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Not Without Passion · Bayside Davis Podcast

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the B Side Davies Podcast.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: You're now listening to our current teaching series, Doc the Dow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Open up to Luke chapter 19.
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  SPEAKER_01: Luke chapter 19.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we are going to be diving into this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Luke chapter 19 in verse 28 is where we're going to be studying.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I have a question for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where is your passion?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Where is your passion?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you've noticed, but people get passionate about a lot of different things in this day and age.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: You get the people are passionate about their jobs, people are passionate about school, people are passionate about sports, people are passionate about teams and all sorts of different things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Money, success, impact, the amount of followers you have.
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  SPEAKER_01: When one of your reels goes viral, for the good reason, you might be passionate about that.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: You might be passionate because you scroll on Instagram or Facebook or wherever, right?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: And a reel comes along or a TikTok comes along and then it shows up on your screen and there's some sort of injustice and you get what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Passionate about that, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of things that we get passionate about today.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're on this discipleship series right now of not without, not without unity or encourage and sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And today I want to talk about not without passion.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'll never forget my first time baptizing somebody.
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  SPEAKER_01: As a pastor, uh it's a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I remember uh he was one, I was a preteen pastor at the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here's here comes this little fourth grader who is so excited to be baptized.
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  SPEAKER_01: He requested me.
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  SPEAKER_01: He requested me as his pastor to baptize him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like so excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a pastor, when you get into the tub with them, you ask them three questions.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: You say, Hey, do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?
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  SPEAKER_01: And they say, Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you ask, hey, have you accepted him into your heart as Lord and Savior?
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  SPEAKER_01: And they say yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then finally, do you promise to follow him all the days of your life?
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  SPEAKER_01: And they say, Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm like, okay, I got the script down.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm so excited to do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I get into the tub, and then in comes little Ian, and he gets into the tub with me, and I look at him and I go, okay, Ian, you know, and there's like hundreds of people around, everyone's uh it's like a whole big event.
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  SPEAKER_01: I go, hey, do you believe that Jesus is the son of God?
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  SPEAKER_01: And he says, Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I say, Have you accepted him into your life as Lord and Savior?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: And he says, Yes.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: And then I say, Do you believe that Jesus is the son of God?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: Whoops.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: And he goes, uh, you already asked me that.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: And to which I respond with, uh, yeah, I'm just making sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: But because I had been so excited, I was so excited to get to baptize him, right?
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: I was so excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I remember and I was I was so enthusiastic to get to serve in this way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And several years ago, I was asked by Pastor Kurt Harlow if I would go and team teach with him on a Christmas morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was the the last, uh, this was the last Christmas day that landed on a Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we were gonna have church, uh, and so like uh all the rest of the church was pretty much shut down, but we did one Christmas morning service, and Kurt asked me if I would team teach with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had never done that before uh in front of a bunch of adults and all this stuff, and so we're expecting like 30 people.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: We ended up having like a thousand people in the room, which was crazy to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I got to preach for like a whole seven minutes, right?
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I was, but I have to tell you, I was so excited to get to do that.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: I was so enthusiastic.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now it's been years, almost a decade.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: And if I'm honest with you, this last week I had an opportunity to speak at this softball thing out in the community to people who who both were close to God and also just a whole bunch of people who were either agnostic about church, apathetic about church, or actively did not like church.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I had an opportunity to get to speak in front of them, just some words of encouragement and just to get the name of Jesus out into the community.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I and as I'm getting prepped for this, if I'm honest with you, I was not really excited about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't very enthusiastic.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was kind of going, I was going, okay, like I kind of knew like I was their second choice, and I was like, I don't know, like this is like a lot of effort to go out there and speak for literally like three or four minutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if I'm honest with you, I wasn't really thrilled about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, what had thrilled me previously no longer held the same excitement.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where is your passion?
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  SPEAKER_01: Most people think of pastors as always being spiritually enthusiastic, like none of us have ever struggled with such a thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we're always passionate passionate, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're the professional Christians.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've never struggled feeling passionate or enthusiastic.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh if you're like me and maybe you've lost some passion, or maybe you've thrown it to the wayside, I think this message is for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: So before I read from the Bible today, I want to give us some context, pray, and then we're gonna read through the passage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does that sound good?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let me give you some context.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is day one of Passion Week.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a major, major part of the Gospels.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, in fact, it's so, so important that 27 chapter uh 27, 28 chapters, somewhere around there, of all of the gospels are just about the last week of Jesus' life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, Luke, it's a whole third, it's almost a whole third of the book, is about the last seven days of his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we come here to day one, which traditionally in the church we call Palm Sunday or the triumphal entry.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is day one of what we call Passion Week, holy week, and it kicks off the week as we go towards Easter over the next seven days.
