i don't know if you've ever had a moment where you don't feel like you represented jesus well has anybody ever had a moment like that i had one last week i'm not proud of it but i'm going to share it with you i went to the gym it was a tuesday and what i do at the gym i do the same thing every time i warm up on the bike and if you're a young person you're like why do you warm up amen old people one day they will know like my wife saw me other
day she's like what are you doing i'm like getting ready to take out the trash don't want to pull a hammy so i'm on the bike and i'm riding and i and i broke one of the cardinal laws of working out at la fitness i forgot my headphones which means i have to eavesdrop of all the other conversations that are happening around me right you don't want to listen to other people's conversation but you do amen how many of you do raise your hands if your hand is not up you're a liar which is also
a sin and we all do this so i'm riding the bike and three individuals come into the room it's a private room in la fitness where they're just bicycles and i go there because nobody's in there because i love people like jesus and i go in there and there's three dudes and they come in and my first thought is hmm you guys don't look like you belong in a gym now i know that's judgmental that's what we all do amen we do it some of you did that today you're like you don't look like you
belong in church and so they came in and they did they didn't look like athletes but they got on the bike and they started listening to their conversation and you know when you just you're just catching like every other word you're not catching the whole thing because you're trying to act like you're not listening so i'm trying to pretend like i'm looking at my phone but i'm really listening and i hear god bible study jesus i'm like oh man this one guy is trying to lead these two other guys to christ and here's what's interesting
is not only do they look like they don't belong in a gym they didn't look like they went to church and so i'm listening and i hear the guy say it's all about love man it's all about love it's all about love god loves you god loves me it's all about love and he says this god's love is effing awesome drops the f-bomb i mean i don't know that that's an appropriate way to share the gospel but i'm rooting for him and then he says this he says hey man do you guys smoke weed and
they said yeah which i was fine like you finally something that looks like that's what you do and they say yeah we smoke weed he said great come over to my house and we will study god's word and smoke a bowl together and i don't know what happened i don't know how it happened but all of a sudden i was a part of their small group i was i was no longer on my bike now my wife my wife accuses me of being intense and i don't believe her because i never see it right i
just it just happens and so i'm in the middle of these three pothead guys that are talking about jesus and apparently i'm intense because they're all like this and i i turn to the guy that's sharing the gospel and i say you need to stop talking about jesus i was like you don't know him and you guys are lost and this whole thing is a mess and he goes bro it's all about love it's all about love and you're not being loving he goes who do you think you are i said well i'm a pastor
he goes to what church and i go sandals and he goes i was like jesus please don't don't let this guy go to sandals i said where so where do you go to church thank god it wasn't sandals but he said man i've been to your church he said you're really intense man and i that's what i did i just apologize i said look guys i apologize for my intensity i don't want to fight and they're like okay i said i apologize to you the guy's sharing jesus i apologize to you guy that doesn't know
jesus and i apologize to you guy who i don't think knows jesus or these two guys right like did you smoke a bowl already today and here's what i told him god loves you but this guy doesn't know anything about god's love because god's love is transformative and they said man weed is good i said no no wheat is weed is witchcraft he's like what are you talking about i said in the bible when you read the greek word for witchcraft it's pharmakia where we get our english word pharmacy you don't need drugs to connect
with jesus you need jesus to connect with god and i challenged the man i challenged him i said you don't know god and i told the guy you need to stop inviting people to your small group you don't don't tell people about jesus until you've met jesus and he said well i just feel like i can keep following jesus and smoking weed i said i used to smoke weed he said what happened i said i met jesus listen to me if you tried to convince me today that you got hit by a truck out on
palmerita and you look the same i'm not going to believe you if you tell me you ran into the son of god the creator of the universe the one who old holds the earth makes it spin and float and you look and act the same i don't know that i believe you it says they are lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god having listen to me the appearance of godliness but they deny its power if the resurrected jesus hasn't resurrected you he hasn't changed you avoid what such people all of our good people they
talk about love they talk about god they talk about church they don't know any of that see people that don't know god's word think it's all about love look at this next passage let's read the first three words together the dot dot dot i put in there that's not in the scripture i just want you to see this as a command ready what does it say do not what do not love this is a command do not love we are not called to love everything do not love there's no dot dot dot do not love
this world nor the things it offers for when you love the world you do not have the love of the father in you you got to make a choice look if god wanted you to stay the same why did he send his son to die on the cross why not just send a valentine card like i think the death of jesus is excessive if you're good don't you agree hey son i want you to go die why i think it's a great way to send a card jesus said father if there's any other way but
this let's make that happen and the father said there's no other way let me tell you why your sin leads to death and someone had to die for you and he didn't die for you so you could live the same he died for you so you could live differently do not love this world nor the things that it offers for when you love the world you do not have the love of the father you in you jesus said this way in the last times listen to these words very carefully this is in matthew in the
last times the love of many will grow cold in the greek it's suco sounds like psycho amen people are going to go nuts when it comes to love
