy Graham, on the surface, 12:57.760 --> 12:58.880 a preacher of the word, 12:59.020 --> 13:01.100 he was captivated by Jesus, right, 13:01.340 --> 13:02.000 sharing the gospel. 13:02.840 --> 13:03.880 The other thing that stood out, 13:05.320 --> 13:07.480 how much he loved and adored his wife. 13:08.800 --> 13:09.860 You go through that museum, 13:10.060 --> 13:13.860 it's as much about her as it was with him. 13:15.100 --> 13:16.260 That's that relationship, 13:16.520 --> 13:18.920 the husband-wife relationship on the earth, 13:18.920 --> 13:20.760 that we are the bridegroom of Christ. 13:23.220 --> 13:25.580 It's amazing to see that when the Holy Spirit 13:25.580 --> 13:27.100 starts to point that stuff out to you. 13:28.080 --> 13:30.100 Like the pursuit of him, 13:30.320 --> 13:32.000 the pursuit of knowing him, 13:32.640 --> 13:34.020 wanting to be with him, 13:34.240 --> 13:35.440 and it doesn't happen overnight. 13:36.580 --> 13:37.400 It doesn't. 13:39.680 --> 13:41.680 It takes time, it takes relationships, 13:42.040 --> 13:43.980 it takes a cultivating over that relationship. 13:44.760 --> 13:46.400 When you look, when you're getting married, 13:46.480 --> 13:47.700 when young people are getting married, 13:48.140 --> 13:50.920 you don't just, this is America, this is the West. 13:51.040 --> 13:51.980 We don't just go and, 13:52.460 --> 13:53.900 I'm going to marry my neighbor, husband, 13:54.100 --> 13:55.780 and the dad says, yep, that's who you're marrying, boom, 13:55.860 --> 13:57.520 that's not how it works, right? 14:00.360 --> 14:01.820 We build a relationship. 14:03.040 --> 14:04.420 You pursue that person. 14:04.780 --> 14:06.220 As a man, you pursue them. 14:06.540 --> 14:09.580 I'm thinking about her when we were dating. 14:09.740 --> 14:10.840 I'm thinking about her all the time. 14:10.960 --> 14:12.640 I'm wanting to call her because we didn't have texts. 14:12.840 --> 14:15.000 So it's, I am, it's a messaging, right? 14:15.000 --> 14:17.320 It's, are you, you're pursuing them. 14:17.520 --> 14:19.640 And sometimes it takes a while to get in there. 14:19.960 --> 14:21.000 But then what happens? 14:21.160 --> 14:23.920 You build and cultivate that, cultivate that relationship. 14:27.600 --> 14:29.060 They become to know you. 14:29.160 --> 14:30.900 They anticipate what you're wanting, 14:31.380 --> 14:32.400 what your needs are. 14:32.680 --> 14:36.600 And as, as the husband, leading in that. 14:37.540 --> 14:40.220 And there's a lot of times I fail. 14:41.780 --> 14:43.880 I'm glad Heidi's not here to say amen. 14:45.220 --> 14:48.840 But there's a lot of times that I fail and even with my children. 14:49.240 --> 14:54.200 But so we were on, again, like I said at the beginning, 14:54.360 --> 14:59.480 I'm going to share a personal stuff here around just what I've experienced. 15:01.080 --> 15:02.720 But so this is not about me. 15:02.820 --> 15:06.720 It's to show you as that Heidi pointed out to me this past week. 15:06.800 --> 15:10.640 So we were on, we were on vacation this past week in, in South Dakota. 15:12.480 --> 15:14.860 And, and near the end of the trip, I kind of looked there. 15:14.960 --> 15:17.200 I said, I don't know what has gotten into me. 15:17.460 --> 15:21.060 I said, but I have been talking to a lot of people. 15:21.740 --> 15:25.480 And, and it wasn't preaching the gospel. 15:26.680 --> 15:30.340 It wasn't sharing about getting in their face about Jesus. 15:32.020 --> 15:37.260 It was seeing somebody working at a food truck saying, hey, how are you doing? 15:37.260 --> 15:43.220 And sitting there for 15 minutes and hearing their story and what they went through, right? 15:44.340 --> 15:46.120 It's, it's walking through. 