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  SPEAKER_01: And right before, right before in Luke's gospel, there's three big events that happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's this blind beggar, there's the the man of Zacchaeus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you've heard of that story, little Zacchaeus up in the tree, and then there's the nobleman who rebels against Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Jesus, I believe, the context of all those stories, which I don't have time to go through all three of those different stories, but the context is this is that Jesus invites us to see what others miss, he invites us to receive what others reject, and he invites us to submit when others rebel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's the context that leads into the day of Palm Sunday, the day that kicks off of Passover week, and the day that kicks off Passion Week for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, before we read, let's pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes?
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  SPEAKER_01: Heavenly Father, you are God and we are not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your ways are higher than our ways, your thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is your word, not ours.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, Lord, you speak today.
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  SPEAKER_01: You open our hearts and our minds so that we can hear your wisdom, so that we can hear your truth, so that we can so that we can know you better and be known by you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not about performance today.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're about being honest and open to what you have to say, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Lord, help us to help us to learn more about you and help us to learn more about passion today.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: And it's in your name we pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: All God's people said, Amen.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: And this is what it says in Luke chapter 19, verse 28.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you have a physical Bible, I don't know, you get more points in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says this after Jesus had said this, he went up, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
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  SPEAKER_01: As he approached Bethage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt that tied there, a young donkey, which no one has ever ridden.
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  SPEAKER_01: Untie it and bring it here.
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  SPEAKER_01: If anyone asks you, Why are you untying it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Say, The Lord needs it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those who were sent ahead went and just and and found it just as that he had told them.
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  SPEAKER_01: As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, Why are you untying the colt?
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  SPEAKER_01: They replied, The Lord needs it.
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  SPEAKER_01: They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt, and put Jesus on it.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.
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  SPEAKER_01: When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in other gospels, the uh the crowd is also chanting the word Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get to that in a little bit.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: In verse 39, it picks up Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, Teacher, rebuke your disciples.
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  SPEAKER_01: I tell you, he replied, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.
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  SPEAKER_01: As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, If even you had only known on this day what would bring you peace, but now it is hidden from your eyes.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: The day will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
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  SPEAKER_01: They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls.
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  SPEAKER_01: They will not leave one stone on another because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: So, why talk about passion?
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: Why talk about passion?
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, my brother-in-law and I several years ago decided to take our families out on Folsom Lake uh with our family.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, my my parents owned a boat for about 22 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was a very old boat.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a wonderful boat.
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  SPEAKER_01: This boat has outlived pets, this boat has outlasted boyfriends and girlfriends.
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  SPEAKER_01: This boat is like a member of our family, and it was a 2002 MB sports boat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh red, it was beautiful, we loved it, but it was it was getting to the end of its life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we decide, hey, let's take it out on the lake, we're gonna have a great time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we load up the we load up my kids, we all get into it, we bring the dogs, all this kind of stuff.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: We get out on the lake, we're driving around, it's we're having a fast fantastic time, just getting out onto the lake, and then we kind of notice that the boat is like slowing down slightly.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: And we're like, this is weird, okay?
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so we're like wondering, like, we're messing with the like the engine and the switchboard and everything, and everything seems to be fine, but nothing, but but the boat itself seems to be running slowly and slowly, and we notice actually that that it's not just because we're all sitting in the back, but the boat actually is kind of going like this, just slowly.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: And some of you are ahead of me, and and so we go back, we open up the engine compartment, and we see about six inches of water in the engine compartment of the boat.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: And we and we go, hey, there's a lot of water in here, and so we immediately realize that something is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we we close the engine compartment, we start racing back to the to the shore.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: I get to like we we kind of load up the front of the boat to kind of like you know plane it a little bit so we don't start sinking actively.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking I might have to grab like a paddle and start like paddling the boat, rescue my family, get to swim them to shore.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: We finally get it out of the water, we get it onto the trailer, we manage to get it out of the lake, so we're not at the bottom of Folsom Lake anymore.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: And we get out of the lake and we realized immediately what had happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, there's this small little piece of equipment, there's a small mechanical piece that's called a boat plug.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't install the boat plug into the boat, guess what happens?
