October 11, 2025 • 17 mins
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S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
F.B.I. Instructor N.R.A Instructor
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons. The preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Loving Jesus sounds good. Probably we would all say, yeah,
we should love Jesus. I would submit to you. One
of the important keys to loving Jesus is by getting
to know him. When you actually when you look at
(00:35):
who Jesus is, the life that he lived, lives the
things that he did. A tree is known by its fruit,
look at the deeds that he did. How could you
not love Jesus. So let us think about that. The
(00:59):
past that came to mind, the passage that brought this sermon,
by God's grace idea to mind. For you know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that you, through
his poverty, might become rich. This small passage is so
(01:27):
rich theologically, for you know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, grace, unmerited, unearned favor, a gift that you
don't deserve, that you don't warrant. That right there is
enough to love him. We see her Lord Jesus Christ,
(01:52):
King of King and Lord of lords more powerful than
any earthly king. Whatever hope to be could ever think
to be more power than we could ever comprehend. In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. Without him, was not anything
made that was made. Everything made was made. That includes
(02:15):
all the silver, all the gold, all the livestock, all
the land. Everything He made it. It's his. All the
kings and princes of this world just kind of scurry
about to lay claim to those things. But all those
things belonged to him. Wealth and riches beyond our comprehension.
(02:39):
The only one who can make something out of nothing
that's true wealth. Yet he became poor. He chose willingly
to become poor so that you might become rich. That
though you don't deserve anything, you might receive so many
(03:02):
good things in this life because again his grace, not
because you earn them, not because you deserve them. Unlike
most religions of the world, our religion is not righteousness
by works are true. Faith is righteousness as a gift
(03:28):
paid for in the blood of Jesus Christ. And the
root thereof is Christ. And the wonderful fruit of that
is your righteous works. To demonstrate your faith. It's not
earning earning earning to be good enough. It's saying that
Christ is enough. It's His wealth that paid the debt.
(03:53):
And now my fruit righteousness in Christ, made righteous by
the blood of Christ. And we show our gratitude with works.
We show our life in Christ through good works, through
righteousness of Christ given as a gift. Order is important.
(04:17):
That's a major theological difference. How could you not love Christ?
Thinking about that? Another verse that came to mind when
I took some quick notes on this. For He made
him who knew no sin, to be sin for us,
(04:38):
that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
For he made him who knew no sin, to be
sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of
God in him. He became sin for us. What does
that mean? Jesus was the Word, and the Word was
(04:59):
with God in the world. Word was God. You go
back to the word of the Torah Deuteronomy twenty one.
If a man has committed a sin deserving of death,
and he is put to death, and you hang him
on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on
the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day,
(05:20):
so that you do not defile the land which the
Lord your God has given you as an inheritance. For
he who is hanged is a cursed of God. Paul
states says very plainly in Galatians when he says, Christ
has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us. For it is written, cursed
(05:42):
is everyone who hangs on a tree. The kinsman redeemer.
Another another one of God's principles in the Torah is
the kinsman redeemer somebody that pays the debt that the
person themselves is unable to pay. This, obviously is no
coincidence Jesus being hung specifically as a death being hung
(06:06):
specifically written about all those millennia ago and Natrah when
God put in his principles on the kinsman redeemer that
somebody couldn't redeem themselves, so somebody else could redeem them,
and the kinsman redeemer of the man being redeemed as
in slavery and servitude, and the one redeeming him is free. Now,
(06:30):
if we think about this, from regards to sin, we
are all under sin. We have all sinned and fall
in short of the glory of God except Jesus. Therefore,
the only free man from sin, the only man free
from sin, came to redeem us as a redeemer, to
redeem those under sin. He paid the penalty that we
(06:51):
could not pay, a freedman freeing a slave paying the debt.
But unlike us, he never sinned, He never had to
bear the penalty of sin. We all bear the penalty
of sin in our lives and the ramifications of the
sins that we do, and we all, from time to
(07:12):
time bear the ramifications and consequences of sins that others do.
Sins have ripples, and they affect other people. That's why
God said when he wrote the law, it was written
for your good. The law was written for your good
because it's good for you. He tells you not to
cove it, because it's good for you. If you don't
cove it, it's good for your neighbor. If you don't
cove it, it's good for everybody. It's written for our good.