15:46.720 --> 15:50.340 I mean, half a dozen people probably talked to. 15:50.720 --> 15:52.320 Honestly, there's only one person I prayed with. 15:53.220 --> 15:59.680 And it wasn't even, it was for him and his grandson who was going into the military. 15:59.880 --> 16:01.140 And this was a tougher man. 16:01.660 --> 16:03.560 He's like, I never cry and he's crying. 16:04.120 --> 16:06.680 And I like, I rarely, if ever do that. 16:06.780 --> 16:08.560 And that's when I look, I said, what's gotten into me? 16:09.240 --> 16:12.580 And I, I kind of gave my hypothesis and she said, no. 16:13.160 --> 16:16.840 She's like, you've been pursuing the Lord. 16:17.660 --> 16:21.120 You've been getting filled because I was getting ready for this. 16:21.240 --> 16:21.640 I'm on vacation. 16:21.920 --> 16:23.800 When you go on vacation, you don't go on vacation from the word. 16:24.420 --> 16:26.160 You don't go on vacation from Jesus, right? 16:27.280 --> 16:35.780 So I was, like I said, I, this is, this is weighty to share Jesus in front of a body like this. 16:36.360 --> 16:38.600 And so I was preparing and preparing. 16:38.900 --> 16:41.300 And that's when she's like, it was, it was that. 16:42.360 --> 16:43.600 What's coming out of you? 16:44.580 --> 16:44.980 Okay. 16:45.080 --> 16:47.060 What is, what is flowing from your heart? 16:47.080 --> 16:48.400 And it was a genuine care. 16:50.100 --> 16:52.980 And, and here's where I say, we all have room to grow. 16:53.160 --> 16:55.120 So here's, here's the, here's the fun part, right? 16:55.700 --> 16:58.140 Oh great, random stranger at a food truck. 16:58.440 --> 17:00.180 Hey, I'm going to sit and listen to you for 20 minutes. 17:00.760 --> 17:01.400 Get in the car. 17:02.580 --> 17:03.520 Kids are loud. 17:04.800 --> 17:05.280 Right? 17:05.420 --> 17:05.820 What happens? 17:07.780 --> 17:08.500 Dad gets mad. 17:09.080 --> 17:09.800 Dad gets frustrated. 17:10.300 --> 17:12.440 But you know what that instantly pointed out? 17:13.560 --> 17:17.140 There's still a lot of me in here that needs to go. 17:18.120 --> 17:18.480 Right? 17:18.940 --> 17:22.380 There's a lot of me that needs to be crucified. 17:22.920 --> 17:25.080 That needs to be dead. 17:25.500 --> 17:28.720 That needs to go away so I can fill up with more with him. 17:28.980 --> 17:31.620 Because then I have more of him to give out. 17:32.460 --> 17:34.880 And the people that should be getting him first, 17:35.780 --> 17:38.360 should be my wife, should be my kids. 17:39.380 --> 17:40.620 Then it, then it's real. 17:40.800 --> 17:43.340 Then it's not so much of a, hey, it's a random stranger. 17:43.540 --> 17:45.200 I can fake through a conversation for 20 minutes. 17:45.200 --> 17:46.040 And I'm not saying that's what I did. 17:46.420 --> 17:47.760 But you get my point, right? 17:48.140 --> 17:49.260 Then you can get through that. 17:49.400 --> 17:52.000 You can sit there and the people that are around you the most 17:52.000 --> 17:53.340 that know you the most. 17:53.900 --> 17:56.060 They should see what's coming out of your heart. 17:57.100 --> 18:01.780 And it should be that love and intimacy and desire for Jesus. 18:04.420 --> 18:06.340 That's how we move forward as a body. 18:06.500 --> 18:09.060 That's how, that's how revival comes. 18:09.220 --> 18:10.880 It starts with the body here. 18:11.740 --> 18:13.320 And the focus is Jesus. 18:13.560 --> 18:16.220 And the focus is getting after him and pursuing him. 18:16.860 --> 18:18.240 With everything in us. 18:18.240 --> 18:23.840 And like I said, we can be doing that for the next 50 years. 18:24.800 --> 18:25.540 For me. 18:26.660 --> 18:29.100 We can be pursuing that, pursuing that. 18:29.220 --> 18:31.180 And there's still more, there's still more to learn. 