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In chains I was bound,

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Through the hills I wandered.

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I was running from the sun.

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But truth found me there.

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It was in my darkest eye.

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I traded my black heart

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6PM

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central time.

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And welcome back. It is so good to

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have everybody here with us this week. We've

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missed a couple of weeks in a row

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between vacation bible school and, just some sickness

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last week. So,

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we've missed a little bit, and we are

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excited to be back.

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Brother Dennis,

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how are you doing tonight? I'm doing alright,

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man. Doing alright. Got got a little news

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today. You know, I was in the I

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was in the home stretch of my retirement

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thing here coming up, you know. I woke

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up this morning and said it's my next

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to last Monday. Wow. You know, but,

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I got an offer today to extend out

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to the August.

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So I got a little further away from

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the lot at the end of the tunnel.

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I got ways to go. I understand, but

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it's there. It's there. It's there. Hey. You

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know, like, you know, like I say, they

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come along with a big enough offer, and

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I say, yeah. Stick around. Yeah. You're a

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good thought. Well, you know that. Oh,

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well, what about you, brother Brian? How are

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you doing today? Good, man. Good. Just,

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running, it seems like all day today.

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A little busy.

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We're gonna have a short week at work

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and, a little mission trip at the end

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of the end of the week. We might

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be headed out on or gonna be headed

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out on. So,

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so looking forward to that, but trying to

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cram five days into three. So yeah. It's

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gonna be that's gonna be a a challenge,

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I think. Yeah.

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Yeah. Oh, well,

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I think since the last time we talked,

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there there there hadn't been, you know, anything

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really go on or nothing happened at all,

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anywhere with anything.

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I actually did a a little post on

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the July 4. I never post on Facebook.

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I never put anything out there. I never

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say anything. I just kinda try to stay

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quiet because on my personal accounts anyway.

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You know, church kinda throw stuff on there.

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You can't trace that back. Hang on. But,

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my personal accounts, I tend to kinda stay

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quiet because I have different friends from all

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different places and, you know, different different things

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going on. So I try not to

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to upset people too much.

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leading up to the fourth had seen post

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after post after post of people just

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not even just I mean, you you know,

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the last several about about the last six

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months or so, you've been seeing people kinda

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have little, like, they've been afraid. They've been

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they've been unsure. They've been afraid. They're not

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sure what's going on. They're not sure what's

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happening, and and they're kinda panicking.

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like that, and I was just like, okay.

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row from different different folks, different areas. Some

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of them, you know, some of them are

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people I know personally. Some of them are

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just people I've never even met. They're just

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celebrities or whatever. And just the vilest, most

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hateful,

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absolutely just hateful stuff coming out that people

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and just throwing it right out there in

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everybody's face and just being just being mean.

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know, sometimes I just can't bite my tongue

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and I probably should know better,

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but I had I I just had to

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get on there and I said, hey, guys.

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Look. I said, I don't I don't really

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care what side of the argument you're on

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on any of these things that everybody's talking

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about right now. I I really don't. I

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said, have you ever sat down and just

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ask yourself, what if you're wrong?

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the other other person is right? And I

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I everybody.

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I I don't even think about that anymore.

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consciously do that anymore, like, go out of

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my way and sit down and do it

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because I've been doing it since I was

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about 16, 17 years old. Anything that's being

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discussed, I just sit down and say, okay.

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Well, what are the, you know, what what

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if I'm wrong about this? What does it

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change anything? Does it have any effect? What

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would it take for me to

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be convinced that I'm wrong? Yeah. And I

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said, you know, because if your answer to

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what would it take to convince me I'm

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wrong is nothing,

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That's a cult mindset. You you might wanna

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slow down and,

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be careful about that because when it comes

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to this, you know, when it comes to

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church, what would it take to convince somebody

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come up and show me the scripture that

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says I'm wrong? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's

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a very clear yeah. It's a very clear

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cut answer on that. When you come up

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and you hand me a scripture that is

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backed up by other scripture and scripture that

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is clearly,

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you know, that is super clear, this is

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wrong and it's something that I've held my

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whole life,

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I'll I'll change. Yeah. It's just that simple.

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I mean, if I if I'm wrong about

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something, call me out on it. Right. But,

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you know, I have that definition even with

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my faith. The least I can do is

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have that definition with everything, you know, in

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the world. Yeah. And, you

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know, I really I wasn't sure how people

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were gonna take it, but I got a

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really a lot of people were just like,

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hey, thanks.

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we've had a lot of people be really

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upset the last several weeks.

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Just ask yourself, what if I'm wrong and

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what would it take to convince me I'm

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wrong? Because if the answer is nothing, that's

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the answer of a child or a cultist.

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And, neither of those are good for adults.

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Yeah. And it's just it's just not great.

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Yeah. When it comes to politics and that

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kind of stuff too, you need to understand

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Get your mind off the world. Absolutely. Yeah.

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Let go of it. Absolutely. Let go of

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it. Like you have a worldly mindset there.

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what shocked me is it wasn't even just

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all political. Some of it was just random

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things that people were talking about. I'm like,

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man, why is everybody being so hateful? Yeah.

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I realized it's they honestly have never stepped

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back and go, well, wait a minute. If

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that other person's right and I'm being this

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hateful to him, that that kinda makes me

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a jerk.

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if that other person's right and I said

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what I said and I hadn't been all

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that mean or anything about it, and I've

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been just kind of understanding of, hey. They

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may have a misunderstanding.

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Well, okay. Great. We'd still be friends on

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the other side of it. Keyboard warriors. Right?

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They'll say a lot of things behind a

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computer that they wouldn't say to your face.

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Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Right. And knowing that their

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picture a lot of them don't even have

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their name their names real names or pictures

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attached. And I I get that, but that

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was a that was a wild thing to

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see going into the fourth because I thought,

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man, of all days Yeah. To to have

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that, you know, the day that we get

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to celebrate,

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you know, being free and and a nation

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that has has given us so much. I

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was like, that's just kinda sad because we

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don't we don't wanna we don't wanna forget

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that. We do have a lot of freedom.

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We have a lot of ability to say

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and do and worship the way we the

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way we want to. And and the government's

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not gonna, hopefully, anytime soon, be stepping in

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and tell us we're not allowed to do

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it. Yeah. So Yeah.

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that brings us to the really interesting topic

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tonight that you guys had decided to do,

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which is wilderness Christians. I believe is the

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way you would think. Egypt,

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wilderness,

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promised land, that whole that whole thing. And

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it's really important because because you see it

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repeated throughout the New Testament. God is God

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saying, look back and see what I did

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with my mighty hand. Right? It's reminding constantly,

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constantly. It even goes up to, to Stephen

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before he's stoned. He's he's reminding the Pharisees

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are about to kill him of Yeah. What

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god did in in Egypt in the wilderness.

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make sure I quote this right, but he

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says, the Old Testament is the New Testament

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concealed,

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and the New Testament is the Old Testament

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revealed. Yeah. Yeah. You know? I mean, it

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all lines up together. It all it all

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brings to light,

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everything. And and and it's a type in

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likeness. Right? It is. We we gotta be

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careful not

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to not to

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say we're Israel or put our tails in

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their place, but then again, there is so

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many types and likenesses of god's relationship with

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us

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and god's relationship with Israel. Yeah. And and

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Paul says the same thing in in first

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Corinthians 10. He's he's, he said, I don't

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want you to be unaware, brethren, that our

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fathers were all under the cloud and all

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passed through the sea. All were baptized into

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Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

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and all drank the same spiritual food, and

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all drank the same spiritual drink for they

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were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed

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them, and the rock was Christ. Yeah. Amen.

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Nevertheless, with most of them, God was not

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well pleased, for they were laid low in

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the wilderness.

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Now these things happened as examples for us

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so that we would not crave evil things

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as they also craved. Yeah. Yeah. They're examples.

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They are for us to learn from. Right?

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wilderness, don't we? We do. And we have

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our own promised land. Absolutely.

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You know, that's something that I've talked about

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a lot,

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and mentioned a lot that that,

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want talk about one of those things that

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that you that you hear growing up and

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you hear preach growing up and that kind

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of thing. You know? The promised land's always,

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you know, the it's always related to heaven.

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You know? Yeah. And when we get to

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the promised land, that's gonna be heaven. And

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cross that Jordan. Yeah. Cross that Jordan River.

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But that's that's not

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the the the promised land is not a

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picture of heaven. It is a picture of

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our of our saved life, of our salvation,

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of the promises of God that he's given

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us. But but you gotta think that that

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the promised land had sin and it had

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giants in it. It had things that they

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had to overcome and obstacles that stood in

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their way. God's promises were still true, and

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were still leading them

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where he wanted them to go, but

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but there was there was still obstacles there

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and in heaven, that's not the case, right?

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Right. In heaven, there is no sin. There

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are there are no,

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there there is no evil there. There is

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no sickness or pain or suffering or or

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or armies for us to

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battle there. All those all those things are

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gonna be behind us. All those things are

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going on now. Yeah. Yeah. And and that's

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where the fighting started. Right? Yeah. They they

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immediately went in Jericho and dominated because they

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obeyed God. Yeah. What happened next?

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Ai. Mhmm. Right? They sent a few people

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up there and said, yeah. We got this.

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Yeah. And somebody had hidden some gold. Right.

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Oops. Yeah. And they got defeated at Ai.

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They did. They didn't trust God. They did.

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They didn't obey him. And and they never

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and and I know that this is something

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we've talked about before too,

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but but this this statistic just it still

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just rings in my head all the time.

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The the amount of land that they possess

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that God had offered them, he offered them

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over 300,000

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square miles.

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They took 30. That's the that's the most

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they ever that's the most they ever acquired

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was 30,000 square miles. I mean, there there

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was so much more for them. They they,

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you know, they they stood out or they

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hung out in the wilderness for all those

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years. And and, you know, walking around,

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I think right on the edge, or I

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don't know, three inch, you know. Do it.

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Yeah. And and it's like, there it is,

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but how do we get to it? There

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it is, but we can't step into it.

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There it is, but we we're so stubborn

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Yeah. That we're gonna stay right here. And

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they look down there and they're like, oh,

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yeah. But that's where God tells to go,

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but look. There's giants down there. Oh, that's

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where God tells to go, but there's obstacles.

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There's armies down there. There's a fortress down

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there. How are we gonna defeat this? What

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are we gonna do here? Yeah. And that's

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us today. Right? God's taken care of us.

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Yeah. And and these people don't make they

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make no mistake. These people in the wilderness

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were tops of saved people. Yeah. They really

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They've been brought out of Egypt by the

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blood of the lamb, the Passover lamb, that

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had been brought through a spiritual baptism like

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Paul said in first Corinthians to the Red

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Sea. Yeah. They were born again people, or

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tops of born again people. Absolutely. Yeah.

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That Yeah. Not obey. And God's taking care

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of them, feeding them, giving them a pillar

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of cloud by night Yes. Or a pillar

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of cloud by day and and fire by

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night Yes. Leading them, guiding them, and they

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don't trust. Yeah. And what do we do

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today? That's right. Yeah. You don't wanna, well,

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I don't want everybody to know I'm Christian,

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man, because I can't do this and I

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can't do that. So I don't really wanna

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go to that promised land yet. That's right.

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That's right. Right. So they hold off and

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they hold back. And and many Christians, I

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think, never

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possess all that god wants them to Yeah.

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In their Christian life. Yeah. Yeah. Because we

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held back on them. We don't wanna fight.

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Yeah. That's right. Because we don't wanna fight.

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We don't wanna surrender. We don't wanna fight.

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We don't wanna we just wanna stay still.

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And we sit here and think about, oh,

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man, but I had the best food when

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I was a slave back in Egypt. I

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just wanna go back, man, because it's so

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much fun Yeah. You know, making bricks all

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day. Right. Yeah. Really? Yeah.

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You know? Yeah. Yeah. And be being beaten

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and and, you know, they they were slaves.

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I mean, that's what they were. They weren't

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just workers for the for the,

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Egypt for for the pharaoh there, but they

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were actually slaves for him, and and they

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were not treated well. Yeah. But they felt

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like that they were getting treated better than

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what god was treating them. I mean, I'm

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like, how do you Well, and I think

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people forget, you know, you say that they

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were slaves, and it it went so far

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beyond what we think of with slavery even

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with as bad as slavery has been,

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over the last couple hundred years,

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back then, it was they weren't they were

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barely considered property. Yeah. I mean, they were

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they were just literally disposable because I mean,

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there were so many of them. Yeah. The

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Egyptians were just looking there like, man, this

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is like this is a ton of people.

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We can just run through them like they're,

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you know, like they're cows almost. Just just

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run until they fall. Yeah. Because I mean,

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there were just there were more. There's always

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more. Then there'll be more. Then there'll be

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more. And and they weren't the least bit

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concerned. I mean, because they didn't they didn't

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spend anything on them. Mhmm. Yeah. They they

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didn't have they didn't have you know, it

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wasn't like slavery, you know, two hundred years

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ago where you had somebody that had an

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investment in it and kinda had an interest

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in, well, I kinda need to take care

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of this because I you know, it's cost

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me a lot of money and it's gonna

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cost me a lot of money if I

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have to replace them. So you got an

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interest in, you know, taking care of them.

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There was no interest in that in Egypt.

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They just they just were they were like,

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hey. Look at this big group of people

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over here that's just hanging out right next

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to us because they forgot Joseph. Yeah. Yeah.

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Because they forgot about Jacob. Because they they

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forgot about the pharaoh that was gonna that

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that they were all gonna die

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Hadn't been for this random

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little kid

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that wandered up. Grain. Right. Yeah. You know,

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and said, hey. You you've had a vision

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in this dream, and you need to store

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up grain, and you need to do this,

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and you need to do this. And and

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we'll sell it, and we're gonna be profitable,

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and we're gonna be fine.

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And But, man, there's a story in there

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too. Right? Oh, good news. How god blessed

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them, you know, with Beth with the,

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Joseph moving up, you know, second in command

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of pharaoh kind of thing. And then I

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just really blessed them. Their population exploded. Right?

