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"Flip The Script" | Sunday Service | February 16, 2025 · Wesley at FSU & TSC

• 0:58
  SPEAKER_03: I want to give a message this morning that I'm calling Flip the Script.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_03: And it's about a passage that you might be familiar with, but it's often called something else.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_03: The one we're going to look at today is called the Sermon on the Plain.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: You may be familiar with the Sermon on the Mounts.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: You've heard of that?
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's one of uh Jesus' most famous messages and sermons.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but uh this one is from Luke's gospel, and it's the Sermon on the Plain.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: This is Luke 6.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_03: Here's another reading of God's word.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus came down from the mountain with them and stood on a large area of level ground.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: A great company of his disciples and a huge crowd of people from all around Judea and Jerusalem and the area around Tyre and Sidon joined him there.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_03: They came to hear him and to be healed from their diseases.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_03: And those bothered by unclean spirits were healed.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_03: The whole crowd wanted to touch him because power was going out from him and he was healing everyone.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus raised his eyes to his disciples and said, Happy are you.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: You may have heard this before, blessed are you.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_03: This is just a different translation, don't get caught up in that.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who are poor, because God's kingdom is yours.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who hunger now, because you will be satisfied.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who weep now because you will laugh.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you when people hate you, reject you, insult you, and condemn your name as evil because of the human one.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_03: Rejoice when that happens.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_03: Leap for joy because you have a great reward in heaven.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_03: Their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: Last Sunday evening, there was a concert in the middle of a football game.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, they said it was gonna be a football game.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: It really just two teams kind of danced around the field, and one actually played football, and the other one, which had been the greatest in the world, uh, did not get their three-piece.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_03: Any Eagles fans out there?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_03: But anyway, the concert.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_03: In the middle of this football game is a concert, which for me is the more exciting part.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, you may not be that way, but uh the the and this concert has been tradition throughout the Super Bowls for a very long time.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_03: It also has been tradition for this concert to be, let's say, uh controversial.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, you may not know this, a lot of you weren't alive for this, but uh Michael Jackson performed at the Rose Bowl in the Super Bowl way back in the 90s, and literally for the first 90 seconds, and it was pretty cool, like he there was like an actor that acted like him and popped up on one of the screens, and then one that popped up on the screens, and then in the center stage in the middle of the field, right?
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_03: He pops up and jumps up.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_03: You can go watch this on YouTube, and then he stands there for 90 seconds while the entire place just like cheers.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_03: Now, if you know anything about the Super Bowl halftime show, it's a whole lot of stuff fit into a really short amount of time, right?
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_03: So 90 seconds for the king of pop just to stand there while people cheer drove the director crazy.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely crazy, because he was like, uh literally, like you can hear an interview with him where he says, like, Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, you gotta go, you gotta go.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_03: And he just stands there while people, and his whole cue was that he was gonna put, it's such a Michael Jackson moment, right?
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_03: He's gonna put on sunglasses, and at that moment, that's when it starts.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's like the coolest drama ever, yeah.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_03: I would say that this last Sundays was was no exception to this because it featured Kendrick Lamar, also goes by K dot.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, if you're if you're not familiar with Kendrick, Kendrick is um a really popular hip hop artist.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I say that because I was on Facebook afterward, and I saw a bunch of commentary from people I know and I love that said like things like, Who is this guy?
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, dude has 22 Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize, like he's literally won an Emmy.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_03: Like, Kendrick is uh uh of the top of the top.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: He's he's Kendrick.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, he's like he's like one of the best hip hop artists of all time.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_03: Now, this is actually an important point because if you're familiar with Kendrick, you know that he's been going through a little bit of a beef with Drake, right?
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_03: Who also happens to be a pretty big pop star.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_03: Let me just give you kind of an overview if you're very unfamiliar with the rap scene, okay?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_03: Um, Kendrick is a a rapper, that's what he does.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_03: He's a poet, right?
