The Charge to Guard the Gospel - 2nd Timothy 1:12-18 - Part - 4

Worship, Missionary Update, and Prayer for the Service

Well, good morning everyone and welcome to Faith Vital Church. We're glad you're here. Hello to the family that's at home watching this on YouTube. We wish you were here and we miss you and look forward to seeing you real soon but this morning we have a Added privilege of Ellie Drusinga, one of our missionaries.

Your missionary is here to share with us this morning and welcome Ellie and Dan and Jill are here. Her parents are here as well. Welcome and missionaries and We're just blessed to have you here. So thank you for being with us.

Just very quickly. Pastor Iljin Cho and his wife Lauren will be joining us for worship on the 20th. So that's just two weeks from now so keep them in prayer and then a week following after that on the 27th, he's going to be preaching and following that Service we're gonna have a fellowship lunch at the Huffins.

So plan on attending that. Soon thereafter after this service, there's not going to be a big gap or anything. But it is long enough for everybody to kind of gather their things and kind of head in that direction.

So be praying for a smooth transition of travel and so on for the for the Cho's. It's a big big deal there as we prepare This morning for worship. I'd like to just read a short statement that Spurgeon made about worship.

It is the worship of a child towards a father feeling within himself a kinship with the divine. It is a worship brought in us by God and the Holy Ghost. Because the father has sought us out and taught us how to worship him.

It is a worship which which is not outward but of the inner man and occupies not hand eye and foot. But heart and soul and spirit it is a worship, which is not professional and not formal but real. Hardy earnest and so acceptable before God that is what our worship is to be.

It's from the heart. It's from the inside out not from what's on the outside. So would you join with me in prayer Lord God? We thank you that we have been brought together father to worship you. You are a great and mighty God and worthy of our praise father.

We do pray for that. We would worship you with a whole mind and a whole Soul Lord that you would be pleased with our sacrifice that you would be pleased with our offerings of praise father. We are so blessed and so Grateful for what you have done in this church and what you continue to do and what the plans you have for this church father.

We just wait in tremendous anticipation for what you're going to do. Lord, we also thank you for LA for her faithfulness and spreading the gospel and Message and and Lord we ask that you would keep her and encourage her father as she continues on with the work of the kingdom.

So Lord, thank you that she is here this morning and and thank you for her parents being here as well Lord Dan and Jill. And Lord, we just this morning commit our service to you that you would be again pleased with what we have to offer you father.

That we would all be encouraged in the word. We pray these things in Christ's name. Amen. Well as a brief introduction to LA some of She's serving in southern Brazil. And she'll give us a lot more information.

When she comes up she's with the Brazil Gospel Fellowship mission and some of her early spiritual roots began. Right here with her family when she worked it here with her family many many years ago and so She began in Brazil.

Since 2002 and I'm reading a bio that I got offline so you can't trust everything that you get off online. But she first taught English at a Christian school before moving on to language school since then she has been involved in deaf ministries camping ministries Sunday school and children's programs Discipleship Bible studies teaching English as a second language working as a field treasurer helping in a church plant and a dorm mom.

I like the way it ends with in a dorm mom. That's probably one of the toughest ones she had to do. But what a gifted servant of the Lord and so Ellie, would you come and share with us now? Thank you.

Good morning. It's so good to be here with you guys again. I'm so thankful that it worked out. Worked out to pop in and say hi on our way through. I have a PowerPoint. With just a little quick update he listed all these things that the God's been doing in the last Eighteen and a half years.

So I just wanted to give you a little glimpse really quick of what we're up to right now. So you all know I'm Ellie Dries and go serving in Hugh Grange. You do sue the Great River of the South with Brazil Gospel Fellowship mission.

So we are in the land of the Gaucho. So this is a little bit of review for some of you and a couple a few of you. I don't think we know yet each other yet. But the length of the Gaucho is the Brazilian cowboy like the Gauchos in Argentina.

And so they have a very strong heritage and culture a lot of traditions. Which is unique from the rest of the country as an Americans we have a lot of traditions, but Brazil in general doesn't have that and Then you come down south and it's like you've gone to a whole different world we have a strong German population and Italian population in our region and Sapieh Dunga where I'm working now was colonized by Germans and so there's The grandparent generation a lot of them still speak German.

