The Crucified Life

My hope is not anchored in this life. My hope is not anchored in in just seeing this life get better. No. It's bigger than that. This life is temporary. My hope is anchored in glory. So because my hope is anchored upward, my hank is my hope is tethered to to my everlasting life. I'm no longer tossed back and forth by the winds and the waves of this life. Because my perspective is heavenly now. [01:11:55] (51 seconds)  #HopeAnchoredInHeaven

There's weight to the cross that you are called to carry. And if you're not feeling the weight of your cross, it's probably because you're not carrying one. I I'd be lying to you as your pastor if I told you that, man, give your life to Jesus. Everything's gonna be great. Everything is just it is gonna be great, but everything's gonna be easy. You know, it just everything just gets easy. [00:49:41] (36 seconds)  #WeightOfTheCross

You don't have the capacity of the love in his divinity that he has for all of mankind. But what you do have is the joy set before you. That's why it says we do this by looking to Jesus. We do this. We endure this race by looking to Jesus for the joy in his humanity, the joy set before him. He endured the cross. For the joy set before you, endure the race. Endure the race that you're called to endure. [01:05:03] (37 seconds)  #JoySetBeforeUs

He endured. He he carried the weight of the sins of all of humanity on his shoulders. Think about that. You wanna talk about bearing up under some weight. The sins of all of humanity Yes. Were laid upon him. Not just however many millions of people were in the world at that time, but I'm talking about since the beginning of time until he comes back time. The sins of all of humanity were laid upon him, and he bore that weight. [00:53:04] (55 seconds)  #HeBoreOurSins

It's knocking its head on the rocks. It's trying to climb up the little waterfalls and all this stuff. It's trying to dodge the bears that are trying to eat it. Right? And it's literally fighting fighting fighting with everything that it has to finally get to the place where it can die. That's the mission. Mission accomplished. But in that death, there is new life. Way more life is created in that one death than that one fish will ever experience in its own life by doing its own way. Real life happens when we fight to die. [00:56:47] (48 seconds)  #FightToDieForLife

The cross represents a torturous death. That's what the cross represented. Death in the worst possible way. The Romans invented the worst possible way to kill somebody, crucifixion. And that death, it came with unspeakable pain, humiliation, suffering. You endured the race. He endured the cross. The race, this life of faith, it is the crucified life. [00:47:08] (44 seconds)  #CrucifiedLifeReality

You hang on to it, you'll lose it. But if you're willing to give it up for me, you'll find it. That when he when he says that give it up, what he's saying is be willing to die to yourself. Your selfish ambitions. Yeah. Yeah. Your selfish and desires. That's literally what taking up your cross means. It's being willing to die to your flesh and to yourself daily surrender. [00:43:15] (38 seconds)  #DieToSelfDaily

But in order to experience this true life, you have to die. Yeah. That's upside down. The upside down kingdom. Right? It's so upside down. Because what does the world say? The world says, no. If you wanna live your life, live your life. Your life. You do you. You. That's what they say. Come on. [00:44:13] (33 seconds)  #UpsideDownKingdom