Something significant there.

All right, well, I'm in this series called Goaded all year,

and where I'm arguing that Jesus is more than a Redeemer

who simply wants to get you to heaven,

he's a rabbi who teaches you how to live on earth.

And so because he's the greatest of all time,

we're saying the goat, Jesus is a lamb.

And the lamb is teaching us, has been teaching us all month, how to circumvent self-sabotized.

So I'm not done with goaded, but this sermon will be the concluding sermon in this volume two focusing on self-sabotage.

And so I want to read a few verses in Luke chapter number 23 23 beginning at verse number 39. You got time for a word today? I say you got time for a word today? Right. Luke 2339 says

one of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him, aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself and us, but the other criminal rebuked him.

Don't you fear God? Since you're under the same sentence? We're punished justly, for we're getting

what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong. Then he said, Jesus, remember me

when you come into your kingdom. Jesus answered him, truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.

I want to stop the reading of scripture there.

Typically when this text is taught, the focus is on the thief on the cross that acts to be with Jesus in paradise.

Today, I want us to pay attention to the other thief on the cross

because he's got something to teach us as well.

And so I want to use him to teach us something today

that's captured in this subject

when stubbornness has you stuck. I got that response at the other two

services. When stubbornness has you stuck. Clap your hands if you're ready for a word from God.

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