1 00:00:00,260 --> 00:00:02,740 Welcome to from the pulpit and classic sermons 2 00:00:02,740 --> 00:00:04,860 each week We bring you a different message 3 00:00:04,860 --> 00:00:06,920 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,580 Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers, 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:11,740 too This week we have John Piper with 6 00:00:11,740 --> 00:00:13,680 his message the cost of love and the 7 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,200 call to nations standing beside the tomb of 8 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,480 Lazarus Jesus said to Martha. 9 00:00:21,620 --> 00:00:26,380 I am the resurrection and the life He 10 00:00:26,380 --> 00:00:27,400 believes in me though. 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,439 He died yet, shall he live and And 12 00:00:31,439 --> 00:00:34,560 he who believes in me and lives shall 13 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:42,300 never die You believe that you will never 14 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:53,610 die Never you won't die Jesus 15 00:00:53,610 --> 00:00:58,850 said so He lives and believes in me 16 00:00:58,850 --> 00:01:05,150 will never die Or chapter 6 that was 17 00:01:05,150 --> 00:01:07,970 that was chapter 11 chapter 6 I am 18 00:01:07,970 --> 00:01:10,670 I am the bread of life Whoever comes 19 00:01:10,670 --> 00:01:13,390 to me will not hunger and whoever believes 20 00:01:13,390 --> 00:01:16,950 in me Will never thirst this is the 21 00:01:16,950 --> 00:01:20,930 true bread that comes down from heaven Which 22 00:01:20,930 --> 00:01:27,650 if one eats he will never die Have 23 00:01:27,650 --> 00:01:31,530 you eaten If you have eaten of the 24 00:01:31,530 --> 00:01:33,450 bread of Christ if you have come to 25 00:01:33,450 --> 00:01:36,210 Christ Who died for you and rose again 26 00:01:36,210 --> 00:01:38,770 and lives triumphant if you've come to eat 27 00:01:38,770 --> 00:01:41,990 as the satisfaction of your souls You'll never 28 00:01:41,990 --> 00:01:48,490 die He said so you will never be 29 00:01:49,750 --> 00:01:56,610 Dead Or chapter 8 He who keeps my 30 00:01:56,610 --> 00:02:08,150 word will never taste death ever This 31 00:02:08,150 --> 00:02:14,230 is the root of love and courage That 32 00:02:14,230 --> 00:02:17,770 can finish the Great Commission at the cost 33 00:02:17,770 --> 00:02:25,090 of our lives Paul said In one of 34 00:02:25,090 --> 00:02:29,550 my favorite passages in life verses It is 35 00:02:29,550 --> 00:02:31,790 my eager this Philippians 1 it is my 36 00:02:31,790 --> 00:02:36,250 eager expectation and hope That I might not 37 00:02:36,250 --> 00:02:38,670 at all be ashamed, but the now is 38 00:02:38,670 --> 00:02:41,530 always Christ would be magnified in my body 39 00:02:42,090 --> 00:02:45,610 Whether by life or by death for to 40 00:02:45,610 --> 00:02:48,070 me to live is Christ and to die 41 00:02:48,070 --> 00:02:54,570 is gain Gain Not death it is not 42 00:02:54,570 --> 00:02:58,530 gain to be dead when you die you 43 00:02:58,530 --> 00:03:07,220 will not be dead Whether by life or 44 00:03:07,220 --> 00:03:09,660 by death for to me to live is 45 00:03:09,660 --> 00:03:13,280 Christ and to die is gain To live 46 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,960 in the flesh means fruitful labor for me, 47 00:03:16,020 --> 00:03:18,920 which I shall choose I do not know 48 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:21,440 my desire is to depart and be with 49 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:27,240 Christ for that is far better So you 50 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,080 won't be dead when you die You will 51 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,460 be far better The steadfast love of the 52 00:03:35,460 --> 00:03:42,040 Lord is better than life No Christian dies 53 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:48,080 ever Death Has become not a room into 54 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,240 which you walk Not a dark Field it 55 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,840 has become a door and the door is 56 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:00,140 paper thin so Micro thin it has no 57 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:07,760 dimension You go through it without a millisecond 58 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:13,560 in it There will be no moment of 59 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:20,180 death You move from life to life with 60 00:04:20,180 --> 00:04:29,040 nothing in between You do not give your 61 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,520 godly one up to see the pit Nor 62 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,580 let your Holy One see destruction You show 63 00:04:35,580 --> 00:04:38,260 me the