18:37.750 --> 18:38.890 You know, what's interesting too, 18:40.590 --> 18:43.750 in the book of Acts, at the end of the story 18:43.750 --> 18:46.930 with Peter and John at the temple, 18:46.930 --> 18:49.710 at the, keep calling it, at the Gate Beautiful. 18:51.510 --> 18:54.790 You know, Peter's going through it and he talks about 18:55.970 --> 18:58.230 the refreshing that comes with, 18:59.430 --> 19:03.150 you know, once we get repentance comes, we are saved. 19:03.770 --> 19:06.330 And the weightiness of sin is lifted from us 19:06.330 --> 19:07.510 and it talks about a refreshing. 19:08.290 --> 19:11.190 And absolutely, you know, it says it's absolutely 19:11.190 --> 19:13.630 talking about from a physical standpoint, your body. 19:13.830 --> 19:15.790 There's just a weightiness that's gone in the physical. 19:15.790 --> 19:19.430 You can feel it. Once, once, if you've been sitting on something 19:19.430 --> 19:21.690 and you've been rebellious and haven't been repentful 19:21.690 --> 19:23.290 for something you know the Lord is dealing with you, 19:23.770 --> 19:26.170 once you ask for forgiveness from Him, it's gone. 19:26.350 --> 19:29.090 If you know you've offended your, you know, a friend 19:29.090 --> 19:31.230 or something like that and you say, look, I'm sorry, forgive me. 19:31.770 --> 19:35.230 You just feel the physical weightiness of that lift, right? 19:36.890 --> 19:39.270 So I looked up that word and I'm like, that's a weird word 19:39.790 --> 19:43.210 to be put in this context of refreshing in the Lord. 19:44.410 --> 19:48.550 And what caught my attention, the last word 19:48.550 --> 19:51.210 in that definition is revival. 19:53.670 --> 19:55.990 That's the only place in the entire scripture 19:55.990 --> 19:56.950 that that word is used. 20:00.070 --> 20:03.030 We're pursuing Jesus. We're pursuing Jesus. 20:03.290 --> 20:06.030 We're also pursuing a new building, but we want, 20:06.410 --> 20:09.330 like, that is the need that is going to be 20:09.330 --> 20:12.910 a result of the pursuit of Him, right? 20:12.910 --> 20:17.390 That is what is needed to fulfill what He's asking for us to do. 20:19.370 --> 20:25.090 Pursuing Him, repentance, then you see the body, 20:25.230 --> 20:27.510 the revival come and the body grow. 20:28.070 --> 20:32.070 And if we're not there as a body, if we're not centered around Jesus, 20:32.210 --> 20:38.210 if He is not our focus, we're going to get distracted, right? 20:38.510 --> 20:40.510 We're going to get distracted with putting up the building, 20:40.510 --> 20:42.330 with all the other things that come with that. 20:44.930 --> 20:49.050 And that's where issues become, because Jesus doesn't become the center then. 20:49.510 --> 20:53.150 Then we're starting to pursue the things that we think He wants us to do, 20:53.750 --> 20:54.810 that we want to do. 20:55.770 --> 20:58.390 We want, you know, I want to lead this, I want to lead that, 20:58.530 --> 21:00.050 I want to do a program. Great. 21:00.990 --> 21:02.430 What's in your heart for doing it? 21:05.270 --> 21:06.730 Is the pursuit still Him? 21:07.530 --> 21:09.290 Is it being captivated by Him? 21:09.290 --> 21:12.450 Is He, like, what would Pastor Mary say? 21:13.110 --> 21:14.930 Like, she likes to break apart words, right? 21:15.410 --> 21:17.850 You break apart the word captivated, you have captive in there. 21:17.910 --> 21:19.690 You're a captive to Jesus. 21:19.910 --> 21:25.850 You are, He is embodying every thought that you have, right? 21:26.750 --> 21:29.430 If it's last for an hour after your devotion time, great. 