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In chains I was bound,

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I was a madman

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on the run.

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Through the hills

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set me free.

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Oh, oh.

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Truth set me free.

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Oh,

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oh. Truth set me free.

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6 PM

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central time.

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And welcome back this week. Well, I know

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we've missed a week, and it's nice to

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be back.

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Brian, do you have a good, good week

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since the last time we got to meet.

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That was 2 weeks ago. We have. We

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have been

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really busy and,

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had

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a my youngest daughter,

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how she got engaged this past weekend. So,

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that empty nest syndrome is coming soon, you

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know, but

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we're we're thankful that the Lord sent her,

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the young man that he did, and,

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looking forward to seeing how God's gonna use

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him.

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Yes. Yes. I was I saw that on

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Facebook and man, I was so excited for

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y'all. I was like, hey, they they're getting

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another one. That's awesome. How about you, brother

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Dennis? You had a good couple of weeks?

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I've had a couple of weeks, man.

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I've had a couple of weeks. I'm

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challenged lately.

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I'm,

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taking care of my mom a lot. She's,

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she's 87, almost 88 is,

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pretty, pretty deep into Alzheimer's.

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And we're getting 2 o'clock phone calls and

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hallucinations

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and that kind of thing is is a

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real challenge.

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a very, very hard thing. We went through

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that with 2 of my family members,

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my dad's mom and and his aunt. And,

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oh, man, I I will never forget the

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number of times at 2 AM we were

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woke up with a phone call

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even when we had somebody there Yeah. Trying

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to keep an eye on her. I mean,

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you just can't Yeah. You don't you don't

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know how long it might last because,

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they can be healthy otherwise as far as

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just continue to oh, yeah. To

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degenerate. And I took her to, to Wendy's,

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to eat. I guess it was Saturday.

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And I was working because I'd driven my

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truck down there and it's a little bit

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taller, you know, and I was like, I

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don't know if she can get in this

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thing. I went to open the door for

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her. She just climbed right in there. Yeah.

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Like it was nothing. Yeah. Yeah. And we

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got there and I went to open the

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door. I was walking around the truck. She

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was out.

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It's like £95 of wire, buddy. Yeah. I'm

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just yeah.

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Hey. Hey. That's I I will say, though,

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it is kinda like going through, especially, you

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know, at a certain stage. It's it's like

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watching them go through childhood again because they

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get they get kinda some energy in there.

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to do stuff. And it's like they they

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really can't, but they will push themselves way

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way further and you're just like, man, I've

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never seen my

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And and I know overall there's nothing there's

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nothing funny in it, but there is some

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some

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some funny time from comical times. Oh, yeah.

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The things they say. I know Nicole's granddaddy,

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her great granddaddy,

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was still alive when we started dating, and

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and,

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he would, he he made these he made

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canes and all different kind of stuff. He

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was a carpenter by trade,

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and,

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he,

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so he would still like to carve on

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stuff and make some stuff. So he had

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made these these canes out of out of

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some type of tree, and,

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and so he would sell them to family

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members. You know?

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But sometimes he would he would take some

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of them with him, and they lived,

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really close to the management area. And he

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would walk down on the management area there

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in the national park

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and and, sometimes you just have to go

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get him. Like, we'd go get him on

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the 4 wheeler and hit right back on

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the 4 wheeler with us and

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and, you get down the road and he'd

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say, I forgot my billfold. He said that

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or they got my billfold and then they

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got my sticks. Yeah.

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so where do you think they are? You

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know, you just kind of try to to

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work with them, you know, and he'd say,

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well, that might be right over there, and

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he had put them under a

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bunch of brush or something, you know, over

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there.

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a few times at some things that he

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done, but then again, it's it's just sad.

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It's sad overall.

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Yeah. Well, it hurts to see somebody you

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love going through that, but there is silver

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lining and, hey. You know, child of god.

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Yeah. Yeah. Better day is coming. That's right.

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Yeah. Yeah. I was I was at her

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house today just praying over her house, praying

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over her, praying over the land, praying over

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everything I could find, you know, just just

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give her peace. Yeah. She just needs peace.

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That's right. That's right. And that that will

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come. That will come. Yeah. And

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like I say, I went through that with

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2 family members, and, yeah, we had funny

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stories. We had some stuff

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early on before,

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my my great aunt got so bad that

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she

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was nonfunctional,

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she could still drive. Oh, no.

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That reminds me I meant to take her

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battery cable off.

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We had we finally had to sit down

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and talk to her to try and get

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the keys away from her,

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because some section police officer pulled her over.

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Oh, boy. But we had and when he

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found her, he was like,

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ma'am, do you do you know where because

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she was going real slow, you know, on

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that 35 over there where it's like 65

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miles an hour. Yeah. And she was driving,

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like, 20. Oh. And he was like,

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okay. Something's wrong here. So he pulled her

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over. He got talking to her a little

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bit. Well, where do you live? And she

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gets, oh, over next Mountain View Baptist Church

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over there.

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And he went,

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where?

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And and finally managed to figure out where

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she was supposed to be, and they literally,

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did a hand off at every town and

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and navigated her, got her all the way

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back to her house. And Yeah. Sylvania police

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officer met her and helped her get over

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here and got her parked and everything. And

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after that, dad sat down with her and

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he said,

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you know, when, when somebody you love starts

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doing this kind of stuff and and kinda

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and literally just explained to her because she

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didn't remember doing it. Yeah. Explained to her

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what she did. And he said, you know,

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if somebody you cared about did that, what

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would you have to do?

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She never said a word. She reached over.

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She picked the keys up, handed them to

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him.

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Never asked. And Wow. It was it was

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probably a year or more before she ever

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asked Yeah. Where are my keys? Yeah. And

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then, you know, when it got real far

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gone, she would ask that a lot. But

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at that time, she was had just enough

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that he was able to to explain it

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to her, and she went, well, that's dangerous.

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Yeah. Yeah. Praise praise the lord. My mother

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doesn't wanna drive at all. So That's hey.

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That's a blessing. That's good. Yeah. Well, man,

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I I had a great last week, I

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was I was up in Blue Ridge. We

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were on some old

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old land back there in the middle of

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the 4 the national forest out there. I

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got to have an old church service they

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kick off there in such as Georgia. They

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kick off a,

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week long revival,

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starting on Labor Day, Sunday. And,

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they had their homecoming. So we get we

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always go over and join that and get

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to spend time on the old family land

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there where my grandmother grandmother's

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parents were from.

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And it was, man, it was a blast

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seeing my kids get to be in a

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an old fashioned worship service. No electronics, no

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lights, no music, anything. I mean, the music

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was just somebody playing a piano, you know?

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And man, it was it was something else.

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But, you know very glad to be back

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and, you know, I always laugh and say

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you need a vacation from your vacation but

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thankfully I was able to get a little

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bit of rest while we were over there.

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So I know this week you guys have

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some stuff you want to talk about on

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prayer and we're going to dive into that.

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Every week, I like to throw out a

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little bit of a tidbit here. And one

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of the things that I've heard some people

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complaining about lately was,

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the latest Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity.

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Some people got really upset about it. Some

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people are saying it was bad because of

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the person that they were talking about when

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they decided other people were saying this is

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gonna be horrible

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forever.

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And again, it goes back to that last

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Supreme Court decision I brought up a couple

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of weeks ago. It was just procedure stuff.

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It wasn't actually anything. They didn't make a

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new law. They didn't reinterpret something. It was

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just stuff that was existing and they just

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kick things back down to the other court

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and said, look, you gotta decide what is

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a presidential power, what was he authorized to

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do, what did he do under that? Those

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things, he's immune.

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If it's on the periphery of that, he's

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immune to it. And then anything that was

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an unofficial act, there's no immunity. You can

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file whatever criminal proceedings you want. So make

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up, you know, court, make up your mind.

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You guys didn't do this and you're required

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to.

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That was really all the decision was. However,

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the one thing that all the justices kept

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talking about that I thought was really interesting

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and have seen a lot of discussion about

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it was they kept saying if a president

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does something that is illegal,

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the house is to bring charges, impeachment charges.

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The senate is to try him. And if

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he's convicted, he's no longer has immunity for

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that action. Yeah. The interesting thing was they

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mentioned this multiple times,

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and I a lot of legal scholars got

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to look at it and they said, you

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know, there's actually nothing in the law that

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says they have to do that while the

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person's in office.

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somebody can't do something the last day in

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office and that was things that people were

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were ringing up, oh, the last day in

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office, they do something real horrible and then

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you can't do anything. No. It doesn't work

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that way. They can go to them afterward

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and say, nope. Sorry. That was that was

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crossing a line. You can't do that. We're

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impeaching. We're convicting.

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You're now open to criminal charges,

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But it is a barrier so that the

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president can make those snap decisions without having

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to worry about, hey. I might go to

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prison over this.

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And also he's not he they they did

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explicitly say none of his actions are free

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of civil prosecution.

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So people can sue him.

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So And they do. Yeah. And they do.

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They do all the time. So, you know,

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if people wanna try that, you know, go

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for it. You're you're gonna be out a

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couple $100,000 for a lawsuit. And more than

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likely, the person that is now a multimillionaire

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if they weren't before they went in the

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office

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Yeah. It's gonna be able to to to

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walk away without a scratch. So, you know,

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again, be praying about all the things that

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people are saying and doing because they're they're

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making mountains out of molehills, guys. Yeah. Let's

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pray about it as Christians. Keep keep your

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mind out of all that stuff and just

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stay in the will of God and just

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pray that God's gonna lead us where we

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need to go. Yeah. Focus. Focus. Focus. Focus.

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Which is a nice segue into talking about

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prayer. Yeah. And I think I think, you

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know, as as our our job as believers,

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you know, is really

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summed up to me in in Romans 8:29

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where Paul says every believer has been predestined

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to become conformed to the image of his

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son, that he might be the firstborn among

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many brethren.

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And,

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how we do that, how do we, we

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have to be in a relationship with God

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to do that. Right? And

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and prayer is is number 1 of out

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of everything that we do. And and, you

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know, the people for years years years didn't

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have Bibles. They had church and prayer. Yeah.

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Right? And and that prayer is critical. It's

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the number one most critical thing of a

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Christian life. And if you wanna grow and

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have a relationship with God, you've got to

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talk to him. That's right. Amen. Amen.

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Amen. In,

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James 5 16 is one of my favorite

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scriptures on prayer. Yeah.

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And it it just talks about coming to

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one another. First it talks about confessing your

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faults to one another that you may be

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healed, but then it says the effectual, fervent

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prayer of a righteous man availeth much. What

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it means is the effective prayer of a

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righteous man.

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It doesn't mean a perfect man, but it

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means a man who loves the lord, who

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tries to follow God in everything that he

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does.

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That's the people you want on your side,

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isn't it? I mean, those are those prayer

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warriors. There there are people who

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when I know that there's something wrong in

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my family, I know that there's something going

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on

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that I really need prayer about.

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There are people that come to my mind,

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and I think, okay. I want this person

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praying about this. I want this person praying

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about this because I

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know that their prayers are effective. I know

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God's gonna hear them. Because you know they're

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they're abiding in Christ. That's right. Yeah. Like

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Jesus said to do. He's bind. We're the

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branches. We abide in him. That's right. And

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you can tell you can tell if you've

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hung out with somebody for a while that

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that whether they're abiding or not. You know.

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Yeah. Most times most times. But I mean,

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somebody they'll fool you every now and then,

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I guess. That's right. But, yeah, you're right.

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I mean, you can you can you can

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kind of latch on to somebody that's that's

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or we can latch on to each other.

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Yeah. That if somebody's really walking with God,

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their prayers are gonna get heard. That's right.

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Loud and clear. And those are the people

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too that that that Jesus describes in uh-uh

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Matthew 21 where he says,

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if you ask with belief you will receive

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it. Yeah. Right? And we like to think,

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well I just didn't believe hard enough for

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that new truck.

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Or you know whatever it is we we

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got our hearts set on. But,

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it it really has more to do with

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an eternal perspective.

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Yeah, yeah. Well, first John kind of covers

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that because it says and this is the

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confidence that

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we have in him

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that if we asked anything

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according to his will Yeah. He heareth.

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He heareth us.

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And if we know that he hears us

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whatsoever we ask, we know that we have

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the petition that we desired of him. Yeah.

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So,

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yeah. A lot a lot of those you

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know, we look at those scriptures, you know,

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James 4:3 says,

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you know, you received not because you asked

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Emmaus.

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Again,

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you're not lining up with God's will, you

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know? Yeah. Therefore, Mark 11:24,

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I say unto you whatsoever things soever you

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desire when you pray, believe that you receive

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them

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and you shall have them. But again, it's

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not talking about the new car. It's not

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talking about the house. And I'm not saying

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I'm not saying that we can't pray about,

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lord, you know, you know, I need this

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I need a job. You know? If this

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is the job that you want me to

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have,

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and and I can further your kingdom there

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and I can be used there, then if

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it's your will, lord, let me let me

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do this. And I think we should pray

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about everything. Absolutely. We should pray about buying

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a car or buying a house.

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But not to the point where we're coveting

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somebody else what they have.

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Yeah. Just just knowing that we're staying in

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God's will. Because we may want a

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a $90,000

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car, but God may say, hey. I got

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a $10,000

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car that'll do just fine. Right. Right. It

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won't bankrupt you. You can, you know,

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whatever. And and that that's another thing. He

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doesn't want us living in crazy debt like

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we do these days. Yeah. But when we

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do pray pray for stuff amiss all the

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time Yeah. All the time. But

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the thing is is you know we don't

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get close to God because we don't pray

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and then we don't pray and don't get

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close to God. It's just it

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the number one thing we do in a

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relationship, if you want to have a relationship

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with somebody, you got to talk to them

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and you got to listen to it. That's

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right.

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It don't work any other way. And that's

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what prayer is, isn't it? It is. It's

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just a conversation. Yeah. Just conversation. There's a

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there's a lady here at the church. I

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won't call out her name, but man, I

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love to hear her pray out loud. So

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woah.

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She's,

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that's her father. That's her daddy. Yes. Yes.

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Yes. And and it's just intimate. It is.

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It is. It's very intimate. Yeah. I know

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exactly who you're talking about. Yeah. And and

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it's exactly what we want with our children.

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Right. Our our heavenly father doesn't want anything

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different than we want with our kids Yeah.

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To talk to them and to listen to

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them. And that's why that's why he created

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us. Something from the very beginning from Adam

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and Eve. He he created Adam and he

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walked with Adam. You know? They they they

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they had a relationship

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and

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and, yes, he was creator and he he

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has his place,

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above us,

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because he is all powerful. But he wants

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to have an intimate relationship with us. He

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wants to have a father son relationship with

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us. He wants to have a

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you know, those are my children, and and

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I love my children. And so I wanna

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I wanna I wanna talk to them. And

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we get so and we can talk about

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that in a minute, but we get so,

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phariseutical, I guess, about our prayer life. We

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do. You know? Yeah. Like, we wanna make

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it sound

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good, and we wanna Yeah. You know, say

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certain things. We don't be in a lot

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of people are embarrassed to pray in front

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of people

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just because they're afraid they'll say something that'll

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be embarrassed. You know? But yet we'll have

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conversations with each other in front of people

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and that's all it is. You're having a

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conversation with God. It really is. And and

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he loves to hear from us. He does.

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Yeah. I I know that when my son

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calls, it's like, oh, hey. Hey. That's that's

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for my house. Pick it up. You know?

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Yeah. And I'll I'll do whatever I'm doing.

