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I was running from the sun.

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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, some thin 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.

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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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And welcome back this week. We,

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are gonna end up, I think, having

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a bit of an interesting week,

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for this week's show.

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Hey, what do you know? There we are.

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So last week brother Dennis,

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was all out of state for work and,

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you know, just, just, just miserable having to

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travel for work and

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do all that stuff. And tonight brother Brian

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decided to, you know, he had family with

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birthdays, so, you know, he decided to skip

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out on us. I tell you. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. Slacker.

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Yeah, no, he's, he's got, you know, Nicole

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has birthday month, birthday month.

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So, so yeah, he, he, he had somewhere

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else. He had to be.

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Yes. We, we,

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those of us, those of you that have

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been married fully understand that.

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And, we all love Nicole and want her

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to have a happy birthday month. That's right.

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Happy birthday, Nicole.

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And brother Dennis, how are you doing tonight?

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I'm doing good, man. Doing good. Doing alright.

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You know, last week had the I I

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don't travel much anymore. You know, I used

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to travel a lot. Just, you know,

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it's like every other week I was flying

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somewhere for a long time, and I've really

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backed out of that last few years. And

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and it was hard to leave last week,

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man. I did not wanna get on an

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airplane again. But,

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anyway, here I am. I'm back. I made

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it. Well, we are very happy to have

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Tonight, I think brother Dennis, you said that

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you wanted us to talk about hope a

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little bit. Yeah. Yeah. You know this is,

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you you look around the world today that

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we live in, just turn on the news,

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and and there's so much hopelessness in the

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world today, and and it just it strikes

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me. And and, one thing that really, really

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hits me about this too is, you know,

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my mom's in an assisted living center now

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in the memory care center.

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ever met there. And and I go down

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there sometimes and hang out on the couches

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in the common area with them, you know,

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and they're just they're just sweet as they

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it's it's easy it's easy to lose hope,

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and we need to understand where our hope

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is. And and I think to have a

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reminder of that is is important to us

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in this day and age.

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there's this quote by,

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by, Chuck Colson who who used to run

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the prison fellowship ministry. I can't remember exactly

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it's called. But, he he has this this

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I've treasured for for years. He's he's passed

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on, gone to be with the Lord a

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long time ago now. But he says,

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where's the hope?

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I meet 1,000,000 who tell me that they

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feel demoralized by the decay around us. Where's

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The hope that each of us have is

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not in who governs us or what laws

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are passed or what great things that we

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working through the hearts of people. And that's

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where our hope is in this country. That's

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where our hope is in life.

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go of. We we we have to we

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have to understand that this hope is not

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that that that we where we hope,

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like, I hope

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Brian has a good dinner, you know, or

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or I hope, I hope I hope they

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still have enough sweet tea, you know, at

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the restaurant. But it's not wishful thinking.

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A biblical hope is not like we use

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the word normally. It's a it's it's a

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certainty. It's it's a it's a confident expectation

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in God's promises,

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and it's something that we can hang on

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to and that we have to hang on

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to in this world. And if we don't,

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we can lose hope really quickly.

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I I think that's where people often

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confuse the word. It's like you say, we

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use it in in English so often just

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mean, well, I'm

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expecting that a thing will happen,

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maybe. Yeah. But hope in it that God

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gives us is I'm expecting this to happen

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because

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dad said so. Exactly.

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that hasn't happened yet.

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hope of of

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an eternity with the God who loves us

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so much that He gave His only Son.

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And it it and it's life is meaningless

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without it.

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It really is. You look at look at

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some some of the things where people lose

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hope, you know, things like where you lost

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your job,

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where you've got all your future plans riding

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on having that job.

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you know, you got all your future riding

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on that other person, and you lose hope.

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maybe maybe somebody listening to this sitting in

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prison right now.

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have hope to get out of there? To

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ever have a future again? Or maybe you're

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you're you're swallowed up in an addiction of

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some kind, and there's no light at the

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end of the tunnel. You just don't know

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where you're gonna go next.

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a loved one. A a child or or

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a or a parent or a sibling or

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or a spouse.

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only the only way we do go on

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is that hope that we have it that

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the hope that we have in Christ is

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so much more assured, and it's so much

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of a certainty compared to the hope that

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we have in other people.

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times people get so

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when we have you you you hear about

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the problems with depression that we have in

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the world today and the fact that people

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are more depressed and they're more they're they're

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more,

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having a darker outlook on the future.

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talk to people. And it's because

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that hope that we have,

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yes it's for what's to come after this

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world.

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I mean it is it is a hope

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of we have something else. It's not just

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about the world. And that is an enormous

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enormous weight off your shoulders when you realize,

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hey look things may be going to pot

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here, but that's okay. It's okay. This isn't

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it. This isn't all there is. There's something

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better waiting on the other

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side. But then we also have that hope

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that Christ gives us. And there's a certain

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amount of transference there to other people, other

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Christians, other when you have other Christians in

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your life,

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There's there's a level of that where you

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know and hey. Look. We're all human. We

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let each other down,

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but there's a an amount of that that

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we can give to each other, that we

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can show to each other, that we can

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have towards each other who we're looking at

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other people and we have that same assurance

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that you know what? Things are gonna be

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okay because this is my brother. This is

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my sister. These are the people that are

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gonna walk beside me. Because that is part

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of the hope that Christ has given us

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is that we're not alone. We're not only

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depending on Him, we have other people here

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on earth that we can depend on, that

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we can trust. Yeah. The body of Christ,

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and that helps us to persevere. Right? It's

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it's like, Romans 8,

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24 and 25 tells us, for in hope

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we have been saved, but hope that is

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seen is not hope. For who hopes for

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what he already sees? But if we hope

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for what we do not see with perseverance,

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we wait eagerly for it. And when we

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press forward, we press on, press on, press

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on, knowing knowing that the God of the

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universe lives with us. He he's promised to

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never leave us and never forsake us, that

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He gives us the Holy Spirit as a

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God, as a comforter, that whatever

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nasty, ugly thing might happen to us, there's

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hope.

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He's with us in the here and now.

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It's not just eternal like you were saying.

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It's here now. Yeah.

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And he sent the spirit to us. He

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sent other Christians to us, and we can't

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let that go. And and we always, you

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I I think on here and on Wednesday

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nights, we talk about Paul

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a lot. Yeah. But man, think about that.

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mean, you think about the position that Paul

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was put in. He was born Saul.

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Jew of Jews. He was raised to be

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this, you know, I am righteous and I'm

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gonna do all the things that I'm supposed

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to do, and I'm gonna live the way

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I'm supposed to live. And part of that

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means persecuting these people that are blaspheming.

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And I'm gonna go after them. And I

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mean witnessed witnessed the stoning of Stephen when

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he was just a young young boy. I

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mean, we don't we don't know exactly his

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age, but the Bible makes sound like he's

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probably a teenager or something like that. He

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was there holding the coats of the men

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that were doing the stoning and he was

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certain. He knew where his life was going.

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And then on the way to Damascus,

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he runs into something that was completely unexpected.

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Why do you persecute me? And then it

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just turns his whole life upside down and

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then here he goes, okay well now I'm

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on a new path. I'm gonna go out.

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I'm gonna preach and I'm gonna tell people

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and I'm gonna spread the gospel and I'm

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gonna go out and I'm gonna

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talk to the Jews, and I'm gonna say,

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hey guys, all these rules and all these

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laws,

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they're done.

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Yeah. They're done. We don't have to worry

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about it anymore. We have something so much

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better waiting for us, and and now I'm

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gonna go out and go to the Gentiles.

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I'm gonna tell them, hey, in the past

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you had to jump through all these hoops

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and and really there wasn't any hope for

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you, but I'm bringing you hope. I'm bringing

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you good news. You can now be children

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of God too.

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And then he gets thrown in prison for

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it.

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Thrown in prison, he gets beaten, he gets

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stoned, and left for dead. And then what

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does he say from prison?

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Praise God. Yeah. This is awesome. There's hope.

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There's hope. I mean, you you and you

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can't do that without hope. You can't do

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that without the the hope and the peace

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and the joy that comes along with it.

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No. And that that that that makes me

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think too that so many people you know,

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the result of of this lost hope in

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the world today is

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very often suicide.

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It is. And it's tragic. It's tragic.

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The only thing I can imagine about suicide

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is that you just completely have no hope

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for the future whatsoever.

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And

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we've got to learn from guys like Paul

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that that, you know, Paul,

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his faith was in himself,

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all during that time. And when he met

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Jesus, his faith went somewhere else. And and

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hope and faith go hand in hand. I

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mean, it's like a hand on a glove.

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You can't have one without the other. Right?

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These three remain faith, hope, and love. Exactly.

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Right? And the faith

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it's got to be it has to have

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a focus. Our hope has to have a

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focus, and our faith has to have a

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focus. And if we just have faith to

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have faith,

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or hope to have hope,

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it's useless.

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It's useless. You meet people who are just

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phony like that. Well, I hope and I

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hope and I hope and I'm just gonna

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build myself up and and be cheery no

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matter what. Right?

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I'm I'm just gonna hope that things things

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will eventually work out.

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That's the hope is eventually they're gonna work

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out. Well, I don't have a hope that

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eventually it's gonna work out. I know that

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the day I allow my draw my last

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breath,

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things are gonna be better. Things are gonna

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be different. I I know. I know. There's

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there's no doubt in my mind. I I'm

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not having to worry about.

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And

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I know that God wouldn't have me here

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on earth if He didn't have a purpose

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for me. Right. If He didn't have a

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plan, if He didn't have a reason,

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I'd already be gone. Right. That's the the

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Romans 828 thing. Right? Yeah. All things happen

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together for the for good for those who

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love Him. And and we we have to

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we have to clean this stuff. We have

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to. You do. You have to to hold

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to it and you have to to remind.

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When you feel hopeless, when you feel lost,

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you know, and love. Love is part of

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that. Absolutely. You know, it's one of the

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defining factors. The thing about love is it

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contains faith and it contains hope and it

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contains those things. And you have to have

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that, but when you reach that point where

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you're like, there's just nothing left and I

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can't take another step forward

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you know,

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we have a man

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that was at a point

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where he couldn't take another step forward. He'd

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been beaten. He'd been bloodied.

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He had been broken.

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And then they stuck a cross on his

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back and said, here, carry this thing that

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we're about to hang you on. Yeah. Down

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this street and up this hill.

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You don't think Jesus didn't look at that

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and go, Yeah,

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okay. I'm getting a little tired of this.

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I mean that, He was fully man.

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And we think,

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how do we know we can go? Because

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He did.

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He went ahead and took that next step,

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and he walked up that hill and then

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he died for us. Yeah. And in doing

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that, he showed us, look, it doesn't matter

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how far down you are.

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You take that next step until you can't

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anymore. Right.

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Right.

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We have to. We have to. And no

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matter how bleak things might be, we trust

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the promises that he's made to us. God

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can't lie. That's right. The Bible tells us

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very clearly in Hebrews that he can't lie.

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And in 1 John 3

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and verses 23 says, beloved, now we are

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children of God and it has not appeared

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as yet what we will be. We know

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that when he appears, we will be like

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him because we will see him just as

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he is. And everyone who has this hope

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fixed on him purifies himself just as he

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is pure.

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So we hope we fix our hope on

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him knowing that he's been through way more

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than we will ever go through.

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You know, and and things can look ugly

409
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for us, you know. And I'm going through

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some stuff lately. You know, I had to

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go down to my mom's house today. I

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go down there and check the mail, check

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the house and everything. And I walk in

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there and just burst into tears because

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dad's not there, mom's not there, and they're

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supposed to be. In my mind, they're supposed

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to be.

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But I know that God has a plan

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and he's working through this thing. And I

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I pray that that people in in the

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place where mom is don't have to suffer

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this long agonizing descent down into Alzheimer's and

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and

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it it it just seems horrible. It seems

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hopeless, but there is hope.

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There is hope,

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and we can't let go of that.

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And and

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we have to hang on to the fact

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that that the plan that God has, you

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know, he can't lie. He He can't deceive

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us. Yeah.

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He's he's always truthful with us. Everything he

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says is true.

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And we have to hold on to the

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fact that that because of that,

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those plans

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what did he tell you know, he said,

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I know the plans that I have for

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you. Plans for good and not for real.

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He doesn't have plans for evil for us.

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He had the plans he has for us

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are good.

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Doesn't mean we're not gonna suffer some evil

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things between

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point a and point b.

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Yep. But he has those plans. And, hey,

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sometimes the suffering

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is there to show us the the light

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at the end. Sometimes that sometimes we suffer

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a bit

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just because we're human, just because we're in

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the fallen world. It's not that God sends

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the suffering.

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Adam and Eve made that decision for us.

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We weren't supposed to suffer.

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And you know Adam and Eve made that

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decision and and we do get to pay

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for it. And then

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knowing that through that suffering,

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when we see the light at the end,

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when we see the glory on the other

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side,

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it's like, oh man, How much more beautiful

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is it? Yeah. I mean, if we had

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it completely easy, if we didn't have to

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worry about anything. Oh. I mean, if you

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really think about it, you think about the

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the sci fi utopia, you don't have to

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worry. You wake up every morning. You you

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don't have to worry about making food. You

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don't have to worry about working. You don't

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have to worry about money. You don't have

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to there's just nothing you have to worry

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about. You just get to do whatever you

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want to all day. You want to lay

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around and play your play your guitar. You

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can lay around and play that guitar all

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day long. Or you want to sing. You

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can just go sing all day. You don't

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have to do anything. And I'm thinking,

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what's heaven, man?

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You know, it just wouldn't it just wouldn't

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be quite as

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impactful.

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Whereas now we've seen the darkness.

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And when I look forward to that, I'm

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like, that's that's exciting.

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It puts chills down my spine. It puts

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a little pep in my step because it's

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like, oh, man. What's coming is so much

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greater. Yeah. If it's staying on the mountaintop,

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we would be,

494
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we'd be so superficial.

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You know, we we would be people who

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are just

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boring. I mean, you know, how do you

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what would you even talk about? You know,

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I mean,

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I mean, seriously. And and and God has

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left this stuff in place for a reason.

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You know, He's sovereign, and all things happen

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for a reason with him. There there's there's

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nothing that happens bad to us that he

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doesn't allow. And what he's doing, like the

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old song says, is burning off the dross.

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Mhmm. You know, he's refining us like gold,

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and we have to go through these hard

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times to get there. And and I hate

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it. I think everybody hates it, but without

511
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it it without it, our faith roots

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just wouldn't grow.

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But but as we lean into him during

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the hard times, during the hopeless times, honestly,

515
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those faith roots get deeper and deeper and

516
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deeper, and we come out

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much more mature as a believer. Well, I

518
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remember when I was in school, they did

519
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a an experiment and they've done these multiple

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times throughout the years where they would try

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to have, you know, make an entire

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self sustained ecosystem and they they build these

523
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huge domes and everything to fully protect everything

524
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from the weather. And can we do it?

