Luke 10:1-16

Today, Pastor Jack tells us that as the clock was running out to follow Jesus while He was still on earth, it’s the same for us today. God’s mercy is eternal, but the time is short to benefit from it. God’s love may be eternal, but if we reject Him, there may not be another opportunity to receive Him.

It’s amazing. It’s almost like Jack.
It’s like the Lord has come to this house and there’s eating and there’s drinking and they pray to the Lord.
Well, now it’s time to go.
Oh, before we go, this Russians toast, we’ve never had Americans in our home. Let’s toast.
So he breaks out this huge bottle of cognac. And I, I said, Larissa, I can’t drink that.
I mean, I’ll go, uh the ministry will go down the hole.
The next thing I know someone will pull out a camera to be on the front page of the register and Chuck Smith will be calling me up, not gonna do it.
She goes, you have to do it. I’m not gonna do it. She says you’ll offend him.
This is our culture. You have to take a toast. I said, look, I don’t know.
And then I’m reminded of Mark’s gospel. You shall, you shall drink poison and you won’t be hurt.
So I, Larissa don’t, don’t translate this. Oh God, I’m talking to the Americans.
Oh God, help us Lord, protect you. So they’re so sweet. Let’s stand. Yes, hooker and whatever.
Yes. And they top it off, everyone.
Around the top and no, to our countries. Yes. All right.
It’s like, oh, no, over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I’m not kidding.
Then it was time to leave Lisa. She’s here. Remember that? It’s time to leave.
They have this some kind of egg. I don’t know this. I never heard of it. It’s an egg. Ok.
We stand like this. Ok. No. Hold the egg and toast again. Toast. Yes. Ok.
Now you come here and I go there and you toast. Yes. All right.
And it was over and over and over again. Not one of us got buzzed, not one of us.
And, and by the way, nobody in the family got buzzed either. They’re probably thinking, let’s keep toasting.
This isn’t working. It was the weirdest thing. It was the weirdest thing.
But all the stuff that was said before. I could not have told them. No, sorry, I can’t toast.
I would have broke his heart but God was powerful and precious and, and he saved us.
Yeah.
Now don’t any of you say, well, you know, praise the Lord and now I’m gonna go and witness to my, my neighborhood Wino guy.
I’ll have to go get drunk to show you. No, no, you don’t.
There’s a purpose to this life and that it’s making people whole again.
Doesn’t the world misunderstand us constantly?
Are we constantly misunderstood all we want is people to have the joy and the peace that we have.
The funny thing is people turn to us and say, we don’t want your joy. We don’t want your happiness.
We want to be miserable. Stay out of our lives.
Well, when they say that we stay out of their lives, listen, listen, wife, husband does your wife, has she heard the way?
Does your husband know how to get to heaven? Have you told them that? I hope so.
If they keep saying, will you be quiet?
Be quiet, wife no more, talking to him about it?
Did you tell him how to get there? Then leave it alone. Now it’s time to pray.
You just pray for him. Does he know how to get there? Yes.
Then ask the holy spirit, dear God in heaven above make him sicker than a dog until, until He loves you.
Show him his need for you. I’m serious. I’m not, I’m not kidding. I’m serious.
Pray God make them sick of this world. Whatever it takes God to do that. Thanks.
Why? Because we just want them whole were so misunderstood.
He said, heal the sick that are there and say to them, the Kingdom of God has come near you.
How practical is the Gospel? Heal the sick? Tell them the kingdom is there.
What a great thing that is, you know the context of this teaching.
I don’t know if I brought this up or not is Jewish? They’re in Jewish. Territory.
These are Jewish converts and they’re going to Jewish homes.
In fact, Jesus said in another place that he sent them these here to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Why? Because the gospel had to first be preached to the nation of Israel before anywhere else in the world and saw it once, heal them and say to them, third point it will be done.
Time is up. Is this because there’s a limit to time itself, there is a limit.
And what I mean by that is this and it sounds kind of shocking at first, but there’s a limit versus 10-12 about love.
The clock is running out on love. So what do you mean by that? God loves that. God is love.
He is the Bible says God is love. But listen, read the fine print.
He also said that my spirit will not always put up with man.
There comes a day, you know, for example, Pharaoh, I will not listen to God.
I will not listen to you Moses and Pharaoh stood so long 10 times.
He said, I’m not gonna listen, I’m not going to do it.
You, you stand long enough in that, in your opinion and it’s like cement around your feet.
You know, it’s pretty scary if you think about it. Propaganda is very powerful.
If you stand long enough in it, it becomes you, you become it.
If you are one who is saying I don’t want Jesus.
In fact, I only came here for a free breakfast today.
I don’t want anything to do with God. Just know this.
He’s not, he’s not gonna grab you.
He’s not gonna throw you down and we’re not gonna grab, we’d love to throw you down and make you.
It would be great if it was that easy. Can you imagine? Say you’re a Christian?
Say it if it was that? Come on, I don’t know.