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I'll stop. That's right. Right? And pick it

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up. And he does the same thing with

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us. And we we complicate. We we think

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we gotta have this written out, you know,

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sermon or almost a sermon. Right? Yeah. It's

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like we want everybody else to hear how

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great we pray

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and using these and thou's and, you know,

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all this King James English. That's it. That's

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it. Just talk to him. That's it's he

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wants it real. That's Matthew 6:7 through 13.

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But when you pray,

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use not vain repetition as the heathen do,

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for they think that they shall be heard

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for their much speaking.

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Be not you therefore

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like an unto them for your father

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knoweth what things you have need of before

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you ask him. After this manner, therefore, pray

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ye. And then it goes in to this

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model prayer. Yeah. I'm gonna read it, but

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I I wanna I wanna talk about it

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Yeah. For just a second.

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But it says our father, which art in

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heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.

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Thy will be done,

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on earth as it is in heaven. Give

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us this day our daily bread and forgive

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us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver

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us from evil. For thine is the kingdom

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and the power and the glory forever.

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And Jesus was telling them this this model

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prayer and where he ends with amen, which

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is an agreeance. Right? Yeah.

531
00:18:22,539 --> 00:18:23,039
So

532
00:18:23,804 --> 00:18:24,384
does that

533
00:18:24,845 --> 00:18:26,444
mean that this is the prayer that we're

534
00:18:26,444 --> 00:18:28,444
supposed to pray? Is that what Jesus was

535
00:18:28,444 --> 00:18:30,524
saying? Pray this exact prayer. And we call

536
00:18:30,524 --> 00:18:31,644
it the Lord's prayer, and it ought to

537
00:18:31,644 --> 00:18:33,565
be called the disciples prayer. That's right. He

538
00:18:33,565 --> 00:18:35,904
he is telling his disciples. He says,

539
00:18:36,409 --> 00:18:38,490
if you wanna know what content you should

540
00:18:38,490 --> 00:18:40,089
have in your prayer, if you wanna know

541
00:18:40,089 --> 00:18:41,929
what you should be thinking about, what your

542
00:18:41,929 --> 00:18:43,230
mind should be on,

543
00:18:43,690 --> 00:18:45,769
first of all, we need to recognize him

544
00:18:45,769 --> 00:18:47,789
as father. He's God. He's above,

545
00:18:48,544 --> 00:18:50,704
and and then go on from there, right,

546
00:18:50,704 --> 00:18:53,265
hallowed be thy name. You know, you're a

547
00:18:53,265 --> 00:18:55,585
holy god that you're talking to. And so

548
00:18:55,585 --> 00:18:57,825
I think, you know, to start with, that's

549
00:18:57,825 --> 00:18:59,664
what we've got to think of and we're

550
00:18:59,664 --> 00:19:00,164
praying

551
00:19:00,625 --> 00:19:03,044
every day, thy kingdom come. You know?

552
00:19:03,345 --> 00:19:05,119
Yeah. I mean, even more,

553
00:19:05,519 --> 00:19:07,839
more today than than I think we ever

554
00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:09,599
have before because we see the evil in

555
00:19:09,599 --> 00:19:12,079
this world abounding. We see Yeah. All these

556
00:19:12,079 --> 00:19:13,779
things going on around us and

557
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,679
and I'm ready for the lord to come

558
00:19:15,679 --> 00:19:17,299
back. I mean, I really am,

559
00:19:17,644 --> 00:19:19,404
for him to set things straight and for

560
00:19:19,404 --> 00:19:21,505
us to get to spend eternity with him.

561
00:19:21,644 --> 00:19:23,884
But anyway, it it goes on and just

562
00:19:23,884 --> 00:19:25,264
it just gives us

563
00:19:25,804 --> 00:19:28,524
a model of, okay, these are there's some

564
00:19:28,524 --> 00:19:30,710
things that that when we pray, let's talk

565
00:19:30,710 --> 00:19:32,789
to him about these things. Let's recognize him

566
00:19:32,789 --> 00:19:33,769
as who he is,

567
00:19:34,150 --> 00:19:36,869
and then let's just talk to God. Amen.

568
00:19:36,869 --> 00:19:38,390
Amen. And there's another,

569
00:19:39,509 --> 00:19:41,509
an acrostic. Is that what it's called? Yes.

570
00:19:41,509 --> 00:19:43,830
What it was word with each letter or

571
00:19:43,830 --> 00:19:46,445
whatever called acts. Yeah. Acts. And the first

572
00:19:46,445 --> 00:19:47,345
one is adoration.

573
00:19:48,125 --> 00:19:49,805
We just honor him for who he is.

574
00:19:49,805 --> 00:19:51,565
Right? Hallowed be your name. Bless you, John.

575
00:19:51,565 --> 00:19:53,485
He's in heaven. He's high and lifted up.

576
00:19:53,485 --> 00:19:54,625
And in this confession.

577
00:19:55,244 --> 00:19:56,924
Yeah. Right? We confess our sins to him.

578
00:19:56,924 --> 00:19:59,105
We confess our weaknesses and our frailties.

579
00:19:59,805 --> 00:20:00,305
Thanksgiving

580
00:20:00,980 --> 00:20:03,700
is t and then s is supplication. We've

581
00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:05,380
asked him for things. But but when we

582
00:20:05,380 --> 00:20:06,519
get to that s,

583
00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:08,500
by the time we get there our minds

584
00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:10,500
are right. That's right. That's right. We've put

585
00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:12,019
him in the proper place and us in

586
00:20:12,019 --> 00:20:14,744
the proper place and and it it makes

587
00:20:14,744 --> 00:20:16,585
for an effectual prayer. It does and it

588
00:20:16,585 --> 00:20:18,424
should put us in the will of God

589
00:20:18,424 --> 00:20:20,664
so that that way when we continue talking

590
00:20:20,664 --> 00:20:21,325
to him

591
00:20:21,625 --> 00:20:23,865
we're we're relating to things that he would

592
00:20:23,865 --> 00:20:25,460
want us to relate to. Yeah. Yeah. And

593
00:20:25,460 --> 00:20:26,980
that's, you know, that's one of the things

594
00:20:26,980 --> 00:20:29,700
I think as as Christians that sometimes we

595
00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:30,200
don't

596
00:20:31,380 --> 00:20:33,240
we don't stress enough

597
00:20:33,779 --> 00:20:35,880
to people that aren't Christians or

598
00:20:37,460 --> 00:20:39,559
if they're from a background that isn't

599
00:20:40,575 --> 00:20:43,075
Christ oriented where they haven't studied the bible,

600
00:20:43,774 --> 00:20:46,414
they sometimes have a tendency to miss that

601
00:20:46,414 --> 00:20:47,714
prayers are not

602
00:20:48,095 --> 00:20:48,595
incantations.

603
00:20:49,214 --> 00:20:50,894
Right. Yeah. And when he talks about that,

604
00:20:50,894 --> 00:20:52,494
not as vain repetitions. That's what he's talking

605
00:20:52,494 --> 00:20:53,934
about. These people were going out and they

606
00:20:53,934 --> 00:20:55,634
were praying as though it was

607
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,640
a magic spell. Or if you I'm gonna

608
00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,559
say you don't get answered. Yeah. I'm gonna

609
00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:01,400
say the same thing over and over, and

610
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,240
this repetition of it is gonna make it

611
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,799
happen now. And and that's really what he

612
00:21:05,799 --> 00:21:08,279
was seeing from what were supposed to be

613
00:21:08,279 --> 00:21:10,974
God's people, Jewish leaders. That's what the the

614
00:21:10,974 --> 00:21:13,375
the religious leaders were doing and teaching people

615
00:21:13,375 --> 00:21:13,954
to do.

616
00:21:14,494 --> 00:21:15,474
And I love

617
00:21:15,934 --> 00:21:17,315
I love the fact

618
00:21:17,855 --> 00:21:19,934
that our model prayer starts and ends with

619
00:21:19,934 --> 00:21:22,890
praise and recognizing who God is. Our father

620
00:21:22,890 --> 00:21:24,970
who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

621
00:21:24,970 --> 00:21:27,289
Yeah. And, you know, thy will be done

622
00:21:27,289 --> 00:21:28,890
on earth as it is in heaven. I

623
00:21:28,890 --> 00:21:30,970
mean, you know, it starts and ends there

624
00:21:30,970 --> 00:21:32,349
and just says, hey.

625
00:21:33,769 --> 00:21:35,309
The the we understand

626
00:21:35,690 --> 00:21:37,984
you're not a genie in a bottle. Yeah.

627
00:21:38,444 --> 00:21:40,125
Yeah. Yeah. You you don't you don't have

628
00:21:40,125 --> 00:21:42,045
to pray a particular way in a particular

629
00:21:42,045 --> 00:21:44,444
style. And and, honestly, you you don't have

630
00:21:44,444 --> 00:21:46,204
to pray for a long time. You don't

631
00:21:46,204 --> 00:21:47,565
have to be on your knees and wearing

632
00:21:47,565 --> 00:21:49,664
out your pants 2 hours a day. Right?

633
00:21:50,045 --> 00:21:52,269
And and then god hears you. You we're

634
00:21:52,269 --> 00:21:54,910
praying little bird chirps all day long. Yeah.

635
00:21:54,910 --> 00:21:57,410
Paul says pray without ceasing. Help me, lord.

636
00:21:57,470 --> 00:21:58,910
A little prayer here and there. Some of

637
00:21:58,910 --> 00:22:00,589
the most effective prayers in the world are

638
00:22:00,589 --> 00:22:03,170
people dangling off a ladder. Sure. Right?

639
00:22:04,534 --> 00:22:06,775
And that ain't no long prayer. Right? And

640
00:22:06,775 --> 00:22:08,154
you don't have to be in a certain

641
00:22:08,454 --> 00:22:09,434
physical position.

642
00:22:10,134 --> 00:22:12,214
Right? You can pray driving down the road,

643
00:22:12,214 --> 00:22:14,054
and you can be people might think you're

644
00:22:14,054 --> 00:22:15,494
talking to yourself all day, but you can

645
00:22:15,494 --> 00:22:16,934
be talking to god out loud. You can

646
00:22:16,934 --> 00:22:18,534
talk to him in your spirit. You can

647
00:22:18,615 --> 00:22:20,230
there's so many ways. He can hear the

648
00:22:20,230 --> 00:22:21,990
thoughts of our heart. Well, the number of

649
00:22:21,990 --> 00:22:22,490
times

650
00:22:22,869 --> 00:22:25,349
that even in my own life where I've

651
00:22:25,349 --> 00:22:26,890
watched God answer a prayer,

652
00:22:27,349 --> 00:22:29,369
I never said a word out loud.

653
00:22:30,150 --> 00:22:32,329
Something happened, and I just go, lord,

654
00:22:32,714 --> 00:22:34,234
you know the need. You know what's going

655
00:22:34,234 --> 00:22:36,315
on here. I I don't understand everything that's

656
00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:39,115
happening. Just Yeah. Bless this. Yeah. I remember

657
00:22:39,115 --> 00:22:40,794
I remember a time when, when I was

658
00:22:40,794 --> 00:22:43,375
diagnosed with with, a cancer back in 2006.

659
00:22:43,515 --> 00:22:45,194
I was driving on the freeway going to

660
00:22:45,194 --> 00:22:47,375
work one morning, and I I remember praying,

661
00:22:48,130 --> 00:22:49,650
and I I didn't have a word in

662
00:22:49,650 --> 00:22:50,390
my head.

663
00:22:51,009 --> 00:22:52,609
It was it felt like a beam of

664
00:22:52,609 --> 00:22:54,849
light coming out of my soul. And and,

665
00:22:55,089 --> 00:22:56,849
you know how the Bible tells us that

666
00:22:56,849 --> 00:22:59,250
the Holy Spirit interprets these prayers and interprets

667
00:22:59,250 --> 00:23:01,250
our hearts and our feelings and our the

668
00:23:01,250 --> 00:23:02,690
things that are going on in our lives

669
00:23:02,690 --> 00:23:05,065
to the father. And and that's exactly what

670
00:23:05,065 --> 00:23:07,144
I felt, that everything that was inside of

671
00:23:07,144 --> 00:23:07,884
me just

672
00:23:08,265 --> 00:23:09,085
shot skyward.

673
00:23:09,464 --> 00:23:11,144
It it it it it's it's just a

674
00:23:11,144 --> 00:23:13,384
beautiful amazing thing. Yeah. And and I know

675
00:23:13,384 --> 00:23:15,224
when when mom went through her her stuff

676
00:23:15,224 --> 00:23:16,664
with cancer, it was it was the same

677
00:23:16,664 --> 00:23:18,269
kind of thing with us. It was just

678
00:23:18,509 --> 00:23:20,210
every time we would pray, it was like

679
00:23:20,589 --> 00:23:23,309
we didn't have words to say Yeah. What

680
00:23:23,309 --> 00:23:25,150
was going on in our heads because it

681
00:23:25,150 --> 00:23:27,890
was just so much to take in. Yeah.

682
00:23:28,029 --> 00:23:29,950
And I know when when my son was

683
00:23:29,950 --> 00:23:31,390
born, I mean, he was a preemie, and

684
00:23:31,390 --> 00:23:33,410
and his his mom had been through,

685
00:23:34,065 --> 00:23:34,865
a whole lot with,

686
00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:37,904
preeclampsia and things like that. And there were

687
00:23:37,904 --> 00:23:39,585
times where I was just like, god, I

688
00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:40,865
don't even I don't even know what to

689
00:23:40,865 --> 00:23:43,345
ask. Yeah. Yeah. And that that's that's another

690
00:23:43,345 --> 00:23:45,345
topic, I guess, as part of this prayer

691
00:23:45,345 --> 00:23:45,825
is is,

692
00:23:46,630 --> 00:23:48,230
how do we know what to ask for

693
00:23:48,230 --> 00:23:49,929
and what not to ask for. Right?

694
00:23:50,309 --> 00:23:52,470
And this has come up lately in our

695
00:23:52,470 --> 00:23:52,970
church,

696
00:23:55,109 --> 00:23:57,929
with with some pretty really, really good conversations

697
00:23:58,069 --> 00:23:58,785
around it.

698
00:23:59,345 --> 00:24:00,164
Do we know

699
00:24:00,625 --> 00:24:02,785
when do we stop praying? When do we

700
00:24:02,785 --> 00:24:04,545
just leave it there? Or when do we

701
00:24:04,545 --> 00:24:05,445
just, like,

702
00:24:06,065 --> 00:24:06,805
bug him?

703
00:24:07,265 --> 00:24:09,744
Right? We just we just stay on him

704
00:24:09,744 --> 00:24:10,244
constantly.

705
00:24:11,069 --> 00:24:12,269
And and I don't know that there's a

706
00:24:12,269 --> 00:24:13,089
simple answer.

707
00:24:13,470 --> 00:24:14,909
I don't know if there's a one there's

708
00:24:14,909 --> 00:24:16,669
definitely not a one size fits all answer

709
00:24:16,669 --> 00:24:18,109
to that. Yeah. I mean, it's one of

710
00:24:18,109 --> 00:24:20,049
those things. It's like you have to kinda

711
00:24:21,230 --> 00:24:23,230
act on faith. And it's like, okay. Is

712
00:24:23,230 --> 00:24:25,490
is god has he given me my answer?

