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Alright, good morning, good morning, good morning.

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Praise God, we are right where we were supposed to be this morning,

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reaching New Heights and Jesus.

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And we are just less than one week away from the crosswalk.

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So don't forget to mark out that time.

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We will meet here Saturday, this coming Saturday at noon.

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Also this week you will probably get some texts and things.

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Since you already know what's going on, to be here at noon so we can march the cross.

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And then there's a hook out after so we'll feed ourselves and any of our guests.

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And then after that we'll be playing, God willing we'll have good weather.

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So pray for a little bit of good weather.

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And then we'll be playing in the yard and whatever afterwards.

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And the pantry will be open at the end.

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So be aware of that.

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Change in the schedule of the pantry and kind of spread the word.

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Invite anyone who will come and march to honor Jesus, to march with us.

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They don't have to leave their home church.

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Nothing changes.

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They can come and represent their church, represent Jesus as we march together.

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The message of this event has always been that we believe God is actively redeeming

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Toledo and us and the surrounding communities and us by His Son Jesus Christ.

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And so Jesus made a great sacrifice by carrying His own cross the best He could.

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And then had to have help because He'd been beaten so badly.

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Good morning, good morning.

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And so that's Saturday at noon.

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So if you currently have something and you're just going to go, oh, not a conflict,

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well just erase that other thing.

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Get rid of it.

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Just get rid of the other conflict thing.

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Just get rid of that and be here at noon on Saturday.

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And then at the end we'll feed you.

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And I know there is a waffling or raging debate whether it's hot dogs or hamburgers.

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Has that debate been thus settled yet?

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It will be hamburgers.

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It will be hamburgers.

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Okay, so we've pushed past hot dogs into hamburgers.

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If you want steak, that's going to be like another thousand dollar donation so we can all have steak.

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But hamburgers are good.

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Hamburgers are like our kind of steak.

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You know what I'm saying?

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So we're going to have hamburgers on the grill.

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It's going to be a good time.

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We'll march walking to meet.

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If you're not able to march or walk or you know somebody else who wants to come out and support it,

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but is not able to do that, we usually will have some cars follow behind and they can do that.

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And that's fine.

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Okay, but we'll be here at noon on Saturday to march the cross in honor of Jesus.

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Okay, praise God.

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We prayed last week and we didn't know how much the need was.

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But I was here in the store this morning and Michael was telling me how they encountered some pretty fall weather on the way to Mississippi.

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Created about a four hour delay for them and they had to sit under an overpass and find shelter like that.

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It was pretty rough.

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And so we were praying for you.

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So I hope God was with you through that and we see that you're safe back and that's that's the most important thing.

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I hope you had a good time while you're down there.

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We pray for Pappa and the celebration.

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So I think it's always a good thing when brothers and sisters lift each other up when they're traveling.

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Because you just never know what you're going to run into.

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So it's nice to know you have some an army at your back.

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Praise and the Lord praying for you.

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All right.

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Does anyone have a prayer request you'd like to throw up right now?

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It's something that's just been on your heart lately and you say, man, I'd like to see God move in that and we're going to pray for that specifically this morning.

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Anybody got one?

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I got one and I didn't think I had one.

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That is I'm praying for my wife with her neck and her back and her shoulder and her arm.

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Yesterday she had such a headache last night and those things is getting pretty bad.

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So she is scheduled to have an anti-inflammatory shot kind of thing in her back on the 25th of April.

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And so if we don't we don't see a miraculous healing before then and we're praying that that will work and it will last for months or years.

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And then that'll be the solution and we don't have to go any further.

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The surgeon right now saying he doesn't think surgery is the way to go.

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So that's that's a blessing.

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But we need to really put that to an end because when it happens it pretty well shuts her down.

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It's really hard.

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Amelia did you have something?

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Did you want to name something?

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Yes.

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A few weeks ago I got hurt and it hasn't been getting any better.

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Mean healing.

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I can't really do much at all.

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I can't be very active and I'm both being active.

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I can barely play basketball.

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Where does it hurt Pat?

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Well I got my back messed up.

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So it's your back and shoulder that's hurting.

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So we're going to pray for that in just a moment.

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Anybody else?

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Go right here.

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One of our old coworkers Kim she has to have biopsies on to see if she has cancer.

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So pray for the results of Kim's biopsies.

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And we know God can heal.

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He is an amazing God.

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I'll get you one second.

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There's Kim and Nicole.

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Estella back used to volunteer at the life station.

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She was diagnosed with 13 spots of cancer in her torso.

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Had a PET scan.

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That's like the detailed scan to verify they were there.

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And then when she went to go and have the biopsies we prayed the day before and God miraculously healed.

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And they went, oh we can't find it.

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They couldn't find it.

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And they went through all 13 spots and it was gone.

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So God can heal.

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We'll pray for Kim and the results of her biopsies.

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Miss June?

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I'm having a cardiac surgery on Tuesday.

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You are?

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This coming Tuesday?

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Well that's probably a relief to you.

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I would think.

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Well then the problem is we can't get the other eye done.

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All right.

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So we'll pray for the results of that.

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And so you've had generally good experience there before right?

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With that?

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I've never had it.

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Not a bad experience.

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Your eye doctor is good right?

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I'm a junior dude.

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I'm a junior dude.

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I'm a junior dude.

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So a cataract surgery for Miss June Tuesday.

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Amelia's back and shoulder.

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Sherry's back and shoulder.

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My nonna's struggling with heart and kidney failure.

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Your nonna's struggling with what?

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Heart and kidney failure.

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Heart and kidney failure.

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All right let's pray together.

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And then we'll jump into worship and praise the God in heaven.

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He can do something about these things right?

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Amen.

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All right let's pray together.

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Father in heaven you are an awesome God.

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A powerful God.

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A creator God.

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We know in the Bible a lot of times we see the word Lord is talking about you in the Old Testament.

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And those letters they're all in caps.

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It's capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D.

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We realize that that's Yahweh God.

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That's creator God.

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That's supreme and powerful God.

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When there was nothing.

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When there was only God.

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You created everything out of nothing.

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If you can create all of this out of nothing and it's been running for what to us seems like kind of a long time now.

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If you can do that then Lord you can do anything.

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We recognize your power and your authority.

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At the same time Lord we confess that there have been times where we have not recognized your power and authority.

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Maybe someone's sitting here right now and their heart which ought to be all about you.

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Is distracted.

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We're in this place but we're not really in this place.

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We're not focused in the present.

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We didn't come here to worship you or to be focused on you.

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We came here for some other reason and I ask you Lord to help us.

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Forgive us of that failure.

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Focus us now.

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Make it about the all-powerful God of heaven through his son Jesus Christ.

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Lord we thank you for all that you have done.

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Pulling this place together.

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Giving us the support that we've had.

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The protection during the pandemic.

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The resources, the building, the chairs, the carpet, the instrumentalist, the practice, the work that's gone in.

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The heart, the serve, the love, the mercy, the kindness and the grace that you've shown toward us.

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We thank you Lord and our list should really just go on.

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We sing praises Lord today.

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I want you to hear from us that we are so grateful for all that you've done.

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We come to you today listening up these requests that have specifically been mentioned.

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Lord I pray for Miss Sherri.

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I pray for my sister, my wife.

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Any other case that would be kind of creepy but Lord in the kingdom of God it is so.

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She is my sister and my wife and I pray for her for healing.

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I pray that you will do a miraculous thing.

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I pray that we will see before the time of the day that the shot has to be done Lord

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that you have reached down from heaven and touched her and let them say,

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well that just doesn't happen because doctors say that fairly often when you heal.

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It just doesn't happen that way but we know it can.

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We know you can and we ask you Lord because you're able and because you love us.

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Not because we're worthy of it but because you're able and because you love us.

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Father we pray for Amelia.

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Lord she fell, she had an accident, she got hurt in her shoulder and her back is bothering.

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She's an active kid.

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She loves to run and play and spend time with others and she likes basketball

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and I see her on her hoverboard and Lord I just pray that you would heal her back and shoulder

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that even right now in this moment you do an amazing thing and that she would later today go,

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you know what ever since we prayed about that,

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ever since we agreed in unity in church I've seen just a change in the circumstances.

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Father we pray for Caitlin's coworker Kim.

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She's a face biopsy.

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That word cancer, it's like people want to write that all in caps,

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capital C, capital A, capital N and so on but it isn't.

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We know it's just a failing of creation, it's a failing of our bodies.

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We're near to the end, near to Jesus coming again

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but it's still a dreaded thing to have to face.

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or that as it's being cancer it's the kind of cancer that's easily dealt with.

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Lord if you want to just disappear it like you did in Miss Stella's lungs that would be great.

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what she's about to go through and pray for Caitlin's witness to her and others as well

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so we can let her know that Jesus loves her.

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Lord we pray for Miss June for what's going on with her sight.

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It's been ongoing for a while.

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She's been looking forward to some kind of resolution.

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We pray that Tuesday and then again in the following week that as she has her cataracts

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removed and what they do with that, Lord that she'll be able to see clearly,

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she'll be beyond it and it'll go smoothly, that she'll have patience,

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that she'll be able to stand up under the trial.

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Lord that she'll be able to continue to serve you as she does and grow

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and enhance in what she can do because you strengthen her.

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Father we pray for Nicole's Nana.

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Whenever people say heart failure, for those of us in the room who have experienced that firsthand,

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those are scary words.

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Lord the organs of her body need healing.

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Lord she says she believes in you and I believe in you.

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I believe that you can heal her.

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I believe that you can work in her.

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I pray for Nicole's witness as she works with her Nana and tries to draw her closer to you

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and her friends and she represents you to all people who are in her life.

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Father I pray for every single person that's here.

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Whatever reason we came here this morning, let us just be here for you.

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We are working together to honor you.

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We are working together to help each other reach new heights in Jesus.

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And some of us may be so far from you today and yet we have so much to offer for someone

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who's trying to draw near.

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Others may be so close and it would be easy to be distracted and think I'm okay.

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Lord as we praise you, acceptance praises from the mouths of your creation.

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We know that you kind of put man on a pinnacle.

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You rose us above all the rest of creation.

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We have the opportunity to praise you the way no one else can.

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We recognize that without you we are nothing.

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We want to honor you Father.

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Take over the service.

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Guide us, be with every stroke of every string, every push of every button, every voice lifted up

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such that it is that we be joyful noise unto your ears.

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Help us Father as we reach new heights in Jesus today.

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As in Jesus name we pray.

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And all I've got for people said, amen.

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Thank you very much.

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Alright if you were able please stand with us.

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We're going to speed it up a little bit.

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I'm ready in my face.

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I'm making this sound to the joy of the Lord.

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Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes Lord.

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Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes Lord.

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Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes Lord of man.

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I am blessed with my strength and with my ability.

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Now the nation's growing.

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I feel the comfort of the Spirit for this joy to be my strength.

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No sorrow will last for the Lord who taught my plan to fail.

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I'm trading my sorrow.

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I'm trading my shame.

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I'm laying them down to the joy of the Lord.

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I'm trading my sin.

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I'm trading my pain.

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I'm laying them down to the joy of the Lord.

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Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes Lord.

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Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes Lord.

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Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes Lord of man.

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I'm trading my sorrows.

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What a great trade.

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When you're old, when you're young, when you're young, trust the Lord.

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You're the Savior to me, I'll pass away your every gift, I'm all we need, we will be there.

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Hallelujah, everyone, everyone come to the cross.

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When you're old, when you're young, everyone come to the cross.

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You're the Savior from nowhere, from today to the cross, yes Lord.

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Let it be done for everyone, for everyone who comes to the cross.

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Now and then we come to the day of the last of you and me, a rich and poor, a mountain free.

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Hallelujah, everyone, everyone come to the cross.

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Hallelujah, everyone come to the cross.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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You're the Savior to me, I'll pass away your every gift, I'm all we need, we will be there.

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Hallelujah, everyone, everyone come to the cross.

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When you're old, when you're young, everyone come to the cross.

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Oh, oh, everyone come to the cross.

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You can be seated at this time. I may lose my voice before I preach. That'll be funny,

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won't it? Especially since I don't know sign language.

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Praise God, those songs are gonna sound really good coming out of my echo dot.

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Praise the Lord. Okay, so we come to that moment of time where if you've seen

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something this week and the Lord's been speaking to your heart or you read

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something in the Bible and you thought man that really that's shareable or

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whatever and you come to that moment in time say what do you got? Share it with us.

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Come on. Alright, so Friday when me and you were talking something really stuck out with me and that was how you can go you can read

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something in the Bible and then you can go back to it a year two years from now

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and it don't necessarily mean something different but it applies differently

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and there's a lot of times where I've heard people say oh well it's just the

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same thing it's just the same thing but it's not. It's always different and

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there's always different ways you can look at it and it's just really cool because you can't do that with any other book.

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There's no other book. I mean I'm not a reader. I've read like three books in my

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entire life and two of which I had to read for school so I don't read.

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It's not been my thing but from the research I've done there's no other book

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that anyone's read where they can go back to it a year or two years read the

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same thing over and over again and have it applied differently to their life.

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It is the living Word of God. That's good stuff. Alright, anybody else?

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Hey, I'm supposed to go hear something. So I've always thought about this way whether

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watching a movie, a book, a song, everybody's got to get something different out of it.

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You know some people might like the explosions and movies, the action.

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There might be a one-line you remember, comedy, it just we're all different so all damn different.

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So last week we were at a prayer meeting. It was really cool. I was probably just talking about it for a second.

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All the different Baptist churches were together and from what I got out of it

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everybody had something different out of it. But when I got out of it, we were talking and stuff.

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There were three things I really at our table because we all had to sit at their table

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talk to people and I thought it was really orchestrated well which I think as a body we can do the same thing.

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Just come together, sharing what we're doing, what our concern is, praying for each other.

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It was just really cool. But what I got out of it was out of those three things.

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The first one was is that everybody had a different ministry and everybody had a

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different way they do ministry. The second thing they found out which we already know this,

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none of them were perfect. Everybody had a story, back story. They're having hard times.

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Even in their ministry. Rags are riches. It didn't matter. Everybody was suffering.

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Everybody was going through it. And the third thing I got out of it is and this doesn't make us better.

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I want to hear it so everybody knows it. But from what I heard on the other ministry, they all do that too.

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But I felt like what we do at Life Station, what we do at New Heights, because I heard some people say it.

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They're more practically trying to reach out. But we share the truth.

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We're not afraid to let people know the gospel. We're not afraid to tell people that they can be saved by Jesus.

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They can turn to God and Jesus to come in their lives. So I thought that was just really really cool.