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That's right. And God was blessing and blessing

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and blessing pursuing their slaves. Yeah. What happens

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to unbelievers when they get blessed and blessed

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and blessed? Yeah. They get more and more

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into slavery. Because they get where it comes

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from. Right? Absolutely. Yeah. And and God gives

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us somebody to to lead us out of

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slavery, and then we wanna bring ourselves right

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back into it again. You know? We wanna

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put on the grave clothes. We wanna put

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on the chains. We wanna Yeah. We wanna

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go back to that. And and it's like

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you said, we I mean, they they were,

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you know, we talked about this, I think,

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last Wednesday night a little bit, how

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how closely removed we are from our sinful

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life and how easy it is to go

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back to that sinful life. You know? And

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that's why we need encouragement, you know, and

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we need,

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we need people like, Moses and and Joshua

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and Yeah. And those who who would say,

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okay. You know? This is God's promises, and

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this is what God told us he was

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gonna do. And and, you know, don't look

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back over there. We need to keep going,

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we need to keep going, God's got more

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for us if we just trust in him,

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and and that's where that's where growing in

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the Lord comes, right? Yeah. I mean they

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they seen great miracles happen, they seen the

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Red Sea parted, they seen,

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they seen, you know, plagues

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come upon Egypt, and and god had his

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hand on them was was protecting them. This

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whole all these great miracles that they've seen

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and still, they get across there and they're

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like, you know, I wish we were back

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over there. You're just trying to starve us

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today. Yeah. Yeah. We could I mean, at

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least they'd give us a meal or two

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today and, you know, and and and we

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could we could work for them a little

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bit and then we'd eat again the next

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day. But but we forget

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what

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what slavery looks like. We forget what slavery

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feels like. Yeah. We forget how bonded we

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were to that former life. Yeah. And then

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sometimes we just we go back to it

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again. Yeah. Yeah. The old pool. I I

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know a lot of people get get get

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first saved. They're they're on fire. You know,

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they're like glow in the dark kind of

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Christians, you know. They're just fired up about

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it. But you can see them a couple

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years later if they hadn't maintained it, man.

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It's just a slow fade right back into

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that old habits and and old stuff. Yeah.

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And it's just so common. So common. It

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is. And and, you know, one thing is,

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though, that when we're set free from that,

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and and Satan

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those chains are loosed and Satan,

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you know, he has to he he has

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to back off. You know? God says, hey.

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That this one belongs to me.

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But as soon as that happens and as

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soon as we get a little ways down

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the road, that's when Satan says, I'm not

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finished yet. Yet. I'm coming after you. Right?

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I mean, that's what Pharaoh did. Yeah. I

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mean,

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even after all that that that God had

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brought the the plagues upon,

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the children of of Egypt and the people

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of Egypt,

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after all that, and and he was just

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so tired of it, and he finally said,

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just get them out of here. Go. Go.

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Go. Get the I don't they need to

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be gone. You know? I don't I don't

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want this around here anymore.

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Even after all that,

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then,

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he gives them a little lead way, but

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as soon as they get there to the

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Red Sea, he's like, okay. Let's go after

521
00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:06,190
him again. You know? Yeah. I I mean,

522
00:18:06,190 --> 00:18:08,190
because that's how Satan is. He's not gonna

523
00:18:08,190 --> 00:18:09,390
stop. He's relentless

524
00:18:09,869 --> 00:18:11,869
He is. In his pursuit, but he's not

525
00:18:11,869 --> 00:18:13,869
as relentless in his pursuit as God is

526
00:18:13,869 --> 00:18:15,869
towards us. That's right. Well, and again, and

527
00:18:15,869 --> 00:18:17,950
pharaoh was looking at them as these these

528
00:18:17,950 --> 00:18:21,535
are mine. Yeah. These I own them. Possession.

529
00:18:21,674 --> 00:18:23,595
They they are my things. They are my

530
00:18:23,595 --> 00:18:26,154
possessions. And and I'm I'm I'm not gonna

531
00:18:26,154 --> 00:18:27,595
let them go. And it says that God

532
00:18:27,595 --> 00:18:29,755
hardened his heart. Yeah. Says that he he

533
00:18:29,755 --> 00:18:32,474
had become so far removed that God hardened

534
00:18:32,474 --> 00:18:35,240
his heart. Mhmm. And when God hardens your

535
00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,519
heart, it's really easy for Satan to come

536
00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:37,980
up and go here, let me lead you,

537
00:18:38,279 --> 00:18:39,640
grab you by the nose and pull you

538
00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,240
along. Yeah. Pharaoh is the top of Satan,

539
00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,079
right? Yeah. I've got a list here man.

540
00:18:43,079 --> 00:18:44,759
I gotta read this to you. It's an

541
00:18:44,759 --> 00:18:46,779
old book. It's written in 1959.

542
00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:48,884
It was passed down to me from my

543
00:18:48,884 --> 00:18:49,384
mother's

544
00:18:50,005 --> 00:18:53,045
father. A guy named MR De Hahn wrote

545
00:18:53,045 --> 00:18:54,964
this. He had a radio show back then

546
00:18:54,964 --> 00:18:56,484
and he wrote this commentary on the book

547
00:18:56,484 --> 00:18:58,325
of Hebrews. I copied a piece out of

548
00:18:58,325 --> 00:19:00,484
it and this is really cool. And he

549
00:19:00,484 --> 00:19:02,960
says he's it's he says, now all these

550
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,619
things were recorded for our admonition and mourning.

551
00:19:05,919 --> 00:19:08,019
Israel is a picture of the believer.

552
00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:10,880
Egypt is a top of the world of

553
00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:12,960
sin and bondage in which we as sinners

554
00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:13,619
were enslaved.

555
00:19:14,355 --> 00:19:17,255
Moses, their deliverer, was a top of Christ.

556
00:19:17,954 --> 00:19:20,454
The Passover lamb was a picture of Christ

557
00:19:20,674 --> 00:19:22,454
and the blood of the lamb of redemption

558
00:19:22,515 --> 00:19:24,674
pointed to the blood of Christ. Yeah. The

559
00:19:24,674 --> 00:19:26,994
drowning of pharaoh's host in the Red Sea

560
00:19:26,994 --> 00:19:29,494
speaks of our security forever in Christ.

561
00:19:29,929 --> 00:19:32,009
The pillar of cloud is the guiding Holy

562
00:19:32,009 --> 00:19:32,509
Spirit.

563
00:19:32,890 --> 00:19:34,970
The manna was Christ, the bread of life,

564
00:19:34,970 --> 00:19:36,730
and the water from the rock speaks of

565
00:19:36,730 --> 00:19:38,569
the word of God, the Bible, as the

566
00:19:38,569 --> 00:19:40,269
rock of Christ, the living word.

567
00:19:40,890 --> 00:19:43,369
Canaan is God's picture of the life of

568
00:19:43,369 --> 00:19:43,869
victory.

569
00:19:44,345 --> 00:19:46,424
Canaan is not a picture of heaven. Yeah.

570
00:19:46,424 --> 00:19:49,384
Canaan represents the abundant victorious life of the

571
00:19:49,384 --> 00:19:50,765
believer here and now.

572
00:19:51,065 --> 00:19:53,625
Canaan cannot represent heaven for Canaan had to

573
00:19:53,625 --> 00:19:57,109
be possessed by conquest. Yeah. Mean. So I

574
00:19:57,109 --> 00:19:58,710
just thought that was awesome how he just

575
00:19:58,710 --> 00:20:01,349
lays every piece of that story out. And

576
00:20:01,349 --> 00:20:03,049
guess who led him across Canaan,

577
00:20:03,990 --> 00:20:06,009
across the Jordan? That was Joshua,

578
00:20:06,389 --> 00:20:09,369
which is pronounced in another way. Yeshua. Yeshua

579
00:20:09,509 --> 00:20:12,204
with Jesus. Is he ship up beside? That's

580
00:20:12,204 --> 00:20:13,865
right. That's right. Lead us into

581
00:20:14,724 --> 00:20:16,984
the rest and promised in the promised land,

582
00:20:17,044 --> 00:20:19,944
which the rest comes through work. Absolutely. Absolutely.

583
00:20:20,164 --> 00:20:22,644
And and and here's another thing about Moses.

584
00:20:22,644 --> 00:20:23,144
Moses

585
00:20:23,525 --> 00:20:25,605
was also a picture of the law. He

586
00:20:25,605 --> 00:20:27,200
was a picture of the old testament. Yeah.

587
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,519
And we didn't actually they didn't actually have

588
00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:31,519
to have Moses to go into the promised

589
00:20:31,519 --> 00:20:33,839
land because he was a picture of the

590
00:20:33,839 --> 00:20:36,240
law. Right? But but God said, look, I've

591
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,160
got a promise that I'm gonna I'm gonna

592
00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,615
fulfill in in Christ Jesus. I got a

593
00:20:40,615 --> 00:20:42,855
promise I'm gonna bring you into a promised

594
00:20:42,855 --> 00:20:45,414
land. Yeah. And and and I'm gonna I'm

595
00:20:45,414 --> 00:20:47,734
gonna do that, through this man, Jesus Christ.

596
00:20:47,734 --> 00:20:50,855
But but, yeah, everything's a type. Everything's a

597
00:20:50,855 --> 00:20:52,970
like. He said, It's wonderful. Yeah. And you

598
00:20:52,970 --> 00:20:54,649
keep going through the old testament and it's

599
00:20:54,649 --> 00:20:56,089
the same thing over and over and over.

600
00:20:56,089 --> 00:20:57,690
They they they repent and come back to

601
00:20:57,690 --> 00:20:59,289
god. They fall away and go to idols.

602
00:20:59,289 --> 00:21:01,049
Like, it's just back and forth just like

603
00:21:01,049 --> 00:21:02,649
a Christian. Yeah. Well, and that's what I

604
00:21:02,649 --> 00:21:04,329
was gonna say. And not only that, but

605
00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:06,269
god fulfilled his promise to them

606
00:21:06,934 --> 00:21:08,694
despite the fact that they kept turning away

607
00:21:08,694 --> 00:21:09,974
and they kept going back and they kept

608
00:21:10,134 --> 00:21:11,894
now there were consequences every time they did

609
00:21:11,894 --> 00:21:13,515
that. Oh, yeah. I mean, there were serious

610
00:21:13,654 --> 00:21:16,214
consequences. But he constantly kept coming back and

611
00:21:16,214 --> 00:21:17,894
saying, I've made a promise here. I'm not

612
00:21:17,894 --> 00:21:19,859
gonna turn my back on you. Yeah. I've

613
00:21:19,940 --> 00:21:22,259
I'm upholding my end of this bargain. Faithful.

614
00:21:22,259 --> 00:21:24,019
He is faithful and just, and he's saying,

615
00:21:24,019 --> 00:21:25,559
I'm upholding my end of the bargain.

616
00:21:25,859 --> 00:21:28,420
You keep failing at yours. You keep going

617
00:21:28,420 --> 00:21:30,740
over here and and picking up the idol

618
00:21:30,740 --> 00:21:32,660
and picking up the the habits of the

619
00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:34,339
people that I've told you to get rid

620
00:21:34,339 --> 00:21:36,484
of that you're now making treaties with and

621
00:21:36,484 --> 00:21:37,785
you're making deals with

622
00:21:38,164 --> 00:21:39,525
after I already told you, just get them

623
00:21:39,525 --> 00:21:41,924
out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean Making

624
00:21:41,924 --> 00:21:43,285
slaves out of some of them. Oh, yeah.

625
00:21:43,285 --> 00:21:45,444
They made some they they picked up and

626
00:21:45,444 --> 00:21:47,304
that was something that blew my I remember

627
00:21:47,365 --> 00:21:49,224
as a fairly young child.

628
00:21:50,579 --> 00:21:52,339
I I was reading I remember reading through

629
00:21:52,419 --> 00:21:53,619
I don't remember which story it was, and

630
00:21:53,619 --> 00:21:54,900
I was like, woah. Wait. Wait. Wait. They

631
00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:55,640
took slaves.

632
00:21:56,179 --> 00:21:57,159
I'm like, these people

633
00:21:57,460 --> 00:21:59,700
have been slaves? Yeah. And this is the

634
00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:00,099
same

635
00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:02,674
I mean, yeah. Okay. The generation that had

636
00:22:02,674 --> 00:22:05,315
actually experienced slavery had all died. Yeah. Right?

637
00:22:05,315 --> 00:22:07,394
You know, except for the young children, maybe.

638
00:22:07,394 --> 00:22:10,454
But that generation that had that had

639
00:22:11,634 --> 00:22:13,954
made the mistake and had had turned their

640
00:22:13,954 --> 00:22:16,519
backs on God, that generation passed away. And

641
00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:18,519
then the next generation comes in. So but

642
00:22:18,519 --> 00:22:21,079
you're only one generation removed? Yeah. You can't

643
00:22:21,079 --> 00:22:22,679
tell me they didn't hear the stories. And,

644
00:22:22,679 --> 00:22:24,039
I mean, the whole reason they were ready

645
00:22:24,039 --> 00:22:25,480
is because mom and daddy were telling them

646
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,079
every single day, now look, you're gonna trust

647
00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:28,759
god. You're gonna do what he says because

648
00:22:28,759 --> 00:22:30,940
we got right up to what he promised.

649
00:22:31,255 --> 00:22:33,174
And then because we wouldn't listen, he said,

650
00:22:33,174 --> 00:22:34,554
alright. Get out. Yeah.

651
00:22:34,855 --> 00:22:35,355
Yeah.

652
00:22:35,654 --> 00:22:37,494
Amen. Amen. Let him in circles. And I

653
00:22:37,494 --> 00:22:39,654
mean I mean, yeah, the that desert over

654
00:22:39,654 --> 00:22:40,934
there is big. I mean, don't get me

655
00:22:40,934 --> 00:22:43,859
wrong. That's a huge, huge desert. Yeah. But

656
00:22:44,099 --> 00:22:46,579
considering how close they were and considering when

657
00:22:46,579 --> 00:22:47,859
it talks about they're ready to go back,

658
00:22:47,859 --> 00:22:49,539
they just suddenly show up there again. You

659
00:22:49,539 --> 00:22:51,700
realize that god was literally just just out

660
00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:52,900
there in the middle of the desert just

661
00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:54,339
just That's what I'm saying. I mean That's

662
00:22:54,339 --> 00:22:56,019
less than a 100 miles away, probably. You

663
00:22:56,019 --> 00:22:57,539
know, we're talking about thirty, forty miles away.

