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So you better believe that I got this across the sky

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I got this across the sky, baby

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From heaven above with wings of power

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And above I got this across the sky

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Where the sky, the sky is in the void of the night

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I got this across the sky

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We spoke in the dark cause I created the light

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I got this across the sky

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Just around here, hold on a sec

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My thing, raise the game, let's have a prize

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I hope that we have not done so

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Since I forgot that I got this across the sky

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I got this across the sky

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From heaven above with wings of power

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And above I got this across the sky

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My God, it's awesome

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God, He raised

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From heaven above with wings of power

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And above I got this across the sky

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My God, it's awesome

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All right.

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I was sitting back there.

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I thought I'd remind them to look at the bulletin at the upcoming dates.

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And then I realized that those who are listening from afar do not have this fancy dancing little paper.

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So we should be considering ourselves very blessed as we get handed a list every week.

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We're not only the songs from Worship, but the sermons, but also upcoming events,

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and missions and things like that are going on.

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And so we have this.

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We can put this in our phone.

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At the dentist's office they always say,

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do you want me to give you a little car with the date on it?

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And I say, no, I already got it in my phone.

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But when they hand me this, I can put them in there because there's several cool things going on.

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And one of them, you don't even know the date of yet.

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I'm about to tell you that in a moment.

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Next Sunday, a week from today, we will be celebrating our sixth anniversary.

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Since we've counted, do you believe it's been six years since we signed that piece of paper?

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Is that nuts?

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That's crazy.

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Six years have flown by very rapidly since we resigned the Constitution

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and became a Constitutional United Church of East Toledo.

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That is our official name.

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We had that big long name for a long time.

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And then even after the Constitution, we had kind of a big long name.

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And now we have just New Heights College of Baptist Church of East Toledo, which is kind of long.

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But we just call it New Heights College of East Toledo.

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That's why I usually say to people, most people get it.

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A lot of people already know what it is when I tell them.

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So that's pretty cool.

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But anyway, so that's next week.

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And that means after service, we will be doing our cookout and block party

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and the whole nine yards, as it were.

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And having a good time.

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We're promoting it to the community.

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We have missed out on some opportunities to do that, but we will make good on our opportunities this week.

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The best we can.

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Get the word out about that.

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And the last time we did something like that, it was pretty well received.

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And I hope it will be again Sunday.

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And then what's going on with the pantry on Sunday afternoon?

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We remember what we decided about that.

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Open at the end.

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Open at the end.

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Okay, so pantry will be open at the end.

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So that'll be a blessing again.

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It's good because it's really hard to do both those at the same time.

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Anyway, so then don't miss it coming up.

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The week immediately after that is our all family fellowship.

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And we have had for almost two months now, over two months now.

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In fact, the shelter house by the tennis courts, by the playground at Pearson Park Reserve for us to be there.

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And so even if the weather is bad, got willing, won't be.

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Next to the playground?

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No, next to the other side of the tennis court.

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Oh, yeah, side of the tennis court, yeah.

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So the one right next to the playground is very small.

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They made it bigger.

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Yeah, they made it bigger.

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Okay, anyway, so we'll be away from the just a little bit away, but really within striking distance.

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Okay, we got grass and we got fun.

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We got time together and we're a church quote, quote, that's us anyway.

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So we are providing meat.

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So if you're willing to help cook some of the meat that's being provided on top or bring the other things that you're bringing,

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let us know and we'll get that done, but we're going to have meat there and then the church, y'all, me all,

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we all are bringing the stuff that we're going to eat along with it.

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And if you're somebody who normally gets transported here on Sunday mornings,

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make your arrangements so you make sure that you're able to go like that.

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Because that's actually Sunday afternoon as well.

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So the after church, after pantry, I assume.

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So after pantry, we'll be going out to the park for all family fellowship.

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Can you say what's the time?

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Five o'clock.

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Okay, so if you're normally, somebody normally gets transported, you would normally go home,

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and then you would get picked up again because it's not until five o'clock.

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So if other arrangements are going to be made, you need to talk to the people who transport,

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you need to talk to the people who allow you to come and all that and get that situated.

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And everyone is asked to participate and bring you a little something to share food-wise.

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So we have plenty of food and that is not this coming Sunday.

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This Sunday is a cookout block party.

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Next Sunday is this couple, two weeks from today.

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There we go.

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Is the event at Pearson Park.

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Then don't miss it because you didn't know this date until right now.

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If you have exhortation spiritual gift, I'm talking about that.

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Again, I'll mention it, the spiritual gift is a little bit at the inspiration all the time

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because it's really not hard to do that.

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If you have exhortation spiritual gift, June 1st, the evening of June 1st.

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The evening of June 1st, which is a Monday night, I will be here because that's one of my spiritual gifts, praise the Lord.

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And if you don't know what your spiritual gifts are, I will talk about that in a minute.

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But if you have that, then June 1st, 6pm in the cafeteria, dinner provided.

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It's a one hour event where we will share our successes and failures using that spiritual gift.

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We'll talk about what it is.

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We'll eat together.

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This is going to be a new thing for us.

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Going forward, we'll have additional fellowships based around...

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I'm not saying any more.

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Boy.

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I'm leaving because you got one.

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Thank you.

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Alright.

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So we'll have additional fellowships based around each other's spiritual gift as we go on.

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There will be a lot of these going forward.

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Alright.

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And then, don't miss VBS, the Freedom Celebration.

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That's all coming.

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Human Trafficking Event, which is not us doing human trafficking.

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It's only us talking about human trafficking.

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We have some very important guest speakers who will be with us that evening.

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So I suggest you block out time for that to hear what they have to say.

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It's pretty cool what we might be able to do as Christians to make a difference.

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If you're not aware of it, Toledo is one of the top cities national.

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You'd think New York, San Francisco, LA, Miami, Chicago, like that.

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But per person, we are one of the top cities nationally.

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And part of it is because we're so connected.

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To snatch somebody off the streets here, or a lot of them come through here because of all the expressways that go both ways,

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the airport, trucking, international, ships that go in and out of port, thousands of them every year.

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All that kind of thing. It's a terrible thing what goes on with that.

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And there will be more details at that event.

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And we'll end that at 8 o'clock.

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So the kids will be a team kid, an extra half an hour.

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All the kids are excited about that.

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The youth will be with the adults in the human trafficking event.

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That's the current plan.

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And so you've got your bulletin.

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They don't have their bulletin, but I encourage you to keep track of the events

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and be prepared to be involved in everything that's going on.

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And we're going to do it together as a body. We're going to give God the glory.

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So I want to thank you for those of you who sent me prayer requests.

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Thursday Friday, I did have a great time with prayer and fast.

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And the Lord is very blessed by God's presence.

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And a lot of things came out of that.

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We've been hearing about some of those things, not necessarily today, but going forward.

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I'm excited about it.

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And I know that I did pray for every request that was sent to me multiple times.

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Some of them for as much as a half an hour each.

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And so praise God that I was able to do that and use support of me to be able to do that.

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And that's pretty cool.

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Say happy anniversary to RJ and Alicia.

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Today is their 12th anniversary.

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They didn't even see old enough to be married for 12 years.

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But when you look at their kids, you can believe, you know what I'm saying?

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Look at Jason. You can believe they've been married for 12 years.

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But 12 years today, praise God, that's one year for every tribe of Israel.

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They told me all the time they were working on a huge amount of work.

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Yeah, when I told the guys, it was me, how long I've been married, they went, no.

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That's blessed. And the Lord keeps us young.

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So we've got some folks in our congregation that have been married a lot longer than that.

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Praise God.

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So they kept them young too and doing a lot.

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So we're blessed.

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All right.

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So we're going to pray at this time and jump into worship.

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And I've asked and prearranged Caleb is going to have our opening prayer today.

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Jesus show. You ready?

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How does people know who they are?

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How does people want to help you?

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How does people want to help us all?

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And that's crazy.

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All right.

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It is that time again.

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So I need everyone on their feet if you are able.

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And I need all of the young type people towards the front of the room.

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Come on.

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Stay that person.

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You guys can come out on the front of the room.

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Don't we need to dance?

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We need to dance.

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You can come out on the front of the room.

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You can come out on the front of the room.

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Stay standing.

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This one doesn't have motions, but it is a call and response, which means one part is going to start and the other part is going to echo.

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And we're going to do adults versus children.

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Molly, I think we are honorary child.

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So adults will go first.

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Children under the age of 18 will go second.

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So, I think we are going to do adults versus children under the age of 18.

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Right?

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So, we are going to do adults versus children under the age of 18.

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Right?

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So, we are going to do adults versus children under the age of 18.

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All right.

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So, we are going to do adults versus children under the age of 18.

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Good job.

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It's inspirational moment time.

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And I have been inspired this week and I had a big long list of stuff I could have talked about.

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But I have my duty and I said, Lord, do you do that?

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And the Lord said, yes, we do that.

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So, I would talk about that for any of us.

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And that's spiritual gifts.

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I had a brother say to me this week, he said, I kind of lost the joy of serving the Lord.

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He said, I kind of lost the joy of serving the Lord.

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And I said, wow, that's a tough spot to be in.

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I know that people have been there before.

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And I've been there at times before and I thought about it.

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I was talking about how has God helped me when I've been in that spot before,

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when I've sort of lost the joy of serving the Lord.

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And I know there's a few things that God uses all the time.

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And you could probably go beyond this.

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All right?

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But the first thing that this come out of my saddest rest that I just took in per time

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and fasted me with the word and so on.

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One of those is that Sabbath rest.

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That rest, you're supposed to be intentional about marking time out,

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spending time with God.

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And yes, we are with God now, but we are with God collectively, right?

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And there's part of you that is maybe bristled a little bit

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because the person next to you or the person that's talking,

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maybe you're annoyed a little bit by my voice

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or somebody else is goofing off and they're distracting you

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or your mind is somewhere else, you've got a problem.

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Like, I don't know how I'm going to get my money in line to pay that bill

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or things like that.

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And so there's always little things like that.

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But when you get alone with the Lord and it's just you and God,

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there's really only two things that are going on.

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One is you're talking to God, the other is you're listening to God.

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And that's it.

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It gets very, very simple at that time.

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And so then when God talks to you or he says,

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get up and go do something, you find the strength to get up and go do it.

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And the joy comes with the strength God provides and fills it.

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And you go, okay, now I know what I'm supposed to be doing.

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And that, so one is that kind and rest of all the God,

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that's the only way that God does it.

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And secondly, the God does it, you just did it.

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I hope you did it.

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If you didn't, you really missed out on opportunity.

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We have just a little bit more opportunity left today.

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And that is worship.

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Worship is one of the ways that God adds joy to our service.

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We're going to talk a little bit about it during the sermon today.

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So I'm going to get ahead of myself.

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The bottom line is if you love God and you know who God is,

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you know what God has done, you know what God is doing,

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you know what God's going to do,

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then you've got a lot of reasons to praise God.

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And when you praise God that way,

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God fills up his people as they're praising him.

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When you recognize him and what he's done,

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if you're talking about what's going on in your life,

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that does not recognize God.

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You're talking to people about your opinions,

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that does not recognize God.

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You're talking to God about the problems that you have.

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That's not really recognizing God unless you're saying,

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okay, I understand only God can do it, then that's something.

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But if you just complain into God, that may comfort you,

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but that's not really about God.

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But when you praise in God, you're putting him first,

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you're recognizing who he is, what he's done,

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what he's doing, what he will do,

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and God fills us up with strength as we praise him.

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I can't tell you.

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I mean, more times than I have all my fingers and all my toes,

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and it's probably getting the point where

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there's more times than all the bones in my body,

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which is a couple of hundred.

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And I'm thinking more times than I thought,

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well, I don't really want to go worship,

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and then I get there and I start worshiping,

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and I sing, and just get filled up from the inside.

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It's not like where you're hungry,

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you're going to McDonald's and give some money

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to give you a Big Mac meal,

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and you feel not hungry anymore.

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It's like you feel like, oh man, I don't have it.

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I don't know if I can do it.

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And then you start doing it, and you say praise God.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Or you sing just that first few phrases,

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and God just shows up and empowers it.

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So worship is a big way.

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There are lots of ways, as I said.

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The third one is what I want to talk about.

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That's your spiritual gifts.

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Everybody, from the moment that you were saved,

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the Holy Spirit rolls out to you a specific spiritual gift.

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And maybe more than one.

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You might have one, you might have ten.

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It's typical that those who have a lot of them

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have each one that they have to a lesser degree.

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That makes sense?

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If you have ten of something,

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each one might be less a driving force in your life.

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But if you have one of them, they might be big things.

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You know what I'm saying?

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The only one that has just made you just wired to do that.

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That's what you do.

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And the others kind of like very useful things,

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but it's not a gift from God.

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It's not really what drives you.

