00:00 Living in the Future

01:55 Convenience Becomes Expectation

03:38 Jesus Is Lord and Example

04:53 Entitlement and Quiet Quitting

09:16 Hebrews 5 Setup

09:42 Jesus Pays the Price

14:04 Pray Like Jesus

15:43 Loud Cries and Tears

21:23 Praying to the Father

23:21 Reverence and God’s Answer

25:13 Trust Gods Answer

25:40 Prayer Not Drive Through

26:15 Petition And Deference

27:00 Jesus Learns Obedience

27:53 No Skip Intro Growth

30:36 Reject Privilege Serve

34:08 Redemptive Suffering Lessons

37:14 Made Perfect High Priest

39:51 Submit In Repentance

41:55 Submit Ambition And Home

44:41 Keep Paying The Price

46:27 Final Prayer And Charge

I noticed this week, um, in fact the last couple weeks that

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we basically live in the future.

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I don't know how many of you're old

enough to remember the Dick Tracy watches.

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Those are the coolest things I

could think of when I was a kid.

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I thought, how awesome would it be to

talk on my wrist and have someone on

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the other side hear it and respond.

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I just thought that was

the coolest idea ever.

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So I got a walkie talkie

and I taped it to my wrist.

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Did not work the same, but

it had the same idea today.

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Now we have not only what Dick Tracy had,

but even better, you can send all sorts

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of fun stuff through just your wrist

and through your communication efforts.

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Not only that, uh, last week Pastor Mark

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car drove us to Dallas.

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And it did so without any issue.

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There were several people in the car.

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It was myself, it was Pastor pj, pastor

Mark of course, and Ali Trinidad.

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We were driving to Dallas for this

conference and the car navigated

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us through all sorts of obstacles.

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It did a fantastic job too.

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I was really impressed.

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Pastor Mark was just sitting

there doing nothing and the

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car did like 99% of the work.

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Really impressive.

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I also remember that last week.

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I had an AI agent, a computer, do

several administrative tasks for me.

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I didn't touch, I instructed it.

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I gave in instructions, but then

I said, okay, now go do the thing.

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And it did all the things and

it did a really great job.

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I was really impressed at the fact that

my computer can now work for me and allow

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me to do the things that I wanted do.

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So while it was doing my administrative

work, I was working on the sermon.

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It was amazing.

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Uh, I also remember,

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I also remember that last

week, twice, maybe three times.

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My groceries delivered to my doorstep.

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I was there.

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I was just, I, I opened the door

and there was my groceries, my milk,

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my eggs, my water bottles, all the

things that we get a normal basis.

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Were sitting there just

waiting for me, and then I

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recognized I live in the future.

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Everything that I dreamed about as

a boy, about what the future would

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look like minus the flying cars.

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They lied about that.

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Everything else though, is pretty

phenomenal and one of the key features of

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our futuristic society is that so much.

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Of the friction in our life

has been altogether removed.

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A lot of the things that were

inconvenient before are now made

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accessible and easy and, and con and

convenient, as convenient can be.

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Now, those three words actually

I think describe a lot of what we

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encounter on a day to day basis.

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Easy, accessible and convenient.

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Easy accessible convenience to get into

a car and have it drive you somewhere.

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That's easy, very accessible.

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In fact, I saw in terms of accessibility.

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I saw that there was this, uh, 90 some

odd year old lady who bought a Tesla for

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the express purpose of having that Tesla

drive her around town in a safe way.

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And so a, a once previously immobile lady

is now being able to mobilely get around

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because she has accessible technology.

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Easy, accessible convenience.

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I can't think of anything

more convenient than having my

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groceries delivered to my door.

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That's it.

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That's as convenient.

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As convenient, can be easy,

accessible, and convenient.

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Would describe a lot of

the way that we live today.

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Uh, not everything surely, but a lot of

that, and that's precisely the danger for

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all of us because when that becomes the

normal operation of your life, it subtly

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becomes a normal expectation of your life.

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And now you begin to assume that

things in your life should be

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easy, accessible, and convenience.

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And it's not very far.

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Hop skipping a jump to get from

that idea to your walk with God.

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It doesn't take a lot for you to

think that your relationship with

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God has been conditioned by your

normal everyday experience to be

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easy, accessible, and convenience.

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And yet what we're gonna find out

is that Jesus does not give us that

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expectation about our walk with Him.

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It is anything but easy,

accessible, or convenience.

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In fact, often when we think about

Jesus, we do think about him as our

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savior, our high priest, and those

are totally right, but we often

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forget that Jesus is also Lord.

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He is not just the, the savior and

high priest, uh, he is our Lord.

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He is not only our example, he's more

than our example, but he is our example.

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And what I want us to see this morning as

we prepare to open our Bibles to Hebrews

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chapter five, is that Jesus sets for us

an example that is dictated by his life.

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Jesus says, the perfect man shows us what

it looks like to be a man who's being

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perfected, A man who's growing in grace.

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He's gonna show us that it's not easy,

accessible, or convenient, but rather.

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And he shows us the hard path.

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But it's a good one.

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The path that makes us most alive.

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The path that makes us

mostly, uh, most manlike.

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The path that shows us, thank you.

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The path that shows us what it means

to be a disciple maturing in Christ.

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So we're gonna follow his model.

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Now, remember, Jesus is

more than our example.

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He's more than him.

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Lots of people will say Jesus is a great

moral figure that you should follow.

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We say that too.

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As Christians, we would say amen to them.

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But we don't stop at that.

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We don't say that.

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He's only our moral example.

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We say he's much more,

he is our high priest.

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He is our savior.

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He is our Lord, but he

is also our example.

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One of the reasons why this is important

for you and I, as I said before, we, we

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are in a world where everything is easy,

accessible, and convenient, but there's

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certain temptations that you and I, I

think I can identify most of us in this

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room where you and I will battle two.

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Two results of that conditioning.

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Your mental conditioning

results in a few things.

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And here's what I'm gonna say, uh, no

matter what your age is, you're gonna

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find the, the mental conditioning

of entitlement and deserving, uh,

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entitlement and deserving here.

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Here's what I mean by that.

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If you're younger, you

might think of it like this.

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Um.

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I am entitled to enjoy my teenage years.

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I'm entitled to enjoy my, my, my

youthfulness, uh, all work in no play

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makes Jack a doll, boy, as they say.