path of life in your presence 64 00:04:38,260 --> 00:04:40,720 is fullness of joy at your right hand 65 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,200 are pleasures forevermore That's what's on the other 66 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,880 side of this thing called dying Pleasures forevermore 67 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:53,980 There's nobody in this room who could offer 68 00:04:53,980 --> 00:04:57,500 me anything better in fact There's no one 69 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:00,040 in this room or in this world who 70 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:06,240 can even conceive of anything better than fullness 71 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,760 of joy and pleasure as pleasures at his 72 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:17,060 right hand forever Full There's nothing fuller than 73 00:05:17,060 --> 00:05:21,400 full and There's nothing longer than forever So 74 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:22,920 if you come to me and say I 75 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,400 have a better deal for you than following 76 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,080 Jesus I would say go ahead try and 77 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,980 Then you would say and I say no 78 00:05:31,980 --> 00:05:37,680 comparison Because there isn't anything fuller than full 79 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,360 and there isn't anything longer than forever And 80 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,820 that's what I get in joy in his 81 00:05:44,820 --> 00:05:47,240 presence the one who loved me and gave 82 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,340 himself For me and rose triumphant over the 83 00:05:50,340 --> 00:05:52,440 grave and reigns as a king in heaven 84 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,380 will come again to make the world his 85 00:05:54,380 --> 00:06:01,670 own You can't improve upon it Paul said 86 00:06:01,670 --> 00:06:05,490 in 1st Corinthians 3 Don't boast in men 87 00:06:06,510 --> 00:06:10,610 All things are yours Whether Paul or Apollos 88 00:06:10,610 --> 00:06:12,350 or Cephas of the world or life or 89 00:06:12,350 --> 00:06:16,070 death Or things present or things to come 90 00:06:16,070 --> 00:06:18,330 all things are yours you are Christ and 91 00:06:18,330 --> 00:06:22,650 Christ is God's Death is yours Liberty students 92 00:06:22,650 --> 00:06:30,230 death is yours It's your servant It stands 93 00:06:30,230 --> 00:06:34,810 ready like an ugly Handmaiden with a rough 94 00:06:34,810 --> 00:06:43,120 hand to lead you into everlasting pleasures You 95 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:52,260 Will never die You will spend now in 96 00:06:52,260 --> 00:06:54,960 fellowship with Jesus and then on the other 97 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:00,720 side Intensified fellowship with Jesus growing in joy 98 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:07,660 forever and ever You cannot and you will 99 00:07:07,660 --> 00:07:17,660 not die Here's the point Believing 100 00:07:17,660 --> 00:07:23,260 that Down into the marrow of your bones 101 00:07:23,260 --> 00:07:25,660 which a lot of you do not I 102 00:07:25,660 --> 00:07:29,100 can tell and you know That you're scared 103 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:35,340 of little things let alone dying But if 104 00:07:35,340 --> 00:07:37,620 God would be pleased to use your time 105 00:07:37,620 --> 00:07:40,280 at Liberty and this little piece of it 106 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,620 right now To drive that truth down into 107 00:07:43,620 --> 00:07:48,600 the marrow of your bones It will become 108 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,700 the root from which grows up a kind 109 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:57,280 of radical love that will carry you into 110 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,900 the face of Opposition at the risk of 111 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:04,440 your life to bring Christ to the unreached 112 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:14,840 peoples of the world And Confidence in Fullness 113 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,920 of Joy and pleasures forevermore in the presence 114 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,860 of Jesus on the other side of this 115 00:08:21,860 --> 00:08:26,280 so-called Dying is the root of love 116 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,920 that is willing to lay down its life 117 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:34,360 for the sake of the nation's This Confidence 118 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,159 that you cannot