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_03: He's a poet.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_03: Drake makes pop songs and sort of raps while he sings, okay?
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_03: That's my opinion, but that's kind of what now listen, Drake makes some good stuff.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_03: Hotline bling, okay, okay.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_03: God's plan?
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay, I get it.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but Drake also likes to beef with other rappers.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_03: He's like making it made a career out of this.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_03: And about a year ago or so, he decided to do that with Kendrick.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: And him and J.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: Cole went on a track and and they said, you know, hey, it's it's is it Aubrey meaning Drake, or is it J.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_03: Cole meaning me, or is it K Dot, which is Kendrick?
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we're the big three.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_03: Now, if you have a big ego, or if you are in fact the best rapper of all time, uh, if you were to hear that, you would go, uh, it ain't the big three, it's just big me, which is what Kendrick came back with in a response beef song.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so if you're if you're not familiar with this, then they traded tracks back and forth until Kendrick comes out with Not Like Us, which is the song that he uh really built the entire Super Bowl show to get to, because he knew that everybody was waiting on this song where he just completely rips Drake, right, on public television.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_03: Hilarious because in that very first song that Drake said, it's all about being big as the Super Bowl.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_03: I like gotta know that Kendrick was thinking like big as the Super Bowl, just wait, bro.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and then he comes back with not like us and then performs it at the end uh of the Super Bowl as the big, the big kind of arc of the Super Bowl.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_03: Now, if you watch the show at all, anybody watch the show?
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, you saw it, okay.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_03: Good.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_03: Familiar with it?
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_03: 60 million of you watched it on YouTube afterwards, so clearly people have watched it, but it also featured my good friend, he's not my good friend, Samuel L.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_03: Jackson as Uncle Sam.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_03: Kendrick is trying to make a point here about um what it's like to be black in America.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_03: And this is important because Kendrick has made an entire career about this.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_03: If you know anything about Kendrick, he came from Compton, which is in South LA, and that's the like the heartbeat of West Coast rap.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: Right, Pierce?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_03: Pierce came up to me last week and he was like, I listened to a lot of rap.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, man, you're not alone.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: I get you.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_03: If you're not following Pierce on social media, you must do that.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh amazing.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_03: So can so Kendrick.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_03: So so Kendrick's from Compton, and he grew up uh with all of that comes with with West Coast rap.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_03: If you're not familiar with uh with the history of rap, NWA released a song early in the 80s called Straight Out of Compton.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: They made plenty of movies and things about it, to try to describe what it's like to be black in West Coast America.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_03: And so Kendrick grew up with that.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_03: With everything that you think, with the violence, with the drugs, with the alcohol, with the sex, all of those things that is so wrapped up into what it means to be in that culture in West Coast America, particularly in Compton.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_03: More so, if you're curious about this at all, you should, and this is your pastor telling you this, you should go listen to Good Kid Mad City, which is I I think one of his best uh albums.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and it really, I mean, it's a story, it's poetry.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_03: So Kendrick is trying to place this storyline around all of the Super Bowl show.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_03: Okay?