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So I'm entitled to live a little

more recklessly because I'm young.

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And so when I become older, when I,

when I get older and maybe I start

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seriously dating, then I'll think about

getting serious with God and getting

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serious about owning my faith and not

just letting it be my parents' faith.

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Now I'll get serious about

growing up in my maturity.

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Uh, once I have my own apartment, once I

no longer have to care for my own room,

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I want to care or care for just my room.

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I'll, I'll grow up when I,

when I grow up, I'll get older.

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When I'm older, as the thinking might go.

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In their case, discipleship is

postponed until after they're done

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doing whatever they want to do.

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That's easy to see in a young mindset.

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What about for those of us who are,

let's say, seasoned, seasoned mindset?

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And that's most of you in this

room, and I'm gonna qualify under

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that heading, seasoned mindset

might say something like this, I've

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earned the right to take it easy.

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I deserve to kick my feet up.

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Um, my gray hair shows that I've lived

life enough to, to do things a little

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differently than everybody else.

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Uh, what's true about us, and God

has given us this, is that men are

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often willing to pay the price.

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Early in life, we've learned, at

least at some age, that when you

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put the front work in, a lot of the

results down the road are enjoyable.

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You know, you save for so many

years, you get to see that your

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retirement fund is now, uh,

producing a lot of interest for you.

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And, you know, you worked for so

many years and now you've, uh,

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obtained a certain level of notoriety

and accomplishment in your career.

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Uh, maybe you're sought after for your

expertise in this thing and that thing.

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And so you, you can easily and adopt a

mindset of saying, I, I paid the price.

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It's now my turn to reap.

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Uh, I've already paid enough.

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But again, this isn't the

model that Jesus sets for us.

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He tells us the opposite.

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He says, we gotta be

willing to pay the price.

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How often?

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Jesus says, take up your

cross daily, pay the price.

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Daily.

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Temptation for us isn't laziness, man.

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It really is.

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Something along the

lines of quiet, quitting.

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You've heard of this term?

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Quiet, quitting a quiet retirement.

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Uh, a sense of I've done enough.

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Let the young guys do the

work now, or I've done enough.

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Uh, I I deserve to be

pampered a little bit.

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Um, and then there's, there's nothing

wrong with taking breaks, but there

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is something wrong with saying, I'm

gonna turn in my retirement check early

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and check out from what the church

is asking or what more specifically.

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But Christ's asking, lemme

just give you a couple examples

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of what this might look like.

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One area is maybe the delegating of

spiritual leadership to your bride got

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incredibly godly woman in your life.

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God has gifted you with a

woman who is exceptional.

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And maybe you're tempted to let her carry

the spiritual leadership in your family.

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So instead of taking the initiative

to pray with your family, to lead

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your kids in prayer and discipleship,

you say, well, she's really good

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at it and she also knows the Bible

better than I do, so I'm gonna let her

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take the lead in this another area.

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You might seize this, you know, and

perhaps, let me just add to this.

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Perhaps you might even say to yourself,

well, man, I, I put in a lot of work.

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I've worked 10 hours today and I

don't want to come home and do this.

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You know, I, I'd like her to do that.

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I, I, I deserve a break.

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I deserve some time for myself

and to recharge my batteries.

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Maybe, uh, another area is showing up

to church and saying, no, I, I was part

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of all these, I was part of a church

plan before, and so I know what it is to

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submit a lot of time and energy to it,

and I've earned some time to sit back

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and let, let other people do the job.

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Um, dangerous thinking, isn't it?

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Uh, this kind of mindset can

percolate and, uh, can grow.

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When, when, uh, for any sinner really,

but especially when we're, we're

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given the world where everything is

easy, accessible, and convenience.

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Again, Jesus calls us to

a life of discipleship.

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That's anything but those things.

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And in so many areas of our life, we

might be tempted no to no longer pay the

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price to check out early to quit before

God has told you it's time to quit.

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So what I want you to see here is how

this attitude is, uh, really contrasted

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in the life of Jesus earthly ministry.

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Hebrews chapter five is

where we're gonna be.

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Verses seven through nine.

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Can you just turn that one?

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It's time.

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Just this back and forth.

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That's all.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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You're good?

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You're good for now.

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Alright.

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Hebrews chapter five, uh, as you,

as I prepare to get in there.

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All right.

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We're gonna see, um.

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How Jesus pays the price in three areas.

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You're gonna see him pay the price

by his praying, his suffering,

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and his submitting, his praying,

his suffering, and his submitting.

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We're gonna see those three

things in Jesus' life.

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And from those three things, I'm gonna

show you what I hope to be, something

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helpful, to encourage you to keep paying

the price today, to see Jesus as more

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than an example, yes, but not less than

to encourage and edify your faith and

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to encourage you to not stop taking

up the cross, to follow after Christ.

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Your manhood is always

gonna be challenged.

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We're always gonna be tempted to

be lazy or lethargic or to sit

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back and be passive, but Jesus

calls us to something different.

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Let's take a look at that.

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Now we're gonna read it

together, Matthew, excuse me.

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Hebrews chapter five,

verses seven through 10.

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It says this, in the days of his flesh,

Jesus offered, offered up prayers and

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supplications with loud cries and tears to

him who was able to save him from death,

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and he was heard because of his reverence.

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Although he was a son, he

learned obedience through what he

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suffered and being made perfect.

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He became the source of eternal

salvation to all who obey him.

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Let's just finish the

sentence here in verse 10.

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Being designated by God, a high

priest after the odor of milk Zeek.

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Okay.

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Several things I need you to

know as we jump into this text.

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Number one, chapter five of Hebrews

is about Jesus high priesthood.

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You saw it there in verse 10.

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Jesus is a high priest after the

order of melek, which just means that

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he's part of a different priesthood

that Israel previously did not know.

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His priesthoods supersedes

what was before.

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Uh, Hebrews chapter five is a way to

identify Jesus as a high priest, and he's

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the perfect, well suited high priest.

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He is qualified to serve in this

role, and this is part of what the.

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Preacher in Hebrews is trying to

show you he's a better high priest.

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He's a qualified high priest,

and here's some of the ways that

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he functions as a high priest.

