1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,760 Yeah, national prayer event. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:10,240 The National Day of Prayer was May 7, but tomorrow is a national prayer event at the National Mall. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,960 They are expecting over a million people there. 4 00:00:14,219 --> 00:00:16,779 To pray for the United States of America. 5 00:00:16,779 --> 00:00:23,099 This is part of the 250-year celebration that is taking place. 6 00:00:23,099 --> 00:00:28,460 There will be thousands of Seventh-day Adventists there. 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:34,280 Handing out these backs. 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,160 Inside there's a magazine about the United States in Bible prophecy. 9 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,960 Inside there's a great controversy. 10 00:00:41,820 --> 00:00:55,820 Inside there's another small book, I don't remember what it is, and then inside there is a uh Religious Freedom 250 card which has a QR code on it that you can scan which will take you to a lot of 11 00:00:56,460 --> 00:01:01,020 fantastic resources. 12 00:01:01,020 --> 00:01:09,660 We pray that the thousands of bags that get handed out tomorrow will get into the right hands. 13 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:17,320 And people will be seeking greater interest in a relationship with God. 14 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:21,880 Now you know what tomorrow is. 15 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,360 Do you know what today is? 16 00:01:28,479 --> 00:01:35,200 Donald Trump declared today to be known as National Shabbat Day. 17 00:01:37,399 --> 00:01:39,079 Shabbat 250. 18 00:01:39,079 --> 00:01:47,560 The event is part of the what is designated to honor the 250 anniversary of the United States. 19 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:49,180 our independence. 20 00:01:49,180 --> 00:01:57,500 It is to be observed, it says, from sundown, May 15 to sundown, May 16. 21 00:01:57,420 --> 00:02:04,780 Encouraging friends, families, and communities of all backgrounds to come together in gratitude for the nation 22 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:15,060 This day is to recognize the sacred Jewish tradition of setting aside time for rest, reflection, and gratitude to the Almighty. 23 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:17,320 Yeah, Amen is right. 24 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,240 Can you say hallelujah for this? 25 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:28,280 I'm just sharing this with you because it seems to me, now maybe it's not true, but it seems to me that God is putting a spotlight 26 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:36,800 On the Sabbath at this time. 27 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,360 He that has an ear, let him hear. 28 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,440 Do you know what yesterday was? 29 00:02:44,140 --> 00:02:47,900 National Peace Officers Memorial Day. 30 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:56,140 Flags yesterday were flown at Half-Mass to honor National Peace Officers. 31 00:02:58,740 --> 00:03:00,900 Do you know what July 4 is? 32 00:03:03,140 --> 00:03:04,500 Independence Day. 33 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:06,020 How many years? 34 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,080 Two hundred and fifty years. 35 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,879 July four falls on a Sabbath 36 00:03:14,959 --> 00:03:25,040 Your church board this last week decided to have an ice cream social for the community on July 5. 37 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:33,520 We want to invite the community to come here to continue the celebration of the 200 and 38 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:40,280 religious freedom, 250 years celebration, to come here for an ice cream social. 39 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,880 Do you know what that means? 40 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,120 We need some ice cream. 41 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,200 There you go. 42 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:49,400 You got it right. 43 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,680 Not only do we need ice cream, but we hope to have 44 00:03:53,140 --> 00:04:06,099 You guys already cleaned us out of the first 50 we bought, so we are planning to get another hundred of these that we can give out to the community on July 5, that same weekend 45 00:04:06,599 --> 00:04:12,360 So I invite you to keep these things in prayer. 46 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,599 Let's bow our heads for prayer. 47 00:04:14,820 --> 00:04:18,420 Our gracious Heavenly Father, you are an awesome God. 48 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:23,780 We thank you for the holy Sabbath day that you have given to the world. 49 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:34,640 And Lord, we are celebrating with our Jewish friends today, with the friends and families that are celebrating together this Shabbat 250, Lord. 50 00:04:34,660 --> 00:04:38,500 We thank you for the religious freedom that we have in this country. 51 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:44,180 We thank you that you are shining a spotlight on your Sabbath. 52 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,080 Lord, we pray for us as a church family. 53 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,280 We ask that you would help us to be the light to our community that you would have us to be. 54 00:04:54,640 --> 00:05:06,560 And that you would grow us together as a family, as a church family, so that we can be united together in service for you. 55 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:09,400 I pray this in Jesus' name. 56 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:10,120 Amen. 57 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,400 One another. 58 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,880 We've been looking at this at the last couple of weeks. 59 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,960 This one anothering. 60 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:22,920 It's um 61 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,520 Not a hard concept for us to understand. 62 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:33,240 Last week we focused specifically on this one anothering of what? 63 00:05:34,759 --> 00:05:36,360 What was it last week? 64 00:05:37,159 --> 00:05:39,080 Kindness, yeah. 65 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,479 Be kind one to another. 66 00:05:41,479 --> 00:05:46,759 And some of you have received an email every day this week. 67 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:56,400 encouraging you, giving you some practical tips, some things that you could do to remind you to be kind to individuals. 