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In chains I was bound, I was a madman on the run Through the hills I wandered, I was running from the sun But truth found me there, it was in my darkest hour I traded my black heart for joy, for something real, something with power Truth set me free. Truth came to me. I once was blind and now I see. Truth set me free.

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Oh, oh, truth set me free. Oh, oh, truth set me free.

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast about faith, current events, and life in general.

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Brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church, live every Monday night at 6 p.m. Central Time.

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And welcome back, everyone.

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It is so good to have everybody back again with us this week, being able to get back here after the weekend and all the excitement and everything that went on.

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So nice to be back and nice to know that we all made it through and got here just fine.

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Brother Dennis, how are we doing today?

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Doing good, man.

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I got some news this time.

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I did a little thing last Friday where I turned in my retirement notice.

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Amen.

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Oh!

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Yeah, retiring in July.

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And I kind of set that out there because I had some things I needed to do first, you know, like get my eyes checked and get a tooth filled.

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So get that in while I can, you know.

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I had a great time Saturday.

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I got to spend some time with my son over in Rome, Georgia.

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We just hung out for a few hours and talked and had a meal.

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And he calls me yesterday.

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He said, Dad, I've done the most courageous thing I've ever done in my life.

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I went down in the basement and I found two black snakes.

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One of them is five feet long and the other is six feet long.

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And I got them into a garbage bin.

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He hates snakes.

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He's scared to death of snakes.

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So he's like, I need some advice.

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What do I do with these things?

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Do I just dump them out here?

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And he said, no, they'll come right back in your house if you dump it in.

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And so I said, get the garbage van, just get the bin and tape it down, tape the lid down and put it in the back of your 4Runner and take them over to Allatuna Lake or somewhere and let them out.

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I'm not driving my car with these things in there.

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And I said, the other thing you can do is just kill them.

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Yeah, yeah.

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He said, got a flat-bladed shovel?

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Yeah.

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So I hear from him last night, I asked him how it's going.

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He said, well, I think I mutilated them.

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I'm waiting on them to die tonight.

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Yeah.

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And the garbage picked up today, so I'm waiting to hear if he got those out.

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Oh, that is fantastic.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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Oh, well, glad he at least got them in the garbage can and hopefully gone.

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Hopefully.

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Yeah.

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How about it, Brother Brian?

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How are you doing this?

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I

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mean, good.

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Good weekend.

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Good Father's Day.

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Got to spend time with all my kids and grandbaby and my wife and just our family, my mom and Nicole's mom.

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I had a good day, good afternoon yesterday, so thankful for that.

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And to get to be in church with my kids, too, it's just always good.

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So, yeah, thankful for that.

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That is awesome.

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And, yes, happy Father's Day to everybody that's made it through Father's Day.

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We've passed another one, so that was wonderful.

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And, man, I tell you, I am very proud of DeKalb County this weekend.

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I didn't see any news or anything crazy happening, and they went and did their little stuff in Fort Payne, and it doesn't look like anything wild.

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You don't think it was successful because there are no kings.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Apparently, it was super successful.

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Yeah, they'd done what they said I would do, I guess.

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But I was.

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I was.

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There was one king.

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Yes.

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Amen.

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Well, and it's interesting you say that because I actually did see some pictures from the one in Fort Payne, and there actually was a fairly young child that somebody had taken, and the sign he was carrying said, no kings but Jesus.

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And I'm like, I can get behind that one.

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Yeah.

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I can get in with that one.

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That's right.

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So that was awesome.

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And I am.

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I'm very proud of the folks here in DeKalb County because there were problems elsewhere.

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We didn't have them here.

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And I'm very proud of everybody and grateful and thankful that we still have people that know how to do stuff like that without losing their minds.

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Yeah.

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The only real piece of news going in, because we're going to have a wonderful discussion tonight about just how good God is

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and about his blessings

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and his

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promises to us.

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Yeah.

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So I'm looking forward to that.

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Last week, I had mentioned the thing going on with Michael Tate, and that was a pretty bad thing.

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And you had, of course, quoted the Psalms 40 and read that about it and talking about how incredible God is to forgive and how wonderful he is.

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And I want to throw out tonight, because literally we had that discussion on the 9th, and on the 10th, he actually released a statement where he talked about it.

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And unlike literally every celebrity and every person I've ever known to be caught doing anything remotely bad, he's like, yeah, I did this.

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It was sin.

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I'm this was horrible.

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This was awful.

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There is no excuse.

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This is 100 percent on me.

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And I was like, wow.

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And so praying for him, praying for his family, praying for him to to be able to continue because he is getting help.

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Turns out there was some addiction involved with it.

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cocaine.

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And this is a newsboy. Newsboy.

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Newsboy's lead singer, Michael Tate.

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And that's the reason he actually left in January before any of this came out.

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And he didn't even tell them.

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He reached a point where he said, I've got to get some help. Something's wrong and I've got to get help and I'm not doing this right.

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And so he just left.

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And they had no clue as far as what was actually going on.

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Obviously with him traveling with them and this happening there, they knew he had some issues.

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they didn't realize how bad exactly it was. And he said, yeah, he said, I've hid this from everybody for years. And, uh, this is a hundred percent on me. This is nobody else. And I'm like, you know what? I, I am praying for him and hopefully am praying for him as a brother that is coming back to the fold and coming back in, because that's how I want to pray for people when stuff like this happened, no matter how bad it is. Yep. But nine times out of 10, you see deflection, deflection. The devil made me do it. I was, but you don't understand the drugs. You don't understand this. You don't understand the situation.

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There was none of that. Yeah. Yeah.

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There was none of that. He's just like, this is a hundred percent on me and it's call it what it is. It's sin, sin, sin. And I was living in sin while pretending like I wasn't. And I'm like, thank you, Jesus. It's nice to see somebody actually own up to it. Now there's probably going to be some lawsuits and stuff in the future or some, some charges that come out of it because of people that were involved and the fact that this did involve other people so we'll see how he responds to that because that'll be the real the proof the proof is in the pudding

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and so the real question yeah

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the real question on repentance like that is when it comes down to the rubber meat in the road and you're sitting in a courtroom do you start deflecting do you start going well but but y'all don't understand do you take your punishment or do you say yep this was me and take it. And so that'll, that'll be the real tale as far as what we can see. But, uh, it was, it was, it was very good to see him actually just coming out and saying, look, this is nobody did anything here, but me. And I am, I am a shameful, shameful center. And, you know, I'm, I've, I'm dealing with what I need to deal with between me and God. And I'm working on making sure I get this out of my life. And I'm like, praise God. So praying for him. And like I say, praying for the restoration of a brother at this point because it was, I was like, well, are we praying for the rest?

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Because that's the question.

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And like you said, you know, when it's completely unrepentant and completely just, you know, no, no, this isn't me.

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This isn't, y'all don't understand.

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And when you're doing that, it's like, I'm not praying for a brother at this point.

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I'm praying for somebody who's lost.

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And, but when you see that repentant, that true repentance, and it's got to be, I'm sorry, when it's that public, it has to be public.

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Yeah.

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You

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got to do it out and out in front of people.

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That's right.

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So I'm very grateful for that.

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And maybe this will be something that God can use.

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And hopefully the people that were hurt, there will be some healing that comes from this.

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And God can use this to kind of teach us all a lesson.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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So his promises.

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Yeah.

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I think that him teaching us lessons, that's something he promises to do.

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Tying in with what you

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just said.

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I mean, it goes straight to first John one verse nine.

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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Yeah, what a promise.

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Yeah, it is.

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What a promise.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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So there's, I mean, the Bible is full of promises, isn't it?

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I don't think we could cover.

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There's no way we

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could cover

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them all.

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There's no way that we could.

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I don't know what the number is behind all those promises.

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Yeah.

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But

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in their hidden – I wouldn't say they're hidden.

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They're not hidden.

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I shouldn't say that.

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They're just in there.

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And some of the verses are – it's like, oh, I didn't think about that as a promise, but it's a promise.

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I started

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looking them up.

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Now – and guess what?

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Now, of course, we're going to deal with and mostly own God's promises that are wonderful and great and merciful and all these things.

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But now there are some promises God makes us on the other side of that

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too, right?

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Yeah.

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And

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I may talk about one of those, at least one of those toward the end of it.

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But John 3, 16 is one of those great promises.

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Oh, it is, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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That's awesome.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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Yeah.

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What a great promise that is.

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Everlasting life.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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That whosoever, right?

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He didn't say, I promise if I've randomly picked you out.

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He didn't say, I promise if you're a certain denomination or

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go to

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a certain church or if you're this or that.

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But he said, whosoever believeth in me.

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It's wide open, isn't it?

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It

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is.

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Yeah, it means that if you're listening, you're a whosoever.

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If you're not listening, you're a whosoever.

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Yeah,

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what a promise that is.

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And he wraps that up in John 6, 47.

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It says, truly, truly, I say to you, he

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who

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believes has eternal life.

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Yeah, yeah.

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That's pretty clear.

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It is.

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It is.

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It's clear as crystal, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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Well, and going right along with that, so many people, you know, you talk about John 3, 16.

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We forget about verse 17.

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You know, it's right along

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with that promise.

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Not only does he give us eternal life, but he said, I didn't even come into the world to condemn it.

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I came specifically so that the world may be saved.

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No condemnation in those who are in Christ Jesus, right?

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another promise that he gives us.

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Yeah.

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I mean, he reiterates those promises over and over again in so much of his word.

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And I'm just so thankful.

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Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

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And he says, if you'll do that, here's my promise to you.

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In all thy ways, submit to him or acknowledge him, and he will direct your path.

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I mean, he said, I will make, I'll show you where you need to go.

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I'll guide your steps.

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All I'm asking you to do is trust in me.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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My mom has the, uh, the NISB from, uh,

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no, I can't

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remember who K Arthur, the study Bible that she did the, the inductive study Bible, which is based on the NASB version.

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But I love the way it says that it says, um, in all of your ways, acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

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And I thought, man, it's

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not just that he's directing it.

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He just makes the path straight.

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Just follow the line.

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And I mean, that does line up with Scripture too, because straight is the way.

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I mean, straight and it's narrow and it's directly towards him.

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Yeah, and it's a following him, right?

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He

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don't drive the sheep.

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He leads

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them.

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Yes, he does.

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And it reminds me, I was walking through the yard the other day, and I got this goofy dog that for whatever reason, she always wants to lead.

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you know but she'll

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she'll be walking in front and she's looking behind her makes make sure you're behind her yeah you know how often do we do that with the lord right so now you're following me jesus yeah yeah when i'm supposed to be following

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him yeah yeah yeah

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yeah so the yeah we got that promise of of eternal life in 316 and uh we got a promise in matthew 28 20 that he that he that he's always with us

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yes yeah always

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with us it says this uh Yeah, it's the last verse of Matthew.

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It says, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.

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And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

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Amen.

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And this,

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man, what a huge thing that is, to know that no matter what you're going through, and this is something I just harp on when I go down to the assisted living place, you know, when I do a devotion down there, it's that he heals.

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He is always with you.

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He

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will never leave you.

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He'll never forsake you.

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just

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calling his name.

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Yeah.

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He's

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promised that.

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And no matter what we're going through, no matter how bad the suffering might be, no matter how much joy you might have in your heart, from one extreme to the other, he's there.

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He's all the way through the midst of it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Hebrews 13, 5, that's what he says.

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Never will I leave you nor forsake you, right?

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Yeah.

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He's

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not going to do that.

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He's not

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going to walk away from this.

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And like you said, it doesn't matter what situation you're in or whatever it may be.

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I got to talk with someone today about that in a troubled, tough time that they're going through.

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And they're seeing the promises of God lived out in their life.

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And this person has lived their life for the Lord all their life.

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And now they're seeing those promises just left and right.

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Even in the toughest time of their life, he's walking with them.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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he understands it he does

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he understands suffering

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he's he's he's been there

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yeah he's

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done that there's nothing that that that we go through that he hasn't already done i know

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yeah yeah yeah we're kind of like i mean we're a lot like sheep aren't we because we're stupid uh but i mean we're like god bet you've never seen this before you know about you know look at what i'm going to look at what i look at the mess i've got myself into hey god watch

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it yeah

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yeah but yeah but i mean but that's that's uh there's nothing new under the sun i mean he he knows it all he's seen it all he's been there through it all the worst of the worst the best of the best and and uh and nothing catches him by surprise your situation that you're going through right now your your troubled time your heartache your your your falling uh part marriage your your wayward child your sickness and your pain, your suffering, your going through, he knows about it all.

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He's there, and he's watching, and he's there with you.

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And, you know, that doesn't mean that he's not going to sit back, and it's not that he wants to sit back and watch you suffer, right?

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But there's things that we do sometimes that there's earthly consequences for.

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there's things that we go through that because of sin, not necessarily because of your sin or my sin, that we're going to go through

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here on

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this earth.

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But what he promises is not to always take us out of the situation, but to walk through that situation with

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us.

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Yeah.

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What was that old song?

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I don't know if it was the 80s or 90s, but it was sometimes God calms the storm.

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Sometimes he calms his child.

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I see it.

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I see it.

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And

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all we have to do is call on him and just earnestly seek him.

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Amen.

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To your knees.

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right amen and and he provides that comfort and he'll wrap you in his arms

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yeah man and i don't know if you you guys uh we used to have a brook here used to sing um the song uh

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four days late

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uh well there's that one but that is awesome but uh no the the oh i can't remember the name of it now and the laura story is the the singer sometimes his blessings come from raindrops and

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if

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you've ever heard the story of where she wrote that her husband literally had brain cancer

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and

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it had just snuck up on they hadn't been married very long and she just started noticing and he couldn't he was having trouble functioning he would go to do something and forget what he was doing and of course nobody was taking him seriously because she comes in saying that so he's a man and she was like no you don't understand he doesn't do this and they're like yeah okay sure

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yeah and

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and it took them like a year and a half and then finally they start they were like all right fine we'll do some scans they're like oh he's got a tumor and then she realized you know and she thought well god i don't know you know i just don't understand why this is going to happen and that's where that song comes from is you know hey sometimes the blessing comes from that because And I don't remember if they ended up finding something else as they were going through that that they ended up being able to use because of that.

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They were able to deal with it.

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But she was just like, yeah, sometimes it's the raindrops.