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Now, let's just quickly remind ourselves,

in case you're a little less familiar, the

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high priesthood of Israel was meant to be

someone who mediates between God and man.

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The high priest was to go in the

high, uh, the Holy of Holies once

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a year to offer a sacrifice and to

make it to him and for the people.

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The book of Hebrews is trying

to show that Jesus is the

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superior and better high priest.

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Uh, more than that.

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He's also the, he's also our

savior, but he's high priest.

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He's qualified to be our go-between, to

be the connection between God and man.

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And so here, then we zoom in on a

particular moment in Jesus life.

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And what I think is happening

in chapter five, verse seven

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through nine, is a reference to

Jesus suffering in the garden.

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You might remember that in the garden,

he's praying to the father and he's

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weeping tears, and his, he's sweating

drops like, great, uh, sweating.

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Like great drops of blood.

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And so here we have a, a, a time

capsule of what it looked like for

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Jesus to mediate between us and God.

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Uh, this little section also shows

us what his ministry looked like.

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In fact, the beginning of verse

seven, take a look at that again.

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You'll notice there's a time

marker there that you can't miss.

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Well, you should've missed, at least

Verse seven says, in the days of his

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flesh, which tells us this is a particular

moment in Jesus ministry life, this

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isn't about his exalted status right now.

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This isn't about his consummated

status as the, as the king

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over the millennial kingdom.

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This is about a particular moment

in human history when Jesus was.

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Preparing to sacrifice

himself on the cross.

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This is in the days of his flesh.

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Uh, this time marker emphasizes

his humanity important because

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that's gonna play a big role.

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For Jesus to be our high priest,

he had to be full of human.

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So in his humanity as a full

man, he accomplishes, uh, he

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accomplishes our salvation.

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Keep that peace in mind.

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He does this in full dependence upon the

father through the power of the spirit.

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I should say that.

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But let me just point out to you one

thing here in a second half verse seven.

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Notice what Jesus is doing in the

days of his flesh before being

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exalted, before being, uh, lifted

high by the Father, Jesus offered

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up prayers and supplications.

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This is exactly what you should

expect from a high priest.

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This is his job.

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He prays for you.

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He intercedes for you.

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This is what Jesus does, and he does

it supremely if we're gonna pay the

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press like Jesus, remember, he's.

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Not, uh, he is our example, but

he is, he is, he is our example,

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but he's not less than that.

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Um, so we do acknowledge he is our

high priest, but if we're gonna

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take cues from Jesus about what

it looks like to live well, we're

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gonna, number one, pray like Jesus.

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Let's just pray like Jesus.

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If we're going to recognize that

Jesus is more than our example,

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but not less, we need to say,

okay, we need to pray like Jesus.

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And, and, and it's important for you to

see first of all, that Jesus does pray.

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The son of God and son of man prayed.

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He took time out of his schedule

ministering to people and

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teaching the masses to pray.

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And I'm gonna argue here that

this is a prayer of desperation.

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He, he resolves to pray and he resolves

to pray in light of the fact that it was

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not easy, accessible, or convenience.

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Jesus was sought after people were

running to meet him at his destination

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where when he was out at sea, they

went to the port that he was gonna

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come into and they waited for him.

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Talk about having no time to breathe.

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They were so bent on getting Jesus'

attention that even as Jesus is

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mourning the loss of his cousin,

John the Baptist, they come and

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find him in the wilderness and they

have needs that are ready to be met.

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And Jesus doesn't look at them and say,

guys, I just need a break to grieve.

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Please let me just have a few hours alone.

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And instead, no, he ministers to them.

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Because his ministry life was so

impacted, he would take time alone in

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the morning to just spend time with God.

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He'd wake up really early

while it was still dark.

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Mark chapter one says, and he

would spend time with the father.

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So Jesus prays.

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You see that part of what Jesus is showing

us here again, uh, he, he's more than

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our model of prayer because he's our

intercessor, but he's not less than that.

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He also models for us what it looks

like to be a true, fully human man.

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Well, I want you to notice

the way that he prays though.

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Take a look here in verse seven, he

prays how with loud cries and tears.

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Jesus is not a dispassionate high priest.

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He's not interceding with indifference.

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Here, I I want you to think about this.

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How would, how would the author of Hebrews

know this if this is as I suspect Jesus

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in the Garden the night before, he was

about to be betrayed and given into the

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hands of the Romans to be crucified.

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How do they know that?

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He prayed with loud cries and tears.

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I'm gonna make two guesses

that I, I, I think are textual.

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You can follow, follow along with

me if, if you think this is fitting.

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Number one.

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I think because the disciples

had had access to Jesus, they

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had access to his prayer life.

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You might remember in Luke chapter 11,

they said, Jesus teaches us how to pray.

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They found something so

remarkable about his preaching.

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Uh, so remarkable about his praying,

rather, that they asked him,

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please show us how you do this.

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So they had access to his prayer

life, and I would wager they

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knew that Jesus was a man who.

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Prayed with loud cries and tears.

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I think this is a regular feature,

or at least it hints at that.

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Secondly, if this is a Garden

of Gethsemane, he did call

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three to come along with him.

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Remember those guys, Peter, James, and

John, are invited to be part of his inner

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circle, so as he's praying, preparing to

die, he says, come along with me guys.

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Watch and pray with me.

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The text says they fell asleep.

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You know the story, but I don't know

that they were sleeping the whole time

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because it wouldn't take a lot to say.

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Oh.

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I hear loud cries and tears.

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Maybe Jesus, on the night that he was

about to be betrayed was piercing the

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night sky with his cries and he was

not concealing them, crying quietly,

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as we might do if we're trying to be

subtle and not let people know that

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we're, you know, shedding tears.

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Jesus is crying with loud cries and tears.

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This is full on crying.

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I think his disciples might

have hurt him and passed it on.

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He prayed with passion.

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A couple points about that.

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Then if we're gonna pray like Jesus,

that really does mean we need to be

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able to pray honestly with vulnerability

and honesty and vulnerability is

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not part of our manhood culture.

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At least not today.

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I, I was watching, uh, little

House in the Prairie with my kids.

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I've been watching it for a long time now.

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It's my first time making it through.

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I mean, please don't judge me for that.

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I know it's not the Manly a show to watch.

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I picked it up 'cause it was clean go.

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You can understand that, right?

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You can sympathize.