68 00:05:57,580 --> 00:06:03,820 Well, I know for me, sometimes I get that email and I think about what I'm going to do that day. 69 00:06:03,820 --> 00:06:09,100 And sometimes in the middle of doing things, I think, Dale, that's not very kind 70 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:20,120 Other times I do things intentionally just to be kind, hoping that it will become a habit. 71 00:06:20,660 --> 00:06:24,580 And I hope it becomes a habit for all of us. 72 00:06:24,580 --> 00:06:27,620 Be kind one to another. 73 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:31,220 Last week's sermon title was Spread Kindness Like What? 74 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,920 Confetti, yeah, I like that. 75 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,160 Today we're talking about what? 76 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,240 You haven't picked up on it yet? 77 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,080 You were not listening to the children's story? 78 00:06:46,180 --> 00:06:47,780 Ah, honor, yeah. 79 00:06:47,780 --> 00:06:49,780 You were not reading the bulletin? 80 00:06:49,780 --> 00:06:52,820 You did not see the sign out front? 81 00:06:52,820 --> 00:06:54,020 Oh my. 82 00:06:54,020 --> 00:06:55,940 All it says is a simple 83 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,080 Honor one another. 84 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,480 Turn your Bibles to Romans chapter 12, verse 10. 85 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,880 Romans chapter 12, verse 10 86 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:15,440 And I am sure when I put that on the computer, it was much larger than that. 87 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,240 Be devoted to one another in love. 88 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:24,199 Honor one another above yourselves. 89 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:26,040 Honor one another how? 90 00:07:28,259 --> 00:07:31,380 Above yourselves. 91 00:07:31,380 --> 00:07:35,060 Sometimes I think that we don't know exactly um 92 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,720 What honor is. 93 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,600 I tried to look up honor. 94 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:45,960 You know what I mean by look up. 95 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,720 Do a Google search. 96 00:07:48,580 --> 00:07:50,340 What is honor? 97 00:07:50,340 --> 00:07:59,220 And when I said asked how do you honor someone, the things that it came back with was plant a tree for someone. 98 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:01,060 I thought, yeah, okay 99 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,920 Donate to a charity in someone's name. 100 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,120 Yeah, that works. 101 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:09,600 Uh 102 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:21,900 give them a uh a a plaque or a a diploma or a ward of some kind that that you are honoring them or or make a nice speech for them or as our children's story says 103 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:28,860 run before their chariot, saying, The king wants to honor this person. 104 00:08:28,860 --> 00:08:30,940 And sometimes I think that's 105 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:36,160 All we have as a concept of honor. 106 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:41,919 And while those are part of honor, I don't think that's what Paul means here in Romans 107 00:08:42,180 --> 00:08:48,420 12 when he says tells us to honor one another above yourselves 108 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:52,620 Honor is a little bit larger than that. 109 00:08:52,620 --> 00:08:58,780 I'm not sure that when the scripture says honor your father and mother, that it means to give them a plaque. 110 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:01,220 Right? 111 00:09:01,220 --> 00:09:03,700 That's what it means, isn't it? 112 00:09:04,180 --> 00:09:09,860 I mean, last week for Mother's Day, some of you got cards. 113 00:09:10,540 --> 00:09:13,420 You were honored as a mother? 114 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:17,500 But honor is more than just receiving the card. 115 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:24,780 Honor is much more than than what happens on that that specific day of the year. 116 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,120 For Mother's Day. 117 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:31,720 Honor is what happens throughout life 118 00:09:34,860 --> 00:09:36,060 Oh man. 119 00:09:40,220 --> 00:09:43,180 Sometimes things pop in my head that uh 120 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,079 We had a young couple there in Vietnam that they wanted to become Christian. 121 00:09:51,079 --> 00:09:55,560 They wanted to become Seventh-day Adventist. 122 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:55,880 And 123 00:09:58,380 --> 00:10:02,699 He lost his job because he wanted to become a Christian. 124 00:10:02,699 --> 00:10:10,380 The people where he worked were not happy about him becoming Christian, and so he was released from his work. 125 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:19,840 They wanted to become Christian, and the biggest thing that was holding them back from becoming a Christian was their parents. 126 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:25,580 Because family is really important there. 127 00:10:25,580 --> 00:10:25,899 And 128 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,880 They didn't know the how the reaction of their parents was going to be. 129 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,840 And so they they had all of us praying about it. 130 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:36,880 They had used it. 131 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:38,160 thinking about it. 132 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,720 They had us giving them advice on how to to break this news to their parents. 133 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:47,440 And they went one weekend to to his parents. 134 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:52,339 And said, we want to become Christians. 135 00:10:52,339 --> 00:10:56,260 And the parents were like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 136 00:10:56,899 --> 00:10:58,740 That's not a good thing. 137 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,320 You you can't become Christians. 138 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,280 And well, why not? 139 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,080 Well, if you become Christians 140 00:11:09,260 --> 00:11:15,260 Who's going to honor us when we die? 141 00:11:17,860 --> 00:11:22,420 Because there in Vietnam, honor after death is very important to them. 142 00:11:22,420 --> 00:11:25,300 In every home there's a a um 143 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,560 Shelf there, all of a sudden the name left me. 144 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:39,800 Um altar that they have there that they have the family pictures on, and they put offerings to their family. 