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That's what we placed to the table. Now just recently after that I got so encouraged

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and usually when I'm at my highest of my encouraging, I get so discouraged right after.

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But I wrote down and I just thought this would be kind of cool because I just,

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even getting people on Facebook or this podcast, I just think there's a lot of people.

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I call myself a voice to the voiceless sometimes. I'm just going to be that guy first season that's going to say what nobody wants to say.

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And I say nobody does it, do it. Or go where you have to go or do what you have to do. I'm going to be that guy.

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If I'm going to be a guy that has to share things, I've already heard that a hundred times.

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I'm just reminding you and re-encouraging you. I'm going to do it again and again and again.

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So anyways, I want to make sure I understand that the word miserable doesn't mean I'm sad, I'm hurting, I'm broken.

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It just means I can be sad, I'm hurting, I'm discouraged. So I call this miserably living for Jesus.

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Because I'm miserable. But it doesn't mean I can't live for Jesus. People can be hurt and broken every single day.

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I've gone through some rough times, I've still gone through rough times. But I still live for Jesus.

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So here's what I wrote down and I hope you guys get something out of this. If anything, maybe for the podcast, who knows, or Facebook.

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Somebody might hear this. But this is my wrote down. I wrote every one of these down and then I shared the truth.

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This is my take and then God's take. But I put, you know, I don't feel like I fit anywhere in my whole life.

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That's what I put. I don't feel like I fit anywhere. And where I go, I don't fit anywhere.

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But, God says, I have a new outfit in heaven and in this life I can wear at all times Christ's outfit of love, being loved, and love others through forgiveness and compassion to be a wise servant to all.

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Then I said, you know what, no one calls on me or thinks about me and it just kind of makes me sad stuff. So I started thinking about it, you know, and I was like, but I can call on God anytime.

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And I am called by God because of his merciful relationship he gave to me and anyone who believes in his name and that ultimate and pure sacrifice.

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And God never stops thinking about me or any of us who are his. So then I was, you know, I got like three more.

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But that's what you know what, no one has ever taken me seriously. And usually and I make a plan or something that, you know, don't go with the other plan.

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I know they stand by themselves or someone else. Some of them share these things and not saying that I believe these things are true. You know, people have feelings, they have their concerns.

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It don't really matter because when I get down to the last part, it really doesn't matter.

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But it's no matter what someone else is doing, I could do all things through Christ who's given me strength to be a wise blessing because I am freely loved and accepted by God.

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So no matter what people think or feel about you or how things go, I can do something through Christ, do all things through Christ.

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Anybody right now can take a stand whether they don't feel like they're staying home or anybody standing for them.

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I mean, you really don't matter what you're going through. No one could stop you from going up to someone and telling someone who Jesus is.

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No one could stop you except yourself, but no one could stop you. There's nobody in this free country in America without persecution.

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There is persecution. Maybe it's more spiritual, but you could literally go and tell someone or be there or reach out to someone.

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This is the last three. I'm angry, bitter and easily ready to give in and give up. That's how I feel. I just want to quit and I'm done.

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But I can turn that over to God for sustenance in His love, strength, forgiveness, righteousness and faithfulness.

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And I could turn it up one more notch for Jesus because He is worthy of all and His worthiness is in me.

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I'm not worthy. I've done nothing to have God's grace at 23 years old, still today at 40, come be soon 41.

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But I've done nothing and there's nothing I can do to earn His love or His respect, but because He loved us so much and He died on the cross,

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we are worthy because the Holy Spirit, His worthiness lives inside of us.

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And then I put this, I am a screw up and screw up a lot of things. I didn't say I'm always a screw up.

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Sometimes I feel like touching something is going to work. It's not my thing.

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But you know what? We're all screw ups somewhere down in an imperfect and broken world and God is no screw up.

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And His faithful salvation, even to death, that should have been our cross, that's us, that should have been us on that cross,

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that should have been us dying and eternally separated from God because Jesus was eternally separated from the Father until He rose again.

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He was no longer separated. So we would have been eternally separated from God.

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He took our place. He took our separation. He took it all.

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And then He faithfully got messed up for all messes and was always victorious, but now He's victoriously a risen Savior now and forever.

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And God only got broken once. He'll break for us, but He's never even broken again. He is victorious.

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Call out to our victorious Savior every day. And then here I put what our church, I really love what our church is doing.

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I put our church by the gracious Holy Spirit through Christ's sacrifice has given us the truth

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and we are not afraid to share and we know what we are talking about because of what has been revealed to this church body of believers.

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And in closing, this was my favorite part. This is where I have no more excuses.

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I'm not perfect. It's not like you say this and all of a sudden you become super Christian and you can just fly around and do everything.

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Christ is super in us so we can do what we can do right here, right now.

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But it says this, the church looks or maybe, so maybe it looks like that, or you even have evidence daily of its shortcomings

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or willful rebellion to be a people in the church under the grace but just eagerly waiting for the return of God.

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Like just not doing nothing. Just I'm a Christian, I'm okay. Maybe you have all the evidence. Maybe you see it every single day.

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But they could be, let me just do it again, instead of being the church willfully and joyfully committed to the Father

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and to each other in Christ Jesus. But, and if you don't know where that word butt comes from,

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it actually comes from Ephesians 2. There's not many butts in the Bible that Paul would write.

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But he put butt God by the riches of his mercy saved us from our transgressions and we could read it.

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But here's what it says, but no matter the circumstances, it's not what they can do, but only I can change me through Christ Jesus

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to remain faithful, and this is where that music will start playing everybody will say hallelujah but that's fine, because it says right here.

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Because this is the truth. This is for all of us. This is for you Facebook, because everybody on podcast, everybody today,

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that this is what it was all about because Jesus says to remain faithful through his faithfulness.

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So someday either you just read the day that Jesus said good and faithful servant, like you're just going to remember hey it was in the Bible,

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because everybody that's a Christian had to hear it someday that Jesus could say good and faithful servant, or you could hear it from himself.

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Who wants me to call you good and faithful servant, but you could hear it from himself in glory.

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Someday you get to heaven and he just says yes, yes, good and faithful servant. I said it. I know what you went through.

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I know what you were going through. I've seen everything you had to overcome through. That was me.

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And you did it. You got through it because you trusted in me. So I'm closing. Honestly, there's no closing to this.

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We can do this. Anybody can do this. It's a Christ follower. It's just like I tell my friends, I tell myself.

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Now that you know, what you're going to do with it.

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I was working there. All right. Good stuff. Okay, we're going to pray and then we'll have the offering plates coming around a second for tithing offerings.

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And we'll sort of be blessing those and Maya, I know you're out in the hallway watching a little bit.

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You step forward long enough to pray for us as we transition to tithing offerings and a little more worship.

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Father, we thank you for this place that you've given us and the people being sent to be here that we could worship together this morning.

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We ask you to be here with us as we worship, as we listen to your name and as we hear from you this morning.

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As you watch over the children, especially as they go to their classes and that they would learn here from you.

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And we ask that you bless these offerings and tithes that we're about to take and that they would be used to do your will.

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Amen.

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Thank you.

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All right, children, it's that time on your feet.

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What I need you to do is spread out. It's all fair warning. We're going to kick.

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So if you're in an aisle seat and you don't want to get kicked, don't say I didn't warn you.

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Spread out.

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So you can spread forward a little bit. There's like a room up here. Spread out. Give yourself some space.

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No video this time. You're going to have to watch us and we're not perfect. So apologize in advance.

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So we're going to walk you through it very slow. We're going to do the joy song.

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First thing is who knows how to spell the word joy?

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Look, it's on the screen. You know part of the words.

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All right, listen to what I'm saying.

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All right. I've got the joy down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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Spell it. J-O-I.

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Down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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Where'd it come from? Jesus put it there.

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And nothing can destroy it, destroy it, destroy it.

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I've got the joy down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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Okay, we're going to do it again a little bit faster.

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I've got the joy down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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Spell it. J-O-I.

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Down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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Where'd it come from? Jesus put it there.

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And nothing can destroy it, destroy it, destroy it.

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I've got the joy down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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I've got the joy down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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Spell it. J-O-I.

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Down in my heart, deep, deep down in my heart.

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Where'd it come from? Jesus put it there.

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And nothing can destroy it, destroy it, destroy it.

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I've got the joy down in my heart, deep deep down in my heart

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One more time.

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I've got the joy down in my heart, deep deep down in my heart

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Fell in jail while I was down in my heart, deep deep down in my heart

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00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,440
Where'd it come from? Jesus would've dared

462
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,440
And nothing can destroy it, destroy it, destroy it

463
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:32,440
I've got the joy down in my heart, deep deep down in my heart

464
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:33,440
Woo!

465
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,440
Okay, you can go to your left hand now.

466
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,440
Children are released.

467
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,440
I'm sitting on a delayed reaction.

468
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,440
They didn't let a kick out of turn.

469
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,440
It was like, huh, huh, huh!

470
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,440
It sounded like a...

471
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,440
Well, this works better if you don't do that.

472
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,440
Or if you don't want to yell at someone.

473
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,440
It sounded kind of like that.

474
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,440
It was like, huh, huh, huh!

475
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,440
Echo, it was an echo.

476
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:27,440
There's a place where mercy reigns and never dies

477
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:42,440
There's a place where streams of grace flow deep and wide

478
00:36:42,440 --> 00:37:01,440
Where all the world abandons, there's no one left

479
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:16,440
At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life, I'm in awe of you, I'm in awe of you

480
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:32,440
Where can I sin, what, why, I hold on to you, I hold on to you, Jesus

481
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:47,440
There's a place, a place of peace, a place of peace, a place of peace

482
00:37:47,440 --> 00:38:02,440
My heart is peace with God, I pray that you are

483
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:08,440
For all the world, I pray that you are

484
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:17,440
For all the world, I pray that you are

485
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:29,440
At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life, I'm in awe of you, I'm in awe of you

486
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:42,440
Where can I sin, what, why, I hold on to you, I hold on to you

487
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:59,440
Where can I sin, what, why, I hold on to you, I hold on to you

488
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:19,440
At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life, I'm in awe of you, I'm in awe of you

489
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:32,440
Where can I sin, what, why, I hold on to you, I hold on to you

490
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:46,440
At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life, I'm in awe of you, I'm in awe of you

491
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:59,440
Where can I sin, what, why, I hold on to you, I hold on to you

492
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:16,440
I'm in awe of you, I'm in awe of you

493
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:50,440
I keep fighting voices in my mind, saying I'm not enough

494
00:40:50,440 --> 00:41:07,440
Every single one that tells me I will never matter

495
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:20,440
Am I more than just the sum of every heart and every hope

496
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:32,440
Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know

497
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:45,440
You say I am lost and I can't feel a thing You say I am just and I think I am weak

498
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:58,440
You say I am in love and I am full of joy And when I don't belong, oh, you say I am yours

499
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:12,440
And I need, oh, I need what you say to me, I need

500
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:24,440
The only thing that matters now is everything you think of me

501
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:35,440
You are the one I love, you are the one I value, you are the one I need

502
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:48,440
You say I am lost and I can't feel a thing You say I am just and I think I am weak

503
00:42:48,440 --> 00:43:01,440
You say I am in love and I am full of joy And when I don't belong, oh, you say I am yours

504
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:18,440
And I need, oh, I need what you say to me, oh, I need

505
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:33,440
You keep all I have and now I'm laying it at your feet You don't have everything you got

506
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:48,440
You have everything you told me You say I am lost and I can't feel a thing

507
00:43:48,440 --> 00:44:06,440
You say I am in love and I think I am weak You say I am in love and I am full of joy And when I don't belong, oh, you say I am yours

508
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:21,440
And I need, oh, I need what you say to me, I need

509
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:36,440
You say I am in love and I think I am weak You say I am in love and I think I am weak

510
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,440
Is this Jasmine or something?

511
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,440
Anybody else?

512
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,440
Oops, one more.

513
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,440
Oops.

514
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,440
Alrighty, alrighty, alrighty.

515
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,440
Ah.

516
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,440
I'm crying.

517
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,440
I was crying.

518
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,440
That was awesome.

519
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,440
God is so good.

520
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,440
Amen.

521
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:32,440
Amen.

522
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:40,440
It occurred in my life some over 20 years ago, 25 years ago, that the Lord led us to move to Michigan.

523
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:45,440
And we bought a house, we really weren't supposed to buy a house, we kind of ran on ahead of God.

524
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:51,440
We bought the house in Michigan, Mason, Michigan, just south of Lansing, next to Holt, Michigan there, it's the county seat.

525
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:59,440
Beautiful house, we loved living in it, it was a God provided thing, no doubt about it, but we weren't supposed to buy it, we were just supposed to rent it because the Lord knew we were only going to be there for a couple years.

526
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:10,440
But anyway, while we were there, my daughter, Alicia, was praying that God would move her grandparents, who lived in Tennessee at that time, to near us.

527
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,440
She missed them, she wanted them to be there.

528
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,440
She told me she was going to pray for that, I said, well, okay, but don't get your hopes up.

529
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,440
If you're a dad, that's dad 101, don't do that.

530
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,440
That was a mistake, okay, that's not a good example.

531
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,440
But I said, don't get your hopes up, and she said, well, I'm going to pray and I'm going to believe.

532
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:32,440
Fast forward about a year or so, we were living in our house in Michigan, and my dad called me up on the phone and he said, we have just been really going through some stuff.

533
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,440
And we think God might be calling us to move to Michigan near you.

534
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:43,440
And my dad had told me once before that he would never live in the cold again, he's kind of like me and the cold gets in your bones and you get those aches.

535
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:49,440
And I've been like that for 20 years, and by then he had been like that for 40 years, and I didn't really believe him.

536
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:53,440
The truth is I didn't really believe him when he said that they were going to move there.

537
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,440
And so then about three weeks later, they came up and they went with us.

538
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:02,440
We were walking to the Fourth of July fireworks up in Mason, it was a county seat, and they had big fireworks at the fairground there.

539
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:07,440
And as we were walking down the road, my dad looked at me and we were walking, the kids were walking out a little bit in front of us.

540
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,440
And he looked at me and said, have you told the girls that we're moving to Michigan yet?

541
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:18,440
And it occurred to me in that moment, of course I had not, which would have been great for Alicia because she had been praying that God would move them to Michigan.

542
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:24,440
It would have been in her young faith, it would have been a very powerful thing for her to get the answer to her prayer.

543
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:30,440
And I didn't really know why I hadn't, although I knew my dad had said he would never move north again, and then all of a sudden he was going to say he was going to move to Michigan.

544
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,440
I had doubtful, whatever, I didn't really believe it.