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Sometimes it's the storm.

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And that is the blessing that we needed.

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And we didn't see it at the time.

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But on the other side.

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Skies.

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Is that it?

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Yeah.

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I think it's just

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called blessings.

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Maybe the name of it.

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They didn't be blessings.

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Yeah.

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But it is.

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It's just like, man, you know, there are so many times that God throws things to us that way.

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And it's like, huh?

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Yeah.

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Huh.

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I wish I had been paying

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attention a little bit closer.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But what does he promise?

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There's another promise there in Romans 8, 28.

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Right.

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It's all things together for good for

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those who love him.

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That's all according

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to his purpose.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Matthew 6.

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This is I'm going to read several verses here.

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But he says, I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor and dress is dressed like one of these.

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If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown to the fire.

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Will he not much more clothed you?

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You have little faith.

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So do not worry, saying, What shall I eat or what shall I drink or what shall I wear?

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For the pagans run after all these things.

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And your heavenly father knows that you need them.

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But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

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And guess what?

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all these things will be added to you they'll be given to you

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promise

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promise yeah

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he's good

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he's so good he is so good what an awesome god we serve

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yeah man yeah it is you know you think about all the gods people have served throughout throughout years you know throughout human history and

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none of

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them are like this yeah

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you know he's

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so unique

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yeah amen yeah he's

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he's perfect the perfect father Yeah.

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I want to go back to Paul when he was there, and my mind just went completely blank.

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When he was there talking to all the pagans and all the Mars Hill, when Paul was on Mars Hill, and he was dealing with all these gods that were – they built a god to this.

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They built

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a god to

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that, and they built a god to cover all the rest of the gods

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that they thought

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they mentioned.

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But, I mean, they would put food out in

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front of these

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gods as an offering.

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And guess what that food did?

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It sat there and rotted.

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The dogs ate it.

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The dogs ate it or whatever.

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But nothing ever happened from these statues and these molded images and these gods that they had on the shelves.

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They could pray to them all day long.

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They could scream at them and they holler at them and beg them to do whatever it was.

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But there's nothing there.

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Right.

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But we serve a God with substance.

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We serve a God who you mentioned, I think, Elijah last week, you know, when he took on the prophets of Baal.

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And, you know, they're all out there.

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They're chanting and they're saying all their stuff.

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And guess what happens?

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Nothing.

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Right.

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And God just comes down.

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He burns up everything, burns up the sacrifices, the water, sucks it up.

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And he's like, this is my God.

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This is the God that I serve.

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And, you know, it may not be a big, dramatic thing like what Elijah saw, but it's that day by day.

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God walks with us and comforts us and gives us peace in the midst of everything.

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And we forget that it's the same God that sent down fire that was so hot, it destroyed not only the offering, the stone altar that it was sitting on, the water, all of it.

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I mean, they basically had a giant pile of glass laying there where all that sand was.

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And it was a drop too, right?

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Yeah, it was.

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It was,

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yeah.

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And then you think about this.

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Take that same substance, fire, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego thrown into the fiery furnace.

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And there they are down there just like he throws them in.

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You know, people are dying throwing Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the fire.

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It's burning them up.

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They're down there walking around, you know.

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Yeah.

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Wait a minute.

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Now there's one, there's two, three.

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There's a fourth guy in there.

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He's like unto the Son of Man.

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They didn't even know Jesus, but they seen him in there.

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That was a pre-incarnate Christ.

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And those men are who trusted in the promises of God.

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I start stuttering when I get excited about the Lord.

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The promises of God, they trusted in them.

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They were like, hey, if God wants me to die in here, I'll die.

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My promise will be I'll be with him.

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If he doesn't want me to die, he'll protect me, right?

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I mean, same thing with Daniel in that same book, right?

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I mean, he was in the lion's den, and he's like, you know, whatever.

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I'm ready to go if he wants me to go.

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But, I mean, he'll shut the lion's mouth.

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Oh, I can't tell you the times that he shut the lion's mouth in my life.

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I mean, you know, when Satan's over here roaring in my ear and trying to distract me and trying to tear me away and trying to destroy my life and the people around me.

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He's roaring, and God's like, shut, hush,

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be quiet.

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And he promised me that if I called on him, that if I said the name of Jesus, that Satan would

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have to flee.

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That's a promise

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that he gave us.

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That's right, and that's power, man.

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That is power, and we have to be weak to get that power, don't we?

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah, when I'm weak, he's strong.

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That's right.

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That's a promise.

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It's funny, too, you mentioned

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Mars Hill, the unknown God that they had there.

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You said they were putting out food to all these things.

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Little did they know that the unknown God was the food.

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He's the man from heaven.

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He's the

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bread of life.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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The one you hadn't thought of is the one who created

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it

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all.

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That's right.

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Yeah, he covers

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all

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these.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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That's awesome.

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Isaiah 40, 29 through 31, he gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

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This is one of my favorite verses.

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Even youths grow tired and weary.

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Young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord, he'll renew their strength.

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They will soar on wings like eagles.

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They will run and not grow weary.

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They will walk and be not faint.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I may have said this on here before, but during the tornado, that picture, there's a picture of an eagle.

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and that verse is on that picture, on that painting, and it was hanging on the wall of my office and my study downstairs there, and those two walls and the wall that the cross was on, a painting that my sister-in-law had painted me before, those two paintings were hanging on the wall after the tornado.

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Yeah, there was debris and, you know, little places.

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Still, I didn't get all of it out of the glass.

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I just left it in there as a reminder,

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you know,

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that, hey, God's faithful.

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He walks with us through the storm.

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That's right.

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And it gives us strength, don't it?

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It does.

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I love it.

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I'll finish out that 2 Corinthians when I'm weak and he's strong.

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Yeah.

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2 Corinthians 12, it says, And he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.

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Most

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gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

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Therefore, I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties.

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For Christ's sake, for when I am weak, then I am strong.

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That's right.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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In his strength, in his strength.

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Here's one of those that gets misused a lot, right?

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Jeremiah 29, 11.

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For I know the plans that you have for me, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope in the future.

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Now, I want us to look at that.

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We've talked about it from the pulpit before.

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And, of course, people use that verse to say, you know, no matter what comes, no matter what I do, you know, God's got this plan for me.

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And he does.

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He does have a plan for you.

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Right.

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But your plan has to be in his will.

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Yeah.

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And we get that misconstrued and messed up sometimes.

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Yeah.

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And

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guess what?

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Not everybody's got a hope and a future in God, do they?

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No.

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I mean, those who reject it, they don't have this.

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This is a promise for his people, for those who have trusted in him and believe in him.

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For you, yes, he has a hope.

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He has a future.

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He has a promise for you.

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And all I can say is to live it out.

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Give your life fully and fully to him and live out that promise because he does have a promise for you.

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Absolutely.

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And follow him.

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Don't expect him to follow you.

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Yeah, that's right.

00:27:56.540 --> 00:27:56.660
Yeah.

00:27:57.020 --> 00:27:57.120
Amen.

00:27:57.300 --> 00:27:58.260
Like the dumb dog I got.

00:27:58.380 --> 00:27:58.480
Yeah.

00:27:58.600 --> 00:27:58.800
Amen.

00:27:59.400 --> 00:27:59.460
Yeah.

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She's sweet, though.

00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:02.760
Yeah.

00:28:03.299 --> 00:28:04.300
She's got a great personality.

00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:04.940
Yeah.

00:28:05.300 --> 00:28:05.440
Yeah.

00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:05.760
Yeah.

00:28:06.860 --> 00:28:10.640
That's like when you're trying to get one of your buddies to date this girl.

00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:11.300
Yeah.

00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:12.320
She's a great person.

00:28:12.560 --> 00:28:12.660
Yeah.

00:28:12.980 --> 00:28:13.660
Okay, yeah.

00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:15.480
Oh, she's super sweet.

00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:18.120
Have you ever wondered how many...

00:28:18.140 --> 00:28:19.400
Stable job.

00:28:21.540 --> 00:28:23.860
She's got insurance and benefits, man.

00:28:27.380 --> 00:28:28.080
Oh, I love it.

00:28:28.780 --> 00:28:35.780
Man, have you ever wondered how many times it feels like God is probably saying that to the angels or to Jesus about us?

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.140
Man, they sure are sweet.

00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:37.480
Yeah.

00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:39.080
Yeah.

00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:41.060
Aren't you so sweet, Art?

00:28:41.300 --> 00:28:42.340
It's not real right.

00:28:42.740 --> 00:28:43.860
Yeah, well, they're not.

00:28:44.320 --> 00:28:44.480
Yeah.

00:28:45.090 --> 00:28:45.180
Yeah.

00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:47.360
Not real bright, but boy, they sure are sweet.

00:28:48.360 --> 00:28:48.520
Yeah.

00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:50.860
Hey, couldn't make me bright and pretty, right?

00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:52.960
I can't have it on.

00:28:57.940 --> 00:28:58.520
John 10.

00:28:59.380 --> 00:28:59.520
Yeah.

00:28:59.630 --> 00:29:00.500
I don't know if I read that.

00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:02.300
I might have read that one already, but he speaks to us.

00:29:02.560 --> 00:29:03.180
He speaks to us.

00:29:03.490 --> 00:29:13.500
In John 10, 27, 28, it says, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give eternal life to them, And they will never perish.

00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:14.120
Promise.

00:29:14.540 --> 00:29:16.600
And no one will snatch them out of my hand.

00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:16.920
Yeah.

00:29:17.060 --> 00:29:17.400
Promise.

00:29:17.940 --> 00:29:18.000
Yeah.

00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:18.640
Big promise.

00:29:18.940 --> 00:29:19.400
My Father

00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:23.700
who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

00:29:24.120 --> 00:29:25.080
I and the Father are one.

00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:25.400
Amen.

00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:26.160
Amen.

00:29:26.500 --> 00:29:27.200
How much?

00:29:28.300 --> 00:29:31.400
That's worth so much in our lives to know that we can't blow this.

00:29:31.560 --> 00:29:31.780
Yeah.

00:29:32.140 --> 00:29:32.320
Yeah.

00:29:32.660 --> 00:29:33.120
That's right.

00:29:33.800 --> 00:29:34.120
Amen.

00:29:34.500 --> 00:29:34.660
Amen.

00:29:34.730 --> 00:29:35.580
But in a heartbeat.

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And I have.

00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:36.940
Yeah.

00:29:37.090 --> 00:29:37.200
You know?

00:29:37.500 --> 00:29:37.680
Yeah.

00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:38.980
For all practical purposes.

00:29:39.840 --> 00:29:39.960
Yeah.

00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:52.460
That our mistakes and our failures and our shortcomings, and that's not a reason for us to live any way we wanted to, but that's a reason for us to rejoice in how good he is to us, right?

00:29:52.490 --> 00:29:52.600
Yeah.

00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:54.740
Because he knew that we were going to mess up.

00:29:54.750 --> 00:30:04.820
He knew that we would have failures and flaws and all these things, but he made us with – I'll tell you one purpose he made us with for a relationship.

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Yeah.

00:30:05.860 --> 00:30:06.780
Isn't that wonderful

00:30:06.780 --> 00:30:11.180
that he made us to – just for the sole purpose of a relationship.

00:30:11.350 --> 00:30:14.840
He knew it would be a screw-up, but he made us for a relationship.

00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:17.020
Yeah, and it started out that way with Adam and Eve, right?

00:30:17.020 --> 00:30:17.380
It did,

00:30:17.490 --> 00:30:17.580
yeah.

00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:18.000
They blew it.

00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:18.820
They

00:30:18.820 --> 00:30:19.620
messed it up, yeah.

00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:20.340
And then the whole

00:30:20.340 --> 00:30:23.740
thing's going back to Revelation 19, 20, 21, right?

00:30:24.270 --> 00:30:24.360
Yeah.

00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.580
Everything's being made new, and he's going

00:30:27.580 --> 00:30:28.160
to live with us.

00:30:28.320 --> 00:30:31.540
Yeah, and from Adam and Eve, he said, this is what I'll do.

00:30:31.820 --> 00:30:33.200
Here's your choice, right?

00:30:33.780 --> 00:30:33.860
Yeah.

00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:35.180
I mean, you can live like this.

00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:38.160
I may cover a little bit of that in a minute, but yeah.

00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:49.760
Philippians 4, 6 and 7, do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation by petition with thanksgiving, present your request to God.

00:30:50.210 --> 00:30:50.720
And guess what?

00:30:50.940 --> 00:30:51.460
Here's your promise.

00:30:51.900 --> 00:30:58.400
And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

00:30:58.840 --> 00:31:01.220
I think we stopped short on that verse.

00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:06.100
We say the peace of God, which passes all understanding.

00:31:07.560 --> 00:31:18.120
But we forget that he says in that, if you'll trust in him, if you'll pray about it and you'll go to God with your request and the things that are going on in your life.

00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:20.820
He said, I'm going to guard your heart.

00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:23.560
I need my heart guarded.

00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:23.940
Me too.

00:31:24.180 --> 00:31:24.400
Amen.

00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:24.880
He

00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:25.540
does it with peace.

00:31:25.800 --> 00:31:27.140
Yeah, he does.

00:31:27.320 --> 00:31:28.680
He said, I'm going to give you peace.

00:31:29.180 --> 00:31:30.140
I'm going to guard your heart.

00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:31.300
Who's he guarding it from?

00:31:32.020 --> 00:31:34.260
the evil one evil one right satan

00:31:34.260 --> 00:31:35.420
yeah

00:31:35.420 --> 00:31:38.900
oh yeah yeah yeah and the one we don't give the credit to

00:31:38.900 --> 00:31:41.540
right yeah amen

00:31:41.540 --> 00:31:42.280
but he

00:31:42.280 --> 00:31:49.680
says he'll do it in christ jesus yeah yeah i mean what what better place could my heart be than in christ jesus man

00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:53.860
amen we just got to keep it there don't we yeah keep keep following keep following

00:31:53.860 --> 00:31:57.520
amen keep going keep going yeah yeah

00:31:57.520 --> 00:32:01.420
i love that i love that Philippians 1.6.

00:32:02.300 --> 00:32:04.120
It's another keeper,

00:32:04.760 --> 00:32:05.100
another

00:32:05.100 --> 00:32:06.300
promise that's going to keep us.