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I picked it up 'cause it was clean

and I could enjoy it with my family.

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Great storytelling by the way.

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But here's what's

consistent about this show.

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It constantly pulls on

the, on the harsh dreams.

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It's a dad who loves his family, who

wants to protect his wife and lead his

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girls and, and do right in the society.

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And constantly, I'm challenged because

it, it starts pulling tears outta my eyes.

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And I probably do what you do.

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I hold it in.

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Don't, this is, this is just a TV show.

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I don't need them to see

me crying for these things.

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I get a little embarrassed when

I get emotional at a TV show.

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I don't know about you,

but look at Jesus here.

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I don't think Jesus is embarrassed about

the full expression of his emotions here.

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I don't think Jesus is embarrassed

about being honest with

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what's happening in his heart.

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I think real manhood, as Jesus depicts

it, is emotionally available, and that's

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just indicated by the way that he prays.

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He's honest with the father.

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He's not pretending to

be something he's not.

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He's laying it out as it is, and I wonder

if anyone's given you the permission

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to be that way with your father.

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If you're praying like Jesus, here's what

I can tell you about your prayer life.

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You're not pulling punches.

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That doesn't mean you're

being disrespectful.

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Doesn't mean that you're telling God

what to do, but it is saying, I want

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to take the time to be real with you.

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God, and being real with a father

is as hard as it is to be real

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with your bride or with your kids.

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It takes time, it takes

energy, it takes slowness.

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It takes you being willing to

say, I'm not gonna rush this.

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I need to, I need to

give you what you're due.

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If you go on a date with your

wife, you're not starting.

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Your clock is okay.

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One hour go.

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What's going on in your life?

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Okay, we gotta get home now.

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We gotta go.

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You're not gonna rush you.

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These things take time, and sometimes we

rush God because we've got things to do.

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We don't get the time that it needs,

and, and that's why in part, we're

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not emotionally available to the Lord.

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And when that happens, again,

you're conditioning yourself

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to act in certain ways.

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You're developing certain patterns of

expression that's going to bleed onto your

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wife, kids, your friends, your neighbors.

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Jesus is emotionally

connected to the Father.

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Obviously, if this is the night

he's going to be betrayed, he's,

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it's gonna be intense about it.

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He cries, he wails.

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He makes it evident, I'm telling you,

is you have to cry about everything.

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I don't think Jesus cried about

everything, but I can tell you.

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I can guarantee there are things

in your life that you probably

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should shed some tears about.

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Should not could, but you should.

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There have been a handful of times

in my life when I've been so moved

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with love or concern for someone that

the tears have been pulled out and I

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wonder if the same can be true for you.

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Have you shed tears over your children's

salvation or your grandchildren?

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Have you prayed for your wife with

the kind of intensity that says, Lord

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I, I need her to grow in these areas.

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I care about her, her holiness.

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I care about her looking like you.

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I care about my love for her.

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Lord, forgive me.

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Have you ever been so grieved

by your sin that you're willing

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to cry tears over those things?

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Have you ever loved the savior so

much that you communicate that love

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with tears of joy, tears of gratitude?

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Again, you don't have

to do this every day.

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I'm not saying that I'm,

I'm putting a burden on you.

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You should cry more often, gentlemen.

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I'm just saying.

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Jesus communicates to the Father with

a real authenticity and intensity,

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and that was a part of his life.

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I suspect we gonna pray like Jesus.

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That means we're gonna have to be willing

to spend time with him, to give him the

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honor and the deference that he deserves.

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Well, notice who Jesus prays to here.

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Let's make a quick comment about this.

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Jesus prays.

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To the father.

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That's who's being referred to, to him,

who was able to save him from death.

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Just real quick, every prayer that is

recorded of Jesus is directed to the

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Father, not the Spirit, spirit son of you.

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Every prayer in the Bible that Jesus

is recorded as saying is to the Father,

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I think that's instructive for us.

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Your, your prayers ought to be

directed to the Father by and large.

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Um, and in fact, the way that I've

thought about this and I think is

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helpful, it's to the father, through

the son, by the spirit to the Father,

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through the son, by the spirit.

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Our prayers are like Jesus meant

to be directed to the Father.

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In fact, when he tells us

to pray, what does he say?

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He says, when you pray, say

you fill it in our Father.

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That's right.

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Notice he doesn't tell you to

say Our spirit in heaven doesn't

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tell you to ask the spirit.

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There's nothing wrong with

praying to the spirit.

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Spirit can't get due, but the

spirit's job is to point you

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to the father through the son.

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So Jesus prays that the Father,

that's a good practice for us as well.

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Did the father save him from death?

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Uh, he was able to save him.

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Did he do that?

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Well, yes and no.

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Right?

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Yes and no.

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No.

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The father did not deliver him from

death, at least that death immediately.

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But yes, he did deliver him from death

and that he a rose him from the death.

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And so what we see here again is that

Jesus is praying and he effectively prays.

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Jesus did get a yes, but it was a yes,

but yes, but Son, yes, I will deliver

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you from death, but you're still

gonna go through the doorway of death.

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Why don't you sit for a second

and think about how that might

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influence the way that you pray and

what you expect God to answer you.

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You might pray for the job and

God might say yes, but, or you

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might pray for a different house.

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Housing arrangement.

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Yes, son, but.

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That's what God says to him.

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This is the son of God.

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Here's a, here's a fun one.

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Look at the last part of verse seven.

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Why did the father answer Jesus prayers?

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There's a lot of answers you could

give to that theologically, and

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if you're theologically minded,

this is gonna be fun for you.

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If you're not, you can tune

out for like three minutes.

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But if you aren't theologically

minded, notice here, why did

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the father answer Jesus first?

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Because of his reverence?

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Fascinating.

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Biblically speaking.

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This is fascinating because he could

have said anything else that you

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would expect, oh, he's the son of God.

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He's gonna get God's ear.

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He's perfect in righteousness.

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He's gonna get God's ear.

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He obeyed the Father to the very

end, or as the Old Testament says

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about some of the kings, he, he

obeyed the Lord with his whole heart.

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You would expect to see those

things, but yet what you see

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here is because of his reverence.

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It's not about Jesus' uniqueness as a

Son of God and great high priest, none of

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that is cited as the reason God heard him.

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This is reverence.