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  SPEAKER_01: Your boat fills up with what?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: Water, right?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: One of my favorite moments from that day was when we had discovered we were like, hey, there's a lot of water back here.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's an old boat, right?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: So my sister looks at us and goes, Oh, that's normal.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and it but can I just tell you something?
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: It was anything but normal.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there were two things that I wanted to pull from that.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first is this is that what happens on Palm Sunday, what happens with Jesus entering into the city is anything but normal.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: This is not something that's normal happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the second is this is that it is so easy when we are missing something in life, when we are missing a key piece, something that even might seem small to most people, that it can cause our life to sink.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can I just tell you, passion without God will sink your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: But passion for God will strengthen your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are two types of people in this world.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are those who let their circumstances influence their passion, and then there are those who let their passion influence their circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, how do you and I get back to true passion?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: How do we get our in spiritual enthusiasm back?
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad you asked that question.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I believe that God has a couple of lessons that he wants to teach us about passion.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're with me, give me an amen.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all still in?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, here's the first thing I believe that God is trying to teach us about passion.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first is this is that passion demands a decision.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Passion demands a decision, right?
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Jesus, so why is it that Jesus shows up, right?
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so Jesus and his disciples, they come to the city, and the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the Sanhedrin, uh the like Jesus at this point is very famous, okay?
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's not this like unknown itinerant preacher from Galilee, like he's not that guy anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is after three years of public ministry.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's been healing people, he's been casting out demons, he's been doing all sorts of, he's been feeding thousands of people with a boy's school lunch.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like he's doing all these miracles.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is famous to most people and infamous to the Pharisees and the religious elite of the day, right?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: He is he is well known by everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in the previous chapters, he actually raises Lazarus from the dead, which is a tipping point because everyone at all the all of his enemies at that point go, oh, we can't try to discredit any him anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to actually assassinate him now.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's the tipping point.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: So Jesus is walking into Jerusalem, and so they're going, okay, it's Passover week, it's a big holiday, we'll arrest him when everything's done, right?
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: How many of you have ever like put off a decision?
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you've ever been put off a decision?
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: When I was uh after I had graduated high school, I stu I lived in Germany for a year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and if you're wondering if I speak German, nine.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: I do not.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's not no, I I lost all of my German.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh I came back, like I went there for a year, I studied, I studied the Bible, it was a Bible school, and it was an incredible experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I came back and I didn't really know where to go, and so I went to Southern California uh because it was close to Disneyland and the beach, and so I was like, okay, God send me there.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so I went to Southern California and I started going to my university down there, and as I was and I was undeclared for two years.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: For two years I was undeclared because I had no idea what I wanted to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't know, like I could do this.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: I don't really want to get a biblical studies degree.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to do this, I don't know what I really want to do.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: Until the university, after two years, looked at me and said, You what have to make a what?
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: Decision.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: I had to, I the university forced me to make a decision.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus does the same thing here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus has shown up to Jerusalem and he is forcing not just the Pharisees, but the people to confront who he is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because it's the Father's will that Jesus is the Passover lamb, that Jesus would actually be the Passover sacrifice, the Lamb of God slain for the sins of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the moment, and so Jesus forces the issue.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know why Jesus chooses to ride in on a donkey?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why not a horse, right?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why not a chariot?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Why not all these things?
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: Why doesn't he just walk into the city?
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: He he chooses a donkey specifically because it was prophesied in Zechariah 9 9 saying this rejoice greatly, daughter Zion, shout, daughter Jerusalem, see, your king comes to you righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a what a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: And there's a hunt, there's hundreds of other prophecies about the Messiah that Jesus fulfills, and this is one of those prophecies.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so he's fulfilling prophecy, which is why the the Pharisees are so angry with Jesus.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: They look at him and they hey, hey, Jesus, rebuke your disciples, right?