00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:13.300
This is, for I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:13.880
Yeah.

00:32:14.340 --> 00:32:14.440
Yeah.

00:32:15.120 --> 00:32:15.340
Amen.

00:32:16.100 --> 00:32:17.160
You know, this is

00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.840
– yeah, I used to struggle a lot.

00:32:18.900 --> 00:32:26.420
When I first got saved, I joined a Baptist church over in Ringo, and I used to hear people saying all the time, just let go and let God.

00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:27.660
Let go and let God.

00:32:27.820 --> 00:32:27.900
Yeah.

00:32:28.380 --> 00:32:30.100
I never figured out what that meant.

00:32:30.180 --> 00:32:31.760
And I said, what are you talking about?

00:32:31.890 --> 00:32:36.640
You know, it's like, God, we got to hear your question, the old sayings like that.

00:32:36.740 --> 00:32:37.500
Right, right, yeah.

00:32:37.780 --> 00:32:39.780
But this is kind of what it's talking about, right?

00:32:40.060 --> 00:32:40.140
Yeah.

00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:41.880
It's like, he's got you.

00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:42.940
Yeah.

00:32:43.020 --> 00:32:43.780
Let go of that.

00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:44.240
That's right.

00:32:44.340 --> 00:32:44.960
Just live in it.

00:32:45.260 --> 00:32:55.020
But, you know, and then saying that, that statement, I would say probably 95% of the people that were saying that to you and around you probably didn't understand it.

00:32:55.320 --> 00:32:56.040
Probably didn't.

00:32:56.160 --> 00:33:08.100
I really, I mean, you know, I mean, because those things need to be questioned because we jump into, we jump in on the bandwagon of these sayings.

00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:10.540
You know, I mean, there's a different one.

00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:19.500
You know, I hear this one a lot, and I hope that people understand it, but it's been going on for a while.

00:33:20.100 --> 00:33:22.060
God is good all the time.

00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:22.700
God is good.

00:33:23.120 --> 00:33:23.860
Yes, he is.

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:24.600
Yes, he is.

00:33:24.660 --> 00:33:25.900
But do you trust in that?

00:33:26.580 --> 00:33:31.660
Has something bad come your way yet, and you really realized how good God is in the midst of that?

00:33:32.770 --> 00:33:34.580
Are you going through a suffering or a pain?

00:33:34.930 --> 00:33:38.440
And think about that when someone else is going through that.

00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:40.660
Can you relate to that?

00:33:40.860 --> 00:33:42.960
Can you say, yeah, I've been there.

00:33:43.130 --> 00:33:47.540
I went through what you went through, or I went through a similar situation, and he is good.

00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:48.620
He is good all the time.

00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:49.240
Yes, he is.

00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:54.360
But I understand also that sometimes it's hard to see it

00:33:54.360 --> 00:33:55.400
through

00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:56.480
the muck and the mire,

00:33:57.040 --> 00:33:57.340
through the

00:33:57.340 --> 00:34:01.300
waves that are so high that we feel like we're drowning in it.

00:34:02.260 --> 00:34:08.300
And sometimes we need somebody to point it out to us that's been there, you know, that can relate to it and understands.

00:34:08.919 --> 00:34:14.560
Hey, because sometimes there's a lot of guilt and shame in not grabbing on to that.

00:34:14.620 --> 00:34:30.000
You know, there's a lot of people that when we say these things and we make these statements that that they're they're sitting there like you were sitting there in that church when you first got saved thinking, what's, you know, I really haven't experienced that completely yet.

00:34:30.010 --> 00:34:32.840
And I really don't know what what's the fullness of that.

00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:33.040
Yeah.

00:34:33.070 --> 00:34:33.440
You know,

00:34:33.720 --> 00:34:35.820
and I'm sitting there thinking, well, should I just quit trying?

00:34:36.260 --> 00:34:36.440
Yeah.

00:34:36.720 --> 00:34:36.800
Yeah.

00:34:37.220 --> 00:34:37.960
No, no.

00:34:38.240 --> 00:34:39.080
Keep following.

00:34:39.340 --> 00:34:39.520
Amen.

00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:40.500
Keep following.

00:34:40.600 --> 00:34:41.520
And here's

00:34:41.520 --> 00:34:43.179
another one, 1 Peter 1.5.

00:34:44.580 --> 00:34:50.100
We are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

00:34:51.100 --> 00:34:51.280
Yeah.

00:34:52.019 --> 00:34:52.379
Protected.

00:34:52.620 --> 00:34:53.360
Yeah, we are.

00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:54.379
Guarded our hearts.

00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:54.919
Amen.

00:34:55.340 --> 00:34:55.960
Holding on.

00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:56.679
He's

00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:57.480
holding on to us.

00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:58.520
We're not holding on to him.

00:34:58.680 --> 00:34:58.920
That's right.

00:34:59.180 --> 00:34:59.920
That's another one of the saints.

00:35:00.060 --> 00:35:00.240
Yeah.

00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:03.520
There it is.

00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:04.720
There it is.

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:05.260
There it is.

00:35:05.620 --> 00:35:08.320
It means I am very loose in what I hold on to, right?

00:35:08.540 --> 00:35:09.780
I'll lose my keys.

00:35:10.100 --> 00:35:10.880
I'll lose my bills.

00:35:12.100 --> 00:35:14.760
But thank God he's holding on to me.

00:35:15.530 --> 00:35:15.640
Amen.

00:35:16.060 --> 00:35:17.440
I'd be lost as a goose.

00:35:20.180 --> 00:35:20.880
Psalms 23.

00:35:21.700 --> 00:35:22.900
I'm in the 23rd Psalm.

00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.200
We all, you know, the Lord is my shepherd.

00:35:25.290 --> 00:35:26.080
I like nothing.

00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:28.100
He makes me lie down in green pastures.

00:35:28.130 --> 00:35:29.620
He leads me beside still waters.

00:35:29.690 --> 00:35:30.920
He refreshes my soul.

00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:34.640
He guides me along the right path for his name's sake.

00:35:35.140 --> 00:35:39.040
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:40.420
For you are with me.

00:35:40.790 --> 00:35:42.660
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

00:35:43.240 --> 00:35:47.400
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

00:35:47.980 --> 00:35:49.300
You anoint my head with oil.

00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:50.400
My cup overflows.

00:35:51.040 --> 00:35:56.180
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

00:35:57.500 --> 00:35:58.140
That's awesome.

00:35:58.240 --> 00:35:58.420
That's

00:35:58.420 --> 00:35:59.620
a bunch of promises in

00:35:59.620 --> 00:35:59.780
that.

00:35:59.870 --> 00:36:00.480
Oh, man, yeah.

00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:01.260
I

00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:11.220
mean, that's just packed full of promise that the darkest valleys, roughest times death uh he's still there

00:36:11.220 --> 00:36:14.100
yeah and he's like he's like flaunting in front of your enemies

00:36:14.100 --> 00:36:15.260
yeah yeah yeah

00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:16.040
yeah that's what

00:36:16.040 --> 00:36:18.340
that he's building a cup and it's overrunning he prepares

00:36:18.340 --> 00:36:19.400
a table for you you

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:24.760
know yeah yeah your enemies are over there going i hate you i want to take you apart you're like yeah okay i

00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:29.040
mean is this you know and he's got a rod and a staff right the staff it

00:36:29.040 --> 00:36:29.480
gets

00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:32.440
a sheep in line right and the rod is beat a wolf yeah

00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:36.160
amen right man yeah yeah Yeah, it's protective

00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:37.320
of God, isn't it?

00:36:37.540 --> 00:36:37.640
Yeah.

00:36:37.940 --> 00:36:41.140
It's guidance for us, but protection

00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:42.300
for

00:36:42.300 --> 00:36:42.700
us.

00:36:43.020 --> 00:36:43.140
Amen.

00:36:43.540 --> 00:36:44.220
I love that song.

00:36:44.420 --> 00:36:44.980
That's

00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:45.200
awesome.

00:36:47.620 --> 00:36:49.140
All right, 1 Corinthians 1.8.

00:36:50.340 --> 00:36:50.880
Another keeper.

00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:59.480
Who will also confirm the Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

00:37:00.020 --> 00:37:04.960
God is faithful through whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

00:37:05.780 --> 00:37:06.180
He's

00:37:06.180 --> 00:37:06.920
faithful, man.

00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:08.040
He's faithful when I'm not.

00:37:08.620 --> 00:37:17.220
And that's what we can't get through our thick skulls is that, oh, well, I have to perform in certain ways in order to keep this salvation, and that's garbage.

00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:22.000
I've seen it over and over and over in my life that he's been faithful when I'm not.

00:37:22.060 --> 00:37:22.240
That's

00:37:22.240 --> 00:37:22.420
right.

00:37:22.660 --> 00:37:22.920
That's right.

00:37:23.340 --> 00:37:40.540
I would say that 99% of the people who walk into the church on Sunday, on any given Sunday, probably are so beat down by the week's time, and most of the time because of themselves.

00:37:41.780 --> 00:37:42.820
They failed.

00:37:43.640 --> 00:37:44.900
They messed up.

00:37:45.060 --> 00:37:46.460
They said something they shouldn't have said.

00:37:46.470 --> 00:37:47.900
They thought something they shouldn't have thought.

00:37:48.040 --> 00:37:49.780
They watched something they shouldn't have watched.

00:37:49.900 --> 00:37:50.480
They looked at something.

00:37:50.700 --> 00:37:56.180
Whatever it may be, and then Satan just waylays them with it.

00:37:57.330 --> 00:38:03.300
I mean, we do make his job easy, but then he comes in and he says, See, you're a failure.

00:38:03.640 --> 00:38:04.680
Yeah, you're not a Christian.

00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:06.100
No, God can't use you.

00:38:06.520 --> 00:38:10.380
Don't you go in that church and raise your hand up after the way you've been this week.

00:38:10.600 --> 00:38:13.100
Don't you go in there and lift your voice up to God.

00:38:13.240 --> 00:38:17.100
God don't want to hear your praises and your songs and your testimony.

00:38:17.540 --> 00:38:20.220
He don't want to hear that jump because you're a failure for him.

00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:20.660
You're not good enough.

00:38:20.720 --> 00:38:22.080
You're not good enough to do this.

00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:22.300
Yeah.

00:38:22.720 --> 00:38:41.100
And I think the key to our services Sunday after Sunday, I think it's those Sundays where things really break loose, those Sundays where the power of God is just so real and the Spirit is, as we say, moving from breast to breast.

00:38:41.660 --> 00:38:47.020
It's just stirring inside our hearts, and the people beside us can feel it.

00:38:47.740 --> 00:38:51.100
I think that is the Sundays where we lay everything else aside.

00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:56.020
God, I'm sorry, but I just want to worship you this morning.

00:38:56.070 --> 00:39:03.300
I'm sorry for the way I was this week, the things I've done, the thoughts I had, and I just want to worship you.

00:39:03.600 --> 00:39:10.300
And it's when we can get ourselves out of the way and realize that he loves us anyway, right?

00:39:10.780 --> 00:39:17.380
Not that he wants us to wallow in our sin, but he loves us in spite of who we are, in spite of the sinful person that we are.

00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:27.120
And if we can grab a hold of that, the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, then worship will break out, and we will just be running in aisles.

00:39:27.420 --> 00:39:30.960
I mean, you know, shouting, excited, because I'm free.

00:39:31.160 --> 00:39:32.120
I'm free at last.

00:39:32.300 --> 00:39:32.420
Amen.

00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:37.020
That's that old Negro spiritual song.

00:39:37.180 --> 00:39:38.280
It's a spiritual song.

00:39:38.900 --> 00:39:47.140
Not just about their slavery, that they were set free from being a slave, but they were set free from the power of Satan.

00:39:47.340 --> 00:39:47.460
Right.

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:47.980
And

00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:48.580
God

00:39:48.580 --> 00:39:50.240
loved them enough to save their souls.

00:39:50.500 --> 00:39:50.620
Yeah.

00:39:50.660 --> 00:39:52.600
And we beat ourselves down so bad, man.

00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.600
Like you said, people just want to give up.

00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:55.960
Yeah.

00:39:56.080 --> 00:39:57.000
I can't do this.

00:39:57.180 --> 00:39:57.260
Yeah.

00:39:57.600 --> 00:39:58.480
No, you can't.

00:39:58.880 --> 00:39:59.840
You cannot do this.

00:39:59.900 --> 00:40:01.000
I promise you, you can't do this.

00:40:01.100 --> 00:40:03.440
And that's why God said, my grace is sufficient for you.

00:40:03.520 --> 00:40:03.800
Amen.

00:40:04.180 --> 00:40:04.420
Amen.

00:40:04.660 --> 00:40:05.180
Another promise,

00:40:05.340 --> 00:40:05.440
right?

00:40:05.740 --> 00:40:05.860
Yes.

00:40:06.220 --> 00:40:06.280
Yeah.

00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:11.460
Just trust in me, and it'll be completely an I am enough, right?

00:40:11.560 --> 00:40:12.300
Admit you're weak.

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:12.680
Yeah.

00:40:12.900 --> 00:40:13.140
Amen.

00:40:13.540 --> 00:40:13.720
Yeah.

00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:16.020
And when I'm weak, he's strong.

00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:16.800
That's right.

00:40:16.980 --> 00:40:17.240
Amen.

00:40:17.620 --> 00:40:17.840
Yeah.

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:18.220
Amen.

00:40:19.260 --> 00:40:20.480
Mark 11, 24.

00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:28.120
Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:35.740
And again, that's one of those promises that that happens when we line up with God's will.

00:40:36.140 --> 00:40:36.280
Right.

00:40:37.060 --> 00:40:38.020
God saying line up.

00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:41.280
Listen, I want what I want for you.

00:40:41.500 --> 00:40:41.620
Right.

00:40:41.900 --> 00:40:43.740
And you'll get the things that you are

00:40:43.740 --> 00:40:44.300
asking for.

00:40:44.700 --> 00:40:54.520
Yeah, because sometimes I think he might hold out on some of those things that that we could receive and we could get just because we're not in the place to receive the right way.

00:40:54.780 --> 00:40:59.360
Yeah, I think I think that's a big thing going back to Sunday at church.