Well, I’m not gonna say that part but there’s a, there have been people where they set up a camera and they say, they say, tell them that you converted to Islam and they kill them.
Well, come on, couldn’t we, as Christians do something like that, we’re gonna have a, we have an outreach at the, at stadium.
Everybody come forward way down. God’s not into that. What, what is that? Choose today?
Whom you will serve? God is not some sort of a thug.
You don’t want him, you don’t have to have him. Just know what you’re doing.
I don’t want God. Ok, then you don’t have to have him.
I highly recommend you change your mind though.
There’s a limit to his love he loves and he is, but you can say no so much that he starts to resend it.
And that’s a very sad thing.
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Once again, here’s pastor Jack, he says whatever city you enter into, if they do not receive you go out on its streets and say this, this is radical, the very dust of your city.
You can almost hear them shouting. But listen, which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this.
The Kingdom of God has come near to you. It’s an indictment but please don’t misunderstand.
Watch me. The disciples didn’t come when they said, you know what? Get out of here.
We don’t want you Jesus. We don’t want you to get out of show. OK?
This is what they did not do. They didn’t come out to the city limits.
They didn’t slap their shoe and knock off the dust and say, turn or burn.
No, the whole thing implies that they’re heartbroken. They’re so excited.
Can you imagine imagine for a moment if you are in that group of 70 and you are the one who for example, like Mark chapter seven verses 35 to 37 you are the man who was deaf and unable to speak.
And Jesus touched your tongue and made you able to speak.
And it says even in Mark chapter seven, when Jesus said, now don’t tell anybody I did this to you.
This guy goes, he just got done. God touched his tongue and now he can speak.
The guy just goes, OK, turns right around, hey, guess what? God get from me.
The Bible says the more he was told not to do it, the more he went around and proclaimed it.
That’s cute, disobedience. You know, maybe he’s in that group. Can you imagine? Yes.
Hi. Did you hear about me? It was on the front page of the newspaper.
I’m the guy who Jesus touched. Remember I remember hearing about this, I’m the guy.
Listen, the Kingdom of God’s near you. The Messiah’s here. Listen, here’s his message. You know what?
Get out of here. It’s a heartbreak because you know the truth, they don’t want it.
It’s kind of like introducing your kid for the first time to ice cream.
They were like no here and you gotta grab the kid by the hood and put the ice cream on his lip and then he goes, hm.
It breaks your heart. You don’t know what you’re missing.
You know, come on, I don’t want to get out of here here. You are.
Your heart is pumped up filled with the love of God and you and you love other souls now and they don’t want to hear it.
Well, not only love is running out but listen to this, the clock is running out on mercy.
This is tough. Verses 13 to 15. Jesus says woe to you, Kzin.
By the way, Krizan was recently on earth. It’s not all that. It’s been lost for millennia. It’s been found.
That town is, well, it’s not even a town but it’s been known.
Archaeologists have unearthed these two spots.
Actually, all these spots for if the mighty works which had been done in, you had been done in Tyre and S Ty and Si, that’s in Lebanon today.
That’s a nasty area back then. That’s gentile region. Wow.
He’s saying, you know what if I would have done these miracles where a bunch of gentiles were at?
They would have believed in me from the get go hikes.
Bunch of gentiles were accepting a Jewish messiah if it was an entire and si listen to this.
He says in verse 14, it will be more tolerable for tyrant sight in the day of judgment than for you and look at verse 15 and you and you, you are exulted to heaven.
You will be brought down to Hades. Wow, it was bad enough with kin and bean.
But what’s with Kum Kana, by the way we visit there today, there’s only remnants.
There’s nobody, nobody lives there, reconstructed synagogue there. Peter’s home has been unearthed there, but nobody lives there.
You know what the word means and Greek, it’s and it means damn me here.
Damned are you? You’re condemned. You saw so much.
You heard everything about the kingdom and you shut your doors to it. There’s nothing left.
I’m not damning you. Your decision has damned you think about that.
And then he says they get the worst. Why again? Remember to this moment?
Nobody lives there today. Why? Because Matthew says Kana was Jesus’s ministry headquarters.
When he was in the Galilee, they saw and heard everything their little town hosted Jesus and they turned on him and Jesus says it’s gonna be tough for you.
And then we end with this.
The clock is running out on them, on them. He who hears you hears me?
He who rejects you? Verse 16 rejects me. He who rejects me, rejects him? Who sent me?
He who hears He who rejects? And there’s the difference. It’s amazing.
We can be in the sanctuary right now and only God knows your heart.
God knows your decision right now right here today.
All of us, we’re not fooling anybody or I should say we may be fooling everybody but we can’t fool God.
And that’s a soul searching thing. I’m gonna read you. You, you can rest.
I’m gonna read you a couple of verses here. I want you to listen very carefully to these verses.
They’re very famous. One of these you’ve seen at a football game.
I’m sure Jesus said as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even saw the Son of man will be lifted up referring to the cross that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life for God.
So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Listen, for God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved.
Listen, he who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who believes not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten that is glorified Son of God.