And so then the next generation also does because their parents did and so we have several German speakers in our church. So I've started trying to learn German now. So Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state it is bordered to Uruguay and Argentina and We are working in the region just north of Porto Alegre in the greater metropolitan area.

That is five million people including the capital. So we have two churches that have been established in the last since 2009 Estancia Velha and Campo Bom which you can see right here. And then we currently our team has four church plants on the Apolo Dois Irmãos Sapieh Dunga where I am and Tacuato where Katie Smith is working for those of you who know Katie.

So Katie's living with me in Sapieh Dunga and commuting a half an hour to serve in the Tacuato church plant. So Sapieh Dunga the city of roses when there's no COVID we have a rose festival every year even.

And it's a big event where people come from all around. It's a we have a population of about 80 ,000 so Considering that we're in a region of five million. We're a small city. So and you guys are from Sacramento, so you understand what a big city is.

But 80 ,000 is not big enough in Brazil to even have a McDonald's. We have no malls. We do have a public hospital, but it's very small so We have a subway now, so we're moving up. But our restaurants have real food.

So what have we been up to recently the Lord Worked in amazing ways in this past year. Seemed like COVID stopped the world, but it did not stop the Lord. And so we have had several new families coming to our church and in March.

We were waiting for COVID to ease off we've been waiting for a year for this baptism and finally the pastors decided someone offered their country property that had a pool and The whole church went out there because we were outdoors we went ahead and had everyone come is the first time since COVID started that our entire church body was together and so I like I jokingly say we were actually kind of technically breaking the law because You're not supposed to have more than 30 people meeting or something like that and So our pastor said no we need to obey the Lord.

We need to baptize these people and so we went ahead and had our meeting. And it was such a blessing to have everyone together fellowshipping again. I've also been Meeting Monday nights with some women that the Lord just pretty much dropped into my lap.

They just are hungry to study God's Word, so I have an evangelistic Bible study on Monday nights now I was not expecting this one, but the Lord these women. It's funny though because I started with three women and now I have three totally different women, but God worked Through starting with these other women to get to these women who really want to know who God is.

Understand his salvation and understand the Bible and so Monday night is a really special time. This is Amanda. She's our intern came to hang out for a month with me and Got plugged into some ministries and she stayed two months when the two months were up.

She decided we extended her ticket two more months. So by the the middle of June she'll have been with us four months. She's going back to Fort Alaza and in January She's coming down to live and help out with the ministry in Sapulunga.

So you can be praying for Amanda as we train her in the ministry hands-on. We have lots of baby believers in our church now so You hear how it's hard to For Muslims to trust Christ. It's not that much different the Gauchos.

I know Muslims are harder, but the Gauchos are very hard-hearted people and so for them to open up and trust Christ is a huge huge thing and we've had two young ladies in Sunday school trust the Lord and then we've had a couple teenagers trust the Lord.

So we have discipleships with them as they learn to grow in their Christian walk. And besides these we have the regular children's ministry Sunday school. We're gonna start a girls group in June because we God has brought Several ten to thirteen year olds into our church who are in unsafe families and so we decided we need to do something to teach them what it means to be a godly woman and So starting in June, we're gonna start with a slumber party.

So it's gonna be a big thing the parents letting their girls go to a slumber party without masks. You never thought that that would be a big thing, you know two years ago but it's gonna be we're really excited the girls are so excited to go somewhere beside their own home and to Meet each other because these girls are all very isolated and they don't have Christian friendships and so we'll start with salvation and then we're gonna look at each of the jewels of a of a necklace of a godly woman's Necklace and so we'll look at a characteristic each time.

So we're really looking forward to this. It's gonna be a really fun time with them. And then also right now. I just finished yesterday listening to the last English verses. There's an English Immersion camp up in the Northeast and so I've been helping listen to English verses for the scholarships.

And so some year when the Lord provides I will go and help teach too, but not this year. I came to the US this year. So maybe next year. I'll be able to go help teach so you can see here Katie and myself and Amanda and grace and mercy hanging out on the porch and just resting after all our busy schedule and So our focus for this year with the pastors and our team in our in the church of Sapirunga intentional prayer.

We're supposed to pray continually throughout our day throughout our life. But we want to encourage our people to take moments and separate times for prayer. Maybe even fasting. Our church had a meeting online.

Set aside a church service to just be home and fast and pray and the pastors gave us guidelines to follow to teach people how to pray and Then we want them to get together and fellowship and pray together, too.

