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If you're a guest, we want to welcome you to 2819. And to all of our digital disciples who are watching me live right now across the nation and around the world, we want to welcome you to 2819. And if you are amongst us right now, and you are not a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, whether you're sitting in this room or you're sitting in that overflow, watching me, not overflowing, you're not a follower of Christ. We know that some of you are in this room. Some of you are sitting in that overflow room. And we want you to know that we are glad that you are here. I want you to know personally that you can belong before you believe. You could be amongst us before you believe. And our constant prayer is that through the proclamation of God's word and by the power of the Holy Spirit, a moment is going to come. Maybe today that a moment is going to come in one of these sacred gatherings in which you will throw yourself on the altar of the Lord Jesus Christ and surrender your life to him. Hear me before time has run out on you. Wherever I travel in the country, and as often as I get an opportunity to share with as many people as possible, I'm going to keep reminding people, and they're not going to shut me up, that time is running out. Okay? And this is not the hour to be playing around with God or playing around with your walk with Jesus. I want to say something. This is not the hour to be distracted by foolishness. This is not the hour to be led astray. This is the hour to be locked in with your relationship with the Lord. Because I believe that time is running out. We are all on a clock right now that is counting backwards. And the Lord is going to put it in his appearance. And we're going to get some to some passages in the back half of Matthew that just reminds us the simple question, are you going to be ready for that? There's a lot of people playing church, but you're not going to be ready for that. We're going to keep playing conferences, but you're not going to be ready for that. If he put in his appearance this afternoon and the sky cracked this afternoon, would you be ready for his return? Are you going to be ready for that? And so I want to awaken as many people as possible. That time is running out for the believer for us to get serious and for the unbeliever to hurl yourself on the altar of Christ. So we don't have that much time left so we are in a series, halfway through, a series called Entry and End Times, in which we are walking through Matthew chapter 21 through 25 together. And as a church, we are studying the final actions and the final words of our Lord Jesus Christ in the final weeks, the final days of his life. In this particular message, we're going to come out of Matthew chapter 22, verses 41 through 46 will be our text for this morning. Probably one of the most important passages in this first half of this series. So eternal God and ever wise Father. Lord, I come against every distraction in this room, in that overflow across that camera. I come against blindness in the eyes of men and women. I come against deafness in the ears of men and women. I come against distractions and everything that's trying to take the attention of the sons and daughters in this moment, in this hour. Father, more than a sermon, we need a wake up, Father, for the people. Under the sound of my voice and I pray in my weakness, you would empower me now to proclaim the truth of this glorious gospel and the truth, this sacred text we want to lean in, to be taught. We want your son to be exalted. Draw us to yourself right now as Christ is exalted. Not man, not sermons, not empty words. Draw us to yourself as Christ is exalted. We ask in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If you agree with that, just say amen. Say amen. Say amen. Family, I want to start this message with this powerful word called identity. Personal identity is when someone has a knowledge of who they truly are on the inside. When a person has a strong sense of identity, those persons are often marked by clarity. When a person has a strong sense of identity, that person's life is also marked by confidence. When a person has a strong sense of identity, that person's life is often marked by an ability to make good decisions. When a person has a strong sense of identity, that person's life is often marked by strength. And where true identity is not known, confusion abounds. And where true identity is rejected, relational tension abounds. And where true identity is not accepted. Watch, man. False narratives. Or where true identity is distorted or not accepted, false narratives about a person can abound. Listen. The enemy Satan, that old serpent of old, who is a vicious, vicious accuser of the people of God and an enemy of God, knows the power of identity. This is why he will stop at nothing to blind as many believers as possible to their true identity. This is why he would stop at nothing to try to strip people of their true identity. This is why he will stop at nothing to try to attack those who have a true sense of who they really are in Christ. Satan will do everything he can to rob people who have a true sense of identity and attack people who have a true sense of identity. Some of you know this personally. When you've gone