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And so when you exercise your spiritual gifts,

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and you recognize that.

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And so for me, for example, with preaching,

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when I preach, and I know I'm saying what God wants me to say,

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God empowers me from the inside.

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It's like a pat on the back, spiritually.

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Like I'll go, man, I know I couldn't have said that.

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I couldn't have done that.

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I couldn't have figured that out.

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I couldn't have seen that there if it wasn't for God.

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And you get that lift from the inside.

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And I'm trying to explain to you a spiritual thing in human words.

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So I know it's hard.

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If you've never felt God lifting you up from the inside,

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you don't know what I'm talking about when I say that.

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If you've never felt drained or run out of spiritual strength,

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like you're just, oh man, I still don't know

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if I can go on with what I'm trying to do for the Lord,

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then you might not understand what I'm talking about.

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And they're just words.

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I'm just saying words right now.

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I'm just going in one ear and out the other.

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But the bottom line is the word teaches us

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that God gave us a spiritual gift,

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and that as each member of the body

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exercises their spiritual gifts,

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they themselves are lifted up by God,

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and then we collectively are lifted up by God,

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we're linked together by God,

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and we grow individually and corporately into the image

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of the living God, of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God,

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and God in the flesh.

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We will never get to be like God,

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not really truly, we'll never be God,

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but we get to be a little more like God,

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and we can test and approve what His good will is

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as we walk our life and are renewed in our minds

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and grow and have that blessing.

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So know your spiritual gifts,

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use your spiritual gifts.

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Now that's not, in a couple of cases,

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it's going to dictate the kind of ministry that you get into,

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but in most cases it doesn't.

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Okay?

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For example, if you have a service and health spiritual gift,

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which is one of the spiritual gifts that people have,

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you could literally do that in any kind of ministry.

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You're just going to wind up boosting it,

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building it up in the back right.

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You don't have to be in a limelight,

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you can just be able to drive in there

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and make a difference, fixing some problem,

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doing something that needs to be done,

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being the strong person,

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physically, emotionally, spiritually, whatever,

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you're going to be able to go in and do that.

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If you happen to have exhortation,

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which is more of an outward, outspoken,

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encouragement, drawing people out to do what they're supposed to do,

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a lot of people have exhortation to get into preaching,

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but that is not the only way, by any means, that it is used.

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Okay?

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And it isn't even only spoken.

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Sometimes it's written.

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Some people have to get the exhortation to do it through writing.

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And so you can figure out how to use your spiritual gift,

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and then every time you use it,

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whatever ministry you use it in,

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every time you use it,

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you get that little adaboi and the joy of the Lord.

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How awesome is it

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when you realize you're doing something

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that you could not do in your own strength,

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but God is doing it through.

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And that's that power of the spiritual gift.

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So, if you haven't done so,

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get yourself a spiritual gift analysis.

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There are basically three ways

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that you can figure out what your spiritual gifts are.

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And they all kind of work together.

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The first one is to take an analysis,

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take a second test.

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It says, do you do this?

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Put it up.

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Hey.

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From number one through ten.

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Do you do this?

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Do you do this?

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Do you do this?

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I'm going to put it down and this is the question.

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And you number, this never happens to me.

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This always happens to me.

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And if you add them up,

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and it's going to tell you what most likely

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what your primary spiritual gifts are.

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Second best way,

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or second way that Karen goes and comes through that,

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but it's less so,

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I'll take them away if I hear them again.

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Hear me?

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Thank you.

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All right.

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So the second best way is to ask people who know you.

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Work with your family,

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your loved ones, your spouse, your kids,

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your friends,

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people you work with in ministry.

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And say, hey, I think, you know,

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here's my analysis says I might have these five,

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or here's, I read the scripture about these gifts,

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and I think I might have this.

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What do you think?

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Do you think I have that spiritual gift?

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Have you ever seen me do something weird with that

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that you couldn't quite explain?

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Or can you give me an example?

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And they'll help you digest it.

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They'll help you figure out is it your spiritual gift.

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If you get in there and you go like,

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number two says I might have the gift of service,

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spiritual service and helps.

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And you go like, oh, that's me.

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Before you dismiss it,

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you better ask the people who know you,

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because maybe even doing it,

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you don't even realize it.

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Right.

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And then the third way is the word of prayer.

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You just read what they are in the Bible

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and pray and ask God and compare it to your life

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and let God point out to you.

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God may give you a vision in your head

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of you doing that thing

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and how you felt while you were doing it

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and how powerful that was in you.

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Right.

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So there's nothing required,

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biblical things about taking a spiritual gift analysis

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or a survey.

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However, it's a very useful tool that you started.

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Okay.

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Prayer in the word.

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That's how they did it before a survey

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before I ever developed with prayer in the word

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and talking to others.

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Right.

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And so you can do it by that means

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or you can do it by that.

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But if you think you have the spiritual gift of exhortation,

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then I would like to invite you to have dinner with me

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on June 1st.

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It's not going to be anything fabulous.

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It's going to be a basic dinner.

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And we're going to eat something.

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But we're going to spend time talking about

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what is the gift, what can one do with it.

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And then we're going to, at the end,

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we're going to have like anecdotical,

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we'll tell stories of what happened

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when somebody used their gift like that.

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And then you'll be able to, hopefully out of that,

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you'll be able to determine, do I have it?

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What can I do with it?

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Okay.

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That's the goal.

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We're not going to study a lot of scripture about the gift.

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It's not a Bible study.

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Not coming to a Bible study.

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It's a fellowship.

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It's a spiritual gift fellowship.

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Right.

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So it's us working together.

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Now that we think you've figured that out,

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what does that look like?

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Right.

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That's you first, and I want to point out,

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I have to really convicted, I need to stand up

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and talk about spiritual gifts,

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because somebody here can have a clue.

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And we all think everybody in the room

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totally understands that, but somebody didn't know.

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And now you got it, I hope.

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At least you have an opportunity.

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Okay.

506
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,760
Thank you.

507
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:16,760
Thank you.

508
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:17,760
All right.

509
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,760
So how has the Lord been speaking to you this week?

510
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,760
As I said, I have a long list, like longer than my,

511
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,760
my business called QVD.

512
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:25,760
Right.

513
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:26,760
Hardly got something?

514
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:27,760
All right. Let's hear it.

515
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,760
There's another song that I've been listening to a lot.

516
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:31,760
Okay.

517
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,760
A song that's been singing.

518
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,760
It's by the same person that did last week,

519
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,760
but it's a really good song,

520
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,760
and I'll just put it a little bit more later.

521
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:43,760
After the light.

522
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:44,760
After the light.

523
00:25:44,760 --> 00:26:12,760
One, two, three.

524
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:19,760
One, two, three.

525
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:28,760
One, two, three.

526
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:43,760
One, two, three.

527
00:26:43,760 --> 00:27:09,760
One, two, three.

528
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:19,760
One, two, three.

529
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:29,760
One, two, three.

530
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:39,760
One, two, three.

531
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:49,760
One, two, three.

532
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:59,760
One, two, three.

533
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:09,760
One, two, three.

534
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:19,760
One, two, three.

535
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:29,760
One, two, three.

536
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:39,760
One, two, three.

537
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:49,760
One, two, three.

538
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:59,760
One, two, three.

539
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:09,760
One, two, three.

540
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:19,760
One, two, three.

541
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:29,760
One, two, three.

542
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:39,760
One, two, three.

543
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,760
One, two, three.

544
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:49,760
So, part of the reason why I like this song so much is because,

545
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,760
to me, it reminds me of who I used to be.

546
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,760
So, before I got saved, I always felt like I was a lost cause.

547
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,760
I always felt broken.

548
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,760
Nothing ever seemed like it was good enough.

549
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,760
No matter how hard I tried, nothing ever seemed like I was doing enough.

550
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,760
And even now today, I still struggle with that sometimes because,

551
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,760
there's multiple times in my life where I'll just sit back and I wonder,

552
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,760
am I ever doing enough?

553
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,760
Am I doing a good enough job with a dad?

554
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,760
Am I doing a good enough job with a husband?

555
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,760
A provider?

556
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,760
So, it's like, you always have those thoughts, especially,

557
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,760
I mean, this is mostly for the guys,

558
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,760
especially as men, we're meant to provide,

559
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,760
we're meant to protect.

560
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,760
And I don't know if it's, well, like I said, I'm not sure if it's a guy thing for sure,

561
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,760
but to me, it seems like a guy thing that we always have that feeling like,

562
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,760
it's not good enough.

563
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,760
Like, nothing we do is ever good enough.

564
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:51,760
And then we start getting into a spot where we hold onto things that are really good for us,

565
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,760
because it makes us comfortable, it makes us feel safe.

566
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,760
And in the song, that's one of the things it says, is he says,

567
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,760
all of the drinking and smoking feels hopeless,

568
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,760
but it feels like it's all that he needs.

569
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,760
So, you know there's a problem, you know there's something that's wrong,

570
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,760
but it's the only thing that you think makes you feel at peace.

571
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,760
And like I said, for me, that's how it was before I got saved.

572
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:24,760
I mean, it was, it's hard to go look back and realize where I was,

573
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,760
and realize where I am now,

574
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,760
because I've always wanted something to save me from it.

575
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,760
Like, I've never wanted to live a life like that.

576
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,760
And I finally did, and it's changed my life dramatically,

577
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:46,760
but this song is a reminder that, you know, you may feel like it's hopeless,

578
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,760
you may feel like it's a waste of time,

579
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,760
and you may feel like you're a lost cause,

580
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,760
but with God you're not.

581
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,760
You're not a lost cause, you're not a waste of time, you're not a waste of space.

582
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,760
In God you are someone amazing.

583
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,760
And I think there's plenty of people in this room, even,

584
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,760
that can testify to that,

585
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,760
because you look back who you used to be before you got saved,

586
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,760
and look where you're at now,

587
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,760
and look at how much God has done in your life.

588
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,760
Even, I mean, even the little things in your life become huge things now,

589
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,760
because you realize that it's God doing it.

590
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:28,760
Like, something as simple as being able to raise children,

591
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,760
or just pay a bill, or have the extra money to go,

592
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,760
hey, I can help you do that if someone needs it.

593
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,760
Just simple things in life become huge things,

594
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,760
because you know that now it's God doing it,

595
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,760
and not you striving to find something else.

596
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:46,760
That's a good word.

597
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,760
I thought you were going to preach the opening of my sermon there for a second.

598
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,760
I'll leave it at that.

599
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,760
Alright, let's get into the room.

600
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:53,760
Alright.

601
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,760
I can rip this.

602
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,760
When dance gets you dancing, it's awesome, so I love you so.

603
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,760
The plan was, get two of us,

604
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,760
next thing you know, the two of us,

605
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,760
floating, drifting somewhere new.

606
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,760
She said we can take a shortcut.

607
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,760
I'm trying to be a good sport,

608
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,760
but I don't see how we make it through.

609
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,760
Remember the size of the world before?

610
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,760
It was you and I, just you and I,

611
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,760
and now the horizon holds so much more.

612
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,760
It's due or died, it's due or died.

613
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,760
All I can do when the road bends

614
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,760
is lean into the curve.

615
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:48,760
You know I can do when the tanks run dry

616
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,760
to see what's in reserve.

617
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:57,760
You know I can do when the plans break down

618
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,760
to stay on my feet.

619
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:05,760
And all I can do at the end of the day

620
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,760
is play on play on,

621
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,760
but then keep the beat.

622
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,760
Hey, Mivo, are you scared?

623
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,760
You know, my dad used to sing to me when I was scared.

624
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,760
So did Andres.

625
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,760
Hey, we could sing more to songs.

626
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,760
That was cherished up.

627
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,760
I did you, just on another show.

628
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,760
Always in your corner, watching you soar.

629
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,760
Andres, you're going to teach me how to play drums.

630
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,760
Here we go. Check this out.

631
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,760
Try some boobies.

632
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,760
That thing you're doing is noise. Observe.

633
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,760
Wow, you learn quick.

634
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,760
I must be a really good teacher.

635
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,760
Ah, come on, Mivo.

636
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,760
You're a good teacher.

637
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,760
I'm a good teacher.

638
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,760
I'm a good teacher.

639
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,760
I must be a really good teacher.

640
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,760
Come on, Mivo.

641
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,760
Whoa, this sounds good.

642
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,760
Yeah, I see potential. Raw talent.

643
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:15,760
Come on, Mivo. Let's lose, Grandpa.

644
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,760
Grandpa? Did Grandpa do this?

645
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:24,760
Oh, yeah, Mivo.

646
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,760
I'm going to sign something for you.

647
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,760
Now it's you and I.

648
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,760
You and I.

649
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,760
And now the horizon is so much more.

650
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,760
It's you or I.

651
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,760
It's you or I.

