Jesus Rewrote The Rules | Who Was Jesus Really Week 3

“I don’t belong.” No matter who you are or where you come from, we’ve all felt like an outsider. However this is a critical part of Jesus’ story—how he consistently pushed against the powers and rules keeping us separated from the hope God wants for us. Today Kyle talks about how Jesus rewrote those rules so that outsiders like you and me could have a seat at the table

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    - Hey, everyone, and welcome to Crossroads
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    I'm so glad that you're here with us today,
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    whether it's your first time or your 1,000th time,
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    I'm excited that you're joining us
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    for week three of Who Was Jesus Really?
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    My name is Hannah
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    and I produce experiences here at Crossroads.
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    Normally I'm with my friend Kyle,
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    but he's not here today because
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    he's going to be talking to us about
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    how Jesus rewrote the rules.
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    Let's catch up with him right now.
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    - In this series we're asking the question
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    Who Was Jesus Really?
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    And we're asking it because it's kind of hard to tell.
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    You know, 2000 years of history
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    has so thoroughly blurred the answer
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    that right now in our country,
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    you might see what some people are saying
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    and reasonably conclude that Jesus
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    was actually a gun rights advocate and crusader
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    for political liberty and limited government.
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    Or you might see what other people are saying
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    and reasonably conclude that Jesus was actually
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    all about open borders and democratic socialist ideals,
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    like the equal sharing of resources.
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    But which one is it?
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    Who was Jesus really?
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    To find the answer, we're going to go all the way back,
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    all the way to the source material,
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    the ancient scriptures, to find the answers
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    that are buried right beneath the surface.
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    In week one of the series, Chuck talked about
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    how Jesus followed all the rules.
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    And in week two, Brian talked about
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    how Jesus broke all the rules.
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    If that sounds like the contradiction thing
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    I just talked about, you should watch those two weeks.
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    This week is all about how Jesus rewrote the rules.
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    So let me ask you a question:
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    Who can rewrite the rules for humanity?
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    Well, the answer is only one person: the King.
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    The first concept I'm going to start with today
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    is something that's very clear in scripture.
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    You don't have to go searching for it,
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    is that Jesus is the King.
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    Now, you find this first in Isaiah 9:7, it says:
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    That's Jesus's kingdom.
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    Jesus also talked about his kingdom all the time.
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    In John 18 as an example:
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    All the time, Jesus talked about His Kingdom.
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    And again, at the very end of the Bible,
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    we see a picture of the King coming.
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    Revelation 19:16 describes this picture of Jesus.
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    It says:
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    Okay, so right, Jesus is King.
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    But here's the more personal question:
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    Who is allowed to come close to Jesus The King,
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    who is allowed in His inner circle,
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    who has a seat at His table,
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    and who is destined to be left alone
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    on the outside in the cold?
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    Am I? Am I in inner circle or am I an outsider?
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    Today we're talking about this because
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    I find that most people, even longtime Christians,
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    feel like an outsider
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    or an imposter when it comes to God.
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    Maybe that's how you feel.
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    You see people who post
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    spiritually upbeat things on Facebook
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    or Instagram and think, "You know,
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    whatever happy meal that person's eating,
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    I've never been invited to that table."
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    You listen to pastors like me talk about God
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    and think, "I'll never understand God the way that
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    that guy or that girl seems to.
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    They're just -- they're just beyond me.
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    I'm an outsider."
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    Have you ever gone to church,
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    seen people raising their hands during in the music
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    and just looking like they're really into it?
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    Just think, "Ah, that's not me.
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    I've never felt that way and I never will.
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    I'm an outsider, I'm not an insider."
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    If so, you're not alone.
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    Truth is, every single one of us, me included,
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    feel that way at one point or another.
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    When it comes to God and the circle of insiders
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    who are able to be close to Him,
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    we feel like we're on the outside looking in.
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    Maybe God's okay with us walking around
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    the outer grounds, but if we ever actually
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    tried to go up to the door and to go inside
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    and get close to Him, He'd spot us immediately
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    as the imposture that we are
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    and kick us out of the inner circle,
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    toss us right back out in the cold.