through a divorce, you've gone through a bad relationship, a breakup, a circumstance of life that made you even question who you really are on the inside, your insecurities have made you question your identity. The things you've been waiting for that the Lord has not answered has made you question your identity. The mistakes you've made have made you question your identity. And of all the people in the history of the world whose identity has ever been attacked, no attacks on no person has ever suffered more attacks on their identity than the historical figure of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the most attacked person in the history of the world. For over 2000 years, philosophers and sages and religious people have either attacked the identity of Christ or they have tried to diminish the identity of christ. For over 2000 years, every false religion in the history of the world has either attacked the identity of Christ or they have attempted to diminish the identity of Christ. And what is the confusion at the center of his identity, not his existence? This is why believers should stop convincing people that Jesus is real. That's a stupid argument. There's documented evidence for his life. We're not talking about a mythological person. Nobody got to convince you that George Washington was real. Nobody got to convince you that Martin Luther King was real. Believers should stop saying man. You should believe Jesus is real. You should stop saying that. It makes him sound fictitious. There's documented evidence for his life in the scriptures and out the Scriptures. Hear me. He was a historical figure and the attacks against him is not about his existence. No family. The attacks around the identity of Christ is what he claimed to be deity. Was he a prophet or more than a prophet? Was he a healer or more than a healer? Was he the most influential man in the history of the world or was he more than an influencer? The Christians, the Jews, the Muslims, the Mormons, the Jehovah's Witnesses, none of them agree about the true identity of Christ. And right now, as I'm talking to you all across society and around the world, there is a conversation raging in societies around the world about the true identity of Christ. That whenever his name is brought up, his identity is either Attacked. Watch. It is rejected or it is diminished. It is made inadequate. That is his identity is not enough. This is the issues behind the backdrop of the text we approach this morning together. You remember from the beginning of this series, Christ has come into the city of Jerusalem for what will be the final week of his earthly life and ministry. He has upset the status quo of the religious order. He has been confronted by the religious elite inside the Temple. He has pronounced judgment on them. He has got into a heated discussion with them. He has backed them down with his wisdom and with his theology from the word of God. And after he has backed down these religious groups, the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Herodians and the disciples of the Sadducees, Matthew would now record what would be the ending of this heated exchange that's been going on for two chapters between Jesus and the religious leaders of the day. Matthew would now give us this historical account that brings this argument to a finality. And when Jesus says, I'm done with y'all. Now watch. It's time to pivot and move on. Sometimes you got to know when to tell people it's time to pivot and move on. Matthew records in Matthew, chapter 22 and beginning in verse 41, the ending of this exchange between Christ and these religious leaders. Now, while the Pharisees was gathered together, Jesus asked them a question. Stop. So up until this point, the religious leaders have been questioning Christ, trying to trap him in his words. And now Christ would turn the tables on them. And now he will ask them a question. Now, I just want to draw your attention to two things in the text. First, I want to draw it to your attention. When Matthew says, now, that word now is a reminder of the setting. So I just want to bring back to your attention the setting that we're in right now. This is happening during the Jewish feast of Passover. Hear me. There are thousands of people in the city of Jerusalem. Jesus is standing in the temple when they first confronted him. There are thousands of people around that temple. This is not private. This is public. People are listening to this exchange. Unbelievers are listening to this exchange. Jews are listening to the exchange. Everybody is locked in to hear who's going to win this battle between this man who claimed to be the Messiah and these Jewish leaders. And now I want to draw your attention to the second thing in the text. It says the Pharisees was gathered together. Watch. In the crowd. That means in the crowd in that temple was the group of the Pharisees. Who did everything they can to try to discredit the Lord Jesus. Now, this is very powerful to me that Matthew would use this word gathered. I like this word. Gathered is why we call these gatherings and not services. Hear me. This is very powerful to me because, man, there are people in that crowd who see that group of Pharisees in the crowd, and they see them as the watch, the most spiritually influential people of