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[343.06 --> 351.18] Which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
[351.18 --> 355.50] Jesus is the way to peace.
[357.02 --> 359.70] Peace between you and God.
[360.14 --> 360.78] Us and God.
[361.44 --> 362.36] You have sinned.
[362.42 --> 363.06] I have sinned.
[363.14 --> 363.86] We have sinned.
[364.38 --> 368.74] And that has put a dividing wall between a holy God and people.
[369.40 --> 370.82] That's the story of Scripture.
[371.78 --> 375.02] And Jesus is the way of bridging that divide.
[375.34 --> 379.20] But ironically, in that, division will happen.
[379.20 --> 383.68] Even in families, as Jesus points out in the passage we read.
[385.08 --> 389.04] In 1 Corinthians, we read this, 1 Corinthians 23.
[390.20 --> 391.86] Paul writes, and he writes,
[392.14 --> 400.84] But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.
[400.84 --> 404.00] A stumbling block.
[405.56 --> 411.86] Yeah, putting Jesus and bringing his peace into your life, it demands something.
[411.92 --> 412.54] What does it demand?
[412.72 --> 419.48] It demands your surrender to your agenda and embracing God's agenda for your life.
[420.92 --> 424.72] Israel couldn't accept Jesus' way as the way to peace with God.
[425.04 --> 425.78] Rome couldn't.
[426.02 --> 427.06] Greece couldn't.
[427.30 --> 428.84] The religious leaders couldn't.
[428.84 --> 430.40] Many today can't either.
[431.12 --> 434.94] In my interactions with people in my life, I've heard people say,
[435.30 --> 438.90] So you're saying I'm a sinner in need of saving?
[440.38 --> 440.82] Hmm.
[440.96 --> 441.70] I don't think so.
[443.30 --> 444.22] Or they might say,
[444.40 --> 445.76] Well, who are you to judge?
[445.82 --> 447.72] For that matter, who's God to judge?
[449.22 --> 450.08] Yet Jesus says,
[450.18 --> 450.92] I am the way.
[451.06 --> 451.86] I am the truth.
[452.02 --> 452.68] I am life.
[452.68 --> 455.48] No one comes to the Father except through me.
[458.46 --> 462.58] In John 12, verse 46, Jesus says it this way.
[462.92 --> 468.80] I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
[469.04 --> 473.46] The flip side of that is, you don't believe in him, you stay in darkness.
[473.46 --> 477.38] But you don't think you're in darkness.
[479.24 --> 482.22] I was reading the story of Jesus' triumphal entry in Luke.
[483.26 --> 485.54] He's entering Jerusalem to go face the cross.
[486.38 --> 491.66] And people are thrilled because they think he's come to start a revolution against the Romans.
[491.88 --> 493.10] And so they're quite thrilled.
[493.46 --> 497.48] But notice, here's what Jesus says in Luke 19 as he's approaching Jerusalem.
[497.48 --> 502.36] As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it.
[503.40 --> 504.42] He's riding in.
[504.48 --> 505.08] He's coming in.
[505.46 --> 506.40] He sees Jerusalem.
[506.92 --> 507.98] He weeps over it.
[508.00 --> 508.38] And he said,
[508.68 --> 515.56] If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace,
[517.92 --> 520.12] that peace that's beyond understanding,
[520.40 --> 522.94] that peace that only comes through the cross, right?
[523.28 --> 525.86] But now it is hidden from your eyes.
[527.48 --> 530.72] You know, sometimes, I don't know about you,
[530.80 --> 533.96] but sometimes I think we struggle with the judgment of God.
[535.58 --> 537.28] We don't even like the word very much.
[538.40 --> 539.32] Let me ask you this.
[539.76 --> 545.40] Would you want a God who ignores evil and brokenness and lies and sin?
[547.54 --> 549.32] Would you want to follow a God like that?
[552.02 --> 552.72] I wouldn't.
[552.72 --> 556.78] I would want my God to be better than that.
[558.90 --> 559.04] Right?
[560.08 --> 562.00] You know, I've heard people say,
[562.08 --> 562.80] I can't go to church.
[562.92 --> 564.42] They're so judgmental in the church.
[564.80 --> 566.30] And that's sometimes true,
[566.62 --> 571.20] but mostly because it's done sometimes so unlovingly and so self-righteously.
[571.46 --> 572.60] That's the problem.
[572.96 --> 575.58] Sometimes the word spoken itself are not the problem.
[575.58 --> 578.74] How many of you parents say no to your kids?
[581.94 --> 583.40] Some kids are looking at their parents and say,
[583.52 --> 584.30] yeah, all the time.
[585.58 --> 587.88] How many of you correct them when they choose poorly
[587.88 --> 590.06] or even sometimes punish them when they choose poorly?
[590.44 --> 591.82] Why do you do that, right?
[591.96 --> 593.32] Because you love them.
[593.80 --> 596.76] Love seeks the truth, holds on to the truth,
[597.08 --> 598.46] lives out of truth.
[598.46 --> 601.60] We want that for the people we love.
[603.48 --> 605.04] You know, in all of this judgment thinking,
[605.16 --> 606.38] I was thinking of the courts.
[607.74 --> 609.16] You ever been to court?
[609.38 --> 610.14] Don't raise your hand.
[612.28 --> 612.68] Right?
[612.80 --> 612.94] Yeah.
[613.08 --> 618.28] I had to testify once in a court case in Surrey.
[619.88 --> 621.16] I remember sitting there, you know,
[621.16 --> 624.86] you're in this little seated area here,
[625.10 --> 626.74] and in walks the judge,
[626.82 --> 627.70] and everybody rises.
[628.46 --> 629.90] You know, it's very formal.
[630.76 --> 632.86] Guy's wearing a black robe, looks very stern.
[633.66 --> 635.74] But imagine if I had stood up and said,
[636.14 --> 638.18] this place is so judgmental,
[638.24 --> 639.96] especially the guy in the black robe.
[642.06 --> 642.36] Right?
[642.42 --> 644.96] Yeah, that wouldn't go over while I'd be in trouble.
[645.88 --> 648.32] But we wouldn't do that because that's stupid.