145 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:50,600 They're on the altar and they pray to their family and the worry of the parents is who's going to honor me? 146 00:11:51,319 --> 00:11:53,480 After I die. 147 00:11:53,480 --> 00:12:04,519 And the response of this couple to their parents was, mom and dad, we really want to show you honor now while you're alive. 148 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:11,240 We want to show you honor now while you know that we are honoring you. 149 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,680 The Bible tells us. 150 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,120 To honor our parents. 151 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:25,840 And after that explanation, the parents said, okay, you can become Christians. 152 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,800 You have our blessing. 153 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,880 Honor is much more than a plaque. 154 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,480 Honor is much more than a simple gift. 155 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:38,600 Honor is 156 00:12:39,740 --> 00:12:41,579 It's a lifestyle. 157 00:12:43,019 --> 00:12:47,980 It's a way that you you go about treating other individuals. 158 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:00,340 When I said oh no, something popped in my head. 159 00:13:00,340 --> 00:13:03,300 That means I have to change my sermon outline. 160 00:13:03,860 --> 00:13:13,220 I have some things written down that I really want to say and some that aren't as important as others and I just used an illustration that I didn't have written down 161 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:23,820 This idea of honor for for us here in the West, we we don't 162 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:32,600 We don't really have a good understanding of what it means because we often think it means the plaque. 163 00:13:32,620 --> 00:13:44,140 or the nice words that we say in a speech honoring somebody, or even the unkind words that we say when we roast somebody in their honor. 164 00:13:44,140 --> 00:13:44,860 It's 165 00:13:47,060 --> 00:13:51,380 Not ingrained in us like it is in the East. 166 00:13:51,380 --> 00:13:54,180 In the in the East, in the the Middle East 167 00:13:54,779 --> 00:13:57,980 in the Far East, they have this this whole concept. 168 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:02,380 Their whole world is based upon. 169 00:14:02,380 --> 00:14:07,260 How do I say, their whole world is based upon shame and honor? 170 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:14,960 If you have shame, you're down here, and if you have honor, you're up here. 171 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:16,880 Here in the the West, 172 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:29,660 In the United States and in Europe and in Australia, we have this whole concept of right and wrong, good and bad. 173 00:14:30,220 --> 00:14:34,300 The East doesn't really put it in good and bad, right and wrong. 174 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:38,060 They put it in shame and honor. 175 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:46,200 We used to have a little bit of understanding here in the United States about shame. 176 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:52,440 I mean, here in the I'm gonna say it's even before my time. 177 00:14:53,140 --> 00:14:56,500 It used to be shameful to get a divorce. 178 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:02,180 It used to be shameful to have a child out of wedlock. 179 00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:07,980 It used to be shameful to not be able to feed your family. 180 00:15:07,980 --> 00:15:12,700 It used to be shameful to squander your family's money. 181 00:15:13,780 --> 00:15:15,540 And for them to have to beg. 182 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:21,060 Today it doesn't seem to be shameful to be out on the streets holding up a sign. 183 00:15:21,060 --> 00:15:23,780 It's a legitimate way for work. 184 00:15:30,260 --> 00:15:34,580 Some of that shame departing from those actions 185 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:46,440 Can be good, but we've kind of lost a little bit of our understanding of shame. 186 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:51,420 If you oh man now I'm far, far away. 187 00:15:53,019 --> 00:15:54,620 Oh, I'm sorry, Cheryl. 188 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:55,980 This is dangerous. 189 00:15:56,540 --> 00:15:58,940 You were studying the Sabbath school lesson today, right? 190 00:15:58,940 --> 00:16:00,380 Or this last week? 191 00:16:00,380 --> 00:16:02,220 Daniel chapter 9. 192 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:13,220 Oh, let's see, Daniel chapter nine. 193 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:21,320 We were reading it this morning in Sabbath school and I saw it twice and I said, Oh, I can mention that. 194 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,880 Twice here in Daniel chapter 9. 195 00:16:24,279 --> 00:16:30,040 Daniel mentions that we have shamed ourselves as a nation. 196 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,600 Let's see, verse 7. 197 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:40,880 O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us, shame of face, as it is this day, to the men of Judah 198 00:16:40,540 --> 00:16:53,180 to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to all Israel, those near and those far, in all the countries to which you have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against you 199 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:58,080 And he talks about it a second time. 200 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:04,160 He talks about shame that it was brought on to them as a a nation. 201 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,720 Daniel understood the concept of shame. 202 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:15,240 And in their mentality, shame is the opposite of honor. 203 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:23,159 So if you shame, if someone is ashamed, if you shame someone, that means you are not. 204 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,520 And there's a continuum. 205 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,160 Shame, honor. 206 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:29,960 Up and down. 207 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,679 You can be be along the scale here somewhere. 208 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,120 Which person is supposed to get the most honor? 209 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:38,519 God. 210 00:17:38,519 --> 00:17:43,639 Or if you think of it on earth, which person gets the most honor on earth? 