the day. A person like me, who's reading the text is thinking to myself, man, man. They remind me of the fact that there are circles that emerge around the context of spirituality that did not come from God. And there are circles that emerge, religious circles that emerge in culture that did not come from God. And that they are religious circles that emerge even in churches that did not come from God. Here is a group of people in a crowd who is seen as the religious elite, but their hearts are not with God. And in the same way, we got to have enough discernment to know not every group that emerges in culture, that doesn't mean they've come from God. Not every group that forms inside of a church, that doesn't mean it has come from God. You got to have discernment before you hop into a group meet with people in a church. You got to have discernment before you just run to some conference to run after some new group that just emerged around the church context. Man, I'm reading the text and I'm wondering to myself, I wonder how many people in that gathering right there had enough discernment to know the difference between the heart of the Pharisees and the heart of Christ. I'm going to go deeper. I wonder how many people in that gathering had enough discernment to know. Should we listen to the man that was bringing revival intonation and upsetting the status quo? Or should we cling to the old stale, dead religion of these Pharisees? Who should we listen to? The people that have always been that not moved us further? Or the man that's ushering revival into the nation of Israel? I wonder who we should be listening to right now in this hour? Should we listen to this man who is disrupting the quote? Or should we listen to these men that have given us nothing but heavy burdens? I'm trying to, Elder. So now, while the Pharisees are gathered together, Jesus now takes the opportunity to ask them a question, verse 42, saying, what do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he? Stop. So Jesus asked them, watch a compound question. Now this is powerful. Lord, help us he asked them two questions in one. What do you think about the Christ and whose son is he? Family. This is one of the most important questions that the world will ever wrestle with in the history of humanity. What do you think about the Christ and whose son is he? Hear me. There are people who are in false religions that have died and got this question wrong, and it has cost them their souls in eternity. All right, I'm going to go deeper. There are people right now who are believing something about this question that is wrong and it can cost them their soul in eternity. Okay? There are people right now who have died and woke up on the other side of death and have gotten this question wrong. And family, hear me. You don't want to go to your funeral and get this question wrong. You don't want to come down to the end of your life and have this question wrong. You don't want to get down to the end of your church going years and get this question wrong. Who is the Christ, Whose son is he? What do you think about the Christ? You don't want to get this question wrong. Too many people over the course of history have died and gotten the answer to this question wrong. What do you think about the Christ? This is one of the most important questions any human being will ever get asked. And I feel the spirit of God is asking someone right now under the sound of my voice, what do you think about the Christ? Is he worthy of your life? Is he worthy of your praise? Is he worthy of your surrender? Is he worthy of your church attendance? Is he worthy of your finances? What do you really think about your Christ? Your mouth, your attitude, your life already tells us what you really think about the Christ. Jesus is asking them. Hear me. A legitimate question. Now, family, pay attention. Christ is not Jesus last name. The word Christ is a New Testament term for watch. The anointed one, which is a reference to the Old Testament writers believing for a person they call the Messiah. So in the Old Testament era, they would call this person the Messiah. In the New Testament era that you and I live in, we will call this person the Christ, the Anointed One. The Christos, the Anointed One. Watch. So Jesus is asking them a legitimate question. What do you think about the Christ? Now remember, it was Jesus who put together this elaborate entry into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey, according to the scriptures, indirectly telling everyone, I am the Christ. It was Jesus. Watch. Who came into the city of Jerusalem, hearing people shouting at him, saying that he was the Christ. It was Jesus who told the story of the Vineyard. The parable of the vineyard, who made himself a son, who was killed by the tenants of the vineyard, who was watch. The son of a father who indirectly was telling them, I am the Christ. It was Jesus who came into Jerusalem through these actions and through these words, indirectly communicating, I am the Christ. It's Jesus talking to a group of men who probably know that watch. And reject his true identity. He asked them a second question. Whose son is he? Watch. This is a legitimate question. Why? Because the Christ or the Messiah from the Old Testament era, we're talking about sonship, and the sonship of