664
00:22:57,539 --> 00:22:59,091
They could probably see it off in the

665
00:22:59,091 --> 00:23:00,904
distance. They were delusion. And that's how that's

666
00:23:00,904 --> 00:23:03,865
how sin it's what sin does. Does. It

667
00:23:03,865 --> 00:23:06,684
confuses us and it and it it confines

668
00:23:06,825 --> 00:23:08,985
us and it keeps us it keep it

669
00:23:08,985 --> 00:23:11,384
holds us back, right, from where we're supposed

670
00:23:11,384 --> 00:23:13,225
to be and from what and from God's

671
00:23:13,225 --> 00:23:13,725
promises.

672
00:23:14,179 --> 00:23:15,779
I found I had I had preached a

673
00:23:15,779 --> 00:23:18,019
message called taking possession, and that's where I'd

674
00:23:18,019 --> 00:23:19,859
I'd wrote that about Moses. I said Moses

675
00:23:19,859 --> 00:23:21,940
represented the law, but the law was a,

676
00:23:22,259 --> 00:23:24,279
the law was a revealer of sin

677
00:23:24,660 --> 00:23:25,720
and not a redeemer

678
00:23:26,019 --> 00:23:27,079
of sin. Joshua

679
00:23:27,795 --> 00:23:30,434
would represent a savior that was to come,

680
00:23:30,434 --> 00:23:33,174
a redeemer that would no longer condemn us.

681
00:23:33,315 --> 00:23:35,795
And and that's that's that's what Joshua was.

682
00:23:35,795 --> 00:23:36,295
Right?

683
00:23:36,595 --> 00:23:38,195
He was he was the he was the

684
00:23:38,195 --> 00:23:38,855
the revealer,

685
00:23:39,394 --> 00:23:42,250
the the Yeshua Messiah is is what we

686
00:23:42,250 --> 00:23:44,490
were looking forward to, and that's what Christ

687
00:23:44,490 --> 00:23:45,390
done for us.

688
00:23:45,690 --> 00:23:47,869
And and and and you're right. There's just

689
00:23:48,410 --> 00:23:50,890
there's there's all that confusion while they were

690
00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:52,730
while they were in the wilderness, and and

691
00:23:52,730 --> 00:23:54,990
that's that's we're walking through this world,

692
00:23:55,394 --> 00:23:57,875
and and that's how we get confused because

693
00:23:57,875 --> 00:23:59,474
we let sin get in our path. We

694
00:23:59,474 --> 00:24:01,494
let sin take over. We let doubt.

695
00:24:01,955 --> 00:24:02,455
Right?

696
00:24:03,154 --> 00:24:05,815
We we we lose faith in in

697
00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:08,674
in the promises of God and and we

698
00:24:08,674 --> 00:24:10,660
begin to not be able to see the

699
00:24:10,660 --> 00:24:12,420
way out. Yeah. And that's why it's so

700
00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:14,340
important for us to remember those promises. Right?

701
00:24:14,340 --> 00:24:16,180
To think about them every day. Yeah. To

702
00:24:16,180 --> 00:24:18,440
to remember where you came from. Yeah. Right?

703
00:24:20,180 --> 00:24:21,960
Yeah. Set up an Ebenezer somewhere.

704
00:24:22,660 --> 00:24:24,900
A marker. Yeah. Marker said, this is where

705
00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:26,945
God changed my life because it was so

706
00:24:26,945 --> 00:24:29,445
important that God just kept reminding his people

707
00:24:29,585 --> 00:24:30,945
over and over and over. And as long

708
00:24:30,945 --> 00:24:32,705
as they stayed focused on his mighty right

709
00:24:32,705 --> 00:24:35,045
hand Yeah. And kept their focus on that,

710
00:24:35,105 --> 00:24:37,985
they were okay. Yeah. Amen. Amen. That I

711
00:24:37,985 --> 00:24:39,664
mean, that's what they done when they got

712
00:24:39,664 --> 00:24:40,930
on the other side of the Jordan was

713
00:24:40,930 --> 00:24:42,450
it? They piled a bunch of rocks up.

714
00:24:42,450 --> 00:24:43,490
I mean, we they

715
00:24:44,529 --> 00:24:47,009
you know, the Bible talks about our Bethel

716
00:24:47,009 --> 00:24:48,930
place, that place where god does the great

717
00:24:48,930 --> 00:24:51,250
things. The Ebenezer that you're talking about, you

718
00:24:51,250 --> 00:24:53,330
know, all those different things that mark. And

719
00:24:53,330 --> 00:24:54,690
we can look back in our life and

720
00:24:54,690 --> 00:24:56,394
say, oh, yes. And god move here. I've

721
00:24:56,394 --> 00:24:59,209
seen God move there. I think, you know,

722
00:24:59,209 --> 00:25:01,674
I've always I've always been encouraged to journal,

723
00:25:01,674 --> 00:25:03,194
and I never do it enough. I I

724
00:25:03,194 --> 00:25:04,474
start I mean, I do a lot of

725
00:25:05,355 --> 00:25:06,714
I I I put a lot of my

726
00:25:06,714 --> 00:25:09,115
random thoughts down where I, you know, and

727
00:25:09,115 --> 00:25:11,275
especially when I'm studying, I write things out.

728
00:25:11,275 --> 00:25:11,700
But,

729
00:25:12,179 --> 00:25:14,679
but but just to just a daily journal

730
00:25:14,899 --> 00:25:16,500
is really good to be able to look

731
00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:18,099
back and say, you know, here's here's what

732
00:25:18,099 --> 00:25:19,539
God done here, and here's what God done

733
00:25:19,539 --> 00:25:21,380
here. Yeah. Here's how God moved here. I

734
00:25:21,380 --> 00:25:23,619
was going through this back in this, you

735
00:25:23,619 --> 00:25:26,414
know, certain time, but then I've seen God

736
00:25:26,494 --> 00:25:27,875
move here, here, and here.

737
00:25:28,335 --> 00:25:29,934
I'll try to do that too. Yeah. Yeah.

738
00:25:29,934 --> 00:25:31,455
I don't ever go back and read. Yeah.

739
00:25:31,455 --> 00:25:31,955
Yeah.

740
00:25:33,295 --> 00:25:35,475
You know, it's funny you say that because

741
00:25:35,615 --> 00:25:36,115
I

742
00:25:36,975 --> 00:25:38,975
I don't know, about four or five years

743
00:25:38,975 --> 00:25:40,609
ago now, got into

744
00:25:41,069 --> 00:25:43,549
looking into journaling and doing that and I

745
00:25:43,549 --> 00:25:45,150
actually have like a really nice journal. I

746
00:25:45,150 --> 00:25:46,990
went went went online, found me a really

747
00:25:46,990 --> 00:25:48,750
nice one. It has replaceable pages in it

748
00:25:48,750 --> 00:25:50,190
so it's it's that well you've seen me

749
00:25:50,190 --> 00:25:52,394
carry it that leather bound one. And, you

750
00:25:52,394 --> 00:25:53,835
know, it's it's awesome. And I mean, I

751
00:25:53,835 --> 00:25:55,035
I even sat down and got me some

752
00:25:55,035 --> 00:25:56,235
nice pens so I could sit down and

753
00:25:56,235 --> 00:25:57,215
write in it. And,

754
00:25:57,674 --> 00:25:58,715
you know, I'll do it for about a

755
00:25:58,715 --> 00:26:00,795
week. I know. Yeah. I mean, that's just

756
00:26:00,795 --> 00:26:02,955
the way we are because we just life

757
00:26:02,955 --> 00:26:05,910
gets so involved, you know. Yeah. Yeah. It's

758
00:26:05,910 --> 00:26:07,910
crazy. I've been discipline, you know. Yeah. And

759
00:26:07,910 --> 00:26:09,590
I even separated mine out to where I

760
00:26:09,590 --> 00:26:11,750
had a section specifically for where I was

761
00:26:11,750 --> 00:26:13,269
gonna keep up with what I was praying

762
00:26:13,269 --> 00:26:14,549
about and what I was talking to God

763
00:26:14,549 --> 00:26:16,470
about. And, you know, that journal sits in

764
00:26:16,470 --> 00:26:18,309
the corner of my room and and it

765
00:26:18,309 --> 00:26:20,565
kinda gets forgotten about. And I'm like, lord,

766
00:26:20,565 --> 00:26:21,845
I really need to be doing that. And

767
00:26:21,845 --> 00:26:24,164
I tell and I tell young especially young

768
00:26:24,164 --> 00:26:24,664
folks

769
00:26:24,964 --> 00:26:26,244
all the time. I'm like, look, you know,

770
00:26:26,244 --> 00:26:27,605
going off to college or whatever. I'm like,

771
00:26:27,605 --> 00:26:28,644
just go ahead and get the habit of

772
00:26:28,644 --> 00:26:31,544
it. Mhmm. Build that habit now Yeah. Because

773
00:26:31,684 --> 00:26:33,125
this is gonna serve you the rest of

774
00:26:33,125 --> 00:26:34,804
your life being able to sit down, write

775
00:26:34,804 --> 00:26:37,320
things down, and write your thoughts out just

776
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,559
to just to put everything together. And then,

777
00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:40,920
like you say, it makes it so easy

778
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,680
to look back and go, wow. I was

779
00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:44,200
I had forgotten I went through that. I

780
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,279
had forgotten God took you know, delivered me

781
00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:47,480
out of this. I had forgotten that God

782
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,095
came and showed up in this really because

783
00:26:50,095 --> 00:26:51,454
we may not see it while we're going

784
00:26:51,454 --> 00:26:53,375
through it. God's showing up. We'll get put

785
00:26:53,375 --> 00:26:55,134
it in the rear view mirror. Yeah. Yeah.

786
00:26:55,134 --> 00:26:57,474
Yeah. '9 to I twenty twenty. Yeah.

787
00:26:57,775 --> 00:26:59,375
Five, ten years down the road, you look

788
00:26:59,375 --> 00:27:01,214
at it and go, wow. God really delivered

789
00:27:01,214 --> 00:27:02,799
me out of something here. Oh, yeah. There's

790
00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:04,640
this little lady, and and I can't give

791
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,240
names because she's a patient of ours, but

792
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,720
there there's this sweet little lady that that,

793
00:27:09,839 --> 00:27:10,339
she

794
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,759
she journals. She's been journaling. She's she writes

795
00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:15,619
stuff down, I mean all the time.

796
00:27:16,174 --> 00:27:18,335
She has throughout her life and throughout her

797
00:27:18,335 --> 00:27:20,414
Christian life, and she is she is a

798
00:27:20,414 --> 00:27:22,414
dynamic Christian. She she didn't go to church

799
00:27:22,414 --> 00:27:24,734
here, but she's a dynamic Christian, and she's

800
00:27:24,734 --> 00:27:27,535
just a godly woman. And her daughter has

801
00:27:27,535 --> 00:27:28,275
went back,

802
00:27:28,809 --> 00:27:30,830
and she's got some of her her journals,

803
00:27:30,970 --> 00:27:32,910
and she's been reading them. Her mom's

804
00:27:33,369 --> 00:27:34,490
has progressed in in,

805
00:27:35,210 --> 00:27:38,410
a diagnosis that's that's irreversible, you know, now,

806
00:27:38,410 --> 00:27:41,849
but, and and and she's she's not there

807
00:27:41,849 --> 00:27:43,835
like she used to be, but still loves

808
00:27:43,835 --> 00:27:45,275
the lord, still loves to praise the lord,

809
00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:47,275
but she's looked back on these journals and

810
00:27:47,275 --> 00:27:50,414
and and there was times when when she

811
00:27:50,634 --> 00:27:52,555
was not where the daughter was not where

812
00:27:52,555 --> 00:27:54,555
she needed to be with the lord and

813
00:27:54,555 --> 00:27:56,234
and times where she was out in the

814
00:27:56,234 --> 00:27:59,190
world and her mama was writing down specific

815
00:27:59,809 --> 00:28:00,309
prayer,

816
00:28:01,009 --> 00:28:02,390
prayers that she prayed,

817
00:28:03,009 --> 00:28:05,890
and then writing down how God answered those

818
00:28:05,890 --> 00:28:08,210
prayers, and how she seen God work in

819
00:28:08,210 --> 00:28:10,470
those. And, you know, wouldn't that be wonderful?

820
00:28:10,529 --> 00:28:12,345
I'd be asked to look back and and

821
00:28:12,345 --> 00:28:14,585
and see that little that little precious mama

822
00:28:14,585 --> 00:28:17,144
that that prayed over you and and journaled

823
00:28:17,144 --> 00:28:19,144
over you and and thought about you during

824
00:28:19,144 --> 00:28:20,984
those times. And and and what just for

825
00:28:20,984 --> 00:28:22,744
her, but for her family, for her husband,

826
00:28:22,744 --> 00:28:25,400
for grandchildren, you know, things like that. And,

827
00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:27,400
you know, it's it's it's good to look

828
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,640
back and say, okay. Here's where god's brought

829
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,080
us from. Yeah. You know? Well and I

830
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,640
was about to say, that's another reason to

831
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:34,940
actually write it down

832
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,595
on on something in ink Yeah. Yeah. And

833
00:28:38,595 --> 00:28:40,934
and use a permanent ink of some sort

834
00:28:41,154 --> 00:28:43,875
some sort. Because someday, you're not gonna be

835
00:28:43,875 --> 00:28:46,835
here. Yeah. But if your kids or your

836
00:28:46,835 --> 00:28:47,335
grandkids

837
00:28:47,714 --> 00:28:49,015
go back and they find

838
00:28:49,554 --> 00:28:50,880
great granddaddy's journal.

839
00:28:51,759 --> 00:28:53,680
Yeah. Yeah. Where he's written down and and

840
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,259
they're going, wow. I never I never knew.

841
00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:58,880
You wanna know I mean, everything that that

842
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,480
we read about in the Old Testament, that

843
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,099
was all passed down verbally.