713
00:24:26,105 --> 00:24:27,705
And I I think, ultimately, that's what it

714
00:24:27,705 --> 00:24:29,625
really boils into. Has god given me my

715
00:24:29,625 --> 00:24:31,545
answer? If the answer is yeah, he's already

716
00:24:31,545 --> 00:24:33,305
given it to you. And that answer may

717
00:24:33,305 --> 00:24:34,125
have been weight

718
00:24:34,505 --> 00:24:35,484
or may have been,

719
00:24:35,865 --> 00:24:38,184
you know, no. Or have been may have

720
00:24:38,184 --> 00:24:38,845
been crickets.

721
00:24:39,349 --> 00:24:41,830
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and, you know, is

722
00:24:41,830 --> 00:24:43,910
it that we're arguing with God? We have

723
00:24:43,910 --> 00:24:45,269
to look at what we're doing too and

724
00:24:45,269 --> 00:24:47,750
what our attitude is. What is our attitude

725
00:24:47,750 --> 00:24:49,430
when we're praying to him? You know, when

726
00:24:49,430 --> 00:24:51,029
we ask him again, when we come to

727
00:24:51,029 --> 00:24:51,690
him again,

728
00:24:52,154 --> 00:24:54,715
we talked about as Dennis said, we talked

729
00:24:54,715 --> 00:24:55,455
about that

730
00:24:55,994 --> 00:24:57,835
in bible study a couple weeks ago, and

731
00:24:57,835 --> 00:24:58,154
then

732
00:24:58,715 --> 00:25:01,035
and Dennis, they had the conversation in his

733
00:25:01,035 --> 00:25:03,595
Sunday school class. And the Lord led me

734
00:25:03,595 --> 00:25:04,095
to,

735
00:25:04,475 --> 00:25:06,095
Luke 18, and

736
00:25:06,490 --> 00:25:08,649
there's several verses there. But I want to

737
00:25:08,649 --> 00:25:10,490
read it real quick because it kind of

738
00:25:10,490 --> 00:25:12,649
gives us a biblical example, I guess, of

739
00:25:12,649 --> 00:25:13,869
this. And it said,

740
00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:16,269
and He spake a parable unto them

741
00:25:17,130 --> 00:25:19,950
to this end that the men ought always

742
00:25:20,009 --> 00:25:20,669
to pray

743
00:25:21,049 --> 00:25:22,734
and not to faint, saying,

744
00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:24,494
there was a city

745
00:25:25,195 --> 00:25:27,215
there were there was a city, a judge,

746
00:25:27,755 --> 00:25:31,275
which feared not God, neither regarded man. And

747
00:25:31,275 --> 00:25:33,755
there was a widow in that city and

748
00:25:33,755 --> 00:25:35,295
she came unto him saying,

749
00:25:35,740 --> 00:25:37,839
avenge me of mine adversary.

750
00:25:39,099 --> 00:25:40,960
And he would not for a while,

751
00:25:41,579 --> 00:25:42,480
but afterward

752
00:25:43,259 --> 00:25:45,740
he said within himself, though I fear not

753
00:25:45,740 --> 00:25:49,019
God nor regard man, yet because this widow

754
00:25:49,019 --> 00:25:52,204
troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest

755
00:25:52,505 --> 00:25:54,525
by her continual coming,

756
00:25:54,904 --> 00:25:55,964
she weary me.

757
00:25:56,265 --> 00:25:57,484
And the lord said,

758
00:25:58,105 --> 00:26:00,365
hear what the unjust judge sayeth.

759
00:26:00,984 --> 00:26:03,644
And shall not god avenge his own elect

760
00:26:04,090 --> 00:26:06,509
which cry day and night unto him,

761
00:26:06,809 --> 00:26:09,369
though he bear long with them? I tell

762
00:26:09,369 --> 00:26:11,869
you that he will avenge them speedily.

763
00:26:13,210 --> 00:26:15,049
And it goes on says, nevertheless, when the

764
00:26:15,049 --> 00:26:17,049
son of man cometh, shall he find faith

765
00:26:17,049 --> 00:26:19,674
on earth? And he spake this parable into

766
00:26:19,674 --> 00:26:21,774
the certain which trusted in themselves

767
00:26:22,315 --> 00:26:24,554
that they were righteous and despised others. 2

768
00:26:24,554 --> 00:26:26,575
men went up into the temple to pray.

769
00:26:27,115 --> 00:26:28,894
The 1 a Pharisee, the 1 publican.

770
00:26:29,434 --> 00:26:32,335
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself.

771
00:26:32,789 --> 00:26:34,470
God, I thank Thee that I am not

772
00:26:34,470 --> 00:26:36,090
as other men are, extortioners,

773
00:26:36,789 --> 00:26:37,289
unjust,

774
00:26:37,830 --> 00:26:38,330
adulterers,

775
00:26:38,710 --> 00:26:40,170
or even as this publican.

776
00:26:40,549 --> 00:26:42,869
I fast twice a week. I give tithes

777
00:26:42,869 --> 00:26:44,009
all that I possess.

778
00:26:44,804 --> 00:26:47,204
And the publican standing afar off would not

779
00:26:47,204 --> 00:26:49,365
lift up so much as his eyes into

780
00:26:49,365 --> 00:26:50,345
heaven, but smoke

781
00:26:50,964 --> 00:26:52,264
upon his breast say,

782
00:26:52,644 --> 00:26:54,964
God be merciful to me, a sinner. I

783
00:26:54,964 --> 00:26:57,125
tell you this man went down to his

784
00:26:57,125 --> 00:26:58,264
house justified

785
00:26:58,859 --> 00:27:01,119
rather than the other. For everyone that exalteth

786
00:27:01,180 --> 00:27:04,000
himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth

787
00:27:04,059 --> 00:27:04,559
himself

788
00:27:04,859 --> 00:27:05,759
shall be exalted.

789
00:27:06,140 --> 00:27:07,900
A few things that I get from that.

790
00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:10,220
1, he gives us this example of this

791
00:27:10,220 --> 00:27:12,924
woman who wanted something to happen, and she

792
00:27:12,924 --> 00:27:15,244
continued over and over to come to him.

793
00:27:15,244 --> 00:27:17,565
Now this was an unjust king, the example

794
00:27:17,565 --> 00:27:19,005
that he gives us. He wasn't a good

795
00:27:19,005 --> 00:27:21,025
guy. Yeah. And he said, you know what?

796
00:27:21,565 --> 00:27:22,924
He said, I'm just gonna go ahead and

797
00:27:22,924 --> 00:27:24,365
do what she's asking me to do because

798
00:27:24,365 --> 00:27:26,045
she's driving me crazy so she won't keep

799
00:27:26,045 --> 00:27:28,400
coming to me. But what God is saying

800
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,440
here what what we read here is in

801
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,740
this parable is that if that unjust man

802
00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:36,420
would give in and do this,

803
00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:40,160
then will not God do? Will not God

804
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,740
answer? Will not God continue to listen

805
00:27:43,414 --> 00:27:44,315
to our prayers?

806
00:27:44,694 --> 00:27:46,775
And I'm not saying you're gonna change God's

807
00:27:46,775 --> 00:27:48,694
mind. I'm not saying that he's gonna do

808
00:27:48,694 --> 00:27:51,595
something different. Just but but if it's something

809
00:27:51,734 --> 00:27:53,515
that you are burdened about,

810
00:27:54,375 --> 00:27:56,855
I feel like that when we're not talking

811
00:27:56,855 --> 00:27:58,980
to him about it, is that lack of

812
00:27:58,980 --> 00:28:01,220
faith? I don't know. Or is it just

813
00:28:01,220 --> 00:28:03,460
that, okay. This hadn't happened yet. God, I

814
00:28:03,460 --> 00:28:05,059
just gotta talk about it a little bit

815
00:28:05,059 --> 00:28:07,940
more. You know? Sometimes sometimes as humans, we

816
00:28:07,940 --> 00:28:11,059
talk things to death. Yeah. You know? And

817
00:28:11,059 --> 00:28:13,220
and and god probably, you know, he he

818
00:28:13,424 --> 00:28:14,945
I don't think he gets tired of us

819
00:28:14,945 --> 00:28:16,945
coming to him. No. And but I think

820
00:28:16,945 --> 00:28:18,945
it's the human side of us that we

821
00:28:18,945 --> 00:28:20,945
we just gotta get it out sometimes, and

822
00:28:20,945 --> 00:28:22,465
who better to get it out to than

823
00:28:22,465 --> 00:28:24,785
them? And then we get to the second

824
00:28:24,785 --> 00:28:27,529
half in that next parable there, and we

825
00:28:27,910 --> 00:28:30,390
see really the difference in the prayer is

826
00:28:30,390 --> 00:28:32,470
how you're coming to God. Right? What is

827
00:28:32,470 --> 00:28:35,450
your state? One man came to him boastful.

828
00:28:36,230 --> 00:28:38,330
Look at me. This is who I am.

829
00:28:38,390 --> 00:28:39,990
God, I'm one of your best. And you

830
00:28:39,990 --> 00:28:41,815
know that was what he was saying. And

831
00:28:41,815 --> 00:28:43,515
then here comes this other man

832
00:28:44,055 --> 00:28:46,375
who is humble, who's like, I just wanna

833
00:28:46,375 --> 00:28:47,515
talk to my father.

834
00:28:47,815 --> 00:28:50,134
I just I feel better when I talk

835
00:28:50,134 --> 00:28:51,974
to my father. I feel better when I

836
00:28:51,974 --> 00:28:53,195
get to pray to him

837
00:28:53,575 --> 00:28:55,654
even though you know what? My prayer may

838
00:28:55,654 --> 00:28:57,115
not get answered today,

839
00:28:57,529 --> 00:28:59,009
but I still got a chance to talk

840
00:28:59,009 --> 00:29:00,490
to my father. And every time I talk

841
00:29:00,490 --> 00:29:02,889
to him, I feel better. Absolutely. Absolutely. He

842
00:29:02,889 --> 00:29:05,450
told another another one in in, Saint Luke

843
00:29:05,450 --> 00:29:05,950
11.

844
00:29:06,569 --> 00:29:08,409
Jesus said, suppose one of you has a

845
00:29:08,409 --> 00:29:09,849
friend and goes to him at midnight and

846
00:29:09,849 --> 00:29:11,595
says to him, friend, lend me 3 loaves,

847
00:29:11,595 --> 00:29:12,794
for a friend of mine has come to

848
00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:14,714
me from a journey, and I have nothing

849
00:29:14,714 --> 00:29:16,634
to set before him. And from inside, he

850
00:29:16,634 --> 00:29:18,394
answers and says, do not bother me. The

851
00:29:18,394 --> 00:29:20,315
door has already been shut and my children

852
00:29:20,315 --> 00:29:22,394
are in bed. I cannot get up and

853
00:29:22,394 --> 00:29:24,234
give you anything. I'll tell you, even though

854
00:29:24,234 --> 00:29:25,515
he will not get up and give him

855
00:29:25,515 --> 00:29:27,450
anything because he's his friend yet because of

856
00:29:27,450 --> 00:29:29,369
his persistence, he will get up and give

857
00:29:29,369 --> 00:29:31,549
him as much as he needs. Yeah. Yeah.

858
00:29:31,769 --> 00:29:34,089
Right? And and it unlocks something. I I

859
00:29:34,089 --> 00:29:36,890
think prayer prayer is something so mysterious in

860
00:29:36,890 --> 00:29:38,250
a lot of ways. Because a lot of

861
00:29:38,250 --> 00:29:39,585
people a lot of and this kind of

862
00:29:39,585 --> 00:29:41,424
part of the argument that was happening around,

863
00:29:41,424 --> 00:29:43,345
you know, here lately was like, well, should

864
00:29:43,345 --> 00:29:44,944
I just pray once and leave it there

865
00:29:45,105 --> 00:29:47,345
Right. And have strong faith that God's gonna

866
00:29:47,345 --> 00:29:48,865
do it Yeah. And never pray about it

867
00:29:48,865 --> 00:29:50,724
again. Right. Yeah. Well,

868
00:29:51,105 --> 00:29:53,950
no. Yeah. Yes and no. Right. Right. Right.

869
00:29:53,950 --> 00:29:55,870
Yes. Sure. You should have faith that God

870
00:29:55,870 --> 00:29:57,009
can do it. Absolutely.

871
00:29:57,950 --> 00:29:59,789
But again, like you said, I mean the

872
00:29:59,789 --> 00:30:00,289
persistence

873
00:30:01,950 --> 00:30:04,370
of knowing that we have a God,

874
00:30:05,070 --> 00:30:06,769
and again, it's about attitude.

875
00:30:07,134 --> 00:30:09,375
I know. Yeah. Yeah. I know that whatever

876
00:30:09,375 --> 00:30:10,835
I come to God about,

877
00:30:11,375 --> 00:30:13,535
he can answer it. Right? Yeah. And he

878
00:30:13,535 --> 00:30:14,974
could answer it the way I wanted him

879
00:30:14,974 --> 00:30:16,095
to, but it may not be the best

880
00:30:16,095 --> 00:30:17,554
way. Yeah. And so

881
00:30:18,255 --> 00:30:20,654
I think until we settle in our minds,

882
00:30:20,654 --> 00:30:21,954
what is God's answer?

883
00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:24,089
Is God telling me to wait?

884
00:30:24,549 --> 00:30:27,109
Is God telling me no? Is God telling

885
00:30:27,109 --> 00:30:29,829
me, okay, here you go. And so I

886
00:30:29,829 --> 00:30:30,650
think until

887
00:30:31,109 --> 00:30:33,130
until we get to that point, sometimes

888
00:30:33,670 --> 00:30:35,509
we just gotta we just gotta keep coming

889
00:30:35,509 --> 00:30:36,974
back to him. And you don't know unless

890
00:30:36,974 --> 00:30:38,894
walking with him. That's right. You gotta be

891
00:30:38,894 --> 00:30:40,335
close to him to to pick up on

892
00:30:40,335 --> 00:30:42,335
that. And and as far as I'm concerned,

893
00:30:42,335 --> 00:30:44,835
we pray until he he tells me something

894
00:30:45,214 --> 00:30:47,214
personally. That's right. Right? And and he does

895
00:30:47,214 --> 00:30:49,259
it for everybody in different ways. Yeah.

896
00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:51,820
That, no, I can't do that right now.

897
00:30:51,820 --> 00:30:53,820
Or or maybe, you know, like like Tyler

898
00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:55,820
said, wait where God's working things out in

899
00:30:55,820 --> 00:30:57,900
the background. Yeah. And we're freaked out over

900
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:00,140
here thinking, oh, well, I'm all alone. Right.

901
00:31:00,140 --> 00:31:02,059
But he's working things that we don't know

902
00:31:02,059 --> 00:31:04,304
about. That's right. You know, he's sovereign. And

903
00:31:04,304 --> 00:31:05,984
on and and at the end of the

904
00:31:05,984 --> 00:31:06,484
day,

905
00:31:08,065 --> 00:31:10,004
you're the only one who knows.

906
00:31:10,304 --> 00:31:12,144
Are you doing it because you're arguing with

907
00:31:12,144 --> 00:31:13,585
God, or are you doing it because you

908
00:31:13,585 --> 00:31:15,744
have faith? Yeah. Motive. At the end of

909
00:31:15,744 --> 00:31:17,984
the day, you have to look in yourself,

910
00:31:17,984 --> 00:31:20,369
and we have to kind of ask ourselves,

911
00:31:21,069 --> 00:31:23,470
you know, what is the reason? What is

912
00:31:23,470 --> 00:31:24,690
my purpose here?