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    Now, if you feel that way or you ever have,
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    it's because of your current answer
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    to this one critical question:
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    Who can come close to the King? Can I?
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    To help you find the answer,
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    I'm going to take a big risk teaching wise
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    and I am going to walk you to a story
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    in the Bible I know you've never heard of.
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    And if you ever have heard of it,
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    you probably forgot it. I know it.
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    That's a story that I found back in December
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    as I was digging through the Christmas story.
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    It was one of those times where I found
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    a clue about who Jesus really was
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    hiding right in plain sight because of Matthew 1.
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    Let me pray for you before we go any further,
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    by the way, we need God's help to see this, I think.
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    God, I just thank you for everybody watching,
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    all of us who feel like outsiders.
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    God, that today You would invite us to Your inner circle,
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    that we'd have the bravery to walk up to Your door
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    and step inside and get close to You. Amen.
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    Have you ever felt rejected, like an outsider,
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    like you're just not good enough?
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    If you've ever felt like that, today is for you.
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    You're going to hear a song
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    throughout the rest of this episode
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    that was written for our Christmas broadcast.
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    That's where I heard it for the very first time.
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    And as soon as the lyrics started,
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    I immediately had this sensation,
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    this realization come over me
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    that I had been experiencing this coldness,
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    this distance between me and God.
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    And as the song went on, God used it to warm me up
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    and invite me back in close to Him.
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    It speaks of the good news
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    that Jesus rewrote the rules
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    on who can come inside
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    and who's left out in the cold.
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    And the good news is today
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    He is inviting you to come in from the cold.
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    We're going to start with the very first words
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    in the first book of the New Testament,
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    which is the section of the Bible
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    that directly details the life of Jesus
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    and his first followers.
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    Now it's important to note,
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    these are the first written words from God in 400 years.
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    So you'd think with 400 years to plan,
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    God would have cooked up something awesome,
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    you know, like a real headline grabber,
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    a cool story,
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    something that's just like totally retweet-able,
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    like, "Oh, yes, this @God.
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    So true @God. Amazing."
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    No, it's not what He does.
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    Instead, He starts with drum roll, please.
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    A genealogy record. Yeah!
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    No, of course not yeah.
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    It's the most boring part of the entire Bible.
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    Why would I do that?
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    400 years of silence and then genealogy record.
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    Why would God do that?
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    Here I'll read just a bit of it to you.
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    Try not to fall asleep.
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    This is Matthew 1:1-4.
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    (mumbling and yawning)
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    Seriously, I've got to stop. Like, falling asleep.
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    It's so boring to us,
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    but it's important to understand that
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    genealogy records were super important
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    to the ancient Jews.
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    By the way, my dad did some genealogy research
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    recently and found out that my family,
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    the Ranson's, came from pirates.
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    Arrr, matey.
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    Ranson, ransom, that whole thing, that's actually true.
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    If your last name is Gold or Booty,
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    on behalf of me and my ancestors,
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    I want you to know we're so sorry
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    and we -- we forgot where we buried the treasure.
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    So we're going to go ahead and keep that.
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    Anyway, good genealogical record keeping
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    has one basic rule: Write the names in order.
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    But right off the bat, this genealogy record,
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    the one about Jesus, completely breaks that rule
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    because it starts with Jesus, the Messiah,
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    the son of David,
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    which stands out because it's out of order.
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    David's not first, he's fourteenth.
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    So why would God list him first?
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    It's because He wanted to be sure that
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    you and I hear something clearly
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    about who Jesus really was.
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    Putting David first is saying that
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    of all the people in the Old Testament of the Bible,
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    which, by the way, is the far bigger section of the Bible,
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    covers thousands of years of history,
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    more than the New Testament,
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    that David is the person
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    whose life most holds clues about Jesus.
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    Now, he wasn't Jesus.
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    He was fallings, imperfect,
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    he had problems, all that stuff.
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    But there are purposeful patterns and parallels
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    between them that hold clues to who Jesus really was.
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    Here's a few of those patterns and parallels.
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    Both Jesus and David were born outsiders.