So we're trying to cultivate prayer. Intentional evangelism not just sharing Christ as you happen to bump into people but to intentionally build relationships to share Christ. We have life to offer them.

We need to intentionally Make a point of sharing Christ with the people that he brings in our life. Intentional discipleship. Our goal is that everyone in our church will be being discipled by someone and discipling someone else.

So I'm discipling Bruna and I'll be teaching her to disciple her sister who she led to the Lord. And then as my ease will grow my ease that grows up we'll encourage her to disciple someone else and so we want to build this chain of helping each other become more like Christ and We are establishing our founding membership of church next week Sunday.

So we are so excited in the last few months. We are legally established with the government as a church. The Lord has provided land for us. So in the next month Lord willing we'll start building and We have our founding membership as of Sunday.

So we are really excited about what God's doing right now. So our land and building project the Lord has provided so abundantly for us in the last year That we were able to have land. It's in the church's name now and we our first phase.

We hope to begin building June 2021 and so since the Lord has provided so faithfully we are going to start building and trust the Lord to provide the 19 ,000 that is lacking and We know that he will take care of that over the next six months, but it's been super exciting but then also like Six months ago when they built the project for the church.

We had enough money to build the whole church. Because construction materials have more than doubled we will build half the church now. And I've heard that happen here in the US too. And so we are thankful though because this building will give us the space we need to continue growing.

Because right now we don't fit in the space we have now and that's with we don't even have everybody coming our space fits 50 people squished and We have over 30 people regularly attending even with COVID restrictions.

So as long as the government doesn't come and give us a citation we'll just keep meeting. So God works in crazy ways. Ways you least expect so now that we look back and we see pastor mark went to the park to Evangelize and he met homeo who needed to borrow his cell phone because he was having problems with his wife.

And he needed to call his wife. Well, not wife girlfriend that he lives with and So they made that connection and then the between homeo and Magliani. They asked him to come teach to a Bible study in their home.

So he went and shared the gospel. Later that night Bruna who was there the daughter Heard the gospel from pastor mark and trusted Christ as her Savior and later. He found this out. And so pastor mark didn't even really know that that Bible study.

Bruna became a child of God. So Bruna I am discipling her now and she is growing when I first started discipling her. The first thing she said is I want to be a missionary and we were talking and then she said what is a missionary?

So she's learning what it means to be of missionary. She has a real evangelist heart to share Christ with others and she's only believer in her family. Well one day they went to church. They missed the message in whatsapp that there was no church in In-person church in English.

Okay, there's no in-person church that Sunday. So I show up at church. No one's there. So she took her sister and friends back home and taught them the gospel for Sunday school. And my ease a trusted Christ as her Savior so you can see you see this chain of events.

It started with pastor mark intentionally going to the park to evangelize. Bumping into homeo and through all that the Lord reached Bruna in my ease of her Christ. So, please be in prayer as Bruna and I begin discipling my ease a after I return.

So you can see how things that we don't even think about God is using to reach a certain person. When we are faithful to share. But above all thank you for your partnership in reaching southern Brazil for Christ.

Thanks for your sharing for your faithful prayers very much for your faithful prayers because God moves through prayer and Thank you for being my home church if you have any questions, I'll be around after church.

Thank you Ellie. Well, that's. It's inspiring. It's encouraging. It's challenging. Isn't it for every one of us? It doesn't have to be in Brazil. It can be right here. I think pastor John has been talking about that in recent weeks and and it's I.

You know, there's a mirror always standing up here when anything that comes out of my mouth I'm. I'm talking to myself that there's challenges here that we can each do that I can do so. And I wanted to say before David comes welcome home Cain's.

Cain's have been gone for 15 days. How many hours. How many minutes. Four hours about 10 minutes. A lot of sanctification going on in the Cain household over the last couple weeks. And he is he is a happy man that they're home.

They're worn out and tired and we just prayed that they can get some rest later today. But anyway, thank you for being servants and being here playing for us and everything else. So and you too John. David, please come.

Call to Intentional Worship and Evangelism

Well rejoice in the Lord always and again, I say rejoice and let's stand and sing be exalted. Oh God.

Well, praise the Lord.

Man, we stand forgiven at the cross.

Hallelujah. Oh.

To see our name Written on his hands. What a blessing and what a blessing hearing from Ellie and I hope that what she talked about. I loved the whole idea of being intentional you know when I Normally my youngest daughter these days mows the lawn and edges.