21:29.590 --> 21:32.510 You know you have more time that you have to spend in there 21:32.510 --> 21:33.790 because there's more of you in there 21:33.790 --> 21:36.410 that needs to get out and be captivated by Him. 21:36.890 --> 21:39.270 And to pursue Him and those desires. 21:40.650 --> 21:41.810 So we're going to stand. 21:42.370 --> 21:43.770 Pray for a few minutes here. 21:44.550 --> 21:45.970 Brayden probably started a little early. 21:47.110 --> 21:48.410 Not yet, but... 21:49.050 --> 21:50.590 And we're just going to sit, however you want. 21:50.730 --> 21:51.770 Stand, sit, kneel. 21:52.710 --> 21:55.170 And what I'd like to, what I'd like us to do, 21:55.510 --> 21:57.090 and I'll pray some too from here, 21:57.170 --> 22:00.170 but I just want each and one of you 22:00.170 --> 22:02.070 to really press into Jesus. 22:03.490 --> 22:06.390 And ask Him, ask the Holy Spirit 22:06.950 --> 22:11.330 if there's just one thing in each of your lives right now, 22:11.890 --> 22:13.990 each of our lives, my life right now, 22:14.110 --> 22:16.730 that is distracting us from pursuing Him. 22:16.950 --> 22:21.030 That we are in the way from Him taking us to that next step 22:21.030 --> 22:22.290 where He wants to bring us individually. 22:23.130 --> 22:24.850 Because as we move forward individually 22:24.850 --> 22:28.150 and we do it as a body, a corporate body 22:28.150 --> 22:30.130 and we align to the pursuit of Jesus 22:30.130 --> 22:31.910 and we get captivated by Jesus 22:31.910 --> 22:34.350 and we realize what captivates Jesus 22:34.350 --> 22:35.810 and that's the heart of the Father. 22:36.610 --> 22:38.470 We will move as one body into that. 22:38.930 --> 22:42.290 So Lord, I ask right now for each and every one of us, 22:42.570 --> 22:45.650 Holy Spirit, show us. 22:46.550 --> 22:49.990 Show us where you, Jesus, are not first. 22:50.910 --> 22:53.930 What is holding me back individually? 22:54.490 --> 22:58.170 What is the thing that I need to make the decision today 22:58.170 --> 23:01.050 that needs to go to get what you want done? 23:01.050 --> 23:04.110 Because, I was talking with a friend yesterday, 23:04.790 --> 23:08.290 when we become believers, when we become saved, 23:09.150 --> 23:10.950 we have free will, right? 23:11.810 --> 23:13.430 But it's still, we don't. 23:13.650 --> 23:16.010 Paul says, we are no longer our own. 23:16.310 --> 23:18.750 We are subject to Jesus. 23:18.910 --> 23:21.770 He is Lord, He is Master, right? 23:22.090 --> 23:23.930 We do what He wants us to do. 23:25.270 --> 23:26.910 We don't have the option to do it. 23:27.590 --> 23:29.050 If we think we have the option, 23:29.050 --> 23:31.050 if we're weighing it yes or no, 23:31.270 --> 23:34.350 we're choosing, do I follow what Jesus wants to do? 23:34.510 --> 23:36.510 Or am I going to be disobedient to what He wants to do 23:36.510 --> 23:37.850 and put myself for first? 23:38.730 --> 23:42.170 So Holy Spirit, I ask, where in my life 23:42.170 --> 23:47.010 am I not pursuing the things that you want me to do? 23:47.730 --> 23:49.790 What do I need to set aside for me? 23:52.650 --> 23:56.050 Is it scrolling through your phone before bed? 23:56.710 --> 23:57.750 Simple things like that? 23:57.750 --> 24:01.170 Is it golfing? 24:01.910 --> 24:04.530 Is it going and watching my favorite movie? 24:04.930 --> 24:06.310 Is it doing this? Is it doing that? 24:06.430 --> 24:07.310 I don't know what it is. 24:07.650 --> 24:10.710 Holy Spirit, I ask that you highlight that to each of us. 24:12.450 --> 24:14.610 Kiro to soku shatrata. 24:16.790 --> 24:19.110 Father, let our pursuit be of your son. 24:20.950 --> 24:23.930 Let your son be glorified in this body. 24:23.930 --> 24:29.190 Let your son be glorified in our day-to-day activities 24:29.190 --> 24:31.970 and our speak in the way we share. 