652
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,760
All right, you know I'm the road man.

653
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,760
We're just going to eat it up.

654
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,760
I'm going to go get it.

655
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,760
I'm going to go get it.

656
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,760
I'm going to go get it.

657
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,760
You are it.

658
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:06,760
Come on, Mivo.

659
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,760
It's me spotted.

660
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,760
We're just going to eat it up.

661
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,760
We were just going to eat it.

662
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,760
Let's keep the beat

663
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:19,760
Bum bum bum bum

664
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,760
Come on, you can't stop now

665
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,760
Let's keep the beat going, partner

666
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,760
Ah, I'm a beat, not my partner

667
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,760
Okay, pause, it's getting lights on

668
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,760
So, uh, that's Bebo, that's an awesome movie

669
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,760
Sit down with your kids, man

670
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,760
Every time I watch it, I'm like, God's in this, God's in this, God's in this, God's in this, God's in this

671
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,760
You just can't stop, I mean, it's so inspirational, such a great movie

672
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,760
I bought your number one movie of the year, I only got like top five movies, it's on that for the speed

673
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:49,760
So, just real quick, it's so cool, is I like to talk about the youth of God

674
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,760
God is not, he's a billion trillion years young

675
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,760
He's not old, he's eternal, he's always young

676
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:03,760
And you can see this girl pushing her youth and her compassion and mercy to this older monkey

677
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,760
And I see in the movie, you can't, no one can understand him except us, the audience

678
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,760
He goes, tur tur tur tur tur tur

679
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,760
So, nobody knows his sarcasm when he's singing

680
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,760
So, like, you know, she just thinks that she's teaching him how to play the drums

681
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:22,760
And he's like, yeah, good job, you know, and he's just, and then it's the wisdom of God, the older monkey

682
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,760
That God is wisdom and always been around

683
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:30,760
And he's out there just being patient, knowing that we're trying to grow, knowing that we're trying to learn

684
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,760
It's just so awesome, and I end up, also, I just want to say, if you want to check it out

685
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,760
I'm going to do maybe a half an hour session on the whole video

686
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,760
But that's a righteous foundation or holy ground, and Father of Washington, anyone in the podcast

687
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,760
If you hear this, 419902-4899, reach out

688
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,760
We're looking for those who are desperately hungry for encouragement

689
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,760
We find people that don't get encouragement all about anybody

690
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,760
And so, if you need that real truth, real love encouragement, reach out to New Heights

691
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,760
And we'll reach out to you, and that'll be me, I'll be reaching out to you anywhere I can

692
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,760
Here's what I love about these verses

693
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,760
Remember the size of the world before it was you and I, just you and I

694
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,760
So just remember the size of the world, it was just you and I

695
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,760
It was me and God, it was however it was, you know, it was just you and I, we were good

696
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:17,760
But then the horizon became so much more, it got really big, it got really hard, it got really crazy

697
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,760
And I don't make fun of anyone, but I'm broken and busted

698
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,760
So if you've been broken, but not busted, taken advantage of

699
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,760
Not truly discipled, whatever it was, I'm not talking about churches or nothing

700
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,760
But God brought me back and discipled me, and God uses that

701
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,760
I'll say this real quick, if you're in a football field and you were a football player

702
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,760
Even if you could play baseball, you're not going on the baseball field right away

703
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,760
You were trained for football, that's what God does

704
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,760
You take someone who's broken and busted, reach out to you, they're really even broken and busted

705
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,760
Patiently working with them, some people can't even understand it, because they've never been through it

706
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,760
I've been through it, ten years of just the hardest days of my life

707
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,760
So I can understand and relate to a lot of people

708
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,760
So the horizon is so much more now, it's do or die, we can't just give up

709
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,760
It's either we do it, or we die, we can't quit

710
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,760
Then he says, all I can do, this is the best part

711
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,760
And at the end, when that girl is singing that song, he's like, I'm still not going to listen to that

712
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:16,760
All I can do, all we can do church, is when the road bends, is lean into the curve

713
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:21,760
We lean to the cross, we lean to who God is, we don't quit

714
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,760
There's no other way to do it, they're going to lean some other way to just keep going

715
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,760
But they're really not going, because we have to lean to our God

716
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,760
That is absolutely sufficient in all of our needs

717
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,760
And all I can do when the tanks run dry, because we're going to have tanks that go run dry

718
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:40,760
We've got to see what's in reserve, God is absolutely sufficient

719
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,760
Everything that we have, we're not running dry

720
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,760
We have everything in reserve, I guess

721
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,760
And then it says this, all I can do when the plants break down, is stay on my feet

722
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,760
The plants will break down, but we keep on the feet

723
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,760
The gospel of peace, we keep walking in the peace of God

724
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,760
They can't take away what we're doing, they can't take away what we can do

725
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,760
They can't take away what we could do, they can't take it away

726
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,760
Because we stay on our feet with God, we walk that path that the Lord has

727
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,760
We ain't perfect, but it's not our path

728
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,760
Fagress chapter 12 says, a race is marked out for us

729
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,760
We didn't mark it out, he marked it out

730
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,760
It's all marked out for us

731
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,760
He's got the obstacles and stairs, and when you do get this trapped, he's got a way out

732
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,760
He's got a refreshment station, every little thing is marked out for us

733
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,760
The church, everybody, not just you, even though it's a podcast, he's got a race marked out for you

734
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,760
And finally, all I can do at the end of the day

735
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,760
Because the day ends, the day doesn't end for God

736
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,760
Glorious Lord spoke every day in existence, the very day he spoke in

737
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,760
He knows when the day ends, there is no end to the day, to us

738
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:55,760
Because we need a day over, we need to play on, and play on and keep the beat

739
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:02,760
And so what it really means to me is, at the end of the day, follow the drum, follow the guitar

740
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,760
Follow whatever it is that you keep listening to every day that God does

741
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,760
Stay with that beat, don't give up the beat, don't try to change the beat

742
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,760
Don't try to make the beat different

743
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,760
Stay with the rhythm of what the Lord is doing in your life

744
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,760
What the Lord wants to do, what the Lord is doing

745
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,760
Because it's not your rhythm, it's His

746
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,760
Alright, anybody else?

747
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:30,760
I was talking about what you were saying just for a minute

748
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,760
About how you lean into it, you have to lean into God

749
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:39,760
So, the first thing that popped into my head was it's a lot like riding a motorcycle

750
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,760
If you don't lean into the turn, it falls

751
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,760
You go off-road

752
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,760
And that's how we are, we don't lean towards God, we fall

753
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,760
And then we go off-road

754
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,760
And then it makes it so much harder to get back

755
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,760
Why do you pray for us, that is what we pray for

756
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,760
Dear everyone, thank you for this time together

757
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,760
Thank you for everyone that's here, God, thank you that we're able to do this

758
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,760
Because there's many questions we wouldn't be able to

759
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,760
Thank you that you blessed us enough to be here

760
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,760
Thank you for every household that's here, every person that's here, God

761
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,760
And I pray that we're all here to learn more about you and to grow

762
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,760
And to see your power work

763
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:30,760
God, I just pray for us everyone here, bless everything

764
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:49,760
And keep our own safety in just name and destiny

765
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,760
God bless you

766
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:09,760
How long, how long is the love of Christ?

767
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:18,760
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

768
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:26,760
How long, how long is the love of Christ?

769
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:37,760
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

770
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:45,760
If only we can found a side to side with our great man

771
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:53,760
Our love is broken, it's a crime we don't know when

772
00:44:53,760 --> 00:45:01,760
How long, how long is the love of Christ?

773
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:11,760
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

774
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:20,760
If only we can find a side to side with our great man

775
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:27,760
Our love goes to the ocean, it's a million but I don't know

776
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:36,760
How long, how long is the love of Christ?

777
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:44,760
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

778
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:54,760
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

779
00:45:54,760 --> 00:46:04,760
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

780
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:14,760
How deep, how deep the bottom of the rich of the side

781
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:24,760
How deep, how deep the bottom of the rich of the side

782
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:35,760
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

783
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:55,760
The splendor of His lucky, the clothing that you see

784
00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:08,760
All the earth rejoice, all the earth rejoice He wraps Himself in light

785
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:13,760
And what does Chinese do I?

786
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:29,760
He tramples at His voice, tramples at His voice

787
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:44,760
And I got all the sea out of grace, out of grace, because I got

788
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:59,760
All the trees and wings for sale, and all the sand for sale

789
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:09,760
And I got all the land of grace, out of grace, because I got

790
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:23,760
All the spirits of the Bible and the Word

791
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:36,760
Out of grace, out of grace, because I got

792
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:50,760
All the sea out of grace, out of grace, because I got

793
00:48:50,760 --> 00:49:11,760
All the way, out of grace, because I got

794
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:21,760
All the way, out of grace, because I got

795
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:31,760
All the way, out of grace, because I got

796
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:42,760
All the way, out of grace, because I got

797
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:51,760
All the way, out of grace, because I got

798
00:49:51,760 --> 00:50:02,760
All the sea out of grace, out of grace, because I got

799
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:31,760
There is a candle in every soul, some brightly burning, some dark and cold

800
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:44,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

801
00:50:44,760 --> 00:51:02,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

802
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:22,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

803
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:50,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

804
00:51:50,760 --> 00:52:05,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

805
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:27,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

806
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:43,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

807
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:58,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

808
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:13,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

809
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:33,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

810
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:54,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

811
00:53:54,760 --> 00:54:14,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

812
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:40,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

813
00:54:40,760 --> 00:55:06,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

814
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:34,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

815
00:55:34,760 --> 00:56:00,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

816
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:29,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

817
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:49,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

818
00:56:49,760 --> 00:57:18,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

819
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:47,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

820
00:57:47,760 --> 00:58:16,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

821
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:45,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

822
00:58:45,760 --> 00:59:14,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

823
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:43,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

824
00:59:43,760 --> 01:00:12,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

825
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:41,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

826
01:00:41,760 --> 01:01:10,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

827
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:39,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

828
01:01:39,760 --> 01:02:08,760
There is a spirit who brings the fire, ignites the candle and makes us whole

829
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:16,760
There is a story in the background you may know or you may not know.

830
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:17,760
I'm going to summarize it.

831
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:21,760
We're not going to read the text, but you need this background to understand her position.

832
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,760
So, Macaulay has probably been wronged by David.

833
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:27,760
In fact, she's probably been wronged by just about everybody.

834
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,760
She loved David in the beginning.

835
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:34,760
See, David was promised the older daughter of King Saul in the early days.

836
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,760
And then King Saul tricked him.

837
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:42,760
And instead of giving him his older daughter, which would have put him in line for the throne,

838
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:44,760
he gave him his younger daughter.

839
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:49,760
But it says in that text that she loved David.

840
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:54,760
So, Macaulay loved David and became his loving and supporting wife.

841
01:02:54,760 --> 01:03:03,760
Then later, in the same story, like five verses later, Saul demands a payment for the betrothal.

842
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:11,760
And David has to go and kill a bunch of Philistines and brings back their 100 Philistine foreskins for her betrothal.

843
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,760
That's his dowry, which he does do that.

844
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:20,760
And then, you know how things erupted between him and Saul.

845
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:24,760
Saul tried to kill him a couple of times and then he's chased out in the country with some guys

846
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,760
who are pretty much like the dregs of society, but they're very strong.

847
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,760
And they're out in the country.

848
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:33,760
And while that happens, Saul gives Macaulay to another man.

849
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:37,760
Now, they've never literally been married and they've never slept together,

850
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,760
but he gives his daughter, Macaulay, to another man.

851
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:46,760
So then, fast forward, David, you know, three incidents could have killed Saul, didn't, whatever, all that happened.

852
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:48,760
Saul and Jonathan are eventually killed.

853
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:50,760
David comes back and becomes the king.

854
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,760
Then he asks, well, where's my wife that I was promised?

855
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:57,760
Now, by the time that happens, David has already married Abigail.

856
01:03:57,760 --> 01:03:59,760
Now, you remember her, she's in the countryside.

857
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:01,760
David's out there with his men.

858
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:02,760
They're hungry.

859
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,760
And he goes to this man and he says, give me some food and water for my men.

860
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:08,760
And the guy's like, I don't know you from Adam.

861
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:09,760
I'm going to help you.

862
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:10,760
You could be trees and whatever.

863
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,760
And then he goes out and the men start talking and they decide they're going to go back and punish him

864
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:14,760
and take what?

865
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:18,760
Because David is the rightful king ordained by Samuel, right?

866
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,760
But they say, well, they're going to back and punish him.

867
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,760
And Abigail comes out and meets him and says, my husband spoke wrongly.

868
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:25,760
He didn't understand, forgive him, whatever.

869
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:29,760
And so he winds up killing her husband and taking her as wife.

870
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,760
And Abigail becomes his first wife.