00:41:00.500 --> 00:41:12.180
If we would spend time during the week in his word, studying on our own and prayer and staying on our knees saying, Lord, you know, protect my heart.

00:41:12.330 --> 00:41:14.220
Give me what I stand in need of this week.

00:41:14.720 --> 00:41:17.280
You know, when I have that bad thought, just get rid of it.

00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:19.900
Lord, cast it into the sea of forgetfulness.

00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:23.000
You know, build that hedge around me.

00:41:23.300 --> 00:41:26.680
Protect me from Satan and guard me.

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:35.680
I think that if we would do that and then say, Lord, whatever you want for me, I want to receive it

00:41:35.680 --> 00:41:36.220
with

00:41:36.220 --> 00:41:37.320
gladness.

00:41:37.420 --> 00:41:38.940
I want to live it out.

00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:39.820
And then

00:41:39.820 --> 00:41:41.140
I think God will pour it out.

00:41:41.640 --> 00:41:43.780
Because we understand that it's the best.

00:41:44.260 --> 00:41:44.380
Yeah.

00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:45.160
God, yeah.

00:41:45.340 --> 00:41:47.440
Who wants – it's like your parents, right?

00:41:47.600 --> 00:41:51.520
I mean, your parents want the – they want better for you than even they have for themselves, right?

00:41:51.640 --> 00:41:52.140
Things we can't

00:41:52.140 --> 00:41:52.620
even imagine.

00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:53.240
Yeah, yeah.

00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:54.520
That's a good, good father.

00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:55.020
Yeah.

00:41:55.160 --> 00:41:55.400
Yeah.

00:41:56.480 --> 00:42:00.280
And it ties in with that, John, what was it, 15-7?

00:42:01.240 --> 00:42:04.660
If you abide me and my words abide you, ask whatever you wish, and it'll be done

00:42:04.660 --> 00:42:04.960
for you.

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:05.180
That's right.

00:42:05.630 --> 00:42:05.720
Amen.

00:42:06.260 --> 00:42:06.860
Follow him.

00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:07.840
Don't

00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:08.640
make him follow you.

00:42:09.020 --> 00:42:09.120
Yeah.

00:42:10.020 --> 00:42:10.540
Don't be that

00:42:10.540 --> 00:42:12.940
one that has to go get all the time.

00:42:13.140 --> 00:42:13.280
Yeah.

00:42:13.600 --> 00:42:13.880
That's it.

00:42:14.180 --> 00:42:14.640
Yeah, yeah.

00:42:14.900 --> 00:42:15.440
Stop wondering.

00:42:16.160 --> 00:42:17.080
Stop wondering around.

00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:17.580
Amen.

00:42:18.740 --> 00:42:20.940
Here's another one of those, Philippians 4.13.

00:42:21.300 --> 00:42:24.060
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

00:42:24.640 --> 00:42:26.020
I can win that football game.

00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.360
I can jump over that hurdle, you know.

00:42:31.220 --> 00:42:32.800
I can pass this test.

00:42:32.860 --> 00:42:33.560
I can do this.

00:42:33.560 --> 00:42:34.740
I can do that, you know.

00:42:35.080 --> 00:42:41.840
Again, going back to Mark 11, it's when we line up with God's will.

00:42:42.860 --> 00:42:46.540
He says, I'll give you strength to do what I've called you to do.

00:42:46.740 --> 00:42:46.880
Yeah.

00:42:47.080 --> 00:42:47.280
Right.

00:42:47.640 --> 00:42:50.200
I can do all things that he wants me to do.

00:42:50.540 --> 00:42:50.640
Right.

00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.240
Through Christ that strengthens me.

00:42:52.620 --> 00:42:52.720
Right.

00:42:52.980 --> 00:42:53.100
Right.

00:42:53.180 --> 00:42:56.000
And that whole section is about being content with much or little.

00:42:56.240 --> 00:42:56.740
Yeah.

00:42:58.000 --> 00:42:58.780
I'll learn to be

00:42:58.780 --> 00:42:59.740
satisfied,

00:43:00.080 --> 00:43:04.420
whether I'm poor, whether I'm rich, whether I'm in, out, in jail.

00:43:05.040 --> 00:43:05.220
Yeah.

00:43:05.500 --> 00:43:07.980
Because you're following God and you're where he wants you to be.

00:43:08.020 --> 00:43:08.300
Yeah.

00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:08.600
Yeah.

00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:10.500
And you're like, okay, okay.

00:43:10.680 --> 00:43:12.120
I don't know why you got me here, Lord.

00:43:12.740 --> 00:43:14.140
Whatever this season is, I'm

00:43:14.140 --> 00:43:16.720
going

00:43:16.720 --> 00:43:17.560
to walk in it with you.

00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:18.920
I'm going to follow you through it.

00:43:19.160 --> 00:43:21.400
We get so fixated on stuff around us, though.

00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:22.700
It's just, oh, this is permanent.

00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:23.340
This is

00:43:23.340 --> 00:43:24.040
never going to change.

00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:26.600
I'm just down forever now.

00:43:27.080 --> 00:43:28.180
We forget all about eternity.

00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:28.620
Yeah.

00:43:29.040 --> 00:43:29.320
Oh, yeah.

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:39.820
I used to be – I don't know if everybody does this when they're younger, but I think it took some life and some wisdom for me to learn some things.

00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:59.800
You know, until I was until I guess I was a junior in high school when I had an uncle that passed away and then my grandmother passed away right after I got out of high school that lived in Michigan and didn't I didn't know her as well as I did my grandmother that lived here.

00:44:00.640 --> 00:44:05.920
And then the year I got married, my grandmother passed away and my dad had a stroke that year.

00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:11.440
And I'd never really, I'll just be honest, I'd never really experienced somebody that was close to me

00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:12.020
that

00:44:12.020 --> 00:44:14.020
had something tragic happen to them.

00:44:14.070 --> 00:44:14.400
You know,

00:44:14.540 --> 00:44:15.480
I

00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:17.000
hadn't walked in that.

00:44:17.070 --> 00:44:18.060
I hadn't been in that.

00:44:18.090 --> 00:44:21.560
And so it was really hard for me to understand.

00:44:21.710 --> 00:44:26.880
I remember being young, a kid in school, and something happened to me that was no big deal.

00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:29.420
But it was the end of the world.

00:44:29.560 --> 00:44:30.260
Tragedy.

00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:30.460
Yeah.

00:44:30.640 --> 00:44:32.560
How am I ever going to get past this?

00:44:32.720 --> 00:44:34.140
How am I ever going to get through this?

00:44:34.240 --> 00:44:36.220
You know, oh, my gosh, you know, I

00:44:36.220 --> 00:44:37.340
wrecked

00:44:37.340 --> 00:44:42.820
a car, had a fender bender, you know, and I'm thinking this is this is the worst thing in the world.

00:44:43.040 --> 00:44:43.960
Nobody's ever been through.

00:44:44.080 --> 00:44:46.060
Why am I having to go through all this, Lord?

00:44:46.060 --> 00:44:48.940
You know, just I mean, we do it in adulthood, too.

00:44:49.640 --> 00:44:57.460
But I think as we go through life and we learn things and we go through things that we it's not that those things don't hurt when bad things happen.

00:44:58.140 --> 00:45:03.020
But we learn to accept them and walk through them and not just fall apart every time.

00:45:03.300 --> 00:45:03.400
And

00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:04.000
we grow.

00:45:04.200 --> 00:45:05.260
We grow in it, don't we?

00:45:05.460 --> 00:45:05.660
Yeah.

00:45:05.750 --> 00:45:10.800
And as long as we're following Christ through those things, we grow really deep roots.

00:45:11.640 --> 00:45:11.800
Yeah.

00:45:12.460 --> 00:45:13.360
And we've got a choice, right?

00:45:13.420 --> 00:45:13.860
We could

00:45:13.860 --> 00:45:15.280
lean into him or we could run away.

00:45:15.580 --> 00:45:16.180
Yeah, that's right.

00:45:16.340 --> 00:45:16.480
Run

00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:19.280
into something else, you know, like a bottle or whatever.

00:45:19.720 --> 00:45:21.140
Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:45:21.300 --> 00:45:22.920
And isn't that what most people are doing?

00:45:23.080 --> 00:45:29.580
They're trying to fulfill that empty spot, that emptiness that's in them.

00:45:29.580 --> 00:45:31.100
We're trying to fill it up with something.

00:45:31.240 --> 00:45:34.160
And when he's the only one that can do that, right?

00:45:34.680 --> 00:45:43.600
And they go to that bottle and they go to the drugs and they go to sex and they go to pornography and they go to all the things, the sinful things of this world to try to fill that up.

00:45:43.710 --> 00:45:44.220
And it just

00:45:44.220 --> 00:45:45.500
doesn't work.

00:45:45.780 --> 00:45:45.940
Yeah.

00:45:46.100 --> 00:45:46.600
It doesn't work.

00:45:46.820 --> 00:45:48.720
This is probably for a past episode or something.

00:45:48.810 --> 00:45:55.760
But I have a problem with saying that people are dead in their sins and they're not looking for God because they are.

00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:56.400
Yeah.

00:45:56.620 --> 00:45:57.200
They're looking for

00:45:57.200 --> 00:45:58.640
him in all the wrong places, right?

00:45:58.760 --> 00:45:59.400
Looking for love

00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:00.280
in all the wrong places.

00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:00.740
That's right.

00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:01.560
But they are.

00:46:01.570 --> 00:46:05.660
They're looking for it in everything they can find, but they won't go to the one that can really heal them.

00:46:05.680 --> 00:46:05.820
Yeah.

00:46:06.020 --> 00:46:08.100
I think it's that they're looking for them and they don't know it.

00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:08.420
Right?

00:46:08.610 --> 00:46:08.700
Yeah.

00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:11.040
I mean, sometimes they don't realize what it is.

00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:15.440
They just know that they're empty and they're hollow and

00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:16.080
that

00:46:16.080 --> 00:46:17.360
something's got to feel this.

00:46:17.490 --> 00:46:17.620
Yeah.

00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:19.140
They don't realize who it is,

00:46:19.560 --> 00:46:20.060
but they're

00:46:20.060 --> 00:46:20.800
looking for God.

00:46:21.060 --> 00:46:21.180
Right.

00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:21.540
Yeah.

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:22.240
Amen.

00:46:22.540 --> 00:46:22.620
Well,

00:46:22.940 --> 00:46:29.080
too often that people, like you say, they don't know that they're looking for God.

00:46:29.560 --> 00:46:36.920
And they talk about rejecting God and talk about not needing God and talk about how much they're not interested in religion.

00:46:37.180 --> 00:46:46.460
But it's like everything you're doing is screaming, I'm looking for and I need and I want and I'm desiring and I'm trying to find God.

00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:49.100
But I want nothing to do with that.

00:46:49.100 --> 00:46:49.440
And it's like.

00:46:51.820 --> 00:46:53.180
But they don't know.

00:46:53.370 --> 00:46:54.120
I mean, that's the thing.

00:46:54.620 --> 00:47:01.080
That's where I always view the world in general is they don't know

00:47:01.080 --> 00:47:01.960
because

00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:03.200
they don't know what they're missing.

00:47:03.710 --> 00:47:05.260
They don't know what they don't know.

00:47:05.730 --> 00:47:07.860
And so they've just convinced themselves that they know everything.

00:47:08.190 --> 00:47:09.300
And here's the sad part.

00:47:09.660 --> 00:47:10.380
Here's the sad part.

00:47:10.560 --> 00:47:13.820
They, yeah, they're like, I don't need God.

00:47:14.030 --> 00:47:18.440
I can fulfill my life in money and sex and drugs and whatever.

00:47:19.060 --> 00:47:35.140
But here's the big thing in this is while they're looking for God, there's always some false religion out there waiting to take advantage of that.

00:47:35.220 --> 00:47:35.360
Yeah.

00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:45.940
And sweep in and say, hey, here's something that I can give you that will help you, that you can stand on, that you can apply to your life.

00:47:46.420 --> 00:47:50.980
And, you know, it'll be this mix of Christianity and falsehood and all this stuff.

00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:57.380
And so they come in and they grab them sometimes in their worst possible time of their life.

00:47:58.000 --> 00:47:59.840
Now, here we are over here.

00:47:59.980 --> 00:48:01.440
We've got the truth, right?

00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:03.140
We know God's promises.

00:48:03.390 --> 00:48:04.620
We know what God says.

00:48:04.730 --> 00:48:06.440
We know the truth of what God says.

00:48:06.970 --> 00:48:15.620
And we're just over here like, okay, you know, well, you know, you dang drug addict and you, you know, you darn homosexual.

00:48:16.080 --> 00:48:25.540
and you're in pornography, what a pervert you are, all these different things, and you're a drug addict or whatever.

00:48:26.180 --> 00:48:34.880
And so we sit over there and condemn, condemn, condemn, and somebody else is over there and say, hey, here's something I can give you that will help you.

00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:36.380
Why aren't we not doing that?

00:48:36.580 --> 00:48:36.840
Amen.

00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:40.940
And this is why the Bible is so hardcore against false prophets, right?

00:48:41.380 --> 00:48:41.480
Yeah.

00:48:42.240 --> 00:48:43.180
Wolves in sheep's clothing.

00:48:43.260 --> 00:48:43.420
Yeah.

00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:44.380
Man, how

00:48:44.380 --> 00:48:45.480
many people they lead astray.

00:48:46.260 --> 00:48:48.820
You know, you think about just Seventh-day Adventist.

00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:49.680
No, Seventh-day Adventist.

00:48:49.780 --> 00:48:50.060
I'm sorry.

00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:52.520
Jehovah's Witness.

00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:52.960
Yeah.

00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:53.360
Yeah.

00:48:53.520 --> 00:48:53.680
Right?

00:48:53.900 --> 00:48:53.980
Yeah.

00:48:54.120 --> 00:48:55.500
How many people are they leading astray?

00:48:55.620 --> 00:48:55.840
Absolutely.

00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:56.540
Or the Mormons.

00:48:56.700 --> 00:48:57.180
Or the Mormons.

00:48:57.400 --> 00:48:57.480
Yeah.

00:48:57.860 --> 00:48:58.040
Yeah.

00:48:58.460 --> 00:48:58.540
Yeah.

00:48:58.940 --> 00:49:01.580
And everybody just thinks, well, I just need religion in my life.