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    They're both born in the same
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    tiny hill country town outside of Jerusalem.
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    It's called Bethlehem.
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    Both of them spent most of their childhood outside.
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    David, literally as a shepherd, outside on the hills,
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    which also meant that he was
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    outside of normal Jewish practice because
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    he couldn't go do the stuff that everybody did
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    because he was outside with the sheep.
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    Jesus was outside, literally born outside in a barn,
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    and then an outsider of society because
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    of the scandal surrounding His birth.
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    But both of these outsiders defeated the enemy
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    that plagued their people on the inside.
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    David defeated Goliath and the fear that
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    had gripped his nation with a slingshot and a rock.
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    And Jesus defeated the enemy of sin with His life.
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    David was called a good shepherd.
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    Jesus is known as the Good Shepherd.
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    And despite being outsiders, both Jesus and David
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    would become king and both decide
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    who could come inside and have a seat at their table.
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    Now, if you want to know who Jesus really was,
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    start with the story of David, just search through it.
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    When it comes to answering our Question of the Day:
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    who can come close to the King?
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    Who is allowed inside?
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    There's one story from David's life
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    that stands far above all the others.
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    It's likely you've never heard of it,
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    but I'm willing to bet
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    you've lived this story your entire life.
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    There are two characters in this story.
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    The first is David, obviously.
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    And even if this is the very first episode
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    of anything about God you've ever watched,
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    you still know him from David versus Goliath.
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    He's the OG underdog.
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    He's one of the most popular
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    and beloved people to ever walk the earth.
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    In fact, he's so popular and beloved
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    that 3,000 years after his death,
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    we still name babies after him.
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    Seriously, as of today, David is
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    one of the top 100 names for baby boys
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    born in the US, France, Germany, England,
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    New Zealand and about a dozen other countries.
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    According to Wikipedia, 1 out of 28 people
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    in America are named after him.
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    Just being honest, if 3000 years from now
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    they were even like three people named Kyle,
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    I would count my life in total win, like home run, right?
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    The second character is literally
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    the exact opposite of David, I promise
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    you've never heard anyone named after him.
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    His name is Mephibosheth.
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    It sounds like I'm trying to say a different name
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    and you like drank a bowl of soup as you're talking.
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    (mumbling)
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    So we're going to call Mep for the sake of the rest this time.
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    Now, he was both the son
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    of David's very best friend, Jonathan,
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    and the grandson of David's very worst enemy, King Saul.
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    It's kind of awkward and unfortunate for him, right?
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    King Saul is Jonathan's father.
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    He was the first ever king in the history of Israel,
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    but he stopped following God.
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    So God made a plan to install David
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    as the next king of Israel.
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    Saul found out about the plan
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    and he was less than thrilled about it.
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    Why? Because first he wanted to stay king.
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    And second, he wanted Jonathan to take over
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    and be king someday, follow in his footsteps.
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    So a strategy was to keep David close to him
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    and pretend that everything was cool,
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    like no problems, man.
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    But there were signs that it wasn't.
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    Like the one time he hurled spears at people
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    asking where David was so he could kill him.
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    Pro tip, Saul, not subtle.
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    Now, incredibly, Jonathan was actually super okay
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    with David becoming king instead of him.
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    In fact, when saw his real intentions
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    is to assassinate David became clear,
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    it was Jonathan who helped David escape to safety.
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    In return, Jonathan only asked David for one thing.
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    We'll pick up the story in 1 Samuel 20:15.
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    Jonathan says:
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    That means, "After I'm gone,
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    after my father, your worst enemy is gone,
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    please show kindness to my family."
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    And David heard that, and of course, he agreed.
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    He loved Jonathan, loved his family,
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    and he swore he would protect his family,
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    he would bring them inside with them.
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    A few years later, King Saul and Jonathan
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    were killed in war, and at that moment,
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    two things happened simultaneously.
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    One, David became king,
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    and two, Mephibosheth became an orphan at five years old.
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    Now, my opinion here, is that Mephibosheth
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    and his caretaker knew the promise
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    that David had made to his dad, Jonathan.