871
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:36,760
Then he later goes and he's staying away still and he takes another wife.

872
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,760
So he's got two wives already.

873
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:42,760
And then he goes back and he says, I want Macau, the first wife that I was promised that loved me

874
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:44,760
and I loved her and I want her.

875
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:46,760
So he takes her away from her current husband.

876
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:50,760
Now, as her husband, as she is forced to walk up to Jerusalem to be David's wife,

877
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:55,760
her husband walks behind her miles, like over 10 miles, walks behind her all this distance,

878
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:57,760
weeping the whole time.

879
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:02,760
When they get to Jerusalem, David takes Macau into his house.

880
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:04,760
It was supposed to be his first wife, but it was never technically his wife.

881
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:10,760
And then he marries her and then he sends her husband away, back home.

882
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,760
So she's been wronged in every possible way.

883
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:14,760
She's had it really bad.

884
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,760
So people think that David did this to her, right?

885
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:18,760
Or that Saul did this to her.

886
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:19,760
And I think that's pretty accurate.

887
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:20,760
I think Saul did this to her.

888
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:24,760
Because he first gave her, without her permission to David, and then took her

889
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:28,760
and gave her to another man and she was just trying to legally be obligated to her husband.

890
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:33,760
And then David comes in and by his own right, he had the right to do so, took her back.

891
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,760
So I think Saul's the one who kind of did it to her.

892
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:39,760
But whether Saul did it or David did it, I want you to see God did it.

893
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:41,760
God allowed it.

894
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:43,760
I'm not saying God was punishing her for anything.

895
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:44,760
I don't know that.

896
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,760
Some bad things happened in her life and God allowed those bad things to happen.

897
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:54,760
That's where she is the day she looks out and she sees David leaping and dancing before the Lord.

898
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,760
And she despised him in her heart.

899
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:57,760
That's the full circle.

900
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,760
She loved him when she was first betrothed to him.

901
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:02,760
Now she despises him.

902
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:04,760
Then it says in 17,

903
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,760
They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it.

904
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:13,760
Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the Lord's presence.

905
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:16,760
When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings,

906
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:18,760
he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of armies.

907
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:20,760
That's our God, the God.

908
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:27,760
Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community,

909
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,760
both men and women.

910
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:31,760
Then all the people went home.

911
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:32,760
Verse 20,

912
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:34,760
When David returned home to bless his household,

913
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,760
Saul's daughter, Mikal, came out to meet him.

914
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:40,760
How the king of Israel honored himself today, she says.

915
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,760
You can hear the snarkiness, this sarcasm in her voice.

916
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:45,760
How the king of Israel honored himself today.

917
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:50,760
So he, she accuses David of honoring himself.

918
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:57,760
She said, he exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects,

919
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,760
like a vulgar person would expose himself.

920
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,760
So in other words, you dance barely clad in front of all these people.

921
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,760
All these people saw you dancing.

922
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:12,760
And she accuses him of exposing himself and honoring himself, but not God.

923
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:21,760
21 says, David replied to Mikal, it was before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family

924
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:24,760
to appoint me ruler over the Lord's people Israel.

925
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:28,760
So in other words, I dance not for myself, but before God.

926
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:33,760
I humbled myself before God and let everybody see that I was humbling myself before God is what he says.

927
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:39,760
Then he says, however, by the slave girls you spoke about, I will be honored.

928
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:47,760
In other words, they will recognize she didn't, but they would recognize that he was dancing and making a fool of himself.

929
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:53,760
If you want to say that before the Lord, he was humbling himself before the Lord and honoring God.

930
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:57,760
And the slave girls would recognize that, but Mikal was not recognizing that.

931
01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:58,760
You follow?

932
01:07:58,760 --> 01:07:59,760
Okay.

933
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,760
Then he says this and this is a terrible proclamation for her.

934
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:07,760
And it says, and Saul's daughter Mikal had no child to the day of her death.

935
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:14,760
So at that point in time, as far as we've gotten, that is the end of the house of Saul, essentially, at least the ruling house of Saul.

936
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:15,760
It's done.

937
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:22,760
There will be no more male heirs to take the throne, with one small exception who would never be able to take the throne.

938
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,760
So she, her line is dead.

939
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:34,760
She did not recognize what David was doing when he danced in a linen ephod before the Lord and honored God and then blessed all the people.

940
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:38,760
She didn't recognize what he was doing and her line is dead.

941
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:40,760
Her house is dead.

942
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:41,760
Now chapter seven.

943
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:47,760
When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, so everything's going perfectly.

944
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:54,760
The king said to the prophet, Nathan, look, I am living in a cedar house while the Ark of God sits inside tent curtains.

945
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:59,760
So Nathan told the king, go and do all that is on your mind for the Lord is with you.

946
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:05,760
So Nathan was the prophet and he told the king, go and do everything that you plan to do. It's all going to be honoring to God.

947
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:06,760
Verse four.

948
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,760
But that night, the word of the Lord came to Nathan.

949
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:14,760
Go to my servant David and say, this is what the Lord says.

950
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:17,760
Are you to build me a house to dwell in?

951
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:18,760
Hear that?

952
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:20,760
It's an accusation, if you will.

953
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:22,760
He says, are you to build me a house to dwell in?

954
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:27,760
From the time I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until today, I have not dwelt in a house.

955
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:31,760
Instead, I have been moving around with a tent as my dwelling.

956
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:39,760
In all my journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever spoken a word to one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel,

957
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:42,760
asking, why haven't you built me a house of cedar?

958
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:46,760
In other words, have I, is this a thing I've ever asked you to do?

959
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:48,760
To build me a house?

960
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,760
So now this is what you are to say to my servant David.

961
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,760
This is what the Lord of armies says.

962
01:09:54,760 --> 01:10:00,760
I took you from the pastor, from tending the flock to be a ruler over my people Israel.

963
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:01,760
This is basically what he says.

964
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:06,760
You were nothing, the lowest of the low, and I have made you everything.

965
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:10,760
I have made you king under me over my people.

966
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:16,760
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies from before you.

967
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:21,760
I will make a name for you like that of the greatest on the earth.

968
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:30,760
I will designate a place for my people Israel and I will plant them so that they may live there and not be disturbed again.

969
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:40,760
Evil doers will not continue to oppress them as they have done ever since the day I ordered judges to be over my people Israel.

970
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:43,760
I will give you rest from all your enemies.

971
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:46,760
So in other words, God says, have I ever asked you to do that?

972
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:49,760
Listen, let me tell you what I'm going to do.

973
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:51,760
God just turned it around, didn't he?

974
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:58,760
Instead of making it about what David needed to do for God, God said, now let me tell you what I'm going to do for you.

975
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:03,760
The Lord declares to you, the Lord himself will make a house for you.

976
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:17,760
When your time comes and you rest with your fathers, I will raise you up after you, your descendant, who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom.

977
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,760
He is the one who will build a house for my name.

978
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:24,760
So now he's talking about Solomon and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

979
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:31,760
So in other words, not only will there be Solomon after you will build the house, but on top of that, there's going to be somebody on the Davidic throne forever.

980
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:32,760
Almost done.

981
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:38,760
I will be his father and he will be my son.

982
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:44,760
When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and blows from mortals.

983
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:53,760
But my faithful love will never leave him as it did when I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

984
01:11:53,760 --> 01:12:02,760
Your house and kingdom will endure before me forever and your throne will be established forever.

985
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:07,760
Nathan reported all these words and this entire vision to David.

986
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:09,760
So David got it just exactly as that.

987
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:15,760
Alright, so a few things I want you to see in here and some of it's a little tough.

988
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:19,760
The first thing I want you to see is that David wanted to do something more for God.

989
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:20,760
He wanted to bless God.

990
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:27,760
Out of his humble heart dancing in front of the coming Ark of the Covenant in an ephod, kind of shamefully, if you will.

991
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:32,760
I mean he's a king or he could have been in a crown, he could have had a rod, he could have had a golden cloak on.

992
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:33,760
You know what I'm saying?

993
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:38,760
He could have really been decked out and he could have shown all the people how awesome God is

994
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:41,760
because of how much God had blessed David.

995
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:48,760
But instead he put on the simplest of garments, maybe exposing a little bit too much of himself

996
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:56,760
and danced joyfully and humbly and honored God before the Ark of the Covenant.

997
01:12:56,760 --> 01:12:59,760
We know he had a heart, he wanted to bless God.

998
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,760
So then out of that heart that he wanted to bless God, you can see Nathan do that too.

999
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:06,760
Because Nathan said just do whatever is in your mind to do for God, it's going to be great.

1000
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:08,760
That was Nathan's initial reply.

1001
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:12,760
But then God said, all these years I have lived in a tabernacle.

1002
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:16,760
All these lives I've lived in a tent that went here and there and everywhere.

1003
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:22,760
Have I ever told anyone, any Israelite, any time ever to build me a house made of cedar?

1004
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:23,760
Have I ever done that?

1005
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:27,760
And David's like, well, it would have to say in response to Nathan the prophet comes and says,

1006
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,760
well, no, you never did tell me to do that, right?

1007
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:31,760
I've never done that.

1008
01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:33,760
God says, I've never done that.

1009
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:38,760
David had a heart that wanted to bless God and that led him to want to build God a house.

1010
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,760
I want to do something like that.

1011
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:41,760
Magnanimous, something huge.

1012
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:45,760
Remember, we talked about last week about how we were into grand gestures.

1013
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:47,760
And the week before we're talking about grand.

1014
01:13:47,760 --> 01:13:53,760
We've got this idea that I want to do something that only I can do for God.

1015
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:56,760
Every time you say, I want to do something that only I can do for God,

1016
01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:00,760
you forget that God can do everything for himself.

1017
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:04,760
God does not actually need you to do anything at all for him.

1018
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:10,760
Our actions and things that we do for God, they are not to honor God.

1019
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:11,760
We make it out to be like that.

1020
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:13,760
Like, I'm going to go one step further.

1021
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:14,760
You know, I'm giving tempers.

1022
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:19,760
I'm going to give 11 or I'm going to give 19 or I'm going to show up an extra five hours and work harder.

1023
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:20,760
I'm going to push harder.

1024
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:22,760
I'm going to go until I'm sore and tired and got nothing left.

1025
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:23,760
Right.

1026
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:29,760
And we make it out like we're somehow providing something for God or do we want to bless God in some way?

1027
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:37,760
David knew that God is good and you should as well out of what God has already done in your life,

1028
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:41,760
you should realize that God is good.

1029
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:46,760
But also realize that when people see you and see you do something amazing for God,

1030
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:47,760
we have this conversation.

1031
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:49,760
We should have said it beautifully in the team.

1032
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,760
She said when people come and they see all that we do for God,

1033
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:54,760
they get a little intimidated and they're like, I can't imagine how you do all that.

1034
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:57,760
And they get fearful of doing that to living like that.

1035
01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:07,760
And we do a lot and our church being as small as it is has the biggest footprint of literally any church that I am aware of anywhere.

1036
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,760
I know there are mega churches that will say they've planted 40 churches and so on,

1037
01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:16,760
but no church of this size has ever done what we have done, but we haven't done it.

1038
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:17,760
God did it.

1039
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:19,760
So people look at us and they go, look at you.

1040
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:20,760
What you've done.

1041
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:21,760
I can't be like that.

1042
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:22,760
That's too much.

1043
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:23,760
You're asking me too much.

1044
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:27,760
People see you and when they see you, they don't see God.

1045
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:28,760
They don't.

1046
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:33,760
Do you expect people to look at you and see God because of the mighty works that you are doing?

1047
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:36,760
Even if they see you as like, wow, he's incredible.

1048
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:37,760
How can you do that?

1049
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:38,760
He can do what nobody can do.

1050
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:41,760
There are magicians that can do what nobody can do and they don't go,

1051
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:45,760
oh, there's a magician over there that made the Statue of Liberty disappear on TV and man,

1052
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:47,760
I've got to go praise God about that.

1053
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:51,760
Unless they already have a heart to praise God, they're not looking at them and going,

1054
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:52,760
well, that's incredible.

1055
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:56,760
The people who wrote series and became a J.K. Rowling and everybody knows that name and

1056
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:00,760
all the world, everybody knows J.K. Rowling because they wrote Harry Potter and you're

1057
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,760
like, I didn't know that, but most people in this room probably did.

1058
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:04,760
Right.

1059
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:08,760
People don't look at Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling and go, oh man, God.

1060
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:09,760
Yeah.

1061
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:11,760
I could see definitely God did that.

1062
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:12,760
Right.

1063
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:15,760
Because there have been other people who have written.

1064
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:16,760
Right.

1065
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:19,260
God will see you.

1066
01:16:19,260 --> 01:16:22,560
They will see you.