die but only have increased 119 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:48,140 pleasures Produces Martyrs Who 120 00:08:48,140 --> 00:08:52,920 die in love Not martyrs who kill in 121 00:08:52,920 --> 00:09:01,970 hate And that's what I'm after If you 122 00:09:01,970 --> 00:09:05,690 have a Bible I I invite you to 123 00:09:05,690 --> 00:09:08,610 turn to Hebrews chapter 10 I'm going to 124 00:09:08,610 --> 00:09:11,230 spend the rest of our time in Hebrews, 125 00:09:11,570 --> 00:09:15,290 and I'm going to try to prove from 126 00:09:15,290 --> 00:09:25,210 Hebrews the point that being totally Deeply fully 127 00:09:28,590 --> 00:09:34,670 Satisfied in the reward of Pleasures at his 128 00:09:34,670 --> 00:09:38,890 right hand and fullness of joy forever being 129 00:09:38,890 --> 00:09:43,590 deeply Satisfied in Christ as your supreme treasure 130 00:09:43,590 --> 00:09:49,190 forever is the motive power To lay down 131 00:09:49,190 --> 00:09:51,470 your life in love for the good of 132 00:09:51,470 --> 00:09:53,130 the nation's that's what I'm going to try 133 00:09:53,130 --> 00:09:56,350 to to prove and it's a very Controversial 134 00:09:56,350 --> 00:09:59,710 statement because if you're studying philosophy, you will 135 00:09:59,710 --> 00:10:04,670 know that there have been Historical wise philosophers 136 00:10:04,670 --> 00:10:08,670 who have said that is a defective motivation 137 00:10:11,610 --> 00:10:15,490 You ought not do what's right for reward. 138 00:10:15,930 --> 00:10:18,430 You should do what's right because it's right 139 00:10:18,930 --> 00:10:26,730 That is an atheist talking Right for rights 140 00:10:26,730 --> 00:10:33,090 sake is an atheistic statement Right For God's 141 00:10:33,090 --> 00:10:35,990 sake is a biblical statement And when you 142 00:10:35,990 --> 00:10:38,750 analyze to the root what for God's sake 143 00:10:38,750 --> 00:10:41,850 means it doesn't mean doing him a favor 144 00:10:42,810 --> 00:10:45,790 It means doing yourself a favor for his 145 00:10:45,790 --> 00:10:47,730 glory you get the joy. 146 00:10:48,070 --> 00:10:51,390 He gets the credit When you do right? 147 00:10:52,270 --> 00:10:53,970 That's what we're going to try to prove 148 00:10:53,970 --> 00:10:58,570 because it's very controversial So there are four 149 00:10:58,570 --> 00:11:01,350 or five passages, it's amazing what you see 150 00:11:01,350 --> 00:11:03,590 in Hebrews and I invite you to look 151 00:11:03,590 --> 00:11:10,510 first at 1032 Recall the former days when 152 00:11:10,510 --> 00:11:13,710 you went after you were enlightened and you 153 00:11:13,710 --> 00:11:17,390 endured a hard struggle with sufferings So this 154 00:11:17,390 --> 00:11:20,250 is or they were converted and as baby 155 00:11:20,250 --> 00:11:20,890 Christians. 156 00:11:20,890 --> 00:11:26,490 They endured a hard struggle Sometimes being publicly 157 00:11:26,490 --> 00:11:32,430 exposed to reproach and affliction and sometimes being 158 00:11:32,430 --> 00:11:36,010 partners with those so treated you've got a 159 00:11:36,010 --> 00:11:38,810 Picture of that on the platform this morning, 160 00:11:38,910 --> 00:11:39,130 right? 161 00:11:39,230 --> 00:11:43,390 We're not in prison Say it is in 162 00:11:43,390 --> 00:11:49,730 prison That's this right here verse 33 Sometimes 163 00:11:49,730 --> 00:11:56,010 being partners with those so treated So what 164 00:11:56,010 --> 00:12:00,830 happened when they partnered up verse 34 You 165 00:12:00,830 --> 00:12:05,170 had compassion on those in prison and you 166 00:12:05,170 --> 00:12:13,270 joyfully Accepted the plundering of your property So 167 00:12:13,270 --> 00:12:16,590 what happened when they identified with the prisoners 168 00:12:16,590 --> 00:12:19,670 is they they Got labeled as that kind 169 00:12:19,670 --> 00:12:22,950 of person and people plundered their property or 170 00:12:22,950 --> 00:12:27,750 confiscated their property That's what happens when you 171 00:12:27,750 --> 00:12:28,750 do compassion. 172 00:12:28,870 --> 00:12:31,770 That's what happens when you identify with the 173 00:12:31,770 --> 00:12:36,450 right You might lose your property money might 174 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:40,410 scribble go-home Christian on the wall of 175 00:12:40,410 --> 00:12:43,990 your dorm room or they might steal from 176 00:12:43,990 --> 00:12:47,050 you or they might Malign you or they 177 00:12:47,050 --> 00:12:48,430 might kill you. 178 00:12:48,650 --> 00:12:53,350 That's what happens in the cause of the 179 00:12:53,350 --> 00:13:00,020 mission and Did you notice that? 180 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:06,800 unbelievable word in verse 34 joyfully You had 181 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,620 compassion in prison on the prisoner of those 182 00:13:09,620 --> 00:13:13,200 in prison and you joyfully Accepted the plundering 183 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,960 of your property Now this is what I'm 184 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,480 after here I'm after miracles This is a 185 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:20,080 miracle. 