525
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And, you know, the the test was if

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you can do it here, that means you

527
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could do it underground, you can do it

528
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in space, you can do it wherever. Yeah.

529
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Right. You know, that was the whole thing.

530
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Yeah. And yet every time they've done this,

531
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they run into problems with them. And one

532
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of the ones that I thought was just

533
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wild

534
00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:31,339
was they tried to grow trees

535
00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,019
inside of one of these.

536
00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,200
And once the trees reached a certain age,

537
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,039
they all just started falling down under their

538
00:18:38,039 --> 00:18:40,039
own weight. And they were like, what in

539
00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:41,640
the world's going on? Why are these trees

540
00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,815
collapsing? They're perfectly healthy. Nothing wrong with them.

541
00:18:45,195 --> 00:18:47,195
They they've not been exposed to large amounts

542
00:18:47,195 --> 00:18:48,215
of of,

543
00:18:48,955 --> 00:18:51,674
dangerous UV radiation because they're filtering out anything

544
00:18:51,674 --> 00:18:54,015
negative. Like, these trees should have been

545
00:18:54,474 --> 00:18:54,974
pristine

546
00:18:55,355 --> 00:18:57,674
specimens. Yeah. But they just they come in

547
00:18:57,674 --> 00:18:59,055
one day and they've all collapsed.

548
00:18:59,490 --> 00:19:02,150
And it turns out that the wind,

549
00:19:02,769 --> 00:19:05,009
as it blows through trees and causes them

550
00:19:05,009 --> 00:19:07,750
to lean and shake, and it it causes

551
00:19:08,130 --> 00:19:11,009
fissures and cracks in the wood, that as

552
00:19:11,009 --> 00:19:13,730
it grows, it grows and fills those in,

553
00:19:13,730 --> 00:19:16,154
making it stronger and stronger and stronger. So

554
00:19:16,154 --> 00:19:19,134
these giant sequoia trees that are

555
00:19:19,515 --> 00:19:21,855
centuries centuries centuries old

556
00:19:22,234 --> 00:19:24,394
that are standing out, the reason they've been

557
00:19:24,394 --> 00:19:26,474
able to do that is that constant wind

558
00:19:26,474 --> 00:19:28,634
and that constant pressure and that constant little

559
00:19:28,634 --> 00:19:29,099
bit of

560
00:19:30,059 --> 00:19:32,539
of adversity that they've gone through has made

561
00:19:32,539 --> 00:19:35,259
that tree so strong that it can grow

562
00:19:35,259 --> 00:19:37,019
100 of feet tall without having to worry

563
00:19:37,019 --> 00:19:39,660
about falling. Not unless somebody comes along with

564
00:19:39,660 --> 00:19:40,319
a saw

565
00:19:40,779 --> 00:19:42,859
or an explosion or something like that. I

566
00:19:42,859 --> 00:19:43,359
mean,

567
00:19:43,804 --> 00:19:45,505
and you look at that and go, man,

568
00:19:45,644 --> 00:19:46,944
God designed trees

569
00:19:47,724 --> 00:19:50,204
specifically so they could grow to these giant

570
00:19:50,204 --> 00:19:50,704
heights

571
00:19:51,804 --> 00:19:53,585
because of the pressures and

572
00:19:54,924 --> 00:19:56,704
the the the problems that they have.

573
00:19:57,085 --> 00:19:58,625
And these are just natural things.

574
00:19:59,380 --> 00:20:01,619
We're the same way. Yeah. Absolutely. Faith is

575
00:20:01,619 --> 00:20:04,579
same way. That adversity, that pressure, it just

576
00:20:04,819 --> 00:20:06,819
it it creates those little cracks, creates those

577
00:20:06,819 --> 00:20:08,900
little fissures that we can grow and we

578
00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:11,299
can let it get stronger and stronger and

579
00:20:11,299 --> 00:20:11,799
stronger.

580
00:20:12,244 --> 00:20:13,285
Because at the end of the day, we

581
00:20:13,285 --> 00:20:15,045
should be leaning on him. And it's it's

582
00:20:15,045 --> 00:20:17,045
where our faith is tested. Right? And and

583
00:20:17,045 --> 00:20:19,205
as we trust him more, as we keep

584
00:20:19,205 --> 00:20:21,285
trusting him through these hard times, you you

585
00:20:21,285 --> 00:20:23,205
can probably tell I'm an exercise freak. You

586
00:20:23,205 --> 00:20:25,205
know, I I weight train a lot. Yeah.

587
00:20:25,205 --> 00:20:26,880
But it's the same thing with muscles. Right?

588
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,480
God designed muscles to be the same way.

589
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,160
These guys at weight training, they break those

590
00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:31,920
muscles down as much as they can. I

591
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,400
mean, it hurts. It's burning, right? And they

592
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,880
stop, and and it rebuilds. It rebuilds, and

593
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,640
they feed them, and it rebuilds more. And

594
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,000
so these guys end up looking like, you

595
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,714
know, like the hook like me. Right? Yeah.

596
00:20:41,714 --> 00:20:42,214
Exactly.

597
00:20:43,714 --> 00:20:45,015
It's radio. Right?

598
00:20:45,394 --> 00:20:46,595
I can't get away with this. We can

599
00:20:46,595 --> 00:20:48,434
paint whatever picture we want. Oh, it's okay.

600
00:20:48,434 --> 00:20:49,414
I'm not green.

601
00:20:51,474 --> 00:20:52,914
Red Hulk. We'll go with that one. Let's

602
00:20:52,914 --> 00:20:53,815
go with that.

603
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,559
Yeah. But it's the same thing. And and,

604
00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:57,859
man, it just

605
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,099
we need to be helping each other.

606
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:01,920
We need to be praying with each other

607
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,440
and and hit helping each other through the

608
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,160
hard times. One of my big weaknesses is

609
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,224
I don't tell people when I'm going through

610
00:21:07,224 --> 00:21:08,284
something, you know.

611
00:21:08,664 --> 00:21:10,345
I don't know why. I I just I've

612
00:21:10,345 --> 00:21:12,025
always been kind of private like that, I

613
00:21:12,025 --> 00:21:13,625
guess, to to an extent. I might tell

614
00:21:13,625 --> 00:21:16,184
a person or 2, but but, we we

615
00:21:16,184 --> 00:21:17,625
need to let each other know and be

616
00:21:17,625 --> 00:21:19,759
the church for each other. You know? Because

617
00:21:19,759 --> 00:21:21,519
that's what church is about. We're we're part

618
00:21:21,519 --> 00:21:23,200
of the body of Christ, and and we

619
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,700
can't we can't separate ourselves from that or

620
00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:27,140
or or pull away from that.

621
00:21:27,919 --> 00:21:30,240
You know, we we share that common bread

622
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,900
and wine at at communion or Lord's supper,

623
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,144
you know? And that's that's the body of

624
00:21:35,144 --> 00:21:37,225
Christ. And that's us coming together as the

625
00:21:37,225 --> 00:21:38,205
body of Christ.

626
00:21:38,585 --> 00:21:39,945
And we need to be there for each

627
00:21:39,945 --> 00:21:41,384
other to lift each other up through these

628
00:21:41,384 --> 00:21:42,745
times. And I know a lot of times

629
00:21:42,745 --> 00:21:44,745
we are. I'm not cracking on anything. But,

630
00:21:46,585 --> 00:21:47,965
how important is it?

631
00:21:48,730 --> 00:21:51,130
It's super important that that we be connected

632
00:21:51,130 --> 00:21:54,089
with the church. It's essential. It's essential. Yeah.

633
00:21:54,089 --> 00:21:56,250
You won't grow. No. You can't grow and

634
00:21:56,250 --> 00:21:58,089
cross the way you think you can just

635
00:21:58,089 --> 00:21:59,549
apart from it. Well,

636
00:22:00,295 --> 00:22:00,795
it's

637
00:22:01,815 --> 00:22:03,115
sometimes we're embarrassed

638
00:22:03,575 --> 00:22:05,494
Yeah. To tell each other, to go to

639
00:22:05,494 --> 00:22:07,575
to another believer and say, man, I'm struggling

640
00:22:07,575 --> 00:22:09,414
with this. Yeah. And, hey, there are some

641
00:22:09,414 --> 00:22:11,174
things that we struggle with kind of embarrassing.

642
00:22:11,174 --> 00:22:12,615
You know? You don't you don't really wanna

643
00:22:12,615 --> 00:22:14,410
talk about it. But a lot of times

644
00:22:14,410 --> 00:22:16,170
it's just, it boils down to that. We're

645
00:22:16,170 --> 00:22:18,250
just, we're embarrassed. I mean, especially if, you

646
00:22:18,250 --> 00:22:19,769
know, you're you work in the church or

647
00:22:19,769 --> 00:22:21,950
Sunday school teacher, you're, you're you work,

648
00:22:22,570 --> 00:22:24,410
with the youth or with the the music

649
00:22:24,410 --> 00:22:26,565
or with whatever. And you're like, well, I

650
00:22:26,565 --> 00:22:28,644
don't really want people to know. I'm struggling.

651
00:22:28,724 --> 00:22:30,644
Perfect, man. Yeah. I'm up here in front

652
00:22:30,644 --> 00:22:32,484
of them. I'm talking to them. But you

653
00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:33,304
know what? Sometimes

654
00:22:34,005 --> 00:22:36,484
they need to hear, hey, I'm struggling a

655
00:22:36,484 --> 00:22:38,549
little bit. Absolutely. And here's what I'm struggling

656
00:22:38,549 --> 00:22:39,909
with, and here's what I'm having a hard

657
00:22:39,909 --> 00:22:41,029
time with right now. And I just need

658
00:22:41,029 --> 00:22:42,169
y'all to pray for it.

659
00:22:43,029 --> 00:22:43,929
Not because

660
00:22:44,230 --> 00:22:45,289
you're necessarily

661
00:22:45,669 --> 00:22:47,269
trying to lift yourself up and say, look

662
00:22:47,269 --> 00:22:49,109
at how faithful I am that I'm struggling

663
00:22:49,109 --> 00:22:50,549
with this and going through it. But it's

664
00:22:50,549 --> 00:22:52,704
about saying, hey, I need

665
00:22:53,085 --> 00:22:55,164
you. Yeah. And I want you to know

666
00:22:55,164 --> 00:22:57,404
that I need you, and then when you

667
00:22:57,404 --> 00:22:59,005
need me, I'm gonna be there for you

668
00:22:59,005 --> 00:23:02,045
too. Yeah. And as believers, that's what we

669
00:23:02,045 --> 00:23:04,204
do for each other, and we kind of

670
00:23:04,204 --> 00:23:06,125
fail at it a little bit sometimes. Yeah.

671
00:23:06,125 --> 00:23:06,865
We do.

672
00:23:07,609 --> 00:23:09,769
It's pride. You know, that's what it comes

673
00:23:09,769 --> 00:23:11,210
down to. You know, I don't, I don't

674
00:23:11,210 --> 00:23:12,490
want anybody to see the chinks in my

675
00:23:12,490 --> 00:23:13,630
armor, you know,

676
00:23:14,410 --> 00:23:14,910
perfect,

677
00:23:15,210 --> 00:23:18,009
but I'm not. And everybody here is is

678
00:23:18,009 --> 00:23:19,545
weak in some way.

679
00:23:20,025 --> 00:23:22,105
And we all need this savior just like

680
00:23:22,105 --> 00:23:24,505
everybody else. You know? And but this this,

681
00:23:24,825 --> 00:23:27,225
this this faith thing, you know, I've been

682
00:23:27,225 --> 00:23:29,625
thinking about that a a lot lately too,

683
00:23:29,625 --> 00:23:31,465
but the focus that we have to have

684
00:23:31,465 --> 00:23:34,330
with our faith. And and and without faith

685
00:23:34,330 --> 00:23:35,630
and hope and love together,

686
00:23:37,769 --> 00:23:38,750
what do we got?

687
00:23:39,130 --> 00:23:41,690
What do we got? Nothing. Nothing. I mean,

688
00:23:41,690 --> 00:23:43,529
he I mean, Paul goes so far as

689
00:23:43,529 --> 00:23:45,710
to say without love, we are nothing.

690
00:23:46,105 --> 00:23:48,505
And if love contains faith and hope and

691
00:23:48,505 --> 00:23:50,024
if you don't have them then you don't

692
00:23:50,024 --> 00:23:51,804
really have love. No.

693
00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:53,625
You're missing out on some of the best

694
00:23:53,625 --> 00:23:55,784
part of love. Yeah. And and so often

695
00:23:55,784 --> 00:23:57,784
so often so many Christians I think have

696
00:23:57,784 --> 00:23:59,944
have faith in themselves more more than they

697
00:23:59,944 --> 00:24:01,970
do in Christ. It's it's it's

698
00:24:02,549 --> 00:24:04,349
that'd be really hard to admit to yourself,

699
00:24:04,349 --> 00:24:05,869
I think. But a lot of people are

700
00:24:05,869 --> 00:24:07,250
really good at keeping rules,

701
00:24:07,630 --> 00:24:09,069
you know, at doing the right thing at

702
00:24:09,069 --> 00:24:11,390
the right time. Maybe because of your upbringing

703
00:24:11,390 --> 00:24:13,309
or maybe it's just how you're wired, you

704
00:24:13,309 --> 00:24:15,434
know. And some of us are wired like

705
00:24:15,434 --> 00:24:17,515
a stallion wild horse kind of thing. You

706
00:24:17,515 --> 00:24:18,015
know?

707
00:24:18,394 --> 00:24:20,494
I've been wild all my life, and

708
00:24:20,875 --> 00:24:22,474
and God has literally had to break me

709
00:24:22,474 --> 00:24:24,634
at times. You know? Just to to let

710
00:24:24,634 --> 00:24:25,134
me

711
00:24:25,595 --> 00:24:28,015
run into the weeds to to see, hey,

712
00:24:28,075 --> 00:24:29,054
I need Jesus.

713
00:24:29,515 --> 00:24:30,654
I need more faith,

714
00:24:31,410 --> 00:24:33,269
and I need to build that faith. And

715
00:24:33,809 --> 00:24:35,330
and going back to that, how we build

716
00:24:35,330 --> 00:24:36,610
our faith, you know, we have to go

717
00:24:36,610 --> 00:24:37,830
through the rotten times.

718
00:24:38,769 --> 00:24:40,630
We do. And and,

719
00:24:41,650 --> 00:24:43,970
you know, going through those rotten times, that's

720
00:24:43,970 --> 00:24:44,789
that's where

721
00:24:45,194 --> 00:24:47,615
the hope and the faith start working together.