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: They're going, we don't want to be forced into a decision.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus is like, hey, if they stay quiet, like even the rocks are gonna cry out.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like this decision has to happen.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Who do you say I am?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so he's forcing that with everyone there, and ultimately, that's what he does with us.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: You and I have to come to a decision about who Jesus is.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: He cannot be ignored.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: God will not allow you to go through life ignoring who he is.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: You have to come to a decision about Jesus.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: This is why in Revelation 3, 15 through 16, it says, I know your deeds that you are neither hot, that you are neither cold nor hot.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: I wish you were either one or the other.
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  SPEAKER_01: So because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus forces the world to come to grips with him, forces us to make a decision about him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Either Jesus is the most important person, event, uh, the life, like all of human history is about Jesus and Jesus alone.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: All of human history points to Jesus, both past, present, and future, or he should be ignored completely.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's one of the two extremes.
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  SPEAKER_01: You cannot be in this middle ground, and Jesus causes you and I to come to a decision about him, and he will force that decision.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: Who is Jesus?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because passion, if you want real spiritual enthusiasm, real passion in your life, you have to make a decision.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Because God demands a decision from you about who he is.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's the most important decision you and I will ever make.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so passion demands a decision.
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  SPEAKER_01: But second is this is passion can be misplaced.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you know your passions can actually be misplaced?
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm I'm sure you recognize that because you've seen people be passionate about things that you feel like they should not be passionate about, right?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like you've seen the reels.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh how many of you have ever spent time in a comment section?
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, don't raise your hand.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: How many of you have ever commented in the comment section?
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you don't have to you don't have to confess that today.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: We've got prayer in the back for you.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um this is day one of passion week, right?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: And the you know what that is?
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's actually a quote from Psalm 118.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever wondered why is it that the whole city goes from, you know, this triumphal entry, waving palm branches, welcoming Jesus into the city, and then five days later they go from Hosanna, Hosanna to crucify him, crucify him.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's five days, people.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's five days from now.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, why, how does that happen?
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I believe it's because they had misplaced their passion.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Check this out.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: So they sp let me give you some context.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Is it all right if I just kind of go Bible nerd on the history Bible nerd for you on you for a second?
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: Is that all right?
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, what are you gonna say?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: No?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: So they spread their cloaks on the road, right?
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's a sign of submission to royalty.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: They're declaring something in that moment.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: They're saying, hey, yes, we acknowledge your claim of kingship.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like they're saying, hey, you are you are king.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: And that seems like a really good thing, right?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Until you look at the rest of this.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Passover, this week of Passover that Jesus is showing up to Jerusalem at, this is not just like, oh, this is like a nice Christian holiday.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't how we would think about Easter.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't how we think about Christmas.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: This is more like 4th of July.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is a big deal to the Jewish people.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: This is like a day of nationalistic zeal.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: Jews from all around the world are coming back to Jerusalem for the Passover festival.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: There's an ancient scholar, um Tacitus, who says uh there's probably around uh, you know, Jerusalem was much smaller without these pilgrims and these people.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: But during Passover, it's like two to 2.5 million people in the city.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: There's a huge multitudes and huge amounts of crowds all going after Jesus and wondering who he is.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: Some people are celebrating, some people are just wondering who he is.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's it's this incredible thing.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: So there's millions of people there, right?
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: Don Carson puts it this way the Passover feast was to Jews, what the Fourth of July is to Americans.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: It was a rallying point of intense nationalistic zeal, right?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know why they wave palm branches?
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: They wave palm branches because that they don't have a flat.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Flag.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: They don't have a flag at this point.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: So what do they do?
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: They grab the nearest thing that they can wave, and so they grab these palm branches and they start waving palm branches because that's their flag.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: The reason we know that they've viewed it as their flag is because you actually see coins from that era, uh, and they are minted with guess what?
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Palm branches.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: So it's on their currency.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: So this is 4th of July.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: They've got their flags going, they've laid down cloaks for their king, and they're singing Psalm 118, which is a song about throwing off oppression.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's a song about throwing off the oppressive power of Rome, about God coming in and freeing them from oppression.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's a beautiful song, but in this context, they're using it like their star-spangled banner.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's their national anthem, and they're shouting Hosanna, Hosanna, which translates to save now, save now, save now.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's a different picture, isn't it?
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: Suddenly you have a whole city who's waving their palm branches.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: They're shouting, save now, save now, come free us from Rome.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: And just about a century, just over a century before this, there's another guy who shows up to Jerusalem, a guy named Judas Maccabeas, and he rides up with his army on a horse.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: And guess what the people do?