545
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:39,440
And so we're walking and as we're walking, he said, you know this house right here, this is my dad, he said, you know this house with the big weed growing up in the middle of the yard.

546
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:40,440
I said, I don't think anybody's living in that house.

547
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,440
And I said, well, I don't know, dad, it looks reasonably well maintained, but I see the weed too.

548
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,440
It can't be, there's a one car driveway and it's right in the middle.

549
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:47,440
I said, it can't be parking there.

550
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,440
So maybe there's on street parking.

551
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,440
He said, I don't think anybody owns that house.

552
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:52,440
Long story short, we pursued the house.

553
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:59,440
It turned out that the government, so there's what's called MISTA, which is state loans, and there's HUD, which is federal loans, and they both thought the other one owned it.

554
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,440
So no one owned the house.

555
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,440
So we got them to sign it up on auction.

556
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:07,440
My parents bought it inexpensively and about two months later, they moved into it in Michigan near us.

557
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:13,440
Needless to say, by then I had told my daughter, as they were trying to buy the house, I told my daughter that my parents were going to buy that house.

558
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:22,440
And they actually came and lived with us for several weeks in our house in Michigan before they moved into that house, which was really cool for my girls because they got to see their grandparents like every day.

559
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:23,440
And that was really neat.

560
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,440
At the time, my dad was a backslidden Christian.

561
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,440
My mom was not a Christian at all.

562
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:37,440
The point is, when my dad asked me and said, why is it that you haven't told them that we're going to move here, I didn't really have an answer for him.

563
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:51,440
Before we get through with this sermon, I'd like you to ask yourself, why is it that the church and people who claim to be followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are living the way we're living if we're really expecting Jesus to come back at any time?

564
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,440
And I think Jesus wants us to ask ourselves that as well.

565
00:48:53,440 --> 00:49:02,440
Now, if you're living fully for the Lord and you're on fire and sharing Jesus all the time and you've got it all right going on, whatever, and you think that's true, then I would ask you to repent of your pride and arrogance.

566
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:08,440
And let's take a realistic look at what Jesus would like us to be as we approach the day of His return.

567
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:19,440
So grab your Bibles if you would, and maybe we do say Amen, we hoot, we holler, maybe it might be your first time, just make a little grunting noise or say Yahtzee or something, as we go to Luke chapter 19.

568
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:26,440
This is God's Word. If you were not able to join us in that little object lesson that time, perhaps you will eventually be able to do so.

569
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,440
From here on, this is God's Word, not my Word.

570
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:36,440
So while we read the Bible, we will expose what the text says, meaning we'll try to understand it the best we can.

571
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:42,440
And then we will ask ourselves a few things out of it that God really wants us to see and maybe do something about.

572
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:51,440
So it's preaching, it's expository preaching, but it's really God's Word. So we're in Luke 19 beginning in verse 36.

573
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:58,440
You know we're at Easter time, right? It's not Easter per se. For us it's Resurrection Sunday. It's the day that Jesus came back to life.

574
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:09,440
And this is what's called Palm Sunday. It's the week before Easter every year, that holiday which moves around because it's linked to a Jewish festival, and that's why it moves around.

575
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:17,440
But last week we looked at one angle of that triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, and today we're looking at it again.

576
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:26,440
Today, all over the United States of America and all over the world in Christian churches and in places that they would call themselves a church, they are reading this text or a similar text.

577
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:33,440
So we're all Christians studying the same thing today, which is kind of cool. There are those who probably aren't, but the vast majority of them are.

578
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:44,440
So it's Luke 19 verse 36, we begin. And it says, And as he was going, they were spreading their garments in the road, or depending on your translation, their coats or their cloaks.

579
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:57,440
So he's riding on the back of the colt and they're putting stuff down. Now technically since he's riding on the back of a four-legged animal, he doesn't really need anything on the road, right, to pad the feet of the animal.

580
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:10,440
It's more symbolic gesture. I would ask you that they were seeing this as Jesus, the Messiah, entering Jerusalem, and they were doing whatever they could to prepare his entry, to honor him in this moment in time.

581
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:15,440
I would ask you, what would you do if you knew that Jesus was about to walk in this room right now while I'm preaching?

582
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:22,440
I would hope that you would completely ignore me and do something in response to Jesus the Christ, because I am just a servant.

583
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:33,440
What would you do in response to Jesus coming? Well, they were taking their coats and their cloaks off and laying them down before the hooves of this animal that Jesus was riding on.

584
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:48,440
They threw their garments on the road. They put some first on the animal, probably kind of by way of like maybe cushioning or whatever, but then there were plenty extra people were wearing and they were throwing them on the road in verse 36 before the hooves of this animal, 37.

585
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:58,440
And as he was now approaching near the descent of the Mount of Olives, there's a mountain there called Olivet. It's on the east side of what's called old Jerusalem, the older part of the city.

586
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:11,440
And as he was approaching that place where you could go up on Mount Olivet, now note that there is what's called the Olivet Discourse, which in Matthew is a two-chapter long sermon of Jesus that happens on Olivet about this time.

587
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:20,440
But do you know the difference between Matthew and Luke? Are you Bible scholars? Do you read your Bible? I hope you do, because it has all the wisdom for mankind.

588
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:30,440
So between Matthew and Luke, which one of them was there to witness these events and go up on the Mount and hear the Olivet Discourse? Matthew was there, right?

589
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:44,440
Luke was not. Luke was a doctor and a learned man, a scholar and a historian, and he interviewed people who were there. So he does not contain in his book, you will not find the full text of the Olivet Discourse because he didn't go up there.

590
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:52,440
And it's hard to write the full text of something by interviewing somebody. By the time we get done today, you're going to go, well, Pastor Dan basically said this, this, and this today.

591
00:52:52,440 --> 00:53:06,440
But if you would then later, like next week, or for Luke it was a year or years more, that time later, if someone would come and interview me, interview you, interview all of us about what I said today, you'd be like, I can't do it.

592
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:11,440
I can't put it together. It might get a few points. I remember that day he talked about that, but that's about it.

593
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:17,440
So it's a little bit more challenging to record somebody's speech as a historian unless you have a written text, which Jesus didn't have.

594
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:22,440
So he doesn't give us the full Olivet Discourse, but we know that this is about that period of time.

595
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:29,440
He's at the descent or the place where you could go up, the ascent or the place where you could go up easily onto Mount Olivet.

596
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,440
And as he's there, some things are happening. So this is what it says.

597
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:46,440
And as he was approaching near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of disciples, this is everybody that said they had believed in Jesus, that was learned, not just the twelve guys, but the whole multitude, everybody that was there who believed in Jesus,

598
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:50,440
was following, trying to follow his teachings and tell other people about him.

599
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:59,440
Everybody, it says, began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen.

600
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:07,440
So there's this huge praise that breaks out. Everybody's praising not Jesus, but God for all the miracles that they had seen.

601
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:13,440
Now, obviously, we know that Jesus was God the Son, God in the flesh, but they're praising the Father, they're praising God for all that they've seen.

602
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:19,440
And it says joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen.

603
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:27,440
A little bit of conviction for those of you who sung meekly in worship. If God has done just one miracle in your life, you need to get loud.

604
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:39,440
You need to get loud. You say, but I don't sing well. Well, praising God joyfully with a loud voice, there's no notes mentioned, there's no melody mentioned, there's no written music mentioned, and there are no instruments mentioned.

605
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:45,440
You need to figure out how to get to the point of praising God joyfully with a loud voice for what God has done in your life.

606
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:50,440
This was spontaneous, and they all sort of, it wasn't like the rumor circulating in the crowd.

607
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:55,440
On three, we're going to have a flash dance, and everyone's going to dance and scream and yell for Jesus.

608
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,440
Well, we're all going to be there at two o'clock and praise God for what has happened.

609
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:08,440
They just all began to praise. I submit to you that the Spirit of God and the understanding of what God has done will lead you to joyfully praise with a loud voice God for all the miracles

610
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:19,440
which you have seen. Verse 38 says, Blessed, they were saying, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

611
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:26,440
And we know that comes out of the psalmist, and there's a couple other places where you'll see that phrase, blessed is the king, or the one who comes in the name of the Lord.

612
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:33,440
In the Old Testament, Malachi 2, I think it's there, but the bottom line is, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord,

613
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:39,440
peace in heaven, and glory in the highest is composed of a few small parts that I want you to see real quick.

614
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:43,440
We're not going to dwell hard on it, but I want you to see, first of all, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord means,

615
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,440
blessed means well spoken of, good, happy, it's a good situation.

616
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:53,440
This king who comes in the name of the Lord, he's got it all going on, and we want all good for him.

617
00:55:53,440 --> 00:56:00,440
Then it says, peace in heaven, and that phrase is weird, isn't it? I'm going to stop there for a second.

618
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:06,440
Peace in heaven, I mean, is there not peace in heaven? When is there not peace in heaven?

619
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:13,440
So, you've got to think about what they're singing, peace in heaven, and he says, and glory in the highest.

620
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:19,440
Whenever you see that word glory in the New Testament, I want you to think that it was highlighted or spotlighted or shined a light on, lit up.

621
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:28,440
They're saying, light up this one, the king who comes in the name of the Lord, in the highest, to the utmost, nonstop, and all you've got.

622
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:34,440
Verse 39, and some of the Pharisees, the Pharisees were the conservative teachers of the day.

623
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:41,440
They were essentially the rulers or leaders of the Jews.

624
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:47,440
They were teaching, they would travel around and teach the Jews, not unlike what we're doing right here,

625
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,440
but they would travel in circuits and people could understand how to live for God.

626
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:54,440
They would have been considered like the evangelical conservative pastors of their day.

627
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,440
They were trying to win people over to living for Jesus.

628
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:04,440
So the Pharisees in the multitude said to him, teacher, rebuke your disciples.

629
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:11,440
And so the word here is literally, shut them up, stop them, chastise them, tell them no more, don't do that.

630
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,440
What were they doing that was so bad?

631
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:20,440
They were praising God and saying, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest.

632
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:24,440
And you'd think, well man, why would you want them to stop doing that?

633
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,440
Isn't that what the Pharisees want everybody to do?

634
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:31,440
Well, the Pharisees were doing it because the people were recognizing who Jesus was.

635
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,440
That's why they were praising God. That's why they were praising Jesus.

636
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:38,440
That's why they're calling him the king who comes in the name of the Lord.

637
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:45,440
Jesus answers them back and he says, I tell you, if these, referring to all the multitude of disciples who are praising him,

638
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:52,440
if these become silent, the stones will cry out.

639
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:59,440
It's interesting that the rocks alongside the road know inherently that Jesus deserves praise.

640
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:05,440
Human beings in their free will and in their kind of calculating, trying to figure it out, not so much all the time, right?

641
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:10,440
We don't always think about Jesus and God and how much praise he deserves and how much gratitude we ought to have

642
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,440
and our focus on God and what it should be.

643
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,440
Certainly those who don't know Jesus as Lord and Savior don't do that.

644
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:22,440
But he's saying that the disciples, if they should stop crying out, the stones themselves would cry out.

645
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,440
Four more verses, 41.

646
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,440
And when he approached, he saw the city and wept over it.

647
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:33,440
And that's interesting because I studied this text in like three different translations

648
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:38,440
and then I went through it in the Greek and I found something very interesting in this verse that I didn't know was the case.

649
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,440
It says, and when he approached, he saw the city.

650
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,440
So what city? You know you're talking about Jerusalem, right?

651
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,440
So it's the city of God's people.

652
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:53,440
It's the seat of God from the Old Testament and his spirit has essentially been removed from the temple by now, right?

653
00:58:53,440 --> 00:59:03,440
But when he approached, when Jesus approached, he saw Jerusalem and he wept and my Bible says, and yours probably does too, over it.

654
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,440
Except there's an interesting thing.

655
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:09,440
In the original text, the over it is not there.

656
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,440
It's implied.

657
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:15,440
So he saw the city and he wept would be the literal translation.

658
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,440
But the over it is implied.

659
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:21,440
And we'll come back and we'll talk about that before we're through.

660
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:28,440
Verse 42 says, saying, so he's weeping, tears, sobbing, he's weeping, and he says,

661
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:34,440
If you had known in this day even you the things which make for peace.

662
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:39,440
So talking to the city, if you will, to Jerusalem, to the Jewish people who live in Jerusalem,

663
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:50,440
If you had known in this day, like right now, even you, I'll talk about that one second, the things which make for peace.

664
00:59:50,440 --> 01:00:00,440
So he's broken over the fact that the Jewish people, the Jerusalemites, if you will, the people who live in Jerusalem, do not understand what makes for peace.

665
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,440
They don't know how to get there.

666
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,440
Notice that phrase, even you.

667
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:06,440
Why is that a problem?

668
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:07,440
Why even you?

669
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:13,440
If I'm going to emphasize it, I'm going to say, you know, I was hanging out with my friends and they began to pick on me.

670
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:15,440
Even you.

671
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:16,440
What do I mean?

672
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:21,440
I mean, like of all the people that were there, you shouldn't have been doing that, right?

673
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:26,440
So the Jewish people who had the testimony of the Old Testament, the sacrifices for sin, right?

674
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:30,440
Which were all pointing to a perfect sacrifice who would be Jesus.

675
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:36,440
So all the teachings of the Old Testament, you read your Bible, I'm going to give you the Cliff Notes version of the Old Testament.

676
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,440
The 39 books of the Old Testament.

677
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:39,440
Here's the Cliff Notes version.

678
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:41,440
Jesus Christ.

679
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:42,440
There you go. You got it.

680
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,440
That's the Cliff Notes version.

681
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:52,440
It's all about the coming of the Messiah and how he would be the one who would lead people to God, not only the Jews, but also the Gentiles.

682
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:58,440
They've known forever that the salvation of God would not only be for them, but would be for all people, all mankind.

683
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:04,440
And if they've known that it would be for them and for all people, all mankind, then why the heck didn't they get it?

684
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:09,440
Jesus says, even you have not figured out the recipe of peace.

685
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:16,440
But now, they have been hidden from your eyes, the things which make for peace.

686
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:17,440
They have been blocked.

687
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:18,440
You don't get it.

688
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:19,440
You're not allowed to see it.

689
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:32,440
Verse 43, for the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank or your text may say a barricade or a block or a wall before you.

690
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:35,440
And they will surround you and hem you in on every side.

691
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:48,440
So the city of Jerusalem, this is a prophecy, and it's a slight prophecy, a summation prophecy of how the whole city would face tragedy and be destroyed.