the Christ has something to do with the identity of that person. Now follow the text. So Jesus asked them a legitimate question. What is he doing? He's probing to see their knowledge of the scriptures, their knowledge of prophecy, their knowledge of who this Messiah. Watch. Y'all been waiting for this person for thousands of years. You can't even see that he's standing right in front of you. He has healed. He has raised people from the dead. He has spoken to storms, and they have calmed down. He's speaking to somebody's storm right now. In your heart, it will calm down. He has controlled nature. He has shown divine wisdom. He has shown divine prophecy. He has fulfilled prophecy, and they still reject who he is. And now he asked them, whose son is he? Where is his origin? Whose father is the Christ? Father, who is his son? This is what he's asking, the second compound question. The sonship of the Messiah is a matter of identity. Now watch. Watch how they respond. This is very important. Verse 43. Watch. And then they said to him, whose son is he? Verse 42, the back half. I'm sorry, whose son is he? They said to him, the son of David. Now, people, stop. This is not a trick question. They know the Old Testament scriptures. Everybody watch this. The Pharisees know the Old Testament scriptures. Watch, watch. They know the Old Testament scriptures. So when the Lord asks, whose son is the Christ, whose son is he? They respond with what they think is the biblical answer. He's the son of David. Now watch. David was the greatest king of ancient Israel. And we know from the Old Testament that God promised King David that from his lineage a son will come that will sit on his throne. Watch this word forever. This is powerful. Solomon did not fulfill that. None of David's biological sons fulfill that. But the only person who fulfilled that is asking them now, whose son is this? And they said, the son of David. Now watch. They know from the Bible that the Messiah must be a biological heir or Lineage of David. I mean, sure, they're not the only ones that know that. The Jewish people know that. That's why when Christ comes into the city, they're shouting, hosanna, thou son of David. I'm trying to. They're not paying attention. This is why when Jesus was healing blind people on the side of the road, saying, have mercy on me, thou son of. Thou son of David. So the Pharisees knew that the Messiah had to be a son of David. The Jews knew that the Messiah had to be a son of David. Watch. Even Matthew knows that the Messiah had to be a son of David. Matthew, who wrote the book, we're studying man. He wrote this book to Jewish audience. How does Matthew begin his book? With a genealogy. The first words. This is the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David. So all the Jews knew that the Messiah, the Christ had to be from the lineage of David. But they respond, the son of David. The answer is not incorrect, but the answer is inadequate because watch. They are confused about who the Messiah is supposed to be. Now, family, watch this because I'm coming for half of you in this room. They have an inadequate view of the Messiah in their minds. Watch. They're reading the Old Testament for thousands of years, and they think that the Messiah is going to be a pure human who's going to be a military leader, he's going to be a political leader. And when the Messiah comes, he's going to join our team. He's going to help us overthrow Rome. And then the Messiah and all of us, we're going to sit together in charge of Jerusalem. They are looking for a man. They are not looking for the Son of God. It's like believers today. You're only looking for men, but you're not looking for the Son of God. You do the same thing when you listen to sermons. You're only looking for yourself, but you're not looking for the Son of God. God forbid anybody preaches a message that is about Christ and not about you. You're bored. You want to go to sleep. You just want to get to the restaurant. Because you're only looking for man, but you're not looking for the Son of God. You only want to be told about man, but you don't want to be told about about the Son of God. You only have reverence for man, but we don't have reverence for the Son of God. God forbid anybody preach to you for 40 minutes about Christ. That's not good enough for you. You want to be told about yourself. You don't want to be taught about the Son of God. I already know how it gets down in America. We only want to pile into places where people make us feel good about ourselves. But God forbid anybody takes the time to teach us about the Son of God. Why? Because in America, Jesus is not enough. He's not enough. He's not enough. So they are looking for a human political military leader. What they are not looking for is the Son of God. And what Jesus is doing is probing to see do they understand who the Messiah really is? They say the Son of David. In essence, that is, they said he would just be a biological son, a man. Now, verse 43. Watch how Jesus responds to their answer. And he said to them, this is so insane to me. Jesus sees. Watch. Everybody watch. Before I read the verse, look, eye contact. Y'all got Bibles. I see y'all looking down. Watch, eye contact. I want you to notice this in the text. They respond with an incorrect answer. The Lord is