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_03: There's a moment though where he's about to lead into Not Like Us, which you know about now with Drake.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_03: And he does it a couple of times, but the second time really caught my ear.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_03: I want to show you those 30 seconds.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, yum, number, number one.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_03: Did you catch the line?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_03: Ken Kendrick does not use words accidentally.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_03: He just doesn't.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_03: He's absolutely brilliant in that way.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_03: And as he's about to lead in, he's done this whole story about what it what it's like to kind of get along in the world in his life in the Super Bowl.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_03: And he gets to this point where he's like about to make this kind of he's gonna go into the song Everybody Wants In the Sink, you know, everybody's leaning into.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_03: And he says this he says, 40 acres in a mule is this bigger than the music.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_03: They tried to rig the game, but you can't fake influence.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_03: Now you may not know this, but the 40 acres in a mule was a promise that was made to freed slaves in the South in 1863 during the Emancipation Proclamation and during that those couple of years that it took to actually infiltrate the slave system.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_03: They made a promise to black folk in this country that they would be given 40 acres and a mule.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: Why?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: Because they owned nothing and they had worked for a very long time for free.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_03: And so they made this promise.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna give you 40 acres and a mule, meaning that you could start your economic wealth in freedom by finally having land.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_03: You've heard me talk about that.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_03: The biggest way to build wealth in this country is to own land, to own property.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_03: So they're gonna give them 40 acres and a mule.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_03: You also probably have realized by this point that that never happened.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_03: In fact, in 1967, I think is this year, Martin Luther King gave this interview to NBC in which he talked about it.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: White America must see that no other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that is one thing that other immigrant groups haven't had to face.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: The other thing is that the color became a stigma.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: American society made the Negroes' color a stigma.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: America freed the slaves in 19, I mean 1863 through the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, but gave the slaves no land, nothing in reality, and as a matter of fact, to get started on.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: At the same time, America was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that there was a willingness to give the white peasants from Europe an economic base.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: And yet it refused to give its black peasants from Africa who came here involuntarily in chains and had worked free for 244 years any kind of economic basis.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so emancipation for the Negro was really freedom to hung, it was freedom to the winds and rains of heaven, it was freedom without food to eat or land to cultivate, and therefore it was freedom and famine at the same time.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: And when white Americans tell the Negro to lift themselves by his own bootstraps, they don't look over the legacy of slavery and segregation.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own bootstraps.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: But uh it's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: And many Negroes, by the thousands and millions, have been left bootless as a result of all of these years of oppression and as a result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma and something worthless and degrading.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's a cruel jest to tell a bootless man to pick himself up by his bootstraps.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_03: Because he has not.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: So when I heard Kendrick say that on Sunday, it sparked something inside of me because I had been reading this passage for this coming week.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_03: And I couldn't help but get it out of my mind.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: Because in this telling, in Luke's telling in Luke 6, which is a sermon on the plain, we'll get to that in a second.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_03: The people coming to Jesus need him.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_03: Need him.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_03: I want I want to show you these verses.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_03: This is uh verse 17.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus came down from the mountain with them and stood on a large area of level ground.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_03: A great company of his disciples and a huge crowd of people from all around Judea and Jerusalem and the area around Tyre and Sidon joined him there.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_03: They came to hear him and to be healed from their diseases.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_03: Hear that?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_03: They came what?
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: To hear him and to be healed from their diseases.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_03: And those bothered by unclean spirits were healed.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_03: The whole crowd wanted to touch him because power was growing out from him, and he was healing everyone.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: The whole crowd wanted to touch him.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: Why?
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: Because power was coming out from him, and he was healing everybody.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_03: And this is maybe the whole summary of all the world right here.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_03: People have power, people need healing or repair or something, and they reach out to those in power to give that to them.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: Now, what normally happens when that happens is because you have a politician who has a lot of power, could be this country, could be another country.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_03: A politician has a lot of power, and and you have people who feel like they have needs, right?
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: Their taxes are too high, or they they they're not getting what they need for their family, or they're not able to get ahead in life, or whatever.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_03: And so they then place their hope and their faith in a politician, right, who says at that point, right, well, I can give you what you need, I can repair your life, I can fix it for you, I can make it just again, right?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: So you have this like need for these people to say this.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: You have the people who need something, and then the powerful politician who's trying then to influence it for the sake of their own self, their own power, could we say?
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_03: That's the the relationship that happens here.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's not unlike Kendrick's saying in 2025, 40 acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: 40 acres in the mule, it doesn't matter about my thing with Drake.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna sing it, but it doesn't matter about my thing with Drake.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_03: 40 acres and a mule.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_03: You remember that?