You know. But when I mow the lawn when I do anything I have to do it intentionally. And see we do things automatically, please please bear with me here because I love that word intentional. If we don't come to church intentionally To worship God in spirit and in truth.

The chances are we're gonna fall short.

If.

We don't intentionally get up and get ready for work and brush our teeth and do the things that we need to do and seek first the kingdom of God each and every day and. The chances are we're gonna fall short.

So that's a great theme as we look forward to a new chapter in the history of faith Bible Church starting in two weeks because I know that ilgen is. Intentional in his ministry intentional in his study.

Intentional in evangelism, you know as we walk out the door in the morning, you know many of us. You're still working at home, right? Kind of hard to. You know reach out across a computer screen. But we can do it when we're out and about we can do it with neighbors.

As we pray and as we keep the idea of the purpose of the church right to equip you to get out there. Right and share the gospel. Amen very challenging so Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter 2, of course, we're continuing this morning on this series of messages.

The charge to guard the gospel and and again just keep in mind. It's falling under this banner of something we started months ago. How do we stand firm in difficult days? I Know you're tired of me sharing how difficult the days are that we're living in.

I Mean Ellie talked about how God works in crazy ways. One cell phone call leading to all that right? Well, you know God is I mean his ways are much higher than our ways. And what's going on in this country?

If you think that you're gonna wrap your mind around what's going on in this country. It's not gonna happen. Okay. You hear me? Hey, I can't explain it and I'm not gonna try to explain it. I just know that Jesus is still on the throne.

I know the God of this world little G is running around like a roaring lion seeking who may me devour but I know the King of Kings is over all of this and I know that he is going to give us the grace, but we're trying to learn.

What are some specific? Handholds tools that God has given us in his word that will help us stand firm when we're Overwhelmed as it were by some of the stuff that is going on, right? When the governor of the state of California is holding a Drawing to give away fifty thousand dollars to people that get vaccinated.

Guarding the Gospel by Holding Fast to Sound Words

So the charge to guard the gospel is found in 2nd Timothy chapter 1 where the Apostle Paul Charges his beloved son in the faith who is a pastor and an elder in the church at Ephesus with these words hold fast the pattern of sound words Which you have heard from me in Faith and love which are in Christ Jesus that good thing Which was committed to you keep by the Holy Spirit of God.

Now we've seen how the early church lived in difficult days right and we all agreed and It's in that context of living in difficult days that the Apostle Paul charges his beloved son To keep or to guard actively The good thing the treasure that was committed to him.

So let's get started today. We'll be to acts 2 in just a moment, but we need to get kind of into there. Let's get started today by asking the Lord To add his blessing to the preaching of his word. Amen.

Let's pray Father how thankful we are for this day this great opportunity being updated on Ellie's ministry being so encouraged by even in the midst of What's been going on in the world people coming to Christ?

And of course the challenges that she has down there and the church has economically as I heard this morning even the church where we Worship and share the building the construction costs Going up probably $5075 ,000 just in the past few months Lord.

It's just amazing. So Lord, we commit the preaching of the word to the glory of God to the exaltation of Christ. Any that are watching the 27 to 32 people each week that watch these videos that might not know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

We pray father God that you might use your word that we would see lost people come to Christ. Even that might visit on a Sunday morning here God in person Lord that we might Through this be challenged to be intentional father in guarding the gospel.

We pray in Jesus name. Amen. So one aspect of standing firm in the last days involves believers Heeding obeying this vital and sober charge that Paul gives to Timothy in 2nd Timothy chapter 1 to guard the gospel and we've looked at some reasons why Guarding the gospel is so critically important.

I've given you examples. I could show you videos of what's going on in churches today. But primarily we've seen by God's grace. We're seeking to answer questions like these.

How.

How do believers fulfill and obey this charge to hold fast and to keep Guard over this this treasure of the priceless gospel. What is involved? How do we do this? What is Paul saying and how should Christians today?

Follow in Timothy's footsteps and obey this charge to guard the gospel and we've seen it first of all, right by Comprehending and the urgent need to guard the gospel if you don't know your lawn needs to be mowed.

You're not gonna mow it. Right. Come on. Yeah. I mean we know when we're hungry and we eat probably too much but effectively guarding and keeping the gospel starts at the beginning and the beginning is Understanding and accepting the charge to guard the gospel and obeying it, right?