844
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,880
Yeah. They had to memorize that. That is

845
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,855
crazy. It is. They had to sit down

846
00:29:06,855 --> 00:29:08,615
and they would sit around the campfire and

847
00:29:08,615 --> 00:29:10,315
just go through

848
00:29:10,615 --> 00:29:12,694
and talk it and talk and talk the

849
00:29:12,694 --> 00:29:14,454
law, all of the law, not just the

850
00:29:14,454 --> 00:29:16,934
10 commandments, all those hundreds of laws. It

851
00:29:16,934 --> 00:29:18,855
it went over and over and over and

852
00:29:18,855 --> 00:29:20,294
over. I mean, yeah, there were copies that

853
00:29:20,294 --> 00:29:22,292
eventually got written down by the scribes and

854
00:29:22,292 --> 00:29:24,300
all of that and got stored with the

855
00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,307
the ark of the covenant and got stored

856
00:29:26,307 --> 00:29:28,315
in the temple and got stored. But there

857
00:29:28,315 --> 00:29:30,322
weren't just mass copies of it. It was

858
00:29:30,322 --> 00:29:32,330
all verbal recitation. We have the ability to

859
00:29:32,330 --> 00:29:34,304
leave behind legacy for our children and for

860
00:29:34,304 --> 00:29:37,024
our grandchildren and great grandchildren and say, just

861
00:29:37,024 --> 00:29:39,825
write it out because, man, there is nothing

862
00:29:39,825 --> 00:29:41,744
better than being able to go back to

863
00:29:41,744 --> 00:29:44,005
a grandparents journal, to go back to grandparents

864
00:29:44,144 --> 00:29:45,744
thoughts on what was going on in the

865
00:29:45,744 --> 00:29:46,804
world at the time.

866
00:29:47,184 --> 00:29:48,784
And the reason I always tell people write

867
00:29:48,784 --> 00:29:49,410
it down,

868
00:29:49,970 --> 00:29:51,250
you put it in your phone, you put

869
00:29:51,250 --> 00:29:52,769
it in a text file, that file can

870
00:29:52,769 --> 00:29:55,330
be changed. Yeah. That piece of paper, it

871
00:29:55,330 --> 00:29:57,090
didn't change unless somebody burns it. That's right.

872
00:29:57,090 --> 00:29:59,269
Yeah. Did I did I tell y'all about,

873
00:29:59,970 --> 00:30:02,049
giving my bible away a few years ago?

874
00:30:02,049 --> 00:30:03,970
Yeah. Tell that on here. Yeah. Yeah. I

875
00:30:03,970 --> 00:30:06,025
mean, yeah, I I we're on a mission

876
00:30:06,025 --> 00:30:06,904
trip, and and,

877
00:30:07,545 --> 00:30:09,065
there was a little boy that got saved

878
00:30:09,065 --> 00:30:10,585
while we were there, and he didn't have

879
00:30:10,585 --> 00:30:11,244
a Bible.

880
00:30:11,625 --> 00:30:13,384
And, and I had this, I mean, I

881
00:30:13,384 --> 00:30:14,605
had this Bible that,

882
00:30:15,065 --> 00:30:17,065
that I'd had for for years, and I've

883
00:30:17,065 --> 00:30:18,744
been preaching out of it for years. And

884
00:30:18,744 --> 00:30:21,069
I had personal notes all in it. I

885
00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:21,809
mean, just

886
00:30:22,349 --> 00:30:24,829
covered up with stuff I'd wrote all in

887
00:30:24,829 --> 00:30:26,750
the bible and sermons that I'd preached and

888
00:30:26,750 --> 00:30:29,150
dates that I'd preached on. All these different

889
00:30:29,150 --> 00:30:31,410
things. And, anyway, long story short,

890
00:30:32,585 --> 00:30:34,505
God said, hey. Give give give him your

891
00:30:34,505 --> 00:30:35,005
bible.

892
00:30:37,464 --> 00:30:38,045
I'm like,

893
00:30:38,825 --> 00:30:40,184
No. I mean, you know, I because I

894
00:30:40,184 --> 00:30:41,865
was thinking, you know, my my kids won't

895
00:30:41,865 --> 00:30:43,464
know they'll get to have this bible one

896
00:30:43,464 --> 00:30:45,164
day. They'll get to see this, you know.

897
00:30:45,785 --> 00:30:47,484
I said, no. Give him your bible.

898
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,319
And, I said he said, I don't have

899
00:30:50,319 --> 00:30:52,000
a Bible. And I said, you do now.

900
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,079
And I gave him my Bible, and and

901
00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:55,920
I was like, I was reluctant. I'm gonna

902
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,279
be honest with you to start with, but

903
00:30:57,279 --> 00:30:59,359
god just kept pressing on me. So I

904
00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:01,119
gave it to him, and I come back

905
00:31:01,119 --> 00:31:03,285
out I come back out from that classroom,

906
00:31:03,285 --> 00:31:04,404
and my wife was,

907
00:31:04,805 --> 00:31:06,404
helping work with the food and stuff that

908
00:31:06,404 --> 00:31:07,845
day, and she's like, where's your Bible at?

909
00:31:07,845 --> 00:31:09,125
Did you leave your Bible in there? I

910
00:31:09,125 --> 00:31:09,625
said,

911
00:31:10,325 --> 00:31:11,785
I gave it to

912
00:31:12,325 --> 00:31:14,904
this young man, and she's like, you didn't

913
00:31:16,164 --> 00:31:18,490
you know? Yeah. The kid The kid was

914
00:31:18,490 --> 00:31:20,029
not the nicest kid. No.

915
00:31:20,330 --> 00:31:22,890
No. No. He wasn't. No. He wasn't. Yeah.

916
00:31:22,890 --> 00:31:23,529
He was

917
00:31:24,330 --> 00:31:26,090
but but but he got saved. And he

918
00:31:26,170 --> 00:31:28,670
Yeah. And, you know, when I thought I

919
00:31:28,730 --> 00:31:30,974
I I just felt god saying, I'll do

920
00:31:30,974 --> 00:31:33,234
something with it. And I may never know.

921
00:31:33,454 --> 00:31:35,454
I may never meet that kid again. Right.

922
00:31:35,454 --> 00:31:36,815
But I told him, tell I said I

923
00:31:36,815 --> 00:31:38,414
had to do it. I said, God would

924
00:31:38,414 --> 00:31:40,414
not let up on me until I gave

925
00:31:40,414 --> 00:31:42,255
that boy my bible. And so I'm I'm

926
00:31:42,255 --> 00:31:44,494
just praying he becomes the next Billy Graham

927
00:31:44,494 --> 00:31:45,795
or next, you know, whatever.

928
00:31:47,429 --> 00:31:49,589
Something like that. And and maybe, you know,

929
00:31:49,589 --> 00:31:51,429
I'll find out one day in heaven maybe

930
00:31:51,429 --> 00:31:52,329
what that did.

931
00:31:52,710 --> 00:31:54,809
Yeah. So but yeah.

932
00:31:55,349 --> 00:31:57,109
Just being able to pass that stuff down.

933
00:31:57,109 --> 00:31:58,890
So sorry, kids. That, you know,

934
00:32:00,845 --> 00:32:02,684
I'll try to fill up several more. I'll

935
00:32:02,684 --> 00:32:04,704
give you my phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's

936
00:32:04,884 --> 00:32:06,544
it. Let's see it.

937
00:32:07,644 --> 00:32:08,384
What about

938
00:32:09,085 --> 00:32:11,724
wilderness Christians today? Man, what does that look

939
00:32:11,724 --> 00:32:12,784
like? You know, this

940
00:32:13,570 --> 00:32:15,750
I guess we've all been there at some

941
00:32:15,809 --> 00:32:18,369
point or another where we just haven't fully

942
00:32:18,369 --> 00:32:21,009
committed. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Right. And I think

943
00:32:21,009 --> 00:32:22,769
to me that's what the Jordan represents in

944
00:32:22,769 --> 00:32:25,170
the promised land is that you're all in.

945
00:32:25,170 --> 00:32:27,490
Yeah. Yeah. Right. You're all in. Amen. But

946
00:32:27,490 --> 00:32:30,085
in the meantime, you're just kinda drifting, going

947
00:32:30,085 --> 00:32:32,244
over the world, doing what you wanna do.

948
00:32:32,244 --> 00:32:33,304
Yeah. Yeah.

949
00:32:34,325 --> 00:32:34,825
What

950
00:32:35,924 --> 00:32:37,444
I can I I know that I know

951
00:32:37,444 --> 00:32:39,044
that we're gonna stand before the Lord in

952
00:32:39,044 --> 00:32:40,265
judgment one day,

953
00:32:40,644 --> 00:32:42,724
and and I know that that part of

954
00:32:42,724 --> 00:32:44,105
that judgment will be

955
00:32:45,259 --> 00:32:47,019
it'll be we'll be judged on things that

956
00:32:47,019 --> 00:32:50,220
we we didn't do, you know, opportunities that

957
00:32:50,220 --> 00:32:52,539
we had, those types of things? And I

958
00:32:52,539 --> 00:32:54,460
really do believe that that's what our judgment's

959
00:32:54,460 --> 00:32:56,480
gonna gonna be based upon,

960
00:32:56,815 --> 00:32:57,955
Not so much our

961
00:32:58,414 --> 00:33:00,734
our sin because our sin's been forgiven and

962
00:33:00,734 --> 00:33:02,674
the you know, those types of things, but

963
00:33:03,215 --> 00:33:04,035
but I wonder

964
00:33:05,215 --> 00:33:07,295
I I can't even imagine. I know when

965
00:33:07,295 --> 00:33:09,375
I let my dad down when I was

966
00:33:09,375 --> 00:33:10,195
growing up,

967
00:33:10,549 --> 00:33:11,829
he meant a lot to me and he

968
00:33:11,829 --> 00:33:13,269
was a good man, he was a godly

969
00:33:13,269 --> 00:33:13,769
man,

970
00:33:14,150 --> 00:33:14,890
and so

971
00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:18,869
his opinion of me meant something. Yeah. And

972
00:33:18,869 --> 00:33:19,849
when I disappointed

973
00:33:20,150 --> 00:33:20,650
him,

974
00:33:21,509 --> 00:33:23,444
oh my gosh. I mean, it It's the

975
00:33:23,444 --> 00:33:25,125
worst thing could happen. Yeah. Yeah. It was

976
00:33:25,125 --> 00:33:27,045
worse than any whipping I could've got or

977
00:33:27,045 --> 00:33:29,845
did get or whatever. But but, you know,

978
00:33:29,845 --> 00:33:31,365
I just didn't wanna let him down. I

979
00:33:31,365 --> 00:33:33,765
just didn't wanna disappoint him. And can you

980
00:33:33,765 --> 00:33:35,065
imagine the

981
00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:38,660
the tenth power of what that's gonna be

982
00:33:38,660 --> 00:33:40,900
like, the thousandth power, what that's gonna be

983
00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:42,980
like? It won't when we will stand before

984
00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:44,660
the lord one day and and and that

985
00:33:44,660 --> 00:33:46,119
guilt and that shame that

986
00:33:46,740 --> 00:33:49,154
that you could have done more, Brian. You

987
00:33:49,154 --> 00:33:51,174
know? You you just sat there.

988
00:33:51,555 --> 00:33:53,394
I I I gave you 300,000

989
00:33:53,394 --> 00:33:54,855
square miles of Christianity

990
00:33:55,154 --> 00:33:57,555
to perform the things that I've called you

991
00:33:57,555 --> 00:33:59,394
to do, and you took 30. You know?

992
00:33:59,394 --> 00:34:01,795
You took 20 or you took 10. And

993
00:34:01,795 --> 00:34:03,634
and and you think about those folks that

994
00:34:03,634 --> 00:34:06,579
never that never answered their calling, they never

995
00:34:06,579 --> 00:34:08,679
answered, they never got past the pew,

996
00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:11,539
they never moved, and and they just they'd

997
00:34:11,539 --> 00:34:13,380
done what they wanted to do. Yeah. My

998
00:34:13,380 --> 00:34:15,139
my son, Ryan, had a classmate when he

999
00:34:15,139 --> 00:34:15,539
was in,

1000
00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:17,960
I think it was about seventh grade,

1001
00:34:18,420 --> 00:34:18,739
and,

1002
00:34:19,394 --> 00:34:20,434
And the little boy,

1003
00:34:21,074 --> 00:34:21,894
committed suicide.

1004
00:34:23,315 --> 00:34:26,515
And the story came out that, he had

1005
00:34:26,515 --> 00:34:28,454
had some bad pictures on his phone

1006
00:34:29,474 --> 00:34:31,015
and his dad found them.

1007
00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:33,599
And his dad left for work that morning

1008
00:34:33,599 --> 00:34:35,460
and said, I'm disappointed in you.

1009
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:38,659
And the little boy killed himself over that.

1010
00:34:39,359 --> 00:34:42,000
That's the kind of power that a father

1011
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,139
has over a child.

1012
00:34:43,454 --> 00:34:46,175
Yeah. And it's being your father being disappointed

1013
00:34:46,175 --> 00:34:48,175
in you is just that's a crusher. Yeah,

1014
00:34:48,175 --> 00:34:50,815
it is. Right. And now I pray that

1015
00:34:50,815 --> 00:34:52,414
that had never happened, you know, like that.

1016
00:34:52,414 --> 00:34:53,635
Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

1017
00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:56,820
But wow. I mean, our heavenly father. Yeah.

1018
00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:58,180
And and to know how much he loves

1019
00:34:58,180 --> 00:34:59,719
us and he gave everything

1020
00:35:00,019 --> 00:35:02,820
he had to give Yeah. To save us.

1021
00:35:02,820 --> 00:35:04,900
Yeah. Amen. And we don't live it, man.

1022
00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:07,160
That's right. That's right. We don't live it.

1023
00:35:07,380 --> 00:35:08,820
He's given us, you know, when we're in

1024
00:35:08,820 --> 00:35:10,420
the wilderness, he's given us, you know, the

1025
00:35:10,420 --> 00:35:12,255
the Holy Spirit to lead us. Yeah. Deal.

1026
00:35:12,255 --> 00:35:15,295
He's got that cloud, we got that fire.

1027
00:35:15,295 --> 00:35:16,815
We do. We got the manna. Yeah. We

1028
00:35:16,815 --> 00:35:18,414
got the quail. That's right. We got all

1029
00:35:18,414 --> 00:35:20,654
these things that he provides for us and

1030
00:35:20,654 --> 00:35:22,335
puts up with us and tells us to

1031
00:35:22,335 --> 00:35:24,255
straighten up. That's it. Yeah. And you know,

1032
00:35:24,255 --> 00:35:26,360
we're still that kid, Right? You know, every

1033
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,440
family's got got a kid that's just one

1034
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,199
kid just loves their parents and gets along

1035
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:31,480
great with them and the other kid's a

1036
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,320
little bit wild, you know. Right. Right. It's

1037
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,559
gonna do their own thing, strong willed stuff,

1038
00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:37,559
you know. And he's just telling us, don't

1039
00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:39,588
be that kid, man. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Just

1040
00:35:39,588 --> 00:35:41,695
come well, I'm good. Be obedient and I'll

1041
00:35:41,695 --> 00:35:43,775
take care of it. I'm good. Yeah. Yeah.

