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It's your one. Spam. Spam text. So I just wanted

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to tell you something. Shout your fame. Jesus,

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I decide to live a life that shouts your fame.

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I decide to live and live a life that shouts

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your name. Good evening! It's time for Whacked

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Out Simple Stuff. We're going to talk about something

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kind of depressing for a moment. I apologize.

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We're not going to talk about it from the sense

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of being depressing, but we're going to talk

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about something kind of depressing. We're going

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to talk about the crucifixion for a moment. There's

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a couple of key things that a lot of people might

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miss in the crucifixion. So first of all, you

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know what crucifixion is, right? It's where a

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person is nailed to a cross. So Jesus was nailed

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to a cross, and that's how he died. So we're

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talking about three things, three things about

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crucifixion. So the first one is the nails. Okay,

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so the nails would be put in the hand, quote

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-unquote hand and feet of the person being crucified.

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So their feet would be crossed like that, and

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it's usually a single nail. And a lot of times

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they might be wrapped around with rope so they

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couldn't accidentally pull off, but sometimes

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not, just the nail. And then their hands would

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be nailed to the cross piece of the cross like

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that. Some crucifixions were done on a cross

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that looks like an X, and some were done on a

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cross piece with a pole. The majority were like

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that during the day that Jesus was crucified,

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but either way it could be possible. In Jesus'

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case, we know that it was a cross piece with

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a pole, and his hands were nailed to the pole

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that goes across, and his feet were nailed to

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the one behind it. Now, interestingly enough,

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there is some debate as to where the nails were.

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The Bible says they were in his hands, but the

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reason people kind of debate whether the nail

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was right here in the palm of his hand or whether

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it was in his wrist more If you can imagine,

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put a great big spike in the middle of the palm

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of your hand. First of all, it's extremely painful

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because there's a nerve that runs through there.

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You'd be crushing that nerve, and it's a pain

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like you'd never know at any other time in your

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life. That being said, if you put it right there,

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you can imagine your hands have a hard time holding

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your body weight. And so if you had a big spike

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already going through your hand, your hand's

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pretty torn up, maybe the bones back here are

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broken, or at least not broken, but pushed apart,

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right? the weight pulling on that could release,

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and you could come off the spike. But if you

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put it through your wrist right here, then it

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still pierces that same nerve, and it would hold

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a lot more weight. So a lot of them were pierced

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through the wrist right here. If you see a picture

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of Jesus' hand, if you've seen the Evangicube,

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you know what the Evangicube is? In the Evangicube,

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they show Jesus' hand reaching out to help us

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to be saved, and the hole is like right there.

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Jewish terminology for hand included that spot,

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includes all the way up to where the wrist stops

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and you're going into the arm bones. So we don't

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really know for sure exactly where it would have

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been, but we have a pretty good idea that it

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was from here down into the hand, the Jewish

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word hand, okay? Also, you know that when Thomas

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was doubting Jesus, Jesus showed him his hands

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and he could see the... mark there from the spike.

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So we know it was here, somewhere between here

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and here. That's about what we know. So the spikes

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are the first thing we talk about. The second

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thing we talk about is water and blood. So after

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Jesus was crucified, he hung on the cross and

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he was suffering. People didn't usually bleed

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out on the cross, even though they were whipped

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really bad and their back was raw and their hands

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and feet would be bleeding. They didn't usually

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bleed out. They usually suffocated. Okay, and

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so if you can imagine if your feet are spiked

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to the cross and your hands, you're going to

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sag down like this because you're exhausted,

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right? Even standing up is hard enough, but when

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you're standing on a spike that's driven through

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your feet, you sag down like that and you can't

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hardly stand up. But when you do that and your

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arms are up like that, you can't exhale. If you're

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stretched out completely like that, you can't

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breathe out. It's even hard. If you put your

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hands up in the air now and try to breathe out,

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you'll realize you can't fully breathe out. You

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can't get the air out of your lungs. And then

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if you let yourself come up, you can breathe

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the rest of the way out. Well, it would have

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been impossible for him to fully breathe out.

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If you can't breathe out, guess what you can't

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do? You can't breathe in. You can't breathe out.

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You can't breathe in. And so you push with your

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feet to get up so that you can breathe out. Take

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another breath. And then sag back down again

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because you're exhausted and there's a nail through

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your feet. And so they would do that up and down

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motion, trying to get breath for a long time,

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and eventually they wouldn't be able to do it

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anymore, and they would suffocate. On the off

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chance that they had not suffocated, a soldier

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would come along and whack their legs with a

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club or a heavy piece of wood and break their

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legs so they could no longer push themselves

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up, and they would suffocate. It's a terrible,

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terrible way to die. It is the worst. In fact,

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the pain of crucifixion, there was no pain like

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it. And so they made a word called excruciating.

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And so when you stub your toe and you say, oh,

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that was excruciating, it's not actually, because

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that word literally means the pain of crucifixion.

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So nothing is excruciating except crucifixion,

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because the word means pain of crucifixion. But

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at the end with Jesus, he did die. He was dead

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on the cross, and they came and they checked

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him, and they found he was dead. The Roman soldier

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that found that he was dead, First of all, they

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were a little surprised that he died as quick

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as he did, but his beating was severe, worse

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probably, and then his treatment was worse than

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what others normally experienced. And so the

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soldier checked and said, yeah, he's dead, but

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here's the thing. If he would come down off the

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cross and survive by some way, then that soldier

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would have sacrificed his life. The law said

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if a Roman soldier who was in charge of a prisoner

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lost his prisoner, his prisoner escaped, and

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if he was charged with putting that person to

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death and that person lived afterwards, then

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that Roman soldier would have been put to death.

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So he wasn't going to take any chances. So what

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he did was he ran a spear up into Jesus' side,

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under his ribs probably, and pierced his heart

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to be 100%, maybe 110%, because he was pretty

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sure already that Jesus was dead. Now when that

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happened, blood and water flowed out of Jesus'

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side. Now here's what's really neat. This is

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really neat. In modern day medicine, only for

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less than about 150 years, have we known of a

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thing called, what's called a pleural effusion.

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And when a person undergrows a great deal of

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stress, they get water in a sack around their

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heart. And it makes it hard for your heart to

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beat. And so you can eventually have a heart

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attack and die if you're under too much stress

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because of that very thing. So Jesus obviously

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had gone through a ton of stress, and almost

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certainly he had a sack of water around his heart.

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So when that spear ran in there and pierced his

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heart, and they pulled it back out, the blood

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came out, and the water came out. But they didn't

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understand that. They're like, wow, that's weird.

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Why would that happen? We don't see that. We

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don't see blood and water flowing out when you

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stab somebody. Where would the water come from?

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We didn't stab him in the bladder, right? That's

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weird. Why would that happen? But later... 1

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,800 years later or whatever, medicine found

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out, because we got x -rays and things like that,

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found out that that's what happens when a person's

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under a ton of stress to get water in a sack

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around their heart. And then if their heart would

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be pierced like Jesus's was, then blood and water

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would flow. Now, what's really neat about that?

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They didn't know that. They just observed what

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they saw. They didn't know why it would be like

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that. Modern medicine had not learned that yet

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for 1 ,800 years or whatever it was. And so they

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recorded the facts as they saw them. And now

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we have that, and we can say, man, for 1 ,800

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years, people knew that blood and water flowed.

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They just didn't know why. And then somebody

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finally discovered why. That's proof that the

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story is true and accurate. Does that make sense?

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It's proof that it's true and accurate. And then

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the last thing about the crucifixion is the moment

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of Jesus' death on the cross, which is probably

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a bunch more of these that I could do. The moment

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of Jesus' death on the cross, something happened.

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Something incredible happened. Does anybody know

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what it was? The moment he died, something happened.

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What was it? The veil in the temple. Now this

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is interesting because the veil was a four inch

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thick. Go like this with your fingers. Measure

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about four inches. It was a cloth four inches

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thick. So if you have a cloth that's four inches

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thick, you can imagine ripping that is virtually

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impossible. It was a woven cloth, four inches

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thick. And it was 40 inches. feet tall four inches

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thick and 40 feet tall so to rip it you would

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need oh i know big scissors a sharp knife a really

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sharp knife you know a really sharp sword maybe

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and then even then you'd be probably hacking

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at it because it's four inches thick right except

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guess what it tore from the top down So as if

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somebody had gotten out a 40 -feet ladder and

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crawled up to the top of the curtain and hacked

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at it with a machete to get it started and then

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really ripped at it for a while, because even

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if you get it started, it's four inches thick.

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It's not going to tear easily, right? You'd have

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to put some serious muscle into it, serious weight

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into it, and it tore from the top to the bottom.

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And that, of course, is symbolic because that

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curtain was the curtain that kept people from

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God. It kept people who were in the outer temple

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from being able to go into the inner temple where

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God is. God's presence was what they call the

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Holy of Holies. And so what God was showing us

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is that in the death of Jesus, our coming to

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God was paid for. And so we can, because of the

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crucifixion, we can pray to God. We can walk

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right into God's throne room with our prayers

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and say, God, this is what I need help with.

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God, this is what's on my heart today. God, this

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is how I'm feeling today because of that. And

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that's what God was showing us by the ripping

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of the curtain. As I said, there's a lot more

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there. So take time, get a Bible, and read the

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story of the crucifixion. And then ask yourself,

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that's a detail. That's interesting. I didn't

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know that. What does that mean? What am I supposed

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to know about that? What does God want to show

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me about that? And if you find one and you don't

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know what it is, you bring it next week and we'll

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talk about it. If you say, why did that happen?

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We'll get a little list and we'll talk about

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those things and what God was showing us. Because

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there was a lot going on right there. The crucifixion

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was pointed to from the very beginning. God told

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Eve that one of her offspring would crush the

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head of the serpent in the garden. So from the

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very beginning it was coming. And then we look

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back on it now and we always will. As long as

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the earth remains and human beings remain, the

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crucifixion will not be forgotten. So that is

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an important event. You can take a look at it

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in your Bibles. Just wanted to share those few

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interesting things with you. If your friends

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say, well, how do you know it's real? We say,

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well, if nothing else, we know because the people

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who witnessed it recorded blood and water, and

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medicine didn't even know about that until less

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than 200 years ago, but they recorded it back

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then, and that's proof above all other proofs,

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or with all other proofs. So let's pray together.

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We've got one more song, and then we'll release

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the children to the classroom. Here we go. Father

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in heaven, I praise you. That you had a plan

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and you carried it out. I think about all the

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times that I have had plans. I had ideas of what

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I thought I would do. Some of them were pretty

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extreme. Like I thought, I'm going to do that

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if it kills me. And some of them happened and

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some of them didn't. But you're not a God like

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that. When you make a plan, it happens. When

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you make a promise, it's fulfilled. When you

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set out to do something, you never fail. As a

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pastor said just right here in this room just

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recently, you get your part right. And we are

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grateful, Lord, that that's the kind of God that

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we have. At the same time, we realize we've screwed

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up. In our lives, we've lied or cheated or stolen.

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We've done wrong things, the kind of things that

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deserve justice or punishment or correction.

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And because of that, you made a way. You sent

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your son, Jesus, to take our sins on that cross

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so that when we lied, The lie went on the cross.

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When we stole, the theft went on the cross. When

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we were angry at our brother, that sin of anger

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at our brother went on the cross. Now, some people

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know it. Some people realize it. Some people

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believe it. And for them, it means eternal life.