692
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:54,440
And so far, the only reason that he is listed is because they do not know the recipe for peace.

693
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,440
Back at the beginning of 44 for a second.

694
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:57,440
Or I'm sorry.

695
01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:58,440
Yeah, we're at 44.

696
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,440
And it says, and will level you to the ground and your children within you.

697
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:14,440
And they will not leave you, leave in you one stone upon another because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.

698
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:20,440
And so Jesus is saying they would destroy the city and the ramparts of the city would be destroyed.

699
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,440
The temple would be destroyed.

700
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:25,440
All the society, the government would be gone.

701
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:35,440
All would be destroyed, wiped out as they knew it because they did not recognize the time of their visitation.

702
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:36,440
All right.

703
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:41,440
So there's a few things in the text here that I want you to see that really leapt out at me and they're powerful to me.

704
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:43,440
So I hope they will be to you as well.

705
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:47,440
And the number one thing is we should praise joyfully for our blessings.

706
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,440
Our J and I were talking on Friday.

707
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:50,440
We're talking about an Ebenezer.

708
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,440
You know what an Ebenezer is?

709
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,440
Most people that when Ebenezer is like a flag, right?

710
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:57,440
What originally comes from the Old Testament, it's a monument.

711
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:58,440
It's a marker.

712
01:02:58,440 --> 01:02:59,440
Something happened.

713
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:00,440
Right.

714
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:05,440
An example was when the Israelites were crossing the Jordan River and God parted the rivers, they could walk in.

715
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:11,440
God told Joshua to have the leaders of each of the twelve tribes take one stone and they built a pedestal or a mount, if you will.

716
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,440
They mounted them up like a pile of the twelve stones.

717
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:22,440
And they said, now for years to come, for generations to come, for all this time to come, when people start to want it from you, you can point back to this.

718
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:23,440
You can see that mound of stones.

719
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,440
It says you should be faithful to God.

720
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:28,440
It says you should recognize God for who he is.

721
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,440
It says that the power of God worked to bring us to where we are.

722
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:43,440
Hear me now very clearly and very simply put, you could not be here today to hear this word if the power of God had not intervened on your behalf.

723
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:54,440
You would literally not be alive or at the very best you would be dead in your trespasses and sins.

724
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,440
So you could not be here if it were not for them.

725
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,440
Now you say, well, I don't know what miracles God has done to get me here.

726
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:10,440
If you are here today and you do not know a miracle of God, if God has not moved in you to save your soul and transform you,

727
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:14,440
begin the transformation process from who you used to be to who God is making you into,

728
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:19,440
then you're not saved and you need to go to God right now in your thoughts, in your hearts and say,

729
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:26,440
OK, God, save me through your son Jesus and accept miracle number one that you will be able to nail down and know,

730
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:33,440
set up an epic and easer, fly a banner and let's get loud, God does miraculous things.

731
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:38,440
We should praise God joyfully for our blessings.

732
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,440
I love a good joke. I think most people do.

733
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,440
We have differing opinions about what a good joke is.

734
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:48,440
But when you hear your version of a good joke, there's a sort of a positive feeling that arises in you.

735
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:52,440
You feel like a chuckle or a laugh. Some people will gaffaw.

736
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:57,440
That was awesome. That's where we stand. That's who we are.

737
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:03,440
If God has done a miracle in your life and you have seen it, then day in and day out,

738
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:09,440
your position is to be joyfully praising God for his blessings.

739
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:14,440
The cares and the riches of this world trap that because we start to think about,

740
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:18,440
Oh, yeah, God did that. But now I got to do this.

741
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:24,440
As if the something that you've got to do is somehow bigger than the something that he's already done.

742
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:28,440
True praise will transform your thinking.

743
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:33,440
You will stop saying, Oh, thank you, God, for X. Now, can you please do Y?

744
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:38,440
And just say, thank you, God, for X. And sing his praises.

745
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:43,440
And rejoice. Because he's God. And he did X. Whatever it is.

746
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,440
Joyfully praising the Lord will transform your thinking.

747
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:52,440
It will stop you from thinking of God as a money bags, which he is, or as a miracle worker, which he is,

748
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:57,440
or as a chain breaker, which he is. And you will start thinking of God as the all-powerful God of the universe

749
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:04,440
who created everything, including you, who wrote your DNA in Adam and Eve.

750
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:11,440
He's God. You and I have never seen DNA. Cannot affect DNA. Science is trying to do that now.

751
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:15,440
But even then, they have no clue what they're doing. They finally map the human genome.

752
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,440
And they're going, well, what if we poke here? And this might happen.

753
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:23,440
We've come a long way, but God wrote that DNA.

754
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:28,440
You know there are a lot of works out there, a lot of writings out there that you can go online.

755
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:33,440
Anybody ever hear the book Sun Tzu Art of War? Sun Tzu Art of War is what you call off copyright.

756
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:38,440
So you can publish Sun Tzu Art of War. You can put it out there.

757
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:43,440
And everybody will read it. They'll say it's the Ron Mack Sun Tzu Art of War.

758
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:47,440
Or the Tom Trammell Sun Tzu Art of War. But you didn't write Sun Tzu Art of War.

759
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,440
You didn't do the research. You didn't think it through. You don't know it.

760
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:53,440
You could write it a thousand times. You could rewrite it a thousand times.

761
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,440
You could digest every single word. And you still don't know. You could manipulate.

762
01:06:56,440 --> 01:07:00,440
You could go, you write out Sun Tzu Art of War to publish it, and go, I'm going to change the 37th word.

763
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:04,440
And no one's ever going to know. It'll be funny. It's going to be my big joke on mankind.

764
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,440
And you put it out there. People are buying it and go, Sun Tzu Art of War. Isn't this awesome?

765
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:11,440
I've got Sun Tzu Art of War by Mike Brister. But the 37th word is wrong.

766
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:14,440
And you're the only one that knows. And what a great joke.

767
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:19,440
But Sun Tzu wrote Sun Tzu Art of War. Sun Tzu lived Sun Tzu Art of War.

768
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:24,440
Sun Tzu figured out how to go to war and how to have peace and how to use peace to win at war.

769
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:28,440
Sun Tzu wrote that book. Jesus Christ was present at the creation.

770
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:33,440
Jesus Christ, nothing was created except that which was created through Him.

771
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:38,440
We've got to change our thought process toward God. He is not your sugar daddy.

772
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:42,440
He's not your teddy bear. He's not your Santa Claus lap.

773
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:46,440
This is the God of the universe. He is great and mighty. He is holy and just.

774
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:53,440
And yes, because of His love, He is merciful and gracious toward us.

775
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:57,440
True praise for our God will transform your thinking.

776
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:03,440
True praise for our God will demonstrate your understanding.

777
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:09,440
I sing praises to God. I'm in my living room and I listen to our church service on my Echo Dot.

778
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:13,440
And I sing along. And it doesn't sound as good there as it does here, but it sounds pretty good.

779
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:17,440
And I get to singing. And next thing I'm singing so hard my voice is cracking.

780
01:08:17,440 --> 01:08:20,440
I'm singing along with some special that one of the girls did.

781
01:08:20,440 --> 01:08:24,440
And I'm, tears streaming down my face. I'm sitting in my truck waiting to go to work.

782
01:08:24,440 --> 01:08:28,440
And I'm crying in my lap. And I walk in and I look like I peed myself.

783
01:08:28,440 --> 01:08:31,440
Because I've got little spots all over the place. Because the tears in my face.

784
01:08:31,440 --> 01:08:36,440
Because I recognize what God has done. Who God is.

785
01:08:36,440 --> 01:08:40,440
True praise for the Lord will transform your understanding.

786
01:08:40,440 --> 01:08:43,440
It will change you from the inside out.

787
01:08:43,440 --> 01:08:48,440
But it will also demonstrate that change in your understanding.

788
01:08:48,440 --> 01:08:54,440
When you begin to realize what God has done for you, you will change the way you praise God.

789
01:08:54,440 --> 01:09:00,440
For those of you in the room who are like me who can't sing a straight note to save your life.

790
01:09:00,440 --> 01:09:06,440
If you're not singing, you're just excusing yourself from the very activity that we were created for.

791
01:09:06,440 --> 01:09:09,440
You're going to go to heaven. You go, when I go to heaven my voice box will be better.

792
01:09:09,440 --> 01:09:12,440
I'll get my perfected body and I'll be able to sing praises to God.

793
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:15,440
God is not worried about your stupid voice box.

794
01:09:15,440 --> 01:09:20,440
He's worried about your heart. Because that's where it comes from.

795
01:09:20,440 --> 01:09:25,440
That's why we know He's not. And then we use that as our excuse as to why we're not.

796
01:09:25,440 --> 01:09:29,440
Praise God and demonstrate your understanding.

797
01:09:29,440 --> 01:09:36,440
True praise flows from a regenerated heart.

798
01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:38,440
You can't decide to praise.

799
01:09:38,440 --> 01:09:40,440
Right now if I'm talking to you and I say to you, you've got to praise.

800
01:09:40,440 --> 01:09:43,440
You're going, next Sunday when we sing, I'm going to sing. I'm going to do it.

801
01:09:43,440 --> 01:09:47,440
I'm going to sing praise songs next Sunday with everybody else.

802
01:09:47,440 --> 01:09:49,440
Just like everybody else did. I'm going to blend right in.

803
01:09:49,440 --> 01:09:51,440
If that's your decision today, you know what it means?

804
01:09:51,440 --> 01:09:53,440
Absolutely squat. It means nothing.

805
01:09:53,440 --> 01:09:59,440
Because true praise for God, the God of the universe, who can barely be perceived by our minds,

806
01:09:59,440 --> 01:10:01,440
but can be known personally in our hearts.

807
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:06,440
That God, true praise flows from a regenerated heart.

808
01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:09,440
Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?

809
01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:19,440
Have you contemplated the fact that God of heaven spent His blood, that His stripes would heal your pain?

810
01:10:19,440 --> 01:10:26,440
You think you've done something and nothing you've ever done that will ever compare with what Jesus did to go to a cross

811
01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:31,440
and sacrifice Himself so that those who do not deserve it could have salvation?

812
01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:35,440
And He did that for me and He did that for you.

813
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:38,440
The parameters of this are contained in one statement and one question.

814
01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:45,440
The first part is, the statement is this, there is nobody and nothing that is greater than God.

815
01:10:45,440 --> 01:10:49,440
They say that doesn't have to be said. Yes it does because some people are still not praising Him.

816
01:10:49,440 --> 01:10:53,440
There is nobody and nothing that is greater than God because of God's character,

817
01:10:53,440 --> 01:10:59,440
because of who God was when He existed alone in the universe, when there was no drop of rain,

818
01:10:59,440 --> 01:11:05,440
when there was no dot of dust, when there was no gnat nor fly, nor shark, nor camel,

819
01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:09,440
when there was not a leaf or a twig or a seed, when there was nothing at all.

820
01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:15,440
The God of the universe because of His great character which includes love for us, He created.

821
01:11:15,440 --> 01:11:19,440
He spoke into nothing and out of nothing came everything.

822
01:11:19,440 --> 01:11:24,440
That kind of God, there is nobody and nothing greater.

823
01:11:24,440 --> 01:11:33,440
You can go without, you can go without whatever it is that you're lacking if you've got God.

824
01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:36,440
I get it. We're driven by our fleshly desires.

825
01:11:36,440 --> 01:11:40,440
Our body wants this, our mind wants that, our eyes see that, our ears hear that.

826
01:11:40,440 --> 01:11:44,440
I get it. But God is greater than all of that.

827
01:11:44,440 --> 01:11:46,440
He is greater than your greatest what? He is greater than your greatest need.

828
01:11:46,440 --> 01:11:50,440
He is greater than your deepest ache, your deepest pain.

829
01:11:50,440 --> 01:11:56,440
If money stands between you and God, get poor. If hell stands between you and God, get sick.

830
01:11:56,440 --> 01:12:00,440
If education stands between you and God, flunk.

831
01:12:00,440 --> 01:12:05,440
If your body and your strength stands between you and God, get weak.

832
01:12:05,440 --> 01:12:11,440
God is greater than all we can speak or do.

833
01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:16,440
And it needs to be said because we should be praising Him for the things that He does.

834
01:12:16,440 --> 01:12:19,440
Because He is that great, He doesn't have to do squat for you.

835
01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:23,440
He could just let you die and go to hell.

836
01:12:23,440 --> 01:12:25,440
But He chose not to.

837
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:32,440
He loves you enough that not only did He choose not to allow that for anyone who is willing,

838
01:12:32,440 --> 01:12:36,440
but He paid with His very own life.

839
01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:38,440
It was a great covenant between God and Abraham.

840
01:12:38,440 --> 01:12:40,440
And the animals were split.

841
01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:43,440
Half the bodies over here, like a butt end and a head end over here.

842
01:12:43,440 --> 01:12:46,440
And the brazier that represented God floated through.

843
01:12:46,440 --> 01:12:50,440
Normally, the people making the covenant would walk through arm and arm like two kings would go,

844
01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:53,440
okay, we're going to have a peace treaty and we're never going to have a problem again, blah, blah, blah.

845
01:12:53,440 --> 01:12:56,440
And they would walk through arm and arm between the split animals.

846
01:12:56,440 --> 01:12:59,440
But God did not ask Abraham to walk between the split animals.

847
01:12:59,440 --> 01:13:03,440
God floated a brazier to represent Him between the split animals saying,

848
01:13:03,440 --> 01:13:05,440
I will make it so.

849
01:13:05,440 --> 01:13:07,440
I'm not going to depend on you to be good.

850
01:13:07,440 --> 01:13:09,440
I'm not going to depend on you to be righteous.

851
01:13:09,440 --> 01:13:11,440
I'm not going to depend on you to understand.

852
01:13:11,440 --> 01:13:13,440
I'm not going to depend on you to let me work in you.

853
01:13:13,440 --> 01:13:15,440
I will make it so.

854
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:19,440
And today, everyone who trusts in the name of Jesus Christ as Lord,

855
01:13:19,440 --> 01:13:22,440
that means He says that I do it, and Savior, that means He paid the price for my sins,

856
01:13:22,440 --> 01:13:33,440
will plow, drive, stop, scream, yell, shout, and sing their way into an eternity with God, settled.

857
01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:37,440
God is good.

858
01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:44,440
There is nobody and nothing greater.

859
01:13:44,440 --> 01:13:52,440
But the question then is, if you could pave the way for a God like that to come,

860
01:13:52,440 --> 01:13:58,440
to visit you, to visit your family, to do things in your life, to come to your church,

861
01:13:58,440 --> 01:14:05,440
if you could pave the way for a God like that to be present in you, what would you do?