722
00:24:48,154 --> 00:24:50,075
Because where you have faith and where you

723
00:24:50,075 --> 00:24:52,315
say, okay, God I've put my faith in

724
00:24:52,315 --> 00:24:53,994
you. You're my savior. You're my Lord. You're

725
00:24:53,994 --> 00:24:56,174
my leader. You're my my light.

726
00:24:56,794 --> 00:24:57,774
You're my life.

727
00:24:58,250 --> 00:25:00,110
You put that faith in Him,

728
00:25:00,570 --> 00:25:02,809
and from that, He returns to us that

729
00:25:02,809 --> 00:25:04,809
hope. He gives that to us. That's that

730
00:25:04,809 --> 00:25:07,130
gift that He just goes, okay, you've taken

731
00:25:07,130 --> 00:25:07,789
the step

732
00:25:08,170 --> 00:25:10,784
to say, I I trust you. My faith's

733
00:25:10,784 --> 00:25:11,284
there.

734
00:25:11,984 --> 00:25:13,105
And it says that to all of us,

735
00:25:13,105 --> 00:25:14,304
it's given a measure of faith. So he's

736
00:25:14,304 --> 00:25:16,224
already given us the faith, and he's just

737
00:25:16,224 --> 00:25:18,565
saying, just return it to me. And now

738
00:25:18,865 --> 00:25:20,784
as a result of returning that, you get

739
00:25:20,784 --> 00:25:22,625
hope. And then now that you have faith

740
00:25:22,625 --> 00:25:24,224
and hope, and you have these two things

741
00:25:24,224 --> 00:25:27,000
in you, suddenly love becomes easier. Yeah.

742
00:25:27,619 --> 00:25:29,460
And going through those hard times and going

743
00:25:29,460 --> 00:25:31,140
through those rough things, it's easier to love

744
00:25:31,140 --> 00:25:33,059
the people around you that that a lot

745
00:25:33,059 --> 00:25:33,720
of times,

746
00:25:34,740 --> 00:25:37,299
when you're facing these depression, when you're facing

747
00:25:37,299 --> 00:25:39,299
depression and these things, because you feel like

748
00:25:39,299 --> 00:25:41,355
people are letting you down, it's a lot

749
00:25:41,355 --> 00:25:43,195
easier to love them Yeah. When you're when

750
00:25:43,195 --> 00:25:44,575
you're where you need to be.

751
00:25:44,875 --> 00:25:46,954
And and, you know, sometimes you don't feel

752
00:25:46,954 --> 00:25:47,454
it,

753
00:25:47,755 --> 00:25:48,875
but at the end of the day, it's

754
00:25:48,875 --> 00:25:51,195
a lot easier to because if you don't

755
00:25:51,195 --> 00:25:53,434
have faith, if you haven't given God that

756
00:25:53,434 --> 00:25:53,934
faith

757
00:25:54,269 --> 00:25:56,369
and receive that hope in return,

758
00:25:57,470 --> 00:25:59,150
when somebody lets you down, when somebody hurts

759
00:25:59,150 --> 00:26:01,150
you, when somebody upsets you, it's like, yep.

760
00:26:01,150 --> 00:26:02,830
No. I can't love them. I can't I

761
00:26:02,830 --> 00:26:04,130
just can't do it. Yeah.

762
00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:06,269
Yeah. And don't get me wrong. There's there's

763
00:26:06,269 --> 00:26:06,769
sometimes

764
00:26:07,789 --> 00:26:10,404
that's gonna be a long time coming. You

765
00:26:10,404 --> 00:26:11,684
can get hurt so bad it's a long

766
00:26:11,684 --> 00:26:14,884
time coming. Yeah absolutely. But other times, man

767
00:26:14,884 --> 00:26:17,305
we get awfully upset over a little

768
00:26:17,924 --> 00:26:18,424
just

769
00:26:20,164 --> 00:26:21,625
tiny things. Yeah,

770
00:26:22,244 --> 00:26:24,210
yeah and and we we just

771
00:26:25,409 --> 00:26:27,909
often we just refuse to to grow,

772
00:26:28,690 --> 00:26:30,609
you know, the the the what God really

773
00:26:30,609 --> 00:26:31,809
wants for us. So we we take our

774
00:26:31,809 --> 00:26:34,049
eyes off the big picture. Mhmm. The big

775
00:26:34,049 --> 00:26:36,210
picture of of God's love for us and

776
00:26:36,210 --> 00:26:38,355
what God is really doing throughout scripture.

777
00:26:38,815 --> 00:26:40,335
He's not trying to make it harder to

778
00:26:40,335 --> 00:26:41,154
get to heaven.

779
00:26:41,855 --> 00:26:44,095
He's not trying to create more rules or

780
00:26:44,095 --> 00:26:45,934
create a bunch of mechanical robots who are

781
00:26:45,934 --> 00:26:48,014
great at keeping rules. He could have done

782
00:26:48,014 --> 00:26:50,974
that in Garden of Eden. Yep. Right. He

783
00:26:50,974 --> 00:26:52,410
he wants love from us.

784
00:26:52,890 --> 00:26:55,950
And the number one character trait of God

785
00:26:56,650 --> 00:26:58,410
for a believer is that he is our

786
00:26:58,410 --> 00:26:59,230
Abba Father.

787
00:26:59,690 --> 00:27:01,849
He is our daddy in Aramaic is what

788
00:27:01,849 --> 00:27:03,470
that means. Abba. Daddy.

789
00:27:04,730 --> 00:27:07,130
And and what what does any earthly father

790
00:27:07,130 --> 00:27:08,349
want from their son?

791
00:27:09,345 --> 00:27:12,085
Their love, their time, their attention, a relationship.

792
00:27:12,545 --> 00:27:15,424
Yeah. Relationship was where my mind immediately went.

793
00:27:15,424 --> 00:27:17,265
And that's where it's all about. You know,

794
00:27:17,265 --> 00:27:19,184
it's an old cliche kind of about, well,

795
00:27:19,184 --> 00:27:21,345
God, it's, Christianity is not a religion. It's

796
00:27:21,345 --> 00:27:23,285
a relationship, and it's absolutely true.

797
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,799
That's why so many people say it. It's

798
00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:26,539
not about

799
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,000
doing the right things at the right times

800
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,279
and all the right spots. That's what the

801
00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:32,039
Pharisees did. And Jesus said, you were like

802
00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:34,599
whitewashed tombs. You're beautiful on the outside, but

803
00:27:34,599 --> 00:27:36,015
you're full of dead men's bones.

804
00:27:36,575 --> 00:27:38,654
You know, you're rotten on the inside. And

805
00:27:38,654 --> 00:27:40,414
that's not what he's looking for. He's looking

806
00:27:40,414 --> 00:27:41,315
for a genuine,

807
00:27:41,695 --> 00:27:44,414
real character change in us. And that's where

808
00:27:44,414 --> 00:27:46,894
the faith the faith really drives it home.

809
00:27:46,894 --> 00:27:48,894
Right? If we trust him and trust him

810
00:27:48,894 --> 00:27:50,819
and trust him no matter what's going on,

811
00:27:51,139 --> 00:27:53,539
that relationship gets better and better and better

812
00:27:53,539 --> 00:27:55,779
and deeper and deeper. And as we get

813
00:27:55,779 --> 00:27:57,940
to that point, we grow up. And that's

814
00:27:57,940 --> 00:28:00,259
what that's what any earthly father wants for

815
00:28:00,259 --> 00:28:01,940
their child is for them to grow up

816
00:28:01,940 --> 00:28:04,819
to be healthy, mature, responsible adults who make

817
00:28:04,819 --> 00:28:06,119
a difference in the world.

818
00:28:06,565 --> 00:28:08,484
And he wants exactly the same for us,

819
00:28:08,484 --> 00:28:10,744
just like we want for our kids. Exactly.

820
00:28:11,285 --> 00:28:13,285
There's no difference. If we take our eyes

821
00:28:13,285 --> 00:28:15,305
off that big picture of who God is

822
00:28:15,365 --> 00:28:16,904
and what he wants from us,

823
00:28:17,525 --> 00:28:18,585
we start living

824
00:28:19,539 --> 00:28:22,099
fake lives. Yeah. We start being phonies. We

825
00:28:22,099 --> 00:28:23,220
we we show up at church with a

826
00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:25,140
big smile on our face, shaking everybody's hand

827
00:28:25,140 --> 00:28:25,880
like a politician.

828
00:28:26,339 --> 00:28:27,779
Right? And we leave the doors, and we

829
00:28:27,779 --> 00:28:29,320
got a scowl on. Right?

830
00:28:29,859 --> 00:28:31,460
We we go to dinner, and we're chewing

831
00:28:31,460 --> 00:28:32,200
out the waitress.

832
00:28:32,605 --> 00:28:33,744
Yep. You know?

833
00:28:34,284 --> 00:28:35,505
There's no good in that.

834
00:28:35,884 --> 00:28:38,464
No. It it serves no purpose and

835
00:28:39,085 --> 00:28:40,605
and all it does, like you say, it

836
00:28:40,605 --> 00:28:42,544
puts your faith back in yourself.

837
00:28:43,005 --> 00:28:45,789
Yeah. Because you cannot have that attitude unless

838
00:28:45,789 --> 00:28:47,710
you're sitting there the whole time thinking, well,

839
00:28:47,710 --> 00:28:49,950
I've got this. Yeah. And let me tell

840
00:28:49,950 --> 00:28:50,450
you,

841
00:28:50,990 --> 00:28:53,809
personal experience here, the minute I start thinking

842
00:28:53,869 --> 00:28:54,930
I've got this,

843
00:28:56,190 --> 00:28:57,650
bad things happen. Yeah.

844
00:28:58,154 --> 00:28:59,455
Things do not go

845
00:28:59,835 --> 00:29:00,735
well. And

846
00:29:01,275 --> 00:29:03,195
and and I don't believe, you know, some

847
00:29:03,195 --> 00:29:04,634
people say, well God will break you down.

848
00:29:04,634 --> 00:29:06,475
I don't think God's throwing things out there

849
00:29:06,475 --> 00:29:08,634
to be to break me down sometimes. I

850
00:29:08,634 --> 00:29:10,555
think sometimes God just goes, all that stuff

851
00:29:10,555 --> 00:29:12,849
I've been keeping away from you, Okay. I'm

852
00:29:12,849 --> 00:29:14,929
just gonna stop doing that. Well, I mean,

853
00:29:14,929 --> 00:29:16,210
we do that we do that with our

854
00:29:16,210 --> 00:29:17,730
kids. Right? We say, we give them a

855
00:29:17,730 --> 00:29:18,630
little bit of responsibility.

856
00:29:19,009 --> 00:29:20,929
They mess it up. We correct them. Yeah.

857
00:29:20,929 --> 00:29:21,970
And we give them a little bit more

858
00:29:21,970 --> 00:29:22,470
responsibility.

859
00:29:22,849 --> 00:29:24,794
He does the same with us. Yep. And

860
00:29:24,794 --> 00:29:25,774
man, we blow

861
00:29:26,154 --> 00:29:28,474
it. Oh, yeah. But but God's grace. God's

862
00:29:28,474 --> 00:29:29,294
grace. Grace.

863
00:29:29,674 --> 00:29:32,315
His grace is sufficient. It's always there just

864
00:29:32,315 --> 00:29:34,494
like a father to a child. Right?

865
00:29:35,194 --> 00:29:36,875
I'm not gonna kill that kid for messing

866
00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:38,309
up. I'm not gonna send that kid to

867
00:29:38,309 --> 00:29:40,309
hell for messing up. Right. Right. You gotta

868
00:29:40,309 --> 00:29:41,829
try to correct him and try to give

869
00:29:41,829 --> 00:29:45,029
him more, more responsibility and more maybe pulls

870
00:29:45,029 --> 00:29:46,890
him in on a leash. That's right. Sometimes

871
00:29:47,269 --> 00:29:49,589
there's there's discipline that comes with it. Sometimes

872
00:29:49,589 --> 00:29:51,589
there is that discipline that comes, but a

873
00:29:51,589 --> 00:29:52,890
lot of times it's just,

874
00:29:53,644 --> 00:29:55,244
and this is something I've, I've had to

875
00:29:55,244 --> 00:29:55,744
learn,

876
00:29:56,684 --> 00:29:58,845
because, how, you know, the way I was

877
00:29:58,845 --> 00:30:00,284
raised was very different from the way I'm

878
00:30:00,284 --> 00:30:01,884
raising my kids. And of course that, that

879
00:30:01,884 --> 00:30:03,404
always happens, but I've had to learn that

880
00:30:03,404 --> 00:30:04,224
a lot of times,

881
00:30:05,579 --> 00:30:07,819
sometimes it's less about having to necessarily go

882
00:30:07,819 --> 00:30:10,559
out and devise a way to to punish

883
00:30:11,419 --> 00:30:14,859
than simply let the mistakes stand. Yeah. And

884
00:30:14,859 --> 00:30:16,460
a lot of times, that's all it takes

885
00:30:16,460 --> 00:30:17,900
for the kid to go, boy, that was

886
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:20,554
dumb. Yeah. Then they'll look they'll look they'll

887
00:30:20,554 --> 00:30:22,394
remember it 20 years from now. And you

888
00:30:22,394 --> 00:30:23,674
just sit them down and that's where you

889
00:30:23,754 --> 00:30:25,274
that's where the discipline comes in of having

890
00:30:25,274 --> 00:30:27,115
that conversation. Well, that didn't work out. Why

891
00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:28,474
didn't it work out? Let's talk about it.

892
00:30:28,474 --> 00:30:30,154
Let's look at how we can do better

893
00:30:30,154 --> 00:30:32,349
next time. And okay. Yeah. There's some privileges

894
00:30:32,349 --> 00:30:33,789
you don't get right now because of this

895
00:30:33,789 --> 00:30:35,069
dumb thing you did on top of the

896
00:30:35,069 --> 00:30:36,750
stuff that happened, but but that's just more

897
00:30:36,750 --> 00:30:38,349
of the fact that you didn't do what

898
00:30:38,349 --> 00:30:40,509
I told you to do. Yeah. Yeah. And

899
00:30:40,509 --> 00:30:42,589
and and it's and we we treat God

900
00:30:42,589 --> 00:30:44,990
like He's so much different, but but He's

901
00:30:44,990 --> 00:30:45,650
our father.

902
00:30:46,184 --> 00:30:48,345
And Jesus taught us to pray, father who

903
00:30:48,345 --> 00:30:49,164
art in heaven.

904
00:30:49,464 --> 00:30:51,784
Right? And it's a paradigm shift. Paul said

905
00:30:51,784 --> 00:30:53,598
you haven't you haven't been given a a

906
00:30:53,784 --> 00:30:55,944
an the spirit of slavery leading to fear.