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: They lay down their cloaks as he marches into the city with his army, and they're singing, they're singing Psalm 118, they're saying, Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, and they're shouting, Hosanna, Hosanna, save now, save now, as they wave their palm branches.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because Judas Maccabeas came in and threw off the oppression of the Seleucid Empire.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: And now Jesus is walking into the city.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now Jesus is riding in on a donkey, and they're going, Oh, it's the Messiah, it's the Messiah! Yes, he's coming to be our king and throw off Rome.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, like, yes, save now, save now.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Yes, we've got Judas again.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: How ironic is that, right?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: They're expecting Judas, but instead they get Jesus.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: You see, the crowd, the Pharisees received him with animosity, and the crowds receive him with an agenda.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is not the crowd rightly welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: This is the crowd saying, Save now from the oppression of Rome, right?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: And but here's the thing: Jesus has not arrived at the city to save them from Rome.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: He hasn't come to sit on an earthly throne because in Psalm 2 we actually see this in verse 4 the one enthroned in heaven laughs, the Lord scoffs at them.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus already has a throne.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't need our thrones here.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, right?
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Is there any house that we could build for him that he has not like the earth is like the world is his throne, right?
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's his footstool, the Bible says.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so Jesus hasn't come to sit on a throne, but instead to hang on a cross.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: This is why he has shown up.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: The triumph is not that God shows up to save us from our circumstances, but that God shows up to save us from our sin.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't want Jesus to mess with anything else.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know what happens right after this?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: The very next day, where does he go?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: He goes to the temple.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: And what does he do at that temple?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: He starts flipping tables.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: And he goes, You've turned my father's house into a den of robbers, and suddenly it changes.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: Suddenly they're going, Oh, wait, hold on, Jesus.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you we thought you would walk into the Roman barracks and kick them out.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: Flip their tables.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: What are you doing coming after us?
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: The triumph is not that God shows up to save us from our circumstances, but that God shows up to save us from our sin.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: You see, they didn't want Jesus to mess with their values.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't want Jesus to mess with their morals or their finances or their relationships.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Don't make their mistake.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: What is he the king of in your life?
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Is he king on Sunday, but not Friday?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: Is he the king over your health, but not your marriage?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Is he the king over your circumstances, but not your money?
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus wants to receive him as king over all our life.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: God's not satisfied with just you saying, okay, you have a little seat over here in my corner, God.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: You can be my coach, Lord.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, no, no, no, no, no.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: I will be king over all of it.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: Or you will be king over all of it.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so passion demands a decision.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Passion can be easily misplaced, and passion is costly.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: Passion is costly.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: You see, as he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, If you, even you had only known on this day what would bring you peace.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: If you had only known what would bring you peace.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: We're currently in this next campaign raising money to change the world both locally and globally, right?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_01: And it's this incredible thing.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: My wife and I, we've made our commitment.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we know others who have made their commitments.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, as a pastor, by the way, um, I think it's really important that I say this.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um we as pastors, we are never going to ask, especially and I'll say this just for for my sake.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we are never going to ask you to do something that we ourselves are not doing or have not done before.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: We're it that's just integrity, right?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: And so we're my wife and I, we are part of this next campaign.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: We've made our we've prayed, we prayed, and we we we believe we we have the number, and so we've made a commitment.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um But we got this letter from this past week uh from some longtime Baysiders to my dad, and it was it's such a great letter.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to share it with you.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um it says this uh dear Pastor Ray, we have been active in the programs of Bayside for 28 years, almost since the beginning.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Up until about a year ago, we were in the mainstream of all that happened at Granite Bay, including every single Capitol campaign.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: But now, with me at 99 years old, and my wife at 92 and under hospice care, we're not able to attend in person and are resigned to watch the 815 service online every Sunday.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: Even though we can't be there in person, we're baysiders to the bone and are not going to miss out on the latest and our last next initiative.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Since it's only a three-year commitment, I'm sure the Lord will keep us around to see the finish.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'll only be 102 and my wife 95.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Though we probably won't be around to see the completion of the 30-year plan.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: After much prayer, we both came up with the same number and agreed on this amount.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have any financial income except our retirement.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: But the Lord has blessed us in our support of the last of the past five campaigns, and He will in this one.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: Since we can't be there Sunday, I'm sending our pledge to you.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: They get it, don't they?