1042
00:35:43,775 --> 00:35:45,775
Well, and and too, you know, I think

1043
00:35:45,775 --> 00:35:46,594
about the

1044
00:35:47,135 --> 00:35:48,494
all of the things that he gives us

1045
00:35:48,494 --> 00:35:49,635
while we're in the wilderness

1046
00:35:51,054 --> 00:35:53,235
and how many modern Christians,

1047
00:35:54,339 --> 00:35:55,880
we get through the wilderness,

1048
00:35:56,179 --> 00:35:57,699
we get to the place that God's told

1049
00:35:57,699 --> 00:35:58,980
us, I need you to go in here

1050
00:35:58,980 --> 00:36:00,739
and do things. I need you to go

1051
00:36:00,739 --> 00:36:02,339
in here and work. I need you to

1052
00:36:02,339 --> 00:36:03,859
go in and I love what you said

1053
00:36:03,859 --> 00:36:05,699
earlier about, you know, you have to work,

1054
00:36:05,699 --> 00:36:08,099
you know, the the it's rest from the

1055
00:36:08,099 --> 00:36:09,885
work. Yeah. It's I mean, what are you

1056
00:36:09,885 --> 00:36:12,224
resting from if you haven't been working? Yeah.

1057
00:36:13,005 --> 00:36:15,005
We get all the way to that point

1058
00:36:15,005 --> 00:36:16,625
where now it's time to work

1059
00:36:17,485 --> 00:36:19,485
and how many of us We don't try

1060
00:36:19,485 --> 00:36:21,300
to go back to Egypt. We just turn

1061
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:22,900
around and go back to the desert. Mhmm.

1062
00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:25,059
Yeah. That's the thing that that really shocks

1063
00:36:25,059 --> 00:36:26,360
me is that that lukewarm

1064
00:36:26,820 --> 00:36:28,260
I'm not going back to Egypt. I'm not

1065
00:36:28,260 --> 00:36:29,780
turning around going all the way back to

1066
00:36:29,780 --> 00:36:31,219
the world and all the way back to

1067
00:36:31,219 --> 00:36:32,119
what I was.

1068
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:34,660
I'm gonna go back out here just outside

1069
00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:37,465
the gates and just outside the the nice

1070
00:36:37,465 --> 00:36:37,965
lush

1071
00:36:38,824 --> 00:36:39,324
green,

1072
00:36:41,385 --> 00:36:43,864
ready to to grow vegetables and fruit and

1073
00:36:43,864 --> 00:36:45,704
ready to to be planted and ready to

1074
00:36:45,704 --> 00:36:47,625
be tilled and has has animals in it

1075
00:36:47,625 --> 00:36:48,984
and everything in it that I need and

1076
00:36:48,984 --> 00:36:50,949
the rivers are just absolutely clear. I'm just

1077
00:36:50,949 --> 00:36:52,710
gonna go stand back outside in the desert.

1078
00:36:52,710 --> 00:36:54,230
Yeah. Yeah. And how many of us do

1079
00:36:54,230 --> 00:36:55,690
that today? And I'm just like,

1080
00:36:56,230 --> 00:36:58,309
I'm like and it blows I I've done

1081
00:36:58,309 --> 00:36:59,989
it. I mean, I've done it. Yeah. And

1082
00:36:59,989 --> 00:37:02,570
I'm like, goodness. What was I thinking? Their

1083
00:37:03,269 --> 00:37:03,769
enjoyment

1084
00:37:04,469 --> 00:37:05,769
of the promised land

1085
00:37:06,684 --> 00:37:09,565
was completely dependent upon them taking possession of

1086
00:37:09,565 --> 00:37:11,184
it. Yeah. Our enjoyment

1087
00:37:11,484 --> 00:37:14,204
of our saved life, of our life with

1088
00:37:14,204 --> 00:37:14,704
Christ

1089
00:37:15,085 --> 00:37:18,125
is completely dependent upon us taking possession of

1090
00:37:18,125 --> 00:37:20,125
it. Yeah. I mean, he he's he's got

1091
00:37:20,125 --> 00:37:22,125
his hand out and he has offered it

1092
00:37:22,125 --> 00:37:24,099
to us, and he's saying, here it is,

1093
00:37:24,099 --> 00:37:26,360
right? I I'll give it all to you.

1094
00:37:26,659 --> 00:37:29,400
What I mean, you think about the experiences

1095
00:37:29,699 --> 00:37:32,179
that that that we miss, the experiences that

1096
00:37:32,179 --> 00:37:33,079
we've experienced

1097
00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:35,545
and how much better they could be if

1098
00:37:35,545 --> 00:37:37,545
we just gave in, right? If we just

1099
00:37:37,545 --> 00:37:39,864
surrendered and said, God, give it to me,

1100
00:37:39,864 --> 00:37:41,724
I'll take it. I wanna I wanna possess

1101
00:37:41,784 --> 00:37:43,945
what you've gave what you've given me. Absolutely.

1102
00:37:43,945 --> 00:37:45,144
And, you know, there was a there was

1103
00:37:45,144 --> 00:37:46,505
a point. There was a point to the

1104
00:37:46,505 --> 00:37:49,369
wilderness. There was. Not because God said he

1105
00:37:49,369 --> 00:37:51,470
could take it take them straight to Canaan.

1106
00:37:51,610 --> 00:37:53,950
Yeah. But he said he they felt their

1107
00:37:54,170 --> 00:37:56,170
hearts would fail or whatever. I can't remember

1108
00:37:56,170 --> 00:37:57,769
exactly how he put it, but when they

1109
00:37:57,769 --> 00:37:59,450
started facing battles right out of the gate.

1110
00:37:59,450 --> 00:38:01,289
Right. Yeah. Right? So they were there to

1111
00:38:01,289 --> 00:38:02,925
grow. They were. They were there to grow.

1112
00:38:02,925 --> 00:38:04,845
They were there to understand who God is

1113
00:38:04,845 --> 00:38:06,045
with by the law that he gave them

1114
00:38:06,045 --> 00:38:08,045
on Mount Sinai, right? But they should have

1115
00:38:08,045 --> 00:38:09,724
been straight through there. It was like an

1116
00:38:09,724 --> 00:38:11,485
eleven day march for a million people. Right.

1117
00:38:11,485 --> 00:38:13,244
Yeah. You know? Yeah. So Yeah. There was

1118
00:38:13,244 --> 00:38:14,285
a point to it and there's a point

1119
00:38:14,285 --> 00:38:16,029
to it when we're in that wilderness place,

1120
00:38:16,029 --> 00:38:17,650
when we're first believers and we're

1121
00:38:18,190 --> 00:38:20,589
struggling against stuff. Yeah. But go get your

1122
00:38:20,589 --> 00:38:22,509
rear end in the promised land and do

1123
00:38:22,509 --> 00:38:24,349
battle with the Holy Spirit living inside you.

1124
00:38:24,349 --> 00:38:25,869
That's right. Right? And that's the part of

1125
00:38:25,869 --> 00:38:27,630
the promised land is that you've got to

1126
00:38:27,630 --> 00:38:29,309
fight it. You've got to fight. And in

1127
00:38:29,309 --> 00:38:31,069
the wilderness, they weren't fighting. That's right. They

1128
00:38:31,069 --> 00:38:31,545
were

1129
00:38:32,344 --> 00:38:34,984
just caving into everything, right? And in the

1130
00:38:34,984 --> 00:38:36,444
promised land, they're fighting.

1131
00:38:37,065 --> 00:38:39,224
We gotta fight. We gotta fight spiritual battles

1132
00:38:39,224 --> 00:38:41,065
like Ephesians six tells us. We don't fight

1133
00:38:41,065 --> 00:38:41,304
against,

1134
00:38:42,105 --> 00:38:43,545
what was it say? For our struggle is

1135
00:38:43,545 --> 00:38:45,289
not against flesh and blood, but against the

1136
00:38:45,289 --> 00:38:47,369
rulers, against the powers, against the world forces

1137
00:38:47,369 --> 00:38:49,449
of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of

1138
00:38:49,449 --> 00:38:51,690
wickedness in the heavenly places. Amen. And and

1139
00:38:51,690 --> 00:38:53,769
our sword of the spirit is what? The

1140
00:38:53,769 --> 00:38:55,769
word of God. We've got to be spreading

1141
00:38:55,769 --> 00:38:57,130
the word of God. We've got to be

1142
00:38:57,130 --> 00:38:59,714
bringing good influence into everything we go into.

1143
00:38:59,714 --> 00:39:00,775
That's right. Amen.

1144
00:39:01,074 --> 00:39:02,355
You know, and that's one of the things

1145
00:39:02,355 --> 00:39:04,194
I I love when I hear the word

1146
00:39:04,194 --> 00:39:05,635
of God referred to as the sword of

1147
00:39:05,635 --> 00:39:06,375
the spirit.

1148
00:39:06,994 --> 00:39:07,974
When you realize

1149
00:39:09,155 --> 00:39:10,614
at the time that was written,

1150
00:39:11,090 --> 00:39:13,250
what a sword well, everybody always thinks of

1151
00:39:13,250 --> 00:39:15,030
a sword and we immediately go to weapon.

1152
00:39:15,409 --> 00:39:17,409
Immediately, we go to something to attack and

1153
00:39:17,409 --> 00:39:18,789
to kill with.

1154
00:39:19,170 --> 00:39:21,829
The swords, that was not their only purpose.

1155
00:39:22,289 --> 00:39:25,494
That was a general purpose tool that soldiers

1156
00:39:25,494 --> 00:39:27,655
carried with them because you had something to

1157
00:39:27,655 --> 00:39:29,414
defend yourself, you had something to go on

1158
00:39:29,414 --> 00:39:31,014
the attack if you needed to, you had

1159
00:39:31,014 --> 00:39:32,614
something to chop some wood if you needed

1160
00:39:32,614 --> 00:39:34,695
to cut your blood. You had stuff you

1161
00:39:34,695 --> 00:39:36,695
had stuff to skin an animal. I mean,

1162
00:39:36,695 --> 00:39:38,074
the it was a general

1163
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,239
especially in the Roman days because you're talking

1164
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,159
about a gladius. These things were not like

1165
00:39:42,159 --> 00:39:44,480
the medieval swords that were these long swords

1166
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,079
that were six foot long. You know, these

1167
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:47,839
things were about this long. Yeah. I mean,

1168
00:39:47,839 --> 00:39:50,079
it was a about, slightly larger than a

1169
00:39:50,079 --> 00:39:53,035
machete Yeah. Basically. And they're very short, but

1170
00:39:53,035 --> 00:39:54,715
they were very durable. They were very they

1171
00:39:54,715 --> 00:39:56,315
were built in such a way that they

1172
00:39:56,315 --> 00:39:59,614
were extremely extraordinarily durable because they were expected

1173
00:39:59,835 --> 00:40:02,555
to, number one, take care of it, keep

1174
00:40:02,555 --> 00:40:04,460
it sharp, Keep it maintained.

1175
00:40:05,079 --> 00:40:06,780
Keep it clean. Yep.

1176
00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:09,800
And then use it because we don't have

1177
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,420
you can't carry

1178
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,639
enough stuff to be able to have a

1179
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:16,255
hammer and a and an extra knife and

1180
00:40:16,255 --> 00:40:18,335
a a saw blade and a like you

1181
00:40:18,335 --> 00:40:20,335
could It was an all purpose tool. And

1182
00:40:20,335 --> 00:40:21,934
to keep it close to you. And keep

1183
00:40:21,934 --> 00:40:23,775
it yeah. Keep it right there at your

1184
00:40:23,775 --> 00:40:25,855
side. You have to keep it close. Yeah.

1185
00:40:25,855 --> 00:40:26,974
And we're called to do all that with

1186
00:40:26,974 --> 00:40:28,255
the word of God. We gotta be tending

1187
00:40:28,255 --> 00:40:29,454
to it. We gotta be looking at it.

1188
00:40:29,454 --> 00:40:31,231
We gotta be cleaning it. We gotta be

1189
00:40:31,231 --> 00:40:33,394
polishing it up. We gotta take it's not

1190
00:40:33,394 --> 00:40:35,316
just something to sit on the shelf and

1191
00:40:35,316 --> 00:40:37,239
ignore. And sometimes they get cut by their

1192
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,161
own sword, and we do too. Right? He

1193
00:40:39,161 --> 00:40:41,083
knows that. K. I'm not gonna do that

1194
00:40:41,083 --> 00:40:42,525
again. Why? Sharp. I'm I'm not gonna do

1195
00:40:42,525 --> 00:40:44,444
that again. You know, we have no learn

1196
00:40:44,444 --> 00:40:46,364
from that. I I think probably all three

1197
00:40:46,364 --> 00:40:47,804
of us have done it at some point

1198
00:40:47,804 --> 00:40:49,924
where we have actually had to sharpen either

1199
00:40:49,924 --> 00:40:51,405
a lawnmower blade or a knife if we

1200
00:40:51,405 --> 00:40:53,565
didn't, you know, do that. It it's easy

1201
00:40:53,565 --> 00:40:55,164
when you're sharpening something like that. Be sitting

1202
00:40:55,164 --> 00:40:56,204
there and you're doing your thing. And I

1203
00:40:56,204 --> 00:40:58,450
was like, Yeah. Yeah. And and these guys

1204
00:40:58,450 --> 00:41:00,630
were doing it with with basically just rocks.

1205
00:41:00,690 --> 00:41:03,030
Yeah. They weren't even good whetstones, you know.

