Okay, let’s start. Let’s pray. God, we are the creator of the universe.
We invite you to give it to us. We ask that your kingdom come. We will be done here in this room on Earth, the way you’re doing that.
When we take a deep dive into your world, single event, we ask two questions. Always give us life. And how can we be more like that? Thank you for loving us.
Alright, so, last week, these are the three things we know, right? Busy week, what you see is what you get. We want to live lives so that when people look at us, what they see is what they get. We want to be able to wear Jesus so that when people see us, they can see Jesus in us.
We want to know that we are children of God. We know that Jesus is a disruptor. He turned things upside down.
We’re going to see another good example of that today. And so, we want to show people Jesus of our lives. We want to think of God as our father where we think that breaks down when we have a thousand fathers.
You guys have a big fathers? I mean, not everyone does. I have a really big fathers. We dare to be different.
If we don’t want to be different, Jesus may not be the person we want to be like. Because Jesus is different. So, I promise you, I would suggest something in Japanese, right? Remember that? I wrote it out.
This is not Japanese. It’s a Japanese word, but it’s written out in Roman characters. You know, Japanese has four different styles of writing.
They are kanji. You know, with the Chinese style. Then they have hiragana.
It’s like a cursive. I don’t know how to say it. It’s a syllable style.
They have katakana, which is, then it’s a bara, words that they bara from other languages, then they have roma. This roma means Roman. Like Roman characters, g means character.
So, this is not even like that, a Roman character. So, we got… But they never say, oh, the fire can fire. Oh, I know.
I just accept all the time. Love in Japanese is mine. Go.
Your, go, go, go, go. It means joy. To avoid.
Go, go, go, go. It’s hard. Cut from the heart.
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Now, not everybody likes to be different. So when Jesus says, ah, do that way, well, that appeals to me. I don’t know how that, you know, this is almost the way things were.
Jesus says, ah, you got the messed up. He just comes along and starts doing this. And he just goes down.
But that appeals to me, when Jesus is the right person for you, if it doesn’t, then nobody’s going to want to do it like that. And that’s not the challenge. I don’t want to be different.
I want to blend in. So if we’re a gender inner, Jesus is not your hero today. If he’s like, wow, then he can be your hero.
Then he can be your hero. I don’t know how we’re going to get through this whole. I’ve got to first look at what Jesus is doing there.
He’s out beside the lake. This is the Sea of Galilean. I’ve been to the Sea of Galilean.
It looks kind of like, have you ever been to San Francisco Bay? He’s got to stand on the coast. They’re a little bit watery. It looks like that.
Except there’s no cities around. It’s just a big old lake. It’s probably not that far.
I don’t have to swim across it by trying to run. You guys can swim across it, right? You can swim across it. It’s not that wide.
It’s probably 10 miles, maybe. He’s 15 miles. Yeah, maybe you’re actually just so careful.
You might do it. I can swim down. I’ll just take me one mile.
And so it’s not that big. It’s probably 20 miles a mile. That’s the department swim.
But what we see here, once again, again, is that’s a very important work. I guess Jesus says that there, but again, so the implication is he goes to Boston. And here, there’s another time.
There’s another time, another time, and so little cows, and the Sea of Galilee sits like little cows burning in their gear, and I have a sesame over here. They’re little cows that spot it all around the lake. There’s a bunch of nothing in between.
And so he downed by the lake, ugly, and going, whatever he does, and a bunch of people show up. And they come to him, and he, well, they start teaching him. And while he was walking along one of the towns, he comes along with this guy.
And he goes, here’s the one. Matthew. Levi says, it’s Jewish name.
Matthew is his Hebrew, it’s his Greek name. So Matthew and Levi are the same person. There’s something about Matthew that we love.
Maybe we don’t know that we know. Matthew wrote that he’s read in the entire world. More people have read the book of Matthew than India, because the Bible, of course, is the number one book in the world.
The New Testament is read by more people than in the other part of the Bible, because you go into a hotel, there’s a Indian Bible. There are more good Testament translations now to the world than there are in the other book. All of their books combined cannot compare to the most good Testament.
And the first book in the New Testament is Matthew. This fellow wrote that first book in the New Testament. That is read by the one that you buy us anywhere else.
Son of Alfie is not important. Sitting at the text collection, Matthew or Levi, was a text collection. Not only is he the number one most bad book in the world, he’s also the most hated person.
He’s the most hated person in the Jewish culture. And you got all sorts of bad people, right? And I like this politician, I’m just hated the most in the Jewish culture. It’s the text collection.
And the reason they did hate it so much was because he’s Jewish, but he works for the Romans. So the Romans hate the Jewish people. All they want from them is to give me some money.
They collect their taxes. And then Matthew went to work for people who hate him. So the Romans hate him.