211 00:17:43,639 --> 00:17:48,679 We have this concept, and they did too a little bit. 212 00:17:49,540 --> 00:17:52,820 The most important person. 213 00:17:52,820 --> 00:17:55,460 Who's the most important person in their mind? 214 00:17:56,420 --> 00:17:58,020 The king. 215 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:01,400 Shortly under the king is the scribe. 216 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,280 Shortly under the scribe are the teachers. 217 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:09,000 And those individuals got to like the honor. 218 00:18:09,260 --> 00:18:16,220 And they were beholding for, I mean, wanted to get the honor. 219 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:20,380 Jesus said not to have that kind of honor. 220 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,520 John 13, he girded himself. 221 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:24,560 He took the towel. 222 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:30,880 He wrapped it around himself, and he bent down on his knees and he washed their feet. 223 00:18:31,659 --> 00:18:34,700 An act that was in their mind. 224 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:40,139 Here he was, the Messiah, and he was acting 225 00:18:41,860 --> 00:18:43,540 Shameful. 226 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:47,140 This is why Peter said, no, no, no, no, don't don't don't wash my feet. 227 00:18:47,140 --> 00:18:51,300 Don't you can't do, I can't let you, I can't put you under me 228 00:18:52,380 --> 00:18:55,340 I can't let you have that kind of shame. 229 00:19:02,539 --> 00:19:05,419 Oh my, can't I get back on track? 230 00:19:06,860 --> 00:19:07,500 Uh 231 00:19:11,559 --> 00:19:16,200 Yeah, we'll go to here Philippians chapter 2, our scripture reading. 232 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:21,080 That'll get us back. 233 00:19:24,220 --> 00:19:31,740 Philippians chapter two three and four was our scripture reading 234 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:33,720 Notice what it says. 235 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:45,160 It says, let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than themselves. 236 00:19:45,380 --> 00:19:50,100 Let each of you look out not only for your own interests, but what? 237 00:19:51,780 --> 00:19:54,580 But for the interest of others also. 238 00:19:54,519 --> 00:19:58,840 Now that doesn't mean don't take care of the details that you need to take care of in your life. 239 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:00,760 You still have work that you need to do. 240 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:02,679 You still need to go to school. 241 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,320 You still need to take care of your marriage or you need to take care of your family. 242 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,320 You're still responsible for those things. 243 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:13,360 But it says, in addition to taking care of those things, look out for what? 244 00:20:14,620 --> 00:20:15,660 The interest of others. 245 00:20:15,660 --> 00:20:20,220 Now some of us get pretty good about that, sticking our nose where it doesn't belong. 246 00:20:20,220 --> 00:20:23,580 And we say, well, I'm just taking care of the interest of others. 247 00:20:25,580 --> 00:20:31,500 Well, are you? 248 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:37,420 Verse 5: Let this mind be in you, which is also in what? 249 00:20:38,460 --> 00:20:40,860 Christ Jesus. 250 00:20:40,860 --> 00:20:46,380 Paul kind of helps us to focus on how we're supposed to do this. 251 00:20:46,380 --> 00:20:48,700 How we can focus on 252 00:20:51,059 --> 00:20:56,980 Looking out for the interest of others, not just for the inter our own interest 253 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:09,600 Continue reading there, verse six, who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation. 254 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:24,159 taking the form of a bond servant, and coming in the likeness of men, and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 255 00:21:25,020 --> 00:21:27,500 Think about that. 256 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:29,580 Who is Jesus? 257 00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:32,299 The creator of the universe. 258 00:21:32,299 --> 00:21:35,419 The one that spoke and it happened. 259 00:21:35,679 --> 00:21:41,919 The one who knelt down on his knees and formed man out of the dust of the ground. 260 00:21:41,919 --> 00:21:45,360 The creator of the world, God. 261 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:56,400 And he descended to come to this earth because he loves us. 262 00:21:57,220 --> 00:22:00,340 Because he cared about us. 263 00:22:00,340 --> 00:22:03,059 Because he desires a relationship with us 264 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:13,800 Paul told us verse 5, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. 265 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,120 Are you willing to leave your heaven? 266 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:30,040 The palace that you have prepared for you, the the domicile that you you live in, are you willing to leave that in order to look after someone else's interests 267 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:39,559 It said that Jesus came as a bondservant in the likeness of men. 268 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:45,000 He left heaven and came to this earth as a babe. 269 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:52,600 The creature that he had created was now taking care of him. 270 00:22:53,380 --> 00:22:58,340 Was now making sure that he had the necessities of life. 271 00:22:58,340 --> 00:23:02,580 And it wasn't the necessities of life that would be in a palace, 272 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:06,200 It wasn't the kingly mansion that he was able to live in. 273 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,679 It wasn't the place where you would send Jesus, the creator of the world. 274 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:22,280 He was born to peasants, the lower working class. 275 00:23:23,159 --> 00:23:28,840 The ones that could only afford the two turtle doves to bring for his dedication. 276 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,400 That wasn't the upper class. 277 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:41,120 It wasn't the upper middle class. 278 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:46,080 It was the people that went far, far away and lived in the town of Nazareth. 279 00:23:46,860 --> 00:23:49,020 And we know what scripture says about that. 280 00:23:49,020 --> 00:23:51,580 Nothing good came out of a town like that. 281 00:23:52,940 --> 00:23:55,180 That's where Jesus grew up. 282 00:23:55,180 --> 00:23:57,020 That's where he lived. 