862
01:14:05,440 --> 01:14:10,440
I suppose maybe that question falls a little bit short.

863
01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:16,440
Because the real question is, if you could pave the way for a God like that to come,

864
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:23,440
why aren't you doing it?

865
01:14:23,440 --> 01:14:25,440
And they figured that question out.

866
01:14:25,440 --> 01:14:33,440
And they took their coats off, and they laid their coats on the ground in front of the hooves of the animal that he was riding on.

867
01:14:33,440 --> 01:14:36,440
To keep the hooves clean?

868
01:14:36,440 --> 01:14:43,440
If you could do anything to pave the coming of God into your life, in your family's life, in your church, in your community,

869
01:14:43,440 --> 01:14:50,440
if you could pave that to bring God in, to let God do what God wants to do, what would you do?

870
01:14:50,440 --> 01:14:52,440
How far would you go?

871
01:14:52,440 --> 01:14:56,440
Well, there are those who have gone to death, those who have gone to whipping, those who have gone to torture,

872
01:14:56,440 --> 01:14:59,440
those who have gone to preaching when preaching wasn't accepted, those who have gone to serving,

873
01:14:59,440 --> 01:15:04,440
those who have gone to living for God, cutting out the things that they enjoy to make sure that they can serve people

874
01:15:04,440 --> 01:15:07,440
so people can find God.

875
01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:10,440
Would you?

876
01:15:10,440 --> 01:15:14,440
I shared that illustration with you about my parents moving to Michigan,

877
01:15:14,440 --> 01:15:18,440
and I told you that I had not shared with my girls about them coming.

878
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:21,440
And my dad said, have you told the girls yet that we're moving to Michigan?

879
01:15:21,440 --> 01:15:23,440
And I said, no, Dad, I haven't done that.

880
01:15:23,440 --> 01:15:25,440
And he said, well, why?

881
01:15:25,440 --> 01:15:29,440
And I kind of went, well, that's a nice bush.

882
01:15:29,440 --> 01:15:31,440
Because I had no reason.

883
01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:38,440
But now looking back, I know the reason, I know why I didn't tell my girls that my dad was going to move to Michigan

884
01:15:38,440 --> 01:15:41,440
was because I didn't trust him.

885
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:45,440
Because when my dad said he was going to move to Michigan, I didn't believe it.

886
01:15:45,440 --> 01:15:47,440
I didn't think he was going to go through with it.

887
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:50,440
I thought I knew him better than he knew himself.

888
01:15:50,440 --> 01:15:56,440
And I submit to you, that's why Christians of this age, those of us who claim the name of Jesus,

889
01:15:56,440 --> 01:16:00,440
are not living, paving the way for the coming of our God and the lives of our family,

890
01:16:00,440 --> 01:16:04,440
our friends, our church, our community, because we don't trust him.

891
01:16:04,440 --> 01:16:07,440
Because we're afraid to lose what he's already blessed us with,

892
01:16:07,440 --> 01:16:09,440
because we're afraid to lose what we've already got,

893
01:16:09,440 --> 01:16:14,440
we're afraid to let go of whatever it is that we think is important.

894
01:16:14,440 --> 01:16:22,440
Because we've missed the statement that God is greater than all of that.

895
01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:24,440
Trust him.

896
01:16:24,440 --> 01:16:27,440
God is able to bring about in you that which he's begun in you.

897
01:16:27,440 --> 01:16:28,440
Trust him.

898
01:16:28,440 --> 01:16:29,440
Open your mouth.

899
01:16:29,440 --> 01:16:31,440
Sing his praises.

900
01:16:31,440 --> 01:16:33,440
Screech him if you have to.

901
01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:35,440
Tell people about Jesus.

902
01:16:35,440 --> 01:16:37,440
Stand up for what's right.

903
01:16:37,440 --> 01:16:39,440
Do the right thing.

904
01:16:39,440 --> 01:16:42,440
Sacrifice yourself if necessary.

905
01:16:42,440 --> 01:16:44,440
Spend your effort.

906
01:16:44,440 --> 01:16:49,440
Whatever it is that you collect as an alternative to preparing for the coming of the Lord,

907
01:16:49,440 --> 01:16:55,440
you will lose it all when he comes.

908
01:16:55,440 --> 01:16:58,440
The second thing I want you to see in the text that really touched my heart

909
01:16:58,440 --> 01:17:05,440
was that, remember that implied over it?

910
01:17:05,440 --> 01:17:08,440
That implied over it in the text where he says,

911
01:17:08,440 --> 01:17:13,440
he looked at the city and he wept, and the translations say over it,

912
01:17:13,440 --> 01:17:19,440
but in the original text it's missing.

913
01:17:19,440 --> 01:17:28,440
Actually, allegedly, the Jews would say, Jesus wept,

914
01:17:28,440 --> 01:17:33,440
wanted the Jews, his people, even more than he wanted anyone else.

915
01:17:33,440 --> 01:17:36,440
I have a good Christian brother of mine who believes in the Lord by his profession.

916
01:17:36,440 --> 01:17:37,440
I've seen him serve.

917
01:17:37,440 --> 01:17:39,440
I've seen him love God, it seems to.

918
01:17:39,440 --> 01:17:43,440
And he believes that God loves the Jews more than he loves other Christians.

919
01:17:43,440 --> 01:17:48,440
I submit to you that's heresy.

920
01:17:48,440 --> 01:17:50,440
Jesus looked at Jerusalem and he wept.

921
01:17:50,440 --> 01:17:55,440
And our text says over it, but that over it is only implied.

922
01:17:55,440 --> 01:17:58,440
Would Jesus weep over you?

923
01:17:58,440 --> 01:18:01,440
That's the question you have to ask.

924
01:18:01,440 --> 01:18:03,440
You know that Jesus would weep over a lost person

925
01:18:03,440 --> 01:18:07,440
because he wants them to come to an understanding of saving grace.

926
01:18:07,440 --> 01:18:11,440
But would Jesus weep over me?

927
01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:17,440
Well, he would if the same thing is true of me that he saw was true of Jerusalem.

928
01:18:17,440 --> 01:18:20,440
In other words, if Jesus looked at me and saw that I was going to go

929
01:18:20,440 --> 01:18:24,440
the same road to destruction that Jerusalem was going to go,

930
01:18:24,440 --> 01:18:27,440
he would weep over me.

931
01:18:27,440 --> 01:18:33,440
According to this text, Jerusalem would be utterly and completely destroyed.

932
01:18:33,440 --> 01:18:38,440
And the text gives us exactly two qualifiers as to why that would happen.

933
01:18:38,440 --> 01:18:45,440
The first one is because they had no peace, P-E-A-C-E, no peace recipe.

934
01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:49,440
They didn't know what it is that makes up peace.

935
01:18:49,440 --> 01:18:51,440
They had no recipe for peace.

936
01:18:51,440 --> 01:18:53,440
If you're a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ,

937
01:18:53,440 --> 01:18:56,440
then you understand that there is only one word in the recipe for peace,

938
01:18:56,440 --> 01:18:58,440
and that is Jesus.

939
01:18:58,440 --> 01:19:00,440
The night that Jesus was to be born,

940
01:19:00,440 --> 01:19:03,440
the angels sang, Peace on earth, good will toward men.

941
01:19:03,440 --> 01:19:07,440
Jesus is God's peace toward us.

942
01:19:07,440 --> 01:19:13,440
Jesus said, My peace I leave with you, and not as the world gives you peace.

943
01:19:13,440 --> 01:19:16,440
Jesus came to bring peace between God and man,

944
01:19:16,440 --> 01:19:19,440
the kind of peace, the only kind of peace that could overcome

945
01:19:19,440 --> 01:19:22,440
the effects of the fall that took place in the Garden of Eden.

946
01:19:22,440 --> 01:19:25,440
Thus he is called the second Adam.

947
01:19:25,440 --> 01:19:28,440
Peace.

948
01:19:28,440 --> 01:19:31,440
Jesus came to bring peace between us and God

949
01:19:31,440 --> 01:19:35,440
through atonement, redemption, and reconciliation,

950
01:19:35,440 --> 01:19:36,440
all of which are really big words,

951
01:19:36,440 --> 01:19:39,440
and you may or may not exactly know the definitions of them.

952
01:19:39,440 --> 01:19:40,440
Atonement means it's paid for.

953
01:19:40,440 --> 01:19:46,440
Redemption means it's bought back, and reconciliation means it's put together.

954
01:19:46,440 --> 01:19:48,440
We were paid for, bought back and put together.

955
01:19:48,440 --> 01:19:51,440
We were paid for, bought back and put together.

956
01:19:51,440 --> 01:19:53,440
We were paid for, bought back and put together.

957
01:19:53,440 --> 01:20:03,440
Wait for it, with God who is greater than all things,

958
01:20:03,440 --> 01:20:07,440
paid for, and put together with God through Jesus.

959
01:20:07,440 --> 01:20:09,440
Do you know the recipe for peace?

960
01:20:09,440 --> 01:20:11,440
You do! It's Jesus!

961
01:20:11,440 --> 01:20:13,440
And they didn't!

962
01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:15,440
And because they didn't,

963
01:20:15,440 --> 01:20:17,440
they would be destroyed.

964
01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:21,440
I submit to you though,

965
01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:23,440
if you know that recipe for peace,

966
01:20:23,440 --> 01:20:25,440
then there are actions that fly out of it.

967
01:20:25,440 --> 01:20:27,440
You say you know that the recipe for peace is Jesus,

968
01:20:27,440 --> 01:20:29,440
but when you're in your toughest moments,

969
01:20:29,440 --> 01:20:31,440
when your mind is in knots,

970
01:20:31,440 --> 01:20:33,440
when your stomach is butterflies,

971
01:20:33,440 --> 01:20:35,440
and your palms are sweaty,

972
01:20:35,440 --> 01:20:37,440
and your mouth is full of cotton,

973
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:39,440
is Jesus first and foremost in your mind?

974
01:20:39,440 --> 01:20:41,440
When your health conditions are rising up,

975
01:20:45,440 --> 01:20:47,440
and shouting in your face that you're doomed,

976
01:20:49,440 --> 01:20:51,440
is Jesus foremost in your mind?

977
01:20:53,440 --> 01:20:55,440
Or will you face the problems of this life

978
01:20:55,440 --> 01:20:57,440
not recognizing that Jesus is the recipe for peace?

979
01:20:59,440 --> 01:21:01,440
I submit to you that if you face the problems of this life,

980
01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:03,440
not recognizing that Jesus is the recipe for peace,

981
01:21:03,440 --> 01:21:05,440
then you, like Jerusalem,

982
01:21:05,440 --> 01:21:07,440
are being wept over by Jesus.

983
01:21:09,440 --> 01:21:11,440
Or you will face the destruction

984
01:21:11,440 --> 01:21:13,440
because you have based your life

985
01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:15,440
on the things that you want, see, hope for,

986
01:21:15,440 --> 01:21:17,440
think you can do, your skills, your abilities,

987
01:21:17,440 --> 01:21:19,440
your talents, your gift from God, whatever,

988
01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:21,440
instead of the great nature of God

989
01:21:21,440 --> 01:21:23,440
and His ability to keep His promises.

990
01:21:23,440 --> 01:21:25,440
The recipe for peace is Jesus,

991
01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:27,440
and they didn't know it,

992
01:21:27,440 --> 01:21:33,440
and we had better.

993
01:21:33,440 --> 01:21:35,440
The second piece, the qualifier that's in there,

994
01:21:35,440 --> 01:21:37,440
is a missed appointment.

995
01:21:37,440 --> 01:21:41,440
They missed the day of His visitation.

996
01:21:41,440 --> 01:21:44,440
Jesus spent a lot of time while He was on the earth

997
01:21:44,440 --> 01:21:47,440
talking about how we had better be ready

998
01:21:47,440 --> 01:21:49,440
for the second coming of Jesus.

999
01:21:49,440 --> 01:21:51,440
We had better be ready for His visitation.

1000
01:21:51,440 --> 01:21:55,440
In fact, He said it in Matthew 24, 42,

1001
01:21:55,440 --> 01:21:58,440
which is in the sermon on Olivet,

1002
01:21:58,440 --> 01:21:59,440
the Olivet Discourse.

1003
01:21:59,440 --> 01:22:00,440
He said,

1004
01:22:00,440 --> 01:22:03,440
Be ye ready, for in such an hour as ye think not

1005
01:22:03,440 --> 01:22:06,440
the Son of Man comes.

1006
01:22:06,440 --> 01:22:08,440
See, you're going through your life,

1007
01:22:08,440 --> 01:22:10,440
and now and then, you're thinking about Jesus

1008
01:22:10,440 --> 01:22:14,440
Sunday morning, Tuesday night for Bible study,

1009
01:22:14,440 --> 01:22:17,440
or whenever you do your midweek Bible study,

1010
01:22:17,440 --> 01:22:19,440
in your devotional time, or whatever,

1011
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:21,440
but in the midst of your trials or your struggles

1012
01:22:21,440 --> 01:22:22,440
or your temptations,

1013
01:22:22,440 --> 01:22:26,440
in the midst of your earning your bucks or paying your bills,

1014
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:29,440
are you remembering that the recipe for peace is Jesus?

1015
01:22:29,440 --> 01:22:33,440
And if you're not, then at that moment when that happens,

1016
01:22:33,440 --> 01:22:34,440
if that's when Jesus comes,

1017
01:22:34,440 --> 01:22:37,440
then how do you think that's going to go down?

1018
01:22:37,440 --> 01:22:39,440
Alright, servant, come on, right now, we're leaving.

1019
01:22:39,440 --> 01:22:43,440
Well, hold on, Jesus, I just got to sign it.

1020
01:22:43,440 --> 01:22:45,440
Alright, servant, come on, right now, we're leaving.

1021
01:22:45,440 --> 01:22:48,440
Hold on, Jesus, I'm listening to some heavy metal here,

1022
01:22:48,440 --> 01:22:53,440
and a new song just came out, I've got to get it in.

1023
01:22:53,440 --> 01:22:54,440
You're shouting at your kids,

1024
01:22:54,440 --> 01:22:56,440
or fighting with your wife or your husband,

1025
01:22:56,440 --> 01:22:58,440
or you're waiting for the doctor to tell you

1026
01:22:58,440 --> 01:23:00,440
what the outcome of your disease is.