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    After all, why in the world would Jonathan
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    hide the news from the very person who it protects?
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    I don't think he would have.
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    See, I think he would have told the nurse
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    and little Mep, "Hey, if anything happens to me,
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    don't worry. Just go to David's house,
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    go to the new king and he'll welcome you in.
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    He'll open the doors
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    and you'll have a seat at his table."
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    But the caretaker doesn't trust it.
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    She thinks David's going to do
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    what all conquering kings do back in the day,
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    you killed the old King's family so that
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    no one can ever say they have
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    a legitimate claim on the throne, except for you.
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    So the nurse does what she thinks is right
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    and she scoops up a little Mep
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    and she runs far, far away.
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    This is what the story says in 2 Samuel 4:4:
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    So she runs, she flees, she trips,
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    breaks little Mep's feet.
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    He's crippled for life.
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    Now, this was a massive, massive deal,
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    particularly way back then.
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    Now today, thankfully, we know that people
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    with disabilities and physical challenges
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    have equal and immense worth and value to add
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    to our society, our business, culture,
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    the Kingdom of God, all of that.
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    But back then, even if it rightly offends
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    our modern sensibilities now,
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    back then that wasn't the case.
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    To be physically disabled was to be
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    disqualified from almost everything in society.
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    It was to live your life as an outsider,
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    away from the inner circle, out in the cold.
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    The nurse carried Mep literally to
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    the outer borders of Israel,
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    up to the rocky cold hill country
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    to the east of the Sea of Galilee.
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    Now seven years go by, David's king,
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    and when little Mep was about 12 years old,
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    David marched on Jerusalem and conquered it.
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    The story reads like this, 2 Samuel 5:6-8:
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    You know they thought David cannot get in here.
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    Right here is the exact moment
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    when the rule gets unofficially written.
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    Who can come close to the king?
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    Not the lame and the blind,
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    not the people with problems,
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    only the able bodied, only the perfect people,
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    only the people with perfect track records,
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    perfect everything are allowed in.
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    Imagine being Mephibosheth in this moment.
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    This is the greatest military win
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    of his generation's entire lifetime.
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    And the word that's spreading
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    through the entire nation
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    the people fist bumping each other about
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    and high fiving each other that
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    the blind and the lame will not enter the palace.
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    "We win, but not you, Mep, not you.
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    People with disabilities, they don't qualify.
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    You know the promise King David made to welcome you in?
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    Maybe he made it then, but now, Mep,
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    now the entire nation is confirming
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    the feeling in your gut:
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    the King doesn't want you inside,
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    you are an outsider, and you always will be."
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    I wonder, is this how you feel about Jesus,
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    that you lack whatever it would take
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    to be one of his insiders?
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    You know you don't pray enough,
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    you don't read the Bible enough,
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    you don't have all the feelings
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    that other people around you have.
  • 00:18:53
    People talk about hearing from God every day,
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    that's never happened to you even once.
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    You feel like an outsider.
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    Maybe it's tied to mistakes you've made
  • 00:19:02
    and bad habits you still have, you just can't kick.
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    Whatever it is, you just know deep down in your gut
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    that maybe Jesus will let you hang around
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    the outer ground, but He definitely
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    doesn't want you part of His inner circle.
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    You're not an insider. You're an outsider.
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    If that's how you feel, you are Mephibosheth.
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    People with disabilities just aren't allowed inside,
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    never will be.
  • 00:19:26
    You know I found myself feeling this way recently.
  • 00:19:29
    Over the holidays I told my wife, Sarah,
  • 00:19:31
    that I just feel like no matter how much I do,
  • 00:19:34
    it's never enough, not just with stuff with God,
  • 00:19:37
    just life in general right now.
  • 00:19:39
    At home I can give my kids
  • 00:19:40
    all the attention and energy that I have.
  • 00:19:43
    I can play hours of card games and board games
  • 00:19:46
    and go outside and throw a football
  • 00:19:48
    and then come inside and read book after book
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    after mind-numbing freaking book.
  • 00:19:52
    And then after all of that,
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    when I'm completely exhausted,
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    they asked me for one more thing every time
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    that I don't have to give.