1206
00:41:03,090 --> 00:41:04,530
And they're sitting there sharpening. I mean, it

1207
00:41:04,530 --> 00:41:05,890
was it was a common thing. You get

1208
00:41:05,890 --> 00:41:07,890
cut by your sword. Yeah. Amen. You know,

1209
00:41:07,890 --> 00:41:09,650
you didn't get you didn't necessarily cut your

1210
00:41:09,650 --> 00:41:10,905
own head off, but I feel like I

1211
00:41:10,905 --> 00:41:12,344
feel like some of us today, again, going

1212
00:41:12,344 --> 00:41:14,204
back to that modern Christians in the wilderness,

1213
00:41:14,585 --> 00:41:15,945
sometimes we try to cut our own heads

1214
00:41:15,945 --> 00:41:17,945
off with the sword. Yeah. You you gotta

1215
00:41:17,945 --> 00:41:19,864
you gotta we gotta stay studied up. We

1216
00:41:19,864 --> 00:41:21,625
we gotta stay in the word because, I

1217
00:41:21,625 --> 00:41:23,224
mean, that that's another topic that you have

1218
00:41:23,224 --> 00:41:25,304
Jesus washing the disciples' feet. Right? He said,

1219
00:41:25,304 --> 00:41:27,420
all you're all clean Looking for your feet

1220
00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:28,940
that have been walking around in the dirt

1221
00:41:28,940 --> 00:41:30,539
of this world. Yeah. Yeah. Right? And we

1222
00:41:30,539 --> 00:41:31,980
need to get our feet clean every day,

1223
00:41:31,980 --> 00:41:33,739
and that comes out of the word. It

1224
00:41:33,739 --> 00:41:35,739
comes out of praying and staying close to

1225
00:41:35,739 --> 00:41:38,139
God. Amen. Amen. Or you won't be ready.

1226
00:41:38,139 --> 00:41:41,204
Well, they you cannot get enough bible study.

1227
00:41:41,204 --> 00:41:43,525
You cannot get enough Bible study. I mean,

1228
00:41:43,525 --> 00:41:44,184
it's just

1229
00:41:45,525 --> 00:41:47,605
continually staying in the word of God. Going

1230
00:41:47,605 --> 00:41:49,465
going to a Bible study, studying,

1231
00:41:50,164 --> 00:41:52,405
on a personal level, on your own, studying

1232
00:41:52,405 --> 00:41:54,405
with your family and pouring that word over

1233
00:41:54,405 --> 00:41:56,530
them and over your wife and over your

1234
00:41:56,530 --> 00:41:58,929
kids. You know? I mean, I I I

1235
00:41:58,929 --> 00:42:00,710
love it when my kids wanna discuss

1236
00:42:01,250 --> 00:42:03,109
the word of God. Yeah. You know? Especially

1237
00:42:03,170 --> 00:42:05,170
when they get into these discussions and talking

1238
00:42:05,170 --> 00:42:06,609
with other people, you know, and they're like,

1239
00:42:06,609 --> 00:42:08,210
hey. Tell me about this and tell me

1240
00:42:08,210 --> 00:42:09,644
about this, and what do you think about

1241
00:42:09,644 --> 00:42:11,405
this, and how do I answer this, and

1242
00:42:11,405 --> 00:42:13,565
those types of things. And and and I

1243
00:42:13,565 --> 00:42:15,244
want them to be able to battle on

1244
00:42:15,244 --> 00:42:17,005
their own. You know? Yeah. I want you

1245
00:42:17,005 --> 00:42:18,045
to be able to Yeah. I want you

1246
00:42:18,045 --> 00:42:19,164
to be able to go out there because

1247
00:42:19,164 --> 00:42:21,324
dad's not always gonna be here. That's right.

1248
00:42:21,324 --> 00:42:23,085
So I wanna teach you these things, and

1249
00:42:23,085 --> 00:42:24,339
I want you to I I want you

1250
00:42:24,339 --> 00:42:26,179
to learn how to pull out that sword

1251
00:42:26,179 --> 00:42:28,679
belongs to you too. It's not just mine,

1252
00:42:28,739 --> 00:42:31,559
but it's your sword. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

1253
00:42:31,699 --> 00:42:32,199
But,

1254
00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:35,079
Ephesians one three says,

1255
00:42:35,380 --> 00:42:36,900
blessed be the god of father,

1256
00:42:37,445 --> 00:42:39,284
the God and father of our Lord Jesus

1257
00:42:39,284 --> 00:42:41,204
Christ who have blessed us with all spiritual

1258
00:42:41,204 --> 00:42:44,085
blessings in heavenly places. He's already given us

1259
00:42:44,085 --> 00:42:45,304
that, right? Yeah. He's

1260
00:42:45,605 --> 00:42:47,844
given us that. It's done. Right. Just possess

1261
00:42:47,844 --> 00:42:50,505
it, reach out, grab a hold of it,

1262
00:42:51,204 --> 00:42:53,989
and and and just live in it. Right?

1263
00:42:53,989 --> 00:42:55,829
Yeah. Step into it. Yes. That's it. Yeah.

1264
00:42:55,829 --> 00:42:57,269
We you know, it's funny how we we

1265
00:42:57,269 --> 00:42:59,429
don't put much value on eternal stuff in

1266
00:42:59,429 --> 00:43:00,969
this world. Right? Yeah. No. Love,

1267
00:43:01,670 --> 00:43:04,070
peace, joy, all stuff, you know, the fruit

1268
00:43:04,070 --> 00:43:05,909
of spirit, all these things that he's given

1269
00:43:05,909 --> 00:43:08,625
us. Now stuff. Right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. I

1270
00:43:08,625 --> 00:43:10,545
wanna be blessed with a bigger job or

1271
00:43:10,545 --> 00:43:12,304
a better job and a bigger house and

1272
00:43:12,304 --> 00:43:14,965
a nicer car and Yeah. Answer that.

1273
00:43:15,344 --> 00:43:17,344
Man, that stuff don't last. I see it.

1274
00:43:17,344 --> 00:43:18,485
I see it. Yeah.

1275
00:43:19,425 --> 00:43:21,905
It's you know, and this Christian life is

1276
00:43:21,905 --> 00:43:22,885
almost like

1277
00:43:24,279 --> 00:43:26,039
I think it's almost like we're waiting on

1278
00:43:26,039 --> 00:43:26,699
a promotion

1279
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,480
without working for it. And I I mean,

1280
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:30,760
I know that I know that I know

1281
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,760
that we don't work for our salvation. Right?

1282
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,519
Right. But we also know that faith without

1283
00:43:34,519 --> 00:43:36,519
works is dead. Yeah. So if we want

1284
00:43:36,519 --> 00:43:37,260
to experience

1285
00:43:37,875 --> 00:43:40,195
the fullness of God, that's the fullness of

1286
00:43:40,195 --> 00:43:40,695
salvation,

1287
00:43:41,315 --> 00:43:43,235
then then we have a purpose that we

1288
00:43:43,235 --> 00:43:45,735
have to fulfill. God's called us to something.

1289
00:43:45,875 --> 00:43:47,715
And when he calls us to something, we

1290
00:43:47,715 --> 00:43:48,994
have to move. We have to do it.

1291
00:43:48,994 --> 00:43:50,835
Right? So you can't just sit at your

1292
00:43:50,835 --> 00:43:53,250
job day after day after day and do

1293
00:43:53,250 --> 00:43:55,969
nothing and expect to get expect to get,

1294
00:43:56,530 --> 00:43:57,030
promoted.

1295
00:43:57,329 --> 00:43:59,409
Right? You know? If God won't if you

1296
00:43:59,409 --> 00:44:01,250
wanna experience the things of God, then get

1297
00:44:01,250 --> 00:44:03,010
out there and get your hands dirty. Yeah.

1298
00:44:03,010 --> 00:44:05,744
You know, he it's there for the taking.

1299
00:44:05,744 --> 00:44:07,744
He's he's given it to you, but but

1300
00:44:07,744 --> 00:44:09,344
there's some work to be done in it.

1301
00:44:09,344 --> 00:44:11,744
There's some wilderness to go through. Absolutely. It's

1302
00:44:11,824 --> 00:44:14,224
I miss like Ephesians two, not the next

1303
00:44:14,224 --> 00:44:16,065
chapter. Yeah. For for by grace, you've been

1304
00:44:16,065 --> 00:44:17,744
saved through faith and that not of yourselves

1305
00:44:17,744 --> 00:44:19,699
is a gift of God, not as a

1306
00:44:19,699 --> 00:44:21,139
result of works so that no one may

1307
00:44:21,139 --> 00:44:23,079
boast. For we are his workmanship

1308
00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:26,500
Yeah. Created in Christ Jesus for good works.

1309
00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:28,819
Yeah. God prepared beforehand so that we would

1310
00:44:28,819 --> 00:44:31,219
walk in them. That's right. Amen. He's prepared

1311
00:44:31,219 --> 00:44:33,059
it. He's prepared this stuff for us. That's

1312
00:44:33,059 --> 00:44:34,500
right. Amen. And we just walk right by

1313
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,315
it. No. Yeah. Yeah. That whole verse is

1314
00:44:36,394 --> 00:44:37,675
I mean, it just tells us that. It

1315
00:44:37,675 --> 00:44:39,675
tells us we're not saved by works, but

1316
00:44:39,675 --> 00:44:42,474
we are saved to work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1317
00:44:42,474 --> 00:44:44,715
So that we can glorify Christ Jesus We

1318
00:44:44,715 --> 00:44:46,235
get that in our life. Go off. No.

1319
00:44:46,235 --> 00:44:47,835
So many Christians get that backwards. I think

1320
00:44:47,835 --> 00:44:49,839
they gotta work harder, work harder, I'll please

1321
00:44:49,839 --> 00:44:52,079
God, I'll please God. Yeah. Man, you've already

1322
00:44:52,079 --> 00:44:53,920
pleased God, you've already got every spiritual blessing.

1323
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,079
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go do something.

1324
00:44:56,079 --> 00:44:58,260
Just do something to glorify. Yeah. Yeah.

1325
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,559
Well, and you know, I think you said

1326
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:01,679
it earlier when you were saying, you know,

1327
00:45:01,679 --> 00:45:02,639
we have to go out and we have

1328
00:45:02,639 --> 00:45:04,005
to do what we're called to do. We

1329
00:45:04,005 --> 00:45:05,684
have to go to where we've been called

1330
00:45:05,684 --> 00:45:07,844
to go to, but we've also been called

1331
00:45:07,844 --> 00:45:10,344
out of something. Yeah. You know, I think,

1332
00:45:10,565 --> 00:45:12,244
again, it goes back to that wilderness. You're

1333
00:45:12,244 --> 00:45:14,085
wandering around the wilderness. You've been called out.

1334
00:45:14,085 --> 00:45:16,585
You've been called. Okay. You're over here in

1335
00:45:16,885 --> 00:45:18,644
in the Badlands. You're over here in this

1336
00:45:18,644 --> 00:45:20,869
area that's just desolate, and it's got nothing

1337
00:45:20,869 --> 00:45:23,269
good in it. Mhmm. Not really. Yeah. I

1338
00:45:23,269 --> 00:45:24,950
mean, everything good in it is just other

1339
00:45:24,950 --> 00:45:26,470
Christians that are that are being in the

1340
00:45:26,470 --> 00:45:27,829
world and not of the world and doing

1341
00:45:27,829 --> 00:45:29,910
what he's been called to do. Right. But

1342
00:45:29,910 --> 00:45:31,750
you're out here in this area that that

1343
00:45:31,829 --> 00:45:33,135
that's the only good is running into other

1344
00:45:33,375 --> 00:45:35,135
these Christians that are out there doing what

1345
00:45:35,135 --> 00:45:36,735
they were called to do. Mhmm. So he

1346
00:45:36,735 --> 00:45:38,434
says, okay, I've called you out of that,

1347
00:45:38,494 --> 00:45:40,335
and he's called us to something and that

1348
00:45:40,335 --> 00:45:42,195
call to something is to go into

1349
00:45:42,494 --> 00:45:44,335
an area where you are surrounded and you

1350
00:45:44,335 --> 00:45:46,969
are constantly inundated and you are constantly getting

1351
00:45:48,070 --> 00:45:50,710
yourself ready to go back out there and

1352
00:45:50,710 --> 00:45:52,710
do some battle. Yeah. Yeah. And we we

1353
00:45:52,710 --> 00:45:54,630
are called out of that. Yep. And he

1354
00:45:54,630 --> 00:45:56,070
sends us right back into it, but he

1355
00:45:56,070 --> 00:45:57,989
does and that's when he tells us, be

1356
00:45:57,989 --> 00:45:59,755
in it, but don't be of it. Yeah.

1357
00:45:59,755 --> 00:46:01,355
Don't let it sink into you. When you

1358
00:46:01,355 --> 00:46:02,795
start letting it stay in your clothes, when

1359
00:46:02,795 --> 00:46:04,234
you start to let it get get back

1360
00:46:04,234 --> 00:46:05,795
out. Yeah. Get out again. Yeah. Because it

1361
00:46:05,835 --> 00:46:07,514
and there has to be some strength there.

1362
00:46:07,514 --> 00:46:10,234
Right? That's what that's where discipleship comes in.

1363
00:46:10,234 --> 00:46:10,974
That's where,

1364
00:46:11,434 --> 00:46:13,275
growing in the word. That's where Bible study

1365
00:46:13,275 --> 00:46:14,820
comes in because we can we can get

1366
00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:15,719
so caught up

1367
00:46:16,019 --> 00:46:17,940
in the world that that the world can

1368
00:46:17,940 --> 00:46:19,300
take us over. You know? Well, I think

1369
00:46:19,460 --> 00:46:20,820
all the time. And I I think this

1370
00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:22,019
is one of the areas, you know, we

1371
00:46:22,019 --> 00:46:23,640
we a lot of times use the phrase,

1372
00:46:24,739 --> 00:46:27,059
accountability. You know, we talk about being holding

1373
00:46:27,059 --> 00:46:28,695
each other accountable and all that. But I

1374
00:46:28,695 --> 00:46:30,535
think too, there's a there's a lot of

1375
00:46:30,535 --> 00:46:33,755
fear that Christians have of of the judgment

1376
00:46:34,055 --> 00:46:35,815
of of other Christians if we were to

1377
00:46:35,815 --> 00:46:37,894
go to our brothers or and or brothers

1378
00:46:37,894 --> 00:46:39,494
or ladies go to your sisters and say,

1379
00:46:39,494 --> 00:46:41,255
hey. Look. I'm having this problem. Hey. Look.

1380
00:46:41,255 --> 00:46:42,695
I'm I'm falling into this sin and I'm

1381
00:46:42,695 --> 00:46:43,994
falling into it real bad.

1382
00:46:44,510 --> 00:46:45,630
Well, I don't I don't know that I

1383
00:46:45,630 --> 00:46:47,069
won't tell my brother that. He might look

1384
00:46:47,069 --> 00:46:48,469
at me funny. Yeah. I don't know that

1385
00:46:48,469 --> 00:46:49,869
I want my you know, I don't know

1386
00:46:49,869 --> 00:46:51,630
that I want somebody else to know what

1387
00:46:51,630 --> 00:46:54,349
I'm going through. It's like, look. I Pride.