24:32.430 --> 24:34.810 Even things that are common to us, Lord, 24:34.910 --> 24:35.870 that aren't even of your word, 24:35.870 --> 24:39.990 but let your son get the glory in every step that we do. 24:42.490 --> 24:43.530 Kusura batasha. 24:45.710 --> 24:48.170 Jesus, we've come to seek after you. 24:48.950 --> 24:50.390 We're pushing in, Lord. 24:50.510 --> 24:51.550 We want more of you. 24:52.150 --> 24:54.070 We want more of you, Lord. 24:55.310 --> 24:57.550 Candidly, I'm scared to say we want all of you 24:57.550 --> 24:59.090 because I don't think we know what that means when we say, 24:59.190 --> 25:00.370 Lord, we want all of you. 25:00.790 --> 25:02.810 We couldn't handle that here on this earth. 25:02.890 --> 25:03.810 I don't know if we can in heaven, 25:03.930 --> 25:05.350 but we couldn't handle that. 25:05.790 --> 25:06.730 Lord, I want more. 25:06.970 --> 25:08.150 Give me more of you. 25:08.930 --> 25:10.770 Give me more of you, Lord, 25:10.870 --> 25:11.870 where there's less of me, 25:12.050 --> 25:14.570 where my hour, my two hours of patience 25:14.570 --> 25:17.910 and kindness and loving turns into six hours, 25:18.090 --> 25:21.250 turns into a week, Lord. 25:21.250 --> 25:23.690 Let the endurance of your love 25:23.690 --> 25:26.230 flow through my life, 25:26.390 --> 25:27.830 flow through our lives, 25:27.850 --> 25:29.910 where it overflows, where it exudes 25:29.910 --> 25:30.970 and reaches to others, 25:31.110 --> 25:32.790 where we show kindness to each other. 25:33.330 --> 25:34.350 Lord, where we push in, 25:34.570 --> 25:35.870 and then we push into those 25:35.870 --> 25:37.910 who don't know you outside these four walls, 25:38.030 --> 25:39.470 where it's a genuine pursuit, 25:40.190 --> 25:41.450 just to share you, 25:41.970 --> 25:43.550 just to share who you are 25:43.550 --> 25:44.450 and what you've done 25:44.450 --> 25:47.350 and what the cross really represents, Lord. 25:48.410 --> 25:49.770 Let that be the pursuit, 25:49.770 --> 25:51.590 let that be the desire of this body. 25:52.930 --> 25:53.910 Kuratase, Lord. 25:54.410 --> 25:57.310 We've come for nothing else but you. 25:58.110 --> 26:00.950 We've come to let you be that foundation, Lord, 26:01.030 --> 26:02.950 of every aspect of our lives, Lord. 26:03.050 --> 26:03.990 There's many aspects. 26:04.230 --> 26:07.030 There's our church body, our family, our home, 26:07.390 --> 26:08.150 our work, Lord. 26:08.510 --> 26:10.350 You need to be the foundation, Jesus, 26:10.570 --> 26:11.430 of every one of those. 26:11.550 --> 26:12.530 And if we don't think, Lord, 26:12.650 --> 26:14.530 that you care about what happens at work, 26:14.950 --> 26:16.910 you care about me, Lord, 26:17.110 --> 26:18.650 I know you care about what happens there. 26:18.650 --> 26:21.590 Holy Spirit, lead me through those day-to-day activities. 26:22.590 --> 26:25.150 Lead me with words that need to be spoken 26:25.150 --> 26:27.050 and shared in a kind word, Lord. 26:27.150 --> 26:30.090 Whatever it is, let you shine through in this. 26:30.530 --> 26:31.830 Let the pursuit of you, 26:32.210 --> 26:34.650 the pursuit of you and being captivated, 26:34.870 --> 26:36.830 falling in love again with you, Jesus, 26:36.970 --> 26:38.910 on a daily basis, like we saw 26:38.910 --> 26:40.070 in the upper room, Lord, 26:40.190 --> 26:42.670 a daily basis, every day, 26:42.730 --> 26:44.090 a renewing of that, Lord. 26:45.130 --> 26:45.970 Kusotashoto. 26:51.200 --> 26:52.040 Korapesokushoto. 26:57.180 --> 26:59.700 Again, the message of the cross is very simple. 