  • 00:20:02
    And it just makes me feel like I'm not enough.
  • 00:20:04
    I can't do it.
  • 00:20:06
    I'm not a good dad. I'm an imposter.
  • 00:20:08
    I'm an outsider.
  • 00:20:09
    At work I can build teams
  • 00:20:11
    and hire and train good people
  • 00:20:13
    and try to make the very best decisions.
  • 00:20:14
    I can even see great work happen,
  • 00:20:16
    and yet it never feels like it's enough.
  • 00:20:20
    Never enough people saw it,
  • 00:20:21
    not enough people took a next step.
  • 00:20:22
    Not enough people signed up
  • 00:20:23
    for that thing that we had hoped for.
  • 00:20:25
    We could have filled more food boxes.
  • 00:20:26
    We're could have raised more money for debt relief.
  • 00:20:28
    We could've got more people connected to small groups.
  • 00:20:31
    I just feel like at the end of the day,
  • 00:20:33
    every single time I don't have what it takes,
  • 00:20:35
    I never will.
  • 00:20:37
    I'm left feeling like I'm on the outside.
  • 00:20:39
    Now, on top of that is all the stuff
  • 00:20:43
    that I'm supposed to be doing to be a good Christian,
  • 00:20:45
    to remain in God's good graces.
  • 00:20:47
    Have you ever heard that phrase?
  • 00:20:48
    What does it take to remain in God's good graces?
  • 00:20:50
    I was talking to a friend about this recently.
  • 00:20:52
    He told me that he made a list once
  • 00:20:54
    of all the things he had learned at church
  • 00:20:56
    that he was supposed to do.
  • 00:20:58
    So I thought about that, I was like, "Yeah, man.
  • 00:21:00
    What would my list be?"
  • 00:21:01
    And here's a partial list of them.
  • 00:21:04
    I am, as a Christian, supposed to:
  • 00:21:06
    die to my wife, lead my kids, honor my boss
  • 00:21:09
    and also authorities, pray without ceasing,
  • 00:21:12
    tithe, volunteer regularly,
  • 00:21:14
    attends service every week,
  • 00:21:15
    or if I can't, watch every week,
  • 00:21:17
    be honest in everything, even when it's hard,
  • 00:21:20
    love my neighbor, also my enemies,
  • 00:21:22
    fight for the justice for those
  • 00:21:24
    who are in prison and oppress,
  • 00:21:25
    care for the orphans, the poor,
  • 00:21:28
    don't forget widows,
  • 00:21:29
    work as if I'm working for the Lord,
  • 00:21:30
    do everything with excellence,
  • 00:21:32
    financially, be a good steward and produce
  • 00:21:34
    a great return for the resources
  • 00:21:35
    God has entrusted me with, honor my parents,
  • 00:21:38
    have a vibrant community, take care of my body.
  • 00:21:40
    It's God's temple after all.
  • 00:21:43
    Grow in spiritual gifts.
  • 00:21:44
    Have I spoken in tongues yet, recently, should I?
  • 00:21:46
    Is that weird?
  • 00:21:47
    I should probably fast more,
  • 00:21:49
    intercede for the nations,
  • 00:21:50
    fulfill the great commission,
  • 00:21:52
    evangelize and share the Gospel with my neighbors,
  • 00:21:54
    become a mentor, make disciples,
  • 00:21:56
    preferably again of all the nations.
  • 00:21:58
    And I can go on and on and on and on.
  • 00:22:02
    Is that how God feels to you?
  • 00:22:04
    Like a laundry list of things that just confirm
  • 00:22:07
    you'll never measure up.
  • 00:22:08
    You're destined to stay on the outside.
  • 00:22:10
    You'll never be good enough
  • 00:22:11
    to be part of the inner circle,
  • 00:22:13
    is proof that you're not enough.
  • 00:22:16
    You want to know the truth?
  • 00:22:18
    The truth is, you are right.
  • 00:22:21
    You are not enough, and neither am I.
  • 00:22:24
    In fact, no one is enough.
  • 00:22:26
    We are not able, which means something.