00:49:01.700 --> 00:49:01.760
Yeah.

00:49:01.900 --> 00:49:02.560
No, you don't.

00:49:02.620 --> 00:49:02.920
No.

00:49:03.220 --> 00:49:03.320
No.

00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:04.380
No, you don't.

00:49:04.460 --> 00:49:04.960
You need Jesus.

00:49:05.260 --> 00:49:05.660
That's right.

00:49:05.860 --> 00:49:05.920
Yeah.

00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:13.780
You know, you can ask a lot of people about their relationship or about, you know, Christianity or whatever.

00:49:13.940 --> 00:49:18.320
And I said, you know, I'm a pretty religious person, you know, or old grandpa.

00:49:18.620 --> 00:49:29.540
My grandpa was a pretty religious guy, you know, and and just the the shallowness of that

00:49:29.540 --> 00:49:30.860
to really

00:49:30.860 --> 00:49:32.180
understand who God is.

00:49:32.380 --> 00:49:37.220
It's more than just, you know, yeah, I know I know there is a God and I know there is Jesus.

00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:44.500
And, you know, so I consider myself a Christian or, you know, the people that are saying, man, God, we've got an understanding.

00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:45.040
You know,

00:49:45.220 --> 00:49:46.400
he knows

00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:47.200
how I am.

00:49:47.460 --> 00:49:47.580
He

00:49:47.580 --> 00:49:48.160
knows how

00:49:48.160 --> 00:49:48.540
I am.

00:49:48.600 --> 00:49:49.840
Boy, I get so tired of that.

00:49:50.380 --> 00:49:51.840
God knows how I am.

00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:52.520
He does.

00:49:52.740 --> 00:49:56.000
And we know that he loves us in spite of ourselves.

00:49:56.220 --> 00:49:56.900
I get that.

00:49:57.020 --> 00:49:58.040
But stop saying that.

00:49:58.200 --> 00:49:58.320
Right.

00:49:58.660 --> 00:50:03.300
Stop making excuses for yourself to live in sin just because God knows.

00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:05.040
Yeah, he knows you inside and out.

00:50:05.180 --> 00:50:05.340
Right.

00:50:05.600 --> 00:50:14.160
And so, yeah, we've got to begin to really understand and know who God is and what a

00:50:14.160 --> 00:50:14.820
relationship

00:50:14.820 --> 00:50:18.580
and freedom that he can give us to know him.

00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:24.400
And one of my big pet peeves is stop calling him the man upstairs for crying out loud.

00:50:24.600 --> 00:50:25.240
Yeah, yeah.

00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:25.940
Come on.

00:50:26.220 --> 00:50:31.520
Yeah, you know, every country song that brings God

00:50:31.520 --> 00:50:31.980
into it,

00:50:32.040 --> 00:50:35.440
you know, is so shallow when you start thinking about it.

00:50:36.180 --> 00:51:10.580
there was this song that came out I had just started pastoring here in 2006 or 7 it came out and I'm trying to remember who it was it may have been the guy that sang Long Black Train I can't remember anyway but the song was Me and God you know like we're buddies you know it reminded me of that little that little boy when I was a kid that my buddy and me I mean, yeah, God, he's a friend of sinners.

00:51:10.690 --> 00:51:11.520
I get that.

00:51:11.970 --> 00:51:14.760
But we're not buddy and pals, right?

00:51:14.980 --> 00:51:16.120
Come to save sinners.

00:51:16.620 --> 00:51:16.700
Yeah.

00:51:17.240 --> 00:51:19.440
To save lives, to pull them out of the fiery hell.

00:51:19.520 --> 00:51:19.800
See it.

00:51:20.300 --> 00:51:26.000
We need to also realize that the love, the relationship, but also the holiness of God,

00:51:26.260 --> 00:51:26.400
right?

00:51:26.820 --> 00:51:27.140
And

00:51:27.140 --> 00:51:28.540
there's depth in that.

00:51:28.740 --> 00:51:28.900
Yeah.

00:51:29.130 --> 00:51:29.280
Yeah.

00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:34.860
And he's given us this book or collection of books, right, to tell us who he is, what he's doing,

00:51:35.260 --> 00:51:35.580
Why he's

00:51:35.580 --> 00:51:37.300
doing it and what he expects from us.

00:51:37.460 --> 00:51:37.760
That's right.

00:51:38.080 --> 00:51:40.400
And got to explore it if we really want to know him.

00:51:40.560 --> 00:51:40.700
Amen.

00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:42.600
The man upstairs.

00:51:44.940 --> 00:51:45.380
Well,

00:51:45.660 --> 00:51:55.340
and that just goes to show not only the shallowness and the almost immaturity of it when people look at God and talk about God.

00:51:55.820 --> 00:51:58.720
It really goes to show you that they don't understand he's not the man upstairs.

00:51:59.200 --> 00:52:01.060
He is the man that is everywhere,

00:52:01.390 --> 00:52:01.960
that is all

00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:03.920
around us, that knows every thought,

00:52:04.210 --> 00:52:04.580
that knows

00:52:04.580 --> 00:52:09.880
every feeling, that knows every step we take, that knows every hair on our head.

00:52:10.370 --> 00:52:17.480
I mean, he knows literally everything about every single person on the planet that has ever lived or ever will live or is currently alive.

00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:25.000
And he chooses to love us anyway, and he chooses to say, hey, I've got a way for you to get out of sin, and I've got a way for you to stop making these bad decisions.

00:52:25.080 --> 00:52:26.800
And I have a way for you to have a better life.

00:52:26.910 --> 00:52:29.180
And I have a way for you to have eternal life.

00:52:29.230 --> 00:52:34.380
And I have something absolutely wonderful and amazing and incredible planned for you.

00:52:35.180 --> 00:52:35.720
Just take it.

00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:36.020
Yeah.

00:52:36.200 --> 00:52:38.360
And I humiliated myself to make this possible.

00:52:38.660 --> 00:52:38.760
Yeah.

00:52:38.900 --> 00:52:39.060
Yeah.

00:52:39.350 --> 00:52:39.440
Yeah.

00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:40.160
Amen.

00:52:40.640 --> 00:52:41.580
You want to spit on that?

00:52:41.740 --> 00:52:41.900
Yeah.

00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:42.420
That's

00:52:42.420 --> 00:52:42.620
right.

00:52:43.160 --> 00:52:43.520
Here's

00:52:43.520 --> 00:52:44.740
one of my favorite promises, man.

00:52:44.740 --> 00:52:46.020
I got to hit this one.

00:52:46.120 --> 00:52:48.240
I'm probably stealing this one from you, brother, because

00:52:48.240 --> 00:52:48.820
it's

00:52:48.820 --> 00:52:49.540
one of yours, too.

00:52:50.260 --> 00:52:51.160
John 14, too.

00:52:51.560 --> 00:52:53.620
And my father's house are many dwelling places.

00:52:54.060 --> 00:52:58.420
If it were not so, I would have told you, for I go to prepare a place for you.

00:52:58.940 --> 00:53:04.680
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am there, you may be also.

00:53:05.380 --> 00:53:05.600
Amen.

00:53:06.220 --> 00:53:07.520
That is awesome.

00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:09.000
What a wonderful

00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:09.280
promise.

00:53:09.300 --> 00:53:09.520
Yeah.

00:53:10.080 --> 00:53:13.700
Not only will he save us, but he'll prepare a place for us,

00:53:13.700 --> 00:53:13.800
and

00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:14.460
we'll get to live

00:53:14.460 --> 00:53:15.540
with him for eternity.

00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:16.040
Amen.

00:53:16.890 --> 00:53:17.000
Amen.

00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:20.540
Not a mansion down the street, but in the Father's house.

00:53:20.720 --> 00:53:21.080
That's right.

00:53:22.060 --> 00:53:22.480
Amen.

00:53:23.120 --> 00:53:23.460
Amen.

00:53:23.540 --> 00:53:24.480
Man, that's good stuff.

00:53:25.100 --> 00:53:32.600
You know, and we've been talking about some of these, but sometimes these promises in God's Word, they are taken out of context.

00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:37.640
And people end up thinking the Bible says something that it really doesn't.

00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:40.280
You know, we've got to be careful for that.

00:53:42.260 --> 00:53:47.940
You know, the Bible doesn't teach that we can have everything we want in prayer.

00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:54.400
It teaches that, again, we line up with God's will, and then we can have those things that we want.

00:53:55.740 --> 00:53:59.640
John 14, 13, 14, it's got to be kept in context.

00:54:00.600 --> 00:54:05.100
God's promised to every individual alive hope in the future.

00:54:05.190 --> 00:54:08.520
Like I said in Jeremiah 29 and 11, it must be kept in context.

00:54:08.900 --> 00:54:11.580
But I said we're going to go back to some of this.

00:54:12.620 --> 00:54:16.140
Genesis 2, in verse 16 and 17.

00:54:17.600 --> 00:54:22.340
This promise, Satan, he flatly just denied.

00:54:22.710 --> 00:54:27.580
And in unbelief, Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of the tree.

00:54:29.619 --> 00:54:32.640
But Genesis chapter 2, let me go there and read that.

00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:38.000
Verse 16 and 17.

00:54:41.420 --> 00:54:47.460
And the Lord God commanded man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may eat freely, or you may freely eat.

00:54:48.100 --> 00:54:51.520
But of the tree of knowledge and good and evil thou shalt not eat of it.

00:54:51.980 --> 00:54:53.980
For in that day thou shalt eat us.

00:54:54.260 --> 00:54:56.660
Therefore thou shalt surely die.

00:55:00.120 --> 00:55:02.080
So God made them a promise, right?

00:55:02.520 --> 00:55:07.080
Now you can eat of any tree in here, and you can eat of the tree of life, and you'll live.

00:55:07.520 --> 00:55:09.000
You'll just continue to live.

00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:10.120
And they would have.

00:55:10.160 --> 00:55:11.740
They would have lasted forever, right?

00:55:12.860 --> 00:55:14.160
Again, I think we talked about it before.

00:55:14.220 --> 00:55:19.840
I think that's why it took so long for generations to die out.

00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:24.300
You know, we've got Methuselah and all these people live for 800 years

00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:24.720
back

00:55:24.720 --> 00:55:28.620
then because they had that in their DNA, I guess, the tree of life.

00:55:29.820 --> 00:55:31.920
But then God told them, made them another promise.

00:55:32.020 --> 00:55:34.660
He said, if you eat of this tree, you're going to die.

00:55:34.900 --> 00:55:35.100
Yeah.

00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:37.640
And Satan just rejected that.

00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:38.920
You won't surely die.

00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:39.780
No, no, no, no.

00:55:39.860 --> 00:55:40.480
You're fine.

00:55:40.820 --> 00:55:45.960
So sometimes God promises you that if you don't do this, this is what's going to happen.

00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:53.300
If you fail to do this or you reject this, then this is where you're going to end up.

00:55:54.620 --> 00:56:00.660
And so we look at that, and Adam and Eve, they ratify that decision.

00:56:00.900 --> 00:56:03.080
They disobey God.

00:56:04.040 --> 00:56:07.300
So that promise applies to us as well, right?

00:56:07.420 --> 00:56:14.180
I mean, today, Romans 5, 17, if we look at it real quick.

00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:33.640
Romans 5, 17 says, For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one.

00:56:34.200 --> 00:56:36.740
So, you know, he's our life.

00:56:38.620 --> 00:56:40.040
So Romans, go ahead.

00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:40.940
I'm going to get ahead.

00:56:40.940 --> 00:56:41.380
You go ahead.

00:56:42.720 --> 00:56:43.640
How about rest?

00:56:44.100 --> 00:56:44.260
Yeah.

00:56:44.420 --> 00:56:44.700
Yeah.

00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:48.180
Jesus says this in Matthew 11, verse 28.

00:56:48.380 --> 00:56:51.720
Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:52.040
Yeah.

00:56:52.380 --> 00:56:52.440
Yeah.

00:56:52.680 --> 00:56:58.200
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

00:56:58.420 --> 00:56:59.420
My yoke is easy.

00:56:59.700 --> 00:56:59.800
Yeah.

00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:00.900
And my burden is light.

00:57:01.140 --> 00:57:01.260
Amen.

00:57:02.080 --> 00:57:02.300
Amen.

00:57:02.740 --> 00:57:02.980
Rest.

00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:04.700
It don't feel like rest, though, sometimes, does it?

00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:06.040
No, it doesn't.

00:57:06.220 --> 00:57:06.720
It doesn't.

00:57:06.900 --> 00:57:13.680
But it's our restlessness that we sometimes just don't, okay, God, I know you got this.

00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:14.900
We wear ourselves out

00:57:14.900 --> 00:57:15.780
trying to

00:57:15.780 --> 00:57:20.340
do things on our own, trying to deal with and cope with life on our own.

00:57:21.460 --> 00:57:23.300
And we just wear ourselves out.

00:57:23.480 --> 00:57:26.020
And that's like, you can break that apart.

00:57:26.120 --> 00:57:27.880
It's just come to me in the first part, right?

00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:30.160
It's like, unbelievers, come to me and I'll give you rest.

00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:30.760
The second

00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:31.840
part is to believers.

00:57:32.020 --> 00:57:33.460
And he says, take my yoke upon you.

00:57:33.580 --> 00:57:33.740
Yeah.

00:57:33.940 --> 00:57:34.280
Get busy.

00:57:34.740 --> 00:57:34.960
Amen.

00:57:35.240 --> 00:57:35.600
Let's work.

00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:36.080
Amen.

00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:37.500
And we find rest in the work.

00:57:37.680 --> 00:57:37.880
Amen.

00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:42.200
Romans 8, 1 through 4.

00:57:42.600 --> 00:57:44.140
Have you read that already?

00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:45.460
No.

00:57:45.700 --> 00:57:45.900
Okay.

00:57:47.040 --> 00:57:50.500
Most surprisingly, we've missed each other.

00:57:50.740 --> 00:57:51.120
That's good.

00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:51.420
That's crazy.

00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:53.060
There's so many.

00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:53.860
There is.

00:57:54.520 --> 00:58:05.000
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit who gives life, has set you free from the law of sin and death.

00:58:05.520 --> 00:58:14.520
For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.

00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:28.060
And so he condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us who do not live according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

00:58:29.020 --> 00:58:30.160
It's our promise, right?