1067
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:26,560
They will not see God through you, not inherently, not because you do something mighty, not no

1068
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,600
matter what you decide to do for God, it will not happen.

1069
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:34,160
So the question is, how will you lift him up and yet get out of the way so that he can

1070
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:36,360
be seen?

1071
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:41,000
If there is a line, it's God and I'm not somebody out there is going to go, this is heretical

1072
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:42,480
man, he's going to be all kinds of trouble.

1073
01:16:42,480 --> 01:16:45,960
It's God and then it's us and then it's the lost people of the world.

1074
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:47,560
Now, it's not actually like that.

1075
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:48,560
Right.

1076
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,920
There's no one amongst them and all kind of, but if there was a line like that track and

1077
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:55,840
spiritual growth, spiritual positioning, whatever it be, God, Christians, lost people, that

1078
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:56,840
would be the line.

1079
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,280
If there was a line, there isn't, but if there was, that would be the line.

1080
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:03,800
And if you're there and you're holding up God, yes, God, yes, God, and look at the bottom

1081
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,600
of your feet, they can't see God.

1082
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:07,440
They just see the bottom of your feet.

1083
01:17:07,440 --> 01:17:11,040
They see your butt end going, yeah, God's awesome.

1084
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:12,040
Right.

1085
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:17,440
I went to a concert some, some years ago with the guys in our family went to an NF concert.

1086
01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:18,440
It was really cool.

1087
01:17:18,440 --> 01:17:22,720
I watched 80% of the concert on the cell phones of the people in front of me.

1088
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:24,960
Literally, I'm not joking.

1089
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,320
Because everybody has their cell phone up like this video in the concert.

1090
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:29,320
Right.

1091
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,800
And because I couldn't, I couldn't see past the heads of the people in front of me very

1092
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:32,800
well.

1093
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:35,960
And I certainly couldn't see past their uprated cell phone arms.

1094
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:39,880
I could see lights and action stuff, but man, I could see it on the cell phones real good.

1095
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,800
So I'm watching the people in front of me as like 10 cell phones and I could see the scene

1096
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,680
and the, and the smoke and the lights and the artists and everything.

1097
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:48,160
I could see it beautifully.

1098
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:49,160
That's what it is.

1099
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,920
But, but what's happening is you're looking, you're focused on God.

1100
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:55,480
People are looking at you and there's nothing.

1101
01:17:55,480 --> 01:17:56,680
There's no screen.

1102
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,600
There's no, there's no projection.

1103
01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:02,400
There's no way for them to watch what you're watching.

1104
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:06,120
You're not a scrying device into another realm.

1105
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:10,200
So how are you going to serve the Lord and honor him and lift him up and still get out

1106
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,920
of the way for people to be able to see?

1107
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,200
Well, David got it.

1108
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,100
This part of his example is awesome.

1109
01:18:17,100 --> 01:18:19,600
He totally figured it out.

1110
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:24,240
If you want people to see God and see what God has done, you have to humble yourself

1111
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:26,360
before God, before we're through.

1112
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:29,800
I'll give you one practical step of that, but I'm going to, I want to read from the,

1113
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:34,400
the speakings of another man who figured the same thing out and it's John the Baptist.

1114
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:43,360
And so if you go with me to John chapter three, verse 30, if you're following along, John

1115
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:44,840
chapter three.

1116
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:48,280
So John chapter three is a great chapter, by the way, obviously, because, you know, Nicodemus

1117
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:50,600
is in here before we're through and stuff.

1118
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:55,360
There's some really good stuff, but I just want you to dial in on one little set of comments

1119
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:57,080
and I'll go back to verse 27.

1120
01:18:57,080 --> 01:19:00,080
So John, that's John the Baptist responded.

1121
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,640
So this is chapter three in verse 27.

1122
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:07,160
John the Baptist responded, no one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from

1123
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:08,160
heaven.

1124
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:12,920
You yourselves can testify that I said I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead

1125
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:14,560
of him.

1126
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:19,680
He who has the bride is the groom, but the groom's friend who stands by and listens for

1127
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,240
him rejoices greatly at the groom's voice.

1128
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:28,040
In other words, the party, the groom's men around the groom are super happy because they

1129
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:31,080
hear the voice of the groom and what's happening.

1130
01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:35,080
And he says, so this joy of mine is complete.

1131
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:40,920
And verse 30, he must increase, but I must decrease.

1132
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:45,200
The one who comes from above is above all.

1133
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:49,040
The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms.

1134
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:50,400
That's the rest of us.

1135
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:52,880
The one who comes from heaven is above all.

1136
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:58,120
He testifies to what he has seen and heard and yet no one accepts his testimony.

1137
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:02,720
The one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true or the one whom

1138
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:08,280
God sent speaks God's words since he gives the spirit without measure.

1139
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:12,200
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hands.

1140
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:16,000
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son will

1141
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:17,560
not see life.

1142
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:22,360
Instead the wrath of God, that means the violent opposition of God, instead the wrath of God

1143
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,040
remains on him.

1144
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,520
The before and the after break down to this.

1145
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:29,800
He must increase, but I must decrease.

1146
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:35,440
So now I'm going to give you just one single solo worth looking away from your phone if

1147
01:20:35,440 --> 01:20:37,240
you're not following in the Bible.

1148
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:38,600
You're not being distracted right now.

1149
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:41,200
This one may be one single action plan.

1150
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:42,680
I want you to look at yourself.

1151
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:44,400
I want you to look at your personality.

1152
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:48,800
I want to look at your experiences, your passion, whatever we talk about shape, your heart,

1153
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:51,840
your attitude, your personality and your experiences will lead you to what you do for God, which

1154
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:53,040
is spiritual gift and their phone.

1155
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:55,520
You live in your shape and you can live that way for Jesus forever.

1156
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:56,840
And now I want you to look at yourself.

1157
01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,840
I want you to look at your passions, the things you've done in the past, your experiences.

1158
01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:05,000
I want you to look at the things that are there and the things that are not.

1159
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:10,280
Someone in this room is going to say, well, for example, I am not a public speaker.

1160
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:14,240
I know for a fact that I don't get up in front of people and talk that's something I have

1161
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:15,240
never done.

1162
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:16,240
I never will do.

1163
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:17,640
God would never use me to do that.

1164
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:21,280
Or somebody else will say, I am not a person who reaches out to people who are hurting.

1165
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:25,040
I see they're hurting and I can stand by and I can be strong, but I don't have a word of

1166
01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:26,040
encouragement.

1167
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:27,040
I don't have a thing.

1168
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,080
I can't say, hey, can I help you in some way?

1169
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:30,080
Hey, can I pray for you?

1170
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:31,560
Hey, can I ask you what's going to be?

1171
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:34,520
Because I'm afraid they're actually going to tell me or whatever.

1172
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:35,520
Right?

1173
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:40,080
Whatever it is, whatever it is about you, you say, that's not what I do.

1174
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:42,000
That's not who I am.

1175
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:43,720
You want to honor God?

1176
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:44,720
Do that for God.

1177
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:45,720
Now, not if it's sin.

1178
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:46,960
I'm not talking about sin.

1179
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:47,960
Right?

1180
01:21:47,960 --> 01:21:50,080
Nothing that's sinful.

1181
01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:56,280
But by putting the thing that you can do for God, eat fully in your wheelhouse.

1182
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:57,280
This is what I do.

1183
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:58,280
This is what I'm good at.

1184
01:21:58,280 --> 01:21:59,280
This is who I am.

1185
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:02,960
This is the strength that I already know that I have by doing that.

1186
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:04,360
You're not honoring God.

1187
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:07,440
People are always going to look at you and say, hey, he's strong.

1188
01:22:07,440 --> 01:22:08,920
He's doing strongy things.

1189
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:09,920
He's smart.

1190
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:11,520
He's doing smarty things.

1191
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:12,520
She's wealthy.

1192
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:13,880
She's doing wealthy things.

1193
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:15,600
She knows how to dress and look nice.

1194
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:17,080
So she's dressing and looking nice.

1195
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:18,400
People are always going to do that.

1196
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:19,400
And listen to me.

1197
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:23,720
All those things I just listed, all of those people have already existed a thousand times,

1198
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:26,160
a million times, a billion times under the sun.

1199
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:27,640
It's already been done.

1200
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:33,720
You cannot do anything that anyone else does and do it for God and somehow bring him glory.

1201
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:34,800
It's not going to work.

1202
01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:39,840
What you have to do is the one thing that you would not do.

1203
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:40,840
That's what you have to do.

1204
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:44,160
You have to say, people have to look at you like, there's a man.

1205
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:48,360
There's a man who I wouldn't expect him to be doing that.

1206
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:50,400
I know him.

1207
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:54,640
I can't imagine that he would extend himself in that way to do this thing.

1208
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:55,760
Wow.

1209
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:57,360
He's really taken a risk.

1210
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,160
He's putting himself out there.

1211
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:03,680
He's really, she is really doing something that I don't think they're capable of doing.

1212
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:05,240
They're going on their own strength.

1213
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,280
That's when God gets the glory.

1214
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:15,000
Less of you, more of him.

1215
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:19,880
David wanted to bless God and David could build and he could collect resources and he

1216
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:22,120
could, he could command men.

1217
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:23,120
He could put it all together.

1218
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:24,520
I'm going to be honest.

1219
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:28,840
I honestly think that if David had built the temple, he'd have built God a bigger, better

1220
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:30,000
temple than Solomon did.

1221
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:33,520
Not that it wasn't big and great and awesome, but he probably would have gone even more

1222
01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:38,200
because David had enough in him to know that the grandiose displays, if they're going to

1223
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:41,760
mean anything, they have to be truly grand.

1224
01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:45,720
He would have probably marked out a temple size that was a hundred times as big as Solomon

1225
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:48,840
and said, I won't get this built in my lifetime, but I'm going to get started on it.

1226
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:51,400
We're going to build this out over the next five generations and it's going to be half

1227
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:53,520
the size of the city.

1228
01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:56,720
So that no one within a hundred miles can look into the sky and not see the temple of

1229
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:57,720
God.

1230
01:23:57,720 --> 01:23:59,880
This is the kind of heart that David had for God.

1231
01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:04,360
But he realized that that grandiose display at the point at which he was walking in front

1232
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:07,240
of the Ark of the Covenant anyway was not available to him.

1233
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:15,040
So he put on a linen ephod and he danced like a madman to God's honor and glory.

1234
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:18,920
And I'm wondering when people who have become Christians who have realized that God has

1235
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:22,200
saved their soul by grace, you can't earn it by grace.

1236
01:24:22,200 --> 01:24:24,640
Your works of righteousness will always be as frailty rags.

1237
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:29,200
We'll get to doing the things that God wants them to do that they don't think God wants

1238
01:24:29,200 --> 01:24:32,800
them to or they don't think God would use them for or they don't think that would fit

1239
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:36,560
their personality.

1240
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:42,360
I'm not about to call for an underwear dance, but spiritually and emotionally, you're going

1241
01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:48,920
to have to decide to do the things that God would have you to do that are outside you.

1242
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:54,200
And that's when you'll be honoring the Lord the way David wanted to.

1243
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:57,720
And there will be someone who will look at you and say, oh, you're getting an awful lot

1244
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:03,600
of attention by doing that and you will give the glory to God.

1245
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:08,400
But there will be someone who knows the Lord, who knows what God wanted you to do, who will

1246
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:12,720
look at you and it'll say, yeah, I see what you're actually doing.

1247
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,080
You're humbling yourself before God.

1248
01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:19,240
You're honoring God outside your own capabilities, outside your own strength to do what it is

1249
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:20,240
that God would have you.

1250
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:25,360
You're glorifying God by humbling you.

1251
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:29,320
One thing in the text I want you to see in there is that Mikhail was the end of Saul's

1252
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:30,320
line.

1253
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:32,880
She was the end of the story for Saul, really.

1254
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:37,720
Some say she was wrong by David or trapped in a horrible relationship or she was unloved

1255
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:41,000
or she was ripped away from the man who truly loved her.

1256
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:47,480
That she was just from the wrong family and had it, you know, bad the whole time.

1257
01:25:47,480 --> 01:25:52,320
She's the one who lowered David in a basket out the wall to escape Saul.

1258
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:56,600
But later when David gave credit for escaping Saul, you know who he gave it to?

1259
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:57,600
Jonathan.

1260
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:59,240
Not to call it all.

1261
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:00,240
She wasn't mentioned.

1262
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:02,200
But, you know, that was their society.

1263
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:06,800
Women didn't really have a lot of rights and they didn't get mentioned a lot.

1264
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:08,480
But that's not Christian or godly society.

1265
01:26:08,480 --> 01:26:13,320
Of course, David wasn't a Christian, but he was a follower of the Lord.

1266
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:17,240
The bottom line is her house ends here.