1388
00:46:54,349 --> 00:46:56,190
I'm not saying get up and announce it

1389
00:46:56,190 --> 00:46:58,304
in church on Sunday morning. Please.

1390
00:46:59,324 --> 00:47:01,804
I'm honestly not asking anybody to do that

1391
00:47:01,804 --> 00:47:03,804
because that's I I get it. That's that

1392
00:47:03,804 --> 00:47:04,945
that would be horrible.

1393
00:47:05,244 --> 00:47:07,485
And, depending on what it is, it could

1394
00:47:07,485 --> 00:47:09,405
be something that you don't want people hearing,

1395
00:47:09,405 --> 00:47:11,585
that people don't need to hear. But

1396
00:47:12,150 --> 00:47:14,230
having somebody in your life that you trust

1397
00:47:14,230 --> 00:47:15,750
enough to go to them and say, hey.

1398
00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:16,730
I've got this problem,

1399
00:47:17,030 --> 00:47:19,030
and I keep tripping over it, and I'm

1400
00:47:19,030 --> 00:47:20,949
just not sure what to do. And then

1401
00:47:20,949 --> 00:47:22,730
I think on the flip side of that,

1402
00:47:22,949 --> 00:47:25,190
if we want to have someone that we

1403
00:47:25,190 --> 00:47:27,914
can trust to share those things with in

1404
00:47:27,914 --> 00:47:29,295
our life, then

1405
00:47:30,075 --> 00:47:30,795
how do we

1406
00:47:31,195 --> 00:47:32,815
I don't know if that's minor, but

1407
00:47:33,434 --> 00:47:35,355
but if we if we have those those

1408
00:47:35,355 --> 00:47:37,114
people that we we wanna have those people

1409
00:47:37,114 --> 00:47:39,755
that we can share, those those intimate details

1410
00:47:39,755 --> 00:47:42,210
with or those those things that are, that

1411
00:47:42,369 --> 00:47:44,289
that that are holding us back or holding

1412
00:47:44,289 --> 00:47:44,949
us down,

1413
00:47:45,489 --> 00:47:46,469
then we've also

1414
00:47:46,849 --> 00:47:49,269
got to strive to be that person too

1415
00:47:49,409 --> 00:47:51,030
for somebody else, you know,

1416
00:47:51,409 --> 00:47:53,409
to to be that confidant, to be that

1417
00:47:53,409 --> 00:47:56,015
person that's not just saying, oh, you're done.

1418
00:47:56,015 --> 00:47:58,095
You know? You're over. That's you're out of

1419
00:47:58,095 --> 00:48:00,414
here. You know? Yeah. And and and to

1420
00:48:00,414 --> 00:48:02,575
understand, you know, and give some grace and

1421
00:48:02,575 --> 00:48:03,875
give some mercy and,

1422
00:48:04,335 --> 00:48:06,175
there and say, okay. Let's let's walk through

1423
00:48:06,175 --> 00:48:07,775
this. You know? You can come back from

1424
00:48:07,775 --> 00:48:10,659
this. You can you can you can you're

1425
00:48:10,659 --> 00:48:11,159
forgiven.

1426
00:48:11,539 --> 00:48:13,539
The lord's forgiven you. He died for this

1427
00:48:13,539 --> 00:48:16,260
sin already. So now let's let's build let's

1428
00:48:16,260 --> 00:48:17,940
build this back, and let's get you back

1429
00:48:17,940 --> 00:48:19,559
where you need to be. And, hey, sometimes

1430
00:48:20,420 --> 00:48:22,260
that that and that's one thing I I've

1431
00:48:22,260 --> 00:48:22,760
told

1432
00:48:23,139 --> 00:48:24,945
some other close friends of mine in the

1433
00:48:24,945 --> 00:48:26,385
past when they've they've been trying to help

1434
00:48:26,385 --> 00:48:28,005
somebody with some stuff. I'm like,

1435
00:48:28,545 --> 00:48:30,224
there are times where the answer to your

1436
00:48:30,224 --> 00:48:31,664
brother or sister coming to you and saying,

1437
00:48:31,664 --> 00:48:33,425
I've got this problem. And I'm I'm I've

1438
00:48:33,425 --> 00:48:35,184
got this sin issue, and I'm I'm tripping

1439
00:48:35,184 --> 00:48:36,865
over it, and I can't I don't know

1440
00:48:36,865 --> 00:48:37,684
what to do.

1441
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,140
Sometimes the answer is, hey. Look.

1442
00:48:40,519 --> 00:48:41,719
I don't know what to do to help

1443
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:43,880
you, but I will help you find somebody

1444
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:45,480
who can. Yeah. I will help you get

1445
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:46,760
some therapy. I will help you get some

1446
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,039
counseling. I will help you go to the

1447
00:48:48,039 --> 00:48:50,039
pastor. I will help you find somebody that

1448
00:48:50,039 --> 00:48:51,559
can sit down with you and help you

1449
00:48:51,559 --> 00:48:53,795
get through this. And I think that's where,

1450
00:48:53,795 --> 00:48:54,295
again,

1451
00:48:54,835 --> 00:48:56,914
we as modern Christians have a tendency to

1452
00:48:56,914 --> 00:48:59,074
kinda drop off. This was an expected thing

1453
00:48:59,074 --> 00:49:00,994
in the early church. This is just something

1454
00:49:00,994 --> 00:49:03,154
they did because they were meeting a lot

1455
00:49:03,154 --> 00:49:05,094
of times in secret in people's houses.

1456
00:49:06,500 --> 00:49:08,019
You're gonna let some a bunch of people

1457
00:49:08,019 --> 00:49:09,380
into your house when you don't have at

1458
00:49:09,380 --> 00:49:10,980
least some idea of what kind of people

1459
00:49:10,980 --> 00:49:12,819
they are? Yeah. I mean, you got some

1460
00:49:12,819 --> 00:49:15,460
idea. And church early church discipline, they they

1461
00:49:15,460 --> 00:49:16,819
would. They just pull somebody out and say,

1462
00:49:16,819 --> 00:49:18,179
hey. Look. You know, I know you're coming

1463
00:49:18,179 --> 00:49:19,619
in here. You've been going to meetings with

1464
00:49:19,619 --> 00:49:21,614
us. You've been reading. You've been studying these

1465
00:49:21,614 --> 00:49:23,375
words. You've been bringing stuff to us. And,

1466
00:49:24,094 --> 00:49:25,795
you know what I saw the other day?

1467
00:49:26,414 --> 00:49:28,494
Mhmm. Yes. And they would go, oh, yeah.

1468
00:49:28,494 --> 00:49:30,494
I, I did that, and I shouldn't have

1469
00:49:30,494 --> 00:49:31,775
done that. And let's,

1470
00:49:32,175 --> 00:49:33,775
let let's let's try to work on it.

1471
00:49:33,775 --> 00:49:35,510
Let's, yeah, let's Let's set up the sport.

1472
00:49:35,510 --> 00:49:37,530
We've gotta beat each other because, you know,

1473
00:49:37,670 --> 00:49:38,809
what God called,

1474
00:49:39,269 --> 00:49:41,030
called Joshua to do when he went into

1475
00:49:41,030 --> 00:49:41,929
the promised land,

1476
00:49:42,230 --> 00:49:43,210
destroy every

1477
00:49:43,670 --> 00:49:46,230
every semblance of these people. Destroy them all.

1478
00:49:46,230 --> 00:49:49,190
Destroy the animals, men, women, and children. Every

1479
00:49:49,190 --> 00:49:50,925
part of it. And it sounded harsh. It

1480
00:49:50,925 --> 00:49:53,244
sounded cruel. Yeah. But it's a it's a

1481
00:49:53,244 --> 00:49:55,005
type of sin in our lives. Yeah. Yeah.

1482
00:49:55,005 --> 00:49:57,324
He's taken it off. Get every Move it.

1483
00:49:57,405 --> 00:49:58,684
Bit of it out of here. Just like

1484
00:49:58,684 --> 00:50:00,738
the leaven. Get rid of it. Yeah. It's

1485
00:50:00,738 --> 00:50:01,885
like out of there. It's like if your

1486
00:50:01,885 --> 00:50:04,250
eye offends you, then take out your eye.

1487
00:50:04,250 --> 00:50:06,250
Yeah. You know that? Yeah. That that whole

1488
00:50:06,250 --> 00:50:08,409
thing, it sounds that sounds really old testament,

1489
00:50:08,409 --> 00:50:10,409
but it's Yeah. It's But we can't always

1490
00:50:10,409 --> 00:50:12,650
do it alone. Yeah. Right? That's right. Yeah.

1491
00:50:12,650 --> 00:50:15,050
That's right. Gotta have help. Yeah. That's it.

1492
00:50:15,050 --> 00:50:17,449
That's it. Yeah. And and there should be

1493
00:50:17,449 --> 00:50:19,945
the, you know, there should be a a

1494
00:50:20,244 --> 00:50:20,744
remorse

1495
00:50:21,445 --> 00:50:23,045
and a and and a a time of

1496
00:50:23,045 --> 00:50:23,545
repentance

1497
00:50:24,324 --> 00:50:25,224
of our sin,

1498
00:50:25,844 --> 00:50:28,244
to to move past that and to to

1499
00:50:28,244 --> 00:50:30,005
go into the place where we need to

1500
00:50:30,005 --> 00:50:31,800
go so that god can so that he

1501
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,719
can use us. Yeah. We gotta have short

1502
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:35,019
memories, don't we? I

1503
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,640
was just looking at Philippians three today, you

1504
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,280
know, and said, Paul Paul's talking about in

1505
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,599
chapter three says, he said, brethren, I do

1506
00:50:42,599 --> 00:50:45,079
not regard myself as having laid hold of

1507
00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:47,764
it yet or perfection, right, righteousness.

1508
00:50:48,144 --> 00:50:50,224
Said, but one thing I do, forgetting what

1509
00:50:50,224 --> 00:50:52,704
lies behind and reaching forward to what lies

1510
00:50:52,704 --> 00:50:54,784
ahead, I press on toward the goal for

1511
00:50:54,784 --> 00:50:56,945
the prize prize of the upward call of

1512
00:50:56,945 --> 00:50:59,425
God in Christ Jesus. Amen. Forget what lies

1513
00:50:59,425 --> 00:51:01,369
behind. Amen. You know, and that's that's hard

1514
00:51:01,369 --> 00:51:03,849
to do, man. Yeah. You're just constantly reminded

1515
00:51:03,849 --> 00:51:05,849
of all your failures. You know, I'll always

1516
00:51:05,849 --> 00:51:07,450
remember the bad stuff. I don't remember the

1517
00:51:07,610 --> 00:51:08,590
Oh, yeah.

1518
00:51:08,969 --> 00:51:10,410
Yeah. But but that's that's the way it

1519
00:51:10,410 --> 00:51:11,769
is like in a like in your playing

1520
00:51:11,769 --> 00:51:13,965
golf, right? You did a lousy shot. You

1521
00:51:13,965 --> 00:51:15,485
you better forget it when you get by

1522
00:51:15,485 --> 00:51:16,605
the time you get to your ball and

1523
00:51:16,605 --> 00:51:17,885
hit it again. Because the rest of your

1524
00:51:17,885 --> 00:51:20,285
game's gonna be Yeah. You're just gonna be

1525
00:51:20,285 --> 00:51:21,724
mad the rest of the time. I see

1526
00:51:21,724 --> 00:51:23,184
it. Yeah. Yeah.

1527
00:51:24,285 --> 00:51:24,785
Joshua,

1528
00:51:25,565 --> 00:51:27,405
I mean, it it's just full of those

1529
00:51:27,405 --> 00:51:29,860
those promises of God. It's those Yeah.

1530
00:51:30,559 --> 00:51:31,619
Those, looking towards,

1531
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:32,980
a savior.

1532
00:51:35,119 --> 00:51:37,119
But, but god god told him in in

1533
00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:37,619
Joshua

1534
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:38,500
one

1535
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:40,980
and and verse five, he said,

1536
00:51:41,925 --> 00:51:43,765
there shall not any man be able to

1537
00:51:43,765 --> 00:51:45,364
stand before thee all the days of my

1538
00:51:45,364 --> 00:51:47,684
life. As I was as I was with

1539
00:51:47,684 --> 00:51:49,684
Moses, so will I be with thee. I

1540
00:51:49,684 --> 00:51:51,925
will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Yeah.

1541
00:51:51,925 --> 00:51:53,844
Ain't that good? Ain't that a great promise

1542
00:51:53,844 --> 00:51:55,204
of God? I don't think we read that

1543
00:51:55,204 --> 00:51:56,619
when we read the promises of god the

1544
00:51:56,619 --> 00:51:58,219
other day. I know. Yeah. He will not

1545
00:51:58,219 --> 00:52:00,159
fail us. He will not forsake us.

1546
00:52:01,019 --> 00:52:02,699
He said, I I I'm giving you all

1547
00:52:02,699 --> 00:52:04,619
this. Right? I I Yeah. I'm letting you

1548
00:52:04,619 --> 00:52:07,019
have all this. I'm you can possess this.

1549
00:52:07,019 --> 00:52:08,559
You can hold on to this.

1550
00:52:09,420 --> 00:52:10,239
And and

1551
00:52:10,859 --> 00:52:12,324
if you if you don't go if you

1552
00:52:12,324 --> 00:52:13,844
don't go after it, you're missing it. Right?

1553
00:52:13,844 --> 00:52:15,684
You're missing the prophecy. And right right after

1554
00:52:15,684 --> 00:52:17,925
that, he tells Joshua three times he tells

1555
00:52:17,925 --> 00:52:19,925
him, be strong and courageous. Yeah. Yeah. Be

1556
00:52:19,925 --> 00:52:22,244
strong and courageous. Yeah. Yeah. Why? Because he's

1557
00:52:22,244 --> 00:52:24,085
with you. Because I'm with you. That's right.

1558
00:52:24,085 --> 00:52:25,605
Yeah. Yeah. He's I love verse nine. If

1559
00:52:25,605 --> 00:52:27,605
I not commanded you, be strong and courageous.

1560
00:52:27,605 --> 00:52:29,460
Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the

1561
00:52:29,460 --> 00:52:31,460
lord your god is with you wherever you

1562
00:52:31,460 --> 00:52:32,280
go. Amen.