Secondly by understanding the vital importance that having a biblical Christology is to guarding the gospel. Remember as the scripture teaches no biblical Jesus what no biblical gospel? It's that simple.

Now third by understanding some of the key and fundamental doctrinal elements of what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ. You see effectively guarding the gospel requires having a solid understanding of some of the key and fundamental doctrinal elements of what God's holy inspired and Aaron word teaches us about Jesus Christ and we left off last week unpacking for Critically important doctrinal truths about what the Bible teaches about Jesus.

Remember the virgin birth the deity and humanity of Christ the Lordship of Christ. And finally We won't get to that today the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead so the scripture is very clear and Teaches this singular truth.

No biblical Jesus no biblical gospel. Much of what is going on not just in the cults in the United States. Much of what is going on in many churches today is they do not worship a biblical Jesus. They worship a Jesus that wants to fill your bank account.

They worship a Jesus that wants you to be wealthy and prosper. It's not the biblical Jesus. We cannot guard the gospel if we don't know the gospel that Jesus Christ preached and died for and we cannot guard the gospel if we don't have a clear and biblical understanding of Jesus Christ as he has set forth in Scripture, okay.

I was doing some reading this week on this subject. I came across this quote and I loved it the only Christ is a biblical Christ all Revisionist Christs are nothing but shadows of the Antichrist. Now I want that to sink in the only Christ is the biblical Christ.

All revisionist Christ's are nothing more than shadows of the Antichrist. And see we need to understand there have been revisionist Christ's ever since the church began and we need to be alert and.

Aware of this.

You cannot identify a counterfeit $20 bill if You are not intimately familiar with a genuine $20 bill. Thank you, sweetheart always serving. So there's no Jesus Christ except that is one revealed to us in God's Holy Word.

And obviously we could spend months studying that there's whole books big thick books written on Jesus Christ and if we were to take. If we could go off on any of any aspect of Christ that is taught in the Bible we would spend months just on the propitiation and and redemption and all of these.

Incredible the deity of Christ which we already covered the humanity of Christ, right? So I narrowed it down to just four and the first one was the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. We made three points about the virgin birth, right?

It is fundamental to having a biblical Christology. Remember the virgin birth and I put them in the notes for you. Just to remind you the virgin birth demonstrates that salvation ultimately must come and can only come and does only come from the Lord.

Secondly, remember the virgin birth made possible the unity the uniting of full deity and full humanity in one person. Without that you would not have that you couldn't have the perfect sacrificial lamb the spotless land that would take away the sin of the world right.

And. The virgin birth is also important because it makes possible Christ. Christ listen Christ true humanity but without sin and. Secondly we touch briefly on the full humanity the full deity of Christ, which we already covered earlier in the year.

Miraculously brought together what in one person in the person of Christ so we left off last week sort of in the middle of the lordship of Jesus Christ and I ended last week with a quote from a W Tozer and It goes like this.

I'm quoting him. I'm not this good. I'm not this smart. To urge men and women to believe in a divided Christ is bad teaching. For no one can receive half of Christ or a third of Christ or a quarter of the person of Christ.

He is Lord and though this is him. I've memorized some of it. He is Lord and those who refuse him as Lord cannot use him as Savior. Everyone who receives him must surrender to his authority. For to say we receive Christ when in fact, we reject his right to reign over us is utter.

Absurdity.

It is futile attempt to hold on to sin with one hand and take Jesus with the other. What kind of salvation is it if we are left in bondage to sin? And then finally the Bible plainly teaches That Jesus Christ is both Lord and Savior.

He is Lord by the way before he is Savior and that if he is not Lord what? He cannot be Savior. So when it comes to effectively guarding the gospel understanding the lordship of Jesus Christ and having a biblical Christology are in separable acts.

The Lordship of Christ in Acts, Philippians, John, and the Gospels

2 verse 36 Peter's sermon the very end of it. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus whom you.

Crucified both.

Lord and Christ now when they heard this they were cut to the heart and Said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles men and brethren. What shall we do? Then Peter said to them repent and let everyone to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the rich and sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit which in Context is the gift of salvation Not the gift of the Holy Spirit.

It is taught in many churches around the world. Christians must know and stand and guard the truth that the Bible Teaches that Jesus Christ is not just the Son. He isn't just the Savior. He isn't just the King of Kings.