283 00:23:57,179 --> 00:24:09,899 So when it says that he came like this, and it says he knew he made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondster, and coming in the likeness of men. 284 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,080 humbled himself and became obedient. 285 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,480 Obedient to the point of death. 286 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,880 Death on the cross. 287 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,679 An excruciating way to die. 288 00:24:23,980 --> 00:24:27,740 No honor for a person that dies upon a cross. 289 00:24:27,740 --> 00:24:31,260 Cursed is the man who hangs on the tree, Scripture says 290 00:24:33,299 --> 00:24:38,740 Everybody was wagging their head as they went by and saw him hanging there on the cross. 291 00:24:38,740 --> 00:24:42,020 There was no honor for him whatsoever. 292 00:24:42,020 --> 00:24:46,179 He was now in the lowliest point of shame. 293 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:55,100 And he took that shame because that's what I deserve. 294 00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:56,900 It's what you deserve. 295 00:24:56,900 --> 00:24:59,300 You say, wait a minute, I I don't deserve that. 296 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:03,780 Yeah, that's what we deserve. 297 00:25:03,780 --> 00:25:06,500 We deserve that kind of shame. 298 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:09,620 Jesus took that for us. 299 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,560 Why did he do that? 300 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,920 So that he could honor us. 301 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:25,440 The text there says, therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name. 302 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,880 That is the name of Jesus. 303 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:27,919 Every knee should be 304 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:38,240 bow of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 305 00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:41,700 Beautiful text there. 306 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:46,260 But we understand that's what Jesus did because he loves us. 307 00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:52,540 The question though that I have is, what does that look like? 308 00:25:52,620 --> 00:25:57,980 How do we put that in practice when you and I are supposed to honor one another? 309 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,960 Turn back in your Bibles, John chapter 21. 310 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:09,000 You already know this already in John 21 because we talked about it a few weeks ago. 311 00:26:08,740 --> 00:26:16,740 John 21 is that story it says there Jesus came to serve the disciples breakfast by the sea. 312 00:26:20,740 --> 00:26:33,140 Several days after the cross, several days after the Passover had finished, and the disciples had made their way back to Galilee. 313 00:26:36,260 --> 00:26:41,140 John 21, you know that story there. 314 00:26:41,140 --> 00:26:44,020 How Peter said, I'm going fishing. 315 00:26:45,159 --> 00:26:49,159 He went out in the boat. 316 00:26:49,159 --> 00:26:53,080 They caught nothing all night. 317 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,799 Someone calls out to them about morning, Do you have anything to eat? 318 00:26:58,580 --> 00:26:59,139 No. 319 00:27:00,260 --> 00:27:03,299 Put the net on the other side of the boat. 320 00:27:03,299 --> 00:27:07,299 And as they cast the net on the other side of the boat, suddenly the fish hit it. 321 00:27:07,299 --> 00:27:10,100 Hundred fish, 150 fish. 322 00:27:09,940 --> 00:27:13,860 And John realizes at that time, that's Jesus. 323 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:21,460 And he says the words, that's Jesus, and Peter is out of the boat, making his way to Jesus. 324 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,920 He is excited to see Jesus. 325 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:32,360 Because in Peter's mind, Peter remembers the last night they were together. 326 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,080 When Peter told Jesus, don't wash my feet. 327 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:45,399 When Peter told Jesus, even though all the others may deny you, I will not deny you. 328 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:52,440 When Jesus told him, Peter, you're going to deny me three times by the time the rooster crows. 329 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,840 Oh, Peter says, no, no, I'm willing to die for you. 330 00:27:58,140 --> 00:28:05,020 Peter goes out that night with a sword attached to him. 331 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:14,440 Jesus asked Peter, James, and John, will you pray with me for an hour? 332 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,639 They fall asleep. 333 00:28:15,639 --> 00:28:18,279 Second time, wait, just an hour, Jesus said. 334 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:20,200 They fall asleep. 335 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:30,440 These are the things I imagine Peter thinking about as he's out there fishing and catching nothing. 336 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,039 Replaying it over and over and over again. 337 00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:41,480 So when John says it's Jesus, he's excited to see Jesus because the word had come to him. 338 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:50,120 From the ladies that had had had seen the angels go tell the disciples and Peter 339 00:28:51,460 --> 00:28:53,940 That Jesus will meet them in Galilee. 340 00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:58,900 And so Jesus, Peter is looking forward to this meeting in Galilee. 341 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:09,600 They sit and eat the food, the breakfast that Jesus has prepared for them. 342 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:19,240 And then Jesus turns as they're sitting there and he turns to Peter and says, Do you love me? 343 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,800 Peter sitting there with the other disciples around him. 344 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,720 What's he supposed to say? 345 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,200 I know we looked at this a few times 346 00:29:29,419 --> 00:29:40,539 weeks ago you know the story but this is in in the the the this is this is jesus restoring honor to peter 347 00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:46,400 Peter is down here in the honor category. 348 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,480 He has shame all over him. 349 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,600 He has brought shame all over his face. 350 00:29:51,260 --> 00:29:59,100 That prayer that Daniel prayed in Daniel 9, that should have been the prayer of Peter at this time, or even lower. 351 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,380 Because Peter could have prayed it personally. 