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_03: 40 acres and a mule.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_03: And they come and they say, Ah, Jesus, I am I am unclean, I have unclean spirits among me.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_03: Oh Jesus, I I need I need this from you, I need this from you, I need this from you.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_03: And Jesus, who has the power outflowing from him, they're looking for that repair in their life.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: Now, this is really interesting because what politicians say, like I said, they do it so they can get elected again, right?
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_03: They do it so that they can they can have more power, so that their party can have more influence, so that their people who have invested in them have, you know, some sort of payback on their investment.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: But I want you to see what Jesus does, which is interesting.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: Go to this verse 17, Zach.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus came down from the mountain with them.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus came down from the mountain with them and stood on a large area of level ground.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: A great company of his disciples and a huge crowd of people from all around Judea and Jerusalem, keep going, and the area around Tyre and Sidon joined him there.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: Now, stop.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: Because this also appears in Matthew's gospel.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_03: And you're like I said earlier, you're probably used to this being called the Sermon on the Mount.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_03: Look how Matthew tells it.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_03: Now, when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up a mountain and he sat down, and his disciples came to him.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: He went up a mountain to speak and give the most important sermon of his life.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_03: Up a mountain to speak to the crowds that were down.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: But what does he do in Luke 6?
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_03: He comes down the mountain to speak to you on what he says is level ground.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: Man.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: That's a little different than the way the world does this.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_03: That we could say flips the script from the way the world and it would have done this, the politicians would have done this, where they're looking for their own power influence, and they're looking to get more and more and more by earning your trust in this and this and this and trying to get your vote in this and this and this.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_03: And Jesus instead says, Hey, I'm not up here in Luke's in Luke's gospel.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: He says, Hey, I'm here on level playing ground with you.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: I'm here.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_03: And there's a few different reactions people can give you.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_03: They either look at you in the face and they say, hey, whatever you need, I got you.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: That's coming down to a level tank.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_03: Or we've all had experiences of the opposite.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_03: Where we needed something from someone and they said, I find this portrayal of Jesus fascinating.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_03: Because for the people who needed something from his power, he's able to give it to them on a level playing field.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: He goes on further.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_03: He says here, and let's go to 20.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um, Zach, Jesus raised his eyes to his disciples and said, Happy are you who are poor.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: Because God's kingdom is yours.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: Stop right there, Zach.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who are poor, because God's kingdom is yours.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_03: Now, if you've heard me talk about Luke's gospel in the past, you you know that I've often called Luke's gospel what he calls the upside down kingdom.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_03: Flipping the script on the kingdom.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: Everything you think processes, the way the world processes now, it's upside down.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: It's different in Jesus' world.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_03: And that's why this exists here.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: Now, this is really interesting to me because in Matthew's gospel, he says, happy or blessed are you, the poor in spirit.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: That's what he says.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_03: So we've often interpreted this like, oh, happy are you those who are sad.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_03: Again, flipping the script, but look what Luke does.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who are, sorry, keep going out.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who are poor.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: Not in spirit, poor.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: That's a tangible need.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: That's a physical thing you can grasp.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_03: This is not poor in spirit.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_03: Matthew cleans it up a little bit.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_03: I think Luke's just being real.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who are poor.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_03: I don't like being poor.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't make me very happy.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: And this is a reminder that Jesus is saying, Happy are you who are poor.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_03: He does the same thing next.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who hunger now because you will be satisfied.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who weep now.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_03: That one is real juxtaposition.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who weep now because you will laugh.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you who hunger now, he says.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: Hunger.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: And that is a tangible need too, isn't it?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: This isn't hungry in spirit or hungry for friendship or hungry for relationship or hungry for love.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: This is hungry, period.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: Hungry.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_03: When I was uh in Lakeland, I was serving at a school that had a uh Sunday afternoon ministry where they would go out and it was just a maybe a collection, maybe 10 to 12 people.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: They would go out, they would collect the money that they had for the week, and they would go to Publix or something like that, and they would buy bread, peanut butter, and jelly.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: And then they would go back to our ministry building kind of like this, and they would make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: They would make as many as they could before they ran out of supplies.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: And then they would take those sandwiches downtown Lakeland, which is where all of those who were experiencing homelessness were, all of those who didn't have a place to lay their head at night, they were.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: And so he would go, they would go and they would hand them out.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: And I remember being at a leadership meeting of one of these uh groups at one point, and one of these girls was kind of new, and she was very much the kind of person who comes in, you know, the very type, right?