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It is ultimate forgiveness. I pray that everybody

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in this room is like that, that we all realize

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that Jesus paid the price so we could be forgiven

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for the dumb things that we've done. Thank you,

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Lord, for forgiving us through Jesus, your son.

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Lord, we also know that because of what you've

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done, and not just that, but creating everything,

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creating us and taking care of everything, that

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you have a right to be Lord. That means you tell

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us what to do and we do it. And so, Lord, tell

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us what to do and we'll do it. We know that we're

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supposed to worship you. That's one of the things

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you've told us to do, that our attention now

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should be on worshiping you. That's what we're

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going to do now with this song. And so, Lord,

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help us do that. Help us put our attention on

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worshiping you. You are awesome and you deserve

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it all. We pray all this in Jesus' precious name.

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Amen. I'm going to do it. I'm going to praise

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him forever. You are my God. I will ever praise

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you. promises. That's the series that we're working

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through. We have, last week we fulfilled our

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obligation to look into the command that comes

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with a promise, the first such command that comes

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with a promise. And today we're going to look

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at three, their promises, but we're going to

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see how they have some accompanying I think is

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the way to say it. I'd say commands from the

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Lord. Also, I just realized I did not bring my

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bag of candy in here. I can't pelt people with

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candy. Hey, Chris. Would you want to run to the

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office and grab my bag of candy? It should be

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on that table or it could be on my desk. I apologize.

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Thank you, sir. How you doing, buddy? All right.

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Okay, so we're going to get started. We'll make

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sure that Chris gets caught up because I just

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sent him on an errand to get the candy, and he'll

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miss the first couple of blanks, okay? All right,

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so it says soaring or not, and then you see a

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pair of wings and the word you great big in the

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middle of the pair of wings. The worksheet is

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posted on Facebook, so those that want to can

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find it on my profile. I don't know if it made

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it on the New Heights profile or not, but it's

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there. The reference we will first look at is

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a classic reference. It is Matthew chapter 28,

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verses 18 through 20. So that's what goes in

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those first blanks. Matthew 28, 18 to 20. These

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verses will be affectionately called by many

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the Great Commission. They are... In theory,

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Jesus' last words on the earth to his disciples

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before leaving to go to heaven. They are the

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last words Matthew recorded, in any case. Okay?

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So, Matthew 28, 18 through 20. Okay? So I'm going

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to read the verses. You're going to look at your

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paper, and then you're going to fill them in.

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That's going to be the plan. So we'll see how

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well this goes. It's going to follow the verses

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really closely, so pay close attention and you

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should get it. Verse 18 says, And Jesus came

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up and spoke to them, saying, All authority in

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heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go,

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therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

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baptizing them in the name of the Father, the

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Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow

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all that I commanded you, and behold, I am with

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you always to the end of the age. Okay? So now,

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I might be able to do that from memory. Some

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days I can, some days I can't. Probably not today

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because I've had like a long migraine that's

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coming to an end, but maybe. The very first two

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words then should be? Go. Don't get too far ahead.

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Tell. That's right. Good job, Tim. So go tell.

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Okay? Say again? Yes, deceivingly long blank.

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That happens at times. Go tell. All right? And

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then in parentheses, I put in parentheses because

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it is, you'll notice that the command portion

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of this, go therefore. There could have been

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a, it could have been therefore. The T could

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have been therefore, right? The command is to

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go and tell, and then there is a therefore there,

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and we know what the therefore is there for,

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right? Whenever you see a therefore, you always

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want to know what's it there for. That's the

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first cue to me to go and look. And so in the

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parentheses, you could figure out the therefore

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because it was in the verse before it. And so

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what do you got? All? Yep. Yes, in heaven and

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on earth. Yes. Sorry. Just take this back. All

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right. So that's the therefore. So this is missed

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by a lot of people. OK, so we talk about like

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the even Paul wrote about the ruler of this world.

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And we usually say the ruler of this world. To

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whom are we referring? Well, usually you hear

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that phrase ruler of this world. The devil, right?

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Most people are talking about the devil when

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they say the ruler of this world. He is certainly

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not the ruler of heaven. But notice that at the

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time of Jesus' ascension, at the time when he

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is leaving this earth, he tells the disciples

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to go and tell. And the reason he tells them

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to go and tell, or what reason he gives is, all

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authority has been given me in heaven and on

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earth. So if you think that there is a battle

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taking place between Satan and Jesus and Jesus

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is just barely pulling it out, that is not correct.

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That's not the math of it. If you're struggling

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on a day -to -day basis, you have the Holy Spirit

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in you, the Holy Spirit's lifting you up, the

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Holy Spirit's encouraging, the Holy Spirit's

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helping you to overcome and that kind of thing,

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but you also have lots of schemes of the devil

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and there's evil spirits involved, you put thoughts

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in your head and you're barely winning out, that's

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not the math of it. That's not the way it's supposed

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to be. We have total victory in Christ. It's

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already won. The battle is already determined.

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I heard a pastor say it this way. I don't know

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if you're aware of this or not, but during the

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Civil War, Tennessee seceded from the Union.

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It became one of the Confederate states. When

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Tennessee conceded from the Union, part of Tennessee

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seceded from Tennessee and said they were going

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to stick with the Union. And when that happened,

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the part of Tennessee that was seceding beat

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them down. They put them down fast and hard.

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And so what happened was that part that was trying

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to stay with the Union became the rebellion against

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the rebellion. And then the part of Tennessee

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that was seceding said, no, we're not going to

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let you rebel against us. And they forced them

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to become a Confederate state. So what I'm getting

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at is sometimes it looks like there's this massive

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conflict. But the truth is that the outcome is

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already determined. Jesus said, all authority

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has been given me in heaven and on earth. So

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when you have trials and tribulations, do not

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mistake it for a lack of power or authority on

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behalf of Jesus. Jesus does not lack the ability

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to heal miraculously, to overcome your trials

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or your temptations or to stop storms or any

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of that. He does not lack in power in any way,

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shape or form. All authority. had been, at the

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time that he's speaking here, given him in heaven

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and on earth. That was done. Now, elsewhere,

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we will hear that there will continue to be a

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rebellion, right? In a sense, you think it's

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like the rebellion against the rebellion. And

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that's what he was telling the disciples to do.

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Go put down the rebellion. It's been settled,

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right? There's just people that don't accept

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that it's been settled. There are evil spirits

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that don't accept that it's been settled and

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so on. So go put down the rebellion. That's what

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he's saying, okay? All right, so we're going

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to move on. So we have go tell, and then in the

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parentheses, all authority has been given me

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in heaven and on earth. And then, and? Make disciples

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of all nations. Perfect. Make disciples of all

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nations. So real quick, what is a disciple? That's

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half of it. Someone who follows Jesus or follows

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God, that's only half of it. What's the other

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half? And tells people. That's right. So you

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learn from your master, which in our case is

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Jesus or God. We learn from the master and we

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deliver the teachings to others. If you don't

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get to the point where you can deliver the teachings,

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then you're not a disciple. You might be a student.

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But if you go to class, let's say you go to college,

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and you take Psychology 101. I've seen this happen

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100 times, by the way. Aaron, you took Psychology,

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didn't you? Okay, so you took Psychology, and

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as you were learning new things in Psychology,

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what were you want to do? Apply it. Okay, apply

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it. Do something about it, right? And you start

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talking to me about it, talking to other people

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about it, right? Because you were learning it.

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Now, some of that is cross -checking. Is this

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really true? Does this really play itself out

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this way? Right. Can I really do something with

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this? But the truth is, when you get filled with

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useful knowledge, like if I told you that you

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go on right now, if you go out right now on Stack

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Social and you can get a coupon for $40 off gas

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at Circle K right now, go on there right now

00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:45.779
on your phone. I'll give you the code and you

00:27:45.779 --> 00:27:47.839
get $40 off Circle K and you don't have to register.

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You have to put your cell phone number in. You

00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:51.480
don't have to give a credit card, nothing. And

00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:52.779
they'll give you a code. They'll send you a code

00:27:52.779 --> 00:27:54.579
40 bucks and they'll never text you after the

00:27:54.579 --> 00:27:58.609
fact. Right? You'd be like, uh -huh, yeah, I'm

00:27:58.609 --> 00:28:00.069
going to do that because I can stop and get gas

00:28:00.069 --> 00:28:02.289
on the way home. I probably need enough gas.

00:28:02.329 --> 00:28:04.970
I can do that. And then what would you do? You'd

00:28:04.970 --> 00:28:06.650
be thinking, well, who else needs to know this

00:28:06.650 --> 00:28:09.190
information to get free $40 of gas? Why wouldn't

00:28:09.190 --> 00:28:11.750
I? There's no negative, right? So when you get

00:28:11.750 --> 00:28:14.369
valuable information, when you get valuable information,

00:28:14.710 --> 00:28:18.529
then you share that information. It's a natural

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outflow. Otherwise, you're disparaging the information

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and saying, well, that's not really worth it.

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So a disciple is someone who follows. Follows

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and learns from the master and then delivers

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it. So this is what some of my friends have made

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the mistake of doing. They think that they are

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making disciples of themselves. You are not a

00:28:36.869 --> 00:28:40.150
disciple of Pastor Dan. In fact, though I may

00:28:40.150 --> 00:28:42.549
stand up here and teach or preach, you do not

00:28:42.549 --> 00:28:45.910
learn from me. You learn from me in the sense

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that I'm the one doing the actual biological

00:28:48.450 --> 00:28:51.430
talking, right? But the truth is you're learning

00:28:51.430 --> 00:28:53.670
from God. So that if I stand up here and I get

00:28:53.670 --> 00:28:55.289
something wrong, if I teach something that God

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would not have you to know, then you'll ignore

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it. Or you'll question me on it so I don't get

00:28:59.049 --> 00:29:01.430
it wrong. You'll be like, hey, Pastor Dan, you

00:29:01.430 --> 00:29:03.230
said this, but that's not quite right, is it?

00:29:03.369 --> 00:29:05.230
And I'm like, oh, crud, yeah, that's not quite

00:29:05.230 --> 00:29:06.809
right. So we've got to fix that or whatever.

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So this is the crucible in which we learn from

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Jesus. The disciples were going on behalf of

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Jesus. They were not trying to make disciples

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of John, even though that did happen. And they

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weren't trying to make disciples of Peter, even

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though that did happen to some degree. They were

00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:24.339
always trying to point back to Jesus. So a discipleship

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program is a program that points to Jesus, that

00:29:27.299 --> 00:29:29.940
teaches people to learn from Jesus and then to

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share whatever they got. That's so important

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because every single one of us is unique. Every

00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:37.920
single one of us has a different level. So like,

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:42.210
for example, in this room, phenomenal with language.

00:29:42.430 --> 00:29:45.069
He's the closest thing to a linguist that we

00:29:45.069 --> 00:29:47.589
have, right? He's super good with language and

00:29:47.589 --> 00:29:49.670
even can do some computer programming like that.