186 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,280 None of you is like this in yourself 187 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:27,180 This is a miracle somebody strips off everything. 188 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,820 You've got rips off your car rips off 189 00:13:29,820 --> 00:13:33,740 your iPhone Rips off everything you've got and 190 00:13:33,740 --> 00:13:42,490 instead of seething with anger You rejoice that's 191 00:13:42,490 --> 00:13:43,250 a miracle. 192 00:13:43,250 --> 00:13:50,130 That is crazy How Can that be and 193 00:13:50,130 --> 00:13:51,850 the answer is in verse? 194 00:13:53,010 --> 00:13:57,930 34 at the end Since you knew that 195 00:13:57,930 --> 00:14:01,810 you yourselves had a better possession and an 196 00:14:01,810 --> 00:14:04,490 abiding one Does that sound familiar? 197 00:14:06,230 --> 00:14:16,220 Better and abiding full forever In your 198 00:14:16,220 --> 00:14:20,940 presences fullness of joy At your right hand 199 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:23,040 our pleasures forevermore. 200 00:14:23,460 --> 00:14:27,700 You have a better Possession you have an 201 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:29,900 abiding forever possession. 202 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,160 What is an iPhone? 203 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:40,000 What's a car what's a life You will 204 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:45,280 never die You will only have better and 205 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:49,780 Abiding That's where the joy came from. 206 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,760 That's where the compassion came from That's where 207 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:55,400 the visit to the prison came from and 208 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,780 that's where it will come from today, or 209 00:14:57,780 --> 00:15:02,700 it won't be Christian These people didn't go 210 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:05,660 to the prison and joyfully accept the plundering 211 00:15:05,660 --> 00:15:08,260 of their property out of raw duty It's 212 00:15:08,260 --> 00:15:09,300 the right thing to do. 213 00:15:09,380 --> 00:15:11,200 That's what you're supposed to do says so 214 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:11,860 in the book. 215 00:15:11,980 --> 00:15:15,440 That's not what the text says The text 216 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,600 says they joyfully did it because they knew 217 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,920 they had a better Possession and an abiding 218 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:22,340 one. 219 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,440 So that's text number one from Hebrews. 220 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:30,880 Here's number two chapter 11 verse 24 By 221 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:36,800 faith Moses when he was grown up Refused 222 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:42,700 to be called Pharaoh's daughter I'm sorry refused 223 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:43,840 to be called the son. 224 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:45,420 There was a good thing not to be 225 00:15:45,420 --> 00:15:51,480 called Pharaoh's daughter That's another sermon invite me 226 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:59,050 back I'll preach that one Okay, let's try 227 00:15:59,050 --> 00:16:01,930 this again by faith Moses when he was 228 00:16:01,930 --> 00:16:05,170 grown up refused to be called the son 229 00:16:05,170 --> 00:16:10,050 of Pharaoh's daughter Choosing rather to be mistreated 230 00:16:11,550 --> 00:16:16,490 With the people of God This is craziness 231 00:16:16,490 --> 00:16:17,090 again, right? 232 00:16:17,210 --> 00:16:25,790 This is just utter Counterintuitive Choosing rather to 233 00:16:25,790 --> 00:16:27,950 be mistreated with the people of God than 234 00:16:27,950 --> 00:16:38,810 to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin Fleeting 235 00:16:39,930 --> 00:16:42,990 The whole world lives for pleasure, right? 236 00:16:44,230 --> 00:16:46,510 The only difference is theirs is fleeting. 237 00:16:46,810 --> 00:16:47,710 Ours is forever. 238 00:16:48,470 --> 00:16:50,750 That's not the only difference ours is Jesus 239 00:16:53,330 --> 00:16:56,510 So he checks out and weighs in the 240 00:16:56,510 --> 00:17:01,750 balance all that Egypt could offer him All 241 00:17:01,750 --> 00:17:04,970 that's serving with a people under the reproach 242 00:17:04,970 --> 00:17:07,670 of Christ could offer him and he chooses 243 00:17:07,670 --> 00:17:12,450 the reproaches of Jesus Why verse 26 he 244 00:17:12,450 --> 00:17:13,190 considered? 