you are about to get something from God that is going to release you to love
like you haven't been able to love and enjoy the life he died to give you so
John says that near the cross of Jesus remember he's on the cross and now let's
see who's at the cross first of all his mother the one who carried him now had
to watch him carry her cross that she deserved that he did not and I think
there's a whole message maybe I'll preach Mother's Day on this verse one
time because it'd be a great Mother's Day scripture what kind of strength does
it take for a mom to stand there and watch her son die completely unable to
do anything about it just standing there it says that near the cross of Jesus
stood his mother it does not record one word that she
spoke but she stood with him she stood with him sometimes the
greatest testimony of your loyalty is not what you will say to someone but how
you will stand with them cuz we've all got a cross we've all got seasons that
we will go into that will divide those who are loud from those who are really
loyal and who I see at the cross isn't who I expect to see at the cross here's
Mary the mother of Jesus there's her sister there's Mary the wife
of Clopas and there's Mary Magdalene she had a rough life Jesus really helped her
he cast some demons out of her that nobody else had been able to deal with
and that created a kind of loyalty within her that she was like even if all
I can do is stand here and cry I'm not leaving I wonder could you get there
with God that even if all I can do is stand here and wait to see what will
become you can't run me off you've been too good to me
and done too much for me I'm not going anywhere
you have the words of eternal life I'm staying near the cross and when Jesus
saw his mother there John tells us and the disciple whom he loved John says
that's me standing nearby he said to her woman here is your son and then watch
this he looked at the disciple whom he loved the self-proclaimed favorite and
gave him a job here is your mother let's skip the fact that none of us in the
room would be able to put aside our own selfishness enough if we were suffering
like that to think about anyone else because you know when you're going
through something you don't ask anybody how their day is and if you do you
really don't want to know and you hope they don't answer you all you can really
handle is fine I'm telling when you're going through something and you really
need to watch for this because I went through something a couple years ago
with my dad and somebody gave me good advice they said don't tell a lot of
people what you're going through find a few people you could tell what you're
going through most people are going to ask you they really don't care that
would have been worth your trip to church today just to know that they
really don't mean tell me all about it they really don't they see you coming
they dodge you because your knees have been hurting six months and it's all you
talk about your sore back it's all you talk about how hard has been with your
kids most people don't want to know all that
because they've got their own stuff they've got their own things they're dealing
with and to me the presence of mind of Jesus and I want to be more like this
cuz I'm really not here yet nor am I in the vicinity of this kind of
Christlikeness but that he was able to look to the needs of others while he
died for them not after he got up while he's bleeding for their sins he says hey
look out for her and you look out for him and he's doing in his death what he
did in his life bringing them together as he dies hey John I need you to do
something for me look out for her and he's your son now
that's crazy isn't that crazy cuz I would have been up there I would not have even
seen John standing at the cross cuz I would have been so mad at Peter I would
have been so mad at Andrew and Natha.. and don't even get me started on Judas
oh my god I would not have seen John cuz I would have been making up my plan for
how I was gonna get back at Judas
sometimes we don't see those who are with us because we can only think of
those who left us but I want to declare over your life today
God will always leave a John at your cross you got who you need you got what
you need if they left you who was that for be
honest about it you have been so upset about the
encouragement that you're not getting from somebody you are tripping over the
encouragement of 16 other people cuz you're mad at Bob
well what about Bob if Bob left the cross reach out to John there's a John at your cross
i feel something happening in your heart right now that just set you free you don't
have to worry about who left if they left they're gone if John is at the cross
besides why would Jesus be mad at Judas he needed John to be there at the cross
but he needed Judas to get him to the cross
this is a hard one this is a hard one you might have to realize that some of
the people that you hate the most actually helped you get to the place
where you needed to be to do what God called you to do do you believe that can
you receive this this is a hard saying this is the kind of stuff Jesus would
say and people would just walk away but Jesus wasn't cursing Judas it took Judas
it took a broken heart it took a betrayal some of the people
that left you were teaching you to love the people who are still there it took
that it doesn't justify what they did
but maybe I'm gonna get mature enough one day where I can be like Jesus and I
won't miss John cursing Judas yes it is
I'm gonna say this about six different ways before I close to make sure you get
it cuz that's my message is that it takes two it takes two it takes two I
want to rock right now
touch somebody say I'm not internationally-known
and see when you got it like this come on somebody say I got it like that Jesus
so knew who he was and he had so received the affirmation
that could only be given in the baptism at the Jordan this is my son and I am
pleased with him that no matter who wasn't there he was so convinced about
who was that he could look at John and look at Mary and die like this and give like that and when
you really get it like this I mean when you wake up in the morning and know that
God has blessed you to see another day you will not be needy anymore okay
I'll say it just like that you're too needy
and you're too blessed to be this needy
I'm just telling you what God told me you think it's hard for you to hear I
had to hear it all week God kept me up all week getting this message ready for you
and he said I need for your validation not to be in somebody else's mouth I
need your validation to be in that cross I need you to be complete in that cross
so that if you don't get it from your mom if you don't get it from your
daughter listen sometimes people are giving you all they can give you they
can't give you anymore and if you don't get it like this you will never get it
like that you need to set some people free today from not giving you keys to
your freedom that they don't hold
you have got to release some people from the expectation of perfection they can't
be everything to you even John couldn't get him down all he could do was stand
there so I don't want to look to people to do for me what only God can I don't
want to be grabbing for garments at the foot of the cross if I got it like this
I can give it like that whoever this is for you've been trying to get affection
from the wrong direction
you've been reaching for validation in all the wrong places you're not gonna
get it like this that's where you give that's where Paul said if there's any
comfort from being united with Christ watch he's drawing a cross he's saying this to the
Philippian church you could look it up Philippians 1 and chapter 2 verse 1 and
2 something like that it's in Philippians somewhere google it it says
you got it oh if there's any encouragement from being united with
Christ somebody say I got it like that okay that's the part we're good at in
church he forgave me he saved me he loves me he accepts me but Paul says if
you got it like that any comfort from his love how many are comforted by the
love of Christ in your heart today if you got it like that having the same
love being one in spirit and of one mind I love this next instruction then make
my joy complete if you got it like that give it like this so I want to wake up
this week and I want to see all of my shame my
need on that cross I want to receive all of my validation at that cross I want to
carry whatever cross God has given me and not resent the people who didn't
give me what I thought I needed
because I am complete in that cross I don't need you to tell me that I'm loved
maybe it's time for me to tell you that your loved
maybe I've lived my life doing this long enough maybe it's time to live like he
died
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