00:29:49.809 --> 00:29:53.470
So Aaron is super good with technology and especially

00:29:53.470 --> 00:29:55.349
like the POS technology stuff that he works with

00:29:55.349 --> 00:29:59.950
and that kind of thing. And so Tim, not a linguist,

00:29:59.950 --> 00:30:03.990
not super good with technology, but able to communicate

00:30:03.990 --> 00:30:06.589
with people on an empathetic level and talk to

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people that some of us might not even be able

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to talk to. So we're all unique, and you have

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to get it from Jesus. And so if I get it from

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Jesus, but you don't, then you're not going to

00:30:16.339 --> 00:30:17.920
be able to deliver it to the people that you're

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supposed to deliver it to. And some people are

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going to hear from you that would not hear from

00:30:22.099 --> 00:30:24.519
me, and vice versa. And so the bottom line is,

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we are disciples of Jesus, and then we are going

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to take those teachings to all nations, as this

00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:32.000
command says. We're actually after the promise,

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by the way, not the command, so I don't want

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to dwell too long. Probably already went too

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long right there. The rest of this should be

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obvious. The B is definitely baptize them in

00:30:42.910 --> 00:30:46.349
the name of the Father. So you'll notice there

00:30:46.349 --> 00:30:48.970
is a blank between of and Father. You need to

00:30:48.970 --> 00:30:55.490
write in the word the. Yep. So write in the word

00:30:55.490 --> 00:31:00.289
the. There is no line there. Okay. I left that

00:31:00.289 --> 00:31:03.029
there for a reason. The reason I left it there

00:31:03.029 --> 00:31:05.430
is now you'll notice once the the is in there

00:31:05.430 --> 00:31:09.099
that it all sort of connects together. But previously,

00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:11.720
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit stood off by themselves.

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:18.000
See the symbolism? Previously, Father, Son, and

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:24.539
Holy Spirit stood off by themselves. But now,

00:31:24.539 --> 00:31:27.519
because of Jesus, because of the crucifixion,

00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:32.700
because of his call to us, we are part of the

00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:39.140
team. We have a job to do. You could say a purpose,

00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:42.559
although we wouldn't want to run on ahead. So

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:44.859
then not only are we going to baptize them in

00:31:44.859 --> 00:31:46.640
the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

00:31:46.859 --> 00:31:49.579
but on top of that we're going to, starts with

00:31:49.579 --> 00:31:54.920
a T. Very good. Teach them to observe all that

00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:57.079
I have commanded you. So again, they're getting

00:31:57.079 --> 00:31:59.119
their directions from Jesus. They're delivering

00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.720
the directions to the world. So as much as we

00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:04.059
say it's really not going to be great to tell

00:32:04.059 --> 00:32:06.039
somebody not to lie if they're lost because they're

00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.420
just going to do it anyway. and they're probably

00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:10.099
going to feel guilty from that point on or whatever.

00:32:10.259 --> 00:32:14.599
Jesus did tell us, to be honest. There are a

00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:16.279
lot of commands of Jesus that aren't necessarily

00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:18.200
going to be worth something to the world. They're

00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:20.539
not necessarily going to follow those commands.

00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.140
But in delivering the truth about Jesus, they

00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:26.720
may discover that they need him, and that's what

00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:29.339
we're really after. Then you see a lo there.

00:32:29.539 --> 00:32:33.799
What does lo mean? L -O. It's in the Bible a

00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:37.640
whole bunch of times. Lo, L -O. Yep, behold,

00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:40.279
look here. The word there means behold, look

00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:43.259
here, pay attention. Okay, so in other words,

00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:45.279
he gave them what they're going to be doing now.

00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:48.859
And then he said, now pay attention. Watch this.

00:32:49.859 --> 00:32:53.819
Look here. Here's your emphasis. And we already

00:32:53.819 --> 00:33:00.400
read it. He said, I am with you always, even

00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:03.480
to the end of the age. Okay, so with you always

00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:05.160
is pretty straightforward, isn't it? He's going

00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:08.180
to be with you. And even to the end of the age,

00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:09.640
a little less so. We'll come back to that one

00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:14.440
in a second. Notice this all goes together. It's

00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:16.619
very clearly all goes together. It is what we

00:33:16.619 --> 00:33:19.039
call the Great Commission. So if you want him

00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:22.019
to be with you always, even to the end of the

00:33:22.019 --> 00:33:31.160
age, what do you need to do? Say it again. Yep.

00:33:31.339 --> 00:33:37.819
But more specifically. Go. Tell, make disciples

00:33:37.819 --> 00:33:39.940
of all nations, baptize them in the name of the

00:33:39.940 --> 00:33:42.400
Father, teach them to observe all things I have

00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:47.779
commanded you. Lo, and lo, pay attention, look

00:33:47.779 --> 00:33:50.940
here, I will be with you always, even unto the

00:33:50.940 --> 00:33:52.240
end of the age. See, the problem is we've got

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.319
a lot of people who are claiming the I will be

00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:56.000
with you always, even to the end of the age,

00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:59.200
without doing the first part. That's the problem.

00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:03.490
Okay? And it is all together. It was not separate.

00:34:03.569 --> 00:34:05.450
His command to them was not separate from his

00:34:05.450 --> 00:34:07.549
promise to them in this case. This is a command

00:34:07.549 --> 00:34:10.230
that comes with a promise, or really a command

00:34:10.230 --> 00:34:14.110
that arises out of the promise. Now, what does

00:34:14.110 --> 00:34:16.150
even to the end of the age mean? You want to

00:34:16.150 --> 00:34:21.690
take a stab at that? There are maybe some theories

00:34:21.690 --> 00:34:23.289
about this. Go ahead, Tony Tate, tell us what

00:34:23.289 --> 00:34:28.250
you think. End of age, well, that's true. So

00:34:28.250 --> 00:34:40.320
there's the end of a possible... Correct. Correct.

00:34:42.420 --> 00:34:44.880
Good. Okay, so good. So what he said was the

00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:47.179
end of the time in which we are now living is

00:34:47.179 --> 00:34:49.579
going to be when Jesus comes again. Okay? So

00:34:49.579 --> 00:34:52.440
to see that very clearly, and that is the way

00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:54.960
Bible scholars read it, theologians read it,

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.530
pretty much nobody disagrees. You might call

00:34:57.530 --> 00:34:59.610
it the church age. You might hear somebody say

00:34:59.610 --> 00:35:01.989
that. But this is what Jesus said. I'm going

00:35:01.989 --> 00:35:06.329
to read from Matthew 13, 39. If you look, it

00:35:06.329 --> 00:35:07.929
goes up the right -hand side of the page. You

00:35:07.929 --> 00:35:11.710
see a guy there. The end of the age is the harvest.

00:35:12.650 --> 00:35:17.920
Matthew 13, 39 says as follows. I'll go back

00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:19.860
to 37 so we get a run up at it. And he said,

00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:39.780
So what did Jesus say? The promise that he's

00:35:39.780 --> 00:35:41.460
going to be with us, that's awesome, is it not?

00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:44.920
I mean, I love that Jesus is with me. I'm okay

00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.039
with the fact that it's tied to my being obedient

00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:50.719
to his command. But if you love that Jesus is

00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:53.380
with you, you realize there's going to be a moment

00:35:53.380 --> 00:35:55.559
in time coming in the future. Like right now,

00:35:55.579 --> 00:35:57.360
it's good that he's with me when I'm sick. It's

00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:58.760
good that he's with me when I'm working. It's

00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:01.119
good that he's with me when I'm going through

00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:02.980
struggles or have a migraine, or it's good that

00:36:02.980 --> 00:36:04.860
he's with me through all of that. But there's

00:36:04.860 --> 00:36:07.559
going to come a moment in time at which it's

00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:09.519
going to be super, super important that Jesus

00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:13.380
is with me. And if he's not, I am screwed. And

00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:17.300
that time is the end of the age. And so Jesus,

00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:19.599
people always take it to say, well, he's going

00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:21.719
to be with us for the whole time that we're living,

00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.340
or the whole time that the earth is here, or

00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:26.920
whatever like that. And that isn't even necessarily

00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:31.119
true. Jesus could come again before we die of

00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:36.440
old age, or we could die, and then sometime later

00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:38.320
Jesus comes again before the next generation

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:42.030
dies, and so on. So the point is, We need Jesus

00:36:42.030 --> 00:36:44.690
to be with us on a daily basis, but we really,

00:36:44.690 --> 00:36:47.289
really need him to be with us at the moment of

00:36:47.289 --> 00:36:50.070
the harvest. You do not want to be gathered up

00:36:50.070 --> 00:36:53.309
as tares and burned. You want to be gathered

00:36:53.309 --> 00:36:56.329
as wheat and taken into the storehouse, right?

00:36:56.449 --> 00:37:01.889
And so this promise is more important that he's

00:37:01.889 --> 00:37:04.329
going to be with us even to the harvest than

00:37:04.329 --> 00:37:07.349
it is that he's going to be with us today, unless

00:37:07.349 --> 00:37:10.599
the harvest is today. And people always leave

00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:12.400
that off and don't really care very much that

00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:14.260
he's going to be there. He's going to be with

00:37:14.260 --> 00:37:16.320
us in the moment that the people are being sorted.

00:37:16.940 --> 00:37:19.719
That's huge. All right, so we're going to go

00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:23.079
down left now, going leftward across the kind

00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:26.639
of comical display of people moving across the

00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:28.500
page in the middle there. You'll notice that

00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:33.679
there's a doorway on the far left that says exit,

00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:35.780
and everybody's walking away from the exit, and

00:37:35.780 --> 00:37:37.280
then they're going through the ups and downs.

00:37:37.900 --> 00:37:41.840
even crawling on ropes some, and so on. Okay?

00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:44.980
And we're going to look now at, if it starts

00:37:44.980 --> 00:37:48.099
with a J, Jason, it's probably what book? New

00:37:48.099 --> 00:37:53.380
Testament. Starts with a J, New Testament. John

00:37:53.380 --> 00:37:57.039
is correct. Okay? So it's the book of John, and

00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:00.480
it's 14, 26 to 27. I gave you the chapter and

00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:07.480
verse. Okay? Also classic verses. that we're

00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:12.539
drilling down on now. Jesus has just finished

00:38:12.539 --> 00:38:15.079
saying, these things I have spoken to you while

00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.940
remaining with you. So he said, this is what

00:38:16.940 --> 00:38:20.219
I've been telling you is important, right? And

00:38:20.219 --> 00:38:24.900
now he goes on to say in 26, but the helper,

00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:27.579
the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in

00:38:27.579 --> 00:38:30.780
my name, he will teach you all things and remind

00:38:30.780 --> 00:38:35.820
you of all that I said to you. Peace, I leave

00:38:35.820 --> 00:38:40.239
you. My peace I give you, not as the world gives

00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:45.500
do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled

00:38:45.500 --> 00:38:51.260
nor fearful. Okay? So starting from the top right

00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:55.619
under the reference, we're talking about a helper,

00:38:55.699 --> 00:39:01.800
which is the Holy Spirit. Okay? You'll see the

00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:05.119
Holy Spirit referenced as a he. Why do we say

00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:07.619
that the Holy Spirit is a he when he almost certainly

00:39:07.619 --> 00:39:15.460
does not have genitalia? Because what? Okay,

00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:17.579
well, Jesus was clearly a he, and they are all

00:39:17.579 --> 00:39:21.300
one in the sense the Trinity is all one. We say

00:39:21.300 --> 00:39:23.559
he is a he because the Bible says he is a he.

00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:27.679
The Bible always uses a masculine pronoun to

00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.139
reference the Holy Spirit. There's no it. There's

00:39:30.139 --> 00:39:35.659
no neuter to it. You could make a wide variety

00:39:35.659 --> 00:39:37.960
of philosophical arguments as to why that is.