245 00:17:13,690 --> 00:17:20,670 the reproach of Christ greater wealth How you 246 00:17:20,670 --> 00:17:25,869 doing is being made fun of part of 247 00:17:25,869 --> 00:17:34,800 your treasure That you love He considered the 248 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:40,380 reproach of Christ greater wealth Than the treasures 249 00:17:40,380 --> 00:17:47,160 of Egypt how for he was looking to 250 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,040 the reward That's where it came from. 251 00:17:51,060 --> 00:17:54,700 The thesis of this message is if this 252 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:59,980 reward Pleasures at your right hand joy forevermore 253 00:17:59,980 --> 00:18:02,240 goes down to the marrow of your bones 254 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,720 so that you know Instead of being dead. 255 00:18:04,860 --> 00:18:08,720 I will be with Christ forever Joy forever 256 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,200 that will become the root of all your 257 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,680 love of the people of God and the 258 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,840 nations Of the world so that you can 259 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,640 embrace Reproaches for the Christ and call them 260 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,880 my wealth This is just utterly different from 261 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,630 the world That's number two. 262 00:18:29,730 --> 00:18:35,890 Here's number three verse 35 chapter 11 Women 263 00:18:35,890 --> 00:18:39,630 receive back their dead By resurrection. 264 00:18:40,110 --> 00:18:42,430 Oh, yes, I believe in miracles of that 265 00:18:42,430 --> 00:18:48,670 kind too And then middle of verse 35 266 00:18:48,670 --> 00:18:57,470 some were tortured Refusing to accept release so 267 00:18:59,620 --> 00:19:01,900 that they might rise again to a better 268 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:02,500 life. 269 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:09,060 Oh Where'd that come from Where did that 270 00:19:09,060 --> 00:19:10,140 courage come from? 271 00:19:10,220 --> 00:19:13,100 No, I'm not gonna renounce him I'm not 272 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:15,340 gonna renounce him to get out of jail. 273 00:19:15,660 --> 00:19:18,520 I would rather rise to a better life 274 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:23,320 a better abiding joy But if you don't 275 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:30,740 have that you will cave Keep going Verse 276 00:19:30,740 --> 00:19:33,780 36 others suffered mocking and flogging and even 277 00:19:33,780 --> 00:19:36,900 chains and imprisonment They were stoned they were 278 00:19:36,900 --> 00:19:39,280 sawn into they were killed with the sword 279 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,120 They went about in skins of sheep and 280 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:45,400 goats just to deflected mistreated of whom the 281 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,840 world Was not worthy, what does that mean 282 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,160 of? 283 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,360 Whom the world was not worthy They're wearing 284 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:02,060 skins and living in caves of Whom the 285 00:20:02,060 --> 00:20:07,340 world was not worthy That means they were 286 00:20:07,340 --> 00:20:10,860 a gift to the world and the world 287 00:20:10,860 --> 00:20:15,400 didn't deserve the gift So that's what I 288 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,160 want you to be I Want you to 289 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,600 be a gift to the world And the 290 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,020 world doesn't deserve you it doesn't deserve you 291 00:20:29,230 --> 00:20:32,910 You don't go to the world to the 292 00:20:32,910 --> 00:20:34,990 Muslim world of the Hindu world the Buddhist 293 00:20:34,990 --> 00:20:37,950 world of the Atheistic world of the secular 294 00:20:37,950 --> 00:20:38,430 world. 