about to respond with the word of God. They respond with an inaccurate answer. The Lord is about to respond with the word of God. Watch. This will be the last time he talks to them about this. Why? Because this is his last time. He said, I'm going to give you an opportunity to repent and get this right. Watch. And you're going to know that about what goes on next in the next verses, next week. Listen to me. This is very important because I want somebody to know that you keep you love songs about grace. Grace runs out. You love songs that Jesus is love and Jesus is grace. I'm telling you, his love endures forever. His grace is going to run out. His patience will run out with those who keep rejecting the gospel. That grace is going his. I'm telling somebody across that camera, you keep rejecting his correction, his coaching, his wooing, his loving, that grace is going to run out. He said, I will not strive with man forever. Let me tell you what you don't want. You don't want him to take his hand off and turn his back on you. That's why the scripture says, in the day you hear this gospel, people harden, not your heart. For somebody in this room, somebody in that overflow, somebody across that camera, his grace, his patience is going to run out. You can't keep saying you're going to get right next week, next year. You can't keep saying that. How many church services we're going to drag you to before you respond to the spirit of God? How many conferences you're going to keep going to until you respond to the Spirit of God. How many times you're going to hear this gospel, until you respond to the spirit of God, how many times you're going to get pricked by that gold like Saul, until you finally respond to that calling of God. What the Lord will do right here will be watch to confront them for his last time. He's going to try to. He's giving them one more opportunity to repent. It'll be the last time he tried to correct them. They give him an inadequate answer. He's the son of David, The Lord says in verse 43, he said to them, if he's just a human son of David, how is it then that David in the spirit calls him Lord? If y'all think the Messiah is only a man, this is so powerful. Yo, Jesus is a beast. Oh my. I just want to run. Jesus is a beast. He says, if you think the Messiah is only a human, how is it in the Spirit that David calls him Lord, saying, then he quotes scriptures to them. See the quotations. The Lord David wrote, said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. Now stop, man. This text is so pregnant. I'm about to give birth to like 15 babies out of this text. Yeah, we got time. I'm gonna deliver a few babies out of this text. Jesus asked them, what do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he? They said, he's the son of David. He's just a human being. The Lord says, if he's just a human being, how come David in the spirit says, calls him Lord, which is a name for master. How could he call a son a master? And then David writes, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. Now watch. What Jesus quotes back to them is Psalm 110, verse 1. It is the most robust messianic psalm recorded in the Scriptures. Psalm 110 has more prophecies about the Messiah than any other prophecy, any other book, any other passage in the Psalms. Psalm 110. He quotes to them Psalm 110:1. Watch. And in Psalm 110:1 he quotes to them that David says, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at the right hand until I make your enemies a footstool. Now, preacher, I don't understand David. An earthly king is writing in his journal. The Lord said to my Lord, Stop. That means David is writing about two people who have deity. Gosh. He talks about one he calls the Lord and the other one he says, my Lord, if I can show you this in Hebrew, the first Lord is Yahweh. The second Lord is Adonai. Two people who are deity, two distinct personalities. So he says, yahweh says to Adonai, sit at my right hand. And David called Adonai his Lord, like the Lord is my shepherd. So David writes that Yahweh says to Adonai, sit at my right hand. That whoever Adonai was, was given the highest exalted. The highest exalted position in all of creation. Watch. Preacher, I don't get it. Okay, let's go deeper. Yahweh, who is pictured as God the Father, says to Adonai, who is indicated as God the Son. God the Father. The first Lord says to Adonai the Son. The second Lord, who is Christ, sit at my right hand. The Father tells the Son, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. This is God the Father saying to God the Son, you will be the highest exalted person in all of creation. And a day is coming where I'm gonna deal harshly with every person that rejected you. Every person that was an enemy of you, every person that did not believe in you. I'm gonna make all your enemies your footstool. That is every atheist, every false religion, every person that rejected Christ, every mocker, every scoffer. A day is coming. If they don't repent while they're breathing, they're gonna be under Jesus foot. Watch. Impermanent damnation. This is God saying, don't worry, let them trash you. Now I'm going to deal with all of them in the afterlife. Let them mock your identity. Now I'm going to deal with all of them in the afterlife. Let them reject your identity. Now I'm going to deal with