00:39:38.099 --> 00:39:40.280
But we have God the Father, God the Son, God

00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.119
the Holy Spirit. At the very least, both a son

00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:46.000
and a father are masculine gender. Whether or

00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.800
not the Holy Spirit has gender in the sense that

00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:52.179
we think of gender is debatable. He is a spirit,

00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:56.159
but he is referred to as a he, not an it. So

00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:58.400
if somebody says, I have the Holy Spirit, I love

00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:01.519
it, or the Holy Spirit, it works in me, that

00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:05.050
is incorrect. In fact, if you say it, there's

00:40:05.050 --> 00:40:06.489
a substantial possibility you're talking about

00:40:06.489 --> 00:40:09.070
an evil spirit. So you have to be kind of careful

00:40:09.070 --> 00:40:12.070
of that. The Bible always refers to the Holy

00:40:12.070 --> 00:40:15.750
Spirit as a he. So a helper, the Holy Spirit.

00:40:16.409 --> 00:40:24.769
The Father will send in Jesus' name. Why is it

00:40:24.769 --> 00:40:26.769
significant that the Holy Spirit would be sent

00:40:26.769 --> 00:40:30.030
in Jesus' name? Why does that have to be mentioned?

00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.880
Okay, so that's kind of using the word to define

00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:40.519
the word, but yeah. So if it wasn't in Jesus'

00:40:40.659 --> 00:40:43.559
name, then it wouldn't be Jesus. There is no

00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:47.880
other name given on earth among men by which

00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:50.880
we must be saved. Therefore, if you do not appeal

00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.860
to God through Jesus to be saved, you will not

00:40:54.860 --> 00:40:56.800
be saved. And when does the Holy Spirit come

00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:00.539
into a person? At the moment of salvation. So

00:41:00.539 --> 00:41:03.340
it is in the name of Jesus. Also notice, all

00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:06.380
authority has been given me. in heaven and on

00:41:06.380 --> 00:41:10.559
earth, as we read in the previous verses. It

00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:14.260
is by Jesus and Jesus alone. So if people have

00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:16.539
an alternative method, it's not going to work.

00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:19.239
And there is no holiness, no amount of holiness

00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.579
that will ever achieve the Holy Spirit coming

00:41:21.579 --> 00:41:24.360
and taking up residence in a person. It must

00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:27.840
be done in Jesus' name. All right, and we're

00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:29.179
going to go on. Now we're talking a little bit

00:41:29.179 --> 00:41:31.360
about what the Holy Spirit does. And so it says

00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:40.309
he will. Teach us. And I understand my U looks

00:41:40.309 --> 00:41:41.670
a little bit like a Y there, so I apologize.

00:41:42.949 --> 00:41:46.610
He will teach us. I extended that to us because

00:41:46.610 --> 00:41:52.530
this is written to the church. And a little more

00:41:52.530 --> 00:42:01.670
tricky wording. You got it? What else will he

00:42:01.670 --> 00:42:06.079
do? It's really a two -part ministry here listed.

00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:13.599
Say it again. Yes, he will bring and bring to

00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:17.119
remembrance. So why is, what does that mean,

00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:20.280
bring to remembrance? What's he going to bring

00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:22.539
to remembrance again? Let's be clear about that.

00:42:23.980 --> 00:42:27.539
Everything. Everything that Jesus taught us.

00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:31.960
So this is a huge piece of what the Holy Spirit

00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:35.780
does for believers. You sit under teaching. Does

00:42:35.780 --> 00:42:38.139
anybody remember what we taught the first four

00:42:38.139 --> 00:42:42.380
weeks of last year on Tuesday night or Sunday?

00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:44.440
I mean, the blessing is in our church, you can

00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:46.659
go on the podcast and listen or on the live until

00:42:46.659 --> 00:42:49.619
May. We have to download all the pack. Starting

00:42:49.619 --> 00:42:51.159
in May, they're only going to have the last 30

00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.559
days worth of live videos on our Facebook page.

00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:55.360
We have to download all that so we can save it.

00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:58.739
But our podcast has that. Right now, the Facebook

00:42:58.739 --> 00:43:01.690
page has it all the way back. But even then,

00:43:01.750 --> 00:43:03.409
you'd go back and go, oh, yeah, yeah, I remember

00:43:03.409 --> 00:43:06.510
that now. But whatever is imbued in you, whatever

00:43:06.510 --> 00:43:09.329
is coming from Jesus, the Holy Spirit serves

00:43:09.329 --> 00:43:13.210
to bring up what you need when you need it. As

00:43:13.210 --> 00:43:16.429
long as you don't quench that voice, right? As

00:43:16.429 --> 00:43:18.369
long as you're willing to listen to the Holy

00:43:18.369 --> 00:43:22.750
Spirit, then he'll bring it up, right? Now, that

00:43:22.750 --> 00:43:24.920
means you do have to read your Bible. You meditate,

00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:27.079
memorize. These are all things that are commanded.

00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:28.420
So if they're commanded and we don't do them,

00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:32.179
then we're taking away the fuel that the Holy

00:43:32.179 --> 00:43:34.320
Spirit will use to bring up. We won't be able

00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:36.900
to come up with what Jesus commanded us because

00:43:36.900 --> 00:43:39.119
we never heard it. We don't know what Jesus said

00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:42.079
on this topic. But if we know what he said and

00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:44.260
we commit it to memory, commit it in our hearts,

00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:46.199
that kind of thing, then he can bring it up.

00:43:46.260 --> 00:43:48.400
And that's a big part of what he does. He brings

00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:50.760
to remembrance all the things that Jesus taught

00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:56.739
us. Okay? Jesus, the next word is Jesus, gives

00:43:56.739 --> 00:44:00.639
peace. Very good. You're right on it. Gives peace.

00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:04.519
And then there's a key phrase that's describing

00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:12.460
that. Not as the world gives. Okay? Now, theologians

00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:16.179
do a lot of debating about what not as the world

00:44:16.179 --> 00:44:19.039
gives exactly means. How does the world give?

00:44:19.300 --> 00:44:24.690
And some of it's cultural. So they kind of interpret

00:44:24.690 --> 00:44:27.869
it on a cultural level. Like here in America,

00:44:27.969 --> 00:44:33.409
we buy gifts and wrap them and give, or we give

00:44:33.409 --> 00:44:36.329
quality time to people that we care about or

00:44:36.329 --> 00:44:38.289
like that. Where in different parts of the world,

00:44:38.309 --> 00:44:42.090
they think of giving differently. And so there's

00:44:42.090 --> 00:44:44.190
a lot of different debates that follow not as

00:44:44.190 --> 00:44:50.059
the world gives, but for sure we know what. What

00:44:50.059 --> 00:44:52.380
can we know for sure about the way that Jesus

00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:58.699
gives? It's like no other, right? So in other

00:44:58.699 --> 00:45:00.860
words, you can't get it anywhere else. So in

00:45:00.860 --> 00:45:03.460
other words, even if it was available in some

00:45:03.460 --> 00:45:06.500
way, it still would not be the quality. So if

00:45:06.500 --> 00:45:09.820
you could buy the same thing that somebody bought

00:45:09.820 --> 00:45:11.500
you for Christmas, you could buy that same thing

00:45:11.500 --> 00:45:15.500
on AliExpress for a tenth of the money, it's

00:45:15.500 --> 00:45:17.119
probably not going to be as good because most

00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:19.130
stuff comes on a slow basis. boat from China

00:45:19.130 --> 00:45:22.550
has poor quality. Okay? And that's just the reality

00:45:22.550 --> 00:45:27.409
of it. So it's not going to be any other place,

00:45:27.590 --> 00:45:29.969
any other availability. So that's true. What

00:45:29.969 --> 00:45:37.489
else? Jesus gives. What do we know about Jesus

00:45:37.489 --> 00:45:43.650
that makes him a good giver? He knows our heart.

00:45:43.730 --> 00:45:46.920
He knows you inside and out. So when I go to

00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:48.900
buy a gift for somebody at Christmas time, birthdays,

00:45:49.059 --> 00:45:50.039
something like that, I'm going to buy them a

00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:54.559
gift. I want to buy a gift that fits, fits their

00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:56.480
personality, something they mentioned a month

00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:58.239
ago that they would like to have or something

00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:00.179
I know. Oh, you know what? They had this problem.

00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:01.860
I know they had the problem. They got a solution.

00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:03.900
But here's a good lasting solution for their

00:46:03.900 --> 00:46:06.340
problem. So I'm looking for something that's

00:46:06.340 --> 00:46:09.280
really what they need, really what they want.

00:46:09.380 --> 00:46:11.420
But they're going to go, oh, I didn't even know

00:46:11.420 --> 00:46:13.900
I needed that. But now that I have it, wow, that

00:46:13.900 --> 00:46:16.000
was the perfect gift. That's what I'm looking

00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:19.500
for. And Jesus is the perfect gift giver, which

00:46:19.500 --> 00:46:21.940
means he can give you the peace that you need

00:46:21.940 --> 00:46:24.440
for exactly what you're going through. So the

00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:26.980
world can't do that. The world doesn't know you.

00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.440
Even if you tried to tell the world about you,

00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:34.300
the world doesn't know you. It's hard for anybody

00:46:34.300 --> 00:46:36.320
else in the church to even know you. And that's

00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.360
if you took a lot of time, laid it out. They

00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:40.179
read your journal for the last three years, everything

00:46:40.179 --> 00:46:42.659
you wrote. You've described everything you've

00:46:42.659 --> 00:46:43.679
ever been through. If you went to a counselor

00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:46.739
for 40 years, they wouldn't know you. If you

00:46:46.739 --> 00:46:48.159
told them everything, they wouldn't know you.

00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:50.659
They'll never get close to knowing you like Jesus

00:46:50.659 --> 00:46:56.480
knows. There you go. And there's another example.

00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:59.360
We're talking about Jesus knows us. He also knows

00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:03.920
the world, the need. He can define what peace

00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:07.980
is, right? And has in some sense. All right.

00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.559
So there's a lot there. that we can know for

00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:13.559
sure. So when people get into a debate saying

00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:15.860
it gives like the world doesn't give that way

00:47:15.860 --> 00:47:17.440
or whatever, I wouldn't worry about the debate.

00:47:17.500 --> 00:47:19.139
I would go with what you know, is what I'm saying.

00:47:19.539 --> 00:47:23.619
Okay? All right. This is a trick one, so be careful.

00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:29.980
So we have a command in here, and I gave you

00:47:29.980 --> 00:47:34.380
a DT, and I busted the language for grammar to

00:47:34.380 --> 00:47:40.239
do this. So it's don't this. Instead of do this,

00:47:40.380 --> 00:47:43.699
commands are usually do this or prohibitions

00:47:43.699 --> 00:47:45.820
are usually don't do this. So this is don't this.

00:47:47.219 --> 00:47:54.360
So put don't and then this. And it is let your

00:47:54.360 --> 00:48:00.980
heart be troubled or be fearful, right? Don't

00:48:00.980 --> 00:48:03.460
let your heart be troubled or be fearful. Now

00:48:03.460 --> 00:48:07.730
that sounds good. But we kind of have a problem

00:48:07.730 --> 00:48:12.389
in that, first of all, what's our heart? So let's

00:48:12.389 --> 00:48:14.590
get a biblical definition of the heart for a

00:48:14.590 --> 00:48:17.030
moment. What is a heart? What's a heart of a

00:48:17.030 --> 00:48:24.730
person? Okay, not too bad. Say it again. Okay,

00:48:24.849 --> 00:48:26.650
it is an organ, but it's something more than

00:48:26.650 --> 00:48:30.219
that. Okay, now you're getting somewhere, something

00:48:30.219 --> 00:48:32.659
that makes you you. So when the Bible talks about

00:48:32.659 --> 00:48:35.800
your heart, it is that place inside you where

00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:40.199
your most crucial identity decisions are made.