295 00:20:38,530 --> 00:20:40,110 You don't go to the world because they 296 00:20:40,110 --> 00:20:45,250 deserve to have you come You go because 297 00:20:45,250 --> 00:20:50,250 Jesus went and because going there will lead 298 00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:57,890 you to a full and Abiding reward in 299 00:20:57,890 --> 00:21:04,610 the presence of Christ Chapter 12 verses 1 300 00:21:04,610 --> 00:21:06,550 & 2 this may be the most important 301 00:21:06,550 --> 00:21:12,690 one of all have two more Therefore Chapter 302 00:21:12,690 --> 00:21:15,210 12 of Hebrews verses 1 & 2 therefore 303 00:21:15,210 --> 00:21:17,630 since we are surrounded by so great a 304 00:21:17,630 --> 00:21:20,550 cloud of witnesses Let us also lay aside 305 00:21:20,550 --> 00:21:23,510 every weight and sin which clings so closely 306 00:21:23,510 --> 00:21:26,810 and let us run with endurance The race 307 00:21:26,810 --> 00:21:29,770 that is set before us looking to Jesus 308 00:21:30,810 --> 00:21:35,010 All right, we're looking to Jesus the founder 309 00:21:35,010 --> 00:21:40,990 and the perfecter of our faith who for 310 00:21:40,990 --> 00:21:45,550 the joy That was set before him endured 311 00:21:45,550 --> 00:21:51,030 the cross Despising the shame and is seated 312 00:21:51,030 --> 00:21:54,230 at the right hand of the throne of 313 00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:59,250 God Now the reason this may be the 314 00:21:59,250 --> 00:22:02,910 most important is because up until now I 315 00:22:06,250 --> 00:22:12,450 Can imagine Though it's hard somebody saying The 316 00:22:12,450 --> 00:22:16,990 motivation that you're commending namely looking to the 317 00:22:16,990 --> 00:22:21,790 reward of as a sustaining and motivating power 318 00:22:21,790 --> 00:22:29,410 for love is simply low and defective It's 319 00:22:29,410 --> 00:22:37,260 a low motivation To want to move through 320 00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:41,580 persecution and through death into the presence of 321 00:22:41,580 --> 00:22:45,760 Jesus and experience his fullness of joy and 322 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:51,280 pleasures forevermore That motivation for enduring this is 323 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,640 low If you are thinking that you are 324 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,800 on the brink of blasphemy because of verse 325 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,780 2 of Hebrews 12 Because you are about 326 00:23:03,780 --> 00:23:07,060 to say Jesus Christ the Lord of the 327 00:23:07,060 --> 00:23:13,100 universe had a base low and defective motivation 328 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:20,470 on the cross and he didn't Here's his 329 00:23:20,470 --> 00:23:25,350 motivation for the joy that was set before 330 00:23:25,350 --> 00:23:33,100 him Therefore God Has given him a name 331 00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:34,780 which is above every name that at the 332 00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:37,160 name of Jesus Every knee will bow and 333 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,640 every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord 334 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,360 to the glory of God the Father that 335 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:44,840 therefore at the beginning of verse 9 in 336 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,360 Philippians 2 is based on he was obedient 337 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,920 unto death even death on a cross he 338 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:56,940 knew that He knew that was coming Rising 339 00:23:56,940 --> 00:24:01,380 triumphant over death Gathering millions and millions of 340 00:24:01,380 --> 00:24:04,280 people from every tongue and tribe and nation 341 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,680 Surrounded by them praising him forever Triumphant over 342 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,600 all of his enemies. 343 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:12,000 He knew that was coming and that hope 344 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,520 stayed his hand and kept him on the 345 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:23,920 cross he despised Shame For the joy that 346 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:24,900 was set before him. 347 00:24:25,060 --> 00:24:26,060 He looked at shame. 348 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:31,580 He said I despise you make my day 349 00:24:31,580 --> 00:24:35,420 Shame, I put no stock in you. 350 00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:39,840 You don't govern me shame I embrace you 351 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,280 I own you strip me kill me bloody 352 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,460 me curse me you mean Nothing to me 353 00:24:47,460 --> 00:24:52,180 I have a reward coming beyond Sunday for 354 00:24:59,510 --> 00:25:01,390 the joy that was set before him. 355 00:25:01,570 --> 00:25:06,090 He endured the cross Despising the shame and 356 00:25:06,090 --> 00:25:10,710 was seated So if Jesus was motivated to 357 00:25:10,710 --> 00:25:16,120 be and