And this is the condemnation that light has come into the world. But men love darkness more than the lights.
A reference to the Lord himself. A decision. What would you choose?
You will either say I want this or I don’t want this.
No one is responsible for that decision. But you were mom, ok?
Listen, we’re going to pray in a moment but there is no way that we can do a message like this.
When Jesus says, go, go, go. Unless how many of us are Christians? Raise your hand.
A whole lot of you. There’s enough people in this room to change the world like wow.
Um Now you’re in trouble because you just raised your hand.
I cannot give this message today without all of us.
Oh, at the very least listening to what Jesus says among us, um He’s asked us to go, actually, he’s told us to go.
And so this week this is your homework.
All of us are going to ask the Lord starting today and I’ll ask for you in a moment.
Lord, open up a door and let me know it that it’s the door and cause me God this week to tell someone about your son Jesus.
Lord, I don’t want to be hearers of the word only but a doer of the word.
Now, some of you are saying, oh, don’t do that. Listen.
First of all, every Christian should know how to tell someone about Jesus.
If you don’t, we have classes, we have the coal ministry that you can be schooled and remove all of that question about how do I do that?
We have a great ministry.
You can sign up today after the service in the courtyard and sign up for this thing. It’s great.
But if you’re a Christian, you can tell someone what Jesus has done for you. You see.
Well, I don’t know, I don’t talk to people publicly. I don’t know that.
Just say God open the door, Lord, open the door and let me know it.
You guys, he’s bigger than all of our fears. We all have the fears.
You say you don’t, I do too last Tuesday.
I was at Cal poly sharing Jesus with Muslims that are on the campus there. I get tongue tied.
I get nervous. My mouth dries up every time until I say something.
As soon as you say something, God wets your mouth, calms your heart and it’s awesome.
It’s kind of like getting to the beach for the first time. It’s cold, it’s cold, it’s cold.
Just get in. We all go through that because it’s impossible.
He’s got to do it and you’re going to do it this week. Now. Look, let’s pray.
Father, I ask you, Lord God that you had set our hearts as Jesus was to Jerusalem, that you had set our hearts today to I B M Dupont Joe’s bar and grill, the neighborhood, the house, the construction site, the office or wherever, open our eyes in the name of Jesus.
We ask you to hold us accountable to this moment and Lord let our faith grow as today we begin, Lord to see you do something completely new in our lives radical and yet it shouldn’t be Heavenly Father galvanize us to this task.
Heads are bowed and eyes are closed. Time is late. In fact, nobody looking around.
We are so out of time that I got to do this fast.
Let that be a witness to you anybody this morning does not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
You don’t know the love of God. You don’t know what it’s like to be forgiven.
You don’t know what it’s like to have joy.
You don’t know what it’s like to have something to tell somebody that’s worthy of your life.
You have nothing to live for really that matters this morning.
Do you want your sins forgiven and Christ as your Lord and Savior?
I’m going to ask you one time right now. Imagine that an earthquake just like happened a few hours ago.
Some killer earthquake just hit somewhere in the world just a few hours ago.
What if it’s going to happen here? Are you ready? Heads, bow eyes closed. Christians praying here it is.
Will you today? Say yes, I want Jesus as my Lord and Savior put your hand up now and I’ll see your hand go up and I would love to meet you later.
But that’s what you want in your life. You want Christ. God bless you. Anyone else.
This whole service today was for that one guy. That’s fantastic.
No, a guy and a girl.
Anybody else according to the bible three people, there’s angels rejoicing another four people.
Father, I ask you to bless these who being convicted by your spirit that they need Jesus.
Lord, I pray that you’d overwhelm them, Father God, that you would come upon them and lord that they would know that it is you as they.
Lord have agreed. They need you as the one who forgives them of their sins.
The one that writes their name down in the lamb’s book of Life.
The one who saves them, Jesus, we give you these precious ones and we give you our lives, Lord, all of this.
And we ask you, Father God that you make us a people that are busy about what matters to you.
Thank you, Lord bless these, your church in Jesus name and all God’s people said, amen, amen.
Pastor and bible teacher Jack Hibbs here on real life radio with his message called Time’s Up.
Thanks for being with us today.
You know, this message is part of Pastor Jack’s series called The Gospel of Luke.
It’s a series on the book of Luke and the unveiling of Jesus Christ to this world.
And we’ll continue on the next edition of Real Life Radio, Pastor Jack years ago, there was a great book that came out evidence that demands a verdict, made a big difference in my life.
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I remember seeing him years ago on an interview with Josh mcdowell and I was so convinced with how convinced he was.
Wow, that’s a really great observation because, and that should be true.
You know, George Whitfield was preaching the gospel and Benjamin Franklin was there listening and David Hume came and everybody was saying that that’s the great atheist, right?
Why is he here? Why is he here? Right? Why is he here?
And somebody asked him, why are you here, Mr Hume? You don’t believe in what Whitfield is preaching?
And he said, I don’t believe, but I’m here because he believes it. Isn’t that great?
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