1563
00:52:33,140 --> 00:52:34,420
Amen. You know, it's you know, a lot

1564
00:52:34,420 --> 00:52:35,000
of times,

1565
00:52:35,380 --> 00:52:37,140
I have a tendency to be very leery

1566
00:52:37,140 --> 00:52:39,539
of of certain types of music and certain

1567
00:52:39,539 --> 00:52:41,059
types of songs that that a lot of

1568
00:52:41,059 --> 00:52:42,039
churches play.

1569
00:52:42,815 --> 00:52:44,494
Some bother me a little bit because they're

1570
00:52:44,494 --> 00:52:46,815
not great. I appreciated hearing Fernando Ortega the

1571
00:52:46,815 --> 00:52:48,654
other day. That's awesome. I'm a big, big

1572
00:52:48,654 --> 00:52:51,054
Fernando fan. Oh, I'm glad I'm glad I'm

1573
00:52:51,054 --> 00:52:52,914
glad I have that one. But

1574
00:52:54,174 --> 00:52:56,110
I I always I am reminded of that

1575
00:52:56,110 --> 00:52:56,909
one we did,

1576
00:52:57,469 --> 00:52:59,150
I guess it was Brooke and Stevens last

1577
00:52:59,150 --> 00:52:59,650
Christmas

1578
00:53:00,110 --> 00:53:01,710
that they were that when they did that

1579
00:53:01,710 --> 00:53:04,030
Christmas program. And that one where where, you

1580
00:53:04,030 --> 00:53:05,309
know, I just remember the end of the

1581
00:53:05,309 --> 00:53:06,510
song. I can never remember the name of

1582
00:53:06,510 --> 00:53:08,110
the song, sadly enough, because it's such a

1583
00:53:08,110 --> 00:53:10,474
good song. You know, he is for you.

1584
00:53:10,474 --> 00:53:12,474
Yeah. It carries you. Yeah. Yeah. He's for

1585
00:53:12,474 --> 00:53:14,494
you. He's for you. He's for you. And

1586
00:53:14,715 --> 00:53:16,954
and we do. We forget. God God's cheering

1587
00:53:16,954 --> 00:53:18,715
us on. And and we bring this up

1588
00:53:18,715 --> 00:53:20,875
a lot, man, because God is. He's our

1589
00:53:20,875 --> 00:53:22,635
dad. Yeah. And he's in the stands, and

1590
00:53:22,635 --> 00:53:24,674
he's cheering us on. He's saying, hey. Look.

1591
00:53:24,674 --> 00:53:26,714
You're almost at the finish line. That's it.

1592
00:53:26,714 --> 00:53:29,010
Get keep pushing. Keep pushing. Yeah. Because that's

1593
00:53:29,010 --> 00:53:31,050
the thing. If you ever study or talk

1594
00:53:31,050 --> 00:53:33,090
to people that do running, they will tell

1595
00:53:33,090 --> 00:53:35,640
you you know, they they talk about you

1596
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,795
know, they will get be running a five

1597
00:53:37,795 --> 00:53:38,835
k and especially if it's one of you

1598
00:53:38,835 --> 00:53:40,594
know, they've only done one or two or

1599
00:53:40,594 --> 00:53:42,355
it's their you know, they've done very little

1600
00:53:42,355 --> 00:53:44,114
training for it or they haven't been training

1601
00:53:44,114 --> 00:53:45,875
for years. And they talk about, you know,

1602
00:53:45,875 --> 00:53:47,954
there comes a point where you just kinda

1603
00:53:47,954 --> 00:53:49,974
go into automatic mode and you're moving,

1604
00:53:50,329 --> 00:53:52,409
but you you aren't paying attention to what

1605
00:53:52,409 --> 00:53:54,329
you're doing because you're just your whole body

1606
00:53:54,329 --> 00:53:56,090
just starts shutting down because you're so tired.

1607
00:53:56,090 --> 00:53:57,949
Your brain's stopping. Everything hurts,

1608
00:53:58,489 --> 00:53:59,070
you know,

1609
00:53:59,369 --> 00:54:00,809
and you just don't think you can take

1610
00:54:00,809 --> 00:54:02,010
another step. And it's like

1611
00:54:02,945 --> 00:54:04,465
and we we get to that point. We

1612
00:54:04,465 --> 00:54:06,224
do. We we burn ourselves out as Christians.

1613
00:54:06,224 --> 00:54:08,224
We spiritually get to that point. But when

1614
00:54:08,224 --> 00:54:10,085
you reach that point, you have to remember,

1615
00:54:10,385 --> 00:54:11,684
dad's in the stands,

1616
00:54:12,224 --> 00:54:13,744
and he's saying, come on. Yeah. I got

1617
00:54:13,744 --> 00:54:15,684
water for you just a little further down.

1618
00:54:16,039 --> 00:54:17,960
I'm with you. I am for you. I

1619
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:19,719
am right here behind you. I'm sending you

1620
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:21,159
wind to blow at your back to cool

1621
00:54:21,159 --> 00:54:22,679
you off, to keep you moving. I got

1622
00:54:22,679 --> 00:54:24,359
water down here for you to drink. I

1623
00:54:24,359 --> 00:54:25,719
got things waiting on you, and then I

1624
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,639
got your rest once you cross the finish

1625
00:54:27,639 --> 00:54:29,000
line. Just make it to the finish line.

1626
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,375
He's got us an instruction booklet. Right? Verse

1627
00:54:31,375 --> 00:54:33,614
eight in Joshua one. The book of the

1628
00:54:33,614 --> 00:54:35,375
law shall not depart out of that mouth,

1629
00:54:35,375 --> 00:54:38,014
but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,

1630
00:54:38,014 --> 00:54:40,574
and thou mayest observe to do according to

1631
00:54:40,574 --> 00:54:42,909
all that is written therein. For then, thou

1632
00:54:42,909 --> 00:54:44,610
shall make thy way prosperous,

1633
00:54:45,150 --> 00:54:47,550
and then shalt thou have good success. Yeah.

1634
00:54:47,550 --> 00:54:49,390
So how how do we be successful? How

1635
00:54:49,390 --> 00:54:51,070
do we how are we prosperous in our

1636
00:54:51,070 --> 00:54:51,969
Christian life?

1637
00:54:52,510 --> 00:54:54,829
Meditate on him. We meditate on god's word.

1638
00:54:54,829 --> 00:54:55,329
Yeah.

1639
00:54:55,664 --> 00:54:56,164
Daily.

1640
00:54:56,465 --> 00:54:57,925
Amen. Yeah. Amen.

1641
00:54:58,545 --> 00:54:59,045
Yeah.

1642
00:54:59,425 --> 00:55:01,505
Well, I think we've, kinda got to the

1643
00:55:01,505 --> 00:55:03,664
end of it tonight. It's, 07:05.

1644
00:55:03,664 --> 00:55:05,585
Yeah. And and we were a little bit

1645
00:55:05,585 --> 00:55:07,905
late getting started, but that's alright. My fault.

1646
00:55:07,905 --> 00:55:10,410
That wasn't that wasn't nobody's fault or anything.

1647
00:55:10,869 --> 00:55:13,590
Especially now Brian. We're all here on time.

1648
00:55:13,590 --> 00:55:15,610
Yeah. There's technical difficulties.

1649
00:55:15,910 --> 00:55:16,410
Yeah.

1650
00:55:17,269 --> 00:55:17,910
Yeah. But,

1651
00:55:18,390 --> 00:55:19,930
we are so glad that everybody's,

1652
00:55:20,469 --> 00:55:22,869
that joined us tonight. We definitely look forward

1653
00:55:22,869 --> 00:55:23,505
next week.

1654
00:55:24,065 --> 00:55:25,824
You you'll probably get to hear from brother

1655
00:55:25,824 --> 00:55:27,204
Brian a little bit about the

1656
00:55:27,585 --> 00:55:30,065
the, mission trip, and, I'm hoping I'll get

1657
00:55:30,065 --> 00:55:31,184
to go. So you might get to hear

1658
00:55:31,184 --> 00:55:32,704
a little little from both of us about

1659
00:55:32,704 --> 00:55:35,344
that. Next year, man. Next year. Yeah. Yeah.

1660
00:55:35,344 --> 00:55:36,784
I also thought I was in, like, the

1661
00:55:36,784 --> 00:55:38,619
final piece of this thing.

1662
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,519
I can't go. We can't go. Well, we've

1663
00:55:40,519 --> 00:55:41,880
got we get and we got big plans

1664
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,559
for next year too. So we're gonna start

1665
00:55:43,559 --> 00:55:45,320
planning some some It's gonna be big. Some

1666
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:46,599
big stuff next year,

1667
00:55:47,079 --> 00:55:48,679
right after we get back from this one.

1668
00:55:48,679 --> 00:55:50,840
So but but be praying. Be praying about

1669
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:52,140
about this mission trip.

1670
00:55:52,715 --> 00:55:54,394
You know, I talked I talked with John

1671
00:55:54,394 --> 00:55:55,195
today, and,

1672
00:55:55,755 --> 00:55:57,914
and it just seems like one obstacle after

1673
00:55:57,914 --> 00:56:00,074
another just keeps coming up on on Mary

1674
00:56:00,074 --> 00:56:01,215
and on our end.

1675
00:56:01,675 --> 00:56:03,675
But but we're gonna go, and we're gonna

1676
00:56:03,675 --> 00:56:05,434
do what god wants us to do, whatever

1677
00:56:05,434 --> 00:56:07,320
that looks like and whatever that is.

1678
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,119
So just be praying that God God knows

1679
00:56:10,119 --> 00:56:11,880
what what's going on. He knows what's gonna

1680
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,039
happen. Yeah. Whatever whatever little we can do,

1681
00:56:14,039 --> 00:56:16,119
however much we can do. I mean, yeah,

1682
00:56:16,119 --> 00:56:17,800
little as much when God is That's right.

1683
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,960
Be strong and courageous. That's right. That's right.

1684
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,194
Amen. Amen. Get in there get in there

1685
00:56:22,194 --> 00:56:24,994
and just just, bear down. So definitely looking

1686
00:56:24,994 --> 00:56:27,394
forward to that and be praying for that.

1687
00:56:27,394 --> 00:56:29,234
And we're gonna be praying for everybody else

1688
00:56:29,234 --> 00:56:29,954
this week,

1689
00:56:30,275 --> 00:56:31,714
because we got a we got a week

1690
00:56:31,714 --> 00:56:33,795
ahead of us, and it's just one more

1691
00:56:33,795 --> 00:56:35,315
one more part of the race to run.

1692
00:56:35,315 --> 00:56:38,000
That's right. Keep going. Keep going. The prize

1693
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:39,200
is waiting at the end. That's right. It's

1694
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,360
not far. It's getting a lot that end

1695
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,280
end line, that that goal is getting a

1696
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,659
lot closer. It's on. Man, it sure is.

1697
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,425
Brother Dennis, will you dismiss us tonight? Yep.

1698
00:56:49,425 --> 00:56:51,265
Yep. Father, thank you. Thank you for this

1699
00:56:51,265 --> 00:56:52,405
time we've had together

1700
00:56:53,025 --> 00:56:55,425
to to to explore you, to to learn

1701
00:56:55,425 --> 00:56:57,824
of you, to to praise you, to worship

1702
00:56:57,824 --> 00:56:59,265
you for all the things you've done. And

1703
00:56:59,265 --> 00:57:00,864
father, not just for the things you've done,

1704
00:57:00,864 --> 00:57:02,144
but for who you are, that you are

1705
00:57:02,144 --> 00:57:03,905
love and mercy and kindness to us in

1706
00:57:03,905 --> 00:57:06,359
Christ Jesus, that you've given all that heaven

1707
00:57:06,359 --> 00:57:08,679
has to offer to save us, father. And

1708
00:57:08,679 --> 00:57:10,599
we give you thanks for that. Father, I

1709
00:57:10,599 --> 00:57:12,679
pray for anyone listening that does not know

1710
00:57:12,679 --> 00:57:14,839
your gift of salvation that they come to

1711
00:57:14,839 --> 00:57:16,059
you. Fathers,

1712
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:18,139
don't let them sleep tonight.

1713
00:57:18,565 --> 00:57:20,885
Father, that that they might understand what's what

1714
00:57:21,045 --> 00:57:23,525
what's absolutely best for them, that you only

1715
00:57:23,525 --> 00:57:25,445
want what's best for us, and that they

1716
00:57:25,445 --> 00:57:27,364
can drink of the water of life without

1717
00:57:27,364 --> 00:57:27,864
cost.

1718
00:57:28,324 --> 00:57:30,644
Father, I pray for, for believers that are

1719
00:57:30,644 --> 00:57:33,250
listening that you would bolster their faith, that

1720
00:57:33,250 --> 00:57:35,410
we've said or done something to glorify you

1721
00:57:35,410 --> 00:57:38,050
in this hour. Father, thank you. As we

1722
00:57:38,050 --> 00:57:39,570
go about our the rest of our week,

1723
00:57:39,570 --> 00:57:41,170
I pray that you'll protect us and bring

1724
00:57:41,170 --> 00:57:43,510
us back here safe and sound. In Jesus'

1725
00:57:43,570 --> 00:57:45,670
name, amen. Amen. Amen.

1726
00:57:49,304 --> 00:57:52,445
Special thank you to Carter Pridmore, Brian Harris,

1727
00:57:52,664 --> 00:57:53,644
Waverly Henderson,

1728
00:57:54,105 --> 00:57:57,144
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Partain for our

1729
00:57:57,144 --> 00:57:59,164
theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

1730
00:57:59,465 --> 00:58:00,900
I've been Tyler Goza on

1731
00:58:01,779 --> 00:58:03,380
production and audio. We hope you can join

1732
00:58:03,380 --> 00:58:05,719
us live next Monday at 6PM

1733
00:58:06,099 --> 00:58:09,027
central. Thank you for listening. But truth found

1734
00:58:09,027 --> 00:58:12,319
me there. It was in my darkest eye.

1735
00:58:12,339 --> 00:58:13,915
I traded my black heart for joy for

1736
00:58:13,915 --> 00:58:13,940
something real, something with power. I traded my

1737
00:58:13,940 --> 00:58:14,655
black heart

1738
00:58:30,789 --> 00:58:31,289
me

1739
00:58:43,190 --> 00:58:43,690
free.