913
00:31:25,230 --> 00:31:27,710
And that's an individual that that's one of

914
00:31:27,710 --> 00:31:30,669
those individual things. Yeah. And and, you know,

915
00:31:30,669 --> 00:31:32,049
thank god, our our

916
00:31:32,464 --> 00:31:34,785
our faith is an individual faith, and it

917
00:31:34,785 --> 00:31:37,605
is something that, each of us get to

918
00:31:37,904 --> 00:31:40,464
examine and work out for ourselves between us

919
00:31:40,464 --> 00:31:42,565
and god. I mean, that's how salvation works.

920
00:31:43,025 --> 00:31:44,325
And we

921
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,039
we're called to do that. We're told to

922
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:47,700
do that.

923
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,859
Yeah. And if we don't,

924
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,180
it just don't don't expect

925
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,059
a close relationship with God, and don't expect

926
00:31:55,279 --> 00:31:56,960
to be able to hear answers, and don't

927
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,599
expect to get answered, you know, because you

928
00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:02,285
won't hear it. That's right. You won't know

929
00:32:02,285 --> 00:32:03,585
what's going on at all.

930
00:32:04,125 --> 00:32:04,625
Amen.

931
00:32:05,164 --> 00:32:05,664
Amen.

932
00:32:06,045 --> 00:32:08,125
And, you know, and the Bible's very clear

933
00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:09,664
in several different places.

934
00:32:10,285 --> 00:32:13,025
Bible's very clear in several different places that

935
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:16,099
he doesn't hear

936
00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:17,619
our prayers

937
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,240
if we're not in line with God. Right?

938
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,519
I mean, he's he's not

939
00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:24,640
if we're if we're in a state where,

940
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,299
where we're not where we're supposed to be,

941
00:32:27,914 --> 00:32:29,615
And 2nd Chronicles 714

942
00:32:30,235 --> 00:32:32,475
is one of those that does show us

943
00:32:32,475 --> 00:32:34,494
that. There's several different ones, but,

944
00:32:35,035 --> 00:32:36,394
and and but this is one of the

945
00:32:36,394 --> 00:32:38,154
ones that that I guess is more of

946
00:32:38,154 --> 00:32:40,235
a popular verse that people read, but it

947
00:32:40,235 --> 00:32:40,735
says,

948
00:32:41,115 --> 00:32:42,174
if my people,

949
00:32:42,919 --> 00:32:44,440
and he was talking to Israel, but he

950
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,359
can also it can relate to us too.

951
00:32:46,359 --> 00:32:46,859
Yep.

952
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,359
Which are called by my name shall humble

953
00:32:50,359 --> 00:32:50,859
themselves

954
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,059
and pray and seek my face

955
00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:56,140
and turn from their wicked ways,

956
00:32:56,554 --> 00:32:59,035
then will I hear from heaven. Yeah. It's

957
00:32:59,035 --> 00:33:01,035
a process. Right? Yeah. So, I mean, we

958
00:33:01,035 --> 00:33:02,714
need to really be where we need to

959
00:33:02,714 --> 00:33:04,234
be. We need to be living where we

960
00:33:04,234 --> 00:33:04,974
need to be.

961
00:33:07,035 --> 00:33:10,075
I think as as human beings will. I'm

962
00:33:10,075 --> 00:33:12,519
so sorry. I've been sick for the lost

963
00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:16,919
a couple days. As human beings,

964
00:33:17,940 --> 00:33:18,440
we

965
00:33:18,899 --> 00:33:19,720
so often,

966
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:23,319
we trust

967
00:33:23,619 --> 00:33:25,934
some people and some people we don't. Right?

968
00:33:26,095 --> 00:33:27,855
Yeah. And and we're gonna trust the people

969
00:33:27,855 --> 00:33:29,215
we know that are true to us. We're

970
00:33:29,215 --> 00:33:31,055
gonna trust the people we we're gonna listen

971
00:33:31,055 --> 00:33:32,414
to the people that we know are true

972
00:33:32,414 --> 00:33:33,775
to us. We don't wanna listen to people

973
00:33:33,775 --> 00:33:36,755
that we know will will speak truth. And,

974
00:33:38,495 --> 00:33:40,589
if we know that there's somebody out there

975
00:33:40,589 --> 00:33:42,210
and they're always talking nonsense,

976
00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:44,589
most of the time when they're having a

977
00:33:44,589 --> 00:33:46,430
conversation with you, you're just like, when's this

978
00:33:46,430 --> 00:33:48,109
gonna be over? You know, this is this

979
00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:48,690
is and

980
00:33:49,710 --> 00:33:51,230
and so I think it's the same way

981
00:33:51,230 --> 00:33:53,055
with God if we're coming to him with,

982
00:33:53,535 --> 00:33:55,455
and we're not serious. Right? If we're coming

983
00:33:55,455 --> 00:33:57,375
to him and we're not recognizing him as

984
00:33:57,375 --> 00:33:59,955
holy God, as we're not recognizing him as

985
00:34:00,174 --> 00:34:01,475
as master, as Lord,

986
00:34:02,095 --> 00:34:03,235
those type of things,

987
00:34:04,335 --> 00:34:06,735
then then he's not gonna hear from us.

988
00:34:06,735 --> 00:34:09,050
No. And and I've been, oh my goodness.

989
00:34:09,110 --> 00:34:11,349
I I've made I made somebody so upset

990
00:34:11,349 --> 00:34:12,090
one time,

991
00:34:13,349 --> 00:34:15,590
and, I had it was a post I

992
00:34:15,590 --> 00:34:17,829
had posted on Facebook about this very thing,

993
00:34:17,829 --> 00:34:19,369
about him hearing from us.

994
00:34:20,070 --> 00:34:22,724
And, again, the affectional fervent prayer of a

995
00:34:22,724 --> 00:34:25,364
righteous man. Yes. Well, not a perfect man,

996
00:34:25,364 --> 00:34:26,505
but a righteous man.

997
00:34:26,885 --> 00:34:27,385
So

998
00:34:28,484 --> 00:34:30,565
I had posted about that, and I'd I'd

999
00:34:30,565 --> 00:34:32,324
shared a couple of verses with it. And,

1000
00:34:32,324 --> 00:34:35,170
man, I had somebody just personally call me

1001
00:34:35,170 --> 00:34:37,110
and or text me and say, like, hey.

1002
00:34:37,489 --> 00:34:39,670
No way. You know? Because I had said

1003
00:34:40,050 --> 00:34:41,829
that the only prayer

1004
00:34:42,369 --> 00:34:45,410
that God hears from a lost person is

1005
00:34:45,410 --> 00:34:46,630
a prayer of repentance.

1006
00:34:47,585 --> 00:34:49,605
And this is true. Right? I mean,

1007
00:34:50,144 --> 00:34:52,804
you you're not His until

1008
00:34:53,424 --> 00:34:55,824
you're convicted by the Holy Spirit. You don't

1009
00:34:55,824 --> 00:34:57,424
have the Holy Spirit. You don't have the

1010
00:34:57,424 --> 00:34:59,664
Holy Spirit to intercede for you. Yeah. And

1011
00:34:59,664 --> 00:35:01,744
until the Holy Spirit comes to you and

1012
00:35:01,744 --> 00:35:04,519
convicts your heart, and I believe he will

1013
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:05,340
every person,

1014
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,699
but until that day happens, until that happens,

1015
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:09,980
then there's

1016
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:13,079
you're doing no good. Right? Right. And and

1017
00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:14,760
I know that's a a thing that people

1018
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,994
don't like to hear, but, you know, you

1019
00:35:16,994 --> 00:35:18,994
can you can put on there, hey. On

1020
00:35:18,994 --> 00:35:20,835
Facebook, hey. This is going on in my

1021
00:35:20,835 --> 00:35:22,514
life. This is going on in my life.

1022
00:35:23,074 --> 00:35:24,594
You know, or or there may be a

1023
00:35:24,594 --> 00:35:27,234
tragedy or something happens. Somebody passes away. There's

1024
00:35:27,234 --> 00:35:27,815
a sickness,

1025
00:35:28,859 --> 00:35:31,440
and then you get everybody on Facebook going

1026
00:35:31,579 --> 00:35:34,460
prayers going up, praying, you know, you know

1027
00:35:34,699 --> 00:35:37,739
Hands together. Hands together. Yeah. You know, and

1028
00:35:37,739 --> 00:35:39,739
and and and I and and I am

1029
00:35:39,739 --> 00:35:40,880
not at all

1030
00:35:41,465 --> 00:35:43,625
making fun of people, but I want you

1031
00:35:43,625 --> 00:35:44,204
to know

1032
00:35:44,744 --> 00:35:46,744
that you know what? Unless you have a

1033
00:35:46,744 --> 00:35:48,125
relationship with God,

1034
00:35:48,505 --> 00:35:51,065
unless you know him as as as, in

1035
00:35:51,065 --> 00:35:52,824
the free pardon of sin and you belong

1036
00:35:52,824 --> 00:35:54,849
to him and you're his. That's right. Then

1037
00:35:54,849 --> 00:35:56,369
he doesn't hear from you and you won't

1038
00:35:56,369 --> 00:35:57,730
do me any good and you won't do

1039
00:35:57,730 --> 00:36:00,070
anybody else any good. No. And especially,

1040
00:36:01,010 --> 00:36:03,329
it really brings it home when you have

1041
00:36:03,329 --> 00:36:04,789
somebody who is lost

1042
00:36:05,170 --> 00:36:07,510
and and and say one of their children,

1043
00:36:07,650 --> 00:36:09,644
they get hurt. Right? Oh, yeah. I mean,

1044
00:36:10,045 --> 00:36:11,485
I I I hate to tell you this

1045
00:36:11,485 --> 00:36:13,965
tonight, but you better ask somebody else to

1046
00:36:13,965 --> 00:36:15,105
pray for them because

1047
00:36:15,565 --> 00:36:17,485
god's not hearing from you unless it's a

1048
00:36:17,485 --> 00:36:19,885
prayer of repentance. You know? Unless that's a

1049
00:36:19,885 --> 00:36:21,664
point that brings you to, lord,

1050
00:36:22,284 --> 00:36:24,125
okay. I I realize I'm a sinner. I

1051
00:36:24,125 --> 00:36:26,210
don't know where I'm at. And, lord, I

1052
00:36:26,210 --> 00:36:27,889
need you right now more than I ever

1053
00:36:27,889 --> 00:36:28,549
have before.

1054
00:36:28,849 --> 00:36:31,409
Forgive me where I failed you and and

1055
00:36:31,409 --> 00:36:34,049
and and save my soul. Yeah. You know?

1056
00:36:34,049 --> 00:36:35,409
And and I wanna make you lord of

1057
00:36:35,409 --> 00:36:36,849
my life, and then you can pray for

1058
00:36:36,849 --> 00:36:38,369
that child, then you can pray for that

1059
00:36:38,369 --> 00:36:39,434
person. Yeah.

1060
00:36:39,914 --> 00:36:41,755
But but yeah. I'm and, you know, not

1061
00:36:41,755 --> 00:36:43,295
not everybody that says

1062
00:36:43,755 --> 00:36:44,735
praying for you

1063
00:36:45,114 --> 00:36:46,795
is gonna do it again. They might as

1064
00:36:46,795 --> 00:36:49,114
well say sending good vibes Yeah. And Oh,

1065
00:36:49,114 --> 00:36:49,775
yeah. Thoughts.

1066
00:36:50,075 --> 00:36:52,235
Well, you know, so If you're not saved

1067
00:36:52,315 --> 00:36:55,260
Exactly. Who are you praying to? Right. Because

1068
00:36:55,260 --> 00:36:57,019
you you you haven't put your faith in

1069
00:36:57,019 --> 00:36:59,179
God. You haven't put your faith in Christ.

1070
00:36:59,179 --> 00:37:01,179
Who exactly are you praying to? You you

1071
00:37:01,179 --> 00:37:03,099
you have no faith with which to employ

1072
00:37:03,099 --> 00:37:04,860
prayer. A lot of people put faith in

1073
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:07,019
faith, which doesn't make any sense at all.

1074
00:37:07,019 --> 00:37:09,125
Right. Right. It's gotta be an object. It's

1075
00:37:09,125 --> 00:37:10,405
got to be a person. And and and

1076
00:37:10,405 --> 00:37:13,284
even Christians even Christians will, they don't pray

1077
00:37:13,284 --> 00:37:14,724
a lot and, you know, they'll pray when

1078
00:37:14,724 --> 00:37:17,304
something bad happens or something like that. And

1079
00:37:17,764 --> 00:37:19,605
they wonder why God's not hearing them when

1080
00:37:19,605 --> 00:37:22,164
they pray. Well, imagine imagine if you've got

1081
00:37:22,164 --> 00:37:22,824
2 kids

1082
00:37:23,125 --> 00:37:25,489
and you had you know, end up 3.

1083
00:37:25,869 --> 00:37:26,110
But,

1084
00:37:26,750 --> 00:37:29,390
22 kids, one is just as sweet as

1085
00:37:29,390 --> 00:37:31,230
she can be, just always talks to you

1086
00:37:31,230 --> 00:37:33,150
and relates to you and just really nice

1087
00:37:33,150 --> 00:37:35,150
and gets along and just loves her parents

1088
00:37:35,150 --> 00:37:36,855
and hangs out with them. The other one's

1089
00:37:36,855 --> 00:37:38,775
a wild child going off in the middle

1090
00:37:38,775 --> 00:37:40,054
of nowhere and get in trouble all the

1091
00:37:40,054 --> 00:37:42,054
time. Which one are you gonna listen to?

1092
00:37:42,054 --> 00:37:42,554
Yeah.

1093
00:37:42,855 --> 00:37:44,934
Is is God any different than a parent?

1094
00:37:44,934 --> 00:37:47,494
Yeah. He's the perfect father. Right. Right? And

1095
00:37:47,494 --> 00:37:49,894
he's what have, earthly fathers are based on.

1096
00:37:49,894 --> 00:37:50,635
That's right.

1097
00:37:51,190 --> 00:37:53,510
Awful example. Yes. We are. But but Yeah.

1098
00:37:53,670 --> 00:37:55,429
But he's the perfect father. And the closer

1099
00:37:55,429 --> 00:37:57,030
we get to him, the closer we walk

1100
00:37:57,030 --> 00:37:58,469
to him, the more he hears us and

1101
00:37:58,469 --> 00:37:59,989
the more he just wants to pour stuff

1102
00:37:59,989 --> 00:38:01,750
out on us. That's right. That's right. And

1103
00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:03,510
then and that's why he wants us to

1104
00:38:03,510 --> 00:38:05,510
be more like him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean

1105
00:38:05,510 --> 00:38:07,934
that that we duplicate who he is. You

1106
00:38:07,934 --> 00:38:08,974
know, one of the best,

1107
00:38:09,614 --> 00:38:11,534
examples I heard of this was I don't

1108
00:38:11,534 --> 00:38:13,135
even remember how many years ago, but I

1109
00:38:13,135 --> 00:38:14,755
was at a youth, youth conference.

1110
00:38:15,295 --> 00:38:17,054
And they had a guy there that he

1111
00:38:17,054 --> 00:38:17,554
was,

1112
00:38:17,934 --> 00:38:19,454
he was a bit of a comedian, bit

1113
00:38:19,454 --> 00:38:21,349
of a cut up, kinda funny. But he

1114
00:38:21,349 --> 00:38:22,410
told the story

1115
00:38:23,030 --> 00:38:23,530
of

1116
00:38:24,070 --> 00:38:25,610
his family was from,

1117
00:38:26,150 --> 00:38:27,369
I think maybe Iran,

1118
00:38:27,829 --> 00:38:29,190
and they had moved over here in the

1119
00:38:29,190 --> 00:38:31,030
eighties. So it was during all that upheaval

1120
00:38:31,030 --> 00:38:32,949
over there when they were overthrowing the government

1121
00:38:32,949 --> 00:38:35,110
and all that. And his dad was actually

1122
00:38:35,110 --> 00:38:36,329
a mem part of the government.