352 00:30:02,660 --> 00:30:07,220 Daniel was praying on behalf of the nation. 353 00:30:07,220 --> 00:30:10,260 Peter had experienced it for himself. 354 00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:13,299 He had cried out, I don't know the man. 355 00:30:13,620 --> 00:30:15,460 Jesus says to Peter, 356 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,960 Do you love me? 357 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:25,600 Now Jesus is doing this to restore the honor, not just in Peter's eyes 358 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:33,800 Jesus is doing this to restore the honor, not for his own sake, because he already knows Peter's heart. 359 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:42,880 Jesus is doing this because he's trying to restore honor to Peter in the eyes of the fellow disciples. 360 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,679 I mean when they were out there in the boat. 361 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:54,200 And for the last several days, what do you think they were thinking about Peter and the possibility of his leadership? 362 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:03,880 Yeah, you know Peter talks before his brain engages. 363 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,720 You know Peter, impulsive. 364 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,960 You know Peter. 365 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,880 What are they supposed to think about? 366 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,520 And when Jesus does this in front of the disciples. 367 00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:22,580 What is Jesus doing? 368 00:31:27,220 --> 00:31:29,940 He is restoring Peter's honor. 369 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:37,159 He is restoring Peter's honor. 370 00:31:37,159 --> 00:31:39,559 That's what Jesus does. 371 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,280 Jesus restores people's honor. 372 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,560 He's done it for you. 373 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,320 He's done it for me. 374 00:31:52,860 --> 00:31:58,220 Paul says though, we are supposed to honor one another. 375 00:31:58,220 --> 00:31:59,500 Turn back a few pages. 376 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:00,540 You're in the book of John. 377 00:32:00,540 --> 00:32:01,740 Turn back to John 4. 378 00:32:01,740 --> 00:32:03,580 You guys know the story in John 4. 379 00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:05,500 I'll try to cover this quickly. 380 00:32:05,380 --> 00:32:08,020 John 4. 381 00:32:08,020 --> 00:32:10,580 This is the woman at the well. 382 00:32:10,580 --> 00:32:13,540 How much honor did the woman at the well have? 383 00:32:16,020 --> 00:32:24,420 I mean, it says there in verse 4, John 4, verse 4, it says Jesus needed to go through Samaria. 384 00:32:24,420 --> 00:32:27,220 Why did Jesus need to go there? 385 00:32:30,020 --> 00:32:36,260 There was a woman there that needed her honor restored. 386 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:38,519 You know the story. 387 00:32:38,519 --> 00:32:44,600 Jesus sits there and he begins to talk with her and he says, give me a drink of water. 388 00:32:46,159 --> 00:32:53,360 Now, just by asking the question, give me a drink of water, what is Jesus doing to this woman? 389 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,640 You see, she's down here. 390 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,200 But if a Jewish man talks to her 391 00:33:03,140 --> 00:33:05,380 Do you see her honor going up? 392 00:33:06,020 --> 00:33:07,380 That didn't happen. 393 00:33:07,380 --> 00:33:08,740 She makes a point of it. 394 00:33:08,740 --> 00:33:10,580 What are you doing talking to me 395 00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:19,100 She doesn't understand it yet, but her honor is going up. 396 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:23,180 Jesus spends some time talking to her about water. 397 00:33:23,660 --> 00:33:29,500 And then he says to her, go call your husband. 398 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:34,059 And she cringes at the thought. 399 00:33:34,059 --> 00:33:35,340 Cringes. 400 00:33:37,580 --> 00:33:41,580 She says, I don't have a husband. 401 00:33:41,580 --> 00:33:43,500 Is she telling the truth? 402 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:46,060 The whole truth and nothing but the truth? 403 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:54,120 You better go read the chapter and thoughts from the Mount of Blessings that we studied this last week. 404 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:05,760 Or you can just read Matthew 5. 405 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,480 She says, I don't have a husband. 406 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:14,940 And Jesus says, You are correct. 407 00:34:14,940 --> 00:34:17,340 You've had five husbands 408 00:34:17,839 --> 00:34:20,960 And the one that you are now with is not your husband. 409 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:26,240 And we here in the West, we think, oh, this is a loose woman. 410 00:34:26,860 --> 00:34:29,820 They didn't think that they're in the East. 411 00:34:29,820 --> 00:34:38,940 What they thought in the East was this a woman who has been tortured all of her life. 412 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,120 Because a woman cannot divorce a man. 413 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,360 The man had to give a letter of divorce. 414 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:54,220 Five had divorced her. 415 00:34:54,220 --> 00:34:59,740 And probably, scripture doesn't tell us all the details, but probably sent her out 416 00:35:01,660 --> 00:35:06,060 With no way to take care of herself. 417 00:35:06,060 --> 00:35:10,460 Which means that she was supposed to go back to her father 418 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:22,000 or find another place to live, which it seems like she found another husband. 419 00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:28,900 She had been abused. 420 00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:30,980 This was a woman that had been abused. 421 00:35:30,980 --> 00:35:33,780 She had been through five husbands. 422 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:41,920 And now she could not find another one to marry her, but she found one that would let her live with him. 423 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:50,280 and take care of her, causing so much shame in her life that she had to come to the well at noonday 424 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,440 What is Jesus doing here? 425 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:02,119 Jesus is opening up the wounds in her life. 426 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:09,320 She tries to change the topic and she tries to talk theology with him. 427 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:14,359 And he gets to the place in the story, uh, let's see, John 4. 