907
00:30:55,944 --> 00:30:57,704
You've been given a spirit of adoption where

908
00:30:57,704 --> 00:31:00,200
we cry out Abba, father. Yes. We've been

909
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,840
adopted. We've been given this the holy spirit

910
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,259
through a spiritual baptism when we're born again.

911
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,240
We've been we've been we've been born again.

912
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:08,840
We're not we're born into Adam, and our

913
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,059
destination is hell.

914
00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:12,759
Right? When we're born into Christ, our definite

915
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,515
our destination is different. It's different now. We

916
00:31:15,515 --> 00:31:17,595
have a new father. We have a Oh,

917
00:31:17,595 --> 00:31:19,674
man. Just looks out for us and is

918
00:31:19,674 --> 00:31:21,434
always with us, never leaves us, forsakes us.

919
00:31:21,434 --> 00:31:23,054
He's cheering us on, man.

920
00:31:23,434 --> 00:31:25,835
Man, you won't you won't hope. Think about

921
00:31:25,835 --> 00:31:26,335
that.

922
00:31:26,875 --> 00:31:27,375
God

923
00:31:27,869 --> 00:31:29,869
is not just on your side when you're

924
00:31:29,869 --> 00:31:31,329
a Christian, when you're a believer.

925
00:31:31,789 --> 00:31:34,029
He's not just on your side. He's actively

926
00:31:34,029 --> 00:31:35,250
cheering for you.

927
00:31:35,549 --> 00:31:38,269
He's actively standing up and going, go. Go.

928
00:31:38,269 --> 00:31:40,029
Go. Yes. Just like we do in our

929
00:31:40,029 --> 00:31:41,869
kid. Man, I hope he makes the right

930
00:31:41,869 --> 00:31:42,369
decision.

931
00:31:42,994 --> 00:31:44,295
Yes. He did. Right?

932
00:31:45,154 --> 00:31:47,315
He's cheering us on. He he wants the

933
00:31:47,315 --> 00:31:48,835
best for us. He wants us to grow

934
00:31:48,835 --> 00:31:50,434
up. He wants us to make good decisions,

935
00:31:50,434 --> 00:31:52,515
and and we have his word to to

936
00:31:52,515 --> 00:31:54,035
to lead us and guide us to to

937
00:31:54,035 --> 00:31:55,634
know that we need to be loving other

938
00:31:55,634 --> 00:31:58,099
people, that we need to be giving ourselves,

939
00:31:58,099 --> 00:32:00,900
giving us away, just give ourselves away that

940
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:02,900
fills us back up. You know, that's what

941
00:32:02,900 --> 00:32:05,960
the agape love is. It's it's sacrificial love.

942
00:32:06,259 --> 00:32:08,565
It's just like Jesus on the cross. You

943
00:32:08,565 --> 00:32:10,484
know? It's not warm, fuzzy feelings all the

944
00:32:10,484 --> 00:32:13,125
time. It's giving yourself away for the betterment

945
00:32:13,125 --> 00:32:15,605
of somebody else. And that's a that's such

946
00:32:15,605 --> 00:32:16,264
a hard

947
00:32:16,964 --> 00:32:17,464
concept

948
00:32:17,845 --> 00:32:20,505
Oh, yeah. I think for us as people

949
00:32:21,125 --> 00:32:22,744
to to realize that

950
00:32:23,869 --> 00:32:25,009
we are called

951
00:32:25,630 --> 00:32:26,450
to give

952
00:32:27,069 --> 00:32:30,349
and we're called to sometimes sacrifice. Yeah. And

953
00:32:30,349 --> 00:32:32,029
it's not and you're not having to do

954
00:32:32,029 --> 00:32:33,309
it all the time. I mean, it's not

955
00:32:33,309 --> 00:32:35,204
like an everyday thing where you're having to

956
00:32:35,365 --> 00:32:37,524
to sacrifice everything in your life. You're not

957
00:32:37,524 --> 00:32:38,904
having to throw away everything.

958
00:32:39,284 --> 00:32:41,125
Now, I mean, Christ, when he saw that

959
00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:42,565
people weren't being very sincere, what do you

960
00:32:42,565 --> 00:32:44,565
tell him to do? Hey, throw, give away

961
00:32:44,565 --> 00:32:47,144
everything you've got and then come follow me.

962
00:32:47,284 --> 00:32:48,804
And then they're like, well, I can't do

963
00:32:48,804 --> 00:32:50,990
that. I mean, you know, he, he doesn't

964
00:32:50,990 --> 00:32:52,429
call us to do that every day, but

965
00:32:52,429 --> 00:32:54,029
he does call us every day to make

966
00:32:54,029 --> 00:32:56,669
some sacrifices. And sometimes that means, you know,

967
00:32:56,669 --> 00:32:58,029
what kind of, kind of putting up with

968
00:32:58,029 --> 00:32:59,490
that annoying person at work,

969
00:33:00,029 --> 00:33:01,869
kind of, kind of going in and, and

970
00:33:01,869 --> 00:33:04,769
listening to him complain. Sometimes it means sacrificing

971
00:33:04,829 --> 00:33:05,565
your own,

972
00:33:07,565 --> 00:33:09,644
sense of peace to let somebody come and

973
00:33:09,644 --> 00:33:10,764
talk to you and say, hey. Look. I

974
00:33:10,764 --> 00:33:12,125
got this going on. Let me tell you

975
00:33:12,125 --> 00:33:13,644
about it. Can I can I just tell

976
00:33:13,724 --> 00:33:15,325
can I just unload? I just wanna talk

977
00:33:15,325 --> 00:33:17,325
about it. Yeah. I mean, little things like

978
00:33:17,325 --> 00:33:19,264
that, but but it is. It's a sacrificial

979
00:33:19,404 --> 00:33:20,944
thing that we're called to do.

980
00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:23,480
And I think if we would do that

981
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,079
more for other people, I think if we

982
00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:26,359
would do that more often, we'd see a

983
00:33:26,359 --> 00:33:28,359
lot less of these problems of people getting

984
00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:31,880
so hopeless. Yeah. Yeah. Because they know they

985
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,179
know, hey, I've got

986
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,994
brothers and sisters. And God's gonna fill me

987
00:33:35,994 --> 00:33:38,414
up. You know, whatever I empty of myself,

988
00:33:38,474 --> 00:33:40,315
He's filling it back up. But you know,

989
00:33:40,315 --> 00:33:41,755
we're not we're not a sponge or a

990
00:33:41,755 --> 00:33:44,075
funnel. Yeah. Right? We're supposed to pour that

991
00:33:44,075 --> 00:33:46,394
stuff through us, and it's just a beautiful

992
00:33:46,394 --> 00:33:48,795
way. And honestly, we can't love God without

993
00:33:48,795 --> 00:33:51,009
loving other people. You know, he's made that

994
00:33:51,009 --> 00:33:53,009
distinction in the New Testament. It's it's kinda

995
00:33:53,009 --> 00:33:55,250
hard to pick out though, but but, you

996
00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:57,569
know, the Pharisees came or a lawyer or,

997
00:33:57,890 --> 00:33:59,410
of the Pharisees came up and asked him,

998
00:33:59,410 --> 00:34:00,470
what's the greatest commandment?

999
00:34:01,009 --> 00:34:02,769
And he said, well, the first one's love

1000
00:34:02,769 --> 00:34:04,210
the Lord your God with all your heart,

1001
00:34:04,210 --> 00:34:05,809
always so you, always mind your own strength.

1002
00:34:05,809 --> 00:34:07,865
And the second is like it. Right? He

1003
00:34:07,865 --> 00:34:09,465
came back to the the second one and

1004
00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:11,625
said, love your neighbor as yourself. He said,

1005
00:34:11,625 --> 00:34:13,864
on these two laws, hang all the law

1006
00:34:13,864 --> 00:34:14,605
and the prophets.

1007
00:34:15,144 --> 00:34:15,644
Mhmm.

1008
00:34:15,945 --> 00:34:18,264
All of the Old Testament lays on those

1009
00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:19,945
two laws, and he and he tells his

1010
00:34:19,945 --> 00:34:21,965
disciples right before he's arrested.

1011
00:34:22,289 --> 00:34:24,449
He repeats 5 times to him. Well, it

1012
00:34:24,449 --> 00:34:26,869
kind of bookends it. And in John 14:15,

1013
00:34:27,570 --> 00:34:29,090
he says, a new commandment I give to

1014
00:34:29,090 --> 00:34:31,170
you that you love one another. And then

1015
00:34:31,170 --> 00:34:33,090
5 times he repeats it in different ways.

1016
00:34:33,090 --> 00:34:33,750
He says,

1017
00:34:34,355 --> 00:34:36,594
if you love me, you'll obey me. Mhmm.

1018
00:34:36,594 --> 00:34:38,835
Okay. And he booked the second bookend comes

1019
00:34:38,835 --> 00:34:39,574
in says,

1020
00:34:39,954 --> 00:34:42,054
love one another just as I've loved you.

1021
00:34:42,514 --> 00:34:44,914
Right? And this love thing is an agape,

1022
00:34:44,914 --> 00:34:47,599
sacrifice love. It's do what's brought and best.

1023
00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:49,680
Bless those who curse you. It's love your

1024
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,760
enemies. It's go the extra mile. It's all

1025
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,640
this stuff that just absolutely is horrible for

1026
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,660
us to try to do. We hate it.

1027
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,320
Right? Oh, yeah. It's like pulling teeth. It's

1028
00:34:58,320 --> 00:34:59,460
not natural, man.

1029
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:02,684
Right? I wanna hate my enemies. Right? But

1030
00:35:03,864 --> 00:35:05,304
the only way we have to show love

1031
00:35:05,304 --> 00:35:07,005
to God is by loving other people.

1032
00:35:07,385 --> 00:35:09,464
Mhmm. His pace just narrowed it down to

1033
00:35:09,464 --> 00:35:11,404
that because the first four commandments

1034
00:35:11,944 --> 00:35:14,424
are about loving God. The next 6 are

1035
00:35:14,424 --> 00:35:16,599
about loving other people. So he didn't pick

1036
00:35:16,599 --> 00:35:18,359
out any of the 10 commandments when they

1037
00:35:18,359 --> 00:35:20,219
asked him what the greatest commandment was.

1038
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,300
He picked out the foundation.

1039
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,679
These are what the 10 commandments are sitting

1040
00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:26,280
on. This is what yeah. This is what

1041
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,079
they're about. Let's talk and and I think

1042
00:35:29,079 --> 00:35:29,579
that's

1043
00:35:30,675 --> 00:35:32,355
we we miss that, and I think a

1044
00:35:32,355 --> 00:35:32,914
lot of,

1045
00:35:33,795 --> 00:35:35,715
a lot of the world misses that because

1046
00:35:35,715 --> 00:35:37,394
they see the commandments, and they see the

1047
00:35:37,394 --> 00:35:38,835
the way the church is, and the way

1048
00:35:38,835 --> 00:35:40,994
the church has all these rules. Yeah. You

1049
00:35:40,994 --> 00:35:42,355
know, and they're like, oh, yeah. It's all

1050
00:35:42,355 --> 00:35:44,195
about following these rules and doing all these

1051
00:35:44,195 --> 00:35:46,299
things. And it's like, No, no, no. Let's

1052
00:35:46,299 --> 00:35:47,599
talk about what the rules

1053
00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:48,400
meant.

1054
00:35:48,940 --> 00:35:50,319
What were the rules for?

1055
00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:53,199
Love God. Love your neighbor. And

1056
00:35:54,059 --> 00:35:55,500
the rest of it takes care of itself.

1057
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:56,780
Because, you know, the thing is, if you

1058
00:35:56,780 --> 00:35:58,299
love God, are you gonna curse Him? Are

1059
00:35:58,299 --> 00:35:59,819
you gonna worship other gods for are you

1060
00:35:59,819 --> 00:36:02,054
gonna abuse His name? Are you gonna I

1061
00:36:02,054 --> 00:36:03,195
mean, you know,

1062
00:36:03,815 --> 00:36:05,175
you're not gonna put any other gods for

1063
00:36:05,175 --> 00:36:06,855
Him. You're not gonna worship idols. You're not

1064
00:36:06,855 --> 00:36:07,355
gonna

1065
00:36:08,135 --> 00:36:08,635
forget

1066
00:36:09,014 --> 00:36:11,914
to set aside time to spend with Him

1067
00:36:11,974 --> 00:36:14,375
and to spend in worshiping Him and being

1068
00:36:14,375 --> 00:36:15,974
thankful to Him for what He's given you.

1069
00:36:15,974 --> 00:36:17,989
I mean, that just comes naturally.

1070
00:36:18,289 --> 00:36:19,890
And if you're loving other people, you're gonna

1071
00:36:19,890 --> 00:36:21,809
steal from them? Are you gonna are you

1072
00:36:21,809 --> 00:36:24,130
gonna go out and murder somebody? Are you

1073
00:36:24,130 --> 00:36:25,809
gonna go out and are you gonna be

1074
00:36:25,809 --> 00:36:27,890
disobeying your parents left and right? If you

1075
00:36:27,890 --> 00:36:30,309
if you actually love them, if you truly

1076
00:36:30,664 --> 00:36:31,784
look at it and say I want to

1077
00:36:31,784 --> 00:36:34,125
love them, or am I gonna be dishonoring

1078
00:36:34,264 --> 00:36:36,184
them? Yeah. You know, and then that that

1079
00:36:36,184 --> 00:36:38,824
is, that's not just straight obedience, it's so

1080
00:36:38,824 --> 00:36:40,585
much more and it's so so different because

1081
00:36:40,585 --> 00:36:42,684
it's about showing that honor and respect.

1082
00:36:43,464 --> 00:36:45,804
You're gonna do that to somebody you love.

1083
00:36:45,864 --> 00:36:48,160
Yeah. You know, the commandment was just towards

1084
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,360
your parents, but then the rest of it

1085
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,219
was basically honor everybody else.

1086
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,519
Yeah. Yeah. And we we look at these

1087
00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:55,460
rules like, oh, man. This is,

1088
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,219
this is just rigid,

1089
00:36:57,599 --> 00:36:59,680
mechanical. I don't I wanna have fun. I

1090
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,925
don't wanna do all this stuff, you know.

1091
00:37:02,864 --> 00:37:04,785
That's the way the world sees Christianity, you

1092
00:37:04,785 --> 00:37:06,465
know. And I think it's been it's just

1093
00:37:06,465 --> 00:37:06,965
been,

1094
00:37:07,585 --> 00:37:09,445
messed up by so many gestation

1095
00:37:10,224 --> 00:37:12,085
of just hardcore legalistic

1096
00:37:12,385 --> 00:37:15,280
kinda stuff that that's not biblical. It's not

1097
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,880
seeing God for who He is to a

1098
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:17,380
believer.