He isn't just the Alpha the Omega the beginning in the end. He isn't just our high priest. He isn't just the Messiah God the Father God. The Father says has made him Christ.

Right.

Has made this Jesus verse 36 whom you crucified both Lord and Christ and we must live our lives accordingly. Romans 14 14 9 Jesus is Lord of all. Jesus Christ is Lord. See see the thing is as I said last week whether someone believes in God or not.

Does that deny the existence of God? No, because he is Right in the beginning God. So whether you want to believe in God or not God is. That doesn't change the fact right whether you want to believe in I mean gravity.

Okay. I don't believe in gravity. Okay, let's drop this 50-pound concrete block on your foot in the same way. Whether someone wants to submit to this truth or not or recognize this truth in their day-to-day living.

I'm a Christian. The scripture tells us that Jesus is not just the Savior. He's not just the Son of God. He is not just the Messiah. He is not just the King of Kings. He is not just a believers high priest making intercession right now.

Jesus Christ is Lord. And if we claim the name of Christ, we better be living our lives in light of this truth that he is Lord of lords. Jesus is called Lord Kurios in the Greek over 740 times in the New Testament just in the book of Acts.

Acts 2 47 Praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord. Jesus Christ added to his church daily those who were being saved. Chapter 4 verse 33 and With great power the Apostles gave witness to the resurrection.

What of the Lord? Jesus and great grace was upon them all. Chapter 7. Just in the book of Acts alone 92 occurrences of the word Kurios chapter 7 verse 49. Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool.

What house will you build build for me says the Lord. And what is the place of my rest. Has my hand not made all thing. Acts 10 verse 36 the word which God sent to the children of Israel. Preaching peace through Jesus Christ.

He is Lord of all. See if we call on Jesus a Savior. Please let us know that he is Lord of all. Please listen and we receive him as Savior. We must also call and receive him and Serve him as Lord or we are not living out the commands of Scripture.

And we are not guarding the gospel. Go to Philippians chapter 2. Philippians chapter 2. Look how Paul puts it to the church at Philippi. Looks look how Paul puts the Lordship of Christ therefore God. Philippians 2 verse 9.

Therefore God has highly exalted him and Given him the name. Which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of those in heaven and those on earth and of those under the earth and.

And that every tongue Should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

To the glory of God the Father.

You see so in the early church in the early churches preaching the Lordship of Christ was clearly at The heart of the gospel that they preached. Now go back to John 10. John 10. Just a couple of quick Important truths to consider regarding the Lordship of Christ.

We're just skipping over a couple of them. One of it one of them is when it comes to the Lordship of Jesus Christ remember that Jesus was it is and will always Be God and since he is God was is and always will be God Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever, right?

It means that he is sovereign. It means he is sovereign. What does that mean? It means he's all-powerful. It means he has total control over anything and everything. That he wants to have right not a bird falls to the ground.

I just my wife. Thank God. She just cut my hair and as I was looking at the mirror, I Realized the number keeps decreasing. He has total control. Anything he wants to do he does. Jesus is sovereign and by the very definition of the word Lord Which was what you how it was used courios in the first century.

Jesus's Lordship includes the idea of dominion of Authority of power. It includes the idea of the right to govern the right to govern. He's sovereign as God is fully God. Jesus is sovereign Lord. That's why he said in Matthew chapter 12 I'm the Lord of the Sabbath.

Meaning he I mean we could go down this rabbit trail if you want. It would take the rest maybe next Sunday too and you get mad at me because I'm not gonna finish this before ilgin comes. Please listen.

Please listen when he says he's the Lord of the Sabbath. It means he has the authority as the lawgiver who gave the law to Moses God, but Jesus was there.

He's Lord. He is Lord over the Sabbath. He is Lord over the law.

Jesus claimed equal authority with God and the G the Jews were so incensed at him for this statement that they tried to kill him and You want proof of the sovereignty of Jesus Christ? The Jewish leaders could not kill him until it was.

Ready.

Until he was ready John 10 17 John said 17 therefore my father Loves me. Look at this because I lay down my life. That I may take it again. No one takes it from me. That's sovereignty. But I lay it down of myself.

That's sovereignty. I have power to lay it down sovereignty and I have power to take it up again this command I have received from my father and see this influence the influence of Jesus authority and the scope of his sovereign lordship extends everywhere and everyone even over death itself.