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I think that's so instructive for us.

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I mean, remember, Jesus is more

than our example, but he's not less,

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his reverence ought to inform ours.

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When we go to him and we go to the

Father in prayer, what this reverence

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refers to is that Jesus didn't make

demands for escape or deliverance.

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Remember he, he finished the prayer

with not as I will, but as you do.

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And because of that, he received and

accepted the father's painful will.

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He revered God enough.

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He loved God enough to say,

I, I want what you want.

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Even if that means I have to walk

through the doorway of death.

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Several things then from this, this

brief verse, praying like Jesus

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means trusting the answer God gives.

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Let me just encourage

you to think about that.

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Praying like Jesus means

trusting the answer God gives.

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Being heard by God does not mean

the request is always granted.

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That should be evident for

those of us who have walked into

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the faith for a long season.

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Trusting God means trusting the

answer he gives and that the

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answer isn't always gonna be a yes.

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Jesus prayed that the cup would

pass from him, but it didn't.

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It didn't because praying like Jesus

also means pursuing God, not the gift.

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Praying like Jesus first means

trusting the answer God gives.

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Praying like Jesus also means

pursuing God in your prayer life.

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Prayer is our way of aligning ourselves

with God's will rather than telling

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him how we want him to align with ours.

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And that means us being willing to say,

look, I understand that, Lord, you're

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gonna do what you're gonna do, but I'm

gonna ask you please do these things.

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Prayer is primarily relational

and not transactional difference.

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Transactional is, I drive through the

window, I get my order, I pick it up, I

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drive out the car, the, the drive through.

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Relational is, sweetheart.

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Well, let's go to dinner and

spend it a couple hours together.

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Or I'm gonna take my dad out for

dinner and we're gonna just hang

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out and enjoy each other's company.

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One's relational.

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One is transactional.

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Prayer is not drive through.

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Prayer is, let's sit down and

let's, let's talk a while.

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Thirdly, prayer is like prayer.

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Praying like Jesus means

trusting the answer.

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God gives praying like Jesus means

pursuing God, not gifts, and finally

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praying like Jesus means seeing

prayer as a combination of two things.

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Earn petition.

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Absolute deference.

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Earn petition.

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Absolute deference.

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I'm giving my true heart here, but

whatever you say, God, I trust you.

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If you want me to stay in this

dead end job, 'cause you've closed

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all my doors, you've hedged me in.

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I trust.

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If you want me to stay in this

relationship, which has been so

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taxing for me, I don't get it.

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Why they won't change.

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I've tried.

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I've done everything.

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I've been praying.

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Lord, if you want me to stay

in this relationship, so be it.

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Okay, so much more here.

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Verse seven sets us up to see that Jesus

intercedes for us as our high priest.

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He does it with loud cries and tears to

him who is able to save him from death,

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and he was heard because of his reverence.

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But I want you to see

something stunningly.

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Jesus never appeals to his

unique privilege and status

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as son or high priest.

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He appeals to the father's will.

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Look at verse eight.

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Although he was a son, he learned

obedience through what he suffered.

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Jesus is more than our

example, but he's not less.

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Jesus suffered first.

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Number two, we need to suffer with Jesus.

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Suffer with Jesus.

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Although he was a son,

that's a critical line there.

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Although he was a son, it's a

concession that reveals Jesus

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experience during his earthly ministry.

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Uh, even though he was the son of

God, it did not exempt him from

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the experience of genuine humanity.

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Uh, one of the things that I love

doing, um, is when I'm watching

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something by myself, I will

always hit the skip intro button.

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Never, I never wanna see the credits.

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I don't care.

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Skip intro goes right

to the, the good stuff.

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But when I'm with my kids, I

feel I have an obligation to

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make them watch the intro.

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Like we're gonna see, we've,

we've watched the intro to

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Little House hundreds of times.

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It's part of our, it's part of our

tradition now, and they're still an,

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I can skip intro, but I never do.

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I say, you need to hear this.

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I grew up with this.

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You need to experience what this is like.

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You need to experience

what I've experienced.

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It's good for you to feel the, the

pain of going through the intro.

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Watching the commercials, but

interestingly, there's not a skip

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intro button for the Christian life.

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There is no fast forward to maturity.

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There is no, I can skip the beginning

of this and get right to the good stuff.

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No, everything is about progressive

growth and even Jesus himself was not

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exempted from this, although he was a son.

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Verse eight says, although it's offering

a concession, even though this is the

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case, he never used the the card and

said, ah, look, I'm gonna skip this

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level and I'm gonna go right to the.

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The championship.

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I'm gonna go right to the cross.

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It could have been that you realize

he could have been born in the manger

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in Bethlehem and then the next week

had been sacrificed, didn't happen.

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And yet, when you look at the sacrificial

system in the Old Testament, you'll notice

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that often it is a young unblemished lamb.

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And Jesus was young, relatively

speaking, 33 years old is not a

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long time, but he wasn't a year old.

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He wasn't a week old.

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He was 33 about.

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Why live that whole time?

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Well, because he was doing

what God had called him to do.

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He was progressively growing in

his understanding, progressively

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going, growing in his, his

godliness and his humanity.

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He didn't hit, he didn't use a

skip intro button, did not appeal

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to divine or relational privilege.

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Paid the price.

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Sometimes age status can tempt us

to think that we have paid or dues.

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We've talked about this already.

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Now, I wanna just camp on this really

quickly because it makes sense.

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Um.

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When God calls us to follow him, he,

he doesn't say, when you graduate

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to this stage of maturity, then

you're exempted from all the basics.

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You don't have to do the things

that you used to do anymore.

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In fact, Christianity is, is is

often a, a long maturing in the

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same direction with the basics.

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Praying, reading your bible,

going to church, learning from

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the sermons, all those things.

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Now, age and status do not change things.

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You might be the president,

CEO of a company.

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You might be the highest ranking employee

in your, in your division, but that

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doesn't change your status with the Lord.

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He doesn't see that and say,

I'm so impressed by you.

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You can do things differently now

because you have your own parking

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spot in the company parking lot.

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We're all his children.

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We all sit in many respects

as on level footing.

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And God calls us to

approach him in that way.

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How does this work in practice?

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I, I, I once told God,

don't tell God what, what.

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But here's what I told him.