1099
00:37:17,679 --> 00:37:18,900
That He's your daddy.

1100
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,599
He's your Abba Father, and He wants what's

1101
00:37:21,599 --> 00:37:23,359
best for you to grow you up, for

1102
00:37:23,359 --> 00:37:25,199
you to have more faith and more hope

1103
00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:27,114
and more love and more peace and more

1104
00:37:27,114 --> 00:37:28,715
joy and all this stuff that He's trying

1105
00:37:28,715 --> 00:37:30,235
to grow inside of us, we just let

1106
00:37:30,235 --> 00:37:31,994
Him. You know, and that's that's what,

1107
00:37:32,474 --> 00:37:34,635
what what the New Testament talks about, and

1108
00:37:34,635 --> 00:37:36,635
that's what, Paul was saying when he says,

1109
00:37:36,635 --> 00:37:37,934
look, if you if you're

1110
00:37:38,235 --> 00:37:40,869
if it's about grace, then the work isn't

1111
00:37:40,869 --> 00:37:44,010
really work. It's just something you're doing because

1112
00:37:44,070 --> 00:37:45,829
of all the grace that's being poured out

1113
00:37:45,829 --> 00:37:47,269
on you. You're pouring it out on others.

1114
00:37:47,269 --> 00:37:48,469
Elder Young Yeah. And really what it boils

1115
00:37:48,469 --> 00:37:49,989
down to, you know, if you go with

1116
00:37:49,989 --> 00:37:51,670
the legalism, like a lot of people would

1117
00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:53,849
like to talk about law versus grace, right?

1118
00:37:54,309 --> 00:37:57,105
But really, what that boils down to is

1119
00:37:57,105 --> 00:37:59,184
faith. It's faith in me or faith in

1120
00:37:59,184 --> 00:37:59,684
Jesus.

1121
00:38:00,144 --> 00:38:01,905
Do I have faith in myself that I

1122
00:38:01,905 --> 00:38:03,585
can stand before God and say I kept

1123
00:38:03,585 --> 00:38:04,485
all these rules?

1124
00:38:05,025 --> 00:38:06,465
Or do I have faith in Jesus and

1125
00:38:06,465 --> 00:38:08,385
say He did it for me? He paid

1126
00:38:08,385 --> 00:38:09,204
my price.

1127
00:38:10,099 --> 00:38:11,940
Yeah. He paid for me on the cross.

1128
00:38:11,940 --> 00:38:13,300
And I don't I don't know about you,

1129
00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:13,800
but

1130
00:38:14,579 --> 00:38:16,179
I would much rather stand in front of

1131
00:38:16,179 --> 00:38:17,619
Him and say, hey look, I couldn't do

1132
00:38:17,619 --> 00:38:19,460
that. I can't do this. Yeah. I'm not

1133
00:38:19,460 --> 00:38:20,199
good enough.

1134
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,140
I I fail all the time, Lord. I

1135
00:38:23,140 --> 00:38:24,280
can't handle it.

1136
00:38:24,755 --> 00:38:25,574
But you know what?

1137
00:38:26,434 --> 00:38:28,755
He died for me. Yeah. And I'm covered

1138
00:38:28,755 --> 00:38:30,215
in his blood, and I

1139
00:38:30,594 --> 00:38:32,675
I have faith in him. Yeah. Because I

1140
00:38:32,675 --> 00:38:34,275
think he did it for me. And that's

1141
00:38:34,434 --> 00:38:36,054
and man, that's where our hope is.

1142
00:38:36,515 --> 00:38:38,594
And it is. That's that that's the core

1143
00:38:38,594 --> 00:38:41,090
of our hope. Yeah. And, yeah,

1144
00:38:41,630 --> 00:38:43,890
I I think too many too many

1145
00:38:44,829 --> 00:38:45,890
faiths today

1146
00:38:48,989 --> 00:38:50,289
want to get back

1147
00:38:50,670 --> 00:38:53,410
to the legalism because they want that just

1148
00:38:53,470 --> 00:38:56,025
list of things. Yeah. They want those check

1149
00:38:56,025 --> 00:38:58,264
boxes. You know? It's not gray so much.

1150
00:38:58,264 --> 00:39:00,444
Right? Yeah. Yeah. Little gray areas.

1151
00:39:00,744 --> 00:39:02,425
I just I just want a check box.

1152
00:39:02,425 --> 00:39:04,585
I went to church on Sunday. Check. I

1153
00:39:04,585 --> 00:39:07,405
didn't cuss too much this week. Check. Yeah.

1154
00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:09,359
I I only had one beer. I I

1155
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,039
I'm not going around drunk. I just had

1156
00:39:11,039 --> 00:39:12,099
one beer. Check.

1157
00:39:13,039 --> 00:39:14,880
They want these check boxes. I didn't steal

1158
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,800
anything. Yeah. I didn't steal nothing. I didn't

1159
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,179
kill anybody this week.

1160
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:20,480
Yeah. And then they just wanna go down

1161
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,339
through these check boxes, and I'm like,

1162
00:39:22,925 --> 00:39:24,925
man, that is what are you gonna do

1163
00:39:24,925 --> 00:39:25,984
when you get to heaven?

1164
00:39:27,484 --> 00:39:29,324
You're gonna hand God a list of check

1165
00:39:29,484 --> 00:39:31,765
of papers where you've checked off every day

1166
00:39:31,765 --> 00:39:33,965
of your life? And it's not enough. And

1167
00:39:33,965 --> 00:39:35,324
then he looks at you and says, okay.

1168
00:39:35,324 --> 00:39:37,469
Great. You didn't do these things, but, hey.

1169
00:39:37,469 --> 00:39:39,809
Remember this time you didn't steal that thing,

1170
00:39:40,429 --> 00:39:42,050
but you wanted it so bad.

1171
00:39:42,590 --> 00:39:45,150
Right. The only reason you didn't steal it

1172
00:39:45,389 --> 00:39:45,889
Right.

1173
00:39:46,510 --> 00:39:47,949
Is because you were like, well, I gotta

1174
00:39:47,949 --> 00:39:50,445
check my box. Right. Yeah. Or or you

1175
00:39:50,445 --> 00:39:52,864
looked at that woman with lust. Uh-huh.

1176
00:39:53,164 --> 00:39:54,925
And you you wanted her. Or you were

1177
00:39:54,925 --> 00:39:57,085
so mad at that guy. You could've you

1178
00:39:57,085 --> 00:39:59,405
could've strangled him. See, Jesus took it to

1179
00:39:59,405 --> 00:40:00,704
next level. Yeah.

1180
00:40:01,164 --> 00:40:03,724
Next level. It's about our motivations. It's about

1181
00:40:03,724 --> 00:40:05,859
our our, our what what the word I'm

1182
00:40:05,859 --> 00:40:06,359
looking

1183
00:40:06,739 --> 00:40:08,519
for? Intentions. Intentions.

1184
00:40:08,980 --> 00:40:10,339
Right. It's about the intention of the heart.

1185
00:40:10,339 --> 00:40:12,579
Where is your heart? Where is your heart

1186
00:40:12,579 --> 00:40:14,500
in this thing? Is it pure? And what

1187
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:15,780
God is trying to get out of a

1188
00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:16,920
believer is purity.

1189
00:40:17,539 --> 00:40:19,219
He's trying to take us into a level

1190
00:40:19,219 --> 00:40:21,594
where our character is good, where we're the

1191
00:40:21,594 --> 00:40:23,454
same person at home alone,

1192
00:40:24,155 --> 00:40:25,535
sitting in front of a television,

1193
00:40:25,835 --> 00:40:26,335
or

1194
00:40:26,715 --> 00:40:28,555
sitting in a restaurant, or sitting in the

1195
00:40:28,555 --> 00:40:30,575
middle of a church. We're the same person.

1196
00:40:31,035 --> 00:40:33,454
That's right. And when you think about it,

1197
00:40:34,075 --> 00:40:35,055
you look at

1198
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,480
in Revelation when it talks about us taking

1199
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,480
those crowns and us taking and we're turning

1200
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,699
all that over to him.

1201
00:40:43,319 --> 00:40:45,159
And and the Bible tells us that at

1202
00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:46,679
that time when we when we go through

1203
00:40:46,679 --> 00:40:48,519
and he's taking all these things from us

1204
00:40:48,519 --> 00:40:50,139
and he throws it into the fire,

1205
00:40:50,614 --> 00:40:52,554
And what comes out, he gives back.

1206
00:40:53,734 --> 00:40:55,034
You know? And it's like,

1207
00:40:55,894 --> 00:40:56,954
that's our works.

1208
00:40:57,414 --> 00:40:58,234
That's our

1209
00:40:58,534 --> 00:41:00,934
goodness and our and how good we've been.

1210
00:41:00,934 --> 00:41:02,694
And I'm thinking, what happens when he throws

1211
00:41:02,694 --> 00:41:03,674
me in the fire?

1212
00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:06,349
Is there gonna be anything left? Yeah.

1213
00:41:06,809 --> 00:41:08,250
And the thing is, if you're not washed

1214
00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:09,150
in his blood,

1215
00:41:09,769 --> 00:41:12,010
there's nothing pure to wash. There's nothing pure

1216
00:41:12,010 --> 00:41:14,329
to come out of that. No. I mean,

1217
00:41:14,329 --> 00:41:17,244
people forget about we don't think about that

1218
00:41:17,244 --> 00:41:19,965
enough. If we were taken in front of

1219
00:41:19,965 --> 00:41:21,485
God, I mean, it's all appear like you

1220
00:41:21,485 --> 00:41:24,364
say, it's that purification process. Yeah. And you're

1221
00:41:24,364 --> 00:41:26,045
cast into the fire. How do you purify

1222
00:41:26,045 --> 00:41:28,284
gold? How do you purify any any metal?

1223
00:41:28,284 --> 00:41:30,110
Yeah. You burn it, and you burn it

1224
00:41:30,110 --> 00:41:31,309
and you heat it and you burn it

1225
00:41:31,309 --> 00:41:32,510
and you hammer it and you heat it

1226
00:41:32,510 --> 00:41:33,869
and you burn it and you over and

1227
00:41:33,869 --> 00:41:35,969
over and over until it comes out pure.

1228
00:41:37,630 --> 00:41:39,630
What if that's us? What if I'm the

1229
00:41:39,630 --> 00:41:41,550
one that's being hammered and heated and burned

1230
00:41:41,550 --> 00:41:42,369
and I'm like,

1231
00:41:42,670 --> 00:41:44,284
is he gonna have enough material to work

1232
00:41:44,284 --> 00:41:46,125
with on the other end? Yeah. I mean,

1233
00:41:46,125 --> 00:41:49,404
yeah. Okay. He might make a little little

1234
00:41:49,404 --> 00:41:50,304
tiny something.

1235
00:41:50,605 --> 00:41:51,664
It's not even worth

1236
00:41:51,964 --> 00:41:54,304
looking at. And I I think too too,

1237
00:41:54,764 --> 00:41:55,853
a lot of us get in that position

1238
00:41:55,853 --> 00:41:57,900
where we're getting worked on, like the potter's

1239
00:41:57,900 --> 00:41:59,099
clay, you know, because different different ways of

1240
00:41:59,099 --> 00:41:59,924
looking at it. But a lot of us

1241
00:41:59,924 --> 00:42:01,519
just say, I don't do this anymore. Mhmm.

1242
00:42:02,139 --> 00:42:04,219
I can't do this anymore. And I think

1243
00:42:04,219 --> 00:42:05,199
I think maybe God

1244
00:42:08,974 --> 00:42:10,594
brings us to that point sometimes,

1245
00:42:11,135 --> 00:42:12,974
and he lets us wait a little while

1246
00:42:12,974 --> 00:42:15,375
before he starts working again. But we can't

1247
00:42:15,375 --> 00:42:16,974
let go of him at that point. We

1248
00:42:16,974 --> 00:42:18,175
we need to we need to we need

1249
00:42:18,175 --> 00:42:20,974
to I know there are probably people listening

1250
00:42:20,974 --> 00:42:22,835
who who are maybe at that point

1251
00:42:23,135 --> 00:42:23,954
where where

1252
00:42:24,530 --> 00:42:27,090
you've just had so much bad happened lately

1253
00:42:27,090 --> 00:42:29,109
that you just don't wanna do this anymore.

1254
00:42:29,809 --> 00:42:32,130
But there's always hope. There's always hope, and

1255
00:42:32,130 --> 00:42:33,670
God is still with you.

1256
00:42:33,969 --> 00:42:35,969
He's never gonna leave you. He's never gonna

1257
00:42:35,969 --> 00:42:37,750
forsake you. Trust in that.

1258
00:42:38,375 --> 00:42:40,614
You know, I I heard a a friend

1259
00:42:40,614 --> 00:42:41,835
of mine years ago

1260
00:42:42,934 --> 00:42:44,614
was talking about one of the reasons he

1261
00:42:44,614 --> 00:42:45,434
walked away

1262
00:42:45,894 --> 00:42:48,054
from the church. He walked away from faith

1263
00:42:48,054 --> 00:42:48,554
completely

1264
00:42:49,414 --> 00:42:51,114
was when he had gone to a church

1265
00:42:52,135 --> 00:42:52,635
and

1266
00:42:53,530 --> 00:42:56,030
he was told as a fairly young child,

1267
00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:58,329
you know, basically, look, we're we're not good

1268
00:42:58,329 --> 00:42:58,829
enough.

1269
00:42:59,289 --> 00:43:01,710
And as a kid, because he didn't understand,

1270
00:43:02,410 --> 00:43:04,010
you know, he understood it as a child,

1271
00:43:04,010 --> 00:43:06,405
I'll never be good enough. Yeah. And he

1272
00:43:06,405 --> 00:43:08,964
took that personally and didn't didn't understand there's

1273
00:43:09,125 --> 00:43:11,285
they were trying to what the person in

1274
00:43:11,285 --> 00:43:13,045
the sermon was saying was exactly what we

1275
00:43:13,045 --> 00:43:15,224
say. We're not good enough.

1276
00:43:15,525 --> 00:43:17,364
None of us. None of us are good

1277
00:43:17,364 --> 00:43:18,585
enough to get to heaven,

1278
00:43:18,885 --> 00:43:21,570
but it's not about what you've done. Yeah.

1279
00:43:21,570 --> 00:43:23,670
That's the thing. It it doesn't matter

1280
00:43:24,050 --> 00:43:26,210
how horrible you've been or how good you've

1281
00:43:26,210 --> 00:43:27,890
been. We're not good enough to get to

1282
00:43:27,890 --> 00:43:30,530
heaven, and that's the hope. So when you

1283
00:43:30,530 --> 00:43:32,849
reach that point where it's like, I just

1284
00:43:32,849 --> 00:43:34,610
can't go on. I I just don't know

1285
00:43:34,610 --> 00:43:35,670
if I can do this.