1027
01:23:00,440 --> 01:23:03,440
You're in that moment, and your heart's racing,

1028
01:23:03,440 --> 01:23:07,440
and you forgot that Jesus is the recipe for peace,

1029
01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:09,440
so you don't have any peace in that moment,

1030
01:23:09,440 --> 01:23:10,440
and then Jesus comes,

1031
01:23:10,440 --> 01:23:12,440
and you not only don't remember the recipe,

1032
01:23:12,440 --> 01:23:16,440
you don't recognize Him in His visitation.

1033
01:23:16,440 --> 01:23:18,440
There is an appointment, it ain't on no calendar,

1034
01:23:18,440 --> 01:23:20,440
but there is an appointment with God,

1035
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:22,440
a moment in time at which Jesus will come again,

1036
01:23:22,440 --> 01:23:29,440
and we darn well had better be ready.

1037
01:23:29,440 --> 01:23:30,440
Romans 5, 1 says,

1038
01:23:30,440 --> 01:23:34,440
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,

1039
01:23:34,440 --> 01:23:38,440
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1040
01:23:38,440 --> 01:23:40,440
The Lord is the person who tells you what to do,

1041
01:23:40,440 --> 01:23:41,440
and you do it.

1042
01:23:41,440 --> 01:23:42,440
Jesus Christ.

1043
01:23:42,440 --> 01:23:44,440
Christ means Messiah, it's the anointed one,

1044
01:23:44,440 --> 01:23:47,440
the chosen one of God who would be the perfect lamb of God,

1045
01:23:47,440 --> 01:23:49,440
who would end all sacrifice for God.

1046
01:23:49,440 --> 01:23:51,440
Don't think I'm telling you that you have to work harder.

1047
01:23:51,440 --> 01:23:53,440
Don't think I'm telling you you have to give more.

1048
01:23:53,440 --> 01:23:55,440
Don't think I'm telling you you have to be something

1049
01:23:55,440 --> 01:23:57,440
that you're not in your own strength, your own power,

1050
01:23:57,440 --> 01:23:58,440
or by your own understanding.

1051
01:23:58,440 --> 01:24:01,440
No, I'm saying trust in the name of the Lord Jesus

1052
01:24:01,440 --> 01:24:03,440
when you go through what you're going through

1053
01:24:03,440 --> 01:24:05,440
because He is the recipe for peace.

1054
01:24:05,440 --> 01:24:09,440
He is the one who reconciles us, buys us back,

1055
01:24:09,440 --> 01:24:16,440
purchases us with His own blood.

1056
01:24:16,440 --> 01:24:17,440
I apologize.

1057
01:24:17,440 --> 01:24:20,440
I'm taking a medication that makes my mouth kind of dry,

1058
01:24:20,440 --> 01:24:22,440
so sometimes I have trouble saying tricky phrases.

1059
01:24:22,440 --> 01:24:23,440
I apologize for that.

1060
01:24:23,440 --> 01:24:25,440
Anyway, the bottom line is this.

1061
01:24:25,440 --> 01:24:28,440
He buys us back, He reconciles us to God,

1062
01:24:28,440 --> 01:24:30,440
He is the one Jesus.

1063
01:24:30,440 --> 01:24:32,440
And if He's done that for you,

1064
01:24:32,440 --> 01:24:38,440
then every day, all day, praising that miracle,

1065
01:24:38,440 --> 01:24:42,440
you don't have time to fret, you don't have time to worry,

1066
01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:45,440
you don't have time to work in your own strength,

1067
01:24:45,440 --> 01:24:49,440
you don't have time to be concerned about what others think

1068
01:24:49,440 --> 01:24:51,440
about the choices that you make in Christ.

1069
01:24:51,440 --> 01:24:53,440
You don't have time.

1070
01:24:53,440 --> 01:24:58,440
You just don't have time for anything

1071
01:24:58,440 --> 01:25:03,440
except for praising God joyfully for your blessings,

1072
01:25:03,440 --> 01:25:06,440
doing anything, whatever it may take,

1073
01:25:06,440 --> 01:25:12,440
for Him to come into your life, your relationships,

1074
01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:18,440
your finances, your health, your job, your school,

1075
01:25:18,440 --> 01:25:20,440
your community.

1076
01:25:20,440 --> 01:25:22,440
You've got to be taking your coat off

1077
01:25:22,440 --> 01:25:25,440
and laying it down in front of the hooves of the horse

1078
01:25:25,440 --> 01:25:31,440
upon which He rides.

1079
01:25:31,440 --> 01:25:34,440
That brings us to our conclusion then.

1080
01:25:34,440 --> 01:25:36,440
A man named Pastor Duke wrote an essay,

1081
01:25:36,440 --> 01:25:39,440
and it was eventually published on a blog

1082
01:25:39,440 --> 01:25:42,440
or a website called Viral Believer.

1083
01:25:42,440 --> 01:25:44,440
And the blog was entitled,

1084
01:25:44,440 --> 01:25:47,440
Three Ways We Can Be Ready When Jesus Comes Back.

1085
01:25:47,440 --> 01:25:49,440
And I read it and I summarized it this way,

1086
01:25:49,440 --> 01:25:51,440
and it's greatly based on Scripture.

1087
01:25:51,440 --> 01:25:55,440
First of all, you can be expectantly waiting.

1088
01:25:55,440 --> 01:25:57,440
Jesus told a parable about ten virgins

1089
01:25:57,440 --> 01:25:59,440
who had their lamps lit.

1090
01:25:59,440 --> 01:26:01,440
Five of them did a good job of being ready

1091
01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:03,440
for when the groom would come.

1092
01:26:03,440 --> 01:26:05,440
And five of them, not such a good job.

1093
01:26:05,440 --> 01:26:08,440
And then a little before the groom was supposed to come,

1094
01:26:08,440 --> 01:26:10,440
their lamps went out.

1095
01:26:10,440 --> 01:26:12,440
But they had to have lamps lit,

1096
01:26:12,440 --> 01:26:14,440
so they asked the other five,

1097
01:26:14,440 --> 01:26:15,440
can you do it for me?

1098
01:26:15,440 --> 01:26:17,440
Can you provide me with oil for my lamps?

1099
01:26:17,440 --> 01:26:19,440
They said, no, we have enough oil

1100
01:26:19,440 --> 01:26:21,440
to be sure our lamps are lit when He comes.

1101
01:26:21,440 --> 01:26:23,440
We don't have enough oil to make sure your lamps are lit.

1102
01:26:23,440 --> 01:26:25,440
Nobody can do this for you.

1103
01:26:25,440 --> 01:26:28,440
You personally, not your husband, not your wife,

1104
01:26:28,440 --> 01:26:30,440
not your parents, not your pastor,

1105
01:26:30,440 --> 01:26:32,440
not your teachers, not your boss,

1106
01:26:32,440 --> 01:26:35,440
and certainly not your money or your TV,

1107
01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:39,440
you personally must be expectantly waiting

1108
01:26:39,440 --> 01:26:41,440
for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

1109
01:26:41,440 --> 01:26:44,440
It's up to you personally to decide

1110
01:26:44,440 --> 01:26:47,440
to be expectantly waiting His arrival.

1111
01:26:47,440 --> 01:26:49,440
And when something that you have

1112
01:26:49,440 --> 01:26:51,440
is needed for that process,

1113
01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:53,440
your mouth, for example.

1114
01:26:53,440 --> 01:26:55,440
If you need to be praising Him

1115
01:26:55,440 --> 01:26:56,440
and expectantly waiting,

1116
01:26:56,440 --> 01:26:58,440
He's going to say, you come with me, serve it,

1117
01:26:58,440 --> 01:27:00,440
and you're going to say, yes, Lord, yes,

1118
01:27:00,440 --> 01:27:03,440
then your mouth has got to be properly aligned

1119
01:27:03,440 --> 01:27:05,440
with the coming of Jesus.

1120
01:27:05,440 --> 01:27:09,440
Your body, your choices day to day.

1121
01:27:09,440 --> 01:27:12,440
Be expectantly waiting the coming of Jesus.

1122
01:27:12,440 --> 01:27:14,440
Elsewise, you'll be running out,

1123
01:27:14,440 --> 01:27:16,440
getting whatever it is.

1124
01:27:16,440 --> 01:27:19,440
I fully expect that in minutes

1125
01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:21,440
right after Jesus comes,

1126
01:27:21,440 --> 01:27:23,440
pastor's phones, they won't have them

1127
01:27:23,440 --> 01:27:25,440
because they'll still be here or whatever,

1128
01:27:25,440 --> 01:27:27,440
but pastor's phones all over the earth,

1129
01:27:27,440 --> 01:27:28,440
they're going to be reading,

1130
01:27:28,440 --> 01:27:30,440
pastor, something just happened, I need to talk to you.

1131
01:27:30,440 --> 01:27:32,440
Pastor, my pastor didn't answer.

1132
01:27:32,440 --> 01:27:33,440
I've been calling my other pastor friend,

1133
01:27:33,440 --> 01:27:34,440
oh, he didn't answer.

1134
01:27:34,440 --> 01:27:36,440
The phones are going to be ringing all over the planet

1135
01:27:36,440 --> 01:27:37,440
because you want to talk to your pastor

1136
01:27:37,440 --> 01:27:39,440
about what's going on.

1137
01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:42,440
You personally must be expectantly waiting

1138
01:27:42,440 --> 01:27:46,440
the coming of Jesus.

1139
01:27:46,440 --> 01:27:49,440
If not, then when He comes,

1140
01:27:49,440 --> 01:27:51,440
if we're all taken up into the air,

1141
01:27:51,440 --> 01:27:54,440
like Thessalonians talks about,

1142
01:27:54,440 --> 01:27:57,440
and it happens during this service,

1143
01:27:57,440 --> 01:27:59,440
all the others who were expectantly waiting

1144
01:27:59,440 --> 01:28:00,440
the coming of Jesus will be gone,

1145
01:28:00,440 --> 01:28:02,440
and you'll still be sitting in that pretty blue chair

1146
01:28:02,440 --> 01:28:04,440
just like you've been every other Sunday,

1147
01:28:04,440 --> 01:28:08,440
or maybe for your first time,

1148
01:28:08,440 --> 01:28:10,440
because you weren't expectantly awaiting

1149
01:28:10,440 --> 01:28:12,440
the coming of Jesus, and when He comes,

1150
01:28:12,440 --> 01:28:16,440
we better be found expectantly awaiting Him.

1151
01:28:16,440 --> 01:28:18,440
And right now you can think about in your life

1152
01:28:18,440 --> 01:28:20,440
the things that you're doing

1153
01:28:20,440 --> 01:28:22,440
that in no way, shape, or form,

1154
01:28:22,440 --> 01:28:25,440
they may not be sin, I'm not saying that.

1155
01:28:25,440 --> 01:28:26,440
I mean, they kind of become sin

1156
01:28:26,440 --> 01:28:28,440
if they keep you from expectantly waiting for Jesus,

1157
01:28:28,440 --> 01:28:29,440
but they could be good things,

1158
01:28:29,440 --> 01:28:30,440
and you're doing them, and you're like,

1159
01:28:30,440 --> 01:28:35,440
but they don't equate to expectantly waiting for Jesus.

1160
01:28:35,440 --> 01:28:38,440
If you sit on, I'll give you a very point blank

1161
01:28:38,440 --> 01:28:40,440
direct example.

1162
01:28:40,440 --> 01:28:43,440
If your first thought when you sit on your couch

1163
01:28:43,440 --> 01:28:45,440
is where's the remote,

1164
01:28:45,440 --> 01:28:47,440
you are not expectantly waiting for Jesus

1165
01:28:47,440 --> 01:28:50,440
in that moment.

1166
01:28:50,440 --> 01:28:52,440
If your first thought when you come in,

1167
01:28:52,440 --> 01:28:54,440
when your paycheck comes in,

1168
01:28:54,440 --> 01:28:55,440
is to make sure your bills are paid.

1169
01:28:55,440 --> 01:28:56,440
I had somebody say that to me just this morning.

1170
01:28:56,440 --> 01:28:58,440
I know that the bills got to go first.

1171
01:28:58,440 --> 01:29:01,440
That's right.

1172
01:29:01,440 --> 01:29:03,440
Actually, it isn't right, is it?

1173
01:29:03,440 --> 01:29:07,440
God's got to go first.

1174
01:29:07,440 --> 01:29:09,440
If your first thought when you have an illness

1175
01:29:09,440 --> 01:29:12,440
in your body of some kind of pain

1176
01:29:12,440 --> 01:29:18,440
is a medicine, or a doctor, or a nap,

1177
01:29:18,440 --> 01:29:20,440
then you're not expectantly waiting

1178
01:29:20,440 --> 01:29:23,440
the coming of Jesus.

1179
01:29:23,440 --> 01:29:25,440
Now, there's nothing wrong with any of those things, right?

1180
01:29:25,440 --> 01:29:28,440
Did I name anything on it as paying your bills, nap,

1181
01:29:28,440 --> 01:29:31,440
doctor, TV, any of those things?

1182
01:29:31,440 --> 01:29:33,440
Are any of those things sin?

1183
01:29:33,440 --> 01:29:36,440
No, none of those things are sin.

1184
01:29:36,440 --> 01:29:39,440
But if you don't align the things in your life

1185
01:29:39,440 --> 01:29:44,440
that are not sin with expectantly waiting for Jesus,

1186
01:29:44,440 --> 01:29:46,440
then you're not expectantly waiting for Jesus,

1187
01:29:46,440 --> 01:29:48,440
and you had better be, because when He comes,

1188
01:29:48,440 --> 01:29:54,440
if you do not, you will miss your appointment.

1189
01:29:54,440 --> 01:29:57,440
The second thing in there is to be literally prepared

1190
01:29:57,440 --> 01:29:59,440
for Him when He comes back.

1191
01:29:59,440 --> 01:30:02,440
Our job as Christians, as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ,

1192
01:30:02,440 --> 01:30:06,440
is to work to become a good gift.

1193
01:30:06,440 --> 01:30:09,440
I went to Camp You Can last year.

1194
01:30:09,440 --> 01:30:10,440
I'm going to Camp You Can.

1195
01:30:10,440 --> 01:30:11,440
This is going to sound funny.

1196
01:30:11,440 --> 01:30:13,440
You're going to get a little incited

1197
01:30:13,440 --> 01:30:14,440
into my oddball personality here.

1198
01:30:14,440 --> 01:30:16,440
I'm going to Camp You Can, and I'm packing the van,

1199
01:30:16,440 --> 01:30:17,440
and I had all my stuff.

1200
01:30:17,440 --> 01:30:19,440
I had all the stuff that they said was on the list,

1201
01:30:19,440 --> 01:30:20,440
and I'm thinking to myself,

1202
01:30:20,440 --> 01:30:22,440
there's got to be something else.