1123
00:38:36,804 --> 00:38:38,885
And so they were told, you cannot leave

1124
00:38:38,885 --> 00:38:40,025
under any circumstances.

1125
00:38:40,565 --> 00:38:42,244
And what they ended up doing was they

1126
00:38:42,244 --> 00:38:44,885
faked a heart condition for his mom. And

1127
00:38:44,885 --> 00:38:46,744
they left, and they moved to America.

1128
00:38:47,125 --> 00:38:49,710
They get to America, and, you know, he

1129
00:38:49,710 --> 00:38:52,030
he started meeting kids. And what did he

1130
00:38:52,030 --> 00:38:53,710
do? He acted like the kids acted in

1131
00:38:53,710 --> 00:38:54,210
school.

1132
00:38:54,510 --> 00:38:56,750
Right? He talked like them, picked up their

1133
00:38:56,750 --> 00:38:57,250
mannerisms.

1134
00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:59,150
That's how he learned how to really speak

1135
00:38:59,150 --> 00:39:00,989
good English so he didn't sound like he

1136
00:39:00,989 --> 00:39:02,769
was from, you know, somewhere else.

1137
00:39:03,150 --> 00:39:03,650
And,

1138
00:39:04,684 --> 00:39:06,364
then ended up going to church with him.

1139
00:39:06,364 --> 00:39:07,905
1 of them invited him to church.

1140
00:39:09,965 --> 00:39:12,065
Guess what? How those kids were talking outside

1141
00:39:12,284 --> 00:39:13,344
didn't work

1142
00:39:13,885 --> 00:39:16,125
at church. Yeah. And the kids wouldn't hang

1143
00:39:16,125 --> 00:39:17,519
out with him. And he said there was

1144
00:39:17,519 --> 00:39:19,119
this one kid that was just real quiet,

1145
00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:21,119
and he just he never said anything. He

1146
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:22,880
would he would read his bible at lunch,

1147
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,640
things like that, and everybody made fun of

1148
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,160
him and picked on him, even the church

1149
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:26,660
kids.

1150
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:30,420
And

1151
00:39:31,175 --> 00:39:33,494
he finally one day, the kid just started

1152
00:39:33,494 --> 00:39:35,094
talking to him and just started taking him

1153
00:39:35,094 --> 00:39:37,094
through Romans started taking him through the Romans

1154
00:39:37,094 --> 00:39:38,775
road and started taking him through the the

1155
00:39:38,775 --> 00:39:39,994
how do you get saved.

1156
00:39:40,695 --> 00:39:42,775
And finally, he ended up getting saved, going

1157
00:39:42,775 --> 00:39:44,829
to church. Well, then his sister got saved,

1158
00:39:44,829 --> 00:39:46,670
and his mom got saved, his brother got

1159
00:39:46,670 --> 00:39:48,909
saved, and everybody but his dad. His dad

1160
00:39:48,909 --> 00:39:50,690
was the last one in their house.

1161
00:39:51,469 --> 00:39:51,969
And

1162
00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:55,090
turns out, he said, of all the things,

1163
00:39:55,150 --> 00:39:57,150
he said, we had used this fake heart

1164
00:39:57,150 --> 00:39:57,650
condition

1165
00:39:58,005 --> 00:39:59,384
for us to get to America,

1166
00:40:00,644 --> 00:40:02,964
and mom had a heart attack. Uh-huh. And

1167
00:40:02,964 --> 00:40:05,065
we rushed her down to the hospital. Yeah.

1168
00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:07,864
He said she died three times.

1169
00:40:08,244 --> 00:40:09,525
He said they would roll her out. They

1170
00:40:09,525 --> 00:40:11,525
would say, we think she's not gonna make

1171
00:40:11,525 --> 00:40:12,025
it.

1172
00:40:12,530 --> 00:40:14,130
And we would he said me and my

1173
00:40:14,130 --> 00:40:15,889
brother and my sister, we're all there praying,

1174
00:40:15,889 --> 00:40:18,690
and dad's just sitting over there. Nothing. Nothing.

1175
00:40:18,690 --> 00:40:20,130
And finally, he looked at dad, and he

1176
00:40:20,130 --> 00:40:21,989
said, what is it gonna take, dad?

1177
00:40:22,289 --> 00:40:24,769
Yeah. And he said, the minute his dad

1178
00:40:24,769 --> 00:40:25,269
said,

1179
00:40:26,474 --> 00:40:28,715
God, forgive me. Like, that was that was

1180
00:40:28,715 --> 00:40:30,075
all he said. He said, God, forgive me.

1181
00:40:30,075 --> 00:40:31,835
That's all that's all it takes. And he

1182
00:40:31,835 --> 00:40:34,394
said, the doctor looked down and went, her

1183
00:40:34,394 --> 00:40:36,635
heart just started beating again. Uh-huh. Yeah. And

1184
00:40:36,635 --> 00:40:38,315
he said, you you wanna talk about how

1185
00:40:38,315 --> 00:40:40,079
God will hear his own? He said, dad

1186
00:40:40,079 --> 00:40:41,920
was not just praying that for himself. He

1187
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:42,579
was praying.

1188
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,400
1st of all, I gotta get my and

1189
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,680
he told his dad, he said because his

1190
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,119
dad was like, alright. I'll pray over here.

1191
00:40:47,119 --> 00:40:49,039
And he said, who you praying to, dad?

1192
00:40:49,039 --> 00:40:50,720
Yeah. You don't have any faith. You don't

1193
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:52,239
believe in him. Yeah. You gotta put your

1194
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:53,519
faith in him first. And he said, and

1195
00:40:53,519 --> 00:40:55,554
the minute his dad said that and then

1196
00:40:55,554 --> 00:40:57,155
started praying for his mom, her heart started

1197
00:40:57,155 --> 00:40:58,675
beating. The doctors got back there, and they

1198
00:40:58,675 --> 00:41:00,275
were able to get in, do the bypass,

1199
00:41:00,275 --> 00:41:02,594
fix everything, and she was fine. Yeah. And

1200
00:41:02,594 --> 00:41:04,295
he said, but y'all, he said,

1201
00:41:04,914 --> 00:41:06,914
I'll never forget that guy saying that. I

1202
00:41:06,914 --> 00:41:08,039
mean, just

1203
00:41:08,739 --> 00:41:10,739
so funny and so honest and so true.

1204
00:41:10,739 --> 00:41:12,259
And he said, you know, the thing is,

1205
00:41:12,259 --> 00:41:14,420
he said, we've got to be his children

1206
00:41:14,420 --> 00:41:16,099
for him to listen to us. And he

1207
00:41:16,099 --> 00:41:17,619
said and years later, he was talking to

1208
00:41:17,619 --> 00:41:19,059
his dad, and he said, would you listen

1209
00:41:19,059 --> 00:41:20,920
to some random neighborhood kid

1210
00:41:21,380 --> 00:41:23,675
that can't comes out and he breaks your

1211
00:41:23,675 --> 00:41:25,675
windows and he messes up your cars and

1212
00:41:25,675 --> 00:41:28,074
he and he he forks your lawn and

1213
00:41:28,074 --> 00:41:29,914
rolls your yard at Halloween, but he don't

1214
00:41:29,994 --> 00:41:31,275
he won't have anything else to do with

1215
00:41:31,275 --> 00:41:32,554
you. He said, are you gonna listen to

1216
00:41:32,554 --> 00:41:34,315
him, or would you rather listen to us?

1217
00:41:34,315 --> 00:41:36,108
And his dad was like, well, I never

1218
00:41:36,108 --> 00:41:37,980
thought about it that way. I'll tell you

1219
00:41:37,980 --> 00:41:39,853
that's that's the power of prayer right there

1220
00:41:39,853 --> 00:41:41,959
too. It's it's and it's not our power.

1221
00:41:41,959 --> 00:41:44,300
Yeah. No. It that our words sometimes don't

1222
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:46,172
mean a thing. It's it's our heart. It's

1223
00:41:46,172 --> 00:41:48,045
what's in our heart. That's right. He hears

1224
00:41:48,045 --> 00:41:50,974
that, and he like, god save me. Yeah.

1225
00:41:50,974 --> 00:41:53,215
Jesus save me. That that's the most powerful

1226
00:41:53,215 --> 00:41:55,394
prayer you could possibly pray. Amen.

1227
00:41:55,695 --> 00:41:58,015
Amen. You know, I've I've said for a

1228
00:41:58,015 --> 00:41:59,235
long time the 2

1229
00:41:59,775 --> 00:42:02,175
most beautiful words you can ever hear another

1230
00:42:02,175 --> 00:42:03,614
human being say you know, a lot of

1231
00:42:03,614 --> 00:42:04,920
people say it's it's I do on your

1232
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:05,980
wedding day. Right?

1233
00:42:06,679 --> 00:42:08,280
No. It's when you hear somebody say I

1234
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,760
believe. Yeah. The first time they ever say

1235
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,519
it. Yeah. Because you can see that

1236
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,000
you see a kid do that. If you've

1237
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,760
ever seen a kid when they really get

1238
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:17,500
saved Yeah.

1239
00:42:17,925 --> 00:42:19,844
And they say that and you're like Make

1240
00:42:19,844 --> 00:42:21,765
sure arms hair arm hair stand up. It

1241
00:42:21,765 --> 00:42:23,224
does. Because I mean, the

1242
00:42:24,085 --> 00:42:26,324
the most amazing thing to me is watching

1243
00:42:26,324 --> 00:42:26,985
that happen,

1244
00:42:27,285 --> 00:42:29,844
and everything changes. Yeah. The way they hold

1245
00:42:29,844 --> 00:42:31,445
themselves, the way they talk, the way they

1246
00:42:31,445 --> 00:42:34,119
stand, the way. And you're like, what just

1247
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,820
I mean, there's no doubt.

1248
00:42:36,519 --> 00:42:38,679
Yeah. Yeah. Born again. That's right. That's right.

1249
00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:40,679
Let's look you know, and and you mentioned

1250
00:42:40,679 --> 00:42:41,579
in that story,

1251
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,039
he said, God, forgive me. You know?

1252
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:45,074
Made me think,

1253
00:42:45,635 --> 00:42:47,474
Paul said, work out your own salvation with

1254
00:42:47,474 --> 00:42:48,375
fear and trembling.

1255
00:42:50,914 --> 00:42:52,675
What what is that sinner's prayer and where

1256
00:42:52,675 --> 00:42:54,755
is it found at in the Bible? It's

1257
00:42:54,755 --> 00:42:55,255
not.

1258
00:42:56,434 --> 00:42:58,275
There isn't one. It's not. Yeah. I mean,

1259
00:42:58,275 --> 00:43:00,514
you look at what Paul told the Philippian

1260
00:43:00,514 --> 00:43:02,090
jailer. Yeah. He said, believe in the Lord

1261
00:43:02,090 --> 00:43:03,369
Jesus Christ, and you will be saved in

1262
00:43:03,369 --> 00:43:05,530
your house. Yeah. Believe it. Confess it with

1263
00:43:05,530 --> 00:43:07,210
your mouth. You're done. He's saving his whole

1264
00:43:07,210 --> 00:43:09,449
household too. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. And and

1265
00:43:09,449 --> 00:43:11,289
it and it wasn't because God saved

1266
00:43:11,769 --> 00:43:13,530
you know, he didn't save his whole household

1267
00:43:13,530 --> 00:43:15,934
because he saved that man. But think about

1268
00:43:15,934 --> 00:43:17,614
what happened. Think about the power of what

1269
00:43:17,614 --> 00:43:18,114
happened.

1270
00:43:18,735 --> 00:43:20,255
Just like this man that you're telling the

1271
00:43:20,255 --> 00:43:22,815
story about, the Philippian jailer gets saved. And

1272
00:43:22,815 --> 00:43:24,974
what does he do? He goes home and

1273
00:43:24,974 --> 00:43:27,375
he says, hey, honey. Guess what happened to

1274
00:43:27,375 --> 00:43:29,614
me at work today? I met Jesus and

1275
00:43:29,614 --> 00:43:31,289
he's my savior, and I love him and

1276
00:43:31,289 --> 00:43:33,289
he's lord. And and and and she loves

1277
00:43:33,289 --> 00:43:34,890
her husband, and she listens to him. And

1278
00:43:34,890 --> 00:43:36,890
so, you know, and so she gets to

1279
00:43:36,890 --> 00:43:38,170
him and she prays, and then the kids

1280
00:43:38,170 --> 00:43:39,769
go, what's mom and dad doing? What they

1281
00:43:39,769 --> 00:43:42,090
crying about? What they're so excited about? And

1282
00:43:42,090 --> 00:43:43,784
then the kids come up. They're like, tell

1283
00:43:43,784 --> 00:43:46,425
us about Jesus. And he says, hey. Jesus

1284
00:43:46,425 --> 00:43:48,105
saved my soul today, and he's the lord

1285
00:43:48,105 --> 00:43:49,464
of my life. Yeah. The kids go, I

1286
00:43:49,464 --> 00:43:51,144
want that too. You know? So that's what

1287
00:43:51,144 --> 00:43:52,204
happens. You know?

1288
00:43:52,664 --> 00:43:53,804
I've watched that happen.

1289
00:43:54,184 --> 00:43:55,625
I I watched that happen with a with

1290
00:43:55,625 --> 00:43:57,085
a family in in our

1291
00:43:57,659 --> 00:43:58,159
church

1292
00:43:58,539 --> 00:43:59,099
and and,

1293
00:43:59,659 --> 00:44:01,280
precious people that I love.

1294
00:44:01,819 --> 00:44:02,960
When when dad

1295
00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:05,260
when dad finally got in, and this was

1296
00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:06,719
a mom who was already saved,

1297
00:44:07,019 --> 00:44:09,099
praying for her husband to be saved after

1298
00:44:09,099 --> 00:44:11,105
so many years of going to church with

1299
00:44:11,105 --> 00:44:12,545
him every now and then, but not really

1300
00:44:12,545 --> 00:44:14,224
ever taking it serious. And then all of

1301
00:44:14,224 --> 00:44:15,525
a sudden, one day, boom,

1302
00:44:16,144 --> 00:44:18,304
he starts coming to church. God gets a

1303
00:44:18,304 --> 00:44:19,984
hold of him. He gets saved. And what

1304
00:44:19,984 --> 00:44:22,144
happens? The whole family gets I've got to

1305
00:44:22,144 --> 00:44:23,284
I've got to baptize

1306
00:44:24,860 --> 00:44:26,559
him, both his boys,

1307
00:44:26,940 --> 00:44:28,699
and and then his wife's like, look. I

1308
00:44:28,699 --> 00:44:30,619
wanna get baptized with my family again. You

1309
00:44:30,619 --> 00:44:33,420
know? So to baptize the whole family. I

1310
00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:35,579
I mean, including praise the Lord. Get in

1311
00:44:35,579 --> 00:44:36,559
the water. You know?