1286
00:43:36,525 --> 00:43:38,304
You know, the the the hard

1287
00:43:39,484 --> 00:43:42,204
way to think about that is, no. You

1288
00:43:42,204 --> 00:43:42,704
can't.

1289
00:43:43,324 --> 00:43:44,385
But somebody

1290
00:43:44,764 --> 00:43:47,324
else can, and he's already done it for

1291
00:43:47,324 --> 00:43:49,804
you. Yep. And he's standing here saying, just

1292
00:43:49,804 --> 00:43:52,050
just lean on me. Just trust me. Just

1293
00:43:52,210 --> 00:43:54,849
just just trust. I'm here. I haven't gone

1294
00:43:54,849 --> 00:43:56,929
anywhere. I didn't run out on you. I'm

1295
00:43:56,929 --> 00:43:59,349
waiting for you. Just come on over. Yeah.

1296
00:43:59,489 --> 00:43:59,989
And

1297
00:44:00,369 --> 00:44:03,410
that's the thing. As Christians, we we kinda

1298
00:44:03,410 --> 00:44:05,730
let that slide sometimes that we we don't

1299
00:44:05,730 --> 00:44:07,744
wanna we don't wanna upset anybody. We don't

1300
00:44:07,744 --> 00:44:09,345
wanna hurt anybody. And we know that people,

1301
00:44:09,345 --> 00:44:10,945
oh, if they're really depressed, you don't wanna

1302
00:44:10,945 --> 00:44:12,325
tell them that they're not enough.

1303
00:44:12,704 --> 00:44:14,164
And Hey, here's the thing.

1304
00:44:15,345 --> 00:44:16,724
You're enough for God.

1305
00:44:17,265 --> 00:44:19,204
Yeah. You're you're there's enough

1306
00:44:19,869 --> 00:44:22,349
that god can use you even though you're

1307
00:44:22,349 --> 00:44:24,510
not pure. You're not good enough to get

1308
00:44:24,510 --> 00:44:27,389
into heaven. You're not good enough to receive

1309
00:44:27,389 --> 00:44:30,269
these great and wonderful rewards for anything you've

1310
00:44:30,269 --> 00:44:30,769
done.

1311
00:44:31,230 --> 00:44:32,210
Yeah. But

1312
00:44:32,614 --> 00:44:35,014
you're good enough that he died for you

1313
00:44:35,014 --> 00:44:35,914
to make you

1314
00:44:36,214 --> 00:44:38,135
be enough. And that's the thing. He came

1315
00:44:38,135 --> 00:44:39,994
after people who were broken.

1316
00:44:40,375 --> 00:44:42,295
Yes. People who were at the very bottom

1317
00:44:42,295 --> 00:44:44,454
of the lowest valley. People who'd had no

1318
00:44:44,454 --> 00:44:46,559
hope, had no future, knew they

1319
00:44:47,039 --> 00:44:48,579
they're not good enough for anything.

1320
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,480
Right? And those are the ones he came

1321
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,480
for. Those are the ones that Jesus was

1322
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,400
after when he was on earth, and that's

1323
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,640
the ones he's still after. Right? He that

1324
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,960
smoldering candle, he will not snuff out. A

1325
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,539
broken reed, he will not. What is it?

1326
00:45:02,025 --> 00:45:05,385
Anyway Yeah. Broken reed something. Yeah. But no,

1327
00:45:05,385 --> 00:45:07,304
man. He's He's not throw away. He's wanting

1328
00:45:07,304 --> 00:45:09,224
he's wanting to build that back up. And

1329
00:45:09,224 --> 00:45:09,984
he can take

1330
00:45:10,424 --> 00:45:12,684
and you and your most broken circumstance

1331
00:45:13,144 --> 00:45:15,460
and give you hope, give you life, give

1332
00:45:15,460 --> 00:45:17,619
you peace, give you joy, give you everything

1333
00:45:17,619 --> 00:45:19,700
that you long for that the world cannot

1334
00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:22,739
give. And remember remember, he went when he

1335
00:45:22,739 --> 00:45:24,980
goes in and he I mean, just just

1336
00:45:24,980 --> 00:45:27,539
looking at the the calling when he initially

1337
00:45:27,539 --> 00:45:29,465
goes out and gets his disciples, What's he

1338
00:45:29,465 --> 00:45:30,664
do? He goes up to a guy who's

1339
00:45:30,664 --> 00:45:31,644
a tax collector

1340
00:45:32,985 --> 00:45:35,224
and says, hey. Come follow me. Yeah. I

1341
00:45:35,224 --> 00:45:36,844
know that you cheat

1342
00:45:37,385 --> 00:45:39,405
for your bosses to get more money.

1343
00:45:39,704 --> 00:45:42,119
But you're watching The Chosen. Oh, yeah. And

1344
00:45:42,119 --> 00:45:43,719
the way he does that with Matthew, I

1345
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,274
I love that. Good. Yeah. I love that.

1346
00:45:45,274 --> 00:45:46,759
I that they Of course, it's all dramatized.

1347
00:45:46,759 --> 00:45:47,319
It's all dramatized. It's all dramatized. It's all

1348
00:45:47,319 --> 00:45:49,079
dramatized. Real. But but I love the way

1349
00:45:49,079 --> 00:45:49,819
they they

1350
00:45:50,199 --> 00:45:52,359
they showed that of you know, it wasn't

1351
00:45:52,359 --> 00:45:55,319
necessarily that Matthew was necessarily cheating people to

1352
00:45:55,319 --> 00:45:57,000
cheat people. It's because his bosses said he

1353
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,605
had to. And, you know, in Christ, yeah,

1354
00:45:58,605 --> 00:46:01,005
I don't care. Yeah. Come follow me. I

1355
00:46:01,005 --> 00:46:02,605
got I got something better for you over

1356
00:46:02,605 --> 00:46:04,364
here. Yeah. And then he goes he goes

1357
00:46:04,364 --> 00:46:04,844
to,

1358
00:46:05,164 --> 00:46:06,844
James and John, and they're out there fishing.

1359
00:46:06,844 --> 00:46:07,885
And he goes, hey, guys. Why don't you

1360
00:46:07,885 --> 00:46:09,405
why don't you come with me? Hey. Hey.

1361
00:46:09,405 --> 00:46:10,684
Hey, Peter. Why don't you why don't you

1362
00:46:10,684 --> 00:46:12,385
come on in here? Yeah. Come with me.

1363
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,360
And and there was this conflict in it

1364
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,760
too where Peter and James and John kinda

1365
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,099
thought they were maybe good enough. Oh, yeah.

1366
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,039
Matthew never thought he was. No. Right. And

1367
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:23,320
there was a point there was a point

1368
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,125
where Peter and Matthew kinda had this moment,

1369
00:46:25,204 --> 00:46:26,724
you know, and and I thought that was

1370
00:46:26,724 --> 00:46:28,324
pretty cool. Of course, it's all again is

1371
00:46:28,324 --> 00:46:30,485
drama. It's drama, but it's not biblical, but

1372
00:46:30,485 --> 00:46:32,885
it could have happened that way. Absolutely. Because

1373
00:46:32,885 --> 00:46:35,045
I mean Matthew was the outcast of the

1374
00:46:35,045 --> 00:46:36,965
outcast, buddy. I mean, he was he was

1375
00:46:36,965 --> 00:46:38,105
an enemy of Israel.

1376
00:46:38,489 --> 00:46:40,889
Yes. He was he was a Jew who

1377
00:46:40,889 --> 00:46:43,369
had gone over to work for the Romans.

1378
00:46:43,369 --> 00:46:44,969
The dark side. Yeah. And it was like

1379
00:46:45,130 --> 00:46:47,449
I mean, nobody wanted him. Nobody wanted to

1380
00:46:47,449 --> 00:46:49,610
talk to him. Nobody wanted him around. Yeah.

1381
00:46:49,610 --> 00:46:51,769
And Christ said, yeah. Come come with me

1382
00:46:51,769 --> 00:46:52,875
anyway. Yeah.

1383
00:46:53,335 --> 00:46:55,494
And and it's doing that today. You look

1384
00:46:55,494 --> 00:46:57,335
at the number of people that he went

1385
00:46:57,335 --> 00:46:59,335
to. The the woman when he sees her

1386
00:46:59,335 --> 00:47:01,015
at the well, and he just walks up

1387
00:47:01,015 --> 00:47:02,695
and he starts having a conversation. He's like,

1388
00:47:02,695 --> 00:47:04,135
oh, hey. We you're you're a Jew. Why

1389
00:47:04,135 --> 00:47:05,340
would you talk to me? I'm a, I'm,

1390
00:47:05,340 --> 00:47:07,440
I'm over here. I'm a Samaritan. It's broken

1391
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:10,059
and hardened. Oh, yeah. And she's been through

1392
00:47:10,059 --> 00:47:10,720
so much.

1393
00:47:11,099 --> 00:47:12,559
And she's just, she thinks

1394
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:14,619
there there you want to talk about somebody

1395
00:47:14,619 --> 00:47:16,480
that was sitting there thinking there's no hope.

1396
00:47:16,539 --> 00:47:17,755
I mean, she was just, she had just

1397
00:47:17,755 --> 00:47:19,355
picked this random guy to live with because

1398
00:47:19,355 --> 00:47:20,715
she was just finally like, well, I gotta

1399
00:47:20,715 --> 00:47:23,275
do something. And I, I just can't, I

1400
00:47:23,275 --> 00:47:24,875
can't survive. I'm not going to be okay.

1401
00:47:24,875 --> 00:47:26,554
And I can't do this on my own.

1402
00:47:26,554 --> 00:47:27,755
And then this guy shows up and he

1403
00:47:27,755 --> 00:47:29,355
starts saying, Hey, you know,

1404
00:47:30,074 --> 00:47:31,355
if you knew who I was, you'd be

1405
00:47:31,355 --> 00:47:32,820
asking me to give you a drink. A

1406
00:47:32,820 --> 00:47:33,559
bruised reed.

1407
00:47:34,019 --> 00:47:35,780
A bruised reed. You will not break. That's

1408
00:47:35,780 --> 00:47:37,079
it. I'm only doing that.

1409
00:47:37,380 --> 00:47:38,579
And and you know who there he is.

1410
00:47:38,579 --> 00:47:39,860
He's telling her. He said, hey, if you

1411
00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:41,860
know who I was, you'd be asking me

1412
00:47:41,860 --> 00:47:43,539
for a drink so that you would never

1413
00:47:43,539 --> 00:47:45,140
be thirsty again. And she's like, well, hey,

1414
00:47:45,140 --> 00:47:46,324
if I can not have to come up

1415
00:47:46,324 --> 00:47:47,525
here and he's like, no. No. No. That's

1416
00:47:47,525 --> 00:47:49,364
not what I'm talking about. Yeah. Hang on.

1417
00:47:49,364 --> 00:47:50,484
Let me She did it. Yeah. And and

1418
00:47:50,484 --> 00:47:51,764
he kinda had to break it down a

1419
00:47:51,764 --> 00:47:52,885
little more, a little more, a little more.

1420
00:47:52,885 --> 00:47:54,324
And finally, she says, well, yeah. I know

1421
00:47:54,324 --> 00:47:55,844
one day the Messiah is gonna come and

1422
00:47:55,844 --> 00:47:57,444
all these things like you're talking about, that's

1423
00:47:57,444 --> 00:47:58,650
gonna happen. And he's like

1424
00:47:59,449 --> 00:48:01,069
I am. It's me.

1425
00:48:01,769 --> 00:48:04,650
He he says Yahweh. Yeah. I am. I

1426
00:48:04,650 --> 00:48:06,269
I I am I am He.

1427
00:48:06,650 --> 00:48:09,609
It is me. And Yeah. Then she's sitting

1428
00:48:09,609 --> 00:48:12,489
there thinking, goodness, this guy just revealed everything

1429
00:48:12,489 --> 00:48:13,389
about my life.

1430
00:48:13,695 --> 00:48:15,775
I mean, yeah, everybody in town probably knew

1431
00:48:15,775 --> 00:48:17,934
it, but he wasn't from town. He's some

1432
00:48:17,934 --> 00:48:20,355
guy from and they didn't have the Internet.

1433
00:48:20,494 --> 00:48:22,175
They didn't have social media. They didn't have

1434
00:48:22,175 --> 00:48:24,414
ways that gossip I mean, gossip still managed

1435
00:48:24,414 --> 00:48:26,755
to somehow back then travel in an amazingly

1436
00:48:27,055 --> 00:48:28,650
fast rate. Yeah. Yeah.

1437
00:48:28,949 --> 00:48:31,349
Still does. Yeah. Still does even without social

1438
00:48:31,349 --> 00:48:31,849
media.

1439
00:48:32,869 --> 00:48:35,030
But he was he was from so far

1440
00:48:35,030 --> 00:48:37,190
away, she's thinking, well, how would he know?

1441
00:48:37,190 --> 00:48:38,789
But it's not like I'm talking about that

1442
00:48:38,789 --> 00:48:40,630
much. I mean, everybody knows, but they don't

1443
00:48:40,630 --> 00:48:42,650
really I'm not really a source of gossip.

1444
00:48:42,934 --> 00:48:45,094
And he knew everything about me. He knew

1445
00:48:45,094 --> 00:48:47,014
everything I've ever done wrong. And then basically

1446
00:48:47,014 --> 00:48:48,934
said, Yeah, none of that matters to me.

1447
00:48:48,934 --> 00:48:50,934
Yeah. I'm I forgive you. I'm gonna pay

1448
00:48:50,934 --> 00:48:52,155
for that in a little while.

1449
00:48:52,614 --> 00:48:55,434
And, man, and that woman,

1450
00:48:55,910 --> 00:48:58,390
that that sinner woman turns around and runs

1451
00:48:58,390 --> 00:48:59,989
back to town. What happens, man? The whole

1452
00:48:59,989 --> 00:49:01,989
town comes out. We wanna meet this guy.

1453
00:49:01,989 --> 00:49:03,510
Yeah. We wanna hear what he's got to

1454
00:49:03,510 --> 00:49:06,710
say. Yeah. And that's the joy and the

1455
00:49:06,710 --> 00:49:08,869
the hope and the good news of Christ

1456
00:49:08,869 --> 00:49:11,085
because that's exactly what it is. He takes

1457
00:49:11,085 --> 00:49:12,925
Saul, the man that thinks he was right,

1458
00:49:12,925 --> 00:49:14,525
the sinner that thought he was righteous, and

1459
00:49:14,525 --> 00:49:15,964
turns him into Paul, the man that says

1460
00:49:15,964 --> 00:49:18,684
my righteousness is as filthy rags. He takes

1461
00:49:18,684 --> 00:49:19,184
the

1462
00:49:19,644 --> 00:49:21,344
people that are broken and outcast,

1463
00:49:21,644 --> 00:49:23,025
and he says, hey look,

1464
00:49:23,380 --> 00:49:25,059
do you want the person who's broken and

1465
00:49:25,059 --> 00:49:26,420
outcast but will still go out of their

1466
00:49:26,420 --> 00:49:27,859
way to love you? Or do you want

1467
00:49:27,859 --> 00:49:30,179
the righteous person over here that wouldn't cross

1468
00:49:30,179 --> 00:49:30,760
the street

1469
00:49:31,219 --> 00:49:32,659
to give you a kick? Just wanna throw

1470
00:49:32,659 --> 00:49:34,359
a rock at you, right? Yeah.