428 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:19,020 Come down here. 429 00:36:19,020 --> 00:36:23,180 Um verse twenty-six 430 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,040 twenty-five. 431 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,120 The woman said to him, I know the Messiah is coming who is called Christ. 432 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,480 When he comes, he will tell us all things. 433 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:37,960 And Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am He. 434 00:36:38,620 --> 00:36:41,820 This is early in the ministry of Jesus. 435 00:36:41,820 --> 00:36:44,860 Very early in the ministry of Jesus. 436 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:54,440 Now, John the Baptist had said, Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. 437 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,320 But this is the first time Scripture recorded 438 00:36:57,820 --> 00:37:06,700 The words coming out of the mouth of Jesus, and he tells who? 439 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:07,820 The lowest 440 00:37:09,820 --> 00:37:17,260 I mean, not only is is I'm gonna say this harshly, it's gonna sound like, is she a woman because 441 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,360 Her testimony is not taken into court, not acceptable in court. 442 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,440 But not only is she a woman, but she's a Samaritan woman. 443 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:38,560 I mean, if you were going to go into that society and you were going to tell people that you are the Messiah of the world, who would you choose to tell first? 444 00:37:40,180 --> 00:37:42,180 Peter, yeah, that's a good answer. 445 00:37:42,180 --> 00:37:46,180 Let's tell Peter because we know if we tell Peter what's gonna happen? 446 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,800 Everybody's gonna know. 447 00:37:49,800 --> 00:38:01,080 Or if you don't tell Peter, maybe you should, you know, slide in with the the the the priest as they're ministering in the in the temple and and get some of the priest and and I 448 00:38:01,820 --> 00:38:04,300 Tell them who you are. 449 00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:07,500 Give them your credentials. 450 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:12,780 Or maybe not the priest, maybe you want to do the scribes, the one that are the teachers. 451 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,640 The ones that are writing the law, the ones who understand the scriptures. 452 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,240 Maybe talk to the scribes. 453 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:34,140 Or maybe some of the teachers, the rabbis, tell them, but to tell a Samaritan woman that is disgraced in her society. 454 00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:43,500 What is Jesus doing here? 455 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:45,180 What's he doing? 456 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,040 He is restoring her honor. 457 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,040 Those words come out of his mouth and the disciples show back up. 458 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:08,520 And they begin a conversation with Jesus, and this woman disappears, and she goes back to the village where she is shamefaced to go. 459 00:39:09,279 --> 00:39:12,880 But she doesn't go back shamefaced. 460 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:21,200 She goes back and she tells the village people, this man has told me everything about me. 461 00:39:21,660 --> 00:39:25,740 He knows everything. 462 00:39:25,740 --> 00:39:27,980 Think about that for just a moment. 463 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:38,720 Maybe there were five men that had been married to this woman that were leaders in that town. 464 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:41,440 They want to know what this man told her. 465 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:48,560 What their conversation entailed. 466 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,960 What is Jesus doing here? 467 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:59,440 He is taking the worst of the worst, the evil things, the bad things, the hurtful things, the bitterness that you have in life. 468 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,039 He is taking that. 469 00:40:00,660 --> 00:40:02,900 And it is being raised up here. 470 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:10,980 So that hurtful, that bitter, that shameful thing that you have experienced, that you don't want to talk about. 471 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,120 That you don't want anybody to know about. 472 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:19,960 He has taken that and she does not even care about that anymore. 473 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:32,640 Her honor has been raised so that she is the one announcing the Messiah. 474 00:40:34,220 --> 00:40:36,140 Ah a little louder, okay? 475 00:40:36,140 --> 00:40:39,260 She is the one that is announcing the Messiah. 476 00:40:40,620 --> 00:40:42,060 This this this 477 00:40:44,620 --> 00:40:48,060 I don't even know what words to use to describe her. 478 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:50,860 Yeah, this nobody. 479 00:40:50,860 --> 00:40:51,500 That's a good one. 480 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:56,460 This nobody has been raised out of her shame. 481 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,600 To a place of honor. 482 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:08,880 So that even the shame that she has had in her life, she doesn't care about. 483 00:41:09,140 --> 00:41:19,780 So much so that she is willing to testify about her shame in order to point her city 484 00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:23,820 To the Messiah 485 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,840 Verse thirty nine. 486 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,080 Oh, sorry, it's not thirty nine, it uh 487 00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:51,220 Yeah, verse 39, that's where I am. 488 00:41:51,220 --> 00:41:59,060 And many of the Samaritans that that city believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified. 489 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,920 He told me everything that I ever did. 490 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:05,200 Is that amazing 491 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,080 They believed because of her testimony. 492 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:15,240 So when the Samaritans had come to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed with them two days. 493 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,640 And many more believed because of his own word. 494 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:23,760 And they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of what you said. 495 00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:31,160 For we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. 