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I told him I would never be part of

another church plant because I don't

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like setting up and tearing down.

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Clearly I didn't think that

one through 'cause he said, ha.

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And I'm part of another church plan

and I'm sitting up and tearing down

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probably for the rest of my life.

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One of the things that's been

really sweet though in this is

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that I, I've got to see saints.

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Godly older men step up in an area where

I would say if I'm, if I'm that age,

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I might exempt myself and say, well,

you know, my back guys and my eyesight

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isn't what it used to be, and these

muscles aren't what they used to be.

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Uh, but yet I've seen older men

take the brunt of that work.

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Um, even if I never miss, I

could just point out too, well,

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at least one of that's here.

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I don't think the other one is here.

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Greg Shaver.

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Um, I don't, maybe he would

be objected to my calling him

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old, but Greg Shaver does that.

685

He's an, he's an older gentleman.

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He's pushing carts and lifting chairs

and trying to pick up the stage pieces.

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And we say, Greg, don't do that.

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You're gonna hurt yourself.

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Still does it.

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Pete Burner, he does the same thing.

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Pete Burner cleans the bathrooms.

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I dunno if you know that when you

go to the, the, the, the cafeteria

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in the morning, if the bathroom

smells so fresh and so clean, clean,

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it's because Pete Burner cleaned

it 99 times out of a hundred,

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there are other older saints who

refuse to stop paying the price.

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And they say, I don't care how old

I am, I'm doing it because that's

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what God has called me to do.

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And if, if the church needs that I'm

gonna serve, I'm gonna jump into that.

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I'm not old enough.

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I'm not too advanced,

I'm too mature from that.

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I'm not gonna embrace privilege.

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I'm gonna take my position as servant.

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Who's that sound like?

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Uh, it sounds to me a lot like

Jesus, who remember Jesus.

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Luke chapter 22, he says this, who

is the greater one who reclines

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at table or one who serves?

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It is not the one who recline.

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Oh, rather, is it not the

one who reclines that table?

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But I am among you as the one who serves.

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Luke 2227, Jesus says, I

am the greatest among you.

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And yet, how do I prove my greatness?

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How do I prove my prestige

and my status, my privilege?

713

I use my power, my prestige, my

status, my privilege to serve you.

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This is the way of Jesus.

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You suffer with Jesus by

rejecting privileged position.

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You serve with Jesus,

you suffer with Jesus.

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Rather by saying, I don't care how

old I am or what I perceive to be

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my, my accolades, my entitlements,

I will serve regardless.

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I gotta ask you, man, are you willing

to pay the price of discipleship to

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Jesus to suffer with him in this way?

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This is incredibly humbling.

722

No one wants to do this, and yet we

will never outgrow the humble service

723

Jesus models for us and calls us to.

724

If you ever do outgrow humble service,

willingness to take the grunt work.

725

You might have outgrown Jesus.

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Whew.

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Scary place to be.

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Lemme just encourage you take, take

the lowly job, do the grunt work.

729

Do it in league with Jesus knowing that

it draws his pleasure, whether that's

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at home, doing the dishes, putting

the kids' shoes away, whether it's at

731

church stack in a chair, whether it's

at your office, the trash is full.

732

You see it's full.

733

It's not my job to take it out.

734

I'll just let someone else do that.

735

I'm gonna pass right on.

736

Bye.

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I see it.

738

I identify the problem.

739

I'll resolve the problem.

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I'm gonna serve, you know that

napkin container's empty at home.

741

My wife will get it.

742

No, I'll do it.

743

I'll take care of it.

744

I'll, I'll fill the napkin container.

745

I'm one among you as one who serves.

746

Suffering with Jesus means rejecting

privilege, but it also means valuing

747

the redemptive purposes of suffering.

748

Notice that Jesus learned

obedience through what he suffered.

749

Verse eight, he learned obedience

through what He suffered.

750

Again, another place where your

theology's gonna be challenged

751

because isn't Jesus already perfect?

752

Wasn't he born perfect?

753

Wasn't he born righteous?

754

And yet here it says he learned obedience.

755

There was something he did not know

that he had to learn through experience.

756

And here we find out that Jesus does grow.

757

Uh, jot down Luke five rather.

758

Luke 2 52.

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Jesus grows in obedience.

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He increases in knowledge and in wisdom,

he increases in the favor of God.

761

There is something very

real about Jesus' humanity.

762

That's where we say he was truly human.

763

He did truly have to grow and learn

as a human, which means when he

764

learns obedience through suffering.

765

This is not just the Bible saying

it was kind of like that he did.

766

He learned.

767

He learned even more

through his suffering.

768

What it was like to be

obedient to the father.

769

Favorite status, didn't exempt him.

770

Being divine.

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Literally divine did not

exempt Jesus from suffering.

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But there's redemptive

purposes behind the suffering.

773

In fact, being Godly

increases your suffering.

774

That's a slightly different

direction, but lemme just say it.

775

Being godly increases your

suffering, not lessens it.

776

With that.

777

Then if we see Jesus suffering,

favorite status does not exempt you

778

from it, but it does guarantee that

your suffering is never for nothing.

779

It's always redemptive.

780

There's always a purpose, and

I can't even promise you that.

781

You'll always know what that purpose is

782

when you're suffering.

783

Then here's your, here's your posture.

784

Like Jesus, extract all

the good you can from it.

785

Instead of simply asking, God, why?

786

Why?

787

Why is this happening to me?

788

Why did you allow me to go through this?

789

Why are you letting this

person do this to me?

790

Ask him, what are you teaching me, Lord?

791

How can I love you?

792

Even in the midst of this?

793

How can I be faithful to you even as you

allow me to go through this affliction

794

less why and more what and how?

795

And right now I'd love for you to just

ask yourself what you're most often

796

tempted to complain and grumble about.

797

Think about it.

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What are you most often tempted

to grumble and complain about?

799

These are the areas where it

doesn't take much to jostle

800

you and get a snarky reaction.

801

Maybe for some of you, when you drive

it is your least gly time of the day.

802

People are cutting you off and they're

tailgating you, not tailgating.

803

That's different.

804

They're tailgating while you're driving.

805

That's a problem too.

806

But they're tailing you.

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And maybe people are driving recklessly

and you just, your blood boils and you

808

just start calling down curses on them,

if not verbally, at least internally.