1267
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:23,320
It ends at the moment that she does not recognize that David is humbling himself before God.

1268
01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:29,120
When she accuses those who are serving God in humbling themselves before God of actually

1269
01:26:29,120 --> 01:26:30,320
looking for attention themselves.

1270
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:36,600
You know how many times, I mean, you know me, I'm not really, you know, I was spoken

1271
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:37,600
about me or anything like that.

1272
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:40,840
I do use some examples from my life and I try to be very transparent.

1273
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:44,520
I've repented a number of times in the pulpit and things like that.

1274
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:49,880
But so often I'm treated or talked to like I am an enemy.

1275
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:54,600
Like my opinions about what Scripture says are flawed when I literally am just taking

1276
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:56,480
it the way it's written.

1277
01:26:56,480 --> 01:26:57,920
I'm attacked from my political views.

1278
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:01,200
All I have to do is say one thing that I don't agree with something or I agree with something

1279
01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:09,120
and I will be attacked from all kinds of people that I didn't even know existed.

1280
01:27:09,120 --> 01:27:11,120
There are a lot of people who just don't get it.

1281
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:14,840
Now in this church, there are people who recognize I'm just trying to do my best serving the

1282
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:18,520
Lord and they will stand up for me and they will stand with me and they will try to do

1283
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:20,120
what it is that God would have them to do.

1284
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:23,120
And that's what we're called to be.

1285
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:28,560
The reality is that God can take away all of your positive outcomes, all of your hopes

1286
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:33,640
and dreams or what you think or the next generation or where you want to be one year from now,

1287
01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:37,600
five years from now, 10, 20, God can take all of that away and you say, but that's not nice.

1288
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:38,680
No, it's not nice.

1289
01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:39,760
It's rap.

1290
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:42,800
It's violent opposition.

1291
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:46,880
Uso reached out to steady the Ark of the Covenant because there was a little shake and he thought

1292
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:53,440
it might fall off the brand new cart when the ox stumbled and God killed him instantly.

1293
01:27:53,440 --> 01:27:58,600
And like it says in the text that David got mad when he heard that Uso had been killed.

1294
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:04,080
He was angry with God, but David didn't know Uso's heart and he submitted that to God.

1295
01:28:04,080 --> 01:28:07,960
He named that place the place at which God destroyed Uso and then he sent the Ark up

1296
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:11,840
into Obed Eoms house and didn't bring it up to Jerusalem.

1297
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:14,520
He said, how can I bring that up to me?

1298
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:17,040
God is holy.

1299
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:18,040
Listen to me.

1300
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:22,080
If you dance on a linen E Fod before the Lord in a prideful way, he's likely to destroy

1301
01:28:22,080 --> 01:28:26,120
you or your house, your family or your finances.

1302
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:27,420
This is no joke.

1303
01:28:27,420 --> 01:28:31,320
The God of heaven can eliminate your positive outcomes.

1304
01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:35,000
And in many cases already had we were once objects of wrath.

1305
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:38,800
And if we are now followers of Jesus Christ, but working in our own strength, unwilling

1306
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:42,240
to work in God's strength, unwilling to submit to the Lord, unwilling to follow the Lord,

1307
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:46,520
the way he said, then we are probably facing that wrath despite the fact.

1308
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:47,520
What did he say?

1309
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:48,520
He said, I'll love him.

1310
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:52,240
I'll never stop loving him, but I'll beat him with the rods of men when he is disobedient.

1311
01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:55,280
God is not going to walk away from us.

1312
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:59,840
He's going to hang with us to the very end, but he is going to chastise or discipline

1313
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:01,480
us because he loves us.

1314
01:29:01,480 --> 01:29:03,960
He's not going to let us keep going our own way.

1315
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:06,160
You've got to go God's way.

1316
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:07,160
You have to.

1317
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:10,560
The two sons of Eli were destroyed.

1318
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:15,200
Eli himself fell off a chair and broke his neck when the Ark of the Covenant was lost

1319
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:16,360
to the Philistines.

1320
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:18,360
He goes back.

1321
01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:24,480
Look at every time the judge fell away, the people went into wickedness and then God sent

1322
01:29:24,480 --> 01:29:28,360
the nearby nation to come and attack God's people.

1323
01:29:28,360 --> 01:29:33,920
And men died and women died and children were killed because the people were not honoring

1324
01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:34,920
God with their choices.

1325
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:37,920
They were worshiping false gods.

1326
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:39,720
God chose Jacob over Esau.

1327
01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:40,800
Jacob I loved Esau.

1328
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:44,160
I hated the God of heaven.

1329
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:48,000
Doesn't mean he didn't love him as a human being, but he despised them in comparison

1330
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:49,000
to the people of promise.

1331
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:53,240
It would be God's people will eventually foster and begin the church which started us.

1332
01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:56,600
We all got saved because of Jacob, not because of Esau.

1333
01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:58,240
Esau found a nation called Edom.

1334
01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:00,560
You can go there now in the mountains.

1335
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:02,600
They carved huge stone fortresses.

1336
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:03,600
Look it up online.

1337
01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:04,600
It's awesome.

1338
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:07,680
Pictures of huge stone fortresses carved in the mountains.

1339
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:10,240
And you know where the people are?

1340
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:12,480
Nobody else knows either.

1341
01:30:12,480 --> 01:30:16,000
God said eventually I will wipe that nation in the face of the earth and no one will remember

1342
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:18,880
what happened to it and guess what happened to Edom.

1343
01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:21,080
All the people disappeared and nobody knows what happened.

1344
01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:24,880
They figured a nation came in and literally carried them all into captivity or whatever

1345
01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:26,320
and it was never recorded in history.

1346
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:28,400
But God said he would wipe them out and he did.

1347
01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:34,320
God can eliminate your positive outcomes.

1348
01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:39,480
You can literally cease to exist in the kingdom of God unless you figure out that there is

1349
01:30:39,480 --> 01:30:45,400
a way to honor God and it has to do with you getting outside your personal preferences,

1350
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:49,720
outside what you think is right, outside your judgment of God and God's people and living

1351
01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:50,720
there.

1352
01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:52,480
Okay, God, I get it.

1353
01:30:52,480 --> 01:30:57,320
You're big, you're strong, you saved me, you cleanse my soul, you inhabited me.

1354
01:30:57,320 --> 01:30:59,200
Because of that, I have an attorney to have with you.

1355
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:00,320
Now I'm done.

1356
01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:01,920
I'm not living for me anymore.

1357
01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:04,680
I'm living for the one who died for me.

1358
01:31:04,680 --> 01:31:06,680
Sanctuary is five.

1359
01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:08,560
Me call was the end of Saul's line.

1360
01:31:08,560 --> 01:31:12,120
So we got the end of a house.

1361
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:15,320
But then look at what David was promised.

1362
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:22,440
The thought of what God had promised to David easily overcomes David's desires to build

1363
01:31:22,440 --> 01:31:24,440
God a house.

1364
01:31:24,440 --> 01:31:26,440
David said, I'm gonna build you a house.

1365
01:31:26,440 --> 01:31:29,080
God said, have I ever asked anybody to build me a house?

1366
01:31:29,080 --> 01:31:30,680
David said, I'm gonna build you a house.

1367
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:36,880
God said, have I ever asked anybody to build me a house?

1368
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:39,120
Listen to what I've done for you.

1369
01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:41,120
Listen to what I'm doing for you.

1370
01:31:41,120 --> 01:31:44,160
Listen to what I'm going to do for you.

1371
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:47,880
And from that moment on, David let's it go.

1372
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:51,760
He doesn't say I'm gonna build a house anyway, even though God doesn't want me to do that.

1373
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:56,840
He doesn't say I'm gonna keep being the kind of guy who can work with the military and

1374
01:31:56,840 --> 01:32:00,120
work with the soldiers and work with the temple and work with the money and all that.

1375
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:01,400
That's how I'm gonna honor God.

1376
01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:04,400
No, he poured out his heart before God.

1377
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:06,840
And we see that all throughout the Psalms.

1378
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:10,880
David decided that the proper response to what God had done is doing and will do is

1379
01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:13,000
praise.

1380
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:19,880
David's desires to do one more thing for God were easily overcome by God's replacement

1381
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:28,720
plan for him, which was to praise him, to live humbly before the Lord and put God first.

1382
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:33,480
And he danced and eliminated the ephod and he wrote Psalm after Psalm after Psalm and

1383
01:32:33,480 --> 01:32:37,280
he was in the temple and they praised God.

1384
01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:39,280
And that's what you and I are called to do.

1385
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:41,600
The next time God does something good for you, this is gonna happen.

1386
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,600
Okay, you're gonna get checked in the mail.

1387
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:45,600
Oh man, I was expecting this money.

1388
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:46,600
This is awesome.

1389
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:47,600
I'm gonna give God some of that, man.

1390
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:52,440
I'm gonna make sure, I'm gonna thank God for that money by giving him some.

1391
01:32:52,440 --> 01:32:56,400
The moment and time you make that decision is already too late.

1392
01:32:56,400 --> 01:32:58,800
Your heart is in the wrong place.

1393
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:00,440
You've got it all wrong.

1394
01:33:00,440 --> 01:33:02,520
Yes, God may have sent you that check.

1395
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:04,000
Yes, God is blessing you.

1396
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:05,240
He's blessing you because of his character.

1397
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,600
It's not a question about what are you now gonna do with those blessings.

1398
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:09,000
We say that all the time, don't we?

1399
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:10,000
God has blessed me.

1400
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:11,080
Now what am I gonna do with those blessings?

1401
01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:13,880
God has literally already gave you the kingdom.

1402
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:15,320
You are heir and joint heir with Christ.

1403
01:33:15,320 --> 01:33:20,280
That means every blade of grass on that lawn outside eventually is owned by us.

1404
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:25,000
Every star in the sky whose name we cannot name eventually owned by us.

1405
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:29,600
Free access to the throne room of God to spend time with our Father.

1406
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:34,440
Free access to come and go from the new heaven to the new earth to ride a horse in one moment

1407
01:33:34,440 --> 01:33:37,440
and shoot across the stars in the next.

1408
01:33:37,440 --> 01:33:38,440
Free access.

1409
01:33:38,440 --> 01:33:41,800
And we're gonna thank God for checking the mail.

1410
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:46,320
We're gonna give him a little more money because he gave us a check in the mail.

1411
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:51,800
You should be, we should be living a heart of gratitude every day all the time.

1412
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:57,200
And there should be no question if God sends us a blessing that he's gonna get back much

1413
01:33:57,200 --> 01:34:04,920
of it because we're already giving back much of everything.

1414
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:11,360
When you get in view that God, what God will do, how God has changed you past, present,

1415
01:34:11,360 --> 01:34:17,520
and future, what God is building for you, your priorities will change from building

1416
01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:24,200
something for God to praising the Lord with your every breath, action, and step.

1417
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:30,320
You won't be able to spew venom because your mouth will be too busy spewing praise.

1418
01:34:30,320 --> 01:34:34,880
You won't be able to do something more for God because your schedule will be so busy

1419
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:39,120
with the things that you are doing to give him praise and glory that there will be no

1420
01:34:39,120 --> 01:34:43,960
time left over to go, oh, I better give him something more.

1421
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:47,440
Like the little boy who had no money to put in the offering plate and walked up to the

1422
01:34:47,440 --> 01:34:51,080
front of the sanctuary and eventually all the money went into one plate and the other

1423
01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:54,720
plate went on the ground and he stepped and stood in the plate and said, I got no money,

1424
01:34:54,720 --> 01:34:56,480
but I give him me.

1425
01:34:56,480 --> 01:34:57,480
That'll be you.

1426
01:34:57,480 --> 01:35:00,840
And you'll stop looking at the balance of your checking account thinking, I have enough

1427
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:03,400
money to pay my bills or I don't have enough money to pay my bills.

1428
01:35:03,400 --> 01:35:08,200
You have a God that will pay your bills if you will put the kingdom of God first.

1429
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:11,520
He said, Seek the first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you.

1430
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:13,160
So you will get out of bed in the morning.

1431
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:16,920
You will say, OK, Lord, how do I praise you actively with this day?

1432
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:21,000
What would make this day the most about me getting out of the way and lifting you up

1433
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:22,960
so everybody can see?

1434
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:27,800
What would make this day about that?

1435
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:29,720
But that's not what people are doing.

1436
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:33,320
Not only people out in the world lost people that don't know Jesus, but people in the church

1437
01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:34,320
too.

1438
01:35:34,320 --> 01:35:40,480
When we get a view of what God will do, you can't buy your ticket to heaven.

1439
01:35:40,480 --> 01:35:45,800
Your retirement is not going to buy one tiny little stone on your driveway in heaven.

1440
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,600
It's not going to do it.

1441
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:53,720
Winning a million people to Jesus would not give you the right to walk into the throne

1442
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:56,760
room of God when you die.