00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:31.240
And then one more.

00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:32.460
I'm going to be finished with mine.

00:58:33.140 --> 00:58:39.740
That I want that goes along with this and goes back to Genesis chapter two for the wages of sin or death is death.

00:58:40.100 --> 00:58:40.200
Right.

00:58:40.680 --> 00:58:42.760
Do this and you're going to die in your sin.

00:58:43.020 --> 00:58:43.260
Right.

00:58:43.260 --> 00:58:43.380
Right.

00:58:44.460 --> 00:58:46.580
But the gift of God

00:58:46.580 --> 00:58:47.200
is

00:58:47.200 --> 00:58:49.600
eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

00:58:49.630 --> 00:58:49.800
Yeah.

00:58:49.980 --> 00:58:50.240
Amen.

00:58:50.520 --> 00:58:52.560
I mean, what a gift it is.

00:58:52.560 --> 00:58:52.720
Right.

00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:59.860
He promises us a gift through his son, Jesus Christ, who has everything, who he's given everything.

00:58:59.920 --> 00:59:04.960
Yeah, that reminds me of the invitation he gives in Revelation where he says, come drink of the water of life without cost.

00:59:05.160 --> 00:59:06.040
Yeah, yeah, amen.

00:59:06.040 --> 00:59:06.340
It's a gift.

00:59:06.740 --> 00:59:07.100
Amen, yeah.

00:59:08.359 --> 00:59:09.140
What's the cost?

00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:10.620
The cost has already been paid.

00:59:10.820 --> 00:59:10.960
Yeah.

00:59:10.980 --> 00:59:11.160
Yeah.

00:59:11.420 --> 00:59:14.320
The blood of Jesus never covered your sins.

00:59:14.780 --> 00:59:15.060
Oh, man.

00:59:15.300 --> 00:59:15.600
That's right.

00:59:17.119 --> 00:59:19.000
The whole Bible's a promise, isn't it?

00:59:19.140 --> 00:59:19.500
It is.

00:59:19.940 --> 00:59:20.260
It is.

00:59:20.460 --> 00:59:20.700
Yeah.

00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:21.600
It is.

00:59:22.050 --> 00:59:23.800
And I don't know why people don't want to read it more.

00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:25.060
Oh, I don't either.

00:59:26.120 --> 00:59:28.000
I mean, everything will get in your way, right?

00:59:28.140 --> 00:59:28.220
Right.

00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:30.400
Satan will throw stuff up at you.

00:59:30.600 --> 00:59:32.380
You don't have time for that today.

00:59:32.560 --> 00:59:33.780
You do this, do that, do that.

00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:36.520
But, man, we've got to focus on this.

00:59:36.640 --> 00:59:37.340
John 10.10,

00:59:37.520 --> 00:59:38.080
he

00:59:38.080 --> 00:59:39.460
promises us abundant life.

00:59:39.570 --> 00:59:42.660
He says, the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:46.140
I came that they might have life and have it abundantly.

00:59:46.560 --> 00:59:46.780
Yeah.

00:59:47.190 --> 00:59:47.300
Amen.

00:59:47.940 --> 00:59:48.020
Amen.

00:59:48.620 --> 00:59:58.240
So you're saying that when I get saved, that it's not just like, okay, now you've got a ticket to heaven.

00:59:58.360 --> 00:59:58.960
right

00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:00.480
yeah okay

01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:05.120
so i'm i'm i don't have to worry he's he's covered my sin

01:00:05.120 --> 01:00:05.960
yeah but

01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:17.340
that's not just it right i mean that's that's great that's enough get out of hell free even if he saved us and just said hey i'm gonna let you live here forever but you know i'm saving you from death yeah

01:00:17.340 --> 01:00:17.660
but

01:00:17.660 --> 01:00:20.460
he says i want you to live abundantly yeah

01:00:20.460 --> 01:00:20.700
and

01:00:20.700 --> 01:00:22.420
that's a now promise isn't it oh

01:00:22.420 --> 01:00:22.600
yeah

01:00:22.600 --> 01:00:25.760
i mean of course Of course, we have abundant life in heaven.

01:00:26.800 --> 01:00:30.780
But that abundant life, he said, I want to give you life and give it to you abundantly.

01:00:31.220 --> 01:00:34.140
That means that we can grab onto that and live that right now.

01:00:34.540 --> 01:00:34.940
That's right.

01:00:35.580 --> 01:00:35.860
That's right.

01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:38.020
And it ties in with freedom, right?

01:00:38.640 --> 01:00:44.780
We're free to live the way he designed us to live, to stay out of the ditches, out of the weeds and stuff.

01:00:45.140 --> 01:00:48.500
And it ties in with John 8, 32.

01:00:48.780 --> 01:00:51.120
And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

01:00:51.260 --> 01:00:55.300
And Paul hits on that in Galatians 5 where he says, for freedom you've been set free.

01:00:55.450 --> 01:00:56.980
Only don't use that as a cloak for sin.

01:00:57.220 --> 01:00:57.640
That's right.

01:00:57.950 --> 01:00:58.060
Amen.

01:00:58.940 --> 01:00:59.880
We're free, man.

01:01:00.140 --> 01:01:01.800
Free from the penalty of the law.

01:01:02.040 --> 01:01:02.500
That's right.

01:01:02.940 --> 01:01:03.840
Walk in that.

01:01:04.860 --> 01:01:08.060
Absorb it and just live, man.

01:01:08.260 --> 01:01:08.560
Live.

01:01:08.920 --> 01:01:09.240
Live abundantly.

01:01:09.940 --> 01:01:10.900
Live abundant life.

01:01:11.100 --> 01:01:13.080
Go to church Wednesday night.

01:01:13.180 --> 01:01:21.240
Go to church Sunday and show that bunch of dead folks that are out walking around in their grave clothes what abundant life looks like.

01:01:21.370 --> 01:01:30.780
You know, if we just grab a hold of that, man, I mean, if everybody come into church on Sunday going, I'm free, you know, I don't care about death anymore.

01:01:30.910 --> 01:01:32.420
I don't have to worry about sin.

01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:36.460
I mean, of course, sin is going to come our way, but he set me free from this.

01:01:36.530 --> 01:01:39.920
And I finally, I mean, if you just get it right,

01:01:40.200 --> 01:01:40.640
it's

01:01:40.640 --> 01:01:41.860
that aha moment.

01:01:42.080 --> 01:01:47.280
The light bulb comes on and it's like, oh, you mean I'm free.

01:01:47.300 --> 01:01:47.700
I'm

01:01:47.700 --> 01:01:49.300
free from addictions.

01:01:49.620 --> 01:01:50.920
I'm free from lust.

01:01:51.160 --> 01:01:54.320
I'm free from all this garbage I've been putting on myself.

01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:55.620
Yes, from death,

01:01:55.940 --> 01:01:56.040
right?

01:01:56.110 --> 01:01:57.760
I mean, think about Lazarus.

01:01:57.770 --> 01:02:03.380
When he called Lazarus out, and Lazarus didn't walk out of there, he floated out of there.

01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:04.880
I want you to think about that.

01:02:05.040 --> 01:02:17.260
I don't remember which one of the movies it was that I watched, but it was a bad depiction because Jesus calls Lazarus out of the tomb, and the Bible explains that he's wrapped up

01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:18.520
In a fucking mummy,

01:02:18.760 --> 01:02:18.880
yeah.

01:02:19.280 --> 01:02:25.460
And Jesus calls him to life, and then he didn't just walk out on his own ability.

01:02:26.200 --> 01:02:27.460
Jesus called him out.

01:02:27.470 --> 01:02:31.060
When he called his name, it's like when he calls our name, we're going home one day.

01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:33.680
We're not going to be able to stay on the ground.

01:02:34.580 --> 01:02:35.360
And that was Lazarus.

01:02:35.520 --> 01:02:36.620
Lazarus couldn't stay dead.

01:02:36.900 --> 01:02:37.920
He couldn't stay in the grave.

01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:39.000
He'd come out.

01:02:39.420 --> 01:02:43.640
He'd come floating out of there, and he was made alive again.

01:02:43.740 --> 01:02:51.520
The freedom that I promise you that Lazarus in that moment, he really realized what freedom in Jesus.

01:02:51.660 --> 01:02:51.720
Oh,

01:02:51.860 --> 01:02:52.540
yes, absolutely.

01:02:52.820 --> 01:02:53.880
Oh, yeah.

01:02:54.180 --> 01:02:54.540
Man.

01:02:54.900 --> 01:02:54.980
Yeah.

01:02:55.460 --> 01:02:56.900
I always pictured him walking out like.

01:02:57.400 --> 01:02:57.700
Yeah.

01:02:59.800 --> 01:02:59.900
Yeah.

01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:02.180
Like a lady in one of those tight skirts.

01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:02.920
Yeah.

01:03:04.340 --> 01:03:04.860
Barely getting

01:03:04.860 --> 01:03:05.380
out of there.

01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:08.600
Oh, man.

01:03:09.160 --> 01:03:09.420
Let's see.

01:03:09.420 --> 01:03:10.100
I had this written out.

01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:11.880
Second Corinthians 3, 17, 18.

01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:15.500
Now, the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty.

01:03:15.720 --> 01:03:16.280
Oh, yeah.

01:03:16.500 --> 01:03:17.280
But we

01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:26.460
all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

01:03:27.380 --> 01:03:27.780
Amen.

01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:28.620
Amen.

01:03:28.820 --> 01:03:29.320
I love it.

01:03:29.480 --> 01:03:30.240
Liberty and genius.

01:03:30.560 --> 01:03:30.660
Liberty.

01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:31.220
Right?

01:03:31.640 --> 01:03:31.740
Amen.

01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:33.780
That's not talking about overalls.

01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:34.580
That's talking about freedom.

01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:37.680
That's right.

01:03:37.700 --> 01:03:38.020
Amen.

01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:38.540
That's

01:03:38.540 --> 01:03:38.700
right.

01:03:41.120 --> 01:03:41.220
Amen.

01:03:41.420 --> 01:03:45.100
The promise I just thought of, I didn't write down, rapture.

01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:46.340
Yeah, yeah.

01:03:46.700 --> 01:03:49.020
He promised to save us from the tribulation.

01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:49.780
That's right.

01:03:50.200 --> 01:03:50.540
That's right.

01:03:50.750 --> 01:03:50.860
Amen.

01:03:51.120 --> 01:03:51.460
He did.

01:03:51.780 --> 01:03:51.860
Yeah.

01:03:52.200 --> 01:03:52.520
Amen.

01:03:52.940 --> 01:03:56.960
And he says that more than once, right, from that hour, from that day to come, right?

01:03:57.160 --> 01:03:57.220
Yeah.

01:03:57.540 --> 01:04:01.280
He promises it to us in the third chapter of Revelation.

01:04:01.550 --> 01:04:09.180
He promises over and over again in his word that he's going to save us from that hour of destruction, that hour to come.

01:04:09.580 --> 01:04:11.460
Yeah, because Paul tells us that God has it.

01:04:11.640 --> 01:04:16.060
It says in chapter 5, verse 9, 1 Thessalonians, God is not destined us for wrath.

01:04:16.160 --> 01:04:16.420
That's right.

01:04:16.540 --> 01:04:18.800
But for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:19.200
Amen.

01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:20.520
He's not out to kill his kids.

01:04:20.680 --> 01:04:21.380
No, no.

01:04:21.600 --> 01:04:22.800
He's not going to kill his bride.

01:04:22.900 --> 01:04:25.380
No, he's not out to see us go through all that pain.

01:04:25.480 --> 01:04:25.580
No,

01:04:26.720 --> 01:04:26.840
no, no.

01:04:27.100 --> 01:04:29.420
Because I tell you, man, there's going to be so much suffering.

01:04:30.180 --> 01:04:31.960
Billions of people die in

01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:32.900
seven years.

01:04:33.060 --> 01:04:33.160
Yeah.

01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:40.640
You know, I had to touch on some of those things yesterday, and I felt like I just told Nicole, I said, I just rapid fired way too much yesterday,

01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:41.620
you know, because it

01:04:41.620 --> 01:04:41.740
was.

01:04:42.180 --> 01:04:47.100
But I mean, it was I was just thinking, you know, we get so distracted.

01:04:49.060 --> 01:04:56.340
And just going back to some of the things we talked about at the first of this, you know, the riots that are going on and all these different things.

01:04:56.520 --> 01:04:59.380
And I've got my opinion about them and you've got yours, you know.

01:05:00.580 --> 01:05:07.540
And but what I think is going on in a lot of those things is we're we're walking away from God's promises.

01:05:07.620 --> 01:05:12.280
is we're getting our mind off of what God has promised us, and we're being distracted, right?

01:05:12.540 --> 01:05:12.840
We're being

01:05:12.840 --> 01:05:14.240
distracted by the news media.

01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:19.460
We're being distracted by all these different things that are going on around us.

01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:26.520
And if it's not a protest in the street, then it's a bomb in the Middle East.

01:05:26.600 --> 01:05:27.320
It's this, it's that.

01:05:27.520 --> 01:05:28.900
And don't get me wrong.

01:05:29.040 --> 01:05:30.740
We've got to pay attention to these things.

01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:36.960
And we've got to understand that these are end times things that are taking place, and we're seeing some things unfold.

01:05:38.539 --> 01:05:45.300
but don't be so easily distracted that you get away from what God has promised us.

01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:47.100
Yeah, you can get so focused on that stuff.

01:05:47.150 --> 01:05:47.980
You just don't look up.

01:05:47.980 --> 01:05:48.460
We're focused.

01:05:49.460 --> 01:05:50.740
That's what I always tell people.

01:05:50.810 --> 01:05:54.080
I say, you know, pay attention because you need to know what's going on around

01:05:54.080 --> 01:05:54.540
you.

01:05:54.720 --> 01:05:59.300
You got to know what's happening because, you know, sometimes you got to kind of keep your head down or know where to duck.

01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:01.560
Yeah, that's true.

01:06:02.150 --> 01:06:02.700
But that's

01:06:02.700 --> 01:06:08.460
as far as it goes because God, at the end of the day, we're not fighting a battle here.

01:06:08.700 --> 01:06:08.800
Yeah.

01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:09.760
The battle's already won.