stay on the cross for the 358 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:21,060 joy That was set before him You should 359 00:25:21,060 --> 00:25:27,160 be too It is not a low motivation 360 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:39,700 It is the highest Motivation to 361 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:43,460 want To be in the presence of God 362 00:25:43,460 --> 00:25:47,820 in fullness of joy Taking as many with 363 00:25:47,820 --> 00:25:52,980 you as you can Is the highest of 364 00:25:52,980 --> 00:25:59,440 motivations one more chapter 13 verse 12 to 365 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:06,740 14 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate 366 00:26:08,620 --> 00:26:12,080 In order to sanctify the people through his 367 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:18,040 own blood Therefore Let us go to him 368 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:24,340 outside the camp and bear the reproach That 369 00:26:24,340 --> 00:26:29,240 he endured For here we have no lasting 370 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,340 city But we seek a city that is 371 00:26:33,340 --> 00:26:44,010 to come So Liberty students Jesus 372 00:26:44,010 --> 00:26:48,590 suffered outside the gate to sanctify you that 373 00:26:48,590 --> 00:26:51,150 is to make you his own Set you 374 00:26:51,150 --> 00:26:56,810 apart as a uniquely precious holy possession of 375 00:26:56,810 --> 00:27:02,390 his own That's why he died And Now 376 00:27:02,390 --> 00:27:05,850 he says join me Because to do that 377 00:27:05,850 --> 00:27:08,210 I had to go outside the gate to 378 00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:10,890 the cross and suffer and that's the way 379 00:27:10,890 --> 00:27:16,310 my mission will be completed You know Among 380 00:27:16,310 --> 00:27:19,830 the unreached peoples that are yet to be 381 00:27:19,830 --> 00:27:23,530 engaged and to be reached most of them 382 00:27:23,530 --> 00:27:29,260 don't want you to come and If you 383 00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:32,280 don't have this mindset That will be enough 384 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,680 reason not to go But if you have 385 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,340 this mindset You will say well the Great 386 00:27:39,340 --> 00:27:42,600 Commission didn't say go make disciples of all 387 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,420 the nations except the ones that don't want 388 00:27:44,420 --> 00:27:48,650 you to come All is all you go 389 00:27:48,650 --> 00:27:54,680 to the people's all of them And they're 390 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,660 outside the camp They're in the hard places. 391 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,840 They're behind the hard cultures. 392 00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:04,540 They're behind hard languages and They're behind hard 393 00:28:04,540 --> 00:28:07,100 attitudes towards the West the Satan of the 394 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:12,350 West and We are called to go. 395 00:28:12,530 --> 00:28:13,910 So what's left to be done is the 396 00:28:13,910 --> 00:28:17,650 hardest thing You know, there are some wonderful 397 00:28:17,650 --> 00:28:20,170 mission stories about arriving there and through a 398 00:28:20,170 --> 00:28:23,010 redemptive analogies the whole tribe gets converted and 399 00:28:23,010 --> 00:28:26,490 you're a hero That's a rare story a 400 00:28:29,090 --> 00:28:33,030 Wonderful story true story, but a rare story 401 00:28:34,530 --> 00:28:36,450 God has a people among all the peoples 402 00:28:36,450 --> 00:28:37,970 of the world and we go to call 403 00:28:37,970 --> 00:28:42,250 them out call them out and It will 404 00:28:42,250 --> 00:28:43,370 cost us our lives. 405 00:28:43,510 --> 00:28:45,530 It will cost many of you your lives. 406 00:28:45,630 --> 00:28:47,570 I I don't know I mean, you're a 407 00:28:47,570 --> 00:28:48,630 very young school. 408 00:28:48,730 --> 00:28:50,630 I don't know whether you have a list 409 00:28:50,630 --> 00:28:52,970 of martyrs yet, but one day there'll be 410 00:28:52,970 --> 00:28:57,070 a wall There'll be a wall here And 411 00:28:57,070 --> 00:29:02,630 the pictures will be there They Went We 412 00:29:02,630 --> 00:29:04,670 did it for the soldiers in the First 413 00:29:04,670 --> 00:29:08,310 and Second World War Most churches old churches 414 00:29:08,310 --> 00:29:12,110 have plaques and their names are listed and 415 00:29:12,110 --> 00:29:13,510 they will be listed in churches. 