  • 00:22:30
    We are all disabled, just like Mephibosheth.
  • 00:22:35
    The good news: The story does not end out here.
  • 00:22:44
    I can't catch my breath.
  • 00:23:35
    After word spreads that the blind and lame
  • 00:23:38
    can't enter the palace, years go by,
  • 00:23:41
    a decade, maybe even more,
  • 00:23:43
    and then suddenly David remembers.
  • 00:23:47
    He says, "Oh, my promise to Jonathan."
  • 00:23:49
    And so we asked around.
  • 00:23:50
    "Is there anybody, anybody left of that family
  • 00:23:53
    who I can show kindness to?"
  • 00:23:55
    And his servants go out and they find
  • 00:23:57
    an old servant of that family named Ziba,
  • 00:23:59
    who comes to David and tells him this in 2 Samuel 9:3.
  • 00:24:04
    He says:
  • 00:24:09
    In other words, Ziba says,
  • 00:24:11
    "It's not even worth me telling you his name.
  • 00:24:13
    There is this guy, but he's lame.
  • 00:24:14
    He's the kind of guy who can't come into
  • 00:24:16
    the palace, David, so you're not interested.
  • 00:24:19
    But David, the king says, "No, go get him
  • 00:24:22
    and bring him to me anyway."
  • 00:24:24
    So they do. And they bring the petition in to see David.
  • 00:24:28
    And this is the recording of their first interaction
  • 00:24:30
    in 2 Samuel 9:6-13:
  • 00:24:57
    He can't believe it.
  • 00:24:58
    He's like, "Me? I didn't even think I was allowed inside."
  • 00:25:03
    It goes on:
  • 00:25:25
    Did you catch the repetition?
  • 00:25:27
    Listen, you know, something is a big deal
  • 00:25:29
    in ancient Jewish literature,
  • 00:25:30
    which is what the Bible is,
  • 00:25:31
    if it's repeated three times.
  • 00:25:33
    But there was a phrase in that story
  • 00:25:34
    that was repeated four times.
  • 00:25:36
    It was the phrase:
  • 00:25:37
    you will always eat at the king's table.
  • 00:25:41
    Why all the emphasis?
  • 00:25:42
    It's to make this point:
  • 00:25:45
    Mephibosheth wasn't just invited inside the king's house.
  • 00:25:47
    He wasn't just invited inside the palace
  • 00:25:49
    to come in from the cold,
  • 00:25:51
    but go live in the guest quarters.
  • 00:25:53
    He was invited to become an insider of insiders
  • 00:25:57
    at King David's table.
  • 00:25:58
    That's why I says to him,
  • 00:25:59
    "You will always eat at the king's table."
  • 00:27:09
    Do you remember the first name recorded for Jesus
  • 00:27:13
    in the entire New Testament after 400 years
  • 00:27:16
    of silence from God?
  • 00:27:18
    Son of that king, son of David, who says,
  • 00:27:23
    "Don't just come inside my door,
  • 00:27:24
    don't just come inside my house,
  • 00:27:26
    come sit at my table."
  • 00:27:29
    The good news for you and for me is that
  • 00:27:33
    Jesus, the son of David, is the King
  • 00:27:36
    who exclusively invites one type of person
  • 00:27:39
    to sit at his table: outsiders like you and me.
  • 00:27:47
    - That place at the table,
  • 00:27:48
    that sense of belonging and a home compels us into action,
  • 00:27:53
    it compels us into worship,
  • 00:27:54
    into gratitude and even giving.
  • 00:27:57
    One of the ways we do that is by giving.
  • 00:27:59
    Go to Crossroads.net/give to learn more.
  • 00:28:03
    And another way we show our gratitude
  • 00:28:05
    is by worshiping through song.
  • 00:28:07
    And we're going to do that right now.
  • 00:32:45
    - I'm so glad that you were with us today.
  • 00:32:47
    I learned a lot and I'm glad that you were here.
  • 00:32:50
    Please join us next week.
  • 00:32:51
    We're going to have our Super Bowl of Preaching.
  • 00:32:54
    - Yeah, we are. Come on!