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: Passion isn't about being the most over the top.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's not about being the most enthusiastic person in the room.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's the long haul.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: How do you want to live when you're in your 90s?
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 13, 44 says, uh Jesus speaks and he says, The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: When a man found it, he hid it again, then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: Passion is not what gets you fired up, but what you'd rather walk through fire for.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: What do you walk through fire for?
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_01: What is your faith cost?
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: What is your faith cost?
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_01: What have you had to sacrifice?
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: What brings us peace with God is atonement.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's Jesus Himself that brings us peace and is our peace.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus does not go to Jerusalem to sit on a throne, but to hang on a cross.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: Here's my final thought for us.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: Here's my final thought.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: So passion, passion demands a decision.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: Passion can be misplaced.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: Passion is costly.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: And here's my final thought.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: God is passionate about you.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: God is passionate about you.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, at the end of this passage, it's so interesting.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: He he he goes to this, he weeps over Jerusalem and he prophesies, Jesus prophesies about like the day of destruction for the city of Jerusalem.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's gonna happen in 70 AD, and it's it's it's this it's this sobering reality.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: And he says, it's this interesting part.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: At the very end, he says, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I always looked at that and I was like, I never really thought it like, have you ever had those verses that just kind of like right over your head?
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: But when we pause and look at this, you did not recognize the time of God's, God's coming to who?
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_01: You.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: You see, after that softball gig, the first place that I drove to was our all-staff meeting.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: And which is like a it's like a mini church service for our Bayside staff.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's a chapel, there's worship, a short teaching.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: And and and while we were there, uh this man Andre comes up and he and he's a guest and he and he starts leading worship that day.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: We learned that he actually he was in Folsom prison, right?
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: That he was in Folsom prison and and actually he had been sentenced to 42 years to life in Folsom prison.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: But he found Jesus.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: God found him in that dark place, transformed his life, and then he got released this past week after 21 years.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then we flew out his mom to surprise him at the jail.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so who she hadn't seen him in 21 years, and so we we fly her out from Florida, they meet, they reunite, and it's just this powerful picture of the gospel.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: And then he comes in because during during our church services in the prison, he was part of the worship team, and so he came up and he started leading worship at our staff meeting for the first time in 21 years.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: You see, we have a church inside that prison, and so he finally has his freedom, he and and and he's leading worship, and then after the worship service is over, we were praying, and he says, Hey, I just want to let you can I just tell you one thing, and this is what he said, and I'll never forget it.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: He said this it is impossible for you to come in contact with the living God and not be changed.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I encourage you to tell everyone about Jesus and his restoring power.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know what struck me about him?
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: He's not bored about Jesus.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: He's not bored when he hears about David and Goliath.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't roll his eyes when when the sermon is about Daniel in the lion's den.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: He's not, he hasn't gotten over getting saved.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: He still has his spiritual enthusiasm, he has a passion for the name of Jesus.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I believe it's this because he has a passion for God because he has recognized that God has a passion for him, that God has a passion for me.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know that God is passionate about you?
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: Why did he show up on Sunday?
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: Why did he show up on the triumphal entry?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: Why does he ride in and on the donkey while all the crowds receive him with an agenda?
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: Why does he weep over Jerusalem?
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: Why does he go towards Good Friday?
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: Why does he hang on a cross?
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: Because God is passionate about you, because God refused to be God without you, and he wanted to make a way for you to come to repentance, a way for you to actually be in relationship with him, and so God would counter himself to be numbered at with transgressors that he would take on our sin, that he would take your sin and give you his righteousness.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because God is passionate about you, because he loves you, and I get so sick with myself when I forget, when I forget that God is passionate about me, because it's so easy for us to lose our passion or to set it aside to be like David and to dance to the music of God, to dance because of who he is, because God is good and great and glorious and holy and loving and kind.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: He is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and He set down a crown so that he could take up a cross.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_01: And he invites you and I to do the same.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: And all you have to do, all you have to do, all that he requires of you is to repent and to trust in him in the name of Jesus that is above every other name, because he will wipe away your sins, and one day he will wipe away every tear from every eye.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: There will be no more sickness, no more dying, no more death, no more cancer, no more porn.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: One day everything will be good and righteous and holy when he comes back.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: Because he is coming back.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: Where is your passion?
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: Where is your fire?
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: Do you believe in the gospel, the good news about Jesus?