1203
01:30:22,440 --> 01:30:24,440
I know I'm forgetting something, Boy Scout model,

1204
01:30:24,440 --> 01:30:25,440
which I never was a Boy Scout,

1205
01:30:25,440 --> 01:30:27,440
but I do like to carry around way too much stuff.

1206
01:30:27,440 --> 01:30:29,440
I said, there's got to be something.

1207
01:30:29,440 --> 01:30:32,440
I thought about some E6000 glue.

1208
01:30:32,440 --> 01:30:33,440
You know what I'm talking about?

1209
01:30:33,440 --> 01:30:36,440
It'll glue ceramics or wood or just about anything.

1210
01:30:36,440 --> 01:30:38,440
It's almost like super glue, but maybe it's a little better.

1211
01:30:38,440 --> 01:30:39,440
It doesn't dry quite as fast,

1212
01:30:39,440 --> 01:30:43,440
but it literally makes the thing glue just like new.

1213
01:30:43,440 --> 01:30:44,440
It's really good stuff.

1214
01:30:44,440 --> 01:30:46,440
You buy it in tubes, it's like three bucks,

1215
01:30:46,440 --> 01:30:47,440
and I thought, I'm going to take some of that glue.

1216
01:30:47,440 --> 01:30:48,440
I have no idea why.

1217
01:30:48,440 --> 01:30:50,440
I don't know that I need it.

1218
01:30:50,440 --> 01:30:51,440
You know what I mean?

1219
01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:52,440
Odds are, if there's something that breaks there

1220
01:30:52,440 --> 01:30:54,440
while we're there, they're going to fix that.

1221
01:30:54,440 --> 01:30:55,440
They're going to take care of it, whatever it is.

1222
01:30:55,440 --> 01:30:57,440
I don't think I need it.

1223
01:30:57,440 --> 01:30:59,440
While we were there, there was a young man who did well,

1224
01:30:59,440 --> 01:31:04,440
and he got a trophy at the end of camp.

1225
01:31:04,440 --> 01:31:05,440
They gave him the trophy,

1226
01:31:05,440 --> 01:31:08,440
and he had it for all of about 30 seconds

1227
01:31:08,440 --> 01:31:12,440
and snapped the trophy piece off the top of the base.

1228
01:31:12,440 --> 01:31:14,440
That young man was in my cabin.

1229
01:31:14,440 --> 01:31:15,440
He didn't ride with me there.

1230
01:31:15,440 --> 01:31:16,440
It wasn't one of our kids that went,

1231
01:31:16,440 --> 01:31:18,440
but he was in my cabin,

1232
01:31:18,440 --> 01:31:19,440
and we're getting ready to go back up to the thing,

1233
01:31:19,440 --> 01:31:23,440
and he wanted to haul his luggage back up to the building

1234
01:31:23,440 --> 01:31:24,440
where we were going to get picked up.

1235
01:31:24,440 --> 01:31:26,440
He said, can I ride in the van with you guys to get back up there,

1236
01:31:26,440 --> 01:31:29,440
so I don't have to slough it all back up there a quarter of a mile,

1237
01:31:29,440 --> 01:31:30,440
three-eighths of a mile, whatever it was.

1238
01:31:30,440 --> 01:31:31,440
I'm like, oh, yeah, absolutely you can.

1239
01:31:31,440 --> 01:31:33,440
He's carrying his base of his trophy

1240
01:31:33,440 --> 01:31:37,440
and the top of his trophy in his hand.

1241
01:31:37,440 --> 01:31:39,440
He wasn't saying anything about it,

1242
01:31:39,440 --> 01:31:41,440
but he was just carrying the two pieces like this.

1243
01:31:41,440 --> 01:31:44,440
It was almost like he was walking around.

1244
01:31:44,440 --> 01:31:45,440
He was a living question.

1245
01:31:45,440 --> 01:31:47,440
He was like, somebody go fix this.

1246
01:31:47,440 --> 01:31:48,440
I just got this trophy and it's broke.

1247
01:31:48,440 --> 01:31:50,440
Is somebody going to fix this?

1248
01:31:50,440 --> 01:31:52,440
I go to get in the van,

1249
01:31:52,440 --> 01:31:55,440
not thinking a thing about E6000 glue, right?

1250
01:31:55,440 --> 01:31:58,440
There in the door of the van is E6000 glue.

1251
01:31:58,440 --> 01:32:01,440
It's there.

1252
01:32:01,440 --> 01:32:04,440
I thought, I bet that fixed that trophy.

1253
01:32:04,440 --> 01:32:05,440
Sure enough, we thought we got the glue out.

1254
01:32:05,440 --> 01:32:06,440
We roughed the surface up a little bit,

1255
01:32:06,440 --> 01:32:09,440
put it on there, glued it back on.

1256
01:32:09,440 --> 01:32:11,440
Then he had it.

1257
01:32:11,440 --> 01:32:12,440
It takes a while for that to set and become solid.

1258
01:32:12,440 --> 01:32:14,440
He had it about 10 minutes later.

1259
01:32:14,440 --> 01:32:15,440
We're actually going to drive back up.

1260
01:32:15,440 --> 01:32:16,440
I look at him and I see him.

1261
01:32:16,440 --> 01:32:18,440
He's carrying around the two pieces of the trophy again.

1262
01:32:18,440 --> 01:32:19,440
I'm like, hey, what happened?

1263
01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:21,440
He said, well, it just came apart.

1264
01:32:21,440 --> 01:32:23,440
I look at it and sure enough, it had started to dry,

1265
01:32:23,440 --> 01:32:25,440
but he had stressed it too much at that spot

1266
01:32:25,440 --> 01:32:26,440
and it had broke apart or whatever.

1267
01:32:26,440 --> 01:32:27,440
We cleaned it up.

1268
01:32:27,440 --> 01:32:28,440
We roughed it up.

1269
01:32:28,440 --> 01:32:29,440
We glued it again.

1270
01:32:29,440 --> 01:32:30,440
I said, we don't have any duct tape or anything.

1271
01:32:30,440 --> 01:32:32,440
I wasn't prepared enough to have duct tape put back together.

1272
01:32:32,440 --> 01:32:35,440
We're just going to have to be careful with it.

1273
01:32:35,440 --> 01:32:37,440
I said, I'll tell you what.

1274
01:32:37,440 --> 01:32:41,440
How about you tape this glue?

1275
01:32:41,440 --> 01:32:43,440
I said, don't get in trouble with it now.

1276
01:32:43,440 --> 01:32:44,440
Don't use it for anything else.

1277
01:32:44,440 --> 01:32:45,440
I said, no sniffing it.

1278
01:32:45,440 --> 01:32:46,440
Just put it away.

1279
01:32:46,440 --> 01:32:48,440
I said, and that way when you get home,

1280
01:32:48,440 --> 01:32:49,440
because it's going to be hard to get all the way home.

1281
01:32:49,440 --> 01:32:50,440
It's two hours away from home.

1282
01:32:50,440 --> 01:32:51,440
It's going to be hard to get all the way home.

1283
01:32:51,440 --> 01:32:55,440
You can glue it again.

1284
01:32:55,440 --> 01:33:01,440
He went, his jaw dropped and his eyes got big.

1285
01:33:01,440 --> 01:33:06,440
He was genuinely touched by the fact that I was willing to just give him the glue.

1286
01:33:06,440 --> 01:33:07,440
It was a $3.

1287
01:33:07,440 --> 01:33:10,440
I mean, it was probably only about a buck and a half of it left.

1288
01:33:10,440 --> 01:33:12,440
He took it.

1289
01:33:12,440 --> 01:33:13,440
He took my cell phone number.

1290
01:33:13,440 --> 01:33:16,440
We've had limited contacts since camp or whatever.

1291
01:33:16,440 --> 01:33:19,440
You'll probably see him again there if we do it again this year or whatever.

1292
01:33:19,440 --> 01:33:21,440
But you know what happened?

1293
01:33:21,440 --> 01:33:25,440
It didn't stick together again because it was at a stress point.

1294
01:33:25,440 --> 01:33:26,440
He stressed it.

1295
01:33:26,440 --> 01:33:27,440
He put it away.

1296
01:33:27,440 --> 01:33:28,440
He put the glue away.

1297
01:33:28,440 --> 01:33:32,440
Then after that, he wasn't walking around with two pieces of a trophy in his hands

1298
01:33:32,440 --> 01:33:39,440
because he knew when he got home, it was going to be fine.

1299
01:33:39,440 --> 01:33:41,440
There are things in your life that you're bothered by.

1300
01:33:41,440 --> 01:33:42,440
I get that.

1301
01:33:42,440 --> 01:33:43,440
We all are.

1302
01:33:43,440 --> 01:33:46,440
Our job is to be prepared for when he comes back.

1303
01:33:46,440 --> 01:33:47,440
Do you think he's coming back?

1304
01:33:47,440 --> 01:33:48,440
Because I think he is.

1305
01:33:48,440 --> 01:33:49,440
I don't think he is.

1306
01:33:49,440 --> 01:33:50,440
I know he is.

1307
01:33:50,440 --> 01:33:58,440
And if he's coming back, then whatever you're facing right now, it's going to be okay on that day.

1308
01:33:58,440 --> 01:33:59,440
He's going to take care of it.

1309
01:33:59,440 --> 01:34:04,440
So why are you still carrying it around in two pieces waiting for somebody to fix it?

1310
01:34:04,440 --> 01:34:05,440
Why is it a big deal?

1311
01:34:05,440 --> 01:34:07,440
You've got problems.

1312
01:34:07,440 --> 01:34:12,440
If we made a list, somebody else in this room, until we get down to the last person who has the most problems

1313
01:34:12,440 --> 01:34:18,440
or most creative in making the list, somebody else in this room probably has more problems than you do.

1314
01:34:18,440 --> 01:34:20,440
We have a man in our church who's not here today.

1315
01:34:20,440 --> 01:34:21,440
He's off and on here because of his health.

1316
01:34:21,440 --> 01:34:25,440
He's literally dying and his heart's blocked and he can't get any help.

1317
01:34:25,440 --> 01:34:27,440
There's no medication, no surgery, nothing.

1318
01:34:27,440 --> 01:34:28,440
You got that?

1319
01:34:28,440 --> 01:34:32,440
Anybody else in this room have a heart blockage and they've told you that you're going to die?

1320
01:34:32,440 --> 01:34:34,440
You can't get any help whatsoever?

1321
01:34:34,440 --> 01:34:36,440
Okay, let's go down to your list of problems that you got and let's kind of check them off

1322
01:34:36,440 --> 01:34:40,440
and see how many compare.

1323
01:34:40,440 --> 01:34:44,440
What I'm saying to you is whatever your problems are, you need to be prepared for Jesus coming back,

1324
01:34:44,440 --> 01:34:49,440
which means you need to take your problems and go, well, I can't do that, but God can do that,

1325
01:34:49,440 --> 01:34:51,440
or God can do it through me or through somebody else.

1326
01:34:51,440 --> 01:34:57,440
And right now what I'm going to do is I'm going to be working on me to be ready for Him.

1327
01:34:57,440 --> 01:34:58,440
So I'm going to become a little more honest.

1328
01:34:58,440 --> 01:35:00,440
I'm not going to say you're never going to lie again.

1329
01:35:00,440 --> 01:35:01,440
I'm going to become a little more hardworking.

1330
01:35:01,440 --> 01:35:03,440
I'm not saying you're ever going to be lazy again.

1331
01:35:03,440 --> 01:35:10,440
I'm going to overcome the things that are wrong with me one thing at a time, ready, right,

1332
01:35:10,440 --> 01:35:11,440
for when He comes again.

1333
01:35:11,440 --> 01:35:12,440
It's not a work salvation.

1334
01:35:12,440 --> 01:35:14,440
It will not save you.

1335
01:35:14,440 --> 01:35:15,440
But it is a posture.

1336
01:35:15,440 --> 01:35:19,440
And without that posture, you are saying you do not know the recipe for peace

1337
01:35:19,440 --> 01:35:22,440
and you're willing to miss the appointment,

1338
01:35:22,440 --> 01:35:26,440
to which then I would say to you that Jesus is weeping over you today.

1339
01:35:26,440 --> 01:35:28,440
Change your posture.

1340
01:35:28,440 --> 01:35:31,440
Let's start getting ready for when He comes again.

1341
01:35:31,440 --> 01:35:37,440
And then lastly, and singly and most importantly, we must be loved by Him.

1342
01:35:37,440 --> 01:35:38,440
That part's pretty easy.

1343
01:35:38,440 --> 01:35:41,440
And we must love Him back.

1344
01:35:41,440 --> 01:35:45,440
To whom do you belong?

1345
01:35:45,440 --> 01:35:49,440
This will sound a little creepy for the men in the room, but whose bride are you?

1346
01:35:49,440 --> 01:35:51,440
You say, no, no, no, that's not how it works.

1347
01:35:51,440 --> 01:35:52,440
Yes, it is.

1348
01:35:52,440 --> 01:35:54,440
The church is Jesus' bride.

1349
01:35:54,440 --> 01:35:58,440
And life is about Jesus preparing His bride for Him.

1350
01:35:58,440 --> 01:35:59,440
That's Ephesians 5.

1351
01:35:59,440 --> 01:36:00,440
You can go and read it.

1352
01:36:00,440 --> 01:36:02,440
We won't go to read it together right this second.

1353
01:36:02,440 --> 01:36:05,440
But it's Ephesians 5, 22 through 32 where everybody talks about marriage, right?

1354
01:36:05,440 --> 01:36:10,440
But He says, actually, this whole idea of marriage, this is all about Jesus and His church.

1355
01:36:10,440 --> 01:36:16,440
Jesus gave Himself in order to make you better for Him and for eternity.

1356
01:36:16,440 --> 01:36:19,440
He loves you more than His body.

1357
01:36:19,440 --> 01:36:22,440
He loves you more than His wants and desires.

1358
01:36:22,440 --> 01:36:24,440
Am I going to turn away the cup the Father has put for me?

1359
01:36:24,440 --> 01:36:25,440
No, I come for just such a time as this.

1360
01:36:25,440 --> 01:36:28,440
Lord, your will not my will be done.

1361
01:36:28,440 --> 01:36:33,440
Am I going to bad mouth or yell back or try to talk somebody out of doing to me what they're going to do?

1362
01:36:33,440 --> 01:36:37,440
No, I'm going to take every bit of it because I love Dan Stevenson.

1363
01:36:37,440 --> 01:36:40,440
I love Tony Tate.