1312
00:44:38,175 --> 00:44:40,494
Man, it's just it's just a wonderful thing,

1313
00:44:40,494 --> 00:44:42,494
you know, especially when fathers and we've talked

1314
00:44:42,494 --> 00:44:44,515
about this, when fathers line up with God

1315
00:44:44,894 --> 00:44:46,574
and and and do what they're supposed to

1316
00:44:46,574 --> 00:44:48,434
do. But but, no, there's not

1317
00:44:49,454 --> 00:44:50,994
there's not a particular

1318
00:44:51,295 --> 00:44:51,795
prayer

1319
00:44:52,869 --> 00:44:54,250
that has to be prayed,

1320
00:44:55,269 --> 00:44:58,309
to be saved. Right? It's it's confess with

1321
00:44:58,309 --> 00:45:00,710
your mouth. It's believe in your heart, and

1322
00:45:00,710 --> 00:45:02,789
thou shalt be saved. Right? You that that's

1323
00:45:02,789 --> 00:45:04,869
that's that's the that's what it is. Is

1324
00:45:04,869 --> 00:45:06,789
it? It's simple. Yeah. And and it's not

1325
00:45:06,789 --> 00:45:09,265
it's not just believing, but it's confessing,

1326
00:45:09,885 --> 00:45:10,865
you know, hey.

1327
00:45:11,325 --> 00:45:13,724
You're lord Yeah. Of my and I want

1328
00:45:13,724 --> 00:45:15,505
you to be lord of my life because

1329
00:45:15,805 --> 00:45:18,684
Satan himself believes and knows that god is

1330
00:45:18,684 --> 00:45:21,005
real, but there's something different when you say

1331
00:45:21,005 --> 00:45:22,980
I wanna follow this god. And that joy

1332
00:45:23,059 --> 00:45:25,059
that joy when somebody first gets saved, it's

1333
00:45:25,059 --> 00:45:27,219
just like it's contagious. It is. Contagious. Oh,

1334
00:45:27,219 --> 00:45:29,380
yeah. Wanna be around a brand new believer,

1335
00:45:29,380 --> 00:45:31,460
but they're on fire glow in the dark

1336
00:45:31,460 --> 00:45:33,059
kind of stuff. Yes, sir. And people see

1337
00:45:33,059 --> 00:45:33,859
that, and and,

1338
00:45:34,260 --> 00:45:36,305
it's not the words anymore. It's just they

1339
00:45:36,305 --> 00:45:38,945
they sense that spirit on. Yeah. Yeah. Right?

1340
00:45:38,945 --> 00:45:39,845
And it just

1341
00:45:40,305 --> 00:45:41,045
oh, yeah.

1342
00:45:41,425 --> 00:45:43,265
And can't you you can tell when you're

1343
00:45:43,265 --> 00:45:44,184
around other believers,

1344
00:45:44,625 --> 00:45:47,025
sometimes without even saying a word. I mean,

1345
00:45:47,025 --> 00:45:49,500
I've been around people sitting in a waiting

1346
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:49,980
room,

1347
00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:51,519
in a doctor's office

1348
00:45:52,460 --> 00:45:53,360
and just thought

1349
00:45:53,739 --> 00:45:55,420
I felt the spirit of god on that

1350
00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:57,179
guy right there. You know, that guy's got

1351
00:45:57,579 --> 00:45:59,980
you know, I I was I'll take my

1352
00:45:59,980 --> 00:46:01,660
mom. I took my mom to the eye

1353
00:46:01,660 --> 00:46:03,660
doctor several years ago. I may already told

1354
00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:05,234
this in here, but and there was a

1355
00:46:05,234 --> 00:46:06,914
guy in there that I was we're sitting

1356
00:46:06,914 --> 00:46:08,835
across from him and I don't know. There's

1357
00:46:08,835 --> 00:46:10,275
just something about it. I looked over at

1358
00:46:10,275 --> 00:46:11,554
him. I said, are you in ministry? And

1359
00:46:11,554 --> 00:46:13,074
he said, yeah. He said, I'm a pastor.

1360
00:46:13,074 --> 00:46:13,815
And I said,

1361
00:46:14,114 --> 00:46:15,635
I I felt like he said, I felt

1362
00:46:15,635 --> 00:46:16,994
like you were too. You know? I mean,

1363
00:46:16,994 --> 00:46:19,619
it was just our spirits chapped with each

1364
00:46:19,619 --> 00:46:21,699
other. They they join each other, and and

1365
00:46:21,699 --> 00:46:23,780
and it you know, there's there's just something

1366
00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:26,019
about it. It wasn't like the the force

1367
00:46:26,019 --> 00:46:27,460
was with us, but I mean, you know,

1368
00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:29,619
but Jesus was with us. Always spirit was

1369
00:46:29,619 --> 00:46:31,619
with us. That's the holy spirit. Sunday morning.

1370
00:46:31,619 --> 00:46:33,219
Yeah. The holy spirit, it just starts

1371
00:46:33,785 --> 00:46:35,785
it'll it'll start reacting to that and letting

1372
00:46:35,785 --> 00:46:37,785
you know. I mean, it it's very much

1373
00:46:37,785 --> 00:46:40,045
like what, you know, you you talk about

1374
00:46:40,585 --> 00:46:41,805
you look back at Jesus,

1375
00:46:42,265 --> 00:46:44,184
before Jesus was born when Mary got there

1376
00:46:44,184 --> 00:46:45,989
and she got close to her cousin. And

1377
00:46:45,989 --> 00:46:47,590
what did John start doing? He started kicking

1378
00:46:47,590 --> 00:46:49,530
in the womb because he's like, I know.

1379
00:46:49,590 --> 00:46:51,929
Yeah. I know who's over here. Doing backflips.

1380
00:46:52,230 --> 00:46:53,829
Yeah. And I mean, it's the same way

1381
00:46:53,829 --> 00:46:55,269
with the holy spirit and us. You get

1382
00:46:55,269 --> 00:46:56,949
around somebody and they're praying and they're where

1383
00:46:56,949 --> 00:46:59,050
they need to be. Yeah. It's noticeable.

1384
00:46:59,364 --> 00:47:01,125
That's right. And that's it, man. That's another

1385
00:47:01,125 --> 00:47:02,724
key part of the church too. That we

1386
00:47:02,724 --> 00:47:04,244
come together and we kind of have that

1387
00:47:04,405 --> 00:47:06,164
the the same holy spirit living in me

1388
00:47:06,164 --> 00:47:08,005
is in you, is you, is everybody in

1389
00:47:08,005 --> 00:47:10,485
this building. That's right. Man, just let it

1390
00:47:10,565 --> 00:47:13,360
just unleash it. Amen. Amen. You know? Amen.

1391
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,199
Let it go. Let it go and let

1392
00:47:15,199 --> 00:47:16,820
it flow from breast to breast.

1393
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,840
We sure need the joy Absolutely. In this

1394
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,400
world. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. We we we live

1395
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:23,539
in a world where

1396
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:25,140
our joy

1397
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:26,340
is

1398
00:47:27,364 --> 00:47:29,784
continually robbed. It is. You know,

1399
00:47:30,164 --> 00:47:32,804
Satan tries to rob our joy, but joy

1400
00:47:32,804 --> 00:47:34,804
comes from the Lord. Right. It does. It

1401
00:47:34,804 --> 00:47:35,487
is. It is. It is. It is. It

1402
00:47:35,487 --> 00:47:36,164
is. It is. It is. It's source. If

1403
00:47:36,164 --> 00:47:38,184
we let Satan take it, he will.

1404
00:47:38,484 --> 00:47:39,844
But we don't have to let him take

1405
00:47:39,844 --> 00:47:41,525
it. Amen. Right. Because it's it's it's a

1406
00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:44,320
spiritual thing. Right. It's at him sometimes. Yeah.

1407
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,639
It's it's it's one of those things. We

1408
00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:46,880
just

1409
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,820
for some reason, we let ourselves

1410
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:52,340
be

1411
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,199
deceived because that's all it is. It's a

1412
00:47:55,199 --> 00:47:57,085
deception. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's nothing to be

1413
00:47:57,085 --> 00:47:59,085
happy about right now. Look at this situation.

1414
00:47:59,085 --> 00:48:00,445
Look at that situation. Look at what you

1415
00:48:00,445 --> 00:48:02,285
went through at work this week. Yeah. Look

1416
00:48:02,285 --> 00:48:03,885
at what you're going through with your family

1417
00:48:03,885 --> 00:48:05,724
and this and that. And, oh, look at

1418
00:48:05,724 --> 00:48:07,405
the state of the world and what's going

1419
00:48:07,405 --> 00:48:08,925
on over here and what's going on over

1420
00:48:08,925 --> 00:48:09,985
there. And it's like,

1421
00:48:10,590 --> 00:48:13,230
but here's the thing. This this world, all

1422
00:48:13,230 --> 00:48:13,890
of it,

1423
00:48:14,349 --> 00:48:16,510
this is all temporary. Yeah. It comes back

1424
00:48:16,510 --> 00:48:18,670
to focus. Yeah. It's all it it it's

1425
00:48:18,829 --> 00:48:21,250
always does. Ephemeral. It's temporary. It's so

1426
00:48:22,030 --> 00:48:24,454
fleeting. Yeah. And, you know, Jesus was really

1427
00:48:24,454 --> 00:48:26,795
concerned about the disciples' joy and ours too.

1428
00:48:26,855 --> 00:48:28,295
Right? And it's a in a lot of

1429
00:48:28,295 --> 00:48:29,655
ways, I always like to think of it

1430
00:48:29,655 --> 00:48:31,015
as like, you know, an old light bulb

1431
00:48:31,015 --> 00:48:33,494
outside and the moths just Yeah. Bouncing around

1432
00:48:33,494 --> 00:48:35,414
that thing. Unbelievers are coming around that lot

1433
00:48:35,414 --> 00:48:36,934
all the time wanting some of that joy.

1434
00:48:36,934 --> 00:48:39,670
That's right. And Jesus in John chapters 1516,

1435
00:48:40,369 --> 00:48:43,010
6 times he talks about joy. Yeah. That

1436
00:48:43,010 --> 00:48:44,690
my joy may be in you, that your

1437
00:48:44,690 --> 00:48:45,829
joy may be full.

1438
00:48:46,210 --> 00:48:48,049
You know, it could because that is an

1439
00:48:48,049 --> 00:48:48,549
evangelistic

1440
00:48:48,849 --> 00:48:49,349
tool.

1441
00:48:50,315 --> 00:48:52,075
It is it people see that, and it

1442
00:48:52,075 --> 00:48:54,175
rubs off, and it spreads like crazy.

1443
00:48:54,715 --> 00:48:55,215
But,

1444
00:48:55,515 --> 00:48:56,795
you know, we do tend to throw it

1445
00:48:56,795 --> 00:48:59,055
away. We do. And I mean, it's

1446
00:48:59,515 --> 00:49:01,675
and it's because a lot of times, we

1447
00:49:01,675 --> 00:49:03,755
just let ourselves like you say, we lose

1448
00:49:03,755 --> 00:49:06,519
focus. We forget we're supposed to be focused

1449
00:49:06,519 --> 00:49:08,359
on heavenly things. We're supposed to be focused

1450
00:49:08,359 --> 00:49:09,260
on the eternity

1451
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:10,780
that is just

1452
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:12,139
I mean,

1453
00:49:12,519 --> 00:49:14,039
it's just over on the other side. It's

1454
00:49:14,039 --> 00:49:15,099
not far away.

1455
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,319
Yeah. And and that's our our number one

1456
00:49:17,319 --> 00:49:18,920
thing in life, right, is to stay close

1457
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:19,980
to God through prayer

1458
00:49:20,484 --> 00:49:22,244
through prayer. And and, you know, of course,

1459
00:49:22,244 --> 00:49:23,925
we've got bible study in church. We've got

1460
00:49:23,925 --> 00:49:25,764
all these different things that that can help

1461
00:49:25,764 --> 00:49:27,525
build our relationship with God and with each

1462
00:49:27,525 --> 00:49:28,025
other.

1463
00:49:28,565 --> 00:49:31,364
But, man, without prayer, we're sunk. Yeah. And

1464
00:49:31,364 --> 00:49:32,804
I I always go all the way back

1465
00:49:32,804 --> 00:49:33,545
to Ecclesiastes.

1466
00:49:34,539 --> 00:49:36,299
And, you know, the wisest man that ever

1467
00:49:36,299 --> 00:49:36,799
lived,

1468
00:49:37,099 --> 00:49:39,119
you know, he he was literally gifted

1469
00:49:39,420 --> 00:49:41,759
wisdom from God. And he said in Ecclesiastes

1470
00:49:42,139 --> 00:49:44,460
chapter 12 verse 13, he said, this is

1471
00:49:44,460 --> 00:49:46,239
the end of the in this the, ASV.

1472
00:49:46,299 --> 00:49:47,934
This is the end of the matter. All

1473
00:49:47,934 --> 00:49:50,894
has been heard. For god fear God and

1474
00:49:50,894 --> 00:49:52,815
keep his commandments, for this is the whole

1475
00:49:52,815 --> 00:49:54,494
duty of man. Yeah. I mean, he just

1476
00:49:54,494 --> 00:49:56,494
he just says, look, guys. What are you're

1477
00:49:56,494 --> 00:49:58,174
you're worried about all these other things. And,

1478
00:49:58,174 --> 00:50:00,494
I mean, Ecclesiastes is where just prior to

1479
00:50:00,494 --> 00:50:02,599
this, he's talking about, hey. Look. The the

1480
00:50:02,599 --> 00:50:04,519
temple, all of these things that I've built,

1481
00:50:04,519 --> 00:50:06,840
all of these wonderful things, he's like, there's

1482
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,519
gonna come a day where people won't even

1483
00:50:08,519 --> 00:50:11,160
remember me. Right. Right. And and here Solomon

1484
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:12,059
had the greatest

1485
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:13,660
kingdom

1486
00:50:15,105 --> 00:50:16,784
in that part of the world that the

1487
00:50:16,784 --> 00:50:18,704
world had ever seen. It was prospering. It

1488
00:50:18,704 --> 00:50:20,945
was growing. It was huge. He had he

1489
00:50:20,945 --> 00:50:23,905
had cities and temples and and palaces and

1490
00:50:23,905 --> 00:50:24,804
all these great

1491
00:50:25,105 --> 00:50:27,639
and gold flowing just just freely. He was

1492
00:50:27,639 --> 00:50:29,400
just, I mean, just basically giving it away

1493
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,840
because he had so much. You know what

1494
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:31,739
he didn't have?

1495
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,039
He didn't have the holy spirit inside of

1496
00:50:34,039 --> 00:50:35,400
them that we have. That's right. Right? We

1497
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,320
got more of a connection with God. And

1498
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:38,920
and all all it all it's about is

1499
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,215
peer pressure. Yeah. Right? It's peer pressure. The

1500
00:50:41,215 --> 00:50:42,735
more you hang out with somebody, the more

1501
00:50:42,735 --> 00:50:44,414
like them you start to act, you start

1502
00:50:44,414 --> 00:50:46,255
to talk, you start to think. And the

1503
00:50:46,255 --> 00:50:48,014
more we hang out with God, exactly the

1504
00:50:48,014 --> 00:50:50,815
same thing happens to us. Yep. Exactly. That's

1505
00:50:50,815 --> 00:50:53,295
exactly right. And it's because we talked to

1506
00:50:53,295 --> 00:50:54,900
him. Right? It's because it

1507
00:50:55,380 --> 00:50:58,500
Philippians 4, 6, and 7, be careful for

1508
00:50:58,500 --> 00:50:59,000
nothing,

1509
00:50:59,460 --> 00:51:00,679
but in everything

1510
00:51:01,059 --> 00:51:03,559
Yeah. By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.