(07:34):
We all have to deal with those penalties. We all,
every human being alive save Christ, have sinned. But Jesus,
a man free from sin, the only man ever to
be free from sin, who never sinned, He redeemed Us,
He who didn't deserve to bear the burden, who didn't
deserve the curse, He became a curse by hanging on
(07:54):
that tree. How how could you not love Jesus when
you think about the beauty of that? Seeing then that
we have a great high priest who has passed through
the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold
fast to our confession, for we do not have a
(08:19):
high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness, but was
in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
You'll find this in Hebrews chapter four. Jesus was tempted
in all ways as we are. It's not because he
never sinned, because he didn't know, because he was never
tempted with sin. We all know that sin can be tempting.
(08:44):
Unlike Jesus, we give in to it from time to time,
from LUs to rage, to vengeance, coveting, adultery, fornication, stealing.
But we don't always resist those. Jesus always resisted those.
We don't have a savior who doesn't know what it's
(09:07):
like to be tempted, For we do not have a
high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness, but was
in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let Us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help
in time of need. If we think about that, that
(09:28):
Jesus was tempted in all ways as we are, but
didn't sin, He resisted, it is that not Should that
not be an inspiration to us to not sin? Should
that not make us fall in love with Christ? Now
a few times that he was tempted, this is nothing
compared to Christ. But yesterday I was out in the
(09:49):
wilderness and I honestly don't know how far I hyped.
If you conservatively say two point five miles an hour,
which is pretty slow, but it did take some breaks,
roughly twelve hours. That's a lot of miles. And I
foolishly brought one bottle of water because I thought foolishly
I would find water on the way, and I didn't.
(10:10):
Started at something like six am, and it was something
like five, well sis seven, between six and seven am
in the morning. It was round five pm in the
evening when I finally got to water that I would drink.
I was so thirsty. Because I knew I was running
out of water, I stopped eating, and I was very hungry.
(10:34):
This is nothing compared to Christ. He fasted for forty
days in the wilderness. He fasted for forty days in
the wilderness, and Satan came to him, tempting him, But
he didn't sin. He said, man does not live by
bread alone. How could you not love a man like that?
(10:58):
How could you not love a god like that? Who resisted.
I've never fasted for forty days. I can't even fathom
what that does to the body. And he was fully
man and fully God. He had a body. I cannot
imagine the depths of that hunger. But he didn't sin
when Satan brought him up and offered him all those kingdoms,
(11:21):
which was crazy when you think about it, because he
everything belongs to God, and tempted him with an easy way,
because narrow and difficult is the way right. His way
to the cross was difficult. When he offered him an
easy way, and you know, kingdoms of the world, if
he would only worship him, he said no. He resisted.
(11:41):
Whatever Satan is tempting you with, it's probably not the
kingdoms of the world. It might just be a small
portion of that power and influence and wealth, just a small,
tiny fraction. If Jesus can resist, then we can resist.
How do you not love Jesus when he stands up
(12:02):
to temptation like that? How can you not worship him?
He has been tempted in all ways, as we are
yet without sin, and again grace, not because we deserved
it from Romans five. For when we were still without
strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. As
(12:26):
a military man, I served in two branches of the
armed forces. It's kind of a thing that has gotten
a lot of Medal of Honor recipient recipients. And that's
somebody jumping on a grenade to save their friends, to
save their fellow fire team members, squad members, but people
(12:49):
they live with, people they love, and that's a brave
and noble thing. But think about this, For when we
were still without strength in due time, Christ for the ungodly,
for scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Yet
perhaps for a good man, someone would even dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love towards us, and that
(13:12):
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. We
were enemies of God. It says so a little bit
further down on the same chapter. For if when we
were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death
of his son, much more having been reconciled, we shall
be saved by his life. I would say no sacrifice
(13:37):
in history can even compare to the sacrifice of Christ
when you think about it. Not to take anything away
from those brave soldiers and marines who have jumped on
a grenade, but Jesus's sacrifice is so much more in
every way. For one, although they die young, who jump
(14:01):
on that grenade to save their friends, Jesus never had
to die. Death was not something Jesus had to go through.