1471
00:49:34,659 --> 00:49:36,599
Which one do you want? And I mean,

1472
00:49:37,085 --> 00:49:39,244
and he gives you think of the parable

1473
00:49:39,244 --> 00:49:40,144
of the good Samaritan

1474
00:49:40,605 --> 00:49:41,964
and the story he gives there. You know,

1475
00:49:41,964 --> 00:49:43,984
you you get you get the man

1476
00:49:45,085 --> 00:49:47,324
gets set upon by robbers, gets beat up,

1477
00:49:47,324 --> 00:49:48,684
he's left in the street for dead, and

1478
00:49:48,684 --> 00:49:50,364
he's got all these people and all these

1479
00:49:50,364 --> 00:49:52,464
upstanding fine Jewish citizens

1480
00:49:53,349 --> 00:49:55,690
and and religious people, they were religious.

1481
00:49:55,989 --> 00:49:57,690
They were righteous men,

1482
00:49:58,150 --> 00:49:59,349
would walk up and they see him laying

1483
00:49:59,349 --> 00:50:00,550
there and they just cross over and they

1484
00:50:00,550 --> 00:50:02,550
just won't even look at him. And then

1485
00:50:02,550 --> 00:50:04,730
this Samaritan, this dirty,

1486
00:50:05,190 --> 00:50:05,690
dingy

1487
00:50:06,474 --> 00:50:06,974
heathen.

1488
00:50:07,275 --> 00:50:09,295
Yeah. You know, this center A dog.

1489
00:50:09,594 --> 00:50:12,234
They call it. Yeah. Yeah. This Samaritan dog

1490
00:50:12,234 --> 00:50:13,914
comes along and goes, oh, here. I'm gonna

1491
00:50:13,914 --> 00:50:15,114
give you the shirt off my back. I'm

1492
00:50:15,114 --> 00:50:16,554
gonna let you ride on my donkey. I'm

1493
00:50:16,554 --> 00:50:18,074
gonna take you into town. I'm gonna pay

1494
00:50:18,074 --> 00:50:20,480
for everything you need. And, hey, innkeeper. If

1495
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,199
there's anything above this that it takes to

1496
00:50:23,199 --> 00:50:24,400
take care of this man, you let me

1497
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:25,679
know next time here I'm gonna pay you

1498
00:50:25,679 --> 00:50:27,519
back for all of it. Yep. And I'm

1499
00:50:27,519 --> 00:50:28,019
thinking,

1500
00:50:29,199 --> 00:50:31,280
that's the hope that Christ brings because he

1501
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,965
says, I don't care if you're the Samaritan

1502
00:50:34,025 --> 00:50:35,865
dog, and you're the Samaritan who did the

1503
00:50:35,865 --> 00:50:37,224
good thing. I don't care if you're the

1504
00:50:37,224 --> 00:50:39,545
Jewish religious person who was so righteous in

1505
00:50:39,545 --> 00:50:42,125
your own eyes. The fact is I came

1506
00:50:42,345 --> 00:50:44,265
for you, for all of you. I came

1507
00:50:44,265 --> 00:50:45,485
for both of you.

1508
00:50:45,945 --> 00:50:48,869
None of you are good enough. Yep. And

1509
00:50:48,869 --> 00:50:50,949
I've got something for you. I've got my

1510
00:50:50,949 --> 00:50:52,549
blood that's about to be spilled on a

1511
00:50:52,549 --> 00:50:53,049
cross.

1512
00:50:54,789 --> 00:50:57,269
And 3 days later, I'm gonna walk away

1513
00:50:57,269 --> 00:50:58,409
from that. Yep.

1514
00:50:59,589 --> 00:51:02,385
Because that's that's the thing. People wanna people,

1515
00:51:02,385 --> 00:51:03,905
for some reason, they wanna focus on the

1516
00:51:03,905 --> 00:51:05,505
resurrection or they wanna focus on the death.

1517
00:51:05,505 --> 00:51:07,425
And I'm like, no. The the amazing thing

1518
00:51:07,425 --> 00:51:09,585
is you gotta have both. If he didn't

1519
00:51:09,585 --> 00:51:11,265
die, our sins weren't paid for. And if

1520
00:51:11,265 --> 00:51:13,204
he didn't rise again, the death was meaningless.

1521
00:51:13,344 --> 00:51:15,469
Yeah. He's the Son of God. He's he's

1522
00:51:15,469 --> 00:51:17,389
God in human flesh because he rose out

1523
00:51:17,389 --> 00:51:19,630
of the grave, for crying out loud. And

1524
00:51:19,630 --> 00:51:21,569
and this is the God of the universe

1525
00:51:21,869 --> 00:51:22,849
that that is

1526
00:51:23,309 --> 00:51:24,050
is is seeking

1527
00:51:24,510 --> 00:51:27,250
that one lost sheep. He's seeking the broken.

1528
00:51:27,389 --> 00:51:29,974
He's looking for you if you're hurt, if

1529
00:51:29,974 --> 00:51:33,114
you're if you're hopeless, if you're hopeless tonight.

1530
00:51:33,414 --> 00:51:34,875
He's looking for you,

1531
00:51:35,335 --> 00:51:36,855
and he wants to pull you out of

1532
00:51:36,855 --> 00:51:38,934
that. And you know, what he say is

1533
00:51:38,934 --> 00:51:41,335
not the not not the well who need

1534
00:51:41,335 --> 00:51:42,715
a physician, but the sick.

1535
00:51:43,089 --> 00:51:45,170
Right. And it's the people who have been

1536
00:51:45,170 --> 00:51:47,250
broken, who have been at the very bottom,

1537
00:51:47,250 --> 00:51:47,989
who know

1538
00:51:48,369 --> 00:51:49,269
they need help.

1539
00:51:49,650 --> 00:51:50,309
You know,

1540
00:51:50,769 --> 00:51:52,050
if we're in good shape, like you were

1541
00:51:52,050 --> 00:51:53,969
talking about, always living on a mountain top,

1542
00:51:53,969 --> 00:51:55,589
you don't know that you need anything.

1543
00:51:55,889 --> 00:51:56,949
Everything's great.

1544
00:51:57,465 --> 00:51:59,224
But when we've been through these trials and

1545
00:51:59,224 --> 00:52:01,864
these tribulations and this horrible junk that this

1546
00:52:01,864 --> 00:52:03,085
world throws at us

1547
00:52:03,545 --> 00:52:06,345
left and right, there is hope because God

1548
00:52:06,345 --> 00:52:08,505
is reaching out for you right now. That's

1549
00:52:08,505 --> 00:52:10,204
right. And, you know, that's

1550
00:52:11,079 --> 00:52:13,000
I go back again. That's the beauty of

1551
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,440
that that He came and lived as a

1552
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:15,500
carpenter's son.

1553
00:52:16,599 --> 00:52:18,039
You know, when you think about that and

1554
00:52:18,039 --> 00:52:20,199
you're like, Okay, why is that such an

1555
00:52:20,199 --> 00:52:21,800
amazing thing? And people will talk about, Well,

1556
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,159
you know, He built a bridge between us

1557
00:52:23,159 --> 00:52:24,839
and God. And that's the beauty. I'm like,

1558
00:52:24,839 --> 00:52:27,445
No. The really amazing thing is he fixes

1559
00:52:27,445 --> 00:52:27,945
us.

1560
00:52:28,405 --> 00:52:30,085
And he works on us and he repairs

1561
00:52:30,085 --> 00:52:32,164
us. If you're not broken, you don't need

1562
00:52:32,164 --> 00:52:34,425
to be repaired. And he saws you.

1563
00:52:34,724 --> 00:52:36,885
Right? He cuts you down. I saw it.

1564
00:52:36,885 --> 00:52:39,364
He talks about my father's the vaundresser. And

1565
00:52:39,364 --> 00:52:40,730
I'm fine. He said,

1566
00:52:41,030 --> 00:52:43,269
we need pruning. Yeah. He cuts out the

1567
00:52:43,269 --> 00:52:45,109
cuts out the bad a little at a

1568
00:52:45,109 --> 00:52:47,190
time. And then what comes back fuller and

1569
00:52:47,190 --> 00:52:47,929
more beautiful.

1570
00:52:48,789 --> 00:52:50,789
And that's our hope, man, that we stay

1571
00:52:50,789 --> 00:52:52,230
close to him. And that that's the key

1572
00:52:52,230 --> 00:52:54,489
to the whole thing. The whole Christian life

1573
00:52:54,789 --> 00:52:56,505
is not about can you keep all the

1574
00:52:56,505 --> 00:52:58,344
rules. The the Christian life is can you

1575
00:52:58,344 --> 00:52:59,484
grow up in Christ?

1576
00:52:59,784 --> 00:53:01,704
Can how close can you get to him?

1577
00:53:01,704 --> 00:53:03,704
How close will you let yourself be to

1578
00:53:03,704 --> 00:53:05,944
him? Will you tear down the walls around

1579
00:53:05,944 --> 00:53:08,429
your heart and let him in And let

1580
00:53:08,429 --> 00:53:10,750
Him do His transforming work that He wants

1581
00:53:10,750 --> 00:53:12,269
to do in our lives that we grow

1582
00:53:12,269 --> 00:53:13,650
fruit and more fruit.

1583
00:53:14,109 --> 00:53:16,429
Yes. And and it's not about it's not

1584
00:53:16,429 --> 00:53:17,949
about living. Like you say, it's not about

1585
00:53:17,949 --> 00:53:19,969
living the perfect life. It's not about

1586
00:53:20,744 --> 00:53:22,364
being the best Christian.

1587
00:53:23,224 --> 00:53:24,045
Getting saved

1588
00:53:24,505 --> 00:53:26,984
the salvation's the easy part. Salvation is the

1589
00:53:26,984 --> 00:53:29,864
part that's just purely I believe. That's the

1590
00:53:29,864 --> 00:53:32,045
beginning. I believe you're saved. Yep.

1591
00:53:32,585 --> 00:53:35,304
Now it's time to grow. Yeah. And growth

1592
00:53:35,304 --> 00:53:38,260
is hard. Growth is difficult. Growth is painful.

1593
00:53:38,639 --> 00:53:40,260
I mean, go ask any kid

1594
00:53:40,639 --> 00:53:42,320
that that's going through it right now. They'll

1595
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:43,840
tell you just being a kid is not,

1596
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,760
you know, it's just horrible. And it's like,

1597
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,119
you know, as an adult, we're going, yeah,

1598
00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:48,099
you got no responsibilities.

1599
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:49,760
You got nothing to care about. What are

1600
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:50,739
you talking about?

1601
00:53:51,414 --> 00:53:53,574
But they're growing, and they're learning, and they're

1602
00:53:53,574 --> 00:53:55,574
they're finding their limits, and they're finding what

1603
00:53:55,574 --> 00:53:56,775
they're allowed to do and not allowed to

1604
00:53:56,775 --> 00:53:58,134
do, and they're finding what they can do

1605
00:53:58,134 --> 00:53:59,974
because, I mean, that's just it. Not everybody

1606
00:53:59,974 --> 00:54:02,214
can do everything. Yeah. I mean, we we

1607
00:54:02,214 --> 00:54:03,894
live in a world that likes to think

1608
00:54:03,894 --> 00:54:05,654
that, oh, well, anybody can do anything they

1609
00:54:05,654 --> 00:54:07,550
wanna do, and it's like, well, you know

1610
00:54:07,550 --> 00:54:10,190
what? It's not freedom. It's it's slavery. Yeah.

1611
00:54:10,190 --> 00:54:12,590
It's slavery. You know, you might be you

1612
00:54:12,590 --> 00:54:13,409
might be

1613
00:54:13,789 --> 00:54:15,969
have the most desire in the world

1614
00:54:16,349 --> 00:54:18,369
to be the best ballet dancer

1615
00:54:18,670 --> 00:54:20,804
on the planet, But if you have no

1616
00:54:20,804 --> 00:54:21,304
coordination,

1617
00:54:21,764 --> 00:54:23,844
I hate to tell you, you're not gonna

1618
00:54:23,844 --> 00:54:25,605
be the best ballet dancer there is because

1619
00:54:25,605 --> 00:54:27,605
you're just not coordinated. It's not gonna happen.

1620
00:54:27,605 --> 00:54:29,684
Right. It's it's not anything bad. It's not

1621
00:54:29,684 --> 00:54:32,025
anything it's just it's not happening.

1622
00:54:32,324 --> 00:54:32,824
But

1623
00:54:33,769 --> 00:54:35,690
that's the beauty. God made you for a

1624
00:54:35,690 --> 00:54:36,190
purpose.

1625
00:54:36,730 --> 00:54:38,489
Learn what that purpose is. Find out what

1626
00:54:38,489 --> 00:54:40,010
it is. Find out what God has in

1627
00:54:40,010 --> 00:54:42,250
store for you because I promise He's given

1628
00:54:42,250 --> 00:54:44,409
you everything you need or will give you

1629
00:54:44,409 --> 00:54:46,089
everything you need if you go looking for

1630
00:54:46,089 --> 00:54:47,609
it. And the only way you're gonna become

1631
00:54:47,609 --> 00:54:49,905
a decent Christian is is is to go

1632
00:54:49,905 --> 00:54:52,065
through those tough times and and to lean

1633
00:54:52,065 --> 00:54:52,885
into it more.

1634
00:54:53,824 --> 00:54:56,085
This this whole thing is about a daddy

1635
00:54:56,305 --> 00:54:59,525
trying to make good, responsible, healthy adult children.

1636
00:54:59,824 --> 00:55:01,824
That's what it's about. And and, hey, we

1637
00:55:01,824 --> 00:55:03,744
have to let him transform us. You know,

1638
00:55:03,744 --> 00:55:04,244
Romans,

1639
00:55:04,929 --> 00:55:07,090
12:2 tells us be don't be conformed to

1640
00:55:07,090 --> 00:55:08,849
this world, but be transformed by the renewing

1641
00:55:08,849 --> 00:55:11,489
of your mind. Colossians 2 said, set your

1642
00:55:11,489 --> 00:55:13,250
mind on things above, not on things of

1643
00:55:13,250 --> 00:55:14,769
the earth, for you died and your life

1644
00:55:14,769 --> 00:55:17,090
is hidden with Christ and God. It's about

1645
00:55:17,090 --> 00:55:19,335
our focus, and we stay close to Him.