  • 00:32:56
    And I'm in it. I need your help.
  • 00:32:57
    I've got to get some reps in for the big game next week.
  • 00:33:00
    So just if we could just go,
  • 00:33:01
    I need your help really quick. - Right now?
  • 00:33:03
    - Yes, some drills.
  • 00:33:04
    I've been doing three cone, four cone.
  • 00:33:06
    I've maxed up to like 26 cones.
  • 00:33:07
    We're going to go just go do some drills.
  • 00:33:09
    - Okay, following you.
  • 00:33:10
    - Okay, just basic drills first, you've got to get ready.
  • 00:33:13
    Do you want some tape?
  • 00:33:14
    - No, I don't even have the right like clothes or shoes,
  • 00:33:17
    so the tape.
  • 00:33:18
    Don't worry about it. This is not --
  • 00:33:19
    Listen, this is about you winning, it's about me --
  • 00:33:23
    It's about --
  • 00:33:24
    What I meant to say is it's about us having fun together.
  • 00:33:26
    - Oh, okay. Got it.
  • 00:33:28
    This is Josh, he's our personal confidence coach.
  • 00:33:31
    - Can I have one of those?
  • 00:33:33
    - You don't need one of those. It's totally fine.
  • 00:33:35
    This one is going to be throwing footballs
  • 00:33:38
    through the thing.
  • 00:33:39
    Just aim right for the middle.
  • 00:33:42
    - Oh!
  • 00:33:44
    - It's kind of more off the weight in your back heel.
  • 00:33:46
    - Is it? - Kind of drive for it.
  • 00:33:47
    Yeah. Watch like this.
  • 00:33:48
    Okay. - See?
  • 00:33:50
    Just like that and it just goes in.
  • 00:33:52
    Second part of football, it's called defense.
  • 00:33:54
    All you got to do is tackle stuff.
  • 00:33:55
    You're going to tackle the tackle dummy,
  • 00:33:58
    which I don't mean to be insulting the Josh.
  • 00:34:00
    You know, man, right?
  • 00:34:02
    You're just going to want to get kind of like --
  • 00:34:04
    - Is this going to mess up my shoes, man?
  • 00:34:06
    - You're just going to get down real low.
  • 00:34:08
    I want a three point stance kind of like this.
  • 00:34:10
    I'm going to say Omaha because Peyton Manning says Omaha
  • 00:34:12
    When I say Omaha, I want you to hit the tackle dummy.
  • 00:34:15
    Ready, set. Omaha.
  • 00:34:18
    - Oh, and I'm like giving it everything I got there.
  • 00:34:21
    He didn't even move.
  • 00:34:22
    - It's my fault.
  • 00:34:23
    I didn't demonstrate. Let me demonstrate.
  • 00:34:25
    - Okay. Come on, demonstrate.
  • 00:34:26
    - Ready. - All right, Omaha.
  • 00:34:32
    - You don't even like touch him.
  • 00:34:33
    - I didn't have to.
  • 00:34:35
    The good news here is I got what I need
  • 00:34:38
    is more confidence.
  • 00:34:39
    I feel better after having done this next to you.
  • 00:34:42
    - You feel ready for the Super Bowl?
  • 00:34:44
    - I feel totally ready for the Super Bowl of what was it?
  • 00:34:46
    - It's preaching. - Oh.
  • 00:34:49
    - Yeah. Well, anyways, we'll see you guys next time
  • 00:34:52
    for the Super Bowl of Preaching right back right here.
  • 00:34:56
    - Oh, not football?
  • 00:34:57
    - Yeah. - Okay.
  • 00:34:59
    - Who says you can't have
  • 00:35:01
    a sense of spirituality during the (bleep)?
  • 00:35:03
    That's why we created an online experience
  • 00:35:06
    to give you God during the big game.
  • 00:35:09
    My name is Brian. - And I'm Chuck.
  • 00:35:10
    - We just noticed that people were tuning out
  • 00:35:12
    of churches during (bleep) Sunday weekend.
  • 00:35:15
    We said, "No, let's actually have a preach off
  • 00:35:18
    where I get to smack you down
  • 00:35:19
    in front of a live massive of audience."