It's something that I can expect to go through at
some point. It's something Jesus never had to go through.
He's an eternal being who chose to die. How much
more wonderful is that we all suffer in this life.
(14:27):
Jesus never had to suffer at all. And think about
all the suffering that he went through, the ridicule, the humiliation,
the being spit on and struck and whipped and mocked
and hung, hanging and dying, and suffering, becoming a curse
(14:49):
for us that we might become the righteousness of God
in him not. And it's a beautiful thing that one
lays down his life for his friend. It is a
beautiful thing when a man gives his life for another man.
No other human religion is like our true faith. That
God himself became a man and suffered and died for
(15:16):
those who were his enemies. That's my God and your God,
that's our God. That is the beauty of Christ. And
how could you not love a god like that? How
could you not love a savior like that? And I
(15:36):
submit if you would think about it, you would, And
the more you think about it, the more you would.
The issue is I think one of the core issues
is that were egocentric culture and society. And let's just
say it's satan. What have you focused on you? And
you get what you want and you do what you
want and you you you, and you've been wronged and
you've been her and you you you ego centric, focused
(15:58):
on selfocused on you. But all the stuff I'm talking
about is not being focused on you. It's being focused
on Christ. If you've ever lived a life focused on you, you
know how empty and hollow that can be is somebody
that didn't grow up a Christian. I can tell you
all the shiny bobbles of Babylon, good jobs, pretty girls.
None of that will fulfill you, will leave you empty
(16:20):
and hollow because you're focused on the wrong thing. If you, however,
shift your focus to Christ, that beautiful savior that we've
been talking about here for just a few scant minutes
and just some examples. If you focus on that beautiful Savior,
if you think about him, I would submit you will
(16:44):
love him and love him more the more you think
about him. So think on Christ. Because you you from Colossians,
you being dead and your trespasses and the circumcision of
your flesh, He has made a live together with him,
(17:05):
having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the hand
writing of requirements that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and he has taken it out of the way,
having nailed it to the cross, and closing out with
(17:27):
the verse that we started with. For you know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that you, through
his poverty, might become rich. Loving Jesus. It's easy when
(17:48):
you think about it,
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons. The preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Loving Jesus sounds good. Probably we would all say, yeah,
we should love Jesus. I would submit to you. One
of the important keys to loving Jesus is by getting
to know him. When you actually when you look at
(00:35):
who Jesus is, the life that he lived, lives the
things that he did. A tree is known by its fruit,
look at the deeds that he did. How could you
not love Jesus. So let us think about that. The
(00:59):
past that came to mind, the passage that brought this sermon,
by God's grace idea to mind. For you know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that you, through
his poverty, might become rich. This small passage is so
(01:27):
rich theologically, for you know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, grace, unmerited, unearned favor, a gift that you
don't deserve, that you don't warrant. That right there is
enough to love him. We see her Lord Jesus Christ,
(01:52):
King of King and Lord of lords more powerful than
any earthly king. Whatever hope to be could ever think
to be more power than we could ever comprehend. In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. Without him, was not anything
made that was made. Everything made was made. That includes
(02:15):
all the silver, all the gold, all the livestock, all
the land. Everything He made it. It's his. All the
kings and princes of this world just kind of scurry
about to lay claim to those things. But all those
things belonged to him. Wealth and riches beyond our comprehension.
(02:39):
The only one who can make something out of nothing
that's true wealth. Yet he became poor. He chose willingly
to become poor so that you might become rich. That
though you don't deserve anything, you might receive so many
(03:02):
good things in this life because again his grace, not
because you earn them, not because you deserve them. Unlike
most religions of the world, our religion is not righteousness
by works are true. Faith is righteousness as a gift
(03:28):
paid for in the blood of Jesus Christ. And the
root thereof is Christ. And the wonderful fruit of that
is your righteous works. To demonstrate your faith. It's not
earning earning earning to be good enough. It's saying that
Christ is enough. It's His wealth that paid the debt.
(03:53):
And now my fruit righteousness in Christ, made righteous by
the blood of Christ. And we show our gratitude with works.
We show our life in Christ through good works, through
righteousness of Christ given as a gift. Order is important.
(04:17):
That's a major theological difference. How could you not love Christ?