01:06:10.160 --> 01:06:10.460
That's right.

01:06:10.640 --> 01:06:10.740
Yeah.

01:06:11.319 --> 01:06:12.840
We're just getting ready to go home.

01:06:13.140 --> 01:06:13.340
That's right.

01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:13.900
Yeah.

01:06:14.040 --> 01:06:14.300
The

01:06:14.300 --> 01:06:14.960
war's over.

01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:15.860
They just,

01:06:16.280 --> 01:06:18.060
the other side just doesn't know it yet.

01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:20.660
I think he's putting the finishing touches on that room for us.

01:06:20.700 --> 01:06:21.060
You know what I mean?

01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:21.560
Yeah.

01:06:21.820 --> 01:06:21.880
Yeah.

01:06:22.140 --> 01:06:22.220
Yep.

01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:22.860
Yeah.

01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:23.740
Getting the doorknob.

01:06:24.200 --> 01:06:25.020
Getting that

01:06:25.020 --> 01:06:27.460
last little piece on the table sanded out.

01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:27.960
Yeah.

01:06:28.020 --> 01:06:28.240
Yeah.

01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:28.540
Yeah.

01:06:28.940 --> 01:06:29.960
He's a carpenter, man.

01:06:30.200 --> 01:06:30.560
He's a

01:06:30.560 --> 01:06:30.700
carpenter.

01:06:30.740 --> 01:06:31.020
Yeah.

01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:31.460
Yeah.

01:06:31.740 --> 01:06:32.320
He's a creator.

01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:33.080
Amen.

01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:33.720
Creator.

01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:34.600
Amen.

01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:37.880
But, yeah, there's just so many promises that he makes us in.

01:06:38.820 --> 01:06:47.460
I see a lot of Christians that get as hyper-focused on all these events more than a lost person

01:06:47.460 --> 01:06:47.740
does.

01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:52.700
And then they're posting them left and right all over the Internet.

01:06:54.220 --> 01:06:55.180
But forget.

01:06:55.580 --> 01:06:58.180
And that's fine if you want to talk about some of those things.

01:06:58.700 --> 01:07:00.360
But don't get away from the truth.

01:07:01.160 --> 01:07:02.240
Keep it on the gospel.

01:07:02.240 --> 01:07:02.940
Keep it on the gospel.

01:07:03.300 --> 01:07:03.420
Yeah.

01:07:03.620 --> 01:07:03.860
Yeah.

01:07:04.560 --> 01:07:12.000
Well, and it's one thing when you're making your living by doing this stuff or your job is to keep up with this stuff.

01:07:12.140 --> 01:07:12.520
I

01:07:12.520 --> 01:07:14.240
mean, you think about somebody who's a police officer.

01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:15.140
More

01:07:15.140 --> 01:07:20.580
than likely, they have to know about all this junk because their job is to say, okay, well, we've got this thing going on this weekend.

01:07:20.710 --> 01:07:23.420
We have these things that are also going on over here, and this influences it.

01:07:23.650 --> 01:07:25.040
And they have to kind of keep up with that stuff.

01:07:25.550 --> 01:07:26.560
But if it's not your job,

01:07:26.780 --> 01:07:28.540
be

01:07:28.540 --> 01:07:28.980
aware.

01:07:29.300 --> 01:07:36.120
yeah so so you know when to duck so you know when not to go driving into a town because they're doing something i don't want to go driving

01:07:36.120 --> 01:08:03.460
in the middle of that i don't usually repost any of that stuff but i had to repost that florida sheriff today man he got he laid it out didn't he oh you didn't see it oh yeah yeah he tells he he basically says look you know follow the rubles do what you're supposed to do protest and and um if you want to protest but do it in peace uh if you jump on a car, then you're probably going to get bit by one of our dogs or you're going to go to the hospital.

01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:05.400
We're going to make sure you do.

01:08:05.940 --> 01:08:15.260
If you shoot at one of our officers or throw any kind of weapon or anything at them, then you're probably going to die.

01:08:15.680 --> 01:08:19.819
And we're going to call your next of kin and let them know where your body is.

01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:22.859
He said, I'm through. I'm done.

01:08:24.340 --> 01:08:25.900
This is where it's at.

01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:28.580
This is one of the signs, though, right?

01:08:28.680 --> 01:08:28.980
Lawlessness.

01:08:28.980 --> 01:08:29.980
It is lawlessness.

01:08:30.299 --> 01:08:34.759
Yeah, people in the streets just think that they can do anything that they want to do.

01:08:35.150 --> 01:08:36.240
Yeah, just anarchy.

01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:38.339
Hey, he promises to teach us.

01:08:38.940 --> 01:08:39.359
He does.

01:08:39.630 --> 01:08:39.900
He promises

01:08:39.900 --> 01:08:40.560
to teach us.

01:08:40.650 --> 01:08:50.480
It says in John chapter 14, Jesus said, But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

01:08:50.819 --> 01:08:54.359
And then again in 1613, he says, where is it?

01:08:54.420 --> 01:08:54.660
There it is.

01:08:55.020 --> 01:09:00.580
But when he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own initiative.

01:09:01.080 --> 01:09:02.920
But whatever he hears, he will speak

01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:03.759
and he will disclose

01:09:03.759 --> 01:09:04.980
to you what is to come.

01:09:05.180 --> 01:09:05.400
Amen.

01:09:06.060 --> 01:09:06.160
Amen.

01:09:06.799 --> 01:09:07.299
Oh, hey.

01:09:07.299 --> 01:09:09.180
And what about what about I think is it?

01:09:09.299 --> 01:09:13.120
Revelations 21, where he promises to wipe all the tears from our

01:09:13.120 --> 01:09:13.319
eyes.

01:09:13.380 --> 01:09:13.799
Oh, yeah.

01:09:14.700 --> 01:09:14.819
Yeah.

01:09:14.980 --> 01:09:15.660
I mean, I mean,

01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:16.980
listen, I

01:09:16.980 --> 01:09:18.359
didn't even hit a revelation on my list.

01:09:18.500 --> 01:09:19.120
I didn't either.

01:09:19.279 --> 01:09:19.700
I didn't either.

01:09:21.460 --> 01:09:27.420
But, I mean, he's just so full of promises all the way to the very end, right?

01:09:27.819 --> 01:09:29.940
And he keeps up with those promises.

01:09:31.339 --> 01:09:33.640
But, yeah, he tells us there'll be no more tears.

01:09:33.690 --> 01:09:34.660
There'll be no more sorrow.

01:09:35.040 --> 01:09:37.100
There'll be no more pain, no more suffering.

01:09:37.500 --> 01:09:37.940
These

01:09:37.940 --> 01:09:39.700
are promises that God has made, right?

01:09:39.980 --> 01:09:45.500
What you're going through now is not – this is not your life throughout eternity, right?

01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:47.440
These things are going to be over, done with.

01:09:47.839 --> 01:09:49.299
I'm going to wipe these things away.

01:09:49.339 --> 01:09:50.859
The former things are passed away.

01:09:51.200 --> 01:09:51.900
Behold, all things.

01:09:52.299 --> 01:09:54.800
He made a promise that all things are going to become new.

01:09:55.580 --> 01:10:09.960
If you're worried about being in heaven and worried about all these bad things that happened while you were alive or happened to your uncle or your aunt or your mom or your dad or your children, he's going to wipe all those memories away, too.

01:10:10.180 --> 01:10:15.580
All we're going to have in eternity is thoughts of good, thoughts of him.

01:10:15.700 --> 01:10:15.820
Right.

01:10:16.100 --> 01:10:18.440
I mean, and we're going to love each other throughout eternity.

01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:18.860
Yeah.

01:10:19.140 --> 01:10:19.200
Yeah.

01:10:19.740 --> 01:10:23.760
You know, just that whole bundle of prophecies is a promise.

01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:26.160
I mean, he's laid it all out.

01:10:26.360 --> 01:10:28.000
The sovereign God has said,

01:10:28.060 --> 01:10:28.560
here's

01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:29.360
what's going to go down.

01:10:29.500 --> 01:10:29.820
That's right.

01:10:30.260 --> 01:10:31.800
And we've got all that stuff to give us hope.

01:10:32.400 --> 01:10:33.920
Imagine if we didn't have prophecies,

01:10:34.060 --> 01:10:35.160
if we didn't

01:10:35.160 --> 01:10:36.940
have Revelation or Daniel or the

01:10:36.940 --> 01:10:37.600
stuff in Matthew,

01:10:37.800 --> 01:10:38.580
Luke, wherever.

01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:41.320
What would we be thinking right now?

01:10:41.480 --> 01:10:42.540
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:10:42.860 --> 01:10:43.120
We wouldn't

01:10:43.120 --> 01:10:44.060
know he's coming back.

01:10:44.240 --> 01:10:45.500
We wouldn't know he's going to win.

01:10:45.700 --> 01:10:46.680
We wouldn't know all this stuff.

01:10:46.820 --> 01:10:49.580
And he didn't really have to give us all that, but he did anyway, right?

01:10:49.700 --> 01:11:01.700
He wanted us to be able to look around at the things that are going on around us and say, okay, well, I'm not really worried about that because I know this is what's coming.

01:11:03.280 --> 01:11:04.680
That's not going to bother me.

01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:08.720
I'm not going to dwell on that because I know what's coming.

01:11:10.180 --> 01:11:10.660
And he

01:11:10.660 --> 01:11:10.940
promises

01:11:10.940 --> 01:11:12.300
to love us too, doesn't he?

01:11:12.560 --> 01:11:12.640
Yeah.

01:11:12.860 --> 01:11:21.080
I mean, we've already read for God to love the world, But he promises that he's going to love us throughout all eternity.

01:11:21.480 --> 01:11:23.320
I mean, that's who he is, right?

01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:26.000
He's wrapped up in it.

01:11:26.220 --> 01:11:27.140
We're wrapped up in it.

01:11:27.200 --> 01:11:28.820
As Ricky Thrash would have said.

01:11:29.740 --> 01:11:30.200
Uh

01:11:30.200 --> 01:11:30.380
-huh.

01:11:31.220 --> 01:11:31.400
Yeah.

01:11:32.160 --> 01:11:32.640
Yeah.

01:11:33.200 --> 01:11:33.560
Yeah.

01:11:34.380 --> 01:11:37.100
He'll say, if that don't set you on fire, you would split it.

01:11:39.280 --> 01:11:42.240
Hey, he's getting to rejoice right now in that.

01:11:42.300 --> 01:11:45.840
But I bet he is running the streets of glory right now.

01:11:49.060 --> 01:11:49.780
Oh, man.

01:11:49.830 --> 01:11:52.720
I got a few more, but I think we've hit some good ones.

01:11:53.060 --> 01:11:53.400
Oh, man.

01:11:53.540 --> 01:11:53.880
We have.

01:11:54.520 --> 01:11:56.860
We could read the whole Bible on one episode if you want to.

01:11:56.980 --> 01:12:02.640
I started to say, if we're talking about God's promises, let's just start with Genesis 1.1 and go all the way to the end.

01:12:02.780 --> 01:12:04.160
We could probably skip a little bit.

01:12:04.360 --> 01:12:04.540
Yeah.

01:12:05.360 --> 01:12:08.480
I mean, it's full of them.

01:12:08.680 --> 01:12:15.320
It's full of him because he keeps making promises and guarantees and telling us what's going to happen and telling us what his plans are.

01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:16.320
Is it good for him?

01:12:17.680 --> 01:12:17.920
Yes.

01:12:18.120 --> 01:12:18.300
Yeah.

01:12:18.720 --> 01:12:19.280
Every time.

01:12:19.460 --> 01:12:19.560
Yeah.

01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:20.520
What he says

01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:20.980
is done.

01:12:21.300 --> 01:12:21.380
Yeah.

01:12:21.510 --> 01:12:31.460
You look at Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Noah, all these promises that he made for them that have been fulfilled throughout the years.

01:12:31.570 --> 01:12:31.700
Right.

01:12:31.800 --> 01:12:36.660
He promised that Israel would become a nation again.

01:12:37.100 --> 01:12:37.700
Well, guess what?

01:12:38.140 --> 01:12:38.420
1943.

01:12:39.580 --> 01:12:39.640
Yeah.

01:12:40.140 --> 01:12:41.440
They became a nation again.

01:12:41.580 --> 01:12:46.340
That's a huge promise that his promises are true and faithful.

01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:46.780
Yeah.

01:12:47.480 --> 01:12:47.960
Every time.

01:12:48.210 --> 01:12:50.200
Well, you know, that's the thing.

01:12:50.260 --> 01:12:53.880
Not only did he promise they would become a nation, but you think about Abraham, the promise he made him.

01:12:53.910 --> 01:12:57.460
He said, your descendants will be just innumerable.

01:12:58.000 --> 01:12:58.240
You're

01:12:58.240 --> 01:12:59.200
not going to be able to count them.

01:12:59.260 --> 01:13:00.420
As the sands of the sea.

01:13:01.100 --> 01:13:03.100
The whole world will be blessed through you.

01:13:03.260 --> 01:13:03.420
Yeah.

01:13:03.880 --> 01:13:06.660
And Abraham, he didn't see that in his life.

01:13:06.920 --> 01:13:07.160
No.

01:13:07.480 --> 01:13:09.240
He never saw that promise fulfilled.

01:13:09.500 --> 01:13:10.460
No, Abraham didn't.

01:13:10.620 --> 01:13:11.200
Sarah didn't.

01:13:11.420 --> 01:13:12.060
I mean, he's

01:13:12.060 --> 01:13:13.960
like, I'm going to hold one.

01:13:13.980 --> 01:13:15.420
And they thought, hey, old man.

01:13:16.580 --> 01:13:20.340
They're thinking that promise doesn't even make sense at our age.

01:13:20.400 --> 01:13:20.560
Yeah.

01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:24.360
And so and then they never got to see it fulfilled.

01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:25.240
But goodness,

01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:26.500
millions,

01:13:27.500 --> 01:13:29.080
millions all over the world.

01:13:29.600 --> 01:13:30.240
I mean, they are there.

01:13:31.320 --> 01:13:31.820
They are.

01:13:31.960 --> 01:13:36.400
And not to mention the ones that have have gone on further and married out.

01:13:36.480 --> 01:13:38.540
and the bloodline is just spread and spread and

01:13:38.540 --> 01:13:38.940
spread.