1443
01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:59,000
Nothing would do that.

1444
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:01,320
Nothing you can do will ever entreat God.

1445
01:36:01,320 --> 01:36:04,480
Now, I understand it says give and whatever measure by which you give will be given back

1446
01:36:04,480 --> 01:36:05,480
to you.

1447
01:36:05,480 --> 01:36:06,480
But why do you think that is?

1448
01:36:06,480 --> 01:36:09,760
Because when you give, your heart is already in the right place.

1449
01:36:09,760 --> 01:36:10,760
Right?

1450
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,360
You're already doing this to praise God and do it because I love God.

1451
01:36:13,360 --> 01:36:16,120
God has already done so much more for me than I could ever do for him.

1452
01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:20,160
I'm going to stop trying to do for him to pay back what he's done for me and start paying

1453
01:36:20,160 --> 01:36:26,600
it forward and giving it all to God all the time as much as I possibly can.

1454
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:31,160
When you get in view that which God will do, it will change your priorities from a priority

1455
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:35,720
of building something for God to a priority of praising God with your voice, with your

1456
01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:40,760
actions, with your strength, with your breath, for a priority of praising God.

1457
01:36:40,760 --> 01:36:43,160
Obedience is praise when you think about it correctly.

1458
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:44,840
I'm going to follow the Ten Commandments.

1459
01:36:44,840 --> 01:36:46,400
I'm going to stop lying.

1460
01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:50,560
I was listening to a woman who did a little devotional and she said she's had a real

1461
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:55,120
problem with speeding and she would drive 10, 50 mile over speed limit everywhere she

1462
01:36:55,120 --> 01:36:56,120
went.

1463
01:36:56,120 --> 01:37:00,160
So then she hurts the pastor preach on it sometime and he said, if you just govern your

1464
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:04,680
foot and think of it as praise, think of it as your praising God when you set the speed

1465
01:37:04,680 --> 01:37:08,400
at or below the speed limit or within four miles or wherever you set it, set the speed

1466
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:11,760
there and you don't drive that 50 mile over and you think of every moment that you're

1467
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:15,760
choosing not to drive 50 mile over speed limit, you think of every moment that you're doing

1468
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:17,920
that as praising God.

1469
01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:19,720
And she said from that moment on she never sped.

1470
01:37:19,720 --> 01:37:22,520
She didn't have a problem because she just would put her foot on the pedal and she got

1471
01:37:22,520 --> 01:37:23,520
up to about 65.

1472
01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:25,040
She'd say praise Jesus.

1473
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:26,040
I'm going 65.

1474
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:28,800
And from that moment on she was able to do it and it's you too.

1475
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:30,120
It's like getting out of bed in the morning.

1476
01:37:30,120 --> 01:37:31,360
It's about going to bed at night.

1477
01:37:31,360 --> 01:37:32,360
It's about working out.

1478
01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:33,480
It's about eating right.

1479
01:37:33,480 --> 01:37:34,720
It's about encouraging others.

1480
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:37,560
It's about stepping up and serving all the things.

1481
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:41,520
If you would think of everything you're doing as praising God, you will soon find some things

1482
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,800
that you are doing that cannot be thought of as praising God.

1483
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:49,480
Too many calories, too much caffeine, a little bit of alcohol, a little bit of pornography

1484
01:37:49,480 --> 01:37:54,560
on the side or just some soft pornography girls and bikinis, you know, whatever guys,

1485
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:59,560
muscle guys and string bikinis or whatever the work, whatever your thing is, all of that.

1486
01:37:59,560 --> 01:38:01,320
All of that can be done as praising God.

1487
01:38:01,320 --> 01:38:04,920
And if your heart is in the right place like David, then it's less me, more God.

1488
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:08,320
And when you do that, you'll be like, Hey, I can't do this praising God.

1489
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:11,040
So then you start to cut it out naturally because you're going to replace it with that

1490
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:12,720
which will praise God.

1491
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:17,000
But maybe you don't realize what God has done for you or what God is doing for you or what

1492
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:19,200
God is eventually going to do for you.

1493
01:38:19,200 --> 01:38:23,440
Maybe that's why your actions are not praising him.

1494
01:38:23,440 --> 01:38:28,400
I submit to you that if that's true, you need to repent and turn to the Lord today and make

1495
01:38:28,400 --> 01:38:29,400
your actions praise him.

1496
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:32,960
The next time you say can't, I want you to think of this and our family, at least she

1497
01:38:32,960 --> 01:38:35,120
was growing up, but we just started to do this with Ariana a little bit.

1498
01:38:35,120 --> 01:38:36,440
She would say can't all the time.

1499
01:38:36,440 --> 01:38:38,080
I can't buckle my seat belt, can't get my door shut.

1500
01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:39,080
I can't do this.

1501
01:38:39,080 --> 01:38:40,080
I can't have my socks on.

1502
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:41,080
Can't, can't, can't.

1503
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:44,080
And we used to say what?

1504
01:38:44,080 --> 01:38:46,200
There is no can't.

1505
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:47,200
God tells you to do something.

1506
01:38:47,200 --> 01:38:48,200
There is no can't.

1507
01:38:48,200 --> 01:38:49,680
You say, but if I go out there, I may wind up dead.

1508
01:38:49,680 --> 01:38:51,200
Okay, fine.

1509
01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:52,600
There is no can't.

1510
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,080
When you know what it is that the Lord would have you do, there is no can't.

1511
01:38:55,080 --> 01:38:56,680
You say, but I'm addicted to caffeine.

1512
01:38:56,680 --> 01:39:00,320
I have to drink all that caffeine, which I know is too much.

1513
01:39:00,320 --> 01:39:02,320
There's an amount of caffeine in the trees and there's an amount that's not.

1514
01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:03,440
I have to do that.

1515
01:39:03,440 --> 01:39:05,880
Or I'm addicted to watching TV.

1516
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:11,640
I have to stream and see IS 40,000 episodes of the three to ten different varieties.

1517
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:14,080
I have to sit in front of the TV every night for two to three hours.

1518
01:39:14,080 --> 01:39:15,080
I have to do that.

1519
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:16,080
I'm addicted to it.

1520
01:39:16,080 --> 01:39:17,880
It's who God made me to be.

1521
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:22,840
Get outside who God made you to be and make a choice to honor the Lord in that moment

1522
01:39:22,840 --> 01:39:28,560
and turn the TV off and read your Bible and pray, sing praise songs until you fall asleep.

1523
01:39:28,560 --> 01:39:32,640
The next time you feel like you have to do something that does not honor God, read your

1524
01:39:32,640 --> 01:39:36,480
Bible and pray and sing praise time songs until you fall asleep.

1525
01:39:36,480 --> 01:39:42,520
And then get up the next day, ask yourself today, how am I going to live?

1526
01:39:42,520 --> 01:39:45,920
Or maybe you don't understand what it is that God has already done, what he's doing

1527
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:48,520
or what he's going to do for you.

1528
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:53,080
The point now is to be a people of praise, obedience and gratitude.

1529
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:57,400
Jesus said to the woman as well or to the disciples there and all that were gathered.

1530
01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:02,040
He said that God is looking for worshipers in spirit and in truth.

1531
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:04,400
And when you are watching things, you're not supposed to be watching.

1532
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:05,840
When you're doing things, you're not supposed to be doing.

1533
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:07,360
When you're eating things, you're not supposed to be eating.

1534
01:40:07,360 --> 01:40:10,600
When you're failing to take care of yourself in the way that will allow you to be God's

1535
01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:13,240
servant for another 50 to 80 to 100 years on the earth.

1536
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:16,720
When you're failing to do those things is because you don't have an understanding of

1537
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:21,880
your relationship with God, which is supposed to be this is my action of praise.

1538
01:40:21,880 --> 01:40:25,600
Talking with the brother say, I need to get this done.

1539
01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:27,720
He says, I can't do that.

1540
01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:29,040
I call a sister on the phone.

1541
01:40:29,040 --> 01:40:30,040
I said, I need to get this done.

1542
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:32,040
She said, I'll make it happen.

1543
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:33,040
Another day I call sister on the phone.

1544
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:34,120
She says, I can't do that.

1545
01:40:34,120 --> 01:40:35,120
I'm busy doing this.

1546
01:40:35,120 --> 01:40:36,720
It's a work for God.

1547
01:40:36,720 --> 01:40:38,200
I know, but I'm busy.

1548
01:40:38,200 --> 01:40:39,200
Okay.

1549
01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:40,200
Call another one.

1550
01:40:40,200 --> 01:40:41,200
Yep.

1551
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:42,200
I'll do it right now.

1552
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:43,200
I was supposed to do this, this and this.

1553
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:44,200
I have all these things I got to do, but I see that's for God.

1554
01:40:44,200 --> 01:40:45,840
I'm going to do that right now.

1555
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:49,120
Are you willing to do that?

1556
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:50,240
You want to bless God.

1557
01:40:50,240 --> 01:40:53,400
If you know these things, you want to bless God.

1558
01:40:53,400 --> 01:40:58,000
How will you lift him up and humbly get out of the way?

1559
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:02,920
As I said before, one way that works, do that thing you never would do.

1560
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,600
Not something that sin, but it's different.

1561
01:41:05,600 --> 01:41:07,520
Something that in your personality, you would not give up.

1562
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:09,400
You say, I can't.

1563
01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:11,760
I can't do it.

1564
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:15,200
When God told me I was not allowed to have pop after 40 days and I haven't pop.

1565
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:19,600
I'm like, but God, but come on, I want the pop.

1566
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:23,480
And I'm not saying you have to give a pop, by the way.

1567
01:41:23,480 --> 01:41:27,040
You find your way of doing something for God that you would not normally do.

1568
01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:32,600
You're like, I can't do this unless God does it through me and then do that and then tell

1569
01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:36,080
everybody about it because God did it.

1570
01:41:36,080 --> 01:41:39,880
Tell them what you've seen and what you've heard.

1571
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:43,840
Matthew 514, the same concept.

1572
01:41:43,840 --> 01:41:45,280
We're very near the end.

1573
01:41:45,280 --> 01:41:47,280
One reference left.

1574
01:41:47,280 --> 01:41:49,200
Matthew 514.

1575
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:51,760
You probably already kind of like that rings a bell.

1576
01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:54,680
It's about something I know, but I want the verses before and after it.

1577
01:41:54,680 --> 01:42:00,760
So I'm going to flip there toward the beginning of the Sermon of the Mount.

1578
01:42:00,760 --> 01:42:04,480
Jesus says this beginning of verse 13, you are the salt of the earth, but if the salt

1579
01:42:04,480 --> 01:42:06,840
should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?

1580
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:10,040
I want to ask you as a Christian, what do you taste like?

1581
01:42:10,040 --> 01:42:12,120
And that's being overly simple.

1582
01:42:12,120 --> 01:42:15,800
When people encounter you, do they encounter somebody who is actively at that moment praising

1583
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:16,800
God?

1584
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:21,280
Like when you go out to eat, like do you bow your head and pray when you go out to eat?

1585
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:26,000
And if you do, do you do it silently or do it loudly?

1586
01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:29,120
Not rudely, but loud enough that somebody at least a couple of tables away would hear.

1587
01:42:29,120 --> 01:42:31,680
Do you offer to pray with your server if you go out to eat?

1588
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:33,080
Some of us are like, I don't ever go out to eat.

1589
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:35,600
But when you're with us, when you have somebody over to your house, so you go over to their

1590
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:37,120
house and you don't have anybody over their house.

1591
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:38,680
So why don't you have anybody?

1592
01:42:38,680 --> 01:42:39,680
That's just not what I do.

1593
01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:44,200
Okay, well there's one thing you can put on your list.

1594
01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:46,360
You could go out to eat to praise God.

1595
01:42:46,360 --> 01:42:48,800
You could call somebody over to your house to praise God.

1596
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:51,040
You could go to somebody's house to praise God.

1597
01:42:51,040 --> 01:42:53,200
You could do those things to praise God.

1598
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:57,680
And then when people encounter you, they will encounter somebody praising God.

1599
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:03,960
Instead of talking about sports or whatever, they will encounter somebody praising God.

1600
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:07,160
You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be

1601
01:43:07,160 --> 01:43:08,160
made salty?

1602
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:11,680
It's no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people's foot.

1603
01:43:11,680 --> 01:43:13,240
You are the light of the world.

1604
01:43:13,240 --> 01:43:16,000
A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.

1605
01:43:16,000 --> 01:43:19,520
No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lamp stand it gives light

1606
01:43:19,520 --> 01:43:21,800
for all who are in the house.

1607
01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:27,160
In the same way, let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works

1608
01:43:27,160 --> 01:43:29,360
and give glory to your Father in heaven.

1609
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:31,280
You are the light of the world.