1364
01:36:40,440 --> 01:36:43,440
I love Ricky Hartley just that much.

1365
01:36:43,440 --> 01:36:44,440
It's personal.

1366
01:36:44,440 --> 01:36:47,440
You be expectantly waiting for Him to come.

1367
01:36:47,440 --> 01:36:50,440
You be preparing yourself for His arrival.

1368
01:36:50,440 --> 01:36:55,440
You be loved by Him and love Him back actively.

1369
01:36:55,440 --> 01:36:57,440
Make choices according to that.

1370
01:36:57,440 --> 01:37:02,440
To love Christ is to recognize His love for you.

1371
01:37:02,440 --> 01:37:08,440
Realize He's processing you to be ready for Him, to submit to whatever He's doing in your life so you can be ready for Him.

1372
01:37:08,440 --> 01:37:12,440
And realize that He loves you more than His own body.

1373
01:37:12,440 --> 01:37:15,440
Are you here today and you've never accepted Jesus Christ as Lord?

1374
01:37:15,440 --> 01:37:17,440
That means He tells you what to do and you do it.

1375
01:37:17,440 --> 01:37:20,440
And Savior, that means He paid the price for your sins.

1376
01:37:20,440 --> 01:37:22,440
Then probably you've heard a lot about miracles.

1377
01:37:22,440 --> 01:37:25,440
You may have even seen God do some miracles in your life.

1378
01:37:25,440 --> 01:37:33,440
But you always kind of wonder or doubt or think maybe that isn't quite what you think it is because you've never been saved.

1379
01:37:33,440 --> 01:37:37,440
It is not about me.

1380
01:37:37,440 --> 01:37:39,440
I love everybody in this room.

1381
01:37:39,440 --> 01:37:42,440
And if I have my choice, I'm going to heaven the moment Jesus calls.

1382
01:37:42,440 --> 01:37:46,440
And that means if you're not willing to go with me, I'm going without you.

1383
01:37:46,440 --> 01:37:48,440
Got it, son?

1384
01:37:48,440 --> 01:37:49,440
We're going together.

1385
01:37:49,440 --> 01:37:52,440
But if you're not willing to go, I'm going without you.

1386
01:37:52,440 --> 01:37:54,440
Got it, Amalia?

1387
01:37:54,440 --> 01:37:55,440
I love you.

1388
01:37:55,440 --> 01:37:58,440
But if you're not willing to go, I'm going without you.

1389
01:37:58,440 --> 01:38:02,440
We are in this together to reach new heights in Jesus.

1390
01:38:02,440 --> 01:38:05,440
But it ain't about me and it ain't about you.

1391
01:38:05,440 --> 01:38:09,440
It's about God.

1392
01:38:09,440 --> 01:38:11,440
Will you go?

1393
01:38:11,440 --> 01:38:20,440
Well, if you do not know the recipe for peace and continue to apply it throughout every day of your life.

1394
01:38:20,440 --> 01:38:30,440
If you're willing to miss the appointment when Jesus comes again, then you don't personally know Him the way you should.

1395
01:38:30,440 --> 01:38:33,440
You don't love Him the way you should.

1396
01:38:33,440 --> 01:38:36,440
But you should say, I'm not letting anything stand in my way.

1397
01:38:36,440 --> 01:38:43,440
I'm going to work on me, let Jesus work on me so I can be ready when He comes to present to Him the best me I can be on that day.

1398
01:38:43,440 --> 01:38:46,440
Nobody's ever going to be perfect.

1399
01:38:46,440 --> 01:38:56,440
But if 10 years from now, I said you're, you know, for the unmarrieds in this room, I said you're going to get married 10 years from now to a man or a woman who's going to be perfect for you.

1400
01:38:56,440 --> 01:38:59,440
They're literally the embodiment of everything you think is wonderful in the world.

1401
01:38:59,440 --> 01:39:00,440
They're great in their faith.

1402
01:39:00,440 --> 01:39:01,440
They're beautiful physically.

1403
01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:02,440
They're rich.

1404
01:39:02,440 --> 01:39:05,440
You'll never have to work a day in your life to be totally taken care of.

1405
01:39:05,440 --> 01:39:09,440
All you got to do is work on you so that on that day you'll be considered acceptable to them.

1406
01:39:09,440 --> 01:39:16,440
If that's what I said, what would you do to pave the way for that marriage?

1407
01:39:16,440 --> 01:39:22,440
Anything and everything and all that you do each day.

1408
01:39:22,440 --> 01:39:38,440
You would submit to the knowledge that the God of the universe, as mighty and awesome as He is, has died on the cross to purchase you, to buy you back and to reconcile you to Him.

1409
01:39:38,440 --> 01:39:42,440
But it's one on one, you and Him.

1410
01:39:42,440 --> 01:39:49,440
Will you accept salvation through Jesus Christ and have Him as Lord?

1411
01:39:49,440 --> 01:39:52,440
If you have not, then do so now.

1412
01:39:52,440 --> 01:39:54,440
Just say, God, here I am.

1413
01:39:54,440 --> 01:39:55,440
I give you the rest of my life.

1414
01:39:55,440 --> 01:39:56,440
Do with it whatever you want.

1415
01:39:56,440 --> 01:39:59,440
I'm living for you instead of for me.

1416
01:39:59,440 --> 01:40:28,440
And if you have and you're here today and you're a believer and you realize that the cares and the riches of this life have been working on choking out that understanding, that chief understanding that arises in you true praise, that understanding that there is nobody and nothing greater than God, that understanding that you should be doing whatever you can to pave the way for Him to come and influence you and your church and your community and your school and your job and your life and your loved ones and your soon to be offspring.

1417
01:40:28,440 --> 01:40:30,440
Whatever, whatever is coming.

1418
01:40:30,440 --> 01:40:40,440
If you're supposed to be paving the way for that and you realize that's true and because of the cares and the riches of this life, things that you wanted to get into, things that you thought you were doing that were good, things that you thought you were doing for God.

1419
01:40:40,440 --> 01:40:52,440
But you realize that those things have now interfered and true praise that should transform your thinking, demonstrate your understanding and come from your regenerated heart is no longer issuing from your lips or from your being.

1420
01:40:52,440 --> 01:41:02,440
Then you repent today and turn again to God and let Him do in you what He has already paid for and always wanted to do.

1421
01:41:02,440 --> 01:41:05,440
Turn to God and say, OK, God, I get it.

1422
01:41:05,440 --> 01:41:06,440
I knew it.

1423
01:41:06,440 --> 01:41:07,440
I already knew Jesus died for me.

1424
01:41:07,440 --> 01:41:09,440
I already knew Jesus had things for me to be doing.

1425
01:41:09,440 --> 01:41:11,440
And I started, I started good.

1426
01:41:11,440 --> 01:41:12,440
I got changed.

1427
01:41:12,440 --> 01:41:14,440
I said, if it ain't real, I don't want it.

1428
01:41:14,440 --> 01:41:16,440
And I wanted it because it was real.

1429
01:41:16,440 --> 01:41:17,440
And I was living for Jesus.

1430
01:41:17,440 --> 01:41:22,440
And then now cares and riches and things in this world have become more important to me.

1431
01:41:22,440 --> 01:41:35,440
And so there's times where I find my peace in a logo or a dollar or a mind numbing episode or or an encouraging word from another human being.

1432
01:41:35,440 --> 01:41:38,440
That's where I find my peace.

1433
01:41:38,440 --> 01:41:43,440
When really, I understand that the recipe for peace is Jesus alone.

1434
01:41:43,440 --> 01:41:54,440
And you repent and you turn back to God today and you say, OK, I'm going to live with the understanding that I have the recipe and the ingredient.

1435
01:41:54,440 --> 01:41:56,440
Jesus.

1436
01:41:56,440 --> 01:42:01,440
Turn to God afresh today and let it be so.

1437
01:42:01,440 --> 01:42:06,440
And then church, let us light up this hill.

1438
01:42:06,440 --> 01:42:09,440
Let us show out this truth.

1439
01:42:09,440 --> 01:42:14,440
Let us sing out the praises.

1440
01:42:14,440 --> 01:42:22,440
But realize if you won't, if I won't, creation will do it without us.

1441
01:42:22,440 --> 01:42:25,440
Mass appraised team to come forward at this time and lead us in a closing hymn.

1442
01:42:25,440 --> 01:42:27,440
But this is also our hymn of decision.

1443
01:42:27,440 --> 01:42:35,440
If you are here today and you're making some kind of decision either to follow Christ and earn us for the first time ever, then you come and you publicly make that decision.

1444
01:42:35,440 --> 01:42:37,440
You tell people, OK, I'm living for Jesus beginning today.

1445
01:42:37,440 --> 01:42:39,440
Doesn't matter what happened before.

1446
01:42:39,440 --> 01:42:41,440
I'm not chronicling a history of how I got here.

1447
01:42:41,440 --> 01:42:43,440
I'm just living for Jesus beginning today.

1448
01:42:43,440 --> 01:42:50,440
Or if you'd say, I am a follower of Jesus and I know that and you're repenting and you turn to God again today, then you come and say, that's me.

1449
01:42:50,440 --> 01:42:51,440
I blew it.

1450
01:42:51,440 --> 01:42:52,440
I realized I wandered.

1451
01:42:52,440 --> 01:42:57,440
I am turning to God and letting God be in charge of my life through Jesus, his son.

1452
01:42:57,440 --> 01:43:03,440
If you're here today and you say, I know Jesus loves me, I'm living for him, but I need to be baptized as scripture commands, as Jesus taught.

1453
01:43:03,440 --> 01:43:04,440
And I've never done that.

1454
01:43:04,440 --> 01:43:06,440
We're going to baptize next Sunday.

1455
01:43:06,440 --> 01:43:07,440
And so you could do that next Sunday.

1456
01:43:07,440 --> 01:43:10,440
But if you're here today and you say, I need to do that, then you come and you tell us that.

1457
01:43:10,440 --> 01:43:12,440
Or you say, this needs to be my church home.

1458
01:43:12,440 --> 01:43:14,440
I need to serve God in this place.

1459
01:43:14,440 --> 01:43:19,440
I understand God is calling me because of this teaching or because of what God has said to me while I've been here.

1460
01:43:19,440 --> 01:43:20,440
I realize I need to do that.

1461
01:43:20,440 --> 01:43:23,440
Then you come and you make that decision publicly today.

1462
01:43:23,440 --> 01:43:29,440
If you have a sin that you've gotten into, something, and you publicly repent of that today and you just say, OK, that's me.

1463
01:43:29,440 --> 01:43:30,440
I did that.

1464
01:43:30,440 --> 01:43:31,440
I realize I shouldn't have done that.

1465
01:43:31,440 --> 01:43:33,440
I've not been right by God.

1466
01:43:33,440 --> 01:43:34,440
And I'm repenting today.

1467
01:43:34,440 --> 01:43:39,440
And I'm asking the people of this church to stand with me in unity to agree that that's never going to happen again.

1468
01:43:39,440 --> 01:43:43,440
Whatever it might be that God's laying on your heart, you stand with us and sing.

1469
01:43:43,440 --> 01:43:47,440
But if you're responding, you don't sing.

1470
01:43:47,440 --> 01:43:48,440
You come.

1471
01:43:48,440 --> 01:43:50,440
Just come to me and tell me and we'll share with the group.

1472
01:43:50,440 --> 01:43:51,440
OK, all right.

1473
01:43:51,440 --> 01:43:53,440
So stand with me and sing this song.

1474
01:43:53,440 --> 01:43:55,440
I'm going to get a drink of water because I couldn't sing right now if I had to.

1475
01:43:55,440 --> 01:44:08,440
Oh, so are you weary and troubled.

1476
01:44:08,440 --> 01:44:09,440
Why's God no older than you?

1477
01:44:09,440 --> 01:44:10,440
You've got to get your drink.

1478
01:44:10,440 --> 01:44:13,440
The recipe for peace is Jesus.

1479
01:44:13,440 --> 01:44:19,440
There's my word of the word of God.

1480
01:44:19,440 --> 01:44:26,440
I want to speak to your heart and say, I was saved today, or maybe you did while I was preaching, or you did it yesterday.

1481
01:44:26,440 --> 01:44:28,440
You can make that public confession and you come.

1482
01:44:28,440 --> 01:44:29,440
And share it with others.

1483
01:44:29,440 --> 01:44:31,440
That's the way I look for Jesus.

1484
01:44:31,440 --> 01:44:32,440
First time today.

1485
01:44:32,440 --> 01:44:36,440
Or you say, I was looking for Jesus, but I allowed things to get in the way.

1486
01:44:36,440 --> 01:44:37,440
Things that are important to me.

1487
01:44:37,440 --> 01:44:38,440
It shouldn't happen.

1488
01:44:38,440 --> 01:44:40,440
But right now, I'm hope-reading God is.

1489
01:44:40,440 --> 01:44:42,440
And I want him to be first.

1490
01:44:42,440 --> 01:44:43,440
I want him in the utmost.

1491
01:44:43,440 --> 01:44:45,440
In the highest position.

1492
01:44:45,440 --> 01:44:57,440
And the peace of us will grow strange.

1493
01:44:57,440 --> 01:45:26,440
In Sweden, in the light of his glory and grace.

1494
01:45:27,440 --> 01:45:32,440
If you're looking to connect up with us, we worship at 255 Hefner Street in Toledo, Ohio.

1495
01:45:32,440 --> 01:45:34,440
Every Sunday morning at 1130.

1496
01:45:34,440 --> 01:45:38,440
And we'd love to have you join us and blend your voices in together with ours.

1497
01:45:38,440 --> 01:45:41,440
We'd love to have you serve within the body or serve right where you live.

1498
01:45:41,440 --> 01:45:45,440
If you're across the globe and we know we have some folks who are listening to us from pretty far away.

1499
01:45:45,440 --> 01:45:51,440
Then we would both suggest and encourage you to reach New Heights in Jesus right where you live.

1500
01:45:51,440 --> 01:45:58,440
Check out our website under what would it take for me to become a member of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

1501
01:45:58,440 --> 01:46:02,440
There is an opportunity to become a member what's called non-resident.

1502
01:46:02,440 --> 01:46:07,440
So wherever you may live, you have the opportunity to become a non-resident member of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church.

1503
01:46:07,440 --> 01:46:15,440
And participate in your part of what God is doing here in Toledo and the surrounding land and throughout the world.

1504
01:46:15,440 --> 01:46:17,440
God bless you today.

1505
01:46:17,440 --> 01:46:18,440
In Jesus' name.

1506
01:46:18,440 --> 01:46:21,440
Amen.