Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled: Trust Jesus

``Not fix it, not manage it, not achieve it your way or get it your way. This is not Burger King, but trust in me. Thomas asked the question we will ask. Lord, how do we know the way? Give me steps. Give me a plan on how to know it because we are clear. Right? We are perfectionist. Give me clarity so I can I got it? Okay. You you die on the cross. I got this. Right? And Jesus responds by saying, I am the way and the truth and the life. We wanna apply a path Jesus gives us a person. That's not what we expect. [00:42:03] (43 seconds)  #JesusIsTheWay

You can know that he was a carpenter. You can know that he was crucified. You can know that he was from Bethlehem. You can know all that. But do you know that the devil also knows that? And this is the core thing about the conversation with Jesus and his disciples at that moment. He Jesus asked them something. Philip says, show us the father. And Jesus replies, this is this I can't just imagine Jesus. And if you have conversations with people, you can relate to this. He's Jesus says to Philip, have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me? [00:45:00] (44 seconds)  #KnowJesusPersonally

So here's the problem. When our life is built on performance, our hearts become fragile. When our lives are built in performance, our hearts become fragile. Peace doesn't last. It's very quick. Can we can we say that we have peace when really things are not really solved? Not really. And when we no longer perform the way we should perform because there are other things that take place, maybe it's sick sickness or illness or maybe you're weak. When things are not going the way you want, you wonder, there's pressure. We begin to feel like we have lost our value. [00:39:02] (44 seconds)  #GraceNotPerformance

What is this holy spirit leading us into? Not more effort. No more religious activity, but something deeper. Abide in me. That's what he's calling us to, to abide. He says, abide, don't perform. To abide means to stay, to rest, to live from, not for him. Do you see that difference? To live from, not for him. Because we think if we live for him, then we are worth it. Look what we did. But if we live from him, then we humble ourselves. Because we need to live from him. [00:46:24] (43 seconds)  #AbideDontPerform

Doing the repetition thing is only like exercise, but not being not being being trained. Many look in the in the on the outside, but the promise is is in the inside because we're still asking, do I matter? Have I done enough? And Jesus shifts our focus to something else. Stop looking at your works and look at my works. That's what he's saying. There's a danger where we often miss. You can be close to Jesus. Listen to me. You can be close to Jesus and still not truly know him. [00:44:17] (43 seconds)  #LookAtHisWorks

Why? Because we still want to be in control, at the core, many of us are asking, am I enough? So we try to prove ourselves through success, through work, and through other things, through recognition, even doing good things at church. I mean, if I say the words, Lord, in your mercy, you know how to say. You know everything about the church. You know it very well. You know when to stand, you know when to sit down. You're pretty good at it. That doesn't make you a Christian. You know that? [00:43:33] (43 seconds)  #NotReligionButRelationship

We want a path. We wanna do it ourselves. We want it we want to create that kind of value to say, I am worthy of this. Jesus didn't die for anyone. He died for something that is worth worth while dying for. That's inside of us. We want a strategy, and Jesus gives us something much much deeper, a relationship. A relationship. We want direction. Jesus gives him himself to us. And here's the tension. We don't mind Jesus being part of the way or being the way, but the problem is this, that Jesus is the only way. That's the problem. That's the struggle we have. [00:42:47] (47 seconds)  #RelationshipOverStrategy

The disciples walk with him. They hear him. They they show his miracles, his power, yet still miss him. You can know all the liturgy about the church and still miss the point. And we can too. We can know the words, understand the bible, serve and participate, and they still only know about Jesus, not knowing him and have a relationship with him. That's what Jesus is saying to them. I've been with you. You saw me, man. You you can't deny what you just saw. [00:45:46] (38 seconds)  #SeenNotKnown

The real issue isn't that we have troubled hearts. The thing is where we take our troubles. How do we deal with our troubles? Jesus is not denying their struggles. He's mentioned that they have struggles. He says, where are you taking your struggles to? And and and you know why he's telling those words, let not your hearts be troubles? Because they are taking those troubles into their hearts. And he knows very well that if they do that, there is something gonna happen, you're gonna lose sight of what's important. Because we all run somewhere. You run somewhere. [00:40:18] (48 seconds)  #TakeYourTroublesToJesus

Many of us think about that. You know, as Jesus dies, we live think about our resurrected life, life after death. But living now with a new reality is what we're called to. Now, right here, that resurrection resurrection mind should take gear in there and say, you know what? I'm a resurrected person. I need to do things a little different that let my my mind take my body. Your resurrected life is today. It starts today. [00:50:08] (36 seconds)  #ResurrectedLifeNow

Whatever you can do, you can only do because Christ has allowed you to do that. Do with me something exercise. It looks like you're getting tired this morning. Breathe in. Hold it. Let it go. Breathe in. Let it go. Whose air is that? It's his. You can only leave because he has allowed you to leave. For him? No. From him. The air comes from him. [00:48:28] (39 seconds)  #LiveFromChrist