27:00.660 --> 27:04.380 It's very simple, yet so deep. 27:05.380 --> 27:06.360 So deep. 27:08.340 --> 27:09.680 It's so deep. 27:10.260 --> 27:21.820 Lord, let the revelation of what transpired 27:21.820 --> 27:24.940 on that cross, let that grow in us. 27:24.940 --> 27:27.120 Let each one of us, 27:27.260 --> 27:28.720 let each one of us, 27:28.760 --> 27:30.820 in whatever way you need it to be, 27:31.320 --> 27:32.840 show what the cross did, 27:33.040 --> 27:36.100 how the cross defeated everything. 27:36.360 --> 27:37.700 Every knee will bow 27:37.700 --> 27:39.400 at the name of Jesus. 27:39.720 --> 27:41.120 Every knee will bow. 27:41.800 --> 27:45.020 Lord, let my knee be willingly bowing to you. 27:45.560 --> 27:48.340 Let my heart willingly be bowed 27:48.340 --> 27:49.760 and laid down before you. 27:52.720 --> 27:53.320 Sukushorabe. 27:58.730 --> 27:59.330 Kusho. 28:10.380 --> 28:13.840 Jesus, we've come to be here with you. 28:14.960 --> 28:17.800 Far and foremost, we've come to meet with you today. 28:18.520 --> 28:21.680 Come to be with you, Lord, as a body. 28:22.000 --> 28:23.280 Come to pursue you 28:23.280 --> 28:26.080 and nothing but you, that your word 28:27.100 --> 28:28.100 cuts to us. 28:28.120 --> 28:29.740 And we spend time together 28:29.740 --> 28:31.260 and we worship with you. 28:32.000 --> 28:34.320 Lord, let us have revelation with you 28:34.320 --> 28:35.720 even as we're singing, Lord. 28:37.740 --> 28:38.640 That intimate time. 28:38.760 --> 28:40.800 You can have a secret place with the Lord here 28:40.800 --> 28:42.120 when you're surrounded by a hundred people. 28:42.760 --> 28:44.600 You get down on your knees. 28:44.980 --> 28:46.840 Whatever it is, you turn your head to the wall. 28:46.880 --> 28:48.520 Don't matter. You find 28:49.200 --> 28:51.680 how the Lord wants to worship with you. 28:51.920 --> 28:53.780 Will we worship and minister to him 28:53.780 --> 28:56.000 and let the angels minister with us, Lord? 28:56.120 --> 28:58.540 But we want to minister to you today. 28:59.340 --> 29:01.680 Let us minister to you in our worship. 29:08.150 --> 29:09.470 Yes, Lord. 29:27.420 --> 29:29.060 Jesus, we love you. 29:29.580 --> 29:31.580 Let us... we love you, Lord. 29:31.800 --> 29:34.360 We love you. Let that love... 29:34.360 --> 29:36.060 Let the understanding of that love 29:36.060 --> 29:37.400 that you died for on the cross 29:37.400 --> 29:38.780 Lord, give us a glimpse of that. 29:38.880 --> 29:41.060 That we may attain that with, like Paul said with 29:41.060 --> 29:42.600 that we can understand the resurrection 29:42.600 --> 29:43.940 and the death of the cross. 29:44.040 --> 29:46.200 That we can partake in those sufferings with you. 29:46.600 --> 29:48.160 If we understood the suffering that 29:48.160 --> 29:50.120 that you understood, or that you 29:50.680 --> 29:52.100 excuse me, that you went through 29:52.100 --> 29:54.800 both in the physical but the agony, Lord. 29:55.000 --> 29:56.320 When you were pleading with the Father 29:56.320 --> 29:59.040 if there's another way, if there's another way 29:59.720 --> 30:01.900 but there wasn't. He was the only way. 30:02.100 --> 30:04.580 And we see that. He was the only way. 30:05.120 --> 30:06.020 The Father knew it. 30:06.780 --> 30:08.080 Jesus knew it. 30:08.940 --> 30:10.100 And Jesus knew it. 30:10.680 --> 30:11.960 And that's why he went through out of 30:11.960 --> 30:12.800 his love for us. 30:13.080 --> 30:15.360 He was captivated by his love for us. 30:15.460 --> 30:17.180 As much as he was with the Father 30:17.180 --> 30:18.080 he loves us. 30:18.660 --> 30:19.980 And this is the Father's will. 30:20.220 --> 30:21.680 And he pursued that will with him. 30:22.560 --> 30:24.040 He put himself down. 30:24.560 --> 30:26.000 He laid himself down. 30:26.400 --> 30:27.600 The ultimate sacrifice. 30:28.160 --> 30:28.740 For us.