all of them in the afterlife. So here is David. Everybody watch. Calling the Messiah his Lord. How could David call the Messiah his Lord and the Messiah be his son at the same time? Here is David. Watch. It's so powerful. Having divine access to a cosmic conversation. How could he have known that conversation was happening? Jesus said, david wrote this in the Spirit. Oh my God. Which means the Holy Spirit has the power to reveal things to human beings that you otherwise would not know on your own. Your education won't give that to you. Your church attendants won't give that to you. Your reading books won't give that to you. Your conference attendance won't give that to you. The Holy Spirit has the power to reveal things to humans that they otherwise would not know. This is the beginning of the New Testament doctrine that all scripture was inspired by God. And this is for all the people that argue I don't believe in the Bible because it was written by men. The Bible is a collection of 66 ancient documents written by over written by 40 human authors, 39 Jews, one non Jew. They lived on three different continents. They lived over a period of 1500 years. They spoke three different languages, Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Yet if you study these scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, you will see that there is a unity of thought from Genesis to Revelation. That from Genesis to Revelation the whole thing reveals one person with accurate prophecies. This is for all the non Christians. This is a mathematical impossibility apart from the work of the Holy Spirit. I just point all that out to you for this one reason. To remind you that you can trust everything in here. You can trust everything in here. If God said it, he will do it. He said he's a provider and he is. He said he's a healer and he is. He said he's a way maker and he is. He said he's a deliverer and he is. He said he'll fight for you and he does. If he said it, he'll do it. Why? Because he's not a man that he should. Can't lie. I don't care what you read on Google. I don't care what you got off the Internet. In the stillness of the night when your soul is being persecuted and weary. I put my tears in this book. When my marriage is in trouble, I put my face in this book. When my kids are out of order, I put my face in this book. When you need an answer, you can put your face in this book. When you need clarity, you can put your face in this book. From Genesis to Revelation, it can be trusted. Can't say the same for the Quran. Can't say the same for the pearl of great price. Can't say the same for any religious text in the history of the world with accurate prophecies. But this. Ever living, ever breathing, infallible, inherent, alive and active. Sharper than any two edged sword. The word of Almighty God. Somebody give God praise for his word. The word can be trusted. Thank you Jesus. David knew that by the Spirit. What is Jesus trying to prove to the Pharisees from the scriptures? That the Messiah was more than just a human being. The Messiah was also God in the flesh. Verse 45. Look, I'm landing the plane. If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son Jesus? If you follow his genealogy. It's right in the beginning of Matthew. Is from the lineage of King David. So as a human, he is the son of David. Is why people shouted at him, have mercy on us, thou son of David. But as God, he is David's Lord. Why? Because the Messiah is both human and divine. He's both a son of David and the Lord of David. This was Jesus telling these Pharisees for the last time. Your last opportunity. I ain't arguing with you no more. Watch. I know my identity. And when you know your identity, you ain't got to prove nothing to nobody. They can mock you, talk bad about you, make false narratives about you, make videos about you, write blogs about you, abandon you, leave you, walk away from you. But when you know your identity, you have clarity, strength, confidence, got 10 toes down in the work God has called you to do. Jesus ain't flinch an ounce. The crowds hear this conversation. The Pharisees hear this conversation. They hear his response. And what is their response? Verse 46. And no one was able to answer him a word. Nor from that day did anyone dare ask him. That's how you shut a ninja down. Any more questions? But the truth of God's word ain't fighting you about nothing. What does God's word say? Now hear me. Listen to me carefully. You know what was the problem with these Pharisees? They had an inadequate view of the Christ. You know what was the problem with these Pharisees? Hear me. They had a false Christ in their heart. You know the problem with a lot of Americans? You got an inadequate view of Christ. You just like these Pharisees. We know you got an inadequate view because we got to beg you to worship. People got to beg you to lift up your hands. We got to beg you to serve. Gotta beg you to give. Gotta beg you to be generous. I know you got an inadequate view of the Christ because you don't want to surrender. He is not Lord. He's only a song. He's only a sermon. I know you got an inadequate view of Christ. Because here's what America does not have for him. Reverence. Respect. Homage. Watch this word. Fear and awe. We don't got no fear of God. Us preachers, we ain't got no fear of