00:48:41.340 --> 00:48:43.920
So if you have a thought, I think I'll walk.

00:48:44.860 --> 00:48:47.699
And then you go, no, I think I'll ride. Walking

00:48:47.699 --> 00:48:49.659
is too much work. And then there's something

00:48:49.659 --> 00:48:52.079
deep inside you, but walking is healthy. You

00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.440
really should walk. Okay, fine, I'll walk. And

00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.809
then you go, oh, but wait. I'm going to have

00:48:57.809 --> 00:48:59.269
to carry back some heavy bags and stuff like

00:48:59.269 --> 00:49:00.829
that, or I've got to get back by a certain time,

00:49:00.909 --> 00:49:03.150
and that would be disrespectful to a promise

00:49:03.150 --> 00:49:04.929
that I made because I said I'd be back by a certain

00:49:04.929 --> 00:49:06.349
time or something like that. And something inside

00:49:06.349 --> 00:49:08.550
you, deep inside you, says, no, I'm going to

00:49:08.550 --> 00:49:10.730
have to ride today. But then when I get back

00:49:10.730 --> 00:49:11.969
after everything's done, I'm going to have to

00:49:11.969 --> 00:49:15.010
walk because that is healthy for me. So decision

00:49:15.010 --> 00:49:18.110
-making goes deeper, deeper, deeper. Your convictions

00:49:18.110 --> 00:49:20.690
are in your heart. Your beliefs, your thoughts

00:49:20.690 --> 00:49:22.489
like that, they're up here. They're somewhere.

00:49:22.670 --> 00:49:23.909
That's why they always say if it doesn't move

00:49:23.909 --> 00:49:25.170
from your head to your heart, it doesn't make

00:49:25.170 --> 00:49:27.710
a whole hill of beans. Because if you can think

00:49:27.710 --> 00:49:29.250
it now, you can think something different later.

00:49:29.630 --> 00:49:32.429
So your heart is like the internal part of you

00:49:32.429 --> 00:49:35.489
that makes your decisions. RJ used the word soul.

00:49:36.250 --> 00:49:38.590
The only reason I kind of get a sticking point

00:49:38.590 --> 00:49:40.389
is because we have a verse that names heart and

00:49:40.389 --> 00:49:43.909
soul. And it's not meant to be the same thing.

00:49:43.949 --> 00:49:45.630
It's not your heart, which is also your soul.

00:49:45.670 --> 00:49:47.150
It's your heart and your soul, which are named

00:49:47.150 --> 00:49:52.230
as two different parts. But your soul regenerated

00:49:52.230 --> 00:49:53.690
and your heart regenerated working inside. You

00:49:53.690 --> 00:49:55.769
can do basically all the decision making, all

00:49:55.769 --> 00:49:58.159
the... Responding to conviction, the deep beliefs,

00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:03.679
etc. So, if that's what our heart is, and we

00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:09.300
are commanded not to let our heart be troubled

00:50:09.300 --> 00:50:15.500
or fearful, how do we do that? This is a command.

00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:17.960
It's a command that you have to follow. How does

00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:21.480
a person make it so that their heart is not troubled?

00:50:21.619 --> 00:50:24.500
If that's your center, your core, decision -making,

00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:29.789
how would you do that? Go ahead. Take a stab

00:50:29.789 --> 00:50:35.110
at it. I was going to say, I say more reliance

00:50:35.110 --> 00:50:37.630
on the Lord because our hearts can easily be

00:50:37.630 --> 00:50:40.110
troubled or fearful. So we need to turn it to

00:50:40.110 --> 00:50:45.969
God. I agree with you completely. Go ahead. And

00:50:45.969 --> 00:50:48.230
I think that those two things mesh beautifully.

00:50:48.889 --> 00:50:51.869
Okay? So in the Bible, we see the word believe

00:50:51.869 --> 00:50:57.119
a lot. In modern day, ever since the Enlightenment,

00:50:57.340 --> 00:50:59.300
there's been the thought that you can believe

00:50:59.300 --> 00:51:01.280
something and it doesn't change who you are.

00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:03.360
In the Enlightenment, they started thinking,

00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:06.079
well, I think, therefore I am, rather than I

00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:09.079
am, therefore this is the way I think. So they

00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:12.719
started, that was, I can't remember, philosopher's

00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:14.400
name who actually said that. Now it might be

00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:16.659
Descartes, but anyway, he said, I think, therefore

00:51:16.659 --> 00:51:19.579
I am, as a definition of how you can know that

00:51:19.579 --> 00:51:21.760
you exist. How do I know I exist? Because I think.

00:51:21.780 --> 00:51:24.360
I think, therefore I am. And that reversed the

00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:27.480
concept of I am, therefore I think a certain

00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:33.019
way. Our emotions now in America, people's emotions

00:51:33.019 --> 00:51:37.639
drive them. I'm mad, so I act grumpy. I didn't

00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.920
get what I want, so I'm going to act stubborn

00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:44.420
or be mean to people or something like that.

00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:47.960
My wife said something I didn't like, so now

00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:51.360
I'm fuming. And we think that what we experience

00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:54.280
drives our emotions. But biblically speaking,

00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:59.320
your heart, your core drives your emotions. So

00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:02.719
you can decide to be, and I learned this, and

00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:04.960
I'm not saying I'm great at it or anything, but

00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:07.800
you can decide to be happy in the stupidest of

00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.760
circumstances. At a time where no one would be

00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:13.360
happy, you can be happy. You're going to heaven.

00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:16.179
You've got the Holy Spirit. You've got spiritual

00:52:16.179 --> 00:52:18.679
gifts that you couldn't buy with money. Not any

00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:20.869
amount of money or any amount of effort. You're

00:52:20.869 --> 00:52:22.929
blessed beyond measure. The truth is, if you're

00:52:22.929 --> 00:52:25.150
here tonight, you are blessed beyond measure.

00:52:25.989 --> 00:52:28.510
There are people in the world right now not knowing

00:52:28.510 --> 00:52:31.010
where four ounces of clean water is going to

00:52:31.010 --> 00:52:35.269
come tomorrow to be able to cook or drink. And

00:52:35.269 --> 00:52:37.150
if we needed it, we'd just order a bottle of

00:52:37.150 --> 00:52:39.610
water. Or we'd go to the store and grab whatever

00:52:39.610 --> 00:52:43.210
we need. We are blessed beyond measure. So for

00:52:43.210 --> 00:52:45.010
us to respond to something that happens to us

00:52:45.010 --> 00:52:46.730
and let that affect our emotions, that's a mistake.

00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:51.119
Tony Tate and Alicia were putting together, right?

00:52:51.539 --> 00:52:53.760
Relying on the Lord, believing in the Lord then

00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:57.460
should drive your actions. So if we get that

00:52:57.460 --> 00:53:02.260
idea right in our heads, then we see Jesus say

00:53:02.260 --> 00:53:06.739
in John 14, 1, he says, do not let your heart

00:53:06.739 --> 00:53:08.340
be troubled. Oh, wait a minute. We just heard

00:53:08.340 --> 00:53:11.079
that, didn't we? Do not let your heart be troubled.

00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:14.719
Semicolon. So Josh, when there's a semicolon,

00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:16.559
a sentence, what does the next part usually mean?

00:53:18.869 --> 00:53:22.030
And it follows logically, right, the first sentence.

00:53:22.309 --> 00:53:24.789
It could be sometimes, not always, it could be

00:53:24.789 --> 00:53:27.010
a restatement of the first sentence. Some people

00:53:27.010 --> 00:53:31.389
do that. It could be that it may stand alone

00:53:31.389 --> 00:53:34.409
as a sentence by itself, but it's contingent

00:53:34.409 --> 00:53:36.250
upon the first part. All of those things are

00:53:36.250 --> 00:53:38.909
possible. That being said, he says this, do not

00:53:38.909 --> 00:53:43.690
let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe

00:53:43.690 --> 00:53:49.079
also in me. And I submit to you, this is a two

00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:53.579
-part action plan by which you can not let your

00:53:53.579 --> 00:53:56.599
heart be troubled, not let your heart be fearful.

00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:03.960
As the psalmist said many times, Proverbs says

00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:06.320
in a couple places, when you go into trouble,

00:54:06.460 --> 00:54:11.159
what do you do? Trust in the Lord. So we have

00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:13.760
to realize that Jesus said, all authority has

00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.530
been given me in heaven and on earth. And so

00:54:16.530 --> 00:54:18.030
now I'm going into a period of time where I'm

00:54:18.030 --> 00:54:19.190
going through some stuff that I don't want to

00:54:19.190 --> 00:54:21.530
go through. My life sucks right now by my own

00:54:21.530 --> 00:54:24.269
decision -making process. But we have to realize

00:54:24.269 --> 00:54:26.730
somebody is making the decisions that is a lot

00:54:26.730 --> 00:54:30.769
smarter than we are. And whatever worst eventuality

00:54:30.769 --> 00:54:32.829
you're possibly going through right now, you

00:54:32.829 --> 00:54:34.570
definitely could be kept from something worse,

00:54:34.750 --> 00:54:37.289
even if that something worse is hell for an eternity.

00:54:38.269 --> 00:54:41.690
God is concerned about your eternity, not your

00:54:41.690 --> 00:54:45.170
current comfort. All right, now God does want

00:54:45.170 --> 00:54:46.989
you to be comfortable. He wants you to be happy.

00:54:47.070 --> 00:54:48.690
He wants to take care of you. He loves you. He's

00:54:48.690 --> 00:54:50.389
providing for you. He's doing a lot of things.

00:54:50.590 --> 00:54:52.570
Purpose, provision, protection, and so on. Power,

00:54:52.730 --> 00:54:54.730
right? That's all part of being a Christian.

00:54:55.010 --> 00:54:57.889
But he says, do not let your heart be troubled.

00:54:58.090 --> 00:55:00.150
And then he says, believe in God. Believe also

00:55:00.150 --> 00:55:02.170
in me. I submit to you, this is what's happening.

00:55:02.969 --> 00:55:05.929
When our hearts are troubled or fearful, it is

00:55:05.929 --> 00:55:09.150
because either A, we are not believing in God.

00:55:09.230 --> 00:55:11.469
And I'm not saying getting unsaved, right? We're

00:55:11.469 --> 00:55:14.039
not placing our faith in God. that he knows what

00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:15.780
he's doing, trusting him with wisdom, trusting

00:55:15.780 --> 00:55:17.900
the circumstances, trusting his power, right?

00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:21.619
Or we are not putting our faith in Jesus, one

00:55:21.619 --> 00:55:23.840
or the other. I'm not talking about being unsaved.