Thinking about that? Another verse that came to mind when
I took some quick notes on this. For He made
him who knew no sin, to be sin for us,
(04:38):
that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
For he made him who knew no sin, to be
sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of
God in him. He became sin for us. What does
that mean? Jesus was the Word, and the Word was
(04:59):
with God in the world. Word was God. You go
back to the word of the Torah Deuteronomy twenty one.
If a man has committed a sin deserving of death,
and he is put to death, and you hang him
on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on
the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day,
(05:20):
so that you do not defile the land which the
Lord your God has given you as an inheritance. For
he who is hanged is a cursed of God. Paul
states says very plainly in Galatians when he says, Christ
has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us. For it is written, cursed
(05:42):
is everyone who hangs on a tree. The kinsman redeemer.
Another another one of God's principles in the Torah is
the kinsman redeemer somebody that pays the debt that the
person themselves is unable to pay. This, obviously is no
coincidence Jesus being hung specifically as a death being hung
(06:06):
specifically written about all those millennia ago and Natrah when
God put in his principles on the kinsman redeemer that
somebody couldn't redeem themselves, so somebody else could redeem them,
and the kinsman redeemer of the man being redeemed as
in slavery and servitude, and the one redeeming him is free. Now,
(06:30):
if we think about this, from regards to sin, we
are all under sin. We have all sinned and fall
in short of the glory of God except Jesus. Therefore,
the only free man from sin, the only man free
from sin, came to redeem us as a redeemer, to
redeem those under sin. He paid the penalty that we
(06:51):
could not pay, a freedman freeing a slave paying the debt.
But unlike us, he never sinned, He never had to
bear the penalty of sin. We all bear the penalty
of sin in our lives and the ramifications of the
sins that we do, and we all, from time to
(07:12):
time bear the ramifications and consequences of sins that others do.
Sins have ripples, and they affect other people. That's why
God said when he wrote the law, it was written
for your good. The law was written for your good
because it's good for you. He tells you not to
cove it, because it's good for you. If you don't
cove it, it's good for your neighbor. If you don't
cove it, it's good for everybody. It's written for our good.
(07:34):
We all have to deal with those penalties. We all,
every human being alive save Christ, have sinned. But Jesus,
a man free from sin, the only man ever to
be free from sin, who never sinned, He redeemed Us,
He who didn't deserve to bear the burden, who didn't
deserve the curse, He became a curse by hanging on
(07:54):
that tree. How how could you not love Jesus when
you think about the beauty of that? Seeing then that
we have a great high priest who has passed through
the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold
fast to our confession, for we do not have a
(08:19):
high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness, but was
in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
You'll find this in Hebrews chapter four. Jesus was tempted
in all ways as we are. It's not because he
never sinned, because he didn't know, because he was never
tempted with sin. We all know that sin can be tempting.
(08:44):
Unlike Jesus, we give in to it from time to time,
from LUs to rage, to vengeance, coveting, adultery, fornication, stealing.
But we don't always resist those. Jesus always resisted those.
We don't have a savior who doesn't know what it's
(09:07):
like to be tempted, For we do not have a
high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness, but was
in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let Us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help
in time of need. If we think about that, that
(09:28):
Jesus was tempted in all ways as we are, but
didn't sin, He resisted, it is that not Should that
not be an inspiration to us to not sin? Should
that not make us fall in love with Christ? Now
a few times that he was tempted, this is nothing
compared to Christ. But yesterday I was out in the
(09:49):
wilderness and I honestly don't know how far I hyped.
If you conservatively say two point five miles an hour,
which is pretty slow, but it did take some breaks,
roughly twelve hours. That's a lot of miles. And I
foolishly brought one bottle of water because I thought foolishly
I would find water on the way, and I didn't.
(10:10):
Started at something like six am, and it was something
like five, well sis seven, between six and seven am
in the morning. It was round five pm in the
evening when I finally got to water that I would drink.
I was so thirsty. Because I knew I was running
out of water, I stopped eating, and I was very hungry.
(10:34):
This is nothing compared to Christ. He fasted for forty
days in the wilderness. He fasted for forty days in
the wilderness, and Satan came to him, tempting him, But
he didn't sin. He said, man does not live by
bread alone. How could you not love a man like that?