496 00:42:32,339 --> 00:42:44,099 Not only has she been restored in her own eyes, not only has she been restored in the eyes of Jesus, but she has been restored in the eyes of. 497 00:42:47,980 --> 00:42:51,820 Her community. 498 00:42:51,820 --> 00:42:54,300 You remember the community where she lives? 499 00:42:55,060 --> 00:43:01,620 That she was embarrassed to go and get water with the women in the morning? 500 00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:04,820 Afraid to go and get water with the women in the evening? 501 00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:09,240 Now where does she sit? 502 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:16,280 They are coming to her and they are saying, Thank you. 503 00:43:16,839 --> 00:43:19,160 For sharing your testimony. 504 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,320 Thank you for introducing us to the Messiah. 505 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:31,120 Oh, you talk about shame and honor. 506 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:36,240 Friends, this is what it means for us to honor someone. 507 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:46,840 It's not just giving them a plaque, it's not just giving them a card, it's not just just saying sweet words of kindness. 508 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,920 It is all of that. 509 00:43:51,319 --> 00:43:55,720 And more. 510 00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:59,000 Jesus wanted to honor Peter 511 00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:05,240 He wanted to bring him back to take away his shame. 512 00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:08,359 Jesus wanted to honor the woman at the well. 513 00:44:08,359 --> 00:44:12,039 He wanted to take away her shame. 514 00:44:12,839 --> 00:44:21,000 How can we honor each other? 515 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,200 How can we 516 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:30,520 overlook the shame that we see in one another. 517 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,680 Because most of the time what we talk about is we talk about each other's 518 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,880 Faults, right? 519 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,720 Oh, Jesus didn't remind Peter of his faults out there. 520 00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:47,520 Peter already knew about his faults. 521 00:44:49,860 --> 00:44:54,100 Now Jesus talked about the faults with the woman. 522 00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:56,020 Talked about that hurtful part. 523 00:44:56,020 --> 00:45:00,100 Talked about that pain that she had in order to 524 00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:11,380 What do they say that in the medical field when you open up the wound and you're cleansing out all that white pus and stuff, it's it's 525 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:18,800 It's yucky, it's painful, it's healing for the body 526 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:26,359 That's what Jesus was doing with this woman there at at the well. 527 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,000 If I say the word, no, I probably won't say it right. 528 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,160 Oh, I won't even say the word. 529 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,360 Yeah, I'll say it 530 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:46,839 If I say the word kinzugi, do you know what I'm talking about? 531 00:45:46,839 --> 00:45:50,359 If I give you a hint that it's a Japanese word, kinzugi? 532 00:45:54,180 --> 00:46:00,660 Can you imagine what it was like if you break a thousand dollar clay pot? 533 00:46:00,660 --> 00:46:02,100 How would you feel 534 00:46:04,140 --> 00:46:14,700 In the 15th century, shogunashiga Yashimasa sent a broken Chinese tea bowl for repair. 535 00:46:15,460 --> 00:46:23,059 And the repairs that he got back, the staples that he got back, and that T bow were unsatisfactory. 536 00:46:23,059 --> 00:46:28,819 So he decided to get his workmen working on a new process. 537 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:32,700 Which is called kinzugi. 538 00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:36,380 A process of collecting and cleaning the broken pieces. 539 00:46:36,380 --> 00:46:40,380 A process of bonding the fragments of Eurisha. 540 00:46:40,799 --> 00:46:46,160 Bonding the fragments together with Eurisha lacquer. 541 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,440 Filling the gaps with this lacquer. 542 00:46:51,339 --> 00:47:02,539 With clay andor flour, dusting and painting the seams of the precious metal is called golden repair 543 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:17,200 You know, this process, kinshiki, has become so popular that there are people now that are taking these valuable clay pots. 544 00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,920 And they are breaking them on purpose. 545 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,480 Why do they break them on purpose? 546 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,840 So they can glue them back together again. 547 00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:38,180 and make works of art out of them so that they will be more valuable than they were before. 548 00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:43,940 Friends, what can Jesus do with us? 549 00:47:43,940 --> 00:47:52,340 With our brokenness, with our pain, with our hurts. 550 00:47:54,400 --> 00:48:00,320 He can glue us back together so that we are better than we were before. 551 00:48:00,940 --> 00:48:07,500 Not only that though, he wants to use us. 552 00:48:07,500 --> 00:48:10,460 He wants to partner with us. 553 00:48:10,580 --> 00:48:20,900 in ministry, for us to work with him in this process of bonding people back so that we can honor them 554 00:48:21,340 --> 00:48:33,180 So that they can be more valuable than they were before in our eyes and in their eyes. 555 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:38,920 In our eyes and their eyes and the eyes of the community. 556 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,200 Oh friends, we need this Kinseki. 557 00:48:45,340 --> 00:48:50,220 We need to honor one another. 558 00:48:53,400 --> 00:49:00,359 More than we desire honor for ourselves. 559 00:49:00,359 --> 00:49:02,119 Did you hear that? 560 00:49:02,119 --> 00:49:05,640 We need to honor one another 561 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:14,560 More than we desire honor for ourselves. 562 00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,640 I encourage you this week. 563 00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:18,320 Honor. 564 00:49:19,059 --> 00:49:20,339 One another.