00:55:23.860 --> 00:55:25.800
At the moment you were saved, you trusted in

00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:28.599
God, trusted in Jesus, the channel of faith was

00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.519
open, grace came in, you were saved. Now, why

00:55:31.519 --> 00:55:34.320
would you actively, day by day, not believe in

00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:38.260
God and believe in Jesus? Well, because God didn't

00:55:38.260 --> 00:55:40.179
do a miracle that I prayed for. I prayed and

00:55:40.179 --> 00:55:42.179
I said, God, heal me, and God didn't heal me.

00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:45.900
God didn't provide money or God didn't take away

00:55:45.900 --> 00:55:50.340
my pain or God, you know, whatever. God knows

00:55:50.340 --> 00:55:53.179
better than we do. When you face that moment

00:55:53.179 --> 00:55:55.559
in time, there is a two -step action plan that

00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:58.860
you need to do. And that is believe in God and

00:55:58.860 --> 00:56:03.059
believe in Jesus. And I submit to you when life

00:56:03.059 --> 00:56:07.019
gets really bad, there is a two -step action

00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:12.230
plan to existing. It gets down to that. Get down

00:56:12.230 --> 00:56:15.309
to just this. I could die in a second. Believe

00:56:15.309 --> 00:56:18.090
in God. Believe in Jesus. I don't know. I can't

00:56:18.090 --> 00:56:19.630
pay my bills. I could lose my house. Believe

00:56:19.630 --> 00:56:23.090
in God. Believe in Jesus. I'm struggling emotionally

00:56:23.090 --> 00:56:25.170
with the people in my life. Believe in God. Believe

00:56:25.170 --> 00:56:27.429
in Jesus. When it gets so bad that you can't

00:56:27.429 --> 00:56:29.750
do anything to fix the situation, that he's not

00:56:29.750 --> 00:56:31.789
leading you to step in and make it better, just

00:56:31.789 --> 00:56:35.230
believe in God. Believe in Jesus. And you see

00:56:35.230 --> 00:56:38.190
that with martyrs. right, when they're on the

00:56:38.190 --> 00:56:40.309
cross or when they're being burned, whatever,

00:56:40.389 --> 00:56:43.190
what are they doing? Preaching the gospel, right?

00:56:43.269 --> 00:56:45.190
No, not really. I mean, they're preaching it

00:56:45.190 --> 00:56:47.949
without words. They're living it, but they're

00:56:47.949 --> 00:56:50.610
believing in God and believing in Jesus. And

00:56:50.610 --> 00:56:53.150
if you get wrapped up in a whole bunch of other

00:56:53.150 --> 00:56:57.050
action, learning more, getting outside the word

00:56:57.050 --> 00:56:59.329
to learn, becoming a psychologist or a counselor

00:56:59.329 --> 00:57:01.730
or a doctor or all these other action plans that

00:57:01.730 --> 00:57:03.670
make your life better, situation better, whatever.

00:57:04.789 --> 00:57:06.329
ultimately is still going to have to come down

00:57:06.329 --> 00:57:08.250
to believe in God, believe in Jesus. And I would

00:57:08.250 --> 00:57:11.369
tie it together this way. He said, I am with

00:57:11.369 --> 00:57:14.949
you even unto the end of the age. At the moment

00:57:14.949 --> 00:57:18.469
of the harvest, will you be harvesting? No, you'll

00:57:18.469 --> 00:57:20.570
be getting harvested. And when you're getting

00:57:20.570 --> 00:57:22.570
harvested, will you be winning people to Jesus?

00:57:22.769 --> 00:57:27.380
No. Will you be trying to live right? No. You'll

00:57:27.380 --> 00:57:29.099
be getting harvested. That's the only thing that'll

00:57:29.099 --> 00:57:30.820
be happening at that time. You'll be getting

00:57:30.820 --> 00:57:32.139
harvested. And when you're getting harvested,

00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:34.599
what is your two -step action plan that will

00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:36.760
get you through to where you want to go? Believe

00:57:36.760 --> 00:57:40.480
in God and believe in Jesus. Anything that jeopardizes

00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:43.000
that two -step action plan should actually go

00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.800
out of your life. If you're watching things,

00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:48.679
seeing things, doing things, involved in relationships,

00:57:48.940 --> 00:57:50.699
whatever, that are jeopardizing your ability

00:57:50.699 --> 00:57:52.760
to believe in God, believe in Jesus on a daily

00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:55.079
basis, then you should start weeding those things

00:57:55.079 --> 00:57:57.179
out. Because sometime you're going to have just

00:57:57.179 --> 00:57:58.719
that. That's all you have. You're going to get

00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:00.659
down to, that's all I've got left. I just need

00:58:00.659 --> 00:58:02.659
to believe in God and believe in Jesus. And you

00:58:02.659 --> 00:58:05.119
need to do that. And you cannot allow anything

00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:06.780
between now and then to make it more difficult

00:58:06.780 --> 00:58:11.780
for you to do that. Last one. Over on the right

00:58:11.780 --> 00:58:16.239
-hand side. This one is a classic verse. Romans

00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:22.380
8 .28. Another verse that people often quote

00:58:22.380 --> 00:58:27.519
without the... or the necessity. Romans 8 .28.

00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:30.119
Does anybody have this memorized? I kind of do.

00:58:31.739 --> 00:58:33.460
But there's a few words at the beginning that

00:58:33.460 --> 00:58:40.760
I tend to leave off. For we know God can work

00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:43.860
all things together for the good, for him who

00:58:43.860 --> 00:58:48.260
loves the Lord. Yep. Well, now you do. All right.

00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.440
I can't get to the Bible on the right spot. There

00:58:52.440 --> 00:59:01.699
it is. So this is what we've got going on here.

00:59:13.420 --> 00:59:16.079
26 says, Now in the same way the Spirit also

00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.260
helps our weakness, for we do not know what to

00:59:18.260 --> 00:59:22.619
pray for as we should. But the Spirit himself

00:59:22.619 --> 00:59:26.619
intercedes for us with groanings too deep for

00:59:26.619 --> 00:59:29.380
words. And he who searches the hearts knows what

00:59:29.380 --> 00:59:31.420
the mind of the Spirit is because he intercedes

00:59:31.420 --> 00:59:34.099
for the saints according to the will of God.

00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:38.159
Then 28, here it comes. And we know that God

00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:43.599
causes all things to work together for good to

00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:46.019
those who love God and to those who are called

00:59:46.019 --> 00:59:49.960
according to his purpose. And it's very simple.

00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:57.760
So the first one is, We know. Next part. Okay.

00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:00.900
God causes. I put can on my paper, but I like

01:00:00.900 --> 01:00:06.579
causes better actually. All things to work together

01:00:06.579 --> 01:00:12.059
for good. Did it say for the good? No. For good.

01:00:13.380 --> 01:00:15.440
That's interesting, isn't it? Because the good

01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:18.619
implies it's good for us. And that's how we usually

01:00:18.619 --> 01:00:23.590
quote the verse. Okay. But realize that what's

01:00:23.590 --> 01:00:27.090
good overall is also good for you. Even though

01:00:27.090 --> 01:00:29.070
you may go, oh, this is not so good for me. You

01:00:29.070 --> 01:00:31.369
might take a bullet for a friend and you survive

01:00:31.369 --> 01:00:33.550
it or don't go straight to heaven, whatever.

01:00:33.889 --> 01:00:37.469
You'd be like, well, that wasn't good. Right?

01:00:37.550 --> 01:00:39.050
That's what we'd think. Well, I took a bullet.

01:00:39.130 --> 01:00:41.969
That wasn't good. Right? But your friend survives,

01:00:42.329 --> 01:00:43.849
goes on, does amazing things for God. It was

01:00:43.849 --> 01:00:45.610
in God's plan, whatever. Maybe you survived.

01:00:45.750 --> 01:00:47.929
You have a great testimony and all that. So the

01:00:47.929 --> 01:00:55.429
overall, the good. Okay? not our good, not for

01:00:55.429 --> 01:00:58.869
the good of us, but the good overall. Okay? And

01:00:58.869 --> 01:01:02.730
he says to work together for good. Okay? And

01:01:02.730 --> 01:01:07.130
then he goes on to say, let me find my spot again,

01:01:07.389 --> 01:01:11.769
to those who are called according to his purpose.

01:01:13.510 --> 01:01:17.690
Okay? So then this is a command to what? Be this.

01:01:18.889 --> 01:01:29.460
Two things. What? What are the two things? He

01:01:29.460 --> 01:01:36.880
does this for those who what? Love God. Be called

01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:39.260
according to his purpose. So now what I've given

01:01:39.260 --> 01:01:41.599
you is some examples on the bottom of the box

01:01:41.599 --> 01:01:44.360
there of things that people will generally say

01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:48.199
are what might be being called according to God's

01:01:48.199 --> 01:01:52.900
purpose. So are we called to love? Sure we are,

01:01:52.980 --> 01:01:54.599
right? You can say that. That's God's purpose.

01:01:54.679 --> 01:01:56.619
Love God is love and so on. Are we called to

01:01:56.619 --> 01:01:59.260
witness? Evangelism. That means to spread the

01:01:59.260 --> 01:02:04.539
good news. Do good. Faithfulness. All your blanks

01:02:04.539 --> 01:02:05.820
are filled out, but there's a little bit left,

01:02:05.900 --> 01:02:09.760
so don't give up on me. Okay? Faithfulness. Serve.

01:02:10.539 --> 01:02:13.320
Believe. Deny self. Jesus said, who would be

01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:16.739
my disciple? Deny yourself daily, right? Take

01:02:16.739 --> 01:02:19.179
up your cross. Yeah, that fits in there. All

01:02:19.179 --> 01:02:21.719
things that we do, do as if we do them for him.

01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:25.840
That makes sense. Fear not. Overcome. So here's

01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:27.619
what I want you to do. On that list, I would

01:02:27.619 --> 01:02:30.519
like you to circle three, not more than three,

01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:33.280
just three things on that list that you feel

01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:38.960
like God has called you to do. Take the top three.

01:02:41.399 --> 01:02:43.139
Any of them could be, right? You could just circle

01:02:43.139 --> 01:02:45.320
the whole box. But if you did, you still wouldn't

01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:47.019
have the whole answer. I could have given 40

01:02:47.019 --> 01:02:50.699
more examples, couldn't I? So pick three of those

01:02:50.699 --> 01:02:52.519
things that you think God has called you personally

01:02:52.519 --> 01:03:02.780
to do. And then we're going to look at, if you'll

01:03:02.780 --> 01:03:04.840
notice up there on the right -hand side, you've

01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:07.469
got some little doodles and some verses. The

01:03:07.469 --> 01:03:10.090
first one is 1 Peter 2 .9. I've written it in

01:03:10.090 --> 01:03:14.550
there for you. We are in the very ends of it

01:03:14.550 --> 01:03:33.130
here. Almost there. Go. 1 Peter 2 .9 says as

01:03:33.130 --> 01:03:40.920
follows. Wrong page. Here we go. But you are

01:03:40.920 --> 01:03:46.260
a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,

01:03:46.619 --> 01:03:49.760
a people for God's own possession, so that you

01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:53.000
may proclaim the excellencies of him who has

01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:57.539
called you out of darkness into his marvelous

01:03:57.539 --> 01:04:01.940
light. He has called you out of darkness into

01:04:01.940 --> 01:04:04.809
his marvelous light. So if God has called us

01:04:04.809 --> 01:04:08.349
out of darkness into his marvelous light, then

01:04:08.349 --> 01:04:13.050
what should we do based on that? What is the

01:04:13.050 --> 01:04:15.750
calling of God? He called you to leave the darkness,

01:04:15.969 --> 01:04:21.530
come into the light, and so now what? Live in

01:04:21.530 --> 01:04:26.489
the light, right? Abide in the light. Abide where

01:04:26.489 --> 01:04:28.070
he has called you to be. He called you out of

01:04:28.070 --> 01:04:30.059
the darkness to live in the light. So you do

01:04:30.059 --> 01:04:31.719
that in community with other believers. You do

01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:33.280
that by speaking out about what you know. You

01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:37.119
do that by living as a godly man or woman, right?