He becomes your refuge when you are living this resurrected life, Your shelter when you have pressure in your life. Your mighty fortress even when everything else shakes in your life. And this is the shift that we have from the holy spirit. From self centered to Christ dependent. Say it with me. From self centered come on guys. It's early in the morning. From self centered to Christ dependent. From striving to resting, but not at not at the service. Okay? Later on. From look at me to look at him. [00:47:30] (38 seconds)  #FromSelfToChrist

And we know that because we have changed. We have done things our way. Now we're doing things differently. And then invitation for us today is, so let's let's come back to this first question. What is in trouble in your heart today? Jesus doesn't give you a formula. He gives you himself. He says, I am the way. I am your refuge. I am your life. You may be close to him. You may know about him. But today, he he is inviting you to something deeper, to know him, to abide in him, to rest in him. [00:50:44] (38 seconds)  #AbideAndRest

Instead of facing the struggles, many distract themselves through screens sliding down like I mentioned, or or puzzles, or or solitaire. Instead of facing the reality, the issues you have around, the people who are around, we prefer to scroll down to play solitaire and to do other things. And that's not gonna fix it, my brother. That's not gonna fix it. Businesses or other habits are not gonna fix the issue and the pain you have. The pain will not go away. It just waits. It kinda compounds interest later on. [00:37:00] (38 seconds)  #ScreensDontFixPain

Christ has already secured our identity on him. That brings peace to us. We're invited to be less driven by recognition because we can all point to one place. All of you can point, and I can point to the cross because we are now already known by him and loved by him. We're less focused about our works because now we have confidence in his works. This is why when we are a resurrected person, we need to think about this. That resurrection is not just about living the life after death. [00:49:30] (38 seconds)  #IdentityInChrist

Then there's other thing too is the pressure to perform. Believe it or not, there's a pressure to perform nowadays. Many believe I am only valuable if I succeed. This creates anxiety and perfectionism. I know some of you are perfectionists, and and believe me, if you were perfectionist, Jesus would not have to come. Because if you were able to perfect, do the perfect work, you would have matched that perfect work. So, you're not such perfection. You think you are. I think I am, but not really. Not so close. Close but not cigar, like we say. [00:34:27] (40 seconds)  #FreedomFromPerformance

We distract ourselves in many ways or try to prove something to people. Look don't look at this like like a magician. You know? Look what I have here. Look what I have here. But in reality, my other hand is doing something else. So what we try to do when we distract ourselves, we more work work harder. And what we're saying is, look at here. I'm working harder, but I don't wanna show you my issue. He's right here behind me. We do that a lot. We're good at it. But Jesus offers to us something radical and different. Believe in me. Say it with me. Believe [00:41:20] (37 seconds)  #BelieveNotPretend

When life is only about success or happiness or what we want, something feels empty. Deep down, we long for something more something beyond ourselves. That's how we are wired. We want to look deeper. But the thing is most of us carry pressure in our lives. When your loved one dies, the pressure is, how am I gonna make it by myself? When the loved ones are not around, how am I gonna cope with this? There's pressure all the way around, whether you're Colombian, Mexican, German, American, whatever you are, no matter what gender you are, you have pressure. If you were born in this earth, you have pressure. [00:38:02] (50 seconds)  #PurposeBeyondSuccess

Even in a connected world with super speeds in the Internet, many feel faster disconnected than any other time in life. There's a difference between being seen and truly being known. Being seen and truly being known, and many are missing that, to be known. And there's another thing, too many choices in our life today. Yesterday, we have a lady who who came in and we didn't have so many people. It was just the beginning of the service. And she says, I don't know where to sit. And there was pretty much every pew was empty. Too many choices can can be devastating. [00:35:20] (37 seconds)  #TrulyKnown

Many of us learn to cope with pain sometimes, learn to cope with circumstances. And sometimes we cope, but we don't necessarily know how to deal with those issues. And sometimes in our lives, we think that the new culture has weird things going on, and and when you look close, they got a lot of things going on that we do have way back then too. Back then, we used to numb our anxious hearts with things like puzzles. Right? That you you put on the table, you spend a whole day or two days doing that. Nowadays, it's a little different. Just scroll down. [00:33:08] (46 seconds)  #DontNumbYourPain

When our lives are built in performance, our hearts become fragile. Peace doesn't last. It's very quick. Can we can we say that we have peace when really things are not really solved? Not really. And when we no longer perform the way we should perform because there are other things that take place, maybe it's sick sickness or illness or maybe you're weak. When things are not going the way you want, you wonder, there's pressure. We begin to feel like we have lost our value. If we cannot do this, then I lost the value. I'm not needed anymore. Into those hearts, into those difficult moments in our culture, Jesus says this, let not your hearts be troubled. But he doesn't keep it there. He says, believe in me. [00:39:09] (59 seconds)