1610
01:43:31,280 --> 01:43:32,280
You know why?

1611
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:34,040
Because you know what God has done for you.

1612
01:43:34,040 --> 01:43:35,800
You know what God is doing for you.

1613
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:38,160
And you know what God will eventually do for you.

1614
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:43,760
And you are the light of the world to show that, to teach that, to praise God for that,

1615
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:45,880
to dance in a linen e-...

1616
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:49,760
Listen, if you can't call people on the phone, text people show up at their house, you can't

1617
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:54,320
send gifts, give more, serve more, do more, mark more hours out in your day, then get

1618
01:43:54,320 --> 01:43:57,800
your stinking underwear and get down front and start dancing.

1619
01:43:57,800 --> 01:44:02,920
Because somebody somewhere better be able to figure out that you're shutting you down

1620
01:44:02,920 --> 01:44:10,040
and turning God on in your life or otherwise you're not a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.

1621
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:12,920
If nobody can see a light and you know, one can see the...

1622
01:44:12,920 --> 01:44:15,760
So you're serving, you're like, I'm serving, but I don't ever tell anybody about Jesus.

1623
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:16,760
I'm serving.

1624
01:44:16,760 --> 01:44:17,760
Right?

1625
01:44:17,760 --> 01:44:18,760
I'm strong.

1626
01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:19,760
I'm doing strong things.

1627
01:44:19,760 --> 01:44:20,760
I'm smart.

1628
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:21,760
I'm doing smart things.

1629
01:44:21,760 --> 01:44:22,760
I'm wealthy.

1630
01:44:22,760 --> 01:44:23,760
I'm doing wealthy things.

1631
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:24,760
I'm tricky.

1632
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:25,760
I'm doing tricky things.

1633
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:27,440
I know how to dress myself.

1634
01:44:27,440 --> 01:44:28,440
I'm dressing.

1635
01:44:28,440 --> 01:44:29,440
Okay?

1636
01:44:29,440 --> 01:44:33,080
How on earth does that show anybody that you're a follower of Jesus?

1637
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:35,320
And the answer is, it doesn't.

1638
01:44:35,320 --> 01:44:42,080
If you just be who you are, who God made you to be, that will not show anybody something

1639
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:43,080
different.

1640
01:44:43,080 --> 01:44:47,080
But if you've been born again, made new, got a spiritual gift, got something you could

1641
01:44:47,080 --> 01:44:53,240
do you couldn't do before, you do that, you start showing up when nobody expects you to

1642
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:59,320
show up or in ways that nobody expects you to show up, then they'll go, what is going

1643
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:02,040
on with that person?

1644
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:04,200
We are not of this world.

1645
01:45:04,200 --> 01:45:06,800
People should be looking at us going, what is going on with that person?

1646
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:11,840
Why is it every single time I run into him, he's singing a praise hymn?

1647
01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:15,560
Or why does he always say that line about James chapter 1?

1648
01:45:15,560 --> 01:45:21,080
Or why does he always offer to pray for me every time I see him?

1649
01:45:21,080 --> 01:45:23,440
People should be wondering, because you're the light of the world.

1650
01:45:23,440 --> 01:45:28,800
You know what God did for you, is doing for you, and will do for you.

1651
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:32,760
God wrote to the church in Ephesus essentially that this is the people that we're supposed

1652
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:33,760
to be.

1653
01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:36,320
Last reference of the day, Ephesians.

1654
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:43,080
I'm going to use a verse from chapter 1 and then verses from chapter 4.

1655
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:45,440
Once I find it.

1656
01:45:45,440 --> 01:45:49,400
Ephesians is a great book about the church.

1657
01:45:49,400 --> 01:45:54,160
In fact, it's largely about the church.

1658
01:45:54,160 --> 01:46:01,960
Verse 1, 18 and 19 says this, I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened.

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So you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance

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in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe

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according to the mighty working of his strength.

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That was written to the church.

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Look at what he prayed for them.

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I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, that you can wake up and see what's going

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on.

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What is the hope of his calling, how big, how mighty, how powerful, how effective is the

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01:46:27,560 --> 01:46:28,880
hope of his calling?

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What is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints?

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God's going to give you more than you could earn in your lifetime and you're going to

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give it to you for an eternity without end.

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And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power, the power of God for crying out

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loud.

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We need to see that towards us who believe according to the mighty working of his strength.

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We can figure this out.

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01:46:53,360 --> 01:46:57,280
It's pretty obvious that what you experience when you got saved, you've got to be saying

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something about it.

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You've got to let it affect who you are.

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Then in seven four, 17 through 24.

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Therefore I say this and testify in the Lord, you should no longer live as the Gentiles

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live in the futility of their thoughts.

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Hang on.

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We shouldn't live like the world lives translating it to modern vernacular.

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We shouldn't live like the world lives.

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And if you tell it, we shouldn't be thinking like they think.

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They are darkened in their understanding excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance

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that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

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They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity.

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That means various sexual things for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for

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more and more.

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But that is not how you came to know Christ, assuming you heard about him and were taught

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by him as the truth is in Jesus to take off your former way of life, the old self that

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01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:59,320
is corrupted by deceitful desires to be renewed in the spirit of your minds and to put on

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the new self, the one created according to God's likeness and righteousness and purity

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of truth.

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And then he gets into and I won't read it.

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He says therefore put away lying, speak the truth and a variety of other things that we

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01:48:14,240 --> 01:48:17,760
should do that are good works that we tell people they should do out of obedience to

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the Lord.

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Recognize what God has already done and what he has promised to do for you and respond

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01:48:24,360 --> 01:48:26,800
accordingly.

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Turn your attention to praising him every moment of every day.

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He has now chosen us as his temple, not a house made of cedar or attempt made of tarps or

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01:48:36,160 --> 01:48:37,680
carpets.

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We have become his light and in time our crazy actions, our self sacrifice and self-denial

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would become obvious to all as his work in us.

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What he is calling you to give up, what he is calling, what he is calling you to put

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01:48:51,080 --> 01:48:56,800
in what he is calling you to be.

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That's easy.

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He's calling you to be his to walk in him.

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He's got to be in your life at every moment of the day that you're awake and have any

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01:49:07,440 --> 01:49:13,160
control over it and probably then it'll be in your dreams to he's calling you to be his

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to walk in him and to make this same relationship available to a lost and dying world.

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When it's like that you'll be able to stop reading your Bibles going and it says thou

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shalt not lie, well I better stop flying because instead you'll be praising God through speaking

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the truth.

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You won't have to read that where it says, I shall have no other gods before me, no idols,

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no worship anyone or anything else and declare its value or their value because you'll be

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busy declaring God's value.

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You'll be looking every day at every moment, how do I praise the Lord with this, what I'm

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going through.

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Mikal got the raw end of the deal.

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I submit to you her story would have ended completely differently if she had just recognized

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how much honor God deserves and how much a great man, the greater the man, the more he

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01:50:20,760 --> 01:50:24,880
should humble himself before God.

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If she had just figured that out this story would have ended differently.

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I'm asking you, I want to for me, I want to figure it out.

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I want to live my life every moment of every day in praise to the living God who has done

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so much already, who is doing so much in me and who is doing way more in the future than

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I can ever understand.

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By the time you have to be corrected and somebody to minus you you already missed a boat, you

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01:50:55,360 --> 01:50:59,320
already forgot, already failed to understand.

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I pray that our hearts will be enlightened and we will realize how much God has done,

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how much he is doing and the eternal house that he is promising us.

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That son of David that would be on the throne forever, that's our Jesus.

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We are heirs and joint heirs with him.

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If we can figure this out and live accordingly.

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I'm going to say a brief prayer for us today and then we'll be having the praise team come

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and we'll praise our way out.

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And we forget sometimes with the hymn of decision that that's praise but it is praise.

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If you don't have a reason to repent today, if you don't have a reason to say, hey I have

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01:51:39,920 --> 01:51:44,280
not been praising God with my life every moment of every day and I want to turn my life over

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01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:46,880
to him and let him do that through me.

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I've been allowing my weaknesses or my experiences to hold me back to these things that God would

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have to do.

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01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:55,000
I've been feeling like I need to do more for God because I'm so grateful for what he

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01:51:55,000 --> 01:51:58,880
does but instead of me doing more, building on something on this earth, feeling like I'm

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01:51:58,880 --> 01:52:03,680
doing something more for God, I need to realize all my actions need to be out of praise, all

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my steps need to be in his ways.

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If you need to make that decision and make it, if you don't need to make that decision

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then it's a praise song that God led you to a place already where you already know and

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you already are all day long every day trying to live according to praising him.

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Jesus is not Lord 23 hours out of the day.

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He's Lord 24 hours out of every day.

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If you take them breaks here and there, you have no Lord at all.

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No breaks.

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Just Jesus all the time.

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Praise are you.

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That's pretty good.

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Father in heaven we thank you and praise you.

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We see our weaknesses.

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We also see our strengths.

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Sometimes the enemy comes at us and makes us want to ignore our strengths and we don't

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want to use our strengths and then we don't want to work on our weaknesses and we realize

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that we fail or we wouldn't do well.

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In our greatest weaknesses you are made strong.

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You see what you did on the cross at Calvary.

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When I think about how it's been six years since we signed our constitution, I think

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it's about how it's been almost 2,000 years since Jesus died on the cross.

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Both of those seem impossible to me.

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I had to move so quickly.

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It's been 2,000 years almost since Jesus died on the cross.

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It's hard to fathom.

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For me it was that day when I was 25 years old and I counted you for the first time.

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You forgave me of my sins.

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Set me on a new course.

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And then it was this morning and it was just moments ago.

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And I said the things that are hard for me to say, hard for me to grapple with, but I

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can trust them because they are your things.

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Try to help us deny ourselves and take up our craft daily and follow our view and help

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us stop thinking that means we can do it our way.

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I don't understand why we ever thought deny ourselves, do it our way, that those two things

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go together, doesn't make sense.

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They are almost opposites.

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I do know that people find their group, they find the rhythm serving you, filing you, praising

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01:54:42,120 --> 01:54:45,800
you every moment of every day and they cut things out of their lives, perfectly good

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01:54:45,800 --> 01:54:48,320
things and people are like, why did you have to cut that out?

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It's a perfectly good thing.

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It's not even sin, right?

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And they cut them out.

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They're going to go dismiss them.

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And they're better off for it.

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01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:04,080
I guess I'd much rather be praising you every moment of every day, every second that I can

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01:55:04,080 --> 01:55:05,080
control.

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01:55:05,080 --> 01:55:10,920
I'm asking your help for that.

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01:55:10,920 --> 01:55:15,600
You never asked me to build you a house.

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01:55:15,600 --> 01:55:20,000
You never even asked me to become a house.

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01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:23,280
You did it all for me.

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01:55:23,280 --> 01:55:24,280
Every person is in this room.

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It was up Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

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And every person is listening, but that averages this message.

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01:55:33,280 --> 01:55:36,840
But that any person in this room takes this message or one like it out to the world.

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01:55:36,840 --> 01:55:37,840
The gospel is simple.

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01:55:37,840 --> 01:55:40,960
That Jesus lived, he died, he rose again.

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And they're leaving in him.

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01:55:45,200 --> 01:55:51,040
They're saved, forgiven, have a Lord, have eternal life.

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Father, help us praise you every moment of every day.

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01:55:56,680 --> 01:56:01,240
So we want to have to find ourselves going, oh, I want to do more for God.

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01:56:01,240 --> 01:56:08,920
We'd rather find ourselves saying, I can't believe what I've been able to do for God.

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01:56:08,920 --> 01:56:09,920
It's amazing.

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01:56:09,920 --> 01:56:10,920
God is so good.

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01:56:10,920 --> 01:56:15,840
And there will be no underwear dancing word.

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01:56:15,840 --> 01:56:27,680
But we know there will be embarrassing moments, hard moments, challenging times to overcome,

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01:56:27,680 --> 01:56:29,560
times which we will feel like the victim.

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01:56:29,560 --> 01:56:33,920
We'll feel like things didn't go the way we thought they should have gone.

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01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:40,960
And those times, Lord, we pray that with your help we will be found praising you for all

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01:56:40,960 --> 01:56:46,000
that you've done, all that you're doing, and all that you will do.

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I pray all these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Ask Christy to come forward at this time and lead us in our closing hymn.

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And if you're not making some kind of decision in your heart today, then you praise God right

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01:56:58,360 --> 01:56:59,360
where you are.

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01:56:59,360 --> 01:57:02,960
And if you are making some kind of decision, then you come and make that information public.

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01:57:02,960 --> 01:57:08,720
And let yourself be held accountable, let yourself be prayed for and encouraged as we

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01:57:08,720 --> 01:57:11,320
commit ourselves to praise Him today.

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Would you stand and sing with us?