809

Uh, maybe it's when you get home and

you're finding the house in a mess

810

and you're thinking, why is this

not the way it's supposed to be?

811

Who, who's on, who's on first?

812

Why is there no one

who's doing the job here?

813

Maybe at the office you sit next to

some knuckleheads and they're always

814

saying things that are offensive

to you, and you just, where are you

815

most tempted to complain and grumble?

816

Ask God to help you learn

obedience through that suffering.

817

That's what happened to Jesus.

818

Lord, help me learn obedience through the

suffering, relatively model by comparison.

819

Okay,

820

verse nine.

821

Verse nine.

822

Being made perfect and being made perfect.

823

He became the source of eternal

salvation to all who obey him.

824

In what sense was Jesus made?

825

Perfect.

826

Again, this is highlighting the

humanity of Jesus as our high priest.

827

Being made perfect here in this

context means that he fulfilled, he

828

qualified to be our perfect high priest.

829

He had to go through the gateway of

suffering to qualify as our high priest.

830

The whole book of Hebrews helps

make this case better than

831

I will in the short moment.

832

But this means at least this

Jesus, although never a sinner,

833

and though always eternally holy,

had to live out perfect obedience.

834

For the 33 years, God gave him under

genuine human temptation and suffering

835

to qualify as our high priest and savior.

836

He had to, his perfection as divine

in his divinity was not sufficient

837

in affecting our salvation.

838

God made him live 33 years.

839

To qualify to be our high priest.

840

And again, that doesn't talk about,

we're not saying he was a sinner and

841

he learned and he became more holy.

842

We're not saying that he

was always eternally holy.

843

What we're talking about

is the human experience.

844

He had to go through human experience

to fulfill all righteousness as he

845

puts it in Matthew chapter three.

846

Remember, Jesus gets baptized.

847

He's baptized by John and, and John

says, Lord, you should baptize me.

848

He says, no, John, think about this.

849

I need to do this to

fulfill all righteousness.

850

This was necessary to

affect your salvation.

851

That's what Jesus is doing.

852

In fact, think of it like this.

853

You ever go to a waterpark and

there's water being poured in those

854

big buckets at the top, and it's

like a hundred gallons of water.

855

There's water being poured in.

856

Eventually when it reaches the very,

uh, top, most of its of its filled

857

capacity, it will tip over and then

pour out those a hundred gallons and

858

it begin the process all over again.

859

You think about Jesus like a bucket.

860

He is for his whole 33 years being

poured into, he's accumulating

861

perfect righteousness for us.

862

He never lacked it.

863

He always had the righteousness, but

he's accumulating the experience of that

864

righteousness for his whole 33 years.

865

And at the cross, it was

poured out for you and for me.

866

Jesus was never emptied of righteousness.

867

He always possessed it.

868

The experiential nature of his learning

and growing and becoming righteous

869

is what's being referred to here.

870

But you'll notice the very end of

verse nine, being made perfect.

871

He became the source of eternal salvation.

872

To all who, what was that word saying?

873

Obey him.

874

Obey him.

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Point number three.

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Submit to Jesus.

877

Submit to Jesus.

878

Simple.

879

Pray like him.

880

Suffer with him, submit to him.

881

Two kinds of submission you

will always render to Jesus.

882

Number one, the submission

of repentant faith.

883

The Gospel, first and

foremost is a command.

884

It's not, it's not an invitation.

885

We talk about it that way in its

sense, invitation, invitational.

886

But Mark one 15, when Jesus is

preaching about his his kingdom,

887

he says, the time is fulfilled.

888

The kingdom of God is at hand,

repents and believe in the gospel.

889

Those are two imperatives.

890

The first obedience that anybody renders

to Christ is repentant trust in Christ.

891

That's the, that's the

gospel in a nutshell.

892

We repent and believe in him.

893

We need to learn to repent and believe.

894

Someone needs to show us the way.

895

That's why we, we need a preacher.

896

They need to tell us how to do this.

897

So we do.

898

That

899

thing is, and some Christians

mistake this, you will never

900

outgrow repentance and faith.

901

For the rest of your Christian life, you

will always be repenting and trusting.

902

It gets stronger and it gets better and

it gets deeper, but it never goes away.

903

These are the basics of Christian belief.

904

You will always be repenting and trusting.

905

Kind of like when you learn to

play basketball, when you learn

906

to dribble, you learn to dribble,

and that's the foundation that

907

applies to all the other things.

908

You're not gonna do a layup and forget

how to dribble unless you're LeBron

909

James, but you're gonna typically

dribble and do a layup at the same time.

910

Those skills build on one another,

and you're not gonna grow out of that.

911

Your basic skills, if I can call 'em

that, repentance and faith will always

912

be there in your Christian life.

913

So submitting to Jesus means,

first of all, in repentant faith.

914

Secondly, in faithful obedience, because

Jesus is more than our example and not

915

less His obedience that He He does for

us doesn't just make ours possible.

916

It makes ours necessary.

917

Jesus obedience makes it both

possible and necessary for us to obey.

918

Submission to Jesus Lordship

is the necessary fruit and

919

evidence of our salvation.

920

We can say so much more about this, but

let me just say this as to my young man.

921

Again, uh, I would love for you young

man to submit your ambition to the Lord.

922

Whatever it is that you see for your

life, submitting it to Jesus means I'm

923

gonna let him be the God of my life

in every aspect who I get married to.

924

When I get married, what kind of job

I have, what kind of, uh, degree I get

925

and obtain what kind of jobs I pursue.

926

I everything I want Jesus to be

the Lord of your life, which means

927

you need to submit your ambition.

928

Good thing, good thing to be ambitious,

bad thing to do it and say, the Lord can

929

afford to wait for me until I'm ready.

930

No, keep the Lord at the

center submitting to him.

931

He's more than our example.

932

He's not less.

933

We submit like Jesus did.

934

Brothers, husbands,

fathers, submit your home.

935

Submit your home to the Lord.

936

Lead your family even when you're tired.

937

Initiate conversations

with your teenagers.

938

When you're tired, lead them in

the worship and praise of God.

939

Submit them to Jesus.

940

Submit Jesus to that.

941

Help them encounter Jesus

by your life and leadership.

942

Your wife should not be carrying the

spiritual weight of your household.