01:04:37.199 --> 01:04:38.840
Which would include a lot of those other things

01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:41.539
that are on that list. But it's just living in

01:04:41.539 --> 01:04:43.559
the light. He called you out of the darkness

01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:46.539
into the light. Now in the Bible, a lot of times

01:04:46.539 --> 01:04:49.599
darkness represents ignorance and light represents

01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:53.880
knowledge, right? So you didn't know and now

01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:56.719
you're called to live knowing. Does that make

01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:59.260
sense? You didn't know. He called you out of

01:04:59.260 --> 01:05:02.079
not knowing into living knowing. So that's one

01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:04.860
possibility. Sometimes in the Bible, darkness

01:05:04.860 --> 01:05:08.820
represents evil or wickedness. And he called

01:05:08.820 --> 01:05:12.940
you out of evil or wickedness into light represents

01:05:12.940 --> 01:05:17.059
goodness, cleanness, holiness. And so now you're

01:05:17.059 --> 01:05:19.239
not supposed to live like you did over here in

01:05:19.239 --> 01:05:21.380
wickedness or evil. You live like you are over

01:05:21.380 --> 01:05:25.159
here in goodness or holiness. So basically, it's

01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:27.539
just simply this. And it will look different

01:05:27.539 --> 01:05:30.639
for every person. If the calling of God was to

01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:33.880
leave this people and become part of this people,

01:05:34.139 --> 01:05:38.300
then you will live as part of this people. And

01:05:38.300 --> 01:05:40.659
if you answer that call and live as part of this

01:05:40.659 --> 01:05:46.840
people, what? God can work all things together

01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:52.659
for good. But if you will dilly -dally, or cross

01:05:52.659 --> 01:05:55.880
the line or live straddling, so you're part over

01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:57.539
here in the darkness, part over here in the good,

01:05:57.619 --> 01:06:02.000
there is no promise that God can work all things

01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:05.539
together for the good. In fact, you're going

01:06:05.539 --> 01:06:07.639
to be doing certain things that really stand

01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.760
in his way. Just like when Jesus went through

01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:12.119
Galilee and there were people that didn't believe

01:06:12.119 --> 01:06:13.860
in him and he was only able to do a few miracles

01:06:13.860 --> 01:06:15.900
of healing. So in your life, he's not going to

01:06:15.900 --> 01:06:17.539
go do the things that he wants to turn those

01:06:17.539 --> 01:06:21.300
bad situations out for good. Sometimes it'll

01:06:21.300 --> 01:06:23.599
be straight up your good, and sometimes it's

01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:25.739
good of all mankind, good of the gospel, good

01:06:25.739 --> 01:06:27.820
of the kingdom, like that, right? And sometimes

01:06:27.820 --> 01:06:29.679
that'll look bad for you. That's what martyrdom

01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:33.260
is. Otherwise, because how did God turn martyrs'

01:06:33.260 --> 01:06:38.500
deaths out for good? They died. So if it was

01:06:38.500 --> 01:06:40.239
just stuck in this lifetime, they didn't get

01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:43.119
good. They got filleted or drawn in quarter or

01:06:43.119 --> 01:06:47.000
burnt or crucified. That's not good. So did God

01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:51.500
fail to turn that out for good? No, he didn't

01:06:51.500 --> 01:06:53.460
fail. Actually, what you find is that typically

01:06:53.460 --> 01:06:56.179
right after a martyrdom like that, the gospel

01:06:56.179 --> 01:06:58.519
spreads like wildfire, and tons of people saw

01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:00.719
them living for Jesus at their death, and they

01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:03.420
got saved. And that's been like that every time

01:07:03.420 --> 01:07:05.539
that ever happens, somebody's martyred. And it

01:07:05.539 --> 01:07:07.199
even happens when somebody's martyred not for

01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:09.840
the cross, that people tend to pay attention

01:07:09.840 --> 01:07:11.460
to them. They think, wow, that person really

01:07:11.460 --> 01:07:14.199
had strong convictions, and so on. So the point

01:07:14.199 --> 01:07:17.519
is, it's not simply that it will be good for

01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:20.039
you or what you think is good. It will be that

01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:25.820
it will be good, and it is promised at first

01:07:25.820 --> 01:07:28.039
because we respond to the calling, which is us

01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:30.380
called out of darkness to live in the light.

01:07:30.900 --> 01:07:33.940
The second thing then comes from Ephesians 3

01:07:33.940 --> 01:07:38.599
.10. Number two is Ephesians 3 .10. Just so the

01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:40.440
teenagers know, there are a couple of questions

01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:42.440
out of what I'm talking about right now, because

01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:44.000
I've already got questions written on the back

01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:51.889
of my paper. Ephesians 3 .10. It says this, so

01:07:51.889 --> 01:07:58.809
that the multifaceted wisdom of God, or the amazing

01:07:58.809 --> 01:08:00.869
manifest wisdom of God, or there's a variety

01:08:00.869 --> 01:08:03.309
of different words translated there, but the

01:08:03.309 --> 01:08:06.650
multifaceted wisdom of God might now be made

01:08:06.650 --> 01:08:09.769
known through the church, oh, that's us, to the

01:08:09.769 --> 01:08:12.590
rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realm.

01:08:13.789 --> 01:08:17.189
So based on that, what has God called us to do?

01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:22.720
What was God's purpose in calling us out? Say

01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:27.119
it again. By who? By your family? By your boss?

01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:32.340
By your friends? By the angels. See, the mystery

01:08:32.340 --> 01:08:35.979
of the gospel of what Jesus would do was kept

01:08:35.979 --> 01:08:39.600
secret until it happened, until Jesus' crucifixion.

01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:41.800
That was the reveal, right? Crucifixion and resurrection

01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:44.470
was the reveal. From then has been the turn and

01:08:44.470 --> 01:08:46.189
the reveal known. We talked about that seven

01:08:46.189 --> 01:08:50.250
weeks ago on Sunday, right? And it is our job

01:08:50.250 --> 01:08:52.649
to make sure that those who are in the heavenly

01:08:52.649 --> 01:08:57.970
realms get the message. So when you witness and

01:08:57.970 --> 01:08:59.869
share the gospel, somebody asked them to be saved.

01:09:00.270 --> 01:09:03.369
They don't get saved. That was a failure, right?

01:09:04.210 --> 01:09:07.869
Wrong. Because it wasn't even about them. This

01:09:07.869 --> 01:09:09.729
is what you got to get through your head. When

01:09:09.729 --> 01:09:12.039
you're talking to somebody about Jesus, If they

01:09:12.039 --> 01:09:14.279
are being called by God, if God is calling them

01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:16.180
out of the darkness into the light, they will

01:09:16.180 --> 01:09:18.479
be interested and possibly get saved. And that

01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:21.439
would be great. But if you share with them and

01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:23.220
they are not interested and don't get saved,

01:09:23.380 --> 01:09:26.060
you still did what God commanded you. Your belief

01:09:26.060 --> 01:09:28.359
meets the commands of God. You're still living

01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:29.939
in the light. You're doing everything that God.

01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:33.220
And so, first of all, we know God can work that

01:09:33.220 --> 01:09:36.939
for the good. And secondly, we know that the

01:09:36.939 --> 01:09:40.180
angels, evil spirits, demons, powers that be

01:09:40.180 --> 01:09:42.760
in the otherly realms will be able to witness

01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:45.399
that and they will know the truth of it. They

01:09:45.399 --> 01:09:49.039
will learn over and over again how supreme God

01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:51.279
is, how awesome God is, how capable God is, how

01:09:51.279 --> 01:09:54.600
much God's plan actually worked. So you share

01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:56.680
the truth, live the truth, live in the light

01:09:56.680 --> 01:09:59.680
as God has called you so that the angels can

01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:03.260
see. Now you can't see the angels so that the

01:10:03.260 --> 01:10:05.750
demons and evil spirits can see. You can't see

01:10:05.750 --> 01:10:08.750
the demons and evil spirits, at least usually

01:10:08.750 --> 01:10:12.069
not. You might see some effect of them, right?

01:10:12.409 --> 01:10:16.670
But in living this way, you are testifying to

01:10:16.670 --> 01:10:20.630
the host of heavenly realms about the truth about

01:10:20.630 --> 01:10:23.850
God, and they can figure it out, okay? And then

01:10:23.850 --> 01:10:28.909
the last one, 1 Corinthians 1, 9. And this is

01:10:28.909 --> 01:10:30.449
our last verse of the day, and we're done, and

01:10:30.449 --> 01:10:32.909
then we got questions. That's it. 1 Corinthians

01:10:32.909 --> 01:10:39.869
1, 9. Here we go. It says, God is faithful through

01:10:39.869 --> 01:10:43.770
whom you were called into fellowship with his

01:10:43.770 --> 01:10:48.869
son, Jesus Christ our Lord. And so if we were

01:10:48.869 --> 01:10:52.729
called into fellowship with his son, what should

01:10:52.729 --> 01:10:58.670
we do? It's not complicated. Fellowship with

01:10:58.670 --> 01:11:01.250
his son. You spend time in prayer. You spend

01:11:01.250 --> 01:11:02.670
time in the Word. You spend time in the church.

01:11:02.770 --> 01:11:04.710
The church is the body of Christ. You spend time

01:11:04.710 --> 01:11:07.369
with God's people and participating. You work

01:11:07.369 --> 01:11:09.390
together as brothers and sisters in Christ. We

01:11:09.390 --> 01:11:12.510
fellowship. And our fellowship is with God the

01:11:12.510 --> 01:11:13.970
Father and His Son Jesus Christ. The second half

01:11:13.970 --> 01:11:16.289
of 1 John 1 .3, which is our key verse. We are

01:11:16.289 --> 01:11:20.229
New Heights Fellowship. So we live in fellowship

01:11:20.229 --> 01:11:25.810
with Christ always. This prohibits certain actions

01:11:25.810 --> 01:11:29.239
that would be considered wicked. Jesus will not

01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:30.939
go with you while you sleep with your girlfriend

01:11:30.939 --> 01:11:33.180
or your boyfriend. He will not go with you while

01:11:33.180 --> 01:11:35.739
you post nudie pictures online or look at nudie

01:11:35.739 --> 01:11:38.420
pictures online. He is not going to be a part

01:11:38.420 --> 01:11:40.220
of that type of activity. Now, he's not going

01:11:40.220 --> 01:11:42.239
to abandon you. If you're a follower of Christ,

01:11:42.340 --> 01:11:43.960
he's not going to cause you to be lost and go

01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:46.600
to hell, right? But at the same time, he is not

01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:48.460
going to be in fellowship with you while you

01:11:48.460 --> 01:11:50.840
engage in actions that are directly contrary

01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:52.840
to what the Father wants. Jesus said, I only