1511
00:51:04,019 --> 00:51:06,420
Let your let your request be known unto

1512
00:51:06,420 --> 00:51:09,319
God, and the peace of God, which passes

1513
00:51:09,380 --> 00:51:10,039
all understanding,

1514
00:51:11,085 --> 00:51:13,005
shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus

1515
00:51:13,005 --> 00:51:13,505
Christ.

1516
00:51:14,445 --> 00:51:15,965
And one of the things I thought about

1517
00:51:15,965 --> 00:51:17,824
when when we when we talk about,

1518
00:51:18,445 --> 00:51:20,864
rip well, not repetition, but continuing

1519
00:51:21,164 --> 00:51:23,699
to go back to him Yeah. And and

1520
00:51:23,780 --> 00:51:25,699
maybe talk to him about the same matter

1521
00:51:25,699 --> 00:51:26,839
that we're worried about.

1522
00:51:28,900 --> 00:51:31,139
It settles our hearts. Right? Yeah. If the

1523
00:51:31,139 --> 00:51:33,699
situation's still going on, if the situation's still

1524
00:51:33,699 --> 00:51:34,199
happening,

1525
00:51:34,739 --> 00:51:36,739
if if that loved one's not better, if

1526
00:51:36,739 --> 00:51:39,059
if that situation hasn't been settled, if it's

1527
00:51:39,059 --> 00:51:40,175
not done,

1528
00:51:40,555 --> 00:51:43,135
then then it just settles our heart

1529
00:51:43,675 --> 00:51:45,675
to talk to daddy. Yeah. You know? I

1530
00:51:45,675 --> 00:51:47,914
mean, I I'm telling you, dad could calm

1531
00:51:48,074 --> 00:51:50,635
my dad could calm my nerves. He could

1532
00:51:50,635 --> 00:51:52,474
calm the waves. I'm talking about my earthly

1533
00:51:52,474 --> 00:51:52,974
father.

1534
00:51:53,275 --> 00:51:54,894
He could calm the situation

1535
00:51:55,969 --> 00:51:57,829
quicker than anyone else could.

1536
00:51:58,449 --> 00:52:00,530
Just just the sound of his voice. Like

1537
00:52:00,530 --> 00:52:02,369
I Yeah. Like I knew, you know, hey.

1538
00:52:02,369 --> 00:52:04,449
He's got wisdom and and and it's gonna

1539
00:52:04,449 --> 00:52:06,609
be alright, and I am gonna get past

1540
00:52:06,609 --> 00:52:08,210
this, and I will get through this, and

1541
00:52:08,210 --> 00:52:09,954
it's not the end of my teenage life,

1542
00:52:09,954 --> 00:52:11,954
you know Yeah. Just because this thing happened

1543
00:52:11,954 --> 00:52:14,434
or that thing happened. And so he settled

1544
00:52:14,434 --> 00:52:16,355
me. And sometimes I may have had to

1545
00:52:16,355 --> 00:52:18,034
go to him more than one time and

1546
00:52:18,034 --> 00:52:19,574
talk about the same thing,

1547
00:52:19,954 --> 00:52:21,255
but he settled me.

1548
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,840
And that's what that's about. Right? I mean,

1549
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,599
everything give thanks and everything

1550
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,440
pray about everything. Right? Pray about everything and

1551
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,280
don't worry about nothing. And I know that's

1552
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,260
hard to do. Yeah. But but to pray

1553
00:52:34,559 --> 00:52:36,400
and say, god, you know, I know this

1554
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,295
is in your hands, and I know you

1555
00:52:38,295 --> 00:52:40,234
can take care of it. I'm I'm concerned

1556
00:52:40,375 --> 00:52:43,094
about this. Please hurry. But please hurry. Yeah.

1557
00:52:43,094 --> 00:52:43,594
Yeah.

1558
00:52:43,894 --> 00:52:46,135
And and and there's something about when you're

1559
00:52:46,135 --> 00:52:47,034
talking to him

1560
00:52:47,414 --> 00:52:49,594
that even if it's just in that moment

1561
00:52:50,329 --> 00:52:52,650
that he says, hey. I got this. That

1562
00:52:52,650 --> 00:52:55,769
peace. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and trusting in

1563
00:52:55,769 --> 00:52:57,369
that peace. That is that's one of the

1564
00:52:57,369 --> 00:53:00,170
hardest things Yeah. As Christians, I think we

1565
00:53:00,170 --> 00:53:03,050
do is is putting that trust and going,

1566
00:53:03,050 --> 00:53:03,550
okay.

1567
00:53:04,105 --> 00:53:04,605
Now

1568
00:53:04,905 --> 00:53:06,664
I've given it to God. I'm gonna keep

1569
00:53:06,664 --> 00:53:08,344
asking him about it because I really want

1570
00:53:08,344 --> 00:53:10,265
this to happen, or I really want this

1571
00:53:10,265 --> 00:53:11,644
to be resolved. Yeah.

1572
00:53:12,184 --> 00:53:14,344
But just having that peace and putting your

1573
00:53:14,344 --> 00:53:16,505
faith and and trust enough that when the

1574
00:53:16,505 --> 00:53:18,445
peace comes, you go, okay. I can trust.

1575
00:53:18,780 --> 00:53:20,059
I know this comes from him because it

1576
00:53:20,059 --> 00:53:21,579
doesn't come from the world. Yeah. There is

1577
00:53:21,579 --> 00:53:23,500
no peace in the world. Yeah. Doesn't exist.

1578
00:53:23,500 --> 00:53:25,739
That's right. And and and this verse too

1579
00:53:25,739 --> 00:53:27,500
is about I mean, it goes back to

1580
00:53:27,500 --> 00:53:29,199
Proverbs. Right? Because it's about

1581
00:53:29,739 --> 00:53:32,219
it's about our understanding and our perspective of

1582
00:53:32,219 --> 00:53:33,900
things. Because when we talk to God, he's

1583
00:53:33,900 --> 00:53:36,034
got such a better perspective about

1584
00:53:36,335 --> 00:53:38,094
what's going on than we do because he

1585
00:53:38,094 --> 00:53:40,114
sees it front, back, forward,

1586
00:53:40,414 --> 00:53:41,315
you know, future,

1587
00:53:42,335 --> 00:53:43,234
past, present.

1588
00:53:43,855 --> 00:53:46,014
All those he's got he's got every angle

1589
00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:47,375
on it, and he knows how it's gonna

1590
00:53:47,375 --> 00:53:49,050
happen. And he knows how it got here,

1591
00:53:49,050 --> 00:53:50,750
and he knows how it's gonna turn out.

1592
00:53:50,970 --> 00:53:53,130
And so it it it goes back to,

1593
00:53:53,130 --> 00:53:54,030
you know, hey.

1594
00:53:54,970 --> 00:53:57,210
We've got to acknowledge him. Right? And in

1595
00:53:57,210 --> 00:53:59,690
all our ways acknowledge him, and he shall

1596
00:53:59,690 --> 00:54:01,450
direct our paths. But it goes and tells

1597
00:54:01,450 --> 00:54:03,445
us there, it says, lean not on your

1598
00:54:03,445 --> 00:54:06,565
own understanding. Yeah. Right? Lean not on your

1599
00:54:06,565 --> 00:54:07,385
own understanding,

1600
00:54:08,484 --> 00:54:10,244
but in all your ways acknowledge him, and

1601
00:54:10,244 --> 00:54:12,644
he'll direct your paths. So the way I

1602
00:54:12,644 --> 00:54:14,324
see it, the way that I think it

1603
00:54:14,324 --> 00:54:16,210
may be, it may not be that way

1604
00:54:16,210 --> 00:54:17,969
at all. Or I may think this is

1605
00:54:17,969 --> 00:54:19,809
the end or this is there there's no

1606
00:54:19,809 --> 00:54:21,969
way we'll get past this. But then god

1607
00:54:21,969 --> 00:54:24,050
says, yes. You will. Son, you will get

1608
00:54:24,050 --> 00:54:26,289
past this. You will get farther. You know,

1609
00:54:26,289 --> 00:54:29,090
and and we've said this word multiple times

1610
00:54:29,090 --> 00:54:29,989
tonight, peace.

1611
00:54:30,425 --> 00:54:32,445
Talking about the peace that God gives us.

1612
00:54:32,905 --> 00:54:34,425
So I'm gonna throw out a question there

1613
00:54:34,425 --> 00:54:35,885
for you. What separates

1614
00:54:36,824 --> 00:54:37,324
peace

1615
00:54:38,105 --> 00:54:38,844
from contentment,

1616
00:54:40,105 --> 00:54:41,005
from apathy?

1617
00:54:41,945 --> 00:54:43,960
Because if you just don't care about something

1618
00:54:44,119 --> 00:54:46,599
Yeah. It's not worrying you. Yeah. It's just

1619
00:54:46,599 --> 00:54:49,880
apathy. Yeah. So what separates that from the

1620
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,140
peace that god gives us? Right.

1621
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:52,840
Well, the

1622
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,079
okay. So let's

1623
00:54:56,519 --> 00:54:58,265
Well, Well, I mean, Paul Paul addresses that

1624
00:54:58,265 --> 00:55:00,744
in Philippians. Yeah. Right? Where he says, be

1625
00:55:00,744 --> 00:55:02,905
anxious for nothing. Yeah. Well, now that you

1626
00:55:02,905 --> 00:55:04,825
just read that, he's talking about it was

1627
00:55:04,825 --> 00:55:06,905
our most misquoted from Wednesday night. What what

1628
00:55:07,065 --> 00:55:09,065
Yeah. Yeah. He he says he learns to

1629
00:55:09,065 --> 00:55:11,144
be right. Yeah. He says he learns to

1630
00:55:11,144 --> 00:55:12,365
be both abased.

1631
00:55:12,819 --> 00:55:15,139
And, you know, in other words, what Paul

1632
00:55:15,139 --> 00:55:17,539
was saying at the bottom of the of

1633
00:55:17,539 --> 00:55:18,280
the ladder,

1634
00:55:18,659 --> 00:55:20,739
I'm satisfied. Yeah. At the top of the

1635
00:55:20,739 --> 00:55:22,659
ladder, I'm satisfied. In the middle of the

1636
00:55:22,659 --> 00:55:25,059
ladder, I'm satisfied. No matter where I am

1637
00:55:25,059 --> 00:55:27,315
in society, no matter if I'm in jail,

1638
00:55:27,875 --> 00:55:29,255
and he wrote that from

1639
00:55:29,635 --> 00:55:30,775
a Philippian jail,

1640
00:55:31,234 --> 00:55:33,074
who was I've I've,

1641
00:55:34,194 --> 00:55:36,194
made it very clear that that it wasn't,

1642
00:55:36,355 --> 00:55:38,194
it wasn't a DeKalb County jail. He didn't

1643
00:55:38,194 --> 00:55:40,135
have TV. He didn't have a nice bed.

1644
00:55:40,219 --> 00:55:41,839
You know, it was it was a terrible

1645
00:55:41,900 --> 00:55:44,380
situation, a terrible place, and he wrote that

1646
00:55:44,380 --> 00:55:45,440
out of there. So

1647
00:55:46,139 --> 00:55:48,380
Paul knew what it was like to have

1648
00:55:48,380 --> 00:55:50,219
everything, and he Paul knew what it was

1649
00:55:50,219 --> 00:55:52,480
like to have nothing. And he says,

1650
00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:54,880
I can do all things

1651
00:55:55,474 --> 00:55:57,795
through Christ which strengthens me. He didn't mean

1652
00:55:57,795 --> 00:55:59,235
that, you know, he was gonna be able

1653
00:55:59,235 --> 00:56:00,914
to make that touchdown. He didn't mean he's

1654
00:56:00,914 --> 00:56:03,635
gonna win that that NASCAR race, you know.

1655
00:56:03,635 --> 00:56:05,954
That's that's not what that's about. That's not

1656
00:56:05,954 --> 00:56:06,855
what that's about.

1657
00:56:07,155 --> 00:56:09,074
What Paul was saying, no matter what state

1658
00:56:09,074 --> 00:56:10,079
my life is in,

1659
00:56:10,559 --> 00:56:11,860
I'm trusting in Jesus,

1660
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,239
and and he's gonna walk with me through

1661
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,000
this, and he's gonna see me through this.

1662
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,579
And so that's that's that's contentment.

1663
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,680
Right? That that's that's the contentment of knowing

1664
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,239
what your situation is and knowing that that

1665
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,594
he has got you. But I think with

1666
00:56:26,594 --> 00:56:29,074
contentment, I think it's really hard, Tyler, I

1667
00:56:29,074 --> 00:56:29,574
guess,

1668
00:56:29,954 --> 00:56:32,054
to separate contentment from peace

1669
00:56:32,434 --> 00:56:34,275
when you're talking about Jesus, but because I

1670
00:56:34,275 --> 00:56:36,355
think one follows the other. Yeah. I think

1671
00:56:36,355 --> 00:56:37,795
you gotta be together. Yeah. And look at

1672
00:56:37,795 --> 00:56:39,554
look at the contentment that Paul had. He

1673
00:56:39,554 --> 00:56:41,175
was content to be a traveling

1674
00:56:41,530 --> 00:56:42,030
evangelist.

1675
00:56:42,329 --> 00:56:44,329
In those days, you're walking. I mean, he's

1676
00:56:44,329 --> 00:56:46,890
walking for years. Yeah. Literally years. Right. Yeah.

1677
00:56:46,890 --> 00:56:48,190
Right? And and getting beaten,

1678
00:56:48,730 --> 00:56:50,910
getting stoned to death at one point, shipwrecked,

1679
00:56:50,970 --> 00:56:52,510
all these things. But his

1680
00:56:52,809 --> 00:56:55,784
his focus Yes. His focus is that this

1681
00:56:55,784 --> 00:56:57,625
is not all there is. That's right. This

1682
00:56:57,625 --> 00:56:59,704
is not my home. That's right. And it's

1683
00:56:59,784 --> 00:57:02,764
it it's that persistence. It's the

1684
00:57:03,224 --> 00:57:06,204
I will persist. I will continue through

1685
00:57:06,750 --> 00:57:08,909
whatever things are coming. And and that that's

1686
00:57:08,909 --> 00:57:11,170
ultimately really what the piece is. It goes

1687
00:57:11,469 --> 00:57:14,030
it takes that step beyond just contentment of,

1688
00:57:14,030 --> 00:57:16,110
well, I'm just content to be here, but

1689
00:57:16,110 --> 00:57:17,570
I'm going to continue.

1690
00:57:18,030 --> 00:57:20,130
And I'm gonna go until god says,

1691
00:57:20,590 --> 00:57:22,304
time to stop. Yeah. Yeah.

1692
00:57:23,505 --> 00:57:24,565
I thought about

1693
00:57:25,425 --> 00:57:27,344
this. Again, this goes back to to that

1694
00:57:27,344 --> 00:57:28,164
question of

1695
00:57:28,545 --> 00:57:30,385
coming back to God about the same situation.

1696
00:57:30,385 --> 00:57:32,324
And you think about Paul being in prison,

1697
00:57:33,425 --> 00:57:35,505
I don't know exactly how long that he

1698
00:57:35,505 --> 00:57:37,619
was there. And have to go back and

1699
00:57:37,619 --> 00:57:38,980
study it and see if I can find

1700
00:57:38,980 --> 00:57:40,839
that answer, but but,

1701
00:57:41,699 --> 00:57:43,800
it was it was for a while and

1702
00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:46,900
and multiple times. Most times and he knows

1703
00:57:46,900 --> 00:57:48,579
that he continued to go back to God.