943

And that's a temptation for all of us.

944

Don't let it happen.

945

God has called you to lead.

946

He wants you to do that, even though

it will be hard, you will have to grow.

947

God will use that to my seasoned

brothers and the the room.

948

Submit your resume, your prior service,

your prior achievements, your prior

949

accolades, your prior sacrifices,

maybe even your retirement account.

950

Submit that to the Lord.

951

Say, Lord, everything I am.

952

All that I've done my, my career, my

life history, my, my family, it's yours.

953

Do with it as you Please.

954

Can I encourage you?

955

Older men in the room who have gray hair,

there are men around you who need fathers.

956

Not all of us grew up with a

dad in the house who, who did

957

what I'm even calling you to do.

958

We just don't know what that's like.

959

A lot of us had fathers who

were present, but very absent.

960

And maybe God is growing you to

an age and stage where you can do

961

something for one of those men.

962

Thirties, forties, it doesn't matter.

963

We always want that fatherly approval.

964

We always yearn for that

fatherly connection.

965

And if we don't have that with an

earthly father, maybe you can be that

966

spiritual father to one of these guys.

967

They need you.

968

And so many times we have our, our

older saints, they, they go to Florida

969

or Arizona and they just, I'm gonna,

I, I need to go where it's warmer

970

and it's easier for us to live.

971

And I understand some of those decisions.

972

I'm not trying to call you out on that.

973

I'm just saying maybe consider

how you might serve the men in

974

the room and be a father to them.

975

Submit your resume, submit

your retirement, submit

976

these things to the Lord.

977

Question for all of us then is

not, have I obeyed the Lord?

978

Trust that you're here.

979

You have obeyed.

980

But am I continuing to obey?

981

Am I continuing to pay the price or

have I let, have, have I let the culture

982

infect me with only a, a spirituality

that is easy, accessible, and convenient.

983

Christianity will never be that.

984

Jesus doesn't set the model for us.

985

He shows us what it looks like to

follow and obey, even to the point

986

of death, even death on a cross.

987

You see, being a Christian is not like

driving a Tesla with full self-driving.

988

It's not gonna wait.

989

It's not the way your

Christian's gonna work.

990

It's an amazing tool, I'll take it.

991

Um, but you should always contrary

to the song, keep your hands on the

992

wheel and not let Jesus take the wheel.

993

He's not going to, he

offers unilateral salvation.

994

But sanctification, our growth

in Christ is together with him.

995

We keep our hands on the wheel.

996

We drive with Jesus.

997

He commands us.

998

We follow.

999

We never take our hands off the wheel.

00:45:33,630 --> 00:45:35,820

Your life will never be

a Tesla FSD situation.

00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:38,220

Lemme just encourage you.

00:45:38,220 --> 00:45:39,600

One thing here, guys, I, I give you a lot.

00:45:39,630 --> 00:45:41,670

Lemme just give you one thing that

I want you to do from this sermon.

00:45:42,660 --> 00:45:45,600

I want you to plead with God to give

you a heart that is willing to pay

00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,880

the price, not to check out early.

00:45:48,450 --> 00:45:52,830

Not to coast, not to become passive or

submissive to your wife's leadership.

00:45:52,830 --> 00:45:55,620

I just want you to plead with God, please

don't let me quit before it's my time.

00:45:56,310 --> 00:45:57,930

Please don't let me throw in the towel.

00:45:57,930 --> 00:45:58,980

Please don't let me coast.

00:45:58,980 --> 00:46:01,320

Don't let me, uh, embrace

a mentality of privilege.

00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:05,100

I just want you to pray that God

would help you with this, and

00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:08,160

then let God lead you for the

next thing I'm asking you to pray.

00:46:09,030 --> 00:46:09,810

You let God lead you.

00:46:09,810 --> 00:46:10,020

Four.

00:46:10,050 --> 00:46:10,920

Okay, what does that mean for me?

00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,500

Then practically, where do I

need to put my hand in the plow?

00:46:13,530 --> 00:46:15,300

Maybe I've stepped back from

the plow and it's time to get

00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:16,470

back into it and push again.

00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,640

You let the Lord lead.

00:46:18,090 --> 00:46:18,480

Just pray.

00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,200

Ask God help you to have a heart that's

willing to pay the price along with Jesus.

00:46:22,770 --> 00:46:23,040

Okay?

00:46:23,550 --> 00:46:25,320

Let us not grow where we're

doing good for in due season.

00:46:25,590 --> 00:46:27,030

We will reap if we don't give up.

00:46:27,390 --> 00:46:27,720

Let's pray.

00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:29,970

God, thank you for the, the morning

opportunity to open your word.

00:46:30,210 --> 00:46:32,490

Help us now to put this word

into practice with the men that

00:46:32,490 --> 00:46:33,480

we're about to spend time with.

00:46:34,050 --> 00:46:37,230

Give us the ability to have

conversations that are real and, and

00:46:37,230 --> 00:46:40,110

fruitful and honest, and even to some

degree, Lord, emotionally available.

00:46:40,710 --> 00:46:40,890

Um.

00:46:41,835 --> 00:46:42,555

Not that, that's everything.

00:46:42,855 --> 00:46:45,105

We're not trying to become

emotionally manipulative.

00:46:45,105 --> 00:46:47,415

It's not our goal, Lord, we

wanna look like Christ, though.

00:46:47,715 --> 00:46:49,725

We want Christ's

character to reflect ours.

00:46:50,295 --> 00:46:53,505

So help us Lord, to be conformed to

his image as we go to our small groups.

00:46:53,505 --> 00:46:56,055

Give us great conversations,

fruitful dialogue.

00:46:56,205 --> 00:46:57,795

Let there be great give and take.

00:46:58,065 --> 00:47:02,175

Let there be just a, a really helpful

conversation that pulls more from the

00:47:02,175 --> 00:47:04,905

sermon and, and discards the rest.

00:47:04,905 --> 00:47:05,445

That's not helpful.

00:47:06,045 --> 00:47:08,355

When we submit this time to you now,

Lord, please give us the grace for this.

00:47:08,355 --> 00:47:09,915

In Jesus name, amen.

00:47:09,915 --> 00:47:10,095

Amen.

00:47:11,205 --> 00:47:13,125

Alright, brothers, well thank you

again for being, here's what you're.