01:13:39.180 --> 01:13:43.460
Even further than that, man, Paul lays out in Romans how we are the descendants of Abraham.

01:13:43.820 --> 01:13:44.180
Yes.

01:13:44.440 --> 01:13:49.820
Christians are the descendants of that first – and he believed God and was declared righteous.

01:13:50.080 --> 01:13:50.300
Amen.

01:13:50.740 --> 01:13:50.960
Amen.

01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:53.360
It's the sand of the seashore.

01:13:54.020 --> 01:13:54.160
Yeah.

01:13:54.480 --> 01:13:56.140
I mean, it's just – it's amazing.

01:13:56.420 --> 01:13:59.360
And then you go to the promises he gave to Noah.

01:13:59.940 --> 01:14:03.100
You know, hey, we're going to wipe this whole world out with some rain.

01:14:03.780 --> 01:14:04.060
Mm-hmm.

01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:04.720
Yeah.

01:14:05.280 --> 01:14:05.420
Yeah.

01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:07.740
What is your brain?

01:14:08.580 --> 01:14:09.320
What is this boat?

01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:11.240
You want me to build a what?

01:14:13.040 --> 01:14:13.880
That's my boat.

01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:14.660
Yeah.

01:14:16.220 --> 01:14:17.520
You know, and then he goes

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over

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here to Moses, and he says, hey, you're going to go in here, and you're going to tell the Pharaoh that we're done, and it's time for him to let everybody go.

01:14:33.080 --> 01:14:42.620
Because, you know, the whole reason they're there is because he was nice and he let them live there to save them from the drought that was coming through because of Joseph.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, and he goes in and do you remember, man, have you guys ever I don't know if you've ever paid attention to it.

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Not only does Pharaoh is like just so impressed with Joseph.

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He's like, yeah, bring your family in.

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Of course.

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Yeah.

01:14:57.460 --> 01:14:58.160
Of course, man.

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I'm going to do what I can to help you because you've helped us so much.

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We'd be dead right now if it wasn't for you.

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And then here comes Jacob walking in there and he just walks right up to Pharaoh and, hey, how you doing?

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Blesses him, hugs him.

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And Pharaoh's going, huh?

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And then and then when he's gone and people forget and they do not remember Joseph and they do not remember Jacob and they do not remember what the Pharaoh promised them.

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And they start enslaving them and they start, you know, oh, hey, we got a ready made workforce over here.

01:15:29.880 --> 01:15:31.440
And then God says, I'm done with that.

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It's time to let him go.

01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:43.320
And Moses goes, you want me to go to the most powerful military might on the planet and spit in their eye, basically, and tell them we're leaving?

01:15:43.610 --> 01:15:45.180
And God said, yes, that's what I'd like you to do.

01:15:45.400 --> 01:15:45.840
Yeah,

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absolutely.

01:15:47.200 --> 01:15:52.900
And something you just said that made me think, it was when they forgot.

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And if we do not do what we're supposed to do, that's exactly what happens.

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History ends up repeated.

01:16:00.710 --> 01:16:01.160
We forget.

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I mean, it's just like, you know, history's been so twisted now that our kids are reading history books that have been rewritten that don't even line up with what really happened in history.

01:16:11.860 --> 01:16:14.060
Right. And it's the same way with the word of God.

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If we don't preach it, if we don't teach it, if we don't pour it over our children, if we don't if we don't continue just just reminding.

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Right. And the world that we live in.

01:16:27.980 --> 01:16:30.260
Hey, remember what happened to Abraham?

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Remember what happened to Isaac and Jacob and Esau and all.

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Remember the stories of Adam and Eve.

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Remember the prophets and what they said.

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These are some things that have come to pass.

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Reminding the world, preaching the gospel is to remind the world that his promises are true and faithful.

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He'll continue them throughout all eternity, lest we forget.

01:16:55.900 --> 01:16:56.060
Yeah.

01:16:56.380 --> 01:16:57.020
Lest we forget.

01:16:57.100 --> 01:17:00.460
How many times has that Egyptian story repeated in the Old Testament?

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Even Stephen, when he's about to get stoned, repeats that story.

01:17:03.700 --> 01:17:04.000
That's right.

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Remember where you came from.

01:17:06.260 --> 01:17:07.260
Remember how good

01:17:07.260 --> 01:17:07.780
does God.

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Amen.

01:17:08.400 --> 01:17:23.140
And just, you know, I've always wondered if they had never forgotten, if they had remembered, if they had kept that going, they were one of their leader had been blessed, had been offered a blessing by Jacob, by God's chosen.

01:17:23.500 --> 01:17:23.720
Yeah.

01:17:25.060 --> 01:17:25.240
Yeah.

01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:25.920
I'm not.

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I don't think the empire would have ever gone anywhere.

01:17:29.700 --> 01:17:29.800
They

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just hung around going, yep, we're going to serve him because he's already proven himself good.

01:17:33.700 --> 01:17:34.600
But they forgot.

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They did.

01:17:35.140 --> 01:17:36.380
They went back to their gods.

01:17:36.410 --> 01:17:37.620
They went back to serving that.

01:17:38.030 --> 01:17:41.100
And granted, there's no indication that they ever stopped serving them.

01:17:41.370 --> 01:17:44.580
But they at least acknowledged, hey, there's something special here.

01:17:44.810 --> 01:17:44.900
Yeah.

01:17:45.210 --> 01:17:46.280
And we do the same thing.

01:17:46.380 --> 01:17:46.800
Oh, yeah.

01:17:47.100 --> 01:17:47.440
Absolutely.

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We soon forget the blessing.

01:17:49.180 --> 01:17:49.240
Yeah.

01:17:49.410 --> 01:17:50.940
And then we lose that battle at AI.

01:17:51.340 --> 01:17:51.440
Right.

01:17:51.580 --> 01:17:53.540
And we lose this other battle over here.

01:17:53.680 --> 01:17:53.900
Yeah.

01:17:54.260 --> 01:17:54.380
Yeah.

01:17:54.820 --> 01:17:55.080
Amen.

01:17:55.480 --> 01:17:56.280
We don't learn, man.

01:17:56.380 --> 01:18:00.140
dumb sheep we

01:18:00.140 --> 01:18:06.240
are got a shepherd but he is he knows that we're but dust that's right yeah but he

01:18:06.240 --> 01:18:10.980
is his promises are good and he is good all the time no matter what we've got going

01:18:10.980 --> 01:18:11.860
on and

01:18:11.860 --> 01:18:14.380
that is such a hard thing to remember when you're in the middle of pain

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yeah it

01:18:15.140 --> 01:18:16.360
really is yeah people

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we are terrible with pain we really are

01:18:18.740 --> 01:18:19.520
but we have

01:18:19.520 --> 01:18:24.980
to remember that uh you know the the pain, that's a result of the fall.

01:18:25.680 --> 01:18:27.160
And it's a sign that we're still alive.

01:18:27.380 --> 01:18:28.560
And we turn our focus inward.

01:18:29.360 --> 01:18:30.220
Yeah, we do.

01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:31.220
Me, me, me, me, me.

01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:31.840
Yeah.

01:18:32.400 --> 01:18:32.720
I

01:18:32.720 --> 01:18:33.240
want to do.

01:18:33.420 --> 01:18:33.820
I want to do.

01:18:34.020 --> 01:18:34.440
I want.

01:18:34.820 --> 01:18:35.380
I need.

01:18:35.700 --> 01:18:35.880
Yeah.

01:18:37.300 --> 01:18:39.560
Well, his promises are so good.

01:18:39.780 --> 01:18:40.120
Goodness,

01:18:40.280 --> 01:18:41.500
we keep going all night.

01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:41.820
No kidding.

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But next week, we have Vacation Bible School.

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We'll be doing this.

01:18:46.400 --> 01:18:46.600
Yeah.

01:18:47.080 --> 01:18:48.240
We're going to be with the kids.

01:18:48.420 --> 01:18:50.540
We're going to be having a lot of good time.

01:18:51.500 --> 01:18:57.800
your brother Dennis is going to take a, a real easy class that he just, he doesn't have to think about.

01:18:57.960 --> 01:18:59.700
He don't have to study up for it.

01:18:59.740 --> 01:19:00.760
Be ready for questions.

01:19:02.080 --> 01:19:03.960
Give Jesse a break from those boys.

01:19:04.320 --> 01:19:04.520
Yeah.

01:19:04.860 --> 01:19:04.920
Yeah.

01:19:07.020 --> 01:19:10.020
So it's going to be, it is, it's going to be a fun week.

01:19:10.140 --> 01:19:11.960
I always love vacation Bible school week.

01:19:12.160 --> 01:19:16.520
I love seeing where things go and how things, how things turn out.

01:19:17.380 --> 01:19:21.200
I have about four days left before I have to learn the stuff for play.

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because

01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:23.420
I managed to learn all of it yet.

01:19:24.280 --> 01:19:26.060
Oh, man, I'm too old.

01:19:26.900 --> 01:19:28.320
I can't remember what

01:19:28.320 --> 01:19:28.640
I'm going to say.

01:19:29.360 --> 01:19:42.200
Well, the really, really fun thing is I'm not going to get to actually practice the last two nights the way we're going to do them until the last two nights because Tanner's not going to be here.

01:19:42.240 --> 01:19:50.860
He's gone off, and so he can't be here to run the stuff for me for the last rehearsal, so I'm still going to have to be running the last rehearsal just off the cuff.

01:19:52.300 --> 01:19:57.320
So it's going to be an interesting week, but I am definitely looking forward to it.

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It's always good.

01:19:57.960 --> 01:19:58.080
It

01:19:58.080 --> 01:19:58.920
is always good.

01:19:59.020 --> 01:19:59.900
We've got some talented

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folks in our church.

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We really do.

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They do

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a great job.

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And

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I do.

01:20:04.540 --> 01:20:14.060
I love Vacation Bible School, love what it does, and I love to see the kids coming in and getting in the altar and getting saved and praising God and thanking God and recognizing who God is.

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A shameless plug here.

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So if you're listening and your kids are between the ages of, I guess, kindergarten to high school age, I think we will have a class for babies for parents of workers.

01:20:34.020 --> 01:20:45.480
But anyway, if your kids fall in that age group and you want to bring them to Vacation Bible School at Mountview Baptist Church, then at Sylvania, Alabama, we'd love to have you.

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Kickoff is this Sunday night at 6 p.m.

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We'll have blow-ups.

01:20:51.420 --> 01:20:52.580
We'll have hot dogs.

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We'll have, yeah, hot diggity dogs.

01:20:56.040 --> 01:20:58.060
We'll have all that stuff and a lot of fun.

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Get your kids signed up.

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I think you can sign up on Facebook and online, that kind of thing, too.

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But we want to fill this church up with little souls that we can

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feed the Word of God to.

01:21:08.320 --> 01:21:08.600
That's right.

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Absolutely.

01:21:10.180 --> 01:21:10.600
That's right.

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And do bring them down.

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If you're in DeKalb County, bring them on down.

01:21:14.040 --> 01:21:16.060
If you're in the surrounding counties, bring them on out.

01:21:16.200 --> 01:21:16.900
We'd love to have them.

01:21:17.060 --> 01:21:17.260
Yeah.

01:21:17.390 --> 01:21:19.120
And if you can't do anything else, pray for us.

01:21:19.280 --> 01:21:19.800
That's right.

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Pray for these kids that are going to be there.

01:21:21.420 --> 01:21:21.640
Amen.

01:21:22.340 --> 01:21:23.780
If you can do something else, pray.

01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:24.120
Yes.

01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:25.600
Pray either way.

01:21:25.860 --> 01:21:25.960
Yeah.

01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:29.020
But definitely pray for the kids and pray for the teachers.

01:21:29.500 --> 01:21:29.620
Yeah.

01:21:29.880 --> 01:21:32.180
Because that is a responsibility and a half.

01:21:32.440 --> 01:21:32.540
Yeah.

01:21:32.740 --> 01:21:32.920
And

01:21:32.920 --> 01:21:34.660
so be keeping us in your prayers.

01:21:35.900 --> 01:21:37.720
Brother Dennis, if you'll pray us out tonight,

01:21:38.060 --> 01:21:38.900
I

01:21:38.900 --> 01:21:39.200
think we've

01:21:39.200 --> 01:21:39.520
got it.

01:21:39.620 --> 01:21:40.140
All right.

01:21:40.300 --> 01:21:40.720
Father in heaven.

01:21:40.820 --> 01:21:41.240
And thank you.

01:21:41.540 --> 01:21:42.060
Thank you for

01:21:42.060 --> 01:21:43.520
how good you are to us.

01:21:43.600 --> 01:21:44.620
Father, you are so good.

01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:47.040
We can't even really imagine how good you are.

01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:50.940
But we know in each of our lives we've seen things over and over and over.

01:21:50.980 --> 01:21:55.140
And, Father, help us to remember those things, to never forget what you've done for us.

01:21:55.740 --> 01:22:00.340
And that it's not just the things that you've done and the things that you've promised that you're going to do, Father.

01:22:00.420 --> 01:22:10.680
But we come to seek your face, to know you, not just the things that are in your hand, but that you are good, that you're always good.

01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:11.920
Father, thank you.

01:22:12.600 --> 01:22:14.820
Thank you for this time together with my brothers here.

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Father, I pray your blessings on them.

01:22:16.720 --> 01:22:19.380
And Father, I pray your blessings on everybody that's listening.

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Father, just surround them with your peace and your joy.

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And if anyone is listening that doesn't know you, Father, I pray that you would speak to them in a special way to knock on the door of their hearts, that they might hear you and respond to the gospel.

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Father, thank you and protect us as we go our ways.

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In Jesus name.

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Amen.

01:22:38.800 --> 01:22:38.940
Amen.

01:22:42.940 --> 01:22:52.360
Special thank you to Carter Pridmore, Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson, Tatum Harris-Spears, and Josie Partain for our 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 Monday at 6 p.m. Central.

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Thank you for listening.

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But

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truth found me there. It was in my darkest hour. I traded my black heart for joy, for something real, something with power.

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Truth set

01:23:15.200 --> 01:23:36.960
me free. Truth came to me. I once was blind and now I see. Truth set me free. Oh, oh, truth set me free. Oh, oh, truth set me free.