Aren't you glad that's not the rule, right; like can you imagine meeting her one day sir; her saying: how did you meet the risen Christ? You say: I came to Bay City Outreach Centre, and God moved on my heart, and at the end of the service the pastor gave me an opportunity to respond to Jesus, and I prayed a prayer and asked Jesus in my heart, and it changed my life forever. It's the greatest thing I ever did - ever. How would you feel if she looked at you and went: what? You didn't wash His feet with your hair? Oh no, I'm in, you're out; I'm right, you're wrong. I mean with all respect to all of you - for you to wash his feet with your hair, you'd have to be turned upside down and used like a buffer. Is Jesus allowed?
Hey, like there's this one time Jesus has this encounter with this guy in a tree, and he says: Zacchaeus, I think I want to eat with you. Zacchaeus is so moved with the compassion of Jesus, that he says: look, I'll give half of what I have to the poor, and Jesus says: that's it, salvation has come to your house! Whoa! Is Jesus allowed? Oooh! He hadn't done anything, except for to express that he was going to give half what he had to the poor. Can you get saved that way? Are you allowed? Is Jesus allowed?
And what if you could have been there and He asked your advice. What if there was this guy up a tree and this happened, and He turned to you and said: hey, what do you reckon I do with this guy? I don't know Jesus, what do you reckon? I think I'm going to call him saved, but I'm not just going to call him saved, I'm going to call everybody in his house saved. Would you have said: um, oh, well that doesn't make sense to me, but it's your world Jesus, and You could do what You like; or would you be the person giving all the verses as to why Jesus can't do something?
Can I not do what I want to do, with my own money? There was this one time - is Jesus allowed to do what He wants? Do I still get an amen on that? [Amen.] Or are we questioning ourselves now? Oh good.
There's this one time Jesus is having a particularly bad day, and He ended up nailed to a cross right - pretty bad day right? I know, you think your day is stressful, but not much compared to that. Jesus finds Himself nailed to a cross, it's a pretty stressful day, and He still finds Himself thinking about other people. He's still up on the cross going: oh, forgive them. Yes, forgive them - and then there's this guy on a cross next to Him, that's having an equally bad day; and I don't know what you know about crucifixion, but it's very difficult to breathe. He looks at Jesus, and he says: um, ah, please remember me? And what does Jesus say? Well Bo, you better hurry up and say the sinner's prayer, or they're not going to think your saved in 2013. No! What does Jesus say? He says: today you will be with me - in paradise. Hold on, where did Jesus go that day? Hell - so is heaven and hell in the same room? Umm, is Jesus allowed? What if you had been there?
What if Jesus was hanging on the cross, and this guy says: please remember me? Jesus says: hey, what do you reckon I do with that? You go: I don't know Jesus, what do you reckon? I reckon we're going to call him in, how about that? Would you have said: well Jesus, this is Your world, do what You want; or would you be the person giving Him all the scriptures as to why He can't let the guy in - because Romans 10, 9 and 10 clearly says: you have to believe in your heart, and confess with your mouth! Is Jesus allowed to call that guy in, just on a request: please remember me? Is Jesus allowed? Don't I have the right to do what I want to do, with my own money? Could Jesus do what He likes? Everybody instantly says: yes; but hang on, would you be okay with that?
My personal favorite, there's this one time Jesus was preaching, and it says: the house was full, and there was a paralysed guy outside and couldn't get in, so his friends took him to the roof of the house, and took the roof off.
Now I was wrong about this: I used to picture like a straw roof, and they would cut a hole in it - that's actually not true. I had a history expert from Israel correct me on this. He said: in that region, because of the climate, they had to have stone roofs; and so to remove the roof of the house would have required moving an entire slab of stone. That's why it would have taken all four of them, and so they removed this entire slab of stone, and they lower the guy in. It's one of the most chaotic scenes in Jesus' whole ministry. They lower him in from the roof of the house; and it says this: and Jesus saw the faith of his friends, and proclaimed his sins forgiven. Is Jesus allowed? And what if you were there? What if He asked your advice: hey, what do you reckon I do with this? I don't know Jesus, what do You reckon? I think I'm going to forgive his sins. But Jesus, he has no faith! I know, but his friends have faith, we'll count that.