416 00:29:13,690 --> 00:29:17,370 They'll be listed in schools And that's why 417 00:29:17,370 --> 00:29:17,730 I'm here. 418 00:29:17,790 --> 00:29:20,610 I want to recruit martyrs who die in 419 00:29:20,610 --> 00:29:25,090 love not martyrs who kill and hate And 420 00:29:25,090 --> 00:29:29,010 I think That kind of love comes I 421 00:29:29,010 --> 00:29:32,510 know it comes from being satisfied in Jesus 422 00:29:34,390 --> 00:29:37,290 So deeply that you know, you can't die 423 00:29:38,030 --> 00:29:41,710 So look at finally verse 14 Here's the 424 00:29:41,710 --> 00:29:44,830 ground of going outside the camp and bearing 425 00:29:44,830 --> 00:29:47,810 reproach with Jesus for here We have no 426 00:29:47,810 --> 00:29:50,710 lasting city, but we seek a city that 427 00:29:50,710 --> 00:29:54,010 is to come The reason we are willing 428 00:29:54,010 --> 00:29:57,890 to go outside the camp and Suffer is 429 00:29:57,890 --> 00:30:00,870 because this world is not our home We 430 00:30:00,870 --> 00:30:02,550 seek a city that is to come now. 431 00:30:02,630 --> 00:30:05,350 Here's I want to end on this because 432 00:30:05,350 --> 00:30:06,650 I know that I know the kind of 433 00:30:06,650 --> 00:30:09,110 school I'm talking to here and I love 434 00:30:09,110 --> 00:30:13,900 what I see 90% of you 95 435 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:18,720 % of you are here Growing in knowledge 436 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,460 and skills That will enable you to serve 437 00:30:22,460 --> 00:30:27,060 this city called the city of man the 438 00:30:27,060 --> 00:30:33,460 city of the world this one We have 439 00:30:33,460 --> 00:30:39,260 no lasting city that non-lasting city is 440 00:30:39,260 --> 00:30:41,540 Lynchburg, it's America. 441 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:47,660 It's the workplace It won't last and If 442 00:30:47,660 --> 00:30:53,020 anybody were to take my message about Loving 443 00:30:53,020 --> 00:30:57,220 our everlasting reward to mean you just skip 444 00:30:57,220 --> 00:30:59,960 the city and go to that You've totally 445 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:03,600 missed the point My point has been this 446 00:31:04,540 --> 00:31:08,820 all the students at Liberty Aiming to pour 447 00:31:08,820 --> 00:31:12,200 your life into the city of man for 448 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,320 her good for her everlasting good Will serve 449 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,720 her better if you love the other city 450 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:24,880 more if you love the city That is 451 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,680 to come the Lord that is to come 452 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,060 More than this city you will serve this 453 00:31:32,060 --> 00:31:35,200 city better You'll be able to be so 454 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,100 different from this city So able to lay 455 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:41,920 down your life for the good the everlasting 456 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,660 good of this city that you will go 457 00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:45,960 to the hardest Places on the planet and 458 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,530 the hardest peoples on the planet In order 459 00:31:50,530 --> 00:31:53,230 to make plain the value of that other 460 00:31:53,230 --> 00:31:59,620 city and that other King, let's pray father 461 00:31:59,620 --> 00:32:02,940 in heaven, I Asked now that these passages 462 00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:10,420 from Hebrews John 11 and John 6 and 463 00:32:10,420 --> 00:32:15,920 John 8 in 1st Corinthians 3 in Psalm 464 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,920 16 Would be like a double-edged sword 465 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,840 that penetrates into the hearts of everyone in 466 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:29,320 this room for the sake of Finishing the 467 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,540 Great Commission in the hardest Places among the 468 00:32:32,540 --> 00:32:35,100 hardest peoples of the world no matter what 469 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:38,060 it costs Because the steadfast love of the 470 00:32:38,060 --> 00:32:47,980 Lord is better than life Yes You've been 471 00:32:47,980 --> 00:32:52,200 listening to from the pulpit and classic sermon 472 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,500 series this week You heard John Piper with 473 00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:56,440 his message the cost of love in the 474 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,500 call to nations Tune in next week to 475 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:00,960 hear Vance Havner talk about the country in 476 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,400 the church. 477 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,260 I'm from the pulpit and classic sermons