1704
00:57:48,579 --> 00:57:50,835
He continued to pray to God every single

1705
00:57:50,835 --> 00:57:52,775
day because every day was a new day.

1706
00:57:53,074 --> 00:57:54,594
And and so it made me, you know,

1707
00:57:54,594 --> 00:57:55,335
hey, God.

1708
00:57:55,795 --> 00:57:56,775
I'm still here.

1709
00:57:57,795 --> 00:57:59,635
I hate this place. I do not like

1710
00:57:59,635 --> 00:58:01,335
where I'm at. Yeah. And,

1711
00:58:02,034 --> 00:58:03,875
I just had a rat run across my

1712
00:58:03,875 --> 00:58:04,375
ear,

1713
00:58:05,019 --> 00:58:07,440
while I was laying down. And and, lord,

1714
00:58:07,980 --> 00:58:09,739
I I think somebody's peeing on me from

1715
00:58:09,739 --> 00:58:10,400
the back.

1716
00:58:12,380 --> 00:58:14,299
You know? I mean, I this is the

1717
00:58:14,299 --> 00:58:15,819
kind of prison that he was in. You

1718
00:58:15,819 --> 00:58:17,339
know? I mean, this was this was I

1719
00:58:17,339 --> 00:58:18,764
want you to picture it there.

1720
00:58:19,244 --> 00:58:21,324
And and, you know, and so but but

1721
00:58:21,324 --> 00:58:23,484
he found it was almost like it took

1722
00:58:23,484 --> 00:58:24,944
him out of the jail

1723
00:58:25,565 --> 00:58:27,724
and into the presence of god. Yeah. You

1724
00:58:27,724 --> 00:58:29,804
know? And that's where that's where we can

1725
00:58:29,804 --> 00:58:31,964
be in our worst troubled time. We can

1726
00:58:31,964 --> 00:58:32,460
be

1727
00:58:32,859 --> 00:58:33,920
in in in the most,

1728
00:58:35,019 --> 00:58:35,519
inhumane

1729
00:58:35,900 --> 00:58:36,400
situation

1730
00:58:37,099 --> 00:58:38,400
in place in our lives.

1731
00:58:39,179 --> 00:58:40,880
But when we talk to the father,

1732
00:58:41,179 --> 00:58:43,980
it's like things begin to fade. Yeah. And

1733
00:58:43,980 --> 00:58:44,960
you do. You go

1734
00:58:46,425 --> 00:58:48,265
excuse me. You go back to that story.

1735
00:58:48,265 --> 00:58:50,425
It is. You go back to that story

1736
00:58:50,425 --> 00:58:52,425
that they gave that that we brought up

1737
00:58:52,425 --> 00:58:54,744
earlier about the Philippian jailer and what was

1738
00:58:54,744 --> 00:58:56,585
Paul and Silas doing. Right? They get thrown

1739
00:58:56,585 --> 00:58:57,244
in jail,

1740
00:58:57,625 --> 00:58:59,130
and they just start witnessing to all the

1741
00:58:59,130 --> 00:59:00,889
people in jail with them. Yeah. And they

1742
00:59:00,889 --> 00:59:02,909
start start talking to him about God.

1743
00:59:03,449 --> 00:59:05,449
And then when they're freed, what are they

1744
00:59:05,449 --> 00:59:06,829
doing? They're singing

1745
00:59:07,210 --> 00:59:07,710
praises.

1746
00:59:08,250 --> 00:59:10,569
Yeah. They're in jail. They're in chains. They're

1747
00:59:10,569 --> 00:59:13,144
they're it says they were shackled in that

1748
00:59:13,144 --> 00:59:14,744
particular instance. So they weren't just in a

1749
00:59:14,744 --> 00:59:15,484
jail cell.

1750
00:59:15,784 --> 00:59:18,184
They had shackles on. They couldn't move. Yeah.

1751
00:59:18,184 --> 00:59:19,625
And they're sitting there, and they're just singing

1752
00:59:19,625 --> 00:59:22,264
praises to god. And then and god finally,

1753
00:59:22,264 --> 00:59:24,025
I guess, in that particular instance, just went,

1754
00:59:24,025 --> 00:59:25,644
okay. I'm gonna show some people something.

1755
00:59:26,510 --> 00:59:29,150
And Boom. Boom. Doors start opening. Yeah. Flings

1756
00:59:29,150 --> 00:59:30,530
the doors open, starts

1757
00:59:30,829 --> 00:59:33,230
breaking the chains. The chains start turning loose.

1758
00:59:33,230 --> 00:59:34,589
That was the thing that you know that

1759
00:59:34,589 --> 00:59:36,909
that jailer Yeah. Had to just about have

1760
00:59:36,909 --> 00:59:39,309
a heart attack when he looked through there

1761
00:59:39,309 --> 00:59:41,230
and went every cell door is standing wide

1762
00:59:41,230 --> 00:59:42,664
open. The chains

1763
00:59:43,045 --> 00:59:44,805
that I know were locked because I got

1764
00:59:44,805 --> 00:59:46,565
the key right here are laying on the

1765
00:59:46,565 --> 00:59:48,724
ground. Yeah. And all these cells are empty.

1766
00:59:48,724 --> 00:59:49,765
And, I mean, he was getting ready to

1767
00:59:49,765 --> 00:59:51,605
kill himself. Yep. And I better get right

1768
00:59:51,605 --> 00:59:54,005
with God right now because the king's gonna

1769
00:59:54,005 --> 00:59:56,059
kill me. That's right. Yeah. They're gonna have

1770
00:59:56,059 --> 00:59:57,579
me dead. And so he's getting ready to

1771
00:59:57,579 --> 00:59:59,820
kill himself and just just to spare him

1772
00:59:59,820 --> 01:00:02,059
the trouble, you know, save face a little

1773
01:00:02,059 --> 01:00:03,420
bit so his family didn't have to go

1774
01:00:03,420 --> 01:00:04,619
through the trial. And then all of a

1775
01:00:04,619 --> 01:00:06,780
sudden, he hears Paul. Hey. Wait. Wait. Wait.

1776
01:00:06,780 --> 01:00:08,300
Don't do it. We're we're all in here.

1777
01:00:08,300 --> 01:00:09,980
Wait. Yeah. You know, he had to think,

1778
01:00:09,980 --> 01:00:12,405
wait. We're all in here. Oh, those those

1779
01:00:12,405 --> 01:00:14,164
2 preachers stuck around. Of course, they didn't.

1780
01:00:14,164 --> 01:00:16,505
He walks in and every single one

1781
01:00:16,885 --> 01:00:18,885
of the prisoners Yeah. Was sitting in there

1782
01:00:18,885 --> 01:00:19,465
with him

1783
01:00:20,325 --> 01:00:21,625
being ministered to.

1784
01:00:22,085 --> 01:00:23,925
You you wanna know why he said, how

1785
01:00:23,925 --> 01:00:25,889
do I how do I get that? That's

1786
01:00:25,889 --> 01:00:27,089
why he looked at it and said, how

1787
01:00:27,089 --> 01:00:28,530
do I get that? How do I get

1788
01:00:28,530 --> 01:00:30,549
saved? And that's the thing, though.

1789
01:00:30,849 --> 01:00:33,750
Here they were in prison, in chains,

1790
01:00:34,130 --> 01:00:35,190
couldn't do anything,

1791
01:00:35,489 --> 01:00:37,170
but they could still sing. Yeah. They could

1792
01:00:37,170 --> 01:00:39,109
still praise God. And that's

1793
01:00:39,434 --> 01:00:41,594
that is what the prayer is called called

1794
01:00:41,594 --> 01:00:42,954
for us to do. And as we pointed

1795
01:00:42,954 --> 01:00:44,155
out from the the,

1796
01:00:45,195 --> 01:00:46,795
to kinda wind down a little bit, as

1797
01:00:46,795 --> 01:00:48,015
we pointed out from

1798
01:00:48,315 --> 01:00:50,235
Matthew and from the the lord's prayer that

1799
01:00:50,235 --> 01:00:52,954
he gives us, the disciples' prayer Yeah. You

1800
01:00:52,954 --> 01:00:55,039
know, it starts with praise.

1801
01:00:55,340 --> 01:00:57,579
Starts with praise and acknowledgment of who God

1802
01:00:57,579 --> 01:01:00,140
is and ends with saying, lord, just whatever

1803
01:01:00,140 --> 01:01:02,539
your will is. You know? Let it be

1804
01:01:02,539 --> 01:01:05,500
done. Be content. Yeah. And Yeah. And that's

1805
01:01:05,500 --> 01:01:07,680
the thing. We're called to do that and

1806
01:01:08,555 --> 01:01:11,535
do that. Pray you know, use that formula.

1807
01:01:11,595 --> 01:01:14,315
Use that form when you're praying. Start out

1808
01:01:14,315 --> 01:01:15,055
just by

1809
01:01:15,355 --> 01:01:17,055
just by saying the words,

1810
01:01:17,515 --> 01:01:20,589
god, I know who you are. Yeah. I

1811
01:01:20,589 --> 01:01:21,569
know that you

1812
01:01:22,030 --> 01:01:24,109
you have control over all this. Start there

1813
01:01:24,429 --> 01:01:26,429
Yeah. And let everything else work its way

1814
01:01:26,429 --> 01:01:28,210
down from there. Because sometimes,

1815
01:01:28,670 --> 01:01:29,889
Christians, we forget.

1816
01:01:30,349 --> 01:01:31,869
We're not praying to a genie in a

1817
01:01:31,869 --> 01:01:33,329
lamp. We don't have 3 wishes.

1818
01:01:33,824 --> 01:01:36,085
We're we're praying to the God that created

1819
01:01:36,704 --> 01:01:37,525
the universe.

1820
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That's right. And I Smoke it into existence.

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Yeah. And I mentioned that we don't have

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a certain sinner's prayer.

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Although that's good to model, you know, if

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you wanna sometimes

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as a pastor when especially when I'm talking

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to a child or anyone

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who says, I don't know how to pray.

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Well, the the Bible also tells us that

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the Holy Spirit

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prays for us. Right? I mean, it gives

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us,

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likewise, the spirit also help with our infirmities

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for we know not what we should pray

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for

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as we ought, but the spirit itself make

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intercession for us with groanings which cannot be

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uttered. Yeah. So and I tell people that

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sometimes, but you you know, I wanna get

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the basics

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across to you. You know? What you're doing

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01:02:20,590 --> 01:02:22,670
here if you've never been saved is your

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confession that Jesus is the lord. Right? You're

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you're asking forgiveness of your sins, and you're

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believing that he died for you, and you're

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believing that he rose again, and you're believing

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that he intercedes for you right now. And

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so it it that's what it's about

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and then making him lord of your life.

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I don't care how you do it. I

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don't care where you're at.

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You don't have to kneel down. I mean,

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that's listen. We we do. We close our

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eyes and we kneel down out of reverence.

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You know? We bow our heads out of

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reverence, and there's

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nothing wrong with that. I'm not taking away

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from that. But it does not matter where

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you are,

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what you're doing. Driving down the road, don't

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close your eyes. Okay? Just pray. Yep. Right.

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I mean,

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you're at work,

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things are in chaos.

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You can always talk to him. Right? Because

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our spirit,

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God knows what we need because our spirit

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speaks to him and it's he's like, the

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spirit of God says, alright, God.

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It's Brian again. You know? Look at him.

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He's a mess.

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And and he's he's just he's right back

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where he was again, and he needs you

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again, lord. And so the spirit prays for

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01:03:29,914 --> 01:03:31,994
us because he knows just exactly where we

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are and what we need. And he needs

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01:03:33,674 --> 01:03:35,194
he he he just wants to hear from

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01:03:35,194 --> 01:03:37,594
his kids. Yeah. Right? And and these prayers

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01:03:37,594 --> 01:03:39,880
don't have to be fancy. They just talk.

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It needs to be real. It needs to

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be genuine. It can last 2 seconds or

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01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,400
2 weeks. Yeah. It it just needs to

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be real. Yeah. And remember, we're talking

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to our father. Yeah. Yep.

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01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,434
God is so far above us and so

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far beyond what we can comprehend.

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But at the end of the day,

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he's still dead. Yeah. And think of this

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think of this too. In Luke 6:12, Jesus

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01:04:01,275 --> 01:04:04,074
spent all night praying. Yeah. How much more

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01:04:04,074 --> 01:04:06,719
should we be praying? That's right. Amen. We

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01:04:06,719 --> 01:04:08,239
need it. He gave us an example, did

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01:04:08,239 --> 01:04:10,099
he? He sure did. Yeah. Amen.

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Alright. Well,

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I think that wraps us up for this

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week, and we wanna thank everybody for listening

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to us.

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And, yeah, if if you're looking for something

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to pray for,

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01:04:21,425 --> 01:04:23,025
you know, just just ask God to give

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you peace. Just ask God to give you

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01:04:24,625 --> 01:04:26,385
some direction for the day. If you wanna

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01:04:26,704 --> 01:04:29,105
you're wanting to practice praying, just practice it.

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Now all you gotta do, it's conversation with

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01:04:30,945 --> 01:04:33,585
your dad and have those conversations daily so

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01:04:33,585 --> 01:04:35,505
that you can keep those communication lines open

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so you don't forget the phone number.

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Yeah. And I'll tell you this. We would

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01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,480
like to pray for you, that are out

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01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:44,200
there listening. If you've got a a prayer

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01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,599
request, a family member, if if you're listening

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01:04:46,599 --> 01:04:47,099
on,

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on a site where you can leave a

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message, we would love to hear from you.

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You know, we we we wanna pray. We

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wanna we wanna pray to the lord on

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your behalf. We wanna,

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we wanna speak to the father too. And

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so just let us help you pray about.

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Absolutely.

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And our church website, mountainviewbaptist,

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mountainviewbaptist

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dot

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org.

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Our Facebook page. The Facebook page. Yeah. You

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01:05:13,059 --> 01:05:15,860
can go on and and just leave a,

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01:05:16,260 --> 01:05:17,700
leave a message. Let us know that you

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need us to pray for you about something.

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We'll add you to the prayer list. We'll

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pray for you. And you don't have to

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go into specifics.

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Sure. Don't don't feel like you gotta go

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into specifics.

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Yeah. Brother,

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Dennis, will you pray us out tonight? Yep.

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Yep. Father, thank you. You are our holy

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God and you are our father. And father,

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we come to You to ask,

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for for Your spirit. Father, we need Your

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spirit. We need a fresh feeling every day

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to honor and glorify You in this world

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that we live in. Father, I pray for

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every person listening, that that they would come

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to know You deeper and more, that they

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would understand

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your ways, that they would come to you

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more, father, that you might transform them from

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the inside out, which is what you're seeking

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to do in each of our lives.

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Father, thank you for this time together, and

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and I pray that you would bless everyone

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01:06:03,005 --> 01:06:06,144
listening. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen.

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Special thank you to Carter Pridmore, Brian Harris,

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01:06:10,250 --> 01:06:11,230
Waverly Henderson,

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Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Partain for our

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theme song, truth set me free.

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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Monday at 6 PM CST. Thank you for

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listening. But truth found me there.

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It was in my darkest hour.

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I traded my black heart for joy for

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something real, something with power.

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Truth set me free.

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Truth came to me.

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I once was blind, and now I see.

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Truth

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set me free.