  • 00:35:22
    - Well, to be clear, if you've never seen it before,
  • 00:35:24
    he's not a white man that's actually
  • 00:35:26
    going to hit a black man that day.
  • 00:35:27
    Just to clarify that.
  • 00:35:29
    We do have a preach off competition,
  • 00:35:31
    so we are going to do that.
  • 00:35:33
    - I am still the man. I am still the man
  • 00:35:37
    and the man is going to put you down.
  • 00:35:39
    - That's right. It literally is.
  • 00:35:40
    It's unlike anything you're going to see
  • 00:35:42
    on a church, in a church.
  • 00:35:44
    And it's a lot of fun, it really is,
  • 00:35:46
    original commercials.
  • 00:35:47
    I mean, we're having fun as we do this,
  • 00:35:48
    but it's very much about getting God to you
  • 00:35:51
    and having a little fun while we do it.
  • 00:35:53
    So this thing grew out of an idea.
  • 00:35:55
    We've been doing it now for years and years.
  • 00:35:57
    But for the first time, we get to do it
  • 00:35:59
    in a unique way that connects to you
  • 00:36:01
    right where you are.
  • 00:36:02
    - Legitimate preaching, a legitimate Bible,
  • 00:36:05
    legitimate in your face,
  • 00:36:07
    going to make a difference in your life
  • 00:36:09
    while somebody else gets a beat down.
  • 00:36:11
    That's what's going happen.
  • 00:36:13
    What is it with you and beat downs?
  • 00:36:14
    You really like beat downs.
  • 00:36:15
    - I do like beat downs, I like winning.
  • 00:36:18
    - Okay, okay, I think that's fair.
  • 00:36:20
    - If it's worth playing, it's worth winning.
  • 00:36:21
    - That's fair. - I am going to win.
  • 00:36:23
    - That's fair. You know what somebody told me?
  • 00:36:25
    - What? - It's about mind over matter
  • 00:36:26
    If you don't min, it don't matter.
  • 00:36:28
    - You know what someone else told me?
  • 00:36:30
    - What'd somebody told you?
  • 00:36:33
    - Jesus loves you, that's what someone else told me.
  • 00:36:36
    - A pastor should be quicker on that line.
  • 00:36:38
    - I was.
  • 00:36:39
    - I'm feeling pretty good about my chances to win.
  • 00:36:41
    We want you to be a part of this.
  • 00:36:42
    It's going to be an amazing opportunity for you
  • 00:36:44
    to connect, see a competition,
  • 00:36:45
    and actually grow closer to God.
  • 00:36:47
    - Absolutely. We'll see you then.

Process, journal or discuss the themes of this article - here's a few questions to get the ball rolling...

Welcome to the Weekend Follow-Up. The questions below are for the weekend of Jan 30th & 31st.

  1. Share a story of when you should have gotten in trouble but skated by. How did that impact you?

  2. Most of us have felt like an outsider before, Or, if we’ve been on the inside, we do everything we can to prove we belong there. What’s the one place in your life that’s hardest to be “in”? Maybe you feel completely disconnected, that you’re not enough, or you’re on the outside. Share what that typically looks like with the group.

  3. If we don’t feel like we have a place, we often lean on certain behaviors to overcome those feelings. We can seek approval, power, control, or indulge in an appetite to medicate the pain of feeling disconnected. What’s your default? (Don’t worry, we all have one.)

  4. Read Romans 2:4. Jesus created a space for us at the table that we just receive by turning to him. What’s one way you can practice receiving his love this week in place of your typical response? If you aren’t sure, brainstorm as a group, and pick one that most resonates with you.

  5. Read Colossians 2:6, then close your time praying for one another. Or say this one over the group, “Jesus we thank you for rewriting the rules for us to have a seat at the table. We ask that you show us how to have the posture of receiving your invitation. Everything that needed to be proven you proved for us, everything that needed to be earned you accomplished for us. Thank you for your love, your surprises, and things yet to be discovered by being in relationship with you. Amen.

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