(10:58):
How could you not love a god like that? Who resisted.
I've never fasted for forty days. I can't even fathom
what that does to the body. And he was fully
man and fully God. He had a body. I cannot
imagine the depths of that hunger. But he didn't sin
when Satan brought him up and offered him all those kingdoms,
(11:21):
which was crazy when you think about it, because he
everything belongs to God, and tempted him with an easy way,
because narrow and difficult is the way right. His way
to the cross was difficult. When he offered him an
easy way, and you know, kingdoms of the world, if
he would only worship him, he said no. He resisted.
(11:41):
Whatever Satan is tempting you with, it's probably not the
kingdoms of the world. It might just be a small
portion of that power and influence and wealth, just a small,
tiny fraction. If Jesus can resist, then we can resist.
How do you not love Jesus when he stands up
(12:02):
to temptation like that? How can you not worship him?
He has been tempted in all ways, as we are
yet without sin, and again grace, not because we deserved
it from Romans five. For when we were still without
strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. As
(12:26):
a military man, I served in two branches of the
armed forces. It's kind of a thing that has gotten
a lot of Medal of Honor recipient recipients. And that's
somebody jumping on a grenade to save their friends, to
save their fellow fire team members, squad members, but people
(12:49):
they live with, people they love, and that's a brave
and noble thing. But think about this, For when we
were still without strength in due time, Christ for the ungodly,
for scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Yet
perhaps for a good man, someone would even dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love towards us, and that
(13:12):
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. We
were enemies of God. It says so a little bit
further down on the same chapter. For if when we
were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death
of his son, much more having been reconciled, we shall
be saved by his life. I would say no sacrifice
(13:37):
in history can even compare to the sacrifice of Christ
when you think about it. Not to take anything away
from those brave soldiers and marines who have jumped on
a grenade, but Jesus's sacrifice is so much more in
every way. For one, although they die young, who jump
(14:01):
on that grenade to save their friends, Jesus never had
to die. Death was not something Jesus had to go through.
It's something that I can expect to go through at
some point. It's something Jesus never had to go through.
He's an eternal being who chose to die. How much
more wonderful is that we all suffer in this life.
(14:27):
Jesus never had to suffer at all. And think about
all the suffering that he went through, the ridicule, the humiliation,
the being spit on and struck and whipped and mocked
and hung, hanging and dying, and suffering, becoming a curse
(14:49):
for us that we might become the righteousness of God
in him not. And it's a beautiful thing that one
lays down his life for his friend. It is a
beautiful thing when a man gives his life for another man.
No other human religion is like our true faith. That
God himself became a man and suffered and died for
(15:16):
those who were his enemies. That's my God and your God,
that's our God. That is the beauty of Christ. And
how could you not love a god like that? How
could you not love a savior like that? And I
(15:36):
submit if you would think about it, you would, And
the more you think about it, the more you would.
The issue is I think one of the core issues
is that were egocentric culture and society. And let's just
say it's satan. What have you focused on you? And
you get what you want and you do what you
want and you you you, and you've been wronged and
you've been her and you you you ego centric, focused
(15:58):
on selfocused on you. But all the stuff I'm talking
about is not being focused on you. It's being focused
on Christ. If you've ever lived a life focused on you, you
know how empty and hollow that can be is somebody
that didn't grow up a Christian. I can tell you
all the shiny bobbles of Babylon, good jobs, pretty girls.
None of that will fulfill you, will leave you empty
(16:20):
and hollow because you're focused on the wrong thing. If you, however,
shift your focus to Christ, that beautiful savior that we've
been talking about here for just a few scant minutes
and just some examples. If you focus on that beautiful Savior,
if you think about him, I would submit you will
(16:44):
love him and love him more the more you think
about him. So think on Christ. Because you you from Colossians,
you being dead and your trespasses and the circumcision of
your flesh, He has made a live together with him,
(17:05):
having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the hand
writing of requirements that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and he has taken it out of the way,
having nailed it to the cross, and closing out with
(17:27):
the verse that we started with. For you know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that you, through
his poverty, might become rich. Loving Jesus. It's easy when
(17:48):
you think about it,
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!