1646
00:55:19,335 --> 00:55:21,414
The closer we get to Him, the better

1647
00:55:21,414 --> 00:55:23,034
Christians we are. Honestly,

1648
00:55:23,494 --> 00:55:25,494
the temptations start to fade away a little

1649
00:55:25,494 --> 00:55:27,675
bit because we got Him in our focus.

1650
00:55:28,054 --> 00:55:30,300
And everything that we do all day long,

1651
00:55:31,099 --> 00:55:33,500
we're praying, we're reading our Bibles, we're going

1652
00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:35,660
to church, we're doing these things because we

1653
00:55:35,660 --> 00:55:38,460
want to. Sometimes it's discipline. Sometimes you have

1654
00:55:38,460 --> 00:55:40,559
to make your decision for it. But

1655
00:55:40,940 --> 00:55:42,619
you ride through those times, and you just

1656
00:55:42,619 --> 00:55:44,539
keep seeing more of the beauty of God

1657
00:55:44,539 --> 00:55:46,585
and and how much he loves us and

1658
00:55:46,585 --> 00:55:48,585
how much he cares for us and and

1659
00:55:48,585 --> 00:55:50,825
how much patience he has with us for

1660
00:55:50,825 --> 00:55:52,585
crying out loud. Yes. You know? And and

1661
00:55:52,585 --> 00:55:54,025
it gives us this hope. And and it

1662
00:55:54,025 --> 00:55:54,844
says in Hebrews,

1663
00:55:55,545 --> 00:55:58,525
chapter 6 verse 19, it says, this hope

1664
00:55:58,825 --> 00:56:00,844
we have as an anchor of the soul,

1665
00:56:01,039 --> 00:56:03,760
a hope both sure and steadfast, and one

1666
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,239
which enters within the veil where Jesus has

1667
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,400
entered as a forerunner for us, having become

1668
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,159
a high priest forever according to the order

1669
00:56:10,159 --> 00:56:10,820
of Melchizedek.

1670
00:56:11,359 --> 00:56:12,420
It's our anchor.

1671
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,994
This hope is our anchor, and it's all

1672
00:56:14,994 --> 00:56:16,914
sitting on the promises of God that I'll

1673
00:56:16,914 --> 00:56:18,755
never leave you. I'll never forsake you. I've

1674
00:56:18,755 --> 00:56:20,195
gone to prepare a place for you. I'm

1675
00:56:20,195 --> 00:56:22,295
coming back for you. All these things.

1676
00:56:22,994 --> 00:56:25,875
How beautiful is that? Beautiful. It's good. How

1677
00:56:25,875 --> 00:56:28,534
much he loves us is just mind blowing.

1678
00:56:28,594 --> 00:56:29,574
To be anchored,

1679
00:56:30,710 --> 00:56:33,190
to be to have the hope as our

1680
00:56:33,190 --> 00:56:34,409
anchor in God,

1681
00:56:34,789 --> 00:56:35,529
that means

1682
00:56:36,230 --> 00:56:38,630
when the when the waves come, when the

1683
00:56:38,630 --> 00:56:39,529
flood happens,

1684
00:56:40,549 --> 00:56:41,529
you're not moving.

1685
00:56:42,835 --> 00:56:45,315
No. You you can just you you want

1686
00:56:45,394 --> 00:56:47,474
you wanna watch? You know what happens when

1687
00:56:47,474 --> 00:56:49,255
you have boats that are anchored properly?

1688
00:56:49,635 --> 00:56:51,795
They can float. They can rise and fall

1689
00:56:51,795 --> 00:56:53,954
with that tide. And it doesn't matter how

1690
00:56:53,954 --> 00:56:55,394
bad the storm is, they're gonna stay right

1691
00:56:55,394 --> 00:56:57,579
where they are. Yep. Yep. They don't have

1692
00:56:57,579 --> 00:56:59,420
to worry about because we're anchored and we're

1693
00:56:59,420 --> 00:57:02,139
anchored with a line that's infinite. Yeah. And

1694
00:57:02,139 --> 00:57:04,380
and we know that no matter what disease

1695
00:57:04,380 --> 00:57:06,139
we end up with, what kind of suffering

1696
00:57:06,139 --> 00:57:08,300
we have to endure in this life, that

1697
00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:10,699
hope it never goes away. You know, my

1698
00:57:10,699 --> 00:57:13,204
mom was I can't remember what what came

1699
00:57:13,204 --> 00:57:14,505
up today in the conversation,

1700
00:57:15,045 --> 00:57:16,644
but I I just felt the urge to

1701
00:57:16,644 --> 00:57:17,545
read, Revelation

1702
00:57:18,325 --> 00:57:20,164
chapter 20 to her. And,

1703
00:57:20,805 --> 00:57:22,724
and it brought tears to her eyes. And

1704
00:57:22,724 --> 00:57:25,385
it was like, she asked something about heaven.

1705
00:57:26,269 --> 00:57:26,909
And I said,

1706
00:57:27,949 --> 00:57:29,650
here's what I do know, mama.

1707
00:57:31,150 --> 00:57:33,630
I said in Revelation 21 I'm gonna read

1708
00:57:33,630 --> 00:57:34,849
again. Here I go.

1709
00:57:35,630 --> 00:57:37,150
And in verse 3, it says, And I

1710
00:57:37,150 --> 00:57:39,204
heard a loud voice from the throne saying,

1711
00:57:39,204 --> 00:57:41,944
behold the tabernacle of God is among men

1712
00:57:42,244 --> 00:57:44,085
and He will dwell among them and they

1713
00:57:44,085 --> 00:57:46,644
shall be His people and God Himself will

1714
00:57:46,644 --> 00:57:48,964
be among them. And He will wipe away

1715
00:57:48,964 --> 00:57:51,204
every tear from their eyes and there will

1716
00:57:51,204 --> 00:57:53,309
no longer be any death. There will no

1717
00:57:53,309 --> 00:57:56,930
longer be any mourning or crying or pain.

1718
00:57:57,230 --> 00:57:59,010
The first things have passed away.

1719
00:57:59,309 --> 00:58:01,230
And He who sits on the throne said,

1720
00:58:01,230 --> 00:58:04,110
behold, I am making all things new. And

1721
00:58:04,110 --> 00:58:06,349
He said, write for these words are faithful

1722
00:58:06,349 --> 00:58:08,275
and true. And then he said to me,

1723
00:58:08,275 --> 00:58:10,355
it is done. I'm the alpha and the

1724
00:58:10,355 --> 00:58:12,434
omega, the beginning and the end. I will

1725
00:58:12,434 --> 00:58:14,034
give to the one who thirsts from the

1726
00:58:14,034 --> 00:58:16,295
spring of the water of life without cost.

1727
00:58:16,594 --> 00:58:19,155
He who overcomes will inherit these things, and

1728
00:58:19,155 --> 00:58:20,914
I will be his God and he will

1729
00:58:20,914 --> 00:58:21,815
be my son.

1730
00:58:22,409 --> 00:58:23,949
This is where God's taken

1731
00:58:24,409 --> 00:58:26,889
all of history is headed for that spot

1732
00:58:26,889 --> 00:58:27,549
right there.

1733
00:58:28,010 --> 00:58:30,170
That he's making all things new, and he's

1734
00:58:30,170 --> 00:58:32,829
gonna dwell with us. This is our hope.

1735
00:58:33,609 --> 00:58:35,469
That's right. And it is

1736
00:58:36,315 --> 00:58:38,795
such a powerful hope and such an awesome

1737
00:58:38,795 --> 00:58:39,295
hope

1738
00:58:39,594 --> 00:58:41,914
that we know that we know no matter

1739
00:58:41,914 --> 00:58:44,394
what's going on, no matter what's happening, we're

1740
00:58:44,394 --> 00:58:46,234
headed for that moment. We're headed for the

1741
00:58:46,234 --> 00:58:48,969
day when God will say, I'm here.

1742
00:58:49,269 --> 00:58:50,569
I'm not going anywhere.

1743
00:58:50,869 --> 00:58:54,569
There's nothing to separate us ever again. Amen.

1744
00:58:55,269 --> 00:58:57,130
And man, oh man.

1745
00:58:57,510 --> 00:58:58,969
I can't wait.

1746
00:59:00,069 --> 00:59:02,630
Yeah. I get I get excited when I

1747
00:59:02,630 --> 00:59:03,609
think about

1748
00:59:04,574 --> 00:59:05,074
someday

1749
00:59:05,534 --> 00:59:07,534
we're gonna get to find out exactly what

1750
00:59:07,534 --> 00:59:10,014
God has planned for us. Yep. We're gonna

1751
00:59:10,014 --> 00:59:12,574
find out exactly what job he really has

1752
00:59:12,574 --> 00:59:14,835
for us because when you get to eternity,

1753
00:59:15,454 --> 00:59:17,054
you're not gonna have to worry about getting

1754
00:59:17,054 --> 00:59:18,820
old. You're not gonna have to worry about

1755
00:59:18,820 --> 00:59:20,260
getting sick. You're not gonna have to worry

1756
00:59:20,260 --> 00:59:20,760
about

1757
00:59:21,139 --> 00:59:24,019
time getting away from you. You're just you're

1758
00:59:24,019 --> 00:59:25,780
gonna have the stuff that you do and

1759
00:59:25,780 --> 00:59:27,380
that God's got prepared for you. And He

1760
00:59:27,380 --> 00:59:29,219
says, I've got it ready, and I'm gonna

1761
00:59:29,219 --> 00:59:31,859
be with you always. And all of this,

1762
00:59:31,859 --> 00:59:33,905
this whole world, all of it's gonna pass

1763
00:59:33,905 --> 00:59:36,704
away, and I'm gonna make it new. Amen.

1764
00:59:36,704 --> 00:59:37,605
And man,

1765
00:59:38,065 --> 00:59:39,204
it is gonna be

1766
00:59:39,664 --> 00:59:42,864
greater and more magnificent and more spectacular and

1767
00:59:42,864 --> 00:59:44,644
more incredible than anything

1768
00:59:45,264 --> 00:59:48,170
we have experienced. If you have no hope,

1769
00:59:48,170 --> 00:59:50,010
have a hope in that that day is

1770
00:59:50,010 --> 00:59:50,510
coming.

1771
00:59:51,049 --> 00:59:51,549
And

1772
00:59:52,089 --> 00:59:53,309
what a joy

1773
00:59:53,690 --> 00:59:55,449
it's going to be to know that we

1774
00:59:55,449 --> 00:59:57,449
reach that moment and stand before God and

1775
00:59:57,449 --> 00:59:59,369
he says, come on in good and faithful

1776
00:59:59,369 --> 01:00:02,375
servant. Yeah. You're you're you're paid for by

1777
01:00:02,375 --> 01:00:04,454
my son. You've got your ticket. Come see

1778
01:00:04,454 --> 01:00:07,275
your room. Yeah. Come on in. House. Yeah.

1779
01:00:07,414 --> 01:00:09,514
I'm so excited. And if

1780
01:00:09,894 --> 01:00:12,614
you are struggling, if you are afraid, if

1781
01:00:12,614 --> 01:00:15,260
you are finding yourself in these tie with

1782
01:00:15,260 --> 01:00:17,360
everything going on in the world, just just

1783
01:00:17,500 --> 01:00:20,139
being afraid and being worried and be letting

1784
01:00:20,139 --> 01:00:21,119
it get you down,

1785
01:00:22,380 --> 01:00:24,380
we'll pray for you. You know, let us

1786
01:00:24,380 --> 01:00:25,900
know. Reach out to us. Go to go

1787
01:00:25,900 --> 01:00:27,324
to your church. Come here. If you're in

1788
01:00:27,324 --> 01:00:29,164
this area, come to Mountain View. We will

1789
01:00:29,164 --> 01:00:30,925
gladly sit down and pray for you. I

1790
01:00:30,925 --> 01:00:32,765
promise there are people here. We love you.

1791
01:00:32,765 --> 01:00:34,525
We don't care what you what we don't

1792
01:00:34,525 --> 01:00:36,125
care about your past. We don't care about

1793
01:00:36,125 --> 01:00:38,364
what's going on. Come on in. We'll pray

1794
01:00:38,364 --> 01:00:40,530
with you. We'll talk with you. We'll minister

1795
01:00:40,530 --> 01:00:42,930
to you as best we can to remind

1796
01:00:42,930 --> 01:00:46,289
you that God is good and glorious and

1797
01:00:46,289 --> 01:00:48,530
awesome and mighty, and he's got things in

1798
01:00:48,530 --> 01:00:51,170
store for you. Brother Dennis, will you pray

1799
01:00:51,170 --> 01:00:52,690
for us tonight? And we'll call it a

1800
01:00:52,690 --> 01:00:54,944
night. Father in heaven, thank you for this

1801
01:00:54,944 --> 01:00:57,424
time together and thank you for, for everyone

1802
01:00:57,424 --> 01:00:59,505
that's listening. Father, I pray for anyone that's

1803
01:00:59,505 --> 01:01:00,804
listening that may be

1804
01:01:01,105 --> 01:01:02,784
in the darkest time of their life or

1805
01:01:02,784 --> 01:01:04,944
maybe headed for that place. Father, that you

1806
01:01:04,944 --> 01:01:07,390
would you would pour your spirit out on

1807
01:01:07,390 --> 01:01:09,489
them, father. Let them let them understand your

1808
01:01:09,869 --> 01:01:12,369
love, your the hope that you give us,

1809
01:01:12,590 --> 01:01:14,829
father, that you want only good for us,

1810
01:01:14,829 --> 01:01:15,329
that

1811
01:01:15,789 --> 01:01:17,570
that you are our Abba Father.

1812
01:01:18,174 --> 01:01:21,135
That they can trust in You. They can

1813
01:01:21,135 --> 01:01:23,054
know that no matter what happens in this

1814
01:01:23,054 --> 01:01:23,554
world,

1815
01:01:24,174 --> 01:01:26,514
that You've got an eternity of

1816
01:01:27,135 --> 01:01:28,034
just awesome

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waiting on us.

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Father, thank you so much for your love.

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And I pray for,

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the peace of Israel. Father, I pray for

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the things that are going on over there,

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the peace of Jerusalem.

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Father, may your will be done. And Father,

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I,

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I pray that that, you would protect us

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until we come back here again in Jesus'

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name. Amen.

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Amen.

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Special thank you to Carter Pridemore, Brian Harris,

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Waverly Henderson,

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Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain 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.

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Thank you for listening.

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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

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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.

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Oh,

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oh. Truth

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set me free.

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Oh.

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Oh.