01:11:52.840 --> 01:11:55.319
do what I see the Father doing. That's what he

01:11:55.319 --> 01:11:57.539
said while he was alive. And that type of action

01:11:57.539 --> 01:12:00.619
has... has not changed now. So if we are called

01:12:00.619 --> 01:12:03.000
to fellowship with him and we fellowship with

01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:07.060
him, then he can work all things together for

01:12:07.060 --> 01:12:12.380
good. But if we do not fellowship with him, or

01:12:12.380 --> 01:12:17.000
if we step in and out of the darkness, or if

01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:23.600
we do not live in the light, do not live by his

01:12:24.710 --> 01:12:27.569
his commands, his teachings, etc., then he may

01:12:27.569 --> 01:12:30.609
not work everything for the good. Don't you want

01:12:30.609 --> 01:12:32.710
to know that if you sacrifice, your sacrifice

01:12:32.710 --> 01:12:35.649
is worth something? Don't you want to know that

01:12:35.649 --> 01:12:37.989
when things go wrong and you have to endure it,

01:12:38.029 --> 01:12:39.829
that something positive is coming out of it,

01:12:39.850 --> 01:12:41.270
even if it's not something that you would say

01:12:41.270 --> 01:12:43.649
is positive for yourself? That's what Romans

01:12:43.649 --> 01:12:46.510
8 .28 is actually about. When you suffer, the

01:12:46.510 --> 01:12:48.689
bad things you went through, it all comes down

01:12:48.689 --> 01:12:53.409
to, are you going to have them be good? Are you

01:12:53.409 --> 01:12:55.689
going to make them into a good thing? And the

01:12:55.689 --> 01:12:58.130
way to do that is to, as we talked about, those

01:12:58.130 --> 01:13:00.569
things with God, with Christ, in community, and

01:13:00.569 --> 01:13:02.369
so on, and then God can turn them into something

01:13:02.369 --> 01:13:05.050
good. Otherwise, you may suffer for no good reason,

01:13:05.130 --> 01:13:08.670
no good outcome, let's say. All right, so we've

01:13:08.670 --> 01:13:09.710
got some questions. First of all, does anybody

01:13:09.710 --> 01:13:11.210
have any questions about anything I just said

01:13:11.210 --> 01:13:15.770
before I ask my questions? All right, so these

01:13:15.770 --> 01:13:20.789
are promises and commands. Next week, RJ will

01:13:20.789 --> 01:13:24.500
be teaching. and no idea what he's going to teach

01:13:24.500 --> 01:13:26.100
about. It could be promises and commands. It

01:13:26.100 --> 01:13:27.699
could be something else that the Lord leads him

01:13:27.699 --> 01:13:30.520
to. And then I also want to make it, if you are

01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:33.439
willing to teach a lesson on one or more promises

01:13:33.439 --> 01:13:35.880
or commands from Scripture in the next few months,

01:13:36.100 --> 01:13:39.000
I need to know your name. And what we're going

01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:41.060
to do is we're going to lay out a long list of

01:13:41.060 --> 01:13:42.399
promises and commands that we're going to go

01:13:42.399 --> 01:13:45.000
through, and then you'll have one assigned to

01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:46.819
you, and then on Tuesday night you will come

01:13:46.819 --> 01:13:48.960
up here and teach that lesson. And we'll all

01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:50.539
sit and take notes and fill out the worksheet.

01:13:50.699 --> 01:13:51.939
If you need help making the worksheet, I will

01:13:51.939 --> 01:13:53.619
help you make the worksheet. You can do this.

01:13:53.760 --> 01:13:56.000
It's not that complicated. Haley, we're happy

01:13:56.000 --> 01:13:59.359
to draw it for you, won't you? Won't you? Won't

01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:01.439
you? But Hannah would draw it. Natalie's not

01:14:01.439 --> 01:14:03.579
in here. She'd probably draw it too. Haley, Hannah.

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Yep, you guys would draw it. If you need somebody

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to draw it. All right? And then what we're going

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to do is, like I said, we have three people who

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are ready to teach on a given Tuesday night.

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Then when we come in, we won't know who's going

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to teach. We're going to randomize who's going

01:14:17.210 --> 01:14:19.729
to teach that night. So literally, when somebody

01:14:19.729 --> 01:14:22.649
steps up to teach that Tuesday night, we'll roll

01:14:22.649 --> 01:14:25.989
a dice, spin a spinner, whatever. And whoever's

01:14:25.989 --> 01:14:27.850
ready, so if there's three people ready, one

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of those three people will teach. And then once

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that person teaches, they'll come out of the

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mix. And if we have two people ready the next

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night, then one of those two will teach. But

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then probably by the next one, the first one

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will be ready again, or somebody else will be

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ready. That's how we're going to do it. Okay?

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So I'm excited about it. If you want to be able

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to try, let me know. We'll put you on the list.

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Okay. Based on today's scripture, this is teenagers

01:14:49.250 --> 01:14:52.029
only at the moment, so I can throw candy at them

01:14:52.029 --> 01:14:56.409
because I just get joy out of that. Okay. Based

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on today's scripture, who is commanded to go?

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Jason was the first hand I saw. Us. Look at that.

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Right on target. I'm getting good at this. All

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right. Ready? Based on today's scripture, who

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is commanded to teach? Haley? Us is correct.

01:15:24.420 --> 01:15:31.500
Why is that important? Not the pastor, not the

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preacher, not the Sunday school teacher. It didn't

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say that. It said go and teach them, and it was

01:15:38.300 --> 01:15:41.319
directed at Christians. We are commanded to teach.

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Now, in Ephesians 4, it says there are teachers

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given in the church, and who do those teachers

01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:55.479
who are given in the church teach? Us. So the

01:15:55.479 --> 01:15:58.079
teachers that are given to the church teach in

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the church. Then when you get outside the church,

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or when the church goes into the world, it would

01:16:02.140 --> 01:16:03.640
be a better way of saying that, who teaches?

01:16:05.189 --> 01:16:06.890
everybody, including the teachers that would

01:16:06.890 --> 01:16:09.170
teach in here. So I teach in here, for example,

01:16:09.270 --> 01:16:11.250
and I go out there and I also teach and Tony

01:16:11.250 --> 01:16:13.189
teaches and Alicia teaches and Tim teaches, Brady,

01:16:14.069 --> 01:16:15.890
man, got to get with it. You're supposed to be

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teaching. We all got to go out there and teach

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because that's what we're commanded to do. And

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when we do that, he will be with us even unto

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the end of the age, which is super important

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because the harvest will come and it comes, you're

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going to want him with you. Okay? All right.

01:16:30.390 --> 01:16:35.579
If we are his and follow The commands of Matthew

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28, 18 through 20. How long will Jesus remain

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with us, Hannah? Even unto the end of the age.

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That hits you in the head, and it was a very

01:16:50.380 --> 01:17:01.640
enjoyable moment for me. One of them could have

01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:03.020
been caught, but she didn't know which one to

01:17:03.020 --> 01:17:07.920
catch, I think. Okay. So, according to Matthew

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28, 20, what is it that we are supposed to teach

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the disciples? Haley? Say it again. No. Jason?

01:17:24.239 --> 01:17:37.930
Going once? No. Close. Go ahead. Let me see if

01:17:37.930 --> 01:17:41.090
maybe he was quoting the exact words. Oh, I apologize,

01:17:41.210 --> 01:17:43.109
Jason. You quoted the exact words. I didn't have

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that in my answer. So you are correct. And Brady's

01:17:44.970 --> 01:17:47.210
correct as well. All right, here we go. I'm going

01:17:47.210 --> 01:17:54.329
to ask you. I'm going to ask you. That was just

01:17:54.329 --> 01:17:57.050
extra special fun right there. Okay. According

01:17:57.050 --> 01:18:02.010
to John 14 .1, what is the two -part tactic?

01:18:07.020 --> 01:18:10.640
Go ahead. I'm listening. I'm ready for you. Hannah's

01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:16.899
going to answer. Yep, say it. Okay, that's one.

01:18:18.260 --> 01:18:20.300
Okay, good enough. Trust in God and Jesus, or

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believe in God and Jesus. That's correct. And

01:18:23.359 --> 01:18:29.079
it is what all things come down to. Okay. Okay.

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This is the reason Jesus said we were being commanded

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to go, tell, teach, baptize disciples, etc. What

01:18:38.069 --> 01:18:40.229
was the reason he said we were being commanded

01:18:40.229 --> 01:18:51.510
to do that? Jason? That is correct. Good job,

01:18:51.550 --> 01:18:56.930
sir. One bad throw. My apologies. Make sure he

01:18:56.930 --> 01:18:59.529
gets his candy. No scamming the candy. Okay.

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According to one of the verses I read in the

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final section, we were called out of this. What?

01:19:10.300 --> 01:19:13.659
Chris? Darkness. That's right. Okay. Adults are

01:19:13.659 --> 01:19:15.539
in here. Let's put them to shame. Are you ready?

01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:22.920
Okay. One of the purposes was to reveal. Finish

01:19:22.920 --> 01:19:33.779
the sentence. We're called to reveal. It's not

01:19:33.779 --> 01:19:36.180
on the sheet. The blank's not there. I warned

01:19:36.180 --> 01:19:38.720
you there were questions from that section. What

01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:44.859
are we revealing and to whom? Okay, I'll give

01:19:44.859 --> 01:19:47.680
you the what. God's manifold wisdom and to whom?

01:19:48.699 --> 01:19:54.520
The angels. Entities in the heavenly realms.

01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:07.800
You're just a victim now. Okay. Going on this

01:20:07.800 --> 01:20:11.779
entire page, there is one time where it says

01:20:11.779 --> 01:20:15.560
that Jesus gives us something. What does it say

01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:18.039
he gives us, Haley? Peace. Peace, that's correct.

01:20:19.039 --> 01:20:24.000
Good job, good job. She's quick with the uphand

01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:34.840
thing. She caught one of them. Okay. This is

01:20:34.840 --> 01:20:36.220
worded a little bit differently, but you should

01:20:36.220 --> 01:20:39.340
get it if you pay attention. Because Jesus was

01:20:39.340 --> 01:20:42.119
going back to heaven, he would pray the Father,

01:20:42.220 --> 01:20:48.979
and the Father would do this. Jason? That is

01:20:48.979 --> 01:20:56.319
correct. When Jesus was telling them that he

01:20:56.319 --> 01:20:59.239
gave peace, he said that he would not do it a

01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:03.369
certain way. What way was that? The way the world

01:21:03.369 --> 01:21:05.350
does, right, and which theologians have argued

01:21:05.350 --> 01:21:19.569
about what that means exactly. Okay. Brady saved,

01:21:19.750 --> 01:21:21.869
and that last one was going to hit, too. All

01:21:21.869 --> 01:21:23.510
right. We're going to pray together, and we'll

01:21:23.510 --> 01:21:27.989
be out of here. I was close enough. You got a

01:21:27.989 --> 01:21:33.010
bit. You can catch it. All right. Aaron, do you

01:21:33.010 --> 01:21:35.590
want to pray us out? We're praying along with

01:21:35.590 --> 01:21:38.670
Aaron. Here we go. Lord, thank you for this day.

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Thank you for weather. Thank you for spring.

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Thank you for us being able to gather here and

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worship you and learn about you and fellowship

01:21:53.810 --> 01:21:59.090
with your children, Lord. Pray to be with us

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as we go out into the world and help us teach

01:22:00.729 --> 01:22:04.449
those around us what you've taught us here today,

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Lord.