God. The American church, there's no fear of the Lord. Why? Cuz we got an inadequate view of Christ. You're so familiar with him. There's no reverence, there's no fear. You come into gatherings like this, you stand like zombies. You don't worship. You don't sing. You don't lift up a hand. You don't kneel down. You don't give him homage. You're not generous. You don't serve. You're not involved in the gospel. Why? You got an inadequate view of Christ. You think you're not going to have to deal with him in the afterlife? You bored with him because you have an inadequate view. Not even knowing that he's everything that you need. You think you need Jesus plus a house? Jesus plus whatever. No, you will never be fully satisfied with anything outside of Christ. No, I know personally. You get the new house and be bored with it. You get the new car and you'll be bored with it. You'll get the new boyfriend and be bored with him. There is nothing that's going to satisfy you like a deep, intimate relationship with Christ. And there's too many of us. I'm telling you right now what I know by the spirit. There's too many of us under the sound of my voice. Got an inadequate view of Christ. He's too low in your mind. That's why you come into gatherings and you stand like this. You want the worship team to be a cheerleading team. Why don't you worship him? You know why you don't worship him? You got an inadequate view. You think he's that baby in a manger? No. He's the one that was raised from the dead. He's the one that John saw when he fell on his feet like a dead man. He's the one that's seated at the right hand of God the Father. No, let me talk heavy for just a second. For everybody that think he's the baby in a manger. No. He's the one that got eyes like fire. And who's wearing a robe that's been dipped in blood. Who got a tattoo on his thigh that says King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He's the one who the scripture says is coming back not for peace, but to make war. He's the one that died on a cross for your sins. The ones you couldn't pay for with your own righteousness. That's not enough to stand before God in judgment. You know what else them Pharisees had? A false Christ. They was believing in a false Messiah. Just like some of you under the sound of my voice. I don't care if you're mad. You're believing in a false Christ. Your Christ can't confront you. Your Christ can't tell you about your sin. Your Christ is only love and grace. Your Christ don't tell you to forgive. Your Christ don't tell you to be generous. Your Christ don't tell you to worship. Your Christ don't tell you to sacrifice. Your Christ don't tell you pick up your cross and follow me. Your Christ keeps you comfortable in sin. Your Christ doesn't bother you. Your Christ lets you keep your preferences. Your Christ doesn't challenge you. Your Christ does not exist. Your Christ is going to send you to hell. He's that fake Christ you've been holding on since vbs. That does not exist. But the Christ I preach is the one who is on the pages of every text. The one who died for you. The one who loves you. The one who paid the price for you. The one who is covering you. The one who put his blood on you. The one who gave you his righteousness when he died on the cross. The one who's coming back. The one that wrote your name in the Lamb's book of life. The one that got you engraved on the palm of his hand. Watch. The one that you should be completely surrendered to. The one you should be living for with reckless abandon. The one that you say, lord, your will and not mine's. The one you say, with the rest of your life, Lord, your will be done. Not mine. The one you come back in here next week and go crazy in worship and stop acting like a zombie in his presence. That Christ, the one who went to prepare a place for you, that where he is, you will be also the one that's going to deliver you from that body of spirit. In so, Father, in the name of the Holy One, I pray over every son and daughter that you would awaken them to the grandeur, the holiness, the magnificence, the majestic nature of the Christ, of the Scriptures. I pray for that Christ they would give their life. For that Christ they would serve. For that Christ they would be generous. For that Christ they would pray. For that Christ they would partner for the spread of the Gospel. For that Christ they would labor. For that Christ they would shed tears. For that Christ, they will put all of their heart on the altar. And Father God, I pray for those who have trusted in a false Christ that right now they would. They would push off that idol. They would hurl themselves on the altar. They would say, right now in their seat, right now across that camera, lord, I surrender. Forgive me for my sins. They would put their faith in the Christ of the Scriptures and that their life would be radically transformed in this moment. And Father God, I pray that there would be a fresh fire holy, a fresh wind holy, and a fresh oil would fall on the sons and daughters of the most high. In 2019, across this nation and around the world raise our view of Christ, our reverence, our homage, our respect. I pray that over them, in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If you receive that Christ, let's try this again. Put your hands together for that Christmas.