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: Who comes in and they're like first in there, and they have all the things they know you should fix right there.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: Like this is their first time there, but like you're doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong, and they start listing these questions.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_03: We all have those people in our lives.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe that's us.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: We it's okay for us to admit, but that's who she was.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: And as they're kind of talking about what their plan is, what they're doing long term, and she says, Hey, we're not really doing a lot here, we're just feeding them.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: We're just we're just feeding them.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_03: Like, there's so many things, like, could we connect them with a with a place where they could stay?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_03: Could we try to do this and this?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_03: Could could we maybe talk to our politicians about trying to get more resources for them?
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_03: And she's like going through all these things and things, and the president of the group finally stops her from her little.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_03: Speech she was giving, and she says, I'm with all of that.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_03: I love all of that.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_03: All of that is great.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_03: I hope we can do all of that, but right now they're hungry.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_03: Because there's a tangible need there.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_03: Right now, they're hungry.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: So, what we can do with the ones with resources and with power, what can we do?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_03: We can feed them.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_03: There's a tangible need there.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: He says the same thing with those who weep.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_03: And then he goes on to say, hey, those people who reject you, go to this verse 22, Zach.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you when people hate you, reject you, insult you, and condemn your name as evil.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_03: He doesn't say my name as evil.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_03: He says, condemn your name as evil, meaning you.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_03: Happy are you when they insult you, reject you, hate you.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if I asked you to raise your hands, how many of you would feel like you're happy when that happens?
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: None of you would raise your hand because you don't like that insult.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_03: He says, when they condemn your name, meaning this is making this personal to you as evil, because of the human one.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_03: This can be uh translated son of man.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so he's talking about himself here.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, because of me, if they insult you or hate you, you should be happy.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_03: Turning it upside down.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_03: When he goes on to tell you why, he says your result, or your sorry, your reward will be in heaven.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_03: Meaning, like, I know things aren't going well here, but your reward is coming.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_03: Your reward is coming in heaven.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: This is, let me set the context, the author of all life, the creator of the universe, the savior of the world coming to you on level playing ground, not from some sort of high place where he can preach at you.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_03: He's coming down next to you and he's saying, Hey, those things that are that can overwhelm you right now, I want to turn those upside down.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_03: Those needs that you have right now, I'm telling you, they're going to be fulfilled.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_03: Why?
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_03: Because in heaven I will grant you those rewards.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_03: And really what he's doing is he's bringing the kingdom from up here down here to us.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_03: He's saying, you will be fed.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_03: You will be supplied, you'll be happy.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: He's coming from here to here.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: And turning everything we ever expected upside down.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_03: Flipping it.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_03: I think a lot of us have needs, whether those are, you know, popular online or whatever.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: I think a lot of us have desires that um, you know, they are not fulfilled by the ways of the world.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of us have been called things, insulted.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of us have been poor, probably your college students, right?
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: You would all qualify for that right now.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of you have been hungry.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_03: There are people in our town who are hungry in desperate need.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_03: Here's the good news in this.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus comes down from the mountain to meet us where we need it the most.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus is there when we need it in our lives.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_03: And he has promised that.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: He has promised that.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_03: So when you find yourself in those times when you are in desperate need, not just in the Matthew sense, but in the Luke sense, have faith that Jesus is gonna be there for you, going to provide for your needs.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_03: And all those things that like you start to get scared about what the future is because this doesn't make sense there and this this won't really work there, all those times.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_03: Like, just remember that Luke says the kingdom's upside down, man.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_03: He's not on a mountain, he's here with you.